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Yrisarry exhibited regularly in New York City in lower Manhattan with Graham Gallery and O.K. Harris Works of Art as well as at Park Place Gallery as a friend of the artist collective.
SANTA FE, NM.- New York Artist Mario Yrisarry opened his first solo exhibition at David Richard Gallery. Presenting abstract paintings from 1961 1967 that explored non-traditional methods of painting on canvas without brushes. Specifically, this exhibition maps the artists transition from applying paint with thick rubber mats as stencils to his razor sharp precision using airbrush to apply paint, both free-hand and with highly tailored stencils. Yrisarry exhibited regularly in New York City in lower Manhattan with Graham Gallery and O.K. Harris Works of Art as well as at Park Place Gallery as a friend of the artist collective. Inspired by jazz music, his linear applications of paint with combinations of hard and soft edges within the same composition created lyrical abstractions, while his canvas-filling patterns produced a rhythm and beat. These approaches crossed over into the Pattern and Decoration movement and garnered ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass gives an interview with AFP at his office in Cairo on May 22, 2017. Two hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte landed in Egypt with a retinue of scholars who laid the groundwork for modern Egyptology, scientists have continued their pursuit to unlock the secrets of the country's ancient treasures as 21st centuryh electronic devices and chemical testing are put to use in dating artefacts from the Giza pyramids to the pharaonic tombs of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens first major survey of paintings by Carlos Almaraz | | Royal Academy of Arts exhibits Henri Matisse's treasured objects | | "The Great Graphic Boom: Art in America, 1960-1990" on view at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
Carlos Almaraz, Tree of Life, 1987, The Buck Collection through the University of California, Irvine. © Carlos Almaraz Estate. Photo by Bliss Photography.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents the first major survey of paintings by Carlos Almaraz (19411989). Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz features 65 works, including mostly paintings and several drawings from the artists studio practice. Almaraz was legendary during his lifetime, initially as a political activist and a cofounder of Los Fouramong the first Chicano artist collectives to emerge in Southern California in the 1970sand ultimately as a visionary studio artist whose compelling images convey a deep psychological impact. Almaraz first became an activist through his work with the United Farm Workers, painting banners for union rallies. Among his most visible works from this period were a number of public murals in East Los Angeles that depicted the Chicano civil rights struggle. By the end of the decade, however, Almaraz felt constrained by his ... More | |
Henri Matisse, Safrano Roses at the Window, 1925. Oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm. Private collection. Photo: © Private collection. © Succession H. Matisse/DACS 2017.
LONDON.- Matisse in the Studio is the first exhibition to consider how the personal collection of treasured objects of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) were both subject matter and inspiration for his work. To reveal the working processes by which these pieces were transformed in his oeuvre, around 35 objects are displayed alongside 65 of Matisses paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and cut-outs. Matisses eclectic collection ranged from a Roman torso, African masks and Chinese porcelain to intricate North African textiles from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He selected these objects primarily for their aesthetic appeal and although not generally rare or the finest examples of the traditions to which they belonged, they were of profound significance to Matisses creative process. Most of the objects are on loan from the Musée Matisse, Nice, and several others ... More | |
Helen Frankenthaler, Savage Breeze, 1974. ix color woodcut from 8 woodblocks
31 1/2 x 27 inches (80 x 68.6 cm).
