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A picture taken on February 9, 2019, shows people hanging a paining entitled "Study of the head and clasped hands of a young man as Christ in prayer", oil on oak panel, by Dutch painter Rembrandt on display at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, in the Emirati capital. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to carry the famed name outside of France, announced Sunday it would roll out works by Dutch masters Rembrandt and Vermeer this month. KARIM SAHIB / AFP.
ABU DHABI.- The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to carry the famed name outside of France, announced Sunday it would roll out works by Dutch masters Rembrandt and Vermeer this month. Works by the two artists are part of the gallery's first exhibition this year, entitled "Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden Age: Masterpieces from The Leiden collection and the Musee du Louvre". The exhibit, on display in the United Arab Emirates' capital from February 14 to May 18, is dedicated to the famed "fijnschilders" -- fine painters -- of the Netherlands. "Rembrandt is a master of the Golden Age," museum head Manuel Rabate told AFP. "He's a universal genius, he's connected to the world." The exhibition includes 95 works, including Vermeer's "Young Woman Seated at a Virginal" alongside Rembrandt's "Portrait of a Man" and "Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer". ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Director and owner of the Parisian contemporary art gallery 'Galerie Kamel Mennour', Kamel Mennour poses during a photo session in Paris on February 7, 2019. JOEL SAGET / AFP
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| | | 'Hitler' paintings fail to sell at Nuremberg auction | | The Whitney acquires Norman Lewis masterwork | | Helen Frankenthaler exhibition opens at KODE Art Museums in Bergen |
A picture taken on February 8, 2019 shows the signature "AHitler" on a watercolour entitled "Im Wald" (In the forest) displayed at the Weidler auction house in the southern city of Nuremberg. DANIEL KARMANN / AFP.
NUREMBERG.- Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler failed to find buyers at an auction Saturday held amid anger at the sale of Nazi memorabilia. High starting prices of between 19,000 and 45,000 euros ($21,000 and $50,000) and lingering suspicions about the authenticity of the artworks were thought to have scared off potential buyers. The Weidler auction house did not comment on the reasons for the failure but said the paintings could yet be sold at a later date. Nuremberg's mayor Ulrich Maly had earlier condemned the sale as being "in bad taste". Among the items that failed to sell were a mountain lake view and a painting of a wicker armchair with a swastika symbol presumed to have belonged to the late Nazi dictator. The Weidler auction house held the "special sale" in Nuremberg, the city in which Nazi war criminals were ... More | |
Norman Lewis (1909-1979), American Totem, 1960. Oil on canvas, 73 1/2 à 44 7/8 in. (186.7 à 114 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund in memory of Preston Robert and Joan Tisch, the Painting and Sculpture Committee, Directors Discretionary Fund, Adolph Gottlieb, by exchange, and Sami and Hala Mnaymneh 2018.141. © Norman Lewis. Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced that it has acquired Norman Lewiss American Totem (1960), one of his most iconic paintings. Lewis (1909-1979), who was born in Harlem, was a central but often under-appreciated figure in the Abstract Expressionist movement. One of the few African American artists associated with the New York School, he was the only black artist to participate in the 1950 closed-door sessions that Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline organized to define this burgeoning movement. Lewis also was a founding member of Spiral, a group that included Charles ... More | |
Tales of Genji III, 1998 (detail). Fifty-three-color woodcut © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / BONO / Tyler Graphic Ltd., Mount Kisco, NY.
BERGEN.- Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts: Prints and Proofs (8 February 21 April 2019) at KODE Art Museums, Bergen, is the first solo museum presentation of the late artists work in Norway. Recognized as one of the leading American artists of the twentieth century and a key figure among the second generation of post-war American abstract painters, Frankenthaler is widely credited for her pivotal role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Colour Field painting. She continued to innovate in painting, works on paper, graphics, and other media throughout her long career spanning six decades. Of her graphic works, Frankenthaler is best known for woodcuts, which she began in 1973 and continued until the end of her career. Her bold experiments in and embrace of this medium are acknowledged with launching its resurgence among artists in the late twentieth century. The exhibition Helen Frankenthaler ... More |
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| | | European Londoners reflect on the past 6 years scaling their international exhibition technology startup | | Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio are awarded the 2019 Royal Academy Architecture Prize | | Renowned French author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer dies at 87 |
Bernadine Brocker Wieder and Francesca Polo.
