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One of the heirs of former owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime, Felix de Marez Oyens and his wife Theodora de Marez Oyens pose in front of a 15th century religious wooden sculpture during its restitution on June 25, 2018 in Berlin. A Berlin museum said it had formally restituted the medieval artifact to the heirs who in turn agreed to sell back, the "Three Angels with the Christ Child", at an undisclosed price to the Bode Museum, which will keep it in its collection. The delicately carved 25 centimetre (10 inch) tall sculpture from around 1430 shows three floating angels in the clouds holding a cloth on which lies the sleeping infant Jesus. Bernd von Jutrczenka / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- A Berlin museum Monday said it had formally restituted a 15th century religious wooden sculpture to the heirs of former owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime. The heirs in turn agreed to sell back the medieval artifact, "Three Angels with the Christ Child", at an undisclosed price to the Bode Museum, which will keep it in its collection. The agreement meant "righting an injustice", said the head of Berlin's public museums, Michael Eissenhauer, who thanked the heirs for the "grand gesture" that will keep the priceless piece on public display. The delicately carved 25 centimetre (10 inch) tall sculpture from around 1430 shows three floating angels in the clouds holding a cloth on which lies the sleeping infant Jesus. It once belonged to the private collection of Ernst Saulmann, a Jewish industrialist, and his wife Agathe, an architect's daugh ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this file photo South African photographer David Goldblatt poses at Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, on the eve of the start of his exhibition "TJ 1948-2010" (for Transvaal Johannesburg). South African photographer David Goldblatt, whose work documented the abuses and division of apartheid, died in his sleep on June 25, 2018 morning, a leading gallery announced. He was 87. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP
| Rubens painting to be auctioned at Stephan Welz & Co in Cape Town | | South African anti-apartheid photographer David Goldblatt dies at 87 | | "The American Revolution: A World War" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian |
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish 1577 - 1640), Portrait of a Gentleman. Oil on oak panel 54 by 39,3cm.
JOHANNESBURG.- This exquisite portrait by the most influential Flemish Baroque artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640) depicts a gentleman in a crisp white ruff and black coat, with intricate black on black weaving on the shoulder and chest of the coat. The face of the sitter stands out against the muted greens on the background, the play of light and shade drawing one into the portrait. The technique is elegant and the face of the sitter seems to glows with life and a subtle humour. The oldest auction record uncovered for this oil on oak panel work is currently that of the Auction house Jovenau in Doornik in 1740 when the work was sold as a Portrait of a Man by Sir Peter Paul Rubens. During the intervening centuries the work was moved to London briefly, before returning to Germany, and, finally, travelling to South Africa. Between 1817 and 1917, as the work changed hands on auction, the identity of the artist was subject to debate as to whether it was a work ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 11, 2011 South African photographer David Goldblatt poses at Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
JOHANNESBURG (AFP).- South African photographer David Goldblatt, whose work documented the abuses and divisions of apartheid, died in his sleep on Monday, a leading gallery announced. He was 87. "He passed away peacefully in his sleep at 5:37 am (0337 GMT) in his home in Johannesburg," Liza Essers, the director of the Goodman Gallery, told AFP. He will be buried Tuesday in Johannesburg. For millions of people outside South Africa, Goldblatt work's lifted the veil on the nightmare of apartheid, under which the white-minority government's enshrined racial divisions under law from 1948. In 1988, he was the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. A year later he founded the Market Photography Workshop in Johannesburg in 1989, which has since become a hub for developing young ... More | |
Washington at Yorktown, painted by Charles Willson Peale for French General Comte de Rochambeau who commanded the French troops at Yorktown, Virginia. Courtesy of the National Museum of American History.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A global lens is placed on the story of American independence in the exhibition The American Revolution: A World War, open June 26 through July 9, 2019, at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. The focal point of this one-year exhibition, on view in The Nicholas F. and Eugenia Taubman Gallery, centers on two historical paintings that depict the culminating events at Yorktown in 1781, which ended the war on American soil, and a portrait of Gen. George Washington. The American Revolution: A World War, explores the Franco-American partnership during the Revolution and the extent to which international relations shaped the formation of the United States. Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, led the French forces at Yorktown. Two of the paintings were created by Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe ... More |
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| Getty Museum opens major survey of 100 years of fashion photography | | British Museum and "la Caixa" Banking Foundation renew exhibitions partnership | | Thaddaeus Ropac exhibits works by three pioneering female Avant-Garde artists |
Sarah Moon, Sveta for Hussein Chalayan, 2000. Carbon print. Image: 57.2 à 43.4 cm. Accession No. 2011.52 © Sarah Moon. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- At their core, fashion photographs are made for consumption in magazines and advertising. They are intended to arouse desire in viewers, whether it be for beauty, style, or even the trendiest lip shade or haircut. To capture attention, fashion photographs perpetually shift style or approach in the face of social, political, and economic change. Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011, on view June 26-October 21, 2018 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, is the most comprehensive exploration of this phenomenon yet undertaken, featuring more than 160 fashion photographs alongside a selection of costumes, illustrations, magazine covers, videos and advertisements. Drawn from the Getty Museums photographs collection ... More | |
Isidro Fainé and Richard Lambert signed a new agreement between the two institutions.
