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The exhibition displays a representative selection of works from what was for Chagall a period of rapid artistic evolution and personal as well as political upheaval. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- Chagall?The Breakthrough Years, 1911?1919 brings Marc Chagall?s early oeuvre into focus. The exhibition was designed around the extraordinary ensemble of outstanding paintings by the French artist in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Im Obersteg Foundation. Marc Chagall (1887?1985) found his way as an artist as his life was torn between two different worlds: his hometown of Vitebsk in Belorussia and Paris, where he lived between 1911 and 1914. The paintings he created during this period combine recollections of Russian provincial life with iconic fragments of the cosmopolitan French capital, incorporating reminiscences of Russian folk art as well as the most recent stylistic experiments he was exposed to through his acquaintance with many of the most progressive artists, including Pablo Picasso, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Jacques Lipchitz. Key works from the Paris years on display in the exhibition include ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows tourists walking inside the Ramses II complex at the ancient Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel, some 1120 kilometres south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. The UNESCO World Heritage Site temples, originally carved out of the rocky mountainside during the reign of the 19th dynasty in the 13th century BC, were relocated to higher ground in 1968 on an artificial hill made from a domed structure to avoid being flooded during the creation of the Lake Nasser reservoir as the Aswan High Dam was being built. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP
| The Light of the Campagna: Exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle presents drawings by Claude Lorrain | | Wine about it: Disaster date ends with $1.5 mn in art ruined | | Masterpieces in focus at the Upper Belvedere: Rueland Frueauf the Elder and his Circle |
Claude Lorrain, Tiberlandschaft bei Torre del Quinto mit Blick auf den Monte Gennaro, um 1638/40. Pinsel in Braun und Dunkelbraun über schwarzer Kreide, 221 x 330 mm. London, British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings © Trustees of the British Museum.
HAMBURG.- The exhibition The Light of the Campagna presents drawings by one of the greatest European landscape artists: Claude Gellée, known as Claude Lorrain (1604/051682). This is the first large-scale show in Germany to be devoted explicitly to Lorrains drawings. Some 1,200 drawings have been identified to date as belonging to the multifaceted oeuvre of the French painter and draughtsman, who spent nearly his entire life in Rome. The exhibition features 90 remarkable pen and brush drawings from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum in London. The carefully selected works come for the most part from the prestigious collections of Sir Richard Payne Knight and the Dukes of Devonshire. Claude Lorrain developed over the course of his career an idealised ... More | |
Lindy Lou Layman mugshot. Photo: Houston Police Department.
CHICAGO (AFP).- First dates can be awkward, even nerve-wracking. But the last thing a Texas attorney expected when he went out with a freelance court reporter was that the evening would end with red wine splashed across valuable paintings in his home, including a work by pop artist Andy Warhol. Anthony Buzbee's date with Lindy Lou Layman was by any measure a disaster. The 29-year-old woman had become "heavily intoxicated" while at Buzbee's home in the city of Houston, according to a prosecutor's account in court. "(Buzbee) called for an Uber driver," but Layman went back into Buzbee's home and shouted, "I'm not leaving," the prosecutor told a judge over the weekend while Layman, appearing in an orange jail uniform, stood listening. After walking back into Buzbee's mansion, Layman poured wine on three paintings before tearing them down, and threw two abstract sculptures across the room, shattering them, according to ... More | |
Rueland Frueauf the Elder, Portrait of the painterJobst Seyfried, around 1495. Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- This exhibition at the Upper Belvedere focuses on the works of the Late Gothic painter Rueland Frueauf the Elder and his workshop. It has been organized to display the panels from Frueaufs Salzburg altarpiece following the painstaking conservation work undertaken by the Belvedere. These works are at the heart of the exhibition about the generation of artists preceding Albrecht Dürer, who are so rarely placed in the spotlight. Rueland Frueauf the Elder was probably born around 1440/50. He first lived and worked in Salzburg and later on, from the 1480s, in Passau, where he completed the painting of the town hall, taking over from the official city painter. Frueauf the Elder, who died in Passau in 1507, can be regarded as one of the greatest Late Gothic painters in the German-speaking area. At the heart of the exhibition are eight altarpiece panels by the artist. These scenes from the Passion and ... More |
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| "Mural Paintings of Huijeongdang Hall in Changdeokgung Palace" on view at the National Palace Museum of Korea | | Hitler's Nazi-parade Mercedes set for US auction | | Rare surviving examples of "tsesah" crests from Western Cameroon on view at The Met |
Haegang KIM Gyujin (1868-1933), Wonderful Views of Chongseokjeong Pavilion, 1920 (detail).
