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Vincent van Gogh, Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre, Paris, May 1887. Oil on canvas, 75.0 cm x 113.0 cm. Photo: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam / Vincent van Gogh Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- In the spectacular exhibition The Dutch in Paris 17891914, the Van Gogh Museum presents the French capital as seen through the eyes and hearts of eight Dutch artists: Van Spaendonck, Scheffer, Jongkind, Kaemmerer, Breitner, Van Gogh, Van Dongen and Mondrian. Their work from large, iconic canvases to tiny pearls is shown in this configuration for the first time along with work by their French contemporaries. At its heart is the inspiration Dutch artists found in Paris, their encounters with French artists and the impact this had on their art. The Dutch in Paris 17891914 (a collaboration with Paris Musées / Petit Palais and the RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History) showcases more than a hundred and twenty works, among them many loans from museums and private collections worldwide. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ai Weiwei Gilded Cage, 2017. Mild steel, paint Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio/ Frahm & Frahm Photo: Ai Weiwei Studio, Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY On view as part of the citywide exhibition Good Fences Make Good Neighbors , presented by Public Art Fund October 12, 2017-February 11, 2018
| China museum removes photos comparing Africans to animals in racism row | | Leopold Museum opens the most comprehensive retrospective in Austria of the oeuvre of Ferdinand Hodler | | Armada Portrait returns to Greenwich after conservation |
A dozen offending works were removed from the exhibition called "This is Africa". Photo: Screenshot from youtube.
BEIJING (AFP).- A Chinese museum has removed photographs which compare African people to animals from a controversial exhibition after being accused of racism, the curators said Friday. Social media users in Africa had led outrage over the montages, including one showing an open-mouthed African child alongside a monkey in the same pose, and another showing a black adult man baring his teeth alongside a photograph of a lion. Following the complaints, a dozen offending works were removed from the exhibition called "This is Africa", which has been showing for three weeks at the Hubei Provincial Museum, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. "To show our goodwill and sincerity, we have replaced the photos that our African friends find shocking," curator Wang Yuejun told AFP. The exhibition contained 150 images by photographer Yu Huiping, who has visited Africa many times and "greatly loves" the continent, said Wang. In creating ... More | |
Ferdinand Hodler, Selbstbildnis, 1912 © Kunstmuseum Basel, Vermächtnis Max Geldner, Basel.
VIENNA.- The Leopold Museum is presenting the most comprehensive retrospective in Austria of the oeuvre of Ferdinand Hodler (18531918) since the Swiss artists resounding success and international breakthrough at the 1904 exhibition at the Vienna Secession. Featuring loans from 26 institutions and various private collections in Switzerland as well as from further museums and collections in Germany, France and Liechtenstein, the presentation curated by Hans-Peter Wipplinger affords exciting insights into Hodlers main themes over an exhibition space of more than 1,000 square meters. In keeping with the exhibitions subtitle Elective Affinities from Klimt to Schiele, the focus is widened to include Hodlers influence on artists of Viennese Modernism: an exponent of Symbolism and Jugendstil, a pioneer of Expressionism and not least an innovator of monumental painting, the Swiss painter was an important inspiration ... More | |
This painstaking work was expertly undertaken by Elizabeth Hamilton-Eddy, who is Senior Paintings Conservator at Royal Museums Greenwich, with over 40 years experience in the field including on panel works of this kind.
