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Ciro Ferri (Italian, 1634-1689), Saint Teresa of Avila, ca. 1687-89. Gilt bronze, 28 ¾ x 19 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (73 x 50 x 25 cm). Church of the Gesù, Rome (museum), from the altar of Saint Ignatius. Photo: © Zeno Colantoni.
FAIRFIELD, CONN.- The Fairfield University Art Museum is presenting a major international loan exhibitionThe Holy Name. Art of the Gesù: Bernini and his Age, which is on view in the museums Bellarmine Hall Galleries from February 1 through May 19, 2018. Its focus is the Church of the Gesù (Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina) in Rome. The principal or mother church of the Society of Jesus, which was founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540 in the charged religious and political climate of the Counter-Reformation, the Gesù is a testament to the power and prestige of the new religious order, its edifice a formidable symbol of the militant Church reborn. The long and at times fraught campaign to erect the church and embellish its interior, the imperative to formulate an imagery celebrating the order and its newly canonized saints, the competing visions of the Jesuits and their strong-willed patrons, and the boundless cr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chessboard of late dictator Nicolae Ceausescu at its former residence, Palatul Primaverii (the Palace of Spring)in Bucharest on January 26, 2018. The palace was open to the public for almost two years now, for its part welcomed 36,000 visitors in 2017. For many Romanians, "Ceausescu is the icon of a glorious past, a Romania whose memory has eliminated cold and hunger," said sociologist Vasile Dâncu. This nostalgia has increased in recent years, fueled by disenchantment with the current political class, he says. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP
| Rubin Museum exhibition highlights the magical legends of Buddhist master Padmasambhav | | The Speed Art Museum and Italian Ministry reach loan agreement on ancient calyx-krater | | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opens exhibition of ceramic works by Pablo Picasso |
Ritual Dance Mask of Padmasambhava as Nyima Ozer (One of the Eight Manifestations of Guru Rinpoche) Bhutan; ca. 18th19th century. Papier-mâché and pigment, leather, h. 22.047 x 12.598 in. Courtesy of Bruce Miller Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2018, the future will be both present and projected from the past at the Rubin Museum of Art, with a new exhibition where visitors will discover the legends of the tantric master Padmasambhava. An iconic figure in Tibetan culture celebrated as The Second Buddha, Padmasambhava is known for bringing Buddhism to Tibet and is believed to have concealed treasure teachings for future discovery. Opening February 2, The Second Buddha: Master of Time brings together 41 works of art from the 13th to 20th century with interactive technology, enabling visitors to discover hidden meanings in the artworks. The legends of the Second Buddha carry universal relevance about triumph over obstacles, transformation, and notions of time. Launching the Rubins yearlong theme of The Future, the exhibition will highlight the ... More | |
Greek, Paestum in southern Italy. Attributed to Python, as painter. Mixing vessel (calyx-krater). About 350-340 BCE.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum is returning to the Italian government a 2,400-year-old ceramic vessel that was apparently looted from Italian soil. The return of this red-figure calyx-krater is part of a multi-year agreement between the Museum and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage under which the calyx-krater will remain at the Speed for four years to be followed by future loans from the Italian state. The Speed voluntarily proposed the return of the calyx-krater after receiving evidence suggesting that the vessel had been illegally excavated and exported from Italy. At a time when the public knows about the international law on looting mostly from disputes and litigation, I am proud that the Speed proposed and reached this positive solution with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, which supports our shared interest in the responsible celebration of Italian cultural heritage, said Speed Art Museum ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Two-handled Vase with Faun's Head and an Owl, 14.2.1961. Musée national Picasso-Paris © Succession Picasso/ VISDA 2018. Photo: RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) /Gérard Blot.
