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Charles Willson Peale. The Stewart Children, ca. 1773-74. Oil on canvas. 94 x 124 cm © Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
MADRID.- In the final event of a year that has paid tribute to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting an exhibition which brings together the magnificent collection of American art assembled by the Baron over more than three decades. The works on display come from both the Thyssen family and the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collections, as well as and principally from the museum itself, which has an exceptional holding of this school in a European context, making the Museo Thyssen in Madrid a key point of reference for knowledge of American art. American Art from the Thyssen Collection is the result of a research project undertaken with the support of the Terra Foundation for American Art to study and reinterpret these paintings with a new thematic and transversal approach through categories such as history, politics, science, the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Musée des Arts Décoratifs celebrates the history of obtainable design with the exhibition Design for All: from Prisunic to Monoprix, a French Adventure from December 2nd, 2021, until May 15th, 2022.
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| Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival announces highlights of 26th edition in 2022 | | 3,000 years ago, Britain got half its genes from... France? | | Metropolitan Museum of Art limits attendance amid virus surge |
Tyler Mitchell, Fly, Fly, Fly, 2021. © Tyler Mitchell. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
TORONTO.- Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival today announced highlights of the 26th edition of the city-wide event spanning the month of May 2022. Canadian and international artists will present lens-based works in exhibitions, site-specific installations, and commissioned projects at museums, galleries, and public spaces across Toronto. The preliminary list of artists includes Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Farah Al Qasimi, Lara Almarcegui, Claudia Andujar, Deanna Bowen, Sandra Brewster, Jorian Charlton, Kota Ezawa, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sasha Huber, Mahtab Hussain, Onyeka Igwe, Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker, Brendan George Ko, Kwasi Kyei, Kadine Lindsay, Andréanne Michon, Tyler Mitchell, Esmaa Mohamoud, Suzanne Morrissette with Clayton Morrissette, Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima, Aïda Muluneh, Shirin Neshat, Bidemi Oloyede, Oluseye, Frida Orupabo, Rajni Perera, Vivek Shraya, and Ilene Sova. Projects by artists rescheduled from 2021 incl ... More | |
The Harvard geneticist David Reich, at his lab in Boston, March 15, 2018. An extensive study of ancient DNA suggests that a wave of newcomers and perhaps the first Celtic languages crossed the English Channel three millenniums ago. Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times.
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- Three years ago in the journal Nature, a vast international research team led in part by Harvard University geneticist David Reich shined a torchlight on one of prehistoric Britains murkier mysteries. By analyzing the degraded DNA from the remains of 400 ancient Europeans, the researchers showed that 4,500 years ago nomadic pastoralists from the steppes on the eastern edge of Europe surged into Central Europe and in some areas their progeny replaced around 75% of the genetic ancestry of the existing populations. Descendants of the nomads then moved west into Britain, where they mixed with the Neolithic inhabitants so thoroughly that within a few hundred years the newcomers accounted for more than 90% of the islands gene pool. ... More | |
Koga Harues Umi (The Sea), from 1929, in the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Oct. 11, 2021. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Tuesday that it would limit attendance to roughly 10,000 visitors per day because of the highly infectious omicron variant. During a normal holiday season, the museum would expect nearly twice as many visitors. The safety of our staff and visitors remains our top priority, the Mets chief executive, Daniel H. Weiss, said in a statement. Reduced density is a first step we can take and our dedicated staff has done an extraordinary job in making necessary changes to adapt to our public health circumstances while also allowing the museum to remain open and keep everyone safe. The move came as another major institution, the Baltimore Museum of Art, said that it was closing its galleries through Dec. 29 because of an increase in positive coronavirus tests. We need a moment to step ... More |
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| Dayton Art Institute announces 2022 exhibitions | | Artist duo DRIFT to stage a spectacular light installation on the Elbphilharmonie's facade | | New issue of Jordaens Van Dyck Journal now available |
Bryane Broadie, Mind Growth, 2021. Digital art on stretched canvas, #11, edition 25, 39" x 29" x 2.5". Courtesy of the artist.
