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Senior Curator of Art at National Museums NI, Anne Stewart, said: ?Modigliani?s works revolutionised the perception of women in society and we are thrilled to be able to display a painting of such significance as Female Nude at the Ulster Museum."
BELFAST.- A stunning painting by one of the worlds most celebrated artists has gone on display this weekend (Friday 8 June) at the Ulster Museum. Amedeo Modiglianis 1916 masterwork, Female Nude, is noted as one of the most arresting and powerful works of the early 20th century. Modiglianis Female Nude is on loan from The Courtauld Gallery and is part of an ongoing collaboration which aims to share The Courtaulds collections with audiences across the UK, particularly in areas where Courtaulds Ltd. once had a significant industrial presence. In Northern Ireland, its major factory opened in Carrickfergus in 1951 and at its height employed 2,000 people. The Modigliani painting takes centre stage with other works from National Museum NIs collections, each of which explores the relationship between artist and sitter. Alongside the Modigliani are works including William Orpens Resting (1905), Study of Elizabeth Sidd ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 'Suspended Ball,' a metal, cord, and plaster sculpture from 1931, is displayed at a retrospective exhibition of work by Swiss sculptor and artist Alberto Giacometti at the Guggenheim Museum, June 7, 2018 in New York City. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 8 through September 12. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP
| Paul Kasmin announces new Chelsea gallery & rooftop sculpture garden | | David Zwirner now represents the Estate of Roy DeCarava | | Basquiat's early masterpiece 'New York, New York' to be offered at Sotheby's |
Opening in October 2018 with an exhibition unveiling new works by Walton Ford in the gallery and a Joel Shapiro installation in the new Kasmin Sculpture Garden at 509 W 27th St, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announced that in October 2018, the gallery will open its fourth Chelsea location featuring a column-free exhibition space, 28 skylights, and a rooftop sculpture garden. Situated alongside the High Line in the heart of Chelsea, the gallery will offer a rotating outdoor sculpture exhibition program to the promenade's 6 million annual visitors. The new gallery is the result of many years of discussion, said founder Paul Kasmin. Nearly all galleries in Chelsea are adapted industrial spaces, so the real ambition has been to create a purpose-built exhibition space with the sole intention of showing art at its very best." The building signals a new era of curatorial ambition and will open with a solo exhibition of new paintings by Walton Ford in the gallery and an installation of three bronze sculptures by Joel Shapiro on the ... More | |
Photograph of Roy DeCarava, 1952. © Estate of Roy DeCarava 2018. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced its exclusive worldwide representation of the Estate of Roy DeCarava. The gallery is planning a solo exhibition of DeCaravas work for 2019 in New York on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the artists birth. Concurrently, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, DeCaravas best-selling 1955 collaboration with the poet Langston Hughes, will be reissued by First Print Press, with worldwide distribution through David Zwirner Books, D.A.P., and Thames & Hudson. Art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava states: Roy devoted almost his entire creative life to photography. Working with discipline for six decades, he consistently produced pivotal and groundbreaking work during one of the longest careers in American art photography. In situations of low light especially, the pictures represent his struggle to find a way to make images speak through the darkness of their origin. It ... More | |
Jean-Michel Basquiat, New York, New York (detail), acrylic, oil stick and spray paint on canvas. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Painted at the very moment when Jean-Michel Basquiats ground-breaking practice came to the attention of the international art world, his early cityscape New York, New York (1981) narrates the artists dramatic transition from spray painting the streets of Manhattan to painting on canvas. Unconstrained by convention, his paintings on canvas and found objects of 1980-81 fully embraced the urban environment that surrounded him and speak the language of New Yorks city streets. One of the artists very best works from this period, New York, New York expertly captures the gritty atmosphere of the city Basquiat grew up in, encapsulating a metropolis in economic dire-straits that bore forth an extraordinarily creative artistic scene at the end of the 1970s. New York, New York was made for Basquiats debut solo exhibition, which took place at Galleria ... More |
