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Exhibition view Lightness and Boldness: Goyas Drawings Centro BotÃn, Santander. Photo: Vicente Paredes.
SANTANDER.- Centro BotÃn, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano as a permanent home for the art, cultural and educational programmes of Fundación BotÃn, Spains most important private cultural foundation, opened in Santander on Friday 23 June. This is the first building by Renzo Piano in Spain. The 10,285 sq m. Centro BotÃn is located on a landmark site on Santanders waterfront, reclaiming for the city an area formerly used as the Ferry car park. The building, raised above the ground, frames spectacular views of Santander and the bay and is covered with a unique surface of 270,000 ceramic discs that reflect the changing colours of sea and sky. The building includes 2,500 sq m. of exhibition galleries, a 300-seat auditorium, classrooms, work spaces, an informal restaurant called El Muelle, created by two-Michelin star chef Jesús Sánchez, a shop, and a rooftop terrace offering a new vantage point overlooking the c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man takes a picture of the exhibition "Iran, annee 38" during the official opening of the photography festival "Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles 2017" in Arles, southern France, on July 3, 2017. The festival is held until September 24. BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP
| Hartwig Fischer introduces the Annual Review 2016/17 and sets out the British Museum's future plans | | Online auction to raise funds for the victims of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire | | Chinese Jade vessels, stolen by prolific thieves in 2005, recovered and sold at auction for 10 times their estimate | 
A gold plaque depicting a Scythian rider with a spear in his right hand; Gold; Second half of the fourth century BC; Kul Oba. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
LONDON.- The British Museum today announces the publication of its 2016/17 Annual Review which sets out in detail the Museums achievements in London, across the UK and the world over the past year. This has been a year of continuing success across the world. The Museum remains the leading visitor attraction in the UK, with one in five tourists to London visiting the Museum. In 2016/17, the Museum welcomed 6.2 million visitors to visit the permanent collection. Internationally, the Museum continued its role as the worlds most generous lender of objects, by helping to show over 2,200 objects to 113 museums and galleries across the world, including a number of indigenous objects to Albany, Western Australia, and a large loan of over 50 objects to a major exhibition on Zoroastrianism ... More | | 
Ian Davenport, Colour Splat Cloud, 2017. Image courtesy Ian Davenport & Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The UK's top artists have come together to donate works to an online auction to benefit the people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, from July 18 - August 1 2017 on https://www.artsy.net Artists who have donated to the auction include; Charles Avery
, Simon Periton, Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Adam Fuss, Cornelia Parker, Peter Liversidge, Dexter Dalwood, David Batchelor, The Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Maryam Eisler, Ryan Mosley,
Dave White, Juergen Teller, Paul Morrison, Richard Deacon, Ann-Marie James, Fiona Banner, Mona Hatoum, Robert Violette, Gavin Turk, David Austen, Jessie Brennan and Darren Almond. The idea was formed by Lucy Meakin, an art advisor, who once lived locally to the tower in Notting Hill. After the fire broke out, the first people she called were former neighbours, one of whom described how they had lost a ... More | | 
A large Chinese celadon jade ewer and cover.
LONDON.- Four valuable Chinese jade miniature vessels have been recovered and successfully sold at Woolley & Wallis after being stolen over 12 years ago by Michael Openshaw. At the time of the theft, Openshaw and fellow thief Robert Barrett had recently served time in prison for similar crimes which were described by the Judge during sentencing as despicable. The men targeted elderly art-owners, pestering them, gaining their trust, then taking pieces from their houses and leaving behind a cash payment of a fraction of the price. The elderly victim in this case was tricked by Openshaw in 2005 to let him into her house where he removed four jade items from a cabinet. This and other losses were reported to Worthing Police. The police investigated the matter at the time but were unable to locate the items so the losses were reported to her insurer. The insurer promptly paid out on the claim. In November 2016, the ... More |
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| Exhibition puts into context Joseph Beuys' 1972 sculpture 'Boxing Match for Direct Democracy' | | Exhibition is first exhibition to investigate W. H. Hunt's depiction of rural figures in his work | | Extensive exhibition of two 20th Century masters Donald Judd and Kazimir Malevich on view at Galerie Gmurzynska | 
Joseph Beuys, 'Boxkampf für die direkte Demokratie' at documenta V, 1972, © Hans Albrecht Lusznat, 2017.
