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Scottish School, The Interior of the National Gallery of Scotland, c 1867 - 1877 (detail). Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 61 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, purchased 1967.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy have collaborated to organise a major new exhibition, which opened in Edinburgh this autumn. Ages of Wonder: Scotlands Art 1540 to Now is the largest exhibition of the RSAs hugely significant collection ever mounted and the first to occupy the entire RSA building. The RSA is an independently funded institution founded in 1826, and is led by artists and architects to promote and support the creation, understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art. It was instrumental in the establishment of a Scottish national art collection in 1859, with the opening of the Scottish National Gallery (SNG). In 1910, the RSA transferred significant works to the SNGs collection in exchange for exhibiting rights within what is now known as the RSA Building, which is part of the SNG complex in the heart of Edinburgh. Ages of Wonder, for the first time in over 100 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Pink Promise 14.93 fancy vivid pink/VVS1 diamond ring, estimated at 220-320 million HKD, is modelled by Eliza Sam at Christie's showroom in Hong Kong on November 1, 2017. An oval-shaped pink diamond ring with a price tag of up to 42 million USD is set to become the most expensive piece of jewellery ever offered by auction house Christie's in Hong Kong. ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP
| Grasshopper found embedded in van Gogh masterpiece at Nelson-Atkins | | Sally Mann's first exhibition in Athens on view at Gagosian | | Williams College Museum of Art announces major gift from the Otis Family Acquisition Trust |
Photomicrograph, Olive Trees, 32-2. This image, taken through a microscope, captures the grasshopper embedded in the paint of Olive Trees.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A small grasshopper embedded for more than a century in the thick paint of Vincent van Goghs Olive Trees was discovered as part of research for a catalogue of the French painting collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The discovery is just one of the exciting results that emerged as scientific study and art historical research were combined at the museum to better understand the artists process. Olive Trees is a beloved painting at the Nelson-Atkins, and this scientific study only adds to our understanding of its richness, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. Van Gogh worked outside in the elements, and we know that he, like other plein air artists, dealt with wind and dust, grass and trees, and flies and grasshoppers. The new findings are part of work by skilled curators, conservators and outside scientists ... More | |
Sally Mann: Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington Installation view.
ATHENS.- Gagosian is presenting Remembered Light, Sally Manns first exhibition in Athens. Mann is known for her images of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting: children, landscape, family, and mortality. In previous projects, she explored relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, nature and history. In this exhibition of color and black-and-white photographs, taken between 1999 and 2012, she records in fleeting impressions the studio of the late Cy Twombly, her close friend and mentor. Following presentations at Gagosian New York, Paris, and Rome, this exhibition marks Manns first dedicated exhibition in Greece. Twombly and Mann were both born and raised in the southeastern state of Virginia. The landscape to which he returned each year is also the memory scape of Manns connection to him. In her recent and celebrated memoir Hold Still (2015), w ... More | |
Robert Seldon Duncanson (American, 1821-1872), Title unknown [Meeting by the river], 1864 (detail). Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 Ã 31 1/2 in. Museum purchase, Otis Family Acquisition Trust.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Robert Selden Duncanson was the first African American artist to gain national and international fame. James Van Der Zee became one of the most important photographers in the first half of the twentieth century documenting the lives of African Americans in the Berkshires and New York City. Sam Gilliam was the first artist to take paintings off the stretcher. And Maren Hassinger was among the women artists combining sculpture and movement and experimenting with non-traditional materials during the 1970s feminist movement. The Williams College Museum of Art is adding works to its collection by each of these important contributors to American art. These acquisitions are made possible by a major monetary gift from Clarence Otis, Williams class of 1977, and his wife Jacqui Bradley (Parent of class of 2015). The Otis Family Acquisition Trust is ... More |
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| Kestenbaum & Company to auction the Valmadonna Trust Library | | DAG Modern showcases iconic works of Indian painters and sculptors | | Robby the Robot leads Bonhams and Turner Classic Movies 'Out of This World!' November 21 |
Two hundred rarities extracted from the Collection are to be offered at auction.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Valmadonna Trust Library has been broadly characterized as the finest private collection of Hebrew Printed Books ever assembled. Comprising some 13,000 volumes, it was built over more than half a century of prodigious pursuit by its custodian and visionary, the late Jack V. Lunzer. The library encompasses works from throughout the world, from the earliest Hebrew texts to later extraordinary rarities and unique copies. In New York City, February 2009, the entire Library was publicly displayed for the first time, attracting tens of thousands of visitors. Twelve of the Library's treasures were sold at auction in December 2015 - the celebrated Bomberg Talmud fetching $9.3 million. In January 2017 the Valmadonna Trust Library was acquired by the National Library of Israel where it will be housed in a new, landmark building in Jerusalem. Two hundred rarities extracted from the Collection are ... More | |
Natvar Bhavsar, MRIGYAA, 1990, Pigment on canvas, 79 x 58 in. Courtesy DAG Modern.
