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Camille La Cueillette des pois, 1887. Gouache, 53,3 x 64,4 cm. Bruce et Robbi Toll Archives du musée Camille-Pissarro, Pontoise / droits réservés.
PARIS (AFP).- A painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro seized from a Jewish collector in France in WWII has turned up in an exhibition in Paris, where relatives are seeking its return from a US couple who have loaned it. "La cueillette des pois" ("Pea Harvest") painted with gouache by Pissarro in 1887, has been found on display at the Marmottan Museum in the French capital. Simon Bauer was among Jews rounded up in the Drancy internment camp outside Paris in 1944, but he escaped being deported to the Nazi death camps because of a train drivers' strike. A year earlier his art collection, including the Pissarro, had been confiscated and sold by an art dealer designated by officials from France's war-time Vichy regime. On being released in September 1944, Bauer immediately began looking for his paintings, but he had only recovered a small part of his collection of 93 canvases by the time he died in 1947. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A carpet displaying "The last supper" is pictured at the Kitsch Museum in Bucharest on May 4, 2017. Former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Count Dracula and Jesus Christ will share the showcase of the new Romanian Kitsch Museum that opens in Bucharest on Friday May 5, 2017. DANIEL MIHAILESCU / AFP
| 'Burden': Portrait of the artist as a gunshot victim | | Luhring Augustine exhibits early drawings, collages, and paintings by Lygia Clark | | First major U.S. exhibition in over 20 years devoted to Florine Stettheimer opens in New York |
"Burden" opens Friday in New York with a national theatrical rollout to follow and is also available on Amazon Video and iTunes.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Having yourself shot, locked up, crucified, dangled naked from a rope, kicked down stairs or clamped to the floor near electrified water will get you attention -- but is it art? It is a question Los Angeles-based Chris Burden, who died of cancer in 2015, posed through a series of stomach-churning performances that shook the conventional art world in the 1970s, challenging ideas about the limits and nature of modern art. "I'm not about death and I didn't want to die, but I wanted to come close," the late artist jokes in "Burden," a new documentary exploring the complex, evolving character who became one of the most admired artists of his generation. On an evening in the fall of 1971, Burden provoked outraged headlines across the world by getting shot on camera by an ex-military friend standing 15 feet (five meters) away with a .22 rifle in Santa Ana, California. The bullet was supposed to graze his left arm but ... More | |
Lygia Clark, Study for Bicho, 1960. Balsa wood, adhesive tape, graphite, 8 1/16 x 8 1/16 inches © O Mundo de Lygia Clark-Associação Cultural, Rio de Janeiro. Courtesy: Luhring Augustine, New York and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine is presenting its first solo exhibition of the pioneering Brazilian artist Lygia Clark. Organized in partnership with Alison Jacques Gallery, London, which co-represents the artist, this exhibition features Clarks early drawings, collages, and paintings, as well as her iconic Bichos. Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1920 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988) is one of the preeminent artists of the twentieth century, whose groundbreaking body of work reimagined the relationship between audience and the art object. A founding member of the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement, Clark proposed a radical approach to thinking about painting by treating its pictorial surface as if it were a three-dimensional architectural space. Her studies under the Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and ... More | |
Florine Stettheimer, Georgette, costume design for Orphée of the Quat-z-Arts, c. 1912. Gouache and lace on paper on wood, 18 x 12⅞ in. (45.7 x 32.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Miss Ettie Stettheimer.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first major U.S. exhibition in over 20 years focused on Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) opened at the Jewish Museum on May 5, 2017, and will remain on view through September 24, 2017. Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry showcases over 50 paintings and drawings in addition to costume and theater designs, photographs, and ephemera, offering a timely reconsideration of this influential American artist with a sharp satirical wit, placing her centrally in the modern dialogue of high and mass culture. The exhibition is organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. After its New York City presentation, the exhibition will be on view in Toronto from October 21, 2017 to January 28, 2018. "Stettheimer has sometimes been typecast as a lightweight feminine ... More |
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| Exhibition of new work by Raymond Pettibon on view at David Zwirner | | Apple-1 still tops the list of most-wanted tech collectibles | | Anish Kapoor's Descension installed at Brooklyn Bridge Park |
No Title (Shines with a ), 2017 (detail). Ink, watercolor, and acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 3/8 inches (76.2 x 56.8 cm). Courtesy David Zwirner, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of new work by Raymond Pettibon, on view at 519 West 19th Street in New York. The artists tenth solo show at gallery TH EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T follows his collaborative presentations with Marcel Dzama at the gallery in both London and New York last year. Pettibon's work embraces a wide spectrum of American high and low culture, from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, sports, religion, politics, sexuality, and literature. Taking their point of departure in the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s and the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers, comics, concert flyers, and fanzines that characterized the movement, his drawings have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary. The exhibition includes drawings and collagesa relatively new introduction within the artists oeuvrein ... More | |
An original Apple-1 computer, consigned by the original buyer in California, is the headliners in Auction Team Brekers Science & Technology sale May 20. Auction Team Breker image.
