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Dr. Tanja Pirsig-Marshall. Photo: LWL/Hanna Neander.
MÃNSTER.- The LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster is dedicating a survey exhibition to the British sculptor Henry Moore (1898 1986), the most extensive in Germany for 18 years. Henry Moore. A European Impulse (11 November 2016 19 March 2017) is also focusing on the mutual inspiration between Moore and 16 other European artists. 40 years after Moores last visit to Münster, the Picasso of sculpture returns to the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippes art museum. With this exhibition we are creating a joint precedent for cultural work in Europe, which will hopefully enable further such fruitful collaborations that are the lifeblood of culture, even after the implementation of the Brexit plan, is how Dr Barbara Rüschoff-Thale, Head of LWL Cultural Department, described this first collaboration between the Tate ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction is the first major exhibition in the U.S. to encompass the full range of Picabia's audacious, provocative, and profoundly influential career. MoMA's first-ever monographic exhibition of the artist, Francis Picabia brings together some 200 works in multiple mediums to explore the artist's critical place in the history of 20th-century art. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck
| The Serpentine Gallery opens exhibition of paintings and drawings by architect Zaha Hadid | | Congratulations to more than 50 recipients of frames and frame restoration from Eli Wilner | | Virus found in child mummy could rewrite smallpox history |
Zaha Hadid, Installation view, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (8 December 2016 12 February 2017) © Zaha Hadid Foundation. Image © 2016 Luke Hayes.
LONDON.- This winter, the Serpentine presents an exhibition of paintings and drawings by renowned architect Zaha Hadid (1950-2016). Zaha Hadid is regarded as a pioneering and visionary architect whose contribution to the world of architecture was ground-breaking and innovative. The Serpentine presentation, first conceived with Hadid herself, reveals her as an artist with drawing at the very heart of her work and includes the architects calligraphic drawings and rarely seen private notebooks with sketches that reveal her complex thoughts about architectural forms and relationships. The show focuses on Hadids early works before her first building was erected in 1993 (the Vitra Fire Station in Germany), presenting paintings and drawings from the 1970s to the early 1990s. The exhibition takes place at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, renovated ... More | |
The Avenue in the Rain, 1917, by Childe Hassam, The White House Collection, framed by Eli Wilner.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2016, upon entering their 34th year of business, Eli Wilner & Company is continuing their philanthropic efforts with a new outreach to museums, including the gifting of historically accurate replica frames for important drawings and paintings within institutional collections. As of December, the Wilner gallery staff and studio craftsmen are actively working with approximately three dozen institutions across the country who have been accepted in the current gifting program. The collaborative process of choosing the right frame for an artwork involves researching historical precedence and considering the overall aesthetics of a specific collection. Thanks to modern technology, digital mockups can be created to show a painting in a variety of frames and the entire project can be worked on remotely. Once complete, the frame is crated and shipped (at no cost to the institution) to be united with the artwork by the ... More | |
One of the mummies found within the crypt, not examined in this study. Photo: McMaster Ancient DNA Centre.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The discovery of smallpox DNA in a 17th century child mummy may shorten the timeline of the deadly infectious disease's history, according to a study published Thursday. Specimens of the smallpox-causing variola virus now exist only in secured laboratory freezers. The highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease was finally eradicated in the late 1970s through a worldwide vaccination campaign. But the origins of the virus remain unknown. The discovery of the smallpox virus within the DNA of a skin sample of the mummy child, found in a crypt underneath a Lithuanian church, could shed light on how it began and developed, researchers said in the study published in the US scientific journal Current Biology. "There have been signs that Egyptian mummies that are 3,000 to 4,000 years old have pockmarked scarring that have been interpreted as cases of smallpox," said first author Ana ... More |
