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Bruce Nauman. White Anger, Red Danger, Yellow Peril, Black Death. 1984. Steel, aluminum, cast iron, paint, and wire, 62 3/4 à 215 1/8 à 192″ (159.4 à 546.4 à 487.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser. © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Digital image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 present the first comprehensive retrospective in 25 years devoted to the work of American artist Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 21, 2018, through February 18, 2019, and at MoMA PS1 from October 21, 2018, through February 25, 2019. Co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and Laurenz Foundation, Schaulager Basel, Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts draws upon the rich holdings of both institutions and nearly 70 lenders. Encompassing Naumans full career and featuring a total of 165 works, the exhibition occupies the Museums entire sixth floor and the whole of MoMA PS1. This joint presentation provides an opportunity to experience Naumans command of a wide range of mediums, from drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture to neon, performance, film and video, and architecturally scaled environments. Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts is organize ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jewelry worn by French Queen Marie Antoinette, including the pearl and diamond pendant shown here, is displayed at Sotheby's auction house, October 12, 2018 in New York City. The collection of aristocratic jewels, belonging to the Bourbon-Parma family, is set to hit the auction block on November 14. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP
| Two restituted masterworks from the Alfred Flechtheim Collection to be offered at Sotheby's | | Exhibition at The Morgan focuses on the drawing practice of Jacopo Tintoretto | | 'Romance and magic': Marie Antoinette's jewels on show before auction |
Oskar Kokoschka, Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac. Painted in 1910. Estimate: $15/20 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that two Modern masterworks recently restituted to the heirs of art-world luminary Alfred Flechtheim will highlight their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 12 November 2018. Among the finest examples by their respective artists ever to appear at auction, Oskar Kokoschkas portrait of Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac from 1910 (estimate $15/20 million) and Ernst Ludwig Kirchners compelling Das Soldatenbad (Artillerymen) from 1915 (estimate $15/20 million) both encapsulate the seismic shifts occurring in visual arts during the period leading up to and including the onset of World War I. They also serve as testaments to Flechtheims passion for collecting exceptional Expressionist works. In addition to their inherent art historical significance, both paintings are distinguished by their illustrious provenance and remarkable stories of restitution to Flechtheims ... More | |
Tintoretto (1518/191594), Study After Michelangelos St. Damian, ca. 154550 (detail), black chalk, heightened with white, on beige paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund. Bridgeman Images.
NEW YORK, NY.- The dramatic canvases of Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/15191594), with their muscular, expressive bodies, are some of the most distinctive of the Italian Renaissance. His drawings, however, have received less attention as a distinctive category in his oeuvre. Drawing in Tintorettos Venice is the first exhibition since 1956 to focus on the drawing practice of this major artist. It offers a new perspective on Tintorettos evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his influence on a generation of painters in northern Italy. Organized to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the artists birth, this exhibition brings together more than seventy drawings and a small group of related paintings. It places Tintorettos distinctive figure drawings alongside works by contemporaries such as Titian, Veronese, and Bassano, ... More | |
A model poses with a Diamond Tiara, 'Hubner', circa 1912 with an estimated value of £268,000-£422,00 GBP (305,000-479,000 Euros, $350,000-$550,000 USD) during a photocall for the sale of 'Royal Jewels from the Bourbon Parma Family' at Sotheby's auction house in London on October 19, 2018. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Marie Antoinette's dazzling diamonds and pearls, unseen in public for two centuries, went on show in London on Friday before going on sale next month in one of the most important royal jewellery auctions in history. The treasures were secretly whisked out of Paris in 1791 in the aftermath of the French Revolution and have been privately owned by relatives ever since. The collection, held by the Italian royal House of Bourbon-Parma, is being sold by Sotheby's auction house in Geneva on November 14. On show at their London headquarters, the lots include 10 pieces which belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was guillotined in Paris aged 37 in October 1793. "The romance, ... More |
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| Urban Encounters: Ateneum Art Museum exhibits Finnish art from the 20th century | | Artist Sanford Biggers's sculpture honoring Michael Brown added to CAM exhibition | | Major sculpture by Lynn Chadwick donated to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
Tove Jansson, Woman (Self-Portrait) 1942. Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis.
