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Restorers of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage remove surpeints and reveal the original of "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" altarpiece by Van Eyck brothers at the art gallery in Ghent on June 19, 2018. JOHN THYS / AFP.
GHENT (AFP).- A painstaking restoration of the "Mystic Lamb", a 15th-century Flemish masterpiece by the Van Eyck brothers, was unveiled on Tuesday, revealing a "much more expressive and intense" version of the central image of the giant altarpiece. Restorers from Belgium's Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage began working on the altarpiece in 2012, but in recent months focused on removing the overpainting from the central part of the work which includes the head of the lamb. And the results were unveiled at St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent on Tuesday, with the restorers highlighting a number of surprising discoveries about the altarpiece, which is one of the world's most stolen artworks. "The head is very different from what we've known since the 16th century. It depicts a lamb which is much more intense and expressive, which connects far more directly with the people, with big eyes," restoration project leader Helene Dubois told AFP. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Colorado-based company Artemis Gallery is hosting its two-day Exceptional Auction, whose format features antiquities and fine Asian art in the opening session and ethnographic art and fossils on Day 2. The next highly anticipated event of this type is slated for June 20-21, with absentee and Internet live bidding available. Nayarit Matching Ceramic Figures, ex-Hollywood. Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Nayarit, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. Est: $8,000 - $13,500
| 1932 Picasso portrait leads Sotheby's Summer Impressionist & Modern Art Sale | | Fairfield University Art Museum announces gift of 1,500 prints | | La maison rouge opens its last exhibition before closing | 
Helena Newman fielding bids at Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, June 2018. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art totalled £87.5 million / $115.7 million tonight in London, with collectors demonstrating interest in a wide range of material spanning the entire field, as well as a broad spectrum of media. Pablo Picasso and Alberto Giacometti stand shoulder-to-shoulder as two of the universally acknowledged greats of the modern era. Tonight they led the sale: The auction was led by Buste de femme de profil (Femme écrivant) from the artists year of wonders, 1932, which sold for over ten times the £2.4 million it achieved when last at auction in 1997. At £27.3 million / $36.1 million, it brought the total for the four works by Picasso offered this evening to £40 million / $53 million. Auction sales of works by Picasso at Sothebys worldwide this year have reached $232 million. A ... More | | 
Léopold Flameng after Eugène Delacroix, St. Sébastien secouru, ca. 1870s (detail). Etching. Fairfield University Art Museum, Gift of James Reed, 2017. (2017.35.668)
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- The Fairfield University Art Museum in Fairfield, Connecticut, announces the major gift of the James M. Reed Print Collection. Assembled over several decades by artist, collector and master printer James Reed, the collection, which will be given in its entirety, consists of over 1,500 prints spanning the 16ththrough the early 21stcenturies. The great strength of the Reed collection is 19th-century French etching and lithography. Géricault, Delacroix, Daumier, Manet, Redon, and Fantin-Latour are among the major artists of the period represented. Over 30 old master prints dating from the 16th-18thcenturies are also included. The second concentration of the collection is a significant group of over 50 German Expressionist prints, including ... More | | 
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PARIS.- Lenvol is the final exhibition at La maison rouge, which will close its doors for the last time on October 28, 2018. Antoine de Galbert has invited Barbara Safarova, Aline Vidal and Bruno Decharme as co-curators. Together, these specialists in art brut and contemporary art have imagined an exhibition that examines mankind's dream of flying though without any reference to those who have actually made this dream come true. As always at La maison rouge, the curators have considered the subject matter independently of "categories" to bring together works of art brut, modern, contemporary, ethnographic and folk art. A walk through the various themes reveals a succession of some 200 works, including installations, films, documents, paintings, drawings and sculptures. In the beginning there was Dedalus, that inspired inventor who dreamed of escaping into the skies, taking his son Icarus with him. Harnessed ... More |
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| Boulder Museum of Contemporary opens exhibition of paintings and prints by Roberto Juarez | | Victoria Miro presents a series of new wall-based works by Alex Hartley | | Manuel Franke turns the Stadel Garden into a large-scale installation | 
Roberto Juarez, Window/Pater, (detail), 2016, Mixed Media on Canvas, 96"x96".
