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Conservationist Gianfranco Pocobene painting Titian's Rape of Europa, 2019. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Courtesy of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Photo: David Mathews.
BOSTON, MASS.- Following the most comprehensive painting analysis and conservation treatment the Museum has ever undertaken, Titians Rape of Europa is back on display as the centerpiece of the Gardner Museums Titian Room. Early next year, as part of a multi-venue exhibition in partnership with the National Gallery, London; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; and the Museo del Prado, Madrid; the newly restored Europa will be reunited for the first time in more than 300 years with four other paintings from Titians poesie serieswidely regarded as one of the most important cycles of mythological painting in the history of western art. Commissioned by King Philip II of Spain and painted between 1551 and 1562, Titians poesie (painted poems) consist of six monumental paintings of mythological episodes inspired by the ancient Roman poet Ovids Metamorphoses. Acquired in 1896 by Isabella Stew ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Guild Hall is presenting works by the renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone in the exhibition, ugo rondinone: sunny days, featuring sun-themed sculpture and paintings, as well as a collaboration with area school children. The opening reception was held on Saturday August 10. The exhibition runs through October 14. Photo: Heather King.
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| | Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University presents "After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art" | | James Economos: A life remembered | | Bonhams to offer the collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis |
Ângela Ferreira, For Mozambique (Model No. 1 of Screen-Tribute-Kiosk Celebrating a Post-Independence Utopia), 2008. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Luís Colaço.
NEW YORK, NY.- Columbia Universitys Wallach Art Gallery is presenting After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art, on view from June 15 through October 13, 2019. This exhibition is the first in North America to explore aesthetic responses to the history of socialism in Africa and its aftermath. After the End is curated by Ãlvaro LuÃs Lima, a Ph.D. candidate in Columbias Department of Art History and Archaeology, where he specializes in modern and contemporary art from Africa. Beginning this fall, he will join the faculty of the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida in Gainesville. After first gaining their independence from colonial powers throughout the mid 20th century, young African nations underwent a wave of upheaval brought on by the end of the Cold War, including the toppling of socialist governments. The need to reimagine national narratives gave rise to a generation of artists seeking ... More | |
The legendary art dealer, passed away peacefully on July 29.
SANTA FE, NM.- James Economos, the legendary art dealer, passed away peacefully on July 29 at the age of 80. His husband of 50 years, Gilbert Hampton, was at his side. Born in New York City, James studied at Columbia University. His eye for African, Oceanic, and American Indian art established him as a leader in the field and had a major impact on the development of many significant public and private collections, including the renowned collection at the St. Louis Art Museum. After living in New York and Denver, he settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he had an eponymous gallery. James Economos was born into a life of passion and business: for him, this manifest itself in a life of finding, collecting, buying and selling art. His parents, Peter and Pauline, Greek immigrants welcomed their second son into their life in 1938, in their apartment on the corner of 57th Street and Third Avenue, New York City. Surrounded by his extended family, James was raised among generations of entrepreneurs au ... More | |
A Rare and Important Gilt Bronze Figure of Chijang Bosal (Ksitigarbha), Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 13th/14th century. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 11, Bonhams will present the sale of The Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, which is highlighted by a rare and important gilt bronze figure of Chijang Bosal (Ksitigarbha), Goryeo dynasty (918-1392), 13th/14th century (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). The collection of 115 lots also includes fine Japanese lacquer boxes, Buddhist sculptures, inro, ceramics and contemporary Japanese art. At auction for the first time, this important sculpture of Chijang Bosal (Ksitigarbha) was on the cover of Orientations magazine in 2003. It was also exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco and published in their exhibition catalogue, Goryeo Dynasty, Koreas Age of Enlightenment, 918-1392 in 2003. Sculptural representations of Ksitigarbha are commonly found in Japanese art but are extremely rare in Korea; only one other Goryeo-dynasty Korean bronze figure of the deity is known ... More |
