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A money transport cart for wage payments in a small factory in Halle in 1923 is on display at the exhibition "Saving - History of a German Virtue" at the German History Museum in Berlin on March 22, 2018. While the European Union gears up for another of its endless post-crisis bouts over spending, debt and deficits, Berlin's German Historical Museum has turned a microscope onto the mania for saving in Europe's largest economy. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
by Daphne Rousseau
BERLIN (AFP).- While the European Union gears up for another of its endless post-crisis bouts over spending, debt and deficits, Berlin's German Historical Museum has turned a microscope onto the mania for saving in Europe's largest economy. "Merkel's bullying", "Queen of austerity", "German dogma": headlines from around the EU greet visitors to the baroque pile on the leafy Unter den Linden boulevard that houses the museum. All are relics of Berlin's insistence that eurozone members stick to strict limits on debts and deficits at the height of the currency bloc's post-2008 financial blues. Politicians and the public have been puzzled by the rage from other nations, while Spaniards, Italians and above all Greeks have cursed Berlin for soaring unemployment and slashed government services. "These attacks meet with little understanding in Germany. Why is this conflict so highly charged emotionally?" questioned museum chief professor Raphael Gross. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Guests mingle at the Slim Aarons Exhibition by Getty Images Gallery on April 12, 2018 in New York City. Mike Coppola/Getty Images/AFP
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac to represent the Estate of Joseph Beuys | | Exhibition with new paintings by Albert Oehlen and Julian Schnabel on view at Galerie Max Hetzler | | Oscar-winning 'Cuckoo's Nest' director Milos Forman dies at 86 |
Joseph Beuys. © Joseph Beuys Estate.
LONDON.- Ahead of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac's forthcoming London exhibition Joseph Beuys: Utopia at The Stag Monuments, the gallery (London, Paris, Salzburg) announced that it will represent the Estate of Joseph Beuys. 'Joseph Beuys is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, a groundbreaking radical thinker in contemporary art whose profound influence endures today. It is a great privilege and honour to represent the works of this visionary artist on behalf of his estate and to work closely with his family. We are thrilled to be able to share this news on the occasion of our London exhibition of seminal and rarely seen works by Beuys, shown for the first time in the UK and thanks to the significant contribution of the Estate. (Thaddaeus Ropac). Joseph Beuys: Utopia at the Stag Monuments is the most important UK exhibition of Beuys work in over a decade and opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London on ... More | |
Julian Schnabel, Untitled, 2017. Oil on found fabric, 274,3 x 201,9 x 5 cm. Courtesy of the artists and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting an exhibition with new paintings by Albert Oehlen and Julian Schnabel at GoethestraÃe 2/3. Both known as major protagonists of a constant exploration of the process of painting, Albert Oehlen and Julian Schnabel deeply influenced and defined the art field since the 1980s, provoking a departure from painting as conventionally understood. For the first time, Galerie Max Hetzler presents a duo exhibition of these artist companions and friends, focussing on their recent bodies of works. With a chromatic spectrum consisting mainly of subtle variations of grey, including highlights of green, yellow and pink, the canvas surface of Albert Oehlens latest paintings witnesses a complex and intriguing process of overpainting. The elaborated interplay of broadly applied brushstrokes and overlapping ... More | |
In this file photo taken on October 09, 2009 Czech-born US film director Milos Forman poses in Paris. Martin BUREAU / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Oscar-winning Czech-born film director Milos Forman, celebrated for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus," has died aged 86, his agents told AFP on Saturday. "I heard from (Forman's wife) Martina Forman very early this morning letting me know Milos passed away at Danbury Hospital near his home in Warren, Connecticut," his friend and agent Dennis Aspland said. "I can confirm the news," added the director's Czech agent Radka Kadlecova, as Forman's official Facebook page displayed a black square in the place of his profile picture, complete with the dates of birth and death. The Czech news agency CTK quoted Martina Forman as saying her husband died suddenly on Friday after a short illness. "He passed away quietly, surrounded by his family and his closest people," she ... More |
