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Visitors walk around KANAL-Pompidou Centre, a new modern and contemporary art museum and cultural exchange centre, during guest opening in Brussels, on May 4, 2018. The ambition of KANAL Centre Pompidou is to offer a centre of culture and exchange open to all and display art work from the collection of Paris' Pompidou Centre inside the former French car maker Citroen garage. Kanal Centre Pompidou will open its doors from May 2018 until June 2019 to allow the public to discover exhibition in the building current state before work start to transform the building into a new modern art museum set to open late 2022. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
BRUSSELS.- On 5 May 2018, KANAL Centre Pompidou opens its doors in the former Citroën Yser garage in Brussels for a programme prefiguring the Cultural city in the making, comprising among others the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art that is in development. During the 13 months preceding the start of the work, the public was able to discover this mythical building in its raw state through several art and architecture exhibitions, large installations and ten brand-new creations by Brussels-based artists. There will also be shows produced in collaboration with cultural organizations from Brussels. KANAL - Centre Pompidou, an ambitious project driven by the Brussels-Capital Region, provides Brussels with a multidisciplinary cultural hub worthy of the capital of Europe. In the context of a ten-year partnership with the Centre Pompidou, the site measuring 35,000 m2 is not only be home to a Museum of Modern and Contemporary Ar ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Oren Ableman, a Dead Sea scrolls researcher of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) -- who examined scroll fragments with the aid of advanced imaging equipment and revealed a previously unseen script -- looks at a large scroll fragment at the conservation laboratory of the IAA in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of hundreds of biblical texts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek discovered 45 years ago in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea. GALI TIBBON / AFP
| Christie's announces the spring season of Latin American art | | Five artists envision the future in new commissions at the Guggenheim | | Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse from 1932 to lead Sotheby's London summer season | 
Wifredo Lam (1902-1982), Figure. Oil on canvas. Painted in 1949. Estimate: $1,200,000-1,800,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces the spring season of Latin American Art with the live auction taking place May 23-24 and an online auction running May 18-30. Combined, the sales include over 250 lots and are expected to realize in excess of $20 million. The sales feature notable private collections including The Collection of Joan and Preston Robert Tisch, The Private Collection of Marta and Placido Domingo, The Collection of Lance Aaron, The Collection of Senator Jacob K. Javits and Marian B. Javits, and The Collection of Roy and Mary Cullen. Works from the live and online auctions will be on view May 19-23. Leading the live sale is an iconic canvas by Fernando Botero (b. 1932), Circus People, Painted in 2007 ($1,500,000-2,500,000). The work portrays the troupe in a moment of private repose: the muscular and earringed ... More | | 
Wong Ping. Photo: Courtesy the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents One Hand Clapping, a group exhibition of newly commissioned works by Cao Fei, Duan Jianyu, Lin Yilin, Wong Ping, and Samson Young. The exhibition is the third of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, a research, curatorial, and collections-building program begun in 2013. On view from May 4 through October 21, 2018, One Hand Clapping is accompanied by a catalogue and public and educational programming. The artists in One Hand Clapping explore our changing relationship with the future. Produced in both new and traditional mediumsfrom virtual reality technology to oil on canvastheir commissioned works challenge visions of a global, homogeneous, and technocratic future. On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Buste de femme de profil. Femme écrivant (detail), signed Picasso (upper left), oil on canvas, 116.2 by 73.7cm., 45¾ by 29in. Painted in April 1932. Estimate upon request. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Painted during Pablo Picassos year of wonders[1], this monumental, yet remarkably tender and intimate, painting of Marie-Thérèse absorbed in the act of writing evokes a private moment from the artists clandestine relationship with his most beloved muse. Awake or asleep, writing or reading, Marie-Thérèse appears in manifold guises throughout Picassos oeuvre. In this painting, Picasso focuses on her innocence and youthfulness, depicting her serenely penning her thoughts. Appearing at auction for the first time in over two decades, Buste de femme de profil. Femme écrivant will highlight Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 19 June 2018. Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department & Chairman of Sothebys Europe, said: This tender ... More |
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| Exhibition brings together masterpieces documenting the last major art movements in post-war France | | Solo exhibition of new works by Tomás Saraceno on view at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | | No Nobel Literature Prize after #MeToo turmoil | 
Arman, Sans titre, 1970. Accumulation of casino plates in a plexiglass, 120 x 90 x 6 cm. Jean Ferrero Collection. Photo: Studio Ferrero - © Adagp, Paris.
