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Francisco de Goya, Dead Turkey, 1808 1812, Oil on canvas, 45x62 cm © Museo Nacional del Prado.
BRUSSELS.- Eighty works by Spanish masters are arranged in a chronological overview, from the 1600s to the present-day. The still life paintings of great and universally acknowledged artists, such as Cotán, Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró and Dalà are shown alongside works by their predecessors and contemporaries, providing the most comprehensive picture possible of this genre and its evolutions. The still life has been known since time immemorial, but only flourished from the seventeenth century onwards, coming into its own as a separate genre. Spanish still life holds a particular position in the European context. While the connection with the Flemish and Italian models is unmistakeable, the early Spanish specialists of the still life developed a visual language of their own. The plain and simple style of the seventeenth-century bodegones represents a peak in the genres history. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Danish royalty and politicians gathered in a Copenhagen chapel on Tuesday for the private funeral service of Prince Henrik, the French-born husband of Queen Margrethe who died this month aged 83. Prince Henrik was also a poet and an excellent sculptor, the Queen is also a painter and she designs costumes for the theatre. They had a show " Pas de Deux Royal " in Aarhus in 2016. Photo: Stephane Janssen.
| US Supreme Court rejects seizure of Iran artefacts from Chicago museum | | Monumental matador by Picasso, unseen since 1973, to make auction debut | | Marsupial in wolfs clothing: More secrets discovered about the extinct Tasmanian tiger |
The decision confirmed an earlier appeals court ruling that the thousands of 2,500-year-old clay tablets on long-term loan to the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute could not be seized, because Iran was not using them for commercial purposes.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a claim by US citizens wounded in a suicide bombing in Israel in 1997, who were demanding the seizure of Iranian antiquities held in a Chicago museum as compensation. The ruling, by eight judges to none, put an end to a long-running legal battle by nine Americans who wanted Iran to pay compensation for its backing of the Palestinian group Hamas, which claimed responsibility for the bomb attack that wounded them. The decision confirmed an earlier appeals court ruling that the thousands of 2,500-year-old clay tablets on long-term loan to the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute could not be seized, because Iran was not using them for commercial purposes. The ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Le Matador, oil on canvas, painted on 23 October 1970 (est. £14,000,000-18,000,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Monumental in scale, highly charged and painted in vivid colours, Le Matador is the culmination of a life-long obsession of Picassos that remained one of the most important themes throughout his career. The painting is a brilliant display of the virtuosity with which Picasso combined the complex elements that had shaped his life and art and stands as a defiant tribute to the heroic figure of the matador embodying the artists own Andalusian machismo as the master of modern art takes centre-stage in the arena. Picasso had begun to feel that his time on this earth was running out, and so engaged in constant conversation with the great masters before him Goya, Velasquez and Delacroix following the traditions they had set in order to reinvent them and make a lasting mark. Appearing at auction for the first ... More | |
Internal structures of Tasmanian tiger joeys. Source: The University of Melbourne.
MELBOURNE.- Researchers from Museums Victoria and the University of Melbourne have CT scanned all 13 known Tasmanian tiger joey specimens to create 3D digital models which have allowed them to study their skeletons and internal organs, and reconstruct their growth and development. This has revealed important new information about how this unique extinct marsupial evolved to look so similar to the dingo, despite being very distantly related. The digital scans show that when first born the Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) looked like any other marsupial. But three months later, when they left the pouch they had taken on the appearance of a puppy and continued to grow with a dog-like appearance. The research, led by the University of Melbourne and Museums Victoria and in conjunction with an international team of scientists, is publis ... More |
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| CIFO and Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport announce creation of new art museum in Madrid | | Exhibition of Michelangelo Pistoletto's most recent series of mirror paintings opens at Simon Lee Gallery | | Spectacular set of German Expressionist prints given to Colby Museum |
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MIAMI, FLA.- The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and The Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport signed today a Memorandum of Understanding for the creation of an exhibition space to be located in the Tabacalera building in Madrid, Spain. This agreement includes the donation of works from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection to the Spanish State, whose stewardship will be shared with another international arts institution, which will be announced in the coming months. The Fontanals-Cisneros collection is one of the most important collections of Latin American art. With more than 3,000 pieces, it has works by prominent artists from around the world, and includes not only pictorial art, but also video and modern photography. Works by Carmen Herrera, Cildo Meireles, Jesus Soto, and photography by the artists Grete Stern, Horacio Coppola, Leo Matiz, Paulo Pires, are all included in the collection. With this memorandum, ... More | |
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Scaffali - frutta e verdura (Shelves fruits and vegetables), 2015. Silkscreen on super mirror polished stainless steel, 250 x 150 cm (98 3/8 x 59 1/8 in.). Image: Couresy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.
LONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery presents works from celebrated Italian artist Michelangelo Pistolettos most recent series of mirror paintings, in which he directs his attention towards the subject of scaffali, or shelves. This will be the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Pistoletto is widely recognised as one of the most influential contemporary artists of his generation and a central figure within the Arte Povera movement. From early in his five-decade career the mirrored surface has been an instrumental element of his practice. Initiated in 1962, Pistolettos signature mirror paintings use the reflective picture plane to draw both viewer and environment into the work, playing with traditional notions of the painted image as a fixed moment in time. With an emphasis on the performative, ... More | |
Max Beckmann, Die Raucher (The Smoker), 1916. Drypoint on chamois laid paper, 13 3/4x 10 in. (34.9 x 25.4 cm) Colby College Museum of Art. The Norma Boom Marin Collection of German Expressionist Prints, 2017.439. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art has acquired a significant collection of German Expressionist prints, the gift of Norma Boom Marin. The remarkable gift of 28 prints, many of them brilliant or rare impressions, will make its first public appearance at Colby later this year. Marin, widow of John Marin Jr. and daughter-in-law of the acclaimed American artist John Marin (18701953), has been a generous benefactor of the museum for decades, a life member of its Board of Governors, and recipient of the museums 2011 Jetté Award for Leadership in the Arts. She has assembled a major collection of works on paper from some of the foremost German artists of the early 20th century. The collection spans the years 1907- ... More |
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| Michael Hoppen Gallery exhibits a rare collection of vintage silver prints by Daido Moriyama | | James Cohan opens an exhibition of two major works by Bill Viola | | Mythical guitar-maker Gibson fighting for survival |
Daido Moriyama, Japan Theater, 1967 © Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery.
LONDON.- Daido Moriyama is one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his generation. His major exhibition at Tate Modern in 2013 partnered his prints with those of William Klein and was a critical success, bringing his work to a wider audience. Moriyama's work has also been exhibited in some of the world's great museums such as MOMA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFMoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier, Paris, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and he was awarded the prestigious Infinity Award, Lifetime Achievement category by the ICP in New York in 2003. Moriyama's reputation as one of Japans greatest living artists does not prevent him from continuing to make new challenging work. Moriyama has also designed and published many seminal photography books - the most influential being Bye Bye Photography, which employs ... More | |
Bill Viola, The Sleepers, 1992. Seven channels of black-and-white video images on seven small monitors, each submerged on the bottom of a 55-gallon white metal barrel filled with water; large dark room. Room dimensions: 12 x 20 x 25 ft (3.7 x 6.1 x 7.6 m). Continuously running. Edition of 2. Courtesy of Bill Viola Studio and James Cohan, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan presents Moving Stillness, an exhibition of two major works by Bill Viola, at the gallerys Chelsea location from Thursday, February 22 through Saturday, April 14, 2018. The exhibition features two large-scale installations, Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979 (1979) and The Sleepers (1992), both significant works that use the element of water as a metaphor for human consciousness and reexamine our understanding of the natural world. Moving Stillness is the artists eighth solo exhibition at James Cohan. During the 1970s Viola was at the forefront of experimentation with the new medium of video, paving the way for subsequent generations of media artists. Moving Stillness: Mount Rainier 1979, by incorporating a large body of water, with video and sound recordings of nature, was pioneering in its use of mixed media. It is a meditation on the fragility of nature ... More | |
In this file photo taken on November 19, 2004 Curators place a Gibson SG guitar once owned by Beatles guitarist George Harrison on a stand at Christie's Auction House in London. ALESSANDRO ABBONIZIO / AFP.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- World-famous guitar maker Gibson, whose instruments have been played by the likes of John Lennon and Elvis Presley, is facing serious financial problems that threaten its very existence. The mythical company -- in Nashville, Tennessee since 1894 -- on Monday brought in a new financial director, Benson Woo, to try to rescue the ailing group. Gibson Brands, which also sells audio systems for both professionals and the general public, is working with an investment bank to set up a debt refinancing plan, the company said in a statement. The group has a $375 million debt payment due in early August, the Nashville Post reported. "While the musical instrument and pro audio segments have been profitable and growing, they are still below the level of success we saw several years ago," CEO Henry Juszkiewicz said in the statement. He said the company, as part of a broad review ... More |
