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Jan van Eyck, Portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini and his Wife and The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434 (detail). Oil on oak, 82.2 x 60 cm. National Gallery, London © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- This autumn, one of the most celebrated paintings in the National Gallery, Jan van Eycks The Arnolfini Portrait, is being exhibited for the first time alongside works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its successors. Focusing on the profound influence this 15th-century masterpiece had on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Reflections sheds light on the different ways these young British artists of the 19th century responded to the painting and one of its most distinctive features, the convex mirror. Featuring key loans from Tates Pre-Raphaelite collection, including Sir John Everett Millaiss 'Mariana' (1851), Dante Gabriel Rossettis 'The Girlhood of Mary Virgin' (18489), William Holman Hunts 'The Awakening Conscience' (1853), and William Morriss 'La Belle Iseult' (1858), the only completed easel painting he produced, this landmark exhibition provides a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day U.S. flags on the grounds of the Washington Monument are lowered to half-staff, on October 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump ordered the flags on all federal buildings to fly at half-staff following the mass shooting that left more than 50 dead in Las Vegas. The gunman, identified as Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada, allegedly opened fire from the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on an outdoor music festival. Police have confirmed that one suspect has been shot. The investigation is ongoing. Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP
| Hyundai Commission 2017: SUPERFLEX open "One Two Three Swing!" at Tate Modern | | A primer on antique rug acquisition from an eminent expert | | Victoria Miro opens an exhibition of new work by Idris Khan |
Hyundai Commission 2017: SUPERFLEX - One Two Three Swing! Courtesy of Tate Photography.
LONDON.- Tate Modern today unveiled a large-scale interactive installation by Danish collective SUPERFLEX. One Two Three Swing! is the first Turbine Hall commission to extend beyond the gallery walls. An orange line connecting dozens of three-seated swings weaves through the Turbine Hall, emerging onto the landscape outside Tate Modern where it will activate the space and continue to extend over time. Conceived as an assembly line for collective movement, the work invites audiences to combat social apathy through collaborative action, joining together on the count of three One Two Three Swing! This is the third annual Hyundai Commission, a series of site-specific works created for the Turbine Hall by renowned international artists, as part of the partnership between Tate and Hyundai Motor. One Two Three Swing! ... More | |
Antique Oriental rugs utilized as an integral part of the interior design of a grand home in Big Sky Montana.
OAKLAND, CA.- As a part of his ongoing art education outreach, eminent global art dealer Jan David Winitz, founder/president of Claremont Rug Company, today released the transcript of an interview in which he answered fundamental questions about Oriental rug collecting. Winitz, whose Gallery contains more than 3500 antique Oriental carpets from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving (ca. 1800 to ca. 1910), has built a global clientele that resides on five continents and includes a broad range of connoisseurs and collectors of many art forms. His underlying business philosophy is to provide clients with the highest degree of educational information. Question: What qualifies as an antique rug? Answer: While originally the term antique technically applies to rugs that are 100 years old, the passage of time has altered the signifi ... More | |
Installation view, Idris Khan: Absorbing Light 3 October 20 December 2017 Victoria Miro Gallery II, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW © Idris Khan Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London.
LONDON.- Victoria Miro announces an exhibition of new work by Idris Khan. Comprising a monumental sculpture, a multi-part installation, paintings and works on paper, Absorbing Light is the most comprehensive exhibition by the artist in London in four years. It marks an important departure for Khan, who will show works in bronze for the first time along with an entirely abstract painting. Uniting aesthetic and metaphysical questions, Khan has often employed techniques of layering and repetition to realise fragmentary experience or disparate ideas as a single image or solid form. In these new works, two- and threedimensional forms are triggered by a desire to ascertain how scale, mass and volume are perceived, measured or remembered in times ... More |
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| Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA unveil MPavilion 2017 | | The home of the LEGO brick opens in Denmark | | £15 million National Lottery backing for Burrell Collection refurbishment and redisplay |
MPavilion 2017 is the fourth annual architect-designed summer pavilion for Melbourne. Photo: John Gollings.
