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François Boucher (French, 1703-1770), The Triumph of Venus, 1740 (detail), oil on canvas. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Photo: Cecilia Heisser / Nationalmuseum.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Nationalmuseum, Swedens largest and most distinguished art institution, is collaborating with the Morgan Library & Museum to bring more than seventy-five masterpieces from its renowned collections to New York in an extraordinary new exhibition opening February 3. The show features work by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antoine Watteau, and François Boucher, and is the first collaboration between the two institutions in almost fifty years. Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin runs through May 14. The Nationalmuseums core holdings were assembled by Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (16961770), a diplomat and one of the great art collectors of his day. The son and grandson of architects, Tessin held posts in Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, where he came into contact with the leading Parisian artists of the time and commissioned many work ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A gallery of traditional Bolivian hats President Evo Morales has been given, is displayed at the "Democratic and Cultural Revolution Museum" during its inauguration in Orinoca, Oruro department, western Bolivia on February 2, 2017. The museum features an exhibition of President Morales' personal objects, presents he received as chief of state and traditional items representing Bolivian culture. AIZAR RALDES / AFP
| The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens Abstract Expressionist exhibition | | Italian artifacts on view for the first time in the United States | | Dino rib yields evidence of oldest soft tissue remains |
Willem De Kooning, Untitled, ca. 1939. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 95.8 x 73.7 cm. Private collection © The Willem de Kooning Foundation, New York /VEGAP, Bilbao, 2016.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Abstract Expressionism , an ambitious selection of works by the artists who spearheaded a major shift and new apogee in painting in New York which began in the 1940s. Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, and Clyfford Still are just some of the artists in the show, which brings together more than 130 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs from public and private collections all over the world. This exhibition sheds new light on Abstract Expressionism, a diverse, complex, and multifaceted phenomenon which is often erroneously viewed as a unified whole. Back in the years of free jazz and the poetry of the Beat generation, with the Second World War as the backdrop, a group of artists broke with the established conventions and ushered in a movement which was born ... More | |
Mask from ceiling decoration, Corridor 46, Fresco on plaster; reed lath impressions on back; modern consolidation: 2015, H.12.5 cm; W. 10 cm.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art announces that it will host the travelling exhibition, Leisure & Luxury in the Age of Nero: The Villas of Oplontis near Pompeii from February 3 through August 13, 2017. Featuring works seen for the first time outside Italy, this groundbreaking exhibition centers on the ancient town of Oplontis on the Neapolitan coast, a site that was buried and preserved when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. The exhibition focuses on two adjacent, spectacular Roman archaeological sitesone an enormous luxury villa (Villa A) that once sprawled along the coast of the Bay of Naples, the other a nearby commercial-residential complex (Villa B), where products from the region were exported. Ongoing excavations of the villas have revealed a wealth of art, including sculpture that adorned the gardens along with ordinary utilitarian objects that together demonstrate the disparities ... More | |
This file photo taken on October 26, 2008 shows visitors looking at the Lufengosaurus dinosaur fossil displayed at the Science museum in Hong Kong. Ted ALJIBE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The rib of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur that lived 195 million years ago has yielded what may be the oldest remains of soft tissue ever recovered, scientists said Tuesday. The find promises a chance to extract rare clues about the biology and evolution of long-extinct animals, a team wrote in the journal Nature Communications. Such information is mostly missing from preserved hard skeletons, which form the bulk of the fossil record. "We have shown the presence of protein preserved in a 195 million-year-old dinosaur, at least 120 million years older than any other similar discovery," study co-author Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto Mississauga, told AFP. "These proteins are the building blocks of animal soft tissues, and it's exciting to understand how they have been preserved," he added. Reisz and a team scanned a rib bone of Lufengosaurus, ... More |
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| Sotheby's announces Harry Dalmeny as UK Chairman | | Haus der Kulturen der Welt's building reopens after extensive renovation | | First solo exhibition in the UAE by Tony Cragg on view at Leila Heller Gallery |
Harry will lead Sothebys client-focussed activities in the UK and Ireland. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Tad Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sothebys, today announced the appointment of Lord Dalmeny as UK Chairman. In this capacity, Harry will lead Sothebys client-focussed activities in the UK and Ireland, continuing to develop and nurture key relationships, and to drive Sothebys strategy. Harry will also be responsible for ensuring a rich and exciting trajectory for Sothebys long tradition of landmark house and single-owner sales an area in which he has, for many years, played a highly significant role. Harry is one of those remarkable forces of nature that attracts everyone to it. He is a master on the rostrum and that passion and charisma carry through everything he does. I am delighted that he has accepted this crucial leadership position in Sothebys founding home. Tad Smith, Sothebys CEO Though Lord Dalmeny officially started at ... More | |
Katja Novitskova, Swoon Motion, 2015. Electronic baby swing, polyurethane resin, cable binders, display clips, brain stress relievers, mirrored glass drops, downpipe filters, protein model render, power magnets, 110 x 90 x 90cm, unique. Sammlung Halke.
