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Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style showcases the very best of Glasgows internationally renowned civic collections, alongside key loans from The Hunterian, The Glasgow School of Art, the V&A and a number of private lenders.
GLASGOW.- To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Glasgow's greatest sons, the architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum hosts Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style from 30 March to 14 August 2018. Glasgow Museums commemorates this significant anniversary with a major new temporary exhibition spanning Mackintosh's lifetime, 18681928. By following a chronological narrative, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Making the Glasgow Style presents his work in context to Glasgow, key predecessors, influences and Glasgow Style contemporaries. The dynamic and entrepreneurial creative spirit in the City in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is captured; showcasing the rich diversity of designers and artists, educators, institutions, manufacturers and industrialists then working in Glasgow and in design an ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French President Emmanuel Macron (3rdL) and his wife Brigitte Macron (2ndR) listen to Indian artist Subodh Gupta (C) during a visit to his showroom on March 11, 2018 in the Gurgaon suburb of New Delhi, as part of Macron's three-day official visit to India. DOMINIQUE FAGET / AFP
| Christie's New York announces highlights from its Classic Week sales | | Antiques looted in Libya by IS sold in Spain, two experts arrested | | Art Basel's sixth Hong Kong edition concludes with vigorous sales and strong collector attendance |
Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio, near Lugano 1612-1666), Saint Andrew. Oil on canvas
25 ½ x 19 ¼ in. Estimate USD 40,000 - USD 60,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Classic Week in New York, which brings together six auctions across 19th Century European Art, Old Masters, Antiquities, The Exceptional Sale of decorative arts and Classical Japanese and Korean Art. Highlights include works by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), a gilt-bronze seated figure of Buddha from the 7th century, a rare Egyptian sculpture of a sacred bull, newly discovered paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and the Le Nain Brothers, and a group of Property from La Salle University led by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingress Virgil Reading from the Aenei. Concluding the week, The Exceptional Sale will offer Carole Kings Steinway & Sons Model M Grand Piano and Daniel Craigs personal Aston Martin, numbered ... More | |
Officers seized "numerous works of art", including seven mosaics and a sarcophagus. Photo: Policia Nacional Ministerio del Interior.
MADRID.- Two Spanish art experts suspected of running a ring that sold antiques looted from archaeological sites in Libya by groups linked to the Islamic State group have been arrested, police said Wednesday. Officers seized "numerous works of art", including seven mosaics and a sarcophagus, during raids carried out in five locations in Barcelona and the nearby town of Argentona as part of their operation, police said in a statement. The works were stolen from archaeological sites in Libya's eastern coastal region of Cyrenaica and northern region of Tripolitania, which are home to some of the finest Roman and Greek ruins in existence. The two men who were arrested as part of the operation are both Spanish nationals aged 31 who are experts in ancient art. Police said one of the men appeared regularly on TV to ... More | |
Beijing Commune. © Art Basel.
HONG KONG.- Art Basel in Hong Kong: Galleries ambitious presentations rewarded with strong collector turnout and vigorous sales across all sectors of the market. The sixth edition of Art Basels show in Hong Kong, which closed on Saturday, March 31, 2018, brought together a uniquely global mix of galleries spanning six continents, outstanding artworks by established and new artists from across the world and a singular gathering of international collectors and institutions, many of whom were first-time visitors to the show. This exceptional setting allowed for many new discoveries, in-depth conversations with existing and new patrons and enthusiasm about the interconnected art scenes across the world, resulting in galleries reporting strong sales at all levels of the market and throughout the duration of the fair. The show's success is a true testament to the efforts exhibitors put into their presentations and their ... More |
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| Thai magazine sued for 'blasphemous' painting of ancient kings | | Philosopher Kristeva 'collaborated' with communists: Bulgaria | | Exhibition at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger features sculptors' drawings |
A copy of the letter signed by Chiang Mai governor Pawin Chamniprasart authorising an official to file a complaint with police against the Citylife Chiang Mai Facebook administrator for posting a picture of a painting. (Photo from Facebook/@CitylifeChiangMai.
