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Paul Cézanne, Still Life: Flask, Glass, and Jug (Fiasque, verre et poterie), ca. 1877 (detail). Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 55.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Thannhauser Collection, Gift, Justin K. Thannhauser 78.2514.3. Photo: © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (SRGF).
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Van Gogh to Picasso: The Thannhauser Legacy , featuring the celebrated Thannhauser Collection gifted to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and marking the first time the majority of the collection as such leaves New York to be exhibited elsewhere. The show includes some fifty works by a number of the most well recognized Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and modern masters, such as Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Ãdouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The Thannhauser Collection is a bequest of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation by Justin K. and Hilde Thannhauser. Justin K. Thannhauser was the son of the German Jewish art dealer Heinrich Thannhauser, who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. From an early age, Justin K. worked alongside his father in the flourishing gallery and helped build an impressive and ve ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit an exhibition containing private banknotes, Sweden's first coin and a copy of the world's largest copper coin on September 22, 2018 in Stockholm during an open day at the head office of the Riksbank, Sweden's Central Bank, to mark the 350th anniversary of its creation. On September 22, 1668, the Bank of the Estates of the Realm was founded, which later changed its name to Sveriges Riksbank. Exactly 350 years after the bank was founded, the Riksbank holds an open day at Brunkebergstorg in Stockholm. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP
| Peggy Guggenheim Collection commemorates Osvaldo Licini with a long-awaited retrospective | | Exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates the centenary of the Bauhaus | | The Museo del Prado is taking its activities to more than 30 cities to mark the celebration of its Bicentenary |
Osvaldo Licini, Self-portrait, 1913. Oil on cardboard, 37 x 29 cm. Collezione Lorenzo Licini © Osvaldo Licini, by SIAE 2018.
VENICE.- At the twenty-ninth Venice Biennale in 1958, an artist from the Italian region of the Marches, Osvaldo Licini (18941958) was awarded the Grand Prize for painting, a homage to one of the most original and elusive personalities of the Italian art scene of the first half of the twentieth century. Sixty years after that important recognition and his death, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection commemorates the great master with the long-awaited retrospective Osvaldo Licini: Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. Eleven exhibition galleries and over one hundred works retrace the disruptive and tormented artistic path of this artist, whose career was characterized by moments of crisis and seemingly sudden stylistic changes. Licini placed painting itself at the center of his artistic research, constantly rethinking ... More | |
Hannes Meyer, Untitled, c. 19251926. Linocut on paper, 32.5 Ã 43.5 cm, gta Archives / ETH Zurich, Hannes Meyer.
MOSCOW.- Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect is part of bauhaus imaginista, a multi-platform, international project that tracks the ideas of the Bauhaus school as transmitted by its designers and architects into diverse cultural and political contexts, including the Soviet Union, Chile, Mexico, India, China, Israel/Palestine, Nigeria, and the United States. The Moscow iteration of the exhibition traces the complex relationship between the Bauhaus and the Soviet Union through the life and work of former Bauhaus teachers and students in Moscow. It focuses on several graduates and students who were connected to the second Bauhaus director, architect Hannes Meyer, in the Soviet Union in the 1930s: architect Philipp Tolziner, who ended up living the rest of his life in Moscow; architect and urban planner Konrad Püschel; and architect Lotte ... More | |
Room 12 © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura, soon after renamed the Museo Nacional de Pintura y Escultura and subsequently the Museo del Prado, opened its doors on 19 November 1819 in the building originally designed by Juan de Villanueva to house a Natural History museum and academy. The new museum presented 311 paintings by Spanish artists in an area that barely occupied 10% of the building. Since then, the Prado has seen notable changes: architectural redesigns, remodelling of the galleries, extensions, increase of the display space, growth of the collection, and changes in the organisation and criteria of its exhibitions. For José Guirao: Spanish Minister of Culture and Sport: The Bicentenary offers an outstanding chance to gain a vision of the past and present of this institution and to look ahead at the museum that the Prado aims to be. With regard to the Museums forthcoming projects ... More |
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| Stedelijk Museum opens a survey exhibition of works of art donated and purchased between 2012 and 2018 | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Oscar Murillo | | UCCA announces the formation of UCCA Dune, a new museum by the sea in Beidaihe |
Han Schuil, Blast VII, 2010, paint on aluminium, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, gift of Adriaan van Ravesteijn, in honour of the 80th birthday of Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005), 2013.
