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Image of the exhibition galleries © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- Portrait of Philip III by Velázquez was discovered and donated last year by William B. Jordan to American Friends of the Prado Museum, which has deposited it with the Museum. It is now on display in Room 24 of the Villanueva Building. This donation and long-term deposit at the Prado will assist in completing the Museum?s presentation of Velázquez as a court portraitist given that this is a painting previously unknown to scholars which casts new light on one of the key works painted by the artist during his early years at court: The Expulsion of the Moriscos. For this first public presentation of the new deposit, the Museum has decided to display it in one of its most emblematic spaces, at the heart of the permanent collection and next to Philip II offering the Infante don Fernando to Victory by Titian, which has very recently been restored. Also on temporary display here are Philip III by Pedro Vidal and Philip IV in Armour and The Infante don Carlos, both by Velazquez. Together t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman takes a photograph of an art installation of marine life created from abandoned fishing nets by Erub Arts group artists from Australia's Darnley Island is displayed during a media preview at the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore on May 29, 2017. More than 80 art pieces woven from abandoned fishing nets into installations of different sea creatures by Erub Arts' group artists from Australia's Darnley Island are showcased at the exhibit, which is part of efforts to raise awareness of human impact on marine life. Roslan RAHMAN / AFP
| Exhibition of Soviet graphic design and Constructivism on view at ADAM - Brussels Design Museum | | Guerrilla artist Banksy backtracks over UK vote design | | Bowman Sculpture opens extraordinary exhibition of over thirty works by Auguste Rodin | 
V.Kulagina, For the defence of USSR, ©Ne boltai ! Collection, Prague.
BRUSSELS.- From June 5 to October 8, 2017 the ADAM - Brussels Design Museum welcomes the Moscow Design Museum and its unique exhibition The Paper Revolution . Soviet Graphic Design and Constructivism [1920 1930s] dedicated to one of the most outstanding art phenomena of the 20th century. During its first decade, Soviet Russia, a young revolutionary state, needed its own visual language. A new artistic movement was born from this dynamic and was named Constructivism. Posters, magazines and book covers became the main propaganda tool of the new political regime. Constructivist artists declared the end of the traditional art and proclaimed the beginning of a new era. Social, political changes were happening in parallel with aesthetic changes in the art sphere up until the 1930s. The objective of the Constructivist revolution was to change the role of the artist and to make him/her a creator of the new materialistic world, a construc ... More | | 
His post, filed late Monday, said it was a "Product Recall."
LONDON (AFP).- The street artist Banksy has scrapped an offer to give a limited-edition design to people who vote against the Tories in Britain's elections on Thursday, after the authorities intervened. On his website, the mysterious artist said he had been warned by a national watchdog, the Electoral Commission, that his offer would "invalidate the election result." "I regret to announce this ill-conceived and legally dubious promotion has now been cancelled," Banksy said. His post, filed late Monday, said it was a "Product Recall." Banksy had offered limited-edition prints to voters in six constituencies around Bristol, his home city. The artwork was a rejig of one of Banksy's best-known pieces of graffitti called "Balloon Girl," in which a sad child looks at a heart-shaped balloon that has escaped from her hand. The red heart used in the original picture was replaced by a heart-shaped balloon with a British flag -- presumably a symbol of a nation deemed to be lost and adrift. Local ... More | | 
Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur (The Thinker). Signed A. Rodin with repeat raised interior signature. Inscribed Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris. Bronze with a rich black and dark brown patination. Height: 15 inches (38 cm) Conceived in 1880, this example cast circa 1925.
