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Lawrence Weiner, WHEREWITHAL | WAS ES BRAUCHT, 2016. Detail view third floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of Lawrence Weiner © Lawrence Weiner | ARS, New York | Bildrecht, Wien, 2016 and Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ.- The exhibition title WHEREWITHAL in white uppercase letters is outlined in black. It is a work about language and, according to Weiner, a mental image for the state of society, people, and the world today. Art has to ask questions, stated Lawrence Weiner during his first visit to Kunsthaus Bregenz. If it contented itself with predetermined answers, it would fall into the traps of complacency and simple illustration. Born in 1942 in New York, Lawrence Weiner is one of the worlds most renowned artists and a cofounder of American conceptual art. In realizing art as an intellectual act, Weiner has from the very beginning worked with language. On the wall it attains a virtually tangible existence. »First there was the word, and with the word one realized that there was something before the word.« (Lawrence Weiner, 1996) Weiner always employs two languages, English and the respective native language, the objects acquiring bo ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "David Bowie's personal art collection captured the imagination of the tens of thousands who visited our exhibitions and the thousands who took part in the sales. Sotheby's is truly honoured to have had the opportunity to share this collection with the world and, in doing so, offer a fresh insight into the creative mind of one of the greatest cultural figures of our time."-- Oliver Barker, Chairman, Sotheby's Europe In this image: Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, Wedding of the Rock and Dynamo (est. £80,000-120,000)
| Doyle to offer an important collection of Simón BolÃvar and the South American Liberation Movement | | Archaeologists throw new light on Shakespeare after uncovering the stage at The Curtain Theatre | | Three masterworks by Gnoli, Fontana and Tancredi offered at Sotheby's Milan |
An inscribed portrait of Bolivar. Possibly Lima: December 1823. Hand-colored engraved portrait of Bolivar in uniform, 19.5 x 14.5 cm. Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Doyle will auction an important collection of letters, documents, manuscripts and books relating to Simón BolÃvar and the South American Independence Movement. This private collection comprises over 40 lots in the November 22, 2016 sale of Rare Books & Autographs. There has not been such a substantial collection devoted to the movement offered at auction in decades and this collection represents some of the rarest primary material extant. Revered throughout Latin American as El Libertador, Simón BolÃvar (1783-1830) was the most important figure in the South American independence movement. Born to an aristocratic family in Caracas (Venezuela), BolÃvar led an army of patriots against the powerful forces of Spain and liberated a vast swath of South America, which are now the six nations of Bolivia, ... More | |
Early 17th century clay tobacco pipes © MOLA.
LONDON.- A three-month detailed excavation of Shakespeares Curtain Theatre by MOLA archaeologists has revealed details of a stage that is much longer than originally thought with evidence of a passageway running beneath it. Archaeologists can now also confirm that the theatre was a purpose-built structure at the rear of another building on Curtain Road in Shoreditch. MOLA experts are hoping to uncover more secrets about the relationship between the unusual shape of the stage, the production and staging and the mysterious backstage areas through further detailed analysis. The Curtain Theatre was intentionally built as a rectangular theatre to house plays and activities. This was not a repurposed space with a stage, it was a place where people came to be immersed in entertainment. It had timber galleries with mid and upper areas for those who could afford to spend a little more, and a courtyard made from compacted gravel for those with less to spend. The ... More | |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attesa, 1957 (detail). Olio e buchi su tela (righe dorate, gialle e nere subianco), 50 x 70 cm. Estimate: 800.000-1.200.000. Photo: Sotheby's.
MILAN.- The star of the upcoming Milanese selection comes from an important European private collection: Sofa of 1968, a grand Close up by the extremely rare artist Domenico Gnoli. The work is an oil on canvas of cm 131 x 171, formerly coming from Jan Krugier, Geneve, and well-known due to its exhibition held by the volcanic gallerist Sidney Janis in 1969 in New York. Janis was a real pillar for the development of the best 20th Century European Art on the American market. The exhibition held in 1969 at Janis gallery was Gnolis first show in the USA. Sofa is an indisputable masterpiece by an intellectual, acute, eclectic, hard to label artist. The sofa, depicted in an intelligent renovated post-magrittian style, conveys in its fixity a melancholic and magic aura altogether. The valuation ranges from 1.500.000 ... More |
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| Exhibition at Moderna Museet focuses on controversial suites Heroes and New Types by Georg Baselitz | | Second solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Matthias Bitzer on view at Marianne Boesky Gallery | | Music legend David Bowie's art collection worth over $41million at auction in London |
Georg Baselitz, Rebell, 1965 © Georg Baselitz 2016. Tate London 2015. Photo: Fredrich Rosentiel.
STOCKHOLM.- Georg Baselitz is regarded as one of the most important European artists of the post-war era. The exhibition Georg Baselitz: The Heroes focuses on the controversial suites Heroes and New Types, which Baselitz created in 1965-66, in a burst of creativity. They mark the breakthrough of the artist, who was 27 at the time. These monumental, figurative paintings and drawings show ragged and vulnerable soldiers who turn a sceptical eye on history and failure. It pleases me to see these works again. Most of them I havent seen for nearly 50 years. They're not bad, actually. But it pains me that we are living in a time when they again feel relevant. Georg Baselitz When Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) was branded as being sociopolitically immature, expelled from art college in East Berlin, and the police confiscated the works from his first exhibition in the West, he soon won the reputation of being a romantic outsider on the art scene. Neither East ... More | |
Matthias Bitzer, the totality of air, 2016. Wood, glass, paint, metal. Overall: 63 x 55 1/8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. © Matthias Bitzer. Photo: Jason Wyche.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting the second solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Matthias Bitzer. a different sort of gravity features a new body of work that explores the ways in which thoughts, images, and objects are interpreted through language and memory. The exhibition will be on view until December 17, 2016 at the gallerys 507 W. 24th Street location. A concurrent exhibition of new work by Los Angeles-based artist Dashiell Manley is on view in the adjacent Marianne Boesky Gallery at 509 W. 24th Street. The interplay between seemingly disparate subjects, sources, and contexts forms the core of Bitzers practice. In both his two and three-dimensional works, these distinct ideas come together to reveal unseen narratives and surprising connections. This conceptual underpinning is newly experienced with this body of work, which includes a ... More | |
Norman Catherine, Fanagalo Store (est. £10,000-15,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- A London auction of music legend David Bowie's art collection has ended with sales totalling almost £33 million ($41.5 million), after exhibits of the works drew record crowds, Sotheby's said Saturday. Every item in the collection, which included over 130 works of modern and contemporary British art, was sold in a series of sales as buyers' enthusiasm for the late musician's collection exceeded expectations. Exhibitions of the works in London attracted some 51,470 visitors, the highest attendance for any pre-sale exhibition in the British capital, the auction house said. The auctions themselves were attended by 1,750 bidders, with over 1,000 more bidding on line. "David Bowies personal art collection captured the imagination of the tens of thousands who visited our exhibitions and the thousands who took part in the sales," said Oliver Barker, chairman of Sothebys Europe. The collection offered "a fresh insight into the creative mind of one of the ... More |
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| Lyman Allyn Art Museum opens newly reinstalled permanent collection of American art | | Galerie Templon exhibits works by a major figure in the Narrative Figuration movement | | ROM publishes new edition of "Wanderings of an Artist" as iconic artist Paul Kane intended |
Henry Ward Ranger, American 1858-1916. Mason's Island Cove, about 1900 (detail), oil on wood. Gift of T. Colville, by exchange, 1974.167.
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the opening of American Perspectives, its newly reinstalled permanent collection of American Art on November 6, 2016. With paintings, sculpture, furniture, and decorative arts from the 18th through 20th century, the renovated galleries offer a fresh approach to new and familiar treasures. American Perspectives presents American art through an often regional lens, using chronology and thematic groupings to celebrate the strengths of the collection, which include 18th century furniture, New Londons maritime and whaling history, Hudson River School paintings, and Connecticut Impressionism, along with modern and contemporary art. Closed for renovation since June 27th, the new galleries look dramatically different from the previous installation. American Perspectives features ... More | |
Valerio Adami, Les Deux Arbres, 2006. Acrylique sur toile / Acrylic on canvas, 198 x 147 cm ; 78 x 57 7/8 in. ©Valerio Adami. Courtesy Galerie Daniel Templon Paris and Brussels.
