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Michel-Edouard Leclerc, CEO of the French supermarket chain Leclerc, poses on June 21, 2019 during the exhibition "Cabinets of curiosities" at the Fonds Helene et Edouard Leclerc, in Landerneau, western France. The exhibition "Cabinets of curiosities" will run from June 23, 2019 to November 3, 2019. Fred TANNEAU / AFP.
LANDERNEAU.- An essential feature of Renaissance and Baroque culture, an instrument of knowledge as well as of aesthetic pleasure, at a meeting point of art and science, the cabinet of curiosities disappears before rationalism in the Age of Enlightenment, mainly surviving in the secret museums of some nostalgic collectors. At the beginning of the 20th century, it only aroused the interest of historians, amateurs of the bizarre and the surrealists who appreciated its strangeness and poetic aspects. We needed to wait till the following century to witness the cabinet of curiosity achieve a paradoxical resurgence and take on a new lease of life. After having gained acceptance thanks to La Licorne et Le Bézoard, an exhibition in Poitiers, France, in 2013, which proposed to retrace its history, the cabinet of curiosities benefits from a very different approach in the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This summer at MAMCO, Geneva, a major exhibition of works by Walead Beshty makes explicit the status of the image as the outcome of a process--more "software" than "hardware." As "scripted" productions, Walead BeshtyÂs works examine both the apparatus of their making and their connection to the real world. His productions also give us the measure of the lasting transformation wrought by Conceptual practices on art, and bring us face-to-face with one of its most distinctive legacies: the notion that art may inhere less in the object itself and more in its surroundings, in the things that bring an object to life when we "utilize" it, look at it, display it, and interpret it.
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| | | Exhibition explores 300 years of lunar and celestial cartography | | Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens a major exhibition of over 40 works by David Smith | | Mexican artisans want credit for designs behind Carolina Herrera dresses |
Henry L. Bryant: Brass Armillary Sphere. Produced in 1872.
LONDON.- The Map House presents a new exhibition entitled The Mapping of the Moon: 1669-1969 (21 June - 21 August), exploring 300 years of lunar and celestial cartography from early astronomers in the 17th century to the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 and beyond. The Map House is the worlds oldest antiquarian map seller with over 100 years experience in the field of cartography and a leading dealer of fine original antique maps, globes and prints. The Mapping of the Moon will offer a unique insight into lunar and celestial exploration and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's historic landing. Highlights from the exhibition include early 17th and 18th century observations of the moon from astronomers and polymaths Athanasius Kircher and Jean-Dominique Cassini, space race ephemera from international corporations marking the lunar landing and signed material by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz ... More | |
David Smith, Untitled (Zig VI), 1964. © 2019 The Estate of David Smith, Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy Tate and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo © Jonty Wilde.
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is presenting a major exhibition of over 40 works by the pioneering and highly influential American artist David Smith (1906-1965) from 22 June 2019 to 5 January 2020. Widely hailed as one of the 20th centurys outstanding sculptors, this is the first solo exhibition of Smiths work in the UK since Tate Moderns 2006 project and the largest ever outside the capital. This landmark exhibition charts the development of Smiths unique visual language over four decades, crucially bringing together a number of his sculptures in the open-air that are rarely seen in this way outside the USA. Within the Underground Gallery over 30 sculptures trace an unfolding narrative of material, technique and form. Beginning with Smiths earliest constructions from the 1930s that combine wood with elements ... More | |
Mexican artisans of the Otomi ethnic group gather in San Nicolas village, in Tenango de Doria, Hidalgo state, Mexico, on June 18, 2019. Pedro PARDO / AFP.
