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Julien Dupré Le Ballon. Image courtesy: Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., the New York gallery specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, is nearing completion of a virtual catalogue raisonné on Julien Dupré. The project began in 1991when gallery owner Howard Rehs noticed a lack of biographical information about the 19thcentury artist, Julien Dupré, whose paintings he was handling. According to Mr. Rehs, as the artists prices began to reach six figures, I started looking into the available biographical information. All I found was a very short listing (7 lines) in Benezit. That inspired me to start my research project. Now, almost 30 years later, and with the assistance of art historian Janet Whitmore, Ph.D., the project is about to be published in an online format. Over the last three decades, research into the Realist and Naturalist movements in 19th century France has been the subject of extensive art historical scholarship, and Duprés role in the devel ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day After some twelve years of project planning and construction, the Kunsthaus extension has been completed. At a formal ceremony on 11 December 2020, the commissioning body - the Einfache Gesellschaft Kunsthaus-Erweiterung (EGKE), made up of the City of Zurich, the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ZKG) and the Stiftung Zürcher Kunsthaus (SZK) - handed the keys to the building to its new owner, the SZK. The extension will be operated and used by the ZKG, in its capacity as patron association of the Kunsthaus.
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| Dutch Rijksmuseum announces landmark slavery exhibition | | Massimo De Carlo presents a new painting series of faces by Rob Pruitt | | A single senator dashes hopes for Latino and women's museums - for now |
Jacob Coeman, Pieter Cnoll, Cornelia van Nijenrode, their Daughters and Two Enslaved Servants, 1665, Rijksmuseum.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Amsterdam's famed Rijksmuseum unveiled plans Thursday for a landmark show next year about the Netherlands' colonial role in slavery, saying it would tackle questions raised by the Black Lives Matter movement. The "Slavery" exhibition will be the first major event on the sensitive subject of Dutch involvement in human trade across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans under one roof, museum officials said. It comes as the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States are changing perceptions globally, and with the debate at home about the Netherlands' own attitude to race and its colonial history. The colonial past of the Netherlands had an "important role in laying the foundations for the present-day Netherlands," Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits said at the exhibition's launch event, held online due to coronavirus restrictions. "In the colonial history slavery also has an important role and we felt that we should tell that story," ... More | |
Rob Pruitt: Masks. Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Belgioioso. From December 1, 2020 to January 22, 2021. Installation View: Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo presents Masks, Rob Pruitts 9th exhibition with the gallery and first solo show at the Palazzo Belgioioso space in Milan. Pruitts exhibition centres on a new painting series of faces, initially conceived as props for a dance performance that never was. The body of work began with the smaller canvases which are scaled to the human face and were to be held by the dancers as masks. Reimagining a project that began a decade ago of quick gestures over gradient fields, Pruitt continues his pursuit of depicting the complexities of personality and emotion through these simple means. With these new paintings, the facial gestures are cut into the canvas with a razor - destructive and creative at the same time, these gestures are married to an accumulation of gradients, patterns, and prints to create a character. Throughout his career Rob Pruitt has fine-tuned his ability to express nuanced ideas about cultur ... More | |
Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), right, walks through the Senate Subway at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 8, 2020. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times.
by Nicholas Fandos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For more than two decades, Latinos and their allies in Congress have been fighting to approve the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino in Washington. The push to create a national womens history museum has taken about as long. There have been studies and commissions, and this year, bipartisan bills authorizing their creation under the Smithsonian umbrella passed the House for the first time by overwhelming margins. So on Thursday night, as their congressional term dwindles to just days, Republican and Democratic senators gathered on the Senate floor in hopes of capturing overwhelming support to push both over the finish line. Instead, their attempt set off a rare and tense debate in the halls of Congress over what the nations museums stand for and the role of ethnic and gender identity in ... More |
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| Virus claims controversial Korean film director Kim Ki-duk | | 17th-century Spanish paintings on view at Georgia Museum of Art | | Kunsthaus Zurich's extension by David Chipperfield is complete |
In this file photo taken on September 4, 2012, Korean film director Kim Ki-Duk arrives for the screening of "Pieta" at the 69th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. Tiziana FABI / AFP.