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| Lost John Coltrane album set for release | | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery expands to Los Angeles | | David Douglas Duncan, US photographer of combat and Picasso, dies |
This undated file photo shows American tenor saxophonist John Coltrane during a concert in Paris, France. STR / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Missing for more than 50 years, recordings by jazz legend John Coltrane leading the quartet behind his masterpiece "A Love Supreme" are coming out as a posthumous album. Impulse! Records announced Friday that it will release "Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album," recorded in 1963 and never heard before publicly, on June 29. The new album is "like finding a new room in the Great Pyramid," 87-year-old Sonny Rollins, Coltrane's friend and the last in his generation of iconic jazz saxophonists, said in a statement. Coltrane recorded the seven tracks with his classic quartet -- Jimmy Garrison on bass, Elvin Jones on drums and McCoy Tyner on piano -- at the New Jersey studio of jazz enthusiast Rudy Van Gelder, an initially makeshift space in a living room that became a go-to spot for artists. The quartet would return to the Van Gelder studio in late 1964 ... More | |
The new Los Angeles gallery location is located at 1010 N. Highland Avenue.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery announced the opening of its new Los Angeles gallery location at 1010 N. Highland Avenue. The opening of the gallery in Los Angeles signals an expansion of the gallery's commitment to promoting it's artists, offering a platform for important exhibitions of new work by artists who do not already have gallery representation in Los Angeles. Opening in July, the first exhibition in the space will be with the LAbased artist Charles Long, who is currently featured in the Hammer Museums Made in L.A. exhibition. The second LA gallery exhibition will open in September with Olafur Eliasson, who is currently the subject of a major exhibition at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. The third exhibition, opening in January 2019, will be with Tomás Saraceno, who has never before exhibited in Los Angeles. Subsequent exhibitions at the Los Angeles gallery will include presentations with Nathalie Dju ... More | |
This exhibition at the Museo Picasso Málaga included 115 photographs selected from among the thousands that Duncan took of the artist and his milieu.
NICE (AFP).- The American photographer David Douglas Duncan, who garnered global acclaim for his stark photographs of war while also taking some of the most famous pictures of Pablo Picasso, died Thursday in France aged 102. Duncan had been living on the French Riviera since the 1960s, and had a home in Castellaras, outside Cannes. "He died following complications from pneumonia, surrounded by those close to him" at a hospital in the southern town of Grasse, Jean-Louis Andral, director of the Picasso museum in Antibes, told AFP. Duncan began working as a freelance in the 1930s, travelling across North and South America, according to the University of Texas at Austin, to which Duncan donated his archives in 1996. After fighting in World War II as a Marine, he made soldiers a focus of his work while shooting for Life magazine, beginning with an assignment ... More |
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| Los Carpinteros presents two new groups of works at Galerie Peter Kilchmann | | Stedelijk Museum opens the first exhibition of the Indonesian brothers Agus and Otto Djaya in the Netherlands | | Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida announces new Director |
Installation view, Los Carpinteros - "Susurro del Palmar, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, June 9 - July 27, 2018. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.
ZURICH.- Galerie Peter Kilchmann announces its third exhibition with Los Carpinteros. Born in Cuba, Dagoberto RodrÃguez (b. 1969) and Marco Castillo (b. 1971), who work together as a collaborative art duo since the 1990s, live and work between Havana and Madrid. On view are two new groups of works: large-format bronze sculptures and an interactive, space-filling sound installation. A new series of watercolors complement the exhibition. Susurro del Palmar (The Whisper of the Palm Grove) is the result of a detailed research into the effects of devastating natural phenomena. The first room shows three bronze-cast tropical plants depicting palm and banana trees in their majestic appearance. Their feather-like tufts are heavily slanted. The leaves as if whipped by a storm and the slim, shimmering ... More | |
