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Andrea del Verrocchiov (Andrea di Michele di Francesco Cioni; Florence, c. 1435 Venice, 1488), Madonna and Child c. 1470 or 1475, tempera and oil on panel, 75.5 x 54.8 cm. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie.
FLORENCE.- The first comprehensive retrospective devoted to Andrea del Verrocchio (1435 - 1488) opened in Florence this Spring at the Palazzo Strozzi, with an accompanying presentation at the Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Verrocchio, Master of Leonardo brings together masterpieces by Verrocchio from collections around the world, contextualised by works from his forefathers and peers, as well as by the pupils he worked intensively with, including Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Sandro Botticelli. The exhibition demonstrates Verrocchio's remarkable creativity as a solo artist, illustrating his workshop as a crucial place of collaboration, exchange and co-working, where the language and the style of Renaissance art in Florence was forged. Formally a private home, the 16th Century Palazzo Strozzi provides historic context to the show, which spans artistic output in Florence from 1460 to 1490 - the glorious age ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Meadows Museum, SMU, examines the far-reaching influence of 19th-century Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838 - 1874) in the new exhibition Fortuny: Friends and Followers. With almost 70 works by 23 different artists, the exhibition addresses a variety of themes, including intimate representations of family and home, cosmopolitan life in EuropeÂs major cities at the time, and the connections between and among the artists themselves.
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| | | MoMA receives major gift of works by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron | | First North American retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske debuts at Dia:Beacon | | How a vintage film format brought 'Apollo 11' back to life | 
Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, est. 1978). Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany. 20012003. Interior. Photo © Iwan Baan.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced a major donation of material representing nine innovative built and unbuilt projects developed and realized between 1994 and 2018 by Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. The works have been given to the Museum by the Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel, a charitable foundation established by the architects in 2015. The 23 physical objects and accompanying digital assetssketches, study models, presentation models, and architectural fragments, as well as digital drawing sets, photographs, and videoswere carefully selected in close collaboration with the architects to demonstrate not only the final design output, but also the design process behind each project. These works join four Herzog & de Meuron architectural projects from 1988 to 1997 and one design object from 2002 already in the Museums collection. For more than three decades, Herzog ... More | | 
Charlotte Posenenske, Vierkantrohre Series DW (Square Tubes Series DW), 1967/2018. Installation view, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. © Estate of Charlotte Posenenske, Frankfurt. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York.
BEACON, NY.- The first North American retrospective dedicated to German artist Charlotte Posenenske (19301985) premieres this spring at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York. Marking the most comprehensive exploration of the artists work since her death, Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress highlights the entirety of Posenenskes intensely productive twelve-year practice, before she turned away from making art to study the sociology of labor. Spanning her earliest experiments with mark making and drawing, to her transitional wall reliefs, to her final modular sculptural projects, the exhibition includes original prototypes for her sculptures as well as more than 150 newly fabricated elements. These works are on view at Dia:Beacon in site-responsive displays from March 8 to September 9, 2019. ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on January 24, 2019 an astronaut poses with the audience during the "Apollo 11" Premiere during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival at The Ray in Park City, Utah. Cassidy Sparrow / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- New documentary "Apollo 11," which tells the story of man's first steps on the Moon, contains footage so striking that it seems practically a crime that it remained hidden for nearly five decades. The film -- which premiered at Sundance in January but only hit US theaters this weekend -- injects new life into the most famous space mission of all time, which transfixed the world from July 16-24, 1969. It blends images that are well known with long lost gems found in a National Archives warehouse and digitized for the first time. "A good 50 percent of the film is images that have never been seen before but really, 100 percent of it has really never truly been seen before -- the quality of it all," director Todd Douglas Miller told AFP in a recent interview. The visuals are mesmerizing: seen in color in a theater, the tracks ... More |
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| | | Exhibition focuses on the head as a motif in art | | Japan Society Gallery opens first exhibition focusing on the radical experiments of Japanese artists in the 60s | | Kasmin's first solo exhibition of new paintings by artist Jan-Ole Schiemann opens in New York | 
Maria Lassnig, Sunbathing (Sphinx), 1964/65. Private collection, Vienna © Simon Hanzer.
