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Music and color are the core of Bavingtons paintings.
SANTA FE, NM.- Tim Bavington's first solo exhibition with David Richard Gallery surveys paintings from 2002 through 2017. Bavingtons artworks are spectacular color-based abstractions rooted in color theory and visual perception, while being inspired by Rock and Roll music. Music and color are the core of Bavingtons paintings. He translates music into a visual experience with his unique system of pairing musical notes with specific hues in the color wheel. Colored stripes are his musical notes that allow him to playback the base lines, rhythms and string plucking guitar solos in his stunning retinal compositions that challenge visual perception. His love of 1960s and 70s rock and roll music by the Stones, Cream, Beatles and Hendrix is the underpinning that inspires his translations of color and abstraction into nearly audible visual experiences. Tim Bavington (b. 1966, England) received his BFA from the Art Center (CA) and c ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on June 22, 2017 shows a model of frogs playing cards at the Frog Museum in Estavayer-le-Lac, western Switzerland. The museum shows a collection of 150-year-old scenes of everyday life in the 19th-century, involving 108 frogs stuffed with sand, portrayed at school, at the barbers, as soldiers in the army, as well as playing a game of cards. The unique collection is attributed to François Perrier between the years 1848 and 1860. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP
| Exhibition brings together many long-forgotten icons of American culture | | Untold stories from Denmark's colonial past on display at the National Gallery of Denmark | | James Turrell light commission to transform Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art |
John Singleton Copley, Nicholas Boylston, 1773 (detail). Oil on canvas. Harvard University Portrait Collection, H20. Photo: Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums present The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvards Teaching Cabinet, 17661820, a special exhibition that brings together many long-forgotten icons of American culture. It presents new findings on this unique spaceequal parts laboratory, picture gallery, and lecture hallthat stood at the center of artistic and intellectual life at Harvard and in New England for more than 50 years. Celebrated at the time as one of the grandest spaces in America, the original Philosophy Chamber and its adjacent rooms housed an extraordinary collection of paintings, portraits, and prints; mineral, plant, and animal specimens; scientific instruments; indigenous American artifacts; and relics from the ancient worldall of which was used regularly for lectures, discussions, and ... More | |
Astrid Holm, Rose Laying the Table, 1914. Oil on canvas, 97,7 x 79 cm. SMK.
COPENHAGEN.- A special display at SMK What Lies Unspoken, co-created with the Malmö University research project Living Archives and The Royal Library explores new perspectives on works from the SMK collections that can be linked to Denmarks colonial history. The exhibition marks the first step of an ongoing effort to shed new light on challenging subjects that are often overlooked within the realm of art. At first glance all seems perfectly tranquil in Jens Juels monumental painting of the Ryberg family. The same applies to Astrid Holms portrayal of Rose laying a table while surrounded by flowers a scene of serenity and warmth. However, these paintings are also evidence of Denmarks role in the transatlantic slave trade, and as a colonial ruler in the former Danish West Indies (St Croix, St Thomas, and St John). The centenary of the sale of the three islands to the USA in 1917 has prompted SMK, working i ... More | |
The ambitious and dramatic artwork will be a permanent installation @ GOMA (artist impression).
BRISBANE.- A major architectural light installation by internationally renowned light artist James Turrell is set to transform Queenslands Gallery of Modern Art in its 10th anniversary year. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Director Chris Saines said the James Turrell commission would illuminate GOMAs facade at night from early December with support from the Queensland Government, generous donations from leading benefactors, and the 2017 QAGOMA Foundation Appeal. The ambitious and dramatic artwork will be a permanent installation, transforming the way the Gallery of Modern Art building is seen and experienced by our local, national and international audiences, Mr Saines said. In 2002, after Architectus + Davenport Campbell won the international competition to design the Gallery of Modern Art, lead architects Kerry Clare, Lindsay Clare and James Jones envisaged ... More |
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| Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona | | Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms to travel in international tour | | Graham Fagen exhibition on view at Scottish National Portrait Gallery |
Forensic Architecture. Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. Exhibition views. Photo: Miquel Coll.
