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The Quai Branly Museum in Paris exhibition focuses on the universal theme of hair
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A visitor looks at paintings displayed during the exhibition entitled "The art of Hair frivolities and trophies" (Cheveux Chéris, frivolités et trophées) at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. The event takes place until July 14, 2013. (R) A painting by Atala Varcollier featuring Chilpéric 1er, ing of Francs (1837); (L) a painting by Bezard Jean-Louis (1799-1881) featuring Clotaire 1er, king of Francs. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD.
PARIS.- At the crossroads of Anthropology, History of classic and contemporary Art, fashion and customs, the Cheveux Cheris exhibition focuses on the universal theme of hair and brings together approximately 250 classic paintings, sculptures, photographs and ethnographic and multimedia items on that topic. The exhibition thus evolves from a youthful frivolity to the inevitable occurrence of loss, through age and violence, towards mourning and memory, thereby questioning our categories based on a universal experience. In many civilizations, the bust sculpture captured the presence and authority of gods and of the powerful in three-dimensional image. In the 19th century, great artists such as Charles Cordier produced bronze busts, presenting a ‘noble’ vision of different cultures. If we take a closer look at the back of the statues and at the hair, we discover a different ... More |
| "Aphrodite and the Gods of Love" opens at the San Antonio Museum of Art |
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Edvard Munch's The Scream to go on view at the Museum of Modern Art on October 24 |
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Sotheby's to present Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings Autumn Sale |
Statuette of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, Greek or Roman, Eastern Mediterranean, 1st century BC – 1st century AD. Marble, H. 16 15/16 in. (43 cm), w. 11 7/16 in. (29 cm). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Frank B. Bemis Fund, 1986.20
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The first female nude. The first kiss. Beauty, marriage, children, myth—Aphrodite played a leading role in all of it. Her story and image have been a vibrant part of Western art for more than 2,500 years. Aphrodite and the Gods of Love is the first exhibition to consider how visual representations of Aphrodite evolved across antiquity—an evolution that serves as a key to understanding her complex identity. While best known as the goddess of love and beauty and a catalyst of the Trojan War, to the ancient Greeks (and Romans, who knew her as Venus), Aphrodite was much more: seductress, instigator of desire, mother, wife, lover, patroness of brides, seafarers, warriors, and civic leaders. All of this is revealed through different media—sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, votives, mirrors—in this groundbreaking exhibition. Organized by the Museum ... More |
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Edvard Munch. The Scream. Pastel on board. 1895. © 2012 The Munch Museum/The Munch-Ellingsen Group/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Edvard Munch's iconic The Scream (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24. Of the four versions of The Scream made by Munch between 1893 and 1910, this pastel-on-board from 1895 is the only one remaining in private hands. The three other versions are in the collections of museums in Norway. The Scream is being lent by a private collector, and will be on view at MoMA through April 29, 2013. "As an iconic image, The Scream has garnered worldwide attention for its stark portrayal of the human condition," said Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art. "For the Museum's visitors, this will be a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary work of art." "The startling power of Munch's original work endures almost despite the image's present-day ubiquity," noted Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée ... More |
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Lee Man Fong, Fortune and Longevity, 1951, 86 x 260 cm. Estimate: HK$12 million / US$1.54 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby’s Hong Kong will present its Southeast Asian Paintings Autumn Sale 2012 on 7 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The auction will bring to market an exceptionally strong line-up of modern masterpieces, many of them fresh-to-market with an emphasis on impeccable provenance, rarity and quality. Rounded off by some of the finest examples in Contemporary Southeast Asian art, the collection represents the original, the eclectic, the cutting edge, and the timeless. Offering more than 150 works, the sale is expected to fetch in excess of HK$45 million / US$5.8 million*. MOK Kim Chuan, Sotheby’s Head of Southeast Asian Paintings, said: “This Autumn, Sotheby’s is proud to present a sophisticated array of outstanding works by prominent Southeast Asian modern masters, amassed from prestigious private collections around the world. This attests Sotheby’s leading position ... More |
| Exhibition of recent paintings by Karin Kneffel on view at Gagosian Gallery in New York |
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"Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past" opens at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art |
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Musée Maillol presents first exhibition devoted exclusively to Canaletto's Venetian works |
Karin Kneffel, Untitled, 2011 (detail). Oil on canvas. 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 inches. © Karin Kneffel. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Robert McKeever.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Karin Kneffel. This is her first exhibition with the gallery. Kneffel addresses the threshold between interior and exterior, and real and fictive space through a sophisticated play on reflectivity, opacity and transparency. Seaming together heterogeneous spaces and times in a flawlessly executed, seductively realist manner, she paints pictures that are perfectly constructed impossibilities. Although many of her sources actually exist, her image is first and foremost a surface, highlighting painting’s simultaneous ability to uphold and destroy illusions. In these mannered pictorial spaces, Kneffel’s superb painting technique moves between materialization and dematerialization. On a quadruple—grounded canvas, she applies up to four layers of oil paint with the finest brush. Like veils, each covers the entire surface. Should she deci ... More |
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Bruno Munari, T (design for an advert for the magazine Campo Grafico), 1935. Mixed media, 25 x 18 cm. Courtesy Massimo & Sonia Cirulli Archive.
