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Loaned from different museums and private collections are the fifteen finest works from Peeters small known oeuvre, which is generally considered to number around 40 paintings. © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- Having previously been seen in Antwerp, the Museo del Prado is now showing the The Art of Clara Peeters, an exhibition on this female painter who formed part of the first generation of European artists to specialise in still-life painting and was among the very few women to devote her professional activities to painting in early modern Europe. The presence at the Prado of this group of fifteen major works by Peeters will emphasise the achievements of this highly gifted and exquisite artist, whose known surviving oeuvre numbers barely 40 paintings. Both the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue reflect the most recent scholarship on the artists life and work, locating Clara Peeters in the cultural and artistic context of Antwerp and also drawing attention to the situation of women artists on the threshold of the modern era when their opportunities were hindered by widespread prejudices. Clara Peeters devoted her ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People look at a Concorde plane model, at the Saint Aubin Auction House in Toulouse, on October 28, 2016, ahead of an auction of Concorde items, as mechanical parts or flight instruments. Rémy GABALDA / AFP
| First exhibition marking 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses" opens | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac showcases paintings from Robert Rauschenberg's last series on canvas | | Archaeologists question 'oldest' Hebrew mention of Jerusalem |
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, 1529. © Deutsches Historisches Museum.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- On October 30, 2016, the Minneapolis Institute of Art will present the first exhibition in the United States to explore the indelible impact of the Protestant Reformation through major works of art, as part of an international initiative to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luthers Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. On view through January 15, 2017, Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation will feature paintings, sculptures, gold, textiles and works on papermany of which have never before left Germanyas well as Luthers personal possessions and recent archeological finds from his boyhood homes to shed new light on the critical religious, cultural and societal changes of this tumultuous and transformative period. The anniversary will be observed around the world on October 31, 2017. Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation ... More | |
Robert Rauschenberg, Razzle Down (Salvage), 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 130,8 x 114,3 cm (51,5 x 45 in). © The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / Adagp Paris, 2016. All rights reserved.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting the first solo exhibition of American artist Robert Rauschenberg at their Marais gallery. The gallery has represented the artists estate since April 2015. The exhibition showcases paintings from the Salvage series (1983-1985), the artists last series on canvas. Consisting of canvases painted and silkscreened with photographs either collected in magazines or taken by himself, Salvage recalls the topics and compositions of his iconic Silkscreen Paintings from the early sixties. Although they use commercial printing processes and focus on mass-media imagery, they remain expressionistic, painterly, and multipart in organization. Rauschenberg likes wordplay and the exact meaning of the title remains ambiguous. Historically ... More | |
Journalists take pictures of an ancient papyrus manuscript dating back to time of the First Temple (seventh century BCE). MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Archaeologists have doubted the authenticity of a 7th century BC text that Israel says contains the earliest mention in Hebrew of Jerusalem outside the Bible, a newspaper said on Friday. Israel's antiquities authority unveiled the papyrus on Wednesday amid a row with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization over a UN resolution on the city of Jerusalem. A UNESCO resolution this month criticised the Jewish state for restricting access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in annexed east Jerusalem, angering Israel which said it denied Judaism's historical connection. "How do we know it isn't a forgery intended for the antiquities market?" an archaeology professor from Bar-Ilan University said in comments published by the daily Haaretz on Friday. Aren Maier on Thursday said carbon ... More |
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| Monet, van Gogh & Homer featured in new Chrysler exhibition | | Met Opera evacuates over sprinkled substance | | Rockwell's undecided voter asks "Which One?" at Sotheby's this election season |
Winslow Homer (American, 18361910), Farmer with a Pitchfork, ca. 1874 (detail). Oil on board. Promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Batten.
