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Installation view of Neighbours - Portraits from Flanders 1400-1700.
THE HAGUE.- Better a good neighbour than a distant friend, so the saying goes. During the autumn of 2017, the Mauritshuis tells the story of Flemish portraiture using a selection of the best Flemish portraits from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp. In the Southern Netherlands (now Belgium), the art of portrait painting came into full bloom during the period from 1400 to 1700. During these three centuries, noblemen and wealthy citizens had themselves immortalised by the best Flemish artists of their time. These portraits remain very impressive due to the outstanding way in which the sitters facial features and the character were memorialised in paint. The exhibition includes major works by Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling, Pieter Pourbus, Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. Remarkably, almost all the sitters can be identified. This is why the exhibition will not only highlight what makes Flemish portraits so special, b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Scholten Japanese Art in New York hosted a private reception for members of the Japanese Art Society of America on Monday, September 11, 2017 for their exhibition, Darkening Skies: The Tumultuous Times of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, with a gallery talk by Director Katherine Martin exploring the artist's early embrace of dark and violent imagery, and his later association with the moon itself. Pictured here, attendees view works from Yoshitoshi's series, New Forms of Thirty-Six Ghosts.
| Met Museum acquires ancient Egyptian gilded coffin | | Christie's to offer masterworks from the Collection of Antoni Tàpies | | Hidden since 1889, Nicolas Lancret's "Winter" heads to Sotheby's New York | 
Gilded Coffin Lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (detail).Late Ptolemaic Period (150-50 B.C.). Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood. Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255b). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired an ancient Egyptian gilded cartonnage coffin from the first century B.C. The highly ornamented lid of the coffin is displayed prominently in the Museum's Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries for Egyptian Art (gallery 138), where it will be seen and enjoyed by millions of visitors. "This beautiful and unusual coffin is extremely rare, and we are honored to welcome it to the Museum's collection," said Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met. "It is an extraordinary work of art that ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Homme (Apollon). Bronze with golden brown patina. Conceived in 1929, this bronze version cast circa 194856 in an edition of six. Estimate: £800,000 1,200,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- This autumn Christies will present Masterworks from the Collection of Antoni Tà pies, one of the most famous Post-War artists of his generation who was celebrated for his exploration of the spirituality of the material world. Featuring artists including Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko, works from his collection will star in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction (6 October 2017), Up Close (3 October 2017) and forthcoming Impressionist and Modern Art Auctions in February 2018. Masterworks from the Collection of Antoni Tà pies will be on view at Christies King Street from 29 September 2017 with highlights touring to Christies Rockefeller Center, New York (12 September), Hong Kong (18 ... More | | 
Nicolas Lancret, Winter. Estimate $1.5/2 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
PARIS.- Sothebys will unveil Nicolas Lancrets LHiver (Winter), which will be exhibited publically for the first time in nearly 130 years in Paris before it is offered in the auction of Master Paintings on 1 February 2018 in New York (estimate $1.5/2 million). Known only from a black and white engraving, this early masterpiece of 1719- 21 has remained in the same collection since 1889 and is one of the most important discoveries of Lancret's work in recent history. The painting is part of a cycle of Four Seasons commissioned directly From Lancret by the French diplomat Jean-François Lériget de la Faye at a momentous point in the young artists career. While these works still exhibit the influence of his mentor, Antoine Watteau, their magnificent quality undoubtedly helped to establish Lancrets name as an independent master. Voluminous, sweeping fabrics fall softly on his figures ... More |
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| Sotheby's Hong Kong to offer Kusama's rare pink 'Infinity Net' and Richter's Abstract Painting (679-2) | | Rachel Whiteread opens most substantial survey to date of work by Rachel Whiteread | | Scholten Japanese Art exhibits works by one of the last great ukiyo-e artists of the 19th century | 
Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting (679-2), 1988, oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Estimate: HK$32 million48 million US$4,100,0006,200,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Contemporary Art Autumn Sales 2017 will take place from 30 September to 1 October, offering works by renowned artists from Asia and the West. Apart from a series of works by Yayoi Kusama and a dedicated section for Chinese Contemporary artists born in the 1970s, there will also be a special themed sale for the important Japanese post-war artist, Morita Shiryu, as well as a selection of Western Contemporary art in the evening sale. Evelyn Lin, Sothebys Head of Contemporary Art, said, The tremendous results achieved for our April 2017 Contemporary Art Spring Sales - a combined total of nearly HK$500 million with a 93% sell-through rate and two white-glove sales - caused great excitement amongst collectors and demonstrated market stability. As the market continues to grow and diversify, this season we will focus on bringing exceptional works hailing from Japan, China and the West, whilst offering w ... More | | 
Untitled (Amber Bed), 1991. Rubber, 510 x 360 x 400 mm. Carré d'Art, Musée d'art Contemporain (Nimes, France) © Rachel Whiteread. Photo: Courtesy of the Artist.
