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Visitors play in a "swimming pool" filled with plastic balls at the Fun House exhibit, a freestanding structure designed by Snarkitecture that recalls and re-imagines the idea of a traditional home, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, July 5, 2018. A massive interactive installation that opened this week fills the US National Building Museum's cavernous Great Hall with an all-white house, pool and pavilion designed by New York-based Snarkitecture. And plenty of snark there is indeed from this group that sees itself as creating neither art nor architecture, but rather something at the intersection of both. SAUL LOEB / AFP.
WASHINGTON.- A massive interactive installation that opened this week fills the US National Building Museum's cavernous Great Hall with an all-white house, pool and pavilion designed by New York-based design firm Snarkitecture. The idiosyncratic group -- which sees itself as creating neither art nor architecture, but rather something in between -- invites Washingtonians to immerse themselves in a tactile show that captivates with a sprinkling of whimsy. "We are looking to make architecture accessible and engaging. Part of doing that is to integrate this concept of play," said Alex Mustonen, who co-founded Snarkitecture with Daniel Arsham. Ben Porto joined the pair in 2014. "We like people to experience architecture and environments in ways that children might experience them," he said. "Ideally to let your guard down to approach something in a new way." Visitors enter the free-standing structure filled wi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Algerian archaeology students and experts inspect an ancient Berber mausoleum, in Algeria's Tiaret region, 300 Kilometres west of Algiers, on April 23, 2018. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP
| Gemeentemuseum exhibits the finest seascapes produced at Scheveningen | | Bernard Jacobson opens exhibition of more than 60 rare and important works by Matisse | | The National Gallery acquires Artemisia Gentileschi self-portrait |
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915), Return of the Fishing Fleet, 1895, Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. On loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands.
THE HAGUE.- The beach at Scheveningen is world-famous. Artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the Maris brothers attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture, but above all the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water used it as a subject in their drawings and paintings. This summer, the Gemeentemuseum is showing the finest seascapes produced at Scheveningen by the painters of the Hague School. Around 1870 a group of artists formed in The Hague, and the city became the centre of Dutch painting. They took to the outdoors to paint the landscape of the Netherlands. Alongside the woods around the Veluwe heathlands and the polders in the region now known as the Green Heart in the west of the country, the North Sea coast also features heavily in the work of these painters. Scenes from the lives of poor ... More | |
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Petit bois clair, 1906. Woodcut on Van Gelder paper, Edition of 50, H46 x W28.5 cm / H18.1 x W11.2 in.
LONDON.- Bernard Jacobson opened a wide ranging exhibition featuring more than 60 rare and important works from the gallerys comprehensive collection of Matisse Prints, currently the largest and most significant collection of Matisse prints held by any commercial gallery in the world. Matisse is an artist we celebrate for his sumptuous use of colour but he was also a consummate master of line: a virtuosity employed to considerable effect throughout more than half a century of print making. These largely monochromatic works, created using a range of techniques, place him firmly as one of the greatest print makers of the 20th century and appear to us as fresh and vivacious now as the day they were made. Printmaking was frequently used by Matisse as an extension of drawing and an opportunity for him to experiment with the use of simplified, sometimes almost abstract line. With printmaking, he could return ... More | |
Artemisia Gentileschi (15931654 or later), Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, about 161517 (detail). Oil on canvas, 71.5 by 71 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A recently discovered, rare self-portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque Artemisia Gentileschi (15931654 or later) has been acquired by the National Gallery, London. Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an oil painting from about 161517, will undergo conservation treatment before going on display in early 2019. Hannah Rothschild CBE, who in 2015 became the first woman to chair the National Gallery Board of Trustees, says The acquisition of this great painting by Artemisia Gentileschi realises a long-held dream of increasing the National Gallery's collection of paintings by important women artists. Gentileschi was a pioneer, a master storyteller, and one of the most progressive and expressive painters of the period. One of a handful of women who was able to shatter the confines of her time, she overcame ... More |
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| Provincetown Art Association and Museum presents 'Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown' | | Hudson River Museum exhibits an impressive portfolio of Hudson River bridges images by Harry Wilks | | What is Love? Kunsthalle Bremen presents 40 works from various eras from its collection |
Sea Picture with Black, 1959. Oil and enamel on primed canvas, 85 1/4 x 57 1/4 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. Gift of Susan Morse Hilles © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photograph courtesy Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
PROVINCETOWN, MASS.- This summer, Provincetown Art Association and Museum presents Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown, an exhibition of paintings by one of the most influential abstract artists of her time. The focus of the exhibitionone of the largest in PAAMs historyis the work Helen Frankenthaler (19282011) created in Provincetown between 1950 and 1969, offering a new perspective on this aspect of her oeuvre. Curated by Lise Motherwell, a stepdaughter of the artist and PAAM Board President, and Elizabeth Smith, Founding Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation (HFF), the exhibition is on view from July 6 through September 2, ... More | |
Harry Wilks, Landscape Painting/George Washington Bridge, 2008.
