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The exhibition explores, for the first time, the omnipresence of music in the artists life and work, through close to 340 works and a major documentary corpus.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Chagall: Colour and Music, the largest exhibition ever devoted to Marc Chagall (1887-1985) in Canada. The exhibition explores, for the first time, the omnipresence of music in the artists life and work, through close to 340 works and a major documentary corpus. This unusual approach demonstrates the degree to which Chagalls aesthetic and artistic world is imbued with music, from his paintings, works on paper, costumes, sculptures, ceramics, stained glass and tapestries, to his creations for the stage and his grand decorative and architectural projects. This major exhibition reveals some fabulous costumes rarely seen by the public and some decors produced by the artist for the ballets Aleko (1942), The Firebird (1945) and Daphnis and Chloé (1958-59), and the opera The Magic Flute (1967), thanks to some exceptional loans granted by the Opéra de Paris, the New York City Ballet an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Holocaust survivor Josiane Traum lights a memorial candle during an International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on January 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. The program featured testimony from a Holocaust survivor, a special musical interlude and a memorial candle lighting in the Museum Hall of Remembrance. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP
| Hammer Museum announces major multiyear transformation plan | | Walker Art Gallery hosts major Victorian art exhibition | | Cindy Sherman's most recent body of work on view at Sprüth Magers |
Elevated Hammer Store. Image courtesy of MMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum released details of a major multiyear plan to renovate the museums existing facility and activate 40,000 square feet of newly acquired space in the adjoining office tower. The ambitious project, led by renowned architect and longtime Hammer partner Michael Maltzan, will completely reimagine the existing building by 2020. The museum will have a major presence along Wilshire Boulevard, fronting a full city block with the museum lobby and gallery spaces. Moreover, it will dramatically increase visibility and accessibility in anchoring the corner of Wilshire and Westwood. After years of continuous growth, the Hammer is in need of a physical expansion and upgrade to provide more art for our audiences, more places to study, and more places to gather, said Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin. This transformation will provide 60% more exhibition space including ... More | |
Frederick Sandys, Helen of Troy, about 1867 © National Museums Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL.- The impressive extent of National Museums Liverpools Victorian art collection is being revealed in a new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. Victorian Treasures, which runs from 27 January to 7 May 2017, brings together more than 60 outstanding paintings and watercolours from the art collections of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Sudley House and the Walker itself. Victorian Treasures explores the work of leading 19th-century classical artists such as Frederic Leighton, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Edward John Poynter. It also showcases work from pioneering Pre-Raphaelite artists including John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. A number of rarely-seen watercolours by artists including Simeon Solomon, Helen Allingham, Ford Madox Brown and Kate Greenaway will be on show, as well as Edward Burne-Jones ... More | |
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #579, 2016. Dye sublimation metal print, 148,6 x 118,7 cm 58 1/2 x 46 3/4 inches © Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures and Sprüth Magers.
BERLIN.- A thirty-five year career in photography has established Cindy Sherman as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Since the 1970s, she has created photographic portraits that are predicated on themes of identity, gender and role-play. Parodying the representation of women in film and television, fashion magazines, advertising, and online, she adopts limitless guises that illuminate the performative nature of subjectivity and sexuality. She is perhaps best known for the early black-and-white photographic series Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980). In this work, Sherman staged herself as an actress in fictitious film scenes that mined the aesthetics of mid-century Hollywood film, film noir and B-movies. By over-dramatizing ... More |
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| Mayor of London and City of London Corporation pledge support for new Museum of London at West Smithfield | | Leica Galerie presents the work of international fashion and portrait photographer Vincent Peters | | Binoche et Giquello announces sale of dinosaur skeletons, fossils, and meteorites |
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LONDON.- The Museum of Londons plans for a new museum in West Smithfield were today given a major boost thanks to huge support from the City of London Corporation and the Mayor of London, who have pledged £110 million and £70 million respectively. This marks an important next step for the project, which will save one of the last remaining derelict Victorian buildings in central London and transform an area of the capital with a rich and fascinating history. The support from Sadiq Khan is the largest cultural investment made by any Mayor of London, and together with City of London Corporations unprecedented investment, provides a £180 million package of confirmed funding towards its approximate £250 million cost. In addition to conserving this historically important West Smithfield site, this ambitious project will deliver significant economic and social benefits for London and Londoners. This includes ... More | |
Vincent Peters, Cindy Crawford, Los Angeles, 2007. © Vincent Peters.
