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Carel Fabritius (1622-54), The Goldfinch, 1654. Oil on panel, 33.5 x 22.8 cm. Collection: Mauritshuis, The Hague.
EDINBURGH.- A beautiful and mysterious masterpiece from the Golden Age of Dutch painting, which inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by the US publishing sensation Donna Tartt, made a flying visit to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh this autumn. The Goldfinch, which was painted in 1654 by Carel Fabritius, already enjoyed international renown before the intense interest surrounding Tartts 2014 novel of the same name propelled this mesmerising painting into the limelight, bringing it to the attention of Holywood producers, who now hope to adapt Tartt's book for the big screen. One of only a handful of works by Fabritius known to exist, The Goldfinch traveled to the SNG from its home in the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, in The Hague, for six weeks only, from 4 November to 18 December this year. The painting has never before been shown in Scotland, and has only been exhibited in the UK on a handful of occasions. Whe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Police officers stand guard in Trafalgar Square in front of the National Gallery during the anti-capitalist 'Million Masks March', organised by the group Anonymous, in London on November 5, 2016 to protest austerity, government policy and what they consider corperate greed. Activists gathered for a march on the night of Britain's Guy Fawkes Night with many wearing white masks of the man who was caught plotting to blow up parliament in 1605, now associated with the group Anonymous. Police made dozens of arrests during the protest on suspicion of various offences. Justin TALLIS / AFP
| Comprehensive retrospective of Francesca Woodman's photographs opens in Malmo | | Ai Weiwei populates Lisson Gallery New York with felled, cast-iron tree trunks | | John Trumbull paintings central to exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art |
Francesca Woodman, On Being an Angel #1, Providence, Rhode Island, 1977 © George and Betty Woodman.
MALMO.- Francesca Woodman is considered one of the worlds foremost photographers, and her work has inspired generations of other artists. Now a comprehensive retrospective of her photographs is being shown in the Ãresund region for the first time. In the exhibition at Moderna Museet Malmö, visitors will get a chance to discover and explore Woodmans distinctive and captivating art. Starting on November 5, the entire upper level of Moderna Museet Malmö is being devoted to the American photographer Francesca Woodman (19581981). Exploring Woodmans imagery is a challenge and an adventure, and her photographs address issues that still feel relevant today. The end of the 1970s and start of the 1980s, when Woodman was working as an artist, was a time of transition and many photographers who had been working in the traditional black-and-white idiom ... More | |
Ai Weiwei, Iron Root, 2015. Cast iron, 305 x 150 x 128 cm. 120 1/8 x 59 x 50 3/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- For his first solo exhibition with Lisson New York, Ai Weiwei populates the gallery with felled, cast-iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation. Situated among the beams of the High Line exposed entirely in this exhibition for the first time, the seven sculptures on display combine to create a forest of displaced objects and reveal the artists interest in tradition and contemporaneity as well as the prevalence of displacement in post-modern societies. Natural objects from the sunflower seeds that carpeted Tate Moderns Turbine Hall in 2010 to his series of porcelain rocks and watermelons have been an ongoing source of inspiration for Ai Weiwei, with trees recurring as a spiritual motif in his work since 2009. These monumental wooden or iron multipartite sculptures are all composites of different parts of ... More | |
John Trumbull, Portrait of a Gentleman, an Artist, c. 1801, Oil on canvas, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Bequest of Daniel Wadsworth, 1848.6.
