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Artists Gilbert & George (Gilbert Prousch and George Passmore) pose during a photo session on October 16, 2017 prior to their exhibition entitled "The Beard Pictures" at the Thaddaeus Ropac art gallery in Pantin north of Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- While British art duo Gilbert & George are clean-shaven in real life, their latest series of surreal self-portraits sees them don beards made of wire mesh, foliage, flowers and even rabbits. The set of 172 pictures are divided across six shows, in Paris, New York, London, Brussels, Naples and Athens from now till next March. A darker leitmotif of "The Beard Pictures" is barbed wire, which crosses behind or in front of the two men's faces, evoking the pervasive pictures of war and refugees rather than the hipster fashion for facial hair. "Every time you switch on the television you started to see barbed wire all over the world," said Gilbert, 74, in an interview with AFP in Paris. "And you started to see holes... in the barbed wire, and you started to see human beings with beards sticking out of it." George, 75, chimed in: "When we were teenagers, it would be impossible to get a job in England if you had a beard. And barbed wire when we were the same age was all to do with farming. Now ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Mystical/fairytale-like figures, imposing landscapes and mysterious scenes characterise the work of the 19th century painter Matthijs Maris (1839-1917). Photo Olivier Middendorp
| Beatrix Ruf resigns with immediate effect as Director of the Stedelijk Museum | | Scientists in Argentina discover a new species of condor | | Art 'detectives' probe what lies beneath a Fragonard |
Following speculations in the media over the past weeks that may have an impact on the Stedelijks reputation, Ruf feels that her resignation is in the best interests of the museum. © Robin de Puy.
AMSTERDAM.- Director Beatrix Ruf has decided to resign from her post as director of the Stedelijk Museum with immediate effect. Following speculations in the media over the past weeks that may have an impact on the Stedelijks reputation, Ruf feels that her resignation is in the best interests of the museum. The Stedelijk Museum has laid a strong foundation for its artistic continuity with an extensive programme that commences with the collection presentation STEDELIJK BASE on 16 December 2017. Featuring around 750 iconic artworks from the collection, the presentation traces the developments in fine art from the 19thcentury to the present day, with work by Van Gogh, Mondrian, Malevich and Rietveld, and from Warhol, Kiefer, Koons, Sottsass and Dijkstra to Dumas. The current Stedelijk Management Team, in conjunction with an interim business director ... More | |
Pampagyps imperator. Illustration: Gabriel Lio.
BUENOS AIRES (CTYS).- With the wings open, its total length is around 2 meters and 50 centimeters and because it had stronger claws than the current condor, paleontologists estimate that it could hunt its prey. The fossil was found in Marcos Paz, just 34 kilometers from the capital city of Buenos Aires. The researcher of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN-CONICET) Federico Agnolin commented to the Agencia CTyS-UNLaM that "this discovery is unique for Argentina, because it is the first time that a well preserved specimen of an extinct condor has been found and, until now, its existence was unknown." This new type of condor was baptized as Pampagyps imperator. "His name means something like emperor vulture of the Pampas", said Agnolin, lead author of the study that is going to be published in the Journal of the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences. After that, he added: "It was a large condor, which may have reached up to three meters wide with open wings". If someone travels ... More | |
National Gallery of Art senior conservator of paintings Michael Swicklik speaks during an interview with AFP. MANDEL NGAN / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- For decades, she was thought to have started out as a man. But a sketch uncovered at an obscure Parisian auction in 2012 triggered groundbreaking research that revealed the original painting beneath Jean-Honore Fragonard's "Young Girl Reading" to be a woman gazing outward. "The drawing pointed out this likely inaccuracy," said Michael Swicklik, senior conservator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, adjusting his magnifying glasses to examine the luminous 250-year-old portrait of a girl in a bright lemon dress absorbed in her book. Swicklik was part of a trio of experts who used techniques akin to those NASA deployed on its Mars rovers to dispel any doubt the work belonged to a boldly experimental series by a young Fragonard, just coming into his own two decades before the French Revolution. There is no significant record from the period of the artist's legendary "Fantasy Figures," created around ... More |
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| Exhibition of new installations and mobiles by Julio Le Parc on view at Perrotin Paris | | Stephenson's presents antiques, decorative arts, fine jewelry from Philadelphia-area estates in Oct. 20 auction | | National Portrait Gallery announces artists commissioned to paint portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama |
Alchimie 369, 2017 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm / 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in © Julio Le Parc / ADAGP, Paris 2017. Photo: Claire Dorn / Courtesy Perrotin.
