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The collection of Flemish and Northern schools painting in the new galleries. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The new installation presented was first envisaged in the Redesign of the Collections of the Museo del Prado Plan, known as the 2009-2012 Action Plan. It has been implemented through the Museums subsequent four-year plans and aims at making full use of all the existing galleries in the Villanueva Building. Following the completion in 2007 of the extension to the Museo del Prado around the Jerónimos Cloister, which resulted in a considerable and extremely useful increase in surface area for both public and internal use, the Museum decided to focus on a new type of extension based on regaining pre-existing galleries in the Villanueva Building that were not being used as display space at the time. The result was to increase the amount of exhibition space, presenting more works of art on permanent display and using more architectural spaces of notable artistic importance, in addition to offering a new, more co ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An Israel Antiquities Authority archeologist shows shows pottery shreds with finger prints on them from the Byzantine time found during a large excavation in the central Israeli town of Gedera near the ancient archeological site of Tel Qatra on July 31 2018. The excavation, funded by the Israel Land Authority, was carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority with the participation of many youth, prior to the construction of a new neighborhood in Gedera, next to the ancient Tel Qatra. The industrial site comprised a pottery workshop that manufactured storage jars from the third century CE for six centuries. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
| Getty Foundation announces new grant initiative to conserve paintings on canvas | | The Jewish Museum receives major gift of artworks and funds from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation | | Schantz Galleries opens exhibition of works by Bremers, Janecký and Shimomoto |
Examination of Vertumnus and Pomona in the studio at the de Young Museum. François Boucher (studio of), French, 1703-1170 Vertumnus and Pomona , 1757 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, museum purchase, Mildred Anna Williams Collection, 1967.11 Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Foundation announced today the launch of Conserving Canvas, a new initiative that aims to ensure that critical conservation skills needed to care for paintings on canvas do not disappear. Conserving Canvas will keep much-needed skills alive through a number of grants that support the conservation of paintings, workshops, seminars, training residencies, and a major symposium. The initiatives initial projects support the study and conservation of world-renowned works on canvas, including Thomas Gainsboroughs The Blue Boy (1770), Anthony van Dycks Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637-8), and François Bouchers Vertumnus and Pomona (1757). The inaugural Conserving Canvas grantees ... More | |
Barnett Newman, Untitled, 1960 (detail). Oil on canvas, 18 x 7 in. Artwork © The Barnett Newman Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by: Kris Graves.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum announced today that it has received a major gift from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation, established in 1996 by Annalee Newman, the artist's widow. The gift includes artworks from Barnett and Annalee Newman's personal collection and works created by artists who were recipients of the Barnett and Annalee Newman Award. The gift also includes $10 million, for the endowment of the Museum's first curatorial position dedicated to contemporary art; for the care and exhibition of the collection; and a promised gift for future institutional use. Barnett Newman (1905-1970) was a trailblazing artist who bridged postwar abstraction and 1960s Minimalism. Newman's life and identity were influenced by his experience as the son of Jewish-Polish immigrants. The artist considered the creation of a painting to be an almost sacred act, and believed that the ... More | |
Peter Bremers, Honey Sweet Space, 2017. Cast glass, 25 x 8 x 8".
