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The drawing, said to be an original work by Pablo Picasso, was found undeclared in a passengers luggage at Ibiza Airport. Photo: Spanish Treasure Ministry.
MADRID.- Officials in Spain seized a drawing believed to be by Pablo Picasso valued at more than $460,000 from a passenger who failed to declare it to airport customs, the Tax Agency and Civil Guard in Spain said in a statement Monday. The traveler, whose name was not released, arrived in Ibiza, Spain, from Switzerland on July 5 and tried to smuggle the 1966 drawing, called Trois Personnages, in his luggage, according to Spanish officials. Spanish authorities said customs officials in Switzerland had tipped them off about a passenger who was carrying a work of art in circumstances that Swiss officials considered suspicious. The man told authorities he had nothing to declare when he was questioned after he landed at Ibiza Airport. When he tried to pass through a green lane at the airport, customs officers searched his luggage and found ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MASSIMODECARLO is presenting its next group exhibition, What You See Is What You Get, running from June 30th to July 29th, 2022 at Casa Corbellini-Wasserman in Milan and from July 5th to 30th in Paris, at MASSMIODECARLO Pièce Unique. Installation Views by Roberto Marossi. Courtesy MASSIMODECARLO.
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| Bruegel's iconic Tower of Babel travels from the Maas to the Amstel | | Flying Childhood --Chen Zequan's art exhibition | | Lehmann Maupin presents Eyes of the Skin, a group show curated by New York City-based artist Teresita Fernández |
The presentation of The Tower of Babel in Amsterdam will be officially opened on Tuesday 26 July in the presence of Annabelle Birnie, director of Hermitage Amsterdam.
ROTTERDAM.- The famous painting 'The Tower of Babel' (c.1568) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569), one of the highlights of the museums collection, is to be shown at Hermitage Amsterdam as part of the series of focus exhibitions Dutch Heritage Amsterdam. The painting has been removed from the current presentation 'Highlights from the Museum Collection at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen and will be examined by conservators in the Depots restoration studios before being safely transported to Amsterdam in a climate-controlled case. The presentation of The Tower of Babel in Amsterdam will be officially opened on Tuesday 26 July in the presence of Annabelle Birnie, director of Hermitage Amsterdam. Throughout the summer, favourite works from the Netherlands major museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Mauritshuis and Van ... More | |
Chen Zequan, Untitled, 2019. crylic on canvas, 200 x 300 cm.
XIAMEN.- On July 20, 2022, the "Flying Childhood" - Chen Zequan's art works exhibition, organized by Xiamen Art Museum and Xiamen Xinmeng Art Research Institute, and undertaken by Mocean art, opened in Xiamen Art Museum. This exhibition was initiated by Professor Lin Chun of the Department of art of Xiamen University, and curated by teacher Chen Yali of Xiamen Academy of Arts and crafts of Fuzhou University. More than 50 medium and large-scale oil paintings and acrylic paintings are being exhibited in the exhibition halls B and C of Xiamen Art Museum. These works have been created by Chen Zequan since 2017. Chen Zequan, born in Xiamen, Fujian Province in 2010, is 11 years old and naturally loves painting. He has been exposed to oil painting and acrylic painting since 2016, and has completed nearly 500 works so far. In the process of creation, the tools he uses are very casual, including industrial ... More | |
Teresita Fernández. Photo by Natalia Mantini.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eyes of the Skin, a group show curated by New York City-based artist Teresita Fernández, brings together work by Francheska Alcántara, Carolina Caycedo, Adriana Corral, David Antonio Cruz, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Leslie Martinez, Glendalys Medina, Jeffrey Meris, and Esteban Ramón Pérez. Engaging various degrees of abstraction, the works in the show are united by each artists focus on materiality, process, and tactility. The title Eyes of the Skin references Juhani Pallasmaas 1996 book by the same name, in which Pallasmaa argues that contemporary aesthetics has placed too strong a priority on vision to the detriment of our other senses. Pushing back against the dominance of the eye and the biased hierarchies of visual art history, this exhibition focuses on the role of the body as the locus of perception," and emphasizes the importance of indigenous, intuitive, and somatic knowledge as a primary source for understanding our world. Acknowledging that touching is a way ... More |
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| Phillips announces Niki de Saint Phalle x Vincent Darré: Last night I had a dream | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents 'Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink and Contemporary Brush' | | Hannah Traore Gallery announces extension of 'Camila Falquez: Gods That Walk Among Us' |
Vincent Darré © Oleg Covian.
