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Gaby Maamary, a Lebanese artwork conservation specialist, examines a 19th-century painting, damaged in the Beirut port blast, at his studio in the capital Beirut on September 17, 2020. The blast at the capital's port on August 4 killed more than 190 people, and wounded thousands more as it sent lethal shockwaves pummelling through the city. But it also ravaged dozens of the capital's mot cherished heritage buildings. ANWAR AMRO / AFP.
by Alice Hackman
BEIRUT (AFP).- Lebanese stained glass artist Maya Husseini had hoped to retire after decades spent designing colourful windows, but she has been flooded with work since the blast that ripped through Beirut. "I can't possibly not try to restore what is gone," said the 60-year-old woman, her bright red curly hair in a short bob. The massive explosion at the capital's port on August 4 killed more than 190 people and wounded thousands more as it sent lethal shockwaves pummelling through the city. But it also ravaged dozens of Beirut's most cherished heritage buildings. Husseini is one of several artists slowly starting to restore artworks devastated in the disaster. In her basement workshop on the outskirts of Beirut, she gestured at what remained of windows of a 19th-century church she had restored after the 1975-1990 civil war. A gaping mess of mangled metal, dotted by a fe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Texture Museum in Kortrijk is collaborating with Be-Part, Platform for contemporary art in organising a solo exhibition this autumn by the Belgian artist Klaas Rommelaere. The exhibition, entitled Dark Uncles, presents an impressive installation consisting of sixteen enormous embroidered puppets and two dogs that all move in a procession through an exhibition that also features an avenue with totem poles and a series of embroidered works and tapestries.
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| | Baltimore Museum of Art deaccessions three works to support ambitious equity plan | | Rescue operation for Bulgaria's communist-era 'flying saucer' | | David Hockney: A life in drawing |
Clyfford Still. 1957-G. 1957. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of the Artist, 1969.37. © City & County of Denver, Courtesy Clyfford Still Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today details of its Endowment for the Future, an ambitious financial plan that will dedicate funds for the care of the collection and allow the museum to expand its ongoing diversity and equity programmatic initiatives by enacting greater structural change within the institution and increasing access for the community. As part of the plan, the BMA will maintain and increase salaries for staff throughout the museum, establish dedicated funds for DEAI programs, eliminate admission fees for special exhibitions, begin offering evening hours, and enhance its acquisition budget. The specifics for the Endowment for the Future, detailed below, emerged during the BMAs temporary COVID-related shutdown, in alignment with the ongoing calls for radical thinking and change across the arts and culture sector. The BMA has successfully avoided staff layoffs and furloughs during this challenging period, and ... More | |
A picture taken on September 29, 2020 shows the House of the Bulgarian Communist Party on Buzludzha peak in central Bulgaria. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP.
by Vessela Sergueva
BUZLUDZHA (AFP).- Nestled in Bulgaria's central Balkan Mountains, an international team of art experts and architects is hard at work trying to preserve one of the country's most striking monuments, a communist-era "flying saucer" perched on a hillside. The monument on Buzludzha Peak was dedicated to the glory of communism but since the collapse of that regime, it has fallen into disrepair. An operation is now underway to save its striking series of mosaics as a debate rages on about the site's long-term future. "It's a race against time," said architect Dora Ivanova, who launched the campaign to save the monument. "We have to act fast because there won't be any mosaics left if we wait for a plan" from the authorities, she told AFP. Erected in 1981 at an altitude of 1,400 metres (4,600 feet), the monument comprises a circle in concrete and steel alongside ... More | |
David Hockney, "Self Portrait with Red Braces", 2003. Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 1/8". Collection Gregory Evans © David Hockney. Photo: Richard Schmidt.
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Whether were related by blood or not, our loved ones have been very much with us these last several months. Some have been physically with us, at our elbows, sheltering at home, strengthening and sometimes straining the ties that bind. Or they are with us in absentia, in yearning, across great distances, sometimes oceans. Others are no longer among the living; their absences may have been caused by the current pandemic, leaving a fresh painful void and the suspicion that they died in vain. David Hockney: Drawing From Life, a poignant, viewer-friendly exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, is about loved ones and the complex, constantly morphing nature of relationships and the people who forge them. Organized by Sarah Howgate at the National Portrait Gallery in London and overseen at the Morgan by Isabelle Dervaux, the show is devoted to portraits ... More |
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| | Gang who stole 'irreplaceable' books jailed in UK | | Sale of Fine Photographs at Swann October 22 features the Estate of Evelyn Daitz | | Christie's results: €3 million for the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan |
A handout picture released by the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime (DIICOT) on September 18, 2020 shows books and other historical artefacts in the courtyard of a home at an undisclosed location in Neamt county in Romania. AFP PHOTO.