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries gathers together three distinct glass artists: Peter Bremers, Martin Janecký, and Harue Shimomoto. These unique artists highlight the diversity of technique, form, and aesthetic which glass allows the maker. Distinction can be defined both as a contrast between similar things, and an excellence that sets one thing apart from another. Two discrete meanings for the same word, yet both meanings apply easily to the glass work of the three artistsPeter Bremers, Harue Shimomoto, and Martin Janeckýfeatured in this exhibition. This gathering of three unique artists highlights the diversity of technique, form, and aesthetic which glass allows the maker. Bremers creates monumental cast glass sculpturesabstract, monochrome references to landscape and space. Shimomoto weaves glass threads into sculptural tapestries, employing clean lines to capture the essence of nature. Janecký is a modern-day Augustus ... More |
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| Conde Nast says Anna Wintour not leaving Vogue | | Anderson Ranch's 38th Annual Art Auction to feature over 200 works | | T. rex could not stick out its tongue: study |
In this file photo Anna Wintour arrives at the Costume Institute Gala Benefit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art May 5, 2015 in New York. AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Glossy magazine empire Conde Nast on Tuesday quashed months of rumors about the impending departure of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, declaring that the magazine's 30-year veteran was staying "indefinitely." "Anna Wintour is an incredibly talented and creative leader whose influence is beyond measure," said CEO Bob Sauerberg in a statement tweeted by the company. "She is integral to the future of our company's transformation and has agreed to work with me indefinitely in her role as @voguemagazine editor-in-chief and artistic director of Conde Nast." Legendary for her glacial demeanor, and for making or breaking designers' careers at the flick of a manicured talon, 68-year-old Wintour had been at the helm of American Vogue since 1988 and artistic director of Conde Nast since 2013. The announcement comes one day after The New York Times reported that Vogue's ... More | |
Brad Howe, Seeming To Be, 2018. Aluminum and urethane, 16 x 12 x 8 in (40.64 x 30.48 x 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist. Signed on bottom. Estimate $8,000.
ASPEN, COLO.- Anderson Ranch Arts Centers largest community event, the 38th Annual Art Auction & Community Picnic, will feature more than 200 works of art available for bid in live and silent auctions. A highlight of the Aspen/Snowmass summer arts and culture scene, the event will take place on Saturday, August 4, from 11:00AM 3:00PM at Anderson Ranch. The Annual Art Auction is open to the public and will feature a fun-filled morning and afternoon of live music, childrens art activities, a picnic lunch and more as part of this art-infused experience. Curated by Barbara Lee, the live auction portion of the event features works by top contemporary artists including Christo, Mark Dion, Carroll Dunham, Shepard Fairey, Brad Howe, Dashiell Manley and Trevor Paglen. Alexander Berggruen, Specialist and Head of the Day Sale, Afternoon Session in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christies, will serve as auctioneer. The 3 ... More | |
DiceCT imaging of the head of Dromaius novaehollandiae.
TAMPA (AFP).- The Tyrannosaurus rex is crowned the "lizard king" of the dinosaurs, a historically fierce meat-eater often depicted lashing out its tongue. But researchers said Wednesday this would have been anatomically impossible. That's because the long-extinct T. rex likely had a tongue that was affixed to the bottom of its mouth, much like an alligator or crocodile, said the study in the journal PLOS ONE. "They've been reconstructed the wrong way for a long time," said co-author Julia Clarke, a professor in the school of geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. A team of researchers, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, compared the hyoid bones -- a horseshoe-shaped bone between the chin and neck which anchors the tongue -- of extinct dinosaurs and pterosaurs to their relatives, including modern birds like ostriches and both extinct and current-day alligator specimens. "In most extinct dinosaurs their tongue bones are very short. ... More |
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| Widow of French writer Celine sells their home to pay debts | | The Holburne Museum launches hunt for lost Grayson Perry early works | | Barbican Art Gallery presents the first major UK solo exhibition of Vanessa Winship |
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1886-1958), French writer in 1932, the year he won the Renaudot prize for his novel Journey to the End of the Night. Agence de presse Meurisse - Bibliothèque nationale de France.
PARIS (AFP).- The 106-year-old widow of French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine has sold their home in the Paris suburbs, her lawyer told AFP on Wednesday, reportedly to pay her debts. Lucette Destouches has lived at the house in Meudon, southwest of the capital, since she and her husband moved there in 1951, according to French weekly Le Point, which revealed the sale. The magazine said she owed back taxes as well as payroll charges for the three people who help look after her, which meant she was no longer receiving a pension. Francois Gibault, a lawyer and biographer of Celine, said that under the terms of the sale Destouches retained the right to live in the home until her death. Celine, best known for his 1932 novel "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit" ("Journey to the End of the Night"), ... More | |
Grayson Perry, 2016 © Richard Ansett.
