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German artist Georg Baselitz poses in front of his drawing "Hokusai und ein Paar" (Hokusai and a couple) at the Kupferstich-Kabinett on March 2, 2018 in Dresden, eastern Germany, on the eve of the opening of the exibition titled "Baselitz Maniera: Nonconformism as a Source of Imagination", focusing on his reception of Mannerism. The exhibition takes place from March 3 to May 27, 2018 as Georg Baselitz celebrates his 80th birthday in 2018. Sebastian Kahnert / dpa / AFP.
DRESDEN.- Georg Baselitz (born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony) is considered one of the worlds greatest masters of contemporary painting. This mastery is also reflected in an especially subtle manner in his graphic art. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Kupferstich-Kabinett (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs) at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) is holding a large exhibition presenting a selection of his graphic works from the past five decades in context with German, Italian and Dutch Old Master prints. It is focused on, but not restricted to, Mannerism. The exhibition Baselitz Maniera Nonconformism as a source of imagination is showing a total of 143 pieces from the Kupferstich-Kabinetts own archive, from the collection of Günther and Annemarie Gercken, from the G. and A. Gercken Foundation at the SKD and from Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich. This concentrated selection s ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on February 26, 2018, shows Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting inside a XRF macro-scanner during a research at Het Mauritshuis in The Hague. Bart MAAT / ANP / AFP
| The Vancouver Art Gallery presents five centuries of remarkable art in two distinct exhibitions | | The Cleveland Museum of Art presents "Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe" | | Significant collection of Asian art makes its US debut at the Kimbell |
Otto Dix, Portrait of Anna Grünebaum, 1926. Oil, tempera and gesso on wood panel Levy Bequest Purchase, with the assistance of the Government of Canada through a Department of Canadian Heritage, Cultural Property Export Review Board Purchase Grant, 1993. McMaster Museum of Art © Estate of Otto Dix/SODRAC (2018).
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting two exhibitions drawn from the collection of the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario, on view from March 3 to May 21, 2018. We are thrilled to share these two extraordinary collections from The McMaster Museum of Art, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. These iconic works of art are a true embodiment of European Impressionism and Expressionism. Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism uses the German Expressionist collection from the McMaster Museum of Art to explore the development of Expressionism in art from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The term Expressionism is invariably associated with the period of art and social activism in Germany between 1905 and 1937, encompassing visual art, ... More | |
Detail of The Procession on the Feast Day of Saint Roch, about 1735. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, 16971768). Oil on canvas; 147.7 x 199.4 cm. The National Gallery, London, Wynn Ellis Bequest, 1876, NG937. Image © The National Gallery, London.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe showcases outstanding masterworks by revered artists who recorded some of the most newsworthy events and impressive spectacles of eighteenth-century Europe. Whether depicting a triumphal procession, a joyous celebration, or the catastrophic eruption of a volcano, the vibrant, colorful, and often monumental paintings in Eyewitness Views re-create what it was like to witness these magnificent occasions. Featuring nearly 40 richly detailed master paintings that utilize the impressive monuments of Venice, Rome, Paris, Warsaw, and other European cities as a backdrop, Eyewitness Views is the first exhibition to exclusively examine view paintingsfaithful depictions of a given localeas representations of contemporary (eighteenth-century) historical events. While costumes and customs illustrated in the paintings ... More | |
Bodhisattva. China. Song dynasty, c. 1125. Polychromed wood. The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection. Photo by Thierry Ollivier.
FORT WORTH, TX.- This spring, the Kimbell Art Museum presents the U.S. debut of From the Lands of Asia: The Sam and Myrna Myers Collection. This exhibition will feature nearly 450 objects from this remarkable collection, with works representing key periods in the history of the art of China, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Korea and Vietnam. "In following their passion, Sam and Myrna Myers have assembled one of the finest Asian art collections ever amassed," commented Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. "These objects create a rich, complex and magical tapestry----a panoramic history of Asian cultures from ancient times to modern days." When Sam Myers was sent to Paris by his law firm in the mid-1960s, he and his wife Myrna became so enamored with the city that they decided to make it their home. There, over the course of 50 years, they built an extraordinary collection that until now has never been exhibited publicly ... More |
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| Art Gallery of Ontario is only Canadian stop for highly anticipated Yayoi Kusama exhibition | | kurimanzutto announces opening of project space in New York in May 2018 | | New research models how artists can benefit from retaining equity in work |
Yayoi Kusama. Infinity Mirrored Room The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013. Wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water, 287.7 à 415.3 à 415.3 cm. Courtesy of David Zwirner, N.Y. © Yayoi Kusama.
