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Along with making portraits, Madame dOra also specialized in fashion photography starting in the 1910s, including for the Wiener Werkstätte. Photo: Michaela Hille.
HAMBURG.- Anyone having their portrait done by Madame dOra (18811963) could be confident they were lending themselves a touch of French elegance. Her sitters included writers such as Arthur Schnitzler, the composer Alban Berg, and the cultural critic Hermann Bahr. And she also produced portraits of the Wiesenthal sisters and Anna Pavlova, action shots of the scandalous nude dancer Anita Berber, and likenesses of operetta star Fritzy Massary and of famous figures like Josephine Baker and Coco Chanel. From 1910 to the 1950s, Madame dOra was the portraitist of choice for Viennese and Parisian society as well as for Bohemian artists. People flocked to her studios in Vienna and Paris to take home aesthetically sophisticated and captivating portraits of themselves that exuded a contemporary look and underpinned their claim to a place in high society, the world of the beautiful, well-educated, and famous. The retrospective at the More |
The Best Photos of the Day An interactive model of the Second Temple, built by Herod the Great, is on display at the "Welcome to Jerusalem" exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Berlin on December 30, 2017. Lasting from 11 December 2017 to 30 April 2019, the exhibition seeks "to investigate the history of a city where daily life, religion, and politics are inextricably interwoven, from the age of the second temple to the Roman conquest, from Ottoman rule and the British mandate until the present day." John MACDOUGALL / AFP
| Exhibition explores the 50-year history of the Ebony Fashion Fair (1958-2009) | | Head of New York City Ballet retires after abuse allegations: report | | La Salle University to deaccession 56 works from the university's art museum collection |
Fabrice, Cocktail Dress and Mens Coordinating Dress Shirt, ready-to-wear, spring/summer 1990, silk crepe and glass beads, appeared in Freedom Explosion; Photograph by John Alderson, © 2013 Chicago Historical Society.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art is presenting Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair, which tells the remarkable story of an extraordinary fashion show. The exhibition explores the 50-year history of the Ebony Fashion Fair (19582009), an unparalleled charity fashion show event that redefined the concepts of beauty, fashion, and empowerment for African Americans. It features 40 stunning ensembles by designers such as Stephen Burrows, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Patrick Kelly, Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurent, Bob Mackie, Alexander McQueen, b. Michael, Missoni, Jean Patou, and Vivienne Westwood. The exhibition also includes archival photographs and memorabilia from Ebony magazine and Ebony Fashion ... More | |
This file photo taken on May 06, 2015 shows Peter Martins attending the New York City Ballet 2015 Spring Gala at David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center in New York City. Stephen Lovekin / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Peter Martins, the renowned head of the New York City Ballet, announced his retirement Monday following allegations of sexual harassment and physical abuse, according to a report in the New York Times. The 71-year-old stands accused by two dozen dancers of verbal and physical abuse as well as using his power to extort sexual favors. "I have denied, and continue to deny, that I have engaged in any such misconduct," he wrote in a letter to the board informing them of his retirement, a copy of which was seen by the Times. "We thank Peter for his tremendous contributions to New York City Ballet as ballet master in chief for over three decades, leading the Company to exceptional artistic heights and accomplishments," board chairman Charles W. Scharf said in a separate statement ... More | |
Jean‐Baptiste‐Camille Corot, Baptism of Christ (Study for the painting in the church of St. Nicholas-du-Chardonnet, 1844-45. Oil on canvas, 21 x 16 3/4 in.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Today La Salle University announced that its Board of Trustees has approved the deaccession of 46 artworks from the Universitys Art Museum collection of over 5,000 pieces. Proceeds from the deaccession will help fund initiatives from the Universitys five-year strategic plana blueprint for La Salles sustainable and vibrant future, and a pathway to enhanced student experience and outcomes. The Art Museum will continue its robust pedagogical mission across a wide array of academic disciplines, as well as its service to its neighbors in the surrounding community and throughout the region. Christies has been selected by La Salle to handle the sale of the artworks at auction which is tentatively scheduled to occur from March 2018 through June 2018. Information about the 46 artworks being de-accessioned is available at the Art Museums collections ... More |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts displays four loaned paintings by Aaron Douglas | | Exhibition presents a thrilling journey through the fantastic world of Walt Disney | | Exhibition of works by Richard Hamilton on view at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea |
Aaron Douglas, Portrait of Marian Anderson, 1940.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts is displaying four works by renowned painter, illustrator, muralist and arts educator Aaron Douglas, who is considered the quintessential visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance. The paintings are on loan from Wilson A. and Deborah F. Copeland of Detroit and Lauren F. C. N'Namdi of Miami, Florida and will be on view for at least a year. The paintings, on view in one of the the African American art galleries, are: Portrait of Marian Anderson, 1940; Back Yard Garden, 10th Street, Wilmington, Delaware, 1944; Study for Haitian Mural, Wilmington, Delaware, 1942; and 1st study for mural in the home of Dr. W. W. and Mrs. Grace Goens in Hockessin, Delaware, 1963. The opportunity to display these remarkable Douglas paintings for the benefit of our visitors is a result of the museum reaching out to our generous local collectors. They are willing to share their trea ... More | |
Robin Hood, 1973. Disney Studio artist concept art. Gouache marker and ink on paper. © Disney Enterprises Inc.
SEVILLE.- In its cultural programmes, la Caixa Foundation focuses particularly on forms of artistic expression that have played a key role in shaping the contemporary sensibility. This line of action has given fruit in the shape of exhibitions devoted to the world of film, which, with photography, is the among the most characteristic genres in twentieth-century art. The Foundation has devoted major retrospectives to such great names in the world of cinema as the directors Charles Chaplin, Federico Fellini and Georges Méliès. Other initiatives include collective projects like The Cinema Effect. Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image and Art and Cinema. 120 Years of Exchanges, which explored the links between the cinematic art and the fine and visual arts. Particularly outstanding in this firmly-established line of programming ... More | |
Richard Hamilton, Swinging London 67 (d), 1968-69 (detail). Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 84.46 cm. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
SEOUL.- Richard Hamilton: Serial Obsessions is the first show dedicated to Hamilton in Korea to celebrate UK/Korea 2017-18, a year-long project. Born in London in 1922, Hamilton is one of the UKs most influential artists who observed modern society from a unique perspective and visually reinterpreted it in the mid to late 20th century. Serial Obsessions is a survey of a particular kind. Organised around specific groups or series of works drawn from the broad narrative of Richard Hamiltons career, the exhibition unfolds as a series of close-ups from six successive decades, from the 1950s all the way through to the 2000s. The subjects of these groups and series could hardly be more different, ranging as they do from toasters and flowers to pop stars and political prisoners, but the cumulative effect of the exhibition is to show a recurring ... More |
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| New monograph series titled "Collections in Focus / National Palaces / Sintra Queluz Pena" launched | | Exhibition explores the compositional tendencies of 19th century American quilts and abstract works | | Two world records and $10+ million in vintage poster sales at Heritage Auctions in 2017 |
Portrait of a young nobleman: a knight of the Order of Calatrava © PSML | Photo: e.m.i.g.u.s photography.
SINTRA.- This new publishing project, distributed in English, Portuguese and Spanish, represents an Open Access initiative from Parques de Sintra -Monte da Lua, designed to convey the results of recent research, studies and discoveries on the objects, characters and events surrounding the collections of the Royal Palaces of Sintra, Queluz and Pena (Portugal). The "Collections In Focus" project is open to contributions from both recognised and emerging external researchers, invited for that purpose, from the academic, museum and heritage world. The content in this series of monographs is intended as much for researchers and scholars as it is for students interested in the history of the collections of the National Palaces of Sintra, Queluz and Pena in the hope that it may provide a stimulus and basis for future research. The first monograph of "Collections in Focus", richly ... More | |
Victoria Manganiello, El Trifinio, 2015. 9 x 12 x 6 ft.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sara Kay Gallery is presenting Function to Freedom: Quilts and Abstract Expressions, on view until January 27, 2018. The exhibition explores the compositional tendencies of 19th century American quilts and abstract paintings, drawings and sculptures by women artists and the socio-political climate in which they were made. Function to Freedom features approximately twenty handwoven quilts in brightly colored materials from rich velvets to feed sacks alongside an exceptional selection of abstract works by Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, and Louise Nevelson. The exhibition will highlight the likeness of composition and freedom of expression shared by both mediums and periods. In 19th century America, women were relegated to domestic roles and had fewer opportunities to pursue artistic endeavors. Quilting had the tendency to be viewed as a passive, practical ... More | |
The only known surviving Italian issue movie poster from 1946 for Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1946) sold for $478,000.
