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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Woman Reading in the Studio, c. 1868 (detail), oil on paperboard on wood, overall: 32.5 x 41.3 cm (12 13/16 x 16 1/4 in.) framed: 50.5 x 59.1 x 6.4 cm (19 7/8 x 23 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Dressed in rustic Italian costume or nude on a grassy plain, rendered with a sophisticated use of color and a deft, delicate touch, Corot's women convey a mysterious sense of their inner lives. Corot: Women features 44 paintings created between the 1840s and the early 1870s: nudes, individual figures in costumes, and an allegorical series of the model in the studio. The National Gallery of Art is the only venue for Corot: Women, on view from September 9 through December 31, 2018. "Recognized as a great master of landscape painting, Corot is among the best represented artists in the Gallery's collection of 19th-century French art. This unique exhibition presents an opportunity to examine a smaller and less well-known aspect of his career," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "We are grateful to The Edwin L. Cox Exhibition Fund, as well as Leonard and Elaine Silverstein, who helped to make this exhibition possible." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on September 8, 2018 shows the tomb of Mehu in the Saqqara necropolis, south of the Egyptian capital Cairo during the inauguration for the visitors for the first time since its discovery in 1940 by an Egyptian mission led by Egyptologist Zaki Saad. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
| The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum exhibits John Lennon's childhood stamp album | | Exhibition invites visitors to interact with nine office chairs that seem to have lives of their own | | Cuaron's Mexican 'masterpiece' wins Venice film festival |
John Lennon Stamp Album, Front Cover. Courtesy National Postal Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- John Lennon: The Green Album opened Sept. 7 at the Smithsonians National Postal Museum and coincides with the U.S. Postal Services issuance of the John Lennon Forever Stamp, honoring the legendary singer and songwriter. The stamp is the latest in the Music Icons stamp series. The exhibition will be open through Feb. 3, 2019. Lennon (19401980), along with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, achieved superstardom as the rock and roll band, The Beatles. However, before Lennon travelled the globe playing music with The Beatles, this boy from Liverpool, England, saw the world in a completely different waythrough stamps. Lennons childhood stamp album, which includes 565 stamps on more than 150 pages, will be on display, along with a tribute to previously issued U.S. Postal Service Music Icons stamps, including those honoring Lydia Medoza, Johnny ... More | |
Installation view. Photo by Chad Moore © Urs Fischer, courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting PLAY, conceived by Urs Fischer with choreography by Madeline Hollander. At the intersection of sculpture, behavior, and choreography, PLAY is an arena of chance encounters where visitors are invited to interact with nine office chairs that seem to have lives of their own. Play, a ritual older than humankind, has set rules that distinguish it from reality, but it has no clear aim or value other than itself. Instead, it is merely a feedback loop, a push/pull of energy, bound by time and place. Accordingly, the chairs seem to behave in such ways as to belie some level of predictabilityonly to then debunk the illusion. The more the viewer seeks to control the chairs, the clearer it becomes that they are not pawns or pets but participants. By attempting to understand the choreography, we actually create it, enacting the very patterns that we wish to decode. Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in ... More | |
Director Alfonso Cuaron prepares to deliver a speech after he received the Golden Lion award for Best Film for the movie "Roma" during the awards ceremony of the 75th Venice Film Festival on September 8, 2018 at Venice Lido. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
VENICE (AFP).- Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron won the Golden Lion top prize at the Venice film festival Saturday for "Roma", which critics called not merely a movie but "a vision". With its highly emotional story centred on an indigenous maid working for a middle-class family in Mexico City in 1971, it has been hailed as Cuaron's most personal film -- and also his best. Cuaron told reporters that in an incredible coincidence "today is the birthday of Libo, the woman the movie is based on. What a present!" The film industry bible Variety said "Roma" is likely to go down as a "masterpiece". "It is no mere movie -- it's a vision... where every image and every emotion is perfectly set in place," said critic Owen Gleiberman. Cuaron "dunks us, moment by moment, image by luminously composed image, into ... More |
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| Strauss & Co to visit London with Irma Stern 'fresh-to-the-market' after 24 years with perfect provenance | | Perrotin Paris opens a solo exhibition by Japanese artist MADSAKI | | Collection of adventurer Steve Fossett and Peggy Fossett to be offered at auction |
Dahlias by Irma Stern for sale with Strauss & Co for £430,000 - £646,000.
