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A woman looks at Jacopo Tintoretto's "Portrait of a Widow" (early 1550s) during a preview of "Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice" at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on March 19, 2019. What is clear from the first major Tintoretto retrospective outside of Europe, opening Sunday, March 24, 2019 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is that the "impetuous genius" critics reviled for his free, "unfinished" style was a bold innovator whose impact can still be felt today. Olivia Hampton / AFP.
by Olivia Hampton
WASHINGTON (AFP).- When he was just a teenager, Tintoretto was sent to Italian Renaissance painter Titian's studio, only to be kicked out within days because the older master got jealous. Or so goes the legend. What is clear from the first major Tintoretto retrospective outside of Europe, opening Sunday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is that the "impetuous genius" critics reviled for his free, "unfinished" style was a bold innovator whose impact can still be felt today. The exhibition, a debut for the museum's first woman director Kaywin Feldman, comes on the heels of city-wide celebrations and shows for the artist's 500th birthday in his hometown of Venice. Jean-Paul Sartre called Tintoretto the "first film director," a theatricality seen in paintings like "The Conversion of Saint Paul" (circa 1544). The eponymous scene happens in one corner of a canvas otherwise dominated by extravagant, zigzagging brushstrokes deliberately left clearly visible -- then a groundbreaking innovation -- to d ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A major new international exhibition, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits features more than 150 treasures from LondonÂs revered National Portrait Gallery, many of which have never before been seen outside the United Kingdom. Tudors to Windsors traces the history of the British monarchy through the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. This exhibition highlights major events in British (and world) history from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the ways in which royal portraits were impacted by both the personalities of individual monarchs and wider historical change.
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| | | From Leonardo to the present, new exhibition explores history of conveying 3D on the page | | Sotheby's announces an eclectic offering of objects from the prehistory period to the present | | A major new international exhibition features more than 150 treasures from London's National Portrait Gallery |
Leonardo da Vinci sketch of arm.
OXFORD.- Thinking 3D: From Leonardo to the Present, a new exhibition at the Bodleian Libraries, explores how artists and scientists have learned to convey three-dimensional objects on the page over the last 500 years. This unique exhibition features rare drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, displaying his virtuoso talent for representing 3D observations and ideas in graphic form, and showcases some of the Bodleian Libraries finest books, manuscripts, prints and drawings. Thinking 3D shows how technological advances, from the invention of the printing press and new illustration techniques to photography, stereoscopy and 3D modeling, have allowed authors and artists to share their ideas with the world. For centuries artists, illustrators and scientists have wrestled with the challenge of how to communicate three dimensions on two dimensional media. How did architects show plans for buildings and represent 3D objects on paper? How were obs ... More | |
This colossal head of Shakyamuni Buddha is outstanding for its monumental size and powerful countenance. Est. HK$6,000,000 - 8,000,000/ USD 765,000 - 1,020,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong will present Curiosity V on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. In its fifth instalment, the sale offers an eclectic and thought-provoking assemblage of works ranging across time and geographical space, from Ice Age Siberia, to Bronze Age China, Ancient Egypt and Medieval Europe. Highlights include an important Neolithic jade cong from the Liangzhu culture formerly in the distinguished collection of Duan Fang (1861-1911); a monumental stucco Buddha head dating from the Liao dynasty in the 10th-12th century; a rare complete skeleton of a Pleistocene period mammoth; and a principal springer mullion from the south window of Canterbury Cathedral. Nicolas Chow, Chairman, Sothebys Asia, International Head and Chairman, Chinese Works ... More | |
King Charles II by John Michael Wright, c. 1660-1665 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
BENDIGO.- Tudors to Windsors traces the history of the British monarchy through the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. This exhibition highlights major events in British (and world) history from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the ways in which royal portraits were impacted by both the personalities of individual monarchs and wider historical change. Australian audiences have an extraordinary opportunity to come face-to-face with the fascinating figures of British royalty, and explore the story of Britains monarchy through masterworks of painting, sculpture and photography. Presenting some of the most significant royal portraits, Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits explores five royal dynasties: the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Georgians, the Victorians and the Windsors; shedding light on key figures and important historical moments. Among the many works on view ... More |
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| | | Lisson Gallery Shanghai opens inaugural exhibition: 'Love is Metaphysical Gravity' | | Scaffolding dog is a playful addition to the Chatsworth Garden for new exhibition | | Rare masterpiece by Jean-Léon Gérôme leads Sotheby's annual Orientalist Sale |
Richard Long, Untitled, 2018. China clay on linen on wood, 185 x 150 x 2.7 cm 72 3/4 x 59 x 1 in © Richard Long; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
SHANGHAI.- Lisson Gallery Shanghai is housed within the former warehouse known as the Amber Building on Huqiu Road. This historic building, dating back to the 1930s, was previously used during the Republican period by the Central Bank of China. The road, historically referred to as Museum Road due to its location, today sits alongside some of the citys major museums and cultural institutions, including the Rockbund Art Museum, Fosun Foundation and Christies. The newly launched Lisson Gallery Shanghai opened to the public on 22 March 2019. This is the gallerys fifth permanent exhibition space, joining two in London and two in New York. Lisson Gallery Shanghai opened with an exhibition entitled Love is Metaphysical Gravity. ... More | |
Ben Long's Dog Scaffolding Sculpture at Chatsworth.
