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Installation of Portrait of Margaret Smith, Wife of Thomas Carye, Anthony van Dyck.
LONDON.- The magnificent collection of paintings, sculptures, furniture and curiosities created by Horace Walpole for his celebrated gothic villa at Strawberry Hill, which was later dispersed all over the world in the famous sale of the century of 1842, has been reassembled for the once-in-a-lifetime exhibition Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpoles Collection from 20 October 2018 24 February 2019. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to see one of the most famous 18th century collections including masterpieces by Joshua Reynolds, Anthony Van Dyck and Hans Holbein, reunited in its original setting in the fine rooms at Strawberry Hill. For the public, this is the only opportunity to see Strawberry Hill as its owner intended. This is significant because Walpole is widely thought of as the most important British collector in the 18th century. He wrote the first book on British art history, Anecdotes of Painting, and Strawberry Hill, with its 6,00 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman walks at the Fonvizinskaya metro station in Moscow, on November 28, 2018. Moscow's metro system is famed for its Stalin-era stations with glittering chandeliers and mosaics, but architects are taking a radical new approach as the network undergoes a massive expansion. While the original stations were conceived as "palaces for the people", the new designs are less formal with light boxes for seats and laser-printed glass patterns. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP
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| | | The Hamburger Kunsthalle presents the first show devoted to Philippe Vandenberg in Germany | | Sotheby's celebrates trailblazing female artists of the 16th-19th centuries this January | | Dallas Museum of Art presents the most comprehensive survey of Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe's work to date |
Philippe Vandenberg (19522009), The Guide, 1998. Oil on canvas, 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches © The Estate of Philippe Vandenberg / Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
HAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is showing the most extensive retrospective to date of the work of Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg (19522009), comprising some 80 paintings and over 120 drawings and prints. This is the first show devoted to Vandenberg in Germany, inviting visitors to discover an important artist who may be unfamiliar to them. Highly acclaimed in his home country of Belgium, Vandenberg produced a radical and unsparing oeuvre that is just now achieving greater international prominence. Many of the works on loan came from the artists estate and are now being presented to the public for the first time. Vandenbergs art displays a compelling intensity that has the power to both disturb and excite. The exhibition title Kamikaze refers to a central artistic principle he espoused. Kamikaze meant for him creative destruction, i.e., enabling something ... More | |
Fede Galizia, A glass compote with peaches, jasmine flowers, quinces, and a grasshopper (detail). Oil on panel. Estimate: $2/3 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- As major retrospective exhibitions have been mounted around the world on female artists including Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Michelina Wautier and Artemesia Gentileschi, Sothebys will bring together a group of works by Old Master female artists that celebrates the life and work of some of these groundbreaking women. Incorporated into Masters Week in New York in January 2019, the offering will assemble major paintings, drawings and sculpture created by leading female artists from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Recently Sotheby's announced two works that will highlight The Female Triumphant in our Master Paintings Evening Sale on 30 January: Fede Galizias A glass compote with peaches, jasmine flowers, quinces, and a grasshopper (estimate $2/3 million) is a beautiful example of the revolutionary female artists ... More | |
Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe, Tulips, 1936, oil on canvas, Collection of Mark and Debra Leslie.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting the first ever solo museum exhibition of works by Ida Ten Eyck OKeeffe and the most comprehensive survey of the artists work to date. Ida OKeeffe: Escaping Georgias Shadow brings together more than 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings for the first time, including six of the artists seven lighthouse paintings, whose previously unknown locations were revealed during exhibition research and which have not been exhibited together since 1955. The exhibition explores Idas mastery of color and composition, which caught the eye of critics, as well as her complex relationship with her well-known sister Georgia OKeeffe and the effect it had on Idas life and professional aspirations. The DMA-organized exhibition also includes 1920s photographs of Ida OKeeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, Georgias husband and an original short film focusing on her l ... More |
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| | | Exhibition provides insight into an extraordinary and largely unknown chapter of modernism | | The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a comprehensive museum survey of Dieter Rams's work | | 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announces gallery list for second Marrakech edition |
Georgiana Houghton, Flower of Samuel Warrand, August 19, 1862. Watercolor on paper. Victorian Spiritualists' Union, Melbourne. Photo: VSU.