LONDON.- Phillips announced Niki de Saint Phalle x Vincent Darré: Last night I had a dream. The installation of 18 sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle collectively titled Last night I had a dream will be showcased in a setting designed by Vincent Darré, a Paris-based artistic director and interior designer known for his maximalist and surrealist interiors. The selling exhibition will go on view at 46 Rue du Bac from 3 to 29 October. Nathalie Zaquin Boulakia, Phillips Regional Director of France & Senior International Specialist, said, Through her feminist principles Niki de Saint Phalle was very much ahead of her time as an artist. Her work resonates today just as much as it did in her lifetime, the concepts and themes she worked with and through are still relevant when considered in the context of todays social issues. One can find her sparkling mind and her happiness in the tiniest of her sculptures as well as in the most ... More | |
Park Dae Sung, Blue Mountain and White Cloud, 2013, © Park Dae Sung, photo courtesy of the artist.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink and Contemporary Brush, an exhibition spotlighting the artists large-scale ink paintings that portray contemporary subjects with calligraphic lines, effortlessly fusing the aesthetics of East and West. Park Dae Sung (박대성 朴大成), born in 1945, during the waning days of Koreas
colonization by Japan, is one of the most prolific calligraphers and ink painters in South Korea today. Self-taught from the early age of five, Park is respected for his consummate command of the styles of legendary Chinese and Korean ink masters from centuries ago. Park has spent time in China and walked the Silk Road, searching for the meaning of hanja (Chinese characters), the aesthetic foundation of his calligraphy and paintings. The artists practice has matured into ... More | |
Sherry Poppins and Qhrist AlMighty (She/Her), 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hannah Traore Gallery announced the extension of Gods That Walk Among Us, the first solo exhibition of New York-based photographer Camila Falquez, now on view through July 30, 2022. Born in Mexico and raised in Spain, Colombian photographer Camila Falquez creates photographs that harness the traditions of fashion and portrait photography to honor a contemporary spectrum of social and gender diversity. Channeling the conventions of surrealism and a painterly color palette, she creates an empowering vision that ushers in the narratives of community, humanity, liberation and visibility. Falquez does nothing quietly. In Gods That Walk Among Us, rather than merely venture outside of preconceived notions of gender, power and beauty, her vibrant portraits forcibly push back against them. In her own words: "What if beauty and power can exist on pedestals that we ... More |
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| Thaddaeus Ropac brings together two generations of artists whose works explore new forms of abstraction | | Heller Gallery: Three solo exhibitions on view through September 7 | | The Armory Show announces 2022 Platform projects |
Megan Rooney.
PARIS.- Saturation refers to the expressive power of colour: in colour theory it describes the highest degree of a colours intensity. Saturation also evokes our contemporary condition, characterised by the overflow of information and a feeling of emotional and mental overload, which, according to the sociologist Monique Haicault, particularly affects women. The exhibition thus chooses to present the work of women artists, decentring abstraction from a historically male-dominant perspective. Wook-Kyung Chois forceful, rhythmic compositions from the 1960s are influenced by Korean Art Informel and American Abstract Expressionism. Line and colour surge on her canvases to create uprising movements that demonstrate the artists emotional sensitivity and her social conscience. Choi was involved in the anti-war and anti-racist social movements in the United States in the 1960s and spoke ... More | |
Installation view.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Three not to miss solo exhibitions are simultaneously on view at Heller Gallery this summer. Matter Composition, work by ceramic artist Bobby Silverman, opened last week joining Articulated Atmospheres, work by Scottish artist and architect Karlyn Sutherland, and The Inner Light, work by legendary Czech Modernist duo, Stanislav Libenský & Jaroslava Brychtová, which have both been extended through September 7, 2022. Simple shapes and explosive colorful glazes and paint are the visual touchstones of Bobby Silvermans work in Matter Composition. The work develops from the outside in, says the artist. The surface quality is paramount, and the form is chosen to highlight that surface. Seeking more than just the emotional communication imparted by color, luminosity, translucency, and reflection, some of Silvermans works incorporate texts, poetry, and quotations, all in support of his goal of achievi ... More | |
Ebony G. Patterson, ...when the cry takes root.... Courtesy of Monique Meloche Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show presents the projects for the 2022 edition of Platform, curated by Tobias Ostrander, Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator, Latin American Art at Tate, London. Featuring twelve artists, the title for the 2022 edition is Monumental Change. The section is dedicated to large-scale and site-specific installations that examine how recent revisionist practices, which are part of dramatic cultural shifts occurring throughout the world, are influencing artists engagement with sculptural form. Artists and galleries featured in the section are Iván Argote (Perrotin), Carolina Caycedo (Instituto de Visión), Sonia Gomes (Mendes Wood DM), Trenton Doyle Hancock (Hales and James Cohan), Juan Fernando Herrán (PROXYCO Gallery), Roberto Huarcaya (Rolf Art), Julio César Morales (Gallery Wendi Norris), Reynier Leyva Novo (El Apartamento), ... More |
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| Nam June Paik Art Center celebrates the artist's 90th anniversary with exhibition | | Un/Sense, Next at Christie's: London 2022, an exhibition of work by the next generation of artists | | Compton Verney appoints new CEO |
Nam June Paik, Three Elements: Circle Square Triangle, 1999. Nam June Paik Art Center Collection.