TENANGO DE DORIA (AFP).- Surrounded by piles of cloth embroidered with vibrant reds, blues and yellows, Glafira Candelaria, a Mexican indigenous artisan, looks disgustedly at a cell phone glowing with photos of fashion house Carolina Herrera's latest collection. It's the dress in "Look 23" of the Resort 2020 collection that particularly infuriates Candelaria, because its bright pattern of animal and floral designs look exactly like the prints covering the walls of her workshop, which her mother and grandmother first created decades ago. The dress from the New York label is simply a "tribute" to Mexico's artisans, said Carolina Herrera's creative director Wes Gordon. Yet the Mexican government has accused the designer of "cultural appropriation," and 59-year-old Candelaria, who lives in the small central Mexico mountain village of San Nicolas, views it as a blatant rip-off of her traditional ... More |
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| | | New Bouguereau exhibition reexamines artist's popularity in Gilded Age America | | Exhibition highlights a selection of contemporary artists who work with ceramics | | Lehmann Maupin opens a group exhibition that spans both of the gallery's Chelsea locations |
Dr. Rosamund Garrett, Associate Curator of European and Decorative Arts at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and site curator for the exhibition Bouguereau & America, poses with Bouguereaus 1886 painting A pied de la falaise (At the Foot of the Cliff), which is in the museums permanent collection.
MEMPHIS, TN.- The work of French academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (18251905), who enjoyed remarkable popularity throughout Americas Gilded Age, is the focus of a new exhibition co-organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Bouguereau & America is the first major exhibition of the artists work in nearly 30 years. Bouguereau & America includes 39 canvases by the French artist, whose renown peaked in America between the late 1860s and the early 1900s, and whose works form the backbone of many museum collections. Pulling together large-scale canvases from museums and private collections in the United States and Mexico, the exhibition presents not just the paintings, but also their provenance in order ... More | |
Rosemarie Trockel, Dutch Fairytale, 2016. Ceramics, glazed, 32 3/4 x 28 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches (83.2 x 72.1 x 21.9 cm) © Rosemarie Trockel. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting Abstract, Representational, and so forth, an exhibition that highlights a selection of contemporary artists who work with ceramics. Focusing on examples that are hung on the wall, the ceramics in this exhibition portray how this particularly malleable medium is able to transform in various modes and interact with architectural space as both a support and a means to elaborate different forms. Artists exhibiting include: Sarah Crowner Magdalena Suarez Frimkess Alteronce Gumby Mary Heilmann Lena Henke Cameron Jamie Liz Larner Andrew Lord Nick Mauss Luigi Ontani Rosemarie Trockel Betty Woodman. Taking up various traditions, such as the relief, the mosaic, or the bust, the artworks in this exhibition expand the relationship between the practice of ceramics and the structure of the white cube. These works move ... More | |
McArthur Binion, 9 Shapes: Two, 2014. Oil paint stick on board, 64 x 46 x 2 inches, 162.6 x 116.8 x 5.1 cm. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin is presenting cart, horse, cart, a group exhibition that spans both of the gallerys Chelsea locations, co-organized by Curator Michael Goodson and Lehmann Maupin Curatorial Director Anna Stothart. The exhibition brings together the work of 15 artists, three of whomMcArthur Binion, Angel Otero, and Lari Pittmanare part of the Lehmann Maupin program. The works presented emerge from more traditional formal, material, and spatial concerns, while also explicitly engaging with social, political, and psychological areas of influence to expand the established narrative traditionally used to answer the question, Where does abstraction come from? Comprised of an accomplished and diverse group of artists, this exhibition explores the intrinsic, rigorous, hybrid, and systematic qualities these artists pursue ... More |
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| | | Rare ancient funerary plaque with corrections goes to auction | | Major art exhibition addresses representations of the global refugee crisis | | Thought-provoking Jim Carrey exhibition opens at the Phi Centre as a world premiere |
Translated into English, the text reads, To the Manes of Cossutius Severus. To her well-deserving patron Cossutia Thallusa [made this sepulcher] in which two ossuary urns given as a gift by Tiberius Claudius Epitynchanus are [stored]
LONDON.- Christies of London will feature a 2,000-year-old Roman memorial tablet at its July 3rd sale of antiquities. The plaque, which is inscribed in Latin on each side, is remarkable for the corrections chiseled into one of the inscriptions. It was recently the subject of a scholarly article and international news story. It is estimated to sell for £7,000-9,000 ($8,900-11,000). Writing in a recent issue of the Germany-based Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy), Riccardo Bertolazzi, an Italian-born classicist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, describes the hitherto unpublished stone as having come from an Augustan-age underground columbarium (where cremated remains of pagan Romans were stored). Such stones were usually inscribed on one side only, but the object of this study is opisthographic, or ... More | |
Glenn Ligon, Double America, 2012, Neon and paint, 36 x 120 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Agnes Gund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection, in partnership with the New Museum, New York, opened the major exhibition The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, featuring over 75 international artists whose work poses urgent questions around the representations and perceptions of migration, both historically and within the scope of the current global refugee crisis. The exhibition is co-curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, New Museum, and Natalie Bell, Associate Curator, New Museum, and is on view at The Phillips Collection from June 22 to September 22, 2019. The Warmth of Other Suns underscores how art can shed light on the complex circumstances surrounding important social and political issues of our time by bringing together works by both historical and contemporary artists and photojournalists from the United States and Mexico as well as Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, L ... More | |
Uniquely defined by its own digital context, Jim Carreys art follows the long tradition of social and political satire made prominent by British caricaturist James Gillray in the late 18th century.
