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Included in the exhibition are rarely seen early paintings by Albers, including Homage to the Square and Variant/Adobe series, works on paper, and a rich selection of photographs and photocollages, many of which have never before been on view.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum is presenting Josef Albers in Mexico. The exhibition demonstrates the influence and connectivity between the work of Josef Albers (German, 1888-1976) and the abstracted geometric vocabulary of pre-Columbian art, architecture and material culture. The Heard Museum is the third and final stop of the exhibition which opened in New York in 2017 then traveled to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2018. Josef Albers in Mexico is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and curated by Lauren Hinkson, Associate Curator of Collections at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Drawing from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Josef Albers in Mexico presents an opportunity to learn about a little-known aspect of the artists practice and the influences he absorbed in his travels. Through his close attention to ancient architecture, Josef Albers deve ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on February 20, 2019, shows a Buddhist sculpture in a rock-cut temple at the Ajanta Caves in India's Maharashtra state. The Ajanta Caves are about 30 Buddhist cave monuments and temples that date from around the 2nd century BCE to around 480 CE, cut into the dark basalt rock of the Deccan Traps, the remnants of an immense volcanic event some 65 million years ago. The paintings and sculpture at the site are considered masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, according to UNESCO, which gave the caves World Heritage Site status in 1983. Alex OGLE / AFP
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| | | Exhibition brings together Thomas Gainsborough's portraits of his own family for the first time | | Behind-the-scenes with the Penn Museum's renowned Egyptian collection | | Dallas Museum of Art opens major international exhibition that explores the legacy of Berthe Morisot |
Thomas Gainsborough, English, 17271788, Margaret Gainsborough, the Artists Wife, mid to late 1780s. Oil on book board. Gainsboroughs House, Sudbury, Suffolk.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Images of family may be a constant presence in contemporary life, but in the days before photography only the wealthiest had access to them. The British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) created more images of his family than any artist before himpictures of his wife, father, sisters, pets and most particularly his two young daughtersleaving a remarkable visual legacy that is both poignant and ahead of its time. Gainsboroughs Family Album gathers together more than 40 of Gainsboroughs depictions of his family for the first time in history, including several surviving portraits of Gainsboroughs daughters. The exhibition explores how these portraits not only expressed the artists warmth and affection for his family but also helped advance his career, from humble provincial beginnings to the height of metropolitan fame. In doing ... More | |
Shabti of the Lady Maya. Photo: Dorling Kindersley/Penn Museum.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display provides visitors a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to walk in the shoes of an archaeologist. Explore the journey artifacts take on their way to museum display, from excavation to conservation to storage and research. More than 200 fascinating objects, many of which have never been on view before, are included throughout the three-part, 6,000-square-foot exhibition. Eventually, these objects will become a part of the re-envisioned Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries, a much-anticipated cornerstone of the Museums Building Transformation. Unlike most exhibitions about ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display provides an insiders look into how objects are excavated, conserved, and storedtreating visitors to a unique experience of the Museums world-renowned Egyptian collection as we prepare for the renewal of the full Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries, says Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, exhibition ... More | |
Berthe Morisot, Self-Portrait, 1885, oil on canvas. Musée Marmottan-Claude Monet, Fondation Denis et Annie Rouart, Photo courtesy Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will present the acclaimed internationally touring exhibition dedicated to one of the revolutionary artists of the French Impressionist movement, Berthe Morisot (18411895). Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist, which opens in Dallas after its highly successful presentations in Québec and Philadelphia, will focus on the artists figure paintings and portraits through approximately 70 paintings from both public institutions and private collections. Nine of the paintings are exclusive to the DMA presentation in North America and will be seen for the first time in Dallas as part of the exhibition. This international tour is the first dedicated presentation of Morisots work to be held in the United States since 1987, the very first solo exhibition of her work to be mounted in Canada, and the first time since 1941 that a French national museum will ... More |
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| | | Royal Academy of Arts opens exhibition of works by Phyllida Barlow | | Exhibition largely emphasizes lesser-known works from the 1960s and 1970s by Garry Winogrand | | Important new acquisitions focus attention on contemporary issues |
Phyllida Barlow, Folly, Venice Biennale 2017 © British Council. Photo: Ruth Clark.
