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Hans Hartung, T1976-R39, 1976. Acryl auf Leinwand, 180 x 250 cm. © l'A.D.A.G.P. Paris. Photo: fondationhartungbergman.
BONN.- Hans Hartung (1904-1989) is one of the most outstanding painters of the 20th century. Born in Leipzig, the artist already left Germany as a young man to live in Spain and France. As a convinced antifascist, he fought for the French during the Second World War, which he survived being severely injured. After the war, he soon became a celebrated member of the Ãcole de Paris, whose informal picture language shaped the painting of the 1940s and 1950s and whose success at times even outshone that of Picasso, the artistic genius of the century. Hartung contributed to the Art Informel with his calculated expressive gestural painting, which became his trademark and hence influenced his reception in art history. His art, however, only became truly venturous and avant-garde during the rise of Pop-Art and Minimalism in the 1960s, when his popularity on the art market was already decreasing. In 1973, Hans Hartung moved to Antibes where he began painting his highly experimental late w ... More |
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| Exhibition at Storm King features works by artists that explore the changing climate | | US designer Kate Spade found dead at 55 | | Sprüth Magers opens Cindy Sherman's first solo show in the UK since 2011 | 
Maya Lin, The Secret Life of Grasses, 2018. PVC tube, lightweight soil, grasses (big bluestem [Andropogon gerardii], switchgrass [Panicum vargatum], and kernza [Thinopyrum intermedium]), oak, cable, and steel, Each tube 10 ft. (304.8 cm) high, 12 in. (30.5 cm) diam. Plants courtesy The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Jerry L. Thompson.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center presents Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, an exhibition featuring artworks by 17 artists including one artist collective. Works included in the exhibition explore the impacts of the changing climate in ways that incorporate scientific, cultural, and aesthetic perspectives. Artists reveal how the acts of making and viewing art differ in both approach and effect from research, advocacy, or reportage on this multifaceted subject. Both indoor and outdoor installations, including pieces newly created for the exhibition at Storm King, illuminate the threats of a changing climate ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 22, 2004, Kate Spade and Michael Kors pose in Queens, New York. Zack Seckler / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Designer Kate Spade, one of the biggest names in American fashion known especially for her sleek handbags, was found dead Tuesday in her New York apartment. She was 55. A police spokeswoman said Spade had committed suicide, but told AFP the exact circumstances of her death were not yet clear. A source close to the investigation said she had left a note in her Park Avenue apartment. Spade's relatives said in a statement that they were "devastated by today's tragedy" and would "miss her terribly," asking for privacy. She is survived by her husband and teenage daughter. Tributes to Spade poured in from celebrities, the fashion world and everyday women who admired her quintessentially American style, which had a sophisticated yet playful vibe. The ... More | | 
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #579, 2016. Dye sublimation metal print, 148,6 x 118,7 cm 58 1/2 x 46 3/4 inches © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures and Sprüth Magers.
LONDON.- Sprüth Magers is presenting Cindy Shermans first solo show in the UK since exhibiting at the London gallery in 2011. The artists thirty-five year career in photography has established her as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, creating photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play. Parodying the representation of women in film and television, fashion magazines, advertising, and online, Sherman adopts limitless guises that illuminate the performative nature of subjectivity and sexuality. She is best known, perhaps, for the early black-and-white photographic series Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980), a body of work in which she staged herself as an actress in ... More |
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| Life returned 'fast' to dino-killing impact site: study | | Leslie Hindman Auctioneers names Thomas Galbraith CEO | | Piguet Auction House to offer works by Albert Anker and Ferdinand Hodler directly from the families of the artists | 
Lead author Chris Lowery examining microfossils on the scientific drilling mission that retrieved core samples from the crater left by the dino-killing asteroid. The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences/Chris Lowery.