TORONTO.- Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors provides visitors with the unique opportunity to experience six of Kusamas most iconic kaleidoscopic environments at once, alongside large-scale, whimsical installations and key paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the present. It also marks the North American debut of numerous new works by the 87-year-old artist, who is still actively creating in her Tokyo studio. These include large-scale, vibrantly colored paintings and the recently realized infinity room, All the Eternal Love I have for Pumpkins (2016), featuring dozens of her signature bright yellow, dotted pumpkins. "This is a rare opportunity to celebrate a living artist whose radical yet playful vision has had an amazing influence on art, design and contemporary culture ... More | |
Mónica Manzutto and José Kuri. Courtesy kurimanzutto. Photo © Diego Pérez.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pioneering Mexico City-based contemporary gallery kurimanzutto announced it will open kurimanzutto new yorka new project space at 22 East 65th Street, New York, launching in May 2018. kurimanzutto was conceived by Gabriel Orozco, José Kuri and Mónica Manzutto in 1999 and was initially founded as a nomadic enterprise. Its projects occupied disparate spaces across the urban landscape of Mexico City, driven by a commitment to foster local, national, and global bridges for its artists. In the following years, kurimanzutto has evolved as a forum for institutional exhibitions and international representation, while maintaining its profoundly collaborative approach with artists. Inhabiting unlikely places and partnering with diverse cultural entities to break ground for conversations and narratives outside the traditional white-cube gallery space has always been an underlying principle of ... More | |
Amy Whitaker is an assistant professor of visual arts management at NYU Steinhardt and the studys lead author. Photo: Sheiva Rezvani.
NEW YORK, NY.- What would happen if the artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg had retained 10 percent equity in the artwork sold in the start-up phase of their careers? This question is the focus of a new study from the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in partnership with the University of Luxembourg introducing a novel investment framework to reflect the artists role as an early stage investor in their own work. The study finds that artists can reap significant financial rewards from holding an equity stake in their artworkcompared with investing the equivalent dollar amount in the S&P 500and is among the first to quantitatively test a retained equity model using first-sale prices alongside auction results. The fractional equity model represents a necessary structural correction to how we view artists. Art is currently priced and ... More |
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| Mexican directors dazzle abroad -- in Mexico, not so much | | A child's dress, a family memento of a former prisoner born in the camp, donated to museum collections | | Christie's London Interiors sale features property from Faringdon House |
In this file photo taken on March 09, 2016 Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron speaks during a conference in the framework of the 31st Guadalajara International Film Festival. HECTOR GUERRERO / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Mexican directors have won trophy cases full of the most prestigious awards in filmmaking over the past several years, but many of the country's most talented creative minds struggle to get their movies shown at home. The latest poster boy for Mexican cinema is Guillermo del Toro, whose movie "The Shape of Water" is the top contender going into Sunday's Oscars, with 13 nominations including best picture and best director. Del Toro is one of the "three amigos" in Mexican filmmaking along with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -- who won the best director Oscar in 2015 and 2016 with "Birdman" and "The Revenant" -- and Alfonso Cuaron, who won in 2014 with "Gravity." In the past four years, films by Mexican directors have scooped up a total of 15 Oscars, six Golden Globes and a host of film festival prizes. That ... More | |
Maria Romik.
