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Louvre-Lens opens first international exhibition with works by painter Peter Paul Rubens |
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Visitors look at the oil painting Self-Portrait by Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens (1628-1630) at the Louvre-Lens museum in Lens during the latest exhibition. AFP PHOTO PHILIPPE HUGUEN.
LENS.- Born near Cologne, living in Antwerp after a long period in Italy, and active in the courts of Spain and England, Rubens (1577-1640) was an artist of European dimension. A renowned artist but also a diplomat, letter writer and entrepreneur, his work was very much determined by the European context in political, social, religious and economic terms. The first international exhibition at the Louvre-Lens aims to shed light on Rubens’ time through over 170 works by the artist, by his models and by some of his contemporaries, from the Louvre’s collections and from leading European and American museums. Reflecting the European artistic culture that mattered to Rubens, the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, sculptures and decorative arts. It aims to reproduce the dynamism of Rubens’ creative output and conveys the spectacular nature of his inspiration. It also offers a few ... More |
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| Belize City officials say ancient thirty-meter high Mayan pyramid razed for road fill |
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National Gallery of Art pays tribute to Edvard Munch through celebrated works on paper from the collection |
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The central role of the Eucharist in the Middle Ages is explored in exhibition at the Morgan |
A power shovel next to the Maya pyramid after a construction company owned by a local politician demolished it. AFP PHOTO/JULES VASQUEZ.
BELIZE CITY (AFP).- A construction company owned by a local politician demolished a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple in northern Belize to use the rubble as gravel for road repair work, authorities charged. The ancient 30-meter (yard) high pyramid, which was reduced to a small mound of debris, was part of the Noh Mul ceremonial center located 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Belize City near the border with Mexico. "This total disregard for Belize's cultural heritage and national patrimony is callous, ignorant and unforgivable. This expressed disdain for our laws is incomprehensible," Tourism and Culture Minister Tracy Panton said on Belize's Channel 7 television late Tuesday. The archeological complex, like all pre-Columbian ruins, was under the protection of the state even though it was located in a privately owned sugar cane plantation. Noh Mul was the center of a Mayan community of 40,000 people in the third century before the Christian era. The pyramid's destruction was discovered at the ... More |
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Edvard Munch, The Sick Child, 1894 (printed 1895). Drypoint on thick cream paper. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection© Munch Museum/Munch Ellingsen Group/ARS, NY 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch, Norway’s most famed painter and printmaker, with an exhibition of more than 20 renowned works from the Gallery’s collection. On view from May 19 through July 28, 2013, on the Ground Floor of the West Building, Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute includes Geschrei (The Scream) (1895), The Madonna (1895), and a unique series of six variant impressions, Two Women on the Shore (1898). “In recent decades the National Gallery of Art has presented three major exhibitions of Munch’s work, the last in 2010,” said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. “We are pleased to bring together these stellar prints and drawings to celebrate this milestone." Edvard Munch (December 12, 1863–January 23, 1944) both absorbed and influenced the work of innumerable artists throughout the world. He is today revered for his ... More |
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Pope Leo Prepares for Mass, from “Preparatio ad missam of Pope Leo X,” in Latin. Italy, Rome, 1520. Illuminated for Pope Leo X by Attavante degli Attavanti. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; MS H.6, fol. 1v. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977. Photo: Graham S. Haber.
NEW YORK, NY.- When Christ changed bread and wine into his body and blood at the Last Supper, he instituted the Eucharist and established the central act of Christian worship. For medieval Christians, the Eucharist (the sacrament of Communion) was not only at the heart of the Mass—its presence and symbolism also wielded enormous influence over cultural and civic life. Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art, on view May 17–September 2, 2013, explores how artists of the period depicted the celebration of the sacrament and its powerful hold on society in more than sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts drawn from the Morgan’s renowned collections. Included among the masterpieces will be the Hours of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, one of the greatest of all illuminated manuscripts; the Preparation for Mass of Pope Leo X, which ... More |
| National Gallery of Canada opens largest-ever global survey of contemporary Indigenous art |
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Theaster Gates creates a new large-scale installation for Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art |
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Great English furniture: Rare pieces from important American private collections at Mallett |
Brian Jungen, Nicotine, 2007. Carved gallon gasoline jug, 45.75 × 33.25 × 11.5 cm. Private collection, London© Brian Jungen Studio. Photo courtesy of the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York.