BANGKOK.- The governor of Thailand's Chiang Mai province has sued a local magazine for posting a "blasphemous" painting on Facebook of ancient kings wearing pollution masks as part of a campaign to protest the city's hazardous smog. All matters touching on the monarchy are highly sensitive in Thailand, a country where kings have been worshipped as near dieties and are protected by one of the world's harshest royal defamation laws. The broadly-interpreted crime of lese majeste -- which can carry decades-long sentences -- has cemented a culture of self-censorship across the kingdom's academic, media and arts circles when it comes to royal affairs. The risks of testing those boundaries were on display Friday when an English-language magazine faced legal action for posting ... More | |
This picture taken on March 30, 2018 in Sofia shows prints from Bulgarian intelligence agencies' files of archive material about French-Bulgarian philosopher Julia Kristeva. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP.
SOFIA (AFP).- French-Bulgarian philosopher Julia Kristeva briefly collaborated with Bulgaria's communist-era secret services, but was of limited use to them, according to archive material published on Friday. Kristeva has lived in France since 1966 and has written extensively on psychoanalysis and literary theory. Allegations that she collaborated with Bulgaria's intelligence agencies first emerged earlier this week. She denied the claims in a statement on her website, calling them "grotesque and false" and threatened legal action against media outlets repeating them. A Bulgarian commission charged with opening up the country's secret communist-era archives published more than 160 pages of documents about Kristeva on Friday. The files mostly contain details about Kristeva's academic and political activities, but also include ... More | |
Jean Arp, Sans titre, 1920. Encre sur papier, 27,4 x 21,2 cm. Courtesy Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris.
PARIS.- Ever since the founding of her gallery, Jeanne Bucher knew how to appreciate, in the drawings of sculptors, the presence of a form still nascent in its essence and its magic. An exhibition of sculptures and drawings of Henri Laurens was held in the small rooms of the 9ter rue du Montparnasse, under the Occupation, in July 1942. In 1951, Jean-François Jaeger exhibited the drawings of Chauvin. In the Fall of 2005, Véronique Jaeger exhibited the drawings of Dani Karavan, as well as the preparatory models for the creation of the artists 1-kilometer long environmental sculpture in Murou, Japan. On the occasion of the Drawing Week in Paris, the Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger decided to spotlight drawings by sculptors, from Dubuffet to Shingu, and including Giacometti and Rodin, connected to varying degrees with the history of the gallery. The Giacometti drawing Bruno lisant dates from the time when Jeanne Bucher ... More |
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| Exhibition commemorates 75 years since the Bevin Boys scheme began | | Sotheby's Hong Kong Spring 2018 Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sales achieve US$132 Million | | Exhibition draws together a spectacular collection of works by Stanley Spencer |
David McClure, Kneeling Miner Working, 1948, Pen and ink on paper, 190mm x 150mm, Photograph by Richard Hawkes, Copyright_ The David McClure Estate. Courtesy of The Auckland Project.
BISHOP AUCKLAND.- The Mining Art Gallery in Bishop Auckland is presenting a temporary exhibition The Bevin Boys - Wars Forgotten Workforce, focusing on art by four former Bevin Boys Ted Holloway, Tom McGuinness, David McClure and John Tipton, from 28th March-30th September 2018. The exhibition commemorates 75 years since the Bevin Boys scheme began. It also marks the 10 year anniversary of the Bevin Boys formal acknowledgment by the UK government. In 2008, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown awarded commemorative badges, featuring a pithead and profile of a miner, to 27 men who were conscripted to work as miners during the Second World War. The title of the Gallerys new temporary exhibition, The Bevin Boys - Wars Forgotten Workforce, takes its name from the group of men who were ... More | |
Robert Rauschenberg, 'Cartoon', 1962, oil, wood, and metal on canvas. Estimate: HK 32,000,000 - 40,000,000. Sold for: 38,974,500 (4,966,131 USD). Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Evening Sales of Modern Art and Contemporary Art in Hong Kong brought a total of HK$1.04 billion / US$132 million (est. HK$643 929million), the second highest total for a Sothebys Hong Kong Evening Sale. Patti Wong, Chairman of Sothebys Asia, stated, Tonights outstanding results, with strong prices for both Asian and Western art and an exceptional sell-through rate of 97%, is a testament to our efforts to bring fresh and outstanding works to our clients. We saw deep demand for quality works, with a series of extended bidding contests, resulting in 64% of the works exceeding the high estimates this evening and setting many new records. We are delighted that one year since we debuted Western art in our Evening Sale, once again we saw all of the works on offer finding buyers. All 7 works ... More | |
Neighbours, © Stanley Spencer Estate / Bridgeman Images, London.
