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Wilderness exhibition view © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2018. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel.
FRANKFURT.- At a time when most of the blank spaces on the map of this world have largely disappeared and an untouched state of nature almost only still exists in the form of designated conservation areas, wilderness has once again become a focus in art. The search for the last free places, expeditions as an artistic medium, and visions of a post-human world as well as the renegotiation of the relationships between human beings and animals shape the works of many contemporary artists. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is now dedicating an extensive thematic exhibition to the recurring fascination with wilderness from November 1, 2018, to February 3, 2019. Over 100 important and impressive artworks by 34 international artists are presented, including Julian Charrière, Ian Cheng, Marcus Coates, Tacita Dean, Mark Dion, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Camille Henrot, Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Joachim Koester, Ana Mendieta, Georgia OKeeffe, Ge ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Indian Sikh devotees gather to pay their respects on the occasion of birth anniversary of the fourth Sikh Guru Ramdas at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 26, 2018. Ramdas was born in Lahore in 1574 and is the Chauthi Patshahi, or the fourth Guru, as well as the Guru who established the city of Amritsar. NARINDER NANU / AFP
| First exhibition to chronicle formative beginning of Gordon Parks's career premieres at the National Gallery of Art | | Perrotin presents first show in Hong Kong of four Mexican contemporary artists | | Christie's announces selections from the Israel Museum to benefit the acquisitions fund |
Gordon Parks, Trapped in abandoned building by a rival gang on street, Red Jackson ponders his next move, 1948. Gelatin silver print. Image: 19 3/8 x 15 5/8 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (The Gordon Parks Collection) Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Within just a decade, Gordon Parks (19122006) grew from a self-taught portrait photographer and photojournalist in Saint Paul and Chicago to a visionary professional working in New York for Ebony and Glamour, before becoming the first African American photographer at Life magazine in 1949. For the first time this lesser-known yet incredibly formative period of Parks's long and illustrious career is the subject of an exhibition, Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 19401950. On view in the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from November 4, 2018, through February 18, 2019, the traveling exhibition provides a detailed look at Parks's early evolution through some 150 photographs, as well as rare magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and ... More | |
José León Cerrillo. View of the group exhibition Unstable Stillness at Perrotin, Hong Kong, 2018. Photo: Ringo Cheung. Courtesy the Artist and Perrotin.
HONG KONG.- Perrotin Hong Kong is presenting an exhibition featuring José León Cerrillo, Jose Dávila, Gabriel Rico and MartÃn Soto Climent, marking the first time that the artists are showing in a Hong Kong gallery. This presentation stems from ¿Cómo te voy a olvidar? (How could I forget you?), a 2016 group exhibition at Perrotin Paris that brought together the work of 16 contemporary artists across Mexico. For the four artists from that show now exhibited here, their engagement with architecture, interest in non-art materials, and investigations into the legacies of modernism, illustrate how similar concerns can be channeled towards different ends. José León Cerrillos site-specific installations address architecture directly. At Perrotin Hong Kong, he will present his Subtraction Screens and Unstable Examples, a series of sculptural frames that reorganize, reorient, and delimit the space. The viewers behaviour ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, oil on canvas, 1952, estimate: $2.5 - 4.5 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies 20th Century Art sales in November will feature a selection of Modern and Contemporary works of art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Over 100 works will be offered in live and online auctions at Christies across the week of November 9-16, 2018, including sculptures, paintings, and works on paper by Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Raoul Dufy, Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, and Victor Vasarely among others. All proceeds from the sales will be invested back in the Israel Museums Acquisitions Fund and will support strategic additions that will strengthen and enhance the diversity and scope of the institutions collection of Modern Art. The artworks have been carefully selected from four private collections that were generously donated to the Museum by patrons Arthur and Madeleine Chalette Lejwa, Charlotte Bergman, Vera and Arturo Schwarz, and ... More |
