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Jordana Pomeroy & Hortensia Soriano at the opening of "Rafael Soriano - The Artist as Mystic" at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU. Photo by World Red Eye/Andrew Stankus.
MIAMI, FLA.- Miamians flocked to the opening at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University for Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic, the unprecedented retrospective of the Cuban Master Rafael Soriano featuring more than ninety of his paintings and drawings (kicking off Miamis Art Basel season, on view through Jan. 28). This national tour culminates in the artists hometown of Miami, where he created some of his most acclaimed works after seeking exile in the U.S. (featuring never-before-seen ephemera from the late artists studio that is still lovingly preserved in Miami after his recent passing in 2015). Art collectors, arts luminaries, community leaders and media were welcomed to the stellar opening reception by the museums Director, Dr. Jordana Pomeroy. Sorianos life and art fully blossomed here in Miami, the city where the artist and his family sought refuge in 1962. The ca ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day She scandalised society by dancing almost naked when women still wore corsets and their dresses long. Yet a century after her death, Mata Hari remains veiled in mystery. Now a Dutch museum in the Friesian town of her birth is seeking to shed new light on the exotic dancer, bringing together for the first time 150 objects, photos and military archives in the largest-ever exhibition devoted to one of the world's most famous courtesans and seductresses.
| Harvard Art Museums to receive transformative gift of Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings | | Galerie Templon reveals a previously unseen series of paintings by Jim Dine | | The largest collection of Viking artifacts on display in North America comes to the Royal Ontario Museum |
Cornelis Visscher, Man with a Cloak and a Polish Hat, 1650s. Black chalk and black chalk steeped in oil; incised lines at lower left. The Maida and George Abrams Collection, Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Harvard Art Museums announce the extraordinary gift of 330 16th- to 18th-century Dutch, Flemish, and Netherlandish drawings from the esteemed collection of Maida and George S. Abrams (Harvard A.B. 54, LL.B. 57), considered the best collection of such material in private hands. The gift further establishes the museums as the major site for the appreciation, research, and study of works on paper from the Dutch Golden Age in North America. This newest promised gift from the Abrams family brings tremendous depth and breadth to the museums holdings; the works represent over 125 artists and include extremely fine examples by major masters such as Rembrandt, Jacques de Gheyn II, Hendrick Goltzius, and Adriaen van Ostade, as well as a remarkable ... More | |
Jim Dine, The Floral Scream, 2017. Lithographie et gravure sur papier Toronoko / Lithograph and woodcut on Toronoko paper, 186,8 x 129,6 cm / 73 ½ x 51 in. Edition de 10 / Edition of 10. Photo: B.Huet-Tutti.
PARIS.- Jim Dine returns to Galerie Templon in an explosion of colours, forms and techniques as he explores his favourite themes: the creative act, the self, and memory. At the age of 82, the American artist and poet, hard at work in his Montrouge studio, has never felt so free. The gallery is revealing a previously unseen series of paintings the artist produced in his new studio during summer 2017. Each piece in the collection of self-portraits, abstract compositions and object-based landscapes tackles the same subject: painting itself, its inspiration, its production, and how its boundaries can be pushed. Each one bears within it the traces of pentimenti , a memory of the physical force from which it sprung. The surfaces of the canvases are worked with acrylic and sand, using a grinder, thus acquiring volume and materiality ... More | |
Mount, valkyrie. Silver Klinta, Köping, Ãland, Sweden. Photo: Swedish History Museum.