BOULDER, COLO.- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art announces the Summer 2018 Exhibition: Processing: Paintings & Prints 2008 - 2018 by artist Roberto Juarez in the West, East, and Union Works Galleries. The exhibition is on display June 7September 16, 2018. Roberto Juarez has been a significant presence in the art worlds of New York, Miami, Colorado, and beyond since the early 1980s. Exhibiting at Manhattans famed Robert Miller Gallery for many years, his work is noted for its intriguing combinations of elements drawn from nature, popular culture, the history of modern art, and his own fertile imagination. This exhibition celebrates the last ten years of his artistic achievements. Juarez (of both Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage) is a native of Chicago. He was trained at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles, yet came of age professionally in 1980s New York - the heyday ... More | | 
Alex Hartley, Villa Tugendhat, 2018. Acrylic, C type photograph, plywood and paint, 92 x 92 x 6.5 cm 36 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 2 1/2 in © Alex Hartley. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting The Houses, a series of new wall-based works by Alex Hartley inspired by iconic examples of modernist domestic architecture. Alex Hartleys work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments, showing us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings. In The Houses he brings together photographic and overlaid painterly elements to examine the idea of the viewpoint, the frame and the boundary between interior and exterior, manmade and natural environments, public and private space, two and three dimensions. Iconic examples of modernist domestic architecture, photographed by the artist over the past twenty-five years, primarily in Los Angeles, form the basis of these atmospheric monochrome ... More | | 
Manuel Franke (* 1964), Colormaster F, 2018. Städel Museum, Frankfurt / Main © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
FRANKFURT.- Within the framework of the series In the Städel Garden, the Düsseldorf artist Manuel Franke (b. 1964) has developed an artwork of monumental dimensions 50 metres long and 2.5 metres high for the garden of the Städel Museum. From 20 June to 23 September, this expansive gesture will lend the Städel Garden a new and very palpable boundary between the museum and the Städelschule. Half sculpture, half painting, Colormaster F will respond to the lawn a green surface bounded by buildings on three sides with a curved membrane in vivid monochrome colours. An insurmountable obstacle, Frankes object will on the one hand block the view, while on the other hand giving visitors the opportunity to experience the hill at the gardens centre in a whole new way. Colormaster F will not only change the garden in terms of its spatial constellation, but also create a further, additional space, b ... More |
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| Modern British Art Evening Sale launches 20th Century at Christie's with highest category total | | Almine Rech Gallery opens exhibition of works by Cuban sculptor AgustÃn Cárdenas | | Laumeier Sculpture Park names new Executive Director, Lauren Ross to assume role in August | 
Highest total to date for an evening sale in the category. Exceptional sell-through rates of 94% by lot and 97% by value. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Nicholas Orchard, Head of Modern British Art, Christies London and William Porter, Head of Sale: "The Modern British Art Evening Sale launched 20th Century at Christies realising £26,387,500 / $34,831,500 / 30,055,363, the highest total to date for an evening sale in the category, with exceptional sell-through rates of 94% by lot and 97% by value. Registered bidders from 20 countries across 5 continents underlines the growing international appeal for Modern British Art. The sale was led by Henry Moores unique carving Head (£4,621,250 / $6,100,050 / 5,263,604). Further demonstrating the appetite for modern sculpture, world auction records were achieved for Barry Flanagans Nijinski Hare (£1,448,750 / $1,912,350 / 1,650,126), Emily Youngs Cautha (£344,750 / $455,070 / 392,670 25 times the previous record), both of which were included in the annual exhibition ... More | | 
Le Petit Cheval, 1984 Bronze 32 x 47 x 16 cm 12 5/8 x 18 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches AP 2 of 2 from an edition of 6. Courtesy of the Estate of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery. Photo: Melissa Castro Duarte.
