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Edgar Degas, Rehearsal Hall at the Opera, Rue Le Peletier, 1872, oil on canvas, Musée dOrsay, Paris. © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée dOrsay) / Hervé Lewandowski.
HOUSTON, TX.- This fall, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the exclusive U.S. venue for Degas: A New Vision, the most significant international survey in three decades of the work of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (18341917). While Degass reputation has often been confined to his ballet imagery, the artists oeuvre is rich, complex, and abundant, spanning the entire second half of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th. Degas: A New Vision assembles some 200 works from public and private collections around the world, and showcase Degass abiding interests across painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. The MFAH has developed this major retrospective with the National Gallery of Victoria, in association with Art Exhibitions Australia. Some 60 additional loans are exclusive to the Houston presentation, including such major works as Dancers, Pink and Green, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Colourful designs are projected on the Faculty of Law building of the Humboldt University as part of the yearly Festival of Lights in Berlin on October 13, 2016. The festival lasts from October 7th to 16th. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
| Christie's seeks more 'realistic' auction prices | | Christie's announces a new flagship space in Beijing | | Sotheby's to offer two superb jewels of imperial Russian heritage |
In this file photo a woman looks at the artwork 'Les Chadoufs 1934' by Egyptian artist Mahmoud Said (1897-1964) which sold for $2,434,500, well above its pre-sale estimate of $150,000 - 200,000. EPA/ALI HAIDER.
DUBAI (AFP).- The global economic slowdown combined with "selective demand" are pushing Christie's to seek more realistic prices on their collections, directors of the auction house said Sunday. "This year the market is not at the same level as it was one year or two years ago. We are facing a more challenging market," Guillaume Cerruti, Christie's president for Europe, the Middle East, Russia and India, told journalists in Dubai. "To face this situation, the key word for us is selectivity," he said, announcing two auctions this week in the glitzy Gulf emirate, one on Modern and Contemporary Art and another showcasing "Important Watches". "We want to have sales that are well curated, sales with maybe less objects but of high quality at... realistic estimates," he said. While ... More | |
The new exhibition and office space was unveiled at a grand opening on October 15th. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
BEIJING.- In Christies 250th year, the company announces continued expansion in China led by a brand new flagship space that opened in Beijing in autumn 2016. The new exhibition and office space was unveiled at a grand opening on October 15th. A special exhibition of works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) explores his influence on Chinese artists. The space also showcases works by other leading pioneers including Max Ernst, Fernando Botero, Sanyu, Chu Teh-Chun, and Zeng Fanzhi. Patricia Barbizet, Chief Executive Officer, Christies, We are proud to have found Christies a new home in Beijing, a city that is characterized by its tremendous cultural heritage and a profound collecting tradition. Christies continues to grow and invest in China and our new Beijing space marks an important milestone during our 250 year mission to connect art and collectors. We look ... More | |
A model poses with diamond necklace with a bowknot clasp. Daniel Leal-Olivas / AFP
GENEVA.- This autumn in Geneva, Sothebys auction rooms will be lit up by the grandeur and elegance of the Russian Imperial Court: our sale on 16 November will feature two exceptional jewels of extraordinary historical importance. The first is a magnificent diamond necklace with a stunning and delicate bowknot clasp, thought to have been commissioned as two separate pieces by Empress Catherine II, known as Catherine the Great (1729 1796). It has survived centuries of upheaval and was preserved throughout the First World War in a strong room of the Kremlin. The jewel will be offered at auction with an estimate of $3- 5 million. The second piece is one of the most important parures of antique coloured diamond jewels to appear at auction in the last 50 years. This superb suite contains stones which may have formed part of a gift by Empress Catherine I of Russia (1684-1727), wife of Peter the Great to Sultan Ahmed ... More |
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| Almine Rech Gallery opens an exhibition of historical artworks by Tom Wesselmann | | Exhibition of new and recent work by Anna Maria Maiolino on view at Hauser & Wirth | | Grand Palais exhibits works by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and the avant-garde |
