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Frans Hals, Pekelharing, 1628-30 (detail), oil on canvas, 75 x 61,5 cm, Museumlandschaft Hessen Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel.
HAARLEM.- Rarely have more humorous paintings been produced than in the Dutch Golden Age. Naughty children, stupid peasants, foolish dandies and befuddled drunks, quack doctors, pimps, procuresses, lazy maids and lusty ladies ? they figure in large numbers in Golden Age masterpieces. The Art of Laughter: Humour in the Golden Age presents the first ever overview of humour in seventeenth-century painting. The exhibition runs from 11 November 2017 to 18 March 2018 in the Frans Hals Museum. Frans Hals is often called ?the master of the laugh?. More than any other painter in the Golden Age, he was able to bring a vitality to his portraits that made it appear as if his models could just step out of the past into the present. Hals was one of the few painters in the seventeenth century who dared portray his figures ? often common folk ? with a hearty laugh and bared teeth. Merriment and jokes are prominent features in his genre paintings; arti ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is accompanied by Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, Sir Richard Lambert at the reopening of the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery of China and South Asia at the British Museum in central London on November 8, 2017. The Gallery has recently undergone a major programme of renovation and restoration, and will house a wider selection of objects from one of the finest collections of its kind in the world. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Praised and Ridiculed. French Painting 1820-1880' | | Audap & Mirabaud to offer a Madonna of the Pomegranate painted on panel by Sandro Botticelli | | Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers acquires the whole of the legendary Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art |
James Tissot, Portrait de Mademoiselle L.L., 1864. Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 99 cm. Musée dOrsay, Paris.
ZURICH.- From 10 November 2017 to 28 January 2018, the Kunsthaus Zürich exclusively presents the first exhibition in Switzerland to explore the tensions in French painting between academic art and new approaches that sought liberation from its constraints. As Academisms influence waned during the 19th century, artists turned instead to the pursuit of individual impulses. Romanticism, Naturalism, Realism and Impressionism vied for the favour of audiences. Artists whose work was dismissed at the time are now seen as stars, and vice versa. With a little over 100 paintings, the presentation at the Kunsthaus Zürich brings various currents of 19th-century French painting face to face, revealing not just stark contradictions but also commonalities. This more nuanced perspective on a key period in art history is an especially useful corrective to perceptions in the German-speaking world, where the reception afforded ... More | |
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate. Estimate on resquest.
PARIS.- On November 29, Audap & Mirabaud auction house will offer a masterpiece of the Quattrocento: a Madonna of the Pomegranate painted on panel by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) and his studio. The characters of this composition directly come from the famous tondo The Madonna of the Pomegranate, kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Virgin holds in her left hand an open pomegranate, symbol of the Christs Passion, and himself makes the gesture of blessing with his right hand. On the Florentine tondo, the Virgin and Christ are surrounded by six angels on a plain background whereas on this panel, they appear in front of a parapet and a door on the left, and a landscape on the right. Botticelli painted the tondo around 1487 according to the most accepted dating , for the Florentine magistracy of Massai di Camera to decorate their hall of audiences at the Palazzo Vecchio. Producing a true masterpiece, the pai ... More | |
Viktor Pivovarov, No. 2, Sacralizators for a Friendly Party, from the album Sacralizators. 1979. Graphite and colored pencil, 29.6 x 24.1 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.) overall. Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ.- A groundbreaking collection of Soviet nonconformist art has been donated in its entirety to the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the university announced today. The donation by Nancy and Norton Dodge, the largest single gift in Rutgers history, makes the museum the worlds principal site for studying and exhibiting the most vital, diverse, and daring strains of art produced throughout the USSR over four decades, said Thomas Sokolowski, director of the Zimmerli, and Nevin Kessler, president of the Rutgers University Foundation. Nancy Ruyle Dodge has made the promised gift to the Zimmerli of her personal collection of more than 17,300 artworks in all media, with an estimated value of more than $34 million. These objects join ... More |
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| 10 Native American artists challenge boundaries of tradition at National Museum of the American Indian | | £5 million for incredibly rare Chinese chairs at Bonhams Chinese Art Sale | | Getty announces $5 million gift for conservation efforts |
