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The presence in this quarter of a perpetually flooded cellar is today interpreted as the potential location of a mikveh.
PARIS.- As early as the 13th century, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux sheltered a large Jewish community of around 70 families. Nestled in the heart of the medieval city, between the market square and the Episcopal palace, the memory of this quarter, or ?quarry? persists through the name ?Jewry Street?. It was composed of a few small, well delimited, streets that were closed each evening. During the Middle Ages, the city was an Episcopal center under the dominion of the Holy Roman Empire. The Jewish community was thus protected from the successive interdictions of the Kingdom of France (under Philippe Auguste, Louis IX, etc.). It seems to have thrived in the 14th century, especially after the expulsion in 1934. Starting in the middle of the 15th century, the lives of Jewish people became increasingly difficult due to new repressive measures. Those living in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux did not escape this fate and only three families were still present in 1486. ... More |
| The Best Photos of the Day | | | | This photo taken on December 18, 2017 at an undisclosed location shows manuscripts, historic letters, notes and musical scores of the Aristophile collection, before the collection is to be liquidated through a process of hundreds of auctions over at least the next six years. The first auction will take place on December 20, 2017 at the Drouot auction house in Paris. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP. | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Asia Week New York announces stellar gallery line-up for 2018 | | Chinese ink-brush artwork sells for record $144 mn | | Sale breaks European record for Chinese artist Sanyu |
Vietnamese Underglaze Blue Decorated "Island " Dish, 15th -16th century. Photo: Courtesy of Kaikodo LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Asia Week New York Association announces that 45 international galleries and 5 auction houses: Bonhams, Christie's, Doyle, iGavel, and Sotheby's will participate in Asia Week New York 2018, the ten-day celebration of Asian art and culture that spans the metropolitan region from March 15 through 24, 2018. "We are delighted to announce the 2018 roster of international galleries," says Christina Prescott-Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York. "The breadth and quality of their material is nothing short of spectacular." Asia Week New York welcomes several new dealers into the fold including: Bardith Ltd., (New York), Cohen and Cohen (England), Findlay Galleries (New York), Suneet Kapoor (formerly with Kapoor Galleries in New York), Robert Kuo Ltd. (Los Angeles/New York), and Tai Modern (Santa Fe). Gisèle Croës SA from Brussels ... More | |
A woman inspects artwork by Chinese artist Qi Baishi entitled 'Landscapes' during a China Guardian auction preview in Hong Kong on October 6, 2017. Photo: DALE DE LA REY/AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- A set of ink-brush paintings by Chinese artist Qi Baishi has sold for $144 million, breaking all records for Chinese paintings, a Beijing auction house said Monday. The group of 12 panels painted in 1925 were sold at auction on Sunday night for 931.5 million yuan, Beijing Poly International Auction said in a statement. The self-taught painter (1864-1957) became the first Chinese artist to surpass the $100 million mark for one piece, the auction house said. The work, entitled "Twelve Landscape Screens", depicts mountains, villages and trees in bloom, with soft blue, grey, brown and pink tones. The 12 panels measure 1.8 meters by 47 cm. The buyer's identity has not been revealed. Qi Baishi was one of the world's most valued Chinese artists last year, according ... More | |
The canvas was painted in 1930 and lost for decades before reappearing in the 1970s near Paris.
PARIS (AFP).- A still-life by the Chinese artist Sanyu sold for a record 8.8 million euros ($10.3 million) in Paris Monday, an auction house said. The oil painting of a pot of flowers set a new European record for the artist, who died in 1966, having spent most of his life in the French capital. The canvas was painted in 1930 and lost for decades before reappearing in the 1970s near Paris. Born Chang Yu in Nanchong in 1901, Sanyu was talent-spotted by the renowned dealer Henri-Pierre Roche, who also championed Picasso, Brancusi and Man Ray. He bought 111 of his paintings, nearly a third of Sanyu's total output, however, the artist never attained the fame of his peers during his lifetime. The Aguttes auction house, who handled the sale at the Drouot showrooms, also sold two canvasses by the artist in 2015 for 4.08 million each, then a record for the painter. ... More |
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| Wallraf-Richartz-Museum restores Gerrit van Honthorst's 'Adoration of the Shepherds' | | Mammoth skeleton sells for nearly 550,000 euros at French auction | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions |
The painting now shines forth in new glory: brighter, more colourful and even bigger.
