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Louise Bourgeois, The Found Child, 2001. Black fabric, 30.5 x 68.6 x 40.6 cm. Collection The Easton Foundation. Photo: Christopher Burke, (c) The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY.
TEL AVIV.- For the first time in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to groundbreaking French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (19112010), one of the most brilliant, prominent, and influential women in 20th-century art. The exhibition explores the duality in Bourgeoiss concepts and forms; the dialogues between inside and outside, conscious and unconscious, male and female, the body and architecture, passive and active. Bourgeois, who passed away at the age of 98, left a fascinating body of work combining sexuality and psychoanalysis, which greatly contributed to the development of Feminist theory. Her artistic career spanned seven decades, but it was not until 1982, when Bourgeois, by then 71-years old, became the first woman artist to be given a large-scale sculpture retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, that she got her big break and gained wide recognition. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This fall, the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) presents the first-ever exhibition to focus on view paintings as depictions of contemporary events. "Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe" features approximately 40 paintings from the golden age of European view painting. In this image: Giovanni Antonio Canaletto (Italian, 1697-1768) The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola, c. 1740. Oil on canvas. Bequest of Miss Tessie Jones in memory of Herschel V. Jones. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
| Francis Bacon's 'Head With Raised Arm' unveiled for the first time in over fifty years | | Exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery spans half a century of Larry Rivers' interdisciplinary work | | Sotheby's announces inaugural Sale of Postwar and Contemporary Photographs | 
Francis Bacon, Head with Raised Arm (1955), Oil on Canvas, 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.7cm.). Estimate: £7,000,000 - £10,000,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Francis Bacons Head with Raised Arm (1955, estimate: £7,000,000 £10,000,000) will be unveiled for the first time in over half a century as part of Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, a highlight of Londons Frieze Week auctions. Last exhibited in 1962 at the Galleria Civica dArte Moderna, Turin, the work was acquired by the present owners the following year, and has remained hidden from public view ever since. The works location was listed as unknown in the most recent version of the catalogue raisonné published last year by Martin Harrison. Riddled with quiet introspection and human tension, it belongs to a group of nine surviving paintings depicting the thenincumbent, Pope Pius XII. With four held in museum collections, and a further on permanent loan, Bacons portraits of the living Pope are among his most profound. The work will be on view from 8 Septembe ... More | | 
Larry Rivers, Woman Reclining in a Yellow Robe, 1997. Oil on canvas, mounted on sculptured foamboard, 48 ½ x 5 x 39 ½ inches. © Larry Rivers Foundation / Licensed by VAGA.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents the exhibition Larry Rivers: (RE)APPROPRIATIONS, consisting of over 20 paintings and sculptures by Rivers spanning half a century, from the mid-1950s to the late 1990s. The first major survey of Rivers work in New York in over a decade, the exhibition includes Rivers famous nude portrait of Frank OHara in boots, and highlights the artists strong interest in appropriation as well as the broad range of inventive methods and materials he employed over the course of his career. Works in the exhibition range from intimate graphite drawings to collage, large-scale paintings, life-size sculptures, and foam-sculpted relief-paintings. This is the fourth Larry Rivers exhibition since the gallery began representing the Rivers Estate in 2008. Comprising loans from private collections and works from the Larry Rivers Foundation and Estate, the exhibition will be on ... More | | 
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #415. Chromogenic print, flush-mounted, framed, signed, dated, and editioned '1/6' in ink, Metro Pictures and The Ames Collection, New York, labels on the reverse, 2004, 68 7/8 by 45 3/8 in. (175 by 115.3 cm.). Estimate $180/250,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the inaugural sale of Postwar and Contemporary Photographs on 28 September 2017 in New York. The sale will be led by 49 exceptional works from the distinguished Ames Collection, including masterpieces by Thomas Struth, Matthew Barney, Vik Muniz, and David Hockney, among many others. Alongside the Ames Collection, the sale offers a diverse selection of innovative works by artists including Vito Acconci, Helena Almeida, Shirin Neshat, Chris McCaw and Kohei Yoshiyuki. The New York exhibition will be open to the public from 22 September through 27 September. In November 2016, Sothebys offered The Triumph of Painting: The Steven & Ann Ames Collection, a collection that was formed through decades of study and appreciation for significant paintings by artists such ... More |
