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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (16961770), Die Opferung der Iphigenie, 1747/1750 Ãl auf Leinwand, 39 x 62 cm © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk. Photo: Elke Walford.
HAMBURG.- In Goya, Fragonard, Tiepolo: The Freedom of Imagination, the Hamburger Kunsthalle takes a sweeping look at one of the most momentous chapters in European art history: the 18th century. This period of cultural blossoming and political unrest gave rise to such strikingly different masters as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (17461828), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (17321806), and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (16961770). The presentation gathers around 150 major paintings and prints from more than 30 major national and international museums, including Madrids Museo Nacional del Prado, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, as well as our own holdings. Viewers have the rare chance to see brilliant works of art that are typically lent only seldom, if at all, such as The Tobacco Guards (1780) by Francisco de Goya, from the Prado. This ambitious exhibition brings together for the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Join Artemis Gallery for their special End-of-Year Clearance sale on Friday, Dec 27, 2019 10:00 AM CST featuring discounted pricing on antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more! Starting prices have been reduced up to 50% off original auction prices - perfect for dealers and collectors. In this image: Roman Lead Sarcophagus Panel - Humans, Columns. Estimate $900 - $1,350.
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| | The sleek curves that reshaped furniture design | | Heavy hearts as Notre-Dame misses Xmas mass for first time since 1803 | | Not just propaganda: A new view of Soviet artists |
Adolf Gustav Friedrich Schneck, Armchair, Model No. A 64 F, Frankfurt am Main, 1927 © MAK/Nathan Murrell.
by Palko Karasz
VIENNA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Millions have sat on one in Viennas cafes, and its sleek curves have earned it a place among the classics of European design. More than a century after it was first produced, the Thonet furniture companys chair No. 14, with its light bentwood structure and its circular seat covered in hand-woven cane, is instantly recognizable. No. 14 and similar models have also had many uses, furnishing offices and homes and appearing onstage with Liza Minnelli in the film Cabaret. The exhibition Bentwood and Beyond, through April 13 at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, shows how Thonets bentwood chairs ushered in a revolution in design and changed furniture as we know it. Around 240 pieces in the show, from the historical to the contemporary, include original Thonet chairs, replicas and designs inspired by bentwood shapes. ... More | |
The steeple and spire of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral collapses as the cathedral is engulfed in flames in central Paris on April 15, 2019. Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was unable to hold Christmas Eve Mass for the first time in more than 200 years -- after a fire ravaged its structure in April. With heavy hearts, French Catholics instead gathered at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, a few hundred metres away, for a service celebrated by the cathedral's rector Patrick Chauvet. "It isn't the same feeling but it's still a Christmas Mass," said 16-year-old Juliette, who had made the 700-kilometre trip from Aix with her family. "There will be a thought for Notre-Dame tonight, that's for sure." "We have been crying since April 15, and today even more," said Danielle, a Parisian, who attended last year's mass at the Paris landmark. However, she was lifted by the choir of Notre-Dame, who performed at the mass. Meanwhile, workers continue to repair and rebuild the cherished cathedral. Notre-Dame, part ... More | |
Alexander Deineka. Women gathering (fragment). 1937. The Chelyabinsk State Museum of Fine Arts.
by Roslyn Sulcas
ST. PETERSBURG (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Figures stare boldly from the canvas, exuding youth and health. Athletes conquer their opponents, factory workers strive proudly for excellence, and soldiers stride off to war, confident of victory. In the exhibition Deineka/Samokhvalov, at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall here, works by two important artists of the Soviet era Alexander Deineka and Alexander Samokhvalov are displayed side by side. The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 19, shows their overlapping visions of a prosperous, harmonious USSR, offering a fresh perspective on the dictates and homilies of that period, and also on the craft and skill of painters often dismissed as instruments of propaganda. We need to analyze, and have a fresh view on that time, said Semyon Mikhailovsky, the exhibitions curator. We have fought with this past, criticized the ... More |
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| | Huis Marseille exhibits fashion photography between 1900 and 1969 | | The Outsider Art Fair announces its list of exhibitors for the 2020 New York edition | | Exhibition honors late collector and great patron of the arts |
Ensembles John Wanamaker and Lord & Taylor, New York,1935. © Jean Moral / Galliera / Roger-Viollet.