LONDON (AFP).- An international gang of thieves whose haul included rare books by historic greats such as Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Dante Alighieri were jailed on Friday by a British court. The 12 men formed a sophisticated network, and travelled to Britain from their Romanian base to commit the "high value and well-planned burglaries", according to London's Metropolitan Police. Romanian prosecutors said last month they had recovered around 200, centuries-old first-edition books, a text by Italian scholar Petrarch, rare versions of Dante and 80 sketches by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya after they were stolen from a depot near London, in 2017. The thieves often entered properties via the roof using ropes and ladders and also targeted smartphones, laptops and tablet computers, police added. During the rare books raid, the thieves descended 12 metres (40 feet) to the ground after ... More | |
Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, Platinum Portfolio, complete with 10 platinum prints, 192774, printed 1981. From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fine Photographs will come to auction Thursday, October 22 at Swann Galleries. The sale brings to market excellent photographs from the collection of Evelyne Daitz, noteworthy portfolios, and a strong selection of vernacular photography. An offering of the Estate of Evelyne Daitz, a pioneering gallerist who worked with Lee Witkin, forms a cornerstone of the auction, with Manuel Ãlvarez Bravos Platinum Portfolio, 1981, complete with 10 platinum prints ($25,000-35,000); the complete 192348 Edward Weston portfolio with nine silver prints and one dye-transfer print printed by Cole Weston ($15,000-25,000); and The First Apeiron Portfolio, 195172, printed 1973, complete with 18 silver prints with works by Paul Caponigro, Ralph Gibson, Emmet Gowin, Danny Lyon, Duane Michals, George Tice, Jerry Uelsmann, Minor White, and many more. Prints include Margaret Bourke-Whites warm-toned silver print 24 Hour Worker, U ... More | |
Sir Alfred James Munnings (Mendham 1878-1959 Dedham) Portrait du cheval Mahmoud IV. Estimate: 200,000-300,000. Sold for: 450,000 £409,091 $529,363. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
PARIS.- The remarkable collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan achieved a total of 2,996,963 and attracted bidders from 33 countries. The enthusiastic bidding was a testament to the perfect taste of the Aga Khan and of Henri Samuel who has been entrusted with the display of their collection in their Geneva home, Bellerive Castle. The great results of the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan demonstrates the continued strong appetite for works of art fresh to the market and coming from prestigious collections. Being an auctioneer is my profession, but on October 1st I was particularly proud and honoured to hold the hammer for this great ensemble of pictures, furniture and works of art, ranging from very contemporary to 17th century, selected by a couple with great taste and refinement commented François Curiel, Chairman Christies Europe 60% of the lots in the collection exceeded their hig ... More |
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| | Newly-launched Greenhouse Auctions announces inaugural sale this December | | Morphy's Automobilia & Petroliana Auction features pristine gas/oil advertising rarities + 12 motorcycles | | LnS Gallery announces representation of the Estate of Rafael Soriano |
William Osorio, The innumerable ancestors that merge within me III, 2020. Courtesy of William Osorio and LnS Gallery, Miami.
NEW YORK, NY.- Greenhouse Auctions, a new model for supporting and discovering artists, today announced its inaugural sale to be held this December and the launch of a new art history scholarship through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). Consigning solely from galleries and artists, Greenhouse Auctions leverages the advantages of the auction system, while prioritizing the artist-gallery-collector relationship and the role of galleries in nurturing artists practices and building collections. Through a wholly digital model and cross-category themed auctions, Greenhouse Auctions offers collectors a dynamic and accessible avenue for discovering works and directly supporting galleries and artists. Showcasing works that span media and categoryfrom paintings and works on paper to ceramics and designeach ... More | |
Rare Raymond Garage four-in-one 5-gallon visible gas pump with air, water and oil attachments, 100in tall. Estimate $15,000-$25,000.
