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The Best Photos of the Day An Indian man looks at a painting displayed inside the Indian President's House museum in New Delhi. With a moon rock, a chunk of Mt Everest and the chance to stroll with Gandhi, the President's House in Delhi is lifting the veil on its treasures in its new museum. The President's House, a classical palace with an Indian twist, is one of the grandest palaces in India, built by the British as the Viceroy's House. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP
| Exhibition explores the connections between two key Post-war artworks | | Exhibition summarizes more than four decades in Alberto Giacometti's career | | Major exhibition of work by under recognized founding member of Impressionism makes US premiere at Barnes Foundation |
Installation image of Sublime Hardware, at Luxembourg & Dayan, London. Photo: Damian Griffiths Photography.
LONDON.- Luxembourg & Dayan in collaboration with Francesco Bonami presents Sublime Hardware, an exhibition that explores the connections between two key Post-war artworks made on opposite sides of the Atlantic: Dan Flavins Monument for V. Tatlin (1967) and Pino Pascalis Cannone Semovente (1965). The legacies of Flavin (1933 1996) and Pascali (1935 1968) draw on very different art historical traditions, contexts and materials, and on the surface of things the works appear poles apart: one a vision of light and the other of destruction. Yet the American and the Italian artists both shared a particular sensibility towards the relationship between common, everyday materials and their unconventional expressions of sublimity. As a young artist operating in New York City in the early 1960s, Flavin was preoccupied with an aspiration to reconcile his personal interest in the effects of light as a symbol ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, The Nose (Le Nez), 1947. Bronze, 80.9 x 70.5 x 40.6 cm. Fondation Giacometti, Paris © Succession Alberto Giacometti ,VEGAP, Bilbao, 2018.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective , an exhaustive exhibition of more than 200 sculptures, paintings, and drawings by Alberto Giacometti (19011966), one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, throughout 40 years of his artistic output. The show offers a unique perspective on the artists oeuvre, with a particular focus on the extraordinary collection of art and archival materials conserved by the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, which was assembled by the artists widow, Annette. Alberto Giacometti. A Retrospective is organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in conjunction with the Fondation Giacometti of Paris. Alberto Giacometti was born into a family of artists in Switzerland in 1901. His father, the well-known Neo-Impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, who is depicted in three head sculptures by the young Alberto, first initiated him ... More | |
Berthe Morisot. Winter, 1880. Oil on canvas. Dallas Museum of Art, Gift of the Meadows Foundation, Incorporated, 1981.129. Photo courtesy Dallas Museum of Art.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This fall, the Barnes Foundation presents the US debut of a landmark exhibition exploring the significant yet under recognized contributions of Berthe Morisot (18411895), one of the founders of impressionism. The first monographic exhibition of the artist to be held in the US since 1987, Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist provides new insight into a defining chapter in art history and the opportunity to experience Morisots work in context of the Barness unparalleled collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, and early modernist paintings. The internationally touring exhibition is co-organized by the Barnes Foundation, Dallas Museum of Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, and the Musées dOrsay et de lOrangerie, Paris. It is on view at the Barnes from October 21, 2018, through January 14, 2019. Berthe Morisot was celebrated in her ... More |
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| A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918-2018 on view across two exhibitions | | Culture and fashion: Betrayal is the new black - How H&M is capitalizing on socialist William Morris | | Easter Islanders hope to swap a copy for iconic statue in UK museum |
Installation views, Suspension. A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture. 1918-2018 © Benoît Fougeirol CESE.Palais dIéna, architecte Auguste Perret, UFSE, SAIF.
