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A museum employee stands in front a model of Cunard's RMS Queen Elizabeth cruise ship on show at a new exhibition 'Ocean Liners: Speed and Style' at the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London on January 31, 2018. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON.- The V&A re-imagines the golden age of ocean travel with the major new exhibition, Ocean Liners: Speed & Style, sponsored by Viking Cruises. Co-organised by the V&A in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, it is the first ever exhibition to explore the design and cultural impact of the ocean liner on an international scale. It explores all aspects of ship design from ground-breaking engineering, architecture and interiors to the fashion and lifestyle aboard. Ocean Liners: Speed & Style showcases over 250 objects, including paintings, sculpture, and ship models, alongside objects from shipyards, wall panels, furniture, fashion, textiles, photographs, posters and film. It displays objects never-before-seen in Europe, and reunite objects not seen together since on-board these spectacular vessels, which revolutionised ocean travel from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The owner of the Car Museum, Luis Spadafora, poses next to the restored Cadillac of Argentine former president Juan Domingo Peron on January 30, 2018 during its presentation at the museum of the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires, where it will be permanently exhibited. The convertible Cadillac ordered by the three-time president in 1955 but which he never got to ride, was restored by the Car Museum Foundation. Emiliano Lasalvia / AFP
| Playwright Tennessee Williams is the subject of a major exhibition at The Morgan | | Exhibition is first to explore Paul Klee's impact on mid-20th-century American art | | Major exhibition re-creates the sumptuous ambiance of Napoleon's court |
Photographer unknown, Tennessee Williams on the Twentieth Anniversary of The Glass Menagerie, New York, 4 May 1965, photographic print, Tennessee Williams Collection, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
NEW YORK, NY.- The plays of Tennessee Williams (19111983) are intimate, confessional, and autobiographical. They are touchstones not only of American theatrical history but American literary history as well. During the period 1939 to 1957, Williams composed such masterpieces as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, cementing his reputation as Americas most celebrated playwright. By 1955 he had earned two Pulitzer Prizes, three New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, and a Tony. Williams embraced his celebrity even as he struggled in his private life with alcohol and drug addiction and a series of stormy relationships with lovers. Moreover, he was often at odds professionally with critics and censors concerned about the sexuality and other subject matter, then unconventional, explored in his plays. He found ... More | |
Paul Klee, Figure of the Oriental Theater, 1934, Oil on fabric mounted on cardboard, 20 1/2 x 50 1/2 in., The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, acquired 1942.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Together with the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, The Phillips Collection is presenting Ten Americans: After Paul Klee. The first exhibition to explore the seminal role of Swiss-born artist Paul Klee in the development of mid-20th-century American art, the exhibition includes more than 60 works from collections in the United States and Switzerland. Ten Americans: After Paul Klee is on view February 3 through May 6, 2018. Shedding new light on important figures in American Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painting, Ten Americans reveals the broader context of global cultural exchanges between the United States and Europe in the decades after World War II. The exhibition is the first to feature works by Klee in dialogue with William Baziotes, Gene Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Norman Lewis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Theodoros Stamos, Mark Tobey, and Bradley ... More | |
Andrea Appiani (1754-1817), Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, in the Uniform of a General in the Army of Italy, 1801, oil on canvas. Montreal, private collection. Photo MMFA, Christine Guest.
MONTREAL.- Welcome to the Imperial Palace! The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Napoleon Art and Court Life in the Imperial Palace, a major exhibition that re-creates the sumptuous ambiance of Napoleons court through the eyes of the Grand Officers and artists of the Emperors Household. Over 400 art works and objects from the French palaces, most of them never before been displayed in North America, reveal the essential role played by the Imperial Household during Napoleons reign, from his coronation in 1804 to his exile in 1815. Some fifty distinguished lenders have allowed the museum to bring together in Montreal works from such institutions as the Louvre, the Château de Fontainebleau, the Mobilier national, the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Art Institute ... More |
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| Eli Wilner & Company's recent museum funding projects | | First UK exhibition of American artist Ena Swansea on view at Ben Brown Fine Arts | | Exhibition tells the story of Alphonse Mucha's epoch-making influence on poster art |
An Eli Wilner & Company master carver restores losses to the punchwork on the gilded spandrel from the original frame on Aiken-Rhett House Museum's "Madonna of the Chair" painting.
NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Wilner & Companys most recent series of philanthropic efforts has greatly benefited a long list of museums and cultural institutions nationwide. Many smaller or moderately-sized institutions who are providing arts exhibitions and education to their local populations, are limited in their ability to afford the high-end framing and frame restoration that they need to optimally showcase their collection. Wilners museum funding program helps subsidize these costs to bring these projects within reach of each institutions existing budget, providing framing services that meet the picture framing ateliers four decades of high standards. During 2017, Wilner museum projects included the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, which reframed a Ben Shahn artwork, and the Allen Memorial Museum at Oberlin College who worked with ... More | |
Ena Swansea, stop sign, 2017 (detail), oil and acrylic on cotton, 121.9 x 152.4 cm; (48 x 60 in.)
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting the first UK exhibition of American artist Ena Swansea, whose work has been widely exhibited in the United States and abroad. The exhibition is comprised of nine mesmerizing oil, acrylic and graphite paintings, monumental in size and typically void of any specific narrative. In 2005, Swansea's works were first exhibited in the UK as part of the landmark exhibition, The Triumph of Painting at London's Saatchi Gallery, which was devoted to the primacy of painting at the root of artistic expression. Swansea's new paintings, produced over the course of the last year, allude to the artist's background in film and digital art, which has led her to continually introduce elements normally associated with these technologies to otherwise traditional painting techniques. Using photographs of the world around her as source material, the city scenes, rural studies and atmospheric portraits she depicts h ... More | |
Alphonse Mucha explores the links between the worlds of nature and the city, consumption and beauty in Muchas art through posters, lithographs, jewellery, utility objects, sketches, photographs and paintings.
COPENHAGEN.- ARKENs big exhibition of the Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha introduces Muchas aesthetic universe and unfolds the many contradictory tendencies of the fin de siècle period between nature and city, consumption and beauty, the material and the spiritual. Long, loose hair, swirling organic patterns and sensual women are the basic elements in the seductive universe of the Czech-born Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha. Mucha made his own unique mark on Paris in the time after 1900 with ground-breaking poster art, jewellery design and shop décor. On 3 February 2018 ARKEN opens a grand exhibition presenting 125 works by this wide-ranging artist. Alphonse Mucha explores how Art Nouveau with Mucha as designer-in-chief of the image and experience of the city paved the way for the thoroughly ... More |
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| Blain/Southern exhibits a selection of landscape paintings and drawings by Avigdor Arikha | | Metro Pictures opens exhibition of nineteen new monochromatic paintings by David Maljkovic | | Phillips expands its presence in China with appointment of Zhang Wenjia as Regional Director |
Avigdor Arikha, The Augustinian Nun's sanatorium, 2001, Unframed, Pastel on velvet paper, Courtesy the Estate of Avigdor Arikha and BlainSouthern, Photo: Thierens and Long Photography.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern presents Landscapes, a selection of landscape paintings and drawings by Avigdor Arikha (1929-2010), one of the great observational artists of the late twentieth century. The gallery now represents the Estate of Avigdor Arikha and Landscapes is the first exhibition of the artists work. The exhibition is on view on the second floor, beginning a new programme of simultaneous exhibitions at the Berlin gallery. While Avigdor Arikha is highly regarded for his interiors, still lifes and portraits, most of which he painted in his Paris studio, he also spent long periods in Israel and New York, and he never failed to take his pencil or brush along with him. Spending summers in Israel, he painted the warm walls, arid hills and desert vegetation, and during his frequent trips to New York City, the citys rhythmic, rising grids ... More | |
David Maljkovic, Alterity Line, 2002-2017. Oil paint on canvas mounted to dibond with laser etching, 22 1/16 x 17 3/16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Maljkovics exhibition Alterity Line at Metro Pictures includes a series of paintings and expands upon his practice of reconfiguring and re-presenting his earlier works into site-specific installations. The intricate transformation of works from various stages of his practice into new ones functions to obfuscate hierarchies between media and artworks, considering the relationship between arts autonomy and its formal developments, the nature of the gaze and the complexities of time. Nineteen new monochromatic paintings mounted on aluminum hang throughout the gallery, each laser-etched with small drawings, many that Maljkovic found in his old sketchbooks. Referring to the production of these works, he exhibits inside vitrines three utilitarian grates that the mounted canvases ... More | |
