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Alighiero Boetti, Order and Disorder, 1985-86 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- In one of its largest exhibitions ever the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is collaborating with the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Moderno). The exhibition, A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s1980s, is being presented throughout the MMK 1 between 25 November 2017 and 2 April 2018, and at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires between 7 July and 14 October 2018. The exhibition, jointly curated by Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires Director Victoria Noorthoorn and Senior Curator Javier Villa, and MMK Curator Klaus Görner, brings the masterworks of the Frankfurt collection into dialogue with key works of Latin American art. The exhibition accommodates some 500 artworks from private and public collections by 100 artists and collectives from Latin America, the United States and Europe and are displayed in Frankfurt on all levels of MMK 1 ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day | | | | A restorer from the Restoration of Museums of France (C2RMF) research center analyses a photo reproduction of a painting at the labs of the Louvre museum on November 21, 2017 in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Iranian photographer Shahrokh Hatami dead at 89 | | Rare Hitler painting donated to Dutch wartime institute | | Two suspects charged over France theft of Botero statue |
Over seven decades he captured a dizzying array of stories. Photo: www.shahrokhhatami.com
PARIS (AFP).- Famed Iranian photo-journalist Shahrokh Hatami, who covered front-page events from the revolution in his homeland to the Beatles in their early days has died aged 89. His partner, the actress Francine Carpon, told AFP Saturday he died from "pulmonary insufficiency at Auxi-le-Chateau" in northern France. Born in Tehran in 1928 and beginning life as a journalist for an Iranian newspaper, Hatami's roving lens captured a huge variety of events as he let his camera tell the story from 1950. Over seven decades he captured a dizzying array of stories, providing notably for Life magazine the visual backdrop for the overthrow in 1953 of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in a US-sponsored coup. A quarter of a century later and he would be snapping dramatic images of the Iranian Revolution -- he was on the plane which took the Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran in February 1979. There was also plenty of room for tracking celebrities, not least the Beatles, whom he shot in Liverpool's iconic ... More | |
Portrait of Adolf Hitler. Photo: Bundesarchiv/wikipedia.org.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- The Dutch national institute for wartime documentation said Saturday it has been given a rare watercolour painting by Adolf Hitler, believed to be the only one in existence in The Netherlands. The aquarelle -- a technique of painting with thin transparent watercolours -- depicting a tower in Vienna was donated to the Amsterdam-based NIOD institute by a woman whose identity was not revealed, the leftist daily De Volkskrant added. "The woman did not want the painting in her home and two Dutch auction houses declined to put it up for sale," the paper said. It was donated earlier this year to the NIOD, originally set up just after World War II to create a national archive of documents relating to the 1940-45 Nazi occupation of The Netherlands. The unidentified woman's father originally bought the painting at a stamp and coin market "for 75 cents and only realised when he got home that it was signed by 'A. Hitler'," the paper said. "After months of following an authentication process the.. ... More | |
File photo of Colombian artist Fernando Botero posing in front of a self portrait at the Pera Museum in Istanbul.
PARIS (AFP).- Two suspects have been charged in an investigation into the theft within yards of the presidential palace in Paris of a bronze sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, a judicial source said Saturday. One is a man in his 50s, currently in detention, who has been charged with aggravated theft for taking the sculpture of a mother and a child from a gallery in central Paris on November 4. The work called Maternity, worth an estimated 425,000 euros ($491,000), was found at the home of a relative of the other suspect -- a lawyer who has been charged with receiving stolen goods. The suspected thief had been arrested Wednesday, after he was caught on camera, a source close to the investigation said. Security camera footage showed the bearded thief caressing the 10-kilo (22-pound) statue of typically fleshy Botero figures, then looking around him before taking the statue from its plinth and discreetly making an exit. "He quickly acknowledged the ... More |
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| High Museum of Art opens first major U.S. exhibition of work by Al Taylor | | Firstsite opens an exhibition of works by the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry | | Exhibition of historic works by Brazilian painter Alfredo Volpi on view at Gladstone Gallery |
Al Taylor (American, 19481999), 6-8-9, 1988, brass, wood, and enamel paint mounted on wood with wax finish. Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland.