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| "Money and Medals: Mapping the UK's numismatic collections" opens at the British Museum | | Nineteenth-century Louisiana album reaches $93K at Swann Galleries | | Large-scale sculptures and works on paper by Robert Grosvenor on view at Paula Cooper Gallery |
Coin cabinet containing silver shillings of Henry VIII © the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- Money and Medals: mapping the UKs numismatic collections is the first of two British Museum exhibitions in Room 69a to be sponsored by Spink. It celebrates the achievements of the Money and Medals Network, one of many subject specialist networks that provide help and advice to UK museums. Run by the British Museum, the Money and Medals Network promotes numismatics the study of coins, medals, banknotes and associated objects and enables the sharing of knowledge in this field. This exhibition demonstrates the geographical spread of this work through the display of objects from six participating institutions, many of which have never been loaned before. A framed set of replica Greek coins, dating to the late 19th century, has been specially loaned from the Science Museum for the display. In the past, the British Museum shared numismatic knowledge with other museums, in what could be seen as an early numismatic ... More | |
Lewis W. Hine, Russian family at Ellis Island, silver contact print, 1905, printed circa 1931. Sold February 15, 2018 for $6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries opened the 2018 season with a $1.6M auction of Icons & Images: Photographs & Photobooks on February 15. Important rare and unique work, both fine art and vernacular, brought a variety of buyers to the fore, with especially active bidding by institutions. Leading the auction and closing to applause was Photographic Views of the Red River Raft, 1873, one of three extant copies of Robert B. Talfors documentation of the second attempt to clear debris from Louisianas Red River. Several institutions competed for the 113 hand-colored albumen prints, and the album quadrupled its high estimate to sell for $93,750. A collection of 24 prints of Lewis W. Hines most iconic photographs, spanning the entirety of his career, made their victorious auction debut, selling 92%. The workseach boasting the handstamp of Hines Hastings-on-Hudson studio, as well as notations in his ... More | |
Installation view, Robert Grosvenor, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, February 10 - March 17, 2018. © Robert Grosvenor. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Steven Probert.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paula Cooper Gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by Robert Grosvenor at 521 West 21st Street. Known primarily as a sculptor, Grosvenor has eluded artistic categorization during his more than fifty-year career, producing diverse, singular works that explore the spatial dynamics between object, architecture, and viewer. The exhibition includes two large-scale sculptures as well as a selection of works on paper. On view in the main space of the gallery is the large-scale sculpture, Untitled, created in 2016. Comprised of two separate, freestanding constructions, the installation occupies one half of the room, drawing the viewer in to investigate its wide expanse. The larger element consists of two rectangular plywood bases supporting a pair of steel pipes laid horizontally so as to bridge their foundations. Projected upright from each end are aluminum poles, which erect ... More |
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National Gallery of Canada resumes state-of-the-art restoration of the Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
OTTAWA.- After close to 60 years of exhibitions featuring the work of some of Canadas most celebrated artists and architects, the Canada Pavilion in Venice, Italy is undergoing a major, $3-million restoration. The designated heritage building is an important architectural landmark in the Giardini di Castello, the traditional site of the International Art and Architecture Exhibitions of La Biennale di Venezia. The restoration work, suspended during the 57th International Art Exhibition (2017), has resumed after the closure of Geoffrey Farmers installation, A way out of the mirror. The historic restoration project, initiated by the Gallery in 2014, is being carried out by the Milanese architect Alberico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, son of one of the partners of studio architetti B.B.P.R. (Banfi, Belgiojoso, Peressutti, Rogers), working in close cooperation with Venice-based architect Troels ... More