CHATSWORTH.- A monumental new work "Dog Scaffolding Sculpture" stands proudly in the Chatsworth Garden ready to greet visitors as part of the Derbyshire estates new exhibition. Artist Ben Long was commissioned to create the new piece for The Dog: A Celebration at Chatsworth creating a playful and alert sculpture of a dog constructed entirely from metal scaffolding. Ben explains: Part of the challenge of working in scaffolding is overcoming the inherent lifelessness of this large scale material in order to describe organic form. While soft and cuddly is in no way achievable in steel, my ambition for Dog Scaffolding Sculpture does extend to capturing something akin to the abundant energy and playfulness that the canine species embodies. I wanted to make a dog because I felt it was a way to convey loyalty, guidance, ... More | |
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Rider and his Steed in the Desert (detail), oil on canvas, 1872, Estimate £1,000,000-1,500,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A rare masterpiece by Jean-Léon Gérôme will lead Sothebys annual Orientalist Sale in London. Cinematic in scale and impact, Rider and His Steed in the Desert is a unique work in Gérômes oeuvre. The highly charged picture captures both the stoicism of the North African tribespeople and a heroic struggle between man and nature. Estimated at £1,000,000-1,500,000, the oil is one of five works by the artist in a sale comprising 79 exceptional paintings, watercolours and sculptures that together provide fascinating historical insights into the Arab, Ottoman, and Islamic worlds during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Launched as an annual event by Sothebys in London in 2012 and now in its eighth season, The Orientalist ... More |
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| | | Exhibition explores the concept of crafts and handmade processes in Berlin's contemporary art scene | | Abdelkader Benchamma opens exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris | | Punta della Dogana |
Haegue Yang, "The Intermediate Weary Bell Bottom Hairy Hug Senior", 2018. Powder-coated steel frame, powder-coated metal grid, casters, plastic twine.
BERLIN.- Gropius Bau explores the concept of crafts and handmade processes in Berlins contemporary art scene, taking its history as a former museum for decorative arts and educational institution as a starting point. When Dorothy Iannone serenaded her friend Mary Harding in 1977 she sang an avowal to the city of Berlin, a place she had moved to only a year before with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin programme and where she has lived ever since. Her line And Berlin will always need you, forms the title of the first exhibition presented at the Gropius Bau in 2019. And Berlin Will Always Need You. Art, Craft and Concept Made in Berlin is a distinctly contemporary art exhibition that sheds light on artists practices in the city. With 2019 marking the centenary of the Bauhaus, ... More | |
Engramme- Rumeur des cercles (détail), 2019. Ink, bitumen and paint on paper, 193 x 156,5 cm. chaque; 76 1/8 x 61 5/8 in. each. Triptyque. Photo: B. Huet/ Tutti.
