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Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi, A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo (detail), ca. 147585. Oil on panel. Worcester Art Museum, Mass., Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Collection, inv. no. 1940.29. Photo: Image courtesy the Worcester Art Museum.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- On view at the Yale University Art Gallery from June 29 through October 7, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchios Studio investigates a virtually unknown period in the career of perhaps the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519). The exhibition focuses on the claim of Leonardos first biographers that as a boy he was apprenticed to the sculptor, painter, and goldsmith Andrea del Verrocchio (ca. 14351488). Verrocchio is a mysterious personality. While many of his sculptures in bronze and marble are today admired as iconic masterpieces of 15th-century Florentine art, scholars have never agreed on a list of surviving paintings that might be by him, or even whether any of them are by one artist alone. Consequently, previous attempts to determine what Leonardo might have learned from Verrocchio have rarely led to serious proposals to identify the earliest works of that revo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this exhibition, a spectacular design by theatre and lighting designer Keso Dekker, renowned for his ballet sets by Hans van Manen, brings together 130 auricular masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum. A selection of the finest silverware, alongside paintings by Rembrandt and Metsu, prints and drawings, tables, cabinets, gilt-leather wall hangings and brass church decorations, tell the story of this spectacular Dutch Design of the Golden Age.
| Kerlin Gallery opens an exhibition of artworks from the collection of De Pont Museum | | Historical photography exhibition at the Clark looks at Paris in transition | | Legion of Honor organizes first major exhibition to explore the Pre-Raphaelites' relationship to the Old Masters |
Giuseppe Penone, Sulla punta delle dita, 1993. Collection De Pont, Tilburg. Photo: Peter Cox.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is presenting Face to Face, an exhibition of artworks from the collection of De Pont Museum, Tilburg, curated by the museums director, Hendrik Driessen. The exhibition features 24 artworks work from 12 artists: Ai Weiwei, Fiona Banner, Dirk Braeckman, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Marlene Dumas, Roni Horn, Giuseppe Penone, Thomas Schütte, Fiona Tan, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall and Cathy Wilkes. Hendrik Driessen has been the director of the De Pont Museum since it first opened its doors in 1992. During that time, the museum has become greatly admired not only for its well-considered programme of exhibitions, but its world-class art collection. By building relationships with some of the greatest artists of their generation, Driessen has amassed over 800 artworks by 80 artists over the course of his tenure. Driessens aim has always been to focus on a limited amount of artists, each of whom should be ... More | |
Artist Unknown (French, 20th century), Paris Flood, Street with Boats and Cart, January 27-31, 1910, 1910. Gelatin silver print, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. Lent by The Troob Family Foundation.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- A City Transformed: Photographs of Paris, 18501900 explores the documentary role of photographers commissioned to record the sweeping architectural renovations, demolitions, and new construction that transformed the French capital in the second half of the nineteenth century. The works on view demonstrate the technical exactitude and artistry of many of the leading architectural photographers of the era, who provided government officials with minutely detailed, large-format photographs that served as practical reference tools intended to document the changes underway, to preserve the memory of the citys architectural heritage, and to direct future restoration efforts. The exhibition presents thirty photographs and is on view in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for ... More | |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Lady Lilith (detail)," 18661868 (altered 18721873). Oil on canvas, 38 1/2 x 33 1/2 in. (97.8 x 85.1 cm). Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935-29. Courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Truth and Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters is the first major international exhibition to assemble works by Englands nineteenth-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with the medieval and Renaissance masterpieces that inspired them. Through important loans of paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts from international collections, as well as more than 30 works drawn from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the exhibition demonstrates the Pre-Raphaelites fascination with Italian masters, including Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, and Paolo Veronese, as well as northern Renaissance painters such as Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. This exhibition is a remarkable curatorial accomplishment, says ... More |
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| Bharti Kher's first solo presentation in Switzerland opens at Kunsthaus Pasquart | | The Walters Art Museum opens 1 West Mount Vernon Place | | Nouveau Musée National de Monaco opens a focused exhibition of works by Tom Wesselmann |
Bharti Kher, The laws of reversed effort, 2016. Ciment, granit, bois, laiton / Ciment, granite, wood, 170 x 87.9 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and Perrotin. Exhibition view Parkett 1 Kunsthaus Centre dart Pasquart 2018. Photo: Julie Lovens.