DAYTON, OH.- As the new year approaches, the Dayton Art Institute announced a diverse lineup of exhibitions for 2022, highlighted by the Special Exhibition Black Heritage Through Visual Rhythms and the Focus Exhibition Van Gogh and European Landscapes, as well as several other DAI-exclusive exhibitions. The exhibitions for 2022 will be memorable and enjoyable, said DAI Chief Curator & Director of Education, Jerry N. Smith. We will introduce works by living artists from across the country, celebrate how conservation helps us preserve the many treasures within our outstanding collection and will feature one of the most intriguing photographers working today. We will also bring a pair of remarkable paintings by Vincent van Gogh to Dayton, along with a host of diverse offerings. The DAI will return to presenting three large Special Exhibitions in 2022. The Special Exhibition season ... More | |
Breaking Waves by DRIFT. © moka-studio.
HAMBURG.- With a spectacular light installation by the Dutch artist duo DRIFT, the Elbphilharmonie is sending a signal of joy and movement to the world in the year of its fifth anniversary. The work is called »Breaking Waves« and uses hundreds of illuminated drones. Choreographed to the second movement of Thomas Adèss Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which is being performed in the anniversary concert in the Grand Hall on the evening of the anniversary, the moving luminaries playfully bring the concert halls facade to life. The temporary installation lasts for around seven minutes and will be premiered at the concert hall on 28 April due to the pandemic. The work will also be shown after nightfall on the following three evenings and can be experienced from anywhere in the surrounding harbour area. »Breaking Waves« is realised in close coordination with the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, which is dedicating a four-mon ... More | |
The Jordaens Van Dyck Journal publishes the wide-ranging findings of the international and multidisciplinary Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project.
BRUSSELS.- The Jordaens Van Dyck Panel Paintings Project proudly announces the publication of the second issue of the multidisciplinary open-access Jordaens Van Dyck Journal. The December issue is now available online and to print on demand. Following the inaugural issue that introduced the Projects aims and methodologies, the current issue demonstrates how a combination of dendrochronology, panel analysis, archival research and connoisseurship yields significant art historical results and leads to new discoveries about Van Dyck, Jordaens and Flemish Old Master paintings. In this issue Joost Vander Auwera investigates a famous historic court case in which Van Dycks contemporaries gave evidence in a dispute about the authorship of an Apostles series attributed to Van Dyck. The article ... More |
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| Treasured belongings of legendary comic Don Rickles head to online auction | | Four-part video series celebrates 'Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala' exhibition | | Contemporary art evening auction at Bellmans saw British artists selling well |
Don Rickles TV Guide cover portrait.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fans and admirers of the legendary stand-up comic Don Rickles may bid on personal belongings from his beautifully-appointed Los Angeles estate, which he shared with his wife Barbara, on Thursday, January 13 at 10 a.m. PDT. The live online sale will feature assorted Toy Story film memorabilia, performance tuxedos, annotated scripts, signed sports collectibles, celebrity photographs and fine furniture. Rickles career performing insult comedy spanned over six decades, during which he made fun of nearly everyone he encountered ranging from Hollywood celebrities and public figures to television audiences and Las Vegas showroom crowds. His fame as a headline performer at Las Vegas hotels skyrocketed after he met Frank Sinatra during a show in 1957, marking the beginning of a lifelong personal friendship. One of the highlights of Rickles career was accompanying Sinatra for a comedy ... More | |
Installation view.
MELBOURNE.- A new four-part video series produced by the National Gallery of Victoria will celebrate some of the extraordinary artists working out of the Yolŋu owned and operated art centre, Buku Larrngay Mulka (Buku), situated in North East Arnhem Land. The series will run alongside the summer exhibition Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, and will explore Yolŋu art, culture and tradition and share the voices of living artists including Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Naminapu Maymuru-White, Djerrkngu Yunupiŋu, Noŋgirrŋa Marawili and Dhambit Munuŋgurr. EPISODE ONE: In the first episode of the series, viewers will hear from artists Naminapu Maymuru-White and Dhambit Munuŋgurr who talk about learning to paint from their family members and their passion to continue to paint today. The episode also features Yolŋu rapper, dancer and 2019 Young Australian of the Year Danzal Baker OAM aka Baker Boy, who grew up i ... More | |
British artist John Bellany (1942 - 2013) also did well with his 'Maid of the Forth' selling for £7,500 against an estimate of £3,000 - £5,000.
