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Antique Persian Mohtasham Kashan Vase Rug", 45 x 68, 3rd quarter, 19th century. Epitomizing the refinement that make the finest 19th century carpets from this Central Persian city is this is the classic Vase and Tree of Life format. Note its three pairs of mythical birds, culminating in a pair of entirely singular birds-of-paradise.
OAKLAND, CA.- Claremont Rug Company founder and president Jan David Winitz today revealed the list of the 50 Best of Their Type Antique Oriental rugs sold in 2019 by his global gallery, which has clients on six continents. The pieces were all woven circa 1800 -1875, at the height of The Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, ca. 1800 to ca. 1910, and represented 23 major weaving groups, with the most representatives in the Caucasian rugs (12), Persian Mohtasham Kashan (nine) and Persian Bakshaish (nine) styles. Winitz said that the 85 subgroups from the Caucasus Mountains were his top-selling style of smaller rugs once again this year and that overall the rugs range in size from small, prayer rugs to palac ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view 'Don McCullin. The Stillness of Life' Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2020. Photo: Ken Adlard. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth © Don McCullin.
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| | Exhibition of new sculptural works by Robert Irwin on view at Pace Gallery | | Albertina Museum opens an exhibition of works by Wilhelm Leibl | | TEFAF Maastricht announces art patronage is the focus of the 2020 Art Market Report |
Installation view of Robert Irwin: Unlights 540 West 25th Street, New York January 17 February 22, 2020 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new sculptural works by pioneering artist and theorist Robert Irwin, marking his nineteenth solo show with the gallery since 1966. Irwins work has continually reshaped the boundaries of what art can be. Unlights brings together eight new sculptural works that harken back to his innovative experiments of the 1960s while further expanding an influential, lifelong inquiry into the fundamental conditions of human perception: what Irwin has called the seemingly infinitely textured field of our presence in the world. Irwins new works are composed from unlit six-foot fluorescent lights mounted to fixtures and installed in vertical rows directly on the wall. The glass tubes are covered in layers of opulently colored translucent gels and thin strips of electrical tape, allowing the reflective surfaces of unlit glass and anodized aluminum to interact with ambient illuminat ... More | |
Wilhelm Leibl, Self-Portrait, 1891. Brushed black ink and opaque white, black chalk, outlines with graphite, mounted onto cardboard. Kunsthaus Zürich, Grafische Sammlung, 1931 © Kunsthaus Zürich.
VIENNA.- Encouraged by Courbet, influenced by Manet, and esteemed by Van Gogh, Wilhelm Leibl (18441900) was among the most important representatives of realism in Europe. His work as an artist centered on human beings in their everyday realities. And with his retreat from the city to the rural world, Leibl founded a style of modern figural painting in which the truth of nature took priority over the idyllic and narrative tendencies of traditional genre painting. Wilhelm Leibls guiding principle was not that his models be beautiful, but that they be well perceived. Leibl painted primarily portraits and indoor scenes featuring rural figures, with his emphasis consistently on the how of painterly execution. The Cologne native studied in Munich, where he quickly made a name for himself with his talent. And it was while still a student, at Munichs 1st International Exhibition of Fine ... More | |
Daimyo armour of Hon-Kozane Tachi-Do type. Iron, lacquer, leather, silk, bearing the crests of the Abe 阿部 family, daimyô of Sanuki 佐貫 in Kazusa 上総. 133 x 85 x 60 cm (52.4 x 33.5 x 23.6 in.) Japan - 17th century. Photo: Galerie Jean-Christophe Charbonnier.
