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Gustav Klimt (18621918), The Dancer (detail), 191617 (unfinished). Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Neue Galerie New York is presenting Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele: 1918 Centenary. The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of two of the greatest Austrian artists of the twentieth century. Although born nearly thirty years apart, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918) both tragically died in 1918the same year that the Austro-Hungarian Empire ceased to exist following its defeat in World War I. Over the intervening century, the works of Klimt and Schiele have come to define the fertile creativity that marked the so-called joyous apocalypse, a term used to connote the waning days of Habsburg rule. This show pays tribute to the groundbreaking achievements of Klimt and Schiele, two masterful artists who are key figures in the collection of the Neue Galerie New York. Among the masterworks by Klimt in the exhibition are Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), Park at Kammer Castle ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Dancer Jonathan Eden from MOMIX performs a scene from ""Man Fan" (Botanica)" during a dress rehearsal before opening night at the Joyce Theater in New York July 24, 2018. MOMIX, the company of dance illusionists under the direction of Moses Pendleton is at The Joyce Theater in New York City from July 24 - August 12. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP
| Doodle & Disegno: Blain/Southern Berlin opens a group exhibition | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg opens an exhibition of works by Joseph Beuys dating from the 1940s and early 1950s | | Captivating narrative installation explores Vincent van Goghs inner life |
Doodle & Disegno, 7 July - 15 September 2018, Blain/Southern Berlin, Photo Trevor Good.
BERLIN.- A blank sheet of paper is an open space where artists might conceive ground-breaking ideas or where children might doodle with artless abandon. Paper provides our first experience with both the possibility for abstract thought and primitive mark-making, and the versatility of paper makes it important for the practice of countless artists past and present. Doodle & Disegno is a group exhibition that gathers over 100 works on paper to demonstrate that whether an elaborate drawing in pencil or a quick splash of ink, a piece of paper is an invitation to create a vast range of thought and emotion. When Avigdor Arikha took up observational life drawing after years of pursuing modernist abstraction, he turned to paper first, drawing exclusively in pencil and ink before he tried to paint. For Amy Feldman, paper is a laboratory of spontaneous thought and a playground for experimentation, and she often draws with ink, marker or ... More | |
Joseph Beuys, Ofen (1950) mit Torso (1948), 1948-1950. Wood, cardboard, plaster, concrete, 31 x 7,2 x 8,3 cm. © Joseph Beuys Estate. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- After the comprehensive London exhibition curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac now presents a small, intimate show of early works by Joseph Beuys in the gallery's Annex in Salzburg. On display are sculptures and drawings dating from the latter half of the 1940s and the early 1950s. All the works are subsequent to his enrolment at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, at the age of 25. The exhibition centres on a series of five wall-sculptures referring to the iconography of the cross, showing a synthesis of Christian and pagan motifs typical of Beuys' work, three primitivistic, idol-like female figures, and the bronze Hirschkuh mit Jungem [doe with calf] (1948) which, like all these works, highlights motifs which were to become essential in Beuys' uvre in subsequent ... More | |
Van Gogh Dreams, © Maartje Strijbis, Van Gogh Museum.
AMSTERDAM.- From 27 July 2018 to 13 January 2019, the Van Gogh Museum presents Van Gogh Dreams: A journey into his mind, a captivating narrative installation exploring Vincent van Goghs inner life. Light, colour and audio combine to create a sensory experience based on Van Goghs turbulent time in Arles in the South of France a period that had a major impact on him both as an artist and as a person. Axel Rüger (Director of the Van Gogh Museum): Blending storytelling with aesthetics, technology and craftsmanship allows us to make Van Goghs passion tangible and accessible to a wide audience. Van Gogh Dreams is a narrative installation that transports visitors to Van Goghs period in Arles (1888-1889). Van Gogh departed Paris and headed to the town in the South of France looking to realise his dream: to create new art alive with light and colour, and establish a community of like-minded artists. The st ... More |
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| Primary school pupil's rare beetle find is snapped up by Museum of Natural History | | Exhibition draws a parallel between the logic of the Mesopotamian image and contemporary works | | Exhibition presents an extraordinary group of more than 150 recent finds from the Valley of the Temples |
Ten-year-old Sarah Thomas from Abbey Woods Academy found the rare False Darkling Beetle in her school grounds as part of the Museums Project Insect visit.
OXFORD.- A primary school pupil from Oxfordshire has discovered a rare beetle in her school grounds that has now become part of the collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History. It is the first beetle of its kind to be added to the historically-important British insect collections since the 1950s. Ten-year-old Sarah Thomas of Abbey Woods Academy in Berinsfield found the beetle while taking part in the Museums Project Insect initiative. The 5mm specimen was later placed under a microscope and identified as a False Darkling Beetle by Darren Mann, a professional entomologist and head of the Museums Life Collections, who was visiting the school with the team. Its Anisoxya fuscula, which is rated as Nationally Scarce in Great Britain, says Darren Mann. We seldom see these outside old forest habitats and this is the first beetle ... More | |
Ei Arakawa, How to DISappear in America (Blue Flag 2), 2016. LED strips on hand-dyed fabric, video transmitter, power supply, SD card 104.14 x 142.24 cm Unique.
ROCKPORT, ME.- The Infinite Image is an exhibition that brings together five impressions made from Mesopotamian cylinder seals (c.3000- c.300 BCE) with five contemporary painters who use diverse strategies to resuscitate, reactivate, and recombine art-historical images & motifs. Employing sources from the late Palaeolithic, to Mesoamerica to the Renaissance and proto-Modernism, the art-historical image is cajoled from the vertical, rectilinear, historical plane to the circular, social, phenomenological. The exhibition takes its title from a book by Zainab Bahrani (Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art & Archaeology at Columbia University NY) that proposes a new reading of Mesopotamian Art. The text demonstrates how Mesopotamia was home to an aesthetic realm defined by objects that transcend time in order to ... More | |
Gorgon mask, female face, end 4th - beginning 3rd century BC.
MILAN.- The Francesco Messina Studio Museum hosts an extraordinary group of more than 150 recent finds from the Valley of the Temples, next to pieces from the Pietro Griffo Museum of Agrigento, the collections of the Culture Department of Agrigento and the collection of ancient art pieces of Francesco Messina, preserved by the Archaeology Department of Milan, in connection with the classic works by the Sicilian sculptor. The exhibition - titled "L'Eco del Classico. La Valle dei Templi di Agrigento allo Studio Museo Francesco Messina di Milano/Echo of the Classic. The Valley of the Temples of Agrigento at Francesco Messina Studio Museum of Milan" - is on display from 20 July to 21 October. It is curated by Maria Fratelli, Giuseppe Parello and Maria Serena Rizzo, and stands out for its scientific and cultural approach, due to the support of important research institutes. The event is made by the Council ... More |
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| Palazzo Reale di Milano opens the first major retrospective of Agostino Bonalumi | | Chris Burden's 'Scale Model of the Solar System' to be presented at Seattle Art Fair + Beyond | | Exhibition at Ingleby Gallery celebrates mankind's relationship with space |
Installation view, Bonalumi 1958-2013 at Palazzo Reale, Milan. ALTO//PIANO Agostino Osio photography.
