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Vincent van Gogh, Tree Roots, 1890 (detail)
AMSTERDAM.- The exhibition 'Van Gogh, Rousseau, Corot: In the Forest' combines wooded views and landscapes by Vincent van Gogh with those of such painters as Théodore Rousseau and Camille Corot. From 7 July 2017. These French artists were among those who retreated to the Forest of Fontainebleau in order to paint the unspoiled landscape. They favoured motifs such as trees, vegetation and the play of light and shade on the foliage and the ground. Van Gogh, too, worked as much as possible out of doors, in the midst of nature, invariably directing his gaze at the trees, woodland and undergrowth. He sought to depict the forest in such a way that one can breathe and wander about in it and smell the woods. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Danish artist Lone Bendixen Goulani speaks before her artwork at the "60 Glasses of Tea" art exhibition in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 8, 2017. The exhibition is called "60 Glasses of Tea" as each of the 60 pieces of work is like a glass of tea served to enjoy in the humble setting of an old prison. It features dual art by two female artists, Bendixen Goulani and Kurdish-Iraqi Asuda Rwandzi. SAFIN HAMED / AFP
| Leighton House Museum opens the first Alma-Tadema exhibition in London since 1913 | | Photo revives speculation on Amelia Earhart fate | | Former Bombas Gens factory reopens as an art centre |
Self-Portrait of Lourens Alma Tadema, 1852 Fries Museum, Collection Royal Frisian Society.
LONDON.- Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity, the first major exhibition in London since 1913 to be devoted to one of the most popular artists of the Victorian era, is now open at Leighton House Museum. With over 130 works, Leighton House Museum is the only UK venue for the exhibition, following an exceptionally successful tour to the Museum of Friesland, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (the artists home town) and the Belvedere, Vienna, Austria. Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity explores all phases of the artists career with a particular focus on his fascination with the representation of domestic life in classical antiquity and how this interest was expressed in the two remarkable studio-houses he created in London with his wife Laura and his two daughters. Laura frequently posed at home for her husbands paintings and was also a gifted and successful artist in her own ... More | |
The evidence cited by History is a blurry black-and-white photograph discovered in the National Archives in Washington which purports to show the pair in the Marshall Islands after their capture.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- It is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore -- the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. What happened to the legendary American aviatrix and her navigator, Fred Noonan, during their 1937 round-the-world flight has fascinated historians for decades and spawned books, movies and theories galore. But a documentary to be aired on the History Channel on Sunday -- "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence" -- claims to have unearthed a beguiling new clue about their fate. The prevailing belief is that Earhart, 39, and Noonan, 44, ran out of fuel and ditched their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in the Pacific Ocean near remote Howland Island while on the third-to-last leg of their epic journey. The History program suggests, however, that Earhart, who was ... More | |
The complex houses the foundations threefold artistic, scientific and social activity. Photo: Frank Gómez.
VALENCIA.- Bombas Gens is ready to take on its new life. The old hydraulic pumps factory designed by the architect Cayetano Borso di Carminati in 1930 has been reconverted into the headquarters of Fundació Per Amor a lArt following two years of refurbishment and expansion that has returned the building to its former glory. The project was conceived and overseen by a team of architects comprising Annabelle Selldorf, Eduardo de Miguel and Ramón Esteve, with utmost respect for the memory of the place. For this first phase, the foundation is presenting its new headquarters, opening the art centre which takes over five of the refurbished buildings, and the Wilson Coordination Centre, dedicated to research into rare illnesses. The second phase, to be rolled out in autumn 2017, includes a garden, the air-raid shelter dating from the Civil War, the fifteenth-century bodega ... More |
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| Exhibition presents new and recent works by the Leeds-based artist Simeon Barclay | | Sunset Décor: Marian Goodman Gallery opens summer group show | | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents the results of the restoration and technical study of Tiepolo painting |
Simeon Barclay, Annabel and Phoebe, 2017 (detail). Courtesy of the artist © Simeon Barclay.
