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Infrared false color image of newspaper, John Delaney, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Keiko Imai, Pola Museum of Art. Source gallica.bnf.fr/BnF.
TOKYO (AFP).- Infrared imaging technology has helped peel back the layers of a Pablo Picasso painting on display in Japan, and revealed a page from a 1902 newspaper and another composition below. US and Japanese researchers scanned the piece "Mother and Child by the Sea", owned by the Pola Museum of Art in Hakone, west of Tokyo, and uncovered a page of the French newspaper Le Journal from January 18, 1902. "While the reason for the presence of newsprint in the paint layers in a mystery, the discovery is significant for Picasso scholars due to the proximity of the date to the artist's move from Paris to Barcelona," said the Washington-based National Gallery of Art, whose researcher John Delaney led the project in Japan. Picasso is thought to have moved to the Spanish city in early January 1902, bringing a few canvasses with him, and the newspaper article revealed in the painting suggests the work was completed some time after his move. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this photo people practice yoga and meditation in front of art pieces of the Art Gallery (Musee des Beaux-Arts) as part of Yog'Art event in Rennes, western France. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
| Exhibition focuses on exploring the role of the city in Jean Dubuffet's work | | Russia orders Gulag records destroyed: researcher | | Koller Auctions is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year with special anniversary auctions |
Jean Dubuffet, Personnage (buste), 13 March 1962. Gouache on paper, 26 x 20.3 cm / 10 1/4 x 8 inches. Private collection © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zürich is presenting Jean Dubuffet and the City, an exhibition dedicated to the seminal post-war European painter and sculptor, and his lifelong fascination with urban space. Curated by Dubuffet specialist Dr Sophie Berrebi, with the Fondation Dubuffet contributing research advice, this is the first presentation that focuses on exploring the role of the city in Dubuffets four decades of artistic accomplishments, highlighting the artists shifting depiction of urban characters, and the visual and experiential dynamism of Paris that influenced his work. The exhibition features over 50 important paintings, works on paper, architectural and sculpture models including works from series such as the Marionettes de la ville et de la campagne (1943 1945), Paris Circus (1961 1962) ... More | |
In this file photo a visitor examines the multimedia displays showing Stalin's funeral, during the opening ceremony of a new museum dedicated to the Soviet Gulag labour camp system, on the National Day commemorating the victims of Stalin-era repression on October 30, 2015 in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / VASILY MAXIMOV.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A Russian researcher said Friday he has discovered that Moscow has ordered the destruction of prison records including those relating to the Soviet Gulag, alarming historians and prompting a rights body to intervene. Researcher Sergei Prudovsky told AFP he discovered the matter when he had contacted authorities in far eastern Magadan, where Soviet prisoners once mined gold, and was told a prisoner's record card had been destroyed under an "official order" from 2014. "I found out absolutely by chance the record cards were destroyed," said Prudovsky, a researcher who specialises in camps in Far Eastern Russia. "I ... More | |
Kees Van Dongen, Rouge et Jaune (LEgyptienne). 1910-11. Oil on canvas. 100 x 73 cm CHF 1 / 2 Mio.
