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Installation view of Lee Bul, Willing To Be Vulnerable - Metalized Balloon, 2015-2016 at Hayward Gallery, 2018 © Lee Bul 2018. Photo: Linda Nylind.
LONDON.- Opening Wednesday 30 May, Southbank Centres Hayward Gallery presents an ambitious exhibition of work by one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists from Asia, Lee Bul (born in 1964 in Seoul, South Korea). Taking over the entire Hayward Gallery, this exhibition the artists first major solo show in London brings together 118 of her works from the late 1980s to the present day in order to explore the full range of her pioneering and highly inventive practice. Throughout her career, Lee Bul has received international recognition for her imaginative and provocative work. She draws on diverse sources that include science fiction, 20th century history, philosophy and personal experience, whilst making use of deliberately clashing materials that range from the organic to the industrial, from silk and mother of pearl, to fibreglass and silicone. Shaped by her experience of growing up in South ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An employee poses with the marriage licence of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton, later Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge 2011 during the press launch of the The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey in London on May 29, 2018. BEN STANSALL / AFP
| Exhibition at Hausler Contemporary features geometry as an artistic source of inspiration | | Alicia Koplowitz donates painting by Luis Paret y Alcázar to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum | | Artist forces French ministry to remove graffiti star's homage | 
Mary Heilmann, Red Cracky, 1990. Oil on canvas, 152 x 106.5 cm / 59 7/8 x 41 7/8 inches.
ZURICH.- Häusler Contemporary announces a group exhibition focusing on arts handling of geometrical form elements since post minimalism. Works by selected guest artists and gallery-own positions illustrate the engagement with geometry as an artistic source of inspiration be it by adopting, trying to overcome or reinterpreting its formal language. Our gallerys focus being post-minimalist tendencies and its heritage, we keep on encountering artworks in which the softening of rigid, geometric norms plays a role. This important point of friction in recent art history shall now be considered in a group exhibition of gallery artists and guests entitled »Negotiating Geometry«. Mary Heilmann and Keith Sonnier developed their work in New York in the 1960s and 1970s, when many artists were aiming to overcome the strict laws of minimalism. Heilmann (* 1940, San Francisco, US, lives in New York, US) succeeded ... More | | 
Luis Paret y Alcázar (Madrid, 1746-1799), The Triumph of Love over War, 1784. Oil on canvas, 82 x 160,5 cm. Donated by Alicia Koplowitz in 2018.
BILBAO.- The collector Alicia Koplowitz has donated a painting by Luis Paret y Alcázar (Madrid, 1746-1799) to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. It will be presented to the public within the context of the exhibition 110 Works 110 Years as a tribute to the generosity and philanthropic spirit of the individuals whose donations have contributed over the years to the creation and growth of the collection. With this donation the museum has increased its already outstanding representation of the artist's work, comprising eight paintings: The Divine Shepherd (1782); View of Bermeo (1783); The Triumph of Love over War (two lunettes forming a pair) (1784); View of El Arenal in Bilbao(1783-1784); Scene with Villagers (fragment) (1786); View of FuenterrabÃa (fragment) (1786); and The Virgin Mary with the Infant Christ and Saint James the Greater (1786). These ... More | | 
In this file photo Daniel Buren unveils permanent artwork 'Diamonds and Circles' commissioned by Art on the Underground at Tottenham Court Road Station, London. Photo: David Parry/PA Wire.