NEW YORK, NY.- The allure of possessing No. 1 never grows old, whether its attaining the top ranking in college basketball or owning the first issue of Action Comics. Ask just about any collector of late-20th-century electronics and theyll tell you the ultimate prize is a rare Apple-1, perhaps the most iconic of all devices to emerge during the personal computer revolution. Introduced in 1976 by Steven P. Jobs and Stephen G. Wozniak, the Apple-1 was the first product produced by Apple Computer Inc., now Apple Inc. When Jobs and Wozniak pitched their kit-form computer to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop, the pioneer computer retailer quickly saw its potential. What I needed was an assembled and tested unit that could sell to people that really wanted to use them and not just to the technical audience, Terrell recalled in a 2015 interview. Convinced, he bought the first assembled ... More | |
Anish Kapoor, Descension, 2014. Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, 2017. Photo: James Ewing, Public Art Fund, NY © Anish Kapoor, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund brings Descension, one of Anish Kapoors most viscerally arresting installations, to New York City for the first time. Sited at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, this massive, continuously spiraling funnel of water harnesses one of the most evanescent of materials and create a striking contrast with the adjacent East River. Anish Kapoor, among the most influential artists of his generation, has had a career-long engagement with space and the limits of perception. Perhaps best known for his iconic public artworks, his last major outdoor sculpture in New York City was Public Art Funds presentation of Sky Mirror, his 35-foot-diameter concave mirror at Rockefeller Center in 2006. With Descension, he has created a dynamic negative space that descends into the ground, disturbing the familiar boundaries of our world. In the midst of a quintessential New York park, Kapoor invites us to ... More |
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| Richard Gray Gallery opens concurrent Jim Dine exhibitions in Chicago and New York | | Contemporary talents star alongside early 20th century gems in Sotheby's London Sale of Photographs | | Exhibition of large- and medium-scale works on paper by Whitfield Lovell on view at DC Moore Gallery |
Installation view. Courtesy Richard Gray Gallery. Photo: Tom Van Eynde.