VIENNA.- Anger, fear, disgustdepictions of extreme psychological states in Franz Xaver Messerschmidts famous Character Heads remain an intriguing subject to this day. Using these Baroque masterpieces as a springboard, the exhibition focuses on the head as a motif in art. What does headwork in the works of Tony Oursler, Douglas Gordon, Arnulf Rainer, Maria Lassnig, and Bruce Nauman look like? And in the time of Facebook, selfies, and the delusions of beauty what are the enduring qualities of the face aside from its mere surface? At first glance, Messerschmidts baroque sculptures appear notable for their analytical realism. They are indeed among the highlights of the Belvedere collection. The busts, arranged in a multimedia dialogue with ten contemporary artistic stances, are set in an eclectic exhibition environment. The artistic media on display range from painting and sculpture to film, video, and p ... More | | 
Matsuzawa Yutaka (19222006) Invitation to Psi Zashiki Room, 1963 Letterpress; and envelope with stamp, addressed to Takiguchi Shūzō and postmarked Keiō University Art Center, Tokyo;Takiguchi Shūzō Papers, c. 19451979 13 3/4" x 10 1/8" (35 x 25.6 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Japan Society Gallery is presenting Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s, the first full-scale exhibition focusing on the radical experiments of Japanese artists in the 1960s. Centering on Matsuzawa Yutaka and art collectives The Play and GUN (Group Ultra Niigata), the exhibition charts their contributions toward disrupting and dematerializing existing artmaking conventions in the global postwar era. Radicalism in the Wilderness showcases the artists revolutionary, boundary-defying conceptual works from the decade, which expanded the definition of visual art through language, performance, mail art, land art, and political art. The exhibition draws extensively from institutional and private holdings, as well as from the personal collections ... More | | 
Jan-Ole Schiemann, Phaseshifter (BORG), 2019. Charcoal, ink and acrylic on canvas, 90 1/2 x 78 3/4 inches, 230 x 200 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting A Different Pose, the gallerys first solo exhibition of new paintings by Cologne-based artist Jan-Ole Schiemann. Schiemanns paintings are grounded in both gestural abstraction and the history of 20th-century animation, aspects that combine to imbue his work with a rare sense of kinetic energy. Half-formed, simultaneously disappearing and reappearing shapes suggest that somewhere amidst the lines, there are figures tumbling, colliding, or fighting obscured by clouds of smoke. As a result of Schiemanns meticulous, layered application of charcoal, oilstick, ink and acrylic, the works have the illusion of both a sculptural and a digital depth. The artists first solo exhibition at Kasmin is comprised of new medium-scale and monumental paintings, as well as the debut of a new series of works on paper. Schiemanns process begins with the collection ... More |
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| | | Crow Museum of Asian Art exhibits contemporary Japanese ceramics | | Huis Marseille exhibits seven portfolios by Helga Paris which are being shown in full for the first time | | Gilt silver cup from the Palmwood wreck on view at Museum Kaap Skil | 
Takagaki Atsushi (b. 1946), Equilibrium, 2013. Stoneware with celadon glaze, 20 ¾ x 15 x 10 5/8 inches. Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection. Photo: Richard Goodbody, Courtesy of Joan B Mirviss.
DALLAS, TX.- The Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas is presenting the exhibition Hands and Earth: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, featuring stunning works by the countrys greatest ceramicists, including seven artists deemed Living National Treasures by the Japanese government. Free and open the public, the exhibition runs March 9, 2019-Jan. 5, 2020, at the Dallas Arts District museum located at 2010 Flora St., Dallas, Texas 75201. Marking the first time these world-renowned pieces are to be displayed publicly in North Texas, this exhibition features an in-depth selection of important works by master Japanese ceramic artists of the last 80 years. Visitors will enjoy a rare opportunity to see significant examples of avant-garde approaches to clay in a range of shapes and glazes. The exhibition draws from the collection of Carol and Jeffrey ... More | | 
Frauen im Bekleidungswerk TreffModelle, 1984 © Helga Paris.
