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The painters only known self-portraits are being shown together for the first time since they were documented in the 1709 inventory of his son Gaspars art collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the most celebrated painters of the Spanish Golden Age, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (16171682). A number of international exhibitions are planned to pay tribute to the artists achievements, the first of which is being presented this fall and winter at The Frick Collection. Murillo: The Self-Portraits is also the only such commemoration occurring in the United States. The exhibition opened in New York on November 1, 2017, and continues through February 4, 2018, after which it moves to Londons National Gallery from February 28 through May 21, 2018. Murillos career was a successful one, and he painted canvases for the most important patrons and churches in Seville. While the majority of his artistic production was for religious institutions, he also created allegorical and genre scenes. Murillos paintings of urchins in the streets of Seville are p ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on November 1, 2017 shows Aaron Seeto, director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), speaking during an interview in Jakarta. Indonesia's first international gallery of contemporary art will open on November 4, bringing together works by Ai Weiwei, Mark Rothko and Indonesian masters in a freeflowing modern space overlooking the West Jakarta skyline. BAY ISMOYO / AFP
| Two simultaneous exhibitions of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto on view at Marian Goodman London and Paris | | Rare Monet landscapes lead Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | | Exhibition of new watercolor paintings by Walton Ford on view at Gagosian Beverly Hills |
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LONDON.- Marian Goodman Gallery is presenting two simultaneous exhibitions of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto at the London and Paris Galleries. Working across photography, sculpture, installation and most recently architecture, Sugimoto explores his concerns of time, memory and societal progress, tracing their origins, while bridging Eastern and Western ideologies. The London gallery presents Sugimotos work for the first time in Snow White, a collection of photographic works from Sugimotos Theaters series (1978 ). The works in the exhibition focus on theaters in America and Europe, specifically Drive-in theaters, Abandoned theaters and most recently a series of Italian Opera theaters. The Theaters series began as an experiment in which Sugimoto used a long exposure (dictated by the duration of each film) to capture the thousands of moving images on a single frame of film. The afterimage of this ... More | |
Claude Monet, Les Arceaux de roses, Giverny Painted in 1913. Oil on canvas, 32 1/8 by 36 7/8 in. Estimate $18/25 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled highlights from its upcoming Evening Sale of Impressionist & Modern Art, which opened for public exhibition this Friday in New York. The 14 November auction is led by two of Claude Monets signature landscape paintings, Les Glaçons, Bennecourt and Les Arceaux de roses, Giverny (estimates $18/25 million, respectively), as well as Pablo Picassos Buste de femme au chapeau a canvas referencing two of his greatest muses: Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar (estimate $18/25 million). Among Monets most celebrated and visually spectacular canvases are his depictions of ice on the Seine. These majestic paintings exemplify the artists talent for capturing the nuances of the natural world in flux, and Les Glaçons, Bennecourt is among the most elegant (estimate $18/25 ... More | |
Walton Ford, Ars Gratia Artis, 2017 (detail). Watercolor, gouache and ink on paper, 60 1/4 x 119 1/4 in.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian presenting Calafia, new watercolor paintings by Walton Ford. This is his first exhibition with the gallery. Fords work explores where natural history and human culture intersect. His large-scale, empirically precise, and highly detailed paintings consider the drama and history of animals as they exist in the human imagination, revealing the deeply intertwined relationships between nature and civilization. Using the visual language and medium of nineteenth century naturalist illustrators such as John James Audubon, Ford masters the aesthetics of scientific truth only to amplify and subvert them, creating provocative, and sometimes fanciful narratives out of facts. Calafia comprises a new series of epic paintings in which Ford depicts California through an amalgam of its myths, legends, and folklore. In a sixteenth century novel, Las sergas de ... More |
