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Installation view of "Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World" at the Legion of Honor. Photo: Drew Altizer Photography. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is hosting Gods in Color: Polychromy in the Ancient World, an exhibition that presents ancient sculpture to Bay Area audiences as never before: in vibrant color. The exhibition reintroduces polychromy the painting of sculpture to dazzling and powerful effect. Defying the idea of the stark white marble of antiquity, the installation is the result of over 30 years of groundbreaking research in pigmentation of ancient sculpture by international scientists and archaeologists. On view at the Legion of Honor are nearly 40 reproductions of well-known Greek and Roman artworks painted in brightly colored authentic pigments, uniquely juxtaposed with 30 statues and carved reliefs from ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome from FAMSFs own holdings, supplemented with magnificent loans from Californian and European collections. Our visitors who imagine the classical ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The second edition of TEFAF New York Fall, which debuted to widespread success in 2016, opened to the public this week and runs through Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at the historic Park Avenue Armory. Featuring 95 of the world's preeminent art and antiques dealers, the Fair presents museum-quality fine and decorative art from antiquity to 1920, as well as rare books and manuscripts, jewelry, portrait miniatures, arms and armor, and much more.
| Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg focuses on the endless loop in art | | Bode-Museum presents over 70 major works of African sculpture | | Pharaonic influences on display at Egypt art show |
Max Beckmann, Café Interior with Mirror-Play, 1949. Oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm. Private collection © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Ursula Edelmann.
WOLFSBURG.- In todays world, the loop seems to be virtually ubiquitouswhether in music, on the internet, in video art, or in hotel lobbies and living rooms, where monitors present the endless crackling of an open fire or fish swim around in aquariums. At the same time, the self-contained circuit, the endless loop, has been an essential topos of cultural history and philosophy since antiquity. With Never-Ending Stories, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents, for the first time worldwide, a formally and thematically, as well as spatially and temporally wide-ranging research project dedicated to the interdisciplinary phenomenon of the endless loop in art, film, architecture, music, literature and cultural history. The architectural parcours developed especially for the gallery and the great hall in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg enables numerous mental rotations as well as spatial-physical looping experiences. The scop ... More | |
Chibinda Ilunga, Angola Chokwe, 19. Jh., Holz, Baumwollgewebe, Haare, Pflanzenfasern, Glasperle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, © SMB, Ethnologisches Museum, Claudia Obrocki.
BERLIN.- For the first time the sculptural traditions of Africa and Europe come together in a conversation of the continents on the Museumsinsel Berlin. Over 70 major works of African sculpture from the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) are on display in the Bode-Museum. Art from western and central Africa meets masterpieces from Byzantium, Italy, and central Europe. Never before have the sculptural traditions of these two continents been compared so extensively. The preparations for the move to the Humboldt Forum offer us a unique opportunity to place the non-European holdings of the Staatliche Museen in dialogue with other works, reaching across the boundaries that traditionally divide the collections, says Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Director of the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische ... More | |
A picture taken on October 28, 2017, shows a limestone sculpture of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, with his wife Tiye, and their three daughters. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Paintings by top Egyptian artists shared wall space with hieroglyphs and Pharaonic relics at Cairo's Egyptian Museum this week in an exhibition highlighting ancient influences on contemporary art. Artists, intellectuals and ambassadors from around the world attended the Saturday night opening of "A night with Art at the Egyptian Museum", organised by the private Art D'Egypte organisation. The exhibition, at the museum on Cairo's iconic Tahrir square, will be open to the public until Tuesday. "We wanted to highlight the link between contemporary art and ancient Egyptian Pharaonic art," Art D'Egypte founder Nadine Abdel Ghaffar told AFP. The modern paintings included abstract portraits and other works by prominent contemporary Egyptian artists such as Adel El Siwi, Mohamed Abla, Ghada Amer, Farouk Hosny ... More |
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| In new exhibition, Guillermo Kuitca reflects on the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Collection | | TEFAF New York Fall 2017 opens to strong attendance and robust sales | | Museum Barberini shows East German art |
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Conceptual Forms 0006, Kuen's Surface: a surface with constant negative curvature, 2004. Edition of 5, gelatin silver print, 149,2 à 119,4 cm (each) Acquisition 2005 © Hiroshi Sugimoto.
