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Tracey Emin at her exhibition Tracey Emin My Bed/JMW Turner at Turner Contemporary, Margate 13 October 2017 - 14 January 2018. Photo: Stephen White, courtesy Turner Contemporary.
MARGATE.- Tracey Emin returns to Turner Contemporary with an exhibition pairing her iconic and controversial installation My Bed with a collection of JMW Turners seascapes and stormy skies, chosen by the artist and loaned from Tates collection. My Bed famously features Emins own bed and gives a snapshot of her life after a traumatic relationship breakdown. It offers an unconventional and uncompromising self-portrait through objects, in which the artist herself is absent. The artists unmade bed surrounded by used condoms, stained underwear, cigarette butts and empty vodka bottles marked a moment of epiphany in Emins life. After spending over a week in bed drifting in and out of consciousness in an alcoholic haze, she reached a realisation. I just suddenly thought, This is horr ific. And then it all turned around for me. It stopped being horrific and started being beautiful ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on October 12, 2017 shows a view inside the new Yves Saint Laurent museum in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh. A fusion of the Moroccan traditions and contemporary flair that inspired Yves Saint Laurent, a museum to the famed fashion designer is set to be unveiled Saturday in his beloved Marrakesh. FADEL SENNA / AFP
| Museo Picasso Málaga exhibits works by the women artists in the Surrealist circle | | Major Klimt exhibition opens in San Francisco | | The new Tate St Ives opens |
A visitor looking at one of the works of Leonora Carrington present at the exhibition.
Photo: Jesús DomÃnguez © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism presents the work of a group of women artists who, from the 1920s onwards, became involved to a greater or lesser degree in Surrealism, a movement historically associated with men. Museo Picasso Málaga has brought together for the occasion works by eighteen spirited and rebellious female artists who were, in several cases, overshadowed by their male partners. The exhibition aims to give back the focus they deserve to a group of women artists whose work stood out on the Surrealist landscape and some of whom have perhaps had to wait too long to gain major international recognition: Eileen Agar, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Germaine Dulac, Leonor Fini, Valentine Hugo, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Lee Miller, ... More | |
Gustav Klimt, "Johanna Staude," 19171918. Oil on canvas, 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (70 x 50 cm). Ãsterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, inv. no. 5551 Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present Klimt & Rodin: An Artistic Encounter, on view at the Legion of Honor, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the deaths of Auguste Rodin in November 1917 and Gustav Klimt in February 1918. The exhibition celebrates the legacies of these two pioneers, who each broke the reigning aesthetic boundaries of the time to find new vocabularies and create powerful agendas for modern painting and sculpture. Arranged in dialogue with the Legion of Honors acclaimed collection of Rodin works, Klimt & Rodin provides an incredibly rare opportunity for American audiences to see a range of signature works by the Austrian master Klimt. This will be an exceptional and breathtaking opportunity to ... More | |
Cornwalls most popular gallery completes major transformation. Photography © Hufton+Crow.
ST IVES.- The new Tate St Ives opened on 14 October 2017. A four-year building project has doubled the space for showing art, adding almost 600 square metres of galleries, and created spectacular new studios for learning activities. This finally gives Cornwalls most popular gallery enough space to accommodate the quarter of a million visitors it welcomes each year over three times the number for which it was originally designed who bring £11 million annually to the local economy. For the first time, Tate St Ives is now able to give a permanent presence to those iconic 20th century artists who lived and worked in the town, including Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, demonstrating the role of St Ives in the story of modern art. This is combined with a new programme of large-scale seasonal shows, beginning with sculptor Rebecca Warrens first major UK exhibition. The new gallery, sunk into the ... More |
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| Artcurial announces highlights from its Archaeology and Middle East Arts sale | | The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU opens exhibition of works by Ruth Gruber | | Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art opens extensive exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter |
Masque dit « de Conflans » provenant dun casque militaire - époque romaine. Bronze. H. : 19,30 cm. Ancienne collection Henry de Montherlant. Estimate: 150 000 200 000 ©Artcurial.