OśWIęCIM.- A unique personal memento related to the fates of Maria Podstawna (previously Romik) and her mother Stefania was donated to the Auschwitz Museum Collections by Maria who was born at the German Nazi Auschwitz camp on 22 July 1943. The memento is a childs dress made by the mother for her one-year old daughter in 1944, just after their release from the camp. The Germans arrested the pregnant Stefania Romik in the winter of 1942. During the occupation, I was in Zakopane. In December 1942, I set out on a journey by train to Cracow. When the train arrived in Cracow, at the station in Borek Fałecki, it was encircled, and the passengers were instructed to get off, and taken to the Montelupich prison, - she wrote in her account. She was deported to Auschwitz in January 1943 in a transport of 515 women from the prisons in Tarnów and Cracow. She was registered as number 32354. We were led out on foot from the prison t ... More | |
A Continental Wind-up Gramophone, probably German, circa 1920. Estimate: £500-800. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- If only objects could speak, the contents from Faringdon House, Oxfordshire would tell a story filled with intrigue, eccentricity and flamboyance. This season, the focal point of Christies London Interiors Sale, 12 April 2018 will be contents from the home of Lord Berners. When the composer, painter, diplomat and writer fell in love with Robert "Mad Boy" Heber-Percy, the pair turned their Oxfordshire home into an extraordinary aesthetes' paradise. A genius entertainer, Nancy Mitford immortalised Berners in her novel The Pursuit of Love as the whimsical character Lord Merlin and claims that one of the greatest of his (Lord Berners) achievements was the atmosphere he created around himself at Faringdon, a house where the second best was never tolerated, either in comfort, conversation or in manners. This is also true in the company he kept. The house's visitors' books are filled ... More |
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| "Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection" on view at the Taubman Museum of Art | | Works from the Walid Juffali Collection shine at Bonhams Impressionist and Modern sale | | Iran acid attack victims find new identity in art |
Amy Sherald, All the Unforgotten Bliss (the Early Bird), 2017, Oil on canvas, 53 x 43 inches, Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, Courtesy of the Artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.
ROANOKE, VA.- The Taubman Museum of Art is presenting Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection that features over one hundred works from various media highlighting the global migration of peoples across the world. The exhibiting artists create work that investigates the universal conversation of migration, history, race and representation in art being made today. The exhibition captures the personal stories and collective histories of artists reflected through installations, videos, paintings and sculptures. Drawn from DeWoodys significant contemporary African diaspora collection, it features world renowned artists such as Willie Cole, Hank Willis Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Romare Bearden, Kehinde Wiley, Sanford Biggers, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA) among others working in a broad reach of media and conceptual ... More | |
Les Enfants by Foujita. Sold for £386,750. Part of the Walid Juffali collection that sold for more than £1.7m. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- There was fierce bidding for works from the Walid Juffali Collection at Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art sale yesterday evening (1 March). The collection made more than £1.7million 30 per cent higher than its top presale estimate - in a sale totalling £4,924,375. The 15 paintings came from the collection of the late Saudi Arabian businessman and art connoisseur, Walid Juffali. Highlights included: Les Enfants by Foujita which sold for £386,750 (estimate £70,000-90,000); Homme á lagneau et musician by Picasso which made £175,000 (estimate £120,000-180,000), and Gros oiseau, Picasso also by Picasso which sold for £150,000 (estimate £40,000-60,000). Bonhams Global Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, India Phillips said, Walid Juffali was one of Saudi Arabias most significant collectors. He had an astonishing eye for quality, and I was not surprised that the interest in the works was so strong and the prices ... More | |
A woman looks at art work made by Iranian victims of acid attacks at the Ashianeh gallery in Tehran on February 28, 2018. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
