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Edgar Degas (French, 18341917), Entrance of the Masked Dancers, c. 1879. Pastel on paper, 19 5/16 x 25 1/2 in. Clark Art Institute, 1955.559.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Prints and drawings comprised nearly half of the works included in the eight Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris between 1874 and 1886. Today, however, Impressionism is usually understood as a celebration of the primacy of oil painting. The Impressionist Line: From Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec challenges this perception, exploring the Impressionists substantialand often experimentalcontributions to the graphic arts. The new exhibition of thirty-nine works on paper, on view at the Clark Art Institute November 5, 2017January 7, 2018, showcases the hallmarks of the Impressionist line from the movements precursors in the 1860s through post-Impressionist art of the 1890s. The Impressionist Line is drawn from the Clarks collection of more than 6,000 works on paper. Artists represented in the exhibition include Charles-François Daubigny, Ãdouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Camille Piss ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fireworks are seen on the occasion of th 548th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on November 4, 2017. NARINDER NANU / AFP
| The tricky process of returning Nazi-looted art | | Elegant Home Auction to offer nearly 900 diverse pieces at Bonhams Los Angeles | | French court to rule on Nazi-looted Pissarro painting |
A visitor reads displayed newspaper articles during a preview of the exhibition "Gurlitt: Status Report, Nazi Art Theft and its Consequences". PATRIK STOLLARZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Nazis stole thousands of artworks from Jewish families during World War II and the restitution of these pieces has been a slow process involving legal battles, complex searches and some stunning finds. Ahead of a court ruling on the return of a painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro this week, here is some background. The art plundered by the Nazi regime was intended to be resold, given to senior officials or displayed in the Fuehrermuseum (Leader's Museum) that Adolf Hitler planned for his hometown of Linz but was never built. Just before the end of the war, the United States dispatched to Europe teams of experts -- museum directors, curators and educators -- to find, protect and rescue cultural treasures. Known as the Monuments Men, they were honoured in a 2014 George Clooney film of the same name. ... More | |
A good pair of George III carved giltwood mirrors circa 1760 (estimate: $12,000 - 18,000). Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams will offer nearly 900 diverse antique pieces from estates and private collections across the country at The Elegant Home auction on November 13-14. The sale will be an opportunity for collectors and decorators to acquire quality curated pieces of European and American furniture, chandeliers, tapestries, paintings, mirrors, clocks, sconces, candelabra, bronze and marble sculpture, ceramics and glassware, silver, works of art, and Oriental rugs spanning the 16th through the 20th century. The Elegant Home is a great example of European and American antiques sourced from coast to coast that will appeal to the discerning eye of the novice and experienced collector. The Bonhams team has once again surpassed itself in putting together a sale that encompasses 500 years of history at estimates which are sure to appeal to clients, said Andrew Jones, Director of Furniture and ... More | |
Camille Pissarro, La Cueillette des pois, 1887 (detail). Gouache, 53,3 x 64,4 cm. Bruce et Robbi Toll Archives du musée Camille-Pissarro, Pontoise / droits réservés.
