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Fran Langdon-Devlin, a staff member poses next to a Mail Coach, circa 1800, during a media preview of the new Postal Museum and the Mail Rail attraction in London on July 26, 2017. Snaking through special underground tunnels that have lain abandoned for years, London's Mail Rail is opening to the public for the first time for a ride on tiny trains that not even the Blitz could stop. The attraction is part of the new Postal Museum opening on July 28 that retraces the vital role Britain's Royal Mail played over its 500 year history. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
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LONDON (AFP).- Few of the millions of people whose letters and packages were shuttled on a tiny train line deep under London ever suspected it existed. But now the public will get a chance to hop aboard the so-called Mail Rail that not even the brutal Nazi bombing of the Blitz could stop. Moving at just four miles (6.4 kilometres) per hour, the two-foot-wide train takes visitors along Mail Rail's tunnels, passing a "train graveyard" and two ghostly abandoned platforms along the way. "It was only ever meant to be a railway for post," Adrian Steel, the Postal Museum's director, told AFP. "This is the first time that people will be able to ride some of the tunnels, see some of the engineering and discover the story of the postal railway". ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit an exhibition commemorating the 90th anniversary of the army's founding at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing on July 28, 2017. A major exhibition was launched on July 28 to mark the 90th founding anniversary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which falls on August 1. Fred DUFOUR / AFP
| Missing Wright of Derby portrait discovered | | Major gift of Hopper archival materials received by the Whitney | | National Museum Wales acquires rare Richard Wilson portrait |
Painting attributed to 'Follower of Joshua Reynolds' revealed as missing Wright of Derby self-portrait.
LONDON.- An 18th century painting catalogued as being by a Follower of Joshua Reynolds at auction has been revealed as a genuine self-portrait by renowned British artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734 1797). The discovery, a rarity for 18th century works by high-profile British artists, will be unveiled at the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, from the 15th 20th September. Acquired by Archie Parker of The Parker Gallery, a leading dealer in Old Master and British works of art, the painting has been traced back to 1793, when records indicate that Wright gifted it to the Rev. Thomas Gisborne of Yoxall. Gisborne was a close friend of Wrights and had amassed an extensive collection of paintings and drawings by the artist, including a portrait featuring Gisborne and his wife, two landscapes of the Lake District (subsequently at Kedleston Hall) and a painting of Mount Vesuvius. In ... More | |
Edward Hoppers Notes on Painting notebook (cover), c. 1940-1950, The Sanborn Hopper Archive at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Gift of The Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust, Series: Personal Papers, Edward Hopper, Notebooks.
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitneys Alice Pratt Brown Director, today announced that the Whitney Museum of American Art has received a major donation of archival materials relating to the artist Edward Hopper (18821967). The materials, to be known as the Sanborn Hopper Archive at the Whitney Museum of American Art, are the generous gift of the Arthayer R. Sanborn Hopper Collection Trust. The Sanborn Hopper Archive will be housed at the Whitneys Frances Mulhall Achilles Library. Mr. Weinberg commented, The Sanborn Family has stewarded this collection and Hoppers legacy for decades. We are delighted that the family has chosen the Whitneyhome to the largest collection of Edward Hopper works ... More | |
Richard Wilson, Portrait of a Lady, c1750 © National Museum of Wales.
LONDON.- With support from Art Fund, National Museum Wales has acquired the c1750 painting Portrait of a Lady (Miss Mary Jenkins?), which is now on display at National Museum Cardiff. Thought to be an image of Miss Mary Jenkins, whose family owned Priston Manor in Somerset, the work joins only one other female portrait by Wilson in National Museum Wales collection. It offers insight into Wilsons early career, when he first trained in London as a society portrait painter, before later becoming best known for his landscapes. The acquisition has also enabled further research, which is currently trying to establish whether this may in fact be a marriage portrait, rather than one of a pair of siblings (Wilson also painted Jenkins sister, Elizabeth, in the same year). The womans hand clasps a sprig of white blossom, which may be choisya (orange blossom), sometimes used to symbolise an eternal bond. 'This ... More |
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| Guggenheim Museum names Katherine Brinson to newly endowed curatorial position for contemporary art | | Mitch Cairns wins 2017 Archibald Prize with portrait of Agatha Gothe-Snape 'composed with love' | | Exhibit spotlights top 20 award winners in Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition |
Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, announced today the establishment of a newly endowed curatorial position for contemporary art. Guggenheim curator Katherine Brinson, who joined the museum in 2005, will be the first Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art. The position has been created, in perpetuity, with the support of Dimitris Daskalopoulos, a Vice President of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Collections Council of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. As an active board member, art collector, and patron, Dimitris Daskalopoulos is a preeminent advocate for the power of contemporary art to inspire and reflect creative forces in our society, said Armstrong. This generous gift to endow a position allows us to continue to advance a founding commitment of the ... More | |
2017 Archibald Prize winning portrait: Mitch Cairns Agatha Gothe-Snape oil on linen, 140.5 x 125 cm © the artist. Photo: Mim Stirling, AGNSW.
