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John Craxton, Still Life with Three Sailors, 1980-85 (detail). Tempera on canvas. Private Collection, UK. © 2018 Craxton Estate/DACS.
LONDON.- The influence of modern Greece on the lives and work of three influential artists is explored in a new exhibition at the British Museum this spring. Charmed lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor (8 March 15 July 2018) examines the enduring friendship between Greek painter Niko Ghika, British painter John Craxton, and British writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor. All three made homes in Greece, which are an integral part of the exhibition. The show brings together their artworks, photographs, letters and personal possessions in the UK for the first time. The three men met at the end of the Second World War, becoming lifelong friends and spending much of their subsequent lives in Greece. Their shared love of the Hellenic world was fundamental to their work, as they embraced the sights, sounds, colours and people of Greek life. Together they contributed to a golden age of Anglo-Greek artistic and literary collaboration. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Some sheets of music which had been missing are seen during the 'World Premiere' of seven pieces by Hungarian pianist and composer Ferenc Liszt in the concert hall of Ferenc Liszt's last Budapest flat where the composer lived between 1881 and 1886. The original handwriting of Liszt scores were bought by the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum costing some 21 million Hungarian forint (about 70,000 euro). ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP
| Exhibition at Chester Beatty Library focuses on a masterpiece of fifteenth-century illumination | | Exhibition at the Linda Pace Foundation focuses on the female figure | | Kunsthaus Zürich presents 'Magritte, Dietrich, Rousseau. Visionary Objectivity' |
The manuscript is made from parchment and comprises 364 folios, each illuminated with decorative borders.
DUBLIN.- A masterpiece of fifteenth-century illumination, the Coëtivy Hours is one of the Treasures of the Librarys Western Collection. To celebrate the 50th-anniversary of Chester Beattys Gift to the Irish Nation, the Library is presenting a special exhibition focusing on a manuscript given by Edith Beatty to her husband. It was produced in Paris (1443-1445) for Prigent de Coëtivy, bibliophile and Admiral of France, to mark the occasion of his marriage to Marie de Rais. The manuscript is made from parchment and comprises 364 folios, each illuminated with decorative borders. In addition, it includes 148 three-quarter page miniatures painted in demi-grisaille. Vibrant blues, reds and greens and an abundance of gold make each page pop and sparkle. Youll wonder at the imagination of the medieval mind as you look closer at the inhabitants of the borders: a symphony of birds, insects and animals, saints, supplicants and sinners and d ... More | |
Lara Schnitger, Dix-huit+, 2005. Lycra, stencil on fabric, ribbon, wood and pins, 114 x 79 x 47 in. © Lara Schnitger. Linda Pace Foundation Collection.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Reclaimed is an all-female exhibition that embraces the themes of nature, the body and diversity. The conversation is clear, women are reclaiming their bodies, people are denouncing being color blind and reclaiming their race. The subject matter of the exhibition focuses on the female figure in many cases immersed in nature. With signs of global warming, society is realizing the importance of reconnecting with nature. This exhibition illuminates the ideas of being present and connected with our bodies and Mother Nature. This selection of black and white photography and film, cast sculpture and drawing show a divergence from the Foundations typical exhibition of more experimental use of media and harks back to more traditional methods of creating fine art. This unexpected selection of classical forms of art without the use of color will give guests an idea of the depth and variedness ... More | |
Camille Bombois, Self-portrait, undated. Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 54 cm. Kunsthaus Zürich, donated by Mrs. Dr. M. Meyer-Mahler and Mrs. Marian von Castelberg-Meyer, 1987 © 2018 ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 9 March to 8 July 2018 the Kunsthaus Zürich showcases 56 works of representational painting spanning the years 1890 to 1965. Common to all of them is an objectivity that is also visionary: emerging on the cusp of modernity, it runs through Böcklin and Vallotton, the naïve artists and painters of New Objectivity, to the Surrealism of Dalà and Magritte. This new exhibition at the Kunsthaus revisits a form that, like abstraction, was crucial to Classical Modernism: representational art. By the mid-19th century, as modern painting begins to take shape, the focus of attention is already shifting from content towards artistic means. Ãdouard Manet attaches great importance to peinture the painterly while Paul Cézannes taches, or patches of colour, aim not to depict the real world but instead to confer reality upon the image itself. This central idea is carried through into the Cu ... More |
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| Centre Pompidou exhibits works by one of the key modernists of Southeast Asia | | Museum presents major exhibition of Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin | | Bundeskunsthalle exhibits recently acquired works for the Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Latiff Mohidin, Neo Pago, 1967. Acrylic on canvas, 153 x 122 cm. Private collection.
