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Installation of The Virgin and Child with Saints by Giovanni Martini da Udine in Room 56. © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- An Italian altarpiece has gone on display for the first time in more than 100 years, following a 7-year conservation treatment one of the longest and most complex in the history of the National Gallery. The Virgin and Child with Saints is one of the major surviving painted altarpieces by the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Giovanni Martini da Udine (c.14701535). Most of his career was spent in Friuli, north of Venice. The picture was painted on a wooden panel, which is very reactive to changes in humidity and climate. As a result, the altarpiece had already undergone several major structural changes before the Gallery acquired it in 1867.When it entered the Collection, the wood was conserved using a technique called cradling, which was the best practice at this time. Although this work was done with the best of intentions, it ultimately made the altarpiece even more fragile. In 2011, the National G ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day De La Warr Pavilion is presenting an exhibition of work by the Chicago Imagists. In the mid-1960s, Chicago saw an explosion of artistic activity centred around a small group of artists who would later become known as the Chicago Imagists. Their distinct and lively visual style would go on to influence some of the most important artists of the 20th century.
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| | | Rarely-seen artworks join visitor favourites for new Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery display | | Exhibition surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995 | | A rediscovered masterpiece by Francesco Bordoni to be offered at Drouot |
The display in Gallery 13 draws on Birminghams collection of modern and contemporary art and is centred around Man and His Sheep (1989) by Ana Maria Pacheco.
BIRMINGHAM.- Picasso, Pacheco, Auerbach and Bomberg just some of the artists who feature in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallerys new free exhibition Thoughts on Portraiture which opens on Saturday 3 August and explores how artists have used a wide range of styles and imagery to interpret complex human emotion and experiences. The display in Gallery 13 draws on Birminghams collection of modern and contemporary art and is centred around Man and His Sheep (1989) by Ana Maria Pacheco. This striking installation by the Brazilian-born artist consists of eight lifelike carved wooden figures arranged in a procession. A firm favourite with visitors in the past, the popular artwork has not been on public display for over 5 years. Each imposing figure is carved from a single piece of limewood then painted and waxed to give a startling lifelike appearance. The figures onyx eyes and acrylic teeth add to their s ... More | |
Damien Hirst, Satellite, 1989-2010. Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging. 137 à 102 à 23 cm 54 à 40 à 9 in. Photographed by Prudence Cuming Associates © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2019.
LONDON.- Sprüth Magers is presenting New Order: Art, Product, Image 1976 - 1995, a group exhibition selected by Michael Bracewell that surveys identity and image in British art, culture and society between 1976 and 1995. The exhibition originates from a discussion about the cultural status and art historical positioning of one of Peter Savilles best-known works for Factory Records made in the early 1980s and blurring the boundaries between art, design, pop and product. Moving from Richard Hamiltons pioneering interpretation of image, technology and process and commodity to Savilles design for New Orders seminal record, Blue Monday, via portraits of British society by Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon, and finally early videos by what came to be termed the Young British Artists, the exhibition considers a period that covers ... More | |
The auction of this statue on 20 November 2019 by Géraldine dOuince in Paris at Drouot will illuminate the historical importance of the man represented in this bust: Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1569-1621), Minister to Henri IV.
PARIS.- The auction at Drouot in Paris with De Baecque & Associés on 20 November 2019, will be an opportunity to give back to its sitter, Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1569-1621), his rightful place in the history of France. This minister to King Henri IV was able to stabilize power after the assassination of the king and to maintain peace in the kingdom. Scientific and technical analyses, as well as important archival research undertaken by the experts of Sculpture et Collection have allowed for the attribution of this exceptional cast to Francesco Bordoni (1574-1654), an artist of Italian origin who became the official sculptor to the king of France. This beautiful cast, at once theatrical and embodying the values of moral rectitude and humility of its model, has been conserved by the descendants of Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain for 400 years. « The first time that I saw the bust was during ... More |
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| | | Thames & Hudson to publish 'The World According to Roger Ballen' | | Aargauer Kunsthaus is devoting a comprehensive exhibition to Stefan Gritsch | | Exhibition reveals how artists incorporated the science behind new lighting discoveries into their artistic practice |
Roger's Roger, 2019. © Marguerite Rossouw.
