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Included in the special exhibition at the Phillips is Toulouse-Lautrecs first lithograph, the poster Moulin Rouge La Goulue (1891), which made him an overnight success.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents an extraordinary selection of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrecs iconic and rare printed works from nearly the entire period of his lithographic career (18911899). An inaugural collaboration with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the Belle Ãpoque assembles, for the first time in the United States, close to 100 defining images of late-19th-century Montmartre, drawn from one of the leading collections of prints and posters by Toulouse-Lautrec. The son of a wealthy noble family from Albi, France, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) is best known for capturing the heart of Parisian nightlife in dynamic cabaret and dance hall scenes inspired by the citys burgeoning entertainment district. After training with academic painters in Paris, he established a studio in bohemian Montmartre and was regularly seen at lively hot spots like the Chat Noir, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at part of an historical collection of outfits created for Brussel's landmark Manneken Pis statue during a press preview of the GardeRobe Manneken Pis Museum (Manneken Pis Wardrobe Museum), in Brussels on February 3, 2017. The Museum features some of the most important outfits out of the collection of nearly 1,000 costumes created for the landmark statue. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
| Exhibition at les Abattoirs celebrates the Nouveau Réalisme movement | | First solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Michael Armitage on view at White Cube | | V&A to stage the first ever UK exhibition on fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga |
Mimmo Rotella, Evviva, 1958 (detail), coll. les Abattoirs-Frac Midi-Pyrénées @ Adagp; Photo: René Sultra.
TOULOUSE.- The 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) is an opportunity to present for the first time in Toulouse a collection of Nouveau Realist works. The Nouveau Réalisme movement began in Yves Kleins studio in 1960, where Pierre Restany brought together a group of artists whose collective singularity was "Nouveau Réalismenew ways of perceiving the real." Arman, César, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villeglé all signed the manifesto, joined by Niki de Saint Phalle, Gérard Deschamps, César, and Mimmo Rotella the following year, and later Christo. Nouveau Réalisme addressed the rise in industrialisation and consumerism in society. Drawing material for their works from the daily life of the early 1960s, Nouveau Realists used everyday objects, adverts, posters, junk, neon lights... Their works were however ... More | |
Michael Armitage, Wayaki Way wet nurse, 2016. Oil paint on lubugo bark cloth, 59 1/16 x 39 3/8 in. (150 x 100 cm) © Michael Armitage. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell).
HONG KONG.- White Cube Hong Kong is presenting 'Strange Fruit', the first solo exhibition in Hong Kong by Kenyan born, Britain based painter Michael Armitage. Working in London and Nairobi, Armitage produces paintings that connect with art history, often adapting the strategies and compositions of historical paintings to unpack the cultural and social politics of contemporary East Africa. Although the scenes depicted in his paintings are sometimes bucolic and vivid, this conscious aesthetic belies his committed exploration of pertinent narratives, in particular, the intersection of societal and sexual behaviour against a backdrop of cultural conservatism. Armitage gathers his images from a wide range of sources including news and social media, his own personal memories and drawings from life. He paints in oil on cloth made from Lubugo bark, which has ... More | |
Bolero jacket, velvet with felt and velvet appliqué and beading, Balenciaga for EISA, Spain, 1947 © Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga.
LONDON.- This May, the V&A will open the first ever UK exhibition exploring the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga and his continuing influence on modern fashion. It will be the first of its kind to look at his unique approach to making and will showcase pieces by his protégés and contemporary designers working in the same innovative way today. The exhibition marks the centenary of the opening of Balenciagas first fashion house in San Sebastian and the 80th anniversary of the opening of his famous fashion house in Paris. Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion will focus on the latter part of Balenciagas long career in the 1950s and 1960s, arguably one of his most creative periods. It was during these years that he not only dressed some of the most renowned women of the time, but also introduced revolutionary shapes including the tunic, the sack, baby doll and shift dress all of which remain style staples ... More |
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| New contemporary art gallery opens for Hull UK City of Culture 2017 | | PIASA's American Design sale to feature an ensemble by the great American designer Warren McArthur | | First-ever comprehensive exhibition of David Hockney's pioneering early prints opens in London |
Power in Woman features three sculptures by Sarah Lucas.