GYEONGGI-DO.- On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Nam June Paiks birth, this exhibition was born of the desire to revisit Paiks glorious (but bygone) installations filled with videos and lights. While Paiks video art is widely known, there are relatively few opportunities to encounter large-scale media installations. However, Paik took part in the 1993 Venice Biennale and installed a large-scale media work Sistine Chapel using 40 projectors, which caused a great sensation. In 1995, he presented Baroque Laser, in which he installed large-scale projections and lasers in a baroque church in Germany. All of these works are strongly bound to the specific time and space in which they were embodied. Sistine Chapel was made in the high ceiling and large space of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in the heat of midsummer, while Baroque Laser was staged in a quiet and small church on the outskirts of Münster ... More | |
Hoa Dung Clerget (b. 1985), The Trace (detail), carbon paper, wall size installation in-situ. Executed in 2022.
LONDON.- Christies presents Un/Sense, Next at Christies: London 2022, a physical and virtual exhibition of work by the next generation of artists, open to the public from 20 to 29 July at Christies London headquarters. The exhibition has been curated by Pia Zeitzen and Sasha Shevchenko, two London-based curators who were selected from an open call, and who met while undertaking the MFA Curating degree at Goldsmiths University. Bringing together the works of 29 rising talents, Un/Sense addresses the absurdity of contemporary reality by allowing the absurd to take over the exhibition's artistic and curatorial expression. Entry to Un/Sense will be free and open to all. Anthea Peers, Christies President, EMEA: Christies is delighted to present Next at Christies: London 2022 as a platform for rising talent, in recognition and support of the vibrant art ecosystem in London. This exciting public exhibition ... More | |
Geraldine comes from a highly successful 12-year stint at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) holding most recently the role of Director of Creative Placemaking and Public Programmes. © Kate Hollingsworth.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Compton Verney announced the appointment of Geraldine Collinge as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She is taking over from Julie Finch, who joins Hay Festival Foundation as its new CEO. Geraldine comes from a highly successful 12-year stint at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) holding most recently the role of Director of Creative Placemaking and Public Programmes. Amongst her achievements is leading the major capital project - the £4.5m Swan Wing - which came in on budget and on time, winning the RSC a construction industry award. Geraldine initiated the RSCs creative digital programme with work from Romeo and Juliet on Twitter to A Midsummer Nights Dream in partnership with Google. She has very well-established networks in the ... More |
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Toronto artist Ed Pien reflects on time and memory in new exhibition featuring Cuban seniors
TORONTO.- On view at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Present: Past/Future is acclaimed Toronto artist Ed Piens first AGO solo exhibition. Best known for his experimental drawings and meticulous paper-cuts, Piens work is defined by spontaneity, collaboration and duration. These qualities are exemplified in his newest work, a selection of multimedia installations and antiques documenting his discussions with 13 Cuban seniors. Since 2014, Pien has been travelling regularly to the community of San AgustÃn, Cuba to record and photograph a group of seniors in their homes. This project -- which is ongoing -- was commissioned by Elegoa Cultural Productions and the Laboratorio ArtÃstico de San AgustÃn (LASA) network. In the first exhibition of this durational project, guest curated by Catherine Sicot and presented in Spanish with English subtitles, Pien ... More
Plotting the future of the most storied studio in jazz
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJ.- Hidden along a commercial strip north of the George Washington Bridge, surrounded by car dealerships and characterless corporate offices, is hallowed ground for jazz. There, tucked in a 1-acre wooded lot, sits a squat concrete-block structure built in 1959 by Rudy Van Gelder, the polymathic former optometrist who became the genres most influential recording engineer. On thousands of albums made at his studio there by the likes of John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Dexter Gordon and Bill Evans, Van Gelder developed ways to capture sound with renowned clarity and depth, earning the respect of musicians and the envy of other engineers. History was made there, said Herbie Hancock, who recorded at Van Gelders studio numerous times. History that defined what jazz was then and what jazz is now. The ... More
