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A picture taken on February 2, 2018 shows a marble sculpture in the Greek-style of a standing nude male dating back to the 4th century BC, part of a collection of repatriated artefacts on display during a ceremony at Beirut National Museum in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese Ministry of Culture and the Directorate-General of Anitquities repatriated in December 2017 and January 2018 five marble sculptures lost during the war in 1981. JOSEPH EID / AFP.
BEIRUT (AFP).- Lebanon's national museum on Friday unveiled five ancient sculptures, including a Phoenician bull's head returned by the United States, that were looted during the civil war. The life-size 4th century BC white marble bull's head, the star artefact among the works that were all looted in 1981, had been loaned to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). The five pieces were discovered on the Phoenician site of Eshmun, near the southern port city of Sidon, during excavations carried out in the 1960s and 1970s. "We are committed, as much as we can, to repatriating pieces stolen during the war," Lebanese Culture Minister Ghattas Khoury said during a ceremony at the National Museum of Beirut. Lebanon's civil war lasted 15 years from 1975 to 1990. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day To set the stage for its newest exhibition, Frederic Church: A Painter's Pilgrimage, opening next Friday, Reynolda House Museum of American Art is relocating one of its most famous holdings, Church's The Andes of Ecuador, into the exhibition area. Shown in the photo are three members of the Collections Team moving the monumental The Andes of Ecuador, 1855. In the background is Syria by the Sea, 1873.
| Sotheby's Masters Week achieves $82.5 million in NY - Nearly doubling 2017 results | | Leonardo boosts Christie's sales to record high | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the U.S. debut of 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power' |
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait Of Martin Luther (1483-1546), oil on beechwood panel, 15 7/8 by 10 1/2 in.; 40.3 by 26.5 cm. Estimate $800/1.2 million. Sold for $ 2,295,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual Masters Week auctions concluded today in New York, with 650+ paintings, drawings and sculptures selling for an overall total of $82.5 million approaching the seriess high estimate of $85.9 million. This total is nearly double the results of the same sale series in 2017 ($41.9 million). Sothebys exhibition of 15 outstanding Spanish Old Master paintings from The Auckland Project in Bishop Auckland, North East England will remain on public view in New York through 11 February a pendant to The Frick Collections exhibition Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings from Auckland Castle. Belonging to Auckland Castles permanent collection, the works at Sothebys will form its newly created Spanish Gallery opening in 2019 and are on public view for the first time in America. Seeking to revitalize the former industrial town of Bishop Auckland ... More | |
The Britain-based auction powerhouse was responsible for sales of seven of 10 top works of art sold globally in 2017 including the Leonardo, which was bought for $450.3 million.
LONDON (AFP).- Sales at Christie's hit a record high last year of £5.1 billion (5.8 billion euros, $7.3 billion) boosted by blockbuster sales including Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", the auction house said on Friday. The Britain-based auction powerhouse was responsible for sales of seven of 10 top works of art sold globally in 2017 including the Leonardo, which was bought for $450.3 million. "2017 has been a year to remember for Christies both for its record growth and some unforgettable moments," said Guillaume Cerutti, Christie's chief executive officer. At New York's November Impressionist and Modern evening sale, six auction world records were made, with Vincent Van Gogh's "Laboureur dans un champ" fetching $81.3 million and Fernand Leger's "Contraste de formes" making $70 million. Auction sales led the growth in 2017 with a 38 percent increase ... More | |
William T. Williams, Trane, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 108 à 84 in. The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Charles Cowles, New York. © William T. Williams; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. Photo: Marc Bernier.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the U.S. debut of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, on view February 3 through April 23, 2018. Developed by the Tate Modern in London, Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to an important period in American art and history. Featuring the work of 60 artists and including 164 vibrant paintings, powerful murals, photographs, sculpture, and more, this landmark exhibition is a rare opportunity to see era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America. Crystal Bridges is one of only two U.S. venues to host Soul of a Nation. Following its debut in Bentonville, the exhibition travels to the Brooklyn Museum in New York. The variety of artworks in the exhibition reflect the many viewpoints of artists ... More |
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| National Galleries of Scotland becomes the UK's first public institution to acquire the art of Michael Armitage | | Exploring Susan Schwalb's forty years of metalpoint drawings at the Arkansas Arts Center | | Sixty years of drawings and prints by Beverly Pepper on view at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park |
Detail of Nasema Nawe, 2016 by Michael Armitage (b. 1984). Oil paint on lubugo bark cloth, 220 x 330 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, gifted by Harry and Lana David, in memory of Nicola David-Pinedo, 2017 © Michael Armitage.
