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People walk through the Reich Richter Part exhibition during a media preview at the new cultural space The Shed at Hudson Yards on April 03, 2019 in New York City. With aims to be the worlds most flexible and inclusive cultural institution, The Shed is located where the popular High Line and the new Hudson Yards development meet. A modern $475 million building houses the non-profit which will commission and present works across a broad selection of the arts including theater, music and the visual arts. The Shed, whose artistic director and chief executive is Alex Poots, will officially open on April 5th. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY (AFP).- A sparkling new addition to New York's cultural offerings will open Friday, a highly anticipated interdisciplinary complex aiming to be an everyman's art space in the upscale Hudson Yards real estate development. The futuristic Shed institution, constructed on a 20,000-square-foot, city-owned lot, is intended as the "cultural beating heart" of the controversial Hudson Yards, whose sea of corporate offices, high-end stores and pricey restaurants has been criticized as a playground for the rich. The much-hyped arts complex -- which resembles something of a giant box nestled in a shimmering silver puffer jacket -- will debut this week with a celebration of African American music directed by British Oscar winner Steve McQueen, and a set of theatrical concerts from the eclectic Icelandic performer Bjork next month. "We're not retro-fitting," said Alex Poots, the Shed's founding artistic director. "We're trying to purposely create a program that really represents a wide spectrum of artists ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Portraits of Holocaust survivors are displayed on April 2, 2019 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps, is seen in front of the building in New York. The windowless boxcar is among 700 Holocaust artifacts, which are being prepared for one of the largest exhibits on Auschwitz, opening on May 8,2019 the day in 1945 when Germany surrendered and the camps were liberated. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP
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| | | Exhibition at Gagosian Paris includes more than sixty works on paper by Brice Marden | | Gun that Van Gogh killed himself with goes up for sale | | Artist Christo to wrap Arc de Triomphe in Paris |
Brice Marden, Untitled, 2018. Kremer ink on paper, 41 x 29 1/8 inches, 104.1 x 74 cm. © 2019 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Robert McKeever Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- Gagosian presents Morocco, an exhibition by Brice Marden, traveling from the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech, Morocco. Nearly forty years ago, Marden visited Morocco for the first time, setting into motion a new line of artistic inquiry inspired by the intricate architecture and late afternoon light of the Rose City. This exhibition includes more than sixty works on paper, forty-eight of which were once contained in a workbook that accompanied the artist over the past decade. In the majority of the works, a square or rectangle is set within the white of the page, with winding lines and loose blots rendered in colored ink or gouache forming tangled grids of varying densities. Infinitely fluid, Mardens gestures in yellow, red, and blue oscillate between foreground and background, ... More | |
A reproduction from the Van Gogh Museum has its color palette matched with tulips. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The revolver with which Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself is to go under the hammer, a Paris auction house said Tuesday. Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in the same field where the troubled Dutch painter is thought to have fatally wounded himself 75 years before, the gun has already been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Billed by Auction Art as "the most famous weapon in the history of art", the 7 mm Lefaucheux revolver is expected to go for up to 60,000 euros ($67,000) when it is sold on June 19. Van Gogh experts believe that he shot himself with the revolver near the village of Auvers-sur-Oise north of Paris, where he spent the last few months of his life in 1890. The Dutch artist had borrowed the gun from the owner of the inn where he was staying. He died 36 hours later after staggering ... More | |
People walk nearby the Arc de Triomphe on March 25, 2019 in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The artist Christo is to wrap the Arc de Triomphe in Paris next year, French officials said Wednesday. The Bulgarian-born artist, famous for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin along with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, will cover the massive monument with 25,000 metres of silvery-blue recyclable material. It will then be tied up with a red cord for two weeks next April, the Pompidou Centre modern art gallery announced. The "wrapping" will coincide with a major exhibition at the Paris gallery of Christo's work with Jeanne-Claude, focusing on how they wrapped the oldest bridge in the French capital in 1985. "Thirty-five years after Jeanne-Claude and I wrapped the Pont-Neuf, I can't wait to work again in Paris on the Arc de Triomphe," 83-year-old Christo said. No public money will put into the project, the French national monuments service (CNM) said. Instead the wrapping of the "Arc ... More |
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| | | Christie's announces highlights included in the Classic Week sales in New York | | Gerwald Rockenschaub's debut UK exhibition opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | | Phillips to offer property from the Miles & Shirley Fiterman Collection |
A Roman Marble Portrait Bust of emperor Didius Julianus, Reign 193 A.D. d, 28 in. Estimate: $1,200,000 - $1,800,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Classic Week in New York, which brings together seven auctions featuring 19th century European Art, Old Master paintings and Antiquities. Three distinguished private collections will be offered in dedicated sales: the Desmarais Collection of fine and decorative art; the G. Sangiorgi Collection of important and rare ancient gems; and the Estate of Lila & Herman Shickmans 19th century European and Old Master paintings. The exhibitions at Christies Rockefeller Center Galleries open to the public on April 25, and the auctions will take place April 29 May 1. This season features a remarkable selection of fresh to market works from private collections including Old Masters from the dealer Richard Feigen and the artist Frank Stella. Among the works with imperial connections on offer include Jacques-Louis Davids The Distribution of the Eagle ... More | |
Untitled (Intarsie), 2018 Acrylglas, Rahmen RAL 9005 tiefschwarz 150 x 125 cm (59,06 x 49,21 in). Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg © Gerwald Rockenschaub. Photo: Ben Westoby.
