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In the exhibition ALL IN ALL, the restored Palace Chapel of the Dresden Royal Palace is being used as a museum space for the first time. © Oliver Killig.
DRESDEN.- One of the most important German thinkers, Jacob Böhme (15751624) made an impact on literature, philosophy, religion and art well beyond national borders. 100 years after the beginning of the Reformation on the eve of the Thirty Years WarBöhme wanted to give voice to the need for a far-reaching philosophical and spiritual renewal. A self-educated man, Böhme was active in diverse disciplines and posed questions that are still remarkably relevant. He took clear stands against war and violence. Living in an age in which new scientific knowledge shook the traditional world-view, Böhme sought after a universal theory to bring religion and science into harmony with one another. With his first work, Aurora of 1612, Böhme met with sharp criticism from the church. Despite having been forbidden to write, he resumed writing years later and his followers and friends circulated copies of his numerous writings. Only one of his writings was published during his l ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Australian performers illuminated with real clocks titled 'The Time Minder' attend a media preview of the Night Festival in Singapore on August 23, 2017. Singapore's arts and heritage district will be transformed into Singapore largest outdoor performing arts festival to celebrate its 10th year edition Night Festival from August 24 to 26. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP
| A suite of exhibitions celebrate 75 years of Australian Modernism | | Unwanted statues of a defeated general? Taiwan has the answer | | 10th anniversary edition of St. Moritz Art Masters opens |
Frank Hinder, Jerry Seated 1945, pencil and wash on paper.
SYDNEY.- Celebrating 75 years of Modernist art and living at its Emu Plains site, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest presents a suite of exhibitions and associated programs titled Emu Island Modernism in Place that are open to the public this Saturday, 26 August until 19 November 2017. Once the home and studio of artists Margo and Gerald Lewers, the Gallery site was - and is today a place of lively debate, artistic creation and exhibition at the foot of the Blue Mountains on the banks of the Nepean River. Patrick White's evocative recollection of the lives that Gerald and Margo Lewers lived at Emu Plains, Penrith: In the house at Emu Plains ideas hurtled, argument flared, voices shouted, sparks flew. It was a place in which people gathered spontaneously, to eat, drink and discuss Along with the paintings and the sculpture, the mosaics and the watergarden, an ephemeral dish of food wore th ... More | |
This picture taken on August 23, 2017 shows tourists taking pictures in front of a statue of the late nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek at a park in Taoyuan. SAM YEH / AFP.
TAOYUAN.- As the United States wrestles with the problem of what to do with monuments to a divisive history, Taiwan has found a solution -- a park dedicated to unwanted statues of a controversial figure from its past. More than 200 memorials to Chiang Kai-shek, the former nationalist leader of Taiwan revered as a hero by some but despised as a dictator by others, have been quietly removed from schools and government buildings, and brought together in a serene lakeside spot. Each day, tourists roam among the 253 figures at the Cihu Memorial Statues Park, which come in a variety of colours -- some teal, some bronze and some copper red. The largest piece is an imposing figure of a seated Chiang, removed from a government office in the southern city of Kaohsiung in 2007. Close by are two scultures of Chiang's ... More | |
Mimmo Rotella, Arachidina, 1963. Decollage on canvas, 138 x 95.3 cm. © Mimmo Rotella.
ST. MORITZ.- The idyllic resort in the Upper Engadine was predestined for the project: located at the geographical center of the dynamic economic region between Zurich, Munich, and Milan, St. Moritz with its breathtaking Alpine landscape has always been a meeting point for artists, intellectuals, athletes, business leaders, and bon vivants from around the world. Over the years, its unique blend of style and charm has drawn illustrious figures, from Nietzsche and Segantini to Chaplin and Churchill, enabling unexpected encounters and the informal exchange of ideas and visions. For Monty Shadow, founder of St. Moritz Art Masters, this legendary town of the Upper Engadine was the perfect setting to create a platform that encouraged such exceptional encounters. St. Moritz is a unique place its no surprise to me that it has drawn so many artists. They continuously enrich the Engadine with their creative output. ... More |
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| Kunsthalle Bern and Kunsthaus Glarus collaborate on exhibition dedicated to the multifaceted concept of rumour in art | | Doyle to auction Asian works of art on September 11 | | Sotheby's to offer fine timepieces including George Daniels masterpieces |
Installation view of 'Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer'.