AMSTERDAM.- In September, under the title True Luxury..., the Stedelijk Museum presents a survey exhibition of works of art donated and purchased between 2012 and 2018. The presentation includes around 35 works that have never previously been shown in the museum. Films, videos, installations, paintings, sculptures and works on paper are featured, by artists like Bell & Frick, General Idea, Magali Reus, Erik van Lieshout, Arthur Jafa, Tony Oursler, Ed Atkins, Meschac Gaba, Helen Marten, Han Schuil, and Fiona Tan. Almost a third of the selected pieces were gifted by artists, private collectors, and international and Dutch galleries. With this exhibition, the museum underlines the increasing importance of private donations to the collection. The Stedelijk has traditionally received large numbers of artworks gifted by ... More | |
Oscar Murillo, catalyst #25, 2017 © Oscar Murillo. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, Hong Kong, New York, London.
HONG KONG.- David Zwirner is presenting an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Oscar Murillo at the gallerys Hong Kong location, marking the artists first solo presentation in Asia. Born in Colombia and based in various locations, Murillo is known for an inventive and itinerant practice that encompasses paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, actions, live events, collaborative projects, and videos. Taken as a whole, his body of work demonstrates a sustained emphasis on the notion of cultural exchange and the multiple ways in which ideas, languages, and even everyday items are displaced, circulated, and increasingly intermingled. Through his command of gesture, form, and spatial organization, Murillo is able to convey a complex and nuanced understanding of the specific conditions of globalization and its attendant state of flux, while ... More | |
View of UCCA Dune, Photograph by OPEN.
BEIDAIHE.- UCCA announced the establishment of its first museum beyond Beijing, UCCA Dune. An art destination located a few hours by car or train from Beijing in the Aranya Gold Coast Community, Beidaihe District, Hebei province, UCCA Dune will be programmed and operated by UCCA Foundation, presenting a full slate of exhibitions and projects each year. Designed by OPEN Architecture, UCCA Dune has been built by Aranya, which has entered into a strategic partnership with UCCA Foundation to support the museums operations and programming. UCCA Dune will open to the public later this year. UCCA Dune is conceived as an art and architecture destination, where exhibitions will unfold in dialogue with the building and its natural surroundings. Its inaugural exhibition, titled After Nature, will explore the shifting relationship between humans and nature against the backdrop of Chinas last three decades of ... More |
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| First posthumous retrospective of the work of Raoul De Keyser opens at S.M.A.K. | | Exhibition of new and recent work by Polly Apfelbaum opens at Ikon | | Lisson Gallery opens an exhibition of new and historic work by Carmen Herrera |
Raoul De Keyser, Siesta, 2000. Oil on canvas, 188 x 140 cm © Family Raoul De Keyser | SABAM Belgium 2018. Collection of Hauser & Wirth, Switzerland. Photo: Kristien Daem. Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp & David Zwirner, New York / London / Hong Kong.
GHENT.- From the 22nd of September 2018 onwards, S.M.A.K. presents oeuvre, the first posthumous retrospective of the work of Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012) in a museum. He is widely considered in Belgium and beyond to be a great but discrete master of painting. S.M.A.K. is showing more than 120 works, including several that have never previously been exhibited. In addition to a selection from the collection and international loans, there is also a sizeable ensemble of works on paper that he donated to the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent in 2008. By unfolding De Keysers oeuvre both chronologically and thematically, the exhibition design tracks his artistic career from the very beginnings in 1964, when his practice oscillated between Pop Art and Minimalism, to his final works, done in 2012. At the same time, a part of the exhibition ... More | |
Polly Apfelbaum, Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), 2018, Ikon, Birmingham. Courtesy the artist and Ikon. Photo by Stuart Whipps.