CHICAGO, IL.- Richard Gray Gallery announces two coordinated exhibitions of work by the acclaimed American artist Jim Dine. In Chicago, Looking at the Present examines Dines recent large-scale paintings. In New York, Primary Objects presents work from a formative period in Dines practice, focusing on his mixed material paintings and sculptures from 1961 through 1965. A two volume exhibition catalogue will document both exhibitions and will feature contributions by Hamza Walker, LAXART Executive Director, and Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art. Looking at the Present inaugurates Richard Gray Gallerys new converted warehouse space at 2044 West Carroll Avenue. The exhibition reveals the development of new directions in Dines painting practice. Shedding the iconography of hearts, robes, and the Venus de Milo that has animated his visual language ... More | |
Peter Lindbergh (b. 1944), Tatjana Patitz, Vogue France, Café de Flore, Paris, 1985. Silver print, printed 2006. Edition 17/25. Estimate £12,000-18,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys annual London sale of Photographs on 19 May 2017 showcases some of the most exciting emerging contemporary talents in the field, alongside a selection of early twentieth century gems. The younger generation of artists include Alex Prager, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pieter Hugo and Sohei Nishino, who was nominated for this years Prix Pictet. Works by well-known favourites Albert Watson, Irving Penn, Guy Bourdin and Peter Lindbergh will be offered together with Peter Beards distinctive photo-collages, and striking nudes by Frantiek Drtikol and Robert Mapplethorpe. The auction is timed to take place in conjunction with Photo London, the major international photography event now in its third edition, which will be held in the heart of the capital from 18-21 May. Brandei Estes, Head of Photographs, Sothebys London, said: With such a fresh and diverse ... More | |
Whitfield Lovell, Hand XXII, 1995. Oil stick and charcoal on paper, 54 x 40 1/4 inches © Whitfield Lovell. Courtesy of Dc Moore Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting the exhibition, Whitfield Lovell: Whats Past is Prologue, comprised of over thirty large- and medium-scale works on paper created between 1987 and 1998. This is the first time in several decades that such an extensive collection from the artists earliest body of work is on view. During this early period Lovell worked on large sheets of paper that he layered with oil stick and charcoal. He chose to work in deep, vibrant monochrome that gives the works a dramatic gestural presence, combined with finely executed charcoal drawings that are the forebears of the artists ongoing practice. His subjects are often sourced from vintage photographs from family albums as well as anonymous photos. Lovell speaks allegorically through his visual symbols, examining issues of identity, gender, love, death, and loss. Hands contain faces and figures, some mysterious, others ... More |
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| Fondazione Memmo opens Giuseppe Gabellone's first solo exhibition in Rome | | SculptureCenter opens first U.S. solo museum exhibition by Teresa Burga | | Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens solo exhibition of Robert Stadler's work |
Giuseppe Gabellone, Untitled (Orange), 2017. Carta, resina acrilica, fibra di vetro, pittura alchidica, pittura a olio, bambù, legno, cordino di cotone, 60 x 159 x 149 cm. Photo: Daniele Molajoli.
ROME.- Fondazione Memmo presents Giuseppe Gabellones first solo exhibition in Rome, curated by Francesco Stocchi, thereby confirming its mission to promote contemporary art through site-specific creations and new works. Characterized by a strong formal rigour and a critical approach to traditional artistic media such as photography and sculpture, Gabellones work is particularly sensitive to the surrounding exhibition space and its various sensory aspects. The artists approach is a continuation of the tradition of great sculptures innovators, such as Medardo Rosso, Umberto Boccioni and Arturo Martini: by emphasizing the dynamic relationships between light and shadow, full and empty, the artist expands the concept of sculpture to other techniques and practices, addressing the central issues that arise from his activity, especially in those areas where the mediated experience ... More | |
Installation view, Teresa Burga: Mano Mal Dibujada, SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Photo: Kyle Knodell.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter is presenting the first U.S. solo museum exhibition by Teresa Burga, on view May 1 July 31, 2017. Teresa Burgas first solo museum exhibition in the United States presents works dating from the 1960s to today. Burga was an active figure in the avant-garde art scene in Lima, Peru, which was effectively shut down under the political regime of the 1970s. Her work has regained prominence in recent years with renewed attention given to Burgas investigation into social roles within Peru. Burga has a humorous pop sensibility through which she articulates a critical relationship between femininity and childishness in opposition to historically masculine associations with artistic authorship. The title of Burgas exhibition comes from a series of drawings previously shown in the group exhibition at SculptureCenter in 2014, Puddle, Pothole, Portal. The drawings were of a badly drawn hand, ... More | |
Continuing Carpenters Workshop Gallerys 10-year anniversary celebrations, the exhibition is the perfect occasion to pay tribute to the renowned Paris based, Austrian designer who has been with the gallery since 2008.
NEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery announces the solo exhibition of Robert Stadler taking place from 27 April to 24 June in its New York gallery. Entitled Weight Class, the exhibition features works from his acclaimed Cut_Paste series as well as new suspension light fixtures incorporating Isamu Noguchis iconic 1950s Akari lamps. He is also having two exhibitions: Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum running through till September 3, and You may also like: Robert Stadler a survey exhibition from 18 March to 25 June, initiated by Tulga Beyerle, Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts, Dresden (Germany) and curated by Alexis Vaillant. Continuing Carpenters Workshop Gallerys 10-year anniversary celebrations, the exhibition is the perfect occasion to pay tribute to the renowned Paris based, Austrian ... More |
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Matthew Barton Ltd's biggest sale to date includes over 800 lots
LONDON.- Matthew Barton Ltd announced their biggest auction since starting at 25 Blythe Road in 2009. There will be over 800 lots of European and Asian Works of Art being offered in a two-day sale on Wednesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 25th 2017, starting at 11am each day, at 25 Blythe Road. The sale which comprises Silver, Ceramics, Jewellery, Watches, Works of Art, and Objects of Vertu, from both Europe and Asia, has prices ranging from £50 through to £22,000. With late night and weekend viewing, it is the perfect place to find pieces from all over the world, carefully catalogued by erudite and experienced specialists, to suit all pockets. Highly-respected expert Arthur Millner has catalogued the Indian and South East Asian Works of Art, and for the first time Max Rutherston is curating a group of netsuke.! !! Interesting collections in this sale include 100 Indian ... More
Gorgeous antique French clocks will take center stage at Fontaine's May 20th sale
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Gorgeous French-made clocks will command center stage at Fontaines Auction Gallery on Saturday, May 20th, when the firm conducts an Antiques & Fine Art Auction where seven of the top 20 high-estimate lots are clocks made in France. The sale will be held in Fontaines gallery, located at 1485 West Housatonic Street in Pittsfield, at 10 am Eastern time. But clocks wont be the only items on the menu. The 325-lot auction will also feature 19th and 20th century lighting, fine watches, American oak and Victorian furniture, paintings, bronze and marble statuary, Royal Vienna, art glass, gold and diamond jewelry, fine silver, porcelains, KPM plaques, Black Forest, slot machines, phonographs, advertising items and decorative accessories. Three lots share identical estimates of $15,000-$25,000 and are the expected top three earners. One ... More
Met Opera faces questions as it marks big anniversary
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Metropolitan Opera is pulling out the finery this weekend to mark its golden anniversary at New York's Lincoln Center, but the celebration comes at a tough moment for opera in the United States. A black-tie concert and gala dinner will feature performances from many of opera's biggest stars, including legendary Spanish singer Placido Domingo and the popular American soprano Renee Fleming, as well as archived footage from Met performances of yore and a recent video testimonial from the iconic Leontyne Price. The event comes near the end of another season of spectacle concerning tales of love, loss, fate and the fantastic, with booming soloists, museum-worthy sets and sure-handed performing by the Met's respected chorus and orchestra. While the Met's musical prowess is not open to question, there is uncertainty hovering over ... More
Tony Matelli debuts outdoor figurative sculpture at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presenting Tony Matellis Hera, a monumental sculpture, as part of the Main Street Sculpture series, which offers an opportunity for artists to create site-specific work for The Aldrichs most public site, the front lawn. Matelli debuted his singular, larger-than-life-size outdoor figurative sculpture on May 6, 2017. This work is an extension of Matellis Garden Sculptures series, initiated in 2015, in which he defaces garden statuary of classical or religious icons and subverts material expectation. Based on an ancient Greek statue of Hera and poised atop a pedestal, the statue, fabricated out of cast stone, is painstakingly aged to mimic a centuries old patina. An imposing nine-feet tall and sited on a three-foot tall pedestal, the neo-classical figure has been juxtaposed with flawlessly hand-painted cast bronze watermelons, whole, ... More
Meticulously curated collections stand out in Heritage's 20th Century Design Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Significant collections illustrating the modern movement highlight the 20th Century Design Featuring Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass Signature Auction will be presented May 25. In addition to the offerings from New York Art Deco expert Robert "Bobby" Gingold Jr. and Neal Prince's meticulously curated inventory, the auction is buttressed by a comprehensive group of Gouda pottery, Kayserzinn pewter and rare Art Deco glass from the Dallas collection of Bill Leazer. The sale is then made complete with additions of Tiffany lamps and glass, French art glass from Galle, Daum and Lalique, and a fine collection of Art Deco pottery by Charles Catteau for Boch Freres. A life-long collector of the Art Nouveau Movement in Europe, Prince was a highly respected New Yorker of Texan descent. An international interior designer, socialite and taste maker, Prince spent 74 ... More