BUENOS AIRES.- The Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain and the CCKa cultural institution under the authority of the Sistema Federal de Medios y Contenidos Públicos of Argentina are presenting their first collaboration together: Les Visitants. Guillermo Kuitca Reflects on the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain Collection. This large-scale exhibition, uniting the two institutions, is an exceptional project that has the support of the French Embassy in Argentina and the Institut français dArgentine, and brings together works by 23 international artists, from David Lynch to Agnès Varda, Patti Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans or Nobuyoshi Araki, presented in Argentina for the very first time. To commemorate its thirtieth anniversary, in October 2014, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain asked Guillermo ... More | |
A Burlwood Grandfather-Grandson Sculpture.
NEW YORK, NY.- The second edition of TEFAF New York Fall opened to the public on Saturday, October 28, 2017, following a packed preview day on Friday, October 27, at the historic Park Avenue Armory to vigorous sales across a wide range of categories and significant dealers. Leading members of the international art collecting community and institutional representatives worldwide visited the Fair in its first two days, acquiring works for both private and public collections. This year?s Fair, which runs through Wednesday, November 1, features 95 of the world?s preeminent art and antiques dealers and presents museum-quality fine and decorative art from antiquity to 1920 under the roof of the Armory?s Drill Hall . In addition to the returning dealers, the Fair welcomed 12 new participants representing a range of periods and genres. Sales were reported throughout the Fair, from the opening minutes until the Fair closed at 9pm. Notable attendees have incl ... More | |
Günter Firit, Self-Destruction, 1987. Nachlass Günter Firit, Photo: Frank Strassmann.
POTSDAM.- For its first exhibition built around its core collection of East German art, the Museum Barberini looks at how artists present themselves. The show illustrates the diversity of artistic self-affirmation and the room for creative maneuver in a state that gave artists political and educational functions and sought to regulate them. The exhibition not only explores specific ways in which art in the GDR drew on Western iconographic traditions; it also refrains from using political conditions as a springboard, focusing instead on the artist as an individual. In the GDR, the fine arts were seen as supporting the state. Yet artists had their own ideas, defining roles for themselves that far exceeded this function. The Museum Barberini has dedicated Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR to artistic personalities operating on the spectrum between acting out a public role and withdrawing into a private sphere, between producing within ... More |
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| Andy Warhol's 'Puma Invader (Positive)' to spearhead Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art Sale | | Lawren Harris canvas from the UK and international masterpieces will take the stage at Heffel's fall auction | | Hayv Kahraman's third solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery on view in New York |
Robert Indiana (b. 1928) LOVE (Red Faces Blue Sides), 1966-2000, polychrome aluminum (estimate: $400,000-600,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 15, Bonhams New York will feature a dynamic array of works from iconic artists like Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, Deborah Butterfield, and Fernando Botero, in a tightly curated auction of Post-War & Contemporary Art. Leading the sale is Andy Warhols Puma Invader (Positive) (estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000), a larger-than-life projection of Warhols personal commentary on consumerism, pop culture, and mass communication. Completed just one year before Warhols death in 1987, the stark ad for a Puma sneaker is stylistically evocative of Warhol's early commercial success as a commercial artist, yet mature in its construction. In the face of an increasingly wider use of photographic imagery, Warhol retains a handmade quality to this work. Executed with bold lines, the work stands six ... More | |
Lawren Harris, Composition 10. Oil on canvas, 1937. Estimate $300,000 - $400,000 CAD.