HULL.- A brand new contemporary art space, Humber Street Gallery, opened in Hull on 3 February 2017. Located in the Fruit Market cultural quarter, it opened as part of the Hull UK City of Culture 2017 programme. The three storey gallery in a former fruit and vegetable warehouse will present a range of contemporary visual art, design, film, photography and craft throughout 2017, with a café and rooftop bar for visitors. The opening season features two exhibitions running from 3 February 22 March: the first major show to explore the work and legacy of COUM Transmissions, which was founded in Hull by artists Genesis P-Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, a subversive collective that took the art world by storm in the late 1960s, ahead of their later involvement in the musical collective Throbbing Gristle. Featuring materials drawn from their personal archives, and curated by Hull-born Cosey Fanni Tutti herself, ... More | |
Warren McArthur, Coffee table. Formica and aluminium. Circa 1930. Est: 4 000 / 6 000 .
PARIS.- The next of PIASA's twice-yearly specialist auctions of American Design, to be held on Wednesday 17 May 2017, will be acccompanied by an ensemble by the great American designer Warren McArthur (1885-1961), whose iconic style marked an entire generation. With its clean, elegant lines and aluminium tubing, McArthur's furniture epitomized 1930s Hollywood. His pioneering recourse to metal and aluminium gave furniture design a breath of fresh air, and was much admired in interwar Europe. Warren McArthur grew up in Chicago in one of the first Moonlight Houses' designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He was greatly influenced by this groundbreaking artistic heritage and, after studying mechanical engineering and opening a number of car dealerships, he became involved in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix in the late 1920s. Kicking back in a buffed aluminum Warren McArthur chair is like sliding into ... More | |
David Hockney, Self-portrait (detail).
LONDON.- The first-ever exhibition of David Hockneys complete early prints (1961-1964) opened at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. This exhibition is a collaboration between specialist post-war print dealer Lyndsey Ingram, whose new London gallery space opens later in 2017, and James Holland-Hibbert, an established dealer in modern and contemporary British paintings and Director of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. The exhibition includes an impression of every print David Hockney made from 1961, when he began working in this medium, to 1964, including works that have never been seen before. Highlights from the show include a complete A Rake's Progress series, as well as the rare, unique self-portrait ECR (1961) on loan from Tate, and In Memory of Cecchino Bracci (1962) which is on loan from a private collection. To provide context for Hockneys ground-breaking graphic work, the gallerists also aim to include some of Hockneys paintings and drawin ... More |
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| 21er Haus opens exhibition of works by Daniel Richter | | Jack Shainman Gallery exhibits a new body of work by Richard Mosse | | Rimbaud drawings, poem for Verlaine, up for auction |
Exhibition View Daniel Richter Lonely Old Slogans. Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna, 2017.
VIENNA.- The question of how painting can react to the political, social, and media realities of today represents a starting point for Daniel Richters artistic work. For over two decades, he has radically challenged the potentialities of painting. Internationally, Richter is one of the most important painters of his generation, and of great importance for Vienna, not least because of his professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts. From February 3 to June 5, 2017, the 21er Haus puts forth the first comprehensive retrospective of the German painter in Vienna, entitled Lonely Old Slogans. The retrospective surveys 52 works of Richter's development, from his early, colour-intensive abstract paintings to today. Following his large-format figurative sceneries of the '00s with their (art) historical, political and pop culture references, his new works are increasingly abstract and focused on explicitly raw human corporeality and political boun ... More | |
Accompanying the Heat Maps is a selection of smaller framed video stills from Mosses new immersive three-screen video installation, Incoming.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Shainman Gallery is presenting Heat Maps, a new body of work by Richard Mosse. In the chaotic and polarizing new era of Brexit, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump and other signs of a radical shift to the extreme right, this project charts the refugee crisis unfolding across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Mosse has documented refugee camps and staging sites using an extreme telephoto military-grade camera that can detect thermal radiation, including body heat, at great distance. The camera is used against its intended purpose of border and combat surveillance to map landscapes of human displacement. Reading heat as both metaphor and index, these images reveal the harsh struggle for survival lived daily by millions of refugees and migrants, seen but overlooked, and ignored by many. By attaching the camera to a robotic motion-control tripod, ... More | |
