| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | CINCINNATI, OH.- This summer, for one month only, an icon of design, film and popular culture is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum: James Bond?s Aston Martin DB5. This was the stunt car Sean Connery drove in the films Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965). Low-slung and sleek. Silver, like a bullet. Tapered wings. Muscular and debonair. --Almost immediately following its 1964 debut, the DB5 was sexy and stealthy enough in its design to become the co-star of James Bond, Agent 007. In true 007-fashion, it features a revolving license plate, tire-slicing wheel caps, console-activated oil slick, smoke screen, bullet shield, front end machine guns, and the infamous ejector seat trigger button. Yet, stripped of all of its gadgets, it still stands as an icon of design--sculpted to seduce with killer lines and looks. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| First monographic exhibition on Dutch artist Willem van Aelst opens at National Gallery of Art | | Fernand Léger and Henri Laurens: Tête-à-Tête at the Museum Frieder Burda | | The Birmingham Museum of Art opens first exhibition to examine Warhol's fascination with automotive vehicles | 
Willem van Aelst, Pronk Still Life with Armor, 1651, Oil on canvas. Unframed: 200 x 170 cm. Musées du Mans, Le Mans.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The first monographic exhibition devoted to Dutch artist Willem van Aelst (1627–1683)—known for his skilled rendering of sumptuous fruits, luxurious fabrics, and spoils of the hunt—is on view from June 24 through October 14, 2012, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst features works—including 28 paintings and his only known drawing—remarkable for their fine finish, carefully balanced composition, jewel-toned palette, and elegant subject matter. "Willem van Aelst is not a household name today," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, "but this 17th-century artist was one of the most famous still-life painters of his day. This exhibition celebrates Van Aelst's technical abilities and is accompanied by the first comprehensive publication on his work. Many lenders, both public and private, ... More | | 
Numerous important loans for this exhibition stem from the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
BADEN-BADEN.- Two French artists are at the center of the grand summer exhibition at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. Under the title “Léger – Laurens. Tête-à-Tête“, a total of about 80 works by these two renowned artists is being presented from 23 June to 4 November, 2012. The works by Fernand Léger (1881 - 1955) and Henri Laurens (1885 - 1954) are defining for modernism. The artists were dedicated to two different fields: Léger brought out the main points in paintings, and Laurens created sculptures that still serve as role models nowadays. The works by the two contemporaries Léger and Laurens are contrasted for the first time at the Museum Frieder Burda. Similar themes, common interests as well as the friendship between the two artists are worked out in the presentation. This exceptional exhibition provides an opportunity for discovering two iconic figures of classical modernism from a c ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Truck, 1985.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.- The Birmingham Museum of Art brings the Birmingham community a distinctive exhibition of works by Andy Warhol. Warhol and Cars: American Icons, on display from June 24 – September 16, is the first exhibition to examine Warhol’s enduring fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society. “Warhol was fascinated with American culture and his images represented what he felt were elemental to our culture whether they were Hollywood icons, Campbell's soup cans, or Chryslers coming off the Detroit assembly line,” said Ron Platt, Curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art. “He loved to extol what America was famous for-its products and its thriving industries.” The exhibition features more than 40 drawings, paintings, photographs, and related archival material spanning from 1946 to 1986. As one of the most iconic and influential artist ... More |
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| The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Musical Instruments" on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum | | Nederlands Fotomuseum highlights famous photographer William Eggleston's earliest work | | Exhibition features the newest dinosaurs discovered in South America, Africa and Madagascar | 
Saung (Burmese Harp), 19th century, Burmese, wood with pigment and gilding, brass, skin and silk cord, Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of William H. Doane, 1914.43
CINCINNATI, OH.- As the world sets its eyes and ears on Cincinnati, Ohio for the World Choir Games, the Cincinnati Art Museum gives you another reason to celebrate world music. The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Musical Instruments showcases musical instruments from across the globe selected from the Cincinnati Art Museum’s collection. Spanning four continents and four centuries, this exhibition celebrates the impeccable craftsmanship of musical instruments. Adorned with elaborate inlay work, painted with striking designs, and carved with intricate detail, these works of art are as beautiful to look at as the sounds they were created to make. The Art Museum’s musical instrument collection includes over 800 pieces from around the world, making it one of the largest and most comprehensive in the country. “The collection represents over thirty musical ... More | | 
Untitled, Private collection, Oslo. Courtesy Peder Lund. 1960. Foto: William Eggleston. Eggleston Artistic Trust, Photo Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
ROTTERDAM.- The American photographer William Eggleston (1939) is known as one of the first major pioneers of artistic colour photography. His book William Eggleston's Guide was one of the most influential photography books of the 20th century and still inspires many today. Eggleston's black-and-white photographs are less well-known. In Before Color, the Nederlands Fotomuseum highlights this famous photographer's earliest work, which was only recently discovered. The photographs show that Eggleston found his own style early on. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston used a 35mm camera and fast black-and-white film to photograph the American way of life in the early 1960s. We see his own surroundings: suburban Memphis, with its diners, car parks and supermarkets, as well as the houses and domestic interiors of the people ... More | | 
Giganotosaurus. ©Royal Ontario Museum.
