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Georgia Sagri, Dynamis, 2017, 28 sculptures and 10 breathing scores, installation view, Tositsa 5, Athens, documenta 14, photo: Angelos Giotopoulos.
by Hélène Colliopoulou / with Yannick Pasquet in Berlin
ATHENS (AFP).- One of the world's premier art events opened in Athens on Saturday, bringing a much-needed spotlight, artistic inspiration and visitor boost to crisis-hit Greece's run-down capital. Documenta 14, the contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany, puts over 160 international artists on display across the city in over 40 public institutions, squares, cinemas, university campuses and libraries, showcasing painting, performances, sculpture and sound art. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who inaugurated the event with Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos, said the event aims to break down "the political and economic barriers that divide us...to make us understand the world that surrounds us." Germans who look closer will discover that Greeks have gone through major hardship, Steinmeier said. And Greeks will find that other Europeans are not "cold and one-sided". "We can learn from each other...and we should do it more often in Europe...but this is only poss ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Queen Maxima of the Netherlands attends the opening of the exhibition Forbidden Porcelain - Exclusive to the emperor in Delft on April 7, 2017. The exhibition shows Chinese porcelain from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) that was created exclusively for the Chinese emperors. Jeroen JUMELET / ANP / AFP
| Frédéric Bazille exhibition explores artist's role in Impressionist movement at National Gallery of Art | | Exhibition explores archaeological finds from shipwrecks off the coast of Sicily | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, debuts Matisse in the Studio, revealing unprecedented insight into artist's mind | 
Frédéric Bazille, The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes, 1867 (detail). Oil on canvas, 46 x 75.5 x 8.5 cm. Musée Fabre, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Frédéric Bazille (18411870) created paintings inspired by contemporary life that challenged the aesthetic conventions of his day and helped to lay the groundwork of impressionism. In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the artist's birth, Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism brings together some 75 paintings that examine Bazille as a central figure of impressionism. The National Gallery of Art, which holds the largest group of Bazille's works outside of France, as well as important related impressionist paintings of the 1860s, is the sole American venue for the exhibition. The first major presentation of Bazille's work in America in 25 years, the exhibition is on view in the East Building from April 9 through July 9, 2017. Bazille was actively engaged with the most significant pictorial issues of his erathe revival of the still-life form, realist landscapes, plein-air figural painting, and the ... More | | 
Bronze statuette of Reshef, a Phoenician-Egyptian god, 10th. 8th cent. BC. Discovered in the sea off Selinunt, Sicily.
COPENHAGEN.- The spring special exhibition at the Glyptotek plunges deep beneath the surface and explores archaeological finds from shipwrecks off the coast of Sicily. The exhibition will be presenting a wide selection of treasures from shipwrecks, ranging across exclusive bronze wares, vases and weapons reflecting the many facets of Antiquity. With a time frame of almost 3000 years the exhibition also sheds light on the significance of the Mediterranean for trade, cultural encounters and perilous journeys and demonstrates that the ancient world was also globalised. By virtue of its geographical position alone, Sicily has always been a natural trading nexus for merchants from near and far. So such races as the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Normans have exchanged goods, knowledge and cultural customs and have contributed to the islands reputation as an exotic marketplace. ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Marguerite, 19061907. Oil on canvas. On loan from the National Musée Picasso ‑ Paris RF 1973‑33, donation Picasso © Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Matisse in the Studio is the first major international exhibition to examine the roles that objects from the artists personal collection played in his art, demonstrating their profound influence on his creative choices. Henri Matisse (18691954) believed that these objects were instrumental, serving both as inspiration and as a material extension of his working process. In 1951, he described them as actors: A good actor can have a part in ten different plays; an object can play a role in ten different pictures. The exhibition presents a selection of major works by Matisse from different periods of his careerincluding approximately 34 paintings, 26 drawings, 11 bronzes, seven cut-outs and three prints, and an illustrated book. The artworks are showcased alongside about ... More |
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| Exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco celebrates 'The Summer of Love' | | Triptych painting by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro reunited in Washington | | Exhibition brings together John Constable's work during his little-discussed period in Brighton | 
Victor Moscoso, "'Incredible Poetry Reading,' Ferlinghetti, Wieners, Meltzer, Whalen, Welch, McClure, Ginsberg, June 8, Norse Auditorium," 1968. Color offset lithograph "animated" poster. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Gary Westford Collection, in Honor of Victor Moscoso and All the Poets. © Victor Moscoso Image Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll, an exhilarating exhibition of iconic rock posters, photographs, interactive music and light shows, costumes and textiles, ephemera, and avant-garde films at the de Young. A 50th anniversary celebration of the adventurous and colorful counterculture that blossomed in the years surrounding the legendary San Francisco summer of 1967, the exhibition presents more than 400 significant cultural artifacts of the time, including almost 150 objects from the Fine ... More | | 
Detail of Moon at Shinagawa (also known as Moonlight Revelry at Dozō Sagami) Kitagawa Utamaro (17531806) Japan, Edo period, ca. 1788 Painting mounted on panel; color on paper Freer Gallery of Art Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1903.54.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Not seen together since 1879, the significant triptych painting by the legendary Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro has been reunited in Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered at the Smithsonians Arthur M. Sackler Gallery April 8, 2017July 9, 2017. Depicting the themes of snow, moon and flowers, the large-scale painting group was last shown together in Japan in 1879 and later traveled to Paris in the 1880s where the ensemble was broken up and the paintings sold separately. The exhibition showcases the Moon at Shinagawa from the Smithsonians Freer Gallery of Art along with Fukagawa in the Snow from the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan, and Cherry ... More | | 
John Constable, Rainstorm over the Sea 1824-28 (detail). © Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photo: John Hammond.