SYDNEY.- Sydney artist Mitch Cairns, a four-time Archibald Prize finalist, has won the 2017 Archibald Prize with a stylised portrait of his artist partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Gothe-Snape is a significant contemporary artist exhibiting widely both in Australia and overseas. I composed this portrait with love. Agatha and I share everything in our lives; our two-year-old son; our work as artists and our day-to-day lives, Cairns said. Initially I made loose drawings of Agatha, just in the flow. Its a domestic scene. When you have a young child theres a lot of creative play happening on the floor. In this portrait Agathas in an uncomfortably comfortable pose; legs crossed, head turned, on our rumpled rug, Cairns said. Art Gallery of New South Wales curator of Australian art, Anne Ryan, said Cairnss work is graphic and incorporates an economical use of palette and line. & ... More | |
1st Place: Dr. Oscar Ruiz The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, USA. Four-day-old zebrafish embryo Confocal 10x.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Starting July 29, the Bruce Museum will showcase the top 20 award-winning photographs of the 42nd annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition. This traveling exhibition, which is on view in Greenwich through October 29, 2017, shows the beauty and complexity of life as seen through the light microscope. The Bruce Museum will supplement the show with the display of historical 20thcentury microscopes used by former Bruce Museum directors Edward Bigelow and Paul Howes. The super close-up photographs were judged by independent experts on the basis of originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact.The subject matter is unrestricted and any type of light microscopy technique is acceptable, including phase contrast, polarized light, fluorescence, interference contrast, darkfield, confocal, deconvolution, ... More |
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| 'The John Lennon Phantom V' returns to London | | Exhibition on the collaboration of Göran Schildt and Alvar Aalto treads in the footsteps of two modern humanists | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens comprehensive exhibition by German artist Imi Knoebel |
The John Lennon Phantom V.
LONDON.- Rolls-Royce is celebrating the 50th anniversary year of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in its own way by bringing the colourful Rolls-Royce Phantom V, famous for being owned by John Lennon, back home to London for the British public to see. Currently owned by the Royal British Columbia Museum in Canada, 'The John Lennon Phantom V' traveled from Canada to London to join 'The Great Eight Phantoms' A Rolls-Royce Exhibition, at Bonhams on Bond Street, an area visited regularly by Lennon in the late 1960s in this very car. Members of the public will be able to see 'The John Lennon Phantom V' at Bonhams from 29 July to the 2 August. On 3 June 1965 the same day that Edward H White left the capsule of his Gemini 4 to become the first American to walk in space John Lennon took delivery of something rather special. It was a Rolls-Royce Phantom V in Valentine Black. He would later say that he always wanted to be an eccentric millionaire, and the ... More | |
Alvar Aalto and Göran Schildt in Jyväskylä. Photo Roberto Sambonet, Christine and Göran Schildt Foundation.