PARIS.- Suspension - A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 2018 presents more than 50 works related to this little-known sculptural genre, produced by 30 artists - such as Duchamp, Calder, Neto and Antunes - of 15 different nationalities, across two exhibitions. Exceptional loans from institutions and collections around the world are being presented for two months at Olivier Malingue in London and for two weeks in the 1 500m2 space of the Palais dIéna in Paris, where an unprecedented dialogue has been created between the works and the modern classicism of the monumental space, designed and built by architect Auguste Perret during the 1930s. This event presents a century of abstract sculpture (19182018) through the unprecedented perspective of aerial suspension. It gathers more than 50 key works, produced since 1918, by more than 30 artists, each from diverse generations and ... More | |
William Morris, furnishing fabric, Evenlode pattern, designed for Morris & Co. 1883 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- This season, the fashion brand H&M has introduced new motifs to their modish designs for womenswear. The new element is actually a new-old element, a design feature seized from the 19th century and re- purposed in the 21st. H&M is selling dresses, skirts, and suits printed with patterns designed by Morris & Co. Morris & Co. was, and remains, perhaps the single most influential decorative arts company in British art history. First established as Morris, Marshall, Faulker & Co. in 1861, then re-configured as Morris & Co. some time later, the company was from the first intended as a revolutionary enterprise. Its founders included not only the polymath William Morris, but some of the eras greatest artists: the painters Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Ford Madox Brown, and the architect Philip Webb. All were men of great artistic talent and high ambition. To them, the medieval era was the golden age of British craftsmanship. Their ... More | |
On November 23, a committee of islanders and Chilean officials plans to travel to London in hopes of negotiating the moai's return. GREGORY BOISSY / AFP.
SANTIAGO (AFP).- For 150 years, the British Museum has housed one of the iconic, heavy-browed stone figures that Chile's Easter Island is famous for. Now the islanders are hoping desperately to get it back. They plan to build a copy of the four-ton monolith and, potentially swap it for the real thing. The statue, known as a "moai" and named the Hoa Hakananai'a, is one of hundreds originally found on the island. Carved by Polynesian colonizers somewhere between the 13th and 16th centuries, each of the big-headed figures was considered to represent tribal leaders or deified ancestors. About a dozen have been removed from the island over the years. Now Camilo Rapu, president of the island's Ma'u Henua community, said it's time Hoa Hakananai'a was returned. The Ma'u Henua community, with Chilean government support, launched a campaign in August to persuade the British Museum and Queen Elizabeth II to return the famous moai -- in ... More |
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| Turner Prize nominee Monster Chetwynd headlines latest installment of NOW | | Exhibition at MAMAC focuses on Bernar Venet's Conceptual works | | The Morgan celebrates the two-hundredth anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a new exhibition |
Monster Chetwynd (b. 1973), Bat Opera, 2014 (detail). Oil on canvas paper [dimensions]. Image © Monster Chetwynd, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and Massimo de Carlo, Milan.
EDINBURGH.- Works by five ground-breaking contemporary artists take centre stage at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art this autumn as part of NOW, a dynamic three-year series of contemporary art exhibitions. The fourth instalment of the SNGMA's NOW programme trains a spotlight on the playful, thought-provoking work of Monster Chetwynd (b.1973), Henry Coombs (b. 1977), Moyna Flannigan (b. 1963), Betye Saar (b.1926) and Wael Shawky (b.1971). Varying in medium, style and approach, the work of each of these artists is connected by a shared desire to challenge convention and invite audiences to think differently about the world around them. At the heart of the exhibition, a major survey of work by Turner Prize nominee Monster Chetwynd defies expectations about the ways in which art is presented and experienced in gallery spaces. Chetwynd, a British artist, based in Glasgow, ... More | |
Bernar Venet in his studio in Nice,1966. Courtesy Archives Bernar Venet, New York.
