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Mark Rosenberg (President of FIU), Jordana Pomeroy (Director of Frost Art Museum FIU), Debra and Dennis Scholl.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presented the opening reception for Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia, featuring the work of nine contemporary women artists hailing from remote Aboriginal areas. Miami-based collectors and philanthropists Debra and Dennis Scholl have lent the artworks, many of which are being seen publicly for the first time. The exhibition is curated by Henry Skerritt. The Miami leg of this North American tour features the full breadth of the collection, with seventy works showcased in the museums Grand Galleries spanning more than 4,000 square feet. The nine contemporary women artists are: Nonggirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Carlene West, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yunupingu and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of Second World War is pictured on January 29, 2017 during the preview days ahead of the offical opening planned for the end of February in Gdansk, Poland. Poles on Sunday got their first -- and possibly last -- glimpse of a new Museum of the Second World War, a project slammed by Poland's right-wing government as underplaying the country's harrowing wartime fate. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP
| Anthropologists uncover art by (really) Old Masters-38,000 year-old engravings | | Why use an aggregator for art? Barnebys is revolutionising the art market by its powers of aggregation | | Scientists discover giant new otter from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in China's Yunnan Province |
Limestone slab engraved with image of an aurochs, or extinct wild cow, discovered at Abri Blanchard in 2012 (Musée national de Préhistoire collections - photo MNP - Ph. Jugie).
NEW YORK, NY.- An international team of anthropologists has uncovered a 38,000-year-old engraved image in a southwestern French rocksheltera finding that marks some of the earliest known graphic imagery found in Western Eurasia and offers insights into the nature of modern humans during this period. The discovery sheds new light on regional patterning of art and ornamentation across Europe at a time when the first modern humans to enter Europe dispersed westward and northward across the continent, explains NYU anthropologist Randall White, who led the excavation in Frances Vézère Valley. The findings, which appear in the journal Quaternary International, center on the early modern humans Aurignacian culture, which existed from approximately 43,000 to 33,000 years ago. Abri Blanchard, the ... More | |
Barnebys founders Pontus Silfverstolpe and Christopher Barnekow.
LONDON.- What is an aggregator when its at home? Many people in the art world have never come across this word before. You have used an aggregator if ever you have searched Autotrader for a car, Trivago for a hotel deal, or Kayak or Apex for airline flights. Most people use one or more aggregators a great deal without even being aware of the term. The benefits are obvious. These operations make access to information and choice easy. You dont have to trawl through thousands of websites to find what you are looking for. So in short an aggregator is a meta-search engine which trawls the data bases and websites of hundreds of sites relevant to your search art auctioneers in the case of Barnebys to find you the best results and the most comprehensive for your search. Barnebys was described by Forbes Magazine as: " The Concierge For Auction Enthusiasts and the French financial newspaper Les Ec ... More | |
Artists reconstruction of two Siamogale melilutra individuals, one feeding on a fresh water clam. Art by Mauricio Antón.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Curator and Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and Dr. Denise Su, Curator and Head of Paleobotany and Paleoecology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History published a paper in The Journal of Systematic Paleontology on the discovery of one of the largest otter species ever found. This discovery was made in the Yunnan Province, Southwestern China, by an international team of scientists from the United States, France, and China. It represents groundbreaking research into the evolution of a little known fossil genus of the otter family. This newly discovered species of otter, Siamogale melilutra, belongs to an ancient lineage of extinct otters that was previously known only from isolated teeth recovered from Thailand. The discovery of a complete ... More |
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| Museum Brandhorst presents a new series of paintings by Wade Guyton | | Jules Verne adventures at Drouot: The first stage of the sale of an exceptional Vernian Collection | | 500-year-old rare book paints a vivid portrait of life in the 12th Century |
Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2016. Epson UltraChrome HDR inkjet on linen, 84 x 69 inches, 213.4 x 175.3 cm. WG3982. Photo: Ron Amstutz © Wade Guyton.