PARIS.- As part of a new collaboration, the Centre Pompidou and the National Gallery Singapore are presenting an exhibition on the artist Latiff Mohidin, one of the key modernists of Southeast Asia. «Latiff Mohidin. Pago Pago (1960-1969)» is an extension of the innovative project «Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond», co-produced with the Centre Pompidou and presented at the National Gallery Singapore in 2016, with a crossover approach to modern creation in Europe and Southeast Asia. Commenting on the exhibition, Serge Lasvignes, President of the Centre Pompidou, emphasised that «Latiff Mohidin. Pago Pago (1960-1969) is further proof of our desire to link up with major institutions all over the world. Our collaboration with the National Gallery Singapore on Reframing Modernism was an important event for us, opening new perspectives on the dialogue of ... More | |
John Ruskin (1819 1900), Ravine at Maglans, c. 1849. Pencil, black and brown ink and gouache, 11 x 8 3/8 inches. Ruskin Foundation (Ruskin Library, Lancaster University) (RF 946).
WILMINGTON, DEL.- "Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating," wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists to simply, "hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it." Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, and Wyeth after the World Wars, the two artists shared a life-long obsession with the close observation of nature. The exhibition Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin, on view March 10 - May 27, 2018, explores how both artists portrayed nature and the environment during tumultuous eras in human history. Eye on Nature, organized by Margaretta S. Frederick, the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection at the Delaware Art Museum, presents ... More | |
Michael Pfrommer, Untitled, 2014. Watercolour and India ink on paper on cotton fabric, verso drawing on cotton fabric, 39 x 29 cm. Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany © Michael Pfrommer, courtesy Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt.
BONN.- Germany is not an island this quotation is not attributed to anyone in particular, but, nonetheless, has been used by many public figures in a variety of contexts. Art does not need any kind of societal consensus or agreement in order to function, it is, above all, independent. Art often looks for confrontation with conventional viewpoints and ideas, opening up new spaces that challenge us to be more tolerant, accepting and open to reflection. When applied to this exhibition, it seeks to centre the idea of Germany as a multi-cultural place, somewhere where everyone is welcome., Rein Wolfs, director of the Bundeskunsthalle. The exhibition showcases 150 of 172 selected works (of 172 in total) by 81 artists, whose work has been ... More |
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| The Whitney opens a major mid-career survey of the work of Zoe Leonard | | Paul Kasmin Gallery opens an exhibition of new sculpture by Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin | | Exhibition featuring new and recent works by five New York-based artists on view at the FLAG Art Foundation |
Zoe Leonard, detail of You see I am here after all, 2008. 3,851 vintage postcards, 11 Ã 10 1/2 Ã 147 ft. (3.35 Ã 3.2 Ã 44.8 m) overall. Installation view, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, 2008. Collection of the artist; courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne. Photograph by Bill Jacobson, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- A major mid-career survey of the work of Zoe Leonard, one of the foremost artists of her generation, is on view at the Whitney. Zoe Leonard: Survey is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where it will make its West Coast debut following the Whitneys presentation. The exhibition is the first to assess the extraordinary range of the artists achievements over more than three decades of her career to date. Zoe Leonard (b. 1961, Liberty, New York) has made photographs, sculptures, and installations that are celebrated for their lyrical observations of daily life, as well as for their rigorous, questioning attention to the politics and conditions of image making and display. Her work is wide-ranging in both form and subject matter, and addresses themes ... More | |
Saint Clair Cemin, Sphinx, 2017, wire steel armature + plasterline to be cast in bronze, 12 x 16 x 12 inches, 30.5 x 40.6 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery. © the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new sculpture by Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin. This is Cemins fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Oedipus takes on the renowned and influential Greek tragedy in order to interrogate the commanding force that human action can impose over what we perceive to be destiny. Furthering the artists investigation into the symbolism of ancient mythology, the exhibition presents a new, twenty-part work alongside the sculptures that act as monuments to the power of language and family. The exhibition is on view at the gallerys 293 Tenth Ave location between March 8 - April 14, 2018. The exhibitions title work, Oedipus, functions as its focal point and represents Cemins first exploration into the form of narrative sculpture; a traditional folk practice popular in his native Northeastern Brazil. Twenty sculptural ... More | |
