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Vincent van Gogh (1853?1890), Undergrowth with Two Figures (detail), 1890, oil on canvas, Bequest of Mary E. Johnston, 1967.1430.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Centered on Vincent van Goghs Undergrowth with Two Figures, the Cincinnati Art Museums new exhibition, Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth, takes visitors up close with celebrated woodland landscapes from October 15, 2016January 8, 2017. This exhibitionpresented only at the Cincinnati Art Museumbrings an important group of artworks on loan from around the world together for the first time. Exploring the works of the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries, the exhibition traces the evolution of the Dutch artists love of the natural world, powers of observation and mastery of detail through this special group of landscape paintings spanning his career. This exhibition is the first to take a close look at Van Goghs poetic depictions of the forest floor, known as sous-bois, the French term for undergrowth. These odes to nature were a reaction to the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French Prime Minister Manuel Valls (2nd R) visits the new Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) with Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (R) in Quebec City, Quebec, on October 14, 2016. The French Prime Minister is on a state visit to Canada. FLORENCE CASSISI STR / AFP
| An unprecedented, international-loan exhibition of works by Claude Monet is at the Kimbell Art Museum this fall | | Compton Verney exhibits 70 works by Picasso from the collection of Museum Kunstpalast | | NOMA unveils 400 years of landscape masterworks in 'Seeing Nature' touring exhibition | 
Claude Monet, Luncheon on the Grass (Central Panel), c. 18651866. Oil on Canvas, 97 5/8 x 85 3/8 in. (248 x 217 cm) Musée dOrsay.
FORT WORTH, TX.- This groundbreaking exhibition is the first ever devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet. Monet: The Early Years will feature approximately 60 paintings from the first phase of the artists career, from his Normandy debut in 1858 until 1872, when he settled in Argenteuil, on the River Seine near Paris. On the strength of his invention of a highly personal and distinctive mode of painting, the young man positioned himself as an artist to be recognized and to be reckoned with. Monet: The Early Years examines this period in depth, through the greatest examples of his paintingdrawn from museums in the United States, Europe and Japan. The exhibition will enrich our understanding of the ways in which Monets artistic innovation and personal ambition evolved in tandem. Although individual masterworks from this decade of work are among the artists most famous paintings, there has never been an exhibition focusing exclusively on this period, ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Head of the Faun, 07.02.1962. Farblinolschnitt, Auflage 19/50. Colour Linocut, Edition 19/50, 64 x 53 cm. Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf © Succession Picasso, Foto: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Horst Kolberg, ARTOTHEK.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verneys captivating new exhibition brings fresh attention to the often overlooked yet brilliantly inventive printmaking career of one of the most influential figures of 20th century art. More than 70 works from the superlative collection of Dusseldorfs Museum Kunstpalast reveal Picassos insatiable curiosity and remarkable ability to exploit the creative possibilities of the medium over a forty year period. The show which is a touring exhibition of works dating from the 1920s to the 1960s when he was fully engaged in the medium traces Picasso experiments in various media, including etching, lithography, aquatint and linocut, on a wide variety of subjects, some of them offering a tantalising glimpse into the artists personal life. Picasso talked of printmaking as his way of writing fiction and this is reflected ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Le bassin aux nymphéas, 1919 (detail). Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 78 7/8 inches. Paul G. Allen Collection.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- NOMAs fall exhibition devoted to landscape explores the subject through an impressive range of styles and time periods from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries in Europe, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America. The thirty-nine masterpieces in Seeing Nature are selected from the collection of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. The exhibition, which runs from October 14, 2016 January 15, 2017, includes exemplary works by Claude Monet, Jan Brueghel the Younger, J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cezanne, Georgia OKeeffe, David Hockney, and Gerhard Richter. Defining the role and status of landscape can be elusive. Landscape can convey mood and serve as a meditative release. In art it has long functioned to communicate religious or geologic praise, and the wonder of natural phenomena. Social concerns and historic events can also be identifiable or underlying, as ... More |