TORONTO, ON.- Forget about the dinosaurs that you know– prepare for a whole new breed of beast! The Royal Ontario Museum launched the world premiere of Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana. This exhibition is presented by Raymond James Ltd., one of North America’s leading full-service investment dealers. Some of the largest and most unusual dinosaurs to have ever roamed the planet are on display until March 17, 2013. In this new exhibition curated, designed and produced by the ROM, these dinosaurs make their first stop in Toronto before embarking on an international tour. Based on groundbreaking research from scientists around the world, this exhibition reveals bizarre, unusual looking dinosaurs virtually unknown to North Americans because they evolved in isolation in South America, Africa and Madagascar. Ultimate Dinosaurs features three cutting edge Augmented Reality (AR) experiences, used in creative ways t ... More |
| Exhibition celebrates and explores the work of major British painters of the last fifty years | | Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia presents the opening of Gypsies by Josef Koudelka | | Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia; exhibition explores this classical theme | 
Francis Bacon, Two Figures, 1975 (detail). Private Collection© The estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS.
CUMBRIA.- Abbot Hall's summer exhibition Francis Bacon to Paula Rego celebrates and explores the work of major British painters of the last fifty years. The featured artists reads like a who's who of the art world and draws from Abbot Hall's significant collection of twentieth century painting with artists including Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud & David Hockney. - a mixture of portrait and landscape works which both highlights the impressive collection at Abbot Hall and pays tribute to the rich tradition of painting in the United Kingdom. Inspired by Michael Peppiatt's 1987 exhibition A School of London: Six Figurative Painters. Francis Bacon to Paula Rego explores the original theme of Peppiatt's show whilst also seeking to survey contemporary British painters working in the United Kingdom, examining how they have sought to take painting forward and make it relevant in the twenty fi ... More | | 
Josef Koudelka - Moravie (Moravia), 1966 (detail). Courtesy of Josef Koudelka and of Magnum Photos.
MILAN.- Gypsies is without a doubt one of the most important works of photography of the 20th century. Presented by Forma, this exhibit, a world premier, faithfully follows the sequence and mock-up of the book Cikáni ("gypsies" in Czech) which Koudelka had planned in 1970 before he left Czechoslovakia, leaving the book long unpublished. The volume, reconstructed by Contrasto, testifies to the spectacular visual theatricality that Josef Koudelka developed through his photographic survey of the gypsy communities of Eastern Europe. All 109 images from the book will be on view, sumptuously printed (under close supervision of the artist) expressly for Forma. These images recount the everyday life of gypsy communities in the sixties in Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, and occasionally France and Spain. But they also testify to the penetrating, uncommon gaze of the artist, whose ability to find moments that are unique ... More | | 
Dr. Paul Dormont, left, and Linda Dormont, of Narberth, Pa. look at the oil on canvas called "The Large Bathers" by Paul Cezanne. AP Photo/Brynn Anderson.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The dream of Arcadia, a mythic place of beauty and repose where humankind lives in harmony with nature, has held an enduring appeal for artists since antiquity. With its promise of calm, simplicity, and order, it has served as both an inspiration—the sought for, but never fulfilled ideal of a paradise here on earth—and as an image of refuge, a place that is distant and seemingly protected from the vicissitudes of life. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of sweeping and often disruptive social, technological, and intellectual change, this dream found a powerful new currency and once again spurred the imagination of a new generation of painters—many of whom played key roles in the development of modern art. At the heart of this new exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art are three monumental canvases, each an ... More |
| Design exhibition from the Vitra Design Museum opens at the Tampa Museum of Art | | Art Antiques London 2012 From the Scissor Sisters to Sevres - London's most intriguing art fair | | Bill Fontana and Doug Argue open solo exhibitions at Haunch of Venison in New York | 
Panton-Chair. Verner Panton, 1959-60. Verner Panton Design, Basel.
TAMPA, FL.- The Tampa Museum of Art announced the opening of its featured summer exhibition, A Hundred Years - A Hundred Chairs. Masterworks from the Vitra Design Museum, on display through September 16, 2012. Design played an important role in cultural development at the beginning of the 19th century, and following the Second World War, American designers began to collaborate closely with industry, developing designs that would be used for mass production of furniture. This exciting exhibition offers an intimate view of different periods of industrial furniture design throughout the century, showcasing chairs by designers such as Charles Eames, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen and Harry Bertoia alongside drawings, sketches, historical documents and information on production techniques relating to each chair. Pop Art inspired later designers such as Verner Panton to play on form and color, and the search for simple, innovative ... More | | 
Edward Bainbridge Copnall (1903-1973), The Tube Carriage, 1954. Photo: Courtesy Sim Fine Art.