BIRMINGHAM.- Ikon presents a major exhibition of new and recent work by internationally renowned New York-based artist Polly Apfelbaum (born 1955), 19 September 18 November 2018. Entitled Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers), the exhibition exemplifies Apfelbaums interest in space, obsession and otherness. Featuring large-scale colourful installations comprising textiles, ceramics and drawings, Apfelbaums practice is framed within wider sociological and political contexts, and the legacy of post-war American art. The exhibition takes its title from the 1970s song Waiting for the UFOs by British singer-songwriter Graham Parker - recalling the vast empty spaces of the American landscape and the obsessive marginal characters who anxiously anticipate extra-terrestrial visits - conjoined with the surrealist René ... More | |
Installation view of Carmen Herrera: Estructuras at Lisson Gallery, New York (14 September 27 October 2018). © Carmen Herrera; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new and historic work by Carmen Herrera, the first ever large-scale presentation of the artists Estructuras. Based on paintings really crying out to become sculpture, Herreras Estructuras represent a rare break in Herreras insistent planarity and two dimensionality of her paintings. The exhibition at Lisson features twelve of these sculpted works, as well as sketches and drawings, and marks Herreras seventh show with the gallery. Herrera began the sketches and preparations for her Estructuras (Structures) in the late 1960s, around the same time that key Minimalism sculptors including Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Barnett Newman were early in their exploration of the medium. Of the shift Herrera has noted: It became clear to me that the linear elements in my work required a hard surface to integrate structurally ... More |
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| New Virtual Reality Holocaust installation features rare and never-before-exhibited artifacts | | The South London Gallery's new annexe in a former Fire Station opens to the public | | Exhibition pays tribute to 34 communities Jimmy Nelson encountered while travelling across five continents |
Peter Loewenstein, South Barracks, 1944 (detail). Watercolor on paper, signed and dated on the bottom right: PL 44.
NEW YORK, NY.- In Confidence: Holocaust History Told By Those Who Lived It is a new, multimedia installation that encourages visitors to engage with personal expressions of Holocaust experience. Correspondence, possessions, photographs, artworks, journals, testimonieshistory has confided these to us. Through each we can listen, reflect, and respond. The installation is on view at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust from September 16, 2018 to January 31, 2019. Visitors will discover artifacts from the collections of the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, a special presentation of The Girl in the Diary (in partnership with the Galicia Jewish Museum), an introduction to the stunning work of acclaimed artist Mikhail Turovsky, and an encore presentation of the HBO film The Number on Great-Grandpas Arm. In Confidence also features the ... More | |
Ryan Gander, Dominae Illud Opus Populare, 2016 © Ryan Gander. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery. Image Jack Hems.
LONDON.- The South London Gallerys new annexe in a former Fire Station opened to the public on Saturday 22 September with an exhibition titled KNOCK KNOCK. Curated by SLG Director Margot Heller in collaboration with artist Ryan Gander, the exhibition explores humour in contemporary art. Across the road from the SLGs main building, the Fire Station has been renovated by 6a architects. It doubles the size of the SLG and includes the creation of new exhibition galleries, an archive, communal kitchen, education space and artists studio. To celebrate the opening of the SLGs new space, KNOCK KNOCK is being presented across the main site and the Fire Station. KNOCK KNOCK brings together works by more than thirty artists from established figures such as Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas and Ugo Rondinone to younger practitioners such as Danielle Dean, Hardeep Pandhal and Simeon Barclay in different medi ... More | |
Jimmy Nelson, XXXVII 85, DÃa de los Muertos | Oaxaca | Mexico, 2017 Archival pigment print, 74.0 x 62.0 cm. Image courtesy Atlas Gallery.