TORONTO.- VIKINGS: The Exhibition opened at the Royal Ontario Museum on Saturday, November 4. 2017. Presented by investment dealer Raymond James Ltd., in partnership with the Swedish History Museum, the exhibition offers visitors a fresh perspective on an ancient culture that challenges some of the commonly held myths and perceptions about the lives of the Norse people and this period of European history. The Vikings have had a profound impact on the modern imagination, says Josh Basseches, Director & CEO of the ROM. This exhibition presents a new and unexpected interpretation of the Vikings, as not only seafaring warriors, but a people who built a rich and varied culture. Our visitors will be surprised by what they see. The ROM showing is the first exhibition of Vikings weve ever staged, and were particularly delighted to include a Canadian perspective that contributes to our understanding of the Viking history in ... More |
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| Matthew Marks opens exhibition featuring thirteen recent paintings by Gary Hume | | First major exhibition of Korean fashion in U.S. opens in San Francisco | | Gavin Brown's enterprise opens 5th solo exhibition by the painter Alex Katz |
Gary Hume, Three Leaves 2016-17. Enamel paint on paper, 73 3/4 x 54 3/4 inches, 187 x 139 cm. © Gary Hume, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is announces Gary Hume: Mum, a new exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The show features thirteen recent paintings, each on aluminum or paper. This is Humes first exhibition of new work in New York in four years. This body of work focuses on a range of subjects, but at its core is a suite of highly personal paintings about memory and loss. Humes mother is 86 years old and suffers from dementia. And while the ostensible subjects of many of the new paintings are flowers, their titles Mourning, Spent, Blind reflect Humes thoughts of her. Mum on the Couch (2017), a more direct portrait, depicts the artists aging mother in her current condition, a poignant contrast to the vibrant woman of her sons memories. In addition to Humes signature aluminum panels, he ... More | |
The exhibition features more than 120 works.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Couture Korea presents historic and contemporary fashion from Korea and beyond, exclusively at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from November 3, 2017 to February 4, 2018. The result of a partnership between the Seoul-based Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation and the Asian Art Museum, this original exhibition introduces American audiences to the incomparable artistry and the living legacy of Korean dress. Couture Korea whose title borrows from the French to convey Koreas comparable tradition of exquisite, handcrafted tailoring weaves together courtly costume from centuries past with the runways of todays fashion capitals. The exhibition features more than 120 works, including a kings ethereal robe, various 18th century womens ensembles and layers of silk undergarments, alongside contemporary clothing stitched from hardworking denim and even high-tech neoprene. Re-creations of Joseon ... More | |
Bill 1, 2017 (detail). Oil on linen, 96 x 96 inches (243.8 x 243.8 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 5, Gavin Browns enterprise will open its 5th solo exhibition by the painter Alex Katz, who turned 90 this year. The show will include large-scale landscapes and portraits from the last two years. Katz has always depicted the world within his view from the studio on West Broadway where he has worked since 1968, and from the house in Maine where he has made an annual migration for over 60 years. After 75 years of painting, Katz's eye and hand are now at a moment of perfect synchronicity. And it is at this moment, looking across time and space, that he unleashes that practiced hand and eye loose on the canvas, with the hunger of an artist at the beginning of that journey, not the close. This exhibition then, is a celebration and recognition of that enduring vision. Katz has, from the beginning, painted light and the sensation of time ... More |
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| Museum-wide exhibition examines practice and role of drawing in late Edo - early Meiji Japan | | Exhibition of new drawings by Paul Noble opens at Gagosian San Francisco | | Exhibition draws together sixteen paintings created by Elizabeth Murray in the 1980s |
Utagawa Yoshifusa, Mounted Warrior, 1830s-50s. Ink and color on paper, 10 x 13 ¼ inches (25.4 x 33.7 cm). Courtesy of Philip and Dorothy Pearlstein.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents Living Proof: Drawing in 19th-Century Japan, an exhibition that explores the methods, techniques, and subjects of drawings during Japans late Edo (16031868) and early Meiji (1868 1912) periods, highlighting some key practitioners, as well as the primary role of drawing as the first step in the process of creating ukiyo-e woodblock prints. In so doing, the exhibition sheds light on a body of work that, while compellingly expressive and frequently virtuoso in execution, was not treated as an independent art form at the time, lacking even a uniform terminology to describe it. With nearly eighty drawings, on loan from public and private collections nationwide, this is the first museum exhibition of its kind in over thirty years. Living Proof has been organized by the Pulitzer and is co-curated by independent curator Kit Brooks and Pulitzer Associate Curator Tamara ... More | |