BARCELONA.- MACBA Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona announces the opening of its exhibition Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics. Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics presents the work of the architects, artists, filmmakers and investigative-journalists who make up the Forensic Architecture agency at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as that of its collaborators and guests. Established in 2010, Forensic Architecture uses architectural analysis, models and animations as investigative tools, primarily for the production and presentation of spatial evidence in the context of armed conflict and political struggles. Evidences are presented in political and legal contexts, including international courts, truth commissions, and human and environmental forums. Both "forensics" and "architecture" refer to well- ... More | |
The Life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, 1943. Comic book. Office of War Infor-mation Publication. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Norman Rockwell Museum announced details of the first internationally touring exhibition devoted to Rockwells iconic depictions of Franklin Delano Roosevelts Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Fear, and Freedom from Want. Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms explores how Rockwells 1943 paintingswhich gave visual voice to Roosevelts call to the defense of freedom worldwidecame to be embraced by millions of Americans, providing crucial aid to the War effort and taking their place among the most enduring images in the history of American art. It is, in effect, the story of how the images underwent a metamorphosis from a series of illustrations into a national movement that inspired action under a common cause. The exhibition, which provides ... More | |
Graham Fagen (b.1966), Still from The Slaves Lament, 2015 (detail) © Graham Fagen.
EDINBURGH.- The complex reputation of Scotlands greatest cultural icon is being explored by Graham Fagen in an exhibition which is on view at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this summer. Graham Fagen, who represented Scotland at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the worlds largest showcase for contemporary art, is showing work inspired by the life and legacy of Scotlands national poet, Robert Burns. Until 29 October Fagen is showing The Slaves Lament, a four-screen audio-visual installation that was premiered in his Venice show, which is based on a pivotal moment in Burnss life and inspired by the poignant beauty of his poem of the same name. Burns wrote The Slaves Lament from the perspective of an African man forced into slavery and exile in Virginia, who despairs of his fate and longs for his homeland of Senegal. The poets empathy with the oppressed is evident in the poems haunting lines, an ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by the Austrian-Greek sculptor Joannis Avramidis in Austria on show at the Leopold Museum | | Exhibition at Cooper Hewitt features recently acquired contemporary works | | Works From Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo at Trondheim kunstmuseum |
Joannis Avramidis between Band Figures in the artists studio courtyard. Photo: Robert Newald.
VIENNA.- The Director of the Leopold Museum Hans-Peter Wipplinger had personally invited Joannis Avramidis (19222016) to design a retrospective exhibition to be held at the museum. One year after the artists death, this largest exhibition of works by the Austrian-Greek sculptor in Austria to date is now being shown at the Leopold Museum. Some 100 exhibits from all periods of the artists work including 50 sculptures and over 40 graphic works and paintings afford comprehensive insights into the oeuvre of this eminent artist. The presentation, which can be regarded as long overdue recognition of this great loner of Austrian art history, conveys a sense of the fruitful tension of Avramidis work, with which he sought to objectify forms as much as possible while at the same time achieving a high degree of sensuality. His formally severe but at the same time multi-faceted works have made Joannis Avramidis ... More | |
LED Wallpaper, 2013; Designed by Ingo Maurer (German, b. 1932); Manufactured by Architects Paper (Germany); Machine-printed silver solution and LED lights on paper support; 256 x 60 cm (8 ft. 4 13/16 in. x 23 5/8 in.); Museum purchase from the Members Acquisitions Fund of Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 2014-51-1; Photo: Matt Flynn © Smithsonian Institution.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pushing the boundaries of materials, making and form, 43 new objects recently acquired by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum are on view in Making | Breaking: New Arrivals on view through Oct. 29. Presented in the museums first-floor Process Galleries, the exhibition features contemporary works along with related sketches, prototypes and videos to reveal advances in technologies and techniques and illuminate groundbreaking design thinking. Contemporary design is a window into the future as designers wield the latest technologies and manipulate materials to reinvent the familiar or introduce ... More | |
Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File. 2010. Still from video.