LONDON.- Acclaimed British artist Phyllida Barlow RA has transformed the Royal Academys Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries with an exhibition of entirely new work, entitled cul-de-sac. The exhibition has been conceived as a sequential installation running across all three of the interconnected spaces. There are changes of pace and emphasis across the galleries as Barlow seeks to interrogate and challenge the spaces. Barlow said, The galleries form a cul-de-sac the three spaces are linear in how they proceed from the first gallery to the third gallery. Returning from the third gallery back to the first gallery is an opportunity to see the works differently. The classical style combined with the great height of the first and third galleries suggest a former use very different from what it is now. This gives the three spaces an ambiguity, as if emptied out, their past erased, now vacant and ready for something very ... More | |
Garry Winogrand, Los Angeles International Airport, 1964 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand, an exhibition inspired by Geoff Dyers new book of the same title, published by University of Texas of Press. Touching on themes and subjects that Winogrand explored over the course of his celebrated career, the images offer what Dyer claims for Winogrands photography: an education in seeing. The exhibition is being held at 49 Geary Street, 4th floor, from February 21 to March 16, 2019. The exhibition largely emphasizes lesser-known works from the 1960s and 1970s: New York street scenes as well as photographs from sports events, zoos, national parks, beaches, airports and other places where Winogrand explored the chaotic and surreal social interactions that make up everyday life. Winogrand, who died in 1984, ... More | |
Titus Kaphar (U.S.A., b. 1976), Page 4 of Jeffersons Farm Book, January 1774, Goliath, Hercules, Jupiter, Gill, Fanny, Ned, Sucky, Frankey, Gill, Nell, Bella, Charles, Jenny, Betty, June, Toby, Duna (sic), Cate, Hannah, Rachael, George, Ursula, George, Bagwell, Archy, Frank, Bett, Scilla, ? , 2, 2018. Oil on canvas on support panel. © Titus Kaphar. Palmer Gross Ducommun Fund, 2018.102
STANFORD, CA.- With the recent acquisition of the painting, Page 4 of Jeffersons Farm Book . . ., by Titus Kaphar, and the monumental hanging sculpture, Cause & Effect, by Do Ho Suh, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University has added two significant works to its collection that reference how forced and unforced global migration transform personal and cultural identity. The acquisition of these works supports the vision of Susan Dackerman, the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor, to bring the museum firmly into the 21st century through acquisitions, exhibitions, and programs that feature concerns relevant to the ... More |
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| | | Exhibition brings together a wide array of Scandinavian artistic expressions | | Babe Ruth's 1932 New York Yankees signed Player Contract sold for nearly $300k at auction | | Installation by the Minimalist sculptor and conceptual artist Lydia Okumura on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac |
Eggert Pétursson, Ãnefndur (Untitled), 2012-13. Oil on canvas, 11 13/16 x 11 13/16 in. Collection of Seán and Tamara McCarthy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nordic Impressions: Contemporary Art from à land, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden opened at Scandinavia House on Saturday, February 23. This new exhibition brings together a wide array of artistic expressionspaintings, drawings, photographs, installations, films, and videosthat reflect the rich diversity and global character of Nordic art. Curated by Phillips Collection Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs Klaus Ottmann, the exhibition features works by internationally acclaimed artists such as Olafur Eliasson, KatrÃn Sigurdardóttir, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir /Shoplifter from Iceland; Israeli-born Danish painter Tal R, Danish art collaborative SUPERFLEX, and artists Jesper Just and Per Kirkeby; Norwegian ... More | |
The four-page American League uniform players contract, signed George Herman Ruth, and dated March 16, 1932.
