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Organized in eight sections, the exhibition proposes a chronological and thematic programme which presents the different aspects of their artistic production of the following mediums: painting, sculpture, and drawing.
PARIS.- From October 4, 2016 to February 5, 2017, the Musée Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti present the first exhibition dedicated to the artworks of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Thanks to an exceptional loan from the Fondation Giacometti, this new exhibition, which occupies the ground floor and the first floor of the Hôtel Salé, reunites more than 200 artworks of these two masters from the rich collections of the Musée Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti, as well as borrowed artworks from French and foreign collections. An important work of research, brought together from the collection of archives at the Musée Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti, has revealed new, significant documents, sketches, notebooks, and annotations. These documents clarify the unknown ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MPavilion 2016 designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai opened today in Melbournes Queen Victoria Gardens.
| 4 new world records at comics sale by Artcurial in Hong Kong | | The Leslie Waddington Collection sells 100% by Lot and 100% by value | | David Gill Gallery exhibits Zaha Hadid's final collection of furniture |
HERGà (Georges Remi), Fresco for the Cultural Center of Wallonie-Bruxelles (detail), India ink and pencil on paper, sold at 8 425 000 HKD / 967 279 buyers premium included (estimations: 800 000 1 200 000 / 7 000 000 10 000 000 HKD) © Herge Moulins art 2016.
HONG KONG.- Leading French auction house Artcurial completed its second sale in Hong Kong on 3 October, 2016, at Liangyi Museum, under the hammer of Isabelle Bresset. The auction has realised 2,5M/ 21,9 M HKD, with 70 % of the lots sold, and 4 new world record at auction. The sale celebrates Artcurials long-time dedication to the auction of comics strips, and its ten year in the category of street art. It also saw keen interest from bidders around Asia, confirming Artcurials growing share in the market. 80% of the comics sold will stay in Asia. The four new records are: Olivier Ledroit - The Marriage of Berath (Lot 1) - 275 000 HKD / 31 573 Philippe ... More | |
Jean Dubuffet, Visiteur au chapeau bleu avril 1955, 1955 (£4,813,000 / $6,141,388 / 5,491,633).
LONDON.- On 4 October 2016, Christies saw an electric start to the much-anticipated Frieze Week auctions with the single-owner auction: The Collection of Leslie Waddington, in which spirited bidding for the artworks from Leslie Waddingtons highly sought after personal collection, achieved £28,285,525 / $36,092,330 / 32,273,784 with every work sold. The sale was a fitting tribute to Leslie Waddington whose pioneering spirit as an art dealer defined the London art landscape before the rise in popularity of the contemporary art world today. The auction saw competitive bidding in the room, online and on phones to achieve the exceptional sell through rate of 100% by lot and 100% by value with 80% of works selling over estimate. Registered bidders from 37 countries across six continents demonstrated the strong demand in the global art market. ... More | |
Ultra Stellar red chair.
LONDON.- UltraStellar is Zaha Hadids final collection of furniture for her long-term gallerist and close friend David Gill under the creative direction of Francis Sultana, CEO of the gallery. The collection celebrates Zahas genius with brand new pieces and several pieces that extend existing collections and ideas from 2012-14. UltraStellar also offers the chance for the gallery to look forward to the on-going relationship between Zaha Hadid Design and David Gill Gallery under the new direction of Patrik Schumacher. This new show of work continues on the journey that Zaha first began with the gallery in 2007 but for the first time, for the main body of this new collection, Zaha has, maybe surprisingly, employed more traditional materials including walnut, silver, glass and leather which sit alongside her most loved of media, clear acrylic. The shapes in this new collection reveal Zahas continuing ... More |
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| Bangladeshi mosque architect smashes glass ceiling | | Photographic masterpieces offered at Swann Galleries | | Prince's Paisley Park to open, but only for some |
Bangladesh architect Marina Tabassum speaks with AFP during an interview in Dhaka. Rehman Sobhan / AFP.
