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Faces of a Queen, The Armada Portraits of Elizabeth I display at the Queen's House, Greenwich. © National Maritime Museum, London.
LONDON.- The three surviving versions of the iconic Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I are on public display together in a free exhibition at the Queens House in Greenwich (13 February 2020 until 31 August 2020). The exhibition, entitled Faces of a Queen: The Armada Portraits of Elizabeth I, is the first time the paintings have been displayed together in their 430-year history. One of the most iconic images in British history, the Armada Portrait commemorates the most famous conflict in Elizabeths reign, the Spanish Armadas failed attempt to invade England in 1588. Royal Museums Greenwich will showcase its own version of the Armada Portrait - which was saved for the nation in 2016 following a major public appeal with Art Fund and funding from the National Lottery - alongside the two other surviving versions, from the collections of Woburn Abbey and the National Portrait Gallery. All three versions of the Armada Portrait are bel ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Frieze Los Angeles 2020. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh. Courtesy of Casey Kelbaugh / Frieze.
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 | | A major new exhibition of Chatsworth's world-class collection of Old Masters drawings opens at Millennium Gallery | | Empathy and artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange | | Cooper Hewitt chief was forced out after probe of her wedding | 
Annibale Carracci, Portrait of a youth, 16th century.
SHEFFIELD.- A major new exhibition featuring more than 50 Old Master drawings from Chatsworths extraordinary collection, second only to the Queens in its remarkable scope and quality, opened in Sheffield. Featuring works by Carpaccio, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and more, Lines of Beauty: Master Drawings from Chatsworth is the largest exhibition of these rare wonders for more than twenty years. On display at Sheffields Millennium Gallery as part of a new exhibition partnership between Chatsworth, Museums Sheffield and The Lightbox, Woking, the free exhibition is a rare opportunity to experience the vibrancy and emotional power of the works up close. Curated by Museums Sheffield in partnership with Chatsworth, this new exhibition at the Millennium Gallery brings together 59 drawings from the collection. Lines of Beauty marks the first time the drawings, which represent some of the highlights ... More | | 
Dorothea Lange. Richmond, California. 1942. Gelatin silver print, 7 3/8 x 6 5/8″ (18.8 x 16.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- John Szarkowski was about 13 when he saw an image by Dorothea Lange that enormously impressed him. After he had become the powerful director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, he would recall that he took it to be a picture of the hard-faced old woman, looking out of the handsome oval window of the expensive automobile with her hand to her face as if the smell of the street was offending her, and I thought, Isnt that marvelous? That a photographer can pin that specimen to the board as some kind of exotic moth and show her there in her true colors. A quarter of a century after his initial encounter with the photo, working in 1965 with Lange on his first one-artist retrospective at MoMA, he read her full caption for Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, ... More | | 
Caroline Baumann, center, attends a Cooper Hewitt gala in New York on Oct. 18, 2018, in the same dress she wore to her wedding a month earlier. Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Everything fell into place for Caroline Baumann on her wedding day. She wore an elegant silveresque dress shed ordered from a Brooklyn designer. She exchanged her vows at a lush Hamptons preserve inside one of her favorite sculptures, a dome designed by R. Buckminster Fuller. She put photos of the day on Instagram. That joyous event may have cost Baumann her job. Baumann was forced to resign as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan last week following an investigation by the Smithsonians inspector general into potential problems regarding the procurement of the dress and the wedding space. Her ... More |
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| | DalÃ: Sketchbooks from the 1930s on view at Omer Tiroche Gallery | | Towner Eastbourne opens 'Early Works' an exhibition by Alan Davie and David Hockney | | Exhibition provides insight into the work of Pablo Picasso during the Second World War | 
The exhibition centres around four sets of sketchbooks made between 1930 and 1939.
