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The Future Starts Here Installation View. © Victoria and Albert Museum London.
LONDON.- The V&A is exploring the power of design in shaping the world of tomorrow in its major spring exhibition. From portraits of Chelsea Manning generated by her DNA, a chargeable shirt which can power a smartphone, objects printed by the worlds first zero gravity printer to a global seed bank to prevent loss of plant species in the event of a crisis, The Future Starts Here brings together ground-breaking technologies and designs currently in development in studios and laboratories around the world. Drawing upon international research, and working closely with a range of companies, universities, practitioners and advisors, the V&A seeks to represent this new picture of an advancing future with more than 100 objects, many of which have never been on public display. The Future Starts Here explores the impact these objects may have on the body, the home, politics, cities, and the planet. Visitors will be guided by a series of ethical and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day After a six-month campaign, ten days of online sales and three days of dynamic auctions at Christie's Rockefeller Center, the total for the 1,500 objects comprising the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller reached $832,573,469 (£613,941,113 / €698,302,524), well exceeding initial expectations and establishing the highest auction total ever for a private collection at auction.
| V&A to open new Photography Centre this October with commission by Thomas Ruff | | Picasso's $115-million 'Young Girl' to be loaned to Paris museum | | Rockefeller Collection sold for record-smashing $832 million |
Kodak, No. 2A Beau Brownie (blue), 1930-33, Camera © The RPS Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- The worlds first photographic experiments, pictures by 20th century greats Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, recent acquisitions by Linda McCartney gifted by Paul McCartney and his family, and newly commissioned works by Thomas Ruff, will go on display this autumn as part of the V&As new Photography Centre. Opening on 12 October, the first phase of the Photography Centre, designed by David Kohn Architects, will more than double the space dedicated to photography at the V&A. The inaugural display will trace a history of photography from the 19th century to the present day through the theme of collectors and collecting. Drawn from the V&As significantly expanded holdings, following the transfer of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) collection, the display will show seminal prints and negatives by pioneers William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Frederick Scott Archer, alongside camera equipment, phot ... More | |
The painting was purchased at auction Tuesday by the Nahmads, a family of art dealers and collectors that includes Helly Nahmad, owner of a New York gallery. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
Picasso's "Young Girl With Basket of Flowers," recently sold at a New York auction for $115 million, will be loaned to Paris's Musee d'Orsay for a Picasso exhibit opening in September. "We're very happy," a museum spokesperson said Saturday in confirming the loan, first reported in The New York Times. The painting was purchased at auction Tuesday by the Nahmads, a family of art dealers and collectors that includes Helly Nahmad, owner of a New York gallery, according to two sources quoted by the Times. Nahmad did not respond to an AFP request, through his gallery, for comment. The Musee d'Orsay's "Picasso: Blue and Rose" exhibit is being organized in collaboration with the Picasso Museum-Paris and will focus on the artist's work from 1900-1906, encompassing his critically important Blue Period and Rose Period. It will run from September 18 to January 6, 2019. The exhibit will then move to the Beyeler Foundation near Basel, ... More | |
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Fillette à la corbeille fleurie. Estimate: 100,000,000. Sold for: $115,000,000 / £84,745,763 / 96,355,932. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK (AFP).- In what was billed as the "sale of the century," the art collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, comprising 1,500 pieces, sold at auction for a record-breaking $832.5 million, Christie's said Friday. The figure eclipsed the previous record held by the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge which sold for $484 million in 2009. Coming after the extraordinary $450 million sale last November of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," also at Christie's, there had been some speculation that the billion dollar threshold could be crossed by this sale. Organized over 10 days, including online sales, it nonetheless broke numerous records, testament to the rude health of the global art market. The collection's crown jewel was auctioned Tuesday for $115 million, the sixth most expensive ever sold: Pablo Picasso's "La fillette a la corbeille fleurie," a part of the Rockefeller Collection since 1968. ... More |
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| Major exhibition offers a new perspective and inspiring a rereading of art history | | Exhibition at the Frye Art Museum traces the development of French landscape painting | | Exhibition includes the public debut of historical portraits and recent large-scale contemporary artworks |
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Head of a Bearded Man, 1938 (?), oil on canvas. Musée national Picasso-Paris, gift in lieu Pablo Picasso, 1979. © Estate of Picasso / SODRAC (2018). Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi.