HUMLEBÃK.- Picassos original ceramic works a distinct but perhaps not so well known part of his oeuvre are now to be presented for the first time in a large selection for the Scandinavian public at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition Picasso Ceramics presents more than 150 works from the period 1947-1964. Over the years Louisiana has enjoyed excellent cooperation with the Picasso family, and with strong support from the family as well as from the Picasso museums in Paris, Antibes and Barcelona it has been possible to gather and compose a broad thematic selection of the artists ceramic works. After World War II Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) returned to the south of France, where he lived by the Mediterranean for the rest of his life. There he initiated a collaboration with Suzanne and ... More |
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| Tilton Gallery opens exhibition of works by Martha Tuttle | | LiveAuctioneers joins Codex Consortium; blockchain protocol set to revolutionize auction marketplace | | Ritz Paris, 120 years of history at auction |
Martha Tuttle, Don't go anywhere, 2018. Wool, silk, pigment, 42 x 32 inches. Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery is presenting Martha Tuttle: I long and seek after from January 18th through March 11th, 2018. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. Martha Tuttle is a quiet voice with the ability to be a force while remaining gentle. In a society that seems to have lost these attributes, Tuttle seeks to create space for them with works that stand strong, despite, or perhaps because of the delicacy of her intimate assemblages. Natural materials of wool, silk, and dye are worked by hand, each resulting piece having undergone an immaterial transfer of energy through Tuttles physical and meditative touch. The artists relationship to materiality is revealed further by the inclusion of small stones, both actual and cast polished metal, and of fabricated steel weights. These elements add another layer of visual incident and mark-making, to further open a dialogue of possibility and substanc ... More | |
As part of the Codex Consortium, LiveAuctioneers will be working closely with the Codex team and integrating the protocol into its online marketplace.
NEW YORK, NY.- LiveAuctioneers, the worlds leading online marketplace for auctions of collectibles, antiques and fine art, today announced its participation in the Codex Consortium, which supports the Codex Protocol, a decentralized title registry for the $2 trillion arts & collectibles (A&C) asset class that brings provenance onto the blockchain. LiveAuctioneers has committed to adopting Codex Protocol, its native token, and its first product, Biddable, the day the protocol is launched. In the short term, Biddable will make bidding easier for LiveAuctioneers audience of 12 million users, enable bidding with cryptocurrency, and bring an influx of cryptowealth to auction houses. Over the long term, Codex will create a larger and more trusted art and collectibles market that will benefit LiveAuctioneers auction-house partners. As part of the Codex Consortium, LiveAuctioneers will be working ... More | |
Since its inauguration on 1st June 1898, the Ritz Paris has embodied the elegance and intimate luxury synonym of the French art de vivre.
PARIS.- The Ritz Paris has re-opened its doors in June 2016, after four years of extensive renovation, entirely respectful of its heritage. Artcurial has been entrusted with the mission to organise the sale of close to 3500 lots of furniture and objects that have inhabited the establishment as some were not returned to their previous place in this last campaign of restauration. Every piece put up for auction, stamped with the Ritz Paris insignia, will bear witness to the legend, the incomparable taste and the unequalled prestige of the Ritz Paris. The auction will be held over 5 days from 17th to 21st April 2018. It will be preceded by an exhibition staged by a great Parisian interior designer who will transform, for a week, the salons of Artcurials headquarters on the Rond-Point des Champs Elysees. Events will also be organised throughout the month of March in Artcurials various European offices (Munich, Milan, Vienna...). «T ... More |
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| Howard Greenberg Gallery opens exhibition of Steve Kahns The Hollywood Suites | | The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU appoints Amy Galpin as new Curator | | Dufy tops results at Freeman's European Art & Old Masters auction |
The Hollywood Suites (Nudes) #11, 1974-75 (detail). Gelatin silver print, printed c.1974-75, 6 3/8 x 8 3/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Juxtaposing nudes and seascapes with architectural interiors, The Hollywood Suites, Steve Kahns enigmatic series of photographs made between 1974 and 1978, will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from February 1 March 17, 2018. The series will be the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco opening on September 29, 2018. Kahn is part of a generation of photographers that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, including Robert Heinecken and Lewis Baltz, who deconstructed the medium with a conceptual and abstract approach. The Hollywood Suites has been seen in solo exhibitions on the West Coast and in Europe and included in group exhibitions such as The Altered Photograph at P.S. 1 in New York in 1979. The exhibition at Howard ... More | |