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| | Record prices and market debuts abound in Summer Sale of Vintage Posters at Swann | | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opens the first museum survey in Texas of the work of artist Nari Ward | | Charlotte Jackson Fine Art announces the passing of Paul Sarkisian |
McQueen Drives Porsche, designer unknown, 1970. Sold for $7,000, a record for the poster.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries summer sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 7 was a lively event with active bidding across all platforms. Many of the auction's niche collecting categories saw heated competition for trophy pieces, including sections on propaganda, sports and auto racing, as well as beach and summer resort posters, noted Nicholas D. Lowry, Vintage Posters Director and house President. The sale saw six record prices and brought a number of posters to market for the first time. The houses most extensive selection of automobile posters to date saw competitive bidding from car aficionados. Highlights included a 1970 ad for Porsche prominently featuring actor Steve McQueen, which earned a record $7,000 over a high estimate of $1,200; and Ludwig Hohlweins 1914 Mercedes poster in German, which brought $10,000. Sergio Trujillo Magnenats advertisements for the first Bolivarian Games in 1938 p ... More | |
Nari Ward, Iron Heavens, 1995. Oven pans, ironed sterilized cotton, and burned wooden bats, 140 x 148 x 48 in. Collection Jeffrey Deitch. Image courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
HOUSTON, TX.- Contemporary Arts Museum Houston presents Nari Ward: We the People, the first museum survey in Texas of the work of artist Nari Ward (b. 1963, St. Andrew, Jamaica). The exhibition brings together works spanning Wards 25-year career. Since the early 1990s, Ward has produced sculptures by accumulating staggering amounts of humble materials and repurposing them in surprising ways. His approach draws from a variety of art historical and folk traditions and reflects the textures of Harlem, where he has lived and worked for the past 25 years. Seeking out the personal and social narratives embedded in materials, he conceives of his sculptures as tools for articulating relationships between people. Over the past three decades, he has addressed topics such as historical memory, political and economic ... More | |
Paul Sarkisian was a true visual auteur and unstoppable creative force throughout most of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century.
SANTA FE, NM.- Paul Sarkisian, visionary American artist, husband, father and grandfather passed away on July 29, 2019. He was 90 years old. Paul Sarkisian was a true visual auteur and unstoppable creative force throughout most of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century. He helped to define contemporary art on the West Coast as a member of the Ferus Gallerys stable of artists in the 1950s and then played an important role as a New Realist painter during the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Chicago in 1928, Paul was given a full scholarship at age 16 to attend the prestigious Chicago Art Institute. While serving stateside during the Korean War, not even the U.S. Army could curtail Pauls creative impulse, and his regiment commander arranged for an off-base studio and after-hours furlough so that he could paint without interference. As a young painter in early 1950s Los Angeles, Paul caught the eye of maverick curator ... More |
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| | Kuwait's largest museum complex has launches its first international visual arts programme in Venice | | The Jeu de Paume exhibits fifteen photographic series by Marc Pataut | | "Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance" opens at the Rubin Museum |
The Waves Between Us, Mahmoud Shaker.
VENICE.- Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre - Kuwaits largest cultural institution - has launched its first international visual arts programme, Heart of Culture, at the Scuola dellArte dei Tiraoro e Battioro in Venice. The programme is centred around In my dream I was in Kuwait - an exhibition featuring six emerging Kuwaiti artists on view until 28 November 2019. Heart of Culture provides each Kuwaiti artist featured in the exhibition with the opportunity to engage with and learn from local Venetian master craftsmen and contemporary artists through a series of curated workshops. This programme leads the way in a new institutional-led international programme to form multiple collaborations with major academic and cultural organisations around the world. The exhibition presents the plurality of Kuwaiti artistic practice through artworks developed on the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centres Artist-in-Residence programme and is part of the ... More | |
Marc Pataut, Renée, 1990, série "Illettrisme", Bruay-la-Buissière © Marc Pataut.