BERN.- Rumors dazzle, seduce and are unpredictable in their effects. As informal narrations, they disrupt common notions of truth and morality. The fact that their mechanisms can be analyzed usually does little harm to their appealing and mysterious energy. Through their play with inventiveness, rumors establish closeness and agreements. They lend wings to peoples imagination and inspire speculative thought. Getting involved with them means treading insecure terrain. What feeds ones curiosity and at times also ones craving for sensation can reach a tipping point and gain a different momentum. The reputation is ruined or the exciting story turns into a banal insight, the wildfire goes out, what remains, at most, is smoke. Yet rumors leave traces, some remain alive for a long time and become legends. In art, rumors about artists, their lives and identities are spread. Occasionally, stories about (social) contexts or the ... More | |
Sino-Tibetan Gilt-Bronze Figure of Shadakshari Lokeshvara, 18th Century, Height 8 inches. Property from a Private Minneapolis Collection. Estimate: $15,000-25,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Scheduled during the week of Asian sales in New York, Doyle's Asian Works of Art auction on Monday, September 11 at 10am presents the arts of China, Japan and Southeast Asia from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Offerings include porcelain, pottery, jade, scholar's objects, bronzes, screens, furniture and paintings. Highlighting the auction is property from a Private Minneapolis Collection. Comprising 23 lots in the sale, the Collection is particularly rich in Chinese jades and Khmer and Sino-Tibetan bronzes. The selection of jades features an 18th century celadon and russet jade peach-form box carved with unfurling leaves, blossoms and bats, length 5 3/4 inches. The box is notable for its construction utilizing naturalistically carved branches to skillfully interlock both halves. The peach ... More | |
George Daniels, Space Travellers Watch, circa 1982. Estimate £1.2 1.8 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- This September, Sothebys will offer four exceptional timepieces created by George Daniels as part of its Fine Timepieces including George Daniels Masterpieces sale taking place in London on 19 September. Charting the master watchmakers long and illustrious career from one of the earliest pieces he created circa 1952 to a Millennium wristwatch - one of the last series of wristwatches he ever made these timepieces, three of which are from his personal collection, reflect the innovation and skill for which Daniels was known. The sale will be headlined by the George Daniels Space Travellers Watch (Lot 121) an 18k yellow-gold chronograph with Daniels independent double-wheel escapement, made circa 1982. Named in honour of the American moon landing in 1969, the watch was described by Daniels as the kind of watch you would need on your package tour to Mars. This impressive, beautifully ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by Jimmie Durham explores the relationship between humans and nature | | Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett combine expertise for auction of European and American toys | | The Art Gallery of New South Wales opens an exhibition of new and recent works by Mikala Dwyer |
Jimmie Durham, Eurasian Lynx, 2017, 136 Ã 61 Ã 70 cm, Lynx skull, cotton, leather, Murano glass, metal, wire, plastic, Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico. Photo: Nick Ash.
ZURICH.- The artist, poet, author and political activist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940) began his career in the USA. There, alongside campaigning for the rights of indigenous peoples, he developed a sculptural and performance-based way of working, in which he also addresses ethical issues and nationalist narratives. Durham became internationally famous in the 1980s, especially for his sculptures and installations deconstructing state mythologies. Since moving to Europe in 1994, Durham has been scrutinizing his new geopolitical and culturalhistorical surroundings. For the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst he realizes the project Gods Children, Gods Poems (2017), which explores the relationship between humans and nature. The artist turns the gallery space into the scene of a congregation of fourteen sculptures, made out of the skulls of Europes largest ... More | |
Marklin Jolanda painted-tin clockwork riverboat, 29in long, early 19th century, est. $15,000-$20,000.
DOWNINGTOWN, PA.- Premier Pennsylvania auction house Pook & Pook and veteran toy auctioneer Noel Barrett will jointly host a treasure-filled auction of American and European antique tin toys, trains, dollhouses and vintage objects of interest on Friday, Sept. 15. The 500-lot sale will take place at the historic Pook & Pook gallery in Downingtown, Pa. (suburban Philadelphia), with all forms of bidding available, including absentee and live via the Internet through Bidsquare or LiveAuctioneers. Several advanced collections are featured, including the Stephen Sachs cast-iron toy collection (Part II), and book examples of Kenton automotive toys from the Bill and Stevie Weart collection. The Sachs consignment includes airplanes, Vindex farm toys, and motorcycles. Taking the spotlight alongside the 20th-century cast-iron toys is a significant grouping of horse-drawn pieces from a Pennsylvania collector. The eclectic offering is rounded out with dollhous ... More | |
Dwyer has established a significant and prominent practice with many solo and group exhibitions in Australia and internationally.