LONDON.- Three directors of Strauss & Co, South Africas record breaking fine art auction house, are heading to London to introduce themselves to new audiences, bringing with them a gem-like Irma Stern painting, titled Dahlias (1947) that has not been seen on the market for almost a quarter of a century. The picture has an immaculate tracked provenance and is for sale for £430,000 to £646,000. The Strauss & Co team will be at the Royal Over-Seas League, St Jamess, on Tuesday 25 September from 11am to 5pm and all are welcome to view this wonderful Irma Stern picture and other important South African and British paintings. Dahlias by Irma Stern was last sold on 24th March 1994, 24 years ago. Its provenance is well documented. It was purchased directly from the artist by Ben and Cecilia Jaffe for their collection and passed by descent to Mrs Phyllis Levenstein, ... More | |
Portrait of MADSAKI. Photo: Claire Dorn © Courtesy Perrotin, Kaikai Kiki.
PARIS.- Perrotin is presenting French Fries with Mayo, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist MADSAKI. Following BADA BING, BADA BOOM at Perrotin Seoul last year, this is his first time exhibiting in Paris. The show will feature a newly completed series of paintings. A graduate of New York Citys Parsons School of Design (BFA, 1996), MADSAKI was born in Osaka, Japan, and raised in New Jersey, USA experiences between two cultures that formed his aesthetics and personality. While much of MADSAKIs work centers on his interest in art history and critiquing mass culture with references to slang, movies and manga characters, the artist has recently been exploring more personal, intimate topics. To express this visually, MADSAKI developed a signature style using spray paint as a fine art medium, stemming from the fact that he has never participated in illegal ... More | |
Saint Jerome Kneeling in a Landscape with an Angel.
CHICAGO, IL.- Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces the sale of property from the estate of Steve and Peggy Fossett. This landmark collection will be sold at auction October 30 and 31 and will be on view in Chicago October 26 29. Steve Fossett was a record-setting adventurer and explorer. He was friends with Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group sponsored a number of Fossetts sailing and aviation attempts. This included the ultimate flight when in February 2006 Fossett flew the Virgin GlobalFlyer for the longest uninterrupted and unrefueled aircraft flight in history, covering 25,766 miles. He was the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the Earth in a hot air balloon. He broke records of speed and distance as a sailor and was one of the sports most prolific distance record holders. He participated in races across many disciplines, including the Iditarod, Ironman and Paris to Dakar Rally. He also sw ... More |
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| Sikkema Jenkins & Co. opens a solo exhibition of new paintings by Luiz Zerbini | | Sotheby's Hong Kong announces highlights from its Fine Chinese Paintings Autumn Sale | | Metro Pictures presents new large-scale sculptures and photographic works printed on fabric by B. Wurtz |
Luiz Zerbini, Logo-love, 2018 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 78.75 x 78.75 inches (200 x 200 cm) © Luiz Zerbini, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting a solo exhibition of new paintings by Luiz Zerbini, on view at the gallery from September 6 through October 13, 2018. This is the artists second show at the gallery. Luiz Zerbini is among Brazils most prominent living artists. His wide-ranging practice includes sculpture, collage, installation, prints, and even music compositions and sound pieces as a member of the noise band Chelpa Ferro, but he is best known for his colorful works on canvas which range from abstract paintings through to landscapes, cityscapes, and domestic scenes. The present exhibition features a mostly abstract body of work, in which Zerbini, a constant innovator, continues to experiment with painting techniques resulting in novel visual effects. While maintaining the modernist grid (a characteristic of his abstract work) as an organizing principal, Zerbini introduces new circular geometries ... More | |
Zhang Daqian, Self Portrait with a Tibetan Mastiff. Splashed ink and colour on gold paper, framed, 176 by 96 cm. Estimate upon request. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Fine Chinese Paintings Autumn Sale on 2 October 2018 will feature approximately 270 exquisite modern Chinese ink paintings, with a combined estimate in excess of HK$230 million*. The sale is led by two monumental figure paintings by Zhang Daqian from very different periods in his career: the splashed-ink-and-colour Self Portrait with a Tibetan Mastiff, and Portrait of Guanyin from Dunhuang Fresco in Gongbi brushwork style. Further highlights include a landscape masterpiece by Fu Baoshi from the 1940s, Wu Guanzhongs old Hong Kong croquis, Wing On Street - Cloth Alley and Li Kerans Kunlun Mountains, annotated by Chairman Mao Zedongs poetry. Carmen Ip, Acting Head of Department, Fine Chinese Paintings, Sothebys Asia, comments, This season, we are pleased to bring together works of artistic significance by modern Chinese artists. Many boast impeccable ... More | |