FRANKFURT.- For more than 20 years, the Bremen-born photographer Vincent Peters has ranked among the top international fashion and portrait photographers. Clients such as Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Yves Saint Laurent as well as publications in magazines such as VOGUE, ELLE, Numéro, GQ, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar, lend his work a continuous and visible presence worldwide. His first book, The Light Between Us, enjoyed great popularity, and toured as an exhibition through various countries and cities from 2015 to 2016. Not only does Peters master the glamorous and dramatic, Hollywood-inspired staging of international stars such as Charlize Theron, Penélope Cruz, Laetitia Casta, and Alexander McQueen: in his second book, Personal, he also reveals another side that is more personal and sometimes more intimate. The Leica Gallery Frankfurt is presenting new works by Vincent Peters across 1000 square ... More | |
Binoche et Giquello will dive into the murky waters of the Lock Ness.
PARIS.- On March 7th, 2017, the auction house Binoche et Giquello will dive into the murky waters of the Lock Ness, by auctionning a 66 million year old Zarafasaura skeleton. This gigantic marine reptile, nearly nine meters long and endowed with an extremely developed neck, is often compared to the legendary lake monster Nessie. This unique, museum quality Zarafasaura specimen, almost 75% complete, will be exhibited in its entirety at Drouot from March 4th to Marth 7th, 2017. The opportunity for amateurs and connoisseurs to face this giant Jurassic and discover at his side a remarkable collection of objects including an imposing Triceratops skull, a skeleton of the flying reptile Pteranodon logiceps, fossils of extinct species as well as amazing meteorites. With its reptilian head, its long neck slender above the waters, its four gigantic fins, and its mobile tail, the anatomy of the plesiosaurus resembles very much the mysterious ... More |
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| African American artists shine at Georgia Museum of Art | | Miami's Little Havana named a 'national treasure' | | Kunsthal Aarhus presents works by Thomas Hirschhorn and Cécile B. Evans |
Wilmer Jennings (American, 19101990), De Good Book Says (Church Scene), 1935. Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 24 inches.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will show nearly 60 works by African American artists in the exhibition Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection, on view January 28 to May 7, 2017. The Thompsons donated 100 works of art by African Americans to the museum in 2012, on the heels of a traveling exhibition drawn from their collection, Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art. Expanding Tradition is a second exhibition highlighting the couples commitment to collecting art over the last several decades through a new selection of works borrowed from their extensive private collection. Expanding Tradition also serves as the inaugural exhibition for Shawnya Harris, the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art. Like the earlier exhibiti ... More | |
This file photo taken on November 26, 2016 shows Cuban Americans in Miami's Little Havana celebrating the death of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro. RHONA WISE / AFP.
MIAMI (AFP).- Little Havana, the neighborhood that is the heart and soul of Miami's Cuban diaspora, was named a US "national treasure" on Friday. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private organization, added the neighborhood to its list of sites it believes should be protected from developers, saying in a statement that it "stands as a testament to the immigrant spirit that built America." Little Havana is home to the Versailles, a historic cafe that pulses with Cuban music and sometimes offers free Cuban pastries to exiles who gather there to protest or celebrate events on their home island. Several blocks away in Domino Park, dozens of retirees play the eponymous game amid sometimes heated political discussions every afternoon. Nearby, the city's most popular Cuban salsa club is a must-see tourist destination. There's also a museum of weapons, ... More | |
Thomas Hirschhorn, Pixel-Collage. Exhibition view, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (January 9 - February 26, 2016). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. © Photo: Florian Kleinefenn.