PARIS.- Following his major retrospective at the Perez Art Museum, Miami and his concurrent exhibition at Perrotin New York, Julio Le Parc, 89 years old, returns to Paris with an exhibition of recent and historic works. Both floors of the gallery are being dedicated to new installations and mobiles that are being exhibited alongside recent paintings. Shown for the first time, these works create a dialogue with the historical paintings, sculptures and installations from the 70s to the 90s. Lastly, a virtual reality artwork, designed with his son Juan Le Parc, offers an insight into the artists work. On the occasion of the exhibition, Perrotin published a comprehensive bilingual book, which includes a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist and an interview between the artist and Jérôme Sans. Julio Le Parcs art burst with boundless energy. Encountering ... More | |
Walter & June Gottshall contemporary folk art fish, 1990, carved and painted, glass eyes, 13¼in high on stand, est. $600-$1,200.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- On Friday, Oct. 20, Philadelphias premier estate-auction specialists, Stephensons of suburban Bucks County, will present a 479-lot auction of antiques, decorative arts and firearms. Within the selection are more than 120 lots of fine jewelry from a physicians estate and other sources. All forms of bidding will be available, including live via the Internet. Jewelry has always been one of Stephensons top specialties, and many rare and exquisite gems and designer pieces have come to the auction marketplace from Philadelphias exclusive Main Line neighborhoods as a result of family-owned Stephensons trusted reputation in the region. The Oct. 20 auction features high-quality jewelry for both men and women. The grouping includes a substantial mens 18K gold ring with a 1.10-carat diamond solitaire ... More | |
Kehinde Wiley. Photo: Tony Powell.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has commissioned the museums official portraits of former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. Artist Kehinde Wileybest known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of African Americanswill create the portrait of President Obama. Amy Sherald, first-prize winner of the Portrait Gallerys 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, has been chosen to paint Mrs. Obama. The two portraits will be unveiled at the museum in early 2018 and will be added to the Portrait Gallerys permanent collection. Over the course of his career, Wiley (b. Los Angeles, 1977), whom President Obama selected, has frequently portrayed young African American men wearing the latest in hip-hop street fashion. His rich, highly saturated color palette and his use of decorative patterns complement his realistic, yet expressive, ... More |
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| Centre Pompidou opens Nalini Malanis first retrospective in France | | William Forsythe's Choreographic Objects on view at Gagosian in Paris | | The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture celebrates an extensive two-year, $22.3 million renovation |
Portrait of Nalini Malani in her studio in Bombay. Photo: © Rafeeq Ellias.
PARIS.- In a unique collaboration the Centre Pompidou and Castello di Rivoli are staging Indian artist Nalini Malanis first retrospective in France and Italy. Presented in Paris in 2017-2018, then in Rivoli in 2018, this retrospective in two parts selectively covers fifty years of creativity. In the Centre Pompidou exhibition, the artist presents works from 1969-2018, including her latest painting series All We Imagine as Light and the site responsive Wall drawing/Erasure Performance Traces. Apprehending Nalini Malanis work from both a non-chronological and a thematic angle, the exhibitions tackle the various concepts underlying her uvre: utopia, dystopia, her vision of India and of the role of women in the world. The result of the Partition of India in 1947 has had a life long traumatic effect on Malani's family, whose experiences as refugees continue to inform her art practice. Her explorative investigation of ... More | |
Alignigung, 2016. Single channel video. Dimensions variable. Artwork © William Forsythe, Courtesy Gagosian.
