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The exhibition is curated by Monet scholar Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh. He says: It is a guest curator's dream to be able to bring so many arresting paintings by such a great artist together and to combine them in groupings which bring out new ways of seeing his unrivalled work.
LONDON.- In a landmark show at the National Gallery the first purely Monet exhibition to be staged in London for more than twenty years there is a unique and surprising opportunity to discover the artist as we have never seen him before. We typically think of Claude Monet as a painter of landscape, of the sea, and in his later years, of gardens but until now there has never been an exhibition considering his work in terms of architecture. Featuring more than seventy-five paintings by Monet, this innovative exhibition spans his long career from its beginnings in the mid-1860s to the public display of his Venice paintings in 1912. As a daring young artist, he exhibited in the Impressionist shows and displayed canvases of the bridges and buildings of Paris and its suburbs. Much later as an elderly man, he depicted the renowned architecture of Venice and London, reflecting them back to us through his exceptional v ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the 2018 World Press Photo exhibition in Amsterdam on April 13, 2018. JUAN BARRETO / AFP
| The Morgan acquires extremely rare manuscript illumination by the Master of Catherine of Cleves | | Director of fabled Berlin theatre resigns after months of dispute | | The Baltimore Museum of Art to deaccession seven works from its contemporary collection |
The Virgin Offering her Milk to St. Bernard; King David Harping; and Two Fighting Birds on a leaf from a Book of Hours illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1460. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1209; purchased as an anonymous gift in honor of Roger S. Wieck, 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the acquisition of an extremely rare manuscript leaf by the finest and most original illuminator of the Dutch Middle Ages, the Master of Catherine of Cleves. The work is from an otherwise lost Book of Hours and is the first to be discovered by the artist since 1980. The Master of Catherine of Cleves was active in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from around 1430 to 1460. He is named after his masterpiece, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves, which is part of the Morgans collections, and only fifteen of his illuminated manuscripts survive. The newly discovered page contains the beginning of the Seven Penitential Psalms, written in Dutch, and the artist ... More | |
This file photo taken on January 16, 2017 shows artistic director at Berlin's legendary Volksbuehne theatre Chris Dercon, during a conference at the Crown Prince's Palace (Kronprinzenpalais) in Berlin. Jens Kalaene / dpa / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- The former head of London's Tate Modern, Chris Dercon, resigned as artistic director of Berlin's legendary Volksbuehne theatre on Friday, after months of fierce dispute. Dercon's appointment had been controversial from the start, with critics fearing he would sell out the theatre's radical and provocative roots. Protests reached their peak a month after he took the reins, when hundreds of demonstrators occupied the Volksbuehne in September for several days before police moved in to clear the space. In a statement issued by Berlin state authorities, head of cultural affairs Klaus Lederer said he and Dercon had come to an agreement for the artistic director to step down with immediate effect. "Both parties agreed that ... More | |
Merrick Historic Entrance. Photo by Mitro Hood.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today that its Board of Trustees has approved plans to deaccession seven works from its contemporary collection, following an extensive analysis of the museums holdings in this area. The funds raised will be used exclusively for the acquisition of works created from 1943 or later, allowing the museum to strengthen and fill gaps within its collection. During the same meeting, the trustees approved the acquisition of nine works by contemporary artists Mark Bradford, Zanele Muholi, Trevor Paglen, John T. Scott, Sara VanDerBeek, and Jack Whitten, several of which are the first by the artist to enter the collection. The BMA regularly reviews its holdings to ensure that it is serving its mission and its community through its collections and exhibitions. Following this careful examination of the collection, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford and ... More |
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| Joan B. Mirviss welcomes new staff members | | The Orientalist Sale pulls in to London | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Daniel Rich |
Tracy Causey-Jeffery, Gallery Director.