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| Sotheby's Sale of English Literature, History, Children's Book & Illustrations to offer Jane Austen treasures | | Modern masters featured in Palm Beach Modern's Dec. 17 auction of Florida private collection | | Million dollar dino sells at auction in France |
Jane Austens Cup-and-Ball game (bibliocatch), estimate £20,000-30,000. Photo: Sotheby's,
LONDON.- Cup-and-Ball, or bilbocatch (from the French bilboquet) was a popular domestic game at which Jane Austen excelled. "Jane Austen was successful in everything that she attempted with her fingers. None of us could throw spilikins in so perfect a circle, or take them off with so steady a hand. Her performances with cup and ball were marvellous. The one used at Chawton was an easy one, and she has been known to catch it on the point above an hundred times in succession, till her hand was weary." (James Edward Austen-Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen (1871), pp.97-98) This Cup-and-Ball game has always been associated with the author including on the rare occasions when it has been publicly exhibited. The house in Chawton in which Jane lived with Cassandra and their mother was part of the estate inherited by Jane's brother. Following Janes death in 1817, the game remained at Chawton House and has been passed down through the family ever since. Jane gives a good indication ... More | |
Allen Jones (British, b. 1937), Acrobat Sculpture II, acrylic on wood, signed; ed. 1/8; 1996, 27 inches high. Estimate: $10,000-$15,000. All images courtesy of Palm Beach Modern Auctions.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- On Saturday, Dec. 17, Palm Beach Modern Auctions (PBMA) will sell the private art collection of Wolfgang Roth, owner of Wolfgang Roth & Partners Fine Art in Miami. The collection consists of 62 high-quality works of art and sculptures, with paintings and drawings by Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Allen Jones and many more. Additionally, the collection harbors an Impressionist treasure an original oil painting by Claude Monet. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers. The work by Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) is an original gouache and ink on paper that measures 11½ by 16 inches and depicts a crawling baby rendered in classic Haring style. It was formerly in the collection of Dorothy Blau, a legendary Miami contemporary art dealer who was influential in the development of many now-famous artists careers. Blau received the artwork ... More | |
The skeleton of an Allosaurus is exhibited on December 5, 2016 at Lyon Brotteaux Aguttes auction house. JEFF PACHOUD / AFP.
LYON (AFP).- A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton sold for more than one million euros at auction in the eastern French city of Lyon late Saturday, the Aguttes auction house said. The Allosaurus, a ferocious carnivore named Kan whose species went extinct some 135 million years ago, fetched 1.1 million euros ($1.2 million), Aguttes said. Discovered in 2013 in the Jurassic Era Morrison Formation in the western United States, the specimen is more than 7.5 metres (25 feet) long and 2.5 metres tall. The unnamed buyer is French and the skeleton will remain in France and go on public display, an Aguttes spokesman said, without revealing when or where the unveiling would take place. The buyer, who made the purchase by telephone, "wants to keep the location a surprise", the spokesman said. The skeleton is three-quarters complete and shows Kan in a running position with its mouth open. The auction house described the beast as "the archetype of the great predator ... More |
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| The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum presents "Suitcase Museum" by Dayanita Singh | | SFMOMA opens "A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions" | | The ibex code: deciphering Iran's ancient rock art |
Suitcase Museum by Dayanita Singh. Image courtsey: Dayanita Singh.