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| Smithsonian adds Eliza Hamilton portrait and Hamilton costume from Broadway musical | | New acquisitions go on display for the first time as new Early 20th Century galleries open to the public | | Works by masters of modern art including Manet, Degas, Van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso on view in Milwaukee |
These objects are being collected under the umbrella of the museums Philanthropy Initiative, which began in 2015 to document the collaborative power of philanthropy and the giving of time, talent and resources.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History will add a mid-19th-century oil painting of Mrs. Alexander Hamilton (Elizabeth or Eliza) by Daniel P. Huntington from Graham Windham and an 18th-century style green silk suit worn by Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton: An American Musical to the national collections during a special ceremony. These objects are being collected under the umbrella of the museums Philanthropy Initiative, which began in 2015 to document the collaborative power of philanthropy and the giving of time, talent and resources. More than 200 years after Eliza Hamilton and other women established the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, Miranda and actors from the original Broadway cast of Hamilton discovered that ... More | |
Sir James Guthrie, Statesmen of World War 1, 1924-1930. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London will open brand new gallery spaces devoted to its early 20th Century Collection on 4 November 2017 it was announced today, 3 November 2017. The creation of these new spaces within the Gallerys free permanent Collection, has been made possible by a grant from the DCMS/ Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, and will see a number of recently acquired portraits go on public display for the first time. These include a portrait of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (later King Edward VIII) as Prince of Wales, painted during the First World War by artist Frank O. Salisbury, and a self-portrait by artist and actor, Pauline Boty, the Gallerys first work in stained glass. Three life-size First World War group portraits, considered the Gallerys most important commission made shortly before the armistice on 11 November 1918, will also be reunited for the first time in ... More | |
Pablo Picasso (18811973), Harlequin with Mask, 1971. Ink and colored chalks on paper, 9 1/2 Ã 7 1/8 inches (24.1 Ã 18 cm).
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- This November, the Milwaukee Art Museum will tell the story of modern arts development through 150 works by influential artists working in Paris during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures in the exhibition will lead Museum visitors chronologically through this dynamic transformation in the history of art. Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France will be on view from November 4, 2017 to January 28, 2018. Paris became the epicenter of modern art in the nineteenth century. Artists from around the world, including Eugène Delacroix, Ãdouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, and Marc Chagall, gathered in its studios, galleries, salons, and museums. They moved away from traditional subjects and styles ... More |
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| Indonesia to open first contemporary art gallery | | Grayson Perry's dresses on show at Walker Art Gallery | | Swann Galleries sets record for a print by Hopper at $317,000 |
This photograph taken on November 1, 2017 shows Aaron Seeto, director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), posing for a photo. BAY ISMOYO / AFP.
JAKARTA (AFP).- Indonesia's first international gallery of contemporary art opens Saturday, bringing together works by Ai Weiwei, Mark Rothko and Indonesian masters in a freeflowing modern space overlooking the Jakarta skyline. The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) holds nearly 800 paintings and sculptures, and aims to provide a world-class gallery to a country starved of quality museum infrastructure. The collection, mostly acquired by businessman Haryanto Adikoesoemo over the past 25 years, is showcased in an airy 4,000 square metre space on the fifth floor of a city tower. Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago nation of more than 250 million people, is home to a vibrant art scene but lacks high-quality museums. "What we are offering is something very different to what already ... More | |
The free display explores Perrys interest in cross-dressing, which has been part of his life since childhood.