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announces A shape of thought, an exhibition of new and recent works by Mikala Dwyer, one of Australias most significant contemporary artists. Sydney-based Dwyer began exhibiting in the mid-1980s and has developed a distinctive and highly engaging international sculptural practice that explores ideas about shelter, childhood play, modernist design and the relationship between people and objects. Dwyers works incorporate raw materials and found objects in inventive and unexpected ways that transform their architectural settings. For A shape of thought Dwyer co-opts both the everyday and the fabulous - floating 150 silver balloons high above the Gallery floor, installing an elaborate suspension of fabric shapes held aloft by stockings, and building a large circular sculptural gathering that includes Perspex crystal-like structures. Art ... More |
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| 'FluZUsic/FLUXUS MUSIC' exhibition exhibition opens at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW | | Exhibition of Saudi contemporary art reveals unexpected common ground | | First major museum solo exhibition of artist Hilarie Mais opens in Australia |
Installation view. Photo: Kirsten Pettifor.
FORT MYERS, FLA.- Florida SouthWestern State College announces the opening of FluZUsic/FLUXUS MUSIC at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery. An interactive and immersive installation with newly commissioned works by Yoko Ono, Geoffrey Hendricks, Alison Knowles and Philip Corner (who also provided the exhibitions playful title), FluZUsic/FLUXUS MUSIC provides both an in-depth historical examination into this seminal art movement and a hands-on/participatory and sonic experience for visitors. Most heavily inspired by the ideas of John Cage, Fluxus art often relied on chance to shape the outcome and actively involved the viewer. Fluxus compositions or scores for performances and events involved simple actions, ideas and objects from everyday life. Incorporating concrete poetry, visual art and writing, Fluxus performances were the embodiment of Dick Higgins idea of intermediaa dialogue between ... More | |
Abdulnasser Gharem_The Path_2012_Silkscreen on paper_ 51x70.9in_129.6x180cm (1)
SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- Cities of Conviction examines the parallels between spiritual and urban cultures in Saudi Arabia and Utah; and especially the symbolism of creativity that connects cities of pilgrimage in both places," says exhibition curator, Jared Steffensen. "Since the 7th Century, the holy cities of Makkah and Medina have drawn millions of Muslim pilgrims every year to worship at the holiest sites in Islam, the Kaaba (House of God) in Makkah and the Tomb of the Prophet in Medina. Salt Lake City was established nearly a thousand years later by Mormon pioneers in search of a safe haven for their newly established religion. Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints also make a twice-annual pilgrimage of the faithful to the General Conference at the spiritual center of the Mormon faith, Temple Square." The common histories of these cities extend ... More | |
Hilarie Mais, Reflection Blue Angel (detail), 2007-11, oil on wood, image courtesy and © the artist. Photo: Jessica Maurer.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is presenting the first major museum solo exhibition of Sydney-based artist Hilarie Mais. Since the early 1970s, Mais has consistently produced work underpinned by what she describes as her abiding interest in the history of abstraction, first in the United Kingdom, then the United States, and in Australia since 1981. Featuring 20 major works, the exhibition is a close collaboration between the artist and the exhibition curators Blair French (MCA Director, Curatorial and Digital) and Manya Sellers (MCA Assistant Curator). This exhibition traces the last decade of Mais practice, since her last survey at the Drill Hall Gallery at ANU in Canberra in 2004. Mais is best known for her constructions and paintings that merge the formal structure of the grid with an interest in organic ... More |
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Galerie Karsten Greve opens complementary exhibition of Roger Ballen's work during St. Moritz Art Masters
ST. MORITZ.- In a complementary exhibition, Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting a selection of works from the series Asylum of the Birds by Roger Ballen. The New York-born photographer, Roger Ballen, who has been based in South Africa for over thirty years, belongs to the most recognized and innovative photographers of his generation. Black and white is what I do. It is unadultered, stripped back, minimalistic and does not imply that it is a depiction or duplication of reality. (Roger Ballen) The mesmerizing imagery created by self-taught photographer Roger Ballen, who carries a PhD in geology and was born in New York in 1950, are the result of meticulously arranging countless elements by strategically installing them like props on a stage. Human protagonists, whose often unconventional appearance is showcased prominently and is further emphasized ... More
Exhibition celebrates Antarctica's significance to science and humanity
CHRISTCHURCH.- Scott Base staff and scientists share what Antarctica means to them in Postcards to Antarctica, an exhibition by photo-journalist Guy Frederick on view at Canterbury Museum. Accompanied by photographs and film, the exhibition transports the visitor to day-to-day life at Scott Base and celebrates Antarcticas significance to science and humanity. Writing a postcard TO Antarctica may not be as strange as it seems, says Guy. Consider Te Urewera and the Whanganui River, both of which have been granted legal personhood status. That idea is really at the heart of my work regarding the places in our lives as a person that we have a relationship with, someone that impacts on our lives and who deserves the same respect and justice that we all desire. I feel this is particularly important in this rapidly changing world, where the environment we rely on for our ... More