LONDON.- Omer Tiroche Gallery announces DalÃ: Sketchbooks from the 1930s, which takes the viewer on a visual journey through the inner workings of the seminal artists mind. Through the sketches and studies he made during the 1930s, this exhibition explores the most significant decade of DalÃs career and provides an intimate insight into the development of some of the artists most pivotal and iconic imagery; from his infamous Mae West lips sofa and melting clocks, to Freudian drawers and crutches, many set within the familiar desert-like landscape taken from his beloved sea-side home in Cadaqués, Catalonia. Each of these motifs helped lay the foundations for many of DalÃs key concepts in a number of his most acclaimed paintings. Two key events that took place during the summer of 1929 inspired such a formidable decade of production from DalÃ: the first was meeting his soon- ... More | | 
David Hockney, Self Portrait, 1954. © David Hockney.
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Eastbourne is presenting Early Works, an exhibition by Alan Davie (1920 2014) and David Hockney (b. 1937) that explores the convergence between the two major figures of post-war British painting. This exhibition brings together around 45 paintings, collages and drawings by Davie and Hockney, spanning from 1948-1965. It will trace the parallel paths of these key figures of post-war British painting and reveal shared preoccupations with passion, love, sex and poetry as their work oscillated between figuration and abstraction. Early Works at Towner is the first major display of works by both artists on the South Coast. In 1958, Alan Davie held his first retrospective exhibition at the former Wakefield Art Gallery which then went on to tour nationally, including to the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London an iteration of the exhibition that is often cited as Davies break-through moment. A ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Still Life with Bull's Skull, 5.4.1942, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, © Succession Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2019. Poto: Walter Klein, Düsseldorf.
DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition Pablo Picasso. War Years 19391945 provides insight into the work of the Spanish artist (18811973) during the Second World War. The nearly seventy works on display, including paintings, sculptures, papiers déchirés, and illustrations, tell of Picasso as a person, as well as of his work and the contradictions of everyday life during this period. In chronological order, the exhibition in the Grabbe Halle of K20 features a suite of rooms representing the war years from 1939 to 1945. In addition, contemporary documents, reproductions of photographs depicting Picasso and his works from this period, and book projects provide historical insight. During the Second World War, Picasso spent his time in the cities of Royan and Paris and ... More |
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| | National Gallery of Art announces new Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings Eve Straussman-Pflanzer | | A ballerina's nightmare: 'Am I more than just a dancer?' | | Exhibitions explore changing ecology, technology, and community | 
Straussman-Pflanzer is currently head of the European art department and the Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she has worked since 2016. Photo: Eric Wheeler.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, announced today that Eve Straussman-Pflanzer has been appointed curator and head of Italian and Spanish paintings. She will begin the post in June 2020. Straussman-Pflanzer is currently head of the European art department and the Elizabeth and Allan Shelden Curator of European Paintings at the Detroit Institute of Arts, where she has worked since 2016. Straussman-Pflanzer has previously held posts at Wellesley College's Davis Museum in Massachusetts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In her new position at the Gallery, Straussman-Pflanzer will succeed David Alan Brown, who retired in 2019 after serving 45 years as curator. "I am delighted to welcome Eve to Washington and to the National Gallery of Art team. She inherits ... More | | 
Tiler Peck, a New York City Ballet principal dancer, in New York, Jan. 27, 2020. Peck, who suffered a debilitating neck injury, will perform in "Swan Lake" in February. Celeste Sloman/The New York Times.