PARIS (AFP).- The maker of France's most famous modern public artwork has forced the country's culture ministry to take down a piece of street art it had put up next to it. Veteran artist Daniel Buren, whose 260 candy-stripy columns at Palais Royal were once themselves condemned as a carbuncle, objected to the temporary work which was meant to be a homage to his own. The ministry confirmed that it had taken down the striped posters put up by Parisian graffiti artist Le Module de Zeer. He had covered the 17th-century colonnade around Buren's work with black and white horizontal stripes, which were meant to be "in dialogue" with Buren's vertical ones. But the 80-year-old, who has brought the state to court in the past for not properly looking after his work, said that he had not been informed and demanded they be taken down. ... More |
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| Westminster Abbey unveils gallery in area closed for 700 years | | Death row art: a rare glimpse inside Vietnam's secret jails | | Elysée Museum presents the first study of the photographic collection kept at the Dubuffet Foundation | 
A member of staff prepares the Coronation Chair of Queen Mary II 1689 during the press launch of the The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries in Westminster Abbey in London on May 29, 2018. BEN STANSALL / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A space on top of London's Westminster Abbey that was once used for storage has been turned into a new gallery with a spectacular view on the nave that opens to the public on June 11. The space was intended for chapels that were never built and has been closed to the public ever since it was built 700 years ago. Late poet John Betjeman referred to the space, 16 metres (52 feet) above the abbey floor, as having the "best view in Europe". The "Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries" are accessible through a lift and 108 steps built inside a new tower -- the biggest architectural change to the historic abbey since the 18th century. "The views are breathtaking. The space astonishing. The displays fascinating," said Reverend John Hall, Dean of Westminster. The gallery will display 300 treasures from the abbey collection, including a 13th-century altarpiece, the oldest ... More | | 
This picture taken on April 24, 2018 shows Nguyen Truong Chinh displaying portraits of his son and death row inmate Nguyen Van Chuong during an interview with AFP at his home in Hai Duong. Nhac NGUYEN / AFP.
HANOI (AFP).- Nguyen Truong Chinh proudly holds up intricately crafted animals, flowers and hearts -- secret gifts made from plastic bags by a son on Vietnam's death row. The palm-sized creations that his son and other inmates have furtively made and smuggled out of their solitary cells offer a rare glimpse of prison life in Vietnam, believed to be one of the world's leading executioners. They're also an emotional lifeline for desperate parents fighting to free the children they say have been wrongly convicted. "Any time we receive the gifts from my son I feel like he's here with me, like he's come back home," Chinh told AFP, clenching his jaw to hold back tears. His 35-year-old son Nguyen Van Chuong, convicted of murdering a police officer a decade ago, is one of a handful of prisoners known to have made the artwork that is officially banned on death row. The families suspect they made the ... More | | 
Jean Dubuffet Wolf Slawny (photographe), Tour aux figures, novembre 1967 © Fondation Dubuffet / ProLiterris, 2018.
LAUSANNE.- This exhibition presents the first study of the photographic collection kept at the Dubuffet Foundation, in relation to the artists work (paintings, sculptures or elements of the Coucou Bazar show). From the beginning of his artistic activity in the 1940s, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) invented a system of photographic referencing and, from 1959, he undertook to organize a secretariat responsible, among other things, for documenting all his works scattered throughout the world, with a view to constituting a catalogue raisonné which would be published in the form of fascicles between 1964 and 1991. This collection of several thousand phototypes (negatives, prints, albums) is part of the artists ambition to constitute an exhaustive documentary collection of his work, both in the service of his current work and its controlled distribution. It reveals Dubuffets attention to the quality of photographic reproductions and the technical progress of the ... More |
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| Former Hong Kong prison reinvented in heritage push | | Dutch Pavilion seeks to foster new forms of creativity and responsibility within the architectural field | | Social Facades: Exhibition offers a dialogue between the MMK and DekaBank Collections | 
A man his his photo taken in front of a mock mug shot wall in Victoria Prison, a former colonial prison and police station colloquially known as Tai Kwun, or "big station", on its opening day to the public in Hong Kong. Anthony WALLACE / AFP.