AMSTERDAM.- As a result of the Cold War, the remarkable oeuvre of the German photographer Helga Paris (1938) was long almost unknown west of the Iron Curtain. While Paris enjoyed widespread popularity in East Germany, her photographs rarely reached a public in the West. Although her work, with its quite intimate glimpses of daily life in East Germany, is strongly linked to the course of her own life, its expressiveness is universal. The empathy of her gaze makes it easy for us to imagine ourselves in the people and places she photographed. On one hand Helga Paris photographs are about life in the German Democratic Republic (DDR), where the Second World War and the countrys communist regime brought restriction, loss, destruction and decline in their wake. On the other they show the gaze of a photographer who had been born in Pommeren (now in Poland), who grew up close to postwar Berlin, and who faced the world with resilience, curiosity ... More | | 
A gilt silver cup, expertly restored after a stay of almost four centuries in the sea bottom, is being displayed in the exhibit Diving in Details.
TEXEL.- An exceptional object from the Palmwood wreck can be seen for the next six months at Museum Kaap Skil (in Oudeschild on the island of Texel). A gilt silver cup, expertly restored after a stay of almost four centuries in the sea bottom, is being displayed in the exhibit Diving in Details. Expert Jan Beekhuizen, known from the television program Kunst & Kitsch (~Art & Fake), calls it Exceptional, if not unique, that such a find surfaces from a ship wreck. A specially designed showcase allows the viewer to observe the gilt cup from all sides. Details can be seen and enlarged on a touchscreen. The cup is decorated with driven flower patterns and mascarons, ornaments representing faces. The cup was unveiled at the Rijksmuseum on March 7 by deputy Jack van der Hoek and museum manager Corina Hordijk, together with the presentation of a report on the Palmwood wreck collection. The discovery ... More |
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| | | MoMA appoints Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator | | 'Where higher beings commanded: Heinrich Nüsslein & Friends' opens at Galerie Guido W. Baudach | | Pakistan -- the other great home of the bagpipes | 
Nzewi is currently the Curator of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi as the first Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture. His responsibilities will include participating in the Museums acquisitions program, the installation of the collection galleries, and the development of special exhibitions and catalogues. He will join the Museum on July 22, 2019. I am pleased to welcome Smooth to the curatorial team at MoMA, said Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture. A highly accomplished scholar and curator of African art, Smooth will bring an important perspective as we expand our collection holdings and gallery presentations in new directions across the Museum. I am honored to join MoMA as it continues the necessary task of telling an expansive and more inclusive story of 20th- and ... More | | 
Thomas Zipp, A.F.: Magic Square Face #A1, 2019. Acrylic, oil, varnish on canvas, 61 x 51 cm. Courtesy Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin. Photo: Roman März.
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting Where higher beings commanded, ... a rare series of works from the mediumistic painter Heinrich Nüsslein (18791947). The group of expressive and fantastical landscapes and portraits from the widely overlooked outsider artist originally stem from a private Berlin collection. The paintings are accompanied in the exhibition by works from select contemporary artists whose practices and common preference for certain classical subjects and unconventional design forms evince a particular closeness to Heinrich Nüsslein, above all their tendency towards intuitive placement amongst them Gotscha Gozalishvili, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Erwin Kneihsl, Markus Selg and Thomas Zipp. Yet while Nüsslein espoused occult superstitions and was convinced that his paintings conveyed extrasensory ... More | | 
In this picture taken on January 25, 2019, a member of a Pakistani musical band performs with bagpipes made at the Mid East bagpipe factory in the eastern city of Sialkot. AAMIR QURESHI / AFP.
