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President of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez speaks during a press conference in Abu Dhabi on September 6, 2017 during which they announced that the Louvre Abu Dhabi will open its doors to the public on November 11, 2017. The Louvre Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors to the public in November, bringing to the Gulf Mesopotamian artifacts and post-impressionist masterpieces in the first Louvre-branded museum outside of Paris. KARIM SAHIB / AFP.
ABU DHABI (AFP).- The Louvre Abu Dhabi will finally open to the public on November 11, a decade after the project was launched, France's culture minister said Wednesday. "It is my pleasure to announce that the Louvre Abu Dhabi will open its doors on November 11," Francoise Nyssen said at a news conference in Abu Dhabi. "At a time when culture is under attack... this is our joint response." The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first establishment outside of the original Louvre in Paris -- which houses the world's largest collection of art -- to carry the famed French name. The museum aims to attract people from neighbouring Arab countries and around the world, according to the UAE culture minister. "Just as the Louvre is the crown jewel of Paris, so the Louvre Abu Dhabi is destined for such distinction," said Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-Nahyan. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A photo shows a town registers bearing the name of French Poet Charles Baudelaire during a press preview the exhibition "Baudelaire". EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
| DNA tests show woman who sought Dali exhumation not his daughter | | Explore Audrey Hepburn's personal world on & off screen at Christie's | | National Cathedral in Washington to remove windows of Confederate generals | 
This file photo taken on June 27, 2017 shows Spanish national Pilar Abel Martinez, 62, who claimed to be Salvador Dali's daughter. LLUIS GENE / AFP.
FIGUERES.- The Gala-Salvador Dalà Foundation informed that it has received the results of Salvador DalÃs DNA samples. These samples prove that Pilar Abel is not the biological daughter of Salvador DalÃ. The Court of First Instance nº 11 in Madrid has given notice to the lawyers of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalà (the law firm Roca Junyent) of the report issued by the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences in which, after analysing the biological samples of Pilar Abel MartÃnez and those obtained in the exhumation of the remains of Salvador DalÃ, it concludes that the results obtained permits the exclusion of Salvador Dalà as the biological father of MarÃa Pilar Abel MartÃnez. This conclusion comes as no surprise to the Foundation, since at no time has there been any evidence of the veracity of an alleged paternity. The unusual and unjustified court decision to practice the exhumation ... More | | 
A playful couture black satin cocktail gown trimmed at the neck and hem with feathers from 1968. Estimate: £15,000-25,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies flagship live and online auctions of the Personal Collection of Audrey Hepburn are a celebration of the life and career of arguably the most famous screen actress of the 20th Century, as seen through the lens of the objects she collected, used and loved. Following the initial announcement, a total of almost 500 lots will be offered in September 2017, across two auctions (Part I and Part II), providing a remarkable opportunity to explore Audrey Hepburns personal world, both on and off screen. The journey begins with the earliest item from Hepburns collection: a 1940s black lacquered board suitcase, Nedfabrikaat (made in the Netherlands), possibly the suitcase with which she arrived in the United Kingdom (estimate: £400-600) and also the earliest professional lot: a contract for the London production of the hit Broadway musical High Button Shoes, 1948-1949 (estimate: £1,000-1,500). ... More | | 
Stained glass windows are seen at the National Cathedral in Washington. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The Washington National Cathedral is to remove two stained glass windows honoring Confederate generals following last month's deadly violence at a white supremacists' rally, church leaders said Wednesday. Installed in 1953, the windows at the US capital's cathedral feature Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, the two most senior officers in the pro-slavery Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The decision comes after two years of debate, according to a public letter signed by church leaders including the Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde and Randolph Hollerith, the dean of the cathedral. They added they chose to remove the windows from the Gothic-style cathedral as they are "more than benign historical markers". "For many of God's children they are an obstacle to worship in a sacred space; for some, these and other Confederate memorials serve as ... More |
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| Howard Greenberg Gallery opens two exhibitions of photographs by Joel Meyerowitz | | Indian artist Jitish Kallat opens his first solo exhibition in Belgium at Templon Brussels | | New book to commemorate 50th anniversary of Reynolda House Museum of American Art | 
Grey Corner, 2014. © Joel Meyerowitz. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Two exhibitions of photographs by Joel Meyerowitz will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 7 to October 21, 2017. Between the Dog and the Wolf presents images from the 1970s and 80s made in those mysterious moments around dusk. Many of the works will be on display for the first time. Morandi, Cézanne and Me surveys Meyerowitzs recent still lifes of objects from Paul Cézannes studio in Aix-en-Provence and Giorgio Morandis in Bologna. Two new books of photographs by Meyerowitz are to be published: Joel Meyerowitz: Cézannes Objects (Damiani, October 2017) and Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective (Laurence King, January 2018). The exhibition title Between the Dog and the Wolf is a translation of a common French expression Entre chien et loup, which refers to oncoming twilight. As Meyerowitz notes, It seemed to me that the French liken the twilig ... More | | 
Jitish Kallat, Antidote, 2017. Dental plaster, 84 x 64 x 15 cm // 33 x 25 x 6 in. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Templon.