LONDON.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Berlin-based Gerwald Rockenschaubs debut UK exhibition Romantic / Eclectic (Remodelled Carousel Edit). With an immersive approach to examining perception, through visual codes and interventions of space and depth, Rockenschaub explores our innate desire for order. Whilst playful in addressing responses to our visual surroundings, Rockenschaubs work is exacting in its execution, to the point that it appears functional. His linear structures and abstracted geometric playgrounds include site-specific, multi-part wall installations that respond to the architecture of Ely House, alongside his Intarsia and Relief series. Heightening the viewers physical experience of the gallery space, Rockenschaubs wall installations consist of small-scale rectangular and circular acrylic glass elements. The composition ... More | |
Andy Warhol, David Hockney, 1974 (detail). Estimate: $400,000-600,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips will offer for sale Property from the Miles & Shirley Fiterman Collection across the auction houses salerooms in New York, London, and Hong Kong. The Evening and Day Sales of 20th Century & Contemporary Art in New York on 15-16 May will be the first auctions to feature these works, with sales taking place throughout 2019 and concluding with the Hong Kong auctions in November. Among the highlights are works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Joan Miró and more. Ninety-five works by Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary masters are expected to realize in excess of $60 million. Robert Manley and Jean-Paul Engelen, Phillips Worldwide Co-Heads of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, said, Miles and Shirley Fiterman have assembled an extraordinary collection that incorporates the very best examples across a breadth of artistic movements. Their vision and ... More |
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| | | The Louis K. Meisel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Canadian Photorealist Mike Bayne | | MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts opens exhibition of works by Paola Pivi | | ICP celebrates Rosalind Fox Solomon and others at the Infinity Awards |
Mike Bayne, Mel's, 2017, Oil on panel, 6 x 4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Louis K. Meisel Gallery opened Public Information, a solo exhibition of paintings by Canadian Photorealist Mike Bayne. Dedicated to the idea that everything is worthy of painting, Bayne brings a cool objective eye and dispassionate intensity to his portrayals of the often-overlooked small-town roadside landscape. Working from photographs, his paintings capture a drive-by landscape that can be found, as he states, anywhere and everywhere in North America. For most of the past decade, Bayne has adopted the 4 x 6-inch format of commercially printed photographs. It is a format of the pre-digital snapshot age when film would be taken to a local drugstore or camera shop to be printeda format that lends an aura of nostalgia to these otherwise distinctly unsentimental takes on the quotidian landscape. Like photographs in an album, these small works draw us in and focus our attention. Each of these snapshot-size ... More | |
Paola Pivi, Exhibition view: World record, 2019. Photo Attilio Maranzano. Courtesy lartista.
