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Britain's Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (3L) and Spain's Queen Letizia (2L) attend the opening of the exhibition "Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light" at the National Gallery in central London on March 13, 2019. Jeff Gilbert / AFP / POOL.
LONDON.- Filling the Sainsbury Wing exhibition galleries, the display will feature sixty works spanning the artists career, including important masterpieces on loan from public and private collections in Europe and the United States. This will be the first UK retrospective of the artist since 1908 when Sorolla himself mounted an exhibition at Londons Grafton Galleries where he was promoted as The Worlds Greatest Living Painter. While it was his sun-drenched depictions of the life, landscapes and traditions of Spain, as well as his gifts as a portraitist, which sealed his fame, Sorolla, who trained in Valencia and studied in Madrid and Rome, first won an international reputation for major works tackling social subjects. For the first time in the UK a series of these prized early social paintings will be brought together including his 'The Return from Fishing' (1894, Paris, Musée d'Orsay), which was bought by the French government; and 'Sewing the Sail' (1896, Fondazione Musei C ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This year, 48 international galleries, 6 auction houses and 16 cultural institutions are part of Asia Week New York's 10 full days of nonstop open galleries, auction sales, lectures and exhibitions. In this image: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) "Umezawa Hamlet in Sagami Province" from the series Thirty-six Views of Fuji ca. 1832 Woodblock print on paper. Courtesy of Joan B Mirviss, Ltd.
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| | | Thomas Heneage to offer the library of TV art historian and nun Sister Wendy | | Getty Museum presents first major exhibition of the work of Oscar G. Rejlander | | Italy should take back the Mona Lisa, Salvini jokes |
Thomas Heneage Art Books (stand 384) will bring over 5,000 books to TEFAF Maastricht this year, including art reference books, catalogues raisonnés, monographs and exhibition catalogues.
LONDON.- London dealer Thomas Heneage has purchased a Library belonging to the late Wendy Mary Beckett, TV Art Historian and nun, better-known as Sister Wendy. Heneage will offer a large number of books from Sister Wendys Library for sale at TEFAF Maastricht (16 24 March 2019). After her death at the end of last year, BBC director of arts Jonty Claypole paid tribute to Sister Wendy, describing her "unique presentation style as well as her deep knowledge of and passion for the arts". Sister Wendys purpose-built library was next to the caravan she lived in and is made up of some fascinating books, on subjects ranging from Chinese paintings and manuscripts to Old Master Paintings, and contemporary art. This collection of books demonstrates Sister Wendys breadth of knowledge and fascination with all areas of the art world. Thomas Heneage Art ... More | |
Oscar G. Rejlander, Lionel Tennyson, about 1863. Albumen print from a wet collodion negative. Image (oval): 18.3 x 14.3 cm (7 3/16 x 5 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Paul Mellon Fund, 2007.29.39 EX.2019.5.46
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Oscar G. Rejlander (British, born Sweden, 1813-1875) was one of the 19th centurys greatest innovators in the medium of photography, counting Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Charles Darwin, Lewis Carroll and Julia Margaret Cameron among his devotees. Nevertheless, the extent of Rejlanders work and career has often been overlooked. Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer, on view March 12June 9, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles, is the first exhibition to explore the prolific career of the artist who became known as the father of art photography, and whose bold experimentation with photographic techniques early in the mediums development and keen understanding of human emotion were ahead of their time. The exhibition features 150 photographs that ... More | |
Da Vinci was born in the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence in 1452 but died in France in 1519.
ROME (AFP).- The Mona Lisa, the world's most famous painting, should be brought back home to Italy from France, Italy's far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday, before clarifying he was joking. His comments come as French-Italian relations have nosedived following a series of rows over illegal immigration, domestic policies and personal attacks directed at French President Emmanuel Macron. "I announce that we're working with the French ambassador to take back the Mona Lisa," Salvini said at a press conference to announce events commemorating 500 years since the death of the artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci. "It would be more convenient for everyone who wants to see her up close," said Salvini, who is also interior minister. "Joking apart, obviously, we don't need more international crises." Da Vinci was born in the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence in 1452 but died in France in 1519. Salvini said he would visit Da ... More |
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| | | "Cycling in the City: A 200-Year History" opens at Museum of the City of New York | | Bob Dylan's Fender guitar from Blonde on Blonde sessions may rewrite music history this Saturday | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of paintings by Helen Frankenthaler in Rome |
Cycling in the City, the first exhibition of its kind, will comprise more than 150 objects.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cycling in the City: A 200Year History, on view at the Museum of the City of New York from March 14, through October 6, 2019, will trace how the bicycle transformed urban transportation and leisure in New York City and will explore the extraordinary diversity of cycling cultures, past and present. It will reveal the complex, creative, and often contentious relationship between New York City and the bicycle, while underscoring the importance of cycling as the city confronts climate change, energy scarcity, and population growth in the years to come. Cycling in the City, the first exhibition of its kind, will comprise more than 150 objects including 14 bicyclesspanning 1869 through today and presented on a stepped platform evocative of an historic velodrome, or cycle racing trackphotographs, prints, and cycling apparel, as well as ephemera such as posters, magazines, brochures, and badges. The ... More | |
Bob Dylan Personally-Owned Fender Guitar from Blonde on Blonde Sessions.