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art is organizing the first museum survey in the United States to explore the career of American artist Al Taylor (1948-1999). Presented in the Highs Renzo Piano-designed Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Al Taylor, What Are You Looking At? (Nov. 17, 2017, through March 18, 2018) features more than 150 sculptures, drawings, and prints spanning nearly two decades, from 1981 to the end of the artists life. The works are drawn from distinguished public collections such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The British Museum, London, as well as important private collections in the United States. Seen together these works reveal the crisscrossing avenues of Taylors artistic inquiry and his innovative interplay between unexpected media and materials. This exhibition offers an in-depth look at the breadth of Taylors artistic production and ... More | |
Grayson Perry, Julie and Rob, 2013. Wool, cotton, acrylic, polyester and silk tapestry, 400 x 300 cm. 157 1/2 x 118 1/8 in. Published by Paragon © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist, Paragon | Contemporary Editions Ltd and Victoria Miro, London.
COLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, is showing The Life of Julie Cope, an exhibition of works by the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry. The show is made up of four large-scale tapestries, as well as material related to A House for Essex (2015), the building designed by Perry in collaboration with Charles Holland of FAT Architecture. An ornate ceramic-clad, gingerbread-like edifice, A House for Essex serves as a secular chapel to the memory of a fictional Essex woman, Julie Cope. Situated overlooking the scenic Stour Estuary in the village of Wrabness in north-east Essex, the House is both an artwork in itself and the setting for a number of works by Perry that explore the special character and unique qualities of the county. A House for Essex was commissioned by Living Architecture, which was founded to change public perceptions about modern architecture by building ... More | |
Alfredo Volpi, Elementos de Fachadas, c. 1960's. Tempera on canvas, 27 3/8 x 22 7/8 inches (69.5 x 58.1 cm). Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels and Instituto Volpi, São Paulo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of historic works by Brazilian painter Alfredo Volpi (1896 1988), the first solo presentation of his work in the United States. Volpi is regarded as one of the most influential and celebrated Brazilian painters, who the preeminent public intellectual Mario Pedrosa called the master of his time. Honing his craft during the rise of modernism in Brazil, Volpi has made a lasting impact on the history of art through his signature approach to depicting the forms of everyday experiencesfrom festival banners to common row housesin vibrantly chromatic abstraction. Tangentially connected with Concretism, the mid-century Brazilian artistic movement that included Tarsila do Amaral, Waldemar Cordeiro and others, Volpi occupied a liminal space between naïve and fine art, as a self-taught artist with a distinct aesthetic style that distinguished his work from the acade ... More |
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| TOILETPAPER: Perrotin Tokyo exhibits a collaboration between Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari | | Exhibition explores full career of revolutionary Ashcan School artist | | You must remember this: 'Casablanca' at 75 |
Untitled, 2017. Gilded wood, mirror, glass, UV color print. 145.5 à 77 cm / 57 5/16 à 30 5/16 in ©TOILETPAPER / Courtesy Perrotin.
TOKYO.- Contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari are the duo behind TOILETPAPER, known for its cheeky hyperreal imagery, breaking down the prevailing codes and photographic motifs of fashion. Photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first met artist Maurizio Cattelan when capturing him on camera more than ten years ago. The magic worked and the pair went on to create the experimental art magazine TOILETPAPER in 2010. In a class of its own, the image-only publication features carefully constructed photographs in a unique time and mental space. On the surface, the composition shots in TOILETPAPER have a quaint, slightly retro feel to them an artful way of drawing us in before catching us off guard as we realize what we are actually looking at... Intriguing, comical, startlingthe images in TOILETPAPER are guaranteed to leave their mark. Image recycling is our inspiration. TOILETPAPER is the new frontier of media and creative eco-sustainability. We take al ... More | |