HELSINKI.- How did urbanisation influence the Finnish way of life and how did this show in visual art? How did everyday life change when people had more free time and gender roles were liberated? Urban Encounters tells a fascinating story about 20th-century Finland. The exhibition of approximately 300 works features many rarely shown pieces from the Finnish National Gallery collection. Urban Encounters arose from the exhibition The Modern Woman, which presented works by Helene Schjerfbeck, Elga Sesemann, Sigrid Schauman and Ellen Thesleff. Produced by the Ateneum, the exhibition was shown in New York, Stockholm and Oulu. Urban Encounters broadens our perspective on changes to the Finnish way of life in cities, and how these changes are shown in Finnish visual art. The topics of the works range from urbanity to domesticity, from war to the circus, and from body to identity. The works include a great many recognisable cityscapes from Helsinki. Urban Encounters is a celebration ... More | |
Sanford Biggers, BAM (for Michael), 2016. Bronze with black patina, 19 x 6 x 4 inches. Collection of Dr. Daniel Berger, Chicago. Courtesy the artist; Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen; and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong. © Sanford Biggers.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announced the inclusion of Sanford Biggerss sculpture BAM (for Michael), dedicated to Michael Brown, as part of the artists current exhibition, on view at the museum through December 30, 2018. CAM is presenting the first exhibition to focus on Biggerss BAM series, which includes sculptures, video installation, and painted quilts. Biggers seeks to memorialize and honor black victims of police violence in America, pointing toward recent transgressions and elevating the stories of specific individuals in order to combat historical amnesia. BAM (for Michael) joins three other sculptures in the exhibitionBAM (for Sandra), BAM (for Terence), BAM (for Jordan)dedicated to Sandra Bland, Terence Crutcher, and Jordan Edwards, respectively, whose tragic deaths are among the hundreds of instances ... More | |
Lynn Chadwick (1914 2003), Cloaked Figure IX, 1978, cast 1989, bronze, 2/6, cast Burleighfield, Loudwater, England. MMFA, gift of the Peress family in honour of their parents, Simha and Maurice S. Peress. Photo MMFA, Denis Farley.
MONTREAL.- Adorning the entrance to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the magnificent sculpture Cloaked Figure IX by world-renowned British sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914‑2003) has entered the Museums collection. This acquisition was made possible thanks to the generous gift of the Peress family in honour of their parents, Montrealers Simha and Maurice S. Peress. Fifteen years after his passing in 2003, what a joy and privilege it is to acquire a monumental work by the celebrated British sculptor Lynn Chadwick! Following the CIBC Banks exceptional donation of the Henry Moore sculpture Three Piece Reclining Figure No. 1 (1961-1962) in 2017, the MMFA has continued to embellish its public art spaces for the benefit of all Montrealers and its audiences. Collected [by museums] from the MoMA to the Beaubourg, Chadwick was an accomplished sculptor of outstanding ingenuity and technical virtuosity. A successor to Moore ... More |
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| Rare 1956 Ferrari 290 MM leads RM Sotheby's Los Angeles auction | | Simone Leigh wins Hugo Boss Prize 2018 | | Remai Modern outpaces membership, revenue expectations in first year of operation |
The Classiche restored and certified Ferrari 290 MM set to headline RM Sothebys sale at the Petersen Automotive Museum. Diana Varga © 2018 Courtesy of RM Sothebys.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- RM Sothebys announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with significant motorsport pedigree ahead of The Petersen Automotive Museum Auction on 8 December. Campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari for the 1956 and 1957 seasons, the fully matching-numbers, Ferrari Classiche-certified racer was piloted by an amazing assortment of factory team drivers including Juan Manuel Fangio, Phil Hill, Peter Collins, Wolfgang von Trips, Olivier Gendebien, Eugenio Castellotti and later, Sir Stirling Moss, in some of the most prestigious race events in the world. The consignment of this car follows RM Sothebys world record for the most valuable car ever sold at auction, set when a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for $48.4 million in Monterey earlier this year. The 290 MM was developed by Ferrari to contest ... More | |
Simone Leigh, Hugo Boss Prize 2018 winner. Photo: Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Mark Langer, Chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG, announced tonight that artist Simone Leigh has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2018. Leigh is the 12th artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. Selected by a jury of international critics and curators, Leigh receives an award of $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening in April 2019. Administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Hugo Boss Prize is made possible by HUGO BOSS. For more than twenty years, the Hugo Boss Prize has been at the center of the Guggenheims commitment to contemporary art. We gratefully acknowledge our friends at HUGO BOSS for their visionary partnership in this endeavor, ... More | |
Remai Modern exterior. Photo: Adrien Williams.