BIEL/BIENNE.- Bharti Kher (b. 1969, UK, lives and works in Delhi), works in a wide range of media, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing and installation. Kher refers to her practice as a search for the chimera, the area between reality and illusion. She seeks visual clues and imagery from her daily life as well as different cultures, creating works that are radically heterogeneous. Often monumental in scale, her works map a tension of identities, social roles and gender. In the linking of the animal and human worlds the artist produces bodies as hybrid forms. Although Khers work appears to come from a distant world of fables and myths, it nonetheless takes a critical view of current social phenomena. A leitmotiv throughout her practice is the bindi: a symbol in India of the third eye and a popular ... More | |
1 West Mount Vernon Place interior. Jeffrey Totaro Photograhy.
BALTIMORE, MD.- 1 West Mount Vernon Place, the Walters Art Museums awe-inspiring 19th-century mansion, opened on Saturday, June 16, after a multi-year transformation. Located in the heart of Mount Vernon, 1 West offers visitors exciting new ways to experience the Walters renowned collection in one of Baltimores most distinctive and spectacular buildings. With the reopening of 1 West Mount Vernon Place, we are thrilled to showcase the Walters in new ways, says Julia Marciari-Alexander, Andrea B. and John H. Laporte Director. This project represents the next step in the museums evolution as a place where we can collaborate with the public to create exceptional experiences that are accessible to a wide range of audiences. Through extensive new research we uncovered a rich and unique assemblage of stories that reach from the early history of the United States to the present moment, says Eleano ... More | |
Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #53, 1964. Oil and collage on canvas, 304,8x243,84 cm /120 x 96 inches © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/ Licensed by VAGA, New York.
MONACO.- Curated by Chris Sharp, and with the scientific coordination of Cristiano Raimondi, the exhibition Tom Wesselmann La Promesse du Bonheur from June 29th, 2018 to January 6th, 2019 on the three floors of Villa Paloma in Monaco features twenty-five works, from paintings to sculptures to drawings, realised within thirty years, from 1963 to 1993. Taking its title from Stendhals celebrated claim that, La beauté nest que la promesse du bonheur, (Beauty is but the promise of happiness), this focused survey is dedicated to a number of very specific aspects of Tom Wesselmanns production. These aspects include Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, questions of female agency, their relationship to postwar economic abundance, and of course, the relationship of beauty, as well as the erotic to anticipation. Concentrating ... More |
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| 'Recollection - A Journey After 28 Years' curated by Gregor Podnar opens at PROYECTOSMONCLOVA | | Exhibition at Hunter College Art Galleries presents works by Los Angeles-based queer Chicanx artists | | Perrotin New York opens exhibition of works by JR |
Attila Csörgő, Peeled Still Life IV, 2018, paper, tape, framed cut paper. Courtesy of the artist and Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin.
MEXICO CITY.- Recollection unites works of artists with whom I collaborate today and of those of whom I have collaborated with in the past. It also draws relations between art works or artists known to me for longer, but which have so far only been embedded in my mind. The exhibition is based on personal experiences that partly reach back to my curatorial practices from the 90s and it aims to present a field of open poetic and visual proposals. Recollection brings together 29 artists and their works: Carlos Bunga Tobias Putrih, Attila Csörgő Alexander Gutke, Jimmie Durham Ivan Koarić, Leif Elggren Yuri Leiderman, Marcius Galan Goran Petercol, Ion Grigorescu Jochen Lempert, Herbert Hinteregger Anne Neukamp, IRWIN group Kazimir Malevič 1985, Julije Knifer Hélio Oiticica, Mark Manders Francisco Tropa, Marzena Nowak Anna Virnich, Gabriel Orozco Ariel Schlesinger, Goran ... More | |
Patssi Valdez, Portrait of Sylvia Delgado, c. early 1980s (detail). Hand-painted photograph with ink and pastel, 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm). Courtesy of Patssi Valdez. Photo by Ian Byers-Gamber.