Sam Moyer, Spencertown, 2018. Stone, marble, hand painted canvas mounted to MDF panel, 56 x 42 5/16 inches. Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Painting/Object: Sarah Crowner, N. Dash, Sam Moyer, Julia Rommel, Erin Shirreff, on view February 23May 19, 2018, on its 10th floor. The exhibition features new and recent works by five New York-based contemporary artists who draw upon Ellsworth Kellys legacy in their varied practices. Painting/Object coincides with FLAGs exhibition Ellsworth Kelly, curated by Jack Shear, on its 9th Floor. The title of the exhibition refers to a phrase used by Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) to describe Window, Museum of Modern Art, 1949, the first work in which he combined multiple relief panels to create one image: It is the replica of a window that does not exist as either window or painting but as painting/object the flattening of the forms in paintings condenses vision and presents a three-dimensional world reduced ... More |
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| Towner Art Gallery invites the visitor to inhabit the gallery spaces | | Laurence Miller Gallery opens first exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela | | Lisson Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ryan Gander |
Derrick Greaves, Abstract Painting with fruit, 1979. Towner Collection Eastbourne. Courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London.
EASTBOURNE.- Eastbournes Towner Art Gallery is presenting an exhibition entitled Inhabit: composing settings from the Towner Collection, curated entirely using works from the gallerys extensive collection of historic, modern and contemporary art. Running from 17 February - 13 May, this conceptual installation of paintings, sculptures and prints invites the visitor to inhabit the gallery spaces as they move through three defined settings. These immersive environments, created through the juxtaposition of the art works, inspire the imagination and encourage the viewer to find hidden connections by altering their perspective. Visitors enter into a monochrome landscape where the towns folk are noticeably absent; evidence of urbanisation waits patiently for new inhabitants ... More | |
Barricade No. 5, 2017. Archival pigment print, 55 x 45".
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery is presenting INTERVENTION, the gallerys first exhibition of 35-year-old Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela. This show features selected photographs from three recent bodies of work: General Song, Hedonic Reversal, and Trophy Room. Born in Chile in 1982, Valenzuela came of age during the brutal military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, an era when dissent was forcefully silenced by the government. After earning a BFA degree in Santiago, he migrated to the US via Canada, finding work as an undocumented day laborer in janitorial and construction jobs. These formative experiences are artfully distilled in his work. As he describes it, My story is essentially one of coming from a blue-collar family, a family of workers. As a worker myself, I want to make a larger statement about everyday life. He continues: Gestures of alienation ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- Ryan Ganders sixth exhibition with Lisson Gallery draws on notions of time and its passage. With a philosophical overture and a sharp existential focus, the exhibition illustrates the innate ability of all things, in both physics and the wider human context, to naturally self-right themselves. Drawing on the simple yet profound advice given by his father Let the world take a turn Gander encourages the viewer to sit back and watch, to observe, and allow for a natural course of action, as time has power: to heal, transform, shift perceptions and elicit change. Rather than trying to control time, to stop it or to change it, Gander embraces a more laisse faire attitude. Things change as the world changes, while everything stays the same, and if we are open to this approach, we can see the world, and our place it in, in a more honest and empathetic light. A cube made entirely of ... More |
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Daylight Books to publish "A Handful of Dust" by Nish Nalbandian
NEW YORK, NY.- Award-winning photographer Nish Nalbandian spent three years documenting life and war in Northern Syria from the frontlines to the everyday lives of people struggling to survive amid the ruins. A selection of photographs from this powerful body of work were published in Nalbandian's critically acclaimed first monograph A Whole World Blind (Daylight, 2016). In 2014, as the situation in Syria escalated and it was becoming too dangerous to stay there, Nalbandian decided to shift his focus to another story close by: the lives of the nearly three million Syrian refugees still living in southern Turkey. Nalbandian's humanistic portraits of Syrians in Turkey are published in his second book: A Handful of Dust (Daylight Books, April 2018). While most Western media was covering the "Migrant Crisis" of 2015 when over a million Syrian refugees crossed into Europe, Nalbandian spent several ... More
