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Paul Nash (18891946), Moon Aviary, c.1937. Cedarwood, ivory, stone and bone. Courtesy Ernest, Brown & Phillips Ltd. © Tate Photography.
LONDON.- This autumn Tate Britain presents Paul Nash, the largest exhibition of the artists work for a generation. Paul Nash is one of the most distinctive and important British artists of the 20th century. Renowned as a war artist in both the First and Second World Wars, the exhibition further reveals Nashs work from his earliest drawings through to his final visionary landscapes. Nash was fascinated with Britains ancient past and spent time in southern England exploring the downs and coastal areas. The exhibition looks at how these landscapes influenced his work and provided a stage for his engagements with international modern art movements such as surrealism. The most evocative landscape painter of his generation, the exhibition covers all the significant developments of Nashs career, opening with his early Symbolist watercolours exploring the mystic life-force of trees, and the powerful shattered landscapes of th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Egypt's Antiquities Minister, Khaled al-Anani, attends the opening of an exhibition displaying ancient artifacts that were seized by authorities before being smuggled abroad, on October 24, 2016, at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. STRINGER / AFP
| Barcelona's Picasso Museum fetes WWI Cubism survival | | Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's sculptures on view at BOZAR | | Italian Baroque masterpiece comes to the Frick |
Fernand Léger, The Stove (Le poêle), April 1918. Oil on canvas; 61 x 50.1 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift of Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection 38.525 © Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nova York © Fernand Léger, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2016.
BARCELONA (AFP).- Barcelona's Picasso Museum unveiled an exhibition on "Cubism and War" on Thursday depicting how one of the most influential artistic styles of the 20th century survived World War I. Born around 1907 with Picasso's ground-breaking painting "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", Cubism could have run out of steam during the conflict as the Spanish artist and others who had settled in Paris suffered shortages and destruction. "The movement had hardly begun and it could have been cut off by the war but they kept it alive, they didn't let it get frozen and die," curator Christopher Green told AFP. "And it's rather extraordinary with this catastrophe, this massacre happening so close." With around 80 works from museums such as New York's MoMA, Paris's Georges Pompidou Centre or London's Tate Modern, the exhibition ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman, 1962.Painted sheet metal and iron wire, 32 x 24 x 16 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. Inv. Nr. MP366 © Succession Picasso SABAM Belgium 2016. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée Picasso de Paris) / Adrien Didierjean / Mathieu Rabeau.
BRUSSELS.- Considered as one of the most important painters of the 20th century, the Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) also created sculptures throughout his life that were as innovative as they were influential. After the MoMA in New York and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, BOZAR is bringing together 80 of Picassos sculptures for the very first retrospective of the artists sculptures here in Belgium. The exhibition is laid out in a chronological and thematic circuit elaborated in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris. Picassos sculptures enter into dialogue with around twenty of his canvases, around fifteen ceramics, and objets dart from non-European cultures which belonged to his personal collection. Picasso will always be remembered as the prolific and fabulous painter. However, Picasso. Sculptures ... More | |
The Repentant Magdalene (detail), ca. 1660−63, oil on canvas, 90 1/4 x 104 3/4 inches, Norton Simon Art Foundation, Pasadena, California.