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| New York's Chelsea Hotel celebrity door auction raises $400,000 | | Sotheby's announces highlights from the Arts of the Islamic World auction on 25 April | | Taiwan opens world's largest performing arts centre under one roof |
The doors were rescued from the trash in 2012 by Jim Georgiou.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The auction of old, chipped doors from New York's Chelsea Hotel where celebrities including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Madonna once stayed raised more than $400,000, an auction house said Friday. The doors were saved thanks to an enterprising former homeless man after the historic bohemian hangout on 23rd Street closed in 2011 for extensive renovations. The doors "don't look very pretty but have incredible significance," Guernsey's auction house owner Arlan Ettinger told AFP before the bidding. Since opening in 1884 the Chelsea Hotel was a refuge for writers and artists who would stay days, weeks or indefinitely. Among them were Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac, Bob Marley, Humphrey Bogart, Joni Mitchell, and Andy Warhol. The doors were rescued from the trash in 2012 by Jim Georgiou, who lived at the Chelsea from 2002 to 2011, when he was evicted for failing to pay rent. Georgiou moved across the street from the hotel ... More | |
A monumental Timurid cut tile mosaic mihrab panel, Central Asia or Persia, 14th-15th century (est. £80,000-120,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Sothebys Arts of the Islamic World auction on 25 April covers over 200 works of art produced under the aegis of multiple Islamic Empires, spread over three continents over a period of over 1,200 years. Prominent among the works on offer are exceptionally rare pieces hailing from prestigious private collections, including an exquisite panel of Timurid tiles, a unique Iznik pottery pilgrim flask, a lavishly illustrated erotic Ottoman manuscript and three highly important early manuscripts on astronomy, mathematics and medicine. The exhibition opens in the New Bond Street galleries on Friday 20 April, as part of Orientalist and Middle Eastern Week. Of monumental scale, superlative quality and impeccable provenance, the sale presents five rare examples of cut-mosaic tilework from the Timurid empire of the fourteenth/fifteenth century. Rediscovered in an attic in France in 1973, these tiles are listed as ... More | |
In a single sweeping building designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, Weiwuying incorporates five separate state of the art performance spaces. Photo: Iwan Baan.
KAOHSIUNG.- Taiwan announced today the opening in October 2018 of the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). In a single sweeping building designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo, Weiwuying incorporates five separate state of the art performance spaces, covering a surface area of 35 acres (141,000 sqm) and is set in the spectacular 116-acre (470,000 sqm) subtropical park in the heart of Kaohsiung, making it the worlds largest performing arts centre under one roof. Taiwans most significant cultural investment in a generation, the new Center will incorporate: A 2,260 seat Opera House, with a proscenium design, orchestra pit and equipped with the latest stage technology for performances on a large scale A 2,000 seat Concert Hall in vineyard style and equipped with a 9,085 pipe organ built by Orgelbau Klais, the largest pipe organ ever built in Asia A flexible ... More |
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| Three centuries of opulent Asante gold regalia arrive at the Dallas Museum of Art | | Christie's announces highlights from its Rare Watches auction | | Regen Projects opens exhibition of new paintings and collages by New York-based artist Sue Williams |
Pendant, Asante peoples, Ghana, Africa, Late 19th century, gold-copper-silver alloy, Dallas Museum of Art, McDermott African Art Acquisition Fund 2014.26.2.