TRONDHEIM.- Trondheim kunstmuseum reopened its main venue next to Nidaros Cathedral with an exhibition of works from one of Europes most important collections of contemporary art, Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, shown for the first time in Norway at TKM. Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo was started in the 1990s by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, since 1995 the President of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. In addition to an impressive history of acquisitions, exhibitions, commissioning and production of important works, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has also played an important part in spreading knowledge of contemporary art through loaning extensively. Selections from the collection have recently been shown at Macro in Rome and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. For this exhibition, the curators and the director at TKM have made a selection of around ... More |
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| Five decades of Cuban posters promoting U.S. films to open in Pasadena | | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opens the 2017 SECA Art Award exhibition | | Hamburger Kunsthalle opens exhibition of works from its collection |
Claudio Sotolongo, Tiempos Modernos/Modern Times, 2009. Silkscreen, 29 15/16 x 20 1/16 inches. Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC). Courtesy of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
PASADENA, CA.- Hollywood in Havana: Five Decades of Cuban Posters Promoting U.S. Films, on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art August 20, 2017January 7, 2018, assembles approximately 40 Cuban posters publicizing Hollywood films from the 1960s to 2009. Astonishing in their design, stylistic diversity, and artistic skill, these bold and vibrant posters helped create visual literacy among the Cuban population in the decades following the Cuban Revolution. The screenprints go beyond the glossy and celebrity-filled film posters that are ubiquitous in Los Angeles today and reawaken viewers to the nuanced visual signs that inform and shape their worldviews. Produced by the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) or the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, the posters were part of an initiative of the ... More | |
Alicia McCarthy, Untitled, 2017 (detail), Gouache, spray and latex paint on wood, 60 x 60 inches. Private Collection.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The 2017 SECA Art Award exhibition, the first to be held in the new SFMOMA, features five Bay Area artists in their first major museum presentations. Liam Everett, Alicia McCarthy, Sean McFarland, K.r.m. Mooney and Lindsey White join the ranks of the more than 70 artists who have received the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Art Award since 1967. Previous winners include Tauba Auerbach, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Trevor Paglen and Mitzi Pederson. This years exhibition is organized by Jenny Gheith, assistant curator of painting and sculpture, and Erin OToole, Baker Street Foundation Associate Curator of Photography, who selected the winners from nearly 250 applicants over a 10-month period. The process began with nominations by SECA members, previous art award winners, SFMOMA staff and members of the local arts community. The five awardees were chosen from a group of 16 ... More | |
Gerhard Richter (*1932), S. mit Kind, 1995. Ãl auf Leinwand, 40,9 x 36,4 cm. Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk © Gerhard Richter 2017 (11012017). Photo: Elke Walford.
HAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is now presenting the second part of its exhibition trilogy Honey, I Rearrabged the Collection: Help Me Hurt Me. Between Care and Cruelty. In three acts, the trilogy delves into fundamental areas of human experience: relationships with things, with others, and with space. The Kunsthalle is fortunate to have in its collection international artworks marking pivotal moments in contemporary art such as Bruce Naumans room-filling video installation »Anthro/Socio (Rinde Spinning)« (1992), Nan Goldins multipart slide work »The Ballad of Sexual Dependency« (1992) and Gerhard Richters painting cycle »S. with Child« (1995). These works deal compellingly with people as social beings caught up in complex interdependencies with partners, families and various groups. The exhibition, whose title quotes a line of from Naumans abovenamed video installation, explores the ... More |
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Moniker Art Fair triples in size for 2017
LONDON.- For 2017, Moniker Art Fair has undergone an exciting evolution, tripling in size to accommodate 40 gallery stands, a young galleries initiative, a benefit auction, an industry conference, a curated film programme, a VIP programme and a New York style pizza restaurant. While Moniker has previously venue-shared with The Other Art Fair, this October they will move to a new floor of the Old Truman Brewery as they boldly re-instate their dominance on the East End arts hub, focusing this year on the origins of urban art. Few art forms rely on collectives and collaborations as much as urban art; born in the dust of the locomotive age as far back as 1914, it has evolved to see modern-day monikers spring up on walls worldwide, shifting in style and message as international artists meet and influence each other. Just over a century later, Moniker Art Fair remembers ... More
designjunction announces plans for 2017
LONDON.- designjunction returns to the spectacular Kings Cross site in September (21-24 September) for this years annual London Design Festival. Following the success of the 2016 edition, which attracted 27,000 visitors over five days, designjunction will expand across new Kings Cross locations for its flagship London show. Taking place across five destinations including Cubitt House and Cubitt Park, The Canopy, Granary Square and The Crossing - a mix of global furniture, lighting, accessory, material and technology brands will exhibit alongside pop-up shops, installations and interactive features. designjunction presents more than 200 of the worlds most iconic design brands to the worlds leading design professionals. Its a junction connecting the industry a place to meet, do business and be inspired. Granary Square will feature headline projects including a new ... More
Exhibition of art asserts black identity and racial justice issues
