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William Blake at Tate Britain, installation view. © Tate / Seraphina Neville.
LONDON.- Tate Britain presents the largest survey of work by William Blake (1757-1827) in the UK for a generation. A visionary painter, printmaker and poet, Blake created some of the most iconic images in the history of British art and has remained an inspiration to artists, musicians, writers and performers worldwide for over two centuries. This ambitious exhibition brings together over 300 remarkable and rarely seen works and rediscovers Blake as a visual artist for the 21st century. Tate Britain reimagines the artists work as he intended it to be experienced. Blakes art was a product of his tumultuous times, with revolution, war and progressive politics acting as the crucible of his unique imagination, yet he struggled to be understood and appreciated during his life. Now renowned as a poet, Blake also had grand ambitions as a visual artist and envisioned vast frescos that were never realised. For the first time, The Spiritual ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors observe an artwork by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso displayed at the Sursock Museum in the Lebanese capital Beirut on September 27, 2019. Lebanon launched its first exhibition of late Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's works this month with more than 20 works centred around the theme of family, organisers said. The exhibition will run until January next year. JOSEPH EID / AFP
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| | Albertina Museum pays tribute to Arnulf Rainer with a presentation of its own rich holdings of his work | | New Ai Weiwei documentary reveals new candid details about the revolutionary artist's astonishing childhood | | Andrew Jones Auctions' Design for the Home & Garden Sale set for October 20 |
Arnulf Rainer, Ohne Titel, 1989-1991. Albertina, Wien. Sammlung Batliner © Arnulf Rainer.
VIENNA.- Arnulf Rainer numbers among the most important and influential artists of the present. On 8 December, Rainer celebrates his 90th birthdayand the Albertina Museum is taking this occasion as an opportunity to pay tribute to him with a presentation of its own rich holdings of his work. This exhibition features a selection of key works and pioneering work groups. As central manifestations of Rainers art, they render his fundamentally dialectical stance clear to see. Arnulf Rainers paintings, compared with one another and taken individually, give rise to an intense back-and-forth on painterly qualities and graphic line structures as well as dialogues on the exploration of surfaces and space, color and reduced black and white, fullness and emptiness, stasis and motion, calm and agitation, abstraction and figuration. Rainers impulsive abstract drawings are juxtaposed with works that experiment with colors ... More | |
Outside Tompkins Square Park.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly directed by Cheryl Haines tells the story of Ai Weiweis father receiving an anonymous postcard while exiled as a dissident poet in the 1950s, and how this one small act of humanity had a profoundly moving and transformational impact on both father and son. In the film, Ai Weiwei reveals candid details about his childhood, while his mother and brother recall years of privation on the edge of the Gobi Desert during her first ever on-camera interview about Ai Weiweis childhood. The years in the Gobi Desert, along with his 2011 detention, became the inspiration for his revolutionary exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, a monumental presentation of new artworks addressing the struggle for fundamental human rights. The exhibition was organised in 2014 by the films director and one of the USAs most important voices in contemporary art, Cheryl Haines. Following Ai Weiweis detention by Chinese ... More | |
Late 18th century Louis XVI gilt bronze cartel clock by Charles Baltazar, 43 ½ inches tall by 18 inches wide (est. $4,000-$6,000).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Andrew Jones Auctions upcoming Design for the Home and Garden Auction on Sunday, October 20th, will feature nearly 400 lots of important fine art, design, antiques and accessories from collections across the country and throughout California, online and live in the gallery at 2221 South Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. The sale will feature property from prominent collections in New York, Utah and, of course, California, including items from the estate of Richard E. Faggioli, the Schutzenberger family collection in Rancho Palos Verdes, the estate of Marion Scharffenberger of Rolling Hills, and merchandise from collectors in Montecito, Century City, Palm Desert and Pasadena, California. Also offered will be a wonderful selection from the collection of Connie and Bill McNally of Rancho Santa Fe, as well as property from the estate of the ... More |