PARIS.- Back from his residency at Villa Medicis, Abdelkader Benchamma is exhibiting at Galerie Daniel Templon for the very first time. Through the recurring medium of black and white murals, chosen for their simplicity and graphic power, the artist has developed a language which causes viewers to doubt their perception of reality, immersing them in unstable and dynamic universes. From enveloping moving matter at the New York Drawing Center (2015-2016) to a cave animated by a furious circular vortex for the Sharjah Biennale (2017) and a fossilised Big Bang covering the floor of the Collège des Bernadins (2018), his somewhat metaphysical installations question our relationship with the intangible, the infinite, the invisible. Inspired by literature, astrophysics, philosophy and esotericism, his work redefines ... More | |
Installation view.
VENICE.- Luogo e Segni, conceived by Mouna Mekouar, independent curator, and Martin Bethenod, Director of Palazzo Grassi Punta della Dogana, is the seventh exhibition to be presented at Punta della Dogana from its opening as an exhibition space of the Pinault Collection, ten years ago, in 2009. Named after an artwork by Carol Rama displayed in the exhibition, Luogo e Segni presents over 100 works by 36 artists, among whom 17 are presented for the first time in a Pinault Collection exhibition in Venice including, among others; Berenice Abbot, Liz Deschenes, Trisha Donnelly and R. H. Quaytman. Among those, 3 have taken part in the artist residency programme promoted by the Pinault Collection in Lens: Lucas Arruda, Hicham Berrada and Edith Dekyndt. Luogo e Segni is an itinerary through some inner geography where nature, creation and poetry intertwine, and draws particular inspiration from the wri ... More |
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| | | Liang Yi Museum opens 'Chrysanthemum and Dragon: The Art of Ornamentation in Japan and China in the 17th-19th Century' | | Perrotin opens an exhibition of works by Otani Workshop | | Gemeentemuseum introduces the Dutch public to the work of Katarzyna Kobro & Władysław Strzemiński |
Tabako-bon, Japan, Meiji period. Maki-e over wood and silver. Height 24.5cm x Width 27.4cm x Length 16cm.
HONG KONG.- Liang Yi Museum is presenting the exhibition Chrysanthemum and Dragon: The Art of Ornamentation in Japan and China in the 17th 19th Century. The exhibition offers an insight into the differing yet equally lavish arts and crafts movements in China and Japan during the 17th to 19th century. Featuring over 180 Japanese objects including the portable stationery, yatate; and the kiseru tobacco pipe, in addition to over 50 objects from the museums classical Ming and Qing dynasties furniture collection, Chrysanthemum and Dragon is one of the largest exhibitions to explore the shared decorative traditions of China and Japan, allowing visitors to compare the craftsmanship of both cultures side-by-side. Liang Yi Museum is the largest private museum in Hong Kong, renowned for its collections of antique Chinese furniture from the Ming and Qing dynasties, European vanities and European silver. What makes this exhibit ... More | |
Otani Workshop, View of the exhibition Contes dAwaji at Perrotin Paris. March 16 May 11, 2019. All artworks © 2019 Otani Workshop/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Claire Dorn.
PARIS.- Make no mistake: despite the name, Otani Workshop does not refer to a collective of artists, but to a singular, an eminently singular sculptor who has become the leading representative of Japanese ceramics. Silent and literally bulging heads, figures with their arms raised like praying figures, monumental middle fingers extended upwards, anthropomorphic vases, children, animals, soils, bronzes: Otani Workshops bestiary is a world in itself, a world in which dreams and tales converge as well as fantasies and daydreams, a world in which the queenly imagination and the kingly gesture triumph, in which forces and forms meet.
Born in 1980, Otani Workshop knows tradition inside out. Because he learned the power of tradition during his artistic training. Because he travelled the Japanese archipelago for a whole year, looking for his sovereign ... More | |
Władysław Strzemiński, Architectural composition 13c, 1929 (detail), oil on canvas, Muzeum Sztuki, ŁÃ³dź © Muzeum Sztuki, ŁÃ³dź & Ewa Sapka-Pawliczak.
