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Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau 'Let's take the subway!' project posters. © Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau.
LONDON.- The British Museum is presenting the largest exhibition of manga ever held outside of Japan. Manga are Japanese comic books or graphic novels with a twist, serialised in magazines and read by a global audience. A multi-billion-pound business that embraces anime and gaming, manga are a global phenomenon and have forged a new international visual language. The original translation of the characters for manga was Âpictures run riotÂ, associated with the great 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai whose miscellaneous drawings of people, animals and nature were published as ÂHokusai MangaÂ. Since then, however, the medium has evolved to become a form of immersive story telling with unique characters and embracing universal issues. The Citi exhibition Manga brings to life the art of manga, looking at how it emerged in Japan and grew to be a worldwide cultural phenomenon. It explores mangaÂs enduring appeal and cultural cro ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A replica of the Rolls-Royce once belonging to musician John Lennon is exhibited in the lobby of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on May 23, 2019, part of an exhibit of the Lennon-Ono Bed-Ins for Peace. From May 26 to June 2, 1969, the hotel welcomed John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the second of their Bed-Ins for Peace. Fifty years later, the hotel invites visitors to be part of the 50th anniversary of the non-violent protests against wars. Sebastien St-Jean / AFP
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| | | 50 years later, Montreal celebrates Lennon-Ono 'bed-in' for peace | | Latin American art emerges as a bargain for collectors | | Crystal Bridges announces the summer of art, nature, and color in the forest, galleries, and beyond | 
Model Genevieve Borne speaks at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on May 23, 2019, as she introduces an exhibit of the Lennon-Ono Bed-In for Peace. Sebastien St-Jean / AFP.
MONTREAL (AFP).- John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in pajamas in 1969 at The Queen Elizabeth hotel in Montreal, welcoming journalists and recording "Give Peace a Chance" as the Vietnam War raged. Fifty years later, the hotel is celebrating their fabled experiment in pacifism with a series of special events including guided tours of the couple's room. "We're still talking about it 50 years later, but at the time we had no idea the impact that it would have," Joanne Papineau, spokeswoman for the hotel, told AFP. "After the couple left, for years we didn't talk about the bed-in, but then John was murdered, other wars continued and people started showing up wanting to see where it all happened," she said. "Many years later, they suddenly found meaning in what the couple had done." From May 26 to June 2, 1969, Lennon and Ono received journalists from around the world who interviewed the couple in bed, as well as fans and ... More | | 
Rufino Tamayo, SandÃas, 1980 (detail). Estimate $4/6 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Shopping for a masterpiece but can't afford, say, a steel rabbit sculpture that went for over $90 million? Then, consider Latin American art. Indeed, even big names, such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, offer a lot of bang for the buck, auction houses, gallery owners and collectors told AFP. "With a million dollars you really can buy a masterpiece," said Virgilio Garza, director of Latin American art at Christie's in New York. For someone seeking a modern or contemporary US or European work, Garza said that same amount of money "will not get you very far." Money has been really flooded the spring art auctions in New York. Jeff Koons' work entitled "Rabbit" -- a stainless steel casting of an inflatable bunny -- fetched $91.1 million, a record for a living artist, last week at Christie's. And a Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million at Sotheby's. That was a record for the French Impressionist. The standouts among Latin American art, ... More | | 
Valerie Hegarty, Fallen Bierstadt, 2007. Foamcore, paint, paper, glue, gel medium, canvas, wire, wood. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Campari, USA 2008.9a-b. © Valerie Hegarty. Courtesy of the artist and Guild & Greyshkul, NY. Photo: Brooklyn Museum.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- This summer, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art explores art, nature, color, and more with two exhibitionsColor Field in the forest and Natures Nation in the galleriesnew Chihuly acquisitions, the return of the Forest Concert Series, a new artmaking studio space, a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and more. Natures Nation: American Art and Environment is a new exhibition developed by Princeton University Art Museum that examines American artists impact on shaping environmental understanding and stewardship. Featuring 100 artworks from 70 eminent US collections, this exhibition traces 300 years of evolving ideas about the natural world and our place within it. The paintings, photographs, and sculptures in this exhibition compel us to consider our relationship to the environment and the human impact ... More |