William Hart, driving force behind the Delfonics, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- William Hart, who as the lead singer and chief lyricist of the soul trio the Delfonics helped pioneer the romantic lyrics, falsetto vocals and velvety string arrangements that defined the Philadelphia sound of the 1960s and 70s, died on July 14 in Philadelphia. He was 77. His son Hadi said the death, at Temple University Hospital, was caused by complications during surgery. The Delfonics combined the harmonies of doo-wop, the sweep of orchestral pop and the crispness of funk to churn out a string of hits, 20 of which reached the Billboard Hot 100. (Two made the Top 10.) Almost all of them were written by Hart in conjunction with producer Thom Bell, including La-La (Means I Love You), Im Sorry and Ready or Not Here I Come (Cant Hide From Love), all released in 1968, and, a year later, Didnt I (Blow Your Mind This Time), which ... More
For a revered art house cinema, a season of off-screen turmoil
NEW YORK, NY.- For more than two decades, the Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester County has been a glimmering success story: an oasis for film lovers drawn to the art house cinemas offerings and the panache of its A-list leaders, members and visitors. Ron Howard sits on its board, as did Steven Spielberg. Jonathan Demme, also a former board member, ran a film series at the center, located in a historic Spanish Mission-style theater in town that was renovated at considerable cost. In an era when art houses and commercial theaters seem perennially under threat, the nonprofit Burns Center has thrived, adding screens and broadening its ambition by opening a Media Arts Lab and later developing a Creative Culture program for emerging filmmakers. The JBFC is a force for social change disguised as a movie theater, Demme ... More
Classical music has a hazy future in Lincoln Center's summers
NEW YORK, NY.- The day had been hot and muggy. But a mild breeze was blowing at Lincoln Center by the time the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra took the stage in Damrosch Park on Tuesday evening. The pianist Conrad Tao played an elegantly unruffled Mozart concerto and a daydreamy Rhapsody in Blue. Apart from a sprinkling of small performances last summer, this orchestra hadnt been assembled since 2019, but it sounded comfortable and spirited. In just three years, the group has become an anachronism. The festival whose name it bears Lincoln Centers premier summertime event before the pandemic is no more. The centers summer, once a messy assortment of competing series and festivals, has finally been streamlined under a single label: Summer for the City. Planned by Lincoln Centers president, Henry Timms, and its ... More
Keeping the hippie dream alive
NEW YORK, NY.- The guide stood before a small group in a dimly lit tepee. Do you want to be entertained, or to go deep? he asked. The answer came in giddy unison: Go deep! Good, he said. That was a trick question. The people got cozy on the pillow-strewn floor as the guide went to his keyboard. Gentle synthesizer music filled the tent. The ceremonial sound bath had begun. Nearby, men and women in flowing white garb and fedoras sat around a fire, munching on mind-altering fungi. Others convened for a cannabis-puffing prayer session, during which helpers passed out joints and rang singing bowls. These ethereal scenes took place at a gathering last month in the Cuyama Valley in California, where some 200 people convened for a weekend of tripping and glamping hosted by DoubleBlind, a new media outlet for the psychedelic ... More
Outstanding Moser collection will be sold online by Neue Auctions, July 30th
BEACHWOOD, OH.- The outstanding single-owner collection of diversified Moser glass from Carol and Leslie Gould will be sold online, without reserves, on Saturday, July 30th, starting at 10 am Eastern time, by Neue Auctions. The collection spans Moser output from the late 19th to the early 20th century, including many fine and rare examples that will be desirable to collectors. Carol and Leslie Gould lived and worked in New York City when they met, she as an insurance executive and he a piano tuner and entrepreneur, said Bridget McWilliams of Neue Auctions. He had come to tune her baby grand piano. They married soon after meeting and learning they had a shared love of pianos, antiques and rescue pets, then bought a horse ranch in New Jersey. Over the years, the couple came to know all of the top glass dealers as their collection ... More
St. Moritz Art Film Festival will launch in the Swiss Engadin Valley
