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Edvard Munch, Under the Stars, 1900-05, Ãl auf Leinwand, 90 x 120 cm, Munchmuseet, Oslo. Photo: © Kunstsammlung NRW.
DUSSELDORF.- With approximately 140 works that have rarely if ever been exhibited in Germany, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen presents the unknown Edvard Munch (1863 1944) at K20. These paintings, prints, and sculptures were selected by Karl Ove Knausgård (b. 1968). The internationally celebrated author, like Munch himself a native Norwegian, achieved worldwide fame with his six-volume autobiographical novel, which has been translated into more than thirty languages and has received numerous prizes. His decidedly personal point of view opens up a fresh perspective onto a man who was, arguably, the most important representative of the Scandinavian avant-garde of the early twentieth century, while highlighting the continuing relevance of Munchs concern with the embeddedness of the individual in society. The exhibition of works by a historical artist follows the guiding principle of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An area on the second floor of the Empire State Building includes a gallery of celebrity visitors, in New York, Sept. 15, 2019. The third phase of a $165 million, four-year revamping of The Empire State Building's observatory experience will be revealed to the public on Oct. 7th. (Mark Wickens/The New York Times)
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| | Exhibition explores how Pablo Picasso depicted the female body as a colourful metamorphosis | | In 'Verrocchio,' Leonardo's master is the star | | Carnegie Museum of Art opens major survey of the prints of Jasper Johns |
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937. Oil and pastel on canvas. Musée national Picasso-Paris © Succession Picasso / VISDA 2019.
ISHÃJ.- Experience a sparkling succession of Pablo Picassos best works when ARKEN opens Beloved by Picasso The Power of the Model on 12 October. The exhibition has been created in a unique collaboration with Musée national Picasso-Paris and zooms in on the passionate story of Picasso and his powerful models. Dressed and undressed, curvaceous and angular, sleeping and watching. Over seven decades the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso depicts the female body as a colourful metamorphosis full of longing and willpower, desire and eroticism. The exhibition Beloved by Picasso The Power of the Model looks at the relations between one of the greatest painters in world history and his models, and reinterprets Picassos depictions of women. The famous artists portraits of women raise issues that are highly topical today as more and more people are discussing gender, privileges and identity in the context ... More | |
Andrea del Verrocchio and assistants (Leonardo da Vinci and Pietro Perugino), Madonna and Child with Two Angels, c. 1470/1474. Tempera on panel, overall: 97 x 71 cm (38 3/16 x 27 15/16 in.) framed: 127 x 102 x 9 cm (50 x 40 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.) The National Gallery, London, Bought, 1857 © The National Gallery, London.
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Probably, on a long car ride or at a lagging dinner party, you have been asked that trivial query: If you could have been born at any time and place, where and when would you choose? If youre an artist, then at least as a practical matter you ought to consider reincarnating in Florence in the late 15th century. Youd have hit the all-time jackpot of patronage and partnerships: Tuscanys economic powerhouse was becoming a cultural capital, and the newly powerful Medicis were ready to bankroll painters, architects, goldsmiths and engineers. You could spend your whole career painting saints, carving statesmen and designing palaces, perhaps splitting the work with your colleagues: Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio ... More | |
Jasper Johns, Target, 1974, screen print on paper, 35 1/8 x 27 3/8 in., ed. 3/70, Collection Walker Art Center, Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1988. © Jasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announced it is the premiering venue for a major touring exhibition dedicated to the printed work of iconic American artist Jasper Johns. Organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which holds a complete archive of the artist's prints, An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 19602018 presents a rare opportunity for visitors to explore the influential artists' work in depth. When Jasper Johns's paintings of flags and targets debuted in 1958, they brought him instant acclaim and established him as a critical link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. In the ensuing 60 years, Johns has continued to astonish viewers with the beauty and complexity of his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints. Today, he is widely considered one of America's most influential artists. Four Carnegie Internationals in the ... More |
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| | Once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of masterpieces by Peter Paul Rubens opens in Toronto | | Paul McCartney donates Linda McCartney photographs to Glasgow Museums | | Saint Louis Art Museum acquires 'Seated Woman' by Elizabeth Catlett |
Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 15771640), "Portrait of Rogier Clarisse", ca. 1611. Oil on panel, 46 1/2 x 35 3/4 (118.1 x 90.8 cm). Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
TORONTO.- Famous at a young age, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) remains one of the most renowned painters in Western art history. Featuring over 30 large-scale paintings including several never before shown in North America and about 20 works on paper, Early Rubens is an ambitious and revealing exhibition of works the Flemish painter produced between 1609 to 1621. This period, when Antwerp experienced a pause in a violent war, aligns with Rubenss return to Antwerp and his rise to prominence on the world stage. Opening at the AGO on Oct. 12, 2019, Early Rubens is organized in partnership with the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco (FAMSF) and is curated by Dr. Sasha Suda, the AGOs Curator of European Art, and Dr. Kirk Nickel, Assistant Curator of European Painting, FAMSF. The exhibition runs in Toronto to Jan. 5, 2020. Rubenss virtuosic ... More | |
Many of the people she photographed were and went on to become influential global cultural icons.