NEW YORK, NY.- DAG Modern is presenting Indias Rockefeller Artists: An Indo-U.S. Cultural Saga in its New York gallery at 41 East 57th Street at the Fuller Building in Midtown, Manhattan. The exhibition showcases iconic works of the Indian painters and sculptors who travelled to the US on grants enabled by John D. Rockefeller IIIs philanthropic vision, first through the JDR 3rd Fund (19631979) and then through the Asian Cultural Council. These artists were brought to the US to see and understand American art and also to share their own learnings and experiences through a cultural exchange that would enrich communities. The show examines why and how these artists were selected; their relationships with each other and the American art milieu; the impact of the experience on their body of work; and the creation of a community of Rockefeller artists. The grant benefited some of Indias most important artists, ... More | |
Robby the Robot. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams and Turner Classic Movies announced that Robby the Robot, from the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet (1956), will go up for sale on November 21 in the TCM Presents Out of This World! auction of classic movie memorabilia at Bonhams New York. Additional highlights from the exciting sale include a George Reeves costume from Adventures of Superman (1952-1958), a screenplay and memorabilia from Joseph L. Mankiewiczs Academy Award-winning All About Eve (1950), and artwork from Disney legend Harper Goff. Top lots from the TCM Presents Vintage Movie Posters Featuring the Ira Resnick Collection on November 20 include illustrations for Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), A Midsummer Nights Dream (1935), and Top Hat (1935). One of the most iconic sci-fi figures to appear on the silver screen, seven-foot tall Robby the Robot (estimate on request) captured the imagination of audiences everywhere in ... More |
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| Maureen Bray appointed Executive Director of the Art Dealers Association of America | | New York State Museum honors 100 years of women's right to vote with exhibition | | Hayward Touring presents 'Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness', curated by artist John Walter |
Maureen Bray. Photo: Victor A. Mirontschuk.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Art Dealers Association of America today announced the appointment of Maureen Bray as Executive Director. Bray will oversee the nations leading nonprofit organization of art dealers. Founded in 1962, the ADAA encompasses 180 members from 25 cities across the U.S., and is a leader in establishing best practices for the field and advancing scholarship and connoisseurship. Bray will assume her new role on January 2, 2018, succeeding Linda Blumberg, who served as the Executive Director for over 11 years. Maureen brings two decades of experience in leadership positions at our member galleries, and understands every facet of the role that dealers play in the greater arts ecology, said ADAA President Adam Sheffer. She is greatly respected by her peers. Her expertise, vision, and collaborative approach will be instrumental in advancing our mission as an advocate and resource for art dealers, building ... More | |
Susan B. Anthonys Dress, c. 1870. Photo Courtesy: Rochester Historical Society.
ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum opened Votes for Women: Celebrating New Yorks Suffrage Centennial on November 4. On display through May 13, 2018, the exhibition honors the centennial of womens suffrage in New York State and raises awareness of the struggle for equal rights through the present day. The exhibition features more than 250 artifacts and images from the collections of the State Museum, State Archives, State Library, cultural institutions, and private lenders from across the state. As we celebrate the centennial of womens suffrage in New York, we reflect on how far we have come and the fight that lies ahead to truly achieve equal rights, said Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa. This exhibition is a learning opportunity for all of us, especially our children and students, to appreciate the immense contributions that women and ... More | |
Kate Lepper, Emergency Cannister (Grass Clippings), 2011 © the artist. Courtesy the artist.