AMSTERDAM.- Between 1900 and 1969 fashion photography underwent enormous changes. Unique archive material from Palais Galliera, the fashion museum of Paris, is being shown to the public for the first time ever in order to illustrate this remarkable story. This exhibition not only shows the move from studio photography to outdoor shoots, but also developments in photography itself, the position of women, tourism, and prêt-à -porter fashion. At Huis Marseilles invitation, a selection of vintage fashion photography from the Palais Galliera Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris is being shown in Amsterdam in the winter of 2019. The exhibition displays unique photographs and magazines that are normally kept deep in the archives of the French fashion institute. The selection was made by Sylvie Lécallier, Head of the photography collection at Palais Galliera. The historical development of fashion photography, from studio ... More | |
Alan Sturn, Untitled, 2019, 10 x 8 in, Acrylic on canvas, courtesy of SITUATIONS, New York and Wide Open Arts, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Outsider Art Fair announced its list of exhibitors for the 2020 New York edition, along with new features including a redesigned floor plan and revamped café, three curated projects, special programs, and first-time exhibitors from Japan, India, and various U.S. cities. Participating galleries in the 28th edition of the Fair include 61 exhibitors, representing 34 cities, from 9 countries, with 7 first-time galleries. The Fair takes place January 16-19, 2020 at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 West 18th Street.) Among the first-timers are: ACM Gallery (Tokyo, Japan); Arushi Arts (New Delhi, India); bG Gallery (Santa Monica, CA); Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York, NY); Koelsch Gallery (Houston, TX); Kushino Terrace (Hiroshima, Japan); and Stephen Score Antiques (Beacon, MA). The 2020 Fairs Curated Spaces include projects ... More | |
Exhibition gallery view of Henry Arnholds Meissen Palace: Celebrating a Collector; photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection presents Henry Arnholds Meissen Palace, an exhibition of works from the famed European porcelain manufactory along with several Asian examples that inspired such wares. The pieces are drawn from the collection of the late Henry H. Arnhold (19212018), whose foundation made a promised gift of more than 100 objects to the institution nearly a decade ago and supported the creation of the Portico Gallery, where the exhibition will be shown. Organized by Charlotte Vignon, the Fricks Curator of Decorative Arts, the show offers a fresh take on this esteemed collection, transforming the gallery into an eighteenth-century porcelain room, and grouping the works on view by color. This type of installation emulates a historic approach and allows visitors to experience these fragile, luxurious objects in much the same way one would ... More |
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| | Solo exhibition by Portuguese artist Sérgio Carronha on view at MONITOR Lisbon | | The Rubin Museum appoints Noah P. Dorsky as Board President and welcomes New Chief Experience Officer | | Allee Willis, 'Friends' theme and 'September' songwriter, dies at 72 |
Installation view. © Guillaume Vieira.
LISBON.- MONITOR Lisbon is presenting A Way of Walking, a solo exhibition by Portuguese artist Sérgio Carronha (Cascais, 1984). A Way of Walking is the third exhibition for Sérgio Carronha with MONITOR, following the first one in Lisbon in December 2018 and the second one in Rome last April. Sérgio Carronha, lives and works in Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, Portugal. Throughout the years the artist has developed a distinct connection and understanding of his land and its surroundings that transpires through his thought and practice. In this territory, the artist studies the different strata that make up the soil, collects the clays and gives them a definite shape. Besides producing his sculptures in his land, Sèrgio Carronha is also developing a long-term land-art project, in which he aspires to expand his sculptural practice and model the land on a larger scale. This regions nature and culture are the main source of ... More | |
Dorsky joined the Rubin Museums Board of Trustees in 2014 and has continuously served on the Marketing and Development Committee. Photo: Asya Gorovits, Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art announced two significant appointments that will support the organizations continued success. The Museums Board of Trustees has elected Noah P. Dorsky as the Museums Board President, effective January 1, 2020, and the Museum will welcome Jamie Lawyer in the new role of Chief Experience Officer. These appointments will ensure the Museums commitment to connecting visitors with the art and ideas of the Himalayas. With extensive leadership experience in business and nonprofit governance, and a supporter of art and culture in New York, Noah Dorsky will lead the Rubin with emboldened enthusiasm for the collection and the provocative ideas that stem from it. Dorsky joined the Rubin Museums Board of Trustees in 2014 and has ... More | |
Allee Willis at her home in Valley Village, Calif., May 1, 2018. Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times.
