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Still life formed an important theme within OKeeffes work, most notably in her representations and abstractions of flowers.
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario is presenting a major retrospective of pioneering American painter Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), featuring over 100 paintings by one the 20th centurys most successful and influential modernists. The exhibition examines OKeeffes entire career, charting the progression of her practice from her early abstract experiments to her late work, in addition to her trajectory west, and her profound influence and legacy. Organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the AGO and the Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Georgia OKeeffe is making its only North American stop in Toronto, running from April 22 to July 30, 2017. Opening with the moment of her first showings at the 291 gallery in New York in 1916 and 1917, the exhibition features OKeeffes earliest mature works made while she was working as a teacher in Virginia and Texas. The works on displayfrom her charcoals to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 15-August 13, 2017. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar
| Exhibition of rare photographs and objects by Sturtevant opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | | Large-scale retrospective of the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe opens in Rotterdam | | Groundbreaking exhibition features more than forty black women artists |
Sturtevant, Duchamp Man Ray. Photography, 22,5 x 19,2 cm. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg © Estate Sturtevant; Photos: Charles Duprat.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Undeniable Allusion, an exhibition of rare photographs and objects by Sturtevant. The gallery's close collaboration with the estate of the artist has enabled them to gather an exceptional body of work, which is being exhibited for the first time in Paris. Sturtevant has bestowed a particular importance to photography throughout her career and perhaps this medium epitomizes best her resistance to the categorization of her work. Rather than creating exact replicas, she engages in a dialogue with her sources by complicating the basic mimetic process and often turning it against itself. The works on view, completed between 1966 and 1998, reflect the specific companionship Sturtevant maintained with the work of Beuys, Duchamp and Warhol throughout her life, while highlighting the performative nature of her radical artistic approach. An early series of photographic collages based ... More | |
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1980 (detail). Gelatin silver print. Image: 13 3/4 Ã 13 3/4 in. Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and to The J. Paul Getty Trust Photography.
ROTTERDAM.- From Saturday 22 April the Kunsthal Rotterdam is presenting a large-scale retrospective of the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), one of the most influential artists and photographers of the 20th century. More than two decades after his death, his work remains controversial and tests the limits of what is artistically possible. The exhibition offers an impressive survey of his career, from early works in the late 1960s to the art world success he established in the 1980s. More than 200 objects throw new light on his preferred genres: portraiture, self-portraiture, the nude, and still life. This is the first time that Mapplethorpes work is shown in the Netherlands on such a large scale after a long absence. The Kunsthal is the only European venue to present this special exhibition, organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in collaboration with the ... More | |
Faith Ringgold (American, born 1930). Committee to Defend the Panthers, 1970. Collage on cardboard, 28 à 22 in. (71.1 à 55.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints, 236.2016. © 2017 Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BROOKLYN, NY.- A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum continues with We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 196585. Focusing on the work of more than forty black women artists from an underrecognized generation, the exhibition highlights a remarkable group of artists who committed themselves to activism during a period of profound social change marked by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Womens Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement, among others. The groundbreaking exhibition reorients conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history, writing a broader, bolder story of the multiple feminisms that shaped this period. Curated by Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Rujeko ... More |
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| A decade into Record Store Day, a new world of vinyl | | New Chihuly experience debuts at the New York Botanical Garden | | Ahmed Alsoudani joins Marlborough Contemporary |
Ma Nerriza dela Cerna of Erika Records displays a full color "Beauty and the Beast" record at the company's office in Buena Park, California. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Ten years ago, most vinyl records sold for a few dollars -- dusty old albums with dog-eared covers that had been thrown out as useless relics of an earlier age. However, faced with twin onslaughts from digital music and big-box stores, independent record stores in the United States banded together in 2007 to create an annual day of special sales -- and much to their surprise, vinyl has been king. Metallica played the first Record Store Day at a branch of Rasputin Music in the San Francisco area. While the metal legends' presence ensured a crowd, all 10,000 vinyl reissues at the store sold out that day. "That made me realize we were onto something. We tapped into something that nobody could have imagined," Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz said. Kurtz quickly ... More | |
Dale Chihuly, Sapphire Star, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Chihuly, a major new exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden, presented by Bank of America, spotlights world-renowned artist Dale Chihulys bold innovation in a variety of media throughout his celebrated career. Chihulys first major garden exhibition in New York in more than ten years features more than 20 installations and includes drawings and early works that reveal the evolution and development of his artistic process. Set within NYBGs landmark landscape and buildings, this exhibition is a must-see throughout the changing seasons. Chihuly runs from April 22 through October 29, 2017. The Gardens dramatic vistas become living canvases for work created specifically for NYBG, showcasing Chihulys signature organic shapes in brilliant colors. Among the singular sights is a monumental reimagination of his storied 1975 installation at upstate New Yorks Artpark: three new worksKoda ... More | |
Ahmed Alsoudani, Birds, 2015 (detail), acrylic, charcoal, color pencil on canvas, 85 x 53 in., 215.9 x 134.62 cm.
