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Weeping Crabapple, 2009. Thirty-one color woodcut from eighteen woodblocks on handmade paper, 25 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. Helen Frankenthaler Foundation © 2017 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Pace Editions, Inc., New York.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- No Rules: Helen Frankenthaler Woodcuts, on view exclusively at the Clark Art Institute July 1September 24, explores Helen Frankenthalers (American, 19282011) inventive and groundbreaking approach to the woodcut. Seventeen large-scale prints, on loan primarily from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and the Williams College Museum of Art, present the full range of Frankenthalers experimentation with the medium from the 1970s through 2000s. The exhibition explores the artists collaborations with printers, publishers, woodcarvers, and papermakers that pushed the medium in new directions. In 1994, during an interview with printer/publisher Ken Tyler, Frankenthaler stated, There are no rules, that is one thing I say about every medium, every picture . . . that is how art is born, that is how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules, that is what invention is about. No Rules ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hua Tunan from China puts the final touches on the fourth mural of the 20x21EUG Mural Project in Eugene, Oregon. 20x21EUG is an initiative of the City of Eugene Cultural Service's Public Art Program to create 20 or more world-class outdoor murals in Eugene between now and the 2021 IAAF World Championships. The project with culminate with an exhibition at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer's Museum of Art in 2021. For more information, visit 20x21EUG.com
| Rijksmuseum presents twelve monumental sculptures by the French artist Jean Dubuffet | | The McMichael delivers 'love letter' to Tom Thomson and Canada with new exhibition | | "O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism" opens at Art Gallery of New South Wales |
Jean Dubuffet, Monument au fantôme (19691971) Fondation Dubuffet, Paris. ©2017 Fondation Dubuffet, Paris / Pictoright, Netherlands. Photo Johannes Schwartz.
AMSTERDAM.- A parade of tragicomic characters, a tower with stories and a brilliant white tree can all be admired this summer in the Rijksmuseum Gardens. From 1 July, twelve monumental sculptures by the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) are on display. The sculptures, characterised by the recognisable bright white, red and blue patterns, come from Paris, Lisbon, New York and London. The exhibition runs from 1 July to 1 October 2017. The exhibition Dubuffet in the Rijksmuseum Gardens has been created in close collaboration with the Fondation Dubuffet in Paris and curated by Alfred Pacquement, former director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Dubuffet in the Rijksmuseum Gardens is the fifth summer exhibition in a series of open-air exhibitions, made possible in part by BankGiro Loterij participants and ... More | |
Tom Thomson (1877 ‑ 1917), Smoke Lake 1915 (detail). Oil on split panel marouflaged onto plywood, 21.5 x 26.9 cm. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Patterson. McMichael Canadian Art Collection.
KLEINBURG, ON.- The McMichael Canadian Art Collection presents a major exhibition featuring the works of one of Ontarios greatest painters, Tom Thomson (1877-1917), and feminist art pioneer Joyce Wieland (1931-1998). Passion Over Reason: Tom Thomson and Joyce Wieland opened to the public this Canada Day, followed by a special weekend festival starting on July 8, 2017, which will mark the centennial of Tom Thomsons death. This commemorative exhibition, debuting on the nations 150th birthday, runs until November 19, 2017 and spans four galleries at the McMichael. Tom Thomson, a contemporary of the Group of Seven whose love for nature is demonstrated through his landscape paintings, died mysteriously on Canoe Lake at the young age of 39. Passion Over Reason takes ... More | |
Georgia O'Keeffe, Petunia No. 2, 1924. Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 76.2 cm. Georgia OKeeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and Gerald and Kathleen Peters © Georgia OKeeffe Museum.