ZURICH.- This June, Kollers special 60th anniversary auctions are dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Art, Swiss Art, Jewellery, Watches, Photography and Design. The Zurich auction house, founded in 1958, is celebrating in style: by offering high-quality, attractive works by international and Swiss artists. An exciting private collection of French Fauvist and Expressionist works will be the centrepiece of the Impressionist and Modern sale on 29 June. The collection which was begun in the 1920s, continued by the following generations and has remained in the same family until the present day features works by Maurice de Vlaminck, Gen Paul, and a series of outstanding works by Kees van Dongen, who was personally known to the family. Among the most striking of van Dongens works to be offered is a haunting fauvist portrait of an Egyptian woman, Rouge et Jaune (lÃgyptienne) from ... More |
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| LACMA announces beta release of Collator, a new way to create print-on-demand art books | | Exhibition showcases more than three decades of Takashi Murakami's paintings | | Clark Art Institute is exclusive venue for exhibition of wrought iron objects |
Collator is available at collator.lacma.org.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today the launch of Collator, an innovative tool to engage with LACMAs permanent collection. Inspired by the museums commitment to showcasing its vast collections to a diverse and geographically dispersed audience, this new digital platform allows users to curate and publish a custom 24-page paperback book featuring their own selections from the museums encyclopedic collections. Collator incorporates new webbased customization technologies that allow users to browse more than 1,000 highresolution images to create the theme, title, and introductory text of their print-on-demand books. And new images are added regularly. Collator is an initiative of The Hyundai Project: Art+Technology at LACMA, a special partnership between Hyundai Motor and LACMA. Collator explores the exciting possibilities of museum publishing. This project is an idea weve been developing for several years and is now ready for testing, ... More | |
Takashi Murakami, Flower Ball (Lots of Colors), 2008. Acrylic and platinum leaf on canvas mounted on board, 59 in. (150 cm) diameter. Cari and Michael J. Sacks © 2008 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Photo: Nathan Keay.
FORT WORTH, TX.- This summer, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth hosts the highly anticipated major retrospective Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, showcasing more than three decades of Murakami's paintings, from his earliest mature works to his most recent, never-before-seen paintings. Across over fifty works, this seminal exhibition reveals the consistent, universal themes that have guided the artist's work, reflecting his exquisite level of craft and insightful engagement with history. The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and curated by MCA Chief Curator Michael Darling. Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg will be on view to the public at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth from June 10 through September 16, 2018. One of the ... More | |
Grille, Italian, 18th century. Wrought iron, polychromed, 33 7/8 x 25 5/8 x 1 5/8 in. Réunion des Musées Métropolitains, Rouen, Normandy, LS.4513.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute is the exclusive venue for the exhibition The Art of Iron: Objects from the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, Normandy. The exhibition presents thirty-six historic objects in an installation celebrating the craft and beauty of wrought iron. Salvaged by the founders of the Musée Le Secq during the second half of the nineteenth century, when wrought iron was being rapidly discarded and replaced with modern materials, these pieces tell stories of preindustrial times. The exhibition is on view June 9September 16, 2018. The Musée Le Secq des Tournelless celebrated collection originated with Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq Destournelles (18181882), a painter who studied in Paris and Rome and became one of the first photographers in France. In the 1850s while photographically documenting various French monuments for a government project, he developed an ... More |
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| Lessons in loathing at North Korea's museum to 'US atrocity' | | Marc Straus opens an exhibition focused on the seated object central to a work of art | | Victoria Miro opens exhibition of works by Sarah Sze |
In a file photo taken on July 24, 2017 North Korean visitors walk past a painting showing US soldiers preparing to kill North Koreans, at the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities in Sinchon. Ed JONES / AFP.
SINCHON (AFP).- Every few minutes a new set of visitors arrives at the 'Revenge-Pledging Place' at North Korea's Sinchon Museum, where regime propaganda insists US troops massacred more than 35,000 people during the Korean War. A volunteer among the group - they could be from a school, army unit, factory or official organisation - stands up in the concrete amphitheatre, where a mural reads "Let us drive out the Americans and reunify our nation", to issue a vitriolic denunciation of the US. Fists clenched in the air, the crowd responds with unison shouts: "Smash! Smash! Smash!" Opposition to the United States is a fundamental cornerstone of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, ... More | |
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting Stereo Love Seats Hot Wheels, an exhibition focused on the seated object central to a work of art. What is a chair? As prosaic as the query is, it has been the subject of contention for the greatest minds from Socrates to Wittgenstein. There is no archetypal chair, no Platonic form of chairness. Yet we openly define any object to sit on as a chair. As a philosophical metaphor, the chair symbolizes authority and status. The word comes from the Old French chaiere (chair, throne), thus from ancient Egyptian royalty to European kings, individuals of power are often seated high. Notice how heads of organizations are referred to as chairpersons? The sitting position implies a unique state unlike standing with its relation to motion or lying with its relation to sleep- the chair signifies a rested disposition and a focusing of the mind. In his Seat ... More | |
Sarah Sze, Images in Debris, 2018 (detail). Mixed media: mirrors, wood, stainless steel, archival prints, projectors, lamps, desks, stools, ladders, stone, acrylic paint. Dimensions variable © Sarah Sze. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice.