DALLAS, TX.- This April, the Dallas Museum of Art presents an exhibition dedicated to the royal regalia of the Asante kingdom. Spanning three centuries, The Power of Gold: Asante Royal Regalia from Ghana brings together over 250 objects, including crowns, sword ornaments, ceremonial furniture, textiles, pectoral disks, weapons, a state umbrella, musical instruments, and jewelry made of wood, silk, brass, iron, and gold. Organized by the DMA and inspired by the Museums collection, The Power of Gold is the first American museum exhibition dedicated to Asante regalia in over 30 years, and explores the unique role and impact of gold on the development of Asante society, economy, and arts. The exhibition is co-presented by Texas Instruments and PNC Bank. The DMAs African art collection has grown tremendously ... More | |
The top lot of the pocket watch section is an extremely fine and important Patek Philippe first prize winning observatory competition tourbillon, sold with original certificate. Esstimate: CHF150,000-250,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
GENEVA.- Christies will hold its Rare Watches auction at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues in Geneva on 14 May 2018. Offering 221 timepieces spanning from 1875 to 2017, the majority consigned by private collectors mainly from Europe, with estimates ranging from CHF2,000 to CHF1,000,000, it is expected to fetch in the region of CHF 15 million. The sale comprises three important private collections, the first, Rare Patek Philippe Timepieces from an Important Private Collection (lots 93-103), representing the most important single owner collection of modern Patek Philippe timepieces to come up for auction in recent years. The eclectic group of 11 watches comprises some of the firms most coveted and hard to find models, ... More | |
Installation view of Sue Williams at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, April 14 - May 12, 2018. Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regen Projects is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and collages by New York-based artist Sue Williams. This marks her sixth solo presentation since joining the gallery in 1992. For over 30 years Sue Williams has created a transgressive body of work that has established her as one of the most significant painters of her generation. Emerging as part of the East Village art scene in late-1980s New York City, Williams subversive anti-art aesthetic quickly gained her recognition. Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique. Towards the end of the 1990s her works employed a more abstract lyrical style, featuring colorful cartoonish allover compositions ... More |
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| 38th EVA International: Ireland's biennial opens in Limerick | | White Columns exhibits at kurimanzutto as part of CONDO Mexico City | | Carol B. Cadou named Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur |
Mainie Jellet, Abstract Composition (1935). Oil on canvas, 119.6 x 96.9 cm. Courtesy Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and EVA International.
LIMERICK.- EVA International Irelands Biennial of contemporary art presents the 38th EVA International, featuring historical, recent and commissioned works by 56 artists in exhibitions across five venues in Limerick city and an extended programme at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The 38th EVA International takes its starting point from the painting Nights Candles are Burnt Out (1927) by Irish artist Seán Keating. The painting presents an allegory of the Irish psyche at the time of the construction of Ardnacrusha, a hydroelectric dam built that same year on the border of County Limerick. Ardnacrusha, constructed in the early twentieth century, accelerated the national economy and radically shifted the society of the new Irish state. Keatings social realist painting depicts a host of characters set against the backdrop of the construction site of the dam, whose ... More | |
Christopher Knowles presents a group of his typing works alongside an audio recording of him reading his poetry.
MEXICO CITY.- kurimanzutto is part of CONDO Mexico City, a collaborative exhibition by 49 galleries across 22 Mexico City spaces, hosting an exhibition by White Columns gallery, New York. White Columns presents work by Dale Jackson and Christopher Knowles, alongside a new t-shirt project by Kim Gordon / Design Office at kurimanzutto as a part of the inaugural CONDO Mexico City. Christopher Knowles presents a group of his typing works alongside an audio recording of him reading his poetry. (Knowles was recorded live at Gavin Browns New York gallery in 2015. The recording is available to purchase as a vinyl record on White Columns record label The Sound of White Columns and at kurimanzutto libros bookstore.) Writing about Knowles work, White Columns director Matthew Higgs said: I first encountered Christopher Knowles' work in the late 1980s via his artists book ... More | |
Ms. Cadou, currently Senior Vice President, Historic Preservation and Collections at George Washingtons Mount Vernon, will succeed David P. Roselle in late spring, when Dr. Roselle retires after ten years as director. Photo: Stephen Elliot.