DHAKA (AFP).- As one of the only female architects in a country where women rarely even enter mosques, Marina Tabassum was an unconventional choice to design Bangladesh's new Baitur Rouf Mosque, which has just won a prestigious international prize. But there is little of the conventional about the 45-year-old Tabassum or her design, which eschews traditional minarets and domes in favour of a single-storey terracotta brick structure that is suffused with light and remains cool even in the scorching summer months. Like most women in deeply conservative Bangladesh, Tabassum had barely set foot in a mosque when she was commissioned to design the building in 2005 after her grandmother donated a piece of land. Few of Bangladesh's mosques have dedicated sections for female worshippers, and most women pray at home. But Tabassum visited over 100 before setting pen to ... More | |
Julia Margaret Cameron, Portrait of Kate Keown, circular albumen print, 1866. Estimate $50,000 to $75,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, October 25, Swann Galleries will offer Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, an auction featuring examples of the medium from its inception in the early nineteenth century through contemporary works. Early masterpieces on offer include Julia Margaret Camerons luminous circular image of Kate Keown (No. 4 Series of 12 Life Sized Heads), 1866. This albumen print, estimated at $50,000 to $75,000, is one of the artists first in her series of life-sized portraits. From 1870 comes Vischers Pictorial of California, with 170 photographs, including 17 after works by Russell, Watkins, Muybridge and others; and compiled by Edward Vischer. This historic set, a deluxe presentation copy bound for a discerning client, is estimated at $15,000 to $25,000. The top lot of the sale is Robert Franks emotive 1956 silver print, ... More | |
This file photo taken on April 22, 2016 shows the entrance of the Paisley Park compound of music legend Prince. Mark Ralston / AFP.
MINNEAPOLIS (AFP).- Prince's closely-guarded studio complex in Minnesota has delayed plans to welcome legions of fans, with officials granting only temporary permits on three dates starting Thursday. The late "Purple Rain" star's state-of-the-art studio was set to open with tours this week, but local officials in Chanhassen, a suburb of Minneapolis, delayed their approval for turning the complex into a museum. In a meeting that lasted more than three hours on Tuesday, some local residents said they were concerned that the estimated 600,000 fans expected to visit the studio-turned-museum each year would create traffic jams and congestion in the town of 24,000. "That's something we need to talk about as a community: do we want to be a tourist town?" said Chanhassen City Councilwoman Bethany Tjornhom. Members of the council asked the Bremer Trust, which ... More |
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| Pinakothek der Moderne inaugurates an exhibition series on fine-art photography in the digital age | | Design by Nature: Freeman's announces October 16 Design Auction | | Osborne Samuel Gallery showcases the early works of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld |
Mykola Ridnyi, Under Suspicion, 2015 (detail). Aus der Serie: Under suspicion. C-Print, ca. 20 x 28 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Edel Assanti, London © Mykola Ridnyi.
MUNICH.- Since its founding, the Photography Collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne has consistently engaged with current work in international art photography, both as a collecting and an exhibiting institution. A new long-term series of exhibitions, held every two years, introduces a new, specific format to this aspect of the museums activity. As well as incorporating individual exhibitions, the series also establishes a wide-ranging forum for discussion and information. As digitization brings massive changes to almost every aspect of life, photography too finds itself in an inexorable process of redefinition. As an autonomous mode of artistic expression, photography has long had processes of exchange with classical art forms. Today, it is also marked by intensifying relations ... More | |
Mira Nakashima, Set of Eight Conoid Chairs.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's October 16 Design auction is a tightly curated sale that highlights nature as seen through the work of Art Deco fantasy and New Hope School simplicity. The 50 lot sale is anchored by a number of works from the Nakashima studios, with stand out selections from both George and Mira culled from private and institutional collections. Premier ironwork from Art Deco master Wilhelm Hunt Diederich will also be on offer, as will a rare "Iris" lantern from Tiffany Studios circa 1905. What excites me about Nakashima at this moment is its growing appeal to scholars, museums, and collectors worldwide, says head of department, Tim Andreadis. This is one of the nicest selections of George Nakashima works to come to auction this year, with some truly not-to-be-missed highlights. Foremost among these works is a Tea Ceremony Platform completed in 1964 for Columbia Universitys Department ... More | |
Erwin Blumenfeld, Dyed Blue Solarized model with Face on Hands, New York, 1946, Silver Gelatin Print, Courtesy Osborne Samuel.
