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Installation view of Rhythm and Movement: Paintings by James Michalopoulos. Photo: Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA. © Brent Cline 2017.
AUGUSTA, GA.- The Morris Museum of Art presents Rhythm and Movement: Paintings by James Michalopoulos on view Saturday, February 18 through May 14, 2017. The exhibition features more than thirty of his large-scale, boldly colored paintings of the historic architecture of New Orleans, as well as its street scenes and local characters, many displayed for the first time. The dynamic work will also be on view and the artist James Michalopoulos will be present for the Morris Museum of Art Gala on March 3, 2017. James Michalopoulos intense colors, heavy impasto, and skewed perspectives capture the unique flavor of the French Quarter and old neighborhoods throughout the South, said Kevin Grogan, director of the Morris Museum of Art. His paintings pulse and sing and sway in time with the music of the French Quarters jazz joints, and the row houses he paints seem to embody the spirit of New Orleans. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Braunschweig discovered a chalk drawing of a dog has been identified as a work by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn. Known as "the Braunschweig terrier," the image is believed to date from around 1637; it has been in the museum's collection since 1770.
| Fundacion Juan March exhibits works by Lyonel Feininger | | Giant French flag going on display at British castle | | Erotic art sells for £5 mn at London auction |
Lyonel Feininger, Old Gables [Hastiales antiguos (Lüneburg)], 1935. Tinta y acuarela sobre papel, 38,8 x 29,3 cm. Colección B. y J. Fels © VEGAP, Madrid, 2017.
MADRID.- This exhibition offers a complete survey of the career of the German-American artist Lyonel Feininger, a Bauhaus teacher and a key figure in the context of the artistic avant-gardes. Feininger was born in New York but his parents, both musicians of German origin, sent him to Hamburg at the age of sixteen to complete his musical training. This dual German-American background would leave a permanent mark on his life and work. In Germany, Feininger decided to give up music in order to devote himself to his true passion: drawing and illustration. After attending drawing classes at the Algemeine Gewerbeschule [Public School of Arts and Crafts] in Hamburg he focused on the emerging field of comics, in which he would be a pioneering figure. ... More | |
The Ensign of Le Généreux, St Andrews Hall, Norwich, October 2016 © Norfolk Museums Service.
LONDON (AFP).- A French flag the size of a tennis court, captured by the British in 1800, will be unfurled at a British castle this year in its first public showing in more than a century. The ensign, captured from the French warship Le Genereux on February 18, 1800, was gifted to the city of Norwich in eastern England. Measuring 16 metres (52.5 feet) by 8.3 metres (27.2 feet), the flag will be the centrepiece of an exhibition at Norwich Castle exploring the relationship between Britain's Admiral Horatio Nelson and his home county of Norfolk. The castle museum believes the tricolour could be one of the earliest -- if not the earliest -- in existence. The blue, white and red colours -- in that order from left to right -- were officially adopted in 1794. The flag will be on view at the castle from July 29 to October 1. ... More | |
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), Ophelia. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A sale of erotic art through the ages topped more than £5 million at Sotheby's auction house in London on Thursday, with one marble nude fetching nearly two million pounds. The "Erotic: Passion & Desire" auction followed a six-day exhibition of more than 100 works, from the sensual to the explicit. Collectively the works sold for £5.3 million ($6.6 million, 6.2 million euros), with the star of the show, "La Grande Nevrose," a female figure in marble by French sculptor Jacques Loysel, going under the hammer for more than £1.8 million. The work, kept in the Loysel family since his death in 1925, had been estimated to fetch less than £180,000. The sale was a record for the artist at auction, Sotheby's said, as was a sculpture from French actress and artist Sarah Bernhardt, of the same ... More |
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| Remarkably pure Ferrari 166 MM completes RM Sotheby's stellar offering at Amelia Island | | Exhibition of works by Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne opens at Robilant+Voena | | Exhibition brings to light one of the founding myths of ancient Egypt: The Mysteries of Osiris |
1950 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta. Photo: Patrick Ernzen © 2017 courtesy RM Sotheby's.
BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Sothebys unveiled the final highlight for its forthcoming Amelia Island sale: the exceptionally pure, matching-numbers 1950 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta, chassis no. 0058 M. Offered from one of Americas leading car collections, the revered 166 MM rounds out a stellar lineup for RMs two-day sale at the Amelia Island Ritz-Carlton, 10 11 March. The 1950 Ferrari 166 MM, chassis no. 0058 M, comes to market an exemplary example of the model, and one of the most important and beautiful Ferraris ever built. The 27th of just 32 166 MM examples, and the 23rd of only 25 Touring barchettas, it was delivered to its first owner of record in June 1950, before being gifted to future Scuderia Ferrari racing driver, Eugenio Castelotti, who would race the car at many of the leading events throughout Italy, including the Mille Miglia in 1951. Chassis 0058 M returned to the Mille Miglia in 1953 before being exported to the Unit ... More | |
Claude Lalanne, Pomme d'Hiver, 2015.
ST. MORITZ.- Robilant+Voena present Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, an exhibition of works by the French artist duo on view at their St Moritz gallery from 17 February to 27 March 2017. François-Xavier (1927 - 2008) is renowned for his large-scale sculpture animals that often contain secret compartments or double as functional furniture, such as his 1964 Rhinocrataire a life-size rhino with a desk concealed in its stomach. Claude (b1924) has been recognised for her flora-inspired jewelry and sculptures that are made by employing contemporary electro-plating techniques. The exhibition Domesticated Beasts & Other Creatures, held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1976 launched their career, and gradually, as the couple were acknowledged in retrospectives and commissions in France, their pieces entered important international collections through the championing of their work by interior designers and tastemakers. In particular, ... More | |
Colossal statue of the god Hapi, Thonis-Heracleion, Bay of Aboukir, Egypt.
ZURICH.- After Paris and London for the first time in a German-speaking country: A fascinating exhibition at Museum Rietberg in Zurich shows the latest underwater archaeological finds. On 10 February 2017, the exhibition Osiris Egypts Sunken Mysteries opened at Museum Rietberg in Zurich. The exhibition brings to light one of the founding myths of ancient Egypt: the Mysteries of Osiris. Osiris Egypts Sunken Mysteries presents highlights of the excavations directed by Franck Goddio and his team from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities in the western part of the Nile Delta. Some 300 artefacts are presented in a 1300 m2 display space. Most were discovered in the recent underwater excavations and are augmented by some forty splendid exhibits on loan from the museums of Cairo and Alexandria rare objects ... More |
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| Phillips announces highlights from the 20th Century & Contemporary Art auctions in London | | The Whitechapel Gallery opens a major retrospective of Eduardo Paolozzi | | Three major installations by Yinka Shonibare MBE on view at James Cohan |
Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (Plan B), 2008. Oil and enamel on linen, 241.3 x 193 cm (95 x 75 7/8 in.). Executed in 2008. Estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- This March, Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art auctions will bring together a selection of celebrated international names. The Evening Sale includes paintings by Josef Albers, Frank Auerbach, Wade Guyton and Christopher Wool; important artworks by Japanese artists Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama; and pieces by renowned Italian Futurists Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini. Comprising 30 lots, the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale will take place on 8 March and is estimated to realise in excess of £15 million. The 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale on 10 March features 180 lots and is estimated to total in the region of £6 million. Peter Sumner, Senior International Specialist of 20th Century & Contemporary Art and Deputy Chairman for Phillips Europe: We are looking ... More | |
Real Gold (from the Bunk! portfolio), 1972. Screenprint, 32.5 x 24.3 cm. Courtesy goldmarkart.com © Trustees of the Paolozzi Foundation, licensed by DACS.
LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major retrospective of Eduardo Paolozzi from 16 February 14 May 2017. Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was one of the most innovative and irreverent British artists of the 20th century. Considered the godfather of Pop Art, his powerful collages, sculptures and prints challenged artistic convention from the 1950s Geometry of Fear all the way through the Swinging Sixties and on to the advent of Cool Britannia in the 1990s. From his post-War bronzes to revolutionary screen-prints, collages and bold textile designs, this major retrospective aims to reassess Paolozzis varied and experimental artistic approach, and highlight the relevance of his work for artists today. Spanning five decades and featuring more than 250 works from public and private collections the exhibition focuses on the artists radical explorations of material and ... More | |
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour, 1996/97. Dutch wax printed fabric covered wood, cast iron, brass, marble, mirror, bound printed books, porcelain, glass, framed works on paper, and props, 102 x 192 x 209 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents an exhibition by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, the artists sixth at the gallery. Prejudice at Home: A Parlour, a Library, and a Room features three major installations, which together demonstrate Shonibares multivalent approach to the theme of otherness. The works span two decades of wide-ranging explorations into individual and collective identity as viewed through the lens of history. Today, these artworks wield an ever greater urgency as a reminder that unchecked prejudice can cripple a society. On view are the freestanding installation The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour (1996-97) the photo suite Dorian Gray (2001) and the US premiere of Shonibares more recent large scale work The British Library, which has been ... More |
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| Frances Lehman Loeb Center acquires rare medieval Limoges Eucharistic Dove | | Bonhams appoints Ben Walker to head Modern Decorative Art and Design in the U.S. | | Ben Enwonwu masterpiece sets world record at Bonhams' Africa Now: Modern Africa Sale |
Eucharistic Dove, 1215-1235. Champlevé enamel, parcel gilt and engraved copper, circular base and hinged lid later. Photo: Courtesy of Sothebys.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College announces its acquisition of a 13th century Limoges Eucharistic Dove. The piece is exquisite, featuring Champlevé enamel, parcel gilt and engraved copper on a circular base. The purpose of a Eucharistic Dove was to hang above the altar both suggesting the dove of the Holy Spirit and, in fact, housing the consecrated wafer symbolic of the body of Christ in the Catholic Mass in a small compartment. This beautiful object is a perfect marriage of medieval form and function, the dove both embodying the symbolic earthly form of the Holy Spirit and the symbolic body of Christ at the same time, says James Mundy, the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Art Center. The dove will be of considerable use in the teaching of the history of art, medieval history and the history of religion. The dove is also an important addition to the ... More | |
Ben Walker has worked at a senior level for many of the most prestigious art and antique commercial organizations in the UK. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Auction House, Bonhams, announces the appointment of Ben Walker as Head of Modern Decorative Art and Design in the US. Bonhams has long led the field in 20th Century Decorative Arts and has been entrusted with major collections, including the Ã-J Ruhlmann Art Deco pieces from the Vivelle-Yardley store in Paris, and The Artistry of Tiffany Sale, a collection which came from a prominent American home. The appointment of Ben Walker will create a global department, with Mark Oliver heading sales in the UK as Director of Modern Decorative Art. A graduate in Fine Arts Valuation, Ben Walker has worked at a senior level for many of the most prestigious art and antique commercial organizations in the UK, including Marks Antiques in Mayfair and Thomas Goode & Co, where he was Head of Art and Antiques. He has in-depth knowledge across a wide field, including Modern British and ... More | |
Ben Enwonwu's Anywanwu sold for £353,000. © Bonhams.
LONDON.- Anyanwu by the pioneering Nigerian sculptor and painter, Ben Enwonwu, was sold for an auction world record price of £353,000 at Bonhams Africa Now - Modern Africa Sale in London on Wednesday 15 February 2017. It had been estimated at £150,000-200,000. In total, the sale made more than £1.4 million. Widely considered the artist's masterpiece, the 6ft 10 high statue was first conceived in 1954, when Enwonwu was commissioned to create a work marking the establishment of the National Museum in Lagos, outside of which it still stands. He made a number of versions of the statue in different sizes over many years - subtly altering the concept with each edition - but this was the first full-sized cast to come to auction. It is from the second edition cast in 1956, and is believed to the only one of this size from the second edition in existence. Bonhams Director of African Art, Giles Peppiatt, said, "Ben Enwonwu was the first important Niger ... More |
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Gardiner celebrates Canada 150 with 'Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary'