PARIS.- The exhibition by Marc Pataut (born in Paris in 1952) presents a corpus of around fifteen photographic series, some of which are being exhibited for the first time. The artists work explores the individuals relationship both to themselves and to society. His pictures reveal faces, bodies, affiliations and life stories. Linked to specific sites and regions, his projects grow organically over long periods and are nourished by an accumulation of personal and collective experiences. The exhibition features a selection of his photographic essays produced between 1981 and the present day. This is not a retrospective, however. Rather, it is an artistic proposition focused on his art works and the evolution over time of their political relationships to society, space and territory. Frequently shaped by debates, exchanges and struggles, his work is a form of social and political thought. The works featured in the exhibition and the accompanying ... More | |
Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero; 2017; site-specific installation of 656 lotus lanterns and Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants; installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; photograph by Aaron Wax; image courtesy of Galerie Kewenig, Berlin, and Kimsooja Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- This August the Rubin Museum of Art presents the third exhibition in its Year of Power programming, Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance. Organized by guest curator Sara Raza, the exhibition brings together 10 contemporary artists living and working in the United States and internationally whose works poetically employ non-conformity and resistance as tools to question and upend power in society. Using a range of media including installation, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and textile the artists confront history, identity, heritage, and ways of understanding the world at a time when truth is censored, borders reconfigured, mobility impeded, and civil liberties challenged. Bringing ... More |
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| | DC Landmarks and Civil War era music explored in exhibitions at the George Washington University Museum | | Exhibition of batiks celebrates the genesis of Indigenous women's art practice | | Only contemporary art centre dedicated to the promotion of Aboriginal art in Europe opens exhibition |
The Design of the National Washington Monument by Robert Mills of S.C. Robert Mills; designer, Charles R. Parsons; printer, color lithograph, 1845-1848. AS1. Courtesy of the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum/Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum opened two exhibitions on highlighting historical moments for the country and the Washington, D.C., area. Best Laid Plans: Designs for Capital City juxtaposes unrealized plans for D.C. landmarks with reality. Songs of the Civil War highlights some of the stories, heroes and tragedies of the Civil War through popular battlefield music of the day. The exhibitionsorganized in collaboration with the museums Albert H. Small Center for National Capital Area Studiesare on view through December 22. Every landmark in Washington has a story. "Best Laid Plans" showcases unrealized designs for the Washington Monument, Arlington Memorial Bridge and U.S. Capitol Building through historical ... More | |
Alison (Milyika) Carroll, Raiki wara 1994, batik on silk. Collection National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with the assistance of the Commonwealth Government.
BENDIGO.- Desert Lines: Batik from Central Australia brings together around 60 selected works from the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, each illustrating the unique and distinct batik styles of five central desert communities: Ernabella, Fregon, Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore. Batik a method of wax resist fabric printing was first introduced to Indigenous women in 1971 and each of the five desert communities has approached the medium in artistically distinct ways. This exhibition will highlight the significance of batik work for women of the desert and enable links to be made between batiks and paintings of Pitjantjatjara, Anmatyerr, Alyawarr, Walpiri and Pintupi artists. It will also reveal differences in iconography, subject matter, palette and approaches to the hot wax and painting mediums across time and space. As senior curator of Indigenous art at the ... More | |
Paddy Fordham Wainburranga, The beginning of life, 1998. © 2019, ProLitteris, Zurich. Photo: © Vincent Girier-Dufournier.
