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Claude Monet, Le Palais Ducal, oil on canvas, 1908 (est. £20,000,000-30,000,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Claude Monet arrived in Venice on 1 October 1908 and, taken aback by the splendour of what he saw, the artist declared the city too beautiful to paint. Enchanted by the city, Monet painted just under forty canvases during the course of his three month stay, the greater part of which adorn the walls of museums across the globe. This spectacular painting depicts the historic Gothic façade of the Doges palace, and it belongs to a celebrated group of three works painted from the vantage of a boat moored along the canal, one of which is held in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Helena Newman, Worldwide Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sothebys Europe, said: This spellbinding painting is a true masterpiece and among the very greatest Monet painte ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will conduct a Holiday Charity Auction and donate 100 percent of the sales total - or a minimum donation of $25,000 - to Community Food Share. This special online auction of more than 200 lots of ancient and ethnographic art will take place Tuesday, Dec. 25. In this image: Roman Bronze Bull Votive.
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| | | New Banksy artwork brings crowds to Welsh town | | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia announces major exhibition by British artist Cornelia Parker | | 'Frida Kahlo, her photos' on view at Bendigo Art Gallery |
The work, in the shadow of the town's dominant steelworks, shows a child seemingly playing in the snow, standing by a sled with his tongue out, tasting the falling snowflakes.
PORT TALBOT (AFP).- A new work by enigmatic street artist Banksy has got visitors flocking to the back of a car garage in Port Talbot, causing quite a stir in the south Wales steel town. The image appeared on Tuesday. Since then the local authority has brought in two traffic wardens to manage the crowds packing out a narrow lane in a bid to see it. The work, in the shadow of the town's dominant steelworks, shows a child seemingly playing in the snow, standing by a sled with his tongue out, tasting the falling snowflakes. But round the corner of the garage, it shows smoke rising from a burning fire, and the snowflakes are actually falling ash. "It's lovely because it brings over a number of messages," said local resident Kirstin Tucker. "When you first look at it from this angle it just looks like there's a little child out there in the snow playing ... More | |
British artist Cornelia Parker, OBE and Royal Academician (born 1956), is well known for her transformation of everyday objects into unexpected, haunting scenarios things are exploded, shot, turned back to front, and rearranged in often surprising ways.
SYDNEY.- NSW Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall announced two extraordinary exhibitions exclusive to Sydney for the tenth iteration of the Sydney International Art Series in 2019-20: the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present a major retrospective of British artist Cornelia Parker, encompassing works across three decades, while the Art Gallery of New South Wales will present Japan supernatural, an immersive, multi-sensory exhibition of more than 200 works of Japanese art. The NSW Government is bringing world-class exhibitions to Sydney, strengthening our citys position as a leading cultural destination and contributing to our goal of tripling overnight visitor expenditure by 2030, Mr Marshall said. Im delighted our prized cultural ... More | |
Frida painting the portrait of her father, by Gisèle Freund, 1951 © Frida Kahlo Museum.
BENDIGO.- Renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo had a special relationship with photography, and meticulously accumulated a vast collection of photographs over the course of her life. This exhibition, Frida Kahlo, her photos draws from the extensive archive of the Casa Azul (Blue House), Kahlos former home and now a museum dedicated to this much loved artists life and work. First revealed to the public in 2007, the Casa Azul photographic archive was inaccessible for five decades and consists of more than 6500 images, of which some 241 are shown in this exhibition curated by Mexican photographer and photography historian Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Kahlos interest in photography began in childhood both her father, Guillermo Kahlo and her maternal grandfather were professional photographers. Throughout her life she collected images, building an extensive collection of personal photographs, ... More |
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| | | Amale Andraos/WORKac to design Beirut's newest art museum | | Kunsthalle Bratislava presents a new project ARTBASE: Database of contemporary Slovak art | | Exhibition at Haus der Kunst presents 200 works by Jörg Immendorff |
The new 12,000-square-meter museum will feature 70 balconies arrayed as a vertical promenade that blends indoor and outdoor spaces to create an open museum for the city.
