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André Breton and Nicolas Calas, Wine Glass Chess Set and Board (recreation), 2016. Photo by Michael DeFilippo.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Designing Chessmen: A Taste of The Imagery of Chess is inspired by the historic, widely publicized exhibit of 1944, The Imagery of Chess, a show for which artists created their own chess sets, chessmen and chess-themed art. The current exhibit features works by artists who participated in the original exhibition including Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Alexander Calder, which are on loan from leading institutions and private collections. Lenders include: Dr. Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield (Saint Louis, MO), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), Calder Foundation (New York, NY), Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (Saint Louis, MO), Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (New York, NY), Doug Polumbaum (New York, NY), The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (New York, NY), Marie Difilippantonio (Newton, CT), Larry List (New York, NY), and the Jean and Julien Levy Foundation for the Arts (Newton, CT), among others. The organizers of The Imagery of Chess invited artists with differing ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Messages and candles are seen among a pile of floral tributes outside the north London home of British singer George Michael on December 26, 2016, after news of the singer's death broke. Tributes poured in from the music world on December 26 after British pop superstar George Michael, who rose to fame with the duo Wham! and a string of smash hits including "Last Christmas", died aged 53. Michael died of apparent heart failure on Christmas Day at his home in Goring, a village on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, west of London, after an award-winning career spanning more than three decades. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
| The Guggenheim Bilbao brings together 70 works from the Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf | | Pace Paris presents works by photographers who have changed the history of photography | | Remarkable treasures from the British Museum's collection on display in Canberra |
Fernand Léger (Argentan, France, 1881Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 1955), Still Life (Nature morte), 1922. Oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm. Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern © Fernand Léger, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2016.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting The Collection of Hermann and Margrit Rupf . This exhibition brings together 70 works by key artists in the history of art during the first half of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, and Vasily Kandinsky, in dialogue with works by contemporary artists dating from the second half of the 20th century until today. In 1963, one year after the death of Hermann Rupf, the Foundation managed to purchase Henri Laurenss 1918 work Fruit Bowl and Pipe ( Compotier et pipe ) to complete its already extensive group of sculptures and works on paper by this artist. In 1964, a relief by Hans Arp was purchased (Gallery 307). In the 1990s, the existing collection ... More | |
Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, artist, Paris, France, April 11, 1979 (detail), gelatin silver print, image 40-1/4 x 63-1/2 inches, paper 41-1/4 x 64-1/2 inches, frame 45-1/8 x 68 1/4 x 2-5/8 inches, from an edition of 10 with 2 APs (in this format), print made 1979, Photograph by Richard Avedon © The Richard Avedon Foundation.
PARIS.- Pace Paris and Pace/MacGill are presenting a new selection of iconic works by photographers who have changed the history of photography and portraiture including Richard Avedon, Paul Graham, Richard Learoyd, and Irving Penn at Pace Paris 10 Avenue de Messine. Although Richard Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer, perhaps his greater achievement was the reinvention of the genre of photographic portraiture. The concept of performance, in both life and art, was one of his central concerns. He photographed actors and comedians, pop stars and divas, musicians and dancers, artists in all media whose public lives were essentially performances. ... More | |
Head of Augustus Roman, about 27-25BC from Meroë, Sudan. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
CANBERRA.- A rare 2000 year old bronze sculptural head of the Roman emperor Augustus is one of the unique treasures in the British Museums A History of the World in 100 Objects exhibition, which is on view at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. In its only east coast venue, A History of the World in 100 Objects uses items from around the globe to explore the last two million years of human history, sourcing the oldest objects from the British Museums collection and incorporating those from the present day. From stone to gold, clay to plastic, the exhibition traces human experience through objects people have made, including a 1.6 metre tall Assyrian relief, the famous Assyrian clay Flood Tablet (from modern Iraq) inscribed with the story of a great flood and an Ark and a small, but exquisite, gold llama from Peru. These rare objects from around the world challenge our notions of human history and throw ... More |
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| Tabaimo is featured artist and curator in final show at museum before closing for renovations | | The Ringling opens first dedicated galleries to Modern and Contemporary art | | Bonhams to offer the Hablech Collection from the family's Welsh seat |
Tabaimo, The Obscuring Moon, 2016. video installation, ©Tabaimo / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi and James Cohan Gallery.
