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An icon of French Academic painting and the largest work of William Bouguereaus career is estimated to achieve $25/35 Million this May in New York. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that the most important work of French Academic painter William-Adolphe Bouguereaus celebrated career, La Jeunesse de Bacchus, will highlight its Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in New York on 14 May. Equally impressive in both scale and technical artistry, the monumental canvas stands an astounding 20 feet in length and 11 feet in height. The work has hung in Bouguereau's studio in Paris since it was completed in 1884 - the culmination of two years of work - and has previously left only three times in its 135-year history: when initially presented at the Salon in 1884, followed by exhibitions in London and Antwerp through 1885, for the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889, and as part of a retrospective touring the Musée du Petit-Palais in Paris, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford in 1984-85. On offer this spring by the direct descendants of the artist, L ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown photographs of the royal family's previous visits as Science Museum Director Ian Blatchford (R) looks on during a visit to the Science Museum in London on March 7, 2019. SIMON DAWSON / POOL / AFP
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| | | The Reiner Winkler Collection joins the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung | | Visionary artist Carolee Schneemann passes away | | Kimbell Art Museum acquires significant painting by Anne Vallayer-Coster | 
Joachim Henne (16291707), The Three Parcae, around 1670. Ivory H. 18,7 cm, Bottom plate: H. 11,6 cm, W. 9,8 cm Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Reiner Winkler Collection. Photo: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.
FRANKFURT.- The Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung is to be enriched by a magnificent addition: The Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Städelscher Museums-Verein, and the Städel Museum, with the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Hessische Kulturstiftung, have acquired for the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung a collection of over 200 valuable ivory sculptures owned by Reiner Winkler. With this acquisition, which was made possible through the generous gift of a large part of the collection by Reiner Winkler, the Liebieghaus has achieved the most important expansion of its own holdings in the history of the museum. From 27 March 2019, some 190 artworks will be shown on view in the exhibition White Wedding. The Ivory Collection of Reiner Winkler Now in the Liebieghaus. Forever. The ivory works from the Middle Ages and the Baroque ... More | | 
Carolee Schneemann photographed in her home in New Paltz, NY, August 1996 © Joan Barker.
NEW YORK, NY.- P.P.O.W, Galerie Lelong, Hales Gallery, and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation are deeply saddened to announce that Carolee Schneemann, the visionary artist and generous friend, passed away peacefully on March 6, 2019 in her beloved home surrounded by her art family and friends. Schneemann was one of the most significant artists of the postwar period. From her canvases of the 1950s, Schneemann radicalized painting, extending its tactile activity its materials, its gestures, its energetics into a range of media, including collages, assemblages, dance and performances, films, multi-media installations, and environments of what she called Kinetic Theater. In Meat Joy from 1964, one of Schneemanns most well-known works of Kinetic Theater, painting becomes an hour-long erotic rite with its celebration of flesh as material. As she describes, its propulsion is toward the ecstatic, shifting and turning between tenderness, ... More | | 
Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Mackerel, 1787 (detail). Oil on canvas, 19 ½ x 24 in. (61 x 49.5 cm). Kimbell Art Museum, Gift of Sid R. Bass in honor of Kay and Ben Fortson
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Kimbell Art Museum announced today the acquisition of Anne Vallayer-Coster's 1787 painting Still Life with Mackerel. This striking work is among the most beautiful and innovative by one of the foremost still-life painters of 18th-century France. Vallayer-Coster (1744--1818) was esteemed for the vigor of her compositions, her magical ability to imitate nature, her fluid and varied brushwork and her remarkable skills as a colorist. The painting is a gift from Sid R. Bass in honor of Kay and Ben Fortson, long-time leaders of the Kimbell Art Foundation's board of directors. Still Life with Mackerel is on view tomorrow, March 8, in celebration of International Women's Day, in the Kimbell's Louis I. Kahn Building. Admission to view the museum's collection is always free. "Anne Vallayer-Coster is one of the very few female artists who managed to negotiate the powerful authority of the Royal Academy ... More |
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| | | Two works by Phyllida Barlow donated to Leeds Art Gallery | | Minneapolis Institute of Art acquires 230 Japanese textiles and objects from collector Thomas Murray | | Box Galleries opens exhibition of works by Terry ONeill | 
Phyllida Barlow, untitled: venicecolumns, 2016-17. Photo: Alex Delfanne.
LEEDS.- The Contemporary Art Society and Henry Moore Foundation have formed a new special partnership, generously supported by Cathy Wills, to donate contemporary sculpture to museums in the UK. The initial four-year scheme will support Yorkshire as the UK centre of sculpture, with The Hepworth Wakefield and Leeds Art Gallery receiving a major work by a living artist each year. This year two works by Phyllida Barlow CBE RA have been acquired for Leeds Art Gallery and will go on display between 9 March 29 September 2019. Hold, 1983-6 is a glass form wrapped in canvas, then soaked in black bitumen and acquaseal rubber. It is a relatively early example of a tendency towards the use of household materials and ad-hoc processes that would emerge on a monumental scale later in her career, including through the Tate Britain commission dock in 2014, screestage (2013) shown in The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture at ... More | | 
Red, blue, and white kaparamip robe, first half 19th century. Cloth: cotton; cotton appliqué and embroidery. The John R. Van Derlip Fund and the Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art today announced the acquisition of an important collection of Japanese textiles in a partial gift/partial purchase from Thomas Murray, independent researcher and expert collector of Asian and Tribal art. The collection features traditional Japanese clothing and fabrics made for home, work, and festival celebrations between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. A kaleidoscope of materials and designs, the acquisition includes exceptionally rare, brightly colored bingata and ikat kimonos and wrapping cloths made of wild banana fiber from subtropical Okinawa, delicately patterned Mingei (folk art) costumes and textiles used by farmers and fishermen from Japans largest and most populous islands of Honshu and Kyushu, and boldly patterned garments ... More | | 
Frank Sinatra, Miami Beach, 1968.
LONDON.- World-renowned photographer Terry ONeill is exhibiting a collection of 20 iconic images spanning his 60-year career, in celebration of his 81st Birthday. Unrivalled in skill and artistic prolificity, ONeill has made a significant contribution to the Western art scene, capturing the worlds most loved, most celebrated, most notorious and most sorely mourned celebrities over the past decades. He has immortalised these venerated individuals, from David Bowie and Elton John to Amy Winehouse, Frank Sinatra and Elvis, the Queen to Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela to Tony Blair, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and every James Bond, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig. STARSTRUCK launches a brand-new photograph from ONeills vast archive of famous faces, never before seen: a portrait of Frank Sinatra, titled, Frank Sinatra, Miami Beach, 1968 (colour). Historically, ONeill has cited Sinatra as the perfect sitter, and his relationship with the star has afforded ... More |
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| | | Exhibition devoted to the professional commitment and talent of women in Italy opens at Palazzo Pitti | | Simon Lee Gallery opens exhibition of new and historical work by Japanese conceptual artist Keiji Uematsu | | Museums add time-based media to their collections | 
Fausto Zonaro (Masi 1854 Sanremo 1929), My Wife Elisa, 1904. Oil on canvas, Zonaro heirs, Florence.
