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An English Heritage conservator working on the 'Madonna of the Pomegranate'.
LONDON.- A painting long thought to be a later imitation of Sandro Botticellis famous Madonna of the Pomegranate has been revealed to be a rare example by the artists own workshop, English Heritage has revealed today. The discovery was made while the painting was being cleaned by the charitys conservators. The works true colours hidden under more than a century of yellow varnish will be revealed when it goes on display at Rangers House in Greenwich on 1 April. Bought by diamond magnate Julius Wernher in 1897, Madonna of the Pomegranate (Madonna della Melagrana) (c.1487) is the closest version of the famous masterpiece by the Florentine master Botticelli, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Showing the Madonna and Christ Child flanked by four angels, the title refers to the pomegranate that is held by the Madonna ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken during a press visit on March 28, 2019 shows a book displayed at the exhibition "Kabbalah - The Art of Jewish Mysticism" in the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The exhibition runs from March 29, 2019 till August 25, 2019. Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP
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| | | Monumental self-portrait by important Scottish artist to star in new display at National Galleries of Scotland | | Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art sale totals €8,583,875 | | Rijksmuseum makes new acquisitions at TEFAF thanks to generous private benefactors |
William Crosby, Womb from Womb, 1941. Oil on canvas, 213.5 x 152.5 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Purchased from the artists estate, via The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2018 © The Crosbie Estate.
EDINBURGH.- A large, powerful self-portrait by one of the finest and most singular Scottish artists of the 20th century has been acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland, where it will go on display for the first time this week. Womb from Womb by William Crosbie (1915-99), will be included in the Modern Portrait display, which re-opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh on Saturday 30 March. Painted in 1941, in a style which reflects the artists interest in international surrealism, Womb from Womb was the most ambitious painted portrait of the artists career, and is a major addition to the national collections already-outstanding series of 20th Century Scottish self-portraits. The impressive painting joins a significant group of Crosbies works in the NGS collection, which include drawings and paintings ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) Projet pour un monument à la mémoire de Gabriel Péri which sold for 1,450,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- Christies sale of Impressionist and Modern Art achieved 8,583,875 with 87% sold by lot and 95% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) Projet pour un monument à la mémoire de Gabriel Péri which sold for 1,450,000. A new world auction record was established today for Jeanne Hébuterne (1898-1920) which Femme au chapeau cloche sold for 478,000 almost five times its high estimate. Additional highlights included Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival which reached 730,000 and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Verre et pipe, illustrating perfectly the artists Synthetic Cubism and which sold for 658,000. We can also note the strong result achieved for Maurice Denis (1870-1943) decorative tondo commissioned by Avril which decorated Ernest Chausson for his homes ceiling and which sold for 322,000 against a presale estimate of 120,000-180,000. ... More | |
Joseph-François Ducq, Portrait of the Engraver Joseph-Charles de Meulemeester at Work in the Raphael Loggia in the Vatican, 1813.
AMSTERDAM.- Last week the Rijksmuseum was able to acquire several remarkable works of art at TEFAF Maastricht, thanks to the generosity of private donors. The objects include two 16th-century panels by Maarten van Heemskerck, a book published in 1627 on locks and keys made by the French locksmith Mathurin Jousse, and an 1813 painting by Joseph-François Ducq of the engraver Joseph-Charles de Meulemeester. One exceptional acquisition is the gift of two 16th-century panels, one depicting Pluto and Cerberus and the other showing Samson grasping the gates of Gaza. Both panels were painted around 1555 by the Haarlem artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574), and were originally part of a group of twelve known as The Twelve Strong Men. This group comprised four iconographic sets of three panels: one of a Greek god, one of Samson and one of Hercules. Each of these four ... More |
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| | | Grayson Perry's Brexit Vases acquired by the V&A for "Britain's mantlepiece" | | Christie's to auction "The Desmarais Collection: A pied-à-terre in New York" | | French New Wave film pioneer Agnes Varda dead at 90 |
Grayson Perry next to his Matching Pair (2017) ceramic vases © Tristan Fewings Getty Images for the V&A.