JYVÃSKYLÃ.- This years summer exhibition at the Alvar Aalto Museum is entitled Schildt and Aalto. Modern humanists. It tells of the friendship and collaboration which existed between Göran Schildt, the writer, and Alvar Aalto, the architect. These two very different personalities shared a similar set of values, were extensively cultivated and had considerable interest in Mediterranean culture. The exhibition is a mark of respect towards the lifes work of Göran Schildt and pays homage to the friendship between two modern humanists. The writer and art historian Doctor Göran Schildt (1917-2009) is perhaps best known for his travel writing about the voyages in the Mediterranean of his sailing yacht the Daphne. Also present on one of these voyages, a trip up the Nile in the winter of 1954-55, were newly-weds Elissa and Alvar Aalto (1898-1976). Although the ... More | |
Imi Knoebel, Schnitt 09.05.2017, 2017, Acryl auf Aluminium, 176 x 190,5 x 4,5 cm.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents a comprehensive exhibition by German artist Imi Knoebel, consisting of Datums-, Drachen- and Schnitt-Bildern as well as his new miniature series Elements, from 29 July until 26 August 2017. In his new works, Imi Knoebel (b 1940 in Dessau) once again explores the remarkable vitality of colour reduction and formal abstraction. In these pictures as indeed in all his work he remains true to the tradition of abstract, non-representational art, following artists such as Kazimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian. After puristic line paintings, light projections and white paintings (1972-75), Knoebel first used colour in 1974; from 1975 onwards he went on to overlapping coloured rectangles called Mennigebilder [red lead pictures] and finally to a garish, gesturally expressive application of paint on plywood or metal panels placed in a specific spatial relation. Since ... More |
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| LACMA presents a groundbreaking exhibition on the universal concept of home | | Vito Schnabel Gallery opens a solo exhibition of Walter Robinson's work | | Site-specific tropical pavilion created by Sol Calero on view in Wiltshire |
Miguel Angel RÃos, The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados), 2012, Single-channel video, 00:05:02, Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery, © Miguel Angel RÃos.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents HomeSo Different, So Appealing: Art from the Americas since 1957, a groundbreaking exhibition on the universal concept of home, and the first group show at a major Los Angeles museum to focus on Latino and Latin American art since the 1950s. Offering an extraordinary look at one of the worlds most basic social concepts, this exhibition explores the differences and affinities within artworks relative to immigration and political repression, dislocation and diaspora, and personal memory and utopian ideals. HomeSo Different, So Appealing features approximately 100 artworks by 40 Latino and Latin American artists. This expansive exhibition includes painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, film/video, and public sculpture by U.S. artists from the largest historic Latino groupsof Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban originplus artists from Argentina, ... More | |
Walter Robinson, Live For Today, 2017. Acrylic on bed sheet, 70 x 58 inches. 177.80 x 147.32 cm. © Walter Robinson; Courtesy the Artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
ST. MORITZ.- Vito Schnabel Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Walter Robinsons work, entitled The Americans, featuring paintings on sheets that depict scenes from the covers of paperback romance novelsa central motif of his work. The exhibition will include new Romance paintings, created this year, along with two works in the same series from 1986. A key figure in the Pictures Generation along with friends like Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, and Richard Prince, Walter Robinson has been a fixture of the New York art world for decades both as an artist and as editor-in-chief of Artnet magazine. On Robinson, New Yorker critic Peter Schjeldahl mused, The art is like the man: wry, with blatant charms and slow-acting authenticities. Robinson describes the central theme of his work as being at base level about appetites, from the sexual to the culinary. Robinson writes, Bed sheets serve as an almost universal acces ... More | |
Sol Calero, Casa Anacaona at WOMAD music festival, 2017. Photo: Jamie Woodley. A co-commission by WOMAD World of Art and Folkestone Triennial 2017.
