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Visitors look at a picture by French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) on display in an exhibition, entitled A Floating World Photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, at the CaixaForum in Madrid. The retrospective dedicated to Lartigue opened to the public on 04 March to 19 June. EPA/GUSTAVO CUEVAS.
MADRID.- Lluís Reverter, secretary general of ”la Caixa” Foundation, opened A Floating World. Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), accompanied by the exhibition curators, Florian Rodari, Martine d'Astier de la Vigerie. The exhibition was organised and produced by ”la Caixa” Social Outreach Programmes in cooperation with the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue, the body established to conserve and disseminate the donation that the photographer made to the French government in 1979, and which loaned all the pieces in the exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid. As part of its cultural programmes, ”la Caixa” Social Outreach Programmes focuses particularly on the most contemporary art, work created in the 20th and 21st centuries. In exhibitions devoted to the cinema cine and photography, ”la Caixa” seeks to illustrate the influence that images exercise on contemporary sensibilities and to h ... More |
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See Nero and Seneca by Eduardo Barrón "Converse" at the Prado Museum
Detail of Nero after restoration.
MADRID.- Visitors of the The Prado are able to contemplate the sculptural group Nero and Seneca (Eduardo Barrón, 1904) in room 74 and admire the result of the study and restoration process undertaken on the piece by the restoration department in coordination with the sculpture department of the Museum. Eduardo Barrón’s plaster and partly polychromed sculptural group of Nero and Seneca won the gold medal at the National Fine Arts Exhibition in 1904. The artist was also the author of the first catalogue raisonné of the Museo del Prado’s sculpture collection and the Museum’s curator and restorer of sculpture until his early death in 1911. Together with the particularly fragile nature of the plaster of which it is made, this meant that various fragments were missing and that it had generally deteriorated. As a result, its recent restoration at the Museum was a particularly complex operation. Eduardo Barrón ( ... More | | Rare Works of Art from the 1950s to the Present Go on View at Luxembourg & Dayan
Otto Muehl, Untitled, 1961, Wood, material, paint and cord on cardboard, 44 7/8 x 32 1/4 6 3/4 inches. Photo courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 3, 2011 Luxembourg & Dayan gallery unveiled the exhibition Unpainted Paintings, an international survey of more than two dozen extraordinary works of abstract art from the 1950s to the present that together reveal a continuous, if often underappreciated, strain of Modernism. For decades, artists have oscillated between loyalty to pictorial tradition and a desire to expand the boundaries of, undermine, or even attack the picture plane. Pushing the expressive potential of the non-conventional with such actions as burning, tearing, stitching, smothering, and soiling, the artists represented in this historical show range from Lynda Benglis, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jean Dubuffet, Raymond Hains, Sheila Hicks, Piero Manzoni, Otto Muehl, Blinky Palermo, Paola Pivi, Robert ... More | | Japanese Screens and Korean Ceramics Highlight Christie's Asian Art Week
A rare and important blue and white porcelain jar for the Korean Royal Court, Joseon Dynasty (18th century). Estimate on Request. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 23, Christie’s will present Japanese and Korean Art, which will include over 300 traditional and modern works of art. The Japanese section of the sale will feature a noteworthy group of classical screens of beauty, and the Korean section will offer an exquisite group of ceramics including a fine group of modern paintings. This spectacular sale will be one of the most valuable Japanese and Korean sales yet held in New York, with a value in excess of $14 million. The highlight of the Japanese Art sale is Southern Barbarians Come to Trade, a pair of six-paneled screens attributed to Kano Naizen (1570-1616) (estimate on request). The newly discovered screens have been stored away for four hundred years that they have not previously been published. They present a narrative of the dynamic ... More |
 | Jutta Koether: Painter, Performer, Participant at Moderna Museet in Stockholm
Jutta Koether, Berliner Schlüssel # 13, 2010 © Jutta Koether.