LONDON.- Today, the Matching Pair vases by British artist and potter Grayson Perry go on permanent display in the V&As world-famous Ceramics Galleries. Created in 2017 in response to the huge social and political rift caused by Brexit, each vase depicts supporters of Leave and Remain. This major acquisition from one of the UKs most celebrated and popular artists goes on display to coincide with the date that Britain was originally scheduled to leave the EU. The works have been purchased with the support of the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts, V&A Members, Sarah Nichols, the William Brake Charitable Trust and an anonymous donor. Monumental in size, both stand at over a metre-tall and are decorated with sgraffito figures and transfer-printed images. The similarity of the Leave and Remain vases prompted their title, Matching Pair. Perry took a new approach to the creative process of decorating the vases by ... More | |
A Sevres Porcelain Bleu Celeste 'Oeil de Perdrix' Ornithological Part Dessert Service, circa 1782-1786. Estimate: $120,000 180,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present The Desmarais Collection: A pied-à -terre in New York, which encompasses a remarkable selection of furniture, paintings and porcelain that will be offered in a dedicated sale on April 30 in New York, during the Classic Week series of sales. The collection is from the New York pied-à -terre of the distinguished Canadian couple Paul and Jacqueline Desmarais, which was decorated by the internationally acclaimed interior designer Juan Pablo Molyneux. Comprised of more than 150 lots, the collection features a sumptuous and sophisticated group of French 18th and 19th century furniture by many of the best makers such as Riesener and Weisweiler, Sèvres porcelain, silver and paintings including works by the artists Francois Boucher and Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun. The also features a selection ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 17, 1986 French director Agnes Varda poses in Paris for her new film "Sans toit ni loi" (Without roof nor law). JEAN-LOUP GAUTREAU / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French film legend Agnes Varda, the only woman director to emerge from the New Wave scene in the 1960s, has died aged 90 after a battle with cancer, her family said on Friday. With her two-tone bowl haircut, Varda was seen as the arty, eccentric "grandmother" of French cinema and tributes poured in for the highly political artist who was revered for her originality. Varda died overnight at home "of complications from cancer. She was surrounded by her family and friends," the family said in a statement. Varda worked right up to the end of her life, with a new autobiographical documentary premiering at the Berlin film festival just last month. She was still giving media interviews last weekend at an exhibition of her artworks. "She was so far ahead of everyone else; she was the first to make films that influenced the ... More |
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| | | Winterthur opens the major new exhibition Costuming The Crown | | Nearly 50 of the world's finest contemporary portraits arrive to Winchester | | French artist JR promises latest work will reveal Louvre pyramid's 'secret' |
Installation view.
WINTERTHUR, DE.- From the dazzling gold of Queen Elizabeths coronation robe to the simple sophistication of Princess Margarets wedding dress, Costuming The Crown at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library will feature 40 iconic costumes from the beloved Emmy® and Golden Globe award-winning drama The Crown. The Netflix Original series, produced by Left Bank Pictures in association with Sony Pictures Television, is a dramatized history of Queen Elizabeth IIs early reign, as the fragile social order established after the Second World War breaks apart. The exhibition will be on view in the Winterthur Galleries March 30, 2019January 5, 2020. Beginning with spectacle and pageantry, Costuming The Crown, reveals everything from the majesty of royal crowns and tiaras to the private looks worn by the royal family in the quiet moments behind the palace doors. This ... More | |
Mrs Anna Wójcik by Monika Polak, 2018 © Monika Polak
WINCHESTER.- The BP Portrait Award is regarded as one of the most prestigious portrait painting competitions in the world. Following its principal display at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the subsequent touring exhibition will visit Winchester for the first time ever. The BP Portrait Award enjoys revered status amongst painters and collectors alike, acting as an important showcase for some of the most outstanding and innovative painters across the globe. Indeed, the winner of the 2018 Award, Miriam Escofet, hails from Barcelona but is now resident in London. The second and third placed artists - Felicia Forte and Zhu Tongyao - are from New York and China respectively. The 2018 competition attracted over 2667 entries from artists based in more than 88 countries.The exhibition, which opens at The Gallery in Winchesters ... More | |
French contemporary artist and photographer Jean Rene, aka JR is seen in the main courtyard of the Louvre Museum during preparation of his latest installation in Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French artist JR on Friday put the final touches to a huge collage in the courtyard of the Louvre, his latest eye-popping-project unveiled to mark the 30th birthday of the Louvre's glass pyramid. Some 400 volunteers working in teams of 50 spent four days pasting strips of printed paper on the cobbles of the courtyard, creating a giant patchwork around the pyramid commissioned by late Socialist president Francois Mitterrand. JR, who has been dubbed the "French Banksy" after the British street artist, is famous for blowing up photographs -- often of people -- into huge collages that have graced the wall between Jerusalem and the West Bank and the Rio favelas, among other sites. The artist promised that his latest work ... More |
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| | | South Korean artist Kimsooja unveils new installation at Yorkshire Sculpture Park | | Major exhibition on the history of women's suffrage in the U.S. opens in Washington | | Archeologists believe Norway find is rare Viking ship burial |
Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2019. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo: Mark Reeves.