by Imants Liepins and Anna Smolchenko in Moscow
RIGA (AFP).- Acclaimed South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk, who won global recognition for his violent works and faced allegations of abusing his actresses, died from coronavirus in Latvia on Friday, the country's top film official said. "Unfortunately, the sad news about Kim Ki-duk's death from coronavirus in Latvia is true," Dita Rietuma, head of the National Film Centre of Latvia, told AFP. "It is known from his contact persons that he died in a hospital in Riga around 1:30 a.m. earlier today," she added. The Korean director, whose works enjoyed huge acclaim at European film festivals where he scooped several awards, died just nine days shy of his 60th birthday. According to Rietuma, he was on a private visit to Latvia and was not planning any filming. Local media reported that the director was planning ... More | |
Attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598 1664), The Annunciation, 1639 40. Oil on canvas. Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, SC.
ATHENS, GA.- Following up on last years extended display of paintings celebrating Caravaggios influence, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is now showcasing six more paintings on loan from Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, South Carolina. The exhibition Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art focuses on the Golden Age of Spanish painting and is on view through November 2021. It features paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán, José AntolÃnez, Pedro Orrente, the workshop of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Herrera, the Elder, marked by dramatic lighting and strong emotion. Wall texts appear in both English and Spanish. Spain was one of the most important political powers in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, partially due to the other countries it colonized. The resources Spain extracted from the places it conquered in the Americas and other parts ... More | |
Kunsthaus Zürich: exterior view of the Moser building with Tactile Lights projection by Pipilotti Rist.
ZURICH.- After some twelve years of project planning and construction, the Kunsthaus extension has been completed. At a formal ceremony on 11 December 2020, the commissioning body the Einfache Gesellschaft Kunsthaus-Erweiterung (EGKE), made up of the City of Zurich, the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ZKG) and the Stiftung Zürcher Kunsthaus (SZK) handed the keys to the building to its new owner, the SZK. The extension will be operated and used by the ZKG, in its capacity as patron association of the Kunsthaus. The idea for an extension developed by the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft in 2001 took shape thanks to an architecture competition held in 2008, in which the winning design was submitted by David Chipperfield Architects. Voters in Zurich approved construction of the extension in 2012. After a number of delays caused by appeals against the project, construction began in August 2015. The extension enhances the ... More |
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| Manifesta announced that the 16th edition of the biennial will take place in Germany's Ruhr Area | | Hindman's December Fine Art sales surpass estimates & set new records | | Exhibition of works by Frank Auerbach and Tony Bevan opens at Ben Brown Fine Arts |
Kreuz Kaiserberg, Aerial view RVR.
AMSTERDAM.- On the 27th of November 2020 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the Manifesta Board examined the most convincing applications for future editions of the European Nomadic Biennial. The Bids submitted by the City of Barcelona and the Ruhr Area (Ruhrgebiet), Germany were of such high quality that the Board asked for a commitment from both cities - Barcelona for 2024 and the Ruhr Area for 2026. Today, the Ruhr Parliament confirmed that they have allocated the budget to host Manifesta 16 in 2026. The nominated host area presented an exciting thematic approach that examines the effects of a changing global world order against the backdrop of a region that has not only been shaped by coal mining and heavy industries but also international trade relations, such as the New Silk Road connecting Europe with China. A joint initiative of local institutions and cultural practitioners from the Ruhr Area wrote the Bid for Manifesta 16. The initiators, among them well-known curators, institutions ... More | |
Dorothy Fratt (American, 1923-2017), Red Hush, 1988-1998. Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 48 inches. Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000. Price Realized: $18,750.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions presented a series of three Fine Art sales this week, realizing over $3.5 million overall, beating presale estimates, and setting multiple global auction records. Extraordinarily strong interest and participation drove successful results with international bidders on the telephones and on four online bidding platforms. Eager engagement with works by renowned artists including Jim Nutt, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Frank Earle Schoonover, Bernard Buffet, and others brought exceptional results to conclude an exciting year for Hindmans Fine Art Department. We were thrilled to provide record breaking works in the Post War and Contemporary Art, Prints and Multiples, and American and European Art auctions, said Joe Stanfield, Hindmans Senior Specialist and Director of Fine Art. This week of Fine Art sales was an enormous success, and we were pleased to see such high ... More | |
Tony Bevan (b. 1951), Head (PC8914), 1989. Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 89 x 69 cm; (35 1/8 x 27 1/8 in.).
