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This long-term display is an unprecedented opportunity to see three exceptional Klimt paintings together in Canada, said NGC Deputy Director and Chief Curator Paul Lang. It enables the Gallery to offer a complete survey of the artists work spanning two decades of his career. A truly transformative loan, these works will allow our visitors to experience the full visual splendor of one of the most inventive artists of his day.
OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada offers a rare opportunity to view three paintings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, owing to a long term loan from a private collection. Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16), a commanding example of Klimts trademark female portraiture, and Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee (1916), a lush example of Klimts lesser-known, yet equally impressive landscape paintings, are now on view in the European galleries, along with Hope I (1903), which the Gallery purchased in 1970. Hope 1 is the only painting by Klimt in a Canadian public collection. This long-term display is an unprecedented opportunity to see three exceptional Klimt paintings together in Canada, said NGC Deputy Director and Chief Curator Paul Lang. It enables the Gallery to offer a complete survey of the artists work spanning two decades of his career. A ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day | | | | A 1960 Volkswagen Microbus is viewed during the media preview November 30, 2017, for Sotheby´s inaugural ´Life of Luxury´ sales series, offering the very best in jewelry, watches, cars, wine and fashion in New York. All ´Life of Luxury´ exhibitions opened to the public on 30 November,2017 TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Van Abbemuseum opens the first comprehensive survey of Rasheed Araeen's work | | Helmut Newton Foundation opens exhibition of works by Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, and Angelo Marino | | Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon opens "Los Modernos. Dialogues France/Mexico" |
Rasheed Araeen. Photo Socrates Mitsios.
EINDHOVEN.- On the 2nd of December 2017 the Van Abbemuseum opened Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective, the first comprehensive survey of the artist. The exhibition, spanning 60 years of work, presents a body of work that has had a profound influence on generations of artists, writers and thinkers. The exhibition is structured across five chapters: from his early experiments in painting in Karachi in the 1950s and early 60s, his pioneering minimalist sculptures carried out after his arrival in London in 1964, key pieces from the 70s and 80s following Araeens political awakening, his nine panel cruciform works from the 80s and 90s and a selection of his new geometric paintings and wall structures. Alongside this, material relating to Araeens writing, editorial and curatorial projects is being presented as part of an expanded artistic practice that in its scope and ambition continues to challenge the formal, ideological and political assu ... More | |
Helmut Newton, Thierry Mugler, Milan, 1998. © Helmut Newton Estate.
BERLIN.- The Berlin-based Helmut Newton Foundation is presenting its new exhibition Guy Bourdin. Image Maker / Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire / Angelo Marino. Another Story. Guy Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography in the late 20th century, similar to Helmut Newton. Both were the star photographers of Vogue Paris and produced some of the most iconic images of that era working for the top international fashion houses. While their medium was the magazine, they approached it with avant-garde point of view and sharp humour. Unique as they were, they both broke aesthetic conventions achieving a sense of timeless glamour in their editorials and advertising and independently of one another developing a sense of radical chic. In 1970s at the peak of their career while they photographed magazine editorials, Newton shot the collections of clients such as Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, ... More | |
Installation view.