John Sloan, Self-Portrait, 1890. Oil on window shade, 14 x 11 7/8 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1970. ©2012 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WILMINGTON, DE.- American realist painter John Sloan (18711951) is best known for his images of New York during the early 20th century and as one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School. The Delaware Art Museum holds the largest and most extensive collection of Sloans art and archival materials in the world. An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan, on view through January 28, 2018, is the first comprehensive retrospective of Sloans work since the Delaware Art Museums 1988 show John Sloan: Spectator of Life. An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan, organized by Dr. Heather Campbell Coyle, the Delaware Art Museums chief curator and curator of American Art, presents the entire arc of Sloans careerfrom newspaper illustration in Philadelphia during the 1890s through his late paintings in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The exhibition includes nearly 100 worksdrawings, prints, and paintingsproduced between 1890 ... More | |
This file photo taken on September 15, 2006 shows a tatoo artist working from a portrait of Hollywood legends Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Los Angeles. Gabriel BOUYS / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- This weekend marks the 75th anniversary of the premiere of "Casablanca," a timeless story of love, loss and redemption many consider to be the greatest movie ever made. Rushed onscreen at New York's Hollywood Theater on November 26, 1942 to capitalize on the Allied invasion of North Africa, it was a slow burner at the box office but went on to win hearts worldwide -- and a best picture Oscar. The story is iconic: a devastating romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, star-crossed lovers whose union must be sacrificed for the sake of fighting the Nazis. Nora Fiore, who runs the "Nitrate Diva" classic film blog, says "Casablanca" is about the triumph of idealism over cynicism, pointing to the passion of the supporting cast, many of whom were refugees who had fled Nazi persecution. "Sugarcoated though it is, 'Casablanca' offers up an ... More |
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| Exhibition showcases art jewellery made by the Steltman company from 1917 to the present | | Stedelijk Museum opens exhibition of work from the Borgmann Donation | | Fine arms & armour to be offered by Thomas Del Mar Ltd. in December |
Steltman, Platinum pendant with blood coral, enamel and diamonds, 1931.
THE HAGUE.- Steltman Jewellers opened in The Hague exactly one hundred years ago. From the start, the Joaillerie Artistique (art jewellery shop) placed an emphasis on artistic design. Typical Steltman pieces feature intriguing, eye-catching shapes and stunning workmanship. The exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag showcases art jewellery made by the Steltman company from 1917 to the present, including some pieces with a royal past. The exhibition includes beautifully carved jade from the interwar years, distinctive Steltman pieces with lotus flower motifs, fantastical and decorative animal figures from the 1950s, and modern designs from later in the century. Special attention is being paid to the lotus flower motif, constantly used and developed by Steltman right through to today. It appears in rings, pendant earrings, cuff links, brooches, tiepins and necklaces. At the heart of many of the flowers is a pearl ... More | |
Wolfgang Tillmans, Selbstportrait, 1988. chromogenic colorprint. 64.4 x 54.2 cm. Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, donation Thomas Borgmann, Berlin.
AMSTERDAM.- On November 26 Jump into the Future - Art from the 90s and 2000s. The Borgmann Donation goes on public display at the Stedelijk. This extensive group of works involves a donation, an acquisition and long-term loan. The gift is the second largest in the history of the Stedelijk. The largest private gift was made in 1949 and 1962 by the Association for the Formation of a Public Collection of Contemporary Art (VVHK), which was founded in 1874 and initiated by amongst others the Van Eeghen family. The majority of The Borgmann Donation is included in Jump into the Future, a major exhibition that occupies no less than 2.540 m2 - all thirty of the first-floor galleries that surround the museums grand staircase. Among the featured artists are Cosima von Bonin, Matt Mullican, Lucy McKenzie, Jutta Koether, Paulina Olowska, Wolfgang Tillmans, Christopher ... More | |
A composite Cap-a-Pie field armour, mainly Italian, dating from 16th and Early 17th Centuries with etched and gilt decoration of the 19th Century in the early 17th Century style is estimated at £8,000-12,000.