SYDNEY.- On view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, OKeeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism, features iconic works of trailblazing modernist artists, American Georgia OKeeffe and Australian artists Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith. OKeeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism is presented by the Art Gallery of NSW, Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Queensland Art Gallery in partnership with the Georgia OKeeffe Museum, Santa Fe. The Art Gallery of NSW is the final Australian destination for this ground breaking multi-venue exhibition which draws together around 30 works by each artist from the breadth of their careers. Cody Hartley, senior director, collections and interpretation at the Georgia OKeeffe Museum, Santa Fe, said the Museum is thrilled to partner with the Art ... More |
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| Monika Sosnowska's first Los Angeles solo exhibition opens at Hauser & Wirth | | The best of 300 years of British drawings and watercolors brought together for the first time | | The Hall Art Foundation opens largest Antony Gormley exhibition held in Germany to date |
Monika Sosnowska, Stairs, 2016. Steel and paint, 115 x 1060 x 175 cm / 45 1/4 x 417 3/8 x 68 7/8 in. Installation view, Monika Sosnowska The Contemporary Austin, 2016. Commissioned by The Contemporary Austin for the exhibition Monika Sosnowska, 2016. Photo: Brian Fitzsimmons.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting Monika Sosnowska, the first Los Angeles solo exhibition for the noted Polish artist. The exhibition features a new body of work that responds to characteristic elements of existing 1960s Polish architecture in sculptural installations that reflect and riff upon history and personal experience. Wrought from industrial materials and objects, Sosnowskas works sample various architectural details that she idiosyncratically warps in order to immerse viewers in environments that are both uncannily familiar and disconcertingly surreal. This tension in Sosnowskas work stems from the ways in which she deftly draws from an artistic and architectural vocabulary from ... More | |
John Sell Cotman, British, 17821842, A Ruined House, ca. 180710. Watercolour over graphite on paper. The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
PRINCETON, NJ.- More than 100 rarely seen treasures from the Ashmolean Museums world renowned collection of drawing and watercolors, dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries, are on view this summer at the Princeton University Art Museum. Showcasing celebrated artists such as William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J.M.W. Turner, John Everett Millais, Aubrey Beardsley and David Hockney, Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum charts the compelling history of British art, history and culture through the lens of drawing the most intimate and spontaneous expression of the creative process. Through portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, narrative scenes and book illustrations, the exhibition provides a rich and deeply varied survey of the drawing tradition in Britain. Great British ... More | |
Installation View Antony Gormley: Being. Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum Derneburg, Germany © Hall Art Foundation Photo: Heinrich Hecht.
DERNEBURG.- The Hall Art Foundation announces an exhibition by acclaimed British artist Antony Gormley being held at its Schloss Derneburg location. Gormley is internationally lauded for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. This is the largest Gormley exhibition held in Germany to date, bringing together works on paper, large-scale installations, and indoor and monumental outdoor sculpture that span the artists sculptural journey, from the early 1980s to site-specific works created this year. The core of Gormleys sculptural thinking the relationship between mass and space, carried through skin, grid and volume can be seen on the ground floor. The first work, from the series Learning to See III (1993), is a sculpture of embodied consciousness: an alert, aware, erect body. It has one closed, continuous surface. ... More |
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| "Our Friends Electric, Adventures in Robotics, AI and Other Stories": A new exhibition in QUAD, Derby | | US debut of major Mohamed Bourouissa exhibition presents works inspired by local community | | United States returns looted royal seals to South Korea |
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: HARR1 - My Robot Companion. Photo: Alex May
DERBY.- A new exhibition in QUAD, Derby this summer explores themes relating to robots, artificial intelligence, online networks and synthetic biology. Our Friends Electric, Adventures in Robotics, AI and Other Stories features artists: Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach, boredomresearch (Vicky Isley & Paul Smith), Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Joey Holder, Alex Pearl and Stanza. The exhibition features film works; robotic sculptures and automata, and prints/ drawings produced by robots/ AI life-forms. Our Friends Electric highlights our hopes and fears for a present and future increasingly shaped by technological advance in the wake of various recent news reports, concerned with the idea of robots and AI replacing humans in the workplace. Although we fear apocalyptic scenarios of AI machines rebelling against us, advances in robotics and synthetic biological research also point to a bright future free of disease, ... More | |
Mohamed Bourouissa, Zamer, 2016. Black and white silver print on car body part, 133 x 104 x 9 cm © ADAGP Mohamed Bourouissa. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Mohamed Bourouissas first major solo exhibition in Philadelphia is being presented at the Barnes Foundation June 30October 2. The exhibition brings together approximately 60 works inspired by the French-Algerian artists first project in the US, which focused on a North Philadelphia communitys efforts at neighborhood revitalization and youth empowerment. Mohamed Bourouissa: Urban Riders presents this project for the first time in the US, providing a forum to reflect on issues of civic engagement. Born in Algeria in 1978, Mohamed Bourouissa is internationally acclaimed for works that address contemporary issues around culture, race, and class. His pieces grapple with the racial and socioeconomic tensions of Pariss banlieuessuburbs synonymous with low- ... More | |
This picture taken on June 30, 2017 and released by South Korea's Cultural Heritage Administration via Yonhap shows Kim Yeon-Soo (L), director of the National Palace Museum of Korea, and South Korean lawmaker An Min-Suk (C) posing with Thomas Homan (R), acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during a handover ceremony of two ancient Korean royal seals at South Korea's Embassy in Washington. YONHAP / AFP.
