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Sofonisba Anguissola, Queen Anne of Austria, c. 1573 (detail). Oil on canvas. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana trained in Cremona and Bologna respectively; two geographically close artistic centres but ones characterised by their particular artistic, social and cultural traditions. They came from different types of families and had different lives although in both cases the role of their fathers had a fundamental influence on their careers. Both were able to overcome the stereotypes that society assigned to women in relation to artistic practice and the deep-rooted scepticism regarding their creative and artistic powers. As a result, they made use of painting to achieve a significant position in the society in which they lived. One of six daughters, Sofonisba Anguissola was born into a family of the minor nobility in Cremona. Painting offered her the chance to achieve a social position appropriate to her family, the Anguissola-Ponzonis. Her abilities and personality combined with her fathers promotional skills led her to become a celebrated woman a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Small metal boxes with a picture of the painting 'La belle ferronniere' by Leonardo da Vinci, a merchandising product for the exhibition 'Leonardo da Vinci', is seen at the museum shop at The Louvre Museum in Paris on October 25, 2019, one day after the exhibition's opening. Leonardo da Vinci is the star in a blockbuster retrospective that opened on October 24 at The Louvre Museum in Paris to mark 500 years since the death of the Renaissance master. Some 240,000 people have already reserved their place in line for the exhibition, the biggest ever organised to showcase the Tuscan polymath's indelible contributions to humanity -- with an emphasis on his painting. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
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| | Kimbell exhibition reveals Renoir's mastery of the human form | | Major exhibition tells the tale of the two great modern sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen | | The Phillips Collection opens the first show in the U.S. devoted to the Nabis in over 25 years |
Pablo Picasso, "Nude Combing Her Hair," 1906. Oil on canvas, 41 1/2 x 32 in. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas © Estate of Pablo Picasso/ARS, New York, USA.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Renoir: The Body, The Senses is the first major exhibition ever to focus on the artist's lifelong treatment of the nude. The exhibition, debuting on the centenary of the artist's death, provides new perspectives about Renoir's stylistic trajectory through the lens of the singular subject. Over the course of his career, Renoir rendered bustling cityscapes, captured portraits and impressions of fashionable society, and recorded fleeting atmospheric effects upon landscape, but his overarching preoccupation was the nude----the subject that he felt would put him alongside the great artists of the past. Renoir's unique approach to figure painting was a vital influence on the art of his time, and his many paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures were championed by ... More | |
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MILAN.- The Gallerie dItalia Piazza Scala, Intesa Sanpaolos museum in Milan, presents the exhibition Canova and Thorvaldsen: The birth of modern sculpture, on display from 25 October 2019 to 15 March 2020, curated by Stefano Grandesso and Fernando Mazzocca. Canova and Thorvaldsen. The birth of modern sculpture tells the story of the two great sculptors; Italian Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and Danish Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844); their rivalry and how they transformed the very idea of sculpture and its techniques to create works of art that inspired their contemporaries and generations of artists that followed. Italy played a central role to both sculptors lives and careers and the exhibition brings over 150 works together from across Italy and further afield to Milan with key works from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection to be shown together for the first time. The city of Rome ... More | |
Ãdouard Vuillard, Mère et enfant (Mother and Child), 1901, Oil on cardboard, mounted on cradled panel, 20 1/8 x 19 3/4 in., The Phillips Collection, promised gift of Vicki and Roger Sant.