THE HAGUE.- Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951) & Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952) met during the turbulent years that followed the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Their paths crossed in Moscow. Kobro a Russian with German roots was studying at the School of Art and Architecture there. Strzemiński born in Minsk, the son of a Polish aristocratic family was studying at the first state-subsidised art academy. In Russia, and later in Poland too, these two artists played an active role in the avant-garde art scene that also included Kazimir Malevich and Antoine Pevsner. This spring the Gemeentemuseum is introducing the Dutch public to this unconventional couple who operated at a geographical and artistic crossroads in Europe. The retrospective exhibition also highlights the mutual influences between their work and that of the artists of De Stijl. Katarzyna Kobro & Władysław Strzemi ... More |
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Hybrid Sculpture: Stedelijk Museum opens exhibition of contemporary sculpture from the collection
AMSTERDAM.- Hybrid Sculpture presents a selection of work from the collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam that reveals how radically sculpture has changed since 1990. The exhibition will feature more than twenty pieces, most of them large-scale works, by eighteen artists. The title Hybrid Sculpture refers to the fact that almost none of the works looks like a sculpture in the traditional sense: the artists blur the boundaries between sculpture and painting, performance, video art and design. Some of the artworks have never been shown in the museum before. For the artists in Hybrid Sculpture, the aim is not to create a pure sculpture informed by the classic sculptural properties such as volume and space. Instead, their practice centres around combining a variety of media and appropriating objects from pop culture and everyday life, transforming them ... More
Offbeat art fest puts abandoned California town back on map
BOMBAY BEACH (AFP).- By any stretch of the imagination, Bombay Beach is an oddity, starting with its exotic name, its location by a dying lake and the post-apocalyptic landscape that greets visitors. The desert town, once a thriving resort set along the Salton Sea, is among the poorest communities in California, its 250 or so residents seemingly forgotten by the rest of the world. Most of the homes have been abandoned for decades, their yards filled with beat-up trailers and rusted cars. But the tiny hamlet is experiencing a rebirth of sorts as a group of artists and well-heeled sponsors have taken up residence, buying up dirt-cheap property and organizing an annual three-day festival called the Bombay Beach Biennale. Launched in 2016, the festival, which is being held this weekend, is the brainchild of three Los Angeles-based friends -- Tao Ruspoli, ... More
The Parrish Art Museum opens a focused exhibition of works by photographer Renate Aller
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents Renate Aller: The Space Between Memory and Expectation, a focused exhibition of works by the German-born photographer illuminating her exploration of the interrelationship of romanticism, memory, and place through dynamic compositions rich with implied narratives. On view at the Museum from March 24 to July 28, 2019, the exhibition features 12 large-scale archival prints in a gallery installation specifically designed to present a compositionally unified environment. Presenting works drawn from ongoing series Ocean | Desert and Mountain Interval, the exhibition draws together disparate landscapes through the continuity of the horizon line. Dramatic images of the Atlantic Ocean, vast sand dunes in New Mexico and Colorado, and the majestic mountain ranges in Alaska, Switzerland, ... More
H&H Classics to offer an Austin Mini 850 Super De Luxe 7,700 miles from new
LONDON.- This time-warp 56-year-old Mini 850 Super De Luxe goes on sale with H&H Classics in Buxton on April 10 at No Reserve. It is one of dozens of classic cars that will go under the hammer at The Pavilion Gardens, Buxton. Bought by a midwife from Aberdeen as a retirement present for herself, she drove it for just one year and sadly died, the car then remained in storage until 1982. It was then bequeathed to her brother-in-law who used it for a year before putting it up for auction at the Grampian Motor Museum in September 1983, where the present owner bought it. Roger Nowell, of the H&H Classics Sales team says: If you have always wanted a classic early Mini, this example is pretty hard to beat. The Mini was born out of conflict. With the after effects of the 1956-1957 Suez Crisis being felt worldwide, and its impact on fuel which went back on ... More
İstanbul Research Institute invites visitors to take a glance at Istanbul at the end of the 19th century
ISTANBUL.- İstanbul Research Institute is presenting Looking from In-Between: A Section of Meşrutiyet Street between 21 March 21 September 2019. Turning its attention towards the section between the present-day İstanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum of the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, the exhibition seeks to capture an integrated view of Pera via references produced by this spatial interval. İstanbul Research Institute invites to take a glance at Istanbul at the end of the 19th century through the section between İstanbul Research Institute and Pera Museum. Curated by Atölye Mil, the exhibition brings together photographs, documents, maps and objects collected from İstanbul Research Institute, İBB Atatürk Kitaplığı, Salt Research, Pera Palace Hotel, Grand Hotel de Londres, Ãelik Gülersoy Foundation Istanbuls Library, Harvard University Library, Yapı Kr ... More
Major photography exhibition showcases the effects of human activity on Earth.