STUTTGART.- In cooperation with the National Museum of Oslo, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart is presenting exceptional works of American graphic art of the period from 1960 to 1990. Printmaking had previously served primarily to make religious or political content accessible to a broad public and as an important means communication in other areas as well. In the early twentieth century it was above all the German Expressionists who devoted themselves to this technique quite extensively. Decades later, in the late 1950s, the U.S. then experienced a veritable graphic boom. At this point in time, the most prominent artists of the American avant-garde exponents of Abstract Expressionism, Hard Edge, Pop Art, Minimal Art and other currents began experimenting and working with a wide variety of printmaking techniques. Publishing companies specializing in printmaking for example Universal Limited Art ... More |
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| Major gift of Albert Namatjira paintings celebrated in exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia | | Most comprehensive exhibition about comics to be held in Germany on view at Bundeskunsthalle | | Exhibition focuses on artist Derrick Adams's extensive research into the archive of fashion designer Patrick Kelly |
Albert Namatjira, Standley Chasm about 1945. Painting in watercolour over faint underdrawing in black pencil. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Marilyn Darling AC in memory of Gordon Darling AC CMG 2016. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
CANBERRA.- The National Gallery of Australia is celebrating the philanthropic legacy of L. Gordon Darling AC, CMG and Marilyn Darling AC with Painting Country, a comprehensive survey of watercolours and painted objects by Western Arrarnta artist Albert Namatjira. Featuring 40 works of art gifted by the Darlings to the NGA, this stunning exhibition captures the renowned Australian benefactors immense appreciation of Namatjiras impact and lasting influence. These works have never been displayed in public. The exhibition looks at Namatjiras early focus on people and animals and includes a series of watercolours that track the ancient path of one of the oldest waterways in the world, the Finke River, as it carves its way to the edge of the Simpson Desert. The majority of the NGAs collection of Namatjiras works was generously gifted by the Darlings from their ... More | |
Winsor McCay, (18711934), Little Nemo in Slumberland. Sonntagsseite The New York Herald 2. Februar 1908. CC0 Public Domain.
BONN.- With more than 300 exhibits from the United States, Europe and Japan, Comics! Mangas! Graphic Novels! is the most comprehensive exhibition about the genre to be held in Germany. Although the history of European comics is often traced back to illustrated stories by artists such as Rodolphe Toepffer, Gustave Doré and Wilhelm Busch none of whom used speech bubbles it was in New York that comics emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on the richly diverse immigrant cultures of the metropolitan melting pot, they were the first visual mass medium. Separate sections of the exhibition are devoted to Europe and Japan, where modern comics belatedly took off after the end of the Second World War, developing an intriguing range of highly distinctive national traditions. While cartoonists in Europe tightened and concentrated the visual language of comics, manga artists expanded it, introducing cinematic, multiperspectival modes of representation and narrative ... More | |
Derrick Adams, Patrick's Signature Look, 2017 (detail). Mixed media collage on paper, 30 Ã 22 1/2 in. Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York. Photo: Adam Reich.
NEW YORK, NY.- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, announced a new slate of inHarlem initiatives led by the exhibition Derrick Adams: Patrick Kelly, The Journey, presented at the Countee Cullen Library branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at 104 West 136th Street. This exhibition, on view until October 20, is based on artist Derrick Adamss extensive research into the archive of the influential African-American fashion designer Patrick Kelly (19541990), housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL. Inaugurated in summer 2016, inHarlem is designed to explore innovative ways to work in the community while taking the Museum beyond its own walls. As the initiative moves into its second year, inHarlem is encompassing a growing range of dynamic exhibitions and programs in partnership with the NYPL, Schomburg Center, NYC Parks, Maysles Documentary Cinema, ... More |
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| Thieves strip 'Space Invader' mosaics from Paris walls | | A #nowalls cultural platform to bring modern and contemporary Latin American galleries to Los Angeles | | Lacoste Gallery exhibits work by young emerging artists from the fertile ceramics state of Minnesota |
Authorities were alerted to the thefts on social media, with Parisians snapping pictures of the pretend workers on Twitter and asking why the city was removing the mosaics. Photo: Pierre Ropert/Twitter.