BRIGHTON.- A new exhibition at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery explores John Constables time in the fashionable seaside resort, where he stayed with his family between 1824 and 1828. Constables wife Maria suffered from Tuberculosis, and on medical advice the couple and their children took lodgings in Brighton for extended periods. Despite this, after four years, Maria sadly died at the age of 41. Working between Brighton and London, Constable produced around 150 works in the town. Some were commissions, created in his painting room and usually destined for the French market, but his long, systematic walks in and around Brighton also prompted many other works. Constable in Brighton brings together over 60 of the artists sketches, drawings and paintings from his time in Brighton for the first time, in the ... More |
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| New-York Historical Society welcomes spring with new exhibitions | | Constable's 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows' on view now at the Scottish National Gallery | | Annely Juda Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Michael Michaeledes | 
James Sharples Sr. ( 17511811), Portrait of Leonard Bleecker (17551844), ca. 1796-1801. Pastel on paper, 9 3/16 x 7 3/8 in. New-York Historical Society Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- This spring, the New-York Historical Society offers a range of fascinating exhibitions. From an intimate look at Thomas Jefferson as a private citizen to the extraordinary beauty of the Hudson River School, from the work of John James Audubon to the complicated origins of the New York Stock Exchange, these diverse exhibitions provide new perspectives on eminent figures and institutions and showcase the depth and scope of New-York Historicals collections. The New-York Historical Society looks forward to sharing a lesser-known, private side of Thomas Jefferson with visitors through a special exhibition organized by the Massachusetts Historical Society, said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. More generally throughout the spring, a rich array of extraordinary art, artifacts, and documents will challenge received ... More | | 
John Constable (1776 1837), Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831 (detail). © Tate, London 2013.
EDINBURGH.- One of the greatest masterpieces of British art has gone on display in Scotland for the first time in over 15 years this spring. The monumental oil painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, painted in 1831 by the great English Romantic painter John Constable (1776-1837), is being shown alongside one of the most powerful and celebrated of all Scottish landscape paintings: The Storm (1890), by William McTaggart (1835-1910). This display is part of Aspire, a partnership programme touring Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831, across the UK. Constables Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, was secured for the British public through the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Manton Foundation, Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation) and Tate Members. Aspire is a five-year partnership project between five partner institutions supported by Art Fund, and by ... More | | 
Michael Michaeledes, Untitled, 1968. Acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 91.5 cm. © the Artist, courtesy Annely Juda Fine Art.