LONDON.- The exhibition Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past, on view at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art from 19 September to 23 December 2012, aims to investigate the activity of one of the most complex, creative and multi-faceted figures of Italian 20th century art. It will analyse Munari’s aesthetic development from his initial Futurist phase (around 1927) to the post-war period (up to 1950) when, as one of the founders of the Movimento Arte Concreta, he became a point of reference for a new generation of Italian artists. It will also illustrate how his pioneering work exerted an influence that stretched far beyond the borders of his native country. Bruno Munari was born in Milan in 1907, and lived and worked there until 1998, the year of his death. He began his career within the Futurist movement and was considered by F. T. Marinetti to be one of its most promising young exponents. From the very ... More |
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Antonio Canal dit Canaletto, L'escalier des Géants du Palazzo Ducale, 1755-1756. Huile sur toile, 174 x 136 cm. Grande Bretagne/ Alnwick, © Collection of the Duke of Northumberland.
PARIS.- The Musée Maillol pays homage to Venice with the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Canaletto’s Venetian works. The exhibition will be presented in partnership with the Foundation of Venice Civic Museums which is preparing to put on a Francesco Guardi retrospective at the Correr Museum in Venice to mark the 300th anniversary of that Venetian painter’s birth. Canaletto in Venice will be an exclusive occasion for visitors to enjoy the master’s vision of his city, brought to life through his paintbrush. Along the canals we discover places, islands, squares and monuments, views of a city that still retains its 18th-century charm. The Venetian painter certainly didn’t invent the veduta, or detailed cityscape, a genre that has ancient origins, but he helped to develop it by giving his paintings a modernity that allowed him to overtake his masters. Canaletto (1697-1768) is ... More |
| Mannheim's Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen exhibition shows the world's first photograph |
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Edelman Arts presents a fragrant bouquet of "Electric Blossoms," by Torkil Gudnason |
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Vivian Maier's Chicago work presented at larger-than-life scale at the Chicago History Museum |
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Blick aus dem Fenster in Le Gras, 1826 (detail). Reproduktion Helmut Gernsheim. © Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Forum Internationale Photographie.
MANNHEIM.- “The Birth of Photography: Highlights of the Helmut Gernsheim Collection”, a special exhibition at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim’s Forum Internationale Photographie, showcases two centuries of the history of photography. In homage to the groundbreaking photographer Helmut Gernsheim (1913-1995), the exhibition on the occasion of his 100th birthday reunites both parts of his one-of-a-kind collection of photographs for the first time in half a century. One of the most exceptional highlights of the history of photography is on display – the “first photograph in the world”, a landscape photograph taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826. With a total of 250 objects, the exhibition from September 9, 2012 through January 6, 2013 takes an unprecedented look at 19th and 20th century photography and its different stages – visitors are able to follow the development of photography ... More |
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Torkil Gudnason, Hothouse 002, 2009. Hahnemuhle fine art photorag 308 gsm matt smooth paper, 45 ½ x 35 ¼ in (115.6 x 89.5 cm). Ed. 3/25.