LONDON.- Since it was first launched in 2010, Art Antiques London has developed a reputation for being a destination for collectors and connoisseurs. This was borne out by the long queue of collectors that formed long before Art Antiques London opened its doors for the Private Preview on Wednesday 13th June. Early sales included Study of Mr J J Maubray’s Bay Hunter by Sir Alfred James Munnings PRA, RWS (1878-1959) which was sold by Rountree Fine Art to a new private collector within the first hour of the Fair. Other early sales included a 20th-century Western Indian chintak collar hugging necklace in the form of a design of flower heads set with alternating large and small oval cut rubies within diamond cluster surrounds which was sold by Samina Inc. to a new client. This, however, was the morning after the night before, when Art Antiques London hosted an outstanding evening reception and dinner for the Party in the Par ... More | | 
Doug Argue, Hither and Thithering Waters of Night, 2009-2012 (detail). Oil on canvas, 114 x 161 in. Courtesy of the artist and Haunch of Venison, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Haunch of Venison announces Catch My Drift a solo exhibition by Doug Argue curated by Lily Alexander. Minnesota-born artist Doug Argue presents four monumental conceptual paintings in the main gallery. Argue is best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that explore infinite space with a scientific and mathematical foundation. Argue often incorporates text—as he equates letters to atoms—and rearranges them, constructing new meanings to found writing. A highlight of the exhibition is Argue’s Genesis that measures roughly 13 by 19 feet and evokes the cosmos, but with closer inspection reveals distorted text. Argue appropriated letters from the book of Genesis, which he then altered in Photoshop and reassembled onto the painting to form a celestial-like, infinite image. In Hither and Thithering Waters of Night, referencing James Joyce, Argue features ... More |
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 Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit opens at the Cincinnati Art Museum CINCINNATI, OH.- The life and career of one of the greatest African American painters is on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum in the exhibition, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, through September 9, 2012. The son of a former slave and an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Bishop, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) gained international acclaim in the art world of his day. Tanner’s first ever solo exhibition was held in the fall of 1890, right here in Cincinnati. More than a century later, Modern Spirit includes over one hundred pieces, from paintings to rare sculptures, illuminating Tanner’s upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War; the artist’s success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith. “Tanner’s painti ... More New works by Turner Prize nominee 2012 Luke Fowler on view at the Hepworth Wakefield WEST YORKSHIRE.- The Hepworth Wakefield launched its second year of contemporary exhibitions this summer with an exhibition featuring Luke Fowler, Turner Prize nominee 2012. In 2010 The Hepworth Wakefield, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Film and Video Umbrella were awarded the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for Museums: commission to collect. Thanks to this generous investment, The Poor Stockinger, Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott by Luke Fowler has been commissioned and will be co-acquired for the permanent collections of both institutions. Simon Wallis, Director of The Hepworth Wakefield said: “We’re delighted to launch our second year at The Hepworth Wakefield thanks to the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award, a newly commissioned film work, which will remain in our permanent collection ... More AppArtAward 2012 winners to be announced at ZKM / Karlsruhe KARLSRUHE.- The winners of the AppArtAward 2012 are now certain. From a total of 84 submissions from 13 nations, among others, from Europe, USA, Brazil and Japan, the Jury, presided by ZKM-Chairman Peter Weibel, selects the winners. Not only works of art in App-format in iOS and Android were submitted, but also and for the first time, numerous software solutions in Windows 7. Several creative software solutions from the categories “Prize Artistic Innovation”, “Game Art” and “Cloud Art” were submitted by May 11, 2012, and in a surprising range of different artistic aspects. The presentation of awards is to take place on July 13, 2012 at the ZKM | Karlsruhe. The winners are to be announced at the awards ceremony. On the whole, the quality of the submitted Apps was at a high level, although addressing different fields. Thus, Apps designed as musical instruments ... More Morris Museum announces opening of Nikon's International Small World exhibition MORRISTOWN, NJ.- When a small bug landed on Dr. Igor Siwanowicz’s hand and began “fiercely digging its mandibles” into his skin, he didn’t swat it away. Instead, he removed a tiny test tube from his pocket and captured it as a potential subject for his photomicrography passion. Little did he know at the time, but this chance meeting with the Common Green Lacewing would lead to Dr. Siwanowicz being named the winner of the 2011 Nikon International Small World competition. Nikon Small World recognizes excellence in photomicrography - photography through the microscope - honoring images that successfully showcase the delicate balance between difficult scientific technique and exquisite artistic quality. The twenty prize-winning mages from the 2011 Nikon International Small World Competition are featured in an exhibition which is on view to the public at ... More National Portrait Gallery opens BP Travel Award winner 2011 exhibition LONDON.- A large scale portrait depicting weavers from a remote mountain village in Peru has gone on display for the first time at the National Portrait Gallery as part of this year’s BP Portrait Award exhibition. The artist, Jo Fraser, winner of the BP Travel Award 2011, won a £5000 bursary for her proposal to travel to the Cuzco region of Peru to observe the textile producers in indigenous communities. The final work on display is a large scale canvas in oil and charcoal developed from sketches and photographs taken during her visit, some of which also are on display. The subjects are shown sitting in an arc, as Fraser wanted to suggest that the viewer was sitting in on the daily occasion of their weaving. Originally the portrait was to be set in the village itself, but after two months Fraser began again and decided instead to paint the weavers against the timeless and epic ... More |
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