NICE.- In the 1960s, Bernar Venet embarked on an unprecedented radicalisation of the artistic experience and aesthetic production. Deterred by the hackneyed conventions of French art and fascinated by American formalism and, above all, Marcel Duchamp, from 1970 onwards, he emerged as one of the leading figures of conceptual art. For the very first time, the exhibition aims to explore this little-known period of his career, which began in Nice and unfolded in the United States. Conceptual, sculptural and pictorial, at this point Bernar Venets work was moving towards a reflection on the identity of art and the relationship between artistic expression and scientific knowledge, combining uncertainty, unpredictability and disorder with mathematical data and information theory. This extremely productive period, during which he incorporated the pure abstraction of scientific research and the objectivity and rationality of mathematics into the field of art, also marked the start of a truly mu ... More | |
Dick Briefer (1915 1980), Frankenstein, no. 10, New York: Prize Comics, Nov.-Dec., 1947. From the Collection of Craig Yoe and Clizia Gussoni. © First Classics, Inc. Used with permission granted by Trajectory, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- A classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the subject of a new exhibition at the Morgan. Organized in collaboration with the New York Public Library, Its Alive! Frankenstein at 200 traces the origins and impact of the novel whose monster has become both a meme and a metaphor for forbidden science, unintended consequences, and ghastly combinations of the human and the inhuman. Portions of the original manuscript are on display along with historic scientific instruments and iconic artwork such as Henry Fuselis Nightmare and the definitive portrait of Mary Shelley. The storys astonishingly versatile role in art and culture over the course of two hundred years helps explain why the monster permeates the popular imagination to this day. Co-curated by John Bidwell, ... More |
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| Paintings by Swiss artist Not Vital invite viewers to look slowly | | Ann Veronica Janssens brings light to Kiasma's autumn | | Blank Forms opens first institutional survey of Henning Christiansen's work in America |
Not Vital. Photo: Beny Steiner.
HELSINKI.- Artist Not Vital (born 1948, Switzerland), whose career started in the 1960s, is best known for his sculptures and the architectonic installations he has created around the world. This exhibition presents him in a new light: as a painter. The exhibition in one of the Ateneum Art Museum's exhibition galleries features a series of 26 Vitals most recent paintings. Vital began painting in 2009 in his studio in Beijing, where he lives for part of each year. Many of his paintings in the exhibition are self-portraits, in which he often slips into different roles ranging from a Chinese rice farmer to an Alzheimer patient or a singer. In Vitals portraits, we furthermore encounter his family members, friends and assistants, as well as familiar figures from the worlds of art and literature. Vitals ascetic colour world is linked to the rugged, majestic landscapes of Switzerlands Engadin valley and the snowy, fog-shrouded moun ... More | |
Ann Veronica Janssens, Phosphenes, 1995. Fosfeenit. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI.- Belgian artist Ann Veronica Janssens creates works based on light interacting with liquids, fog, reflecting surfaces and the surrounding space. In these experimental spaces she heightens and tests our sensory experiences. In her exhibition, opening in October 12th, Ann Veronica Janssens fills Kiasma with light for the darkest time of the year. People have always been fascinated by visible phenomena such as light and shadow, solar and lunar eclipses, the northern lights, bolts of lightning, celestial bodies, and the infinity of the cosmos. Janssens embraces a mindset of wonder and open-minded curiosity. She uses art as an experimental vehicle to invoke cosmic dimensions and impressions of stardust. She makes invisible things visible and challenges our perceptions with her sense- ... More | |
Left to right: Untitled 2 (Music is Green), 1970. Mixed media on paper / Drop it with Green, 1970. Mixed media on paper. / Seat for Joe Jones, 1994. Wood, light bulb, bicycle bells, and acrylic.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blank Forms presents Freedom Is Around the Corner, a Henning Christiansen retrospective marking the first institutional survey of his work in America. Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) was a Danish composer, musician, and artist best known as a pivotal member of the Nordic avant-garde. Enamored with, but not beholden to, the Fluxus movement he helped shape, Christiansens simple conception of music as sound organized in time continues to provide a model for moving beyond the degree zero polemics of the 60s avant-garde. His radical oeuvre consists of over 200 opuses that interpenetrate the categories of performance, ritual, happenings, sculpture, painting, tape music, text-sound composition, song, and instrumental music, all marked ... More |
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Lafayette anticipations opens Simon Fujiwara's first solo show in France