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| Exhibition marks Tavares Strachan's first solo presentation with Regen Projects | | Freeman's announces highlights from its sale of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts sale | | Hirshhorn's largest interactive technology exhibition presents major installations by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer |
Tavares Strachan, Six Thousand Years (detail), 2018. Archival inkjet, pigment, enamel, vinyl, graphite, mylar, spray paint, collage, oil stick, acrylic mounted on sintra encased in acrylic, 826 units, each: 11 x 8 x 2 1/8 inches (27.9 x 20.3 x 5.4 cm).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting an exhibition of work by Tavares Strachan. Titled Invisibles, this marks his first solo presentation with the gallery, and the first time his work is being shown in Los Angeles since 2008. Before the post-nation state of Google there were empires. Knowledge and borders were contested the one with arms the other with books. For the British Empire, of which The Bahamas were a small part, those books came in two forms. One was religious the other secular, and where the Bible fought the battleground of the soul, the Encyclopedia Britannica made claim to the mind. Its many shelved volumes telegraphed to the world an investment in enlightenment and education an imperialists interest in cultures and places other than their own. Compiled almost exclusively by white men from ... More | |
A fine inlaid and carved mahogany tall case clock by Aaron Willard, Boston, MA, circa 1800. Estimate: $25,000-35,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans November 14 sale of American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts will bring to auction nearly 500 lots of fine furniture, decorative arts, textiles and historical paintings from the 18th to the 20th centuries. An undoubted highlight of the sale is an important and rare Chippendale carved mahogany looking glass, with original phoenix cartouche, attributed to John Pollard (1740-1787) and Richard Butts (active 1768-1778), circa 1770 (Lot 104, estimate: $20,000-30,000). The craftsmen advertised their partnership in Philadelphia at the Sign of the Chinese Shield on Chestnut Street in 1773. Micro-analysis has determined the secondary woods of the glass to be white pine and Atlantic cedar. This premier example of Philadelphia Chippendale furniture joins other formal and folk pieces from the region, namely, a number of Delaware Valley Chippendale side chairs from an early Pennsylvania ... More | |
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Index, 2010 in Time Lapse, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 2012. Photo: Kate Russel.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has opened Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse, an exhibition featuring the interactive artwork of Mexican Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, on view Nov. 1April 28, 2019. Three major installations from Lozano-Hemmers Pulse series and three public-art documentaries come together for the first time in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse, which fills the museums entire second-floor galleries with evocative, immersive environments that use heart-rate sensors to create kinetic and audiovisual experiences from visitors own biometric data. Over the course of six months, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse will animate the vital signs of hundreds of thousands of participants in the Hirshhorns largest interactive technology exhibition to date. Lozano-Hemmers unique practice straddles the line between art, technology ... More |
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| Rare 16th century example of a painting authored and commissioned by women revealed | | Getty Research Institute awarded 'Save America's Treasures' grant for Woman's Building Archives | | Hu Qingyan's most recent works on view at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing |
The Crucifixon the first large scale painting on this subject realised by a female artist in the 16th Century.
FLORENCE.- The Crucifixion by Plautilla Nelli restored and brought to light by Advancing Women Artists Foundation and now on display at the Last Supper Museum of Andrea del Sarto in Florence which in recent years has become a collection point for the restored works of Plautilla Nelli. Plautilla Nelli born in Florence in 1524, a self-taught artist known as the first recognized female painter in Renaissance Florence. At the age of fourteen Nelli joined the convent Caterina da Siena located in Florence. She spent her life as a nun and an artist and taught art at her all-female workshop. Commissioned by many in Florence at the time to paint religious subjects, Giorgio Vasari would write of Nelli in his book The Lives She made so many paintings for the homes of Florentine gentlemen that it would be tedious to list them all here. Nelli also made paintings for women such as ... More | |
