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Jack Whitten. The Tomb of Socrates, 2009. Wild cypress, black mulberry, marble, brass, mixed media. Collection of the Artist's Estate © The Estate of Jack Whitten. Courtesy The Estate of Jack Whitten and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- On view at The Met Breuer from September 6 through December 2, 2018, Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 19632017 presents the extraordinary and previously unknown sculptures of acclaimed American artist Jack Whitten (19392018), who has long been celebrated for his work as an innovative abstract painter. Featuring 40 sculptures and 18 of his most notable paintings, Odyssey is the first exhibition in New York City to span the entirety of Whittens career and the first time in 36 years that Whitten has enjoyed a monographic exhibition at a New York City museum. Ultimately, Odyssey does not only rewrite the history of a canonical artist whose oeuvre has yet to be fully explored; it also showcases an exciting, alternative to mainstream modernism and expand our understanding of the aesthetic vocabularies favored by artists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. "This exhibition presents a thrilling opportunity to expe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Travel the world and back in time... Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, and Fine Art will be offered in Artemis Gallery's Fall Variety sale on Thu, Sep 13, 2018 9:00 AM CDT, In this image: Egyptian Late / Ptolemaic Wood Anubis Jackal Form. Estimate $2,500 - $3,500.
| Major US tourist sites in path of Hurricane Florence | | Christie's to offer property from the collections of William Louis-Dreyfus | | New York commemorates 17th anniversary of September 11 | 
Workers board up the Wrightsville Beach Art Co. while preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Florence on September 11, 2018 in Wrightsville Beach. Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP.
CHARLESTON, SC.- From Charleston's colonial mansions with finely-crafted balustrades, to fragile Outer Banks beaches, to exalted centers of American history, the tourism-heavy US East Coast is facing a potentially devastating blow from Hurricane Florence. Here is an overview of key sites under threat. The 130,000 residents of this water-surrounded colonial gem are accustomed to flooding. Founded in the 17th Century, the historic city sits on a peninsula overlooking the Atlantic. Hardy Charlestonians often throw "storm parties" in the face of brutal weather. But this time the entire population of the city -- and coastal South Carolina -- is under an evacuation order. The full force of Florence is threatening the city's colonial structures, cobblestone streets and dozens of bohemian bars and cafes, which delight the region's five million annual visitors. A direct hit on Charleston could shock the area's ... More | | 
Bill Traylor (1854-1949), Fighting Dogs, 1939-1942 (detail). Tempera and graphite on card. 19 ¼ x 21 in. Estimate: $50,000-80,000 To be offered in the January 2019 sale of Outsider Art. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present a non-selling exhibition of important art from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Louis-Dreyfus family in New York September 14-18 and to announce the beginning of a multi-year collaboration between The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Christies Outsider Art department. The September 2018 exhibition at Christies Rockefeller Center will include approximately 60 works, featuring lots in the upcoming January 2019 auction of Outsider art alongside other important pieces acquired by Mr. Louis-Dreyfus, and will present a comprehensive look at his vision through compelling cross-category themes. Given the great depth of the important self-taught holdings in the Foundation, Christies has planned a multi-year sale strategy beginning in January 2019, with additional property to be offered in forthcoming sales for the ... More | | 
A Port Authority Police Officer (PAPD) looks down into the South Pool during observances on September 11, 2018. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York on Tuesday honored the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at Ground Zero, the site where hijacked Al-Qaeda planes brought down the Twin Towers. The 17th anniversary was commemorated in fog and gentle rain by relatives of those who were killed, police officers, fire fighters and officials, who remembered what remains the deadliest single attack on US soil. They gathered at the National September 11 Memorial and marked moments of silences at 8:46 am and 9:03 am, the exact times that the passenger jets struck the North and South Towers. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley and Mayor Bill de Blasio, together with his predecessors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, were among those who attended. "It is not a day to give speeches, it is not a day to talk about politics. It's about the heart," said Alice Greenwald, director of the 9 ... More |
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| Thierry de Maigret to offer works from the collection of gallerist Rodolphe Stadler | | New Orleans Museum of Art announces most significant gift of photographs in its history | | Solo exhibition of new paintings by Antonio SantÃn on view at MARC STRAUS | 
David Budd (1927-1991), Waterfront « B », 1962. Oil on canvas. Estimate: 2,500 - 3,000. © Thierry de Maigret / Drouot.