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| | Looted sarcophagus once shown at New York's Met returned to Egypt | | White Cube Mason's Yard opens an exhibition of new work by Damien Hirst | | Exhibition spans over three decades of Davis Smith's work |
Gilded Coffin Lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (detail) Late Ptolemaic Period (15050 B.C.) Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255b) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK (AFP).- American authorities on Wednesday repatriated to Egypt a gilded coffin purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art but discovered to have been looted in the wake of 2011's Egyptian revolution. A joint investigation by American, Egyptian, German and French law enforcement officials determined the coffin crafted between 150 and 50 BCE was stolen from Egypt's Minya region. The ancient artifact sheathed in gold, which was associated with gods in ancient Egypt, was a central piece of a recent Met exhibit, after the museum purchased it in 2017. But the show abruptly ended in February when New York authorities seized the sarcophagus. At a press conference attended by Egypt's ... More | |
Damien Hirst, Subservience, 2019. Butterflies and household gloss on canvas. Diameter: 91.4 cm | 36 in. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2019. Photo © Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting Mandalas, an exhibition of new work by Damien Hirst at Mason's Yard. His first major show in London for seven years, it features large-scale works from the recent concentric paintings. Returning to one of his most well-known motifs the butterfly Hirsts new paintings take their inspiration from the mandala: highly patterned religious images that represent the cosmos or universe in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Shinto traditions. Predominantly circular, they feature exquisitely colourful butterfly wings placed into intricate concentric patterns on household gloss paint. Complex and restless, their compositions resolve at the centre with a single butterfly, a point of visual and mental focus; a spiritual or energy nexus. The Mandalas continue themes present in Hirst's earlier 'Kaleidoscope' series (2001-present), foregrounding both the symbolic power of the butterfly and ... More | |
David Smith, Untitled, 1955. Steel, 99.1 x 92.1 x 19 cm / 39 x 36 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. Photo: Damian Griffiths. Images © 2019 The Estate of David Smith / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset is presenting David Smith. Field Work, its debut solo exhibition by the eminent American artist. The exhibition has been conceived as four chapters of work spanning over three decades (from 1933 to 1964) that aim to demonstrate Smiths diverse visual language and multifaceted creative process. Curated by the artists daughters Rebecca and Candida Smith, co-presidents of the David Smith Estate, the exhibition situates itself between the drawn image and sculpted form to investigate the relationship between the two parallel practices. For Smith, drawing was a natural form of expression, often produced alongside sculpture making and he would intuitively switch back and forth as a crucible for thought and innovation. We are thrilled to see our late fathers work in Somerset, the rural setting is reminiscent of the rolling hay fields around his studio. He wanted his sculptures to ... More |
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| | Swiss auction supercars seized from E.Guinea president's son for millions | | Cantor announces three fall shows featuring Jordan Casteel, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, and Mark Dion | | Iran's iconic anti-US murals make way for a new generation of artwork |
A picture taken on September 28, 2019 at the Bonmont Abbey in Cheserex, western Switzerland shows a 2010 Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 Coupe model car (R) and a 2011 Aston Martin One-77 Coupe model car. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP.
CHÃSEREX (AFP).- A Swiss auction of 25 supercars seized from the playboy son of Equatorial Guinea's president fetched 21.6 million euros ($23.6 million) Sunday -- substantially more than expected. The money made from the Geneva auction will go to charities helping the poorest people in the tiny West African country, which is one of the continent's top oil producers. "It was a very successful sale," Lynnie Farrant, spokeswoman for British auctioneers Bonhams, told AFP. The auction house had estimated that the collection would fetch 17 million euros. The higher than expected total came despite the fact that the cars were sold off individually with no reserve price -- a minimum price below which no sale takes place. The collection sold off included Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bentleys, a Maserati and a McLaren among others. ... More | |
The Melancholy Museum: Love, Death and Mourning at Stanford -- A Mark Dion Project. © Cantor Arts Center.
