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Installation view of The Birth of the Art Market: Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and the Artists of the Dutch Golden Age © Bucerius Kunst Forum, 2017. Photo: Ulrich Perrey.
HAMBURG.- The Bucerius Kunst Forum presents from 23 September 2017 to 7 January 2018 the first large-scale exhibition devoted to the birth of the art market in the Golden Age of the Netherlands. Tracing the careers of artists such as Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and many others, the exhibition explores how the transformation of Dutch society during the seventeenth century brought forth a new art market, with artworks tailored to its demands. Artists, art dealers and their workshops had to keep pace with the evolving market situation, leading to art prices ranging from just a few Dutch guilders to astronomical sums. The Birth of the Art Market: Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen and the Artists of the Dutch Golden Age is the first exhibition curated by Prof. Dr. Franz Wilhelm Kaiser in his new role as artistic director of the Bucerius Kunst Forum. Trading in art is a way of engaging in the debate about arts status in society and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit on September 23, 2017 the "most ancient pharmacy of Europe" in the museum of Llivia, a Spanish enclave in the French Pyrenees that remained in France following the 1660 Llivia treaty, that secured peace after the end of the Thirty Year War between France's and Spain's kingdom. RAYMOND ROIG / AFP
| Exhibition at the British Museum reveals the history of the Scythians | | Immersive display of 11 Mark Rothko paintings on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | | Christie's to offer Middle Eastern Modern & Contempory art in London | 
Gold plaque in the shape of a coiled panther; Gold; 4th 3rd century BC; Siberian Collection of Peter the Great. © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 2017. Photo: V Terebenin.
LONDON.- At the British Museum this autumn, discover an ancient culture that was buried in the Siberian permafrost for thousands of years. The BP exhibition Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia reveals the history of these powerful nomadic tribes who thrived in a vast landscape stretching from southern Russia to China and the northern Black Sea. The Scythians were exceptional horsemen and warriors, and feared adversaries and neighbours of the ancient Greeks, Assyrians and Persians between 900 and 200 BC. This exhibition tells their story through exciting archaeological discoveries and perfectly preserved objects frozen in time. This is the first major exhibition to explore the Scythians in the UK in 40 years. Many of the objects on display date back over 2,500 years. They are exceptionally well preserved as they come from burial mounds in the high Altai mountains of southern Siberia, where the frozen ground prevented them ... More | | 
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1955 (detail). Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BOSTON, MASS.- In a career that spanned five decades, Mark Rothko (19031970) created some of the 20th centurys most evocative and iconic masterpieces. A painting is not a picture of an experience, he once remarked; it is an experience. This fall, 11 major works by the artist travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, for an immersive exhibition that invites visitors to become enveloped by Rothkos large-scale paintings and encounter them as he had originally intendedto experience something more intimate and awe-inspiring than simply viewing. Mark Rothko: Reflection, on view from September 24, 2017 through July 1, 2018, is the first focused display of the artists works at the MFA, showcasing the full sweep of his careerfrom early surrealist compositions; to ... More | | 
Christies upcoming auction for Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art in London will be taking place on Wednesday 25 October at 7.00pm. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies announced the launch of a new marquee event in London, entitled Middle Eastern Art, which brings together exhibitions and auctions from the Islamic and Indian Worlds, Rug & Carpets (now being integrated into the Islamic sale) as well as for the first time Middle Eastern Modern & Contemporary Art in London. The exhibition at Christies London opens to the public on 21 October, and the auctions will take place on 25 and 26 October. After holding solely Middle Eastern Modern + Contemporary Art auctions in Dubai for the past 11 years, Christies has taken the decision to move their October auction to London to further enhance the international appeal and recognition for Middle Eastern Art. The traditional March sale week will continue to take place in Dubai and will occur during Dubai Art Season. Christies upcoming auction for Middle Eastern Modern and Contemporary Art in London ... More |
