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Oliver Barker fielding bids during Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Sale, June 2018. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- One of Lucian Freuds last great nudes, Portrait on a White Cover sold hours ago in Sothebys Londons saleroom for £22.5million / $29.8 million, making it the most valuable painting by the artist ever sold in London. The previous highest price for a London auction of the artists work was £16.1 million set by Pregnant Girl at Sothebys in February 2016. A late masterpiece, Portrait on a White Cover, painted when the artist was 80 years old, represents the culmination of Freuds lifelong engagement with the reclining nude. Alongside the self-portrait, the reclining nude was the defining leitmotif of Freuds career. Across sixty years of painting, innumerable mutations of painterly style, and a multitude of sitters, he returned to this challenging subject time and again. Portrait on a White Cover sits at the pinnacle of this endeavour. Portrait on a White Cover depicts Sophie Lawrence, who worked fo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Peiju Chien-Pott, principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, for two weeks in June provided improvised dances on the streets of New York inspired by an installation of artist Kang Muxiang's Rebirth series of embryonic steel cable artworks on the Garment District Plazas. Photo: Ryan Daly.
| Saint Louis Art Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art announce major gifts of Native American textiles | | Pace opens an exhibition of new works by Canadian artist Beth Letain | | Cincinnati Art Museum welcomes home Vincent van Gogh's beloved painting Undergrowth with Two Figures | 
Sarape, early 19th century; Mexican; wool and dye; 56 1/2 Ã 93 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Elissa and Paul Cahn 262:2017.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art today announced gifts from St. Louis-based collectors Paul and Elissa Cahn that will elevate the museums collections of Native American and South American textiles. The Cahn gifts include 156 weavings and related art works. The Cahns developed their textile collection starting in the 1980s with the intent of enabling museums to offer more comprehensive presentations of Native weavings. The gifts to the two museums are particularly strong in works by Dine (Navajo), Pueblo, Mexican and Aymara artists and include textiles from the U.S. Southwest, Northwest Coast, Mexico and South America. We hope this gift opens the world of American Indian weaving to the museums visitors, said Paul Cahn. These works of art represent unbelievable craftsmanship and sophisticated aesthetic expression, and we are proud that museum visitors in ... More | | 
Beth Letain, Wits End, 2018. Oil on canvas, 190 cm à 170 cm (74-13/16" à 66-15/16") © Beth Letain, courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin. Photography by Matthias Kolb.
LONDON.- Pace presents Signal Hill, an exhibition of new works by Canadian artist Beth Letain. On view from 28 June to 4 August 2018 at 6 Burlington Gardens, the exhibition is Letains first at Pace and will include new paintings on canvas. Letain is a painter whose palette engages with the history of colour and abstraction. She develops a minimalist language in the legacy of Giorgio Morandi, Agnes Martin, Mary Heilmann and Bauhaus theories of colour. Her vivid compositions feature dissonant yet harmonious lines and geometric structures that explore themes of logic, system and shape. My interest lies in the optic connotations resulting from radical association of colours and forms. Im fascinated by what you can achieve with extremely limited resources. she explains. Beginning with preparatory drawings and sketch boards, Letain then translates her works ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, b.1853, d.1890); Undergrowth with Two Figures; 1890 (detail); oil on canvas; Bequest of Mary E. Johnston; 1967.1430.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Undergrowth with Two Figures by Vincent van Gogh will return to the walls of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the Mary E. Johnston Gallery (G227) on July 3. One of the most well-known and adored paintings in the museums permanent collection, Undergrowth with Two Figures will again be available to all visitors for enjoyment and study. It was recently a highlight of the successful Van Gogh & Japan exhibition, which was on view in Hokkaido, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The painting was seen by over 750,000 visitors in Japan alone. Prior to the paintings recent world travels, the Cincinnati Art Museum honored this work with the special exhibition Van Gogh Into the Undergrowth in fall 2016. Centered on Undergrowth with Two Figures, the exhibition traced the evolution of Van Goghs style and technique through a group of landscape paintings spanning his short but ... More |
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| Baltimore Museum of Art announces first acquisitions made with auction proceeds | | Art Dealers Association of America welcomes five new member galleries from New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco | | Alexis Rockman's New Mexico Field Drawings on view at Sperone Westwater | 