NEW YORK, NY.- Guido Cagnacci was one of the most eccentric painters of seventeenth-century Italy, infamous for his unconventional art and lifestyle. His works, mostly religious in subject, are known for their unabashed, often unsettling eroticism, and his biography is no less intriguing. Though his pictorial style was influenced by some of the most important Italian painters of the timethe Carracci, Guercino, and Guido ReniCagnacci developed an individual and immediately recognizable artistic language. This October, the Frick presents Cagnaccis ambitious Repentant Magdalene, considered a masterpiece of seventeenth-century Italian art, and a work that has not been seen outside California since its acquisition by the Norton Simon Museum almost thirty-five years ago. A testament to Cagnaccis genius, this extraordinary paintingthe latest in a series of loans to the Frick from the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadenawill i ... More |
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| First comprehensive exhibition of Elliott Erwitt's color photographs on view at Edwynn Houk Gallery | | The nude from Michelangelo to Trump tracked by art auction search engine Barnebys | | New American Art Wing opens at Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens |
Elliott Erwitt, New York City, NY, USA, 1954. Archival pigment print © Elliott Erwitt. Courtesy of the artist and Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York and Zurich.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edwynn Houk Gallery is presenting Elliott Erwitt: Kolor, the first comprehensive exhibition of the artists color photographs. A photographer since 1948, Elliott Erwitts early black and white photographs set a precedent for the genre of social landscape and anticipated the iconic imagery of Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and Robert Frank. Erwitts skill as a photographer is evident in his juxtaposition of elements within a frame. He creates relationships between people, places, and things, which reveal the world in a unique, humorous way. Throughout his distinguished career, he has taken some of the most memorable images of the 20th century including President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Che Guevara. His personal pictures or snaps as he refers ... More | |
Illma Gore, Make America Great Again, sold at Maddox Gallery this year.
LONDON.- The nude is one of art history's most important subjects. Both sensual and controversial, sacred and sacrilegious it has adorned everything from cave walls, museums for centuries. Barnebys, the worlds leading art and auction search engine, has been tracking the view of artists on the controversial presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Barnebys provides buyers and sellers with access to 1,600 auction houses in a one-stop-shop where you can find what you are searching for on one website. Barnebys has been described as the Google of the art auction world. One of the founders of Barnebys, Pontus Silfverstolpe, says: "Nudity in art has always fascinated humans. The recent series of nude portraits of the American presidential campaigner is no exception. Capturing the naked human figure continues to challenge artists. In ... More | |
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SAN MARINO, CA.- The Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing, a major addition to the American art galleries at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, opened to the public revealing Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection, an inaugural exhibition of more than 200 works of 18th- and early19th-century American art. The 8,600 square-foot, $10.3 million addition to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art was designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners and includes 5,000 square feet of gallery space with dramatic, colorful displays that showcase early American paintings, furniture, and works of decorative artsome of which are promised gifts to The Huntingtonand offer visitors important insights into the history of American art practice. The collection, display, and contextualization of historical American art is among our chief priorities, said ... More |
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| Morton's Subastas announces highlights from its Antiques and European Furniture Sale | | Key works by Caspar Netscher, Herman Saftleven, and Emil Nolde acquired by the National Gallery of Art | | Acquavella Galleries opens exhibition of works by Spanish artist Miquel Barceló |
Carlo Bugatti, Doppio Corpo Cabinet, circa 1890. Exotic woods inlayed with metal and bone decorations. Vellum panels, with ink paintings of birds and bamboos. 248 x 94.4 x 47.5 cm Est. $20,500 - $26,000 USD.
MEXICO CITY.- On October 27, an exquisite doppio corpo cabinet by the notorious Italian artists and designer Carlo Bugatti will be among the highlights of Morton's Subastas Antiques and European Furniture Sale. This magnificent piece of furniture is an example of the Stile Liberty, contemporary to the Art Nouveau, Sezessionstil, Jugendstil and Arts & Crafts movements. Made of exotic woods, copper and bone applications, this cabinet represents through its decorative motifs and elements the influence of the Moorish architectonical tradition and Chinese/Japanese iconography, making this furniture a rare piece that combines the western view and manners of representation with the incorporation of oriental elements. Bugatti´s cabinet will be on display to public at Morton´s saleroom from October 17 to 27. Another highlight is a magnificent ... More | |
Heinrich Campendonk, Self-Portrait (recto), c. 1912. Watercolor over graphite on Japanese paper, overall: 53.2 x 42.8 cm (20 15/16 x 16 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Beatrix and Ladislaus von Hoffmann Fund, in honor of Andrew Robison.