LYON.- Los Modernos. Dialogues France/Mexico follows the exhibition Los Modernos, shown in Mexico in 2015 at the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) and in 2016 at the Museo de las Artes Universidad de Guadalajara (MUSA). The exhibition has met its audience with great acclaim, with more than 200,000 Mexican visitors. In Lyon, as in Mexico, the exhibition displays the two collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and of the MUNAL, to highlight the dialogues and divisions between two modern art scenes, from 1900 to 1960. The exhibition is enriched by numerous exceptional loans from other European and Mexican museums and private collections. Los Modernos, in Lyon, presents three added sections: the first examines cubism, in particular the iconic Diego Rivera and his links with the Parisian scene, the second puts in light Mexico's attraction for the French surrealist movement, and the third focuses on photographya first at the ... More |
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| Glenstone Museum announces late 2018 expansion opening | | Looted Angkor jewellery returned to Cambodia | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac exhibits a new series of paintings by Alex Katz |
Water Court of The Pavilions, 2017. Photo: Iwan Baan. Courtesy Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum today announced its expansion project will open in late 2018, increasing its visitor capacity from 25,000 to 100,000 per year. The project includes a new museum building known as The Pavilions, an arrival hall, entry pavilion, bookstore and two cafés totaling 240,000 square feet and an additional 100 acres of designed landscape with two recently installed outdoor sculptures. The original museum building, The Gallery, will remain open and continue to host changing exhibitions. When we opened Glenstone in 2006, we hoped people would welcome the opportunity to enjoy extraordinary contemporary art, architecture and landscape as a unified experience, with no hurry, no crowding and no admission fee, said Mitchell Rales, co-founder of Glenstone. The response we received got stronger with each new exhibition and convinced us to carry out the larger plan wed always had in mind. We have now doubled th ... More | |
A Cambodian man looks at a set of returned Angkorian-era gold jewellery displayed to the public behind protective glass during a ceremony in front of the National Museum following its return to Phnom Penh. TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP.
PHNOM PENH.- A set of ancient Angkorian gold jewellery was returned to Cambodia Saturday with an elaborate procession through the capital, decades after the precious pieces were looted from a famed jungle temple. The 10-piece set, which includes a crown, earrings, armbands and a chest ornament, was stolen from Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple during the kingdom's civil war in the 1970s and was discovered in the online catalogue of a London art dealer last year. The items are thought to date back to the Khmer Empire, a once-mighty dynasty that sprawled much of modern-day Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos between the ninth and 15th centuries. After the pieces turned up in Britain, the Cambodian government lobbied for their return and with the help of specialists spent more than a year inspecting the items to make sure ... More | |
Alex Katz, Laura 1, 2017. Oil on linen, 152,4 x 101,6 cm (60 x 40 in) © Alex Katz, Bildrecht, Wien 2017. Photo: Jason Wyche.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting an exhibition with the new series Dancers by Alex Katz, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday. In the early 1950s, Katz was already preparing the way for Pop Art, with his American-billboard-style aesthetic, the principle of seriality and his representations of the human figure devoid of any kind of psychology. In the '60s, he collaborated for the first time with a dance ensemble, creating for the legendary Paul Taylor Dance Company stage-sets and portraits of dancers and dance formations steeped in the spirit of the age. Over the years, Katz repeatedly returned to his favourite themes and models, almost like mechanical reproduction. In this new series, he portrays the New York dancer Laura. In contrast to his previous series of dancers, here he concentrates solely on her face and her expressions as she dances. Only suggestions of her shoulders and her neck, ... More |
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| Exhibition presents a compelling and nuanced portrait of the unprecedented changes unfolding in Mecca | | Anita Rogers Gallery presents a selection of drawings and paintings by British painter Jack Martin Rogers | | Exhibiion explores the lives and work of a number of women from the early history of psychoanalysis |
Ahmed Mater (Saudi, born 1979). Stand in the Pathway and See, 2012. C-print, 94 ½ x 71 in. (238.8 x 180.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Ahmed Mater.
BROOKLYN, NY.- The Brooklyn Museum presents Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys, an unprecedented look into the changes unfolding in Mecca, by one of the most significant cultural voices documenting the realities of the iconic city. Saudi artist Ahmed Mater began his monumental documentary project in 2008, bearing witness to the extraordinary expansion, demolition, and new construction transforming the city. The exhibition features large-scale photographs of Mecca, as well as more intimate images of its diverse inhabitants, alongside six videos, a sculpture, and an installation piece. Focusing on the site of the annual hajj pilgrimage for millions of Muslims, as well as the living and working conditions of Meccas permanent residents, Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys presents a complex portrait of extreme urban redevelopment ... More | |
Jack Martin Rogers, Nude, c. 1964, Oil on canvas, 29 ¾ x 24 ½.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting Odyssey, a selection of drawings and paintings by British painter Jack Martin Rogers (1945-2001). Anita Rogers, the gallerys owner and director, is the daughter of the artist and was raised across England, Turkey, Italy and Greece, countries that deeply influenced her fathers work. Anita now owns seventy-five percent of his estate. This is the artists first major solo exhibition in the U.S. The collection is on view November 16 December 30, 2017 at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor in SoHo, New York. The works in the exhibition span a period of over forty years, from some of the artists earliest work during art school to his final masterpieces. Throughout his life, Rogers continually examined the complex notion of time and its role in the human experience. He believed forward movement and discovery are accomplished through examining ... More | |
Anna Freud.