Amy Galpin most recently served as Curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, the Smithsonian Affiliate in Miami, announces the appointment of Amy Galpin, PhD, as the museums new Curator. She will begin her new role at the Frost on February 12, and most recently served as Curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College. Galpins curatorial trajectory has primarily focused on modern and contemporary work created in the U.S. and Latin America. She also served as Associate Curator of Art of the Americas at the San Diego Museum of Art, and has curated exhibitions at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and the Pasadena Museum of California Art. In her new role at the Frost Art Museum FIU, Galpin will be responsible for curating the institutions exhibitions, implementing the museums plans for its permanent collection, and leveraging her expertise to support the museums ... More | |
Jean Dufy (French 1888-1964) Paris-Place Clichy.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans January 23 European Art & Old Masters auction marked the second sale of the 2018 spring season. The auction totaled over $975,000, representing 80 percent of the lots by value. There were more than 300 registered bidders, with global interest and participation matching the expansive offerings in the nearly 200 lot sale. Works by French artists dominated the sale. A small watercolor by Paul Signac (French 1863-1935), Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Les Quais du Rhône, (Lot 129) executed in 1925, presented the viewer with an intimate view of the river which snakes its way through France from Lyon to Arles. Bourg-Saint-Andéol, Les Quais du Rhône sold for $25,000, against an estimate of $15,000-20,000. A painting by Ernest Alexandre Bodoy (1880-1920), Entrance to the Champs-Elysees, (Lot 118, estimate $2,000-3,000) far exceeded estimates selling for $11,875. A pair of lots ... More |
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| Ronchini Gallery opens the first UK solo exhibition of Japanese artist Katsumi Nakai | | The Fine Art Society exhibits etchings and lithographs by the British-American artist Gerald Brockhurst RA | | Janet Borden Inc. opens Amusement Park by Ddavid Brandon Geeting |
Katsumi Nakai, Hiraku 80-88, 2007. Acrylic, oil on plywood, 47 x 61 cm., 79 x 61 cm.
LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition of Japanese artist Katsumi Nakai. With works spanning from the 1960s to 2012 this exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of this critical figure whose artistic achievements have yet to be fully appreciated on a grand scale. Nakai studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts Osaka, Japan, and was already active in the Japanese art scene with several successful shows in his native land when he moved to Milan in 1964. This period in Milan was one of the most stimulating and defining moments in contemporary art history, which further developed Nakais remarkable oeuvre and unique point of view. Described by friends and fellow artists as steadfast and meditative, Nakai soon entered the circle of artists that in 1967 writer and art critic Guido Ballo described as the New Milanese School (Nuova Scuola di Milano). Amongst ... More | |
Gerald Brockhurst, Head of a Girl.
LONDON.- Born in Birmingham in 1890, Brockhurst showed promising signs of his artistic talent while very young: the then headmaster of the Birmingham School of Art even announced he had discovered "a young Botticelli. It was there that he encountered the work of the Pre-Raphaelite painters which, alongside his interest in the Italian Renaissance masters, would provide an ample source of inspiration for the formation of his style. Brockhurst was one of the most successful portrait painters in London during his lifetime, but he was also an accomplished draughtsman and etcher. At a time when the market for contemporary etching was growing, he quickly mastered the technique and published his first prints in 1920 (Mélisande, The Mirror, Henry Rushbury, and Yolande, among others from this early period, are included in this exhibition). Translating his work from oil to ink, he produced exceptionally detailed ... More | |
Balloon Sword.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. announces Amusement Park by Ddavid Brandon Geeting. The exhibition will run from 1 February 15 March 2018. This is Mr. Geeting's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Amusement Park by David Brandon Geeting is a collection of edgy portraits, outrageous still lifes and cryptic documentary shots. The accompanying monograph was assembled by publisher Lodret Vandret. The work is not actually about an amusement park but rather about their allure along with decrepitude and that is endemic in these places. Geeting juxtaposes the fun glamour of bright shiny objects with a colorful decay that denotes the passing of time. At first glance an amusement park looks really fun. But after you spend some time in one, you realize its actually a bit nightmarish and everythings falling apart. His subject matter is treated with the same joyful irreverence, somewhere in between ... More |
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum introduces Curator of Digital Experience
