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John De Andrea (American, born 1941), Self-Portrait with Sculpture, 1980. Polyvinyl, polychromed in oil. Collection of Foster Goldstrom. Photo: Courtesy Foster Goldstrom.
NEW YORK, NY.- Seven hundred years of sculptural practicefrom 14th-century Europe to the global presentare being examined anew in the groundbreaking exhibition Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300Now). On view at The Met Breuer from March 21 through July 22, 2018, the exhibition explores expanded narratives of sculpture through works in which artists have sought to replicate the literal, living presence of the human body. A major international loan exhibition of approximately 120 works, Like Life draws on The Metropolitan Museum of Arts rich collection of European sculpture and modern and contemporary art, while also featuring a selection of important works from national and international museums and private collections. Just how perfectly should figurative sculpture resemble the human body? Histories and theories of Western sculpture have typically favored idealized representations, as exemplified by the auster ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A man displays a tricorn hat from the set of the movie "Barry Lyndon" from the collection "Cinema Stanley Kubrick" at the Aste Bolaffi auction house in Turin on March 23, 2018. The collection, containing memorabilia of late US director Stanley Kubrick from the collection of his assistant Emilio D'Alessandro, who worked with him from 1971 to 1999, will be auctioned on March 27. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP
| The Met's André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments reopens | | Smithsonian's Freer/Sackler weaves together traditional and contemporary fashion | | Getty Museum acquires Bust of a Young Boy by Desiderio da Settignano |
Violin, Andrea Amati, Italy ca. 1560. Spruce, maple, ebony, paint, gilding. Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 1999. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1999.26).
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 22, after a two-year renovation and reinterpretation of the galleries narrative. The new presentation, The Art of Music, allows viewers to explore one of the worlds most diverse and important collections of musical instruments through a global lens. Instruments of different cultures are now arranged together, highlighting commonalities in music making across cultures. The four renovated galleries display the treasures of the collection. These include the worlds oldest surviving piano, made by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence in 1720; Ming dynasty cloisonné trumpets; preColumbian drums; Andrés Segovias guitar; and violins by Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Amati. New to the gallery experience are two ... More | |
Woman's robe (munisak). Central Asia, 18501875. Silk velvet. Gift of Guido Goldman S2004.94.
WASHINGTON, DC.- To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia, is on view at the Smithsonians Arthur M. Sackler Gallery March 24July 29. Traditional 19-century ikat coats and panels from the Sacklers collections, a gift of Guido Goldman, encourage visitors to explore the techniques and traditions that produced the Central Asian textiles. Alongside these historical objects are a number of Oscar de la Renta (1932 2014) garments on loan from the Collection of Annette de la Renta and the Oscar de la Renta Collection. The process of creating ikats involved collaboration among different communities. Bundles of threads are patterned by repeated binding and resist dyeing before being woven into narrow strips and immersed into sequential vats of color. In multi-ethnic 19-century Central Asia, each group played a different role in the process. The Jews were responsible for importing and dying indigo, while the Ta ... More | |
Bust of a Young Boy, about 14601464, Desiderio da Settignano (about 1430 1464), marble. 25 x 24.5 x 14 cm (9 13/16 x 9 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Museum has acquired Bust of a Young Boy, about 1460-64, by Desiderio de Settignano (Italian, circa 14301464). The approximately life-size sculpture is a well-known work by one of the most influential and skilled sculptors in Quattrocento (fifteenth-century) Florence. This is an extraordinarily fine work by one of the greatest sculptors of the early Renaissance, said Timothy Potts, director of the Getty Museum. In his short but spectacular career (he died at about age 34), Desiderio de Settignano became one of the most renowned and sought-after artists of his generation, and it is remarkable good fortune that we are able to add such a rare and iconic work of his to our collection. Although sculptures dating from Quattrocento Florence have for museums been among the most coveted trophies ... More |
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| Birmingham Museum of Art exhibition depicts Birmingham during the Depression | | Perrotin announces opening of Shanghai gallery | | Inaugural exhibition in Newark Museum's new special exhibition gallery explores masterworks of alpine art |
Richard B. Coe, American 19041978, Independent Presbyterian Church, about 1935, etching on paper; Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Peter Crook McCall and Doy Leale McCall, III AFI.134.2017.