NORFOLK, VA.- Spend a day in the country with one of the worlds greatest Impressionist paintings! This fall, as the Chrysler Museum of Art celebrates the 19th-century fascination with rural labor and countryside landscapes, the museum is presenting Claude Monets Haystacks, Late Summer, 1891, on loan from the renowned Musée dOrsay in Paris, the worlds premier museum of Impressionist art. It is on view alongside 21 Chrysler Collection treasures by Winslow Homer, Paul Gauguin, and Camille Pissarro, and others. The works include paintings on agricultural themes, sculptures, detailed drawings, early photographs and Impressionist masterworks known for their evocation of light. Enriching this exhibition is Vincent Van Goghs dramatic Wheat Field behind St. Pauls Hospital, St. Remy, 1889, a generous loan from ... More | |
The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Photo: Paul Masck.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Metropolitan Opera was evacuated mid-performance on Saturday after an audience member sprinkled a mysterious powder onto the orchestra. The leading US opera company was in the intermission of a matinee of "Guillaume Tell" when the suspect approached the orchestra pit and dropped the substance, the Met said. The Met informed patrons that the performance was finished as New York anti-terrorism police headed into the ornate hall in Lincoln Center. No arrests were immediately made and there were no reports of injuries. The nature of the powder, reported on social media to be white in color, was not clear. An audience member, Dylan Hayden, posted pictures of emergency personnel on Twitter and said that seven police vehicles rushed to the scene with a stretcher briefly taken into the hall as a precaution. The Met said it had also canceled ... More | |
Norman Rockwell, Which One? (Undecided; Man in Voting Booth). Estimate: 4/6 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that Norman Rockwells Which One? (Undecided; Man in Voting Booth) will be a major highlight of our 21 November 2016 auction of American Art in New York. Depicting the public sentiment leading up to the presidential election of 1944, in which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran against Thomas E. Dewey, this painting epitomizes Rockwells signature style, combining relatability and intellect, humor and all-American pride. Acquired by the Phipps Family in the 1980s, the painting will be exhibited in New York starting 4 November 2016 alongside Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art, before the American Art auction on 21 November, when it is estimated to sell for $4/6 million. Focused on the United States presidential election of 1944, a hotly-contested race between Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ... More |
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| The Intimate World of Josef Sudek: A major retrospective exhibition makes its North American début | | Fundació Joan Miró presents "Endgame: Duchamp, Chess and the Avant-Garde" | | Exhibition showcases richness of the National Galleries of Scotland's photography collection |
Josef Sudek, Portrait of my Friend Funke, 1924. Gelatin silver print, 28.5 x 22.6 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo © NGC. Purchased 1985 © Estate of Josef Sudek.
OTTAWA.- The Intimate World of Josef Sudek celebrates the work of an artist considered to be the father of Czech modernist photography. Sudek (18961976) created hundreds of some of the most moving images of the 20th century focused on nature, monuments, objects, streets and other themes. The exhibition covers Sudeks entire career, from 1920 to 1976. On display from October 28, 2016 to February 26, 2017, after its opening at the Jeu de Paume in Paris last summer, this inaugural exhibition organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada is being presented in the Institutes new, dedicated space. A donation in 2010 from a generous, anonymous donor made the Canadian Photography Institutes Sudek collection the largest of its kind outside the Czech Republic, with close to 1,800 pieces. We are delighted to present a portion ... More | |
Mercè Rodoreda, Composición IX, 1954. VEGAP.
BARCELONA.- Endgame: Duchamp, Chess and the Avant-Garde is an account of the twentieth-century avant-garde movements up to the beginning of conceptual art, told from an unusual vantage point: chess. After the opening and the middlegame, when there are only a few pieces left standing, a chess match enters its decisive stage: the endgame. Much has been theorised about this crucial moment. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), a passionate chess player as well as a leading avant-garde artist who actively contributed to the conceptual turn that gave rise to contemporary art, wrote a manual on endgames with the chess player Vitaly Halberstadt in 1932. The book, entitled L opposition et les cases conjuguées sont réconciliées, proposed a system that transcended the antithesis between traditional closing methods and the new theories that were emerging at the time. Endgame: Duchamp, Chess and the Avant-Garde shows how this quest for synthesis is also reflected in Duchamps artistic project as a ... More | |
Alfred G. Buckham, Aerial view of Edinburgh, about 1920. Silver gelatine print, 45.80 x 37.80 cm © Richard and John Buckham.