TEHRAN (AFP).- Massoumeh Attaie does not want to be defined only by the evil that drove her father-in-law to blind her with acid in her face. She wants to be known as an artist. The 35-year-old Iranian never got justice for the brutal attack eight years ago that left her permanently disfigured. Her father-in-law threw acid in her face because she had sought a divorce, but under Iran's Islamic law, her two eyes were worth only one of his. And in the end, the family threatened that the same punishment would befall her son if she pressed charges. "I chose my son over justice," she said - a terrible choice she says she has put behind her and refuses to let crush her spirit. This week she joined a group of other victims of acid attacks presenting their work at the Ashianeh gallery in Tehran to raise awareness and money. "I don't want to be known as a victim, I want to be known as an artist," she said. Attaie makes pottery, sculpted bowls and statuettes. ... More |
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Het Nieuwe Instituut opens " Dissident Gardens"
ROTTERDAM.- With the programme Dissident Gardens, Het Nieuwe Instituut explores the classic contrast between nature and culture and the changing role of design. In this context, the garden stands for the site where mans desire to control his environment collides with the forces of nature. Dissident Gardens includes an extensive programme of exhibitions in Gallery 1, including Biotopia, Smart Farming, Gardening Mars and Pleasure Parks and in Gallery 2 the exhibition The Human Insect: Antenna Architectures 1887-2017. Dissident Gardens is on view from March 4 to September 23, 2018. Dissident Gardens presents a range of influential approaches by designers, architects and artists to current developments in our relationship to nature. Some of the issues they raise include the far-reaching rationalisation of the agrarian landscape, Mars as the final utopia, the designer ... More
New body of work by Mark Steinmetz capturing world's busiest airport debut at High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art debuts more than 60 new works by Athens-based photographer Mark Steinmetz commissioned for its Picturing the South series in Mark Steinmetz: Terminus, on view March 3 through June 3, 2018. Established in 1996, Picturing the South is a distinctive initiative that asks noted photographers to turn their lenses toward the American South to create work for the Highs collection. For his commission, Steinmetz focused on air travel and Atlantas HartsfieldJackson International Airportthe most heavily trafficked airport in the world. Taking its title from Atlantas original name, the exhibition closely considers the activity and interactions that make the airport the crossroads of the New South. We are delighted to bring Steinmetzs work into the collection as part of our Picturing the South series, which exemplifies our dedication to ph ... More
Dutch artist Ted Noten exhibits in Maastricht
MAASTRICHT.- Museum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht presents an exhibition of Dutch artist and designer Ted Noten. With the oeuvre-exhibition 'TED', the museum shows the versatility of the idiosyncratic artist. Bags, jewelry, 3D-printed objects, but also installations, projections and photography. The exhibition, during and around the international TEFAF art fair, takes place from 1 March to 19 August 2018. The exhibition 'TED' gives the public the opportunity to take a tour through the creative brain of artist Ted Noten. The visitor begins in a waiting room and ends in a recovery room. The various cabinets and period rooms, that are so characteristic of Museum aan het Vrijthof, lend themselves perfectly to show a different aspect of the artist at every turn. In addition, new and unknown work of the artist will also exhibited. Ted Noten (1956 Swalmen, Limburg) is one of the ... More
"Conversation with the Body" opens at MACT/CACT Arte Contemporanea Ticino
BELLINZONA.- Discoursing about the body is tantamount for some to discussing incarnation between the spiritual and mystery-enshrouded dimension of birth and the no less mystery-enshrouded and enigmatic dimension of death: a short enough journey between an event with inexplicable features and another whose features are infinite. Thats how wed like to see ourselves when faced with the End, within the confines of a trail of psycho-corporal sufferings. A time lapse that construes our identification with the spirit become incarnate as a moment of experimentation of the consciousness and a biological continuation. Even nowadays, mysticism leaves no page unturned in its effort to find answers, in a terrain where because this is a question of faith there are no answers to be found. Faith exists: it is not open to question. And likewise the body as the incarnation ... More
Master ceramic artist Marc Leuthold's porcelain and stoneware sculptures on view at Throckmorton Fine Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Spencer Throckmorton has announced a special exhibition of master ceramic artist Marc Leutholds (b. 1962) acclaimed porcelain and stoneware sculptures during the Spring 2018 Asia show at Throckmorton Fine Art galleries in New York. The show is on view from March 1 to April 28 2018. Throckmorton says, Marc Leutholds sculptures have entered the collections of the Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums and the Museum of Art and Design. In 2017 Marc Leuthold spent three months as the awardee of a Blanc de Chine Artists Residency at the Wanqi Art Center. The award was sponsored by the Yishu-8 Foundation and Adam Yu of Beijing. Leuthold was nominated for the residency by artist and Dean Maiming of Tsinghua University, Beijing. We are delighted to be able to showcase this master ceramicists works. In an essay by Phong Bui on the ... More