Tom Wesselmann, Smoker #3 (Mouth #17), 1968. Oil on canvas, 182 x 170 cm. Courtesy of the Estate of Tom Wesselmann and Almine Rech Gallery.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Gallery hosts an exhibition of historical artworks by Tom Wesselmann, inspired by the artists 1970 exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. Wesselmanns Bedroom Tit Box, a key performative work from the Janis exhibition, will be restaged in Paris for the first time. The work has be installed alongside seminal examples of Wesselmanns post-collage works, making the exhibition at Almine Rech the most significant presentation of the artists work in Paris since his 1994 retrospective at the Fondation Cartier, and groundbreaking 1967 exhibition at Illeana Sonnabend Gallery. The exhibition is being organized in partnership and with the collaboration of the Estate of Tom Wesselmann. Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23, 1931. He attended Hiram College in Ohio from 1949 to 1951 before entering the University of Cincinnati. In 1953, his studies were ... More | |
Anna Maria Maiolino, Untitled, from Filogenéticos (Phylogenetics) series, 2016. Acrylic ink on paper, 100.8 x 72 cm / 39 5/8 x 28 3/8 in. © Anna Maria Maiolino. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Romulo Fialdini.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting an exhibition of new and recent work by one of Brazils most significant contemporary artists, Anna Maria Maiolino. With a practice spanning drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation and sculpture, Maiolino relentlessly explores notions of subjectivity and the self. The artists deeply formative migration from postwar Southern Italy to a politically unstable South America, and her linguistic passage from Italian to Portuguese, engendered an enduring fascination with, and acute interrogation of, identity. Through fragmentation and abstraction, Maiolinos surfaces are rich with metaphor, alluding to, suggesting and questioning language, sexuality, desire and the unconscious. TUDO ISSO (ALL THAT) is the artists first solo exhibition in Switzerland and comprises a group of recent ... More | |
Francisco Eppens (1913-1990), Constructeurs vers 1940. Crayon cire sur papier. México, INBA, Museo Nacional de Arte Donation Rodrigo Eppens, 2004 © INBA/Museo Nacional de Arte.
PARIS.- The Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais, the SecretarÃa de Cultura / Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes / Museo Nacional de Arte, México (MUNAL), have joined together to organise an exhibition that traces a vast panorama across modern Mexico, from the first stirrings of the Revolution to the middle of the 20th century, complemented by a number of works from contemporary artists. Mexican 20th century art offers the paradox of having close links to the international avant garde yet presenting an incredible singularity, a certain strangeness even, and a power that challenges our European perspective. In the first part of the exhibition, we explore how such modernity drew inspiration from the collective imaginary and traditions of the 19th century. This relationship, clearly demonstrated by the academic art that developed following the restoration of the Republic in 1867, ... More |
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| Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt opens first-ever major survey exhibition of works by artist Ulay | | From the Oval Office to the auction block: Rare presidential manuscript collection offered | | Smithsonian American Art Museum releases "Renwick Gallery WONDER 360" virtual reality app |
Ulay Life-Sized, Exhibition view © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016, Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- From October 13, 2016, to January 8, 2017, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting the first-ever major survey exhibition of works by the exceptional artist Ulay. Ulay describes himself rather selfdeprecatingly as the most famous unknown artist. For almost half a century, he has been radically merging art and his own life. His concept of transformation enables Ulay to constantly create new identities. His medium of choice is analog photography and, in particular, Polaroids, which form an essential part of his artistic practice. To this day, his body remains the object of his research; it is marked by various influences and can be read like a canvas. How is identity expressed within the body, and which strategies might alter identity? These are questions Ulay seeks to answer in his work. Skin is of particular significance. The artist sees it as the surface of both the body and the photograph. By shaping ... More | |
JFK "New Frontier" Notes. Photo: Lion Heart Autographs.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lion Heart Autographs, one of the countrys most widely recognized and respected dealers of historical autographs and manuscripts specializing in art, history, literature, music and science has announced an extraordinary auction of American presidential documents just in time for this years election. The auction is scheduled for Wednesday, October 26, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. EST, just twelve days before the U.S. votes for the countrys next President. >From George Washingtons eloquent words written at the very birth of our nation to the horrific 9/11 attack against the United States, Lion Heart Autographs auction, Presidential Letters & Speeches Plus Important Autographs in History, Science & the Arts, will give collectors and political aficionados an opportunity to acquire some of the most remarkable moments in United States political history. Penned over 225 years ago, a significant fr ... More | |