EDINBURGH.- The extraordinary richness of the photography collection at the National Galleries of Scotland is being showcased in a fascinating new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this autumn. The View from Here, which opened on 29 October, brings together 70 key works which chart the history of landscape photography over the course of 175 years, from the earliest days of the medium to the present day. Stunning images of the Egyptian pyramids, taken when photography was a relatively new artform; intensely beautiful photographs of the Outer Hebrides taken by the legendary American artist Paul Strand (1890-1976); and thought-provoking landscapes by British-American photographer Sze Tsung Leong (b.1970), which address a growing uniformity in our globalized environment, are among the highlights of this exhibition. Many of the works on show have rarely been seen ... More |
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| Driscoll Babcocl Galleries presents a selection of kaleidoscopic paintings by Luigi Terruso | | Christie's announces highlights from its Impressionist & Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | | Exhibition of paintings by the American Realist painter Fairfield Porter on view at Tibor de Nagy Gallery |
Luigi Terruso, INTERFACE, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Driscoll Babcocl Galleries presents Luigi Terruso: Wonder Wheel, a selection of kaleidoscopic paintings in which imagery is a momentary stasis between the artists memory and imaginings. Terrusos whimsical and dynamic compositions reference biomorphic and architectural forms, each canvas composed of objects that have been fractured and recombined, undergoing a mechanical metamorphosis. Terrusos fragmented visual world is inspired in part by his international travels 18 countries in the past 24 months, including residencies with pop-up studios near Angkor Wat in Cambodia and in a mountain village outside of Cuenca, Ecuador. During this period, Terruso made more than 100,000 photographs that now fuel the prismatic permutations of these creations. The results from this visual feast are nested on these canvases: the frenetic patterns of plastic toys piled high outside the hutongs ... More | |
Le Corbusier (1887-1965), Nature morte à la lanterne, oil on canvas. Painted in 1930. Estimate: $900,000-1,200,000. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces highlights of the Impressionist & Modern Art Day and Works on Paper auctions at Rockefeller Center on November 17. A combined total of 268 works will be offered across Christies Day and Works on Paper sales, which includes high-quality and exceptional works from leading artists of the late 19th through mid-20th century such as Le Corbusier, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Arp, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henri Matisse, and many more. Highlights include a group of Giacometti and Matisse drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Frumkin; a group of furniture and decorative sculptures by Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Le Corbusiers Nature morte à la lanterne from The Collection of Julien J. Studley, which has been in his collection since circa 1955; an inventive painting ... More | |
Fairfield Porter, The First of May, 1960 (detail). Oil on canvas, 60 x 71.625 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is presenting an exhibition of paintings by the American Realist painter Fairfield Porter (1907-1975). This is the gallerys seventeenth exhibition of the artists work. The show coincides with the publication of a new monograph on the artist work. The exhibition concentrates mainly on landscapes from the 1950s through the 1970s of Maine and Southampton in addition to interiors scenes and portraits. As a painter, Fairfield Porter forged a distinctly American vision out of two disparate styles: the firstloose representation characterized by intimacy and directness; and the secondgestural abstraction. Porters broad knowledge of art history informed not only his art criticism but his painting as well. His work is best considered as a lifelong project in which he perpetually sought to define for himself his relation to the world. Porter was largely a self-taught painter. He was as ... More |
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Exhibition of new works by Ayşe Erkmen opens at Barbara Gross Galerie
MUNICH.- Ayşe Erkmens oeuvre is distinguished by formal clarity and conceptual intricacy. Her formally reduced, minimalist works are based on precise observations of social realities. Barbara Gross Galerie presents the artists first solo show at the gallery, "Unlikely." For the exhibition Erkmen has created new works incorporating various discourses on the impact and significance of color and material. "4for8see" (2016) is a group of sculptures made of rolled metal leftovers, which play with the psychology of colors used in graphic and product design. The reduced, elegant-looking objects are lacquered in a greenish-brown hue reminiscent of nature, perhaps of the landscape backgrounds of classical European paintings. In fact, its Pantone color 448C, Opaque Couché, allegedly the ugliest color in the world, according to a survey conducted by a market research institute. ... More