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| | | Monet and the Modern City at Carnegie Museum of Art illustrates iconic Impressionist painter's process | | Stedelijk Museum opens first solo exhibition by the Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad in the Netherlands | | Art Gallery of Ontario's Infinity Room Mirror opens to the public | 
Johanna K. W. Hailman, Jones and Laughlin Mill, Pittsburgh, c. 19251930 (detail), Carnegie Museum of Art, 59.5.8. Bequest of Johanna K. W. Hailman.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents a new exhibition that explores the enduring theme of industry in art through the lens of Claude Monet and his contemporaries. Although the Impressionists are often remembered for their bright landscapes and scenes of everyday life, Monet and others were equally fascinated by the modern industrial landscapes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus on Paris and London. Artists such as Camille Pissarro and James Abbott McNeill Whistler frequently captured the atmosphere of the urban environment, turning the billowing smoke of industry into hazy, dreamlike clouds that evoke the power and promise of modernization. This presentation features selections from Monet's Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, an exhibition organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. CMOA's own Monet painting, Waterloo Bridge, London (1903), will be presented alongside two ... More | | 
Walid Raad, Museo Jumex, 2016-2017, installation view. Photo: Moritz Bernoully. Courtesy of Museo Jumex.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum is presenting the first solo exhibition by the Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad (b.1967) in the Netherlands. In Lets be honest, the weather helped he shares his perceptive, critical, politically engaged, and often playful perspective of the complexities of the Lebanese wars and the current boom of contemporary art in the Middle East. Raad works in a wide variety of visual media, complemented by performances and essays. The exhibit features photos, drawings, videos, and sculptures, including new work that will be on display for the first time. Walid Raads oeuvre delivers sharp analyses of the historical, political, economic, and aesthetic aspects of war. His artworks concentrate on the Lebanese wars as well as the Middle Easts rapidly burgeoning art world. For the most part, my work is about the effects of violence on bodies and minds, on culture and tradition. On view in ... More | | 
Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER, © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/ Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photograph courtesy Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio.
TORONTO.- Infinity is possible! Last spring, hundreds of people lined up around the block day after day for the chance to secure tickets to the touring art exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. One year later, following an ambitious crowdfunding campaign, the AGO announces that Canadas first permanent Infinity Mirror Room will open to the public on May 25. We know that the people of Toronto have a special bond with Yayoi Kusama, and I am excited to see that grow, said Stephan Jost, the AGOs Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO. Support from individuals is critical to the AGOs mission to bring people and art together. That this incredible artwork now belongs to the people of Ontario is testament to the power of people coming together. Together, we achieved infinity. Yayoi Kusamas INFINITY MIRRORED ... More |
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| | | Jennifer Laurent Appointed Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts at the MMFA | | Turner Contemporary opens a major exhibition looking at British seaside from 1950s to presen | | MCA, Tate and Qantas acquire three new Australian artworks | 
Jennifer Laurent. Photo: Jean-François Brière.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts announced that Jennifer Laurent has joined its team as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts. Originally from Ontario, the bilingual Jennifer Laurent makes her home in Montreal. Following a degree in art history from McGill University, Laurent studied French decorative arts from the Renaissance to the 20th century at Christie's Education in New York and then went on to complete her master's in art history and museology at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)/Ãcole du Louvre. Throughout her career in decorative arts, she has lived in Toronto, Abu Dhabi and Paris. Jennifer Laurent has previously worked in the 20th Century Decorative Arts department at Christie's Auction House, in Paris, and the Design department of the Centre Pompidou's Musée national d'art moderne. Owing to her expertise in the work of the Eileen Gray, Laurent was tasked with leading the research for the Pompidou's exhi ... More | | 
Martin Parr, New Brighton, England, from The Last Resort, 198385.
