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Grave in the center of the cairn. © Denis Gliksman, Inrap.
PARIS.- An Inrap team has recently excavated a group of aligned menhirs at Veyre-Monton (Puy-de-Dôme). This research, prescribed by the State (Drac Auvergne RhôneAlpes), was conducted in the context of construction work by the APRR society to widen the A75 motorway. This is the first time such alignments, cairns and statuemenhirs have been discovered in Auvergne or, more broadly, in central France. The 1.6-hectare excavation, surrounded by the volcanic reliefs characteristic of the Limagne des buttes, unearthed around thirty monoliths from 1 to 1.6 meters tall. These menhirs form a more or less straight and continuous alignment, extending along 150 meters in the excavation zone and probably beyond. They are bordered by another alignment of large stones, in the continuation of which five stones are arranged in a horseshoe shape. Finally, six regularly spaced stones form a circle measuring 1.5 m in diameter. Clearly visible in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Jakarta, September 1, 2019. During the brilliantly rebranded Art Jakarta, Guillaume Levy-Lambert introduces young visitors to the works of Naufal Abshar and Jamie Teo. Photo Agnes Tjandranegara, courtesy Art Porters Gallery
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| | Almine Rech joins the representation of the Karel Appel Estate | | Once-lost Rossetti painting acquired by the British Museum | | Reynolda presents 'Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration' |
Karel Appel, Burning Child with Hoop, 1961 - Oil on canvas - 300 x 230 cm, 118 1/8 x 90 1/2 inches / © Karel Appel Foundation / Adagp, Paris 2019 / Collection Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced that it will join the representation of the Karel Appel Estate, beginning with an exhibition in Paris during the fall of 2019. Almine Rech will hold its first monographic exhibition dedicated to Karel Appel (1921-2006), on view in the gallerys Paris space from October 12 to November 16, 2019. If Appel is considered the most important Dutch artist of the second half of the 20th century, this is only partly true: he was of course born in Amsterdam, but in 1950, at age 29, left the Netherlands for good. He moved to Paris with Corneille, Constant and Asger Jorn - somewhat the nucleus of CoBrA, a fiercely European avant-garde group founded two years earlier. Amsterdam was the city of my youth; Paris was that of my evolution. What I learned there remains most crucial, he later told writer Simon Vinkenoog. Soon ... More | |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), The Death of Breuse sans Pitié 1857 (retouched 1865). Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The British Museum has acquired a rarely-seen painting by the English painter and poet and founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). The artwork called The Death of Breuze Sans Pitié has hardly been exhibited since it was created in 1857 and its location was unknown for much of the 20th century. It goes on display in the British Museum on Tuesday (3 September 2019), the first time it has been seen in public in 26 years. The painting was one of 7 created by Rossetti for his friend, the celebrated 19th century designer William Morris. Morris later sold them all (five eventually went to the Tate collection in 1916) but the whereabouts of this particular painting became unknown sometime after a 1926 auction in New York. No photo of the work existed at the time, and a written description of 1899 was all that was known about what the work depicted. The painting was ... More | |
J.C. Leyendecker, Man in Coat and Scarf, oil on canvas, 1919, © 2019 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI. Photo courtesy American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art presenting the work of Joseph Christian (J.C.) Leyendecker, one of the most prolific and sought-after artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration, from Aug. 31 through Dec. 31, 2019. Leyendecker (18941951) captivated the public with his striking images and fashionable depictions of handsome men and glamorous women. This is the museums first exhibition focused on illustration and its first to explore the work of an openly gay artist. Reynolda is the opening venue for a national planned tour of Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration. This single-source exhibition was provided by PAN Art Connections. Between 1896 and 1950, Leyendecker illustrated more than 400 magazine covers for the nations trade and general interest publications, including The Saturday Evening ... More |
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| | Last chance to see installation by Joana Vasconcelos and Trisha Brown moving image works at Jupiter Artland | | Simon Fujiwara's thought-provoking work Joanne is on show for the first time in Denmark | | 'Lucky' Julie Andrews lifts Venice lifetime award |
'Gateway' by Joana Vasconcelos(2019). Image by Allan Pollok-Morris. Courtesy Jupiter Artland.