HONG KONG.- Le French May Arts Festival presents this years highlight exhibition School of Nice From Pop Art to Happenings, bringing masterpieces documenting the last major art movements in post-war France and illustrating the citys remarkable contribution to the history of art in the 1960-70s from the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) in Nice. The exhibition being the opening programme of Le French May 2018 is exclusively sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. The exhibition features over 100 art pieces from MAMAC including paintings, photographs, sculptures and objects, demonstrating artists in Nice, who were driven to extend their creativity into the artistic new realms and found New Realism, Fluxus, happenings and Pop Art such art movements. This show revisits these key moments in the history of art and contributes to a new appreciation of post- ... More | | 
Tomás Saraceno, Aeolus 57.91, 2018. Crystal glass, 17 x 9 x 11 inches; 43.2 x 22.9 x 27.9 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery presents Solar Rhythms, a solo exhibition of new works by internationally renowned artist Tomás Saraceno, on view from Saturday, April 14 through June 9. Solar Rhythms suggests a model for a landscape that balances our relationship with, and harnesses the unlimited potential of the Sun. This realization requires a thermodynamic leap of imagination, just like during an eclipse, when only in the absence of light do we become aware of our scale in the shadow of the cosmos. In that moment of alignment between Sun, Moon and Earth, we understand that we rely on a reciprocal alliance between the elements and effects, the shifting winds, the exchange of heat and momentum, and the diffusing reflection of solar radiation towards the cosmic extent. For his sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist presents a series of new sculptures and installations that emerge from the artists ongoing ... More | | 
Anders Olsson, the acting premanet secretary of the Swedish Academy, annonunces that the Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the award of the 2018 Nobel literature prize. Janerik HENRIKSSON / TT News Agency / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- For the first time in almost 70 years there will be no Nobel Literature Prize this year, after the Swedish Academy that selects the laureate failed to contain a deep crisis stemming from the anti-sexual harassment #MeToo campaign. "We find it necessary to commit time to recovering public confidence in the Academy before the next laureate can be announced," its interim permanent secretary Anders Olsson said in a statement Friday, adding that two prizes would be announced in 2019. The body has been in turmoil since November when Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter -- in the wake of the global #MeToo campaign -- published the testimonies of 18 women claiming to have been raped, sexually assaulted or harassed by an influential culture figure with long-standing ties to the Academy. Jean-Claude Arnault, ... More |
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| BFI uncovers rare Technicolor footage of Louise Brooks in living colour | | Doyle sale to feature a 1964 work by Zao Wou-Ki | | Lisson Gallery opens its first New York exhibition of British artist John Latham | 
The American Venus (1926), Source: BFI National Archive/Paramount Pictures.
