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Busts that are part of The Torlonia Marbles, Collecting Masterpieces, which opened in a refurbished wing of the Capitoline Museums in Rome on Oct. 12, 2020. After decades of false starts and setbacks, the public can finally take a look at the Torlonia Collection. Nadia Shira Cohen/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For much of the last century, the Torlonia Collection, the largest collection of classical sculpture still in private hands, remained hidden to the world. A private museum founded in 1875 to showcase the antique marbles amassed by Prince Alessandro Torlonia and his father in the tradition of noble families like the Borghese, Barberini or Doria Pamphilj was originally open only to a select public and, after a few decades, not at all. Most scholars knew the 620 works an assortment of Greek and Roman statues, busts, vases, sarcophagi and reliefs dating from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. only through the photographs in a catalog that was published in 1884. Over time including to safeguard the pieces during World War II the collection was gradually moved into three large storerooms in Rome. As the years passed, the ancient treasures gathered layer upon layer of dust and the mystique of the secreted collection grew. Italian ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Attentiveness to Nature: New Works by Jim Schantz opens on October 17 at Pucker Gallery, Boston. For Jim Schantz, moments of change are moments of celebration. Our forests, waters, and skies shift and renew in ways that we may take for granted, or simply fail to remember. Sunrises melt into sunsets; sunsets swell into sunrises. Within these transitions, at their peak, is when Jim paints many of his landscapes, invoking the dazzling allure of natureÂs complex transformations all within a single painted moment. An online WebinART with the artist will be held on October 17 at 1PM EST
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| | Attentiveness to Nature: Exhibition of new works by Jim Schantz opens at Pucker Gallery | | Melting Alpine glaciers yield archaeologic troves, but clock ticking | | Dayton Art Institute opens special exhibition "Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage" |
Jim Schantz, River Twilight, Crescent Winter. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48".
BOSTON, MASS.- For Jim Schantz, moments of change are moments of celebration. Our forests, waters, and skies shift and renew in ways that we may take for granted, or simply fail to remember. Sunrises melt into sunsets; sunsets swell into sunrises. Within these transitions, at their peak, is when Jim paints many of his landscapes, invoking the dazzling allure of natures complex transformations all within a single painted moment. With its synchronized web of cyclical and unpredictable changes, nature is whole. Jim honors that wholeness by forming an intimacy with his environment, conscientiously achieved by revisiting, and painting, the same natural landscape in a new context again and again. This devotion exposes the rich progression of shifting patterns, colors, and textures that are seen, felt, and heard in all nature. Atlantic Sunrise captures the moment a day begins anew, the ocean waves rolling softly in a gentle ebb and flow, the sun awakening as if in a contented, morning yawn. Red, yello ... More | |
Pierre Yves Nicod holds a Celtic artifact from the Iron Age representing a human-shaped statuette. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
by Nina Larson
SION (AFP).- The group climbed the steep mountainside, clambering across an Alpine glacier, before finding what they were seeking: a crystal vein filled with the precious rocks needed to sculpt their tools. That is what archaeologists have deduced after the discovery of traces of an ancient hunt for crystals by hunters and gatherers in the Mesolithic era, some 9,500 years ago. It is one of many valuable archaeological sites to emerge in recent decades from rapidly melting glacier ice, sparking a brand-new field of research: glacier archaeology. Amid surging temperatures, glaciologists predict that 95 percent of the some 4,000 glaciers dotted throughout the Alps could disappear by the end of this century. While archaeologists lament the devastating toll of climate change, many acknowledge it has created "an opportunity" to dramatically expand ... More | |
Eugene Berman, Costume design for Giselle, Act II, in Giselle, 1946, watercolor and ink on paper. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Gift of The Tobin Endowment.