Eric and Susan Smidt pledge $25 million gift to LACMA's campaign
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today that LACMA trustee Eric Smidt and his wife, Susan, have pledged $25 million in support of the museums continued growth, service to the community, and plan for a Peter Zumthor-designed permanent collection building. I was born here in Los Angeles and wasn't exposed to art as a child, Eric Smidt said. When I joined the LACMA board, I realized what I missed in my youth and the wonderful things that can happen when a public museum opens its doors to the community. I feel so lucky now to be able to help open those doors for others, especially kids with the kinds of challenges I had, so they too can benefit from the amazing art here at LACMA and the new worlds it offers. Susan and I couldnt be more pleased to support the museum and its mission to serve our community. Over the years, we've ... More
Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens exhibition of works by Michael Schwarzman
MOSCOW.- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the Heritage Foundation of Michael Schwarzman presents an exhibition Vertograds of Michael Schwartzman dedicated to the artists 90th anniversary. The works from the state and private collections are united under the idea of the curator Sergey Khachaturov to show the art of the master through various dialogues with art history, both present and past. The term hieratism introduced by Michael Schwarzman in context of current artistic life in Greek means the sacred. The philosophy of the hieratic art appeared in the 1960-s and eventually resulted in the system of sign and architectonic codes. Throughout his creative life the artist has consistently moved away from the imitative realistic method striving to get closer to understanding signs of the spiritual hierarchy. He formed his own definition ... More
Juried exhibition celebrates the dynamic relationship among artists on the East End
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents the third iteration of Artists Choose Artists, the Museums ongoing exhibition that celebrates the artists of the East End and the dynamic relationships that unite the areas creative community. On view October 30, 2016 through January 16, 2017, Artists Choose Artists encourages fellowship among todays expanded, multi-generational network of artists and demonstrates the diversity of contemporary creative practice. Each of the seven distinguished jurors made two selections from nearly 200 online submissions, and conducted studio visits. Featuring painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, the exhibition comprises the work of the seven jurors and fourteen artists, as follows: Tina Barney with RJT Haynes and Dinah Maxwell Smith Lynda Benglis with Garrett Chingery and Saskia Friedrich ... More
Early 20th century fine weave Mission basket should fetch $12,500-$25,000 at Big Fall Phoenix
MESA, ARIZ.- An historic late 1800s Northern Plains quilled war shirt, an early 20th century fine weave Mission basket and a fully beaded Kiowa toy cradleboard from the early 1900s are three expected top lots at Big Fall Phoenix, an annual auction event held every autumn by Allard Auctions, Inc., based in Saint Ignatius, Mont. This years auction is scheduled for Nov. 12-13. The event will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites in Mesa, Ariz., just outside of Phoenix. Offered will be nearly 900 lots of American Indian artifacts, art and related collectibles, spread out over the course of two days. Major categories will include lovely Native American jewelry, handmade baskets, rugs/weavings, beadwork, pottery, clothing items and framed stone artifacts. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and iCollector.com. Phone and absentee ... More
sepiaEYE opens exhibition of photographs of a refugee colony of Tibetans
sepiaEYE opened their Fall Season with Serena Chopras Majnu Ka Tilla Diaries, October 28th through December 10th, 2016. In her most recent project, Chopra has explored the lives of the residents of Majnu Ka Tilla, a refugee colony of Tibetans in New Delhi where thousands of exiles have lived for nearly 40 years. Chopra informs her photographs with extensive personal interviews, coupling image and text in a diary-like format to reveal the sitters views on life and a communal optimism that one day they will return to Tibet. I wanted to get to know the real Tibetan, the person, his or her feelings, what his or her life was like in reality. Perhaps I would gain insight into what freedom meant to them. Serena Chopra This beautiful and informative body of work is being exhibited for the first time at sepiaEYE. The high contrast, formally composed black-and-white images ... More
Pentimenti Gallery opens exhibition of works by Derrick Velasquez
