Moscow Museum of Modern Art || Exhibition: Salvador Dali and Media ||until 01.02.2015

The exhibition ends tomorrow.

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The Moscow Museum of Modern Art together with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation presents Salvador Dalí and Media exhibition. For the first time in Russia, artworks by one of the most well-known provokers in the 20^th-century art will be shown in the light of media. The exhibition partner is the Spanish jewelry design house Carrera y Carrera, which will present a special project in one of the halls at 10 Gogolevsky boulevard. The project is an imaginary result of the collaboration between Dalí and Carrera y Carrera glossy publications.

Salvador Dalí’s artworks are traditionally divided into periods, directly related to the geopolitical situation in the world. However, the exhibition in the MMOMA will not be arranged chronologically. Viewers can choose the way they go through the exhibition themselves. The show is divided into two parts, inextricably connected with each other. The first one will demonstrate Dalí at work. Covers…

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Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris || Exhibition: David Altmejd ~ Flux || 01.02.2015

The exhibition “David Altmejd ~ Flux” ends tomorrow.

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At ARC the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris is presenting Flux, the first French retrospective of the work of David Altmejd. The exhibition includes unshown and older pieces, together with his most recent and certainly most ambitious monumental sculpture, The Flux and The Puddle (2014).

The exhibition takes the form of a work in its own right, with creatures sometimes combining the anthropomorphic and the animal: half-vegetal, half-mineral hybrids that make play with the architecture of the museum as they spin out their arachnoid labyrinths. David Altmejd’s approach to sculpture is characterised by its wide variety of materials and a longstanding interest in the natural sciences and architecture.

Altmejd works in direct contact with psychic flux. In his “definitive dreamer’s” world action and consciousness merge: he dominates the grotesque and the abject, combines aesthetics and ‘glamour’ and uses his sculptures to explore the worlds of…

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Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: Cubism. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection||until 16.02.2015

Cubism, the most influential art movement of the early twentieth century, still resonates today. It destroyed traditional illusionism in painting and radically changed the way we see the world. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, unsurpassed in its holdings of Cubist art, is now a promised gift to the Museum. On the occasion of this exhibition, the Collection is being shown in public for the first time—eighty-one paintings, collages, drawings, and sculpture by the four preeminent Cubist artists: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963), Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), and Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973).

Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)
The Village, 1914
Oil on canvas; 31 1/2 × 39 1/2 in. (80 × 100.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2013 (2013.271)

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France )
Man with a Guitar, Paris, 1915–16
Watercolor, gouache, resin, and graphite on white wove paper; 12 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (31.1 × 24.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.78)

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France )
Seated Man, Paris, 1915–16
Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper ; 11 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (28.9 × 22.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.77)

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France )
Nude with Raised Arm and Drapery (Study for “Les demoiselles d’Avignon”), Paris, spring–summer 1907
Oil on canvas; 25 5/8 × 19 3/4 in. (65.1 × 50.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.49)

Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)
Sketch for “The Acrobats in the Circus”, 1918
Oil on canvas; 13 × 16 1/8 in. (33 × 41 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.40)

Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
Pears and Grapes on a Table, Céret, autumn 1913
Oil on canvas; 21 1/2 × 28 3/4 in. (54.6 × 73 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.21)

Juan Gris (Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine)
Checkerboard and Playing Cards, Paris, 1915
Gouache, graphite, and resin on cream-colored wove paper, mounted to paperboard; 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (21 x 29.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.28)

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Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
The Castle of La Roche-Guyon, La Roche-Guyon, summer 1909
Oil on canvas; 25 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (64.8 × 54.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.3)

Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
Bottle, Glasses, and Newspapers, Paris, early 1913
Oil on canvas; Oval, 15 × 21 3/4 in. (38.1 × 55.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection (SL.17.2014.1.11)

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Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: El Greco in New York ||until 01.02.2015

To commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Metropolitan Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are pooling their collections of the work of this great painter to provide a panorama of his art unrivaled outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The Frick Collection is displaying its paintings contemporaneously.

This is a unique opportunity to see this artist’s work, which exerted such a strong impact on modern painting and especially appealed to New York collectors.

The exhibition is made possible by Northern Trust.

