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Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1965/2004. Three chromo-cubicles (fluorescent light with blue, red, and green filters) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Cruz-Diez Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2009.464 © 2010 Carlos Cruz-Diez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
PARIS (AFP).- Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the major figures in kinetic art, has died at the age of 95 in Paris, his family announced Sunday. "It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Carlos Eduardo Cruz-Diez," said a statement from the family posted on the artist's website. "Your love, your joy, your teachings and your colours, will remain forever in our hearts." The funeral would be held in private, the statement added. The Franco-Venezuelan artist was born August 17 in 1923, in Caracas, and as a young student at the School of Fine Art there financed his studies by drawing comic books. From 1960, he lived and worked in Paris. "I started by painting slums, misery," he once said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro. "I thought artists should be a reporter ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux is presenting the first solo show of Takako Saito (born 1929 in Sabae-shi, Japan) in a French museum. It brings together more than 400 works since her beginnings in the 1960s alongside Fluxus artists George Maciunas in the United States, and George Brecht and Robert Filliou in France, before she settled in Düsseldorf at the end of the 1970s.
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| | | IMMA presents an exhibition and performance by legendary artist Kim Gordon | | BMA receives $5 million gift to establish center dedicated to the study of French master Henri Matisse | | Exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna presents works by Jan van Eyck |
Kim Gordon, Lay Down Thy Limbs 2, 2019, Acrylic and medium on canvas, 121.9 x 91.4 cm, © Kim Gordon, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
DUBLIN.- IMMA presents She bites her tender mind a solo exhibition by legendary multi-disciplinary artist Kim Gordon. With a career spanning more than three decades, Gordon is one of the most prolific and ground-breaking artists working today. Synonymous with the iconic band she co-founded in 1981, Sonic Youth, her work crosses boundaries between visual art, music, fashion, film, writing and performance, and insists on radical experimentation within every field. She bites her tender mind features a series of new works including recent and previously unseen paintings, drawings, and ceramic sculptures, alongside a glitter installation and an immersive video projection. The exhibition She bites her tender mind is a poetic response by the artist to the atmosphere and architecture of IMMAs Courtyard Galleries. For Gordon, this series of four interconnecting rooms, each with its classical detailing, mouldings, mantles and fireplaces, feels ... More | |
Henri Matisse visiting the Cone sisters Baltimore apartments in 1930. The Baltimore Museum of Art Archives.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced that it has received a gift of $5 million from the Ruth Carol Fund to support the creation of a center within the museum dedicated to the study of French artist Henri Matisse, drawing on the museums incomparable collection of more than 1,200 works by the artist. In recognition of this generous gift and in tribute to the Ruth Carol Funds founder, a longtime BMA supporter, the center will be called The Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies. The Marder Center will serve as a major resource for scholars, providing new opportunities for research and symposia, for the presentation of exhibitions that contribute to both academic and public understanding of the French masters practice, and for the digitization and publication of portions of the collection, making it accessible to audiences around the world. The gift from the Ruth Carol Fund provides essential support toward t ... More | |
Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 Maaseyck near Maastricht 1441 Bruges), Portrait of a Scholar, formerly identified as Cardinal Albergati 1438? © KHM-Museumsverband.
VIENNA.- The exhibition presents three of the circa twenty extant works by Jan van Eyck, offering a glimpse of the art produced during the reign of Duke Philip the Good, when the Burgundian Low Countries witnessed a unique flowering of courtly and urban civilisation. Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441), the favourite court painter of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (1396-1467), is celebrated for his virtuosity in the use of oil paint and his skill in combining naturalism and realism with brilliant colours. Already regarded as an epoch-making artist by his contemporaries, he was soon renowned throughout Europe as the founder of Netherlandish painting. Jan van Eyck was one of the first artists north of the Alps to sign and date his works. His use of a motto is remarkable. In the early fifteenth century, it was highly unusual for a painter then still regarded as a mere craftsman to have his own device, something reserved for the dukes of Burgundy and the nobility. ... More |
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| | | Hello Rembrandt! Mauritshuis opens an exhibition full of activities for adults with children | | Mick Jagger back to Venice fest with art heist thriller | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents artist Zak Ové's first solo exhibition in L.A. |
Rembrandt, 'Tronie' of a Man with a Feathered Beret, c.1635-1640.