PARIS.- On 18 and 19 October, auction house Thierry de Maigret will offer 800 paintings and sculptures along with 150 prints and photographs gathered by Rodolphe Stadler. He was the founder of the famous gallery of the same name located at the heart of Paris from 1955 to 1999. Tapiès, Appel, Saura, Pane, Luthï, Rainer, Falkenstein, Bluhm, Budd, Shiraga, Imaï
The most celebrated artists of the second half of the 20th century in Europe, United States and Japan will be featured in this important auction. Nothing predisposed Rodolphe Stadler to become a main figure of the second half of the 20th century Parisian artistic scene. After studying law without any real interest and a few short trips to Paris during which he discovered art from his time, he got the idea of opening an art gallery. His father bought a space for him, located on a central road of Paris, rue de Sèvres. His artistic adventure could then begin, ... More | | 
Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904 1971), Chrysler Corporation, 1932. Gelatin silver print. Promised bequest of Tina Freeman.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Today, the New Orleans Museum of Art announced the largest and most significant single gift of photographs in the institutions history, a promised bequest of over 1,300 photographs from the private collection of Tina Freeman. Over the past forty years, Freeman, former curator of photographs at NOMA (1977-1982), noted photographer, and longtime supporter of the museum, has brought together a comprehensive collection of 350 photographers dating from the 1840s to today, ranging from works by photography pioneers Hill & Adamson, to vintage prints by Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Ilse Bing, Margaret Bourke-White, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Sally Mann, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, Doris Ullman, William Wegman, and Edward Weston. This promised gift also marks the occasion of the centennial of NOMAs first photography exhibition and the Tricentennial of the city of New Orleans. For ... More | | 
Antonio SantÃn, Untitled, 2018. Oil on Canvas, 10 x 8 in. Verso "untitled" New York 2018 S.
NEW YORK, NY.- MARC STRAUS is presenting its fourth solo exhibition of new paintings by Antonio SantÃn on September 8, 2018, on view through October 16, 2018. Antonio SantÃn is well known for his adroit rendering of elegant Persian rugs that encapsulate technical precision and innovative compositions. Alluding to concealed anthropomorphic forms, their sculptural qualities make one question whether his fabricated reality is more real than your own. Much like the Gobelins Manufactory was to luxurious Renaissance tapestries, SantÃns approach to his signature trompe loeil paintings focus on arresting intricate details and surface textures. SantÃns new work arrives with bold punches of color that further dissolves figurative allusions in his work. One could read these new works as modern rugs or fully non-objective abstract compositions using only hues and geometries similar to abstract painters of the post-war period. ... More |
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| Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year nominations | | Exhibition at Gagosian brings together sculptures from 1997 to the present by Romuald Hazoumè | | Exhibition of new works by Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg | 
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LONDON.- The worlds first plastic-free shopping aisle, Marvels Black Panther costumes designed by Ruth E Carter and an eco-friendly water bottle made by Will and Jaden Smith; the Design Museum in London announces the most international list of contenders to date for the eleventh edition of Beazley Designs of the Year. The annual exhibition and awards, supported by specialist insurer Beazley, comprises of 87 nominations across six categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport. Selected by a panel of distinguished international designers, curators and critics, the awards showcase the most original and impactful products, concepts and designers in the world today. Sketches, models, prototypes, videos and photography will be on display for all the nominations and will provide a compelling snapshot of the current world of design. Combining the worlds most established talent alongside graduates a ... More | | 
Romuald Hazoumè, Toupieman, 2018. Plastic and brush 12 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in 32 x 26 x 26 cm. Romuald Hazoumè © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Zarko Vijatovic Courtesy Galerie Magnin-A, Paris and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of works by Romuald Hazoumè, bringing together sculptures from 1997 to the present. This is Gagosians second exhibition of Hazoumès work following a 2016 show in Paris, and his first solo exhibition in New York since 1999. Hazoumès artwhich ranges across sculpture, photography, film, and soundabsorbs and confronts the complex realities of contemporary life in Benin and the broader ramifications of Pan-African politics. A bricoleur whose formal currency is often found in recycled materialsfor example, the fifty-liter plastic bidon, or jerrycan, a local staple for the illegal purchase of cheap gasoline from NigeriaHazoumè uses strategies of repetition and recombination to create works of elegant potency whose effects are intensified ... More | | 