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, is presenting the exhibition Frank Auerbach / Tony Bevan: What Is A Head?, featuring portraits by two of Britains leading figurative painters, curated by Michael Peppiatt. The concept for this show is based on the exhibition organised by Michael in 1998 at the Musée Maillol in Paris under the title LEcole de Londres de Bacon à Bevan, which traced the influence of Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kossoff on the younger generation of figurative artists working in London. A generation apart, Bevan and Auerbach share a fascination for the conceptual and painterly possibilities of reinventing heads. For both artists, the head is the centre that controls everything we do, its mysterious significance laying in its endless sparring of juxtaposed natures: impulse and restraint, instinct and order, spontaneity and discipline. It is rife with contradiction and yet to both remains the prime vessel of h ... More |
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| Works by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky prove huge success at auction | | Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Carol Rhodes | | Barbara Windsor, UK star of 'Carry On' films, dies at 83 |
The top price achieved was for Cat with flowers (left), which sold for £11,500 against an estimate of £4,000-6,000.
LONDON.- A group of oil paintings by Viennese artist Marie-Louise von Motesiczky proved very popular when they were offered at Chiswick Auctions last week. The artist parted with very few works during her lifetime, which meant that the sale was extremely rare and may be why collectors jumped at the opportunity to own one of her pieces.
There was lively bidding for the eight works, which were created by the émigré artist when she was living in London. They were sold on behalf of The Marie-Louise Motesiczky Charitable Trust and achieved a total of £52,600 against an estimate of £45,000. Speaking after the sale, Chair of Trustees at the trust, Frances Carey, said: The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust is delighted with the outcome of the auction, particularly with the response to Cat with Flowers of 1949 and the Still-life ... More | |
Carol Rhodes, Surface Mine, 2009-11 (detail). © Carol Rhodes Estate.
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Carol Rhodes (19592018) in partnership with the Carol Rhodes Estate, whose curator Andrew Mummery worked closely with Rhodes for much of her career. Carol Rhodess intense landscape paintings and drawings explore conceptions of natural and man-made environments and subtly redefine ideas of beauty and expression. The first project will be an exhibition of paintings and drawings from across Rhodess career and is scheduled to open in February 2021. Born in Edinburgh in 1959, Rhodes grew up in Serampore, India, where her father worked as a medic and a theology professor. In her teens, she relocated to the UK to complete her education, but continued to visit India into her twenties. This early experience of travel, and the complex feeling of belonging and displacement it provoked, would later prove formative in Rhodess art. Hav ... More | |
In this file photo taken on February 25, 2010 British actress Barbara Windsor attends the world premier of "Alice in Wonderland" at the Odeon Cinema in London's Leicester Square. CARL COURT / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Actress Barbara Windsor, best known as the buxom, blonde-haired star of Britain's hit "Carry On" film franchise, has died at the age of 83, her husband said Friday. Windsor made nine appearances in the innuendo-laden comedy films, and later became a mainstay as pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in the popular television soap opera "EastEnders". She was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2014 and campaigned for better care for those suffering with dementia and associated diseases. Her husband, Scott Mitchell, who was at her side in the London care home when she died, said Windsor's "final weeks were typical of how she lived her life". He added she was "full of humour, drama and a fighting spirit until the end". Mitchell said he, her family and friends would remember her with "love, a smile and affection for ... More |
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Keteleer Gallery re-opens with a solo show by John Kørner
ANTWERP.- Keteleer Gallery presents Open the Door, the first solo exhibition by John Kørner (°1967. Aarhus, Denmark, lives and works in Copenhagen) with the gallery. The show, opening on December 12, also marks the reopening of the gallery after a period of forced closure due to the government measures to prevent the further spreading of the Corona virus. Kørner, who approaches both painting and installation in an unexpected way, is one of the most prominent contemporary artists in Denmark. In the past two decades, the Danish artist has steadily developed a body of work characterized by expressive colors in acrylic paint on canvas. In addition, he also creates shiny ceramics, glass objects and installations. Kørner, who graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1998, is, together with several of his contemporaries ... More