MONTREAL.- Jim Carrey is known to most people as a comedic genius on the silver screen, but since 2016, his Twitter feed has been the canvas for a series of satirical and subversive cartoons, penned in response to headlining news. As part of Phis commitment to celebrating technology-based media, the Phi Centre presents the world premiere of This Light Never Goes Out, featuring over 50 of Jim Carreys works in an exhibition running from June 20 to September 1, 2019. Phoebe Greenberg, Founder and Director of Phi explains: We are privileged to present Jim Carreys delicate composition of drawings on paper conveying his indignation of the present political climate since the inauguration of the current President of the United States. We are pleased to be presenting these works chronologically illustrating Carreys use of the social media platform Twitter as an effective dissemination tool. Uniquely ... More |
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| | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of new paintings by Scott Olson | | Frist Art Museum opens "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s" | | Georgia Museum of Art displays minimal works in "Color, Form and Light" |
Scott Olson, Untitled, 2019. Oil on linen with artist frame, 29 x 24 1/2 in. 73.7 x 62.2 cm. © Scott Olson 2019. Image courtesy the artist and James Cohan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Scott Olson at the gallerys Lower East Side location, on view from June 20 through July 26. This is the artists second solo exhibition at James Cohan. Scott Olsons painting practice is rooted in a deep investigation of paintings materials, tools, and history, but also in performance, music, and improvisation. Through a process involving layering and removing through the use of glazes, masking, and scraping, the composition becomes an index of his maneuvers; a deliberate record of his process to which the viewer becomes witness. Olson considers surface and framing as constructs in his work. He often employs a handmade frame and wide fields of monochromatic space around a centralor strikingly decenteredpainted field that act as a physical edge to the painting and call attention to its nature as both ... More | |
André Masson. Tauromachie, 1937 (detail). Oil on canvas, 32 x 39 1/2 in. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, 1950.349. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, an exhibition that explores the powerful and unsettling images created in response to the threat of war and fascist rule. Featuring works by Luis Buñuel, Salvador DalÃ, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Tanning, and others, the exhibition is on display in the Frists Upper-Level Galleries from June 21 through September 29, 2019. Through 78 objects, including paintings, drawings, film, and sculptures drawn primarily from the collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Monsters & Myths highlights the brilliance and fertility of this period, which arose in response to Hitlers rise to power, the Spanish Civil War, and World War IIevents that profoundly ... More | |
Anna Bogatin (American, b. Ukraine, 1970), Aurora (River Wanderings 7714), 201415. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of the artist. GMOA 2017.34.