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Pentimenti Gallery continues the fall season with the work of Derrick Velasquez. This show marks Derricks third solo exhibition with Pentimenti Gallery. With his new work, Derrick Velasquez expands upon his thematic investigation into the meaning of structure, and enables us to explore our interaction with structures that we come across in our everyday lives. His pieces project our relation to natural forces such as gravity, and expose the psychological weight of manufactured forces imposed upon us through industry and cheap development. Through these works, Derrick establishes architectural relations to the body and overlaying fabric juxtaposed with the manipulation of ornamental building material now formed as object. The main gallery space is filled with works composed of hundreds of strips of marine vinyl, a material Derrick has used for bookbinding, ... More
FOMU in Antwerp opens exhibition of photographs by Saul Leiter
ANTWERP.- This autumn, FOMU presents a retrospective of the work of Saul Leiter (US, 1923 - 2013), a pioneer of colour photography. Leiter was already using colour film in 1946 at a time when only black and white photography was accepted as an artistic medium. This fact negates the commonly-held assumption that colour images were only used from the 1970s onwards, with the advent of the New Color Photography movement led by Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. Saul Leiter only gained recognition for his pioneering role late in his life; since then, his permanent place in the history of photography has been secure. Saul Leiter considered himself to be a painter as well as a photographer. His work in both disciplines is linked by a common visual style: abstraction and flatness. He mainly photographed the streets of New York, where he lived for over ... More
Kunstmuseum Luzern is the third and last stop for Laure Prouvost solo exhibition
LUCERNE.- The Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost (*1978) is a wonderful story-teller who seduces her audiences by means of supposedly aesthetically amateurish material, sound and imagination. Her installations combine video, everyday objects, ceramics or painting with architecture, linking truth and poetry to create an idiosyncratic reality: was Laure Prouvosts grandfather really a concept artist whose last work a tunnel from Europe to Africa which he dug himself by hand remained unfinished because her grandfather also got lost in it himself? The Kunstmuseum Luzern is the third and last stop for this solo exhibition, and to an extent it is also the high point, as Prouvost sees this tour as a process of growth that culminates in Luzern. While Laure Prouvost enabled the public at the Le Consortium / FRAC Bourgogne in Dijon to venture into the underground, and at ... More
MACT/CACT opens new exhibition
BELLINZONA.- Come Closer: Experimenting with a Wunderkammer of Vanitas is the last exhibition of the year, paving the way for the MACT/CACT to move forward into 2017. And it does so by tackling a burning issue; one that is important, cumbersome and always contemporary, reminding us that nothing is objectively as given, yet subjectively as fragile, as the world of vanities and the cosmos of vain things. Starting from man himself. This is an exhibition whose thematic approach and the analytical aspects of the image or representation in a setting that is not exclusively artistic forge the anticipatory link, in a sort of domino effect, with next exhibition to follow, which is due to be hosted in Villa dei Cedri and at the MACT/CACT in 2017, focusing on the issue of the relationship between art and insanity. This exhibition derives originally from an idea conceived by Edmond ... More
Fuksas Cloud adds contemporary edge to Rome skyline
ROME (AFP).- Rome's biggest new building in half a century was inaugurated Saturday, two decades after architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas produced their groundbreaking design for the controversial and much-delayed project. Now that it is finally finished, the husband-and-wife team's "Nuvola" - a glass and steel box containing a cloud-like suspended interior - looks set to join the Colosseum and the Pantheon as one of the Italian capital's architectural landmarks. Its name is the Italian word for cloud but the white, fibreglass-clad interior structure could also be said to resemble a lung or another internal organ. Glimpsed from the outside in twilight it can seem strikingly like an ultrasound scan of a unborn baby. Largely funded by the taxpayer, the new building will serve as a convention centre capable of hosting gatherings of up 12,000 people. As such, it is also being talked ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Anglo-French artist Alfred Sisley was born October 30, 1839. Alfred Sisley (30 October 1839 - 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. In this image: French businessman Pierre de Gunzbourg, flanked by his son Vivien, left, looks at the painting, "Soleil de Printemps, Le Loing, " (Spring Sun, Le Loing) by impressionist Alfred Sisley at the Paris courthouse, Friday, June 18, 2004.
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