THE HAGUE.- Getting to know Rembrandt playfully, that is Hello Rembrandt!, a presentation that starts on 20 July at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Many Dutch museums are offering exhibitions for the national commemoration of Rembrandts death 350 years ago; but this show specifically for children is a first. Admission is free for everyone up to 18 years old. Hello Rembrandt! is an exhibition full of activities for adults with children aged 3-11. Visitors will be able to learn all about Rembrandt together. Who was Rembrandt and why is he still such a renowned artist? Did Rembrandt have siblings, what was paint made of in the seventeenth century? Hello Rembrandt! is appropriate for kids of all ages. Preschoolers play with Rembrandt, just as Rembrandt himself played with light, composition and paint in his paintings. Rembrandt often used himself as a model and even used elements of disguise. Children will be able to dress up with a beautiful ... More | |
The Rolling Stones band members (L-R) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards perform on stage during their "No Filter" tour at NRG Stadium on July 27, 2019 in Houston, Texas. SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Veteran rocker Mick Jagger will return to the silver screen at the Venice film festival in September for the premiere of art-world thriller "The Burnt Orange Heresy", alongside Donald Sutherland. The adaptation of American author Charles Willeford's novel was filmed before Jagger, 76 on Friday, underwent heart surgery in April. Directed by Italian Giuseppe Capotondi, the film features Jagger as wealthy art collector Joseph Cassidy who proposes to a young couple to visit the studio of famous artist Jerome Debney, played by Sutherland, in order to steal one of his works of art. The film, also starring Denmark's Claes Bang and Australia's Elizabeth Debicki will close the Venice Mostra on September 7, organisers said on Monday. Legendary frontman Jagger in June resumed performing with the Rolling Stones two ... More | |
Zak Ové, The Invisible Men and the Masque of Blackness, 2016, installation view, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK, 2016-17, © Zak Ové, Courtesy Modern Forms, Vigo gallery, the artist and YSP, Photo © Jonty Wilde.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness, marking the artist Zak Ovés first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Ové (b. 1966) is a British visual artist of Trinidadian descent who works in sculpture, film, and photography. His 40-piece sculptural installation The Invisible Man and the Masque of Blackness features a group of identical, 6 1/2-foot-tall reproductions of an African figure that the artist received as a gift from his father in his early childhood. Ovés figures, fabricated from resin and graphite, hold their hands up at shoulder level in an act of quiet strength and resilience, and are spaced evenly in rows to ironically recall the formation of either a group soldiers or political dissidents. The exhibition title references two milestones in black history: Ben Jonsons 1605 play The ... More |
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| | | Vatican says no recent bones found in search of ossuary | | Russi Taylor, voice of Minnie Mouse, dies at 75 | | Museum of Contemporary Art of Bordeaux presents the first solo show of Takako Saito in a French museum |
A man wears a jersey with a photo of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager who disappeared in 1983 in one of Italy's darkest mysteries. Andreas SOLARO / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- Experts say they have found no recent bones in their examination of a ossuary as part of a search for a teenager who disappeared 36 years ago, Vatican officials said Sunday. But an expert representing the family of the missing girl has called for more tests on some of the bones. A Vatican spokesman said a team of specialists, who completed their work Sunday, had found no bones old enough to match those of Emanuela Orlandi, the missing teenager. Forensics specialist Giovanni Arcudi, who led the team, said they had found "no bone structure dating back to a period later than the end of the 19th century," said the statement. But an expert appointed to represent the Orlandi family's interest has called for more detailed tests on around 70 bones that Professor Arcudi did not think worth examining because he judged them to be very old. The Vatican police have filed and taken possession of the remains, pending a court ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 22, 2018 voice actress Russi Taylor, who has voiced Minnie Mouse since 1986, poses with Minnie Mouse. Alberto E. Rodriguez / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Russi Taylor, Disney's official voice of Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died, the entertainment giant announced Saturday. She was 75. Taylor, who was prone to giggles just like the character she voiced, captured the heart and sound of Mickey Mouse's counterpart on TV, in cartoons and film, and at theme parks. "Minnie Mouse lost her voice with the passing of Russi Taylor," Bob Iger, chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company, said in a statement. "For more than 30 years, Minnie and Russi worked together to entertain millions around the world -- a partnership that made Minnie a global icon and Russi a Disney Legend beloved by fans everywhere. "We take comfort in the knowledge that her work will continue to entertain and inspire for generations to come," Iger said. Taylor died in Glendale, California on Friday, Disney said. The company did ... More | |
Takako Saito at CAPC musée dart contemporain de Bordeaux (8 mars 22 septembre 2019) © Takako Saito. Adagp, Paris 2019. Photo: Arthur Péquin.
