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"After months of following an authentication process the... conclusion is: it's an original from the hand of Adolf Hitler," the NIOD said in a statement at the time, putting the work by a young Hitler between 1909 and 1913. Photo: NIOD institute.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Two researchers in the Netherlands have raised doubts about a rare watercolour painting signed by Adolf Hitler, saying it appears more likely to be the work of a forger, a Dutch newspaper reported Wednesday. "It is very probably a fake Hitler" painting, Bart Droog and Jaap van den Born, both specialists in tracking imitations of Hitler's artwork, told the daily De Volkskrant. The aquarelle -- a technique of painting with thin transparent watercolours -- depicting a tower in Vienna had been donated this year to the Amsterdam-based NIOD wartime institute by a woman whose identity was not revealed. The woman's father originally bought the painting at a stamp and coin market for 75 cents and only realised when he got home that it was signed by "A. Hitler", media reported in November when news of the donation became known. "After months of following an authentication process the... conclusion is: it's an original from the hand of Adolf Hitler," the NIOD said in a statement at the time, putt ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sensual images of women, even fully naked ones, are commonplace today. But it was not always thus, as a look back at the Middle Ages reveals, when the representation of female nudity was inconceivable outside a tightly circumscribed framework defined by religious iconography.
| Exhibition celebrates 80th anniversary of the founding of American school succeeding the Bauhaus | | Crowdfunding saves tumbling down French chateau | | Exhibition of photographs and films by René Magritte on view at Bruce Silverstein Gallery |
György Kepes, untitled, 1942 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Juliet Kepes-Stone.
BERLIN.- The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung is presenting the photography of Chicagos New Bauhaus and the Institute of Design that emerged out of it in a major exhibition running from 15 November 2017 to 5 March 2018. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Bauhaus successor institution that was founded by the avant-garde artist and former Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy in 1937 and developed into an important centre of photographic education in the US. We are presenting the most extensive exhibition on photography at the New Bauhaus and Institute of Design ever shown outside the US. It is based on the Bauhaus-Archivs unique holdings related to the legendary Chicago school, which feature multifaceted material stemming from the late 1930s to the 1980s, explains Annemarie Jaeggi, Director of the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung. It was possible to expand these ... More | |
This file photo shows an aerial view of the ruined castle of La Mothe-Chandeniers, in Les Trois-Moutiers, central western France. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP.
POITIERS (AFP).- It's a modern story of an ancient fairytale castle: a crowdfunding effort online has raised 1.6 million euros ($1.9 million) to restore a chateau in western France. Around 25,000 people from 115 countries have become shareholders in the chateau de La Mothe-Chandeniers which has turrets, a moat and an elderly owner who had not maintained it. The 19th-century building has fallen into disrepair with trees and vegetation sprouting out of its roof and windows, raising fears that it might be knocked down and redeveloped by property developers. Thanks to a joint effort by online fundraising site Dartagnans.fr and a local association Adopte un Chateau (Adopt a Chateau), sufficient money has been raised to buy and restore the structure. "It's a record in France and probably in Europe in terms of the amount raised and the number of contributors," the head of Dartagnans, Romain ... More | |
René Magritte / Shunk-Kender, René Magritte posant avec "La Ressemblance" (partie de L'évidence éternelle (1954), 1962-1964. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 7 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- The photographs and films of René Magritte came to light in the mid-1970s, more than ten years after the Surrealist artists death. The discovery of these gem-like treasures has led to a deeper understanding of the close relationship Magritte maintained with photography. They reveal how he used these tools to experiment with his ideas, while providing rare access to an informal side of the artist and those with whom he surrounded himself. These images, which he often executed or collaborated with others to produce, contribute to our overall understanding of this intrepid artist, and provide key visual insight into Magrittes relationship with the photographic medium, and its role within his greater oeuvre. Regarded as one of the most important artists of the post-war era in Europe, René Magritte ... More |
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| Exhibition illustrates the rich cultural and visual history of geometric abstraction | | Queensland Art Gallery's 'A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift' to tour regional Queensland | | Exhibition at Mudam focuses on the return of narrative in contemporary art |
Enrique Careaga, Sphere Spatio-Temporelle BS 7523, 1975, acrylic on canvas.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is presenting the exhibition Continental Abstraction: Highlights from the Art Museum of the Americas on view through Feb. 18. Originally organized by Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, in collaboration with the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of the American States (AMA). The Art Museum of the Americas partnership with the Organization of American States was founded with the premise that the arts play a social role in fostering democracy and freedom of expression during times of upheaval. From the 1950s through the 1980s, the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of the American States (AMA) collected work by young and emerging Latin American artists, often launching their international careers (including Manabu Mabe and Maria Luisa Pacheco, who today are considered Latin American Masters). Continental A ... More | |
Michael Parekowhai, Kapa Haka (Whero), 2003. Automotive paint on fibreglass. Purchased 2009 with funds from Tim Fairfax, AM, through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery.
