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Wes Anderson & Juman Malouf in the Picture Gallery, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna © KHM-Museumsverband.
by Jastinder Khera
VIENNA (AFP).- The "treasure chamber" at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum takes on a new meaning thanks to an exhibition curated by American filmmaker Wes Anderson and his partner, illustrator and author Juman Malouf. The pair were given free rein to assemble pieces from the vast collections and archives of the museum, as well as some of its partner institutions, in order to put together the six-month show, entitled "Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures". The opening of the exhibition on Monday evening was attended by some of Anderson's perennial collaborators such as actors Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Swinton. Tongue firmly in cheek, 49-year-old Anderson gave a short speech describing the process of putting the exhibition together with Malouf, 43, as "the culmination of several years of patient, frustrating negotiation, bitter, angry debate, sometimes completely irrational confrontation and often Machiavellian duplicity and deception." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman and a man look at pictures displayed during an invitational preview day of the 22nd edition of the Paris Photo international art fair at the Grand Palais, in Paris on November 7, 2018. The fair featuring up to 200 exhibitors from across the world runs from November 8 to November 11, 2018. Photography weighs only 1.1% of the world's art auction products, and 160,000 snapshots were auctioned in 2017 for a total of 163 million dollars, according to a Artprice report published on November 7, 2018, the eve of Paris Photo. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP
| Galerie Alexis Pentcheff opens exhibition of twenty-five original works by Le Corbusier | | French court finds Jeff Koons guilty of plagiarism | | Exhibition at Cheim & Read explores the range of Louise Bourgeois' spiral motifs | 
Le Corbusier, Taureau, 1956 (detail). Monogrammed and dated lower left Pastel wash on fine woven paper, 45.00 x 54.50 cm.
MARSEILLE.- With twenty-five original works, Galerie Alexis Pentcheff and Aktis Gallery are presenting an exclusive exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest architects of his time, Le Corbusier. As an emblematic figure of modernity, Charles-Ãdouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965), is all at once: architect, urban planner, painter, sculptor, designer and poet. Intrinsically linked, his architectural language and his plastic vocabulary have had a significant influence on the 20th-century avant-garde. In search of the universal man, the Open Hands creator relentlessly explores the field of possibilities of the modern world and thus impulses a new way of living through his revolutionary urban vision and his new measurement standard, the Modulor. The body of work presented at Galerie Alexis Pentcheff aims ... More | | 
US artist Jeff Koons poses during an interview with AFP in Hong Kong. Anthony WALLACE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A French court on Thursday ruled that celebrity US artist Jeff Koons copied an idea from an advertisement used by a French clothing chain, fining him along with the museum which exhibited the contested work. Franck Davidovici, a French advertising executive, had sued Koons for plagiarism over Koons' "Fait d'Hiver" from 1988, which shows a pig standing over a woman lying on her back, her arms sprawled behind her head. It bore a striking resemblance to a campaign created by Davidovici for the Naf Naf chain in the mid-1980s, down to the woman's facial expression and hairstyle and the cask hanging from the pig's neck. And the Naf Naf campaign was also called Fait d'Hiver, a play on words suggesting "Winter News in Brief". Davidovici sued Koons after the work was shown at the Pompidou museum in Paris in 2014. There are four copies of "Fait d'Hiver", a ... More | | 
Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010), SPIRAL, 2009. Gouache on paper, 23 1/2 x 18 inches 59.7 x 45.7 centimeters. © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is presenting Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, the gallerys ninth solo exhibition devoted to the artists work. The show explores the range of Bourgeois spiral motifs as expressed in sculpture, painting, and drawing, from the early 1950s through 2010, the year of her death. It also includes a series of spiral word drawings made on blue paper in 1986. The exhibition, the final offering in the gallerys current Chelsea location, opened on November 8, 2018, and runs through December 22. In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor, and gouache, Bourgeois investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite ... More |
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| Never-before-seen fossils from Angola bring a strange yet familiar ocean into view | | Paddle8 announces 'Through Warhol's Lens': A sale dedicated to the photography of Andy Warhol | | Rare Revolutionary War portrait acquired by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | 