A photo taken in Paris on February 4, 2017 shows a copy of "Les caracteres de Theophraste", a prize book received by French poet Arthur Rimbaud in 1870. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The first known drawings by famed French poet Arthur Rimbaud when he was 10 and a handwritten poem given to his lover will go under the hammer in Paris on Wednesday. The seven drawings, sketched in 1865 on two pages of a notebook, are valued by auction house Sotheby's at between 100,000 and 150,000 euros ($108,000-$162,000). "These exceptional drawings, still privately owned, are the only ones that have been attributed with certainty to the poet," Sotheby experts Frederique Parent and Benoit Puttemans wrote in the presentation of the works. "They reflect the universe of a young poet who is already critical of the world around him." Entitled "The pleasures of youth", the collection includes six pen-and-ink sketches and a seventh in pencil. Signed A. Rimbaud, the cartoon-like images -- some ... More |
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| Rikke Benborg's first solo exhibition in a Danish art institution opens at Overgaden | | 2017 Forecast: Data from Invaluable points to solid auction market growth | | TJ Boulting's first solo show with Nick Waplington on view in London |
Installation view. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
COPENHAGEN.- In her first solo exhibition in a Danish art institution, the artist Rikke Benborg best known for her film and video works investigates hysteria as a cultural phenomenon that even today continues to influence our view of women, right down to the language we use. The word hysteria comes from the Greek word for womb. In ancient times people imagined that the womb could become detached, and driven by the desire to be impregnated wander around a womans body causing uncontrollable behaviour. The concept of hysteria of the unrestrained, unreasonable and uncontrollable has thus always been directly linked to the female sex and the belief that a man was needed to heal and control the pathological woman. The exhibition explores conditions for and expressions of the female through the ages, interpreting the many faces of hysteria through works that examine the idea of womens relationship to the supernormal, as well as investigating how humans & ... More | |
Based on the new trend analysis, this same subset of auction houses will eclipse $1.96 billion in total hammer in 2017.
BOSTON, MASS.- Invaluables price archives show total hammer for the auction houses included in the sample set equaled more than $1.7 billion in 2016. Based on the new trend analysis, this same subset of auction houses will eclipse $1.96 billion in total hammer in 2017. Invaluable CEO Rob Weisberg said, The trendline supports what we are seeing on the ground, and demonstrates that the total hammer for our community of auction house partners is steadily growing. While taking into consideration the seasonality of the business, our data shows that the auction market hit a low point in July of 2015, but has been working its way back toward positive territory and sustained growth throughout 2016. Based on a sample set thats statistically significant and representative of the industry at large, we believe the auction industry will reach positive growth in the spring and remain ... More | |
We are lost, But its okay...The found are dead, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 152 cm / 48 x 60 in.
LONDON.- TJ Boulting is presenting the gallerys first solo show with Nick Waplington. For the past three decades he has forged his career primarily as a photographer, and was the first living British artist to have a solo photography show at the Tate in 2014. Yet in recent years he has steadily dedicated a large part of his practice to painting and drawing. He first began painting in 1995, and it developed in 2007 whilst he was completing a long-term photography project in Israel. After taking photographs outside all day, he found he had time and a favourable environment for painting. In contrast to his photographs, which were outward looking, the paintings were abstract and coming more from his internal state of mind as a reaction to the contemporary world around him. His influences have always stemmed from many things: his surroundings, online porn, the Internet, music, political chaos and the contradictions of everyday life. They ... More |
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Thomas Dane Gallery presents Anya Gallaccio's installation Beautiful Minds