BOSTON, MASS.- Babe Ruth's 1932 New York Yankees player contract where Ruth takes a pay cut during the Great Depression sold for $295,531 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The four-page American League uniform players contract, signed George Herman Ruth, and dated March 16, 1932. Baseball revenues were severely hit by the Depression it is estimated that Yankee gate receipts fell 12 to 15 percent during the 1931 season. Ruths annual salary of $80,000 for the past two seasons was an irresistible target. Ruths Depression-era contract provided an unprecedented historical look at the Game of Baseball especially considering Manny Machados just signed deal worth $300 million, the richest free-agent contract in baseball history, said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. Its a classic ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London is presenting Volume '84, a solo installation by the Brazilian-Japanese, New York-based Minimalist sculptor and conceptual artist Lydia Okumura, whose work broke the artistic boundaries of the 1970s, expanding the tradition of the Brazilian geometric avant-garde with her multi-dimensional abstract environments. The five seminal site-specific installations on view in Ropacs Ely Room gallery, which were originally realised for her major solo exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna in São Paulo in 1984, highlight a watershed moment in Okumuras career. Exemplifying the artists sustained investigation into spatial possibilities and volume, Okumuras geometric steel mesh cubes also shown in the artists 2016-2018 touring US retrospective and White Volume, a three-dimensional floor installation constructed from fabric and wire, will be newly realised. Following Ropac ... More |
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| | | Mid-career survey of Trevor Paglen's work features more than 100 artworks | | The Hobart Quail Bowls offered at Bonhams Sale of Chinese Works of Art | | Allan Stone Projects opens solo exhibitions by Dalia Ramanauskas and Steve McCallum |
Trevor Paglen, Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite (Design 4; Build 4), 2013, mixed media. View of an installation test at a hangar in Nevada. Courtesy of the artist; Metro Pictures, New York; Altman Siegel, San Francisco. Image courtesy of the artist and Nevada Museum of Art. © and photo by Trevor Paglen.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen at its monthly free program, Downtown at Sundown. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, June 2, 2019. Trevor Paglen is a Nam June Paik Art Center and MacArthur award-winning artist whose work blurs the lines between art, science, and investigative journalism to construct unfamiliar and at times unsettling ways to see and interpret the world. Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen originated at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and is the first exhibition to present Paglens early photographic series alongside his recent sculptural objects and new work with artificial intelligence. This mid-career survey features more than 100 artworks, including ... More | |
An exceptionally rare pair of Imperial famille rose 'quails and chrysanthemums' bowls Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The highlight of Bonhams Chinese Works of Art sale is an exceedingly rare and important Imperial pair of bowls exquisitely enameled with the rare design of quails and chrysanthemum blossoms, bearing Yongzheng six-character underglaze-blue marks and of the period (1723- 1735). These masterpieces of Yongzheng Imperial porcelain, will be offered on Monday, March 18 at an estimate of $300,000500,000. The important pair of 'quail' bowls, from the collection of Virginia "Ella" Hobart (1876-1958), and thence by descent, was acquired by Ella Hobart in the early 20th century, possibly from Yamanaka & Co. Virginia Hobart became an heiress in 1892 when, with her two siblings, she inherited her father's fortune from timber, gold and silver mining. In 1913-1914 Ella and her husband Charles Baldwin travelled to China and Japan, returning in time to attend the Pan-Pacific exhibition in San Francisco ... More | |
Dalia Ramanauskas, Giant Card Castle, circa 1970, ink on paper, 36 x 25 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects is presenting Dalia Ramanauskas: Ink Drawings, on view February 21 March 30, 2019. A master of her medium, Ramanauskas brings heightened focus to everyday objects through her meticulous drawings of subjects such as books, playing cards and matchbooks. Created in the 1960s and 70s, Dalia Ramanauskas still lifes offer a sensibility that sets her apart from her contemporaries. With an approach bordering on the scientific, the artist carefully renders each of her subjects like an anthropological specimen. Distortions in shadow and perspective create subtle unrealities within these compositions, imbuing them with a formal tension and poetic atmosphere akin to a Morandi still life. The result of Ramanauskas endeavor is a recycling of the precious memorabilia of everyday life and an exaltation of the ordinary. Dalia Ramanauskas was born in 1936 in Kaunas, Lithuania. She came to ... More |