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary presents Seaside: Photographed, a major exhibition that examines the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present. Including early photographic depictions of waves, picture postcards revelling in the glee and grime of British resorts, intimate shots of holiday and relaxation, reportage and the photo series of eminent photographers, the exhibition presents the seaside in a multitude of different visions, celebrating our special relationship with our coast. Since photographys early beginnings the phenomenon of the seaside as public parade has provided myriad photo opportunities, charting a tide of enormous social change. Vicissitudes of fortune have seen utopian visions give way to the glorious failure of the English seaside, playgrounds by the sea becoming places of last resort, ... More | | 
Dale Harding, The Leap/Watershead, 2017, Museum of Contemporary Art and Tate, purchased jointly with funds provided by the Qantas Foundation, 2019, photograph: Jodie Barker.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tate and Qantas have today revealed the fourth round of artworks in the International Joint Acquisitions Program for contemporary Australian art. Three new artworks have been jointly acquired into the MCA and Tate Collections, with funds supported by Qantas, giving Australian artists more visibility around the world. The three new works acquired include an ochre painting, The Leap/Watershed (2017) by Aboriginal artist Dale Harding; an historically significant early white abstract painting, Untitled (1968) by Robert Hunter; and a large-scale installation incorporating found and domestic materials and a video projection, Santa was a Psychopomp (2014) by Justene Williams. All three works are on display from today in the MCA Collection Galleries on Level 2. ... More |
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| | | mumok opens 'Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520-1970' | | South Australia's Vincent Namatjira wins $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2019 | | Waddesdon Manor open the first major exhibition of Eliot Hodgkin's work in nearly thirty years | 
Guido Reni, Umkreis Jesus und Maria, Riefelbild 1. Hälfte 17. Jhd. Ãl auf Holz, 33 x 26 x 2,5 cm © Sammlung Werner Nekes.
VIENNA.- Of all the groundbreaking art movements of the 1950s and 60s, Op Art has received the least amount of attention to date. It has often been discounted as too spectacular and showy and therefore not very profound. But this attitude fails to recognize Op Arts unique ability to raise our awareness for the ambivalence of reality as it tangibly demonstrates that perception is far from objective but rather quite easy to destabilize and deceive. It shows us that how we see things always depends on our point of view. The exhibition Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 15201970 unfurls a whole panorama of artistic works that confound the senses, ranging from panel paintings, reliefs, and (kinetic) objects to installations and experiential spaces, to film and computer-generated or computer-controlled art. The title of the exhibition was taken from ... More | | 
Installation view Ramsay Art Prize 2019 featuring Close Contact by Vincent Namatjira, Adelaide, South Australia; photo: Grant Hancock.
ADELAIDE.- Vincent Namatjira has been named the winner of the Ramsay Art Prize 2019, Australias most generous prize for young people, with his work Close Contact. Art Gallery of South Australia Director, Rhana Devenport ONZM said, The Ramsay Art Prize sets out to elevate and accelerate careers of young contemporary Australian artists. Vincent Namatjira is at a pivotal point in his career and his work Close Contact represents a new way of working for him. The judges were unanimous in their appreciation of the work and feel that Namatijiras bold new work represents the very essence of the Ramsay Art Prize, which is now in its second iteration. Great-grandson of watercolourist Albert Namatjira, Vincent Namatjira lives and works in Indulkana in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of South Australia. Upon accepting the award, Vincent Namatjira said, ... More | | 
Eliot Hodgkin, And this is the dining room, 1945. Image © The Estate of Eliot Hodgkin.
WADDESDON.- Brought to Life: Eliot Hodgkin Rediscovered (25 May 20 October 2019) is the first major exhibition of the artists work in nearly thirty years, and aims to return this remarkable British painter to the spotlight where he belongs. By his death in 1987, Hodgkin (born 1905) was not only a renowned painter of still life subjects and landscapes, but also a collector and the author of a well-received novel. Waddesdons retrospective brings together the largest ever exhibition of Hodgkins paintings and drawings nearly 100 many of which have never been seen in public before. It also assembles a small group of works by other artists that inspired him, and a number of the objects kept by his family which appear in the paintings. Hodgkin mainly worked in oils and egg tempera, a technique that he revived and used to create masterly depictions of everyday objects, such as lemons, radishes, dead leaves an ... More |