BATH.- Have you got a Grayson Perry pot or plate from the 1980s lurking in your living room? If you have, then the Holburne Museum in Bath wants to hear from you. Grayson Perry is one of Britains best-known and well-loved artists. He works in tapestry, collage and ceramics to explore a range of important themes, including issues of gender, identity and social class, presenting through his art a unique perspective on the world. Grayson Perry and the Holburne would like to reunite the early works, those created between 1983 and 1994, that first made Grayson Perrys name. The resulting show will shine a light on Perrys experimentation in ceramics and exploration of the mediums potential. However, theres just one problem. Many of the artists earliest works were unrecorded at the time, and throughout the decades their exact whereabouts have become unknown. A number of works may have changed hands, ... More | |
Portrait of Vanessa Winship Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds Installation View Barbican Art Gallery 22 June 02 September 2018 © Ian Gavan/ Getty Images.
LONDON.- The recipient of the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson Award in 2011, Winships poetic gaze explores the fragile nature of our landscape and society, how memory leaves its mark on our collective and individual histories. Winships oeuvre captures the transition between myth and the individual, revealing deeply intimate photographs that often appear to avoid specific contexts or any immediate political significance. The exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 150 photographs, many of which have never been seen before in the UK, as well as a collection of unseen archival material. Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds is part of the Barbicans 2018 season, The Art of Change, which explores how the arts respond to, reflect and potentially effect change in ... More |
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| Make sure you put New Lanark on your Game Plan this summer | | New light installation by Chris Levine launches at the Pommery Bar, Edinburgh | | Bob Peak Star Trek IV original art boosts Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters Auction above $1.6 million |
GAME PLAN celebrates the joy, excitement and occasional frustration of playing board games.
LONDON.- As a historic hub of learning and leisure, New Lanark World Heritage Site is hosting the V&A Museum of Childhoods touring exhibition GAME PLAN: Board Games Rediscovered, which is NOW open in their newly developed Mill Gallery. The exhibition runs throughout the Summer until the 4th November. GAME PLAN celebrates the joy, excitement and occasional frustration of playing board games. This exhibition will include some of the most iconic, enthralling and visually striking games from the V&As outstanding national collection of board games. Visitors can enjoy hands-on interactives and see more than 100 objects, featuring games from around the world, and explores the important role of design. Throughout the exhibition, selected games of special interest are highlighted with more detailed information on their history and influence. In summer 2017, New Lanark welcomed 20,000 visitors to ... More | |
Chris Levines artwork reflects the iconic Edinburgh buildings architecture and design.
EDINBURGH.- Leading light artist, Chris Levine, launched a new immersive light installation, Stillness at 136.1 Hz, at the revamped Pommery Bar in the Signet Library, from 1 to 27 August 2018. The art collaboration has been exclusively created in association with Saatchi Gallery, the Society of Writers to HM Signet (WS Society), and Champagne Pommery. Chris Levines artwork reflects the iconic Edinburgh buildings architecture and design, and develop an entrancing meditative experience through laser lights and sound. Located at the heart of the Edinburgh Festivals programme on the Royal Mile, which spans art, theatre and literature, Levines piece makes for an arresting moment of stillness and peace in an otherwise frenetic city. Saatchi Gallery, the WS Society and Champagne Pommery, have partnered on this project, devised as part of the re-launch of the Edinburgh Pommery Bar operated by the award-winning ... More | |
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Bob Peak (Paramount, 1987).