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery at 3 Duke Street in St Jamess has established a rich recent history of exhibiting striking large-scale monumental works in its ground floor gallery space: from Steve McQueens moving and powerful film installation Ashes (2014) to Paul Pfeiffers architectural masterpiece Vitruvian Figure in 2013 and Bruce Conners mesmerising Crossroads in 2015. In her exhibition at Thomas Dane Gallery, Anya Gallaccio is the latest contributor to this tradition with her installation of Beautiful Minds, a giant 3D clay printer, that occupies the entire gallery space and over the course of the exhibition be actively printing a scaled effigy of a mountain (to be precise Devils Tower, Wyoming). The machine, built by the artist in collaboration with a group of her recent graduates from UC San Diego, usurps recent advances in mechanical technology, subverting ... More
New photographic works by Liz Nielsen on view at NextLevel Galerie
PARIS.- NextLevel Galerie is presenting Liz Nielsens first solo exhibition at the gallery, and in fact the first in Paris. Titled Force Fieldsthe exhibition brings together new photographic works, that which are in line in the formal and conceptual of her work. The analog color darkroom is a magical place where a pitch-black environment allows only the vision of the minds eye. There, and without the use of a camera, Liz Nielsen creates unique photograms by building her own negatives and painting with light. The way she works in the darkroom is like a musical performance whereby, mixing colors and harmonies, Nielsen creates new gradients. Working with pure color and the edges of each color within the spectrum, Nielsen adds and subtracts wavelengths, playing with diffusion and refraction. Nielsens negatives resemble flat sculptures with moveable parts into which she ... More
Clowns celebrate the art form's founding father in London
LONDON (AFP).- Dressed in bright colours and wearing shiny red noses, dozens of clowns gathered in London on Sunday to celebrate the life of the art form's founding father. Bold make-up, bowler hats and oversized bow ties were on show at All Saints church in east London, as entertainers gathered for an annual memorial service for Joseph Grimaldi who died in 1837. Men, women and children -- including a baby in full clown attire -- squeezed into church pews to sing hymns and read a prayer dedicated to the profession. The service was first held in 1946 at the now-demolished St James' church, Pentonville, in London's northern borough of Islington where Grimaldi is buried. He is credited with creating modern clowning, with famous songs such as "Hot Codlins" which describes an old lady who sold roast apples and "drank too much gin" according to Islington council. ... More
Gallery Elena Shchukina presents the first-ever UK exhibition for Amélie Ducommun.
LONDON.- The exhibition features works from the artists latest series Sensitive Water Mapping, exploring her long-standing interest in questions of time and memory, as experienced through the perception of the natural landscape. Driven by a constant search for the new, a need to arrive at a place where everything needs to be felt for the first time, Ducommun draws creative inspiration from discovering new panoramas and unfamiliar geographies. Sensitive Water Mapping continues Gallery Elena Shchukinas ongoing programme of exhibitions exploring our relationship with nature, with past shows by Allan Forsyth, Luke Jerram, Seung-Hwan Oh, Kyosuke Tchinai and Xawery Wolski. In is in the memories of her encounters with nature that Ducommuns work originates. In Sensitive Water Mapping, richly textured paintings evoke memories of aquatic landscapes. ... More
Art springs from ruins of Rome's industrial past
ROME (AFP).- The ruins of a landmark industrial building in Rome have become home to a thought-provoking art project that casts an unflattering light on the capital's patchy record on urban regeneration. Sections of the abandoned shell of the Mira Lanza, once a factory where soap was first produced in Italy, are now home to a collection of works created by Seth, a French street artist who camped, illegally, on the rubbish-strewn site for two months last year. Now looked after by a group of ethnic Roma migrants, who have set up camp inside the ruins, the paintings and installations created from the on-site debris are already starting to decay. And that is exactly the point, according to Stefano Antonelli, a director of 999Contemporary, the not-for-profit organisation behind the initiative. Piled-up books, which initially appeared to provide a seat for a boy painted onto the brick ... More
Major step in Mackintosh Library restoration announced
GLASGOW.- A major step forward in the restoration of the Mackintosh Library was marked on 3 February 2017, with the appointment of Laurence McIntosh to construct a full-size prototype of a library bay. The company will work closely with the restoration design team to create the prototype which will be based on the design and specification provided by design team lead, Page\Park architects. The specification has been developed following meticulous research into every aspect of the original design and construction of the library from sources including the GSAs own Archives and Collections and the original drawings held in the Hunterian. The work will be undertaken in one of the Mackintosh Building studios this spring, and is expected to take around two months to complete. This a massive step forward for the project and a very exciting moment for the whole ... More
