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Argentinian artist Marta Minujin poses in front of the 'Parthenon of Books' at the Documenta 14 art exhibition in Kassel on June 7, 2017. The Parthenon of books, a full-scale replica of the temple on the Acropolis, is made up with some 100,000 copies of banned books donated from the public, as well as publishers and institutions. Documenta 14 takes place from April 8 to July 16 in Athens, and from 10 June to September 17 in Kassel. RONNY HARTMANN / AFP.
by Yannick Pasquet
KASSEL (AFP).- It looks like the monumental temple standing imposingly at the Acropolis in Athens. But this replica in central Germany is not built with marble, but books that have been or remain banned. "The Parthenon of Books" is the main showpiece at this year's Documenta -- the cult contemporary art show held once every five years in the university town of Kassel. The work by Argentine artist Marta Minujin is a plea against all forms of censorship. Minujin, 74, a pop art icon in South America, has described it as "the most political" of her works. In fact, the "Parthenon of Books" stands at the same site where, in 1933, Nazis set in flames books by Jewish or Marxist writers. Fast forward eight decades and there is a team of volunteers wearing hard hats gathering at the foot of a crane, preparing to lift more books onto the installation. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French engineer Arnaud Billard poses for a photograph as he sits amongst prototypes of furniture designed to filter out air pollution, in Louveciennes, suburban Paris on June 7, 2017. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
| Multipart exhibition includes over 170 works by contemporary Cuban artists | | Exhibition at Joseph Bellows Gallery celebrates the 50th anniversary of the summer of love | | Japan's godfather of art? Billionaire Maezawa rings in new era |
Gory (Rogelio López MarÃn), Es solo agua en la lágrima de un extraño, 1986-2015. Black-and-white negative film, photomontages, and digital chromogenic prints, ten parts 16 x 20 inches, each. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami announces On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, an exhibition of over 170 works of art, spanning painting, drawing, photography, mixed-media and sculpture. The exhibition is presented in three parts over the course of a year, and features a rich panorama of recent work produced by artists living both in Cuba and abroad. On the Horizon celebrates the recent generous gift of Cuban artworks donated to the museum by Jorge M. Pérez in December 2016, and includes a significant number of recent acquisitions purchased during the last year with funds provided as part of the donation. As Miamis flagship contemporary art museum, collecting the work of Cuban ... More | |
Elaine Mayes, Haight Ashbury, 1968, vintage gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition, Summer of Love, by Elaine Mayes. The exhibition opened on June 10th and continue through August 26th, 2017. In addition to Mayes solo exhibition in the atrium gallery; a group Summer Selections exhibition runs concurrently. Elaine Mayes: Summer of Love coincides with the 50th anniversary of the summer of love; a period of great social, cultural, and political change that brought together over 100,000 like-minded young people to San Francisco to usher in a new era. The exhibition features Mayes intimate vintage black and white portraits of youth counterculture in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury district during the late 1960s. The photographs are compelling depictions that are at once specific to the individuals pictured, as well as definers of that age and era. They reveal a freedom of expression and camaraderie that was shared by ... More | |
An aspiring rock star as a teen, he moved on to selling music merchandise via mail order and then online. In 1998 Maezawa founded Start Today, which operates the nation's largest online fashion mall, ZOZOTOWN.
