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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
Presented at The Met Fifth Avenue in both the medieval galleries and the Anna Wintour Costume Center, the show will also occupy The Met Cloisters, creating a trio of distinct gallery locations.The thematic exhibition will feature a dialogue between fashion and masterworks of religious art in The Met collection to examine fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and tradi…
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Georg Baselitz
At the beginning of 2018, the Fondation Beyeler will be devoting an extensive exhibition to the work of Georg Baselitz (b. 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony), which occupies a central position in the art of our time.The exhibition, marking the artist’s eightieth birthday, takes the form of a focused retrospective, bringing together many of the most important paintings and sculptures created by Baselitz over the…
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Winnie-the-Pooh and the V&A too
Original drawings of Winnie-the-Pooh go on display at the V&A for the first time in nearly 40 years from December 2017 as part of the UK’s largest ever exhibition on Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard.Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic is a multi-sensory, playful exhibition that explore the magical world of Winnie-the-Pooh — one of the most adored fictional characters of all time. Winnie-the-P…
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The Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the result of an unprecedented initiative that laid the groundwork for a new type of cultural collaboration of unparalleled scope between two countries, centered on the creation of a national institution.The Louvre Abu Dhabi: a masterful architectural design Jean Nouvel, a Pritzker Architecture Prize winner selected to design the museum, was inspired by the special features of the Saadiyat site: a vir…
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Sirense and Terry Rodgers
UNE ODYSSEE LALIQUEThe truly legendary figures are those whose brilliance remains undimmed by the passage of time. In 1927, René Lalique, delving into mythological sources to decorate a vase with dancing bacchantes, de…
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Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion
In May 2017, the V&A had opened the first ever UK exhibition exploring the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga and his profound and continuing influence on modern fashion. It will be the first of its ki…
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BEYOND BOUNDARIES Globalisation and Identity
Private contemporary art collection of Wiyu Wahono in the Liechtenstein National MuseumMy selection of 30 works features pieces from my collection under the theme of Beyond Boundaries— Globalisation and Identity. It was in the year 2000, when I began collecting while simultaneously ac…
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Art Stage Jakarta 2017
In 2017, ART STAGE Jakarta includes a stellar line-up of leading Indonesian and international galleries; cutting-edge art projects by Indonesian, Southeast Asian and European artists; events and activities that go beyond the fairground and the launch of an art award recognising the very best of the Indonesian art world.Underscoring this year’s Fair programme is ART STAGE Jakarta’s commitment to and support of Indonesian art, its role as the bridge between the global art world and Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s la…
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Frieze London 2017
More than 160 leading galleries from 31 countries showcase ambitious presentations by international emerging and established artists, enhanced by a curated non-profit programme of artist commissions, films and talks.New for 2017, Ralph Rugoff (Hayward Gallery, London) will curate Frieze Talks for the first time, exploring artists’ response to an age of ‘alternative facts’, with speakers and performers inclu…
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future
In October 2017, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Tate Modern had staged the first major museum exhibition in the UK of artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (b.1933 and b.1945).Curated in close dialogue with the artists and organised in collaboration with the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, the exhibition will explore this pione…
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Perfume flacons — vessels for seductive fragrances
The Storp Collection — from antiquity to the present day. Spielzeug Welten Museum BaselA day can be so beautiful: a few drops from a beautiful flacon or a light press on an atomizer — and you are immediately surrounded by a sheer cloud of well-being. Fragrances are a small luxury. The…
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Art Basel Miami
Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary art, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong.Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with …
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Proof: Francisco Goya Sergei Eisenstein Robert Longo
At particular moments in history, artists use their artwork to reveal social, cultural, and political complexities, responding to the times in which they live. Bringing together the work of three innovative chroniclers, Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo offers insight into the energy, empathy, and creativity with which these artists recounted and reimagined their realities.Together spanning four centuries and three continents, Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746–1828), Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948), and contemporary American artist Robert Longo (bo…
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RED STAR OVER RUSSIA: A Revolution In Visual Culture 1905–55
To mark the centenary of the October Revolution, in autumn 2017 Tate Modern has presented Red Star over Russia: A Revolution in Visual Culture 1905–55.Drawn from the remarkable collection of the late graphic designer David King (1943-2016) the exhibition will offer a visual history of Russia and the Soviet Union. From the overthrow of the last Tsar …
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James Rosenquist, 1933 – 2017
Artist James Rosenquist has died aged 83. Rosenquist’s works are considered alongside works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein to be pioneering of the 1960s Pop art movement (despite Rosenquist’s…
- Art Diary
City Slickers on the Wild Side
The Barnes Foundation Celebrates the ‘Art of Flânerie’Until now, the contemporary art installations at the Barnes Foundation have been pretty much on the safe side. By contrast, however, this first large group exhibition, organized by the Barnes’s new …
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Whitney Museum to Partner with Claudia Rankine’s
Racial Imaginary Institute for Discussion About Dana Schutz ControversyFor the past week, the art world has been consumed by a debate surrounding Dana Schutz’s Open Casket (2016), a controversial painting currently on view in the Whitney Biennial that features an abstr…
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Avant-Garde Tendencies in Tennessee
A Report from the Big Ears Music/Art FestivalAt once site-specific and sprawling across a city that might strike some as a surprising home for an occasion of the kind, the annual Big Ears festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, reconsiders the terms b…
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Georg Baselitz
At the beginning of 2018, the Fondation Beyeler will be devoting an extensive exhibition to the work of Georg Baselitz (b. 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony), which occupies a central position in the art of our time.Sirense and Terry Rodgers
UNE ODYSSEE LALIQUEThe Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is the result of an unprecedented initiative that laid the groundwork for a new type of cultural collaboration of unparalleled scope between two countries, centered on the creation of a national institution.Revolutionary Porcelain
The exhibition of the famous collection of Vladimir Tsarenkov in Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel