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Admiral Lord Nelson, 1801 by William Beechey (1753-1839). © Norfolk Museums Service.
NORWICH.- Admiral Lord Nelson (1758 1805) and his affection for his native county of Norfolk is the subject of a major exhibition Nelson & Norfolk, on view at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery from 29 July until 1 October 2017. The exhibition presents some of the most extraordinary and potent objects connected to Nelson, from his boyhood in Norfolk to his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The single bullet (or musket ball), which mortally wounded Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is one of the important objects on display as part of the revelatory exhibition. The bullet, which is usually on display at Windsor Castle has been generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen from the Royal Collection, and this is the first time it has been shown in Norfolk, Nelsons home county. Measuring 15 mm, the lead shot bullet is mounted in a hinged silver locket together with some remnants of gold lace from ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day President of the Chemin des Dames Association Gilles Chauwin, stands in front of an altar in a cave successively occupied by French and German soldiers during World War I, during a visit on July 19, 2017 in Braye-en-Laonnois to show graffitis and bas-reliefs works realised the troops. Under the Chemin des Dames, an underground quarry used as a hiding place for successively : German troops, French soldiers and finally Americans, still contains the writings, drawings, carved and sculpted testimonies of soldiers hidden underground during the horror of the Great War. FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP
| Celebrated photo editor John Morris dies at 100 | | Comprehensive survey of William Kentridge's work on view at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg's two venues | | New exhibition at BAMPFA illuminates history of Indian painting traditions |
This file photo taken on May 11, 2010 shows acclaimed photo editor John G. Morris attending the 26th annual International Center of Photography Infinity Awards at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City. Stephen Lovekin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- John Morris, a celebrated US-born editor who commissioned and published some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, died in Paris on Friday, Magnum Photos said. He was 100. In an extraordinary career that spanned some of the most turbulent events of the last century, Morris worked for publications that included Life, Magnum, The Washington Post, The New York Times and National Geographic. He edited and oversaw the publication of Robert Capa's historic images of the 1944 D-Day Allied landings in Normandy while photo editor commissioning photographs from the front throughout World War II for Life magazine in London. After a post-war stint at Ladies' Home Journal in New York, he became executive editor at Magnum, dispatching the agency's photographers across the globe ... More | |
Sophiatown 1987. Silkscreen print on brown paper. Courtesy William Kentridge, Marian Goodman Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Lia Rumma Gallery.
SALZBURG.- The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is presenting a comprehensive survey at the museums two venues of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist William Kentridge. Spectacular multimedia installations are on view on the Mönchsberg, while works for theater and opera are being shown for the first time in a dedicated exhibition in the Rupertinumacross the street from the Haus für Mozart, where Kentridge is directing Alban Bergs opera Wozzeck for the Salzburg Festival. A new installation in the Rupertinum atrium will also remain in place for a full year. William Kentridge (1955 Johannesburg, ZA) rose to prominence in the 1990s with expressive drawings, which he animated in videos. His oeuvre, which covers four decades, has featured different artistic disciplines. For many years, Kentridge has been working successfully on major opera and theater productions. His close relationship ... More | |
Unknown artist: Surajamala-ji, Son of Rao Nirandasa, 1820; ink, gouache, and gold on paper; 21 1/4 x 8 5/16 in.; BAMPFA, gift of Jean and Francis Marshall.