TORONTO.- On November 22 in Toronto, market leader Heffel Fine Art Auction House will present 118 masterworks at its semi-annual live auction in Toronto. The highly anticipated fall sale will take place at the historic Design Exchange in Toronto and will showcase international artistic excellence. The auction will be divided into Heffels two fundamental sessions: Post-War & Contemporary Art and Fine Canadian Art. (All prices are in Canadian dollars and are conservative estimates.) The demand for museum-quality art has grown dramatically worldwide and regional markets are being integrated into one powerful international art market. Exposure for many of Canadas most beloved artistic figures is at an all-time high, and in turn, interest from Canadian collectors has grown considerably for works by international artists. Heffels live auction will offer major lots by treasured Canadian artists that have ... More | |
Hayv Kahraman, Strip 1, 2017. Oil on linen, 39 x 32 inches. Image courtesy of Hayv Kahraman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Hayv Kahramans third solo exhibition at their 24th Street space, Re-weaving Migrant Inscriptions. In this new body of work, Kahraman focuses on the mahaffa as an object of mnemonic value. The mahaffa is a hand-held fan made by weaving the fronds of palm trees that dates from the Sumerian and Abbasid eras and is still made in the exact same way in Iraq today. Most importantly, it was one of the few objects Kahraman's family took as they fled Baghdad during the first Gulf War. Here, she describes the object and the process of weaving her canvas: I remember my mom walking into the room and placing a medium sized suitcase on the floor and saying it's time. We could only bring one suitcase. We packed the necessities for survival. But we also packed a mahaffa. It traveled with us through the Middle East, Africa and Europe until we finally reached our destination ... More |
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| Design Week Mexico and Museo Tamayo launch temporary architectural pavilion in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park | | New exhibition of wearable sculptures by Ernesto Neto opens in Sao Paulo | | Museo Jumex opens first solo exhibition in Mexico by French artist Philippe Parreno |
Parteluz Materia © Jaime Navarro.
MEXICO CITY.- For its 9th edition, Design Week Mexico is presenting, in collaboration with Museo Tamayo, an architectural commission by the acclaimed Mexican studio, Materia. From October 11th, the temporary architectural pavilion has become a significant cultural attraction of the museums gardens in Chapultepec Park, the capitals biggest public park. For this project, Materia conceives the Parteluz (Mullion) as an artifact made pavilion and place a tool for the mapping of time, the dissection of light and the embracement of shadow. The pavillion serves as a fragmenting filter of the surrounding gardens and the infinity of the sky. Its language expresses contrast and duality: object and void coming together in an intertwined fabric of contemporary spirit. Made with craft and distilled technique, the space invites reflection and contemplation. The pavilion consists of 70 columns ... More | |
Ernesto Neto 2017. Photo: Eduardo Ortega / Fortes DAloia & Gabriel.
SAO PAULO.- Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel is presenting O Sagrado é Amor [The Sacred is Love], the new exhibition by Ernesto Neto at the gallery. The artist shows wearable sculptures and an installation that invite the public to slow down the chaotic rhythm of urban life and to enjoy moments of introspection, calming the mind and activating the senses. For Neto, the manifestation of the sacred happens in meditative states, through a deep relation with nature. Both the fabric that intertwines to form the crochet pattern and the choice of colors used by the artist evoke this relation. On the ground floor of the Galeria, Neto presents a series of works that can be worn by the public. Recebo o Seu Amor, Enquanto Você Recebe o Meu [I Receive Your Love, While You Receive Mine] is an amoeboid form installed on the wall that extends in two arms, each ... More | |
Exhibition view of Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, 2017. Photo © Andrea Rossetti.