BIRMINGHAM, AL.- In the wake of the Great Depression, Birmingham experienced a remarkable transformation that helped shape the city as we know it today. Artist Richard Coe, an Alabama native, documented the citys rapidly changing urban fabric in his prints and paintings. Magic City Realism: Richard Coes Birmingham brings together over 60 of Coes images of the city for the first time. Richard Coe arrived in Birmingham in 1934. While living in the city, he created a realistic accounting of the impact and achievement of the citys iron and steel industry as it was suffering under the effects of the Great Depression. He produced hundreds of highly-detailed etchings depicting everyday life in and around the Magic City, from downtowns impressive skyscrapers to the humble shanties housing ... More | |
Facade of 27 Huqiu Road, Shanghai (rendering). Courtesy of Perrotin.
SHANGHAI.- Perrotin announced the launch of its new gallery in Shanghai in late 2018. Located in the heart of Shanghais Bund quarter, this will be the 18th gallery space that its owner Emmanuel Perrotin has opened worldwide in 28 years. Perrotin Shanghai will occupy the top floor of a historic three-storey brick building (27 Huqiu Road) known as Amber Building. Built in 1937, it is a former warehouse used by the Central Bank of China during the Republican period. From 1886 to 1943 Huqiu Road was named Museum Road. It continues to this day to have a prominent place in Shanghais art landscape with its close proximity to the citys major museums and auction houses including Rockbund Art Museum, Fosun Foundation and Christies. The 1,200 square meter (12,900 square feet) gallery space will include a mezzanine and several exhibition rooms. In keeping with the buildings modernist elegance, origina ... More | |
Alexandre Calame, Mountain Torrent Before a Storm (The Aare River, Haslitel), 1850 (detail). Oil on canvas, 38 5/8 x 54 1/4 in. Asbjørn Lunde Collection.
NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum marks the opening of a new special exhibition gallery and its newly reopened Washington Street entrance with a major exhibition featuring Hudson River School landscape paintings from the permanent collection and major loans from private and public collections. The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains presents a unique interdisciplinary and transnational view of alpine landscape art and culture in the United States and Europe. The exhibition is comprised of more than 70 rarely exhibited paintings, prints, drawings and photographs, showcasing Newarks renowned landscape painting collection in context with loans from more than twenty distinguished private and public collections. Tracing mountain painting from early works by J. M. W. Turner and John Ruskin to John Singer Sargents camping ... More |
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| Exhibition of early works 1964-1984 by Wim Wenders on view at Blain/Southern London | | Stevie Ray Vaughan's first studio guitar offered April 15 at Heritage Auctions | | Phillips to offer the largest Zao Wou-Ki masterwork from the 1970s at auction |
Wim Wenders, Early Works 1964-1984, Installation View, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Blain/Southern, © Wim Wenders, Photo Peter Mallet (4)
LONDON.- Early Works 1964-1984 at Blain|Southern London features C-prints (based on original Polaroids) and black-and-white photographs from Wim Wenders archive, many of which have never been shown before. The exhibition speaks to the artists belief in the authenticity of photographs that have not been altered, and the spontaneity of scenes that have not been staged or directed. Wenders talks more about the influence of painters on his work than of any photographer or director. His early interest in painting and continued love of American Realism, are reflected throughout the works in the exhibition. The exteriors in Liquor Store, San Francisco and Paris Brasserie are loaded with a kind of narrative portent reminiscent of Edward Hopper. In other works, Wenders vast landscapes of Southern Australia and the plains of Montana are closer, in both subject matter and intent, ... More | |
Stevie Ray Vaughan Owned and Stage-Played "Jimbo" Electric Guitar.