LONDON.- Marlborough Contemporary announced Iraqi-American painter Ahmed Alsoudani has joined the gallery. Alsoudani is known worldwide for his visually dense canvases that evoke the devastation of war and violence. Combining a surrealists formal plasticity and psychological impact with a masterful sense of color, he explores complex socio-political themes and the tumultuous repercussions of modernity. His bracing vision reflects his unique position in the global landscape of contemporary art. We are proud to welcome Ahmed Alsoudani to the gallerys increasingly diverse and robust roster of artists, says Max Levai, Principal Director at Marlborough Contemporary. Ahmed does not flinch in tackling the political issues that threaten our freedoms and civil liberties. His commitment to drawing on his own ... More |
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| Whyte's announces highlights from its Eclectic Collector Auction | | CAB Art Center presents a dialogue with the house of Jean Prouvé II | | Tess Jaray's first solo show in New York on view at albertz benda |
20th century Irish school, oil on board, Red Hugh ODonnell, Hugh ONeill and Phillip of Spain, signed indistinctly and dated (19) 89, framed. (3) 23 by 19.25in. (58.4 by 48.9cm) Estimate 200-300 (approx £170-£255).
DUBLIN.- Famous dogs are a rare breed: Laika, the first dog in space and Greyfriars Bobby, the Skye Terrier, who guarded the Edinburgh grave of his owner for 14 years, are two. In the 1880s there was another world famous dog, Garryowen, an Irish Red Setter. His owner was Dubliner James J Giltrap, a great uncle of James Joyce, who began entering him in shows in 1879 and Garryowen began winning. He came to be regarded as the pinacle of hunting dog breeding. He travelled to international shows and won those too. His stud fee was a princely five guineas. As his dogs fame grew and his trophy cabinet bulged, Giltrap commissioned a silversmith to make a champions collar, suspended with engraved medals representing each of Garryowens victories. Garryowen wore it in all ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy CAB/Brandajs.