WAKEFIELD.- Kimsooja transforms Yorkshire Sculpture Parks historic chapel with To Breathe, an enthralling installation using light and mirrors and the latest in a series of projects exploring meditative qualities of space. Kimsoojas practice references and takes inspiration from traditional forms of female labour and craft, such as sewing and weaving, to investigate the role of women. Making quilts with her mother was the initial stimulus to adopting needlework as part of her practice, and since then (1983) the artist has travelled extensively, exploring the cultural importance of clothing, textiles and the associated acts of making. For over 25 years the artist has used the form and idea of bottari the South Korean word for a bundle wrapped in fabric, which Kimsooja identifies as a self-contained world but one which, like a vessel, can contain everything materially and conceptually. Traditionally ... More | |
Mary McLeod Bethune - Daytona Beach, Florida. Sitter: Mary McLeod Bethune, Artist: William Ludlow Coursen. Gelatin silver print, 1910 or 1911. State Archives of Florida, Collection. M95-2, Florida Memory Image # PR00755.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery has opened Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a major exhibition examining the history of womens suffrage in the United States. The seven-room exhibition features more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965 that explore the American suffrage movement and the political challenges women have faced. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence is a centerpiece of the Smithsonian American Womens History Initiative called Because of Her Story. The exhibition is curated by Kate Clarke Lemay, historian at the National Portrait Gallery and coordinating curator of the Smithsonian American Womens History Initiative. The Portrait Gallery exhibition continues through Jan. 5, 2020. ... More | |
Another Viking ship burial was believed to have been found in Jellestad in southeastern Norway last year. Photo: NIKU.
OSLO (AFP).- Archeologists believe they have found a rare Viking ship burial site in a region of Norway known for its Viking-era treasures, Norwegian officials said Monday. Using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), experts found a ship-shaped anomaly near other Viking burial mounds in the Borre Park in Vestfold county, southeast of Oslo. "The GPR data clearly show the shape of a ship, and we can see weak traces of a circular depression around the vessel. This could point to the existence of a mound that was later removed," Terje Gansum, leader of the department for cultural heritage management in Vestfold county, said in a statement. He said researchers would carry out further investigations to try and assess the size of the preserved find. There are only seven ship burials dating from the Viking Age (800-1050) in Europe, including three located ... More |
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New exhibitions put the power in Powerhouse
CASULA.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre explores power in all its forms with a FREE launch day (2 4pm, Saturday 30 March, 2019, unveiling three incredible exhibitions from renowned contemporary artists. Launching will be: Creator, a collection of boundary-pushing sculptures by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran; Penelope Cains provocative exploration of coal power in Interregnum; and Anatomies by Robert Hague, as part of his 2016 Blake Established Artists Residency. All three exhibitions run from 30 March 12 May 2019. For our next round of exciting exhibitions, its all about power, power, power and weve got a massive line-up of exhibitions from renowned artists to match! said CPAC Director, Craig Donarski. Were thrilled to present the very first Western Sydney show from Ramesh Mario-Nithiyendran, who grew up in Western Sydney, and has ... More
Exhibition at Walker Art Center explores themes of the real and virtual, the organic and artificial
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- In an age dominated by digital technology, The Body Electric explores themes of the real and virtual, the organic and artificial, moving from the world into the screen and back again. Looking across the past 50 years, the exhibition presents an intergenerational and international group of artists who have seized upon the screen as a place to rethink the body and identity, with a particular emphasis on questions of gender, sexuality, class, and race. The Body Electric contextualizes contemporary artists engaging today with digital technology and the influence of the Internet within a broader art historical narrative to reveal shared interests that emerge across generations, despite differing technological means. The exhibition begins with a pioneering generation of artists active in the mid-1960sShigeko Kubota, Charlotte Moorman, ... More