DALLAS, TX.- Blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan's first guitar a favorite he used to build his legacy as one of the greatest guitarists of all time will cross the block April 15 in Heritage Auctions' Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Auction in Dallas. Nicknamed "Jimbo," Vaughan used the 1951 Fender No-caster for his very first studio recordings. "The history of this guitar runs deep and it was particularly important to Stevie for several reasons," said Garry Shrum, Director of Music Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. "Not only was it his first professional-grade instrument, it was originally owned by his brother Jimmie, founder of the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Jimmie carved the word "Jimbo" in the back of the body, but gave it to his brother, who kept borrowing it without permission." Sometimes referred to as a Broadcaster, the electric guitar (serial number 0964) has an ash body. Stevie once said he rebuilt the guitar to his ... More | |
Zao Wou-Ki (1921 2013), 04.01.79, oil on canvas, 250 x 260 cm. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips will present Zao Wou-Kis rare and large-scale work, 04.01.79, as a leading highlight of the 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale in Hong Kong on 27 May 2018. This seminal work, measuring a monumental 250 x 260 cm, was executed in 1979 and embodies the pivotal stylistic transition from the artists middle to late period of abstract works. The largest painting from the 1970s by Zao Wou-Ki and among the top 10 largest by the artist to ever come to auction, 04.01.79 has never before been publicly offered. This masterwork will be unveiled in the lobby of Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong from 26 March to 1 April. Jonathan Crockett, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Asia, and Deputy Chairman, Asia, said: Phillips is thrilled to be entrusted with the sale of 04.01.79 by Zao Wou-Ki, one of the greatest modern Chinese masters, in our upcoming 20th Century & ... More |
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| Senior & Shopmaker Gallery opens exhibition of works by Hungarian artist Vera Molnar | | Tina Keng Gallery showcases 40 works by the Chinese modern master Sanyu | | Immersive must-see artworks premiere in major Patricia Piccinini solo exhibition |
Vera Molnar, Du Cycle Inclinaisions, 1971 (27/5/71). Ink and graphite on paper. Framed Size: 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (71.8 x 71.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- A pioneer of computer art, Hungarian artist Vera Molnar, born in Budapest in 1924 and a resident of Paris since 1947, has established a prominent position in the field of Constructivist-Concrete art but is virtually unknown in this country. Working in Paris alongside artists such as François Morellet, Julio Le Parc, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Victor Vasarely, Molnar was a founding member in 1960 of the Research Group for Visual Art (Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel, or GRAV), which espoused minimal, non-objective image-making, and gave rise to the Op-Art and Kinetic Art movements of the following decade. Still active today at 94, Molnars remarkable practice encompasses painting, drawing and collage, computer drawings, photography, and installation. The artists second exhibition at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery will feature computer drawings made between ... More | |
Sanyu, Pink Chrysanthemums, 1930s (detail). Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 50 cm.
TAIPEI.- Tina Keng Gallery, a leading gallery dedicated to promoting works by Asian classical masters, presents Sanyus Hidden Blossoms: Through the Eyes of a Dandy. Comprising around 40 works of the Chinese modern master that were mainly created between the 1930s and 1940s, the exhibition also features a selection of some of his last pieces. Formerly known as Lin & Keng Gallery, the Taipei-based Tina Keng Gallery was established in 1992 and began its long representation of the artist with exhibition SanyuYun Gee Joint Exhibition: The Nostalgia of Two Wanderers in 1993, one year after opening. Solely curated by its founder, Tina Keng, the gallery subsequently held six other solo exhibitions of Sanyu in the last 25 years in 1997, 1998, 2001, 2010, and 2013. Organised by young curator Hsu Fong-Ray, Sanyus Hidden Blossoms: Through the Eyes of a Dandy is the gallerys latest undertaking to celebrate the legacy of San ... More | |
Patricia Piccinini, The Struggle, 2017. Fibreglass, automotive paint, leather, steel, cycle parts; ed. 1/3 + 1 AP. Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2018. Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
BRISBANE.- A field of more than 3000 specially created flower sculptures is among a range of immersive must-see artworks premiering in the major solo exhibition Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said Patricia Piccinini was one of the most exciting and challenging contemporary Australian artists working today and that Curious Affection, presented exclusively at GOMA until 5 August, was her most ambitious project to date. Influenced by science, nature, fiction and the unconscious, Patricias ongoing concern is the social and moral impact of advanced technology on people, animals and our planet, Mr Saines said. Her fantastical creatures and environments are, in a way, propositions about possible ... More |