BERKELEY, CA.- This summer, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents a new exhibition of paintings that encompasses five hundred years of Indian art-making traditions. Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Painting draws on the institutions extensive holdings of Asian art, in particular a renowned collection of more than three hundred works donated to BAMPFA in 1998. Guest curated by the distinguished Indian art scholar Robert J. Del Bontà , the exhibition is on view from June 28 through September 10, 2017. Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures comprises more than sixty paintings from BAMPFAs collection, representing a vast range of Indian art and cultural history from the early fifteenth through twentieth centuries. Reflecting the distinctive collecting interests of Jean and Francis Marshallwhose gift forms the core of BAMPFAs Indian art holdingsthe works display a diverse a ... More |
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| KP Projects exhibits photographs by Vivian Maier from the Maloof Collection | | Exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation focuses on the latest research into materials | | Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents 'Legends Passed' |
New York, NY, 1955. Modern Gelatin Silver Print, 12 x 12 image.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- KP Projects is presenting Vivian Maier: Photographs from the Maloof Collection. The story of Vivian Maier and her extraordinary body of photographic works is both compelling for its personal viewpoints as much as her innate ability to capture nostalgic moments of bygone eras. Unearthed by John Maloof in 2007 at a local auction house in Chicago, Vivian Maier continues to cultivate notoriety as one of the most iconic street photographers of the 20th century. Maiers body of work spans not only the US, but the globe, shooting more than 100,000 negatives depicting the street life of New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, the American Southwest, as well as destinations as far off as Manila, Bangkok, Beijing, Egypt, and Italy. Invested in her birds eye view of the people who made industrious cities thrive and pulse for decades, Maier captures the poignant moments of individuals and their urban cultural existence. The signage and de ... More | |
Paula van Brummelen, Responsive Surface, 2016. © weiÃensee kunsthochschule berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign, Paula van Brummelen.
DESSAU-ROÃLAU.- What makes a material smart? How do materials influence our lives? How do we work with them in order to shape our present and future? Questions pertaining to the significance and processing of materials were already being addressed at the historic Bauhaus. Now, almost 100 years later, the exhibition smart materials satellites. Material as Experiment in the Stahlhaus on the Dessau-Törten housing estate, built as a material experiment by the Bauhauslers in 1926/27, focuses on the latest research into materials. Together with the WeiÃensee Academy of Art Berlin, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation presents a three-month interactive exhibition that aims to transfer knowledge between the disciplines of science, art and design and to communicate with the general public. The latest innovations of engineers have been combined with the material experiments of designers and ... More | |
Terry O'Neill, Roger Moore. Courtesy Eduard Planting Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents from 29 July until 30 September the exhibition 'Legends Passed'. As a tribute, the gallery shows a selection of nostalgic portraits of legends such as Muhammad Ali, Chuck Berry, David Bowie, Johan Cruijff, Roger Moore and Prince, that passed away in 2016 and 2017. The portraits of David Bowie were made by legendary photographers: Gerald Fearnley, Gijsbert Hanekroot, Markus Klinko and Justin de Villeneuve. Of course, work by British celebrity photographer Terry ONeill (London, 1938) is also presented. He is one of the worlds most celebrated and collected photographers. The famous image of Sir Roger Moore as James Bond (late 1970s), by Terry ONeill, is co-signed by Roger Moore. Terry ONeill pioneered a more intimate, reportage style of celebrity photography. No one has captured the frontline of fame so broadly and for so long. The National Portrait Gallery in ... More |
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| Exhibition by Swiss artist Not Vital opens in Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's Salzburg Halle space | | Groundbreaking for Louis Armstrong House Visitor Center by Caples Jefferson | | 'Urban explorers' time-travel through Berlin's lost places |
Not Vital, HEAD + Chimney, 2016, Keramik, Dimensionen variable. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London · Paris · Salzburg. Photo: Jonti Wilde.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents David & Goliath, an exhibition by Swiss artist Not Vital in the Salzburg Halle space. Combining sculptures, installations and works on paper, the exhibition features a selection of his most recent works. Not Vitals practice is influenced by his nomadic lifestyle. Born in 1948 in Sent, a village located in scenic valley of the Engadin in the Swiss Alps. At the age of 18, he started travelling the world, immersing himself in the cultures of the places where he settled successively: New York, India, Niger, Brazil, Patagonia, the Philippines. Since 2008, he has established a studio in Beijing, where he spends five months a year. He met skilled craftsmen who allowed him to apprehend materials in a free way and imagine without technical boundaries. The exhibition presents ceramic HEAD sculptures, made in Jingdezhen, the city renowned for being the capital of ceramics in China. ... More | |
Museum façade at night. Image Courtesy Caples Jefferson Architects.
