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The works vary from the early sixteenth to the start of the twentieth century. Photo: Rijksmuseum/David van Dam.
AMSTERDAM.- The Dutch national museum, the Rijksmuseum, is presenting High Society. Over thirty-five life-size portraits of powerful princes, eccentric aristocrats and fabulously wealthy citizens by the great masters of art history, including Cranach, Veronese, Velázquez, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Sargent, Munch and Manet. The centrepiece are Rembrandts spectacular wedding portraits, Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit which will be shown for the first time following their restoration. Never before has there been an exhibition dedicated to this most glamorous type of portrait: life-size, standing and full length. Loans have come from museums and private collections from all over the world including Paris, London, Florence, Vienna and Los Angeles. High Society also gives a glimpse into the informal life of the well-to-do. More than eighty prints and drawings from the Rijksmuseum's own collection show what went on behind closed doors: parties ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The current exhibition at David Richard Gallery in New York, "Curved", surveys Leo Valledor's career-long interest in curvilinear and circular shapes as well as multi-component canvases. The artworks span from the 1950s through the 60s, 70s and 80s. Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledor's early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color-based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s.
| Yinka Shonibare MBE's new commission opens at the entrance to Central Park | | Art dealer program brings over 100 artifacts back to tribes | | Exploring another Leonardo mystery, Worcester Art Museum presents exhibition and new research on Italian panel paintings |
Yinka Shonibare, Wind Sculpture (SG) I, 2018. Hand-painted fiberglass resin cast Courtesy Collection of Davidson College, NC, and James Cohan Gallery, NY. Photo: Jason Wyche, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund is presenting Wind Sculpture (SG) I, a new sculpture by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE commissioned for Doris C. Freedman Plaza at the southeast entrance to Central Park. Created from fiberglass and covered with an intricate pattern, the 23-foot-tall sculpture rises above the plaza, reminiscent of the untethered sail of a ship billowing in the breeze. Its unique, hand-painted pattern in turquoise, red, and orange colors that the artist associates with his childhood on the beaches of Lagos is inspired by Dutch wax batik print, which Shonibare has called the perfect metaphor for multilayered identities. This is the first work in a second generation of his celebrated Wind Sculpture series and continues Shonibares ongoing examination of the construction of cultural identity through the lens of colonialism. The work ... More | |
Ni-ha-poo-ma, an antelope priest, removing the A-wat-a-na-tci from the antelope kiva
RIO RANCHO, NM.- ATADA, the largest US professional organization of art dealers specializing in Native American and international tribal art, has returned over 100 ceremonial artifacts to Southwestern Indian tribes. Todays announcement celebrates the phenomenal success of ATADAs Voluntary Returns Program, and the work of its founder ATADA Board member Robert Gallegos, who has spearheaded the program since 2016. The ATADA Voluntary Returns Program is a community-based initiative designed to bring sacred and highly valued ceremonial objects in current use to Native American tribes. Returns take place through a consultative process; ATADA representatives work directly with tribal community and spiritual leaders. The program evolved through the recognition by art dealers and private collectors that certain objects, although legal to own, had great importance to tribal communities, and that their return could invigorate and enhance tribal com ... More | |
The A Miracle of Saint Donatus painting was discovered in 1933 and sold shortly thereafter to Theodore T. and Mary G. Ellis, patrons of the Worcester Art Museum, as a work by Leonardo da Vinci.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum is presenting an exhibition revealing the hand of Leonardo da Vinci in two Renaissance panel paintingsthe Museums A Miracle of Saint Donatus and the Musée du Louvres Annunciationwhile reuniting these two panels for the first time since they were separated in the early 19th century. Based on recently completed technical research, The Mystery of Worcesters Leonardo demonstrates clearly Leonardos role in creating both paintings. The exhibition opened March 10, 2018 and remains on view until June 3. It is precisely because of the incredible skill and beauty of Leonardos work that we find such mystery in those with tantalizing but uncertain attributions, said Matthias Waschek, C. Jean and Myles McDonough Director of the Worcester Art Museum. For decades, these two paintings have held clues about ... More |
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| Dutch sculptor Folkert de Jong joins Marc Straus | | Exhibition at David Richard Gallery presents Leo Valledor's curvilinear and circular shapes | | Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens exhibition of works by Jay DeFeo |
Folkert de Jong, Dust, 2004. Styrofoam, polyurethane foam, silicone rubber, 67 x 39.4 x 39.4 inches (170 x 100 x 100 cm). Photograph: Aatjan Renders.