LONDON.- Tate Britain presents the most substantial survey to date of work by Rachel Whiteread, one of the leading artists of her generation. The exhibition reveals the extraordinary breadth of her career over three decades, from the four early sculptures shown in her first solo show in 1988 to works made this year especially for Tate Britain including Chicken Shed, a new concrete shed installed outside the gallery. Known for her signature casting technique, Whitereads work ranges in scale from the modest to the monumental in a variety of materials such as plaster, resin, rubber, concrete, metal and paper. Rachel Whiteread first rose to wide public attention with the unveiling of her first public commission House in Londons East End in 1993. A concrete cast of the interior of an entire terraced house, House only stood for a few months before its demolition, but was a landmark public sculpture for ... More | | 
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892), Eight Views of Warriors in the Province: Battle at Hakodate Harbor, 1871, woodblock print 14 5/8 by 9 7/8 in., 37.1 by 25 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scholten Japanese Art is presenting during the September 2017 Asia Week Darkening Skies: The Tumultuous Times of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, a continuation of their March 2017 landmark single-artist exhibition on Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (18391892), one of the last great ukiyo-e artists of the 19th century. Drawing from a collection assembled over a period of nearly ten years and recently published in a full-color catalogue illustrating 180 woodblock prints, the September show focuses on the dynamic and tumultuous times in which Yoshitoshi lived as reflected in some of his more violent imagery. Yoshitoshi came of age during a period of great turmoil as the Japanese society was suddenly exposed to foreign influence after a 250-year long seclusion, prompting a period of regime change and rapid modernization. In the summer of 1853, coincidentally at the same time when the fourteen-year-old ... More |
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| Frank Bernarducci announces new gallery opening in Chelsea | | Works by Pat Steir fill the public floors of Lévy Gorvy's landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue | | El Anatsui, Baryshnikov, Youssou N'Dour among top art prize winners | 
I am looking forward to launching this next step of my career, and to creating a high profile environment to more prominently exhibit the artists I have been championing for decades, said Frank Bernarducci.
NEW YORK, NY.- Frank Bernarducci, a longtime 57th street art dealer and champion of realist painters, announced that he will open a project space in Chelsea on October 3. Bernarducci Gallery will exhibit paintings by his gallery artists, the leading painters of a new movement, Precisionist Realism. The Gallery will represent a selection of emerging artists as well as many of the established painters with whom Bernarducci has had long relationships. The premier exhibition at the project space will include works by Antonio Cazorla, Ester Curini, Hubert DeLartigue, Max Ferguson, Gus Heinze, Park Hyung Jin, Cheryl Kelley, Sylvia Maier, Daniel Massad, Sharon Moody, Adam Normandin, Lee Price, Tjalf Sparnaay, and Nathan Walsh, along with photographs by Sally Davies and Eric Meola. In January, Bernarducci will roll out his full program at a new, ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Tom Powel. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvys first New York exhibition with American artist Pat Steir fills the public floors of the gallerys landmark building at 909 Madison Avenue with a suite of five eleven-foot tall oil on canvas paintings and eight smaller-scale works. This is the first New York exhibition of Steir since she joined the gallery in early 2016. Running through October 21st, Pat Steir: Kairos showcases paintings that manifest a methodological and philosophical continuity withand slight formal departure fromher celebrated Waterfall series. Comprising Steirs first exhibition of new work in over three years, the paintings in Kairos are lush and sweeping in scale, with titles such as Endless Sky, Aporia, Melancholy, Poros, and Rose Hip, describing the states and senses they evoke. The featured works revisit the dialogue between intuition and accident that has defined Steirs work since the 1970s, renewing these the ... More | | 
El Anatsui. Photo: Courtesy of Praemium Imperiale - Japan Art Association.