HELVOIRT.- Art patronage and philanthropy forms the subject of the 2020 TEFAF Art Market Report, which will be launched on Friday March 6 at TEFAF Maastricht, which runs from 7 - 15 March 2020 (Early Access Day 5 March, Preview Day 6 March). Entitled TEFAF Art Market Report: Art Patronage in the 21st Century, the new report has been written by Anders Petterson, Founder of ArtTactic, the leading art market analysis firm. This is the second report that ArtTactic has authored for TEFAF. The report will be downloadable from the TEFAF website from 10am CET on Friday 6th March 2020. The TEFAF Art Market Report: Art Patronage in the 21st Century is a forward-looking report examining philanthropic giving to the visual arts, focusing on recent innovations and trends in art patronage, with a particular focus on the impact ... More |
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| | New discoveries in Iraq to be presented alongside British Museum objects for the first time in new exhibition | | Andy Gill, radical guitarist with Gang of Four, dies at 64 | | Roland Gebhardt debuts new Minimalist work at David Richard Gallery, New York |
Figure of a Parthian horseman; fired clay; Nineveh, Iraq, 200 BC 200AD © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- A new British Museum touring exhibition Ancient Iraq: new discoveries marks the first time that the Museum will tour new Iraq field research in combination with key objects from the Museums collection. Exploring the cultural heritage of Iraq through 80 remarkable objects, the exhibition seeks to highlight the challenges of protecting Iraqs rich and diverse cultural heritage following decades of conflict. This new exhibition will travel exclusively to two UK venues in Newcastle and Nottingham between March and December 2020 through the British Museums National Programmes. Ancient Iraq will present ground-breaking discoveries made by the British Museum and trainees as part of the British Museums Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme. Star objects within the exhibition will highlight the Schemes two fieldwork projects in Iraq: in the south, archaeologists are excavating a temple belonging ... More | |
Performing with the Gang of Four at the Metro in Chicago on 11 February 2011. Photo: Robman94.
by Jon Pareles
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Andy Gill, whose slashing, dissonant guitar playing in Gang of Four inspired waves of post-punk to come, died Saturday in London. He was 64. The band announced his death on its website. A band spokesman said the cause was pneumonia. Gang of Fours music was stark and bristling, yet danceable. Reimagining punk, funk and reggae with analytical rigor, the band set telegraphic lyrics and shards of guitar noise against austerely propulsive beats and syncopated silences. Its brusque, angular style would directly or indirectly influence post-punk and indie-rock bands like Red Hot Chili Peppers (who chose Gill to produce their debut album), the Jesus Lizard, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Franz Ferdinand and Protomartyr. Michael Hutchence of INXS once said that Gang of Fours music took no prisoners, adding, It was art ... More | |
Roland Gebhardt, Untitled (LV0081.048), 2019. Carved poplar. Each Column: 26 x 3.75 x 3.75 inches, sold separately. Installation: Variable depending on number of columns, spacing, and configuration. © 2020 David Richard Gallery, LLC. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery announces New York-based artist, Roland Gebhardt in his debut exhibition with the gallery and solo presentation of his recent studio works. The presentation consists of 14 wall-mounted sculptures produced from 2017 through 2019 in a variety of materials, including zinc, aluminum and paper and the debut of a new installation piece comprised of 49 vertical wooden columns with slices removed in Gebhardts usual serial fashion that explore various permutations of cuts and orientations on different faces, each placed on the floor in an array. The new floor piece can be arranged in many different permutations to make a site-specific intervention that is unique to each space. The wood planks are also sold individually. The exhibition is on view from January 26 - February 21, 2020 ... More |
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| | Pace announces representation of Torkwase Dyson | | Fight for survival: Photographer Claudia Andujar defends Brazil's Yanomami | | Cloning musical heritage in the key of 3D |
Torkwase Dyson, Blackshore Line, acrylic, 5 x 4 x 3' © Torkwase Dyson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery now represents American painter Torkwase Dyson in cooperation with Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, with whom Dyson currently works. Torkwase Dysons radical approach to artmaking interrogates historical and existing infrastructure and architecture to engage with form as power, particularly as it has affected black bodies and consciousness. Working in a space between abstraction and representation, her multidisciplinary practice includes drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance, and writing with painting as the key element informing all other media. In Dysons work, the body acts as a conceptual nexus that encompasses subjects that range from bridges, levees, and rivers, to global industry and the Anthropocene. She explores this through what she calls Black Compositional Thought, a mode of awareness that contends with formal applications of mark-making and constructions ... More | |
Swiss-born Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar looks at pictures on a book during an interview with AFP. Nelson ALMEIDA / AFP.
