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The oil painting, which shows Othello gazing at a sleeping Desdemona, was recovered last year after a man in the eastern state of Maryland contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Photo: FBI.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A painting by Marc Chagall stolen 30 years ago from a New York couple's apartment has been recovered and is being returned to the family's estate, the FBI said Thursday. The 1911 painting, "Othello and Desdemona," was stolen in 1988 along with other works of art -- by Renoir, Picasso and Hopper -- from the Manhattan home of Ernest and Rose Heller, the FBI said in a statement. The oil painting, which shows Othello gazing at a sleeping Desdemona, was recovered last year after a man in the eastern state of Maryland contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI said the Maryland man got in touch with law enforcement after a failed effort to consign the painting to an art gallery in Washington. The gallery owner was "suspicious about the lack of paperwork supporting the painting's authenticity and provenance," the FBI said. The Maryland man obtained the painting in the late 1980s or early 1990s from the man who stole it from the Heller's apartment, the FBI said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows a man standing outside of the Qasr al-Farid tomb (The Lonely Castle) carved into rose-coloured sandstone in Madain Saleh, a UNESCO World Heritage site, near Saudi Arabia's northwestern town of al-Ula. Al-Ula, an area rich in archaeological remnants, is seen as a jewel in the crown of future Saudi attractions as the austere kingdom prepares to issue tourist visas for the first time -- opening up one of the last frontiers of global tourism. FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP
| 'Burning man' image wins AFP top prize at World Press Photo | | Trove of 100 vintage Jan Groover photographs on view at Janet Borden, Inc. | | Bronzechain: New hallmark for bronze with blockchain technology unveiled |
Venezualan AFP photographer Ronaldo Schemidt holds his trophy in Amsterdam on April 12, 2018 during the 2018 World Press Photo (WPP) award ceremony. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP.
AMSTERDAM (AFP).- Agence France-Presse photographer Ronaldo Schemidt won the prestigious 2018 World Press Photo of the Year Award Thursday with a fiery image of a masked Venezuelan protester which judges said symbolised a country "burning". Schemidt's photo, taken during violent clashes with riot police and protesters demonstrating against President Nicolas Maduro's regime in Caracas last year, invoked an instant emotion, the judges said. AFP also scooped other awards, with London-based stringer Oliver Scarff taking first prize in the Sports-Singles category and Caracas-based AFP photographer Juan Barreto coming third in the Spot News-Stories category. Mexico-based Schemidt was covering the demonstrations for AFP in May 2017 when the then 28-year-old Victor Salazar went up in flames as he and other protestors were trying to ... More | |
Each print is 8x10, dating from 1971-2. Although they are very objective, straight photographs, they also tell a story offering a glimpse into the past of the state capital with a hypnotizing suburban tranquility.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting Jan Groover: Hartford and Other Photographs. The exhibition runs from 5 April - 15 May 2018. An amazing trove of 100 vintage Jan Groover photographs was recently found. This archive, documenting the architecture of Hartford, Connecticut has not been seen for forty-five years. Each print is 8x10, dating from 1971-2. Although they are very objective, straight photographs, they also tell a story offering a glimpse into the past of the state capital with a hypnotizing suburban tranquility. Some of them seem very New Topographic, recall Walker Evans... with a hint of Groover's later diptych and triptych interests. The photographs are subtle, yet striking on their own or as a group. This is a show of the exquisite intricacies of black and white photography that have become Groovers signature. Shown with other selections ... More | |
Dancing (large) © Maurice Blik, 2018. Photo Bowman Sculpture.
LONDON.- A pioneering hallmark for bronze sculpture, Bronzechain, launched today by DACS, in partnership with Verisart, the blockchain certification platform for the arts. The first bronze works to be hallmarked are by sculptor Maurice Blik, whose solo exhibition takes place at Bowman Sculpture, London (13 April 4 May 2018). As a revolutionary step for the art world, collectors and bronze foundries, Bronzechain combines the use of a hallmark stamp with innovative blockchain technology, by creating a digital certificate registered by the artist and foundry to validate the authenticity of the artwork in perpetuity. Whilst gold and silver hallmarks have been utilised for hundreds of years (the former of which was first proposed in the 1300s), Bronzechain is unprecedented, and forges a radical convergence of old and new technologies. To address the increasing number of bronze sculpture forgeries and fakes in circulation, which damages collectors confidence and the reputatio ... More |
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| Pirelli HangarBicocca opens the most extensive retrospective ever staged of the work of Matt Mullican | | Christie's Milan Modern and Contemporary Art sale realizes €17.7 million | | Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton unveils a new selection of works from the collection |
Matt Mullican, The Feeling of Things, exhibition view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo: Agostino Osio.