LONDON.- The latest, eagerly awaited photographs by Jimmy Nelson celebrating the strength and beauty of remote indigenous cultures are being presented at Atlas Gallery in London this month, in advance of the publication in October of his new book, Jimmy Nelson: Homage to Humanity. And, for the first time, visitors will be able to meet some of Nelsons subjects through his innovative and immersive 360 films. In both the exhibition and the book, Jimmy Nelson: Homage to Humanity, the British-born photographer pays tribute to thirty-four communities he encountered while travelling across five continents, from the Sharchop in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to the Mundari in South Sudan. The exhibition at Atlas Gallery features magnificent archival pigment prints. An interactive video installation gives visitors a taste of how the book will take readers on a journey behind the scenes and into the lives of his subjects, their ... More |
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Solo exhibition of new work by Yelena Popova opens at L'étrangère
LONDON.- Létrangère is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by the Russian-born, UK-based artist Yelena Popova. Entitled Her Name is Prometheus, the show is comprised of sculpture, paintings, etchings, and tapestry developed during a residency at The Art House in Wakefield, in May this year. Informed by her interest in nuclear history and developed from local research, Popova was inspired by the story of Klaus Fuchs the theoretical physicist and atomic spy who was incarcerated at Wakefield prison during the 1950s for supplying information from the Manhattan Project nuclear research to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. Fuchss chief area of expertise was the implosion method, which led to the development of the Plutonium bomb. Using a diagram of the molecular structure of Plutonium, Popova developed a mobile, ... More
Over The Influence presents "Flesh of the Gods": An exhibition of new works by Sam Friedman
HONG KONG.- Over The Influence is presenting Flesh of the Gods, an exhibition featuring new paintings from New York-based artist Sam Friedman. The exhibition, which marks Friedman's debut solo show in Hong Kong, opened on September 20, and remains on view through October 27, 2018. Deftly occupying the liminal borders between abstraction and representation, Friedman's enigmatic paintings have a tendency to disorient, plunging the viewer into an unreliable world, a nowhereness at once atmospheric and decorative, mythical and mysterious. Drawing upon personal memories, Friedman explores the tension between recognizable imagery and the artist's emotional and spiritual experience of the natural world. Blending the representational with the surreality of a dream, Friedman's candy-colored abstractions proffer uncanny glimpses of the ... More
James Richards and Leslie Thornton exhibit their first collaborative project in Vienna
VIENNA.- James Richards and Leslie Thornton are showing their first collaborative project Crossing (2016) at the Secession. This video installation materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts. Thornton, a media artist who herself was influenced by Paul Sharits, Yvonne Rainer, and Joan Jonas often deploys projections complicated by ample soundimage interactions. Likewise, musical composition is key to Richards practice. Both artists work is motivated by their understanding of cinema and video as original languages and forms of thinking. The works title evokes the artists mode of working together, traversing their practices and sharing their views. Thornton and Richards uploaded their files via digital networks, downloading each others material, amending, deleting, inverting concurrently. ... More
Works of art exploring the complex story of plastic are focus of exhibition
EUGENE, ORE.- Sixty works exploring the complex story of plastic from drawings and photographs to video installations and sculptures fabricated from found objects are being featured in "Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials," on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon from September 22 December 30, 2018. Plastic Entanglements was organized by the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University and includes work by 30 emerging and mid-career contemporary artists from around the globe, such as Mark Dion, Marina Zurkow, Zanele Muholi, Vik Muniz, Jessica Stockholder, Chris Jordan, Brian Jungen, Aurora Robson, Willie Cole, Pinar Yoldas, Tejal Shah and Moreshin Allahyari. The artists work examines the environmental, aesthetic, and technological implications of plastic and how ... More
Exhibition looks at studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- Past Time: Geology in European and American Art is on view September 21 to December 9, 2018, at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. The exhibition, curated by Patricia Phagan, is a broad display of watercolors, drawings, oil sketches, and sketchbooks, and looks at studies made by European and American artists from the 1770s to the 1890s who were engaged with a new scientific investigation of the earths crust. This inquiry came to be called geology, and it emerged from a mix of interests in minerals and their applications in industry, curiosity about rocks and other features and how they were formed, and theories about how the earth began. With the gradual and widening popularity of geology, more artists became engaged with geological motifs as the new discipline grew to its height and was accessible ... More
Ansel Adams' esteemed 'Museum Set' on view in new exhibition at the Chrysler Museum of Art
