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Artist Marilyn Minter attends as Brooklyn Museum celebrates Marilyn Minter and Iggy Pop at Opening Night Event at Brooklyn Museum on November 3, 2016 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Brooklyn Museum/AFP.
BROOKLYN, NY.- For more than four decades, Marilyn Minters sensual paintings, photographs, and videos have vividly questioned the complex, often contradictory perceptions of beauty and the feminine body in mainstream culture. Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty is the artists first retrospective, highlighting her technical virtuosity and examination of some of our deepest cultural impulses, compulsions, and fantasies. Now widely considered an iconic feminist artist noted for her brave and bold representations of desire, Minter was criticized in the 1990s for her pornographic and taboochallenging imagery. The exhibition is part of A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, a yearlong project celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and a decade of feminist thinking at the Brooklyn ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on November 3, 2016 shows polished diamonds in a sorting tray at the De Beers Auction House office in Singapore. Demand for diamonds is rising in the Asian middle class but it will take some time before it can become a safe-haven asset like gold in the region, a senior De Beers executive said on November 4. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP
| Leighton's masterpiece "Flaming June" comes home | | Museum receives gift of five sculptures from Cy Twombly Foundation | | Paul Kasmin Gallery selected to represent the works of Lee Krasner |
Frederic Leighton, Flaming June, 1895 (detail). © Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
LONDON.- One of the most iconic works of nineteenth-century British art returns to the house in which it was painted this November. Flaming June: The Making of an Icon (4 November 2016 2 April 2017) sees Frederic, Lord Leightons masterpiece displayed once again in the unique setting of the artists House Beautiful, Leighton House Museum in Kensington. For the first time since 1895 Flaming June has also been reunited with the paintings shown by Leighton in that years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition his final submission, before his death in January 1896. Flaming June: The Making of an Icon is a landmark exhibition for the museum, returning Leightons most famous and celebrated work to Leighton House from the Ponce Museum of Art in Puerto Rico. Depicting a sensual, sun-drenched, sleeping female figure wrapped in orange draperies against a Mediterranean backdrop. The exhibition explores ... More | |
Cy Twombly, (American, 1928 2011), Untitled, Rome, 1997. Bronze, 32 1/2 x 29 1/8 x 13 3/8 inches, Base (pedestal): 38 à 36 à 20 1/2 inches. © Cy Twombly Foundation.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced today the acquisition of five major sculptures by Cy Twombly, one of the foremost American artists of the 20th century. This generous gift of the Cy Twombly Foundation will make these works, which were initially selected for exhibition at the Museum in 2011 by the artist himself, a permanent part of the Museums collection. These bronzes including Untitled, Rome, 1980; Rotalla, Zurich, 1990; Untitled, Rome, 1997; Victory, conceived 1987, cast 2005; and Anabasis (Bronze), 2011, were chosen by Twombly because they complemented his masterful Fifty Days at Iliam, 1978, a suite of 10 monumental canvases that the Museum acquired in 1989. Varied in size and shape, with richly textured surfaces, these works, although fundamentally abstract, are informed by a classical sensibility and clearly reflect the artists sustained ... More | |
Lee Krasner in Hans Hoffman's studio, early 1940s. Photo: Robert E. Mates and Paul Katz. Lee Krasner artwork © Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles C. Bergman, Chairman and CEO of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, today announced the selection of Paul Kasmin Gallery to represent its holdings of artworks by its founder, Lee Krasner (1908-1984). Established in 1985 through the generous bequest of Krasner, one of the leading Abstract Expressionist painters and the widow of Jackson Pollock, the Foundation is the successor to the estates of both artists. It was formed for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance, whether professional or personal, to individual visual artists of recognized merit. Samuel Sachs II, President of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, said, The reputation of Paul Kasmin Gallery and its worldwide following give us great hope for the continuing and increasing recognition of Lee Krasners artistic achievements. We are delighted that her work will be ... More |
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| Sperone Westwater exhibits new paintings by Susan Rothenberg | | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag open exhibition of works by Alice Neel | | Francesco Clemente exhibits a previously unseen series of works |
Susan Rothenberg, Red Bird, 2014. Oil on canvas, 57 x 51 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater presents new paintings by Susan Rothenberg for the artists eleventh solo show at the gallery since 1987 and her first show of new work in five years. This follows the gallerys recent presentation of important vintage works by Rothenberg at Frieze Masters and showcases the artists continuing and vital contribution to contemporary painting. In these new canvases, familiar subjects such as dogs and ravens inhabit ambiguous spaces defined by the artists well-known brushwork and a pronounced shift in vivid coloration. These subjects are both archetypal and, in some cases, specifically drawn from the artists surroundingsthe artists beloved dog Bubbles makes an appearance. Rothenbergs expressive mark, typically bridging figuration and abstraction, shifts across these works to evoke such disparate qualities as the silhouette of a dark bird at night, the flutter of gat ... More | |
Neel in her Spanish Harlem apartment c. 1940 Foto door: Sam Brody Foto: Estate of Alice Neel.