LONDON.- The Freud Museum Londons exhibition So this is the Strong Sex: Women in Psychoanalysis explores the lives and work of a number of women from the early history of psychoanalysis. An exciting collaboration with the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, this historically focussed exhibition showcases the major influence Marie Bonaparte, Helene Deutsch, Emma Eckstein, Anna Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé and Sabina Spielrein had on the work of Sigmund Freud and the development of psychoanalysis. So this is the strong sex Emma Eckstein is said to have once greeted Sigmund Freud with this ironic statement. As patients, women provided Freud with the basis for his discovery of the unconscious; the father of psychoanalysis himself confirms how he developed his treatment method known as the talking cure together with them. But it is the involvement of these women as friends, writers ... More |
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| Andrew Edlin Gallery presents exhibitions by Vahakn Arslanian and a new project, Et Tu, Art Brute? | | Albertz Benda opens a solo exhibition of works by artist TR Ericsson | | Almine Rech Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ryoji Ikeda |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Edlin Gallery is presenting a new project, Et Tu, Art Brute?, which is on view in the gallery's underground space. What defines being an artist today? How does it feel to make art? Who is allowed to participate, and on what terms? These are some of the questions that Et Tu, Art Brute? explores. This show has a very simple premise; the gallery invited everyoneno matter their background, ability, level of success or anonymityto contribute an original work of art. The response to the Open Call has been extraordinary. Over 700 artists from over 250 cities from around the globe have submitted. The gallery is rotating artworks throughout the exhibition to show as many as possible. The exhibition setting has been conceived by artist, Quintessa Matragna. Jamie Sterns is a curator and writer based in New York City. She is currently the Curatorial Director of Interstate Projects and works in the Art ... More | |
TR Ericsson, [American, b. 1972], I Want Your Body (2nd Edition), 2017. Bronze. 2 inches 5.1 cm. Edition of 10.
NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda is presenting a solo exhibition by artist TR Ericsson entitled Cinders. The exhibition showcases aspects of Ericssons archival project Crackle & Drag, a portrayal of his mother who committed suicide at age 57, and of the triangulated relationships between three generations within one Northeastern Ohio family. Drawing from letters, recordings, and family photographs, Ericsson constructs his work using traditional media such as canvas, film, photography, and clay as well as unconventional materials, including found objects from his family home, pulverized medications, and his mothers own funerary ash. Despite the deeply personal nature of this material, Ericssons resulting examination of grief, guilt, and nostalgia transcends his individual experience. Pairs of ... More | |
Ryoji Ikeda, data.tron [WUXGA version], 2011. Audiovisual installation. DLP projectors, computers, speakers. Variable dimensions © Ryoji Ikeda. Photo: Leon Dario Pelaez. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
PARIS.- Over the past two decades, Ryoji Ikeda has developed a body of work that comprises large-scale audiovisual installations and performances, presented either in public spaces or institutions such as museums or theaters. He has also produced albums artists books of sorts which tend to function as recordings, or analog memories of otherwise dematerialized works. More recently, he has been working on smaller sized works, using durable materials such as paper and celluloid. Taking its title from one of works on display π, e, ø this exhibition reflects upon the notion of infinity and permanence. It unfolds in two chapters: one that is more immersive, with primarily large projected images and sound, while the other showcases ... More |
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Museum de Fundatie exhibits photos taken by Humberto Tan during his visit to refugee camps
ZWOLLE.- Humberto Tan is a well-known Dutch radio and TV presenter. He is also an ambassador for the Dutch Red Cross. Last summer he visited refugee camps in Bangladesh in that capacity. His photographs tell a story of oppression, persecution, suffering and resilience. Poor but Proud features 40 of his pictures and is on from 1 December 2017 to 11 February 2018 at the Academiehuis and Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. Humberto Tan (b. 1965) has been a Dutch Red Cross ambassador for over 15 years. He regularly visits places around the world where the Red Cross is working to relieve human suffering. Last summer he was in Bangladesh, where many people escaping from Myanmar have sought refuge in the Kutupalong and Balukhali camps. He talked to them and recorded their lives in his photographs. It is only since last year, when he won Dutch TV station RTLs ... More