HARTFORD, CONN.- Three historic scenes by America's first history painter, John Trumbull, are central to a new installation at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art that explores the visual interpretation of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). "John Trumbull: Visualizing American Independence" features more than 30 objects taken from the museum's permanent collection, including an additional work by Trumbull as well as works by modern artists who revisited the legacy of the war in the 20th century in observance of major anniversaries such as the bicentennial of George Washington's birth in 1932 and the nation's bicentennial in 1976. The installation opened Nov. 5, 2016 and is on view through July 2017. John Trumbull (1756-1843) served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and later created a series of eight paintings devoted to the subject, ... More |
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| Exhibition marks the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 | | Expansive presentation surveying the career of Frank Stella opens in San Francisco | | A unique copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard to be auctioned at Sotheby's London |
"For the defence of the USSR", 1930. Lithography on paper, 90 x 64 cm / 35 x 25". Valentina Nikiforovna Kulagina-Klucis VK/G 1/00.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts announces the exhibition Café Pittoresque with selected works by Georg Baselitz, Albert Oehlen, Georg Herold, Norbert Schwontkowski, Katja Strunz, TAL R, and Gert & Uwe Tobias, as well as historic works by Wladimir Majakowski, Amshei Niurenberg, Mikhail Tscheremnych, Pyotr Galadshev, El Lissitsky, Valentina Nikiforova Kulagina-Klucis, Alexander Michailowitsch Rodchenko, Abram Sterenberg, and the Moscow WChUTEMAS- school. During a discussion about the work Rodchenko I, Rodchenko II by Albert Oehlen (1982) now a central work of this presentation the idea of an exhibition to mark the forthcoming 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was developed in cooperation with Wilhelm Schürmann. The radical artistic innovations that came with this revolution remain relevant to this day. Constructivism, Suprematism, and Agitprop are formally inscribed into many contemporary works of ... More | |
Frank Stella, "St. Michaels Counterguard," 1984. Mixed media on aluminum and fiberglass, honeycomb, 156 x 135 in. (396.2 x 342.9 cm). Los Angeles County Museum of Art; gift of Anna Bing Arnold, M.84.150. © 2016 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present Frank Stella: A Retrospective, an expansive presentation surveying the career of this towering figure in post-WWII American art. Fifty works, including paintings, reliefs, sculptures and maquettes, are being displayed at the de Young, representing Frank Stellas prolific output from the late 1950s to the present day. This is the first comprehensive U.S. presentation devoted to the artist since 1970. Frank Stellas impact on abstract art is unmatched, says Max Hollein, Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This retrospective is timely and important for San Francisco audiences. To see the development of an artist who created masterpieces just one year out of college, who is still working as a major force todayit is impressive ... More | |
Sothebys will auction a unique copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard created, hand-written and illustrated by J.K Rowling. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A rare presentation copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, created, hand-written and illustrated by JK Rowling, containing a personal inscription by the author to the editor who launched her career, will be offered for sale at Sothebys London on 13 December 2016. The Tales of Beedle the Bard is estimated to reach £300,000-500,000. The present copy, number 3 of the 7 that J.K Rowling produced, was presented to British publisher Barry Cunningham, who famously accepted the first Harry Potter book for publication. The copy holds considerable special significance, as Cunningham played an instrumental role in launching J.K Rowlings career as an international best-selling author. In a dedication written in the front of the book, JK Rowling wrote: To Barry, the man who thought an overlong novel about a boy wizard in glasses might just sell THANK YOU. Cunningham recalls the experience of receiving the copy on 12 ... More |
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| Brooklyn Museum celebrates Iggy Pop with exhibition | | Linda Ronstadt consigns awards and costumes to Heritage Auctions | | Historic exhibition of Māori portraits opens at Auckland Art Gallery |
Film director Jim Jarmusch (L) and musician Iggy Pop attend as Brooklyn Museum celebrates Marilyn Minter and Iggy Pop at Opening Night Event at Brooklyn Museum on November 3, 2016 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Brooklyn Museum/AFP.
BROOKLYN, NY.- In Iggy Pop Life Class, Turner Prizewinning artist Jeremy Deller uses the traditional life-model drawing class to stage a performative event with Iggy Pop as model and subject. The resulting drawings, created by twenty-two participating artists, is being shown at the Brooklyn Museum from November 4, 2016, to March 26, 2017. Along with works depicting the male body selected from the Museums historical collections, the exhibition examines shifting cultural representations of masculinity across history. Dellers collaboration with Iggy Pop as a nude model is essential to his concept. A pioneer rock musicianas a singer, songwriter, musician, and actorPop began performing in the 1960s, becoming known for ... More | |
Linda Ronstadt -- An Elaborate Folklorico Costume Worn for Numerous Performances and Events (1980s-1990s).
DALLAS, TX.- Stage-worn clothes, a Country Music Association Award and awards commemorating sales milestones highlight a collection of 34 items consigned directly by legendary singer Linda Ronstadt will be auctioned Nov. 12 in Heritage Auctions' Entertainment and Music Memorabilia Auction in Dallas. A true musical superstar, Ronstadt began her career in the mid-1960s singing folk-rock, became the first female singer to release an alt-country album and achieved her greatest commercial success in the mid-1970s, when she became the first female rock star and the top-selling female of that decade. She continued to dominate record sales and pop culture well into the 1990s as a Grammy-nominated artist in a variety of genres. Among the top lots in the collection is an Elaborate Folklorico Costume Worn by the ... More | |
Gottfried Lindauer, Pare Watene, 1878, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Mr H E Partridge, 1915.
