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Alice Neel, Julie and the Doll, 1943. Oil on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with the Ralph A. Anderson Jr. Memorial Fund and the Alvin Whitley Estate. © Estate of Alice Neel.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Yesterday the Board of Trustees of the McNay Art Museum announced a major acquisition of a portrait by Alice Neel. Julie and the Doll depicts a slight Hispanic girl with large brown eyes cradling a blond, blue-eyed doll as she looks beyond the viewer. The 1943 painting illustrates the racial divide experienced daily by the residents of New York Citys Spanish Harlem, an uptown neighborhood the artist called home for twenty-four years. We all seek images of ourselves or people who look like us on museum walls as proof that we are meant to be here, that this place is for someone like us, said Richard Aste, the McNays first Hispanic director. This portrait helps us truly lean into our mission of engaging a diverse community by mirroring our own diverse community, San Antonio being over 60 percent Hispanic. The McNay exists because of the vision of a woman artist, Marion Koogler McNay ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows a room at the newly restored Chateau de Voltaire on May 30, 2018 in Ferney-Voltaire, eastern France. French President will celebrate on May 31, 2018 the reopening of the newly restored Chateau de Voltaire and the 240th anniversary of the death of French philosopher and writer Voltaire who once lived there, before hosting a reception at the Elysee Presidential Palace for the new lottery of the heritage "Loto au patrimoine", which aims at helping retore monuments at risk. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
| Exhibition at Altes Museum explores the relationship between men and meat | | Dallas Museum of Art acquires rare painting by German master Derick Baegert | | Exhibition features more than 80 paintings and drawings from the early career of Marc Chagall |
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Muskelmann, Ende 18. Jh. Bronze, vergoldet © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt.
BERLIN.- When we think of flesh and meat, the first thing that comes to mind is usually food. But also our own bodies consist of meat. For thousands of years, meat has played a central role in cultural and ritual contexts as well. In short: meat is food, body, and cult. The transition from the realm of the living to the realm of the dead becomes apparent within it. In the exhibition, the relationship between men and meat as well as meats complex cultural connotations are presented while exploring the tensions surrounding the becoming and decay of flesh. The exhibition is interdisciplinary and spans the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, including archaeological, ethnological, and art-historical objects from 5,000 years of human history. The works range from a clay tablet containing 58 different porcine terms from the late Uruk period (approx. 33003000 BC) to ... More | |
Derick Baegert, The Descent from the Cross (detail), Dallas Museum of Art, Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund in memory of Dr. William B. Jordan.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art today announced its acquisition of The Descent from the Cross by the German master painter Derick Baegert (c. 1440 - c. 1509). Painted around 1480-1490, the monumentally-scaled panel is an exceptional example of Baegerts distinctive style, which reflects the transitional period between medieval and Renaissance painting. As the inaugural acquisition of the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund for pre-1700 European Art, this masterpiece of Northern European painting is the first work of its kind to enter the DMAs holdings and is the first work by this artist to enter a US museum. Established in 2013, the Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Fund was conceived to expand and enhance the Museums collection of European art, primarily of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, through the establishment of a $17 million endowment. This remarkable and rare painting by Baegert will be a cornerstone ... More | |
Self-Portrait (Portrait de lartiste), 1914. Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 50.5 x 38 cm. Im Obersteg Collection, permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel, 2004, Inv. Im 1081 © Marc Chagall, Vegap, Bilbao 2018.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting Chagall: The Breakthrough Years, 1911 1919 , featuring more than 80 paintings and drawings from the early career of a unique artist, whose seemingly simple universe conceals a complex reality where opposing worlds intertwine. This exhibition has been organized by Kunstmuseum Basel in collaoration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Born in 1887 to a Hasidic Jewish family in the small town of Vitebsk, then under the control of the Russian czars, Marc Chagall grew up in a very confined world, where access to Russian culture and art was limited by his own community and the government policy of relegating Jews to ghettos and denying them basic rights. Even so, the young Marc Chagall soon made a break with convention, securing a place in a Russian school, studying ... More |
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| Scratch to save a castle: France launches heritage lottery | | Exhibition at Gagosian Paris juxtaposes artworks of different time periods and styles | | The original map of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by E.H. Shepard comes to auction |
Tourists visit the Bussy Rabutin castle on May 30, 2018 in Bussy Le Grand, eastern France. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP.
