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Visitors watch a wide-screen film about the Statue of Liberty in the "Immersive Theater" during a tour of the new Statue of Liberty Museum, May 13, 2019 on Liberty Island in New York City. The new museum that celebrates the history and legacy of the Statue of Liberty will open on May 16. The museum is part of a $100 million beautification project for Liberty Island, funded by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP.
by Catherine Triomphe
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Statue of Liberty, which has welcomed generations of immigrants to US shores, is getting a new museum at a time when immigration is an explosive topic. The $100 million Statue of Liberty Museum, which is located near the base of "Lady Liberty" in New York harbor, opened on Thursday. Construction of the 26,000-square-foot (2,400-square-meter) glass-walled structure fringed with copper began in October 2016. From the rooftop of the new building, visitors have a sweeping view of the harbor, like "on the prow of a ship," said project designer Cameron Ringness. "You get to climb up and you have these amazing views and a new perspective of the statue and the harbor," Ringness said. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the United States, greeting some 4.5 million people a year from around the world. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on May 13, 2019 shows a restored Orient Express train displayed at the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP
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| | | Royal Ontario Museum reunites two Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits after more than 100 years | | Could the fabled Orient Express take to the rails again? | | Critically acclaimed exhibition marks first retrospective of Andy Warhol's work in 25 years |
Two Fayum mummy portraits (one pictured above) were acquired by the ROMs Charles T. Currelly in 1912. Photo: Brian Boyle © Royal Ontario Museum.
TORONTO.- After more than 100 years of separation, the Royal Ontario Museum is reuniting two extraordinarily well-preserved Fayum mummy portraits. These two paintings were origionally acquired by the ROM in 1912 from Sothebys by Charles T. Currelly, one of the ROMs founders. Currelly retained one of the paintings for the ROM, while the other went on to the National Gallery of Canada. The paintings finally are on long-term display at the ROM starting Saturday, May 18, 2019, in the Museums Eaton Gallery of Rome, in celebration of International Museum Day. This type of portraiture has a facinating history. They were unknown until 1887, when farmers discovered many of them at er-Rubayat, in the Fayum region. Theodor von Graf, a Viennese antiquarian, bought the paintings and exhibited them to the public through a series of exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Brussels, London, and New York. In 1888, Sir Flinders Petrie, a British ... More | |
This picture taken on May 13, 2019 shows the interior of a newly-restored carriage of an Orient Express train displayed at the Gare de l'Est train station in Paris. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- It conjures up the atmosphere of rail travel from a bygone golden age, steaming through Europe experiencing top-notch cuisine and the company of fellow passengers who could be writers or spies. And who knows, maybe a mysterious murder along the way deep in the night... The last true Orient Express travelled from Paris to Istanbul in 1977, drawing the curtain on almost a century of taking travellers on the fabled route from western Europe to the shores of the Bosphorus in Turkey. The train also entered popular culture, playing a central role in celebrated books and movies, not least Agatha Christie's 1930s novel "Murder on the Orient Express" which has inspired several films. The brand name was acquired by French rail operator SNCF which has now, at huge expense, restored original Orient Express carriages and is mulling re-launching the service. SNCF is this week exhibiting seven original ... More | |
Andy Warhol, Mao, 1972. Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and graphite on linen, 14 ft. 8 1⁄2 in. à 11 ft. 4 1⁄2 in. The Art Institute of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize and Wilson L. Mead funds. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announces the exclusive West Coast presentation of the critically acclaimed exhibition, Andy WarholFrom A to B and Back Again on view from May 19 through September 2, 2019. Spanning the artists 40-year career and featuring more than 300 works on three different floors of the museum, the exhibition includes paintings, drawings, graphics, photographs, films, television shows as well as a personal time capsule of ephemera. The retrospective features examples of the artists most iconic pieces in addition to lesser-known abstract paintings from later in his career. Uncannily relevant in todays image-driven world, Andy WarholFrom A to B and Back Again provides new insight into Andy Warhol himself by examining the complexities ... More |
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| | | Edward Hopper's final painting on special loan to the Currier Museum | | Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank has U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum | | Exhibition celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the opening of Nailya Alexander Gallery |
Edward Hopper, Two Comedians, 1966 (detail). Oil on canvas, 29 x 40 in. Anonymous Loan.