BERLIN.- The world's new disorder calls for sound diagnoses of our contemporary condition. In 2017 HKW sets out to explore the deep structures underlying the current transformations. Created within the scope of the long-term projects 100 Years of Now (201518) and Kanon-Fragen (201619), its discourse programs, exhibitions, music festivals, and educational events seek to activate the political imagination and form aesthetic judgment. HKWs iconic building reopened after extensive renovation from February 2 onwards with the 30th edition of the transmediale ever elusive. Directed by Kristoffer Gansing, this years festival features the special exhibition alien matter, curated by Inke Arns. How can we see beyond ... More | |
Installation view. Photographed by Abbi Kemp. Courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai.
DUBAI.- Leila Heller Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition in the UAE by Tony Cragg (b. 1949), one of the worlds most distinguished contemporary sculptors. The exhibition, Sculptures, features 18 new works of bronze, stone, wood and glass. Cragg's sculptural uvre was originally motivated by his encounter with English Land Art and Performance and is still distinguished by its surprising formal innovations and combinations. His horizontal extension of the biomorphic form is reminiscent of futurist Italian speed fanatics like Umberto Boccioni and Giacomo Balla, while the verticality of his pillar-like sculptures brings to mind Constantin Brancusi, who similarly arrived at a reduction of the natural form through his abstract formal language. One of the most unique qualities about Craggs sculptural process is the primacy ... More |
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| New-York Historical Society explores more than 300 years of tattoo culture in New York | | Dr. Jörn Günther to bring four royal books to TEFAF Maastricht in March | | Of Earth, Heaven and Light: Galerie Karsten Greve presents works by Thomas Brummett |
Charles Eisenmann (18551927), Nora Hildebrandt, ca. 1880. Albumen photograph. Collection of Adam Woodward.
NEW YORK, NY.- A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society will examine three centuries of tattooing in New York, including the citys central role in the development of modern tattooing and the successive waves of trend and taboo surrounding the practice. Tattooed New York, on view February 3 April 30, 2017, will feature more than 250 works dating from the early 1700s to todayexploring Native American body art, tattoo craft practiced by visiting sailors, sideshow culture, the 1961 ban that drove tattooing underground for three decades, and the post-ban artistic renaissance. We are proud to present Tattooed New York and offer our visitors an immersive look into the little-known history of modern tattooing, said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. At the convergence of history and pop culture, the exhibition will track the evolution of this fascinating form of self-ex ... More | |
Jean Bouchet (?), Life of St. Radegund, illuminated by the Master of St. Radegund. France, Poitiers, presumably made in 1496-98. 260 x 180, vellum, 66 leaves (complete), 1 full-page and 10 almost full-page miniatures.
HELVOIRT.- This year at TEFAF Maastricht, Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books will exhibit four exquisite examples of royal manuscripts made in the 15th and 16th centuries, including the entire Book of Joshua from the first edition of the Gutenberg Bible, the largest fragment of the Book of Books still on the market. The importance of the Gutenberg Bible lies in its revolutionary use of printing with moveable type. This technique was developed around 1455 by the goldsmith John Gensfleisch from Gutenberg, and his discovery changed the world in ways that even Gutenbergs contemporaries (judging from their remarks and statements) hardly comprehended. The other three notable manuscripts brought to TEFAF by Dr. Jörn Günther Rare Books come from the royal collections of two bibliophile French Kings: Charles VIII (1470- ... More | |
Thomas Brummett, Light Projection Variation #2, 2013. Pure cotton paper printed with 100 year archival pigment ink Ed. 3/5 117 x 91,5 cm / 46 x 36 in. © Thomas Brummett, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve.