LIVERPOOL.- Dresses belonging to the artist Grayson Perry are being exhibited at Liverpools Walker Art Gallery in the first display of its kind to be held in the UK. Making Himself Claire: Grayson Perrys Dresses runs from 4 November 2017 to 4 February 2018 and showcases 12 dresses, including the Bo Peep dress worn by Perry when he won the Turner Prize in 2003. The free display explores Perrys interest in cross-dressing, which has been part of his life since childhood. For the artist, the experience and its underlying eroticism are bound up with the formation of his psycho-sexual identity and his creative drive. Perry has said: I think of my dressing up as the heraldry of my subconscious. Since 2004, Perry has primarily worn dresses designed by the fashion students at Londons Central St Martins. They take part in an annual competition to create new designs. He then judges ... More | |
Edward Hopper, The Lonely House, etching, 1923. Sold November 2, 2017 for $317,000. (Pre-sale estimate $150,000 to $200,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at Swann Galleries auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on Thursday, November 2. The extremely rare etching The Lonely House, 1923, sold for a record $317,000 to a buyer over the phone, above a high estimate of $200,000. The previous record for a print by the artist, set in 2012, was $80,000 lower. It was also the highest price for an etching ever sold by Swann Galleries. All three works by Hopper in the sale found buyers. Les Poilus, an extremely rare 1915-18 etching of French infantrymen, reached $42,500, above a high estimate of $20,000, a record for the work. Swann Galleries holds the top six auction prices for prints by Martin Lewis. In Thursdays auction, the house beat its own record for Relics (Speakeasy Corner), 1928, ... More |
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| Victory for veteran motor cars at Bonhams London to Brighton sale | | Galerie Karsten Greve exhibits important paintings, watercolours, and drawings by Giorgio Morandi | | Civil Rights photography exhibition at High Museum of Art commemorates 50th anniversary of 1968 |
1896 Salvesen Steam Cart achieved £158,300. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- It was full steam ahead for Bonhams London to Brighton Sale today, 3 November, with an astonishing 91% of the magnificent veteran motor cars, quads and tricycles selling by value. The highlight of the sale was the 1903 Panhard et Levassor Model B 10hp Four-Cylinder Rear-Entrance Tonneau, which achieved £326,667. The exquisite 1902 Westfield Model G 13hp Twin-Cylinder Four-Seat Rear-Entrance Tonneau (£200,000-220,000) caught the eye of a number of bidders both on the telephones and in the packed saleroom, eventually selling to a UK buyer for an impressive £287,100. Estimates were exceeded throughout the sale, with models such as the 1903 Darracq Model H 12hp Twin-Cylinder Rear-Entrance Tonneau achieving £203,100 against a pre-sale estimate of £120,000-160,000. The magnificent 1896 Salvesen Steam Cart (£150,000-200,000) delighted Mayfair crowds before the sale as it puffed down Bond Street, and ... More | |
Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta (detail). Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau. Photo: Bernhard Strauss © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
COLOGNE.- Twenty years after the epoch-making presentation Giorgio Morandi in the premises on Wallrafplatz (1996/97), in the aftermath of which numerous international museums purchased works by Morandi for their collections, Galerie Karsten Greve is now displaying not only important paintings but also watercolours, drawings and other graphic works of the world-famous Italian master, mostly from well-known private collections, in a comprehensive exhibition of outstanding quality. In view of the size of one of the last institutional retrospectives, held in the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2000, the current exhibition of more than fifty first-class works, including 38 still-lifes and 15 landscapes, can truly be said to be of museum quality, providing a singular opportunity for a profound insight into the many-layered uvre of this artist. For Giorgio Morandi (18901964), who rarely left his home city of Bologna, and ... More | |
James E. Hinton (American, 19362006), James Baldwin and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the W.E.B. DuBois Centennial Celebration, Carnegie Hall, New York, 1968, gelatin silver print. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with funds from Jan P. and Warren J. Adelson, 2001.114.