WASHINGTON, DC.- This October, The Phillips Collection opened Bonnard to Vuillard: The Intimate Poetry of Everyday LifeThe Nabi Collection of Vicki and Roger Sant. This presentation, planned in conjunction with a major promised gift of art from Vicki and Roger Sant, features over 40 rarely-seen paintings and works on paper as well as two major print portfolios from one of the finest private collections of Nabi art in the United States. The Phillips announces this monumental gift on the occasion of the museums upcoming centennial in 2021. In addition to the promised gift of the Sant Nabi Collection, Vicki and Roger Sant have also designated a major bequest to create an endowment in support of the preservation, care, and study ... More |
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| | Almine Rech opens exhibition of works by Sean Scully in Picasso's historic studio at Boisgeloup | | Meleko Mokgosi wants you to see the politics of everyday life | | In the #MeToo era, museums celebrate women |
Sean Scully, Celtique Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors October 26 - November 17, 2019 © Sean Scully. Photo: Ana Drittanti Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
GISORS.- Almine Rech opened an unprecedented exhibition, in Picassos historic former studio at the Château de Boisgeloup, featuring a selection of paintings and sculptural works by leading artist Sean Scully (b. 1945, Dublin). Located near the village of Gisors in Normandy, France, approximately 45 miles Northwest of Paris, the Château de Boisgeloup is an 18th century building purchased by Pablo Picasso in 1930. In the years that followed, Picasso used his studio at Boisgeloup to create exceptional sculptures and iconic paintings, expanding his practice across mediums, genres and styles during a very productive creative period. Scully utilizes the entirety of this enchanting settingpresenting nearly a dozen new and recent works within Picassos historic studio space itself, as well as the adjacent dovecote, sprawling lawn, and ivy-covered, 13th century chapel. Almine Rech-Picasso, founder of Almine Rech, explained, ... More | |
The artist Meleko Mokgosi at work in his studio in Brooklyn on Oct. 7, 2019. His series Pan-African Pulp reinterprets the imagery of popular African graphic novels to highlight the violence of colonialism and the dream of Pan-Africanism. Calla Kessler/The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- If youve ever felt you lack the education to understand art representing histories, people and symbols from a culture outside your own, artist Meleko Mokgosi isnt going to let you off easy. With six solo shows in four states this season, the Botswana-born, Brooklyn-based Mokgosi believes that it is incumbent on first-world viewers to understand that the world doesnt revolve around them. There are other histories. This season, Mokgosi, 37, is staking a lot on that first-world (and likely American) viewer. By Nov. 1, when his show at Stevenson Gallery in Johannesburg closes, the artist will have taken over both of the Jack Shainman Gallerys exhibition spaces in Manhattan, as well as its colossal building in Kinderhook, New York. He will also have three solo museum ... More | |
An image provided by the National Portrait Gallery shows a daguerreotype portrait of Lucy Stone by an unidentified artist, circa 1855. The daguerreotype is part of the National Portrait Gallerys exhibition "Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits." National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution via The New York Times.
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Her somber gaze is direct, and in her lap, she firmly holds a book. The circa 1855 daguerreotype portrait of Lucy Stone, the suffragist and abolitionist, is powerful in its simplicity. Not surprisingly, Stones mission was incited by the inequality in a society that discouraged women from becoming educated. The image is part of Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, one of several major exhibitions in the nations capital that celebrate women from the battle for voting rights, spurred by the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, to artworks by feminist icons who embody the challenging issues of their epochs. Considering the long-standing ... More |
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| | A Paris colony for exiled artists needs a new home | | Bertoia's Nov. 14-16 Fall Auction features Part II of revered Sam Downey toy & train collection | | A Hawaii home for Islamic art widens its scope |
Maral Bolouri, an Iranian-born artist and writer, at LAtelier des Artistes en Exil in Paris on Oct. 3, 2019. The workshop offers services and work spaces to artists who have fled war, poverty and oppression. Julien Mignot/The New York Times.
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On a forlorn stretch of the Seine near the Gare de Lyon station sits a small, dreary, government-owned red brick building that houses one of the most vibrant artistic communities here. Since early October, LAtelier des Artistes en Exil has used the 3,200-square-foot space to support about 200 exiled artists from around the world. In a sense, LAtelier, which depends on Paris City Hall for free work space, is itself in exile. It was forced by the city to leave its comfortable studio near Montmartre in June, then camped out in the annex of a cultural center in southeast Paris. Now, it will have to vacate its current location in December. It has no idea where it will go next. We dont find the artists; they find us, said Judith Depaule, an actress and theater producer who runs LAtelier. And they need a home, a real home, a permanent home, four or five times bigger ... More | |
Marklin Olympia gunboat, circa 1904, clockwork tin with handpainting, 16.5in long. Provenance: Collections of Malcolm Forbes, Dick Claus, Sam Downey. Estimate $14,000-$20,000.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bertoias was honored to auction Part I of the diverse and ultra-high-quality Sam Downey Jr estate collection. The second and final installation of the multigenerational Downey collection is the headliner of Bertoias November 14-16 auction and will be the exclusive offering on day three. Toys and banks from other premier collections will be sold on days one and two. A beloved lifelong student and collector of fine toys who passed in November 2018, Sam Downey Jr followed in the footsteps of his father, Samuel Downey Sr, whose collection he inherited and expanded upon over several decades. Both father and son were attracted to the same types of toys, and both acquired only the finest examples, so their collections blended together seamlessly, said Bertoia Auctions president and auctioneer Michael Bertoia. Sam was an active buyer throughout his life and never missed a Bertoia sale. He would sit in t ... More | |
Konrad Ng, executive director of the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu on Aug. 27, 2019. Ng and his team ask visiting artists to engage with the surroundings at Shangri La and throughout Honolulu, and to connect with Hawaiian culture and local artists. Elyse Butler/The New York Times; Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu.
