Joan Miró, Nature morte – Le Gant ‘et le journal ‘, 1921 / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, © Successió Miró / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2015 – via Bucerius Kunst Forum

· slides > Miró . Bucerius Kunst Forum …25May

> Goya . The Courtauld Gallery …25May

· slides > Isa Genzken . Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt …31May

> Le monde ottoman dans l’art de la Renaissance . BOZAR …31May

> Bronzi del mondo ellenistico . Palazzo Strozzi …21Jun

· slides > Henri Rousseau . Palazzo Ducale …5Jul

E-Mail Share via e-mail To Add a message Your e-mail Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn 4 Comments Print By Sebastian SmeeGlobe Staff March 14, 2015 Frida Kahlo’s 1931 work “Frieda and Diego Rivera.” Don Ross Frida Kahlo’s 1931 work “Frieda and Diego Rivera.” DETROIT — When Frida Kahlo came to the United States in 1931, she found the entire country “ugly and stupid,” and longed to return home to Mexico. Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Cropped Hair.” Museum of Modern Art Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait with Cropped Hair.” Her husband Diego Rivera, on the other hand, was mightily stimulated. The charismatic, cow-eyed, fat-belted muralist was already an international art star, and he arrived in Detroit in 1932 ready to execute what he thought of as his life’s masterpiece, the Detroit Industry murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Kahlo was barely an artist at this point. She had talent, she had dabbled, but her efforts had been sporadic. She and Rivera, both avowed communists, had met when she was an art student. By the time they came to America, he was not long returned from a nine-month stint in Soviet Russia, and their marriage was less than two years old. She was very much in his shadow. Detroit changed everything for Kahlo — and, more obliquely, for Rivera, too. It was in that city — convulsed at the time by massive labor protests, murderous police responses, and a Depression deepening in severity by the month — that Kahlo’s art began to wriggle to life. “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit,” a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, focuses on the year this illustrious Mexican double act spent in the city. Organized by Mark Rosenthal, it’s not the first exhibition on Kahlo and Rivera in recent times; two years ago, three North American museums collaborated on “Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting.” Yet given their fame, it’s surprising how few exhibitions have addressed these astonishing artists together. The DIA show has a tight, scene-setting prologue and a more lavish epilogue that conveys some of the harrowing brilliance of Kahlo’s post-Detroit career. The highlight is a wall of Kahlo’s self-portraits, which includes the celebrated “Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair” (1940) from the Museum of Modern Art, and “Double-Portrait of Diego and I” (1944) – a tiny image showing the right half of Rivera’s head conjoined with the left half of Rivera’s, both textured like braille, the remarkable image obsessively framed in shells. Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry, south wall (detail).” Detroit Institute of Arts Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry, south wall (detail).” / DIA

Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry», south wall (detail) / Detroit Institute of Arts

> Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo . Detroit Institute of Arts …12Jul

> Pierre Bonnard . Musee d’Orsay …19Jul

Pablo Picasso, ‘Femme au chapeau assise dans un fauteuil’, 1941–1942. Óleo sobre tela, 130.5 x 97.5 cm / Kunstmuseum Base

> 10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel . Museo del Prado …14Sep
+ 10 Picassos del Kunstmuseum Basel kunstmuseumbasel

MULTI / GROUP

· slides > One Million Years – System und Symptom . Museum für Gegenwartskunst …6Apr

> The painter of Modern Life . Anton Kern Gallery …11Apr

· slides > Day After Debt: A Call For Student Loan Relieft . Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum …12Apr

Rosa Aiello, Serving, 2015. Still from HD video / Courtesy the artist – SculptureCenter

· slides > In Practice (emerging artists) . SculptureCenter …13Apr

· slides > Joseph Beuys . Mitchell-Innes & Nash …18Apr

> Björk . MoMA …7Jun

· slides > Monet and the Birth of Impressionism . Städel Museum …21Jun

> Sinatra: An American Icon . The New York Public Library …4Sep

PHOTO

> Rencontres de la jeune photographie internationale 8Mar-31May
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· slides > Pieter Hugo . Fondation Cartier-Bresson …26Apr

> Henri Cartier-Bresson . Musée des beaux-arts du Locle …31May
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Listings