SEATTLE, WA.- SAMs Asian Art Museum presents Tabaimo: Utsutsushi Utsushi (November 11, 2016February 26, 2017), featuring new and existing video installations from contemporary Japanese artist Tabaimo alongside historic works from SAMs Asian art collection chosen by the artist. Organized around the concept of utsushi (to copy or pay homage to works by masters), the exhibition showcases Tabaimos work and is the first major exhibition curated by the artist. Tabaimo is a groundbreaking artist working today, says Kimerly Rorschach, SAMs Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. Its very exciting to not only present her thought-provoking work, but also to see it in conversation with the many treasures of the museums Asian art collection. Its a fitting way to celebrate the museums legacy in Seattle as we embark on a renovation ... More | |
Pathless Woods, by Anne Patterson.
SARASOTA, FLA.- The Ringling opened several permanent galleries devoted to modern and contemporary art in all media. This major commitment to modern and contemporary art caps the five-year anniversary of The Ringlings Art of Our Time initiative to present and commission new works by contemporary artists in the visual and performance fields. The new galleries will showcase The Ringlings growing 20th- and 21st-century collections and demonstrate its increased support of contemporary interdisciplinary work. Modern and contemporary art has enjoyed an important presence at The Ringling since its first director, A. Everett (Chick) Austin, Jr., ensured it was an essential component of the institutions offerings. Building on this legacy, The Ringling revitalized this commitment to modern and contemporary art with the hiring of Dr. Matthew McLendon as curator of modern and contemporary art and the ... More | |
English School, 16th century Ellen Gd Eures wife of John Owen. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams is to offer the contents of Glyn Cywarch, the Welsh seat of Jasset Ormsby Gore, the 7th Baron Harlech. The Contents of Glyn Cywarch the property of Lord Harlech will take place at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London on 29 March 2017. The sale comprises more than 400 items ranging from important furniture, Old Master paintings, a historic library, antique jewellery, silver and works of art and even a vintage motor car and motorcycle. The sale is being held to raise funds for the restoration of Glyn Cywarch (known as Glyn) which Lord Harlech inherited on the death of his father in February 2016. As he explains, Bonhams sale provides us with an exciting opportunity to realise important funds to help restore this historic house back to its magnificent best. Lord Harlech has put his career in film production on hold to concentrate on Glyn. Just as my family collected ... More |
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| THIRTEEN's American Masters concludes season with 'Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future' | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the only East Coast venue for major Frances Stark exhibition | | Worcester Art Museum reinstalls its Medieval galleries drawing on its exceptional collection of arms & armor |
Eero Saarinen sitting in one of the Womb chairs he designed. Credit: Courtesy of Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library.
NEW YORK, NY.- American Masters Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future explores the life and visionary work of Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) in the series Season 30 finale, premiering nationwide Tuesday, December 27 at 8 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) and available on DVD January 3, 2017 from PBS Distribution. Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), Saarinen also designed New Yorks TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale Universitys Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginias Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair. His sudden death at age 51 cut short one of the most influential careers in American architecture. Saarinens son, ... More | |
Frances Stark. Photo by Todd Cole. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- With both visual and written language at the heart of her practice, Frances Stark (born 1967) explores various modes of self-expression in the digital age. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is presenting UH-OH: Frances Stark 19912015, the sole East Coast venue for the most comprehensive survey to date of the Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Organized by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, UH-OH touches on a wide range of subjects that reflect Starks roles as an artist, mother, woman and teacher. Nearly 120 worksfrom early carbon-copy drawings and intricate collages, to more recent video installations and digital slide showsprovide an in-depth examination of her ongoing interest in communication. The exhibition title refers to the link between the mind and the body and that instinctual oral response, uh-oh, when we go beyond whats acceptable, are faced with a complex problem or have shared ... More | |
Composite Stechzeug (armor for the German Joust), portions by Valentin Siebenburger (German, 1510-1564), about 1480-1540, steel, iron, brass and leather, The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014-1164.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum opened its newly reinstalled medieval art galleries on December 17, 2016. Drawing from the extensive Higgins Collection of arms and armorone of the countrys best collections of this materialthe galleries feature approximately 200 works of art, new interactive elements, and open-storage access to a wide selection of objects. Highlight works include a rare suit of jousting armor, a wooden statue of St. George and the Dragon, and the newly restored tomb effigy of Lady Francesca de Lasta of Naples. The renovations also include structural modifications, re-opening windows to let natural light back into the space, and improving visitors experience of the Museums 15th-century Spanish ceiling. The reinstallation is curated by Jeffrey ... More |
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| Louisiana Museum in Denmark exhibits works by Louise Bourgeois | | Eric van Hove's first comprehensive solo show in Germany on view at Frankfurter Kunstverein | | First UK retrospective of Tove Jansson set for Autumn 2017 |
Louise Bourgeois, CELL XXVI, 2003 (detalje) Celle XXVI. Stål, stof, aluminium, rustfrit stål og træ, 252,7 x 434,3 x 304,8 cm. Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation / Licensed by Copydan.