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca presents The Feeling of Things, the most extensive retrospective ever staged of the work of Matt Mullican (Santa Monica, California, 1951), a renowned American artist, active since the start of the 1970s and a pioneer in the use of hypnosis as a performance practice in art. The exhibition, which presents thousands of works, immerses the visitor in the articulate cosmology of the five worlds conceived by the artist: a particular system of representation of reality made up of images, pictograms, icons, codes, signs, symbols and colors. A visual vocabulary capable of interpolating traditions, scientific studies, beliefs and cultures of different times and places in order to ponder the age-old existential questions and the most profound and hermetic aspects of life. Pirelli HangarBicocca hosts more than ... More | |
Piero Manzoni, Achrome, 1958 sold for EUR 2,970,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
MILAN.- The 6th consecutive Milan Modern and Contemporary art auction has achieved a strong total result of 14,693,500 / £12,809,793 / $18,162,635, selling 91% by lot and 97% by value. Six new auction records for Osvaldo Licini (lot 8), Leoncillo (lot 18), Antonio Donghi (lot 29), Piero Dorazio (lot 32), Fausto Pirandello (lot 43), and Claudio Parmiggiani (lot 56) were set. A fine selection of figurative Italian art was very well received, as demonstrated by Umberto Boccionis Ritratto di giovane, dated 1905/06, which has fetched 379,500. All three private collections on offer have performed extremely well: the Sergio Tomasinelli collection (lots 6-9) from Turin sold for 1,536,250 and was highlighted by Salvatore Scarpittas Ammiraglio painted in 1958 which realised for EUR 1,015,000. Two of the top ten lots of the auction, were consigned from an important Milanese private collection (lots 20-23), led a 1966 Lucio ... More | |
Maurizio Cattelan, La ballata di Trotski, 1996. © Maurizio Catellan 2018.
PARIS.- Ever since the first exhibition of emblematic works from its collection, during the 2014 inauguration of the building designed by Frank Gehry, Fondation Louis Vuitton has regularly exhibited different selections of works following the Collections four distinct predetermined categories: Contemplative, Expressionist, Pop, Music & Sound (2014/2016), or groups of works from specific events dedicated to China (2016) and Africa (2017). Throughout the galleries of the Frank Gehry building, "In Tune with the World" (11th April - 27th August 2018) unveils a new selection of artists from the collection, of several different mediums, bringing together modern and contemporary works, most of which have never before been exhibited in these spaces. More than a simple hanging of works, "In Tune with the World" is intended to be an exhibition based on a specific theme. This reflects todays questions ... More |
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| Newcomb Art Museum opens a new art installation telling the story of New Orleans through the archives of Tulane | | Leading artists donate work to help UK's homeless arts charity Cardboard Citizens | | Norton Museum of Art announces inaugural exhibition program and major gift from Howard and Judie Ganek |
Installation view. Courtesy of Newcomb Art Museum.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Newcomb Art Museum presents EMPIRE an immersive art installation by Los Angeles-based artists Fallen Fruit, David Allen Burns and Austin Young, celebrating the New Orleans tricentennial commissioned and presented by Newcomb Art Museum, A Studio in the Woods, and Pelican Bomb. EMPIRE uses the vast archives and special collections at Tulane University as the material to create a complex visual narrative of New Orleans and its history of transnational trade and cultural rituals with myriad artifacts. Instead of following a chronological timeline, the installation creates a more complex vision of our uniquely American city. The installation explores the complex narratives of one of the countrys most important port cities and the dynamic culture that emerged from European, African, Caribbean, Latin American and indigenous influences. We spent over a year researching the vast historic arc ... More | |
Gavin Turk, Golden Section © Gavin Turk and Live Stock Market.
