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A bronze bell, the first artefact raised from the wreck of Erebus in 2014, is part of the 'Death In The Ice: The Shocking Story Of Franklin's Final Expedition' exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London on July 7, 2017. An exhibition, on the mysterious disappearance of British explorer, John Franklin and 128 members of the crew during a tragic expedition to Arctic, is to be unveiled at the National Maritime Museum in London from July 14.
LONDON (AFP).- A new major London exhibition aims to solve the 170 year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of British explorer John Franklin in the Arctic's icy waters. "Death in the Ice" retraces Franklin's final expedition to discover the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, since its departure from Britain on May 19, 1845. Franklin and his 128 crew members were last seen in July of that year. The two ships, the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sunk in the Artic, and were only found in 2014 and 2016. In a softly lit atmosphere -- meant to evoke the Arctic's piercing cold -- the exhibition will showcase some 200 items, many of which were recovered on the Erebus. The ships' fate didn't become clear until 1859, when a vessel chartered by Franklin's widow came across a somber message on King William Island that revealed that Franklin and 23 crew members had died on June 11, 1847 in unspecified ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day HISTORY / HER STORY presents the work of Abbey Hepner, Jessamyn Lovell, Delilah Montoya, Cara Romero, Kali Spitzer and Laurie Tumer, six artists who take innovative approaches to their chosen mediums and engage with themes of ethnicity, identity, land use, and the environment.
| "Gilbert & George: Scapegoating Pictures for Budapest" opens at Museum Ludwig | | Stars beat a path to huge Christian Dior museum show | | Sotheby's to offer private collection of Charles Darwin material |
Over the decades, Gilbert & George have observed the evolution of their East London neighborhood.
BUDAPEST.- Gilbert & George have been creating art together for fifty years, mainly concentrating on the aspects of modern city existence. The art of Gilbert & George are always centered around the artists themselves who appear in them as Living Sculptures. With their elegant appearance, they communicate about timeless human phenomena through testing the boundaries of existing taboos and artistic conventions. They do not separate their art from their lives; their provocative and shocking artworks are characterized by an intense communication with their audience. The exhibition after appearing in several other museums has been tailored specifically to the spaces of the Ludwig Museum, presenting visitors with a striking spectacle. Over the decades, Gilbert & George have observed the evolution of their East London neighborhood and ... More | |
Dresses by British fashion designer John Galliano (whose picture is seen behind) are pictured during the Dior exhibition that celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the Christian Dior fashion house on July 3, 2017 in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A huge show about the fabled French fashion house Christian Dior which opened Wednesday has had a galaxy of stars making the pilgrimage to Paris. With Hollywood actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and Kristen Stewart already in town for the label's haute couture show, Stewart's "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson queued with models Bella Hadid, Karlie Kloss and Cara Delevingne to get a sneak peak of the retrospective at the city's decorative arts museum. While Dior -- celebrating its 70th anniversary -- has become synonymous with classy highly feminine glamour, fashion was not its founder's first love. Christian Dior came to clothes through art after setting up a Paris gallery to "champion the most avant garde of artists", said the ... More | |
Monkey Microscope. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Darwin enthusiasts will be thrilled to learn that Sothebys is set to offer The Garrett Herman collection, an extraordinarily comprehensive groups of works centred on Charles Darwin, his influences, and those he influenced in turn. One of the largest private collections of works relating to Darwin to come to auction, it encompasses several of the famous naturalists major works, among which a rare first edition of On the Origin of Species, as well as first editions of various other publications in Russian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Yiddish, and Danish. To this is added a wealth of supporting material of a more personal nature, such as several autograph letters (including one to surveyor and friend Edward Cresy, asking for advice on the education of Darwins son Leonard), and also a book containing a signed money order for John Cattell, a local nurseryman from whom Darwin bought plants for many years. Among ... More |
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| Château Malromé, the last residence of the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, re-opens | | Mart Rovereto presents a selection of masterpieces of early 20th century Italian art | | Spruth Magers opens an exhibition of works by Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze |
Daido Moriyama, Sans titre, 2004-2005. Photographie noir et blanc © Daido Moriyama. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris.