LONDON.- The Hero Wears Clay Shoes is the latest free exhibition in Tate Britains ongoing Art Now series, presenting new and recent works by the Leeds-based artist Simeon Barclay (b.1975). The exhibition brings together a collection of multimedia works including large scale wallpaper pictures, lightboxes, paintings and videos that combine personal memory with appropriated imagery from advertisements, magazines, television and music. In these works, the artist explores the cultural significance of such images and seeks to understand how we identify and situate ourselves within culture and tradition. In The Hero Wears Clay Shoes, Barclay presents aspirational pop-culture icons and fictional characters from his time growing up in the North of England which challenge notions of masculine and feminine roles, offering a view of British culture and identity. Figures from the 1980s Viz comic cartoon strip ... More | |
Trevor Paglen, Subsatellite Ferret-D Over the Eastern Sierra (Electronic Intelligence Satellite; USA 3), 2012 (detail). C print. Photo: 40 x 53 1/2 in. (101.6 x 135.9 cm). Frame: 40 7/8 x 54 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. (103.8 x 138.1 x 4.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- In January of 1976, not long before his death, Marcel Broodthaers prepared two photographs of his recent show Décor: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers (ICA, London, 1975) to send his friend Alain Jouffroy. The photographs showed two views of one of the artists last Décors the stagelike installation pieces he had begun creating in 1974. One photograph depicted a 19th century-themed room featuring a gigantic stuffed python, two liquor barrels, and a 19th century pistol; the other room, devoted to the 20th century, included a row of M-16 machine guns and a lawn table and chairs positioned underneath an umbrella. Most of the objects were props that had come from Bapty & Co Ltd, Stage and Film Warlike Stores, a specialist purveyor of deactivated guns for ... More | |
The Death of Hyacinthus by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
MADRID.- In conjunction with the celebration of the Museums 25th anniversary and to coincide with World Pride 2017 in Madrid, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is now presenting the results of the restoration and technical study of one of the most important and fascinating works in its collection and probably its greatest gay icon: The Death of Hyacinthus by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Following its restoration in the Museums studios, the painting has now returned to its habitual location in Room 17, accompanied by a special display organised by the departments of Restoration and Old Master painting. This installation includes X-radiographs and infra-red reflectographs which show the most interesting aspects of the work undertaken, explain the methodology applied and reveal the outstanding quality of the painting. These images are accompanied by two preparatory drawings loaned by the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and a video of t ... More |
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| The Ringling, Museum of Fine Arts and the Tampa Museum of Art present 'Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration' | | Exhibition explores collection and creative methods of popular art correspondence course | | A still life by Chardin: Lisson Gallery opens summer group exhibition in London |
Walter Matthews, Untitled, 2016. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
SARASOTA, FLA.- On June 24 Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration opened simultaneously at The Ringling, the Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and the Tampa Museum of Art. The exhibition features 57 artists from Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas and Sarasota County. Works were chosen by a committee of curators from each participating institution as well as Diana Nawi, a guest juror from Pérez Art Museum Miami. An open call for work went out Nov. 1, 2016. Submissions of every medium, genre and size were allowed as were proposals for installations and performances. The only caveat was that all works of art must be new nothing created before 2016 was accepted. The intent was to highlight what is happening right at this moment in the areas burgeoning art scene. Katherine Pill, curator of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts commented, This is an opportunity to focus on and celebrate Tampa Bay-area artists in an unprecedented way. ... More | |
Albert Dorne (1906-1965), [Development of a face], n.d. Pencil on paper. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, Gift of Magdalen and Robert Livesey/Famous Artists School Collection.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Established in 1948 by a group of artists led by Norman Rockwell and former Society of illustrators President Albert Dorne, the Famous Artists School, in Westport, Connecticut, became a household name during the mid-twentieth century. It offered aspiring artists correspondence courses in illustration, painting, and cartooning as a viable path to a creative and successful career, or, as the School put it, to a "Richer Life Through Art." This summer, a special exhibition at the Norman Rockwell Museum explores the artworks and creative methods featured in the program, during the 1940s and 1950s. Titled Learning from the Masters: The Famous Artists School, it will remain on view from July 8 through October 29, 2017. The works in the exhibition have been curated from a group of over 6,000 objects from the archives ... More | |