WILTSHIRE.- WOMAD World of Art and Folkestone Triennial 2017 announced the launch of Sol Caleros Casa Anacaona, a large-scale, site-specific tropical pavilion created by the Berlin-based Venezuelan artist in her largest project to date. Part painting, part sculpture, part social space, Casa Anacaona places contemporary art within a music context at WOMAD, and situates music and dance within contemporary art at Folkestone Triennial. Constructed by Calero and local creatives in Folkestone, Casa Anacaona traveled to WOMAD to be decorated by festival-goers in painting workshops led by the artist throughout the July weekend. It then returns to Kent for Folkestone Triennial, double edge in September to become a stage set for Salsa dancing sessions. In the late afternoon and evening at both sites the pavilion becomes a secluded carefree environment where visitors can sit, talk, eat and drink. Casa Anacaona evolves abstract ideas o ... More |
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Fredericton Art Club celebrates Beaverbrook Art Gallery expansion with artwork donation
FREDERICTON, NB.- The Beaverbrook Art Gallery announced a special new gift to its permanent collection. The painting, Iris Swamp (1961) by Lucy Jarvis, was purchased with funds from the Fredericton Art Club in commemoration of the Beaverbrook Art Gallerys new pavilion, and in celebration of the long-standing relationship between the two organizations. The painting is currently on display as part of the Atlantic section of Canadian Mosaic. The initiative was spearheaded by Gallery docents and Fredericton Art Club members Margie Pacey (the president of the club at the time) and Jackie Steward, who approached Gallery Director/CEO Terry Graff about this Clubs interest. Graff suggested Lucy Jarvis as a logical choice of artist, and also suggested engaging the assistance of curator Roslyn Rosenfeld, who had recently worked with the Gallery in presenting a retrospective ... More
Christie's Staff Art Show partners with Creative Time
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the 18th Annual Staff Art Show and Online Sale, Front of House/Back of House, taking place July 28 through August 9. Since its launch in 2000, this annual group show of artwork by Christies New York staff offers the public a unique opportunity to view the astounding array of artistic expression at Christies, the worlds leading art business. The online sale will be open for bidding from July 28 August 9 with a public preview exhibition taking place from July 28 August 8 (excluding weekends) at Christies New York. The title of this years Staff Art Show, Front of House/Back of House, celebrates the artists working behind-the-scenes and features over 90 works from more than 50 gifted artists from many departments throughout the company, including: Post-War & Contemporary Art, Private and Iconic, Watches & Wine, American ... More
Upcoming online fine art auction presents unique opportunity for beginner collectors
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions upcoming Fine Art Online Auction August 8 is a perfect opportunity for a beginning collector or anyone interested in adding original artwork to his or her collection. The sale features a number of beautiful European works at very affordable prices. Jean Vollets Field of Flowers, oil on canvas, (est. $1,000-2,000) is a picturesque example from the famed French painters oeuvre, or body of work. This lovely work highlights the artists masterful Pointillist style, inspired by the great Impressionist painters Seurat and Pissarro, and features a delightful balance of color and composition. Jacques Bouyssous Paris Le Cafe, oil on canvas, (est. $800-1,200) is one of many examples the artist captured of the City of Lights. A student of architecture, Bouyssou became a student of French artists Orthon Friesz and Lucien Simon. French painter Henri Ottmanns ... More
Rare set of watercolour paintings on display for the first time
CANBERRA.- A rare and enchanting collection of 52 portraits of British street people is on display for the first time in the National Portrait Gallerys winter show, Dempseys People: a folio of British street portraits 1824-1844. Curated by Dr David Hansen, the exhibition brings together 51 works from Tasmanian Museum and Gallery and one work from the Alexander Turnbull Library at the National Library of New Zealand. Painted by a little-known itinerant portraitist, John Dempsey, these watercolours were first brought to light by Dr Hansen 20 years ago, when he was Senior Curator at Tasmanian Museum and Gallery. Fascinated by the works combination of unlikely subjects and up-close-and-personal realism, Dr Hansen sees the folio as presenting a significant challenge to conventional views of British portraiture. What is so exciting about this material, about this exhibition, ... More
9/11 Museum welcomes 10 million visitors
NEW YORK, NY.- The National September 11 Memorial & Museum today announced that more than 10 million people have visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum since it opened in May 2014. It is a major milestone for the Museum, which averages about 9,000 visitors a day. The accompanying 9/11 Memorial has had more than 33 million visitors since opening in September 2011. Reaching this monumental milestone demonstrates the 9/11 Memorial Museums commitment to providing an educational and meaningful experience for thousands of people every day, 9/11 Memorial & Museum Board Chairman Michael R. Bloomberg said. New Yorkers, our nation and the entire world recognize the importance of the history of 9/11. In just over three years, 10 million people from all over the world have visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum to pay their respects, to be inspired, ... More
Sculptures by Phillip Ratner acquired by National Museum of American Jewish History