STANFORD, CA.- Fall at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University will include three major exhibitions that highlight the work of two of the most exciting artists working today and two American photographic legends. Presenting the large-scale, deeply empathetic portraits of Jordan Casteel, the photographs of celebrated American icons Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, and the thoughtful reinstallation of our Stanford Family Collections by Mark Dion allows us to be the center of engaging conversations in the Bay Area about our past and present and to tell the stories of peoples and places that have notalways been fully explored, said Susan Dackerman, John and Jill Freidenrich Director at the Cantor. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, the celebrated young artists first solo museum show, has its West Coast premiere at the Cantor. Casteel, 30, widely recognized as one of the most important emerging artists working today, has roo ... More | |
A worker uses a water jet cleaner to erase a mural painting on the wall of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on September 29, 2019. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
TEHRAN (AFP).- Famous murals celebrating Iran's Islamic revolution daubed on walls of the former US embassy in Tehran have been erased to make way for new paintings to be unveiled on the fortieth anniversary of the hostage crisis. Three workers were on Sunday afternoon seen removing the original artwork with a sandblaster against the wall of Taleqani avenue, bordering the south side of what was once dubbed a US "spy nest" in central Tehran. On November 4, 1979, less than nine months after Iran's last shah was toppled, pro-revolution students took Americans hostage at the embassy to protest the ex-shah's admission to hospital in the US. The crisis ended 444 days later with the release of 52 Americans, but the US broke off diplomatic relations in 1980 and ties have never been restored. Among the images being erased was one of the Statue of Liberty -- with a skull instead of ... More |
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| | Meşher: A new exhibition space opens in Istanbul | | Exhibition focuses on perhaps the most iconographic smirk in history, the smile of Mona Lisa | | £1.8m development of Gosport Museum and Art Gallery to go ahead thanks to Government funding |
Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, In the Dead of the Night, 2015. Ceramic, 60 x 80 x 56 cm. Photo: Hadiye Cangökçe.
ISTANBUL.- Meşher, a new exhibition space initiated by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, opened with its inaugural exhibition Beyond the Vessel: Myths, Legends, and Fables in Contemporary Ceramics around Europe. Aiming to establish an interdisciplinary approach, Meşher advocates the creation of new dialogues across time and cultures, not only through its exhibitions but also its comprehensive array of parallel activities such as publications, workshops, and conferences. The exhibitions are mainly conceptualized and produced in-house through a network of collaborations with national and international experts and institutions, thus providing a platform of exchange and inspiration in Turkey and abroad. Meşhers first exhibition, Beyond the Vessel: Myths, Legends, and Fables in Contemporary Ceramics around Europe demonstrates how ancient myths ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan / London / Hong Kong.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo presents LUltimo Sorriso, Le Dernier Sourire, The Last Smile a solo exhibition by Yan Pei-Ming. Born in Shanghai in 1960, Yan Pei-Ming grew up amidst the Cultural Revolution in China, since 1980 the artist is living and working in Dijon, France. The duality of eastern and western cultural experiences has led to Yan Pei-Mings expressive style and meticulous palette that during his thirty-year practice has acquired international success and recognition. Renowned for his expressionistic portraits of influential historical characters, The Last Smile focuses on perhaps the most iconographic smirk in history, the smile of Mona Lisa, in the year that celebrates the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. For Yan Pei-Ming it is the ultimate smile: the smile that has condemned all the other smiles to the shadows since it was first unveiled. When he painted the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci u ... More | |
Gosports Old Grammar School, which will be at the heart of the regeneration project.