PARIS.- At a time when the art world is embracing choreography in all its forms, Gagosian announces the fall presentation of William Forsythes Choreographic Objects. This is Forsythes first exhibition with the gallery. William Forsythe is a radical innovator in choreography and dance, revered the world over, and with an ardent and long-standing following in France. Over four decades, he has redefined the very syntax and praxis of his field, and exerted unparalleled influence on subsequent generations of artists. In the course of his singular career, he has developed an extensive repertoire of groundbreaking ballet choreographies and experimental, non-proscenium-based dance-theater works, as well as an open-access digital platform for dance analysis, notation, and improvisation. Parallel with the evolution of his choreographic performances, Forsythe has been ... More | |
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York Public Librarys renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem today celebrated the reopening of several renovated spaces after a nearly two-year, $22.3 million renovation. New York Public Library (NYPL) President Tony Marx, Schomburg Director Kevin Young, members of the Schomburg family, local elected officials and community leaders gave remarks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony followed by a tour of the renovated divisions, some of which were closed during construction and are now open to the public. The research library, located at 515 Malcolm X Blvd in Harlem, consists of three connected buildings: the Schomburg Building, the Langston Hughes Building, and the 112-year old Landmark Building, which was named a National Historic Landmark earlier ... More |
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| First solo gallery exhibition for the living Hong Kong legend Wucius Wong in nearly a decade opens at Sotheby's S2 | | The Dali Museum introduces first-ever retrospective exhibition of designer Elsa Schiaparelli and artist Salvador Dali | | Exhibition at Mucem seeks to tell the story of the complex world of football |
Ancient Dream No. 3, 1991. Ink and colour on paper, 63 x 47 cm. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys S2 presents Eternal Water, a selling exhibition of works by the critically acclaimed Hong Kong painter Wucius Wong, from 18 to 30 October at its Hong Kong Gallery. Wucius Wong is recognised as a trail-blazing modernist of ink painting in Hong Kong, and is also revered for his masterful synthesis of traditional Chinese aesthetics with western culture and contemporary design. Presenting over 30 works spanning six decades of his career, the exhibition depicts water in its varying forms, all with lyrical, philosophical undertones, and a style which encapsulates landscape and geometric motifs. All works are arranged thematically by the artist and attributed to the qualities of water: movement, tranquillity, confluence, diversion and transformation. Together, the exhibition provides a retrospective of artistic exploration and a metaphorical portrait of the artists cultural identity, tracing the fluidity ... More | |
Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador DalÃ, circa 1949. Image Rights of Salvador Dalà reserved. Fundació Gala-Salvador DalÃ, Figueres, 2017.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Delight in the daring and breathtaking works of two celebrated artists when Dali & Schiaparelli opens at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, Wednesday, October 18, 2017. Running through January 14, 2018 Dali & Schiaparelli is the first exhibition dedicated to the creative relationship and masterpieces of Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali. The exhibit, presented in collaboration by The Dali Museum and Schiaparelli Paris, explores how each artists innovative approach both delighted and shocked the worlds of fashion and art. Sensuality and a daring beauty were trademarks of their collaborations. Dali & Schiaparelli will feature Haute Couture gowns and accessories, jewelry, paintings, drawings, objects and photos, as well as new designs by Maison Schiaparelli design director Bertrand Guyon. Elsa Schiaparelli, regarded as the most prominent figure in fashion between ... More | |
Floor Wesseling, Milano : Internazionale and AC Milan, 2010 © Floor Wesseling. Photo: Marques Malacia.