ST. MORITZ.- The St. Moritz Art Film Festival -SMAFF announced its first edition, taking place in the Engadin Valley from 25th - 28th August 2022. This is the first festival in the world mainly focused on films by artists and directors of arthouse movies and also the first festival to bring film and video art works in the Grisons Canton in Switzerland. SMAFFs inaugural edition will feature works by artists and directors such as Stephanie Comilang, Sophie Fiennes, Heecheon Kim, Diego Marcon, Michel Auder, Malcolm McLaren, Adrian Paci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrew Norman Willson, and others. With a 4 day programme, Artistic Director Stefano Rabolli Pansera has curated the project around the theme Face to Face. Stefano Rabolli Pansera comments: The face is the place of humanity; and it is the interface with others. The theme of the face sits ... More
Art For Change launches limited edition print by artist Susan Chen
NEW YORK, NY.- Art For Change, a leading art platform for the socially conscious collector, announced the launch of Chinatown Block Watch, a unique limited-edition print by Susan Chen. The print is part of a small edition of 20 prints inspired by the resilience and local character of New York Citys Chinatown, a neighborhood teeming with history yet undergoing significant change. The print is available July 6th while supplies last. I wanted to thank Chinatown Block Watch for collaborating and sharing their stories to help bring this artwork to life. The organization has provided so much support to the Chinatown community throughout the pandemic, said Susan Chen. As for Silver Arts Projects, having personally experienced how this residency changed my life, I hope to be able to make a small difference in the lives of other artists in need as well. Maintaining ... More
Rare gold coin, collectible Jun Ware, and Peter Max artwork make July a month of unique rarities at Michaan's
ALAMEDA, CA.- July 2022 brought the monthly annex and gallery sales at Michaans Auctions. The auction week kicked off on Monday, July 11 with the Annex Auction which continued through Wednesday, July 13. Saturday, July 16 saw the Gallery Auction, which proved one of the most successful sales of the year so far at a total estimated value over $400,000.00. This was achieved by the sale of a number of desirable pieces, including several works of fine art by German-American artist Peter Max (b. 1937), a wide selection of Chinese Jun ware, and a double eagle gold coin pendant necklace. The Gallery Auction began with furniture and decorative arts, including a number of Lanier Meaders (American, 1917-1998) stoneware face jugs. Meader Pottery was established in 1893, and demand for their whimsical items, such as face jugs had risen by the late 1930s; they are considered Laniers specialty. Four face jugs were offered on Saturday, one of which (Lot 19) sold for $3,690.00. Bidders also competed for ... More
CUE Art Foundation opens new group exhibition 'Money Has No Smell'
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, July 21st from 68 pm, CUE Art Foundation opens Money Has No Smell, a group exhibition that presents the work of three artists: Ignacio Gatica, Mariana Parisca, and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer. The exhibition is curated by ACOMPI (Jack Radley and Constanza Valenzuela) and mentored by Rosario Güiraldes. It will remain on view at CUEs gallery space at 137 West 25th Street until September 2nd, 2022. Money Has No Smell brings together recent works by Ignacio Gatica, Mariana Parisca, and Gabriella Torres-Ferrer that trace flows of currency to and from the artists places of origin, in the process addressing the complexity of globalized and interdependent financial systems. The phrase money has no smell suggests that our perception of capital can be untethered from and untainted by its source. Through ... More
Spencer Museum of Art receives $3 million gift to endow arts research integration
LAWRENCE, KS.- The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas has received a $3 million gift from Kansas Citybased donor Margaret H. Silva to endow Arts Research Integration (ARI), a groundbreaking initiative that brings artists into a wide range of research processes through interdisciplinary collaborations. Additionally, Silva has offered to support a challenge grant, led by the Spencer, up to another million dollars of financial support for the initiative. These gifts build on Silvasprior contributions to ARI, which began in 2018, and recognize the significance of the initiative to making art core to the study and manifestation of ideas. The gift is essential to advancing ARIs work on current projects, including those with artists Janine Antoni, Simon Denny, and Stephanie Dinkins, and to securing ARIs future as an incubator for new research approaches ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-born American artist Arshile Gorky died July 21, 1948. Arshile Gorky ( April 15, 1904 - July 21, 1948) was an American painter of Armenian descent who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide. In this image: Arshile Gorky, "Agony", 1947. Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 1/2 in., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, A. Conger Goodyear Fund. ©2010 Estate of Arshile Gorky/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
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