SIALKOT (AFP).- Umer Farooq's grandfather and father made bagpipes. Now he is the third generation to take up the tradition in Pakistan, which is thousands of kilometres from Scotland yet sells thousands of bagpipes each year. The fresh smell of wood floats through the Mid East factory in Sialkot, on the eastern side of Punjab province, where Farooq is one of the managers. Workers are busy standing or sitting on the ground. Covered in sawdust, they carve the wood and polish it. Rosewood or ebony serve as the blowstick, into which players exhale. The drones -- long pipes with a lower tone -- follow a similar process. They are then attached to a bag, and often covered with tartan, a coloured plaid fabric typical of Scotland. "In my family, all the boys know how to make a bagpipe, step by step," said Farooq. "When we were seven or eight, ... More |
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 British cellist gives voice to composers' musesWASHINGTON (AFP).- Music is riddled with stories of tempestuous affairs and unrequited love. In a concert series, virtuoso British cellist Steven Isserlis is exploring the influence of love on music by contrasting three familiar pieces by male composers with lesser known ones by their traditionally underrepresented female muses. "Women were not encouraged to compose. It was difficult," the influential soloist said in an interview ahead of a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington. "They had to battle against the odds," added Isserlis, pointing to the contributions of Amy Beach and Lili and Nadia Boulanger. "There are so many women composers now. Things have definitely improved." Isserlis's program -- whose next stop is Thursday in Kempen, Germany after five performances in the US accompanied by Canadian pianist Connie Shih -- opens with his own ... More 'Airwolf' star Jan-Michael Vincent dies at 73LOS ANGELES (AFP).- American actor Jan-Michael Vincent, who starred in military action series "Airwolf" in the 1980s, has died. He was 73. Vincent succumbed to cardiac arrest on February 10 in Asheville, North Carolina, of natural causes, according to his death certificate. No autopsy was performed. It was unclear why it took nearly a month before news of his death was widely reported in US media on Friday. Known for his blond-haired, blue-eyed good looks, Vincent kicked off his career in Westerns and action films alongside stars like Charles Bronson, Gene Hackman and John Wayne. But it was with "Airwolf," which launched in 1984, that he gained fame. He played the role of Stringfellow Hawke, an exceptional helicopter pilot who was also seductive and adventurous. There were explosions galore throughout the show, with a synthesizer soundtrack typical of the ... More Weekly Comics, Animation, Art Auction surpasses $570,000 as Heritage Auctions crushes sales recordDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions set a new world record for the largest weekly comics auction ever held, when its Sunday Internet Comics, Animation & Art auction, which closed March 3 on HA.com, amassed $573, 095 in sales for 1,322 lots. The total, which was prompted in part by a surge of interest in several Silver Age keys, crushed the standing record by more than $106,000; the previous record, set in the weekly auction that closed Aug. 5, was $466,512.20. It also marked the fifth time in the last calendar year that a Heritage Auctions comics and comic art weekly auction realized more than $400,000. "When you offer rare and/or highly desirable items, and offer them in large number, results like this are possible," Heritage Auctions Vice President Lon Allen said. "Our weekly auctions have become an increasingly important part of our department, as serious ... More Rare Stadium Events: Family Fun Fitness tops $10,000 to lead Wata-graded games at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A cartridge of the rarest licensed Nintendo Entertainment System game ever available for purchase in stores sparked a flurry of competitive bids to claim top-lot honors among 52 video games graded by Wata Games that were sold in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art auction Feb. 21-23 in Dallas. The Wata-graded games brought a total of $77,904. The total sales for the auction, which boasted sell-through rates of better than 99 percent by lots and by value, topped $9.4 million. Stadium Events: Family Fun Fitness (NES, Bandai, 1987) Wata 4.5 Loose (Cartridge) elicited bids from 18 collectors before ultimately selling for $10,500. The cartridge is believed to be one of only 200 loose, CIB or sealed copies that were sold. Significantly fewer than this reported number have been seen, making a copy of this game in any grade highly sought ... More Site-specific mural by Alicia McCarthy on view at the Wexner Center for the ArtsCOLUMBUS, OH.