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Giacometti and Bacon were concerned, throughout their lives, with the depiction of figures in space, through the three-dimensionality of sculpture and the two-dimensional medium of painting.
BASEL.- From April 29, 2018, the Fondation Beyeler is staging an exhibition devoted to Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon: two outstanding protagonists of modern art who were at once friends and rivals, and whose creative vision exerted a powerful influence that still persists today. This is the first-ever joint museum exhibition involving Giacometti and Bacon, illuminating the relationship between the two artistic personalities. Different as their art may at first appear, the dual presentation of their work reveals many striking similarities. The exhibition brings together well-known key works by both artists with other works that are rarely shownincluding, in particular, a series of original plaster figures from Giacomettis estate that have never been publicly displayed before, and four triptychs by Bacon. A multimedia room offers spectacular insights into the artists ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People take part in a nudist visit of the 'Discorde, Fille de la Nuit' season exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo museum in Paris on May 5, 2018. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
| Save Venice Inc. funds the restoration of Titian's 'Assumption of the Virgin' | | The J. Paul Getty Museum opens 'Pathways to Paradise: Medieval India and Europe' | | Early bird had teeth: study | 
Titian, Assunta and Frame. Before Restoration July 2017. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- Save Venice Inc., the American nonprofit organization, announces an historic restoration of Titians monumental Assumption of the Virgin on the high altar of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari on the 500th anniversary of the paintings unveiling (May 19, 1518), thanks to major funding from Mrs. Beatrice de Santo Domingo and the Jasmine Charity Trust in honor of Regina Jaglom Wachter. Painted from 1515-1518, Titians Assumption of the Virgin, popularly known as the Assunta, is the largest painting on wood panel in the world and among the most influential altarpieces in European art. Towering to more than 22 feet, the altarpiece is painted in oil on 22 horizontal poplar planks. The masterpiece is housed in a heavily decorated and imposing Istrian stone frame, attributed to Lorenzo and Giambattista Bregno and designed in collaboration with ... More | | 
Unknown, The Buddhist Goddess Vasudhara, 12th century. Gilt copper alloy inlaid with gemstones. H: 15.2 Ã W: 10.8 Ã D: 7.6 cm. Accession No. EX.2018.6.44 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Thousands of miles, harsh terrains, and diverse waterways separate India and Europe, and yet people and materials in these vast regions moved with great frequency during the medieval period. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal a dynamically interconnected world filled with real and imagined ideas about life on this earth and in spiritual states beyond. Drawn primarily from the Gettys permanent collection, with important loans from local institutions and private collections, Pathways to Paradise: Medieval India and Europe on view now through August 5 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, explores the ways decorated books and portable luxury objects reflected their owners ... More | | 
Palaeontologists say the first birds evolved from small, feathered dinosaurs possibly more than 100 million years ago.
PARIS (AFP).- A gull lookalike with teeth: scientists refined their description Wednesday of a fascinating fowl at the evolutionary junction between dinosaur and modern bird -- with skull features of both. Newly-discovered fossils show the extinct Icthyornis dispar, or "fish bird", had a mouth filled with sharp, curved teeth like those of a dinosaur, a team wrote in the scientific journal Nature. But the tip had been transformed into a sharp, toothless, "pincer-like" instrument -- the original bird beak. This was likely used for preening and handling objects after reptile arms turned into wings. "Holding and perforation of prey probably fell to the sizeable, reptilian tooth row retained," in this dino-bird, the researchers added. Palaeontologists say the first birds evolved from small, feathered dinosaurs possibly more than 100 million years ago. ... More |
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| The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents old and modern master drawings from Canada's most important private collection | | Works by leading contemporary artists debut at Newfields | | Japanese manga strip fetches record price at Paris auction | 
Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, 1882, watercolour over graphite, 42 x 28.4 cm. On loan from a private collection.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts recently unveiled 55 drawings spanning the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries from a Montreal private collection. As part of this exhibition, the MMFA is presenting some twenty other master drawings recently given to the Museum by the anonymous collector from artists including Delacroix, Greuze, Ingres and Romney. As the successor to the 2013 exhibition, From the Hands of the Masters II: From Parmigianino to Matisse brings together works on paper by such remarkable artists as François Boucher, Agostino and Annibale Carracci, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Juan Gris, Katsushika Hokusai, Victor Hugo, Henri Matisse, Jean-François Millet, Amadeo Modigliani, Gustave Moreau, Berthe Morisot, Parmigianino, Camille Pissarro, Giorgio Vasari, James McNeill Whistler, and Antoine Watteau. The subjects range from studies ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (American, 19281987), $ (Quadrant), 1982, ink on white Lennox Museum Board, screenprint, 39-7/8 à 31-3/4 in. (sheet). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of Kay Koch in memory of Bryan B. Molloy, 2016.104 © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Two of the largest gifts of modern and contemporary art in the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields history debuted in the new exhibition Collecting Contemporaries: Recent Acquisitions from the Koch and Wolf Collections, open May 4 through November 4, 2018. Longtime supporters Kay Koch and Joan and Walter Wolf each generously donated their impressive collections to the IMA to ensure that works on paper by many of the most influential artists in America, including Jasper Johns, Robert Longo, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Judy Pfaff, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol would be available to our community for generations to come. Koch and the Wolfs hope their passion for collecting works of art will ... More | | 
Osamo Tezuka, Astro Boy. Encre de Chine et aquarelle sur papier pour une planche publiée dans le magazine Shonen entre 1956 et 1957. Publié en anglais en 2002 chez Dark Horse, volume 4, page 25. Estimate: 40 000 / 60 000 / 49 000 74 000 $. Sold for: 269 400 / 323 280 $ © Artcurial.
PARIS (AFP).- A rare series of sketches of Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka's robot character Astro Boy sold for a record 269,400 euros in an auction in Paris Saturday. "It's a world record for this artist whose works are few in the market," said Eric Leroy, an expert on comic strips in the auction house Artcurial. The winning bid was five times the pre-sale estimate and Leroy put this down to "the rarity and exceptional character" of the China ink and water colour strip measuring 35 centimetres by 25 centimetres. It drawn at the end of the 1950s and comprises six panels showing Astro Boy fighting an enemy. The buyer was a "European collector who had been dreaming for a long time" of buying the sketch, he said. "Astro Boy is an emblematic work which has nursed a whole generation of ... More |
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| Exhibition at LACMA explores the intersection of past and present in Iranian art | | Ketterer Kunst to offer works from the collection of Dr. Hugo & Madeleine Simons | | Christie's announces highlights from its Photographs auction in London | 
Malekeh Nayiny, All in Pink, 2007, dye coupler print, 47 1/4 à 35 3/8 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by Nina Ansary, © Malekeh Nayiny.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, a groundbreaking exhibition of both historical and contemporary Iranian works that highlight ways in which artists have used and continue to use the past as a metaphor for the present day. This notion is revealed in art and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as examples of virtue or as objects of derision, while long-gone Shiite saints are evoked as champions of the poor and the oppressed. Particularly timely to American audiences is the exhibitions exploration of how Iranian artists negotiate the politically charged issues of governance and faith in creating objects both novel and relevant. The exhibition examines this appropriation of the past, ... More | | 
Emil Nolde, Mädchen mit blauem Haar, ca. 1920/1925. Watercolor, 46.5 x 35.7 cm / 18.3 x 14 inches. Estimate: 90,000-120,000.