HONG KONG (AFP).- A former colonial prison and police station in Hong Kong welcomed the public into sunny courtyards and art spaces Tuesday as the city tries to undo its reputation for prioritising development over heritage. The multi-million renovation project saw the overhaul of the complex built by the British between the mid-19th and 20th centuries which housed the city's first jail -- Victoria Prison -- as well as its central police station and court buildings. Colloquially known as Tai Kwun, or "big station", former Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh was among those jailed there in the 1930s. Opening its doors to the public for the first time since the renovation, visitors roamed through former prison cells which have been preserved and converted into an interactive museum. Other parts of the 16-building ... More | | 
Simone C. Niquille. Dutch Pavilion Work, Body, Leisure 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE. Photo: Daria Scagliola
VENICE.- With the title Work, Body, Leisure, the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia addresses the spatial configurations, modes of living and notions of the human body engendered by disruptive changes in labor ethos and conditions. The project, commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut and curated by Marina Otero Verzier, includes contributions by a group of architects, artists, designers, historians, musicians and theorists selected by the curatorial team and through a number of open calls. This collaborative endeavor seeks to foster new forms of creativity and responsibility within the architectural field in response to emerging technologies of automation. A domain of research and innovation that, despite its ongoing transformation of the built environment and bodies that inhabit it, is still largely devoid of a critical spatial perspective. ... More | | 
Cerith Wyn Evans, Acephale, 2001 © Cerith Wyn Evans, Courtesy the artist, DekaBank Kunstsammlung. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- The exhibition Social Facades at MMK 1 of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst presents the collections of the DekaBank and the MMK in dialogue with one another. The exhibition title Social Facades was adopted from a work by Isa Genzken in the DekaBank collection. It also stands for often idealized social and political constructs that are reflected in works of art. In a period of fundamental change, marked by overarching problems such as environmental pollution and the new challenges to existing social structures that have accompanied urbanization and a transition from outmoded cultural ideals, the exhibition interrogates how artists address these phenomena. The presented works reveal what takes place behind the facade of globalizations notion of unchecked progress. For example, in her film Beijing (2008), which was shot during the precisely staged Olympic Games, Sarah Morris shows the ... More |
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| Anthea Hamilton joins Thomas Dane Gallery | | Matthew Barton Ltd to offer the largest collection of mask Netsuke to come to auction | | Alberto and Diego Giacometti to highlight June 6 Auction of Design and Art at Doyle | 
Anthea Hamilton, Leg Chair (Sushi Nori), 2012. The Hepworth Wakefield. Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 2015. Photo: Doug Atfield.
LONDON.- Thomas Dane Gallery announced its representation of Anthea Hamilton (b.1978). Over the past twelve years Hamilton has developed a highly individual and idiosyncratic language encompassing sculpture, photographic images and performance. Hamilton's work is often the result of research into a diverse range of subjects and source materials, manifesting in objects that suggest themselves as theatrical sets, props, costumes or installations that place the viewer implicitly within the reading of the work. Hamilton lives and works in London. She was the subject of a solo presentation at SculptureCenter, New York, in 2015. In 2016 she was nominated for the Turner Prize and also undertook a major exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield (Anthea Hamilton Reimagines Kettle's Yard), selecting works from the Kettle's Yard collection, and also using these objects as starting ... More | | 
MB Shojo, by Matsuki Hokei, late 19th century, tsuishu lacquer, signed 'Hōkei', 4.5cm high. The artist is a master of carving in solid red lacquer. Peter E. Müller Japanese Mask Collection No.32. Estimate: £2000-2500.
LONDON.- Matthew Barton Ltds highly anticipated twice-yearly auctions of European and Asian Works of Art are a draw for collectors of sought after objects from all corners of the globe; his next two-day sale on the 6th and 7th June showcases the prevailing quality and singularity of pieces in a variety of disciplines. In the Japanese section of the Asian Works of Art Auction on the 6th June, there will be a collection of 195 mask netsuke assembled by retired entrepreneur and Japanophile Peter E. Müller of Switzerland. The high-quality collection demonstrates the diversity of Japanese masks in mostly wood, with some lacquer, stag antler, pottery, iron and one amber. It has been catalogued and curated for the auction by Max Rutherston, specialist in Japanese Netsuke & Works of Art ... More | | 