LONDON.- The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I returned to the Queens House at Greenwich after more than six months of restoration treatment. The portrait is one of the earliest examples of large-scale work in oils by any English painter, with a connection to the two most important native-born artists of the age, George Gower and Nicholas Hilliard. Some 425 years after it was painted in the early 1590s and as the result of a major public appeal that raised £10.3 million, including £7.3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) the Armada Portrait finally entered public ownership in 2016, in the care of Royal Museums Greenwich. The HLF grant followed on from the public appeal mounted in association with Art Fund, which attracted 8,000 individual donations amounting to £1.5 million, as well as other major grants. After brief initial display in the Queens House last autumn, ... More |
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| Stolen for 40 years, Norman Rockwell masterwork may bring $1 million at Heritage Auctions | | Phillips Hong Kong announces highlights from the Fall Auction of Jewels and Jadeite | | McCabe Fine Art exhibits a diverse selection of Louise Nevelson's late career works |
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978), Lazybones, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 6, 1919. Oil on canvas, 26 x 24 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- Recently returned to a family after it was stolen more than 40 years ago, Norman Rockwells endearing Lazybones (Boy Asleep With Hoe), also known as Taking a Break, is expected to sell for more than $1 million in Heritage Auctions Nov. 3 American Art Auction in Dallas. The 1919 Saturday Evening Post cover makes its auction debut, highlighting an exceptional array of Golden Age illustration. Purchased for less than $100 in 1954 and stolen in June of 1976, Rockwells painting stands as one of the artist's first Saturday Evening Post covers, produced in 1919 when he was only 25. Lazybones illustrates not simply the classic Rockwell subject of childhood, but the quintessential American prankster-adventurer, Huck Finn. With his straw hat and bandana, work shirt, and tattered pants with suspenders, Rockwells character comes straight out of the pages of Mark Twain's celebrated novel. ... More | |
A Rare and Important Fancy Intense Green Diamond, 5.62 carats. Estimate: HKD 22,000,000 - 26,000,000. Image courtesy Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced highlights from the Jewels and Jadeite auction this Fall, including the star lot of the sale a rare intense green diamond. An exceptional collection of green stones is further highlighted by important Colombian emeralds and fine jadeites, offered alongside an array of Burmese rubies, precious gemstones, coloured and colourless diamonds of impeccable quality, as well as iconic pieces of signed vintage and period jewellery. With such a broad array of offerings this season, these are jewels that will appeal to seasoned collectors and influential tastemakers alike. Featuring over 140 lots, the sale is expected to realise in excess of HKD 160 million and will be held on the 27 November 2017 at the Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong. Terry Chu, Head of Jewellery, Phillips Asia: We are incredibly proud to lead the Fall season at Phillips with a rare and important fancy intense green diamond of ... More | |
Installation view.
STOCKHOLM.- One of the most important and innovative artists of the twentieth century, Louise Nevelson (18991988) redefined modern sculpture and influenced artists of subsequent generations with her avant-garde environmental installations. Her best-known worksfound objects such as moldings, dowels, spindles, and furniture scraps assembled into wooden or steel box structures and entirely painted black, gold, or whitedefied categorization in the 1950s, but undoubtedly paved the way for what would come to be called installation art by the 1970s. Inspired by Mayan ruins in Guatemala and Mexico, Nevelsons boxed-in works eventually reached monumental proportions. Sky Cathedral, 1958, in the collection of MoMA and Sky Gate New York, 1978, installed at the World Trade Center, but destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks of 2001, exemplify the impressive outsized installations she designed for indoor and outdoor spaces around the world. Irrespective of sc ... More |
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| Hidden film treasures brought to life in British vault | | The Cleveland Museum of Art opens Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar | | Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers announces highlights from its 20th Anniversary Auction |
Robert Ewart, Collections Care Manager at the British Film Institute's (BFI) National Archive, looks at cans of film stacked on shelves at the storage archives at the British Film Institute. ADRIAN DENNIS / AFP.
BERKHAMSTED (AFP).- In a refrigerated vault outside London filled with old film reels, a team of curators is bringing to life forgotten masterpieces of early cinema history. A chemical smell hangs in the air at the British Film Institute's National Archive, where some 250,000 wheels of old film are stacked floor-to-ceiling. "As we're restoring them we're pulling back the veils of history, and we can see much more clearly than we used to," curator Bryony Dixon told AFP on a visit to the archive in the town of Berkhamsted this week. A selection plucked from the shelves is being showcased at the BFI's London Film Festival, including a tale about the heartbreaking Indian love story of the Taj Mahal mausoleum. "Shiraz: A Romance of India" is being screened at a gala on Saturday for the first time since its release in 1928, following months of restoration. "It's beautiful, it's dramatic, it's got exciting locations, and great acting. And it's ... More | |
Hevajra, about 1200. Cambodia, reign of Jayavarman VII. Bronze; 46 x 23.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Maxeen and John Flower in honor of Dr. Stanislaw Czuma, 2011.143.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Beyond Angkor: Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar features an unprecedented loan from the National Museum of Cambodia consisting of a section of the 800-year-old sculpted enclosure wall of the great royal temple at Banteay Chhmar. Intricately carved, the wall depicts a larger-than-life image of the bodhisattva of compassion in the form of the 10-armed Lokeshvara, Lord of the World, surrounded by devotees. In 2015 the Cleveland Museum of Art forged a Cultural Cooperation Agreement with the National Museum of Cambodia, following the transfer of a tenth-century Khmer sculpture of the monkey god Hanuman from Cleveland to Cambodia. The agreement allowed for exceptional works of art to be lent for exhibition at the CMA in order to promote knowledge and appreciation of Cambodias cultural heritage. Complementing the 9-foot tall by 12-foot wide sculpture are ... More | |
Oil on canvas painting by Abbott Fuller Graves (Am., 1859-1936), titled In the Garden, artist signed lower right and measuring 24 inches by 20 inches (est. $100,000-$150,000).
