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The casual, comfortable elegance of this inviting California home is magnificently enhanced by a one-of-a-kind 19th century Bakshaish carpet.
OAKLAND, CA.- For nearly four decades president and founder Jan David Winitz of Claremont Rug Company has collaborated with clients to provide one-in-the-world antique Persian carpets to complement the interiors of grand residential spaces with great rugs. Whether a lakeside home, a mountain retreat or primary residence, the homes benefit immeasurably from the emotional and artistic impact that their selections provide. I find that high-ceiling rooms with significant natural light allow for the creation of very special , entirely individual environments, he says. Many of my clients have remarked to me that the rugs that they select provide the finishing touch for the grand spaces that they occupy. Because of the expanse that many of these rooms provide, palace-size rugs with the addition of smaller pieces provide both an overall theme and a more intimate series of spaces in these environments. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kaingang ethnic group leader Kreta Kaingang speaks during a plenary session of the Brazilian Sederal Senate in homage to indigenous people in Brasilia on April 25, 2019. Approximately 2,000 indigenous people from different tribes are taking part in protests during the Indigenous National Mobilization (MNI) week, which seeks to tackle territorial rights' negotiations with the government. Sergio LIMA / AFP
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| | | Defining example of Lee Krasner's 'Umber' paintings poised to set new auction record at Sotheby's | | MoMA announces Donald Judd retrospective in spring 2020 | | Marianne Boesky Gallery opens an exhibition of recent sculptures by Frank Stella |
Created following the deaths of her mother and her husband, Jackson Pollock. Estimated to achieve $10/15 million, poised to surpass the artists auction record. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will offer Lee Krasners The Eye is the First Circle this spring in New York, as a highlight of the Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 16 May 2019. Executed in 1960, The Eye is the First Circle stands today as a defining work of Krasners career, and a masterpiece of the Abstract Expressionist era. It is an exceptional example of the artists famed Umber paintings, created in Krasners grief following the deaths of her husband Jackson Pollock in 1956 and her mother in 1959, during which Krasner experimented with the largest canvases of her career. Spanning nearly 20 feet across, The Eye is the First Circle now represents the last large-scale work by the artist remaining in private hands. The work emerges at auction this spring after 20+ years in the same distinguished private collection. The Eye is the First Circle is estimated to sell for $10/15 million ... More | |
Donald Judd. Untitled. 1967. Lacquer on galvanized iron; Twelve units, each 9 x 40 x 31″ (22.8 x 101.6 x 78.7 cm), installed vertically with 9″ (22.8 cm) intervals. The Museum of Modern Art, Helen Acheson Bequest (by exchange) and gift of Joseph Helman. Photo by John Wronn © 2019 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Arts exhibition Donald Judd, on view in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions in The David and Peggy Rockefeller Building from March 1 through July 11, 2020, will be the first major US retrospective dedicated to Donald Judd (19281994) in over three decades. Presented solely at MoMA, the exhibition will explore the remarkable vision of an artist who revolutionized the history of sculpture, highlighting the full scope of Judds career through some 60 works in sculpture, painting, and drawing, from public and private collections in the US and abroad. Donald Judd is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Yasmil Raymond, Associate Curator, with Tamar Margalit, ... More | |
Frank Stella Nessus and Dejanira, 2017 Aluminum and fiberglass 143 x 128 x 120 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © 2019 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS). Photo: Object Studies.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent sculptures by renowned artist Frank Stella. Ranging from the monumental to the intimately-scaled, the featured sculptures capture Stellas ongoing exploration of the spatial relationships between abstract and geometric forms and the ways in which they behave in and engage with physical space. In these newest works, Stella combines interlocking grids with more fluid and organic lines, creating a dynamic interplay between minimalist and gestural visual vocabularies. Frank Stella: Recent Work will be on view from April 25 through June 22 across both of the gallerys Chelsea locations at 509 and 507 W. 24th Street. Stellas decades-long career is synonymous with artistic innovation. From his early Black Paintings, which dramatically shifted the dialogues on abstract art, to his use of both the formal qualities of painting and ... More |
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| | | The Design Museum, London celebrates the work of one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century | | Five museums across the UK shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019 | | Notre-Dame organ dusty but undamaged: organist |
Steenbeck editing machine used for Full Metal Jacket. Photo: Ed Reeve for the Design Museum.
LONDON.- For the first time, the internationally acclaimed touring exhibition about the life and work of Stanley Kubrick is coming to Britain, Kubricks home and workplace for over 40 years. It was in the UK that Kubrick created the battlefields of Vietnam for Full Metal Jacket (1987), an orbiting space station for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Dr Strangeloves War Room (1964). The exhibition tells the story of Stanley Kubrick the obsessive genius. It shows step by step how he created genre defining worlds for his films and how London was his endlessly inventive canvas. The exhibition features several themed rooms, each shaped around a separate film, including Barry Lyndon, 2001: Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Lolita, Eyes Wide Shut, and Dr Strangelove. Visitors will enter the exhibition whilst walking ... More | |
HMS Caroline, Belfast © Marc Atkins.