LONDON.- Annely Juda Fine Art is presenting an exhibition of works by Michael Michaeledes (1923 - 2015). Michaeledes was one of the gallerys longest standing artists and the gallery now shows a range of works from his early, figurative paintings from the 1950s right up to his last works. Michael Michaeledes was born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1923. He studied Architecture and Fine Arts at Milan University, Italy & Central Polytechnic, London, settling in London in 1955 to work as an artist and architect. Early paintings were figurative, however, an early interest in contrasting light and shade can be seen. Figuration was gradually abandoned by Michaeledes through abstract processes and gave way to juxtapositions of colour and line. His style grew more abstract over time, and finally he abandoned the use of paint entirely, working with just canvas and wood. In later works, Michaeledes shaped and warped ... More |
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| Masterworks by Moran, Sandzén, Couse, Rockwell highlight May 3 American Art Signature Auction | | Christie's Geneva announces first ever dedicated Rolex auction session | | What is the gas station of the future? Ennead Lab Car Charging Station | 
Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926), Mountain Lion in Grand Canyon (Lair of the Mountain Lion), 1914. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches. Estimate: $600,000 - $800,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Continuing in its reputation for offering outstanding examples from virtually every category of American Art, Heritage Auctions' American Art Signature Auction May 3 will feature masterworks by trailblazers such as Thomas Moran, E. Irving Couse, Birger Sandzén and Norman Rockwell. Additionally, a significant selection of Early American Modernist works on paper from the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Henry and May Ann Gans will prove a true highlight for savvy collectors. Leading the sale is Thomas Moran's Mountain Lion in Grand Canyon (Lair of the Mountain Lion) (est. $600,000-800,000). Previously owned by distinguished Western Art collector William Thomas Gilcrease, the painting's impeccable provenance further underscores its importance within Moran's oeuvre. ... More | | 
The Rolex gold 6264 Paul Newman tropical lemon dial. Estimate: CHF/US$500,000 800,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
GENEVA.- Christies Geneva will dedicate the afternoon session of its Important Watches auction on 15 May entirely to Rolex by offering 116 watches of 55 different references, retracing the history of this watchmaker from the 1930s to the latest models introduced to the market. This is the largest gathering of Rolex timepieces any auction house has ever offered in one single afternoon, with estimates ranging from CHF/US$2,000 to CHF/US$ 500,000 and we are delighted to take young as well as established collectors and watch enthusiasts on a discovery tour: A new discovery and entirely fresh to the market with only two previous owners, the Rolex gold 6264 Paul Newman tropical lemon dial is a watch that almost nobody knew existed until recently. What really sets the pulse racing when one is first confronted with this watch is ... More | | 
Parking Tower. Photo: Ennead Lab/Ennead Architects.
SHANGHAI.- Recognizing that contemporary developments in transportation technology will change how we drive, store, and power vehicles, what does this mean for the future of roadside architecture? What opportunities do these new technologies represent for design? What is the gas station of the future? And ultimately, can we re-think the relationship between city and car? In response to these questions, and a clients desire to rethink a gas station site, Ennead Lab has developed a concept for an electric car charging tower in Shanghai. Ennead Labs Charging Tower is an urban roadside beacon for electric cars. Unlike filling up a car at a gas station, charging an electric car takes a larger investment of time from the driver. Currently, there are two options for charging an electric vehicle: a super charge or a standard charge. A super charge utilizes both alternating and direct current simultaneously to provide a vehicle ... More |
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 Important Asian works of art auction to be held April 23rd by Tremont AuctionsNEWTON, MASS.- A monumental Chinese porcelain palace vase made around 1870 with lovely pate-sur-pate pagoda decoration, and three miniature Persian paintings executed in the early 17th century during the Safavid period, are expected top achievers in an important Asian works of art auction scheduled for Sunday, April 23rd, by Tremont Auctions, online and in the firms gallery. The gallery address is 26 Ossipee Road in Newton (zip 02464). Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and the Chinese platform Artfox.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted, for select lots. The auction will begin promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. In all, around 600 premier lots, all of them Asian and mostly Chinese, will be sold. The Chinese temple vase, monumental at 48 inches in height, comes with a superb provenance, having ... More Large-scale oil paintings by Bo Bartlett on view at the Mennello Museum of American ArtORLANDO, FLA.- The Mennello Museum of American Art is presenting the solo exhibition Bo Bartlett: American Artist. The exhibition, which runs through May 7, presents large-scale oil paintings that are figurative, psychologically imbued, beautifully rendered, and wonderfully sublime by one of the most significant American Realist painters of his generation. Bo Bartlett is widely renowned for his multi-layered complex image making rooted in narrative, story telling, art history, literature, poetry, and every day life. Bartlett works in a long-established tradition in American painting that stretches from Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's land and people to depict the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal ... More Site-specific installation by Jaq Belcher on view at Heather Gaudio Fine ArtNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting An Inverception, a site-specific installation created by roster artist Jaq Belcher. This is the first time the gallery dedicates its entire space to one artist who has created a work designed specifically for its location. Belcher commenced preparing the installation on March 29th and it will be on view through April 15th. An Inverception consists of one large single sheet of paper measuring 64 by 51 inches which has been suspended from the ceiling. Hand-cut with the use of an Exacto knife, Belchers identifiable process, the sheet consists of thousands of cuts. Placed below the sheet are the seeds that have been cut out from this and previous works from the past ten years. 