The app allows audiences to explore in 3-D the entirety of the museums 2015 blockbuster exhibition, WONDER, presented at its Renwick Gallery. Photo: Libby Weiler.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum has launched an immersive 360-degree virtual reality (VR) app for Apple and Android mobile devices, Renwick Gallery WONDER 360. It allows audiences to explore in 3-D the entirety of the museums 2015 blockbuster exhibition, WONDER, presented at its Renwick Gallery. The app expands the visitor experience through emerging technologies. It is the first VR mobile app that the Smithsonian has published. The museum has always embraced new technologies to bring our collection to people wherever they are, said Betsy Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Were excited to use the latest virtual-reality technology to add a new dimension to the museum experience. WONDER ... More |
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| Largest and most comprehensive exhibition about Fiji opens in Norwich | | Mythical Islamic steeds cast into sea in Indonesia festival | | Putting on your own opera, in Vienna, aged 11 |
Large decorated pot collected by Baron Anatole von Hugel in Fiji, 1875-1877 [cf. back story on pottery]. Fiji, 19th century, earthenware, h. 510 mm. Photo: Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
NORWICH.- Revealing stunning sculptures, textiles, ceramics, and ivory and shell regalia, the ground-breaking Fiji: Art and Life in the Pacific opened 15 October 2016 at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. The largest and most comprehensive exhibition about Fiji ever assembled, it takes the visitor on a journey through the art and cultural history of Fiji since the late 18th century. This internationally-important exhibition presents both Fijian artworks and a European response to them: paintings, drawings and historic photographs of the 19th and 20th century provide context. These include exquisite watercolours by the intrepid Victorian travel writer and artist Constance Gordon Cumming, and by the Irish naval artist James Glen Wilson, who ... More | |
Indonesian Muslims parade with a hoyak tabuik, a model of a mythical Islamic steed, during the Hoyak Tabuik festival in Pariaman on West Sumatra on October 16, 2016. ADEK BERRY / AFP.
PARIAMAN.- Huge models of mythical Islamic steeds were carried aloft amid crowds before being hurled into the sea Sunday, at the peak of a colourful festival in Indonesia. Thousands of people flocked to a picturesque stretch of coastline on western Sumatra island for Tabuik, an annual event that attracts hordes of foreign and local tourists. The climax of festivities featured two models of a "buraq", a steed from Islamic mythology that transported the Prophet Mohammed, being carried through the streets of the city of Pariaman before being cast into the waters. The buraq resembles a horse but has wings and a human head. Atop the steed sits an elaborately decorated coffin studded with umbrellas, with the model towering about 12 metres (40 feet) into the air. Tabuik, which runs over about 10 days in Pariaman, started in the 19th century and has Shiite ... More | |
11 year-old Alma Deutscher performs in The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- With help from her skipping rope, Alma Deutscher has written an opera that's being staged this Christmas in Vienna, the capital of classical music. Not bad when you're aged 11 and three-quarters. "I sometimes think that if I had a beard and I was old and fat then people might take me a bit more seriously," the English "wunderkind" told AFP as she played on the piano excerpts of the work. But this attitude, she adds, has changed since preparations began in this hallowed former stamping ground of Mozart and Schubert for the December 29 premiere of "Cinderella". She started writing the two-hour opera when she was eight, and as well as composing the music she has given the traditional folk tale her own twist, setting it in an opera house. Thus the eponymous heroine writes a tune that perfectly fits the handsome prince's poem, while the evil stepsisters are "pompous prima donnas ... More |
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Record visitation at home and abroad for Australian Centre for the Moving Image
MELBOURNE.- ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) has recorded its highest attended year on record in 2015-16 with over 1.45 million visitors welcomed to its Federation Square museum alone, punctuating the end of a big year for the most visited moving image museum the world. ACMI is Australia's only national museum of film, video games, virtual reality, digital culture and art. In ACMIs 2015-16 Annual Report, tabled in Parliament today, Board President, Peter Lewinsky, attributed the recent success to programming initiatives and new leadership. The success of the past year is the result of world class programming, commissions and initiatives, as well as an increasing brand presence and rapidly cumulative global footprint. Under the dynamic leadership of [CEO and Director] Katrina Sedgwick and our Executive Team, ACMI is an institution that is evolving and ... More
