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British architect David Chipperfield poses inside the James Simon Gallery, a new centrally located visitor centre between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Pergamon Museum, on Museum Island in Berlin on December 13, 2018. The gallery, designed by British architect David Chipperfield, will provide access to all four museums located on the island, and is expected to open to the public during summer 2019. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Berlin inaugurated a new addition to its UNESCO-listed Museum Island on Thursday, after a construction delay lasting several years and at costs that were twice the budgeted sum. Keys to the James Simon Gallery were finally handed over to Berlin's museum authorities, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Designed by British star architect David Chipperfield, the 4,600 square metres (49,500 square feet) building will be a one-stop entry to the group of five museums on the island. Besides housing a common ticketing point for the museums, the gallery also features a space for temporary exhibitions, a bookstore, an auditorium and a cafe. It will be opened to the public from July next year. Michael Eissenhauer, the director of Germany's pu ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this image: A master artisan in the Eli Wilner & Company studio hand-carves lengths of ripple molding for a large Dutch-style frame being created for a painting by Joseph Wolf in the collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY.
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| | | National Portrait Gallery to stage major new exhibition on the women who shaped Pre-Raphaelite art | | Eli Wilner & Company reframes Joseph Wolf's Bearded Vultures Attacking an Ibex for the National Museum of Wildlife Art | | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, receives transformative gift of Chinese paintings and calligraphy |
Fanny Cornforth is the model for The Blue Bower by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1856, The Henry Barber Trust, the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery, London is to stage the first-ever major exhibition to focus on the untold story of the women of Pre-Raphaelite art as part of a 2019 autumn season that also includes the first exhibition situating leading contemporary artist Elizabeth Peyton within the historical tradition of portraiture. Both exhibitions will include works on public display for the first time in the UK. 160 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters (17 October 2019 26 January 2020), explores the overlooked contribution of twelve women who contributed to the movement in different ways. Featuring new discoveries and unseen works from public and private collections across the world, the exhibition reveals the women behind the pictures and their creative roles in Pre-Raphaelites successive phases between 1850 and 1900. Women, such as Joanna ... More | |
Joseph Wolf (German, 1820 1899), Bearded Vultures Attacking an Alpine Ibex, 1861. Oil on canvas. 90.5 x 67 inches. Gift of the 2013 Collectors Circle, Conservation and Reframing Sponsored by the 2017 Collectors Circle, Frame a Partial Gift of Eli Wilner & Company, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY.
NEW YORK, NY.- The National Museum of Wildlife Art first approached Eli Wilner & Company for the reframing of Joseph Wolfs 1861 Bearded Vultures Attacking an Ibex in March of 2014. This massive painting, 90 ½ x 67 inches, had previously been housed in a 20th century reproduction frame, machine shaped and finished with metal leaf, and therefore not original to the artwork. Joseph Wolf (1820-1899) was a German-born painter, who later lived and worked in London, and is known for having helped establish wildlife art as a genre. Taking into consideration the artists regional influences as well as the dramatic subject matter, the Wilner team suggested creating a replica of a 19th Century European frame from their inventory of over 3,000 antique frames. This Dutch-style ... More | |
Xiang Shengmo (15971658), Self‑ portrait, 1646. Ink and color on paper. Gift of the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection and family in memory of Weng Tonghe. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that it has received the largest and most significant gift of Chinese paintings and calligraphy in the Museums history: the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection, comprising 183 objects that were acquired by and passed down through six generations of a single family. The donation was made by Wan-go H. C. Wengone of the most respected collectors and connoisseurs of Chinese painting in the worldand his family. Wengs great-great-grandfather assembled the core of the collection during the 19th century. The Weng Collection is considered among the greatest private holdings of Chinese art in the U.S., distinguished for its superb quality, abundance of work by the great masters of Chinese art, fine condition and well-documented provenance. Encompassing 130 paintings, 31 works of calligraphy, 18 ink rubbings and four textiles, the ... More |
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| | | Radiohead, Janet Jackson, Cure lead 2019 Rock Hall of Fame class | | Fashion mogul Berge's radical chic library goes on sale | | Qatar to open delayed national museum in March 2019 |