MELBOURNE.- MPavilion 2017, designed by acclaimed architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of international firm OMA, opened today in Melbournes Queen Victoria Gardens. One of the worlds most revered architects, this is Rem Koolhaass first visit to Australia in nearly 40 years. Initiated and commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation with support from the City of Melbourne, Victorian State Government through Creative Victoria and ANZ, MPavilion 2017 is the fourth annual architect-designed summer pavilion for Melbourne. Together with hundreds of creative collaboratorsboth Australian and internationalMPavilion presents a free, four-month program of events from 3 October 2017 to 4 February 2018. MPavilion 2017 was officially opened by MPavilion founder, Naomi Milgrom AO; Lord Mayor of Melbourne ... More | |
BIG and LEGO reinvent the future of play. Photo: Iwan Baan.
BILLUND.- BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and LEGO bring the toy scale of the classic LEGO brick to architectural scale with LEGO House, forming vast exhibition spaces and public squares that embody the culture and values at the heart of all LEGO experiences. Designed by BIG and COWI, LEGO House is an experience hub for LEGO fans of all ages, as well as an architectural landmark and a significant step towards the citys goal of making Billund the Capital for Children. The construction of the 12,000 m2 LEGO House commenced in 2014, replacing the former City Hall building with support from three generations of the LEGO family and Billund City Mayor Ib Kristensen. All activities in the house are related to our LEGO philosophy that learning through play promotes innovation and creativity. Play runs through ... More | |
Courtyard, the Burrell Collection Image courtesy of John McAslan + Partners.
GLASGOW.- The National Lottery has awarded £15 million for the refurbishment and redisplay of the Burrell Collection. The funding marks a key milestone for the Burrell Collection which will see the museum and its Collection regarded as one of the greatest, single personal collections in the world, undergo a refurbishment of the building and redisplay of almost 9,000 objects. By optimising spaces and visitor circulation throughout the museum, the innovative scheme will open up all three floors of the building whilst protecting and enhancing the 1983 Grade A listed building's architectural integrity. With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) thanks to National Lottery players, flexible displays for the rotation of artworks and new spaces for temporary exhibitions will allow much more of the collection to be displayed, giving visitors real insight into ... More |
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| An important sale of vintage NASA photography now live on iGavelAuctions.com through October 5 | | Luxembourg & Dayan opens a solo exhibition of Gino De Dominicis' works from the collection of Guntis Brands | | Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander opens exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery |
Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin Aldrin descends Lunar. Module to Walk on the Moon, July 20, 1969.
NEW BRAUNFELS, TX.- Exploring the Cosmos: An Important Sale of Vintage NASA Photography, much of it signed by the heroic astronauts who made history venturing into outer space, is now live on www.iGavelAuctions.com. The auction is presented by Elders Antiques, based in Venice, Florida. Among the rare images on sale are: Apollo 11 Earthrise over the Lunar Surface. July 20, 1969. Signed by Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (Estimate $6,000-8,000) Apollo 11 Astronaut Edwin Aldrin descends Lunar Module to Walk on the Moon, July 20, 1969 (Estimate $6,000-10,000) Lunar Surveyor Mosaic. Day 019, Survey M. Sectors 1 and 2 (Estimate $6,000-9,000). Space photography began as an afterthought. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, took with him a camera he bought at a local drugstore and retrofitted so that he could better ... More | |
Gino De Dominicis, Senza titolo (Lady Diana), 1985. Mixed media on panel, 84⅝ x 108¼ x 16⅞ in. (215 x 275 x 43 cm.) © Estate of the artist / Archivio Gino De Dominicis, Foligno, Italy. DACS 2017.
LONDON.- Luxembourg & Dayan announced the opening of a solo exhibition of Gino De Dominicis works from the collection of Guntis Brands, arguably the artists most important patron and his close friend. The exhibition is dedicated to the pictorial legacy of De Dominicis, focusing primarily on paintings produced in the last two decades of his life. This will be the first public display of works from the Guntis Brands collection presented in the UK and will include some of De Dominicis best known paintings alongside important works rarely seen before. The exhibition will be accompanied by a printed publication that explores the legacy of De Dominicis oeuvre in the context of this exceptional collection. Gino De Dominicis (1947-1998) is an artist of eccentric and mysterious sensibility. ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- 'The Reading Box, The Moon, Misfortunes and Crimes' is Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander's fifth exhibition at Stephen Friedman Gallery. The exhibition includes the artist's first four-channel projection, a new site-specific installation, collages and a group of her iconographic 'Ex-voto' paintings. Neuenschwander's unique practice draws on the history of Latin American conceptualism to investigate phenomena that lie just outside our collective field of vision. Each work begins with a particular cultural idea a game, a religious offering or a childhood memory that is then dissected and reborn in Neuenschwander's unique style. The works in this exhibition examine the role of memory in culture, particularly how trauma and memories of conflict are connected to the present. In doing so the artist addresses the current state of the world, and makes suggestions about the form that fear and conflict might take ... More |
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| Legendary 1924 Vauxhall which won Transcontinental Australia Race for sale with Mossgreen Auctions | | Phillips brings a work from art collective teamLab to the auction market for the very first time | | Complete signed set of the Vollard Suite by Pablo Picasso to be auctioned in Paris |