THE HAGUE.- American artist Alice Neel (1900-1984) was above all a portrait painter or, as she herself put it, a collector of souls. She painted the people around her, from her children and lovers to MoMA curator Frank OHara, fellow artists and the flamboyant characters associated with Andy Warhols Factory. Her style not only captured the outward appearance of her subjects, but also their mood, their inner uncertainty or private vanity. Neel is now regarded as one of the most important painters of the twentieth century and a source of inspiration for contemporary artists, including Marlene Dumas, Rinus Van de Velde and Elizabeth Peyton. Nevertheless, she remains relatively unknown in the Netherlands. The Gemeentemuseum hopes to change this by staging the first major retrospective of her work in this country. Alice Neels expressive portraits tell us something not only about the subjects, but also about the ... More | |
You, 2016. Oil on canvas, 35,6 x 50,8 cm / 14 x 20 in. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris et Bruxelles.
PARIS.- Italian artist Francesco Clemente is exhibiting his work in Paris for the first time since 1996. Galerie Templon is presenting a previously unseen series of works that explore the theme of love. The exhibition features 36 small format paintings and two frescos. In a warm and sensual palette of harmonious colours, women, men, animals and wild geometric shapes intermingle to form a melody that examines the power of love, its meaning, its gender, its sensual explosion. The paintings are rhythmed by Enrique Juncosas poems, published in the accompanying catalogue. Now joyful, now tragic, but always enigmatic and erotic, the works will be shown alongside a monumental plaster sculpture entitled simply Love. Born in Naples in 1952, Francesco Clemente was a leading figure in the Italian Transavantgarde movement, which breathed new life into the international figurative painting scene during the 1980s. An ... More |
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| Never Trust The Man: Largest collection of original underground comix art at Heritage Auctions | | The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes "Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture" | | Exhibition of drawings from 1971 & 1975 by Philip Guston opens at Hauser & Wirth |
Robert Crumb, Zap Comix #0 "Freak Out Funnies" Complete 2-Page Story Original Art (Apex Novelties, 1968).