MUNICH.- The exhibition World Receivers provides insight into an extraordinary and largely unknown chapter of modernism: completely independent of one another, Georgiana Houghton (18141884) in England, Hilma af Klint (18621944) in Sweden, and Emma Kunz (18921963) in Switzerland each developed their own abstract visual language highly charged with meaning. With their works, all three strove to visualize laws of nature, the spiritual, and the supernatural; they followed their convictions with persistence and self-assertion. Their works are complemented here by little-known films by Harry Smith (19231991) and the brothers John Whitney (19171995) and James Whitney (19211982). In post-war California, these artists produced experimental films in which they sought a unity of various forms of sensory perception. With innovative production methods and ... More | |
KF 20 Coffee Machine, 1972. Designed by Florian Seiffert, German, born 1943; with Dieter Rams, German, born 1932. Made by Braun AG, Taunus, Germany, founded 1921. © Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. Photo by Sebastian Stuch.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition surveying the career of one of the most influential industrial designers living today: Dieter Rams. Principled Design presents the prolific body of work he has producedfrom radios, clocks, and cameras to kitchen appliances and furnitureand examines the longevity and impact of his design philosophies. From his earliest years designing for German manufacturer Braun to his ongoing projects with Vits, the furniture company he co-founded in 1959, the exhibition celebrates his distinctive approach to integrating form, material, and color to create designs that are both functional and beautiful. Principled Design is the most comprehensive museum survey of Ramss work to appear at an East ... More | |
Aboudia, Deux gendarmes, 2017. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Cecile Fakhoury.
MARRAKECH.- 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora, has announced the 18 international galleries participating in its second Marrakech edition, taking place at La Mamounia, 23 and 24 February, with VIP and Press Previews on 21 and 22 February. Earlier this year, 1-54 launched its inaugural fair on the African continent in Marrakech, broadening the reach of the fair and further diversifying its portfolio of exhibiting and promoting gallerists and artists that are connected to Africa, adding to the global network 1-54 has cultivated over the past six years. Marrakech is home to one of the continents most dynamic arts scenes and 1-54 Marrakech aims to build on the citys creative energy fostered by its artists, galleries and institutions. 1-54 brings together a diverse set of perspectives from around the world and has carefully selected 18 leadin ... More |
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| | | Stephenson's New Year's Auction anchored by prestigious collections, upscale gallery owner's estate | | Exhibition presents Nishiko's Repairing Earthquake Project for the first time in its entirety | | Custot Gallery Dubai presents a major exhibition of works by Fernando Botero |
Rolex Cellini 18K gold gentlemens dress watch with mesh band and case, correct stamps on verso, weighs 85.2g (with works). Estimate: $2,500-$4,000.
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- At Stephensons Annual New Years Auction, it is not unusual to see a parking lot lined with cars bearing out-of-state license plates. The family-owned auction house is known for setting aside outstanding estate consignments specifically for its first sale of the year, a lively, well-attended event thats worth the drive, as one bidder remarked at last years edition. The 2018 lineup of antique and decorative art has been divided into a January 1 session featuring approximately 450 lots of crystal, fine porcelain, art glass and silver, including Tiffany sterling silver vases and sterling flatware sets by Reed & Barton and Gorham; and a 200-lot January 2 session brimming with pottery, stoneware, bronzes, sculptures, lighting furniture and clocks. Throughout the two-day event bidders will have the opportunity to acquire superb pieces from the 45-year collection of Byron ... More | |
Nishiko: Repairing Earthquake Project, exhibition view Stroom Den Haag. Photo: Ayako Nishibori, courtesy Stroom Den Haag, 2018.
THE HAGUE.- Stroom Den Haag is presenting the Repairing Earthquake Project, the magnum opus of the Hague-based artist Nishiko (Kagoshima, Japan, 1981). After the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in March 2011, Nishiko visited the Tohoku district in Japan, searching for remaining objects and collecting eyewitness accounts that enable us to experience the aftermath of the disaster first hand. As part of the project she repairs and reconstructs the battered objects with great care and tenderness. Their scars are visual reminders of the historical events. "In my point of view, extreme care and dedication generate a potential for healing," Nishiko states. The repaired objects are further granted a second life, as the artist has them adopted by "foster parents." The exhibition at Stroom presents the Repairing Earthquake Project for the first time in its entirety. The project not ... More | |
Fernando Botero, Still life with white curtain, 2013. Oil on canvas. Courtesy Custot Gallery Dubai and the artist.