BELFAST.- Artist John Walter curates the new Hayward Touring exhibition Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness, on view at the MAC in Belfast before embarking on a national tour to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) and Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre. Shonky is a slang term meaning corrupt, shoddy or unreliable, standing here for a particular type of visual aesthetic that is hand-made, deliberately clumsy and lo-fi, against the slick production values of much contemporary art. Shonky explores the nature of this visual awkwardness through the work of international artists and architects Arakawa and Gins; Cosima von Bonin; Niki de Saint Phalle; Benedict Drew; Justin Favela; Duggie Fields; Louise Fishman; Friedensreich Hundertwasser; Kate Lepper; Andrew Logan; Plastique Fantastique; Jacolby Satterwhite; Tim Spooner and John Walter. In a series of ... More |
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| Artemis Testing Lab, first US lab for advanced testing of ancient art and artifacts, opens in Colorado | | Installation by artist Math Bass on view in Jewish Museum's lobby | | Peter Kilchmann opens solo exhibition of works by the American artist Raffi Kalenderian |
All tests are performed by Dr. Serge Fayeulle, who holds a PhD in physics. All images provided by Artemis Testing Lab.
BOULDER, COLO.- Until now, the most advanced technology for determining the age, composition and authenticity of ancient artifacts and relics has been an ocean away from the United States, in England. Now American auction houses, dealers, museums, appraisers and collectors have a much closer alternative: Artemis Testing Lab (ATL), a sister operation to Artemis Gallery in Louisville (suburban Boulder), Colorado. ATL came into being after a dinner conversation among friends who went on to become the companys principals: Dr. Serge Fayeulle, his wife Barbara Fayeulle, and Artemis Gallery co-owners Bob and Teresa Dodge; Phil Keck, and Elaine Jamieson. We started talking about the need for a commercial testing lab for ancient art in the United States, because there isnt one, said Bob Dodge. Theres a famous lab in Oxford, England, as well as others in France, Hong Kong and Germany, but the distance can be chall ... More | |
Math Bass, Newz! 2017. Gouache on canvas, 50 x 48 in. (127 x 121.9 cm). © Math Bass, photograph by Lee Thompson. Image provided by Overduin & Co., Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents Math Bass: Crowd Rehearsal, on view in the Museums Skirball Lobby from November 2, 2017 through March 18, 2018. Los Angeles-based artist Math Bass (b. 1981) works across video and performance as well as painting and sculpture, which she executes in a distinctly graphic style. In her installation Crowd Rehearsal, a svelte, ladderlike sculpture draped with a coatlike painting is set against two canvases with nearly identical imagery. The title and forms suggest but do not show human bodies and actions. Bass grew up in a Jewish home, regularly attending synagogue, where ceremonies, rituals, and text influenced her predilection for the shrouding, pictographs, and repetition that infuse Crowd Rehearsal. Cloaked forms and empty spaces punctuate these works, imbuing them with a sense of contingency or incompleteness. ... More | |
Shanti, 2017. Oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36 in.). Courtesy Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann is presenting the fifth solo exhibition of the American artist Raffi Kalenderian. He was born in Los Angeles in 1981 and the Californian metropole is now the centre of his artistic production. Kalenderians paintings and drawings explore the possibilities of the portrait genre and range between reality and poetic illusion. For the exhibition Kalenderian is presenting a newly created work group consisting of large and medium-format oil paintings on canvas (150 x 122cm, 122 x 91.5cm and 91.5 x 61.5cm) and eleven works on paper (134 x 91.5cm and 71 x 51cm). Kalenderians portraits act like windows into his personal microcosm. They create intimate moments between model and artist which include the observer. Friends, family members and people with whom the artist is personally connected but also acquaintances from the creative scene such as musicians, writers and poets are the central ... More |
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Sharjah Art Foundation announces 2019 Biennial curators
SHARJAH.- Sharjah Art Foundation announced today the three curators for the next Sharjah Biennial, opening in March 2019: Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, and Claire Tancons. The 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, will question the possibilities for producing art when material culture is under constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation, continuing the Biennials tradition of offering artists from the surrounding region and beyond an internationally recognised platform for exhibition and experimentation. Curators of the Sharjah Biennial have hailed from countries and institutions all over the world, and have explored biennial themes as diverse as climate change, agriculture, political conflict, and artistic production. SB14 will include distinct exhibitions by each of the three curators, bringing together ... More