BRUSSELS.- The exhibition takes as a departure point the context in which the French architect and designer Jean Prouvé conceived his modular 6x6 Demountable House (1944): a Post-WWII traumatized climate, where a sense of urgency demanded immediate action for change and improvement of living conditions. He provided sustainable and ingenious solutions. A paradigm shift has occurred since; even though the progresses and the promises of industrialization once were eagerly welcomed, today they have caused for a problematic shift in human respect towards its environment. Anno 2017, we can easily state that we live in a state of emergency. Economic and political conflicts aside, the ecological crisis is looming as a global threat that doesn't really receive the attention or action it is crying for. The institutionalized disregard for the limits to natural resources is infecting our presence on earth on a scale that cannot be reversed. Across artworks that manifest ... More | |
Tess Jaray [British, b. 1937], Orange With Colours All Over, 2002. Oil on linen, 45 1/4 x 39 3/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda is presenting Tess Jaray: The Light Surrounded, the artist's first solo show in New York, on view from April 20 to May 25, 2017. Featuring paintings from 2001 to 2012, this recent body of work reflects the artist's quest to distill her compositions to a degree of geometric purity. Through her mastery of line, color, and pattern, Jaray's work expresses the intangible spaces that exist between forms and interior and exterior worlds, using repetition as a means to artistic originality and personal discovery. According to Jaray, "manipulating simplified colors and shapes on a canvas shifts them and changes them and moves them until something happens - something asserts itself, asks to be born... and at its point of completion, there seems to be no space between the image and myself." Jaray has always been fascinated by space and the relationship between an image and its surroundings. Growing up ... More |
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| Exhibition at Museum of Cycladic Art showcases works by nine recipients of the DESTE Prize | | Exhibition of new and existing work by sisters Pavla and Lucia Sceranková on view at Pump House Gallery | | MLF / Marie-Laure Fleisch opens exhibition of works by Bernardà Roig |
Georgia Sagri, Documentary of Behavioural Currencies, 2016. Sand and acrylic paint on plywood, acrylic and varnish on shatter boards, corrugated metal sheet, fans, acrylic on plastic sheet, LED TV, 10:30 min. HD video with sound (looped), MP4 format on USB drive, thermal tubes, acrylic glass, oil paint on canvas, inkjet print on Tyvek paper, various metal components 3.23 x 2.40 x 1.80 m Courtesy of the artist Photo: George Sfakianakis.
ATHENS.- Organized on the occasion of the eighteenth anniversary of the DESTE Prize, the show titled DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1999-2015 showcases works by the nine recipients of the prize from 1999 to 2015 together for the first time. Looking back at the history of the prize and offering a survey of recent artist production, DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1999 - 2015 opened at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens on April 5, 2017 and will run through September 17, 2017. This collaboration between the DESTE Foundation and the Museum of ... More | |
Pavla Sceranková, Pattern, 2017. Photo: Eoin Carey. Courtesy the artist.
LONDON.- Pump House Gallery and Czech Centre London present an exhibition of new and existing work by sisters Pavla and Lucia Sceranková. The artists' first major exhibition in the UK brings together a body of work reflecting the constellations of visual, material and conceptual references that inform their practices. Highly responsive to context, Pavla and Lucia Sceranková have developed the show in response to the unique architecture of the gallery and its setting in Battersea Park. Pavla Scerankovas sculptural installations and video-performances are characterised by minimalism, subtle humour and sensitive relation to their surroundings, playfully inviting the spectator to interact and explore the relationships between perception and the perceived world. Lucia Sceranková creates photographic and sculptural ... More | |
Installation view.
BRUSSELS.- The gallery MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch is presenting an exhibition of works by Bernardà Roig from April 21 June. The title of the exhibition references works by both Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, artists who used novel methods to construct symbols of desire and to question reality. In Man Rays famous photograph Le Violon dIngres, Kiki de Montparnasse is posed in the style of one of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres bathers, but with two f notes on her back as if she was a violin. The other work, Marcel Duchamps The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, or The Large Glass, is an intricate artwork which was declared definitively unfinished, until the panes of glass were shattered, completing the work to the artists satisfaction. When translated to English, keeping the references to these works intact, the title of this exhibition is thus Le Violon dIngres Stripped ... More |
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Trump supporters taunt Hollywood star's Finland art project