Wave Pool announces winners of the first annual Curatorial Residency Program
CINCINNATI, OH.- Wave Pool announced their three curatorial residents, Abby Mae Friend, art and design duo SUBSTUDIO, and Harry Sanchez Jr. for the pilot year of the Curatorial Residency Program, an opportunity for artists and aspiring curators to execute their vision for a month-long exhibition in Wave Pools street-level gallery space. Residents were chosen by a jury of artists, arts professionals and community members who are committed to Wave Pools neighborhood-focused mission through an open call process. Wave Pool received eleven excellent proposals, allowing them to promote the work of aspiring curators whose vision is consistent with Wave Pool's focus on contemporary art as a catalyst for social engagement. Curatorial Residents will receive a mentorship, administrative support, marketing, gallery space, and a $2,000 stipend to realize bold visions ... More
The Society for Contemporary Art in Bremen opens exhibition of works by Jan Groover
BREMEN.- The work of Jan Groover (1943-2012) is very well known in her home country United States. In 1979, the magazine Artforum International chose one of her still lifes as its first-ever photography cover. In 1987, the Museum of Modern Art New York staged a solo exhibition of her work and her uvre can be found in the collections of major U.S. museums. She also influenced generations of artists in her role as a professor of photography at State University, New York (Gegory Crewdson was one of her students). However, in Europe, her work is still hardly known. Here she is especially admired by a younger generation of photographers as an important source of inspiration, such as Annette Kelm or Wolfgang Tillmans. Until today, she hardly plays a role in European institutions, except for in France, where the photographer lived from 1991 until her death. ... More
Craft in America Center presents the powerful work of Los Angeles native artist Jaime Guerrero
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Craft in America is focusing on the work of three individual artists who use craft to articulate messages about American culture, personal experiences, Latino identity and the ever-mutating socio-political tensions that exist in Los Angeles and California as a whole. The first of three exhibitions presents the powerful work of Los Angeles native artist Jaime Guerrero. Jaime is one of the few and first artists in the world to sculpt life size figures in glass. Jaime takes glass into new realms with his remarkable ability to imbue his medium with palpable emotion and spirit. He is known for manipulating glass in an unusual technique of working inside and outside hot glass to sculpt a piece. In addition to Jaimes singular process of hand shaping the glass, he animates his figures by occasionally applying highlights of color to the surface of these ... More
Australian PM slams 'Stalinist' critics of colonial statues
SYDNEY (AFP).- Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday dismissed calls to change colonial-era monuments and the date of Australia Day as "Stalinist" exercises in rewriting history as debate intensified over the country's treatment of its Aboriginal population. Moves to remove Confederate statues and other Civil War-era symbols in the United States have renewed focus on the mistreatment of Aboriginal Australians in the colonial era and recognition of their place in the nation's history. Prominent indigenous commentator Stan Grant this week pointed to the "damaging myth" inscribed on a Sydney statue of British explorer Captain James Cook that says he "Discovered this territory 1770". Australia's colonial history credits Cook with discovering the country, but Aboriginal people inhabited the land for more than 60,000 years before the first European explorers ... More
Rabouan Moussion Gallery closing in La Baule and reopening in Paris
PARIS.- The band INDOCHINE has passed the test of time with flying colors, and has now completed its 13th album, for the occasion designing the cover in collaboration with photographer Erwin Olaf. Since the release of the album, from the 9th until the 23rd of September, Rabouan Moussion Gallery accompanies this event presenting on its walls the entire body of the original photographies of the booklet signed by Erwin Olaf, as well as the video of the its making of. The album is entitled 13 and is composed of thirteen tracks plus two bonuses, while its cover features thirteen outlandish characters. Contemporary art has been at the heart of the visual universe of this group, a pillar of the French pop-rock scene since 1981, marked by a long history of artistic collaborations, the American artist Ana Bagayan portraying the world of Alice & June (2005), ... More
Smithsonian to honor Sting and J. Ralph for contributions to American music
WASHINGTON, DC.- Two music powerhouses come together Friday, Sept. 8, for an unprecedented event at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. Iconic singer-songwriter Sting, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with The Police and 16-time Grammy Award recipient, will join three-time Academy Award-nominated composer, songwriter and social activist J. Ralph for a discussion moderated by journalist, author and news anchor Dan Rather. The discussion will be followed by performances from Sting and the world premiere of J. Ralphs latest symphonic piece Evolocean, featuring the London Symphony Orchestra and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The museum creates unique opportunities for audiences to explore and participate in our nations democracy through the transformative power of music, said John Gray, the Elizabeth ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was born August 26, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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