MEXICO CITY.- Museo Jumex presents a major new exhibition Philippe Parreno: La levadura y el anfitrión (The Yeast and The Host), the first solo exhibition in Mexico by French artist Philippe Parreno. One of an influential generation of artists emerging in the 1990s, Parreno has pioneered new forms of art through collaboration, participation and choreographed encounters where the exhibition is conceived as a scripted space, like an automaton producing different temporalities, a rhythm, a journey, a duration. For Museo Jumex, Parreno presents an expanded proposal over two floors. Combinations of new, existing and re-edited works are overlaid to produce different realities and experiences in an ever-changing composition. La levadura y el anfitrión is an experimental world ... More |
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Exhibition of new works by Danish photographer Thomas Bangsted on view at Marc Straus
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting its third solo exhibition of new works by Danish photographer Thomas Bangsted. In his new body of work, Thomas Bangsted considers remarkable World War II scenarios from the perspectives of the opposing factions. On the Allied side, the British were obsessed with sinking the colossal German battleship, Tirpitz. For the Axis with their morale at stake, it was imperative that the giant ship stayed hidden in the protective bay of the remote Norwegian Fjord, Kaafjord. This fascinating hide-and-seek narrative unfolds in each astonishingly detailed tableau. There is a palpable air of apprehension: the viewer is presented with the critical moment in the story and we are each left to imagine the outcome. Was the ship ever discovered? However utterly convincing, these pictures are pure inventions: they are aggregates ... More
Corey Helford Gallery opens exhibition of new work by street artist HUSH
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Saturday, October 28, Downtown Los Angeles Corey Helford Gallery premiered the new solo exhibition from Internationally known street artist HUSH in Gallery 2. Titled Remix, this exhibition is the artists third solo with the gallery and features all new works, including paintings and works on paper. HUSH's unique style is recognizable through its focus on the female form set within backgrounds filled with an expressionists freedom of layering and color. The serene balance of traditional painting is combined with a messier passion, influenced by the Western traditions of action painting and graffiti, culminating in a harmony that feels surprisingly natural. The artists mark-making bears the distinct aesthetic of tagging, bringing the rough texture of street art into each piece. Swift gestural marks underlie splashes of paint, looping through lines and over bright combinations of color. ... More
Oil on canvas portrait from the Circle of Sir Thomas Beech will be sold by Ahlers & Ogletree
ATLANTA, GA.- The estate of Thomas Ruben Jones (1929-2014), a prominent Atlanta businessman, patron of the arts and avid lifelong collector of 18th and 19th century American and European antiques, fine art and decorative arts, will be sold without reserve on Saturday, November 11th, on-site at Mr. Jones former plantation estate in north Georgia, at 11 am Eastern. For security reasons, the address of the estate wont be revealed until the week before the sale. It has a 30513 zip code, however, and out-of-town guests are encouraged to secure lodging in either Blue Ridge or Ellijay, Ga. Its about a 90-minute drive from Buckhead, in Atlanta, where, it so happens, Mr. Jones owned and operated the Ruben Jones Antiques business in the 1970s. The auction will be conducted by Ahlers & Ogletree of Atlanta, which is stressing that this will be an auction where ... More
Artist collective Jochen Schmith opens exhibition of conceptual works at the Drawing Room in Hamburg
HAMBURG.- Carola Wagenplast and Peter Steckroth, who received the Lichtwark Award 2017, work as an artist collective under the pseudonym Jochen Schmith. Their artistic practice is characterised by a critical approach to institutions and luxury. In their conceptual works, they regularly question the role of the artist and the art business. The starting point for Jochen Schmiths first solo exhibition at the Drawing Room is a response to the public gallery space, which is part of a private apartment on the fourth floor of an upper middle class residential apartment building, containing a small art collection. With subtle, context-specific interventions, Jochen Schmith succeeds in overturning the usual arrangement and function of the whole ensemble, triggering a wealth of questions in the viewer: What is private, what is public? Which ... More
Jonas Mekas redefines the spaces of the Missoni Boutique with a series of cinematographic works
NEW YORK, NY.- Angela Missoni, celebrating her 20th anniversary as Missonis Creative Director this fall, announced the project in her Surface Conversion series: Blue, Yellow, Red, Purple, a project by poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas which debuted on Wednesday, October 25th at Missonis NYC boutique, located at 1009 Madison Avenue. Curated by the duo Francesco Urbano Ragazzi in collaboration with A Palazzo Gallery, the exhibition is a visual poem that Mekas has dedicated to his home, New York City, which welcomed him as a refugee in 1949, and in which he later founded the New American Cinema Group and the Anthology Film Archives in the 60s and 70s. Mekas redefines the spaces of the Missoni Boutique with a series of cinematographic works and photographs that unite to compose an anthem which is both fragmented and striking. The show ... More