LONDON.- The BFI today announced the discovery of a cache of extremely rare Technicolor film fragments from the 1920s held by the BFI National Archive, including previously unseen footage of Louise Brooks dancing in colour. The very image of the modern woman, this tantalising glimpse of Louise Brooks comes from The American Venus (1926), her first credited film role and is one of the only images we have of her in colour. The feature is believed lost with the exception of footage from the films trailer, held by Berkeley Art Museum and The Library of Congress. It is thought that this extremely short extract discovered by the BFI may come from a costume test. The fragment from The American Venus (1926) was found alongside material from The Far Cry (1926), The Fire Brigade (1926) and Dance Madness (1926) within a copy of Black Pirate (1926), donated to the Archive by The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in 1959. In the same print of Black Pirate, there is also a test shot for historical ... More | | 
Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013), 02.01.64, 1964 (detail), Signed and dated, Oil on canvas, 21 1/4 x 31 3/4 inches. Estimate: $200,000-400,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyles auction on Wednesday, May 9 will showcase a wide range of works by prominent European, American, Latin American and Asian artists of the late 19th century to the current day. The sale will be offered in two sessions with Impressionist and Modern Art beginning at 11am and Post-War and Contemporary Art at 2pm. Highlighting the sale is 02.01.64, an abstract work by Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) from 1964 (est. $200,000-400,000). Zao began his art training in China and immigrated to France at the age of twenty-seven. His formal Chinese painting techniques lent themselves well to the abstract styles popularized by the New York-based Abstract Expressionists. In France, artists such as Joan Mitchell, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Soulages and Henri Michaux seized on this expressive style and took it to new heights. Zao was part of this energetic time in the Paris art scene. 02.01.64 was created during a productive time in the artists ... More | | 
John Latham, Study for a Bing Monument, c. 1976. Two books, processed oil shale from Bing, 26 x 22 x 20 cm., 10 1/4 x 8 5/8 x 7 7/8 in © The John Latham Foundation. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery presents its first New York exhibition of British artist John Latham (19212006). The exhibition reveals Lathams remarkable multi-faceted practice through works made throughout his career, focusing on his skoob pieces, and highlighting his powerful contribution and lasting influence on the global development of Conceptual art. John Latham began using books as a medium in 1958, extending his earliest spray-painted canvases into the third dimension by creating reliefs wherein the publication emerged from plaster on canvas. Titled skoob, a reversal of books, the works invert the traditional function of literature, typically read in a linear and temporal manner, to create an object that can be consumed spontaneously and without structure. Latham was attracted to their flatness and their diverse formal properties when they were opened or manipulated in some cases s ... More |
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| Evocative prints of industrial age New York and London at the Lady Lever | | Freeman's announces highlights from the upcoming British & European Furniture & Decorative Arts sale | | Matthew Marks opens exhibition of works by Charles Ray | 
Joseph Pennell, Courtland Street Ferry.
NEW YORK, NY.- Work by two of the most influential and innovative etchers, James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Joseph Pennell, went on display at the Lady Lever Art Gallery from 4 May to 7 October 2018. Whistler and Pennell: Etching the City features 38 prints. Together these images capture the changing landscape of two major cities, New York and London (and their surrounding areas), in the final years of the industrial revolution. The exhibition also highlights an important period in etchings history, known as the Etching Revival. The exhibition considers how both artists championed a medium which had been in a state of decline and their motivation to create a definitive technique and style. One room places Whistlers work in particular into context, and examines the role of key people such as Sir Francis Seymour Haden - who was important in redefining etching as an original art medium in Britain - and French ... More | | 
A very fine Lyon & Healy Special No. 3 concert harp. Lot 271, estimate $5,000-7,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On May 22 and 23, Freemans will present its spring auction of British & European Furniture & Decorative Arts. The nearly 640 lot sale will be spread across two days, featuring a wide array of English, French, Russian and European objects, artwork and furnishings sure to attract seasoned collectors. Divided into two parts, the sale begins with Private Collections on Tuesday, May 22 (lots 1-409). The next day, Freemans will present Gentlemen Collectors: The Lucas Family of Baltimore, (lots 410-639), a sale of an intact 19th century collection of Chinese porcelain, Dutch Delft, American silver, Meissen and Continental porcelain, French clocks and furniture, European bronzes and fine art from a famous Maryland collecting family. Early in the sale are 99 lots from the collection of renowned chef ... More | | 
