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Pioneers of the Comic Strip. A different Avant-Garde © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- Spectacular, large and colorful this is how comic strips captivated their audience, beginning back in 1897. The middle classes, working classes, and a host of immigrants were equally fascinated by the unfamiliar visual experience they encountered in American newspapers. From June 23 to September 18, 2016, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first extensive thematic exhibition on the Pioneers of the Comic Strip, whoprogressive and eager to experimentset the artistic and content-related standards of the early comic strips. The exhibition features six outstanding, primarily American illustrators who shaped the cultural history of the comic strip: Winsor McCay, Lyonel Feininger, Charles Forbell, Cliff Sterrett, George Herriman, and Frank King. Unforgotten are Herrimans absurd humor in Krazy Kat (from 1913), the Surrealist and Expressionist visual worlds of McCay (from 1904) and Sterrett (f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Elvis Presley's limited edition Gibson EJ-200E guitar is displayed at a media preview June 22, 2016 at Heritage Auctions in Beverly Hills, California. The item is one of many items up for auction which will run June 24-25, 2016. Tommaso Boddi / AFP
| Exhibiton of ground-breaking prints from British Museum opens in Liverpool | | Sotheby's London Old Masters Evening sale to offer masterworks by Panini and Vernet | | 60 of Jim Dine's fascinating self-portraits on view at the Albertina in Vienna |
Jaqueline Reading complete © Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2016.
LIVERPOOL.- Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum goes on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight from 24 June 2016 to 8 January 2017 The Still Life under the Lamp and the Jacqueline Reading series from the British Museum collection (acquired with the support of the Art Fund) are displayed for the first time outside the Museum in this wonderfully bold and colourful exhibition. The exhibition, which also features prints from the Nude Woman at the Spring set, reveals the progressive stages of linocutting that Picasso developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum highlights a particularly prodigious period in the artists life. Picasso had made prints throughout his long career more than 2,500 principally in etching, lithography and linocut. His earliest linocut is from 1939, but his major period of working in this medium was from ... More | |
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Rome, a view of the Forum looking towards the Capitol, 1751 (detail). Oil on canvas, 57.8 x 94 cm, est. £1-1.5 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- It is hard to imagine a place richer in artistic influence than Rome in the 1750s. With its glorious monuments from Antiquity, masterpieces of the Renaissance and the Baroque, and a rarefied and international contemporary art scene, artists travelled from far and wide to be stimulated by this magnetic cauldron of art. The most successful of them were commissioned to record the favourite places of Grand tourists and other foreign visitors. Such was the case for Claude Joseph Vernet who arrived in Rome in 1734 and who, with the leading local Roman painter of the time Giovanni Paolo Panini, would harness the citys past and present, and together propel the art of landscape painting into a new era. Sothebys London Old Masters Evening sale on 6 July 2016 will present masterworks by ... More | |
Jim Dine, Self-Portrait with a Hat, 1991. Albertina, Vienna © 2016 Jim Dine | ARS, NY | Bildrecht, Vienna.
VIENNA.- The Albertina is showing 60 of Jim Dines fascinating self-portraits, a representative selection from the 80-year-old artists generous donation to the museum that presents him in a great number of his many facets. This group of works makes possible an independent, intense, and surprising dialogue with the artist and his output. Here, Dines diverse experiments with a wide range of techniques and materials address themes including youth and old age, intimacy and extroversion, and seriality, and creativity on paper. And not insignificantly, these selfportraits open up new insights into a supposedly familiar oeuvre. Due to the way in which his work has been widely interpreted, Jim Dine ranks alongside figures such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as one of the celebrated stars of American pop art. Upon his arrival in New York in 1958, Dine ... More |
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| Sotheby's appoints Benjamin Doller as Chairman, Americas | | The Pierre Lassonde Pavilion opens its doors on the Grande Allé | | New milestone in rebuilding of NY's World Trade Center |
Benjamin joined Sothebys in 1979, and in his more than 35 years with the Company has been pivotal in sourcing and selling well over $2 billion in art. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys today announced that Benjamin Doller, currently Vice Chairman of Sothebys Americas, has been promoted to serve as a Chairman of Sothebys Americas, effective immediately. Benjamin joined Sothebys in 1979, and in his more than 35 years with the Company has been pivotal in sourcing and selling well over $2 billion in art. Since becoming Vice Chairman in 2006 he has concentrated on deal-making at the highest levels, with a particular focus on Impressionist & Modern Art as well as 19thCentury European Paintings, having previously led that department on a global level. Benjamin has also proven a key player in the Companys private sales, including the fabled Forbes Collection of Fabergé. In his new position, Benjamin Doller will continue to play a major role in sourcing and selling ... More | |
MNBAQ Boutique. Photography by Bruce Damonte.