AARHUS.- Kunsthal Aarhus is presenting Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn's Pixel-Collage and an exhibition by Belgian-American artist Cécile B. Evans, who transformed the basement of the Kunsthal into a spacious installation. Swiss artist, Thomas Hirschhorn, works with installations, collages and social happenings in public spaces. Hirschhorn is concerned with politics and culture, and there is always a strong political message embedded in his works. He uses commom materiales such as cardboard, foil, duct tape, recycled cans and plastic wrap. At Kunsthal Aarhus, Hirschhorn presents a new series of Pixel-Collages. In these works the artist integrates the growing phenomena of facelessness in pictures reproduced in the media. 'Pixelation' has become increasingly used in today's newspapers and magazines to mask identity, face, sexuality and censor. Sometimes ... More |
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| Shapiro Projects launches with exhibition of previously unseen paintings by Mikhail Turovsky | | Martijn Pronk appointed new Head of Digital Communication at Van Gogh Museum | | Orbit, originally in Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, finds new home at Toledo Museum of Art |
Seated Nude, 2003.
NEW YORK, NY.- Shapiro Projects officially launched January 26 on New York Citys Upper East Side with ``Animate Forces, a solo exhibition of paintings, many shown for the first time, by the Ukrainian-born artist Mikhail Turovsky. The 44 paintings date from 1991 to 2015, and comprise Mr. Turovskys body of works that follow the decade he spent in the 1980s creating his critically-acclaimed Holocaust series which the New York Times said "hammers at a viewer's sensibilities, and "convey Mikhail Turovsky's hellish vision. This new exhibition represents Mr. Turovskys radical artistic shift towards larger, brighter, and more positive works. Luscious fruit, sensuous nudes and hypnotic landscapes embrace vibrant life-affirming colors. The luxuriously textured surfaces excite the senses and invite the viewer to engage in an intensely emotional experience. After a series of exhibitions in 2004-2005 organized by the French art dealer Serge Lenczner, a French ... More | |
Pronk was previously employed at the Rijksmuseum, where he served as head of Publications.
AMSTERDAM.- Martijn Pronk has been appointed Head of Digital Communication at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, effective 1 February 2017. His tasks will include giving further shape to the museums updated digital communication strategy, expanding its social media fan base and the ongoing development of its website. Pronk was previously employed at the Rijksmuseum, where he served as head of Publications from 2007, including responsibility for digital strategy. He and his team were behind the development of the e-strategy that resulted in the successful launch of Rijksstudio on the museums reopening in 2013. The Van Gogh Museum boasts an active and highly involved online community. Interest in the artist and the museum grew exponentially in 2016, with over 3.2 million people visiting the website a 40% increase on the previous year. Van Gogh and the museum are the subject ... More | |
Dan Dailey, Orbit (1987).