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Phoenix Art Museum presents largest US museum exhibition of Brazilian artist Valeska Soares
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum presents Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now, a collaboration with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the largest museum exhibition in the United States to date of the contemporary Brazilian artists work. From March 24 through July 15, visitors will have the opportunity to see 49 diverse artworks, from installations and sculptures to photography and video, ranging in date from the mid-1990s to the present. This major mid-career survey introduces viewers to distinctive works that deal with themes of love, longing, desire, memory, and time, often incorporating experiential qualities like scent, touch, and even taste. The exhibition also substantiates Soares important role in international innovations in installation art. Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now originated as part of the Gettys Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, a far-reaching ... More
Blum & Poe Tokyo opens exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor
TOKYO.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor. This is the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first presentation in Japan. Although often initiated by spontaneous encounters and intuitive connections with his sitters, Taylors portraits carry a visual lexicon that he has developed over decades. He paints the individuals who surround him friends, family, acquaintances as well as notable figures of the African American community musicians, activists, athletes. Sometimes painful chapters of Taylors past are hidden or alluded to in symbols and signifiers, other times he employs unmistakable imagery that speaks to the facets of systemic oppression that affect Black life today and previously. His work articulates a certain empathy with and understanding of his subjects, these representations always ... More
'Sowing Colour' by Natasha Daintry introduces a riot of light and colour to Chatsworth
BAKEWELL.- Sowing Colour, a vivid installation of more than 200 porcelain pots by Natasha Daintry was unveiled in the Dome Room at Chatsworth when the new season opened on 24 March 2018. Sowing Colour is a specially commissioned site-specific ceramic installation for the Devonshire Collection and a bold addition to the current Duke and Duchess's growing collection of contemporary art and design. Natasha Daintry has long been admired by them both - a ceramicist of international acclaim known particularly for her experiments with glazes, using a high-white porcelain as the luminous ground on which to explore colour. Situated in the Dome Room, the piece comprises 237 coloured pots burgeoning down in a coloured explosion from tiny to monumental, embodying the dramatic and dynamic progression of Fibonaccis mathematical sequence ... More
Spring ahead in style: Luxury Accessories Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Say Hello to Spring with Pastel Hues! Pastel handbags by the world's top fashion designers are this season's addition to spring 2018's warm-weather wardrobe. Heritage Auctions' March 25 Luxury Accessories Auction brings beautiful, vintage handbags in colors matching this season's hot demand for cool, subdued hues. Anything but muted, these pastel handbags make an eye-catching statement as one of this year's most sought-after SS18' trends. Whether it's a Chanel Soft Pink Quilted Flap Bag (est. $1,500 - $2,500) to complete your millennial pink ensemble, or a stunning Hermés Blue Saint Cyr Birkin (est. $10,000 - $12,000) to cool off and freshen up your daily look, our collection con-tains everything you are looking for in the perfect pastel bag. These bags aren't just reserved for the fashion risk-taker they are pieces that anyone can incorporate ... More
Irish Museum of Modern Art opens a major retrospective by seminal British artist Frank Bowling
DUBLIN.- IMMA presents a comprehensive retrospective of the work of seminal British artist Frank Bowling, his first major exhibition in Ireland. Renowned for his large-scale painted canvasses and his extraordinary use of colour, Bowling is a vibrant and prolific artist still making work today, in his ninth decade. Named for one of Bowlings celebrated map paintings, Mappa Mundi highlights exceptional works from throughout Bowlings career from the 1960s onwards. Through his map paintings Bowling addresses issues of history and migration, both his own as a Commonwealth immigrant to the UK and latterly the United States, and broader mass movements of people, from colonial slaves through the Middle Passage from Africa to South America, to socio-economic motivated migration. Bowlings work on geographic and human movement has special ... More
June Kelly Gallery opens exhibition of Figurative Expressionist paintings by Carmen Cicero
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of Figurative Expressionist paintings from the 1960s and 1980s that unflinchingly reflect the artists outlook on life then, as relatable to our current-day script, opened at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on Friday, March 9. Most of these pieces have not been shown in New York since the 1980s; some have never been displayed. The exhibition will remain on view through April 10. Carmen Ciceros exhibition title, Battle of the Sexes 1965-1982, could be interpreted as provocation that divulges his decades long angst and agitation producing work revealing undisguised issues and storylines. Today these cutting-edge works prompt scrutiny in light of contemporary clashes between the sexes. The artist arrived in New York in 1971 after a devastating fire that destroyed his studio in Englewood, New Jersey. He lost all of his ... More