Before joining Phillips, she was the Senior Advisor to Christies Shanghai. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips is pleased to announce the appointment of Zhang Wenjia (張文嘉) as Regional Director, China, based in Shanghai. In her role, Ms. Zhang will be responsible for developing the companys client base and representing Phillips Asia and global business in China. Ms. Zhang brings a wealth of experience in the fields of art and communications. Before joining Phillips, she was the Senior Advisor to Christies Shanghai. She also served as Director of ShanghART Gallery in Beijing and Executive Director at YUAN Space. She successfully developed many art partnerships, client engagement exhibitions and events in her previous role. In addition to Mandarin, Ms. Zhang speaks fluent English and French. I am delighted that Wenjia joined our team as we are experiencing exponential growth in Hong Kong and the rest of Asia, said Lilly Chan, Managing Director, Asia, of Phillips. China is one o ... More |
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| Reccord-breaking works of art lead Rago to $6.1 million design auctions | | Rarely exhibited photographs by Hiro on view at Hamiltons | | mumok presents a representative selection from the collection of Alexander Schröder |
Lalique, Le Jour et La Nuit Clock. Sold for: $28,750.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Arts and Auction Centers Design Auctions brought in $6,133,750 on January 19-21. A vast array of property, including the single-owner collection of Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, a record-breaking Arequipa pot, and the inaugural presentation of property from the archives of artist Albert Paley, propelled a consistently strong sale across three days, six auction segments and almost 1,300 lots. Estimates were shattered and records broken during a sale that earned an 83% sell-through rate and suggested that the market for Art Deco is heating up, while desire for modern design overall remains strong. Of the over 400 lots of early 20th century design on offer, works by American makers were among the highest priced. Lot 600, an important squeeze-bag decorated vase by Frederick H. Rhead for Arequipa sold for $93,750 breaking the record for highest price achieved ... More | |
Hiro, Donna Mitchell with Silver Hand, 1968. © Hiro.
LONDON.- Hamiltons presents the work of esteemed photographer Hiro, selected from his diverse and dynamic oeuvre. The majority of prints in this exhibition have not been previously editioned, so have never been publicly seen outside of the magazine pages until now. The exhibition consists of two parts: his rarely exhibited black and white photographs in the front gallery, and his vibrant colour work in the second gallery. Known for the originality of his photographs, Hiros photographic career began at Harpers Bazaar in New York as a fashion, still-life and portrait photographer. Shortly after arriving in America from Japan in 1954, Hiro landed an apprenticeship in Richard Avedons studio. Avedon soon sent Hiro to legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch after he proved too talented not to work independently, and within a few years Hiro had risen to extraordinary fashion photography heights. Hiro began ... More | |
Paulina Olowska Provocative, 2001 Ãl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas 180 x 160 cm © Photo: Sammlung Alexander Schröder/Stefan Korte © Paulina Olowska
VIENNA.- The exhibition Optik Schröder II at mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien presents a representative selection from the collection of Alexander Schröder. This collection includes important works by Kai Althoff, Tom Burr, Bernadette Corporation, Claire Fontaine, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Anne Imhof, Sergej Jensen, Pierre Klossowski, Manfred Pernice, Martha Rosler, and Reena Spaulings, and is one of the most important German private collections of contemporary art. These works illustrate some of the key conceptual trends and positions in the development of Western art in the past three decades, including references to social issues, queer lifestyles, the critique of institutions and the economy, critical investigation of public spaces and ... More |
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Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibits works by Arthur Carter