LONDON.- Osborne Samuel announces Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue, highlighting rare works from one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Erwin Blumenfeld. This exhibition, curated by Lou Proud, brings together a collection of Blumenfelds early photographs, some of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. Shedding light on his seldom explored formative years, this exhibition explores how Blumenfelds Dadaist collages informed his experimental fashion photography. Featuring original black and white silver gelatin prints, collages, drawings and personal ephemera, this exhibition delves into the early beginnings of Blumenfelds pioneering technique. Revealing the wider practice of an artist best known for creating some of the most iconic images in the twentieth century - ... More |
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| Shannon Te Ao wins Walters Prize 2016 | | Street art graduates to Paris gallery | | In Miami, warehouse district becomes art haven |
Shannon Te Ao, Okea ururoatia (never say die), 2016, collection of plants, display furniture, ultra violet lights. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, (installation view) Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
AUCKLAND.- Shannon Te Ao has been announced tonight as the winner of the Walters Prize 2016, New Zealands most prestigious contemporary art award. The announcement was made by Doryun Chong, the Walters Prize 2016 international judge, at a dinner at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Te Ao wins $50,000 for the honour. Te Ao was selected for his presentation of Two shoots that stretch far out 201314, a single-channel, HD video work and Okea ururoatia (never say die) 2016, living plants, furniture and lights. Chong, Deputy Director of Hong Kongs M+ museum, says he was intrigued, touched, and moved by Te Aos art. As I left the space of his art, I felt as if I had not only been teleported but also had been transformed. I imagined him citing those lines [of an historic Māori song] to the end of time, with the rabbits, ducks and chickens, wallaby, swan and donkey by his side, while ... More | |
People spray color on a special made wall placed for Graffiti artists on October 2, 2016 at Tantolunden park in Sodermalm, Stockholm. The wall in Tantolunden is a total of 36 meters long and serves as a constantly changing work of art that people get to legally paint on. JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Not content with spray painting its way into the urban collective consciousness, street art is at last graduating to the gallery as Paris opens its first permanent exhibition of the genre. After a Rome exhibition for British graffiti king Banksy, French counterpart JR's trompe l'oeil wrapping of the Louvre Pyramid and a feast of "Urban Exploration" at Villa Medicis, now comes a Parisian sequel -- 150 works on permanent show at the Art 42 peer-to-peer learning centre. The exhibition which opens this month is a further sign of how street art is establishing itself as an art form in its own right, some 50 years after early proponents used metro tunnels and handy walls as blank canvases. Street art's earliest incarnations may well conjure up visions of artists toiling surreptitiously in quasi-derelict surroundings on work that was merely decorative. ... More | |
People take photos against a mural in the Wynwood Walls section of the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, Florida, on September 28, 2016. Founder Tony Goldman, with his real estate company Goldman Properties, was devoted to revitalizing run down neighborhoods and create permanent outdoor mural exhibits. RHONA WISE / AFP.