SEOUL.- Wonderful Views of Chongseokjeong Pavilion and Extraordinary Views of Manmulsang by KIM Gyujin decorated the interior of Huijeongdang Hall. Huijeongdang was one of Emperor Sunjongs residential halls in Changdeokgung Palace, also serving as his office. In 1910, after the Japanese Annexation of Korea, Emperor Sunjong lost his ruling power and Huijeongdang became an audience room where he met his family, government officials, and dignitaries. A fire broke out in the palace in November 1917, burning down all residential quarters, including Huijeongdang. The halls were then rebuilt in 1920 with materials taken from Gyeongbokgung Palace. Although the exterior maintained the traditional style, the reconstructed buildings were equipped with western facilities and interiors were also decorated in a western style. Murals were chosen, instead of traditional folding screens, to adorn the walls. The subject of Huijeongdang murals, Geumgangsan Mountain, never appeared in royal ... More | |
The imposing four-door convertible will be offered to bidders at the Worldwide Auctioneers event in Scottsdale on January 17 at the city's annual classic car event.
WASHINGTON.- A 1939 luxury Mercedes limousine used to carry Adolf Hitler around Germany will be auctioned in the US state of Arizona next month -- one of only four such models ever built. Powered by a 7.7-liter supercharged engine capable of exceeding 100 mph (160 kph), the Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser -- known to the world as the "Super Mercedes" -- was a potent propaganda symbol of the Third Reich which the Fuhrer rode standing in the front seat. Billed as "the most historically significant automobile ever offered for public sale," the imposing four-door convertible will be offered to bidders at the Worldwide Auctioneers event in Scottsdale on January 17 at the city's annual classic car event. The car -- which carried the number plate 1A 148461 -- was used to ferry Hitler on his victory parade through Berlin following the stunning defeat of France, and for a state visit by Italian fascist dictator Benito ... More | |
Crest mask (tsesah). Bamileke peoples; Grassfields region, Cameroon, 18th century. Wood, 37 x 32 1/2 x 11 1/12 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Acquisitions and Rogers Funds, and Anonymous, James J. Ross, and Marian Malcolm Gifts, 2017 (2017.35).
NEW YORK, NY.- Four monumental tsesah crests created by Bamileke master sculptors of Western Cameroon are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though only a small number of pre-colonial tsesah crests survive today, the genre has a prominent place in the repertory of sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa. The grandeur and originality of the works instantly captured the attention of art critics in the West in the early 20th century, but until this exhibition at The Met, no American museum has displayed more than one tsesah at a time. Showcasing the crests side by side, The Face of Dynasty: Royal Crests from Western Cameroon offers the visitor a rare opportunity to examine several examples of this epic royal art form, while exploring its significance, history, and development in the region starting in the early 18th ... More |
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| Stroom Den Haag opens exhibition of works by Jan Rosseel | | Intimate exhibition features works by contemporary artists from Latin America | | Exhibition of small scale oil paintings by Gedi Sibony on view at Gladstone Gallery in Brussels |
A scent dispenser. Photo: © Jan Rosseel, courtesy The Ravestijn Gallery.
