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James Turrell, Sloan Red, 1968. Projektion, MRI Wire Projector Space. Dimensions variable. Photo: Florian Holzherr. Courtesy the artist and Häusler Contemporary München / Zürich.
by Deborah Keller
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary Zürich is presenting for the first time James Turrells new light work «Elliptical Glass» along with historical projections from 1968. With these two groups of works that embrace fifty years of the artists oeuvre, it becomes clear how skillfull he uses light as a material to show vision itself. James Turrell (* 1943, Los Angeles, lives in Flagstaff, US) is considered one of the most important international artists of our time. His entire oeuvre is dedicated to dealing with natural and artificial light and its spatial manifestations. Like no other artist, he moves people from very different cultural backgrounds. We are delighted to now present the latest and earliest results of James Turrell's artistic approach in our gallery in Zurich with a spatial light work and projections. For the first time ever we present the new work type «Elliptical Glass». This atmospheric architectural intervention, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo shows a fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. The request was for a Van Gogh to adorn the walls of the president and first lady's private residence in the White House. The answer? No -- but how about a fully functioning, 18-karat gold toilet instead? While it's customary for US presidents to borrow works of art during their time in office, the Guggenheim in Donald Trump's hometown of New York was polite, but firm in its refusal, The Washington Post reported.
| Egypt shifts famed Ramses II statue into place at new museum | | Art experts fume at 'fake' Russian art in Belgian museum | | Guggenheim offered Trumps a gold toilet in lieu of a Van Gogh |
The 3,200-year-old colossal statue of King Ramses II is seen during its transfer to the main entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo's twin city Giza on January 25, 2018. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egypt on Thursday shifted a colossal statue of legendary Pharoah Ramses II into place at the entrance to a new museum in Cairo that officials hope can help win back tourists. The iconic 3,200-year-old monument will begin welcoming visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum by the Giza pyramids when it is scheduled to open partially within the next 12 months, after years of delays. A military band played as the 83-tonne statue was slowly driven some 400 metres (yards) into position in a specially constructed metal frame on the back of two giant trailers. "The colossus of Ramses II stands at the atrium to guard the largest museum in the world, like it did in antiquity at the Great Ptah Temple in Memphis," Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany said at the ceremony. The new museum ... More | |
Twenty-six works supposedly by famous avant-garde artists, including Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, have been on display since October at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent.
MOSCOW (AFP).- An exhibition at a state museum in Belgium featuring previously un-seen Russian paintings has sent ripples through the art community, with some experts claiming the works are "fake". Twenty-six works supposedly by famous avant-garde artists, including Kazimir Malevich and Wassily Kandinsky, have been on display since October at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, on loan from a collector named Igor Toporovski who insists they are genuine. When photographs of the pieces appeared online they caused a storm, leaving art experts in Russia and abroad questioning whether such a prominent collection of unknown works by highly sought-after artists could have been amassed in secret. "He showed outright fake works," Vitaly Patsyukov, who curates Moscow's ... More | |
This file photo shows a fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. William EDWARDS / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The request was for a Van Gogh to adorn the walls of the president and first lady's private residence in the White House. The answer? No -- but how about a fully functioning, 18-karat gold toilet instead? While it's customary for US presidents to borrow works of art during their time in office, the Guggenheim in Donald Trump's hometown of New York was polite, but firm in its refusal, The Washington Post reported. When the White House requested the renowned Dutch painter's "Landscape With Snow," the museum's chief curator -- an outspoken Trump critic -- countered that the 19th century painting was "prohibited from travel except for the rarest of occasions." "We are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request," wrote Nancy Spector in an email obtained by the Post, "but remain hopeful that this ... More |
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| CROC simulates State Hermitage Museum's Jupiter Hall in Virtual Reality | | South Korea demands Japan close museum on disputed islands | | Sotheby's acquires Artificial Intelligence company 'Thread Genius' |
The richest Ancient Art collection exhibited in the State Hermitage Museum can now be demonstrated using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies.
