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Portrait of Vera Lutter at Gagosian Britannia. Photo by Lucy Dawkins. Courtesy of Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting Turning Time, an exhibition of eight new photographs by Vera Lutter. Lutter has created pinhole-camera photographs of architecture, landscapes, cityscapes, and industrial sites since the early 1990s. Turning Time comprises two series, one depicting ancient temples in the southern Italian town of Paestum, the other the Effelsberg Radio Telescope at the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomiey in Germany, a radio telescope used for scientific research and recording cosmic activity in outer space. These studies of historical monuments and pivotal technological innovations reflect Lutters deep relationship with the forces of time. At each site, Lutter transformed a standard-size shipping container into a camera obscura, one of the oldest image-capturing technologies, whereby light enters into a dark camera space through a pinhole, projecting an image into the interior onto a sheet of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A museum employee poses behind a piece of fatberg, a congealed lump of fat, sanitary napkins, wet wipes, condoms, diapers and similar items found in sewer systems, on display at the Museum of London, in central London, on February 8, 2018. The only remaining piece of the 'monster' fatberg discovered in Whitechapel, East London, last September is on display at the museum of London. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| Exhibition sheds new light on the manner in which Fernand Léger reinvented painting | | Smith College Museum of Art announces a transformative gift of two Rembrandt prints | | Berkshire Museum and Attorney General's Office reach agreement |
Fernand Léger, Le Transport des forces, 1937 (detail). Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris. En dépôt au Palais de la Découverte © CNAP/Photo Yves Chenot © Adagp, Paris 2017.
BRUSSELS.- BOZAR and the Centre Pompidou-Metz are devoting a major retrospective to one of modern art's most famous artists. With around 100 works and a vast selection of archive documents, the retrospective covers every facet of the work and personality of Fernand Léger. Tracing his journey in all its diversity, the exhibition sheds new light on the way the artist reinvented painting by drawing on the spectacle of the world around him and opening up to other arts, including poetry, cinema, performance arts and architecture. The French artist Fernand Léger (1881 1955) is one of modern art's most famous figures. Son of a farmer in Normandy, and initially training as an architect before becoming a painter, Léger developed his own vision of cubism after discovering Cézanne in the early years of the 20th century in Paris. Generous, curious about everything and a great traveller, he is the passionate ... More | |
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn. (Dutch, 1606-1669), The Three Crosses, Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves, ca. 1660 (detail). Drypoint and burin printed in black, third state of five. Gift of Mary Gordon Roberts, class of 1960, in honor of the 55th reunion of her class.
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.- The Smith College Museum of Art has received a transformative gift from Mary Gordon Roberts (Smith class of 1960) of two impressions of one of Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's most famous prints, The Three Crosses, Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves. These two prints will add significantly to SCMA's ability to study and share information on the working methods of one of the most influential printmakers in the history of western European art. The prints join Mrs. Roberts' 2010 gift to SCMA, George Bellows' oil painting, Pennsylvania Excavation (1907). Her gifts have been made in honor of the class of 1960. Her generosity to Smith embodies a favorite exhortation of her father Albert H. Gordon, a Smith trustee from 1960 to 1970: "Remember your roots." Mrs. Roberts's gift ... More | |
Legal filing announces framework for art sales; Norman Rockwells Shuffletons Barbershop to be sold to a nonprofit American museum and loaned to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Berkshire Museum and the Massachusetts Attorney Generals Office today filed a joint request with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court seeking court approval for the Museum to take necessary steps to ensure its financial future. The agreement would authorize the museum to sell works of art to address clear financial need. A nonprofit American museum has agreed to purchase and place on prominent display in its collection Norman Rockwells Shuffletons Barbershop. The painting will also be loaned to the Norman Rockwell Museum for a period of up to two years with future opportunities to loan the painting to museums in the Berkshires and Massachusetts. The legal filing details an agreement reached by the AGs Office and the Berkshire Museum that would end all legal action between them if approved by the Supreme Judicial Court. In the filings, both sides recognize the museums dire ... More |
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| Toledo Museum of Art announces Master Plan to unify its campus | | Chester Beatty marks 50th anniversary of greatest gift to the nation; Ireland's post office issues commemorative stamps | | New exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel presents forgotten or rarely seen works and icons of its collection |
Proposed center gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art. Image courtesy of Beyer Blinder Belle.