 

El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, 1540/41–1614). View of Toledo (detail), ca. 1598–99. Oil on canvas; 47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in. (121.3 x 108.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.6)

Portrait of an Old Man
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1595–1600
Accession Number: 24.197.1

Cardinal Fernando Niño de Guevara (1541–1609)
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 29.100.5

The Vision of Saint John
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1609–14
Accession Number: 56.48

The Holy Family
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) (Greek, Iráklion (Candia) 1540/41–1614 Toledo)
Date: ca. 1585

 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: Bartholomeus Spranger ~ Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague || until 01.02.2015

The first major exhibition devoted to Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), a fascinating artist who served a cardinal, a pope, and two Holy Roman Emperors, this exhibition examines Spranger’s remarkable career through a selection of his rare paintings, drawings, and etchings, most of which are on loan from international museums and private collections. Spranger emerged as one of the most prominent artists at the court of Rudolf II in Prague and the most significant Northern Mannerist artist of his generation. Adding a unique dimension to the exhibition are works by artists who helped shape Spranger’s artistic horizon.

The exhibition is made possible by the Placido Arango Fund and The Schiff Foundation.

The catalogue is made possible by the Drue E. Heinz Fund.

Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: Bartholomeus Spranger ~ Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague || until 01.02.2015 , exhibition catalogue

Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: Bartholomeus Spranger ~ Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague || until 01.02.2015 , exhibition catalogue

Metropolitan Museum of Art || Exhibition: Bartholomeus Spranger ~ Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague || until 01.02.2015 , exhibition catalogue

Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish, 1546–1611). Jupiter and Antiope, 1596. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, GG 5752

 

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Designmuseum Denmark || Exhibition: Century of the Child || until 30.08.2015

Step inside a universe for children
In January 2015, the museum opens its Century of the Child exhibition, which borrows its title from the book of the same name by Swedish educational reformist Ellen Key. In her book, first published in the year 1900, Key predicted that the 20th century would be a century that focused on the creative development of children and deal with children’s rights and needs in a new and inclusive manner. To this day, her ideas and thoughts continue to be translated into a wide range of physical objects, phenomena and initiatives – ranging from school buildings, playgrounds and new forms of housing, through ad campaigns, computer games and children’s books, to clothing, furniture and Christmas seals. Design at all levels on the scale – from large to small. The exhibition will focus on Nordic design for children, with a particular emphasis on Danish contributions to the field. All of us have been children once, and some of us still are; consequently, the exhibition has a very broad appeal, with something for young families to teenagers and the grandparent generation.

Babysitter by BabyBjörn, 1961. Photo: BabyBjörn

Design: Jarl Axel. Photo: Magnus Ekström

From the exhibition. Photo: Pernille Klemp

From the exhibition. Photo: Pernille Klemp

From the exhibition. Photo: Pernille Klemp

From the exhibition. Photo: Pernille Klemp

From the exhibition. Photo: Pernille Klemp

Children’s furniture by bObles. Photo: bObles – Press

Wooden toys by Kay Bojesen, 1930s. Photo: Pernille Klemp

Source: Designmuseum Denmark

Ateneum Art Museum Helsinki || Exhibition: Sibelius and the World of Art || until 22.03.2015

It is very pleasant to see paintings here. They have big collections. I am more moved by other arts than by the music of others.
– Jean Sibelius in a letter to Aino Sibelius from Munich, 28 July 1894

Year 2015 marks the 150^th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius. Ateneum Art Museum makes an early start on the festivities with an extensive jubilee exhibition that explores the composer’s contacts with the art scene of his day.

Sibelius was an inspiration to many artists, and he himself was surrounded by art in many ways: his home in the cultural landscape at Lake Tuusula, his circle of artist friends and relatives, and the art collection at Ainola provided a varied background for his work as a composer. Completed in 1892, Sibelius’s tone poem En Saga inspired Akseli Gallen-Kallela to paint an eponymous work two years later. In 1909, a trip to the Koli wilderness with his brother-in-law, Eero Järnefelt, gave Sibelius the inspiration for his fourth symphony, which he dedicated to Järnefelt.