HELSINKI (AFP).- Actor and artist Shia LaBeouf on Thursday dismissed as "lonely" and "resentful" a group of US President Donald Trump's supporters who disrupted his new art project in the Finnish Arctic. As part of his latest art performance launched on April 12, "Alone Together" focussing on loneliness, LaBeouf is spending a month in an isolated cabin in northern Finland. His only link with the outside world is typed messages that visitors can read on a screen inside a cabin at the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art in Helsinki. But within days of the opening, the museum was forced to place a guard outside the cabin as a group of young men dressed all in black or wearing Trump-supporting "Make America Great Again" hats entered and disrupted visitors' contact with LaBeouf. "They come to antagonise and threaten and disrupt in hope of having an effect.... They're lonely ... More
Academy Art Museum opens four new exhibitions blending national and international artists
EASTON, MD.- On April 22, 2017, the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD opened four new exhibitions featuring both nationally and internationally-known artists. Three of the exhibitions are the first solo exhibitions for the artists in the U.S. Anke Van Wagenberg, Senior Curator at the Academy Art Museum, comments, We are proud to offer these exceptional artists their first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. and are excited to be a part of their thriving careers. The exhibition, FABRICation, is making its way around the country, coming to the Academy Art Museum by way of University of Nevada-Reno, Sheppard Contemporary and University Galleries, Reno, NV. Co-curated by Reni Gower, professor in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and Kristy Deetz, professor in the Art Discipline at the University of Wisconsin- ... More
Gambia's race to save its 'Roots' on Kunta Kinteh island
KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND (AFP).- As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he and tens of thousands of west African slaves faced the horrors of being chained, branded and separated before leaving their homeland forever, is under threat from sea erosion and neglect. Kinte's descendants, along with heritage officials, warn that without urgent action, 550 years of history could be lost. They are pressuring the new government to preserve the country's historical memory for the next generation of Gambians and tourists. The island's namesake sprang to fame as the central character in American author Alex Haley's "Roots: The Saga of an American Family". The late Haley claimed to be a descendant of Kinte but doubts have been cast over ... More
Magma Gallery in Bologna exhibits works by Aris, Martina Merlini and Nelio
BOLOGNA.- Magma gallery announced the opening of the exhibition Endless. Every human beings, since its birth, has to deal with the concept of limit. Faced with the complexity of the real, human knowledge turns out to be powerless, circumscribed within the boundaries of the sensitivity. Then, the limit seems to be an insurmountable barrier able to restrain our dreams, desires and expectations. Imagination, however, allows man to overcome this state of condition and leads him to think of himself as a free creature. It is then that the limit can be re-invented, re-created in the artist's mind, who can redefine the coordinates. Thus, the concept of boundary, of border, loses its negative meaning, creating the conditions for a new, inexhaustible potential. Endless: the no end, the inexhaustible, the infinite. That is, most probably, what gathers together Aris, Martina ... More
Zuma, Mandela rape painting stirs outrage in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG (AFP).- A painting by a South African artist showing President Jacob Zuma raping the late Nelson Mandela has caused outrage in the country, with the ruling party Friday describing it as "grotesque". The piece by controversial artist Ayanda Mabulu shows Zuma seated on a red chair, penetrating a crying Mandela. Both men have their legs wide apart, exposing their genitals. The African National Congress and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have condemned the colourful artwork titled: "The economy of rape". "Whilst we respect Mabulu's freedom of expression, we find his work grotesque, inflammatory and of bad taste," the ANC said in a statement. "We view his work as crossing the bounds of rationality to degradation, exploiting the craft of creative art for nefarious ends." The party urged the people to ignore the painting. ... More
New museum on former plantation opens in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
LUSANGA.- A new white cube museum space, designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, was inaugurated. With its solemn inauguration dubbed The Repatriation of the White Cube, the new museum functions as the cornerstone of the Lusanga International Research Centre on Art and Economic Inequality in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the former site of a Unilever palm oil plantation in the Congolese forest. LIRCAEI is a joint initiative of the Cercle D'Art Des Travailleurs De Plantation Congolaise (the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League, or CATPC) and the Amsterdam based Institute for Human Activites. The research centre is dedicated to the transformation of former plantation spaces into areas for artistic critique, beauty, and ecological diversity, through funneling art world capital back to the plantations it was originally extracted from ... More