BRUSSELS.- Valerio Adami, a major figure in the Narrative Figuration movement, is returning to Brussels with a show at Galerie Templon, forty years after his last solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in 1966. The Galerie Daniel Templon exhibition invites visitors on a journey around his recent works, marked by the familiar elegance of the artist-philosophers approach. Valerio Adami puts together complex allegories in compositions that feature his favourite themes: travel, music, literature and theatre. Despite the sparkling colours that light up the canvases, the figures who populate them often seem to be prey to introspection and melancholy. Each scene describes the imminence of a tragedy (Daniel Arasse). His highly distinctive painting style, with its blocks of colours outlined in black, conjures up the fragility of life and the possibility ... More | |
A Babbine Chief Tsimshian Skeena River region, northwest British Columbia 18491856. Oil on canvas, 912.1.87. Gift of Sir Edmund Osler.
TORONTO.- A new publication from ROM Press celebrates the work of iconic Canadian artist Paul Kane (1810-1871). Published more than a century and a half after its original 1859 publication, Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America documents the artists years of travel between Toronto and the Pacific coast. The book depicts Kanes journeys, the people he met, and the stories he heard, and includes 97 images referenced directly in Kanes narrative, with 91 paintings drawn from the ROMs collection. Including an introduction by ROM Assistant Curator Kenneth Lister, this publication realizes Kanes ambition to present a complete, illustrated account of his travels during the late 1840s and the final years of the fur-trade period. On its original publication, Wanderings of an Artist received immediate international praise and translated into three foreign languages. While pleased ... More |
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| TEFAF Maastricht announces Curator for TEFAF Curated | | Exhibition of works by Magnus Plessen on view at White Cube | | Matthew Marks exhibits works by Terry Winters |
Penelope Curtis is best known as a curator and historian of sculpture, having created the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. Image courtesy of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian.
MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Maastricht, the worlds leading art and antiques fair, is delighted to announce that the third edition of TEFAF Curated will be curated by Penelope Curtis, director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. The section will host a selected group of galleries each exhibiting works by contemporary artists on the theme of the reclining or recumbent figure. TEFAF Curated aims to show works by artists that have previously not shown at the Fair and is designed to complement the Fairs modern and contemporary section. Between Heaven and Earth The recumbent figure as a motif has been in continuous use since ancient times. One of the unique characteristics of this form is the way in which it can simultaneously represent life and death, with images of fertility and fecundity as common as those of grief and commemoration. The motif also ... More | |
Magnus Plessen, Untitled (smoking), 2015. Oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 18 1/2 in. (55 x 47 cm). Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
LONDON.- White Cube is presenting an exhibition by Magnus Plessen. This exhibition, featuring paintings made in the last two years, is a continuation of his 1914 series of work, further exploring and developing its themes. The 1914 paintings are inspired by German pacifist Ernst Friedrichs seminal anti-war book War Against War (1924). The first published work to show the devastating impact of automatic weapons on the human body, War Against War presents photographs of mutilated and wounded soldiers from World War I. In Plessens works, limbs, heads and objects appear radically dislocated from their context as is the case with the work Untitled (smoking) (2015), where a dark head simultaneously emerges from and recedes into the paintings background. Devoid of features, the head is partially obscured by, and seemingly disconnected from, the limp grey hand that languidly holds a cigarette, as if these p ... More | |
Terry Winters, Scale, 2015-2016. Oil, wax and resin on linen. 60 x 45 inches; 152 x 114 cm. © Terry Winters, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announces Terry Winters, the most recent exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibitions sixteen chromatically rich paintings have been built up with layers of marks in oil, resin, and wax. Their imagery derives from diverse sources, among them botany, geology, and chemistry, as indicated by their titles, which include Shell, Cluster, and Dioxazine Shift. Each finished painting, however, is an abstract composition with its own internal dynamics, emerging through a process that resembles evolution and other unpredictable natural phenomena. These recent paintings are a series of accumulations, Winters says. Theres a range of paint application in terms of both material and technique. Each color is a marker, a stage of development. Im moving across the surface, modulating the material in different ways. That inflection produces an amplification of colors, both ... More |