HUMLEBÃK.- Louisianas exhibition Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: The Cells, presents one of the most striking and influential visual artists of the twentieth century. Over a period of some 70 years Louise Bourgeois (1911, Paris - 2010, New York) created a comprehensive oeuvre spanning a wide range of materials and forms, emotions and moods. Her work is permeated by psychoanalytical and feminist themes where direct and strategic combinations of objects, materials and personal detritus have a clear echo in the contemporary art of the present day. The exhibition concentrates on one of Bourgeois most original work types: the Cells. The name cell plays on all the meanings of the word from prison cell to monks cell to the ... More | |
Portrait Eric van Hove. © Eric van Hove.
FRANKFURT.- Frankfurter Kunstverein is presenting the first great institutional exhibition of Belgian/Algerian artist Eric van Hove in Germany. In his mechanic sculptures, large-scale exhibits and films Eric van Hove puts the spotlight on global economic coherencies. The concept artist takes a close look at social transformations in the context of increasing automation. What role does local production play in a globalised economy? What ramifications does growing industrial fabrication have on the individual and his/her technical knowledge? In his work, artist and activist van Hove enters the terrain of the entrepreneur and gains new aesthetic insights. Beside the presentation of large-scale exhibits, one of the exhibition spaces has been transformed into a functional and publicly accessible workshop. Work benches, common rooms and materials from Van Hove's Marrakech studio temporarily have been incorporated into the ... More | |
Tove Jansson, Self-Portrait, 1975, Oil, 65 x 47 cm, Private Collection. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis.
LONDON.- In Autumn 2017 Dulwich Picture Gallery will present the first major UK exhibition of work by one of the most celebrated illustrators of the 20th century, Tove Jansson. Known internationally as creator of the Moomin characters and books, a phenomenon which continues to stretch across generations, Janssons wider outputs of graphic illustration and painting are relatively unseen outside her home country of Finland. The exhibition will bring together 150 works, including a large body of self-portraits, landscapes and still-lifes never seen before in the UK and a series of Moomin drawings only this year discovered at the British Cartoon Archive. Arranged thematically the show will reintroduce Jansson as an artist of exceptional breadth and talent, tracing the key stages of her prolific career including her surrealist-inspired ... More |
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Michener Art Museum hosts exhibition of American art exploring shifts in style, taste, and culture
DOYLESTOWN, PA.- In a special exhibition, the James A. Michener Art Museum invites visitors to explore stylistic transformations, changing patterns of taste, and cultural shifts in the past 100 years of American art. The Death of Impressionism? Disruption & Innovation in Art exhibition centers on the lingering allure of Impressionism, a movement significantly embraced by early 20th century artists in Bucks County, and the historical tension that emerged in 1913and reverberated for decadeswhen artists with modernist tendencies pronounced Impressionism dead. Featuring Impressionist, modernist, and contemporary paintings, The Death of Impressionism? includes work by more than forty artists, including George Inness, Edward Willis Redfield, John Folinsbee, Charles Frederick Ramsey, Charles Rosen, Chris Jordan, Rae Sloan Bredin, Lilias Barger, ... More
Kunsthaus Bregenz' KUB Billboards projects features Paris-based artist Daiga Grantina
BREGENZ.- Starting in 2016 KUB Billboards constitute an independent line of programming to enhance the visibility of a younger generation of artists. KUB Billboards concentrate in particular on those artists who have been growing up in the midst of recent epochal turning points: starting from the demise of state socialism, and the increasingly globalized world that followed from it, and that, throughout the 1990s, was more and more superimposed by a digitalized capitalization of all spheres of life. In the network economy in which now we live, the internet, the logic of algorithmic processing, social media and surveillance are conditions of our everyday existence. The perception of our »reality« has drastically changed, and with it the modes of its conceptualization. The works by the Paris-based artist Daiga Grantina manifest themselves in processes of continually balancing ... More
Recently discovered photographs showing an apartment designed by Frederick Kiesler on view in Vienna