COLOGNE.- The `Adoration of the Shepherds´ by Gerrit van Honthorst is one of the biggest crowd-pleasers in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum - and not only at Christmas time. The Dutch master's intimate view of the Nativity is unique, making it one of the most fascinating adoration scenes in art history. Thanks to an extensive restoration supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the provision of a new oak wood frame based on historical models, the painting now shines forth in new glory: brighter, more colourful and even bigger! Surprisingly, the work of the restorers revealed that after an initial completion Honthorst subsequently enlarged the canvas in the upper part, providing the scene with more air; this had remained hidden as a result of the added strip being folded back in the 1940s. The re-creation of the original format was not an easy task because the blue-striped canvas had been relined and, in order to align the canva ... More | |
This file photo taken on November 16, 2017 shows the skeleton of a mammoth at the Aguttes auction house. PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP.
LYON (AFP).- The nearly intact skeleton of a woolly mammoth that lived at least 10,000 years ago was sold at auction for more than a half million euros Saturday in the southeastern French city of Lyon. The giant skeleton -- mounted in a forward walking position with its enormous curved tusks with tones of caramel and ivory facing slightly downward -- was bought by the chief executive of a French waterproofing company whose logo is of the prehistoric mammal. "We are going to display it in the lobby of our firm," said Pierre-Etienne Bindschedler, the CEO of Soprema. "I think we have enough room". Bindschedler bought the piece for 548,250 euros ($645,000) at the Aguttes auction house. One of the largest specimens ever found, the mammoth skeleton measures a little over three metres (10 feet) in height and was estimated to sell for at least 450,000 euros because of its "fine condition", remarkable because it retained ... More | |
The Resurrection of Christ, 1622. Johann König (German, 15861642). Oil on copper; 61 x 46 cm (24 x 18 1/8 in.). Cleveland Museum of Art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- Recent acquisitions by the Cleveland Museum of Art include a performance piece by Pierre Huyghe, a leader in the Relational Aesthetic genre and the first work of its kind to enter the museums collection; an oil painting on copper by Johann König, one of the most significant masters of German painting at the beginning of the 17th century; a generous bequest of several works from Frances P. Taft, a beloved Trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Art; and two groups of photos, gifted to the museum by The George Gund Foundation. The photographs were created for the Foundations Annual Report project, an ongoing initiative since 1990. The CMAs acquisition of Name Announcer by Pierre Huyghe (French, b. 1962) reflects the growing presence of scripted performance, live action and interpersonal exchange in contemporary art. When the work is activated, visitors will encounter a tuxedoed ... More |
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| France dubs '120 Days of Sodom' a national treasure to stop sale | | Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto to reenvision Hirshhorn lobby for the first time in the museums 42-year history | | Yossi Milo Gallery opens an exhibition of graphite drawings and color photographs by David Goldes |
Depiction of the Marquis de Sade by H. Biberstein in L'uvre du marquis de Sade, Guillaume Apollinaire (Edit.), Bibliothèque des Curieux, Paris, 1912.