MANCHESTER, NH.- On view at the Currier Museum of Art is Edward Hoppers final painting, Two Comedians. Showing the artist and his wife taking a bow onstage, the painting is a moving farewell from Hopper, who specialized in observing people. This image of the theater once belonged to singer Frank Sinatra. Hopper painted Two Comedians at the age of eighty-three when he and his wife were seriously ill. He died the following year. The painting seems to show Hopper bidding farewell to his art, and to the world. This autobiographic painting is a summation of Hoppers lifes work, stated museum curator Kurt Sundstrom. It is a somber reflection of two people alone on a dark stage. They have a presence but its a presence of people who will soon disappear. The two figures on the stage are dressed as traditional comedians or clowns. This contrasts with the empty, haunted look in their eyes, and the personal ... More | |
Trolley New Orleans, 1955 (detail) © Robert Frank, from The Americans; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the US theatrical premiere of Gerald Foxs Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank, beginning Wednesday, May 29. The movie was shot in 2004, but only now is being released in the US. Gareth Evans, writing in Time Out (London) calls the film a superb document. The fact that this feature portrait of perhaps the worlds greatest (but previously unforthcoming) photographer exists at all is reason enough for celebration. That its also an authoritative, remarkably candid and often moving study is manna indeed It follows the Swiss-born, Stateside artist, who changed the very nature of visual practice with his definitive 50s publication The Americans, as he looks back on his life from the perspectives of New York and coastal Nova Scotia. Frank is entirely open and demythologizing about his images and films, marriage and family, ... More | |
Alexey Titarenko, Woman in Doorway, Havana, 2003. Toned gelatin silver print. 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm). Courtesy of Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the opening of Nailya Alexander Gallery, the gallery opened Color of Light: Fifteen Years of Nailya Alexander Gallery, on view from Thursday May 16th to Friday July 12th, 2019. For the past decade and a half, the gallery has prided itself on its diverse roster of contemporary international fine-art photographers, as well as on its collection of rare and vintage gelatin-silver prints by the great pioneers of the Russian avant-garde. Color of Light is a celebration of the creative genius of the contemporary artists represented by and exhibited at Nailya Alexander Gallery. The show includes works by an international group of twelve photographers and printmakers from Russia, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. What unites these artists is their poetic approach ... More |
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| | | Kehinde Wiley presents a new series of paintings and a video-installation at Galerie Templon | | Imran Qureshi's 'The Seeming Endless Path of Memory' opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris | | Elton John's pain at watching 'family parts' in new film 'Rocketman' |
General John Burgoyne, 2017. Oil on canvas 182,9 x 152,5 cm. 72 x 60 in. Photo: B. Huet/ Tutti Courtesy Templon, Paris & Brussels, © 2017 Kehinde Wiley.
PARIS.- Kehinde Wiley, star of the American art scene and Barack Obamas official portrait artist, is back in Paris. For his first Parisian exhibition since the 2016 show at Petit Palais, he unveiled a new series of paintings and a video-installation based on his time spent this past year in Tahiti. Wileys new works are focused on Tahitis Māhū community, the traditional Polynesian classification of people of a third gender, between male and female. The Māhū were highly respected within their society until they were banned by Catholic and Protestant missionaries. Wiley's portraits of beautiful, transgender Tahitian women reference and confront Paul Gauguin's celebrated works, which also feature subjects from the transgender community, but are fraught with historical undertones of colonialism and sexual objectification. Building off of Wiley's earlier portraits that addressed issues of masculine identity and virility, ... More | |
Installation View. Photo: Charles Duprat © Imran Qureshi. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents The Seeming Endless Path of Memory, an exhibition of new work by rartist, Imran Qureshi. Born in 1972 in Hyderabad, Pakistan, Qureshis practice is rooted in the tradition of 16th-century Mughal miniature art, Qureshi has developed a contemporary practice rooted in the tradition of 16th-century Mughal miniature art, encompassing figurative and abstract works on paper, painting and site-specific installation. Resonating throughout the exhibition is the artist's exploration of the infinite through the motif of the fold: the screen-like structure of his panel painting, with gradations from red to gold leaf and measuring ten metres in length, the undulating shape of an endlessly extending miniature painting, and the folded canvases of the relief paintings. The large-scale exhibition also features a series of distinctive miniature paintings exploring self-portraiture and the artists idea ... More | |