FLORENCE.- This year the Gallerie degil Uffizi is celebrating International Women's Day with an exhibition devoted to the professional commitment and talent of women in Italy from the late 19th and to the early 20th centuries. The time frame chosen starts and ends with two very specific events: women joining the Fratellanza Artigianale or Artisans' Brotherhood in 1861, and Grazia Deledda winning the Nobel Prize for her novel Canes in the Wind in 1926. These two symbolic dates mark the story of the redemption of women's image and public role in the aftermath of the unification of Italy. Works of art, photographs and objects illustrate the various forms of work performed by women, describing often unacknowledged energies and resources. Peasant women, for example, involved in farm work linked to the cycle of the seasons, had to take care of the animals on the farm, but when resting from the toughest jobs they would keep busy by mending, knitting or weaving straw, as we can see ... More | | 
Keiji Uematsu, Invisible Axis - Distance and Angle, 2017. Copper, stone, stainless steel wire, vice. Dimensions variable Copper: 78 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 1/2 in. Stone: 15 x 19 3/4 x 17 3/8 in. Image courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Simon Lee Gallery, New York, opened Invisible Force, an exhibition of new and historical work by Japanese conceptual artist, Keiji Uematsu, his first ever solo presentation in the United States. Uematsus multidisciplinary practice strives to illuminate the invisible relationships between objects and the spaces they inhabit. For more than five decades the artist has carried out the terms of a rigorous manifesto that spotlights the de-familiarization of space and draws his viewers attention to the interplay of such natural forces as gravity, tension and material attraction through media including photography, drawing and sculptural installation. He writes, what I want to do is to make visible existence, visible connections and visible relations appear more clearly. And to cause non-visible existence, non- ... More | | 
James Welling, Seascape, 2017 (detail). Colorized 16mm film transferred to digital video. Purchased jointly by the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and the Portland Museum of Art. © James Welling. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art announced the addition of James Wellings Seascape to their collections. The artwork is co-purchased by both institutions and will make its debut in Maine at OMAA as part of the exhibition Shorelines: Coastal Sightings in American Art, on view May 1, 2019, through July 8, 2019. The purchase marks the first joint acquisition between the two institutions and is the first work in film to be represented in either collection. Seascape is a color film installation that exhibits moving pictures of the sea and surrounding coastline accompanied by an original composition of sound. The artwork was first screened at the Kunstforum Wien in Vienna, Austria, during the artists solo exhibition in 2017. Based in New York City, James Welling (born 1951) has ... More |
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| | | bo.lee gallery opens a solo exhibition of new works by British artist Andrew McIntosh | | South London Gallery exhibits new and recent works by South Korean artist Haegue Yang | | Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education opens exhibition of works by Mel Bochner | 
Andrew McIntosh, Seven Circles, 2019. Oil on linen, 76 x 71 cm. Courtesy of Andrew Macintosh.
LONDON.- bo.lee gallery is presenting I Saw This Coming, a solo exhibition of new works by British artist Andrew McIntosh. In this new body of work, McIntosh re-contextualises derelict buildings in South East London and the surrounding areas while drawing on his ongoing interest in the political dispute between artists and the inevitable developments of the property market. The seemingly neglected facades depicted in this series of paintings gesture towards abandoned interiors, absent of life. Within each of the 8 works, McIntosh offers the viewer an imaginary cross-section of part of the building, inviting us to gaze voyeuristically into a room. These exposed interior spaces manifest as brightly painted, surreal environments, seemingly at odds with their mundane locale. Within, McIntosh presents the viewer with an enigmatic pairing of objects. A work of art recognisably pertaining to the modernist canon is seen alongside ... More | | 
Installation view of Haegue Yang: Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow, La Triennale di Milano, Italy, 2018. Photo: Masiar Pasquali. Courtesy: Fondazione Furla and La Triennale di Milano.
LONDON.- A new solo exhibition Tracing Movement combines new and recent works born of acclaimed South Korean artist Haegue Yangs ongoing exploration into ideas around identity politics and migration, alienation and difference. Her choice of materials is similarly wide-ranging, often integrating industrially manufactured with crafted items, revealing otherwise overlooked juxtapositions and coexistences through her own, very particular sensibility. Acts of tracing, from perceiving the physical terrain of spaces to revisiting obscured voices in history, provide the defining thread between the works in this sensorially charged show, some of which add to series developed over many years, while others are site-specific pieces. Inspired by the potential of the South London Gallerys elegant Victorian exhibition space to be a ballroom, ... More | | 
Blah Blah Blah, 2014, monoprint with collage, engraving and embossment on hand-dyed Twinrocker handmade paper, 92 x 76 1/2 inches. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer.