BRUSSELS.- Following the closing of his critically acclaimed retrospective at National Gallery of Modern Art (New Delhi), Indian artist Jitish Kallat presents his first solo exhibition in Belgium at Templon Brussels. With a complex body of works in mixed media (drawing, collage, sculpture, photography), the show brings forth several new dimensions to some of his long-standing artistic inquiries. Covariance delves into ideas of time, sustenance, sleep, vision and perception along with a compelling interplay of scales and proximities, and evocations of the celestial and the cosmological, preoccupations that have recurred across Kallats wide-ranging work. A guideline for the exhibition, the new suite of meditative works on paper titled Wind Study - Hilbert Curve. represents transcripts derived by eavesdropping on the silent conversation between wind and fire.The ... More | | 
Reynolda: Her Muses, Her Stories tells the backstories of the founding of an art museum.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art will mark its 50th anniversary with the publication of Reynolda: Her Muses, Her Stories. Part chronicle, part memoir, the volume takes readers behind the scenes of the founding and development of the art museum often referred to today as The Frick of the South. The books fall publication is also timed to coincide with the centennial of Reynolda Estate, once the residence of R. J. and Katharine Reynolds, and now the museums superb setting. The 264-page book, with more than 150 images, will be published by Lucia|Marquand and distributed by University of North Carolina Press. Following a foreword by Allison Perkins, director of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the book begins with a masterful synthesis of the 100-year Reynolda narrative, from beloved family home to cultural institution, written by David Park Curry, former senior curator of Decorative Arts, ... More |
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| Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announces highlights from its American and European Art auction | | Koller Auctions to offer important Russian silver from the F. F. von Uthemann Collection | | Life and death take centre stage in still life exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery | 
Daniel Ridgway Knight, An Idle Moment. Oil on canvas. Presale estimate: $50,000 to $70,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- The September fine art auctions at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers begin with an American and European Art auction September 27, followed by Post War and Contemporary Art and Fine Prints auctions on September 28. Leading the American and European Art auction are paintings by important American artists, including Winslow Homer's 1867 Coming Through the Rye. It will be offered from a private collection with a $400,000 Â 600,000 presale estimate. The painting is one of two that are titled Coming Through the Rye, both completed by Winslow Homer in France in 1867. The version being offered by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is the more finished of the two and is thus more likely the one shown in early exhibitions, including a reception held at the Tenth Street Studio Building on March 27, 1873. It ... More | | 
A parcel-gilt silver and niello circular box to be offered in Kollers auction was created during a period of Russian history which saw the strong influence of French art and culture. Estimate: CHF 20 000 30 000.
ZURICH.- In their 21 September sale in Zurich, Koller Auctions will offer a group of important Russian silver which has been in a private family collection for over a century. The collection comprises silver creations from the 17th 19th centuries, including presents from Czars Alexis of Russia and Peter the Great, as well as a bonbonnière ordered by Catherine the Great. In their September auctions, the Swiss auction house Koller will offer important silver from the private collection of Franz Fransevitch von Uthemann (St. Petersburg 1868 1925 Lucerne). In St Petersburg, F. F. von Uthemann was director of the well-known rubber boot factory Treugolnik, as well as sitting on the board of the Bavaria Brewery, the Skorokhod shoe factory and ... More | | 
Henri Fantin-Latour, White roses in a glass vase, 1875. Courtesy Guildhall Art Gallery.