MILAN.- Palazzo Reale di Milano is presenting the first major retrospective of Agostino Bonalumi (1935-2013), since his death, in the artists city of Milan. The exhibition opened to the public on 13 July and continues until 30 September 2018, admission is free. Bonalumi 1958 2013 has been curated by Marco Meneguzzo, and promoted by the Comune di Milano Cultura, Palazzo Reale, Museo del Novecento, in collaboration with the Archivio Bonalumi. It presents approximately 120 works by the Milanese artist, spanning from his debut in 1958 with Enrico Castellani and Piero Manzoni, until his demise in 2013. It examines Bonalumis connections with major European movements and the renewed international appreciation that the artists innovative works have provoked. As the most complete exhibition to date dedicated to Bonalumi, it aims to illustrate his creative path through the polyhedral and illuminate his ... More | |
Chris Burden, Scale Model of The Solar System, 1983 (Detail). Plastic, steel ball bearings, plexiglas. Dimensions variable © 2018 Chris Burden / licensed by The Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jeff McLane. Courtesy Gagosian.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Fair announced an additional installation by legendary conceptual artist Chris Burden has been added to this years on-site programming. Presented by Gagosian, Burdens 1983 work Scale Model of the Solar System invites fairgoers and the local Seattle community on a fun, artistic scavenger hunt around the city. The artwork will be on view during the fairs run from August 2-5 at CenturyLink Field and beyond. Burdens Scale Model of the Solar System begins in Gagosians Booth #A09 at the Seattle Art Fair, where a model of the sun (13 inches in diameter) will hang from the ceiling. Using the scale of 1 inch : 4.2 trillion inches, display cases around the fair will contain three other planetsMercury, Venus, and Eartheach in proportion ... More | |
David Austen, Smoking Moon, 2006. Film, DVD projection, 13 minutes. Courtesy of the Artist and Ingleby, Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH.- Ingleby Gallery is presenting an exhibition celebrating mankind's relationship with space and our enduring attempts to fathom the unfathomable. In partnership with the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Research Collections, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Edinburgh Art Festival. It is fifty years since the release of Stanley Kubrick's epic science fiction adventure 2001 A Space Odyssey. Based on a story by Arthur C. Clarke, it came to define the space race generations imaginative approach to the possibilities of a shared universe. 2018 is also the fiftieth anniversary of a small photograph taken by Apollo 8 crewman William Anders, sometimes regarded as the most influential photograph of all time. It appeared ubiquitously on the front page of newspapers around the world in December 1968, depicting Earthrise, a small blue planet our home planet, as Anders described it, rising up above the st ... More |
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| Portraits of 100 pioneering women of the 21st century on view at The Royal College of Art | | International Fine Print Dealers Association announces the 2018 exhibitors for the Fine Print Fair | | The New Museum presents the first American survey exhibition of the work of John Akomfrah |
Dany Cotton, First Woman Commissioner of the London Fire Brigade.
LONDON.- A decade-long project to capture the portraits of 100 pioneering women of the 21st century culminates in a striking new exhibition at The Royal College of Art this summer (20 July 22 August). The exhibition, appropriately titled First Women UK was created to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which granted the vote to women over 30-years old and paved the way for universal suffrage. Anita Corbin first sprang to prominence in the early Eighties with her series of informal portraits of young women, Visible Girls and went on to become a highly-regarded reportage and portrait photographer. Now, Anita unveiled her empowering 10-year project documenting 100 pioneering women of the 21st century. First Women UK trains its lens on ordinary women achieving extraordinary things in a variety of disciplines, including sport, media, the military, faith, business, arts, music ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, Stehende Frau, 1987. Woodcut. Edition of 15. Courtesy of Galerie Sabine Knust.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Fine Print Dealers Association announced the list of exhibitors for this years Fine Art Print Fair. The annual fair takes place on October 25-28 at the River Pavilion, Javits Center, with a benefit preview the evening of October 24. The Fine Art Print Fair is the most celebrated art fair dedicated to the artistic medium of printmaking -- works of graphic art that have been conceived by the artist to be realized as an original work of art, rather than a copy of a work in another medium. For more than 30 years, the IFPDA has brought together a passionate community of followers -- seasoned and new collectors alike -- for whom the Fine Art Print Fair is a major highlight of the year. The Fine Art Print Fair will showcase exceptional works spanning old master to contemporary, unique masterworks to new editions from eighty-one exhibitors from the IFPDAs esteemed roster of ... More | |