WINTERTHUR, DE.- The Board of Trustees of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library announced today the appointment of Carol B. Cadou as the first Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur. The newly endowed title is named in honor of the first director of Winterthur. Ms. Cadou, currently Senior Vice President, Historic Preservation and Collections at George Washingtons Mount Vernon, will succeed David P. Roselle in late spring, when Dr. Roselle retires after ten years as director. Ms. Cadou has more than two decades of experience in the museum field and earned her masters degree from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, co-sponsored with the University of Delaware. In accepting the directorship at Winterthur, Ms. Cadou said, I ... More |
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Rich Ferrante joins Redwood Media Group as Show Director
HINCKLEY, OH.- Redwood Media Group announced the appointment of industry veteran, Rich Ferrante, as part of its senior management team, to oversee the continued growth, development and direction of three of the group's major fine art fairs. Ferrante, based in New York, joins RMG as the newly appointed Show Director for three of the group's flagship events Art Santa Fe, Art San Diego and Red Dot Miami. Ferrante is known industry-wide by the nation's leading galleries and curators as a candid and sincere workhorse within the art community, based on his formidable track record of producing some of the nation's leading fine art fairs over the years, including Art Palm Springs, Art Hamptons and Art Aspen. His vast experience and reputation for leadership and the continued growth of these acclaimed art show properties has led him to become widely respected ... More
Morris Museum opens new exhibition as part of a four-year series
MORRISTOWN, NJ.- As the permanent home to the fabulous array of automata from the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ begins a four-year series, A Cache of Kinetic Art featuring an annual exhibition of kinetic art. The creative energy and vitality of kineticism is highlighted while featuring artistic interpretations by present-day artists who fuse innovative design with creative use of traditional and contemporary media. Open to established and emerging artists, this exhibition series explores a range of artistic talent, inventiveness in design, and a mastery of technique. By bridging the gap between vintage and contemporary kinetic art, visitors will experience the creativity and excitement of this unique art form. Developed and curated by the staff of the ... More
Large signed mixed media artwork by Wadsworth Jarrell will be auctioned April 22nd in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA.- A large signed mixed media artwork by the African American Master Wadsworth Jarrell, a cruciform staff inscribed and signed by Martin Luther King, Jr., an important Italian Art Nouveau dining suite by Cutler & Girard dated 1901, and a slant back chair and plant stand by Frank Lloyd Wright with provenance from Christie's will all be part of Ahlers & Ogletrees auction planned for Sunday, April 22nd, in Atlanta. The sale titled Important Art & Design: Art Nouveau to Modern will feature more than 600 lots of period Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts and Crafts, Mid Century, and Modern, as well as 18th-20th century French, Italian, English, Scottish, and American fine art, furniture, silver, and decorative arts. The auction will begin at 10 am Eastern time, online and in Ahlers & Ogletrees gallery located at 715 Miami Circle in Atlanta. The Cutler & Girard three- ... More
Zabludowicz Collection exhibits Lindsey Mendick's installation 'Perfectly Ripe'
LONDON.- Lindsey Mendicks installation Perfectly Ripe is a mise-en-scène featuring ceramic sculptures and an audio work. It reflects on a teenage holiday romance, burgeoning womanhood and a desire for revenge. The starting point for this new body of work is a short autobiographical text written by the artist. It recounts a family holiday when she was 13¾ years old: the disco nights out, days spent lounging on the beach, and her sexual encounters with the entertainment staff. A recording of this text forms the soundtrack to the show, read by the artist and interspersed with snippets of music recollected from the dance floor. The physical component of the show is an evocation of a restaurant terrace. On a gravel floor sit metal tables and chairs, some upended. From these sprout coral outcrops strewn with underwear, empty Malibu bottles, and the sprawling tentacles ... More
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. opens an exhibition of new work by Erin Shirreff
NEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting an exhibition of new work by Erin Shirreff, the artists second solo show with the gallery, on view from April 13 through May 19, 2018. Erin Shirreffs diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images. Her work explores the gap between objects and their representations, and the materials (and materiality) of image-making. A new video, Son (2018), presented as a large-scale projection in the main gallery, interweaves appropriated and handmade still images into a long-duration animation. Rooted in the artists experience of the solar eclipse that was visible in the United States in the late summer of 2017, the video centers on a ... More
Artist presents new installation for National Child Abuse Prevention Month this April