LONDON.- Waddington Custot will present an exhibition which puts in context Joseph Beuys 1972 sculpture Boxkampf für die direkte Demokratie (Boxing Match for Direct Democracy). The large, horizontal vitrine houses the two original pairs of boxing gloves, protective helmet and the boxing ring ropes from Beuys conceptual farewell action at documenta 5, a boxing match, between Joseph Beuys (19211986) and Abraham David Christian (b.1952). This work will be exhibited in conjunction with the debut UK presentation of the re-mastered archive footage of the boxing match. For the one hundred days of documenta 5 in Kassel, from 30 June to 8 October 1972, Beuys established an Office for The Organisation for Direct Democracy, which he manned each day and where he vigorously debated his ideas on social reform. The project was based on Beuys 1971 Organisation für direkte Demokratie ... More | | 
W.H Hunt, The Head Gardener, c.1825, ©The Courtauld Gallery.
LONDON.- This focused display of 20 drawings and watercolours is the first exhibition to investigate W. H. Hunts depiction of rural figures in his work of the 1820s and 1830s, taking its lead from a watercolour in The Courtauld Gallerys permanent collection, The Head Gardener, c.1825, which is shown alongside significant loans from institutions and private collections. William Henry Hunt (17901864) is one of the key figures in nineteenth-century English watercolour painting. His work was extensively collected in his lifetime, particularly the intricate still lifes of flowers, fruit and feathers that earned him the nickname Birds Nest Hunt. While his large rural genre subjects have always been highly prized, the single figure studies of country people are less well known. Hunts representations of such characters and types in a time of rapid social and agricultural development raises questions abou ... More | | 
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Peasant Woman in Two Dimensions, called Red Square (Nakov: S-126 "Réalisme pictural d'une paysanne en deux dimensions, dit Carré rouge"), 1915. Oil on canvas, 40.2 x 30.1 cm
ZURICH.- Galerie Gmurzynska is presenting Judd / Malevich, an extensive exhibition of two 20th Century masters Donald Judd and Kazimir Malevich inaugurating a new additional space at Talstrasse 37 in Zurich, on view 10 June 15 September, 2017. In reference to the dual exhibition titled The Moscow Installation, originally realised with Donald Judd at Galerie Gmurzynska in 1994 and featuring the works of Judd and Malevich, the exhibition pays homage to the artistic and intellectual connections of the two artists. The exhibition is curated by Flavin Judd, Curator & CoPresident of Judd Foundation and the son of Donald Judd. I would love it but what would Malevich say? These were the words of Donald Judd in 1992 when asked ... More |
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| Sprüth Magers Berlin to open exhibition of works by Analia Saban | | Pop Art prints from the private collection of Lex Harding on view in Amsterdam | | Exhibition of painting and sculpture by Tracey Emin on view at Château La Coste this summer | 
Analia Saban, Markings (from Nissan Xterra Quarter Panel), 2017.
BERLIN.- In a practice that looks to understand the very material nature of painting, Analia Saban works across sculpture, printmaking, photography and painting itself to pull apart art historical tradition through investigations into the physical properties of matter. Pigmente, her fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, will run concurrently with Folds and Faults, a solo show at the Los Angeles gallery. A recent core interest for Saban has been an investigation into the history of paint formulas and how they have shaped art history. She uncovers at an almost microscopic level the entwined histories of artists and their mediums. In these new works the use of pigment makes reference to historical styles and methods of painting, as well as borrowing from modern technologies. An example of this approach can be witnessed when Saban carefully removes a small section of yellow paint ... More | | 
The exhibition presents screen prints by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and other Pop Art representatives.