B. Wurtz, Stereo, 1986. Wood, metal, 50.2 x 55.2 x 17.8 cm. 19 3/4 x 21 3/4 x 7 in.
LONDON.- Jean-Siméon Chardin was born in 1699 in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker. He spent his entire life in Paris. His first wife died in the fifth year of their marriage. Both of his daughters died young, one at the age of three one at the age of one. His son, Jean-Pierre, also a painter, was kidnapped for a time by English pirates off the coast of Genoa, and drowned in a canal by his own will in Venice in 1772, at the age of 41. That same year Jean-Siméon Chardin had kidney stones. In the hierarchy of genres, which was broadly accepted in the 18th century, history painting was ranked the highest, followed by portrait painting, then genre painting, then landscape painting, then animal painting, and then Still Life. More than anything else, Chardin painted still lives, often very slowly, and often at a very small scale. He painted wicker baskets, plumbs, breadcrumbs, pewter dishes, grapes, a silver goblet, glasses of water, a pestle and a mortar, walnuts, pewter jugs, ... More |
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| Blue dotted art bus designed by Charles Avery collects children in Israel for museum visit | | Exhibition of videos by Ericka Beckman opens at Vienna's Secession | | Pérez Art Museum Miami awarded grant to bring George Segal sculpture back to life |
Charles Avery at the inauguration of the ArtBus project © Petach Tikva City Municipality.
PETAH TIKVA.- ArtBus, a commission to UK artist Charles Avery, launches with first journey of children to award-winning museum in an unique effort to make art and artistic experiences accessible for all. Petach Tikva Museum of Art in Israel initiated ArtBus as a permanent feature to create shared educational community experiences for children and parents, first locally, then to be rolled out across the country. Today the first ArtBus, designed by renowned UK artist Charles Avery (Tate, Centre Pompidou, Venice Biennale) commences its service to collect children and parents for an unexpected visit to the museum. Conceived by the award-winning Petach Tikva Museum in Israel and supported by Outset UK, ArtBus is the institutions unique effort to combat an alarming global phenomenon: the absence of quality time spent by parents with their children. Artist Charles Avery was commissioned by the museum to create a special Art Bus that ... More | |
Ericka Beckman, Tension Building, 2016, Secession 2017, Photo: Iris Ranzinger.
VIENNA.- The American artist Ericka Beckmans films and videos focus on games and sport competitions and their rules and structures, featuring the underlying playing fields as an allegory for the development and maintenance of socio-cultural norms. In her exhibition Game Mechanics, Beckman presents the film installation You the Better (1983/2015) and her most recent film Tension Building (2016) as well as drawings. You the Better is one of Beckmans early films, which are generally structured like games, developing their narrative out of themes such as accumulation, competition, and the organization of thoughts and memories by means of rules, symbols, and symbolic thinking. The film shows a team of uniformed players enacting the mechanics of a game of chance that generates points with the imperturbability of a machine. The protagonists, who cannot affect or predict its outcome, are not actors but act as players. They are spurred on by a song ... More | |
George Segal, Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael, 1987. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of The George and Helen Segal Foundation, Inc.