LONDON.- This summer Bowman Sculpture celebrates Auguste Rodins unrivalled contribution to the history of art with The Birth of Modern Sculpture, an extraordinary exhibition of over thirty works including a rare lifetime cast of the artists famed Eternal Spring (conceived in 1884) as well as a selection of his most renowned pieces such as The Thinker, The Kiss, Balzac and Man with a Broken Nose. The exhibition will also include original copies of letters written by Rodin and a number of drawings unseen in public. Coinciding with the centenary of the death of Rodin (b. 1840 d. 1917), The Birth of Modern Sculpture aims to underline the great masters enduring sculptural legacy with significant works ranging from the early years to his late abstracted figures. Exemplifying Rodins earlier work, visitors will be able to see ... More |
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| Sotheby's NY presents property from trailblazing designer, Santiago Barberi Gonzalez | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage | | Austria's fantastical factory of 'raw art' | 
Antony Gormley, Butt. Cast iron, 72 x 30 x 19 inches, 2010. Estimate $300/400,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 27 September 2017, Sothebys will offer Contemporary Art and Design from the collection of trailblazing fashion icon Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, who passed away earlier this year. The single-owner sequence in the Contemporary Curated sale, entitled Neither Appearance nor Illusion: Property from the Collection of Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, will feature works by the likes of Antony Gormley, On Kawara, John McCracken, Ed Ruscha, Claude Lalanne, and Fernando & Humberto Campana among others. Along with his mother, Mr. Barberi Gonzalez founded the luxury handbag line Nancy Gonzalez, serving as President and Creative Director of the firm that became one of the worlds leading luxury accessories brands, best-known for their use of precious and exotic skins. This carefully curated collection, which explores such conceptual themes as displacement, place and time, is expected to bring $2/3 million. David Schrader, ... More | | 
Stoned, 2016. Oil and graphite on linen, 16 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (42.2 x 40 x 3.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.
LONDON.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Yuskavage. On view at 24 Grafton Street in London, this is the artist's first exhibition since the major survey of her work at The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts in 2015, which traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Widely associated with a re-emergence of the figurative in contemporary painting, Yuskavage has developed her own genre of portraiture in which lavish, erotic, angelic and at times grotesque characters are cast within fantastical landscapes or domestic spaces. Seamlessly blending contemporary cultural imagery and classical pictorial language, Yuskavage marshals color as a conduit for complex psychological constructs. The exhibition includes several works that continue Yuskavage's exploration of the dynamics of intertwined couples, while also furthering her interest in using ... More | | 
Nina Katschnig (L), director of the "Galerie Gugging", artist Johann Garber and Johann Feilacher (R), director of the Museum and of the House of the artists of Gugging talk at the Art Brut Center. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
MARIA GUGGING.- Nestled in the hills of Austria sits Gugging, an artists' colony with a difference where the worlds of psychiatry and art collide -- with spectacular success. Over the past 50 years, mentally ill patients here have churned out an astounding 75,000 recognised artworks, some selling for over 100,000 euros ($110,000). In particular, it is a wellspring for "Art Brut", producing some of the giants in the popular genre like August Walla, Oswald Tschirtner and Johann Hauser. "Raw art" or "outsider art", as it is known in English, is art by those untrained in -- and untainted by -- artistic conventions. To the Frenchman who coined the term, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), it is found in the works of "primitive societies", of children -- and of the mentally ill. Until July 2, Dubuffet's sensation-causing 1949 "L'Art Brut" exhibition in Paris that started it all is being ... More |
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| Exhibition at Victoria Miro features paintings and works on paper by Milton Avery | | Colombian garbage man builds library from discarded books | | Hirshhorn commissions Nicolas Party to create new large-scale immersive mural | 
Milton Avery, French Landscape, 1953. Oil on canvas, 111.8 x 86.4 cm. 44 x 34 in. © The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation. Courtesy The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and Victoria Miro, London.
LONDON.- Victoria Miros first exhibition by the twentieth century master Milton Avery (1885 1965) since announcing the gallerys representation of his work in Europe, and also the first exhibition of the artists work in London for ten years, features paintings and works on paper from throughout his career. Many of the works on display have never been exhibited outside of the US. One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and a pivotal figure linking American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism, Milton Avery is celebrated for his luminous paintings of landscapes, figures and still lifes, which balance distillation of form with free, vigorous brushwork and lyrical colour. Drawn from across his career, the exhibition foregrounds Averys singularity of vision, in ... More | | 
Jose Alberto Gutierrez checks books stacked in his library on the first floor of his house in Bogota. GUILLERMO LEGARIA / AFP.
