Preview sales defy all expectations
Movie star Brad Pitt, moderately concealed behind oversize aviator sunglasses and a beige cap, ...
Driving tour of villages near Gâtinais National Park where artists lived
Excerpt ...one-eyed monster sculpted out of metal, mirror, glass and recycled junk (including a railway boxcar) by modern artists Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle. It has a viewing platfo...
Architect Mario Botta Designs Poster for Cersaie 2009
The basic idea is that ceramic is a natural material made of earth and fire that until now has had fairly limited use. BOLOGNA.-
World's First Kinetic, Electronic & New Media Art Fair Opens in London
'Beacon', developed by Cinimod Studio and Chris O'Shea. Photo: EFE/Andy Rain. LONDON.- Robotic, sound and solar sculptures, mechanical writing machines, laser and subliminal installations are just ...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to exhibit Love! Art! Passion! ~ Artist Couples
Excerpt ...extremely enduring. However, artistic ties sometimes survive even when love has faded. For example, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely continued to work on projects together even...
Chinese Tricycles Between Day to Day Culture and Art Intervention on View at Museum Tinguely
Tricycle, Beijing 2008 © Foto: Nils Fisch, Basel. BASEL.- If the humble rickshaw was generally widespread in pre modern-day China, in the 20th century its place was taken by the three-wheeled cycle...
Culture hub
A city break in Switzerland offers the chance to discover a staggering and diverse range of cultural activities - cutting-edge art galleries, ground-breaking exhibitions and live music - set agains...
Museum Tinguely Affords an Insight in the Eccentric Collection of Ted Scapa
Drawing-room: works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, etc. © Foto: Christian Baur, Basel. BASEL.- The exhibition at the Museum Tinguely affords an insight in the eccent...
Museum Tinguely features Eccentric & Bizarre Collection of Ted Scapa
Excerpt ...Peter Stämpfli or Alfred Hofkunst. In Scapa’s collection that evokes a “cabinet of curios”, colourful letter-drawings by Jean Tinguely and one of his machine-sculptures neighbour a...
François-Xavier Lalanne, sculptor, dies at 81
François-Xavier Lalanne, whose menagerie of surrealistic animal sculptures included a cast-iron baboon with a fireplace in its belly, died Dec. 7 at his home in the village of Ury, south of Paris.
François-Xavier Lalanne, sculptor, dies at 81
Excerpt ...that of Constantin Brancusi, who was a decisive influence on his work. Through Brancusi, Lalanne met artists like Max Ernst, Jean Tinguely, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. Just as influe...
Space Age Dawns
Gunther Uecker's "The White Mill," 1964, incorporates two nail-covered disks that rotate, on a pedestal, to mesmerizing effect. ZERO NY Sperone Westwater 415 W. 13th St.
Noise comes in from the musical cold
Excerpt ...invention with a piano keyboard linked to an array of rods and almost floral metal sheets. It looked like something Jean Tinguely might have created, and Wilhem Latchoumia's performa...
Heavy Metal. The Inexplicable Lightness of a Material at Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Candice Breitz, Iron Maiden Monument, Berlin, June 2007. Digitaler C-Print auf Diasec, 180 X 427 cm. Courtesy Francesca Kaufmann, Mailand; White Cube, London; Yvon Lambert, New York.
Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris Shows Leading 20th Century Artists
Excerpt ...the artist by the current owner, is a rare example of Chu The-Chun's use of the drip technique (lot 9, est. €350,000-450,000). Jean Tinguely's Eos III (1965) is one of an important...
Leading 20th Century Artists Present at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale in Paris
Pierre Soulages (n. 1919), Peinture , 21 Juillet 1958 signé; signé et daté au dos; signé et daté sur le châssis. Oil on canvas 130 x 162 cm. Executed in 1958. Estimate: 800,000 EUR - 1,200,000 EUR....
48 Hours In: Basel
Why go now? Because the second-biggest Swiss city (after Zurich) is a cultural powerhouse that accrues a festive air as Christmas approaches.
SoHo: Provocations, Reflections and Abstractions
From historic to spanking new, intimate to spectacular and minimalist to surrealistic, the art on view in the galleries of SoHo and the lower West Side covers a lot of territory.
Pinoy steampunk
By any definition veteran sculptor Moralde “Ral” Arrogante is a steampunk artist. Except that he does it know it yet. Unassuming, uncontrived and pleasant, Arrogante remarks, “What’s that? I don’t ...
