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Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 14451510), Madonna of the Magnificat, ca. 1483. Tempera, oil, and gold on wood panel. Private collection. Image courtesy of Christies.
PORTLAND, OR.- Just in time for the holidays, the Portland Art Museum is presenting Sandro Botticellis masterwork Madonna of the Magnificat (ca. 1483), a tondo (round painting) of the Madonna and Child with angels. This rarely seen work is a variant of the artists celebrated painting in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, considered one of the finest Madonna and Child paintings of the Renaissance and a high point of Botticellis career. Masterworks | Portland: Botticelli, the Portland Art Museums presentation of Madonna of the Magnificat, opened Wednesday, December 21, and will remain on view through May 14, 2023. The exhibition is the seventh installment of the Museums Masterworks | Portland series, which has brought to Portland individual works of outstanding quality by great artists such as Titian, El Greco, and Francis Bacon. Sandro Botticelli (14451510) was a leading artist of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces, on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York from October 9, 2022 â February 18, 2023. Photo: Emile Askey
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| Pace announces January exhibition program in New York | | The original drawing for the cover of Tintin in America at auction | | Ketterer Kunst online only auction at the turn of the year, "Uncovered: The Beauty of Provocation" |
Robert Whitman, Preparatory Sketch for American Moon Performance (1960), 1959 © Robert Whitman, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Pace Gallery recently announced its January program opening at its New York galleries (510 & 540 W 25th Street) in the early new year. The program will feature solo exhibitions with work by David Hockney, Tara Donovan, and Robert Whitman as well as a group exhibition curated by artists Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judgealso featuring paintings by Agnes Pelton and Ghulam Rasool Santoshand a joint show between photographer, painter, and sculptor William Christenberry & interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross. Additionally, a special online exhibition of David Byrnes lenticular photographs opened on Paces website. On view through January 28, the presentation will feature seven lenticular photographswhich serve as composite portraits of band and crew members from Byrnes acclaimed Broadway musical American Utopiacreated by the artist ... More | |
HERGà (pen name), Georges Remi (1907-1983), Tintin in America. Indian ink, graphite and corrective gouache for the cover of the 1942 full-page edition of the comic book Tintin in America. Drawing used again for the cover of the 1946 colour edition. Together with its certificate from the Hergé authentication committee., 46 x 32,8 cm. Estimate : 2,200,000 3,200,000.
PARIS.- On 10 February 2023, Artcurial will present as highlight of its The World of Hergé, Tintins Creator auction a unique work by Hergé: the original drawing for the full-page cover of the 1942 edition of the album Tintin in America, estimated at 2.2 to 3.2 million. Tintin in America, one of the best- selling albums of the series. The third volume in the Tintin series which sees the young Belgian reporter travelling to the United States, spending time in Chicago and in the Midwest, is considered one of the best-selling of the series. Tintin in America was first published in 1932 with a small printed illustration on the cover showing Tintin sitting on a rock with Snowy lying next to him. On the occasion of the third edition, in 1937, the small cover illustration was replaced ... More | |
Fritz Köthe 6. Oil on canvas, 1984. 160.5 x 110 cm. Estimate: 8,000 10,000.