by Gia Kourlas
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- One morning last spring, Tiler Peck woke up, but she wasnt the same Tiler Peck. She didnt recognize herself. She couldnt. I was afraid to use my eyeballs to look because I was in so much pain, she said. On April 23 she has been keeping a journal she was diagnosed with a severe herniated disc in her neck. Doctors couldnt pinpoint exactly how it happened. During the past five or six years, Peck, a New York City Ballet principal, had experienced a stiff neck from time to time, but this was different. It wasnt like I danced and felt something, she said. I just woke up and I had so much pain down my right arm I couldnt do anything. Id never been in that much pain in my life. Just before City Ballets spring season, she had an MRI scan. She was ... More | | 
T. Worthington Whittredge, Trout Stream, c. 1870s. Oil on canvas, 12 x 15 inches. Collection of Laura and David Grey.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIUthe art museum on the campus of Florida International Universityis presenting three exhibitions, that invite viewers to deepen their understanding about ecology, technology, and the power of human connection. This spring our exhibitions engage with multiple ideas about change that affect us every day. The Grey Collection of Hudson River School paintings reminds us that our varied and magnificent landscape has always comprised an important aspect of the American identity, while Prices photography reminds us that small communities, as well, define America. Liu Shiyuans installation challenges the viewer to consider the fragile nature of our individual identities, in an age of global communication, said the museums director, Dr. Jordana Pomeroy. Transitional Nature: Hudson River School Paintings from the David and Laura Grey Collection (on view through ... More |
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| | The Westmoreland Museum of American Art presents African American art in the 20th century | | Major gift to support reimagining visitor experience at Library of Congress | | Pavlensky, artist provocateur, claims top French political scalp | 
Loïs Mailou Jones, Moon Masque, 1971, oil and collage on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, bequest of the artist.
GREENSBURG, PA.- From February 15 to May 10, 2020, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will present African American Art in the 20th Century, a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museums collection. The exhibition will be on view in The Westmorelands Cantilever Gallery. African American Art in the 20th Century presents 45 works dating from the 1930s through the 1990s by 34 black artists, including painters, sculptors and printmakers. The artworks encompass diverse subjects and a variety of genres, from representational, to modern abstraction, to the postmodern assemblage of found objects. Chief Curator Barbara L. Jones says, This exhibition introduces an array of artists who made important contributions to the artistic narrative of the 20th century. The art reflects the American experience through the eyes of these artists, and we are excited to offer our visitors the opportunity to learn ... More | | 
New exhibitions will be designed to showcase more of the Librarys awe-inspiring treasures and show the breadth of collections from historical manuscripts to visual arts and new acquisitions.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A major gift by philanthropist David Rubenstein will help fund a project to reimagine and enhance the visitor experience for the nearly 2 million people who visit the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building each year. The goal is to better connect visitors with history and provide better access to the unparalleled collections held by the national library. Rubenstein, the chairman of the Librarys James Madison Council and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, will make a lead gift of $10 million to support the visitor experience project. Rubensteins gift will build on the significant public investment Congress has made in the Librarys infrastructure. It will support the strategic plan set by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to make the Library more user centered for Congress, creators and learners of all ages. Literacy is critical to learning ... More | | 
Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky speaks during a press interview with AFP at his lawyer's office in Paris on February 14, 2020. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP.
by Maxime Popov
MOSCOW (AFP).- Pyotr Pavlensky, the Russian artist provocateur who forced a top French politician to drop out of a key election Friday, is well known for his shock and awe "performances," usually involving pain and discomfort for all involved to highlight causes he thinks are worth fighting for. Too hot to handle in his home country, the gaunt looking Pavlensky, 35, fled to France where he has caused uproar by putting a sex video online which forced President Emmanuel Macron's candidate for Paris mayor, Benjamin Griveaux, to withdraw from the race. The 42-year-old Griveaux said he dropped out to protect his family after a website published video excerpts of a man masturbating, accompanied by screengrabs of racy text messages. "My family does not deserve this. No one should ever be subjected to such abuse." ... More |