NEW YORK, NY.- Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. announced the arrival of three additions to the gallery team. Tracy Causey-Jeffery, Gallery Director; Prior to running her on contemporary art gallery for twenty years, Tracy previously worked with major Asian art galleries in London and interned with the Chinese Works of Art department at Sothebys NY. She has curated numerous exhibitions, taught art history and authored many articles. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with dual majors in Oriental Studies and International Relations, she went on to study Mandarin in Taiwan and to receive a postgraduate certificate in Asian Art from the University of London SOAS/Sotheby's Institute joint program. Tracy's favorite area of study was/is ceramics and so she believes the directorship at Joan B. Mirviss to be a serendipitous move for her. When not working with or reading about Asian art, she practices a vegetarian lifestyle, avidly supports ... More | |
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 1904), A Sultan at Prayer, 1887, oil on canvas. Estimate: £200,000-300,000 / $280,000-420,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- The Orientalist Sale, launched as an annual event by Sothebys in London in 2012 and now in its seventh season, brings together paintings and sculpture representing the landscapes, people, and customs of North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, Arabia, and the Ottoman world during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Comprising over 60 lots, this years sale on 24th April features exquisite works which provide fascinating historical insights into the Arab, Ottoman, and Islamic worlds of the time. Exhibited alongside the Arts of the Islamic World auction as part of Orientalist & Middle Eastern Week, together the two sales offer an opportunity to unite Orientalist paintings with luxurious works of art from countries under Islamic patronage. Claude Piening, Sothebys Head of Orientalist Paintings, ... More | |
Bauhaus, Dessau, 2018. Acrylic on Dibond, 40 x 31 inches (101.6 x 78.7 cm). Image courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery announces an exhibition of new works by Daniel Rich entitled Never Forever at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition runs through May 26, 2018. The paintings in Never Forever offer points of entry to consider architectures ability to serve as a symbolic backdrop for unfolding political events and changing power structures. The paintings, most often of the built environment, are always devoid of peoplethe human figure is implied through the presence and perspective of the viewer. Rich appropriates imagery found in newspapers and online in response to investigative journalism, literature and the news of the day. These source images get digitally altered and meticulously transcribed onto the surface of the painting panels. ... More |
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| Wernher von Braun 'Man will conquer space soon' archive up for auction | | Thomas Bompard appointed Chairman of Sotheby's West Coast | | Visual feast of scarce volumes in Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics sale at Swann |
A fantastic sketch of the Round trip ship destined to bring man to the moon, which served to inspire Chesley Bonestells cover artwork for Man on the Moon: The Journey.
BOSTON, MASS.- An amazing archive of signed drawings, diagrams, charts, and letters by Dr. Wernher von Braun concerning his pioneering Man Will Conquer Space Soon series will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The archive is comprised of a total of 26 items that include; 17 drawings and schematics, two orbital diagrams, four calculations and graph plots, and three autographed letters. All relate to four of the Colliers articles: Crossing the Last Frontier, Man on the Moon: The Journey, Man on the Moon: The Exploration, and Baby Space Station, which appeared in in the magazine between 1952 and 1954. Also includes the four issues of Colliers magazine associated with the items in the archive. Von Braun prepared the original drawings in this archive as reference materials for magazine artists ... More | |
A leading specialist in Impressionist & Modern art, Thomas joins Sothebys expanded team of experts in the key priority region. Courtesy Sothebys.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sothebys announced that Thomas Bompard, one of the Companys leading specialists in Impressionist & Modern Art, will relocate from London to Los Angeles where he will begin a new role as Chairman of Sothebys West Coast, and Senior Specialist in the Fine Art Division. Mr. Bompard joins an impressive team in Los Angeles and San Francisco and expands the range of expertise and services available to Sothebys clients in the region. The West Coast is firmly established as an international art destination home to many of todays leading artists and collectors, as well some of the worlds great museums, said Valentino Carlotti, Sothebys Global Head of Business Development, continuing, so we are excited to appoint a key specialist and talent, like Thomas, to the position of Chairman to lead our operation in this critical region. With each ... More | |