MUNICH.- Otto Dix, Erich Heckel and Oskar Kokoschka are just some of the famous artists whose works were part of the renowned collection of Dr. Hugo and Madeleine Simons. Two watercolors from this top-class selection will now be called up at Ketterer Kunst in Munich in the auctions from 7-9 June. The attorney Dr. Hugo Simons was a passionate art collector and especially captivated by the art of his days. He was friends with many artists and even won a legal case for Otto Dix which set new standards in the official acknowledgment of artistic freedom. This marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship between the two men, a friendship during which the famous painting The Portrait of the Lawyer Hugo Simons, today on display at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (MBAM) in Canada, was made. Dr. Hugo Simons also was a great philanthropist. After he and his family had fled ... More | | 
Anja Niemi, The Secretary, 2013. Estimate: £5,0007,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- Christies Photographs auction on 17 May 2018 will showcase work by contemporary artists, fashion photographers and icons of the 20th Century. The sale will be led by Robert Mapplethorpes portrait Ken Moody and Robert Sherman (1984, estimate: £70,000-90,000), in which two male heads are juxtaposed in profile, infused with the near sculptural elegance and classical composure that defined Mapplethorpes still-life photographs and portraits during this period. Other prints of the image are in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Further highlights include large-format portraits by Hiroshi Sugimoto and Desirée Dolron and Nick Brandts iconic image Elephant Drinking (2007, estimate: £50,000-70,000). A feature of the auction is a section dedicated to the work of Thomas Ruff, alongside others from the Dusseldorf School; Candida ... More |
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| Lisson Gallery opens first solo exhibition of Dom Sylvester Houédard 's work for almost 50 years | | Nathalie Karg Gallery opens an exhibition of experimental works in pigment and wax by Al Held | | Pop & sculpture dominate Swann Contemporary Auction | 
Dom Sylvester Houédard, MECHANICAL GIN, 1967. Vinyl plastic laminate, 19.8 x 15 cm © The Artist; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery presents the first New York show of concrete poet, visual artist, writer and Benedictine monk, Dom Sylvester Houédard (19241992) and its first solo exhibition of his work for almost 50 years. In dense visual complexity or in geometrically precise arrangements of words and symbols, Houédards typewritten sheets and typographic constructions defied both linguistic constraints and mechanical conventions of the typewriter. These visual poems and their oration, added to his notoriety in 1960s London, where he would often stage readings or performances of his haikus and phonetic compositions. Working into the night in his monastery cloisters, he created a stream of visual poems on his portable Olivetti typewriter, combining conscious and unconscious word association with heavily condensed characters and overlapping key strokes. These ... More | | 
Al Held, Untitled, 1953. Oil on canvas, 50h x 54w in. 127h x 137.16w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nathalie Karg Gallery is presenting Al Held in Paris, 1952-53, an exhibition of experimental works in pigment and wax that anticipate the painters well-known, epic-scaled geometric abstractions. In these paintings, Held sought to fuse the improvisational, expressive freedom of Jackson Pollock with the order and geometry of Piet Mondrian; his goal, as he put it, was to give the gesture structure. This large survey of 27 works is being presented across two venues, with Nathalie Karg Gallery featuring paintings made in Paris in 1952−53. Cheim & Reads exhibition covers the years 1954 to 1959, after the artist returned to New York and moved into a studio on East Broadway. The exhibitions runs at Nathalie Karg from May 2 to June 15, and at Cheim & Read from May 17 to July 6. The Paris Paintings at Nathalie Karg are richly dark works with ripples of white, blue, green, rust, and red running horizontall ... More | | 
Barbara Hepworth, Opposing Forms, complete portfolio with 12 color lithographs, 1969-70. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries offering of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, May 22 features a wide-ranging selection of sculpture, paintings and multiples with important works by Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Yayoi Kusama and Ai Weiwei. Leading the sale is Andy Warhols iconic screenprint portrait of Mao, 1972, with an estimate of $40,000 to $60,000. More than a dozen scarce works spanning the visionary's career include Campbells Soup cans in various media and a set of stamps. Pop Art continues with Roy Lichtensteins 1965 lithograph Shipboard Girl and Crak!, 1963-64 ($20,000 to $30,000 and $12,000 to $18,000, respectively). The sale offers a breadth of portfolios, including Barbara Hepworths complete Opposing Forms, 1970, with 12 lithographs, which carries an estimate of $20,000 to $30,000, and the complete Look at it on a Rainy Day (Regentag ... More |
