Collections & Recollections

christiesauctions: Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)Le petit...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:09 -0700

Chaim Soutine (1893-1943)
Le petit pâtissier

Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale

philamuseum: Great and Mighty Artist of the Day: Justin...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:20:10 -0700

Great and Mighty Artist of the Day: Justin McCarthy

Born Weatherly, Pennsylvania, 1892; died Tucson, Arizona, 1977

Justin McCarthy was born into a wealthy family near Allentown, Pennsylvania. The death of his father in the early 1900s left the family in financial ruin. McCarthy entered law school at the University of Pennsylvania but suffered a nervous breakdown and spent five years in the State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane in Rittersville, PA, where he began to draw.

After his release, McCarthy worked variously as a farmer, a warehouse employee, a chocolate mixer, and a steelworker, meanwhile creating drawings, watercolors, and paintings. His sources were everyday events and all sorts of popular imagery of the day, with an emphasis on athletes, movie stars, and other famous people. Around 1960 Pennsylvania dealer and collector Dorothy Strauser saw his work at a local art show in Stroudsburg and began collecting and selling it. McCarthy had his first solo exhibition at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1965.

Learn more about McCarthy and all of the artists in “Great and Mighty Things”: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection

Image: “Ice Capades,” 1971, by Justin McCarthy (The Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection)

deyoungmuseum: Painting of the Dutch Golden Age is known for...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:40:21 -0700

deyoungmuseum:

Painting of the Dutch Golden Age is known for its subtle treatment of the region’s unique quality of light. This week, Friday Nights at the de Young, in collaboration with the Dutch Consulate, presents a dedicated program of events, lectures, and demonstrations exploring the Dutch fascination with and innovation of light!

For this week’s Instagram challenge, we want to see your interpretation of light in and around the Bay Area. Tag your images with #NorthernLight or #FridayNightsDY and see them digitally displayed in Wilsey Court during Friday Nights at the de Young.

Jan van Goyen, View of the Rhine near Hochelten, 1653. Oil on canvas. Image courtesy of the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague

crystallizations: Pen drawings of disabled people by Hieronymus...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:20:23 -0700

crystallizations:

Pen drawings of disabled people by Hieronymus Bosch (b. 1450’s-d. 1516)

christiesauctions: Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)Chevalier...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:36:41 -0700

christiesauctions:

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985)
Chevalier traqué

Art Contemporain

christiesauctions: Andre Derain (1880-1954)Madame Matisse au...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:40:28 -0700

christiesauctions:

Andre Derain (1880-1954)
Madame Matisse au kimono

Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale

mellabrown: Joan Miró Hope of a Condemned Man II - 1973

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:20:27 -0700

mellabrown:

Joan Miró

Hope of a Condemned Man II - 1973

“The Court of Ravana”, Folio from a Ramayana (ca....

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:40:02 -0700

“The Court of Ravana”, Folio from a Ramayana (ca. 1605)

mrkiki: Aurelio Ayela Patrón japonés The natural Way....

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:20:04 -0700

mrkiki:

Aurelio Ayela

Patrón japonés The natural Way. 2011

Acrylic, marker and collage on paper

31.5 x 21.5 in

VIA

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breakingnews: Israel’s Negev Desert is alive – with...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:12:25 -0700

breakingnews:

Israel’s Negev Desert is alive – with locusts.

NBC News: Huge swarms of the newly hatched critters have begun marching across the sand, devouring everything in their path.

With the help of high-tech irrigation methods, much of Israel’s desert has been transformed into lush farmland that supplies supermarkets across the country with fresh produce. But the swarm of locusts, which locals say is the worst infestation in decades, is threatening crops and farms.

Photo: Dead locusts lie under a bush after being sprayed with pesticide. (Dave Copeland / NBC News)

Are they Kosher?

thegetty: A quick translation for those who don’t read Latin...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:40:11 -0700

thegetty:

A quick translation for those who don’t read Latin (though how could you not as it is the official language of scientific writing in the 1400s). The painted label reads Syrupus acetositatis citriorum or ”syrup of lemon juice.”