SANTA FE, NM.- Building new paths in both the culture and technology sectors, the Georgia OKeeffe Museum will bring on board content strategist and information technology specialist Liz Neely as curator of digital experiences. Neely will oversee the development of the Museums digital infrastructure and audience engagement across media platforms. Expanding our digital capabilities will provide a lot of creative opportunities to connect with audiences, says Robert A. Kret, Director of the Georgia OKeeffe Museum. In our collection are keys to hundreds of stories about OKeeffes life and work. There are opportunities for individual discovery that can exist beyond the Museums physical limits. Our task is to create digital paths to explore these stories, and this is why the curator for digital experiences will be critical. Lizs skills and vision as a content driver are a tremendous a ... More
Saâdane Afif invites the public to compose their own interpretation of his work in exhibition at WIELS
BRUSSELS.- From the 1st February until the 22nd April 2018, the audience will have the opportunity to discover Saâdane Afifs work and compose its own interpretation inside Studio Paroles, a music studio freely accessible to all. During the first semester of 2018, WIELS presents an overview of Saâdane Afifs work of the past 15 years. A retrospective with a twist, it explores the process of interpretation and translation that underpins the relationship between art and its audience, a process fundamental to Afifs practice. Since 2004, he has been commissioning writers and artists to create lyrics inspired by his artworks, which are then exhibited alongside them. These texts have become key material for Afif, verbalizing and embodying what happens in the mind of the beholder. Afif embraces the opportunity of the WIELS exhibition as a moment for production: ... More
BAMPFA mounts major solo exhibition of work by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
BERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents an innovatively organized exhibition of work by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (19511982), the first solo presentation in more than a decade of work by the accomplished artist, filmmaker, and writer. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee features nearly fifty of Chas works in a range of media, organized for the first time into distinct thematic groupings inspired by the ten chapters of her iconic 1982 book Dictee. Drawing from Chas rarely exhibited archiveswhich were donated to BAMPFA in 1992Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Avant Dictee captures the interdisciplinary scope of Chas artistic output, which encompassed photography, poetry, film, video, live performance, mail art, sculpture, works on paper, and more. The selected works highlight the artists ... More
Goucher College's Silber Art Gallery presents "Jim Condron: Diminishing Returns"
BALTIMORE, MD.- Jim Condron: Diminishing Returns, a solo exhibition showcasing over twenty paintings and new sculptural works is being presented at Goucher Colleges Silber Art Gallery in the Sandy J. Unger Athenaeum now open through March 26, 2018 at 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, in Baltimore. An artists reception will be held February 9, 2018, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. This exhibition incites viewers to examine the application of the economic principle of the law of diminishing returns to painting and art making in the 21st century. The paintings in the show range in size from 5x6 inches to 90x144 inches. Each painting gradually increases in size while maintaining the projects foundational proportion. The sculptural works in the show reference farming practices and consider the framework by which the economic concept of the law of diminishing ... More
Blown to bits, famed Syria temple falls victim to Turkey assault
AIN DARA (AFP).- For 3,000 years, the lion sculptures of Syria's Ain Dara stood as testaments to the Iron Age. But as Turkish bombardment pounds the region, they have little left but their paws. Syrian and Kurdish authorities have blamed the damage squarely on Ankara's nearly two-week offensive on Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled pocket of northwest Syria that borders Turkey. Perched on a hilltop in northern Syria, the neo-Hittite temple of Ain Dara dates back to the Aramaic era from around 1,300 to 700 BC, and is named after a village located in Afrin. The identify of the deity worshipped there has not been officially determined, but one theory is that it is Ishtar, the goddess of love. Until last week, the temple stood as "one of the most important monuments built by the Aramaeans in Syria during the first millennium BC", according to Syria's department of antiquities. ... More
Ceausescu auction points to lingering nostalgia among Romanians
BUCHAREST (AFP).- A trove of objects from the household of the former Romanian Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu will go under the hammer on Wednesday in an auction drawing on the enduring fascination his memory holds amid the country's current political turmoil. Rugs adorned with the face of the "nation's beloved son", gifts from other world leaders, as well as clothes and photos are some of the artefacts on offer. "There is a clear interest in such objects," said Mihai Ipate from the auction house Artmark. "Some buyers are motivated by nostalgia, others want to enrich their collection." That nostalgia for the past and for the certainties of the past have been in evidence elsewhere in recent days. The auction comes days after the 100th anniversary of Ceausescu's birth, a date which some Romanians felt moved to mark by gathering at his tomb. ... More