FERNEY-VOLTAIRE (AFP).- French President Emmanuel Macron launched a new lottery Thursday to raise funds for the restoration of endangered heritage sites, including an island fort in Brittany, a Roman aqueduct near Lyon and a disused sugar refinery on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. The lottery, inspired by the British national lottery's heritage fund, will take place in September and is expected to raise 15-20 million euros ($17 million-$23 million). Eighteen imperilled sites of historic, religious, architectural and cultural importance have been earmarked for the funds. They include the home of poet and political activist Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) on the French Caribbean island of Martinique and the Burgundy castle of Count Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (1618-1693), who was banished from the court of Louis XIV for exposing the trysts of fellow ... More | |
Duaane Hanson, High School Student, 1990. Autobody filler, polychromed in oil, mixed media, with accessories 72 x 24 x 17 inches. © Estate of Duane Hanson/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo: Robert McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian is presenting Critical Dictionary: In homage to G. Bataille, a group exhibition that takes its title from Georges Batailles deconstructive text and juxtaposes artworks of different time periods and styles. For Bataille, words and images were subject to infinite conflicts and variations, transforming according to their use and context. While his Critical Dictionary (192930) explicates terms ranging from materialism to spittle through circuitous, free-associating paragraphs, the exhibition puts into question the hierarchies and chronologies of art history by grouping classical sculpture, postwar avant-garde painting, and key contemporary works. Focused primarily on the dialogue between sculpture and painting, the combinations reveal the ways in which proximity can ... More | |
E. H. Shepard, For a long time they looked at the river beneath them . Original ink drawing, signed, 1929. Estimate: £60,000-80,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- This July, Sothebys will offer for sale the original map of Winnie-the-Poohs Hundred Acre Wood by E.H. Shepard. Possibly the most famous map in childrens literature, this charming sketch from 1926, has been unseen for nearly half a century and will be offered with an estimate of £100,000-150,000 at the English Literature, History, Science, Childrens Books and Illustrations sale in London on 10th July. Featuring on the opening end-papers of the original 1926 book, the sketch introduces readers to the delightful imagination of Christopher Robin and his woodland friends. Exactly 40 years later the map played a starring role in the landmark Disney film - Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree - where it was brought to life as an animation in the films opening sequence. As well as mapping the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh the sketch also captures ... More |
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| Frist Art Museum's renovated Martin ArtQuest Gallery now open | | Helmut Newton Foundation exhibits photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani | | Morphosis unveils design for the new Orange County Museum of Art |
Dynamic new activities as well as old favorites are now housed in the inviting and refreshed space. Photo: Kendyl Matthews.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- On Thursday, May 24, the Frist Art Museum unveiled the completely renovated Martin ArtQuest Gallery (MAQ) to the public. The award-winning, hands-on art-making space has served as a premier destination for families, children, and school groups to explore art. The updated gallery features enhanced activities focused on creative collaboration, critical thinking, and communication for visitors of all ages and abilities. The innovative redesign brings fresh energy to the beloved resource, which to date has served more than 1.5 million visitors. The great success of the gallery is directly related to the abiding passion and generosity of Ellen Martin and the Martin Foundation, who from the very early planning stages of the Frist played an integral part in the creation of this multigenerational and educational ... More | |
Alice Springs, Yves Saint Laurent, Paris 1978. © Alice Springs.
BERLIN.- On June 1, 2018, the new exhibition Between Art & Fashion. Photographs from the Collection of Carla Sozzani will open at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. Carla Sozzani, former editor-in-chief of the Italian Elle and Vogue magazines, has collected photographs for many years. Since 1990, she has also exhibited these works at her gallery in Milan, in close cooperation with numerous internationally renowned photographers including Helmut Newton four times: Ritratti di donna (1993), Impressions, Polaroids (1996), Us and Them (1999) together with his wife June, a.k.a. Alice Springs, and Yellow Press (2003). The close friendship between Carla Sozzani and Helmut Newton now leads to the show of Sozzanis multifaceted collection at the Helmut Newton Foundation, titled Between Art & Fashion. Since Galleria Carla Sozzani first opened 28 years ago, it has ... More | |
In the entrance lobby light filled atrium space is crossed by bridges to educational hall and mezzanine gallery spaces Credit Morphosis Architects.