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| Reflections of the artist: Chinese paintings offered at Gianguan Auctions | | Freeman's to offer the Louis Kahn Desk for the Morton and Lenore Weiss House | | Exhibition tells the compelling story of New York's first water system buried beneath the city | 
Wang Huis Mountain Temple will fetch upwards of $100,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- When it comes to classic Chinese paintings, there are few things more desirable than a painting that reflects the personality and character of the artist. This point is made poignant in the collection on the podium at Gianguan Auctions this coming Saturday, September 9. For instance, the day's marquee painting is an allegorical work entitled The Wandering Mallard by Zhu Da (Bada Shanren), the Han Dynasty painter of royal descent who spent forty years in refuge as a monk. The dark painting is exquisite in its full-bleed background of dark brown with the singular duck, tree and rockery rendered in black. It is signed Bada Shanren (八大山人) and bears one artist seal. Lot 107, it is expected to command upwards of $600,000. Shi Tao, among the most famous of early Qing painters, was also of royal descent. His is the hand behind the magnficent ink-on-paper entitled Mountain Boating," a ... More | | 
The desk was created for the Morton and Lenore Weiss house in East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Sunday October 8, Freemans will hold its bi-annual Design auction featuring a rare desk designed by renowned architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). The desk was created for the Morton and Lenore Weiss house in East Norriton Township, Pennsylvania. Designed in partnership with Anne Tyng (1920-2011), the Morton and Lenore Weiss House was one of Kahns first residential projects. Begun in 1947 and completed in 1950, the house is set upon a hill in East Norriton Township, just north of Norristown, where Morton Bubby Weiss worked as the proprietor of Gilberts, a prominent haberdashery. Bubby and his wife Lenore were said to have found Louis Kahn an exciting and pleasing partner in the design of their new home, despite his infamous, sometimes-prickly demeanor. The Weiss House was awarded a Gold Medal by the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute ... More | | 
Double Arch Bridge in Ossining (formerly Sing Sing), 2017. Photograph by Nathan Kensinger. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York presents To Quench the Thirst of New Yorkers: the Croton Aqueduct at 175, an aquatic-themed exhibition celebrating the 175th anniversary of the opening of the original Croton Aqueduct system. The Croton Aqueduct brought badly needed fresh, clean water to New Yorkers for the first time and had a profound impact on the growth of the city. Featuring maps, drawings, and other historic artifacts, the exhibition showcases the letters and drawings of Fayette B. Tower, a young engineer who worked on the aqueduct, and reveals newly commissioned photographs by Nathan Kensinger, tracing the aqueducts route and revisiting sights that Tower sketched nearly two centuries ago. On October 14, 1842, New Yorkers lined the streets to watch the largest parade that the young city had ever seen. The occasion celebrated a new sight ... More |
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| Victoria Miro opens an exhibition of new paintings by Hernan Bas inspired by life at Cambridge | | Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens first solo exhibition to be held in Russia of the Italian artist Giosetta Fioroni | | Museum of London Docklands' latest major exhibition draws record breaking visitor numbers | 
Hernan Bas, Suicide Sunday (running the swan gauntlet), 2017. Acrylic on paper, 76.2 x 57.2 cm. 30 x 22 3/16 in © Hernan Bas. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London.
LONDON.- Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed Night Climbers of Cambridge, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the twentieth century. The notoriety of this thrill-seeking fraternity was cemented when an eponymous book, written under the pseudonym Whipplesnaith, was published by Chatto and Windus in 1937, featuring photographs of members perched atop steeples and squeezed between pillars without climbing ropes and often dressed in dapper evening attire. An aura of camaraderie, transgression, eroticism and decadence permeates other works ... More | | 
Giosetta Fioroni, The Wait, 1969. 70x100 cm. Pencils, enamels and aluminum on paper.
MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents «The 60s in Rome», the first solo exhibition to be held in Russia of the Italian artist Giosetta Fioroni, one of the shining lights of pop art. Focusing on Fioronis «pop» phase of the 1960s, the exhibition also traces the origins of the artists style in her abstract painting from the late 1950s and its evolution in her politically-inspired works from the late 1960s, early 1970s. Following the logic of the artists career the exhibition moves on from her celebrated pieces to those witnessing the artist broadening the range of her tools and themes. On the wave of the social radicalisation of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s Fioroni turned to the themes of politics and socialisation by introducing in her works photographs from her childhood which was marked by the Fascist regime. At the same time she made forays into different forms of art experimenting with theatre, cinema, and ... More | | 
There is still a chance to catch the exhibition with Crossrails 360 degree virtual tour.
LONDON.- The Museum of London Docklands latest exhibition Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail (10 February 3 September 2017), has become the museums most popular exhibition ever with 96,750 people visiting over its six month run. The last exhibition to attract a high number of visitors at the museum was Jack the Ripper and the East End, which attracted 56,236 visitors. In this exhibition the museum, in partnership with Crossrail, displayed 500 of the most fascinating archaeological objects unearthed during the Crossrail project. Offering a glimpse behind the scenes to one of Europes largest infrastructure projects, Tunnel: The Archaeology of Crossrail told the fascinating engineering story of Londons new Elizabeth line, alongside 8,000 years of human history discovered under our feet. With objects ranging from prehistoric flints and Tudor bowling balls to human remains ... More |
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| Exhibition examines pivotal roles of Alfred Barr and Philip Johnson as ambassadors of modernist design | | Littlejohn Contemporary exhibits drawings and sculpture by New York artist Valerie Hammond | | Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen Haarlem welcomes three new faces | 
Warren Noble and Emil Hubert Piron, Electrochef Stove, Model No. B-2, designed c. 1930. Enameled and chromium-plated steel, Bakelite, and ceramic, 45 7/8 x 39 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. Produced by Electromaster, Inc., Detroit The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, gift of Eric Brill, 2010.1219. Photo: Denis Farley.
NEW YORK, NY.- New York Universitys Grey Art Gallery presents the first exhibition to focus on the groundbreaking collaboration between Alfred Barr, the Museum of Modern Arts first director, and Philip Johnson, its first curator of architecture. On view from September 7 through December 9, 2017, Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson illuminates the roles played by these two pioneers of international modernism in promoting design and expanding its study to encompass quotidian objects. Their revolutionary vision inspired generations of museum professionals to encourage visitors to look at everything around them, not only paintings ... More | | 
Much of Hammonds inspiration can be traced to her Hudson River property in upstate New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Littlejohn Contemporary presents an exhibition of recent drawings and sculpture by New York artist Valerie Hammond. The show takes its title from the first line of an Emily Dickinson poem: I stole them from a Bee BecauseThee Sweet plea He pardoned me! Though what exactly was stolen from the bee is uncertain, one might surmise it was a bouquet of sweet-smelling flowers; the bee, momentarily ungrounded, must renew its search for another bloom. The sensations provided by this brief reverie the thiefs hesitation, the bees startled buzz, the still warmth of perfumed air are those of the same wonderment and contemplative introspection that permeate Hammonds work. Interestingly, she almost chose for her title A dim capacity for wings, a line from another Dickinson poem in which the narrator, a new butterfly, emerges from her chrysalis. In th ... More | | 
Melanie Bühler: Curator of Contemporary Art. Photo: Anneke Hymmen.