SAINT-ANDRÃ-DU-BOIS.- Organised with the invaluable assistance of the Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris, this first exhibition contrasts the work of two giants of Japanese photography: Nobuyoshi Araki (1940) and Daido Moriyama (1938). At first glance, the practices of the two artists would seem to be poles apart. Araki remains loyal to traditional, silver film techniques while Moriyama has, for a number of years, been shooting with a digital camera in many of the major cities around the world, including Tokyo, New York and Buenos Aires. He defines himself as a street photographer whereas Araki is more willingly confined to a darkroom practice. While Moriyama is known for his use of highly contrasted black and white, Araki appears more comfortable in the use of explosive colour. However, both artists regularly venture out of the territory that would seem to be ... More | |
Felice Casorati, Portrait of Renato Gualino, 192324.
ROVERETO.- After a resounding success in Madrid, Rovereto welcomes the extraordinary exhibition produced by Mart and Fundación MAPFRE, An Eternal Beauty, featured in the Spanish capital from February 25 to June 4 under the title Retorno a la belleza. An Eternal Beauty is the historical and ideal continuation of the major exhibition in 2016 titled Painters of Light: from Divisionism to Futurism, featured in Madrid in the spring and in Rovereto in the summer, drawing in close to one hundred thousand visitors. For the second year in a row, the international Italo-Spanish partnership offers visitors to the two museums an exceptional opportunity to encounter a selection of absolute masterpieces of early 20th century Italian art. Both exhibitions are curated by Beatrice Avanzi and Daniela Ferrari. Staged to great audience and media acclaim in Spain, the exhibition An Eternal Beauty traces out an enriching journey through one of the most fertile periods in 20th century Italian art, at a distance of near ... More | |
Rosemarie Trockel, Thea Djordjadze, Lob der Langeweile, 2008 (Detail). Iron, 3 white neons, cord Dimensions variable Installation view. © Thea Djordjadze & Rosemarie Trockel / VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2017. Courtesy Sprüth Magers. Photo: Timo Ohler.
BERLIN.- Un soir, j'ai assis la beauté sur mes genoux. And I found her bitter and I hurt her is a joint exhibition by the long-time collaborators Rosemarie Trockel and Thea Djordjadze. It is the first time that the two installations from 2007 and 2008 are on view in Berlin. The works have an allegorical nature that explores a number of themes pertinent to contemporary art. Issues around the boundaries of media, and the artwork as a fixed concept are called into question, as well as the exhibition space as a representational frame. Thea Djordjadze was taught by Trockel during her years at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Since then, the two artists have maintained a close artistic relationship, completing many projects and exhibitions together. In their respective practices, they seek to address concerns about the process of artistic creation, ... More |
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| Prospect Park Alliance launches massive public art installation for 150th anniversary | | First French solo show of Italian artist Francesca Pasquali opens at Tornabuoni Art | | Visual activist Zanele Muholi presents an arresting depiction of the black LGBTQI community |
A man takes a photograph among thousands of pinwheels in the Rose Garden area of Prospect Park, July 7, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.
BROOKLYN, NY.- Prospect Park Alliancethe non-profit organization that sustains Prospect Park, AREA4 and Suchi Reddy of Reddymade Architecture & Design debut a large-scale public art installation in Prospect Park on the occasion of the Park's 150th Anniversary. On view now, The Connective Project transforms Prospect Park's Rose Gardena littleknown landscape in the Park's northeast cornerinto an immersive, engaging and ever-growing display. The installation features artwork submitted by emerging artists, notable Brooklynites and the diverse communities that consider the Park "Brooklyn's Backyard which have been printed on more than 7000 pinwheels that blanked 2.5 acres of rolling green. During the installation, the public was invited to take part in making additional pinwheels to add to the ... More | |
Pink straws, 2015. Pink and transparent plastic drinking straws on wooden panel and dark grey laquered metallic frame, diam. 50 x 25 cm. Courtesy Tornabuoni Art.