· See also: ArtCalendar. 8March – 15Dec aaaaarte

> NY. Museum and Gallery Listings for March 13-19 nyt
> Current New York Art Events newyorker
> Current and upcoming art exhibits in Chelsea, New York chelseagallerymap
> SF Bay Area visual arts picks sfgate
> Chicago gallery calendar chicagogallerynews
> Best Art Galleries in Los Angeles yelp
> Miami Art Guide. Visual Arts miamiartguide
> London new exhibitions A-Z newexhibitions
> UK New Art Openings galleries
> Italia. Inaugurazioni artribune
> Mostre nell’area milanese thatscontemporary
> Geneve, art contemporain programme geneve-art-contemporain
> Zürchen galerien dzg
> Amsterdam galerie agenda amsterdamart
> Berlin gallery guide berlin.angloinfo
> What’s on in Viennese Galleries thenewcontemporary
> France: Agenda de l’art lamaisondesartistes
> Paris & Ile de France galeries d’art lemondedesarts
> Les expositions à Paris Île-de-France nouveau-paris-ile-de-france
> FranceFineArt Agenda francefineart
> GalleriesNow.net artguide

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ARQUI / DISEÑO

> Frei Otto Receives the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize pritzkerprize
+ slides > Selected Works pritzkerprize
+ Selected Works of Frei Otto and his Teams freiotto
+ Frei Otto posthumously named 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate dezeen
+ German architect Frei Otto wins 2015 Pritzker Prize a day after his death chicagotribune
+ Hadid and Foster lead tributes to «great architect inventor and gentleman» Frei Otto dezeen
+ Pritzker Prize for Frei Otto, German Architect, Is Announced After His Death nyt
+ Frei Otto posthumously receives the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize designboom
+ † Frei Otto (1925-2015) theguardian
+ † Frei Otto (1925-2015) independent

> Santiago Calatrava’s most important project of his career nymag

> Metropolitan Museum of Art has selected David Chipperfield to design its new wing nyt

> Corning Museum New Contemporary Art + Design Wing opening March 20 cmog
+ video > Corning Museum of Glass North Wing Expansion cmg-ytb

Michael Graves ‘s ‘9093 kettle’, 1985, for Alessi

> † Michael Graves (1934-2015) telegraph
> † Michael Graves (1934-2015) archdaily
> † Michael Graves (1934-2015) nyt
+ Michael Graves Architecture & Design michaelgraves
+ slides > Remembering Michael Graves curbed

Susan Kare’s Macintosh’s Original Icons acquired by the MoMA as part of the exhibition ‘This is for Everyone: Design Experiments For The Common Good’ / fastcodesign

> New Design Acquisitions at MoMA moma

> Leica Survives the Digital Shift wsj
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> Top Ten . Skyscraper Museum …13Sep

> Contemporary design in Africa . Vitra Design Museum …13Sep
+ video > Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design / Vitra Design Museum vtv

+ Expos

> Alvar Aalto . Vitra Design Museum …1Mar
+ video > Alvar Aalto. Retrospective . Vitra Design Museum vtv
> Peter Marino . Bass Museum of Art …3Mar
> François Schuiten et Benoît Peeters. Revoir Paris . Cité de l’architecture …9Mar
+ video > Revoir Paris cdl’a-vimeo
> Lina Bo Bardi . Maxxi …15Mar
> Frank Gehry . Fondation Louis Vuitton …16Mar
· slides > Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power . The Jewish Museum …22Mar
· slides > Craft and Art in Latin America . MAD Museum …6Apr
> Women Fashion Power . DesignMuseum …26Apr
> Bellissima: Italy and High Fashion 1945-1968 . MAXXI …3May
> Mackintosh Architecture . RIBA …23May
> Tools: Extending Our Reach . Cooper Hewitt …25May
+ slides > All Objects cooperhewitt
> Hayward Gallery Poster Project . Hayward Gallery …30May
> BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group . National Building Museum …30Aug

+ video > Architect magazine’s interview with Bjarke Ingels nbm

> Grandes Maestros: Great Masters of Iberoamerican Folk Art . NHM LA …13Sep

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MERCADO

> Global art sales in 2014 break all known records tefaf
· The global art market reached a total of just over €51 billion in 2014, an increase of 7% year on year and its highest ever recorded level.
· In 2014 Post War and Contemporary was the largest sector of the fine art market, representing 48% of all fine art sale by value. Auction sales of Post War and Contemporary art reached €5.9 billion, an increase of 19% year-on-year and its highest recorded leve.
· Sales made at art fairs accounted for a reported 40% of all dealer sales in 2014 or an estimated €9.8 billion, the second largest sales channel after in-gallery transactions.
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· pdf > The Art Market in 2014 artprice
+ World Art Market Passes €51 Billion Says 2015 TEFAF Art Market Report artnet
+ World Art Market Booms to Record $54 Billion as US Uber-Wealthy Fuel Growth observer
> Nearly half of the €51bn spent on art last year was on a handful of high-end works tan
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· pptx > Les ventes aux enchères continuent de résister en 2014 malgré le contexte économique peu porteur conseildesventes
> Enchères : la France en baisse en 2014 lefigaro