DAYTON, OH.- Stages may still be dark at theatres around the country, but the Dayton Art Institute will bring the spirit of the performing arts to life with its latest Special Exhibition. Picasso to Hockney: Modern Art on Stage reveals what happened when prominent painters and sculptors turned their attention to the stage and collaborated with writers, musicians and dancers. The exhibition opens October 17 and will be on view at the DAI through January 17, 2021. Current museum hours are Fridays and Saturdays, 11 a.m. 5 p.m., and Sundays, noon 5 p.m. The exhibition Picasso to Hockney contains works by some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, including Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Natalia Gontcharova, Joan Miró, Louise Nevelson, Robert Indiana, Jim Dine and many others. It pulls back the curtain on a lesser known but equally inspiring aspect of these ... More |
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| | Sotheby's to offer Hester Diamond's pioneering Old Masters collection in New York this January | | Mexico sets sights on Vienna's Aztec crowning glory | | Patrick Nagel portrait of Real Housewives star Jeana Keough brings $350,000, shatters world record |
Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Autumn, circa 1616, marble. Height: 49 ½ in. 125.5 cm. Estimate $8/12 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will offer the collection of prominent New York collector, interior designer, and philanthropist Hester Diamond in a dedicated single-owner sale in New York in January 2021, as part of Sotheby's annual Masters Week auctions. The selection of works on offer spanning Old Master paintings and sculpture, contemporary art, 20th century furniture and design, exotic minerals, and more is a reflection of Diamond's vision as an innovative and inquisitive collector, curating her collection of Old Masters amidst vibrant and eclectic modern and contemporary pieces in a signature visual style that defined her independent spirit. George Wachter, Chairman of Sothebys America and Co-Chairman of Sothebys Old Master Paintings Worldwide, commented: Dynamic, independent, and incomparable, Hester Diamond was a fearless and visionary collector. Whether through the expressive qualities of the paintings and sc ... More | |
Feather head-dress, Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century. Quetzal, Cotinga, roseate spoonbill, Piaya feathers; wood, fibres, Amate paper, cotton, gold, gilded brass © KHM mit MVK und ÃTM.
by Jastinder Khera with Sofia Miselem in Mexico City
VIENNA (AFP).- It is one of the star attractions of Vienna's Weltmuseum, a resplendent ancient Aztec headdress of iridescent blue-green feathers almost two metres (six feet) wide with a centrepiece sporting hundreds of pieces of gold. This week, a long-running wrangle over where it should be displayed was re-ignited when Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he had asked his wife to persuade Austrian authorities to allow the headdress to be exhibited in Mexico in 2021 for the country's celebrations of the 200th anniversary of independence. The Weltmuseum's director Christian Schicklgruber told AFP that Lopez Obrador's wife Beatriz Gutierrez had "paid a visit to the president of Austria" Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday. "And during this meeting, she showed a letter ... More | |
The artist auction record for a Patrick Nagel portrait was set Friday, Oct. 16, for $350,000 at Heritage Auctions.
DALLAS, TX.- Artist and illustrator Patrick Nagels iconic style of Jeana, 1983 sparked a bidding war Friday, Oct. 16, when it sold for $350,000, shattering the previous artist auction record. The artwork was consigned by the model pictured in the image, Jeana Keough, who became well-known in the 1980s for appearances in Playboy Magazine and rock videos. Heritage Auctions set the previous auction record paid for a Nagel portrait when it sold Bold for $200,000 in 2017. We could hardly believe our eyes as the bids came in so fast and so strong, said Ed Jaster, Vice President of Fine Art at Heritage Auctions. Working under her maiden name of Jeana Tomasino, she was an elite model in the 1980s with a portfolio that ranged from Playboy Playmate of the Month in November 1980 to ZZ Top music videos. She returned to the public eye starting in 2006 as one of the original cast members of the reality show The Real Housewives of Orange County. Sh ... More |
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| | Honoring Latinx art, personal and political | | The Beirut blast shattered her masterpieces. Now, the rebuilding starts. | | Mud-brick palace is Yemen's latest heritage site facing disaster |
Davo Cruz, [No title given], 1974-1975. Serigraph. Image: 19-1/2 x 14-1/2 in. (49.53 x 36.83 cm) | Sheet: 22-5/8 x 17-1/8 in. (57.47 x 43.5 cm). Taller Boricua Puerto Rican. Workshop Inc. Wall 12 25 x19-1/2 in. Photo: Martin Seck.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The marketing of modern and contemporary art from Latin America is one of the cultural success stories of the globalist decades. What was once a niche interest has gradually been gaining a solid, if still limited, presence in some of our big North American museums. Exactly the opposite is true of Latino art, now often referred to by the gender-neutral name Latinx in the cultural world and loosely defined as work made by artists of Latin American birth or descent but who live primarily in the United States. Apart from the work of a few stars notably Jean-Michel Basquiat Latinx art has scant institutional support or auction clout. Such lack of attention is dictated by the politics of class, economics and race. And resistance to this reality is always percolating somewhere, which is the basic story told at El Museo del Barrio by the impassioned archival exhibition, Taller Boricua: A Political Print ... More | |
Assistants to stained glass artist Maya Husseini work on Sept. 16, 2020, to restore pieces damaged by the port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times.