PARIS (AFP).- Life returned within just a few years to the site of the asteroid strike thought to have obliterated the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, surprised scientists said. It was long hypothesised the crater would have been the last place for life to re-emerge, possibly hundreds of thousands of years after the catastrophe that wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth. But analysis of cores drilled into the Chicxulub crater in Mexico revealed fossils of algae, plankton and even small, burrowing shrimp and worms already present "two to three years after impact," a research team said. "We found that life returned to ground zero surprisingly fast," Chris Lowery of the University of Texas at Austin told AFP. He co-authored a study, published in the scientific journal Nature, on what happened ... More | | 
Galbraith co-founded The Petraeus Group in 2010.
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announced today that the firm has appointed Thomas Galbraith as Chief Executive Officer, effective June 4, 2018. He succeeds Leslie Hindman who founded the firm in 1982 and reopened it in 2003 after being sold to Sothebys in 1997. The appointment follows a private equity investment that positions the firm for aggressive growth. Galbraith co-founded The Petraeus Group in 2010. The consulting firm has provided growth and start-up strategies to Steven Murphy & Partners, Art Dubai, Paddle8, Arthena and numerous other luxury brands and VC firms. During this time, Galbraith also served as Managing Director of Paddle8 and prior to that as Director of Global Strategy for Artnet. He was most recently appointed interim CEO by the board of Twyla, a Google Ventures backed startup, tasked with repositioning the company towards a more profitable future. We are extremely excited to have Thomas join us as ... More | | 
The Hodler collection includes around 15 drawings and objects that have remained in the family until the present day.
GENEVA.- Piguet Auction House will be presenting exclusively the unpublished works of two masters of Swiss art: Albert Anker and Ferdinand Hodler. Around 120 sketches, watercolours and oil paintings directly from Albert Ankers family will appear on the market for the first time at the sale on Wednesday 20th June with a global estimate of CHF 320,000-480,000. The Hodler collection includes around 15 drawings and objects that have remained in the family until the present day. Among these are the studies for greatest masterpieces of the artist. During the viewing from 15th-17th June, visitors can also see a variety of superb publications with high quality covers and bindings as well as rare books on travel from the 16th to 20th centuries from the Louis Rey collection. Professor of Sciences, Rey went beyond his role of scientist to become an inventor and explorer with ... More |
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| Exhibition at Newport Street Gallery brings together three emerging artists | | Perrotin Paris opens an exhibition dedicated to the aloalo of Efiaimbelo and his disciples | | Meijer Gardens opens exhibition by contemporary sculptor Masayuki Koorida | 
Helen Beard, Blue Valentine, 2016. Oil on canvas, 1500 x 1300 mm © Helen Beard. Courtesy Newport Street Gallery. Photo Prudence Cuming Associates.
LONDON.- Newport Street Gallery presents True Colours an exhibition of paintings by three artists: Helen Beard (b. 1971, Birmingham), Sadie Laska (b.1974, West Virginia) and Boo Saville (b.1980, Norwich). Opening on 6 June 2018, True Colours brings together three emerging artists that, despite using paint in very different ways, all share an interest in exploring the possibilities of colour. Featuring over 30 works, the show is the largest exhibition to date for each artist. Helen Beard uses a vivid rainbow palette to create interlocking arrangements of bright primary colour, which combine to describe explicit sexual encounters in flat detail. Working from found images, Beards work explores themes relating to gender, sexual psychology and eroticism. Situated part way between abstraction and representation, ... More | | 
View of the exhibition Aloalo, Sculptures Mahafaly des Efiaimbelos Perrotin Paris (June 2 July 28, 2018) Photo: Claire Dorn © Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
PARIS.- In collaboration with André Magnin, African art expert, Perrotin Paris is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the aloalo of Efiaimbelo and his disciples. Efiaimbelo, Madagascan sculptor deceased in 2006, owned his knowledge to his great grandfather Soroboko. Over the years, he developed his art and passed it on to his son Jacques Jean Efiaimbelo, and his grandson Jean Colomb Efiaimbelo, their turn becoming disciples of the art. Today, only five members of the clan perpetuate this unique practice in the same style as their distinguished inspirer. Usually sculpted out of Mendorave, a very dense, rare and sacred wood exclusively cut and handled by sculptors; the aloalo is a vertical sculpture that reaches about 2 meters high (6.5 feet) divided in two distinct parts. The base of the sculpture is a pole. Its upper ... More | | 