MONTREAL.- This season, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors to reflect on the issues raised by the decolonization of the colonial gaze and perceptions of identity, aesthetics and culture through two exhibitions: From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present and Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, presented side by side in a continuous layout. From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present looks at the transformation in our view of the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Following milestones in the life of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and in history, the exhibition explores the close relationship between the Spanish master and these arts, focusing on the history of attitudes. Throughout the show, works by contemporary artists ... More | |
Jean-François Millet. Hameau Cousin à Gréville (The Hamlet of Cousin in Gréville), 185473 (detail). Oil on canvas. © Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, Legacy Henry Vasnier. Photo: C. Devleeschauwer.
SEATTLE, WA.- Towards Impressionism traces the development of French landscape painting from the informal schools of Barbizon and Honfleur to Impressionism. The majority of the works in the exhibition come from the extraordinary collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France, with selections from the Frye Art Museums own holdings. Together, these paintings chart the rise in status of landscape painting in France over the course of the nineteenth century as artists turned from classical depictions of distant lands towards local scenes painted en plein air (in the open air, or outdoors) in increasingly experimental styles. The Reims fine arts museum has one of the worlds foremost collections of landscape paintings by artists associated with the Barbizon colonyartists like Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, JeanFrançois Millet, and Constant Troyon, who gathered in the village of Barbizon ... More | |
John Quincy Adams by Auguste Edouart. Lithograph, chalk and cut paper on paper, 1841. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery is presenting Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now, as the first major museum exhibition to explore the art form of cut-paper profiles in terms of their rich historical roots and powerful contemporary presence. Well before the advent of photography in 1839, silhouettes democratized portraiture. Offering virtually instantaneous likenesses of everyone from presidents to those who were enslaved, silhouettes cost far less than oil paintings and could be made with inexpensive materials. Museums have paid little attention to the art form, but Black Out aims to broaden the traditional American art canon by placing silhouettesand their subjectsat the forefront. The exhibition, which primarily features works on paper, also brings together sculptures, prints, media art and mixed-media installations. Ranging in scale from 3 inches to nearly 40 feet, and featuring a ... More |
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| The Morgan opens an exhibition solely focused on Thomas Gainsborough's works on paper | | Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art opens a major exhibition devoted to the Sonnabend Collection | | Adelaide Contemporary design proposals unveiled |
Caroline, 4th Duchess of Marlborough, ca. 1770, pastels on green-brown paper. Private collection. Photography by Alex Jamison.
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (17271788) is best known as a painter. However, he was also a draftsman of rare ability who extended the traditional boundaries of drawing technique, inspiring an entire generation of British artists such as John Constable (17761837) and J. M. W. Turner (17751851). The Morgan Library & Museum is presenting an exhibition solely focused on Gainsboroughs works on paper, bringing together twenty-two outstanding examples in graphite, chalk, oil paint, and other media. Included in the show, which runs through August 19, are preparatory studies, finished works, and exercises made for the artists own enjoyment. As with many artists, Thomas Gainsborough used the medium of drawing to experiment and explore, said Colin B. Bailey, director of the Morgan Library ... More | |
Jeff Koons, Hulk (Friends), 2004-2012. Bronze policromado / Polychromed bronze, 181 x 123,2 x 66 cm. Col. Coll. The Sonnabend Collection e and António Homem.
PORTO.- Following the presentation of The Sonnabend Collection. Half a Century of American and European Art. Part I in 2016, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art presents a major exhibition devoted to the Sonnabend Collection, The Sonnabend Collection. Half a Century of American and European Art. Part II. Created by the influential art dealer Ileana Sonnabend, the Sonnabend Collection is considered one of the most important collections of American and European art of the second half of the twentieth century, representing some of the most influential western art movements of our time. While known for her support of the prime artistic protagonists of pop art, minimalism, arte povera, post-minimalism and conceptual art, Sonnabends engagement continued up to her death in 2007. Part II surveys two prevalent themes in the Sonnabend Collection ... More | |
Adelaide Contemporary will be an open and inviting place in the city. Photo: David Chipperfield Architects (London, UK).