COSTA MESA, CA.- Craig Wells, President of the Board of Trustees, and Todd D. Smith, Director & CEO, of the Orange County Museum of Art, today unveiled the design for the museums new building at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA, created by Morphosis, the global architecture and design firm led by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne. Expanding on the museums legacy of community enrichment and presentation of modern and contemporary art from artists rooted in Southern California and the Pacific Rim, OCMAs new home will be defined by an open and engaging urban presence within Orange Countys largest center for arts and culture. Groundbreaking for the new building will take place in 2019, with a projected opening in 2021. OCMA will close its Newport Beach location on June 17, following a ... More |
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| Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Art Auction tallies 97 percent sell-through rate | | 5,000 year old jade ritual vessel tops Bonhams Hong Kong Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sale | | Somov, Shishkin, and Soutine Lead MacDougall's Important Russian Art Auction |
Fernando Botero Seated Man, 2000 sold for $275,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Fernando Botero Seated Man, 2000 sold for $275,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Modern & Contemporary Art auction in Beverly Hills to a final total of $4,012,587.50. The auction boasted 97 percent sold by value, and 90 percent of the lots. The return on Seated Man, which was nearly double its pre-auction high estimate, was the result of competitive bidding from numerous collectors, and was the second-highest amount ever paid through Heritage Auctions for a painting by the Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. Fernando Botero is one of the most popular living Latin American artists, and his works are collected aggressively around the world, Heritage Auctions Vice President of Modern & Contemporary Art Frank Hettig said. His style of large, exaggerated figures, which has been called Boterismo, can convey a number of messages, from the comedic to serious and critical of the world around ... More | |
A rare ritual vessel dating back to the Neolithic Period, which sold for HK$21,700,000 (US$2,765,886). Photo: Bonhams.
HONG KONG.- Bonhams Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art auction on 29 May in Hong Kong got off to a remarkable start with the sale of a very rare archaic jade ritual cong vessel from the Liangzhu Culture (3,300 to 2,250 BC) dating back to the Neolithic Period, which was sold for a staggering HK$21,700,000 (US$2,765,886) against a low estimate of HK$3,000,000 to HK$4,000,000 (US$380,000-510,000). In a crowded saleroom, the auctioneer hammered the lot following frenzied bidding from in the room and on the phone. The important vessel returns to its original area, as it was bought by a collector from Hangzhou, the location of the Liangzhu Culture. Xibo Wang, Head of the Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art department, Bonhams Hong Kong said, While there was strong interest from collectors in ... More | |
Konstantine Somov, Meeting in the Park. Estimate: £500,000700,000
LONDON.- Museum quality works with great provenance lead MacDougalls June auction of Important Russian Art. Konstantin Somov's masterpiece, Meeting in the Park, 1919, estimated at £500,000 to 700,000, is an exquisite oil on canvas from an important European collection, but could grace any museum. One of Somovs famous gallant scenes of the early post-revolutionary years, this brightly coloured and seemingly carefree picture with its idyllic images, looking uneasy in the new, harsh 20th century. Another museum quality work is Pine Forest, Yelabuga, painted by Ivan Shishkin in 1897 and estimated at £800,0001,200,000. The monumental (1.5 by 1 m) oil on canvas was executed during Shishkins creative peak. This breathtaking composition is one of the best examples of epic landscape, developed by the artist. La liseuse endormie, Madeleine ... More |
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Harry Bertoia sculpture, Modern design, studio glass and contemporary craft propel a #5.1M Rago auction
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Arts and Auction Centers Design Auctions brought in $5,137,719 on May 19-20, 2018. A vast array of property, from early 20th century to modern design, plus contemporary ceramics and glass, including The Daphne Farago Collection of Decorative Objects (sold to benefit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) as well as the The Washington D.C. collection of Debra Lee (President and CEO of BET Networks), drove a consistently strong sale across two days, four auction segments and almost 900 lots. Estimates were surpassed and expectations were exceeded during a sale that earned an 85% sell-through rate, suggesting the markets for Contemporary Craft and Modern Design remain strong. With over 350 lots, Modern Design was the largest and highest-earning session of the weekend. The auction segment commenced Sunday morning ... More