SEOUL (AFP).- South Korean President Moon Jae-In is returning from an official visit to Washington with two ancient royal seals looted during the Korean War, reports said Saturday. The repatriation of the Chosun dynasty antiques, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, comes after years of campaigning by the South Korean government, which said they were stolen during the turbulent 1950-53 war. Moon received the seals during a ceremony in Washington during a visit to the US Friday and was due to arrive in South Korea with them on Sunday, Yonhap news agency said. The Chosun dynasty, who cultivated ... More |
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| The legacy of all-year blooms in Poland's painted village | | Columbus Museum of Art opens exhibition of Contemporary art and photography in the USSR and Russia | | Brazilian port where slaves arrived close to UNESCO status |
This file photo taken on June 14, 2017 shows Danuta Dymon painting traditional flower patterns on her fence in Zalipie, southern Poland. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP.
ZALIPIE (AFP).- Danuta Dymon is sitting by the side of the road, painting flowers on her fence. The 70-year-old has been at it since the sun came up, dressed from head to toe in clothes also displaying her brushstroke. "As you can see I'm covered in flowers," she said, adding neon green leaves to the fluorescent orange and pink garland spanning the fence's brick base in front of her home in Zalipie, in southern Poland. Dymon is known around the farming village for having painted flowers on virtually everything under her roof: the ceiling, walls, curtains, pillows, kettle, wooden spoons, boiler, even the toilet. She took to the paintbrush with particular gusto but she is not alone: for over a century, Zalipie women -- and the occasional man -- have been decorating the inside and outside of their homes with folk art. Last year, some 25,000 tourists from countries as far away as Japan and the United States visited the village of 700 people to see the bright, cheerful flowers that ... More | |
Igor Moukhin, Leningrad, from the series THE CITY, 1986. Photograph, 5 3/16 x 3 7/16 inches. Collection of Neil K. Rector.
COLUMBUS, OH.- Coinciding with the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Columbus Museum of Art presents Red Horizon: Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010 on view June 15 through September 24, 2017. This timely exhibition is drawn from two facets of Neil K. Rectors world-class art collection: Soviet and Russian photography from the 1970s to the early 1990s, and the work of Moscow-based unofficial artists who came to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Combining more than 300 works from these two aspects of the collection, Red Horizonoffers fresh perspective on the art and life of this period, and suggests how creativity and critical thinking manifest themselves under the most difficult social and ideological circumstances. The Museum is honored to have organized the first-ever presentation of this renowned collection of postwar Soviet and Russian art, said CMA Executive Director Nannette V. ... More | |
View of the Valongo Wharf, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 28, 2017. Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- The worn paving stones discovered under a thick layer of modern concrete in Rio de Janeiro don't look like much at first. But it was here that some million slaves from Africa took their first steps in Brazil. "It's a unique memorial, containing the last remaining vestiges of the slaves' arrival," said anthropologist Milton Guran. Next week, the UN cultural body UNESCO will consider whether to award what's known as Valongo Wharf world heritage status, winning protection as a site of global importance. The wharf, or what remains of it, would join sites like the Taj Mahal in India and the ruined Inca city of Machu Picchu. UNESCO, which is meeting between July 2-12 in Krakow, Poland, already chose Rio de Janeiro as a heritage site in 2012, recognizing the city's unique combination of landscapes between mountains and the sea. For Valongo, the honor would make it a twin with Ile de Goree, a small island in Dakar harbor that was chosen in 1978 as the emblem of the departure points for slaves ... More |
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Laguna Art Museum opens "Ben Messick: Memories of Los Angeles"
LAGUNA BEACH, CA.- Laguna Art Museum opened Ben Messick: Memories of Los Angeles with a selection of works on paper and paintings. Ben Messick (1891-1981) is celebrated for his images of daily life in Los Angeles during the years of the Great Depression and World War II. He grew up in the Missouri Ozarks, served in France in World War I, studied at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles from 1925 to 1930, and later taught there. Through most of the 1930s and 1940s Messick lived in an apartment at 2600 West 8th Street in Los Angeles, and everyday scenes in the nearby MacArthur Park (originally Westlake Park) were among his favorite subjects. Other happy hunting-grounds were Pershing Square and Olvera Street. The foundation of Messicks art was drawing. He was a superb draftsman who could work either from direct observation ... More