BORDEAUX.- This retrospective is the first solo show of Takako Saito (born 1929 in Sabae-shi, Japan) in a French museum. It brings together more than 400 works since her beginnings in the 1960s alongside Fluxus artists George Maciunas in the United States, and George Brecht and Robert Filliou in France, before she settled in Düsseldorf at the end of the 1970s. Comprising sculptures, paintings, performative and sound works as well as books, the exhibition surveys more than fifty years of Saitos career, from her early works based on games (most notably chess) to her latest clothing designs. The retrospective, which bears witness to an ongoing interest in everyday objects and audience participation, will be punctuated by three performances by the artist, who turns 90 this year. The exhibition is accompanied by a trilingual catalogue (German, English, French) published by Snoeck Publishing (Cologne), with essays by Dieter Daniels, Larry List, Marc ... More |
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| | | African satirist Mamane plans drama school to promote 'freedom' | | Damiani to publish the first monograph by British photographer Ben Hassett | | Sculpture artist Elizabeth Turk and guests explore extinction at the Catalina Island Museum |
Nigerian humorist Mamane poses in the Palais des sports theatre of Niamey, ahead of his show on July 2, 2019. Mamane in Niger's most famous comedian. ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP.
NIAMEY (AFP).- On a dusty patch of land on the outskirts of the capital Niamey, Niger's most famous comedian Mamane shows off a site he says will host a drama school to promote African artists and freedom on a continent rife with corruption and strife. Largely unknown in the Anglosphere, the performer is famous in French-speaking Africa for the satirical radio show "The Very, Very Democratic Republic of Gondwana" spoofing crooked regimes and the rich nations that prop them up. Having spent a large part of his career in France, Mamane smiles with pride as he describes plans to construct a drama school that will offer comedy and other entertainment training to Niger's youth. "We are all Muslims, Christians -- we are human beings -- and it will be a school to really learn freedom, the love of life. Living together is what we want," he said. Rated by the United Nations as one of the world's least developed nations, the push to open a drama ... More | |
Color. ISBN 978-88-6208-663-9, 216 x 267 mm 148 pages, 87 colour and 9 B&W Soft cover with slipcase. UK £40.
LONDON.- Printed in ultra-violet ink in a hand-numbered slipcased edition of 1000 copies, Color is the first monograph by British photographer Ben Hassett. In keeping with his acute sense of the powerful language of colour photography, Hassett invites us into his world of photographic experimentation to experience the possibilities of this chromatic medium. Color draws together Hassetts iconic fashion and beauty images, studio still lifes, abstract in-camera works and landscape photographs to present his unique lexicon of colour photography. Putting aside the conventions of chronological and project-by-project sequencing, the book instead pursues a dynamic reading that surveys the past ten years of Hassetts standing as an influential image maker. In her essay for the book, Charlotte Cotton writes, Color is Ben Hassetts pluralistic, celebratory ode to photography and the experimental journey on which it has taken him. In his hands, color is multiform: ... More | |
The interactive installation open now through March 2020, was enjoyed by islanders and mainlanders alike during Saturday evenings reception.
CATALINA ISLAND.- The Catalina Island Museum presented the official opening of Tipping Point from acclaimed sculpture artist Elizabeth Turk on July 13. Inspired by nature and the environment, Turk seeks to explore the extinction of birds in North America in this outdoor installation at the museum. The interactive installation open now through March 2020, was enjoyed by islanders and mainlanders alike during Saturday evenings reception. In Turks celebration entitled ThinkLab LIVE .003: Tipping Point; ARE WE CREATING A SILENCE? her abstract art was partnered with a representation of what it would be like for us, humans, to go extinct. With many of Californias Channel Island birds on the cusp of extinction, Turk titled her work Tipping Point to highlight the dangers these animals face. She asked all attendees to wear white to represent ghosts and ended the night in darkness to represent extinction. I cant think of a time when I have been p ... More |
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Exhibition examines a multi-generational group of artists who challenge painting surfaces by making cuts
MIAMI, FLA.- This exhibition expands on narrow definitions of American art, said Dr. Jordana Pomeroy, the Director of the Frost Art Museum FIU. For too long, the narrative of American abstraction has been limited in scope. This show reassesses what it means to be an abstract artist living and working in the United States. During the 20th century, many American abstract artists challenged traditional methods of art-making, using a palette knife instead of a paintbrush, soaking their canvases in diluted paint, and other ways of cutting that transformed their two-dimensional abstract paintings into three-dimensional works. For some of these artists, their cuts were seen as incisively political. For others, the new ways they pierced their canvases or cut the paint itself were investigations into the very materials they used. The American abstract icon Jack Whitten ... More
Winners of the 21st anniversary edition of the MOSTYN Open announced