MUMBAI.- The Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum is presenting Dayanita Singh's exhibition, 'Suitcase Museum', a collection of 44 Museum of Chance book-objects. Two suitcases make up this museum, presaging the future form of the museum and both condensing and expanding its boundaries. Singh challenges traditional and existing concepts of photography and pushes the medium to speak through other forms like the book, the museum and the archive. At the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, which inspired Dayanita Singh early in her career, she appropriates the Museum's syntax and structure, its formal as well as its ideological function to present new ways of looking at and engaging with art works. This exhibition brings together some of Singh's most iconic images revealing her rigorous attention to form and detail to create compelling images that sublimate absence, loss, pain, ... More | |
Mark Manders, Big Female Head , 2011; wood, painted epoxy, and iron; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase, by exchange, through an anonymous gift; © Mark Manders.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions reflects on the ways that artists have responded to the evolving conditions of the 21st century. Composed of work by 40 artists, the exhibition broadly considers the fluidity of ideas and how artworks embody time. The installation, which highlights recent acquisitions and works on view to the public for the first time, calls attention to the varied forms and approaches taken by different artists and the connections between the personal, the intimate and the individual; constructions of identity, history and culture; the instability of materials; and strategies to rediscover or recover the past. The title phrase is taken from art historian George Kublers seminal book The Shape of Time (1962), in which the author proposes a history ... More | |
Ancient engravings are seen in the hills outside the town of Khomein in central Iran . ATTA KENARE / AFP.
KHOMEIN (AFP).- An Iranian archaeologist has spent years in an almost single-handed quest across the country's hills and desert plains to uncover ancient rock art that could be among the oldest in the world. Now he hopes that renewed ties with the West after years of international isolation could help decipher its mysteries. Despite its rough beauty, it is hard to imagine that the desolate, rock-strewn landscape outside the town of Khomein in central Iran conceals any treasures. But Dr Mohammed Naserifard scrambles up a hillside, and waits eagerly at the top, his walking stick pointing out the long curled horns of a 4,000-year-old ibex deer scratched into a flat stone. Over the next few hours, he leads AFP on a journey through valleys and up steep slopes, revealing dozens more images of ancient hunters, tribal dances, deities and beasts. Despite their potential world-hist ... More |
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| "1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group" on view at the Glenbow Museum | | "Mastering the Metropolis: New York and Zoning, 1916-2016" opens at the Museum of the City of New York | | rosenfeld porcini announces a solo exhibition by the Argentinian artsit Sebastián GordÃn |
Kathleen Moir Morris, Beaver Hall Hill, 1936, oil on canvas, Collection of Glenbow. Gift of the Estate of Norman E. Swyers, 1998.
CALGARY.- Immerse yourself in the vibrant colours of the Jazz Age with 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group. With its busy port, booming economy and prohibition-free nightlife, Montreal in the 20s epitomized modernity, and the artists that made up the Beaver Hall Group effectively harnessed and reflected this forward-bearing energy in their work. Their animated urban scenes depict a bustling scenes depict a bustling, grown-up metropolis, notes Nathalie Blondil, Director and Chief Curator, Montreal Museum of Fine Art. Instead of regionalist folklore, they exude confidence both in oneself and the future. Although considered a Montreal counterpart to Toronto's Group of Seven, the group stood apart through their work: rather than offering an image of Canadian identity through depictions of the untamed landscapes of a northern country, the Montreal artists imbued the inhabited landscapes ... More | |
Wurts Bros., Empire State Building, view from top of N.Y. Life Building, 1931. Museum of the City of New York, Wurts Bros. Collection, Gift of Richard Wurts, X2010.7.1.7414.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York presents Mastering the Metropolis: New York and Zoning, 1916 2016, an exhibition that celebrates the centennial of New Yorks landmark Zoning Resolution of 1916 and brings to life this often overlooked part of New York City in an accessible and engaging way through architectural renderings and models, info-graphics, rare maps, primary source documents, and archival photographs and film. The exhibition illuminates how New York Citys iconic skyline has been shaped for 100 years and continues to be shaped today by a colossally ambitious law meant to balance the complex and competing tensions of modern urban development. Zoning and its effects across the five boroughs are highlighted in the exhibition, including famous Manhattan skyscrapers, supermarkets in the Bronx, and single-family homes in Staten ... More | |
Sebastian Gordin, The magic triangle, 2013. Wood, cork, glass, ceramics and LED lights, 75x220x144 cm.