LENS.- Fondation Opale is presenting Before Time Began, its first major exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art. A selection of nearly 80 major works paintings on canvas and bark, installations and sculptures offer visitors insights into the evolution of contemporary Aboriginal art from its emergence in 1971 to the present day. Before Time Began honours the artistic creation of the most representative Aboriginal artists of our generation. The exhibition explores the notion of Dreaming in Aboriginal culture and highlights its relevance today. Established in 2018, Fondation Opale, based in Lens, Canton of Valais (Switzerland), is the only contemporary art centre dedicated to the promotion of Aboriginal art in Europe. It strives to facilitate dialogue between peoples and cultures through art. The foundation is based on the Collection Bérengère Primat, one of the main collections of Australian Indigenous ... More |
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The Haggerty Museum of Art opens two new exhibitions
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University will open two exhibitions featuring the intersection of language and visual arts. For the Sake of a Single Verse is a body of work by artist Ben Shahn that was inspired by the writing of Rainer Maria Rilke, and The Ariel Poems is the result of a 20th-century collaboration between poets and artists. For the Sake of a Single Verse is a portfolio of twenty-two lithographs from the Haggerty Museum of Arts collection created by artist Ben Shahn. The prints illustrate a passage from Rainer Maria Rilkes only novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910). This semi-autobiographic novel tells the story of a destitute college student from an aristocratic Danish family living in Paris in the early 1900s. The book made a profound and lasting impression on Shahn. Although Shahn first read the ... More
A new exhibition explores another side of Maurice Sendak through his set designs
NEW YORK, NY.- A summer exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum celebrates an extraordinary bequest from acclaimed author and illustrator of childrens books Maurice Sendak (19282012). Best known for his 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak was an avid music and opera lover. Beginning in the late 1970s, he embarked on a second career as a designer for opera and ballet. Drawing the Curtain brings together nearly one hundred and fifty drawings from more than 900 by Sendak in the Morgans collection, including preliminary sketches, storyboards, finished watercolors, and painted dioramas. Also included are earlier works by Sendak on loan from The Maurice Sendak Foundation, and a number of props and costumes. This is the first museum exhibition dedicated to Sendaks set and costume designs, offering new insights ... More
Kelly Akashi opens an exhibition and artist residency at ARCH's Athens
ATHENS.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced a thing among things, Kelly Akashis solo exhibition and artist residency at ARCHs Athens. This is ARCHs inaugural exhibition. Informed by geological and material indexing, the works presented in the show bridge the artists ongoing research in transformation and documentation of materials and traditions embedded in the history of Greece. Alongside her use of wax, bronze, stainless steel, and hand-blown glass, traditional Greek materials such as clay, terrazzo, fiber, and marble are utilized in non traditional ways, to index evidence of change. By embracing the language these culturally significant materials bring to her practice, Akashi generates a new hybrid vocabulary, creating an anachronistic landscape that points back to a fragmented figure moving through tactile surroundings. Stemming from her studies in analogue ... More
Second Home designed by Selgascano to open its first U.S. creative workspace in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Second Home, the London-based creative business for entrepreneurs and innovators, will open its first U.S. location, Second Home Hollywood, in September 2019. For Second Homes sixth site created in partnership with the Madrid-based design team Selgascano, the architects are transforming the historic site of the Anne Banning Community House in East Hollywood into an innovative 90,000-square-foot urban campus. Throughout our long working relationship with Selgascano, which began in 2014, weve created innovative environments that bring diverse communities together and spark new ideas. Weve fallen in love with Los Angeles. We look forward to welcoming Angelenos into the space and seeing the kinds of creativity it inspires, said Sam Aldenton and Rohan Silva, co-founders of Second Home. Second Home Hollywood will be ... More
Design to meet architecture at Lake Como Design Fair 2019
LAKE COMO.- For its second edition, Lake Como Design Fair will once again push the boundaries between fair and exhibition by bringing together design and architecture lovers through a unique event. Lake Como Design Fair returns for its second edition on September 20-22, 2019, and will occupy two sites. A curated selection of design will be presented at Teatro Sociale Como and a new section - entirely dedicated to architecture - will be held at Palazzo del Broletto. This year the fair will focus on colour. Designers and architects are encouraged to contribute to a reflection and investigation on the subject of colour with and through their submitted projects. The Teatro Sociale Como opens its doors to the public on the occasion of Lake Como Design Fair, acting as its scene setting and continuing within the architectural dialogue that is enacted outside, where ... More
The best international motion design for 24 hours at Amsterdam Central Station