by Caryn Ganz
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Allee Willis, one of the music industrys most colorful figures and a musician whose eclectic credits as a writer and co-writer included Earth, Wind & Fires September and the Friends theme song, died Tuesday at 72. The cause of death was a cardiac event, said her publicist, Ellyn Solis. Willis, who grew up in Detroit, never learned to play music. But she was drawn to Motown studios as a child and said she learned how to become a songwriter by listening to the rhythms seeping through the buildings walls. A lot of times I would learn a bass line and then Id hear the records and Id go, Oh, that was I Heard It Through the Grapevine, she told The New York Times last year. She started her career writing ad copy and liner notes at Columbia and Epic Records, and ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Foam measures our progress towards new ways of seeing and being | | Norwegian author and former spouse of princess dead at 47 | | WOHA completes Sky Green mixed-use development in Taichung, Taiwan |
Untitled, from the series Family Work, 2018 © Hadar Pitchon/ courtesy of the artist.
AMSTERDAM.- What is fashionable and what does it convey about ourselves? How do we adorn ourselves? How do we use fashion to show who we are, who we think we are, or who we want to be? The exhibition Adorned The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. They all work with fashion, but most of them are not straightforward fashion photographers. For them, fashion and style are primarily tools to construct or question identities, to empower people and to play with cultures, gender, race and ages. While some participating artists have already been discovered by well-established fashion brands, others continue to work from within their own communities. They are outspoken, challenging, critical or provocative, but always highly relevant in a time defined by fundamental power shifts in which access, ... More | |
Ari Behn on the way to the castle church at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. Photo: Frankie Fouganthin.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Norwegian author Ari Behn, who was previously married to the country's Princess Maertha Louise, died on Wednesday aged 47, his manager told AFP, saying he had committed suicide. "It is with great sadness in our hearts that I on behalf of the very closest relatives of Ari Behn must announce that he took his own life today," Behn's manager Geir Hakonsund said in an email to AFP. Behn published his first book in 1999, a collection of short stories whose English translation is "Sad as hell". He rose to public prominence in 2002 after marrying the Norwegian royal Maertha Louise, and they wrote a book about their wedding with the title "From heart to heart". The couple had three daughters together before announcing their divorce in August 2016. Friends and public figures expressed their condolences on Wednesday, including Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and the ... More | |
Sky Green Tower A by WOHA © Koumin Lee.