DENVER, PA.- A high-end array of antique and vintage petroleum signs, gas globes and early gas pumps will be waiting to impress bidders at a 1,162-lot Automobilia & Petroliana Auction slated for October 14-15 at Morphys gallery. Online bidding will be available through Morphy Live. Many of the colorful rarities are from collections that were established back when petroleum-related items in pristine condition were much easier to find. As an added bonus, the big two-day event includes a lineup of 12 fantastic motorcycles, starting with a 1948 Indian Chief Roadmaster, one of only 3,000 made during that year. Some lucky collector could black gold with a very rare and outstanding 53-inch Oilzum Motor Oil & Lubricants porcelain curb sign. One of the most sought-after of all petroleum-related signs, it is double-sided and features ... More | |
Rafael Soriano with Albores de un recuerdo.
MIAMI, FLA.- LnS Gallery announced the exclusive representation of the estate of renowned painter Rafael Soriano. Gallery co-owners Sergio Cernuda and Luisa Lignarolo are elated for the opportunity to elevate and preserve Sorianos legacy as one of the major artists of his generation. As gatekeeper of the estate, it is our honor and privilege to work with the Foundation to solidify Soriano as one of the greatest Hispanic American artists, and further define his impact on abstract art at an international level, said LnS GALLERY co-founder Sergio Cernuda. Rafael Soriano (1920 2015) is widely recognized as one of the premier painters of Cuba. Born in Matanzas, Soriano studied at Havanas prestigious Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, where he graduated in 1941 as Professor of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture. He taught visual arts for nearly two decades, co-founding the Escuela de Bellas Artes de ... More |
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| | Heritage's first Automobilia and Transport History Auction is 'a whole lot of cool' | | Galerie Springer Berlin opens an exhibition of photographs by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler | | "When Women Lost the Vote" exhibit opens at the Museum of the American Revolution |
A vintage hand-built live-steam model of an America La France fire pumper. Est. $12,000-16,000.
DALLAS, TX.- In its inaugural Automobilia, Transport History and Mechanical Models Online Auction, Heritage Auctions presents every corner of the hobby, from a fully working, 1920 Ahrens-Fox Fire Pumping Engine to mechanical models and scarce toys. Its a fresh and growing category at Heritage and the Oct. 23 event proves to be a winner right at the starting line, said Nick Dawes, Senior Vice President of Special Collections, New York. This is a new category for us and one we can expand on, Dawes said. Were offering the largest selection of metal motoring mascots ever offered at auction, not to mention three incredible full-size trucks. Theres a whole lot of cool here. Leading the selection is a 24-foot long, full-scale Ahrens-Fox Fire Pumping Engine (est. $60,000-80,000). The Ahrens-Fox fire truck was originally ordered by the Minneapolis City Fire Department ... More | |
Marlene, Leni (Mädchenpaar auf der Strasse).
BERLIN.- Galerie Springer Berlin is opening the exhibition An den Strömen (At the Streams) by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler on October 3 to mark the EMOP European Month of Photography Berlin 2020. This new and previously unpublished series emerged from the summer of 2019 onwards for the exhibition Kontinent Auf der Suche nach Europa (Continent in search of Europe) by the Ostkreuz photographers agency at the Academy of Arts (10/02/2020 - 01/10/2021). For this series, both photographers toured Europes major rivers and streams the Elbe, Rhine/Waal, Danube, Po and Volga where social, ecological, political, economic and historical themes become apparent and enable both artists to create a superlative portrait of Europe. In images that are both emotionally powerful and photographically impressive, they depict extracts from life, architecture, and portraits along Europes biggest ... More | |
Name of a woman voter on the 1801 Montgomery Township Poll List from the New Jersey State Archives. Photo: The Museum of the American Revolution.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Museum of the American Revolutions groundbreaking new exhibition When Women Lost the Vote: A Revolutionary Story, 1776 1807 opened to the public on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 and runs through Sunday, April 25, 2021. The exhibition also will be made accessible to virtual visitors from around the world through a robust, free online experience. Through the onsite and online experiences, When Women Lost the Vote explores as no exhibit, book, or other medium has before the little-known story of women and free people of color legally voting in New Jersey following the Revolutionary War. It also examines the political conflicts that led to their voting rights being stripped away in 1807. The exhibition coincides with the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment this year and explores ... More |
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Dolby Chadwick Gallery opens an exhibition of new work by Alex Kanevsky