VIENNA.- In the spring of 2014 photographs were discovered showing an apartment designed by Frederick Kiesler in the 1930s, which had been rarely documented before. The son of architect and photographer Robert Damora (1912-2009) possessed negatives of a photo series that provided insight into this blind spot in Kiesler research for the first time they were in a miserable condition though. The Frederick Kiesler Foundation financed the laborious restoration and is now able to exclusively present prints and blow-ups of these photographs in the exhibition Designing Tomorrow. Frederick Kieslers Mergentime Apartment. The textile designer Marguerita Mergentime (1894-1941) and her husband Charles commissioned Frederick Kiesler around 1935 to design their apartment next to New Yorks Central Park this is the only known interior design by Kiesler! It resulted ... More
Art Projects at London Art Fair 2017: Highlights and 'Dialogues' collaborations announced
LONDON.- London Art Fair has announced highlights of the most international Art Projects to date, including; · A curated showcase of the freshest contemporary art from across the world · Dialogues, a series of five collaborations between UK and international galleries guest curated by Miguel Amado · Over 40% non-UK exhibitors (inc. USA, Zimbabwe, South Korea) · Focussed solo presentations from artists including Chris Agnew (Kristin Hjellegjerde, London), Victoria Lucas (Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, London) and Yong Il Shin (Do Gallery, South Korea) · The DeLonghi Art Projects Artist Award will award one artist with £2,500 Dedicated to cultivating a community of emerging international galleries and artists, Art Projects has established itself as an important platform for galleries to showcase the most stimulating contemporary practice. Highlights ... More
Between Two Battles: Rabih Mroué exhibits at Kunsthalle Mainz
MAINZ.- The title of the exhibition, Between Two Battles, targets the pause, the (brief) intermission between two battles. It underlines the end of one clash while simultaneously announcing the next engagement, which will undubitably follow. There is no end in sight; the defining principle is strike and counterstrike. But for now we are "between," when peace reigns supreme in a moment of respite, inviting us to reflect. Rabih Mroué is all too familiar with both conflict and ceasefire. Born in Lebanon in 1967, he lived throughand was highly aware ofthe countrys civil war from 1975 to 1990. He experienced his own family members being threatened and even injured. These existential experiences have shaped his thinking and art up to the present day, with his works exploring political developments in Lebanon and the Middle East. Images of war and terror, personal experiences ... More
A Good City Has Industry: An exhibition about the project Atelier Brussels on view at BOZAR
BRUSSELS.- The majority of European cities turn their old industrial districts into residential areas with shops and offices, pushing productive activities further and further out of the city. The Brussels Region has gone for a different approach. But industry is a vital part of the rich economic and urban fabric of a vibrant city. The BOZAR exhibition A Good City has Industry gathers policy makers, architects, experts, developers and entrepreneurs round the table and makes a plea for the productive, circular city. The exhibition is on view until January 15 at the Ravenstein Gallery. The exhibition A Good City Has Industry is falling back on the results of the IABR Atelier Brussels. This workshop for research-by-design and knowledge exchange was founded by Flemish and Brussels players within the context of the 2016 The Next Economy edition of the International Architecture ... More
Mend a holey jumper or a broken relationship in Auckland Art Gallery's new exhibition
AUCKLAND.- The intricacies and importance of human interaction are celebrated in Lee Mingwei and His Relations: The Art of Participation on view at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Through the installations of Paris-and New York-based artist Lee Mingwei, visitors to this powerful exhibition are invited to slow down, engage and converse to create new memories or recall old ones. Visitors can write a letter, offering previously unexpressed gratitude, forgiveness or an apology, in The Letter Writing Project (1998present), or bring in a garment to be repaired while engaging in conversation with the mender in The Mending Project (2009present). Auckland Art Gallery Director Rhana Devenport says this exhibition provides the first opportunity in Australasia to experience these participatory artworks within a single exhibition. ... More
Storm Deities (Maruts) by Vishal K. Dar presented by The Gujral Foundation at the 11th Shanghai Biennale