LONDON.- Important Arms and Armour from prestigious collections will be offered in Thomas Del Mar Ltds auction of Antique Arms, Armour and Militaria at 25 Blythe Road, London W14 on Wednesday, December 6, 2017. The strongest section of the sale is the Firearms which spans four hundred years and represents a number of major technical developments within this field. Highlights including from the Property of a Gentleman: an exceptional cased pair of 30 bore silver-mounted flintlock duelling pistols of presentation quality by London-maker John Manton, dating from 1790/1, which were probably made for Francis Ingram Seymour-Conway (1743-1822), 2nd Marquess of Hertford, whos descendant founded the Wallace Collection, is estimated at £35,000-45,000. These pistols ... More |
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Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam opens 'Ballenesque' by photographer Roger Ballen
AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam opened a double-sided exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen. Divided into two, the show comprises a mini retrospective of 30 works, alongside a selection of 150 polaroid images, which condense his singular vision in a small, affordable format. The exhibition runs from 23 November until 30 December 2017. Roger Ballen is one of the worlds greatest photographers. He picked up a camera in the late 1960s and has never put it down. His extraordinary oeuvre comprises some of the most arresting and original images ever produced. 'Ballenesque' a term firmly part of the lexicon is synonymous with his rich monochrome vision, his acute psychological insight, and his constant reinvention of his artistic style. Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950, but has lived and worked in South Africa ... More
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao exhibits Amie Siegels work Winter (2013)
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting Amie Siegels work Winter (2013) for the first time in Europe from November 23 to March 11, 2018. The presentation of work, which is part of the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, brings to a closure the 2017 Film & Video exhibitions program, an initiative launched by the Guggenehim Museum Bilbao to house key works of video art, video installation, and the moving image in a space that is exclusively devoted to them. Reflecting on the essential elements of filmmaking, and the role of time in production as addressed in her work Winter , Siegel has declared: Winter is a film of multiple tenses shot in the recent past, depicting an unknown future, unfolding and changing in the present of the exhibition, the film enacts various temporal and cultural conditions of un-fixity and instability, ... More
Macedonia targets 'grandiose' neo-classical monuments
SKOPJE (AFP).- A massive urban makeover by Macedonia's former conservative government that covered the capital Skopje with neo-classical monuments will be reviewed by the country's new ruling party. The controversial revamp, dubbed Skopje 2014, includes a giant statue of Alexander the Great, bronze Macedonian heroes and lions, facades of ancient columns and even a triumphal arch resembling Paris's Arc de Triomphe. In Skopje, it was either adored or blasted as "grandiose and outdated". Launched by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, the project was initially planned to cost 80 million euros ($95 million) but local media has reported the price is now up to 560 million euros. "Within the central government, a commission was formed to review" the project, said Social Democrat Petre Silegov, Skopje's new mayor. The commission will review ... More
Photographer captures human face of endangered species
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Can you love an animal to death? A new book by British photographer Tim Flach documents some of Earth's most treasured species pushed to the brink of extinction by manmade crises, from pangolins hunted for their scales to Brazil's pied tamarin threatened by urbanisation. "Most of the changes in the past have been driven by natural forces, but on this occasion, it seems to be driven by us," Flach told AFP on a visit to Washington. "My real question is: 'Why am I here doing it? Why am I here taking a picture of the last male white rhino?' It's the question of how we got to that point, rather than simply one of wonderment." Coral, insects and even some ecosystems are included alongside some of the most recognizable threatened mammals such as polar bears and lesser-known creatures like harlequin toads. The panda ... More
Record-breaking visitor numbers in the Design Museum's opening year
LONDON.- More than 780,000 people have visited the Design Museum since it opened its doors on Kensington High Street on 24 November 2016. The total figure eclipses the museums initial target of 650,000 for the opening year and is a six fold increase on visitors compared to the final year of the museum in its former home. The Design Museum was previously based in Shad Thames, south east London before its move to Kensington High Street, which tripled the museums size to 10,000sqm and enabled it to open Designer Maker User, a permanent display introducing visitors to contemporary design. The museum also houses two temporary exhibition galleries, a 210 seat auditorium, a library, restaurant and learning spaces. Since opening, the Design Museum has hosted an array of critically acclaimed exhibitions including Fear and Love; Imagine Moscow: Architecture, ... More
Flowers Gallery opens exhibition of works by British photographer Nadav Kander