LLANDUDNO.- MOSTYN, Wales UK announced two award-winning artists of the 21st anniversary edition of the MOSTYN Open. The artists were chosen from 34 exhibiting artists who were selected from over 750 artists who responded to an open-call attracting submissions from across the globe. The selection of artists for MOSTYN Open 21 represents the continued rise of the gallery's international profile with participants located in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Portugal, Spain, USA and Australia. A third award, the 'Audience Award' will grant a cash prize of £1,000 to the artist or collective who receive the most votes from visitors during the exhibition. The £10,000 MOSTYN Open 21 prize is awarded to Sarah Entwistle for her sculptural installation works 'You can make your own balance sheet' and 'Do not attempt to break the seal'. The two ... More
Exhibition of Arte Povera from the Olnick Spanu Collection on view at Musei Civici di Cagliari
CAGLIARI.- For the first time, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation works together in partnership with an Italian museum to present exhibitions in the spaces of Palazzo di Città of the Musei Civici di Cagliari which will be on view until December 8th, 2019. The American institution is represented through fifteen carefully selected works by the main Arte Povera artists from the Olnick Spanu Collection, considered one of the largest and most complete collections of Arte Povera in the world. The story is enriched by the telling of the construction of Magazzino Italian Art Foundation through the photographs of Marco Anelli, presented for the first time in Italy with a series of unpublished works following exhibitions in New York and Washington D.C. The two exhibitions together define the making of the great cultural project of Magazzino Italian Art Foundation located one ... More
Synchronica :: Framing Time exhibition opens at the Historic Thomas Center
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Galleries at the Historic Thomas Center announced the opening of Synchronica :: Framing Time, which will run through Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020. The word synchronic refers to a thing as it exists in a moment in time. Synchronica :: Framing Time, is an exhibition of 150 photo portraits made of and by young adults between the ages of 14 and 21. Taken together, they capture a moment in time and place Gainesville in 2019. The 150 images paint a picture of our community of young people as they stand at the verge of becoming the teachers, leaders, parents and change-makers of our city and world. The photographs are both powerful and intimate allowing viewers to connect to what is universal through images that are very personal. A year in the making, the exhibition is part of Gainesville150!, the commemoration of the 150th anniversary ... More
Collective presents a new film by Perthshire-based artist Helen McCrorie
EDINBURGH.- If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it? is a new film by Perthshire-based artist Helen McCrorie, showing in The Hillside as part of Collectives Satellites Programme. Helen McCrorie is an artist working with video and documentary strategies. If play is neither inside nor outside, where is it? centres on a child-led outdoor playgroup that meets in the grounds of a former military camp in Scotland. This site, adopted by families for imaginative play and experiential learning, also houses a bunker transformed into a data storage unit. The film celebrates innate creativity and explores our understanding of data gathering and learning as interconnected, yet diverging, processes. Helen McCrorie and Collectives Satellites Programme: Helen Mcrories recent exhibitions and screenings include Against the Flow, Perth Playhouse, Platform Festival, Culture PK, ... More
Karachi vice: Pakistani cop channels police stories into gritty novels
KARACHI (AFP).- His father was assassinated by a notorious Karachi hitman, while his police partner was murdered by the Taliban. Personal tragedy haunts the hard-boiled novels that are turning top cop Omar Shahid Hamid into one of Pakistan's most popular English-language authors. For nearly two decades Hamid has worn a badge in Karachi, the mega port city on the Arabian Sea that for years was rife with vicious political and extremist violence. Now a deputy inspector general, he is also fast becoming one of Pakistan's most recognisable writers, publishing four books in quick succession since 2013. His work has even nabbed the attention of major streaming outlets on the hunt for new original material from South Asia, including Netflix, which has already seen major success with similar material in TV series such as Sacred Games, about Mumbai's corrupt ... More
Summer Splash: DAM opens a group show
BERLIN.- For the fifth time, DAM is presenting Summer Splash, a group show traditionally wrapping up the first half of the year. We are happy to introduce to you for the first time within our program the artistic positions of Arno Beck and ea bertrams. With different approaches, both artists create images where traditional techniques meet digital aesthetics, the virtual and the analog become indistinguishable. Artists of the gallery present new works, ranging from Patrick Lichty's virtual reality installation to the hyperrealistic and surreal 3D-animations of Eelco Brand to the interactive, electronical objects of Peter Vogel. Moreover, there is a reunion with a longtime acquaintance of the gallery and a pioneer of digital art as well as founding member of the Algorists, USA-based artist Jeane-Pierre Hébert, who is showing plotter drawings. Arno Beck creates compositions ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died July 29, 1890. Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found). His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. In this image: Jussi Pylkkanen, the senior director of 19th Century Art at Christie's, views Van Gogh's "A Pair of Shoes," as it went on display in the Christie's auction rooms in London, Friday, September 10, 1999. The rarely exhibited and little known painting is the missing link in an important series of five closely related pictures by Van Gogh between 1886 and 1887.
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