Untitled (Relief), 2018. Acrylglas, Rahmen RAL 7004 signalgrau, 150 x 125 cm (59,06 x 49,21 in). © Gerwald Rockenschaub. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg is presenting its 10th exhibition of new works by Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub. The exhibition includes works from the Intarsia and Relief series, as well as sculptures and multi-part wall installations. The Intarsia works, made of wood and acrylic glass, are based on a decorative technique that flourished during the Italian Renaissance; pieces of wood veneer, of different colour and structure, were placed on a flat surface to form a pattern. Likewise, the Reliefs are a contemporary paraphrase of a historical technique. Foil elements, raised only a few millimetres, are applied to acrylic glass surfaces to produce something like a concise, unspectacular variant of the classic marble relief. On show are also two site-specific wall installations consisting of small-scale ... More |
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| SculptureCenter unveils revised website that gives comprehensive access to scholarly materials produced by the museum | | The National Gallery Prague launches extensive retrospective of František Kupka | | Tilton Gallery opens Noah Purifoy's first solo exhibition on the East coast | 
The website allows instant access to download exhibition catalogs.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter unveiled a new website and refreshed brand identity. The new website, designed by Wkshps, features clear and intuitive navigation to easily access exhibitions, events, and related materials including video files and the museums limited editions. SculptureCenters innovative annual programs In Practice, a group exhibition of emerging artists, and Public Process, an education program for high school students, are highlighted alongside archival materials. In addition to a robust search function, the site also features a dynamic index encouraging research and exploratory browsing. In a continued mission to connect artists and audiences by generating scholarship and creating context for new work, the website allows instant access to download exhibition catalogs. SculptureCenters catalogs cover pioneering exhibitions including Carissa Rodriguez: The Maid, Charlotte ... More | | 
Galliens Girl (Galliens Taste), 1909, oil, canvas, 108 Ã 100 cm, National Gallery Prague.
PRAGUE.- The Waldstein Riding School is hosting an extensive retrospective of the art of Frantiek Kupka, the pioneer and main protagonist of the abstract art movement and one of the most prominent Czech artists. The exhibition has been designed by the National Gallery Prague in cooperation with the Réunion des musées nationaux, Centre Pompidou, in Paris and the Finnish National Gallery. The chronological exhibition is divided by theme to allow the viewer to follow the artists path from symbolism to abstraction, of which Kupka was an originator. The retrospective focuses on Kupkas symbolist paintings, first expressionist portraits, path to abstract art, colour verticals, vocabulary of forms and colours, machinism, and geometric abstraction. The many artworks on paper show Kupka as a satirical draughtsman and brilliant illustrator, an artist interested in philosophy, Greek and Roman art, religion, and science. The exhibition ... More | | 
Noah Purifoy is a pioneering artist of the California assemblage movement, as well as a key figure in the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 70s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery is presenting Noah Purifoy. This is Purifoy's first solo exhibition on the East coast and will run through November 3rd, 2018. Noah Purifoy is a pioneering artist of the California assemblage movement, as well as a key figure in the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles during the 1960s and 70s. He is known for works he categorized as Collages, Constructions and Assemblages, two and three-dimensional works composed of found and recycled objects. With a masters in social work, an interest in psychology and philosophy as well as art history, and experience teaching wood-working and later working in the design field making furniture and designing showrooms and store windows, Purifoy's own art focused on the use of found materials. Purifoy was aware of the Surrealist and Dada traditions ... More |