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art announced this week a comprehensive Master Plan for the institution, its buildings and surrounding campus, to be carried out over approximately 20 years. The first phase of the Master Plan, which developed out of TMAs recent, long-range strategic planning process, focuses on TMAs grounds as an urban park and oasis within the city of Toledo. Plans call for creating new green space, unifying the architectural and visitor experience and enhancing the existing gardens and grounds. TMA began developing the Master Plan in late 2016 with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners, an internationally renowned architectural and planning firm based in New York City. Among Beyer Blinder Belles specializations are museums, campus planning, historic preservation and parks and gardens. The firm has collaborated with some of the most influential cultural institutions ... More | |
Birth of the Virgin. Chester Beatty Rosarium by Simon Bening, c. 1530, Belgium.
DUBLIN.- When Alfred Chester Beatty died on 19 January 1968 he bequeathed his world-famous collection to the Irish people, a gift considered to be the greatest ever given to the nation. The Library, which bears his name, will mark this historic event with a special programme launched today by the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan T.D. The Minister also launched a series of four commemorative postage stamps from An Post featuring material from across the Collections. The Library will present two major exhibitions this year and plans are underway to launch the Chester Beatty collections online before the end of the year. The Minister said: The Chester Beatty Library is a special part of Irish life. The foresight and passion of Sir Alfred Chester Beatty is to be lauded and celebrated as his gift to the nation continues to fascinate and enthral 50 years on. I am delighted to be present at the launch, today, of ... More | |
Hans Holbein, Erasmus von Rotterdam, 1523. Mischtechnik auf Papier, auf Tannenholz aufgezogen, 37,1 x 30,8 cm. Kunstmuseum Basel.
BASEL.- The exhibition Basel Short Stories turns the spotlight on the Kunstmuseum Basel's rich and in some respects world-famous collection, presenting less well-known treasures from the holdings in new contexts. The kaleidoscopic display unites illustrious and obscure, private and world-historicaland sometimes grotesqueevents in the history of Basel that are brought into focus by art from the Kunstmuseums collections. Basel Short Stories reminds the visitors of the extraordinary potential of the Ãffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, the municipal art collection of Basel, by staging a multifaceted dialogue between forgotten or rarely seen works and icons of the collection. It reflects all divisions of the collection, from the Old Masters to the present day, and sheds new light on the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, Hans Holbein the Youngers masterwork The Dead ... More |
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| Peabody Essex Museum debuts first major exhibition celebrating play in contemporary art & culture | | Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein harks back to modernism | | Exhibition features hand-written notes that provide insight into the private lives of iconic artists |
Erwin Wurm, from the series One Minute Sculptures, ongoing, courtesy of the artist. Photo by Elfie Semotan.
SALEM, MASS.- This February, the Peabody Essex Museum debuts the first major thematic exhibition to survey the rapidly evolving role of play in contemporary art and culture. Nearly forty works by seventeen leading and emerging artists reveal how behaviors essential to the creative process risk-taking, exploration, questioning and curiosity are all encouraged by the act of play. Through large scale installations, video, sculpture, photographs and tactile experiences, PlayTime explores how play catalyzes creative expression, enchants the ordinary and helps us understand ourselves in new ways. PlayTime will be on view at PEM from February 10 through May 6, 2018. Play is no longer on the margins, says Trevor Smith, exhibition curator and PEMs Curator of the Present Tense. Since the early 1990s weve seen play increasingly manifest itself across divergent streams of contemporary art and engage a wide range of soci ... More | |
Latifa Echakhch, Derives 60, 2015.