Paul Noble, K, 2015. Pencil, paper and frame, Framed: 69 1/8 x 57 5/16 x 6 1/8 inches. © Paul Noble. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Photo by Mike Bruce.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gagosian is presenting new drawings by Paul Noble. This is his first exhibition in San Francisco. A meticulous visionary, Noble builds encrypted visual universes. Using language as image, and images as a grammatical system of signs, he shows the malleability of all forms of syntax, a legible schema of interlocking words, drawings, and objects. Noble's art presents a reality that appears recognizably of our worldbut is not. His immersive realms seem to live on beyond their immediate visual impressionas in the vast, twenty-year project, Nobson Newtown, an imagined environment for which he was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012, and which was exhibited in its entirety at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 2014. These new works, made since 2015, unfold within flat, planar settings, devoid of the epic scale and spatial breadth ... More | |
Elizabeth Murray, Water Girl, 1982. Oil on canvas (three parts) 9' 4" x 8' 5" x 3-3/4 (284.5 cm x 256.5 cm x 9.5 cm). Photography by Kerry Ryan McFate, courtesy Pace Gallery © 2017 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting its ninth exhibition since 1996 devoted to the work of Elizabeth Murray. The exhibition draws together sixteen paintings created by the artist in the 1980s, including loans from the Colby College Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Continuing where Pace Gallerys 2011 exhibition Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the 70s left off, Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the 80s explores another critical decade in the artists career, the decade during which Murray began painting her iconic shaped canvases. The exhibition is on view from November 2, 2017 to January 13, 2018 at 510 West 25th Street. Elizabeth Murray: Painting in the 80s presents formal and narrative content that continues to influence the techniques and ... More |
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| Survey exhibition tracing the developments of post-war British sculpture from 1951-1991 on view in London | | Milestone's auction features finest comic character toy collection to reach the marketplace in many years | | First comprehensive retrospective of Mark Tobey's work in 20 years opens at the Addison Gallery |
Margaret Mellis, Marsh, 1989-90, driftwood construction, 106 x 72cm, Copyright The Redfern Gallery, Courtesy Marlborough Fine Art.
LONDON.- Marlborough Fine Art is presenting a survey exhibition tracing the developments of post-war British sculpture from 1951-1991. From the likes of Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Victor Pasmore (1908-1998) to later artists Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) and Anthony Caro (1924-2013), this exhibition traces the visual arts in Britain as they spawned an increasingly rapid succession of theories and styles. This thriving and diversifying arts scene both reflected, and profited from, the expansion of public funding. Opportunities to study at art schools and to show at publicly-funded exhibitions along with an increased presence in the media raised the public profile of the visual arts. The international standing of British sculpture was increased by Moore at the first post-war Venice Biennale in 1948, subsequently sustained by Hepworth, and then with the 'Geometry of Fear' group of younger sculptors in 1952, a term coined ... More | |
1930s Steiff Mickey Mouse soft doll, 9in tall, correct buttons and tags. Excellent/near mint condition. Est. $4,000-$5,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- When antique toy collectors gather and talk about the truly great comic character collections of the past, the names of a certain few trailblazers in the hobby invariably come up. However, it has been many years since a virtually unknown collection of fine, early comic character toys has appeared at auction, which is exactly what will happen on November 18th at Milestones gallery in suburban Cleveland. The auction includes 700 lots of premier pre-WWII celluloid wind-up, ceramic/bisque and wood toys; coveted soft dolls by Steiff and Lenci, and a bonus collection of rare character wristwatches, most in their colorful original boxes. We are so honored that the consignor chose us to auction his fantastic collection of toys, said Miles King, co-owner of Milestone Auctions. Twenty-five years ago it might have been possible to amass a smaller version of a collection like this one, but it would have involve ... More | |
Mark Tobey, Northwest Drift, 1958. Tempera and gouache on paper laminated on board support, 44 11/16 x 35 5/8 in. (113.5 x 90.5 cm). Tate, London, Presented by the American Friends of the Tate Gallery 1961 © 2017 Estate of Mark Tobey / Seattle Art Museum, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
ANDOVER, MASS.- This fall, the Addison Gallery of American Art, located on the campus of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, presents Mark Tobey: Threading Light, an exhibition that traces the evolution of the artists groundbreaking style and his significant yet under-recognized contributions to abstraction and mid-century American modernism. With 70 paintings spanning the 1920s through 1970, Threading Light surveys the breadth of Tobeys oeuvre and reveals the extraordinarily nuanced yet radical beauty of his work. Organized by the Addison and guest curator Debra Bricker Balken, who also authored the accompanying catalogue, Threading Light opened earlier this year at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and is on view at the Addison from November 4, 2017, through ... More |
