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Sara Softness, assistant curator of special projects, speaks standing next to an artwork which is part of "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America" exhibition, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York on July 25, 2017. Jewel SAMAD / AFP.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum joins forces with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), headed by acclaimed public interest lawyer and MacArthur Foundation genius grant recipient Bryan Stevenson, and Google to present a timely exhibition: The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America. On view from July 26 through September 3, the exhibition presents EJIs groundbreaking research on the history of racial violence in the United States and its continuing impact on our nation to this day. The exhibition will include video stories featuring testimonies from descendants of lynching victims and a former death-row inmate directly affected by the legacy of lynching, a short documentary, photographs, an interactive map presenting EJIs research, and informational videos featuring Bryan Stevenson. Much of EJIs research on display in the Museum can be viewed at lynchinginamerica.eji.org, an interactive platf ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chelsea pensioners John Kidman, 87, (L) and Bill 'Spud' Hunt, 83, wear Virtual Reality (VR) headsets at a photocall during the Royal British Legion launch of the Battle of Passchendaele virtual reality content at the Household Cavalry Museum in Westminster, central London on July 25, 2017. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| Neue Galerie presents first museum retrospective devoted to Richard Gerstl to be held in the U.S. | | Christie's to offer Avant-Garde masterworks from a European collection | | Alice Cooper finds precious Warhol work in storage | 
Richard Gerstl (1883-1908), Self-Portrait, Laughing, Summer-autumn 1907. Oil on canvas. Belvedere, Vienna.
NEW YORK, NY.- Neue Galerie New York is presenting "Richard Gerstl," the first museum retrospective in the United States devoted to the work of the Austrian Expressionist (1883-1908). This exhibition is co-organized with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, and is on view at the Neue Galerie through September 25, 2017. Gerstl was an extremely original artist whose psychologically intense figure paintings and landscapes constitute a radically unorthodox oeuvre that defied the reigning concepts of style and beauty during his time. The long-standing secrecy surrounding Gerstls dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preempted his death, only further magnify the legend that has flowered around this lesser known, but influential member of Viennas artistic avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century. The show is organized by Expressionist scholar Jill Lloyd, ... More | | 
Hemba Figure, Democratic Republic of Congo. Estimate: 200,000-400,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies have been entrusted with the sale of masterworks from an important European private collection, Beyond Boundaries: Avant-Garde Masterworks from a European Collection which will be offered throughout the second half of 2017 in New York, Geneva, and Paris. This ground breaking collection was assembled by a couple with a keen eye for rare exceptional works of arts and design. The collection is expected to achieve around $30,000,000 and comprises around 180 works from five categories: Impressionist and Modern Art, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Magnificent Jewels, African Art and Design. The Modern and Post-War works of art were assembled with the guidance of renowned advisor Alain Tarica, who also advised Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé as well as Hubertus and Renate Wald for their collections. This collection is led by Wassily Kandinskys Improvisation mit Pferden (Studie ... More | | 
Alice Cooper speaking at a dinner in Glendale, Arizona on April 27, 2013. Photo: By Gage Skidmore.
NEW YORK (AFP).- After a long career shocking audiences, even Alice Cooper has surprises. The glam rocker has discovered an Andy Warhol work that had been rolled up in storage for decades. The red silkscreen piece, easily worth millions of dollars, adapts a printed image of an electric chair as part of the pop artist's "Death and Disaster" phase in the 1960s. Cooper, who befriended Warhol while living in New York, received "Little Electric Chair" as a gift but had not seen it since 1972 or 1973, the singer's longtime manager Shep Gordon told AFP. "Only in rock 'n' roll can you not remember you have a Warhol!" Gordon said with a laugh. Cooper -- the pioneer of shock rock who puts on elaborate, macabre shows -- was a heavy drinker in the 1970s, but Gordon said it was understandable he would forget about the artwork. "It was a very different time. Andy wasn't dead, his pictures weren't valuable and Alice was headlining Madison Square Garden and tickets were ... More |
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| MoMA announces the first major U.S. exhibition of Tarsila do Amaral | | McNay Director Richard Aste is the recipient of the Harvard Business School Club of San Antonio Scholarship | | Philippines' Duterte demands US return symbolic church bells | 
Tarsila do Amaral. Abaporu, 1928. Oil on canvas. 33 7/16 x 28 3/4 (85 x 73 cm). Collection MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires. © Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamentos.