DALLAS, TX.- The largest and arguably most detailed Star Trek poster designed by renowned commercial artist Bob Peak sold for $46,800 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Auction July 28-29 in Dallas. The event produced sell-through rates of 93.9 percent by value and 94.8 percent of lots and produced total sales of $1,632,645. Revered for his work that helped advance the design of modern movie posters, Peaks work is coveted by collectors. The 40-by-57-1/2-inch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Bob Peak (Paramount, 1987) Framed Original Mixed Media Poster Artwork is on illustration board and mounted on foamcore and is signed by the artist. Bob Peaks work is very popular right now among movie posters collectors, Heritage Auctions Vintage Posters Director Grey Smith said. He has designed posters for some of the most popular movies of all time, like My Fair Lady and Camelot, and then Star ... More |
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Peter Bremers exhibition Looking Beyond the Mirror
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Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize announces 2018 finalists
SYDNEY.- The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, presented by Woollahra Council, today announced 48 emerging and established artists as finalists for the 18th annual Prize and exhibition. The finalist group was selected from 666 entries this year including artists from Australia, India and the United Kingdom, highlighting the Prizes growing international reputation. The innovative submissions each for a freestanding sculpture of up to 80cm in any dimension were selected by a judging panel comprised of Australian arts administrator Michael Lynch AO CBE and Director of independent art advisory LoveArt, Amanda Love. Amanda Love said: The 2018 Prize finalists are a microcosm exemplifying the diverse sculptural practice active in Australia and internationally today. We have curated a shortlist of works that should provide a thought-provoking exhibition and brings ... More
In the hands of the gods: Vietnam's Golden Bridge goes viral
DANANG (AFP).- Nestled in the forested hills of central Vietnam two giant concrete hands emerge from the trees, holding up a glimmering golden bridge crowded with gleeful visitors taking selfies at the country's latest eccentric tourist draw. Designed to make visitors feel like they're taking a stroll on a shimmering thread stretching across the hands of gods, the "Golden Bridge" has attracted hordes of guests since it opened in the Ba Na Hills near Danang in June. Images of the bridge have gone viral on social media, much to the surprise of the architect who had no idea it would attract so much attention. "We're proud that our product has been shared by people all over the world," principal designer and founder of TA Landscape Architecture, Vu Viet Anh, told AFP. At 150 metres long (490 feet), the bridge snakes through the forest high up in mountains first developed ... More
Paintings attributed to Warhol, Monet, and Kline to headline Woodshed Art Auctions sale
FRANKLIN, MASS.- Paintings attributed to fine art superstars Andy Warhol, Claude Monet and Franz Kline are just a few of the tantalizing offerings in Woodshed Art Auctions upcoming Impressionist, Pop & Modern Art Auction planned for Thursday, August 9th, online and live in the 500 Gallery, at 475 Franklin Village Drive in Franklin, starting promptly at 5:30 pm Eastern. The auction will feature rare and new-to-the-market paintings and drawings from private collections in Europe and the Americas, to include large canvasses signed Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning and Oswaldo Guayasamin. Other prime works include sketches and paintings attributed to Vincent van Gogh, Warhol, Wifredo Lam, Monet, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jean-Michel Basquiat and many others. The catalog presents a survey of the styles made famous by the most influential ... More
Qiu Zhijie among the artists announced for APT9
BRISBANE.- Leading Chinese artist Qiu Zhijie will be onsite at Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art to create Map of Utopia 2018, an enormous ink painting that will be a major highlight of The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9), from 24 November, 2018 to 28 April, 2019. Announcing the full list of artists for APT9, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said Qiu Zhijie was among more than 80 individuals, collectives and group projects from more than 30 countries to feature in the ninth chapter of the Gallerys flagship exhibition series,. Born in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province in 1969, and now living and working in Beijing, Qiu Zhijie is one of the most important Chinese artists of his generation and a leading figure in conceptual and new media art globally, Mr Saines said. We are thrilled to have Qiu ... More
Summers Place Auctions to sell sculptor John Robinson's collection in September
BILLINGSHURST .- Summers Place Auctions will be selling some of the highlights of John Robinson's career as a sculptor on Tuesday, 25th September 2018. John Robinson (1935 2007) carved out an international career as a sculptor spanning over 40 years. After joining the Merchant Navy at the age of 16 and jumping ship when he got to Australia, he tried his luck at jackerooing and cattle droving in the remote Kimberley region before settling down to become a sheep farmer. In the 1960s he decided he wanted to rekindle his interest in sculpting, something he had enjoyed as a schoolboy at Rugby school. He eventually persuaded his wife that they should travel around Europe with their young family to explore the possibilities of a career as a sculptor. Luckily, his ambition gained momentum once he made the acquaintance of the celebrated sculptor Enzo ... More