SASKATOON.- Remai Modern will celebrate its first anniversary on October 21. After a year in operation, Canadas museum of contemporary art bested many of its targets for the year, from memberships to overall visitation. On October 21, 2017 we opened a building. What has happened at Remai Modern since is the birth of a vision. Im delighted that the people of Saskatoon and beyond have embraced the exhibitions, the space and the programs as we bring a global art experience to the local community, said Gregory Burke, Executive Director & CEO of Remai Modern. I want to extend my thanks to our donors, sponsors, members, volunteers and visitors for their incredible support of the museum. I also want to thank the Remai Modern team and board for their hard work to realize this longstanding dream. We look forward to bringing more one-of-a-kind exhibitions, new ideas and transformative experiences to the public in 2019 and b ... More |
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| Kunsthalle Bremen opens the largest presentation on Hans Christian Andersen as a fine artist | | Restored 'The Private Life of Henry VIII' to world premiere at 62nd BFI London Film Festival | | Exhibition examines how artists depicted their experiences of conflict through monsters and mythic figures |
Hans Christian Andersen, Der Botaniker, 1848. Scherenschnitt Königliche Bibliothek Kopenhagen.
BREMEN.- The Kunsthalle Bremen will present the exhibition Hans Christian Andersen: Poet with Pen and Scissors. This is the largest presentation on Hans Christian Andersen as a fine artist that has ever been shown in Germany. This project is supported by major loans from the Royal Library in Copenhagen, the Odense City Museums, and the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg. Hans Christian Andersen (18051875) is known to every child as an inventor of mesmerising fairy tales. The Little Mermaid, The Emperors New Clothes, and The Princess and the Pea brought him great fame during his lifetime. Andersens fairy tales have been translated into over 150 languages, making him one of the most widely read authors in the world. However, few people know that Hans Christian Andersen was also a prolific artist. He created drawings and paper cut-outs and made collages ... More | |
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), BFI National Archive.
LONDON.- The BFI National Archive and The Film Foundations new 4K digital restoration of Alexander Kordas vivacious portrait of The Private Life of Henry VIII will world premiere at the upcoming 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. Showing on 20th October at BFI Southbank the festival screening is also a taster for the BFIs upcoming Kordas season at BFI Southbank in January 2019. Flamboyant producer/director Alexander Korda, a Hungarian Jewish émigré, arrived in Britain in 1931 and promptly shook up British cinema. A charming maverick, Korda transformed the landscape of the British film industry, proving that Britain could compete with America on its own terms. He was joined not only by his brothers, art director Vincent (production designer of The Private Life of Henry VIII) and screenwriter/director/producer Zoltán, but a number of other ... More | |
Joan Miró, Seated Personages, 1936, Oil on copper. Private Collection. © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2018.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, the first major exhibition to examine how European and American artists depicted their experiences of conflict through monsters and mythic figures. The horrors of war propelled Surrealist artists to pursue these iconographies. The exhibition chronicles the emergence of particular themes that reference the political chaos of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Co-organized with The Baltimore Museum of Art, Monsters and Myths brings together 64 works of art by artists including Salvador DalÃ, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, and Yves Tanguy. The exhibition opens Oct. 20, 2018 and continues through Jan. 13, 2019. In the 1930s and 1940s, Surrealists saw their ... More |
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Columbus Museum of Art marks the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance
COLUMBUS, OH.- 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion of African American culture that erupted in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City and spread across the cities of the greater Midwest, including Columbus, from 1918 to the 1950s. Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art with Guest Curator Wil Haygood, the exhibition I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100 offers a fresh look at the visual art and material culture of this groundbreaking moment in American cultural history, and serves as an anchor in a citywide celebration of the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition has its origins in September 2015, when the Lincoln Theater Association and the King Arts Complex celebrated the release of Wil Haygoods book Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination ... More