OTTAWA.- Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, the largest-ever global survey of contemporary Indigenous art, opened Friday at the National Gallery of Canada. On view until September 2, 2013, the exhibition features over 150 poetic, unexpected and challenging artworks by more than 80 artists from 16 countries and six continents. Sakahàn, meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples, is organized by the National Gallery of Canada, supported by the RBC Foundation, and sponsored by CN. In addition, Sakahàn partners. present exhibitions in spaces in the Ottawa-Gatineau region and across the country. The artworks presented in Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art range from videos and installations to sculptures, drawings, prints, paintings, performance art, murals and new, site-specific projects created specifically for this exhibition. Employing distinct approaches that reflect their ... More |
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Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Huguenot House, 2012. Installation view, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany. Image courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO I BERLIN.
CHICAGO, IL.- 13th Ballad, an installation by Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates, is an extension of the artist’s 12 Ballads for Huguenot House, which was co-produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago for dOCUMENTA (13), the international art exhibition in Kassel, Germany. For 13th Ballad, Gates creates a new large-scale installation in the MCA’s Kovler Atrium that comprises objects and materials from the Huguenot House, along with a monumental double cross sculpture and carved wooden pews which create an ecclesiastical ambience to suggest that art museums, like churches, are sites of pilgrimage and thoughtful contemplation. 13th Ballad is accompanied at the MCA by a series of collaborative performances and is on view from May 18 to October 6, 2013. The exhibition is coorganized by Michael Darling, MCA James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator, and Kristin Korolowicz, ... More |
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A rare George II Master’s Chair, almost certainly made for the Anti-Gallican Society, England c1750. Walnut, height 70in (175cm), width 33in (84cm), depth 30in (76cm).
LONDON.- A major exhibition of English furniture which has been in important American private collections for many years is to be held by Mallett, one of the world’s leading antique dealers, at Ely House, 37 Dover Street, London W1 from 20 May to 1 June 2013. Great English Furniture will celebrate the skills of some of the best furniture makers in history and also provide an opportunity for collectors to buy pieces which have not been on the market for at least a quarter of a century. Highlights of the exhibition will include a magnificent Master’s Chair, probably made for an anti-French society in the 18th century and one of only two known examples, an exceptional giltwood trophy attributed to Sefferin Nelson and made for the Prince Regent’s opulent home at Carlton House in London, a rare William and Mary cocus wood cabinet and an elaborately carved Chippendale period carved giltwood mirror. The majority of the pieces ... More |
| New exhibition takes visitors on a journey through Romare Bearden's Black Odyssey Series |
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Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986-1995 on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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Spun: Adventures in Textiles explores the extensive world of fiber art in a campus-wide exhibition |
Romare Bearden (1911–1988), Circe, 1977. Collage© Romare Bearden Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Courtesy DC Moore Gallery.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art presents Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, an exhibition of nearly 50 artworks by Romare Bearden (1911–1988), one of the most powerful and original artists of the 20th century. The collages, watercolors and prints in the exhibition are based on Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey,” the ancient story of the Greek hero Odysseus’s journey home to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. The exhibition is the first full-scale presentation of these works outside of New York City and is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey is on view at the Amon Carter through August 11, and admission is free. In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer’s poem—arguably the definitive work of classical mythology—and African-American culture by depicting Homeric character ... More |