MIAMI (AFP).- A decade ago, Jessica Goldman Srebnick was afraid of walking through Wynwood, a derelict warehouse neighborhood in Miami. Today, she is the virtual curator of an open-air art gallery that has turned the area into one of the hippest places in the United States. Windowless factory warehouses in the bleak urban district have become a venue where artists, including internationally famous ones, paint murals that raise street art to new heights. The flourishing neighborhood -- which recently made headlines as the first place in America where the Zika virus was locally transmitted -- has about 70 art galleries and 20 restaurants. As it gentrified, rents skyrocketed, going from $3 to $6 per square foot to between $65 and $95 today. How did this transformation occur? ... More |
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Phillips names Terry Chu to lead Jewellery Department; Anellie Manolas joins as Jewellery Specialist
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced the appointment of Terry Chu to lead the companys Jewellery Department in Hong Kong, one of the worlds most important markets for the acquisition of fine jewellery. The company also announced that Anellie Manolas is joining Phillips as a jewellery specialist in Hong Kong. Ms. Chu will design and implement a strategy for the Asian expansion and development of Phillips jewellery business, one of the fastest-growing categories in the auction world. The development of the jewellery department is part of Phillips significant expansion of its Hong Kong operations. After the companys first two successful watch sales in Hong Kong, Phillips plans to hold its inaugural sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Design and Jewellery in Hong Kong later this year. In the past year, ... More
The Elgiz Museum exhibits works from its collection on the Greek Island of Lesbos
LESBOS.- Lines of Passage (in medias res) endeavours to demonstrate a variety of connections among narratives of memory and expressions of differing intensities and (stylistic) approaches through artworks selected from the permanent collection of the Elgiz Museum in Istanbul. Sevda and Can Elgiz began amassing the collection in 1980 by focusing on the contemporary in art and life and in 2001 made the collection accessible to the public at The Elgiz Museum in Istanbul. Lines of Passage (in medias res), curated by Başak Senova, forms a constellation reflecting on the trajectories of memory and perception. Within the exhibition, potential encounters between the selected artworks and spaces designate an ever-changing dynamic which is based on personal narratives, consciousness, psychological and cognitive recognitions. The exhibition suggests various paths of ... More
The Canada Gallery presents "Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut"
LONDON.- The Canada Gallery is presenting a new exhibition that celebrates vibrant contemporary art from the territory of Nunavut in Canadas Arctic. Floe Edge: Contemporary Art and Collaborations from Nunavut brings together 18 artists and collaborators to create an exhibition that reflects the culture, spirit and challenges of this unique region. Every spring, the dark open waters of the Arctic Ocean meet the frozen sea ice along a line called the floe edge, a dynamic ecosystem where sea, animals and humans congregate around floating chunks of sea ice or floes that move with the tide and melt with the changing temperatures. The floe edge is an apt metaphor for the work of the artists presented in this exhibition, who like the free-moving ice floeshave active practices that integrate personal, cultural, and historical narratives. In a context where art has ... More
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen exhibits Chinese fashion talent of the future
ROTTERDAM.- From 1 October five young Chinese fashion designers show new work in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen at Three Eyes Five Chinese Designers. Last year five young Chinese designers were commissioned by the Han Nefkens Foundation to make new work as part of Th e Future of Fashion is Now . This international travelling exhibition full of fresh designs at the interface of fashion and design was recently staged in China. In 2014 The Future of Fashion is Now in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen attracted no fewer than 83.000 visitors. Young Talent At the end of last year, three well-known Chinese designers compiled a list of current talented Chinese fashion designers. Initiator Han Nefkens, guest curator José Teunissen (winner of the 2016 Profile Prize) and Mr Feng Feng, artistic director of the OCT Art and Design Gallery in Shenzen, ... More
Robilant+Voena exhibits works by Emilio Scanavino
LONDON.- Robilant+Voena present Emilio Scanavino, The Tactile Sign of the Void on view at their London gallery from 4 October to 11 November. This is the first retrospective of Emilio Scanavino in the UK in 65 years since his first solo exhibition held in London in 1951. Curated by Francesca Pola and organised in collaboration with the Archivio Scanavino, the show celebrates the work of the artist and his decisive creative decades of the 1950s through to the 1980s. This period saw his affirmation as one of the pioneers and protagonists of an innovative poetics of the sign, situating his practice between the Informel and Spazialismo movements and a new concept of the void. Scanavinos revolutionary work first developed in the years immediately following World War II. In a direct dialogue with an international and vibrant artistic context, his contemporaries included ... More
Street art's stars and the cities that nurture them