VADUZ.- The artists in this exhibition hark back to modernism and rediscover it. They examine the conceptual, programmatic and formal traditions of the early twentieth century that have become established as parameters. They search for traces that help to identify alternative modes of reception, thus opening up avenues for an unexpected positioning in the history of art. The aspect of inspiration that lies in reappraising the past plays a special role: modernism becomes a reservoir. This also involves leading the artwork out of its meanwhile representative role and connecting it to the original conditions of its creation and its effects on human experience. The attempt to preserve the openness of artworks while continuing their discourse is equally an attempt to artistically assess the avant-gardes and their sometimes conflict-ridden and ambivalent history. The approaches taken by these artists are self-reflective and conceptual in nature. Research, appropriation, ... More | |
Robert Motherwell writing, 1944 June / unidentified photographer. Joseph Cornell papers, 1804-1986, bulk 1939-1972. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
OLD LYME, CONN.- Handwritten letters are a performance on paper, states Mary Savig, curator of manuscripts at the Smithsonians Archives of American Art and organizer of the exhibition Pen to Paper: Artists Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonians Archives of American Art. The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, is the only northeast venue for this traveling exhibition. On view February 9 to May 6, 2018, Savigs selection reveals the beauty and intimacy of the craft of letter writing. From casually jotted notes to elaborately decorated epistles, Pen to Paper explores the handwriting of celebrated artists such as Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Eakins, Howard Finster, Jacob Lawrence, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Georgia OKeeffe, Jackson Pollock, John ... More |
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| PIASA to offer the private collection of Alexandre De Betak | | Julian Opie creates 5 major artworks for Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for women | | Britany Salsbury appointed Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art |
Alexandre De Betak.
PARIS.- PIASA announced the auction of the private collection of the artistic director, designer and scenographer of the fashion industrys most innovative shows: Alexandre De Betak. Over the years, Alexandre De Betak has built an important collection of kinetic art, an ensemble of design furniture, contemporary art and a remarkable number of collectible robots that are integrated into the design of his Paris apartment. The sale is a celebration of Alexandre De Betak as a collector, but also as a designer, as it includes a selection of pieces that he himself designed. Always passionate about art and design, the aesthete has entrusted PIASA with the sale of approximately 200 works, and in so doing invites the public into his world, where art, design and fashion are intimately intertwined. Known in industry circles as the Fellini of Fashion, Alexandre De Betak juggles many roles, among them art director, producer, scenographer an ... More | |
Julian Opie, Three crows, 2018, Paint on wall, Unique.
LONDON.- Hospital Rooms announced the participation of Julian Opie in our latest project at Eileen Skellern 1, Maudsley Hospital at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Eileen Skellern 1 is a psychiatric intensive care unit that provides semi-secure psychiatric and intensive hospital care for women who have severe and on-going mental illnesses. Julian Opie has created a series of compositions of birds that will be installed directly to the walls of the unit. He will join Paresha Amin, Aimee Mullins, Harold Offeh, Nengi Omuku, Tamsin Relly and Tim A Shaw, who have also begun creating bespoke and museum quality artwork for Eileen Skellern 1. The project is funded by Arts Council England and through the generosity of Hospital Rooms friends and donors. We are also grateful to Colart who will supply high quality artist materials for the project through their brand Liquitex. We are really excited ... More | |
She comes to Cleveland from the Milwaukee Art Museum, where she is Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced the appointment of Britany Salsbury as Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings. Salsbury will work closely with Emily Peters, Curator of Prints and Drawings, on the growth, display, and interpretation of the museums collection of over 24,000 prints and drawings. Salsbury will assume her responsibilities on March 27. I am delighted to welcome Britany to the museum and look forward to having her as a colleague. We especially look forward to enjoying the benefits of her expertise in 19th and 20th century European prints and drawings, areas in which we have outstanding holdings, said Director William M. Griswold. The museums collection of old master and modern prints is known nationally and internationally for its high quality and rare impressions. Its drawings ... More |