NORFOLK, VA.- This fall, the Chrysler Museum of Art unveiled an exhibition of photographs by celebrated landscape photographer Ansel Adams and contemporary photographers who were inspired by his work. From Ansel Adams to Infinity is on view from Sept. 21, 2018Jan. 27, 2019. Admission to the exhibition is free. The exhibition commemorates the gift of a special portfolio of 25 photographs printed by Adams. Toward the end of his seven-decade career, the famed photographer began focusing on his artistic legacy, writing an autobiography and issuing portfolios of his most famous and technically accomplished works. Assisted by Carmel, Calif. gallery owner Maggi Weston, Adams reviewed more than 2,500 negatives of works originally made between 1923 and 1968 to issue a select group of prints representing his finest photographic ... More
MCA Denver opens a mid-career retrospective of Tara Donovan's work
DENVER, CO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver announces Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. The exhibition, the artists first museum presentation in almost a decade, celebrates American artist Tara Donovans distinct and varied practice and occupies the entire museum. Often known for her transformation of neutral or mundane materials like drinking straws, rubber bands, and index cards into elaborate, mind-bending objects that evoke the natural world or other organic material, Donovans work in many ways is about work. She manipulates a material over and over again to see what it is capable of becoming, where it might lead, and how it will migrate from an object of practical use to something surreal or sublime. As curator Nora Burnett Abrams notes, the impact of Donovans work is implicitly tied to the fact that her materials are plucked from the everyday ... More
Panopticon Gallery opens a studious exhibition for lovers of photography and the printed page
BOSTON, MASS.- To coincide with start of a new school year, Panopticon Gallery presents Bibliophile, a studious exhibition for lovers of photography and the printed page. This show features works by Thomas Allen, Carolyn Hampton, Sean Kernan, Aline Smithson, Mark Douglas, Fawn Potash, and Thomas Marr. These photographers turn their cameras toward their libraries, bringing unique perspectives and photographic processes to the book as subject. Included among the contemporary images of books are Thomas Marrs historic photographs of Bostons buildings that house them. In his photographs of the Boston Athenæum at the turn of the last century, Marr shows us the stacks and reading rooms of one of the countrys oldest private libraries. These images are exhibited next to anonymous photographs of the Boston Public Librarys long-forgotten ... More
Zurich Asia to offer rare stamps and philatelic treasures in September auction
HONG KONG.- Zurich Asia announced that it will hold its Hong Kong autumn auction on 29 and 30 September 2018 at Harbour Plaza North Point Hotel, offering 2970 lots of rare philatelic treasures, banknotes and coins. There will be a public preview on 27 and 28 September from 10am to 6pm. The auction will present an exceptional selection of some of the most sought-after stamps from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Taking centre-stage is a unique 1882 Large Dragon cover back, bearing a Large Dragon 3 candarins brown red vertical strip of three, tied by a TIENTSIN Antique type seal chop in black; alongside is a Large Dragon wide margin 5 candarins yellow chrome stamp (cut in half), tied by full strike of CUSTOMS/TIENTSIN/30.12.82 circular date stamp. (Estimate: HK$ 1,200,000-1,600,000/ US$153,846-205,128, Lot 466). This unique piece ... More
Nordic Pavilion announces artists for the 58th Venice Biennale
HELSINKI.- The exhibition to be hosted in the Nordic Pavilion in 58th Venice Biennale takes as its theme one of todays most pressing global issues: the complex and varied relations between humans and other living organisms in an age when climate change and mass extinction are undermining the preconditions of life on Earth. The exhibition Weather Report: Forecasting Future presents Nordic perspective through the work of artist duo Janne Nabb and Maria Teeri from Finland, Ane Graff from Norway and Ingela Ihrman from Sweden. The commissioner of the 2019 Nordic Pavilion will be the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma / Finnish National Gallery. The exhibition Weather Report: Forecasting Future will be curated by Kiasmas director Leevi Haapala and curator Piia Oksanen. The co-commissioners of the other Nordic countries are Moderna ... More
Exhibition at Foam explores the life work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase
AMSTERDAM.- The life work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase (Hokkaido, 1934-2012) remained largely inaccessible for over two decades, following a tragic fall that left the artist with permanent brain damage. After his death the archives were gradually disclosed, revealing a wealth of material that had never been shown before. Foam presents a large-scale retrospective with original prints from the Masahisa Fukase Archives in Tokyo. In addition to his seminal body of work Ravens, the exhibition contains a number of important photo series, publications and documentation dating from the early 1960s to 1992. The works combine to form a remarkable visual biography of one of the most radical and experimental photographers of the post-war generation in Japan. Fukase incorporated his personal struggle with loss and depression into ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Linda McCartney was born September 24, 1941. Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 - April 17, 1998) was an American musician, photographer, and animal rights activist. She was married to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. McCartney was a professional photographer of celebrities and contemporary musicians. Her photos were also published in the book Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era in 1992. In this image: Linda McCartney (1941-1998), Paul, Stella and James in Scotland, Platinum photograph, 1982. Courtesy James Hyman Gallery.
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