EDINBURGH.- A large-scale, outdoor photography exhibition showcasing the impact humans have on planet Earth opened at The Scottish Parliament. Curated by Edinburgh Science Festival, this stunning free exhibition is available to view until 8 May. A Human Touch invites its viewers to consider our impact on and responsibility for the environment and asks how we might ensure a lighter, gentler, human touch. From the depths of the ocean to the outer layers of our atmosphere, people have certainly made a mark not always for the best on the earth, air and water of our planet. Overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, deforestation and climate change all pose threats to our future. The contrast between the beauty of the images on display and the story behind them is a powerful one: from potash mines in Utah to travelling nomad farmers ... More
MAAT opens international group show 'Fiction and Fabrication'
LISBON.- MAAT is hosting Fiction and Fabrication: Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn, which gathers nearly 50 artists who build and manipulate images of architectural objects and spaces. Signaling 30 years since Photoshop was invented and digital tools invaded photographic production, this exhibition focuses on the imagery of architecture as a central theme to an expanded practice of photography in contemporary art. From the seminal works of Andreas Gurski, Thomas Demand or Doug Aitken, to the fictional creations of Beate Gütschow, Oliver Boberg or Isabel Brison, the show offers a panorama of architectural photography that evades objective approaches and favours fictionalised takes on reality between cinematic gazes, image deconstruction and more politicised narratives. Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Sérgio ... More
All night long: Art Night 2019 takes place this June in Walthamstow and King's Cross
LONDON.- Londons largest contemporary art festival, Art Night, announces first details of the Curated Programme a selection of internationally acclaimed artists presenting 12 commissions in locations around Walthamstow and Kings Cross. Curated by Helen Nisbet her first edition as Art Nights Artistic Director the programme will take place on the night of 22 June 2019, beginning at 5.00pm in Kings Cross and 7.00pm in Walthamstow, and running throughout the night. Art Night is generously supported by international auction house Phillips for the fourth year running, and this year takes place as part of the official programme for the first ever Mayor's London Borough of Culture in Waltham Forest. In 1993 the London pop group East 17 released their single Its Alright, heralding a new era for boy bands and making E17 the most exciting postcode in ... More
Venice launches Giudecca Art District with flagship exhibition Body As Home by October! Collective
VENICE.- Venices island of Giudecca today announces that it will become the citys first permanent art quarter. Building on its significant contemporary art legacy, and its proximity to the Biennale, the newly established Giudecca Art District is a new initiative that will both create and link existing contemporary art spaces to establish a permanent art district on the former industrial island of Giudecca. The Giudecca Art District will launch at the 2019 Venice Biennale and will encompass 11 art galleries and art spaces and 3 national pavilions including Estonia, Iceland and Nigeria as well as launching a new contemporary art space Giudecca Art District Gallery and Garden. Opening in May over 60 artists from 30 countries will be included in 20 exhibitions on the island for the launch of the art district. Founding art directors of the Giudecca Art District include Venetian art ... More
Cincinnati Art Museum to explore rich visual history in new book published by Arcadia
CINCINNATI, OH.- A new book that chronicles the Cincinnati Art Museums history through photographs will soon be available. Titled Cincinnati Art Museum, the book will be published as a part of Arcadias Images of America series and available starting April 22, 2019. Cincinnati Art Museum tells the story of the museum from its founding in 1881 to present day. The book is organized chronologically, featuring 275 images of notable exhibitions, people and events from the past 138 years. The images were pulled from the museums archives, a treasure trove of information on the institutions history, and an exceptional resource for the study of art history in Cincinnati and beyond. Cincinnati Art Museum Archivist Geoff Edwards agreed to author the book and sorted through nearly 30,000 prints, negatives and slides before settling on the final selection to be ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Daniel Buren was born March 25, 1938. Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist. Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. In this image: Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' works 'in situ' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire
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