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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (L) and Vice President of Iran Head of Cultural Heritage Ali Asghar Mounesan, tour an exhibition of 50 artworks from the Louvre, the first major show by a Western museum in the Iran's history, on March 5, 2018 at the National Museum in central Tehran. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
by Eric Randolph
TEHRAN (AFP).- Journalists flooded Iran's National Museum on Monday for the arrival of more than 50 artworks from the Louvre -- the first major show by a Western museum in the country's history. The show reflects France's determined use of cultural diplomacy as it seeks to rebuild traditional ties with Iran, even as their officials hold tense talks over political and security issues. The doors were unsealed for journalists at the National Museum in central Tehran, which is currently celebrating its 80th anniversary, a day ahead of the public opening. Among the items shipped over by cargo plane were a 2,400-year-old Egyptian sphinx, a bust of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and drawings by Rembrandt and Delacroix. "Some were definitely easier to transport than others," said Judith Henon, one of the experts sent by the Louvre. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Archaeological technician Karen de la Cruz works cleaning dust and debris from human remains at 'El Rosal' pre-hispanic sanctuary in Lima on March 2, 2018. Peruvian archaeologists found a 1,300-year-old pre-hispanic cemetery near Lima's zoo, informed Friday an investigator. CRIS BOURONCLE / AFP
| Gladstone Gallery opens an exhibition of historic works by Robert Mapplethorpe | | First major international exhibition of Sally Mann's work of the South premieres at the National Gallery of Art | | Max Beckmann's painting "Eisgang" to remain at the Städel Museum |
Sean Young, 1985 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of historic works by Robert Mapplethorpe, curated by artist, Roe Ethridge. This marks the gallery's first solo presentation as the New York representative of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Barbara Gladstone showed his work once before when she published the seminal Flowers portfolio in the early 1980s. Ethridge brings his own perspective as a contemporary artist who works in the same genres of portraiture and still life that are touchstones of Mapplethorpe's well-known oeuvre. Drawn from the extensive archive of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Ethridge has selected both iconic images-including self-portraits, flowers, and scenes of frank sexual provocation-and those exhibited for the first time to evoke his own experience of understanding the breadth of Mapplethorpe's mastery of process and composition. This show offers a compelling new look at Mapplethorpe's distinctive pr ... More | |
Sally Mann, On the Maury, 1992. Gelatin silver print. Image: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.) framed: 42.23 x 37.15 cm (16 5/8 x 14 5/8 in.) Private collection. Image © Sally Mann.
WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b. 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor. What unites this broad body of workfigure studies, landscapes, and architectural viewsis that it is all bred of a place, the American South. Using her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage, Mann asks powerful, provocative questionsabout history, identity, race, and religionthat reverberate across geographic and national boundaries. Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, the first major survey of this celebrated artist to travel internationally, investigates how Mann's relationship with her native landa place rich in literary ... More | |
Max Beckmann (18841950), Eisgang, 1923 (detail). Oil on canvas, 47,5 x 59,5 cm. Photo: Städel Museum - ARTOTHEK © VG Bild Kunst Bonn.
FRANKFURT.- In the course of its systematic provenance research, the Frankfurts Städel Museum received an inquiry from a third party relating to the problematic provenance of Eisgang (1923), an oil painting by Max Beckmann (18841950). The painting is listed in the official register of cultural objects of national significance and depicts a typical Frankfurt scene with the River Main and the Eiserne Steg (iron footbridge). It was acquired in 1994 by the Städelscher Museums-Verein. It has since transpired that the original owner of the work was Fritz Neuberger, a Jewish textile manufacturer from Frankfurt, who had bought the painting directly from Max Beckmann. Neuberger and his wife Hedwig were persecuted by the National Socialists, deported, and murdered in eastern Poland. Many of the details of what happened to the picture can no longer be traced. Everything suggests, however, that the ... More |
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| Sotheby's Contemporary Curated Auction brings $26.4 million | | Groundbreaking exhibition brings centuries of royal treasures from Jodhpur, India, to the U.S. for the first time | | Tessier Sarrou & Associates to offer 2,000 photographs and documents from the Normandie |
Jasper Johnss Radiant Untitled from 1983 (detail) sold for $2.5 Million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Last Friday, Sothebys 2018 auctions of Contemporary Art commenced in New York with Contemporary Curated, which achieved $26.4 million exceeding its high estimate of $26.1 million, and marking the highest total for the series since Sothebys Curated sales began in 2014. The auction was led by Jasper Johnss Untitled work on paper from 1983, which established a new record for a monotype by the artist when it bested its high estimate to sell for $2.5 million (estimate $1.5/2 million). Emerging from his Drawings Paintings series, George Condos Rainy Day Butler from 2012 sold to applause when it achieved an outstanding $2.4 million double its high estimate and the second highest auction price for the artist. A new artist record for Sam Gilliam, and strong prices for works by Wayne Thiebaud, Adriana Varejao and Andy Warhol also anchored the exceptional results. Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sotheby ... More | |
Huqqa Vase, Mughal, early 18th century, glass and gold paint, Umaid Bhawan Palace. Neil Greentree, photographer.