STOCKHOLM.- Jutta Koether is a painter, performance artist, musician, critic and theoretician. Her works incorporate distinct elements of punk and underground culture. The Thirst at Moderna Museet is Jutta Koether’s most extensive museum exhibition, and her first in Scandinavia so far. Her work has previously been shown at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Van Abbemuseum and Kunsthalle Bern. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York recently acquired a work by Jutta Koether for the permanent collection. During the exhibition at Moderna Museet, Jutta Koether will appear in her live performances with Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Tony Conrad. Jutta Koether, born in 1957 in Cologne, has belonged to the alternative arts scene for many years and has inspired artists in both Europe and the USA. Her interdisciplinary practice includes painting, music, poetry, film and performance. Jutta Koether works in New York and Berlin and ... More | | The Pace Gallery Presents a Sprawling Large-Scale Installation by Tara Donovan
Tara Donovan, Drawing (Pins), 2010, gatorboard, paint, and nickel-plated steel pins, 72" x 72" x 2-1/2" (182.9 cm x 182.9 cm x 6.4 cm) © Tara Donovan, courtesy The Pace Gallery. Photo by Kerry Ryan McFate/ Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with Tara Donovan: Drawings (Pins) at 510 West 25th Street (February 12–March 19), The Pace Gallery presents Untitled (Mylar), 2011, a sprawling single large-scale installation on view for the first time at 545 West 22nd Street from March 4 through April 9, 2011. In Donovan’s new installation, sheets of Mylar grow into towering organic structures of varying heights rising up to approximately 11 feet tall. As with the artist’s pin drawings on view at 510 West 25th Street, light plays a pivotal role in the work as it catches the folds of Mylar and radiates off its undulating metallic surfaces. The installation relates to Untitled (Mylar), 2010, recently acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of Art for their permanent collection, and is the first of its kind to be shown in New York City. ... More | | Light Sculptures Drawn from the Floor Plans of Iconic Skyscrapers at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Ivan Navarro, Abandon (Agbar), 2011 (detail), neon, wood, paint, Plexiglass, mirror, one-way mirror and electric energy, 35 1/4 x 39 x 6 5/8 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of new works by the Chilean artist Iván Navarro. Heaven or Las Vegas, featuring fluorescent light sculptures drawn from the floor plans of iconic skyscrapers, will be on view at 293 Tenth Avenue from March 3 to April 2, 2011. For Heaven or Las Vegas, Navarro’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist has created a series of fluorescent light wall sculptures based on the floor plans of twelve of the world’s most well known skyscrapers, including the Flatiron Building in New York, the Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai and The Center in Hong Kong. These monumental buildings were chosen for the ambitious innovations in design and engineering that were required to construct them and for their importance to the historical spread of Western-style development across the globe. Through a positioned play of mirrors and lights, viewers have the experie ... More |
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The Peanut-Butter Platform by Wim T. Schippers at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum personnel smears the floor with peanut butter, as they prepare the art installation 'Peanut-Butter Platform'. EPA/MARCO DE SWART.
ROTTERDAM.- An exhibition centred around the controversial ‘Peanut-Butter Platform’ by Wim T. Schippers opens during the Rotterdam Museum Night. This is the first time that the floor sculpture, which was recently acquired by the museum, has been exhibited in Rotterdam. The ‘Peanut-Butter Platform’ (1962) by Wim T. Schippers was acquired for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection in December 2010. From this spring, the floor will be on show in a presentation that includes other works by the artist from the collection, such as the floating stone, ‘Het Is Me Wat / And Now What’s Up’ (1999), and ‘Eggs’ (1966), a white carpet of interwoven swabs that is strewn with green eggs. Covering a floor with peanut butter is an example of the conceptual modus operandi of this artist, who through his art aims to show that in principle everything is meaningless and absurd, but is therefore worth t ... More | | Groundbreaking ROM Exhibition Explores Our World's Most Precious Natural Resource
A Bird-poop Frog, one of the many live animals to be featured in Water: The Exhibition © Royal Ontario Museum, 2011. All rights reserved.