Gustav Klimt, Eine Nachlese, with 30 plates, Vienna, 1931. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries Thursday, April 26 auction of Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics will offer books, magazines, portfolios, editions and unique works, with material that changed the trajectory of design and influenced book arts in the last two centuries. Luminous works by Gustav Klimt lead the auction with the limited edition tours-de-force Das Werk, 1918, and Eine Nachlese, 1931. With text by Hermann Bahr and Peter Altenberg, Das Work is the only monograph published during Klimts lifetime. The present copy, numbered 103 of 300, retains 49 of the original 50 plates, including the ten printed in color and heightened in gold and silver, carries an estimate of $25,000 to $35,000. The lavish portfolio Eine Nachlese boasts 30 plates, 15 in color, compiled by Max Eisler. The tome features several important works by Klimt, including some which were destroyed by wartime fires. Rarely seen complete ... More |
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| Exhibition features exquisite photographs of wild bees in their natural habitats | | Exhibition of new works by Reena Spaulings opens at Matthew Marks Gallery | | Winter Antiques Show announces new Executive Director |
Paula Sharp, Squash Bee Bathed in Yellow Light of Squash Blossom. © Sharp-Eatman Nature Photography.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The exhibition Wild Bees: Photographs by Paula Sharp and Ross Eatman, opening at the Bruce Museum on April 14, 2018, features approximately 26 exquisite photographs of wild bees in their natural habitats, along with native bee specimens that can be viewed under a video microscope, an interactive website, bee houses, and giant model bees at 20x scale. While many people are aware of the collapse of European honeybee populations, fewer know that native insect pollinators are declining globally due to a combination of habitat loss and fragmentation, pesticide use, pathogens, and invasive species. Native bees pollinate both wild plants and agricultural crops many of which cannot be pollinated by honeybees. Wild bees are important pollinators of wildflowers, garden flowers and commercial crops including fruit trees, berries, melons and garden vegetables, yet their significance in sustaining healthy ecosystems is often overlooked ... More | |
Reena Spaulings, Medusa 3, 2018. Acrylic and oil on linen, 66 x 50 inches, 168 x 127 cm. ©Reena Spaulings, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Reena Spaulings: The Male Gates is an exhibition of new paintings on canvas and walk-through security gates. With a few rough coats of decorators enamel, devices typically installed at airports, schools, nightclubs, museums, etc., now set up a passing encounter between painting and the standardization of infrastructure. Here the technology of passage becomes a site in itself, a form that addresses the human body while trying to hold the space of the gallery like Minimalist sculpture. Five gates are installed together with a very large seascape made with floor-cleaning robots. This latter work translates the weird weather of late Turner using Farrow & Ball Estate Emulsions and the algorithmic scrubbing of a smart mop. Other smaller works on canvas revisit pointillism as depersonalized mark-making, repetitively adding colors until a neutral, grayish swarming starts to happen. These druggy medusas drift between composition and ... More | |
Over the past 17 years, Ms. Allen has orchestrated the US market entry, directed, and consulted with numerous art fairs.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Antiques Show Executive Committee announced that it has named Helen Allen as the new executive director of the Show. Ms. Allen joins the Winter Antiques Show with extensive experience and expertise in the arts, marketing, communications, and event production. Over the past 17 years, Ms. Allen has orchestrated the US market entry, directed, and consulted with numerous art fairs. She served as the executive director of Ramsay Fairs for nine years. During her tenure, she founded and served as executive director of PULSE Contemporary Art Fair with events in New York, Miami and London, and she consulted on the establishment of the internationally renowned Art Hong Kong (now Art Basel Hong Kong). In recent years, Ms. Allen served as both a communications and production consultant to several art fair organizations. Previously, Ms. Allen worked with Christies Auction House in Rome and New York and ... More |
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Exhibition explores the tradition of illustrated margins in miniatures through contemporary art