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The Jane Miller Chai Collection of Chinese Paintings goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present the Jane Miller Chai Collection of Chinese Paintings. Offering 20 lots acquired over 40+ years, the small but significant collection primarily features modern works by noted artists Li Keran (1907-1989), Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996), Cui Zifan (1915-2011) and Ding Yanyong (1902-1978). An antique work by Dong Bangda (16991769) is also included in the collection. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Friday, March 2, 2018, at 7:00 pm PST; items in the sale are available for preview and bidding now. The online auction will be featured live on four platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, eBay and Turner Auctions + Appraisals free mobile app, which can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Apps ("Turner Auctions"). All are easily accessed through Upcoming Auctions at the ... More
Freight+Volume presents a new body of work by David Baskin
NEW YORK, NY.- Freight+Volume is presenting The Speculative Gaze, a new body of work by David Baskin. Consisting of bronze sculptures, prints, and assemblages of chrome objects, the exhibition uses the Dutch Golden Age and its art as a framework to present a vision of contemporary consumerism and socio-economic phenomena. Baskin views the market driven economy and cultural milieu of the 17th-century Netherlands as a sort of parallel world and precursor of our own hyperbolic investment-based economy, formulating it as an art-historical model through which he examines the superficiality of mass consumption. He is particularly informed by the vanitas paintings of artists such as Adriaen van Utrecht, which fuse an exalted materiality with a sense of anxiety and doubt by juxtaposing a cadre of sumptuous luxury items with memento mori such as skulls ... More
Edinburgh World Heritage to take over Tron Kirk
EDINBURGH.- Edinburgh World Heritage, the charity responsible for the conservation and promotion of the Old and New Town World Heritage Site, is to take over the running of the Tron Kirk on Edinburghs Royal Mile following a vote by the Councils Finance and Resources Committee. Short term, the space will be used to showcase Edinburgh as well as the other World Heritage Sites across Scotland. Longer term, the charity plans a complete refurbishment of the building which will include facilities for the local community as well as for teachers and school children. The Grade A listed building, one of the most significant church structures in the city, has faced an uncertain future since it was vacated by its last congregation in 1952. It has been put to various uses over the years, including a performance space, bar, and most recently a Victorian Market. It is officially listed ... More
Desk Set: Exhibition at Centre d'art contemporain Brétigny features four women artists
BRÃTIGNY-SUR-ORGE.- Petra Genetrix from Porosity Valley, date of birth unknown, gender not applicable. Welcome to the Immigration Data Center. Arriving through a secret door, the machine begins to glow in the dark. Further on four women surrounded by books endlessly chatter from one door to another. The telephone rings, unheeded, once again. Sorting through microplastics, they talk about the ways of protecting oneself against human contamination. Others, sporting an octopus wig or a face crudely painted and wearing a paper costume, transform images, writing and bodies to become lyrical translators. All of them know the weight of the earth and the name of the customs. Between them and the machine the nature of emotional and objective knowledge plays out. Such is the flow that is exchanged, mutant, mute or talkative, and forever repeated, ... More
V&A Museum of Childhood opens a new exhibition which explores dreams
LONDON.- Dream on is a new exhibition which explores dreams, the unconscious and an imaginary world between sleep and wakefulness. Opening on 10 February 2018 at the V&A Museum of Childhood, it weaves together several elements. New work by internationally renowned ceramist Christie Brown was created in response to the Museum collection, a co-created sculptural installation by young people from St Georges Hospital Tooting and a photography project with primary school children from Lauriston School Hackney. Looking at our relationship to objects and the power we invest in them the exhibition plays with the notion that objects come to life when we are not looking, much like our dreams when we fall asleep. Christie Browns figurative ceramic installation Ludus Est references dolls and toys in the collection and her own childhood memories. ... More
Catherine Christer Hennix's first institutional solo exhibition in over 40 years opens in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is presenting Catherine Christer Hennix: Traversée du Fantasme, the first institutional solo exhibition in over 40 years of the Swedish composer, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and visual artist Catherine Christer Hennix. This retrospective exhibition collects Hennixs visual work, including a series of paintings, wall drawings and sculptures. The exhibition is set across two rooms, loosely configured in the form of an analysts office and waiting room. While Hennix is most well-known as a composer for her sound environments, she has also maintained a practice as a visual artist, drawing on a wide range of references touching on logic, intuitive mathematics, modal music, and psychoanalysis. Her work plays with the transmission of meaning through the use of a highly formalized and at times inscrutable personal ... More