AMSTERDAM.- Amsterdam is the centre of Pop Art this summer. During July, August and September 2017, the Pop Art collection of media entrepreneur Lex Harding is exhibited in the Beurs van Berlage. In addition to the extensive collection of screen prints by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and other Pop Art representatives, almost all album covers that Warhol made in 1960-1987 are shown, as well as posters, signed books and other works on paper. A large part of the unique exhibition is formed by screen prints, there are more than 100 from Warhol alone. Pop Art is an art form that originated in the early sixties of the last century. I was 20 years old and aware of the Pop Art evolution, Harding explains as he unfolds his plans. Take the iconic banana of the cover of the first album of The Velvet Underground from 1967. The album is hardly known these ... More | | 
Twelve canvases have been carefully chosen from the past ten years of Emins work.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Château La Coste announces, Surrounded by You, an exhibition of painting and sculpture by the British artist. Twelve canvases have been carefully chosen from the past ten years of Emins work to present an important reflection on her use of this media. Hung on the walls of the Jean-Michel Wilmotte gallery at La Coste, they literally surround the viewer, but this typically poetic title also suggests the deeply personal connection Emin has with all her work. Painting in particular has become an increasingly central and intense part of this practice. She often re-visits canvases over the course of months or years, creating rich layers and the mark of time and memory. In the past Emin has noted a different sensation that she finds in painting than in other disciplines such as drawings: When Im drawing, I can play. I can trust things... its like freedom, its everything. Then when Im painting, ... More |
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| Hirshhorn celebrates 10 years of Yoko Ono's "Wish Tree for Washington" with summer of artist's work | | Rare Gustav Klimt collotypes and Avant-Garde Austrian art pottery on view at the Jason Jacques Gallery | | 'Dreamers Awake': White Cube Bermondsey opens group show | 
Yoko Ono, Wish Tree for Washington, DC, 2007. Installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Photo by: Jazmine Johnson.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This summer, the Hirshhorn commemorates the 10th anniversary of Yoko Onos celebratory installation Wish Tree for Washington, D.C., an interactive artwork in which museum visitors tie their handwritten wishes to the trees branches, with a complementary series of Onos iconic installations and performances. The Wish Tree opened to the public Saturday, June 17, alongside the Washington debut of My Mommy Is Beautiful, a participatory large-scale artwork that invites visitors to leave memories, photographs and thoughts about their mothers, as well as an installation of the germinal video Sky TV for Washington, D.C. The focus will culminate in September with a daylong concert featuring Onos music. Donated by the artist in 2007, the Hirshhorns Wish Tree for Washington, D.C. is located in the museums sculpture garden and is part of ... More | | 
Paul Dachsel, Gilded Exoskeleton, c. 1914. Earthenware and gold leaf.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason Jacques Gallery announces that Das Werk: Gustav Klimt Collotypes and Avant-Garde Austrian Art Pottery, an exhibition that combines rare collotype prints by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt with Austrian Art pottery from the late 19th through early 20th centuries, will open on July 6 and run through September 1, 2017. The exhibition presents color prints from Klimts Das Werk series, which includes some of the artists most iconic masterpieces, such as The Kiss, Judith I, and Emilie Flöge. In 1908, Klimt and Galerie Miethke in Vienna planned the publication of collotypes under the name Das Werk Gustav Klimts, a project that aimed to distribute his work to select collectors and clients. From 1908 to 1914, Klimt personally supervised the 50-print enterprise, which faithfully reproduces Klimts most important paintings from 1898 through 1913. Klimt designed a unique signet for each print, which was placed beneath t ... More | | 
Siobhan Hapaska, Touch, 2016. Concrete cloth, oak, synthetic fur, aluminium, steel, two-pack acrylic paint and lacquer, 90.6 x 37.4 x 55.1 in. © Siobhan Hapaska. Courtesy of the artist and Kerlin Gallery. Photo: Denis Mortell.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting Dreamers Awake, a group show at White Cube Bermondsey which explores the enduring influence of Surrealism through the work of more than fifty women artists. The exhibition brings together sculpture, painting, collage, photography and drawing from the 1930s to the present day and includes work by well-known Surrealist figures as well as contemporary and emerging artists. Woman has a powerful presence in Surrealism. She is the object of masculine desire and fantasy; a harpy, goddess or sphinx; a mystery or threat. Often, she appears decapitated, distorted, trussed up. Fearsome or fetishized, she is always the other. From todays perspective, gender politics can seem the unlikely blind spot of a movement that declared war on patriarchal society, convention and conformity. ... More |