BOGOTA (AFP).- Emptying the bins of Colombia's capital, Jose Alberto Gutierrez one day found a copy of the classic novel "Anna Karenina," and kept it. That was 20 years ago -- and the garbage man continued to collect Bogota's discarded books, amassing 25,000 in a free library, swelled by donations. "I realized that people were throwing books away in the rubbish. I started to rescue them," Gutierrez, a stocky, grey-haired man of 54, told AFP. He never got past primary school as a student, but is now dubbed "The Lord of the Books," in demand from schools across the country. That first copy of Tolstoy was soon joined by "The Little Prince," "Sophie's World," "The Iliad" and various novels by Colombian master Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Gutierrez's neighbors started coming round to borrow books to help their children with schoolwork. ... More | | 
Nicolas Party, Trees, 2016. Pastel on canvas, 207 x 167 x 8 cm, 81.5 x 65.7 x 3.1 in. Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow. Photo: Max Slaven.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This summer, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents sunrise, sunset, a large-scale, site-specific wall mural by Swiss artist Nicolas Party, on view June 7Oct. 1. The mural was painted directly onto the museum wall over the course of two weeks, responding to the museums unique circular architecture and spanning nearly 400 feet along its inner-ring gallery. Party began painting as a graffiti artist in the late 1990s, prior to receiving any formal art education. Today, he primarily creates vibrant wall murals and canvas paintings that, when combined, transform gallery spaces into immersive, surreal environments. Influenced by the wonder and absurdity of Dada as well as the flattened perspective and simplified detail used by the ancient Egyptians, ... More |
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| Fondazione Prada opens an anthological exhibition by Japanese photographer Satoshi Fujiwara | | Halcyon Gallery hosts Stefano Curto's first major solo exhibition in the UK | | Jason T. Busch appointed Director of the Jason Jacques Gallery | 
Satoshi Fujiwara, #R, 2015. Digital print on PVC © Satoshi Fujiwara.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents EU, an anthological exhibition by Japanese photographer Satoshi Fujiwara at the Osservatorio in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan from 7 June to 16 October 2017. The show includes some of the most significant works by the artist long with 5K Confinement, a commission realized for Belligerent Eyes, an experimental media research project on image production hosted at Fondazione Prada in Venice in Summer 2016. Curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini in a set-up conceived by Armature globale, the exhibition offers an alternative to the representational regimes which have set the ground for the current European photographic identity. As stated by Cippini, contemporary photographic production seems to be regulated by strict resolution, impact and distribution standards. An increasing number of freelance reporters daily document social and political ev ... More | | 
THETARTZERO (Red), 2016.