77,700 seeds have been arranged in a floor drawing measuring 108 x 108 inches. Much of Jaqs work references numerology, ... More Major traveling exhibition of Impressionist works opens at Springfield Art MuseumSPRINGFIELD, MO.- American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists Colony, organized by the Reading Public Museum in Reading, PA opened at the Springfield Art Museum and will run through July 2. This exhibit features 75 oil paintings and thirty works on paper dating to the Golden Age of American Impressionism, the 1880s through the 1940s. Arranged by the artists' colonies that played a critical role in the development of the style, the exhibit examines work produced in Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut; Cape Cod, Cape Anne and Rockport, in Massachusetts; New Hope and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; and Taos, New Mexico, among others. Featured artists include William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Julian Alden Weir, John Twachtman, Chauncey Ryder, as well as American expatriates Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition provides a rare ... More Inaugural Asian Art Auction realizes over $1.4 million for Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A Large and Rare Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Windswept Jar, from the Ming Dynasty, was the top lot, selling for an impressive $118,750 during the inaugural Asian Art Signature Auction held April 2 by Heritage Auctions. Collectors of Asian Art drove the final total sale results to $1,477,744, with many of the pieces exceeding estimates. "We are tremendously pleased with the results of sale," Heritage Auctions Asian Art Specialist Richard Cervantes said. "Prices were strong for extraordinary lots across nearly every category: blue and white porcelain from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, jade, bronze, paintings and more. This sale meant a great deal to us as Heritage Auctions' first stand-alone venture into the Asian Arts market. That we reached import bidders and satisfied even surprised - so many consignors demonstrated that we are well-positioned and prepared ... More Exhibition at South London Gallery brings together works by Erik van LieshoutLONDON.- Erik van Lieshouts work explores themes often rooted in his experience of living and working in the Netherlands but nevertheless relevant to contemporary experience across Europe and beyond. For his solo show at the South London Gallery, Van Lieshout brings together works that draw on socio-political observations, marginalised identities and the role of the artist in society. An immersive architectural environment houses three video works characterised by an absurdist sense of humour and provocative questioning of the role of art and artists in society. All three works feature Van Lieshout, whose actions and statements blur performance with reality, dead-pan humour with utmost sincerity, and ambiguity of meaning with a sometimes disarming directness. The Basement (2014), commissioned for the European biennial of contemporary art Manifesta 10 in St. ... More Fine silver & objects of vertu shine at Heritage Auctions Signature Auction April 20DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has brought together a wide selection of fine silver and objects of vertu for the April 20 Fine Silver and Objects of Vertu Signature Auction in Dallas, Texas. The offerings will span the globe with works from the United States, England, Europe and Mexico. A beautiful Buccellati Silver Tureen with Double Pheasant Dome (est. $20,000-30,000) and single Buccellati Silver Standing Pheasant (est. $10,000-15,000) adorn the cover of the Silver & Objects of Vertu auction catalog. Resting atop the wide and shallow tureen are a pair of naturalistic male pheasants with raised tail feather create a soaring apex. "This has been an exciting auction to assemble, with rare treasures throughout the sale. Take your time and enjoy!" said Karen Rigdon, Director Decorative Arts. The auction also includes silver by Paul Storr featuring a Fine Pair of Paul Storr ... More "Written in Light" and "Film Inside an Image" open at Moderna MuseetSTOCKHOLM.- The exhibition explores Moderna Museets collection of photography from the second half of the 19th century, and includes works by some of the worlds most famous photographers: Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Gustave Rejlander, and Carleton E. Watkins. Since its invention, photography has developed, changed, and been used for many different aims and purposes. With the breakthrough of digital images, and their omnipresence in social media, photography is once again in a period of change. This gives all the more reason to look back and consider the impact of its legacy on contemporary photography. This exhibition highlights the museums collection of daguerreotypes, but also gives examples of other early photographic techniques. It is an adaptation of a chapter in the project Another Story, which filled the entire collection exhibition with ... More The Beach Washes Up Inside MOCA JacksonvilleJACKSONVILLE, FLA.- From the beaches of Sanibel Island, Florida, to the rocky coast of Portland, Maine, Lauren Fensterstock orchestrates a colossal collection of shells and disparate objects into a cohesive, organic form. Interested in natural history and modern art, Portland-based artist Fensterstock transforms MOCA Jacksonvilles Atrium Gallery into a non-site, where she takes fragments from a landscape and reframes them within a gallery. Displaced and reinterpreted via natural and artificial materials, the site becomes a displaced simile that draws from her excursion to Sanibel Island. Fensterstocks Holophusicon, the next installation in the Museums Project Atrium series, is on view March 18 through June 18 at MOCA Jacksonville, a cultural institute of the University of North Florida. Fensterstocks use of native Florida shells collected on Sanibel Island resonates with ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti died April 10, 1882. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 - 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work influenced the European Symbolists, and he was also a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement. In this image: Christie's employee Rhiannon Bevan-John takes a close look at the pastel of "Pandora" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, during a press preview of a sale at Christie's auction house in London, Thursday May 27, 2004. The painting was estimated to sell for $1,424,000 - 2,136,000.
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