Vertigo Sea, 2015. Installation view: John Akomfrah: Signs of Empire, New Museum, New York, 2018. Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery. Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Since the early 1980s, Akomfrahs moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora, both in the UK and around the world. Akomfrahs work initially came to prominence in the early 1980s as part of Black Audio Film Collective, a group of seven artists founded in 1982 in response to the 1981 Brixton riots. The collective produced a number of films notable for their mix of archival and found footage, interviews and realist depictions of contemporary England, and layered sound collages. In works like Handsworth Songs (1986), Akomfrah and Black Audio outlined the political and economic forces leading to social unrest throughout England. Akomfrah and Black Audios works were remarkable for their trenchant political inquiries and ... More |
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Michael Golz wins first prize of euward7
MUNICH.- On Saturday, 21 July, the Augustinum Stiftung (Munich) presented the winners of the seventh euward, the European art award for painting and graphic arts by artist with mental disabilites. Up to 9 September 2018, the euward exhibition at Buchheim Museum in Bernried shows 130 artworks by the three award winners, the winner of the special award and all nominated artists. Joachim Gengenbach, chairman of Augustinum Stiftung, presented the awards to Michael Golz (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Ota Prouza, (Brtníky, Czech Republic), Clemens Wild (Bern, Switzerland) and Time ter Wal (Almere, Netherlands). Shining a light on art: That is the aim of euward. Every time we try to find new ways to broaden the niche in which this kind of artists work, Gengenbach said during the gala. I thank all artists who stimulate, charm, inspire, colour and enrich ... More
The 7th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale launches
ECHIGO-TSUMARI REGION.- Since inaugurated in 2000, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale has been held every three years throughout the Echigo-Tsumari region (Tokamachi City and Tsunan Town), known for its heavy snowfall and distinctive Satoyama agricultural landscape, which has been suffering rapid ageing and depopulation. Under the overarching principle of "human beings are part of nature", the festival aims to reveal the latent values of the region using art as a catalyst, communicate these to the world, and find a way to revitalize the region. The inventor of the festival, Fram Kitagawa has been consistently acting as the general director, and for the 7th edition, about 160 new works have been created in addition to over 200 existing works created by global artists such as Marina Abramovic, Christian Boltanski, Cai Guo-Qiang, Anthony Gormley, Ilya ... More
Exhibition draws 102,544 visitors to the North Carolina Museum of Art
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Arts exhibition You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, which ran Saturday, April 7, through Sunday, July 22, 2018, attracted 102,544 visitors from all 100 North Carolina counties and all 50 states, plus Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition the NCMA hosted visitors from Great Britain, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, and Canada. You Are Here is the best-attended exhibition of contemporary art in the Museums history. You Are Here invited visitors to become part of the art, so we are thrilled that so many people literally brought this exhibition to life, says Museum Director Lawrence J. Wheeler. Its clear that immersive art experiences capture viewers hearts and minds through video, sound, and light, so we look ... More
Solo show by the Ivorian artist Armand Boua on view at Galerie Cécile Fakhoury
DAKAR.- Galerie Cécile Fakhoury - Dakar is presenting Brobrosseurs, a solo show by the Ivorian artist Armand Boua. In Nouchi, a popular slang spoken in the streets of Abidjan, a brobrosseur is a resourceful person able to navigate the though realities of street life in order to survive. Working as pickers one day and as carters the next, Brobrosseurs are the various characters and destinies Armand Boua gives shape to in his paintings. To explore an exhibition by Armand Boua is to dive into the vibrant and at times violent contemporary street life of Abidjan. Abstract silhouettes are welcoming us. They will accompany us from one everyday life scene to another. Their faces lack details, nevertheless they stare at us intensely and stand before us with the placidity of those who have seen and lived everything. Yet, some of them are youngster, just out of their childhood ... More
John Rowe and Manuel Mendive collaborate in new exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
BRONX, NY.- John Rowe, award-winning photographer and documentary filmmaker, and Manuel Mendive, Cuba's most renowned artist, collaborated on an exhibition of photographs, paintings and sculpture on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts through November 4, 2018. The two artists met in Cuba. Rowe saw Mendive leaving a performance of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, mutual friends connected them and Rowe was invited to Mendives home/studio outside of Havana, Manto Blanca. After seeing Rowes book OMO VALLEY Mendive invited Rowe to work together with a folk dance group in the rainforest of Cuba. The exhibition at the Bronx Museum - Manuel Mendive: Nature, Spirit and Body contains their joint work. John Rowe has spent decades photographing and filming people and cultures worldwide, including in Southeast Asia, India, Mongolia, China, ... More