COOKHAM.- Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer is a revealing new exhibition at the renowned Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham Spencers spiritual home and major source of inspiration. The exhibition draws together a spectacular collection of loans, including The Centurions Servant, Tate; Love on the Moor, Fitzwilliam; John Donne Arriving in Heaven, Fitzwilliam and one work not seen in the public domain in over 50 years. The exhibition examines the often complex relationships between Spencer and his patrons and what drove them to collect his work. Spencer was a single-minded genius, but the influence of his patrons on his painting is far greater than has hitherto been realised. At the turn of the century, collecting art was no longer the preserve of the aristocracy and the upper classes, but Spencers art appealed to a broad spectrum of art lovers, fellow artists, businessmen and politicians. Many of ... More |
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| An exceptional Rolex 'Paul Newman' Daytona to be offered at Sotheby's Geneva | | Now showing in US cinemas: "Hitler VS Picasso and The Others" directed by Claudio Poli | | Paula Cooper Gallery opens "Bernd and Hilla Becher: In Dialogue with Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt" |
Rolex Paul Newman Daytona Tropical Dial, 1968. Estimate: CHF 200,000 400,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
GENEVA.- Sothebys spring sale of Important Watches in Geneva will be led by an extraordinarily rare Rolex Daytona Paul Newman wristwatch, reference 6239, with a highly-coveted tropical dial. The watch has been cherished by a single owner who received it as a wedding anniversary present from his beloved wife in 1975. More than 40 years later, a chance meeting on a visit to his local jeweler revealed that this gift held a thrilling secret: the watch features what is known as a tropical or colour-change dial. These beautifully aged dials, given this nickname by collectors because their colours fade over time from black to rich brown, are so rare that the effect has become a prize for collectors, placing it among the most exciting features on todays market. The piece will be offered in Geneva on 13 May 2018, with a pre-sale estimate of CHF 200,000 400,000 ($210,000-420,000). ... More | |
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NEW YORK, NY.- In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize degenerate art, and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify classic art. Narrated by Toni Servillo (star of Oscar® winner The Great Beauty), Hitler vs Picasso and the Others is an incredible journey through five exhibitions, displaying masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir, and Gauguin. Linked to each exhibition are moving stories of those who witnessed the systematic destruction and looting of the day from the Bernheimer family, who were forced to barter their freedom, to Hitlers dealer, Cornelius Gurlitt, known to have hidden away some of the most priceless art treasures of the century. Revealing the Nazi obsession with art, Hitler vs Picasso and the Others offers viewers a rare look at condemned works that have finally come to light. ... More | |
Bernd & Hilla Becher, Cooling Tower, Mons, Belgium, 1967. Black and white photograph, 15 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. © Estate of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery announces Bernd and Hilla Becher: In Dialogue with Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt, an exhibition organized in collaboration with Max Becher and Antonio Homem. The Bechers well-known and greatly influential photographic work is presented alongside sculpture by Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt, exploring the artists friendship and creative dialogue. The presentation, which also includes photographs by Matthias Schaller documenting the space where the artists lived and worked, is on view at 534 West 21st Street from March 31st through April 28th, 2018. During their almost fifty-year partnership beginning in 1959, Bernd and Hilla Becher pursued a project of systematically photographing industrial structures. Documenting once ubiquitous edifices such as cooling towers, gas tanks, blast ... More |
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Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens a group exhibition
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Zeitgeist descended to downtown New Canaan this season with 18-3838, a group exhibition featuring works by Charles Arnoldi, John Clement, Leah Durner, Matthew Heller, Madeleine Keesing, Martin Kline and Jill Moser. These artists have been gracing Heather Gaudio Fine Arts roster with their personal styles and individual processes. Now, for the first time, they have been brought together to showcase a visually rich installation that is as dynamic as it is au courant. Last December, PANTONE declared 18-3838 Ultra Violet as the official color of 2018. The blue-based purple pigment shade is known to evoke spiritual and meditative reflection, as well as elicit cosmic and futuristic outlooks. Culturally, it has also been associated with individuality and acts of rebelliousness. Never stagnant, Ultra Violet is original, enigmatic and it is only natural that it draws ... More