Agoes Djaya, Untitled, 1947. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- In 1947, at the height of the Indonesian struggle for independence, director Willem Sandberg staged the first exhibition of the Indonesian brothers Agus and Otto Djaya in the Netherlands. It was also the first solo presentation of contemporary non-Western artists at the Stedelijk. The work of the Djaya brothers focuses on the Indonesian fight for independence after the nation was declared the Republic of Indonesia in 1945. Research conducted by the museum last year into the brothers presence in the Netherlands, sheds new light on their activities. These new insights inspired an intriguing exhibition that fills two galleries, a symposium, and other activities. New research carried out by independent curator and researcher Kerstin Winking into the work of the Indonesian Djaya brothers in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam reveals the presence of a significant amount of materials on the brothers in Dutch ... More | |
Chesterfield is currently the Senior Advisor for Museum Planning and Board Relations at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The University of Florida has announced the appointment of Dr. Lee Anne Chesterfield as the new Director of the Harn Museum of Art. Chesterfield is currently the Senior Advisor for Museum Planning and Board Relations at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Virginia, and will begin her appointment at the Harn on July 1, 2018. At the VMFA, Chesterfield serves as the principal advisor to the Director, Alex Nyerges, and oversees all aspects of the museums strategic plan and board relations. The VMFA holds nearly 40,000 works of art in its permanent collection and serves more than 600,000 visitors per year with a staff of more than 600 people. Chesterfield joined VMFA in 2004 and has served in a variety of roles including Interim Deputy Director for Art and Education and the museums first Curator of Ancient American Art. She directed ... More |
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| Advocates 'adopt' Apostles to restore largest painting by Renaissance woman artist | | 'Epic Tales from Ancient India' opens at the San Diego Museum of Art | | Neuer Berliner Kunstverein opens exhibition of works and archival materials by VALIE EXPORT |
Restorer Rossella Lari after stucco work. Photo: Camilla Cheade.
FLORENCE.- Florentine Renaissance painter Plautilla Nelli authored the only early Last Supper by a woman artist and signed her massive masterwork with a call to action: 'Pray for the 'paintress'. Advancing Women Artists, a US-based non-profit restoring art by women in Florence for over a decade has taken Nelli's petition literally: Pray for the paintress so that the hidden half of the Renaissance may be fully revealed. Pray for the paintress to celebrate Nelli's creative legacy and encourage art lovers the world over to safeguard her art through restoration. AWA's 'Adopt an Apostle' program is Phase II of 'TheFirstLast', a four-year restoration, in collaboration with the Municipality of Florence, that was launched in 2015. Its crowd-funding campaign completed two years later garnered $65,000 in on-line contributions from 410 donors in 19 countries. The 'adoption' of the paintings figures by individuals throughout the world ($10 ... More | |
Four types of lovers, Udaipur, India, 1630s. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The San Diego Museum of Art; Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. 1990.594.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art presents more than 90 works of art from its world-renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of Indian paintings in an exhibition titled Epic Tales from Ancient India: Paintings from The San Diego Museum of Art. On view June 9, 2018 through Sept. 3, 2018, this exhibition represents the major narratives, regions and styles of South Asian art from the 16th through the 19th centuries, and provides the tools for reading and understanding Indian painting. Epic Tales from Ancient India introduces viewers to the world of South Asian paintings and their original narrative context by explaining the classics of literature that the works illustrate. The exhibition features four sections arranged by literary category. The stories include the Bhagavata Purana, a Sanskrit text about the Hindu god Vishnu and his different incarnations; the ... More | |
VALIE EXPORT, 2017. Photo: Violetta Wakolbinger © VALIE EXPORT Center Linz.