Kevin McKenzie, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, 2015. Cast polyurethane, acrylic, neon. Collection of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The works of Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound are electric, both literally and figuratively, providing timely expressions of indigenous worldviews. Contemporary indigenous art often reflects tradition, but it is commonly misinterpreted to exist solely as part of the past. This exhibition demonstrates the continuing adaptability of tradition to find a place within todays society. Transformer features 10 artists and nine installations that employ a variety of media, including light, digital projection, innovative sound technology and more, to provide thought-provoking and unforgettable experiences composed for the digital age. The exhibition will be open Friday, Nov. 10, through Jan. 6, 2019, in the East Gallery of the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York. The artists showcased in Transformer are Jordan Bennett ... More | |
Set of Four Huanghuali Folding Chairs. Sold for £5,296,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A Set of Four Huanghuali Folding Chairs were sold for £5,296,500 at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale in London today (Thursday 9 November). The chairs are the only known version of this form and type, and are widely considered a masterpiece of Ming Dynasty furniture. They had been estimated at £100,000-150,000. In a packed saleroom, the bidding war finally came down to a tense battle between a bidder in the room and one on the phone with the chairs finally knocked down to the phone bidder. The chairs came from the collection of the distinguished Italian diplomat, Marchese Taliani de Marchio. From 1938 to 1946, Taliani served as Ambassador to the National Chiang Kai-shek Government in Nanjing. Despite spending only eight years in China, Taliani was a shrewd and gifted connoisseur who assembled a collection of exceeding rare and important pieces that conveys the rich history of Chinese ... More | |
John and Louise Bryson at the Mogao Grottoes, the site of a Getty Conservation Institute project, in 2008.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today an unprecedented $5 million gift from philanthropists John E. Bryson and Louise Henry Bryson to establish a new endowed fund supporting the important global work of the Getty Conservation Institute. The new fund, to be known as the John E. and Louise Bryson Fund for the Getty Conservation Institute, will support all aspects of the Getty Conservation Institutes work. In recognition of the Brysons generosity, the title of the position of the Director of the Getty Conservation Institute will be renamed as the John E. and Louise Bryson Director, Getty Conservation Institute. This is the Gettys first named directorship. The Brysons are longtime supporters of the Getty. Louise Bryson served on the Board of Trustees for the J. Paul Getty Trust for twelve years, including four as Chair of the Board. She was made Chair Emerita in 2010. The Brysons are active ... More |
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| Works by Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, and Frank Stella on view at FreedmanArt | | Phillips opens 'American African American' selling exhibition | | Agnews opens exhibition devoted to Lotte Laserstein's intimate and nuanced depictions of women |
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NEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt is presenting an exhibition of three outstanding artists who brilliantly explored the expansive range of printmaking. The working engagement and spirit of collaboration in their printmaking fueled the creative genius within each of these artists. Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, and Frank Stella each saw the innovative possibilities in the printmaking medium that could foster, feed, and challenge their artistic practices on to new and greater heights. The exhibition includes exceptional prints by these three artists, highlighting their artistic impulses well nurtured and encouraged by the expertise of artisans in the print studio. Uniquely, Robert Motherwell had a separate print studio next to his painting studio and home in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he worked in close collaboration with master printer Catherine Mosley on the premises from 1972 until his death in 1991. These artists ... More | |
Awol Erizku, Oh what a feeling, aw, fuck it, I want a Trillion, 2015. Image courtesy Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announces the unique selling exhibition American African American, curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum. Examining over three decades of the increasing public presence and artistic success within the contemporary American art community, these more than two dozen African American artists bring, for the first time to London, a full spectrum of the innovation and energy that characterizes their work and articulates the reason it is so highly sought after internationally. American African American, which is on view at 30 Berkeley Square from 8 to 25 November, tells the ongoing important artistic history that picks up subsequent to the Tate Moderns exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. Arnold Lehman, said: We are incredibly excited to be hosting this celebration ... More | |
The exhibition is comprised both of works for sale and on loan; some of the works have rarely been seen in public and others have not previously been exhibited.