PARIS.- Tornabuoni Art is presenting the first French solo show of young Italian artist Francesca Pasquali (b. 1980). She draws her inspiration from the observation of natural and organic shapes, which she transposes into complex and sophisticated installations, giving new life to plastic, industrial and recycled objects. The show features Francesca Pasqualis most iconic series such as her Straws, made of thousands of coloured drinking straws, cut to varying lengths and assembled to create three-dimensionality and depth. The exhibition also presents her absorbing Frappa shapes, created by assembling spirals of neoprene, and the Bristles series, works made of coloured plastic bristles commonly used in the industrial production of household brooms. The evolving microscopic textures of the natural ... More | |
Bester IV, Mayotte, 2015, silver gelatin print. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg en Yancey Richardson, New York.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is mounting the debut museum solo in the Netherlands of the South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi (1972, Umlazi, Durban). From an insider position, Muholi photographs the black lesbian and transgender community in South Africa. Starting with her very first work, Only Half the Picture, (2006), her arresting, powerful and sometimes witty images have focused eyes on a community that, while it has been constitutionally protected since 1996, remains at risk of horrendous abuse, discrimination and curative rape. Muholi: Weve lost so many people to hate crimes you never know if youll see someone again the next day. Making its Dutch premiere is Muholis latest series Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Black Lioness, 2015 to the present). A series of self-portraits, this body of work marks a radical ... More |
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| One of the most comprehensive collections of South Asian paintings outside of India on view in Austin | | Galerie Richard presents two series of works by Dionisio González | | Galerie Karsten Greve announces exhibition presenting works by eight artists |
Asavari Ragini of Sri, about 1650. Central India, Malwa. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, 1990.950.
AUSTIN, TX.- One of the most comprehensive collections of South Asian paintings outside of India is on display at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin from July 9 October 1, 2017. These dynamic images were originally associated with important literary and religious texts and has been organized according to thematic narratives. Museum visitors will be introduced to the epic stories that continue to hold great cultural value in India and beyond. The Blanton is honored to partner with The San Diego Museum of Art to bring this remarkable collection to Austin, said Blanton director Simone Wicha. The epic stories have much to say about courage, loyalty, love and friendship, and the paintings themselves impress with the delicacy of their technique, the boldness of their design, and the humanity of the stories they convey. This exhibition is sure to delight audiences of all ... More | |
Dialectical Landscape 3, 2107 (detail). 30 x 30 in, 76.2 x 76.2 cm. Digital printing on cotton paper mounted on Dibond and framed in white. Edition 1/7 + 2 A/P.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dionisio González fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Richard New York is about New York City through two Series of works: Dialectic Landscape and Thinking Central Park from June 28 to August 27, 2017. Skyscrapers and Central Park co-exist dialectically. "Central Park is essentially a void. A 4000 x 800-metre void. It was conceived on the basis of an idea of spatiality where density was to be developed, but it is the density of the buildings of Manhattan, in their hyper-growth expansion, that has traced out that recreational rectangle for the dispersion of Homo faber. That is, the park is a void because it works as a courtyard inside the urban detention". In Thinking Central Park the artist fills the space with constructions considered as shelters. At the opposite in Dialectic Landscape he adds some empty spaces for recreational or mobility purposes. Citing Walter Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, and Robert Smithson's article "Fred ... More | |
Gideon Rubin, Untitled (Pink Roof), 2015 (detail), oil on canvas, 90.5 x 102 cm / 35 2/3 x 40 1/4 in.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve announces its show Künstlerräume II, an exhibition presenting eight artists within a diverse parcours, showcasing their distinct formal and substantial qualities. The eight areas created within the gallery space, each dedicated to the works of one artist, do not - as one would assume - amount to hermetically sealed units, but rather through constant changes in perspective and shifting vistas present the spectator with intriguing individual positions as well as associative realms in which correspondences and analogies are foregrounded. The spectator embarks on a journey, his perception evolving with every destination, as memories and experiences from the past - if only a few steps behind - influence the immediate impression and make it resonate with sensations of familiarity and strangeness. One is struck with a sense of amazement when first laying eyes upon the works of Georgia Russel ... More |
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The Connective Project transforms the Rose Garden in Prospect Park