LONDON.- The British Museum and la Caixa Banking Foundation are renewing their hugely successful collaboration to present 5 major new British Museum exhibitions in Caixaforum centres in Spain. Today, Isidro Fainé, Chairman of la Caixa Banking Foundation, and Sir Richard Lambert, Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, signed a new agreement between the two institutions. The agreement, which covers the period from 2020 to 2024, announces a second stage to jointly organise exhibitions in Spain that was first launched at the British Museum in 2015. la Caixa Banking Foundations CaixaForum cultural centres in Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Saragossa, Palma and (from 2021) Valencia will host five new jointly-organised shows with objects from the British Museums collection. The first exhibition from this new agreement will be The Human Image: Masterpieces of Figurative ... More | |
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LONDON.- Land of Lads, Land of Lashes presents, for the first time in the UK, seminal sculptures and paintings of three female artists of 1960s and 1970s Minimal and Post-Minimal art who broke the artistic boundaries of the period: Rosemarie Castoro introduced surreal and sexual connotations to the cool, mathematical rigour of Minimalism; Lydia Okumura expanded the tradition of the Brazilian geometric avant-garde with her multi-dimensional abstract environments; and Wanda Czelkowska challenged artistic traditions by fusing anthropomorphic sculpture with brutalist, industrial structures. All three artists created an avant-garde inside the avant-garde, transcending the idea of one style in favour of radical experimentation. Guest curated by Anke Kempkes, a leading expert in the field of female avant-garde art, this landmark London exhibition spanning Ropac's entire gallery marks a further turning point at ... More |
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| O'Keeffe conservation reveals hidden insight into painting | | The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum exhibits works by Douglas Navarra | | Artist Margaret Zox Brown's solo exhibition on display in New York |
Georgia O'Keeffe. Storm Cloud, Lake George, 1923 (detail). Oil on canvas, 18 x 30 1/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2007.1.18]
SANTA FE, NM.- New work by the Georgia OKeeffe Museums conservation department has revealed hidden insight into Georgia OKeeffes dramatic 1923 oil painting, Storm Cloud, Lake George . For years, audiences and experts have assumed the painting represented a stormy night scene at Lake George, New York, where OKeeffe and her husband Alfred Stieglitz regularly visited his familys estate. Yet current conservation reveals that the painting actually depicts an afternoon tempest. The painting recently returned to the OKeeffe Museum after an international tour. As part of a routine condition assessment and minor repair work, it became evident that the paintings varnish obscures surface details. A conservation process now underway will allow the painting to represent OKeeffes original intentions. ... More | |
The works on view are meticulously crafted interventions on paper using color and geometric abstraction, drawn and painted on historic documents.
WOODSTOCK, NY.- The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum is presenting a selection of new drawings by Douglas Navarra in a solo exhibition titled 'Presence', Saturday, June 16 - Sunday July 15, 2018 The works on view are meticulously crafted interventions on paper using color and geometric abstraction, drawn and painted on historic documents. The visual overlay between old and new, past and present, suggests the metaphor that "history is but a narrative agreed upon".* Navarra has painted on these vintage paper relics of a long and forgotten past with his own 21st century overlays, thus heightening their social history while their tangible elements still reveal the lives of how people lived over a century ago.. Though it is impossible to know the specific significance of these original paper documents, one can discern the 19th century style and grace in the manner in which these ... More | |
Margaret Zox Brown, Majestic August Lemons.