by Allison Jackson
SAO PAULO (AFP).- Swiss-born photographer Claudia Andujar has spent five decades fighting to protect the rights of Brazil's Yanomami tribe. But the feisty octogenarian says her battle is not over. Andujar began documenting the Yanomami in 1971 after visiting members of the group deep inside the Amazon rainforest in the northwestern state of Roraima, near the Venezuelan border. She hopes a major retrospective of her work on view in Paris will call attention to the renewed threats they face under President Jair Bolsonaro, who is pushing to legalize mining and farming in protected native territory. "The Yanomami are my relatives, they are part of my family and I want to defend my family," Andujar, 88, tells AFP at her Sao Paulo apartment. Spending weeks at a time with the Yanomami, whose territory in Brazil covers ... More | |
Musician Mina Jang holds the 3D-printing replica (L) of a wooden transverse flute (R) at the music lab of the Music Museum ("Musee de la Musique") at the Philarmonie in Paris on January 17, 2020. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
by Rana Moussaoui
PARIS (AFP).- When Mina Jang played the same melodious tune on two different flutes behind a screen, she said the examiners grading her couldn't tell the difference. Yet the two instruments were made in dramatically different ways. One was a handmade version of an original early 18th-century flute crafted in 2001, while the other was made of white plastic and "cloned" using a 3D printer in 2019. The Museum of Music in Paris, whose collection includes a 2,500-year-old flute made of a vulture bone, has recently begun experimenting with the technique in an effort to better preserve period instruments. "The idea was to find out how to rapidly obtain a copy of an instrument whilst respecting the original flute," said the 35-year-old ... More |
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| | Peter Serkin, 72, dies; Pianist with pedigree who forged a new path | | Hauser & Wirth opens a focused presentation of over 60 landscape photographs by Don McCullin | | Convent on a hill to become a luxurious getaway for history buffs |
The pianist Peter Serkin plays during the Peoples' Symphony Concerts series at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York, on March 30, 2013. Richard Termine/The New York Times.
by Anthony Tommasini
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Peter Serkin, a pianist admired for his insightful interpretations, technically pristine performances and tenacious commitment to contemporary music, died Saturday morning at his home in Red Hook, New York, in Dutchess County, near the campus of Bard University, where he was on the faculty. He was 72. His death, from pancreatic cancer, was announced by his family. Serkin was descended from storied musical lineages on both sides of his family. His father was eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin; his maternal grandfather was influential conductor and violinist Adolf Busch, whose musical forebears went back generations. By 12, Peter Serkin was performing prominently in public, and he soon seemed poised to continue the legacy of his father, who was known for authoritative accounts of the central European repertory. His first two recordings, ... More | |
Don McCullin, The Road to the Somme, France, 1999 (detail). Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 37 x 54 cm. Sheet: 49.5 x 61 cm. © Don McCullin. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth Somerset is presenting Don McCullin. The Stillness of Life, a focused presentation of over 60 landscape photographs, mapping Sir Don McCullin CBEs intimate relationship with the local landscape of Somerset and continued passion for global travel since the 60s. Regarded as one of the most accomplished war photographers of recent times, McCullin has spent the last six decades travelling to remote locations and witnessing harrowing scenes of conflict and destruction. Often referring to the British countryside as his greatest salvation, McCullin demonstrates the full mastery of his medium with stark black and white images resonating with human emotion. This personal survey depicts scenes from across the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia, revealing McCullins innermost feelings through powerful compositions of wild heavens, haunting vistas and meditative still lifes. Having been evacuated to the sa ... More | |
The former convent built by the Community of St. Mary, the first Anglican/Episcopalian religious Order in the U.S., near Peekskill, N.Y. Rick Loomis/The New York Times.