Outside the Womans Building, 1975 (detail). Photo: Maria Karras. The Getty Research Institute, 2018.M.16. Gift of Maria Karras. © Maria Karras, BFA, RBP, MA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute has been awarded a grant through the Save Americas Treasures program to process and preserve 11 archives in the GRIs collections related to the Womans Building, a feminist art institution that operated in downtown Los Angeles from 1973 to 1991. The Save Americas Treasures program is an interagency federal initiative led by the National Park Service and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The $284,400 grant supports the processing, preservation, and digitization of GRI holdings related to the Womans Building, including several artists archives. The grant makes up approximately half of the budget for the project. Partnerships like this allow us to accelerate the important work of providing broad access to these crucial materials. The Getty Research Institute is a rich ... More | |
Hu Qingyan, Guardian Angel II, 2018. Wood (plane tree), marble (different colors), 219 Ã 140 Ã 125 cm. The artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile Beijing is presenting Absent & Superfluous, a solo exhibition featuring Beijing-based artist Hu Qingyan (*1982) most recent works. The exhibition draws its title from a key concept in Hus work, namely the tension between what is essential, supposed to be, but is not, and what is unnecessary, supposed not to be, but is. Along with some new works such as Swaying Wall (2015-2018, seven-pieces, dimensions variable) and Empty Mountain (2018, yellow marble, 170 Ã 110 Ã 95 cm), the exhibition features exciting developments of previously existing series, of which Go in One Ear and out The Other (on show: Go in One Ear and out The Other No. 2, 2016, carbon steel, air, 166 Ã 485 Ã 188 cm) or Guardian Angel (on show: Guardian Angel II, 2018, wood (paulownia), marble in various colors, 219 ... More |
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| 'Godfather' of Hong Kong film, producer behind Bruce Lee, dies | | Bridges heal World War I wounds of Slovak-Hungarian city | | Diebenkorn and Warhol lead Heritage Auctions' Prints & Multiples Sale |
In this file photo taken on February 17, 2005, film producer Raymond Chow (L) attends a press conference on piracy where he and other industry officials jointly signed a document on copyright law in Hong Kong. Mike CLARKE / AFP.
HONG KONG (AFP).- Raymond Chow, the film producer credited with bringing kung fu legend Bruce Lee to the silver screen and widely regarded as the "godfather" of Hong Kong cinema, has died aged 91, reports said Saturday. Chow co-founded the Golden Harvest studio in 1971 and was seen as largely responsible for bringing the city's films to an international audience. He produced more than 170 films over his career, according to industry website IMDB, and nurtured the careers of several action stars, including Jackie Chan. Chow first worked with Lee on "The Big Boss" -- released as "Fists of Fury" in the United States -- in 1971, making the actor a martial arts legend overnight. The film broke box office records both in Hong Kong and overseas. He went on to produce or co- ... More | |
Director of the Komarom museum, Emase Szamado poses in front of a WWI monument at the bank of the Danube river nearby Komarom, Hungary on October 19, 2018. ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP.
KOMARNO (AFP).- The bridges across the river Danube connecting Komarom in Hungary to Komarno in Slovakia are today the epitome of a borderless Europe -- but their appearance belies the tensions that stretch back a century, and which have only recently been calmed. As elsewhere in the region, the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the end of World War I caused huge upheaval in what became a divided city. For Istvan Kelemen, a 19-year-old conscript in the Austro-Hungarian army who had spent six years in prisoner-of-war camps in Siberia, returning home in 1922 was a shock. While he was away Komarom, roughly halfway between the Slovakian and Hungarian capitals Bratislava and Budapest, had became Komarno, part of the new state of Czechoslovakia. "He discovered that his city had moved country," his 61- ... More | |
Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967. Screenprint in colors on paper, 36 x 36 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- Richard Diebenkorns High Green Version II, 1992 sold for $175,000, leading Heritage Auctions Modern & Contemporary Art Prints & Multiples Auction to $1,782,025. The auction achieved sell-through rates of 94.42 percent by value and 92.89 percent by lots, making Heritage a market leader in the Prints and Multiples category. "Heritage does so well with prints and multiples that weve added weekly sales starting in November, Heritage Auctions Modern & Contemporary Art Vice President Frank Hettig said. "Artists like Richard Diebenkorn and Andy Warhol will continue to be featured in our curated biannual signature sales, but our clients have an appetite to round out their collections with prints at all price points. Warhols market continues to be strong and he was once again a leader in the print sale, with two prints yielding six-figure returns. Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), ... More |
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Rolex JPS 'Paul Newman' Daytona lifts auction past $5.2 million