LONDON.- Art Fund annually shortlists five outstanding museums for the Museum of the Year prize, which, in the opinion of the judges, have shown exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement in the preceding year. The members of this years judging panel, chaired by Stephen Deuchar, are: David Batchelor, artist; Brenda Emmanus, broadcaster and journalist; Bridget McConnell, Chief Executive, Glasgow Life; Bill Sherman, Director, Warburg Institute. The judges will together visit each of the finalists to help inform their decision-making, while each museum will make the most of being shortlisted through special events and activities for both new and current visitors. The winning museum will be announced at a ceremony at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday 3 July 2019 and will receive £100,000. The other four shortlisted museums will each receive £10,000 in recognition of their achievements. Speaking on behalf ... More | |
Notre Dame de Paris organist Johann Vexo poses at the organ in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on April 25, 2019. MANDEL NGAN / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Notre-Dame's grand organ will be cleaned of dust but will probably not have to be taken apart after the inferno that ravaged the Paris cathedral, the organist who was playing the it when the blaze broke out said Thursday. Johann Vexo, who was performing for daily mass at the world-famous cathedral when the alarm sounded, said during a visit to Washington it was "very good news." "Nothing burned, nothing melted, very little water from the fire hoses got into the organ itself," he said. "The experts on historic monuments and organ makers who are in charge of looking after the instrument managed to get inside the organ for around two hours" on Tuesday, he said. "There is this very dry dust that has got into every corner of the instrument," he said, but noted ... More |
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| | | Rockefeller Center becomes art gallery for two months | | Exhibition at Gagosian Hong Kong presents works by Cezanne, Morandi, and Sanyu | | Exhibition offers a new look at 20th-century art from the Tornabuoni Art Collection |
One of Paulo Nazareth's four aluminum plate installations, depicting pivotal moments of the Civil Rights movement.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Rockefeller Center, famous for its ice rink and art deco buildings, was transformed Thursday into an art gallery housing 20 sculptures, some of them with a heavy political slant. The exhibition was organized by the group Frieze and will remain up until the end of June. It is spread throughout the Rockefeller Center, which covers an area of three city blocks and was built in the 1930s in the very heart of Manhattan. It has featured artworks before, but never a full-on exhibition. Curator Brett Littman said he had chosen artists from a variety of backgrounds, including Hispanic and African, and that he insisted on the inclusion of female artists -- four of them in total. Many of the artworks play off the vertical spaces of the urban architecture. Although Littman said there was no overt theme, "one of the things that really comes through for me is that this is a fraught political time ... More | |
Paul Cézanne, Fleurs dans un pots d'olives, 18801882. Oil on canvas, 26 3/4 x 22 7/16 in 68 x 57 cm. Courtesy Gagosian.
HONG KONG.- While there are many artists that I like, Cézanne, Morandi, and Sanyu have consistently stimulated my love for painting and also helped me to resolve many problems in my own work. In my opinion, color, form, and subject are tightly intertwined in Cézannes work, and this is what separates his perspective from that of his predecessors. Morandi further developed this technique, through his use of both the horizon line and purposefully pale colors to blur the boundaries between the abstract and the figurative, geometry and flesh. Sanyus approach to painting is remarkably similar to both Cézannes and Morandis; however, his method is inherently Easternhe uses oils to paint the inks in his heart. A fascinating visual trajectory can be traced between these three formidable artists works. It not only inspires ... More | |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, 1956. 80 x 70.
LONDON.- Tornabuoni Art London announced 2019 recipient of its Annual Curatorial Fellowship. Fatoş Ãstek, currently Director and Chief Curator at DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation), incoming Director at Liverpool Biennial has been invited to curate an exhibition informed by the artworks in the Tornabuoni Art Collection. The exhibition entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being opens on 24 April and is accompanied by a conference and a publication. While Tornabuoni Art is well-known for presenting museum-quality Italian post-war art, Ãstek has looked at a wide and international array of artists in the collection, who experimented with untraditional media and new and influential artistic positions. Ãstek has sought to link works through a conceptual, rather than chronological thread, juxtaposing works by artists of different generations and nationalities and creating new dialogues between them. Although Ãstek is a speci ... More |
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| | | Exhibition explores photography's complicated relationship to the places it represents | | Pace opens an exhibition of recent works by Prabhavathi Meppayil | | The Fabric Workshop and Museum announces retirement of Susan L. Talbott, Executive Director |
Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Unos suben y otros bajan, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Museum purchase, General Acquisition Fund, 82.65.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, on view April 26 - July 28, 2019. The exhibition explores photographys complicated relationship to the places it represents, the places in which it is created, and the places in which we experience it. You Are Here both embraces and challenges the photographs role as a faithful record of place, examining photographys successes and failures in rendering and sharing fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMAs permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography and place from the origins of the medium to the present. From early photographs of the Arch of Titus in Rome to our own travel snapshots, photographs have had a profound effect on the way we experience the world, said Susan ... More | |
Detail of l/hundred thirty seven, 2019. © 2019 Prabhavathi Meppayil, Courtesy Pace Gallery.