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- The largest lifetime collection of original art from '60s American Underground Comix featuring iconic and subversive art from Robert Crumb to Victor Moscoso to Art Spiegelman will be offered for the first time in 40 years when The Eric Sack Collection Masterpieces of Underground Art crosses the block Nov. 17-19 at Heritage Auctions. Sack's collection is the largest of its kind and has been exhibited worldwide in museums examining the counterculture art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. "I didn't buy every single piece of art that came my way, but practically every single piece," Sack said. "I was probably in my early 20s when I first acquired the original drawings in 1978. I noticed them taped on the back wall at a comic convention. My eye focused on them from 60 feet from the front door and I went and bought them." ... More | |
Louis Kahn, Yale University.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art welcomes Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture, the first retrospective of the American architects work in two decades. On view November 5, 2016 through January 31, 2017, the exhibition presents over 200 objects related to Louis Kahns selected buildings and projects in the form of architectural models, plans, original drawings, photographs, films and more. The late Louis Kahn is regarded as one of the leading architects of the 20th century. With complex spatial compositions and a mastery of light, Kahn created buildings of dignified beauty and powerful universal symbolism, believing buildings should be monumental and spiritually inspiring. Among his most famous architectural works are the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX; and the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kahn was an esteemed lecturer and professor at Yale University and the Universi ... More | |
Philip Guston, Untitled, 1971. Ink on paper, 35.6 x 27.9 cm / 14 x 11 in. © The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, an exhibition devoted to the late artists satirical caricatures of the 37th President of the United States: Richard Nixon. Featuring some 180 works depicting Nixon and his cronies, the exhibition includes Gustons infamous Poor Richard series and brings together over 100 additional drawings and one painting never before seen by the public at large. The exhibition marks the first time this entire body of work has been presented together to the public. These trenchant works were created at an historic moment, amidst the tumultuous political climate of the early 1970s, as the United States suffered under the weight of civil unrest and social dissent following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Senator Robert F Kennedy, the ... More |
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| Seeking strong female role, Fleming turns to life of O'Keeffe | | South Africa's seven-year-old book star brings hope to other children | | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo exhibits works by Josh Kline |
Opera singer Renee Fleming poses as she practices for an upcoming premiere. ANGELA WEISS / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Tired of an opera repertoire in which women are so often portrayed as young and vulnerable, Renee Fleming is premiering an original piece on Georgia O'Keeffe, the painter whose life was momentous and multi-dimensional. Fleming, often considered the greatest US soprano of her generation, has increasingly branched out from the traditional canon as she strives to challenge herself and ensure the contemporary relevance of opera. "Letters from Georgia," a song cycle by rising composer Kevin Puts, works off the correspondence of the groundbreaking painter, mostly with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whom she would eventually marry. "I really don't want to continue to play the typical and traditional woman who is beautiful, who is owned. It's a man's imagination that's projected on her that makes her human -- that's typically what ... More | |
Seven-year-old author Michelle Nkamankeng looks at her homework at her house. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP).- Michelle is only seven years old but her poise is as disarming as her smile, which shows off a few gaps where baby teeth have fallen out when she beams about the headlines her book is grabbing at home and abroad. The South African has become one of the youngest published authors on the continent and an inspiration for other children with a short novel she wrote largely in secret, "Waiting for the Waves". Using green and purple pens, Michelle Nkamankeng set down the story of Titi, a little girl fascinated by the ocean and its huge waves -- which the US giant Amazon bills as nothing less than "an epic tale" recounting "the inner struggle of love and fear". "My brother and sisters knew because they always came in my room. The are like, 'What are you doing?" said Michelle. "I told them not to tell mummy and daddy. ... More | |
Installation view.