EDINBURGH.- Jupiter Artlands latest permanent commission, Gateway, by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is on view as part of Edinburgh Art Festival and takes the form of a vibrant swimming pool pressed into the landscape. The Scottish sculpture park also presents the first solo UK exhibition of pioneering choreographer and artist, Trisha Brown with Time, Space, Gravity. Gateway is an artwork integrated in a whimsical pool garden and is the result of a three-year collaboration between Jupiter Artland and the artist. The nine-metre, fully functioning swimming pool is surrounded by a yew hedge that frames the whole composition and is a natural limit to the artist´s intervention which draws inspiration from the leylines that are said to intersect at the 100 acres sculpture park. These leylines are believed by some to channel earthly energy, connecting sacred and spiritual sites across the world. Of Gateway, ... More | |
Simon Fujiwara, Joanne, 2016/2018. Exhibition view: Simon Fujiwara: Joanne, Galerie Wedding Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2018. Courtesy: the artist; FVU, The Photographers Gallery; Ishikawa Foundation; and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo: © Andrea Rossetti.
ISHÃJ.- Over the past decade Simon Fujiwara has become known for his staging of large, complex exhibitions that explore the deeply rooted mechanisms of identity construction for both individuals and societies. From 31 August his thought-provoking work Joanne is on show for the first time in Denmark at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. "I feel like I'm cheating if I say: I am a model, I am a teacher, I am a lover, I am an artist, I am a chameleon, I am a fighter... I am a person... I am a female." - Joanne Simon Fujiwara's film Joanne depicts the many faces of Joanne, Simon Fujiwara's former secondary school teacher. Presented as film and image environment, Joanne combines a series of free-standing structures: one that includes in-built LED screens on which the ... More | |
British actress Julie Andrews kisses her award on September 2, 2019 after receiving a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement during a ceremony at the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
VENICE (AFP).- Julie Andrews, the star of classic family films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music", was honoured with a lifetime achievement award Monday at the Venice film festival. The English actress, 83, kissed the special Golden Lion award and said she felt "so blessed" for having such a fairytale career. "I'm still amazed, I've been a lucky girl who got to play beautiful roles," she added. The child singer and dancer began in London's West End before rising to theatrical stardom on New York's Broadway in musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot". She won an Oscar for "Mary Poppins" in 1965 and a nomination for best actress the following year for playing the governess Maria von Trapp in "The Sound of Music". After being made a dame by the Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Andrews ... More |
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| | Chase Center announces the unveiling of Olafur Eliasson's 'Seeing Spheres' | | Seventy years of motoring masterpieces offered in Bonhams Bonmont sale | | KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art presents a site-specific work by Bettina Pousttchi |
Seeing spheres, 2019, consists of five (5) fifteen-and-a-half-feet-tall polished hydroformed steel spheres that stand in a circle around a central space.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Golden State Warriors and Chase Center, along with Studio Olafur Eliasson, announce the unveiling of Seeing spheres, Olafur Eliassons largest public artwork in the United Sates, at Chase Center and Thrive City. On September 3 at 9:00 a.m., Eliasson, alongside Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Chief Curator Janet Bishop and Art Consultant Dorka Keehn, will celebrate Chase Centers signature work of public art with a panel discussion and official unveiling outside the East Entrance. Seeing spheres is a public space that contains you and contains multitudes, said Eliasson. We often think of public space as empty, negative space in the city, viewed from a car or crossed on the way to somewhere else. Seeing spheres ... More | |