NEW DELHI.- Anant Art Gallery is presenting Hashiya: The Margin a major exhibition exploring for the first time the tradition of illustrated margins in miniatures through contemporary art. Exploring the miniaturist concept of the margin in a contemporary context, the exhibition brings together the works and perspectives of ten distinguished artists, Manisha Gera Baswani, Alexander Gorlizki, Desmond Lazaro, Ghulam Mohammad, Nusra Latif Qureshi, V Ramesh, Gulam Mohammed Sheikh, Nilima Sheikh, Yasir Waqas and Saira Wasim. Through their work, the artists are responding to the concept of hashiya or the margin, an idea that originally arose from the muraqqa of the 16th century - capacious albums of independent miniature works, which included independent paintings, portraits, genre scenes, allegories, fantasies or interpretations ... More
Exhibition at Tullie House Art Gallery and Museum focuses on the collection of Carel Weight
CUMBRIA.- A display that focuses on the collection of prominent artist, collector and Senior Royal Academician, Carel Weight. A prolific collector, Carel also acted as advisor to Tullie Houses own Art Purchase Scheme. This display showcases works by a range of Royal Academicians: Ruskin Spear, L S Lowry, Sheila Fell, John Bratby and Peter Blake. It also offers a fascinating insight into the varied interests and tastes of Weight himself, and their lasting effect on Tullie Houses own art collection. Carel Weight (1908-1997), important 20th century artist, teacher, advisor, collector and benefactor remained loyal to the Royal Academy throughout his career and became a Royal Academician in 1965 and a Senior Royal Academician in 1984. In addition to Weights distinguished career as an artist and Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art, he also ... More
Retrospective of photographer Mark Edward Atkinson showcased at The Hermitage Museum and Gardens
NORFOLK, VA.- The Hermitage Museum and Gardens, a waterfront estate dedicated to exhibiting collection-related and contemporary art, announced that PROOF, the retrospective by Virginia photographer Mark Edward Atkinson, is on view from April 13 to July 22, 2018. Described by Atkinson as a memoir of images, the exhibition includes photography from over 30 years of work both at home and across the worlds landscape. Riveting and poignant images of people and places comprise the collection. Atkinson has travelled extensively abroad shooting both still photography and documenting the stories he finds. At home he has photographed people and places on assignments throughout the US. The multi-faceted exhibition crosses time and distances while still providing a deeply rooted connection to the South. This exhibition is an exciting opportunity ... More
Grayson Perry explores universally human subjects in Kiasma Helsinki
HELSINKI.- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma has invited British artist Grayson Perry, one of the most astute commentators on contemporary society and culture, to present a major exhibition of almost fifty works spanning the last two decades on Kiasmas fifth floor. Grayson Perry explores subjects that are universally human: identity, gender, social status, sexuality and religion. He is a great chronicler of contemporary life, yet he favours traditional materials and techniques such as ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. In Britain he is also a highly regarded public speaker, author and maker of award-winning television documentaries. The artist speaks openly and unabashedly about his own identity and there is a strong autobiographical element in his work. During childhood, he retreated into a private world of fantasy, and in his teens Perry ... More
New exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum features direct sensory experiences
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is presenting The Senses: Design Beyond Vision exhibition, on view April 13 through Oct. 28, which examines how multisensory design amplifies everyones ability to receive information, explore the world, satisfy essential needs and experience joy and wonder. The Senses features direct sensory experiences and displays practical, innovative and exploratory products to touch, hear, see and smell. The exhibition invites visitors to encounter design with all their senses through several interactive installations, created in collaboration with contemporary designers, from a furry wall with digital sensors that play music to a scent commission by Christopher Brosius inspired by winter. Organized by Ellen Lupton, senior curator of contemporary design, and Andrea Lipps, assistant curator of contemporary design, ... More
Prints from José Guadalupe Posada, "the father of modern Mexican art" travel to Bellevue, WA