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| Yale University Press publishes most comprehensive, definitive study of Jasper Johns's work | | MoMA explores Louise Bourgeois's prints and books | | Spectacular exhibition devoted to the art of the second half of the 16th century opens at Palazzo Strozzi | 
My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing. Jasper Johns, 1965
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Following on the recent publication of the long-awaited, monumental catalogue raisonné of his paintings and sculpture, the artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is being celebrated this fall with a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London (opening September 23, 2017), which will travel to The Broad, in Los Angeles (from February 10 to May 13, 2018). In the midst of this exciting moment for the artist and all who care about his work, Yale University Press, in association with the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, will release a spectacular single-volume book that presents the most comprehensive, definitive study of Jasper Johnss work ever published. The book is Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye (publication date: October 3, 2017), by renowned Johns expert Roberta Bernstein. The book, not to be confused with the catalogue of the exhibition, is a standalone volume, the definitive ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois (19112010). Plate 8 of 9 from the illustrated book Ode à Ma Mère. 1995. Drypoint. Page: 11 13/16 x 11 13/16″ (30 x 30 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist. © 2017 The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Arts Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, on view September 24, 2017, through January 28, 2018, is the first comprehensive survey of Bourgeoiss prints and illustrated books. It places these mediums within the context of the artists overall practice and sheds new light on her creative process. The exhibition includes 265 prints (including those in books and series), 23 sculptures, nine drawings, and two early paintings. Louise Bourgeois is organized by Deborah Wye, Chief Curator Emerita of the former Department of Prints and Illustrated Booksa longtime friend of the artist and a leading scholar of her workwith Sewon Kang, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints. Louise Bourgeois (19112010), a celebrated sculptor who worked in multiple mediums, was motivated by emotional ... More | | 
Santi di Tito (Borgo Sansepolcro 1563‒Florence 1603), Portrait of Guido di Francesco Guardi with his Sons, 1564/68‒1570/80, oil on panel, 98.4 x 75 cm. Private collection.
FLORENCE.- Palazzo Strozzi is hosting The Cinquecento in Florence, a spectacular exhibition devoted to the art of the second half of the 16th century in the city, bringing together works by such artists as Michelangelo, Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo, Bronzino, Giorgio Vasari, Santi di Tito and Giambologna. The final act in a trilogy of exhibitions curated by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali which began with Bronzino in 2010 and was followed by Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino in 2014, the exhibition explores an era of outstanding cultural and intellectual talent, the second half of the 16th century in Florence. The exhibition charts the debate between the modern manner and the Counter-Reformation, between the sacred and the profane, and highlights an extraordinary age for the history of art in Florence, marked by the Council of Trent and the ... More |
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| MoMA announces artists included in "Being: New Photography 2018" | | Chinese vase sells for 10,000 times estimated price in Geneva | | Prince's 'Under the Cherry Moon' personal notebook with extensive handwritten working script to be auctioned | 
Andrzej Steinbach. Untitled from the series Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei. 2017. Inkjet print, 35 7/16 à 23 5/8″ (90 à 60 cm). Courtesy the artist and Galerie Conradi, Hamburg and Brussels. © 2017 Andrzej Steinbach.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art will present Being: New Photography 2018, an exhibition investigating charged and layered notions of personhood and subjectivity in recent photography and photo-based art. This is the latest edition of MoMAs longstanding and celebrated New Photography series, which since its last iteration, in 2015, is presented in an expanded, thematic format. Since its inception in 1985, the New Photography series has been a vital component of the Museums contemporary program, introducing new work by over 100 artists from around the globe to a wider audience. On view from March 18 through August 19, 2018, this years exhibition includes works by 17 artists working in the US and internationally. Being: New Photography 2018 is organized by Lucy Gallun, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography. The works included in Being take ... More | | 
There was a bidding battle at the auction on Thursday by two people who believed the vase was in fact from the 18th century.