PARIS.- On 7th November 2017, Artcurial will organize its second auction of the year dedicated to archaeology and to Middle east arts. This sale will be led by a collection of antiques with a prestigious provenance: that of the French writer Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972). Looking back to ancient times, the writer had a close embodiment of ideal culture and values that struck his imagination, and fuelled his work. For him, these values were embodied in these ancient sculptures that he loved to collect. 38 of his Roman and Greek statues will be auctioned. They were a part of the decor of his Parisian apartment. The ensemble includes Greco-Roman marbles, such as a female statue representing a nymph or a Diana huntress estimate: 100, 000 120,000/ $110, 000 132, 000) or Grande tête de Déméter (estimate 60,000 80,000/ $66,000 88,000) alongside important Roman bronzes such as a military masque ... More | |
Ruth Gruber, A proud father putting his baby to sleep in a bassinet he constructed from gathered rags and pieces of wood, Cyprus Internment Camp, 1947 © Ruth Gruber.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU presents the southeastern U.S. premiere of Ruth Gruber: Photojournalist. Headlining Art Basel season in Miami Beach, the new exhibition celebrates the remarkable life, vision, and heroic tenacity of this twentieth-century pioneer and trailblazer. Once the worlds youngest PhD, Ruth Gruber passed away recently at the age of 105. The show features more than 60 photographs including gelatin silver prints plus an archival trove of personal letters, telegrams, printed magazines, and assorted ephemera documenting the artists career. The photographs in this exhibition span more than fifty years, from Grubers groundbreaking reportage of the Soviet Arctic in the 1930s and iconic images of Jewish refugees from the ship Exodus 1947, to her later photographs of Ethiopian Jews in the midst of civil war in the 1980s. A selection of Grubers vintage prints, never ... More | |
Gerhard Richter, Strip (927-9) 2012 (detail). Digital print on paper between Alu Dibond and Perspex (Diasec), 210 x 230cm. Collection: Albertinum | Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden © Gerhard Richter 2017.
BRISBANE.- An extensive exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter, one of the worlds most highly regarded and influential artists, opened exclusively at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art. Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said the Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images exhibition further cements GOMAs excellent international reputation. Im thrilled an exhibition of this calibre has been developed and presented here in Queensland its a first in Australia and further reinforces GOMAs place as a leading contemporary art museum showcasing the best of global art on our doorstep, the Premier said. Deputy Premier and Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad, who today attended a special preview of the exhibition, said visitors to GOMA will treasure this once-in-a lifetime opportunity. Excitingly, this exhibition was curated locally by Dr Rosemary Hawker, Senior Lecturer ... More |
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| First extensive museum show of the work of the Hamburg-based painter Anita Rée opens at Hamburger Kunsthalle | | First London solo exhibition by German artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay on view at Almine Rech Gallery | | M HKA opens first major exhibition of works by Joseph Beuys in Belgium since the 1980s |
Anita Rée (18851933), Bildnis Hilde Zoepffel, um 1928. Ãl auf Leinwand, 50 x 41,5 cm. Privatbesitz. Photo: Christoph Irrgang.
HAMBURG.- In the autumn and winter of 2017/18, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting the first extensive museum show of the work of the Hamburg-based painter Anita Rée (18851933). Featuring some 200 paintings, works on paper and art objects, the retrospective sheds light on an important and multifaceted oeuvre, ranging from Impressionist plein air painting to Mediterranean landscapes to portraits in the spirit of the New Objectivity. The Hamburger Kunsthalles rich holdings of works by Rée, comprising 13 paintings and 25 works on paper, have been supplemented by significant pieces from private and public collections in Germany, England, Switzerland and the USA. Anita Rée took painting lessons from Arthur Siebelist in Hittfeld, did further training in Paris in the winter of 1912/13, and worked from 1922 to 1925 in ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Almine Rech Gallery is presenting the first London solo exhibition by German artist Ernst Wilhelm Nay, marking the representation of the artist by the gallery. The exhibition has been prepared in cooperation with the Ernst Wilhelm Nay Foundation, Cologne, and Aurel Scheibler, Berlin. The painter Ernst Wilhelm Nay (19021968) is one of the most well known postwar German artists of the twentieth century yet rarely seen and little known in the UK. His abstract paintings are found in nearly all important public and private collections devoted to the postwar period. Lesser known however, and up to now largely underestimated, are Nay's late works from the 1960s, which were primarily executed in the years after Nay's participation at documenta III in 1964 up to his untimely death in 1968. The London exhibition focuses on that period, enhanced by a group of historical paintings drawn from private collections. ... More | |
Joseph Beuys, Cosmas und Damian, 1975, Edition Staeck, Heidelberg, © SABAM (Belgium), 2017.
