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Giovanni Battista Foggini (1652-1725), Portrait of Marguerite Louise dOrléans, 1687, marble, 77 cm.
LONDON.- This marble portrait bust of 1687 portrays Marguerite Louise of Orléans, wife of Cosimo III de Medici, the enfant terrible of the Medici dynasty. A free-spirited woman, Marguerite Louise, although she bore Cosimo three heirs, never submitted emotionally to the marriage, and came to despise her husband, his family and the Court in Florence, and made Cosimos life miserable. Eventually she obtained a separation, returned to France, and lived as she pleased, bringing even her cousin King Louis XIV to despair at her outrageous behaviour. The marble bust is offered by Carlo Orsi-Trinity Fine Art, Stand 379, at TEFAF Maastricht with several fresh discoveries: previously unpublished documents clarifying that it was commissioned by the Medici, that it is a fully autograph work by Giovanni Battista Foggini (Florence 1652-1725), a contention borne out by specific payments made to the sculptor, and that it wa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day World-renowned Asia Week New York celebrates a milestone when the curtain goes up on March 13th for its 10 days of whirlwind activities. In this image: Uddhava consoling the women of Braj. Page from a Bhagavata Purana series. Guler, c. 1790. Photo: Courtesy of Francesca Galloway.
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| | | Hirshhorn to revitalize sculpture garden for 21st century | | Urban Culture Auctions debuts with entertaining sale of street art, celebrity memorabilia and pop collectibles | | Spring series of sales of the Aristophil Collections to take place on 1 to 5 April |
Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden preliminary concept design.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced March 11 that its board of trustees unanimously voted in favor of moving forward with a renovation and redesign of its Sculpture Garden for the first time since the 1980s. Over the past two years, the museum has been working to reimagine the space to improve the visitor experience and to provide a greater variety of programming. Following a successful renovation of the museums lobby by architect/artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, which has welcomed nearly a million visitors since its opening, the museum began working with Sugimoto to develop a concept design for the garden. Adjacent to the National Mall, the sunken garden is barely visible to both Mall and museum visitors. Sugimotos early concept calls for an enhanced entrance facing the National Mall, directly engaging the more than 35 million people who pass through each year. The new vision will create spaces ... More | |
Cast-iron three-dimensional figure of Michelin Tires mascot Bibendum. Sold for $2,080. Image courtesy of Urban Culture Auctions.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Every auction has its surprises, but no one expected the prison correspondence of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger Jr., to steal the spotlight at Urban Culture Auctions Feb. 24 debut. The 289-lot Sunday session that piggybacked a modern design sale hosted by UCAs parent company, Palm Beach Modern Auctions, featured a lively mix of what auctioneer Rico Baca called the fun stuff from iconic pop furniture and graffiti art to street fashion, celebrity memorabilia and Space Age electronics. But it was the Bulger material that ignited a media frenzy. Shortly after the national press became aware of the Bulger archive to be auctioned, the gallery phone started ringing off the hook, Baca said. Associated Press was first. After their story broke in newspapers across the country, the national TV networks soon followed. There was coverage from as far away as Australia. Everyone wanted to know what wa ... More | |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Woman in pink in a landscape in Cagnes (detail). Oil on canvas. Estimate: 300,000-500,000 © Aguttes/Drouot.
PARIS.- The 4 auction houses gathered under the name OVA (The Auction Houses for the Aristophil Collections - Aguttes, Artcurial, Drouot Estimations and Ader) announced that the Spring series of sales will take place on 1 to 5 April 2019 at Drouot. 7 auctions will be offered, comprising over 1,500 lots estimated globally at 10M. For the first time since the inaugural sale on 20 December 2017, the Spring series will include the theme of History. 3 sales are curated upon this theme, 2 of which are dedicated to the most important figures of France and its neighbours and the third sale focuses on book bindings featuring the coat-of-arms of some of these personalities. 2 auctions will focus on Fine Arts, with interesting parallels between correspondences or essays and drawings and paintings by the same artists. A sale will present some of the greatest names of the French 19th and 20th centuries literature, and finally, an auction will consist ... More |
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| | | Slovakia's ice church draws visitors closer to heavens | | Renowned Spanish sculptor Martin Chirino dies | | Six centuries of Indian history brought to life at the Royal Ontario Museum |
A tourist visits a Tatra Ice Temple at Hrebienok, High Tatras mountains resort in eastern Slovakia on February 27, 2019. VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP.