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 Maggs Bros Ltd celebrates its new Bedford Square HQ with Lawrence of Arabia exhibitionLONDON.- Maggs Bros Ltd announced that to mark the opening of its new headquarters at 48 Bedford Square, a Grade I listed building in the heart of Bloomsbury, it will stage a landmark exhibition of material relating to T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, opening on 6 July 2017. To Aqaba marks the centenary of the capture of Aqaba by the irregular forces of the Arab Revolt, led by T. E. Lawrence. The exhibition features both loan material and items for sale, and has previously unseen items from all periods of his life, including the map he carried with him on his pioneer trip through the Middle East in 1909, sketch maps of Arabian terrain, a note ordering up weaponry for train-wrecking, original photographs taken by him during the campaign, and material from his later life, including the most important manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom in private hands. Highlights ... More Ginette and Alain Lesieutre Collection totals €5.5 million at PIASAPARIS.- With a total of 5.5 million in two sessions, the sale of the private collection of Ginette and Alain Lesieutre largely exceeded its high estimate. This remarkable result acclaims a collection of art works chosen by the couple, carefully preserved by Ginette Lesieutre in their Paris apartment until her death last year. To quote Cécile Verdier, Vice-President Sotheby's France and Worldwide Co-Head of the Design Department at Sotheby's, and Frédéric Chambre, Associated Vice Chairman Chief Executive of PIASA: "We are delighted to have been able to pay tribute together to the husband and wife dealers, who were central figures in the Paris market during the 1980s and 1990s. These international private collectors had an eye for the quality and modernity of the works in their personal collection." The highest price of the sale went to a work truly embodying the ... More SALTS presents Caroline Mesquita's first institutional solo show in SwitzerlandBIRSFELDEN.- For her exhibition at SALTS, her first institutional solo show in Switzerland, Caroline Mesquita created a new series of lifesize metallic artifacts, which are sculptural elements of the new film she is presenting. Outside, most part of the front facade is concealed by the back of a surreal leisure trailer, which seems to have been parked inside the exhibition space. Working mostly with steel, copper and brass, since 2013 Mesquita has been developing a series of anthropomorphic sculptures evolving over the course of varied fictional scenarios. Like anonymous bodies, those figures spark an intimate and physical interaction with the viewer, potentially shifting the relationship between subject and object. Each of Mesquita's exhibition can be watched as one act of a long theatre play, allowing the artist to stage a moment in the life of objects when those are not ... More NEON presents Adrián Villar Rojas' first major site specific installation in GreeceATHENS.- NEON unveiled the first site-specific, outdoor and indoor installation by Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas in Greece, at the National Observatory of Athens, located on the archaeological site of the Hill of the Nymphs. Built in 1846, The National Observatory is the first scientific research institution in Greece, and consolidates nearly two centuries of astronomy since Greek independence in 1832. Today, almost 170 years later, this commission sees Villar Rojas negotiating with an archaeological site for the first time as he radically alters both the indoor and outdoor space of the National Observatory, occupying an area of 4,500 square metres. The whole site undergoes a complete transformation - architectural, horticultural and emotional. Villar Rojas is well known for large-scale sculptural installations that disturb the sites he engages with. Through his work, ... More Spink London announces sale of Great Britain Stamps and Postal HistoryLONDON.- At the end of July Spink will be holding a sale of Great Britain Stamps and Postal History Featuring the Charles Hamilton Collection. The morning of the sale commences with a fine section of over 100 lots of Postal History, starting with sixteenth century letters from the Corsini correspondence. The afternoon session starts with the Charles Hamilton collection of covers, this includes a fine Penny Black first day cover and many other fine rarities. One of the stars from the Hamilton Collection is lot 2137, a rare and most appealing first day cover of the Worlds first Postage Stamp. A Penny Black from Plate Ia, lettered QL grey-black shade, showing a portion of the adjoining stamp at left, tied by a crisp red Maltese Cross cancellation of entire letter dated 6 May 1840 (first Official day of use) to Doctors Commons, red T.P. /Cornhill on front and octagonal ... More Aqualand supports new acquisition for Art Gallery of New South WalesSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announced Aqualand Australia is supporting the acquisition of a painting by Aboriginal artist, Tiger Yaltangki, from the