MILFORD, CONN.- Shannons Fine Art Auctioneers will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Thursday, October 26th, with a special inaugural auction in their new gallery location at 49 Research Drive in Milford, Connecticut. For the past 20 years, Shannons has worked with private collectors, institutions and dealers to sell over $100,000,000 in fine art. For this auction, Shannons will present nearly 300 lots of American and European paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. Leading the sale are several fine paintings from a prominent collection in Michigan. The works represent the best of the best in American art, led by William Glackens The Bathers, with an estimate of $250,000-$350,000. The cover lot, Abbot Fuller Graves In the Garden, is another superb painting from the collection (est. $100,000-$150,000). Other offerings from the collection include a rare Hudson River view by James Fairman (est. $70,000- ... More |
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| Mona Hatoum's first solo exhibition in the U.S. in twenty years opens at the Menil Collection | | Museum Ludwig, Cologne opens exhibition of photographs by Werner Mantz | | Exhibition presents the work of four photographers connected by family ties |
Mona Hatoum, Cells (detail), 2014. Zinc plated steel and hand-blown glass, 54 x 48 x 25 in (137 x 122 x 63.5 cm). Courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York. © Mona Hatoum. Photo: Joerg Lohse.
HOUSTON, TX.- The London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) creates work that addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world, one that is as technologically networked as it is politically fractured by war and exile. Investigating place and the body through a minimalist language of form and a wide range of materials, from glass and steel to light and sand, her sculptures and installations since the late-1980s are grounded in questions about how shifting geography and the limits of institutional structures can redefine our understanding of the world around us. Organized by Menil Senior Curator Michelle White, Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma is the internationally-acclaimed artists first major solo exhibition in the United States in more than twenty years. The exhibition presents approximately 30 major sculptures and installations from North American ... More | |
Werner Mantz, Haus Am Botanischen Garten, Köln, um 1929. Bromsilberdruck © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln.
COLOGNE.- Werner Mantz (19011983) is known as one of the most prominent photographers of the Neues Bauen movement of modernist architecture in Cologne during the 1920s. Born and raised in Cologne, in 1921 he opened a photo studio, where he initially took portraits of famous intellectuals, artists, and politicians. In 1926 he began receiving commissions as an architectural photographer for Wilhelm Riphahn, Peter Franz Nöcker, Caspar Maria Grod, and other representatives of avant-garde architecture who implemented Konrad Adenauers housing policy for a modern Cologne. Architectural magazines such as Bauwelt, Die Form, and Bauwarte frequently published his works. Their objective, black-and-white austerity gives the deserted buildings and streets in Mantzs pictures the appearance of monumental backdrops of the modern age. It was these pictures that made Colognes modernist architecture renowned ... More | |
Takayuki Ogawa. Untitled 18, 1995-1997. From the series Beyond the Mirror: A Self-Portrait.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington, in conjunction with the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art, presents the exhibition A Shared Elegy. The exhibit opened on October 13 and continues through November 16, 2017. A 112-page book, A Shared Elegy will be published and distributed through Indiana University Press. A Shared Elegy presents the work of four photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle, Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father, Emmet Gowin, present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories. Nakagawa, like his uncle Ogawa, grew up in Japan and draws upon his countrys traditions and the practice of honoring elders. Family heritage and home in Virginia have inspired the Gowins to make photographs that depict the intimate and hallowed nature of the world. These photographs compel us to reflect on our own lineage and consider our ... More |
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London Transport Museum opens exhibition featuring 130 original posters and artworks by women artists
LONDON.- A major new exhibition Poster Girls a century of art and design opened at London Transport Museum on 13 October 2017. With over 130 original posters and artworks on display in the Exterion Media Gallery, the exhibition celebrates the often hidden contribution of female artists to the rise of the poster over the last one hundred years. Starting in the early 1900s when poster art was in its infancy, the exhibition charts the key role played by London Transport in commissioning women designers and providing a platform for their art. Poster Girls showcases some of the leading female artists who have worked for London Transport and Transport for London including well-known designers, such as Mabel Lucie Attwell, Laura Knight, Enid Marx and Zandra Rhodes, alongside lesser known individuals who nonetheless changed the way Londoners viewed ... More