1934 MG Q Type. Estimate: $400,000.
MELBOURNE.- The Mossgreen Motorclassica Auction this year includes the ex-Hope Bartlett, ex-Jumbo Goddard 1934 MG Q Type for $400,000. James Nicholls of Mossgreen says: MG Q Type chassis 0257, whether originally dark green or black, as it is painted currently, presents a wonderful opportunity for its next owner to become a custodian of one of the purest British pre-war racing cars now available. Utilising a slightly narrower chassis but based on that of the K3, in 1934, MG created the Q Type capable of some 120 miles an hour in two-seater format and this little racing car achieved 122 mph (196km/h) at Brooklands with George Harvey-Noble driving a single seat version. Q Type, chassis number 0257, the seventh of the eight cars built, was delivered new to Cec Warren in Victoria in August 1934. The earliest image we have of the car is at Sellicks Beach in South Australia, a hard, smooth surface measuring over 3km in length, on which aeroplanes were known to land. Just p ... More | |
teamLab f. 2001. Universe of Water Particles, 2013. Estimate: HKD650,000 950,000. © teamLab, courtesy Ikkan Art Gallery, Pace Gallery & Martin Browne Contemporary.
HONG KONG.- Phillips will offer teamLabs Universe of Water Particles, 2013, in its 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale in Hong Kong on 26 November. This is the first time that a digital artwork by teamLab has ever been offered on the international auction market and Phillips, a company dedicated to contemporary art and digital innovation, is proud to be at the forefront of this endeavor. teamLab is a Tokyo-based interdisciplinary art collective whose practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, technology, design, and the natural world. Rooted in the traditions of Japanese art, teamLabs works explore human behaviour in the information era and proposes innovative models for societal development. Jonathan Crockett, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, and Deputy Chairman, Asia: We are excited to bring a work by the Japanese artist group ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard. Planche 99 de la suite Vollard, 1937. Aquatinte. 247 x 345 © Succession Picasso-Collection Henri M. Petiet - Vente ADER.
PARIS.- The last 500 masterwork prints from the Henri M. Petiet collection, come to sale with Ader Nordmann in Paris on November 25 & 26 at the Opera Comique. This sale will be an old-fashioned auction with only bidders in the room allowed to participate, no telephone or online bidders, as decreed by David Norman. Prices range from Euros 1,000 -25,000. The sale includes the complete and entirely signed set of the Vollard suite by Pablo Picasso as one lot. This will be the first time that a complete and entirely signed set of the Vollard Suite by Pablo Picasso will be offered for auction in a Petiet sale. This set alone is estimated at between 1.5 and 2 million euros. Petiet purchased the Vollard collection during the Second World War some 31,000 prints. Most of Picassos prints were not signed, but he was encouraged to sign them and did so after much negotiation. The handsome collection of Matisse ... More |
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Galerie Emanuel Layr opens exhibition of works by Nick Oberthaler featuring Nico Vascellar
ROME.- For his first solo exhibition in the gallery in Rome, Nick Oberthaler invited the artist Nico Vascellari to become his counterpart. Both of them share an interest in certain ambiguities regarding the use/amalgamate of material and content, the mapping of space and its transformation into new significance, but then, also a dialogue about painting (in and within space) and its (potential) thresholds. By using pure pigment and binder, applied with a brush on the walls and re-structuring the yet still fresh white cube of the gallery, Nick Oberthaler creates a setting within the existing boundaries of the space, to render possible a new consideration: a staging without a stage. Within this painted box, he installs three new paintings, which on one side refer to the early arrow paintings of french conceptual painter Martin Barré (Untitled/Witness the Change ... More
Lévy Gorvy presents its first solo exhibition with Adrian Piper
NEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting its first solo exhibition with acclaimed Conceptual artist and philosopher Adrian Piper. This focused presentation includes examples from the Mythic Being series (1973 1975), Its Just Art (1980), and Here, an installation work conceived in 2008 and realized for the first time at the gallerys New York location. Together, these three bodies of work delve into interrelated themes Piper has explored throughout her careerthe intersubjective formation of self, identity, race and gender; racism, sexism, xenophobia, and competing conceptions of political responsibility. Over the course of six decades, Piper has tirelessly denaturalized cultural norms of visibility and communication, subjecting them to a trenchant, and potentially transformative, critique. This exhibition comprises a multimedia zone for acts of looking and being ... More