Britain's 'Mr. Motorcycle' George Beale appointed Director of H&H Classics
LONDON.- George Beale, who is a legend in motorcycle racing circles, has just been appointed a full Board Director of H&H Classics one of the UKs leading classic car and motorcycle auction houses which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Georges career spans over 50 years in the motorcycle industry. He is a world-renowned specialist in classic bikes who now puts his skills towards providing buying, selling and valuation services to the public along with his activities directing Motorcycle Sales at H&H Classic Auctions Ltd. His career touches on almost every aspect of motorcycle culture. He has been a competitor in trials and scrambles in the 1960s, a Yamaha dealer, a bike restorer, owner of the biggest private European Gran Prix racing team, and British team manager for the AGV Nations cup series in 1979-80. Small of stature but with a very big ... More
P.P.O.W to represent Joe Houston
NEW YORK, NY.- P.P.O.W announced that it will again represent painter Joe Houston. Houston first joined the gallery in 1983, the same year as P.P.O.Ws founding, and gained quick recognition for his striking paintings that reinterpreted familiar scenes to explore social and political undercurrents of the day. Houston had two highly successful solo shows with the gallery in 1986 and 1993, and was included in group shows up until 1996 when he shifted his focus to curatorial practice. After a decades-long hiatus, Houston recently returned to painting. His new work will be included in P.P.O.Ws booth at the Armory show, and his next exhibition with the gallery is slated for 2019. For both P.P.O.W and Houston, his return to the gallerys roster is a natural fit as his work explores many of the political and social concerns for which P.P.O.W has long provided a public platform. Houstons ... More
Norman Rockwell Museum appoints Ellen Spear as new Chief Philanthropy Officer
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- The Norman Rockwell Museum today announced the appointment of Ellen Spear, currently President/CEO of Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts, as the Rockwell Museum's new Chief Philanthropy Officer. Ms. Spear will officially join Norman Rockwell Museum over the summer, assuming a newly created senior-level position to lead the Museum's development efforts at a pivotal time of growth. Ms. Spear succeeds Chief Advancement Officer Michelle Clarkin, who joined the development staff of Fordham University in Manhattan. Norman Rockwell Museum recently announced plans to assess the feasibility of adapting the Old Stockbridge Town Hall as a National Center for Illustration Education and Research. As a member of the Museum's strategic leadership team, Ms. Spear will lead the Museum's overall fundraising ... More
The Locks Gallery opens exhibition of works by Lynda Benglis
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Locks Gallery presents its sixth solo exhibition of work by Lynda Benglis, with an installation of wall-bound sculptures features new paper pieces (2017) beside pleated metal pieces from the 1980s. Personalities ranging from baroque muscularity to entropic delicacy mingle in these diverse works, attesting to the range and evolution of the artists formal experimentation. A forthcoming catalogue authored by Judith Tannenbaum will accompany the exhibition, which commences on February 22nd with an opening reception. The Philadelphia installation will concur with a presentation of works by Benglis at the 2018 Armory Show in New York alongside Pat Steir and Jennifer Bartlett. Over the course of her career, Benglis has worked extensively with heavy industrial materials such as lead, steel, and plastics, but her recent works ... More
Rare World War II/Nazi militaria and antique rifles pushed Milestone auction to $750,000
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- A motivated crowd and relentless Internet bidding drove the total to $750,000 at Milestones January 27 Historic Military & Firearms Auction held at the companys suburban-Cleveland gallery. The 668-lot sale included many World War II and Nazi rarities with extraordinary provenance, as well as Civil War uniforms and paraphernalia; Native-American relics, and a virtual armory of antique weaponry. This sale set a record for the most bidder sign-ups weve ever had, said Miles King, co-owner of Milestone Auctions. A lot of gun collectors came to the preview and really enjoyed handling the old guns and studying how they were put together. There were many new customers who had never bid in our sales before and more bidders than usual participating at the high end. We were very pleased. Antique and vintage firearms were led ... More
Cosmic Kusama offered at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Sale in London