Exhibition examines how communities and individuals worldwide prepare for natural disasters
TEL AVIV.- Life-saving information tweeted or posted on social networks during natural disasters; online diaries documenting personal confrontations with disaster; and instructions for constructing a temporary folding shelter, or for self-administered first aid, are some of the ways that individuals and communities worldwide mobilize in response to catastrophes. These and other examples featured in the exhibition represent bottom-up approaches capable of impacting reality in extreme situations. Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Design and Architecture Department has devoted the past year to researching and planning the exhibition 3.5 Square Meters: Constructive Responses to Natural Disasters. This exhibition examines how communities and individuals worldwide prepare for natural disasters and mobilize in their immediate aftermath. Local and international humanitarian ... More
Artist Kristin Casaletto takes a hard look at the South
ATHENS, GA.- What do Twinkies, canned hams, locusts and glitter have in common? The Augusta-based artist and teacher Kristin Casaletto has used all of them to make art that engages with social issues. Primarily a printmaker, she likes to experiment with unusual objects. She once printed an etching of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, on a grilled cheese sandwich. You can see her more traditional work on paper (and a few locusts) at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in the exhibition The Past Is Never Dead: Kristin Casaletto. Organized by Sarah Kate Gillespie, the museums curator of American art, the exhibition shows Casaletto reacting to her adopted home: the South. Originally from Michigan, she attended Ball State University in Indiana, double majoring in drawing and physics. But when she moved ... More
Royal Ontarion Museum presents "The Family Camera" in celebration of Canada 150
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announces the opening of The Family Camera, an original ROM exhibition that explores how family photographs reflect and shape our experiences of migration and our sense of identity. On display from Saturday, May 6, to Monday, October 29, 2017, in the Museums Roloff Beny Gallery, the exhibition is part of the ROMs Canada 150 year-long celebration. The Family Camera is one of the primary exhibitions of the 2017 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. The Family Camera exhibition uses a visual lens to bring personal, everyday stories of the Canadian experience into focus, making this exhibition a fitting way to celebrate our 150th year, says Josh Basseches, ROM Director & CEO. This exhibition highlights the ROMs vital role as a place of discovery and new research, where the public is engaged as active participants ... More
PIASA announces Sale of American design and ceramics
PARIS.- PIASA's next auction of rigorously selected American furniture on 17 May 2017 will offer another chance to explore the wealth of Transatlantic Design. A large section of the sale will be devoted to American Craft, with works by such leading figures of the New Hope School as Paul Evans, George Nakashima and Philip & Kelvin Laverne. Evewr-popular ceramics will include pieces in the American Craft tradition and items from the Californian School, with its poweful effects of matter. The Pre-Sale Exhibition will be staged by French interior architect Isabelle Stanislas, whose projects stand out with their clear outlines, luminous perspectives, masterly volumes and quest for equilibrium: a highly individual approach towards interior design, with an emphasis on architecture more than decoration. Interior architecture is all about balance' says Isabelle. Each project involves ... More
Polenov masterpiece leads MacDougall's June Russian Art Auction
LONDON.- MacDougalls announces a monumental painting by Vasily Polenov, He Resolutely Set Out for Jerusalem among the highlights of the Russian Art Auction on 7 June. The work belongs to the famous cycle of paintings From the Life of Christ; the artist wrote that this was the work to which I devoted almost all my life. The emergence of this picture in the art market is a unique event; of the 72 known works in the cycle, most adorn the collections of the largest museums of Russia. This painting, from a European private collection, was included in Polenov's list of works from 1903-1914, and was exhibited at least twice in his lifetime. The title is a quote from the Gospel of Luke, chapter 9, verse 51. The present work encapsulates the essence of the From the Life of Christ cycle and is one of the most significant of the Gospel episodes, portrayed by Polenov. MacDougall's ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter and educator Caspar David Friedrich died May 07, 1840. Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 - 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins.In this image: Two Men Contemplating the Moon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ca. 1825-30
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