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Movie mania hits the auction block as props and costumes promise to sell for tens of thousands of pounds
LONDON.- Jack Bauer, the unstoppable agent of the hit franchise 24, is frequently listed as among the top 10 TV characters of all time, as well as the toughest of all TVs tough guys. Now Ewbanks Auctions are to sell the trademark Bauer brown suede jacket that actor Kiefer Sutherland wore throughout the first series that introduced the world to this unforgettable character. The jacket, with an estimate of £1,200, is just one of the highlights in the auction houses 300-plus lot February 28 Movie Props sale, a bonanza offering bidders the chance to secure iconic costumes and artefacts from some of the most popular TV shows and films of the past 50 years. Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, Star Trek, Aliens, Back To The Future, The Mummy and Gladiator all feature even the golden blaster used by the dastardly Emperor Mings personal guard in the 1980 film Flash ... More
Stanley Donen, famed director of 'Singin' in the Rain,' dies at 94
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Stanley Donen, who directed such beloved Hollywood classics as "Singin' in the Rain," "On the Town" and "Charade," has died in New York at age 94. His death of a heart attack was confirmed by one of his sons, Mark Donen, the Chicago Tribune reported. Donen, whose films were known as witty, stylish and energetic, worked with some of Hollywood's biggest stars, from Audrey Hepburn to Fred Astaire. Under Donen's direction, Gene Kelly's famously exuberant and water-logged dance scene in "Singin' in the Rain" became one of cinema's most iconic moments. Though often overshadowed by his stars, Donen's craft was hugely valued by his peers, earning him an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1998. It was his only Oscar. He worked with the biggest dancers and choreographers of his time, including Bob Fosse and Gower Champion. ... More
Museum of Russian Icons presents 'Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane'
CLINTON, MASS.- Internationally-known Russian artist Konstantin Simun often poses the question trash or treasure? when speaking of his sculptures made from found objectsplastic bottles, recycling bins, milk crates, and, even, discarded briefcases. Simun says I see art everywhere I look. Sometimes people ask me how I work, and I say: Im just cleaning the street.' But everything I pick up either is, or it becomes, a work of art. Presented in partnership with the Fitchburg Art Museum, Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane is on view at The Museum of Russian Icons, February 21 June 30, 2019. Simun, who has been living and working in Boston for the past 30 years, sees spiritual images in everyday plastic items, drawing unexpected connections between iconography and consumer products. Famous around the world for his monumental ... More
Sargent's Daughters opens a group exhibition of ceramics, works on paper and paintings
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters is presenting Dark Spring a group exhibition of ceramics, works on paper and paintings by Shary Boyle, Sarah Slappey and Brandi Twilley. The exhibition takes its title from Unica Zürns 1967 short novel of the same name, which traces the erotic awakening and subsequent suicide of a young girl. Zürns nameless heroine is engaged in masochistic fantasies that combine pain and pleasure, immersing herself in a suffering that ultimately consumes her. The three artists in this exhibit all give attention to the hidden depths and darker desires of feminine sexuality. Shary Boyles watercolors of bygone film stars turn the delicate beauties ghoulish, elongating their features into cartoon proportions both humorous and terrifying. Her ceramics are equally unnerving, portraying demonic spirits in dainty porcelain. ... More
German Expressionist works from major art collection that survived Nazi purge go to auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Auction Galleries is to sell a major selection of German Expressionist works from one of the movements most important collections on March 5. The extraordinary gathering of 160 prints, paintings and drawings in the New York auction houses 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings sale features significant works by Lyonel Feininger, Erich Heckel, Paul Klee, Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Mueller and Max Pechstein, among others. All of these works were brought together in a single collection of more than 6000 artworks under the cultivated eye of Ismar Littmann (1878-1934), a wealthy and influential lawyer and collector in the Polish city of Breslau (Wroclau), who met a tragic end as his life and work was severely blighted by the rise of Nazism. As Swann Galleries Director of Prints & Drawings, Todd Weyman, explains, Breslau was home to the Breslau ... More
Exceptional offerings will cross block at Fontaine's Auction Gallery March 9