EDINBURGH.- A major painting by Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage (b. 1984) entitled Nasema Nawe (2016) has been donated to the National Galleries of Scotland by collectors Harry and Lana David, in memory of Nicola David-Pinedo. This acquisition is not only the first work by the artist to enter Scotlands national art collection, but the very first Michael Armitage painting to be acquired by a public collection anywhere in the UK. Visitors can currently view Nasema Nawe at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) as part of the second instalment of NOW, the Galleries dynamic series of contemporary art exhibitions. The display, heralded recently as a, compelling and thoughtful show by The Scotsman, runs until 18 February 2018. Michael Armitage, who has received critical acclaim for his recent solo ... More | |
Susan Schwalb, American (New York, New York, 1944 - ), Poplar #13, 1989, 29 x 23 in., silverpoint, gold leaf, acrylic gesso on 5ply Bristol, courtesy of Garvey | Simon, New York.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.- A new exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center traces the history and career of one of Americas foremost metalpoint artists. A Luminous Line: Forty Years of Metalpoint Drawings by Susan Schwalb opens February 2 and will remain on view through April 29, 2018. The 35-work exhibition surveys Schwalbs career, beginning in 1977. Dubbed the pied-piper of silverpoint, Schwalb has helped to spark a revival of interest in metalpoint by both artists and scholars. Throughout her career, Schwalb has transferred these traditional Renaissance media to the realm of abstraction, while retaining their beauty and serenity. Metalpoint drawings are made using with a metal stylus on paper prepared with a slightly abrasive ground. Silver is the most popular metal, tarnishing to an attractive warm color on the paper. In her work, Schwalb uses a variety ... More | |
Beverly Pepper, Untitled (Study of Goliath's Wedge) 1978.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park opened Drawn Into Form: Sixty Years of Drawings and Prints by Beverly Pepper. This exclusive exhibition is the first public showing of the gift of Peppers expansive print and drawing archives that was given to Meijer Gardens in 2016 and 2017. Spanning seven decades of work, this extraordinary gift from Pepper, one of the pioneering Contemporary sculptors, includes hundreds of drawings, prints, works on paper and notebooks many containing sketches of her major sculptural endeavors. This exhibition runs through April 19, 2018 and displays sketches, studies, prints, and experimental drawings from across her entire career. Pepper is world-renowned for her work, which often incorporates industrial metals like iron, bronze, stainless steel and stone into sculpture of a monumental scale, but her vast drawing and print repertoire is lesser known. Recognized regionally for her soari ... More |
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| Pinakothek der Moderne exhibits16 works from the early period of Paul Klee's probably best-known student: Fritz Winter | | Exhibition of prints, photographs, and paintings by Ed Ruscha opens at the Joslyn Art Museum | | National Portrait Gallery reveals how a painting of its founder was slashed by a suffragette |
Fritz Winter, Driving forces of the earth, 1944 (detail). Fritz-Winter-Stiftung, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. Photo: Johannes Haslinger, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018.
MUNICH.- Parallel to the exhibition Paul Klee. Construction of Mystery (01 March 10 June 2018) the Fritz Winter Foundation is presenting 16 works from the early period of Klees probably best-known student. This is the first public presentation of a small selection of the new core holdings of the Fritz Winter Foundation, which was acquired by the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in 2017 on indefinite loan. A highlight of the show are two recent acquisitions from Fritz Winters famous group of works Driving forces of the earth (1944). Fritz Winter (1905-1976) is considered one of the foremost German representatives of the second generation of abstract painters. He studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Oskar Schlemmer; during ... More | |
Ed Ruscha (American, b. 1937), St. Tropez, 1965/2003, silver gelatin print, 14 1/2 x 14 in. (framed), Courtesy the artist and Gagosian, © Ed Ruscha.
