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Father Najeeb Michaeel displays a manuscript at the Oriental Manuscript Digitisation Centre (CNDO) in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region, on March 1, 2018. In August 2014 Father Najeeb Michaeel and three friars from his congregation piled two cars full of rare manuscripts, 16th century books and unpublished manuscripts, to save them from the imminent arrival of advancing Islamic State jihadists. SAFIN HAMED / AFP.
by Sammy Ketz
BAGHDAD (AFP).- As jihadists swept across Iraq three years ago, he rescued a treasure trove of ancient religious manuscripts from near-certain destruction. Father Najeeb Michaeel is now training fellow Iraqis to preserve their heritage. "My duty is to save our heritage, a significant treasure," the Dominican friar told AFP in a telephone interview from his office in the city of Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. "We can't save a tree if we don't save its roots, and a man without culture is a dead man." In August 2014, as the Islamic State (IS) group charged towards Qaraqosh, once Iraq's largest Christian city, Father Najeeb filled his car with rare manuscripts, 16th century books and irreplaceable records. He fled towards the relative safety of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. With two other friars from his Dominican order, he also moved the Oriental Manuscript Digitisation Centre (OMDC). ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Concepcion Gimenez, physical anthropologist and academic responsible of the "Osteoteca" (osteological collection), at the Anthropology National Museum (MNA), shows the skull of the "Man of Tepexpan" approximately 6,000 years old, in Mexico City, on March 9, 2018. The MNA houses one of the most important osteological collections in the world, with more than 25,000 skeletons, and more than 30 mummies. RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP
| Rijksmuseum acquires top art work made for the Medici family in Florence | | Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of leading Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi | | Fine art in the flesh: Paris gallery welcomes nudists |
Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511-1592), The Medici Genius, Florence ca.1556, red wax, height 31 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has acquired a unique Italian sculpture from 1556 on the opening day of the Tefaf. The sculpture was made by Bartolomeo Ammanati. It is an expressive preparatory wax model for the fountain in the famous Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The sculpture has been bought thanks to the BankGiro Lottery. The statue, c. 30 cm high, features a naked young man who, with his outstretched hand, holds a globe as the symbol of the cosmos. That motif is an allusion to the name of the patron, Cosimo de Medici, who commissioned the piece. The work was created at a time when Florence was the artistic centre of Europe, where many artists worked together. This includes the great Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries. Wax models from the 16th century are extremely rare, given their fragility, ... More | |
Portrait of Zeng Fanzhi. Photography by Li Zhenhua © 2018 Zeng Fanzhi. Courtsesy Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Zengs diverse and innovative painting practice has established him as one of the worlds most celebrated living artists. In a career spanning over three decades to date, Zeng repeatedly challenges convention to constantly evolve his practice, resulting in artistic breakthroughs, versatile painting styles, and a rich oeuvre. He has shaped the course of Chinese contemporary art by redefining the principles of painting, as well as by creating opportunities and securing a future for Chinese art through the work of The Fanzhi Foundation for Art and Education, which was founded in 2011 and continues to be funded by Zeng today. Hauser & Wirth will further develop the artists international profile through a series of major exhibitions, public programs, publishing projects, ... More | |
View of the lobby of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
PARIS (AFP).- A leading Paris gallery has thrown prudishness to the winds by announcing it will welcome nudist visitors in May. The Palais de Tokyo, a contemporary art centre situated across the Seine river from the Eiffel Tower, has teamed up with the Paris Naturists' Association to organise a free tour on May 5. The guided tour will take place in the morning before the centre opens to the general public. "When the doors open the Palais will be clothed again," Dolores Gonzales, the gallery's spokeswoman told AFP on Friday, adding that the event aimed to showcase the centre's "openness". The places were snapped up in under two days, revealing the growing appetite for naturism in the French capital. Last year, Parisian nudists got their own designated patch in the Bois de Vincennes park as well as their own restaurant, named O'naturel. ... More |
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| Trams stop, museums close as power cut hits Amsterdam | | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden receive an internationally significant private art collection | | US Holocaust Museum strips rights award from Myanmar's Suu Kyi |
Tourists stand outside the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, on March 9, 2018. Evert Elzinga / ANP / AFP.