BEIRUT.- Following months of review and consideration, the Board of Trustees of BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art announced the appointment of Lebanese-born architect Amale Andraos and WORKac, the firm she founded with Dan Wood in 2003, to design its future building. Beiruts newest art museum, BeMA will be centrally located in the heart of Beirut, positioned on a charged and symbolic site in the city that once marked the dividing line in the Lebanese civil war now to be transformed into a site of unification. The museums permanent collection will include modern and contemporary artworks from Lebanon, the Lebanese diaspora and the wider region. As Dean of Columbia Universitys Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Amale Andraos is a global leader in the field. The new 12,000-square-meters museum will feature 2,700-square-metres of dedicated ... More | |
The ARTBASE was launched on 18. 12. 2018 and can be accessed at the address: artbase.kunsthallebratislava.sk
BRATISLAVA.- The idea of an online database is premised on the original definition of Kunsthalle Bratislava (KHB), as a Slovak centre of visual arts which also had the role of mapping and documentation of art, based on scholarly research. Having regard to the financial and operational difficulty of establishing and running a physical archive or library, KHB has come up with the new concept of a professional-standard online database. Uniquely to be found on the database are text profiles, and from 2019 also video profiles, of artists, which are specially produced for the purpose of their diffusion via ARTBASE. The ARTBASE bilingual database is a selective online platform which follows the development of contemporary Slovak art via the headings artists, groups, theoreticians and exhibition spaces. In time-scale the database content is defined by the period from the 2nd half of the 20th century (i.e. artists born after 1950), while priority is given to m ... More | |
Jörg Immendorff, Selbstporträt nach dem letzten Selbstporträt, 2007. Ãl auf Leinwand, 300 x 250 cm. Nationalgalerie, Berlin © Estate of Jörg Immendorff, Courtesy Galerie Michael Werner Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Köln & New York.
MUNICH.- The exhibition spans the time from Immendorff's artistic beginnings at the Academy through his work as a socio-political agitator during the 1960s to the early 1980s to the allegorically encoded paintings of his last creative period. Instead of following a strict chronology, the nearly 200 works and sculptures in this retrospective are arranged into chapters, thus highlighting the decisive emphases of the work's development. A painting of a baby with red skin and a bouquet of flowers from 1966 lends the exhibition its title: "For all Beloved in the World." The work is part of a larger series that depicts babies of different origins, chubby and laughing, trimmed to simplicity, "as a symbol of love and peace" (Jörg Immendorff). With his then-partner Chris Reinecke, Immendorff (1945-2007) realized a series of Neo-Dadaist art actions from 1968 to 1970 under the title "Lidl," a made- ... More |
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| | | National Palace Museum of Korea exhibition sheds light on the long history and rich culture of Liechtenstein | | Sargent's Daughters exhibits works by Hak Vogrin | | Degas exhibition opens at Polk Museum of Art |
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (17551842), Portrait of Princess Karoline von Liechtenstein, née Countess von Manderscheidt-Blankenheim (17681831), as Iris, 1793. Oil on canvas, 222 x 159 cm. Inv. no. GE 1787 © Liechtenstein. Princely Collections.
SEOUL.- The National Palace Museum of Korea is presenting the special exhibition, Liechtenstein: 900 years of a Ruling Family in the Heart of Europe. The Principality of Liechtenstein is one of the few remaining countries named after its ruling family. Located between Switzerland and Austria, the country is the worlds sixth smallest in terms of area―about one-quarter of the size of Seoul. Still, the House of Liechtenstein has maintained a dynastic history over nine centuries amidst the rise and fall of numerous other royal families in Europe. The collection of the House of Liechtenstein dates back to the establishment of the principality in the early seventeenth century when the family began cultivating the ideal of princely patronage. They have carried on this tradition over ... More | |
Dont Waste Yer Time Lookn at this Painting! Git Ta Tha Mall an Buy! Buy! Buy! opens nearly 10 years after the self-taught artists death and is the first-ever commercial exhibition of Vogrin's works.