DALLAS, TX.- An extremely rare 14K Gold "Paul Newman Rolex raced past pre-auction estimates to sell for $804,500. The demand for this rare timepiece made it the top lot in Heritage Auctions Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction Oct. 24 in New York, which realized $5,292,610. The event boasted sell-through rates of 96.34 percent by value, and 96.11 percent by lots. One of the most rare and desirable Daytona models among vintage Rolex collectors, the Rolex, Very Fine and Rare 14k Gold Ref. 6241 "John Player Special Cosmograph Daytona with "Paul Newman dial, Circa 1969 is named after the Rolex Daytonas most famous owner, iconic actor and racing driver Paul Newman, who lent his name to this model and is the namesake of the signature dial. Multiple bidders pursued it, launching it well above and beyond its pre-auction estimate of $400,000-600,000. "The JPS ... More
Immersive installation by "conceptual entrepreneur" Martine Syms on view at The Graham Foundation
CHICAGO, IL.- The Graham Foundation is presenting an immersive installation by Los Angeles-based artist, and self-described conceptual entrepreneur, Martine Syms. At the center of the exhibition is Syms first feature length film Incense Sweaters & Ice. Through the daily life of the main protagonistGirl, a traveling nursethe project explores the proliferation of ways in which ones image is captured and transmitted in public and private life from surveillance cameras to smart phonesand the ways one moves between looking, being looked at, and remaining unseen. The film is also a meditation on the three cities in which it is setLos Angeles, California; St. Louis, Missouri; and Clarksdale, Mississippiand how place lives on in its subjects, informing emotional and gestural landscapes across generations. Painted vibrant purple, the Madlener House first floor gallery walls are offset b ... More
Brown's David Winton Bell Gallery presents photographer and filmmaker Danny Lyon
PROVIDENCE, RI.- Brown Universitys David Winton Bell Gallery is present an exhibition of more than 100 photographs and four films by Danny Lyon, an artist known for his emphasis on themes of empathy, freedom, history, destruction and narrative. Part of a broader Brown Arts Initiative series titled On Protest, Art and Activism, the Lyon exhibition The Only Thing I Saw Worth Leaving is on view from Friday, Nov. 2, through Wednesday, Dec. 19. We are delighted to present this important work from our collection that captures the volatility of the 1960s through Danny Lyons lens, said Jo-Ann Conklin, Bell Gallery director. The exhibition features photographs from four of Lyons most significant series that are part of the Bell Gallerys collection: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, The Bikeriders, The Destruction ... More
Master KAWS collector Ronnie K. Pirovino opens his vault at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Already considered a watershed sale by the KAWS collecting community, The Toy Collection of Ronnie K. Pirovino will make history with Heritage Auctions Nov. 7 when the master collector opens his cabinet for the worlds first stand-alone sale of works by the artist. After becoming a critical figure in defining the "Art 'Toy category, the auction includes most vinyl KAWS toy created from 1999 to present, and many toys made in wood and other mediums. The sale fulfills Pirovinos wish to give fellow collectors access to the hobbys most sought after works. "Upon first glance, I was viscerally hit by the KAWS Companions homage to Mickey Mouse, one of my favorite icons as a child, said Pirovino of his first encounter with the artists work. "The sculpture was both menacing and comical; both anchored in long-established pop culture, yet whimsical. ... More
Exhibition of hand-drawn animation featuring martial arts fiction and fantasy premieres in China this fall
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announced the solo exhibition Retainers of Anarchy by local artist Howie Tsui being presented in China at OCAT Xian Museum from November 3, 2018 to January 31, 2019. Incorporating martial arts characters depicted in the epic tales of the Condor Trilogy written by Hong Kong writer Jin Yong, this exhibition first premiered to wide acclaim at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2017. Described by Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail as elegant in its execution and provocative, sparking endless contemplation, Retainers of Anarchy is presented as a non-linear narrative in the form of a twenty meter hand-drawn animation. The Vancouver Art Gallery is tremendously proud to bring Howies outstanding exhibition to international audiences, says Kathleen S. Bartels, ... More
Franklin Parrasch Gallery opens its first exhibition of paintings by the Winnipeg-based artist Wanda Koop
NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Parrasch Gallery is presenting Wanda Koop: Reflect, its first exhibition of paintings by the Winnipeg-based artist. From spectral, eerily wrought landscapes to abstracted planes of lurid, layered pigment, the paintings in this show function together as a suite of color poems. Evoking the visual effects of shimmering reflections on bodies of water, Koops flattened washes appear as if the paint and its accompanying energy might be emerging from behind the canvas, pushing up against an unstable, dynamic surface. Connecting with the experience of ones peaceful contemplation of a lake or a stream, these works invite a multileveled dialogue with beauty. Although Koop has, for decades, led and been actively involved in successful community arts initiatives for at-risk children and youth in her neighborhood, during the summer of 2018 she ... More
The Seaport culminates the visual transformation of Seaport Boulevard with Air Sea Land
BOSTON, MASS.- In its most extensive and exciting art installation yet, Seaport transforms the districts eponymous thoroughfare with the unveiling of Air Sea Land by world-renowned Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel. Funded by WS Development in partnership with global creative house and curator Justkids, this vibrant kaleidoscope of seven newly commissioned large-scale sculptures was designed specifically for display within Seaports sweeping cityscape. The works 8- to 12-foot sculptures are placed at deliberate intervals on the Seaport Boulevard landscaped medians at each pedestrian crossing, creating a public art corridor stretching half a mile across 5 blocks, walkable in 10 minutes. These multi-colored, monumental pieces create an entirely new visual experience in Boston and will remain indefinitely. Launching his career in his hometown of Santander, ... More
Village in the city tries to save Zimbabwe traditions
HARARE (AFP).- Children entering a hut in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital gaze in wonder at objects foreign to them -- ancient farm tools, pottery, even the grass roof and reed mats on which they are asked to sit. A bespectacled elderly woman claps her hands to get their attention and tells them gripping tales with words and songs about animals, folklore and supernatural beings. Hatifari Munongi, a poet, storyteller and retired schoolteacher, has built a replica traditional homestead at her property in the suburb of Marlborough in Harare. She was inspired to set up the miniature village after chatting with local children. "I would ask a child about 'nhodo' and they would stare at me with a blank face," she told AFP, referring to a game of counting pebbles in and out of a small pit in the ground, which was beloved by generations of Zimbabweans. "It was all foreign ... More
Over the Influence presents "Dressed Up for the Letdown" an exhibition of new works by Jonni Cheatwood
HONG KONG.- Over the Influence is presenting Dressed Up For the Letdown, an exhibition of new paintings from Brazilian-American, Los Angeles-based visual artist Jonni Cheatwood. The exhibition, marking Cheatwood's debut solo show in Hong Kong, opened on November 2, and remains on view through December 8, 2018. Mixing the materials of art-making with mundane items, Cheatwood's practice is one of controlled chaos. Beginning at the sewing machine before moving to the studio floor and then the walls and back again, Cheatwood's gestural abstract paintings are at once freewheeling and deliberate, spontaneous yet considered. Drawing from an expansive visual vocabulary, most notably Abstraction Expressionism with a provocation of Dada, Cheatwood's large-scale multimedia works are an amalgam of painterly marks and found ... More
US jazz trumpet player Roy Hargrove dies at 49
WASHINGTON (AFP).- American trumpet player Roy Hargrove, a precocious talent and a frequent performer at European jazz festivals, died Friday at age 49, his Facebook page announced Saturday. The page quoted his longtime manager Larry Clothier as saying Hargrove died in New York from cardiac arrest following complications from a battle with kidney disease. "One of the most respected and loved musicians in our New York City community and the world at large, the trailblazing multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter was known just as intensely for his brimming fire and fury as he was for his gorgeous, signature balladry," the post read. "Over and over, his sound attested to and sanctified his deep love for music. His unselfish timbre covered the waterfront of every musical landscape. Owning his music, his sound, Roy inspired generations of musicians." ... More
Pussy Riot activists stand up for Hong Kong freedoms
HONG KONG (AFP).- Members of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot joined Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners Saturday to defend freedom of expression as Beijing tightens its grip on the semi-autonomous city. Two members of the Russian group spoke alongside leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong at a panel discussion that had been due to accompany the launch of a highly anticipated art show by Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao. That show was cancelled Friday with Hong Kong organisers citing safety concerns due to "threats made by Chinese authorities relating to the artist". "We are very sorry to know that things are getting worse here. I think it is very important to be here now just to express our solidarity," Pussy Riot member Olga Kuracheva said during the packed panel discussion on freedom of art and expression, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and illustrator Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and style, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicholas Poussin and Philippe de Champaigne. In this image: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, c.1630.
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