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Twelve monumental works by Thierry De Cordier on view in Brussels
BRUSSELS.- The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium welcome 12 monumental works by Thierry De Cordier from November 8th onwards. In this first exhibition of the artist since the Venice Biennale in 2013, the visitor can discover a series of new works called Iconotextures. These gigantic works on paper show thousands of definitions of God transcribed in blue ink by the artist. This series is the result of five years (2011-2016) of labor and will be on display at the RMFAB until the 22nd of January 2017. The series Iconotextures consists of twelve works: vast fields of 300 x 150 cm paper where blue ink assembles into a whirlwind. The artists presents a waterfall of text that links to absurdity definitions of God. Both definitions that claim and deny His existence. Oscillating between irony and the sacred, the words become the spiritual material (texture) of an image ... More
Chihuly glass returns to the Reading Public Museum
READING, PA.- The Reading Public Museum is presenting Chihulys Venetians: The George R. Stroemple Collection, on display until Sunday, January 8, 2016. Unlike the exhibition hosted at The Museum in 2004, which showcased work from Chihulys studio, this exhibition features a private collection of works owned by a single collector, George R. Stroemple. The exhibition includes the master glassmakers spectacular Laguna Murano Chandelier and 60 luminous examples from his acclaimed Venetian series, as well as more than a dozen drawings. Chihulys Venetians were inspired by the artists trip to Venice in 1988. During this trip, he visited a gallery that housed an extraordinary private collection of Venetian glass that represented the pinnacle of Venetian Art Deco (1920s and 1930s). Returning to the United States, he decided to create his own versions of the classic pieces with ... More
ARTBO 2016 closes with record of visitors and seen as the best quality art fair in Latin America
BOGOTA.- The 12th edition of ARTBO, the International Art Fair of Bogotá, a program of the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá, welcomed 74 galleries from 28 cities presenting 3,000 artworks by 500 artists from 27 to 30 October 2016. Besides the Main Section of the fair, ARTBO showcased other 7 curated sections: Proyectos, curated by Jens Hoffmann; Referentes, curated by Pablo Léon de la Barra and Ericka Flórez; Artecámara, curated by Fernando Escobar; Articularte, curated by Laagencia; Sitio, curated by MarÃa Belén Sáez de Ibarra; Foro, curated by Magali Arriola and Mario Garcia Torres including Collectors Talks, curated by Abaseh Mirvali and Libro de Artista, curated by La Silueta. I am happy to say the 12th edition of ARTBO has shown a high-quality artistic program that was praised by visitors and increased the dynamism of the local art ... More
C24 Gallery opens second solo exhibition of works by Swiss artist Katja Loher
NEW YORK, NY.- C24 Gallery presents VUELA VUELA, the second solo exhibition by Swiss artist Katja Loher. VUELA VUELA is on exhibit November 11 December 23, 2016. At this critical time for the planet, Katja Loher draws attention to the silent and gradual extinction of many species through the artifice of creating digital alternative interpretations and recombinations of reality. For over a decade, she has experimented with various forms of Videosculpture, combining nature and technology in a collective effort with architects, dancers, choreographers, anthropologists, costume designers and fabricators. With her images, sound and performance, Loher gives life to an enchanted world of intriguing creatures from the past and the present, generating both individual visions and personal readings. VUELA VUELA is an all-immersive installation experience that ... More
Gordon Knox appointed President of San Francisco Art Institute
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Board of Trustees of San Francisco Art Institute announces the appointment of Gordon Knox as President. Knox will begin in his new role January 23, 2017. We are extraordinarily pleased to welcome Gordon Knox as the next President of SFAI, says Chris Tellis, Chair of the SFAI Board of Trustees. Gordon brings to SFAI a deep commitment to arts education, along with 25 years of experience developing institutions and working to create opportunities for practicing artists. He fully understands and is inspired by the challenges of leading a center of higher learning focused on the fine arts. Gordon will provide SFAI with dynamic leadership at a time when the entire San Francisco creative community is undergoing an unprecedented renaissance with expanded museums and galleries and opportunities for artists to study and thrive. SFAI ... More
Covered in Time and History: The films of Ana Mendieta on view in Berkeley
BERKELEY, CA.- The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, on view November 9, 2016 through January 15, 2017. During her brief careerjust fourteen years, between 1971 and 1985the Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (19481985) produced a stunning body of work that included performances, drawings, sculptures, installations, and photographs. This exhibition, organized by the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota, brings together twenty-one of Mendietas recently preserved filmworksmany of which have had little previous exposurein addition to a selection of related photographs; to date it is the largest grouping of the artists filmworks to be presented in an exhibition in the United States. With her unique synthesis of sculpture, earth ... More