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| Steve McQueen: Bringing art to the silver screen | | Clyfford Still Museum opens first-ever exhibition dedicated to artist's works on paper | | Blanton Museum of Art presents first exhibition in U.S. to examine Andy Warhol's work in books | 
British director Steve McQueen poses for photographers on the red carpet as he arrives for the BFI London Film Festival Awards in central London on October 15, 2016. Niklas HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Director Steve McQueen, whose poetic visual style helped secure a best picture Oscar for "12 Years a Slave", brings a sensibility to his films even when tackling harrowing subjects. The 46-year-old receives the British Film Institute's Fellowship award on Saturday, its highest accolade, in recognition of his movies exploring the endurance of humanity. "He is one of the most influential and important British artists of the past 25 years," said BFI chair Josh Berger. Whether sex addiction or slavery, McQueen is not afraid to confront ugly issues -- but his years as a visual artist bring beauty to his features nonetheless. Burly, with a booming voice that sometimes betrays his working-class roots, McQueen cuts an unlikely figure in a creative world ... More | | 
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DENVER.- In celebration of its fifth anniversary year, the Clyfford Still Museum presents Clyfford Still: The Works on Paper, the first-ever exhibition of Stills drawings, and the largest exhibition of Stills work at the Museum to date. The exhibition, on view October 14, 2016January 15, 2017, features more than 240 works, shedding new light on this integral but historically overlooked part of Stills creative process. Arranged chronologically, the exhibition reveals the centrality of drawing to Stills practice and offer an intimate look at the evolution of his style from figuration to fully realized abstractions. In addition to offering a chronological study of Stills works, the exhibition offers an in-depth exploration of works in many different media, the majority of which have never before been on public view. Among the exhibition highlights is a significant group of oil-on-paper ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Illustration (Sam, from 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy), ca. 1954 ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin presents Warhol By the Book, the first museum exhibition in the United States to examine Andy Warhols career-long work in booksan overlooked and important aspect of the artists life and career. The exhibition presents nearly all of Warhols book projects from his early days as a student in Pittsburgh and commercial illustrator in New York to his years as a Pop art pioneer and superstar celebrity. Organized by The Andy Warhol Museum, Warhol By the Book at the Blanton will include more than 250 objects that span five decades, including original artist books, book jacket covers and ephemera, illustrations, screen prints, paintings, photographs, films, and several ... More |
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| Galerie Aveline and Galleria Continua host works by the contemporary artist Daniel Buren | | First Los Angeles solo exhibition for celebrated artist Isa Genzken opens at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel | | Early works by the Italian-American artist Salvatore Scarpitta on view at Luxembourg & Dayan | 
Daniel Buren, Le Grand Losange, travail in situ Galleria Continua chez Galerie Aveline Jean-Marie Rossi. ©Daniel Buren / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Vanni Bassetti Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano/Beijing/Les Moulins/Habana.
PARIS.- He has changed painting profoundly. He has made the stripe a work of art. He is famous all over the world for his site-specific installations that transform places and views. After the exhibitions devoted to Michelangelo Pistoletto (2014) and Pascale Marthine Tayou (2015), the Galerie Aveline and Galleria Continua host works by the contemporary artist Daniel Buren from 10 October 2016 to 10 January 2017. Juggling time and space, this is an innovative meeting of the artists most recent creation and his works from the beginning at the gallery of an avant-garde antique dealer. From this intimate dialogue between periods and centuries, a thrilling experience is born. Outside, an installation: The Great Lozenge. Daniel Buren has taken over the entire facade of the 18th century building with black vertical stripes in the middle of which a large white lozenge is featured with windows coloured in blue, red, yellow. ... More | | 