BRISBANE.- Regional Queensland audiences have an opportunity to experience key works from the international collection of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art when A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift tours to six galleries and museums from December 2017 until mid-2019. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said A World View was first shown at GOMA, as part of the gallerys 10th anniversary celebrations, and honoured the far-reaching contribution of Tim Fairfax AC, one of the Gallerys most generous supporters. Tim Fairfaxs outstanding support has kept QAGOMA at the forefront of contemporary international collection development, supporting the acquisition of more than 70 artworks including installations, sculpture, video and photography from across the world, with a focus on Africa, South America ... More | |
Sarah Morris, Hemisphere [Knots], 2010 (detail). Laquer paint on canvas, 214 x 214 cm. Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris, Paris © Photo: Marc Domage.
LUXEMBOURG.- In 1884, the British professor and theologian Edwin A. Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, an allegorical narrative against dogmatism, with protagonists who are geometric shapes. The narrator, a square from a world in two dimensions called Flatland, tells of his discovery of Spaceland, a world in three dimensions. Back in his country, the square finds it impossible to convince his community of the existence of a third dimension, which for them is inexorably unthinkable and invisible. He is declared a heretic and subsequently imprisoned and while in jail he tells of his revelation and of his misfortune. Flatland / Narrative Abstractions #2, the first part of which was presented at the MRAC Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée in Sérignan in 2016, brings together some twenty contemporary artists who doubly echo Abbotts book: on the one hand, because ... More |
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| Exhibition explores the various formalistic strategies that artists employ to re-configure our perception of the world | | US Library of Congress backtracks on complete Twitter archive | | Turning e-waste into art at Ghana's toxic dump |
Jeppe Hein, Rotating Mirror Object II, 2013. Spiegel, technische inrichting, 141 x 141 x 43 cm. Photo: Anders Sune Berg.
BRUSSELS.- Taking its cue from John Bergers 1972 seminal text on visual culture, Ways of Seeing explores the various formalistic strategies that artists employ to re-configure our perception of the world. Marking the second collaboration between the Boghossian Foundation and curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, who curated When process becomes form: Dansaekhwa and Korean abstraction in the spring of 2016, the exhibition invites the viewer to investigate the manifold ways by which artists accord forms and concepts that are otherwise familiar with renewed appearances and meanings. Ways of Seeing features 27 artists and artist collectives, and consists of 70 works, spanning a variety of media from painting, sculpture and photography to sound, film and installation. It facilitates a return towards a vision of artists as makers of things, who relentlessly remind us that the connection between what we see and what we know is never set ... More | |
"Effective January 1, 2018, the Library will acquire tweets on a selective basis -- similar to our collections of web sites," the library's communications director Gayle Osterberg said in a blog post.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The US Library of Congress has scaled back plans to archive every message ever sent on Twitter, sparking debate on the importance of social media in historical records. The library, which is believed to be the largest in the world with a mission of preserving important national and global cultural records, announced this week it would stop collecting the entire Twittersphere's tweets from January 2018. "Effective January 1, 2018, the Library will acquire tweets on a selective basis -- similar to our collections of web sites," the library's communications director Gayle Osterberg said in a blog post. "The Library regularly reviews its collections practices to account for environmental shifts, diversity of collections and topics, cost effectiveness, use of collections and other factors. This change results from such a review." Officials cited several reasons for the decision: the volume of the tweet database is much bigger ... More | |
A table made by Ghanaian artist Joseph Awuah-Darko made of pieces of scrap metal found at Agbogloshie dumpsite is pictured at his workshop. CRISTINA ALDEHUELA / AFP.