TAICHUNG.- WOHA announces the completion of their first project in Taichung, Taiwan. In 2012 WOHA was invited by the Taichung City Government and Feng Chia University to bring its exhibition Breathing Architecture to Taichung. This exhibition was part of a program initiated by the city governments Gateway Project Masterplan which focused on the design principles of sustainability, low carbon emissions and smart cities. The government was in the process of drafting new regulations to make Taichung a greener, more liveable city in its next phase of development. The developer Golden Jade, with Feng Chia University as an advisor, commissioned WOHA to design a green and sustainable mixed-use development in the heart of the city, the first of its kind in Taichung. Sky Green comprises of residential apartments and retail shops, as well as generous recreational facilities in two towers. We are very happy to have been a part of th ... More |
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Whitegold International Ceramic Prize 2019 Winners Announced
EXETER.- Neil Brownsword and Tana West are the winners of the first Whitegold International Ceramic Prize. The new prize which is worth over £20,000 is a celebration of the relationship between clay and culture. The winners will each create a new piece of work drawing on the history and culture of St Austell, the UK home of china clay. The Prize is part of the Whitegold Project, a new initiative set in the heart of Cornwall, which aims to create art, craft and design inspired by the areas industrial and post-industrial landscape and its global china clay connections. The winners were selected from the following shortlist of artists who were recognised by the jury for their outstanding ceramic practices that connect people, culture and place: Helen Carr (UK) Mark Essen (UK) Annelie Grimwade Olofsson (Sweden) Leah Jensen (UK) Neil Brownsword (UK) Rosanna ... More
In a collection of 'Peanuts' tributes, the gang is all here
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- I dont remember ever thinking they were funny, Ira Glass writes in a new anthology of writing about the quintessential American comic strip. Who ever laughed at Peanuts? But Glass writes this in the context of his deep love for Charlie Brown and company. Its just that instead of finding much humor in their stories, he enjoyed the comfort they provided to a sulky little kid who thought of himself as a loser and a loner. The Peanuts Papers hammers home that fully appreciating Charles M. Schulzs juggernaut, which ran in newspapers from 1950 to 2000, requires looking aslant at its genre. It is, as John Updike once described it, a comic strip at bottom tragic. This collection of deeply personal essays will help you see it clear, if you dont already, as a psychologically complex epic about stoicism, faith and other ... More
Alexander Berggruen exhibits works by Katherine Bradford, Hulda Guzmán, and Rebecca Ness
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander Berggruen is presenting its second exhibition: Katherine Bradford, Hulda Guzmán, Rebecca Ness. The three artists in this exhibition, each of different generations and living far apart from one another, are acutely aware of the contemporary moment each one describing it visually in a highly individualistic way. They explore the intricacies of everyday life, portraying figures at work, in repose, and, in a few cases, as represented through their belongings and environments. They each approach what it is to be an artist, aiming to tell an untold story. Katherine Bradford has noted: My figures are recognizable as people; their place is fantastical. In contrast, Rebecca Ness provides a more believable portal into her life; she offers a concrete, intimate view of her surroundings. Hulda Guzmán in some ways exists as a bridge between ... More
Australian painter Jordy Kerwick's first U.S. solo exhibition on view at Anna Zorina Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Anna Zorina Gallery is presenting I Love You. Whats Your Name, the first U.S. solo exhibition of Australian painter Jordy Kerwick. Kerwicks latest body of work is comprised of still lives and abstract compositions that investigate the power of lust. The artists unique treatment of classic subject matter offers a contemporary perspective into the universal theme. Kerwick translates three-dimensional space into flattened compositions of pattern and color. The artist applies thick brushstrokes of vivid tones against layers of coarse collage elements to build richly textured surfaces of compelling depth. Upon close inspection, text and figurative shapes appear from within the broad swaths of color. Kerwicks raw style combines art historical references with images of symbolic objects to revive classic Vanitas still lives into the realm of ... More
Hammer Museum appoints Larry Jackson to Board of Directors
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum at UCLA announced three new board members: Larry Jackson to its Board of Directors, and Carla Emil and Joel Lubin to its Board of Overseers. Jackson is an influential music industry executive who currently serves as global creative director at Apple Music. Emil is a collector and philanthropist with deep-rooted connections to artists and organizations across the country, and Lubin is a leading entertainment executive and current cohead of the Motion Picture Group at Creative Artists Agency (CAA). The past few years have brought exciting developments to the Hammer, and this momentum is reflected in the appointment of Larry, Carla, and Joel to our boards, said Marcy Carsey, chair of the Board of Directors. We admire and heartily welcome their expertise and creative energy. Larry, Carla, and Joel ... More
Cibrián Gallery exhibits works by Kate Newby, Nagore Amenabarro, Oscar Tuazon, and Jessica Warboys