LONDON.- Thirty years, almost to the day, since Agnews staged the artists first UK exhibition, the gallery announced Lotte Lasersteins Women, a show devoted to Lasersteins intimate and nuanced depictions of women. This is the first exhibition in London dedicated solely to Laserstein since the ground-breaking 1987 one at Agnews, where the artist herself was present and a lively collaborator. A particular focus of the current exhibition is to reinstate Laserstein in the canon of 20th-century art, from which she and many other women artists of the inter-war period have been excluded, and to acknowledge her as one of the great women artists of the 20th century. Lotte Laserstein (1898 1993) embarked upon a bright career in the Berlin of the twenties and thirties, one of the first women to complete her ... More |
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| New-York Historical Society celebrates the centennial of women's suffrage in New York with exhibition | | Exhibition provides insights into Valie Export's thinking, research and development of ideas | | Exhibition of new and recent work by artist Victor Man opens at Blum & Poe |
Suffrage and The Man poster, 1912. New York: The Metropolitan Printing Company. New-York Historical Society, Bella C. Landauer Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society celebrates the centennial of womens suffrage in New York State with the premiere of its new film We Rise, a specially produced documentary film―narrated by Meryl Streep and featuring the song We Are Here written and composed by Alicia Keys―that places women at the center of political thought and action that reshaped the country in the early 20th century. Hotbed is New-York Historicals latest exhibition from its Center for Womens History and brings to life the bohemian spirit of early 20th-century Greenwich Village and the crucial role of the neighborhoods female artists and activists in winning the vote. On view from November 3, 2017 March 25, 2018 in the Joyce B. Cowin Womens History Gallery, Hotbed uses immersive installations and more than 100 artifacts and images to explore how the vibrant artistic and political ... More | |
Valie Export, Woman with High-rise Arm, 1989 (draft). LENTOS Kunstmuseum / Valie Export Center Linz, © Bildrecht Vienna, 2017.
LINZ.- The exhibition curated by Sabine Folie offers initial insights into the extensive material of the Valie Export Archive. Linz acquired the Archive in 2015. The exhibition and a symposium are accompanying the opening of the Valie Export Center in the Tabakfabrik on 10 November. The exhibition space in the lower level of LENTOS has temporarily become the Valie Export Archive and provides insights into the artist's thinking, research and development of ideas. In this way she becomes comprehensible as a public person, theorist, and teacher through an abundance of documents, autographs, sketches, and drafts, and also as a private person in letters, poems, photos and notes. In addition, what has been collected and preserved opens up a view of the artistic network and collective memory of a period of over fifty years. The exhibition approaches the artists extensive ... More | |
Victor Man, In Adancul Parcurilor Mele (In The Depth Of My Gardens), 2016-2017. Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 19 11/16 inches (60 x 50 centimeters. © Victor Man, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo Photo: Mathias Schormann.