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Jeanne Dunning, The Edge, 1993-96. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of the Susan and Lewis Manilow Collection of Chicago Artists. © 1993-96 Jeanne Dunning. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago presents the latest installment of the ongoing exhibition series featuring iconic works from the MCA Collection, MCA: DNA Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986-1995, organized by MCA Curator Lynne Warren and on view May 18 to September 29, 2013. The broad range of works – from painting and photography, to sculpture and installation – use diverse modes of abstraction to convey complex ideas about art history, social issues, and identity. Taken together, the work of this generation of artists formed an important art historical movement, certainly the most distinctive since the work of the Chicago Imagists in the 1960s. Chicago art-making had long been strongly figural and representational. The early 1980s marked a major change in the Chicago art scene as the city’s art ... More |
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Gallery view of Red, White and Bold: Masterworks of Navajo Design, 1840–1870, at the Denver Art Museum--part of the museum’s campus-wide summer exhibition, Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Photo courtesy Denver Art Museum.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum takes a wide-ranging look at textiles from pre-Columbian weavings to modern fiber art, Navajo blankets to an examination of clothing in art and photography in the campus-wide exhibition Spun: Adventures in Textiles, on view May 19–September 22, 2013. The museum-wide show is in celebration of the DAM’s new textile art galleries, which also were unveiled today. The inaugural exhibition in the new gallery space, Cover Story, features approximately 60 objects from the museum’s textile art collection that explore the myriad ways that textiles envelop, embellish and enrich human lives across centuries, continents and cultures. Spun draws from collections throughout the museum as well as loans and interactive on-site creations—for example, an ever-growing crochet coral reef — ... More |
| Solo exhibition by the German artist Günter Umberg opens at A arte Studio Invernizzi |
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Alex Hubbard's second solo exhibition with Maccarone gallery on view in New York |
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Columbia Museum of Art announces contemporary exhibition by South Carolina based artist |
Günter Umberg, Territorium 20A, 2012, 2013. A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, 2013. Photo: Bruno Bani, Milan.
MILAN.- The A arte Studio Invernizzi gallery opened a solo exhibition of the German artist, Günter Umberg. As has been the case of the previous exhibitions held in the gallery since 1996, also on this occasion the artist has specifically ideated an exhibition plan in which the corpus of works is considered in relation to the exhibition space. By way of a coherent artistic approach Günter Umberg very personally interprets and investigates the theme of the monochrome with the result that his works acquire the status of fully corporeal entities, concrete and accomplished conditions, inextricably forming part of the context of the real and of lived experience. The first room of the gallery's upper floor exhibits the work Territorium 20A, 2012, 2013 made up of six works ordered and placed on the walls so as to create a definite space suited to perceptive experience, in this way creating a dialogical connection between the works ... More |
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Hubbard presents seven new "bent paintings".
NEW YORK, NY.- Maccarone announces Magical Ramón and The Five Bar Blues - Alex Hubbard's second solo exhibition with the gallery, on view April 23 - June 1, 2013. Hubbard presents seven new "bent paintings", pigmented urethane casts of a single trash painting which the artist contorts into sculpture in seven different ways, via an intricate heating process involving a home-made oven. Scattered throughout the gallery, some are sandwiched between or strung along walls, while others act more modestly as floor sculpture. Hubbard's latest video piece Hit Wave II, a collaged tableau of simultaneous, multi- directional actions slices together a carnival cruise ship, various studio props, images and sounds of the local sensation Magical Ramón, and the artist himself painting against a limitless backdrop. Five glib portrayals of current painting, framed in gold and lit by cast abalone-shell sconces, punctuate the installation. Finally ... More |
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Saida XXX: Venetian Blue, 2012. Acrylic on 60 canvases.