S.M.A.K. presents videos, performances and installations by Hiwa K
GHENT.- S.M.A.K. is hosting a solo exhibition focused on videos, performances and installations from the last 10 years of the artistic endeavours undertaken by Hiwa K (°1975, Kurdistan, Iraq). During the second Gulf War in the 1990s, the artist was compelled to flee his country for political reasons. Childhood memories, local traditions, anecdotes about his family and friends, everyday encounters, experiences during his 5-month flight, history, current events and politics serve as source material to form his body of work, that touches on urgent themes associated with often poignant, unstable and unforeseen conditions of existence. The work of Hiwa K deals with historical trauma, as in Moon Calendar (2007) or This Lemon Tastes of Apple (2011); the passages of migration as in Pre-Image (2010) or View From Above (2017); institutional criticism and appropriation; ... More
Centre Pompidou opens a solo exhibition of works by Sheila Hicks
PARIS.- The Centre Pompidou is devoting a solo exhibition to Sheila Hicks, an American artist based in Paris since the mid-1960s. Looking back at Hicks career from 1957 to the present day, 145 works are being displayed in galerie 3, overlooking the city of Paris. the exhibition invites the public to discover the various expressions of an art that uses cotton, wool, linen and silk to enrich our perceptions of colour, material and space. «Sheila Hicks. Lignes de vie [Life Lines]» casts a new light on the artists work that has been reviewed over the past years. some twenty pieces have now joined the Centre Pompidous collection thanks to a major donation to the Musée National dArt Moderne. the exhibitions fluid and non-chronological circuit is structured around a formal and chromatic dialogue between the artworks and the space. Alongside sculptures - some of them ... More
Edward Gorey's illustrations and art collection unite in unprecedented exhibition at Wadsworth Atheneum
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present Goreys Worlds, the first museum exhibition to contextualize the work of celebrated American author and illustrator Edward Gorey (19252000) by uniting artworks from his personal collection and art of his own creation. Gorey bequeathed 73 objects he accumulated to the Wadsworth Atheneumthe only public institution to receive such a gift from himin 2001. Ranging from 19th-century European prints and modernist American drawings to contemporary art from the 1970s and 1980s, these works offer an in-depth look into Goreys artistic inspiration. Defining works from this giftby Ãdouard Manet, Charles Meryon, Eugène Atget and Albert Yorkare integrated with 50 of the artists own illustrations and key personalia. In total, more than 130 objects combine to encourage ... More
The Holburne Museum opens the first museum retrospective of the painter Anthony Fry
BATH.- The Holburne Museum is hosting the first museum retrospective of the painter Anthony Fry (1927-2016). Though he enjoyed commercial success in Britain and America during his lifetime, Fry has not previously been recognised by a major exhibition. Including many works rarely seen in public, lent from prestigious private collections, this exhibition reveals the considerable extent of his incredible talent. Fry was an artist who lived and worked near Bath for sixty years, but who made pictures that expressed his experience of international travel and the joy he derived from immersion in the cultures, rich colours and smells of different places around the world. His early work, dominated by dancing figures, reflects the landscape of Tuscany. From the late 1980s, his painting is characterised by strong, intense colour, influenced by time spent in the sparse and sunny spaces ... More
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, announces the main venues for its inaugural edition
RIGA.- The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art announced the six main venues in Riga, which will host the inaugural edition of the biennial and its related public programme and events. The majority of these spaces are within 20 minutes walking distance of each other, creating a sustainable parcours and allowing visitors the time to experience the exhibition and the artists, as well as to discover the city. Entitled Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, RIBOCA is a major new biennial initiative in Riga, Latvia, launching on 2 June 2018. The chief curator is Katerina Gregos, who has been responsible for setting up the biennial together with its founder and commissioner Agniya Mirgorodskaya. The selected venues reflect Rigas diverse cultural and architectural history: from medieval and 19th century traditional ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier died February 10, 1879. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales
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