2015 Ferrari F12tdf Berlinetta. Photo: Bonhams.
GENEVA.- Bonhams will be offering a very special selection of supercars and prestigious collectors motor cars, representing 70 years of engineering, design and technological excellence, when it returns to Switzerland for The Bonmont Sale on Sunday 29 September at the prestigious Bonmont Golf & Country Club. More than 50 of the worlds finest cars, from 1930s sports tourers to 21st century hyper cars, produced by the greatest automotive marques, including Aston Martin, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, will be offered to discerning collectors in this landmark sale. Among this line-up are the following highlights: One of only 17 long wheel-base Series II cars, previously owned by Greek shipping magnate Alexander Andreadis and extensively restored in 2013 by a Swiss specialist. Potentially eligible for the Mille Miglia, its estimate is CHF 350,000 400,000. Restored to concours condition, ... More | |
Bettina Pousttchi, Panorama, 2019. Installation view Kesselhaus, KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2019.
BERLIN.- Bettina Pousttchi is the fifth artist to develop a site-specific work for the twenty-metre-high Kesselhaus at the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art. The interventions show an impressive range of artistic responses to the space: After Roman Signer with his nose-diving airplane Kitfox Experimental, David Claerbout with the thousand-year real-time projection Olympia, Haegue Yang with her centrally hung Venetian blind installation Silo of Silence Clicked Core, and Thomas Scheibitzs multi-part sculpture Plateau mit Halbfigur standing in the middle of the room, Bettina Pousttchi has installed her work Panorama directly on the walls of the Kesselhaus. In her works, Bettina Pousttchi often refers to the urban and historical context of a place and works in public spaces. For instance, in 2009 and 2010 she covered the entire facade ... More |
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| | The 21st edition of the art fair Art International Zurich will take place from 26 to 29 September | | AlanJames Burns and Creswell Crags announce the first UK edition of Entirely hollow aside from the dark | | Matthew F Fisher's first solo show in the UK opens at Taymour Grahne |
Rafka: Deep Earth 2018 / mixed media on canvas, 2018. Courtesy of Simon Kessler, CH-Zollikon.
ZURICH.- Every year Art International Zurich presents international contemporary art in the heart of Zurich. The international orientation, which is unique in the trade fair landscape, creates fascination and a lasting impression. Works of art from the fields of painting, graphics, sculpture and photography are exhibited here. Art International Zurich offers a refreshing and relaxed approach to contemporary art. Art International Zurich has always been a forum with the aim of making contemporary art accessible to a broad public. At Art International Zurich you can admire and acquire breath-taking works and establish exciting connections. This art fair presents a varied series of artistic concepts in an exhibition dedicated entirely to dialogue. The annual art fair offers an interdisciplinary exhibition space and an interactive meeting place for gallery owners, collectors, artists and a public interested in art. With ... More | |
AlanJames Burns, Entirely hollow aside from the dark. Photo: Trevor Whelan (Keash Caves, Sligo, Ireland, 2017)
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.- Visual and Environmental Artist AlanJames Burns, collaborating with Creswell Crags Museum & Heritage Centre, is delighted to announce the first British presentation of Burns Entirely hollow aside from the dark. The immersive psychoacoustic sound artwork will be staged inside the depths of Creswell Crags Cave this September, following the huge critical success of an Irish nationwide tour. Together with his creative team, Burns will install a new version of this unique experience specifically created for the cultural significance of Creswell Crags a site located in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, that boasts Britains only examples of Ice Age Rock Art created some 13,000 years ago. Entirely hollow aside from the dark takes place inside ancient natural auditoriums carved into the underbelly of earths crust. Using the cave as a physical metaphor for the mind ... More | |
Matthew F Fisher, Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 91.5 x 74 cm. 36 x 29 in.