RaebervonStenglin opens third solo exhibition with Susanne Kriemann
ZURICH.- Susanne Kriemann returns for her third solo exhibition at RaebervonStenglin. Working with photography via a process of intense investigation, the German artist mines the particular for deeper symbolic resonance. Her projects fuse the photographic with the physical, image with object, and extraction with belonging, creating artworks invested with stories that explore the nature of their medium. The exhibition takes its title from a new work shown in the main gallery space. Falsche Kamille, Wilde Möhre, Bitterkraut (False Chamomile, Wild Carrot, Ox Tongue) refers to three types of weed that the artist found on Gessenweise in the former uranium mining territories of SDAG Wismut in former GDR. Today, the area is so rich in toxic metals that it is believed to have been polluted for more than 100,000 years. Spending a day with the specialist geologists and biologists of the ... More
Museum of Romans Suta and Aleksandra Beļcova in Riga hosts book illustration exhibition
RIGA.- Romans Suta (18961944) was an outstanding representative of classical Modernism, and his work included painting, set design, interior design, film design, teaching, art theory, criticism, graphic art and also book illustrations. Suta turned to graphic art in the mid-1910s, when he was taking his first serious approach toward the world of art. He preferred Indian ink and watercolour for sketches that led to other artworks, as well as for finished pieces. Sutas graphic style reached its apex in the late 1920s and during the 1930s, which is when artist produced his book illustrations. Romans Suta had an approach toward graphic art that was unique and inimitable, with free and expressive lines that precisely depict an event or an image. He was very much inspired by ancient Chinese and Japanese masters who could use a single brushstroke to express the essence of a process; ... More
Los Angeles-based artist Brian Wills' first solo show in Paris on view at Praz-Delavallade
PARIS.- If the pictorial lyricism of abstract expressionism continues to dominate the Los Angeles art scene, numerous artists have also decided to tread the path of a form of minimalism in which light is an inseparable part of their practice. Just like Turrell, Flavin, Morris and Irwin, a new generation of artists have, after their own fashion, adopted the principles of simplicity by using contemporary materials that provide the opportunity for experiences in which light and colour are juxtaposed and combine to elevate our perspective of their work. Brian Wills, a young, Los Angeles-based artist whose first solo show in Paris is being presented at Praz-Delavallade, has completely taken on board this ideology of the relationship between the space and the spectator. Adopting Mies van der Rohe's famous motto "less is more", his work is characterized by simple, smooth, pared-down ... More
TENT and Museum Boijmans van Beuningen present The Back Room: Esma Yiğitoğlu
ROTTERDAM.- TENT and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen jointly present The Back Room, a four-part solo exhibition of underexposed yet iconic Rotterdam artists. Curator Noor Mertens, presents work by an older generation of artists in the context of TENTs current programme. This autumn, the work of artist Esma Yiğitoğlu is central in TENT, and this is also the final edition of this collaboration. The artist Esma Yiğitoğlu (Zincidere, 1944 - Rotterdam 2009), born and raised in a liberal, intellectual environment in Turkey, left for Rotterdam at the age of seventeen to study at the Academy of Visual Arts, later called the Willem de Kooning Academy. Yiğitoğlu was active in Rotterdam as a visual artist until her death in 2009. Besides her artistry, she dedicated herself to a better social position of Dutch people with a Turkish background. Yiğitoğlus oeuvre consists of sculptures, drawings and pai ... More
Group exhibition highlights modern and contemporary artists who utilize paper
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting Cut, Folded, Pressed & Other Actions at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location. This group exhibition highlights modern and contemporary artists who utilize paper as a site of rigorous formal and conceptual inquiry through direct manipulation and engagement with its materiality. The exhibition includes work by Noriko Ambe, Hans Bischoffshausen, Enrico Castellani, Célia Euvaldo, Fernanda Gomes, Oskar Holweck, Vlatka Horvat, Sol LeWitt, Marco Maggi, Anna Maria Maiolino, Gordon Matta-Clark, Eleanore Mikus, Joshua Neustein, Arthur Luiz Piza, Fred Sandback, Mira Schendel, Günther Uecker, and Ignacio Uriarte, among others. Paper, the traditional support of drawing, came to occupy a particular position in conceptual and minimalist practices during the 1960s and 1970s with the rising interest in process ... More