AUCKLAND.- More than 150 historic oil portraits of Māori and Pākehā are being shown at Auckland Art Gallery in the largest ever exhibition of work by artist Gottfried Lindauer. The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauers New Zealand features artworks from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It opened Saturday 22 October and entry is free. After a public search to locate further portraits by Lindauer, Auckland Art Gallery has discovered 36 bona fide artworks from around the world. At least six of these are being shown in the exhibition. Gallery Director Rhana Devenport says this is the most significant exhibition of Māori portraits to ever be seen. It will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to see this many Lindauer oil paintings together, which are an important part of Aotearoa New Zealands story and identity, she says. The Māori Portraits: Gottfried Lindauers New Zealand ... More |
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| Nearly 150 artworks will be offered at Burchard Galleries' Nov. 12-13 auction | | Solo exhibition by Chinese artist Li Gang opens at Galerie Urs Meile | | Tilton Gallery opens its first solo exhibition of work by Tomashi Jackson |
Portrait of the renowned French artist Maurice Utrillo, possibly done by his wife, Lucie (1878-1965), who was taught to paint by her famous husband.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- A trove of nearly 100 artworks from the estate of Christian Buchheit (1885-1974), who served for 50 years as Building Superintendent for The Art Students League in New York, will headline a two-day auction slated for the weekend of November 12th and 13th by Burchard Galleries in the firm's spacious showroom at 2528 30th Avenue North in St. Petersburg. This is truly a rare estate find, said Jeffrey Burchard, owner of Burchard Galleries. When Mr. Buchheit retired, many of the League artists and teachers paid tribute by presenting him with a 50th year anniversary party that included a portfolio of original watercolors, drawings, oils and prints. Many of these will be in the auction and are being offered to the public for the first time. Also up for bid is Part 2 of the estate collection of Yves Georges Prade (1904-1992), a major force in the Parisian art world, having served as editor and art critic for ... More | |
Li Gang, Gravity 6, 2016. Jade bracelets, steel tube, 350 x 91 x 75 cm. Courtesy: Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile announces the opening of Li Gang, the fifth solo exhibition by Chinese artist Li Gang (b. 1986 in Dali, Yunnan Province, China). The exhibitions works are divided into two main categories: paintings and sculptures. The entire exhibition revolves around the aesthetics of imperfection as a tone and starting point. Li Gangs artistic practice originated in painting, and the language he has developed is unique. It travels between the figurative and the abstract and hides the ontological point that the artist started from: a deep reflection on the existence of painting itself. In the Oil Painting series (Oil Painting, 2016, oil on hand-made canvas, 125 x 122 cm), the artist attempts to let painting return to its original form through deconstruction and reconstruction. This is to both discover new possibilities for drawing and also emphasize the composition of oil paint itself. Limited by n ... More | |
Tomashi Jackson, Dajerria All Alone (Bolling v Sharpe (District of Columbia))(McKinney Pool Party), 2016 (detail). Mixed media on cotton and canvas, 101 x 72 3/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of work by Tomashi Jackson. The exhibition will be on view until December 23, 2016. The Subliminal is Now investigates color as a vehicle for painting, complex narrative, and emotion around a nexus of materiality, figuration, and light. This body of work interrogates the subliminal impact of color perception on the value of human life in public space. Color operates as projection, reflection and obstruction, as both subliminal and sublime. Catalyzed by an interest in the history of school desegregation in the United States, against a contemporary backdrop of explicitly illustrated dehumanization of Black people and specifically Black children, Jackson's research is the narrative framework from which her own language of abstraction emerges. Jackson's process began in 2014 with an investigation of court transcripts of the five cases ... More |
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Richard Branson, space tourism and a mysterious saxophone at the Walker
LIVERPOOL.- A large, fluorescent image of Richard Branson, with orange cables protruding from his eyes, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. Benedict Drew: KAPUT, which runs from 28 October 2016 until 26 February 2017, explores the concept of space tourism through a thrilling, immersive installation owned by the Arts Council Collection. Using a combination of video, audio and sculptural elements, artist Benedict Drew reflects on societys uncertain relationship with technology. Beneath the image of Branson who founded Virgin Galactic, the first company dedicated to civilian space travel - Virgin spacecrafts soar across two screens, a foil backdrop flickers and the room buzzes with the sound of feedback, accompanied by the eerie sound of a saxophone. For the visitor, psychedelic colours and music combine to create an environment that appears ... More