Sea Monsters Unearthed will immerse visitors underwater in both Cretaceous and modern ocean environments with vivid paleoart of life beneath the wavescourtesy of natural history artist Karen Carr.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition Nov. 9 revealing how millions of years ago, large-scale natural forces created the conditions for real-life sea monsters to thrive in the South Atlantic Ocean basin shortly after it formed. Sea Monsters Unearthed: Life in Angolas Ancient Seas will offer visitors the opportunity to dive into Cretaceous Angolas cool coastal waters, examine the fossils of striking marine reptiles that once lived there and learn about the forces that continue to mold life in the ocean and on land. Over 134 million years ago, the South Atlantic Ocean basin did not yet exist. Africa and South America were one contiguous landmass on the verge of separating. As the two continents drifted apart, an entirely new marine environmentthe South Atlantic ... More | | 
Debbie Harry (Blondie) Seated, 1981, Gelatin silver print. Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8, the leading online auction house, announces Through Warhols Lens, a sale dedicated to the photography of Andy Warhol. Featuring more than 40 black-and-white Gelatin Silver Prints and color polaroids, the range of works present a visual diary of Warhols world: from intimate snap shots of celebrity friends to behind the scenes views into his process for portrait commissions from 1974 1986. The sale will be live to bidders worldwide November 16 28. Highlights of the sale include candid photographs of the eras superstars of music, art, fashion, literature, film and politics including subjects such as Diana Ross, Debbie Harry, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Jones, Nancy Reagan, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Halston, Liza Minelli and Joseph Beuys. Beyond the bold-faced-names, these works also offer an intimate snapshot into Warhol ... More | | 
Unidentified artist, Portrait of Major Patrick Campbell, 1775-1776. Oil on canvas. Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections, 2018-26.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Likenesses of British officers who served in the Revolutionary War are rare. Therefore, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundations recent acquisition of the first bust-length, British military portrait for its collection is significant especially given the connection of this oil on canvas to events that happened nearby. The subject, Major Patrick Campbell, was a Scottish officer who served in the British lines at the Siege of Yorktown. Until the last few decades, the portrait descended through the family of Major Campbells sister. To be able to accurately depict our nations enduring story, especially the individuals who participated in events that happened in such close proximity to Williamsburg, is essential to our mission, said Mitchell B. Reiss, president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. The exceptional portraits in our collection, such as that of Major Campbell, enable u ... More |
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| Hamiltons presents the work of Daido Moriyama at Paris Photo | | Christie's to offer eye witness accounts of the Armistice from British officer Captain Jack Marriott | | Exhibition of new work by John "CRASH" Matos opens at JoAnne Artman Gallery | 
Hamiltons Lip Bar installation in Prismes, available in an edition of 3, replicates Bar Kuro, a small bar in Shinjuku. © Daido Moriyama, Courtesy Hamiltons Gallery, London.
PARIS.- Daido Moriyama is one of the few living modern masters of photography from Japan and the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. Hamiltons is presenting Moriyama at Paris Photo, both on the stand and in a special installation in PRISMES. The work exhibited on the stand has been produced exclusively for Hamiltons booth at Paris Photo as a silkscreen on canvas. Moriyama himself is attending Paris Photo this year in honour of the installation and will be in conversation with Simon Baker and Akio Nagasawa as part of the fair programme on Friday 9th November. Moriyamas work is notoriously gritty and challenging, often recording the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Haunted by the ... More | | 
The lot includes Captain Jack Marriotts extraordinarily detailed accounts of the negotiations, alongside two autograph letters, a sheet of blotting paper used at the Armistice and a printed text of the terms of the Armistice itself. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- On 12 December, Christies will offer eye witness accounts of the Armistice which ended the war to end all wars (estimated - £10,000 - £15,000). The lot includes Captain Jack Marriotts extraordinarily detailed accounts of the negotiations, alongside two autograph letters, a sheet of blotting paper used at the Armistice and a printed text of the terms of the Armistice itself. Marriott was one of only four British participants, and the notes and mementoes he kept summon up the scene with extraordinary vividness. Christies is pleased to offer such significant archival material on the year of the centenary of the end of World War I. The Armistice was negotiated between a remarkably restricted group of participants, ... More | | 