NEW YORK, NY.- We are pleased to announce our representation of renowned Dutch sculptor Folkert de Jong, with a solo exhibition of new work scheduled for February 2019. Folkert de Jong (b. 1972, The Netherlands) is widely recognized for his narrative-based figurative sculptures that address power dynamics, war, dislocation and greed. His use of industrial Styrofoam and Polyurethane insulation foams is now widely recognizable subsequently his work has incorporated bronze, Plexiglas, and internal lighting. de Jongs figures often appear as part of tableaus: harlequins stacked atop each others shoulders; a troop of monkeys glaring menacingly. His works have such expressive range, vacillating between humor and the macabre. In 2005 Livia and I were curating a museum show of new figurative sculpture where I came across a work of Folkerts. In Dust, made of commercial pink and blue ... More | |
Leo Valledor, Daybreaker. Acrylic on canvas, 1983, 48 x 41 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The current exhibition, Curved, surveys Leo Valledors career-long interest in curvilinear and circular shapes as well as multi-component canvases. The artworks span from the 1950s through the 60s, 70s and 80s. Aesthetically, the presentation includes Valledors early expressionist abstract paintings and signature reductive and minimalist compositions with an emphasis on his later hard edge and color-based abstractions from the 1970s and 80s. The latter include illusory and optical constructs exploring space and creating a tension between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional worlds. The influences and relationships while studying at the California School of Fine Arts and living in San Francisco in the 1950s as part of the Beat scene impacted Valledors artwork throughout his career. The interplay of jazz music, poetry and painting fed his soul and provided the necessary freedom to develop his own visual language, while rhythm and beat ... More | |
Jay DeFeo, Trap 1972 Acrylic and graphite with collage on Masonite 25 by 22 3/4 in. 63.5 by 57.8 cm. © 2018 The Jay DeFeo Foundation / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy of The Jay DeFeo Foundation and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces Outrageous Fortune: Jay DeFeo and Surrealism, on view at the Chelsea gallery at 534 West 26th Street from March 1 through April 7, 2018. Outrageous Fortune features over seventy key works by DeFeo spanning three decades, from 1955 to 1986. It is the gallerys second solo exhibition of the artists work and runs concurrently with a major survey of her work, Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, at Le Consortium in Dijon, France. Focusing on elements of chance, play and the marvelous in DeFeos work, the exhibition brings together paintings, photographs, collages and works on paper to reveal how DeFeos art often aligns with Surrealist attitudes. DeFeo was especially fascinated by the anthropomorphic potential of mechanical objects, presenting a photographed vacuum cleaner or ... More |
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| First exhibition by Danish artist Per Kirkeby with Almine Rech Gallery opens in Paris | | Exhibition of photographs from the dawn of time by Hiroshi Sugimoto opens at Fraenkel Gallery | | Artemis Gallery presents art of ancient cultures in March 15 auction |
Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 2012. Oil on canvas, 90 x 65 cm 35 3/8 x 25 5/8 inches © Per Kirkeby. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Gallery Paris is presenting the first exhibition by Danish artist Per Kirkeby with the gallery, featuring a selection of paintings and bronze sculptures. This monographic exhibition follows Brick Sculpture (1966-2016), the artists recent solo show at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (October-December 2017). Kirkeby emphasizes the color of the material that changes with the light and the power of colors to generate emotions. In works such as Urwald from 1988 he sets colors as accents like light as an expression of chaos, for it is only out of chaos that form can emerge. A form defined by color and texture that in Untitled from 1999, with yellow-green against blue, olive and brown, characterizes the brutal forces of metamorphosis. The landscape, the stone, rock, and ice formations become as a process a battlefield ... More | |
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lightning Fields 6, 2006 © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting Hiroshi Sugimoto B.C., an exhibition of photographs from the dawn of time. Through more than twenty works spanning the artists career, Hiroshi Sugimoto B.C. uses scientific, mythological and conceptual frameworks to explore the pre-photographic past. The exhibition also includes fossils from Sugimotos personal collection, about which Sugimoto writes, If a photograph is able to stop time, then a fossil can do the same thing. Both photographs and fossils are records of history. On view from March 8 April 25, 2018, Hiroshi Sugimoto B.C. includes work from the artists earliest series Dioramas, depicting scenes of ancient sea life and primitive humanoids, and from Seascapes, with calm horizons little changed visually from the sea of millions of years ago, when humans first gained selfÂ‐awareness. Sugimoto considers his seascapes places where, in a d ... More | |
Red-figure bell krater created in Greek Campania region of southern Italy, circa 340 to 320 B.C., 11.375in. diameter x 12in. high (28.9 cm x 30.5 cm). Estimate: $8,000-$10,000.
BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallery will conduct an exciting auction brimming with fresh-to-market ancient treasures on Thursday, March 15. The sale is composed of 432 lots with impeccable provenance and ironclad guarantees of authenticity and legality. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.com. Artemis Gallery co-founders Bob and Teresa Dodge have gathered classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe for this auction, including Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian and Viking. The auction will open with a fine selection of more than a dozen Egyptian antiquities before venturing to Ancient Greece. Starring in the latter category is a red-figure bell krater created in the Greek Campania region of southern Italy, circa ... More |
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| New artist platform for the contemporary art community expands internationally | | Hermès Crocodile Birkins, Chanel exotics expected to headline Heritage Auctions' Luxury Accessories Auction | | Exhibition offers a reflexion on the power of object recycling |
Adam Yokell. Photo: Kris Graves.
NEW YORK, NY.- Foundwork, the new online platform designed to connect emerging and mid-career artists with curators, gallerists, and other collaborators across the contemporary art community, is now expanding globally. Foundwork is significantly broadening its reach and is inviting international artists to create profiles and exhibit their work on the siteincluding students and alumni from graduate and undgraduate studio art programs worldwide. The site launched in November 2017 with an initial opening to artists from US MFA programs. The current expansion furthers Foundworks purpose to increase visibility for artists and enable new contacts and collaborations between artists and exhibitors wherever they reside. The Brooklyn-based company has also announced its strategic advisers, a group of accomplished contemporary art professionals. Inspired by Founder Adam Yokells experience running a gallery in Brooklyn and working ... More | |
A Hermès 30cm Fuchsia Nilo Crocodile Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware (est. $35,000-45,000).
DALLAS, TX.- Hermès crocodile Birkin handbags are expected to be in high demand at Heritage Auctions' Spring Luxury Accessories Auction March 25 in Dallas. The 419-lot event is projected to approach $2 million in total sales. "Just like spring flowers, Heritage's Luxury Auction welcomes the new season representing remarkably rare and limited-edition pieces from Hermès and Chanel," Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane D'Amato said. "I am pleased to include our largest offering of Chanel exotics in a single auction." Vying for top lot honors will be a Hermès 30cm Fuchsia Nilo Crocodile Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware (est. $35,000-45,000). The bag includes two rolled handles, Palladium Hardware and a flap top with a turnlock closure, and the interior is in Fuchsia Chevre Leather, with one zip pocket and one slip pocket. The bag includes an Hermès dustbag, ... More | |
Isa Genzken, Untitled, 2012. Child mannequin, stuffed toy monkey, stool, mixed media, 149 x 96 x 63 cm. Child: 149 x 57 x 56 cm. Monkey: 72 x 38 x 35 cm. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York.