GOSPORT.- Gosport Borough Council and Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) worked in partnership to submit the bid to Historic Englands High Streets Heritage Action Zones (HSHAZ) scheme. The aim of the scheme is to deliver physical improvements and cultural activities to regenerate high streets across the country. Disused or under-used buildings are to be transformed into creative spaces, offices, shops and housing. It is planned that this high street revival will become the catalyst for wider regeneration, with heritage and local character at its heart. 69 towns in England have been successful in securing funding from the initiative, which is supported by £52m from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governments Future High Street Fund and £40m from the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sports Heritage High Street Fund. The National Lottery Heritage Fund is contributing £3m, which will ... More |
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Achille Mauri on Fabio Mauri and the Post-War Italian Avant-Garde
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Tate Modern appoints curators specialising in African, Middle Eastern and South Asian art
LONDON.- Tate Modern announced new and recent appointments to its curatorial team which will continue the pioneering research and scholarship already undertaken in the fields of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian modern and contemporary art. These Curators are: Nabila Abdel Nabi, who will focus specifically on art from the Middle East and North Africa; Osei Bonsu, who will focus on further developing the representation of African art in Tates collection and programme; and Dr Devika Singh who will specialise in art from South Asia. These posts will further Tates commitment to rethinking the history of modern and contemporary art from a less Western-centric vantage point as well as supporting the work of the newly established Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational. These appointments form part of Tates ongoing strategy to explore ... More
Kelly Bjork's first solo exhibition with Nancy Margolis Gallery on view in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Margolis Gallery is presenting Kelly Bjorks first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is on view September 12th through October 26th, 2019. In her intimate narrative paintings, Seattle-based artist Kelly Bjork depicts candid moments between friends and lovers within tidy, domestic settings. Painted on paper with gouache and pencil, expressive figuration, patterning, and gratifying hues dominate Bjorks work, confronting the viewer with challenging and amusing imagery. The artists pleasure-focused motifs invite viewers to enter a world where conflicts and tensions are simply absent. In their place, figures practice self-care (Cultivating Space, 2019), indulge in leisure (The Oracle, The Witches, Us, 2019), and channel deep intimacy (Anima Rising, 2019). Small in scale, Bjorks compositions present rich visual complexity. ... More
Mexican crooner Jose Jose, hero of jilted lovers, dead at 71
MIAMI (AFP).- Jose Jose, a velvety-voiced Mexican crooner who was wildly popular in Latin America over a 50-year career that spawned love song after love song, has died, the Mexican government and his son said Saturday. He was 71. Jose Romulo Sosa Ortiz, known as the "principe de la cancion," or prince of song, had suffered from pancreatic cancer. "We regret to report the death of singer Jose Romulo Sosa, better known as Jose Jose... since the beginning of his career, the singer of 'El Triste' was one of the most beloved voices in Mexico," the country's Culture Ministry said on Twitter. Son Jose Joel posted images of black ribbons on his Facebook page, saying "we are trying to process the situation by having in our heart the divine promise that we will see and hold him again, never to be separated." Mexican broadcaster Televisa, which Jose Jose worked ... More
Fann A Porter gallery announces a new initiative aimed at art more accessible with payment plans
DUBAI.- Fann A Porter gallery is presenting AFA Collective, a new ground-breaking initiative and exhibition aimed at art more accessible with bespoke installment payment plans, from September to November 2019. AFA Collective at Fann A Porter embodies the ethos of a gallery housed in a multi-disciplinary community engagement space. Nurturing international talent through myriad programming, it believes in and relies upon the public that activates it. Serving as both an exhibition and a concept, AFA Collective offers visceral and communicative artworks by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Middle East, Iran and Europe who shine light upon a pocket of contemporary production. Shown in a refreshed commercial context characterized by accessibility, transparency and sustainability with flexible financial solutions, AFA proposes ... More
Dear Sides by artist Katja Mater currently on view at P/////AKT, platform for contemporary art in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Dear Sides is a new film installation that is generously lending its name to the constellation of new pieces that Katja Mater is showing at P/////AKT; I live in a text driven world with a severely dyslectic brain. Because of my dyslexia it often feels like things can flip around, and do, while it does not make that much of a difference to me. I can read almost as fast up-side-down as right-side-up. Left to right or right to left. Why is it that dyslectics flip their letters, their numbers, follow their own logic and invent their own ways? People with dyslexia do not naturally process written words or take on tasks in a linear manner, they do not work their way from left to right or top to bottom. They tend to approach the world in a more visual way and take in word as shapes from all angles. While writing, they draw a picture using letters and orientation does not seem ... More