John "CRASH" Matos, The Inkspots (detail). Spray Paint on canvas, 72 x 72 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Iconic, sleek and smooth, the visual style of John CRASH Matos resounds with a singular, signature vibrancy. Throughout his almost four decade career, CRASHs work has engaged with environments on a huge scale - ranging from his early murals on the sides of NYC subway trains in the 70s, to more recent projects such as a large mural commission at Miamis Hard Rock Football Stadium. JoAnne Artman Gallery is presenting the artists new body of work that continues this conversation around scope, scale, and environment, through a continued exploration of the spray paint medium. CRASHs radiant, fluorescent palette cements his work firmly in the present as the artist works within a dialogue culled from classic pop culture, comic book and print references. A frequent collaborator, CRASHs process is rooted within his identity as a Bronx-born graffiti artist, having ... More |
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| Andrea Bayer named Deputy Director for Collections and Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art | | Irish artists Kennedy Browne Grapple with "Real World Harm" at Krannert Art Museum | | French composer Francis Lai of 'Love Story' fame dies | 
Andrea Bayer. Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Max Hollein, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Andrea Bayer has been appointed Deputy Director for Collections and Administration. In May 2018, Ms. Bayer was appointed Interim Deputy Director for Collections and Administration, continuing in her position as Jayne Wrightsman Curator in the Department of European Paintings. "Andrea Bayer is a highly respected scholar, an imaginative exhibition curator, and an esteemed colleague at The Met," said Mr. Hollein. "Throughout her time as Interim Deputy Director and before, she has shown exceptional leadership and great loyalty to our beloved Museum. I have been deeply impressed by her commitment and capabilities during my first few months as Director of the Museum and am excited that she has just accepted our offer to become Deputy Director." "As Curator in the Department of European Paintings, ... More | | 
Kennedy Browne, Real World Harm, 2018. Still from 360o video for Oculus, 5 minutes. Courtesy of the artists © Kennedy Browne.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Irish artists Kennedy Browne tell challenging, contemporary stories about technology and global commerce, while raising questions about individual privacy, corporate intent, and disclosure in The Special Relationship, an exhibition currently on view at Krannert Art Museum. It is the first solo exhibition in the U.S. for Kennedy Browne a collaboration of Irish artists Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne and premieres Real World Harm, a multi-faceted critique of social media. The exhibition includes videos, sound, and sculptural installations that examine how neoliberal systems of commerce, technology, and politics affect the individual. The questions they are trying to grapple with are really current, said Amy Powell, the curator of modern and contemporary art at Krannert Art Museum. The artists are interested in questions critical to this moment: ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on May 16, 2002 French cinema composer Francis Lai poses on the Croisette during the 55th Cannes film festival. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Francis Lai, the composer behind memorable songs and film scores for dozens of French artists, has died aged 86, the mayor of his Mediterranean hometown of Nice said Thursday. Besides writing music for stars like Edith Piaf and Juliette Greco, Lai was perhaps best known for creating the title track to the 1970 box-office hit "Love Story". "With just a few notes, Francis Lai had the gift of rendering grand films even more beautiful, even more moving," Culture Minister Franck Riester said on Twitter. "Now that he leaves us, his immortal scores resonate in our hearts," he said. Born into a family of gardeners in Nice in 1932, Lai taught himself music and began his career as an accordionist for the poet and singer Bernard Dimey, with whom he started writing songs. French stars Johnny Hallyday and Dalida, as well as American ... More |