Tyler Museum of Art ushers in spring with 'Sticks and Stones: Works by Helen Altman'
TYLER, TX.- The Tyler Museum of Art celebrates the arrival of springtime with a quarter-century survey in the career of one of the most diverse and prolific contemporary Texas artists. Sticks and Stones: Works by Helen Altman opens to the public Sunday, March 11 and continues through June 3 in the TMAs Bell Gallery. Admission is free. The exhibition, organized by the TMA and curated by Caleb Bell, features more than 40 pieces spanning a dynamic body of work by Altman, a Fort Worth-based artist noted for her ability to move between various series across an eclectic array of media. Sticks and Stones particularly focuses on her fascination with flora and fauna, which have been a much-appreciated constant in my life, the artist said. They have been a constant source of joy and also a source of coping. Altmans specific choices of media throughout her career blankets, ... More
Exhibition focuses on two of the most important figures of the Polish avant-garde
MALMO.- Moderna Museet Malmö focuses on Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, two of the most important figures of the Polish avant-garde of the 1920s1940s. Their work can be described as a well-kept secret in the history of modernism outside of Poland. The exhibition Kobro & Strzemiński: New Art in Turbulent Times is the first comprehensive presentation of the two artists in Sweden. Katarzyna Kobro (18981951) and Władysław Strzemiński (18931952) appeared and were active in a turbulent time marked by the October Revolution in Russia, the two world wars, and the horrendous consequences these circumstances led to in Poland and the rest of Europe, changing both the political and artistic climate. Kobro and Strzemiński were born in Russia and moved among the radical Russian avant-garde circles that included Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander ... More
Major new installation by Cerith Wyn Evans unveiled in Cardiff
CARDIFF.- The internationally acclaimed artist Cerith Wyn Evans unveiled a major new neon sculpture at National Museum Cardiff. The work, Radiant fold ( the Illuminating Gas) (2017/18), has been created specifically for Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum Wales and is the second donation made through the Contemporary Art Societys Great Works scheme. Radiant fold ( the Illuminating Gas) draws inspiration from the mysterious forms in Marcel Duchamp's iconic work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1915-23). Three vast discs in bright white neon recreate the forms of Duchamps original into three-dimensional and multi-dimensional objects. Suspended from the ceiling at a skewed angle and developed with reference to the architecture and history of the museum, the work imposes a foreshortened perspective, evoking unfamiliar registers ... More
Farah Atassi's second personal exhibition in Brussels on view at Michel Rein
BRUSSELS.- Michel Rein gallery is presenting Farah Atassis second personal exhibition in Brussels. Farah Atassis work hasnt stopped taking us along a journey through the History of Art since 2008. Her painting dialogues both with figuration, abstraction and ornamental patterns. The first interpretation of Atassis painting is frontal as the eye perceives at first global information before focusing on details to finally reconstruct the whole work. Here we get closer to the optical art field even though we perceive cubism, pointillism, suprematism, geometrical abstraction and the universe of Ettore Stoosass in Atassis work. Each area on the picture is painted with geometrical patterns, objects, artists daily instruments such as a palette, which brings us to another dimension : the dimension of a long and hard-built architecture. Architecture of a place, but also of objects. ... More
American car collection in Paris for sale with H&H Classics
LONDON.- There is nothing like arriving in Europe to make a foreign national appreciate his own culture and realize that he is now that strange thing - a foreign alien. So it is no surprise that an American in Paris spent years collecting classic cars and trucks from his native land, vehicles that spoke to him intimately of his own heritage. Now he is selling this wonderful collection of six remarkable American cars and trucks ranging in age from 1913 to 1951 with H&H Classics on March 21st 2018 at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford in Cambridgeshire. Damian Jones, Head of Sales at H&H Classics, says of the collection: They are all interesting vehicles with unusual provenance and history. Supplied new to the proprietor of a steam locomotive company in North Georgia and purchased from his son by the vendor. Extensively restored to as near original specification as possible ... More