LONDON.- Halcyon Gallery opened Italian artist Stefano Curtos first major solo exhibition in the UK, Stardust. Fascinated by the power of light, Curto uses thousands of hand-crafted crystal gems to produce a unique and mesmerising body of work. In doing so, the works offer a moment of respite from the uncertainty of the everyday and encourage questions to be raised about the universe and the meaning of existence. I want to create art that can spread a universal message which will make us aware of the causes and effects of our every action, Stefano Curto. Stardust is a clear depiction of Curtos meticulous attention to detail. His works contain an average of 60,000 individually placed bespoke crystals, which capture and reflect light, instantly captivating the viewer and drawing them in to his magical world. Curto carefully handsets each crystal, a method which demands concentration, determination and patience - ... More | | 
Mr. Busch will collaborate with Mr. Jacques on the exhibitions, publications, and sale strategy for the gallerys programs in modern and contemporary ceramics and design.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason T. Busch has been appointed Director of the Jason Jacques Gallery in Manhattan, as announced by Jason Jacques, principal of his eponymous New York-based gallery. Mr. Busch will collaborate with Mr. Jacques on the exhibitions, publications, and sale strategy for the gallerys programs in modern and contemporary ceramics and design. I have long admired Jason Buschs seasoned connoisseurship and passion for art, not to mention his ability to cultivate patrons across collecting categories, says Mr. Jacques. His proven success in decorative arts and design exhibitions and scholarship will provide a launching pad for directing the ambitious programs at my gallery. According to Mr. Jacques, forthcoming initiatives in 2017 include solo exhibitions of the work of Kim Simonsson, Beth ... More |
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 Dadiani brings kennardphillipps election exhibition to MayfairLONDON.- A new exhibition by the acclaimed political artist duo kennardphillipps is being staged at Dadiani Fine Art, a gallery in the heart of Mayfair, on the eve of the general election. May Not is a timely response to the snap election by Cat Phillipps and Peter Kennard, who create photomontages that analyse war, free speech and the corruption of power. The exhibition is free and the gallerys founder Eleesa Dadiani hopes it will attract new audiences as well as those already familiar with their work. It features an installation of photomontages printed on The Financial Times and blank newsprint, propped up by a three-dimensional red graph which snakes throughout the gallery, spiking up to the ceiling, and extending financial market figures into a physical manifestation. The artists take hold of this graph and connect it directly to images that focus on the real-world impact ... More Benedict Drew's most ambitious public presentation in the UK goes on show at the Whitechapel GalleryLONDON.- Benedict Drew (b.1977) works across video, sculpture and music, creating large-scale multimedia installations which comment on the effects of socio-political and environmental issues. The Trickle-Down Syndrome is a new work comprising five connected yet distinct spaces which draw on wide-ranging references, from Hollywood director Busby Berkleys 1930s stage-sets to the Surrealist landscapes of Max Ernst, continuing the artists exploration into materiality, where the physical and digital meet. Through a dizzying array of vividly coloured screens, experimental compositions, large-scale banners, a tiered stage and an accompanying audio narrative, these works come together to take visitors on an emotional and sensory journey through the exhibition. The title refers to a 1980s economic term used to describe the belief that benefits ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Channing Hansen opens at Stephen Friedman GalleryLONDON.- Stephen Friedman Gallery announced a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Channing Hansen. This will be the artists first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, as well as with the gallery. Hansen is a polymath, simultaneously pursuing interests in craft, science and technology. His large hand-knitted textiles are mounted on bare wooden stretchers and presented like paintings. Vibrant abstract forms undulate across the meticulously composed surfaces. For Hansen, the works are a kind of portal suggesting a physical continuum in which a work of art exists in two, three, and even four dimensions: a frame through which to look at the world. Hansen took up knitting to occupy his energetic mind while away from the studio and quickly became a proficient knitter. It has since become the focus of his practice and he often uses stitches ... More Solo exhibition of works by Ron Nagle on view at Stuart Shave/Modern ArtLONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Ron Nagle. It looked, to my eye, grotesque, then psychedelic, then uncomfortably erotic, and then all of those things at once. Slick, shiny surfaces glide over rough lunar terrain and neon gradients threaten to clash, but Nagle always buoys his mayhem with steady elegance Andrew Russeth, Art News. For over five decades, Ron Nagle has produced intimate sculptural works. Each work is created from a variety of materials and is a careful arrangement of contrasting forms, colours, and textures that reflect a breadth of influences