LONDON.- An exhibition featuring two new site-specific works: Images in Debris, an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and experience of the first-floor gallery; and Afterimage, an environment of wall-based works in the ground-floor gallery that replicates aspects of the artists studio and includes elements made in situ as well as images collected, gathered and discarded in the process of making the work. In both works Sze continues her decades-long exploration of the ways in which the proliferation of images printed in magazines and newspapers, gleaned from the Web and television, intercepted from outer space, and ultimately ... More |
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| Polish folk instrument revival brings lost music to life | | Major exhibition focuses on the renowned art gallery and meeting place Signals London (1964-66) | | Mounir Fatmi's first major Scandinavian solo exhibition opens at Göteborgs Konsthall |
Polish musician and instrument-maker Mateusz Raszewski poses with a kalisz bass that he is building on May 10, 2018 at his workshop in the village of Kamiensko. Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP PHOTO / AFP.
KAMINSKO (AFP).- Dancing couples spin, whirl and pirouette on their heels transported by the lively tempo of traditional Polish folk dances brought to life on rustic instruments, some plucked straight out of the Middle Ages. The spirited rhythms of dances like mazurkas, obereks or owijoks played at a popular annual folk music festival in the Polish capital, Warsaw, emerge from the belly of the Kalisz bass. The distant cousin of Renaissance and Baroque-era bass viols, it was made by peasants living near the eponymous small central town until the early 20th century and then all but forgotten. Musician and instrument-maker Mateusz Raszewski is reviving the art of designing, building, stringing and playing this unique bass, traditionally carved by hand out of a single block of softwood like poplar or willow. Its design was "only officially ... More | |
Alejandro Otero, York No. 31, 1965. Courtesy kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
LONDON.- kurimanzutto is presenting Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow, a major exhibition focusing on the renowned art gallery and meeting place Signals London (1964-66), which is being presented at Thomas Dane Gallery in London from June 08 - July 21, 2018. Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow is the first exhibition to reunite the works of Signals Londons three founding artists, David Medalla, Gustav Metzger, and Marcello Salvadori, while also tracing the global impact resulting from the confluence of interests generated at that specific point in art history. As a cross-disciplinary space open to critical research and social encounter, Signals London has long been a source of inspiration for kurimanzutto. Celebrated internationally for its ground-breaking series of solo exhibitions, by artists including Lygia Clark, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Mira Schendel, Signals London also used group exhibitions as a device ... More | |
Mounir Fatmi, The Paradox. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele med tillstånd av Galerie Yvon Lambert.
GOTHENBURG.- Göteborgs Konsthall is presenting the first major Scandinavian solo exhibition with Maroccan-born artist Mounir Fatmi. Engaging in notions of the written wordits beauty, violence and fragilityFatmis works expose the layers of interpretation and reinterpretation that comprise our history. While reflecting current threats against the free word these works seek to open the political potential of language. In the exhibition 180° Behind Me Mounir Fatmi presents new and existing works in a wide variety of media. Through installation, video, sculpture and photography Fatmi explores human doubt, fears and desires in the tension between East and West, and between ancient tradition and accelerated contemporaneity. Committed to revealing oppressive social and political structures, Fatmi comments on some of todays most pressing issues. Seeking to illuminate the role of artists in ... More |
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Japanese artist Keita Miyazaki's first solo show with Rosenfeld Porcini on view in London
LONDON.- Rosenfeld Porcini announces A Mirage of Ruins, Japanese artist Keita Miyazakis first solo show in the gallery. Featuring Miyazakis latest works, A Mirage of Ruins displays the development of his language while revealing the increasing visual complexity of his practice. Contemporaneously to our exhibition, a selection of sculptures by Miyazaki will be part of Childhood | Another Banana Day for the Dream Fish at Palais de Tokyo in Paris from 21st June to 9th September. Utopia and Dystopia coalesce in the practice of Keita Miyazaki, a witness of the unmitigated destruction caused by the nuclear meltdown after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. Aligned with the front of artists that re-utilize discarded elements of our industrialized world to question the twentieth century obsessions which propelled the materialistic drive of so many of the worlds econo ... More
Des Moines Art Center organzes first museum exhibition of ceramic works by L.A.-based artist Sterling Ruby
DES MOINES, IA .- On Saturday, June 9 the Des Moines Art Center opened Sterling Ruby: Ceramics, which runs through September 9, 2018. This is the first museum exhibition to focus on the artists ceramic works. Approximately 30 fired and glazed clay basins and hand-built objects comprise the show. Extensive educational programming will be offered free to the public and a full-color catalog will also accompany the exhibition. It is anticipated the exhibition will travel to additional venues. Sculptures in clay have long played a fascinating and primary position in Rubys broader studio work. Although heavily indebted to craft, these works are not trapped in history, and therein lays their strength. Ruby upends tradition in these hybrid forms; the objects are familiar but simultaneously alien. However, Ruby is not interested in separating himself from the history of his materials. ... More
Latvian National Museum of Art opens solo exhibition by Latvian textile artist Egils Rozenbergs
RIGA.- Prominent Latvian textile artist Egils Rozenbergs personal exhibition Transfiguration is on view in the Cupola Hall of the main building of the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga (5th floor; Jaņa Rozentāla laukums 1) from 8 June to 26 August 2018. For artist Egils Rozenbergs, the summer of Latvias Centenary began with participation in the exhibition Colour of Gobelins. Contemporary Gobelins from the Mobilier national collection in France at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, as well as in the 6th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial Tradition and Innovation at the ARSENĀLS Exhibition Hall. However, the solo exhibition Transfiguration is a project that took several years to create and is site specific for the Cupola Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. It is a creative depiction of the symbols and signs typical of the age and the significant ... More
Garment District unveils new Broadway Urban Garden & 400-foot-long road mural
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance held a ceremony to commemorate the official return of Garment District Urban Garden, an expanded plazas program that converts two blocks of Broadway into public space and will feature various amenities and activities for New Yorkers and visitors alike to enjoy this summer. The reception also celebrated the unveiling of Ararauna, a 400-foot-long painted mural on Broadway that will create a space for meditation and reflection at the Urban Garden. Last years Garment District Urban Garden was a tremendous hit, and we are thrilled to once again offer pedestrians opportunities to enjoy even more wonderful experiences in our community, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. From free weekly outdoor yoga classes, to the UrbanSpace Garment District food market to the stunning ... More
Short first innings at museum for Kohli wax statue