NEW YORK, NY.- A hardcore vegan and street-smart punk, Hak Vogrin (19202009) was a feminist decades before men were self-identifying as such. He consciously rejected the art world and created vivid enamel paintings in relative obscurity, first in New York Citys East Village neighborhood in the 1960s and then later in Barnegat, NJ. Depicting the issues closest to his heart: environmental destruction, pacifism, racism in America, economic disparity, animal rights and female equality, all of the artists subjects exude a subtle, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and were executed with a forceful confidence and political determination. Dont Waste Yer Time Lookn at this Painting! Git Ta Tha Mall an Buy! Buy! Buy! opens nearly 10 years after the self-taught artists death and is the first-ever commercial exhibition of Vogrin's ... More | |
Edgar Degas, Before the Race (detail).
LAKELAND, FLA.- Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist opened Dec. 22 at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College. The exhibition seeks to shed light on the complex artist himself, his favorite themes, and the artists he called his friends. The works in the exhibition show an unexpected side of Degas namely as a masterful draftsman, said Dr. Alex Rich, PMAs curator and director of galleries and exhibitions. In addition to drawings, etchings, lithographs, and monotypes, the show features Degas photographs and a bronze sculpture. The exhibition also includes more than 40 works on paper by Degas artist colleagues, including Mary Cassatt, Ãdouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, Honoré Daumier and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Many of the subjects commonly associated with Degas work are featured in this exhibition, including ballerinas, horses and jockeys, café concert singers, ba ... More |
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| | | Su-Mei Tse's first solo exhibition in China opens at Yuz Museum | | Mona Kuhn: New book from Steidl | | Exhibition presents a photographic journey inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's diary 'America Day by Day' |
Su-Mei Tse in her exhibition Nested at the Aargauer Kunsthaus © Photo: René Roetheli, Baden.
SHANGHAI.- Edouard Malingue Gallery announced Su-Mei Tse's first solo exhibition in China, 'Nested' at Yuz Museum Shanghai curated by Christophe Gallois, Mudam Luxembourg and Wen Shi, Yuz Museum Shanghai. Marked by her cosmopolitan origins between Europe and Asia, and by an attention to the sonorous dimension of the world, the practice of Su-Mei Tse involves issues such as time, memory, musicality, and language. Taking various forms sculptures, videos, photographs, installations her artworks always operate between different fields: sound and image, nature and culture, mental space and sensory experience for example. The question of the appearance of meaning, or its evanescence, is at the heart of the work of Tse. The simplicity of the forms the artist produces contrasts with their evocative power, with the plurality of the readings that emanate from them. Her works often seem to crystallise, in the guise of an image ... More | |
Mona Kuhn: She Disappeared into Complete Silence. Text by Salvador Nadales. 104 pages, 53 images. ISBN 978-3-95829-180-5. © Images by Mona Kuhn.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Acclaimed for her contemporary and intimate depictions of the human form, Kuhn takes a new direction into abstraction in her latest series She Disappeared into Complete Silence. Photographed at a golden modernist structure on the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, architectural lines, light reflections and a single figure have been carefully balanced against the backdrop of the Californian desert. "She Disappeared into Complete Silence was photographed in a glass house where the golden light enters unobstructed. Conceptually speaking, this glass house with mirrored ceilings was an extension of my own camera and optics. I was drawn to the desert because of its magical light and raw mystic landscape. The house itself is a minimal structure held mostly together by glass, built by architect Robert Stone. These translucent surfaces offered a great setting for reflections ... More | |
Coast to Coast, SONJ, 1947 (detail) @ Estate of Esther Bubley.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is presenting «1947, Simone de Beauvoir in America» a photographic journey inspired by her diary «America Day by Day». This exhibition curated by Corinne Tapia, director of Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, aims to illustrate the depiction of De Beauvoirs encounter with America at the time. It is the first time that this book becomes the subject of an exhibition. In January of 1947, the French writer and intellectual, Simone de Beauvoir (19081986) landed in New Yorks La Guardia Airport, beginning a four-month journey across America. She traveled from East to the West coast by trains, cars and even Greyhound buses. She has recounted her travels in her personal diary and recorded every experience with minute detail. De Beauvoir decorticates everything she sees, immersing herself in the New World. It is also most certainly a very photographic book. As you read it, you can easily imagine ... More |