DALLAS, TX.- Bob Dylans personally-owned 1965 Fender Electric XII twelve-string electric guitar, which he played during sessions for his seventh LP album Blonde on Blonde, may rewrite music history when it crosses the auction block this Saturday, March 16, at Heritage Auctions. Aficionados consider Dylans Blonde on Blonde as rocks first great double album and two songs from the sessions are included on Rolling Stone Magazines prestigious 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. During those initial sessions in late 1965, Dylan played a host of Fenders, including a Stratocaster and a Fender Electric XII, said Garry Shrum, Director of Music Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. While many of the guitars are recognized as production models, his Electric XII is an incredibly rare specimen. The 1966 masterpiece achieved double-platinum status, and due to its combination of grand, driving ... More | |
Shippan Point: Twilight, 1980. Acrilico su tela, 71 x 55 in., 180.3 x 139.7 cm © 2019 Fondazione Helen Frankenthaler, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
ROME.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of paintings by Helen Frankenthaler in Rome, coinciding with an exhibition of her work at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale. In the summer of 1974, Frankenthaler rented a house at Shippan Point in Stamford, Connecticut, facing the waters of Long Island Sound, marking the beginning of an important period of change for her work. Sea Change comprises eleven canvases that Frankenthaler painted between 1974 and 1983, which reflect her responses to the changing appearance of the wide vistas and moving tides. One of the earliest canvases, Ocean Drive West #1 (1974), is explicitly oceanic with its floating horizontal bands, seeming to recede across an expanse of transparent blue. In Jupiter (1976) and Reflection (1977), the bands ... More |
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| | | Furniture architect Finn Juhl featured in new exhibition at Nationalmuseum | | Cache of letters from Princess Margaret reveal a modest young woman captivated by baby nephew Prince Charles | | Morphy's rolls out rare signs, gas pumps & globes for April 3 petroliana auction |
Chieftain chair, Finn Juhl, 1949. Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum will mount an exhibition about the Danish architect and furniture designer Finn Juhl. One of the most influential Scandinavian furniture designers of the 20th century will be presented through an exclusive selection of his furniture, artwork and crafts. The furniture and furnishings on display comes from Finn Juhls home in Ordrup, outside Copenhagen, which he designed and decorated for himself in 1942. The exhibition presents Finn Juhl as one of the most influential Scandinavian furniture designers of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. His designs are characterised by a perfectionistic attention to detail, an intuitive sense for materials, and innovative thinking about constructions and the combination of materials. The furniture was usually produced in small artisanal series in collaboration with the master carpenter Niels Vodder. Yet Juhl was also one of the first Danish designers to design furniture ... More | |
Correspondence also shows teenage Princess thrilled by meeting Hollywood stars, self-deprecating and devoted to her American friends.
WOKING.- A cache of letters coming up for sale at Ewbanks Auctions in Surrey on March 22 reveal how captivated the teenage Princess Margaret was with her baby nephew Prince Charles. The collection of ten letters to the princesss lifelong friend, the American socialite Sharman Douglas, and her mother Peggy, pre-date others that surfaced four years ago and were written from early 1949 to late 1950, when Margaret was aged between 18 and 20. Bursting with enthusiasm and gratitude, the letters, all on Buckingham Palace headed notepaper, show the young Princess as self-deprecating, vivacious, full of fun and humour as she writes about a wide range of subjects, from meeting and singing in front of Hollywood stars to visiting a trial at the Old Bailey and watching a young John Profumo pulling faces at a party. In a letter dated 1st April 1949, the Princess writes to her friend: I still ... More | |
Double-sided Shell Motor Oil die-cut Motor Oil sign marked Tennessee Enamel, 1931; 23 by 23½ inches, condition 9.5 out of 10. Estimate: $3,500-$5,000.