'Table Manners: Art, Theater and Food' on view at the University Gallery in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV.- Table Manners is a unique project at the University Gallery, on art, theater and food. The exhibition engages with food and its place in culture and presents works of art that reflect social behavior through one of the most basic human activities. The art exhibition and the theater plays accompanying it examine the tension between primal instincts and bodily sensations linked to food and its refinement, design and aesthetization. Table Manners is the product of a collaboration between the department of Art History and the department of Theater Arts at the Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University. Its head curators are Chair of the Art History Department, Dr. Sefy Hendler and Chair of the Theater Arts Department, Dr. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi. Table Manners includes an exhibition of contemporary art by Israeli and international artists curated by NIrith Nelson, the staging ... More
Exhibition highlights Medardo Rosso's complex creative process
GHENT.- Italian artist Medardo Rosso (18581928) is hailed as the pioneer of modern sculpture. At the crossroads of two centuries, Rosso stands as the forefather of Futurism. He influenced the libertarian art movements of the 1960s. The Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) Ghents exhibition sheds light on the creative process of one of the major figures of late 19th- early 20th-century art. Rossos work has not been shown in Belgium since 1909. The exhibition highlights Rossos complex creative process, especially his explorations of the limits of form and materiality, which resulted in endless versions of his own works. Rosso was not a sculptor in the traditional sense. Eschewing wood and stone, he worked with soft materials such as clay and wax which lent themselves to the rendering of ephemeral effects and subtle forms. He produced multiple versions of his works, constantly ... More
Gemeentemuseum opens exhibition of chairs from the collection of Richard Hutten
THE HAGUE.- Richard Hutten not only designs chairs, he also collects them. Since he graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 1990 he has been buying unusual chairs, or exchanging them with designer friends for his own designs. His collection now numbers more than a hundred items, from prototypes to the great design classics, from graduation projects to unique pieces. From March the Gemeentemuseum is showing Huttens personal collection alongside chairs of his own design, like the Berlage chair based on a chair designed by architect H.P. Berlage. The exhibition includes playful contemporary and conceptual designs by famous names from the Netherlands and abroad, each with its own personal story. Richard Hutten Sit! features a hundred chairs that matter, according to this Dutch designer, whether because of their cutting-edge design or because ... More
Barbara Carrasco Mural "L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective" comes to NHMLA
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is presenting Sin Censura: A Mural Remembers L.A. featuring Chicana artist Barbara Carrascos landmark 1981 mural L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective, on view March 9, 2018 to August 18, 2018. This is the first time the full length of the mural, which portrays the citys history through a series of vignettes woven into the flowing hair of la reina de Los Ãngeles (the queen of Los Angeles), is being shown inside a museum setting, presented across three walls of an intimate gallery to bring visitors eye-level with the 80-foot panoramic work. The rarely exhibited mural was most recently on view last fall at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles as part of the Getty-led initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The installation includes a 70 digital touchscreen offering visitors the opportunity ... More
Solo exhibition of new work by Eva Rothschild opens at Stuart Shave/Modern Art
LONDON.- Modern Art announces a solo exhibition of new work by Eva Rothschild. This is Rothschilds fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Eva Rothschilds work has developed out of the legacy of the modernist sculptural tradition, in particular the formal languages of such artists as Barbara Hepworth and Eva Hesse, both of whom, in their own ways, were committed to studying sculptures capacity to create bodily encounters in space. Similarly, for Rothschild, scale, mass, volume and materiality are central components of her sculptural lexicon, but so are humour, illusion and ritual. Rothschilds work - which is made out of materials such as jesmonite, Perspex, steel, leather, incense and beads - is concerned with how certain qualities of corporeality might be invested with spiritual meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out of formal arrangements. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer David LaChapelle was born March 11, 1963. David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, and film director. American photographer David LaChapelle looks on during the media preview of his exhibition "After the Deluge" at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni on April 29, 2015 in Rome. AFP PHOTO / GABRIEL BOUYS.
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