DETROIT, MICH.- As part of a city-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, the Detroit Institute of Arts presents Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, July 23Oct. 22, 2017. The exhibition is free with museum admission, which is free for residents of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Art of Rebellion features 34 paintings, sculptures and photographs mostly by African American artists working both collectively and independently in the 1960s and 70s. Artists in the collectives created art for African American audiences that asserted black identity and racial justice and, situated within the story of these collectives, is the Detroit rebellion of 1967. The exhibition also includes works by artists who were not part of a collective and artists working in later decades who were inspired by art from the Civil Rights Movement. A ... More
Gallery 1957 opens major solo exhibition by Godfried Donkor
ACCRA.- This summer, Gallery 1957 hosts a major solo exhibition by Godfried Donkor featuring a new body of work created in Ghana. With a career spanning almost three decades, Donkors complex and multi-layered portrayals of historical events combine reality and fiction through collage, painting, drawing and photography. Born in Ghana, Donkor studied across Europe before settling in the UK. Working across continents and cultures, his sociological explorations consider the shared histories of Africans and Europeans. Donkor has exhibited widely at museums and biennials internationally, including most recently at Afriques Capitales - curated by Simon Njami at La Villiette, Paris, 2017 - and EVA International Irelands Biennial curated by Koyo Kouoh, Limerick, 2016. The artists new body of work reimagines an illustration by the 19th century English explorer ... More
Glitterati publishes "Radiographic: X-Ray Photo Inventions by Steve Miller"
NEW YORK, NY.- Steve Millers innovative artistic experiments merge X-ray imagery with the complex beauty of nature. In RADIOGRAPHIC, we see this fascinating technique in book form. A large part of Millers work has been devoted to walking the line to the intersection of art and science. Working with scientific equipment including electron microscopes, X-rays, MRI machines, and even Rorschach blots, Miller examines natural subjects (and man-made ones, too) through an xray technology that results in astonishingly beautiful representational and abstract pictures. Admired equally by scientists with whom he has worked at establishments like New Yorks Brookhaven National Laboratory; art curators who have exhibited and/or written about his work, like The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC and essayist Peter Schieldahl; as well as ... More
Fine Art Asia to return to the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
HONG KONG.- Leading the proceedings during Hong Kongs peak art season is Fine Art Asia 2017, 30 September to 3 October, at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Now in its 12th year, Fine Art Asia coincides with the major Hong Kong auctions which take place at the same venue, and is a focal point for a high-profile audience of important dealers, collectors, curators, connoisseurs and art lovers from across the world. Fine Art Asia has established itself as Asias leading fine art fair, and the only one in the region to showcase a wide range of art from Asia and the West. Around 40% of exhibitors travel from beyond Asia to attend (many from New York or London), including specialist dealers in silver, jewellery, antiquities, modern design, Impressionist and modern paintings, watches and clocks. The Fair presents museum-quality art works ... More
The Fundació Joan Miró presents the photography exhibition From a Pixel, a Poem by Cloe Masotta
BARCELONA.- In his poems, his plays, his film scripts... in short, in everything he created, Joan Brossa always quoted the key principle of his muchadmired Leopoldo Fregoli: art is life and life is transformation. Cloe Masotta takes to the street armed with this premise and her mobile phone, setting out to capture any object, text, shade or colour capable of attracting her attention and triggering a moment of surprise or revelation. Once framed, Masotta concludes, reality is transformed and generously lends itself to a poetic twist. And if reality depends on how you look at it, nothing is what it appears to be. The foyer of the Fundació Joan Miró, devoted to amateur photography, is the venue for the exhibition From a Pixel, a Poem by Cloe Masotta, a selection of thirty snapshots she has published on Instagram since 19 January 2014. The exhibition is presented ... More
Third edition of Art on Paper to take place from 7 to 10 September at BOZAR, Brussels
BRUSSELS.- Art on Paper is an art fair devoted to contemporary drawing. 25 contemporary art galleries from Belgium and around the world will come together at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels for the third edition of the fair, taking place from 7 to 10 September 2017. Each gallery displays a solo show featuring an established or emerging artist whose focus is on drawing. An artist's stroke will thus stand out within each exhibition space. Drawing has returned to the forefront of contemporary art and its value, as both a practice and a medium, is widely recognised. Art on Paper is designed to showcase the best in contemporary drawing through a curated mix of established and emerging galleries. An artistic director, supported by a selection committee, maintains the lasting and demanding line drawn for the show. The stage design structures the space ... More
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2017 to open in September
GÃTEBORG.- The Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2017 will seek to stimulate public discourse on a subject of contemporary social and political significance: that of the secular. What role should secularity have in society today? Based on the principle of a separation of religious belief and non-belief from the state, contemporary Western liberal secularity strives to create the conditions that produce and protect four civic cornerstones: political and social equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Secularity, not to be confused with atheism, has played an essential role in society, creating the conditions for regulating complex and often divisive areas of transaction, including abortion rights, sexual freedoms, same-sex marriage, freedom of belief, social equality and freedom of expression. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Herb Ritts was born August 13, 1952. Herbert "Herb" Ritts (August 13, 1952 - December 26, 2002) was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits, often in the style of classical Greek sculpture. He took many photos of famous actors, models, and more.
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