PARIS (AFP).- A French court will rule Tuesday who really owns a painting of women picking peas by Impressionist master Camille Pissarro, more than 70 years after it was seized from a Jewish art collector. The dispute began earlier this year when the painting, "La Cueillette des Pois", went on display in Paris during a retrospective of Pissarro's work, alerting family members of the original owner, Simon Bauer. Bauer, a wealthy businessman with a sizeable art collection in 1943, was dispossessed by the anti-Semitic wartime French government which collaborated with the Nazis. After narrowly escaping death when a train drivers strike stopped him from being sent to an extermination camp, Bauer recovered some of his collection after the war and received compensation -- but never La Cueillette. In early 2017, his ... More |
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| LACMA's seventh annual Art+Film Gala honors Mark Bradford and George Lucas and raises more than $4.4 million | | Zahi Hawass criticises pyramid void 'discovery' | | The Morgan explores the story behind the creation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol |
Actress Salma Hayek (L) and Francois-Henri Pinault attends the 2017 LACMA Art + Film Gala Honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas on November 4, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. TARA ZIEMBA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted its seventh annual Art+Film Gala on Saturday, November 4, 2017, honoring artist Mark Bradford and filmmaker George Lucas. Co-chaired by LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the evening brought together more than 600 distinguished guests from the art, film, fashion, and entertainment industries, among others. The evening raised more than $4.4 million, with proceeds supporting LACMAs film initiatives and future exhibitions, acquisitions, and programming. The 2017 Art+Film Gala was made possible through the long-term and generous support of Gucci. Eva Chow, co-chair of the Art+Film Gala said, I'm thrilled with the success of this year's Art+Film Gala. It means so much that this incredible group of people came together to honor Mark and George and to support LACMA. I'm so grateful to Gucci for being our steadfast partner in this event since the beginning, and of course ... More | |
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass attends the "Night of Art" exhibit at the the Egyptian Museum in the capital Cairo on October 28, 2017. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- An Egyptian archaeologist overseeing a project to scan a pyramid for voids on Saturday criticised the announcement of a discovery of a passenger plane-sized cavity in the Great Pyramid. Scientists with the ScanPyramids project revealed on Thursday that the void discovered with subatomic particle scans was the first major structure found inside the pyramid since the 19th century. It is thought to be at least 30 metres (98 feet) long and located above the "Grand Gallery" -- a sloped corridor almost 50 metres long and nine metres high which links Khufu's burial chamber at the pyramid's centre to a tunnel leading outside.
The findings were published by the science journal Nature. But Zahi Hawass, who heads the ScanPyramids science committee overseeing the project, said there was no new "discovery". He said he had met other scientists from ScanPyramids who "showed us their conclusions, and we informed them this is not a discovery," he told AFP. "The ... More | |
Charles Dickens (18121870), A Christmas Carol in Prose, autograph manuscript, December 1843, The Morgan Library & Museum, MA 97, purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1900. Photography by Graham Haber, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- It has been said that no single person is more responsible for Christmas as we know it than Charles Dickens (18121870). In 1843 he published A Christmas Carol and the story and cast of charactersfrom Ebenezer Scrooge to Tiny Timimmediately became part of holiday lore. Even today, almost 175 years after the debut of the book, it is unusual for a year to go by without a new stage or screen adaptation. The Morgan Library & Museum is now exploring the genesis, composition, publication, and contemporary reception of this beloved classic in a new exhibition entitled Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas. On view through January 14, 2018, the show demonstrates how the enormous popularity of A Christmas Carol catapulted Dickens out of his study into international stardom, launching a career of public dramatic readings that the author heartily embraced. The exhibition ... More |
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| Exhibition focuses on one of the finest collections of European art ever to have been formed in the U.S. | | Artist Hito Steyerl heads 2017 edition of ArtReview's annual Power 100 | | Laurence Miller Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by Wendell MacRae |
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), Portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto, 1558. Oil on canvas. 45 3/16 x 34 15/16 inches. John G. Johnson Collection, 1917.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This fall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting Old Masters Now: Celebrating the Johnson Collection, a major exhibition focusing on one of the finest collections of European art ever to have been formed in the United States by a private collector. The exhibition marks the centenary of the remarkable bequest of John Graver Johnsona distinguished corporate lawyer of his day and one of its most adventurous art collectorsto the city of Philadelphia in 1917. It also coincides with the celebration of the centennial of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The exhibition includes masterpieces by key figures of the Renaissance such as Botticelli, Bosch, and Titian; important seventeenth-century Dutch paintings by Rembrandt, Jan ... More | |
Hito Steyerl. © Tobias Zielony.