including the paintings and drawings of Giorgio Morandi, Philip Guston, Josef Albers, the custom cars and hot rods of the West Coast from the 1930s-50s, and Wabi-Sabi qualities of Japanese Momoyama ceramics. Nagle began to work with ceramics while a student at high ... More Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents a new sound and light sculpture by Haroon MirzaWAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting Aestival Infinato (Solar Symphony 11) , 2017, a new sound and light sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Haroon Mirza in the James Turrell Deer Shelter Skyspace . Aestival Infinato (Solar Symphony 11) is part of the artists ongoing Solar Symphony series and will be open to visitors over the summer solstice as part of YSPs 40th anniversary celebrations. Mirzas Solar Symphonies are solar-powered sculptures and wall works that generate electronic audio compositions and LED light which changes according to the level of natural light to which they are exposed. Mirza fixed a photovoltaic panel to one wall of the Skyspace , which is activated as direct sunlight tracks across the space, emitting sound and light through LEDs and speakers. The light and sound are brighter, louder and faster-moving ... More Design sales at PIASA bring €1.5 millionPARIS.- PIASA's sales Design: European Spirit (1870-1960) and Art + Design from Domus Nova to Pop yielded nearly 1.5m on June 1. The day's opening session, devoted to European Design from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries, saw lively bidding for works by Jean Royère and Jean Dunand. Two Ondulation tables designed by Jean Royère around 1950 soared to 78,000 apiece (lots 90/91), while a copper dinanderie and porcelain Turkish tea-service, designed by Jean Dunand in 1912, flew to 48,100 (lot 64, est. 12,000-18,000). The second session majored on Italian furniture and objets d'art from Domus Nova to Pop a collection built up over a decade of research by a family of collectors passionate about all aspects of creativity. Top price was 195,000 for Andy Warhol's 1983 Wind-Up Toy Roll Over Mouse (lot 259). Decorative Arts also enjoyed ... More Gift of 46 works of art enriches Chrysler Museum of Art's encyclopedic glass collectionNORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art received a major gift of glass from the stellar collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. Their generous donation of 46 works consists primarily of Studio Glass movement and contemporary glass from the 1970s through the 2000s. Additional examples represent the mid 20th century, including both studio and mass production from leading glass factories. Works by 29 artists working in glass are included in the remarkable gift: Gabriel Argy-Rousseau, William Bernstein, Fulvio Bianconi (for Venini & C.), Dan Dailey, Simon Gate and Edvard Hald (each for Orrefors Glasbruk), Jiřà Harcuba, Brian Hirst, David Hopper, Silvia Levenson, Martin Lipofsky, Harvey Littleton, Per Lutken (for Holmegaards Glasvaerks), Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace, Paul Marioni, William Morris, Joel Philip Myers, Etsuko Nishi, John Nygren, ... More Weisman Art Museum appoints Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative CollaborationMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota announced Boris Oicherman as the Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration. Oicherman will begin his position in late June 2017. His selection followed an extensive search by an interdepartmental committee at the University. This marks the first endowed position at the museum and was made possible by the visionary generosity of Cindy and Jay Ihlenfeld. Oicherman has a wide-ranging background in art and technology with an MSc in digital color imaging from the University of the Arts London, UK, a PhD in color science from the Leeds University, Leeds, UK, and an MFA in Art Practice from Stanford University, USA. His research and practice have included color technology, public art, gallery and museum exhibitions, and a wide range of collaborative projects with ... 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More Galerie Artima opens Yoann Mérienne's first exhibition in LondonLONDON.- Galerie Artima, in partnership with Galerie Olivier Waltman (Paris | Miami | London), announces Yoann Mériennes first London exhibition. The French artist questions the connection between modernity and historicity with subjects influenced by Antiquity and Renaissance. He delivers a very new and contemporary approach of a classical iconography. He confronts the ages and mixes them, leading to a timeless aesthetic, sculpting a narrative open to interpretation. Both his technique as well as his subjects are focused around sculpture. Before the painting process is started, the industrial design graduate produces moulds of the subject in question, in order to create a deeper understanding of its volume. He then lights each piece in a precise manner, establishing a photographic and cinematic context within which a dialogue is played out, where links ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Gauguin was born June 07, 1848. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that was distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse. In this image: Sotheby's employees adjust a painting by Paul Gauguin entitled 'Deux Femmes' at the auction house's offices in London, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2006.
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