LONDON.- 1955 saw France enter a new age. The SNCF set a new world record for electric train speed (331km/h) and the Citroën DS was launched at the Paris motor show. That year marked the end of the allied occupation of West Germany and the restoration of Austrian sovereignty. In the arts, Vladimir Nabakovs Lolita was published in Paris by the Olympia Press and Notre Dame du Haut, a masterpiece of Le Corbusiers late style, was dedicated in Ronchamp. And, towards the years end, the twenty-eight-year-old Cuban sculptor AgustÃn Cárdenas arrived in France on a scholarship, settling in Montparnasse, which had made itself the headquarters of the artistic avant-garde during the 1920s and 30s. Cárdenas was born in 1927 in the port town of Mantanzas, on Cubas northern shoreline. During the early nineteenth century, the region had ... More | | 
Ross comes to St. Louis from Richmond, Virginia, where she served as the inaugural curator and a faculty member of Virginia Commonwealth Universitys Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) from 2014 to 2017.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- After an extensive nationwide search, Laumeier Sculpture Park has named Lauren Ross, previously the curator of Virginia Commonwealth University's Institute for Contemporary Art and curator/director of arts programs at New York City High Line, as its new executive director. Ross will assume her new role at the St. Louis County Park in August. We are thrilled to welcome Lauren Ross as our new executive director, said Matt Harvey, Laumeiers board president. With her background as a curator, educator, strategic planner and fundraiser, Lauren will guide Laumeier Sculpture Park as we enter our fifth decade of nurturing the community through Art and Nature. Ross comes to St. Louis from Richmond, Virginia, where she served as the inaugural curator and a faculty member of Virginia ... More |
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| Lafayette Anticipations opens its first group exhibition in its renovated building | | Postmasters now representing the estate of Bernard Kirschenbaum | | Four paper fashion collections presented together for the first time | 
Isabelle Andriessen, Tidal Spill, 2018 ® Pierre Antoine.
PARIS.- The new Parisian art foundation, Lafayette Anticipations, presents Le centre ne peut tenir, its first group exhibition in its building renovated by OMA/Rem Koolhaas, located at the heart of the Marais. Drawing its title from W.B. Yeats landmark poem The Second Coming (1919), the exhibition reverses the Irish poets lamentation of a world losing its meaning to embrace the phrase the centre cannot hold as an affirmation. Featuring a group of French and international artists, the exhibit tackles the current reinforcement of cultural, social, and political categorizations, and hints at the necessity of producing more subtle and less dichotomous methods to address them. It postulates that these differences, understood not in terms of separation, but as intimately linked categories, could foster a rebalance of power. Exclusively constituted of new commissions (films, ... More | | 
Bernard Kirschenbaum, Two Element City (1969), painted steel tiles (white, orange, and yellow). Installation dimensions variable, as picture, wall: 373.4 x 396.2 cm, floor: 405.1 x 993.1 cm. Installation view at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters announced the exclusive representation of the estate of Bernard Kirschenbaum. While he is less known today, Kirschenbaum had a sizable and influential presence in early sixties and seventies downtown New York art community. He was an integral part of the early years of Park Place Gallery, 112 Greene Street Space, Sculpture Now Gallery, and Anarchitecture Group. He was one of the first artists to be shown at Paula Cooper Gallery. Kirschenbaums early engagement with topographics and computational systems feels increasingly prescient in our digitized contemporary moment. Originally trained as a designer and architect, Kirschenbaum ... More | | 
Isabelle de Borchgrave, Lorenzo il Magnifico, 2007, based on the painting Journey of the Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Medici Chapel in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence. Photo: Andreas von Einsiedel.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art opened the special exhibition, Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper, on June 16. The exhibition features 67 life-size, trompe lil paper costumes of Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave. This exhibition will be the culmination of a fruitful collaboration among several institutions, explained President and CEO, E. Michael Whittington. The work began several years ago when the OKCMOA team and our colleagues met with the artist in her Brussels studio to explore the possibility of a retrospective that would tour throughout the United States. I am especially appreciative of Kevin Sharp and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens staff for their lead role in ... More |