De Buck Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Japanese Gutai master Shozo Shimamoto
NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery announces an exhibition of works by acclaimed Japanese Gutai master Shozo Shimamoto. The exhibition, entitled Do Something Interesting, See Something Odd is on view at the gallery from November 3, 2016 through January 28, 2017. Do Something Interesting, See Something Odd, delves ever deeper into Shimamotos revolutionary career trajectory. The exhibition provides an overview of the maturation of Shimamotos style and technique. Centerpieces include examples of his trademark Bottle Crash series, in which the artist created lively, abstract paint-smattered works by ceremoniously throwing bottles and other containers full of pigment at otherwise blank canvases, highlighting the innovative performance-based methods and the energy, visually documented within the works, with which Shimamoto approached his art ... More
Capitain Petzel opens exhibition of works by Barbara Bloom
BERLIN.- Absence and its depiction has been an ongoing theme of exploration in the work of Barbara Bloom. Fingerprints, lipstick traces, watermarks, tea stains, footprints, invisible texts, erasures, cross-outs, Braille, and ellipses... are her favored forms and objects. These flirtations between visibility and invisibility have been frequent presences in her work. Another equally strong aspect of Bloom's work has been its relationship to literature. She uses books as carriers of meaning, uses texts from favorite authors, and often suggests implied narratives. Bloom has often said that she was meant to be a writer, probably a novelist, but somehow ended up standing in the wrong line (and inadvertently "signed up" to be a visual artist). The Literary and the Absent come together in Bloom's latest exhibition "The Weather". Hovering in varying heights above the floor are carpets, each ... More
Nevada Museum of Art opens Peter Stichbury's first museum exhibition in the United States
RENO, NEV.- New Zealand-based artist Peter Stichbury has created a series of paintings and drawings linked to unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Fascinated by the stories of individuals who claim to have witnessed UFOs and/or extraterrestrials, he explores their motives, objectives, and reliability through portraits and related works. The artworks are informed by his meticulous research, which includes reading books and newspaper articles and consulting websites and video documentation. Peter Stichbury: Anatomy of a Phenomenon opened November 5 and will remain on view through May 28, 2017 at the Nevada Museum of Art, Donald W. Reynolds Center for the Visual Arts, E. L. Wiegand Gallery located at 160 West Liberty Street in downtown Reno. The works in this gallery, the artists first museum exhibition in the United States, are inspired by national and ... More
Artissima announces winners of Present Future, Back to the Future, Reda and Fico prizes 2016
TURIN.- Artissima announced the recipients of the 2016 illy Present Future Prize, Sardi per lArte Back to the Future Prize, Reda and Fondazione Ettore Fico Prize. The illy Present Future Prize, supported by illycaffè since 2001, is awarded to an artist whose work is considered the most interesting, by an international jury. Since 2012, thanks to the collaboration with Castello di Rivoli Museo dArte Contemporanea, the prize has offered its winner the exceptional opportunity of presenting a solo exhibition at the museum. The winner for 2016 is Cécile B. Evans, presented by Galerie Barbara Seiler, Zurich. The Sardi per lArte Back to the Future Prize, run in partnership with Fondazione Sardi per lArte and worth 5,000 , goes to the gallery with the most deserving project in terms of historical relevance and booth presentation. The winner for 2016 is Lars Fredrikson, ... More
In Poland, bad blood brewing between politics and the arts
WROCLAW (AFP).- The play is over, the curtain falls, then rises again to reveal the actors standing with their mouths taped shut at the Polski Theatre in Poland's western city of Wroclaw. It is their latest protest against the venerated theatre's new executive director, actor Cezary Morawski, whom they claim got his job thanks to the rightwing government. His response? Kill the lights. Yet only a few days earlier he told AFP he was tolerant of such protests: "Democracy exists so that everyone can express their opinion." Though politically independent, Morawski was backed by regional and national authorities to take over the job on September 1 at what is one of Poland's main theatres. His predecessor, Krzysztof Mieszkowski, who is an avowed opponent of conservative Culture Minister Piotr Glinski, had championed a different candidate. The protesting actors, who claim Morawski ... More
China's Miao minority welcome new year with lavish celebrations