British singer-songwriter Elton John leaves after attending the screening of the film "Rocketman" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 16, 2019. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
CANNES (AFP).- Elton John said Saturday that the hardest thing to watch in "Rocketman", the biopic of his life that premiered at the Cannes film festival, were the parts about his family life. "It's hard to watch the family stuff. The drugs stuff I can handle because I did it, but the family stuff is touching," he told Variety in an interview on the warts-and-all movie about his wild rock 'n' roll years. The film won an extended standing ovation in Cannes, with critics hailing its honesty and the way it deals frankly with the British singer's struggles with drugs, alcohol and his own sexuality. "Part of the reason I became the addict that I was (was) because of my background," said the 72-year-old megastar. "I really value the fact that (my parents) stayed together for me when they were unhappy with each other.... I've come to understand the circumstances ... More |
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| | | India-based artist Ranjani Shettar creates project in response to Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee | | Greek pavilion in Venice features new works and in situ installations by three artists | | Sotheby's appoints Beibei Fan as Managing Director of China |
Paul Klee, Figure of the Oriental Theater, 1934, Oil on fabric mounted on cardboard, 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in., The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1942 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection presents its first Intersections project of 2019, Earth Songs for a Night Sky, featuring seven sculptural pieces by Ranjani Shettar (b. 1977, Bangalore, India). Occupying two rooms and the staircase of the original Phillips House, the project is conceived in dialogue with Wassily Kandinskys 1913 book Klänge (Sounds) and a number of Paul Klees late paintings from the Phillipss collection. Drawing from her environment in rural Indiawith changing skies, monsoon rains, and lush vegetationand employing traditional materials such as teak wood and indigo pigment, and techniques of carving, dyeing and lacquer, Shettar has created hand-carved wood sculptures, a multi-part piece that climbs up the gallery walls, and an ethereal installation made of thread and wax. Earth Songs for a Night Sky is on view May 16August 25, 2019. We ... More | |
Panos Charalambous, An Eagle Was Standing, 201819. Installation, dimensions variable; performance.
VENICE.- Artists Panos Charalambous, Eva Stefani, and Zafos Xagoraris represent Greece at the 58th International Art Exhibition ― La Biennale di Venezia (May 11 ― November 24, 2019) with the exhibition Mr. Stigl, featuring new works and in situ installations, curated by Katerina Tselou. Lining the Greek Pavilion―both inside and outside―with installations, images, and sound, the three artists challenge the establishment of history across the political, social and private spheres of our lives, by uncovering and rediscovering the voices and stories that have been lost or ignored over time. In the environment they create, grand narratives and personal stories interchange constantly. By revealing the unknown details of history, the works subvert the supposedly indisputable nature of the official record. Mr. Stigl, the enigmatic character who lends his name to the title of the exhibition, is a playful reference to the Dutch ... More | |
Ms. Fan joins Sotheby's from HBO, where she held the position of Executive Vice President for New Business & Managing Director for China. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sotheby's announced the appointment of Beibei Fan as Managing Director of China. Based in Beijing, Ms. Fan will be responsible for leading the local team and driving Sotheby's business and presence in China. She will also play a key role in Sotheby's business development strategy, working closely with senior leadership across the Company. Ms. Fan began with Sotheby's earlier this month. "Beibei joins an outstanding team of seasoned colleagues across Asia and will be instrumental as we continue to build upon our existing presence and activities in China," said Tad Smith, Sotheby's CEO. Ms. Fan joins Sotheby's from HBO, where she held the position of Executive Vice President for New Business & Managing Director for China. In that role, she oversaw all the business aspects of HBOs business in China, from revenue generation to production, as well as new business prospects across Asia. Prior to HBO, Beibei ... More |
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In Venice: 73 international artists on climate change and environmental crisis
