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Tate Modern?s ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition brings together over 250 works.
LONDON.- Celebrated as a sculptor, painter and draughtsman, Giacometti?s distinctive elongated figures are some of the most instantly recognisable works of modern art. This exhibition reasserts Giacometti?s place alongside the likes of Matisse, Picasso and Degas as one of the great painter-sculptors of the 20th century. Through unparalleled access to the extraordinary collection and archive of the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, Paris, Tate Modern?s ambitious and wide-ranging exhibition brings together over 250 works. It includes rarely seen plasters and drawings which have never been exhibited before and showcases the full evolution of Giacometti?s career across five decades, from early works such as Head of a Woman [Flora Mayo] 1926 to iconic bronze sculptures such as Walking Man I 1960. Born in Switzerland in 1901, Giacometti moved to Paris in the 1920s where he became engaged with cubism and latterly joined the Surrealist Group in 1931. Celebrated works such as Woman with her Throa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dr Peter Schmid (R) from The University of Zurich prepares "Neo", a new found fossil skeleton in the Cradle of Human Kind area, to be displayed on May 8, 2017 in Maropeng, South Africa. Primitive hominids may have cohabited in Africa with the early modern men, scientists have put forward for the first time, a scenario that further complicates the genealogical tree of the human species. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP
| British Council presents sculptural installation by Phyllida Barlow at the Biennale di Venezia | | Gallerie dell'Accademia opens first Venice museum exhibition devoted to Philip Guston | | First exhibition to focus on view paintings as depictions of contemporary events opens in L.A. | 
Installation view, folly, Phyllida Barlow, British Pavilion, Venice, 2017. Photo: Ruth Clark © British Council. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
VENICE.- The British Council presents folly, an ambitious sculptural installation by Phyllida Barlow conceived and created for the British Pavilion at the 57th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. Commenting on the exhibition, Emma Dexter, Commissioner of the British Pavilion and Director Visual Arts at the British Council, said: Phyllida Barlow has chosen to make a body of work that boldly responds to Venice, to the context of the Biennale and in particular to the Pavilion itself. She has succeeded in weaving these together with her own sculptural obsessions and concerns that have fascinated her throughout her career, and which I know will beguile and inspire audiences in Venice and around the world. Barlows extensive series of new works expands across the entire site of the British Pavilion. Works are placed outside the building, spaces inside are bisected and disrupted, while other works reach up high into the roof and can only be glimpsed from below. In ... More | | 
Philip Guston, Sleeping, 1977. Oil on canvas, 213.4 x 175.3 cm / 84 x 69 in © The Estate of Philip Guston. Private Collection. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
VENICE.- Beginning 10 May 2017, Gallerie dellAccademia di Venezia will present the work of the pre-eminent American painter Philip Guston (1913 1980) in a major exhibition exploring the artists oeuvre in relation to critical literary interpretation. In a spirit reflective of how Guston himself cultivated the sources of his inspiration, Philip Guston and the Poets considers the ideas and writings of major 20th century poets as catalysts for his enigmatic pictures and visions. Featuring works that span a fifty-year period in Gustons artistic career, the exhibition includes 50 major paintings and 25 prominent drawings dating from 1930 until his death in 1980. The exhibition draws parallels between the essential humanist themes reflected in these works, and the language and prose of five poets: D. H. Lawrence (British, 1885 1930), W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865 1939), Wallace Stevens (American, 1879 1955), Eugenio Montale (Italian, 1896 198 ... More | | 
Giovanni Paolo Panini, King Charles III Visiting Pope Benedict XIV at the Coffee House of the Palazzo del Quirinale, 1746 (detail). Oil on canvas,124 à 174 cm. Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte. Scala/Ministero per i Beni e le Attività culturali / Art Resource, NY.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Long before todays fast-paced news cycle, the visual memory of contemporary events in eighteenth-century Europe was shaped and sometimes even manipulated by great view painters. In captivating, acutely-observed scenes these painters, predominately from Italy, recorded such occasions as royal celebrations, religious ceremonies, sporting contests, and natural disasters. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from May 9 through July 30, 2017, Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first exhibition to focus on view paintings as depictions of contemporary events. The paintings, by artists such as Antonio Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Francesco Guardi, are spectacular and famous works from the golden age of European view painting. The exhibition is co-organized by the Getty ... More |
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| The National Gallery of Canada receives major donation of art valued at more than $12 million | | Museum and the Pinault Collection jointly acquire major recent works by Bruce Nauman | | State Museum acquires major collection of artwork of the historic Woodstock Art Colony | 
Bob Rennie, Director of the Rennie Foundation. Photo: Rennie Foundation.