ADELAIDE.- Arts South Australia today posted a digital gallery of the six concept designs devised by star international and Australian teams for a new landmark cultural destination, Adelaide Contemporary, which is intended to revitalise the former Royal Adelaide Hospital (oRAH) site. The concept designs are now available to view on the international competition website. The unique cultural destination on Adelaides celebrated North Terrace boulevard will combine exhibition, research and education spaces with a public sculpture park and community meeting place. In a world first, the Gallery of Time will curate South Australias exceptional collection of Aboriginal art and cultures in conversation with work from European and Asian cultures, enabling visitors to look at Australian art in a global context. Premier of South Australia Steven Marshall said the outcome of this competition wil ... More |
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| Jordan Wolfson's most recent video work Riverboat song on view at David Zwirner | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens first solo exhibition with Melissa Meyer | | National Gallery Singapore announces significant donation of Ng Eng Teng's Mother and Child sculpture |
Jordan Wolfson, Riverboat song, 20172018 (still) © Jordan Wolfson Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York/Hong Kong, and Sadie Coles HQ, London.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting the United States premiere of Jordan Wolfsons most recent video work, Riverboat song (2017-2018). By turns surreal, deadpan, and mischievous, Riverboat song combines computer-animated vignettes and found video clips with pop soundtracks and a monologue voiced by the artist. Since its debut at Sadie Coles HQ, London, last year, the work has been revisited and expanded by Wolfson, who has added new scenes that are being shown here for the first time. On view at the gallerys 533 West 19th Street location, this is the artists third solo exhibition with David Zwirner. Over the past decade, Wolfson has become known for his thought-provoking works in a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, photography, and performance. Pulling intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, and ... More | |
Melissa Meyer, St. Mortiz, 2015 (detail), oil on canvas (diptych), 30 x 80 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art is presenting Melissa Meyer: Hitting the Right Notes, her first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will be on view through June 23rd. Meyers abstract paintings have a signature calligraphy and rhythmic curvilinear vernacular that are more complex than they initially seem. Like a good bottle of wine, her works open up when allowed to breathe and the more one looks, the more notes are savored. Her lengthy career stands as a testament to her authenticity, with forty-plus solo exhibitions, commissions, teaching and artist-in-residence positions here and abroad. Meyer primes her canvases with gesso, sanding them to get smooth, paper-like surfaces, then applies a patchwork of grounds in soft tones and varying whites, or bright contrasting colors. Diluting her oil pigments to achieve a watercolor or ink-like viscosity, she uses long-handled brushes and ... More | |
Dr. Ng Eng Teng, Mother and Child, 1996. Bronze. Variable dimension / three metre-tall. Image courtesy: National Gallery Singapore.
SINGAPORE.- Dubbed fondly as the grandfather of Singapore sculpture, Cultural Medallion recipient the late Dr. Ng Eng Teng is remembered for his distinctive, large-scale sculptures that depict whimsical interpretations of humanist themes, bringing vibrancy to public spaces in Singapore. In recognition of his contributions to Singapore through these public commissions, one of his iconic masterpieces Mother and Child will now be accessioned into the National Collection, joining seminal works by other pioneering artists, including Liu Kang and Georgette Chen. The three metre-tall sculpture was donated to the state by the late Dr. Ngs family. Etched out of bronze, the sculpture features a mother in the intimate act of lifting her child, conveying the caring and warm love of a mother towards her child. Cast in bronze in March 1996, the signature work is the second and last large sculpture ... More |
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Tiancheng International announces highlights from the Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction 2018
HONG KONG.- Tiancheng International will hold its Jewellery and Jadeite Spring Auction 2018 on 3 June, offering a diverse selection of iridescent coloured gemstones, diamonds and jadeite pieces. Leading the auction is an important jadeite bangle with rich emerald green colour and fine translucency. Altogether the sale will present nearly 250 lots of coveted jewellery and jadeite pieces. Mr. Stewart Young, Director of Tiancheng Internationals Jewellery Department, remarks, Tiancheng International has continuously achieved remarkable results with its auctions of magnificent jadeite pieces held over the years. For our Spring Auction in June, we are pleased to present a natural jadeite bangle of captivating emerald green hue, highly prized for its exceptional quality. We have also amassed an impressive array of the markets finest gemstones, ranging ... More