TURIN.- Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo presents Unemployment, the first solo exhibition in Italy of Josh Kline (USA 1979). Through sculpture, video and installation, Kline explores the political and social transformations of our age, presenting a critical look at the impact of technology and the new economy on the lives of individuals in the 21st century. The US society is taken as a negative paradigm of processes which are affecting all advanced countries, and which take the form of a growing threat to the privacy of individuals, their freedom of expression, and their economic status. In the best tradition of literary and film sci-fi, Kline shares his dire outlook on a world on the verge of collapse, in which the interests of a few people shape the lives and living conditions of the many. Unemployment is the latest chapter in a cycle of exhibitions that speculate on nascent political, economic, and cultural issues that are l ... More |
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4 most popular types of political memorabilia
NEW YORK, NY.- 2016s contentious political campaigns and the candidates saturation TV ads will soon be history, but collectors will see to it that the memorabilia left behind lives to see another day. Presidential campaign mementos the signs, banners, buttons, hats and other ephemera produced to publicize candidates and fire up voters rank among the few things besides rocks and bottles that collectors can pick up for free. In fact, there are diehard collectors who, like Deadheads, go from city to city and state to state, following campaigners and collecting free memorabilia printed or manufactured specifically for a particular region. When, exactly, did political items become collectible, and which categories are rising the fastest in value? We asked two of the hobbys top experts Hakes Americana founder Ted Hake and the companys Americana specialist, ... More
Petzel opens exhibition of works by Troy Brauntuch
NEW YORK, NY.- An enormous painting of a nude welcomes the viewer: her arms are outstretched, her hands cropped, her torso slightly abstracted, her head tilts backward to the left into the dark blue background. Supposedly, she represents eternal beauty and perfection; however, the work is derived from a Heinrich Hoffmann photographa German propaganda image of a marble sculpture from the 1930s. A second picture in this gallery space closes in on an artist standing high atop a ladder, chiseling the head of a giant sculpture. Josef Thorak, Hitlers most admired sculptor has been a source for various works by Brauntuch, who appropriated images of disinformation back in the 1970s when he was a member of the Pictures Generation, and sets the stage for this, Brauntuchs sixth solo exhibition at Petzel. Also in the 1930s, but working in the States, the British- ... More
Tahnoun bin Mohammed opens Al Ain Oasis World Heritage site
ABU DHABI.- His Highness Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Ruler's Representative in the Eastern Region has opened the Al Ain Oasis to the public as the UAEs first UNESCO World Heritage site, praising the efforts carried out by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) to contributing, enhancing and strengthening Abu Dhabis position in the international tourism and cultural scenes, through a series activities and events that preserve cultural values, in line with the aspirations of the UAEs wise leadership. This came during the opening ceremony of Al Ain Oasis to the public yesterday as the UAEs first UNESCO World Heritage site, which was inaugurated by HH Sheikh Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, in the presence of Sheikh Hazza bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Under-Secretary of the Court of the Ruler's Representative in the ... More
Rare chance to see Eugène Bourdon's exquisite drawings and watercolours and WWI correspondence
GLASGOW.- The Glasgow School of Art will showcase drawings from the Eugène Bourdon Archive this month to mark the centenary of his death. Eugène Bourdon: From the Classroom to the Battlefield will run in the Reid Building from 5 November 4 December 2016. The first Professor of Architectural Design at the united Glasgow School of Architecture, Eugène Bourdon was trained at LEcole des Beaux Arts in Paris spending most of his eight years at the institution in the atelier of Honoré Daumet and Charles-Louis Girault. The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections holds over 100 of the drawings that Bourdon made during this period and which he brought to Scotland in the early years of the 20th century for teaching purposes. Among the drawings held in the Bourdon Archive are a design for the façade of a covered equestrian circus (1890); ... More
Lawrence Weiner artwork lights up the perimeter fence of the new Nation Museum and the Nesodd ferry
OSLO.- The National Museum, OSLO PILOT and Statsbygg in collaboration with the ferry services Norled and Ruter are pleased to present a commissioned work by the internationally renowned New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner. On 4 November the work, HELD JUST ABOVE THE CURRENT (2016), will be unveiled on the perimeter fence around the construction site of the new National Museum, on the Nesodd ferry, and in the form of 50,000 small tattoos handed out in several locations in Oslo. Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942 in New York) is one of the foremost artists in America and Europe today. A central figure in the Conceptual art movement of the 1960s, he is renowned for his language-based sculptures and other works exploring language. His artworks can be found in numerous museums, private collections and public spaces around the world. As a leading figure in the ... More