LONDON.- This spring, Art World A-Â‐listers will take part in an exhibition and auction in aid of Cardboard Citizens, a charity that specialises in using the arts to help people with experience of homelessness, to raise awareness around its work and increased focus on mental health. Martin Creed, Ian Davenport, Tracey Emin CBE RA, Brian Eno, Sir Antony Gormley, Sir Anish Kapoor CBE RA, Harland Miller and Gavin Turk are amongst the group whose work will be brought together in Art On The Mind an online auction run by Paddle8. A free, one-Â‐day exhibition featuring a selection of the auction lots will also take place in London on 25 April. Cardboard Citizens, whose patrons include Kate Winslet, CBE, David Morrisey and Rory Kinnear, was originally founded 26 years ago, as a theatrical project in Cardboard City a 200-Â‐strong rough sleepers encampment in Waterloo, London. It now works ... More | |
Installation view of works by Cindy Sherman and Juan Muñoz. Promised gift by Howard L. and Judie Ganek to the Norton Museum of Art. Photo by Jacek Gancarz.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art today announced the special exhibitions and site-specific commissions that will inaugurate this expanded and transformed institution when it re-opens to the public on February 9, 2019. With a design by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster, Principal of Foster + Partners, The New Norton will have 37 percent more exhibition space, enabling it to expand its schedule of special exhibitions, display more of the Museums collection and, for the first time, dedicate galleries to its outstanding photography collection. Education space will increase by 50 percent; new public gardensthe first to be designed by Norman Fosterwill feature 11 modern and contemporary sculptures; and a distinctive new entrance will be anchored by Claes Oldenburgs monumental ... More |
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| Exhibition features a new body of Eric N. Mack's signature large-scale assemblages | | Forum Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Guillermo Muñoz Vera | | The Mosaic Rooms begin 10th anniversary celebrations with exhibition of works by painter Hamed Abdalla |
Eric N. Mack, Untitled, 2018. Cotton, denim, dye, linen, polyester and silk, 249 x 287 x 284.5 cm. (98 1/8 x 113 x 112 1/8 in.).
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting Misa Hylton-Brim, Eric N. Macks inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in London. The exhibition features a new body of the artists signature large-scale assemblages, which oscillate between painting, sculpture, the readymade and performance, at the same time initiating a dialogue between fashion and art. Mack refers to himself as a painter, yet his works rarely observe the mediums traditional canvas-to-stretcher format. Rather, his tactile creations, made from a dynamic combination of used textiles, worn clothes, moving blankets and torn rags, alongside photographs and pull-outs from books and magazines, extend and transform the notion of painting. His use of colour, form and material as elements in a compositional lexicon, as well as the stained or dyed fabrics which are his principal medium, declare the origin of his practice in the investigation of pai ... More | |
Guillermo Muñoz Vera, Zara, 2017. Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 72 x 62 3/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the internationally-known Spanish painter, Guillermo Muñoz Vera, on view now and running through May 25, 2018. The exhibition, Analogies & Dichotomies / AnalogÃas & DicotomÃas, embodies the subject of Muñoz Veras current body of work: the contrast of light and shadow, the relationship of time and space, the similarity of past and present, and the impact of globalism on the world. The twelve oil paintings on view depict nature, architecture, technology, commerce and man, each work provoking the viewer to explore the similarities and differences that the Artist perceives. The striking views of the city, the ocean, and life itself are infused with the Artists powerful and atmospheric use of light. The cover painting, The Fallen Angel (El Ãngel Caido), 2017, illuminates a nineteenth-century bronze sculpture against the dramatic contemporary night skyline ... More | |
Hamed Abdalla, Al Tamazouq (Torn), 1975, 92 x 73 cm. Acrylic paper canvas. Courtesy of Hamed Abdalla family collection.