MUNICH.- Whether Modern or Contemporary Art the beauty of provocation prevailed in every epoch. Accordingly, both expressiveness and poignancy characterize the range of offers in the Online Only Auction that Ketterer Kunst began presenting on December 11th, 2022 and will continue to January 15, 2023 under the motto UNCOVERED The Beauty Of Provocation. This exceptional theme sale shows a wide range of angles international artists have on the human body. Erotic, passion and sensuality come to the fore in the most different ways in select works from the 20th and 21st century by renowned artists like Horst Antes, Alexander Archipenko, Stephan Balkenhol, Max Beckmann, Salvador DalÃ, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Allen Jones, Max Kaus, Georg Kolbe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Gerhard Marcks, Helmut Middendorf, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Georges Rouault, Werner Scholz and Georg Tappert. The auctions top ... More |
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| In museums about horrors, children learn of the heroes | | Experience the magic of art with Walter's Cube's AR Holiday Card | | A Christmas gift for the nation as Peruzzi's The Nativity saved |
An undated photo provided by Local Projects shows renderings of the Museum of Jewish Heritages upcoming exhibition Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark, in Manhattan. Museums dedicated to the Holocaust and terrorist attacks are wary of traumatizing their youngest visitors. One upcoming exhibition will show how Denmark helped Jews escape by sea. (Local Projects via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- For two years, the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Manhattan presented a harrowing exhibition on the horrors of Auschwitz. Visitors could see the kind of boxcar that transported Jewish families to the complex of camps in Nazi-occupied Poland, the battered suitcases that were confiscated upon arrival, the poisonous Zyklon B canisters used in bogus shower rooms, the unbearable photographs of skeletal survivors and piles of corpses. But museum officials understood that such a compelling exhibition could be too unsettling for young children, a concern shared by museums dedicated to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing. Educators have long grappled with the question of how to present traumatic historical events to children without inducing the kind ... More | |
With the AR Holiday Card, creating personalized holiday cards for collectors and audiences is easy and fast, taking only one minute to generate a card.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Leading art space digitization company, Walter's Cube, has introduced a new way for galleries and museums to surprise and delight their collectors and audiences with personalized, free, and easy-to-use augmented reality (AR) holiday cards. At Walter's Cube, our mission is to democratize access to art and exhibitions by developing cutting-edge technologies that allow users to experience artworks in real time and space from anywhere. As the holidays approach, we understand that galleries and museums face a common problem: finding a gift to send to their collectors and audiences that is not boring or useless, but something immersive, new, fun, and useful. That's why we're excited to announce the launch of our latest innovation: the AR Holiday Card. The AR Holiday Card allows galleries and museums to provide their audiences with an immersive and unique holiday experience through the use of augmented reality technology ... More | |
Peruzzi depicted his nativity scene at night. Photograph: The National Gallery.
LONDON.- Arts and Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson has announced a Christmas gift for the nation after a painting of the Nativity dating to the early 1500s has been acquired by National Museums NI. Thanks to a fundraising campaign by National Museums NI, supported by the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Department for Communities NI and the Esme Mitchell Trust, the work will go on public display at the Ulster Museum next year. The Nativity by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (14811536), valued at £277,990, had an export bar placed on it by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) last year. The work, which depicts the Nativity at night, is one of only a handful of works by Peruzzi to survive outside Italy, and the only one in the UK. Painted around 1515 in Rome, The Nativity is an exceptionally rare surviving work by Peruzzi. A highly talented Italian painter, architect and draughtsman, Peruzzi was born in 1481 in a small town near Siena and was one of the leadin ... More |
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| di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art presents 'True North: Biennial juried exhibition of North Bay artists' | | Pearl Lam Galleries announces representation of artist Zhu Peihong | | Chrysler Museum of Art names new Deputy Director for Public Engagement and Learning |
Arleene Correa Valencia, Daddy, I Hope That You Have A Good Christmas, But Most Importantly, Dont Forget About Us. We Wont Forget About You. God Willing, Well All Be Together Soon, 2022. Repurposed textiles on canvas.
NAPA, CALIF.- An owl and an armadillo exploding from a tapestry of acrylic, a watercolor that mirrors a 3D astroturf creature, an assemblage of historic photos with the subjects erased. What on earth could bring such disparate artworks together under one roof? The ever vibrant di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. These are some of the many visual delights awaiting us at the di Rosas inaugural juried exhibition of North Bay art - True North. Over 40 artists from Californias North Bay counties: Napa, Sonoma, Solano and Marin are now being featured in di Rosas expansive galleries since December 16, and will continue to January 15, 2023. Family friendly, this is a show (and destination) only on display for one month and not to miss! ... More | |
Zhu Peihong in his studio in Shanghai. Courtesy of the artist and Pearl Lam Gallaries.