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art organizes and presents the first retrospective exhibition of the art of Steven Naifeh. Found in Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh opened on Friday, May 17 and remains on view through Sunday, September 1, 2013. The 26 large-scale works of modern art reflect Naifeh’s personal taste, preferences and attitudes about geometric abstraction that developed over the span of 40 years. It is hardly surprising that Naifeh’s childhood in the Middle East educated his eye to the rigorous forms of Arab and Islamic art. The artist was born in Iran, the son of American diplomats. He spent his childhood in a succession of Foreign Service postings spread across three continents in the Islamic world. Enriched by his Lebanese heritage and his time living in the Islamic and Arab worlds, Naifeh has shown an extraordinary ability to integrate the influences of these distant and timeless cultures into the glob ... More |
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 Jonathan VanDyke's second solo exhibition with Scaramouche opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Scaramouche presenting The Painter of the Hole, Jonathan VanDyke's second solo exhibition with the gallery. VanDyke's new work evolves from his wall-mounted and free-standing sculptures, first exhibited at Scaramouche in 2009, that "perform" as they continuously drip paint directly onto the floor, and from his many recent live performances, in which actors and dancers move silently for hours while paint drips upon them and passes from body to body. The works offer signifiers we associate with painterly process - canvas, stained and marked with color, appears in objects and is represented in photographs - yet VanDyke has pushed and pulled painting in such a way that these signifiers are displaced. Undoing media-specific boundaries, VanDyke re-orients modernist conventions, conflating painting with fiber arts, fashion, dance, textile design, and photography. ... More Musical world celebrates Wagner's 200th birthday
(BAYREUTH).- Opera houses the world over are scrambling to pay tribute to Richard Wagner, the controversial German composer often referred to as Hitler's favourite, who would have turned 200 this year. More has purportedly already been written about Wagner than any other artist and composer in history, but publishers are churning out countless new biographies, critical studies and books. Magazines and daily newspapers are bursting with reviews, interviews and articles, while a plethora of new and re-issued recordings jostle for attention. In the run-up to this week's bicentenary, all the world's leading opera houses -- including the Met in New York, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Bastille in Paris and Vienna State Opera -- have unveiled new stagings of Wagner's opus magnum, the 16-hour-long, four-opera "Ring" cycle. In Germany, which boasts around 80 opera ... More Three dimensional wall reliefs and sculptures Richard Anuszkiewicz on view at David Richard Gallery
SANTA FE, NM.- David Richard Gallery is presenting Richard Anuszkiewicz, Variations: Evolution of the Artist’s Media 1986-2012, the gallery’s first solo exhibition for the artist that features three-dimensional artwork, including wall reliefs and pedestal sculptures. The exhibition is being presented from May 10-June 15, 2013 at the gallery Featuring sculptural works accompanied by drawings and paintings, the exhibition maps the evolution of Richard Anuszkiewicz’s art from 1986 through 2012 as he moves out of the purely two-dimensional plane and explores visual perception and three-dimensional space with the greatest economy of means, using only thin strips of wood or metal that are painted with just two or three carefully selected hues. Creating reductive structures, he takes advantage of a well known phenomenon in which the viewer’s mind completes the minimal constructs, ... More New York legend John Giorno exhibits at Kit Schulte Contemporary Art in Berlin
BERLIN.- Kit Schulte Contemporary Art presents New York legend John Giorno as a poet and an artist. As a key figur of the New York Beat Generation and Performance artist, John Giorno is best known for his work as a poet. In 1965 he founded the Giorno Poetry Systems, which focussed on using new technologies for Music and Poetry Performances. One of the legendary work was Dial-A-Poem, where people could listen to a vast selection of poems (700 from 55 poets) at any time of the day or night via telefone. Among the many voices were those of his close friends such as William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, Keith Haring, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe. Being influenced by the close relationship with Andy Warhol (Giorno was the protagonist of Andy Warhol’s “Sleep”), Robert Rauschenberg ... More Leroy Neiman memorial exhibition opens at Franklin Bowles Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- LeRoy Neiman, America’s favorite