Masayuki Koorida, Spirit. Photo courtesy of the artist.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is presenting Masayuki Koorida: Beyond Existence. This exclusive exhibition showcases Kooridas work with a wide range of materials. Celebrated for partially carved and polished boulders like Existence, permanently sited in The Richard & Helen DeVos Japanese Garden, Koorida has a broader repertoire that includes highly geometric pieces in a variety of materials and exquisite, large-scale drawings. This exhibition runs through August 19, 2018 and displays all aspects of his work. In the last decade, Koorida has emerged as one of the most elegant voices in Contemporary sculpture. Although he has exhibited in China, Japan and across Europe, this exhibition is among his first in the United States. Works at a variety of scale and in a variety of materials are being featured in all the sculpture galleries. Of special significance are a series of large, never before ... More |
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| Weisman Art Museum Director Lyndel King stepping down after forty years | | Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger shape Museum Tinguely's exhibition space like a labyrinth | | Paul Smeets appointed as Chair of Paintings for TEFAF Maastricht | 
King joined the organization in 1978 and assumed the directorship in 1981.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- After a forty-year tenure Lyndel King of the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota will step down from her post as director and chief curator in June 2020. I am planning my departure from the museum because WAM is in a great place, King announced. We have a fabulous team that faces the future with energy, creativity, sensitivity, and intelligence. I am proud of what WAM has become and want to make sure that it continues to thrive. Thats why I am announcing my retirement two years ahead of timeto coincide with the public phase of our capital campaign at the University and to endow the position of the director. It is my final gift to WAM. King joined the organization in 1978 and assumed the directorship in 1981. Her pivotal role has taken the museum, then the University Art Museum, from the narrow halls on the fourth floor of Northrop Auditorium to the striking stainless steel and brick bu ... More | | 
Too early to panic. Gerda Steiner & Joerg Lenzlinger, Les Envahisseurs, Container Installation, 2004.
BASEL.- Since 1997, the year they began their collaboration, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger have been co-creating in situ installations, often immersive ones, in the form of lush worlds where natural elements mix with just as many manufactured objects. Transformation, proliferation and crystallization function as fully fledged components of the work, which metamorphoses according to the chemical reactions that develop within it. This summer the artist duo have chosen to shape the exhibition space at Museum Tinguely like a spatiotemporal labyrinth and invite the visitors to cross a fantastical universe made up of multi-coloured landscapes, or to participate in experiments that awaken their senses and mind. The artists installations, which are as unsettling as they are enchanting, forge links between antagonistic worlds, proposing to observe the strange laboratory of the living with its biodiversity now no less artificial th ... More | | 
Paul Smeets is the chairman of the Rob Smeets Old Master Paintings Gallery, based in Geneva.
NEW YORK, NY.- At the TEFAF Board of Trustees meeting in New York in May 2018, Paul Smeets was appointed to succeed Konrad Bernheimer as Chair of Paintings for TEFAF Maastricht from June 1, 2018. Paul will also become an Executive Committee member from the same date. Paul was appointed to TEFAF Board of Trustees in 2017. Konrad Bernheimer, who has been keen to hand over the reins to a younger generation for some time, will become Chair Emeritus Paintings from June 1, 2018, working alongside Paul for a transition period of one year. Konrad remains on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees. We are delighted that Paul has agreed to become Chair of Paintings and to join the Executive Committee and we would also like to record our thanks to Konrad for his commitment and long service as Chair of Paintings, said Nanne Dekking, Chair of TEFAF Board of Trustees. TEFAF Maastricht has three ... More |