ATLANTA, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is showcasing a collection of exceptional works connected by their use of the elements color, form and light. This exhibition is on display from June 22 through October 13 and features many important abstract works from the permanent collection or on long-term loan. Inspired by the simple forms and vivid colors of minimalism, works on view include ones from the 1960s to the present. DeWain Valentines sculpture Red Concave Circle occupies one gallery, and the other holds works by artists such as Joseph Havel, Valerie Jaudon, Jules Olitski and Charles Hinman. The exhibition also features kinetic art and an interactive station that invites visitors to experiment with color, form and light to create their own composition. Throughout the exhibition, viewers are encouraged to consider themselves in relation to the works of art. I am really excited to showc ... More |
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Richard Bell - 'My Art is an Act of Protest' | Artist Interview | Tate
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Stephen Shore curates show of his Bard students at Howard Greenberg Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Last winter the photographer Stephen Shore received an unusual request from Howard Greenberg Gallery: Would he be interested in curating an exhibition that included his students from the renowned photography program at Bard College? The answer was, yes, and the resulting collaboration, Bard x HGG, pairs work by seven of Shores recent graduates with photographs by historic 20th century artists from the Gallerys vast archives. The exhibition is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 20 through August 29, 2019. Stephen Shore is a bridge connecting contemporary photography with the history of photography, said Howard Greenberg. As a contemporary figure and an important part of photo history, he is in a unique position to be able to connect a new generation of photographers and viewers. I think of myself as both ... More
Museum of Cycladic Art presents a rare and original exhibition entitled Picasso and Antiquity: Line and Clay
ATHENS.- The Museum of Cycladic Art is organizing a rare and original exhibition entitled Picasso and Antiquity. Line and Clay where ceramics and drawings by Picasso interact with ancient artefacts, as part of its Divine Dialogues exhibition series. Curated by Professor Nikolaos C. Stampolidis, Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art, and art historian Olivier Berggruen, the exhibition will last from 20 June to 20 October 2019. Sixty-eight rare ceramics and drawings by Picasso, featuring birds, animals, sea creatures, humans, and mythological beasts (centaurs, the Minotaur) or inspired by ancient drama and comedies, converse thematically for the first time with sixty seven ancient works, creating another Divine Dialogue between Greek antiquity and modern art. Picassos compositionsceramics and drawings created between the 1920s and 1960scome ... More
High Museum of Art celebrates Maira Kalman's book art with summer retrospective
ATLANTA, GA.- This summer, the High Museum of Art premiered The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalmans Books for Children (June 22 Sept. 15, 2019), a colorful exhibition exploring the extensive catalog of Kalmans imaginative stories and illustrations, which have delighted readers of all ages for more than 30 years. Perhaps best known for her quirky New Yorker magazine covers and brilliant pictorial essays, Kalman (American, born 1949) has published more than a dozen books for adults and 18 acclaimed childrens books, beginning with the game-changing picture book Stay Up Late (1985), which gave visual form to the famous Talking Heads song from the album Little Creatures. Since then her works have followed the comic adventures of beloved characters, including a poet dog named Max Stravinsky and Pete the dog, and have ... More
Eat like the locals: How scurvy undid last crusader king
PARIS (AFP).- He was the last of the crusader kings who was thought to have died of the plague as he made one last -- rather roundabout -- attempt to recover the Holy Land for the Christianity. But it now appears that France's King Louis IX -- better known as Saint Louis -- died because he committed the cardinal error of many a colonial invader: not eating the local food. An international team of researchers led by a celebrated French forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier, whose Twitter handle translates as Doctor Too Late, now believe he fell prey to scurvy. Caused by a lack of vitamin C, the painful and potentially fatal disease was the scourge of sailors until the turn of the 19th century. While the local food in Tunisia where the Eighth Crusade landed in 1270 contained lots of vitamin-C rich salads and citrus fruit, the crusaders' meat-heavy diet and Saint Louis' ... More
Exhibition of new work by Anne-Karin Furunes opens at Ryan Lee
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee is presenting Together but Apart, an exhibition of new work by Anne-Karin Furunes. The exhibition will shed light on the increasingly urgent threat of climate change, particularly as the indigenous inhabitants of Fennoscandia, the Sámi people, experience it. Together but Apart includes a selection of portraits, landscapes, and monumental paintings rendered in Furuness signature technique of perforated painted canvas. Furunes imagery is drawn from photographs housed at the Polar Archive at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsö as well as the Sophus Tromholt Collection at the University of Bergen Librarys Picture Collectiona world-famous archive of nineteenth-century images of the Sámi people taken during the first scientific expedition to study the Northern Lights. Though her paintings appear photographic, they ... More