Exhibition at Galerie Patrick Seguin features works on paper by 53 artists
PARIS.- In collaboration with New York-based gallery Karma, Galerie Patrick Seguin presents Olympia an exhibition of works that range from the early 1950s to today. The exhibition features works on paper from 53 artists, including Rita Ackermann, Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, William Crawford, Jay DeFeo, Carroll Dunham, Mark Grotjahn, Martin Kippenberger, Lee Lozano, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Ken Price, Richard Prince, and Tom of Finland, among many others. The exhibitions title refers to Paris-based publisher Olympia Press founded in 1953 by Maurice Girordias, who named the publishing company after Ãdouard Manets painting Olympia (1863), which depicts a prostitute, nude and reclining on a bed as a servant presents her with a gift of flowers, possibly from a lover. The press published a mix of erotic and avant-garde literary fiction such as Naked Lunch ... More
Fourteen Presidential signatures on a single page at Swann Galleries' Fall Autographs Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, November 1, Swann Auction Galleries will hold a sale of Autographs, with an emphasis on American political signatures in a nod to the upcoming presidential election. A Civil War-era album in the sale, originally signed by dozens of important political and military figures of the period, also contains an astounding page signed by fourteen U.S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and both Roosevelts. Additional presidential signaturesBill Clinton, Andrew Johnson and Barack Obamaare on a following spread (Grant signed elsewhere). Other notable signers of the album include P.T. Barnum, Charles Sumner, Schuyler Colfax and George Armstrong Custer. The album was discovered in the 1950s and subsequently maintained by Manuscript Society president Herbert Klingelhofer (1915-2015). Spanning 1864 to 2010, ... More
Solo show of paintings by Wei Dong on view at Klein Sun Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Klein Sun Gallery announces Observer, a solo show of paintings by Wei Dong, on view from October 13 through November 12, 2016. Growing up under the repressive sociopolitical environment during the Cultural Revolution, Wei Dongs early works are profoundly shaped by the political legacy of this period of the time. Over the course of his career, the artists oeuvre has departed from the grotesque imagery of voluptuous women and a deformed reality in a political context. Discovering a new pictorial language, the artist has paired men and women with animals, disclosing a secretive and sensual intimacy that results in a voyeuristic aesthetic. In Wei Dongs earlier works, this kind of intimacy is often decoded in anachronistic scenes with oddly mismatched elements and protagonists. My Trouble with Gentleman (2011), for example, shows the corner ... More
Turner Auctions + Appraisals to offer the Anita & Sedwick Hellman collection of toys
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to feature the Anita & Sedwick Hellman Toy Collection. Offering over 245 lots amassed from coast to coast over 50 years, the collection includes toy cars, trains, guns, airplanes, tin toys, dolls and more. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on Saturday, November 12, at 11:30 am PDT; sale items can be previewed online now until the sale starts. The online auction will be featured live on LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable, easily accessed through Upcoming Auctions at the companys website. Residents of Mamaroneck, New York, Anita and Sedwick Hellman were avid toy collectors for five decades. Sedwick was a funeral director in a multi-generation family business. His wife Anita, a flamboyant beauty with striking red hair, was an elementary schoolteacher for 28 years at the Osborn ... More
Haus der Kunst displays institutional memory during the Postwar period
MUNICH.- The new presentation in the Archive Gallery augments the exhibition "Postwar: Art between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965" by examining Haus der Kunst's institutional memory during this period. Haus der Kunst played a seminal role in the 1990s, when it was one of the first institutions to explore its own - often difficult - past. It exposed this history not only in publications, but also on site, in its place of origin. This approach motivated other institutions in turn to look at the roles they had played during the National Socialist period. On the occasion of its 75th anniversary (2012), Haus der Kunst further expanded its pioneering position in the investigation of institutional memory. For over four years now, questions surrounding the postwar period, neglected topics - such as denazification - and the dynamic mediation and presentation of archive material have formed ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born October 17, 1577. Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 - 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli. In this image: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613). Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
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