PARIS.- Galerie Chantal Crousel is presenting ReCycle, a reflexion on the power of object recycling, bringing together a selection of works by seventeen compelling artists, created between 1942 and 2017. The exhibition traces the history of assemblage and the potential of recycling from Kurt Schwitters pioneering work, to the artists who have been articulating this practice through the 80s and until today. It does not only involve the idea of bringing new sense to everyday life material, but also investigates the relationship these artists express with the adopted objects. Connecting the mixed media collages by Kurt Schwitters, Carol Rama and Ray Johnson from mid 20th century, with more contemporary works by Thomas Hirschhorn, Clément Rodzielski and David Douard, the exhibition explores the organizational hierarchy of ... More |
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Two solo exhibitions featuring Stanton Hunter and Alison Ragguette open at Launch LA
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Launch LA is presenting two solo exhibitions featuring Stanton Hunter and Alison Ragguette. Both artists feature two series that juxtapose themes within their work. Hunter explores the duality between the intimate scale of his wall sculptures in contrast to the sprawl of his installation, composed of individual pieces to create the arrangement as a whole. Ragguettes first body of work uses hybridized forms of objects that combine aspects of modern assemblage with traditional sculpture. This focus on industrial, hybridized materials contrasts the curved and bulbous objects of the Melanin series that hang as skin in various pigments, while both series confront our everyday experience of the world and the interaction between our bodies and the environment. Inspired by artists such as Flavin, Turrell and Irwin in the Light and Space movement, ... More
Exhibition presents abstract paintings and mixed media works by twelve Taiwanese artists
NEW YORK, NY.- The Taipei Cultural Center in New York is presenting Shiting Momentum, a world-premiere exhibition curated by Bor-Jou Kuo and Chung-Fan Chang that features abstract paintings and mixed media works by twelve mid-career and established Taiwanese artists. The show, marked the first survey of abstract art exhibition is on view at 1 East 42rd Street, New York, NY 10017 from March 8th through 30th, 2018. Supported by the Ministry of Culture, R.O.C. (Taiwan), Shiting Momentum is organized by Taipei National University of Education in Taipei, Taiwan; Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey; and Taiwan Academy in New York, New York. The exhibition features fifteen works from eight Taiwan based artists Ming-Xi Chang, Yu-Ju Chen, Bor-Jou Kuo, Shiou-Ping Liao, Wei-Min Lin, Yung-Jen Liu, Rock Chin-Yuan Shen and Wen-Yueh Tao, along ... More
'Drop in, play, learn': Zimbabwe music legend Tuku's open door to new talent
NORTON (AFP).- If you've ever dreamt of playing alongside Afro-jazz legend Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, just drop into his studio in Zimbabwe and pick up an instrument. Mtukudzi -- one of Africa's most famous and admired musicians -- has an open-door policy at his arts centre in Norton, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Harare. Aged 65 and with more than 60 albums under his belt, the self-taught singer and guitarist says the centre provides a home for all musicians, particularly youngsters who often face disapproval from their parents at home. Named "Pakare Paye", which translates as "same old place" in the Shona language, it charges no fees, employs no tutors and follows no curriculum. "This is not a school," Mtukudzi told AFP during a break from rehearsals at the sprawling complex of thatched and brick one-storey buildings. "We don't deal with education . ... More
"Manu Parekh: 60 Years of Selected Works" opens at the National Gallery of Modern Art Mumbai
MUMBAI.- Art & Soul Gallery, Mumbai announces the retrospective, Manu Parekh, 60 Years of Selected Works with over 150 works at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai along with an accompanying book of the same title in collaboration with Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The preview of the exhibition is on 12 March 2018 at 6 pm and the exhibition will run until 15 April 2018. Eminent architect Shri Balkrishna V. Doshi will inaugurate the exhibition and painter Shri Sudhir Patwardhan will release the book - Manu Parekh - 60 Years of Selected Works. The book examines the complete breadth of Parekhs career, from the 1960s to the present time. Over 250 of his works are included, representing every important aspect of his oeuvre. We see his exploration of ritual in the late 1970s, the legendary paintings inspired by the Bhagalpur blindings and his enduring ... More
Barangaroo Delivery Authority unveils a bamboo grid installation, part sculpture, garden and sanctuary
SYDNEY.- The Barangaroo Delivery Authority in collaboration with the Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas (SCCI) has unveiled a major installation designed by award-winning Vietnamese architect, Vo Trong Nghia at Exchange Place, Barangaroo. Green Ladder by Vo Trong Nghia Architects is a temporary art installation, a peaceful green space for Barangaroo visitors to enjoy until May 2018. The work, a place of reflection, a meeting place and a visual and interactive experience exemplifies sustainable architectural excellence. Green Ladder, commissioned by the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (2016), is an example of the evolving methodology in sustainable design practice by one of the worlds leading mid-generation architects. Mr Vo Trong Nghia, recipient of seven World Architecture Festival awards, uses natural materials to green dense urban ... More
