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This picture taken on September 8, 2017 shows visitors taking pictures of a paper art named "Sew Up" by China artist Xi Ya Die during the Spectrosynthesis LGBTQ Issues and Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei. A LGBTQ art exhibition billed as the first of its kind in Asia opened in Taiwan, just months after the island's top court ruled in favour of gay marriage. SAM YEH / AFP.
TAIPEI (AFP).- An LGBTQ art exhibition billed as the first of its kind in Asia opened in Taiwan on Saturday, just months after the island's top court ruled in favour of gay marriage. A papercutting depicting two men having sex on a train and life-size charcoal sketches of naked homosexual couples embracing are among the artworks on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in the capital Taipei. An installation piece outside the museum invites the public to scratch messages on painted black blocks, revealed at night when colourful LED lights shine from within. Others explore darker themes, including a dreamlike video inspired by a murder case 16 years ago, when a man accidentally killed his partner while having sadomasochistic sex. Organisers say the exhibition -- titled "Spectrosynthesis" -- is the first show centred around LGBTQ issues to be held at an Asian government-run museum. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photograph of the original World Trade Center is seen through a window of the National 9/11 Museum, September 8, 2017 in New York City. New York City is preparing to mark the 16th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks that struck New York City and Washington, DC in 2001. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP
| Mythical, magic, unique: Ferrari turns 70 in style | | 'The Shape of Water' by Mexico's Guillermo Del Toro wins Venice Golden Lion | | Works by American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery |
Italian Ferrari automobiles are on display at the Corso Sempione in Milan before taking to the road towards Maranello, the home of Ferrari, to celebrate the Prancing Horse's 70th anniversary, on September 8, 2017. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP.
MILAN (AFP).- It's the black prancing horse's 70th birthday and gleaming Ferraris are out in force in Italy this weekend to celebrate. Some 500 sleek, purring sports cars are gathering in Milan on Friday before the festivities move to Modena, where founder Enzo Ferrari was born, and end with an exclusive party in Maranello, where Ferraris have been made since World War II. "Ferrari is a mythical brand: it has had a fabulous track record in speed and represents the pinnacle of the sports car," automotive historian and enthusiast Patrice Verges told AFP. For luxury motor fanatics and punters alike, there is something "magic" about Ferraris and their distinctive sound. "Having a Ferrari and being watched is part of the game," Verges says. It all started when Enzo Ferrari, a racing driver, formed the "Scuderia Ferrari" ("Ferrari Stable") in 1929 and prepared and fielded Alfa Romeo racing cars. ... More | |
Director Guillermo Del Toro receives the Golden Lion for Best Film with the movie "The Shape of Water" during the award ceremony of the 74th Venice Film Festival on September 9, 2017 at Venice Lido. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP.
VENICE (AFP).- "The Shape of Water," a dazzling sci-fi romance by Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro, won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday. "If you remain pure and stay with your faith, with what you believe in -- in my case, monsters -- you can do anything," Del Toro told the festival, the world's oldest, as he dedicated the award to young Latin American directors. The quirky, other-worldly tale set in the Cold War era sees a mute cleaner (Britain's Sally Hawkins) in a high-security government laboratory stumble across a classified experiment that leads to an unlikely -- and rather slimy -- love affair. Del Toro, the director behind such Gothic horrors as "The Devil's Backbone" (2001) and "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006), had described the flick as "an antidote to cynicism" and enchanted reviewers hailed it as his greatest work yet. "I'm 52 years old, I weigh over 110 ... More | |
Lee Krasner, Seated Figure, 1938-39. Oil and collage on linen, 63.5 x 45.7 cm © 2016 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery iannounces the exhibition The Enormity of the Possible on view September 7 October 28 at 297 Tenth Avenue. Curated by Priscilla Vail Caldwell the exhibition features both late work by seminal artists from the American Modern movement and early work by a select group of Abstract Expressionists. The bold improvisational approach and perspective of artists such as Milton Avery, Charles Burchfield, Stuart Davis, Elie Nadelman or Helen Torr among others radically expanded the possibilities for painting and sculpture in the 20th century. Bound by no school or manifesto, Modernists played a role in initiating the shift in focus of the international art world from Paris to New York. Many had lived through both World Wars and witnessed seismic changes to Americas social, economic and political landscape. Emerging from this turmoil, many rejected European romanticism and acknowledged abstract ... More |
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| Rare bust of Queen Victoria by master sculptor at risk of leaving the UK | | Comprehensive exhibition dedicated entirely to a group of crucifixes by Lucio Fontana opeens | | Mary Boone Gallery opens solo exhibition of works by Peter Saul and Will Cotton |
A white marble bust portrait (h. 96 cm) of Queen Victoria, executed by Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) from 1887 to 1889.