- In early 2019, acclaimed Bay Area artist Alicia McCarthy travelled to Columbus to begin work on a site-specific mural for the lower lobby of the Wexner Center of the Arts at The Ohio State University. Curated by Lucy I. Zimmerman, newly appointed Assistant Curator for the multidisciplinary art space, Alicia McCarthy: No Straight Lines completes a suite of exhibitions by LGBTQI artists at the Wex for the winter season. The mural debuted to the public on February 2, 2019, in conjunction with the openings of John Waters: Indecent Exposure and Peter Hujar: Speed of Life. Im thrilled to bring Alicia McCarthy to the Wex to create her first site-specific mural in the Midwest, says Zimmerman. Situating Alicias irregular negative weave painting in the lower lobby will provide a dynamic contrast to the apparent and underlying geometries ... More Exhibition showcases key works from extensive holdings of Japanese wood block printsVICTORIA, BC.- On view at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Landscapes of Edo: Ukiyo-e Prints from the AGGVs Collection showcases key works from the Gallerys extensive holdings of Japanese wood block prints, most of which have been donated to the AGGV by local collectors. The exhibition, on display in the AGGVs Centennial Gallery until May 27, features iconic prints by two of the most recognizable names of the ukiyo-e tradition, Katsushika Hokusai (1760 1849) and Utagawa Ando Hiroshige (1797 -- 1858). These two artists innovated the art form of woodblock prints in the 19th Century. Hokusai was the first artist to make the landscape of Edo (Tokyo) and its surrounds the main focus of his colour prints. His famous and hugely popular series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, depicted Japans tallest mountain from a range of imaginative view-points. ... More Pedro & Juana selected as winners of the 2019 Young Architects ProgramNEW YORK, NY.- Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss) has been named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1s 20th annual Young Architects Program. Opening in June 2019, this years architectural installation is an immersive junglescape set within a large-scale cyclorama that sits atop MoMA PS1s courtyard walls. Selected from among five finalists, Hórama Rama will be on view through the summer, serving as a temporary built environment for MoMA PS1s pioneering outdoor music series Warm Up. For 20 years, the Young Architects Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has offered emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each years winners to develop creative designs for a temporary and sustainable outdoor installation ... More KINDL presents an installation by Jonathan Monk consisting of walls covered in photographic wallpaperBERLIN.- Under the title Exhibit Model Four plus invited guests, the British artist Jonathan Monk is continuing his exhibition series, which has been shown since 2016 in various locations in modified forms, and which he has now conceptually expanded for the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art. Exhibit Model Four is an installation consisting of walls covered in photographic wallpaper throughout the exhibition space M1 in the Maschinenhaus at the KINDL. The photographs, mostly in black and white, show Monks works from the past twenty years in various exhibition contexts and spatial situations. By integrating these excerpts with the existing architecture of M1, the artist develops a completely new, complex spatial structure. The installation views have the appearance of compiled archival materials and are distilled into a place that demands a sharpened perception ... More Gagosian opens an exhibition of works by Arakawa, made between 1965 and 1984NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Diagrams for the Imagination, an exhibition of works by Arakawa, made between 1965 and 1984. Born in Japan in 1936, Arakawa was one of the founding members of the Japanese avant-garde collective Neo Dadaism Organizers, describing himself as an eternal outsider and an abstractionist of the distant future. In 1961, he moved from Tokyo to New York. By the mid-1960s, his work had taken a pivotal turn with the diagram paintings, which combine words with highly schematic images suggestive of blueprints. He began exhibiting at Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles and New York, and was included in the now legendary 1967 exhibition Language to be looked at and/ or things to be read. Over the decades that followed, Arakawa explored the workings of human consciousness, diagrammatic representation, and epistemology ... More The Photographers' Gallery opens the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the work of Dave HeathLONDON.- The Photographers Gallery, in collaboration with LE BAL Paris, presents Dave Heath: Dialogues with Solitudes; the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the work of this hugely influential American photographer (b. 1931 USA, d. 2016 Canada). Heaths psychologically charged images both reflect and respond to the alienation particularly prevalent in post war North American society. He was one of the first of a new generation of artists seeking new ways to try and make sense of the increasing sense of isolation and vulnerability that typified the age. Predominantly self-taught, Heath was nonetheless extremely informed and versed in the craft, theory and history of photography and taught extensively throughout his life. Although greatly influenced by W. Eugene Smith and the photographers of the Chicago School, including Aaron Siskind and Harry ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS.
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