YONKERS, NY.- The Hudson River has always played a key role in the development of this regionit could also be a barrier. Before the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge opened in 1888, ferries offered the only access from shore to shore below Albany. It took 36 more years for the Bear Mountain Bridge to provide a transit further south and for general traffic. Hudson River crossings continue to provide infrastructure vital to the economy and to our daily lives. At the same time, their impressive scale and construction have long attracted artists and photographers who see in their grandeur a type of industrial sublime. Since the early 1970s, Harry Wilks has photographed numerous architectural structures, including an impressive portfolio of Hudson River bridges. In his photographs, Wilks seeks out locations where people have left a mark on the landscape, which he finds enhances the beauty of the river. The current display ... More | |
Carl Friedrich Demiani, Family portrait, 1806. Gouache on parchment, wound up on canvas, 56,5 x 44,8 cm. Kunsthalle Bremen Der Kunstverein in Bremen.
BREMEN.- Love is a topic that concerns everyone. The critical role that love plays in our lives is also reflected in art. The exhibition What is Love? From Amor to Tinder (7 July to 21 October 2018) presents around 40 works from various eras from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen that focus on earthly love, lovers from mythology, narcissism, eroticism and the idealisation of beauty. The selection is complemented by five works by contemporary artists who explore the phenomenon of online dating. These works will be exhibited for the first time in a museum. According to a recent study, satisfactory relationships are an important source of personal happiness for most Germans.* Several surveys have discovered that singles have a fairly detailed idea of what a rewarding partnership should look like. Why then are more people single than ever before? Shouldnt the ... More |
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| Celestial Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama comes to deCordova this Summer | | Kröller-Müller Museum celebrates eightieth anniversary with launch of online timeline | | 'View from the Headlands: Harrison Cady' opens at Cape Ann Museum |
Yayoi Kusama, Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016, mirror polished stainless steel with glass mirror, 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 x 118 1/8 inches, Collection of Lauren and Derek Goodman, Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai and Victoria Miro, London/Venice, © Yayoi Kusama.
LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced that a major sculpture by the celebrated contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama is on view at deCordova this summer and fall. This is the first time one of Kusama's acclaimed Infinity Mirror Rooms has been on view in the Boston area. Titled Where the Lights in My Heart Go (2016), it has been installed outdoors on the Museums Pollack Family Terrace from July 5 through October 28, 2018. The sculpture is a ten-by-ten-foot polished stainless steel chamber with a mirrored interior. Small holes in the walls and ceiling allow natural light to penetrate the darkened room. Multiplied by the reflective surfaces, these pinpricks of light create a magical, celestial experience when ... More | |
Hanging Guitare by Pablo Picasso, 1946.