PARIS.- Revolution is Simon Fujiwara's first solo show in France. Devised around the Foundation's recently renovated building, Revolution groups large-scale works and installations, including two major new commissions produced with Lafayette anticipations. It carries on a dialogue with the artist that began in 2014, with the enactment of his New Pompidou for the Foundation's prefiguration programme. Via a group of works shown throughout the Foundation's galleries, Simon Fujiwara addresses the importance within our society of mass media and the fetishisation of the individual experience in an era of new technologies. His practice forms a complex and critical response to the omnipresent need for selfpresentation in contemporary society. The exhibition opens with a unique immersive experience. Empathy I (2018) was inspired by the artist's experiences of popular ... More
North Carolina Museum of Art installs floral murals on its campus and in downtown Raleigh
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art hosted Detroit-based artist Louise Jones, also known as Ouizi, to install a giant floral mural on the side of its East Building as part of the exhibition The Beyond: Georgia OKeeffe and Contemporary Art. A second mural, on the side of Benchmark Autoworks in Raleighs Warehouse District at the intersection of Davie and Dawson streets, was also installed to promote the special exhibition. Thank you, Raleigh and NCMA, for inviting me to make work in your city, said artist Louise Jones. May it be a positive force and encourage everyone to blossom in their own way. The mural at the NCMA, titled Summers Where Youll Find Me, is one of more than 50 contemporary works of art in The Beyond. Alongside more than 30 works by Georgia OKeeffe, The Beyond features works by contemporary artists including Jones, ... More
First solo exhibition of paintings by Forrest Bess in the United Kingdom on view at Modern Art
LONDON.- Modern Art announces the first solo exhibition of paintings by Forrest Bess in the United Kingdom. Forrest Clemenger Bess was born in 1911 in Bay City, Texas, and for most of his adult years lived on a fishing camp in nearby Chinquapin Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. Frequently relegated to the peripheries of art history, both as a Texas native and a rarely understood queer man, Bess might nevertheless be re-located at the heart of American Modernism. Between 1949 and 1967 he showed six times at Betty Parsons New York gallery, on the same walls that debuted Barnett Newman, Richard Tuttle, Ellsworth Kelly, and other focal figures of twentieth-century abstraction. Simultaneously he engaged in correspondence with sociologists, psychotherapists, art historians, and even NASA, to communicate a series of radical medico-mystical theories he had devised ... More
Top-notch automobilia and petroliana draw big turnout of motivated buyers at Morphy's
DENVER, PA.- The serious players in automobilia and petroliana collecting canceled any existing plans once the word got out that a spectacular private collection would be headlining Morphys October 8 auction. It was one of the biggest gallery turnouts for a gas and oil sale that weve had for years, said Morphys Automobilia & Petroliana division head John Mihovetz. The attraction was the collection of more than 400 lots that were in 9 or 9-plus condition. There was a lot of buzz about the auction beforehand, and we sensed that bidding would be strong. Several new records were set during the 747-lot sale, which grossed over $2.1 million. All prices quoted here include a 20% buyers premium, per Morphys pre-stated terms. Collectors tipped their hats to the envy-stirring porcelain gas sign that led prices realized at $66,000, a new auction record for a sign of its particular type. Publicizin ... More
Eusebio Leal, Prince Amyn Aga Khan to receive World Monuments Fund Hadrian Award
NEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund will honor Prince Amyn Aga Khan, of the Aga Khan Development Network, and Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, historian of the city of Havana, Cuba, at the 31st annual Hadrian Gala at the Rainbow Room in New York City on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. Prince Amyn Aga Khan will receive the Hadrian Award in recognition of his lifelong support of cultural heritage in all its forms. Prince Amyn holds multiple leadership roles within the Aga Khan Development Networka group of development agencies with mandates that include the environment, health, education, architecture, culture, tourism, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise, and the revitalization of historic cities. Among many board and committee positions at cultural institutions around the world, Prince Amyn ... More
Exhibition explores the transformation of common objects
NEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt is presenting an exhibition that explores the transformation of common objects. "Hiding in Plain Sight celebrates the artist's power to transform the ordinary. As revision becomes visionary, art becomes revelatory, and we begin to see common objects as the bearers of previously unimagined possibilities." - Carter Ratcliff Traditionally, works of art have been made of marble, bronze, or oil paint on well-prepared canvases. Modernism turned artists attention to fugitive materials. At a Parisian dinner party, in 1925, Alexander Calder made the figure of a chicken from a piece of bread and a hairpin. A third option is to endow a disposable object with the permanence of artas Calder did when he converted a Ballantine beer can into Samba Rattle, circa 1948, a musical instrument complete with a wooden handle and noise-making ... More