LONDON.- British photographer Nadav Kander is best known for Yangtze - The Long River, for which he earned the prestigious Prix Pictet award in 2009. His ongoing series, Dark Line - The Thames Estuary, is a personal reflection on the landscape of the River Thames at its point of connection with the sea, through atmospheric images of its slow-moving dark waters and seemingly infinite horizons. Kander's increasingly abstracted photographs describe the landscape through minimal compositions and a painterly layering of tones that appear to stain or bleed through the photographic surface, conveying an inner experience parallel to that of the visible world. The landscape of the Thames Estuary, studded with marshes and quicksand, resists settlement and remains hostile to the wary visitor. Drawn to a sense of concealment within this environment, Kanders ... More
MAGMA gallery opens exhibition of works by Tellas
BOLOGNA.- TROPICO tells of a long trip to the State of Queensland, Australia, made by Tellas in June. As in a precious and intimate travel journal, the artist tries to remember with his works the colors, the scents, the suggestions and the landscapes of those faraway lands. A magic realism, where we find the atmosphere of the impenetrable mangroves of Daintree forest, the world's oldest tropical forest, the green eucalyptus, the magnificent red of the banksia, the palms rising up to the blue of the sky, and the sun that during the winter solstice culminates at zenith. The large fields of color, something new for Tellas, contain minute naturalistic details and at the same time vibrant abstract shapes that seem to fluctuate in the light air, just before a sudden rain. Each work becomes a surreal fragment of a luxuriant nature, almost asphyxiating, yet silent, mysterious, ... More
Ronchini Gallery opens second solo exhibition of works by Sean Lynch
LONDON.- Ronchini Gallery is presenting their second solo exhibition of works by the acclaimed Irish artist, Sean Lynch with the exhibition Devil In The Detail. A new catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition, which features writing by the artist. Lynchs artistic practice focuses on storytelling, specifically unwritten narratives and almost-forgotten histories. He pieces together oral histories and anecdotes to create new content to memorialise the often forgotten small stories which link and bind communities and the shape of society. With a keen interest in the offbeat and marginal, Lynchs exhibition brings together a collection of sculptures, photographs, and prints, each pointing to how our environments are brought into being, shaped and understood. As the exhibition title suggests, not everything goes according to plan. In Lynchs world, the technocracy ... More
Sotheby's announces highlights from the Important Watches New York Auction
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys auction of Important Watches on 6 December will feature a full range of timepieces available for everyone on your holiday wish list. From important and rare wristwatches from Patek Philippe and Rolex, and complicated pocket watches by Audemars Piguet to modern wristwatches by Greubel Forsey, beautiful timepieces by Cartier and limited-edition ones by Hublot, the offerings represent classic and contemporary pieces by the leading names in watchmaking, at a range of price points. The New York exhibition for the nearly 300 lots on sale will open 30 November, as a highlight of A Life of Luxury sale series, an inaugural week of auctions spanning Jewelry, Watches, Wine and Cars. The Important Watches sale is led by A Limited Edition Stainless Steel Minute Repeating Grande and Petite Sonnerie Wristwatch with Power Reserve ... More
Exhibition of drawings and paintings by the late American painter Bill Lynch on view at The Approach
LONDON.- The Approach opened a solo exhibition of drawings and paintings by the late American painter Bill Lynch. Following a much-admired solo presentation by The Approach at Frieze New York in the Spring of 2017 and the publication of the artists first monograph together with Ridinghouse and White Columns, this is the second exhibition of this refreshing oeuvre at the gallery. Bill Lynch, 1960-2013, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up in New Jersey. He studied art at Cooper Union together with his friend, painter Verne Dawson, who also helped organise the first formal solo exhibition of his work at White Columns, New York, in 2014 after the artists untimely death. Lynch immersed himself in making drawings and paintings for over three decades, living in New York, California, and finally North Carolina. Bills pursued the ideal of drawing that is manifest ... More
Bugle that sounded Taps for Lincoln: Important assassination relic offered at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- The very bugle which sounded Taps over slain President Abraham Lincoln's coffin, as he lie in state following his assassination, may sell for $50,000 or more when it makes its auction debut Dec. 2 at Heritage Auctions. Never before offered at auction, the important relic remained in the same Ohio family since 1863 descendants of Hiram Cook, who served the bugler Lincoln's personal guard. "Over the years, Heritage has offered various important relics related to President Lincoln's assassination, but none are more poignant than this instrument which belonged to his bugler," said Tom Slater, Director of Americana at Heritage Auctions. "Relics from one of the saddest events in American history are avidly collected today." In 1863, Cook, a native of Columbus, Ohio, joined a troop to serve as President Lincoln's personal guard. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, 'American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz was born Noviembre 26, 1922. Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis. In this image: Ma Leshan, 76, holds a series of models of Peanut characters in his exhibition room in Shiqi of Zhongshan city, south China's Guangdong Province, 29 May 2003. Charles Schulz, the US cartoonist, appointed Ma as the only manual models sculptor for his Peanut series in 1978. Ma has made over 10,000 Snoopy models in the past 25 years. Manual models are the first models made according to the drawings before the mass production.
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