UK indie pop duo Her's killed in US car crash
LONDON (AFP).- British-based pop duo Her's have been killed in a road accident in the United States, where they were on tour, their record label said Friday. Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading died along with manager Trevor Engelbrektson while travelling to a gig in California on Wednesday, said the label, Heist or Hit. "It is with overwhelming sadness that we regretfully inform you that Liverpool band Her's... tragically passed away in a road accident in the early hours of Wednesday, 27th March whilst travelling to a show in Santa Ana, California. "We are all heartbroken." The indie duo were on their second US tour to promote debut album "Invitation to Her's". Fitzpatrick, from northwest England, and Laading, from Norway, met while studying at university in Liverpool. "As humans, they were warm, gentl ... More
Tate exhibits Arthur Jafa's 'Love is the Message, The Message is Death'
LIVERPOOL.- Tate Liverpool is the first gallery in the north of England to present the critically acclaimed artwork Love is the Message, The Message is Death 2016. Made by American artist and film-maker Arthur Jafa (b. 1960), the seven-minute video shows a montage of historic and contemporary film footage to trace African American history and experience. Presented in almost total darkness, visitors will be immersed in the video installation, accompanied by Kanye Wests gospel-inspired hip-hop track Ultralight Beam, whose lyrics envelop Jafas rapid editing style. Love is the Message, The Message is Death brings together clips from multiple sources, including pop videos, TV news, and police cameras. Moments include: a civil rights march, former US President Obama singing Amazing Grace at the eulogy for the 9 Charleston parishioners ... More
Exhibition explores how trolley manufacturers have advanced their designs
HONG KONG.- Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts announced the arrival of a new exhibition entitled Trolleys Central. Presented by the Heritage Department in partnership with community design group Making on Loft, the exhibition will take place from 30 March to 28 April. Nowadays, the traffic network in Hong Kong is well-developed, but there are still many steep and narrow roads in the Central and Western District. The flow of traffic in this area is further affected by restricted parking and loading areas; hence, many merchants and delivery workers in this area prefer to work with a trolley for the benefit of more convenience and flexibility. Trolleys Central showcases relationships between the shops in the district, to explore how trolley manufacturers have advanced their designs with the times to satisfy evolving user demands and improve the local ... More
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth opens 'FOCUS: Analia Saban'
FORT WORTH, TX.- Los Angeles-based artist Analia Saban (b. 1980, Buenos Aires) takes traditional artistic media, such as paint, marble, and canvas, and pushes their limits in inventive ways that merge scientific experimentation with artmaking. In her Draped Marble works, Saban bends slabs of marble to the brink of destruction. Arced over walnut sawhorses, the marble appears fragile and pliable. Saban's marble works were influenced by the billowing fabrics rendered in the same material by Renaissance sculptors, such as those in Michelangelo's Pietà , which motivated Saban for their ability to transform "the hard into the flexible, the rough into the polished, the strong into the fragile." Saban also uses paint as a sculptural element to explore the physical properties and boundaries of the medium. For her FOCUS exhibition, Saban presents all-new works, ... More
Cecilia Hillström Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Sigrid Sandström and Johannes Heldén
STOCKHOLM.- Cecilia Hillström Gallery is presenting Sigrid Sandströms exhibition Dry Maars as one of the inaugural exhibitions in the gallerys new space at Hudiksvallsgatan. Sandström presents a series of new paintings. As a painter, Sigrid Sandström has continuously been exploring site as a concept as well as emotional experience. Over time, the depicted large-scale, barren and uninhabited landscapes have become more abstract. This time, a residency in the south of France is a starting point for her work. Living and working in the house of Dora Maar for a month, Sandströms paintings emerge step by step; a process imbued by impressions of the surrounding landscape. By coincidence, the name Maar leads us to the geological phenomenon maar, a low-relief volcanic crater caused by an explosion when water comes into contact with hot ... More