SHANGHAI.- Zhu Peihong was born in Shanghai in 1987 and graduated from the printmaking department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2014 with a masters degree. The artist now lives and works in Shanghai. His works were exhibited in the group exhibition Mind Image at Pearl Lam Galleries Shanghai this year and are currently on view in Reclusive Means in the Hong Kong gallery space. The artist began his signature My Space series in 2010. The works focus on the dots, lines, and colour patches that flash in the picture in the process of creation as well as the traces left on the picture due to their convergence and dissolution. In this creative process, the strokes overlap and cover each other, and the paint slowly and repeatedly drips and spreads, solidifies and stops, until these fragmented traces, reaching an internal order, organically connect with each other ... More | |
Stacey Shelnut-Henrick, newly appointed Deputy Director for Public Engagement and Learning at Chrysler Museum of Art.
NORFALK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art announced the appointment of Stacey Shelnut-Henrick as Deputy Director for Public Engagement and Learning, who begins work at the Museum in January 2023. Following a national search, Shelnut-Henrick was selected to oversee the Museums education department and robust docent program. She will also help develop and implement strategies to reach the needs and interests of the Museums diverse community through a range of cohesive public programming and community-based initiatives. Shelnut-Henrick will serve as part of the Executive Director's Senior Leadership Team and participate in the shaping of the strategic vision of the Museum. Stacey Shelnut-Henrick has extensive experience in developing the kind of programming that will take the Chrysler Museum of Arts ... More |
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| The artists we lost in 2022, in their words | | Michael Werner Gallery currently presenting works by Antonius Höckelmann and Arnulf Ranier | | Last chance to see Eeti Piiroine's work at HAM Gallery |
Ned Rorem, a composer, at his home in New York, Dec. 23, 1993. The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own through the art they made, and through the words they said. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Music innovators who sang of coal country and Great Balls of Fire. An actress who made a signature role out of a devilish baker who meets a fiery end. The trailblazing heart of In the Heat of the Night. The creative people who died this year include many whose lives helped shape our own through the art they made, and through the words they said. Here is a tribute to just some of them, in their own voices. Life offered no auditions for the many roles I had to play. Sidney Poitier, actor, born 1927 People in the past have done what were trying to do infinitely better. Thats why, for ones own sanity, to keep ones own sense of proportion, one must regularly go back to them. Peter Brook, director, born 1925 ... More | |
Antonius Höckelmann, Untitled, 1989. Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 39 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Michael Werner Gallery, New York has begun the presentation of Antonius Höckelmann / Arnulf Rainer, an exhibition of over 70 works by German artist Antonius Höckelmann (1937-2000) and Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929). Featuring a wide array of media, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, photography, and prints, the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see the works of Höckelmann and Rainer side by side. Working simultaneously from different countries, both artists explored themes of creation and destruction in post-war Europe. Born in Oelde, Germany in 1937, Antonius Höckelmann trained as a wood sculptor in his hometown in the 1950s before studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. Höckelmann said, For me, sculpture is at the root of everything, which is contradictory to the fact that he completed no more than a dozen sculptures ... More | |
Eeti Piiroinen: Dusty Eye, 2022. © Photo: Eeti Piiroinen.