WASHINGTON, DC.- At the September meeting of the board of trustees, the National Gallery of Art acquired a stunning genre painting by Caspar Netscher (16391684), a charming landscape painting by Herman Saftleven (c. 16091685), and two expressive drawings by Emil Nolde (18671956). Additionally, the Gallery acquired photographs by Sally Mann (b. 1951), Andrew J. Russell (18301902), and Thomas H. Johnson (active 1860s1870s), among others. At this meeting, the Gallery accessioned 304 works of art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, including 173 photographs by Gordon Parks (19122006). "We are delighted with the acquisition of these rare and important works by Caspar Netscher, Herman Saftleven, and Emil Nolde, as well as groundbreaking photographs by Andrew J. Russell, Gordon Parks, and Sally ... More | |
Ram, 2014. Ceramic, 34 7/8 x 19 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (88.5 x 49.5 x 32 cm). Art © 2014 Miquel Barceló / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
NEW YORK, NY.- Acquavella Galleries presents an exhibition of new works by acclaimed Spanish artist Miquel Barceló. This is the artist's second exhibition at the gallery, and features two new series of paintings and a selection of new ceramic works. The exhibition is on view from October 27 to December 9, 2016 at 18 East 79th Street, New York City. In his paintings, Barceló returns to two subjects that have continued to inspire the Mallorcan artist throughout his career-his love of the sea and the spirit of the bull fight. His intensely-colored seascapes and corrida paintings apply meticulous layers of mixed media to realize heavily impastoed canvases, while his ceramics evoke organic forms. As one of the most celebrated artists in Europe, Barceló's work has been regularly commissioned for notable public spaces including Gran Elefandret, installed in New York's Union Square in 2011, a ceramic panorama for the chapel of ... More |
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| Inside the 'new' Burrell Collection: First concept design proposals are revealed | | Artist Iván Navarro transforms Paul Kasmin Gallery into a synesthetic environment | | Trenton Doyle Hancock's sixth solo exhibition with James Cohan on view in New York |
The Burrell Collection is scheduled to reopen in 2020.
GLASGOW.- Just two days after the Burrell Collection closed its doors to the public to allow work to begin on an estimated £60-£66 million refurbishment and redisplay, the first artists impressions of the proposed interior of the building have been made public. The early stage design concepts reveal ambitious plans to modernise and improve the visitor experience, while retaining the architectural intent of the Category A listed building which is home to Sir Williams great legacy. Architects, John McAslan + Partners, together with Exhibition Designers, Event Communications, and Project and Cost Manager, Gardiner & Theobald LLP are working with staff from Glasgow Life, Cordia and Glasgow City Council to create a world-class museum environment as befits the quality of the 9,000 objects amassed by Sir William. The collection includes rare examples of medieval stained ... More | |
Ivan Navarro, Impenetrable Room, 2016, 72 x 72 x 30 inches, 182.9 x 182.9 x 76.2 cm. Edition of 5 (from an edition of 5 + 1 AP).
NEW YORK, NY.- This October, Iván Navarro transforms Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Avenue, into a synesthetic environment with his exhibition Mute Parade. The Chilean-born artists second solo show with the gallery continues Navarros ongoing use of light, sound, and language to engage with issues of power, migration, and propaganda. In the first gallery the viewer enters a labyrinth of six 6 x 6 foot structures that together make up the Impenetrable Room (2016). This new body of work co-opts the materials and format of portable road cases, which are customarily used to transport and protect musical instruments. Refitting the cases with mirrors and neon light, Navarro transforms these static objects into deep spaces that appear to recede towards infinity. In this installation, ... More | |
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Becoming the Toymaker, Phase 5 of 41, 2016. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 x 3 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Pandemic Pentameter, Trenton Doyle Hancocks sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition, presenting a group of large scale paintings produced this year, opened Friday, October 21 and will be on view through November 27 at the gallerys Lower East Side location. Comprising a new series of paintings, this exhibition by the Houston based artist further expands his interest in storytelling. Hancock has long been admired for his ability to meld a deep and personal interest in narrative with a particularly rigorous and physical approach to painting. His intricately detailed compositions are loaded with imagery from a collection of sources, including comic books, action figures, motifs from childhood, and grand manner history painting, ... More |