QUEBEC CITY.- The largest cultural project in Québec, the Pierre Lassonde pavilion of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, is opening its doors on the Grande Allée in Québec City tomorrow, June 24. Resolutely turned towards the future, the new world-class building, the fourth pavilion in the museum complex, designed by the architectural consortium OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) of New York and Provencher_Roy of Montréal, will transform the venerable eighty-three-year-old institution by bringing together like never before urban life in Québec City and the picturesque landscape of National Battlefields Park. The new building, 14,900 square metres in surface area, enables the MNBAQ to double its exhibition space and will serve as a light-filled and contemporary gateway to the museum complex, which previously included three pavilions, in addition to providing it with larger spaces for presenting its collections and letting the art ... More | |
A view of 3 World Trade Center before a topping off ceremony for 3 World Trade Center, June 23, 2016 in New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The newest skyscraper in New York's World Trade Center complex was topped off with a final bucket of concrete Thursday as several hundred people looked on, at a ceremony highlighting the area's rebirth nearly 15 years after the 9/11 attacks. The 80-story 3 World Trade Center, which is located next to the new WTC rail station opened in March and across from the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, is now at its full height of 1,079 feet (329 meters). The tower, which was designed by Richard Rogers and has a glass facade, will be fully completed next year and should have its first tenants in 2018. There are now several skyscrapers replacing the Twin Towers destroyed on September 11, 2001. One World Trade Center is the main building, and the tallest in the United States at 1,776 feet. 4 and 7 World Trade Center are completed and occupied. Two others ... More |
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| University of Minnesota Press publishes "René Magritte: Selected Writings" | | Rare collection of artworks, ephemera, and personal correspondence by Richard Prince on view in Los Angeles | | MoMA announces the first major museum survey in New York of Louise Lawler |
An indispensable literary complement to the paintings of René Magrittethe first collected in a single volume.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Available for the first time in an English translation, this selection of René Magrittes writings gives non-Francophone readers the chance to encounter the many incarnations of the renowned Belgian painterthe artist, the man, the aspiring noirist, the fire-breathing theoristin his own words. Through whimsical personal letters, biting apologia, appreciations of fellow artists, pugnacious interviews, farcical film scripts, prose poems, manifestos, and much more, a new Magritte emerges: part Surrealist, part literalist, part celebrity, part rascal. While this book is sure to appeal to admirers of Magrittes art and those who are curious about his personal life, there is also much to delight readers interested in the history and theory of art, philosophy and politics, as well as lovers of creativity and the inner workings of a probing, inquisitive mind unrestricted by genre, med ... More | |
Richard Princes leather Jacket.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture is presenting a rare collection of artworks, ephemera, and personal correspondence by artist Richard Prince. This private collection was assembled by New York writer and producer Douglas Blair Turnbaugh. The archive dates to the artist's earliest and most formative years (1977-1988) and offers an intimate glimpse into the unique relationship and confidential rapport shared by this influential artist and his devoted early patron. In Turnbaugh's own words: "Some of the pieces in this collection may at first glance be seen merely as common objects. But Richard is a master prankster, provocateur, poet, alchemist, prestidigitator he can transform a material object, without altering its physicality, into an idea, into art, into an icon." Richard Prince: The Douglas Blair Turnbaugh Collection (1977-1988) features notable highlights from the collection, offering visitors a museum-like experience. ... More | |
Louise Lawler. Marie +270. 2010/2012. Chromogenic color print, 59 x 45 ½ (149.9 x 115.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift of Ricki Gail Conway. © 2016 Louise Lawler.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, the first major survey in New York of the artist Louise Lawler (American, b. 1947). Spanning the 40-year creative output of one of the most influential artists working in the fields of image production and institutional critique, the exhibition will be on view from April 30 to July 30, 2017, in The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor, along with one sound work, Birdcalls (1972-81), which will be installed in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. The exhibition takes its title from one of Lawlers most iconic works, Why Pictures Now (1982), a black-and-white photograph showing a matchbook propped up in an ashtray. Reminiscent of an advertising photograph or a film noir still, it asks the viewer to consider why the work takes ... More |
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| Bozar presents a survey of the artistic trends that flourished in Europe after the Second World War | | Nairy Baghramian presents first major solo exhibition in London since Serpentine Gallery in 2010 | | Hake's pop culture auction offers rare political memorabilia, elusive toy robots, 3,000+ comic books and more |
Fernand Léger, Builders with Aloe, 1951 (detail). The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. © SABAM Belgium 2016.