MARSEILLE.- How about we forget everything we think we know about football? What if we return to the origins of a sport that, despite being tainted by commercialism, remains above all, a passionate activity that is able to bring friends together, and unite a district, a city, or even a whole nation, despite the everyday social and political issues that divide people. How do the words social, cultural and political fit alongside the word football? From the streets of Marseilles or Paris, to the ports of Istanbul or Athens, in the suburbs of Algiers, or on the beaches of Malaga, football, whose popularity has never diminished, forges a bond between the peoples of the Mediterranean. And if it sometimes reflects an image of a divided world, full of violence, racism and fanaticism, it is because it puts a spotlight on the dark corners of the societies it is a part of. The game is sometimes considered as a poor mans sport by the European intelligents ... More |
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Exhibition of new paintings by Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad on view at the Rose Art Museum
WALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is presenting Immortal City, an exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad created in response to the war in Syria and the destruction of the artists beloved city of Aleppo, September 8, 2017 January 21, 2018. In November, the multi-day Culture Cannot Wait workshop will bring international experts on preserving culture in times of crisis to the Brandies campus; along with a performance by Mourad with renowned clarinetist Kinan Azmeh. Kevork Mourad (b. Syria 1970) is known for paintings made spontaneously in collaboration with composers, dancers, and musicians. Of Armenian descent, Mourad performs in his art both a vital act of remembering and a poetic gesture of creativity in the face of tragedy, as he mediates the ... More
Japan's blind piano maestro plays it by ear
TOKYO (AFP).- Blind since birth, virtuoso Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii puts his global success down to a wide range of experiences outside music -- and listening to how the conductor breathes. "I love sport, I love swimming, skiing," the 29-year-old maestro told AFP in an interview. "The more I experience, the more positive things it brings me as a musician." Despite his blindness, Tsujii -- or "Nobu" as he is known -- has risen to become a star of the international classical music scene, playing in more than 160 concerts around the world in locations such as London's Royal Albert Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York. He has played with the Saint-Petersburg Mariinsky Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and will be giving his first major recital in France later this month. An elegy he wrote for the victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan got 13 million ... More
From skeletons to circuits: Technology and fossils headline Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A wide-ranging selection of fossil and scientific discoveries from the world's first microchip to a $200,000 Triceratops skull highlights Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science Auction Nov. 4 in Dallas, Texas. Collectors will have a chance to acquire prototypes of the item that essentially is the foundation upon which the computing industry is built, and which made laptops and smartphones a daily staple for millions, when an Early Microchip Prototype (est. $400,000-600,000) goes up for auction Nov. 4 at Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science Auction in Dallas. A groundbreaking step in the evolution of modern computing is available in the form of an Early Microchip Prototype (est. $400,000-600,000). The precursor to the integrated circuit, this chip is a significant part of the foundation of the technology that runs modern computers and smartphones. One lot ... More
Copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, signed by Stan Lee, to be auctioned
CRANSTON, RI.- An astounding collection of Hasbro G.I. Joe action figure dolls from the collection of a former Hasbro employee in Rhode Island, plus a copy of Marvel Comics Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962, the first appearance of Spider-Man, signed by Stan Lee), plus other rare and highly collectible comics, will headline a Fall Toy, Comic & Comic Art Auction slated for Saturday, Oct. 28th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, starting at 12 oclock noon Eastern time. Over 300 lots of pop culture items, curated from collections across the country, will cross the auction block that day. The sale will be held in Bruneau & Co.s gallery, at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Internet bidding will be facilitated by Bidlive.Bruneauandco.com, Invaluable.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee (left) bids will also be accepted. A strong candidate for ... More
Fancy Vivid Yellow diamond takes center stage at Freeman's Fine Jewelry Auction