$100K print from Picasso's Blue Period comes to auction
NEW YORK, NY.- An auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on Thursday, November 1 at Swann Galleries offers a grand selection of prints by Pablo Picasso. Rare and museum-quality prints from the fifteenth-to-twentieth centuries act as an overview of the evolution of Western printmaking and chronicle the dramatic changes of the second half of the millennium. European works from the early twentieth century are led by a powerful selection of works by Pablo Picasso. Hailing from the artists Blue Period, Le Repas Frugal, 1904, presents an allegorical scene constructed from glimpses into the lives of those living in poverty (Estimate: $100,000-150,000). Flûtiste et Trois Femmes nues, 1932, is one of 100 Neoclassical-style subjects Picasso etched for Suite Vollard, valued at $8,000 to $12,000. Late color linoleum cuts include La Femme au Chapeau ... More
Lyman Allyn Art Museum opens new permanent exhibit dedicated to Louis Comfort Tiffany
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum will open a new permanent exhibit this October, dedicated to life and works of American artist and designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 1933), who was best known for his innovative work with stained glass. The installation will feature three newly conserved stained glass windows which were commissioned in the early 1900s to memorialize loved ones in New London. The collection, which will showcase never before exhibited objects (many of which came from the artists descendants), will illustrate Tiffanys early career as a painter, then show his work as an interior designer, and tell the story of his innovations and success as a glassmaker. With items both from the museums collection and on loan, the exhibit will include nearly 100 pieces of decorative arts and fine arts objects including a range ... More
Exhibition explores the technologic and surreal imaginaries of 16 international contemporary artists
ROME.- An avatar that asks itself about the meaning of life, two robots exploring the relationship between man and machine, a live simulation that self-replicates infinitely, constructing ever-different worlds, Rubens Bellona obsessively redrawn by a piece of software, stock market trends that become the colours in abstract paintings. All this and more is included in LOW FORM. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, a project curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi that runs from 20 October 2018 to 24 February 2019, bringing the work of 16 international artists to MAXXI. LOW FORM is not just an exhibition but a workshop for study and debate on themes and issues associated with humanitys relationship with technology and the incredible scenarios opened up by its evolution. A broad-based approach that will develop a rich ... More
Jerwood Gallery opens exhibition featuring the work of five ground-breaking artists
HASTINGS.- The Quick and the Dead is an exhibition of five ground-breaking artists each radically different in his or her approach whose lives have intersected at various points. The artists are friends who have portrayed each other at different moments, and are being displayed together for the first time this autumn at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. In this new exhibition, The Quick and the Dead centres on paintings and drawings made over the past decade by Maggi Hambling, in which she has portrayed Horsley, Lucas, Simmons and Teller. These works are in dialogue with portraits of Hambling made by the other living artists. This is highly personal, a sequence of artistic interactions, and a celebration of portraiture and its ongoing possibilities. The exhibition has its roots in a 2005 meeting at The Colony Room Club, Soho, where Hambling was introduced ... More
Exhibition at Moderna Museet gauges the current position of Swedish contemporary art
STOCKHOLM.- Current political tendencies take centre stage at the Moderna Exhibition 2018. This edition of the exhibition, which gauges the current position of Swedish contemporary art, features 36 artists and artist groups who offer sober and intimate reflections on Swedish society today, on a natural world that is no longer what it once was, and a future that appears to have already begun. Where does the idea of 'the local' fit into our globally networked society? And what does it mean, today, to frame an exhibition as a national survey? Over the course of a two-year research process, the curators Joa Ljungberg and Santiago Mostyn began to think beyond the idea of the Moderna Exhibition as a showcase for the most prominent artistic practices in Sweden, and instead see the exhibition as an opportunity to look more closely at Swedish society through ... More
Major exhibition focuses on fictional pirates in popular culture
