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Ariel View Above Austin Highway.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museums commitment to engaging a diverse community in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts is reaching new heights with the announcement of a $6.25 million Landscape Master Plan. This transformative plan will activate and enhance the outdoor Museum experience with additional works of art, invisible fencing, new landscaping, and increased accessibilityensuring everyone feels welcome and at home at the first modern art museum in Texas. By physically opening up the McNay to our entire community, we are honoring the legacy of our founder, said Richard Aste, McNay Director. During World War II, when our country needed more beauty and inspiration than ever, Marion Koogler McNay shared her home and world-renowned modern art collection with students and soldiers across San Antonio. Seventy-five years later, her commitment to excellence and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Through to September 29th of this year a selection of the Atl Fund can be seen at the Mexican National Art Museum (MUNAL) in the exhibition "Atl, Earth, Wind and Fire: Sublime Sensation". This wonderful exhibition is comprised of a selection of 70 pencil and charcoal drawings, made by Gerardo Murillo (known as Dr. Atl), and in its entirety is comprised of 104 pieces including five pieces from private collections, and one from the National Watercolor Museum (Museo Nacional de la Acuarela).
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| | Phoenix Art Museum celebrates 550th anniversary of the birth of Sikhism's founder with new exhibition | | Mexican National Art Museum presents a selection of 70 pencil and charcoal drawings, made by Dr. Atl | | Katherine Martin named new Chairman of Asia Week New York |
The Singh Twins, Guru Nanak Emerging from the Water. The Khanuja Family.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Through March 29, 2020, Phoenix Art Museum presents Guru Nanak: 550th Birth Anniversary of Sikhisms Founder, which examines the life and teachings of the First Sikh Guru. Spanning four centuries, the exhibition showcases approximately 25 historical and contemporary works that depict stories of Guru Nanaks spiritual journeys and illuminate how his concept of oneness has informed Sikh writings and practices since the 15th century. We are delighted to share Guru Nanak: 550th Birth Anniversary of Sikhisms Founder with our community, said Gilbert Vicario, the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and the Selig Family Chief Curator of Phoenix Art Museum. This exhibition offers deep insight into the founding tenets of Sikhism and reinforces our commitment to building awareness of our citys diverse communities through art. The First Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak (14691539) was a philosophe ... More | |
Cleofas Almanza, Tempestad en los llanos de aragon. Courtesy Museo Nacional de Arte INBAL 2019 | www.munal.mx
MEXICO CITY.- Through to September 29th of this year a selection of the Atl Fund can be seen at the Mexican National Art Museum (MUNAL) in the exhibition Atl, Earth, Wind and Fire: Sublime Sensation. This wonderful exhibition is comprised of a selection of 70 pencil and charcoal drawings, made by Gerardo Murillo (known as Dr. Atl), and in its entirety is comprised of 104 pieces including five pieces from private collections, and one from the National Watercolor Museum (Museo Nacional de la Acuarela). An exhibition as large as this important compilation has never before been offered at the MUNAL as an autonomous one, for which this pictorial production of four thematic orders offers a spectacular occasion for those who visit it. VÃctor RodrÃguez Rangel, curator of the 19th Century collection of the Museo Nacional de Arte and organizer of Atl, Earth, Wind and Fire: Sublime ... More | |
Since 1999, Katherine Martin has served as the Managing Director of Scholten Japanese Art, one of New York's preeminent galleries specializing in traditional and contemporary Japanese prints.