AMSTERDAM.- Power was gradually being restored Friday after Amsterdam's bustling city centre was hit by a major outage, closing down museums and stopping trams, the city's electricity network provider said. By late afternoon, some 10,000 households out of a total of 28,000 were reconnected but "it was not possible to say when all power will be restored," the Liander company said in a statement. Amsterdam's local news channel AT5 reported that it still could take all night to restore power in the Dutch capital. The city centre "experienced a large power cut around 11.00 am (1000 GMT) after an electricity cable was cut during excavations" just south of Amsterdam's historical canal belt, Liander earlier announced. Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum was evacuated and remained closed together with the nearby Allard Pierson Museum, news reports added. Elsewhere on the city's famous Museum Square, ... More | |
The collection comprises some 1,200 works belonging to artistic styles and trends from the 1910s to the present.
DRESDEN.- The Erika and Rolf Hoffmann collection is an internationally significant private art collection which stands out for its highly quality-focused approach and absolute trust in the works inner strength. In an extremely generous act of donation, the works are now coming to Dresden, where they will be part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (State Art Collection). This was announced today at a press conference in Dresden by the collector Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, the Director General of the SKD Marion Ackermann and the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education Research and the Arts Eva-Maria Stange. The collection comprises some 1,200 works belonging to artistic styles and trends from the 1910s to the present, from the fields of painting, photography, drawings, sculpture, installations, film and video art. The spectrum includes artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Monica Bonvicini, Marcel ... More | |
Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during the International Women's Day ceremony at the Myanmar International Convention Center 2 in Naypyidaw on February 8, 2018. Thet AUNG / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The US Holocaust Memorial Museum said Wednesday it was stripping Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi of a prestigious human rights award, accusing her of doing little to halt the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims. Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her long campaign against the country's military dictatorship, was awarded the Holocaust Museum's Elie Wiesel award six years ago "for her courageous leadership and great personal sacrifice in resisting tyranny and advancing the freedom and dignity of the Burmese people." But the Museum said it was rescinding the award due to her inaction over what it called "mounting evidence of genocide" committed by the Myanmar military against civilians from the Rohingya minority in Rakhine state. "As the military's attacks against the Rohingya unfolded in 2016 and 2017, we ... More |
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| New purpose-built home for one of Australia's most significant contemporary art collections launched | | Robert Polidori's photographs of the frescoes of Fra Angelico on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Serralves Museum presents Joan Miró Collection in Italy |
The Shape of Things to Come, installation view at Buxton Contemporary, the University of Melbourne, March 2018. Photo: Christian Capurro.
MELBOURNE.- Located within Melbournes Southbank arts precinct and embedded at the University of Melbournes Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Buxton Contemporary provides a home and broad cultural context for the extraordinary art collection of Melbourne property developer and passionate art collector Michael Buxton. Designed by leading Australian architects Fender Katsalidis, the museum features a teaching space and additional five galleries designed to showcase what is largely recognized as one of this countrys most significant collections of contemporary Australian art. The Michael Buxton Collection was first established in 1995 with a focus on creating a museum-quality art collection based around six major Australian artists. Under the guidance of a board that has included members of the Buxton family and leading contemporary art curators and advisors, it now encompasses three generations ... More | |
Robert Polidori, Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saints by Fra Angelico #11, San Marco Monastery Museum, Florence, Italy, 2010. Aqueous inkjet on natural fiber paper mounted to dibond, 54 x 44 inches, 137.2 x 111.8 cm. Edition of 5 + 2 APs (#1/5). Photo: Copyright The Artist. Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announces the debut presentation of a selection of Robert Polidoris large-scale color photographs of the frescoes of Fra Angelico (1395-1455) contained in the Dominican priory of San Marco in Florence. The exhibition is on view from March 8 through 14 April, 2018. In the canon of art history, these works, executed in the birthplace of the Renaissance, give us a full sense of the periods renewed commitment to the life of the spirit. Polidori visited the Convento di San Marco several times over the course of 2010 to capture the solemnity and sheer force of the frescoes and their reflection, through the depiction of the life of Christ, of the universal condition of mankind. The frescoes, painted by Fra Angelico between 1439 and 1444 for purposes of devotion and ... More | |
Joan Miró, Mujer y pájaro, 24 de novembro de 1959. Ãleo sobre tela, 116 x 89 cm © Successió Miró / SPA, 2016.