Chinese sculptor Zhan Wang's "Floating Rock" arrives at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe
PERTH.- Sculpture by the Sea announced that celebrated Chinese artist Zhan Wangs work Floating Rock, created specifically for the exhibition, has been installed at Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018. The ground-breaking sculpture was created specifically for the exhibition. Considered one of the most important contemporary artists of the late 20th century and early 21st century, Zhan Wang exhibits for the first time in Western Australia as the Tourism WA Invited International Artist. The two metre high and four metre wide stainless steel rock floats on the water at Cottesloe Beach. The mirrored surface of Floating Rock glitters in the sun and has already fascinated the beachside audience Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2018. Due to a freight issue en route to Perth, Zhan Wangs work Floating Rock was not loaded onto the scheduled ship in Malaysia and was delayed ... More
Exhibition at Miyako Yoshinaga features thirty black-and-white gelatin silver prints by Hitoshi Fugo
NEW YORK, NY.- Miyako Yoshinaga are presenting theirr second solo exhibition of the prominent Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. The exhibition, BLACKOUT, is on view from March 8 to April 14, 2018. Following the success of Flying Frying Pan, our previous Fugo exhibition in 2016, the BLACKOUT series is the first showing of these works since the early 1980s and the first time ever outside of Japan. The exhibition features approximately thirty black-and-white gelatin silver prints out of the eighty that make up the BLACKOUT series. Spanning from the early 1970s to the early 2000s, the series captures the subtle moments of the everyday passage of time sprinklers watering an empty lawn, a paddle breaking the surface of water, flies fluttering around a bright light bulb, and sunlight illuminating part of a womans face. ... More
Giant sculpture by KAWS unveiled in Doha
DOHA.- Hamad International Airport, an active supporter of arts and culture, has revealed a new artwork, SMALL LIE by American artist KAWS. The inauguration was attended by the artist, Engr. Badr Mohammed Al Meer, HIA Chief Operating Officer, and Khalid Yousef Al Ibrahim, Qatar Museums (QM) Chief Strategic Planning Officer. Delivered as part of Qatar Museums commitment to make art available to all beyond the confines of a gallery, SMALL LIE is the latest addition to the airports fine art collection of more than twenty permanent pieces created by local and international artists. Qatar Museums Chief Strategic Planning Officer, Khalid Yousef Al Ibrahim welcomed SMALL LIE to Qatar, saying: From striking sculptures to specially commissioned photography, our public art offering at HIA aims to inspire travellers as well as local talents flying through the airport. At Qatar ... More
Private collection launches Heritage Auctions' Rare Books Sale to $2.1+ million
DALLAS, TX.- A private collection of rare, first editions offered in Heritage Auctions' March 7 Rare Books Auction in New York pushed the sale total to more than $2.1 million, nearly doubling the sale's estimate. The James C. Seacrest Collection, assembled over decades by a Nebraska publisher and philanthropist, sold for a combined $918,196 and claimed nine of the auction's 10 most expensive lots. The Seacrest Collection's Signed and Inscribed Copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby sold for $162,500 a house record for a 1925 first edition. A signed and dated First Edition, Second Issue, of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens, ended at $45,000 and a 1685 compilation of Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies also brought $45,000. All proceeds from the Seacrest Collection will be donated ... More
Andreas Emenius presents recent objects and paintings at SHIN Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- SHIN Gallery announced the opening of Muscle Memory at 68 Orchard Street. For his first exhibition at SHIN Gallery, Andreas Emenius presents recent objects and paintings created during his residency in New York. Throughout his career, Emenius has brought his background and Scandinavian perspective to environments that are almost archetypical. Each piece in this show is a unique product of Emenius time living and working in Chinatown, a place that at once is both completely foreign to the Swedish artist and somehow familiar in its authenticity and grit. The neighborhood sneaks itself into the scenes of his paintings in the form of Adidas-clad figures carrying plastic shopping bags and bubble tea cups. Yet, these familiar objects and symbols are not immediately apparent; they disappear into a strange background, as if floating in an unknown ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Alberto Burri was born March 12, 1915. Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 - 13 February 1995) was an Italian painter and sculptor considered a key figure in Post-War art and such artistic movements as Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme, postminimalism and Arte Povera. In this image: Alberto Burri, Multiplex 8, 1981. Courtesy Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini, Collezione Burri, Città di Castello, Italy, and Luxembourg & Dayan
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