Brightly colored animal sculptures flock to Newfields this summer
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- This summer, explore Summer Wonderland: Spectacular Creatures, an art installation featuring nearly 500 brightly colored sculptures in various sizesfrom miniatures to larger-than-life creaturesall made from recyclable plastic, open June 1 through August 26, 2018. Summer Wonderland: Spectacular Creatures is a campus-wide exhibition that fuses both art and nature in unexpected ways. The sculptures are the creations of Cracking Arta collective of artists based in Italywho create these works from recyclable plastic to speak to the increasing artificiality of society and to raise awareness of environmental issues such as, global warming, the overuse of fossil fuels and the importance of recycling. With unusual hues and sometimes unnatural sizes, the sculptures demand to be noticed and provoke conversations around the issues ... More
The Otolith Group premieres new film "O Horizon" at the Rubin Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning artist collective The Otolith Group will premiere their new film O Horizon on June 1 at the Rubin Museum of Art. The new moving image work is the focal point of the second rotation of A Lost Future, a three-part exhibition featuring art from an evocative range of mediums by Shezad Dawood, Matti Braun, as well as other photographs and films by The Otolith Group. By challenging existing histories and considering speculative futures, the artworks and the exhibition are part of the Rubin Museums 2018 thematic exploration of The Future. O Horizon, a newly completed film on view at the Rubin Museum from June 1September 17, 2018, focuses on Visva Bharati, an art school at Santiniketan founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the cosmopolitan polymath who shaped Indian art, literature, music, and education. Filmed, ... More
Major solo exhibition of Juergen Teller opens at Fotomuseum Winterthur
WINTERTHUR.- Juergen Teller navigates the boundary of art and commercial photography, putting the portrait at the heart of things. Whether in the realms of music, fashion, everyday life or landscape, his distinctive feel for individuals and situations allows him to create visual compositions with an immediacy that is sometimes deceptively simple. Deliberately and implicitly breaking with visual conventions and expectations, his works neither idealise nor romanticise. Juergen Teller (born 1964) is one of todays most internationally renowned photographers and his works, often in the form of large-scale series, are widely published in books and magazines. Having had to abandon his apprenticeship as a bowmaker (he comes from a family of instrument makers) for health reasons, Juergen Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich. In ... More
Rare £600,000 clock collection for sale in Australia with Leonard Joel Auctions
MELBOURNE.- Spanning over 300 years of horological history The Hose Collection of Clocks, Mechanical Music and Automata. features rare timepieces by Australian and European clockmakers and is estimated at AUD$1,000,000 (£600,000). The auction takes place in Melbourne with Leonard Joel on Monday 25 June Ken Hose is a respected authority in his field and along with his wife, Judy has published three books on Australian clockmakers including Fritz Ziegeler and Charles Falck. Ken has been fascinated by clocks and their mechanics since he was a teenager and began a mechanics apprenticeship at a local garage. While there, he often admired an old American wall clock and when the garage was demolished, he rescued the clock and took it home. That moment led to over 40 years of collecting and restoring clocks, and to the creation ... More
Solo exhibition from internationally acclaimed photographer Jacqueline Hassink opens at Benrubi Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Benrubi Gallery is presenting Unwired, the latest solo exhibition from internationally acclaimed photographer Jacqueline Hassink. Unwired was born from Hassinks desire to find places that offer neither cell phone reception nor wifi capability. The result is a series of arresting landscapes and interiors which stand in deliberate contrast to iPortrait (on view in the project room), featuring photographs of public transportation users in Shanghai, Moscow, New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Paris and London. For the photographs in Unwired, Hassink traveled to six locations globally as far afield as Yakushima, an island in the extreme south of Japan, and Svalbard, a Norwegian island near the Polar Circle. The landscapes are an intense study in blues and greens, by turns vivid and subdued, and shifting perspectives and horizon lines, ... More