LONDON.- Artist Hito Steyerl is number one in the 16th edition of the ArtReview Power 100. The annual ranking of the contemporary artworlds most influential players hits newsstands on Friday 3 November and is published in association with Bayerische Motoren Werke. ArtReview comments, Art is powerful. Or at least its the construct of powerful forces, not always of the positive kind. This is something Steyerl recognises. The artist makes the top slot on this list because she actively attempts to disrupt this nexus of power. Steyerls videos and installations take cue from historical and political narratives, tackling digital culture and identity along the way. In her academically rigorous writing, performative lectures and teaching, she is doggedly outspoken; critically influencing agendas internationally. Steyerl took part in this years once-a-decade, era-defining ... More | |
Wendell MacRae, New York City, ca. 1935. Vintage gelatin silver print.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery is presenting Rock Paper Scissors, an exhibition featuring forty rare vintage black and white photographs by Wendell MacRae, all made during the 1930s. These images capture New York City as it emerged from the Depression and experienced an extraordinary building boom, from the completion of the Empire State Building to the massive Rockefeller Center project, completed in 1940. After an exhibition of his early Modernist work at the pioneering Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, MacRae was hired in 1934 to record the construction of Rockefeller Center, in which he was provided studio space. It is this bold, Modernist work for which he is best recognized. But his creativity went beyond recording the Rock, as he explored more experimental techniques, including montage ... More |
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| Tibor de Nagy opens a solo exhibition of work by contemporary artist Jim Butler | | Matthew Marks opens exhibition of seven new sculptures by Katharina Fritsch | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery opens a new exhibition by British artist Phil Collins |
Jim Butler, The Skeptic's Glance, 2016. Oil on canvas, 51 x 68 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents Synaptic Reverb, a solo exhibition of work by contemporary artist Jim Butler, showcasing a cycle of six new paintings completed over the past two years. Butlers work centers on the question of what it means to be human in an age when boundaries between nature and technology collapse: a world of smoke and mirrors in which desire to solidly exist confronts a continually morphing biosphere. In the paintings, figure-like apparitions congeal and dissolve as if governed by internal psychology or consciousness in the act of becoming. The DNA of these characters originates from blown glassa material at once mercurial and fixedwith which Butler has worked extensively over the past 15 years. Titles of works, such as The Skeptics Glance, and Stylish Woman, offer clues to the nature of particular personages, strangely familiar albeit fantastical. In a provocative formal strategy, the pai ... More | |
Katharina Fritsch, Ei / Egg 2017. Plastic, paint, 53 1/8 x 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches, 135 x 80 x 80 cm ©Katharina Fritsch / VG BildKunst, Bonn / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Ivo Faber, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announces Katharina Fritsch, a new exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. Featuring seven new sculptures, it is the artists first one-person exhibition in New York since 2008. Fritschs sculpture often begins with a familiar image, which she subverts with shifts in scale and color. The exhibition opens with three such objects greatly enlarged: a lantern in pink and black; an egg, half in yellow and half in orange; and an enormous human skull in white. In the second room are a purple spinning wheel, an oversize blue strawberry, and a large red and white snake. In 2010 art historian Jean-Pierre Criqui wrote about Fritschs depictions of animals: The way the artist uses them, but also the situations in which she places them, gives them ambiguous powers at the intersection of several tendencies: humanitys ancestral fears and superstitions, ... More | |
Delete Beach, 2016. Installation view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, November 2 December 16, 2017. Photo: Maris Hutchinson. Courtesy Shady Lane Productions, Berlin and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting a new exhibition by British artist Phil Collins, on view from November 2 through December 16, 2017. The artists fourth solo presentation with the gallery, the exhibition brings together two recent projects that traverse the interstices between pop and politics, and reflect on aspects of shared experience across a range of institutions and everyday situations. These ambitious new works pull into focus Collins unwavering dedication to pop music as both a site of encounter and a mode of exchange, his singular approach to working with non-professional protagonists, and his inspired reimagining of familiar narrative and cultural formats, in this case anime and the musical. Presented as a large-scale installation in the ground floor gallery, Delete Beach ... More |
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Group exhibition rewrites the rulebook for experiencing a work of art