GLASGOW.- Paul McCartney has donated a set of limited edition photographs by his late wife Linda McCartney to Glasgow Museums. Lindas Pictures comprises 14 photographs, three of which were taken in Scotland. The collection includes portraits of superstar musicians from her early career, as well as intimate and humorous McCartney family photographs taken throughout the 1970s. The images by the former US female photographer of the year will be available to view on request at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. The Linda McCartney Retrospective, which is curated by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney, is currently on show for the first time in the UK at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It runs until 12 January 2020. Themes of the exhibition include The Sixties, Family Life, Self Portraits, Animals and Nature, People & Places, Making the Magic, and Scotland. The gift of works are published in an edition of 150. Many of the people she ... More | |
Elizabeth Catlett, American (active Mexico), 19152012; Seated Woman, 1962; 22 1/2 x 13 1/2 x 7 inches. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired a sculpture by the African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), recognized as one of the nations most important 20th-century sculptors. The museum purchased Seated Woman on Tuesday (Oct. 9) at auction at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. The price was $389,000. Catletts was committed to realism because of its accessibility to everyday people, and to the female form, explaining, in sculpture Im thinking about form. But Im also thinking about women, black women. She wanted people to see themselves and their histories in her work, believing such affirmative depictions could enact social change. Seated Woman is the earliest full-length work in wood to come to the auction market, and dates from her strongest period in sculpture, from 1955 to 1968. Brent R. Benjamin, the Barbara B. Taylor Director of the Saint Louis Art ... More |
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| | Sotheby's Hong Kong opens a large-scale solo exhibition of works by Zhang Daqian | | Dutch National Museum of Antiquities opens major winter exhibition 'Cyprus: A Dynamic Island' | | David Hume Kennerly archive acquired by Center for Creative Photography |
Zhang Daqian, Beautiful Scenery in the Mountains Splashed Ink and Colour on Cardboard, Framed, 1965, 53 x 41 cm. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- In celebration of the 120th anniversary of Zhang Daqians birthday, Sothebys will present a large-scale solo exhibition, Zhang Daqian: The Master, from 12 October to 9 November, at Sothebys Hong Kong Gallery. Co-organised by Xi Zhi Tang Gallery, the exhibition will feature nearly 60 paintings sourced from the artists family and private collectors around the world. This exhibition will encompass important works from different periods of the artists oeuvre, with an emphasis on splashed ink paintings, many of which have been featured in major exhibitions and some have never before been seen in public. Zhang Daqian was a remarkable artist from a young age, though his characteristic splashed ink painting technique was developed at a later stage in his life, during his long residency overseas when he found himself immersed in modern ... More | |
Young standing man, limestone, 550-540 © Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
LEIDEN.- On 11 October 2019, the exhibition Cyprus: A Dynamic Island opened at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden (RMO, the National Museum of Antiquities of the Netherlands). This is a unique exhibition about one of the most important crossroads of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean region. It features a selection of 400 superb archaeological objects, more than 300 of which come from Cypruss national collections. They represent over 9,000 years of the islands history, in an impressive setting of huge artistic landscape photographs. The exhibits include life-sized sculptures and portraits in marble and terracotta, imaginative pottery decorated with little faces and animal figures, luxury imported goods from the Near East and Egypt, large bronze cauldrons and weapons, colourful mosaics, gold jewellery and a royal throne inlaid with silver display, highlighting both the diversity and the uniqueness ... More | |
David Hume Kennerly, Linda Ronstadt, Portrait of Grammy-winning American Singer, Plaza Hotel, New York,1977. Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona: David Hume Kennerly Archive. © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.