PARIS (AFP).- With the opening this month in Paris of the first permanent exhibition dedicated to street art, here is a selection of the increasingly lucrative genre's top exponents and the cities that have nurtured them. The king of them all has to be Britain's Banksy, whose subversive and satirical humour has achieved huge international renown since he surfaced in the 1990s. Hailing from the underground activist culture of the southwestern city of Bristol, his unmistakeable stencilled output generally features an anti-establishment bent. In artistic terms, be it on the street or in the gallery, he is emphatically Big League, rubbing shoulders with Damien Hirst for the "Keep it Spotless" collaboration which fetched $1.8 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2008. Who exactly Banksy is, however, remains a mystery, amid rumours he may be Robert "3D" Del Naja of trip hop band Massive Attack. ... More
Eskenazi exhibits recent paintings by Zeng Xiaojun
LONDON.- Eskenazi will present the first European exhibition dedicated solely to the paintings of Zeng Xiaojun (b.1954) which will be on view from 5 October to 25 November 2016 at their gallery at 10 Clifford Street, London. One of the most significant Chinese ink painters working today, Zeng Xiaojun is also a renowned collector, scholar and contemporary champion of the age-old literati tradition. In the mid-1990s, together with Ai Weiwei and Xu Bing, Xiaojun published the pioneering Red Flag art books in China that documented the contemporary art scene, introduced Western art and artists including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, and went on to influence the subsequent directions and developments of the countrys art scene. Daniel Eskenazi says: Were delighted to hold our inaugural exhibition of Zeng Xiaojun paintings, the first European show dedicated entirely to his work. ... More
Griffin Gallery's new exhibition: From bullet hole sculptures to taxidermied bees
LONDON.- Griffin Gallery is presenting their annual flagship exhibition, PERFECTIoNISM (part III) The Alchemy of Making, curated by Gallery Director Becca Pelly-Fry. The exhibition explores the ancient idea of artists-as-alchemists and through the transformative nature of contemporary artistic practice. It features nine London artists; from award winning sculptor, and former Natural History Museum artist in residence, Tessa Farmer, who stages tiny, winged skeletal humanoids on insect carcasses, to the three-dimensional painter Piers Secunda, who makes life-sized sculptures out of industrial floor paint, the artists demonstrate how source materials can be transformed into something spectacular. Other artists include Liane Lang, known for her suggestions of animacy within figurative sculpture, created by documenting and staging museum objects in her photographs, ... More
New Director of Collections and Exhibitions for Chatsworth
CHATSWORTH.- Chatsworth Settlement Trust announced that Kate Brindley has been appointed into a new and expanded role as Director of Collections and Exhibitions. She will be located at Chatsworth and will commence work there in January 2017. Kate will assume responsibility for the Devonshire Collections and Exhibitions programme at Chatsworth, but also at other properties within the Devonshire Group, specifically, Lismore Castle in Eire and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire. Kates new role has been created in order to raise the profile of the collections, exhibitions and loans programme - nationally and internationally - while also engaging with external funders and sponsors. Kate will be accountable to the Duke of Devonshire, his family, and Trustees and she will join the senior management team at Chatsworth. In addition to overseeing care of the collections and exhibitions ... More
Sovereign Films announces renewed sponsorship for the annual London Lecture of the Ruskin Foundation
LONDON.- Sovereign Films announces renewed sponsorship for the annual London Lecture of the Ruskin Foundation which takes place this year on 6 October. This years lecturer will be Dame Fiona Reynolds, Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whose subject will be Ruskin and the Fight for Beauty. Sovereign Films, makers of the film, Effie Gray, are extending their sponsorship of the lecture series for a further five years until 2023, as a contribution to the celebration of the bicentenary of Ruskins birth in 2019. Sovereign Films will also continue to support The Stones of Venice Fund, which makes bursaries available for scholars wishing to study the archive of Ruskins manuscripts, books and drawings at the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University. The Ruskin Foundation will present its third annual London lecture, sponsored by Sovereign Films, on ... More
MPavilion 2016 designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain launches
MELBOURNE.- MPavilion 2016 designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai opened today in Melbournes Queen Victoria Gardens. Initiated and commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation with support from City of Melbourne and the Victorian State Government, MPavilion 2016 is the third annual architect-designed summer pavilion for Melbourne. With hundreds of creative collaborators, MPavilion presents a free, four-month public program of over 400 talks, workshops, performances and installations from October to February. MPavilion 2016 was officially opened by MPavilion founder, Naomi Milgrom AO, Melbournes Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, Indian High Commissioner Naydeep Suri and MPavilion architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai and commemorated by a live performance by Yorta Yorta soprano Deborah Cheetham and leading Indian musician ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Francesco Guardi was born October 05, 1712. Francesco Lazzaro Guardi (October 5, 1712 - January 1, 1793) was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting. In this image: Sotheby's employee Maria Sheremeteva studies Francesco Guardi's Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge.
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