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The National Museum of American Jewish History has recently acquired a series of sculptures by artist Phillip Ratner that bring to life the immigrant experience in America. Ten sculptures represent the millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. Approximately 24 inches tall, these works were created in the early 1980s and cast with metal from the interior of the Statue of Liberty following its renovation. They are the original models for Ratners larger sculptures that have been on display on the grounds of the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration since 1990. Additionally, NMAJH acquired Ratners 2017 sculpture of Emma Lazarus, whose well-known sonnet The New Colossus is engraved on the Statue of Libertys pedestal. The newly-acquired sculptures can be viewed on NMAJHs free-of-charge ... More
Nationalgalerie in Berlin opens new exhibition series of emerging art
BERLIN.- With the exhibition series Rundgang 50Hertz the Nationalgalerie shows its support of artists who have recently finished their studies and taken their first steps in the art world. Until 2019, a yearly summer exhibition will present selected final year projects created at art academies in Berlin, Hamburg, and Leipzig. The exhibition space is a pavilion designed by Florian Stirnemann (raumlaborberlin), which will be temporarily housed in the headquarters of the transmission system operator 50Hertz, located next to the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. The kick-off exhibition this year includes work by Emma Adler (graduate of the kunsthochschule weissensee berlin), Asana Fujikawa (graduate of the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg), Susanne Keichel and Cosima zu Knyphausen (graduates of the Hochschule für Grafik ... More
'Titanic in Photographs': The Exhibition now open at The Queen Mary
LONG BEACH, CA.- The must-see showcase Titanic in Photographs The Exhibition is now on display at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA and will run through July 2018. Almost 100 period photographs are displayed, guiding the visitor through the immersive story of Titanic; from conception to her tragic demise. The exhibit offers a comprehensive, educational view of one of the most memorable moments in history; a story that continues to captivate the publics imagination over 100 years later. The synergy between Titanic and the Queen Mary is obvious; the latter being the most famous surviving ocean liner in history and built for the Cunard/White Star Line after their merger in 1934. Queen Mary would have been Titanics successor, as indeed she was for her near-identical twin sister ship, Olympic. RMS Titanic continues to be one of the most popular culture topics in the world. ... More
The UK's largest exhibition to explore LGBT+ history through contemporary art opens in Liverpool
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, opened the UKs largest exhibition dedicated to exploring sex, gender and LGBT+ history through modern and contemporary art. Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender & Identity, on view at the Walker Art Gallery on 28 July until 5 November 2017, marks 50 years since the partial decriminalisation of male homosexual acts was passed in England and Wales (1967 Sexual Offences Act), on 27 July 1967. From Derek Jarman and Steve McQueen to Anya Gallaccio and Zanele Muholi, the artists represented across almost 100 artworks have used their work to explore sexuality and gender identity since 1967, after the passing of the Act. Charlotte Keenan, Curator of British Art at National Museums Liverpool, said: Coming Out will be one of the most important exhibitions in the Walkers history. Showcasing the results of several ... More
Metropolitan Museum of Art announces new senior staff appointments
NEW YORK, NY.- Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced five senior staff appointments that went into effect this month. Quincy Houghton as Deputy Director for Exhibitions; Dita Amory as Curator in Charge and Administrator, the Robert Lehman Collection; Kim Benzel as Curator in Charge, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art Jayson Dobney as Curator in Charge, Department of Musical Instruments; and Janina Poskrobko as Conservator in Charge, Textile Conservation. "It is an honor to announce these appointments, all of which are extremely well deserved," said Mr. Weiss. "This is a group of dedicated, talented, and experienced individuals who bring an impressive level of expertise to their positions. In addition to being collaborative colleagues who care deeply about this institution, they also exemplify ... More
Selections from Borusan Contemporary Art Collection go on view at University of Michigan Museum of Art
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- Drawn from the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection in Istanbul, Turkey, an exhibition of time-Âbased works by artists Hannu Karjalainen, Daniel Rozin, and Marina Zurkow will be on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art July 29 - November 26, 2017. Moving Image: Portraiture, developed for and presented at UMMA, reveals how these artists use dynamic technologies - including digitized images and video - to explore the genre. The exhibition is organized by Kathleen Forde, Borusan Contemporary's Artistic Director at Large and UMMA's Adjunct Curator of Media Arts, as part of a suite of three exhibitions representing traditional categories - landscape, performance, and portraiture - that find new resonances when explored through technological strategies. Towards An Architect (2010) by Finnish artist Hannu Karjalainen is a video ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh died July 29, 1890. Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found).[3][note 2] His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still. In this image: Jussi Pylkkanen, the senior director of 19th Century Art at Christie's, views Van Gogh's "A Pair of Shoes," as it went on display in the Christie's auction rooms in London, Friday, September 10, 1999. The rarely exhibited and little known painting is the missing link in an important series of five closely related pictures by Van Gogh between 1886 and 1887.
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