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The interior of the new V&A (Victoria and Albert) Dundee museum, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, is pictured during a press preview for its opening in Dundee, east Scotland, on September 12, 2018. Andy Buchanan / AFP.
DUNDEE (AFP).- A futuristic museum designed by Tokyo Olympic Stadium architect Kengo Kuma and featuring exterior concrete slabs in a hull shape was unveiled in Scotland on Wednesday. The £80 million (90 million euros, $104 million) Victoria & Albert Dundee sits on the banks of the River Tay. The original V&A in London, named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design. The museum is the centrepiece of a £1 billion regeneration of Scotland's fourth largest city, which has suffered years of economic decline. City leaders hope the museum will create a similar economic boost as the Guggenheim Bilbao, which opened in 1997 and took the Basque city from a tourist backwater to a major draw for aroun ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at an untitled work by Brazilian artist Vania Mignone, during the 33th Biennale of Sao Paulo at Ibirapuera park in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 14, 2018. NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP
| New exhibition at Moderna Museet celebrates the museum's Andy Warhol exhibition held in 1968 | | Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction catalogue now live | | Ancient altar reveals Mayan 'Game of Thrones' dynasty |
Interior from the exhibition Andy Warhol at Moderna Museet 1968. Photo: Lasse Olsson/DN/SCANPIX.
STOCKHOLM.- Warhol 1968 is an exhibition about the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in 1968. It also explores the complexity of Warhols practice from the perspective of the life-changing murder attempt, which took place that year. The exhibition includes the now-famous cow wallpaper that covered the facade of the Museum in 1968, wall photos from the exhibition, quotes and reviews, juxtaposing them with works from the Moderna Museet Collection. 1968 was a politically turbulent year in Sweden and internationally, with reactions against the Vietnam war, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, student demonstrations and the tennis riots in BÃ¥stad. This was also the year when Andy Warhols very first solo museum exhibition opened at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Due to the left-wing climate that prevailed in Sweden, especially in the arts, the organisers anticipated an ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Cracked Egg (Blue) (1994-2006, estimate: £10,000,000-15,000,000). © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will present work by some of the great artists of the 20th Century alongside those currently at the forefront of their artistic practice. The season will be led by Francis Bacons Figure in Movement (1972, estimate: £15,000,000 - 20,000,000), a seminal work which creates a vivid sense of the transition from life to death, and Gerhard Richters Schädel (Skull) (1983, estimate on request), unveiled for the first time in 30 years. Alongside these are masterpieces by American Contemporary artists Jeff Koons and Mark Grotjahn, as well as the finest examples of European Post-War Abstraction with works by Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages, and German artists such as Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Sigmar Polke. Three ... More | |
People look at a Mayan altar exhibited at the National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Guatemala City on September 12, 2018. Johan ORDONEZ / AFP.
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP).- A 1,500 year old Mayan altar discovered in a small archeological site in northern Guatemala is drawing comparisons to popular fantasy drama television series "Game of Thrones" for its descriptions of the Kaanul dynasty's political strategies aimed at bringing entire cities under its control. The altar, carved out of limestone and weighing around one ton was found at the La Corona archeological site in the jungle region close to the borders with Mexico and Belize, Tomas Barrientos, co-director of excavations and investigations at the site told journalists. Barrientos said the altar was found in a temple and showed King Chak Took Ich'aak, La Corona's ruler, "sitting and holding a scepter from which emerge two patron gods of the city." According to studies, the 1.46-meter by 1.2-meter slab contains a hieroglyphic Mayan inscription corresponding ... More |
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| Autumn Auction at Hermann Historica presents an astounding line-up of objects | | Binoche & Giquello to offer 43 miniature sculptures from the collection of Béatrice and Patrick Caput | | Di Donna presents masterworks from the Pérez Simón Collection |
Unrivalled late Roman measuring cup, inscription revealing its origins during the years 402 408 A.D. Estimate: 8000 Euros. © Hermann Historica GmbH 2018.