SHANGHAI.- The Gujral Foundation, a philanthropic endeavour for the arts initiated in 2008, has firmly established itself as a dynamic force for the support and promotion of Indian and South Asian contemporary art both in India, and across the globe. Recent projects include exhibitions and collaborations with leading institutions such as The Guggenheim, The British Museum, the Berlin Biennale, the Kochi Muziris Biennale, and the Venice Art Biennale. Pursuing the objective of creating and facilitating such opportunities for leading artists on the international art scene, The Gujral Foundation is presenting Storm Deities (Maruts), a new site-specific and immersive light installation by Indian artist Vishal K Dar. The work has been installed in the iconic chimney of the Power Station of Art at the 11th Shanghai Biennale, on display until 12 March 2017. In the belly of ... More
Works by turn-of-the-20-century American artists capture the energy and spirit of a nation in flux
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- It Was a New Century: Reflections on Modern America presents a fresh view of the dawn of the modern age through nearly 60 late 19th- and early 20th-century American paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolors on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery from a private collection. The new century saw the acceleration of Americas already dizzying transformation into an industrial power, which had defining effects on the nations art and culture. Technological innovations improved the quality of life for manyeven as American cities grew larger, denser, and tougherand artists embraced both the glamour and grittiness of urban life as a quintessentially modern subject. Opening with the bustling street and colorful flags of Childe Hassams Avenue of the Allies (1918), the exhibition is organized thematically, addressing the leading artistic ideas of the day as ... More
Stephenson's Jan. 1 auction features fine & decorative art, silver, jewelry, and period furniture
SOUTHAMPTON, PA.- For many who collect or sell antiques, the first tradition of each year is browsing the upscale goods and bidding in Stephensons New Years Day Auction. Family-owned since 1962, Stephensons specializes in fresh-to-the-market estate goods and collections from the Mid-Atlantic states and beyond. Throughout the year, owner Cindy Stephenson and her team of specialists set aside rare, beautiful and interesting estate objects specifically to offer in their next January 1st sale. This years selection is characterized not only by premium-quality fine and decorative art, furniture, antiques and jewelry, but also many unique items that will immediately be recognized as something very special, Stephenson said. More than 400 lots will cross the auction block at Stephensons Bucks ... More
Canadian debut of "Our Land" showcases rarely seen Inuit art
WINNIPEG.- The Winnipeg Art Gallery is presenting a powerful exhibition of treasures from the Government of Nunavuts Fine Art Collections. Our Land: Contemporary Art from the Arctic broadly showcases Inuit art and culture through an impressive selection of work, some not seen in Canada since before Nunavut was established. Our Land which means Nunavut in Inuktitut transports visitors to the vast and beautiful Canadian Arctic through nearly 100 artworks drawn from the outstanding collection of the Government of Nunavut. Recently on long-term loan to the WAG, the entire collection numbering close to 7,300 pieces was brought to Winnipeg earlier this year through a unique partnership between the Governments of Nunavut and Manitoba together with the WAG. The partnership with the Winnipeg Art Gallery is a unique opportunity for collaboration. The Our ... More
Twenty-four contemporary artists from around the world grapple with memories that are not their own
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum is presenting the work of twenty-four contemporary artists who grapple with memories that are not their own in From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. The diverse group of local and international art practitioners, some of whom have never before exhibited in the United States, consider many forms of inherited, often traumatic, memory from the personal and familial to the collective. Through their works in a variety of media including sculpture, film, photography, mixed media, and more, many of the artists search, question, and reflect on the representation of truths related to ancestral and public narratives of historical moments such as the Holocaust, the struggle for civil rights for African Americans, and the Vietnam War among othersultimately attempting to understand ... More
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