TORONTO.- Want a living planet? Just add water. Opening March 5, 2011, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) displays Water: The Exhibition, presented by RBC Blue Water Project, a celebration of the power and wonder of this life-giving substance and a call to each of us to become stewards of our blue planet. A dramatic sensory and educational experience for visitors of all ages, Water uses cutting-edge technologies, multimedia installations, hands-on exhibits, live animals and cultural artifacts to illuminate the indispensable role water plays in our lives and the urgent need to protect it. Water is displayed in the Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall on Level B2 of the ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal until September 5, 2011. “The value of water to humanity physically, culturally and even spiritually cannot be overstated,” said Janet Carding, ROM Director and CEO. “Powerfully underscoring the ROM’s dual mandate of n ... More | | Carnegie Museum of Art Presents the Powerful Work of Candida Höfer and Cyprien Gaillard
Candida Höfer, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo XI, 2005. Chromogenic print, 81 3/8 x 71 7/8 in. Courtesy of Sonnabend Gallery.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents the powerful work of two contemporary artists—Candida Höfer and Cyprien Gaillard—who explore architectural environments and how they influence experiences and perceptions of the world. “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” With that simple but profound insight, Winston Churchill conveyed people’s complex relationship to architecture: The physical form of a building is controlled by its designer, but the impact a constructed environment has can be unpredictable, emotional, and even visceral. That dynamic is evident in the exhibition You Are Here: Architecture and Experience, which brings together the photographs of German artist Candida Höfer and a video and etchings by French artist Cyprien Gaillard. Both artists express the formative power of architecture in different but complementary ways, according to Tracy Myers ... More |
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Newark Museum Celebrates One Hundred Years of Collecting and Exhibiting Tibetan Art
Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) as Itinerant Teacher, Temple Restorer, Tibet, 18th-19th century. Colors on cloth, silk, wood, metal, 26 in. x 19. in. Edward N. Crane Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. E.N. and Mr. A.M. Crane, 1911 11.709
NEWARK, NJ.- The Newark Museum celebrates a 100-year milestone in 2011, the formation and exhibition of its internationally acclaimed Tibetan collection. Since the first group of 150 objects was initially displayed in 1911, the Newark Museum has become steward of one of the foremost holdings of Tibetan art in the world. Today the collection numbers more than 5,500 objects ranging in date of origin from the eleventh to the twenty-first centuries. Beginning in March 2011, the Museum embarks on a nine-month Tibet Collection Centennial honoring Tibetan art, culture and history. Celebration of the Tibet Collection Centennial at the Newark Museum coincides with the Tibetan New Year Festival of Losar. Katherine Anne Paul, Ph.D., Curator of the Arts of Asia and ... More | | Heads: A Group Exhibition Curated by Peter Selz at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco
Ann Gale, Self Portrait (2008). Oil and graphite on vellum, 13.5” x 11”. Photo: Courtesy Dolby Chadwick Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents announce Heads, a group exhibition curated by Peter Selz. This exhibition brings together a diversity of works that manifest the show’s title – and organizing theme –in unique and compelling ways. Artists exhibiting include Stephen DeStaebler, Edwige Fouvry, Sherie’ Franssen, Lucian Freud, Ann Gale, Patrick Graham, Gottfried Helnwein, Alex Kanevsky, Jim Morphesis, Nathan Oliveira and Irving Petlin. “The human head has been the inspiration for artists since time immemorial. And with its multifarious range of expressions remains an inexhaustible object for the painter and sculptor, open to unlimited formal investigation and infinite expressive interpretation. An increasing search for veracity led, in the early 19th century, to the invention of photography, creating doubt about the very survival of representational painting. Perhaps Sus ... More | | Civil Rights-Era Photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil
Dan Budnik, March On Washington. Martin Luther King Jr. moments after delivering his 'I HAVE A DREAM' speech, Lincoln Memorial, 1963 (Aug. 28)© Dan Budnik 1999. The Menil Collection, Houston, gift of Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil. Photo: Hester + Hardaway Photographers Fayetteville Texas.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Menil Collection presents The Whole World Was Watching, a selection of works from an extraordinary gift of more than 200 Civil Rights-era photographs from Edmund Carpenter and Adelaide de Menil. The exhibition will be on view for nearly seven months, from March 5 through September 25, at two venues: the Menil and the African-American Library at the Gregory School in Houston’s historic Freedman’s Town. Through the work of renowned photographers Bob Adelman, Dan Budnik, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, and Danny Lyon, the exhibition revisits
the profound social and political changes that swept the United States in the 1950s and 60s. These images document the nation’s ... More |