Legion of Honor presents Alexandre Singh's A Gothic Tale
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A Gothic Tale, a newly commissioned film and installation for the Legion of Honor by Alexandre Singh, draws inspiration from the Gothic literary tradition of 19th century Europe, as well as San Franciscos place in the cinematic history of film noir (such as Orson Welless The Lady from Shanghai, 1947, and Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo, 1958). A Gothic Tale is Singhs first solo presentation in a West Coast institution. Staged in the Legion of Honors galleries of medieval art, A Gothic Tale introduces Singhs imaginative universe through his debut short film, The Appointment, a playful thriller that unfolds with the fatalism of film noir. Embracing the twisted and fantastical traits of Gothic literature from E. T. A. Hoffmann to Roald Dahl, the film is a darkly comic tale of doubling and mistaken identity. Henry Salt, an enfant terrible of letters, wakes from ... More
SculptureCenter opens 'Searching the Sky for Rain '
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- This exhibition brings together works by artists who disregard the ways in which the art industry regulates, classifies, compartmentalizes, and essentializes difference into sanctioned categories. The artists in Searching the Sky for Rain defy the fracking of particularities into niche-marketed, T-shirt formulations of identities for institutional meaning and value production. These exploitative processes administer domination, forcing heterogeneity into operational packages for the stylization of a lukewarm cosmopolitanism. The resulting rhetorical conflation of the maker and the work has led some producers to contend for the most bona fide representation in a highly competitive field where authenticity is rewarded as the primary source of value. While the proclaimed dominant position enjoys a hotline to abstract and structural thinking, ... More
Walker Art Center opens Theaster Gates's first major U.S. exhibition
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Theaster Gatess (US, b. 1973) multifaceted practice includes sculpture, installation, performance, and architectural interventions. An important aspect of his work entails reclaiming and revitalizing abandoned buildings in neighborhoods across Chicagos South Side. These spaces, called Dorchester Projects and the Stony Island Arts Bank, have become catalysts for creative and cultural gatherings, and now serve as repositories for thousands of objects. Taking things that have been cast aside from libraries, archives, and collections, the artist asks us to consider what it means to invest objects with new meanings through the simple acts of conversation, conservation, creation, and care. This exhibition brings a number of Gatess collections into a museum context for the first time. The Walkers galleries will be transformed into a Gesamtkunstwerk, ... More
Exhibition marks the centenary of James Tower's birth
BATH.- James Tower (1919-88) was born in Sheerness on the north Kent coast, with access to windswept beaches, the mudflats of the Thames and Medway, and a shoreline teeming with plant and animal life - an environment that left an indelible impression on the future artist. After studying painting at the Royal Academy Schools from 1938-40, he continued at the Slade from 1945-8. Widely recognised as one of Britain's most important 20th-century studio potters, he was inspired initially by William Newland and Dora Billingdon to specialise in tin-glazed earthenware. Latterly his decorative rigour anticipated the innovations of Elizabeth Fritsch. Tower was also a highly respected art school lecturer, first at the Bath Academy of Art (1949-66), where he set up the pottery studio and worked as one of the few full-time teachers, then later at Brighton Polytechnic (1966-86) ... More
Kunsthaus Zurich hosts video presentation to mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
ZURICH.- To mark World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October, the Kunsthaus Zürich showcases the rapid changes in video art, its techniques of production, storage and playback equipment and methods of presentation, and the challenges museums face in conserving media art. The presentation includes exhibits before and after restoration and digitization by Marina Abramović, Gilbert & George, Nancy Holt, Joan Jonas, Muda Mathis and Sus Zwick, Bruce Naumann, Elodie Pong and Ulrike Rosenbach, ranging from early video works on 4:3 CRT monitors to a video projection from 2006. Theres plenty more to discover even for digital natives as documents from the museum archives recording the purchase of the works as well as original cassettes from the early days of video art reveal the media that preceded the formats of today and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, film star James Dean died in a road accident September 30, 1955. James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly ranch hand, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status. In this image: Actor James Dean is seen in a scene from the Warner Bros. 1956 epic, "Giant." Years after the making of the movie, teenagers are still trying for the cool that was James Dean, the poster boy for the tortured netherworld between child and adult.
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