Olivia Newton-John's Grease leather jacket and pants + more head to Julien's Auctions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, honors one of the most celebrated and beloved pop culture icons of all time with their Property from the Collection of Olivia Newton-John auction event live at The Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com. Over 200 of the most iconic film and television worn costumes, ensembles, gowns, personal items and accessories owned and used by the four-time Grammy award-winning singer/Hollywood film star and one of the best-selling musical artists of all time who has sold 100 million records worldwide, will take the auction stage headlining Juliens Auctions ICONS & IDOLS two-day music extravaganza taking place Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, 2019. The Cambridge, England born and Melbourne, Australia raised singer and ... More
Fashion world shaken by cultural appropriation claims
PARIS (AFP).- The women embroiderers of the remote Mexican mountain village of Tenango de Doria made worldwide headlines this week when their government went to war with an American designer for "plagiarising" their patterns. Wes Gordon, the artistic director of the New York label founded by Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera, found himself accused of cultural appropriation. The women of the indigenous community in the east of the country told AFP how they felt cheated of their traditional motifs where "each element has a personal, family or community meaning". It is the latest in a long line of controversies where multinational brands stand accused of ransacking the cultural heritage of poor villagers. Four years ago another indigenous Mexican community complained that the French designer Isabel Marant had lifted a 600-year-old Tlahuitoltepec blouse ... More
Bolshoi ballet star pays tribute to Coco Chanel in new show
MOSCOW (AFP).- The life and works of fashion legend Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel is being celebrated in a new ballet that premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi on Saturday that highlights the designer's love of Russia and starring prima ballerina Svetlana Zakharova. The one act performance by choreographer Yuri Possokhov pays homage to the celebrated founder of the fashion house that bears her name and features a stunning display of Chanel costumes specially created for the ballet. Created specifically for Zakharova, the ballet "Gabrielle Chanel" recounts the most memorable moments of the work and life of the French fashion designer, who died in 1971 aged 87. "She loved Russian ballet, Russians and Russia," Zakharova said. "She helped Russian aristocrats who were forced to flee Russia. She loved Russian models." The Bolshoi created eighty five costumes for ... More
Tretyakov Gallery opens exhibition program at a brand new venue
MOSCOW.- The New Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val opened a new chapter in its operation. The Free Flight exhibition project inaugurates the Museums exhibition program at a brand new venue: the West wing of its building previously occupied by the Central House of Artist. It is here that the New Tretyakov Gallery is planning to hold its future large-scale interdisciplinary shows that would explore the most relevant issues and topics through innovative artistic means and media. The Free Flight show is a result of collaboration between the Moscow-based AZ Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Dedicated to the creative legacy of the renowned filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and of the Soviet Nonconformist artists, it seeks to present the non-official art of the 1960-1980s within the context of Tarkovskys cinematic universe. From the point of view ... More
Hake's July 10-11 auction a pop culture feast with rare original comic art, comic books, Star Wars & more
YORK, PA.- So far, 2019 has been a dynamic year for pop culture. Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records with an opening weekend that grossed $1.22 billion worldwide. That led the way for a visit from Godzilla: King of the Monsters and, arriving on July 2nd, Spider-Man: Far From Home. But that was just a warm-up. On July 10-11, Hakes will host a 2,047-lot auction loaded with original comic art, comic books, super-rare Star War figures, political memorabilia, and top-notch entertainment posters. Bidding will start with 100+ lots of original artwork for comic book covers and interior pages; Sunday and daily comic strips; and specialty pieces. Expectations are sky-high for Dave Cockrums (1943-2006) action-packed title splash page for X-Men Vol. 1 #95, published by Marvel Comics in October 1975. Dave Cockrum is a very important ... More
Material Culture Auctions sets record prices for Outsider Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- With fervent buyer participation through three online bidding platforms, telephone and floor bidding, Material Cultures June 10th Straight Up: American Outsider Art auction broke records as it brought to market an exceptional, unknown collection of this once-overlooked class of fine art. 327 of 339 lots sold for a total of $439,575, the sale presenting opportunities for collectors at all level of the market. The sale was most impressive for its breadth and assortment of works by 20th century Southern black artists, including: Purvis Young, James Son Ford Thomas, Mary Tillman Smith, David Butler, Mose Tolliver, Nelley Mae Brown, Bessie Harvey, Jimmy Lee Suddeth, Prophet Royal Robertson, Clementine Hunter and Willie White. Other Outsider works offered included a large group by Jon Serl, as well as works by Howard ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Clyfford Still died June 23, 1980. Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. In this image: Designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, the new building reflects the Clyfford Still.Museum's mission to preserve, present, and celebrate the work of the artist.
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