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 Kuwaiti sculptors struggle for right to be seenKUWAIT CITY (AFP).- Kuwaiti sculptor Sami Mohammed finished his towering statue of the country's first emir over four decades ago, but now it just gathers dust unseen in a long-shuttered office block. Stymied by a conservative view of Islam that bans representations of the body, the 75-year-old faces any artist's nightmare: he can't get his work displayed to the public in his homeland. Like other sculptors in the Gulf state he bristles at claims that his creations constitute idol worship and urges the authorities to push back against demands he sees as outmoded. "We have to get past these issues because the human, the individual, has reason and thought, and it's really not possible that we would go back to worshipping idols," Mohammed, himself a devout Muslim, tells AFP. "We no longer live in a time of ignorance. We live in the era ... More Betts Project opens first exhibition of German architect Günter Günschel in the UKLONDON.- Betts Project is presenting the first exhibition of German architect Günter Günschel (19282008) in the UK. The exhibition of plotter drawings and anaglyph diagrams, made between 1988 and 1991, represents the most comprehensive presentation to date of this important and rarely exhibited body of work, showing the unique processes and ideas developed outside of the usual conventions of architectural drawing. Günschel was the chair of experimental architecture at the Braunschweig School of Fine Arts from 1968 to 1998, the experimental work operating between art and architecture. In her publication Günter Günschel, la rigueur de limaginaire, Cornelia Escher writes: Günter Günschels work reflects his research on the innovation of architectural forms. Throughout his career dedicated to experimentation, the designers predilection ... More Exceptionally rare Imperial nine-dragon dish is top seller at Bonhams Asian Week salesLONDON.- An exceptionally rare and large Imperial underglaze-blue and iron-red enamel 'nine-dragon' dish, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795), sold for £536,750 at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale in London today (Thursday, 8 November). It had been estimated at £400,000 600,000. Bonhams Global Head of Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Asaph Hyman said, Only a handful of Qianlong seal mark and period examples of dishes of this impressive size and bold decoration are known to exist in either museum or private collections. This important dish encapsulates the exacting and refined taste of the Qianlong Emperor together with the high skill and artistry of the artisans. The large dish had been in the collection of the British businessman and Hong Kong politician Sir David Newbigging who bought it on a trip to China in the 1960s. It had been consigned ... More New exhibition at NC Museum of Art showcases the 'Art of Science and Innovation'RALEIGH, NC.- A new exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Art of Science and Innovation, showcases the hidden beauty of biomedical research that could help unlock new, life-saving treatments. The free exhibition runs through Jan. 14, 2019, and features stunning images from the labs of UNC School of Medicine scientists. The exhibition contains just a few examples of how these researchers use images to better understand the structures that make up an organism, visualize the tissues of the brain that make memory possible, or capture the moment when a cell learns to differentiate itself. These images may one day rewrite the future of medicine by providing insight into the most basic functions of the body and deepening our understanding of such diverse diseases as cystic fibrosis, heart disease and autism spectrum disorder. The images ... More Gary Tatintsian Gallery opens exhibition of works by neo-conceptual artist Wim DelvoyeMOSCOW.- A neo-conceptual artist, Wim Delvoye (Born in 1965, Belgium) is widely known for contemporary art that cleverly combines philosophical ideas, a fresh use of materials and a love for craftsmanship. Blurring the boundary between the art of the past and the digital realm of current art practice, he makes aerodynamic, mathematically perfect, intricate sculptures that take both art and design to new levels of invention, laying down a lucid and amused glance at contemporary society. He explores art history, Gothic cathedrals and sculptures of the 19th century from Bosch and Brueghel to Warhol, simultaneously revealing the beauty of daily objects. With a Baroque gesture between homage and irreverence, he appropriates and deforms the motifs that inspire him. With the body of Gothic works that evolved since the early 2000s Delvoye walks a thin line ... More Monaco's ex-justice chief charged in Russian tycoon fraud inquiryMONACO (AFP).- Monaco's former justice minister has been charged as part of a long-running corruption inquiry involving the billionaire Russian owner of the principality's football club, prosecutors said Thursday. Philippe Narmino, who was forced to retire in 2017 over the allegations, is suspected of influence peddling and accepting bribes, the prosecutor's office said. The move comes after Dmitry Rybolovlev was detained for questioning this week over a scandal which erupted after claims he was swindled out of nearly a billion euros by a Swiss art dealer. Rybolovlev has been charged with influence peddling and bribery. Narmino's wife and son also face conspiracy charges, as does one of Rybolovlev's lawyers. Since 2015, the Russian tycoon has been locked in a legal battle with Yves Bouvier, an art dealer he accuses of charging inflated fees for dozens of works ... More Exhibition of works from 1968 to the present by Michael Heizer on view at GagosianPARIS.