HREBIENOK (AFP).- A young nun breathes deeply as she peers up at a statue of an angel bathed in softly coloured light streaming through a church, and as she exhales, you can see her breath. Instead of wood or bricks and mortar, this chilly house of worship perched among the snowy peaks of Slovakia's High Tatra Mountains has been built from massive crystal-clear blocks of ice. At 1,285 metres (4,200 feet) above sea level, the ice replica of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome is higher than any of Slovakia's 4,158 churches, more than half of them Roman Catholic. Although it has not been consecrated, another visitor, Zlatica Janakova from southern Slovakia, says it feels like a real church. "It's so good for your soul; it provides you with tranquillity," she whispers. "All of nature is inside and around this temple," she adds, gazing at the surrounding alpine vistas. Englishman Martin, who declined ... More | |
MartÃn Chirino, Aeróvoro, c. 1979?. Wrought iron. The Meadows Museum. Gift of Mrs. Shirley Pollock, MM.2009.03.
MADRID (AFP).- Martin Chirino, considered one of the most important Spanish sculptors of the past decades, died on Monday, aged 94, his foundation said. A member of the El Paso group, a collective of painters and sculptors created in 1957 that was seen as instrumental in reviving Spanish art after the devastating civil war, Chirino was known for making abstract forms out of iron. "We regret to tell you that our dear founder, Mr. Martin Chirino, left us today," the Martin Chirino Foundation said on Twitter. "We are left without one of our great geniuses and an extraordinary person." Born in 1925 in Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, Chirino's father worked in shipyards, which gave him an early passion for iron crafts and wood carvings. A multiple-award winner, his works -- often made of coils, spirals or curves -- are on display in museums like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and ... More | |
Bert Harris, Portrait of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II, 1895, oil on canvas, Umaid Bhawan Palace. Neil Greentree, photographer.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum unveiled an exhibition of rarely seen royal treasures from Marwar-Jodhpur, one of the largest former princely states in India. The ROM is the final North American destination and the exclusive Canadian venue for Treasures of a Desert Kingdom: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India. This exhibition, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, with the collaboration of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, India, is on display from March 9 to September 2, 2019. As a leading centre for scholarship and expertise in South Asian art and culture, we are delighted to give visitors the unprecedented opportunity to explore a part of Indias rich cultural history that has rarely been seen, says Josh Basseches, ROM Director & CEO. This landmark exhibition will not only captivate audiences, it will also offer a deeper understanding of Indias artistic ... More |
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| | | galerie kamel mennour opens exhibition of works by Hicham Berrada | | Phillips expands in California, furthering auction house's expansion in the Americas | | Stedelijk Museum purchases eight contemporary artworks from this year's Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions |
Hicham Berrada © Photo archives kamel mennour.
PARIS.- The guiding principle of Activations, Hicham Berradas second solo exhibition at the galerie kamel mennour, is to make forms emerge, encourage them to appear rather than represent them. Hicham Berrada defines his practice as that of an energy director (in the sense one speaks of a stage director), whose creative gesture consists in a choice of physical and chemical parameters: to act on the temperature, the light, or the viscosity of an environment, so that, within a defined frame, something is produced. What is given to the viewer to see in this frame are forms of activated nature, generated rather than represented forms. The circular video installation is a part of the series Présages, which the artist has been working on since 2007. The Présages, made from chemical substances submerged in beakers or aquariums, are composed according to the classical conception of landscape: a human-scale perspective on nature, oriented ... More | |