BELLEVUE, WA.- Since the 1920s, printmaker and illustrator José Guadalupe Posada (18521913) has been lauded as the father of modern Mexican art. Beginning with the Mexican muralists, generations of artists following the Mexican Revolution (19101920) have felt inspired by this little-known artisan and his extensive body of imagery. Posada's work ranges from illustrations for childrens games to sensationalistic news stories, but he is best known for his popular and satirical representations of calaveras (skeletons) in lively guises. These figures were featured prominently on broadsidescheap illustrated handbillsthat were published for the annual Day of the Dead celebrations. The exhibition, organized by The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College, and curated by Diane Miliotes, features 98 examples of prints and print media by Posada and ... More
Minneapolis Institute of Art to present U.S. premiere of Amar Kanwar's 'Such a Morning'
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- This spring, the Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the U.S. premiere of Such a Morning (2017), a film by New Delhibased artist Amar Kanwar (b. 1964, New Delhi). The 85-minute single-channel film installation, which debuted internationally in 2017 at documenta 14, is the centerpiece of the exhibition New Pictures: Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning, on view April 15 to August 12, 2018. It is the latest in Mias New Pictures series, which showcases artists who push the boundaries of photography and new media and respond to Mias encyclopedic art collection. Kanwars work examines power and resistance. The artist experiments with documentary materials and archival footage to explore the hidden dimensions of personal encounters with history and violence, unveiling a critical perspective on reality. In Such a Morning, Kanwar departs ... More
Europeana Foundation appoints new Executive Director
THE HAGUE.- The Governing Board of the Europeana Foundation has appointed Harry Verwayen to be the new Executive Director of the organisation. The Board made the decision following a rigorous selection process and Harry will formally step up from his current role as Acting Executive Director on 1 May 2018. Elisabeth Niggemann, Chair of the Europeana Governing Board and Director of the German National Library, said: The Board is very happy to have made a unanimous decision. Harry is someone who can bring us continuity with a fresh perspective. We wish him every success in his new role and look forward to his contribution to the Europeana initiative. Harry Verwayen said: I am honoured to continue my work at the Europeana Foundation, now as its Executive Director. The past ten years of Europeana have shown how a collaborative effort between ... More
Charles Moffett to open new gallery May 4 with exhibition by Lily Stockman
NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Moffett announced the opening of Charles Moffett Gallery. The gallery will open on May 4 at 265 Canal Street with a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Lily Stockman. The gallery will focus on exhibitions of twenty-first century artists, many of whom do not have representation in New York. Charles Moffett Gallery will open primarily as an exhibition space, and will build out a full roster of artists as the gallerys program develops. Opening a space that is dedicated to showing artists of my generation has been a dream of mine since I was a graduate student. said Charles Moffett. Im eager to give a platform to emerging artists whose work I am very passionate about. The inaugural exhibition will be Loquats, a solo presentation by Lily Stockman, on view through June 30. Charlie has championed my work for nearly ten years, ... More
Hidden story of Brazilian artists' contribution to Britain's war effort revealed in exhibition
LONDON.- The exhibition features works by 20 of Brazils finest modernist artists, on loan from British public collections including Tate, the Hepworth Wakefield, and the Scottish National Gallery, commemorating the story of an extraordinary collaboration between the UK and Brazil at the outbreak of the Second World War, and the first Brazilian art exhibition held in London. In 1944, alongside the nearly 25,000 Brazilian troops that joined the Allies to fight in the War, a group of 70 of Brazils most prominent artists offered their works for the first ever Brazilian collective exhibition in Britain. The exhibition took place at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Whitechapel Gallery in London, alongside six other galleries across the UK. The works were sold to raise funds for the British military efforts, giving voice to the artists support of democracy, domestically and in the context ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Robert Doisneau was born April 14, 1912. Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 - 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. In this image: French photographer Robert Doisneau photographed by Bracha L. Ettinger in his studio in Montrouge, 1992. Photo © Bracha L. Ettinger.
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