GENEVA (AFP).- A Chinese vase valued between 500 and 800 Swiss francs has sold for a record five million Swiss francs, a Geneva auction house said. According to the catalogue, the vase, which is 60 centimetres (23 inches) tall and depicts three blue dragons on a yellow background, is from the 20th century but it bears an unverified mark from the 18th century Qianlong era. There was a bidding battle at the auction on Thursday by two people who believed the vase was in fact from the 18th century. The auctioneer at the Geneve-Encheres auction house said the age of the vase was difficult to evaluate accurately and that they tended to be conservative in their estimates. "This is the hammer price so with the commission added it is a total of 6.08 million Swiss francs ($6.1 million, 5.1 million euros)," auctioneer Olivier Fichot told AFP. The final price was 10,000 times more than the catalogue estimate. The buyer, an amateur from Asia, was in the room for the ... More | | 
Prince's handwritten notes for the 1984 film Purple Rain are among more than 200 items that will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction.
BOSTON, MASS.- Prince's personal notebook with an extensive handwritten working script for the film Under the Cherry Moon is among more than 200 items that will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The Mead college-ruled notebook contains fifteen single-sided pages of Prince's handwritten working script for the film. In the middle of the notebook there are two consecutive pages with messages written by Susannah Melvoin in red colored pencil, with large happy and sad faces drawn in the center. These are soon followed by the fifteen pages of Prince's working screenplay for Under the Cherry Moon, written by him in pencil; several pages are annotated by Prince in purple pencil, with notes indicating scenes and page numbers. The dialogue begins with a line from "Tricky," "I like 'em nice 2, u know that certain special way." Mary replies, "Special. What do u mean?" Tricky: "U should know, Mary. That's what u are." Prince then writes some stage dire ... More |
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| Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino portrait offered at Bonhams 19th Century European Art Sale | | First U.S. survey of Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton opens at The FLAG Art Foundation | | Sotheby's to offer important daguerreotypes from the collection of Stanley B. Burns, MD | 
Federico Beltran Masses (Spanish, 1885-1949) Pola Negri y Rudolph Valentino. oil on canvas, 162 x 129.5cm (63 3/4 x 51in). Estimate: £10,000-15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Beltran Masses Pola Negri y Rudolph Valentino gives no indication of the dramatic love affair between Hollywoods first femme fatale and her Latin lover. Estimated at £10,000-15,000, the contemplative double portrait featuring Negri wearing a ring, which it has been suggested is Valentinos cursed ring is a highlight at Bonhams 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale, on 27 September 2017 at Bonhams New Bond Street saleroom. Bonhams Director of 19th Century Paintings, Charles OBrien commented, Pola Negri y Rudolph Valentino is an ethereal and beautiful painting of one the most iconic Hollywood couples of their era. Federico Beltran Masses built a successful career as a portraitist, and as ... More | | 
Extradition with Computer (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation presents the first U.S. survey of Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton, on view September 23 December 16, 2017, on its 9th and 10th floors. Ashley Bickertons vibrant and often dystopic vision of contemporary culture has been at the center of his four-decade-long practice, which includes painting, photography, sculpture, and every possible combination therein. The survey demonstrates the extraordinary visual range of Bickertons oeuvre, which oscillates between playfulness and brutality, extreme beauty and the grotesque. Works from the artists signature series from the 1980s to present, including Susie, Logos, Blue Man, and new Water Vector and Wall-Wall works coming directly from the studio, highlight his subversive and self-aware critique of identity, consumerism, and cultural artifice. Bickerton rose to prominence as part of the 1980s New York East Village ... More | | 
Anonymous French Photographer The Artist and His Wife: A Narrative Portrait (detail) Estimate $70/100,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will offer a selection of important daguerreotypes from the renowned collection of Stanley B. Burns, MD in its bi-annual Photographs auction on 5 October 2017 in New York. Collected with passion and connoisseurship over the last four decades, this fine group of daguerreotypes provides a fascinating glimpse into mid-19th century life, from astonishing medical studies, occupational portraits, post-mortems, and architectural studies, to gold rush era landscapes and cityscapes. The collection will be on view to the public alongside the Photographs exhibition from 30 September 4 October. Dr. Burnss prized collection is especially rich in medical studies, including a haunting quarter-plate daguerreotype of a Physician with his Operative Kit (estimate ... More |