SAINT PETERSBURG.- At the end of 2017, the State Hermitage Museum and CROCs Virtual Reality Center unveiled a virtual simulation of the State Hermitage Museums Jupiter Hall. The joint project was demonstrated to the public for the first time during the opening of the Hermitage Days in Vladivostok, at the Primorye State Art Gallery. Visitors to the building, where the future Hermitage-Vladivostok Center will be located, will be able to take a virtual tour across the St. Petersburg Hermitage Museum and walk through the Jupiter Hall. The Jupiter Hall is one of the most magnificent halls in the New Hermitage building and currently displays Ancient Art exposition of the State Hermitage Museum: Roman marble sarcophagi and one of the worlds best collections of Roman sculptural portraits, comprising more than 100 exhibits, including world famous masterpieces, such as the Portrait of a Roman Woman (known as A Syrian Woman) and the portraits of Emp ... More | |
Liancourt rocks, in Japan called Takeshima and in North and South Korea called Dokdo (Tokto).
TOKYO (AFP).- South Korea on Thursday demanded the "immediate closure" of a new Tokyo museum devoted to two sets of disputed islands -- just hours after it opened.
The museum, run by the Japanese government, displays documents and photographs defending Japan's claims over the islands. Japan has a longstanding dispute with China over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea. They are administered by Japan, where they are known as "Senkaku", but also claimed by China, which calls them "Diaoyu." Tokyo also claims islands in the Sea of Japan that are controlled by South Korea. They are known as "Dokdo" in Korean and "Takeshima" in Japanese. "We hope this will be a key facility that deepens understanding on the Takeshima and Senkaku islands," said Tetsuma Esaki, minister in charge of territorial issues, as he opened the museum, according to local media. But Seoul reacted promptly, with the foreign ministry lodging an immediate protest over what it described as Japan's "unjustifiable ... More | |
The acquisition of Thread Genius is a continuation of Sothebys focus on data and technology to drive innovation and improve both internal processes and client service and experience.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced advancements in data capabilities and strategy, including the acquisition of Thread Genius, a startup specializing in taste-based image recognition and recommendation technologies. Thread Genius was founded by two software and machine learning engineers Andrew Shum and Ahmad Qamar both of whom will be joining Sothebys this week. The acquisition of Thread Genius is a continuation of Sothebys focus on data and technology to drive innovation and improve both internal processes and client service and experience. Andrew and Ahmad, together with Richard Vibert, a data scientist recently appointed Head of Data & Analytics Strategy, report to Jennifer Deason, Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy & Corporate Development for Sothebys. Watch a demonstration video from Thread Genius here Historically, transactions would come together by matching an object with an indiv ... More |
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| Norton organizes first exhibition of art by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney since the artist's death in 1942 | | Canadian Photography Institute receives major gift of photographs by Paul Strand | | Kerlin Gallery opens exhibition of works by Sam Keogh |
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Spanish Peasant, 1911. Plaster, 47.6 à 33 à 30.5 cm (18 ¾ à 13 à 12 in). Private collection. Photo: Joshua Nefsky.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art is presenting the first exhibition in more than 75 years of the sculpture of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), artist, philanthropist, and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Although Whitneys sculpture is little known today, she had a significant career as an artist, receiving major commissions and exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture is organized by Dr. Ellen E. Roberts, the Nortons Harold and Anne Berkley Smith Curator of American Art, and runs January 25 through April 29, 2018. It includes approximately 45 sculptures and drawings, many of which are rarely seen works from private collections. This exhibition showcases the remarkable variety of Whitneys work from her earliest classical sculptures to her more symbolic public monuments, from her bleakly Realist depictions of the ... More | |
Paul Strand, Beaching the Boat, Percé, Gaspésie, 1929, printed 1960s (detail), gelatin silver print. Gift of anonymous donors, 2017. © Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive. Photo: NGC.
OTTAWA.- The Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada announced today a gift of 635 photographs by American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand (1890-1976). The gift, made by three Canadian donors, covers the photographers entire career and represents all major periods of his work. There are photographs from his early ventures into modernism in New York, and from his numerous trips in the United States, Mexico, Quebec, Europe, and Africa, as well as images from his last body of work an exploration of the plant life in the gardens of his home in Orgeval, France. CPI now has the most significant holdings of Paul Strand photographs in Canada, owing to this donation. "This extraordinary gift is a highly representative group of Paul Strands work, said National Gallery of Canada Director and CEO Marc Mayer. As a shaper ... More | |
Sam Keogh, Kapton Cadaverine, 2017, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photography credit: Gert-Jan van Rooij.