TOKYO (AFP).- With a single post on Instagram, Yusaku Maezawa announced not only his purchase of an $110.5 million Basquiat masterpiece, and his place in auction history, but arguably signalled a new era for art in Japan. The price, a record for the artist, is reminiscent of 1980s Japan when corporate big-spenders splashed out on Impressionist art -- along with foreign property and businesses -- in an asset-buying spree. But billionaire Maezawa insists he is just an "ordinary collector" -- despite his extraordinary bank balance. His purchases are born out of love and driven by gut instinct, rather than the instructions of any art advisor. "I buy simply because they are beautiful. That's all. I enjoy classics together with the history and stories behind them, but possessing classics is not the purpose of my purchase," he told ... More |
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| Cincinnati Art Museum presents the largest display of American folk art in its history | | Yale Center for British Art exhibits new works in the collection | | Adam West, star of hit TV series 'Batman', dies at 88 |
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CINCINNATI, OH.- View an exceptional presentation of American folk art at the Cincinnati Art Museum with A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, June 10September 3. Comprised of more than 100 pieces made between 1800 and 1925, including approximately 60 works from the celebrated collection of Barbara L. Gordon and 40 regional loans, this is the largest representation of historical American folk art in the history of the museum. A Shared Legacy celebrates art rooted in personal and cultural identity and made by self-taught or minimally trained artists. Created for ordinary people rather than societys upper tier, folk art was the prevalent art form in the United States for more than a century. A Shared Legacy showcases the extraordinary imagination and powerful design of American folk artists, some acclaimed and many unknown. Made primarily in New England, the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, the works in the exhibition illuminate a ... More | |
Sir William Orpen, Evelyn Marshall Field (Mrs. Marshall Field III), ca. 1921, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, Yale LLB 1948.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- In celebration of its fortieth anniversary, the Yale Center for British Art features a suite of distinct exhibitions that showcases the most recent additions to its collections. The displays that constitute A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions are presented across the Centers second-floor galleriessome are organized around a theme, such as The British Empire in India; others are focused on a specific artist, such as the abstract painter John Golding (19292012); while others highlight individual gifts to the Center, which include the final works received from the Centers founder Paul Mellon (19071999; Yale College, Class of 1929). In addition, works throughout the galleries on the third and fourth floors that were acquired within the past decade are specially labeled and help transform the entire building into a space to commemorate the growth of the ... More | |
This file photo taken on July 24, 2014 shows actor Adam West attending the "Batman: The Complete Series" DVD release presentation during Comic-Con International 2014. KEVIN WINTER / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Adam West, the actor whose career was defined by his superhero role in the hit 1960s television series "Batman," has died. He was 88 years old. The actor died Friday night after a "short but brave battle with leukemia," his family said in a statement posted Saturday to West's Facebook page. Donning a cape, cowl and bat gloves, West catapulted to fame after portraying the superhero Batman and his alter ego Bruce Wayne on the popular campy television series that premiered in 1966 and ran three seasons until its 1968 cancellation. In bringing Batman to life West delivered his often corny lines with deadpan earnestness, entertaining children and adding a touch of satirical humor for adults. The series epitomized the era's kitsch, with exclamations like "POW!" ... More |
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| Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures offered at Bloomsbury Auctions | | Perrotin Hong Kong opens fourth exhibition dedicated to the conceptual painter Claude Rutault | | Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition with new works by Christopher Wool |
The Master of the Montepulciano Gradual, leaf from an illuminated Choirbook, Est £15,000-20,000.
LONDON.- Bloomsbury Auctions will hold their fifth sale devoted to manuscripts and miniatures on 6 July at 16-17 Pall Mall. The sale comprises a wealth of fascinating, rare and important Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures. With 175 lots ranging in date from the 8th century to the 1800s, the sale offers buyers a rich selection of text fragments and leaves, illuminated miniatures, charters (including an important 13th century English rental roll) and codices, with several key pieces fresh to the market. Dr Timothy Bolton, Head of Department comments, Bloomsbury Auctions are proud to be the only auction house to offer regular sales dedicated solely to that most refined form of all book arts - manuscripts; and with this colossus of a sale we are especially delighted to continue to bring to the market a wide variety of examples from both the West and the Near East together in a single catalogue. A previously unrecorded c ... More | |
Claude Rutault, de-finition/method painting in the balance, 2010. Paint on canvas. variable dimensions according to the actualization. Here: actualization on red wall: 210 Ã 120 cm, Photo: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy Perrotin.