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 Major Dubuffet and early Auerbach masterpieces at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art SaleLONDON.- Figure on a Bed II, an early masterpiece by the British painter Frank Auerbach, leads Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale in London on Wednesday 27 June. Offered at auction for the first time, it is estimated at £800,000-1,200,000. Figure on a Bed II, was painted in 1967, and is one of a series of pictures executed in the latter part of the 1960s. They all portray the professional life model Juliet Yardley Mills (referred to as J.Y.M. in the title of some of the artists works) sitting or reclining on a bed. The work glows with brilliant red, green turquoise and yellow. Other highlights of the sale include: Lichtscheibe by Günther Uecker (b.1930). One of the very rare motorized pieces by the German ZERO artist, the three-dimensional work constantly challenges the interplay of shadows and alternating forms creating an almost ... More Jeu de Paume opens an extensive survey of work by the French-Moroccan artist Bouchra KhaliliPARIS.- The Jeu de Paume is presenting an extensive survey of work by the French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili (b. Casablanca, 1975). The artists films, video installations, photographs and silkscreen prints suggest civic platforms, from which members of minorities perform their strategies of resistance to arbitrary power. Through her artworks, Bouchra Khalili articulates subjectivity and collective history, questioning the complex relationships between the singular and civic belonging, calling for a new collective voice to come into being. Her solo exhibition at the Jeu de Paume brings together, for the first time in France, a large selection of work from the past ten years. The exhibition features The Seaman (2012), a first-person account by a Filipino sailor reflecting on the mechanisms of globalised trade from his perspective of a worker in perpetual ... More Exhibition at S.M.A.K. presents videos from the collectionGHENT.- Video Art made its appearance in the second half of the 1960s, first mainly in New York and not much later in Europe too. The pioneers were well-known artists including Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell and Bruce Nauman. In those early pioneering years, video was used primarily to record reality (social and other) or to document artistic practices in general and performance in particular. The technical and communicative potential of the medium itself were also investigated and artists commented on its position with regard to the rapidly advancing mass media, film and television. By the mid-1980s, video was well established and artists increasingly employed it to focus on, among other things, the purely aesthetic experience of images. The techniques they used included those from the cinema world close-up, slow motion, repetition, montage, film music ... More Stunning colored diamonds expected to dazzle at Heritage Auctions' Summer Fine Jewelry AuctionCHICAGO, IL.- Colored diamonds and lots from Mr. & Mrs. Gene Autry and various other exceptional collections are expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Summer Fine Jewelry Auction June 11 in Chicago, which has a high estimate of nearly $6.5 million. "Colored diamonds are extremely popular," Heritage Auctions Senior Director of Fine Jewelry Jill Burgum said, "and considering the number of high-quality colored diamonds that will be offered, we expect that trend to continue in the Summer Fine Jewelry Auction." A Fancy Yellow Diamond, Diamond, Gold Ring (est. $475,000-525,000) is a showstopper that features a cushion-shaped fancy yellow diamond weighing 29.02 carats, enhanced by full-cut diamonds with a combined weight of approximately 2.70 carats, set in 18k white and yellow gold. The lot is ... More Extraordinary array offered June 8-10 in Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Bronzes from the 19th century and Western Art are expected to challenge for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' 1,400-lot Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction June 8-10 in Dallas, Texas. "We are pleased to offer 'Focal Point,' a selection of outstanding decorative objects to entice the connoisseur," Heritage Auctions Silver & Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon said. "This carefully curated group was chosen for their quality and design merits. Many objects vie for our attention. These distinguished pieces are sure to capture your gaze and incite conversation." One of the auction's strengths is a stellar offering of French decorative art, including a Rare French Empire Gilt Bronze and Verde Antico Marble Mantel Clock Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire Depicting the Intervention of the Sabine Women, circa 1810 (est. $20,000- ... More Ceramic sculptures by Omaha-based artist Jun Kaneko opens at Locks GalleryPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Locks Gallery is presenting an exhibition of freestanding and wall-bound ceramic sculptures by Omaha-based artist Jun Kaneko. On view is a collection of dangos and wall slabs created in the last decade. Many of the dangos feature a blue indigo low-fire glaze, one that Kaneko has crafted and developed over 20 years since his discovery of the process on a residency in the Netherlands. Several of these works were shown in a site-specific installation at the David and Gladys Wright House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Phoenix, Arizona in March. Kanekos complex raku firing and glazing process gives each wall slab and dango a unique personality. Part of the allure of the raku technique is the unpredictability of the end product, resulting in beautiful asymmetric and accidental surfaces. Strokes of color wash over the surface like rain, ... More Nick Fudge exhibits his work at HSBC HQ Canary WharfLONDON.