TORONTO.- To commemorate Canadas sesquicentennial, the Gardiner Museum has commissioned a multimedia exhibition by one of the countrys most exciting young ceramic artists that both celebrates and questions notions of Canadian identity. As we enter the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the Gardiners Year of Canada, we wanted to recognize the creativity that has helped Canada forge a unique and thoughtful place in the world, says Kelvin Browne, Gardiner Museum Executive Director and CEO. On display from February 16 to May 21, Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary conveys a very personal view of Canada that draws on the artists own experiences, memories of her Catholic childhood, and a distinct visual language characterized by hybrid animal creatures that stand in for the complexity of human interactions. The exhibition is made ... More
Bonhams to host Modern Art Oxford's 50th Anniversary Auction
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford celebrates 50 years as a leading contemporary art space by hosting their first ever auction in London in collaboration with Bonhams, one of the worlds largest auctioneers of fine art. To support the work of the gallery, a selection of nineteen works by some of the most important figures working in contemporary art today, will be sold as part of the Bonhams Post War & Contemporary Art sale, London, on 8 March 2017. Internationally renowned artists including Marina Abramović, Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Howard Hodgkin, Anish Kapoor and Yoko Ono have donated works to the charity auction. Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford, said We invited a select group of artists who have shown at Modern Art Oxford, to donate a work for sale at auction. The aim of the initiative is to provide financial support for the gallerys ... More
Finnish director Kaurismaki says 'adios' to filmmaking
HELSINKI (AFP).- Acclaimed Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki is quitting filmmaking, he told Finnish public broadcaster YLE at the Berlin international film festival on Thursday. "I've said this before, but this time it's really 'adios'. We're close to this remaining my last film," he said, referring to his latest film "The Other Side of Hope" which had its international premiere earlier this week at the festival. The comedy-drama about a Syrian migrant who seeks asylum in Finland was supposed to be the second instalment in what the director planned as a migration-themed trilogy. The first instalment was his 2011 movie "Le Havre". "I am tired. I want to start living my own life at last," the 59-year-old said, explaining why he didn't want to finish the trilogy. "The Other Side of Hope" drew cheers at a press preview on Tuesday at the Berlin film festival, where it is in competition for the Golden ... More
Villagers glorify their children in China festival
TUFANG (AFP).- Looking like living dress-up dolls, elaborately costumed children are paraded through an eastern China village as firecrackers roar, commemorating the end of barbaric child sacrifices hundreds of years ago. It's an annual event in the village of Tufang in coastal Fujian province, where China's Hakka community is concentrated and marks its unique history with a range of colourful festivals. Nearly 700 years ago, people in the area sacrificed children to ward off local demons. But a pair of now-legendary figures, Tu Dalang and Lai Balang, left their homes to establish Tufang as a new village free of the barbaric practice. They are said to have later travelled to mountains deeper in China's interior where they learnt magic powers they could use to slay demons, eventually returning to Tufang. The pair are now revered as god-lik ... More
Steve McQueen, Bruce Willis, Farrah Fawcett collections headline Heritage Auctions' Entertainment Event
DALLAS, TX.- A Hendee & Nelson "Silver King" Bicycle, circa 1890s (est. $50,000), is expected to headline a collection of items once owned by former actor Steve McQueen one of three private celebrity collections in Heritage Auctions' Entertainment Signature Auction March 18 in Dallas. McQueen is one of several entertainment luminaries, whose personal collections will be among the coveted items in the sale, joining the likes of actors Farrah Fawcett and Bruce Willis. Personal property of actress/model Farrah Fawcett and actor/producer/singer Bruce Willis, among other entertainment luminaries, will be among the coveted items in the sale. The bicycle, which is painted black, has solid rubber tires on wooden rims, a vintage leather seat, a portion of a 19th-century lantern attached to the front, nickel handlebars and a period-style hand-painted plaque that ... More
The Civic pays homage to David Bowie with new exhibition
BARNSLEY.- Over recent years, what was once considered a passing trend, has now become a staple of bookstore shelves and giftshops up and down the country. Adult colouring books have been touted as both a stressed buster and a means to reach your inner creative. One of the artists that was credited as helping to kick-start the adult colouring book boom was Barnsley born artist, designer and illustrator Mel Elliott and her much loved brand I Love Mel. In 2015, The Independent featured her titles amongst the best colouring books for adults and that same year, Business Insider suggested that out of all of the adult colouring book illustrators perhaps most famous is UK-based artist Mel Elliott, who graduated college in 2007 and began self-publishing grown-up fun books." Indeed, on graduating from the Royal College of Art, Mel began designing fun, printed products ... More