HONG KONG.- Perrotin Hong Kong presents the fourth exhibition dedicated to the conceptual painter Claude Rutault at the gallery, and his first exhibition in Asia. The devices of the radical, original and poetic uvre of this major artist upend the status of the author and of the work of art, questioning even the definition of a painting itself as a finished and autonomous object. In 1973, Claude Rutault painted a 20 x 20 cm canvas the same color as the wall in his kitchen. He quickly formalized this founding gesture with the first de-finition/method: a stretched canvas painted the same color as the wall on which its hung. all commercially available formats can be used, be they rectangular, square, round or oval. The de-finition/method is a text written by the artist that precedes the painting. ... More | |
Christopher Wool, installation view, Galerie Max Hetzler, 2017. Photo: def-image.com. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin I Paris.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler announces a solo exhibition with new works by Christopher Wool in Bleibtreustrasse 45. Since the early 1980's, Christopher Wool explores the process and properties of painting itself. By reducing physical and compositorial principals and experimenting with different painting as well as reproduction techniques, he constantly broadens the notion of this medium. Methods of repetition, layering and erasing build major means of Wools artistic practice, focussing always on essential elements like form, line and colour. In his exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler, Wool presents works on paper, several large-sized paintings as well as a single small sculpture. His paintings, dated 2016 and 2017, are re-appropriations of an early group of works on paper made in 1986, the so called Rorschach series referring to Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach ... More |
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| Spink to sell fantastic collections of Celtic coins and British historical medals | | The George Eastman Museum opens first museum retrospective of Eugene Richards's work | | Rare royal Sèvres from doomed French court lead Bonhams Fine European Ceramics sale |
A Cantii, uninscribed coinage (c. 50-25BC), silver Unit and very rare. Estimate: £400-600.
LONDON.- This summer will see a very interesting sale of British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals at Spink London. The sale is packed with quality material and many historically important items. The sale will take place on the 5th July and contains a substantial collection of Celtic coins, the remaining coins from the Lord Stewartby Collection, which Spink have had the pleasure of selling throughout 2016-17, and a collection of Historical Medals. Spink have seen many Celtic coins in the auction room, but there are some spectacular examples to be found from lots 1 68. Most of the coins were found recently by some very lucky metal detectorists. From amongst this fine array lot 4 is particularly worth a mention, it is a Cantii, uninscribed coinage (c. 50-25BC), silver Unit and very rare. It was found in Kent and recorded with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This specimen is of particular numismatic interest ... More | |
Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944). Reverend and Mrs. Landers, Hughes, Arkansas, 1969. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Eugene Richards. © Eugene Richards.
ROCHESTER, NY.- Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time, an exhibition co-organized by the George Eastman Museum and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, explores Eugene Richardss career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer from 1968 to the present. The Run-On of Time is the first museum retrospective devoted to Richardss work and opened at the George Eastman Museum on June 10. The exhibition remains on view through October 22. For more than forty years, photographer Eugene Richards has explored complicated subjects such as racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. Until now, his work has been known primarily through international news and media outlets, for which he created ... More | |
A pair of Sèvres hard-paste vases, circa 1778. Estimated £70,000-90,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A rare pair of late 18th century Sèvres hard-paste vases, made for a member of the Court of Louis XVI at Versailles, lead Bonhams Fine European Ceramics sale on Wednesday 14 June 2017. Once in the collection of the Earls Spencer, they are estimated at £70,000-90,000. Only 13 vases of this style were ever made by the Sèvres porcelain factory. They were manufactured to order between 1778 and 1779, and buyers included the King himself, and his aunt, Madame Victoire. It is believed that the pair of vases in the Bonhams sale was bought by the king and presented to his sister in law, the Comtesse dArtois. The vases were decorated by the prominent gilder, Jean-Jacques Dieu, whose name appears in the archives of the Sèvres porcelain manufactory between 1777 and 1811. They are richly decorated with chinoiserie sea battles one ship on each vase bears a shield with the French ... More |
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Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta announced as winners of the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2018