Charles Ray, A copy of ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief, 2017. Machined aluminum, 91 1/4 x 63 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, 232 x 161 x 12 cm. ©Charles Ray, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announces Charles Ray: three rooms and the repair annex, the new exhibition in his galleries at 522 & 526 West 22nd Street. The exhibition includes five new sculptures. Ray has divided the larger gallery, 522 West 22nd Street, into three rooms and installed a single sculpture in each one. Reclining Woman (2018), in the center of the main room, is machined from solid stainless steel. Presented in a relaxed pose on a rectangular steel base almost at eye level, the figure is slightly larger than life-size. The subjects body has not been idealized, and every detail, from the toes on her feet to the mole on her cheek, is carved with a directness matched by her frank facial expression. The scale shifts in the room at the ... More |
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 Gary Erbe 50 year retrospective opens at Reading Public MuseumREADING, PA.- The Reading Public Museum announces Gary Erbe: 50 Year Retrospective, an exceptional exhibition of more than fifty paintings that draws on the impressive body of work produced by the New Jersey-based artist over the past half century. The exhibition is on view at The Museum from May 5 through August 5, 2018. The display of more than fifty works is part of a national touring exhibition that also traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; the Brinton Museum in Big Horn, Wyoming; and will end at the John F. Peto Studio Museum in Island Heights, New Jersey. Erbe (b. 1944) is a painter with a national reputation who has challenged traditional notions about the path that an artist is expected to take. Notably, he did not attend an art academy or school of art; rather, Erbe forged his own trail, guided by his extraordinary ... More Tina Kim Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Korean artist Ha Chong-HyunNEW YORK, NY.- Tina Kim Gallery is presenting Conjunction, a solo exhibition of works by Korean artist Ha Chong-Hyun. On view from 4 May 16 June 2018, the exhibition features all-new paintings from his Conjunction series. This marks Chong-Hyuns third solo exhibition in New York and his second with the gallery. As a leading member of Koreas Dansaekhwa (monochrome) movement, Ha gained prominence combining painting traditions from both the East and the West. Working with muted earth tones on burlap and hemp canvases and challenging the strict delineation between sculpture, painting, and performance, Ha was instrumental in defining Korean modernism. His early interest in unorthodox materials including barbed wire, newsprint, and scrap lumber were a direct response to the context of postwar Korea and today the artist continues to balance aesthetic ... More Exhibition at Fotohof focuses on groups in society who are at risk of marginalisationSALZBURG.- In a world shaped by globalisation and migration and still largely dominated by men, where the struggle for power and influence increasingly discriminates against socially disadvantaged communities, the authors featured at the exhibition focus on groups in society who are at risk of marginalisation. They deal with issues such as the sense of belonging, vulnerability and identity, and follow touching stories in their exploration of the complex nature of human relations. Referencing Lilla Szászs profound inspiration through literature and film (her work is the focal point of the exhibition), the three acts create a dialogue between artistic genres and highly distinctive life stories. Here sunbathers photographed by Szász at the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg rub shoulders with navy cadets in Gluklyas video as they march through the city carrying ... More New exhibition at Greenhill introduces visitors to a world of beastsGREENSBORO, NC.- Beauty of the Beast opened at GreenHill on May 4, 2018, running through July 15, 2018, introduces visitors to a world of beasts, who have captured the imagination of artists through the ages. This thematic exhibition explores the dualities of wild and tame, human and animal, as well as addressing the loss of animal habitats, animal cruelty and efforts to document and preserve species. Works featured include paintings, printmaking, drawing and sculptures inspired by all kinds of animals from aardvarks to zebras. Creatures large and small transform GreenHills gallery into a wild space. A den of exquisitely carved polychrome snakes by Roy Nydorf covers one corner of the gallery while a colony of grey-headed flying foxes by Bryant Holsenbeck takes flight in another. Reflected in the work are topics of urban wildlife, embodied ... More Phoenix Art Museum presents works chronicling the experience of being a teen in the United States PHOENIX, AZ.- From May 4 through October 14, 2018 in the Norton Family Photography Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum presents To Be Thirteen: Photographs and Videos by Betsy Schneider, a rich and nuanced portrait of a group of Americans whose lives began at the turn of the millennium and who are now coming of age in a tumultuous social and political climate. This timely exhibition, premiering at a moment in history when teenagers are igniting discourse and commanding the national spotlight with their political activism, showcases photographer Betsy Schneiders project exploring the experience of being 13 in the United States. In 2012, the Guggenheim-grant recipient traveled across the country to chronicle the lives of 250 13-year-olds through photography and video, and the resulting exhibition includes approximately 20 large ... More Kestner Gesellschaft opens a solo exhibition by Christopher Williams HANNOVER.