LONDON.- Its a chilly day in February when Francesca Polo and Bernadine Brocker Wieder walk into the Starbucks, across from the British Museum, where they first met 6 years ago. At the time, Bernadine was working on a proof of concept for a technology company that would connect private collectors of art with museum curators for exhibitions. Francesca was conducting research for the British Museums Prints and Drawings Department. They had met through an online listing, where Bernadine was looking for help on a new initiative for the art world. I described how collectors of art had approached me as a gallery manager, lamenting that they hadnt lent their piece to the lastest museum exhibition, says Bernadine, and then Francescas eyes lit up. She had been researching the whereabouts of a number of privately owned drawings, sometimes this could take several months on end with no guarantee that collectors would ... More | |
Elizabeth Diller. Photo: Geordie Wood.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts today announced that Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio have been awarded the 2019 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, honouring their inspiring and enduring contribution to the culture of architecture. The annual prize, supported by the Dorfman Foundation and now in its second year, was decided by a distinguished international jury, recognising an innovative partnership that from its inception has been passionately committed to interdisciplinary work that expands architectural ideas and urban culture. With their practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, their work consistently demonstrates how buildings can enhance cities and capture the public imagination. The jury are also pleased to announce the finalists for the Royal Academy Dorfman Award, which champions global talent that represents the future of architecture. The four architects are: Fernanda Canales (Mexico) ... More | |
In this file photo taken on November 24, 2016 French cartoonist, artist and illustrator Tomi Ungerer poses in the garden of his museum in Strasbourg, eastern France, four days before his 85th birthday. PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP.
STRASBOURG (AFP).- The renowned French cartoonist, author and illustrator Tomi Ungerer, a lifelong activist who protested against racial segregation, the Vietnam war and the election of US President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 87 in Ireland, his former adviser told AFP on Saturday. "He died in the night and his wife called me this (Saturday) morning on the phone," Robert Walter, his former adviser and a friend "for 35 years" said, adding that Ungerer died at his daughter's home. "He was an all-round genius, a man who was talented in everything. He loved literature. He used to say 'I write about what I draw and I draw what I write'," he said. Originally from Alsace in eastern France, Ungerer lived in the United States ... More |
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| | | ONLY THE BEST! Janet Borden, Inc. opens a group exhibition | | Museum receives $3.5 million endowment gift from Eddie and Sylvia Brown | | Harvard Art Museums mark Bauhaus centennial with expansive exhibition 'The Bauhaus and Harvard' |
Work by David Brandon Geeting.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting ONLY THE BEST! This deliberative group exhibition runs from 7 February 28 February 2019. As soon as you walk in, what seems like a particularly melodious cacophony of photographs, gives way to a configuration that takes the spectator through them organically. Each artists unparalleled point of view comes through. Part of this season's exploration of thematic approaches to collecting, ONLY THE BEST! highlights new or unexhibited pieces by gallery artists, and takes its name from the wonderful Baron Von Fancy piece that both announces and critiques the exhibition. There are certain qualities unique to photography, and each of these artists is addressing one if not more. Fred Cray uses the photographic materials to confound and to repeat elements. This piece is literally collaged, with a cutout moon placed adjacent to the original print. Both hover over a silhoue ... More | |
Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown. Photo courtesy The Baltimore Museum of Art.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced a gift of $3.5 million from Baltimore-based philanthropists Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown to endow the position of chief curator at the museum. The Browns support and advocacy for the BMA spans more than two decades and includes important contributions of both art and funds to expand the museums presentations and collections of works by African American artists. This most recent gift underscores the Browns ongoing generosity and commitment to the BMA and marks a critical development for the museum as it continues to enact its vision to position social equity at the core of its mission. The announcement of the newly endowed Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Chief Curatorone of the few curatorial positions in the United States named for an African American couplefollows the August 2018 chief curatorial ... More | |
Adèle Jackson Kaars-Sypesteyn, Student exercise from Newcomb College, 194649. Wood, string, tape, paper, and paint. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Professor R.D. Feild, BR49.332. Photo: Harvard Art Museums; © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums present The Bauhaus and Harvard, an exhibition of nearly 200 works by more than 70 artists, drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museums extensive Bauhaus collection. The presentation coincides with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhausthe 20th centurys most influential school of art, architecture, and designand highlights the unique connections between the school and Harvard University. Featuring works by major artists, including Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and László Moholy-Nagy, the exhibition presents rarely seen student exercises, ... More |
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| | | The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art exhibits a recent gift from the Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer | | The International Center of Photography opens Winter/Spring 2019 exhibitions | | Hammer Museum opens major retrospective 'Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018' |
George Platt Lynes, Untitled, c. 1948, gelatin silver print, Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer. Used with permission of The George Platt Lynes Estate.