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Jir Sandel turns Galleri Benoni into a storage room
COPENHAGEN.- Art storage rooms and warehouses are particular spaces characterised by special dynamics. Once stowed there, the artworks cease to be precious for their aesthetic and historical values, and switch to a different level of existence, that sees them as objects to be safely protected and carefully put away due to their monetary worth. Along the transition from the gallery or museum into the storage space, the work of art shifts from representing a symbol to being an item; a transition that is reversed as soon as it is brought back to the white cube. But what if these two layers, usually clearly separated, physically merge into one single location? On the occasion of the show Landscape Modern Oil Painting Canvas Painting Abstract Oil Painting Wall Hanging, Jir Sandel has taken over the space of Galleri Benoni, situated in the heart of Copenhagen, and turned ... More
Works by 31 premier Middle Eastern women showcased in London at St. Martin-in-the-Fields
LONDON.- Following the premiere in Amman, Jordan under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, the I AM exhibition, featuring 31 premier Middle Eastern women contemporary artists from 12 countries, is now being showcased in London at the historic church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square, that receives thousands of visitors daily. I AM runs in London through August 20, 2017. Over 400 distinguished guests attended the official VIP opening program on July 3 that included special speakers such as His Excellency Mazen K. Homoud, the Ambassador of Jordan to the UK, Sir Derek Plumbly, Chairman of The Arab British Centre and Vanessa Branson, Founder of the Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. Special guest sopranos Dima Bawab and Margo Arsane performed, together with piano accompanist Toby ... More
"From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word" on view at The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
GENEVA.- The Centre dArt Contemporain Genève is presenting a major project dedicated to contemporary poetry and its various modes of dialogue within the visual culture of our era. The goal of this complex exhibition program is to highlight how in recent years, contemporary art has begun to show a revived and growing interest in the world of poetry and the written and spoken word. Poetry readings and recitals in museums, performances centered on the importance of the text and its recitation, videos where poetic language takes on a role that rivals the visual component: the art of our time appears to be deeply and intimately rooted in words. Just when its fate seemed sealed for good in this chaotic and (seemingly) aphonic civilization of images, the word has returned to the fore among young artists and the viewing public. The Centres program, while tracing ... More
Sun Xun's Time Spy (a 3D Animation film) brings a new dimension to Times Square
NEW YORK, NY.- In partnership with the Audemars Piguet Art Commission, Times Square Arts presents artist Sun Xuns Time Spy on Times Squares electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight every night in July. This project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts. One of Chinas most prominent young artists, Sun Xun created Time Spy for the second Audemars Piguet Art Commission in partnership with Sean Kelly Gallery, Edouard Malingue Gallery and Shanghart Gallery as part of a large-scale immersive multimedia installation first presented during Art Basel in Miami Beach in December 2016. A violin with wings flies through a sky filled with spinning moons, while rotating machinery gives way to strange landscapes and pressure valves. These chimerical images come together ... More
Group show explores the contemporary nature of abstraction
LONDON.- Thomas Taubert and Fred Mann are presenting a group show exploring the contemporary nature of abstraction. The two galleries have observed each others programs over the years and now seek to place works by their artists alongside each other. The impetus for the exhibition is a comparison between two artists with a very different practice. Jonathan Parsons and Markus Linnenbrink. Parsons at his last show at New Art Projects explored color by expanding the palette of color theory and creating a series of works that questioned it. Linnenbrink often uses a photographic base to his works and then imposes color on top or creates a flawless surface, which he then drills into to reveal layers of contrasting color poured beneath. Markus Linnenbrink also explores and extends process painting. Included in this exhibition is a rare sculpture by the artist ... More
Crawford Art Gallery presents Aideen Barry's stop-motion film 'Not to be Known'
CORK.- Seduced by the concept of the ideal home-maker and the working woman as proposed by the media, Aideen Barrys stop-motion film, Not to be Known (2015) shows the artist overwhelmed by the monotony and magnitude of domestic chores in nightmarish scenarios. To maintain the tension between reality and aspiration, the artists Medusa-like hair of vacuum cleaner hoses prepares and cooks the perfect family meal, irons the laundry, whilst she keeps up appearances, sitting quietly at the kitchen table, sipping tea, and scrolling through visual images of the dream kitchen i.e. spotless and non-functioning on her Smartphone. The hair becomes so busy that it demands Barrys body and drags her upstairs to make the bed, suggesting that adherence to her chores is a far greater need than maintaining an apparent quality of life. Finally, she chops off her vacuum ... More