LONDON.- A Pirates Life For Me is the V&A Museum of Childhoods first major exhibition to focus on fictional pirates in popular culture from Victorian Britain to the present day. Immersive, multi-sensory and developed in collaboration with children, the exhibition transports its young visitors into an imaginary swashbuckling world of adventure and exploration. A Pirates Life For Me explores the origins and character development of fictional pirates to reveal how they have been romanticised and reimagined in popular culture. Over 80 objects are displayed from the V&As world-leading collections and key loans of famous toys, original costumes, games, books, illustrations and comic spanning over 300 years. Will Newton, curator of A Pirates Life For Me, said: Children love pirates. Captain Hook, Long John Silver and Jack Sparrow are among the most ... More
Freeman's announces highlights in its Fall Modern & Contemporary Art auction
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On November 13, Freemans will host its Fall Modern & Contemporary Art auction. After a successful spring auction season, which saw over $2.1 million dollars in sales, Freemans is pleased to offer over 150 paintings, works on paper, and sculpture this autumn. The auction will provide collectors an opportunity to bid on and buy artwork from some of the art markets biggest names. An undoubted highlight of the sale is the impressive sculpture Trembling for Color by American artist Jim Dine Lot 114, estimate: $120,000-180,000). Over the course of his long and prolific career, Dine developed a signature visual iconography through his repeated exploration of particular forms and motifs. He has returned time and again to favored subjects such as hearts, bathrobes, and the Venus de Milo, making them new again in each interpretation. ... More
Sophie Calle brings two new projects to Perrotin Paris
PARIS.- Perrotin Paris is presenting a solo exhibition of the work of Sophie Calle, the fifteenth since the gallery began its collaboration with the artist in 2001. For this exhibition, Sophie Calle brings us two new projects: Parce que and Souris Calle, in cooperation with some fourty musicians. Sophie Calle is one of the most renowned French artists. For about fourty years, her work has been a combination of narratives, photography, performance and video; blurring the lines between fiction and reality, the intimate and the public sphere. As Alfred Pacquement writes : Sophie Calle is a first-person artist. In her works she directs herself, unreservedly, using direct language to recount stories she has lived, with impressive attention to detail. She turns onlookers into accomplices to her privacy and leaves them no way out.1 The exhibition opens with a series of new ... More
Garrison Art Center opens a three-person show curated by Tamar Zinn
GARRISON, NY.- Garrison Art Center presents Explorations in Line, a three-person show curated by Tamar Zinn, with works by Jaanika Peerna, Tenesh Webber and Tamar Zinn. The exhibition will be on view in the Riverside Galleries from October 20 through November 11. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, October 20, 5-7pm. Explorations in Line highlights the vital role of line in the work of three contemporary abstract artists. Working in sculpture, photography, and drawing, Jaanika Peerna, Tenesh Webber, and Tamar Zinn use line as a thing unto itself, an embodiment of thought and sensation, rather than as a means to depict form. Some lines declare themselves soloists, while others dance and sometimes wrestle with one another. These lines transform the space they inhabit and shape how we perceive that space. Each artists line is deeply personal, ... More
12-pound Moon Rock sold for more than $600k at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- An extremely rare lunar meteorite sold for $612,500 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The meteorite was discovered in a remote area of Mauritania, in the deserts of Northwest Africa in 2017. The meteorite is classified as NWA 11789, lunar feldspathic breccia, unofficially known as Buagaba or The Moon Puzzle. It is comprised of six fragments that fit together, puzzle-like, to form a mass weighing very nearly 5.5 kg (12 pounds). With partial fusion crust visible on one side, it is a brand new classification and the largest known, complete lunar puzzle. Without a doubt, one of the most important meteorites available for acquisition anywhere in the world today and, perhaps, the most significant example of our nearest celestial neighbor ever offered for sale in the history of meteorite science. The winning bid came from a representative ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Aelbert Cuyp was born October 20, 1620. Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (October 20, 1620 - November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594?1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of the Dutch countryside in early morning or late afternoon light. In this image: Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620 - 1691), A Milkmaid, about 1642 - 1646. Black chalk, graphite, gray wash, 12.1 Ã 14.8 cm (4 3/4 Ã 5 13/16 in.) Accession No. 86.GG.672 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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