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 The Currier Museum of Art celebrates Maud Briggs Knowlton, the museum's first directorMANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum of Art celebrates the art and life of Maud Briggs Knowlton (18701956), who was an accomplished artist and the museums first director. Knowlton was a lifelong Manchester, New Hampshire resident with deep ties to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. A Life Made in Art: Maud Briggs Knowlton will be on view February 15 through May 10, 2020. The exhibition will explore Knowltons watercolors and oils, and her roles in bustling, industrial Manchester and the remote, idyllic Monhegan Island. Her artistic practice demonstrates a mastery of the Arts and Crafts style as well as the influence of coastal Maine. This exhibition is meaningful for the Currier, since Maud Briggs Knowlton was a dedicated arts educator and the museums first director, stated Andrew Spahr, director of collections and exhibitions. She was a remarkable ... More Ultra-rare sealed video games, unique Nintendo console offered at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A sealed copy of a notoriously rare video game will cross the auction block for the first time ever in Heritage Auctions Comics Auction March 5-7 in Dallas, Texas. The only remaining "Play Station prototype, developed by Nintendo and Sony during the 1990s, is expected to rock the gaming world March 5-7 when the console comes to auction for the first time at Heritage Auctions, HA.com. The prototype is believed to be the only surviving example of 200 pre-production consoles that spawned from a once promising partnership between Sony and Nintendo. These companies are now two of the biggest competitors in the modern home console video game market, which makes this console's existence a bit of a head-scratcher. At one time, this reportedly single-surviving unit was owned by Olaf Olaffson, the founder, first president, and chief ... More Galerie Barbara Thumm exhibits works by Anna OppermannBERLIN.- Galerie Barbara Thumm opened a solo exhibition by Anna Oppermann, entitled The Picture Stands on the Window Sill. Following two wonderful exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bielefeld as well as at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Boston, which focused on the development within Oppermann's oeuvre to expand from two dimensional works into three dimensional installations. Both exhibitions premiered early works and ensembles of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The title The Picture Stands on the Window Sill references the poetic ambivalence of Oppermann's practice and points out the correlation between the single image and the ensembles, between the body and the gaze and the experience of the environment. The quality of Oppermann's draftmanship is the basis of Oppermann's reflections on normative aspects and conventional ... More Dallas Museum of Art appoints Vivian Crockett as Assistant Curator of Contemporary ArtDALLAS, TX.- Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced the appointment of Vivian Crockett as The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. Crocketts expertise in contemporary art includes a specialization in art of the African and Latinx diasporas and the Americas. Her appointment follows several new additions across the DMAs curatorial departments in the past yearincluding Vivian Li as The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art and the promotion of Anna Katherine Brodbeck to lead the department as Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Artbuilding on the Museums breadth of curatorial expertise across cultures, periods, and geographies. Crockett will work closely with Brodbeck and Li to shape a dynamic exhibition and public program schedule that both ... More Institute of Contemporary Art Miami appoints seven new Trustees and Board PresidentMIAMI, FLA.- On the heels of its fifth anniversary, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami announces the appointment of seven new members to its Board of Trustees, heralding continued support for the museum and its mission. Daniel Berkowitz, Michele Beyer, Suzi Cordish, Andi Potamkin, Andre Sakhai, Roz Stuzin, and Alex Witkoff join the Boards existing members, expanding the range of community advocates, philanthropists, business leaders, and dedicated contemporary art collectors. In addition, Margot Greig has been named President, following over five years of service as an ICA Miami trustee. The ongoing support for ICA Miami marks its role as a leading contemporary art institution locally and globally. ICA Miamis Board of Trustees represents both the foundations of our city and the next generation of international leaders. I am grateful ... More Exhibition juxtaposes artists' work with nature's to question the lines we humans draw NEW HAVEN, CONN.