NEW YORK, NY.- With Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil, The Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago will present the first exhibition in North America exclusively dedicated to the pioneering work of Tarsila do Amaral (Brazilian, 18861973), one of the greatest Brazilian artists of the 20th century. On view at The Museum of Modern Art from February 11 through June 3, 2018, the exhibition will focus on Do Amarals pivotal production from the 1920s, tracing the path of her groundbreaking contributions through approximately 130 works, including paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and photographs drawn from collections across the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, by Luis Pérez-Oramas, former Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Stephanie DAl ... More | | 
Scholarship presented Dr. Aste with the opportunity to attend Harvards Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Program.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- McNay director Richard Aste recently returned from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he attended Harvard Business Schools Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management course , an opportunity made possible by a scholarship from the Harvard Business School Club of San Antonio (HBS Club of San Antonio). The HBS Club of San Antonios mission is to foster camaraderie, community outreach, involvement, and education of alumni of the Harvard Business School in the greater San Antonio and South Texas area. Aste is the first recipient of this notable scholarship which seeks to better prepare the citys non-profit leaders to serve their communities in more effective ways. Harvard Business Schools alumni have generously provided the scholarship funds with the goal of helping improve the quality of life in San Antonio. The SPNM program is part of Harvard Business Schools Social Enterprise Initiative flagship program ... More | | 
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he delivers his state of the nation address at Congress in Manila on July 24, 2017. NOEL CELIS / AFP.
MANILA (AFP).- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has demanded the United States return church bells seized by American forces in a bloody campaign more than a century ago, in another blast at his country's traditional ally. American forces took three bells from the Catholic church of Balangiga town on the eastern island of Samar in 1901 as war booty in what historians said was a particularly brutal military operation in the new US colony. "Give us back those Balangiga bells. They are not yours. They are ours. They belong to the Philippines. They are part of our national heritage," Duterte said at his annual State of the Nation Address on Monday. "Those bells are reminders of the gallantry and heroism of our forebears who resisted the American colonisers and sacrificed their lives in the process." Two of the bells are installed at a memorial for US war dead in Wyoming, while the third is with US forces in South Korea. Some US politicians oppose the dismantling of the memorial. ... More |
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| The Met Breuer exhibits works by Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass | | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrates 10 years of the Art of the Islamic Worlds initiative | | Pace presents a group exhibition of contemporary Chinese artists in Palo Alto | 
Ettore Sottsass, Side Chair "Synthesis 45" Office Furniture System 1972. Aluminum, steel, plastic, synthetic foam, synthetic fabric H. 30, D. 16-3/4, D. 17-1/2 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 1987 © Studio Ettore Sottsass Srl.