DALLAS, TX.- Setting two world records and tallying more than $10 million in sales of rare and vintage posters maintained Heritage Auctions dominance in the vintage poster field in 2017. The year marked a 27 percent increase in total sales over 2016. The firm set a world record for the most valuable movie poster ever sold at auction when one of just two surviving copies of the style A poster for the 1931 horror classic Dracula (Universal, 1931) sold for $525,800 in November. The sale came on the heels of another world record set in July 2017 when the only known surviving Italian issue movie poster from 1946 for Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1946) sold for $478,000. The sale matched Heritages world record price from November 2014 for an only-known 1927 copy of the poster for London After Midnight (MGM, 1927). ... More |
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| Studio KO: A monograph published by Rizzoli New York | | Aperture Foundation exhibits works from the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017 | | Major group exhibition 'The Return of Memory' on view at HOME, Manchester |
The book features a selection of projects including the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh.
NEW YORK, NY.- Studio KOs name resonates with the timeless and pure aesthetics of the architects duo Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty. A refreshing modernist design composed of rough materials such as stone, wood or forged metals, rejecting the « smooth » to emphasize the effect. The monograph opens on the Yves Saint Laurent Museum. Inaugurated in October 2017 and dedicated to the fashion designers work, the museum was commissioned by Pierre Bergé who signed a beautiful preface. It continues with a selection of Studio KOs most beautiful villas, under the light and heat of exceptional places in Morocco or South of France. The Villas stand as monolithic and peaceful structures. Stone and glass fit together to create a play of light with the outside. The photographs capture the contrasts of a minimalist architecture perfectly fitting the landscape. Among the agency clients appear Francis Ford Coppola, André Balazs, Marella Agnelli as well as fashion ... More | |
Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, Well, 2013. © Taiyo Onorato/Nico Krebs, Courtesy of the artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with The Photographers Gallery and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, is presenting the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017, featuring works from the shortlisted artists: Sophie Calle, Awoiska van der Molen, duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, and this years winner, Dana Lixenberg, who was awarded the prize, worth £30,000 GBP, in May of last year. This marks the first exhibition of the prize in the United States. The twentieth iteration of the prize, one of the most prestigious international arts awards, celebrates established photographic narratives alongside experimental and conceptual approaches to documentary, landscape, and portraiture. A jury including Susan Bright, curator; Pieter Hugo, artist; Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, curator of photography at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Anne-Marie Beckmann, director, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation; and ... More | |
Victoria Lomasko, The Daughter of an Artist Decorator, 2017. Photo: Lee Baxter.