THE HAGUE.- Jan Rosseel's exhibition Back-up at Stroom Den Haag is the final instalment of a triptych that started with a presentation almost a year ago at Amsterdam's De Brakke Grond and continued at Museum Dr. Guislain (Ghent, Belgium). The Stroom exhibition reflects a new maturity and deepening of the artist's themes, as well as adding a large number of new works. The presentation focuses on the relationship between history, politics and power. What do we personally remember of collective events? What makes an image iconic? Can we even forget historical events in our own times - with so many images being produced of everything that happens? And in which ways are our personal and collective memories stored for the future? Over the past five years, these questions served as a point of departure for the artistic research of photographer and visual storyteller' Jan Rosseel. This research intensified further during a fellowship at the Netherl ... More | |
Marepe, (Brazilian, b. 1970), Untitled (from the series Linda da Borda), 2014. Metal, 33 ⅞ x 26 x 7 in., Courtesy Galeria Luisa Strina.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum is presenting Everyday Poetics, a new exhibition featuring 14 contemporary artists from Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and Peru, whose work transforms everyday materials into poetic sculptures. The artists on view all use humble materials for their assemblages, sculptures, and installationsincluding dust cloths, measuring sticks, soda cans, cleaning mops, cardboard packaging, and scratch marks of lottery ticketsand repurpose them to poignant effect. In many of these works, marked by a spirit of improvisation and fragility, it is the broken or discarded leftovers that form the starting point. Through clever alterations and suggestive titles, the artists offer evocative commentaries on history, society, the environment, labor, and human nature. Everyday Poetics reveals the aesthetic and narrative possibilities of the objects of daily life that typically go unnoticed. All the w ... More | |
Gedi Sibony, Still Life with Pitcher and Green Curtain, 2017. Oil on framed oil painting, 17 3/8 x 13 5/8 x 3/8 inches (44.1 x 34.6 x 1 cm).
BRUSSELS.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting Lemons and Grapefruits, an exhibition of small scale oil paintings by Gedi Sibony, his third exhibition with the gallery in Brussels. Starting with found or secondhand store paintings that have drifted away from authorship and ownership, Sibony seeks something more in each canvas, intervening into each paintings surface. Known for his staging of cast away objects, here Sibony exercises an intimate and searching involvement using oil paint, with a sometimes light and occasionally heavy touch, to honor and regain some of the space and aspects of the paintingsboth highlighting and reconfiguring these jettisoned reflections on objects in space. Sibonys perceptive approach to placing found items in carefully considered architectural contexts is further explored with this new body of work by zeroing in on the moderate scale. Sibony pays close attention to his exhibitions methodic ... More |
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| Exhibition at Bombas Gens Centre d'Art brings together three bodies of work by Paul Graham | | Vietnam combat cameraman's Medal of Honor displayed at Smithsonian | | Janaina Tschäpe now represented by Sean Kelly |
Paul Graham, Woman with golden face, New York, 2000. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Carlier Gebauer, Berlin; Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
VALENCIA.- The private foundation Per Amor a lArt presents The Whiteness of the Whale at Bombas Gens Centre d'Art; a solo exhibition by Paul Graham (British, b. 1956) curated by Christopher McCall and organized by Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco. The exhibition brings together three bodies of work by artist made in the United States between 1998 and 2011: American Night (19982002), a shimmer of possibility (200406), and The Present (200911). These series of photographs share a common interest in analysing racial and social inequality, reflecting upon the contemporary social fabric and, at the same time, examining the nature of sight and perception as well as the photographic medium itself. The title, which refers to one of the chapters of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick (1851), alludes to the blindness of men and to the idea that obsessive search for something could lead to destruction. This ... More | |
Marine Cpl. William Thomas Perkins Jr. died at the age of 20 when he flung himself on a grenade to preserve the lives of three other Marines.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History is displaying the only Medal of Honor to be awarded to a combat photographer in the Medal of Honor Gallery of the Price of Freedom exhibition. Marine Cpl. William Thomas Perkins Jr. died at the age of 20 when he flung himself on a grenade to preserve the lives of three other Marines during Operation Medina, a Marine search and destroy operation in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, Oct. 12, 1967. The Marine Corps posthumously awarded him the Medal of Honor for his gallant actions. His mother, Marilane Perkins Jacobson of Lexington, Ky., donated the medal, her sons letters and other personal effects to the museums permanent Armed Forces Collections in 2015. Museum Advisory Board member Jeff Garrett, also of Lexington, assisted with the acquisition. I didnt want his possessions to end up in ... More | |