DUBAI.- Custot Gallery Dubai is presenting a major exhibition of still life paintings, drawings and watercolours by the internationally renowned Colombian artist, Fernando Botero. These works, which come from the artists own collection and are being exhibited for the first time, were created between 1980 and 2018. Throughout thirty still life works representing flowers, fruit, objects, musical instruments and fantastic scenes of everyday moments, the artist pays tribute to the Old Master paintings he studied as a young student in Europe during the 1950s. In 1956, Botero painted Still life with mandolin, the very incarnation of the artists interest in the age-old tradition of still life painting. The play of proportions and the distortion of volumes in this work marks a turning point in his career. Fernando Botero (born in 1932 in MedellÃn, Colombia) is a figurative artist and painter. His ... More |
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| | | Major international photography exhibition on view at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg | | National Portrait Gallery premieres 28 newly acquired portraits in "Recent Acquisitions" | | Tornabuoni Art opens the first solo show in the UK of the Italian artist Carlo Rea |
Christian Wachter, From the series Impressions DAFRIQUE (Lincomparable), 2006. (Impressions from Africa [The Incomparables]) 1 out of a series with 62 chromogenic prints © Christian Wachter, Bildrecht, Vienna.
SALZBURG.- Featuring works by no fewer than thirty-seven photographers from eleven nations whose art was showcased, publicized, and discussed at Camera Austria in the past decades, this exhibition offers an unprecedented retrospective of the gallery-and-journals activities. The diverse conceptual and thematic approaches of the renowned artists included in the show exemplify Camera Austrias foci and add up to a panorama of the evolution and dissemination of fine art photography in Austria since the 1970s. Divided into eight chapters, the exhibition presents artists associated with Camera Austria in its early years side by side with contemporary positions. Combining dialogical engagement with a focus on continuity, this arrangement generates visual ... More | |
Edwin Hubble by Unidentified Artist. Gelatin silver print, 1949. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired through the generosity of Laura Peebles and Ellen Fingerman.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery premieres 28 additions to its permanent collection in the 20182019 Recent Acquisitions exhibition. This years presentation is the latest in an annual series and marks just one of the many steps the Portrait Gallery has taken to focus on inclusion in building its collection. While the display features several renowned individualsfrom famed baseball player Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod) to former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedyit also encourages viewers to learn more about those some may call hidden figures. This years selection highlights influencers in medicine, astronomy, music, literature, art, entertainment and sports with portraits made in a variety of media, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs. The exhibition is on view through ... More | |
His delicate relief paintings are motionless, yet they seem in constant flux, morphing from painting into sculpture, from canvas into clay.
LONDON.- Tornabuoni Art London is presenting the first solo show in the UK of the Italian artist Carlo Rea (b. Rome, 1962). Rea continues the Italian post war tradition of working with non-traditional materials plaster, wood, gauze and ceramic, among others. His delicate relief paintings are motionless, yet they seem in constant flux, morphing from painting into sculpture, from canvas into clay. Despite often being monochrome, his petal-like forms create a harmony of tones and shadows. His installations combine the delicate and the durable, and his body of work defies traditional categories. Reas work also crosses between the visual and musical dimensions, exemplified by his sonic installation Senza Titolo (Coppia di diffusori), 2018, which is being shown in the gallery. Trained as a classical violinist and violist, the artist embraces the notion of musical time and chromatic rhythms in his ... More |
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Tel Aviv Museum of Art opens exhibition featuring works by Loris Gréaud
TEL AVIV.- This is the first solo exhibition in Israel featuring Loris Gréaud (b.1979), one of the most prominent young artists working today in France. This exhibition is part of the 2018 France-Israel Season and specially created for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, presented in two separate spaces connected by the exhibition. The different components a short film, sculpture, lighting, sound, and movement work together to create a cyclical narrative event in which rain and clouds are the central motifs: rain as a futuristic-technological development and rain as a poetic, fictional, or apocalyptic phenomenon; clouds as an evasive narrative and as a fabricated entity. The projects title was borrowed from the animated childrens series Care Bears, whose protagonists are a series of sweet and good-tempered bears. Grumpy Bear stands out due to his ill temper, ... More