NEW PALTZ, NY.- The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz announces In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer, an exhibition featuring 52 images by important 19th and 20th century photographers. This exhibition spans the history of the medium, showcasing works by key artists including Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), John Ernest Joseph Bellocq (1873-1949), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2001), Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (1952- ), Peter Hujar (1934-1987), George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), Weegee [Arthur Fellig] (1899-1968), and many more. Curated by Wayne Lempka, art collections manager and photo historian at the Dorsky Museum, the exhibition is on display from February 9 July 14 in the museums Sara Bedrick Gallery. In Celebration consists entirely of photographs selected from Marcuse Pfeifers gifts to the Dorsky Museums Photography Collection, a tribu ... More | |
Samuel Fosso, Self Portrait, 1977. International Center of Photography, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Aquisitions Committee, 2004 (19.2004) © Samuel Fosso, Courtesy JM Patras/Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography is presenting its Winter/Spring 2019 exhibitions: For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? and Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection. Both opened February 8 and will be on view through April 28, 2019. In the wake of the 2018 midterm elections, ICPs new exhibition For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? explores the role of art and visual representation in American civic life through the work of the For Freedoms collective. The exhibition features work from their 50 State Initiativecomposed of a network of over 300 artists and 200 institutional partnerswhich featured concurrent exhibitions, art installations, and public programs as well as a nationwide artist-designed billboard campaign in all 50 states including DC and Puerto Rico, in the lead up to the midterm elections. Also central to the 50 State Initiative is the collectives ... More | |
Street view and façade of Als Café at 1913 West 6th Street, Lose Angeles, 1969. Courtesy the artist; photos: Gary Krueger.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents a major retrospective on the work of Conceptual artist Allen Ruppersberg (b. 1944, Cleveland), the artists first comprehensive US survey in over 30 years. Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 19682018 is an opportunity to experience the artists work with unprecedented breadth and depth. Many of the works included, from private and public collections in Europe and elsewhere, have never before been exhibited in US museums. Organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, where it premiered in March 2018, the exhibition will be on view at the Hammer Museum from February 10 May 12, 2019. Allen Ruppersberg has been a force in Los Angeles for many decades, said Hammer director Ann Philbin. He was a key figure in establishing our city as a center for Conceptual art with innovative projects like Als Cafe (1969), which functioned at once ... More |
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Exhibitions at the Wende Museum explore the role of art in grassroots and subversive expression
CULVER CITY, CA.- The Wende Museum presents Crumbling Empire and Upside-Down Propaganda, two new exhibitions featuring subversive art by Soviet painters, Shepard Fairey, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, and North Korean defector Sun Mu on view February 10 to June 2, 2019. Even the most restrictive authoritarian regimes are unable to completely silence voices of dissent. Two new exhibitions at the Wende Museum explore the role of art in grassroots and subversive expression, from the Soviet Union to North Korea to the United States. Across borders and generations, American street artist Shepard Fairey, Soviet artists of the glasnost and perestroika era, and North Korean propaganda-poster artist turned dissident painter Sun Mu appropriate and reinterpret the aesthetics and symbols of authority to create messages of liberation. This ... More
Boers-Li Gallery New York opens exhibition of works from the estate of JCJ Vanderheyden