Directions: Use contents to treat inflammation, calm fevers, quench thirst, and counteract drunkenness and dizziness.

Cylindrical drug jar (albarello), about 1480, Italian, Faenza, Tin-glazed earthenware. J. Paul Getty Museum.

newmuseum: Garage Renovation New York (Cherry Makita) is...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:20:12 -0700

newmuseum:

Garage Renovation New York (Cherry Makita) is a recreation of Jason Rhoades’s installation Cherry Makita–Honest Engine Work, shown at his first exhibition out of art school at David Zwirner gallery in 1993.

“NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” attempts to capture a specific moment at the intersection of art, pop culture, and politics.

laphamsquarterly: vintageanchorbooks: Walt Whitman’s haversack...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:54:45 -0700

laphamsquarterly:

vintageanchorbooks:

Walt Whitman’s haversack to go on display at Library of Congress.

Most hipster bag ever?

mitjaissick: Freddie Robbins Craft Kills, 2002 200 x 68 x...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:40:30 -0700

mitjaissick:

Freddie Robbins

Craft Kills, 2002

200 x 68 x 38 cm

This is a self-portrait of Freddie Robins as St. Sebastian, with knitting needles piercing her woolly skin – a play on the idea of suffering for arts sake, and a comment on the view that craft is a benign activity

Georg Friedrich Kersting: Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio...

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:20:30 -0700

Georg Friedrich Kersting: Caspar David Friedrich in his Studio (1811, 1812)

"Haussmann’s efficiency fitted in well with the idealism of Louis Napoleon. The latter encouraged..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:14:03 -0700

“Haussmann’s efficiency fitted in well with the idealism of Louis Napoleon. The latter encouraged finance capital. Paris experienced a great speculative boom. Speculation on the stock-exchange pushed into the background the forms of gambling that had come down from feudal society. To the phantasmagoria of space, to which the flâneur was addicted, there corresponded the phantasmagoria of time, to which the gambler dedicated himself. Gambling transformed time into a narcotic. Lafargue defined gambling as a miniature reproduction of the mysteries of the market-situation. The expropriations caused by Haussmann engendered a wave of fraudulent speculation. The judgments of the Court of Cassation, which drew its inspiration from the bourgeois and Orleanist opposition, increased the financial risk of Haussmannization. Haussmann attempted to shore up his dictatorship and to place Paris under an emergency régime. In 1864 he expressed his hatred for the rootless population of the great city in a speech in the Assembly. This population kept increasing as a result of his works. The increase of rents drove the proletariat into the suburbs. The Paris quartiers thereby lost their characteristic physiognomy. The red belt appeared. Haussmann gave himself the name artiste démolisseur. He felt a vocation for his work and stressed the fact in his memoirs. Meanwhile, as far as the Parisians were concerned, he alienated their city from them. They no longer felt at home in it. They began to become conscious of the inhuman character of the great city. Maxime du Camp’s monumental work Paris owed its origin to this consciousness. The Jérémiades d’un Haussmannisé gave it the form of a biblical lament.”

- Walter Benjamin, Paris - Capital of the Nineteenth Century

Paula Rego, Children and their Stories (1989)

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:40:24 -0700

Paula Rego, Children and their Stories (1989)

Paula Rego, The Betrothal: Lessons: The Shipwreck, after...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:20:22 -0700

Paula Rego, The Betrothal: Lessons: The Shipwreck, after ‘Marriage a la Mode’ by Hogarth (1999)

Paula Rego, Drawing for ‘The Dance’ (1988)

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:40:13 -0700

Paula Rego, Drawing for ‘The Dance’ (1988)

contemporaryartdaily: Thomas Hirschhorn at Alfonso...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:20:13 -0700

contemporaryartdaily:

Thomas Hirschhorn at Alfonso Artiaco

Gerhard Richter syndrome: the more you become a darling of powers that be, the more representational, political ‘content’ gets minimalized and abstracted out.