AUSTIN, TX.- For the past year, artist Karen Hawkins has excavated a dark aspect of humanity, reaching in to reclaim a measure of power over the memories left behind. The Pink Bow Project, which is on view during National Child Abuse Prevention Month, opened on April 12th at Gallery Shoal Creek in Austin, Texas. A large-scale, multimedia work, The Pink Bow Project, is designed to envelop its audience. Upon entering the gallery, you are confronted by 52 sheer panels hung from the gallery ceiling like curtains. Massive in scale, each 9 x 4 panel holds 1000 pink hair bows, a ubiquitous symbol of a girls childhood innocence. 51,660 hair bows are being displayed, representing the number of substantiated sexual abuse cases against young girls reported annually to national Child Protection Services agencies. As you make your way through the gallery space, ... More
Retrospective exhibition of works by Rose O'Neill opens at Springfield Art Museum
SPRINGFIELD, MO.- Frolic of the Mind: The Illustrious Life of Rose ONeill, organized by the Springfield Art Museum and curated by Sarah Buhr, Curator of Art opened Friday, April 13 and will run through August 5. This exhibit takes as its underlying theme the unification of all O'Neill's creative pursuits and examines how they were related, from her hundreds of illustrations for the major periodicals of the day, to her many illustrated advertisements, from her creation of the Kewpie doll, to her more secretive "Sweet Monster" drawings. Buhr notes, Each of these pursuits are rooted in the singular mind of Rose O'Neill - a woman who created a life on her own terms with sheer will, determination, and creative talent. The ability to pursue all of her interests, in spite of the strict social rules placed upon women at the turn of the century, is perhaps the most fascinating story ... More
Iconic design for specific architecture to be offered at PIASA
PARIS.- PIASA explores, through the Iconic Design for Specific Architecture sale, the close links between design and architecture. An itinerary consisting of nearly 150 pieces by architects and designers illustrates the fruitful dialogue fostered by design and architecture for decades. The selection will highlight the icons of design created specifically for architectures. Social or political inspirations and studies are at the heart of the architect or designers creative process, and implicit relations between architecture and design are linked to the evolution of lifestyles. Thus, designers redefine our point of view on space, materials, or even light. The selection will stage works by Pierre Jeanneret for Chandigarh, Jean Prouvé for Brazzaville, or Pierre Paulin for the Elysée Palace. A special section will be dedicated to Italy, with furniture by Gio Ponti for the Hotel Parce ... More
JFK's 'Victory Map' used during The Cuban Missile Crisis sold for $138k at auction
BOSTON, MASS.- John F. Kennedy's personal 'victory map' of Cuba used during the Cuban Missile Crisis sold for $138,798 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The map in two sheets that feature eight types of sticker symbols applied to the surface, representing Soviet MiG fighter jets, Komar-class missile boats, IL-28 bombers, SS-4 missiles, SSM-Cruise missiles and nuclear storage sites. The intelligence represented by this map was supplied by U-2 spy planes, confirming President Kennedy's worst fears of an increasing Soviet military presence just one hundred miles away from the American coast. The map is marked "Secret" in the lower left and upper right corners. A two-page key, dated October 27, 1962, summarizes the Soviet military buildup in Cuba, listing sites, enumerating number of launchers and missiles, and completion status. Accompanied ... More
New York-based artist Elaine Reichek's first solo exhibition in Austria opens at Vienna's Secession
VIENNA.- For more than four decades, Elaine Reichek has been working on a critical and feminist reading of historical texts and images. The analytical engagement with narratives from myth and literature and the reflection on their social function as a medium of cultural cohesion run through the artists oeuvre like the thread that Ariadne gave to Theseus so that he would find his way out of the Minotaurs labyrinth. In her first solo exhibition in Austria, the New York-based artist presents works from the past eleven years that explore the figures of the Minoan girls and the stories of lust, seduction, cruelty, and betrayal associated with them: Europa, Pasiphaë, Phaedra, and Ariadne. Although their tragic fates are key to the narratives in which they appear, they are often seen as supporting characters; the heroes are invariably men. Reichek, by contrast, puts the spotlight ... More
Vadehra Art Gallery announces the death of Ram Kumar
NEW DELHI .- It is with a heavy heart that we bid a final farewell to one of the greats of Indian art and a dear friend, Ram Kumar. For us at Vadehra Art Gallery we mourn the loss of a mentor and passionate supporter who has been a part of the birth and growth of our gallery. We have held over 22 solo exhibitions by Ram Kumar over the years and it was with Ram Kumar, A Journey Within in 1996 the gallery started its foray into publication. Mr. Arun Vadehra remembers - Ram Kumars life, as also his art, was a sadhana an effort where the result was often forgotten or the result was not what mattered, it was the effort that did. Ram Kumar was a prolific painter and a passionate writer, with a creative career spanning over seven decades since he gave up his job at a bank to learn art under Sailoz Mukherjee at Sharda Ukil School of Art in 1948. Born into large ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was born April 15, 1452. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. In this image: Agents speak on their phones with their clients while bidding on at the auction of Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" during the Post-War and Contemporary Art evening sale at Christie's on November 15, 2017 in New York City. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sells for an historic $450,312,500, obliterating the prevous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP.
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