Exhibition features works of ten renowned artists from different corners of the Asian continent
BEIJING.- Red Brick Art Museum is presenting Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, a group exhibition curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh and featuring works of ten renowned artists from different corners of the Asian continent: Ho Tzu Nyen, Hu Xiaoyuan, Anish Kapoor, Tomoko Kashiki, Jawshing Arthur Liou, Taus Makhacheva, Park Chan-Kyong, Walid Raad, Chai Siris and Apichatpong Weeasethakul. The exhibition situates the works of these visionary artists between historical and contemporary systems of thinking, which allows the unexpected, the unknown and the mysterious to appear. The works are displayed along an imagined ritual path of concepts and forms, materials and mediums, gestures and actions, and they explore different registers of metamorphoses. This poetic journey leads us to question the certainty of narratives, provokes reflections and ideas ... More
Exhibition brings together 60 of Ken Kiff's paintings from the series 'The Sequence'
NORWICH.- This winter, the Sainsbury Centre is presenting an important reappraisal of the work of Ken Kiff (19352001), one of the most original artists working in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. In the first museum exhibition of Ken Kiff for almost 25 years, The Sequence focuses on a unique series of almost 200 acrylic paintings on paper, which he began in 1971 and continued to work on intermittently until his death. The Sainsbury Centres exhibition brings together 60 of The Sequence paintings, in the largest ever presentation of works from across the series. Hung sequentially, the installation reveals the evolution of Kiffs ideas from their tentative beginnings to the expansion of key themes as the series progressed. Kiff compared The Sequence to a musical symphony, structured by interconnected themes and rhythms. It was a construct through ... More
India Art Fair announces gallery and institutional participation for 2019 edition alongside new initiatives
NEW DELHI.- India Art Fair, the leading platform to discover modern and contemporary art from South Asia, announces the full list of participating galleries and programme highlights for the 2019 edition. Taking place from 31 January - 3 February 2019 in partnership with BMW Group India, India Art Fair 2019 will present 75 exhibitors from 24 Indian and international cities. Evolution and expansion of the events programme both on- and off-site will offer visitors unique access to the breadth and strength of Indias thriving visual art scene. The 2019 edition of India Art Fair will feature a diverse selection of contemporary art galleries from across India including Chatterjee & Lal, Jhaveri Contemporary, Galerie Isa, Project 88, Chemould Prescott Road, Sakshi Gallery and TARQ (all Mumbai); Exhibit 320, Nature Morte, Shrine Empire and Anant Art (all New Delhi); Kalakriti ... More
Exhibition at Kunstmuseen Krefeld explores the artistic dress around 1900 in fashion, art and society
KREFELD.- Taking the artistic reform dress as a starting point, the exhibition at the Kunstmuseen Krefeld investigates for the first time the complex interrelations between art, fashion, photography, and dance in the context of the "Reform" movement between 1900 and 1914. The interdisciplinary question and the latest research findings allow for new perspectives on this exciting time at the beginning of the 20th century. Restriction, ornament, and liberation are here the keywords that define not only the image of women at that time but also the newly emerging artistic disciplines and a different understanding of art. In August 1900, the first exhibition of artistic reform dresses in Germany was shown in Krefeld. Inspired by Friedrich Deneken, the founding director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, dress designs by renowned artists were displayed, amongst them Henry van ... More
National Museum of Qatar to open on March 28
DOHA.- Qatar Museums announced that the National Museum of Qatar, housed within a spectacular new building designed by architect Jean Nouvel, will open to the public on March 28, 2019, under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. The immersive and experiential NMoQ tells the story of Qatar and its people from more than 700 million years ago through to today, giving voice to Qatars rich heritage and culture and expressing a vibrant communitys aspirations for the future. The new museum embraces, as its centerpiece, the restored historic Palace of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani (1880-1957), son of the founder of modern Qatar: a building that in former times was both the home of the Royal Family and the seat of government, and was subsequently the site of the original National Museum. Jean ... More
First details of Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 programme announced