NEW YORK, NY.- A seminal figure in 20th-century design, the Italian architect and designer >Ettore Sottsass (19172007) created a vast body of work, the result of an exceptionally productive career that spanned more than six decades. The exhibition at The Met Breuer, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, reevaluates Sottsasss career in a presentation of his key works in a range of mediaincluding architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and pattern, painting, and photography. The exhibition presents Sottsasss work in dialogue with ancient and contemporaneous objects that influenced his practice. This juxtaposition offers new insight into his designs, situating him within a broader design discourse. Perhaps best known for his work with the design ... More | | 
Visitors in Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait. Photo by Cameron Bertuzzi.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has designated 201718 for commemorative exhibitions and events to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its Art of the Islamic Worlds initiative. Since the programs founding in 2007, a decade of exhibitions, acquisitions, scholarly research, and international collaboration has brought the achievements of Islamic artistic traditions to U.S. audiences. Over 300 works spanning 1,300 years and the breadth of Islamic territoriesfrom present-day India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Iran to Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Spainare now on continuous view, making the MFAH among the largest displays of art from the Islamic worlds in the U.S. Ten years ago, this Museum made a commitment to assure that the art and culture of historic Islamic lands would have a permanent place among ... More | | 
Hong Hao, Reflection No.15 (detail)
PALO ALTO, CA.- Pace Gallery is presenting Form through Narrative, a group exhibition of contemporary Chinese artists featuring works by Hong Hao, Liu Jianhua, Song Dong, Wang Guangle, Xie Molin and Yin Xiuzhen. The exhibition is on view from June 23 through August 27, 2017 at 229 Hamilton Avenue. Form through Narrative is a survey of leading Chinese artists whose multi-generational practices explore themes of place, identity and tradition. For the contemporary Chinese artists in this exhibition, art is rooted in storytelling and the narratives surrounding their lives. Form through Narrative features recent works by artists who were educated in conventional, representational modes of picture-making but gradually abandoned them. While narrative becomes apparent in the process, background and content, the artists on view purposely departed from representational aesthetics to reach complete abstraction. Highlights of the exhibition include Liu Jia ... More |
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| Columbus Museum of Art exhibits three Chagalls | | Polk Museum of Art receives gift in founding member's honor | | Science Museum Group to loan Stephenson's rocket to Great Exhibition of the North | 
Marc Chagall, In the Garden, 1968, Collection of Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein
COLUMBUS, OH.- This summer, CMA is exhibiting three superb paintings by Marc Chagall (1887-1985) on loan from the Columbus collection of Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein. Chagall created his own very personal style of art demonstrating an awareness of the modernist hallmarks of Cubism, Fauvism, and Surrealism but maintaining an artistic vocabulary grounded in the fanciful representation of his experiences and memories of his birthplace of Vitebsk, Belarus, and Paris, his adopted home before and after World War II. Two of the paintings on view were created during the period when Chagall and his family, like other Jews who were able, escaped the horrors of Nazism and sought asylum in the United States. Like so many of Chagalls paintings, these are filled with themes of a bride and groom, bouquets of flowers, polychrome cows, and floating figures with bird heads. These paintings ... More | | 
Marcel Sternberger, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera with their dog, 1952.
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College announced the donation of a Marcel Sternberger photograph in honor of the late Anne Tucker, a founding member of the museum. Robert and Malena Puterbaugh donated the photograph of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera with their dog, which was taken by Sternberger in Mexico City in 1952. It will be on view Sept. 30 Jan. 7. Anne Tucker was a very special person to all of us at the Polk Museum of Art, Robert Puterbaugh said. I will always appreciate her tremendous dedication to the museum, and her strong support of the recent affiliation with Florida Southern College. Tucker, who died on May 26 at age 88, was a founder of the museums Art Resource Trust. She served as president of the Board of Trustees in 1984-85, and as chair of the Board of Governors in 1990-91. She also served on the Strategic Visioning Committee and chaired the Museum History ... More | | 
Steam locomotive, remains of Robert Stephenson's 0-2-2 locomotive Rocket, 1829. General view of locomotive on gallery display © Science Museum Group.