LONDON.- Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta are today announced recipients of the fifth edition of the Jerwood/FVU Awards. The project has awarded £20,000 to each artist, both within the first five years of their practice, to develop significant new moving-image works. The finished films will be shown from 6 April to 3 June 2018 at Jerwood Space, London, before touring across the UK. The 2018 curatorial theme Unintended Consequences addresses how the best-laid plans can unravel and well-intentioned actions can provoke unexpected side-effects. In an echo of this theme, and at a moment when world events are so volatile and turbulent that its hard to predict what might happen next, the two artists proposals reflect the complex, entangled nature of contemporary experience. Highlighting the whirring presence of wind turbines in the landscape, Maeve ... More
Paintings by Fritz Bultman dominate the list of top lots at Bruneau & Co. auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Abstract expressionist paintings by American artist Fritz Bultman (1919-1985) dominated the list of top lots at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Summer Antiques & Fine Art Auction held June 3rd, online and in the firms Cranston gallery. The sale consisted of over 400 lots of original artwork, vintage lamps, American and European bronze sculptures and art glass. There were five works by Bultman up for bid, all part of a larger collection owned by Ruth Latta of Provincetown, Mass. The sales two top lots were both large collages of painted papers by Bultman, one titled Cape May II ($23,750) and the other Insectual ($22,500). A third work, an untitled oil on canvas by Bultman, acquired from the artist directly and done in 1960, hit $8,750. That the Bultman paintings did so well came as no real surprise. As a painter, sculptor and collagist, and a member ... More
San Sebastian's Kubo-kutxa gallery opens an anthological exhibition of painter Rafael Ruiz Balerdi
SAN SEBASTIÃN.- The Kubo-kutxa gallery in San Sebastián is hosting Balerdi (1934-1992), a retrospective of Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, one of the greatest Basque artists of the 20th century. The exhibition endeavours to include the best of his work, looking at his mature periods and the techniques he favoured most: oils, pastels known as chalks and drawings. Curated by Javier Viar Olloqui, director until this year of the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao and a great expert of his work, the show is intended to be a tribute to the artist in his hometown 25 years after his death. The exhibition runs from 9th June to 24th September 2017. The show gather 98 works, dating from 1955 until 1992, the year the artist died in Alicante following a serious domestic accident. Rafael Ruiz Balerdi, born in San Sebastian in 1934, belonged to a second generation of Basque artists who made ... More
Huis Marseille opens exhibition of works by Juul Kraijer
AMSTERDAM.- Every living form conceals a world that can fill us with utter astonishment. The true artist is one who can open our eyes to the infinities that underlie the apparent simplicity of ordinary things. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite, wrote the 18th-century English poet William Blake. And the 20th-century French writer Colette wondered: Where will it end if, little by little, we peel away appearances and encounter the life beneath their impassiveness, a nervous system beneath the bark, the capacity to suffer in something we believed to be insensitive? How long can we call something yet unknown, inconceivable?* It is through an artists perception that we are sometimes granted a glimpse of the unimaginable. The artist nourishes our astonishment by creating a world, through the artwork, that challenges ... More
Collaborative contemporary art practice Troika opens first exhibition with Galerie Ron Mandos
AMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos is presenting Glitches - Troikas first exhibition at the gallery. Troika is a collaborative contemporary art practice formed in 2003 by Eva Rucki (b. 1976, Germany), Conny Freyer (b. 1976, Germany) and Sebastien Noel (b. 1977, France). Glitches brings Troikas site-specific installation Limits of a Known Territory (2015) to Europe for the first time, to be shown alongside new and recent bodies of work. The exhibited works stem from Troikas continuing interest in reductionism and emergence. Incorporating various methods of, and allusions to separation, the works collectively investigate the deviation from a singular interpretation of the world, and explore, through various physical shifts, the division between subjective point of view and objective truth. The works act as a filter by which reality is a simulation and technology is the lens through ... More
Artworks by Rucker, Rodrigue, Berrocal, others will come up for bid in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- A pair of 20th century Italian-style composition Blackamoor torchieres, a mid-19th century French three-piece gilt and patinated bronze and white marble clock set, a large pair of French carved giltwood Corinthian columns, and an oil on canvas painting by Louisiana artist Robert M. Rucker (1932-2000) will all come up for bid June 24th and 25th in New Orleans. Theyre a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys June Estates Auction, a summer sale packed with over 1,000 premium lots in the categories people have come to expect from Crescent Citys major two-day auction events: French and American period furniture, original artwork by New Orleans and regional artists, fine jewelry and decorative accessories. Headlining the auction are estate items from Mt. Hope Plantation in Mississippi. Nearly 100 lots about 10 percent ... More