LONDON.- Arts Minister John Glen has placed a temporary export bar on an extraordinary sculpture of Queen Victoria to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The sculpture is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £1.2 million. This remarkable depiction of the ageing monarch was created by master sculptor Alfred Gilbert, who transformed British sculpture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His celebrated works include the Shaftesbury Memorial (better known as Eros) at Piccadilly Circus in London, and a magnificent tomb to Prince Edward, Duke of Clarence, in St Georges Chapel, Windsor. The sculpture was based on a full-length bronze statue of Queen Victoria, which Gilbert had produced in 1887. Gilbert rarely worked in marble; most of his sculptures are of bronze, making this piece even more exceptional. Arts Minister ... More | |
Lucio Fontana´s primary concern concentrates on three-dimensionality and spatial questions, substantiating his artistic self-conception as a sculptor.
COLOGNE.- Galerie Karsten Greve announces Lucio Fontana. Crosses, presenting the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated entirely to a group of crucifixes from the ceramic works of Lucio Fontana, with 20 small-scale sculptures, whose figurative composition draws on motifs of Christian iconography, as its focal point. For more than 40 years, Galerie Karsten Greve has displayed the works of Lucio Fontana (1899 1968). It was in 1977 when Galerie Karsten Greve at the time in its original LindenstraÃe location in Cologne first exhibited thirty works of seminal importance found today in some of the most prestigious museums, foundations and collections. Soon after in 1980, the exhibition Plastiken und Bilder 1953-1962 presented a selection of Concetti spaziali, Buchi and Tagli. In 1994, Galerie Karsten Greve Paris extensively displayed Fontana´s ... More | |
Peter Saul, Blue Boy with Ice Cream Cone, 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 84" x 72 ".
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Boone Gallery opened at its Chelsea location Fake News, an exhibition of new paintings by Peter Saul. Peter Saul has maintained his over sixty-year career as an affront to good taste, political correctness, and Academic standards. His unmistakable paintings mash elements of Pop, Surrealism, comics, editorial cartoons, and adolescent doodles they break down preconceptions of serious art and are impossible to forget. Sauls high esteem among both his peers and much younger artists comes from this enduring conviction to define on his own terms what constitutes the appropriate subject matter and style for painting. In the current exhibition, Saul tackles art history and its celebrities, as well as a present-day aspirant and his conundrums. Rembrandts 1642 masterpiece is re-imagined as an unthreatening militia of costumed ducks in Nightwatch II, Gainsboroughs beloved portrait subject cools off in Blue Bo ... More |
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| Exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view major works by Janet Fish produced from 1980 to 2008 | | Minneapolis Institute of Art opens first-ever exhibition to focus on view paintings as depictions of contemporary events | | 'Referencing Alexander Calder: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art' opens at Klein Sun Gallery |
Janet Fish, Dragon Kite, 2007 (detail). Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery announced the opening of the exhibition, Janet Fish: Pinwheels and Poppies, offering a rare opportunity to view major works the artist produced from 1980 to 2008. The title refers to the joie de vivre with which Fish revitalized the genre of still life painting in the years following her introduction to the New York art world in the late 1960s. Committed to an intense, expressive use of brushstrokes and the verisimilitude of objects, Fishs paintings are filled with spirit, intensity, and irreverent wit. Her work exists in a state of flux, hovering in a space between fluid technique and measured stillness, where each object is animated by color and light. Graduating with an MFA from Yale in 1963, Fish was part of a group of artists that included Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Robert Mangold, Rackstraw Downes. Nancy Graves, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, and Brice Marden. Together they cultivated ... More | |