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 Korean Art leads iGavel Auctions spring Asian salesNEW YORK, NY.- This Spring season iGavel Auctions mounted three simulataneous Asian art auctions with over $2,000,000 in combined sales. Buyers were attracted to many fine examples of Chinese bronzes, jades, furniture, porcelain; Japanese woodblock prints, and other Asian items. However, the strong results of Chinese and Japanese items were superseded by Korean art sold by Lark Mason Associates. The top lot, a Korean eight-panel screen, 19th century depicting a Korean-court scene, went into extended bidding for 32 minutes and finally closed at $225,000 with 40 bids, more than four times its high estimate. The nine Korean art lots combined sold for over $316,900. Of these nine lots, seven went into extended bidding. Once again, Korean art achieved stunning results on the iGavel auction site, said founder Lark Mason, whose Lark Mason Associates auction ... More LMAKgallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Alan Belcher and David B SmithNEW YORK, NY.- LMAKgallery is presenting Giant, a solo exhibition by Alan Belcher with a suite of new paintings that touch on the American ethos and project an individuals struggle within capitalism. The exhibition takes its title from the epic motion picture. Belchers conceptual practice is decidedly multi-layered and object orientated. A transparency of vision and simplicity of fabrication with a concentrated regard for materials are hallmarks of his serial productions. In the exhibition, he continues his explorations of production in relation to the generic mode of oil painting. Once again the artist risks a pioneering venture into unproven, untapped territory. These objects are encountered as symbolized vehicles plainly behaving as art objects, rather than expressive or narrative paintings. Worksite canvas tarpaulins are sliced and pieced together in a manner similar to Arte ... More Exhibition explores the aims and failures of architecture to form ideal communities and futuresNEW YORK, NY.- Aspirational Architectures explores the aims and failures of architecture to form ideal communities and futures. It addresses how built space speaks to human need and desire for a better life, individually and collectively. Featuring the work of artists Tanya Goel, Yamini Nayar, Laercio Redondo, and Lucia Simek, this exhibition draws from unique experiences, source material, and geographies in order to present an intimate perspective on the subject matter. Tanya Goels fresco architectural fragments speak to the rapidly changing urban landscape of her native New Delhi. She is interested in the surfaces that make up quotidian existenceroads, buildings, and sidewalks. She attends to these urban fragments like an archivist. Many of the pigments Goel uses are collected from demolished modernist houses that were originally built in the 1950s ... More Dia elects six new members to its board of trusteesNEW YORK, NY.- Dia announced today the expansion of its Board of Trustees with the appointment of six new members: Carol T. Finley, Jahanaz Jaffer, Jeffrey Perelman, Will Ryman, Lorna Simpson, and Hope Warschaw. These new members join Chair Nathalie de Gunzburg and the 14 other active trustees on Dias Board, which includes artists, art collectors and patrons, philanthropists, community advocates, and business leaders. Under the directorship of Jessica Morgan, Dia has added a total of 12 new members and grown its Board by nine seats, creating an expanded base of support for the nonprofit, which operates a constellation of programmatic facilities and artists sites nationally and internationally. Dias Board is distinguished by its leadership in the fields of visual art and philanthropy, and by a dedication to realizing ambitious artistic visions through ... More Matthew Marks opens exhibition of works by Terry WintersNEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is presenting Terry Winters: 12twelvepaintings, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. The dozen canvases on view were completed in 2017. Each is five feet wide and almost seven feet tall and has been built up in layers of oil, wax, and resin. Winters begins each painting as a drawing, or a composite of drawings. The drawings themselves incorporate and modify found imagery, which is largely technical in nature. These found images are reframed and given a new pictorial context. Winters develops this pictorial language in an intuitive and improvisational process: I use this found imagery as a model, to see how images can be torqued or tweaked, made more poetic and expressive. In several paintings, the networks of marks appear warped by forces and pressures, while in others they orbit and spin around ... More Toledo Museum of Art celebrates 200 years of Libbey GlassTOLEDO, OH.