80 black and white photographs by Thomas Roma on view at Steven Kasher Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting Thomas Roma: The Platos Dogs Trilogy. This exhibition includes 80 black and white photographs and from three different series, which together serve as a biography of Romas Brooklyn. In the Platos Dogs photographs, dog shadows take on mythic status. In Higher Ground, shot on the elevated trains that run through the heart of Brooklyn, Roma captures the pockets of in-between-time that fill the lives of commuters. The photographs from The Waters of Our Time, are the most self-reflective of the three bodies of work. The Waters series is deeply personal and spans Romas entire career, beginning with a photograph from his first roll of film in 1972. The images are intimate tokens of Romas life that feature his wife, son, neighbors and home in Brooklyn. The exhibition launches the publication of the monograph Platos ... More
Winner of John Moores Visitors' Choice announced
LIVERPOOL.- Visitors to the John Moores Painting Prize 2016 have spoken in their thousands and voted for Donal Moloneys Cave Floor to be their winner. The intricate kaleidoscopic painting has won the £2,016 prize, sponsored by Rathbones. In total around 10,000 votes were collected for the Visitors Choice, with many of those who voted for Donals work taking the time to say what had drawn them to it: I love the surreal, chaotic fantasy world created. Endless patterns, associations, re-associations, layering, suggestions all in one small, dense, mesmerising piece of work. Food for the spirit. It is alive! It moves, twisting and changing, tiny little images of almost fairytale nightmares that alter and reform as you watch. Fascinating. Sandra Penketh, Director of Art Galleries at ... More
Museum of Brisbane enters new chapter
BRISBANE.- After a national search, Brisbane-born and based Renai Grace has been appointed as the new Director of Museum of Brisbane. Ms Grace brings over 20 years experience in a wide variety of cultural sector and creative industry endeavours to the role. Ms Grace has spent the past two decades working within some of the states leading cultural institutions including Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and Artisan. She has most recently served as Director of Investment and Development at Arts Queensland. Museum of Brisbane, located on the rooftop of the iconic City Hall, explores the history and identity of Brisbane through a combination of social history and visual art. Since relaunching in 2013 in this new space, the Museum has won multiple awards for its changing program of exhibitions and events which have attracted more than 1 million visitors. ... More
Putin unveils controversial statue of Saint Vladimir by Kremlin
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday unveiled a giant statue by the Kremlin of his namesake Vladimir the Great, a revered leader and Orthodox saint, that has faced criticism from locals and conservationists. The 17-metre monument of Vladimir, the prince who converted modern Russia's precursor state Kievan Rus to Christianity in 988, has sparked controversy over fears it could blot Moscow's historic centre. The opening of the statue -- backed by the influential Orthodox Church -- comes as the authorities under Putin continue to stoke a wave of nationalism fired up by Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and subsequent standoff with the West. "Prince Vladimir has gone down forever in history as the unifier and defender of Russian lands, as a visionary politician," Putin told officials as Russia marked its national Unity Day holiday. "Today our duty ... More
Renzi lauds Mud Angels of Florence
ROME (AFP).- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday led tributes to Florence's Angels of the Mud, the volunteers who rescued the city's artistic treasures from devastating floods, 50 years ago. Speaking at a reception for veterans of the 1966 operation, Renzi said the 10,000 mainly young volunteers who came from all over the world were still a source of inspiration. "Your optimism and your energy leads us to look to the future with enthusiasm," said Renzi, a former mayor of the city. Friday's ceremonies marked exactly 50 years since the Arno river burst its banks, flooding the city and surrounding areas in a disaster that left at least 34 people dead. When the waters receded, vast fields of mud were left and every town house, church and museum had been completely saturated, sometimes up to the first floor. But thanks to the efforts of the volunteers, ... More
Groundbreaking exhibition examines rare works of art and discovers how they were made
TORONTO.- Boxwood prayer beads, rosaries and miniature altarpieces made in Northern Europe during the early 1500s demonstrate the limitless potential of human artistic practice. These tiny masterpieces, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, depict complex scenes with elegance and precision. Without fail, they inspire viewers to ask how a person could have possibly made them, a question that can only be answered today. The Art Gallery of Ontario has joined forces with The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to focus on these spectacular objects. Debuting in Toronto on Nov. 5, 2016, Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, for the first time brings together more than 60 rare boxwood carvings from institutions and private collections across Europe and North America. The exhibition offers new insight into the methods ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: French painter Maurice Utrillo holds a cat in this undated photo
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