Sapar Contemporary opens an exhibition of new works by Marela ZacarÃas
NEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary is presenting new works by Marela ZacarÃas and the artists second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition, titled Lifted, is also the grand finale of this trying and tumultuous year, a crescendo that is colorful, uplifting, and nuanced. Zacarias has spent much of her time in 2019 and 2020 on the West Coast. She was working intensely on the commission of five sculptures spanning 250 feet for the Seattle Tacoma International Airport. These monumental colorful sculptures were inspired by the culture and palette of the Pacific Northwest. The works refer to the bodies of water around Seattle, their undulating forms evoking expansion and movement. It took two and a half years with a dedicated studio team to complete the project. It will soon be on view. While in Seattle, ZacarÃas also returned to her ... More
The Salzburg Festival, reduced this year, roars back in 2021
SALZBURG (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was the great exception in a summer for the performing arts almost entirely scratched out by the pandemic. Its calendar reduced and its audiences distanced, but still defiantly ambitious, the Salzburg Festival, classical musics most storied annual event, went forward in August with a robust schedule of opera, theater and concerts. The people were so happy that it happened; they were so devoted to what was there to experience, Markus Hinterhäuser, the festivals artistic director, said in an interview. The concentration, the silence, the joy Ive never experienced a festival with such tenderness. It was tiring for us because every nanosecond could bring something, but looking back it was incredibly satisfying. Ticket sales, while capped at a fraction of capacity, were stronger than had been feared. And strict ... More
In pandemic, centuries-old Christmas markets go dark
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Germany this December doesnt feel right. There are no groups of friends gripping mugs of steaming red wine spiced with cinnamon and cloves crowding Rothenburgs medieval market square or beneath Colognes towering cathedral. No brass bands play carols before Berlins Charlottenburg Palace. No stars shine from the eaves of Seiffens wooden huts. The magical figure known as the Christkind did not spread her golden wings and welcome the world to Nurembergs annual Christmas market. The darkened city square did not spring to light, revealing, in the verse she recites annually, a little town within the city, which of cloth and wood is made; fleeting in its brief splendor, but everlasting throughout the ages. The coronavirus is muting Christmas celebrations around the world. But the absence of seasonal ... More
When a theater critic learned to grade on a curve
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nothing much about the process of reviewing theater had yet changed by March 7, when I set out to see the musical Six on Broadway. My husband and I braved the subway from Brooklyn to a jammed Times Square, squeezed our way into the Brooks Atkinson Theater, hugged friends, took our seats and inhaled the atmosphere of joy and anxiety that perfumes every show about to open. Three days later, when I caught up with Darling Grenadine at the Roundabout Underground, the anxiety was of a different kind. Hugs were replaced by elbow bumps followed by hand washings. Copious coughing during the show was nervously monitored. The packed elevator ride back to street level from the deeply subterranean theater felt like an hour in a petri dish. And then: pfft. I did not see another ... More
HackelBury Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Taylor Wessing Prize winner Alys Tomlinson
LONDON.- HackelBury Fine Art, London is presenting Lost Summer a solo exhibition of new work by Alys Tomlinson. The Lost Summer series consists of Tomlinson´s recent prom portraits photographed in June 2020 as lockdown eased and is accompanied by Night Wanderings, taken during lockdown as part of the artists daily exercise. The prom portraits capture the poignancy of a lost summer for teenagers who were unable to sit their school exams or mark this significant step in growing up and leaving school. With school proms cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the easing of lockdown, Tomlinson photographed 44 teenagers near her home in North London, all dressed up in their prom outfits. Instead of the usual settings of school halls or hotel function rooms, she captured them in their domestic outdoor spaces, of the gardens ... More
With Paris theaters closed, church is the only show in town