Exhibition presents an in-depth exploration into Julia Haft-Candell's recent wall reliefs and ceramic sculpture
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery announces the infinite, its first solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Julia Haft-Candell (b.1982), an in-depth exploration into the artists recent wall reliefs and ceramic sculpture. Focusing on a litany of historically resonant lines and patterns, Haft-Candells myriad of scale and material considerations both introduce themselves as an affable guided tour as well as a final destination, bringing both an immediacy and an elasticity that echoes the resonant nature of the material and Haft-Candells physical engagement with her medium. Translating, simplifying, and reinventing the casual or insignificant, Haft-Candell offers us a different way to view accepted structures and icons. Chain Infinity, 2017 is one of the many forms Haft-Candell has brought to life that appears as one thing but connotes a broad range of other possibilities. ... More
Latvian National Museum of Art presents works by Oļegs Tillbergs and Jānis Filipovičs
RIGA.- From 8 July to 6 August 2017, the third and final exhibition of Latvian Centre for Contemporary Arts exhibition cycle Divdabis is being on show at the 4th Floor Exhibition Halls of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, featuring a strong duet of installation artists of two different time periods Oļegs Tillbergs and Jānis Filipovičs. The concluding episode of the exhibition cycle Divdabis presents the encounter between artists Oļegs Tillbergs and Jānis Filipovičs, demonstrating both boyish competition and a moving necessity to talk about personally and universally significant questions. Installation is the main means of expression for both artists if for Tillbergs it is a monumental materialisation of an idea, not being afraid to realise the most daring concepts, then Filipovičs installations mostly are charged with ambiguous and ironically formulated linguis ... More
British artist Bruce Munro brings his 'A Game' to the Fine Arts Center in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Fine Arts Center is presenting an installation of renowned British artist Bruce Munros newest piece, Thank You For A Very Enjoyable Game, July 2-Sept 17, 2017. Best known for his immersive large-scale installations and sculptures, Thank You For A Very Enjoyable Game is a rare departure from Munros focus on light-based creations. Its exhibition at the FAC is the first one outside of the UK. Munro bases this visual abstraction on a chess game between an astronaut and a computer from the film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. As a child, the novel by Arthur C. Clarke ignited Munros imagination about all things space but it was Stanley Kubricks film interpretation of the novel that presented for him, a new perspective on the world. The subtlety of Kubricks interpretation of a man-made machine surpassing the intelligence of its human ... More
This summer Para Site invites you to a journey 'In Search of Miss Ruthless'
HONG KONG.- In Search of Miss Ruthless draws from the depths of diasporic souls, while taking pageantry as a method. A public persona from the future, Miss Ruthless is a figure of popular support that can represent our beautiful Hong Kong up on the world stage, as the lyric from Hong Kong Our Home indicates. The Hong Kong Orchid, adopted as the official state symbol in 1997, is a cross between the bauhinia variegata and bauhinia purpurea, an illusory hybrid of two species made strange to each other. The flower is infertile. Like the infrastructure supporting the civic life of the city itself, it faces a crisis of social reproduction, constantly wending away from the dream of what could be. Following poet Helene Cixous, we ask of Miss Ruthless: What if she were alive? What if, in looking at her, we animated her? In the 1970s, Hong Kong saw the simultaneous rise ... More
David Smalley memorial exhibition on view at Lyman Allyn Art Museum
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is presenting an exhibition of sculpture by the late David Smalley (1940-2015). The David Smalley Memorial Exhibition includes more than 40 sculptures exhibited in the Museums galleries and outdoors on the Museum grounds and campus of Connecticut College. It is on view from June 3 through August 13, 2017. This year marks the 20th Anniversary of David Smalleys 1997 Retrospective Exhibition at the Lyman Allyn. Smalley had considerable input in the early phase of planning the Memorial Exhibition; unfortunately he did not live to see its completion. His death in October of 2015 has transformed the exhibition into an occasion to celebrate Smalleys life and work. Smalleys overarching vision for the Memorial Exhibition remains intact: the galleries feature sculpture created since the 1997 retrospective. Smalley ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 ? 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. In this image: An unidentified visitor looks at an impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro called the Rue Saint-Honore apre-midi, Rue Saint-Honore Afternoon, Rain Effect, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Thursday May 12, 2005.
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