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Pablo Picasso, Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), 1907 (detail). Oil on canvas, 61.4 x 47.6 cm. © 2016. The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence and Succession.
JERUSALEM.- A major exhibition of Pablo Picassos works on paper at the Israel Museum provides audiences with a rare opportunity to follow this 20th century masters evolution of key motifs and subject matter throughout his career, reflecting the inventiveness and virtuosity he applied to a range of mediums. On view from July 6 through November 19, 2016, Pablo Picasso: Drawing Inspiration brings together nearly 300 works from the Museums extensive collection of more than 800 drawings and prints by the artist. The exhibition illustrates turning points in the artists career, punctuated with major paintings on loan from the Musée Picasso, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; together with works from the Israel Museums own collection, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to compare the artists development across mediums. This extensive and in-depth display of Picassos works on paper enables us to explore the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People watch the Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks from Brooklyn Bridge Park on July 4, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The celebrations mark the nation's 240th Independence Day. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP
| New Landscapes by Alex Katz opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | | Christie's London to host Classic Week from 5 to 13 July. | | African objects explored through the lens of layered surface accumulations |
The atmosphere of his paintings is rooted in the particularity of his style, at once rigorous, modernist, and refined, suggesting a both radical and simple realism.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces the exhibition New Landscapes by Alex Katz. The American artist, currently exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London with his recent Quick Light series, had occupied the four halls of the Pantin gallery in 2014 with the exhibition 45 Years of Portraits, 1969-2014. In the Marais gallery Alex Katz will unveil his most recent series. It features around twenty sketches of landscapes and several monumental paintings around the same theme. From the early 1950s, Alex Katz anticipated the American Pop Art movement with images inspired by billboards, drawing from the principle of serial reproduction and creating portraits free from any psychological attribute. He quickly detached himself from the Pop Art movement, establishing his personal style. Well-known for his female portraits, landscapes, as well as outdoor ... More | |
Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Giraffes with Impala in a Landscape. oil on millboard, 14 x 11¾ in. (35.4 x 30 cm.). Estimate: £40,000 £60,000 ($58,240 - $87,360). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2016.
LONDON.- Following the success of Christies inaugural Classic Week in New York during April, Christies London will host Classic Week from 5 to 13 July. These cross-category auctions span the Decorative Arts, Antiquities, Old Master & British Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Books and Manuscripts and The Exceptional Sale. The week will be led by Rubenss masterpiece Lot and his Daughters (circa 1613-14), an outstanding example of his early maturity and one of the most important paintings by the artist to have remained in private hands, which will be sold as part of the Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale on 7 July. Classic Week presents an array of unique works of art, exceptional objects and furniture as well as scientific and philosophical documents throughout the weeks sales, all across varying price points. This remarkable group of 50 etchings was formed ... More | |
Dan artist, Mask, 20th century. Wood, metal, encrustation, human hair residue. Promised Gift from the Holly and David Ross Collection.
PRINCETON, NJ.- How ritual additions to the surfaces of African sculptures alter an objects appearance and power over time is the focus of a fascinating new exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum. These surface accumulationssuch as layers of organic materials that have cultural and spiritual value, or encrustations that reveal the additions made by multiple handsoffer insight into the history and life of the object. Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton presents some 20 exceptional works of African art from the Princeton University Art Museum, including newly acquired works from the Holly and David Ross Collection as well as gifts and loans from important private collections. Collecting and exhibiting African art has been a priority of this museum in recent years, said Nancy A. NasherDavid J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director James Steward. We are fortunate indeed to have ... More |
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| Mori Art Museum Curator Mami Kataoka appointed Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney | | New book offers a fascinating insight into the printmaking work of Louise Bourgeois | | Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions announces Modern and Contemporary Editions auction |
Mami Kataoka, the acclaimed Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, is the first curator from Asia to be appointed as Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney.
SYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney today announced Mami Kataoka as the Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney to be held in 2018. Mami Kataoka, the acclaimed Chief Curator at the Mori Art Museum (MAM) in Tokyo, is the first curator from Asia to be appointed as Artistic Director of the Biennale of Sydney. No stranger to Australia (having been one of 13 eminent international advisors to this year's 20th edition and with strong connections to local curators and artists), Ms. Kataoka is a key figure in analysing socio-historical and generational trends within Japanese and Asian art. Ms. Kataoka is renowned internationally for her curatorial practice, having engaged in many projects including as co-artistic director of ROUNDTABLE: 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), and guest curator of Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past ... More | |
Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Prints presents these two fascinating portfolios together for the first time, opening a new window into the mind of this celebrated artist.
LONDON.- Louise Bourgeois: Autobiographical Series is a fascinating insight into the printmaking work of one of the most influential artists of recent decades. Accompanying Hayward Tourings latest exhibition, this new publication collects two intimate and personal print series created by Louise Bourgeois late in her career. The Autobiographical Series (1994) captures Bourgeois deepest thoughts and memories, while her set of 11 Drypoints (1999) offers a more abstract perspective, using metaphor to conjure the dreams and images that haunted her to the very end of her life. Featuring familiar motifs, from womb-like figures to stairs and ladders, feet, long hair, clocks, scissors, bathtubs and pregnancy, the prints in these two portfolios are inspired by her obsessions with memory and the human condition. ... More | |
Banksy (b.1975), Flying Copper, Estimate £20003000.
LONDON.- Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions Modern and Contemporary Editions auction will take place at Bloomsbury House, 24 Maddox Street, London at 10.30am on Thursday 21st July 2016. The sale will include works from some of the biggest names in Modern and Contemporary art such as Banksy, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Picasso and L.S Lowry, with estimates ranging from £100 to £18,000. Headlining the auction will be thirteen important etchings from Pablo Picassos 1931 book, Le Chef-D'Oeuvre Inconnu (lot 222), estimated at £12,000 - £18,000. A further auction highlight is lot 364, Rose Rose, by leading op-artist Bridget Riley, estimated to reach £3,000 - £4,000. Also of particular note is Antony Gormleys Feeling Material XXIII (Lot no. 289), estimated to reach £10,000 - £15,000. This is one of a series which Gormley describes as his attempt to describe the space of the body using a matrix formed of rings. ... More |
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| Iranian director Kiarostami dies in France at 76: report | | "A History: Contemporary Art from Centre Pompidou" on view in Munich | | Collection of historical carriages on view at the Palace of Versailles |
This file photo taken on December 4, 2007 shows internationally acclaimed Iranian film maker Abbas Kiarostami giving instructions during a course with students of the Villa Arson art school in Nice. Famed Iranian director Kiarostami died aged 76 in Paris on July 4, 2016, Iranian media reported. ERIC ESTRADE / AFP.
TEHRAN (AFP).- Acclaimed Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76 in France, Iranian media reported on Monday. Kiarostami, who won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 for "Taste of Cherry", left Tehran last week to undergo treatment for intestinal problems in France, the ISNA news agency said, adding that his death had been confirmed by Iran's House of Cinema. The Tehran-born filmmaker achieved international acclaim in the 1990s, with legendary French director Jean-Luc Godard once declaring that "film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami." There were conflicting reports about ... More | |
Lijun Fang, Sans titre, 2003 (detail), 400 x 854 cm. Chaque panneau : 400 x 120 cm. Xylographie sur papier. Purchase. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national dart moderne - Centre de création industrielle.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst is presenting A History: Contemporary Art from Centre Pompidou, an exhibition originally curated by Christine Macel at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. With approximately 160 works by more than 100 artists from across the world, "A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou" provides an incisive overview of artistic positions since the 1980s in painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance. The Centre Pompidou's collection of contemporary art has rarely been presented so comprehensively outside France. The selected works on view date from the 1980s to the present raising two significant questions: What factors are relevant for ensuring that art history is written ... More | |
The carriages of Versailles are artistic masterpieces.