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery is presenting Scrambling for Grace, an exhibition of new work by Alex Kanevsky. Kanevskys paintings resound with a fluid, sensual energy. Bodies often appear suspended in space, fractured and glimmering, as they converge and intersect with their surroundings. Forms move through each other, as if all matter were malleable, even immaterial. Interiors pulsate as walls and floors bend and shift, while lush landscapes ripple and expand. Even the quieter, more tonal settings that are typically inhabited by nudes teem with the energy of his exuberant marks and experiments with light. The works hold multitudes, capturing innumerable moments that overlap and spill over as they fill the canvas. The language of the paintings is wholly visual, Kanevsky observes; by resisting the verbal, they resist ... More
5 books to take a deep dive into design
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Tap the history of an object, no matter how small or specialized, and it will open up the universe. These design books focus on the likes of claw foot bathtubs, sommeliers gadgetry, mahogany linen chests and wicker settees that have embodied and influenced humankinds journey. Threadbare stools found in Egyptian tombs and the Titanics deck chairs are among the precedents for woven plant-fiber products made by the workshop Soane Britain, as the companys co-founder, Lulu Lytle, explains in Rattan: A World of Elegance and Charm (Rizzoli, $65, 224 pp.). In the tropics, rattan vines send out tendrils hundreds of feet long, which are untangled, exported and transformed into sturdy and lightweight furniture. Seats and tables dominate the field, along with lampshades and the occasional balloon riders ... More
Free 'Hiking through History' map now available, tracing the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777
CHADDS FORD, PA.- The Brandywine Conservancy announced its release of Hiking through History, a new informative map that highlights the regions rich history with the American Revolutionary War, overlapping with the areas many cultural, recreational and natural attractions. The maps release coincides with the anniversary of the legendary Battle of Brandywine, fought on September 11, 1777, which marked the first major engagement of the British campaign to capture Philadelphia and the longest single-day battle of the Revolutionary War. Tracing the entirety of the Philadelphia Campaign of 1777, the Hiking through History map guides users as they hike, bike, drive and explore the regions Revolutionary War history as it stretches 800 square-miles through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Detailing the troop movements and significant ... More
Exhibition examines parallel artistic movements in the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. and Italy
COLD SPRING, NY.- This fall, Magazzino Italian Art opened a special exhibition examining the formal, conceptual, and procedural affinities in the work of Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, and Lucio Fontana. Curated by Bochner in collaboration with Magazzino, the exhibition marks the first presentation to consider the American artists extensive, yet overlooked, engagement with the practices of Fontana and Boetti, as well as with Italian art at large. Bochner Boetti Fontana offers, through the artists perspective, a number of resonances between his work and that of the Italian and Italian-Argentine artists: an exploration of systems, language, and materials; and a sense of irony and humor, often and especially shared by Arte Povera and Conceptualism, as all these works opened the work of art onto the space of display. The exhibition also traces parallels ... More
Jacques-Louis Monod, modernist composer with a lyrical touch, dies at 93
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jacques-Louis Monod, a French composer, conductor and pianist known for his fierce dedication to new music, died Sept. 21 in Toulouse, France. He was 93. His death was confirmed by his friend and former student, Harry Bott. Monod, who made his career primarily in New York and London, was a champion of the Second Viennese School, the group of 20th-century composers comprising the titan Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and his acolytes. As both pianist and conductor, Monod helped their work difficult, complex, often atonal gain wider currency outside Europe. He was known in particular for helping to introduce American audiences to the music of Anton Webern (1883-1945). A disciple of Schoenberg, Webern was among the most ardent adherents to his mentors 12-tone, or serial, ... More
Gasworks re-opens with Eduardo Navarro's first UK solo exhibition
LONDON.- Gasworks presents (breathspace) the first UK solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based artist Eduardo Navarro. His work moves away from representation, instead creating sensorial experiences with the potential to induce a radical transformation of the self and others. In recent years, Navarro has sought to adopt the slow metabolism of a reptile, experimented with ways of embodying the physical properties of light, and invited a large group of people to animate a giant mechanical octopus, in order for them to become part of its decentralised nervous system. Originally scheduled for April 2020, Navarros plans for the exhibition at Gasworks had consisted of transforming the gallerys architecture into a living, breathing organism: a large-scale artificial lung that would inhale and exhale air from the street. Conceived months before the COVID-19 ... More
Kestner Gesellschaft opens "Art ⇆ Crafts: Between Tradition, Discourse, and Technologies"