HAARLEM.- Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem announced that three talented professionals are joining the team. As of 1 October, Marrigje Rikken will take up the post of Head of Collections. She will be in charge of the collections department and join the management team. With effect from 1 September Melanie Bühler will become Curator of Contemporary Art. The museum is happy to welcome her. She succeeds Xander Karskens, who is now Artistic Director of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amstelveen. On 1 August Geert-Jan Davelaar was appointed Coordinator Education and Public Outreach. Marrigje Rikken (Rhenen, 1984) has been working at Frans Hals Museum | De Hallen Haarlem since 2014 as Associate Curator of Old Art. She is currently working on the preparation of Frans Hals and the Moderns, an exhibition opening in October 2018. ... More |
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 Ben Lebovitz's Borders: September's Midnight Moment in Times SquareNEW YORK, NY.- In partnership with Advertising Week, Times Square Arts presents artist Benjamin Lebovitzs Borders on Times Squares electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight every night in September. This project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. Earlier this year, Times Square Arts and Advertising Week put out an open call for Midnight Moment proposals from artists working in the advertising industry. The winning submission was Borders, created by art director Benjamin Lebovitz. Using Google Earth satellite technology a familiar medium after Lebovitzs work on projects for the company Lebovitz depicts the world from above, displaying the international borders between countries like Nepal and China, the US and Mexico, Syria and Turkey, Israel and Jordan, and Kuwait and I ... More Petzel Gallery opens a survey exhibition of sculpture by Keith EdmierNEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery announces Mother Mold, a survey exhibition of sculpture by Keith Edmier. Ranging from Edmiers earliest works, such as I Met a Girl Who Sang the Blues (1991) through Imagines (2017), Mother Mold presents a selected overview of Edmiers work from the past twenty-six years. This will be the artists sixth solo exhibition at the gallery and his first in our Upper East Side location. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication that details his most recent installation, Imagines, a set of fifty life-cast portraits hung throughout the gallery space. The title of the exhibition mother mold is a term related to the process of mold making. Physically, it is essentially a hard shell, traditionally made of plaster. The shell supports a flexible rubber mold that helps the negative impression retain its shape during the casting process. The shell is a perimeter ... More Rare and impressive art & collectibles kick off fall auction season on BidsquareNEW YORK, NY.- All aboard for Fall auction season! New auctions are getting added everyday - shaping up September to be an exciting one. From rare collectibles to impressive works of art, collectors and connoisseurs will be busy this Fall on Bidsquare. Highlights include Western and American fine art, rare toys, modern design, Asian works of art and more. Headlining Pook's toy auction is a Carette #2350 clockwork passenger train set. In excellent condition with little play wear, this perhaps once playful toy turned in to a collector's item has an estimate of $15,000-18,000. Rago brings an exceptional vase by Peter Voulkos to auction in its Modern Ceramics + Glass sale. Peter Voulkos is widely considered one of the most important and influential American ceramicists of the 20th century and is credited with bridging the divide between ceramic craft and fine art. Voulkos' ... More Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017 shortlist annuncedLONDON.- Three photographers have been shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2017, the major international photography award organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, and celebrating its tenth anniversary under Taylor Wessing s sponsorship this year. The prize-winning portraits include photographs of a migrant rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast; a girl fleeing ISIS in Mosul, Iraq; and a Japanese android called Erica. The annual Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize is one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world and showcases new work that has been submitted by some of the most exciting contemporary photographers. Since the international competition began in 1993, it has remained a hugely important platform for portrait photographers and offers an unparalleled ... More Charles White's 'Take My Mother Home' makes auction debut at SwannNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries biannual auction of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5 promises never-before-seen art from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. With just over 150 lots of scarce and important works by marquee artists including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Norman Lewis and Charles White, the sale carries an estimate of $2.3 to 3.4 million. The African-American Fine Art department at Swann Galleries, the only one of its kind in the world, celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the house. The top lot is a life-size pen-and-ink drawing by Charles White, titled Take My Mother Home, 1957, estimated at $250,000 to $350,000, the most significant drawing by the artist to come to auction since the houses 2011 offering of Work, 1953 ($306,000). White is additionally ... More Phillips names Arthur Touchot Specialist & Head of Digital Strategy, Watches GENEVA.- Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo announced the appointment of Arthur Touchot as Specialist and Head of Digital Strategy. Recognizing the strategic importance of the growing online community, Mr. Touchot joins the auction house effective today. Based in Geneva, Mr. Touchots appointment follows his most recent role as the Senior European Editor at Hodinkee, the worlds leading online watch publication. His analysis of the auction market earned him praise within the vintage watch community and he has also appeared as an expert on several panels, including two that were hosted by Phillips. As the magazines sole anchor in Europe, Mr. Touchot added a fresh perspective to the editorial team and is credited for growing the publications reach outside of the United States. As the Head of Digital Strategy for Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, Mr. ... More Protest music has died for Venezuela violinistCARACAS (AFP).- Viral images of him playing the violin in a haze of tear gas made him a symbol of Venezuela's anti-government protests, but Wuilly Arteaga sadly concludes the fight is now over and the music has died. Shortly after emerging from three weeks in prison, Arteaga, a 23-year-old who used his music as a form of protest, told AFP that it hurts him to see "everything so calm" in the once-raucous streets. "When I got out of jail, the streets were completely empty, people walking around as if nothing had happened," he says. "For me it was a very low blow. I felt a lot of sadness and confusion." After four months of deadly opposition demonstrations demanding the departure of President Nicolas Maduro from power, the protesters have been left discouraged and frustrated by their leaders. Water cannon, tear gas and sheer exhaustion have doused the dream of dislodging Maduro. ... More New commission by Maya Lin at Princeton UniversityPRINCETON, NJ.- A new work by the internationally acclaimed artist Maya Lin has been commissioned for the grounds adjacent to the new Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Princeton Universitys installation will provide a landmark for visitors to campus and an invigorated outdoor setting for students to stage ad hoc performances and enjoy plein air classes. Additional details about the commission will be announced later in September. A 2016 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Lin first achieved national recognition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.; she was an undergraduate at Yale University when her design was selected in a national competition. During the course of her remarkable interdisciplinary career, Lin has created a powerful and highly influential body of work that includes large-scale, site-specific installations, ... More Ground-breaking performance art commissioned by New York based Performa comes to LondonLONDON.- A new display opening at the Whitechapel Gallery this September presents significant documentary recordings from the archives of New York based art organisation Performa. Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is dedicated to commissioning and presenting performance art, and exploring its critical role throughout art history. Since 2005 the biennial has commissioned more than 64 new works, presented over 450 artists, and collaborated with numerous curators and institutions to stage cross-disciplinary events involving dance, film, music, architecture and food across New York City including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim, the Bronx Museum, Participant Inc, the Kitchen New York, and Times Square. Screening footage of over 20 selected commissions that debuted as part of the Performa biennial, ... More Ayyam Gallery Beirut opens 'Distant Remains': A solo exhibition of painter Fathallah Zamroud's workBEIRUT.- Fathallah Zamrouds vivid canvases depict temporary dwellings and abandoned sites, bringing to centre-stage the unmistakable effects of war on the urban fabric, marked by makeshift structures and nature taking its course, allowing vegetation to stand witness to the passing of time. Void of any human gures, the viewer stands alone before these large, silent canvases denied identi cation with an imagined subject. Peacefulness in these canvases is paradoxical; their gestural brushstrokes and uid lines echo the tangible marks left by tragedy upon buildings and landscapes, and serve as testament not only to trauma and strife, but also to hope and determination. Behind makeshift homes, the sky seems to collide with a eld below, as though a ravaging storm has descended upon the scene, splintering everything in its path. Like a roaring sea of colour encroaches ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-born illustrator Sergio Aragonés was born September 06, 1937. Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. In this image: Mad Magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, seated far right, takes a photo of fellow cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, and Benjamin Meglin during an event to honor Aragones, Davis, and others, including Benjamin's grandfather former magazine editor Nick Meglin, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis where among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
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