HONOLULU (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Laura Berry, a Lithuanian bartender living in Hawaii, was on a mission. Standing in a room that held a 13th-century ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from Iran, she was counting how many human figures were on the Persian lusterware tiles that lined the doorway. The answer: two. It was all part of a recent Scavenger Hunt: Figures in Islamic Art event at the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu. For Berry, it was a chance to show a visiting cousin a little more culture rather than just palm trees and beaches. For the museums curators, it was a chance to expand the definition of Islamic art far beyond the confines of geometric patterns. Shangri La, with its sweeping ... More |
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| | Kunsthaus Zurich presents the first Wilhelm Leibl retrospective in Switzerland | | Neil Armstrong's private NASA documents and an Apollo 11 quarantine suit highlight sale | | Kurt Cobain's cigarette-burned sweater sells for $334,000 |
Wilhelm Leibl, White Bearded Old Man, Head Study, 1866. Oil on canvas, 40 x 37.5 cm. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne.
ZURICH.- The Kunsthaus presents the first Swiss retrospective of the work of Wilhelm Leibl (18441900), one of the most important painters of the 19th century yet one who, today, is known only to a small number of artists, collectors and art enthusiasts. Leibl mainly paints portraits and interiors with rural figures; but for him and a group of like-minded artists known as the Leibl circle, the emphasis is invariably on the how of painterly execution. For these contemporaries of Manet and Degas, academic and narrative elements are very much a secondary consideration. Born in Cologne, Leibl goes to study in Munich, where his talents soon attract attention. In 1869, aged 25 and still a student at the academy, he achieves his breakthrough at the 1st International Exhibition in the Bavarian capital. He is discovered by no less a figure than Gustave Courbet and is invited to Paris where, at the salon the following year, ... More | |
Apollo 11: Biological Isolation Garment (BIG) as Worn by the Crew When Exiting the Command Module after Splashdown and While on Their Way to the Hornet's Mobile Quarantine Facility, with Associated Life Preserver.