NEW DELHI (AFP).- A wax effigy of Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli required repairs the same day it went on display at Madame Tussauds in Delhi after a rush of star-struck fans swamped the statue, the museum said Friday. Part of the ear of the life-sized statue of Kohli -- known as "King Kohli" in his home country and recently named the world's best-paid cricketer -- was clipped off shortly after the waxwork was unveiled Wednesday. "As soon as our staff were alerted, the figure was removed, swiftly repaired and immediately displayed back into his cricket setting to be enjoyed by his adoring fans," the museum said in a statement. Dressed in Indian colours with number 18 on his back, the waxwork Kohli is standing in a batting pose opposite Indian bowling legend Kapil Dev. Other sporting stars immortalised at Madame Tussauds in Delhi include Lionel Messi, David ... More
The South London Gallery opens Brazilian artist Luiz Zerbini's first major solo show in the UK
LONDON.- The South London Gallery presents Brazilian artist Luiz Zerbinis first major solo show in the UK. Large-scale figurative canvases, recent abstract paintings and a new table installation are displayed in the Main Gallery alongside film works and slide collages in the First Floor Galleries. The exhibition explores the evolution of Zerbinis painting technique and style over the past decade and offers offering an insight into the breadth of media he employs in other aspects of his practice. Luiz Zerbini (b. 1959, São Paulo, Brazil) is one of South Americas pre-eminent artists, acclaimed for his vividly coloured figurative and abstract paintings. His work was included in the landmark 1984 exhibition Como vai você Geração 80? (How Are You Doing, 80s Generation?) in Rio de Janeiro, which aimed to revolutionise and challenge preconceptions around painting in ... More
Gazelli Art House opens exhibition of works by James Ostrer
LONDON.- In 2016 world-renowned curator Azu Nwagbogu invited James to show his 2014 Wotsit All About series in Lagos, Nigeria. Naturally, Nwagbogu expected Ostrer to come along with his fetishised junk food portraits that had warned the west of over-consumption. Ostrers reaction in his own words was, instant excitement for an ambition I never knew I had. However, this quickly turned into nervousness and suspicion. He states, I experienced perfectly and more clearly than ever before how the pervasive impact of racial cultural conditioning towards otherness affects us in terms of human divide through fear. Even while aboard the plane to West Africa, the flight attendant amplified this sense of worry, warning him of the dangers of Lagos, explaining that the airline staff only travelled under armed guard. Ostrer confesses to a diva moment on arrival, ... More
Drawing Room in Hamburg exhibits works by Rona Kobel
HAMBURG.- Europa riding the bull is a popular motif in classical porcelain art, of which Berlin artist Rona Kobel has devised two contemporary variations. The first remains true stylistically as well as in its minutiae to the classical models, whereas the second version departs radically from sedate home decoration. Europa has climbed down from the bull and is ramming a knife into her breast. With Brexit and Eurosceptic politics in many countries: is Europa at an end? Rona Kobel's resolutely formulated concern is the question of the "stability and defensibility of democracy and freedom", for which, however, she makes use of different media than those commonly expected in political art. The "Europa" is just one of numerous porcelain figures and accessories the artist has designed as "political tableware", and then produced in Berlin's "Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur": ... More
TextielMuseum opens exhibition on Scandinavian furniture, textiles and interior products
TILBURG.- One of the highlights of Simply Scandinavian. Nordic Design 1945-2018 in the TextielMuseum is the Flag Halyard Chair, designed by Hans J. Wegner (Denmark) in 1950. Curator Suzan Rüsseler spoke to the chairs owner, designer Richard Rooze (Amsterdam). He tells the story behind this rare, sought-after, early version of the chair with its metal frame and plaited flag halyard seat. Richard, you are a designer yourself and the proud owner of a very early example of the Flag Halyard Chair by Wegner. Can you tell me about the significance of this chair in Wegners oeuvre? The Flag Halyard has an interesting backstory. In the late 40s, Wegner studied the possibilities of curved wood for furniture design. For his Shell Chair, he then went on to experiment with new materials such as curved multiplex, which he shaped and pressed into ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French-Swiss painter Gustave Courbet was born June 10, 1819. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 - 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. In this image: A visitor observes the painting 'The girl at the Seine'(1856/57)of French painter Gustave Courbet at the Schirn museum in Frankfurt Main, Germany. The artwork is a part of the exhibition 'A Dream of Modern Art - Courbet', which is under the patronage of German President Christian Wulff and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and at the Schirn from 15 october 2010 until 30 January 2011.
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