Sibelius and the World of Art explores the links between the composer’s work and the art scene of his time, both on a personal level as well as in the context of the art movements of the day. The show covers Sibelius’s youth and his international breakthrough, fantasies and myths about the famous composer, as well as his symphonic landscapes and nature motifs. The portraits in the exhibition show us the composer both as a young genius and as the subject of the unique Sibelius Monument of the late 1960s.

The exhibition is produced by the Ateneum Art Museum in collaboration with the Ainola Foundation. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue in Finnish, Swedish and English.

Curators of the exhibition: Finnish National Gallery specialists Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff, PhD, Timo Huusko, PhL and Riitta Ojanperä, PhD.
Musical selections: Folke Gräsbeck, DMus.
Exhibition architect: Osmo Leppälä
Editor of the Catalogue: PhD Hanna-Leena Paloposki

The 150^th anniversary of Jean Sibelius

Albert Edelfelt: Composer Jean Sibelius, undated. Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis

Eero Järnefelt: Landscape from Koli, 1928. Ateneum Art Museum, coll. Suomen Säästöpankki Oy. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Antti Kuivalainen

Tyko Sallinen: Rainbow, 1914. Ateneum Art Museum, gift from Arvid Sourander. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen

Wäinö Aaltonen: Jean Sibelius, 1935. Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen

Wäinö Aaltonen: Jean Sibelius (detail), 1935. Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: En Saga (Jean Sibelius and Fantasy Landscape), 1894. Ainola Foundation. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lemminkäinen’s Mother, 1897. Ateneum Art Museum, coll. Antell. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Jouko Könönen

Pekka Halonen: Winter Landscape, Kinahmi, 1923. Ateneum Art Museum, Alfred Kordelin Foundation Deposition. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen

Eila Hiltunen: Passio Musicae, Final Sketch for the Sibelius Monument, 1962. Ateneum Art Museum. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Pakarinen

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Boston Children’s Museum || Exhibition: The Gallery. The Star Travelers’ Dreams || until 01.03.2015

The interactive installation includes a fantastical seascape with a ship called “The Great Kindness” built to travel through the stars. Visitors can take an imaginary boat ride, watch a film about a star traveler, listen to the strange sounds of the universe, and observe objects one might use when undertaking such magical travels. For many years Johnson has been interested in creating work about making the invisible visible. She uses everyday objects and activities in unusual ways creating otherworldly experiences for herself and her audiences.

“Faith has created a fictional space that tells a story through art objects,” said Alice Vogler, Arts Educator. “It invites visitors to fantasize and imagine what it might be like to take a journey through space. The exhibit has wonderful ties to our new My Sky exhibit right next door, truly showing how you can find inspiration in the sky above you.”

Faith Johnson received her art teaching licensure through Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She also has an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts through Tufts University, where she received the Rose Hill Performance Award and a performance art teaching fellowship. Johnson has shown in galleries and festivals throughout the United States and abroad. She has performed internationally at the Open Festival in China, Navinki Festival in Belarus, Tactile Bosch Gallery in Wales England, and is a member of the International Performance Association of Hildesheim, Germany. Johnson has worked as an artist in residence at The Homestead Artist Residency in Willow, Alaska, and the Newton School of Theology where she researched spiritual forms and gestures. Johnson has been facilitating art for over 10 years to humans of all ages and backgrounds. Currently she facilitates art making in schools, at community centers, and through her start up project Full-Circle-Arts, facilitating mindfulness and connection through creative processes.

Come and enjoy a journey of mythical proportions, the Star Travelers’ Dreams, at Boston Children’s Museum through Sunday, March 1, 2015.

The Star Travelers’ Dreams, Boston’s Children Museum, 2015

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Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art || Art & AIDS: Amor y Pasión || until 01.02.2015

Art & AIDS: Amor y Pasión is an exhibition featuring artists living with HIV and AIDS. The exhibition is an outcome of weekly therapeutic art classes run by GMHC’s Volunteer, Work and Wellness Center and by artists who have come to GMHC looking for help or support after they learned about their diagnosis.. Art teachers donate their time to teach classes for GMHC’s clients (consisting of professional and non-professional artists), and assist in curating the annual exhibition. Artwork sold during the exhibition allows artists to increase their financial independence, plus, the artists are then able to participate in additional art shows as most galleries mandate that artists must have already been part of one show.