VENICE.- On the occasion of the 58th International Art ExhibitionLa Biennale di Veneziathe promoter the Brooklyn Rail and the curators Phong Bui and Francesca Pietropaolo are organizing an official Collateral Event that addresses the environmental crisis in the age of climate change. The exhibition, Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, brings together 73 artists whose selected works in a wide range of media invite critical awareness on the fragility of nature and human life while poetically invoking the regeneration of living systems. The exhibition has been installed in the Chiesa delle Penitenti, an 18th-century church located in the Cannaregio section of Venice. 1001 Stories for Survival, an interdisciplinary program of free public conversations with artists, scientists, scholars, and ... More
Modernism opens its first one-person exhibition of works by French artist Philippe Gronon
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Modernism is presenting its first one-person exhibition of works by French artist Philippe Gronon. In Versos, his first series working in color, Gronon has photographed the backside of paintings by modern masters, presenting each work at actual size. Since the late 1980s Philippe Gronon has been developing a body of work with a view camera. From shutter release to print, he has combined the specific resources of gelatin silver and digital processes in accordance with the planned result. His subjects have been those that have a function of physical or mental transition, of exchange, passage, or communication (elevator doors, X-ray plates, blackboards, lithographic stones, etc.). Working in black and white, each object was photographed frontally, filling the whole image, eliminating any context, anecdote, or picturesqueness. Versos, ... More
Birds flock to the Garment District in public art exhibit
NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing 30 hand-built, folk-art inspired ceramic pieces representing the intricate interplay and personalities of backyard birds. Created by artist Laurie Carretta Scupp, the installation is titled Endlings: The first, and last, of their kind. Located in a street-level window at 215 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through June 28th. Endlings is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations and over 15 years has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. Lauries fantastic one-of-a-kind creations embody the Garment Districts vibrant and imaginative character, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Were proud ... More
Ponti Art Gallery presents masterpiece by Ubaldo Oppi and remarkable artworks by Maria Lai
ROME.- Ponti Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections. The selection starts from a masterpiece by the greatest exponent of Magical Realism, Ubaldo Oppi, Rural afternoon, vital and joyful painting, dedicated to the theme of feast day, to the representation of a village Sunday, in which music accompanies silence and delights the placid quiet of the day. The subject of the painting almost seems to echo the atmosphere narrated by the famous poetry of Leopardi, and some Leopardian cadences can also be felt in the atmosphere of the work, pervaded by a melancholy joy, by a pensive and serious joy. Compared to works performed by Oppi in the same period, the compositional layout is more clearly plastic: the figures have now acquired greater proportions, and the mass of the houses has advanced towards ... More
Solo exhibition of the Italian artist Antonella Zazzera opens at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger
PARIS.- On the occasion of the Paris Gallery Weekend 2019, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger launched a new solo exhibition of the Italian artist Antonella Zazzera, whose work is also on display until June 28 in the exhibition TISSAGE TRESSAGE quand la sculpture défile à Paris ! in the Espace Monte-Cristo Fondation at the Villa Datris in Paris. Antonella Zazzera was born in Umbria in 1976 and attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Perugia, from which she graduated in 1999. Passionate about chiaroscuro and its capacity to model forms across light, she began by making numerous pencil copies of the paintings of Caravaggio. Her first important works from the end of the 1990s are her three-dimensional Rilievi. They are constructed either of layers of sedimented gesso notched onto a wooden base which lay out the space, time, and gestures of the artist, ... More
Moniker New York closes with increased attendance
NEW YORK, NY.- Moniker International Art Fair, the premier showcase of Urban Art and its related subcultures, closed its second New York edition on a high note Sunday, May 5, 2019. Newly relocated from Greenpoint to a 15,000 square foot former retail space in Manhattans NoHo district (718 Broadway), Moniker 2019 featured a hyper-curated lineup of 28 exhibitors and four Special Projects, hailing from 13 countries around the globe. Their Manhattan debut reported strong sales and over 8,500 visitors over the course of the 5-day event. This year we were able to accomplish what we have been trying to do in London for the last 10 years. With the New York fair we saw more international exhibitors and the convergence of the artworld including legendary photographer Martha Cooper alongside younger artists such as Miss Van from Barcelona. Were building ... More