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Take Me (Im Yours) a group exhibition that rewrites the rulebook for experiencing a work of art. Visitors are invited to flout convention and do all the things they arent normally allowed to do in a museum. In Take Me (Im Yours) works can be touched, used, or changed; they can be consumed or worn; purchased and even taken free of charge, or carried off in exchange for some personal item. The exhibition is also a project that continues to evolve and be transformed. At Take Me (Im Yours), the public can not only take home one of the thousands of copies of each work helping to physically empty out the spacebut alter the appearance of the show by taking part in performances where the interaction may involve an experience rather than an object, in keeping with the notion of immateriality that increasingly pervades both art and ev ... More
Luhring Augustine exhibits a selection of recent mirror paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announced the opening of Scaffali, an exhibition by the renowned Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, marking his fourth solo presentation at the gallery. Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933, Biella, Italy) is a founding father of the Arte Povera movement and widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of his generation. For over half a century, Pistoletto has sought to merge art and life through sculptural installations, experimental performances, and, most famously, his iconic mirror paintings, which serve as the foundation of his artistic practice. Comprised of photo-silkscreened images on highly polished stainless steel, these signature works were developed in 1962 and represent the artists dual interest in conceptualism and figuration. By working with a reflective surface, Pistoletto enables the viewer to become an integral ... More
Major exhibition dedicated to Sheila Hicks opens at Museo Amparo
PUEBLA.- Museo Amparo is presenting the first major exhibition in Mexico dedicated to Sheila Hicks since her collaboration with Antonio Souza Gallery in 1962. Sheila Hicks - Free Threads, Textile and its Pre-Columbian Roots, 1954-2017 offers a fresh interpretation of the work of the acclaimed American artist (b. 1934, Hastings, Nebraska), unveiling a large number of rare works not exhibited in decades, including some made in Mexico in the 1960s when Hicks lived in Taxco el Viejo. With approximately 120 pieces spanning decades, as well as numerous photographs and archival documents, Sheila Hicks - Free Threads provides a broad overview of the artist's work, highlighting the influence of her varied experiences in Latin America. A student of Josef Albers at Yale University, Hicks received a solid pictorial training; it was during this period that she first developed ... More
Exhibition of drawings and paintings by Neil Jenney on view at Gagosian
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting drawings and paintings by Neil Jenney. A maverick in twentieth century American art, Jenney shifted his focus from abstract painting and sculpture in order to pursue a new type of realism, adopting the binary of bad and good paintings. He began to make the Bad Paintings in the 1960s, referring to them as such after Marcia Tuckers exhibition Bad Painting at the New Museum in 1978. These purposefully sketchy, gestural works poked at preconceptions of taste and connoisseurship, and, according to Jenney, were good concepts painted badly. With them, he sought to indicate narrative truth through the depiction of elementary relationships between people and things. The Good Paintings, ongoing since the 1970s, pursue this same goal, but through an opposite approach. Using oil paint on wood panel, Jenney produces ... More
Gabriel Rico's debut exhibition in New York on view at Perrotin
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin is presenting One Law for The Lion & Ox is Oppression, Gabriel Ricos debut exhibition in New York and first solo show with the gallery. Past exhibitions by Rico include MAZ Zapopan Art Museum, Zapopan, Mexico; Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France; CEART Centro de arte Tomaz y Valiente, Madrid, Spain; 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Korea Ceramic Foundation, Seoul, Korea and Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy and most recently his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Arizona State University Art Museum. He has received awards by The National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) Mexico; The Ministry of Culture of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia; Bursary for Artists at The Ténot Foundation, France and Prince Claus Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work is in the collections of Centro de Arte Tomas ... More
Prints & Multiples surpass $2.6 million at Heritage Auctions, set world-records for contemporary artists
DALLAS, TX.- Hundreds of bidders competed for an exceptional assortment of works in Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Prints & Multiples Auction, which included prints from the estate of John Hutcheson. The sale was enormously popular, as buyers snapped up 99 percent by value and 97 percent of the available lots. Three of the top lots were done by 20th-century pop artist Roy Lichtenstein; five were by American pop art icon Andy Warhol. "Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol are iconic artists whose work always has sparked significant competition among bidders," Heritage Auctions Modern & Contemporary Art Director Holly Sherratt said. "But the fact that they snapped up more than 99 percent (by value) of what we offered shows that the demand for pieces like these is as strong as ever." Claiming top-lot honors was Portfolio 11 Pop ... More
Sean Kelly opens exhibition of new work by David Claerbout