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Artpace presents International Artists-in-Residence exhibitions
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace San Antonio is presenting the Fall International Artists-in-Residence exhibitions. In November, Ana Fernandez (San Antonio, TX), Alice Khalilova (London, UK), and Clifford Owens (New York, NY) revealed work created during their Artpace residencies. The three artists were selected by London-based curator and radio producer Morgan Quaintance. Ana Fernandez is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the diverse landscapes of Latino communities in South Texas through landscape painting, portraiture, and through her work as a street vendor in her food truck, Chamoy City Limits. For her Artpace project, AM/PM, Fernandez utilized the traditional technique of fresco to create paintings that act as a window to her life and memories. Painting on non-traditional surfaces such as trash cans and truck mirrors, Fernandezs ... More
Exhibition features five ambitious new works from leading Australian and international artists
MELBOURNE.- The first in a new biennial series of commissions exhibitions supported by The Macfarlane Fund, The Theatre is Lying features five ambitious new works from leading Australian and international artists who share an interest in the construction of alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, illusory, cinematic and theatrical devices. Curated by ACCA Artistic Director Max Delany and Senior Curator Annika Kristensen, with new works from artists Anna Breckon & Nat Randall, Sol Calero, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Matthew Griffin and Daniel Jenatsch, The Theatre is Lying delves into the world of conspiracy theories, red herrings, smoke and mirrors, espionage and spy dramas, and the representations and misrepresentations of cinema and media. Exploring ideas of truth and fiction, perception and abstraction, and the warping of time and space, the ... More
Latin American and European artists placed in dialogue as part of Art Projects at London Art Fair
LONDON.- Art Projects returns to London Art Fair 2019 (16 - 20 January), offering a platform for emerging galleries to showcase the freshest contemporary art from across the globe. Now in its 15th edition, the section will bring together 33 galleries from 11 countries showcasing the most stimulating and innovative contemporary art practice today. Included in Art Projects are six unique collaborations, known as Dialogues, with pairs of galleries invited to display their artists in conversation with each other. This years Art Projects will feature a number of solo presentations of both emerging and established artists including Chinese-born artist Xiao-yang Li at narrative projects ahead of her first solo museum exhibition at Mexicos Museo Leonora Carrington in January 2019. Li will be presenting a new body of work in which ... More
'Shades of Elegance: Fashion and Fabrics in Teheran Around 1900' on view at Museum Rietberg
ZURICH.- When the St Gallen merchant Emil Alpiger returned to Zurich in 1896, after more than twenty years in Teheran, his luggage included a wooden trunk full of Persian clothes and fabrics. According to Emil Alpigers great-grandson, the trove was carefully looked after by the family across generations. Now, more than a hundred years later, the precious pieces are the focus of a special exhibition. When Emil Alpiger purchased the clothes, fabrics, wall hangings, and embroideries in the bazaar, they were brand new, which explains the fresh and rich colours. The astonishing combination of different patterns and designs is inspiring. It takes us back to Persia at the end of the nineteenth century, to an era we otherwise only know from old black-and-white photographs. However, the clothes and fabrics stand for more than just the taste and love ... More
The Egyptian Academy in Rome emphasizes the value of cultural diplomacy
ROME.- When wandering in the streets and piazzas of Rome, it is always a surprise to encounter Egyptian obelisks and Pharaonic monuments, reminders of the ancient links between Egypt and Rome. However, it is even more exciting to visit the prestigious Egyptian Academy, a cultural facility established near Romes Villa Borghese, next to a group of international fine arts academies representing various countries in the world. Although the Egyptian Academy is one of seventeen fine arts academies that exist today in Rome, it is the sole representative of the African continent and the Arab world. In fact, only the Egyptian and Japanese academies represent the "East" among those academies. The Academy serves multiple objectives, hosting Egyptian art students in Rome while promoting Egyptian culture beyond its borders, also as a source of pride for Egyptian ... More
Château Mouton Rothschild to help fund restoration projects at the palace of Versailles