BERLIN.- VALIE EXPORT is considered one of the most important artists working in the fields of conceptual media art, performance art and film. She continues to have an ongoing influence on generations of up-and-coming artists with her feminist and media-critical works. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) is presenting VALIE EXPORT in a first representative exhibition of works and archival materials at a German institution in 15 years. From the beginning of her career, EXPORT has been addressing the issues of an increasingly mediatized society and questioning its functions, guiding principles and mechanisms of communication. In 1968, the year when the womens rights movement and student protests substantially challenged the bourgeois society, EXPORT directed peoples gaze onto the female body and the social inscriptions it carries in works such as Tapp- und Tastkino or Aktionshose Genitalpanik. But ... More |
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Exhibition at Rossi & Rossi tracks Billy Apple®'s practice over three continents and six decades
HONG KONG.- Rossi & Rossi announces the exhibition Billy Apple® Six Decades 19622018, taking place from 9 June to 28 July in Hong Kong. Regarded as a pivotal artist in the British and New York pop and conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 70s, Billy Apples examination and promotion of an identity, and his uncompromising and singular means to do so, place him amongst the most idiosyncratic artists of our time. Rossi & Rossis presentation tracks his practice over three continents and six decades through seminal works from each period. Apple will give a public talk with Christina Barton, the exhibitions curator, on 9 June at 3:00 p.m., followed by a reception at the gallery. Born Barrie Bates in Auckland in 1935, the artist enrolled at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1959. There, he studied graphic design alongside Derek Boshier and David Hockney, taking ... More
Norway's National Gallery presents over 230 works of design and decorative art by Gerhard Munthe
OSLO.- This summer, the National Gallerys entire ground floor is being used to showcase over 230 works of design and decorative art by Gerhard Munthe (18491929), the largest such presentation in over a hundred years. Munthe was one of Europes foremost Art Nouveau artists around 1900, and his Viking-inspired imagery and vibrant colours resonate today as well. Inspired by Norwegian sagas and folk art. Although Gerhard Munthe (18491929) was known as a landscape painter, his most original and significant contributions were in the fields of design and decorative art. Inspired by ancient history, Norwegian folk art, Japanese art, and Art Nouveau, Munthe became one of the first Norwegian industrial designers during the late nineteenth century. He sought to create good Norwegian alternatives to the large amount of foreign imports, with his first ... More
Theater designs steal the show at Swann Illustration Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries broke long-standing records and brought new artists to auction for the first time in their June 5 Illustration Art sale. 76% of the rich selection of just over 250 works of art sold. Contributing to the success of the auction was a section of works for historically important theater productions by noted set and costume designers. A promotional drawing by Al Hirschfeld for Cabin in the Sky, 1940, published in The Herald Tribune, was purchased by a collector for $32,500. Hirschfeld also designed the promotional poster for the 1943 film. An early sketch by Jo Mielziner for the set of the Tony award-winning first production of Death of a Salesman, 1949, far exceeded the previous record for a work by the artist, which had stood at $3,250the ink and wash piece at Swann was purchased by a collector for $23,750. Costume designs by Erté ... More
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris achieves $53.5 million; Up 43% on the same series in June 2017
PARIS.- With 45.5 million ($53.5m), the Contemporary Art Department has kicked off the 2018 season with extraordinary results, achieving the highest total in its history in France. During these two days, the sale proceeds increase by 43% on the same series in June 2017*, with two world auction records, ten works sold over one million euro, and participants from 50 countries. Bidding was competitive for historical works by Kazuo Shiraga, Zao Wou-Ki, Simon Hantaï, Nicolas de Staël, Jean Dubuffet and Pierre Soulages. Making their auction debut, they were all acquired at the time they were created, and have remained in the same private collections until now. This 24-hour sale was led by Kazuo Shiragas monumental work. Sotheby's was presenting a truly exceptional painting by the artist in terms of its impressive size and creation date. Takao, 1959 was competed by eleven bidders ... More
Parisians seek UNESCO heritage status for bistros, cafes
PARIS (AFP).- A group of Parisians has launched a campaign for UNESCO to award cultural heritage status to the French capital's bistros and cafe terraces, almost three years after terror attacks in the French capital which left 130 people dead, some of them gunned down in cafes and restaurants. An association -- made up of bistro owners, actors and other private individuals -- has been set up to submit an application for Paris' bistros and cafe terraces to awarded "protected" status and put on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list. The dossier will be handed in September to the Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for submitting such applications to UNESCO, the organisers said on Thursday. The association said it wants to raise awareness both in France and abroad of "the role that bistros and cafe terraces play in bringing people and cultures ... More
Museum Angewandte Kunst opens exhibition of works by Michael Riedel