PARIS (AFP).- The French government stepped in Monday to declare the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's "120 Days of Sodom" a national treasure as it was about to be sold at auction in Paris. Officials ordered that the 18th-century erotic masterpiece be withdrawn from the sale, along with Andre Breton's "Surrealist Manifestos", banning their export from France, the Aguttes auction house told AFP. They were part of a vast sale of historic documents owned by the French investment firm Aristophil, which was shut down in scandal two years ago, taking ($1 billion) of its investors' money with it. "120 Days of Sodom" was expected to go for up to six million euros on Wednesday, while Breton's highly influential manifestos on modern art were estimated at around four million euros. Sade wrote the controversial work about four rich libertines in search of the ultimate form of sexual gratification on a roll ... More | |
Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto; Architect: NMRL/Tomoyuki Sakakida; Photo: Sugimoto Studio.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced that acclaimed Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been commissioned to transform the museum's lobby, the first cohesive redesign of the iconic Gordon Bunshaft-designed building in the museum's 42-year history. The redesign coincides with a new partnership to open the coffee bar Dolcezza Coffee & Gelato at Hirshhorn in the lobby's east end, the museum's first permanent food and beverage offering and the only locally owned café at the Smithsonian. Both initiatives will open February 2018 as part of a larger plan to transform the overall museum experience, designed to encourage creativity and foster greater connections between visitors and the artists of the time. Sugimoto's design, brought to life through his Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory (NMRL), will maintain the integrity and scale ... More | |
David Goldes, Circuit Drawing #3, 2016. Graphite on Black Gessoed Paper, Electrified with 15,000 volts © David Goldes, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo Gallery announces an exhibition of graphite drawings and color photographs by David Goldes, on view from December 14 through January 27. This is the fifth solo exhibition by David Goldes at the Yossi Milo Gallery. David Goldes, known for his carefully observed phenomena-based photographs, will exhibit a recent series of luminous drawings that have been exposed to high-voltage electricity. The drawings depict a variety of precariously balanced bar shapes and triangular forms in contact with one another. Drawn with graphite and burnished to a metallic sheen, these shapes are built to carry electric currents, creating a field through which high-voltage may travel among the different shapes seeking an endpoint. The electricity is unpredictable, abiding by the needs of its physics to complete a circuit. The final works, with their soot blackened ... More |
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| Exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery features works by Lui Shou Kwan in dialogue with Emily Carr | | TarraWarra Museum of Art opens exhibition of works by Rosemary Laing | | Art Institute names Jay A. Clarke as new curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings |
Emily Carr, Forest, British Columbia, 193132 (detail). Oil on canvas, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Emily Carr Trust, Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery.
VANCOUVER.- On view from December 16, 2017 until April 8, 2018, the Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting 空 / Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan. The exhibition pairs Canadian modernist Emily Carr with the founder of the New Ink Movement in Hong Kong Lui Shou Kwan. 空 / Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan includes more than forty works, featuring a selection of charcoal sketches and forest paintings that Emily Carr produced of the Pacific Northwest coast throughout the 1930s, alongside Luis early Hong Kong landscapes and a series of unique Zen paintings that he created in the 1960s. Home to the most comprehensive collection of Emily Carr works in the world, we are pleased to shine a spotlight on Carrs experimental charcoal investigations and evocative forest paintings ... More | |
Rosemary Laing, Drapery and wattle, 2017.