NEW YORK, NY.- Abstract expressionist artist Margaret Zox Brown, cousin of Larry Zox, captures and chronicles her surroundings and sustenance in large scale, bold, electric paintings. In her solo exhibition SKIN, Zox Brown reveals a personal narrative with works produced over the last decade, as well as premiering never-before-seen paintings. Figuration present in Zox Browns work is a primary focus, while other natural forms fruit and flora serve as physical, emotional, and visual sustenance in support of the human figure through SKIN. In crafting these forms, along with a unique natural palette, Zox Brown seeks the honest expression that can only be found in the raw moments of peace and calm which she captures. Figure and composition, accompanied by vibrant natural hues, allows Zox Brown to create a version of her own world for others to explore. Born and raised in NYC, Margaret Zox Brown was always surrounded by a monotone landscape but ... More |
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| Weatherspoon Art Museum acquires significant artworks | | Exhibition explores the links between the Italian avant-gardes and artists based in the USA | | SITE Santa Fe's building design by SHoP Architects wins 2018 American Architecture Award |
Louise Fishman (American, born 1939), Untitled, 2001. Oil on paper, 30 x 22 ¼ in. Weatherspoon Art Museum; Museum purchase with funds from the Lynn Richardson Prickett Endowment and the Weatherspoon Guild Acquisition Endowment, 2017.
GREENSBORO, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro announced its recent acquisition of several important objects by artists working both today and earlier in the twentieth century. These new acquisitions expand the museums holdings of examples by female artists and artists of color, as well as satisfy its strategy of acquiring artworks featured in its exhibitions. Acquisitions include: Sanford Biggers, Paket, 2016; Xaviera Simmons, If We Believe in Theory #2, 2009; Donald Lipski, Untitled, from the series Ah! Roma!, 2000; Louise Fishman, Untitled, 2001; El Anatsui, Paper and Gold, 2017; George Segal, Fireside Chat, 1991; Beverly McIver, Oh, Happy Day, 2001; and David Humphrey, Hercules, 2009-2010. The Weatherspoon Art Museum enjoys a nationally known permanent collection of more than 6,200 ... More | |
Willelm de Kooning, Souvenir of Rome, 1960, ink on paper, 60 x 48 cm / 23 5/8 x 18 7/8 in. Courtesy Tornabuoni Art.
LONDON.- Tornabuoni Arts summer exhibition this year draws from the gallerys collection of international post-war art to explore the links between the Italian avant-gardes and artists based in the USA in the decades following the Second World War. Italy USA highlights the special link that existed between the New York and Italian art scenes in the post-war years by drawing parallels between artists who collaborated or inspired each other from either side of the Atlantic. With the end of the Second World War, Italy emerged from years of cultural isolation, and international art shows like the Venice Biennale reopened. Meanwhile, with help from the Marshall Plan, the newly formed Italian Republic found a renewed economic and creative impetus. Italian artists, emerging and established, were galvanised by the new horizons that seemed to open up and many travelled to the USA to find ... More | |
SHoP designed a comprehensive renovation and expansion of the exhibition and support spaces at SITE Santa Fe.