In this file photo taken on August 17, 2018, singer/songwriter Janet Jackson attends hers and Daddy Yankee's single release party for the new song "Made For Now" at Samsung 837 in New York. Angela Weiss / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Pop icon Janet Jackson, angst rockers Radiohead and post-punk innovators The Cure on Thursday earned spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, organizers announced. Also joining the Hall in the Class of 2019 is American folk rock legend Stevie Nicks, already an inductee with her band Fleetwood Mac, but now also honored as a solo artist. British heavy metal group Def Leppard, pop experimentalists Roxy Music and English psychedelic rock harmonists The Zombies round out the list of artists entering the shrine to rock culture. The Cleveland-based Hall of Fame -- which surveyed more than 1,000 musicians, historians and industry members to choose the winners -- will honor the seven acts in a gala concert on March 29 in New York. The inclusion of Janet ... More | |
In this file photo taken on February 11, 2015, French businessman Pierre Berge poses at his office in Paris, France. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Revolutionary tomes by Karl Marx and the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin from the library of one of richest men in fashion go under the hammer Friday in Paris. The fourth part of the sale of the late style mogul Pierre Berge's collection of rare books -- one of the richest in private hands -- are expected to make several million euros. It includes a first edition of Bakunin's seminal "Statism and Anarchy" which was secretly printed in Switzerland in 1873, the only one of his books published during his lifetime. It will be sold alongside a proof of his old rival Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" which includes the communist thinker's corrections. The publisher's contract for the work and letters between Marx and his French editor, his friend Friedrich Engels and the French proto-anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon went for 1.7 million euros ($1.9 million) at a ... More | |
French architect Jean Nouvel gives a press conference during the presentation of the National Museum of Qatar's project on December 12, 2018 at the Cartier Foundation in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
DOHA (AFP).- Qatar's long-delayed national museum, a sprawling 52,000-square metre building in the capital Doha, will finally open in March 2019, officials said on Monday. Estimated to have cost $434 million (380 million euros), the French-designed museum in the shape of a desert rose was first due to open in 2016 but is now set to start welcoming the public next year. "It is definitely opening on March 28th," said Karen Exell, senior museum development specialist. "It has been delayed before, we've had a big push this last year and it's very important to the whole team to now reach the end of this journey." The museum was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, who was also responsible for the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Exell, who described the project as "hugely ambitious", said the desert rose design was groundbreaking. "It has given ... More |
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| | | Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018 now open | | Paul Mellon Centre acquires Paul Oppe Library and Archive | | Cooper Hewitt explores the future of mobility in new exhibition |
Shilpa Gupta, Installation view at Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2018, Courtesy of Kochi Biennale Foundation.
KOCHI.- The fourth edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale has opened its gates to all, ushering in another season of contemporary art, conversation, and celebration. Titled Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life, the Biennale will run until March 29, 2019, with over 100 projects displayed in heritage properties, public spaces, and galleries across Fort Kochi, Mattancherry, and Ernakulam, on Indias southwestern coast. On her vision for this edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, curator Anita Dube remarked, From the conceptual level, to the embodied experience of the Biennale visitor, Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life attempts to offer a platform that operates through radical openness. The exhibition whose didactic model is complicated and liberated by a collaborative space called the Pavilion is energised by the interactions between works, the ... More | |
Material from the Paul Oppé Archive & Library, photo © Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
LONDON.- The Paul Mellon Centre announced that it has been permanently allocated the Paul Oppé Library and Archive under the Acceptance in Lieu Scheme. It is one of the largest and most important additions to the Centres Research Collections. The library of Adolph Paul Oppé (1878-1957), art historian and art collector, includes auction sale catalogues, printed books (including many rare titles), and annotated and manuscript versions of his own books. The archive includes Oppés extensive series of diaries, notebooks, correspondence, travel notes and journals, as well as Oppé family papers. Oppé was a British art historian, critic, art collector and museum official. Educated at New College, Oxford, he taught at both the University of St Andrews and Edinburgh (1902-5); worked as a civil servant at the Board of Education (1905-38); served as the Deputy Director at the V & A (1906-7 & 1910-13); and was elected as a Fe ... More | |
CanguRo (prototype), 2018; Designed by Shunji Yamanaka; Fabricated by fuRo (Japan); Chiba Institute of Technology (fuRo). © Courtesy of Chiba Institute of Technology (fuRo).
NEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility exhibition Dec. 14 through March 31, 2019. Featuring 40 projects that explore salient topics around the future of mobility and the urban environment, the exhibition will be punctuated with six provocations and a selection of design responses that reimagine livable streets and the way people, goods and services will move in a new age of connected and transformational mobility. Organized by Cara McCarty, the museums director of curatorial; Cynthia E. Smith, curator of socially responsible design; and Julie Pastor, curatorial assistant, The Road Ahead addresses the fundamental question: how do people want to live? On view in the third floor Barbara and Morton Mandel Design Gallery, ... More |
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| | | Art Miami and CONTEXT Art Miami report strong editions | | Christie's December Post-War and Contemporary Art & Design sales total $16.3 million | | Alexander and Bonin now represent Dalton Paula |
Keith Sonnier, Fa-Sel (Sel Series), 1978. Photo: Galerie Forsblom.
MIAMI, FLA.- Art Miami, in its 29th edition as the leading international contemporary and modern art fair, alongside the 7th edition of sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami, took place December 4th through 9th and reported consistent high value sales, as well as strong attendance figures, with more than 84,000 prestigious art collectors, connoisseurs, advisors and museum professionals attending throughout the week. Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami, said, This was our most successful fair to date when you consider the volume of sales of important art works, the overall quality of the artists and respected international galleries that exhibited. Art Miami continues to remain as a key destination during art week for seasoned collectors when acquiring the most important fresh works of art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Renowned as one of the nations foremost international contemporary and modern art fairs, collectors ... More | |
The top lot of the auction was a rare and important Tiffany Studios Pond Lily lamp, circa 1903 which sold for $3,372,500, establishing a new world auction record for Tiffany Studios. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Design auction totaled $8,493,125 selling 84% by lot and 96% by value. The top lot of the auction was a rare and important Tiffany Studios Pond Lily lamp, circa 1903 which sold for $3,372,500, establishing a new world auction record for Tiffany Studios. Additional great results were achieved for a Canard aux Nénuphars three-part centerpiece, made in 1991 by François-Xavier Lalanne which realized $250,000 against a high-estimate of $150,000 and Frank Lloyd Wrights rare and important urn, Circa 1902 which sold for $576,500. The single owner French art glass sale, Masterpieces in Glass: The Nakamoto Collection realized $2,728,000. The top lot of the auction was a 'Lys' vase, 1900-1903 by Ãmile Gallé which sold for $444,500, the second highest ... More | |
Dalton Paula, João de Deus Nascimento 2018. Oil on canvas, 45 x 61 cm. Image courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York, and MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo). Photo: Paulo Rezende.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin announced they now represent Dalton Paula. He is also represented by Galeria Sé, São Paulo. Dalton Paula was born in 1982 in Brasilia and lives in Goiânia. Paula works with painting, photography, and installation to explore the exigencies of the Black Atlantic, knowledge production in the long wake of racial violence, and the religious rites and rituals of the African diaspora. Of particular note are his large-scale paintings, spartan assemblages of objects over abstracted earth-toned backgrounds, and portraits. Paulas ongoing interest in portraiture reflects his deep engagement with the framework of Brazilian history; his subjects are often historical figures whose faces have never been recorded, such as Zeferina, a woman who founded a community for escaped slaves ... More |
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Abby Chen appointed Head of Contemporary Art Department at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has named Abby Chen, an internationally recognized curator, educator, writer and community organizer, to be the museums first head of department for contemporary art. Chen will report to the Asian Art Museums chief curator, Dr. Laura Allen. Born in China, Chen holds an M.A. in visual and critical Studies from the California College of Arts. She will assume her new position at the Asian Art Museum on Jan. 7, 2019. We are thrilled to welcome Abby to the team because she is, above all, a bridge-builder. She builds bridges between audiences and art, between artists and institutions, and between institutions and important ideas and issues that we all confront today, says Dr. Jay Xu, director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum. Since 2006, Chen has been the artistic director at the Chinese Culture ... More