by Ben Hubbard
HAZMIYEH (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Her hands created the gentle smile on the face of the Virgin Mary, the folds in the robes of the Four Evangelists and the glow surrounding the cherubic baby Jesus. In three decades of exacting work, Maya Husseini had established herself as Lebanons premier stained-glass artist, her work making the light of the Mediterranean dance in many of the countrys best-known churches. As she celebrated her 60th birthday Aug. 3, she was looking forward to wrapping up a final project and retiring. But Lebanon had other plans. The next day, an enormous explosion in the port of Beirut ripped through entire neighborhoods, gutting apartment buildings, killing more than 190 people and causing billions of dollars in damage. It also tore through churches housing Husseinis work, reducing a dozen of her delicate tableaux to jagged shards and twisted metal. Thirty years of my professional life were gone, she said in an ... More | |
Yemen's Seiyun Palace, one of the world's largest mud-brick structures, is pictured on October 15, 2020 in the city of Seiyun in central Hadramawt province. AFP.
by Mohammed Bahufain
SEIYUN (AFP).- Yemen's Seiyun Palace, one of the world's largest mud-brick structures, has become the war-torn country's latest heritage site facing the risk of collapse as heavy rains and years of neglect take their toll. The deterioration of the bright white building, reminiscent of a giant sandcastle with rounded turrets on its corners, reflects Yemen's downward spiral since 2014, when Iran-backed Huthi rebels began battling the government. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in support of the government in 2015. Authorities have struggled to secure funds to maintain important sites such as the palace, now a museum, in the city of Seiyun in central Hadramawt province. The building has fallen into disrepair, making it vulnerable to floods that have hit the country in recent months. Abdullah Barmada, an engineer who specialises in the restoration of historical buildings, appealed for international assistance to save the structure. "It is dangerous and, if not quickly restored, it is at risk of coll ... More |
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| | Early propaganda tools go on view at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg | | The Fall Classic: Janet Borden, Inc. opens a group exhibition | | Solo exhibition by Myeongsoo Kim on view at CUE Art Foundation |
A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. Herman Moll, cartographer and engraver, Thomas and John Bowles, publishers, London, England, after 1735 (originally published in 1715). Line engraving on laid paper with hand-coloring. Museum purchase, 1968-130. Photo: Courtesy of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Ever since the first attempts by the English to colonize America, artists and mapmakers used maps as a savvy marketing tactic to portray the New World as both abundant and rich in land and resources, often portraying America as a latter-day Garden of Eden. A new exhibition, Promoting America: Maps of the Colonies and the New Republic will open on October 17, 2020, at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, and will shed new light on this topic. Through 21 extraordinary objects, including maps (several of which have never before been exhibited in Colonial Williamsburg and a few of which are recent acquisitions), ... More | |
All of the artists have been working during the shutdown, so there are some amazing new pieces, along with some classics.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. is presenting The Fall Classic including work by artists ranging from 31 year-old David Brandon Geeting to Alfred Leslie, who will turn 93 later this month. Many of the works are unique, from Jan Groovers Untitled still life, to Hanno Ottens Colorblock. The exhibition runs from 10 October 14 November 2020. As visitors return to New York and to galleries, The Fall Classic is uniquely suited to remind and revisit some key tenets of this gallerys focus. "Were extremely happy to welcome people back to see art in person, a chance to consider our artists ideas and viewpoints. All of the artists have been working during the shutdown, so there are some amazing new pieces, along with some classics. We had the opportunity to go through many many images, and we have selected a wonderful group of pictures that interact with each other," said Janet Borden. Martin Parr's image from Mos ... More | |
Myeongsoo Kim, Landscape in the night sky, 2020. Wood, brass, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, 45 x 20 x 10 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- CUE Art Foundation is presenting Mother-Land, a solo exhibition by Myeongsoo Kim, curated by Michelle Yun. Using photographs of stamps, postcards, and landscapes, Kims sculptural collages reveal the ways that seemingly unrelated phenomenaand how they are represented in visual cultureare deeply entangled. Images sourced from personal experiences and geopolitical events are dismantled and reconstructed to explore how both landscapes and nationality are manufactured through considerations of the difference between an object and its image. Braided into Kims work is the idea of synchronicity, when events happen simultaneously and appear to be connected in a significant way, but have no clear causal relationship. In Mother-Land, the artist includes photographs of landscapes from the American Southwest along with his childhood collection of commemorative stamps released ... More |
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Daily Life in Egypt: Ancient and Modern, 1925 | From the Vaults