Japan House London welcomes almost 70,000 visitors in first five weeks
LONDON.- In the five weeks since opening to the public on 22 June, Japan House London has welcomed just under 70,000 visitors. This new, London home for Japanese creativity and innovation has already proved itself to be a popular addition to the vibrant Kensington and Chelsea cultural quarter. Drawing the crowds in the opening weeks have been the popular SOU FUJIMOTO architecture exhibition a big hit on Instagram; talks on bonsai; The Shop with rare products from Japan some of which sold out in the first week; icy cold hojicha and matcha tea lattes; and chef Akiras beautiful bento boxes in the restaurant. The opening show in the Gallery is SOU FUJIMOTO: FUTURES OF THE FUTURE in collaboration with Tokyos TOTO GALLERY MA, exhibiting the work of one of Japans greatest contemporary architects for the first time in the UK. The Instagram ... More
ART 2030 to launch inaugural annual program in New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- ART 2030 announced the inaugural annual edition of ART 2030 New York, a city-wide initiative connecting contemporary art and the Global Goals, timed to coincide with the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The inaugural edition of ART 2030 New York will feature a series of public programs that align in concept and in topic with the 17 Global Goals established by the United Nations in 2015, including specially-commissioned artworks and curated gallery events, panel discussions and exhibition openings, taking place from September 24-28, 2018 at various locations throughout New York City. The 17 Global Goals were established by the United Nations as an international commitment from its partners to collectively work together to end poverty and hunger, fight inequality, stop climate change, and to provide ... More
Exhibition of the work of influential tattoo artist opens in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In a new, original exhibition presented as part of its tenth anniversary year on Jessie Square, The Contemporary Jewish Museum examines the work of Lew the Jew Alberts (born Albert Morton Kurzman, 18801954), one of Americas most influential tattoo artists at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawn in large part from the private collection of San Francisco artist, author, and tattoo legend Don Ed Hardy whose 2015 book Lew the Jew Alberts: Early 20th Century Tattoo Drawings inspired the exhibition, Lew the Jew and His Circle includes never before exhibited original tattoo artwork, newly discovered documents and photographs from Alberts early life, correspondence with contemporaries, and more. Alberts, the son of two Jewish immigrants living in New York, learned tattooing as a member of the armed forces overseas ... More
Over 80 leading artists and architects announced for Cure3
LONDON.- Cure3 2018, is the 2nd edition of the acclaimed selling exhibition, devised by Artwise in association with Bonhams to raise awareness and funds for The Cure Parkinsons Trust and Parkinsons research. We are delighted now to announce the complete list of participating artists for 2018, with a host of important new names, including the artists Carmen Herrera and Anish Kapoor, as well as 11 specially invited architects. Cure3 2018 artists: Alice Anderson, Ron Arad, Miranda Argyle, Barnaby Barford, Rana Begum, Tony Bevan, Peter Blake, Rose Blake, Rob and Nicky Carter, Dan Chadwick, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Gordon Cheung, Mat Collishaw, Adam Dant, Pablo de Laborde Lascaris, Adeline de Monseignat, Bouke de Vries, Edmund de Waal, Diana Edmunds, Abigail Fallis, Knopp Ferro, Laura Ford, Ryan Gander, Andy Goldsworthy, Lothar ... More
Chris Cavalier joins Heritage Auctions as Sports Consignment Director
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced that Chris Cavalier is joining its San Francisco office as a Sports Consignment Director. Chris brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in sports collecting, Heritage Auctions Sports Auctions Director Chris Ivy said. He has extensive experience at many levels of sports collecting, which will offer our consignors and collectors an added level of comfort and expertise. Having him in our San Francisco office will increase our presence on the West Coast and will only strengthen our status as the worlds largest sports auctioneer. Prior to his arrival at Heritage Auctions, Cavalier spent eight years in the sports auction business. In addition, he created the website GameUsedUniverse.com in 2005, which quickly became the largest and most significant Internet community of collectors and dealers of game-used sports ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. He surpassed his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds to become the dominant British portraitist of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. In this image: Landscape with Horse and Cart, and Ruin, ca. 1770, oil paint, lead white chalk, watercolor, over black chalk, varnished, on laid paper, varnished; purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909, The Morgan Library & Museum, III 55. Photography by Steven H. Crossot, 2014.
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