ACCRA (AFP).- Joseph Awuah-Darko sits on a stool at one of the world's largest electronic waste dumps, watching polystyrene and insulation cables burn on the blackened ground. "It's survival and dystopia," says the 21-year-old British-born Ghanaian, surveying the stretch of wasteland around him as dense plumes of acrid smoke rise into the air. Awuah-Darko and his university friends have ambitious plans for the sprawling Agbogbloshie dumping ground in Ghana's capital, Accra. In January this year, he co-founded the non-profit Agbogblo.Shine Initiative, which encourages people working at the dump to turn waste into high-end furniture. The dump workers typically risk exposure to harmful fumes by burning obsolete and unwanted appliances such as mobile phones, computers, televisions and plastics that are brought to Ghana from around the world. After burning, they salvage and resell copper and other metals ... More |
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| Christo to be guest of honour at BRAFA 2018 | | The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opens exhibition of works by Christopher Knowles | | Dr. Dorothy Kosinski Awarded the Order of the Star of Italy |
Christo in his studio in front of The Mastaba project-Photo Wolfgang Volz.
LONDON.- BRAFA 2018 will welcome one of the most renowned and influential contemporary artists, Christo, as Guest of Honour at BRAFA 2018. An emblematic figure of New Realism along with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, the inseparable duo has come to be known in particular for their wrapping of historic monuments and large-scale landscape installations. It is one of his historic works from the 1960s that will be presented at BRAFA 2018. The work specially chosen by Christo for BRAFA is titled Three Store Fronts (1965-66). This sculpture was first displayed at the municipal Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Later it was included in the exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works, 1958-69 at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in 2001. More than 14m long and 2.5m tall, it will also be the largest work ever on show at BRAFA. In 1963, whilst in Paris, Christo had begun making the Show Cases. ... More | |
Christopher Knowles, Untitled from the portfolio Typings, 1986. Silkscreen on Ivorite paper, 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches. Courtesy the artist.
HOUSTON, TX.- The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is presenting Christopher Knowles: In a Word. Brooklyn-based artist Christopher Knowles is most often regarded as a poet and painter, yet his output is broader than this classification suggests. The exhibition brings to Texas his most comprehensive survey to date, spans many mediumstext, sound, painting, drawing, sculpture, and recorded performanceand includes works completed in collaboration with esteemed theater director Robert Wilson. The exhibition will continue through March 25, 2018. Christopher Knowles: In a Word features works that record and reorder the everyday materials around us through the use of incantatory rhythms and repetitions. Knowless works include typewritten drawings of language permutations, reimagined song lyrics, and painting in which interlocking blocks of raw color depict family, ... More | |
Dorothy Kosinski has been the director of The Phillips Collection since 2008.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In recognition of her outstanding contributions to the arts and promotion of Italian culture, Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, Director of The Phillips Collection, was recognized with the Order of the Italian Star. This distinction represents a particular honor on behalf of all those, Italians abroad or foreigners, who have acquired special merit in the promotion of friendly relations and cooperation between Italy and other countries. I am honored to accept this special award and feel that the honor is really due The Phillips Collection and its longstanding and rich relationship with the arts of Italy, Dr. Kosinski said. The Phillips Collection has featured major exhibitions of Modigliani and Morandi, for example. We have organized exhibitions that have been featured in Perugia, Rovereto, Venice, and Rome. I am grateful to the special friendships with our colleagues at the Italian Embassy and for our fruitful collab ... More |
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Bronze sculpture of a female nude by Enrique Alferez (Am., 1901-1999) will headline Jan. 6 auction
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will ring in the new year in grand fashion with a 379-lot Winter Antiques & Fine Arts Auction on Saturday, January 6th, featuring fine items pulled from several prominent New England homes. The sale will be held online as well as in Bruneau & Co.s gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston, beginning at 11 am Eastern. Kicking off the auction will be 100 lots of fine art from several estates, including pieces from a gentlemans collection out of Dorchester, Mass. Art will be followed by 19th and 20th century decorative arts, to include fine bronzes, elegant and unusual chandeliers and Part 1 of a collection of more than 60 lots of Chinese Export porcelain out of New York. The furniture category will feature many large pieces of French furniture, plus several large armoires, marble-top stands and dressers, an extensively carved ... More