NEW YORK, NY.- Katherine Martin has been named the new Chairman of Asia Week New York, the collaboration of prominent international Asian art galleries, six major auction houses, and numerous museums and Asian cultural institutions. "I am honored to assume the chairmanship of the Asia Week New York Association," says Katherine Martin, the managing director of Scholten Japanese Art, in New York. "This annual ten-day event, held every March, has become an important destination for Asian-art collectors, curators and enthusiasts, and I welcome the opportunity to continue the tradition of our past chairmen by forging new paths forward now that we have passed our ten-year anniversary." Over the years Ms. Martin has lectured extensively throughout the United States. Among the institutions are the School of ... More |
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| | Peter Lindbergh, revolutionary fashion photographer, dies at 74 | | Hitler bust found in cellar of French Senate | | Art exhibition celebrates Wilson College's sesquicentennial works by Jim Condron |
In this file photo taken on September 20, 2016 in Los Angeles, German photographer Peter Lindbergh attends his Book Signing for "A Different Vision On Fashion Photography." Peter Lindbergh died aged 74, his family announced on September 4, 2019. Frazer Harrison / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Peter Lindbergh, the German photographer credited with launching the careers of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, has died aged 74, his family told AFP Wednesday. Lindbergh's stark black-and-white images of models and stars staring straight at the camera, which played with light and shadow, helped overturn glossy standards of beauty and fashion in the 1980s and 1990s. Lindbergh was born in Lissa in western Poland in 1944. When he was a few months old his family fled the advance of Russian troops to southern Germany. He grew up in the steel town of Duisburg, which he recalled as "the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany", only discovering the art world when he later moved to Berlin. He shot the first ad campaign for Volkswagen Golf and also ... More | |
Between 1940 and 1944 the stately Senate palace in the Luxembourg Gardens was occupied by the Nazi Luftwaffe command staff for the Western front.
PARIS (AFP).- The French Senate said Wednesday that it was investigating the discovery of a bust of Hitler, left over from the Nazi occupation of Paris, in the cellar of the upper house of parliament. Le Monde newspaper revealed that the 35-centimetre-high bust had been found along with a Nazi flag measuring two by three metres in the vault of the Senate, in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris. "I was not aware of the presence of this bust," Senate president Gerard Larcher told reporters, adding that he had ordered a thorough inventory of all the objects housed in the cellar. Larcher, whose office was once that of German field marshal Hugo Sperrle, said he was "certain" that Senate staff had not tried to cover up the presence of the metal effigy. Between 1940 and 1944 the stately Senate palace in the Luxembourg Gardens was occupied by the Nazi Luftwaffe command staff for the Western front. It was liberated by Allied forces and French Resistance ... More | |
We cant answer these questions because weve read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We cant get outside the aura. Were part of the aura. Were here, were now, vintage beds and bed frames, 96x84x64 inches, 2019.
CHAMBERSBURG, PA.- Wilson Colleges Cooley Gallery presents You never wash it off completely, an exhibition of installations and recent works by artist Jim Condron. The show will run from September 4th to December 15, 2019. To mark Wilson Colleges sesquicentennial, Condron worked with the colleges archivists, professors, and students to construct compelling art installations from campus relics and artifacts. The works of art engage with Wilson Colleges rich and unique history. Condron will discuss the show as part of Wilson Colleges Common Hour series on Monday, September 16th at 12:00 Noon in the John Stewart Memorial Library. Attendees will be invited to view the instillations, and then participate in a conversation with the artist moderated by Wilsons MFA Program Director, Joshua Legg. A typical archives exhibit has a literal feeling with traditional objects ... More |
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| | Aztec ballgame returns to Mexico City after 500 years | | Boathouse yields trove from forgotten artist | | Imperial Chinese £1 charity shop find to bring £50,000 |
Mexican Edgar Vizcarra, player of a pre-Columbian ballgame called "Ulama" -in Nahuatl indigenous language- poses for a photograph hitting a "Ulamaloni" (solid rubber ball) with his hip, during a photo session at the FARO Poniente cultural center in Mexico City. Omar TORRES / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Five centuries ago, newly arrived in what is now Mexico, the Spanish conquistadors banned an indigenous game involving a heavy ball, circular stone goals and human sacrifice. Now, a group of young players are bringing the game back to life for the first time in Mexico City -- without the human sacrifice -- at the site of an old garbage dump. The players proudly tie thick leather belts around their waists as they prepare to play "ulama," as the game is known in the Nahuatl language: a mixture of sport, ritual and ceremony whose promoters are now using it to help at-risk youth in a downtrodden neighborhood on the Mexican capital's north side. Pre-Columbian ballgames ... More | |
A Girl in Red, undated pre-1901, oil on panel, 21 x 14 in. Private collection, photo: Ted Hendrickson.