PADUA.- The Serralves Foundation is presenting the exhibition "Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis", in the Italian city of Padua, encompassing 85 works from the Joan Miró Collection, owned by the Portuguese State. The exhibition is being presented at the Fondazione Bano one of Italys leading cultural institutions. In the wake of the success of this exhibition in the Serralves Foundation, on display between October 2016 and June 2017, with over 240,000 visitors, and its subsequent presentation in the National Palace of Ajuda, in Lisbon, between September 2017 and February 2018, with 49,265 visitors, the exhibition is now being shown in the Fondazione Bano until June 2018. Fondazione Bano is a leading Italian cultural institution. It was founded in 1997 by Federico Bano, an Italian entrepreneur from the field of fashion, who acquired the Palazzo Zabarella in Padua, to recover and transform it into ... More |
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| Christina Yu Yu appointed Chair of Asian Art at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | | First exhibition of Ted Stamm's work at Lisson Gallery New York opens | | Asian Art Museum asks life's biggest questions in 'Divine Bodies' |
Christina Yu Yu. Courtesy of USC Pacific Asia Museum.
BOSTON, MASS.- Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that Christina Yu Yu has been appointed as the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair, Art of Asia. A noted scholar of both historic and contemporary Chinese art, she will lead a team of curators in overseeing the Museums collection of more than 100,000 works from Japan, China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, and the Islamic world. Yu Yu currently serves as the director of the USC Pacific Asia Museum, one of the few museums in the U.S. dedicated exclusively to the arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands. An alumna of Wellesley College and Boston University, she will return to Boston this summer and assume her new role at the MFA where she began her curatorial career as a graduate internon July 2, 2018. Christinas breadth of experience, international outlook and track record of leadership align with ... More | |
Installation image, Ted Stamm, Lisson Gallery New York (9 March 14 April 2018). © Estate of Ted Stamm. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery presents the first exhibition of Ted Stamms work at Lisson Gallery New York, featuring paintings, works on paper, archival material and photographs from the artists "Wooster" series. Ted Stamm was born and raised in Brooklyn and Long Island, and rarely strayed from the New York metropolitan area. After beginning his career painting colourful lyrical abstraction in his post-graduate days in the late 1960s, Stamm quickly set out to explore painting beyond tradition and to introduce further layers of complex colour, form and line. While many other painters of the period like Alan Charlton, Robert Ryman and Brice Marden were also experimenting in monochrome, following the success of late Modernist post-war artists such as Yves Klein, Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Rauschenberg, among others, ... More | |
The Buddhist deity White Tara, approx. 14001500. Nepal. Copper with gilding, turquoise, lapis lazuli, other gemstones, and glass. Asian Art Museum, The Avery Brundage Collection, B60S22+. Photograph © Asian Art Museum.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The human form in art has always helped shape how we answer lifes biggest questions: Where do we come from? Why are we here? Who are we? What happens when we die? In response, from March 9 through July 29, 2018, the Asian Art Museum presents Divine Bodies, bringing together nearly 70 large-scale historical sculptures and paintings from Hindu and Buddhist traditions, along with contemporary photo-based work. This original exhibition invites us to dwell on these mysteries as we ponder the power of transformation, the possibility of transcendence, and the relationship of our bodies to the cosmos. Divine Bodies presents masterpieces from 1500 years ago to today, from ... More |
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Fotomuseum Antwerp opens an exhibition of photographs by Harry Gruyaert
ANTWERP.- Harry Gruyaert (Antwerp, °1941) is one of the most well-known photographers in Belgium. A pioneer of colour photography, Gruyaert has been a distinguished member of the renowned photography agency Magnum since 1982. The FOMU retrospective presents a broad overview of his work and shines a light on some of its more surprising aspects. Gruyaerts iconic images are the focal point of the exhibition. Each photograph reveals his unique universe, constructed from a flawless feeling for colour, light and composition. Gruyaert travels the world in a single-minded quest for the beauty of the everyday. The photographers poetic language is very much in evidence in three series: Rivages (2003), which incorporates images of the horizon and the sea; the recent publication East West (2017), which opposes the colour palettes of Moscow ... More