MUNICH.- From 5 to 23 November, this year's Autumn Auction at Hermann Historica GmbH promises buyers the usual wide range of high quality, precious objects from numerous eras and from every corner of the globe. Approximately 7,600 lots from all specialist areas represented by the auction house are to come under the hammer antiquities, arms and armour, works of art, hunting antiques, orders and collectibles from all fields of history and military history. Since time immemorial, man's instinctive desire to catalogue, regulate and understand the world has been one of humanity's driving forces. Weights and measures prepared the way for scientific discovery in this endeavour by enabling documentation and comparison, serving both as a classification system and ... More | |
Bembe ancestor figure Democratic Republic of Congo Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 ©BinocheetGiquello/Drouot.
PARIS.- Key figures on the African and Oceanic art scene, Béatrice and Patrick are offering their collection at auction. 43 precious miniature sculptures will be offered by auction house Binoche & Giquello at Drouot on Thurdsay 15 November. Patrick Caput, international consultant and expert for African and Oceanic arts and his wife Béatrice have built their collection with passion for 50 years. All types of miniature artefacts will be featured, from daily objects to precious and fetish works of art. Béatrice and Patrick Caput had very specific criteria when selecting an item to join their collection. It had to be ancient, to have had a story and then only, it had to reveal an emotion, either when touching the wood or just when admiring the beauty of the sculpture. Patrick Caput is the son of a doctor who also had a passion for painting, poetry ... More | |
Edvard Munch, Sommernacht im Studentenhain (Summer Night in Studenterlunden), 1899. Pérez Simón Collection. © 2018 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Di Donna Galleries offers a rare glimpse into the renowned private art collection of Juan Antonio Pérez Simón with the exhibition A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection, being held from September 13 to October 12, 2018. This exhibition presents highlights from the collection representing major episodes in the history of modernism, with paintings by Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Salvador DalÃ, Paul Delvaux, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and Mark Rothko. A Passion for Collecting: Modern Works from the Pérez Simón Collection features a curated selection of approximately eighteen works that travelled to Di Donna Galleries from ... More |
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| Sperone Westwater opens exhibition of works by Malcolm Morley | | Exhibition of Mexican photographer Lola Ãlvarez Bravo sheds light on the pioneering photojournalist | | 'The Beautiful and Damned' at Sotheby's this November |
The gallery exhibition features recent paintings dating from 2015 through 2018, created before his passing in June at the age of 86.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sperone Westwater is presenting Malcolm Morley: Tally-ho, the sixth solo show devoted to the late London-born artist, widely hailed as among the most pioneering figures of his generation. On the occasion of his 1983 Whitechapel exhibition Malcolm Morley: Paintings, 1965-82, Morley was the recipient of the inaugural Turner Prize in 1984. The gallery exhibition features recent paintings dating from 2015 through 2018, created before his passing in June at the age of 86. Over the past thirty years Morley continued on a path that took him on a searching and distinctive examination of the art of painting, writes Sir Nicholas Serota in a tribute in the exhibition catalogue. Morley ranged, over the course of his five-decade career, through styles including abstraction, photo-based realism, neo-romanticism, and neo-expressionism. The paintings in the upcoming exhibition, mostly dating ... More | |
Lola Ãlvarez Bravo, Untitled, 1954. Gelatin silver print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Lola Ãlvarez Bravo Archive 93.6.70 © 1995 Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona Foundation.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation explores the career of pioneering Mexican photographer Lola Ãlvarez Bravo (1903 1993) with an exhibition of images that she considered to be her personal photography. Lola Ãlvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico presents nearly 50 photographs and photomontages spanning Ãlvarez Bravos fivedecade career. Together, these illuminate the ways in which her modernist aesthetic, with meticulous attention to pattern, light, and composition, contributed to her depictions of Mexicos diverse inhabitants and landscapes as she traveled the country documenting life in the years following the Mexican Revolution (ca. 1910 1920). On view from September 14, 2018, through February 16, 2019, Lola Ãlvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico has been curated by Pulitzer Arts Foundation Assistant ... More | |