B. Wurtz, Untitled, 2018. Wood, plastic bag, metal stands, yard stick, string, shoelaces, screws, towel, sock, plastic lids, mesh, 90 x 60 x 60 inches, 228.6 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Coinciding with Kitchen Trees," B. Wurtzs major installation for Public Art Fund at City Hall Park in lower Manhattan, Domestic Space at Metro Pictures includes new large-scale sculptures and photographic works printed on fabric. While Wurtz is known for his carefully assembled sculptures made from quotidian objects, the works on view here demonstrate the post-conceptual broadening of art inherent to the artists long-standing practice. Playing with scale, perspective, and various media, he continues to mine the full potential of household objects and materials, testing aesthetic principles and notions of intrinsic value with humor and insight. This will be Wurtzs first exhibition at the gallery since 2013. Domestic Space features Wurtzs Photo/Object series begun in 1987. Each work consists of a sculptural object ... More |
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| Kunstsammlung NRW opens exhibition of new and recent work by Lutz Bacher | | Newly commissioned audio collages and works on paper on view at the Glass House | | Julie Heffernan's first New York presentation in five years opens at P·P·O·W |
Lutz Bacher, Vegas Pants, 2018, Courtesy the artist und Galerie Buchholz, Berlin / Cologne / New York. Photo: Lutz Bacher © Kunstsammlung NRW.
DUSSELDORF.- American artist Lutz Bacher has been making work spanning an array of media since the 1970s. The artist is a longtime resident of California, and as of recent, of New York. The game of hide-and-seek she plays with her own self by working under a masculine pseudonym since early on in her career can serve as a helpful entry point to Bachers artistic practice. It centers around issues of identity, power structures, and violence, all the while remaining ambiguous and enigmatic. Addressing the influence of the mass media on everyday social and political life, Bacher often works with found objects as well as texts and images drawn from the minutiae of popular culture: soundtracks from Hollywood films, props from television shows, unedited cell phone videos, and the physical detritus from various spheres of consumption. Through techniques of rearrangement, ... More | |
Jennie C. Jones in the Sculpture Gallery. Courtesy of The Glass House, photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Jennie C. Jones: RPM (revolutions per minute) brings together newly commissioned audio collages and works on paper that extend the artists ongoing engagement with visual and sonic abstraction. Throughout her work, Jones has mined histories of American Modernismfocusing on Minimalism, avant-garde music, and their corresponding cultural, social and political shiftsin order to highlight the unlikely alliances that emerge among them. Jones describes this approach as listening as a conceptual practice. For this commission, Jones inserts two site-responsive audio collages into the Philip Johnsondesigned Glass House (1949) and Sculpture Gallery (1970). In the Glass House, the artists durational intervention employs a harmonious combination of solfeggio frequencies that encourages visitors to consider the aural environment of the transparent ... More | |
Julie Heffernan, Self-Portrait with Eruption, 2018. Oil on canvas, 68 x 55 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W announces Hunter Gatherer, Julie Heffernans eighth solo exhibition with the gallery and her first New York presentation in five years. With this exhibition, Heffernan continues her practice of bringing the viewer directly into contact with her interior world through a series of virtuosic self-portraits. For over three decades, Heffernans career can be viewed as chronicling an individual life; her early paintings describe youthfulness through ripe still lives and fecund landscapes, while her later paintings suggest maturation through depictions of accumulation and loss. Compelled by the excess of images our contemporary world has access to, Heffernan, in her new series, examines the accumulation of culture in our mental landscapes and the effect such images have on our collective unconscious. By unraveling our cultural memory as it is captured in shared imagery, Heffernan reveals how images ran ... More |
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A private collection of important design will highlight Doyle's September 17 auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will hold the popular Doyle+Design auction on Monday, September 17 at 10am. The sale showcases Modern and Contemporary furniture, decorations and art by some of the most prominent designers, makers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Highlighting the auction is a Private Collection of Important Design. Spanning the late 19th century through the third quarter of the 20th century, the furniture and decorative arts offered in this exceptional collection include important examples of early Modernism in America and Europe. An armchair designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned in 1897 by Catherine Cranston for the Billiard and Smoking Room of the Argyle Street Tea Room in Glasgow (est. $40,000-60,000). Also offered is a red lacquered costumer by Mackintosh from the Chinese ... More
Exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art debuts new works by Jeffrey Gibson
CLINTON, NY.- The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College is presenting Jeffrey Gibson: This Is the Day from September 8 through December 9, 2018, featuring over 50 works of sculpture, painting, installation, and video made between 2014 and 2018, a number of which were made expressly for this exhibition. As part of the exhibition, the Wellin debuts a new film that the Museum commissioned from Gibson. Other new works in the exhibition include a group of five elaborately adorned helmets that are being presented to the public for the first time at the Wellin, alongside a series of large-scale sculptural garments, draped on tipi poles which hang from the gallery ceiling. The exhibition is curated by Tracy L. Adler, Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Museum of Art, and will travel to the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, ... More
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden mourn the loss of Henry H. Arnhold
DRESDEN.- The Director General of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections), Marion Ackermann, expresses her condolences about the loss of Henry H. Arnhold: The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden have lost one of their most valued patrons and a loyal friend. The Dresden native was at our side for decades, had personal ties to many colleagues at the museums and, during all that time, played an intensive part in the work of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Henry Arnhold was an art enthusiast and art connoisseur who supported countless exhibitions and research projects of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, such as The Grand Cure: A disabled Saxon Prince and his Tour of Italy at the Green Vault in 2018 or Beneath Italian Skies at the Albertinum in 2017, to name two very recent ... More
Distinguished architect MJ Long OBE RIBA dies
LONDON.- The British Library announced the death of the distinguished architect MJ Long OBE RIBA, who worked closely with her late husband, Sir Colin St John Wilson, on the design and construction of the Grade 1 listed British Library building at St Pancras, and whose own firm designed the Librarys Centre for Conservation. MJ Longs association with the Library over many decades both before and after the opening in 1997 of the St Pancras building culminated in her work with Rolfe Kentish on the design and completion of the British Library Centre for Conservation in 2006-7. Since it opened, this world-class facility has enabled conservation work to take place on some of the Librarys greatest treasures, including the Diamond Sutra and Magna Carta. MJ Long continued to take a keen and generous interest in the Librarys growth and development ... More
Nancy Toomey Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Daniele Puppi
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Defined by some critics as an artist outside the canon, and most of all outside the language and formula of contemporary art, since his debut in 1996 with Fatica no.1, a site-specific audiovisual installation, Daniele Puppi has been working to unhinge the idea of space that is still perceived and revolves around Euclidean parameters. With an emphasis on video installation, he has manifested a new attitude towards this medium, emphasizing and radically subverting the use of sound and visual-architectonic reconfigurations that always reinvents itself. A totally new, alien perspective. Puppi conceives of his work as authentic "works in regress", which come into being after a long period of gestation spent inside the spaces. The artist experiences the environment and establishes an almost carnal relationship with it, assessing its limits and ... More
Exhibition featuring works by 12 Los Angeles-based painters and sculptors on view at DENK gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- DENK gallery is presenting Pairings, an exhibition featuring works by 12 Los Angeles-based painters and sculptors. Selectively matched, and given free interpretative reign within an allotted area of the gallery, the artists explore the tangential visual and conceptual relationships galvanized by the paired interaction of their works. The relational space and contiguity created by these encounters are generative, forging unexpected connections and new connotative points of access. In Pairings, artist-chosen selections correlate across two-dimensional and threedimensional media, framed by the specific curatorial choices of each collaboration. Linked by this gesture of conversation and reciprocity, affinities and contentions emerge in the spaces generated by proximity and overlap. Pairings features new and recent paintings ... More
New book: The Untamed Eye by Stephanie Pfriender Stylander
