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Diamond Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art" to Open February 6 at The Met Fifth Avenue
17.12.2017

The Diamond Mountains—perhaps the most iconic and emotionally resonant site on the Korean peninsula—is the theme of an international loan exhibition that will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 6, 2018.

Venice Biennale: The post-show interview for the biggest contemporary art event in the world
16.12.2017

She’s the Wonder Woman of the French contemporary art world. Christine Macel is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou and this year she was the artistic director of the biggest contemporary art event, the Venice Biennale. This edition of the Biennale managed to set an attendance record with a total number of 615 000 visitors. Why? Here is her analysis...

The Met to Offer Ticketed Evening Hours for "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" and "David Hockney"
16.12.2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is offering ticketed evening viewing hours—10 nights only—for Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer and David Hockney, both of which have been attracting thousands of visitors a day.

"Leon Golub: Raw Nerve" Opening February 6 at The Met Breuer
16.12.2017

Opening February 6 at The Met Breuer, Leon Golub: Raw Nerve will present a selective survey of this groundbreaking artist’s work.

"Crowns of the Vajra Masters: Ritual Art of Nepal" to Open December 16 at The Met Fifth Avenue
15.12.2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming exhibition in its South Asian exhibition gallery will highlight the Vajracharya priest's crowns of Nepal.

"Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism" Opening at The Met on January 17
15.12.2017

Opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on January 17, the exhibition Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism will survey Conceptual Art as it developed in Southern California in the 1970s.

"Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris" Opening January 23 at The Met
13.12.2017

Among a presentation of approximately 30 works by modern artists, one alone captivated Cornell—Juan Gris’s celebrated collage The Man at the Café (1914), which is now a promised gift to the Museum as part of the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection.

Happy Birthday to Edvard Munch!
12.12.2017

The famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch was born on December 12, 1863. We present to your attention two articles published in our magazine devoted to art works of this remarkable artist

ICA: The good news is that Miami is also able not to be shallow
11.12.2017

Those arriving in Miami for the first time are initially struck by the city’s ubiquitous palm trees with their branches dancing in the wind, the romantic sunsets over the ocean, and the frequent brazenness of the young women. The major break with the city's line of bling and glamour emerged without warning just last week on 4 December, with the opening of the ICA or Institute of Contemporary Art...

François Morellet: When the very American Dia Art Foundation showcases the work of a French conceptual artist
11.12.2017

It is one of the miracles of the American art world. In the land of rapid consumption, there exists an institution that takes its time, lots of it, and takes up space, again, lots of it. It’s called the Dia Art Foundation and its exhibition space has become for the world’s most ambitious art collectors the archetypal place to emulate...

Louvre Abu Dhabi: A visit to the most daring museum of the twenty-first century
11.12.2017

On 11 November 2017 the Louvre Abu Dhabi will open its doors to the public. Judging by its size, its intellectual dimension and its aesthetic proposition, it is without a doubt the most daring artistic project the world has seen for a very long time...

December Books Sales achieve a combined total of $8,198,813 | New York
08.12.2017

New York—Christie’s New York sale Russian America and Polar Exploration: Highlights from the Martin Greene Library, realized $2,980,313, with strong sell through rates of 86% by lot and 87% by value and many lots greatly exceeding initial estimates.

ABMB: The Miami fair exhibits ever more classic and expensive artworks, while new museums open in the city
08.12.2017

In the art world we often talk about the Guggenheim in Bilbao effect, or how a museum managed to transform the image of a city through its exhibitions and architecture. Perhaps we should henceforth be talking about the ABMB effect on Miami...

Russian Winter Festival is this weekend!
07.12.2017

Celebrate Sviatki, the festive winter season, in traditional Russian style!

Leonardo but also Basquiat, Pollock and Currin: The power of the record sale hides a host of unsold major artworks
06.12.2017

It will have escaped no one, thanks to the huge scale of the media shockwaves across the globe, that Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” was sold at auction for a sum never before officially attained for an artwork: 450.3 million dollars. One of the lessons of this sale is that once the star lot had been sold, the rest of the contemporary art sale at Christie’s suffered...

The Met Announces Spring and Summer 2018 Exhibitions
06.12.2017

Extensive new information is now posted online about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming season.

Modigliani at the Tate: Nine extraordinary sculptures, twelve female nudes and six portraits of Jeanne Hébuterne. What else?
05.12.2017

The art public adores suffering artists. They live badly, they die young, they’re ill, but every now and then they produce extraordinary things. In the rankings of this type of artist the gold medal goes to Vincent Van Gogh, but just behind him there is the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani who also had his demons...

The Symbolist Painters: Exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York and now Auctioned in Paris
03.12.2017

The artists who formed the symbolist movement are widely represented in international museums but the group only constituted a minor episode in the history of art. Commercially speaking, a “symbolist market” in the strict sense is virtually nonexistent. Yet on 26 September in Paris the auction house Artcurial is dedicating an entire sale to the subject...

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Art and Space
01.12.2017

Based on the creative partnership between Basque artist Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969 that resulted in the publication of the book Art and Space, this exhibition offers a new reading of the history of abstraction over the last six decades.

KOJI HATAKEYAMA with works on paper by Matthew Harris
01.12.2017

Erskine, Hall & Coe is pleased to present Koji Hatakeyama & Matthew Harris, a new exhibition comprising 45 cast bronze lidded boxes by Hatakeyama and accompanying works on paper by Harris.

 

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