TARRAWARRA.- TarraWarra Museum of Art is staging an exhibition of the works of Rosemary Laing, one of Australias most significant and internationally-renowned photo-based artists, 2 December 2017 11 February 2018. Focusing on the theme of land and landscape in Laings oeuvre, the Rosemary Laing exhibition includes 28 large scale works selected from 10 series over a thirty-year period. The exhibition, which is the first large-scale showing of Laings work in Victoria, is accompanied by an exhibition of works by Fred Williams focusing on a single year of the artists oeuvre, Fred Williams 1974. Curated by Anthony Fitzpatrick, the Williams exhibition reveals the ways in which colour and human intervention in the landscape became a focus for the artist. Born in Brisbane and based in Sydney, Laing has worked with the photographic medium since the mid-1980s. Her projects have engaged with ... More | |
In her work since 2009, as the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the esteemed Sterling and Francine Clark Institute (the Clark) in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Jay has organized twelve exhibitions.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute announced today that Jay A. Clarke will join the museum on April 1, 2018, as the new Rothman Family Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings. Clarke will oversee the departments ambitious efforts in research, publishing, acquisitions, and exhibitions to shape an innovative and exciting vision for the museums internationally recognized collection of nineteenth-century works on paper. Kevin Salatino, the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Seale Chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings, shared: Jay has superb curatorial credentials and an outstanding reputation as a strong leader, generous mentor, respected scholar, and creative collaborator. Her curatorial and research experience ... More |
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Major exhibition of photographer and ceramicist Peter Olson opens in Santa Fe
SANTA FE, NM.- Direct from the critically acclaimed exhibition at the American Museum of Ceramic Art that ended this past August, Peters Projects of Santa Fe is exhibiting Photo Ceramica, the first major exhibition of photographer and ceramicist Peter Olson. Based in Philadelphia, Olson has spent over 35 years as an accomplished photographer, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography and film at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and has travelled the world recording his visual experiences on film. Expanding his art, Olson learned how to throw on the wheel at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia 6 years ago and has continued working with clay ever since. Working with his own photography, Olson uses his photographs on his ceramic work; printed, repeated and collaged to encase each ceramic piece. His motifs vary in scale creating ... More
Baltimore Museum of Art hosts immersive installation by Baltimore-based artist Phaan Howng
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature, an immersive experience that highlights local environmental issues using intense, unnatural colors inspired by toxic waste. On view through August 2018, the installation was created by Baltimore-based artist Phaan Howng in partnership with Blue Water Baltimore and is on view in the Commons gallery adjacent to the Imagining Home exhibition in the BMAs Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center. I am excited for visitors to engage playfully with the space while reconsidering the impact of their personal engagement with the environment both locally and globally, said artist Phaan Howng. Phaan Howng: The Succession of Nature is part of the BMAs Commons Collaboration initiative, which commissions an artist and non-profit to work together ... More
Kiosk Opens at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
LONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts offers a new home to KIOSK a unique, long-term creative project and object-driven shop, launched in New York in 2005 as a response to the growing dominance of mainstream chains. KIOSK presents independently produced items, individually selected from all over the world. Handpicked for the ICA from the objects they have documented during the past 12 years, an initial collection of thirty five products is currently being displayed and sold within an installation inside the entrance to the ICA, adjacent to the newly opened ICA Bookshop. Featured among the selection are an ergonomically satisfying Metal Tape Dispenser from Italy; the diminutive yet perfectly formed Portuguese Beer Glass; the Handyaid from the US that lends a hand to your hand and the Rainbow Prism from Germany that enables ... More
Artemis Gallery plans auction to conclude most successful year ever
BOULDER, COLO.- Internationally recognized as being among the foremost authorities in their field, Artemis Gallerys co-founders Bob and Teresa Dodge have reserved some of their consignors finest antiquities and other cultural rarities for their last regular auction of 2017. The 414-lot selection, which will be presented on Wednesday, December 20, wraps the most successful year ever for the Colorado-based boutique auction house and showcases art and relics from the worlds greatest ancient civilizations as well as other influential but lesser-known societies. Many come with prestigious provenance that includes prior sale at Sothebys or Christies. As is the custom with all Artemis Gallery auctions, the upcoming sale will follow a chronological timeline that begins with Ancient Egypt and ... More
Nigeria turns the page on literary past