For the first time, the Julia Stoschek Collection exhibits works not included in the collection
BERLIN.- For the first time in its history, the Julia Stoschek Collection presents an ensemble of solo exhibitions, performances, and screenings of works not included the collection. Over the course of a year, six exhibitionsthree in Düsseldorf and three in Berlinwill open successively, beginning in March 2019 and running until April 2020. They will be accompanied by screening and performance programs, artist talks, lectures, and readings at both locations. horizontal vertigo will feature commissions and new productions as well as existing works by a group of international artists whose interdisciplinary time-based practices share focused perspectives infused with feminist, queer, and decolonial critique in resistance to restrictive concepts of identity, history, and representation. Each project deals with a specific context driven by the artist and what the ... More
Jerwood Gallery opens a retrospective survey of John Carter's work during the past 50 years
HASTINGS.- John Carter RA (b. 1942) is one of Britains most respected abstract sculptors, whose art has been described as a dialogue between painting and sculpture. In 2019, Jerwood Gallery will present a retrospective survey of his work during the past 50 years. The exhibition will trace Carters development from early Op and Pop Art influences through to the rigorously ordered structures of his current work, in a show stretching across the entire ground floor of the Hastings gallery. Born in 1942, John Carter emerged as one of the New Generation artists of the 1960s. He has exhibited widely in Europe, Japan and the USA and taught at the Chelsea College of Arts and Design (1980 2000). He was elected a Royal Academician in 2007. A dynamic combination of painting and sculpture distinguishes Carters artistic practice. He is best known for his ... More
Dutch Days in Hong Kong 2019 presents 'Rembrandt as Innovator'
HONG KONG.- Co-organised by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Asia Week Hong Kong, Dutch Days in Hong Kong announced its 5th anniversary with the theme Rembrandt as Innovator. The Netherlands marks 2019 as the Year of Rembrandt to commemorate the 350th year of Rembrandt van Rijn's death. DDHK will pay tribute to the innovativeness of this legendary master of the Dutch Golden Age, by lining up a wide variety of activities including seminars, family days, exhibitions, music and movies, bringing the very essence of Dutch innovation and living in different sectors closer to Hong Kong audience. A press gathering was held today at the Consulate General, where festival highlights were announced. Ms. Annemieke Ruigrok, Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Hong Kong and Macao, who ... More
Painting by Selden Connor Gile highlights California and Western Paintings & Sculpture auction
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following the exceptional results from The Collection of L.D. "Brink" Brinkman in February, Bonhams will continue to offer a dynamic array of 163 works in the California and Western Paintings & Sculpture auction on April 16. Highlights of the sale include several fresh-to-the-market offerings by leading artists of the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey Peninsula and Los Angeles areas including a dock scene of Belvedere, California by Selden Connor Gile, Western works of art, and a selection of twenty contemporary Western paintings and sculpture from The L.D. Brink Brinkman Collection. Leading the sale is Quiet Cove (Belvedere) painted by Society of Six artist, Selden Connor Gile (1877-1947) (estimate: $250,000-350,000). In 1927, Gile moved north to Tiburon and later to adjacent Belvedere Island, both of which were popular locations ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-French painter Francisco Goya was born March 30, 1746. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 - 16 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. Immensely successful in his lifetime, Goya is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. In this image: Francisco de Goya, The victorious Hannibal, 1771.
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