MIAMI, FLA.- A 1987 sculpture by artist George Segal, Abrahams Farewell to Ishmael, has undergone a complete restoration by Pérez Art Museum Miami thanks to a recent grant award received through the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. This is the second year that PAMM received a grant, used exclusively to treating the sculpture. The conservation effort included repairs to areas with intensive damage throughout the rock including: flaking paint, cracks, and correction of many retouches and overpaints visible throughout the work and that occurred before the piece came into the permanent PAMM collection. Segals Abrahams Farewell to Ishmael is a sculptural representation of a key event in the Old Testament around a dilemma faced by the patriarch Abraham. Segal cast the figures from real models, capturing a range of human emotions. Conservation is an important art in itself and we are fortunate ... More |
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Exhibition explores the relationship between plants, humans, and the psychology behind their interactions
NEW YORK, NY.- Freight+Volume announced The Secret Life of Plants, a summer group exhibition co-curated by Jennifer Coates and Nick Lawrence. The works in this exhibition explore the relationship between plants, humans, and the psychology behind their interactions. The Secret Life of Plants was a book published in 1973 that explored plant sentience and the physical, emotional and spiritual relations between plants and man. The book begins with the story of a houseplant in the office of a polygraph expert he hooks the plant up to a lie detector and determines that the plant registers measurable reactions when he intends to harm it. Through years of experiments, he believes he has discovered that plants can read their caretakers minds, even from hundreds of miles away. This was later considered New Age magical thinking, however, plants ... More
Exceptional collection of Sir Herbert Kitchener to sell at Spink
LONDON.- Next week Spink will sell a fascinating array of documents and correspondence pertaining to Sir Herbert Kitchener, including a highly important and long A.L.S. from Government House, Suakin to Sir Evelyn Baring (consul-general in Egypt). This letter was written in response to a statement made by Lord Salisbury who stated that Egypt was only justified in holding Suakin to prevent the slave trade and gives other important reasons such as not allowing Osman Digna the opportunity to gain support from the surrounding tribes and preventing the Mahdist forces the freedom of the coastline to bring in arms and ammunition, He includes the following paragraph, At the recent official visit I paid to the Vali of the Hedjaz at Jeddah H.G. was most anxious on this subject & since my return here has telegraphed to me for copies of the Mahdist letters sent to the sheikes of the ... More
Galleries at Den Frie infiltrated by living organisms and organic processes
COPENHAGEN.- A section of industrially farmed land and a fertilizer fountain. Prototaxites a 400-million-year-old fungus, the primeval fungus and fungus of all fungi. The Periphylla Periphylla jellyfish, a barometer of the state of the ocean. Wasteland, terrain vague, vacant lot all terms for areas that are not earmarked for any specific purpose, but bear the marks of human activity and random remains. In the exhibition Tue Greenfort Eats Den Frie, the galleries are infiltrated by living organisms and organic processes in dialogue with their surroundings and their human audience. With great precision, Tue Greenfort draws our attention to the complex relationship between human self-perception and nature. Fascinated by the mechanisms and mysteries of the natural world, he challenges the economic, social, political and biological realities that challenge our apparently ... More
Sculptures come out of Smithsonian's Freer Gallery to receive preservation work in public view
WASHINGTON, DC.- Art conservation goes on every day at the Smithsonian's many museums and research centers, but usually out of public view. The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art, however, will buck that trend this summer when staff oversee the conservation of a pair of the gallery's important American sculptures. The works will be moved outside the Freer and blasted with dry-ice pellets through a high-pressure nozzle to clean them. The public can witness this new and dramatic conservation process take place July 12--14 in front of the Freer Gallery on Jefferson Drive. The Freer's two allegorical sculptures "Labor Supported by Science and Art" and "Law Supported by Power and Love" are by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907), the preeminent American sculptor of the late 19th century. They have graced the Freer Gallery's central courtyard for the past 16 ... More
Exhibition explores paintings by 20th and 21st century artists who work with the shaped canvas
SANTA FE, NM.- Peyton Wright Gallery is presenting The Shape Shifters, an exploration of paintings by 20th and 21st century artists who work with the shaped canvas. The exhibition features works dating from the mid-1960s through the present day. The exhibition opened on Friday, July 7, and will remain on view until August 2. The concept of the painting as a discrete view into an illusory three-dimensional space is nearly as old as painting itself. Since the advent of easel painting the employment of standard shapesrectangles and squaresserved to reinforce the perception of a window or portal into a reality beyond that of the object itself. Paintings that deviated from the traditional rectangular and square formats have been around since the Renaissance when arched and round pictures (tondos) became popular, but such variations in form were not intended ... More
1938 Bentley first owned by son of U.S. railway magnate for sale with H&H Classics