LONDON.- Nature Morte seeks to illustrate how leading artists of the 21st century have reinvigorated still life, a genre previously synonymous with the 16th and 17th centuries. This major exhibition will be one of the largest ever presented at the Guildhall Art Gallery with works displayed by artists including Mat Collishaw, Michael Craig-Martin, Gabriel Orozco and Marc Quinn. The exhibition is the final stop on a highly acclaimed European tour, and the only opportunity for UK audiences to view this show. The London exhibition will also be augmented with a number of new works from London-based artists including Clare Twomey and Michael Raedecker. The still life, or nature morte, has been a constant subject throughout the history of art, its significance changing over time. As an independent genre of painting, the still life came into its own in the mid-seventeenth century when the ... More |
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| Brian Calvin presents a new body of work at Anton Kern Gallery | | Scandinavian landscapes on view at Wadsworth Atheneum | | Chrysler Museum to receive gift of 97 works | 
Brian Calvin, Soft Focus, 2017. Acrylic on linen, 24 x 18 inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- In his fifth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, the California-based painter Brian Calvin presents a new body of work featuring tightly-cropped portrait paintings, colored pencil drawings, and anthropomorphic wooden sculptures. Among the new group of paintings, the artist introduces tondos (circular shaped canvases), whose cropping eliminates any sense of background or place, and underscores the flatness of his compositions. Also, for the first time at the gallery, Calvin presents sculptures: stilt-size painted wooden legs leaning against the wall, suggesting a group of idle teenage loiterers. The exhibition demonstrates the evolution of Calvins reduced style of depicting the human form, and a looseness that opens up his pictorial vocabulary. Through repetition of his archetypal female figure, the artist invites us to look past the inviting face we are confronted by, and consider the idiosyncrasies of his formal choices. By ... More | | 
Johan Christian Dahl, Mountain Farm, 1854 (detail), Oil on canvas. Collection of Asbjørn Lunde.
HARTFORD, CONN.- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art will present for the first time an exhibition focused on the leading figures behind the advent of Norwegian landscape painting in the 19th century: Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857), Thomas Fearnley (1802-1842) and Peder Balke (1802-1887). "Sublime North: Romantic Painters Discover Norway" will showcase major works by these artists, set within selections from the museum's broader collection of American and northern European landscape painting in the Romantic era. More than 20 works are on loan from New York collector Asbjørn Lunde. The exhibition opens Sept. 7, 2017 and will be on view through Jan. 15, 2018. Dahl, Fearnley and Balke all traveled outside of Norway to study art and practice in cities such as Naples, Copenhagen and Stockholm, with both Fearnley and Balke joining Dahl--one of the first Norwegian artists to achieve international success--as his students in Norway ... More | | 
3V Victory Column, 1997. Cast glass with Formica base. Gift of Lisa Shaffer Anderson and Dudley Buist Anderson, in honor of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová.
NORFOLK, VA.- Glass collectors Lisa and Dudley Anderson have made a promised gift of 97 artworks to The Chrysler Museum of Art, which will provide a permanent home for their collection spanning four decades of studio and contemporary glass. Their donation is the Museums largest single gift of works since the arrival of Walter Chryslers artworks in 1971. The diversity and depth of the Anderson collection is represented through 40 artists from seven countries. Forty-seven works are by the pioneering Czech couple Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, well-known for their light-filled sculptures demonstrating technical mastery. Previously, the Andersons donated three works by the artists ― all monumental in scale and on view in the Chrysler Museums permanent collection. The promised gift will add works by Ivan Mare, Dana ZámečnÃková, Marion Karel, ... More |