Betty Cuningham Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by John Lees
NEW YORK, NY.- Betty Cuningham Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by John Lees, March 29 May 6, 2018. This will be the artists fifth solo show at the Gallery, located at 15 Rivington Street. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Wednesday, April 4th, 6 8PM. The exhibition is comprised of 20 paintings (the largest of which, Ghost Trio, is 20 x 20 inches) and 6 drawings, all recently completed. Characteristically, Lees spends years working and reworking his paintings and drawings, often leaving a written diary on the front or back of the work as a physical reminder of the time spent. In these recent paintings and drawings, Lees sands down the surface, incorporates brighter color and introduces a more complex narrative into his work. He no longer concentrates on a single image: a person, a hill, a stream or his childhood ... More
Six artists confront the beauty and destruction of the polar regions
PROVIDENCE, RI.- From March 31 to May 27, Brown Universitys Bell Gallery presents 33°, a series of exhibitions and public artworks exploring ice melt and climate change. Bell Gallery director Jo-Ann Conklin notes that artists have participated in scientific and artistic explorations of the iconic landscapes of Earths polar regions since the late-nineteenth century. Today, the crisis of climate change and the associated threat of ice melt and sea level rise have drawn a legion of international artists to Greenland, the Arctic and Antarctic. 33° features the work of a group of international artists including sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard and photographers Olaf Otto Becker, Camille Seaman, James Balog, Jean de Pomereu, and Iain Brownlie Roy. At the Bell Gallery, visitors can encounter Kirkegaards forty-minute soundspace Isfald (Icefall), a recording made ... More
27th Salon du dessin in Paris, a growing success
PARIS.- The tremendous success of the Salon du Dessin is undeniable. Curators of major museums and collectors from around the world flock here to make key acquisitions as soon as doors open, while new clients are attracted by the variety and quality of the exhibits. The aisles of this unrivaled, intimate salon were crowded for the opening and remained so for its 6 days, welcoming 14,500 visitors, an increase of 11.5%. Luxury brands have understood this. Maison Chaumet was, along with the Musée dArt de Nantes, guest of honour at this 27th edition. Museums also accompany this success: the Drawings Week, an offsite circuit that opens the doors of graphic art collections to the general public, brought together 28 partner institutions, compared to 20 last year. As for the 11th Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation, it was awarded ... More
Virtual reality, interactive and multisensory installations redefine the boundaries of storytelling
MONTREAL.- Discover the universe at a non-human scale and gain new insights on space travel, climate change and mass migration. Find your place in the world by seeing it from different perspectives. Feel small, feel big, feel connected in Particles of Existence, an exhibition taking place at the Phi Centre from March 27 to August 12, 2018, featuring works by Laurie Anderson, the British collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, Ubisoft Montréal, Chris Milk, Felix & Paul Studios, and a world premiere produced by the NFB, among others. Most of us have looked up at the night sky, imagined the unknown and tried to give meaning to life on earth. Science and technology have brought us closer to understanding the mysteries of the cosmos, and now through new media and virtual reality, visitors to Particles of Existence are plunged into the invisible realms of life. From ... More
Exhibition focuses on eight works on paper executed in 1973 by John McLaughlin
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is presenting John McLaughlin: Constructions, on view at the gallerys 23 East 73rd location from March 28 through May 11, 2018. The exhibition focuses on eight works on paper executed in 1973 that have never been shown before and as art historian and critic Phyllis Tuchman writes in a new scholarly essay prepared exclusively for the show, are revelatory about a direction McLaughlins art might have been taking. Numbered consecutively and made of construction paper and Scotch tape, the collages, or what McLaughlin termed constructions, resemble compositions that closely hewed to his paintings. This is the fourth exhibition of works by the artist the gallery has mounted since 2010 and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Because McLaughlin emphasized the abstract nature of his art, it may ... More
Unit London announces new flagship gallery in Mayfair