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Blaffer Art Museum opens "Stephanie Syjuco: The Visible Invisible"
HOUSTON, TX.- Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston presents Stephanie Syjuco: The Visible Invisible, a new exhibition of works by the Philippines-born, San Francisco-based artist. It will be on view from October 17, 2020 through January 9, 2021. Stephanie Syjucos work confronts the media-driven ways in which models of citizenry, immigration, and identity are dramatically evolving in the United States. The artist's insights will all be all the more relevant in 2020, in the lead-up to what promises to be one of the most intense and existential elections of our time. In todays heightened socio-political environment where ones ethnicity is taken to presume their allegiance, people are too easily captioned by assumed cultural tropes we regard as natural. As color becomes an increasingly fallible, if no less politicized measure ... More
Works by Louis Icart and Erté to be offered in Neue Auctions' online sale
BEACHWOOD, OH.- An extensive offering of sculptures and works on paper by renowned artists Erté (Russian/French, 1892-1990) and Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950), all from a local collection, plus a smattering of additional lovely Art Deco pieces by other artists, 92 lots in all, will come up for bid in Neue Auctions next big online sale planned for Saturday, October 24th. Internet bidding will be provided by Liveauctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee bids will be accepted. For more information, visit www.neueauctions.com. The auction, with an 11 am Eastern start time, is titled (appropriately enough) Icarts & Ertés. Most of the expected top lots are bronze sculptures by Erté, whose actual name is Romain de Tirtoff (Erté is from the French pronunciation of his initials). He was an artist and designer in many fields, ... More
Mary-Louise Parker: 'My heart is aching' for the return of live theater
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Mary-Louise Parker was thrilled to be nominated for a Tony, of course. But what she most looked forward to was what followed: Telling her mother. She was really happy, and that made me happy, she said. Parkers best lead actress in a play nomination for her role as a creative-writing professor grappling with a cancer diagnosis in Adam Rapps The Sound Inside is the fourth Tony nomination of her career. (She won in the same category for her portrayal of a mathematician in David Auburns Proof in 2001.) In an interview Thursday afternoon, she discussed what she has missed most about live theater, who her dream audience member would be and how she has changed since her last Tony win nearly 20 years ago. These are edited excerpts from the conversation. Q: Live theater has been at a standstill for the past seven months. Is it weird not ... More
How to handle the hate in America's musical heritage
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lance Ledbetter was buying sweet Georgia peaches near downtown Atlanta on a sweltering June morning when he realized he was about to make a potentially catastrophic mistake: His record label, the Grammy-winning archival bastion Dust-to-Digital, would soon release its first racist songs. In fits and starts for the previous 16 years, Ledbetter had worked on a companion to the Anthology of American Folk Music, the pioneering 1952 trove masterminded by the idiosyncratic collector, filmmaker and Beat philosopher-mystic Harry Smith. The six-LP series famously helped propel the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s, and returned to prominence after it was reissued on CD in 1997. Thats the version that sparked Ledbetters plan to start Dust-to-Digital when he was a business student at Georgia State ... More
Michaan's announces Gallery auction featuring fine art, decorative arts, Asian art and jewelry
ALAMEDA, CA.- Michaan's October 24 Gallery Auction is a study in exciting contrasts. Furniture and Decorative Arts spans centuries of design history from 18th century porcelains to 20th century modern furnishings. Provocative and reflective works of Modern Western fine art hang side by side. In Jewelry, intricate period designs alternate with bold retro statement pieces. In Asian Art, scholars objects, porcelains, scrolls, snuff bottles and jade lots from prominent estates. A selection of Meissen and Nymphenburg porcelain, descended from the Kaumheimer family, Stuttgart Germany is one of the highlights of the Furniture and Decorative Arts departments offerings. The best item from this distinguished collection is an 18th Century Meissen Porcelain Ozier-Moulded Tureen Stand or Undertray stamped J.F. Fradley, New York, possibly from ... More
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates announces highlights included in the November Premier Americana Auction
MT. CRAWFORD, VA.- Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates announced its 39th Semi-Annual Premier Americana Auction to be held November 12-14, 2020. The three-day event features historic property from estates and collections in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Vermont, Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Indiana, and Ohio, plus museum deaccessions. With nearly 1,500 lots of high-quality material, the sale is sure to generate excitement in the collecting community, providing a gauge for the current market across multiple categories. Day One, beginning at 9:30 am EST on Thursday, November 12, 2020 will kick the weekend off with a fine selection of 18th & 19th century glass and lighting. The diverse offerings include free-blown, pattern-molded, and pillar-molded wares; bottles ... More