MUNICH.- Over the last two years, Wade Guyton has created a new series of paintings that are on view at the Museum Brandhorst for the first time in its full range and complexity. While minimalist symbols such as the letters X and U, stripes, and monochrome surfaces were the prominent features in his previous work, Guytons new canvases surprise with an array of diverse motifs and techniques: cell phone snapshots of his New York studio, screen captures of the online edition of the New York Times, as well as abstract forms. The latter are in fact extreme enlargements of bitmap files, offering a closer look into the anatomy of digital visual language. The exhibition at the Museum Brandhorst features 35 paintings on canvas, two video projections as well as a series of drawings titled Zeichnungen von Drama und Frühstück im Atelier. For the 120 drawings in this work, Guyton digitally printed on pages torn from art cata ... More | |
Map of The Mysterious Island (Lincoln Island) sketched by Jules Verne (dimensions: 30 X 20,5 cm).
PARIS.- On March 1st 2017, the Boisgirard - Antonini auction house will begin the dispersal of one of the last great Jules Verne collections. Precious testimonies about the author, assembled by Mr. Weissenberg, will be auctioned off under the hammer of Master Antonini. An original drawing of The Mysterious Island map will surely attract bidders. The topography is in English and the map is accompanied by a corrected proof completed by the hand of the author. In addition, a collection of original photographs of the writer and his family, personal letters, original paperbacks, unpublished prints on large paper, will retrace the intimacy of the famous author. There will be rare editions, including two special book covers of the Mysterious Island in French and Spanish, washes and gouaches, original engravings, Hetzel posters in various stages of progress, polychrome theater posters, etc. Slideshow of the main lots of this session: Map of The Mysterious ... More | |
McMaster University Library has acquired a rare, centuries-old travelogue that recounts the journey of Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish merchant whose fantastic journey to Asia predated by a hundred years the famous travels of Marco Polo. Photo: Sarah Janes, McMaster University.
HAMILTON.- At first glance, the book in Myron Groovers hands appears small and unassuming. But contained within the plain, nondescript cover is a centuries-old text a rare travelogue that paints a unique and vivid picture of life in the 12th Century. Recently acquired by McMaster University Library, the text is the first Latin translation of The Travels of Benjamin Tudela, a travelogue originally written in Hebrew by Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish merchant from Zaragoza in Andalus, now southern Spain. The book recounts Benjamins 13-year journey which, from 1160 to 1173, took him throughout the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and Asia along many of the same routes that Marco Polo would famously traverse more than a hundred years later. Its a significant travelogue its the ... More |
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| Contemporary Fine Arts opens first exhibition with works by Spencer Sweeney | | Rarely seen masterpieces on view in new exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery | | Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens presents masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art |
Spencer Sweeney, "Viva Divine Diva", 2016/2017. Oil on canvas, 178 x 132 cm / 70 x 52". SS/M 1841/00.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts announces the gallerys first exhibition with works by Spencer Sweeney (born in 1973 in Philadelphia, USA), entitled Viva Las Vegas. Sweeneys artistic practice stays within the genres and styles of the fine arts, music, and performance. His creative work has always been informed by musical, visual, and social impressions and encounters. Even though the title Viva Las Vegas may suggest otherwise, this exhibition is actually the result of months of introspection and a conscious focus on working exclusively as a painter in the studio. The artist worked on several canvases simultaneously, and with Sweeneys well-known talent as a communicator, it is easy to imagine how in the process, the paintings interrogated and fertilized each other, how they fought and lovingly made up, and then turned away from each other again. The paintings and drawings seem to show emotionally char ... More | |
Rudolf Bauer, Composition 115, 1939 (detail). Oil on canvas, 51 x 45 1/2 inches © Rudolf Bauer Estate and Archive, San Francisco.
NEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller Gallery is presenting The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: the Birth of the Guggenheim, including rarely seen masterpieces from Hilla Rebay, Rudolf Bauer, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Charles Green Shaw, Rolph Scarlett, Penrod Centurion, Irene Rice Pereira, Raymond Jonson, John Ferren, John Sennhauser, Albert Gleizes, Lloyd Ney, Ilya Bolotowsky, Fernand Léger, Alice Trumbull Mason, and Alice Mattern, with works portraying the rise and development of non-objective painting, spanning from 1912 to 1951. This sweeping survey exhibition seeks to exhume from historical misappropriation non-objective painting as a movement of European abstraction re-homed in the vertiginous violence of WWII to the streets of Manhattan and as a historical event in the history of art whose legacy ... More | |
Luigi Bazzani (Italian, 18361927), A Pompeian Interior, 1882. Oil on panel, 28 1/4 x 22 in. Signed, inscribed, and dated lower right: Luigi Bazzani/ROMA 1882.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens newest exhibition Academic Splendor: Nineteenth- Century Masterworks from the Dahesh Museum of Art, is on display January 27 through April 16, 2017. More than 40 stunning paintings and sculptures tell the story of a century that tried to balance deep-rooted artistic traditions while creating new ones. We are thrilled to welcome such a world-class collection to Jacksonville says Holly Keris, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Curator. In the 19th century, Paris was the center of academic art, and home of the French Academy, which ran the premier art school the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts. The Academy also oversaw the official exhibition known as the Salon, one of the most attended cultural event in the city. By following the Academys path, artists gained ... More |
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| Turner Contemporary exhibits works by artists who expand the possibilities of embroidery, weaving, and sewing | | Tina Kim Gallery opens exhibition of new works by New York-based Italian artist Davide Balliano | | Milwaukee Art Museum opens new exhibitions to engage visitors this winter |
Installation view of Joana Vasconcelos, Slash, 2011 at Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary. Courtesy Turner Contemporary. Photo: Stephen White.
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary puts making and materiality centre stage. Entangled: Threads & Making is a major exhibition of sculpture, installation, tapestry, textiles and jewellery from the early 20th century to the present day. It features over 40 international female artists who expand the possibilities of embroidery, weaving, sewing and hand-made processes, often incorporating unexpected materials such as plants, clothing, hair and bird quills. Entangled: Threads & Making is curated by writer and critic Karen Wright, with Turner Contemporary. Wright became fascinated by the various methodologies of making she witnessed during many artist studio visits as part of her regular In the Studio column for The Independent newspaper. The idea for Entangled: Threads & Making evolved out of these visits, in particular one with renowned American artist Kiki Smith while she was working on her epic tapestry Sky, 2012. Grounded ... More | |
Davide Balliano (b.1983), UNTITLED, 2016. Plaster, gesso & lacquer on wood, 72 x 56 inches, 182.9 x 142.2 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by New York-based Italian artist Davide Balliano. For the artists first show at the gallery, Balliano presents several recent paintings created specifically for the exhibition. Inscribed with his austere vocabulary and minimalist forms, Ballianos paintings display carefully synthesized elements that speak to the notion of proportion and consider humanitys place in relationship to the power of the universe. Grounded in the contemplation of nature and its overpowering dimensions, Ballianos research reflects on the scale of the human condition, looking for its core mark through a process of aesthetic reduction. Engaging with abstract forms, Balliano looks at the complex structures of the cosmos, nature, and human-made systems in macro and micro scales, simplifying them to geometric morphemes minimal units of a meaning that cannot be further div ... More | |
Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009), New York, 1980 (detail). 35 mm color slide. Courtesy of Film Documents LLC, © Film Documents LLC.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum is opening four new exhibitions in the coming weeks. From a text-based art installation on the walls of Windhover Hall, to New York City street life explored through photography and media arts, to the first exhibition in a new series focused on paintings from the Layton Art Collection, the Museum is offering a range of experiences this winter. Visitors have the opportunity to see and contemplate the work of a number of notable artists, including Lawrence Weiner, Helen Levitt, James Nares and Eastman Johnson. Currents 37: LAWRENCE WEINER: INHERENT INNATE TENSION, on view Jan. 20April 2, marks the first time in the Museums history that the walls of Windhover Hall are being used to present a work of art. Weiner, one of the central figures in conceptual art, visited Milwaukee in 2013 to familiarize himself with the Museum and to choose a site for his work. He focused on the Santiago ... More |