ANTWERP.- Joseph Beuys was active in Antwerp during the 1960s and 1970s through his relationship with Wide White Space gallery, for whom he was a key reference. Amongst his many exhibitions, it is here that he also made his performance Eurasienstab (Eurasian Staff) in collaboration with Henning Christiansen on 9 February 1968. Joseph Beuys Greetings from the Eurasian is in the first instance look at Beuys as an artist that was not only active in Antwerp (where he met other figures of the Post- War avant-garde such as Marcel Broodthaers and Panamarenko) but was also deeply influential in Belgium more broadly, in a way that has been largely forgotten. The exhibition also considers Beuys as a figure who worked in a way that was contrary to the logic and hegemony of Modernism. He was in a sense the embodiment of the anti-Modern. Using his Eurasienstab ... More |
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| Collezione Maramotti opens exhibition of works realized between 2009 and 2017 by Luisa Rabbia | | Bertoia Auctions' Nov. 11-12 Signature Sale of toys & holiday antiques tipped to be one of the company's best ever | | Major survey of contemporary African design makes U.S. debut at High Museum of Art |
Luisa Rabbia. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
REGGIO EMILIA.- Luisa Rabbias exhibition, Love, features a corpus of ten artworks realized between 2009 and 2017, all acquired by the Collezione Maramotti, which has been following the artists research for several years. Love includes works on paper and on canvas representing a significant transition in the artists work from drawing to painting an artists book, and an important site-specific work realized directly on the walls of the Collezione during Rabbias residence. The title of the exhibition is taken from a large painting exhibited here for the first time, which is a part of the trilogy Love-BirthDeath, her latest major project. A catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition with an essay by Mario Diacono. In her work Rabbia reflects on the existential condition, the connection between human beings and their environment. Her works evoke web-like membranes made of delicate mar ... More | |
Circa-1900 Fernand Martin (French) clockwork Le Chinois representing Chinese warrior from the Boxer Rebellion, together with original box lid, est. $4,000-$5,000. All images courtesy of Bertoia Auctions.
VINELAND, NJ.- The toy-collecting hobby has always been a lively two-way street with sellers on one side and buyers on the other. Its at its strongest and most energetic when the truly great collections appear at auction, as will be the case on November 11-12 when Bertoias presents its Saturday Fall Signature Sale, with a bonus Sunday session of holiday antiques and trains. Everyone who has come in to preview has commented that this is going to be one of the best sales weve ever had, and I would definitely agree, said Bertoia Auctions owner, Jeanne Bertoia. The quality is very high across the board, with consignments from prestigious collections in every category. Jeanne cited several blue-chip sources, including the pressed steel and ... More | |
Mikhael Subotzky (South African, born 1981), Ponte City, Windows, 2009, duratran print. © Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse, Courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art is the first venue in the United States to present Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design (Oct. 14, 2017, through Jan. 7, 2018), a major touring exhibition organized by the Vitra Design Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The exhibition offers a vision of Africa in the 21st century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth and massive cultural transformation. Through a myriad of diverse works by more than 120 artists and designers from 22 countries, Making Africa presents the continent as a hub of experimentation generating innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance and as a driving force for reframing discussions on design possibilities and applications in the new ... More |
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Exhibition at De Appel addresses severe acts of violence and conflict
AMSTERDAM.- The above account is by the Berlin-based artist Hiwa K (Kurdistan-Iraq, 1975) and concerns a certain K, a fictive persona the artist regularly quotes. K, at the time a recent immigrant to the Netherlands, was violently attacked by four people on a cold, snowy winter night. They perforated his lungs with a knife and abandoned him, leaving him for dead in the freezing street. K, according to the artist, had never felt welcome in the Netherlands and eventually opted to leave the country. With this story in mind, De Appel invited Hiwa K to Amsterdam to collaboratively produce two new works and an exhibition in which the artist addresses severe acts of violence and conflict. In the open-ended, ongoing and intimate series of works deDutched (2017) Hiwa K attempts to track down the former attackers of K in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, currently without success. During ... More