Herzfeld Foundation endows curator of photography and media arts position at Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced the commitment of a major endowment from the Herzfeld Foundation in support of the Museums photography program. This most recent gift provides for the position of the Herzfeld Foundation Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Museum in perpetuity. The legacy of Richard and Ethel Herzfeld and the thoughtful stewardship and leadership of the Foundation by Carmen and William Haberman have enriched the Museum, the community and the region, said Marcelle Polednik, PhD, the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. Their generosity not only acts as a foundation, but also as a role model for future generations to come. This donation brings the total support from the Herzfeld Foundation of the Milwaukee Art Museum to over 9.9 million ... More
Haris Epaminonda's VOL. XXIII on view at Secession in Vienna
VIENNA.- In Haris Epaminondas exhibitions, fragments from the natural world find their counterparts in shards of historical materials. Found and crafted elements such as architectural carvings and modifications, support structures in the form of pedestals and platforms, draperies, vessels and statuettes as well as pages from old books form the visual vocabulary out of which Epaminonda weaves unimagined narratives. The individual components arranged in the gallery are in palpable interaction, though the specific character of their interrelation remains enigmatic. It is here that Epaminondas art of visual storytelling encounters the particular history of the exhibition site. The artists exhibitions are titled as consecutively numbered Volumes, suggesting an abstract ordering principle rather than referring to specific contents so as to remain open to different ... More
Exhibition presents works that respond to the precarious state of the environment through a personal lens
NEW YORK, NY.- Between the Waters brings together artists from across the United States whose work responds to the precarious state of the environment through a personal lens. The show opened at the Whitney on Friday, March 9. The featured artists are Carolina Caycedo, Demian DinéYazhi´ (with Ginger Dunnill), Torkwase Dyson, Cy Gavin, Lena Henke, and Erin Jane Nelson. Experimenting with form and narrative in painting, video, and sculpture, these artists address how ideologyas much as technology, industry, and architectureimpacts all living things. Though each contends with facts or histories that are real and observable, none takes a documentary approach. Rather, these artists adopt a highly subjective position, embracing emotion, intuition, personal belief, spirituality, and myth to help comprehend our intrinsic place within the ... More
The Fruitmarket Gallery brings work by American artist Lee Lozano to Edinburgh
EDINBURGH.- The Fruitmarket Gallery is presenting an exhibition of the furiously inventive paintings, drawings and text works of American artist Lee Lozano (19301999). The Spring exhibition at The Fruitmarket Gallery brings work by American artist Lee Lozano to Edinburgh. Lozano was a major figure in the New York art scene of the 1960s and early 1970s, but her radical approach to art and life, in particular her systematic refusal to engage with the institutions and support structures of the art world, led to her work being neglected and becoming much less well known over time. Recently, this has begun to change, and we are proud to make this first solo exhibition of her work in Scotland, bringing together paintings, drawings, language pieces and notes on making paintings that have only just come to light. After studying first natural science and philosophy and ... More
Michael Raedecker presents new and enigmatic works for his exhibition 'cntrl' at GRIMM
AMSTERDAM.- A repeated motif haunts Michael Raedeckers new paintings: a tree house, set high in the forking branches of a tall and leafless tree. This is architecture at its most basic, nothing more than a pitched roof, four walls, a floor, and a long, bowing ladder that reaches down towards the ground. Try as we might, we cannot locate this structure in a particular period or place. It could have been knocked up by a 21st-Century suburban dad, in the hope that it might persuade his kids to put away their iPads, and play outside for once. Equally, it could be the work of our prehistoric ancestors, a refuge from the wolves and bears that roam the forest floor. Significantly, in two of Raedeckers canvases, the treehouse is silhouetted against a huge full moon, hung impossibly low in the sky. Might the structures inhabitants use this celestial body as a clock of sorts, ... More