PITTSFIELD, MASS.- Fontaines Auction Gallery will offer a vast selection of antiques, clocks and fine art on Saturday, March 9, at 11 am, consisting of fine clocks, Tiffany lighting and intricate leaded glass windows along with ornate carved furniture, torchieres and an elegant Steinway Centennial grand piano. Auction previews the week of the sale are Friday, 10 am to 5 pm, and Saturday, 8 am to 11 am. The auction encompasses traditional antiques and designer pieces, comprising 350 lots of fine art, clocks, and antiques, including American Victorian, Gothic and figural carved furniture, 19th and 20th century lighting by Tiffany Studios, Duffner & Kimberly, Handel, Pairpoint, etc., fine clocks, music boxes and automatons; paintings, Royal Vienna and KPM porcelains, gold and diamond jewelry, fine silver, art glass and cameo glass, bronze and marble statuary, ... More
History-making female conductor Alsop wields baton for equality
HONG KONG.- The first woman to lead a major US orchestra, Marin Alsop believes that Western classical music -- long seen as a stuffy, elitist club -- can be "a great equaliser" between people of all backgrounds. "Every single human being can access classical music. If you think you can't, it's only because you have been told that by someone who didn't know anything," Alsop told AFP in an interview on the sidelines of the Hong Kong Arts Festival, where she was conducting the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. The 62-year-old American is herself no stranger to such naysayers. She was nine years old when she watched the celebrated American composer Leonard Bernstein conduct an orchestra and decided that she too would command the stage one day, only to be told by her violin teacher that "girls don't do that". For the young girl who had grown up watching her ... More
Eden In Iraq: A solo exhibition of new work by Meridel Rubenstein opens at Brian Gross Fine Art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view are eight new photoworks from Eden In Iraq, the final part in Rubensteins three part series, Eden Turned on its Side. In Eden In Iraq, Rubenstein explores themes of destruction and renewal through the social, political, and environmental history of Southern Iraq, the area believed to be the location of the Biblical Eden on Earth. The exhibition will be on view through April 6, 2019. Rubensteins series Eden Turned on its Side investigates ecological processes across time that either reinforce or destroy the notion of Eden. These photoworks focus on the poetic intersection of nature and culture in relation to ecological and social imbalance. Rubensteins previous exhibitions at the gallery focused on Photosynthesis and The Volcano Cycle, the first two parts of the cycle. In the final segment, Eden In Iraq, she has documented ... More
Skoto Gallery opens exhibition of works by Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell
NEW YORK, NY.- Skoto Gallery is presenting Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell: Master Works/Old And New - a selection of significant works by the influential artists best known for their involvement with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This is the first show at the gallery for both artists. Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell are founding members and leading figures of the legendary Chicago artists group AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) - the Black artists collective that defined the visual aesthetic of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Other founding members were Jeff Donaldson, Gerard Williams and Barbara Jones-Hogu. Founded in 1968 the group strived to create works that were positive and committed to social responsibility as well as promote pride in Black culture and heritage. Among the groups main objective ... More
The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art opens three new exhibitions
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art opened three new exhibitions that showcase the work of Bay Area artists at different points in their artistic careers: a site specific exhibition by emerging artist Sofie Ramos, a mid-career survey of work by Stephanie Metz, and a large retrospective of work by world-renowned artist Alan Rath. Alan Rath: Virtual Unreality presents kinetic sculptures by Rath from the 1980s to to 2018. Stephanie Metz: Figurative Fiber includes abstract wool and felt pieces by Metz that span the entirety of her career. Sandbox Project 7, Sofie Ramos: STUFF(ed) is an immersive site-specific installation of color and shape. Alan Rath: Virtual Unreality marks the first large-scale retrospective survey of this internationally recognized Bay Area artist since his 1998 survey show at Site Santa Fe. Alan Rath is known internationally as ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and theorist Charles Le Brun was born February 24, 1619. Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 - 22 February 1690) was a French painter, art theorist, interior decorator and a director of several art schools of his time. As court painter to Louis XIV, who declared him "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicolas Poussin. In this image: A Christie's employee looks at an oil painting by 17th century artist Charles Le Brun.
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