LONDON.- To celebrate the organisations 10th anniversary this year, The Mosaic Rooms present an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events running from spring 2018 to autumn 2019. Opening its doors to artists, writers and thinkers from the Arab world and Iran and showcasing artworks unseen in the UK, this season offers audiences an exceptional insight into overlooked aspects of the regions rich art and culture. Founded in 2008 as a non-profit initiative of the A.M. Qattan Foundation, The Mosaic Rooms have become an internationally renowned multidisciplinary space, dedicated to contemporary culture from and about the Arab world. The organisation offers an important independent platform to emerging artists from the region as well as established figures who still remain little known internationally. Omar Al-Qattan, Chair of the A.M. Qattan Foundation and one of its founders says: When we started the AM Qattan Foundation in the m ... More |
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Images Publishing to release new book offering a compelling visual record of post-war Vietnam
NEW YORK, NY.- Documentary photographer William E. Crawford was one of the first Western photographers to gain access to post-war North Vietnam after the war ended, in 1985. He has photographed the capital, Hanoi, at regular intervals since 1985, concentrating on the colonial and indigenous architecture, urban details, landscapes, and intimate portraits of people in their home settings, street scenes, and the city's surrounding countryside. Crawford is the only known Western or Vietnamese photographer to approach Hanoi as a study over time. In the years before the tourist boom, he was often the only American in the North. Crawford's early photographs reveal a city in extreme disrepair, but with enough colonial and pre-colonial detail remaining to give a sense of what the city had looked like in better times. In 1986, the Communist leadership began to shift from ... More
Exhibition brings together works that negotiate a range of Afro-Diasporic experiences
CHICAGO, IL.- In Their Own Form at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago seeks to illuminate the myriad ways blackness might hope to exist without the imposition of oppression, racism and stereotypes ever-present in Western cultures, mediated through Afrofuturist themes including time-travel and escapism. Afrofuturism refers to a cross-disciplinary genre that combines science fiction, Afrocentrism, fantasy, technology, and non-Western mythologies as an intellectual and artistic strategy to reimagine and repurpose the fraught past, present, and future of the transnational black experience. Bringing together 13 artists and 33 photographic and video works that negotiate a range of Afro-Diasporic experiences, In Their Own Form prefaces personhood, both fantastical and actual, over perceived realities. Highlights ... More
Fondazione Fotografia Modena opens a solo exhibition of works by artist Sharon Lockhart
MODENA.- Fondazione Fotografia Modena is presenting a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart (b. Massachusetts, United States, 1964). Hosted in Fondazione Fotografias temporary exhibition venue MATA, a former tobacco factory located in Modenas city centre, the show introduces three new, interconnected series of photographic and sculptural works, conceived especially for this venue and inspired by its workers social activism. Throughout her career, Lockhart has immersed herself in communities to make worksincluding photographs, films and installationsthat uniquely capture groups and individuals through studied, choreographed compositions. The points of departure for Lockharts new works stem from her ongoing interest in portraiture, representation, movement, labour and the power of women. Comprising ... More
Exhibition of Kais Salman's newest paintings opens at Ayyam Gallery Beirut
BEIRUT.- Ayyam Gallery Beirut announces Cities presenting Kais Salmans newest paintings. In his older works, Kais Salman utilises satire to subvert the normalisation of greed, vanity, and ideological extremism that is rapidly defining our era. Seeking to confront and exorcise sociocultural manifestations of such depravity, Salman taps into ugliness and abjection through intentionally hyperbolised imagery accentuated by punches of colour and aestheticised forms. In his latest series, the artist takes these forms and explores their abstraction, in search of new compositions. Drawing upon folktales, epics, and myths, Salman creates alternate realities in which the characters he introduces, sometimes seen lined side by side, make up the basis of these worlds or cities. Introducing more figures than in his older works, each takes on an interdependent role, playing ... More
Bouchra Khalili's first solo exhibition in Austria opens at The Secession
VIENNA.- Bouchra Khalilis first solo exhibition in Austria showcases the Moroccan-French artists video trilogy The Speeches Series (201213), a selection from the mixed media installation Foreign Office (2015), and The Tempest Society (2017), a 60 minutes film premiered at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. The history of international solidarity forms the narrative theme running through the exhibition, with a particular emphasis on anti-colonialism and international revolutionary liberation movements that sought to strengthen socially marginalized groups and bring about their emancipation. Foreign Office focuses on the decade that followed Algerias independence and Algiers, between 1962 and 1972, became a mecca for revolutionaries, hosting representations of numerous international liberation movements such as The Black Panther ... More