The City of Luxembourg opens Design City LX Festival
LUXEMBOURG.- Jointly organized by Mudam Luxembourg Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and the City of Luxembourg, Design City LX Festival comes to the capital once again, from 19 October to 18 November, 2018. On the occasion of this 5th edition of the festival, a series of exhibitions, urban interventions, colloquium and meetings, presented in collaboration with the cultural institutions of the City of Luxembourg, are on public display on the theme of Me craft You industry We design. Craft or industry? Tradition or modernity? In 2018, Design City LX Festival explores design as a common language capable of generating a dialogue between opposites. The festival takes place throughout the city, especially in Kirchberg, to show citizens the different facets of the increased reality of "new" functions that industry and craft are providing. For this 5th edition ... More
Carla Klein presents a new series of paintings depicting greenhouse interiors throughout Europe
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting Carla Kleins (1970) sixth solo show with the gallery. In this exhibition Klein presents a new series of paintings depicting greenhouse interiors throughout Europe. In her oeuvre Klein likes to focus on the artificial worlds within the world such as swimming pools, airports, subway stations and now greenhouses. The large-scale and panoramic canvasses invite the viewer to step into an atmosphere, as if you are passing through the scenery yourself. Based on photographs taken and developed by her, the paintings show settings that seem familiar, but also feel deserted and impersonal. Compared to photography, painting is a slow medium that asks for a different kind of attention. Through painting Klein researches the experience of the captured image, exploring the relationship between reality and its ... More
Nye & Company's Estate Treasures Auction will feature 491 lots of fine and decorative arts
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nearly 500 lots of fine and decorative arts in a wide range of categories will come up for bid at Nye & Company Auctioneers Estate Treasures Auction on Tuesday, October 30th, online and in Nye & Companys gallery at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. Offered will be quality antiques and collectibles, mostly pulled from prominent estates and collections. Highlights include several private Connecticut collections of English and American furniture; items out of a New York City estate, to include art glass and sculptures; merchandise from three North Shore, Long Island estates, including jewelry, fine art and furniture; Americana from a Seal Harbor, Maine collector; and Flora Danica porcelain from a private collector in Michigan. Following a strong summer with many diverse and disparate consignments, its encouraging to provide ... More
'Tim Shaw: Beyond Reason' brings six immersive installations to the San Diego Museum of Art
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is presenting Tim Shaw: Beyond Reason, an exhibition creating psychologically charged environments that address humanitarian issues in several immersive installations. On view Oct. 20, 2018 through Feb. 24, 2019, the exhibition touches on several major themes, including global terrorism, freedom of speech, abuse of power and the future of artificial intelligence. Tim Shaw, a celebrated Northern Irish sculptor, is known for his large-scale multi-sensory installations that create dialogue around controversial topics. The six installations featured in this exhibition are based on extraordinary personal experiences throughout the artists life, but the topics are universal and timeless. Mother, The Air Is Blue, The Air Is Dangerous recreates a childhood memory of a bombing in a Belfast café during Bloody Friday ... More
6th edition of the Outsider Art Fair Paris opens with strong sales at new venue
PARIS.- Last week, the Outsider Art Fair celebrated the 6th Anniversary of its edition in Paris. A VIP Early Access Preview was held at the fair's new location, Atelier Richelieu, 60 Rue de Richelieu, with a strong turnout that included an array of enthusiasts from the art, culture, fashion, and entertainment milieu including: Cyril Aouizerate, Sophie Calle, Michael Cohen, Martine Courtault, Matali Crasset, Bruno Decharme, Stéphanie des Horst, Philippe di Méo, Anne Marie Dubois, Michèle Lamy, Alain Le Henry, Camille Miceli, Marika Moisseeff, Sandra Mulliez, Marc-Olivier Wahler, Diane Pernet, Sydney Picasso and Sandrine Quétie, among others. Day one of the Paris Outsider Art Fair was by far one of the best starts to any art fair I have participated in. By the close of the day, I had placed over half of the works in my booth and met many new collectors, which is the biggest hope ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter N. C. Wyeth was born October 22, 1882. Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22, 1882 - October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators. During his lifetime, Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner's, the Scribner Classics, which is the work for which he is best known. In this image: A gallery goer looks at an exhibit of N.C. Wyeth's Treasure Island, Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa.
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