North Carolina Museum of Art installs interactive play structure, head sculptures in museum park
RALEIGH, NC.- This spring the North Carolina Museum of Art added two new works of art to its 164-acre Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park. Jaime Hayons SCULPT. Can interactive, colorful, pig-shaped play structure featuring a slide sized for childrenhas been installed and is permanently located in the Museum Parks new Discovery Garden. Jaume Plensas Awilda & Irmaa pair of monumental steel mesh sculptures shaped like human headshas been installed and is located along the Parks new Promenade walkway on long-term loan. After the completion of our Park expansion project last fall, we hope to continually add new works of art to our outdoor spacesboth permanent and temporaryto engage our community, inspire creativity and new experiences, and further our mission of connecting art, nature, and people, ... More
Nohra Haime Gallery opens maajor exhibition of works by Ruby Rumié
NEW YORK, NY.- Ruby Rumié: Wwaving Streets, is on view at Nohra Haime Gallery from April 21st to June 10th.This major exhibition includes a series of photographs, a video, a poster, and five volumes on Cartagenas ambulant street vendors. This new body of work was born from a chance encounter between the artist, Ruby Rumié, and Dominga Torres Tehran, a woman who for more than 45 years has walked the city streets selling fish. Dominga caught the attention of the artist for her unique and natural beauty. For nearly half a century this woman worked unnoticed, but at that moment, she completely captivated Rumié. Weaving Streets is an attempt to rescue women like Dominga from oblivion and invisibility - women who have spent valuable years of their lives as ambulant street vendors, permanently wandering the neighborhoods of the city. Aptly named, ... More
Raven Row in London opens group exhibition
LONDON.- For this exhibition home is imagined as a space for social, sexual and political agency, and the domestic as a stage on which kinship and self are formed and transformed through acts of love, cruelty and indifference. A group of works from the recent past and present has been gathered for 56 Artillery Lane alongside a weekly live programme. Visual vocabularies range from bodily waste and bacterial growth to intimate self-imaging. Sculptural forms make reference to temporary shelter and collective occupation, while films are diaristic, improvised and quasi-fictional. The archive is invoked as a homemaking space. For instance, photographic genomegrams by Fiona Clark describe a personal response to trauma, Ingrid Pollards film reflects on her parents' correspondence and Barbara T. Smiths books comprise homemade Xerox impressions of the artists ... More
French conductor leads Tehran orchestra in sign of growing ties
TEHRAN (AFP).- Growing cultural ties between Iran and Europe were on display on Wednesday night as a French-Iranian conductor became one of the first Westerners to lead the Tehran Symphony Orchestra since the revolution. Iran's efforts to rebuild ties with the West -- most notably through a nuclear deal with world powers -- have triggered a flood of tourists and trade delegations into the country. Cultural links are more sensitive but are slowly developing, and Wednesday night's performance of two pieces by Gabriel Faure were thought to be the first time the Tehran orchestra's choir has sung in French. It marks another step in conductor Pejman Memarzadeh's efforts to connect his Iranian birthplace and adopted home in France. "I've always been very interested in trying to bring these two civilisations, these two great countries, closer together," the 44-year-old told AFP. ... More
Messi, Ronaldo kissing graffiti causes stir pre-Clasico
BARCELONA (AFP).- A graffiti portraying Lionel Messi on tiptoes kissing arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo has caused a stir in Barcelona, just two days before the seaside city's team faces Real Madrid in a crux game. The graffiti on a bus stop in central Barcelona shows the Argentina and Barcelona star embracing and tenderly kissing his Portuguese Real Madrid rival, a football at their feet and a rose in Messi's hand, drawing many camera-wielding tourists. The artist Tvboy said he had been inspired by the fact that Sunday's El Clasico game happens to fall on April 23 -- which is when people in Barcelona and the wider region of Catalonia celebrate their very own Valentine's Day. "I'm looking for a message of hope and positivity. With all the clashes there have been in football between hooligans, I want to say: 'be calmer'," he told AFP. "Messi and Cristiano are opponents, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Halston was born April 23, 1932. Roy Halston Frowick (April 23, 1932 - March 26, 1990), known as Halston, was an American fashion designer of the 1970s. His long dresses or copies of his style were popular fashion wear in mid-1970s discotheques. In this image: Clothing designer Halston and actress Liza Minnelli arrive for the gala opening of "Stop The World, I Want To Get Off," at the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in New York, Aug. 3, 1978.
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