PARIS.- The Carriages Gallery of the Palace of Versailles, situated in the Kings Great Stables and closed to the public since 2007, once again opened its doors in the spring of 2016, thanks to sponsorship by the Michelin Corporate Foundation. This recently restored collection of carriages is one of the largest in Europe but is still very little known by the general public, and is on display in a new and fully redesigned space. The success of the exhibition called roulez Carrosses ! in 2011- 2013 at the Arras Musée des Beaux-Arts revealed both the richness of the exhibition and the publics interest in these works of art. It also brought to light the need to exhibit them in the Palace of Versailles and make them permanently available to the public. The exhibition space is composed of two galleries and currently covers nearly 1000 m², allowing the collection to be comfortably spread out. The scenography respects ... More |
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| Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide honours acclaimed portraitist Robert Hannaford | | Exhibition of works by Antek Walczak on view at Dominique Lévy in New York | | Exhibition at Berlinische Galerie focuses on the formative years of the Weimar Republic |
Robert Hannaford, Australia, born 1944, Tsering, 1997, oil on canvas, 150.0 x 120.0 cm; Private collection, courtesy of the artist.
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia presents its first exhibition of the work of South Australias most celebrated portraitist, Robert Hannaford. Titled Robert Hannaford, this long-awaited exhibition presents fifty years of Hannafords figuration and portraiture, charting the influence of other artists including Hans Heysen and Ivor Hele on his work, and bringing Hannaford into conversation with works of art spanning 500 years from the Art Gallerys collection. Born in rural South Australia, Hannaford has established a reputation as one of Australias most respected portraitists, revered for his ability to capture in his paintings the true nature or essenceof his sitters. The recipient of numerous important commissions and awards, Hannaford has also been selected as a finalist for the Archibald Prize over the past twenty-five years, winning the Peoples Choice Award three ... More | |
Installation view, Dominique Lévy, New York, 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- For this exhibition, Antek Walczak presents a group of dye sublimation metal prints of pictures made using random pattern generation algorithms. Computer graphics and image processing are utilized to model an image instead of reproducing or representing it. The distinction lies in the conception of a system that constructs pictures of random visual patterns using what is known as a cellular or mosaic approach. With the mosaic model, a potential image is treated as an arrangement of regions defined geometrically, such as with the tessellation of a planar surface, which in this case are hexagrams with 10 inch sides. The resulting mosaic or cellular structure is populated by figures (symbols and glyphs) evenly distributed across each cell. The figures are then randomized according to parameters relative to their position in each cell, and those of their neighbors. This process of recursion, whereby steps of the procedure invoke ... More | |
Paul Goesch, Selbstportrait, undatiert, Berlinische Galerie, Urheberrechte am Werk erloschen, Repro: Kai-Annett Becker.
BERLIN.- Modern Visionaries is devoted to the brief but dramatic period between 1918 and 1923 the end of World War I, the November Revolution and the formative years of the Weimar Republic. Architectural visions and drawings by three visionaries of the early twentieth century are being presented together for the first time at the Berlinische Galerie. Around 1914 the writer, poet and inventor Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) inspired the young architect Bruno Taut (18801938) to take up his ideas about building with colored glass. The building material glass was thought capable of helping to bring a harmonious society into existence a utopia as clear as glass that extended out past the planets into outer space: Light seeks to penetrate the whole cosmos and is alive in crystal, wrote Scheerbart for Tauts famous Glass Pavilion built in 1914 for the Werkbund Exhibition in ... More |
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Two Suns in a Sunset: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige exhibit at Jeu de Paume
PARIS.- The Lebanese film-makers and artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige (1969, Beirut) interweave thematic, conceptual and formal links through photographs, video installations, fictional films and documentaries. Self-taught, they became film-makers and artists through necessity in the wake of the Lebanese civil wars. Their very personal uvre, based on their various encounters with people, has led them to explore the realm of the visible and of absence, leading to a fascinating back-and-forth between life and fiction. For more than fifteen years, their films and artworks, created using personal and political documents, develop narratives out of stories kept secret in the face of the prevailing history. They are interested in the emergence of the individual in societies made up of communities, and the difficulty of living in the present. Joana ... More