The Collection of Bonnie O'Boyle delivers another single-owner success at Freeman's
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Monday, December 10, brought two back-to-back auctions to Freemans. The first, A Bucks County Life: The Collection of Bonnie OBoyle, was a single-owner sale highlighting the eclectic taste of a local philanthropist. With close to 200 lots, spanning Pennsylvania Impressionism, Modern & Contemporary Art and 20th Century Design, the OBoyle Collection represented a lifetime of collecting by a true Renaissance woman. The auction totaled $781,350, with 95% of lots sold. Highlights from the auction include paintings by Carroll Cloar, who is perhaps best known for his whimsical narrative evocations of the American South in the early 20th century. Lot 57, The Big House in Big Flat, exceeded its presale estimate of $20,000-30,000 when it sold for $53,125, making it the most expensive painting by Cloar ever sold ... More
Smithsonian Latino Center's Molina Family Latino Gallery to open in 2021
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian Latino Centers first gallery space, the Molina Family Latino Gallery, will be dedicated to celebrating the U.S. Latino experience and open at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History in 2021. The gallery, designed by Museum Environments/Branded Environments LLC, will feature 4,500 square feet of bilingual stories for all audiences. Rotating exhibitions featuring multimedia activities, objects and first-person narratives will be complemented by participatory experiences and viewer-generated content. The establishment of the Molina Family Latino Gallery is an important milestone for the Smithsonian and the nation, said Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton. For more than two decades, the Smithsonian Latino Center has shined a light on the contributions of the ... More
Carol LeBlanc named President of Smithsonian Enterprises
WASHINGTON, DC.- Carol LeBlanc, currently senior vice president for consumer and education products at Smithsonian Enterprises, will become the president of the organization effective Dec. 10. LeBlanc has held two senior positions at Smithsonian Enterprises since she arrived in 2008. As president, LeBlanc will oversee over 350 full-time employees with total revenues of $183.2 million in fiscal year 2018. Smithsonian Enterprises oversees the commercial activities of the Institution with three primary business divisions: media, retail and consumer and education products. The media division includes Smithsonian and Air & Space magazines, which reach over 8 million monthly readers; the online platform www.smithsonian.com, with more than 10 million unique monthly visitors; Smithsonian Books; and the award-winning Smithsonian Channel, which ... More
Tramway presents an installation by Cécile B. Evans
GLASGOW.- This exhibition at Tramway represents Cécile B. Evans most ambitious installation to date and constitutes the culmination of a three-part installation and video work titled AMOS' WORLD (2017- ongoing). Often starting from the relationship between humans and new technologies, Cécile B. Evans' work reflects on the value of emotions in contemporary society by exploring forms of human subjectivity and the systems that carry them, as well as the limits of both. AMOS WORLD is conceived as a television show set in a socially progressive housing estate. The show, divided into episodes, follows an architect called Amos and the inhabitants of the housing estate. Viewers are first introduced to Amos and some of the tenants, individuals interwoven into the larger infrastructure of Amos building. His comfortable perch takes a turn when his perfect ... More
Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien features works by Annette Kelm
VIENNA.- Annette Kelms photographs show precise fractious motifs that quote the still life, object or studio photography, or the classical architecture shot, yet without ever fully complying with the conventions governing these genres. They flatten things into the plane or subject them to multiplication in series. Often captured in frontal views and in great detail, the minimal and yet visually opulent object worlds underscore their translation into the two-dimensional space of photography. Kelms conceptual approach, the exceptional sharpness of her images, and the neutral lighting lend the scenes rendered in her works a peculiar salience. The emphasis on the factual precludes any symbolism strictly speaking, yet the cultural or ideological character with which certain objects are fraught is unmistakable. This focus on formal criteria and the eschewal of narration ... More
Chemould Prescott Road opens exhibition of works by Bijoy Jain