HELSINKI.- HAM Gallery will soon be ending the exhibition "Renerving" by Eeti Piiroinen that opened on November 24th. I had been terrified preparing for my first solo exhibition. I recognised this as a common reaction for my body when facing something stressful. I took note of how the terrifiedness shut down my cognitive functions, how it made thinking and doing impossible. Then I wondered what might an artist halted by anxiety and fear do. What an artist halted by anxiety and fear might do, is to take that fear and that anxiety and have them as the thematic starting points for their artistic work. They might get inspired by what kind of artworks their anxiety and fear are interested in. They might try to create shapes and textures that invite touch, that might have a grounding effect. They might make pieces that inherently draw out their curiosity and playfulness, feelings that can sometimes override fear. They might make work about ... More |
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After 40 years of fa-la-laing, a New York caroler hands in his bells
NEW YORK, NY.- He has been heckled, slapped by a drunk Wall Street banker and ignored altogether. He has performed in the cake section of a Bronx supermarket, serenaded commuters on frigid Manhattan subway platforms and sung from inside a claustrophobic display window at Bloomingdales. Being a Christmas caroler in New York City is not for the fainthearted. Just ask Tom Andolora, a onetime elf at Macys Santaland, who has spent the past four decades leading the Dickens Victorian Carolers, which he founded in 1982. Now, after a long career in which the Carolers have tried to spread a little comfort and joy to sick children at Harlem Hospital, provided the soundtrack for wedding proposals at Rockefeller Center and serenaded several first ladies at the White House, Andolora, 65, is caroling for the last time this Christmas, before turning in his bells and retiring ... More
"This far and further" recently opened at the Museum Voorlinden, shows how artists explore other paths
WASSENAAR.- How can we together paint a hopeful picture for the future in these bizarre times? Museum Voorlinden takes a pause in its new collection exhibition This far and further to show how artists explore other paths. Thanks to the powers of their artistic imagination, you yourself start longing for a new vista and want to contribute to change. The exhibition has been on view since Saturday 17 December. Artists are particularly good at thinking in terms of possibilities. Dreaming out loud, creating new images and different perspectives is often their great motivation. Art stimulates, challenges, moves and encourages thinking in new directions. With This far and further, museum Voorlinden offers a selection of artworks that encourage the creation of new vistas. The collection exhibition is populated by artists who take a critical look at our society ... More
Middle East Institute Art Gallery presents new exhibition on climate, environment, & sustainability
WASHINGTON D.C. .- The Middle East Institute Arts and Culture Center, in partnership with Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation, presents its latest exhibit, Perceptible Rhythms/Alternative Temporalities. Curated by Maya El Khalil, the exhibit features 12 artists from the Middle East and South Asia who explore the impact of conflict, urbanization and the climate crisis on their environments and the ways in which humankind can better care for the planet. Hailing from countries as diverse as the UAE, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the artists use multimedia, installation, photography, drawing and painting, to explore ways to live in harmony with the planet by reconnecting with past cultural histories, remembering extinct plant species, and imagining alternative ways for humankind to attune to nature. Leading Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavans Study for a Monument ... More
Emilia Olsen's 'The View From the Boat' on view at Auxier Kline
NEW YORK, N.Y..- Auxier Kline is now presenting a solo exhibition by Emila Olsen, The View From the Boat, featuring a survey of paintings and works on paper created by the Brooklyn based artist over the past year. It opened on December 8th. The View From the Boat casts the viewer as someone standing on the deck of a vessel, trying to decide what they see in the waters below. These works feature motifs of traditional deep sea folklore; mermaids, sirens, nymphs, and sea witches. These fantastical feminine sea creatures are personifications of the artists emotional states. Olsen celebrates these deities in bodily form, empowering them with their magical abilities to survive the perils and dangers they are faced with, and by doing so, makes the viewer ruminate on what it truly means to be monstrous. Olsens newest body of work continues her investigation of the psyche by visually ... More
EMΣT exhibition "Modern Love" (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimicies) opens in AThens
ATHENS.- Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) is the major group exhibition at EMΣT | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens that recently opened on December 15th, and will end on May 28th, 2023. Curated by artistic director Katerina Gregos, it launches the museums winter-spring exhibition cycle, which focuses on digital technology and its influence on intimate human relationships. The subtitle of the exhibition is a reference to Eva Illouzs book, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, which argues that these relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies) explores the state of love and human bonds in the age of the Internet, social media, and high capitalism, probing how the digital sphere ... More