"Brenda Biondo: Play" comes to the San Diego Museum of Art
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art is presenting Brenda Biondo: Play, on view from July 1, 2017 through January 7, 2018. Colorado-based photographer Brenda Biondo is best known for her images focusing on constructed abstractions, conservation and land-based issues. Brenda Biondo: Play brings together 25 photographs from two bodies of work. The first series, Playground, is a collection of contemporary photographs of childrens playgrounds from the 1920s to the 1970s. After visiting a modern playground with her children and observing the striking differences from the play equipment of her childhood, Biondo was inspired to capture the nostalgic cultural artifacts that shaped generations of Americans in an effort to preserve their place in history. Today these classic playground structures are considered a safety hazard, and Biondo estimates ... More
Exhibition at Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig explores issues of flight, loss and belonging
LEIPZIG.- Stateless is the first German solo exhibition by NY-based artist Shimon Attie since he produced The Writing on the Wall in Berlin in the 90s. This exhibition explores issues of flight, loss and belonging at a time when many immigrants are seeking refuge in Europe and are at risk of being banned from other parts of the Western world. Stateless also involves other communities, who lived, or are still living, in a situation of limbo, whether their predicament was caused by an ongoing conflict or the revocation of their citizenship and identity. Stateless is named after a video installation in the exhibition, which tackles the experience of Syrian refugees who have fled their war-torn country and undertaken life-threatening journeys to Europe. More broadly, this artwork addresses the reality that human existence is subjected to the uncontrollable forces of life and death. ... More
De La Warr Pavilion presents a series of over 100 collages from found postcards by Roy Voss
BEXHILL ON SEA.- In this exhibition, Roy Voss has created a series of over 100 collages from found postcards, mainly sent between the early 1960s and the mid-1980s. To make the collages, Voss cuts out a single word from the back of the postcard and re-inserts it into the image on the front. Combined, the word and the image offer a short, open and ambiguous narrative, shifting perceptions of an everyday image to something entirely different. Sent through a sense of duty, but with love and a need to communicate and share, the mass-produced cards are of a different era. The artist finds is something melancholic about the brief, blue biro messages on the back, as well as tenderness and an attempt at intimacy; a postcard is both intensely personal and private, but available for any number of people to look at and read. These postcards have been chosen ... More
Exhibition highlights the Mohammed Afkhami Collection of Contemporary Iranian Art
HOUSTON, TX.- In July, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary PersiansThe Mohammed Afkhami Collection, profiling the distinguished collection of financier and philanthropist Mohammed Afkhami. Featuring 23 Iranian-born artists across three generations, the exhibition reveals the complex histories and identities of Iranians today. These works range across a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Curated by Fereshteh Daftari for the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, with the partnership of Mohammed Afkhami and the Afkhami Foundation, the exhibition is on view in Houston from July 1 to September 24, 2017. Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet highlights the unique evolution of contemporary art both in Iran and by Iranian artists who have left their native country. Independent curator and scholar Fereshteh ... More
Metro Pictures opens a two-part exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- As a part of CONDO Complex New York, a gallery swap between New York galleries and national and international partners, Metro Pictures hosts Leo Xus two-part exhibition A New Ballardian Vision. The show brings together a selection of works that reflect recent social, technological and environmental developments through the lens of author J.G. Ballards (19302009) writings. Xu conceived the exhibition as two distinct chapters; the first features Metro Pictures artists Nina Beier, Camille Henrot, Martin Kippenberger, Oliver Laric, Robert Longo, Trevor Paglen, Jim Shaw and Cindy Sherman. The second chapter focuses on a younger generation of Chinese artists represented by Leo Xu Projects, including aaajiao, Chen Wei, Cheng Ran, Cui Jie, Li Qing, Liu Shiyuan and Pixy Liao. In Chapter One, a recent untitled painting by Jim ... More
Yooma Hotel by Daniel Buren and Ora Ito opens in Paris