Delfina Foundation opens the first UK solo exhibition by South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong
LONDON.- Delfina Foundation is presenting Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, the first UK solo exhibition by South Korean artist Geumhyung Jeong. In her practice as choreographer, dancer and performer, Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects that surround it. She has built up a collection of plain everyday objects upon which she bestows a bizarre, disconcerting life through an intense and risky interaction with her own body to challenge notions of sexuality, technology and the female body. In 2016, Jeong exhibited her complete collection at Atelier Hermes in Seoul as the recipient of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award. At Delfina Foundation, she creates a new installation that explores the relationship between her 'collection' and her creative process. Jeong has selected unperformed objects - mannequins, ... More
Phillips announces fall season highlights in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- Phillips announced its fall season of sales in Hong Kong, which will take place from 26 to 28 November 2017, presenting curated offerings of Art, Design, Jewellery and Watches. Highlights include international modern and contemporary art, with works by Roy Lichtenstein and teamLab; exceptional Jewels & Jadeite, led by an impressive Burmese ruby and diamond necklace; and the highest quality timepieces including rare examples by Patek Philippe. Jonathan Crockett, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, and Deputy Chairman, Asia: This season in Hong Kong, we are excited to present a curated offering of international modern and contemporary art and design. We are proud to offer for the first time at auction a digital artwork by teamLab, the widely exhibited and world-renowned Japanese art collective. Universe of Water ... More
Northwestern engineer's innovative design exhibited as art
EVANSTON, ILL.- Northwestern University engineer John A. Rogers has done something remarkable, steering his innovative Lab on the Skin invention to a rare level of cultural notoriety as part of an art exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). MoMAs new exhibition -- Items: Is Fashion Modern? -- opened Sunday (Oct. 1) to critical acclaim in New York City, where the exhibit is exploring the past, present and future of 111 garments and accessories that have strongly impacted society and culture over the last century. The curators read about the Rogers invention, were taken by the artistic aspects of his design and invited him to include it. The exhibition examines the intersection of fashion and functionality, design and technology, and in the case of the Lab on the Skin, the convergence of science and art. It provides a rarified space for Rogers to showcase ... More
David Lamelas exhibits works at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Lamelas Time as Activity (19692017) is the Argentine artists groundbreaking and ongoing series of structural films and videos. First conceived in the late 1960s in the early days of the conceptual art movement, of which Lamelas was an integral part, Time as Activity has grown to include numerous iterations, each filmed in different cities throughout Europe and the Americas. The presentation at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, features eleven films and highlight both the consistencies and the diversity between them. It traces not only the series' evolution, but also the different locales that have informed the artists four-decades-long career, as well as recurring themes found across his multimedia work, including architectural space, the language of film, and the experience of time and duration. The exhibition opens with Time as Activity-Düsseldorf ... More
Patty Yoder's 'Sublime Hooked Rugs' on view at Shelburne Museum
SHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museums exhibition, Hooked on Patty Yoder, is on view in the Pizzagalli Center for Arts and Educations Colgate Gallery from September 30, 2017 until January 21, 2018. Bringing together the artists first and last works, alongside preparatory sketches and other ephemera, Hooked on Patty Yoder surveys the 13-year career of American rug hooker Patty Yoder (1943-2005). Best known for her beguiling Alphabet of Sheep (2003), Yoder conceived of her designs as paintings with wool to be hung and enjoyed as art. Exacting attention to color, composition, and technique, paired with Yoders penchant for high visual standards and whimsical designs, truly sets her work as a new standard within the field of American textile arts. Raised in Nebraska and Ohio and trained in fine arts at Indianas DePauw University in the 1960s, Yoder ... More
Oklahoma City Museum of Art receives major gift of Paul Reed works