John Grade's "View From Up Here" on view at the Anchorage Museum
ANCHORAGE, AK.- In View From Up Here, the new exhibition at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska, conceptual artist John Grade explores sculptural forms based on Japanese fishing floats. For the past century, floats made of thick, hand-blown glass have traveled to the Arctic coast from Asian waters, buoyed by harsh, ocean currents. They can get trapped in sea ice for decades, ultimately washing up on the Alaskan shoreline -- often in pristine condition. Grade created his own versions of blown glass forms, many of which are encased in a wood exoskeleton inspired by other organic, ocean bound elements. Grade's Floats series is part of a diverse exploration of human impact on the Arctic region. View From Up Here: The Arctic at the Center of the World is an international contemporary art exhibition that conveys the complexity of this place and its people through ... More
University of Texas Press publishes "Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear" by Paula Bronstein
NEW YORK, NY.- In the fall of 2001, the award-winning American photojournalist Paula Bronstein traveled to Afghanistan on assignment for Getty Images to document the U.S-led "Occupation Enduring Freedom" in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Captivated by the indomitable resilience and spirit of the Afghan people and the rugged beauty of their country's landscape, Bronstein has made Afghanistan her mission ever since. She has returned to the country repeatedly over the past 14 years to document the lives of the Afghan people against the backdrop of a brutal and protracted war. This remarkable and nuanced body of work is gathered together for the first time in Bronstein's powerful new monograph Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear (University of Texas Press, August 1, 2016). What sets Bronstein's photographs apart from many of her peers is her choice to spend most ... More
"Conversations with Chaos," at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City
MICHIGAN CITY, IN.- Conversations with Chaos, an exhibition of photo collage work by Daryl Thetford exploring the challenges of contemporary life, is being featured in the Hyndman Gallery at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, July 2 September 24, 2016. The exhibition was organized by CarolAnn Brown, Exhibitions Curator at LCA. Describing the works in a statement accompanying the exhibition, Daryl Thetford wrote: We are bombarded with advertisements on billboards, cars, television, and in the sky. News, e-mail, weather updates, images of war, social networking pages, and stories of loss, hunger, and natural and man-made disasters are delivered to our computers and phones night and day. These are the external things, the information, data, and titillating images that impinge on our senses, demanding our attention in a hundred ... More
Max Schaffer exhibits at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst
BREMEN.- What do you do when you can no longer reinvent the world, but there is still so much to say and so many questions to ask? Max Schaffer (*1985, lives in Berlin, and won the Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst in 2011) solves this problem by reinterpreting what already exists. He does this by displacing, dislocating and translating, and not least by continually undermining expectations that he himself has created. In 2012, for example, he repurposed the old ventilation system of Viennas famous Secession exhibition hall, which had been dumped in the yard behind the building after it was renovated. The metal parts were metaphorically infused with decades of contemporary art history. He took them out of their practical everyday context and added his own signature by at the same time displaying, celebrating and ironising them in his Vienna gallery, like a ... More
Shirazeh Houshiary's swirling poetic universe enchants Geneva once again
GENEVA.- Artist Shirazeh Houshiary, of Iranian origin and based in London, emerged in the 1980s as one of the major rising stars in contemporary sculpture, alongside Anish Kapoor and Richard Deacon. Since then she has extended her artistic range to incorporate multiple techniques, from painting to video. Houshiarys works have been displayed in Geneva before in the Musée Rath in 1988 and she now takes the opportunity to feature her work at Espace Muraille. The artist was struck by the venue, which inspired her current project. Its title The Grains Whirl and the Ripples Shift alludes to a poem by William Blake, Auguries of Innocence. To see a world in a grain of sand hold infinity in the palm of your hand this was always at the heart of the Romantic poet and painters credo, just as it is for Houshiary and her plastic art. In the twinkling of an eye, that elusive mystery can ... More
"American Art in the Shadow of World War I" on view at the Palmer Museum of Art