Isa Genzken, Untitled, 2016. Mixed media, trolley, tapes, printed adhesive foil, pens, metal lamp, plastic can, film container, air pump, cord, cable, mirror foil, stickers, plastic magazine stand, thermal mat, 83 x 105 x 61 cm / 32 5/8 x 41 3/8 x 24 in. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Galerie Buchholz Cologne / Berlin / New York © Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Beginning 16 October, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will present Isa Genzken. I Love Michael Asher, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the celebrated artist. Isa Genzken was in her late 20s when she visited Michael Asher in California on a travel grant from Dusseldorf Academy, where she had begun teaching in 1977. At this time, Genzken was producing sleek lacquered wood sculptures known as Ellipsoids and Hyperbolos. This minimalist body of work, which lasted through the early 1980s, engaged with spatial and social aspects of line, mass, scale, color and movement through and around the works. Since their meeting, Genzkens diverse practice has encompassed sculpture, photography, drawing and painting. Her work borrows from the aesthetics of ... More | | 
Salvatore Scarpitta, Diogenes (X Member), 1961. Bandages, straps, amd mixed media, 32 7/8 x 26 3/4 x 4 in. Private collection. ©Stella Alba Cartaino. Photo: Andrew Romer. Courtesy Luxembourg and Dayan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Luxembourg & Dayan is presenting Salvatore Scarpitta 19561964, bringing together early works by the Italian-American artist (19192007), whose long career spanned non-objective abstraction, radical realism, and car racing in an oeuvre that achieved a distinctive mixture of material daring and tenderness. The exhibition spotlights a pivotal period of transformation, beginning with Scarpittas forays into shaped and bandaged paintings, initiated just before his 1958 return from Rome to his native United States. It concludes with his shift away from the canvas toward constructing racecars in 1964the culmination of his deep-seated belief in movement as metaphor for life. On view through December 23, Salvatore Scarpitta 19561964 traces two seemingly incongruous trajectories. The artists works in these years moved along a discernably linear path of formal growth from abstract wrapped ... More |
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| Hirshhorn debuts Ragnar Kjartansson's first major U.S. survey exhibition | | Parrasch Heijnen Gallery opens first ever career survey of the late artist Deborah Remington's works on paper | | Retrospective exhibition of the work of visionary painter William Scharf on view at Hollis Taggart Galleries | 
Ragnar Kjartansson, Woman in E, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, ReykjavÃk. Photo Andrew Miller.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Ragnar Kjartansson, the first major survey of the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist, runs Oct. 14-Jan. 8, 2017, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The exhibition is the first comprehensive overview of the artists prodigious output since his debut in ReykjavÃk, Iceland in 2000. It features the artists most celebrated works, including many never before seen in the U.S., and encompasses the entirety of his practice live endurance performance, large-scale video installations, drawings, photography and painting. Born into a theatrical family in ReykjavÃk in 1976, Kjartansson dons various guises from a foot soldier, to a Hollywood crooner, to an incarnation of death to both celebrate and ridicule the romantic figure of the artist as a cultural hero. Drawing from theater, ... More | | 
Self-Portrait, 1950. Ink on paper, 18 x 15 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery announces Deborah Remington: A Life in Drawing, 1950 2006, the first ever career survey of the late artists works on paper. This exhibition comprises over thirty works from fifty-six years of Remingtons practice in drawing, encompassing the artists diverse styles: from the more traditional abstract works of the late fifties, to her closely rendered signature shield forms of the sixties and seventies, to a synthesis of six decades in the later works. A renegade in every sense of the word, Remington (1930-2010), a relative of American painter Frederic Remington (1861-1909), earned her B.F.A. in 1955 from the California School of Fine Arts (later renamed the San Francisco Art Institute), where she studied with Clyfford Still, David Park and Elmer Bischoff, among others. While still in school, she became immersed in the Beat scene and was one of the six artists ... More | | 
Of the Square and by the Night, 1956 (detail). Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hollis Taggart Galleries is presenting William Scharf: Imagining the Actual, a retrospective exhibition of the work of visionary painter William Scharf. Selected in collaboration with the artists close friends and family, this exhibition reveals the genius of a man whose oeuvre is too little known. Though often grouped with the Abstract Expressionists, the sixty-five works on display will demonstrate how Scharfs art springs not from collective philosophy, but rather from a very unique artistic vision, one that has fueled Scharfs oeuvre over a career that spans more than six decades. The individuality of Scharfs oeuvre resists art historical categorization. His abstracted compositions of organic and geometric formal elements recall the free associations of Surrealism and the all-over grandeur of Abstract Expressionism, and at the same time embody a very individual ... More |