Carriageworks unveils 2018 program and announces 1.2 million visitors for 2017
SYDNEY.- Carriageworks announced 1.2 million visitors engaged with the Carriageworks Program in 2017 whilst unveiling a dynamic program for 2018 spanning contemporary art, dance, performance, music, screen, food and ideas. In 2018 the Artistic Program will support 690 artists and will present 70 projects, including 10 world premieres, 17 international works and 17 new Australian commissions. Highlights include three large-scale, site-specific exhibitions by international contemporary artists Katharina Grosse (Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan) and Nick Cave (USA), as well as three world premiere works by Carriageworks Resident Companies: Sydney Chamber Opera, Marrugeku and Force Majeure, and the presentation of leading cultural events including the 21st Biennale of Sydney, the 2018 Sydney Writers Festival and Sydney Contemporary ... More
Independent Brussels announces special edition with guest curator Vincent Honoré
BRUSSELS.- Independent announced a special edition of Independent Brussels overseen by guest curator Vincent Honoré. Independent Brussels 2018 will run from April 19 to 22 at the historic Vanderborght building, which has served as the home for the two previous editions of Independent Brussels. This years curated presentation will feature commissioned presentations by international galleries, non-profits, and museums, along with an expanded program of performances, talks, and dynamic activations within the 60,000-square-foot space. Independent Brussels 2018 will be curated by Vincent Honoré, who was recently appointed senior curator at the Hayward Gallery in London. He was previously artistic director at DRAF, London, where he curated solo shows with artists including Oscar Tuazon, Neil Beloufa, and Rosemarie Trockel, while Pierre Huyghe, Laure ... More
First exhibition on Bangladesh's architecture on view at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum
BASEL.- The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum is presenting the exhibition Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh, curated by Niklaus Graber, Andreas Ruby and Viviane Ehrensberger. With Bengal Stream S AM is the first museum worldwide to present an exhibition on Bangladeshs architecture. In a chequered historical sequence of events, various trends have expressed themselves in different architectural ways, according to religious or socio-cultural developments. Nevertheless, many underlying motifs have held their ground in a typological sense for centuries and even represent a valid foundation for today's architectural trends. Modernism also used these as a basis on which to build, whereby the most important local protagonist was Muzharul Islam. It was also in keeping with his personal identity, situated between localism and ... More
Kunstverein Hannover exhibits works by former recipients of the Preis des Kunstvereins
HANNOVER.- The Prize of the KunstvereinAtelier Scholarship Villa Minimo has been awarded every two years since 1983. The awarding of a total of three artists-in-residence grants by a Kunstverein is a singular practice that has been cultivated for 35 years now. The one- and two-year scholarships come in where they are most important for an individuals artistic developmentensuring living and working space as well as covering living expenses. For several years, the prize has been regionally and nationally oriented and is supplemented by a concluding exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover. A total of 45 artists have been supported to date, including Aernout Mik (1993/94), Christoph Girardet (1995/96), Jane and Louise Wilson (1997), Douglas Gordon (1998), Eija-Liisa Ahtila (1999), Bjørn Melhus (1999/2001), Thomas Ganzenmüller (2002/04), Ãzlem ... More
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York opens exhibition of contemporary art from Taiwan
NEW YORK, NY.- The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, together with Taiwan Academy and Art Bank, Taiwan, presents What do you see?Contemporary Art from Taiwan. Curated by Yan-Huei Chen, the two-month long event showcases artwork from seven Taiwanese artists on the subject of reality and the ways in which we interpret our reality through sight and language. The artists explore and examine reality by incorporating their experience and understanding of history and their social environment. The exhibition, which includes paintings, sculptures as well as new media and installation art, hopes to create a dialogue with local artists and foster cultural exchange and collaboration between Taiwanese artists and their international peers. On display are works by Teng-Yuan Chang, Qing-Yao Chen, I-Ting Hou, Yu-An Liao, Pei-Shih ... More
Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art at Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents "Current Affairs"
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition offers an observation of the way in which art can capture something of the current, contemporary Zeitgeist. It centers on six large-scale murals created in the gallery, alongside works in diverse media by artists of various generations as well as archive photographs. The exhibition is accompanied by discussions with artists about the way in which their art faces current affairs. The exhibition seeks to re-examine the place of art in relation to reality, and to discover within it the haste typical of the current moment. This is also asked in regard to the museum as an exhibition space: can the museum the palace of the bygone, location of art as a past event that has happened, became permanent and sacredcreate a change in the current moment, remold the Zeitgeist as well as summarize the spirit of past times? Museum exhibitions tend ... More
First quality London antiques fair of the new year opens on 4 January
LONDON.- The first quality London antiques fair of the new year The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens its doors for the sixth consecutive year at the five star London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP from Thursday 4 to Sunday 7 January 2018 with the support of Wetherell, Bold & Reeves, The Clubhouse, and NFU Mutual Godalming. Organised by The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited, this prestigious boutique event brings together some 40 expert dealers, mainly members of BADA or LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. This popular fair had people jetting in from abroad from the start and continues to woo collectors, interior decorators, the trade, Londoners and visitors to the capital at the end of the festive season. At the beginning of each year, the ballroom area of the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square becomes a cornucopia ... More
TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art opens exhibition of works by the cult music band Nagrobki
SZCZECIN.- Another Year in the Urn is the exhibition from the cult music band Nagrobki (The Tombstones), a duo of visual artists and musicians Maciej Salamon and Adam Witkowski. The show focuses on the visual aspect of the bands oeuvre, obsessive references to the topic of death, contemporary vanitas and thanatophobic-funeral design. The works featured in the exhibition: videos, sculptures, posters, album covers, T-shirts and other objects, are not merely an addition to the musical output of the band: they are arranged into a new narration-installation of a cemetery, showing intentional correlations between the works and emphasizing the paradoxical vitality of death. The band occasionally used the term necro-polo in relation to their artistic activities. However, the art of Nagrobki escapes the convention of cabaret. As Francis Picabia once wrote ... More
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents "FOCUS: Katherine Bradford"
FORT WORTH, TX.- Katherine Bradford is known for her vibrant palette, faux-naïf style, and eccentric compositions. Often built up over months and sometimes years, the surfaces of Bradford's paintings are textured, comprising multiple thin, semi-transparent coats of acrylic paint, with hints of pentimenti in the final compositions. Her recent works revisit several of her favored motifs, such as ships and swimmers - traditional and enduring subjects seen throughout art history. Bradford's canvases, however, typically portray more ominous, and often improbable, atmospheres in comparison to the relative calm of James Abbott McNeill Whistler's ship paintings or Paul Cézanne's portraits of bathers, for example. In her works, ocean liners collapse in the night sea, beachgoers and swimmers populate fearsome expanses such as ebbing waters and outer space, and sea monsters, ... More
Temporary Gallery in Cologne exhibits works by Olivier Foulon
COLOGNE.- Olivier Foulon (born 1976 in Brussels, lives in Berlin) occupies himself with the properties of photographic images. He mounts the prints of the images on cardboard, one next to the other. This leads to a series, formed not by personal selection but by the multitude of printouts of moments of an expression. He selects the motifs from the world around him: apples, shortly before eating, reproductions of Gersaints Signboard by the Rococo painter Antoine Watteau, or a bouquet of colourful flowers through which one catches a glimpse of the ceiling. However, it is the moment that is of interest, not the motif. The flowers are not carriers of meaning but messengers of this moment. While some artists place importance on ambiguity or vagueness, explaining their work with the fact that art is elusive and indeterminate, this is not the case with Foulon. He shows things as they ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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