Historical survey of the activities of the independent publishing house Beau Geste Press opens in Bordeaux
BORDEAUX.- In this year of global challenges, CAPC musée hits the ground running with an exciting programme of exhibitions and events. February starts with two new presentations: a historical survey of the activities of the independent publishing house Beau Geste Press, active in the southwest of England from 1971 to 1976, and Ali Cherris Somniculus, the first installment of the exhibition cycle The Economy of Living Things, curated by Osei Bonsu for the tenth anniversary edition of the Satellite Programme the CAPC has been co-producing since 2015. The independent publishing house Beau Geste Press was founded in 1971 by the Mexican artists couple Martha Hellion and Felipe Ehrenberg. Together with their two children, they moved into a farmhouse in Devon, in the English countryside, where, joined by a group of friends that included the artist and art historian ... More
Abraham Poincheval has conceived two new performances for Palais de Tokyo
PARIS.- During his solo performances, Abraham Poincheval pushes back his physical and mental limits. For him, life in autarky, enclosure, immobility or the progressive loss of senses are all means to explore human nature. As with the giant bottle, inside which Abraham Poincheval is going up the river Rhône against its current, the exhibition will bring together several habitations in which, or on which, he has lived for several days. For his solo show at Palais de Tokyo, Abraham Poincheval has conceived two new performances. While testing out the artists body, they will lead him to experience the temporalities of the animal and mineral worlds. This show comes after the presentation of his habitable sculpture Ours (Bear) as part of the group exhibition Inside in 2014, and his performance Vigie / Stylite (Lookout / Stylite) as part of the Nuit blanche 2016, under the artistic direction of Palais ... More
The Kunstverein München opens this year's Kino program with works by Adam Putnam
MUNICH.- The Kunstverein München opened this year's Kino program with Reclaimed Empire (Deep Edit) - an approximately 35-minute video work by American artist Adam Putnam. It consists of 81 video segments produced between 2008 and 2016, including many, which havent been seen previously. It is sequenced specially for this presentation and combines fragments and experiments from the multifaceted practice of Adam Putnam, exploring the boundary between performance and architecture. Reclaimed Empire (Deep Edit) is a video made up of many other videos. It operates. It congeals. It takes you on a journey through mystical landscapes and spaces, with enigmatic architectures and mysterious creatures: a veiled face; sickly clouds; nimbus-like forms hovering within constructed spaces; light and shadow shifting and refracting prismatically; pyramids ... More
Groundbreaking contemporary fashion exhibition comes to Carnegie Museum of Art
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Fashion designer Iris van Herpen (Dutch, b. 1984) marries precision and meticulous handcraft, inventive technological solutions, and a striking, futuristic aesthetic. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion gathers seven years of van Herpens original haute couture for this exhibition: her first North American tour. On view at Carnegie Museum of Art, it presents works from 15 of her collections across a bewildering range of materials and techniques. This Pittsburgh presentation is its easternmost US venue. Refinery Smoke is based on the astonishing beauty, the ambiguity, and the elusiveness of industrial smoke. Seen from a distance, smoke provides a fascinating and dynamic spectacle: at times it seems to be alive, but it also harbors something sinister and ... More
GP Contemporary Gallery presents the first U.S. solo Sam Middleton exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- GP Contemporary, a celebrated branch of Gerald Peters Gallery, presents an exhibition of work by Sam Middleton. The first solo show of Middletons work in the US, the pieces in the exhibition, entitled The Sam I am is Collage, reflect Middletons New York City roots, and the jazz that surrounded him during his upbringing in Harlem. Working in watercolor, gouache and collage, his mixed media work offers expressive improvisations of movement and energy in color and form. They also present a cultural exchange, with collage elements offering a peek into the global exploration that played a considerable role his life. The exhibition opened Wednesday, February 1st and remains on view through Saturday, February 25th. We are honored to present the first solo exhibition of Sam Middletons work in the United States, said Gavin Spanierman, Managing ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, died February 06, 1918. Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt's primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In this image: An auction house worker carries a painting by Gustav Klimt, left, next to a still-life painting by Paul Cezanne, right during a photo call in central London, Tuesday Jan. 12, 2010.
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