LONDON.- Today the Science Museum Group announced that it will loan Stephensons Rocket, one of Britains most iconic feats of engineering, to the Great Exhibition of the North 2018. As Newcastle and Gateshead make preparations for the official launch of the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018, the Science Museum Group confirms that the historic locomotive will return to the city in which it was built, for the first time since it was acquired for the nation in 1862. Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum Group, said: Stephensons Rocket was a pioneer in locomotive design bringing together human ingenuity and technological innovation to propel steam trains into the heart of the modern industrial economy. With four museums in the North, the Science Museum Group is proud to support the regions ... More |
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 Telfair Museums adds Nick Cave soundsuit to permanent collection SAVANNAH, GA.- Telfair Museums announced it has acquired a Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) soundsuit for its permanent collection. The soundsuit came to Savannah as part of the museums recent Nick Cave exhibition and adds to Telfairs growing number of works by African American artists. Caves soundsuits can operate as a second skin, meant to conceal race, gender, and class, thereby protecting and transforming ones identity in an attempt to eliminate prejudices. This acquisition will be on view in Complex Uncertainties at the Jepson Center through the end of 2017. Lisa Grove, Director/CEO of Telfair Museums, said Caves work was well received during the exhibition. Given the response from visitors, we determined that this was an important work to acquire. This is the largest purchase for the modern and contemporary collection in Telfair Museums ... More Asian Arts Curator Barry Till to retire from the Art Gallery of Greater VictoriaVICTORIA, BC.- Renowned Asian Arts Curator, Barry Till has announced his retirement after 36 years at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Till will be named as the AGGVs first Curator Emeritus when his retirement takes effect at the end of September. Barry is an internationally known and admired treasure in the field of Asian Art, said Jon Tupper, AGGV Director. Barrys work and reputation have attracted donors, volunteers, and staff, including myself to the AGGV, he will be truly missed by all. The AGGVs Asian Art collection was started by the Gallerys first director, Colin Graham who wanted the AGGV to differentiate itself from other galleries in western Canada by forming a unique collection of Asian art. Graham hired Barry Till as a part-time Asian Arts curator in 1981, since then he has created an internationally recognized collection which includes over 10,000 ... More Exhibition explores nearly fifty years of Korean and Japanese painting and sculptureSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting Who Can Be Strangers? The Art of Mono-ha and Dansaekhwa, a collaboration with Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, exploring nearly fifty years of Korean and Japanese painting and sculpture. The exhibition presents historical and recent work spanning the past five decades by Japanese Mono-ha artists Kōji Enokura, Susumu Koshimizu, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga, and Katsuro Yoshida, Korean Dansaekhwa artists Ha Chong-hyun, Kwon Young-woo, and Yun Hyong-keun, as well as Lee Ufan, the Korean-born artist associated with both movements. This presentation acts as a starting point for a deeper course of forthcoming curatorial investigation of these two influential milestones in postwar art history, juxtaposed here for the first time in the West. The gallery would like to extend sincere gratitude to Adrian Rosenfeld ... More The $110,000 Sobey Art Award highlights diversity and excellence in Canadian contemporary art OTTAWA.- The finalists for the 14th edition of Canadas prestigious contemporary art prize, the 2017 Sobey Art Award, were announced in June by the Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada. By choosing a nominee from five different regions, the award provides visibility and support to young Canadian contemporary artists from coast to coast to coast. The award also offers an opportunity to exchange ideas and to learn about different artistic and curatorial practices from across the country. The five shortlisted artists, four of whom are women, contending for the $50,000 prize are: From the Atlantic region: Ursula Johnson (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) From Québec: Jacynthe Carrier (Québec City, Québec) From Ontario: Bridget Moser (Toronto, Ontario) From the Prairies and the North: Divya Mehra (Winnipeg, Manitoba; Delhi, ... More AIMIA / AGO Photography Prize announces 2017 shortlist and 10-year anniversary celebration programTORONTO.