TOLEDO, OH.- Dan Dailey has built a storied career as an artist, participating in more than 250 exhibitions as well as having a major retrospective at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His work is represented in more than 45 museum collections around the world. On the surface, all these successes appear connected to his work in glass. Looking deeper, the viewer realizes his medium of choice is far more challenging to manipulate: light. Illumination is at the center of so much of what Dailey does, and Orbit (1987), a recent gift to the Toledo Museum of Art collection, is an exceptional example. Formerly in Rockefeller Centers Rainbow Room in New York, the sculpture now resides in its new home outside TMAs Little Theater. Donated by New York real estate firm Tishman Speyer, Orbit is a glowing work of glass with a changing lighting scheme that radiates shades of amber, rose, violet and blue. The muted, ethe ... More |
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Denny Gallery opens exhibition of new work by Jordan Tate
NEW YORK, NY.- Denny Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new work by Jordan Tate, Prefaces, running from January 26 to February 26, 2017. This is the artists third exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features photographs from Tates newest body of work, Prefaces. Justine Ludwig, Director of Exhibitions/Senior Curator at Dallas Contemporary wrote one of the essays included in Prefaces and Appendices, a two volume book published this past fall by Lodret Vandret. Jordan Tates Prefaces is driven by the potential of the unrealized. At first glance Tate appears to have one of the strongest exhibition histories of any contemporary artist. It boasts installation shots of the Swiss Institute in New York, Pilar Corrias Gallery in London, Wiels in Brussels and even immaculate depictions of his work hanging in the Guggenheim. This is all artifice. These images are Tates latest ... More
Actor charged with assault during anti-Trump protest
NEW YORK (AFP).- Hollywood actor turned activist Shia LaBeouf was arrested and charged Thursday after scuffling with a man during a live-stream protest against Donald Trump in New York, police said. The 30-year-old star of 2014 movie "Fury" launched the protest on the day of Republican president's inauguration last Friday. It is being live streamed 24 hours a day, seven days a week outside a New York museum. Come rain, shine or near freezing temperatures, the project invites members of the public to repeat "He Will Not Divide Us" into a camera mounted onto a wall outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. LaBeouf, who set up the project with artists Nastja Sade Ronkko and Luke Turner, has appeared repeatedly before the camera, rallying the troops outside. But at around midnight, he was accused of grabbing a 25-year-old man's scarf, scratching ... More
Fotohof opens exhibition of contemporary photography from Iran
SALZBURG.- The pictures at this exhibition offer insights into areas of life and social conditions in Iran to which outsiders are normally not privy. They range from the everyday changes to Tehrans urban landscape to living conditions within Iranian middle-class families, which are private and therefore beyond the control of the state, to photographs of people who escape into a parallel world. The relationship between public and private is an underlying theme that occupies all the participating artists. Navid Reza Haghighi focuses on parks and green spaces, which have a long tradition in Iran and are used extensively. For him these parts and their users are examples of the way in which public life is staged and played out. To the citys inhabitants they provide a private, protected space while allowing a certain degree of public display and representation. Hannah ... More
Bye-bye Obama, president's face gone from popular mural
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Barack Obama left the presidency just days ago, but already his smiling face is gone from a mural on the wall of an iconic eatery in the US capital. An outer wall of Ben's Chili Bowl -- famous for its chili half-smoke sausages -- on very hip U Street is now just a vast white space. Also painted over is the face of Bill Cosby, the groundbreaking comedy legend now reviled as a suspected serial sexual predator. Passersby who were used to seeing those two faces on the colorful mural are doing a double-take. In its place are written the words "new year, new mural" and the address of the restaurant's website. "I'm shocked that they actually took it down," said Shadarryl Brown, a 43-year-old African American. To boot, also gone are the faces of funk guitarist and band leader Chuck Brown and a local radio DJ named Donnie Simpson. ... More
The largest Nick Cave display ever in Georgia at Telfair Museums' Jepson Center
SAVANNAH, GA.- As part of Telfair Museums growing contemporary art program, the museum showcases the largest exhibition of work by Chicago-based artist Nick Cave ever presented in Georgia, including work shown in the Southeast for the first time. Nick Cave is on view at the Jepson Center from January 27 through April 23, 2017. Nick Cave (American, b. 1959) is an internationally renowned artist, an educator, and foremost a messenger. Cave works between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. He is well known for his soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, which he describes as full-body suits constructed of materials that rattle with movement. Like a coat of armor, they embellish the body while protecting the wearer from outside culture. Soundsuits are made ... More
Lazarides presents a unique and interactive exploration of James Lavelle's British music collective UNKLE