OTTERLO.- On 13 July 2018 it will be exactly eighty years since the Kröller-Müller Museum first opened its doors to the public. Helene Kröller-Müller saw her dream become reality in 1938 with the opening of what was then called the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller. The museum celebrates this with the launch of an online Timeline, full of fascinating stories that have never previously been made public. Storytelling In the Timeline, the history behind the artworks is conveyed through storytelling from the perspective of the directors of the Kröller-Müller Museum. Letters and photographs from the archives are used for this. The richly illustrated result provides insight into the vision of Helene Kröller-Müller and her successors and clarifies their choices of the artists and architects with whom they collaborated. Van Goghs potato eaters Unknown stories are revealed. Like the story behind the famous painting The potato eaters by Vincent van Gogh, which was acquired not by Helene but by ... More | |
Harrison Cady (18771970), Essex Shipyard, 1920s. Oil board. The James Collection, promised gift to the Cape Ann Museum.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- View from the Headlands: Harrison Cady, a special exhibition of works by artist and illustrator Harrison Cady (1877-1970), will be on view July 7 through October 28 at the Cape Ann Museum. View from the Headlands will draw on public and private collections throughout the region with examples of Cadys early magazine illustrations, his work with writer Thornton W. Burgess, and his later landscape paintings. The exhibition reflects the Cape Ann Museums commitment to preserving and presenting work that celebrates the areas culture and history. A native of Gardner, Massachusetts, Cady is best known for his collaboration with Thornton W. Burgess, author of numerous childrens bedtime stories. In 1910, their first book, Old Mother West Wind, introduced Americans to British author Beatrix Potters ... More |
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| Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens exhibition focusing on the late 60s | | REALITY at KANEKO will challenge your perceptions | | The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine opens 'Drawing on the Past: Works on Paper' |
Marinus Boezem, Beddengoed uit de ramen van het Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1969, collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- For many, the late sixties are synonymous with the anti-Vietnam War hippy protests and the massive student unrest in Paris. In the major summer exhibition Amsterdam, the Magic Center, the Stedelijk looks beyond these widely-known facts, positioning Amsterdam as a nexus of revolutionary ideas and activities. Imagination becomes a force to be reckoned with. But what was the impact of imagination on art what did that look like? And what was the citys role in these imaginative experiments? The Magical Centre Amsterdam, to use the words of artist Robert Jasper Grootveld, a member of the Provo movement, reaches its zenith between 1967 and 1970. By which time, Amsterdam has won itself a reputation as a city where anything goes. The Dutch capital flourishes as a progressive and artistic haven, a place that attracts hordes of young people from all over the world. Its also a time when art is in the throes of cha ... More | |
REALITY is a collaborative interdisciplinary exhibition investigating how art, science, and technology can create, alter, and reflect upon our sense of the real.
OMAHA, NE.- KANEKO introduces their summer exhibition, REALITY, running from June 1st - September 26th, 2018. During REALITY, artists will dissect the notion of truth, history, and the presentation of what is real. Interdisciplinary installations connecting art, science, and technology will create, alter, and reflect upon our sense of the real. Performances, lectures, and educational offerings will further explore the concept of reality through perspectives of art and science. The way we work, live, and learn is rapidly changing. Advanced technologies including augmented and virtual reality are expanding beyond entertainment and into our everyday lives. These technologies prompt a different kind of learning, focused on play, exploration, and creativity. During REALITY, The University of Nebraska Medicine Interprofessional Center for Enduring Learning (UNMC iEXCEL) will present new and emerging technologies that transform the effec ... More | |
Detail of Sail Symphony by Phil Dike (1906-1990) Watercolor on paper / 22 x 28 inches The Irvine Museum Collection at the University of California, Irvine.
IRVINE, CA.- Drawing on the Past is a remarkable display of drawings, pastels, watercolors and etchings by California artists dating as far back as the 1880s. Many of the drawings on display were produced when these artists were art students in Europe in the late nineteenth century. The traditional academic method of art instruction required the student to study drawing for the first two years of their study before getting instruction on using paint and color. These classes would progress from drawing objects to eventually drawing the human figure. Paul Grimm (1891-1974), best known as the premier painter of the desert near Palm Springs, learned to paint at the Düsseldorf Royal Academy, in Germany. The wonderful series of charcoal portraits in our exhibition were done while he was an art student there. The models are ordinary people who were hired to pose. Pastel painters create art using a stick consisting of pure ... More |
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Exhibition at Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam takes everyday objects as its starting point
AMSTERDAM.- Duchamp did it first, 101 years ago, with his urinal. By recasting a utilitarian object as a work of art, he opened up the world to seeing things differently, and caused tremors that shook the core of the art world that are still being felt today. Reflex Gallery is presenting an exhibition with a selection of diverse works by some of the most exciting practitioners of contemporary art from around the globe. In Times of Plenty: The Shape of Things Today also takes everyday objects as its starting point. But this time, by recasting them in a gallery setting, these artists are asking us to question, not only the nature of art, but more the nature of our contemporary society, with its rampant consumerism, disposable culture and overexposure to iconic brands. Whether it be Erwin Wurms bashed up landline phone, or his comic frankfurter-like Head, both cast in bronze, or Ichwan Noors VW Beetle ... More
Asahi Art Museum opens major mid-career survey of Hikari Shimoda's work
NAGANO.- On Saturday, July 7th, Asahi Art Museum of Nagano, Japan premieres their first exhibition with Japanese-artist Hikari Shimoda featuring a major mid-career survey of her work. It was in 2008 when Shimoda set on the path to becoming a professional artist, and now ten years later, she is amongst the most widely recognized names of New Contemporary painters rising out of Japan. Entitled The Catastrophe of Death and Regeneration, the exhibition will take viewers on a journey through Shimodas narrative and artistic development spanning one decade of her work, including her most ambitious painting to date, a massive ten-foot mural. Its been ten years since I chose my life as an artist. I started creating art to express the loneliness and despair I was feeling. Now my brushes paint human beings as a whole existence, beyond distinctions, such as race and gender. ... More
Interactive sound-based installation by Yuri Suzuki now open on High Museum's outdoor Piazza
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art unveiled Sonic Playground, an installation of sound sculptures by internationally renowned designer Yuri Suzuki on The Woodruff Arts Centers Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. The installation continues a multiyear initiative to animate the Highs outdoor space with site-specific commissions that engage visitors of all ages in participatory art experiences. It will be the Highs first venture into exploring the notion of audible play how sounds can be constructed, altered and experienced. On view from June 24 through Oct. 7, 2018, Sonic Playground features ingenious, colorful sculptures that modify and transmit sound in unusual, engaging and playful ways. The installation aims to create serendipitous audible experiences among visitors that create a sense of community within the Piazza. The installation includes six ... More
Extensive programme of more than 50 projects announced for the second iteration of Art Night
LONDON.- This years edition of Art Night Londons largest free contemporary arts festival is co-curated by Hayward Gallery and takes place on the night of Saturday 7 July. The programme includes new artist commissions and premieres alongside one-off artist projects and events by both emerging and internationally renowned artists and curators invited to participate in the second iteration of Art Night Open. For its third edition, Art Night 2018 will take place between 6.00pm and 6.00am in iconic and off-the-beaten-track venues, along a trail that runs between Southbank Centres Hayward Gallery and Battersea Power Station, through Vauxhall and Nine Elms. Art Night is generously supported by international auction house Phillips for the third year running. Presented alongside 12 special artist projects curated by Hayward Gallerys Director Ralph Rugoff ... More
The Fruitmarket Gallery opens exhibition of works by Tacita Dean
EDINBURGH.- Tacita Dean is one of Britains most respected and successful international artists. This year is a phenomenal one for her, with solo exhibitions Landscape, Portrait and Still Life at Londons Royal Academy of Arts, National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery. The Fruitmarket Gallery presents their own exhibition of the work of Tacita Dean to complement these showings. Taking performance as its theme, the exhibition is being presented in the context of the Edinburgh International Festival, the worlds pre-eminent celebration of the performing arts. The exhibition is built around hourly screenings of Deans bewilderingly intricate Event for Stage (2015), in which actor Stephen Dillane delivers a virtuoso solo performance, variously acting from a script given to him, page by page, by Dean, seated in the front row of the audience; declaiming lines from ... More