MUMBAI.- Bijoy Jain returns to the gallery after his first solo exhibition in 2013. A practicing architect, Bijoy also has a functioning art practice, and Chemould Prescott Road has had an engagement with him ever since. Abhaya: In the palm of our hand is Bijoy Jain's second solo exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road from 4 December 2018 to 3 January 2019. Art/Architecture or Architecture/Art: What comes before, what comes after is not a question that Bijoy Jain addresses and he has never felt the need to do so. His work as an architect has always been layered with artistic approaches: land art, conceptual practices, abstraction, expressionism, figuration, gestures, where form and formlessness merged into seamless areas, unfettered by boundaries. Space, for Bijoy Jain, is a container rather than a challenge to "taming" and controlling it, and ... More
Galerie Emanuel Layr Rome opens exhibition of works by Tillman Kaiser
ROME.- Kaleidoscopes are simple, old-fashioned and yet remarkably fascinating toys: if we look towards a light source through a small, telescope-like cylinder flled with multicoloured glass beads or similar, the refection and rotation of the cylinder cause dynamic geometric patterns to emerge, composing multifaceted and mysterious images (of the world). The effect is similar in Tillman Kaiser's paintings and sculptural objects, in which patterns emerge out of repetitive crystalline and geometrical shapes. The complexity of the manifestations are reinforced by Kaiser's working method, merging media such as painting and photography (including photograms or cyanotypes) and silkscreen in his paintings. In this way he combines techniques based on preparation and planning, and not generally associated with spontaneous expression, with the medium of painting ... More
Eric Carle & H.A. Rey set records in December 6 auction at Swann
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries auction of Illustration Art on December 6 saw a bustling auction room as well as live bidding from the newly launched Swann Galleries app. Original works from childrens literature and Peanuts comic strips from Charles M. Schulz were among highlights. Of the sale, Illustration Art Specialist Christine von der Linn noted, We had a strong turnout and set records for six illustrators. The breadth and quality of the material enabled us to further the appreciation and enjoyment of this specific category of art. Illustrations from childrens literature saw outstanding results, boasting five of the six records: Eric Carles The Very Hungry Caterpillar with $20,000; H.A. Reys color pencil work for Cecily G and the 9 Monkeys, 1939the first book to introduce Curious Georgeearned $17,500; a watercolor and ink alternate version ... More
RM Sotheby's reports $423 million in global auction sales in 2018
BLENHEIM.- RM Sothebys, the worlds largest auction house for investment quality automobiles, has released global auction sales totals and highlights for 2018 following the companys final event at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles this past weekend. 2018 proved to be an outstanding year for RM Sothebys despite the subdued conditions in the collector car market, says Kenneth Ahn, President, RM Sothebys. RM Sothebys maintained market leadership as the largest collector car auction house by total sales and saw strong activity in the high end of the market, as we sold 68 collector cars for over $1 million each, for a combined value of more than $222 million (approx. 52 percent of our total sales); we also maintained our position as number one auction house in $1 million+ cars by both total sales and the number of cars sold. As illustrated ... More
Untitled Art, Miami Beach's seventh edition closes with record attendance
MIAMI, FLA.- On Sunday, December 9, Untitled Art, Miami Beach closed its seventh edition with reports of robust sales starting at the preview and continuing through closing day. The fair held its position as a must-attend event amongst the many activities taking place during Miami Art Week, setting a record for attendance of 43,000 visitors that included notable collectors, curators, museum professionals, artists and the general public. The 2018 edition of the fair was led by Executive Director Manuela Mozo in partnership with Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud and guest curator AGUAS. The curated fair featured a dynamic roster of 133 international exhibitors from 29 countries and 55 cities. The fair was pleased to welcome 46 new exhibitors from around the globe including galleries from Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Italy, Peru, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe as ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter George Rodrigue died December 14, 2013. George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 - December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame.In this image: Wendy and Me.
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