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 John Moores Painting Prize jury announcedLIVERPOOL.- Ahead of the John Moores Painting Prize call for entries opening on 14 September 2017, the Walker Art Gallery has announced the names of the jury members who will judge the competition in 2018, its 60th year. The jury comprises esteemed international artists, including a 2017 Turner Prize nominee and a former John Moores Painting Prize winner, and one of the most influential curators of contemporary art of recent years. They will consider thousands of entries before selecting the final shortlist and the overall winner of the £25,000 prize. Established in 1957, the internationally-renowned prize, organised in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust, has championed contemporary British painting for 60 years; more than two decades longer than any other art prize of its scale. The shortlisted works will be displayed in the John Moores ... More Works by Mel Kendrick and Louis I. Kahn on view at David Nolan GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- David Nolan Gallery presents Mel Kendrick: Woodblock Drawings, an exhibition centering around Kendricks large-scale works on paper, created from 1992 to 1993.Six monumental woodblock drawings (the largest of which have never been shown in New York) are being presented along with a single contemporaneous freestanding work from a series that the artist refers to as black-oil sculptures. A fully illustrated 128 page book produced by Black Dog Publishing, featuring a newly commissioned essay by Mark Pascale, the Janet and Craig Duchossois Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago, will be available during the exhibition. Unique and impressive for their sheer scale and range of visual styles, the exhibition examines a defining body of work in the artists career. First shown at John Weber Gallery in 1993, the drawings may ... More Exhibition explores the relationship between graphic design and health LONDON.- The first major exhibition exploring the relationship between graphic design and health will open at Wellcome Collection in September 2017. Comprising some 200 objects including hardhitting posters, flashing pharmacy signs, and digital teaching aids, Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? will consider the role of graphic design in constructing and communicating healthcare messages around the world and will show how graphic design has been used to persuade, to inform and to empower. This exhibition will highlight the widespread and often subliminal nature of graphic design in shaping our environment, our health and our sense of self. Drawn from public and private collections around the world, it will feature work from influential figures in graphic design from the 20th century, as well as from studios and individuals working today. Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? ... More Lévy Gorvy announces new Shanghai office and appointment of Danqing Li as Senior Director, AsiaNEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy and Brett Gorvy, principals of Lévy Gorvy, announced today that the gallery will expand its presence in Asia with the opening of an office in Shanghai, China, and the appointment of Danqing Li as Senior Director, Asia. The expansion, a natural outgrowth of Lévy Gorvys already active engagement in the region, will enable the gallery to deepen its relationships with collectors and artists in Asia; work more closely with museums and cultural institutions; and extend its critically acclaimed exhibition program to reach new audiences. We are delighted to welcome Danqing Li to our international team, said Lévy Gorvy co-founder Brett Gorvy on the occasion of the announcement. Having worked with her for many years in Asia during my tenure at Christies, I have always admired the depth of her knowledge and her unique sensitivity ... More Exhibition at Griffin Gallery offers a fresh look at contemporary indigenous Australian artLONDON.- Griffin Gallery presents Earth Wind & Fire, a celebration of contemporary Australian Indigenous art, and Western European contemporary art, presenting 6 esteemed Australian Indigenous artists alongside 7 British artists. The exhibition is co-curated by Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi, director of JGM gallery, London and Juan Bolivar, artist and curator also based in London. Earth Wind & Fire offers a fresh look at contemporary indigenous Australian art, and its rich and unbroken tradition of 60,000 years. The exhibition reflects the similarities of conceptual theme and craftsmanship between northern and southern hemisphere artists, with treatments and motifs such as home-made pigments, symbolism, abstraction, depictions of nature, and the celebration of culture; both ancient and modern. Curator Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi was first drawn to the fine art ... More rodolphe janssen presents ew paintings, drawings and bronze sculptures by Kendell GeersBRUSSELS.- In 1907, Picasso entered the Trocadero in Paris and found himself taken by the power of African Art. He spoke of the experience as a revelation no less. When I went to the Trocadéro it was disgusting. The flea market. The smell. I was all alone. I wanted to get away. But I didnt leave. I stayed. I stayed. I understood something very important: something was happening to me, wasnt it ? The masks werent like other kinds of sculpture. Not at all. They were magical things. He understood the power of African art, describing them as
weapons. To help people stop being dominated by spirits, to become independent. Tools. If we give form to the spirits, we become independent of them.
Les Demoiselles d Avignon must have come to me that day, but not at all because of the forms: but because it was my first canvas of exorcism. Conceiving of art in ... More Candice Lin's first solo exhibition in France on view at BétonsalonPARIS.- Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research is presenting Candice Lins first solo exhibition in France. With A Hard White Body, Candice Lin weaves together two stories that do not seem to allow for an obvious connection. At first glance, the black American writer and social critic James Baldwin (19241987), and Jeanne Baret (17401807), French botanist and first woman to have sailed around the globe, appear to share only their initials. Lin unites these two characters who, despite two centuries of distance, lived out desires that were allowed through displacement from their native lands. They navigated queer and racialized gender presentations that were projected upon them and that at times they embraced. In her installation, Candice Lin produces a bedroom made of unfired porcelain, inspired by James Baldwins novel Giovannis Room, that ... More 2018 Adelaide Biennial artists announcedADELAIDE.- Curator of the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Erica Green has announced the names of the 30 leading Australian contemporary artists and collectives selected for next years Adelaide Biennial. Delivering new and unexpected visions in mediums such as photography, painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image will be artists from all corners of the country including: Vernon Ah Kee (QLD), Lisa Adams (QLD), Roy Ananda (SA), Daniel Boyd (NSW), Kristian Burford (SA), Maria Fernanda Cardoso (NSW), Barbara Cleveland (NSW), Kirsten Coelho (SA), Sean Cordeiro + Claire Healy (NSW), Tamara Dean (NSW), Tim Edwards (SA), Emily Floyd (VIC), Hayden Fowler (NSW), Julie Gough (TAS), Ghostpatrol (VIC), Amos Gebhardt (VIC), Timothy Horn (VIC), Louise Hearman (VIC), Ken Family Collaborative (SA), Lindy Lee (NSW), Khai Liew (SA), Angelica ... More Team opens an exhibition of works by German painter Andreas SchulzeNEW YORK, NY.- Team (gallery, inc.) announces a show by German painter Andreas Schulze. Entitled Vacanze 365, the exhibition will run from 07 through 30 September 2017. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street in New York. For this exhibition, Schulze has created a cohesive body of figurative paintings, each of which depicts, in the artists abstrusely playful visual language, a person on a beach holiday. The characters, while loosely recognizable as such, seem eerily mechanical: the figures are all cut off at the head, their bodies rendered as shimmering, cylindrical tubes; their distinctly inorganic appearance is further emphasized by dense, spewing grey exhaust that emits from a hole around the midriff in each work. As is typical of Schulzes practice, his warm, cartoonish rendering provides a thin mask for a series of mysterious, frequently sinister themes and ... More Haines Gallery opens exhibition comprising new paintings and works on paper by Mike HendersonSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery is presenting Parallel Spaces, a solo exhibition comprising new paintings and works on paper by Mike Henderson (b. 1944; lives and works in San Francisco, CA). Hendersons twelfth solo exhibition with Haines Gallery sees the introduction of new colors and materials to his palette, a testament to the enduring vitality and inventiveness of a pioneering Bay Area artist whose career now spans over forty years. Parallel Spaces explores the notion of parallels; of the people, places, things and ideas that are opposite, apart yet analogousand the liminal space in between. Henderson explains, Everyday we interact with lifes parallels. I have always been interested in what things are and what things are not, depending on the distance and awareness of the viewer; the parallels of knowing and not knowing, seeing and not seeing. In these ... More Tim Van Laere Gallery opens exhibition of works by Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde ANTWERP.- From 7 September onwards, acclaimed Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde (°1983, Leuven, lives and works in Antwerp) is presenting new works at Antwerps Tim Van Laere Gallery. Van de Velde is one of the leading figures of the Belgian contemporary art scene. Over the past few years, he has built a strikingly coherent oeuvre, mainly consisting of monumental, narrative charcoal drawings. Although these drawings still play a prominent role in his work, Van de Velde evolves increasingly towards a total artist, creating a tension between fiction and reality by the use of different media. This exhibition is Van de Velde's fourth solo exhibition in the gallery and his first Belgian exhibition after his successful expo at the S.M.A.K. in 2016. Instead of relying on his previous success, Van de Velde wishes to walk new ways and to experiment with forms, compositions, styles ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Grandma Moses was born September 07, 1860. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (September 7, 1860 December 13, 1961), better known as "Grandma Moses", was a renowned American folk artist. She is often cited as an example of an individual successfully beginning a career in the arts at an advanced age. In this image: While Mamie Eisenhower points out a feature on the Grandma Moses canvas of their Gettysburg farm President Dwight Eisenhower smiles his pleasure Jan. 18, 1956, as he receives the painting, a gift from the Cabinet to commemorate the third anniversary of his inauguration. A gold serving dish, on the table before them, was presented on behalf of the Nation's Republican women. From left to right are President Eisenhower; Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey; Mrs. Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. At left is Vice President Richard Nixon.
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