LONDON.- Pace Gallery will present Recent Works, Prabhavathi Meppayils first solo exhibition at 6 Burlington Gardens and the third presented with the gallery, on view from 26 April to 25 May 2019. The exhibition will feature a new body of work that continues to explore Meppayils concerns of modernism and Minimalism. Meppayils linear designs in her work are not engendered by manual artisanal means or painterly processes: drawing, facture, and gesture originating either from pointed indentations or from linear metal insertions that singularly define graphic structures. Meppayils paintings seem to be driven by a latent desire to leave behind the parameters of pictorial space and its supporting surfaces, reaching for an ultimate sublation of the painterly rectangle in a numinous architectural space. Benjamin H.D.Buchloh, 2014. The descendant of several generations of goldsmiths, Meppayil ... More | |
Talbott initially assumed the role of Interim Executive Director in January 2016.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Board of Directors of The Fabric Workshop and Museum has announced the retirement of Executive Director Susan L. Talbott, effective September 30, 2019, after nearly four years of service. During this time, Talbott will continue to oversee the operations and programming of FWM while assisting the Board of Directors in its search and eventual transition to a new Executive Director. Talbott initially assumed the role of Interim Executive Director in January 2016, just one month after her retirement from a seven-year-long tenure at the helm of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. She joined FWM after the death of its founder and friend of Talbott, Marion Kippy Boulton Stroud in August 2015. Upon arrival, Talbott immediately began instituting organizational and physical innovations to FWM and was quickly named Executive Director. According to FWM ... More |
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Sotheby's opens an enchanting exhibition of unseen artworks by Manoucher Yektai
LONDON.- A traditional Persian poet and a Modernist American painter, Manoucher Yektais heavily-impastoed oeuvre stands out as a vivid fusion of cultures. The first solo exhibition dedicated to the artist in the UK since the 1970s, The Night is Your Day presents eighteen unseen works from across sixty years of practice in Sothebys New Bond Street galleries from 26 30 April. Born in 1921 in Tehran, Iran, Yektai fell in love with the mystical poetry of Rumi, miniature paintings and deeply-rooted local art of cooking. Moving to New York in the pivotal year of 1948, the artist was then radically exposed to Abstract Expressionism one of the first Iranian artists to be confronted with this new highly experimental form of painting. Leo Castelli, the influential Italian-American art dealer, introduced the artist to a number of artists, which led to enduring ... More
Phillips appoints new Senior International Specialist of American Art and Deputy Chairman, Americas
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced the appointment of Elizabeth Goldberg as a Senior International Specialist of American Art and Deputy Chairman, Americas. She will start in her new role in July. Considered by many to be among the worlds leading experts in American Art, Ms. Goldberg joins Phillips from Sothebys, where she was most recently Chairman of American Art. During her tenure at Sothebys, she also served as a Senior Vice President of Impressionist & Modern Art. While at Sothebys, Ms. Goldberg was responsible for the sale of Georgia OKeeffes Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, which sold for $44 million, setting a world record for a work by a woman artist at auction, as well as Norman Rockwells Saying Grace, which set a world record for the artist at $46 million. Before joining ... More
Harlem's Apollo Theater: arts hub and civil rights landmark
NEW YORK (AFP).- A springboard for everyone from Billie Holiday and James Brown to Lauryn Hill, New York's storied Apollo Theater remains an icon of black culture that is home to showbiz legends and amateurs alike. The globally recognized Harlem music venue that has launched career after career, borne witness to sociocultural revolution and hosted artists, writers, comedians and musicians for decades has been lionized in film form. "The Apollo," the documentary that kicked off New York's Tribeca Film Festival late Wednesday, centers on the celebrated hall's rise from a burlesque club opened in 1914 to a starmaker from the 1930s on -- and its pivotal role as a refuge for black artists blazing artistic trails while defying racial oppression. The Apollo today remains a lodestar of opportunity, inclusiveness and pride, said Tribeca co-founder and actor Robert ... More
Prince estate to release new album featuring unreleased work
NEW YORK (AFP).- A new Prince album of mostly unreleased recordings will drop in June, the estate managing his music archives announced Thursday. The 15-track album entitled "Originals" will begin streaming exclusively on the paid subscription platform Tidal on June 7, Prince's birthday, with wider digital and physical release on June 21. Featuring music recorded primarily in the 1980s, the album includes 14 previously unreleased tracks and a number of demo versions Prince penned for fellow artists, including "Manic Monday" which ultimately soared onto the pop charts as part of The Bangles' 1986 album "Different Light." "Originals" will also include a version of "The Glamorous Life," a 1984 dance hit he wrote for his protege Sheila E, and "Nothing Compares 2 U," which Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor brought to the masses ... More