COLOGNE.- Thomas Brummett is an artist who is on a journey that follows two intertwined paths. Thoughtful and patient, he is on a quest to discover the essence of the natural world by focusing on the immediate before hima twig, a fleeing light beam. He is also an explorer of the medium of photography, experimenting with the myriad ways of making an image with light and marks on the surface of light sensitive paper. All Brummetts work is from his life-long series Rethinking the Natural. Born in Colorado in 1955, Brummett matured with an appreciation of arid deserts and soaring mountains. He was educated in ceramics and photography at the Colorado State University (BFA, 1979) and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, (MFA, 1982), after which he settled in Philadelphia and had a daughter. Raised in a Christian (Episcopalian) family that includes several members of the clergy, ... More |
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| The Barnes Foundation announces Cindy Kang as Assistant Curator | | Historic acquisition of 62 works of African American art made by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | | The Contemporary Arts Center Digital Docent app available now on iOS |
Kang will be joining the Barnes Foundation from the Bard Graduate Center in New York.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Barnes Foundation today announced the appointment of Cindy Kang as assistant curatorthe first assistant curator in the Foundations history. With more than six years of curatorial experience at major arts institutionsincluding the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtKang will be joining the Barnes Foundation from the Bard Graduate Center in New York. In her role at the Barnes, Kang will work directly with Sylvie Patry, deputy director for collections & exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator, to expand the Foundations growing exhibitions program, collections research and interpretative activities, and curatorial and educational technology initiatives. She will begin her post on February 27. It is my pleasure to welcome Cindy, an accomplished curator and scholar whose deep knowledge of 19th-century French painting and decorative arts ma ... More | |
Joe Minter, Camel at the Water Hole, 1995. Welded metal sculpture.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Max Hollein, Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, announced today that 62 works by contemporary African American artists from the Southern United States have been acquired by the Museums from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta. This major acquisition from the Foundations William S. Arnett Collection was achieved through a purchase by the Fine Arts Museums and a gift from the Foundation. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco house one of the nations greatest 350-year survey collections of American art, with the renowned Rockefeller Collection as its cornerstone, says Hollein. Accordingly, we feel a special responsibility to take the lead in expanding the representation of artists who reflect the historical diversity of American culture. This groundbreaking acquisition of contemporary art adds an integraland exceptionalchapter to our signature collection of America ... More | |
The app offers an acoustic guide designed by WNDERS that uses LISNR technology to enhance the visitor experience.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Contemporary Arts Center is launching the CAC Digital Docent App, an acoustic guide designed by WNDERS that uses LISNR technology to enhance the visitor experience. The app allows visitors to explore more deeply the Tomás Saraceno installation on view in the lobby, and features exclusive content, messages and experiences including a personal greeting from the artist himself. The activation is powered by ultrasonic audio company LISNR and will be the first use of LISNR technology in any museum in the world. Instead of using outdated technology like headsets with recorded audio or Bluetooth beacons that require hardware, installation and maintenance costs, WNDERS, a mobile app platform for venues looking to enhance their visitor experience, opted to leverage LISNR SmartTone technology. SmartTones trigger the app upon entry. They direct visitors to additional exciting conten ... More |
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Brazilian Conceptual artist Valeska Soares featured at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Arts 176th installation of its groundbreaking MATRIX program features Brazilian conceptual artist Valeska Soares (b. 1957). Soares exhibition, Unfold, presents two, new site-specific installations that create dialogues with the museums architecture and collection. The exhibition runs through May 7. Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art, curated the exhibition. In her work, Soares creates immaculately-realized, poetic environments incorporating found, manipulated and manmade objects to address subjects such as spirituality, desire, ephemerality and time. For her newly-conceived MATRIX projects, Soares degree in architecture, acute interest in design and sense of space will inform two installations: Tabled, and, Unhinged. In Tabled, Soares mixes ... More
Luhring Augustine opens exhibition of works by the Brazilian artist Willys de Castro
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces an exhibition of works by the Brazilian artist Willys de Castro (1926 1988), featuring a selection of early gouaches and concrete poems, as well as Objetos ativos (Active objects), the works for which he is best known. A founding member of the Neoconcrete movement, de Castro worked alongside contemporaries such as Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Pape in formulating an approach to geometric abstraction centered on the phenomenological experience of the viewer. For these artists, a complete reading of an artwork transcended its fixed visual properties, encouraging instead a means of perception meant for the entire body. The curator Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro has noted, Few artists have explored the delicate relationship between form and perception in greater depth than Willys de Castro. His achievements, modest ... More
Rare Rolex ordered by the Ministry of Defence in fine watch auction
NEWBURY.- Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions announced their sale of Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver which will take place on 15 March at 10am. The auction, at Donnington Priory, Newbury, Berkshire, offers buyers a superb selection of timepieces which will be on view, along with jewellery and silver items, in the run up to the sale from Sunday 12th March Wednesday 15th March. Prominent in the auction are timepieces by prestigious watchmakers including Rolex, Omega and Glashütte, along with important ladies watches by Louis Jardin and Jaeger-LeCoultre. Of note is a particularly rare Rolex - an Oyster Perpetual Military Submariner, in stainless steel dated circa 1975 (Est £40,000-60,000). The 'Milsub' is an enhanced version of the civilian Submariner, Rolexs classic diving watch. This model was ordered by the Ministry of Defence in the early 1970s with specific ... More