OTTAWA.- 197 paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces made by some of the most well-known and established Canadian and international artists working today have been donated to the National Gallery of Canada. A gift to the nation in celebration of Canadas 150th anniversary of Confederation, the donation of artwork by businessman and art collector Bob Rennie, is one of the largest gifts of contemporary art ever received by the Gallery. Some of the major, iconic pieces were created by internationally renowned artists, such as Colombian Doris Salcedo, as well as important Vancouver-based artists Brian Jungen, Damian Moppett, Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace, and Geoffrey Farmer, who is Canadas selection for the 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, opening to the public Saturday, May 13, 2017. This important donation enriches and complements the Gallerys collection by these artists. This remarkably gene ... More | | 
Walks In Walks Out, 2015, Video still, (side dual 7x7), Bruce Nauman. Image © Bruce Nauman/Artists Right Society (ARS).
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pinault Collection - Paris and Venice, have jointly acquired two important works by Bruce Nauman (American, born 1941), one of the most influential artists of his generation. These include the monumental video installation, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, 2015/2016, consisting of seven large-scale video projections with sound, and Walks In Walks Out, 2015, a closely related work comprising a single-channel video with sound. Walks In Walks Out has recently been installed in Gallery 171 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and will remain on view through August. Bruce Nauman has been widely acclaimed as a pioneer of performance art, durational practices, and time-based media. Emerging in the 1960s in the midst of Postminimalism and Conceptual Art, Nauman developed a radical approach to art making that has encompassed sculpture, ... More | | 
Eugene Speicher, Martha, 1947, oil on canvas, 19 x 16 in. The Historic Woodstock Arts Colony: Arthur A. Anderson Collection. Photo: Eric R. Lapp.
ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum today announced the acquisition of a significant collection of artwork of the historic Woodstock Art Colony. The collection includes 1,500 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and archival material and represents more than 170 artists from the early 20th century art colony in Woodstock, NY. Long before the famous music event in 1969, Woodstock was home to what is considered Americas first intentional year-round arts colony: the historic Woodstock Art Colony, founded in 1902. Its artists have been the focus of collector and donor Arthur Anderson for three decades, resulting in the largest comprehensive art collection of its type. The artists in the collection reflect the diversity of the artists who came to Woodstock, including Birge Harrison, Robert Henri, George Bellows, Eugene Speicher, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Anderson recently donated the collection ... More |
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| Driscoll Babcock Galleries opens exhibition of works by Abe Ajay | | Superbly preserved Marklin battleship sails to $150,000 finish at Bertoia's $1.9 million auction | | "Doing Time" by Tehching Hsieh, Taiwan Collateral Event of the 57th Venice Biennale opens | 
Abe Ajay, Blue, Yellow and Red (#6507), 1965. Painted wood construction, 31 ½ x 26 ¼ x 3 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Driscoll Babcock Galleries is presenting Abe Ajay: Alphabet. Ajay (1919-1998) was an artist who reveled in precision and intricacy. He often described his dialogue with imagery as rooted in an Alphabet of shapes and forms. Those shapes and forms initially derived from found objects, but soon matured into three dimensional objects of his own design that he organized to construct his sculpture. Ajay created combines to exacting standards utilizing his foundation in graphic design and commercial art to distill the interplay of control, intuition, and accident. This exhibition traces his patterns of movement through that alphabet, a conversation with his own thoughts and a consideration of the infinite possibilities hidden within finite variables. Ajays art was an evolving experiment in expressing perfect interrelationships of shape, color and form. A first-generation child of Syrian immigrants, he too ... More | | 
Marklin Battleship HMS Edward VII, well preserved and complete, 20 ½ inches long, German, $150,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- There was no shortage of trains, planes or automobiles in Bertoias March 25 Spring Signature Auction, but the ultimate in luxury travel turned out to be an early 20th-century Marklin battleship. An amazingly well detailed representation of the HMS Edward VII, the 20½-inch craft was complete with original masts, multiple cannons, turrets, lifeboats and guns. Its rarity and impeccable appearance made it the object of fierce competition, with the winning bidder paying $150,000 (estimate $75,000-$100,000) to own the nautical prize. It was the top achiever in the 530-lot sale, which totaled $1.9 million inclusive of buyers premium. On land, the bidding race was won by an unlikely competitor: a beautiful 39-inch-long German loofah sleigh with Santa driver and two nodding reindeer. This was one of the great surprises of the sale, said Jeanne Bertoia, owner and co-founder of Bertoia Auctions. Christmas i ... More | | 
Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980-1981, Punching the Time Clock Performance, New York. Photo by Micheal Shen © Tehching Hsieh. Courtesy of the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery.