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 German painter Alina Grasmann opens first exhibition with Fridman GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents Edge of Eden, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by German painter, Alina Grasmann. The exhibition presents two bodies of works, West of Eden (2017) and Paper Town (2018). Both series investigate notions of paradise, fiction, trickery, and perception. Edge of Eden teeters at the ever-so-fleeting margin between artifice and reality. West of Eden is a series of large-scale paintings that place elements of other, historical figurative paintings within the industrial architecture of Dia Beacon, a landmark of Minimalist art. Grasmann has strategically placed the figures, such as Melchior d'Hondecoeters birds and Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers, inside the converted factory building, next to sculptures by Dan Flavin and Bruce Nauman. By doing so, the artist has decontextualized the work, creating a sense of whimsy ... More Exhibition offers a glimpse into cutting edge European contemporary art scenesBRUSSELS.- In the exhibition Somewhere in Between, BOZAR offers a glimpse of the cutting edge of what is currently happening in various European contemporary art scenes and their networks. Five independent artistic actors are given carte blanche in the spaces of the Centre for Fine Arts. They present a selection of work by artists and curators from their extensive international network. Since the 1970s, a network of diverse art scenes, operating outside the regular art market and established institutions, has developed throughout Europe. These are often independent initiatives which function on modest resources, remaining under the radar of the wider public, but at the same time creating a huge dynamic. These artistic platforms form a strong network, and an alternative art circuit that has spread throughout Europe. They are small and medium-sized non-profit ... More Gary Tatintsian Gallery opens exhibition of works by Vik Muniz MOSCOW.- Vik Muniz is a world-renowned artist and photographer working in Rio de Janeiro and New York. Muniz began his artistic career as a sculptor, but later shifted his focus to graphic arts and photography. Inspired by the work of postmodernists Cindy Sherman and Jeff Koons, Muniz uses popular images in his works and presents them in a new way, thus demonstrating one of the fundamental ideas of contemporary art: the primacy of concept over uniqueness of visual context. Experimenting with a wide range of non-traditional materials (dry pigments, dust, sugar, chocolate, diamonds, caviar, childrens toys, garbage, scraps of magazines), Muniz reproduces the works of famous artists, creating short-lived copies of iconic pieces of art. Artist captures the results of his work in series of high-resolution photographs, rediscovering the masterpieces of Van ... More Imperial Chinese jade expected to lead Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Asian Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- An important dated Imperial panel is expected to compete for top-lot honors at Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Asian Art Auction June 29-30 in Beverly Hills, California. A Fine Chinese Inscribed and Embellished Lacquer Panel Inset with Jade and Hardstone Mounts, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period, circa 1735-95 (est. $20,000-30,000) has high-relief carved cinnabar border in red, blue, black and brown at the top. Beneath the border is an amber-colored lacquered ground with inscribed prose to the left by the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the fourth emperor to rule over China. The inset zitan pagoda is surrounded by jade, coral, agate and hardstone people, animals and rocky outcropping. "The poem is from Qianlong Emperor (1711-99), who was the longest-reigning ruler in Chinese history," Heritage Auctions Asian Art ... More Rare Southwest Pacific feather money offered in Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Among the most intriguing lots in Heritage Auctions' Ethnographic Art : American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Signature Auction June 26 in Dallas, Texas, will be a rare piece of feather money from the Southwest Pacific. Solomon Islands Feather Money, Tevau, Santa Cruz (est. $8,000-12,000) is from the Santa Cruz Islands, which now is part of the modern Solomon Islands, an independent nation in the southwest Pacific, northeast of Australia. Classed in the numismatic world as "primitive money," it had all the monetary characteristics of today's modern coins from the world's high-tech mints, a means of accumulating wealth, a medium of exchange, a regulated value and a regulated supply. The currency, which is wrapped into coils with a diameter of about 13 inches, was made from the feathers of a small, scarlet honeyeater bird found in ... More Christie's aannounces highlights from its Classic Week sales in JulyLONDON.