June 2018 Art News

The Brooklyn Museum is proud to announce the reinstallment of its acclaimed relief sculpture The Resurrection of Christ, by Renaissance artist Giovanni della Robbia, on view now in the Museum's 3rd floor Focus Gallery. 

The Resurrection was created around 1520 and was commissioned by the Antinori family, historical Tuscan vintners since 1385. Nearly 400 years later, The Resurrection became the first Renaissance work to enter the Museum's collection when it was acquired in 1899. 

This June, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death (2016), a masterful video installation by artist, filmmaker, and award-winning cinematographer Arthur Jafa.

A powerful new exhibition at New York’s Sean Kelly Gallery, Ravelled Threads brings together work by ten African artists utilizing fabric in different ways. Cloth has cultural and spiritual significance throughout Africa, with a long history of use in storytelling, historical record keeping, political activism, and cultural expression.

Sir Quentin Blake, the illustrator of Roald Dahl's 'The Big Friendly Giant', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and many other books offers us a rare glimpse of his creative process.

At an exhibition opening this week, the Broad Museum of Art celebrates some of its latest acquisitions. Having only opened in 2015, the Broad has a collection of more than 2,000 contemporary works, including some of the most prominent artists working today. A Journey That Wasn't groups together 50 works representing 20 artists in the permanent collection, several of which are being displayed in the museum for the first time.

This weekend, the Walker Art Center will commission French conceptual artist Daniel Buren to design and produce "Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile" specifically for Minneapolis, a city known for its urban lakes, waterfalls and rivers. Its first US premiere, this two-part work will be comprised of a public performance in the form of a sailboat regatta on Lake Calhoun/Bde Maka Ska, featuring the artist’s custom-made, signature-striped sails, and an outdoor installation of the sails, hanging in the Cowles Pavilion in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

An exhibition that defies patriarchal modes of looking, Multiply, Identify, Her is currently on view at the International Center of Photography. Curated by Marina Chao, who was inspired by late photographer and Chicana feminist Laura Aguilar, the exhibition assembles portrait, photo collage, and video among other digital media.

"What can an audience tell the performer?"

William Wegman on his video work from 1970–1999 William Wegman (American, born 1943). Video work, 1970–1999. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of William Wegman and Christine Burgin, 2017 (2017.210.1–174). Videos © William Wegman, Courtesy of the Artist

View William Wegman's works in the Met's collection.

Tate staff talk about their favourite artworks – Here, Jessye Bloomfield shares her views on Jenny Holzer's lithograph "Inflammatory Essays," on display at Tate Modern.

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DALLAS, Texas — A new record for artwork by Disney Legend Inductee Mary Blair was set when Mary Blair Cinderella Magic Coach Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1950) sold for $60,000, lifting the final total for Heritage Auctions' Animation Art Auction June 16-17 in Dallas to $1,456,032.40.

The painting quadrupled its pre-auction estimate, and Blair's works were in extremely high demand at the auction; the Cinderella Magic Coach concept painting was the top lot in the auction and had 20 bidders, and her artwork claimed the top spot, four of the top five and six of the top 10.