PARIS.- Ora Ito is responsible for the architectural and interior design of the new Yooma hotel concept with the complicity of Daniel Buren. Located on the Front de Seine with the Eiffel Tower very close by, the building, designed by Ora Ito and permeated by Daniel Buren, summarises the unique setting provided by this Parisian district with its twenty or so towers, typical of the seventies, extending over a paved area. A cinegenic landscape of aluminium and concrete (Wim Wenders, Henri Verneuil, Michel Gondry and Claude Lelouch filmed here), primary materials that the two creators have embraced in reconstructing this former office building at the invitation of Pierre Beckrich, the instigator of Yooma and a great admirer of Le Corbusiers vision. Cité Radieuse designed like a vertical village is the link between the instigator/promoter and the designer. Yooma just like ... More
Kunsthalle Bremen opens exhibition of works by Fernando Bryce
BREMEN.- Fernando Bryce, who was born in Lima in 1965 and now lives and works in New York, has long been one of South Americas leading contemporary artists. In his group of works he reflects on international and geopolitical events of the twentieth century. He culls archives for print material which he then reproduces using his own slower method of ink-on-paper drawings. He is less interested in reconstructing history than in revealing ideologically-loaded imagery and the power strategies used in print media and films. This exhibition presents his most recent cycle, which explores Bremens colonial history and the its colonial revisionist tendencies after 1914. While Bryce addresses a lengthy historical process of several decades in his series of work Unforgotten Land, he focused on more limited periods of time in his earlier works on colonialism. The exhibition ... More
Exhibition at Lucien Terras draws inspiration from Nature and the representation of animals
NEW YORK, NY.- Put Me In the Zoo is a group exhibition titled in reference to Dr Seuss book it brings together five artists who draw inspiration from Nature and the representation of animals and open their work to the wide range of questions associated with the predicament and reality of wildlife. The exhibition is organized by painters Ann Pibal and Suzanne McClelland who have an abstract practice far remote from the representation of natural life. The work of Ann Pibal engages the history of abstraction and constructivism. The small scale of her paintings on aluminum can assert a feminist stance against male appropriation of abstraction. Pibal explores phenomenons linked to synesthesia where lines and color lead to secondary cognitive pathways. In a different approach but also rooted in the questioning of systems of signification and sensory exchanges, Suzanne ... More
Artworks by Anna Coleman Ladd, Jurij Solovij, Gam Klutier, others at Bruneau & Co. auction
CRANSTON, RI.- A mens Patek Philippe platinum perpetual calendar chronograph watch, a large neoclassical bronze sundial sculpture by Anna Coleman Ladd (Am., 1878-1939), and an Expressionist rendition of the Pieta by modern artist Jurij Solovij (Am./Ukraine, 1921-2007) will all be part of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Fine Art & Jewelry Auction on Saturday, July 22nd. The 352-lot sale, starting at 12 noon Eastern time, will be held live in Bruneau & Co.s gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, as well as online, via Bidlive.Bruneauandco.com, Invaluable.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken. It will be preceded at 10 am by a 150+-lot live-only DiscoverIt sale (no online bidding). Categories will include fine art, decorative art, Asian art, sterling silver, cars and motorcycles. It will be our usual eclectic mix ... More
Shubbak: A window on contemporary Arab culture starts
LONDON.- Shubbak, Londons festival of contemporary Arab culture, has become a key event in the arts calendar of the UK and the Arab World, and 2017 will be the 4th edition of this biennial festival. It returns with a wide, diverse, exciting and thought-provoking programme, celebrating extraordinary artistic skills looking imaginatively to the future, whilst reflecting on the fragility, resilience and challenges of artists in times of crisis. Shubbak grew indirectly out of the Arab Spring in 2011 and now engages with the turbulent legacy of that period to bring to audiences the hopes, ambitions and aspirations of artists and performers from across the entire region. At the Young Vic Taha by Palestinian actor Amer Hlehel, charts the lyrical life story of one of Palestines most eminent poets, Taha Muhammad Ali while at Sadlers Wells Syrian dancer and choreographer Mithkal ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Welsh garden designer Ralph Hancock was born July 02, 1893. Ralph Hancock (2 July 1893 - 30 August 1950) was a Welsh landscape gardener and author. Hancock built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known - the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the Rockefeller Center in New York, the garden at Twyn-yr-Hydd House in Margam and the rock and water garden he built for Princess Victoria at Coppins, Iver, England. In this image: Rockefeller Center English Roof gardens - circa 1935.
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