Partners & Mucciaccia opens exhibition of works by Italian post-modern master painter Piero Pizzi Cannella
LONDON.- Partners & Mucciaccia, modern and contemporary art gallery, presents Storyboards, Interni & Vedute, London 2018 by the Italian post-modern master painter Piero Pizzi Cannella. The exhibition runs from 9th March to 12th May 2018. Following the great success of Piero Pizzi Cannellas solo exhibition at the State Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg, Salon de musique and Other Paintings, Partners & Mucciaccia presents twenty-one new works, fourteen paintings on canvas and seven mixmedia works on paper, by the Master conceived specifically for the gallery in London. Pizzi Cannellas Storyboards Interni & Vedute or interiors and landscapes evokes the poetry of daily-life, and how this lives on within us. From maps and landscapes to dresses, tables and chairs, these recurring and familiar images appear to the viewer like reveries or fond memories. The ... More
Ulterior Gallery opens exhibition of Robert Beck's Kodak instant photographs from 1979 and 1980
NEW YORK, NY.- Ulterior Gallery announces two consecutive exhibitions by New York-based, transdisciplinary artist Robert Beck, who in 2008 changed his fathers name from Beck to Buck as a work of art. The first exhibition, Vestige, premieres an array of Becks Kodak instant photographs from 1979 and 1980, taken during the artists first years in New York City. The second show, Second Hand, will debut an installation of Bucks ongoing series of amended thrift store paintings, which he began ten years ago to coincide with the act of renaming himself. Vestige is on view March 9 through April 15, 2018. In 2008, Robert Beck, motivated by developments in his art making, conducted a seemingly simple maneuver: he changed his last name by a single vowel, from e to u. As a conceptual gesture, one that also reflected contemporary social developments, this re-nomination ... More
World record for John Lennon's monkey bike at £57,500 with H&H Classics
LONDON.- Motorcycle history was made by H&H Classics at the National Motorcycle Museum last week when the company sold two iconic bikes for new world record prices.. H&Hs line-up of 170 bikes included a number of gems that had the place heaving despite a week of atrocious weather that had kept people at home. The biking fraternity turned up in strength to bid for John Lennons 1969 HondaZ50A Monkeybike which made £57,500 And a fascinating survivor, a pre-production Honda CB750 which reached £161,000 against a pre-sale estimate of £35,000 to £40,000. There was huge excitement for the John Lennon Monkey-Trail bike XUC 91H when its turn came to go under the hammer. John Lennon used the bike as a fun way of getting around his Tittenhurst Park estate in Surrey, where he lived from 1969 to 1971. Prior to the sale H&H Classics ... More
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum welcomes new hires
SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum announced the arrival of two new additions to its staff, Katrina Stacy, Curator of Education and Interpretation, and Giustina Renzoni, Historic Site Manager. The new hires will cultivate fresh ways to engage growing audiences. Katrina and Giustina bring diverse experiences and strengths to the Museum, says Robert A. Kret, Director of the Georgia OKeeffe Museum. All of us are thrilled to have them join our team, and help push our public interaction in new directions. Katrina Stacy arrives from the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, where she was the Associate Curator of Education. In that role, Stacy helmed public programs and events with over 28,000 participants annually, and a tour program serving more than 14,000 visitors each year. She holds an MA in Art Education, with an emphasis ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, sculptor and furniture designer Harry Bertoia was born March 10, 1915. Harry Bertoia (March 10, 1915 in San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italy - November 6, 1978 in Barto, Pennsylvania), was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer. In this image: Since 2000, Wright has sold more than 550 sculptures by Bertoia -- more than any other auction house or gallery.
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