artist who died in 2012, had a truly extraordinary career. For decades he mingled freely with the great achievers, entertainers, and sports celebrities of our times—from Hugh Hefner and Frank Sinatra to Muhammad Ali. Since the early 1970s, Franklin Bowles Galleries has been there with LeRoy, bringing his colorful, emblematic images of American culture to art collectors around the world. The gallery believes that LeRoy Neiman captured the essential character and dynamic energy of the people he depicted better than any other artist of his generation, and that he will be fondly remembered for that achievement for generations to come. Franklin Bowles Galleries celebrate the life and legacy of LeRoy Neiman with a Memorial Exhibition this year. The galleries honor this remarkable American artist with a major exhibition of his ... More Hugo Crosthwaite's twenty six studies for CARPAS on view at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Luis De Jesus Los Angeles presents Hugo Crosthwaite: Studies for CARPAS in the Project Space. The exhibit opened May 18 and runs through June 29, 2013. Hugo Crosthwaite's twenty six Studies for CARPAS were created in preparation for his CARPAS installation that will be presented at the forthcoming inaugural California-Pacific Triennial, curated by Dan Cameron, opening June 30 at the Orange County Museum of Art. In Mexico and the Southwestern United States, the carpa (Spanish for "tent") theater flourished during the 1920s and '30s. The material presented in the carpas was highly satirical and frequently political in nature, and brought the popular concerns and spirit ignored by official society into performance, improvising comic routines on such topics as the high cost of living, political scandals, and treacherous political leaders. Hugo Crosthwaite (Mexico, ... More Unique DB4GT sets new Aston Martin auction record at £3.2 million at landmark Bonhams sale
LONDON.- The Bonhams auction at the Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, UK, on Saturday 18th May set a new world auction record price for an Aston Martin in the marque’s centenary year, with the unique 1960 DB4GT ‘Jet’ Coupe selling for £3,249,500 ($4,928,679). The 14th annual sale of Aston Martin and Lagonda motor cars was also a landmark success for Bonhams, realising its highest ever total of £10 million. A large crowd of enthusiasts of the Aston Martin marque filled the saleroom to see many lots achieve well above their top estimates. The multiple-award-winning Jet was the star, attracting intense interest from bidders in the room and on the telephones, with bidding escalating at increments of £100,000 at a time. The car was the last off the production line and is a complete ‘one-off’ with coachwork by Italian design house Bertone. In 1960 Aston Martin ... More |
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CC (June 14, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was a Canadian architect
and urban planner. He studied Asian languages at the University of
British Columbia, and later earned a degree in architecture from
McGill University. Most of his buildings are modernist concrete structures
designed to respond to the natural conditions of their locations,
especially climate. Many buildings, such as the Museum of Anthropology
in Vancouver, are inspired by the post and beam architecture of the
Coastal First Nations. In this image: Academic Quadrangle, Simon
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 stands next to his Sphere de Journaux (the Newspapers Sphere), a giant ball made of newspapers, as he rolled through the streets of Paris from the Louvre Museum to the Monnaie De Paris, on May 18, 2013 in Paris, during the 2013 European Night of the Museums. The event was launched in 1999 in France and other European countries have joined in since 2005. AFP PHOTO / GUILLAUME BAPTISTE.');)
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 is reflected on a glass cabinet with dresses who belonged to her, displayed at the main hall of the Evita Museum in Buenos Aires on May 16, 2013. The exhibition Evita: Passion and Action will be shown in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from May 24 to June 7 after being presented in 2012 in New York. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL GARCIA.');)
 by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle on October 12, 2011 in Chaumont, eastern France. This piece is one of the fourteen modern masterpieces which were displayed from October 18 until January 15, 2012 in Chaumont. Alain Seban announced on May 17, 2013 that nomad Pompidou Centres exhibitions will end in September 2013 due to lack of funds. AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI.');)
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 high pyramid, which was reduced to a small mound of debris, was part of the Noh Mul ceremonial center located 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Belize City near the border with Mexico. AFP PHOTO/JULES VASQUEZ/HO.');)