DUBLIN.- In Sam Keoghs Kapton Cadaverine , Kerlin Gallery is transformed into the interior of a dilapidated starship. The ships once-white control panels, table and bulkheads are covered in grime. Detritus litters the floor and strange organic forms and collaged images adorn almost every surface. Webs of melted plastic, stuck together with Kapton tape, cocoon the space in a mucosal membrane and the constant white noise of artificial rain underlines the eerie absence of an inhabitant. The more architectural structures are revealed as props once the painted MDF is spotted. An intentional dissonance forms between these artificial objects and the more deliberately crafted ones the repeated form of the wall panels for instance, made from Jesmonite and polyurethane resin and infected with adulterants, which blossom just under their surfaces. Or the small, glowing sculptures on the table, with their translucent ... More |
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| Phil Michaelson promoted to president at LiveAuctioneers | | Personal effects of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes offered at Bonhams book sale | | Krannert Art Museum exhibitions rethink colonial narratives, cultural heritage |
Phil Michaelson, newly appointed president of LiveAuctioneers. Photo provided by LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK, NY.- LiveAuctioneers today announced that Senior VP of Product and Marketing Phil Michaelson has been promoted to president. In this new role, Michaelson will continue to work from the companys Manhattan headquarters with a broadened responsibility set, continuing to report to LiveAuctioneers Chairman and CEO Jason Finger. Michaelson is a product and business leader with 15+ years of experience in leading high-performance teams both tactically in day-to-day operations and through strategic planning processes aimed at optimizing investments in the marketplace, leveraging human capital and data analytics. Since joining LiveAuctioneers three years ago, Phil has consistently driven tremendous results across virtually every dimension of our business. Most importantly, his execution is always in a manner consistent with the values of the company, said Finger. Not only does he just ... More | |
Sylvia Plath's Personal Copy of The Bell Jar 1st Edition. Signed and Dated 1962. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Books and personal effects of two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, are to be offered for sale at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 21 March 2018. The collection, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; The Property of Frieda Hughes, is being sold by the poets daughter, Frieda Hughes, and shines a light on her parents exceptionally close working relationship. Among the highlights are: Sylvia Plaths own copy of The Bell Jar, her only novel, published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in January 1963, two months before her death. It is inscribed and dated "Sylvia Plath/23 Fitzroy Road/London NW1/Christmas 1962" and is estimated at £60,000-80,000. Plath and her two children, Frieda and Nicholas, had moved to London from the family home in Devon following her split from her husband, Ted Hughes. Plaths copy of the "uncorrected proof" ... More | |
Allan deSouza, Maridadi 3 (detail), 2017. Digital print on cotton. Courtesy of the artist and Talwar Gallery, New York | New Delhi. © Allan deSouza.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Multidisciplinary artist Allan deSouza looks at the legacy of empire in his work Through the Black Country, opening Jan. 25 at Krannert Art Museum. KAM is also opening the U.S. premiere of New York-based Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahmes two-part exhibition And yet my mask is powerful, which uses video, sound, and installation to consider cultural heritage and new narratives from the Middle East. Through the Black Country depicts an expedition to find the elusive source of a fabled river only this expedition is led by an African who travels through present-day London seeking the source of the River Thames. DeSouza uses the iconic narratives of colonial exploration and discovery in Africa in his work, in this case Through the Dark Continent, by Henry M. Stanley. The exhibition includes the diary entries of fictional explorer ... More |
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EWS Press announces the publication of 67/11 by Jurek Wajdowicz
NEW YORK, NY.- Jurek Wajdowicz's images focus on issues of space, light, tone and unpredictability. We experience a poem, a piece of music, a vision defined not only by what he reveals, but by what we see in it. In his new, deeply personal book of photography, 67/11, the internationally acclaimed designer and fine art photographer explores the universal experience of the loss of a parent and the meaning of home following the death of his beloved mother. His beautiful, dreamlike photographs taken over several days and nights in his mother's home in Lodz, Poland as Wajdowicz arranged and waited for her funeral, float somewhere between photography and painting. Wajdowicz writes, "There was no plan. I just began to work, dealing with the undercurrent of nostalgia and the ambiguous afterimages of fact and fiction - while hoping to defer the end forever. ... More