BERLIN.- Throughout his career, Roger Ballen has pursued a singular artistic goal: to give expression to the human psyche to explore, visually, the hidden forces that shape who we are. This retrospective monograph, published in association with a major exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, provides a unique overview of the life and work of one of the most distinctive art photographers practicing today. The World According to Roger Ballen, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen´s career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and collections of Art Brut. It features photographs selected from across Ballen´s career, along with installations created exclusively for the exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre and photographs of objects and works from Ballen´s own collection of Art Brut. Organized thematically, with ... More | |
Stefan Gritsch, Rose, 1990/2019. Acrylfarbe, Aluminium (Teil der Installation HORIZON, 1990/2019). 17-teilig, je à 6.5 cm x 2.5 cm. Edition des Aargauischen Kunstvereins © 2018, ProLitteris, Zürich. Photo: ullmann.photography.
AARAU.- Twenty-five years after his last solo show at the Aargauer Kunsthaus, the museum is devoting a comprehensive exhibition titled Bones n' Roses to Stefan Gritsch (b. 1951). The practice of this nationally acclaimed artist is, in the broadest sense, rooted in painting. Aside from the recurring exploration of paint as material, the exhibition mainly presents current work, including numerous pieces conceived especially for this exhibition. The exploration of the visible and making visible is the driving force in the work of Stefan Gritsch. In this context, painting is the conceptual point of departure for expanding the work to other genres drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking and to find three- ... More | |
Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, French (1807-76), The Sorceress (Le Maléfice), 1851
Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 Ã 9 3/4 in. Proctor Collection, PC. 37.
UTICA, NY.- From out of the darkness came light, and art changed forever. Astonishing Brilliance: Art, Light, and the Transformation of American Culture, at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art August 3 though March 15, 2020, features paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts from the Museums permanent collection. This is the first time some of these work are on public view. The kaleidoscope of objects in the exhibition reveals how artists incorporated the science behind new lighting discoveries into their artistic practice. Discover how the quantity and quality of lightas Americans gained in their ability to produce and control itaffected perception itself. For the majority of Americans living in the early 1800s, the candle, ... More |
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| | | National Portrait Gallery presents "Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits" | | Phoenix Art Museum announces departure of fashion-design curator, plans for international search | | MoMA PS1 opens first survey exhibition in the U.S. devoted to the work of Julie Becker |
Charlotte Cushman Artist: Unidentified Artist. Half-plate daguerreotype c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery is displaying photographs of 19th-century activists and professionals in Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits, a presentation of 10 daguerreotypes and two ambrotypes from the museums extensive collection of antebellum portraits. This focused exhibition explores the increasing visibility of American women in society before the Civil War and the corresponding advent of portrait photography. Organized by Ann Shumard, senior curator of photographs, Women of Progress is part of the Smithsonian American Womens History Initiative, Because of Her Story, and is one of seven exhibitions in the Portrait Gallerys 20192020 program to highlight women in history. Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits is being displayed on the museums first floor June 14 through May 31, 2020. The Portrait Gallerys exhibition reacq ... More | |
Dennita Sewell will leave the Phoenix Art Museum after nearly two decades. Photo courtesy of Mark Peterman.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum will begin an international search for the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design in mid-August following the planned departure of Dennita Sewell, who concludes nearly two decades in the curatorial role on August 13. Sewell joined the Museum on January 10, 2000, and over nearly twenty years led a critical expansion of the Museums acclaimed fashion design collection, adding more than 3,000 objects to the fashion design collection which now numbers in excess of 8,000 objects dating from the 18th century to the present. In addition, Sewell curated dozens of exhibitions that received significant national press over the years, featured in publications such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Womens Wear Daily, and Elle. Since 2016, Sewell has divided her time between her curatorial role at Phoenix Art Museum and a new role overseeing the development of a Bachelor of Arts program in fashion with the School of ... More | |
Julie Becker. Whole (Projector), 1999. C-print on aluminum. 50 3/4 x 33 3/4 inches (128.9 x 85.7 cm). Courtesy Greene Naftali, New York.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- I must create a Master Piece to pay the Rent is the first museum survey exhibition devoted to the work of Julie Becker (American, 19722016), on view at MoMA PS1 through September 2, 2019. Inspired by the psychological, cinematic, and physical geographies of her hometown of Los Angeles, Becker produced a rarely-seen body of installations, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and videos immersed in the human psyches formulation of truth, fiction, and myth. First presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 2018, the exhibition features an expanded presentation of Beckers work, including the artists formative installation Researchers, Residents, A Place to Rest (1993-1996), a large architectural complex created while she was a student at Cal Arts. This major piece is joined by more than 60 photographs, works on paper, video installations, and sculptures. ... More |
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| | | Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens an exhibition of new work by Pard Morrison | | Pro Arts Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Burning Man Festival cofounder John law | | Tezontle completes Tenaza, a site-specific project commissioned for the 2019 Havana Biennial |
Pard Morrison, Soul Station, 2019. Fired pigment on aluminum, 96 x 30 x 8 in.