MANCHESTER.- Unofficial histories, suppressed memories and strategies of resistance all converge in our new major group exhibition, which seeks to readdress the legacy of the Russian Revolution on its centenary by exploring how contemporary artists are responding to the state of the "New East" today. Rather than a nostalgic look at the past, new commissions and existing works re-activate and repurpose key emblems and stories of this pastfrom the avant-garde and revolution to the collapse of the Communist system and ideologyaddressing key questions around the concept of The Return of Memory, curated by Anya Harrison, Sarah Perks and Olya Sova. Key commissions include a major multi-disciplinary project on St Petersburg's Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industryone of the world's largest seed banksand the future of food security and evolution by Callum Cooper. Ruslan Vaskevich's video installation Victory Over the Sun reassesses the ... More |
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Oxford University Press publishes 'Baroque between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918-1939'
OXFORD.- Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating and new account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by modernism, yet the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque - eclectic, playful, camp, open to influence from popular culture yet in dialogue with the past, and unafraid of the grotesque or surreal - and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, exclusive, and essentially neo-classical. Jane Stevenson argues that both baroque and classical forms were equally valid responses to the challenge of modernity, by setting painting and literature in the context of 'minor arts' such as interior design, photography, fashion, ballet, and flower arranging, and by highlighting the social context and ... More
Audience becomes the art in live installation
MELBOURNE.- The audience becomes the art at the NGV Triennial with Jerusalem-born artist Einat Amirs Coming soon near you. The artist has created a living room where visitors to the NGV Triennial are invited to bring their favourite video, from DVD to VHS, to watch live on TV within the exhibition space in this installation. In an Australian premiere, Coming soon near you explores human interactions, shares universal moments of family, friends and community, and collapses the boundaries between private and public. Audiences both share and witness typically private domestic moments, munching on provided snacks while they watch their own (G & PG rated) material in the exhibition space, from reminiscing about old VHS home videos with family through to re-watching cherished or classic DVD series with friends. Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV, said Einat Amirs interactive ... More
Brand new installation by the transdisciplinary artist Jompet Kuswidananto on view in Belgium
MONS.- The MAC's is presenting On Paradise, a new transdisciplinary installation by the artist Jompet Kuswidananto, housed in the museums main square hall. Archive documents, videos and inert or animated objects, sound and light appeal to the viewers senses, transporting them, in two steps, into the midst of the poetic evocation of a historical event. The aesthetic experience is also an invitation to reflect on wider history. The artist has agreed to answer our questions about the visual art he has practised for twenty years, in which he also combines the fruit of his experiences as a musician and theatre man. An eclectically trained, polyvalent artist who lives and works in Yogyakarta (Java) where he was born in 1976, Jompet Kuswidananto remains profoundly attached to Indonesia and rendering its turbulent history, which he first studied through a university ... More
World & ancient coin sales hit $49 million in 2017 at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- High-profile sales in World & Ancient Coins propelled one of Heritage Auctions' fastest-growing categories to $53 million in sales in 2017, a 13 percent increase over 2016. World & Ancient Coins started the year with its highest-grossing auction to date when more than $15.5 million changed hands in January 2017. "The growth in World & Ancient Coins is significant and is energizing Heritage's global expansion," said Cristiano Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of Heritage Auctions. "Offices in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and our latest office in London are all expanding the level of service we can provide clients in this increasingly diverse marketplace." Heritage's expansion to London added experts Max Tursi and Nicholas Mathioudakis to the category in September. Specialists in world coins, the two also have extensive experience in ancient coins and ... More
Manifesta 12 Palermo biennial concept unveiled: The Planetary Graden. Cultivating Coexistance
PALERMO.- Manifesta 12 presents The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence, the concept explores coexistence in a world moved by invisible networks, transnational private interests, algorithmic intelligence and ever-increasing inequalities through the unique lens of Palermo a crossroads of three continents in the heart of the Mediterranean. Closely collaborating with Palermitan partners, Manifesta 12 will co-inhabit Palermo as a laboratory to investigate the challenges of our time and look for traces of possible futures. Throughout history, the City of Palermo has been a laboratory for diversity and cross- pollination, shaped by continuous migration. In the 1875 painting by Francesco Lojacono, View of Palermo (in the collection of the GAM Museum in Palermo), nothing was indigenous. Olive trees came from Asia, aspen from the Middle East and ... More
Canadian Cultural Centre exhibits works by Marie-Claire Blais