Marsden Hartley, Pre-War Pageant Inscribed 43.A Paris days Pre War H 47 (on stretcher). Oil on canvas, 41 5/8 by 34 1/8 in. Painted in 1913. Estimate in the region of $30 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, as the world pauses to remember the events of the First World War on the centenary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 that drew it to a close, Sothebys will bring together a group of works that illustrates the tremendous and varied impact of the War on the artistic production of those whose lives it transformed. Incorporated into Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 12 November 2018, the offering will assemble works that capture the period from immediately prior to the outbreak of the war through to its aftermath, together telling the artistic history of that momentous period. The works will be presented under the moniker The Beautiful and Damned, in reference to the 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald the title of which alone captures the vicissitudes of the time. Today Sothebys announced a number ... More |
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| Masterpieces from the Collection of Franz, Duke of Bavaria on view in Munich | | Victoria Miro opens exhibition of new Fracture sculptures and two new mechanical works by Conrad Shawcross | | The $4.8 million collection of two students of Zhang Daqian leads Sotheby's Asia Week day two sales |
Palermo (Leipzig 19431977 Kurumba, Maledives), Untitled, 1964. Oil. Sheet: 297 x 210 mm. Photo: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
MUNICH.- On the occasion of his 85th birthday and in honour of H.R.H. Franz, Duke of Bavaria, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München is showing a suite of masterpieces from the artworks held by this connoisseur and passionate collector. These works will be presented as part of the exhibition series IM BLICK in the rooms of the Graphische Sammlung. Major graphic works, which have been compiled over decades with great sensitivity and expertise, reflect in the finest and most illuminating way the historical context of the cultural scene in Munich since the 1960s. Current and international trends have been recognised and evaluated by this individual collector with all the enthusiasm that he brings to modern art. And this has unmistakably shaped their selection of works. As gifts and items on permanent loan that the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung has received, the works on paper have for years dramatically enriched the museums own stoc ... More | |
Conrad Shawcross, Installation view, After the Explosion, Before the Collapse, 13 September - 27 October 2018. Victoria Miro Mayfair, St George Street, London W1S 1FE © Conrad Shawcross. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice.
LONDON.- An exhibition of new works by Conrad Shawcross features new Fracture sculptures and two new mechanical works, in addition to a sequence of unique photographic prints created by firing a laser through a series of faults in fragments of glass. United by an aesthetic akin to that of scientific models, the abstract works on view continue to deal with notions of time, entropy and disappearance. The exhibition marks a significant development of Conrad Shawcrosss celebrated Paradigm sculptures. The Paradigms are an ongoing exploration of the tetrahedron geometrically a four-sided non-tessellating form and conceptually the symbol of an indivisible unit of matter. As a building block, the tetrahedron behaves as an irrational number, creating sequences that in theory, extend into infinity without repetition. Major examples include Paradigm, 2016, a permanent installation commissioned by the Francis Crick ... More | |
Zhang Daqians Bridge to Mountain Temple Shrouded by Prismatic Clouds in Splashed Color from 1981 fetched $915,000 more than three times its high estimate of $280,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Day two of Sothebys Asia Week sale series in New York featured two auctions of Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy that together raised $10.5 million. Our Asia Week sales have reached $30.7 million thus far, with 551 lots to be offered in our Saturday at Sothebys: Asian Art auction this weekend. The day began with an auction dedicated to the collection Tang Hung and Fung Bi-Che two students of the modern Chinese ink master Zhang Daqian. The collection achieved $4.8 million, well in excess of its high estimate of $3.1 million, and with a strong 84.4% of works sold. The collection was led by one of Zhang Daqians iconic splashed-ink landscapes, Bridge to Mountain Temple Shrouded by Prismatic Clouds in Splashed Color from 1981 which fetched $915,000 more than three times its high estimate of $280,000. Sixteen works by Zhang Daqian were sold from the collection, including a number of pieces that illuminate his ... More |
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Malcolm Morley in conversation with Sir Norman Rosenthal
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The Art of Ronald McDonald and Friends Auction: The Setmakers' Collection debuts at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Its a treasure trove fit for the Hamburglar. For the first time in the history of advertising, Heritage Auctions presents The Art of Ronald McDonald & Friends The Setmakers Collection, the largest collection of original Ronald McDonald and McDonaldland artwork and one-of-a-kind prototypes ever brought to market, Sept. 22-23 in Chicago. The trove of massive murals, statues and original art is exclusively from the archives of Setmakers, Inc., a former vendor to McDonalds. Setmakers work on the "Ronald McDonald and his Friends marketing campaign for McDonalds is unparalleled. Setmakers President, the late Don Ament and his team, built the first McDonaldland set for television commercials. Setmakers also was the first company to build the McDonaldland outdoor playground in Chula Vista, California. "As McDonalds roared into the ... More