LONDON.- This stunning car was supplied new to George Sinclair Brodrick Esq. on 15th November 1938 when he was just 23 years old. Mr Brodrick was the grandson of American railway magnate, Jay Gould, who was deemed the world's richest man in his lifetime. The car is one of just three Derby Bentley 'Overdrive' chassis to be bodied as a Sedanca Coupe by James Young. The design is the work of renowned stylist A.F. McNeil. The car has been the subject of much restoration work during the 1990s and resident in a European collection before being recently repatriated. The proud first owner of this magnificent Bentley, capable of 107mph, George Brodrick, who died at 88 had a gilded life. His obituary in The Telegraph noted that he 'mixed dangerous cocktails' and 'went up to Trinity, Cambridge, where he arrived in his Bentley accompanied by his chauffeur. He ... More
The Portland Art Museum opens exhibition of works by media artist Jennifer Steinkamp
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum is presenting an exhibition featuring the internationally renowned media artist Jennifer Steinkamp. The exhibition opened July 8 and runs through September 17, 2017. Jennifer Steinkamp (American, born 1958) creates highly detailed, digital animations of motifs from the natural world. Projected at very large scale, her works activate the architectural spaces in which they are shown and play with the limits of perception by opening up an almost otherworldly sense of space. This summer the Portland Art Museum brings together four remarkable projections in a lively presentation on the passing of time as revealed by our natural environment. The dramatic centerpiece Orbit fills one wall of the Stott gallery from corner to corner, depicting the celestial mechanics of a planet spinning through its year. Turbulent winds blow branches, l ... More
First UK solo exhibition of work by contemporary artist Danny Minnick opens at Maddox Gallery
LONDON.- Maddox Gallery, Mayfair is presenting the first UK solo exhibition from celebrated Los Angeles based contemporary artist Danny Minnick. While his style of painting is often compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat, the characters that feature in Minnicks paintings often prompt a heartfelt connection to Keith Harings work, combining Harings humour with Minnicks whimsical style and sensibility. For his 2017 London exhibition Danny Minnick has taken this creative connection a step further with an entire series of new works on canvas in homage, playing with and often replacing the iconic American Pop Artists figures with Minnick's own trademark characters. The title of Minnicks exhibition evolved from an artwork he created titled ONE LOVE, which was inspired by the overwhelming public response to the recent UK terror attacks. Minnick will donate proceeds from ... More
SALTS opens exhibition of works by Melodie Mousset
BIRSFELDEN.- Melodie Moussets work is oscillating between virtual and physical realms, focussing her investigation on the physicality of the human body and the potential virtuality of the mind. For SALTS, she worked site-specifically and envisioned the outdoor space as a single large-scale sculpture. Erected in the middle of the front yard, a mass of terracotta partially swallows the exhibition cubes, with earth spilling throughout the door and blocking the entrance. This mountain-like structure is embedded with a series of larger-thanlife ceramic eyeballs, that the artist finished with terra sigillata, an ancient Greek glazing technique. From the garden, one finally finds an access point through the window, only to realise that the terracotta has invaded the entire space. Inside, a 3D animation using motion capture technology features a character encompassing physical features ... More
Heide Museum of Modern Art exhibits works by Albert Tucker and Fred Williams
MELBOURNE.- Albert Tucker and Fred Williams: The Springbrook Landscapes offers a rare opportunity to view the response of two highly acclaimed Australian painters to a particular region of Australiathe Springbrook rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland. In 1968 Albert and Barbara Tucker acquired a tract of virgin rainforest at Springbrook in the Gold Coast hinterland, to protect the land from imminent subdivision. They invited friend and celebrated landscape painter Fred Williams and his family to join them there for a holiday in 1971, during which time the two artists created a number of outdoor studies recording the distinctive features of the pristine environment. These works mark a period of exploration and change in both of the artists' practices, giving rise to new insights and fresh perspectives on the Australian landscape. The examples featured in this exhibition ... More
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair: Gallery list announced
LONDON.- 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary African art, has announced the galleries exhibiting in its fifth London edition, taking place at Somerset House, 5 8 October, with a VIP & Press preview on 4 October 2017. Floreat is 1:54 London Main Sponsor for the second consecutive year while Nando's returns as Silver Sponsor. 1:54 strives to promote a diverse set of African perspectives from around the world and has carefully selected 41 leading galleries specialising in contemporary African art from 18 countries across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America: Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. Among ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter and photographer David Hockney was born July 09, 1937. David Hockney, OM, CH, RA (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. In this image: David Hockney "Paint Trolley, L.A. 1985". Photographic collage 40 x 60? © David Hockney Photo Credit: Richard Schmidt.
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