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Nelson-Atkins Museum appoints Aimee Marcereau DeGalan as Senior Curator of European Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has hired Dr. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan as the Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator of European Art. Marcereau DeGalan comes to the Nelson-Atkins from The Dayton Art Institute (DAI), where she was Chief Curator and Curator of European Art. The timing of this important addition to our staff could not be better, said Julián Zugazagoitia, Menefee D. and Mary Louise Blackwell CEO & Director of the Nelson-Atkins. Aimees scholarship will be immediately called upon as we prepare to open the Bloch Galleries in the spring, and she will continue the important work that has begun on our catalogue of French paintings. A specialist in British and French 18th and 19th-century art, Marcereau DeGalan will lead the European Arts division, which includes the departments of Ancient Art, ... More
Leopold Museum opens "The Poetics of the Material"
VIENNA.- There is today a widespread conviction that reality is increasingly vanishing behind the artificially constructed flood of media images. Despite the fact that we live in an age when every aspect of our life is digitized, or perhaps even because of it, strategies aligned with the term new materialism can currently be observed in the field of art that accord great importance to the material and to the material phenomena of reality. These artistic endeavors are not a simple backlash against the dematerialization of our world; rather, they represent a working of the ground that has been prepared through this process. Contemporary art, which can be regarded as being aligned with new materialism, attempts to give expression to the interpenetration of material phenomena and immaterial aspects of reality. The latter reveal themselves in the meaning of language or in the influence ... More
HOCA Foundation presents "Visual Disobedience": The first solo exhibition of Shepard Fairey in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- The Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation presents Visual Disobedience, a large-scale survey exhibition of American artist Shepard Fairey for the first time in Hong Kong. The show explores the trajectory of Faireys career focusing on the theme of power and responsibility, contemplating the wide-spread abuse by positions of authority, and the response this exploitation solicits. The show runs from 27 October to 27 November 2016 at Shop B104 - Shop 305, The Pulse (No. 28 Beach Road, Repulse Bay, Hong Kong), and will also feature new large-scale public murals, inspired by Hong Kong and China. Shepard Faireys vision and mantra, Question Everything seeks to redefine the complex relationship between humanity and the environment. From his first sticker campaign featuring images of Andre the Giant, appropriated from the comedic supermarket tabloid ... More
Exhibition of works by Taryn Simon on view at the Albertinum in Dresden
DRESDEN.- Taryn Simons encyclopedic typologies provide access to the peripheral or unfamiliar territories of our medialized world. They demonstrate the instability of fact, and how images are used to produce knowledge and authority. In her work, multi-facetted symbioses of image and text are exposed as the critical infrastructure and indicators of political, economic, social, religious and cultural systems. The exhibition Taryn Simon. A Soldier is Taught to Bayonet the Enemy and not Some Undefined Abstraction was developed by the Galerie Rudolfinum (curator: Michal Nanoru). The concept and the selection of works were then modified and significantly expanded for the Albertinum. The works on view in Dresden date from 2007 to 2015 and include a preview from her most recent work Paperwork and the Will of Capital (2015), on show in Germany for the first time. This exhibi ... More
Bettina WitteVeen's 5 Wounds on view at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
NEW YORK, NY.- 5 Wounds, an installation by artist Bettina WitteVeen, is part of the groundbreaking The Christa Project: Manifesting Divine Bodies on view at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York on view until March 12, 2017. Co-curated by Eiko Otake and Hannah Wolfe Eisner, The Christa Project presents the work of 22 artists, who explore the language, symbolism, art, and ritual associated with the historic imagery of the Christ and the divine as manifested in every personacross all genders, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and abilities. WitteVeens compelling installation pays tribute to the sacrifices that five women activists made for freedom, truth, and justice. A portrait of each woman surmounts the cruciform sculptures, manifesting the symbolic bodies of the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl, the Civil Rights activist Viola Liuzzo, the Native ... More
New Museum opens the first New York survey of the work of pioneering Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting the first New York survey of the work of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b.1962). Over the past thirty years, Rist has achieved international renown as a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations. Her mesmerizing works envelop viewers in sensual, vibrantly colored kaleidoscopic projections that fuse the natural world with the technological sublime. Referring to her art as a glorification of the wonder of evolution, Rist maintains a deep sense of curiosity that pervades her explorations of physical and psychological experiences. Her works bring viewers into unexpected, all-consuming encounters with the textures, forms, and functions of the living universe around us. Occupying the three main floors of the New Museum, Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is the most comprehensive presentation of Rists work in New York to date. It includes ... More
Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens exhibition of works by artist collective GCC
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces Positive Pathways (+), an exhibition of works by artist collective GCC. This is the groups debut show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and their first in the United States since GCC: Achievements in Retrospective at MoMA PS1 in 2014. The exhibition, which includes installation, wall sculptures and sound, focuses on the increasingly pervasive trend of Healthy Living and Positive Lifestyles gaining momentum in the Middle East. In particular, GCC explores the ways in which these lifestyle attitudes are appropriated, employed, and transformed as part of a greater political mechanism. The exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash expands upon GCCs 2016 project at the most recent Berlin Biennale, a sculptural installation of a woman and child. The woman is performing a Quantum Touch exercise, a non-contact touch therapy that became popular ... More
Prince's Minnesota studio to permanently open as museum
CHICAGO (AFP).- Late pop icon Prince's Paisley Park studio compound in Minnesota will become open to the public on Friday, after gaining final approval as a museum. The "Purple Rain" star's complex was scheduled to open earlier this month, but that was delayed after city officials asked the site's operator to better plan for an influx of visitors. Officials granted final approval Monday night, and Paisley Park's operator said tour tickets will be available for purchase online through December 2016, with 2017 tour dates expected to go on sale in mid-November. The 55,000-square-foot (5,100-square-meter) studio complex is located in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen. It has a near-mythical status among fans, who had only limited access to parts of it during the pop legend's life. A lucky few hundred were said to have toured it. As a compromise for fans who had already ... More
The Warhol launches inclusive audio guide
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces the launch of its inclusive audio guide Out Loud developed in collaboration with the Innovation Studio at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Out Loud launches on site October 25, 2016. Out Loud is designed to be inclusive of museum visitors across abilities. For users who are blind or have low vision, it offers location-based content, screen reader optimization, and enlargeable text. It includes visual descriptions of Andy Warhol artworks and stories about Warhols life and art from scholars, curators, museum staff, and Warhols friends and family members, including archival audio. It also includes full audio transcripts. Were excited to launch this app that is the direct result of working with community members with visual impairments, says Desi Gonzalez, The Warhol's manager of digital engagement. Before we put a single ... More
New Castlefield Gallery Director announced
MANCHESTER.- Castlefield Gallery announced that it has appointed Helen Wewiora as its new Director. Helen Wewiora will take over from the Gallerys current Director, Kwong Lee, in January 2017. Helen joins Castlefield Gallery from Arts Council England (ACE) where she has been Relationship Manager for Visual Arts for a number of years and where she has led on strategic programmes for several large-scale partners. Recently her role with ACE has focused on support for individual artists in the North West and nationally, including on matters of fair pay, practice and career development support, the studio and production ecology. Helen joins Castlefield Gallery in what is an exciting time in the organisations development having just secured ACEs £150,000 Catalyst Evolve funding to embed sustainability into the organisation over the next three years. The Board ... More
Nancy Sackson appointed Chief Philanthropy Officer for the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco today announced the appointment of Nancy Sackson as Chief Philanthropy Officer. With more than 20 years of nonprofit philanthropy experience most recently at a diverse array of beloved Bay Area cultural and educational institutions that were leading significant capital campaigns Sackson will plan and direct integrated fundraising programs to expand local, national and international support for the museums exhibitions, programs, general operations and institutional growth. Nancy Sackson brings her broad fundraising expertise to the museum at an exciting point in our institutional history were celebrating our 50th anniversary, and will be constructing a new special exhibition pavilion and refreshing our collection galleries starting in 2017, says Dr. Jay Xu, Director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter William Hogarth died October 26, 1764. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian.". In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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