Portrait of Janaina Tschäpe. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly announced that the gallery now represents Janaina Tschäpe. Over the course of her twenty-plus year career, Janaina Tschäpe has been recognized for her arresting body of work that includes painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and drawing. Both cerebral and emotional, Tschäpes powerful and atmospheric work in all media possesses a confidence in scale and mastery of material that distinguishes her practice. Born to a German father and Brazilian mother, Tschäpe has been inspired by 19th-century Romantic painting and the topography of South America. Referencing interests in myth, morphology and the mysteries of aquatic states, she has developed a distinctive language of abstraction in which organic forms are imbued with a remarkable quality of luminosity. Her distinctive compositions convey a sensation of movement, their biomorphic shapes and gestural marks functioning as emotive signifiers ... More |
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New members announced for AIPAD, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers
NEW YORK, NY.- The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced the addition of five new members to the non-profit organization comprising more than 120 of the worlds leading photography art dealers. The new members are: Beetles+Huxley, London; Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, Paris Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach; IBASHO, Antwerp; and Photographica FineArt Gallery, Lugano. AIPAD, founded in 1979, remains dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest standards of scholarship and ethical practice in the business of exhibiting, buying, and selling fine art photography. We welcome these strong international dealers to AIPAD and look forward to seeing them at The Photography Show in April 2018, noted Richard Moore, President, the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), and ... More
Exhibitions at Casco deals with access, excess, and the politics of distribution
UTRECHT.- Two projects and presentations are on view at Casco this fall/winter season: Army of Love with artist Dora GarcÃa and writer Ingo Niermann and The Library of Unread Books by artist Heman Chong and producer and librarian Renée Staal. Both Army of Love and The Library of Unread Books deal with access, excess, and the politics of distribution, which make up some of the core debates for the practice of the commons. The Library of Unread Books is concerned with redistribution, wherein excess knowledge is intentionally organized into a common resource pool. Army of Love engages in a kind of predistribution, meaning that they want to stave off inequality at its outset. They do this by striving for a common language and practice of love. The project-cum-supergroup Army of Love, initiated by Ingo Niermann and further developed by Dora GarcÃa, aims ... More
Exhibition celebrates 40 years of one of the world's most successful animation studios
MELBOURNE.- The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is presenting Wallace & Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman the acclaimed exhibition celebrating 40 years of one of the worlds most successful animation studios. Best known for its extraordinary Claymation productions, Aardman is the creative force behind beloved film and TV as Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run. Wallace & Gromit and Friends: The Magic of Aardman reflects the quirky humour and idiosyncratic charm of the British studio from the sketchbooks, concept drawings and storyboards where ideas take shape, to the intricate, handmade puppets and sets that enthral audiences young and old. The exhibition boasts more than 350 objects including: original artworks; over 50 set pieces such as Wallaces Cracking Contraptions and Gromits famous vegetable ... More
George Steel named new Abrams Curator of Music at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
BOSTON, MASS.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum announced that George Steel will become the new Abrams Curator of Music, beginning in January 2018. Steel, a nationally acclaimed musician and impresario, will lead the Museums renowned music program, including the Sunday classical music series, the RISE rock, pop, hip hop concerts, and new creative initiatives in the performing arts. Steel has been the Museums Visiting Curator for Performing Arts since March 2017, designing invigorating multi-disciplinary programming ranging from chamber music, to dance, cabaret, theater, spoken word, poetry readings, Renaissance polyphony, and jazz pop-up events. In his expanded role, he will be responsible for all music programming and increased performing arts activity, as well as all public programming. His aim will be to create and produce performances ... More
Inaugural architectural commission at Powerhouse Museum announced for Sydney Design Festival