- To commemorate 200 years of excellence in glassmaking, the Toledo Museum of Art has organized Celebrating Libbey Glass, 1818-2018. The exhibition presents more than 175 outstanding examples of glass from TMAs renowned collection as well as objects and materials from the Libbey Inc. archives, including pressed glass tableware, Amberina art glass, Libbeys world-renowned brilliant cut glass (including TMAs glorious Libbey Punch Bowl), mid-century modern barware and examples of more recent premium give-away glasses for companies. Celebrating Libbey Glass is on view exclusively at TMA beginning May 4, 2018. As founders of the Toledo Museum of Art, the Libbey family was instrumental to the advancement of arts education and art appreciation in this region, said Brian Kennedy, TMAs Edward Drummond and Florence Scott ... More The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto and the Province of Ontario announce 5 million dollars in funding TORONTO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto announced that the Province of Ontario has given five million dollars to the museum in its continued efforts to invest in strengthening communities. In addition, Heidi Reitmaier, Executive Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, announced MOCAs international opening on September 22, 2018, as well as the lineup of programming for 2018-2019. MOCA will be open for a sneak preview weekend during Doors Open Toronto, May 26-27, 2018. As part of a commitment to culture and recreation infrastructure the Government of Ontario has invested five million dollars in the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, payable within the provinces current 2018/19 fiscal year. The museum receives this contribution toward its new, fully-accessible, 55,000 square feet home in the refurbished Tower ... More The Sea is The Limit: A new exhibition opens at York Art GalleryYORK.- Thought provoking works of art exploring the current and ongoing issues of migration, dispossession and national borders are brought together in a major new exhibition on view at York Art Gallery this May. Eleven international artists including Nidhal Chamekh (Tunisia/ France), Taus Makhacheva (Dagestan/Russia), Shahram Entekhabi (Iran/Germany), Brian Maguire (Ireland), Mohammed Sami (Iraq/ UK), Vanessa Vozzo (Italy), Vladimir Miladinović (Serbia), Halil Altendere (Turkey), Varvara Shavrova (USSR/ Ireland/ UK), Nick Ellwood (UK) and Susan Stockwell (UK) use their work to question the meaning of nationalism, free movement, inclusion and exclusion, drawing on both the historical and contemporary narratives which shape identity and opinion. The exhibition expresses a desire for ... More Ottocento Art Gallery to offer a remarkable Futurist wooden sculpture by Umberto PeschiROME.- Among latest acquisitions, Ottocento Art Gallery offers a masterpiece by Futurist Umberto Peschi (Macerata 1912 1992), an astonishing wooden sculpture which show an incredible figure of parachutist. A sculptor from Macerata, Peschi turned his plastic research from the figurative front of the Forties to the abstract modular. After attending the Royal School of Apprenticeship, and the Art Institute of Macerata, in 1937 he moved to Rome where with Bruno Tano and Sante Monachesi he had contacts with various Futurist groups, becoming part of it. In the Marche region, he was one of the animators of the historic Boccioni Group, which gathered in itself a generation of futurists from Macerata and which was one of the essential ingredients not only for the so-called Second Italian Futurism, but for the critical study and historical re-evaluation of the entire ... More Heritage Auctions' Watches & Fine Timepieces auction brings in $3.7+ millionDALLAS, TX.- A rare Patek Philippe, Ref. 2526P, Calatrava with First Series Enamel Dial, Retailed by "Tiffany & Co.", Circa 1954 sold for $642,500, a new world record for a Ref. 2526 of any precious metal, in Heritage Auctions' Watches & Fine Timepieces Auction May 1 in New York. The 556-lot auction, with 93.2 percent of all lots sold, finished with $3,715,166 in total sales. This fresh-to-market Calatrava, with a pre-auction estimate of $300,000, retailed in 1954, and is one of just six platinum 2526 watches known to exist. That limited number, coupled with the fact that it is the only known example with both Patek Philippe and Tiffany & Co. signatures makes it possibly the rarest Patek Philippe Ref. 2526 ever offered at auction, according to Heritage Auctions Director of Timepieces Jim Wolf. "This is an extraordinary watch," Wolf said. "But having the dual Patek ... More Dorset-based arts and environmental charity Common Ground premieres new exhibitionWAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents the radical and vital work of Common Ground the Dorset-based arts and environmental charity through an archive display, an exhibition documenting recent artist residencies and a new open-air commission by artist James Webb. Founded in 1983 by Sue Clifford, Angela King and the writer Roger Deakin, Common Ground has collaborated widely across the arts to celebrate the relationship between people and place. The idea of local distinctiveness is at the heart of everything they do, and for the last 35 years they have inspired people all over the country through campaigns like Apple Day, Parish Maps, New Milestones and Trees, Woods and the Green Man. Common Ground champions the ordinary, everyday aspects of the local environment, such as tree-lined ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-Swiss painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was born May 06, 1880. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (6 May 1880 - 15 June 1938) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art. In this image: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938), Women on the Street (Frauen auf der StraÃe). 1915. Oil on canvas. 49 5/8 x 35 7/16" (126 x 90 cm). Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany. Photograph by Peter Frese. © Ingeborg and Dr. Wolfgang Henze-Ketterer, Wichtrach/Bern.
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