SAN SEBASTIAN.- the way youd know spring was coming was that around the end of march youd hear rolls of thunder or cannonades that would mean the ice was breaking on the river youd say gee it must be spring the ice is breaking on the river and it was like a series of deep distant drum rolls brrrrrrrrrrmbrrrrrrrrrrrm and you didnt feel much better about it because the sky was still gray and cold and the trees were still bare in fact you felt better in January because the snow seemed to keep you warm 1 The way David Antin described the first signs of the arrival of Spring in the state of New York in his talk poem Spring, love, noise and all is quite far from what is commonly expected. His description of the ice breaking into the river, cooling the water and giving it a terrible color somehow encapsulates what the distance ... More
Multi-disciplinary designer Pauline Perrin exhibits her photographs at droog in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- Conceptual design company droog invites visitors to immerse themselves into a mad millennial microcosm by French artist Pauline Perrin (1993). In her photographs, Perrin takes on multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, fashion stylist, and self-curator. This approach is very suitable to current times in which millennials are expected to be a true chameleon, a self-made everything. She plays around and dresses herself up with furry props and layers of makeup, giving the finishing touch with some post-production using Photoshop. Hereby, she creates an intriguing series in which she explores millennial issues, from forming an identity online, to being knocked out by the millennial epidemic called a burnout and reintegrating the 2.0 life. The exhibition Opinion Cooler expresses a critical note on the meaning and makeability ... More
Dalton Baldwin, an eminence among accompanists, dies at 87
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Dalton Baldwin, an American pianist and recording artist who was acclaimed for nearly six decades as a recital accompanist to major singers, including Elly Ameling, Jessye Norman and especially the French baritone Gérard Souzay, died on Dec. 12 in Kunming, in the Yunnan province of China. He was 87. His death, a week before his 88th birthday, was announced by Ben Turman, the vice consul of the U.S. Consulate in Chengdu. Baldwin had recently completed three weeks of performances and coaching sessions with students in Japan and was returning from a short trip to Myanmar to visit Buddhist temples when he collapsed on a flight to Tokyo. The plane made an emergency landing in Kunming, where he was taken to a hospital and died. He had performed on five continents and made more than 100 ... More
Yukiya Izumita continues his exploration of complex forms in new exhibition at Ippodo Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- After his highly successful exhibition, Surface Folds, in 2017, Ippodo Gallery is once again presenting Scenes of Lightness works from Yukiya Izumitas Sekisoh and Fold series. I transform my chaotic inner thoughts to scenery using grains of soil, place them as if they were a piece of paper, and let it change in the hands of nature. It captures every moment and experience that has passed me by. These are the scenes of lightness, that make my heart feel a little less heavy with a tiny wind blowing inside me. - Yukiya Izumita In this show, Izumita continues his exploration of complex forms, where contradictions coexist. His pieces are born through the balance and tension between natural elements such as earth, air, fire, and water pushing the boundaries of clay form. Tense, sharp, yet elegant and flowing, Izumitas forms transcend into the world ... More
Unearthing the links between Beethoven and the Vienna Philharmonic
VIENNA (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When the Vienna Philharmonic goes on tour next year with a cycle of Beethoven symphonies, the musicians will not just commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers birth. Recent research is revealing previously undisclosed connections between the composer and the orchestras founding members that stretch back over two centuries. In a tribute to that relationship, the New Years Concert on Jan. 1 at the Musikverein will include music by Beethoven for the first time, with his rarely performed 12 Contredanses. On the podium is Andris Nelsons, who rejoins the orchestra in Germany, France and Luxembourg for all nine symphonies in February and March (he also led the full cycle on a Deutsche Grammophon recording that was released in October). Accompanying the tour will be lectures by ... More
Turkmen leader applauds UN recognition for carpets
ASHGABAT (AFP).- Turkmenistan's leader on Tuesday hailed as "historic" the announcement that its traditional hand-woven carpets have been recognised as global cultural heritage by the United Nations. The Central Asian country's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov said it was "evidence of world recognition of our marvellous carpets" and will help promote them abroad. The centuries-old family tradition was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list this month. Mediaeval Italian merchant and traveller Marco Polo is among the best-known admirers. He wrote that "the finest and most beautiful carpets in the world are made here". Nowadays Turkmen carpets are a permanent feature in pompous state ceremonies, whether during a railway opening in the middle of the desert or public festivities in the capital Ashgabat. They also have their own state ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice Utrillo was born December 26, 1883. Maurice Utrillo (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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