- Gagosian is presenting works by Michael Heizer, dating from 1968 to the present. Over fifty years, Heizer has redefined the very idea of sculpture in his explorations of size, mass, and process. His earth-moving constructions, paintings, and drawings explore the dynamics of positive and negative space. As a young artist in New York in the 1960s, Heizer began making displacement paintings, geometric canvases in light and dark tones. In the winter of 1967, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, he excavated several chasms in the earth, adapting the New York paintings to three dimensions. These un-sculptures, or sculptures in reverse, became the basis of a new sculptural vocabulary, as Heizer began using the land, and its removal, as his media. In the summer of 1968, Heizer installed Ciliata ... More Konchalovsky and Anisfeld lead MacDougall's Russian Art AuctionLONDON.- Museum quality works with great provenance lead MacDougalls November 2018 auction of Important Russian Art. The 1918 Petr Konchalovsky The Game of Billiards. Aristarkh Lentulov and Petr Konchalovsky, is estimated at £1,500,000 to £2,000,000. It is an iconic painting from one of the leading European collections of Russian art, which has never been previously offered at auction, making this sale a true sensation. The work depicts Aristarkh Lentulov and the artist himself, founders of the famous Russian avant-garde group Jack of Diamonds and both among the leading artists of the 20th century. The Game of Billiards. Aristarkh Lentulov and Petr Konchalovsky, on the par with the best Konchalovskys paintings at the State Tretyakov Gallery, belongs to the painters supreme achievements from his most acclaimed Jack of Diamonds ... More John F. Kennedy's Harvard sweater sold for more than $34k at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- John F. Kennedy's Harvard sweater sold for more than $34,140 at auction according to Boston-based RR Auction. The crimson red wool cardigan with shawl collar, featuring a large black block-letter H for his alma mater, Harvard, knitted into the the left breast. A label sewn into the collar is embroidered in red thread with his surname, Kennedy. The sweater was acquired by cameraman Herman Lang while shooting a television network's May 1964 interview of Jacqueline Kennedy: Being a chilly day in May, Lang remarked to a Kennedy staff member that he was catching a cold. The woman offered Mr. Lang this Harvard sweater to wear while he was filming outside. Apparently everyone laughed at Lang because the sweater was too big for him, but it was only when somebody mentioned that it was the late Presidents sweater and that his name ... More Vancouver Art Gallery celebrates record-breaking yearVANCOUVER.- Reaching the close of its 87th year in operation, the Vancouver Art Gallery reported an outstanding year for annual visitation, programs, and positive impact on the community. The 2017/18 fiscal year puts Western Canadas largest art museum in excellent positioning as it looks toward the construction of a transformational new building and continues its mission of ensuring art and cultures central place in the community. More than 600,000 visitors attended exhibitions and programs at the Gallery and its public art site, a new record exceeding 2016/2017 visitation by close to 100,000 people, and members surpassed 37,000. The programming of two major exhibitions also helped ensure the success of this fiscal year, starting with the opening of the tremendously popular summer 2017 exhibition Claude Monets Secret Garden. In ... More Freeman's Fine Jewelry Auction achieves $1.53 millionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Tuesdays rain couldnt put a damper on Freemans autumn Fine Jewelry auction. When the final hammer fell, the sale totaled over $1.53 million, and enjoyed a 94% sell through by value. Diamonds of all shapes and colors dominated the days events. Highlights of the top lots include Lot 147, a rare fancy blue diamond, from a private Kansas City gentleman weighing 1.17 carats, which sold for $175,000. Lot 136, an impressive unmounted pear-shaped diamond, weighing 8.06 carats, far exceeded its presale estimate of $75,000-95,000, when it sold for $156,250. A pair of diamond, ruby, and platinum clip earrings, set with baguette and old European-cut diamonds (Lot 151), a pair of Burma Ruby and diamond earrings by Raymond Yard tripled their estimate, when they sold for $25,000. Two Art Deco diamond and platinum bracelets ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank was born November 09, 1924. Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924) is a Swiss-American photographer and documentary filmmaker. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled The Americans, earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and nuanced outsider's view of American society. In this image: Robert Frank (U.S.A., b. Switzerland, 1924), Iowa, 1956. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Bowen H. McCoy, 1984.493.38 © Robert Frank.
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