NEW YORK, NY.- Torkil Gudnason's crisp, sexy, fantastical photographs have made him one of the most compelling and influential photographers of our time. In his study of flowers, Torkil once more coaxes fresh, unexpected dimensions from a classic subject. Flowers have been willing models for artists throughout time - the "original symbol," as Torkil puts it. Canonical flower photographs tend to portray flowers as gorgeous exemplars of purity, distilled color and form. We look, we admire, if from a distance. Iconic images by Edward Weston, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Karl Blossfeldt, Imogen Cunningham, and Irving Penn come to mind. Torkil takes the photography of flowers one feverish step further - seeming to jump from behind of the camera and into the flowers - capturing their floriferous essence from the inside. With his flowers, as is true in all of his work, there's a delirious undercurrent beneath the pure, angular surfaces, a magical something that transforms his images i ... More |
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The exhibition invites visitors to take a walk through a maze of over 35 hanging 4-foot by 4-foot prints designed to surround visitors. Photo: ©Vivian Maier/ Jeffrey Goldstein Collection.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Chicago History Museum has brought to life Chicago as seen by photographer Vivian Maier. For the first time Maier’s Chicago work is being presented at larger-than-life scale, vividly documenting Chicago places and faces in the loop, the city’s west side and the northern suburbs during the 1960s and 70s. "We consider it a privilege to be the first public museum to showcase Vivian Maier’s work," said Gary T. Johnson, president, Chicago History Museum. "Chicago is a place that can be seen from millions of different perspectives and these images paint a portrait of the city unlike any other." The exhibition invites visitors to take a walk through a maze of over 35 hanging 4-foot by 4-foot prints designed to surround visitors in the Chicago Maier knew in the 1960s and 1970s. Along the perimeter wall of the exhibition is a continuous frieze comprised of film rolls from18 journeys Maier made in ... More |
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| Love and Other Matters: Servet Kocyigit solo exhibition on view at RAMPA in Istanbul |
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Ashmolean mounts retrospective exhibition covering all aspects of Edward Lear's career |
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Many Wars: Photography by Suzanne Opton provides a new look at veterans through penetrating portraits |
Servet Kocyigit’, Night Shift, 2012 (detail). Lightbox, 120 x 180 cm. Photo: Courtesy RAMPA.
ISTANBUL.- Servet Kocyigit’s solo exhibition titled, “Love and Other Matters,” is being hosted by RAMPA through October 20. The exhibition includes his recent works and some works presented in Turkey for the first time. The central questions in the exhibition are how romanticism is perceived, how emotion gets socialized and culturalized (through gender). In Kocyigit’s artistic approach, the fields in which aspects of womanhood and manhood contradict each other, function as a conceptual bridge between himself and his audience. Having a direct relationship with the domestic life in Turkey, the everyday and domestic culture, these works –taking into consideration their open-ended structures– transform in this exhibition into a semantic map composed of personal codes that reflect back onto the audience. This solo exhibition, which aims at representing Kocyigit’s long-term process of artist ... More |
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Edward Lear, Macrocercus Aracanga or Red and Yellow Macaw from ‘Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae or Parrots’, 1830–32. Closed book 51 x 37 cm© Alexander Library of Ornithology, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The bicentenary of the birth of Edward Lear is being celebrated with events and exhibitions throughout the English-speaking world. As the home of the largest and most comprehensive collection of his work in the UK, the Ashmolean is mounting a retrospective exhibition covering all aspects of his career. From early natural history illustrations and extraordinary landscape sketches, to the nonsense drawings and verses for which Lear is so well known, the exhibition presents 100 works of art from the Ashmolean’s own Lear collection and important loans from the Bodleian Library and works from private collections, many of which will go on public display for the first time. Edward Lear is one of the most notable artists and popular writers of the Victorian period. ... More |
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Suzanne Opton (American, b. 1954), Mike Brennan—The Cold War, 2009. Chromogenic print, 50 x 40 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art presents Many Wars: Photography by Suzanne Opton. In this new exhibition, the acclaimed photographer portrays veterans who served our country in World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The exhibition opens September 19 and will be on view through December 30, 2012. Admission is free. Opton’s are not typical military photographs. There is no action, no heroics, no gore, no glory. They are penetrating, personal portraits of former soldiers, now uniformly draped with a textured cloth. Some pose theatrically, defiant and proud. Several shroud themselves like ancient prophets with an understanding beyond their knowing. Others, visibly vulnerable, cloak their pain. For her latest body of work, Opton worked closely with a group of veterans being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder at a ... More |
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 Kunsthal Rotterdam opens exhibition of never-before-exhibited drawings by Aristide Maillol