PARIS (AFP).- The Russian ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Senegalese music star Youssou N'Dour were among the winners of one of the art world's richest prizes Tuesday. The Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, whose work focuses on the inner life and struggles of Muslim women, was also among the big winners of the Praemium Imperiale, the lucrative annual awards of the private Japan Art Association. But overall it was African artists who dominated, with the Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui also receiving one of the top prizes, worth 15-million yen ($136,000, 117,000-euro) alongside the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. Every year since 1989, the Praemium Imperiale has been awarded in five different disciplines -- music, painting, sculpture, architecture and theatre/film. Latvian-born Baryshnikov, 69, defected from the old Soviet Union to Canada in 1974 and went on to become the principal dancer of the New York City ... More |
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| Royal Shakespeare Company founder Peter Hall dies | | Stonehenge road tunnel gets go-ahead despite protests | | 29Rooms, the exhibition created for social media | 
Peter Hall, 1961. Photo by Angus McBean. © RSC.
LONDON (AFP).- British director Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and is credited with the boom of post-war British theatre, has died at the age of 86, the National Theatre said on Monday. Actors Vanessa Redgrave and Patrick Stewart led the tributes to Hall, the son of a railway stationmaster who also worked with Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in a career spanning more than five decades. "He was a fascinating director," said Redgrave, an Oscar winner and human rights campaigner who remembered taking part in a 1959 production of "Midsummer Night's Dream" directed by Hall. Between 1955 and 1957, Hall ran the Arts Theatre in London. There he directed the English-language premiere of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", which transformed his career. "Above all he was the person who insisted that new plays belonged in the classical repertory, on the same stage and given the same status," said ... More | | 
This file photo taken on June 21, 2015 shows revellers watching the sunrise as they celebrate the pagan festival of Summer Solstice at Stonehenge. Niklas HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Years of protests from druids and archaeologists have failed to derail plans for a new road tunnel near Britain's Stone Age site of Stonehenge, which received final approval from the government on Tuesday. The 1.8-mile (2.9-kilometre) tunnel is planned to reduce frequent congestion on a major east-west road axis across England and has a budget of £1.6 billion (1.8 billion euros, $2.1 billion). Officials have moved the planned route away from the UNESCO World Heritage site in response to criticism. But Stonehenge Alliance, a group of non-governmental organisations, said it would cause "severe and permanent damage to the archaeological landscape". "The project needs a complete re-think, not a minor tweak which still threatens major harm to this iconic landscape," said Kate Fielden from the Campaign to ... More | | 
A woman is pictured in a gallery called "Art Heals", where people are invited to write or paint anything they'd like. Thomas URBAIN / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Visitors are touching the art, wearing it and even jumping on it at the popular immersive exhibition "29Rooms" being held in a Brooklyn warehouse. Artists, companies and non-profits have come together for the interactive event hosted by the website Refinery29 which closes on Monday after a four-day run. In stark contrast with traditional museums, visitors to 29Rooms are encouraged to physically engage with the installations, said executive creative director and co-founder Piera Gelardi. The event, she explained, takes "the fun and interactivity of a fun house" and pairs it with "the cultural relevance of a museum" -- with the 29 spaces relating to topics covered on the website. Instagram posts and selfies are encouraged. "We know people are craving experiences in real life but that they also want to fuel their digital lives," Gelardi said. "Art can be very intimidating ... More |