Boscobel Executive Director announces retirement
GARRISON, NY.- Steven Miller, Executive Director of Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York has announced his retirement. The announcement comes at an exciting time for Miller, who has been accepted as a Visiting Scholar at The American Academy in Rome. During his study term in Rome, Miller will complete a book about how museums remove collections, a practice referred to in the profession as deaccessioning. Wiley-Blackwell also recently released Millers museum studies textbook, The Anatomy of a Museum: An Insiders Text. Boscobels Board of Trustees has appointed Boscobel Curator Jennifer Carlquist as Acting Executive Director, effective immediately. Since joining Boscobel as Curator in 2015, Carlquist has spearheaded innovative and widely attended exhibitions including Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now and Make-Do's: Curiously ... More
Mickalene Thomas highlights her muses at the Georgia Museum of Art
ATHENS, GA.- The word muse conjures an image of an ethereal ancient Greek figure, but artist Mickalene Thomas has a different, more grounded set of muses, comprising strong African American women, including her mother, friends and former lovers. Thomas is best known for her large-scale paintings of women, which complicate the art historical representation of female beauty and reconsider tropes around femininity, identity and desire. Currently based in Brooklyn, Thomas earned her bachelor of fine arts in painting at Pratt Institute in 2000 and a master of fine arts at the Yale University School of Art. She experimented with photography by taking photographs of herself and her mother. For each image, Thomas creates a tableau with furniture and fabrics that the models pose within. She uses stylistic influences from the 1970s, the civil rights movement ... More
Camden Arts Centre exhibits new film commission by Rwandan-born Dutch artist Christian Nyampeta
LONDON.- Camden Arts Centre presents Words after the World, an exhibition and new film commission by Rwandan-born Dutch artist Christian Nyampeta. The exhibition follows Nyampetas residency at Camden Arts Centre from May September 2017. Nyampetas work draws from African/a philosophy and the fugitive Western ascetic practices developed in the deserts of Egypt amidst the spiritual experimentation of Late Antiquity. One such practice is idiorrhythmy, which proposes a way of living in common with others while having ones own rhythm: being in the world on ones own terms. Nyampeta emigrated from Rwanda to the Netherlands in 1999. When he returned to his country of birth, he noticed that many words that exist in the Dutch and English languages do not have equivalents in Kinyarwanda, including terms such as philosophy, rhythm ... More
Phoenix Art Museum presents first mid-career survey of contemporary artist Sheila Pepe
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum is presenting the first mid-career survey of Sheila Pepe, an under-recognized artist best known for her immersive crocheted structures. Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism is composed of more than 70 works, including the premiere of a three-story, site-specific work created exclusively for Phoenix Art Museum. From October 14, 2017 through January 28, 2018, Museum visitors will be able to experience the spontaneity in Pepes immersive structures, sculptural assemblages, and other works in the broadest examination to date of an artist who poses a formidable challenge to conventions of museum display, identity, and craft. We are pleased to organize the first mid-career survey of the works of Sheila Pepe, said Amada Cruz, the CEO and Sybil Harrington Director of Phoenix Art Museum. To bring an artist like Pepe, whose ... More
New and recent work by Diana Thater in Borusan Contemporary exhibition
ISTANBUL.- Borusan Contemporary is presenting a special exhibition of work by Diana Thater, the influential Los Angeles-based artist, in its Istanbul galleries September 16, 2017, through February 18, 2018. Diana Thater: A Runaway World was originally organized by The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, in spring 2017. Borusan Contemporary is presenting an expanded iteration comprising three new video installations exploring the plight of animals in Kenya living in imminent danger of poaching and two earlier works that contextualize the artist's practice. Diana Thater: A Runaway World is co-organized by Kathleen Forde, Borusan Contemporary's Artistic Director at Large, and Cesar Garcia, Executive and Artistic Director of The Mistake Room. For decades, Thater has explored the intersection between time-based and spatial dimensions and the moving ... More
Rare Romanov photos found in "The Lintern Archive"