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 The Menil Collection appoints Edouard Kopp as Chief Curator of Menil Drawing Institute HOUSTON, TX.- Rebecca Rabinow, Director of the Menil Collection, today announced the appointment of Edouard Kopp as the John R. Eckel Jr. Foundation Chief Curator of the Menil Drawing Institute, which will open its new home to the public on November 3, 2018. Mr. Kopp, who has served since 2015 as the Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings at the Harvard Art Museums, will assume his duties in January 2019. At Harvard, Kopp has been responsible for the collection of European and American drawings from the 14th century to 1900. He also has played an advisory role for modern and contemporary drawings, working collaboratively with his colleagues in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art with regard to loans and acquisitions. In 2017, Kopp stewarded both a landmark gift of 17th century Dutch and Flemish drawings to the Harvard Museums, as well ... More Parrotta Contemporary Art presents the award-winning work of British artist Edmund ClarkCOLOGNE.- The award-winning work of British artist Edmund Clark intensely reflects on historical and political events, as well as their means of representation through a multilayered combination of different media including photography, film, text document and installation. On the grounds of a photographic, documentary approach, the works of Edmund Clark focus thematically on systems of power and mechanisms of state control. In particular, Clark, who counts among the first to be granted access to the prison camp of Guantánamo as a member of the British press, concentrates on the profound changes that Western societies have undergone since the terror attacks of 9/11. Photo series such as Negative Publicity. Artefacts of Extraordinary Rendition demonstrate the far-reaching consequences of the War on Terror, which have infiltrated the normality of every day ... More WIELS presents the work of René Daniels in a major exhibition: Fragments from an Unfinished NovelBRUSSELS.- WIELS is devoting a wide-ranging exhibition to the Dutch artist René Daniëls (1950). This is an opportunity for visitors to discover a number of historic paintings, some of which have been restored specially for the exhibition and have never before been presented in public. An extensive selection of drawings complete the exhibition, offering a better understanding of how the artists vocabulary evolved. Paintings and drawings are being displayed over two floors of WIELS, tracing the career of this leading artist and exploring the relationship between perception and memory that lies at the heart of René Daniëls pictorial reflection. René Daniëls is a key figure in the history of art of the second half of the twentieth century. His career began in the late 1970s, at a time when painting was being rediscovered. The artist stood out thanks to an original, ... More Cross-generational group exhibition considers the gesture and its historyNEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery New York is presenting The Tissue of Memory, a cross-generational group exhibition that considers the gesture and its history, as exemplified by the practices of Kelly Akashi, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Win McCarthy, Monique Mouton, Josephine Pryde, Gary Simmons, Cy Twombly, and Heimo Zobernig. Employing signs, forms, and gestures in service of inscription, the works on view demonstrate artists thinking through the medium at hand and materials influencing composition. The exhibition takes as its starting point the recent book-length study Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint, in which the literary scholar Mary Jacobus posits the work of Cy Twombly as representative of the working-through impulse. Twomblys [works] can be read as a form of thinking through (not just about) painting, she writes. They ... More Susanne Rockweiler named Head of Development and Fundraising at Haus der KunstMUNICH.- Haus der Kunst announced that on September 15 Dr. Susanne Rockweiler will assume the role of Deputy Financial Director, and Head of Development and Fundraising at Haus der Kunst. Susanne Rockweiler (born 1965) is extremely qualified for this position. As Deputy Director of the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin from 2010 to 2018, her responsibilities included strategic direction, organizational development and marketing. She successfully acquired third-party funds and was able to contribute her expertise in personnel management and administration matters as well as on cultural and political committees and in lobbying efforts, while also working closely with international museums and artists. From 2002 to 2008 she was a strategic advisor to the CEO of the Curt Engelhorn ... More John Mollo's personal sketchbooks of the original Star Wars designs offered at BonhamsLONDON.- The personal notebooks and sketchbooks of world-renowned double Oscar®-winning British costume designer, John Mollo, the concept artist behind the international Star Wars franchise, are to be offered at Bonhams in a stand-alone 62-lot sale, Designing an Empire: The John Mollo Archive, in London on Tuesday 11 December 2018. The archive contains a wealth of drawings, notes and designs which illustrate the artistic development behind the creation of some of the best-known and best-loved costumes in cinematic history, and that gave John Mollo iconic status in Hollywood. John Mollo knew his destiny from an early age. As a child of six he visited the cinema for the first time and was dazzled by the costumes. As he once said, I came out of the cinema knowing that was what I wanted to do when I grew up. It was in 1975, after enjoying success ... More First-known Bowie recording auctioned in BritainLONDON (AFP).