Despite years of progress, today we find that the war against AIDS and HIV is not over. There are more than 50,000 new infections each year and there are over 100,000 people living with the disease in New York City alone, many dealing with the stigma associated with their infection.

For the sixth year, the Leslie-Lohman Museum offers this exhibition in conjunction with the Art & AIDS Program at Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the world’s first and leading organization devoted to addressing the needs of people facing AIDS/HIV. Some of the work is an outcome of the art classes at GMHC’s Volunteer, Work and Wellness Center.

Here we show the creative expression of artists—professional and novice, from those recently diagnosed to long-term survivors as they explore isolation, fear, stigma, loss, as well as faith, spirituality, beauty, nature, and love. The work is available for sale and all proceeds go to the individual artists. Selected pieces are available for sale through a Silent Auction that will benefit the programs at GMHC.

This year the work is displayed alongside work by Keith Haring, as we borrowed six significant pieces from a series called Bad Boys to mark the 25th anniversary of Haring’s death.

Opening in June 2015 and running through 2017, the Leslie-Lohman Museum will be one of the sponsors of a touring exhibition called Art, AIDS, America. That exhibition will showcase 30 years of art responding to the AIDS epidemic, traveling to the Tacoma Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Bronx Museum and venues in San Francisco and Atlanta.

Clecio Lira
African Pietà, 2013
Digital print on plexiglass (2/5)
50″ x 50″

Luis Carle
Crowbar, NYC, 1994
Gelatin silver print (AP 2/4)
15″ x 20″

Peter J. Robinson, Jr.
I Do, 2011
Digital print (10/10)
14″ x 11″

George Towne
Rich and Seth, 2009
Oil on canvas
24″ x 30″
Collection of Rich Renaldi and Seth Boyd

Joseph P.
Flaming Rose, 2012
Oil on canvas
10″ x 10″

Luis Carle
Israelis, NYC, 2003
Gelatin silver print (AP 2/4)
20″ x 15″

Robert Mapplethorpe
b. 1946 – 1989
Keith Haring, 1984
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
23” x 23”
Collection Keith Haring Foundation

Keith Haring
1958 – 1990
Untitled (from the Bad Boys portfolio, KHP 0121/6), 1986
Silkscreen
26″ x 20″

Keith Haring
1958 – 1990
Untitled (from the Bad Boys portfolio, KHP 0121/6), 1986
Silkscreen
26″ x 20″

 Source: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Kulturforum) || Exhibition: Mario Testino. In Your Face || until 26.07.2015

For the first time in Berlin, the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will present the work of the influential photographer Mario Testino at the Kulturforum. The show ‘Mario Testino: In Your Face’ (20 January – 26 July 2015) presents the full range of his photographic work, in 125 images, placing particular emphasis on its provocative contrasts. The exhibition was realised in partnership with Swarovski.

This is the first time ‘In Your Face’ has been exhibited in Europe following its premiere in 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It has also been shown at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericana de Buenos Aires (MALBA) and at the Museu de Arte Brasileira (FAAP) in São Paolo in 2014. The exhibition explores and celebrates the innovation and diversity in Testino’s photography, which evokes elegance, irreverence and contradiction. Testino was involved with the selection and layout of the works, juxtaposing formal portraits with private snapshots, nudes with fashion, and black and white with colour.

“In Your Face, for me, represents the most free way of expression”, says Testino. “As an image-maker people always want to put you in a box. I believe we are made of many different aspects and not always are we allowed to let all these different aspects show, let alone to live next to each other as they do in this exhibition. This particular hanging style for these photographic works allows all of these different aspects of my curiosity to have a conversation; they not only exist on their own but trigger a reaction when being next to each other.”

Mario Testino: Claudia Schiffer, Paris, German Vogue, 2008
© Mario Testino

Carmen Kass, Los Angeles, Allure, 2009.
© Mario Testino

Untitled, Los Angeles, V Man, 2008.
© Mario Testino

Kate Moss, London, Vogue Italia, 2006
© Mario Testino

Source: Kunstbibliothek  – SMB