TOKYO.- Blum & Poe presents an exhibition of new and recent work by artist Victor Man. Following Mans solo show at Fürstenberg Contemporary, Germany, this is his first exhibition in Japan. Mans paintings are full of contrasts and contradictions and, at the same time, oddly plausible, metamorphic conflations. Born in 1974 in Cluj, the Romanian painters exhibition brings together a focused selection of small-format portraits and still lifes with a common symbolic or allegorical character. Their content, however, defies clear interpretation and rather invites an investigation into the cycle of life and deathÂÂa theme which runs throughout the works. With Man, however, the thematic cannot be separated from the painterly or the very presence that his works demand. ... More |
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V&A acquires a fragment of Robin Hood Gardens as a defining example of Brutalist architecture
LONDON.- The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has acquired a three-storey section of Robin Hood Gardens, comprising both exterior facades and interiors of a maisonette flat. The fragment is 8.8 metres high, 5.5 metres wide and 8 metres deep. Completed in 1972, Robin Hood Gardens, located in Poplar, East London, is a nationally important and internationally recognised work of Brutalist architecture. The building was designed by Alison (1928 1993) and Peter Smithson (1923 2003), British architects of lasting international reputation. It is now being demolished as part of the redevelopment of the area. Robin Hood Gardens is a significant example of the Brutalist movement in architecture, and joins the V&As world-renowned architecture collections. Brutalism arose in the 1950s in reaction to the sleek and elegant glass ... More
Attic find of artworks by Warhol and Basquiat unseen for over 30 years to be auctioned
AMESBURY, MASS.- An attic find of original artworks which includes some by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat literally unseen by anyone since being stored away more than 30 years ago will finally see the light of day in an auction planned for Saturday, December 2nd, by John McInnis Auctioneers, in the firms Amesbury gallery at 76 Main Street, starting at 1 pm Eastern time, as part of their two-day sale of the contents of the Harriett (Woodsom) Gould estate, the family country home in Amesbury. Those that are familiar with Andy Warhol will recognize the name of Jon Gould as his closest companion in the 1980s. Jon was a collector of art and many pieces he purchased and acquired were exhibited in Vermont a number of years ago and are not part of this sale. The items found here in the family home were hidden away, many, more personal in nature. ... More
Casablanca exhibit opens at the International Museum of World War II
NATICK, MASS.- A special exhibition at The International Museum of World War II in Boston opened November 8, 2017, 75 years to the day when America entered World War II, dispatching its own soldiers to North Africa to join its Allies in fighting the Germans. The Real and Reel Casablanca; American Troops Enter World War II, Landing in North Africa features 75 artifacts drawn from the Museums extensive collection that provide unmatched insights into the decisions surrounding the invasion at Casablanca, Morocco, and the atmosphere in the U.S. Where in the world was Casablanca?, wondered many anxious Americans. They were about to find out, both the real and the Hollywood versions. This level of commitment, actual boots on the ground, was as stunning as it was sobering to the entire country. Officially called Operation Torch, the invasion was controversial and ... More
The Ukrainian Institute of America exhibits forty intaglio prints by Ukrainian artist Oleh Denysenko
NEW YORK, NY.- Art at the Institute announces a special exhibition of forty intaglio prints by Ukrainian artist Oleh Denysenko, introducing recent works and archetypal selections from his graphic oeuvre of the past decade. The exhibition will open Friday, November 10, 2017 and continues through November 29. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, this exhibition marks the artists second solo show with The Ukrainian Institute of America. An innovative and prolific artist practiced in the disciplines of painting, sculpture, calligraphy, and book illustration, Mr. Denysenko is most recognized, internationally, for his intricate etchings on paper. An astoundingly inventive draftsman, due in part to years of studying the moralizing art of Northern European masters such as Bosch, Bruegel, Cranach and Dürer, among others, Denysenko developed ... More
Bruce Gendelman depicts sites of Holocaust atrocities in exhibition
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The National Museum of American Jewish History announces Sifting Through Ashes, an exhibition of works by artist Bruce Gendelman, who captures the unimaginable atrocities of the Holocaust through a series of nine large-scale, richly textural oil paintings and approximately twenty photographs. The exhibitionwhich conveys the unique and important role of contemporary art in educating new audiences about the Holocaust in the post-witness eramade its national museum debut at NMAJH from October 27, 2017 through January 7, 2018, before the works continue traveling worldwide. Gendelman states, In a world forever toying with repeating history, these works carry a warning to be vigilant, to speak out, and to insist that our morality be mindful. As memories of the Holocaust are replaced by history, ... More
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen presents two new work groups by Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev
ST. GALLEN.- The Norwegian artist Fredrik Værslev (*1979, lives in Drammen/NO) has made an impression through his extensive painterly practice, which despite precise planning and execution always leaves space for coincidence. For example, he exposes his works to the weather, hangs his canvases on display on trees for months, or offers artist colleagues his own works for interventions. He thus celebrates a defined painterly gesture and carries the idea of appropriation to extremes. At Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen Værslev surprises the visitors with an overall painterly installation which manifests itself between abstraction and the haptic reality of the materials used. Two new work groups are being presented for the first time at Værslevs exhibition «Tan Lines». The first includes canvases hanging in space, which face the second series of works on the wall as an installative ... More
Art into Life! mumok opens exhibition of works from the collection of Wolfgang Hahn
VIENNA.- In the 1960s, the Rhineland was an important focus for massive changes in contemporary art. A new internationally networked generation of artists turned away from traditional notions of art. Inspiration came from everyday life. Everyday objects became the material for art. These artists worked in urban contexts, they broke across the borders between disciplines, and they collaborated with musicians, writers, filmmakers and dancers. Cologne restorer Wolfgang Hahn (19241987) was right up with the times, and he began to collect this new art. Over the years his collection grew to become one of the most significant collections of contemporary art, with works of nouveau réalisme, Fluxus, happenings, Pop art, and conceptual art. Hahn was chief restorer at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, and later at Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Before training as a restorer, ... More
'Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York' opens at the Museum of the City of New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York opened Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, an exhibition chronicling, celebrating, and examining the last half century of art and innovation that has made the city the most vibrant environment for public creativity in the world. Opening 50 years after revolutionary public art initiatives were first staged in the citys parks and plazas, and presented to mark the 40th anniversary of the pioneering Public Art Fund, Art in the Open takes visitors through five decades of city history and on a whirlwind tour of the five boroughs, all with public art as a guide. All around New Yorkin parks, plazas, and subways, in empty lots and abandoned buildings, on the water, and even in the airartists turn public spaces into settings for their creations. Not only do thousands of works, both temporary and permanent, ... More
Rare Ben Jonson book at risk of leaving the UK
LONDON.- Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on a rare book with unique annotations to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. Workes, an annotated collection of writings by Ben Jonson, is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £48,000. Ben Jonson (1572-1637) is hailed as the most important writer of the English Renaissance after Shakespeare, having lived and worked in an age of great social change that produced some of the finest works of English literature. This extraordinarily rare volume is the only known example of a document showing how a play by Ben Jonson was prepared for performance. Material that tells us about the performance of pre-Restoration plays is extremely scarce. This volume occupies a unique place among surviving materials because ... More
Alexander and Bonin opens exhibition of works by Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, and Rita McBride
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announced the opening of a three artist exhibition including works by Willie Doherty, Mona Hatoum, and Rita McBride on Friday, November 10, 2017. Willie Doherty will present recent photographic and video works made along the US-Mexico border and on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. As with much of Dohertys earlier work made at the contested Irish border, the images taken near El Paso and their titles allude to situations beyond what is visible in the photograph; to precarious conditions, uncertainty, and an escalating erosion of tolerance in the negotiation of frontiers and national boundaries. Dohertys works investigate the margins of the border where structures become the points of tension, where the illusion of control is enforced, and the false certainties of security and strength are instrumentalized and reinforced ... More
David Risley Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings by James Aldridge
COPENHAGEN.- David Risley Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition Blossom and Decay with new paintings by James Aldridge. If we compare James Aldridges work of quite a few years ago with those in this exhibition, there is one striking fundamental development. There used to be an easily identifiable depth in Aldridges paintings. Even if the paintings were unruly, we were firmly on the ground and all the wild life made sense in the setting, it was clearly their habitat: A wilderness beyond mans footsteps, where the wolves howl. We are still in some sort of wilderness, but the context of its imagery has changed. They now swirl in a cosmic way, where there is no up or down, just the surface of the painting. We are not looking out but perhaps rather in. The paintings now operate in a different kind of space, which is more clearly and ruthlessly pictorial. They seem preoccupied ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English artist William Hogarth was born November 10, 1697. William Hogarth (10 November 1697 - 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian." In this image: A visitor looks at a William Hogarth painting 'David Garrick as Richard III', on display at Tate Britain art gallery in London, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007.
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