NEW YORK, NY.- Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network of over fifty artists. This historical exhibition is the first of its kind to excavate histories of experimental art practice, collaboration, and exchange by a group of Los Angeles-based queer Chicanx artists between the late 1960s and early 1990s. While the exhibitions heart looks at the work of Chicanx artists in Los Angeles, it reveals extensive new research into the collaborative networks that connected these artists to one another and to artists from many different communities, cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations, and international urban centers, thus deepening and expanding narratives about the development of the Chicano Art Movement, performance art, and queer aesthetics and practices. As referenced in its ... More | |
View of the exhibition Horizontal Perrotin New York (June 28 August 17, 2018) © Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Most people have seen the work of the celebrated French artist JR, even if they dont know it. His rooftop mural of a giant pair of engaging eyes is impossible to miss from the terraces of New Yorks Whitney Museum of American Art, nearly 20 million viewers tuned in to watch U2 perform in front of this dynamic photo during the 2018 Grammy Awards and the 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary Faces Places, which JR co-directed with the legendary Agnès Varda, has been attracting rave reviews since its release last year. Starting out as an artist on the streets of Paris when he was still a teen, JR rose to international acclaim when he won the coveted TED Prize for his socially active art in 2011. The innovative work that won him the prize partially came about through chance. Discovering an abandoned camera in one of the citys Metro stations at age 17, he added photography to his creative talents ... More |
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| Exhibition traces the presentation of intimate relationships over the course of forty years in art | | Cellist brings sounds of 'peace, coexistence' to ruins of Iraq's Mosul | | Chasing dinosaurs in Myanmar's conflict-ridden north |
Sholem Krishtalka, Florian, 2018. Gouache and Watercolor on Paper, 15 3/4" x 11 3/4" (40 x 30 cm) © Sholem Krishtalka, Courtesy of the Artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo Gallery is presenting more than seventy artworks in Intimacy, curated by Stephen Truax. The exhibition traces the presentation of intimate relationships over the course of forty years in painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. Intimacy focuses on the 1980s through the early 1990s, and the present decade, two key timeframes marked by dramatic social change: The former by the tragedy of the AIDS crisis, the latter by increasing public acceptance of LGBTQ-identified communities and medical advances in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In these two periods, the exhibition links disparate formal and conceptual approaches to themes of love, loss, and interrelation. From Paul Cadmus drawing from the late 1970s, to works made for this exhibition, such as Kristen Jensens site-specific ceramic and fabric sculpture, these works celebrate the seemingly unremarkable moments of everyday lives lived to ... More | |
Famed Iraqi maestro and cello player Karim Wasfi performs in front of the Al-Hadba minaret at the the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosuls war-ravaged Old City. Zaid AL-OBEIDI / AFP.
MOSUL (AFP).- Iraqi cellist and conductor Karim Wasfi has played a concert for "peace and co-existence" amid the ruins of Mosul, almost a year after Iraqi forces ousted the Islamic State group from the capital of its self-declared "caliphate". Dozens of people attended on Friday as Wasfi, in full concert dress, played on a makeshift stage among the most iconic religious monuments of Iraq's second city. The venue lay between the Catholic church of Our Lady of the Hour with its famed clock tower and the remains of the iconic Hadba ("hunchback") leaning minaret next to the Nuri Mosque, destroyed during the battle for the city. Wasfi was joined by the violinist, guitar and oud players of local band Awtar Nerkal. "This music is a message from Mosul to the whole world, of the concepts of security, peace and coexistence," said Wasfi. The dual Iraqi-US national is former conductor of Iraq's National Symphony Orchestra ... More | |
This picture taken on May 31, 2018 shows Akbar Khan, a 52-year-old self-described 'extreme fossil in amber hunter' inspecting a piece of honey-coloured fossilised tree sap. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP.