ATLANTA, GA.- Taking its title from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s final speech before his assassination in 1968, the High Museum of Arts photography exhibition A Fire That No Water Could Put Out: Civil Rights Photography (Nov. 4, 2017, through May 27, 2018) will reflect on the 50th anniversary of that tumultuous year in American history. The more than 40 prints to be featured are drawn in large part from the Museums collection of photography documenting the civil rights movement, which is among the most significant in the world. Iconic historical images will be presented alongside works by contemporary photographers that illuminate the legacy of the movement. While Dr. Kings assassination is often cited as the closing bookend of the civil rights movement, activism over ... More |
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Laumeier Sculpture Park opens "Yvonne Osei: Tailored Landscapes" for 2017 Kranzberg Exhibition Series
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park presents Yvonne Osei: Tailored Landscapes for the 2017 Kranzberg Exhibition Series, November 4, 2017March 4, 2018, in the Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center Whitaker Foundation Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Dana Turkovic; the series is supported by Nancy and Ken Kranzberg. Conceptual artist Yvonne Osei creates a large-scale photo installation to occupy the breadth and width of the indoor gallery, constructing an environment where textiles create landscape. Inspired by both the cultural and physical landscapes of the Park, Osei weaves design motifs from her home country of Ghana into her photographic and videographic documentation of the Park to create new and unique patterns for Laumeier. Using her textural understanding of fashion design to mold and manipulate an adhesive fabric, Osei creates an environment ... More
Postmasters presents an exhibition of contemporary garments designed by Olya Petrova Jackson
NEW YORK, NY.- For the first time in its thirty-three year history, Postmasters is presenting an exhibition of contemporary garments from Ab[Screenwear], founded and designed by Olya Petrova Jackson. "The body is our general medium for having a world"1it is an interface. Ab[Screenwear] positions the screen as an extension thereof. Conceptual, made-to-measure, and meticulously crafted, the garments reference the materiality of the screen, most explicitly with light-responsive dichroic panels and mesh that reveal or conceal the wearer's skin or phone (what the designer describes as "technology's skin"). Such ultra-current material choices are juxtaposed with traditional luxury fabrics like Italian leather, merino shearling, and silk. To rephrase the Merleau-Ponty quote above in this context, the screen is our medium for being in the world. A new ... More
The IMMA Collection presents Coast-Lines, a major new exhibition in gallery and on twitter
DUBLIN.- Coast-Lines is a major new exhibition from the IMMA Collection that draws on the paradox implicit in the word coastline - for never has a coast followed a linear course. Instead the title throws a line around a 12 month programme of changing displays of artworks and archival material that will explore our sense of place, perception, representation and memory. Works by Dorothy Cross, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Clare Langan, Richard Long, Anne Madden, Anita Groener, Michael Mulcahy, Donald Teskey, Tony OMalley, Alexandra Wejchert, Bridget Riley and others variously explore pattern and line, surface, folds, enclosures, erasures, borders, terrain, the inherent coastal tensions between motion and stillness and any attempt to map what our senses perceive. Others such as Brian ODoherty, Hamish Fulton, Tim Robinson and OMG collective criss-cross those ... More
John Baldessari's new series of large-scale paintings on view at Sprüth Magers Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Sprüth Magers has exhibited John Baldessari for almost three decades, and is presenting his second solo show at the Los Angeles gallery. The exhibition features twenty-seven works from Baldessaris new series of large-scale paintings based on the ubiquitous Emojis. John Baldessaris name is synonymous with the art scene in his native West coast. His career as a highly influential artist and venerated teacher has spanned over fifty years and includes a diverse oeuvre of painting, photography, sculpture and video. From his earliest text paintings in the late 1960s to his more recent storyboard paintings, Baldessari has always reveled in the playful dislocation between text and image, expanded here in this most recent body of work. Created earlier this year, the Emoji paintings focus on the increasingly complex ways in which we exchange and ... More
Part 2 of the Zumthurn collection will be held Dec. 2nd by Woody Auction
DOUGLASS, KAN.- Part 2 of the Fred and the late Maxine Zumthurn collection out of California which features figural napkin rings and quality pickle castors but also includes art glass pieces, Wave Crest, Mount Washington, R. S. Prussia and Victorian antiques will be held Saturday, December 2nd, by Woody Auction, online and in the Woody Auction gallery, at 120 Third Street in Douglass, Kansas. Maxine Zumthurn passed away years ago and Fred has decided that now is the right time to share their vast collection with the buying and collecting public. The auction will get underway at 9:30 am Central time. All items will be sold to the highest bidder, with no reserves. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com. Absentee (or left) bids will also be accepted. The very first item up for bid will be a lovely ... More