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 British artist Keith Coventry's first solo exhibition in Austria opens at Galerie Lisa KandlhoferVIENNA.- Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer is presenting the first solo exhibition of British artist Keith Coventry in Austria. Keith Coventry was born in Burnley, UK, in 1958. He lives and works in London. He has shown internationally since the early 1990s. In 1997 Coventry was featured in the legendary Sensation- exhibition of the Young British Artists. He has works in a number of major public collections including Tate; UK Government Art Collection; Arts Council; British Council; Museum of Modern Art, New York; David Roberts Collection, Museum of Modern Art, San Diego, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis and Saatchi Collection. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize. His work was included in Double Act: Art and Comedy, an exhibition presented at The MAC Belfast in 2016. Keith Coventry is represented by The Pace Gallery, London. ... More Robert Klein opens exhibition of work by Sebastião SalgadoBOSTON, MASS.- Robert Klein Gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by Sebastião Salgado. Kuwait: A Desert on Fire runs from Tuesday, September 5 through Wednesday, November 29 at Robert Klein Gallery at 38 Newbury Street. When the Iraqi Army retreated across the Kuwaiti desert in early 1991, after being repelled by U.S.-led coalition forces in Operation Desert Storm, Saddam Hussein and his soldiers took the military strategy of "scorched earth," and set aflame about 700 oil wells, igniting persistent fires across Kuwait, and creating one of the worst environmental disasters in recent history. When Sebastião Salgado traveled to the Middle East to document the grueling fire-fight, he quickly realized just how dangerous and brutal the world was that he had stepped into - a quagmire of health hazards, the air choked with soot, searing heat from the ... More Benedict Heywood appointed Executive Director of Bellevue Arts MuseumBELLEVUE, WA.- Bellevue Arts Museum announced the appointment of Benedict Heywood as Executive Director of Bellevue Arts Museum. Heywood will assume both curatorial and operational leadership, a shift in the Museum's organizational structure that will streamline operations and allow it to focus resources on its development team. Benedict Heywood is the founder of the non-profit art space, The Soap Factory in Minneapolis. He came to the Seattle area when he was recruited to lead Pivot Art + Culture for collector and philanthropist Paul Allen in Seattle. "For me, since arriving in the Northwest two years ago, Bellevue Arts Museum has been one of the most consistently exciting arts venues in the region," said Heywood. "I am honored to be invited to lead such a great institution." In addition to Heywood joining as Executive Director, Eileen Herbert, currently BAM's ... More Exhibition at James Cohan surveys the use of fiber as the primary material in the work of seven artistsNEW YORK, NY.- A Line Can Go Anywhere surveys the use of fiber as the primary material in the work of seven Bay Area artists. Practitioners of what has historically been called fiber art, all of the artists use linear pliable elements such as thread, yarn, string, monofilament, and rope. While not a movement in the conventional sense, Bay Area artists working with linear pliable elements were and continue to be radical makers working among more celebrated movements such as Bay Area Figurative Painting, Funk, and Pop. Including works made between the 1950s and the present, A Line Can Go Anywhere begins with two artists whose works serve as a primer for a history of art making in Northern California. Trude Guermonprez and Ed Rossbach were influential artists and teachers whose work, though too little known today, contributed to a categorical transformation of art ... More Lefebvre & Fils opens second exhibition of work by the American artist Ray BarsantePARIS.- During the Parcours de la céramique and the Biennale Paris, Lefebvre & Fils is presenting Second Voyage, the second exhibition of work by the American artist Ray Barsante. After a collaborative residence with the gallery, Second Voyage presents a series of works exploring ceramic sculpture. Ray Barsante stages the classical notions of sculpture in order to better transcend them. The structure of the amphora serves as a starting point in this body of work. Barsante uses hints to the vases functionality and decoration, to offer a different way of considering the object, treating the formal schema as means of questioning its presence sculpturally. The thin ceramic walls freeze the tracks and the gestures of Ray Barsante. Creating, scratching, smoothing. The primal gestures of the sculptor are imprinted on the clays surface and give the piece rhythm. If the forms ... More Maison Européenne de la Photographie opens three exhibitionsPARIS.- In Anne and Patrick Poiriers polymorphous body of work, photography took a central though often unnoticed place, one asimportant as sculpture or installation art. This selection of close to 200 photos is a first attempt at a retrospective exhibit. In their search for a personal form of expression, they have journeyed, roamed sites, discovered whole civilisations, religions, and cultures, their roles alternating between those of archaeologist and architect. Using an artistic approach to human sciences, they travel through memory, a fundamental value to them. Calling our attention to the fragility of civilisations and cultures, their work is often based on ruins, catastrophes, and fragmentation. As multidisciplinary artists, all modes of expression are theirs to use. Curators: Laure Martin, Laurie Hurwitz and Jean-Luc Monterosso. A monograph, published by Flammarion, and ... More Solo exhibition by Declan Jenkins opens fall season at Sims Reed GalleryLONDON.- Sims Reed Gallery announced that its autumn schedule kicked off with British contemporary artist Declan Jenkins first solo exhibition, I sing of armoires