BRUSSELS.- For the first time, in cooperation with the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, BOZAR presents a survey of the artistic trends that flourished in Eastern and Western Europe after the Second World War. Despite the political tensions and the background of the Cold War, artists on both sides of the Iron Curtain experimented with similar art forms such as media art, action painting, conceptual art, and sound art. Facing the Future: Art in Europe 194568 sheds light on a vibrant period in the recent history of art via 200 works by 150 artists from 18 European countries, including the former Soviet Union. This exceptionally wide-ranging overview includes key works by, among others, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jean Fautrier, Jean Dubuffet, Max Beckmann, Hannah Höch, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Vladimir Tatlin, Ossip Zadkine, Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wróblewski, ... More | |
Inside the head, Baghramian's sculptures plot spatial coordinates also indicated in their titles, and manifest as a proliferation of organic, marble-dusted, white forms braced by polished metal armatures.
LONDON.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Nairy Baghramian - the artist's first presentation with the gallery and her first major solo show in London since The Walker's Day Off at the Serpentine Gallery in 2010. Scruff of the Neck comprises a group of amorphous sculptures unified here in a site-responsive constellation. Baghramian elucidates that the departure point for the exhibition was to imagine negotiating the space as if you could enter it from the back of a head. Instead of privileging the front opening, the orifice that everyone uses socially a hierarchy repeated in the architectural idea of the façade as a face, she wants us to take a more ambiguous route, coming in from behind. Hence her idiomatic title, which refers not simply to the neck, but also to the vulnerable folds of skin one finds there; a tender part of the body also redolent with the idea ... More | |
1967 Yonezawa Conehead Robot with extraordinarily rare original box, est. $5,000-$20,000. All images courtesy of Hakes Americana.
YORK, PA.- Hakes Americana has had its finger on the pulse of pop culture since 1967, when it innovatively merged the auction format with nostalgic and historically important memorabilia. For nearly half a century, the Hakes team has continuously monitored the market and brought the best of pop-culture collectibles to buyers through their online, phone and absentee sales. Their ability to access top-notch consignments from long-held private collections comes into focus once again in Hakes Auction #218, which closes for bidding July 12-14. More than 2,800 lots are included in the sale, with 200+ categories represented. The main spotlight will shine on the selection of more than 500 political items, a specialty that has been a hallmark of Hakes events since the companys beginning. The centerpiece of the grouping is Lot 15, an 11 by 17-inch 1860 campaign parade flag promoting the presidential and vice-presidential ... More |
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Final results: The Private Collection of Joan Rivers realizes $2,495,250, selling 96% by lot
NEW YORK, NY.- The live and online only auctions of The Private Collection of Joan Rivers realized a combined $2,495,250, concluding on June 23, 2016, selling 281 out of a total of 294 lots. Melissa Rivers remarked: This auction was an important testament to my mothers legacy. Im delighted that the many works of art in her collection sold at Christies found new homes across the world, and my sincere wish is that the things she loved will be cherished for years to come. She would have been touched, as I have been, by the love and support expressed by her fans. Gemma Sudlow, Head of Department, Private & Iconic Sales, Christies Americas, continued: We are honored to have been entrusted with the Private Collection of the great Joan Rivers. The tremendous success of this sale speaks to her legacy as both a pioneering comedienne and a passionate collector. ... More
"Lines and Curves" by Natasha Law opens at Eleven