PARIS (AFP).- Thieves pretending to be Paris city workers have in the past few days stripped the French capital's walls of pixellated works from French urban artist Invader, the city said on Friday. A spokeswoman said "more than a dozen pieces" from the artist have been torn from walls all around the city. Invader, whose real name or identity is unknown, produces pixellated works using bathroom tiles that hark back stylistically to early video games such as the 1978 "Space Invaders". Some of his "invasions" have resulted in him being questioned by police, but copies of his works have often sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two years ago, his mosaic of 1970s American cartoon character Hong Kong Phooey sold at auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong for HK$2 million ($256,000). The city of Paris said it "has decided to file ... More | |
proyectosLA is co-founded by Patricia Fajer ,Teresa Iturralde, and Tracy OBrien. Photo: Pepe Iturralde.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- proyectosLA is a cultural platform that provides a unique opportunity for modern and contemporary Latin American galleries to exhibit in Los Angeles at a critical moment for Latin American art. It will take place at wərkärtz studios, a 20,000 sq ft converted Downtown LA (DTLA) warehouse from September 16 through October 28, 2017. For the local art community, proyectosLA will allow for the ability to discover new Latin American galleries, modern and contemporary art from the region within the historical context of its relationship to LA and fostering an ongoing dialogue with contemporary practices. For the galleries it will provide a platform to connect to the local LA cultural community- establishing and reinforcing relationships with local collectors, curators and institutions and placing critically important works throughout Southern California. The galleries will also have a communal worskpace where ... More | |
Mike Helke, Pouring Pot #17 with Green Spout, 8 x 8.5 x 4, stoneware.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste Gallery announces its exhibition Tom Jaszczak + Mike Helke: The Young Minnesotans from August 5 26, 2017. The gallery is bringing young emerging artists to the community of Concord and this year, they are showing Tom Jaszczak and Mike Helke who are both from the fertile ceramics state of Minnesota. Tom Jaszczak was named the NCECA Emerging Artist at the National Ceramic Conference 2016 and is currently a resident artist at Penland School of Craft, North Carolina. Jaszczak received many accolades in his young career amongst them, Windgate Scholar at Archie Bray and Honored Maker, Makers Faire at The White House, DC. His works are minimal in form with painted geometric shapes being the focal point on each pot. His practice is very much in keeping with the Minnesotan tradition of functional pottery but soars above tradition with his bold interpretations. Mike Helke is ... More |
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| Portland Museum of Art exhibition explores the complexities of youth from multiple perspectives | | Temporary closure of Phoenix Art Museum galleries inspires fresh look at collection of American and Mexican art | | FUTURO, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen on view in Munich |
Jocelyn Lee, Untitled (Kara on bed) (detail), 1998|2013, Inkjet print, 40 x 50 inches. Museum purchase with support from the Irving B. Ellis Fund, and the Contemporary Art Fund, in memory of Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, 2013.27b.
PORTLAND, ME.- Child's Play: Representations of Adolescence will take a close look at childhood and the unsteady terrain of adolescence through a selection of 20th-century photographs. This exhibition reveals artists' awareness that the early years of life are marked by transition and transformation, and the meaning and experience of youth is hardly fixed. Representations of adolescence evoke many phases and moments including self-discovery, growth, nostalgia, playfulness, and sexual awakening. This exhibition explores the complexities of youth from multiple perspectives. In the early decades of the 20th century, documentary photographs including Aaron Siskind and Lewis Hine used the faces of children to bring attention to a ... More | |
Alfredo Ramos MartÃnez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Through next spring, Phoenix Art Museums North Wing will be partially closed to accommodate repairs and improvements to the infrastructure of the building. In order to facilitate vital updates to fire-prevention systems, the Museum temporarily closed approximately half of its North Wing galleries, throughout the duration of the construction, which concludes April 2018. The closure also provided the Museums curatorial team with a rare opportunity to re-imagine its exhibition spaces, and it resulted in a new exhibition featuring art of Mexico and the American Southwest. We look forward to improving our vault system, which will ensure the proper safekeeping and preservation of our treasured collection for decades to come, said Amada Cruz, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. ... More | |
FUTURO Haus (im Hintergrund das Türkentor) © Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo).
MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung is paying tribute to the icon of the space age with a presentation in an outdoor space at Pinakothek der Moderne of the FUTURO, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1965-7 and originally intended as a ski lodge. Ellipsoid in shape, the FUTURO definitely epitomizes the future visions of the 1960s, in which visionary designs focused on new materials for mobile living environments. Driven by a faith in science and technology and in the conquest of space, the FUTURO symbolizes the striving in that era for new, functional, efficient and mass-producible forms of housing. With a diameter of eight meters and an overall height of just under six meters the building offers around 50 m² of living space which can be heated by electricity in less than 30 minutes. The building rests on a stable tubular steel frame. It has been designed so that it can even be erected on rough terrain and can withstand ... More |
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Beatriz Salinas Marambio selected as Director of the National Center for Contemporary Art, Cerrillos
CERRILLOS SANTIAGO.- Curator and visual arts manager Beatriz Salinas Marambio has been selected as the first Director of the National Center for Contemporary Art Cerrillos, Chile, after winning a public contest held by the National Council of Culture and Arts. The contest generated wide interest with more than 200 applications and, following a selection process of three stages, Salinas Marambio was chosen as Director of the National Center for Contemporary Art Cerrillos, located in a former airport in the south part of the capital. Salinas Marambio, who holds an MA in Arts Management and Cultural Policy from Goldsmiths, University of London, assumed the post on May 26, 2017. On winning the public contest, Salinas Marambio stated: "It is a great challenge to start directing this space, that will be focused on developing an open and experimental space for ... More
Oil portrait attributed to Jean Paul Laurens will be auctioned online
MALVERN, PA.- A colorful cloisonné tripod censer of three enameled cranes is expected to bring $3,000-$5,000 and a wonderfully rendered oil portrait attributed to the French artist Jean Paul Laurens (1838-1921) carries an estimate of $2,000-$3,000 in Converse Auctions next East Meets West Sale, an online-only auction scheduled for Friday, August 25th starting at 9 am EDT. Those are just two items in a 475-lot auction where Asian objects will be sold prior to items from the Western culture hence the title East Meets West. Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com, as well as through the Converse Auctions website, at www.converseauctions.com, plus via Google Play (for Android) and the App Store (for iPhone). The more than 250 Eastern lots will come up for bid beginning at 9 am. These will include antique ... More
Saudi contemporary artists open dialogue in the heart of Arab America
DEARBORN, MICH.- Both Dearborn, Michigan, and Saudi Arabia serve as iconic social and cultural epicenters. Dearborn lays claim to the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the U.S. (and in any major city outside of the Middle East and North Africa), and has been the final destination for immigrants from the Arab World for nearly a century. Saudi Arabia is home to the two holiest sites of Islam and functions at a crossroads of culture, most notably during the annual pilgrimage to Makkah, known as Hajj. Epicenter X explores contemporary Saudi culture by promoting meaningful dialogue between Saudi artists and U.S. audiences. Cutting through the political discourse of media outlets and government officials, the artworks featured in this exhibition open doors to the lives of the Saudi people. In doing so, this presentation challenges common views and stereotypes ... More
National Museum of Women in the Arts announces creation of Judy Chicago Visual Archive
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts announced the creation of the Judy Chicago Visual Archive at the museums Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center. The archive will document Chicagos career through photographs, slides, negatives and printed ephemera. These materials span the 1960s through the present and capture fleeting performance pieces such as her pyrotechnics and dry ice works, as well as exhibitions of drawings, paintings, sculpture and installations, including The Dinner Party. The visual archive will be an essential resource for researchers. The Judy Chicago Visual Archive collection at NMWA will round out the rich documentation that exists on Chicagos life and work, including the Judy Chicago Papers at Harvard Universitys Schlesinger Library and the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection at Pennsylvania ... More
Tabakalera presents first large scale solo exhibition by Eric Baudelaire in a public institution in Spain
SAN SEBASTIÃN.- Tabakalera is presenting The Music of Ramón Raquello and his Orchestra, the first large scale solo exhibition by Eric Baudelaire in a public institution in Spain. The exhibition draws its title from a fictional conductor whose radio performance was continuously disrupted by newsflash broadcasts heralding an alien invasion in Orson Welles rendition of the War of the Worlds, aired in 1938. Spanning a decade of artistic production including installation, print, photography and film, the exhibition follows Baudelaires sustained attempts to find a form that accommodates the catastrophic complexity of contemporary life, interweaving fiction with considerations on fear, the media and the power of words and images. Eric Baudelaires work often creates or exploits tension between stories and histories, the objective and subjective, text and image, underlining the ways ... More