current exhibition The National 2017: new Australian art. This is in addition to Aqualands six-year sponsorship of The National: new Australian art across its three iterations in 2017, 2019 and 2021. Yaltangkis painting Star Wars 2016 is a captivating example of his combination of Anangu culture with popular culture. Yaltangki grew up in Indulkana, South Australia and has painted for many years, offering a unique vision of contemporary life and exploring the diverse influences that shape his world view with curiosity and humour. Deputy director of the Art Gallery of NSW, Maud Page said the Gallery is grateful to Aqualand for funding the acquisition. What is wonderful about Aqualand getting involved in an ... More Major exhibition of contemporary tapestry opens at Holburne Museum, BathBATH.- Tapestry: Here & Now, an ambitious survey of contemporary tapestry, is on show at the Holburne Museum, Bath from 23 June to 1 October 2017. To celebrate the exhibition, an important tapestry from the Museums own collection is on public display for the first time. Tapestry: Here & Now showcases the most innovative approaches to tapestry and the breadth of international talent in contemporary practice. The exhibition presents a diverse mix of UK practitioners shown alongside artists from Finland, Latvia, Norway, Japan, USA, Canada and Australia, emphasising the contemporary relevance of tapestry both nationally and internationally. Each of the exhibition pieces represents a moment in the development the artists career, textiles making and contemporary society more broadly. The works demonstrate the ways in which the narrative heritage of the medium is used ... More La maison rouge presents the first major exhibition in Paris of works by Hélène DelpratPARIS.- Ten years after her video W.O.R.K.S & D.A.Y.S. was shown in the vestibule at La maison rouge, Hélène Delprat has imagined an exhibition specifically for the Foundation, titled I Did It My Way. Dark films and mirrors, vast paintings with hilarious titles, cinema voices, radiophonic drawings, birds heads, photocopies, Louis XIV, Georges Franjus Judex and the curious rite of the tonsure
heres what we can expect from this «lugubrious game»1, one that is both serious and funny. Hélène Delprat likes nothing more than to play around with LExtension du Pire, the monstrous ugliness or beauty of things2, Macbeths witches, actors, the ridiculousness in each of us, laughter
Inspired by literature from Ovids The Metamorphoses to the contemporary novel by way of Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf film, internet databases, radio and press, each day brings new ... More Victoria & Albert Museum presents the first ever UK exhibition exploring the work of Cristóbal BalenciagaLONDON.- The V&A is presenting the first ever UK exhibition exploring the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga and his continuing influence on modern fashion. It is the first of its kind to look at his unique approach to making and showcases pieces by his protégés and contemporary designers working in the same innovative way today. The exhibition marks the centenary of the opening of Balenciagas first fashion house in San Sebastian and the 80th anniversary of the opening of his famous fashion house in Paris. Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion focuses on the latter part of Balenciagas long career in the 1950s and 1960s his most creative period. It was during these years that he not only dressed some of the most renowned women of the time, but also introduced revolutionary shapes including the tunic, the sack, baby doll and shift dress all of which remain style ... More Kunsthaus Graz opens exhibition of works by Haegue Yang GRAZ.- How is the social importance of VIPs defined, and what is an art institutions attitude towards this? The Korean artist Haegue Yang addressed this issue in developing VIPs Union in 2001. For the realisation of VIPs Union at the Kunsthaus Graz, she has asked very important persons from the city and region to lend a chair or table of their choice. These are people who have, or will have, a close relationship to the institution in very different ways. So, for example, the mayor of Graz, the Styrian minister for economy, culture and tourism, as well as members of the Association of Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art, of the board of trustees, the supervisory board, artists linked with the Kunsthaus and cooperation partners have all lent their furniture. In this way a collective portrait of the Kunsthaus emerges, blended from many different individual elements. Together ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and photographer Chuck Close was born July 05, 1940. Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter and artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally. In this image: Chuck Close, Sienna, 2012. Archival watercolor pigment print (90º) on Hahnemühle rag paper, 75" x 60" (190.5 cm x 152.4 cm), paper, 62-3/4" x 53" (159.4 cm x 134.6 cm), image© Chuck Close/Pace Gallery. Made in collaboration with Donald Farnsworth, Magnolia Editions and David Adamson, Adamson Editions. Photo by: Magnolia Editions, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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