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 't Welvaren van Siparipabo': Rijksmuseum Acquires Surinamese "Occasional Glass"AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has acquired an extremely rare 18th-century glass engraved with a scene depicting the Surinamese sugar plantation Siparipabo and the text ‘t welvaren van Siparipabo’ [‘The Prosperity of Siparipabo’]. The magnificent, detailed engravings are partly polished. Once the Rijksmuseum’s main building reopens, the glass will be given a prominent place among the 18th-century works of art, telling the story of Surinam’s plantation economy. Plantation owners in Surinam and Europe used glasses such as these to toast the prosperity of their possessions; in this case, the prosperity of the Siparipabo sugar plantation in Surinam. The plantation is first mentioned on a map dated 1686, on which it is depicted adjacent to the River Commewijne. The glass was probably ordered at the beginning of the 18th century by the owner of the plantation, Catharina Marcus, widow of Willem Pedij d ... More Christie's to Present The Beauty of Art: An Exhibition of Modern Chinese Painter Shi LuNEW YORK, NY.- In conjunction with Asian Art Week (March 22-25), Christie’s New York will mount a rare presentation of one of 20th century China’s most distinctive artists, in the special exhibition The Beauty of Art: An Exhibition of Paintings and Calligraphy by Shi Lu in the Private Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth. Featuring forty paintings and calligraphy, which are presented for viewing only and are not for sale, The Beauty of Art will be shown March 15-31 in Christie’s Gallery 7 at 20 Rockefeller Plaza, Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The exhibition will be presented in a gallery guide. Shi Lu (1919-1982) studied traditional Chinese art during his youth in Sichuan, then joined Mao Zedong and the Communist forces and mastered the socialist realist style imported from the Soviet Union. Subsequently, he evolved an utterly distinctive style of frenetic brushwork, which he applied to traditio ... More Hamilton Family Gives $250,000: New Gift Links Denver Art Museum and University of DenverDENVER, CO.- Frederic C. and Jane Hamilton have donated $250,000 to the University of Denver (DU) in order to strengthen the link between DU’s School of Art and Art History (SAAH) and the Denver Art Museum (DAM). The program will advance students’ understanding of how artists and museums work together to present important international installations to the public. The gift will fund a visiting artist program for five years, two artists per year. Selected artists will prepare an installation at the DAM and also will participate at DU through class projects, guest lectures, demonstrations and workshops. “We are fortunate to have these two important institutions working to grow the visual arts in our community,” said Mr. Hamilton. “It is our hope that this donation further engages students and the public in the creative process of artists working today.” “The University of Denver has a ... More Serpentine Gallery Launches a Major New Project by UK-Based Artist Marcus CoatesLONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery, in collaboration with St. John’s Hospice, London, launched a major new project by UK-based artist Marcus Coates, on view from March 3 through May 2, 2011. The film is produced as part of the Serpentine’s ongoing Skills Exchange project and is the result of a long-term residency by Coates at the hospice. Coates began the project by asking hospice outpatients to suggest ways that vicarious action could enrich their experiences and offered to enact unfulfilled dreams on their behalf. Suggestions ranged from the creation of an exhibition of photography, to a parachute free-fall, to a trip to the Amazon. The last of these requests, made by the late Alex H., was realised by the artist in 2010. Coates was given precise instructions for the trip. He was asked to travel to an isolated village in the Amazon jungle and to ... More Dundee Contemporary Arts Opens Manfred Pernice's First Solo Show in the UKDUNDEE.- Dundee Contemporary Arts presents new and recent works by Manfred Pernice - one of the most outstanding German artists of his generation. This is the first solo exhibition in the UK in partnership with Modern Art Oxford and SMAK, Ghent. Conceived as a project in three stages the work will be subtly transformed following the artist’s experiences in each location. Manfred Pernice creates objects and sculptures that consider the complex relationships between art, architecture, city-building and human stories of time and place. Formed of a language that is immediately and distinctively recognisable, his sculptures suggest themselves as already existing in the everyday world. This exhibition however presents developments in Pernice’s practice over the last three years, in particular a passage of work the artist has come to describe as Sonderausstellung (special exhibition). Sonderaustellung constitutes the creatio ... More Turner Paintings Given to Abbotsford, Home of Sir Walter ScottLONDON.- Two watercolours painted by JMW Turner at Abbotsford, former home of celebrated writer Sir Walter Scott, are to go on permanent display at the house next year. Turner painted the two postcard-sized watercolours during a visit to Abbotsford in 1831. One depicts Abbotsford and the other depicts Newark Tower in Yarrow on the Borders. They were both used to illustrate an edition of The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scot, published in 1833. The works are currently owned by Art Fund supporter Phoebe Barrow. She is donating the works through the Art Fund to The Abbotsford Trust, which runs the historic house. By giving the works through the Art Fund, Phoebe Barrow is assured through thefund's terms and conditions that they will be safeguarded in perpetuity. Later this year, a work will begin on a multi-million redevelopment of the house. The Trust has raised £10 ... More |
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