Odili Donald Odita. Adorn. 2018 (detail). The Baltimore Museum of Art: Promised gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that its Board of Trustees approved the acquisition of 23 works of art, including seven purchased in full or in part using proceeds from the auction of recently deaccessioned works. The new acquisitions encompass paintings by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Odili Donald Odita, Amy Sherald, Jack Whitten, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye; sculpture by Wangechi Mutu; prints by Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Connor, Yun-Fei Ji, and Adam Pendleton; films by Isaac Julien, and Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley; textiles by Stephen Towns; and photographs by Harry Callahan, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Kenji Nakahashi, Wang Qingsong, Chuck Ramirez, Toshio Sasaki, Noh Suntag, and Yoshihiro Tatsuki. Most of these works were acquired through gifts and other funds, and many are the first by the artist to enter the BMAs collection. Museums are entering ... More | | 
Honor Fraser exterior. Image courtesy Honor Fraser Gallery/ADAA.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced that its Board of Directors has confirmed five new member galleries: Honor Fraser Gallery (Los Angeles), Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Los Angeles), Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco), Franklin Parrasch Gallery (New York), and Venus Over Manhattan (New York). They join the nations leading nonprofit organization of fine art dealers, which comprises over 180 members from 29 cities in the U.S. and is a leader in establishing best practices for the field and advancing scholarship and connoisseurship. We are proud to welcome these five outstanding galleries as new members of the ADAA, said Andrew L. Schoelkopf, President of the ADAA. It is especially exciting to expand the Associations representation on the West Coast and add to the range of dynamic programming, expertise, and connoisseurship of our membership across the country. ... More | | 
Alexis Rockman, Untitled (Cherry Blossoms), 2013. Watercolor, ink and gouache on paper, 72½ by 52 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Alexis Rockman: New Mexico Field Drawings, the artists third solo show with the gallery, featuring a group of works that were recently exhibited at SITE Santa Fe in the exhibition Future Shock. By comparison with Rockmans epic paintings, these New Mexico field drawings represent a quieter, more delicate side of the artists career-long study of flora and fauna, spanning from ancient life forms to future potential creatures evolving amid growing climate change. These birds, mammals, insects, fish, and plants are in motion, passing through our consciousness, writes art critic Lucy Lippard in a catalogue of the drawings published by SITE Santa Fe. In real life, we may have barely glimpsed them, below or above us, although the ways that they pass in Rockmans drawingsa furtive coyote, a pronghorn in flight, a roadrunner rushing byexplode our imag ... More |
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| Dame Carol Black appointed as Chair of the British Library | | The Robin Rice Gallery opens its annual photography exhibit SUMMERTIME Salon | | World Gallery opens at the Horniman Museum and Gardens | 
Dame Carol Black, new Chair of the British Library Board.
LONDON.- The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Rt. Hon Matt Hancock MP, has appointed Dame Carol Black as Chair of the British Library for a four year term. Dame Carol will replace Baroness Tessa Blackstone who will stand down at the end of August 2018, following two four year terms. Chief Executive of the British Library Roly Keating commented: Id like to extend a big welcome to Dame Carol from everyone at the British Library. We very much look forward to working with Carol over the years ahead, during this period of exciting transformative change for the Library." Dame Carol said: It is an enormous pleasure to be taking over as Chair of the British Library following in the distinguished footsteps of Baroness Blackstone. I very much look forward to working with Roly Keating, the Board and all the staff of the Library. Dame Carol is ... More | | 
Robert Stivers, Bed-Dream 2018. Archival pigment.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2018, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a few newcomers. This years opening reception will be held on Wednesday, June 27th from 6 8 PM, and the show will be on view until September 9th. Rice has brought together the works of 55 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia, color and black & white, expertly hung to fit together like pieces of a puzzle. This is my favorite exhibition even though it takes months to curate and a week to install, says Rice. I love the moment when a viewer is first drawn to an image. Sometimes ins indefinable; a moment when the viewer not only shares but reconnects to an experience remembered. Each year, the Summertime Salon matures and Ri ... More | | 
World Gallery at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. Photo by Sarah Duncan.