ROME.- A gigantic expanse of mattresses covering more than 100 square metres, topped by another expanse, identical but overturned to create a padded cave, a narrow space for play or meditation into which the public is invited to climb. At the entrance, suspended above the heads of the public is a dense web of cushions knotted together and coloured in red and yellow. Intense fragrances are diffused in the air from sculptures of minuscule sofas drenched in perfume. The space is totally rethought, large and small confront one another and the works encourage interaction on the part of the public. This is the exhibition PAOLA PIVI. World record, the monographic show that MAXXI is dedicating to this surprising artist, winner of a Golden Lion at the 1999 Venice Biennale, curated by Hou Hanru and Anne Palopoli and open from April 3 to September 8, 2019 in MAXXIs stunning Gallery 5. Conceived specifically for the ... More | |
Honoree and photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon attends The International Center Of Photography's 35th Annual Infinity Awards at The Ziegfeld Ballroom on April 2, 2019 in New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for International Center of Photography/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The 35th annual ICP Infinity Awards kicked off with ICP Board Chair Caryl Englander and Board President Jeffrey Rosen, sharing their personal perspectives about the International Center of Photography and its mission, as well as their excitement for ICPs upcoming move to Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side in New York City. ICP Executive Director Mark Lubell then took the stage, welcoming the audience of artists, photographers, gallerists, publishers, editors, and philanthropists before turning the program over to the evenings host, journalist and television personality Meredith Vieira. More than 400 people were in attendance at the event, including Infinity Co-Chairs Marjorie Rosen, Michael A. Clinton, and Judith Bookbinder; media and entertainment industry leaders Sade Baderinwa (anchor, ... More |
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| | | Sotheby's HK Spring Sales total US$482 million - Second highest total in company history | | Jane Lombard Gallery presents works from Lucy + Jorge Orta's series Derrame | | Modern & Contemporary African art achieves £2.3m in London, led by El Anatsui |
Sales soar beyond pre-sale estimate of HK$2.34 3.4 Billion / US$300 428 Million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby's Spring 2019 Hong Kong auction series concluded today with a grand total of HK$3.78 billion / US$482 million, exceeding the pre-sale high estimate for the series (HK$2.34 3.4 billion / US$300 428 million)* and establishing the second highest total in company history, second only to Sothebys landmark 40th anniversary sale total in Autumn 2013. The sales were marked by healthy activity across all categories and from all corners of Asia, with a strong combined sell-through rate of 90%. These superb results are up on what were already very strong results last spring, despite the fact that the estimates were lower than a year ago, commented Tad Smith, Sothebys CEO, adding our excellent performance against low estimate is a clear indicator of the health of the market in Asia and bodes very well for our important upcoming May auctions in New York. Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby ... More | |
Lucy + Jorge Orta, Derrame, 1977 [Accident], 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 39.37 x 27.56 inches, 100 x 70 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting Lucy + Jorge Orta's exhibition Potential Architecture. Featuring work from their series Derrame, Totipotent Architecture, and Cells [Diptych], including painting, sculpture, and works on paper. As an international duo, Lucy + Jorge Orta's symbiotic practice examines social and ecological issues across the globe, this exhibition analyzes how the architectures of the human body and inorganic materials interact with internal and external structures. Totipotent Architecture is aligned with Lucy + Jorge Orta's emphasis on universal concerns surrounding shelter and security in their practice. A totipotent cell has an unlimited capability to create new life either organically or synthetically. Totipotent Architecture expands on the concept of body architecture, looking inwards at the cellular level. The Ortas creative process stemmed from a fascination with cell ... More | |
William Kentridge, Head (Orange), est. £30,000-50,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys fourth sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art in London realised £2,316,625 / $3,023,196 (pre-sale estimate: £1.5-2.2 million / $2-2.9 million), establishing new auction records for 11 artists in this category. The sale was led by contemporary Ghanaian artist EL ANATSUI, whose metallic aluminium bottle cap tapestry, titled Zebra Crossing 2, achieved £1.1 million / $1.4 million (est. £550,000-750,000), after competitive bidding pushed the final total well above the pre-sale estimate, and establishing the third highest price for a work by the artist at auction. The sale coincides with the largest survey exhibition of El Anatsuis work to date curated by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu in Munich and precedes his representation of Ghana at the Venice Biennale later this year. A powerful celebration of his homeland, HASSAN EL GLAOUIs La Sortie du Roi sold for a majestic ... More |
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ifa-Galerie Berlin opens an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Hera Büyüktaşcıyan
BERLIN.- Hera Büyüktaşcıyans solo exhibition Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky, curated by Nat Muller, is a response to ifa-Galerie Berlins one-year programme Untie to Tie - Movement.Bewegung. The exhibition comprises newly commissioned works that poetically explore what migration, cultural heritage, belonging and displacement mean. The project is inspired by a floor mosaic in Berlins Pergamon Museum known as the Alexandrine Parakeet Mosaic (160150 BC) that was taken from the ancient Palace of Pergamon (now Bergama in Turkey). While the provenance and ownership of antiquities and colonial artefacts is currently debated extensively in academia and museum circlesthis forms the political backdrop to the projectBüyüktaşcıyan broadens these notions and takes us on a journey that traverses time and place by touching on universal sensibilities ... More
Outcry over Harry Potter book burning by priests in Poland