QUEENS, NY.- Louis Armstrong House Museum Executive Director Michael Cogswell announced that there was a groundbreaking ceremony for the Museums new 14,000-squarefoot Education Center. The new $23-million facility will broaden the publics understanding of Armstrongs life and legacy with a state-of-theart Exhibition Gallery, 68-seat Jazz Club, and Museum Store to complement the visitor experience at the Museum. The Museums monumental research collections, currently housed in the library at Queens College, will move into a leading-edge Archival Center on the second floor. The Louis Armstrong House Museums transformative new Education Center and expanded programming will better serve visitors from around the globe and directly support the very community that Satchmo called home, said Queens Borough President Melinda Katz. The Center is designed by New York City-based Caples Jefferson Architect ... More | |
Youths explore an abandoned building in Berlin on May 12, 2017. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- With its deserted bunkers, abandoned barracks and ghostly hospital ruins, Berlin is a magnet for urban explorers who seek out abandoned places and time-travel through the German capital's Cold War past. "It's amazing, I've never seen so many people," said 'Urbex' veteran Ciaran Fahey during a visit to an overgrown and graffiti-covered former children's hospital in what was once communist East Berlin. Two dozen thrill-seeking visitors -- Germans, Russians, Latvians -- were gingerly stepping over shattered glass, bricks and piles of rubble in the dilapidated, partially burnt and slightly haunting complex. Abandoned in 1991, it is nicknamed the "zombie hospital" after one of the hundreds of murals on its cob-webbed corridors and dank former patient wards, now occasionally used by partying youths and homeless people. Like other "lost places", it is potentially dangerous and officially off limits, meaning visitors trespass as they enter through a hole in the chain link fence ... More |
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| William Ludwig Lutgens wins the Eeckman Art Prize for Contemporary Drawing 2017 | | Martin Firrell marks the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act with a series of interventions | | Polish ruling party head in German war jibe |
William Ludwig Lutgens, Caramella.
BRUSSELS.- For the second year in a row, Art on Paper, the contemporary drawing fair in collaboration with BOZAR, is launching - with the support of Eeckman Art & Insurance - a call for projects aimed at young artists and art students whose work reflects an affinity with drawing. The winner receives a production and transportation budget and gets the opportunity to present his/her works throughout the course of the fair. It is with great enthusiasm that the jury - consisting of Paul Dujardin (Bozar), Catherine Henkinet (ISELP), Marc Ruyters (H ART), Cedric Liénart Jeude (Eeckman Art & Insurance), Johana Carrier (Journal Roven) and Kasper Bosmans Artist) selected William Ludwig Lutgens as winner of this second edition of the Eeckman Art Prize for contemporary drawing. The jury praises Lutgens both for the graphic quality of his work and for its political and social relevance. William Ludwig Lutgens (Born in 1991 in Turnhout) studied at St Lucas Sch ... More | |
Remember 1967 appears on road-side digital 48 sheets with the support of media partners Primesight and Clear Channel UK.