SANTA FE, NM.- SITE Santa Fes expanded and renovated building, designed by SHoP Architects, has won the prestigious 2018 American Architecture Awards® for the best new buildings designed and constructed by American architects in the U.S. and abroad, and by international architects for buildings designed and built in the United States. SITE Santa Fes award was in the category of Museums and Cultural Buildings. Now in its 24th year, The American Architecture Awards were announced by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studiesorganizers of this annual prestigious program for Design Excellence and for the best contributions to innovative contemporary American architecture. The American Architecture Awards are the nations highest public awards given by a non-commercial, non-trade affiliated, ... More |
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Fergus McCaffrey presents an exhibition surveying the works of Tetsumi Kudo and Carol Rama
TOKYO.- Fergus McCaffrey brings together the innovative and challenging biomorphic sculptures of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (19351990) with the psychosexual assemblages, paintings, and drawings of self-taught Italian artist Carol Rama (19182015). Kudo / Rama will be on view at Fergus McCaffreys Tokyo gallery from June 26 August 4, 2018. Featuring a selection of twenty-five works spanning from 1962 to 2000, this exhibition explores the visionary insights offered in both artists practices; featuring prescient works that diagnose the most urgent interpersonal, societal, and ecological traumas of our time. Juxtaposed, the affinities between Kudos and Ramas radical sensibilities and subversive approaches to material are apparent; both artists used a wide array of found objects in uncanny combinations to explore the bodily and psychological, proposing ... More
Heritage chosen to auction newly discovered 1854-S Half Eagle
DALLAS, TX.- A previously unknown 1854-S Liberty Head Half Eagle considered among the rarest of all U.S. coins will be offered by Heritage Auctions after the firm was selected to bring the specimen to auction. Initially believed to be counterfeit, the gold coin is just the fourth specimen known to exist and will be the first to appear at auction since the 1982 sale of the Louis Eliasberg Collection. "This discovery rewrites numismatic history," said Jim Halperin, Co-Founder of Heritage Auctions. "We are delighted to have been selected to auction this major find." A New England man discovered the coin and sought the opinion of collectors and dealers who claimed it must assuredly be fake because of the coin's legendary rarity. Records indicate the San Francisco Mint struck just 268 Half Eagles in 1854, an extraordinarily low mintage for a U.S. gold coin produced ... More
Prince William visits Jordan's Roman ruins at Jerash
AMMAN (AFP).- Britain's Prince William visited the Roman ruins of Jerash in northern Jordan on Monday, accompanied by his host Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah as part of a historic Middle East tour. The two princes met children from Jordan and neighbouring war-torn Syria during their visit to the site, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Amman. The visit to Jordan by the second in line to the British throne has been billed as a chance to bond with Hussein, a fellow graduate of Britain's Royal Sandhurst Military Academy. William was also due to meet British troops based in the kingdom, before heading across the River Jordan to Israel and the Palestinian territories. The Duke of Cambridge and the heir to the Jordanian throne strolled along Jerash's Colonnaded Street, a paved promenade lined with towering columns. They also visited the Temple of Artemis, built ... More
Solo show of never-before-seen works by Kenny Scharf opens at Opera Gallery
LONDON.- Opera Gallery are presenting a selection of new, never-before-seen works by the American street artist and pop-surrealist Kenny Scharf. The legendary muralist, painter and sculptor presents a selection of new paintings and sculptures in his first UK exhibition in 10 years. Part of the iconic 1980s counterculture East Village Art movement in New York, Kenny developed his unique style alongside fellow artists and close friends Keith Haring and Jean Michel-Basquiat. Scharf, a native of California, is most famous for his highly imaginative large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic creatures. Often described as playful, optimistic and full of joy, Kennys work heavily references popular culture and the cartoons the artist grew up with. Scharf is equally famous for his trademark Cosmic Caverns, immersive black light and Day-Glo paint installations that also function ... More
Palais de Tokyo presents a season of exhibitions devoted to childhood
PARIS.- This summer, with a season of exhibitions devoted to childhood, Palais de Tokyo is diving into our memories, our dreams and childrens games, while examining how they influence the construction of our identities and their representations. From one work to the next, from wonder to stupor, Palais de Tokyo is being transformed into a vast pathway deployed via large-scale productions by contemporary craftmen and artists so as to examine the imaginaries of childhood, its foundation myths and its modern transformations, from their archetypes to the norms and conventions that fashion them. How are the sense of wonder, the capacity to invent worlds, but also childhood fears and anxieties, constructed and become determined, in different contexts? The exhibition Another banana day for the dream-fish, after the modified title of a story by J.D. ... More
Hauser & Wirth presents Spiegelgasse (Mirror Alley) curated by Gianni Jetzer