WARSAW (AFP).- The burning of Harry Potter "magic" books by priests in Poland triggered a wave of protest in the majority Catholic country on Tuesday with critics making comparisons with totalitarian regimes and the Inquisition. The Episcopate has so far declined to comment on the burning in a parish at the Baltic port city of Gdansk after Sunday mass. A post detailing the incident on a Facebook page run by the Catholic "SMS from Heaven" evangelical group has gone viral, drawing heavy flak both online and off, but also pockets of support from internet users. Three priests burned books and other items they regarded as sacrilegious, including tomes from British author J.K. Rowling's famed Harry Potter series of fantasy novels. Father Jan Kucharski, the priest in the parish where the book burning took place, told the natemat.pl news website they had set ... More
'Sara Berman's Closet' opens at the National Museum of American Jewish History
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The National Museum of American Jewish History opens its next special exhibition Sara Bermans Closet: a small and monumental story by Maira Kalman and Alex Kalman. An installation of one immigrant womans belongings as re-created by Saras daughter and grandson the acclaimed artist and writer Maira Kalman and designer and curator Alex Kalman the project will feature the Museums first-ever public art installation on its Kimmel Plaza, on the corner of 5th and Market Streets. An accompanying art exhibition will continue in the Museums special exhibition gallery, featuring new paintings by Maira Kalman and new sculptures by Alex Kalman and will include interventions throughout the core exhibition, as well as in-person appearances by the Kalmans throughout the run. Sara Bermans Closet will be on view April 5 through September ... More
Retrospective exhibition of select paintings by Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Art at the Institute announces Ivan Marchuk: Paintings, a retrospective exhibition of select paintings by Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, opening April 4, 2019 and continuing through April 28. Co-curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, and Tamara Strypko, this exhibition marks the artists first solo showing with The Ukrainian Institute of America. Spanning four decades of prolific artistic production, Marchuks paintings possess a deep philosophic world view reflecting on the deepest of universal polarities: good vs. evil, life vs. death, harmony vs. discord, beauty vs. grotesque. He paints fantastic figural and floral compositions with elements of surrealism, hyperrealist portraits, enigmatic landscapes, and abstract expressionist compositions. Cultivating the highest attention for detail and precision-craftsmanship, ... More
Exhibition presents the diversity of voices animating the vast European artistic scene
PARIS.- Over the course of a year, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain team set out to meet with young artists from all over Europe, beyond the borders of the European Union. This ambitious research project brought the team to 29 countries, discovering over 200 artists selected from among nearly 1,000 portfolios. Launched without any preconceived ideas or guiding principles, this search culminated in a deliberately restricted selection of 21 artists from 16 countries, working in different media: painting, sculpture, fashion, design, and film. Born between 1980 and 1994, they came of age after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in a continent marked by the upheavals that over the past 30 years have profoundly redefined its contours. French, Georgian, Greek, Portuguese, British, Polish, or born outside Europe, together ... More
French president's Elysee Palace, seen from above
PARIS (AFP).- The sun sets on another day in Paris as the French tricolour flutters from the Elysee Palace and the iconic Eiffel Tower stabs the skyline in the distance. The lights are on in the office of the French president, a post currently held by Emmanuel Macron, where a grand chandelier can be seen shimmering through the windows. Rising up, a high aerial view shows the Elysee Palace nestled in its busy neighbourhood on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in central Paris but enjoying the space of its famous front courtyard and acres of back gardens. Other great Parisian landmarks can also be seen, such as the Grand Palais exhibition, the Invalides memorial where Napoleon and other French luminaries are buried or the modern Montparnasse Tower. The new views of the Elysee Palace have been revealed by images taken by a drone sent into ... More
Michelle Grohe named Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
BOSTON, MASS.- Michelle Grohe was recently named the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums Esther Stiles Eastman Curator of Education. She was previously the Museums Associate and Interim Curator of Education. Michelle began at the Gardner in 2005 as Director of School & Teacher Programs, managing and refining the longstanding School Partnership Program and related evaluation measuring impact on participating students. She moved into the role of Assistant Curator of Education & School Programs in 2015, where she helped redesign the museums K-12 School Partnership Program into Thinking Through Art, an intensive professional development program currently serving 54 Boston public teachers that enables the Gardner to reach more than 2000 students each academic year. Later, in her dual role as the Associate and ... More
Georg Jensen Silver Collection set to dazzle in Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A collection from a Dallas socialite of extraordinary mid-century silver by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen, including iconic works by designer Henning Koppel, will headline Heritage Auctions Silver & Vertu auction April 24 in Dallas, Texas. Hennig Koppels background as a sculptor is strongly reflected in the extraordinary sculptural pieces he designed for Georg Jensen, Heritage Auctions Silver & Decorative Art Karen Rigdon said. The allure of Koppels work continues to grow, generating significant interest from serious collectors well in advance of the auction. The top lot in the Jensen collection is Henning Koppels 1954 Silver Fish Dish and Cover No. 1026: Cod Fish (estimate: $80,000-120,000). The sleek, streamlined dish could serve as a centerpiece in a modernist or traditional setting. Other top lots from the Jensen ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and poet Maurice de Vlaminck was born April 04, 1876. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. In this image: CaixaForum Barcelona, Âla Caixa Community Projects exhibited in 2009 "Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct: Paintings from 1900 to 1915".
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