LONDON.- Eleven presents new works by Natasha Law in Lines and Curves. She explores the space around the silhouette and the shapes held within each form. Examining angles and viewpoints that reduce the figure to fundamental shapes, the simplified forms become as much about the areas of flat colour as about the actual figure they constitute. This new series is realised through a range of media including paintings on aluminium, board, paper and collage. The range of surfaces acts as an important instrument for her exploration of shapes, texture and line through her application of household gloss paint which creates the lustrous surface which has become part of her unique style. She introduces collage elements into her paintings on paper. Through extricating shapes from the figure, she then lays them on top in a new layer of paint of paper which emphasises ... More
Sunny Side Up! Group exhibition opens at Rook & Raven
LONDON.- In an age where we spend a significant amount of time in front of digital devices replicating form and depth, Sunny Side Up! questions the relationship between sculpture and painting and the blurring distinction between the 2-dimentional and 3-dimentional. This exhibition brings together the work of Scarlett Bowman Luey Graves, Paloma Proudfoot, Kate Terry and Vivien Zhang The repetition in Vivien Zhangs work serves to emphasise specific objects and images of significance examples include the mathematical shape gömböc, African furniture from her childhood home, and Swiss artist Johannes Ittens designated shape to the colour green. The juxtaposition and layering of motifs in Zhangs work often follow algorithms found in digital imaging tools a process by-product of our ways of reading and engagement with visual material today. New hierarchies and ... More
An Arrival Tale: An exhibition by Mario GarcÃa Torres on view at TBA21-Augarten in Vienna
VIENNA.- Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary is presenting An Arrival Tale, an exhibition by Mario GarcÃa Torres at TBA21Augarten in Vienna. Storytelling, reenactment, and reportage are some of the strategies that Mario GarcÃa Torres deploys to uncover (hidden) histories, narratives, and strategies embedded in archives, sites, and places and thereby to highlight the limitations of factual evidence and the agency of historical records and objects. An Arrival Tale uses a conceptual gesture that detaches the works by the artist in the TBA21 Collection from their original contexts and descriptions and offers them as a collection of stories and artistic experiments open for reinscription thereby addressing the contemporary conditions and urgencies of our societies. An Arrival Tale is an exhibition that pretends to use a number of my works from the TBA21 Collection ... More
Two million dollar gift for the Audain Art Museum
VANCOUVER.- Montreal businessman and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky and his wife Gail through the Jarislowsky Foundation have established a $2 million endowment to support the Chief Curator position at Whistlers Audain Art Museum. Darrin Martens will now be known as the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chief Curator. Mr. Martens has been with the Museum for just over a year, and was previously the Director/Curator of the Burnaby Art Gallery and the Nisgaa Museum. The Jarislowskys have done so much to support arts and culture throughout Canada, so it is wonderful that they decided to endow this position which will allow us to pursue excellent curatorial programs at our Museum, says chairman Michael Audain. We are very grateful for this gift which brings the endowment fund over half way to our $25 million goal. Stephen and Gail have endowed ... More
Koekkoek masterpiece debuts in Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Consigned from a private North Carolina family collection, Winter landscape with wood gatherers and skaters, 1854" a masterpiece by Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (est: $150,000-$250,000) leads Heritage Auctions' European Art auction June 24 in Dallas. The auction offers 14 works on paper, including four by the noted French artist Paul Signac. Signac's Le secret d'Amour, was exhibited in the famed 1903 Paris, Salon, as a classic example of the artist's well-known themes of beautiful women, ravishing nymphs, and cavorting putti that was powerfully influenced by the example of William Bouguereau, the preeminent French Academic painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century (st. $50,000-$70,000). Le port de Paimpol, 1924, - also by Signac is a delightful watercolor and pencil on paper appears at Heritage from a private Dallas collection for the first ... More
Imran Qureshi unveils his largest outdoor commission in Bradford