LONDON.- Unit London announced the launch of their new 6000 sq. foot gallery space at 3 Hanover Square, London, in June 2018. The former Citibank property covers two expansive exhibition floors and will form a new central London flagship to house the gallerys growing primary artist roster, in addition to a wider mix of creative collaborations and interdisciplinary cultural events. The inaugural exhibition, The Garden, by South African artist Ryan Hewett will feature an entirely new series of brightly-saturated oil paintings, drawing on continued notions of fantasy and surrealism. Unit London was founded in 2013 by Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt in a pop-up space in Chiswick, later moving to Soho and Covent Garden, where the gallery will continue to manage a satellite space. With neither originating from a formal gallery background, Unit London remains firmly ... More
Exhibition at the Design Museum examines the political graphic design of a turbulent decade
LONDON.- The global financial crash of 2008 ushered in a politically volatile decade. At the same time, the rise of social media has changed the way graphic political messages are made and disseminated. As traditional media rubs shoulders with hashtags and memes, the influence and impact of graphic design has never been greater. Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008 - 18 examines the pivotal role of graphics in milestone events such as the election of Barack Obama, the worldwide Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, Brexit and Donald Trumps presidency. Taking a politically impartial view of such events, the exhibition demonstrates graphic designs role in influencing opinion, provoking debate and driving activism. It explores the trajectory from Hope to Nope, as represented by the iconic Barack Obama Hope poster by Shepard Fairey ... More
First-edition prints of Hiroshige's Tokaido Road on view for the first time in 25 years
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces a new exhibition of one of the most celebrated works of Japanese art, the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido by master printmaker Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige. The series depicts the spectacular landscapes and interesting characters encountered along the journey from Edo (now Tokyo) to the imperial capital Kyoto. Central to the exhibition are CMOAs prints from the first Hōeidō edition; 55 in total, created between 1831 and 1834. This will be the first time in 25 years that the entire series has been on view at the museum. The Tokaido road was the most heavily-traveled route between these two important cities, figuring heavily into popular Japanese art and culture in the mid-1800s. Hiroshige made hundreds of images on the subject throughout his career. Visitors can follow the progress of the journey along ... More
Exhibition celebrates major additions to the collection from the past four years
CLEVELAND, OH.- Since 2014, the Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired more than 2,000 works of art through purchase, gift, or bequest. Recent Acquisitions 20142017 highlights 29 of these works, which were created for devotional, social, aesthetic, or practical purposes. The museum seeks out works of art that tell the stories of cultural achievement through time and across the globe to provide visitors with a more complete picture of a shared heritage. Recent Acquisitions 20142017 is on view March 17 through June 10, 2018, in the Julia and Larry Pollock Focus Gallery. Recent Acquisitions features a selection of our major acquisitions of the past four yearsa type of show that we plan to organize periodically in the years ahead to call attention to our ever-changing collection, said William Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. These ... More
Exhibition of rare baseball cards and memorabilia opens at the Detroit Institute of Arts
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts celebrates the great American pastime of baseball in Play Ball: Baseball at the DIA, on view March 30Sept. 16. The exhibition features artworks from the DIAs collection as well as rare baseball cards, memorabilia and collectibles from the Rochester, Michigan-based E. Powell Miller collection. A highlight of the exhibition is a complete collection of more than 500 very rare baseball cards known as the T206 White Border Set produced in vivid color lithography and released from 19091911 by the American Tobacco Company. Millers collection is noted for its rarity and superlative condition and according to Professional Sports Authenticator is ranked third in the world. The Miller T206 collection boasts a Joe Doyle error card as well as the coveted and extremely rare Honus Wagner card ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst died April 01, 1976. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. In this image: People look at the exhibition Beyond Painting: Max Ernst in the Würth Collection.
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