Hubert Robert (French, 1733-1808); The Fire at the Opera House of the Palais-Royal, about 1781. Oil on canvas. Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- This fall, the Minneapolis Institute of Art presents the first-ever exhibition to focus on view paintings as depictions of contemporary events. Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe features approximately 40 paintings from the golden age of European view painting. Commissioned by rulers, princes, and ambassadors, master view painters such as Antonio Canaletto, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Bernardo Bellotto, and Francesco Guardi recorded memorable events, ranging from the spectacular Venetian carnival to an eruption of Vesuvius; in the process, they produced some of their most significant works. Many of the themes and events depictedincluding the introduction of political leaders into office, natural disasters, and major sporting eventshave parallels today, and the emotions they evoke remain the ... More | |
Zhao Yao, A Painting of thought V - 368, 2015. Acrylic on found fabric, 70 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (180 x 180 x 8 cm) © Zhao Yao, Courtesy Klein Sun Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Klein Sun Gallery announces its ten year anniversary exhibition: Referencing Alexander Calder: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, on view from September 7 through October 7, 2017. Curated by Eli Klein, the exhibition includes selected works by Gao Ludi, Hong Hao, Hong Shaopei, Huang Rui, Jiang Pengyi, Li Jingxiong, Qin Jun, Shen Fan, Vivien Zhang, Yangjiang Group, and Zhao Yao. The gallerys inaugural exhibition in 2007 Referencing Alexander Calder: A Dialogue in Modern and Contemporary Art consisted of unique works by modern artists such as Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Fernand Leger juxtaposed with the works of living artists such as Carmen Herrera, Joel Perlman, Monique Van Genderen and Amilcar de Castro. The overarching theme of the exhibition ... More |
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| Photo exhibition at the Michener documents protests and social change | | Old Toy Soldier Auctions offers prestigious collections from US and Denmark, Oct. 14 | | Exhibition of paintings by Alex Sewell opens at TOTAH |
Jack Rosen, Announcement of Death of John F. Kennedy - Sears Roebuck Store, Levittown PA, 1963, gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum. Museum purchase funded by Anne and Joseph Gardocki.
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- The James A. Michener Art Museum is presenting A Time to Break Silence: Pictures of Social Change, a photography exhibition comprising 31 works that chronicle protests, social movements, and ideological shifts since the 1950s. Presented for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's controversial speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence," from which it draws inspiration, the exhibition is on view in the Bette and Nelson Pfundt Gallery through February 4, 2018. The main exhibition on view at the Michener is George Sotter: Light and Shadow, which runs through December 31. The show includes photographs from Edward Eckstein's celebrated Coming of Rage series and New Hope photographer Jack Rosen's images of a changing society in southeastern ... More | |
Extremely rare prototype Britains Beaufighter, circa 1941, only one known, est. $3,000-$5,000.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- On October 14, collectors of antique and vintage toy soldiers will be setting their sights on Pittsburgh as Old Toy Soldier Auctions presents two consecutive auction events whose contents boast outstanding quality, provenance and rarity. The bidding via LiveAuctioneers.com and by phone, will start at 10 a.m. (ET) with the distinguished Ib Melchior estate collection of antique military miniatures. A brief intermission will follow the Melchior session, then OTSA will introduce its 2017 Investment Rarities sale featuring Part II of the Bill Jackey collection. The Melchior family is very famous in their homeland of Denmark, said OTSA owner Ray Haradin. Ib Melchior was a screenwriter and director, his father, Lauritz Melchior, was an acclaimed Wagnerian tenor; and his grandfather, Jorgen Melchior, was headmaster of Melchiors School in Copenhagen. Jorgen started the family collection of toy soldiers in ... More | |
Alex Sewell, Street Fightin' Man, 2017. Oil on canvas, 76 x 64 in. Photo: Courtesy TOTAH.