PORTLAND, ORE.- Mel Bochner - Enough Said From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundations brings together a body of recent works, 2007-2018, that challenge audiences to reflect on the nature and structure of everyday language. Curated by Bruce Guenther, Adjunct Curator for Special Exhibitions, the exhibition explores language as image and idea through Bochners long-held interest in complex printmaking techniques. Bruce Guenther observed, Bochner's historic use of language and words as both a linguistic system of inquiry and as a formal visual vocabulary of his painting practice has found new focus in the last decade through the artists intense engagement with printmaking and his exploration of the relationships of words as image, text, voice, and thinking. ... More |
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 New York State Museum adds new artworks to contemporary Native American art collectionALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum today announced the addition of 14 new artworks to its contemporary Native American art collection. Building on an initiative launched in 1986 and now numbering more than 160 artworks, the contemporary Native American art collection is an impressive assemblage of work showcasing the breadth of Native artistic skills and craftsmanship. In accordance with the mission of the collection, each artist is a citizen of an Indigenous nation whose ancestral lands are located in what is now New York State. The artists and their work include: 1687 War, acrylic on paper, by Peter Jemison (Seneca) Quilled leather pouch and knife sheath, 17th century replica, by Jamie Jacobs (Tonawanda Seneca) Dan Nanamkin at Standing Rock, from the series We Are Still Here, photograph print by Camille Seaman ... More Only western Canadian stop of acclaimed Rebecca Belmore retrospective on view at Remai Modern SASKATOON.- After debuting to critical and visitor acclaim at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2018, the ground-breaking retrospective Rebecca Belmore: Facing the Monumental, is on view at Remai Modern. Remai Modern was conceived as a gathering place for conversation, contemplation and debate about the important issues of our time. We invite audiences to engage with the urgent themes in Belmores workincluding Indigenous sovereignty, water and land rights, state violence and womens lives and dignity said Gregory Burke, Remai Moderns Executive Director & CEO. Facing the Monumental is a timely exhibition, and the discussions it will catalyze are of critical importance here and now in Saskatoon. On view in the Feature and Marquee galleries from February 1-May 5, 2019, the exhibition surveys Belmores more than 30-year career and includes ... More Oskar Schindler's watch among personal possessions sold for more than $46,000 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A remarkable collection of Oskar Schindler's personal possessions sold for $46,303 according to Boston-based RR Auction. Schindler was a German industrialist credited with saving nearly 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories. Schindlers story was recounted in the 1982 novel Schindler's Ark by Australian author Thomas Keneally and became the basis of Steven Spielberg's highly successful film Schindler's List in 1993 that won seven Academy Awards. Among the Schindler items included in the sale; his Longines wristwatch, a compass, a 1938 Sudetenland Medal, two fountain pens, and a business card. The Longines wristwatch belonging to Oskar Schindler, featuring a white face with gold-tone hands and time markers, silver-tone case, and black leather strap. The watches manufacturer ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Anna-Bella Papp opens at Modern ArtLONDON.- Modern Art announced a solo exhibition of new work by Anna-Bella Papp. This is Papps third solo show with the gallery. Anna-Bella Papps exhibition at Modern Art features a series of new individual sculptures that, consistent with her characteristic format, are hand-sculpted, tablet-like forms made from fired clay, presented on long trestle tables in one narrative. Papps works move between representation and abstraction, each series exploring a different set of ideas through various techniques of sculpting and mark-making, all the while seemingly aware of and contained within the regular confines of their objecthood. The focus of this new series is on a piece of land in the artists home of Romania, which may eventually become part of her inheritance. Each work becomes a means for speculation on the potential uses of this ... More Frenchman convicted of Belgium Jewish museum murdersBRUSSELS (AFP).- A jury found Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche guilty Thursday of the "terrorist murders" of four people at Brussels' Jewish museum, in the first case of a Syria jihad veteran to stage an attack in Europe. Nemmouche, 33, now faces a life sentence for the anti-Semitic gun rampage in the Belgian capital on May 24, 2014, following his return from Syria's battlefields. Sentencing is now not expected to take place before Monday, the court said. Sporting a trimmed beard and wearing a navy blue sweater, Nemmouche showed no emotion and stared into space as the verdict was delivered. The 12 jurors, accompanied by the presiding judge and two other magistrates, had deliberated for two and a half days in secret at a Brussels hotel before returning their verdict. Nemmouche was found to have killed the four victims in cold blood in less ... More Major exhibition from British artist Hew Locke opens at Ikon, BirminghamBIRMINGHAM.- Hew Locke: Heres the Thing is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of work by British artist Hew Locke. Involving a wide range of media painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation, including extensive use of collage and found objects Locke explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which different cultures assume and assert identity. Fusing historical source material with a keen interest in current affairs, often through the juxtaposition or modification of existing artefacts, Locke focuses attention especially on the UK, the monarchy and his childhood home of the then newly independent Guyana. Through appropriating coats of arms and trophies, weaponry, naval warships, public statuary and the costumes and regalia of state, Locke subtly critiques governmental authority, its iconographies ... More First solo exhibition in New York City of works by Patrick Martinez opens at Fort GansevoortNEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort presents That Which We Do Not See, the first solo exhibition in New York City featuring new work by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez. The exhibition is comprised of three bodies of work; cake paintings, Los Angeles landscape paintings and neon text pieces. Martinez approaches his painting practice through a close observation of shadow and light, both literally and figuratively. Through formally painted portraits, Martinez sheds light on past and current civil rights leaders who would historically be left in the shadows. These portraits are found atop realistically depicted three-dimensional cakes, embodying the celebratory tone that Martinez wishes to portray. Through a study of the lack of diverse representation in historical portrait painting, a medium traditionally used to celebrate ones successes and ... More Sarah Kennel appointed Curator of Photography at High Museum of ArtATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Dr. Sarah Kennel as its Donald and Marilyn Keough Family curator of photography. Kennel currently serves as The Byrne Family curator of photography at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Mass. She will join the High on July 1, 2019. The High Museum of Art is home to the most significant photography program in the American Southeast. The Museum began acquiring photographs in the early 1970s, making it one of the earliest American art museums to commit to collecting the medium. Kennel will oversee the photography department, including related exhibitions and programs, as well as its collection of more than 7,000 works spanning the 1840s to the present. With strengths in American modernist and documentary traditions from the mid-20th century and a ... More China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2019 to take place from 28 to 31 MarchHONG KONG.- The China Guardian Hong Kong Spring Auctions 2019 will take place from 28 to 31 March at JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong. The sale series will present remarkable artworks from all around the globe, including Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art as well as Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Goods. Nearly 1,400 lots will be offered with a total estimate of approximately HK$ 360 million / US$ 46 million. Selected highlights will be showcased at three exhibitions in Hong Kong and Taipei ahead of the auctions. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd, says, In 2018, as China Guardian celebrated its 25th anniversary in Beijing, China Guardian (Hong Kong) also proudly achieved an unprecedented annual total of HK$ 1.1 billion, ... More Dorothy Circus Gallery opens Afarin Sajedi's first UK solo exhibitionLONDON.- On the occasion of International Womens Day, Dorothy Circus Gallery presents the first UK solo exhibition by the renowned Tehran-based, Iranian artist, Afarin Sajedi. This solo show inaugurates DCG Londons 2019 exhibition programme: Turning Page. Sajedis exhibition, titled, ECCE MULIER, takes inspiration from the psychoanalytic analysis of the feminine depths observed first by Goethe and then by Jung, and acknowledged as the source of the creative power of the unconscious. Sajedi received classical pictorial training and her expressive path is intertwined with magical symbolism and the most contemporary influences of American Pop Surrealism and Asian Neo-pop. She powerfully and courageously synthesises the thoughts of postmodern women with female emotional patterns that relate to multiple experiences and ... More The Armory Show announces winners of three prizes for fair's 25th anniversary editionNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announced the winning artists and galleries for the Presents Booth Prize, the Pommery Prize, and Ãtant donnas Prize. Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles) is the winner of the third annual Presents Booth Prize. Supported for the third consecutive year by Athena Art Finance, the Presents Booth Prize recognizes an outstanding and innovative gallery presentation within the Presents section of the fair. By a majority decision, the jury awarded Charlie James Gallery a $10,000 prize for its exemplary presentation of works by Sadie Barnette, which incorporate subculture codes and found objects to present speculative fictions with the FBI files of their father, Rodney Barnette, founder of the Compton, CA, chapter of the Black Panther Party. Ryan Ganders Het Spel (My neotonic ovoid contribution to Modernism), 2019, presented ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor and illustrator Anthony Caro was born March 08, 1924. Sir Anthony Alfred Caro OM CBE (8 March 1924 - 23 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. In this image: Anthony Caro, Paper Like Steel, installation view.
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