The Retromobile tradeshow 2018: 43rd edition to be held from 7 to 11 February
PARIS.- Classic car is an unanimous passion : it gathers all the generation under the same roof, around its fine lines and its piece of machinery. It reveals designs treasures of an industry which is at the heart of our dailylives. It relates the History with a big H and a lot of little stories at the same time. Its a passion that should be lived by getting your hands dirty or on the wheel ! Rétromobile an absolute treasure trove for classic cars of all types, the first show of the season and the event which ensures Pariss standing as the automotive capital in February will be back from 7 to 11 February 2018 at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Centre. Following the 2017 edition of the show which was considered quite exceptional with a total of 118,266 visitors and more than 500 vehicles exhibited across 3 halls Rétromobile 2018 is gearing up to be even better, and is increasing in size ... More
The Frye Art Museum opens first museum solo exhibition of performance artist and poet Storme Webber
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum is presenting Casino: A Palimpsest, the first museum solo exhibition of Seattle-based performance artist and poet Storme Webber. Through family photographs, archival records, and poetry, Webber unearths a personal history of one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast, the Casino. As with a palimpsest, on which writing that has been erased remains visible under new script, the historical documents in this exhibition reveal some of the many histories that lie beneath Seattles streets. Casino: A Palimpsest is a love song to the Ancestors, a praise song for their survival and their ferocious loving resistance to erasure, says Webber. It is social history told through the lens of the stories of my own multicultural and often queer family. It is a conversation with Seattle, Duwamish territory, where my mother and I were born ... More
Exhibition traces changes in children's fashion dresses
RIGA.- The exhibition from the collections of the internationally renowned fashion historian Alexandre Vassiliev and Latvian museums Childrens World. 18th 20th Century is on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (10/20 Skārņu Street) from 3 August to 1 October 2017. In co-operation with ABLV Bank and Alexandre Vassiliev Foundation, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design is hosting already the ninth exhibition from the collection of the celebrated fashion historian Alexandre Vassiliev (Александр Васильев). This time the display showcases a wide range of kids clothing and accessories. Kids fashion, as we perceive it today, did not exist before the late 18th century. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17121778), a French philosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment was the first one to point ... More
Alexander Chinneck unveils first permanent artwork 'Six pins and half a dozen needles' at Assembly London
LONDON.- British artist Alexander Chinneck has completed his latest monumental artwork entitled Six pins and half a dozen needles on Assembly London, the new office campus in Hammersmith developed by AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets. This landmark public artwork is Chinnecks first permanent sculpture and follows projects that include a 35-metre inverted electricity pylon, a melting house constructed from 7,500 wax bricks and a hovering stone building for Londons Covent Garden Piazza. Reaching 20-metres above ground level and weighing ten-tonnes, the artwork theatrically animates the structure from which it leans, uniting Chinnecks signature use of art, architecture and engineering to create an ambitious combination of surrealism and spectacle. Constructed from 4,000 bricks and over 1,000 stainless steel components, the installation ... More
New, conceptual, activist artwork by Ti-Rock Moore on view at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is presenting A Burning House, the first solo New Orleans exhibition of activist artist Ti-Rock Moore. The exhibition is on view from 26 July through 26 August. A Burning House takes as its point of departure an historic conversation between colleagues and activists Harry Belafonte and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during which King expresses his fears: We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I've come to believe we're integrating into a burning house. A Burning House features all new works created by Moore expressly for the exhibition, including two site-specific, one-night installation/performances: Converge, a provocative audience participation piece with artistic contributions from New Orleans writers Kristina Kay Robinson, Valentine The exhibition also ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Emil Nolde was born August 07, 2017. Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 - 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals. In this image: Members of the media take a look at some of the paintings by German artist Emil Nolde presented at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. Painting at left is: Leute Im Dortkrug, (At the Village Hotel).
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