NEW YORK, NY.- Boers-Li Gallery New York announces, Across the Himalayas, the gallerys first collaboration with the estate of JCJ Vanderheyden (Netherlands, 1928-2012). One of the most consequential and unconventional artists of his time, Vanderheyden dedicated his life to investigating the dimensions of visual perspectives by using a broad range of media, and procedures to observe the nature of the aesthetics of perception. Spending most of his life working from his studio in s-Hertogenbosch, his interest in chance and emptiness led to his extensive travel in Asia from the late 1970s through the 1980s. In this way, Vanderheyden has brought together a comprehensive series of fascinating artworks which are, from todays point of view, as aesthetically appealing in a global sense as they are curiously distinctive in terms of their ... More
Exhibition illuminates a pivotal moment within collaborative practice
CHICAGO, IL.- The Graham Foundation is presenting Arakawa and Madeline Gins: Eternal Gradient, an exhibition tracing the emergence of architecture as a wellspring of creativity and theoretical exploration for the artist Arakawa (19362010) and poet and philosopher Madeline Gins (19412014). Including over 40 drawings and a wide-range of archival materials, this presentation illuminates a pivotal moment within a collaborative practice that spanned nearly five-decades. In the early 1960s, Arakawa and Gins began a remarkably original and prolific partnership that encompassed painting, installations, poetry, literature, architecture, urbanism, philosophy, and scientific research. Complementing their independent artistic and literary practices, their collaborative work launched with visual, semiotic, and tactile ... More
Slag Gallery presents a new body of work by Tirtzah Bassel
NEW YORK, NY.- Slag Gallery is presenting Close One Eye, a new body of work by Tirtzah Bassel. This exhibition is the artists second solo exhibition at Slag Gallery. Tirtzah Bassels paintings are glimpses of life in public that concentrate the politics of space. In the works featured in Close One Eye, the artist renders ideology and power through color and composition with candid, humanistic depictions of everyday actions in shared spaces. Conceived through observation, they reveal their energy through disparate color juxtapositions combined with perspective shifts and figuration that redefine the viewers connection with the works subjects. In each painting, Bassel portrays or alludes to a non-place, a constructed space that exists for people to occupy temporarily. She is drawn to the proclivity of these spaces to dissolve the line between ... More
Exhibition on Celia Paul opens at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
SAN MARINO, CA.- Seven paintings by contemporary British artist Celia Paul (born 1959) are on view Feb. 9 to July 8, 2019, at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The eponymously titled exhibition Celia Paul, is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als, staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker and associate professor of writing at Columbia University. The exhibition was the inaugural installment in 2018 of a trilogy of exhibitions at the Yale Center for British Art; the next two exhibitions there will focus on the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye in 2019 and Njideka Akunyili Crosby in 2020. Celia Paul features work selected by Als in collaboration with the artist as a testament to their transatlantic friendship, and focuses on Pauls recent paintings, which ... More
Tate St Ives opens the first major retrospective exhibition in the UK of the artist Anna Boghiguian
ST IVES.- This is the first major retrospective exhibition in the UK of the artist Anna Boghiguian (born Cairo 1946). It brings together an extraordinary body of notebooks, drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures as well as spectacular large-scale installations and elements of Boghiguians own studio. Ranging from Boghiguians artist books, to large-scale installations made of painted sailcloth, papier-mâché sculptures, cut-out paper figures, and beehive frames containing drawings, paintings, honeycomb and salt, the exhibition explores three decades of her work. Recent installations including A Play to Play 2013, The Salt Traders 2015, and A Walk Through the Subconscious 2016 are being featured in the show. Alongside these existing works, Boghiguian also made a new work especially for the Tate St Ives presentation. Boghiguian studied political ... More
A new solo exhibition of works by Shiraz Bayjoo on view at New Art Exchange