LONDON.- Yayoi Kusamas No A.A., from the collection of ICA co-founder Sir Herbert Read, is being offered for the first time at auction at Bonhams Post-War and Contemporary sale on 7 March 2018 at the New Bond Street saleroom. The work is estimated at £250,000-350,000. Ralph Taylor, Global Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art said: Yayoi Kusama is arguably the most important living female artist in the world and her work is highly prized by collectors and institutions alike. This mesmerising painting was executed during Kusamas first year in the West and, when combined with the impeccable provenance and the fact that this is the first time it has ever been offered for sale, this must surely be considered one of the artists most significant early works ever to be offered at auction. Born in 1929 in Matsumato City, Japan, Kusama studied at the Kyoto Municipal ... More
Cal Poly university art gallery opens "The Young Series" by Amy Touchette
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA.- Throughout her career, documentarian and street photographer Amy Touchette has utilized the power of photography to create authentic portraits of people within their social groups and communities. In 2012, The New York Times published images from New York Young, Touchette's street portrait series of teenagers in New York City. The newspaper described the work as "a potent mix of street savvy and aching vulnerability ..." New York Young inspired Touchette to make the same style of portraits of teenagers in O'ahu, Hawaii and Tokyo, Japan to discover what teen culture looks like in three disparate island nations. She writes: "Before travel became so ubiquitous, island populations were more sequestered ... their culture would reflect that isolation in that it felt more unified and unique than landlocked settings. Although the world is globalized ... More
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum presents The Coral Reef Project
NEW LONDON, CONN.- The Lyman Allyn Art Museum announced the opening of The Coral Reef Project, on view from February 10 through April 15, 2018. The Coral Reef Project, the latest exhibition in Lyman Allyns Near :: New contemporary series, is a mixed media exhibit with a unique sculptural installation that demonstrates the fragility of coral and its ecosystem. This exhibition, created by local artist Tekla Zweir, Chair of the Art Department at The Williams School in New London, CT, includes years of research into various species of coral. Featured in Glassenberg Gallery are studies of coral in oil on canvas, 50 individual coral sculptures arranged to demonstrate a living coral reef, and plaster relief sculptures to represent bleached coral. The juxtaposition of the different sculptures show the delicateness and fragility of the reef. In addition, experimental ... More
Delhi's 'lost' Mughal garden reopens as public park
NEW DELHI (AFP).- A once-forgotten Mughal garden in the heart of New Delhi will reopen on Wednesday after years of painstaking conservation work, creating a new public park in India's sprawling and smog-choked capital. The 90-acre (36-hectare) garden will be formally opened by the Aga Khan, whose Trust for Culture has helped recreate the classical garden and restore its crumbling 16th-century monuments. Some of the ancient tombs it contains were close to ruin before conservation efforts began around a decade ago, but have now been given UNESCO World Heritage status. The park is part of the historic complex that surrounds Humayan's Tomb, the recently restored grave of a Mughal emperor that is widely seen as the inspiration for the Taj Mahal. The Mughal dynasty ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th ... More
Immersive video installation by John Akomfrah on view at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting, together with the contemporary art foundation TBA21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary), an immersive video installation by award-winning British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah titled Purple. Through six large-format screens Akomfrah explores the effects of climate change and its consequence for biodiversity on the planets different communities through both archival footage and newly shot film. The work is co-commissioned by TBA21-Academy, which promotes advocacy for ocean conservation through cross-disciplinary programs and artistic production. Part of the museums 25th anniversary celebrations, the installation marks the first collaboration with the foundation established by Francesca von Habsburg, daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. Throughout ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and curator Rembrandt Peale was born February 22, 2018. Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 - October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. In this image: Rembrandt Peale (American, 1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856. Oil on canvas, 36-1/2 x 29 in.
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