DALLAS, TX.- The personal property of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, including flown mementos and classified NASA documents, highlights Heritage Auctions Space Exploration Auction, Nov. 14-16. The sale includes over 1,400 individual lots, which include nearly 750 lots directly from The Neil Armstrong Family Collection. A 6-1/2 inch by 4 inch flag from Armstrongs home state of Ohio that flew to the moon aboard Apollo 11 is expected to spark serious bidder interest because it touches on both the moonwalkers humble roots and his historic accomplishment for humanity, said Michael Riley, Director of Space Memorabilia at Heritage Auctions. It is worth noting that this, and flags from Indiana, Mississippi, and Wisconsin in this sale, are the last state flags that will be offered from The Armstrong Family Collection. ... More | |
Kurt Cobain's cardigans from Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged performance is on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City ahead of the auction of Julien's Auctions on October 21, 2019 in New York City. Johannes EISELE / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A quarter century after grunge's enigmatic rhapsodist took his own life, Kurt Cobain's iconic cigarette-singed cardigan worn during Nirvana's 1993 "Unplugged" performance has sold for $334,000. The tattered, olive-green, Manhattan-brand, button-up sweater, which has never been washed since Cobain wore it, came with dark stains and a burn hole. The seller, Garrett Kletjian, owner of Forty7 Motorsports, bought it four years ago for $137,500. "This cardigan, it's the holy grail of any article of clothing that he ever wore," said Darren Julien, CEO and president of Julien's Auctions. "Kurt created the grunge look; he didn't wear show clothes," Julien told AFP at a New York exhibition preview. The auction house had predicted it would fetch $200,000-300,000. The music cable channel MTV began its "Unplugged" series ... More |
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Tim Walker's portraits on show at Michael Hoppen Gallery for the photographer's first selling exhibition
LONDON.- The Michael Hoppen Gallery is presenting the first private gallery exhibition of Tim Walkers photography, which has graced the pages of magazines around the world for more than 15 years. The Michael Hoppen Gallerys exhibition Wonderful People celebrates his portraiture, and this show runs alongside the Victoria & Albert Museums solo exhibition. Walkers images, whilst iconic and much-coveted on the pages of magazines, have a completely different presence as pictures framed on the wall. Tim Walker and Michael Hoppen have delved through the archives to uncover wonderful pictures of wonderful people in wonderful places often doing wonderful things! Walkers portraits bear testimony to his playful and imaginative vision, which conjures extraordinary worlds in which his subjects and friends are immersed. His sitters dont merely ... More
Casoli De Luca presents exhibition exploring the allure and meaning of gold in Italian art
NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition examining the enduring role and power of gold in Italian art, featuring the work of more than 20 artists ranging from the 14th to the 21st centuries, is being presented by Casoli De Luca at 8 East 63rd Street in New York. On view from October 25 to November 27, 2019, ORO dITALIA explores why gold has been such a compelling medium for artists through time, because of its malleability, reflectivity, and color, as well as its inherent value and symbolic meaning. The works range in time and content from Renaissance gold-ground panel religious paintings to satirical uses in contemporary art, and with a special focus on the seemingly oxymoronic use of gold by Arte Povera artists. We wanted to trace a narrative of Italian artistic identity through gold because of its timeless allure to artists and audiences, stated gallery co-founder ... More
Galerie Templon opens an exhibition of works by Jonathan Meese
PARIS.- Five years after his last exhibition, Jonathan Meese returns to Paris with his very own "MEESE fashion show". This vibrant exhibition lights up the gallery space with a mix of installations, sculptures and paintings in a homage to the capital of fashion. With a zany tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld as his starting point, Jonathan Meese creates a gallery of portraits depicting some of the main figures of the fashion world, such as Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent and John Galliano, as well as Louis XIV, presented as the first fashion icon. Playing on the ambiguity of these figures, Jonathan Meese takes us on a personal and playful journey into the secret history of haute couture. He references everything from the nudity of Adam and Eve to the Reign of Terror and the uniform of Hitler Youth girls. From the medley emerges a strange pantheon, where the ghostly figures ... More
World's most expensive bottle of whisky sells for £1.5m
LONDON (AFP).- The "Holy Grail" of whiskies smashed the record for the most expensive bottle ever sold, going for nearly £1.5 million at a London auction. The Macallan 1926 60-year-old single malt from cask number 263 had been expected to sell for up to £450,000, but went under the hammer for £1.45 million ($1.9 million, 1.7 million euros) late Thursday, beating the £1.2 million fetched last year by another bottle from the same cask. Distilled over 90 years ago and aged in European Oak for 60 years, the bottle was one of only 40 that Macallan, based in Moray, northern Scotland, has confirmed were bottled from Cask 263 in 1986. "This is the most iconic of all bottles of Scotch whisky, the essential centrepiece of any great collection," said Sotheby's auction house, which organised the sale. "This bottle provides the ultimate opportunity to taste the ... More
World auction record achieved for rare Jane Austen letter at Bonhams