OMAHA, NE.- Word/Play is the first major exhibition to feature internationally-renowned artist Ed Ruscha in his home state of Nebraska. Born in Omaha in 1937, Ruscha lived in the city for several years before his family moved to Oklahoma City. In 1956, he relocated to Los Angeles to study commercial art at the Chouinard Art Institute (now called CalArts), and quickly became a fixture in the highly energized West Coast art scene. Word/Play traces some of the most important developments in Ruschas career over the last sixty years, bringing together prints, photographs, and artist books dating from the 1960s through 2015, accompanied by a selection of major paintings. Word/Play opens to the public on Saturday, February 3, and continues at Joslyn through Sunday, May 6. Mining Ruschas incisive reading of the physical and social landscapes of Southern ... More | |
Thomas Carlyle by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt, 1877 © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A portrait slashed with a butchers cleaver by a suffragette in the National Portrait Gallery is back on display there for the first time in over twenty years. A photograph showing the damage has been included for the first time in a complementary display devoted to the suffrage movement that inspired the attack in July 1914. The portrait of one of the Gallerys founders, Thomas Carlyle, by Sir John Everett Millais, is on display as part of the Gallerys year-long Rebel Women season to coincide with the new display Votes for Women. The National Portrait Gallery has revealed archival accounts of the incident that was carried out by Anne Hunt following the re-arrest of Suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst. On the morning of the attack, which occurred on a student day, meaning all non-students paid an entry fee, gallery staff attendant David Wilson recognised Anne Hunt from the previous day; he had thought her American ... More |
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| Artist Ragnar Kjartansson returns to Wales with new performance | | mumok opens exhibition of works by Bruno Gironcoli | | After Putin-in-bullets, exiled Ukrainian artists coin Trump |
Ragnar Kjartansson by Elisabet Davids.
CARDIFF.- Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson returns to Wales to present a brand-new performance piece, The Sky in a Room, co-commissioned by Artes Mundi and National Museum Wales. The exciting performance sees a series of revolving organists performing the 1969 hit song Il Cielo In Una Stanza (The Sky in a Room) on the 1774 Sir Watkins Williams Wynn organ, and runs from 3 February to 11 March at National Museum Cardiff. In 2015, following his participation in the Artes Mundi 6 exhibition, the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson was awarded the £30,000 Derek Williams Trust purchase award, which enables National Museum of Wales to purchase artworks by Artes Mundi shortlisted artists. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Derek Williams Trust and the Art Fund, and will become part of Waless contemporary art collection at National Museum Cardiff which includes ... More | |
Bruno Gironcoli, Untitled, 1987. Metal powder paint, India ink, and mixed media on paper 200 x 153 cm. Albertina, Vienna. The Essl Collection. Photo: Photoatelier Laut, Vienna. Estate Bruno Gironcoli / Geschaftsfuhrerin Christine Gironcoli.
VIENNA.- Bruno Gironcoli (born 1936 in Villach; died 2010 in Vienna) is one of the most idiosyncratic artists of the twentieth century. He gained public recognition with the large-scale sculptures he began exhibiting in the mid-1980s, in which archetypes and trivial elements meld to form futuristic conglomerates. Yet his career started much earlier, in the 1960s, when Gironcoli, aware of international trends in art, developed his own radical and independent perspective. It is less well known that alongside his work in sculpture, Gironcoli also produced an extensive body of graphic works. Right from the beginning, these often large-format pieces, which became more and more painterly over the years, were not just mere sketches for sculptures. ... More | |
The Trump portrait, finished one month ago, is made of nearly 4,000 one cent and five-cent pieces. Poker chips are used for the US president's shoulders. Photo: Twitter.