TUCSON, AZ.- The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography has acquired the archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Hume Kennerly. Spanning more than 50 years of history dating from 1965, the David Hume Kennerly archive features almost one million images, prints, objects, memorabilia, correspondence and documents. It includes iconic portraits of U.S. presidents, world leaders, celebrities and unknown individuals, as well as personal correspondence and mementos such as the helmet and cameras that Kennerly used while photographing the Vietnam War. The archive attests to the integrity of this news photographers career, as he trained his lens on history as it was being made ... More |
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| | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the exhibition debut of Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today | | Early printed, travel, scientific & medical books at Swann October 24 | | 'We have 30 minutes': the night Notre-Dame was saved |
Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514. Engraving 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift, 2003 (2003.446.1)
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the debut of Crystals in Art: Ancient to Today on view October 12, 2019 to January 6, 2020. Crystals in Art features 75 objects, including artworks, artifacts, and 10 crystal specimens that explore how crystals have captured the human imagination across time, place, and culture, and draw on the links between art, religion, science, and social status. The exhibition presents a wide variety of media from sculpture, photography, etching, drawing, video, mixed-media, and crystals as early tools, ritual objects, jewelry, decorative items, and more. Artworks featured in the exhibition are on loan from museum collections nationwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, CA, the ... More | |
Galileo Galilei, Dialogo . . .sopra I Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo, Tolemaico e Copernicano, Florence, 1632. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books comes to Swann Galleries on Thursday, October 24, featuring notable works on science, a standout selection of incunabula, and an extensive offering of volumes on innovations in medicine. The sale is led by a first edition, first issue of Sir Isaac Newtons Opticks, London, 1704, which summarized the scientists discoveries on light and color. The volume is available at $15,000 to $25,000. Further science offerings of note include a 1632 first edition of Galileo Galileis dialogue on the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems that established the validity of heliocentricity ($10,000-15,000); a scarce complete set of first editions in 32 parts of Michael Faradays Experimental Researches in Electricity, London, 1832-56, which contributed to the modern understanding and industrial use of electricity ($3,000-4,000). A choice selection of incunabula brings to auction i ... More | |
This file photo taken on April 16, 2019 shows the altar surrounded by charred debris inside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the cathedral. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Monday, April 15, 2019. When an alarm goes off in the early evening at Notre-Dame cathedral in central Paris, there is no immediate sense of panic. Security exercises and false alerts are frequent at the historic place of worship, which has stood on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris for over 850 years. Andre Finot, a communications official working for the cathedral, is waiting on the esplanade in front of Notre-Dame for a work meeting. It's 6:23 pm. He goes back inside the cathedral and helps evacuate worshippers, according to a well-rehearsed procedure that was only practised once again 10 days before. Evacuation messages sound out in several languages but there is no sense of trepidation. Even the priest who is leading the pre-Easter service does not even leave the cathedral. Fifty metres away, in her souvenir stall, Florence Mathieu is also not in the least ... More |
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New Hidden London exhibition reveals the secrets of disused Underground stations
LONDON.- Visitors will get the chance to experience an abandoned Tube station underworld and discover what secrets lurk beneath our busy streets at a new Hidden London exhibition opening today at London Transport Museum (Friday 11 October 2019). Hidden London: the Exhibition takes people on an immersive journey of some of Londons most secret spaces belonging to the oldest subterranean railway in the world. These forgotten parts of the Tube network have incredible stories to tell about Britains wartime past such as the Plessey aircraft underground factory which had 2,000 members of staff, mostly women, working in the two 2.5-mile-long tunnels on the eastern section of the Central line during the Second World War. Inquisitive adults will be able to discover how Winston Churchill took refuge in the ... More
