GETTY MUSEUM PRESENTS A QUEEN’S TREASURE FROM VERSAILLES: MARIE-ANTOINETTE’S JAPANESE LACQUER
The exhibition brings to the U.S. examples of Japanese lacquer boxes from the collection of Marie-Antoinette, part of a significant exchange between the Getty and Versailles
On view through January 6, 2019 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center
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Aboriginal art is the world’s longest art-making tradition, having gone on for the past 40,000 years.
Aboriginal Art, from the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl, will be offered in London on 14 March 2018.
Rare Loans Travel to the U.S. from Vienna’s Albertina Museum
This month, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents What Remains to Be Seen, the first major traveling museum survey of Howardena Pindell. Covering five decades of Pindell’s paintings, collages, writings, drawings, and videos, the exhibition also documents her activist projects and includes work from the last two years. Her groundbreaking, multidisciplinary art explores texture, color, and structure. Pindell uses bright colors and unconventional materials such as string, glitter, colored paper and sequins in her work.
Human rights and dignity form the core of Fazal Sheikh’s photographs. For more than 25 years, he has worked with individuals rendered invisible by war, ethnic and religious strife, climate crises, and social banishment, inviting them to share their stories of unimaginable hardship and perseverance. Featuring works from eight of his series, Common Ground demonstrates Sheikh’s sustained attention to the displaced around the world, and his drive to amplify the voices of the marginalized through his documentary-based photographic practice.
Todros Geller, Strange Worlds, 1928, oil on canvas, 71.8 x 66.4 cm (Art Institute of Chicago), a Seeing America video
Speakers: Sarah Alvarez, Director of School Programs, Department of Learning and Engagement, The Art Institute of Chicago and Steven Zucker
Rudolf Stingel’s Monumental Mountain Range
A view of the Tyrolean Alps near Merano, Italy, the town where the artist was born
The first landscape painting by the artist to appear at auction
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale London, 7 March 2018
The top four highest auction prices for the artist were set last year
BMA ILLUMINATES LOBBY OF HISTORIC BUILDING WITH MOON DUST (APOLLO 17) BY ACCLAIMED AMERICAN ARTIST SPENCER FINCH
Dramatic light work created for 2009 Venice Biennale will be on view for seven years
Aquatopia takes you behind the scenes at artist and maker Katrin Spranger's studio in London. She uses an electroforming technique to create her Collection that's inspired by science fiction and what life might be like in the future.
See Katrin's work at Collect: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects on 22 - 25 February.
Opening at Sean Kelly, New York this month, ‘Marina Abramović Early Works’ displays a historical record of the early, groundbreaking performances by the “Grandmother of Performance Art.” The 12 photos represent performances from the 1970's, including her Rhythm series, Lips of Thomas (star on stomach), Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, and others.