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has received a gift of 125 paintings, sculptures, drawings, pastels and screen prints from the Paul and Esther Reed Trust by Washington Color School artist Paul Reed. The gift includes 49 works from the 1960s - one of the most important phases of Reed's career - and it instantly transforms the Oklahoma City Museum of Art into the definitive collection of Reed's work. "Paul Reed was one of the leading Washington Color painters, one of the few significant Modern art movements in the United States centered outside New York City," said E. Michael Whittington, OKCMOA president and CEO. "This transformative gift allows OKCMOA to organize a retrospective exhibition on Paul Reed and conduct the scholarship that further solidifies the artist in the canons of 20th century American Modernism. We ... More
U.S. Civil War telegram expected to bring $75,000+ at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- An important telegraph from Ulysses S. Grant to Gen. William T. Sherman giving Sherman permission to destroy all of Georgia during his conquest of Confederate forces is expected to sell for at least $75,000 when it comes up for auction Oct. 19 at Heritage Auctions. The Oct. 12, 1864 letter marked a watershed event during the U.S. Civil War a 285-mile march by roughly 60,000 soldiers designed to scare the civilians in Georgia into abandoning the Confederate cause which went down in history as Sherman's "March to the Sea." "This single military strategy had far-reaching effects, that hastened the end of the war and ensured Abraham Lincoln's reelection," said Sandra Palomino, Director of Historical Manuscripts at Heritage Auctions. "It was originally purchased by R. Douglas Stuart in 1932, and this is the first time it will be offered to the public since ... More
TV writer/producer Donick Cary auctioning celebrity memorabilia + cultural art
BOULDER, COLO.- By day, Donick Cary is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer whose credits include The Simpsons, The Late Show with David Letterman, New Girl, and Parks and Recreation. But when hes not on a Hollywood set, the TV mogul immerses himself in running Musack.org, a nonprofit that underwrites student music programs for at-risk youth, from Compton, California to Appalachia and beyond. In a gesture of great generosity, Cary is auctioning Pre-Columbian and ethnographic art, and unique entertainment memorabilia from his personal collections to benefit Musack.org so the organization can continue its worthy mission of subsidizing music teachers and purchasing musical instruments. The October 5 auction will be hosted by Artemis Gallery, with phone, absentee and Internet live-bidding options. As is the case with all Artemis Gallery ... More
Breuer-Weil's Ark displayed as part of 20th Century Masters exhibition
LONDON.- Comprising over 70 individually cast bronze figures of animals, David Breuer-Weils Ark is now on display at E&R Cyzer. This contemporary reinterpretation of the iconic subject Noahs Ark, explores an image that has fascinated artists for centuries. Breuer Weils comments, The subject appeals to children because it is a whole zoo in miniature, but actually the theme is deadly serious. The Ark was an attempt to save every species of the animal kingdom from extinction. That theme has never been more relevant than it is today, and my work is partly about the tragedy of threatened animals, as vulnerable as the occupants of an ark on a stormy ocean. Noah created this ark that saved the world that saved endangered species that were sure to die in the great flood. Many of my paintings depict images of floods and tsunamis. I have long regarded water ... More
Seamus Moran retrospective comes to Dadiani Gallery
LONDON.- A retrospective by sculptor Seamus Moran is being staged at Mayfairs Dadiani Fine Art gallery from September 29th to November 10th. The selected works span a period of 15 years, and include new pieces which have never before been shown in the UK. Morans works are distinctive for their seemingly incompatible ideas and forms, which he combines to produce his sculptures. He produces work that is inspired by childhood memories of museum visits, fossils and armour. His work is convincing and meticulously constructed, as a consequence of his industry background in mould-making. Moran received acclaim in 2013, with his Urban Burka which was shortlisted for the Threadneedle prize. The following year Harness a suit of armour for a bird - won the Passion for Freedom competition, and went on to be shown at The Tower of London earlier ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American portrait artist Rembrandt Peale died October 03, 1860. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 - October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. In this image: Patricia Burchfield, curator of the George Bush Presidential Library, adjusts a 1795 Rembrandt Peale painting of former President George Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2000, in College Station, Texas. The Portraits of the Presidents exhibit opened at the George Bush Presidential Library Oct. 6. The portraits were on tour from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for the first time.
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