Hirschl & Adler Modern opens a new home in the Fuller Building
NEW YORK, NY.- The tradition of bringing bread and salt to a new home signifies hospitality and luck. H&A Modern welcomes everyone to their new home in the Fuller Building with this inaugural exhibition, Bread & Salt. New works by gallery artists MarÃa Elena González, David Ligare, Andy Mister, John Moore, Stone Roberts, Elizabeth Turk, and others are on view. In addition, the gallery announced H&A Modern's representation of the Estates of Louisa Chase and Honoré Sharrer, and are presenting their work in this show. Throughout her career, Louisa Chase (1951-2016) remained a questing spirit, freely experimenting with various media. Her oeuvre incorporates a variety of approaches at different times, so that, despite having attracted a number of labels, such as "new image school" and "neo expressionist," there is no singular "Chase style." What never wavered ... More
The McMichael presents photographic works of Toronto's hip hop culture
KLEINBURG.- For the fifth consecutive year, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection is partnering with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, the worlds largest photography event, and will be a premier site for the Festival. The McMichael is presenting the exhibition Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Torontos Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital, featuring visual worksmany of which have never been publicly displayedof Toronto-based photographers in the 1990s and early 2000s who captured the essence of hip hop culture. The exhibition runs from March 3 to October 21. Everything Remains Raw excavates the works of film photographers whose archives of images were essential to the growth of Torontos hip hop communities in the 1990s, and unequivocally critical to imagining an expanded notion of Canadian art and culture we ... More
New exhibition at MAD explores the complexity of the US-Mexico border
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting La Frontera: Encounters Along the Border, an international exhibition of contemporary jewelry that explores the USMexico border as a complex landscape of human interaction. Running through September 23, the exhibition features forty-eight artists from the United States, Latin America, and Europe whose works expose the underlying currents of the border environment within geographic, ecological, political, economic, social, cultural, and ideological contexts. Spanning 1,989 miles, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, the USMexico frontera is the most frequently crossed border in the world, and the border zones are among the fastest-growing regions in both countries. The frontera, porous in nature,allows for the exchange of ideas, wealth, and culture; as s ... More
Jillian Mayer's first solo exhibition with Postmasters on view in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters is presenting Jillian Mayer's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Post Posture. There is a variation of Rudolph Zallinger's iconic "March of Progress" illustration that depicts the same progression with the addition of a final figure, hunched over a keyboard in front of a computer, its posture mirroring that of the ape at the beginning of the sequence. Its titled, "Something, somewhere went terribly wrong." Mayer responds to our postural decline with a positive solution: Slumpies. These utilitarian sculptures, which the artist began producing in 2016, accommodate and encourage cell phone usage. Each anticipates a particular gesture that is the result of holding a phone or digital device, giving shape to the negative space around a bodily form. Ranging in scale from tabletop to large-scale floor and wall pieces, made primarily of fiberglass and resin, ... More
Jonathan LeVine Projects opens first solo exhibition with John Jacobsmeyer
JERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting Great Feats and Defeats, an exhibition of work by John Jacobsmeyer in what is his debut solo show at the gallery. John Jacobsmeyers oil paintings depict a world made of plywood where competitors push the limits of human capability while engulfed by the intricate patterns and tones of timber. Inspired by videogame play and the subculture of American geekdom that revolves around gaming culture, Great Feats and Defeats depicts imaginative experiences that analyze contemporary digital modes of representation. Jacobsmeyer has had a unique fascination with wood since his childhood when hed visit his grandparents pine cabin during summer vacation. He describes, Rotary sawn pine plywood is cheap yet durable and along with being used as sub-flooring and fencing for construction sites, its ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Franz Marc died March 04, 2018. Franz Marc (8 February, 1880 - 4 March, 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.
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