, taking place from 6 29 September 2017. Jenkins, known primarily for his woodcut prints and performative poems, is showcasing an exciting new series of a dozen monumental hand-coloured woodcuts. The exploration of the human figure, self-consciousness and our negotiation with space and figures has always been a central concern in Jenkins work. The artists new series explores the human body in relation to space within contemporary life, whilst pushing the limits of the medium. The exhibitions title refers to a quote from Virgils The Aeneid, I sing of arms
, and features human figures enclosed in chambers mimicking furniture, edged with geometric patterns inspired by marquetry, tribal art and the ... More Exhibition brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory experiences by Madhvi SubrahmanianMUMBAI.- Madhvi Subrahmanian returns to Mumbai with an exhibition of new works titled Mapping Memory at Chemould Prescott Road. Seven years have passed since her solo exhibition Organic/Abstract at Chemould Prescott Road in 2010. In the intervening period Madhvi has been part of several residency programs in the US, Japan, China, Korea and Thailand and international shows and biennales. Most recently, she participated at the first Ceramic biennale at Henan Museum in China. Mapping Memory brings together an assembly of conceptual and sensory experiences with her participatory installations, which are both interactive and immersive. Clay, Madhvis chosen material for self-expression, has led the way in her journey. For her, the material encompasses the entire organic world and encapsulates within itself all of human history. The material ,simultaneously ... More Exhibition at Deweer Gallery focuses on Jan Fabre's viewing boxes, thinking models and drawingsOTEGEM.- In a unique exhibition, Deweer Gallery focuses on the viewing boxes, thinking models and drawings of Jan Fabre, highlighting in this way a very important and consistent part of Fabres extensive repertoire. Deweer Gallery has been representing Jan Fabre for 32 years already and has preserved his viewing boxes, thinking models and drawings since the beginning of his career. From his first thinking model La maison de J.F. (1977), a rare, utopian design of an aluminum house without a roof, to his later brain drawings (2008) and brain models (2008). The viewing boxes and thinking models are unjustly overlooked within the multifaceted oeuvre of Jan Fabre. They are small three-dimensional objects that provide an insight into the inexhaustible imagination of the artist and visually depict autonomous worlds that subvert the relation (of scale) ... More GR Gallery exhibits works by artists from the 57th Venice BiennaleNEW YORK, NY.- GR Gallery is presenting a group show featuring five artists, represented by the gallery, who are now participating at the 57th Venice Biennale: Alberto Biasi, Franco Costalonga, Nadia Costantini, Sandi Renko, Claudio Rotta Loria. This exhibition aims to underline the international relevance and attention that is now pointing at five outstanding artists represented by GR gallery, that are simultaneously attending the most important art event in the world: the Venice Biennale. All Italian, these artists are among the founders or prime representative of the Optical Art and Kinetic Art. An movement emerged in the early 50s in Europe and South America that rose quickly in the early 60s also in the U.S., peaked with The Responsive Eye exhibition at New York MOMA in 1965, and then faded within a few years. On both sides of the ocean, it has had a long ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese architect Tadao Ando was born September 13, 1941. Tadao Ando (born September 13, 1941, in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan and raised in Asahi-ku in the city) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was categorized by Francesco Dal Co as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field. He visited buildings designed by renowned architects like Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn before returning to Osaka in 1968 and established his own design studio, Tadao Ando Architect and Associates.
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