NEW YORK, NY.- Through her intimacy with her subjects and sweeping cinematic vision, Stephanie Pfriender Stylander has created unforgettable images over the last 25 years, all shot on film, for such leading magazines as Harper's Bazaar Uomo, French Glamour, Interview, British GQ, and including portraits of icons such as Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz, Nicole Kidman, Heath Ledger, and Kate Moss, who graces the cover of the photographer's first monograph. The Untamed Eye (MW Editions, September 25, 2018) introduces you to Pfriender Stylander's world of gritty realism, inspired by Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, and John Cassavetes films. Exquisitely designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, the book brings together over 130 of Pfriender Stylander's evocative and sensual fashion and celebrity photographs from 1990 to 2006 that feature models, musicians, ... More
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis breaks attendance records for 2017-18
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis today announced record-breaking attendance numbers for the 201718 exhibition year. On the eve of its fall exhibitions opening, CAM reported 41,487 visitors last year, an 85 percent increase in attendance since 2012, the year Lisa Melandri came on as executive director. CAM also broke attendance records for a single season during the recent 2018 summer exhibitions season with a total of 16,011 visitors. Were very proud that we are connecting with so many people, says Melandri. And not only more people but people from all walks of life, many of whom have never been to a contemporary art museum before. A lot of this has to do with the exhibitions we choose, as well as how much we make it a priority that CAM is a welcoming space, free and open to all. Exhibition highlights for 201718 included ... More
Battersea Arts Centre's Grand Hall officially reopens
LONDON.- Battersea Arts Centres Grand Hall officially reopened this past week after the fire that devastated it in 2015, following a rebuild by award-winning architects Haworth Tompkins. The opening is being marked with the Phoenix Season a five month celebration of risk-taking and renewal - across what is now one of the most flexible arts centres in the country. The first full theatre show in the Hall, on Thursday 6 September, is Missing by acclaimed physical theatre company Gecko the show that was in the space when it was destroyed, and now returns to finish its run. The Phoenix Season, supported by our Phoenix Partners - Bloomberg Philanthropies and Haworth Tompkins - continues with shows by National Theatre of Scotland, Bryony Kimmings, BAC Beatbox Academy, Dead Centre, Lekan Lawal, Little Bulb Theatre, The Paper Cinema, Lemn ... More
Santa Barbara Museum of Art opens a site-specific installation by April Street
SANTA BARBARA, CA.- The Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces April Street: The Mariners Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds), a site-specific installation on view through February 27, 2019. Housed in the two-story atrium at SBMAs entrance, this presentation represents the inauguration of Park Projects, a new series of installations designed for the Park Entrance stairwell. The inspiration for The Mariners Grand Staircase (Armoured Stars, Flying Clouds) came initially from the Museums seaside location as well as the architecture of the Park Entrance staircase, which recalled for the artist grand staircases of historic mansions. Researching sea exploration and commerce during the Californias Gold Rush, Street became fascinated by the story of Eleanor Creesys historic maiden voyage on the great clipper ship the Flying ... More
Takashi Kunitani's second solo exhibition with Ulterior Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Ulterior Gallery inaugurates its third year with Takashi Kunitanis second solo exhibition with the gallery, Spaceless Space. The exhibition opened on Saturday, September 8. Kunitanis ongoing series of installations are comprised of multiple neon tubes that the artist deforms with his own breath. Through this breathing process, Kunitani expands the internal volume of the glass tube, blurring the boundary between the inside and outside of the sculpture. In these installations, viewers see the chemical elements neon and argon captured within the multilateral, transparent surface of the sculpture. This ephemerality of the object itself, combined with the expansive visual nature of blown glass and radiant neon tubes, translates the space where Kunitanis neon is enacted into an expanded volume without clear boundaries between ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and sculptor Sol LeWitt was born September 09, 1928. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism.In this image: Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007), Wall Drawing 552D, A tilted form with color ink washes superimposed. The walls are bordered by 8" (20 cm) black bands. Color ink wash, dimensions variable. First Drawn by: David Higginbotham, Linda Taylor, Jo Watanabe. First Installation: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, December 1987. Gift of the LeWitt Family in Honor of Richard and Ronay Menschel. © 2018 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
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