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- One of the most fascinating and historically important lots in Freemans October 17 Silver & Russian Works of Art auction is The Lintern Archive. The collection includes a photographic album owned by the Romanov childrens French tutor, Pierre Gilliard, and contains 66 images, many of which have never been published and are new to scholars. The photographs were taken between 1912-1918, showing the Imperial Familys life before the revolution until their imprisonment in Tobolsk. The album was presented for safekeeping to William Lintern, an Englishman living in Ekaterinburg in 1918. The Lintern Archive also includes a letter written by Lintern to his family expressing that the murder of the Imperial Family was widely known by the people of Ekaterinburg. The critical significance of this letter lies in when it was maileda full ... More
Archives of American Art acquires the audio and video recordings and records of Artists Talk on Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Archives of American Art announced today that it has acquired the records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA), including audio and video recordings of more than 500 panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. The most extensive audiovisual collection that the Archives has ever acquired, the gift features the voices of thousands of artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators, and writers, talking about issues in the American art world from 1975 to 2015. Founded in New York in 1974, and still active today, ATOA is the art worlds longestrunning panel discussion series, organized by artists for artists. ATOAs gift to the Archives consists of the original recordings in a variety of formats, including audio cassettes, U-Matic and VHS videotape, and mini-DVDs, as well as flyers, ... More
Solo exhibition at Albertz Benda features a new body of work by Tsibi Geva
NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda is presenting Tsibi Geva: Jolt, one of Israels most critically acclaimed artists, on view from October 12 November 18, 2017. Having shown in New York with Annina Nosei for the past two decades, Tsibi Geva: Jolt is the artists first solo exhibition at Albertz Benda, featuring a new body of work and selected pieces from his solo presentation in the Israeli Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. In his latest series of paintings, Geva addresses concepts such as migration, instability and disintegration from a sociopolitical perspective and within the medium of painting itself. The layers of paint on the canvas alternately reveal and obscure fragments of bodies, architectural structures, and natural elements. These layered compositions confront the physicality of the materials while reflecting personal and cultural discourses. Geva ... More
Detroit Institute of Arts hires curator of prints and drawings
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts has hired Clare Rogan as curator of prints and drawings in the department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. She begins on Dec. 4. Rogan comes to the DIA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she was curator of the Davison Art Center since 2005. She recently curated the exhibitions Phantom Bodies: Photographs by Tanya Marcuse (2015) and Themes and Variations: Seriality in American Prints, 1960-1980 (2013). Rogan guided numerous student-curated exhibitions, most recently, Passion and Power: German Prints in the Age of Dürer (2016) and the upcoming Reclaiming the Gaze: African-American Prints and Photographs from 1930 to Now (Feb. 2018). Her publications include Keiji Shinohara: Color Harmony (2007), complete with a catalogue raisonné. While ... More
Ringling International Arts Festival returns with inventive contemporary performance
SARASOTA, FLA.- Ringling International Arts Festival returns for its ninth season with an array of innovative, provocative and ingenious expressions of music, movement and mass spectacle. Taking place between Oct. 18 and 21, these dynamic productions will be performed throughout The Ringling at the Historic Asolo Theater, the Ringling Circus Museum, the Museum of Art and the West Courtyard. RIAF continues to bring compelling performances from around the globe. The festival truly embodies the museums commitment to showcasing contemporary performance in its broad spectrum of forms, said Executive Director Steven High. RIAF 2017 will feature 24 performances of seven varied productions. With music ranging from the folkloric to the avant-garde, dance that explores the comedy and pathos of 21st-century life, and theatrical narratives both ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Paul Strand was born October 16, 1890. Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. In this image: Wall Street, 1915.
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