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Exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum highlights a major new body of work by Thomas Struth
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum presents Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics, an exhibition highlighting a major new body of work exploring cutting-edge technology by the celebrated German photographer. The ticketed exhibition is on view from Nov. 5 through Jan. 21, 2018. Over the past decade, the Berlin-based artist Thomas Struth (b. 1954) has traveled the world to photograph engineering facilities and scientific research spaces. With luminous color and monumental scale, he represents the intricacies of sites where human knowledge, ambition, and imagination are advanced. More than 35 photographs on view in Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics throw our cultures fascination with technology into sharp relief. Struths work takes viewers into spaces which are not accessible to most people, such as aeronautical centers, robotics laboratories, ... More
Landmark Hassan Sharif retrospective presented by Sharjah Art Foundation
SHARJAH.- This November, Sharjah Art Foundation presents a landmark retrospective of pioneering conceptual artist Hassan Sharif, marking the largest and most comprehensive survey of the artists work to date. Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist traces nearly five decades of the artists multimedia practice, including painting, sculpture, assemblage, drawing, installation, and photography, as well as never-before-seen late works by the artist. The entirety of Sharifs studio recently donated to Sharjah Art Foundation by the artists estateis also on view for the first time, providing new perspective on the artists practice. Curated by Sharjah Art Foundation President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi, I Am The Single Work Artist is the culmination of the artists lifelong role as an advocate and pioneer for the development of contemporary art and thought in the United ... More
Live online sale offers paintings, works on paper, photographs & sculpture from the 18th to 21st centuries
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will offer the American & European Fine Art Collection on Saturday, November 18, 2017, at 10:30 am PST. Featuring over 270 lots from multiple estates, the online auction includes paintings, works on paper, photographs and sculpture from the 18th to 21st centuries. Among the artists in the sale are William Keith, Theodore Waddell, Albrecht Durer, George Andrew Tice, Pablo Picasso, Millard Sheets, Wayne Thiebaud, Angel Espoy, Louis Icart, Horacio Renteria Rocha, Armin Hansen, Francisco Zuniga, Luigi Kasimir, John James Audubon, and Anders Zorn. Turner Auctions + Appraisals begins its online auction on November 18, 2017, at 10:30 am PST; items can be previewed and bid on now. The sale is featured on four platforms: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, eBay, and Turner Auctions + Appraisals ... More
"The Time. The Place" focuses on acquisitions to the Henry's contemporary collection
SEATTLE, WA.- On November 4, the Henry opened The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, a museum-wide exhibition presenting a selection of artworks that have entered the Henrys contemporary collection in the last two decades. More than half of the works are being exhibited at the Henry for the first time. Ranging in media from video installation to photography and from sculpture to drawing, the approximately 50 works represent a multi-national roster of artists including Miguel Calderón, Raymond Boisjoly, David Hartt, Richard Long, Tracey Moffat, An-My Lê, Shirin Neshat, Kori Newkirk, Lorna Simpson, Allan Sekula, Buster Simpson, and Eve Sussman. Across diverse, yet intersecting threads, these works explore and challenge conditions and events of contemporary life. They take viewers from domestic interiors to the streets of protest, from ... More
Exhibition presents sculptural work spanning three decades by Swiss-born artist Françoise Grossen
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition of sculptural work spanning three decades by Swiss-born artist Françoise Grossen. In her third solo presentation with the gallery, Grossen showcases three segments of her practicehanging sculpture, floor works, and a series of maquettes that preceded her expansive installations of the 1970s. Represented in this selection are a variety of Grossen's interests and influences as a young fiber sculptor, one who eventually became a leader of her field and more broadly helped define the archetypes of 1960s and '70s aesthetics. The earth tones, natural fibers, and found materials she employs capture her generation's desire to return to nature and reject consumerism, while her use of geometric shapes and repetitive patterns exemplify the clean, minimalist line of the era's design. As with her ... More
New site-specific installation by Canadian artist Megan Rooney on view at Tramway