Russian propaganda investigated in The Wolfsonian's summer 2018 season
MIAMI, FLA.- For summer 2018, The WolfsonianFlorida International University is tapping into todays fascination with Russian propaganda through two coinciding shows focused on early 20th-century Soviet graphic design. Constructing Revolution: Soviet Propaganda Posters from Between the World Wars (April 13August 12), organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, and the complementary library installation Red and Black: Revolution in Soviet Propaganda Graphics (April 5August 5) will shed light on ties between cultural life and revolutionary ideology in the decades following the 1917 Russian Revolution. Both shows explore how designers were inspired by the utopian ideals of the revolution to develop new techniques of graphic persuasion on behalf of Russias Communist dictatorship. With Constructing Revolution, ... More
Rago's $1.2 million Remix Auction proves the allure of classic and contemporary design
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago Arts and Auction Centers Remix Auction brought $1,271,575 in sales on April 7, 2018. The one day sale of nearly 700 lots presented pieces of mid-century modern and 21st century design alongside period furnishings, heirloom silver, Asian and compelling art. Saturdays Remix auction achieved high prices for a wide range of property. The break-out star was lot 2194, a pair of Yongzheng Style porcelain loving bowls, each decorated with copper red bats, which exceeded all expectations and sold for $102,400 on the online auction platform Bidsquare, demonstrating how robust the Asian art market can be for fresh property. Works of fine silver sold admirably and surpassed expectations including lot 2252, a Gorham Martele silver tea & coffee service, which realized a final price of $22,500; lot 2171, a Tiffany & Co. sterling silver assembled ... More
Shannon's to host its bi-annual live fine art auction at their Milford, Connecticut gallery
MILFORD, CONN.- Important American paintings from the 19th century through the Contemporary era will come up for bid during Shannons bi-annual American & European Fine Art Auction, slated for Thursday, April 26th, online and in the Milford gallery, starting at 6 pm Eastern time. The auction will feature nearly 250 lots, to include quality examples from the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, Modernism and European fine art. Leading the auction is a painting of New York City as viewed from Brooklyn by the famed American Impressionist Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937). The fresh-to-the-market work depicts the busy ferry traffic on the East River and the Brooklyn Docks looking out toward lower Manhattan. Estimated at $200,000-300,000, this rare gem is expected to attract the attention of museums and collectors alike. Another standout market- ... More
Gorham Martelé tea and coffee service to vie for top-lot honors at Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A stunning tea and coffee service is expected to vie for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Silver & Vertu Auction April 25 in Dallas, Texas. The Six-Piece Gorham Martelé Silver Tea and Coffee Service, Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1917 (est. $25,000-35,000) includes a hot water kettle and stand, a coffee pot, a teapot, covered sugar, creamer and tray, each with chased repoussé poppy and foliate motifs. At 423 troy ounces, this substantial delicate tour de force took 513 hours to produce. "This auction includes extraordinary pieces created by fine silversmiths and goldsmiths from England and the Continent to America, Mexico and Asia," said Heritage Auctions Silver & Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon. "The lots span from fine 18th-century works by Georgian silversmiths to the 21st century creations of Yossi Swed." Lots by sought after ... More
Thomas Rehbein Galerie opens exhibition of works by Stephan Melzl
COLOGNE.- Stephan Melzl´s small format paintings, executed on wooden boards measuring 65 x 50 cm, display an exquisite coloring, its striking intensity resulting from a slow layering of transparent shades. After an initial sketch with which he structures the pictorial space, Melzl wholly dedicates himself to painting, the composition emerging as a result of his concentrated study of the effects that arise while applying coats of translucent paint. Melzl detects an atmosphere, its distinct mood evoked by a certain color scheme and completed through the gradual appearance of a contour, whose course Melzl sets out to trace until arriving at a concrete shape. The beholder is enthralled by the artificially enhanced iridescent glow and the smooth glaze of the surface, the works radiant on the gallery walls like sparkling gems. In all, the precious appearance endows ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Lawrence was born April 13, 1769. Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 - 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. In this image: Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Portrait of the Hon. Emily Mary Lamb (1787 - 1869), 1803. ©The National Gallery.
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