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- American Art in the Shadow of World War I, am exhibition on view at the Palmer Museum of Art through August 7, 2016, presents a diverse array of works from the permanent collection, including patriotic posters, photographs that capture aspects of the conflict, as well as prints, drawings, and watercolors by American artists who served in the military. When war erupted in Europe in the summer of 1914, few people foresaw the scale and duration of the carnage. But civilization itself soon seemed, for some, on the brink of collapse. Worldwide military and civilian causalities totaled upwards of 38 million by the signing of the Armistice more than four years later. The unimaginable horrors deeply affected many artists. American Art in the Shadow of World War I surveys the museums holdings from the years leading up to, during, and immediately following the ... More
Dartmouth names Enrique MartÃnez Celaya as Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar
HANOVER, NH.- There arent many people in the world for whom the term renaissance man fits more perfectly than Dartmouths newest Roth Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Los Angeles-based artist Enrique MartÃnez Celaya. A world-renowned painter and sculptor in whose work, says The Los Angeles Times, the yearning, aching soul finds its form, MartÃnez Celaya is also a physicist who holds patents to several laser devices and has published scientific papers on superconductivity. In addition, he is the author of several books of philosophy, poetry, and art. His artwork appears in the permanent collections of, among others, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Stockholms Moderna Museetand soon, the Hood Museum of Art. The entire arts community at Dartmouth is excited to have Enrique on campus, says John ... More
The Tennessee State Museum presents the fine art photography of Benjamin Walls
NASHVILLE, TN .- An exhibition of fine art nature photography by Tennessee native Benjamin Walls opened at the Tennessee State Museum on July 1. Entitled Through Appalachian Eyes: The Fine Art Photography of Benjamin Walls, the exhibit features more than 50 nature images taken by Walls from Appalachia to Africa. Walls is a self-taught fine art photographer who has been winning awards for his work since early in his career. Now 36 years old, Walls has shown his work at some of the worlds most distinguished institutions, including the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and Londons Natural History Museum. Building upon his critical acclaim, he opened his signature gallery in his hometown of Bristol six years ago. There is no admission charge to the exhibit which is on view in the museums Changing Galleries. At the age of 17, Walls took an 11-day-hike through ... More
Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal exhibits at Dresden's Albertinum
DRESDEN.- A museum is usually a place where material objects produced by and testifying to people and their environment are collected, preserved, examined and displayed. But the works created by the Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal are not in material form. He constructs situations, social interactions, the only traces of which that remain are museum visitors' individual experiences and anecdotal memories. Tino Sehgal's works do not leave behind any material evidence, they are not recorded or documented. The scene of events is the vast central atrium of the Albertinum, a place that is open to all. The atrium welcomes and bids farewell to every visitor arriving and leaving. A magnificent space, a neo-Baroque agora that is practically purpose-made for public gatherings. Tino Sehgal makes the most of its potential, flinging open all the doors for six weeks and declaring the atrium ... More
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick at Somerset House
LONDON.- This summer, Somerset House will stage a unique exhibition which explores the impact of one of the most innovative and influential film makers of all time Stanley Kubrick through some of todays most talented artists. Contributors include: Doug Aitken, Gavin Turk, Haroon Mirza & Anish Kapoor, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard with Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton and others, Jane & Louise Wilson, Jocelyn Pook, Marc Quinn, Mat Collishaw, Michael Nyman, Mick Jones, Nathan Coley, Peter Kennard, Polly Morgan, Samantha Morton, Sarah Lucas, Thomas Bangalter and more. The group will each provide a new or existing work inspired by Stanley Kubrick, responding to a film, scene, character or theme from the Kubrick archives, or even the man himself. Together they will bring new perspectives on the cinematic masters life and work. The exhibition is additionally supported ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter André Lhote was born July 05, 1885. André Lhote (5 July 1885 - 24 January 1962) was a French sculptor and painter of figure subjects, portraits, landscapes and still life. He was also very active and influential as a teacher and writer on art. In this image: André Lhote, 1913, L'Escale, oil on canvas, 210 x 185 cm, Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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