LONDON.- Taymour Grahne is presenting After the Ice, NYC-based artist Matthew F Fishers first solo show in the UK. In this new body of work, Fisher continues to play with one's idea of what is real, questioning the intricate relationship between constructed images and their corresponding physical objects and memory. Challenging the viewers sense of perception, the artist creates imagery that are at once familiar and unexpected. At first glance, majestic rocks, peaceful oceans, and sea creatures surface from the artists canvases, but at closer inspection these instantly recognisable images unfurl into idealised shapes and colours. It is only through ones mind that those images elicit memories of lived experiences, creating a reality suspended between the personal and the universal. Combing the modernist two-dimensional painterly approach, early 80s and 90s usage of vivid colours and pastel hues, as ... More |
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Sterling Associates to auction fine & decorative art, men's luxury watches, BMW convertible Sept. 12
NORWOOD, NJ.- Sterling Associates is known for its eclectic auctions of fine art, furniture, lighting and other quality collectibles sourced from palatial country estates and stylish city residences in the New York metro region. An integral part of Bergen County, New Jerseys arts community for two generations, Sterlings online-only sales are unique in that all goods may be previewed ahead of time at the companys physical premises in Norwood. On September 12, the Sterling team will host a diverse 213-lot auction of fine art, jewelry and luxury wristwatches; furniture, lighting, European bronzes and other desirable estate goods. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers or Invaluable. An excellent selection of mens luxury timepieces features many of the most sought-after brands. A Breguet marine automatic wristwatch, ... More
Rowan University Art Gallery opens a solo exhibition of Julie Heffernan's self-portraits
GLASSBORO, NJ.- Rowan University Art Gallery is presenting Mending A Reflection, a solo exhibition of Julie Heffernans self-portraits, curated by Mary Salvante, Director of Rowan University Art Gallery. The exhibit will be on view September 3 to October 26, 2019, with an artist talk and opening reception on September 12, from 5 7:30 pm. Mending a Reflection addresses the connection between culture, mass media and personal identity through the eyes of one central female figure. Through her self-portraiture, Heffernan investigates what she calls the shared collective unconscious, exploring the historical narratives and subliminal imagery that work to shape who we are and how we perceive the world around us. In 2019, Heffernan revised many of her self-portraits, including Self-Portrait with Daughters, Self-Portrait After Galilee, Self-Portrait with Shipwreck, Self-Portrait as Wrangl ... More
SALT opens the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Nur Koçak's work
ISTANBUL.- The most comprehensive exhibition to date of Nur Koçak, one of Turkeys first photorealist painters, is presented at SALT Beyoğlu and SALT Galata. Titled after one of her works, Our Blissful Souvenirs comprises a selection of early drawings and photographic series, produced between the 1960s and 2010s. The exhibition offers an in-depth view into Koçaks critically narrative practice, which examines the spread of popular culture from womens magazines and Hollywood movies through to its repercussions in Turkey. Our Blissful Souvenirs begins at SALT Beyoğlus ground floor, with the Vitrinler [Shop Windows] (1989-2019) series installed in the Forum. These photographs and paintings focus on the reflections of the global consumer culture on various shop windows in central Istanbul, questioning the depersonalization of the female body, as it suddenly ... More
Anna Laudel welcomes the new season with "Intergalactic"
ISTANBUL.- Curated by İpek Yeğinsü, Anna Laudel will present a group exhibition titled Intergalactic, showcasing selected artworks of 12 contemporary artists including Beyza Boynudelik, Şafak Ãatalbaş, Alper Derinboğaz, Emin Mete Erdoğan, Horasan, Ekin Su Koç, Ali Miharbi, Ali İbrahim Ãcal, Ãzcan Saraç, Meltem Sırtıkara, Merve Şendil and İrem Tok. Running between 3 September and 20 October 2019, the exhibition departs from the question of what the future will be like if we manage to bring and sustain our civilisation beyond the confines of our planet. Adopting a transdisciplinary, site-specific and participatory approach in her curatorial practice, in Intergalactic İpek Yeğinsü focuses on how humanitys existing socio-cultural structures will be affected by a potential migration towards space, and in doing so, opens an independent room for discussi ... More