LONDON.- James Lavelle has taken over Lazarides Rathbone with Daydreaming with UNKLE Presents THE ROAD: SOHO: a unique and interactive exploration of his British music collective UNKLE. The show explores music, art and street culture from a host of talented artists and collaborators, including Futura, Doug Foster, John Isaacs, Norbert Schoerner, John Nolan, Nathan Coley, Ben Drury, Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, Dexter Navy, Seamus Farrell and more. In anticipation of UNKLEs forthcoming album THE ROAD, this immersive show celebrates 25 years of UNKLE by going back to its roots in Soho, Londons hub of counter culture. The show features new video installations accompanying the first opportunity to hear forthcoming UNKLE album collaborations with Keaton Henson, Mark Lanegan and Eska; in addition to paintings, special edition ... More
Heritage Auctions hires PR/Marketing veteran Elon Werner as Director of Communications
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions, the largest auction house founded in the United States, has hired Elon Werner as Director of Communications, a new position in the company. Elon has extensive, successful executive experience in marketing and public relations, said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. Elons nearly quarter-century of media relations and dynamic marketing know-how will help Heritage continue to grow and provide consignors and buyers the best possible exposure. A graduate of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business, Werners experience includes Director of Media Services for John Force Racing, Inc. of the National Hot Rod Association; Director of Communications for Beckett Media; and General Manager/Public Relations Director for the Texas Motorplex. He also has helped coordinate public ... More
James Cohan opens solo exhibition of work by Simon Evans™
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents Soul Gym, the fourth solo exhibition of work by Simon Evans at the gallery. Featuring a selection of works in various media, the exhibition opened at the gallerys Lower East Side location on Friday, January 27 and will be on view through Sunday, March 5. Simon Evans is the artistic partnership between Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan. Their collaborative work is widely known for its text- based aesthetic. Simon Evans uses handwritten phrases and other texts to create dense collages saturated with short, poetic phrases, drawings, and images often created from the detritus of everyday life both inside and outside of the studio. Soul Gym confronts our increasing societal obsession with exercise, self- improvement and embodying the message of lifestyle brands. There was a poster for a yoga studio - a schedule ... More
Esther Bell named Senior Curator of Clark Art Institute
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Esther Bell has been selected to serve as the Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Senior Curator of the Clark Art Institute. Her appointment was announced today by Olivier Meslay, Felda and Dena Hardymon Director of the Clark. Bell currently serves as the curator in charge of European paintings at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where she has organized a number of important exhibitions, including the recent critically acclaimed The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France, presented in partnership with the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas and the Musée du Louvre. On February 25, Bell will open Monet: The Early Years at San Franciscos Legion of Honor, an exhibition organized by the Kimbell in collaboration with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Esther Bell is one of the brightest ... More
New and recent works by Deana Lawson on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents an exhibition of the photography of Deana Lawson, including a premiere of new works from her latest travels as well as a series of recent photographs shot on location around the world. Deana Lawson is on view January 27 through April 16, 2017. Deana Lawson, who has been named for inclusion in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, explores and challenges the conventional representations of the black body seen throughout the history of photography. Her large format photographs are highly staged and often made in collaboration with her subjects. They depict individuals, couples, and families in both domestic and public settings, visualizing ideas of kinship, ritual, identity, and desire. Lawsons tableaux are not only intimateher subjects depicted nude, embracing, and directly confronting the camerabut they also ... More
Maryland Institute College of Art showcases photography of female, African-American empowerment
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Maryland Institute College of Art and the Aperture Foundation announce Muse and tête-à -tête, a survey of highly stylized portrait photography by Mickalene Thomas, with an accompanying exhibition of photography curated by Thomas. The exhibition also includes an installation that represents a reconstructed portion of Thomas studio where many of the portraits were taken. The exhibitions are on view Jan. 27 through March 12 at MICAs Meyerhoff Gallery, Fox Building, 1301 W Mount Royal Avenue. Known for her large-scale, multi-textured paintings of domestic interiors and portraits, Thomas has also made photography a defining touchstone of her practice. In Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs, her portraits, which typically feature women posed dramatically in retro-furnished rooms, draw equally from 1970s black-is-beautiful images ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Alice Neel, was born January 28, 1900. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings are notable for their expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. In this image: As a visitor looks on in the background, a portrait of Dianne Vanderlip, front, hangs on one of the walls in the exhibiton of works by American contemporary painter Alice Neel on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001, in the Denver Art Museum.
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