Raha Raissnia creates two series of charcoal drawings for exhibition at the Drawing Center
NEW YORK, NY.- Raha Raissnia: Alluvius, the first solo museum exhibition of work by the Iranian-American artist Raha Raissnia, contextualizes the artists drawings as part of her broader consideration of photographic and filmic representation. Raissnia grew up in Tehran during the 197879 revolution, and she often accompanied her father, an amateur photographer, on trips to the city center to document mass protests against the Shah. Mirroring this early experience in her current work, Raissnia surreptitiously continues to take portraits and photographs of everyday life as a course of habit. For The Drawing Center, Raissnia created the two series of densely-composed charcoal drawings on viewentitled Alluvius (2016) and Canto (2017)by referencing images sourced from her personal archive of both original ... More
The Danysz Gallery opens Abdul Rahman Katanani's first monographic exhibition in France
PARIS.- The Danysz Gallery presents Hard Core, Abdul Rahman Katanani's first monographic exhibition in France. Katanani is a protean artist whose work reflects a strong social and civic commitment. Using art as a mean of resistance, he lays a sensitive eye on the problems of the world. Katanani does a work of memory, with the intimate conviction comes a form of tolerance and acceptance of the other. Katanani gives as much space to the substance as to the form in the aesthetics of his works. Skillfully, the artist tames all kinds of materials accumulated over time: barbed wire, corrugated iron sheets, tires, fabrics or gas cans. Paradoxically, these materials that are part of his daily life are cold. Even if these come in their raw state, very rarely painted, Katanani manages to highlight emotions with a subtle play of shadow and light. From his special ... More
New Museum with creative agency Droga5 launches "New Museum LIVE"
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum has partnered with creative agency Droga5 and media agency Horizon to launch New Museum LIVE (newmuseum.live), a campaign that marks the occasion of the museums 40th anniversary and continues the museums commitment to its mission of new art, new ideas. New York's premier destination to see the art of today, the New Museum has maintained a bold and experimental spirit for 40 years. As a response to and celebration of that history, New Museum LIVE extends its fall season beyond the museum walls, live streaming artworks across the city. Via donated traditional and nontraditional media displays, with Horizon Media and several local businesses across the city, live streams will appear in noted locations such as Times Square, Hotel Indigo, Mr. Purple, Barcade, among other locales. Broadcasting ... More
Brad Delp's concert grand piano and memorabilia to be auctioned
BOSTON, MASS.- Brad Delps musical equipment, memorabilia and personal property will be featured in the Marvels of Modern Music by Boston-based RR Auction. Brad Delp was an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock bands Boston and RTZ, and his side project Beatlejuice, an homage to his beloved Beatles. A Massachusetts native, he also lived in New Hampshire for a portion of his life. Delp joined Boston in 1970 and the band rocketed to stardom on his soaring vocals and timeless lyrics. Their self-titled debut album, released on August 25, 1976, ranks as one of the best-selling debut albums in U.S. history, with more than 17 million copies sold. It went platinum by November. The collection includes instruments Delp used, including guitars and his piano. The 1873 Chickering concert grand piano with a full 88 keys, ... More
Historic animation birthday milestones lead Heritage Auctions' 1,000-lot Vintage Animation Art Sale
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Animation collectors will have plenty from which to choose in Heritage Auctions' Animation Art Auction Dec. 9-10 in Beverly Hills, California, which offers one of the largest and most diverse collections ever offered through Heritage Auctions. The event coincides with the 80th anniversary of Walt Disney's 1937 masterpiece, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the 70th birthday of Scrooge McDuck with the art of Carl Barks, 60 years of the Hanna-Barbera Studios, the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's The Jungle Book and 40 years of Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation. A Carl Barks "Family Portrait" Uncle Scrooge and Disney Ducks Painting #73-15 with Handwritten Letter (Walt Disney, 1973) already has generated double-digit bids that have climbed beyond its pre-auction estimate of $35,000. The entire Duck family "posed" for the legendary ... More