Smithsonian American Art Museum explores the relationship between art and nature
WASHINGTON, DC.- Nature and art have the power to reframe perspectives and offer moments of release during times of uncertainty. The exhibition Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020, at the Smithsonian American Art Museums Renwick Gallery, turns to nature for inspiration to help explain what it means to be human in a world that is increasingly chaotic and detached from the physical landscape. Featuring artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore and Rowland Ricketts, the exhibition presents works inextricably entangled in how art and nature relate to one another. On a macro and micro scale, they reflect a heightened ecological awareness that stems from a desire to commune with and advocate for the natural world. Working in a wide range of craft media, from fiber and mosaic to metal and glass, the artists examine the long ... More
Almine Rech Paris opens an exhibition of works by Wes Lang
PARIS.- Over the last several decades, artist Wes Lang has been honing his craft involving, amongst other things, a tireless, obsessive mining of a post-pop American landscape. A great many of the artists influences are a function of a distinct autobiographical experience with certain exceptions; the indigenous American as well as other totems of the American West, and painters and sculptors from middle of last century such as Twombly, Guston, Kline, Mitchell, Bacon dove-tailing on up to the more contemporary such as Basquiat, Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley. To date, Lang has made his mark primarily on canvas and paper -- though his practice extends to include cast bronze sculpture, collage, hotel stationary, fabric, glass and precious metals -- and is known for creating surfaces that sizzle; bombastic mélanges often brimming with elegantly ... More
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana opens an exhibition of works by the German artist Kilian Saueressig
VENICE.- Chiave Della Luce - the key to light - is the name of the exhibition by the German artist Kilian Saueressig, which will be shown from October 17 to November 12, 2020 in the legendary Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, right on St. Mark's Square in Venice. Curated by Manfred Möller, as part of the Edition Minerva series, the exhibition includes around 30 self-illuminated works that are designed as light wall sculptures with LED lighting. In the works, complex philosophical, religious, political and / or scientific topics are presented in an abstract manner. Kilian Saueressig, who successfully worked as a civil engineer and inventor before his artist career, comments on his exhibition: Light is the key to knowledge, the key to life. Without light there is no life and without light one ... More
Exhibition of new work by artist Julia Jacquette opens at the Alpha Workshops Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Alpha Workshops Gallery will present an exhibition of new work by artist Julia Jacquette from October 17th through Nov 7th, 2020. Titled A Very Angry Ange l, the exhibition presents oil paintings from a new series that Jacquette has been developing since 2018. This will be the first time that the works are presented to the public. The Alpha Workshops Gallery in New York City, at 245 West 29th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, will be accessible for small, socially distanced groups of visitors indoors. The exhibition will also be visible through the Gallerys large picture windows, where passersby on 29th Street are welcomed to view the exhibition from outdoors. The Gallery will be open Thursday through Saturday, 1 to 6pm. Two years ago, I began a body of work that includes images of current media figuresboth fictional ... More
The Art Gallery of South Australia highlights the creativity of First Nations women artists
ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia opened the exhibition Open Hands for this years Tarnanthi, AGSAs annual celebration of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Open Hands is being held until 31 January 2021 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. AGSA also announced that in 2020, the Tarnanthi Art Fair will be held from 4 - 6 December. Open Hands highlights how the creativity of First Nations women artists forms a vital cultural link in sharing knowledge across generations. Through the act of making, artists channel deep connections to Country and culture. Tarnanthis creative vision is led by Barkandji artist and curator Nici Cumpston, who has recently been recognised with an OAM for her leadership in presenting Aboriginal art. Cumpston OAM says, Open Hands, celebrates the ongoing and often unseen work ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Cristofano Allori was born October 17, 1577. Cristofano Allori (17 October 1577 - 1 April 1621) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school. Allori was born at Florence and received his first lessons in painting from his father, Alessandro Allori, but becoming dissatisfied with the hard anatomical drawing and cold coloring of the latter, he entered the studio of Gregorio Pagani, who was one of the leaders of the late Florentine school, which sought to unite the rich coloring of the Venetians with the Florentine attention to drawing. Allori also appears to have worked under Cigoli. In this image: Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1613). Oil on canvas, 139 x 116 cm. Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence.
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