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) has announced emerging Australian architecture studio TRIAS will create the first annual Turbine Hall Commission at the Powerhouse Museum to be unveiled as part of the 20th Sydney Design Festival on 1 March 2018. The installation titled Four Periscopes will consist of four towers evocative of Sydneys skyscrapers filled with a series of periscopic mirrors suspended above the ground, inviting visitors to look up inside them, the reflections connecting people from the balconies to the ground floor, and from one tower to another. Visible from all levels of the Museum, TRIASs winning work is a playful installation intended to evoke curiosity, encourage interaction and inspire engagement. Made possible by a generous anonymous donor, this new, three-year annual commission is the first ... More
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art exhibits works by Im Heung-soon
SEOUL.- Artist Im Heung-soon (b.1969) has illuminated through various art forms and video works the lives of ordinary people who were alienated and sacrificed in the course of the modern history of Korea. At the 2015 Venice Biennale, Im won the Silver Lion for Factory Complex, a feature-length documentary that highlights the realities faced by women workers who led the extraordinary development of the Korean economy but were alienated from the result, raising issues regarding the meaning and value of the socially marginalized in the global art world. This exhibition Things that Do Us Part takes a look at the ideology of division established throughout Korean history, from the independent movement against the Japanese colonial rule to the Korean War, how the ideology took root in our unconsciousness deeply like a ghost, and how it destroyed the everyday ... More
Karma International opens new space in Zurich with Meret Oppenheim
ZURICH.- Karma International opened a new gallery space with a first time exhibition of the work of Meret Oppenheim. For the new space in Zurich, Karma International worked with the award-winning architects Caruso St John. The firm is known for their expertise in gallery architecture, exemplified by influential museum buildings such as Londons New Port Street Gallery, the Tate Britain, and Nottingham Contemporary. As Marina Olsen & Karolina Dankow state: «We believe that it is part of our duty to offer a space where the relationship between art and architecture can thrive». The new gallery is located in Zurichs Kreis 3, a creative and vibrant neighbourhood where many artists live and work and a number of creative spaces and businesses are settling. Meret Oppenheims first exhibition at Karma International consists of works on paper ranging from ink and pencil drawings ... More
Galerie Fons Welters exhibits works by Evelyn Taocheng Wang
AMSTERDAM.- In Evelyn Taocheng Wangs second solo show at Galerie Fons Welters, the artist creates an atmosphere which brings you into the Four Season of Women Tragedy. The exhibition title refers to the phases which are characteristic to womanhood, according to Wangs fantasies. The stable cycle of the four seasons becomes a metaphor for female life, in which small moments of tragedy occur. For Wang, tragedy cannot only be found in the great sensational and antique connotation of the notion, but rather in small, personal moments. In the exhibition, the garments play the leading role and each garment has an individual story. Without exception, all the clothes are from theby Wang highly admiredFrench fashion brand Agnès B. The pieces come from Wang's own wardrobe, which brings a tangible intimacy. It is almost as if ... More
Renowned Israeli writer Ronit Matalon dies at 58
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Renowned novelist Ronit Matalon, known for her explorations of Israeli society, died Thursday at the age of 58 after battling cancer, media reports and officials said. President Reuven Rivlin mourned her death and called her a "marvellous author whose original and determined voice contributed to Israeli culture". Matalon's work has been translated into several languages, including English and French. Born in Israel in 1959 to a family of Egyptian origin, she worked as a journalist for Israeli newspaper Haaretz and was also known for her criticism of her country's occupation of the West Bank. She won a number of awards, including Israel's prestigious Bernstein Prize in 2009 for her novel "The Sound of Our Steps". The semi-autobiographical book told of the difficulties of a Jewish family from Egypt seeking to integrate into Israeli society. ... More
Jordanian graffiti artists brighten Amman's drab streets
AMMAN (AFP).- Dreadlocked university student Suhaib Attar clutches a can of spray paint as he sets to work on the latest gloomy corner of Jordan's capital that he has turned into his canvas. The leading light of a tiny group of graffiti artists, the 25-year-old is on a mission -- daubing flowers, faces and patterns across Amman to bring more colour to the lives of its four million inhabitants. "Our city is beautiful but it needs to be brightened up," Attar tells AFP. The aim is to "transform these great big walls of dull concrete into an expressive painting that is full of life," he says. Built on seven hills that give their names to the main districts, Amman has been home to a small graffiti community for some years. And while they may number fewer than 10, the artists have been busy. Their eye-catching designs have begun ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros was born December 29, 2017. David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua - January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." In this image: Unfinished 1940s mural painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros, in Escuela de Bellas Artes, a cultural center in San Miguel de Allende, Gto.
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