AMSTERDAM.- Design in Motion Festival will showcase the best motion designs from national and international designers across all 80 digital screens in Amsterdam Central for 24 hours on the 7th of November 2019. It is the first exhibition ever to showcase this young art form on such a large scale. DEMO is initiated by Studio Dumbar (part of Dept) in collaboration with Exterion Media NL. Thursday, November 7th, there will be no advertisements on the screens located on the platforms and in the passages of Amsterdam Central Station. The commercial messages that are shown to travelers on a daily basis will make way for experimental and stimulating motion design for a period of 24 hours. Established graphic design studios, motion designers and young designers from all over the world are invited to show their work on the screens of Out-of-Home operator ... More
The Baltimore Museum of Art presents a multimedia installation by Oletha DeVane
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Arts Spring House is transformed this summer with a multimedia installation by Baltimore-based artist Oletha DeVane. On view June 19 through October 20, 2019, Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit features a selection from the artists ongoing spirit sculpture series. Seven works are displayed in an altar-like setting with the sound of water, referencing both the cooling spring that once ran through the Spring Houses structure and the forced Atlantic migration of the enslaved persons who labored in it. This exhibition illuminates Oletha DeVanes quest to communicate her vision of the painful and troubled specificities of black American history side-by-side with her embrace of a pan-spiritual relationship to the divine, said Christopher Bedford, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. We are delighted to present ... More
Eden Project unveils 2019 art programme
BODELVA.- This summer the Eden Project, a world-renowned educational charity in Cornwall, launched an arts programme with the aim of furthering engagement with and understanding of its mission with an ever-growing audience. Sculptural works by, Jenny Kendler and Ryan Gander have been installed in the grounds, alongside a residency with Hayden Dunham and works from Julian Opie and Tim Shaw which have been recently installed. All the artists have been inspired either by the Eden Projects surroundings or by the narratives that the Eden Project communicates including sustainability, climate change, biodiversity and the vital relationship between plants, people and resources. Complementing this, the exhibition Artificial Creators: Inspired by Nature runs from 12 June until 29 September. Exploring the relationship between AI and creativity, the exhibition ... More
The Fundació Joan Miró presents 'Different Trains', a video installation by Beatriz Caravaggio
BARCELONA.- In 1988 Steve Reich composed Different Trains, an innovative work in three movements for string quartet and pre-recorded tape. This autobiographical piece evokes, in the first movement, the train journeys from New York to Los Angeles that the composer made between 1939 and 1942 to visit the homes of his divorced parents. In the second movement, the remembrance of these journeys as a romantic childhood adventure is overlaid by a contrafactual scenario exploring the likely fate of a Jew like him in the Europe of the time: the trains would have been one-way vehicles of deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. The final movement refers to the end of the war period and the rapid process of social transformation, as symbolized by the new trains, but also refers to the survivors inability to leave behind the doubts, anxieties and memories of the ... More
Major Margaret Olley exhibition opens at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art
BRISBANE.- A major exhibition celebrating the work of leading Australian artist Margaret Olley (1923-2011) ois on view at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said Margaret Olley: A Generous Life featured more than 100 paintings and drawings highlighting the colourful life, legacy and influence of a much-loved Australian artist. We are thrilled to be presenting this major exhibition developed by Michael Hawker, Curator, Australian Art, QAGOMA, as a celebration of Olleys extraordinary life as an artist, mentor, muse, passionate collector and donor, Mr Saines said. 'A Generous Life highlights Olleys formative years spent in Brisbane, her enduring love of travel and passion for portraiture, still life and interiors. The exhibition includes portraits of Margaret by other artists and select ... More
The Drawing Center appoints Allison Underwood as Director of Communications
NEW YORK, NY.- The Drawing Center announced the appointment of Allison Underwood as Director of Communications. In her new role, Underwood will helm all media relations and marketing activities, with a focus on new initiatives for digital content and audience development in support of furthering the institutions exhibitions, educational and public programming, and publishing activity. Underwood will join The Drawing Center in early September 2019. Im thrilled to welcome Allison as Director of Communications at a significant moment of transition and growth within The Drawing Centers storied history, said Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center. Allison brings a creative approach and fresh perspective along with a great passion for the singular mission of the institution. She will play a crucial role in reinvigorating its ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and etcher Agostino Carracci was born August 16, 1557. Agostino Carracci (or Caracci) (16 August 1557 - 22 March 1602) was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati (Academy of the Progressives) in Bologna. In this image: Selfportrait as a watchmaker
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