Exhibition at Louisiana focuses on Taryn Simon's "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar"
HUMLEBÃK.- With the photo series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2007) the American artist Taryn Simon (b. 1975) made her mark as one of her generations most important photographers. This autumn the photo series can be experienced at Louisiana, where it is being shown as part of the museums exhibition series Louisiana One Work. About this very series the author Salman Rushdie writes: In a historical period in which many people are making such great efforts to conceal the truth from the mass of the people, an artist like Taryn Simon is an invaluable counter force. Democracy needs visibility, accountability, light ... Somehow, Simon has persuaded a good few denizens of hidden worlds not to scurry for shelter when the light is switched on, as cockroaches and vampires do, but to pose proudly for her invading lens... An American Index of the ... More
Ellen DeGeneres guest curates exhibition at Cooper Hewitt
NEW YORK, NY.- American television host, actress, writer and entrepreneur Ellen DeGeneres has guest curated the next exhibition in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museums Selects series. On view Nov. 11May 21, 2017, in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery, Ellen DeGeneres Selects is the 14th in the ongoing series in which prominent designers, artists and architects are invited to mine and interpret the museums collection of more than 210,000 objects. An avid traveler and sophisticated design collector, Ellens selections are inspired by her journeys through Africa, Europe and beyond, and underscore the global reach of the museum's collection, said Cooper Hewitt Director Caroline Baumann. The objects chosen range from iconic works of modernist design to vernacular expressions of local cultures. Presented in provocative groupings, ... More
First US solo exhibition by Yuko Mohri on view at Jane Lombard Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Lombard Gallery is presenting the first US solo exhibition by Yuko Mohri, recipient of the 2015 Nissan Art Award. Form of the Daze features site-specific kinetic installations, transforming found objects into idiosyncratic circuits of movement and sound. Alluding to the surrealist absurdism of Boris Vians 1947 French novel, Foam of the Daze, Mohri relishes the exploration of seemingly random and often invisible connectivity embedded within the human experience. Mohris materials are reconfigurations of everyday items, junk, and machine parts, collected in cities across the world, and activated by the environment around them bringing the concept of site-specificity to a new level. In From A, scattered pieces of debris are momentarily electrified, using the fleeting interactions of unseen forces to energize each component. Inspired by a metal ... More
The Robin Rice Gallery opens a photographic exhibition by Steve Miller
NEW YORK, NY.- The Robin Rice Gallery is presenting Fashion, Animal, Sound, a photographic exhibition by Steve Miller. The show will run through December 18, 2016. The images featured in Miller's Fashion, Animal, Sound are all x-rays. The photographs, mounted on aluminum in shadow box frames, display the inner mechanisms of things we don't ordinarily see. They reveal the inner constructs of objects or animals, creating a truly three-dimensional viewing experience. The images of Fashion, Animal, Sound are perplexing in their simplicity. In the invitational image, Fish Circle, the bodies of several fish, photographed as an x-ray, swarm around a central axis in a circular formation. It is almost as if the viewer is looking at a Rorschach inkblot test. The show delves into themes of consumptionand overconsumptionin modern culture as seen in Miller's stunning two ... More
Hermès Sellier Kelly Bag may bring $100,000+ in Heritage Auctions' Holiday Luxury Accessories Auction
DALLAS, TX.- An Hermès Extraordinary Collection Diamond, Shiny Braise Porosus Crocodile Sellier Kelly Bag, accented with 18-karat white gold hardware, is estimated to sell for more than $100,000 among a number of luxury handbags available in Heritage Auctions' Holiday Luxury Accessories Auction, Dec. 7-8, in Dallas. Direct from Hermès Extraordinary Collection, the 32-centimeter Kelly Bag, features a cadena (chain) lock made of 68.4 grams of 18-karat white gold and is encrusted with 40 VVS F white round brilliant diamonds set in 10 grams of 18-karat white gold. The touret features another seven VVS F round brilliant diamonds, and the interior is made of braise chevre leather with one zip pocket and two slip pockets. The bag includes two keys, a lock and a clochette. "Heritage has a strong track record of offering the best of the best when it comes to Hermès," ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Camille Pissarro died November 13, 1903. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54. In this image: An unidentified visitor looks at the Impressionist painting by Camille Pissarro called the "Rue Saint-Honore apre-midi. Effet de Pluie (Rue Saint-Honore Afternoon, Rain Effect)," in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Thursday May 12, 2005..
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