Nicolas Carone (1917-2010), Untitled (detail), Signed, Oil on Masonite, 18 x 22 inches. Est. $7,000-9,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Wednesday, June 6 at 10am, Doyle will hold the popular Doyle+Design auction showcasing furniture, design and art by prominent designers, makers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This exciting sale presents design that has transformed the way we use living spaces while questioning where we draw the line between fine art and furniture and decorative objects. Swiss sculptor and designer Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) often rendered animals in bronze and incorporated them into his furnishings. Le Chat Maître dHôtel is a popular form that he cast for clients throughout the 1960s. As is often the case with his works, this utilitarian object combines elegance with whimsy (est. $80,000-120,000). Diegos brother, sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), collaborated extensively with Parisian interior designer Jean-Michel Frank creating objects that Frank incorporated into his projects. One such example ... More |
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 New website of La Fondation Gandur pour l'Art launchesGENEVA.- The Fondation Gandur pour lArt, faithful to its mission of making art accessible to all, has launched a new website reflecting its in-depth thinking process on how best to present works of art in the digital realm and make the best use of its curators expertise. This new, dynamic and highly visual site is intended as a reference tool for students, researchers, art and exhibition curators and the general public. Part of the collections can now be explored in images and text and visitors can browse between extensive notes and news from the Foundation. The new site already features more than 350 works and objects drawn from the FGAs four collections (Archaeology, Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Ethnology), and this figure is set to double by the end of the year. Each collection is introduced by the Foundations curators, who provide expert presentations ... More SOFTlab participates in Data & Matter exhibition at 2018 Venice Architecture BiennaleVENICE.- The GAA Foundation and the European Cultural Centre present Data & Matter, a group exhibition of projects by leading international designers, including New York-based design studio SOFTlab. The exhibition focuses on the use of emerging and novel forms of reading and producing spatial conditions that connect/visualize data, responsive systems, and sensing/actuation technologies, through micro and macro scales. Data & Matter takes the opportunity to exhibit a range of projects, side by side, that transform data as an abstraction into spatial and experiential configurations. It aims to trigger discussion and debate on how the use of data in design methodologies and theoretical discourses have evolved in the last two decades and why processes of data measurement, quantification, simulation, ubiquitous technologies and algorithmic control, and their ... More The Baltimore Museum of Art opens Ann Veronica Janssens: Fog Star in the Spring HouseBALTIMORE, MD.- The interior of The Baltimore Museum of Arts neoclassical Spring House will be transformed with light, haze, and color as part of a special installation by Brussels-based artist Ann Veronica Janssens. On view from May 30 through October 31, 2018, Ann Veronica Janssens: Fog Star is the newest work in the artists series of Fog Star installations that explore the shifting nature of perception. We are delighted to reopen the BMAs Spring House with this vibrant and captivating installation by Ann Veronica Janssens, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. Her atmospheric work will provide visitors a completely new experience of this historic building. Designed around 1812 by U.S. Capitol architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, the Spring House moved from the Oakland estate in Roland Park to the BMA in 1932. During museum ... More Collective knowledge of nature is the underlying idea of the Polish PavilionVENICE.- Architecture amplifies the work of natural forces; being part of nature, it doesnt exist without it. The way man tries to inhabit the world depends on how much the planet Earth sustains life through forces such as light, gravitation, or water circulation, say the authors of Amplifying Nature. In the exhibition at the Polish Pavilion they show how architecture becomes a translator of phenomena on a planetary scale, demonstrating that circumstances such as rainfall, geological history, or the seasons have found their expression also in local, modernist designs conceived in post-WWII Poland. In this way, the show indicates the universal character of natures embededness in the societal and societys in the natural. The projects authors draw the viewers attention to an embodied knowledge of the world, chronobiology, interpreting architecture through the prism of living orga ... More Film premiere prop from Peter Cushing's 1965 Daleks movie at auctionHASLEMERE.- When Peter Cushing stepped into the Doctors shoes to fight the Daleks in the 1965 film Dr Who and the Daleks, this one of two versions of the Tardis created for the film. However, instead of appearing in the film itself, its chief purpose was to serve as a prop at the films premiere, with the cast emerging from it as the media arrived. Now it has been consigned to Ewbanks auctioneers of Send in Surrey where it is one of the highlights of the Entertainment & Memorabilia auction on May 31. The estimate is £8,000-12,000. Inside is a release plaque stating that it was removed from Shepperton in 1965 and many years later re-built by the BBC prop department for use at Children in Need 2009 at the Leicester Space Centre. There is a video online of it entering the building for Children in Need. It has also been signed on the inside by Jennie Linden, who ... More Philippe Parreno's exhibition at the Gropius Bau has various different modes of existenceBERLIN.