Sabine Schormann: an overdue step?
In contrast to previous events, documenta fifteen made almost exclusively negative headlines with its opening. The banner installation People's Justice by the Indonesian collective Taring Padi shocked with anti-Semitic imagery. Excuses, apologies and restraint on the part of those involved now culminate in the resignation of (ex-)general director Schormann. Was this long overdue?
Park Dae Sung: Brilliant Ink Painting
Park Dae Sung, a master of ink drawing: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents the exhibition Park Dae Sung: Virtuous Ink and Contemporary Brush from 17 July. Visitors can especially look forward to the opportunity to view the exhibits up close.
The painters of the Sacred Heart
André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Séraphine Louis, Henri Rousseau and Louis Vivin: all of them probably never thought they would become famous with their art one day. After all, they were actually tax collectors, gardeners, fairground ringers or housekeepers. But their self-taught painting convinced one man in particular: Wilhelm Uhde. The Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden tells their story starting July 16.
»Only Matisse produced a greater achievement in this respect«
Milton Avery receives an exceptional amount of praise in the press release on his first monographic show in Europe: Mark Rothko and the New York Times have their say. The Royal Academy of Arts is keen to make the European debut palatable. Starting on the 15th, it will show Milton Avery, American Colourist.
A journey into a parallel reality
American pop culture meets satire: in paintings, sculptures and videos, the artist Alex Da Corte repeatedly deals with the cultural and media world of his homeland. From 14 July, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is showing »Alex Da Corte - Mr. Remember«, the artist's largest exhibition in Europe to date.
The Art of the Double at the National Gallery of Art
Works of art that deal with doubling hold a special appeal. They challenge viewers to think in terms of comparison. Beginning July 10, some 120 exhibits will be on view in the National Gallery of Art's exhibition The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900 in Washington, D. C. Many well-known artists are represented there.
About swimming pools, dachshunds and smoking bans
It's not often that a painting over $90 million is sold at auction. However, when it happens, the artist is usually no longer alive. Things went differently for the important contemporary artist David Hockney. When his Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) is auctioned, he is 81 years old. Today, at the age of 85, the passionate smoker, dachshund lover and above all artist can look back on an extremely complex success story.
Art fair attracts with summer flair
This year, art KARLSRUHE will not take place as usual at the start of the German art fair year in February, but from July 7 to 10. The fair is deliberately devoting itself to the sculpture garden, which is intended to attract visitors outdoors, as well as a newly designed hall under the motto »Art and Communication«.
Continuation of the exhibition »Annibale Carracci: The Frescoes in the Herrera Chapel«
From July 8 to October 9, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona will show Carracci's frescoes of the Herrera Chapel transferred to canvas. Previously, the exhibition was a guest at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, and in November it will move on to the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.
I walk alone
The British artist Nina Mae Fowler is known for her partly large-format pencil and charcoal drawings, mostly made in black and white. Her works frequently show prominent actors and actresses in extraordinary, fateful, often tragic moments. Her outstanding works include complex compositions in which she brings together motifs from a wide variety of temporal and narrative levels in one scene - elaborate works that are developed over a long period of time and are therefore rare and sought-after. Now, with I walk alone, Fowler presented yet another such masterpiece.
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