Thomas J. Woodward joins Clark Art Institute as Chief Advancement Officer
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute has named Thomas H. Woodward to serve as Chief Advancement Officer, leading the Clarks philanthropy and membership programs. Woodward comes to the Clark from the Harvard Art Museums, where he currently serves as Director of Institutional Advancement. He assumes his new role on March 1, 2018. We are so pleased to have Tom join our staff in a key leadership position at this exciting moment in the Clarks life, said Olivier Meslay, Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark. He brings tremendous energy and experience to the work, but more importantly, he shares our passion for the vital role the arts can play in educating, enlightening, and enriching the lives of individuals and the life of its communities. We look forward to imagining the next chapter of the Clarks future with him as we work ... More
Solo exhibition of works by the late Italian artist Fabio Mauri opens at Hauser & Wirth New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth presents Fabio Mauri. With Out, a solo exhibition of works by the late Italian artist, organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément. In a career spanning five decades, Mauri conducted an unyielding critical exploration of the mechanics of ideology, specifically as they materialized in the visual languages associated with World War II, the rise of Fascism and the Holocaust, and their lingering echoes in the modern world. His command of a diversity of disciplines and mediums from drawing, painting, sculpture, performance, film, and installation, to theatre and theoretical writings produced an oeuvre that effectively connects the enduring traumas of the twentieth century to today. Sobering, direct, and poetic, Mauris work recovers individual and collective historical memory; it addresses themes of mass communication and manipulation, ... More
Figural bronze sculpture by Jose Luis Cuevas to be auctioned Feb. 3
CRANSTON, RI.- Fresh off a highly successful Winter Antiques & Fine Arts Auction held on January 6th that featured 379 lots of fine items from prominent New England homes, Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will soldier on with another big live and internet sale, this one a 353-lot affair its calling an Antiques & Fine Art Auction, slated for Saturday, February 3rd, at 11 am Eastern. The auction will be held online, as well as in Bruneau & Co.s spacious gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Kicking off the festivities will be 43 paintings, followed by an eclectic mix of merchandise ranging from 36 lots of guns and antique ammunition to 47 lots of antiquarian books and chapbooks from a fine estate out of Coventry, Rhode Island. Shoe-horned in will be part of the collection of the philanthropist and dedicated collector Alan Shawn Feinstein. The proceeds from his items will ... More
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announces new appointment and curatorial promotions
BOSTON, MASS.- Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced today one new appointment and three promotions within the museums curatorial staff. The promotions include Jeffrey De Blois to Assistant Curator, Ruth Erickson to Mannion Family Curator, and Jessica Hong to Assistant Curator. New to the ICA is Ellen Tani, who has been appointed Assistant Curator. Ruth, Jeff, Jessica, and Ellen each bring unique skill sets, varied interests, enthusiasm and energy to the ICA, and they will all play a central role in shaping the museums future program, said Eva Respini, the ICAs Barbara Lee Chief Curator. These four talented, bright, and creative individuals will no doubt carry forward ICAs mission to be a laboratory for new ideas. Since coming to the ICA in July 2015, Jeffrey De Blois has organized The Freedom ... More
Cardi Gallery London opens a major retrospective of Claudio Verna
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery London is presenting a major retrospective of Claudio Verna, with both new and historical works ranging from 1967 to 2017. The exhibition is curated by Piero Tomassoni. Claudio Verna (Guardiagrele, Italy, 1937) is one of the protagonists of 1970s Italian painting. Part of the so called Pittura Analitica [Analytical Painting] or Pittura-Pittura [Painting-Painting] movement, Claudio Verna is part of a small group of artists who, towards the end of the 1960s, felt the need to return to painting, at a time when many considered it a dying form of art. These artists explored and analysed the very essence of painting, concentrating on its most fundamental constructive elements such as space, form, and colour. A leading figure within the movement, Vernas works from 1967 to 1977 embody the essence of what could be considered the Italian response ... More
Gasworks presents a major new commission by Rachal Bradley
LONDON.- Gasworks presents Interlocutor, a major new commission by Rachal Bradley, produced by Gasworks through the Freelands Artist Programme, and in partnership with Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart. Bradley is interested in organisational structures, processes and relations, how these shape meaning and code the relations between individuals and society. This includes, but is not limited to, art and the contexts in which it is presented and produced, and an attention to what art does as well as what art means. Interlocutor begins from the privacy of the artists studio at Gasworks, occupied during her residency from 3 July to 18 September this year. Spiralling outward from here, like an IUD, it becomes more public in stages, from private, semi-public and public events, to critical writing, a solo exhibition and an intervention on the façades of the Gasworks building, the ... More
Exhibition at Albertz Benda focuses on works from the 1980s by Bill Beckley
NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda is presenting After the Orgies: Bill Beckley, The Eighties, the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery focusing on works from the 1980s, following Albertz Bendas 2015 inaugural show of early conceptual narrative artworks dating from 1968- 1978. After the Orgies examines the subsequent decade of his work, a period which proved to be highly experimental and emotionally charged for the artist. Beckley was part of a radical group of young artists based in SoHo at 112 Greene Street, which included Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, and Alice Aycock, among others. Eager to cast off the restrictive aesthetics of Formalism, Beckley broke down boundaries between traditional media formats and emerged on the international art scene in the 1970s as a major exponent of Narrative Art, a term that he invented. He exhibited ... More
Abraham Lincoln signed land grant among Presidential documents to be featured at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction celebrates Presidents Day in February 2018. The Fine Autographs and Artifact auction will feature a selection of historical documents, manuscripts, and correspondence representing the presidents of the United States. Among items to be featured are autographs from every American president, including a variety of virtually unobtainable examplesan Abraham Lincoln land grant, a James A. Garfield autograph letter as president, and a Theodore Roosevelt speech. Headlining the sale is an excessively rare land grant signed by Abraham Lincoln the day after he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The one-page document partly-printed vellum signed as president, dated January 2, 1863. President Lincoln grants 120 acres of land in St. Cloud, Minnesota, to "Margaret Donnell Widow of Eli Donnell who served in the name of Eli Donnald ... More
Thomas Dane Gallery opens new gallery space in Naples
NAPLES.- For the inaugural exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples, five rooms of the renovated Casa Ruffo have been dedicated to five artists whose work, whether literally or allegorically, draws inspiration or substance from Naples, or our ideaof Naples. Each room is dedicated to a single artist. The works on view by Bruce Conner, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie, Caragh Thuring and Kelley Walker, echo and illustrate each in their own way the bustling, hedonistic beauty of the city; a place where old and new collide, and where urgency for life coexists with a looming sense of mortality. Bruce Conners last completed masterpiece EASTER MORNING,2008, is a metaphysical paean to renewal and rebirth beyond the natural and ephemeral worlds. The film is an expansion and adaption of his 1966 film EASTER MORNING RAGA. Conner digitized ... More
Russia threatens cinemas showing 'Death of Stalin' after ban
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russia's culture ministry on Thursday warned cinemas in the country that if they continue to show banned British comedy film "The Death of Stalin" then they will face "legal responsibility". It comes after local media reported that a central Moscow cinema had screened the film, which satirises the death of the dictator, despite the ban. The ministry withdrew permission for the film's release on Tuesday after Russian officials and arts figures labelled it offensive and "extremist." In a statement, the ministry said it "reminds" cinemas that according to Russian state law on cinematography, showing a film without permission for release "entails responsibility in accordance to the law". The film, directed by British comic Armando Iannucci, had a world premiere in September and takes a satirical look at the power scramble after Stalin's 1953 death. It includes ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Théodore Géricault died January 26, 1824. Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault (26 September 1791 - 26 January 1824) was an influential French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa and other paintings. Although he died young, he was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement. In this imag: Gericault, A Dappled Grey Horse Led by a Groom, c. 1820 - 21. Sepia wash over graphite on paper, 13 x 16 cm.
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