- Nick Fudge studied at Goldsmiths College under Michael Craig-Martin and Jon Thompson and was a peer of Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Liam Gillick, Michael Landy etc., a group of artists who jump-started a cultural revolution in the British art world of the late 1980s. Fudge was highly regarded by his peers and tutors at Goldsmiths and was expected to also attain immediate success. However, Fudge made the decision to disappear from the international art scene and for over twenty-five years Fudge, influenced by Marcel Duchamp, went completely underground and moved to America to make his work on the road and in secret. During those years, Fudge never showed his work to anyone keeping his paintings in storage and his entire digital oeuvre stored on transportable hard drives on outmoded Mac OS hard drives that are almost entirely impossible ... More The FLAG Art Foundation opens 'Dime-Store Alchemy' NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation presents Dime-Store Alchemy, curated by FLAGs Associate Director Jonathan Rider, from June 5-August 17, 2018. The exhibition features 24 contemporary artists who elevate everyday, often forgotten items through the framing device of cabinets, shelving, and containers. Working within the broader legacy of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), these artworks, and the safeguarded object they contain, address issues of identity, memory, time, and value. The title of the exhibition references Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simics 1994 book of short prose. Having never met the artist, Simic reflects on eight of the Cornells dreamlike assemblages, combining his personal experiences, musings, and literary references into an ode on the artists beguiling universe. Celebrated for his collages, films, and box constructions, ... More Another single-owner success at Freeman'sPHILADELPHIA, PA.- On June 4, Freemans offered 18 Works from the Bachman Collection, a thoughtfully curated group of paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the Boca Raton Estate of Gilbert and Lee Bachman. The sale totaled more than $1,960,000, and was 90 percent sold by value. The double-header sale day, which came just one day after the American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction, ended with 20th Century Design, which achieved more than $875,000, bringing the two-day sale total to over $4.5 million. 18 Works from the Bachman Collection attracted international attention with successful buyers from Norway, Switzerland, Greece, France and Italy as well as across the US. The sale opened with three works by Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), the German-born Abstract Expressionist. Lot 2, Cataclysm (Homage to Howard ... More Exhibition highlights innovative etchings by master artist Francisco de GoyaMILWAUKEE, WIS.- Considered one of the most important Spanish artists, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), was not only a master painter, but also brought scenes to life through printmaking. His innovative techniques set him apart from his contemporaries and inspired generations of artists that followed. The exhibition, Daring Technique: Goya and the Art of Etching, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from April 20 through September 9, 2018, showcases prints that compare his style with other artists etchings and highlight his mastery, including a rare and complete first edition set of Goyas drama-filled print series La Tauromaquia. Following in the footsteps of masters such as Dürer and Rembrandt, Goya emphasized printmaking throughout his career, viewing it as of equal importance to his paintings. Daring Technique highlights Goyas ... More Prussia collection, all pieces in rare cobalt blue, sold by Woody AuctionDOUGLASS, KAN.- Three RS Prussia marked bowls each one boasting a gorgeous portrait and scenic décor of one of the four seasons sold as single lots for a combined $33,000 at the Part 1 sale of the lifetime collection of RS Prussia antique porcelain of the late John and Lavaun Headlee, nearly all the pieces in the rare cobalt blue color, held May 26th by Woody Auction in the firms Douglass gallery. The top earner was the fall season bowl, 9 ¾ inches in diameter with poppy highlights ($15,000). The summer season bowl, 9 inches in diameter with pink poppy highlights, changed hands for $11,000. And the winter season bowl, 9 ¾ inches in diameter with leaf and berry highlights, fetched $7,000. All three of the bowls were stippled mold, with cobalt blue borders and strong gold trim and gold stenciling. The Headlees were beloved members of the RS Prussia ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein died June 06, 1962. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, "Untitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1)," 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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