GLASGOW.- MOMMA! MOMMA! is a new site-specific installation by Canadian artist Megan Rooney whose work encompasses painting, performance, written and spoken word, sculpture and installation. Rooney combines these elements to create an enigmatic, immersive form of storytelling that expands and contracts across various media. In careful continuity with the language of previous works, Rooneys installation at Tramway draws on a familiar set of textures and reference points to create an environment that is at once intimate and inviting, threatening and unnerving. A female figure is collapsed on the floor, her soft head and torso are propped awkwardly against the wall, long legs with candles burned and burning stretch into the room. Around her is a gnomic array of forms fashioned from ordinary materials that make strange and disconcert, evoking ... More
Perrotin New York opens an exhibition of works by Farhad Moshiri
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York presents Snow Forest, the fifth solo exhibition at the gallery by Farhad Moshiri. The exhibition is coinciding with Go West, the first retrospective in the US of Farhad Moshiri, currently held at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg through January 14, 2018. Fiction and simulacrum appear at the core of Farhad Moshiris multi-faceted practice of painting and installation. It most probably all started in Shiraz, where Moshiri grew up, a city nestled in the southern desert of Iran and famously the birthplace of the great Persian poets Hafez and Saadi. Moshiris father owned a few cinemas in Shiraz, and the artist spent his childhood watching classic American films, horror movies or spaghetti westerns, all dubbed in Farsi. From Dracula to Laurel and Hardy, from Charlie Chaplin to John Wayne, mythical figures of the ... More
Luhring Augustine exhibits a multi-part video and sculptural installation by Mike Kelley
NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announces the opening of Singles Mixer, a multi-part video and sculptural installation by the American artist Mike Kelley. Mike Kelley (1954 2012) was a visionary artist whose complex and diverse body of work forges an incisive exploration into the underpinnings of violence within American culture. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures in which he assembled discarded childrens toys and blankets to create ebullient works that hinged on despair. Traces of neglect, trauma, and other forms of abuse thread throughout the objects and social rituals represented within his practice. His work altogether remains defiantly irreverent, using humor and absurdity as a tactic for subversion. One of Kelleys most ambitious works is his monumental theater-turned-vaudeville installation entitled Day is Done (2005). Comprised ... More
Bouke de Vries puts the finishing touches to his epic, 8-metre ceramic sculpture 'War and Pieces'
WELBECK.- An epic eight-metre long sculpture made from thousands of fragments of porcelain has gone on display this winter at the Harley Gallery on the ducal Welbeck estate on the Nottinghamshire/Yorkshire border. Running from 4 November 2017 to 7 January 2018 and created by the renowned ceramic artist Bouke de Vries, War and Pieces is in the form of a traditional table centrepiece; centred around a nuclear explosion. Battle scenes rage across this field of shards, fought by figures in classical armour. Closer inspection reveals that de Vries has brought his work up to date by grafting colourful plastic cyber limbs and weaponry onto the white figurines from of the past. Meanwhile, the mushroom cloud is a vortex of porcelain objects of all sorts including crucified Christs and Chinese goddesses of mercy, watching over the death and destruction. ... More
Honor Fraser's first exhibition of paintings by pioneer Feminist artist Miriam Schapiro opens in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Honor Fraser Gallery is presenting the gallery's first exhibition of paintings by pioneer Feminist artist Miriam Schapiro. Presented in conjunction with exhibitions of videos by Jeremy Blake and paintings by Mel Davis. While living in California during the years 1967 through 1975, Miriam Schapiro embarked on a groundbreaking series of paintings made with the aid of computer imaging. The exhibition is organized with the assistance of Eric Firestone Gallery and the Estate of Miriam Schapiro, and features eight works made between 1967 and 1971. The exhibition marks the first time these works are being seen on the west coast since their making. Born in Toronto, Canada in 1923, Schapiro moved with her family to Brooklyn, New York during the Great Depression. Encouraged by her mother to be an artist, Schapiro took art classes at the Museum ... More
Option to the Death of Freedom: Casemore Kirkeby opens group exhibition
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The contemporary role of option provides an illusion to allay a sense of entrapment in our daily structure quieting a never-ending loop of collapsed feedback by promise of change reliant on option. In regards to this illusionary state (that one is free to decide upon change when presented with what is assumed as an option but is essentially a corroded strategy for sameness), is the idea that one accepts what is offered or receives more of the same resulting in no option at all. The construct of option accelerates the fallacy of a personal elect in a daily ultimatum game as it pertains to our current social climate. The invisible arena of option is an event in and of itself requiring a provocation of its pre-programmed cultural aim to expose its true boundary. In a time where traditional protest methodology proves outmoded in ability and information ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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