Swiss artist Claudia Comte creates new site-specific installation for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis announces a new installation on its 60 foot-long Project Wall by Swiss artist Claudia Comte. The artist has long been interested in wall painting as a site of intermedia transformation, including such works as Curves and Zigzags, a superimposed graphic painting on a three-dimensional structure installed in Palm Desert as an Op art intervention on the natural landscape. Comte continues her inquiry into the zigzag shapeher biographical information is laid out in a zigzag format on her website with Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags), her most complex wall painting to date. The work is on view May 11 through August 19, 2018. A pattern of hard-edge lines appear to morph into an algorithm of zigzags on the Project Wall. Comtes rigorous geometries entertain optical apparitions, solids undergoing liquefaction, a stringent ... More
The Hall Art Foundation opens a group exhibition curated by American artist Eric Fischl
READING, VT.- The Hall Art Foundation announces a group exhibition curated by American artist Eric Fischl to be held in its galleries in Reading, Vermont. Approximately sixty-five artists are represented in Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, which includes over eighty paintings, photographs, works on paper and sculptures selected by Fischl from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections. In this fresh and provocative show, Fischl illustrates the absurd extremes associated with romantic and sexual love. Desire, passion, vulnerability, disappointment, pleasure and torment are expressed as a Greek or Shakespearian comedy epic and tragic, hopeful and hazardous. In Little Shaver (2005), Nicole Eisenman paints a straight-on portrait of a male whose face is being shaved with a straight razor. The female barber kisses the mans shaving ... More
The Autry Museum opens the first major retrospective of Native contemporary artist Rick Bartow
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Occupying an interstitial realm, artist Rick Bartows work transcends the notions of Western and Native art, realism and abstraction, and the traditional and contemporary. The first comprehensive exhibition on this important American artist and member of the Mad River Band Wiyot tribe, Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain examines forty years of the artists work across a variety of media. On view from May 12, 2018, through January 6, 2019, at the Autry Museum of the American West, the deeply personal exhibition references and responds to the impact of colonization while emphasizing Bartows contributions to art history and his role in pushing contemporary art in directions both cultural and inclusive. Bartow began his practice in the late 1970s following his service in the Vietnam War and after a period of recovery from PTSD and ... More
Grosvenor Gallery exhibits new work by Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad
LONDON.- The young Pakistani artist Ghulam Mohammad (b.1979) was catapulted to international prominence in 2016 when he won the coveted Jameel Prize, awarded by The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the first Pakistani artist to do so. Grosvenor Gallery are exhibiting new work by the artist from the 11-31 May 2018, in association with Canvas Gallery, Karachi. This is the artists first solo-show in London. GM, as he is known, trained in traditional miniature painting techniques in Pakistan and creates incredibly delicate collage works. His collages are assemblages of Urdu letters painstakingly cut from second hand books he buys in the markets of Lahore. By freeing language from the page and attempting a playful reconstruction, he aims to enrich it with a new aesthetic meaning. Carving out the words and recomposing them is a cathartic act it is meditative. ... More
Parrasch Heijnen Gallery opens exhibition of works by Anne Truitt and Daniel Turner
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is presenting Anne Truitt / Daniel Turner. Psychology and material transformation continually inform Daniel Turners work. His sculptures are often characterized by a specific response to a site under a controlled set of processes. These elements are present in the artists previous works, for example an entire waiting room cast into a series of solid bars, a healthcare facility reduced to a darkened stain against an exhibition wall, and a cafeteria dissolved across the expanse of a floor. For this exhibition, Turner has created a new series of five sculptures comprised of select contents of a psychiatric facility, which were recast into solid architectonic forms. Composed of aluminum and steel, these works are evocative of maritime markers, the surfaces of which expose subtle incongruities after tidal exposure. Concurrently on view are two ... More
Zevitas Marcus opens a 40-year survey exhibition of photographic montages by John O'Reilly