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 Artist Omer Fast's 3D film 'August' makes U.S. public debut at the Minneapolis Institute of ArtMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- This fall, the Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the exhibition New Pictures: Omer Fast, Appendix, marking the U.S. public debut of Omer Fasts film August (2016), which Mia has recently acquired. On view from September 23, 2017, through February 18, 2018, the exhibition explores how the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker creates complex, nuanced stories in response to political crisis and personal loss across time. The exhibition features Augusta para-fictional interpretation of the life of German photographer August Sander (18761964), which was shot in 3Das well as the 2008 single-channel film installation Looking Pretty for God (After G.W.). The exhibition also includes more than 20 portrait photographs by Sander from his celebrated series People of the Twentieth Century, many of which have been selected from Mias ... More FOG Design+Art announces participating galleries for 2018 fairSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The fifth annual edition of FOG Design+Art will take place January 1114, 2018 at Fort Mason Center, with a Preview Gala on Wednesday, January 10 to benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The fair brings together 45 leading international design and visual art galleries for an intimate, highly curated selection of exhibitions that celebrate San Franciscos long history as a hub for design, art, experimentation, and innovation. The fair will include a robust calendar of programs, including conversations between art and design luminaries and leaders in the field of arts and culture. The fairs 45 participants were selected from more than 95 proposals. In addition to welcoming back many galleries to the fair for their fifth year, including Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Berggruen Gallery, Crown Point Press, Fraenkel Gallery, Friedman ... More Michael Hoppen Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by Lucas FogliaLONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery is presenting Human Nature, the gallery's third exhibition by American photographer Lucas Foglia. Human Nature leads us through Foglias journey in sequences of photographs. It begins and ends with interpretations of paradise, moving through cities, forests, farms, deserts, ice fields, and oceans in between. Scientists are pictured as they work to quantify and understand our relationship with the natural world, measuring how we change nature and how spending time in wild spaces changes us. I grew up on a small farm, thirty miles east of New York City. Growing our food and bartering, my family felt shielded from the strip malls and suburbs around us. The forest that bordered the farm was my childhood wilderness, a wild place to play that was ignored by our neighbors who commuted to Manhattan. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded ... More 'Wondrous Worlds' exhibition showcases the long history and rich diversity of Islamic artHOUSTON, TX.- Bringing together both historic and contemporary objects from Asia, Africa, the United States, and Europe, Asia Society Texas Centers exhibition, Wondrous Worlds: Art & Islam Through Time & Place, showcases the global history and breadth of Islamic art. The exhibition opened September 23, 2017 and runs through February 25, 2018. Organized by New Jerseys Newark Museum, the exhibition at Asia Society features more than 100 works that reflect aspects of faith, culture, and everyday life of Muslims across the world and throughout the ages. Islamic art exhibitions usually focus on works from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia, but Wondrous Worlds expands the map by featuring works from Southeast Asia, the Americas, and East and West Africa as well, explains Bridget Bray, the Texas Centers Nancy C. Allen Curator and Director of Exhibitions. ... More Order up! Garment District art exhibit serves up classic American eats NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance unveiled the latest in its ongoing series of public art installations, showcasing embroidered portraits of food created by four Japanese artisans in a group exhibition, titled The World of 4 Artisans. Located in a street-level window at 209 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through October 28th and corresponds with the exhibit at the Medialia Gallery. The World of 4 Artisans is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. The World of 4 Artisans is a wonderful installation that embodies both the artistic and culinary community of the Garment District, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. We are excited ... More Exhibition at Academy of the Arts of the World focuses on cultural appropriation COLOGNE.