LONDON.- Sebastián GordÃns mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires in 2014 represents a milestone in his career. Showcasing the remarkable evolution of his art, the chronological arrangement of works enabled us to see his continual artistic development and, at the same time, led us to the memorable grand final space which contained a comprehensive selection of his mini-theatre installations. Giving display of unique narrative inventiveness and observational acumen, scenes from a range of subjects varying from imaginary museums, libraries hit by a disaster, historical tableaux etc, all made in miniature and enclosed within a glass case, ultimately comment on man and his relationship to society. One of the highlights of the show, the work entitled The Magic Triangle, is being unveiled for the first time in the UK as a crucial part of our exhibition. The inner, glass enclosed, mini world depicts a precisely ordered imaginary ... More |
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Marlborough Chelsea presents exhibition of works by Davina Semo
NEW YORK, NY.- FUBAR is Davina Semos second solo exhibition with the gallery and continues the artists sculptural investigations of manifest power, control, and violence. Taking its title from the military acronym Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition, the show features new works that engage the wall, floor, and ceiling of the galleryand a harsh new reality. Rough-hewn cast bronze bells dangle from ropes at head-height, vertically bisecting the space and creating an obstacle to movement through it. They create an acoustic precariousness that fits the moodto jostle one, or to engage its clapper, rings the bell sounding a jagged alert. Semos work has long thrived on formal repetition, and she expands upon it here. Regimented patterns of powder coated chain coalesce into dangling monochromes; battered steel folding chairs are impaled in short stacks which protrude ... More
Solo exhibition of sculptural work by Julio Felix opens at Dickinson Roundell, Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dickinson Roundell, Inc. is presenting solo exhibition of sculptural work by Julio Felix December 8- January 12, 2017. The Title of the show "America" reflects a unique time in the United States political history. Although both work and title were planned before the 2016 election results, this past November, how is this moment in history, relevant if at all in your new work? Sometimes I feel that politics is a topic you have to collaborate with, not fight against. My frame of mind at the time of making this body of work was not originally about politics, but about the history of materials and how to eliminate the traditional hierarchical views that exist in both art and life. You choose to exhibit 9 masks. The origin of Masks dates back as early as 8000 BC and have been used for various forms and traditions according to its particular culture. How does your work reflect ... More
Australia Council announces Tracey Moffatt's 2017 Venice Biennale exhibition
SYDNEY.- The Australia Council for the Arts today announced the exhibition title for Tracey Moffatts solo exhibition in the Australian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Moffatt will present MY HORIZON. The installation will comprise all new work, including large-scale photography and film. MY HORIZON is very open and can be read in many ways, said Moffatt. The horizon line can represent the far and distant future or the unobtainable. There are times in life when we all can see what is coming over the horizon. This is when we make a move. Or we do nothing and just wait for whatever it is to arrive. Through photography and film, Moffatt creates highly stylized narratives and montage to explore a range of themes including the complexities of interpersonal relationships, the curiousness of popular culture, and her own deeply felt childhood memories and ... More
New exhibition of contemporary art opens at The Ukrainian Museum in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- CIM is an exhibition that plays on the notion of the collective, and what cultural and ethnic topographies bind first and second generation Ukrainian-American and Ukrainian born artists from the New York City area. The word CIM means "seven" in Ukrainian, and this exhibition convenes seven individual experiences as a collective of artists working in a wide range of styles and media. The seven contemporary artists participating in this group exhibition are Luba Drozd, Adriana Farmiga, Maya Hayuk, Roman M. Hrab, Yuri Masnyj, Christina Shmigel, and Marko Shuhan. CIM is open to the public from December 11, 2016 through September 3, 2017. Finding a thread to connect the artists and their practices can sometimes prove to be elusive in group shows. The artists in this show produce work that ranges from the abstract to the representational ... More
Exhibition explores the interconnections between the real, imagined and simulated