DENVER, PA.- If condition is king, then expect a red carpet to be rolled out on April 3 as Morphys presents a regal auction line-up of gorgeous signs, gas globes and early pumps in a 746-lot Automobilia & Petroliana Auction. The high-octane selection includes many entries from collections that were established back when petroleum-related items in pristine condition were much easier to find. There are many signs in this sale that would be hard to improve upon. They would be considered upgrades for even the finest of known private collections, said John Mihovetz, Head of Morphys Automobilia & Petroliana division. A case in point is the outstanding double-sided Shell Motor Oil die-cut Motor Oil sign dated 1931. With strong crimson and orange coloration and only minor edge wear, the 23 by 23½-inch clamshell-shape sign is rated a solid 9.5 out of 10. Estimate: ... More |
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| | | Exhibition features items related to soldiers returning home after WWI | | Cardi Gallery opens an anthology exhibition dedicated to the pioneering Japanese movement Mono-ha | | Pirelli HangarBicocca exhibition wins 2018 Best Impressionist and Modern category at Global Fine Art Awards |
Were HomeNow What? Special exhibition opens at National WWI Museum and Memorial.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- From the earliest history of armed conflict soldiers have done their duty and returned to their homes and families. In the aftermath of World War I, millions of servicemen and women came home from a war that was unprecedented in its impact on those who experienced it. For some who served, the wars impact on their bodies and minds lasted a lifetime. Beyond the dockside homecomings and the main street parades, what was the returning veterans experience in being a civvie again? Were they able to make this transition smoothly? Return to work or school and get on with their former life? Or, did they find it difficult and require help? Were HomeNow What? examines the challenging transition for service personnel from war-time duty to civilian life through archival materials such as soldier-issued pamphlets, posters and more. The U.S. military grew from less than 150,000 personnel before entering ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Cardi Gallery, London is presenting an anthology exhibition dedicated to the pioneering Japanese movement Mono-ha, introducing the London public to seminal works by artists Koji Enokura, Noriyuki Haraguchi, Susumu Koshimizu, Lee Ufan, Katsuhiko Narita, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga, Jiro Takamatsu, Noboru Takayama and Katsuro Yoshida. Seventeen works produced between 1968 and 1986, often of monumental size and shown for the first time in the United Kingdom, inhabit the Georgian townhouse. The exhibition is completed by a rich display of rarely seen archival photographs, illustrating the history of the movement. Mono-ha (The School of Things) emerged in 1968 Tokyo as one of a number of networks engaged in radical counter-art practices of non-making that characterized the post-war Japanese artistic discourse, such as the Gutai group in the 50s, the Neo-Dada Organisers and Hi-Red Center in the early 60s. The young ... More | |
Lucio Fontana in collaboration with Nanda Vigo, Ambiente spaziale: Utopie, nella XIII Triennale di Milano, 1964/2017, installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2017. Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. ©Fondazione Lucio Fontana Photo: Agostino Osio.
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca has won the 2018 Global Fine Art Award in the Best Impressionist and Modern category for solo artist shows. The award is part of the Global Fine Art Awards program, set up to recognize the best curated art, culture and design exhibitions around the world in museums, galleries, fairs, and biennials, as well as public installations. It has been won by Pirelli HangarBicocca for the exhibition Lucio Fontana: Ambienti/Environments, which was on show in the exhibition space in Milan from 21 September 2017 to 25 February 2018. It was curated by Marina Pugliese, Barbara Ferriani and Vicente TodolÃ, and organised in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana. For this fifth edition of the Global ... More |
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Exhibition at Central Saint Martins reveals that our romantic entanglement with capitalism is nothing new
LONDON.- Madame B is an immersive video installation which examines the link between capitalism and romance in relation to Gustave Flauberts 1856 novel Madame Bovary. It is a collaboration between Dutch cultural theorist and video artist Mieke Bal and British video and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker. Working anachronistically to highlight the novels shocking contemporaneity, Madame B opens up historical and contemporary connections between economics and romantic love, desire, consumption and loneliness. Divided into eight key scenes and split across 19 screens, the installation frames the complex drives at play in the lived experiences of women both then and now. Through an immersive video experience, Madame B shows how these factors have persisted over the 150 years since Flauberts novel was published. We see the ... More
Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman's favourite artist Lita Cabellut exhibits her work at Opera Gallery, London
LONDON.- Opera Gallery presents Transformation, a solo exhibition off 22 new works by one of Spains most acclaimed portrait artists Lita Cabellut. The third highest selling artist in Spain, Lita Cabelluts paintings are collected by many public figures including Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman and Gordon Ramsay and have been the subject of numerous high profile international exhibitions. Before being discovered by a prominent Catalan family, who adopted her in her early teens, she was introduced to the Spanish masters at the Prado Museum, where she discovered the works of Velazquez, Goya and Frans Hals who continue to influence her practice to this day. Surrounded by the abundance of fresco paintings in Barcelona, Cabellut developed a signature technique that captured the volatile characters and scenes of her hometown. Lita Cabellut has made herself ... More
Exhibition at Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv features a new performative work by Alex Mirutziu