- Cultural appropriation has recently become the subject of heated debate. What was until very recently considered a purely aesthetic, vaguely post-modern, individualistic device of free, playful translation and citation of texts from other cultures, is suddenly revealed in its frightening political-economic dimension of exploitation and profit. A white dominant majority takes everything it likes to the detriment of indigenous voices, people of color, and others who are culturally and politically oppressed. Exhibition organizers, however, want to turn to another side of this story overshadowed by recent discussions: the strategy of cultural counter-appropriation used by the underprivileged, in post-colonial Africa or in the Europe of migrants, as well as by those on the margins of Europe in the former socialist world. The thieves, counterfeiters, and resistant ... More The Martin Parr Foundation, a new centre for British photography, will open in BristolBRISTOL.- The Martin Parr Foundation was established in 2014 and will open to the public in an architect-designed space in the Paintworks complex, Bristol, comprising of a studio, gallery, library and archive centre. The aim of the Foundation is to support and promote photography from the British Isles. It will do so by preserving the archive and legacy of Martin Parr, and by holding a growing collection of works by selected British and Irish photographers as well as images taken in the British Isles by international photographers. The Foundation will also house an expanding library of British and Irish photographic books. Martin Parr (b. 1952) is one of the most significant documentary photographers of post-war Britain. He has developed an international reputation for his innovative imagery, his oblique approach to social documentary, ... More £4.7m Racing D-Type Jaguar for sale with MossgreenMELBOURNE.- One of the most iconic and coveted cars in the collector car world, the 1955 Jaguar D-type is expected to sell for between £4m to £4,7m, according to auction house Mossgreen. One sold last year for £16m (US $21.8m). It is the highest-value car ever to go to public auction in Australia and will cross the block with Mossgreen Auctions at the annual Motorclassica Auction this year, on Saturday night 14th October 2017 in Melbourne. Owned in Europe by the renowned former Le Mans 24 Hour winner Duncan Hamilton, chassis XKD510 enjoyed many successes in the UK and French West Africa before going to Singapore, and eventually Australia in the late 60s. Noted Jaguar collector Ian Cummins owned it for a time here before Australian motor racing legend and former President of Lear Jet, Bib Stillwell bought the car at auction for a then World ... More Exhibition explores experimental black poetryPHILADELPHIA, PA.- This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania is presenting Speech/Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences. Drawing from black experimental poetry, as well as popular texts produced for films, magazines, TV, and books, the works on view deconstruct the structural elements of language to rupture its intended purpose through collage, drawing, text-based installation, and video. On view from September 13 through December 23, 2017, Speech/Acts brings together recent work and new commissions by six artists: Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, who reflect upon experiences growing ... More Charles Bradley, late-blooming US soul voice, dead at 68NEW YORK (AFP).- Charles Bradley, the soul singer whose robust voice and defiantly upbeat outlook won him stardom in his final years after a life of poverty, died Saturday from cancer. He was 68. Bradley, who for years had scraped by as a James Brown impersonator, had pulled off another battle against the odds earlier this year when he triumphantly returned from cancer treatment. But the disease had spread to his liver and he recently canceled months of shows. He died at his Brooklyn home surrounded by family, friends and bandmates, his publicist said. "Mr Bradley was truly grateful for all the love he's received from his fans and we hope his message of love is remembered and carried on," his Facebook page said, asking for donations to art charities that support young people in lieu of flowers. After years of taking odd jobs across the United States and drifting ... More VisionQuesT 4rosso opens exhibition of works by Pierluigi FresiaGENOA.- Entanglement is a term used in quantum theory to describe how the particles of energy/matter can be correlated and predictably interact with each other, regardless of their distance. Many of us have learned that the laws capable of governing the microscopic world are different from those that move the macroscopic one; while physics and quantum mechanics describe the infinitely small, Newtonian physics adheres perfectly to the macroscopic world but, it is the infinitely small that transmits a fascinating image because it is somewhat divergent from the categories of space, time and causality we are used to. But are we sure that the separation between these two worlds is so clear? Could we, on the other hand, think that the laws of quantum physics and some of its strange phenomena, such as entanglement, can have a validity and manifestation in the physical world ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Latvian-born American painter Mark Rothko was born September 25, 1903. Mark Rothko (September 25, 1903 - February 25, 1970), was a Russian-American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter". In this image: A visitor passes three paintings by US-painter Mark Rothko which are on exhibition at the Foundation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, on February 15, 2001.
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