l'étrangère opens a solo exhibition by London-based artist Evy Jokhova
LONDON.- létrangère is presenting I dance for you my edifice, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Evy Jokhova. The site-specific, multimedia installation, comprised of interactive sound sculptures, photographs, paintings and performance, investigates our relationship stone a historical constant whose significance is simultaneously entwined with ancient mythology and contemporary obsessions with materiality and synthesis. Drawing on references to antiquity and Greek mythology, Jokhova examines our longstanding relationship with stone in a series of interactive sculptures imbued with sound elongated, stone-like pillars and stone stacks that inhabit the gallery space. Despite their weighty demeanour, the sculptures are made from synthetic, light- weight materials, manipulated by Jokhova to mimic stone. The relationship we hold with ... More
Olaf Nicolai designs a walk-in environment for the Lokremise St. Gallen
ST. GALLEN.- Olaf Nicolais (*1962, Halle an der Saale) works have been featured in numerous international exhibitions, from documenta to the Venice Biennale. The landscape, one of the most complex themes in the history of art, is a leitmotif in Nicolais work. For the Lokremise St. Gallen he has designed a walk-in environment that could be a desert or a lunar landscapeas alluded to by the quotation that gives the exhibition its name, uttered by American astronaut Charles Pete Conrad Jr. on November 18, 1969 during his time on the moon. Nicolai creates a barren, utopian landscape in which multiple levels of references overlap and condense. Central to the work are the shifts in the relationship between the body, space, and movement, and especially the imaginations thus evoked. Nicolais installation in the Lokremise consists mainly of sand, a loose ... More
Major new public artwork by Ugo Rondinone announced for Liverpool waterfront
LIVERPOOL.- Liverpool Biennial and Tate Liverpool announced today a new joint project to internationally acclaimed artist Ugo Rondinone to create a large scale outdoor sculpture for a prime site at Royal Albert Dock Liverpool on the citys waterfront. The work is planned to be unveiled this autumn. Part of the Liverpool 2018 programme, the artwork, entitled Liverpool Mountain, celebrates the citys unique association with contemporary art: 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of Liverpool European Capital of Culture, the 20th anniversary of Liverpool Biennial and the 30th anniversary of Tate Liverpool. Ugo Rondinones work for Liverpool, part of his mountain series, is his first public artwork in the UK. Rondinones mountain sculptures rise up to ten metres high. Suggestive both of ancient totems and heroic examples of land art, they consist of rocks stacked ... More
How Communist Poland battled Lanzmann's 'Shoah'
WARSAW (AFP).- Delving into the painful issue of Polish anti-Semitism during the Holocaust, Claude Lanzmann's epic 1985 Holocaust documentary "Shoah", sparked outrage among Poland's then communist authorities who unleashed a campaign against him. However, the cool-headed French filmmaker -- who died Thursday in Paris at the age of 92 -- seemed to know how to handle the regime and his film was finally broadcast in Communist Poland in the autumn of the same year. The regime may have been trying to distract Poles still traumatised by its brutal 1981 martial law crackdown on the anti-communist Solidarity trade union and suffering from shortages when it launched its campaign against Lanzmann and the documentary he shot mainly in Poland. The communists also targeted France for what they termed the "shameful chapters" of its history concerning ... More
Steeped in history but crumbling, Albania's 'slanted city'
GJIROKASTRA (AFP).- The Lolomani dwelling, formerly the home of the Ottoman period family of that name, was once an impressive sight in the mountainside town of Gjirokastra in southern Albania. Now the house lies in ruins, like dozens of others in the "City of Stone", defined by its castle, steep cobblestone roads and silvery-coloured limestone structures with views of the Drino Valley near the border with Greece. Many of the centuries-old, fortified buildings, which won the town a place on the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005, are a tourist attraction but at risk of disappearing. Some are deserted or have not been maintained for years, others underwent changes that have destroyed their historic value, or have too many owners to agree on the necessary work or too poor to do it. Authorities in the Balkan nation don't have the means ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Bruce Conner died July 07, 2008. Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 - July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. In this image: Bruce Conner, A MOVIE, 1958, 16mm to 35mm blow-up, b&w/sound, 12min. Digitally Restored, 2016. Courtesy Kohn Gallery. Courtesy Conner Family Trust ©Conner Family Trust.
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