NEW YORK, NY.- TOTAH presents an exhibition of paintings by Alex Sewell in Hookey, from September 7 through October 8, 2017. In his most recent works, Sewell plays hookey from death: Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Brian Jones tombstones gather dust, while Cobains grave wears a Daniel Johnston Hi, How are you t-shirt, a nod to Sewells own passage across the zodiac threshold of Saturn Return.1 In the eponymous portrait, the painter considers the importance of gracefully defacing and continues his tongue in cheek critique of all things taken too seriously, crafting caricatures of our demons, our egos, and everything in between. Sewell channels visual tropes from gaming lore and popular culture into oil on canvas and wood (his technique honed as an assistant to Jeff Koons) and plays psychological trompes loeil. Show me my opponent, a wooden Excalibur embedded in a clearly labeled ROCK lures our ... More |
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Garis & Hahn re-locates to Los Angeles with inaugural exhibition of new works by Mike Perry
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following a successful run in New York, Garis & Hahn announced that it has relocated to Los Angeles downtown arts district, inaugurating its new location with a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Mike Perry titled Intoxicating Pollen Wiggling in a Moist Journey of Constantly Blooming Tides that features recent works on canvas. The exhibition displays a series of kaleidoscopic abstractions and ebullient distillations of the pop and surrealist canon, representing a further evolution in the artists practice. Twelve new works, including a new series of mobile sculptures titled Inner Thoughts, are being presented. The show is on view September 9 October 21, 2017. On the move to Los Angeles, Mary Garis states, LA, which has a legacy of very talented artists and strong institutions, is increasingly getting its due credit as a true center to rival other ... More
Butler exhibition reflects plight of the mountain gorilla
YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- The Butler Institute of American Art presents the exhibition Bob Ziering: Twilight of the Gorilla on view from September 10 through November 19, 2017. Twilight of the Gorilla is a series of large, personal and compelling pastel paintings conceived to enlighten the audience and conjure concern for the plight of the Mountain Gorilla. Together, these images provoke respect for the subject and create a powerful exhibition, universal in its implications. It challenges viewers to reflect on the human/primate parallel and encourages them to face the seriousness of the endangerment of these majestic animals and their natural habitats. Bob Ziering's affection and concern for the quickly disappearing ape population is obvious. This exhibition not only reveals the artist's sensitivity toward these remarkable animals but the work also asks us to look at ... More
William Monk's mysterious paintings on display at Grimm Gallery's New York space
NEW YORK, NY.- The seven, wrote Syd Barret in his lyrics for Pink Floyds song Chapter 24, is the number of the young light / It forms when darkness is increased by one. Minus the music, the bare poetry has the feel of a murmured alchemical fugue, and its one of the touchstones for William Monks creative process, in which, as Barrett wrote, Things cannot be destroyed once and for all. They can only change in Monks case, by evolving through a mesh of subject-matter and imagery which, over the last fifteen years, has informed paintings which often radiate a sizzling colour-voltage, like tapestries about to burst into flame; others have the organic, hyper close-up quality of an electron-micrograph; some are like freeze-frames in a pulsing mescaline vision. More recently, the triggers (or perhaps incantations) for his paintings have included Pompeii, the I-Ching, the winter ... More
Jennifer Packer presents new and recent paintings at the Renaissance Society
CHICAGO, IL.- For her first solo institutional exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Jennifer Packer presents new and recent paintings. Tenderheaded brings together multiple strands in the New York-based artists practice, ranging from portraiture to the funerary bouquet. Based in observation, improvisation, and memory, Packers canvases are intimate and contemplative, rendered in loose strokes and strong color. Like the exhibition title, the juxtaposition of these various modes of representation and production point to possibilities both bodily and emotional, fragile and strong. Packers figurative paintings feature a powerful quietude. Each canvas reads as a self-contained world, its subject emerging from or dissolving into its surroundings. She presents those who sit for herusually family members and friends with compassion, foregrounding their individual autonomy ... More
Exhibition presents the work of 40 contemporary artists who explore the border as a physical reality
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft & Folk Art Museum announces The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility, an official presentation for the Getty-sponsored initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. The group exhibition presents the work of approximately 40 contemporary artists who explore the border as a physical reality (place), as a subject (imagination), and as a site for production and solution (possibility). While the selection largely focuses on work executed in the last two decades, it also includes objects by Chicano artists in California who came together in the 1970s and 1980s to address border issues in their work. The inclusion of artists from various disciplines, including design, architecture, sculpture, painting, and photography, reflects the ways in which contemporary artists and designers themselves cross disciplinary borders. Selected artists include Ana ... More