NEW YORK, NY.- Impressionist painter Mary Rogers Williams (1857-1907), renowned in her lifetime for exhibiting works from Paris to Indianapolis, left a legacy of portraits, landscapes and writings that ended up stored away in a Connecticut boathouse until 2012. Eve M. Kahn, the former Antiques columnist for The New York Times, has harvested Williamss rediscovered artworks and archive for a new biography, Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams, 1857-1907 (Wesleyan University Press). In Kahns book tour, she will lecture October 6, 2 pm, at the Portland Historical Society in Connecticut, and October 27 at 2 pm at the Boston International Fine Art Show. Mary Williams, a bakers daughter from Hartford, Connecticut, trained at the Art Students League and with artists including James McNeill Whistler. Starting in 1888, she ran ... More | |
The 8-inch-high vase, found in Hertfordshire, was made around 300 years ago in China and was marked with a symbol that meant it wasn't for export, but for the Emperor's palace.
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- A lucky shopper who picked up a Chinese vase for £1 in a charity shop discovered it was actually worth up to £80,000 because it was made for a 18th century emperor. Unaware of its significance, the buyer who wishes to remain anonymous, listed the small yellow vase on eBay to see if it was worth anything - only to be inundated with messages and bids. Realising the vase must be valuable, he removed it from the bidding site and took it to specialists at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers in Stansted Mountfitchet where it was valued at £50,000 to £80,000. The 8-inch-high vase, found in Hertfordshire, was made around 300 years ago in China and was marked with a symbol that meant it wasn't for export, but for the Emperor's palace. Now the Qianlong famille ... More |
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| | Slovenian village divided over Trump 'statue of liberty' | | The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès opens a solo show by French artist Camille Blatrix | | Museum of Arts and Design appoints Elissa Auther as Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs & Chief Curator |
Its creator, architect Tomaz Schlegl, told AFP he wanted the piece to serve as a comment on populist politics.
SELA PRI KAMNIKU (AFP).- Amid the idyllic calm of a sleepy corner of northern Slovenia, the unlikeliest of disturbances intrudes -- an irate villager on a tractor ploughing into a huge effigy of US President Donald Trump. The scene, witnessed by AFP, unfolded this week in the village of Sela pri Kamniku, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital Ljubljana in the homeland of Trump's wife Melania. The man was making his feelings clear on the place's newest feature -- an eight-metre-high (26 feet) statue of Trump complete with his trademark mane, blue suit, white shirt and red tie. The statue emerged unscathed from the attack, despite threats from the incensed villager to burn it down. Ahead of the official inauguration on Saturday, the artwork is sparking strong emotions in Sela pri Kamniku. Its creator, architect ... More | |
Camille Blatrix, Ambird, 2017, resin, coral, stainless steel, rubber, 25 à 5 à 12 cm. Courtesy of the artist and the Balice Hertling gallery. Photo © Aurélien Mole.
BRUSSELS.- For the second exhibition in the series Matters of Concern | Matières à panser launched at La Verrière, the Brussels art space of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès, in April 2019 curator Guillaume Désanges presents a solo show by French artist Camille Blatrix. Sculptures by Camille Blatrix (which the artist terms emotional objects) resemble strange, industrially manufactured items, improbable artefacts produced by a transgressive techno-capitalist society. His materials of choice (wood, aluminium, glass ) are combined with complex know-how (such as 3D modelling) and worked using factory production methods, though everything here is produced by hand, with obsessive care and craftsmanship. The result is a perfect finish, its cold formality countered by the ... More | |
Elissa Auther. Photo: David Lewis Taylor.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) announced the appointment of Elissa Auther to the position of Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator, effective immediately. In this role, Auther will collaborate with Nanette L. Laitman Director Chris Scoates to create diverse exhibition programs and collections, foster relationships with artists and designers, and develop forward-looking strategies for engaging a broad audience. A highly valued colleague, Elissa is a gifted curator and scholar who is passionate about the vital and evolving importance of craft in contemporary art, said Scoates. In her new leadership position at MAD, she will help define and reshape the important questions driving the dialogue and direction of art and design in the twenty-first century. In December 2014, Auther joined MAD as its inaugural Windgate ... More |
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Bolivia's fires destroy 'heritage' rock art sites