- From 5 May to 29 July 2018, the Kestner Gesellschaft presents Normative Models, a solo exhibition by Christopher Williams (*1956 in Los Angeles). Williams studied at the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s under such artists as John Baldessari, Douglas Huebler, and Michael Asher. Taking up photography as his primary medium, Williamss work is inspired by the industrial culture of the late-capitalist era and investigates systems of meaning and classification. Often working in collaboration with set designers, models and technicians, the resulting technically precise photographs recall imagery from 1960s advertising, the Cold War era, as well as the histories of art, photography and cinema, from Pop Art and Capitalist Realism, to New Objectivity and Surrealism. The seven photographs included in Normative Models are key examples of a mode ... More 'In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl who wrote Frankenstein' opens at Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere GRASMERE.- 2018 marks the bicentenary of the publication of Frankenstein, the literary masterpiece that today is world famous as source of two of our most enduring archetypes, the obsessive scientist and the almost-human he creates. Lesser known, perhaps, is the story of the teenager who wrote it. Mary Shelly was only 18 when, during a storm in June 1816, she competed with Shelley, Byron and John Polidori, Byrons physician, to write a supernatural tale. The result was her canonical novel Frankenstein. Daughter of philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley was brought up by her father (her mother died days after her birth), in a household of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day a world of political passion, scientific curiosity and radical new thought. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Romantic ... More Christoph Meier's evolving travelling exhibition arrives at Casino LuxembourgLUXEMBOURG.- As its evolving title indicates, the travelling exhibition by Christoph Meier (b. 1980 in Vienna ) called C & O at Kunstverein in Hamburg in 2016, C O CO at Kiosk in Ghent in 2017 and CCOOOO at Casino Luxembourg in 2018 is reaching its most advanced form as of yet in Luxembourg. Seriality, repetition and reflexivity are an integral part of the artists techniques. Meier often revisits previous works, presenting them in new contexts that suggest different readings. In Meiers practice, content (the work as such) and container (the space it occupies) are inextricably linked, allowing for diverse and sometimes conflicting interpretations. Consisting of various iterations of the same concept, the presentation inevitably departs from its original format to occupy or fill the various spaces. While each new instalment encapsulates its predecessors, the rearrangement of its origina ... More Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces Pop Culture, Street & Unusual Art AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers first-ever Pop Culture, Street and Unusual Art sale, slated for Saturday, May 12th, is packed with 118 lots by some of the most famous artists in the burgeoning genre names such as Ron English, Alexander Girard, Robert Rustermier, Taro Yamamoto, Sylvia Ji, Danny DeLancey and Brian Donnelly, better known simply as KAWS. The auction will be held online as well as in Bruneaus gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, starting at 11 am Eastern time. Internet bidding will be available via Invaluable.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, ePaiLIVE (in Asia), Bidsquare.com, Bidlive.Bruneauandco.com, the Bruneau app, Auctionzip.com and eBay. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Were so serious about wanting to become a major player in this field that, for this auction only, were ... More Heritage Auctions' 2018 Chicago events bring $38+ millionDALLAS, TX.- Hobby-changing discoveries of World and U.S. coins paced Heritage Auctions' late April Chicago Coin Expo (CCE) & Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) auctions to $38,150,247, registering a 99 percent sell-through rate by value and lot for U.S. Coins. "It's no exaggeration this season's auction offered some of the most important discoveries and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to own some of the rarest coins known to exist," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "As expected, the hobby didn't ignore the opportunities and we saw spirited bidding across every numismatic collecting category." With offerings spanning United States, World and Ancient coins, and World and U.S. currency, the April 26 through May 2 auctions delivered stunning, six-figure sale prices across every category. The selection of U.S. Coins included an 1836 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian painter and architect Viktor Hartmann was born May 05, 1834. Viktor Alexandrovich Hartmann (5 May 1834, Saint Petersburg - 4 August 1873, Kireyevo near Moscow) was a Russian architect and painter. He was associated with the Abramtsevo Colony, purchased and preserved beginning in 1870 by Savva Mamontov, and the Russian Revival. In this image: The Paris Catacombs.
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