Texan artist revisits ancient dogma
NEW YORK, NY.- Ceres Gallery presents Music of the Spheres, an exhibit of 22 digital paintings by Chalda Maloff. This latest group of artworks offers the viewer a fantastical biosphere of botanic and aquatic images. Rooted in the Greek philosophy of Music of the Spheres, these abstract artworks are suggestive of the pulse or rhythm of life. This series of pieces originated in my mind on a wee hours saunter on an urban greenbelt, Maloff states. My attention was seized by a microcosm of insect webs and dew drops, which seemed to throb with an exquisite energy that felt almost audible. The specter called to mind the ancient concept that celestial bodies vibrate to make a form of music. The Greeks reasoned that, humankind, living in the midst of this continuous universal symphony, defines it as silence. But with tender consideration to the individual ... More
Miaja Gallery opens a group exhibition featuring twelve contemporary artists
SINGAPORE.- Miaja Gallery & Miaja Art Collections present Dissonance, a group exhibition featuring twelve contemporary artists, carefully curated as part of an immersive theatrical experience: Singapore Repertory Theatres CAUGHT. Dissonance delves into the realm of the senses to explore the relationship between inner and outer worlds. In every artwork or artwork pairing, there exists a dissonance, an activation point, whether it be through the surreal, the illusory, or the abstract. The exhibition is an invitation to pause, to dig deeper, and to question if our experience of art is about the artwork itself, or rather our own perception of it. Across two art gallery floors, the unique curatorial approach of this exhibition invites visitors to actively engage in their experience by noticing their inner sensations in response to the varied selection of works by local ... More
Latin American paintings among the highlights of Quinn's Sept. 14 Fine & Decorative Art sale
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- On Saturday September 14, Quinns will present a superb selection of Latin American, Asian, European, American and Modern fine and decorative art in a 437-lot gallery auction. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers or Invaluable. Many decorative art categories are represented, including rugs, bronzes, porcelain, silver and glass. The Asian decorative art selection includes Japanese netsuke, Chinese porcelain, snuff bottles, silk textiles and other lovely pieces. Original fine art to be offered includes works by such luminaries as Jim McNutt, Merton D. Simpson, and leading Latin American artists like Fernando De Szyszlo, José MarÃa Mijares, and Rafael Soriano. Ten artworks by Merton D. Simpson (1928-2013) will cross the auction block. Simpson was an African-American artist, a New ... More
Superb 'Ieaq 2004' Conspicuous Gallantry Cross to be sold in Dix Noonan Webb's September sale
LONDON.- Just over 15 years ago, on 9th August 2004, Warrant Officer Class 1 Terrence Tommo Thomson, 1st Battalion, Princess of Waless Royal Regiment was commanding a Warrior AFV (armoured fighting vehicle) as part of a Quick Reaction Force extraction in central Basra City. His mission was to rescue eight stranded soldiers from a hostile and worsening situation in downtown Basra - Thomson and his crew found themselves isolated and under constant heavy RPG and machine gun fire as they tried to locate and extract a small group of Artillery men, who were themselves surrounded by hundreds of armed local militia. Thomsons Warrior was hit by an RPG from close range early during the contact, and as such the communications system failed. The only means of communication available to Thomson were hand-signals which meant ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Louis Sullivan was born September 03, 1856. September 3, 1856.- Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 - April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School. Along with Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan is one of "the recognized trinity of American architecture". He received the AIA Gold Medal in 1944. In this image: Shoppers pass a building designed by celebrated architect Louis Sullivan, Friday, Sept. 1, 2006, in Chicago. The buiding, a National Historic Landmark, for now houses the Carson Pirie Scott department store. Chicago is kicking off a six-week-long 150th birthday celebration this weekend for Sullivan who is sometimes called the "father of modernism."
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