Pinoy steampunk
By any definition veteran sculptor Moralde “Ral” Arrogante is a steampunk artist. Except that he does it know it yet. Unassuming, uncontrived and pleasant, Arrogante remarks, “What’s that? I don’t ...
Sperone Westwater
Sperone Westwater is pleased to present, for the first time in the United States, a survey of works by members of the Zero group created between the late 1950s and late 1960s.
Artist Couples - Love, Art and Passion Opens at Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Natalia Gontscharowa (1881–1962), Arbeiten auf einem Kartoffelacker (Kartoffelernte), um 1908/09. [Plantation de pommes de terre (Récolte de pommes de terre)]. Öl auf Leinwand, 111 x 131 cm. Centre...
Artist Couples - Love, Art and Passion Opens at Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Natalia Gontscharowa (1881–1962), Arbeiten auf einem Kartoffelacker (Kartoffelernte), um 1908/09. [Plantation de pommes de terre (Récolte de pommes de terre)]. Öl auf Leinwand, 111 x 131 cm. Centre...
Sotheby's to offer Yves Klein's Archisponge (RE 11) in Sale of Contemporary Art
Yves Klein, (1928-1962), Archisponge (RE 11) sponges, pebbles and blue pigment on panel 78¾ x 65 in. 200 x 165 cm. Executed in 1960. Est. in the region of $25 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
Kunsthal Rotterdam Opens Alberto Giacometti Exhibition
ROTTERDAM.- With a large-scale retrospective, the Kunsthal will be honouring one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966).
From Miro to Warhol: The Berardo Collection in Paris
Jean (Hans) Arp, Sans titre, vers 1926. Huile sur bois, 75 x 106 cm. Musée Collection Berardo, Lisbonne. Crédit photographique : DR - © ADAGP, Paris, 2008.
Banksy Unleashes 'Mock Pet Supply' Shop on New York City
Excerpt ...but an image of our real reflections. I would put the art historical precedent for his use of animatronics all the way back to Jean Tinguely to as recent as Paul McCarthy. And the ex...
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Acquires Harry Shunk Photographic Archive
NEW YORK, NY.- On the anniversary of Harry Shunk’s 84th birthday today, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation is honored to announce it has just acquired the entire photographic archive of renowned photo...
When Opera Is New and Unproved
In the ongoing quest to broaden opera's appeal, contemporary opera is one arrow in a sparely filled quiver. New operas are based on world events, current movies, popular books. Their music is writt...
Pavel Schmidt Exhibition at Jean Tinguely Museum in Switzerland
Excerpt Basel, Switzerland - At once painter, draughtsman and an installation artist, Pavel Schmidt documents in this exhibition his interest in the manner in which our society appropriates for...
Pavel Schmidt Exhibition at Jean Tinguely Museum in Switzerland
pufferpuff beziehungsweise puffersperre, 2004. 19 Eisenbahnwagonpuffer, Eisensäule, Kunststein- figuren, Gewindestangen (19 tampons de wagons chemin de fer, pilier en fer, figures en pierre synthét...
Locating Propriety in the Inappropriate
There is something appropriate in finding Zach Feuer Gallery open for business in mid-August with a Phoebe Washburn installation, when the rest of Chelsea is a ghost town. Seeing this Dadaistic rif...
Clever kinetic sculptures and witty one-liners at Grey Gallery
Chris McMullen shows big kinetic sculptures and drawings with Alice Tippit's witty one-liner images at Grey Gallery and Lounge.
Two UMD students exhibit sculpture at Dartmouth gallery
Kevin Arruda and Ryan Collins are art students enrolled in sculpture programs at UMass Dartmouth; Mr. Arruda is a senior working toward his BFA and Mr. Collins a grad student pursuing his MFA. Thei...
Fortis Limited Edition Pit Stop – Jean Tinguely in Monaco
Fantastic objects of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely are highlighting this year’s vintage car exhibition “Pit Stop” in the Mediterranean principality of Monaco during the summer season.
Niki & Jean, L’Art et l’Amour at Museum Tinguely
Excerpt Click here to register for the Art Knowledge News Email newsletter. Basel, Switzerland - Between August 29, 2006 and January 21, 2007, the Museum Tinguely presents "Niki & Jean – L'Art ...