KW Institute for Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by British artist Lucy Skaer
BERLIN.- KW Institute for Contemporary Art continues its examination of the political potential of communication by shifting the focus on notions of (cultural) representation, appropriation, and translation through the lens of the work of artist Lucy Skaer as part of the fall season. For her exhibition at KW, British artist Lucy Skaer (born 1975 in Cambridge, GB) is presenting an ambitious new body of work embedded in a selection of existing works from the last ten years. The exhibition presents the most substantial survey of Skaers work to date in Germany. Skaer draws on pre-existing imagery, narrative and forms shaped by biography, usage and industry standards shaped by mass production and global trade to make intuitive amalgamations of sculpture, film and print. Form, meaning, and value are traced in her work through various states of formal and allegorical ... More
Solo show featuring the works of the Turkish photographer Sitki Kosemen opens in Berlin
BERLIN.- BERLINARTPROJECTS opened the autumn season with the exhibition Retrace: Memory and Scenery, solo show featuring the works of the well-known Turkish photographer Sitki Kosemen. This photography exhibition strengthens the gallerys relationship with the medium all the while inviting each individual of the Berlin audience to make its own path through the views, as a promenade reflecting personal landscapes and memories. Empty spaces, newspaper collages on the walls, traces of human figures or make believe horizons covered with marks and imprints compose the scenery with a sense of déjà vu and set the frame of the exhibition. There is little chance that we have been to this exact location before, the former Jewish High School in Ortakoy, Istanbul. The impression of remembrance is given by these sequences featured by Sitki Kosemen, who recalls ... More
Exhibition at Freight+Volume presents a new body of work by Ezra Johnson
NEW YORK, NY.- Freight+Volume is presenting Capn Crunch, Ezra Johnson's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. This new body of work is a continuation of themes and ideas cultivated over several years and expressed between the mediums of painting, stop-frame animation, and sculpture - a fluidity of materials and formats that has been a hallmark of Johnsons practice since 2004. The title Capn Crunch comes from the breakfast cereal of the same name - a mass-marketed product that both literally and figuratively sugarcoats mythologies of Americas history. The Capn, dressed in an American Revolutionary-style naval uniform, serves as a symbol of American imperialism and the related cliches and mythologies, as well as a beacon of hope for the artist that we might learn to shed these beliefs. Pirate shows a romanticized buccaneer (Tampa), a little beaten ... More
Gino Miles exhibition opens at the Polk Museum of Art
LAKELAND, FLA.- Visitors to the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College got a taste of Gino Miles work when the museum installed one of his sculptures at its entrance in 2016. The gift of that sculpture titled Introspection from Clearwater couple Moshe and Ella Kedan led to the exhibition Bound Ascension: The Sculpture of Gino Miles, which runs through Jan. 14. Miles works primarily in fabricated stainless steel and bronze. The curvilinear, often weightless appearance of his pieces creates a visual contradiction with the heavy metal materials from which they are made. His large-scale sculptures are designed to be touched, turned and viewed from different vantage points. Some are so large that special arrangements were made to get them into the exhibition. The largest piece is titled Shelter, and required a crane to lift it over the museum ... More
Asterix illustration sells for record 1.4 million euros
PARIS (AFP).- An original illustration for the cover of one of the early Asterix comic books sold for a record 1.4 million euros (1.7 million dollars) at auction on Friday, more than seven times its expected price, an auction house announced. The drawing for "Asterix and the Banquet" ("Le Tour de Gaul" in French), signed by the creators of the legendary series, Albert Uderzo and Rene Goscinny, was sold by the Drouot auction house in Paris. The story, first published as an album in 1965, recounts the travels of shrewd Gallic hero Asterix and his rotund sidekick Obelix as they travel round France collecting local delicacies and wine. It had been expected to sell for 180,000-200,000 euros, a statement from Drouot said. Another cover illustration for the "Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield" volume sold for 1.2 million euros. The famed Asterix characters are set to return next ... More
'Superpope' Francis T-shirts to help poor, needy