PARIS.- This exhibition of the work of a rising figure on the Canadian contemporary art scene will be the last one held at 5 rue de Constantine before the Canadian Cultural Centre moves to Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. It brings together a group of works representing a reflection on space and place, focusing on the passage. The choice of exhibition in itself constitutes a symbolic act exploring the issues raised by a place, the Canadian Cultural Centre, itself imbued with a symbolic dimension in which the cultural and the political are, inevitably, closely intertwined. An artist who had trained as an architect and with a special passion for the study of landscape, Marie-Claire Blais explores the field of the visible as the expression of our relationship to the world. She analyzes the superficiality or complexity of this field, unpicks its thread, then invites us to enter secret worlds that ... More
ACCA Melbourne presents 'Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism'
MELBOURNE.- The second in ACCAs series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary arts relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society. Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practicesincluding painting, performance, photography and film to community engagement and cultural activismthe exhibition focuses upon the dynamic formal invention and social engagement of feminist artists. It explores strategies and analyses of gender identity and representation, intersectional politics, and practices which embrace performative codes, text and media technologies, humour and critique. Adopting a collaborative, polyphonic form which encourages diverse voices, practices ... More
The Kunstverein in Hamburg presents a solo exhibition by Rayyane Tabet
HAMBURG.- The Kunstverein in Hamburg is presenting the solo exhibition by Rayyane Tabet. In his primarily sculptural works, Rayyane Tabet (*1983 Achkout, lives in Beirut) explores the connection between minor histories and major events through form and material. He blends official accounts with personal stories to draw attention to unknown narratives. The exhibition BRUCHSTÃCKE / FRAGMENTS focuses on the history of the Syrian settlement of Tell Halaf discovered by German diplomat and Orientalist Max von Oppenheim. Tabets great-grandfather, Faek Borkhoche, worked for a period of six months as von Oppenheims secretary during his 1929 expedition. Tabets activities resemble those of an archaeologist, as he reconstructs the material remains of the Tell Halaf temple, makes rubbings of basalt stones, assembles carpet fragments and military tents. The ... More
Daniel Neumanns second exhibition with Fridman Gallery opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents CHANNELS, Daniel Neumanns second exhibition with the gallery. Neumann arranges audio technology artifacts a giant 56-channel mixing board suspended vertically in mid-air and a unique custom-built vintage speaker into a durational installation performing itself. Shifting the gallery hours into the evening, Neumann frames the work somewhere between an exhibition, a screening and a concert. The sonic materials of the installation consist of 56 purely electronic sounds lines that underwent various types of processional feedback on site. The abstract sounds are channeled into the physical space of the gallery to produce an immanent concrete sound field. Thus, there are actually three sculptural objects in the show: the giant mixing board, the vintage speaker, and a 3D sound field. The single speaker, with ... More
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty creates inspired, site-specific work for Ackland Art Museum
CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has commissioned its first major site-specific, outdoor art installation in nearly 20 years: a stickwork sculpture by Chapel Hill-based artist Patrick Dougherty entitled Step Right Up. The large-scale work was constructed on-site over a three-week period, and is made entirely of tree saplings. It is on view 24/7 in front of the Ackland Art Museum at 101 South Columbia Street in downtown Chapel Hill. Patricks five individually-shaped sculptures act as carnival barkers of sorts, summoning the public to step right up and enter the Ackland to experience the wonders inside, said Ziglar. The art on view in the Museum includes a 2,000-year-old Iranian earthenware, animal-shaped pouring vessel that the artist acknowledges was a key inspiration for these works. Doughertys Step Right Up follows the Ackland ... More
First solo exhibition in Austria by Thomas Bayrle on view at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
VIENNA.- Oversize! A superform comprised of countless iPhonesiPhone meets Japan (2017)in the MAK Columned Main Hall is the central work and at the same time the prelude to the first institutional solo exhibition in Austria by the German draftsman, graphic designer, painter, and sculptor Thomas Bayrle (* 1937). Under the title If Its Too LongMake It Longer, after a quote by the architect Eero Saarinen (19101961), Bayrlewho explores contemporary mediadevelops a narrative around the interaction between communication design, the individual, and society. In the framework of the exhibition, Bayrle shines a light on the MAK Collection using the example of objects that have had a formative influence on the conceptual collection of exemplars at this institution, which was ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German-French painter August Macke was born January 03, 1887. August Macke (3 January 1887 - 26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). He lived during a particularly innovative time for German art: he saw the development of the main German Expressionist movements as well as the arrival of the successive avant-garde movements which were forming in the rest of Europe. In this image: August Macke, Landschaft mit hellem Baum, 1914. Aquarell uber Bleistift, 22.2 x 30.9 cm. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett. Photo: bpk, Jorg P. Anders.
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