Years, Minton and Hepworth star in Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale
LONDON.- Donnellys Hollow by the Irish artist Jack B. Yeats is among the leading works at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London on Wednesday 13 June. It is estimated at £300,000-500,000 (340,000-570,000). The large work (36x24 inches) depicts the natural amphitheatre at the Curragh in County Kildare where, in 1815, the Irish boxer Dan Donnelly defeated the English champion, George Cooper. Boxing was a passion for the sports-mad Yeats, and Donnellys Hollow is one in a series of paintings that revisit in maturity the obsessions of the artists youth. The scene shows a group of visitors paying homage at the monument, and features Yeats himself standing on the hill looking down on it, meditatively. Other sale highlights include: Summer Landscape by John Minton (1917-1947). Executed in 1945 after visits to south Cornwall, the large pen ... More
IMMA opens first solo exhibition in Ireland by German-American artist Andrea Geyer
DUBLIN.- Opening on 1 June 2018, Irish Museum of Modern Art is presenting the first solo exhibition in Ireland by German-American artist Andrea Geyer. When We features several recent works by Geyer as well as the new immersive work Collective Weave (Ireland), 2018, commissioned by IMMA for this exhibition. Geyers work provokes a radical re-thinking of time. She studies our present by charting histories through a de-familiarizing, transgressive, feminist lens. The resulting works invite a viewer to re-think, re-enact and re-imagine their relationship to past time and how it informs the way they experience the present. As the artist recognises, Art is not dead [it] is constantly, through our living, in the making (Insistence, 2013). In this way, Geyer creates a nuanced space of potential, a vital tool for empowerment and action amidst todays cultural, ... More
Artist Richard Woods to trash a house during the London Festival of Architecture
LONDON.- When the London Festival of Architecture kicks off on 1 June, artist Richard Woods will be trashing a house. Throughout the 30 days of the festival, visitors to Hoxton Square will be met with the latest occupant of the roving art space (and skip) SKIP Gallery: Richard Woods Upgrade a luridly colourful, large-scale model home, casually abandoned in a roadside skip. Upgrade has its roots in Woods contribution to the 2017 Folkestone Triennial, when his Holiday Home project saw the construction of six brightly hued bungalows appearing around the coastal town a playful but penetrating commentary on the tensions between second-home ownership and national housing shortages. Reinvented for a new urban context, Woods work gains new meaning by being displayed in the heart of Hoxton an area which has undergone a rapid ... More
Exhibition celebrates the 50-year career of the Belgian artist Leo Copers
GHENT.- S.M.A.K. is celebrating the 50-year career of the Belgian artist Leo Copers (1947, Ghent). Since the late 1960s he has been working on a varied oeuvre consisting mainly of sculptures, installations and performances. He creates surreal-looking work derived from symbols and metaphors, in a minimal and conceptual visual idiom with ironic references. The start of Copers artistic career can be dated precisely to 3 May 1969. Legend has it that on that day he was struck by the simple scene of a used lightbulb floating on the River Lys in Ghent. This image gives concrete form to the expression he saw the light and symbolises the start of Copers continual experimentation with opposing forces. The incident itself was immortalised in the sculpture Waterlamp (1969), which is where this exhibition starts. S.M.A.K. is presenting a survey of Copers earliest artistic ... More
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Joan Watts
SANTA FE, NM.- Each painting is a breath. Have you ever really felt a breath? Inhale. Slowly. Feel the texture of the air, cool through the nose, the slow expansion of belly, chest, throat. You are a three-dimensional being. You are connected to this invisible matrix that binds the world together. The world is inside you. Exhale, slowly. Chest falling, muscles letting go, the air leaving you, warmer now having taken a bit of your heat. You are falling outside yourself, released, part of the world. This is only the beginning of where the twenty paintings of the series, bodhi, by Joan Watts, are leading you. After two and a half years when physical limitations prohibited Joan Watts from painting as she was used to, Watts discovered a new mode of working which has allowed her to create a new series. No longer able to spend whole days in her studio, Watts required a reduction ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born June 01, 1936. Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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