ROME (AFP).- A work of street art that turned Pope Francis into "superpope" will now support Vatican charitable projects through the sale of t-shirts bearing the flying pontiff, artist MauPal said Friday. In 2014, graffiti artist MauPal -- whose real name is Mauro Pallotta -- depicted Francis as a superman on a wall in the Eternal City, flying through the air with his right fist outstretched and white cassock billowing behind him. The pope clutched his trademark black bag in his left hand, from which a blue-and-red striped scarf peeked out. When it appeared in Rome in January 2014, it captured the imagination of tourists and locals alike. Two years later, MauPal drew Francis in a school-boy spirit, playing a cheeky wall game of noughts and crosses while a Swiss Guard kept watch. "With the economic and social crisis that hit Italy and the world, I saw Francis as a symbol ... More
Philbrook bares all for Museum Confidential
TULSA, OKLA.- Philbrook Museum of Art opened Museum Confidential to the public Saturday, October 14, 2017. This groundbreaking exhibition turns Philbrook inside out, revealing practices, stories, and an unprecedented number of never-before-seen works of art. This innovative exhibition format allows Philbrook Director (and Museum Confidential curator) Scott Stulen the opportunity to present a unique, behind-the-scenes experience that illuminates the inner workings of museums, collections and their workers. Exclusive to Philbrook, this show will run through May 6, 2018. This Philbrook-originated exhibition explores how museums work from the inside out through four participatory sections. Museum Mysteries (research and investigate) The Other 95% (look closer) DIY Exhibition (curate a show) Locally inspired installation by artist-in-residence Andy ... More
Gayle Chong Kwan's 11-metre high sculpture The Fairlop Oak takes root in the Barbican foyer
LONDON.- On 14 October artist Gayle Chong Kwans monolithic 11-metre high sculpture The Fairlop Oak, took root in the Barbican, towering up through three floors into the ground floor foyers. The hybrid contemporary-historical installation draws together new, natural and man-made materials, with scores of small model houses created from waste packaging sitting atop felled branches from Epping Forest. The Fairlop Oak is part of The Peoples Forest, an ambitious two-year investigation by Chong Kwan into the politics, history of protest, and people of Londons ancient woodland, Epping Forest. Chong Kwan explores the forest as a site of shared and contested resources, conflict between capital and common, private and public, and as a threshold between rural and urban. The original Fairlop Oak was a celebrated tree and also the site of a famous eighteenth ... More
PIASA announces highlights from its Contemporary African Art + Design sale
PARIS.- On 29 Novembe 2017 PIASA will offer for sale a fresh selection of artists and designers from Africa and its diaspora at the auction Contemporary African Art + Design. The auction will take place at PIASA's premises in the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, which will host an exceptional installation by Benin artist Edwige Aplogan for the occasion. A natural link between the two PIASA specialities of Contemporary African Art and Contemporary African Design, the sale will feature works of contemporary African Design by artists/designers from West Africa and the Maghreb for the first time. Highlights include two limited-edition works by Hamed Ouattara (Burkina Faso), his Indigola cabinet and Gold furniture. There will be a number of high quality items by Aïssa Dione, one of the stars of the recent Revelations fair at the Grand Palais, whose fabrics are much ... More
RRB Photobooks to publish Danish photographer 'Dublin' by Krass Clement
LONDON.- In 1991, Danish photographer Krass Clement, shot his acclaimed photobook Drum, legendary for being created in on just one evening on three rolls of film. At this time Clement was on a three month on a residency at Tyrone Gurhie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. Whilst on this residency, Clement also photographed the city of Dublin during three short visits. The resulting photographs, contemporary to Drum, are published in this new book for the first time, over 25 years since their creation. Dublin follows the journey of a flaneur through the Irish city beginning in the deserted streets on the outskirts in the dark before dawn. Shot at angles, furtive glimpses into doorways and down urban streets, give the impression of walking at pace and staying in the shadows. The sense of movement in Dublin is accentuated by the f ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist James Tissot was born October 15, 1836. James Jacques Joseph Tissot (15 October 1836 - 8 August 1902) was a French painter, who spent much of his career in Britain. Tissot exhibited in the Paris Salon for the first time in 1859, where he showed five paintings of scenes from the Middle Ages, many depicting scenes from Goethe's Faust. These works show the influence of the Belgian painter Henri Leys (Jan August Hendrik Leys), whom Tissot had met in Antwerp in 1859, over his work. In this image: Le Balcon du Cercle de la rue Royale (The Circle of the Rue Royale), 1868.
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