PARIS.- Château Mouton Rothschild announced that Sothebys will auction 75 limited-edition Versailles celebration cases featuring five Château Mouton Rothschild vintages. These beautifully crafted collectors cases honour and celebrate the palace of Versailles and Château Mouton Rothschilds rich artistic and cultural history. The proceeds will be donated in full to help fund restoration projects at the palace of Versailles. Each case, designed to reflect features from both great institutions, presents five Château Mouton Rothschild vintages with labels by outstanding contemporary artists who have also exhibited at the Palace of Versailles: Giuseppe Penone (Château Mouton Rothschild 2005; Palace of Versailles, 2013) Bernar Venet (Château Mouton Rothschild 2007; Palace of Versailles, 2011) Anish Kapoor (Château Mouton Rothschild 2009; Palace ... More
Display, Berlin exhibits Polymeric Lust: A group exhibition curated by Simon W Marin
BERLIN.- Prior to become a noun, the adjective plastic used to refer to the malleability of certain substances, that is, their quality of being easily shaped. Hence the expression plastic arts, sometimes used as a synonym for visual arts. It is by extension that the term progressively became a common name for the family of synthetic materials that have literally come to shape the contemporary world. By presenting works by 8 artists exploring the creative potential of synthetic substances, POLYMERIC LUST acknowledges the etymologic and metaphorical bond between the material and the discipline. More precisely, the artworks address the significance of synthetic polymers today, albeit less as a mere material than as an indicator of humans need to process, contain and neutralize their surrounding environment in order to assimilate it. A symbol of todays ... More
'Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca' opens at Framer Framed
AMSTERDAM.- Framer Framed presents Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca. A collaborative project initiated by researcher and curator Amal Alhaag and artist and curator Barby Asante. Diasporic Self is an ongoing visual, sonic and dialogic programme and exhibition environment that looks into the meaning, conceptualisation, multiplicities and complexities of the notion of Black Togetherness across Europe. In what ways does Black Togetherness manifest itself in visual and sonic cultures in various urban and contested spaces, institutions and architectures? The project takes place in two spaces simultaneously Framer Framed in Amsterdam and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning in London. Central to the project are the historical and contemporary relationships, codes and lingua franca that are transmitted between ... More
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture opens the sixth edition of the series titled Currents
MAASTRICHT.- Currents #6 presents the work of 17 emerging artists who recently graduated from Belgian, Dutch and German academies. This years theme Good Intentions, brings together personal stories and political statements dealing with identity, youth and cultural traditions. From twerking to vlogging children, from the French Revolution to drone warfare and from pickling chestnuts to selling your soul for ice cream: Good Intentions has it all. The exhibition is curated by Marian Cousijn, Anne Ruygt and Bertan Selim. Many of the selected artists moved to the Euregion from different parts of the world. Through their work they reflect on society and contemplate belonging in todays established socio-political order. The artists treat subjects ranging from happiness to alienation; from controversial histories to the perversity of the internet. Their works question ... More
TextielMuseum opens exhibition of works by Chris Lebeau
TILBURG.- From peacocks to ibis, from dandelion to maple tree: at the exhibition Chris Lebeau I Flora and Fauna you experience the plant and animal world as decorative artist Chris Lebeau (1878-1945) created it with such great care for detail. With nature as his source of inspiration, he designed beautiful and innovative patterns for textiles in the art nouveau style. He knows how to catch a large variety of natural motives in stunningly styled designs for damask, batik, and velours. Even today, they are true eye-catchers. The versatility of Lebeau as a 'textile artist' is the focal point of the exhibition. Historic sample books are presented in order to illustrate how the designer learned how to stylise natural motives and translate them into ornament prints. The exhibition can be seen in the DamaskWeaving workshop. At the start of the twentieth century, nature ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Ad Reinhardt was born December 24, 1913. Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 - August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. In this image: View of the exhibition Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reinhardt, 17.06.2017 - 21.01.2018, Mudam Luxembourg © Estate of Ad Reinhardt; courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/London. Photo: Rémi Villaggi/ Mudam Luxembourg.
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