Allen Memorial Art Museum exhibition applauds women printmakers
OBERLIN, OH.- The Allen Memorial Art Museum celebrates the contributions of women to printmaking with the exhibition, A Century of Women in Prints, 1917-2017, which runs through December 17, 2017. For centuries, printmaking was regarded as a male-dominated medium outside the scope of socially acceptable pursuits for women. Though numerous women had nevertheless established themselves professionally as printmakers by the modern era, female artists remain underrepresented in most museum print collections to this day. Organized by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, curator of European and American Art, with assistance from Claire Rasmussen (OC 19) and Kylie Fisher, the summer 2017 IFPDA Foundation curatorial intern, A Century of Women in Prints presents a selection of prints created by women during the course of the Allens first 100 years. ... More
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens opens "Todd McGrain: The Lost Bird Project"
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The newest exhibition at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Todd McGrain: The Lost Bird Project, opened in the J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Community Sculpture Garden & Plaza on Saturday, November 4, 2017. The exhibition features five large-scale sculptures and has been supplemented by the presentation of preparatory drawings in the Bank of America Concourse inside the Museum. As a chronicle of humankinds impact on our changing world excessive hunting and fishing, commerce, deforestation and a record of dwindling biodiversity, The Lost Bird Project memorializes North American birds that have been driven to extinction. The Great Auk, Labrador Duck, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, and Heath Hen were birds that once filled unique niches in the North American landscape from the shores of Labrador ... More
Nigeria: When contemporary art fights back
LAGOS (AFP).- In a constantly changing country where all eyes are fixed on the future, Nigerian artist Johnson Uwadinma is fixated by the past. "If you do not know where you are coming from, how then do you know where you are going to?" he asks. For his project, "Amnesia", he has stuck together hundreds of balls made from old crumpled up newspaper and painted in bright colours, like a mass of strange molecules. The piece -- symbolising the many unresolved crises Nigeria has faced over decades -- was on show last weekend at the contemporary art fair, "Art X Lagos". "The media constantly repeats the same stories about corruption, war, violence, deceit," said Uwadinma. "We never learn from our past." Uwadinma hails from the southeast, where 50 years ago, the military governor in charge of the region, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, declared ... More
Exhibition at De Buck Gallery presents a new body of work by Rashaad Newsome
NEW YORK, NY.- Reclaiming Our Time takes a conceptual cue from where Rashaad Newsome left off in his last solo exhibition, STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE!, 2016. The prior exhibition focused largely on notions of agency and representation especially in relation to cis and trans women feminism. This new body of work, which features three-dimensional collages as well as a debut series of sculptures in collaboration with the Afro Brazilian design firm Vosay, hones in on various forms of agency through the lens of authorship and authenticity. Newsome challenges his work with the task of revisiting history, specifically socio-cultural moments of alleged authorship that failed to assign credit to where credit was due. The artist looks at Cubism, a movement that has informed his work for the past decade, and examines its West African aesthetic origins that were often overlooked ... More
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles presents "La Vie simple - Simplement la vie / Songs of Alienation "
ARLES.- The notion of a life pursued away from industrialisation is one resolutely full of prospect. Over the course of history and art history, it has inspired a multitude of experimentsthe Barbizon School, Pont-Aven and, to a certain extent, Vincent van Goghs studio in the South among them. A contemporary of the social changes wrought by the revolutions of 1848, Van Gogh sees the figure of the peasant enter the political consciousness of a society whose traditional structures are being overturned by progress. Reproductions of Jean-François Millets "Labours of the Fields" series, which Vincent discovers in 1873 in London, cover the walls of his Arles studio 15 years later. Having grown up in the Dutch countryside, Van Goghs deep-rooted need for nature is accompanied by a compassion for the peasant classes, whom he paints as if he were one of their ... More
Britain's preeminent Chinese auction house lifts the curtain with a museum worthy exhibition