SANTA FE, NM.- An exhibition of new work by Pard Morrison opened at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on August 1 and extends to August 31. Bright lines weave through and over each other, each line made of different colors, one giving way to the next: blue to yellow to red; red to pink to gray to violet. The effect is of a precarious balance between quietude and activity. It is this meeting of diverse elements woven together to make a whole -- that forms the underlying theme to Morrisons aptly named exhibition of new works, Warp and Weft. The tall slim aluminum pillar from which the exhibition has taken its name white, lined horizontally and vertically by these stitched, colored lines, exemplifies a shift in visual language for Morrison; while the title itself also directly references the exploration of an entirely new medium for Morrison: painting on canvas. Those familiar with Morrisons ... More | |
Lion Gate Bridge Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2002.
OAKLAND, CA.- SIGNMAN: John Law is a three-month long retrospective of John Law - an American artist, culture-jammer, and co-founder of the Cacophony Society, the Burning Man Festival, and other seminal artistic and cultural movements that continue to inspire contemporary artists today. Curator of this retrospective is Executive Director and Curator of Pro Arts Gallery, Natalia Ivanova Mount. SIGNMAN: John Law features original works, spanning the last four decades of Laws art practice. As part of this exhibit, visitors will encounter rare documentation of events, pranks and actions by seminal art and culture movements of the past; neon sculptures; photography; and multi-media installations. Johns work offers tales from the underground that challenge our contemporary moment, characterized by a zombie like addiction to social media, weakened ability and will to gather, explore and wonder ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Courtesy PEANA and the artists.
HAVANA.- On June 29th, Tezontle completed Tenaza, a site-specific project commissioned for the 2019 Havana Biennial. Standing 6 Meters tall, it takes formal elements from Eclecticism and Cuban Art Deco to create a piece inspired by the life of the porticos of the mansions of this tropical city. After 4 months of construction and more than 40 cubic meters of concrete, Tenaza is now permanently located and open to the public right below the iconic Hermanos Almejeiras Hospital in Havanas Malecon, between the historic center and the uptown Vedado neighborhood. Tezontle was selected by the curators of the Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center in Cuba to be part of the selection of artists who would exhibit at the 13th Havana Biennial this 2019. Because of the constructive and conceptual character of Tezontles proposal, the organizers offered that the piece reside permanently ... More |
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Museum of the Moving Image features more than 100 glass "lantern" slides
ASTORIA, NY.- Projected images from glass slides were an integral feature of the early cinema experience. These colorful 3¼-by-4-inch slides were used to illustrate popular songs during audience sing-alongs, advertise local businesses, instruct audiences about appropriate behavior, and promote upcoming films. Museum of the Moving Image presents an exhibition of these fragile, often beautiful and idiosyncratic slides in Dont Forget the Pictures: Glass Slides from the Collection, currently on view through October 20, 2019 in the Amphitheater Gallery. Dont Forget the Pictures includes projections and installations of more than one hundred glass slides from 19141948, drawn from the more than 1,500 examples in the Museums collection. Many of the slides on exhibit are part of a gift of more than 1,300 slides from Joseph C. Sweet, Jr., whose father was a theater ... More
Peyton Wright Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by William Frej