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting The pure necessity, 2016, a new work by David Claerbout. Based in Antwerp, Claerbout is recognized as one of the most innovative artists working today in the realms of film, photography, and digital media. This is the artists second exhibition with Sean Kelly and marks the US premiere of this video, which had its debut this June at UnlimitedArt Basel. For The pure necessity, Claerbout and a team of professional artists redrew the frames of the 1967 classic animated film The Jungle Book to create an entirely new, hour-long video. Devoid of narrative, comic antics, and anthropomorphic animals, Claerbout focuses on the wildlife as they move through the jungle accompanied by the sounds of their natural habitat. As Claerbout notes, something that at first glance might seem familiar has been transformed into ... More
Major survey celebrating Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama opens in Brisbane
BRISBANE.- A career-spanning survey of work by leading contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama (Japan b.1929) is on view at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art from 4 November 2017 until 11 February 2018. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, co-curated by QAGOMA and National Gallery Singapore, would be a wild and wonderful journey through key moments in Kusamas vast artistic career over seven decades. Now in her late 80s, Yayoi Kusama is one of the most recognisable artists working today. We are thrilled to be partnering with National Gallery Singapore on this vibrant survey of her incredibly productive career, Mr Saines said. Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow explores key motifs in Kusamas work since the early 1950s, her engagement with the body, ... More
Jewels, Faberge and objets d'art from the collection of HRH Princess Margaret to be auctioned
EPPING.- In the world of fine jewels, provenance is second only to inherent quality. If a jewel has previously been owned by a celebrity Elizabeth Taylor, for example that connection becomes a permanent part of its history and allure. But an even greater level of cachet is added when jewelry has been part of a royal collection. That is the case with a boutique selection in Boningtons November 15 auction that features exquisite jewelry and objets dart formerly in the Collection of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. The daughter of H.M. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and the only sibling of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret was renowned for her beauty and fashion sense, as well as an artsy entourage that included society, show business ... More
Pérez Art Museum Miami opens first career survey devoted to the work of Dara Friedman
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami is presenting Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, the first career survey of the work of internationally renowned, Miamibased artist Dara Friedman. The exhibition features 16 major film and video works that combine the techniques and principles of Structural Filmmaking with a strong emotional charge and an intuitive approach to subject matter. Spanning over 20 years of production, Perfect Stranger is the artists most comprehensive show to date; it also marks the largest exhibition of the work of a Miami-based artist by PAMM. The exhibition is on view from November 3, 2017 through March 4, 2018 in PAMMs M.B. Fernandez Family galleries. Friedman crafts each of her films with meticulous care, making precise choices with respect to camerawork, film stock, and editing strategy while taking into consideration every aspect ... More
Saffronart's Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fundraiser Auction raises $425,000 USD for the biennale
MUMBAI.- Collectors, artists and gallerists came together in a display of solidarity in support of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale Fundraiser Auction held by Saffronart. The art, generously donated by leading Modern and Contemporary artists, raised a total value of INR 2.75 crores with 98% of works being sold. The total proceeds will go towards the Kochi-Muziris Biennale which will greatly enhance the Foundations efforts to sustain the Biennale through 2018 and beyond. KBF Secretary Riyas Komu said, "With the support of artists, Saffronart and the collectors, we have triggered a good momentum for our fundraising initiatives for the 2018 edition of Biennale. Thanks to everyone who supported it, it brings together a much needed ecosystem to sustain such non-co ... More
chin(A)frica on view at the Institute of Fine Arts Duke House
NEW YORK, NY.- The fall Duke House Exhibition, chin(A)frica: an interface, investigates new parameters in which identity and geopolitics are formulated through recent expansive exchanges between China and African countries over the past decade. The exhibition features works by four artists, two Chinese and two African nationals, who have reflected upon recent cross-continental relations and immigration. Held in the James B. Duke House, where the Institute of Fine Arts is located, the exhibition plays off the building's historical significance, decorative and architectural style, and the Institutes engagement with contemporary art. The exhibition features a still from Hu Xiangqians video The Sun (2008), a work inspired by the unprecedented presence of African immigrants in the southern Chinese city Guangzhou, where the artist was trained for many years. In ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist and designer Harry Bertoia died November 06, 1978. Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States), was an Italian-born artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Bertoia's "Textured Screen" caused much controversy when it was unveiled for the Dallas Public Library in 1954.
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