TEL AVIV.- The Center for Contemporary Art presents Gaining in a State of Debt the first solo exhibition by Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu (1981, Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Mirutzius practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including sculpture, drawing, poetry, and performance, as well as critical and curatorial projects. In his work, which is both highly intellectual and deeply physical, he expands the notions of approximation and proximity in connection to time, presenting dislocated modes of arrival at meaning. In his modus operandi, he seeks to facilitate the understanding of the body as a turbulent performative occasion drawing on the poetics of homelessness and invisibility. Through his artworks, he looks at ways of suspending the set-ups of doing and un-doing, thinking and un-thinking. Alongside ... More
Maria Lassnig Prize 2019 will be awarded to the artist Sheela Gowda
MUNICH.- The Maria Lassnig Foundation and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München.announced that the Maria Lassnig Prize 2019 will be awarded to the artist Sheela Gowda. Sheela Gowda is the second artist granted this prize by the Maria Lassnig Foundation. The prize is given biennially to a mid-career artist. Sheela Gowda (b. 1957 in Bhadravati, India) lives and works in Bangalore. She studied Painting at the Ken School of Art in Bangalore, Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, and the Royal College of Art in London. For her sculptures and installations, Sheela Gowda uses materials that, due to their consistency, color, and odor, create a narrative atmosphere and concomitantly unfold metaphorical power. Materials such as cow dung, kumkuma powder, incense, and coconut fibers, as well as hairs, needles, and threads ... More
The Drawing Center appoints new Staff Director of Development Rebecca Brickman
NEW YORK, NY.- The Drawing Center announces the appointment of Rebecca Brickman to the post of Director of Development. Brickman will oversee all of The Drawing Centers fundraising activities and special events, and will spearhead new initiatives and partnerships nationally and internationally. Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, says about the new appointment, I am thrilled to welcome Rebecca Brickman to The Drawing Center as Director of Development. Rebecca brings a wealth of experience to this crucial senior position. We look forward to envisioning the next chapter of the organization with her, and working together to make that vision a reality. Rebecca Brickman is committed to supporting the future of dynamic arts organizations through the implementation of creative fundraising strategies. From 2015 to 2019, ... More
Freelands Foundation opens Fault Lines, a group exhibition
LONDON.- This March Freelands Foundation will present Fault Lines, a group exhibition curated by Edward Ball, Freelands Artist Programme Curator. The show brings together four UK-based artists working in the realm of sculpture; Jonathan Baldock, Alice Channer, Angela de la Cruz and Holly Hendry. The artists were born across four consecutive decades, highlighting an ongoing, and cross-generational, fascination with themes of instability. The term fault line encompasses both the physical and metaphorical qualities of volatility and fluctuation. As a physical form a fault line is identifiable as a geological boundary or crack in the ground, and as a metaphorical concept, as something weak or precarious. Baldock, Channer, De la Cruz and Hendry all address this sense of tension in their work, both through the material processes that underpin their practice, ... More
Newfields appoints Dr. Michael Vetter as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Newfields welcomes Michael Vetter, PhD as Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. In this role, Vetter will create a vision for The Indianapolis Museum of Arts contemporary art program, including a plan for reinstalling the permanent collection. The collection encompasses over 900 works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, prints, video and installation art. Beyond the IMA Galleries, Vetter will be responsible for outdoor sculpture commissions in The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres. We are very excited for the energy that Dr. Vetter will bring to the Museums contemporary art program. He, in collaboration with our curatorial, exhibition, and interpretation teams will help reimagine not only the reinstallation of the permanent collection, but also a comprehensive vision for contemporary ... More
Christian Kaspar Schwarm awarded the ART COLOGNE Prize 2019
COLOGNE.- Koelnmesse and the Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (German association of galleries and art dealers) are pleased to announce Christian Kaspar Schwarm, the founder of Independent Collectors, as the winner of the ART COLOGNE Prize 2019. This year the ART COLOGNE Prize honours an individual who has been successfully building a network of an international community of contemporary art collectors for over a decade. Together with several partners, Christian Kaspar Schwarm founded the Independent Collectors online platform in 2008 in Berlin. Today it represents nearly 7,000 international collectors from more than 100 countries. Passionate about contemporary art, these collectors are indispensable to a vital art scene. The online platform is available at no charge to all those interested in art. "The picture of the ... More
Bonhams appoints Giles Moon as Director of Music & Entertainment Memorabilia
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The international auction house Bonhams announced that Giles Moon will join the company as Director of Music & Entertainment Memorabilia. He takes up his new position with immediate effect based in Bonhams San Francisco office. Mr. Moon has been in the auction business for more than 30 years working for Christies in London, Sothebys in New York, Bonhams & Goodman and Leonard Joel in Australia and most recently, Heritage in San Francisco. His expertise is in Rock & Roll Memorabilia, but he has a strong base in general entertainment and collectibles as well. In his career, hes handled estates and collections such as the Cynthia Lennon Collection of John Lennon Memorabilia, property from the Spice Girls, the Charlie Parker collection, The Estate of Clayton Moore (TVs Lone Ranger), and the Estate of Whitney Houston, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich
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