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture International announced the first details of its inaugural programme. The UKs largest sculpture festival will take place across Leeds and Wakefield from 22 June until 29 September 2019, and will present sculpture by artists from across the world. A celebration of sculpture in all its forms, Yorkshire Sculpture International is presented by four world-renowned cultural institutions based in Leeds and Wakefield the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This first festival builds upon Yorkshires rich history as the birthplace of pioneering sculptors, including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and as the home of this unique consortium of galleries and celebrated sculpture collections. Reflecting the curatorial theme put forward by British artist Phyllida Barlow that sculpture is the most an ... More
Octavia Art Gallery presents a selection of works by Eric Fischl
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery is presenting a selection of works from internationally acclaimed American painter and sculptor Eric Fischl. The exhibition includes the artists works in pinned Mylar, poured resin, unique watercolor, and cast glass sculpture. This is the first solo exhibition of Fischls work at the gallery. Eric Fischls extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He attended Phoenix College and earned his BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. Fischls suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between ... More
Exhibition at Hartware MedienKunstVerein deals with the link between women and technology
DORTMUND.- The exhibition Cmptr Grrrlz brings together more than 20 international artistic positions that negotiate the complex relationship between gender and technology in past and present. Computer Grlz deals with the link between women and technology from the first human computers to the current revival of technofeminist movements. An illustrated timeline with over 200 entries covers these developments from the 18th century to the present. Invited are artists, hackers, makers and researchers who are working on how to think differently about technology: by questioning the gender bias in big data and Artificial Intelligence, promoting an open and diversified Internet, and designing utopian technologies. Computer Grrrls is an exhibition by HMKV (Hartware MedienKunstVerein), Dortmund (DE), in coproduction with La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris ... More
The Dot Project opens the first solo presentation of London-based artist Clare Dudeney
LONDON.- The Dot Project is presenting Shapes of Being, the first solo presentation of London-based artist Clare Dudeney. Shapes of Being features abstract fabric collages, alongside a selection of chine collé monotype paintings, that the artist has developed since obtaining a Distinction in her MA at City & Guilds earlier this year. Working from the subconscious and visual memories, Dudeney embraces the everyday encounter with a blank sheet of paper and fabric. She allows the compositions to emerge from spontaneous action, breaking the sheet apart, painting each piece and reconstructing, like intricate puzzles. During this engagement, the artist focuses on the unexpected and semi-random, seeking to express multiple states of being. Through ripping and cutting of fabric and paper, Dudeney forms boundaries between interlocking ... More
Colorful, contemporary South African beadworks express story of tragedy, hope and healing
NORFOLK, VA.- Experience the color and shine of intricate beaded artworks in Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence. On view at the Chrysler Museum of Art from Oct. 18, 2018Feb. 24, 2019, the exhibition showcases a new form of textile art known as the ndwango and presents a story of rural South African women overcoming hardships and illness to achieve artistic significance and economic independence. Beadwork is a customary form of artistic expression for South African women and is passed down through the generations. Ubuhle Women was established by Ntombephi Ntobela and Bev Gibson in 1999 on a former sugar plantation in KwaZulu-Natal. It created employment for rural women using the traditional skills many of them already possessed. The plain black fabric that serves as the foundation for the Ubuhle Womens exquisite ... More
London Art Fair announces list of exhibitors and curated sections for 2019 edition
LONDON.- London Art Fair, in association with IG, will return to the UK capital from 16 - 20 January to open the 2019 international art calendar. Connecting the best galleries from around the world with both seasoned and aspiring collectors, London Art Fair provides a unique opportunity to discover and champion exceptional modern and contemporary art from the 20th century to the present day. Sitting alongside the main fair, London Art Fair provides expert insights into innovative curatorial concepts in contemporary art through its critically-acclaimed curated sections: Art Projects, offering a platform for the next generation of artists and gallerists, and Photo50, showcasing current trends in contemporary photographic practice. In addition, London Art Fair continues to champion and support regional museums through its annual Museum Partnership, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian photographer and architect El Lissitzky died December 30, 1941. Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 - December 30, 1941) was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian avant-garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. In this image: El Lissitzky, "Proun, Street Decoration Design", 1921. Photo Peter Cox.
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