- The first-known recording by David Bowie, when he was the 16-year-old singer of a band called The Konrads, sold at auction in Britain on Tuesday for nearly £40,000 ($52,000, 45,000 euros). Music specialists Omega Auctions, in northwestern England, said "a bidding frenzy" around its memorabilia sale led to the demo tape fetching around four times the expected price of £10,000 when it went under the hammer. It sold for £39,360, Omega said in a statement posted online. The tape was discovered earlier this year in a loft, Omega had previously revealed. The song -- "I Never Dreamed" -- was recorded in a studio in 1963 when The Konrads asked Bowie, then known by his given name David Jones, to sing lead vocals. Promotional sketches by the then largely unknown Bowie, along with photographs and band documents, ... More Jenkins Johnson Projects opens a group exhibition curated by Jasmine WahiNEW YORK, NY.- http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com" target="_blank">Jenkins Johnson Projects is presenting The Least Orthodox Goddess IV, a group exhibition curated by Jasmine Wahi featuring works by Felipe Baeza, David Antonio Cruz, DarÃo Calmese, Delano Dunn, Jonathan Gardenhire, Daniel de Jesus, Billy Ray Morgan, Zachary Richardson, and Kiyan Williams. The Least Orthodox Goddess IV is part of an ongoing series of exhibitions that originally started as an exploration of intersectional feminism through the lens of womxn power. IV dives into the idea of what constitutes female identity within the contemporary context: it looks at what it means to be a goddess outside of the constraints of physiological or socially constructed expectations: what it means to be cis vs trans vs non-binary, what it means to be of color vs black vs white vs brown, ... More Saint Louis Art Museum records extraordinary attendance with 'Sunken Cities'ST. LOUIS, MO.- St. Louisans and tourists have flocked to the Saint Louis Art Museum, which welcomed 171,488 to Sunken Cities: Egypts Lost Worlds. The exhibition, which closed Sunday, made its North American premiere in St. Louis after touring Europe. Before it made its North American premiere in St. Louis, the exhibition of treasures discovered by underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio already had proven an international sensation. It previously was shown at the Museum Rietberg in Zurich, the British Museum in London and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. The exhibition now moves to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where it opens Nov. 4. Museum officials set a goal of 100,000 visitors, which was exceeded in early July. Sunken Cities was the best-attended exhibition since the museum relocated its main exhibition galleries to the new East ... More Unit London opens an exhibition of new works by London-based painter Will MartyrLONDON.- This September, Unit London presents Fathoms an exhibition of new works by London-based painter, Will Martyr. Martyr is known for his vibrant, hyperreal paintings representing dreamlike locations of pleasure and recreation. The title of the show represents a unit of water or a hunger to gain a new sense of understanding; the viewer is invited to delve deep into these compositions and assimilate. Martyr trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, The New York Studio Schools and the Royal College of Art. Fathoms follows his debut solo show Wanderlust at Unit London in 2017. Fathoms is comprised of eight large-scale tondos, the renaissance name for circular works of art, used by Martyr to represent an embracing wholeness and notions of eternity. Martyrs interest in renaissance paintings is not limited to the shape of the works however, and for this
... More Exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery features a selection of new large-scale works by Dashiell ManleyNEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting sometimes we circle the sun, Los Angeles-based artist Dashiell Manleys second solo exhibition with the gallery. Featuring a selection of new large-scale oil paintings, the exhibition sees Manley transition from his direct engagement with breaking news cycles, into more personal meditations, exploring his own experiences within todays global happenings. With this shift, Manley also delves more deeply into the formal relationships and boundaries between material, mark, and picture plane, using the canvas as a space to physically shape his emotional and psychic responses. sometimes we circle the sun is on view from September 6 through October 20, 2018 at the gallerys 509 W. 24th Street location. Manleys practice has been characterized by focused, repetitive, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Nan Goldin was born September 12, 1953. Nancy "Nan" Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer. Her work often explores LGBT bodies, moments of intimacy, the HIV crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986), which documents the post-Stonewall gay subculture and Goldin's family and friends. She lives and works in New York City, Berlin, and Paris. In this image: Ava Twirling, NYC 2007. Cibachrome Print, 30 x 40 inches; 100 x 70 cm. Edition of 15. Courtesy of Sprovieri Gallery.
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