LONDON.- On 27th July 1967, The Sexual Offences Act made it possible for gay and bisexual men in England and Wales to have sexual relationships for the first time without being automatically criminalised. In response to this milestone in LGBT+ history, public artist Martin Firrell is presenting a commemorative public art project with the support of Peter Tatchell, world-renowned human rights and social justice campaigner. On 27th July 2017 Firrell took over national digital billboards in England and Wales, re-presenting key ideas from the history of the gay liberation movement. Supported by Clear Channel and Primesight, leaders in digital out-of-home media, for an entire month the Remember 1967 anniversary billboards will bring powerful messages about freedom and equality to audiences across the country. Firrell will also use the anniversary as a platform ... More | |
This file photo shows the Museum of Second World War in Gdansk, Poland. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- The powerful head of Poland's governing conservatives, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has accused Germany of "rejecting" its World War II responsibilities, going as far as to suggest Berlin should pay reparations. "We are talking about huge sums and also the fact that the Germans have for years rejected their responsibility for World War II," said Kaczynski, who has several times made controversial remarks about Warsaw's neighbour. Kaczynski made his comments during a talk late Thursday with listeners of Catholic radio station Radio Maryja. One of Kaczynski's chief bugbears is the recently opened Museum of the Second World War in the port city of Gdansk. He described the museum as "nothing other than a kind of present" from European Council president, former Polish premier and Gdansk native Donald Tusk to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. "It is a museum which subscribes to German historic ... More |
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Tiptoe through the Turkish Tulips and an amazing clockwork garden blossom at the Bowes Museum
COUNTY DURHAM.- The Bowes Museum continues its 125th anniversary celebrations, opening two extraordinary exhibitions simultaneously this summer for the young and the young-at-heart. Leading contemporary artist Gavin Turk and The House of Fairy Tales, the imaginative childrens arts charity, inspire symbolic stories of horticulture in these captivating shows. Turkish Tulips is an exhibition woven through the decorative halls of The Bowes Museum as an exquisite art adventure. It presents new works by contemporary artist Gavin Turk, in collaboration with a host of renowned contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Michael Craig-Martin, Cornelia Parker, Sir Peter Blake, Fiona Banner, Mat Collishaw, Adam Dant and Yinka Shonibare MBE. Interwoven amongst The Bowes Museums permanent collection, the exhibition delves into the complex and paradoxical story ... More
Four women who spark creativity shown at Krikorian Gallery
WORCESTER, MASS.- On view in the Krikorian Gallery of the Worcester Center for Crafts is spärk, an exhibit of work by four talented and expressive women artists, all of whom are pushing their media to explore fantasy, reality, and the limits or no limits of beauty. The exhibit was curated by Michelle May of Worcester and includes work by May, Tara Sellios, Keri Anderson, and Jessica Lyn Burhans. It is on view in the gallery at 25 Sagamore Road through September 16, 2017. The title of the exhibit speaks to the art on view as a fiery particle thrown off from a fire or emitting sparks of fire or electricity. Provocative? Edgy? "The show is perfect for HOT NIGHT when it opened," says Gallery Director Candace Casey, "as it speaks to the energy of the work being shown, and the spark of creativity that it inspires!" The artists are connected through May. Tara Sellios is a Boston- ... More
Park Tower Group brings sculpture by John Chamberlain to 535 Madison Avenue
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Tower Group, the owner, developer and manager of 535 Madison Avenue announces the recent arrival of John Chamberlains larger-than-life silver aluminum sculpture, ROSETUXEDO, to Christies Sculpture Garden, located in the buildings outdoor public plaza on Madison Avenue and 54th Street. Executed in 2008, ROSETUXEDO is whimsical in spirit. With its complex, intertwined elements, the sculpture can simultaneously appear to be dancing, walking, and falling, depending on the viewer's physical proximity. Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, ROSETUXEDO will be on view until 2018 and can be acquired through Christies Private Sales. Born of a unique partnership between Christie's, the world's leading art business, and Park Tower Group, a major real-estate developer known for architecturally outstanding developments, ... More
New Museum to presents IdeasCity New York
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum announced the fourth edition of IdeasCity New York, taking place Saturday, September 16, 2017, at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Chrystie Street, one block from the New Museum. IdeasCity, the New Museum's civic platform that explores the future of cities with art and culture as a driving force, will culminate a two-year cycle of global residencies in Detroit, Athens, and Arles with its biannual program IdeasCity New York. This free and public event, themed around 100 Actions for the Future City, will be a daylong investigation of strategies, ideas, and propositions featuring artist talks, initiatives by local organizations, performances, workshops, and a panel of notable mayors from around the country. Featured speakers will include Tania Bruguera, David Byrne, Mel Chin, Maurice Cox, Teddy Cruz, Justin Garrett Moore, Fonna ... More
Exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery presents images of food
LONDON.- Fetishised, pornified and glorified, Food for Being Looked at is a new installation that explores the cultural practice and social media phenomenon that surrounds our seemingly unstoppable appetite for images of food. Presented on the The Photographers Gallerys Media Wall from 27 July 8 October 2017, it forms part of a dedicated digital programme that considers the myriad role of photography in todays increasingly networked world. The act of sharing images of food on social media plays a unique role in contemporary societal behaviour and activity. Photographs of food are used to represent a diversity of lifestyles, tastes, aesthetics, values and moral positions and are meticulously composed and voraciously consumed. Curator, Anna Dannemann said of the project: By sharing and tagging these vernacular still lifes, the photographers ... More
West Africa's biggest Art Fair, ART X Lagos, announces 2017 dates
LAGOS.- ART X Lagos, West Africas leading international art fair, today announces the dates for the second edition of its annual art fair. ART X Lagos will take place across three days from 3rd 5th November 2017 at The Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Building on the success of its maiden edition in 2016, and continuing with its objective to showcase the best and most innovative contemporary art from the African continent and the diaspora, ART X Lagos in 2017 will host prestigious galleries including Art House - The Space (Nigeria), SMO Contemporary (Nigeria), Stevenson Gallery (South Africa), Gallery 1957 (Ghana) and Tafeta (United Kingdom), amongst others. The full list of exhibiting galleries and artists will be released in September 2017. With its intention of widening West Africas connection to the international contemporary art scene, ART ... More
Frank Ocean, gentle R&B voice, finds live intimacy at NY festival
NEW YORK.- Frank Ocean has captivated audiences since his debut with his tenderness, a gentle but unwavering voice in the often hyper-macho world of R&B and hip-hop. Nearly a year after he released his long-awaited second album, "Blonde," Ocean has presented his ever-patient fans with a live vision of his music, one that creates a kind of cinematic intimacy. Headlining the first day Friday of Panorama, a year-old festival on New York City's Randall's Island, Ocean shunned the stage -- which became a giant audiovisual project -- as he performed in the round from an island in the crowd. Ocean emerged to the boisterous beats of his track "Pretty Sweet" before immediately dialing down the exuberance with "Solo," his bare, organ-backed confessional on embracing solitude. Clicking a button on a mountain of equipment, Ocean appeared on the stage-screen in grainy ... More
NEU NOW announces 2017 festival programme
AMSTERDAM.- Over the years, NEU NOW has established itself as Amsterdams only transdisciplinary art festival devoted to presenting the best of graduating artists from across Europe and beyond. For its ninth edition, NEU NOW returns to the spaces of the Westergasfabriek to present a carefully curated selection of emerging talents entering international art arenas. NEU NOW nurtures the fluid character of the artistic disciplines by showcasing a cross section of exciting developments on the contemporary art scene. This years programme brings together exhibitions, performances, installations, films, workshops and artist talks. NEU NOW 2017 will welcome 44 artists with 28 artworks from 16 countries. Located in the Machinegebouw at the Westergasfabriek terrain, NEU NOW gallery displays twelve unique artworks. The exhibition is open to the public every ... More
Peters Projects presents exhibition by Alaskan artist Nicholas Galanin
SANTA FE, NM.- Peters Projects is presenting a solo exhibition entitled, I Think It Goes Like This, of installation artworks by Alaskan artist, Nicholas Galanin. The exhibition is on view at Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo De Peralta, Santa Fe from July 7 September 2. There will be a special gallery reception Friday, August 18, 5-7pm, during the SWAIA Indian Market week in Santa Fe, NM. The artist will be in attendance. Galanin is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician of mixed Tlingit/Aleut and non-Native ancestry. His work often explores a dialogue of change and identity between Native and non-Native communities. He addresses the result of violence in societies around the world in an iconoclastic nature. The artist challenges the viewer to consider how suppression from violence destroys religion and spiritualism. The artwork presented at Peters Projects is directed to the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Henry Moore was born July 30, 1898. Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. In this image: English Sculptor Henry Moore stands beside his sculpture "Seated Nude" on display as part of the "Art 70" show in Basel, Switzerland, June 9, 1970. Moore represented Britain in the show.
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