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Peter Finch's Golden Globe Award for 'Network' up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- Iconic original Golden Globe posthumously awarded to Peter Finch for his role as Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. In the film, Howard Beale has a mental breakdown while on-air. Ignoring the teleprompter, he breaks into one of the greatest soliloquies of American cinema, a wandering but coherent rant about the banks, crime and unemployment. Finally, he urges his viewers to throw open their windows and yell, "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!" Sadly, Finch passed away on January 14, 1977, before he was able to reap the fruits of his labor, said Robert Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. In addition to winning this Golden Globe, he was also awarded the first-ever posthumous Oscar. The award trophy bears a neatly engraved plaque on the front of the marble stand, ... More
Magma gallery in Bologna presents Misplaced: A project by Tellas/Ciredz
BOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery announces the opening of the exhibition Misplaced a project by Tellas/Ciredz. In addition to the display of a series of unreleased artworks, the gallery is exhibiting a great installation in the main hall, created with recycled materials. The aim is that of representing, in a powerful and evocative way, both the geographical and spiritual disorientation, and the twisting of the comforting relationship between man and nature. The collaboration between Tellas and Ciredz is anything but new; in 2015, the two artists worked side by side on the project Becoming Marni, realizing a great number of public murals and installations in Sergipe, Brazil. This project was presented at the 56th Venice Biennale, with the documentary "A grande terra do Sertão. Misplaced tells us about changes: the environmental ones, irreversible transformations caused ... More
SmithDavidson Gallery open location in Miami
MIAMI, FLA.- SmithDavidson Gallery announces the opening of a new gallery in the city of Miami in addition to the Amsterdam location. For more than four decades, SmithDavidson has been presenting the work of significant artists in the Netherlands and at such prestigious international art fairs as TEFAF Maastricht, Art Miami, and Zona Maco Mexico City. Enjoying an esteemed international reputation, the gallery is now bringing its unique collection of modern and contemporary artwork, photography, and Aboriginal Australian paintings to Miami. SmithDavidson Gallery is excited to become a part of the wider Miami art community and within the vibrant and developing Ironside area of the Upper East Side. Miami has become a destination to experience artwork and is now at the forefront of the worlds evolving arts scene with a lively collecting audience. For over a decade, ... More
Kunstverein in Hamburg celebrates its 200th anniversary with exhibitions
HAMBURG.- In 2017, the Kunstverein in Hamburg is celebrating its 200th anniversary. Since 1817, the Kunstverein in Hamburg has been a leading platform for the study, production, and exhibition of contemporary art. It is the oldest art institution in Hamburg, and one of the earliest of its kind in Germany. Throughout the year, the Kunstverein in Hamburg will highlight its rich and eventful history with exhibitions, special presentations, panel discussions, the release of a comprehensive publication, a charity auction, an official anniversary ceremony, and last but not least a big party. How to deal with the 200-year history of the Kunstverein? Invite artists and turn it upside down with them. The History Show casts a retrospective view on the history of the Kunstverein and questions the past from a present-day perspective. The focus is on artists connected to the Kunstverein ... More
The allure of Napoleon: The Bowes Museum exhibits works from its collection
COUNTY DURHAM.- Featuring outstanding artworks from The Bowes Museums extensive permanent collection, The Allure of Napoleon offers an opportunity to learn more about the Museum founders (John and Joséphine Bowes) interest in the Emperor and the age he defined. The show, which opened on Saturday 28 January, charts the emergence of the Napoleonic cult through paintings, prints, books and sculptures, and explores the fascination he generated on both sides of the Channel. It also kickstarts a series of exhibitions which celebrate, via the quality of its own collections, The Bowes Museums 125th anniversary in 2017. Mixing the story of Napoleons meteoric rise and fall with his impact on the fine and decorative arts, the show is divided into five themes: The Political Chameleon identifies the phases of Napoleons political career, from officer in the revolutionary ... More
Exhibition explores the treatment of perspective, depth and perception in two and three dimensions
LONDON.- The Parallax scrolling screening programme, curated by Rebecca Lewin together with artists Nicholas Hatfull, Lauren Keeley and Jackson Sprague, explores the treatment of perspective, depth and perception in two and three dimensions. Incorporating a number of different moving image techniques, the short films in the screening programme draw attention to the ways in which space and movement can be suggested on screen, creating both a precursor and a parallel to the experience of moving through the exhibition of works that will follow the screenings. The Parallax scrolling exhibition presents a selection of new and existing work by Nicholas Hatfull, Lauren Keeley and Jackson Sprague. The exhibition and screening will be accompanied by an exhibition text by Rebecca Lewin. Nicholas Hatfull (born 1984, Tokyo, lives and works in London) graduated ... More