Morocco architect fights concrete with tradition
TIZNIT (AFP).- An unexpected gust of cool air greets visitors to the new archives centre in Tiznit in the mountains of southern Morocco, even without air-conditioning despite extreme heat outside its walls. That is thanks to the ancestral building methods used by Salima Naji, a French-educated Moroccan architect who specialises in construction that blends in with the environment and local traditions. Rather than concrete, she used adobe and mudbrick, and built in high air vents for circulation. "First I look at what's available on the scene, rather than bring things in from elsewhere," said the architect who has a second degree in anthropology and who has restored several historical buildings. The priority is always two-fold: to protect local traditions and the environment. Naji said she was baffled as to why "at a certain time people stopped building with local materials" and how ... More
Maggi Hambling gives painting to Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery has been given Good Time George, an important painting by contemporary artist, Maggi Hambling. The portrait celebrates George Melly, the most colourful son of Liverpool: jazz performer, surrealist, comic, raconteur, critic and author, often referred to fondly as Good Time George. It will go on display from 8 November 2017. George came from a well-known Liverpool family. He grew up in South Liverpool and remained a frequent visitor to the city throughout his life, actively supporting the arts. In 1997 he sat on the jury for the John Moores Painting Prize, which culminates in an exhibition of contemporary painting at the Walker every two years. 2018 will mark 60 years of the competition. Maggi Hambling and George Melly were close friends. She painted and drew him from life, and posthumously. He said she would go down ... More
Heimo Zobernig's first solo exhibition in the US since 1996 on view at MIT List Visual Arts Center
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center is presenting Heimo Zobernig: chess painting. Since the 1980s, Vienna-based artist Heimo Zobernig (b 1958, Mauthen, Austria) has worked across several disciplines: sculpture, painting, installation, architectural intervention, performance, video, and print design. Zobernigs practice is grounded in an awareness of his position as an artist and producer in the broader context of culture. His work is framed by the impact Modernism has had on the trajectory of art history and a questioning of the institutional mechanisms that support the exhibition of artwork. The exhibition spans the List Centers two main galleries. Using the museum and its architecture as a stage; Zobernig allows a viewer to confront the constructed, at times theatrical, experience of visiting an art exhibition. ... More
Crow beaded hide War Shirt may bring $40,000 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A circa 1900 Crow Beaded Hide War Shirt once belonging to Chief Bell Rock is expected to sell for more than $40,000 in Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian & Tribal Jewelry, a specialty auction conducted by Heritage Auctions Nov. 18 in Dallas. The rare war shirt is the pinnacle of the private collection of Houston businessman Kenneth S. "Bud" Adams, Jr., whose more than 100 lots makes up the cornerstone of the sale. Adams, a founder of the American Football League and owner of one of its charter teams, the Oilers/Titans franchise, remained close to his heritage as an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.Entranced by the rich color and stunning visuals of the Southwest, his collection of American Indian art was just one expression of his enthusiasm for the material culture of his heritage. "Mr. Adams amassed an ... More
Figurative works, a Pre-Raphaelite portrait and Japanese woodblock prints headline Michaan's auction
ALAMEDA, CA.- Original works of fine art can be equally compelling in tiny apartments and palatial estates; their power to inspire transcends, as it transforms, our spaces and our lives. A wealth of opportunities awaits art collectors at Michaan's on November 11. The centerpiece of the auction, from the circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is a Pre-Raphaelite allegorical portrait, one of many fine English and European paintings offered. From a private collection in Marin County, works by prominent artists of the Bay Area Figurative Movement are featured. Precious gems, modern furniture, Tiffany lamps and Asian art also shine in this sale of fine consignments from San Francisco and beyond. "The Personification of Autumn," a female portrait from the circle of poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, captures the voluptuous glow of the fall season. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guido Reni was born November 04, 1575. Guido Reni (4 November 1575 - 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of high-Baroque style. In this image: An auction house client inspects Guido Reni's painting, titled: ' David with the head of Goliath', ahead of a sale in London, Friday, June 29, 2012.
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