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 The exhibition 'Multiple Transmissions: Art in the Afropolitan Age' brings eight African artists to WielsBRUSSELS.- WIELS invited Sandrine Colard, assistant Professor of art history at Rutgers University (USA) and artistic director of the 2019 Lubumbashi Biennale, to curate an exhibition of work by African artists whom have taken part in the art centres residency programme. The result: a group show that gathers eight artists (including five former WIELS residents) and that explores the various transmissions at work in their practices. Through the work of Sinzo Aanza, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Jean Katambayi, Nelson Makengo, Emeka Ogboh, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Georges Senga, this exhibition invites us to look at the transversal heritages and the global resonances of ideas, images, sounds and energies that characterize contemporary African art. Imbued with the physical and mental movements that characterize our time and which ... More Furnishings & art from St. Katharine Drexel's Sisters of Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse to be auctionedBENSALEM, PA.- On Friday, May 31, Stephensons Auctioneers will conduct an onsite and online sale of contents of the former Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. In 2016, the revered order of nuns founded by St. Katharine Drexel sold the idyllic 44-acre parcel of real estate in Bensalem Township on which the motherhouse was built. Now that the nuns are retiring and the orders historical archives are in the good hands of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, its time for the buildings furniture, art and architectural antiques to be auctioned for the sisters benefit, said Cindy Stephenson, owner of Stephensons Auctions. Known as The Holy Heiress, St. Katharine Drexel (1858-1955) was beloved and admired by Philadelphias Catholic community for her selfless philanthropy and the establishment of ... More Hollis Taggart announces exclusive representation of Knox MartinNEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart announced today the exclusive representation of acclaimed artist Knox Martin, whose vibrant, abstract compositions bring together the visual vocabularies of Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art in a style all his own. Martins paintings, from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as two new works from 2019, are currently on view at Hollis Taggart, in exhibition titled Knox Martin: Radical Structures. The show captures Martins intricate use of color, free-form gesture, and figural references, with important examples from the past and present. Knox Martin: Radical Structures will remain on view through June 1, 2019 at the gallerys primary space in Chelsea, at 521 W. 26th Street. After serving in WWII, Martin enrolled in the Art Students League of New York, where he studied from 1946 to 1950, alongside Robert Rauschenberg, ... More Dix Noonan Webb appoint Nigel Mills as antiquities expertLONDON.- Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists, announced that Nigel Mills is joining their team of specialists as Antiquities expert, working alongside their coin and jewellery departments, with particular emphasis on artefacts, Ancient and British hammered coins, Ancient jewellery and Antiquities discovered by Metal Detectorists. He will be available to look at finds and offer free valuations, by appointment, on Wednesdays at their auction rooms in central Mayfair - 16 Bolton St, London, W1J 8BQ. Specialist Nigel started as a Mudlark on the river Thames when he was fifteen, and spent the next nine years searching for coins and antiquities every spare moment he had! He became a coin and Antiquity dealer in 1982 operating from antique markets in London and started writing about detecting finds ... More Gripsholm Castle unveils this year's Portrait of HonourSTOCKHOLM.- On Saturday, May 25th, this years Portrait of Honour will be unveiled at Gripsholm Castle. This years Portrait of Honour is the professor and designer Ingegerd RÃ¥man and was created by the photographer Bruno Ehrs. He has depicted both Ingegerd RÃ¥man's artistic ideals and her field of activity as a designer. Ingegerd RÃ¥man (born 1943) is one of Sweden's most influential designers. RÃ¥man studied ceramics and glass at CapellagÃ¥rden on Ãland, at Konstfack in Stockholm and at the Instituto Statale d'art per la Ceramica in Faenza in Italy. She initially spent many years working with ceramics and has always called herself a potter probably because she has always found inspiration in the world of shapes that arises when working at the wheel. She has described clay as a living, sensual material with its own unique and multifarious power. ... More Exhibition of the pioneering experimental filmmaker Lis Rhodes opens at Nottingham ContemporaryNOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary presents the first-ever major exhibition of the pioneering experimental filmmaker Lis Rhodes. Enabled by the Freelands Award 2017, Dissident Lines includes a wide selection of works, from the early 1970s to today, as well as a new commission, Ambiguous Journeys (2019). The exhibition will also be accompanied by a comprehensive monograph. Dissident Lines spans from Rhodes early film installations, which connect abstracted visuals to sound, to her multilayered works responding to global politics. Throughout her career, which spans almost 50 years, Rhodes has consistently challenged the dominant order whether through her multifaceted art practice, her influential role as a film programmer, or as an educator and campaigner for women's rights. Her practice encompasses ... More Kahmann Gallery exhibits works by Albarrán Cabrera and Schilte & Portielje AMSTERDAM.