NEW YORK, NY.- A rare handwritten letter by Jane Austen sold for $200,075 at Bonhams Fine Books & Manuscripts sale in New York on October 23, establishing a new world record at auction for an autograph letter signed by the novelist. It had been estimated at $80,000-120,000. From the famous Dodge Family Autograph Collection, the letter is full of lively detail, wit and charm, vividly echoing the world she deftly portrayed in her novels. Austen (1775-1817) wrote the letter to her sister Cassandra, her most frequent and intimate correspondent. It is full of family news and characteristically acute observations on the activities of the day. Earlier that day, Austen had accompanied her three nieces to Mr Spence the dentist, and she gave Cassandra a lively account of their ordeal, "The poor Girls & their Teeth! ... we were a whole hour at Spence's, & Lizzy's ... More
Independent to partner with OBJECT & THING, introducing object-based works of art and design
NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Independent announced a new collaboration with OBJECT & THING debuting at next years Independent in New York: a collaborative presentation that builds upon Independents history of presenting a wide range of artistic practices. The presentation will take place in a dedicated space within Independent's fair in March 2020, in advance of OBJECT & THINGs second edition in May 2020. The presentation will form a curated installation of object-based works drawn from both Independent exhibitors and leading design galleries, including the fairs Tribeca neighbors Patrick Parrish Gallery and R & Company, as well as studio practices Green River Project LLC and Toogood. The full list of participating artists and galleries will be announced in early 2020. Together, Independent and ... More
Art by the numbers
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Mention the word math and visions of high school arithmetic, thorny trigonometry and those prickly calculus derivatives often come to mind. But the world of math goes far beyond chalk-etched numbers and quadratic equations on a blackboard. Its also an art. Yes, an art. And the National Museum of Mathematics is counting on its latest exhibit, Math Unfolded: An Exhibit of Mathematical Origami Art, to show math buffs and art fans alike how geometry, algorithms and math formulas can create exciting works of art through the science of origami. We believe that math and art are actually two sides of the same coin, said Cindy Lawrence, executive director and chief executive of the museum, known as MoMath. Origami is a bridge between math and art that really does drive home the point that there is beauty in math and that math ... More
Whitney Museum exhibits four works in video, sound, print, and augmented reality by Alan Michelson
NEW YORK, NY.- Alan Michelson: Wolf Nation presents four works in video, sound, print, and augmented reality that invoke place from an Indigenous perspective. The artistwho is Kanyen'keha:ka (Mohawk), a member of one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacytraverses local landscapes and temporalities in his art, treating geographical sites as archives and exploring territory typically bypassed in American history and largely absent from American memory. Wolf Nation, organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, with Clémence White, curatorial assistant, is on view in the Museums fifth floor Kaufman and Goergen Galleries and in the lobby from October 25, 2019 through January 12, 2020. Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, remarked, ... More
MFA Boston re-examines Nubia's story in exhibition exploring power, representation and cultural bias
BOSTON, MASS.- For more than 3,000 years, a series of kingdoms flourished along the Nile Valley in what is today southern Egypt and northern Sudan, a region known in antiquity as Kush and by modern scholars as Nubia. In Ancient Nubia Now, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents more than 400 works of art from its collection, made over thousands of years of Nubian historymasterpieces that highlight the skill, artistry and innovation of Nubian makers and reflect the wealth and power of their kings and queens. The Nubians left behind remains of cities, temples, palaces and pyramids, but few written records. As a result, their story has been told in large part by othersin antiquity by their Egyptian rivals, who used propaganda to cast Nubia in a negative light, and in the early 20th century by American and European scholars and ... More
The Museo Nivola opens first major museum project in Italy by US artist Peter Fend
ORANI .- The Museo Nivola is presenting the exhibition AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY, the first major museum project in Italy by US artist Peter Fend (*1950). The proposal and installation exclusively developed for Sardinia builds on 40-years of collaborative activities extending into the real world that started with Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Peter Nadin, Robin Winters and the company Ocean Earth Development Corporation. The collaborative practice was driven by a desire to work with clients outside the art world, while benefiting from new art thinking. Projects served the UN Environment Program, major TV news companies worldwide, and several state agencies and were shown at art world venues such as Documenta, biennials in Venice, Beijing, Sharjah and Osaka. Ocean Earth was legally mandated to produce media ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Lee Krasner was born October 27, 1908. Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an influential American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. On October 25, 1945, she married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the abstract expressionism movement. In this 1949 photo provided by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, artists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are shown in their garden at their East Hampton, N.Y., home.
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