ROTTERDAM.- The Kunsthal Rotterdam is presenting a delightful overview of work by the French sculptor Maillol (1861-1944). After an absence of one hundred years and with twenty monumental sculptures, Maillol comes back to Rotterdam. Maillol's first exhibition outside his native country was organised by the Rotterdam Art Circle in 1913. In addition to sculptures, the retrospective includes ten outstanding and never-before-exhibited drawings, and several early and late paintings and studies. Photographs, diary excerpts, texts and films complete this portrait of the artist. Contrary to his contemporary, Rodin, who concentrated on creating male nudes, Maillol is known primarily for his monumental female figures. He examined many different positions, materials and forms, taking inspiration from early classical sculptors but combining this with a modern take on shape, rhythm and style. He ... More Saint Louis Art Museum announces sculpture commission by artist Andy Goldsworthy
SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the commission of Stone Sea by world-renowned British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy. The sculpture will be located in a new courtyard that joins the Museum’s Cass Gilbert-designed Beaux Arts Main Building and the new East Building designed by renowned British architect Sir David Chipperfield set to open on June 29-30, 2013. In developing this major installation for the Museum, the artist drew inspiration from St. Louis geology and, particularly, the city's underlying base of limestone. Aware that limestone formed in prehistoric times when the Midwest was covered by seawater, Goldsworthy is installing arches to produce a sense of fluidity reminiscent of the sea. “The scope and complexity of the work reflects Goldsworthy’s long career as a sculptor making ephemeral and permanent work with material drawn from nature,” said ... More Solo show of works by Ayuko Sugiura on view at London's WW Gallery
LONDON.- The WW Gallery presents a solo show of works by Ayuko Sugiura. Working with sculpture and installation, Sugiura presents the viewer with a series of new skins, whether these are patterns projected onto a surface, layers of silicone, or tokens of identity; these illusory and visceral second skins present the viewer with an opportunity to question the invisible and intrinsic components of our cultural identity. Examining the instinctual nature of religion in contemporary culture, Sugiura uses arches, crucifixes and icons as the basic structure for many of her sculptures. These references, estranged from their context, become as difficult to identify as the influence of Christianity in daily modern life. The contemporary invisibility of faith; a sense of a belief in something whose shape and form we cannot identify, and who we can no longer give a name to, drives Ayuko Sugiura ... More Two new videos by Alix Pearlstein on view at On Stellar Rays
NEW YORK, NY.- On Stellar Rays is presenting two new videos by Alix Pearlstein, The Drawing Lesson and Moves in the Field, in the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. A third related video, Light, will be on view in the gallery office. In her new work, Pearlstein exploits acts of spectatorship among individuals, isolating a dialectical engagement of movement, observation and reception. Moves in the Field refers to elements of figure skating that emphasize basic skills and edge control, or more broadly, a set of progressively difficult skill tests. Working with a group of actors, Pearlstein employs a similar approach. By means of a core set of instructions, she directs schematic interactions to highlight the moments when the psychological and the spatial overlap. The anti-spectacular situation, seemingly devoid of narrative or contextual cues, activates a range of potential scenarios ... More Catherine Opie participates in Socrates Sculpture Park's newest installment of ongoing billboard series
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Socrates Sculpture Park announced the presentation of Untitled (Stump Fire #4) by artist Catherine Opie. Opie’s image, 11’ x 28’, on view at Socrates Sculpture Park through March 31, 2013 and is the newest installment of the Park’s ongoing Broadway Billboard series. For Socrates Sculpture Park’s Broadway Billboard, Opie has created a mise-en-scène of epic scope, drama, and mystery. Nature and artifice, light and darkness are just some of the contradictory elements of Opie’s image that create an ominous tableau for us to contemplate. Neither a warm hearth, nor regenerative forest fire, we discover it is liquid, not wood, which is ablaze. The log stumps in the foreground are Opie’s own handmade clay sculptures, which further heightens the surrealism of the scene. The image hovers between an apocalyptic figment of our imaginings and the possibility of nature ... More "Beyond the Frame: Spatial Composition After Lucio Fontana" at Contemporary Wing
WASHINGTON, DC.- In 1949, the Italian painter Lucio Fontana began taking a knife to his paintings, stabbing and slashing through the stretched canvas. Through this act of creative destruction, Fontana sought to free painting from the traditional limitation of its frame and symbolically opened it into the great beyond of universal space. In recognition of the fifty year anniversary of Fontana’s premier in the United States, Contemporary Wing is presenting BEYOND THE FRAME, which juxtaposes Fontana’s canvases with the work of three emerging artists, recent MICA graduates Micheal Cor, Toym Imao and Ali Miller, who also fashion objects that go over, behind and beyond the frame of traditional painting. The show is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalog, with interpretive essays written by Mike Maizels, a doctoral candidate in the History of Art at the University of Virginia and a predoctoral ... More Philly pizza museum serves up slices, memorabilia
By: Kathy Matheson, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- How much does Brian Dwyer love pizza? Let us count the ways: He holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of pizza memorabilia; he has a caricature of himself, eating pizza, tattooed on his back with the phrase "Totally saucesome!"; and he is the driving force behind Pizza Brain, which he describes as the nation's first pizza museum. The quirky but unassuming establishment that Dwyer just opened with three partners in Philadelphia is part art gallery, part eatery. It's a place to enjoy a slice or two of artisan pie while gawking at pizza-related photos, records, knickknacks and videos. "We thought it was a funny idea, and we started doing some research," Dwyer said. "And when we discovered that nowhere on earth was ... More |
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