- Kahmann Gallery presents the joined exhibition of two celebrated artist duos: Albarrán Cabrera (ES) and Schilte & Portielje (NL). The title of the exhibition, Infinite Spirit, is a reference to the universality of both the duo's works; while their work seems different on a formal level, both have created an oeuvre that speaks to a deep understanding of what connects us as human beings and plays with our collective memories and imaginations. Both Albarrán Cabrera and Schilte & Portielje have created new works for this exhibition. Albarrán Cabrera consists of photographers Anna Cabrera (1969, Sevilla) and Angel Albarrán (1969, Barcelona) who work and live together as a collaborative duo based in Barcelona. The overarching question in the work of Albarrán Cabrera is how images trigger individual memories in each viewer, depending on their social ... More UCCA Center for Contemporary Art opens the group exhibition 'Society Guidance'BEIJING.- UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents the group exhibition Society Guidance, featuring work by Chen Shaoxiong (1962-2016, Guangdong province), Ren Jian (b. 1955, Liaoning province) and New History Group, and Wang Jin (b. 1962, Shanxi province) in relation to their practice in the 1990s. Society Guidance focuses on the creative trajectory of Chinese artists at the outset of the 1990s, making work against the back drop of the sweeping social transformation that occurred as economic reforms initiated in 1978 deepened and gathered speed. The exhibition provides an opportunity to revisit the early 1990s,an era which, though well studied in terms of individual artists and their work, is still processed in art historical narratives more as a period of transition than a distinct epoch. Taking place over two installments (the ... More Mark di Suvero's iconic 'Declaration' to be relocated from Venice Beach at end of 2019VENICE, CA.- L.A. Louver celebrates artist Mark di Suveros iconic, 60 foot tall sculpture Declaration (2001) that has been installed at the Venice Beach Boardwalk since May 2001. On view to the public for nearly two decades through support by L.A. Louver, the artwork will be relocated in late 2019 to di Suveros studio in Northern California. A Summer Celebration honoring the Venice Family Clinic and di Suveros deep roots in the community will take place on June 5 from 6 to 8pm, and coincides with his solo exhibition on view at L.A. Louver, Mark di Suvero: Painting and Sculpture, from May 1 through June 8, 2019. When Declaration was installed 18 years ago, we had only intended the work to be on view for six months, but it quickly became a popular and widely beloved fixture for Venice as a place for gathering, celebration and reflection, says Peter ... More At Cannes, stars raise over $15 mn for AIDS researchCANNES (AFP).- Stars of the movies and the music world raised more than $15 million for AIDS research at Cannes film festival's most glamorous party, organisers said on Friday. After 10 days of uncharactistically bad weather, the sun finally put in an appearance at the glittering event late Thursday, with the stars quaffing champagne on a balmy evening in the gardens of the exclusive Eden Roc hotel at Cap d'Antibes, near Cannes. The social highlight of the festival, the charity dinner laid on by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR) brought in a host of big hitters among them Antonio Banderas, Eva Longoria, Andie MacDowell, Adrien Brody, Tom Jones, Tommy Hilfiger, Pamela Anderson and Donald Trump's youngest daughter Tiffany. The 26th edition of the annual Cinema Against AIDS kicked off at sunset in a marquee where ... More Top prices for titles by Edgar Rice BurroughsNEW YORK, NY.- The enduring appeal of inscribed first editions, particularly those with a significant associations, was on full display and resulted in a number of high prices, including several records, said John D. Larson, specialist for Swann Galleries 19th & 20th Century Literature sale on Tuesday, May 14. Ian Flemings James Bond was the star of the sale with four first editions ranking among the top ten lots: Goldfinger, 1959, led the sale at $25,000, and featured an inscription to Sir Henry Cotton, MBEthree-time winner of The Open Championshiprecommending a particular golf scene in the book; Flemings first Bond novel, Casino Royale, 1953, in the first state dust jacket earned $18,750; a presentation copy of Thunderball, 1961, inscribed to Charles Douglas Jackson, a friend of Flemings who was posthumously revealed to be a CIA agent, brought ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter Lyubov Popova died May 25, 1924. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova (April 24, 1889 - May 25, 1924) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Cubist, Suprematist and Constructivist), painter and designer. In this image: Air+Man+Space, 1912, Oil on canvas, 125 x 107 cm, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
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