LONDON.- Referring to the address of Cabaret Voltaire the birthplace of Dada in Zurich, Switzerland Spiegelgasse (Mirror Alley) presents the works of Swiss artists from the 1930s to the present day and is curated by Gianni Jetzer. Taking historiographical cues from the literal translation of the street name, the exhibition tracks art history not as an evolutionary process, but rather as a hall of mirrors in which artists practices encounter, reflect, fragment, and recombine through time. These mirrored realities go back to the legacy of the Dadaists, formed in a city where artists like Hugo Ball and Sophie Taeuber-Arp shared company with modernist writer James Joyce. Joyces masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, was written in Zurich, and includes features of the Swiss city and culture as translated through the Irish writers pen (the citys post office, ... More
[dip] Contemporary opens Thukral & Tagra's first solo show in Thailand at Central Embassy
BANGKOK.- [dip] is presenting Indian artists Thukral & Tagras first solo show in Thailand. Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra work collaboratively with a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, installations, interactive games, video, performance and design. Thukral & Tagra work on new formats of public engagement and attempt to expand the scope of what art can do. They break out of the mediated and disciplinary world and create multimodal sensory and immersive environments. Their earlier work dealt with tropes of migration and motifs of a globally manifested consumer culture. It questioned the provenance of Indian identity and its various articulations. Their recent work has dealt with the interpretation of Indian mythological narratives and symbols in ways that renew and enliven a largely pedantic and static area of cultural material. From a pop ... More
Rare coral necklace sells for £36,830 at Ewbank's Auctions
SEND MARSH.- This rare coral necklace once thought to be the largest of its kind in the world has sold for £36,830 at auction. Expected to take £5,000 and £8,000, the huge price came after a European agent thought to be bidding for a Chinese buyer in the room fought off competition at Ewbanks Auctions of Send Marsh, Surrey. The 605.8 gramme necklace of graduating beads was exhibited at The International Fisheries Exhibition in 1883, staged at the Royal Horticultural Society grounds in South Kensington, and won a bronze. At the time of the exhibition, the necklace was reputed to be the largest coral bead necklace in the world. It sold with its original paperwork and envelope from the exhibition. This scientific, cultural, and animal exhibition was open in South Kensington, London, between May 12 and October 31, 1883, and was the largest special ... More
Venezuela's Gustavo Dudamel to lead youth concerts in Chile
SANTIAGO (AFP).- Venezuela's Gustavo Dudamel will lead concerts Thursday and Friday in Santiago with youth from Latin America and Europe to honor his late mentor Jose Antonio Abreu, who created a celebrated public music education program for young people. "This is the start of something that will last throughout one's life," said 37-year-old Dudamel, currently the music and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Abreu, also a Venezuelan, died in Caracas on March 24 at the age of 78. The music program he pioneered, the National System of Youth Orchestras of Venezuela, or "El Sistema," has been replicated in more than 40 countries. It seeks to provide low-income children music education to build confidence and rise out of poverty. Dudamel told reporters that the Santiago concerts will bring together members of Chilean youth orchestras with musicians from ensembles based in Vienna, Berlin, Los Angeles and Gothenburg, as well as two Venezuelan orchestras, ... More
The Phillips endows directorship in honor of George and Trish Vradenburg
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Phillips Collection announced the gift of $5.29 million to endow the directorship of the museum in the name of George and Trish Vradenburg. This is the first endowed position at The Phillips Collection and is made possible by generous grants and gifts from multiple donors and trustees, including the Vradenburg Foundation. The directorship is endowed in honor of George and the late Trish Vradenburg. Mr. Vradenburg was elected as a Trustee in 2001 and served as Chairman of the Board from 2002-2016. In 2016, he became Honorary Chairman and Trustee Emeritus. Dr. Dorothy Kosinski will now be the Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection. This comes in time for Dr. Kosinskis celebration of 10 years as director of the Phillips and as the museum approaches its centennial in 2021. This endowment is another ... More
International Print Center New York opens 'MULTILAYERED: New Prints 2018/Summer'
NEW YORK, NY.- International Print Center New York announces the fifty-eighth presentation of its New Prints Program, a biannual, juried open call for prints and print-based work created in the preceding twelve months. Titled Multilayered, the exhibition was selected by Juan Sánchez, one of the most significant artists of the Nuyorican cultural movement. As a multimedia artist with an activist stance, Sánchez draws on symbols, images, and texts from popular and traditional culture to explore questions of ethnic and national identity. Sánchez dedicates this exhibition to Sam Coronado (1946 2013), a printmaker, activist, and educator who dedicated his life to the Latinx arts community. The 43 prints and print-based works on view in Multilayered reflect Sánchezs interest in new narratives for an increasingly hybridized cultural world. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, illustrator and graphic designer Milton Glaser was born June 26, 1929. Milton Glaser (born June 26, 1929) is an American graphic designer. His designs include the I ♥ NY logo, the psychedelic Bob Dylan poster, and the Brooklyn Brewery logo. In this image: Milton Glaser, Concrete Poetry, exhibition poster, 1968.
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