LA PAZ (AFP).- Wildfires that have raged across forests and grassland in eastern Bolivia for weeks have destroyed rare rock art sites, archeologists announced Tuesday. "We believe that the damage is big and wide in terms of our heritage of rock art," said Danilo Drakic, chief archeologist in the eastern Santa Cruz department. Santa Cruz is home to numerous rock art sites, including paintings and engravings spanning several millennia, experts say. Drakic said fires that have raged since May had caused significant damage to rock art sites near the eastern town of Robore. The sites contain engravings dating from 1,500 BC. "A dark layer of soot has covered all the paintings," said Drakic, citing an initial appraisal of the damage. Heat from the fires "has caused stones to break, even to collapse." He said a full assessment of the damage could only be made ... More
Nationalmuseum presents an exhibition of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
STOCKHOLM.- This autumn, Nationalmuseum features an exhibition on one of the most dramatic moments in history the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The exhibition, which opens on 5 September, takes a broad look at what happened within the visual culture during the upheavals of 1989. Global outlooks, Swedish perspectives and high politics meet mundane everyday life in an array of documentary photography, portraits, posters, videos and designs. The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. The Cold War came to an end and the struggle between liberal capitalism and communism seemed to be over. Eastern Europe was not, however, the only place on earth shaken by political drama. The South African apartheid regime collapsed and on the Tiananmen Square in China, student demonstrations ended with a massacre. The collapse of communism in Eastern ... More
Kasmin announces US representation of Ali Banisadr
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin announced the US representation of painter Ali Banisadr (b. 1976, Iran.) The artists first solo exhibition at the gallery will open early 2021. Ali Banisadrs densely populated paintings are influenced by the artists perception of sound as inextricably linked to color and form. Drawing on childhood experiences of the Iran-Iraq war in his native Tehran (where explosions and other aural disturbances were commonplace) as well as his extant synesthesia, Banisadr works painstakingly and intuitively to build complex compositions that exude a vitality at once turbulent and celebratory. Banisadr draws freely from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of painting to create a distinctive visual language. Whilst his gestural brushstrokes recall the unbridled energy of de Koonings Abstract Expressionism, the works intensity of mood and dreamlike ... More
Holocaust 'masterpiece' causes uproar at Venice film festival
VENICE (AFP).- A searing adaptation of one of most controversial books about the Holocaust divided critics at the Venice film festival Wednesday, with some fighting each other in the dark to get out of its first screening. "The Painted Bird", based on Jerzy Kosinski's highly contentious 1965 novel about a Jewish boy surviving the worst human nature can inflict on him in an unnamed Eastern European country, was hailed as a masterpiece by some and an unwatchable ordeal by others. But its staggering central performance from nine-year-old Czech Roma boy Petr Kotlar -- who witnesses a panoply of depravity from incest, bestiality and rape to mutilation and murder -- has had co-stars Harvey Keitel and Stellan Skarsgard as well as the critics in raptures. That did not stop some running for the exits at its first screening. In the very first scene, the boy's pet ... More
Indian plus-size actors defy stereotypes with bold theatre
NEW DELHI (AFP).- A group of Indian plus-size actors and their theatre troupe, the Big Fat Company, are confronting stereotypes head on with their own brand of provocative drama, which includes gorging on cake onstage. The troupe, formed in 2017 in Bangalore and which recently performed in Delhi for the first time, wants to fight prejudice -- not just in the film industry but in society as a whole. "The future of the Big Fat Company is to become obsolete because we shouldn't exist," founder Anuradha HR, 41, told AFP at the Old World Festival at the Indian Habitat Center. "I mean if we were given opportunities everywhere else, you know, not considering our size, then we wouldn't have the need for the Big Fat company," she said. Their play, "Head2Head", includes parts of a well-known southern Indian play about two characters -- one athletic, ... More
Berlin's Kulturforum opens a group exhibition of media art from China
BERLIN.- From 5 September 2019 to 26 January 2020, Berlins Kulturforum will present the group exhibition Micro Era. Media Art from China. The two artists Cao Fei (*1978) and Lu Yang (*1984) asked the artists Fang Di (*1987) and Zhang Peili (*1957) for a dialogue. The artists selected the works together with the Chinese and German curators Anna-Catharina Gebbers (Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin), Victor Wang (freelance curator, Shanghai/London) and Yang Beichen (freelance curator and film reseacher, Beijing). The exhibition will be accompanied by Pi Li (M +, Hong Kong) as curatorial advisor. The exhibition project was initiated by Yu Zhang 张 彧, president of the Gesellschaft für Deutsch-Chinesischen kulturellen Austausch e.V. (GeKA e.V. 德中文 化交流基金会). The exhibition concept was developed by Anna-Catharina Gebbers (curator, Hamburger ... More