MYITKYINA (AFP).- "Amber hunters" on a quest for a Jurassic Park-style discovery of dinosaur remains sift through mounds of the precious resin in Myanmar -- a lucrative trade that captivates palaeontologists but also fuels a decades-long conflict in the far north. The morning amber market on the outskirts of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state, throngs with traders using torches and magnifying glasses to scrutinise pieces of the honey-coloured fossilised tree sap. Some sell rough-edged uncut chunks. Others tout finished products: pendants, necklaces and bracelets made from carefully polished pieces. The trading takes place just a few dozen kilometres from the fighting between Myanmar's army and ethnic Kachin rebels battling for autonomy, land, identity -- and natural resources that help finance both sides. The jade and ruby industries dwarf the largely artisanal amber trade, but the resin can still fetch ... More |
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Inuit hunting grounds get UNESCO heritage status
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Inuit hunting grounds in the Arctic circle were given UNESCO World Heritage status on Saturday, the UN agency announced at a meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama. The Aasivissuit-Nipisat area, which lies at the heart of the largest ice-free area in Greenland, "is a cultural landscape which bears witness to its creators' hunting of land and sea animals, seasonal migrations and a rich and well-preserved tangible and intangible cultural heritage linked to climate, navigation and medicine," UNESCO said on its website. The area "contains the remains of 4,200 years of human history," it added. According to the Danish historic monuments office, the area covers more than 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 square miles) of fjords, lakes, rural land and ice caps. It becomes Greenland's third entry on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Greenland, which ... More
Ben Schumacher replicates the interior of an after-hours club for exhibition at Bortolami
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami is presenting The China Chalet Group, Ben Schumachers third solo exhibition with the gallery. For the exhibition, Schumacher has replicated the interior of China Chalet, a Chinese banquet hall turned after-hours club located just around the corner from the New York Stock Exchange. China Chalet became a go-to destination in the late 2000s, attracting a socially diverse clientele seeking an alternative to the stereotypical NYC club scene. Its still popular today as a venue for surprise DJ sets from pop stars, incognito celebrity sightings, and a meet-up for artists. Schumachers replica of China Chalet, made from memory at approximately 3/4 scale, falls somewhere between earnest tribute and satire. Booths, audio equipment and tables are constructed with little more than anodized aluminum, screws, and faux upholstery. They lack ... More
Mumbai's Victorian Gothic and Art Deco buildings win UNESCO status
MANAMA (AFP).- Mumbai's Art Deco buildings -- believed to be the world's second largest collection after Miami -- were added on Saturday to UNESCO's World Heritage List alongside the city's better-known Victorian Gothic architecture. The decision was approved at a UNESCO meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama. A not-for-profit team of enthusiasts are in the process of documenting every single one of Mumbai's Art Deco treasures but they estimate there may be more than 200 across India's bustling financial capital. The majority of them, built on reclaimed land between the early 1930s and early 1950s, are clustered together in the south of the coastal city where they stand in stark contrast to Victorian Gothic structures. "The Victorian ensemble includes Indian elements suited to the climate, including balconies and verandas," UNESCO said in a press ... More
Exhibition showcases artworks by some of Australia's most recognisable female Aboriginal artists
BRISBANE.- Women of Utopia is an exhibition showcasing significant artworks by some of Australias most recognisable female Aboriginal artists from the Utopia region in Central Australia. Approximately 230kms north east of Alice Springs in Central Australia, Utopia is the traditional land of the Alyawarre and Anmatyerre people. This region has been and still is home to some of Australias most distinguished female artistic talent. Utopia has grown the genius of luminaries such as Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Gloria Petyarre, Minnie Pwerle, Kathleen Petyarre, Margaret Loy Pula and Polly Ngale. These women have been collected both nationally and internationally with Emily Kame Kngwarreye achieving the highest secondary auction price for any female Australian visual artist to date. The modern art movement in Utopia began in the late 1970s with a group of Anmatyerre ... More
Turkey's ancient temple site gets UNESCO heritage status
ANKARA (AFP).- A Turkish ancient temple site in southeastern Anatolia was given UNESCO World Heritage status on Sunday, the UN agency announced at a meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama. Named Gobekli Tepe (Potbelly Hill), the site is the world's oldest known megalithic structure located in Upper Mesopotamia and is some 11,000 years old. The site, considered to be the world's oldest temple, is in the present-day southeastern province of Sanliurfa and reopened to tourists earlier this year after restoration work was undertaken including a protective roof for the site. The site contains "monumental circular and rectangular megalithic structures, interpreted as enclosures, which were erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic age between 9,600 and 8,200 BC", UNESCO said in a statement. "It is likely that these monuments were used ... More
Napoleon's rifle, silver soup spoon go under hammer