BOCA RATON, FLA.- With an artistic practice inspired by mathematics and music, it comes as no surprise that Arthur Carters artworks are marked by clean lines and a sense of sophisticated grace. His dedication to balance and precision is evident in the monumental sculptures at 90 Park Avenue South and New York Universitys Bobst Library near Washington Square in New York City the works for which he is perhaps best known and in the exhibition of his work on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art through April 8, 2018 entitled Arthur Carter: Sculptures and Drawings. The exhibition features a selection of Carters abstract sculptures and wall-mounted reliefs. Grounded in the lyrical abstraction of geometry, his work features elegant and meticulously executed squares, circles, lines, and ellipses. The precision inherent in Carters work reflects his lifelong interest in music, having trained ... More
James D. Julia Auctions newly discovered antiques and important historical items offered on Bidsquare
NEW YORK, NY.- Carefully curated offerings and many once-in-a-lifetime rarities are now up for bidding in James D. Julia's Winter Fine Art, Asian & Antiques Auction, taking place February 8-9 on Bidsquare. The Maine auction house hits the ground running this Winter with several stunning collections from across New England including: a prizewinning selection of paintings; Asian works of art; antique archival materials; historical ephemera and the finest grouping of antique powder horns to come to auction in memory. Paul Manships Sagittarius, from a model of the Celestial Sphere, is a star amongst these top-tier selections. This signed and foundry marked bronze comes with a letter dated July 3, 1956 from Manship describing the piece as, "from a model of the celestial sphere I made some years ago and represent constellations for the sky Sagittarius ... More
Dirk Braeckman opens double exhibition at M-Museum Leuven and BOZAR Brussels
BRUSSELS.- The 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia closed its doors on 26 November, marking the end of Dirk Braeckmans show in the Belgian Pavilion. The Biennale Arte 2017 drew around more than half a million visitors, which made it the most important international platform to date for Braeckmans work. The next chapter is his double exhibition at M-Museum Leuven and BOZAR Brussels. Dirk Braeckman decided to study photography in the late 1970s in preparation for becoming a painter. Ten years later, he achieved his first signature black-and-white analogue prints with suggestive and somewhat enigmatic images. They are recognizable, yet flirt with representation, abstraction and the reality of what is shown. Braeckman wants to stretch the moment of the photograph, he is interested in a certain tension or experience, free of any anecdote. ... More
New installation and performance series by artist Brendan Fernandes opens at The Graham Foundation
CHICAGO, IL.- The Graham Foundation is presenting The Master and Form, a new installation and performance series by artist Brendan Fernandes that explores themes of mastery and discipline within the culture of ballet through the use of designed objects that enable dancers to perfect and extend iconic positions. The culmination of Fernandes fall 2017 performance artist residency at the Graham Foundation, the project engages the Foundations historic Madlener House and features collaborations with designers Norman Kelley and dancers from the Joffrey Academy of Dance. In contrast to the grace and apparent ease of ballet as seen on stage, this project seeks to investigate the nature of the disciplines idealized poses, acknowledging and challenging the depth of training necessary to achieve these forms. Working in collaboration with Norman Kelley, Fernandes ... More
Curtis R. Harley Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate hosts exhibition on gun violence
SPARTANBURG, SC.- Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery is presenting A Culture of Violence, a collection of drawings and sculptures by Hartsville, SC artist Jean Grosser. The exhibition opened on January 12 and runs through February 16, 2018. In A Culture of Violence, Grosser analyzes gun culture in the United States. Timely and unapologetic, Grossers works address the proliferation of and societal attitudes towards guns in the U.S. and the impact this culture has on our communities. A New York native, Jean Grosser earned her MFA in sculpture from Ohio University and currently teaches at Coker College, where she is chair of the Art Department. Grosser has received several grants and fellow-ships, including the Individual Artists Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her work has been featured in over 100 exhibitions, collections, and publications both nationally and i ... More
Kari Vehosalo announced as winner of the Ars Fennica Prize Award