LONDON.- China meets Britain with the celebrated auction house Dutons third edition of their Appreciation of China presentation to take place in Mayfair, London from 5th - 8th November, a highlight of the 20th Anniversary of Asian Art in London. Asian Art in London is a globally recognised event attracting top Asian art dealers, prime auction houses and leading museums and institutions, to promote London as a centre of expertise for the finest Asian art, from antique to contemporary. Entitled The Exhibition of Chinese Legacy, it features a rare array of ceramic and sculptural masterpieces that have received praise from Chinese and international museums alike. The collections range from painted potteries from the Neolithic period and the Northern Qi Dynasty to Tang Dynasty horses, camels and auspicious beasts. This key event launching ... More
Exhibition presents works one of the most unusual and as yet little known Swiss artists of the 20th century
ZURICH.- The Museum Rietberg is presenting one of the most unusual and as yet little known Swiss artists of the twentieth century: Alice Boner (18891981) spent more than forty years of her life in the Indian city Varanasi, where she worked as an artist, patron, collector and art historian, as well as acting as a cultural ambassador with a wide range of interests. The project provides fascinating insight into the many-faceted and eventful life of a headstrong, unconventional and courageous woman who was at home in two cultures. Traces of her unusual story reverberate throughout the Museum Rietberg, in Zurich and in India. The Swiss artist has been closely associated with the Museum Rietberg for ages. She lived in the Park Villa Rieter from 1913 to 1919; afterwards she was active in the artistic circles of Zurich and Paris; and in 1935 she emigrated ... More
Galerie Karsten Greve exhibits a project by photographer Sergio Vega dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges
PARIS.- The Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting Borges in the Alhambra, a fascinating project by photographer Sergio Vega dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century, and a key cultural figure in the Spanish-speaking world. At the Alhambra in Grenada, words by the Mexican poet Francisco de Icaza greet visitors: Give him alms, woman, for there is nothing sadder in life than being blind in Granada. It was with the spirit of this quotation in mind that the Argentinian artist developed this project consisting of a unique-plates photograph series and two videos. In 1918, when he is still a child, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian novelist, poet and man of culture) visits the Alhambra in Grenada for the first time. Since that visit, both the architecture of this monument ... More
Nadim Karam presents his newest sculptural works at Ayyam Gallery Dubai
DUBAI.- Ayyam Gallery Dubai announces Compressed Thoughts, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Nadim Karam presenting his newest sculptural works. This latest body of work is a development from his Stretching Thoughts series, in which he explores the infinite possibilities of creative thoughts to go beyond boundaries, and Neglected Thoughts series, his allusion to abandoned potential. Karam experiments with the idea of condensing far-reaching thoughts into a palpable essence. Using the same sculptural language as the other Thoughts series, Karam continues working with recycled steel rods, previously housed in residential buildings in the suburbs of Beirut prior to their destruction. Extracted and rendered into pure matter, these steel rods are the starting point of the Compressed Thoughts series. Through these works, Karam questions ... More
Six large-scale photomontages by Felix R. Cid on view at Garis & Hahn
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Garis & Hahn announces The Sword of Damocles, a solo exhibition of new works by Felix R. Cid. The exhibition title references the oft-misused ancient parable popularized by the Roman philosopher Cicero, which highlights the dangers that loom over those with immense power and wealth. The presentation includes six large-scale photomontages and one piece of sculpture. Cids photomontages are comprised of hundreds of high-resolution digital photographs taken within the past year, capturing political marches, rallies, and protests around the world. These photographs are digitally rendered to create dramatic abstract compositions that confound an immense accumulation of visual information. This conglomeration of photographic detail speaks to the state of our Information Age a Post-Truth era defined by a 24- ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Francisco Zurbarán was baptized November 07, 1598. Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598; died August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter. He is known primarily for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname Spanish Caravaggio, owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. In this image: A visitor looks at Pablo Picasso's 1911-1912 oil on canvas "Homme a la guitare", left, next to Francisco de Zurbaran's 1630-1634 oil on canvas "Saint-Francois d'Assise dans sa tombe" exhibited at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008.
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