- Four outstanding international artists have been shortlisted for this years Aimia | AGO Photography Prize, marking the 10th anniversary of Canadas most significant award for photography. Co-presented by Aimia, the Canadian global leader in data-driven marketing and loyalty analytics, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Prize awards C$50,000 to one winner who is chosen by public vote. The four finalists will present their work in an exhibition opening on Sept. 6, 2017 at the AGO in Toronto. Voting begins in person at the AGO after the exhibition opens and on the Prizes website beginning on Sept. 13, 2017. The 2017 finalists are: Liz Johnson Artur (Ghana/Russia) Raymond Boisjoly (Haida Nation/Canada) Hank Willis Thomas (USA) Taisuke Koyama (Japan) Thirteen international nominators selected a long list of 30 artists. From that list, a jury ... More 'Abstract Conversations' at rosenfeld porcini features works by six artistsLONDON.- rosenfeld porcini is presenting Abstract Conversations featuring Eduardo Stupia, Anna Klimentchenko, Paula Baader, Marianna Gioka, Qingzhen Han and Maaike Schoorel. As the ferocious argument about the relevance of painting within the panorama of contemporary art recedes once again, there is a fresh, distinctly perceived urgency in how artists are once more embracing the medium without fear of being outdated and irrelevant. One of the current strands involving artists across the globe is represented by gestural painters adopting a minimalist attitude to their work. Where often contemporary art leaves nothing to the imagination and can be read virtually instantaneously by a generation brought up on instant visual gratification, these artists take on a slow food philosophy to their practice. Their complex worlds are rather impenetrable to our ... More South Street Seaport Museum announces $200,000 grant to begin restoration of 1930 tugboat W.O. DeckerNEW YORK, NY.- South Street Seaport Museum announced the commencement of the restoration of the 1930 Tugboat W.O. Decker, with the receipt of a $200,000 Maritime Heritage Grant from the National Park Service. In partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD), the National Park Service awarded grants for projects that teach about and preserve sites and objects related to our nation's maritime history. "Protecting our nation's maritime history is an important part of the National Park Service's mission to share America's story," said Acting National Park Service Director Michael T. Reynolds. "These grants will support efforts to conserve important parts of our maritime history and educate students of all ages." Capt. Jonathan Boulware, Executive Director of the Seaport Museum, spoke enthusiastically about ... More "Blickachsen 11" attracts record number of visitorsBAD HOMBURG.- Once again the "Blickachsen" Sculpture Biennale is attracting a record number of visitors and surprises with its range of forms and materials. And the Friends of Blickachsen is supporting younger participants with its Young Artist award, which will be made on 31 August. "We are delighted at the overwhelming response to our eleventh 'Blickachsen' at the enthusiasm of the participating artists as well as the massive interest and hugely positive feedback from the public. It is particularly gratifying, once again, to see record numbers attending in this, our twentieth year of 'Blickachsen'. Many thousands of visitors have already taken part in our public and booked tours, and the works on display in 'Childrens Blickachsen 4' have been extremely popular," says founder and curator of "Blickachsen" Christian K. Scheffel. "Blickachsen" offers spaces ... More Saatchi Gallery showcases works by nine exciting and emerging contemporary artistsLONDON.- On 25 July the Saatchi Gallery will open Ecstatic Rays in the Prints & Originals Gallery. The exhibition showcases works by nine exciting and emerging contemporary artists. Mildred Palmer creates unique relief prints that have a textural intensity and sublime resonance. The result of a multi-layered printing technique that involves stencils and serendipity the artist produces works of intoxicating colour & depth. Andrew Millar produces works on polaroid prints that mix fantasy and reality. In a multi-step process the collages are created, photographed, printed utilising bespoke techniques and finally hand-finished with gold-leaf, paint or mark-making. The paintings of Tom Shedden convey an intensity that suggests the artist has worked and re-worked the pieces repeatedly. The results are works of simplicity that have a powerful impact ... More Saint Louis Art Museum announces 24th Romare Bearden FellowST. LOUIS, MO.- Jade Powers has joined the Saint Louis Art Museum as the 2017-2018 Romare Bearden Graduate Minority Fellow. The fellowship aims to build a pool of talented young under-represented professionals to work in art-related fields in museums, galleries, non-profit organizations and universities. Powers recently completely a masters degree in religious studies from Indiana University, and she holds a bachelors degree in art history and religious studies from DePauw University. Powers academic research examines how religious and national identity are displayed through artwork, as well as the formation of national identities after India gained independence from Britain and after Bangladesh separated from Pakistan. Before her fellowship at the museum, Powers worked as a gallery facilitator at the Childrens Museum of Indianapolis, where ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter George Grosz, was born July 26, 2017. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933.
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