WISBOROUGH GREEN.- Bellmans held their first Contemporary Art evening auction on Thursday, 16th December 2021. The remarkable collection of Contemporary Art, titled 'Expanding Horizons', included some of the big names of the British contemporary art scene, but also well-known international artists. The auction included almost 150 lots - installation art, paintings, photography, lithographs, collages and drawings. Many of the lots went to UK private collectors. The Alphabet Series by Peter Blake (British, born 1932) from 1991 comprised 26 screenprints in colour, with each sheet signed, titled and numbered Peter Blake 62/95 . It was estimated at £5,000 - £7,000, but the hammer came down at £10,000 (plus buyer's premium). Two Frederick Gore (British, 1913 - 2009) paintings did exceptionally well. Both part of his ... More |
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| Pinakothek der Moderne's Rotunda project presents the cast whale project by Gil Shachar | | Bruneau & Co. will greet the New Year with an online-only estate fine art & antiques auction | | Sally Ann Howes, star of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' dies at 91 |
Hendrick Goltzius (inventor), Jacob Matham (engraver), The whale beached at Berckhey, 1598 (detail). Engraving, 295/301 à 430 mm, © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München.
MUNICH.- 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the Pinakothek der Moderne. That year will see the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München host the Rotunda Project, turning its attention to current issues of the day. A suite of four consecutive artistic interventions invites you to experience surprising shifts in perspective, thought-provoking inspirations and sensual impressions, as a lasting anniversary gift for the future. The Rotunda is the central public space in the Pinakothek der Moderne with the four museums under one roof. The still young dynamic exhibition format of the Rotunda Projects allows the focal point of the building to become an energetic pole within the art space. Large-scale visionary artistic projects invite you time and again to linger in the Rotunda, engage in stimulating conversations or simply to find a little spot for your own ... More | |
Large, 19th century wood and metal American folk art game wheel, numbered 1 thru 30 and standing 36 inches tall by 23 ½ inches wide (estimate: $500-$800).
CRANSTON, RI.- An exquisitely carved mahogany stained glass bronze bar pulled from a mansion home in Newport, Rhode Island, and an oil on canvas abstract modern painting by the Sudanese Asian artist Hussein Shariffe (1934-2005), are expected top lots in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers online-only Estate Fine Art & Antiques auction slated for Thursday, January 6th. The auction, starting at 6 pm Eastern time, features 386 lots, mostly from prominent estates and collections across New England. This auction includes wonderful paintings from New England collections, ranging from Impressionists to Modern works, rarely seen at auction, said Kevin Bruneau, Bruneau & Cos president and an auctioneer. Were excited to be offering them. Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. auctioneer and the firms Director of Pop Culture, added, This is an exciting way to start the New Year ... More | |
The English-born actress captivated children in the 1968 film, which became a holiday favorite. It was one of around 140 productions she appeared in during a six-decade career.