ICP opens the first of three exhibitions exploring the impact of photography and visual culture on society
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography, the worlds leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, kicks off 2017its designated Year of Social Changewith Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change, on view now at the ICP Museum, located at 250 Bowery. Organized by ICP Curators Carol Squiers and Cynthia Young, ICP Assistant Curators Susan Carlson and Claartje van Dijk, and adjunct curators Joanna Lehan and Kalia Brooks, Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change continues ICPs long-standing tradition of exploring the social and historic impact of visual culture. Perpetual Revolution examines the relation between the overwhelming image world that confronts us, and the volatile, provocative, and often-violent world it mirrors. The exhibition proposes that an ongoing revolution is taking place ... More
Hammer Museum opens Jimmie Durham's first North American retrospective
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum presents Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, the first North American retrospective of artist, performer, poet, essayist, and activist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940, Washington, Arkansas) who is one of the most compelling and inventive artists working internationally today. After studying art in Geneva and then returning to the United States and working for the American Indian Movement for several years, Durham became part of the vibrant New York downtown art scene in the 1980s. In 1987 he moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, and then to Europe in 1994. While his work has been widely shown and critically embraced in Europe and elsewhere, he has rarely exhibited in the U.S. during the last two decades. Nonetheless, Durhams work is meaningfully connected to important activities, movements, and genres of American ... More
First solo exhibition in London by Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe opens at Gasworks
LONDON.- Gasworks presents Female Executioner, the first solo exhibition in London by Glasgow-based artist Jamie Crewe. Comprising newly commissioned video, sculpture, print, and text-based works, the exhibition focuses on French writer Rachildes Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel. Exploring what is at stake in historical reclamation, Female Executioner investigates what happens when a queer, transfeminine artist tries to touch, reflect on, or rehabilitate a historical work of fiction which seems to offer them ancestry. First published in Belgium in 1884, Monsieur Venus describes a relationship between Raoule de Vénérande, a masculine aristocratic woman, and Jacques Silvert, a working class boy who becomes her mistress. Together, aided by Jacques sister Marie and Raoules friend the Baron de Raittolbe, the couple invert their genders, acting out a love ... More
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles exhibits films and animations by Jon Rafman and Stan VanDerBeek
LOS ANGELES, CA.- This exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, introduces films and animations by Jon Rafman and Stan VanDerBeek, two artists from different generations, both exploring and working with associative imagery and their effect on the conditioned and the subconscious mind. Derived from the notion of screens and projections, their installations evolve around an immersive cinema and animation experience. The exhibition includes a multi-screen space by VanDerBeek that juxtaposes and conflates animated collages and projections from the late 1950s to 1968, and Rafmans environments that recall virtual reality worlds and video games. The work of both artists together presents an enigmatic, surreal view of the world. Projections loom around us as virtual simulations on screens across our everyday life; equally, they appear within us, as memory ... More
Early aviation collection exhibited for the first time
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum opened the exhibition Clouds in a Bag: The Evelyn Way Kendall Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection Jan. 28 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, in Chantilly, Va. This is the first time these early aviation artifacts have gone on public display since the Smithsonian acquired the collection in 2014. When the first balloon rose over the rooftops of Paris in the late 18th century, enormous crowds gathered to watch. This phenomenon spurred a new age of aeronauts dreaming of what else could fly. The excitement of this achievement was captured much like it would be todayin artwork and on memorabilia; objects such as decorative fans, china, snuff boxes and prints are on display. Clouds in a Bag explores the fascination of the first balloon flights through these pieces. The invention of the balloon ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, the Menai Suspension Bridge, opens January 30, 1826. The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was the first modern suspension bridge in the world.
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