Major Victoria Crowe exhibition opens in Edinburgh
EDINBURGH.- Edinburghs City Art Centre hosts the first major study to showcase the esteemed career of one of the UKs leading artists, Victoria Crowe. Embracing every aspect of Crowes practice, the exhibition features over 150 pieces, stemming from youthful student paintings which laid the foundation of her career to the assured landscapes and portraits of recent years. Drawing from 50 solo exhibitions, 50 Years of Painting traces the rise of this exceptional artist, from early beginnings in which we catch glimpses of riches to come, through the highs and lows of her personal and professional life played out on canvas and paper, to recent years, where the cold light of a winters day in the Scottish Borders or the heat of a Venetian sunset still echo Crowes appreciation of early Renaissance and North European Painting. The exhibition is displayed ... More
Not so crazy: Cannes film upends Hitchcock's 'hysterical' women
CANNES (AFP).- Jessica Hausner, one of four female directors vying for the Cannes top prize, remembers watching "crazy women" in movies by the great Hollywood masters and sensing something was off. "I mean 'Vertigo' -- it was clear he was the one who was crazy," she said of Hitchcock's film noir classic in which a traumatised policeman (James Stewart) tracks a "hysterical" woman (Kim Novak). For Hausner's feminist sci-fi thriller "Little Joe", which is premiering at the world's top film festival, she said she wanted to explore how "crazy" becomes a label used to keep women down. "I was always fascinated by the films about crazy women. I felt that male perspective and I thought 'Yeah, but what's so crazy about them?'" she said. "The 'craziness' of women is actually the very interesting point about them because I think it's also about being sensitive and intelligent." ... More
Gazelli Art House Baku opens a four year survey of the artist Stanley Casselman's work
BAKU.- Gazelli Art House Baku is presenting Labyrinths of Light, a four year survey of the artist Stanley Casselman, curated by David Anfam. This exhibition marks Casselmans second solo show with the gallery and includes a concise selection from the Frequency, Untitled-Presence, Day One and Liquid series. Throughout his career, Casselmans work has been fuelled by a fascination with the properties of light. Starting twenty-five years ago, in response to looking at the stained glass windows of Westminster Abbey, Casselman began his artistic practice creating rear-illuminated paintings. He then turned his focus on to his pioneering work with polyester screens. Casselman captures the varied properties of light through his bold, large-scale, abstract paintings full of hills, valleys, peaks and troughs. These colorful labyrinths of works from Frequency ... More
Robert Shelton's Old Tucson Studios Collection among items in Hollywood memorabilia up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- The Old Tucson Studios Collection of Robert Shelton is among a 600-piece Hollywood Auction from Boston-based RR Auction. Robert Bob Shelton was a cinematic industry icon and all-around Tucson, Arizona legend best known for literally bringing Hollywood to the desert. When Bob purchased Old Tucson in 1958, his original intentions were for a Western theme park, but to the benefit of us all, the story took an unexpected, albeit befitting turn. The intricately authentic set, originally built for 1940s film Arizona, starring Jean Arthur and William Holden, ended up becoming the filming home to over 300 motion pictures, all under the masterful helm of Shelton. Born in Columbus, Ohio on March 21, 1915, Shelton wasfirst and foremostan incredible person. His friends will passionately tell you no one ever had a bad word to say ... More
Art Kiosk: New Bay Area exhibition space opens photo-based installation
REDWOOD CITY, CA.- Alone, new, a site-specific, photo based installation by artist Frank Boban, is on view at The Art Kiosk from May 18-June 23, 2019. The Art Kiosk, a new and unique exhibition space curated by Fung Collaboratives, is bringing thought provoking artwork to Redwood City, CA and the San Francisco Bay Area. A ten month long exhibition program features artwork that is greatly undiscovered in this part of the Bay Area: Installation Art and Art in the Public Realm. Participating Art Kiosk artists range from emerging to establish and invited to come from the Bay Area and around the world to install their site-specific commissions. Each installation is ambitious, relevant to current times and the site, and embraces content to challenge the viewer. Bobans installation transforms ART KIOSK into a giant camera obscura for viewers to walk into and ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter and illustrator Jacob Jordaens was born May 19, 1593. Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. In this image: Jacob Jordaens, The Tribute Money - Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish, 1630-1645, Collection Rijksmuseum.
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