HANOVER.- In recent years, contemporary artists interest in materials, in artistic and artisanal processes, and in experimenting with materials and techniques has grown remarkably. The nine international art positions in the exhibition ART ⇆ CRAFTS: Between Tradition, Discourse, and Technologies work with materials such as wood, glass, textiles, and straw and use skills from knotting to carving. The works in the exhibitionincluding sculptures, textiles, and large-scale installationsrelate to artisanal, folk, and artistic traditions as well as contemporary and technological discourses. They exist within the context of current issues in a globalized world: questions of belonging, migration, and technological developments play a role, as do the dissolution of attributions, hierarchies, and demarcations. This wide-ranging exhibition with several new works is on ... More
Free display at the Museum of London celebrates dub reggae music and culture in the capital
LONDON.- The Museum of London announced that its display Dub London: Bassline of a City, delayed due to COVID-19, opened 2 October 2020. The exclusive free display celebrates dub reggae music and culture in the capital, from its roots in Jamaican reggae to how it has shaped communities and culture over the last 50 years. Dub, a way of creating music by using the recording studio itself as an instrument, has had a far-reaching impact across the music industry and the history of the capital. It has influenced multiple genres intrinsically linked to London like punk, post-punk, drum and bass, garage, dub-step and grime and even extends into many areas of mainstream pop. London has been a hub for artists and production since the mid-1970s, with recording studios, record labels, record shops, radio stations and clubs peppered across ... More
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art opens an exhibition of works by Christina Rothe
GREAT FALLS, MT.- Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art presents Christina Rothe: Awakening and the OneHeart Call Project_building community with the voices of our hearts through the arts an exhibition that is two years in the making and is making its debut here at The Square. OneHeartCall Project highlights universally shared values of hope, love, and respect. Christina Rothes intent is to create unity through art. To achieve this, she invited diverse communities from Spokane, WA to partake in creative collaborations that included art making, oral histories, choral performances, music, and dance. The work presented is a result of her commitment to working with everyday people who represent socially and culturally diverse sectors of the Spokane area, including students, musicians, artists, refugees, the elderly or a mixture ... More
Hugh Lane Gallery opens the international group exhibition Worlds Without End
DUBLIN.- Hugh Lane Gallery is presenting the international group exhibition Worlds Without End - a rich and diverse series of visual stories centered around borders and the mindset of borderisation. Historically, borders tend to be the location of international trouble spots. Prior to the global lockdown, there was a utopian vision of open borders, complicated by a populist push towards border fortification. This dichotomy has now been eclipsed by a pandemic that doesnt respect borders. Politicisation of the pandemic, displacement of people, and restricted travel, as along with the drive towards an ever-increasing economic globalisation, have created further complex contradictions. The curatorial idea for the exhibition Worlds Without End (WWE) was first conceived a year ago as a research-based collaboration between Sara Reisman, Executive ... More
Klaas Rommelaere presents his larger-than-life embroidered puppets at the Texture Museum in Kortrijk
KORTRIJK.- The Texture Museum in Kortrijk is collaborating with Be-Part, Platform for contemporary art in organising a solo exhibition this autumn by the Belgian artist Klaas Rommelaere. The exhibition, entitled Dark Uncles, presents an impressive installation consisting of sixteen enormous embroidered puppets and two dogs that all move in a procession through an exhibition that also features an avenue with totem poles and a series of embroidered works and tapestries. Rommelaere is a remarkable artist in many ways. Born in 1986 and now living and working in Antwerp, he uses traditional crafts that require time and skill and combines them with an open, innovative and creative outlook. In this respect, he fits in perfectly with a museum such as Texture, which presents itself as an open house at the intersection of heritage, craft ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Pierre Bonnard was born October 03, 1867. Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 - 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. He was a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, and his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, and the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. In this image: Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947), Corner of the Dining Room at Le Cannet, 1932. Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 35 3/8 in. (81 x 90 cm.) Centre Pompidou, Paris. Musée national dÂart moderne/ Centre de création industrielle. State Purchase, 1933. © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
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