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK, NY.- Sally Ann Howes, an English-born grande dame of American and British musical comedy who captivated children as Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 film featuring a magic jalopy that floats and flies into fantasy adventures, died Sunday in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. She was 91. John Lloyd, a manager of Northwood Funeral Home and Crematory in West Palm Beach, where Howes had a home, confirmed the death, in a hospital, but said he did not know the cause. She also had a home in London. Born into show business, the daughter of a popular London comedian and his singer-actress wife, Howes was cast in her first movie at 12 and had a stage, screen and television career that spanned six ... More |
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A Commanding Egyptian Figure Standing Tall and Striding Forward
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Record-breaking year at Dorotheum: Best year in history of the auction house
VIENNA.- 2021 was a year of great success at Dorotheum with world record prices achieved by all of the picture departments, the highest ever turnover for modern art and over all, the best year in the history of the auction house. The art market is sending positive signals as the world wide interest in alternative investments, including the purchase of works of art, continues to grow. The rapid rise in the number of online bids we are receiving confirms the importance of the development of our increased online presence. Our wide-ranging strategy of digital expansion, which was already underway before the pandemic began, is in large part to thank for the success our auctions have enjoyed of the past year," sums up Managing Partner of Dorotheum, Martin Böhm,: "We are continuously working on expanding our digital presence." The Modern Art department fared particularly well in 2021, ... More
2022 Adelaide Biennial artist's S.O.S callout for 1000 messages in a bottle
ADELAIDE.- Artist Laith McGregor is calling on members of the public to contribute their own message in a bottle for one of his most ambitious large-scale installations to date as part of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State. For the 2022 Adelaide Biennial, McGregors new work Strange Days will feature more than a thousand bottles fixed to the walls of the Art Gallery of South Australia spelling out S.O.S and filled with messages from participants. McGregor is one of twenty-five Australian artists assembled in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/ State by curator Sebastian Goldspink, an exhibition that will challenge histories and art forms, and offer reflections on an era of multi-faceted global upheaval. McGregor sees the sealed vessels as holding the potential for universal communication and as being representative of hope in a time when we need ... More
Centre d'art La Malmaison presents a solo exhibition of works by Fiona Rae
CANNES.- Buchmann Galerie announced a solo exhibition by Fiona Rae at the Centre d'art La Malmaison in Cannes, France. The survey brings together 37 paintings and works on paper by the British artist from 2014 to 2021. Fiona Raes practice is rooted in a conceptual examination of the possibilities of abstract painting, using strategies to explore the artists notion of abstraction as a language. The exhibition presents works from the five most recent series. The exhibition begins with a gallery of Greyscale paintings, begun in 2014 when Fiona Rae moved away from the forms and colours which had previously characterised her work. Using only black, white and tones of grey, the gestural brushmarks conjure up elusive figures and portraits, whilst remaining decidedly abstract. The next gallery of Figure paintings sees the reintroduction of vibrant and effervescent colour ... More
Radical makeover gives a glittering new future to Scotland's unwanted jeweller
EDINBURGH.- A drive has been launched to rescue those tangled chains, unmatched earrings and banged up bracelets sitting at the bottom of jewellery boxes around Scotland and give them a glittering new future. The Scottish Goldsmiths Trust (SGT) and Ethical Metalsmiths have teamed up with art colleges to bring the Radical Jewellery Makeover (RJM) a community jewellery mining project which started in the USA to the UK for the first time. Its a fun and faced-paced initiative that helps reduce the environmental impact, and other harms, associated with the sourcing of the materials often used in commercial jewellery. Between now until 7 January the RJM Scotland team is asking people to mine their jewellery boxes for unwanted items and either pop them in the post or leave them at a drop-off point. They will then be transformed by jewellery and silversmithing students and ... More
In 'Vigil,' Suranne Jones sounds the murky depths, as always
NEW YORK, NY.- The elevator pitch for the six-episode British miniseries Vigil is irresistible for genre fans: A troubled detective (were listening) is dispatched to solve a crime (keep going) on a submarine engaged in a secret mission (pass the popcorn). Viewers flocked to Vigil when it premiered in Britain in August (the show lands on Peacock Thursday). But what seemed to appeal even more than the many plot twists was Detective Chief Inspector Amy Silva, a cop whos going through a rough patch (shes on antidepressants) and questioning her entire life while stuck in sweaty, claustrophobic quarters underwater. I think that I go after characters with journeys, characters with fight, characters who have things to figure out, Suranne Jones, the actress playing Amy, said on a call from London. Her words bore a certain sense of understatement; right before Vigil debuted, Jones starred ... More
A ballerina who adds to the 'palette of what's possible'