HELSINKI.- The winner of the Ars Fennica Prize Award is Kari Vehosalo. The winner was chosen by curator Beatrix Ruf and she justifies her choice in her statement as follows: With my intense encounters with the shortlisted artists for the 2017 Ars Fennica prize - Maija Blåfield, Pekka and Teija Isorättyä, Perttu Saksa, Kari Vehosalo and Camilla Vuorenmaa - still fresh in my mind, I must emphasize the impressively high quality of their artistic projects and the installations and displays at the Kiasma Museum. Making the decision to give the award to one particular artist was not easy, especially considering the power of the exhibition as a whole and the interplay of the artists works in it. Present in the work of all the artists are urgent actual conditions confronting us all with the question of identity, both mentally and physically, and ethical questions laying bare the conditions ... More
New Beirut gallery opens with Eileen Cooper exhibition
BEIRUT.- Beirut-based Letitia Gallery is presenting its inaugural exhibition, a series of new and existing canvases and print works by British contemporary artist Eileen Cooper OBE RA. Under the Same Moon will be on show at the gallery, which is dedicated to facilitating discourse around culture in the Middle East, until 1 April. Many of the new works in the exhibition have been directly inspired by time the artist has spent in Lebanon: her perceptions of the countrys depth of cultural heritage and rich natural beauty and of Beiruts position as a safe harbour. Her canvases offer an exploration of Lebanese myths amidst a landscape bathed in the diffused light of the warm, visceral Middle Eastern sun. These new works sit in conversation with a selection of Coopers existing works that showcase her legacy as a magic realist artist exploring the transformative nature ... More
Chemould Prescott Road opens Mithu Sen's first solo show in India after eight years
MUMBAI.- Chemould Prescott Road presents Mithu Sens solo show in India after eight years. The gallery has been converted into a (Con)Temporary Museum and this exhibition is a preview of an (un)certain future museum show. Five instructional museum pieces will be performed under legal contractual guidelines between the artist and each visitor during the period of the exhibition. UnMYthU seeks to (un)present the artists practice through (un)frequented modes of engagement. The tangible manifestation of the exhibition is a byproduct of twenty years of performance. This museum exhibition is an exploration of performance of identities and the spaces of inbetweenness. Especially in the context of contemporary value creation and value consumption, mythmaking as a method of identity building and the social roles we undertake and discard. Sen employs the medium of life and human experiences as the material for her performances. The ... More
Solo exhibition of Spanish artist José MarÃa Sicilia on view at Galerie Chantal Crousel
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is presenting Phasma, the eighth solo exhibition of Spanish artist José MarÃa Sicilia. This new exhibition brings together a body of major works that are representative of these past years. On this occasion, for the first time in France, the artist presents works from the series La Locura del ver (« the Insanity of Seeing » / 2015-2016). The majority of these abstract paintings combine colourful forms drawn from birdsong and silk embroideries depicting Thomas Youngs interference experiment the scientific observation determining the wave theory of light1. La Locura del ver continues the work on birdsong as well as the sonograms undertaken by the artist since 2010 (El Instante). The work also draws on thoughts which run throughout the entirety of the artists work, among them those dedicated to so-called invisible events ... More
When is Space? An exhibition on contemporary architecture on view at Jawahar Kala Kendra
JAIPUR.- When is space? intends to discuss the contemporary architecture and space making practices in India. Space here refers to the multi-scalar dimensions at which one thinks of architecture, from the idea of the universe, to collective institutional forms to the micro environments created around the self. The exhibition intends to ask the first question: When is space? What does it take for space to happen? It hopes to put together a series of explorations in making space by mobilizing claims, by constructing narratives, by recalibrating boundaries, by responding to contexts of economy and ecology and by interrogating the conventional processes that have produced space. Located within the poignant spatiality of Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, the exhibition intends to converse with the ideas of Sawai Jai Singh and Charles Cor ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni died February 05, 1579. Giovanni Battista Moroni (c. 1520/24 - February 5, 1579) was an Italian painter of the Late Renaissance period. He is also called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of sixteenth century Italy. In this image: Giovanni Battista Moroni - Portrait of a Lady, perhaps Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ('La Dama in Rosso')
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