- From 25 May to 5 August 2018, Berliner Festspiele/Immersion presents the first extensive solo exhibition in Germany by the French artist Philippe Parreno. Instead of a preview, published here is a review of an exhibition yet to take place by Zoe Stillpass. Written on Thursday 15th March 2018, the author reflected on the different modes of existence that the show would have, imagining what Parreno might intend to do. Philippe Parrenos untitled solo exhibition at the Gropius Bau Berlin has yet to exist and will perhaps never exist as it is described here. This is not to say that it is any less real. To be sure, this show has many different modes of existence which, as of now, are purely virtual, sites of possibility which may or may not become actual. To date, the exhibition exists in various modes that have changed ... More National Gallery presents paintings by the artist Dag Erik Elgin in dialogue with works from the collectionOSLO.- This summer, visitors are being treated to a surprising and somewhat unusual exhibition on the first floor of the National Gallery, as paintings by the artist Dag Erik Elgin are being showcased in a dialogue with some of the National Museums most famous works of art. The title Museum Work refers both to the work that takes place at a museum and to the works of art that the museum possesses. The title alludes moreover to how Elgins paintings address the way art is presented and treated in museums. The exhibition opened 25 May. Museum Work will run until 9 September. Elgin has enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the National Gallerys art. At the museum, he has studied, learned, been inspired, and asked questions about what has been on display and what he feels has been missing. ... More Wunderkammern Milano opens a new show by American artist Aakash NihalaniMILAN.- Wunderkammern is presenting in Milan a new show by American artist Aakash Nihalani, Tilt. Aakash Nihalani (USA, 1986) lives and works in New York. In 2008 he obtained a BFA at Steinhardt School, New York University (NYU) and in 2012 he gained a residency from Lisa de Kooning at the Willem de Kooning studio in East Hampton, NY. Known internationally, he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in numerous countries including Saudi Arabia, India, United States, England, Italy and Hong Kong. Currently some of his works are visible at the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston (2017). The relationship of Aakash Nihalani with the urban architecture of New York was fundamental for his artistic development. The repetitive architecture of the city, its geometric shapes and its dimensions have attracted the artist who has begun to relate to it. The artist has ... More Georgia O'Keeffe Museum welcomes new Curator of Fine ArtSANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum welcomes Ariel Plotek, PhD, as its new Curator of Fine Art. We are very excited to have Dr. Plotek join our dynamic team of curators, says Cody Hartley, Senior Director, Collections and Interpretation. He brings outstanding museum experience, as well as an enthusiasm for education and connecting diverse audiences. Plotek shares the excitement. I am thrilled to join the Museum and make the move to New Mexico, a place that was so profoundly important to OKeeffe. He says, I look forward to beginning a new and exciting chapter. Dr. Ploteks studies and career have been international in scope. He has an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and completed his BA honors at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. He has held a variety of museum and teaching positions at institutions that include th ... More Two exhibits on Japanese manufacturing and car culture open at Petersen Automotive MuseumLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Petersen Automotive Museum opened an exhibition titled The Roots of Monozukuri: Creative Spirit in Japanese Automaking. The exhibition illuminates key elements of Japanese design philosophy in the years preceding its climb to market dominance in the 1970s. In contrast, Fine Tuning: Japanese-American Customs examines the rise of Japanese car customization in both the home market and the United States and how the two markets influenced each other to redefine car culture. Located in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery presented by Rolex, The Roots of Monozukuri exhibit explores the theme of monozukuri, or "the art, science and craft of making things, and how it has led to the long-term success of the Japanese automotive industry. Each car exemplifies this theme by ... More 'The King of American Coins' spotlights Heritage's Long Beach Expo AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The Mickley-Hawn-Queller specimen, a Class I "Original" 1804 dollar considered "The King of American Coins" may set numismatic history as Heritage Auctions presents several high-value private collections as the official auctioneer of California's Long Beach Expo June 13-18. The multi-million dollar auction series exceeds 4,900 lots and includes one of the highest-valued, privately owned gatherings of U.S. type ever offered at a Long Beach event. "This could be a record-setting Long Beach event, the likes of which numismatics has not seen in years," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "It's always a thrill to offer the world's most famous coins alongside an already-stunning selection of private collections. That's not even including a very special announcement Heritage will make during the event." The Mickley-Hawn-Queller ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930. Robert Ryman (born May 30, 1930) is an American painter identified with the movements of monochrome painting, minimalism, and conceptual art. He is best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. He lives and works in New York. In this image: Robert Ryman, Untitled, signed and dated 61; signed four times and dated 61 three times on the overturned left edge, oil on canvas, 48 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. 123.7 x 123.7 cm. Est. $15/20 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
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