Timothy Taylor opens exhibition of works by Jean Dubuffet, Simon Hantaï and Charlotte Perriand
LONDON.- Timothy Taylor opens Freeform, an exhibition of works by Jean Dubuffet, Simon Hantaï and Charlotte Perriand. Presented is a meeting of art and design through a dialogue of formal structure and organic forms, as defined by three French pioneers working across mediums of painting, sculpture and furniture. Driven by egalitarian and populist ideals, Charlotte Perriand believed that considered design could have a positive impact on everyday life and, in turn, on society at large. Having rejected the established Beaux-Arts style as a student, Perriand joined Le Corbusiers studio at the age of 24, which allowed her to pursue an approach to Modernism that brought together both intellectual and material values. It was following her work with Le Corbusier that Perriand started to develop her Free-Form furniture, which harnessed a powerful new approach ... More
Exhibition at arebyte Gallery brings together the work of 10 artists from London
LONDON.- arebyte is presenting on my island none of this would be true. The exhibition brings together the work of 10 artists from London, Israel and the USA whose practices span sculpture, installation, photography, poetry, video and performance. These artists are: Naama Arad, Guy Ben-Ner, Verity Birt in collaboration with Holly Graham and Richard-Forbes Hamilton, EdgarWalker, Gery Georgieva with music by Patchfinder, Joan Jonas, Terence McCormack, Hannah Regel and Mike Seaborne. on my island none of this would be true explores the various interpretations and contradictions that islands summon in our minds. Islands are the place of freedom and adventure sold to us on billboards at Heathrow Airport but also the morning-after of the UKs Brexit wet dream. Islands are where identities and cultures meet to do commerce and forge empires, yet they are also the forgotten ... More
Gouri, Israeli poet-warrior and national icon, dies at 94
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Haim Gouri, the Israeli poet who fought with an elite combat unit, covered the trial of Adolf Eichmann and became a national icon, died Wednesday aged 94, his family said. Gouri published more than 20 books, with his poetry including reflections on his time as part of the elite Palmach combat unit predating Israel's founding. He fought in the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 surrounding Israel's creation the same year and served as a reserve officer in the Six-Day War of 1967. After the Holocaust, he was sent to Europe to help Jewish refugees migrate into what was then British mandatory Palestine. A number of his poems were set to music and became popular songs in Israel. His coverage of the trial of Nazi war criminal Eichmann later became a book, "Facing the Glass Booth." Born in Tel Aviv in 1923, Gouri came from a politically engaged family, with his father ... More
The June Kelly Gallery opens exhibition of Abstract Expressionist paintings by Stan Brodsky
NEW YORK, NY.- Here and There, A Life in Landscape, an exhibition of Abstract Expressionist paintings by Stan Brodsky that underscores decades of the artists acute sensitivity to his physical surroundings, will open at the June Kelly Gallery at 166 Mercer Street on February 1. The work will remain on view through March 3. Art writer Hilarie Sheets writes in the exhibition catalogue, that in the many decades Stan Brodsky has worked as a painter, he has always relied on a deeply empathetic response to his environment as a departure pointwhether the underlying geometry of New York City where he lived as a young man, the atmospheric seascape in Huntington, Long Island, where he moved in 1965, or the qualities of color and light in landscapes he experienced during frequent travels over the years to places including France, Israel, Greece, ... More
Solo exhibition by Ala Younis held simultaneously in London and Dubai
LONDON.- Delfina Foundation and Art Jameel collaborate to present Plan for Feminist Greater Baghdad, a solo exhibition by Ala Younis held simultaneously in London and Dubai. The exhibition includes a major new installation co-commissioned by the two organisations, Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad (2018), that builds on Youniss 2015 work, Plan for Greater Baghdad, which was included in the Central Exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor, and which will be shown alongside the new commission in the exhibition. In the original work, Plan for Greater Baghdad (2015), Younis looked at monuments, (by) architects, (for) governments, and the short state of empowerment they gained as politics shifted in Iraq. The project anchored itself within the history of a gymnasium in Baghdad that was designed by Le Corbusier and named after Saddam ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and sculptor Takashi Murakami was born February 01, 1962. Takashi Murakami (born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. In this image: Installation view, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats its Own Leg, MCA Chicago, June 6 - September 24, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA
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