HOUSTON, TX.- A major collaboration brings a groundbreaking exhibition of royal treasures from India to Houston in March. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the Mehrangarh Museum Trust of Jodhpur, Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India showcases nearly four centuries of artistic creation from the kingdom of Marwar-Jodhpur, one of the largest princely states in India, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. The exhibition is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from March 4 through August 19, 2018, before touring to the Seattle Art Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Through lavishly made ceremonial objects, finely crafted arms and armor, sumptuous jewels, intricately carved furnishings and more, Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India outlines the dynamic history of the Marwar-Jodhpur region and ... More | |
A Breton woman in front of the Normandie. Estimate: ?300-500 © Tessier-Sarrou/Drouot.
PARIS.- On Wednesday 25 April, auction house Tessier Sarrou & Associates will dedicate a sale to the iconic liner. Photographs, flyers, documents and archives will take visitors through the short but brilliant path of the Normandie. The audacious project of combining speed and grandeur began in the late 1920s when the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique planned to connect two continents, giving birth to the Normandie. Its hull, named T6, was built on Penhoëts construction site in Saint-Nazaire (France), in early 1931. The liner is finished four years later, and its extraordinary destiny can begin. On the eve of the departure in May 1935, an inaugural soirée is held aboard, welcoming no less than a thousand people, including French President Lebrun. Its first journey to New-York included important passengers like the Presidents wife, also the godmother of the boat, Margueritte Lebrun, writers Colette and Blaise Cendrars, a ... More |
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| Fans mark 65 years since Stalin's death as rehabilitation gathers speed | | Historic Yemen town fights to survive as war closes in | | The Mennello Museum receives its largest gift ever from founder Michael A. Mennello |
Supporters of Russian Communist parties and movements hold flags bearing the portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Die-hard Communists on Monday laid flowers at the tomb of Joseph Stalin in Moscow to mark the 65th anniversary of his death, as the rehabilitation of the Soviet dictator gathers pace in Russia. Although the flower-laying ceremony takes place by the dictator's tomb near the Kremlin walls every March 5, monuments to Stalin have sprung up across Russia over the past year as top officials seek to downplay the extent of his bloody purges. Stalin's reign saw millions executed and sent to Gulag prison camps or exile in remote regions, with many released only after his death in 1953. His legacy still divides the nation, with many seeing him primarily as the man who led the Soviet Union to victory over Nazi Germany and drove the industrialisation of Russia. "The problem is that our countrymen simply do not understand the extent of Stalin's crimes and do ... More | |
A picture taken on February 24, 2018 shows a view of a mosque and city walls of the ancient site of Zabid, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ABDO HYDER / AFP.
ZABID (AFP).- Once Yemen's capital and famed as an architectural marvel of early Islam, the town of Zabid is fighting to survive as a brutal war closes in on its fortified walls. The sand-coloured town overlooking the country's west coast was named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1993 for its centuries-old urban planning and architecture, including the world's fifth oldest mosque. Riven by neglect and poverty, it was placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage in Danger seven years later. Yemen's three-year war, which has killed nearly 10,000 people and pushed the country to the brink of famine, is now threatening the fate of Zabid. So far the town has been spared in the battle between Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels and a government allied with a military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia. But a fight for nearby Hodeida, home to Yemen's most vital port, has raised fears the violence ... More | |
Robert Henri, Ann of Achill, 1913, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches. Collection of the Mennello Museum of American Art, 2018. Gift of Michael A. Mennello.