- James Prosek was a student at Yale College in 1996 when he published Trout: An Illustrated History (Knopf) to acclaim. Now Prosek (b. 1975, b.a. 1997) has organized an unprecedented Yale University Art Gallery exhibition that questions the human preoccupation with classifying nature. James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, on view February 14June 7, 2020, places the artists work in dialogue with a wide range of both man-made objects and those produced by billions of years of evolution, or what naturalist Charles Darwin described as endless forms most beautiful. By challenging traditional separations of museum collections into art and artifact, or natural and man-made, the artist invites us to explore to what extent these distinctions matter. Is it helpful for us to draw such boundaries? Or do they limit what ... More Michael Friedman left behind a musical. They're finishing it.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- This song, director Trip Cullman said, is killing me. In a windowless rehearsal room, on a sun-pecked January afternoon, Cullman and his cast were busy preparing Unknown Soldier, a musical that began performances at Playwrights Horizons on Friday. That song, The Clock, had the usual troubles: tempo, tone, choreography. But there were other problems, too problems that partly explained why so many tissue boxes dotted the room when no one seemed to have a cold. Unknown Soldier, whose plot spans most of the 20th century in 90 minutes, is about a girl who meets a boy the night before he sails for the Battle of the Somme; a grandmother rattling around a house upstate with her granddaughter; and that granddaughter, now grown, trying to piece together her familys past. The show explores ... More Record auction price for late Norfolk artist highlights growing recognitionCAMBRIDGE.- A record auction price for a work by the late Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone (1914-2010) was achieved at Cheffins February Art & Design Sale when Living at Barnsbury Terrace sold for £13,000. The price achieved highlights an increasing popularity of work by Johnstone, who died in 2010 at the age of 95, particularly at recent Cheffins Fine Art sales. The oil painting, 121 x 182 cm. in size which had an estimate of £4,000-£6,000, depicts the period when Gwyneth and her mother owned a pair of houses in Islington, north London, during the 1950s and is a busy composition which includes some of the tenants that rented rooms at the house in the picture. Johnstone was the daughter of Augustus John, one of the most renowned artists of the 20th century, and Nora Brownsword, who was seduced by John while modelling ... More Praz-Delavallade Paris opens an exhibition of works by Xavier Robles de MedinaPARIS.- In Suriname, it is the Sranan1 given name for its national flower, the Ixori coccinea , a flowering plant of South-Indian, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan origins. Other names it is known by are jungle geranium, flame of the woods, or jungle flame. The faya lobi grows abundantly in Suriname, producing flowers all year, as it does in South Asia. In Suriname, faya lobi became a symbol for love, long lasting and ardent passion. There is a fiery love that burns in the deep heart of the South American jungles. This fire is different from the fires that have burned down and deforested the Amazon2 it exists intrinsically, and is passed down to those born in the lineage of resistance. In the northeast Amazon basin, a fiery love welcomed the Ndyuka, now descendants of marooned slaves who for four centuries continuously build resistance and sanctuaries3. ... More The National Gallery of Denmark opens exhibition of recently donated works by Ragna Braase COPENHAGEN.- Last year, SMK (The National Gallery of Denmark) received a major donation of works by Danish artist Ragna Braase. On 12 February 2020, the museum opened its first-ever exhibition of Braases art, presenting a selection of her architectural, oriental and cosmic dream visions in the exhibition Textile, graphics, sandal. Forms, colours and materials. Danish artist Ragna Braase (19292013) occupied the field where art, architecture, crafts and design intersect. She created abstract, tactile works as well as figurative paintings and used simplified geometric shapes in graphic arts and weaving. Braase was an artists artist, known and respected among her peers, but like so many other women artists of her time she never achieved wider recognition. In recent years, however, her works have resurfaced and taken on renewed ... More NOME presents Kirsten Stolle's latest solo presentation, Pesticide PopBERLIN.- In her 1962 book of environmentalism, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warned readers about the dangers of the chemical industry and the widespread use of pesticides in agriculture. Kirsten Stolles art practice follows Carsons lead in exposing the pervasive misinformation spread by biotechnology corporations from the post-war era to the present. 'Pesticide Pop continues the artists research into agrochemical giants like Monsantowho published a parodic rebuttal of Silent Spring back in the 60s. Stolles tactics of redaction, glitch, and appropriation across different media retell the true, toxic narrative of such conglomerates, and trace the connections between corporate interests and public health. Audio files from 194050s US Department of Agriculture videos are extracted and looped; abraded chemical company stock certificates are overlayered ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Charles-André van Loo was born February 15, 1705. Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 - 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. In this image: Perseus and Andromeda.
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