A major photography exhibition will showcase the work of five photographers who explore the African Diaspora
PHOENIX, ARIZ.- This summer, Phoenix Art Museum will present And Let It Remain So: Women of the African Diaspora, a major photography exhibition showcasing the work of five photographers, all of whom explore the ways in which their experiences of the African Diaspora influence their understandings of identity, place, and belonging. Organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) in Tucson, the exhibition features more than 70 photographic works, including portraits, family archival images, and landscapes, by Widline Cadet, Jasmine Clarke, Hellen Gaudence, Nadiya I. Nacorda, and Sasha Phyars-Burgess. Curated by Aaron Turner, a regular collaborator with CCP and an African-American photographer ... More
Ishara Art Foundation and Sunaparanta Goa Centre For The Arts present "Growing Like a Tree: Sent a Letter"
PANAJI.- Sunaparanta Goa Centre For The Arts in partnership with the Ishara Art Foundation is pleased to present Growing Like A Tree: Sent A Letter, a curatorial debut by Bunu Dhungana and Sadia Marium Rupa. The exhibition began on December 7th and will continue through April 22, 2023. The collaboration between the two organisations provides a unique opportunity to witness path-breaking curatorial directions in the field of contemporary art within the subcontinent. Marking the third iteration of the exhibition initially curated by artist Sohrab Hura at Ishara Art Foundation in Dubai in 2021, the show expands on Huras collective journeys with practitioners across geographic borders. The exposition in Goa furthers Isharas and Sunaparantas ... More
Post-apartheid South African artist Moshekwa Langa presents first solo show in Rio de Janeiro
RIO DE GANEIRO.- Fortes DAloia & Gabriel is currently presenting an exhibition of new works by Moshekwa Langa at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro that began on November 26th, and will end on January 21st, 2023. This is the artists first solo show in Brazil, comprising two large collages and a group of medium and small format paintings on paper. Born in Bakenberg in 1975, Langa is one of the most prominent artists to emerge in post-apartheid South Africa and has described his multidisciplinary practice as a process involving memories of the territories of his childhood. Langas paintings on paper are built over time, combining seemingly heterogeneous materials such as lacquer, coffee, pigments, found papers, and more. Swaths of rich color result from the pooling of paint on the works surface, as Langa allows the material to accrue until the paper is left dense and rugged ... More
New photography exhibition opens of unseen and forgotten Edinburgh interiors by Ron O'Donnell
EDINBURGH.- This exhibition features black & white and colour photographs of unseen and forgotten Edinburgh interiors by Scottish artist Ron ODonnell. During the 1970s and 1980s ODonnell focused on photographing local shops, such as grocers, fishmongers, and pet shops, as well as tea rooms, barbers, and laundrettes all over Edinburgh, some of which are no longer in existence. Three decades later, he returned to taking pictures of interiors. This time, documenting auto repair businesses, haberdasheries, record shops and public toilets, amongst other places, including the smallest shop in Edinburgh. ODonnell has always had a curious and insatiable desire to document the city. Looking for unusual interiors, he would cycle around Edinburgh with his camera, a flash gun in a cardboard box, strapped with bungees onto his bike rack ... More
"Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917" now on view at Museo Reina SofÃa
MADRID.- The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. Although the birth of the documentary as an artistic genre in its own right is a product of the 1920s, the curator of the exhibition, Jorge Ribalta, points out that "in retrospect, it can be said that the documentary function is as old as photography itself". The exhibition shows more than 500 works -including all kinds of photography, albums, publications and daguerreotypes- related to relevant historical themes such as the proletarian classes, the urban reforms of the time, the popular revolts or the social denunciation projects that arose during the period covered by the exhibition. Many of them come from important museums and international institutions. ... More
M+ presents a new digital commission Atlas of Blobs by Zachary Lieberman
HONG KONG.- M+, Asias first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, announces a brand-new commissioned digital artwork Atlas of Blobs by artist Zachary Lieberman. Atlas of Blobs is the sixth work in M+s digital commission series. Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator. His performances and interactive installations take human gestures as input and amplify them in different ways. Lieberman animates drawings, visualises sound and movement as expressive graphics, and transforms people's silhouettes into music. Atlas of Blobs is a collection of ten blobs created by Lieberman with computer programmes, paired with written responses by contributors from the fields of science, technology, humanities, and visual art. The work forms cross-disciplinary dialogue on the idiosyncrasies of blobs ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, sculptor and painter Louise Bourgeois was born December 25, 1911. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (25 December 1911 - 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. In this image: Louise Bourgeois, The Found Child, 2001. Black fabric, 30.5 x 68.6 x 40.6 cm. Collection The Easton Foundation. Photo: Christopher Burke, (c) The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY.
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