by Alyson Krueger
PEEKSKILL (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Anyone who has driven on Route 9 around Peekskill has probably seen what looks like a castle atop a cliff rising 300 feet above the Hudson River. The mysterious area, known as Fort Hill, has a rich history. From a small Native American tribe that had a deep connection to the land there to George Washingtons army, which used the bluffs as a lookout during the Revolutionary War, to the countrys oldest Anglican order, which built a convent there, Fort Hill has always changed with the times. Now it will be the site of a luxury hotel. The Abbey Inn & Spa, scheduled to open in March, will be located in the old convent. It will have 42 rooms, many with panoramic views of the Hudson Valley. And in a boon for both local preservationists and business interests, who debated the fate of the Abbey and its historically significant environs ... More |
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Monique Van Vooren, actress with a diverse résumé, dies at 92
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Monique Van Vooren, the Belgian-born actress and singer whose highly eclectic résumé included roles in Tarzan and the She-Devil, Andy Warhols Frankenstein, the pop art television series Batman and Wall Street, died on Jan. 25 at her home in Manhattan. She was 92. The death was confirmed by Geoffrey Bradfield, a longtime family friend. Van Vooren found fans in many places. Some U.S. moviegoers knew her from her cult classic films. Others recognized her from her appearances on game shows like To Tell the Truth and Password. Big-city nightclub patrons knew her as a cabaret headliner. Her profile photos on Facebook included shots of herself with Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and David Bowie. In Van Voorens youth, writers tended to describe her in terms of her physical attributes at ... More
MAGASIN des Horizons opens solo exhibitions of works by Minia Biabiany and Ãlvaro Barrios
GRENOBLE.- Following up on the exhibition I Remember Earth, the MAGASIN des Horizons continues to explore ecologically engaged art practices. Interweaving poetry and politics, the Grenoble art center foregrounds the environmental awareness of predominantly female artists. Minia Biabianys exhibition approaches the issue of ecology from a non-Western, and more specifically Caribbean, perspective. Thanks to its poetic, ephemeral form, the artists work forces us to take a closer look at previously ignored aspects of French colonial history, which is perpetuated through pernicious acts of covert violence. Featured concurrently, the exhibition of Ãlvaro Barrioss work brings the discussion to focus on the history of bloodshed in the Caribbean region. Minia Biabianys oeuvre forges a dialog between the exhibition space and a meticulous installation ... More
Modernist jewelry, American paintings, and fine silver: Michaan's February Gallery Auction
ALAMEDA, CA.- Saturday, February 8 is the date set for Michaans next Gallery Auction in beautiful Alameda, California. This is the time and place to discover one-of-a-kind fine collectibles, fine art and Asian art, exciting jewelry and rare furnishings. In February Michaan's invites you to replace humdrum barware with a collection of Baccarat crystal, and set the table of your dreams with sterling flatware by Georg Jensen or Shreve & Company. Find inspiration in Michaans selection of fine art, whether you favor the bold lines of Sol LeWitt or a French farm landscape from the mid-19th century. Michaans offers furniture with a history and handmade rugs with the allure of family heirlooms. There are great finds in every department. Fine jewelry, a perennial highlight at Michaan's, brings extra sparkle to the auction on February 8. Diamond rings are ... More
Daniel Zimmermann's first retrospective opens at Kunsthaus Pasquart
BIEL/BIENNE.- Daniel Zimmermann (b. 1966, CH) is a visual artist and film-maker. His films, installations and performances touch the interface between visual art and action. The artist reacts to situations and environments and questions the meaning and sustainability of human behaviour. The Swiss artists one-person exhibition is his first retrospective. It presents the new film installation Walden in the context of older videos, photographs and installations that through their juxtaposition emphasise the diversity of his practice. A publication on Walden will accompany the exhibition. Shortly before digging in preparation for the extension to the Kunsthaus Pasquart, in 1998 Daniel Zimmermann, who at the time lived and worked in Biel, laid out a structural area with 10'000 wooden strips. The ground plan of the extension determined the form ... More
WIELS opens an exhibition of works by Thao Nguyen Phan
BRUSSELS.- WIELS starts 2020 with the beautiful and sensitive work of Thao Nguyen Phan, titled Monsoon Melody. This exhibition, her largest to date, presents three film installations: Tropical Siesta (2017), Mute Grain (2019) and Becoming Alluvium (2019). These are featured alongside paintings on different supports: from silk and lacquer paintings to watercolours on the printed pages of a book. In her work, Phan draws from the rich and turbulent history of her native country, Vietnam. Her art transgresses a purely historical point of view to incorporate an interest in literature and language. Through storytelling, mixing official and unofficial history, it subtly reveals the forgotten and the forgettable while proposing an alternative present-day reality infused with beauty. Each film is accompanied by a series of paintings, whose fairy-tale imagery is undercut ... More
Haus der Kunst presents two new art works in experimental format
MUNICH.- Capsule 11 presents a new installation by the German/Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu (b. 1987 in Hai Duong, Vietnam) forming her largest and most expansive work to date. Entitled Zugzwang, this multimedia installation investigates the psychological effects of administrative apparati and the politics of its subsequent design aesthetics. The interior spaces of immigration bureaus, registration offices and modern penal institutions constitute Tieus point of departure. For example, the stainless-steel seats were produced by a manufacturer of prison furniture in England, and display a striking similarity to those in the waiting rooms of administrative buildings. The exhibition space is dominated by these seating arrangements; two large shelves designed by the artist and framed documents forms for asylum, residency and naturalization. Based upon ... More