SANTA FE, NM.- Peyton Wright Gallery opened the Rituals of the Cora: Holy Week in the Sierra del Nayarit, Mexico an exhibition of photographs by William Frej. The exhibition continues through August 31. For his fourth exhibition at Peyton Wright in as many years, William Frej sought, and was granted permission to photograph the rituals of this years Holy Week by the Mayordomo, Nacho Gonzalez, of Santa Teresa del Nayarit, Mexico, a remote, indigenous Cora village in the rugged Sierra del Nayar, nine hours on a dirt road from Tepic and twelve hours from Guadalajara. Frej learned of this Semana Santa (Holy Week) ceremony from a Mexican anthropologist/ archaeologist Marina Aguirre, an expert on indigenous cultures of Mexico, who accompanied Frej and his spouse Anne on this journey. Frejs black and white photography document and memorialize ... More
High Museum of Art presents third exhibition in series featuring drawings by Atlanta-based artists
ATLANTA, GA.- This summer, the High Museum of Art presents Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta (June 1Sept. 29, 2019), an exhibition featuring six Atlanta-based artists who address issues related to place, belonging and heritage in their work: Jessica Caldas, Yehimi Cambrón, Xie Caomin, Wihro Kim, Dianna Settles and Cosmo Whyte. Of Origins and Belonging is the third in a series of exhibitions at the High focused on work by Atlanta-based artists. The series began in 2013 with Drawing Inside the Perimeter, featuring all Atlanta-based artists, and continued in 2015 with Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines, highlighting artists from around the metro area and other Georgia cities. Compelled by the national debate and dialogue around immigration reform, this iteration of the Atlanta-based drawing project includes artists whose distinct voices ... More
Gallery 46 opens an all-female, multimedia exhibition
LONDON.- Londonewcastle presents We Sing the Body Electric, an all-female, multimedia exhibition at East Londons Gallery 46, curated by Camilla Cole and featuring: Juliette Mahieux Bartoli, Ingrid Berthmoine, Stine Deja, Enam Gbewonyo, Bex Ilsley , Laila Majid, Stacie McCormick, Alix Marie, Marie Munk, Fern O' Carolan, Katarzyna Perlak, Cherelle Sappleton, Karolina Stellaki and Rebecca Wallis. The exhibition title is taken from the Walt Whitmans poem I Sing the Body Electric published in 1855. Visionary for his time, Whitman made the case for the inclusion of women in the democratic body by deconstructing the idea that the figure is always gendered, reducing social constructions to the idea of the naked meat of the body. Whitmans thoughts about bodily communion as a metaphor for addressing America's demons, and his inability to openly write ... More
LG London opens a solo exhibition of works by British artist Dean Hughes
LONDON.- For his third solo-show at the gallery, Dean Hughes presents works from 1996 until present days. Specialised with the ordinary and the unassuming, Hughes engages with the banality of everyday items by replacing their primary function with new meanings, bearing witness to the artists own history. Dean Hughes employs commonplace articles - bus tickets, gumstrip, ruled paper, puddles - to symbolise small transactions with the material world. With a subtle cynicism to Duchamps ready-made, Hughes daily rituals of alteration and relocation epitomize the pointless gesture of the artist, removing any trace of authorial intention. In the exhibition, Hughes presents new works, as part of a series that began in 2018 made by printing coffee rings from the base (or what is called the foot of coffee cups) onto paper. The artist sees this process as comparable and ... More
Reborn-Art Festival 2019 aims to rejuvenate the tsunami-ravaged northeast Japan
ISHINOMAKI .- The second edition of the Reborn-Art Festival opened on Saturday, August 3 and runs through Sunday, September 29. Aimed at helping to rejuvenate the tsunami-ravaged Ishinomaki city and Tohoku area (northeast Japan), the Festival is expected to attract more than 300,000 people from all over Japan, as well as visitors from around Asia. The theme of this year's Festival is the Texture of Life, reflecting that while people's lives are carried on at an ever increasing pace driven by technologies and Artificial Intelligence, so their sense of touch and texture remains unchanged. Eight years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that destroyed much of the Tohoku area, the vision of Festival organizer Takeshi Kobayashi is to "create an opportunity to re-discover the potential of this region, and shape a long-term sustainable future ... More