- Christies Classic Week sales in July present a vibrant array works of art dating from antiquity to the 20th century. Spanning 14 auctions in total, remarkable lots with extraordinary provenance will be offered across mediums, periods and price points. Works range from a rich offering of paintings, drawings and watercolours across Old Masters, Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, British Impressionist, 19th Century European and Orientalist Art, to important decorative arts including sculpture, furniture, portrait miniatures and gold boxes, to inspiring books, manuscripts, illustrations, prints, science and natural history. Highlights include a poignant work by Rubens, Thomas Chippendale furniture marking the 300th anniversary year of his birth, Pre-Raphaelite works, two bronzes from the Court of the Sun King Louis XIV of France, illustrations by Quentin Blake ... More Brook Andrew appointed Artistic Director 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020)SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney announced Brook Andrew as the Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney to be held in 2020. Kate Mills, Chairman of the Biennale of Sydney, said: The artist is at the centre of our work at the Biennale of Sydney. We are therefore delighted to announce the appointment of one of Australias most distinguished artists, Brook Andrew, as Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney. He has consistently modelled national and global collaboration and the sharing of knowledge in both his artistic and exhibition-making practice. Mills noted that the Biennale of Sydney offers an exciting geographical perspective for debate, controversy and cutting-edge discussions. As we collectively face an increasingly complex future, we are proud to celebrate the substantive, transformative creative practice of Brook ... More Bronx Museum of the Arts appoints Deborah Cullen-Morales new Executive DirectorBRONX, NY.- The Bronx Museum of the Arts announced today that Deborah Cullen-Morales will become the Museums new Executive Director. She will succeed Executive Director Holly Block, who passed away in October 2017. Cullen-Morales comes to the Museum from the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. After serving more than 15 years at El Museo del Barrio, New York, Cullen-Morales has been the director and chief curator of the Wallach for the past six years, overseeing the Gallerys expansion into The Lenfest Center for the Arts on the Universitys new campus in West Harlem. Cullen-Morales will report to the Board of Trustees and will be the strategic lead in developing and implementing plans for advancing the Museums mission. She will assume the post at the Museum in July 2018. Throughout her career, Cullen-Moraless ... More Michel Auder's second solo show with Martos Gallery on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Martos Gallery is presenting Michel Auders second solo show with the gallery, And virtually everything said has been said incorrectly, and it's been said wrong, or it's been covered wrong by the press, on view June 15 August 3, 2018, which features his new film TRUMPED (2018), a mural of new photographs. A large mounted photo, standing seven feet tall, greets you before you enter the main gallery. The mural spans the longest wall in the gallery and is composed of dozens of photos arranged and pinned by the artist. It reads like a text; his own language of violence, emotions, politics, transference, and subjectivity. Freestanding walls made by artist Servane Mary divide the gallery and create an intimate space for guests to read it. TRUMPED (2018) is projected on the opposing wall in the gallery. Similar to the immediacy of his ... More Swann sets record for Cuban-American painter Emilio CruzNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries auction of American Art on June 14 offered original works by bastions of the category including William Glackens and John Singer Sargent, as well as artists whose work has only more recently been recognized. 81% of the 300 works found buyers, indicating a robust market with continued interest in rising stars. Nearly a fifth of the auction comprised works by the artist collective PaJaMa, consisting of Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French and their various partners and friends. Many of these works came from the collection of Jon Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, including Jared Frenchs graphite Portrait of Paul Cadmus, 1931, and study for Elemental Play, 1946 ($10,625 and $11,250, respectively). The evocative chalk Nude Reclining on Bentwood Chairs with a Dog, circa 1975, by Paul Cadmus, ... More DESTE Foundation opens exhibition of works by Lito KattouATHENS.- The DESTE Foundation, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum and Point Centre for Contemporary Art, present Lito Kattous exhibition Days of San within the permanent collections of the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture. The exhibition, which is on view between June 16 and July 29, 2018, includes the real-time video projection Red Lake on the Museums third floor as well as five new sculptures, embodiments of the fictional character San , on the ground floor. San, a liquid, ungendered being between a human, a machine, a god and an animal, was conceived as an Artificial Intelligence. It reflects and negotiates the presence of creatures, guardians, and non-human entities in mythological traditions, artifacts and histories spanning from the long past until today. Skins and feathers from the creatures epidermis are extruded from its body and cohabit ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Kurt Schwitters was born June 20, 1887. Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German artist who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. In this image: Kurt Schwitters, Mz 302, Linden, 1921. Collage on paper, 7 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. Private collection. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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