BRADFORD.- Award-winning Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has transformed Bradford's Lister Park and City Park with his biggest and most ambitious outdoor commission to date, Garden Within a Garden. Inspired by the million-strong British Indian army that fought in the First World War, Garden Within a Garden has been co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UKs arts programme for the First World War centenary, Bradford Council and Yorkshire Festival 2016. This major new work has been created with acrylic paints applied directly onto paving in City Park and the Mughal Water Gardens next to Cartwright Hall in Lister Park. It is inspired by, and reflects upon, the history of the Indian Army of over one million soldiers that fought alongside the British Army in the First World War. Imran Qureshi lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan, a region that, as part of the British Raj, enlisted a huge ... More
Celebrate Babe Ruth's life at the National Portrait Gallery
WASHINGTON, DC.- Known as the Big Bam, the Caliph of Clout, the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat and the Babe, George Herman Ruth is an American legend whose name is synonymous with extraordinary prowess and achievement. The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery will explore the man, the legend and the portrayal of one of the greatest immortals of sports through the exhibition One Life: Babe Ruth, running from June 24 through May 15, 2017. Ruth was arguably the most portrayed American baseball player from the beginning of his professional career in the major leagues, in 1914, to his death in 1948. No President, Hollywood star or athlete enjoyed the limelight for as long as Ruth. In one news column or another, he appeared in the papers every week. This exhibition examines Ruth as a baseball legend, along with the marketing frenzy his name and image ... More
Bonhams Fine Watch Sale ticks all the boxes
LONDON.- Rare Patek Philippe wristwatches stole the show at Bonhams 22 June Fine Watch sale, with the top five lots of the auction coming from the luxury Swiss auction house. Jonathans Darracott, Bonhams Global Head of Watches, said: The sale saw strong interest across the board. Some exceptional prices achieved, with fifty per cent of the top ten lots from Patek Philippe, and world record prices from other brands. Well priced, the auction attracted competitive bidding, to achieve an excellent sale total of £2.2 million. The top lot of the sale was a classic Patek Philippe masterpiece, uniting the finest diamonds with Swiss watchmaking prowess. Won by a telephone bidder, the platinum manual wind perpetual calendar chronograph wristwatch, ref: 5971P, complete with moon phase, sold for £134,500. The remaining lots from Patek Philippe successfully sold for prices ... More
A wide range of Christoph von Weyhe's large-scale gouaches on view at Galerie Azzedine Alaïa
PARIS.- Azzedine Alaïa presents to the public the exhibition Christoph von Weyhe, Au silence, featuring, from June 23rd to August 7th, a wide range of the artists large-scale gouaches. This is his first major monographic exhibition. Christoph von Weyhe was born in 1937 in Halle (saale). He lives and works in Paris and Hamburg. After graduating from the Ãcole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1961, he began to work with feather, in order to seize the image of his dream-like landscapes. For thirty-five years, he has been returning to the place where he grew up the Hamburg harbour and transcribing it into painting. Christoph von Weyhe first captures the instant with gouache, and then works on reinventing his initial sensation for months, and even years. Most of the gouaches have never been shown, and are being presented for the first time: they are works ... More
Art Antiques London returns to Kensington Gardens
LONDON.- For the seventh consecutive year, Art Antiques London returns to Kensington Gardens, London SW7 from Friday 24th to Thursday 30th June 2016. Organised by the London-based fair organisers, Anna and Brian Haughton, the fair takes place in an imposing purpose-built pavilion at Albert Memorial West Lawn, Kensington Gardens, London SW7, directly opposite the Royal Albert Hall. Launched in 2010, the fair is respected for its commitment to the highest standards and provides the perfect setting for 60 international specialist dealers offering the very best antiques, fine and decorative arts available. This year's exhibitors come from the USA, Israel, Belgium, France, The Netherlands and the UK and will show a mixture of furniture, silver, jewellery, sculpture, antique pottery and porcelain, paintings, Chinese and Japanese works of art and textiles, clocks, books, maps, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo died June 24, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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