Carl Hammer Gallery opens exhibition of works by visual and performance artist Vanessa German
CHICAGO, IL.- Carl Hammer Gallery and Pavel Zoubok Fine Art invite you to Things Are Not Always What They Seem: A Phenomenology of Black Girlhood, a solo exhibition of new work by artist, poet and performer Vanessa German. For this exhibition, German creates a series of power figures that consider the secret lives of black girls in America. These radiant children, richly adorned with accumulations of found objects and glittering embellishments, speak silently and clearly about the over-criminalization of black girls in our school systems. From the over-sexualization of their bodies to the lack of protection and justice for victims of sexual abuse and violence, these powerful works embody a lived experience of growing up black and female in America. But Germans figures stand united and in formation to show the ways in which black girls save ... More
The Hague Museum of Photography opens the first major retrospective of Lauren Greenfield's work
THE HAGUE.- What are you really like? And what do gold handbags, gleaming sports cars, glittering jewellery, luxury villas and killer bodies have to do with it? For some people, these things are so important to their identity that they go so far as to hire a flashy car in order to show it off on Instagram, in imitation of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton and accounts like Rich Kids of London. American photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield (b. 1966) has been concerned with the subject of wealth for 25 years, portraying both the rich and famous 1% and those who do everything in their power to project the same image. Later this year The Hague Museum of Photography is showing Generation Wealth, the first major retrospective of Greenfields work. With over 200 photographs and several short films, Generation Wealth promises to be an impressive ... More
Galerie Frangulyan opens Tiago Francez's first ever solo exhibition
PARIS.- Born in 1990, Tiago Francez is an artist originally from Lisbon, Portugal. Having graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, he has spent the last decade working between Lisbon, Paris, Mulhouse and London. He also has been a prolific neo-muralist and has been painting murals all across Europe since 2012. He has been working on the current subject matter for the greater part of 7 years; Achille is his first ever solo exhibition and the culmination of his work on the thematic elements outlined below. In antiquity, the Greeks were one of the first people to inquire deeply upon the human condition. Out of this thought was born the oft spoken tale of Achille, the prototypic example of the manifestation of both the weakness and strength in man. Achille is both a representation of the limitless and indestructible power of man, but also ... More
Large-scale multimedia installation by Lisa Mackie on view at the June Kelly Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Here Then and Now, Lisa Mackies large-scale multimedia installation is on view at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street. The exhibition remains on view through October 9. Mackie transforms the gallery space into a rich environment within itself, sated with imaginative hanging solar objects sun and moon, provocative color in mixed media paintings, free-standing sculpture and a video projection with narrative voice-over of Béla Bartóks Mikrokosmos. Mackie, abstract painter, master printer and ambitious storyteller fascinated with the ancient organism, the Horseshoe Crab, ardently seeks to convey the common characteristics of evolution between human and creature by using the horseshoe crab metaphorically. Mackie often speaks of her work as being a composite of her psyche. Here, she assumes subject character, and as ... More
Catherine Sullivan debuts her most recent film project at Metro Pictures
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned for elaborate video installations that draw upon theater and live performance, Catherine Sullivan debuts her most recent film project, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), at Metro Pictures. A propositional film concerned with ambiguous labor (uncompensated work outside ones job description), the prevailing question for the nine characters in the film is whether to lean in to it or resist through strategies of withdrawal, redaction and retreat. With varying degrees of aptitude and motivation, the group rehearses symptoms of and methods for avoiding ambiguous labor including feigned surprise and incompetence, subtle displays of hostility and conspicuous demonstrations of fatigue. They participate in these exercises and in partially reconstructed scenes of resistance drawn from the 1954 film Salt of the Earth, a ... More