Boundless connections in nature revealed in 'Ana England: Kinship' at the Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI, OH.- Discover the awe-inspiring beauty, mystery and interconnectedness of the universe at the Cincinnati Art Museums special exhibition Ana England: Kinship, on view September 8, 2017March 4, 2018. Featuring 25 of Ana Englands large-scale sculptures and installations, this exhibition explores the idea of kinshipa conceptual thread that has run through Englands work from the 1980s to the present. Three new works by England will be on display for the first time. England works with a range of materials, yet clay is her principal medium, valued for its sensitivity to touch and its connections to the earth. Thought-provoking and masterfully crafted, the pieces in Kinship demonstrate that the connections between us are greater than those separating us. Amy Dehan, Curator of Decorative Art and Design, has organized the exhibition. ... More
Janet Biggs documents sulfur workers in new video installation at the Neuberger Museum of Art
PURCHASE, NY.- In her recent video installation, artist Janet Biggs documents sulfur workers as they extract minerals from inside Indonesias fiery Ijen volcano. With nothing but bandanas covering their mouths, the miners scale the exterior of the active volcano, then descend into its roiling interior to extract the sulfuric rocks and shards. The extraordinary video that results, A Step On the Sun, will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art from September 10 through December 22, 2017. Janet Biggs is drawn to extreme environments, exploring such remote locations as the Taklamakan Desert in China, the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti in Africa, and the Arctic. Her five-channel video installation, A Step On the Sun, centers on a crater situated almost two miles above sea level in East Java province, which houses the worlds largest sulfuric lake. Throughout ... More
Sally Saul's first solo exhibition in New York opens at Rachel Uffner Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Rachel Uffner Gallery presents Knit of Identity, Sally Sauls first solo exhibition in New York. The artist has borrowed the titular phrase from Walt Whitmans Song of Myself, a poem which evolved with its author over the span of almost forty years. Sauls choice of this particular poem to frame her new body of work speaks to the personal nature of her sculptures that of the eternal unfolding of an artist. Reflecting on mythology, as well as on humans relationship to the natural world, Saul will present a series of freestanding and hung ceramic sculptures, each crafted with a subversive and playful comedic stance. Saul writes of her work: Memory, or an editing of memory, informs several of my pieces material in a quilt, a pattern, the shape and feeling of a room fragments that evoke a time and place, refuge, physicality, and act as talisman. The animals are an ho ... More
Museum of Glass opens exhibition of glass and steel sculptures by Albert Paley
TACOMA, WA.- Complementary Contrasts: The Glass and Steel Sculptures of Albert Paley opened at Museum of Glass on September 9. The exhibition has been more than seven years in the making and has included works created during two previous residencies in the Museums Hot Shop, time in Albert Paleys studio in Rochester, New York, and collaborative sessions with artist friends across the nation. The result is twenty-nine works that fill over two galleries at Museum of Glass. Albert Paley is one of the most celebrated metal sculptors in the country and is the first to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, the AIAs highest award to a non-architect. The allure of Paleys art comes through its intrinsic sense of integration of art and architecture, as one noted architect stated. Paley, Distinguished Professor, holds an Endowed ... More
Exhibition offers an overview of some of the most important examples of the "art of immersive experiences"
KARLSRUHE.- A fundamental aspect of new media in its different manifestations is its immersive character. This has already been seen in the history of the panoramic painting, of Cinerama and of installation art and has achieved a new level of transforming experiences of reality with the immersive, digital visualisation systems of virtual reality and of augmented reality since. This development has been promoted by many renowned media artists. The exhibition The Art of Immersion offers an overview of some of the most important examples of the art of immersive experiences. It comprises an inhomogeneous selection of significant works, which have been developed by Jean Michel Bruyère, Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Kurt Hentschläger, Sarah Kenderdine, Ulf Langheinrich, Matthew McGinity and Jeffrey Shaw, for the panoramic projects and represent milestones ... More
Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State reopens with new look in the galleries
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- When the Palmer Museum of Art reopened on Tuesday, Sept. 5, visitors were treated to a new look in the galleries, as the permanent collection had been rehung to better highlight the museums strengths in American art. The reinstallation of the collection took place while the museum was closed for four months for maintenance work to update the buildings water treatment equipment. While visitors will see plenty of old friends on the walls, the revised contexts will result in a wholly new experience, said Patrick McGrady, Charles V. Hallman Curator and interim director of the museum. It will almost be like visiting the Palmer Museum of Art for the first time, because we have reimagined the way we present the permanent collection. The reinstallation was conceived by the Palmer Museum of Art's incoming director, Erin Coe, who officially ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld was born September 10, 1933. Karl Lagerfeld (born Karl Otto Lagerfeldt on 10 September 1933 in Hamburg) is a German fashion designer, artist and photographer based in Paris. He has collaborated on a variety of fashion and art related projects, most notably as head designer and creative director for the fashion house Chanel. Lagerfeld has his own label fashion house, as well as the Italian house Fendi. In this image: German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld acknowledges the applause at the end of the presentation of the Fendi women's Fall-Winter 2012-2013 collection in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012. Silvia Venturini Fendi, Italian fashion designer and head of accessories of the Fendi fashion house at right.
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