NEW YORK (AFP).- They shot to fame in 2015 with a portrait of Vladimir Putin made of bullet shells from the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. Now, the two Ukrainian artists are back with a portrait of Donald Trump made from coins and poker chips. Threats forced Daria Marchenko, 35, and Daniel Green, 34, to leave their homeland in November 2016. They now lead an itinerant life, traveling and exhibiting their work in the United States and Latin America. The Trump portrait, finished one month ago, is made of nearly 4,000 one cent and five-cent pieces. Poker chips are used for the US president's shoulders. The artists are now searching for a place for a public unveiling. As with their "Face of War" portrait of the Russian leader, the Trump version, called "Face of Money" plays in the light ... More |
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Gary Tatintsian Gallery opens exhibition of works by Mat Collishaw
MOSCOW.- Illusion and desire are central themes in Mat Collishaw's work, through which he questions and breaks down traditional perception of familiar images. Collishaw analyzes the influence of hidden mechanisms and visual techniques on the subconscious of the viewer. His work draws attention to the delicate balance between poetic romanticism and shocking, dark illusionism. The forbidden has always been a focus of Collishaw, I am fueled by things in my past which were suppressed or held at a distance, which have generated some form of hunger to make my work. In Black Mirrors: St.Sebastian, Andromeda (2017), paintings by Niccolò Renieri and Vlaho Bukovac appear as ghosts in mirrors framed by black Murano glass. Animated figures come to life in a new form in front of the viewer, reproducing subjects of famous works and blurring the boundaries ... More
Institute of Contemporary Art opens three major exhibitions for its 2018 winter season
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This winter, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania presents three exhibitions that explore how artists have captured, interrogated, and responded to rapidly changing environments in contemporary society. Exhibitions include: a group exhibition curated by artist Nayland Blake that investigates queer identification through new communications technologies; the first comprehensive career survey and solo museum exhibition dedicated to Cary Leibowitz, whose bold text-based works address issues of identity, sexuality, and queer politics; and a focused exhibition on broadcast and video work, organized in partnership with Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), that focuses on how artists have engaged with the legacy of broadcast media. We are thrilled to be able to collaborate with such a dynamic group of artists ... More
Retrospective shines light on one of America's greatest photographers
COLUMBIA, SC.- The Columbia Museum of Art presents the major spring exhibition Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, a retrospective showcasing one of the most influential and innovative photographers in the history of the genre, on view from Friday, February 2, through Sunday, April 29, 2018. The exhibition features 60 of Cunninghams best works of art as well as camera equipment and archival materials. The CMA has a tradition of exhibiting important female photographers. Take our recent exhibitions on Annie Leibowitz and Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe as well as the current Renée Cox show, says Della Watkins, CMA executive director. Imogen Cunningham led the way for these powerful artists. Were thrilled to offer visitors an opportunity to see some of the best photography of the 20th century. Born in 1883 in Portland, Oregon, Cunningham ... More
Dennis Edwards, a lead voice of The Temptations, dead at 74
NEW YORK (AFP).- Dennis Edwards, who brought a fresh voice to Motown legends The Temptations in 1968 and led classic songs such as "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," died Friday. He was 74. A representative for his management company, 21st Century Artists, confirmed his death without providing details. Baritone Otis Williams -- The Temptations' sole surviving original member, who had at times clashed with Edwards -- said he was "very sad" at the passing of "our brother." "We acknowledge his extraordinary contribution to The Temptations legacy, which lives on in the music. Temptations Forever," Williams wrote on Facebook. By the time Edwards joined in 1968, The Temptations were already major stars with hits such as "My Girl," and were known for layered vocal harmonies as well as their finely choreographed stage moves in their dapper suits. But original ... More
Elise Solomon named Director of Learning and Engagement at Taft Museum of Art
CINCINNATI, OH.- Following a nationwide search, Elise Solomon has been named Director of Learning and Engagement at the Taft Museum of Art. She will begin her tenure on February 28. Solomon will oversee the learning and engagement department staff that includes a large team of dedicated volunteer docents. She will be responsible for engaging new and existing audiences, increasing public involvement, and expanding the Tafts role in the community. Solomon comes to the Taft from the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), where she has worked in a variety of roles since 2010. She was the recipient of the prestigious Louisiana Art Educator Associations Art Museum Educator of the Year award in 2017. She has developed and implemented an array of programs at NOMA for audiences of all ages, including Baby Artsplay! Teen Squad, and Create Late ... More
Aaron Sorkin: I have writer's block most days