LONDON.- Over 3,000 objects from around the world exploring the fundamental question of what it means to be human go on display this week as the Hornimans much-anticipated World Gallery opens to the public. The 600 sq m gallery opens following a major redevelopment of the historic South Hall to provide a bright and contemporary setting for the Hornimans world-class anthropology collection. A number of new acquisitions, special commissions and interactive exhibits are showcased alongside important and intriguing objects from the Hornimans collection including many on display for the first time in a generation. Through vibrant and thought-provoking displays, the World Gallery showcases historic and contemporary objects from all five inhabited continents to show visitors some of the ways that people live their lives, looking at common virtues ... More |
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| Exhibition of new work by Helene Appel on view at James Cohan | | Weiss Berlin opens exhibition of works by Ursula Ott | | Bill Viola's The Night Journey launches today on PlayStation(R)4 | 
Helene Appel, Sand Painting 1, 2018. Acrylic and watercolor on linen, 93 5/8 x 66 1/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Washing, an exhibition of new work by Helene Appel at the gallerys Lower East Side location from June 22 through July 27. This is Appels second solo exhibition at James Cohan. Helene Appel turns an incisive aerial gaze upon the humble sights of everyday life. She paints puddles of water, rumpled tea towels, swaths of netting, and drifts of sand at actual size on untreated linenteasing out their intrinsic beauty in precisely rendered, uncannily illusionistic paintings that verge on abstraction. Yet Appels interest lies not in the trompe loeil effect, but in exploring the relationship between subject, surface, and the presence of the paintings in space. Painting, for Appel, is a negotiation between the subjects demands for its own depiction and her considerable ability to meet those demands pictorially. In this exhibition, Appel presents a new series of sand paintings th ... More | | 
Ursula Ott, Blao, 2017. Optical interference coated glass, Ã 51 cm / 21 in.
BERLIN.- Ursula Otts mirrored colored glass panes draw attention to the changing occurences of light and color in accordance with the day and seasons. The discs, clearly contoured geometric fields often circles are in silent interaction with the viewer, changing color and reflection depending on the moment and position of the subject. The light paints. With each movement of the eye, every change of the light, colors form into oscillation, into vibration. The outside world is shadowy and unreal, as seen through a veil, sunk deep into the colored glass. The inner view and the deep perception make their appearance, attention is directed to the changing sensation, away from the image of the outside world. Frequently, Otts discs radiate in glowing gold, which changes again at the next change of position. At the same time, the cool blue moonlight, the green of nature appear. Then again the colors mix like in a kaleidoscope. Banned, ... More | | 
Explore a vast, mysterious landscape in this open world art game from artist Bill Viola. Courtesy of Bill Viola Studio and the USC Game Innovation Lab.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bill Viola Studio and the USC Game Innovation Lab have launched The Night Journey on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system. This award-winning art game is available today via the PlayStation®Store for $19.99. Winner of the Most Sublime Experience at the 2007 IndieCade Festival, The Night Journey is one of the earliest experimental art games made. It uses both game and video technologies to tell the universal story of an individuals journey towards enlightenment. For the past decade, The Night Journey has been exhibited around the world as a work in progress, in venues including: The Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York; Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Museum of Design, Atlanta, Georgia. This launch marks its first time home players have been ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Philip Guston was born June 27, 1913. Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In this image: Philip Guston, "Untitled", (book, ball and shoe), 1971. Oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.5 cm., 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. (T004167) ©The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
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