FRANKFURT.- In the exhibition Graphic Art as Event, the Museum Angewandte Kunst is devoting itself to the oeuvre of Michael Riedel, which operates on the boundary between applied and free graphics. The show will highlight a work the artist executed at the age of twenty-two when he was just starting his successful international career: the Signetic Drawing of 1994/95. It consists of over a thousand sheets, among them non-drawn drawings. Purchased by the Städelscher Museums-Verein e.V. in 2016, the Signetic Drawing will now be on view in a museum in its entirety for the first time ever. The exhibition will span the artists oeuvre from its beginnings to the present. In large-scale installations encompassing drawings, wax books, publications and artists books, postcards, posters, wallpaper, pictorial series and poster paintings, it will stage graphic art as an ... More
Galerie Eva Presenhuber premieres two new large-scale installations by Doug Aitken
ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents a solo exhibition by Doug Aitken. The exhibition will open on June 9 during Zurich Art Weekend, just before the opening of Art Basel. It will feature Aitkens newest video work, New Era, and will also premiere two new large-scale installations. Aitken has developed a multimedia oeuvre that both studies and leads into new art forms. His work spans a wide array of mediums, integrating film, sound, photography, sculpture, performance, happenings, and site-specific installations. He creates immersive multimedia landscapes and disrupts the conventions of the contemporary art world. This exhibition features three new installations including the video work New Era, and adds a new chapter to Aitken's oeuvre. Aitken believes that as we move forward, the viewers role will change and be far less passive. As new forms of art making are created ... More
Items from all the past U.S. Presidents will be part of University Archives' June 20 auction
WESTPORT, CONN.- With politics so much in the news, its fitting that University Archives online auction slated for Wednesday, June 20th, is packed with presidential memorabilia items from all the past U.S. Presidents, in fact. The auction features 266 lots of rare, highly collectible autographed documents, photos, manuscripts, books and relics, beginning at 10:30 am Eastern. Its rare to find all of our past presidents represented in one single event, as is the case with this auction, said John Reznikoff, the owner of Westport-based University Archives. The examples are mostly high-quality and many have superior content. Most have been off the market for at least half a century. The expected top earners are items from Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, JFK and Reagan. Jackie Kennedy is represented as well. But the auction features more than just U.S. Presidents. ... More
World War II relics rival Revolutionary War and Civil War items at Milestone's May 26 auction
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO.- On May 26th, Milestone Auctions in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, auctioned an 872-lot selection of outstanding antique and vintage firearms, and military memorabilia. Spanning several centuries, the varied array of historical guns included many rare and unusual examples made by noted gunsmiths, including one produced at the Harpers Ferry Armory. Our team made a concerted effort to put together an auction whose contents were fresh to the market and with price points that allowed everyone to participate. There were many obscure guns for the advanced collector and hundreds of other high-quality firearms that were affordable even to those on a limited budget, said Milestone Auctions co-owner Miles King. More than 4,000 people registered to bid in the sale, and there was just as much interest in 20th-century material as there ... More
Frent Collection of Presidential & Political Americana auctions now $3.27 million and climbing
DALLAS, TX.- A trio of extraordinary flags and banners sparked a flurry of competitive bidding, boosting the final total from Heritage Auctions' David and Janice Frent Collection of Presidential & Political Americana, Part 3 auction to $1,152,076, exceeding the pre-auction estimate by nearly 20 percent. This auction was the third presented in the last year by Heritage Auctions featuring portions of the Frent collection. Each has exceeded its pre-auction estimate, and the three have produced a combined total of $3,274,023. Additional portions of the Frent Collection are scheduled to be included in at least four more auctions. "Helping to put together the Frent collection has been one of the highlights of my career," Heritage Auctions Americana Auctions Director Tom Slater said. "What they have been able to assemble is nothing short of extraordinary, which is why ... More
Exhibition of drawings by Jack Martin Rogers and sculpture by Mark Webber opens at Anita Rogers Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Summer Group Exhibition I featuring drawings by Jack Martin Rogers and sculpture by Mark Webber. The exhibition is on view June 6 July 14 at 15 Greene Street in SoHo, New York. Jack Martin Rogers was born in Warwickshire, UK in 1945. He studied anatomy and fine art at the Birmingham School of Art. He moved to the island of Crete in Greece in 1962, which is when he began painting his most prolific work. Rogers went through many stylistic periods, ranging from fully figurative to abstract. He died in 2001, leaving behind an extraordinary body of work. Seventy-five percent of his estate is owned by his daughter, Anita Rogers. "Texture, composition, simplicity, and an organic element are all part of my exploration. What unfolds off the wall and/or into space must be aesthetically pleasing and embrace ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jacob Lawrence died June 09, 2000. Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. In this image: Jacob Lawrence, "Forward Together," silkscreen on paper, 25.5" x 40.125", 1997. © 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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