ORLANDO, FLA.- The Mennello Museum of American Art is receiving its largest gift in the museums history from museum founder Michael A. Mennello, Winter Park collector, businessman, and philanthropist. Michael A. Mennello has promised extraordinary gifts of art from his private collection to the museum. This generous gift of 14 paintings and 5 sculptures includes work by world-renowned American artists that greatly enhance the permanent collection of the museum with examples of the finest work by critical American artists associated with the Ashcan School of Art, the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Arts Students League, New York. The gift, which will be gifted May 1, 2018 on what would be Marilyn L. Mennellos 93rd Birthday, includes four significant works by John Sloan, three paintings by George Wesley Bellows, two paintings by George ... More |
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| "Manod: The Nation's Treasure Caves" remembered in exhibition at the National Gallery | | Pedro Reyes returns to London's Lisson Gallery with a fictional, pan-historical museum of sculpture | | Heather James Fine Art announces new galleries & exhibits by Warhol, Fangor & more |
Manod today © Robin Friend.
LONDON.- In 2018, the National Gallery recalls a remarkable chapter in its history when, during the Second World War, its paintings were removed for safekeeping to a disused slate mine in Snowdonia. Twenty-four archival photographs documenting the dispersal of paintings to Manod near the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales, together with five photographs of the quarry as it appears today by Robin Friend, are being displayed in the Annenberg Court Central to the exhibition is a 30 minute film, Winged Bull in the Elephant Case, directed by photographer Robin Friend, choreographer Wayne McGregor CBE and Rhodri Huw, which is a Studio Wayne McGregor / Illuminations production commissioned by BBC Television and Arts Council England as part of the Performance Live strand. Filmed in a slate mine in Snowdonia and also in the National Gallery, Winged Bull in the Elephant Case follows the journey of a National Gallery painting that has tak ... More | |
Installation view.
LONDON.- For his first London exhibition since the acclaimed Disarm in 2013, Pedro Reyes returns with a fictional, pan-historical museum of sculpture, or a glyptotek, from the ancient Greek term for a cache of classic statuary. As well as a meditation on art history, these works explore both figurative and abstract approaches to sculpture, through materials including volcanic stone, marble, bronze and steel and through series such as The Protesters, of which the artist has stated: Most statues commemorate an historical event, or the life of an influential person Given the current political climate, I envisioned the anonymous protester as the incarnation of a contemporary hero, taking to the streets as an act of resistance. Among the images of revolt is the sculptural duo of Versus Machina (all works 2017-18), in which a female figure impales a robot with a spear, perhaps echoing the pose of St George vanquishing a dragon or antiquitys dynamic ensemble of Lao ... More | |
Moving into its 21st year Heather James Fine Art is expanding their national and global reach.
PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art has announced two new gallery openings in California in 2018 - San Francisco in March and Santa Barbara this fall. The new spaces are the gallerys fourth and fifth, joining locations in Palm Desert, CA, Jackson Hole, WY and New York, NY. Moving into its 21st year, Heather James Fine Art is expanding their national and global reach and their reputation for offering significant 19th-century, modern and contemporary art with a series of major solo exhibitions including work by Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, among others. Last year, Heather James Fine Art celebrated its 20th anniversary with special exhibitions of Alexander Calder and leading Latin American artists as well as the opening of their new private gallery in New York City. Additionally, as part of its mission, Heather James Fine Art is dedicated to bringing great art to museums nationally and ... More |
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Yoko Ono's sister launches debut London exhibition
LONDON.- Japanese artist Setsuko Ono brings her work to London for the first time with two solo exhibitions taking place at The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Asia House in 2018. The younger sister of Yoko Ono, Setsuko Ono was born in Tokyo and grew up between Japan, Europe, and the United States. Setsuko worked at the World Bank for 28 years, while pursuing a formal art education in Washington, but she only began exhibiting her art once she retired in 2003. The year of her retirement, Setsuko had her first exhibition at the Eighth Havana Biennial. Since then, Setsuko has had 14 permanent public sculptures installed in Havana, Baltimore, and at Hara Museum in Tokyo and Shinagawa, Japan. The London exhibitions include both sculpture and mixed media paintings, and visitors will be able to view Setsukos permanent installations at Hara Museum in central ... More
First survey exhibition of Wim Delvoye in Korea on view at Gallery Hyundai
SEOUL.- Gallery Hyundai is presenting the first survey exhibition of Wim Delvoye in Korea. Delvoye is a Belgian neo-conceptual artist whose work navigates the boundary between shocking and fascinating. His extensive practice combines fine-art forms such as drawing, sculpture and photography with experimental techniques, philosophical ideas, intriguing materials and craftsmanship. The exhibition brings together works spanning nearly 20 years including laser-cut gothic steel sculptures, hand- carved and twisted tyres, embossed functional objects, photographs of marble floors installations made with salami and mortadella and tattooed pigskin works. In a series of aluminium pieces, shovels, luxurious Rimowa suitcases and a Ferrari Testarossa are embossed by Iranian artisans. Each piece features a unique decoration with elaborate Middle Eastern designs, traditional ... More
Pangolin London presents a compelling new body of work by George Taylor
LONDON.- Using her signature medium of exotic feathers, Pangolin London presents a compelling new body of work by George Taylor - her first major solo show in London since 2008. Inspired by ritual feather-work pieces from the Andes and Hawaii, Taylors painstakingly created works combine primal instinct and natural materials with todays canon of contemporary art by using complex optical designs and sumptuous, iridescent colour. During Taylors quest to find a conceptual language that complimented her own experience of the natural world which surrounds her on the secluded Gloucestershire farm she lives and works on, Taylor was inspired by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) whose term Intimate Immensity was first referred to in his book the Poetics of Space in 1958. Relating to Bachelards correlation of a moment of inner stillness ... More
Set of three pastel drawings by Claude Monet will be offered at Woodshed Art Auctions
FRANKLIN, MASS.- A group of three pastel on brown paper drawings by the renowned French artist Claude Monet (1840-1926), several artworks attributed to Pop Art legend Andy Warhol (Am., 1928-1987), and an oil on canvas abstract composition by the German-American artist Hans Hofmann (1880-1996) will be part of Woodshed Art Auctions March 15th online art sale. All lots can be viewed now, at www.woodshedartauctions.com. People can register and bid on the site, too (a new feature). They can also bid on lots via the popular online bidding platform www.LiveAuctioneers.com. Live bidding will commence at 5:30 pm Eastern time on Thursday, March 15th. Live previews can be arranged, by appointment, at Woodsheds Franklin gallery. The Monet drawings are signed along the bottom edge, untitled, unframed and in good condition. Each one measures about ... More
Fondazione Merz opens the first major museum show in Italy of artist Fatma Bucak
TURIN.- In collaboration with Fondazione Sardi per lArte, Fondazione Merz presents the first major museum show in Italy of artist Fatma Bucak. Fatma Bucaks work addresses themes such as political and gender identity, censorship, repression, expropriation, migration and state violence, that are of great contemporary pertinence, which the artist develops through installations, performances, photographs, videos and sound environments. Her belonging to the Kurdish minority is one of the elements that continues to inform her practice. The exhibition, featuring site-specific installations, performance, sound, video, sculpture and photographs - many of which have been specially commissioned for the Fondazione Merz - continue the above themes. Investigating the fragility, tension and irreversibility of history, the power of testimony and memory ... More
Pook & Pook with Noel Barrett to auction fine clockwork toys and trains