Morgan Lehman Gallery opens exhibition of works by Kim McCarty
NEW YORK, NY.- Kim McCartys obsession with watercolor and its ephemerality as a medium began when the artists home and studio burned down in a massive wildfire in 1993. Since then, each McCarty painting is the result of many attempts at securing an image that reads as both static and transitory. The artists process of working wet-into-wet on loose sheets of watercolor paper laid out across the floor forces her to grapple with forms that might disappear or disintegrate at any moment, inviting a perpetual renegotiating and reimagining of her subject through the liquidity of pigment suspended in water. Ever-present are McCartys favorite subjects (the nude, the botanical), but these new works point more overtly to art history, especially iconic Classical imagery. Such symbols inform and expound upon McCartys longstanding interest in ideas of youth, beauty, ... More
Petzel Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jorge Pardo
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery announced a solo exhibition by artist, sculptor, architect, and all-around polymathic Genius (2010 MacArthur Fellowship recipient), Jorge Pardo. This is his ninth exhibition with the gallery and first painting showbut dont expect oil on canvas. Candid snapshots of Jorge Pardo in workaday situationsman-spreading in a chair, strolling down the street, posing in Brazilian swim trunkstaken by friends, family, studio assistants, as well as up-close-and-personal Selfies, are the foundation for these 15 new paintings. And then the metamorphosis begins, simultaneously upending what defines a painting and a self portrait. Amalgamating craftsmanship and computerized manipulation with a range of media, Pardo creates an intricate, hybridized fusion of painting and sculpture. The images are bastardizedblown-up, engraved, ... More
Newark Museum unveils installation created with more than 500 plates by ceramic artist Molly Hatch
NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum has commissioned a site-specific, three-part installation by ceramic artist Molly Hatch that calls attention to the iconic architecture in its Charles W. Engelhard Court. The installation was inspired by global textiles in the Museums collection and its unveiling coincided with the Annual Luncheon on Oct. 24. Titled Repertoire, it opened to the public on Oct. 25. Hatch is known for her murals using hundreds of underglaze-painted ceramic plates, including two major installations at the High Museum in Atlanta. Repertoire is her largest commission to date, honoring the Museums 107-year-tradition of collecting contemporary ceramic art, and commemorating the retirement of Curator of Decorative Arts Ulysses Dietz after 37 years. Two years ago I approached Molly Hatch about doing a project for the Newark Museum, Dietz said. ... More
Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains opens exhibition of works by François Daireaux
LAUSANNE.- François Daireauxs Blow Firozabad Bangles exhibition is the result of the artists many comings and goings between the glassmaking cities of Firozabad in India and Meisenthal in Moselle (France). Firozabad is a working-class city in the north of India whose main activity for several centuries has revolved around manufacturing glass and more specifically glass bracelets, or bangles, worn by Indian women. These bangles are manufactured daily by the millions in the hundreds of glassworks spread throughout the city. Virtually all of the citys 600,000 residents work in the glass industry with infernal production rates and in conditions that are often extremely harsh. For two years running, the artist visited the glassmaking city of Firozabad, taking pictures, filming and carrying out the inventory of an entire production which he then relocated by exporting ... More
The influence of Scandinavian design in Canada revealed in 'True Nordic'
VANCOUVER.- On view October 28, 2017 to January 28, 2018, the Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada/Nordique: LInfluence du design scandinave au Canada. The exhibition, which features more than one hundred prototypes, designer originals, and limited edition and mass-produced wares designed and fabricated across the country, highlights the lasting legacy of Scandinavian design on the development of Canadian culture and design practices. Spanning more than seven decades, True Nordic reveals how Scandinavian design was introduced in Canada and how its aesthetics and material forms were adopted, changed and transformed since the 1930s. True Nordic presents an exceptional opportunity to celebrate Canadian designers and artists and highlight their important contribution ... More
Yellow Creature: Kunstmuseum Luzern opens new exhibition
LUCERNE.- The exhibition Yellow Creature uses artistic concepts to explore the ethnic and moral categories that define borders between creatures and also within a society. Who draws these borderlines, who benefits from them and who negotiates and renegotiates them? Thematically, the exhibittion refers to the legendary show at the Kunstmuseum Luzern in 1974, Transformer Aspekte der Travestie, which addressed the theme of the dissolution of gender roles, but takes the issue of borders and transitions into the 21st century. The exhibition brings together numerous famous artists, including John Akomfrah (*1957, GH), who had a major appearance at Art Unlimited in 2017, was represented at numerous biennials around the world and winner of the 2017 Artes Mundi Prize, Mika Rottenberg (*1976, AR), who thrilled viewers at the 2015 Venice Biennale ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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