Bashir's overthrow inspires Sudan graffiti artists
KHARTOUM (AFP).- With the fall of veteran leader Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's long stifled graffiti artists are finally able to express their art, painting the country's revolution in murals and portraits flourishing across Khartoum's walls. Inspired by the months-long protest movement that finally toppled Bashir on April 11, several artists are using the walls near the army headquarters as a canvas. The once-grey walls close to the complex, where thousands of protesters remain encamped, are full of large clenched fists and victory signs symbolic of the popular uprising that ended Bashir's rule. Bright murals of Sudanese flags and portraits of protest leaders have also come up near the complex. "It was unimaginable to paint any wall without a permit, let alone around the army building, but this revolution has changed everything," said Lotfy Abdel Fattah, who specialises ... More
Soweto virtuosos embrace 'white people' music
SOWETO (AFP).- Xolani Zingeni plays scales on his violin overlooking a muddy courtyard as his teenage sister washes laundry in a bathtub and his great-grandmother carefully hangs it on a washing line. "When I play it helps me to forget about the situation I am in," says the 16-year-old South African. Xolani lives a precarious life shuttling between his great-grandmother and his mother, who is addicted to "nyaope", a potent blend of cannabis and heroin. His father is not around. The routine and staying in the small grey home in Soweto is wearing for Xolani, who is the second brother of five children, all with different fathers. Classical music has been his escape for three years. He follows the path of dozens of young residents of the poor area who have taken up the violin, cello or bass at a school specifically for b ... More
In Baltimore, violins to combat violence
BALTIMORE (AFP).- As the conductor raises her baton, dozens of children come to order, and their everyday cacophonous chatting gives way to a melodic cascade of notes. The 60 or so students are part of OrchKids, a program run by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which is hoping to bring change to the troubled city through the power of music. "We are trying to combat some of the social challenges here in Baltimore," says program director Nick Skinner. One recent OrchKids concert took place just a few blocks from where Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man, was arrested in April 2015. Gray fell into a coma while in police custody and later died, and the incident sparked violent protests in Baltimore, a port city plagued by violence, drugs and crime. "Charm City" is now one of the most violent in the United States, with an average of more ... More
'Dallas' TV star Ken Kercheval dies
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Actor Ken Kercheval, who played the role of Texas oilman Cliff Barnes opposite Larry Hagman's devious J.R. Ewing on the hit TV series "Dallas," has died at age 83. A spokeswoman at Frist Funeral Home in Kercheval's hometown of Clinton, Indiana, confirmed the death to AFP and said his burial will be private. She did not provide further details. Local news reports said Kercheval died on Sunday at his home after a long illness. The actor played the role of a beleaguered oil tycoon on "Dallas," constantly having to defend himself from the scheming J.R. Ewing. He said in an interview in 2012 that he liked his character who constantly tried -- without success -- to outwit J.R. "J.R. was coming after my ass all the time, so I always had to defend myself," he said. "If I did something that wasn't quite right, it's because I had to." Both ... More
Saved for the nation: Rare naval medal of Foundling boy who served under Nelson aboard HMS Victory
LONDON.- A rare medal belonging to William South, a former pupil of the London Foundling Hospital, who served on HMS Victory under Admiral Nelson, has been acquired by the Founding Museum. A very significant addition to the collection, it is the only medal of its kind the Museum has, that relates to a foundling boys' military service in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Foundling boys served in the army and navy from 1760s onwards however, prior to this acquisition, the Museums collection of medals related to the First and Second World Wars. The acquisition was made possible with a £3,840 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, an anonymous donation and a contribution from the Museums Collection Purchase Fund. William South was born in 1787 at Downham on the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Having been abandoned at the Parish ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Eugène Delacroix was born April 26, 1798. Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school. As a painter and muralist, Delacroix's use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of colour profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists, while his passion for the exotic inspired the artists of the Symbolist movement. In this image: A man looks at the painting "Jeune tigre jouant avec sa mere" during a press visit of the exhibition "Delacroix (1798-1863)" at the Louvre Museum in Paris on March 27, 2018. The exhibition on French artist Eugene Delacroix will run from March 29 to July 23. PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP.
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