NEW YORK, NY.- At the end of November, when Boston Ballet returned to live performances with The Nutcracker, the first Sugar Plum Fairy was Chyrstyn Fentroy. The role wasnt new for her, but the honor of precedence might have been a good tiding. On Wednesday, the company announced it was promoting her to principal dancer, its highest rank. This isnt exactly a surprise. Since Fentroy, 30, joined the company in 2017, she has been promoted nearly every year. In the words of Mikko Nissinen, the troupes artistic director, The trajectory has been very clear. And not only to him. I knew it was going to happen, said Virginia Johnson, the artistic director of Dance Theater of Harlem, the company that gave Fentroy her start. Esteemed choreographer William Forsythe, who has worked with Fentroy extensively in Boston, said that she figured largely in his palette of whats ... More
A 'Nutcracker' performance is canceled, as the virus halts holiday shows
NEW YORK, NY.- New York City Ballet canceled a performance of George Balanchines The Nutcracker Tuesday after several people involved in the production tested positive for the coronavirus, in the latest sign of how the surge in cases is disrupting attempts to bring back some of the citys most beloved holiday performances. As the production, one of City Ballets most popular, was called off at Lincoln Center, plans to fill Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening with the Hallelujah chorus were canceled when Musica Sacra postponed a performance of Handels Messiah, citing the virus. And there are no more holiday kicklines at Radio City Music Hall: The remaining performances of the Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes were canceled Friday. The cancellations came shortly after it was announced that some of Broadways biggest hits would not resume until after ... More
Broadway grosses drop 26% as many shows cancel performances
NEW YORK, NY.- The surge in coronavirus cases is starting to take a real financial toll on Broadway, just as the industry is attempting to rebound from its lengthy shutdown. The Broadway League, a trade association, said Tuesday that its theaters brought in $22.5 million last week. Thats a 26% drop from the $30.5 million in tickets sold the previous week; in the week before Christmas in 2019, total grosses were $40.1 million. The drop in grosses is a reflection of the fact that multiple shows have canceled performances when positive coronavirus tests forced cast or crew members to quarantine and there were not enough understudies or replacement workers for the shows to continue. Last weekend, about one-third of all shows canceled some performances, and this week, multiple shows decided to postpone performances until after Christmas, including Aint Too Proud, Aladdin ... More
Ketterer Kunst opens an exhibition of charcoal drawings and sculptures by Andrea Zaumseil
BERLIN.- Andrea Zaumseils works can be found in both public spaces as well as in renowned collections like Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Mannheim. She was awarded the acclaimed Hans-Thoma-Prize from the State of BadenWürttemberg as early as in 2015. Now her amazing art is on display in the exhibition Ãber Flug at Ketterer Kunst in Berlin as of December 18. Those who have seen Andrea Zaumseils work wont forget it all to soon. The artist possesses great mastery in creating haunting works characterized by both filigree and pictorial properties. The elements are her motifs, just as landscapes and interiors, as well as bodies of all types, as she has a background in sculpting. The exhibition at Ketterer Kunst shines a light on the themes of forest and birds. Indeed, the range of motifs and impressions of the works ... More
Robert Berry Gallery opens an exhibition featuring new works by four artists
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Berry Gallery opened Nuclear Winter, featuring new works by artists Jeremy Penn, John Gordon Gauld, Storm Ritter, and Marcelle Murdock. The new works by Jeremy Penn, John Gordon Gauld, Storm Ritter, and Marcelle Murdock offer a fresh, vibrant perspective on what artists were working onand thinking aboutas New York changed permanently over the last two years as a result of the global pandemic, stated Robert Berry, founder of Robert Berry Gallery. Featuring a diverse collection of art from these four emerging artists, the works represent the meaning of art in pandemic era New York City. Working in rock and roll photography, everyone wants to look at the past, stated Marcelle Murdock, curator of Nuclear Winter, artist, and general manager of a well-known New York art gallery specializing in rock-and-roll photography. Recognizing and enjoying the ... More
Frederick Baldwin, whose photography told stories, dies at 92
NEW YORK, NY.- Frederick Baldwin, a photographer who documented wildlife, the civil rights movement and American poverty, and helped promote fellow photographers from Latin America, Africa and Asia, died Dec. 1 in Houston. He was 92. His wife and collaborator, Wendy Watriss, said the cause was heart failure. Baldwin displayed extraordinary physical courage as a photographer and a deep empathy that allowed him to get inside the lives of the people he documented. He carried a camera while serving as a Marine rifleman in the Korean War, received two Purple Hearts and survived the brutal 17-day Battle of Chosin Reservoir in 1950. His unit was photographed by David Douglas Duncan of Life magazine, which influenced Baldwin in his career path. In the 1950s and early 60s, he photographed Sami reindeer herders in Sweden and Norway, polar bears near the North Pole and marlin ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was born December 23, 1908. Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. In this image: Yousuf Karsh, Ford of Canada (surgeons), 1951.
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