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 Nottingham Contemporary opens solo exhibitions by Marguerite Humeau and Otobong NkangaNOTTINGHAM.- Nottingham Contemporary presents two solo exhibitions this autumn, by the London-based French artist Marguerite Humeau and the Antwerp-based Nigerian artist Otobong Nkanga. Both exhibitions speculate about different lifeforms from plants and elephants to a celestial choir of 108 billion voices. Marguerite Humeau has described herself as an Indiana Jones in Google times. Her exhibition, titled FOXP2, is a partnership between Nottingham Contemporary and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, where it opened earlier this year. This ambitious project is being shown in two of Nottingham Contemporary's four galleries. Hovering somewhere between research and speculative fiction, Humeau has constructed what she calls a biological showroom. She tells stories about the origins of life and language, the development of consciousness and our possible ... More Pope opens private summer apartments to touristsVATICAN CITY (AFP).- Who needs a summer palace? Not Pope Francis, who has renounced the delights of Castel Gandolfo outside Rome and opened his private apartments to tourists, the Vatican said Friday. The Argentine has refused the traditional trappings of the papacy from the start, declining to move into the sumptuous papal apartment in the Vatican and plumping instead to live in a hotel inside the tiny city state. His rooms at Castel Gandolfo, a former summer favourite with popes hoping to escape the heat of the capital, have been turned into a museum which will be officially inaugurated on October 21. Francis has visited the palace some 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Rome only a couple of times since his election in 2013, and has never spent the night there. His predecessors John Paul II (1978-2005) and Benedict (2005-2013) often stayed at the site, which ... More Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei creates participatory installation at the National Gallery of VictoriaMELBOURNE.- Tens of thousands of flowers will be gifted between strangers as part of Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingweis The Moving Garden, opening at the National Gallery of Victoria on 15 October 2016. Lee is internationally recognised as one of the leading creators of art which invites audience participation, and this acclaimed artwork will create unexpected encounters for visitors to the gallery. Lee says of the work, In this project I present a space with beautiful, fresh flowers. Museum guests are invited to take one of these flowers with them when they leave the museum, if they will agree to do two things: first, to make a detour from their intended route when leaving the museum for their next destination; second, along this detour, to give the flower to a stranger who they feel would benefit from this unexpected act of generosity. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV, said, Lees ... More Art from Papua New Guinea celebrated in major Queensland Art Gallery exhibitionBRISBANE.- Fifty years of contemporary visual art in Papua New Guinea, with a focus on the countrys relationship with Australia, is explored in a major exhibition on view at the Queensland Art Gallery from 15 October to 29 January 2017. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines CNZM said No.1 Neighbour: Art in Papua New Guinea 19662016' would delight audiences with bold colour, towering sculptural forms, humour and hauntingly beautiful sounds. This is the first time QAGOMA has presented an exhibition of this scale entirely focused on Papua New Guinea. It draws together some of the earliest works from PNG acquired for the Collection, generous gifts from Australians with long-term connections to the young independent nation, and works secured through the Gallerys flagship Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art series, Mr Saines said. In addition to bilas (ornamentation) ... More Hosfelt Gallery showcases a full range of new work by Argentinian artist Liliana Porter SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Argentinian artist Liliana Porter is a master at distilling life and art to simple profundities through humorous juxtapositions of incongruous objects. For her first exhibition at the gallery in four years, Porter premieres a new video, Actualidades/Breaking News. In addition to the video, the exhibition showcases a full range of new work, including paintings, sculptural objects, installations, works on paper, and photographs, each challenging the proposition that time is linear and reality graspable. Over the years, Porter has amassed a prodigious and eccentric collection of figurines, knickknacks, toys, and souvenirs from her global travels. These kitschy objects appear regularly in her work, inviting political, philosophical, and existential interpretation through their arrangement in unexpected situations. Each tchotchke represents a different ... More For Dylan, aura of mystery extends to hometownHIBBING (AFP).