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Zevitas Marcus is presenting John OReilly: A 40-Year Survey, an exhibition of photographic montages by Boston-area artist John OReilly spanning from 1977 to 2016. Taking source material from art history, found ephemera, pornography, and his own photography, OReilly addresses themes of eroticism, violence, and identity in works that are intimate in scale, yet radically expansive in terms of content. The exhibition follows the trajectory of OReillys work from early experiments with paper montage to his most controversial works on the subject of war from the mid-1990s to his more recent works that involve the introduction of color and new materials. Born in 1930, OReilly shared his work mainly with close friends as he supported himself as an art therapist in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was after his inclusion in the 1995 Whitney Biennial ... More
Denver Art Museum debuts first major exhibition featuring artist Jeffrey Gibson
DENVER, COLO.- The Denver Art Museum will present contemporary artist Jeffrey Gibsons first major museum exhibition, showcasing his acclaimed multi-disciplinary work from 2011 to the present. On view May 13Aug. 12, 2018, Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer will feature about 65 objects comprising large and mid-sized figurative works, text-based wall hangings, a significant selection of his illustrious Everlast beaded punching bags, painted works on rawhide and canvas, as well as videos. Organized by the DAM and curated by John Lukavic, curator of Native Arts, the exhibition will chronicle a pivotal moment in the artists career when his contemporary artistic practice converged with his Native American heritage. Jeffrey Gibson is widely recognized as a unique and influential voice in contemporary art as well as within ... More
Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens career-spanning exhibition of works by Victoria Crowe
EDINBURGH.- Some of the finest works by one of the UKs most distinguished portrait painters have been brought together for a captivating, career-spanning exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh this spring. Victoria Crowe: Beyond Likeness is the first major exhibition to focus on the artists portraits - a hugely significant element in her work, and brings together 54 paintings and drawings, celebrating Crowes wide-ranging responses to her sitters and their lives. Highlights include Crowes remarkable portraits of cultural figures such as Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Higgs (b. 1929), radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing (1927-89) and composer Thea Musgrave (b. 1928), as well as intimate images of the artists friends and family. Beyond Likeness features major loans from private and public collections from across the UK and Europe as ... More
Kristof De Clercq gallery opens a solo exhibition by Jürgen Partenheimer
GHENT.- Kristof De Clercq gallery presents the first solo exhibition by Jürgen Partenheimer in Belgium since his comprehensive show at S.M.A.K. in 2002. The title of the exhibition, memoria, alludes to the phenomenon of time as memory, as awareness, where time should be understood as utopian time in contrast with the common notion of chronological time. Memory as vision. The works in the exhibition, covering a time span from 1989 to 2018, are mainly works on paper, of which the earliest work is entitled memoria (1989). The works on paper, with the subtle addition of three paintings, give insight in the wide range of Partenheimers oeuvre. In his artistic approach, which is formally based on drawing, music, philosophy and literature play a leading role. A remarkable body of works is One Hundred Poets. This project, seen as work in progress, is a dialogue between ... More
John Brennan collection of Rock n Roll memorabilia offered at RR Auction
BOSTON, MASS.- For its inaugural Brennan Collection, RR Auction worked with lifelong rock n roll memorabilia collector John Brennan, to present an exceptional sampling amassed over four decades of following the greatest names in music across the country. From his early days of autograph collecting in New York City, where he met the elites of music, like the Rolling Stones, Madonna and more, to his later years in Los Angeles and Seattle, following the tours of Van Halen, Guns N Roses and Nirvana, John Brennan became known by these guitar greats and welcomed into their inner sanctums. RR Auction is pleased to present collectors with more than 500 hand-picked items out of thousandssigned photographs, albums, 45 rpms, posters and guitars that chronicle nearly half a century of musical legends beginning May 10-May 17. Highlights include: ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Georges Braque was born May 13, 1882. Georges Braque (13 May 1882 - 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most important contributions to the history of art were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1906, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. In this image: The Port (Le Port), winter-spring 1909. Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 48.2 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art,Gift of Victoria Nebecker Coberly in memory of her son, John W. Mudd © Georges Braque, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2014. Photo © National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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