LEISHAN (AFP).- To an ear-splitting soundtrack of chanting and drums, 400 young dancers in spangled outfits clanged sickles and kick-stepped before thousands of spectators and a dais of a dozen Chinese officials. The performance was one of many at Leishan county in the southwestern province of Guizhou, as a lavish government-sponsored opening ceremony kicked off new year celebrations for the Miao ethnic minority - a group of about 12 million people who are more at home in their own languages than in Mandarin Chinese. The songs and dances being performed were once used to enliven back-breaking agricultural labour in the mountainous region, one of China's poorest. "When I was young, I had to go out and harvest rice - it was so tiring, and so precious that old people would pick up and eat even a single grain of rice that fell on the floor," said Yu Nianlan, a Miao ... More
New body of work by R. Luke DuBois on view at bitforms gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery continues its fifteen-year anniversary season with The Choice Is Yours, a new body of work by R. Luke DuBois. For his fourth solo show at the gallery, DuBois questions individual agency, from the choices we make in our daily lives to those that constitute the worlds greatest democracy. Repurposing and building upon mid-twentieth century voting machines, DuBois pairs typically innocuous words as oppositional choices, a gesture underscoring the lack of choice we feel when presented with reductive binaries. The Choice Is Yours consists of a series of mechanical voting machines from the forties, fifties, and sixties, manufactured by the Automatic Voting Machine (AVM) Corporation in Jamestown, New York. In the exhibition, these machines are transformed into Learning Machines, a play on the concept of machine learning and artificial ... More
Ellsworth Kelly and Andy Warhol lead Swann Galleries' November Contemporary Art Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, November 15, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of Contemporary Art, featuring works by Chuck Close, Christo, Richard Diebenkorn, Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly, among others. Prime works by Pop Art king Andy Warhol include the iconic 1964 screenprint of Elizabeth Taylor, aptly titled Liz, as well as the screenprint Campbells Soup I: Green Pea, 1968 ($30,000 to $50,000 and $15,000 to $20,000, respectively). Also available is a sheet of sixty unpeeled Banana Stickers (The Velvet Underground & Nico), 1967, the largest amount of intact stickers related to the landmark collaboration between Warhol and The Velvet Underground ever seen at auction, estimated to sell between $8,000 to $12,000. Abstract Expressionist masters are well represented. An excellent work from Robert Motherwells Elegy to the Spanish Republic series titled ... More
The Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation give a gift to Dia Art Foundation
NEW YORK, NY.- Dia Art Foundation announced today that it received a gift from The Dr. Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation to establish the Sackler Institute. Marissa Sackler is a trustee of Dia Art Foundation. The endowment for the Sackler Institute will support and promote the intellectual content of Dias core programming. The Sackler Institute, a center without walls, establishes a unique umbrella structure within Dia, bringing together public programs, education, research, and scholarship across all of its sites. These include: Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, Readings in Contemporary Poetry, Community Free Days, Gallery Talks, Education Programming, Publications, Archives, and Conservation and Research. The Sackler Foundations generous gift provides a new platform for Dias critical ... More
Edward Cella Art & Architecture exhibits works by Jeffrey Vallance
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture presents, Jeffrey Vallance: Now More Than Ever, an immersive experience into the mind of this influential Los Angeles artist featuring mixed-media drawings, sculpture, and performance. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, with an essay by Doug Harvey. In this distinctive exhibition, Vallance returns to his first love, and the first medium of many artists: drawing. Beginning first as an intuitive gesture, and then built layer-by-layer with collage and paint, Vallance performs their making; attacking each work like a possessed cat, scratching and clawing at each surface with manic gestures and pure emotion. The dense mixed media works encompass iconography visible throughout Vallances nearly 40-year career such as the wild dog, the crow, the rooster, and the eye. As stated by art critic Doug Harvey, the bulk of the imagery ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist and designer Harry Bertoia died November 06, 1978. Harry Bertoia (b. March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy. d. November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania, United States), was an Italian-born artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Bertoia's "Textured Screen" caused much controversy when it was unveiled for the Dallas Public Library in 1954.
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