- As a teenager in the wind-swept mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota, Bob Dylan, never especially talkative, surprised his high school by entering talent shows. His peers, some recall, were underwhelmed. "Everybody would be talking and nobody would be listening," classmate Jean Rue, 75, said about Dylan's early performances of his own early songs and covers Little Richard -- the rock-and-roller then on the cutting edge. "I guess he showed them," Rue added wryly. Dylan, the surprise winner Thursday of the Nobel Prize for Literature, left few visible traces in the city where he spent his formative years. A restaurant stocked with memorabilia -- called Zimmy's, after his given name Robert Zimmerman -- closed down and among the few reminders remaining of Dylan are a "Bob Dylan Drive" sign and an exhibit in the public library's basement with album covers and ... More Collezione Maramotti opens Figurative Geometry exhibitionREGGIO EMILIA.- The exhibition Figurative Geometry brings together works by nine artists who can be thought to represent abstraction or, equally, to abstract representation. To these ends, geometry and figuration are intermingled; shapes are shifted, geometry bends around itself, patterns emerge, while figuration refers to bodies in spacebodies which come forward and recedeas well as to numbers and their temporal register, to the number, for example, of seconds in a day. Time is also one of the subjects at hand. All of these works have been hand-painted, in some cases wet-into-wet, having to be completed in a single session. The brushstroke itself, amplified and performing to the scale and volume of the picture plane, has duration. Though seemingly in two dimensions, some of these works play with depth of field in terms of material, layering ... More Chemould Prescott Road presents new works by Dhruvi AcharyaMUMBAI.- Chemould Prescott Road welcomes Dhruvi Acharyas return with her much-awaited solo show, After the Fall, in India after 8 years. In her new paintings and a large site specific soft-sculptural installation, artist Dhruvi Acharya tries to investigate what happens to the mind, body and soul when one experiences that which is unfathomable, irreversible and unpredictable. Employing her subtle, dark and wry humour, Dhruvi Acharyas new body of work explores the arduous emotional and psychological processes of reconstructing ones self and returning to a purposeful life. The work exposes the numbness, the disbelief and the deafening screams in ones head, where battles have to be fought in order to understand and accept a new, altered reality. In her lusciously painted world, human forms morph to match their mental state, comic book inspired empty thought ... More Japan Society presents Simon Starling's solo institutional debut in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Japan Society Gallery hosts the solo institutional debut in New York City of Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Starling with his major new installation, Simon Starling: At Twilight (After W. B. Yeats Noh Reincarnation) this fall. On view from October 14, 2016 through January 15, 2017, the ambitious, new multimedia production by Starling incorporates major Western Modernist as well as classical Japanese artworks, juxtaposing Japans traditional, centuries-old and highly ritualize masked, dramatic theater (noh) and its influence on the avant garde this century. The exhibition marks the curatorial debut of Yukie Kamiya, following her appointment as Gallery Director of Japan Society in November 2015. Its very special that Japan Society can present Simons latest project, given his longstanding commitment to understanding global cultures including Japan. ... More Thierry Goldberg opens second solo exhibition of Tschabalala Self's workNEW YORK, NY.- Thierry Goldberg is presenting Gut Feelings, the second solo exhibition of Tschabalala Self. The show opened on October 14th and will run through November 13th. The collage-like work of Tschabalala Self examines the voyeurism and fantasies that surround the idea of feminine beauty. As concepts of blackness and femininity continually evolve, Self has dedicated herself to naming the phenomenon that forcibly frames our contemporary understanding of the black body in a collective fantasy. About Gut Feelings, Self says, The narrative is embedded within an intimate space. The relationship between instinct and intimacy is explored and moments of intense feeling and affect are highlighted. Hesitation to accept the unknown conflicts with my subjects desire to be known. Whether with another figure in the frame or an external onlooker, the women in Selfs ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Paul Strand was born October 16, 1890. Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 - March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. His diverse body of work, spanning six decades, covers numerous genres and subjects throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa. In this image: Wall Street, 1915.
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