Kathryn Andrews presents a new series of wall-based sculptures at Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery Hong Kong announces the first solo exhibition in Asia by Los Angeles-based artist Kathryn Andrews. Presenting a new series of wall-based sculptures and one floor-based work, Andrews probes the visual contradictions of Pop Art and Minimalism, marrying the historical languages of the two movements into playful combinations that are both optically and conceptually rich. Andrews is an aesthetic flâneur of sorts, employing references to different cultural histories while using a wide variety of material processes in her work. She frequently samples and remixes historical aesthetics in order to question received values of seeing. On view, commonplace objects drawn from popular and commercial culture, such as the Magic 8-Ball, a Hersheys chocolate bar, lollipops, candies and flowers, appear as larger-than-life imagery ... More
Works by iconic artists lead Sotheby's Modern and Contemporary Art 2018 Autumn Evening Sales
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Hong Kong Modern Art and Contemporary Art Evening Sales on 30 September 2018 will present a line-up of seminal works, many of which are fresh to the market, by eminent Asian masters such as Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun, Sanyu, Zeng Fanzhi, Liu Ye, Kusama Yayoi, Shiraga Kazuo, Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur de Merprès, Ronald Ventura, alongside their contemporaries in the West, including Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Wifredo Lam and Joan Mitchell, among others. Headlining the sales is the largest-ever painting by Zao Wou-Ki, Juin-Octobre 1985, which is expected to fetch in excess of HK$350 million / US$45 million (click for press release). In addition, a concept will be auctioned as an artwork for the first time in Asia when Xuzhen Supermarket is offered at the Contemporary Art Evening Sale (click for press release). ... More
Nima Sagharchi appointed Director of Bonhams Middle Eastern, Islamic and South Asian Art Department
LONDON.- The international auction house Bonhams has promoted Nina Sagharchi to the post of Director of Middle Eastern, Islamic and South Asian Art. He was previously Bonhams Head of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art. The department recognises the shared heritage of South Asia and the Middle East, and the strong tradition and historical awareness that informs the modern visual cultures of those regions. Nima Sagharchi said: The grouping of the modern collecting categories together with the traditional arts of the Islamic and South Asian world makes perfect sense and I am delighted to have been entrusted with the leadership of the new department. Our series of sales this October perfectly exemplifies this sense of continuity where a set of important Mughal Miniatures and major paintings by Modern South Asian masters like ... More
Nye & Company's sale will feature diverse group of fine and decorative arts
BLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers Estate Treasures Sale on Tuesday, Sept. 25th, will showcase a broad and diverse group of fine and decorative arts, featuring property from the Westervelt Corporation, the NAMITS Collection and several private collections from Long Island. The auction will be held online and in Nyes gallery, at 20 Beach Street in Bloomfield. The sale includes a nice group of maritime art comprised of paintings, models and instruments, said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers, adding, There is also a fine selection of garden statuary, which will delight even the most seasoned landscape enthusiast. Collectors, trade and institutions alike should be pleased with the depth and breadth of these fine offerings. In all, 600 total lots will come up for bid, starting promptly at 10 am Eastern time. For those unable to attend ... More
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park's fall exhibition celebrates contemporary disability sculpture
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park hosts 16 contemporary sculptors in an innovative exhibition jointly organized by DisArt, a Grand Rapids based arts and cultural organization promoting the full participation of Disabled people in and through the arts. The exhibition is titled Process and Presence: Contemporary Disability Sculpture. Through examples of three-dimensional practice including sculpture, performance, installation and video art; this exhibition emphasizes the relationship between disability and the fundamental human experiences of change and embodiment. The exhibition offers audiences a survey of contemporary Disability sculpture through artists whose work represents local, national and global perspectives on the experiences of living with disability. Cornerstone to this exhibition is the Sister-State relationship between ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and architect Ksenia Milicevic was born September 15, 1942. Ksenia Milicevic (born September 15, 1942) is a French painter, architect and town planner. She is based in Paris, with a studio in Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and also maintains a base in South West France. In this image: Silence de midi 1993
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