Sophia Kinell has been appointed Regional Representative in San Francisco. Photo: John Dolan.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the expansion of the companys presence in the Americas by naming Sophia Kinell as Regional Representative in San Francisco, California. The move reflects the increasing importance of California to the companys growth. As Regional Representative, Ms. Kinell will work with Phillips specialists across all departmental categories to support the auction houses business development efforts by cultivating networks of collectors, art dealers, advisors and institutions. As Phillips' regional lead for San Francisco, Sophia will work with both private and institutional clients throughout the Bay Area, working especially closely with Phillips 20th Century & Contemporary Art Department. Ms. Kinell joined Phillips in 2017 following a ten-year career at Sotheby's in New York. In her most recent position at Phillips, she was International Head of Proposals, overseeing a global team and ... More | |
Basir Mahmood, Monument of Arrival and Return, 2016. Video installation, 9 minutes 36 seconds, courtesy the artist
AMSTERDAM.- Freedom of Movement is the latest edition of the Proposals for Municipal Art Acquisitions, the biannual exhibition organized by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presenting new or recent work by artists living in the Netherlands. Each version centers around a different discipline, and this years exhibition focuses on time-based media: works of art that last for a specific length of time, such as film and video work, internet art, sound art, performance, dance and workshops. Twenty artists take part in the current edition. The Stedelijk Museum always selects a number of works featured in the exhibition to add to its collection, and today announces that it has acquired artworks by Yael Bartana, Verena Blok, Kate Cooper, Danielle Dean, Deniz Eroglu, Jort van der Laan, Basir Mahmood, and Michele Rizzo. Jan Willem Sieburgh, interim Director of the Stedelijk Museum: ... More |
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| | | Blue Tears exhibition a call to action to stop global warming | | Over 15 photographs of Leigh Bowery are being showcased at Michael Hoppen Galllery | | Horror film rarities grab spotlight in Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters Auction |
Patricia Carr Morgans interdisciplinary photographs of Greenland and Antarctic at Tucson Museum of Art shed light on the endangered Arctic environment.
TUCSON, AZ.- Blue Tears, an interdisciplinary installation of photographs by Patricia Carr Morgan, is on display through April 21, 2019 in the Green Gallery at The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block. The installation includes sound, performance, and images, which are 17 x 10 feet printed on silk organza suspended from above. They are scheduled to drop to the floor throughout the exhibition until all have fallen, symbolizing the melting of the polar regions. Taken during Morgans travels to Greenland and Antarctic between 2013 and 2017, her photographs shed light on the fragility and impermanency of the changing polar environment. Beyond the loss of glaciers and icebergs, Morgan draws attention to the wildlife that relies on these arctic environments to live. In Antarctica, I was overwhelmed by the scale of unending whiteness, she said. It was ... More | |
Fergus Greer, Leigh Bowery, Session, 1990. Signed on the verso and accompanied by a signed artist label. C-type print © Fergus Greer. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery.
LONDON.- Leigh Bowery (1961-1994) was the ultimate performance artist, fashion designer, nightclub sensation, art object, aspiring pop-star and above all an icon whose influence traversed music, art, film and fashion worlds. Perhaps he is best-known for his role as a nude model for some of Lucian Freuds most iconic paintings; ironic for the man who was infamous for his costumes. Bowery arrived in London in 1980 from Sunshine, Australia, collaborated notoriously with the dancer Michael Clark, and was proprietor of the infamous 1980s Soho nightclub, Taboo. In the 1990s, he created performances which both delighted and outraged audiences in New York, London and Tokyo, and it is these enactments which are captured in LEIGH BOWERY LOOKS, at the Michael Hoppen Gallery, March 7th April 27th, 2019. No amount ... More | |
A Red Headed Woman (MGM, 1932) One Sheet. Estimate: $50,000-100,000.