VENICE.- In Manhattans downtown art scene in the late 1970s and early 80s, a young Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of artworks. Working outside the art worlds sanctioned spaces and economies Hsieh embarked on five separate yearlong performances. In each, he made a strict rule that governed his behaviour for the entire year. The performances were unprecedented in terms of their use of physical difficulty over extreme durations and in their absolute conception of art as a living process. Doing Time exhibits two of Hsiehs One Year Performances together for the first time, assembling his accumulated records and artefacts into detailed installations. In One Year Performance 1980-1981, Hsieh subjected himself to the dizzying discipline of clocking on to a workers time clock on the ... More |
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| Sperone Westwater opens exhibition of new paintings and work on paper by Ali Banisadr | | Sotheby's to sell rare Modernist photographs from the collection of Eric Franck | | Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute, to retire in 2018 | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting a show of new paintings and work on paper by Ali Banisadr in the artists second solo exhibition at the gallery. Neither fully abstract nor definitively figurative, Ali Banisadrs richly allusive paintings are as arresting as they are disconcerting. In their conflation of multiple temporalities and narrative dimensions, the paintings might be better understood as world landscapes (to borrow a phrase from early Netherlandish scholarship) than as landscapes or abstract compositions. Rather, they reprise art-historical conventions to subtly disquieting effect. The restless surfaces of Banisadrs paintings juxtapose competing sensibilities, setting areas of neat, precise brushwork against energetic, gestural passages. Enigmatic figures engaged in ambiguous interactions populate these compositions. They flicker in and out of definition and continuously invert ... More | | 
Gérard Castello-Lopes, Alcantara, Lisboa, October 1957. Vintage silver print, probably unique. Estimate £3,000-5,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 19 May in London, Sothebys will offer at auction an outstanding single-owner collection of photographs, The Discerning Eye: Property from the Collection of Eric Franck, Part 1. The sale comprises 119 lots which showcase different shades of modernism around the world ranging from well-known Magnum photographers to lesser-known artists such as Heinz Hajek-Halke and Pentti Sammallahti. Eric Franck has for many years been synonymous with both expertise and rarity in the photographic world. Through his decades of experience both as a fine art dealer and collector, his appreciation and curatorial influence has shaped our understanding of some of the most celebrated photographers of the 20th century, thus contributing substantially to the modern vision of photography. Through his personal connections with ... More | | 
After his retirement, Gaehtgens, who is 77, will return to Germany, where he plans to continue to write and conduct independent research.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today that Thomas W. Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute, will retire in early spring 2018 after more than a decade of leading one of the worlds foremost institutions for art historical research. After his retirement, Gaehtgens, who is 77, will return to Germany, where he plans to continue to write and conduct independent research. Thomas Gaehtgens international standing as a leading scholar has enabled him to significantly broaden the vision and reputation of the Getty Research Institute, said James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. The GRI has always been known as one of the worlds largest and finest arts and architecture libraries, but under Thomas leadership the GRI has become a robust, international center of original ... More |
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 Haus der Kunst exhibits Hans Haacke's monumental sculpture Gift Horse MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst is presenting Hans Haackes monumental sculpture Gift Horse (2015). Originally commissioned by the City of London as the tenth contribution for the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square, the project opened amidst debates surrounding the financial crisis; the excesses of the City government and economic austerity, and controversies linked to social and political conditions across the world. Based on an etching by the English painter, George Stubbs, Gift Horse is a bronze cast of an equine skeleton without a mount. An electronic ribbon is fastened to the horses front leg and broadcasted a live ticker of the London Stock Exchange. In Munich, this will be substituted with live broadcasts from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Meticulously researched, the sculpture directly references the unrealized equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the ... More The Palazzo Strozzi pairs Bill Viola's video art with Renaissance masterpiecesFLORENCE.