Kristen Lorello opens a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Takuji Hamanaka
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Takuji Hamanaka. The exhibition is the artist's first with the gallery and features mosaic-inspired compositions created with multiple collaged, woodblock-printed papers. The start of each work involves printing hundreds of sheets of paper in single colors using the 'Bokashi' technique, a method used by 19th Century artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige in which a woodblock is colored unevenly to create the sense of a fade or gradient of color when pressed onto paper. Selecting limited combinations of color, Hamanaka cuts smaller pieces from the initial prints and arranges them onto paper within planned compositions. Bands and curves appear as though spliced together, while sliding rectangles, and irregular cracked surfaces reveal dimensional lattices, suggesting ... More
Showbiz apes find peace through painting in Florida retirement
WAUCHULA (AFP).- One of them worked alongside Clint Eastwood, others acted in the remake of sci-fi classic "Planet of the Apes", while yet another was the darling favorite of Michael Jackson. They are the 53 chimpanzees and orangutans who live in a unique sanctuary in central Florida. All of these great apes were raised by humans and lack the basic survival skills to ever live in the wild. They do not know how to gather food, and the mothers would be incapable of caring for their offspring. For that reason, they had no other place to go when Hollywood or scientific research labs had no more use for them, or when they grew too big and powerful for their celebrity owners to continue caring for them. The lucky ones make the final journey to this oasis, officially known as the Center for Great Apes (CGA) in Florida, in the southeastern US. It is the only accredited ... More
Victoria Miro exhibits Doppelgänger, a video installation by Stan Douglas
LONDON.- Victoria Miro is presenting Doppelgänger, a video installation by Stan Douglas. Debuted at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, this ambitious work is exhibited for the first time in the UK. Doppelgänger is concurrently on view at David Zwirner, New York, until 22 February 2020. Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs and more recently theatre productions and other multidisciplinary projects that investigate the parameters of their medium. His ongoing inquiry into technologys role in image-making, and how those mediations infiltrate and shape collective memory, has resulted in works that are at once specific in their historical and cultural references and broadly accessible. Doppelgänger is set in an alternative present. Displayed on two ... More
Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Martin Laforêt
LONDON.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery opened the first ever solo exhibition by the French artist Martin Laforêt. Inside Out features ten limited-edition objects combining the mould as part of the piece, and blends concrete with oak and bronze for the first time. Julien Lombrail, Co-founder of Carpenters Workshop Gallery comments :Weve been working with Martin since he graduated and are proud to see him mature into an incredible designer. We feel fortunate to host his first solo exhibition and cant wait to share his new works in London from January and at PAD Paris. The relationship between materials is a main feature of Laforêts work. In his oak and concrete monumental lamps and coffee table, the two materials react with each other to give them their unique character and colour. The bronze collection has been completed using the lost-wax ... More
Conservation students assist museum with research on North Bersted Man for major exhibition
CHICHESTER.- The School of Conservation at West Dean College recently welcomed students to a brand new facility for science teaching and research in support of conservation and one of the first major projects they are working on is in collaboration with The Novium Museum in Chichester, for their nationally important exhibition Mystery Warrior: The North Bersted Man (January 25 September 26, 2020). The exhibition at The Novium Museum in close-by Chichester reveals the secrets of an Iron Age warrior, who may have fought alongside King Commius during Julius Caesar's wars with the Gauls. The 'Mystery Warrior' was discovered 12 years ago by Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd, during archaeological investigations, prior to the construction of Berkley Homes' Bersted Park. Arguably the most elaborately equipped warrior grave ever found ... More
Steidl publishes Anastasia Samoylova's 'FloodZone'
NEW YORK, NY.- FloodZone is Anastasia Samoylova's photographic account of life on the climatic knife-edge of the southern United States. Sea levels are rising and hurricanes threaten, but this is not a visualization of disaster or catastrophe. These beautifully subtle and often unsettling images capture the mood of waiting, of knowing the climate is changing, of living with it. The color palette is tropical: lush greens, azure blues, pastel pinks. But the mood is pensive and melancholy. As new luxury high-rises soar, their foundations are in water. Crumbling walls carry images of tourist paradise. In the heat and humidity nature threatens to return the place to tangled wilderness. Manatees appear in odd places, sensitive to environmental change. Liquid permeates Samoylovas urban scenes and unexpected views: waves, ripples, puddles, pools, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell was born February 03, 1894. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. In this image: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Four Freedoms, 1943. Assemblage. Story illustrations for four February- March, 1943 issues of The Saturday Evening Post, Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. ©SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.
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