Schmell Part II realizes $1.4+ million at $8.75 million Heritage Comics & Comic Art Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Several lots from the Douglas Schmell PedigreeComics.com Collection were among the top lots at Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction Nov. 16-18 in Beverly Hills, California. The total value of the 20 lots in the collection soared to $1,414,402, with an average of a final price of $70,720.10 per lot. Six of the lots nearly one-third of the collection brought six-figure returns. The response to the collection was no surprise. Schmell, the owner of one of best-known high-end comic book auction firms, Pedigree Comics, had enjoyed enormous previous success when he auctioned his personal collection through Heritage a result that repeated itself with the Douglas Schmell PedigreeComics.com Part II collection. "Doug Schmell is familiar with every selling option in this hobby including, of course, his own firm," Heritage Auctions ... More
Live online sale offers intriguing selection, including fossils, historical nautical items, etchings & more
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to offer for sale a Cabinet of Curiosities on Sunday, December 10, 2017, at 10:30 am PST. The eclectic sale features over 200 lots from private collections and estates. Among the diverse offerings are ammonite and other fossils, turquoise and other minerals, dinosaur eggs and bones, historical nautical items, architectural and 18th-century Italian etchings, African wood carvings, Chinese scholars stones, sterling and silver plate pieces, Star Wars and Obama posters, reference books, and 20th-century decorative items created by famed fashion designer Elsa Peretti for Tiffany. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on December 10, 2017, at 10:30 am PST; items can be previewed and bid on now. The sale is featured on four platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, eBay, and Turner ... More
Famous Donegal artist's paintings up for auction
DUBLIN.- Not since the studio sale of Derek Hill with Christies in 2001 has there been a more hotly anticipated auction from an artist synonymous with the Donegal landscape. An important and desirable collection by Robert Taylor Carson HRUA (1919-2008) comprises the opening selection of Whytes Christmas auction and offers collectors an abundance of choice from the private collection and studio of the artist. With paintings in both oil and watercolour, dating from 1947 to 2004 and guiding from as little as 150, this exceptional collection traces a career spent observing landscapes and their inhabitants and, most particularly, Co. Donegal. Among the stunning views painted by Taylor Carson are those of Horn Head and Sheephaven Bay, the beach at Downings, Muckish Mountain from Breaghy Head, Lackagh Bridge and Clontallagh. With deft ... More
Exhibition of works by the British artist Rose Finn-Kelcey opens at Firstsite
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, is presenting Power for the People, an exhibition of works by the highly acclaimed and influential British artist Rose Finn-Kelcey. Finn-Kelcey (1945 2014) first came to prominence in the early 1970s as a central figure in Performance and Feminist art. This presentation, which is comprised of more than thirty works charting her forty-plus year career, highlights some of the recurring themes in Finn-Kelceys work, in particular empowerment, voice, faith and spirituality, and explores the conceptual strategies she employed to illuminate them. If Finn-Kelceys artistic practice can be characterised at all, it would be by its unpredictability: each new work routinely defied the expectations created by its predecessor. It Pays to Pray (1999), originally in four parts and shown outside Londons Millennium Dome, is illustrative. It consists of vending ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Gilbert Stuart was born December 3, 1755. Gilbert Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 - July 9, 1828) was an American painter from Rhode Island. In this image: Former President George W. Bush (L) and Mrs. Laura Bush (C) receive a tour of the Gilbert Stuart exhibition from Rusty Powell, director of the National Gallery of Art, during a visit Monday, July 25, 2005 in Washington D.C.
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