Sir Quentin Blake announces mammoth publishing project 'The QB Papers'
LONDON.- Sir Quentin Blake is an artist and illustrator who needs little introduction. As adults, countless millions of us grew up with Blakes work, while current and future generations around the world will continue to do so. At 86-years of age he is showing no signs of slowing down. This August he embarks on a mammoth project, a series of 20 large format books of drawings published over a year, entitled The QB Papers. Quentin says In recent years I have found myself working increasingly in sequences of drawings that explore subjects and techniques which interest me. These sequences are the origin of The QB Papers; they vary in approach and tone, and between reality and fantasy. But I hope that in each of them in its own way will appeal to anyone who likes looking at drawing. The first five of the 24cm x 30.5cm books are being published on 8 ... More
Finalists announced for the 2019 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize
BENDIGO.- Judges Jessica Bridgfoot (Bendigo Art Gallery Director), Tracy Cooper-Lavery (Director of HOTA, Queensland) and Roslyn Feeney (representing the Guy family) selected the finalists from a record entry pool of 439, with works received from every Australian state as well as France, Germany and the Netherlands. The 2019 Arthur Guy Memorial Paining Prize finalists are: Kylie Banyard, Natasha Bieniek, Marion Borgelt, Angela Brennan, Kirsty Budge, Daniel Butterworth, Zhong Chen, Nadine Christensen, Leo Coyte, Greg Creek, Fernando do Campo, Mark Dober, Juan Ford, Helga Groves, Stephen Haley, Gregory Hodge, Kez Hughes, Jennifer Joseph, Dena Kahan, Adam Lee, Belem Lett, Richard Lewer, Dane Lovett, Jordan Marani, Karla Marchesi, Rob McHaffie, Moya Mckenna, Jahnne Pasco-White, Victoria Reichelt, Noel Skrzypczak, Michael Vale, Judith ... More
Seven young artists announced for Primavera 2019 curated by Mitch Cairns
SYDNEY.- Seven artists who use language forms and poetic expression in their practices will form this years Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists, the MCA Australias annual exhibition showcasing the countrys next generation of up-and-coming artists aged 35 years and younger. Now in its 28th edition, the MCAs Primavera continues to be a vital platform for emerging Australian artists and curators to present exciting new art. The Primavera 2019 artists are Mitchel Cumming (NSW/The Netherlands), Rosina Gunjarrwanga (NT), Lucina Lane (VIC), Aodhan Madden (VIC/France), Kenan Namunjdja (NT), Zoe Marni Robertson (NSW) and Coen Young (NSW). This years Primavera exhibition is curated by Sydney artist, Mitch Cairns whose own practice is centred on painting. Cairns has exhibited widely since graduating from the National Art School in 2006, ... More
The Crow Museum of Asian Art opens a mid-career survey of Master Shen-Long's work
DALLAS, TX.- The Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas is presenting the exhibition Future Retrospective: Master Shen-Long, featuring sculptural and dynamic works dating from the 1980s to the present, offering visitors an immersive installation to explore and experience the artists practice. Boasting items never before seen in a U.S. museum, the exhibition displays works of art ranging from oversized paper and canvas paintings (measuring several hundred feet long) to Bowie knives with exquisitely carved blades. Free and open to the public, Future Retrospective runs through Aug. 23, 2020. For more than 50 years, Master Shen-Long a multidisciplinary artist and contemporary master of the classical Chinese literati perfections of painting, poetry, and calligraphy has pioneered new approaches to painting, making him one ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French designer Louis Vuitton was born August 04, 1821. Louis Vuitton (4 August 1821 - 27 February 1892), was the founder of the world-famous Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon. In this image: In the courtyard of the Asnières workshops, around 1888, Louis, Georges and Gaston L. Vuitton (sitting on a Bed trunk) © LOUIS VUITTON ARCHIVES.
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