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Where can you find elaborate costumes, choreographed flourishes and live music in France right now? Not in theaters. Since the country eased its second lockdown in late November, the show has resumed in only one setting: churches. Catholicism is the predominant faith in France, and on paper, a Roman Catholic Mass and a stage performance arent all that different: Both events involve a cast of professionals addressing a seated, and now socially distanced, audience. The connections dont stop there. At several sung Masses over the course of a week this month, I had a feeling of déjà vu, even though I had attended only a handful of religious services in my life. The ritualistic nature of the event, the dramatic buildup from scene to scene even the slightly labored monologues are all part and parcel of regular ... More
Wayne Gretzky scores big as Heritage Auctions sells his 1979 rookie card for a record $1.29 million
DALLAS, TX.- Wayne Gretzky has always been The Great One. But early Friday morning he became The Greatest One when the Canadian version of his Edmonton Oilers' rookie card became the first hockey card ever to break the million-dollar mark. One of only two known 1979 O-Pee-Chee Gretzkys graded Gem Mint 10 by Professional Sports Authenticator sold for $1.29 million during the first session of Heritage Auctions' four-day Fall Sports Collectibles Catalog event. That's almost three times the previous record of $465,000 set four years ago, when there was but one known PSA Gem Mint 10 known to exist. The Gretzky O-Pee-Chee that sold Friday belonged to entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David. A gem-mint-condition American version of Gretzky's ... More
Super rare Pokémon card soars to $50,600 at Weiss Auctions
LYNBROOK, NY.- An extremely rare Pokémon SM Black Star Ishihara GX promotional trading card, graded PSA 8 Near Mint/Mint, one of only about 60 copies in existence and just the fourth copy to ever reach the market, sold for $50,600 in a two-day, online-only auction held November 19th-20th by Weiss Auctions. The card was the top lot in a sale that totaled $675,000. The Pokémon Black Star card was issued in 2017 and was only given out to Pokémon Company International employees, at TPCi President Tsunekazu Ishiharas 60th birthday celebration. The cards were personally handed out by Ishihara himself. Today, most of the cards are in the hands of employees who are not permitted to sell them. The card was illustrated by artist Mike Cressy. The Thursday, November 19th session featured around 500 lots of sports, comics ... More
GNYP Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Aistė Stancikaitė
BERLIN.- The striking portraits of Aistė Stancikaitė invite us to conceive an interesting paradox. The skillful technique deployed to create them operates so perfectly, the warmth they entail is so vivid, that it is hard not to wonder where we have seen each other before. The presence of these characters is so palpable, we feel so intimate, that we may get the impression we know whos there, placid, candidly posing on the other side. There is something familiar about these figures, it is as if they were portraits of real people, famous or not, maybe someone you bumped into on the street or someone youve seen once but cant remember where, in which context. Nonetheless, although meticulously conceived, as if they were a portrait of an individual posing to the artist, most of these are actually, as Aistė explains, formed using a blend of features from ... More
Leila Heller Gallery presents a retrospective of sculpture by Mia Fonssagrives Solow
NEW YORK, NY.- Leila Heller Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mia Fonssagrives Solow. A dynamic retrospective of sculpture by Fonssagrives Solow, the eponymous show surveys the artists iconic works, from seminal abstract forms cast in bronze or carved from wood to her most recent bronze and aluminum aliens and monumental fiberglass forms. On one side of Fonssagrives Solows work is her uplifting Forms series, examining the simplicity of scale and movement, form and color. The curving surfaces of each piece draw the eye from one exquisite line to the next, as everyday objects, such as a sail or an apple, are refined to simply the clean, essential lines of their form. What begins as a small lucite or wood maquette evolves to a monumental fiberglass sculpture towering up to 16ft-high. For Fonssagrives Solow, the negative space at the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Norwegian painter and illustrator Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863. Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. His best known work is The Scream, painted in 1893. In this image: Edvard Munch, The Artist and His Model, 1919 - 21; oil on canvas; 47 7/16 x 78 3/4 in.; photo: courtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo.
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