£10 million project set to make Luton vital arts hub
LUTON.- Lutons primary cultural venue, the Hat Factory Arts Centre, re-opens its doors to the public on Friday 6 September 2019, marking the first phase of the ambitious £10m Hat District regeneration project led by the Culture Trust, Luton. The reopening launch of the Arts Centre will feature a newly commissioned performance #factoryreset by physical theatre company Tangled Feet at 8.00pm on Friday 6th September 2019. Afterwards, the Arts Centre will be open to anyone wanting to explore the new and redeveloped spaces including the Beacon Lounge and Hatch 1&2 workshops. In addition, the first 500 people to enter the building will receive a com- memorative and limited edition hat pin. Located in the heart of the town, the Hat Factory Arts Centre has been extensively refurbished in a move that will allow it to deliver its arts and cultural programme ... More
Beatrice Leanza is the new Executive Director of Lisbon's Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
LISBON.- Beatrice Leanza is the new Executive Director of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT). A curator and critic born in Italy and with a solid professional career since 2002, Beatrice Leanza was chosen through an invitation after a series of interviews with several candidates. The EDP Foundation chose someone with a diverse background in the fields of art, design and architecture and an extensive experience in project and team management, having decided to change MAATs internal organisation with the new executive director and a curatorial council. Holding an MA (Masters in Arts) in Asian Studies from Ca Foscari University (Venice) and with a dissertation thesis on contemporary art in China, Beatrice Leanza started her career in Beijing as a curator at CAAW (China Art Archives and Warehouse), the seminal alternative ... More
Peter Aaron's photographs show a lost Syria
ATHENS, GA.- In 2009, while on a family trip to Syria, architectural photographer Peter Aaron shot dozens of images of historic sites. Two years later, as part of the Arab Spring uprisings, protesters demanded that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad step down. Their violent suppression began a civil war that has continued to the present day and resulted in the destruction of many of the sites Aaron photographed. Despite intervention from foreign powers and the United Nations, the war continues to power on, causing the displacement of millions of citizens and a shocking death toll that had reached nearly half a million people as of 2016. Before the War: Photographs of Syria by Peter Aaron is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia from August 31 through December 1, 2019. Over thousands of years, countless cultures have ... More
Kennedy's visit to meet survivors cared for in Glasgow captured in archive collection exhibition
GLASGOW.- On the 80th anniversary of the sinking of TSS Athenia, attacked on the day World War 2 was declared in September 1939, Glasgow City Archives has shared details of a Disaster Fund file set up to help victims. It contains fascinating letters and telegrams of thanks from a young John F. Kennedy, who visited American survivors being cared for in Glasgow, from his father Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador to the UK and President Franklin Roosevelt. It holds photographs, letters and newspaper clippings detailing the fundraising effort and how the city and individuals helped all those caught up in the tragedy. The disaster fund was initiated by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Dollan. He invited Ambassador Kennedy to travel from London to Glasgow. The immense activity of the time resulted in Joseph Kennedy sending his son, a ... More
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens a retrospective exhibition of Vladimir Lagrange's work
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens a new exhibition season with a jubilee retrospective of Vladimir Lagrange, whose work has become the very image of the thaw of the 1960s. The photographers overwhelming desire to observe the world, his attention towards people, and the amazing sense of the spirit of the era have provided us with an extensive archive. Lagranges works became a recognized classic of Soviet art, while remaining in consonance with what was happening with photography in the worldthe rise of the humanistic movement, the work of the young photographic agency Magnum. More than a hundred of Lagranges works, from the 60s to the 90s, will allow the viewer to see the changes in the moods of successive periods of history. The retrospective will include classic and well-known photographsGranny ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German artist Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 â May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. In this image: Two visitors watch the painting "Kreidefelsen auf Ruegen" from 1818 from painter Caspar David Friedrich at the museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, May 2, 2006. The exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich - Invention of romance" shows a retrospective of the great German painter from May 5 to August 20, 2006.
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