Compton Verney brings the 'Magnum Manifesto' to the UK
COMPTON VERNEY.- This autumn, for the first time ever in the UK, Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park will host Magnum Manifesto, an exhibition featuring some of most significant and enduring images from The Magnum Photos agency, focusing on the history of the second half of the 20th century through the lenses of 75 leading photographers. In 1947, following the aftermath of the Second World War, four pioneering photographers - Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and Chim (David Seymour) - founded a now legendary alliance, combining an extraordinary range of individual styles into one powerful collaboration: The Magnum Photos agency. Magnum Photos represents some of the worlds most renowned photographers, sharing a vision to chronicle world events, people, places and culture with a powerful narrative that defies ... More
Explore artists as change-makers in Women Breaking Boundaries at the Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI, OH.- A new special exhibition explores the role of women in art and art history at the Cincinnati Art Museum from October 11April 12, 2020. Women Breaking Boundaries highlights artworks from the museums permanent collection created by female artists from the seventeenth century to today. It will encourage visitors to think critically about gender, inclusion, and diversity and how that translates to the museums gallery walls. A cross-departmental selection of 38 artworks from Europe, North America and Asia is being featured, ranging from oil on canvas, metalwork, ceramic, and prints to photography and fashion. Prominent artists include Georgia OKeeffe, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Mary Cassatt, Julia Margaret Cameron, Elizabeth Catlett, and Chiyo Mitsuhisa. The Cincinnati Art Museums ... More
Museum Ludwig opens an exhibition of works by photographer and historian Lucia Moholy
COLOGNE.- On the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary, the Museum Ludwig is dedicating a small presentation in the photography room to the photographer and historian of photography Lucia Moholy. Three newly acquired vintage prints by Lucia Moholy will also be shown for the first time. In addition to her photographs, letters from the Museum Ludwig archives will be presented that demonstrate the lively exchange between Moholy and the photography collector and historian Erich Stenger. They planned to write a book about the history of photography together around 1932. However, the rise of the Nazis drove Moholy into emigration, while Stenger became a sought-after expert in the field in Germany. Moholy ultimately published A Hundred Years of Photography: 18391939 on her own in London in 1939. Her book became the bestseller ... More
Exhibition at Moderna Museet addresses the issue of art and technology from a variety of perspectives
STOCKHOLM.- For Mud Muses A Rant About Technology, 19 artists and artist groups from all over the world have been invited to address the issue of art and technology from a variety of perspectives, including cyber-feminism, textile punk, artificial life forms, and cosmologies at the limit of nature and culture. Mud Muse, Robert Rauschenbergs performative sculpture from 1968-1971, in which nearly 4,000 kilos of bentonite mud is activated from below by sound waves, is back at Moderna Museet. In the exhibition Mud Muses A Rant about Technology, the sculpture is joined by a constellation of works that were either produced specifically for the exhibition or created over the past fifty years of technological history, at points in time when the relationship between art and technology has taken a new direction. In 2004, the American science-fiction author Ursula ... More
Thousands of Czechs bid farewell to 'Sinatra of the East'
PRAGUE (AFP).- Thousands of tearful fans spent hours queueing outside a palace in Prague on Friday to bid farewell to Czech pop icon Karel Gott who died from leukaemia aged 80. "I always dreaded the day he'd be gone and when I heard the news of his death, my world fell to pieces," Pavel Sychra, a fitter who travelled to Prague from the eastern city of Vyskov, told AFP. Dubbed "Sinatra of the East" and the "Golden Voice of Prague", Gott died on October 1 after undergoing treatment for leukaemia. On Saturday, a funeral ceremony with state honours and a requiem are scheduled to take place at Prague Castle's St Vitus Cathedral. The first mourners arrived at the Zofin palace on an island in central Prague on Thursday afternoon and stayed the night. City officials have restricted public transport and boosted police presence in the area. Loudspeakers ... More
Polish city declares free transport for readers of Nobel laureate