DALLAS, TX.- An insert from the horror classic that has been called the greatest sequel ever made and a rare one sheet from a 1930s comedy classic will vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Auction March 23-24 in Dallas. The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935) Insert (estimate: $50,000-100,000) casts a spotlight on the film now considered by many to be a monument of the horror genre. James Whale initially wanted no part of directing the sequel, and even after begrudgingly accepting the role, he felt Bride never could live up to the standard set by his 1931 classic, Frankenstein. So uninspired was Whale that he treated it as a farce, with elements of dark comedy only to find that his approach was a huge hit with audiences. The film opened to rave reviews and was trumpeted as Whales second masterpiece. The offered insert is one of the most desirable posters in ... More |
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The Armory Show's 25th anniversary edition closes
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show closed on Sunday, March 10, with exhibitors reporting excellent sales across all exhibitor sections on all five days of the fair. Numerous exhibitors reported acquisitions from private and public intuitions across the U.S. and internationally, in addition to an increased presence of curators at the fair. For the second consecutive year, The Armory Show was presented by Lead Partner Athena Art Finance. Cementing its role as New Yorks definitive international art fair, and bolstering its position as the marquee event to kick off the annual art calendar, The Armory Show welcomed over 57,000 visitors across all days, with a significant presence of museum curators, institutional trustees, and private collectors from over 160 museums and cultural institutions worldwide, including: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum of American ... More
Art Madrid closes its renewed 14th edition with a very positive report
MADRID.- One more year, Art Madrid reinforces its position as one of the most outstanding contemporary art fairs in the Art Week, closing its fourteenth edition with very positive results: more than 20,000 people visited the fair and the vast majority of the participating gallerists claim that they are very satisfied with the sales balance made during the five days celebration. This edition, the fair has once again surpassed the numbers of visitors being, in the general publics opinion, one of the most welcoming, close and pleasant fairs in its route. Furthermore, this edition has achieved excellent impressions on behalf of the professional sector, outlining this year for having a greater role in national and international media. Secondly, the Activities Program also stood out for receiving great acceptance from the general audience and an excellent review from ... More
Museum at the Vrijthof in Maastricht presents haute couture & high jewellery
MAASTRICHT .- From 9 March until 16 June 2019, Museum at the Vrijthof in Maastricht (Holland) will be fully devoted to Haute Couture by Ronald Kolk and High Jewellery by Margareth Stalman. Dutch couturier Ronald Kolk shows a colorful selection of over fifty dresses from his extensive oeuvre. Goldsmith, designer and enameller Margareth Stalman presents an impressive collection of jewels. The exhibition 'The Girl, The Dress and The Pearl' takes place during and around the international art fair TEFAF Maastricht. The ten characteristic cabinets and period rooms of the monumental museum form an ideal setting for the exhibition. Each room has its own theme. There is a red room, a treasure room, a Japanese room, a hanging garden of glass objects and a cocktail room. In one special room, two workshops are realized where visitors can see and ... More
Exhibition by New York-based Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks explores historical gay Russian argot
LONDON.- GRAD and Pushkin House are presenting Mother Tongue / Родная Речь, the first London solo exhibition by New York-based Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks, exploring historical gay Russian argot or slang. This coded language dates back to Soviet times and can be compared to Britains polari, the jargon used in the past by gay and other subcultures. Through this exhibition Fiks elevates this themed language into a poetic code, celebrating its wit and nuance. Mother Tongue / Родная Речь reclaims and celebrates Soviet-era Russian gay argot as a unique cultural phenomenon and gives a historical context to todays post-Soviet LGBTQ community whose language partially evolved from it. The exhibition takes the form of an installation, recreating the environment of a classroom, equipped with a blackboard, ... More
The Kröller-Müller Museum presents the exhibition Richard Long. From the river.
OTTERLO.- In 1984 Richard Long (Bristol 1945) drew River Avon mud circles, three large circles on a wall in the Kröller-Müller Museum. These circles, each over three metres in diameter, were made with mud from the River Avon. The circles, which were later covered with a protective wall, are occasionally put on display again. These works, together with others that Long made with material from the Avon and other rivers, are central in the exhibition From the river. Long goes on lengthy walks in the most remote places on earth: the forests of Canada, the mountains of the Andes and the Himalayas, the deserts of Australia, but also the Scottish highlands or the Welsh hills. During these treks he works with the available materials. Using stones, branches, water from his flask or the ash from his campfire, he draws lines, spirals, circles or crosses in the landscape: ... More
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art opens "Bureau des transmissions"