40-year collection of Revolutionary War guns & weapons leads Milestone's June 24 auction
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- On June 24, 2017, Milestone Auctions of Willoughby (suburban Cleveland), Ohio will present its much-anticipated Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction, highlighted by an outstanding 40-year collection of guns, tomahawks and accoutrements of the Revolutionary War era. Over 400 lots will be offered at the Saturday event, with a timeline that tracks 200 years of American military history, from the War of Independence through Vietnam. The auction lineup is packed with rarities, starting with the aforementioned American Revolutionary collection, which contains museum-quality muskets, flintlock pistols, plug bayonets, powder horns, swords, knives, halberds, axes, tomahawks, Indian relics and more. It is a very important collection from a northeast Pennsylvania man whose name is known to those in the hobby. His collection has been published ... More
Bonnie Parker's three-headed snake ring made by Clyde Barrow among items up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- Bonnie Parkers silver-toned three-headed snake ring made by Clyde Barrow is among items belonging to Bonnie and Clyde that will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction as part of its Gangsters, Outlaws and Lawmen live auction event on June 24. The ring features green and red jewels, crafted for her by Clyde Barrow while he was imprisoned in Texas; and was recovered from their disabled vehicle by Sheriff Smoot Schmid after the Sowers Raid in 1933. Although Bonnie and Clyde had robbed jewelry stores during their spree, this ring can be directly attributed to Clydes craftsmanship-inside the band is his personal hallmark, a musical note struck by an arrow. Playing music was one of Clydes favorite pastimes, and he was famously toting his alto saxophone with his arsenal when he was killed; the arrow in his makers mark may be that of Cupid, ... More
Ottocento Art Gallery unveils a 1960s masterpiece by Achille Perilli
ROME.- During the 1960s, Achille Perilli, with the famous "Comics", revised in the abstract key the American Pop Art strips, dealt with the mnemonic theme by elaborating fragment-based painting, aimed at expanding the structural elements of the work towards a persistent narration: the space escapes the temptation of the eye to perceive and migrate to imagination, conceiving a "painting of hypotheses more than of forms: of hypotheses of any functions disposed over the reality no longer dialectically or opposed but in terms of equivalence. The period of "comics" coincides with a series of events that animate the cultural Rome of that time: the idea of "writing", matured in 1957 with the concomitant birth of "Modern Experience", compares with literary - artistic ferments that were thought as a revolutionary approach to social reality. It is no coincidence that this editorial initiative finds ... More
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opens Summer Exhibitions 2017
BOULDER, COLO.- Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art announces three related exhibitions as part of the summer 2017 exhibition cycle: Tram Pam Pam by artist Dasha Shishkin in the West Gallery; Walk the Distance and Slow Down, selections from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey in the East Gallery; and cae a plomo (desde el fondo del tiempo) / falls to lead (from the depths of time) by artist Mauro Giaconi in the Union Works Gallery. The exhibitions are on display June 9September 10, 2017. Moscow-born artist Dasha Shishkins solo exhibition, Tram Pam Pam, is a whimsical leap into a world between painting and drawing where the delights and follies of human nature are performed in vivid color and imagination. The exhibition presents a site-specific arrangement of past works and new creations within one large installation. Born to a puppeteer father ... More
Summer museum exhibition explores environmental trauma
NORMAN, OKLA.- An Oklahoma boomtown, once responsible for billions of dollars of zinc and ore during both World Wars, now sits vacant and uninhabitable after a series of environmental catastrophes. Picher, Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory and Trauma gives insight into the devastation caused by depleting natural resources in the nations heartland. The summer exhibition of photography and found objects opens Tuesday, June 13, at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus. The exhibition explores the dissolution of Picher after its designation as part of the 1983 Tar Creek Superfund Site and tornado disaster in 2008. What began as an initial visit to Picher, shortly after an F4 tornado forced residents to abandon the damaged remains of their town, turned into a nine-year project for photographer Todd Stewart. For many ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable was born June 11, 1776. John Constable (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home -- now known as "Constable Country" -- which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling". In this image: Weymouth Bay (c. 1816).
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