LAGOS.- Mention Nigerian literature and the first names likely to spring to mind are Chinua Achebe, the author of "Things Fall Apart", or the venerable Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. But Africa's most populous nation has a new crop of writers whose work is a far cry from the post-colonial era of their esteemed predecessors. Olumide Popoola's novel "When We Speak Of Nothing", for example, tells the story of a gay teenager seeking the father he never knew in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt. The book, which was published earlier this year, is written in a language mixing African pidgin with London slang, and includes comical descriptions and textspeak. For Emeka Nwankwo, from Nigerian publisher Cassava Republic, breaking conventions and expectations about literature is a way of reflecting how the country has changed. "We are looking ... More
Exhibition at EYE Filmmuseum focuses on Jesper Just's big spatial film installations
AMSTERDAM.- This winter EYE is presenting an exhibition devoted to the Danish artist Jesper Just (1974). Just created an international stir with cinematographic works in which he explores gender, desire, relations and identity in a stylized visual idiom. His films, installations, architectural interventions and live performances have been shown at the Venice Biennale (Danish Pavilion) and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and at Performa 15 and on Times Square, both in New York. The exhibition at EYE Filmmuseum focuses on Just's big spatial film installations. The artist Jesper Just explores in his work the possibilities of presenting film as a spatial installation in the space of the museum. He often uses extreme dimensions, such as 25-metre-wide projections, to create presentations on multiple screens between which visitors move. Complementing these are complex ... More
Radiant with Color & Art: The holiday exhibition at the Grolier Club
NEW YORK, NY.- The Grolier Club is heralding the Winter holiday with the exhibition Radiant with Color & Art: McLoughlin Brothers and the Business of Picture Books, 1858-1920. More than 200 vibrantly colored childrens illustrated picture books, drawings, watercolors, and ephemera are on view from December 6, 2017 to February 3, 2018. The exhibition focuses on the accomplishments and technological innovations of McLoughlin Brothers, the influential late 19th century childrens book publishing firm. Rising from the gritty printing district of lower Manhattan, the McLoughlin Brothers embraced cutting edge technologies like chromolithography, creative branding techniques, and competitive business tactics. Based upon the impressive collections of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and learned society located ... More
Specimen 1795 Dollar and error rarities highlight Heritage Auctions U.S. Coins FUN Sale Jan. 3-8
DALLAS, TX.- Nearly 7,000 lots from private collections, including early U.S. treasures, error coins and ship wreck ingots, highlight Heritage Auctions' Jan. 3-8 U.S. Coins Auction during the Florida United Numismatic Convention in Tampa, Florida. Standout presentation pieces include extraordinary 1795 Draped Bust Dollar, SP62 NGC a special example of this rather curious coin and the finest-graded specimen of an 1861-S $20 Paquet, AU58+ NGC. The important one-year design subtype offers the rare opportunity to own one of the rarest of all San Francisco double eagles, of only about 200 pieces are known in all grades. "I think collectors will be surprised at the amount of unusual specimens offered this season," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "We have the pleasure of presenting private collections that, in some cases, are giving ... More
Exiled for his sense of humour, poet Ovid has last laugh
ROME (AFP).- Two thousand years after being banished from Rome, Ovid has been rehabilitated in a victory for the famous poet whose cheek riled one of history's most powerful emperors. Rome council unanimously approved a motion to "repair the serious wrong" suffered by Ovid, best known for his "Metamorphoses" and "Ars Amatoria", or the Art of Love, who was exiled by the Emperor Augustus to Romania in the year AD 8. The reason for his banishment to the town of Tomis on the Black Sea coast is one of literature's biggest mysteries, as there are no surviving contemporary sources which give details about it, so all historians have is Ovid's word. The poet rather cryptically claims it was due to "carmen et error", or "a poem and a mistake" -- the poem being the Ars Amatoria, a subversively witty poem instructing men how to get and keep a girlfriend. Augustus ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit announces new Ford Curatorial Fellow Jova Lynne
DETROIT, MICH.- Elysia Borowy-Reeder, Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit announced today that Jova Lynne has been named Ford Curatorial Fellow at MOCAD. Lynne will begin her fellowship in January 2018. The Museum of Contemporary Arts Detroit (MOCAD) has been awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation to support two Curatorial Fellows. A profound thank you to the Ford Foundation for their support of this new prestigious fellowship. Without their support, this fellowship could not have been realized. Museum education can be, and should be, re-invented to be at the service of young people. My educational philosophy is central to program development at MOCAD, I believe that a robust arts education-including learning by doing-is critical to building future artists, curators, scholars, museum professionals, change makers, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner died December 19, 1851. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In this image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834," 1834 - 1835. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection.
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