MOSCOW.- Bureau des transmissions focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge in a museum setting. The experimental space of the project encourages visitors to look at educational strategies as an integral part of the life of the contemporary museum. Borrowed from the art historian Claude-Hubert Tatot, the original French titlewhich means signal officerefers to a place where important, usually military, information is communicated. Invoking telegraph, radio, fiber optics or any other means of generating vital connectivity, the title suggests that contemporary museums have to be competent in a variety of fields: as well as research centers and incubators for new art they act as platforms for educational experiments. Our prediction is that future museums, like universities, will be organized as campuses, with artists acting ... More
Han Nefkens Foundation opens a solo exhibition by Peruvian artist Maya Watanabe
MADRID.- The Han Nefkens Foundation is presenting a solo exhibition by Peruvian artist Maya Watanabe (Lima, 1983). Following the announcement of ARCOmadrids 2019 country of honour, the Han Nefkens Foundation ARCOmadrid Video Art Award 2018 focussed on emerging artists of Peruvian origin or nationality with an international perspective. During ARCOmadrid 2018, Maya Watanabe was awarded the Han Nefkens Foundation - ARCOmadrid Video Art Award Award to support the production of her latest video artwork Liminal, which was premiered at La Casa Encendida, coinciding with ARCOmadrid 2019. Following on from the ARCOmadrid premiere, in 2019 the work will also be presented at Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition (China), at the Museo de Arte de Lima- MALI (Peru), at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito-CAC (Ecuador), ... More
Solo exhibition of new works by Emma Fineman on view at PUBLIC Gallery
LONDON.- PUBLIC Gallery is presenting Realms of the (Un) Real, a solo exhibition of new works by Emma Fineman. The works featured in the exhibition explore various realms of ontological space, be they physical, remembered, eternal, dream-like or fetishistic; all existing within a world void of temporal constraints. Anchored around an expansive horizontal triptych in the centre of the gallery, Finemans creations hang scattered on either side, revealing intimate windows into the artists mind - reoccurring dreams, fetishized desires and vast imagined psychological spaces. Within these fantastical settings the figures, for the most part self-portraits, are rendered as dwindling visages neither present nor absent, seemingly at the intersection of existence. Finemans works explore methods to fracture and reconfigure pictorial space, as a means to describe ... More
New start-up company creates flexible and sustainable business model for unrepresented artists to thrive
LONDON.- Curator/dealer Cole Projects has officially launched with the aim of opening up the contemporary at world, putting artists first with an innovative new model. The start-up reverses the traditional model of producing exhibitions at galleries to sell an artists work. Instead, Cole Projects selects artworks to sell online which in turn funds curated exhibitions. The company creates a more flexible and sustainable business model allowing artists to thrive in the current socio-economic environment. It also allows the best unrepresented artists the potential to reach international audiences. Cole Projects offer artists a unique platform to sell their works. According to the start-up company, artists receive 80 percent of their artwork sales. Artists typically receive just 50 percent when working with a traditional gallery, but due to Cole Projects lack of overheads ... More
Daisuke Nakano holds his first ever exhibition outside Japan at the Ippodo Gallery, New York
NEW YORK, NY.- A nandina plant with red berries struggles under the weight of the falling snow while a marten holds its breath, its eyes gazing in our direction. The sweet perfume of a magnolia in full bloom almost wafts from the image as the carp stream against each other in crowded pools. Nihonga-style painter Daisuke Nakano uses an animated method of expression which makes it appear as if living creatures are on verge of bursting out of the picture. He says, 'I want to paint pictures that look as if they would bleed if you cut them,' imbuing each line with life, each color with blood. He takes exhaustive care over every line, capturing movement inside a stationary two-dimensional work. Accurate down to the finest detail, they dominate regardless of size. In this, the Nihonga works share something in common with the heterogeneity that allowed anime painting ... More
Perrotin opens Aya Takano's first solo exhibition at the New York gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting "UNIO MYSTICA", Aya Takanos first solo exhibition at the New York gallery. The artist exhibits 8 oil paintings, more than 50 drawings, 1 skateboard deck painting, and 1 paper clay sculpture, all of which explore sexuality as an expression of the union between the soul and the divine. Aya Takano has enjoyed an illustrious career as a painter, writer, illustrator, and manga artist. She is known for her wide-eyed female figures who seem to float through space, unrestrained by the laws of gravity. Redness in their joints and cheeks convey a sense of heightened sensitivity and continuing growth, suggesting they exist in the liminal state between childhood and adulthood when anything is possible. Takano has been deeply inspired by the culture of mysticism since she was very young, and brings deep insight ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Alberto Burri was born March 12, 2019. Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 - 13 February 1995) was an Italian painter and sculptor considered a key figure in Post-War art and such artistic movements as Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme, postminimalism and Arte Povera. In this image: Alberto Burri, Multiplex 8, 1981. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, Italy, and Luxembourg & Dayan.
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