Solo exhibition by Annabeth Rosen opens at P·P·O·W
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W presents Tie Me to the Mast, a solo exhibition by Annabeth Rosen, a distinguished sculptor in the community of West Coast ceramicists. Her work explores the fundamental properties of ceramics by directly confronting the aesthetic and chemical relationships between sculptural form and painterly surface. Rosens formally intuitive process is enabled by a complex understanding of historical conventions, composite materials, and chemical properties, placing her work in the tradition of experimental ceramicists including Peter Voulkos, Betty Woodman, Linda Benglis, and Martin Puryear. The exhibition, her first with the gallery, features a series of small-scale ceramic sculptures, elaborate organic forms that reveal layer upon layer of clay, glaze, and salt, fired using a salt flux technique, which triggers a self-glazing reaction. A signature innovation ... More
The Andy Warhol Museum presents large-scale paintings and drawings by Firelei Báez
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Firelei Báez: Bloodlines, opening February 17, 2017. Báez, born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, creates large-scale paintings and drawings that explore gender, race, and the history of social movements in the Unites States and the Caribbean. The exhibition includes four new works exhibited for the first time in a museum. Firelei Báez is a contemporary force. Her work challenges the viewer to think critically about historical systems of oppression still at work in the present day, says Jessica Beck, The Warhols associate curator of art. The work is beautiful and sumptuous, but the beauty is overlaid with subversive messages about race and power. The women depicted in her work, although mythical, are grounded in the present and adorned with contemporary and historical patterns of resistance. ... More
Exhibition of works by artists shaping the image of a modern Southwest opens in Washington
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents New Ground: The Southwest of Maria Martinez and Laura Gilpin, on view from Feb. 17 through May 14, 2017. Contemporaries and friends, potter Maria Martinez (ca. 18871980) and photographer Laura Gilpin (18911979) shaped the image of the Southwest as a culturally rich region fostering artistic expression. Martinezs bold adaptation of an ancient blackon-black pottery design technique reflected her Pueblo artistic traditions and appealed to a minimalist modern sensibility. Gilpin, hailed during her lifetime as the grand dame of American photography, was one of the first women to capture the landscape and peoples of the American West on black-and-white film. New Ground features 26 works of pottery by Martinez and 48 platinum, gelatin silver and color print photographs by Gilpin, ... More
Gabriel Garcia Marquez statue unveiled in Cuba
HAVANA.- A life-size bronze sculpture of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was unveiled Thursday in Havana, an homage to the writer and to Cuba for its support of the peace accord with leftist FARC rebels. The sculpture portrays the writer holding books and a rose, dressed in the traditional suit known as a liqui liqui that he wore to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. "We want to pay homage to Gabo who is so intimately linked to Havana, the Caribbean and Cuba," Colombian ambassador to Cuba Gustavo Bell told AFP, using a nickname for the late author. This "is a tribute, a show of gratitude from the Colombian people to the Cuban people for accompanying us in the peace process," Bell said. Havana hosted four years of peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the ... More
Russia's Red Army Choir sings for first time after crash
MOSCOW.- Russia's legendary Alexandrov Ensemble, known as the Red Army Choir, gave its first performance Thursday following the December plane crash that killed most of its singers. Surviving and new members of the defence ministry's official choir, in military and traditional dress, gathered in Moscow's cavernous Soviet-built Russian Army Theatre to perform some of the best-known folk tunes to an audience consisting mostly of uniformed soldiers. "The Alexandrov Ensemble has supported and inspired people in difficult, critical times, and today they themselves need our support," said deputy defence ministry Nikolai Pankov before the choir performed a dozen hits. Those who died "are with us, and they will always be the heart of the new song and dance troupe," he added. The ensemble, which was founded in 1928 and is known in the West as the Red ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Martin died February 17, 1854. John Martin (19 July 1789 - 17 February 1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. A number of Martin?s works survive in public collections: the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle - which also holds his famous 'black cabinet' of projects in progress; Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Louvre, the National Gallery of Art Washington DC, Yale Center for British Art, St. Louis Art Museum and elsewhere in the USA. In this image: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 1852.
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