NOTTINGHAM.- New Art Exchange presents Searching for Libertalia, a show that brings together new and existing works by artist Shiraz Bayjoo. Mauritian born, and now based in London, Bayjoo draws on personal and public archives to address in his practice issues of cultural memory, nationhood, and the challenges of establishing a collective identity within a globalised postcolonial context. Working across media such as video, painting and photography, Bayjoos practice explores the legacy of colonialism across the Indian Ocean region and its complex histories of slavery, migrations and conquest. The exhibition title is inspired by the cult book A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson (a possible pseudonym for Daniel Defoe), in which the utopic settlement of Libertalia is established by the fictional character Captain Misson in the island ... More
The Davis Museum opens 'Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension'
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College explores human engagement with digital devices in Tabitha Soren: Surface Tension, an exhibition of photography by former television journalist Tabitha Soren. The exhibition of 20 photographs from Sorens Surface Tension series invites the viewers to look beyond the picture and see how it was consumed by its intended audience. Surface Tension, on view in the Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery, runs from February 7 through June 9, 2019. Tabitha Sorens Surface Tension intervenes into the cool, disembodied, transactional relationships we conduct with our digital devicesand meddles with the neutrality of the information we receive through them. Soren pulls images from social media, web searches, images shared by friends and family, and screengrabs ... More
Michel Rein Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Ariane Lozes
PARIS.- Michel Rein Gallery is presenting Ariane Lozes first solo exhibition. Through her video-performances, Ariane Loze undertakes a methodical deconstruction of cinematic norms, stripping her films down to their most basic, structural inner workings. Her post-minimalist aesthetic brings together conceptual expression and home-made execution in a kind of degree zero of representation that is underpinned by an immediately recognizable narrative made up of static shots of a straightforward action or event: a dinner, a meeting, a chase, or a wander, for example. Regrouped together as the MÃWN project (Movies on my own), Loze produces her videos in a wholly autonomous fashion: not only does she take on the roles of director, screenwriter, editor, dresser, and sound and lighting technician, but also, with a few rare exceptions, plays all of the characters. ... More
USC Pacific Asia Museum opens 'Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited'
PASADENA, CA.- USC Pacific Asia Museum announced the museum's new exhibition, Tsuruya Kōkei: Modern Kabuki Prints Revised & Revisited, celebrating the 30th anniversary of this contemporary artist's first solo show-held at PAM in spring 1989-Kokei is widely celebrated as one of Japan's leading contemporary print artists. Organized by guest curator, Dr. Kendall Brown, Professor of Asian Art History in the School of Art at California State University Long Beach. "Kokei's work is relevant in at least two ways. First, it brilliantly shows how creative artists can innovate within even the richest traditions." Said guest curator, Dr. Kendall Brown, "Second, his portraits of Kabuki actors and his own face suggest how identity is also constructed through shifting negotiation between the self we present and that seen by others." USC Pacific Asia Museum Interim ... More
A landmark Kimberley exhibition launches Art Gallery of WA's 2019 program
PERTH.- A striking new work from renowned artist Daniel Walbidi has been revealed as the first of eight commissions created as part of the Art Gallery of WA's expansive Aboriginal art exhibition Desert River Sea: Portraits of the Kimberley. Walbidis work forms part of this significant and wide-ranging exposition of Kimberley art, presented as part of the Perth Festival from 9 February 2019. Daniel Walbidi, from the north-western Australian coast, is among a group of prominent artists who have emerged from this Kimberley region in the last ten years. His work for Desert River Sea is a departure in medium for the artist primarily known for his paintings of desert country. Wirnpa is an evocative installation and video work depicting a large-scale representation of Wirnpa a salt lake in his ancestral Country in the Great Sandy Desert. The work represents the merging ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier died February 10, 1879. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867-1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales
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