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freeman's November 1 Fine Jewelry auction features a diverse assortment of dazzling jewels from renowned makers including Cartier, Tiffany & Co., and Bulgari. Comprised of 172 lots, including signed modern and antique designs, many pieces are expected to draw considerable attention and garner international interest. The sale features whimsical brooches, in the shape of a tennis racket (Lot 41, $2,000-3,000) and lily of the valley (Lot 82, $5,000-7,000); cultured pearls necklaces; diamond bracelets, including an Art Deco diamond and platinum bracelet accented with trapezoidal, baguette, marquise, bullet- and circular-cut diamonds estimating 14.00 carats (Lot 171, $15,000-20,000); and numerous large diamonds. Most notably, the final lot of the sale, a rare Belle Ãpoque fancy vivid yellow diamond pendant, circa 1910, weighs ... More
Hayward Gallery appoints Vincent Honoré and Cliff Lauson as Senior Curators
LONDON.- Vincent Honoré and Cliff Lauson have been appointed Senior Curators of Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre. Cliff Lauson will take up the post in November 2017, having been Curator at Hayward Gallery since 2009. Vincent Honoré will join Hayward Gallery in December 2017 as the Gallery prepares to reopen with Andreas Gursky on 25 January 2018. Andreas Gursky marks the beginning of Hayward Gallerys 50th anniversary year and is the first exhibition to take place in the Gallery following its two-year refurbishment. For the first time since the gallerys original opening, the gallerys pyramid roof lights will allow natural light into the spaces below. Vincent and Cliff will work alongside Ralph Rugoff, Director of Hayward Gallery. Vincent is a London-based curator who joins us from DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) where he has held the post of Chief ... More
Exhibition offers a new interpretation of the Western film genre
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Once Upon a Time The Western. This major multidisciplinary exhibition offers a new interpretation of the Western film genre by examining its links to the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography) from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Initiated by the MMFA, the exhibition is co-produced with the Denver Art Museum (DAM). It is part of the official programming of Montreals 375th anniversary. Once Upon a Time The Western celebrates the beauty of the Western while revealing some of its more sombre aspects. The exhibition explores themes related to questions that are still current today, such as violence, the stereotypical representation of the sexes, interracial relationships, and the fabrication of stereotypes. It addresses certain prejudices against the peoples of the First Nations ... More
New visual identity for the Science Museum
LONDON.- The Science Museum has revealed its new visual identity at the launch of its Illuminating India season of exhibitions and events celebrating global scientific advancement. Developed by award-winning design company North, the new brand aims to bring a visual cohesion to the Science Museum Group whose five museums share an astonishingly diverse collection spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. Illumination is a central feature of the new identity, explored both through the changing font weight in the new logo and the use of vibrant colour gradients elsewhere within the graphic language. For the Science Museum the illuminated font suggests change and progress; at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, it evokes the rise of technologies such as photography that manipulate our emotions with light; at the ... More
Ali Kazma's first major exhibition in France brings together around twenty works
PARIS.- Souterrain, Kazmas solo show at the Jeu de Paume, sets out to reveal the evolution of Kazmas work over the past ten years by including an important number of his recent works, in particular two works made specifically for this exhibition. Around twenty video works and one photographic publication an artists book are on show. The video works are immersing the viewer into the space and confronting him with the rhythm and the colour of the single or multiple-channel projections. Ali Kazma has made over sixty videos since he started working with this medium. His body of work, made up of many individual films, also embraces two major series entitled Obstructions (2005ongoing) and Resistance (2012on-going). Up until now, the Obstructions series has been composed of eighteen videos of variable duration (between five and seventeen minutes): ... More
Six shortlisted artists announced for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2017-2019
LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara announced the six shortlisted artists for the seventh edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Helen Cammock (b. 1970), Céline Condorelli (b. 1974), Eloise Hawser (b. 1985), Athena Papadopoulos (b. 1988), Lis Rhodes (b. 1942) and Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985). This weekend the artists travelled to Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy, for the announcement as well as to celebrate the opening of the major art work Mamma Mia!, by the sixth winner of the prize, Emma Hart. Mamma Mia! tours from the Whitechapel Gallery where it was unveiled this summer. Featuring artists that work across a range of mediums, the shortlisted artists were selected by a judging panel chaired by Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, and joined by gallerist Vanessa Carlos, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens died October 18, 1678. Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640 - the year Rubens died - he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general.
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