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery presenting SurREAL, featuring photographs by Tina Freeman, Kenny Morrison, Irby Pace, and Chuck Ramirez. This exhibition explores the interconnections between the real, imagined and simulated. Tina Freeman is an established photographer of architecture, landscape, portraits, and interiors. In SurREAL, Freeman will be exhibiting abstractions of the Earth, exploring water, glacial melt and the remnants of volcanoes. These pieces are part of a new body of Ice and Wetlands work that will be shown at the gallery in December 2017. Freeman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she continues to live and work. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (Paris), the National Media Museum (Bradford, UK), the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Luiciano Benetton Imago Mundi ... More
State Hermitage Museum presents an exhibition of works by Mariano Fortuny
SAINT PETERSBURG.- For the first time in Russia the State Hermitage Museum presents the exhibition of Mariano Fortuny - the great designer of the 20th century, celebrated by his contemporaries as The Magician of Venice. Though his heritage has never been exhibited in Russia, the name of Fortuny is widely known here due to two generations of this family. Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871, Granada - 1949, Venice) - artist, designer, engineer and photographer, one of the great designers of the first half of the 20th century, who has changed fashion and interior design. Son of the famous Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny y Marsal he inherited from his father not only his artistic talent, but also a passion for the art history studying. His heritage overwhelms by its volume, it is hard to believe that a person could create all this in the course of a lifetime. It seems ... More
Manchester Art Gallery presents "Wynford Dewhurst: Manchester's Monet"
MANCHESTER.- Manchester Art Gallery is presenting Wynford Dewhurst: Manchesters Monet, the first retrospective of the English impressionist painter and art theorist since his death in 1941, which includes many works that have not been on public display before. A controversial figure on the Anglo-French art scene at the turn of the twentieth century, Wynford Dewhurst is most famous for his 1908 work The Picnic, in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. He was born in Manchester in 1864 and began his career studying law. He moved to Paris at the relatively advanced age of 27 to train as an artist, returning to France throughout his life to paint in the valleys of the Seine and the Creuse in the style of Claude Monet, who became his principal mentor. This exhibition brings together a large selection of Dewhursts shimmering paintings with contextual material to reintroduce ... More
Latvian National Museum of Art opens exhibition of works by Felicita Pauļuka
RIGA.- The exhibition Felicita Pauļuka (19252014). Pastels and Drawings is on show at the 4th Floor Exhibition Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga. The show of Felicita Pauļukas works opens the new cycle of museum exhibitions The Generation, dedicated to the young of the 1950s60s. Felicita Pauļuka (19252014) is one of the most outstanding painters of portraits and nudes in Latvian art. In 1940, the fifteen-year-old Felicita Jānke enrolled into the Art Academy of Latvia. It was a rather rare occurrence for the academy to accept a student without a secondary school diploma, but the matriculation commission was impressed by the girls superb drawing skills. Nevertheless, the studies had to be interrupted for four years. In 1943, Felicita married painter Jānis Pauļuks (19061984). In 1944, she resumed her studies, at the same time working as a ... More
Parrasch Heijnen opens exhibition of new paintings by Tokyo-based artist Yui Yaegashi
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Tokyo-based artist Yui Yaegashi (b. 1985), the artist's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. These paintings interweave artistic influences culminating in a visibly palpable global contemporary form. The works inherently recall Southern California artists working in the 1950s and 1960s who championed a Zen mentality by looking across the Pacific to the East. Yaegashi's process which includes overpainting and "canceling" of ground -- infuses her palette with the subtlety of a built monochrome field structured by grid lines and juxtaposing fields. The resulting compositions recall not only tropes of West Coast American abstractionists, such as John McLaughlin and Frederick Hammersley, but also connect to the practicality and chromatic intensity of twentieth-century Japanese textiles. Chocked ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863. Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of life, love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety. In this image: A man look passes by the artwork 'Galloping Horse' (1910-1912) Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) during a press preview at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, 15 October 2009. The exhibition 'Edvard Munch und das Unheimliche' ('Edvard Munch and the Uncanny') runs from 16 October 2009 to 18 January 2010.
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