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst opens exhibition of works by Ed Atkins
FRANKFURT.- How do technologization, automatization and digitalization impact our individual life realities? This is the momentous question Ed Atkins (b. in Oxford, GB in 1982) pursues in his extensive presentation at the MMK 1 of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Atkins is considered a pioneer of an emerging generation of artists who reflect critically on the rapid development of the digital media and the fundamental changes it has brought about in our perception of images and our own selves. In his digitally generated filmic works, he creates a world of imagery as hyperreal as it is artificial and deeply unsettling in its ambiguous oscillation between perfect simulation and technical flaws. In a manner that, for all its technical brilliance, is nevertheless treacherous, the work of Ed Atkins touches the ever-so-tender nerve of the post-digital present ... More
Antique dealer in historic jewels and fine silver moves from London's New Bond Street after nearly 150 years
LONDON.- S.J. Phillips, one of the oldest, family-owned antique jewellery, silver and precious objects businesses in the United Kingdom is moving from its iconic London premises, 139 New Bond Street after nearly 150 years on New Bond Street. As one door closes, however, another door opens. S.J. Phillips, which has been described as legendary ., possibly the most important antique jewellery store in the world ., one of Londons best-loved shops ., is moving around the corner to an equally prestigious street in Londons Mayfair. From the new premises on the second floor of 26 Bruton Street, S.J. Phillips will continue to offer the most ethereal range of antique jewellery and objets de vertu for which they are internationally renowned. The move will be seamless and S.J. Phillips at 26 Bruton Street will be open to clients and visitors in the latter half of February ... More
Evel Knievel, Olga Korbut memorabilia headline February Heritage Platinum Night Sports Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions will burnish its reputation as the leading purveyor of direct-from-the-source sports collectibles in its upcoming Platinum Night Auction with its presentation of personal keepsakes from 1970s sports icons Evel Knievel and Olga Korbut, whose memorabilia is expected to realize six-figure returns in an event expected to soar past $10 million. The auction, which will close Feb. 25-26 in "Extended Bidding" format meaning the bidding will stay open at least for another 30 minutes after any bid has become the most anticipated semi-annual sale in the sports collectibles community, and features the most important and expensive relics in the hobby. "Hobbyists have been waiting 40 years for the chance to own Knievel and Korbut treasures," Heritage Sports Collectibles Director Chris Ivy said. "We are thrilled to be the venue to present them to the collecting ... More
Exhibition marks Carey Young's first solo museum show in the US in nearly a decade
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents the world debut of Palais de Justice (2017), a new video work by London-based artist Carey Young, together with a selection of new and existing photographic and text-based works. The exhibition, entitled Carey Young: The New Architecture, is the artists first US museum show since 2009 and samples a decade of Youngs practice, offering a meditation on powerjudicial, corporateand artistic ideas of performance, space and the sublime. The exhibition is on view February 2 through April 2, 2017. Palais de Justice was filmed at the Palais de Justice in Brussels, an enormous, ornate 19th-century courthouse designed to depict law in terms of the sublime. Contradicting the familiar patriarchal culture of law, Youngs camera portrays female judges and lawyers at court. Sitting at trial, directing ... More
Art Cologne prize 2017 goes to Günter Herzog
COLOGNE.- The Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels (central archive of the international art trade) celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2017. Prof. Günter Herzog, scientific head of the institute since 2002, is the recipient of this year's ART COLOGNE Prize. The prize, endowed with 10,000 Euros, honours exceptional performances in the communication of art and is awarded jointly each year by the German association of galleries and art dealers (BVDG) and Koelnmesse on the occasion of ART COLOGNE. The prize will be awarded in the presence of invited guests on Wednesday, 26 April 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in the historic city hall of Cologne. The ZADIK Zentralarchiv des Internationalen Kunsthandels has been decisively influenced by Günter Herzog for 15 years now. He has developed it into an open, vital "storehouse for the forces of those who mostly work ... More
Peter Keller appointed Director General of International Council of Museums
PARIS.- Peter Keller has been appointed Director General of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), effective 1 February, 2017. Keller, who is currently serving his second mandate as ICOM Treasurer, has been Director of the Salzburg Cathedral Museum (Dommuseum), Austria, since 2002. In 2014, he initiated a merger with three other museums to form the DomQuartier Salzburg, a progressive institution whose visitor numbers soared to five times those of the Dommuseum. Peter Keller studied art history in Vienna, Bonn and Cologne as well as museology in Paris. For three years, he worked at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin before joining the Dommuseum. In addition to his role of Treasurer at ICOM, Keller has also served as Chair and Secretary of the organisations International Committee for Historic House Museums (DEMHIST) and as a board member of the Austrian National Committee. In Austria he was also a member ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American writer, poet and art collector Gertrude Stein, was born February 03, 1874. Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) was a noted American art collector of seminal modernist paintings and an experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays, which eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th century literature. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, raised in Oakland, California, and moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life. In this image: American writer Gertrude Stein works at her desk in Paris, France, on Nov. 22, 1938.
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