WARSAW (AFP).- Public transport will be free through the weekend for anyone carrying a book by Poland's newly minted Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk in her western city of Wroclaw, local officials said Friday. "As soon as we heard the news Thursday that Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel, we wanted to share our joy with all the residents of our city which recently made the writer an honorary citizen," city hall spokesman Przemyslaw Galecki told AFP. "Through Sunday, every passenger carrying a book or e-book by Olga Tokarczuk can ride public transit free in our city" of 650,000 people. Tokarczuk, 57, splits her time between Wroclaw and the western village of Krajanow on the border with the Czech Republic. The dreadlock-sporting vegetarian and leftist, who does not shy away from criticising Poland's governing conservatives, said in June that Wroclaw ... More
Don Eyles Collection featured in Fall Space Exploration sale at RR Auction
BOSTON, MASS.- RR Auction is offering The Don Eyles Collection in its Fall Space Exploration sale with online bidding running October 11- October 17. As a 27-year-old MIT computer expert, Don Eyles had the unequaled distinction of saving the Apollo 14 mission. A quick-thinking mathematical genius, he worked at Draper Labs, the place commissioned by NASA to write the computer code that would take us to the Moon. Since graduating Boston University in 1966, Don specialized in writing those invaluable programs for what Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott later referred to as "the most dangerous part of walking on the moon," landing the Lunar Module on the surface of the Moon. When the abort switch unexpectedly jammed on Apollo 14, Eyles was tasked with writing a new program on the fly rendering the faulty "abort" request invisible to the computer. ... More
North Carolina Museum of Art hosts first solo exhibition of Scott Avett's visual art
RALEIGH, NC.- This fall, the North Carolina Museum of Art hosts the first solo museum exhibition of the visual art of Scott Avett, founding member of the Grammy-nominated Avett Brothers band. Open October 12, 2019, through February 2, 2020, Scott Avett: I N V I S I B L E will include large-scale portraits, prints, and paintings. Until now Avetts work with The Avett Brothers has taken center stage. The NCMA exhibition shines a light on his art making, thereby demonstrating the richness and diversity of his practice. Im not anything firstnot painter, musician, writer, printmaker, performerbefore I am an artist, said Avett, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from East Carolina University and lives in Concord, N.C. Im always thinking in visual terms. Even when Im writing, Im thinking visually, and I feel like everything trickles down from that. This body of work was made over a 20-y ... More
Freeman's International Sale brings over $2.4 million
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans 2 October International Sale was an overwhelming success, achieving a sale total of just over $2.4 million, tripling its presale low estimate total. The auction featured lots across multiple departments, including Asian Art, British and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Rugs, Objets de Vertu, European and Old Master paintings and works on paper, and Silver. Among the many highlights from the sale were several works of Asian Art, most notably a Chinese carved spinach green jade Luduan censer on a gilt metal base (Lot 163), which sold for $250,000, outselling its presale low estimate, as well as a Chinese blue and white rectangular porcelain plaque, attributed to Wang Bu (1898-1968), delicately painted to depict two fisherman by a river by an old tree. The piece (Lot 65), was originally owned by Dr. Harold H. Louckes and shattered ... More
Bertille Bak wins the third edition of the Mario Merz Prize
MADRID.- Bertille Bak has been selected as the winner of the Mario Merz Prize third edition in the Art category. The Mario Merz Prize is the only international award for art and music. Previous winners in the Art category were Wael Shawky (first edition) and Petrit Halilaj (second edition). Beatrice Merz announced Bak as this years Art category winner, on Thursday 10 October at the Italian Embassy in Madrid, on the occasion of the Mario Merz exhibition El tiempo es mudo at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa. Bertille Bak was chosen from a shortlist of international artists including Mircea Cantor (Romania), David Maljković (Croatia), Maria Papadimitriou (Greece), and Unknown Friend (USA). The winning artist was selected via an open public vote, and a jury comprised of Manuel Borja-Villel (Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Richard Meier was born October 12, 2019. Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In this image: Architect Richard Meier speaks as he honored at the Ellis Island Family Heritage Awards on Ellis Island on Thursday, April 19, 2012.
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