Liz Glynn's Open House reimagines a Gilded Age ballroom and invites you in
BOSTON, MASS.- Public art curator Now + There unveiled its 2018 season with Open House on July 26 with an exhibition by nationally acclaimed Boston-born artist Liz Glynn. The exhibition is located on Commonwealth Avenue Mall at Kenmore Square, transforming a busy area of the city into the opulent ruin of an open-air ballroom. Open House takes the form of one of the grandest interior spaces of the Gilded Age, a private ballroom historically accessible only to the most elite members of society. The work was inspired by William C. Whitneys private ballroom in New York City, a magnificent, now demolished, interior designed by Stanford White, architect of Kenmore Squares Hotel Buckminster and numerous Commonwealth Avenue mansions within close proximity of the exhibition. With this revision of a Gilded Age ballroom, the artist highlights class distinctions ... More
New Allentown Art Museum Board Chair seeks expanded role for Museum in community
ALLENTOWN, PA.- Michelle R. Stringer, Allentown, Pa., has been elected Chairperson of the Allentown Art Museum Board of Trustees for two years as of July 1, 2018. She said she and the board are committed to expanding the visionary path established by her predecessor, Dolores A. Laputka, Esq. We are building upon our continued commitment to teach, inspire, transform, and engage the community in novel and meaningful ways that will enable us to be a catalyst for positive and inclusive change throughout the Lehigh Valley, said Stringer. Stringer joined the AAM board in 2016. Before being elected Chair, she headed the Development Committee, lead the Kress Society, and founded Circle 31, whose mission is to identify and inspire a new generation of patrons and future leaders charged with advancing the Museums reach and impact. She is joinedn ( ... More
Salzburger Kunstverein announces a series of 20 exhibitions taking place this summer
SALZBURG.- 20 Propositions is a series of 20 exhibitions, events, performances and screenings taking place over the summertime in the Salzburger Kunstverein. Each project phase has its own opening event. The Sunset Kino, Austrias only outdoor avant-garde cinema, includes seven screenings of contemporary video and film. Curated by Séamus Kealy, 20 Propositions is produced in homage to the exhibition 40 Days 20 Exhibitions, held 20 years ago in the Salzburger Kunstverein, and curated by the director then, Hildegund Amanshauser. This new version takes a different format but arises out a spirit of flux and engagement as the earlier exhibition had. 20 Propositions is also in collaboration with the Salzburg International Summer Academy, which Hildegund Amanshauser currently directs. 20 Propositions includes solo presentations, screenings and ... More
ICP's Bronx-based youth photography program looks back at two decades of community collaboration
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography announces the debut of Vantage Point 24: Celebrating 20 Years, a special exhibition featuring close to 50 photographs by students and alumni from ICP at The Point. On view at The Point CDC (940 Garrison Avenue, South Bronx). Vantage Point 24: Celebrating 20 Years is the celebration of the 20-year collaboration between ICP and The Point CDC. In a typical year, ICP at The Point directly serves over 150 students, teaching photography, critical thinking, writing, and public speaking with the goal of fostering self-esteem, community development, and social change. Since launching in 1998, the program has welcomed over 2,000 students, many of whomincluding Hallgrenhave gone on to pursue careers in photography and visual culture. ICP at The Point provides the opportunity for too often unheard ... More
Russian writer Vladimir Voinovich dies aged 86
MOSCOW (AFP).- Renowned Russian writer and former Soviet dissident Vladimir Voinovich has died from a heart attack at the age of 86, his relatives announced on Saturday. The novelist, who spent a decade exiled by the Soviet authorities, was best known for his series of satirical novels about a hapless Soviet soldier called Ivan Chonkin. "Vladimir Nikolaievitch (Voinovich) is dead," a member of his family told public news agency TASS. Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinski praised Voinovich as a "talented writer" whose work always gave a "sharp vision of reality" and helped "strengthen freedom of expression" in Russia. Born in 1932 in Stalinabad, Soviet Tajikistan, Vladimir Voinovich first became known as a satirical author. Close to other dissidents of the time, he was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers in 1974 and later stripped of his citizenship and forced ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Jenny Holzer was born July 29, 1950. Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. In thi image: For Blenheim, 2017 Text provided by The Not Forgotten Association. © 2017 by The Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the author. © 2017. Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Samuel Keyte.
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