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin revealed on Thursday he goes to bed most nights having not succeeded in putting a single word to paper. The 56-year-old mastermind behind NBC's "The West Wing" and big screen productions "The Social Network" and "Moneyball" recently turned to directing, working from his own Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Molly's Game." "I have to say this -- directing is really hard. But I loved every minute of it," he told a discussion panel of Hollywood writers in Beverly Hills. "One of the things that I loved, other than the people I was working with, was that you may have a hard day at the office, but at the end of the day you've done a day's work. "As a writer, with me, not only is that not always the case, for me it's hardly ever. I'm not kidding. Most nights I go to bed having written nothing and not knowing ... More
MAGMA gallery opens double solo show of 2501 and Aris
BOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery presents "Shifting Surfaces", the double solo show of 2501 (Milan, 1981) and Aris (Tuscany, 1978), opening during the Bologna Art Week. Important names of Italian Urban Art, the two artists count many collaborations in the urban space and a common artistic path influenced by graffiti. The typical figures of Aris and the linear approach of 2501 are combined and exalted within the exhibition, which showcases the most recent works by the two artists, created specifically for the event. Moving surfaces, unstable, changeable: the title of the exhibition underlines the dynamism of their artistic research. The works created for "Shifting Surfaces" express, in spite of the chromatic essentiality, a constant compositional tension, a vital rhythm consisting on the continuity of gesture and sign. The lines of 2501 symbolize a continual weaving ... More
Kewenig exhibits works by Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Angelika Markul
PALMA DE MALLORCA.- Kewenig is presenting the Après exhibition, bringing together the artists Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Angelika Markul in the Oratori de Sant Feliu In this exhibition, time and memory are questioned as a form of survival, challenged by the awakening of memory, the struggle against time. Marcel Proust proclaimed "Oblivion does not exist without profoundly altering the notion of time", that same author voiced that the state of things does not only belong to the present. These three artists, Boltanski, Lavier and Markul based in Paris, pay tribute to these words. They play with the notion of time, transplanting the past into the present, moving between the line of reality and the artistic, courting with the idea of death to give life. Après is the work presented by Christian Boltanski, it gives the exhibition its title, which immerses itself in an analysis ... More
'Susan King: Chronicles of a Southern Feminist' on display at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum
ROANOKE, VA.- Susan King is known both for her writing and her skillful bookmaking. She began making books after she moved to Southern California in the 1970s to be part of the experimental Feminist Studio Workshop. She went on to become the studio director of the Womens Graphic Center at the Womans Building, working closely with Judy Chicago and other pioneer feminist artists. She has since returned to her southern roots, and much of her work is influenced by southern oral tradition and history, in addition to writing about place. King continues to create books and ephemera in her home studio in Lexington, Kentucky. King received a BA in ceramics from the University of Kentucky and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. She taught one of the first Women and Art courses in the United States at the University of New Mexico in 1973, as well as letterpress ... More
Master goldsmith Rudolf Heltzel celebrated in spectacular exhibition of his work
KILKENNY.- The National Design & Craft Gallery in Kilkenny celebrates an icon of Irish craft and design with Rudolf Heltzel: In Precious Metal, a spectacular exhibition of sculptural pendants by the master goldsmith. Rudolf Heltzel has gained an international reputation for the originality, quality and timeless aesthetic of his craftsmanship with each piece created meticulously by hand using some of the worlds oldest jewellery techniques. This exhibition showcases many of his most ambitious and technically complex designs, presenting pieces selected from his personal archive alongside new work in three of his sculptural pendant collections Rock Crystal, Tourmaline Butterfly and Druzy. Heltzel will also deliver a lecture, The Arduous Road to the Creation of a Jewel, on Saturday 3 February in the Gallery. For Heltzel, jewellery making is part of a living cultural heritage ... More
Francesca Maffeo Gallery presents 'Somnium' by Gian Paul Lozza & 'Lucent' by Georgina Martin
LEIGH ON SEA .- Francesca Maffeo Gallery is ppresenting Somnium by Swiss Photographer Gian Paul Lozza, presenting unseen new imagery, an exciting addition to works previously shown at Bildhalle Gallery, Zurich in 2014. Lozzas series is an attempt at a typology. So there are no living creatures to be seen in the photographs, nor is there the slightest sign of any active movement. The pictures are mute, silent and frozen in the subdued nocturnal low-light. And yet they reveal some traces of civilisation: a faintly lit window in a backyard (Backyard), two barrels on a platform (Barrels), a visitors ramp on the glacier tongue (Glacier), a stratified pile of dead wood at the edge of a forest (Wood Pile). Lozza calls his landscape photographs Metascapes, providing a further allusion to a cultural-historical reference system that includes the landscape pai ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell was born February 03, 1894. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. In this image: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Four Freedoms, 1943. Assemblage. Story illustrations for four February- March, 1943 issues of The Saturday Evening Post, Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. ©SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.
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