- The Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi is introducing the Florentine public to Bill Viola, a significant exhibition celebrating this unchallenged master of video art, presenting works that span his long career, and which resonate with the architecture of Palazzo Strozzi. In order to create a unique experience, the exhibition also includes masterpieces of the Renaissance. The survey exhibition, curated by Arturo Galansino, director of the Palazzo Strozzi, and Kira Perov, executive director of Bill Viola Studio, reviews a career invariably marked by a combination of technological research and aesthetic reflection. It includes works beginning with his early experiments with video in the 1970s right up to the large installations of the 2010s that have drawn the public's attention with their strong impact on the senses. In a totally unprecedented layout, the exhibition also uses ... More Major Installation by Hadassa Goldvicht opens at Querini StampaliaVENICE.- The House of Life, a poetic and expansive installation by Hadassa Goldvicht, explores themes of historical memory; the threshold between life, death, myth, and art; and the rapidly changing nature of Venice, via a multi-channel video work that has been installed at the Querini Stampalia in conjunction with the Venice Biennale. Presented by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, in collaboration with Meislin Projects, the exhibition follows Aldo Izzo, the 86-year-old guardian and keeper of the Jewish cemeteries in Venice. Curated by Amitai Mendelsohn, Senior Curator, Head of the David Orgler Department of Israeli Art at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the exhibition is on view May 9 November 26, 2017. Installed throughout the entire third floor of the Palazzo Querini Stampalia Museum, the exhibition invites visitors to navigate fragments of conversations between Izzo ... More French, British paintings headline Heritage's Fine European Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A rich variety of French paintings, a masterwork by one of Victorian Britains foremost female artists and a fresh-to-the-market cache of Old Masters from a Texas collection make up an impressive offering for Heritage Auctions Fine European Art Signature Auction May 24. Particularly noteworthy is the diversity of French art from the 18th- through mid-20th century featuring an impressive representation of landscapes, cityscapes, portraits and genre subjects. Works by top French academic painters are well represented in the auction. Leading this group is William Adolphe Bouguereaus La leçon de flûte (est. $400,000-600,000), a tender image of an Italian father teaching his young son how to play a piffero, a reeded oboe-type instrument which was played in the Apennine mountains. Bouguereaus ability to achieve an almost photo-realistic ... More Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires North necklace by Hanna HedmanSTOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a necklace created in 2015 by Hanna Hedman (born 1980). North is made from reindeer hide, sheepskin, and reindeer, moose and deer antler. The materials reflect the artists Norrbotten connections. Hanna Hedman is also featured in Nationalmuseums Transformations exhibition, which opens soon in Venice. The materials are central to Hanna Hedmans North necklace, one in a series of eight works she created between 2014 and 2016. Hedman chose materials with a long handicraft tradition in the far north, reflecting her affinity for the Norrbotten region, where she attended upper secondary school in Ãlvsbyn. She experimented with materials that were new to her, including birch bark, reindeer hide, curly birch, flax, and moose and reindeer antler. Not only were these materials appropriate in the cultural context, but they ... More Group exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery New York explores ideas of shelterNEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery New York is presenting The Leftovers, a group exhibition organized by Franklin Melendez and Romain Dauriac which explores ideas of shelter. They say planning is the best precaution and true to form the 1% are shoring up their goods with designer doomsday dugouts. Its trueCNN reported it and Vivos xPoint, a real estate company specializing in such wares, admits that demand is on the rise. Of course, the Spartan concrete walls and canned goods of yore have been replaced by LED-powered panoramic views, underground pools and built-in custom finishes. Upon request, however, certain utilitarian details can be retained or added for dramatic effect. Many of the most sought-after specimens are housed in Soviet era bunkers and silos, and it is said that these connect to complex subterranean passages that can ... More Up for bid May 14 at Turner Auctions + Appraisals: Southwest jewelry, pottery, art & collectiblesSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On May 14, 2017, Turner Auctions + Appraisals will offer over 230 lots of Southwest jewelry, pottery, art, collectibles and reference books Part 3 of the private collection from a major Southern California dealer/collector, plus items from several estates and other sources. Jewelry