DOWNINGTOWN, PA.- On Saturday, March 24, Pook & Pook, Inc., Auctioneers and Appraisers with Noel Barrett Antiques and Auctions, Ltd., will host their fourth joint auction. Beginning at 10 a.m., the 400-lot sale includes an array of clockwork and military toys, cast-iron vehicles, advertising signs, and a few other surprises. Years of hunting and dealing helped Noel Barrett build both a superior knowledge of his field and a loyal client base, things that made his eventual auction business a hot spot for collectors. Like Barrett, Ronald and Debra Pook started out as antique dealers and became a record setting auction company, handling some of the finest antique furniture, art and decorative accessories on the market. Ron Pook is excited to continue to expand Pook & Pooks scope to include more auctions of toys and related material. Noel Barretts decades of experience ... More
Currier Museum presents the works of internationally renowned artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens
MANCHESTER, NH.- The Currier Museum is presenting a monumental exhibit showcasing the work of one of Americans most renowned sculptors and New Hampshire resident Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The 19th-century artist was widely hailed as the finest American sculptor of his day. One of his most famous works is the Shaw Memorial located in Boston Common that honors the civil war Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his African American troops. Saint-Gaudens $20 and $10 dollar gold coins were designed at the request of President Theodore Roosevelt for the U.S. Mint and are still considered the most beautiful American coins ever issued. He is also revered for his iconic sculpture of Diana, the goddess of the hunt that once graced the tower of Madison Square Garden. The Currier is partnering with the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, NH to ... More
Centre Pompidou presents a monumental piece by artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
PARIS.- In the Galerie de Photographies, the Centre Pompidou is presenting for the first time a monumental piece by artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Divine Violence, which recently entered the collection. Violence and questions relating to it are central to the artistic approach of this duo, who are celebrating twenty years of collaboration in 2018. This radical, provocative installation consists of 57 frames, each corresponding to a book in the Bible, and brings together its 721 pages. It compares the patent violence expressed in the Bible with violent images from todays world. To create this series, the two artists took inspiration from Bertolt Brechts personal Bible, which he annotated and illustrated with cuttings from newspapers during the Second World War. They themselves took the 1611 King James Bible, illustrating it chapter by chapter, with no ... More
National Portrait Gallery acquires family photographs of footballer Bobby Moore
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has acquired a selection of photographs of footballer Bobby Moore, from the collection of his daughter Roberta Moore, it was announced today, Monday 5 March 2018. The portraits are seen together for the first time as part of a new display, Bobby Moore: First Gentleman of English Football (March 5 2018 January 2019) to mark this summers FIFA World Cup tournament. Moore famously captained the England football team to achieve their first and only World Cup victory, on 30 July 1966, defeating West Germany 4-2 in a tense final at Wembley Stadium. While the famous image of Moore, lifting the Jules Rimet trophy cemented him as the embodiment of a golden period in English football, these newly acquired vintage press prints provide an insight into both the professional and personal life of one of Englands best-loved sporting ... More
Exhibition of new paintings by Carrie Moyer on view at Mary Boone Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Mary Boone Gallery opened at its Fifth Avenue location Seismic Shuffle, an exhibition of new paintings by Carrie Moyer. The exhibition is curated by Piper Marshall and is presented in collaboration with DC Moore Gallery, New York. With Seismic Shuffle, Moyer invites us to the psychic interval between dormancy and the incipient rumblings of a new age. Teeming with loamy colors of the forest floor, these eight paintings evoke associations of elemental energies that both extinguish and rekindle. A celebrated artist, Carrie Moyer has been making abstract paintings with stains and pours since the early 2000s. To begin, she creates small collages from Color-Aid paper. Drawing with the blade of a razor, she builds up shapes to form spatial relationships. Kaleidoscopic colors of brown, grey, purple, and green serve to delineate the composition. In the transfer ... More
Toledo Museum of Art announces two curatorial staff promotions
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has promoted two long-serving staff members to new positions in the collections and curatorial departments. In December 2017 Andrea Gardner was named director of collections, and Halona Norton Westbrook was appointed director of curatorial affairs in January 2018. "Andrea Gardner and Halona Norton-Westbrook have proven themselves to be essential members of our collections and curatorial teams over the last many years," said Brian Kennedy, the Museum's Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey director. "We are so pleased to see them step up to an enhanced portfolio of responsibilities and look forward to their many scholarly and administrative contributions in the future." Norton-Westbrook received her Ph.D. in museology and art history from the University of Manchester in the U.K., masters degree in art history ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and sculptor Michelangelo was born March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni or more commonly known by his first name Michelangelo (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564) was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. In this image: A portrait painting (ca. 1544) of Michelangelo by Daniele da Volterra hangs on the wall at the Michelangelo exhibit titled 'Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 13, 2017 in New York City.
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