Kristen Lorello opens exhibition of paintings by Giacinto Occhionero
NEW YORK, NY.- Tonic is Giacinto Occhionero's third solo exhibition of paintings at Kristen Lorello. Five new works include naturalistic, neon, and metallic colors that cascade as particles in an imagined atmosphere. The works are executed in a process of reverse painting on plexiglass, a medium that has defined the artist's artistic research for more than a decade. A full color catalogue is available and includes an upbeat essay by Alan Jones, an American writer who, for several years, has frequented the company of artists in Italy. In Occhionero's new depictions, rips, fissures, and tiny holes appear as painted elements held back from the eye by a clear surface. The mediating device of plexiglass opens onto a compressed field of bursting energies. In contrast to his post-war Italian predecessors who searched beyond the surface of a monochromatic picture plane by burning ... More
EYE Filmmuseum features work by the first three winners of the EYE Art & Film Prize
AMSTERDAM.- The intersection between film and visual art is an important focus of exhibition policy at EYE. To underline this, EYE and the Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund launched an annual prize in 2015 to promote new work by an artist / filmmaker who is making an important contribution to this interdisciplinary field. Highlighting this EYE Art & Film Prize, the exhibition features work by the first three winners, all of whom share a socially engaged approach to their art. They are Hito Steyerl (1966, Germany), Ben Rivers (1972, Great-Britain) and Wang Bing (1967, China). The winner of the EYE Art & Film Prize 2018 will be announced on 5 April. Hito Steyerl (b. 1966) is one of the leading video artists of today. ArtReview recently ranked her as the most influential person in contemporary art in its authoritative ArtReview Power 100 List. In her penetrating ... More
KINDL opens major survey exhibition on the work of Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs
BERLIN.- Defying Gravity, the major survey exhibition on the work of Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, features entirely new works as well as their most important series of works from the past ten years. Two floors of the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art present the full range of the artists work: film, photography, sculpture, and installation offer an impressive demonstration of how Onorato and Krebs examine and expand common notions of the documentary. More than ten film projections in the clearly structured rooms of the first floor reveal references that are echoed on the luminous second floor with works of photography and a group of entirely new sculptures. The exhibition highlights two central groups of works: The Great Unreal (20052009) and Continental Drift (20132016). The extensive series of photographs ... More
Thriller writer Philip Kerr dies aged 62
LONDON (AFP).- Scottish author Philip Kerr, the creator of the Nazi-era thrillers featuring detective Bernie Gunther, has died at the age of 62, his wife and publisher have announced. Kerr, who also wrote the best-selling young adults series "Children of the Lamp" under the pen name P B Kerr, died on Friday. "RIP beloved Philip Kerr. Creator of the wonderful BernieGunther. Genius writer and adored father and husband. 1956-2018," his wife Jane Thynne tweeted. Fellow Scottish author Ian Rankin said he was "numbed" by the news, which was also confirmed by Kerr's publisher, Quercus Books. "His Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary, a mix of great storytelling and brilliant research, with a believable (a)moral hero," Rankin tweeted. Kerr had just published the 13th novel in the series about a tough-talking, wise-cracking, womanising detective, which had drawn ... More
Chloe Gallery celebrates Anna Walinksa in "Women in Art: Great Artists Who Happen to Be Women"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- March happens to be Womens History Month, and The Chloe Gallery is featuring paintings from the visionary Anna Walinska in its exhibit Women in Art: Great Artists Who Happen to be Women. The month-long show, in San Francisco, helps celebrate the many vital roles of women in art and feature a selection of artists alongside Walinska including Amy Nelder, Carrie Graber, Isabel Emrich, Cheryl Kline, Paige Bradley, Jennifer Vranes and others. Artists were chosen because of their place in Chloe Gallerys comprehensive and inclusive look at the last 200 years of Modern and Contemporary Western art history. At all the many points in their lives and careers from 20th century Modernist Anna Walinska to rapidly-emerging painter Isabel Emrich for Women's History Month ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Daniel Buren was born March 25, 1938. Daniel Buren (born 25 March 1938) is a French conceptual artist. Sometimes classified as a Minimalist, Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting colored stripes in an effort to integrate visual surface and architectural space, notably on historical, landmark architecture. In this image: Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' works 'in situ' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire.
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