offerings, many vintage pawn of sterling or coin silver and embellished with turquoise, include works from the Navajo, Zuni and Santa Domingo. Among the diverse range of items are belt buckles, belts, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, bolo ties, rings, hat bands, money clips and watch cuffs. The pottery jars, bowls, pitchers, wedding jars, and other vessels come from various tribal entities, cultures or pueblos, such as Hohokum, Anasazi, Hopi, Casas Grandes, San Ildefonso, Tularosa, Laguna, Acoma, San Juan, Santa Clara and others. Artwork offered includes Navajo ... More Colored diamonds and Colombian emeralds featured in Freeman's Fine Jewelry Auction PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans May 17 Jewelry Auction is sure to dazzle and delight jewelry enthusiasts and collectors alike. The nearly 160 lot sale includes a fine selection of antique and contemporary jewelry by names such as Cartier, Tiffany and Co., Van Cleef & Arpels, and Bulgari. Interested buyers will have the chance to bid on diamonds of all colors, including blue, pink, and yellow. The most common diamonds contain small amounts of the impurity nitrogen, which causes a diamond to impart a yellow color. The cause of blue in a diamond is due to the presence of the impurity boron. As the amount of nitrogen or boron increases, so will the depth and intensity of color. The star of the show will no doubt be a fancy light yellow diamond, diamond and eighteen karat gold ring ($140,000-180,000) weighing 13.16 carats, flanked by triangular-cut diamonds, and ... More NewArtCentre presents major examples from Anthony Caro's innovative Obama seriesSALISBURY.- Paper Like Steel brings together major examples from Anthony Caros innovative Obama series; these wall-mounted works in paper are being shown alongside some of Caros freestanding paper sculptures. Paper might seem a surprising medium for the socalled man of steel, but in fact it materialised several times over the course of about twenty years - having first appeared in 1981 - and then most notably during his first visit to Japan in 1990. Paper gave Caro the opportunity to explore the three-dimensional possibilities of the blank page and gave him a new freedom for experimentation; it was openness itself he stated. Using paper allowed new sculptural forms to emerge from the flatness of the page without the need for bolts or welds. Instead, it could be rolled, folded, torn, scrunched-up, layered in different colours or drawn ... More First U.S. presentation of work by Vivian Suter opens at the Jewish MuseumNEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum is presenting the first museum exhibition in the United States of work by Vivian Suter (b. 1949, Argentina) from May 5 through October 22, 2017. This project is part of the series Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings, which brings contemporary art to the Museum's Skirball Lobby. The work on view mimics the simple, rack-like structures Suter builds to dry, store, stretch, and un-stretch her paintings, bringing an echo of her improvisatory style to New York. Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires, where her family fled Vienna at the start of the Nazi invasion. Over the course of her 40-year career, she has lived all over the world; traveling throughout Latin America in 1983, she decided to settle in Guatemala while it was in the midst of a civil war. Her home and studios are in the village of Panajachel, sited on a former coffee plantation abundant ... More First U.S. solo museum exhibition by Charlotte Prodger on view at SculptureCenterLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter is presenting the first U.S. solo museum exhibition by Charlotte Prodger, on view May 1 July 31, 2017. Charlotte Prodgers United States debut features new and existing works taking on the dérive as a storytelling device. Using sound and moving image, Prodger interweaves narrative fragments that imbed time and place through her subjectivity. Disparate topics and sites become linked through her lens. Her site-responsive sculptural works also perform a subtle peeling of the architectural space, rendering details visible. This exhibition marks the U.S. premier of Prodgers new video work, BRIDGIT (2016), shot entirely on her iPhone which she approaches as a prosthesisalmost an extension of the nervous system. Taking its title from the Neolithic deity, BRIDGIT is a journey across vast time periods and landscapes, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada was born May 10, 1949. Miuccia Prada. born Maria Bianchi 10 May 1949) is an Italian fashion designer and businesswoman. She is the head designer of Prada and the founder of its subsidiary Miu Miu. In this image: American Vogue's editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, right, talks to Italian fashion designer Miuccia Prada during the presentation of the fashion exhibition "Impossible Conversations" in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb.24, 2012. The exhibition took place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, from May 10 to August 19, 2012.
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