PARIS (AFP).- A silver soup spoon that belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on St Helena and a hunting rifle owned by the French emperor were sold at auction in France on Sunday. Engraved with Napoleon's coat of arms, the silver soup spoon sold for 8,375 euros ($9,700) while the rifle, originally owned by King Louis XVI, went for 80,000 euros in the sale held by the Osenat auction house at Fontainebleau. Also going under the hammer was an 18-page herbarium probably used by Napoleon's wife Josephine, which sold for 70,000 euros. And a bust of the Empress Josephine in her royal court finery by the Lyon sculptor Joseph Chinard went for 32,500 euros. ... More
Installation makes a statement about the issues of race and violence in America today
BOSTON, MASS.- For the installation on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, the Museums Artist-in-Residence, Boston-based artist Steve Locke, created Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray) as a statement about the issues of race and violence in America today. Locke painted an abstract portrait of Gray, a Black American man, whose untimely death after being in Baltimore police custody in 2015 aggravated long standing racial tensions in the city and sparked street protests, police clashes and violence. For the façade installation, Locke generated three distinct monochromes by averaging the pixels of three individual photos of Gray that were frequently in the media. One is a family photo; one is from his arrest; and one is an image of Gray in the hospital on life support. The resulting colors form ... More
Nancy Margolis Gallery's summer group exhibition features three color field painters
NEW YORK, NY.- Nancy Margolis Gallery opened its summer group exhibition, featuring three color field painters from the gallerys stable of artists: Jeff Depner, Gregory Hayes, and John Platt. Each of these artists has earned a reputation for his nonrepresentational paintings in which color and form become the subject of the compositions. Jeff Depner creates bold, visually engrossing compositions through a blend of geometric and curvilinear shapes placed on top of planes of built-up color. Of the three exhibiting artists, Depner makes the strongest use of texture in his works: the viewer is aware of the artists hand in each of his paintings through his use of confident mark-making and crude layering of color. Depners color choices allow for some shapes to recede into the background, while others appear to levitate from the surface. The artists palette ... More
Change is the catalyst for the winners of Dutch Design Awards 2018
EINDHOVEN.- For the 24 winners of the Dutch Design Awards 2018, bringing about change is the most important motivator. None of the designers bow to the pressure of prevailing conventions, structures, systems or patterns (of thinking). Designers draw upon traditional design traits such as playfulness, or inventive narrative concepts as easily as their socially-engaged and disruptive view of the world according to the jury. This 16th edition of Dutch Design Awards presents several prizes per category. The work of all category winners will be shown during Dutch Design Week (20-28 October 2018), when the overall winner of the Future Award will also be announced. This year, three themes stand out. Circularity is currently seen as the way to achieve (climate) goals and designers address these sustainability issues in radically different ways. The designers also ... More
Rob and Nick Carter exhibit entire 'Transforming' series for the first time at Masterpiece Londo
LONDON.- Celebrated British artists Rob and Nick Carter are exhibiting their acclaimed Transforming series at Masterpiece 2018, from 28 June 4 July. The husband-and-wife artistic duo present all twelve Transforming artworks together for the very first time, with Ben Brown Fine Arts, creating a mesmerising body of work consisting of twelve slow-moving, looped films each taking as their starting point an iconic painting, drawing or photograph. In this series Old Master works are brought to life through digital animation. Using artists such as Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, Jacob van Ruisdael and John Constable as a starting point, the Carters aim to re-engage with such works and create a unique intersection between art of the past and cutting edge computer-generated imagery. The Transforming series was originally informed ... More
Laith McGregor wins the 2018 Paul Guest Prize for Drawing
BENDIGO.- Queensland born, NSW-based artist Laith McGregor has won the 2018 Paul Guest Prize for Drawing for the work, This Old Island, 2018. Eminent National Gallery curator Roger Butler selected the work from over 350 entrants, in the fifth installment of this popular national event. "This is an enigmatic work simply pencil on paper," Roger said. At a distance you see two eyes and a nose in a gigantic face that dominates the image. But as you get closer a Pacific Island scene appears. A man with net, huts, palm trees and mountains. The face disappears altogether it is not overlaid on the drawing at all but it is formed by the blank unworked areas. It is not there, but always there. The Paul Guest Prize is a biennial event highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia. Initiated in 2010 by former Family Court Judge and arts patron, the Honourable ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino was born July 02, 1486. Jacopo d'Antonio Sansovino (2 July 1486 - 27 November 1570) was an Italian sculptor and architect, known best for his works around the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Andrea Palladio, in the Preface to his Quattro Libri was of the opinion that Sansovino's Biblioteca Marciana was the best building erected since Antiquity. Giorgio Vasari uniquely printed his Vita of Sansovino separately.
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