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A man stands inside the chapel where treasures had been kept inside Sainte-Marie cathedral in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, near Pau, southwestern France, on November 4, 2019, after a robbery. Robbers rammed their car into the mediaeval cathedral, registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site, early on November 4, sawing through metal bars to grab silver chalices and other irreplaceable church treasures, local authorities said. GAIZKA IROZ / AFP.
OLORON-SAINTE-MARIE (AFP).- Robbers rammed a car into a medieval cathedral in southwest France early Monday, breaking windows and sawing through metal bars to grab silver chalices and other irreplaceable church treasures, local authorities said. The gang had tied a tree trunk to the front of the car they used to smash through a cathedral door in the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, municipal official Laurent Paris told AFP. The Romanesque-Gothic edifice is a historical monument and was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998 as part of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Once inside, the thieves helped themselves to some of the cathedral's many chalices, crosses and other ceremonial objects, much of it gold, as well as a 18th-century nativity scene and a collection of priestly garments, including a rare cape donated by the 16th century King Francis I. The treasures had been kept in a chapel, behind a steel grid whose "bars were sawn through," Paris said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The mural painting "My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love" by Russian painter Dmitri Vrubel, depicting the kiss between then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (L) and East German leader Erich Honecker is projected on a stretch of the Berlin wall at the so-called East-side Gallery during the city-wide kick-off of the festival week to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the November 9,1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, in Berlin on November 4, 2019. Germany marks three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall this week with main celebrations on November 9, 2019. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
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 | | Forger claims credit for paintings in Prince Charles's charity headquarters | | Marilyn Monroe's Menorah at auction in NYC for the first time in 20 years | | Final exhibition by Okwui Enwezor will open in 2021 in Middle East | 
File photo of Prince Charles. Doug Mills/The New York Times.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Until recently, visitors to the headquarters of one of Prince Charles charities in Scotland could say that they had seen, among other artworks, three paintings by Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Salvador DalÃ. Or so they thought. A well-known American art forger says that the paintings displayed at Dumfries House, an 18th-century estate that stretches across 2,000 acres and houses the headquarters of the Princes Foundation, one of Prince Charles charities were not actually the works of modern masters. He says he painted them himself. The forger, Tony Tetro, said in an email Monday that he had painted at least three works that were lent to the charity pieces that The Times of London reported had an estimated value of 100 million pounds, or about $129 million. A spokesman for the Princes Foundation confirmed Monday that the authenticity of the paintings, which ... More | | 
Marilyn Monroe's Menorah, given to her by the parents of her husband, playwright Arthur Miller is to be offered at auction by Kestenbaum & Company on Thursday 7 Nov, New York. Estimate: $100,000 to $150,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Its a little known and fascinating fact that pop cultures most marketable icon, Marilyn Monroe, converted to Judaism upon her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller in 1956. Kestenbaum & Company, the niche New York City auction house, an unrivalled authority in Fine Judaica, having sold more than 40,000 lots including items with Jewish links to Henry VIII, Albert Einstein and Mother Theresa, is hosting a sale which includes Ms. Monroes very own Menorah. A guide price of $100,000-150,000 has been allocated to this unique piece of Hollywood-Judaica memorabilia in Kestenbaum and Companys Fall auction. The Menorah was among Marilyns possessions when she died alone in 1962, aged 36. Following her divorce from baseball-player Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe developed a relationship ... More | | 
Okwui Enwezor © Maximilian Geuter.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When renowned Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor died in Munich in March at age 55, he left behind substantial preparatory materials for a future exhibition. That final show will soon be realized, as the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, perhaps the most prestigious such exhibition in the Middle East. The biennial, titled Thinking Historically in the Present, will open in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in March 2021. The biennial will include 30 permanent commissions by 30 artists worldwide, as well as a historical presentation called Postcolonial a sequel to Postwar, his massive exhibition of global art after World War II, which took place at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2017. Enwezor was director of the Haus der Kunst from 2011 to 2018. (His final show there, a retrospective of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui, ran until July and became the museums best-attended show in 10 years.) His most acclaimed exhibitions were biennials, above all ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Sotheby's Amsterdam shines a light on Rembrandt's extraordinary ability to capture a moment in time | | Christie's Paris to offer works from an outstanding collector | | Christie's announces highlights of the Post-War and Contemporary Evening and Day Sales in Amsterdam | 
Rembrandt, Self-portrait in a cap, laughing. Courtesy Sotheby's.
AMSTERDAM.- This autumn, Sothebys Amsterdam will stage an exhibition that shines a light on Rembrandts extraordinary ability to capture likenesses and fleeting moments with the same kind of snapshot-like immediacy of the modern-day photographer. Rembrandt: the 17th-Century Photographer celebrates the artists exceptional draughtsmanship and unparalleled virtuosity as a printmaker, as well as his photographic eye qualities that came together to generate an inventive and distinctly modern body of printed work. It is this particular aspect of Rembrandts work that has long fascinated the collector to whom this exception group of etchings belongs, informing many acquisitions over the years. A special interactive app designed by the collector will allow visitors to take a closer look at the etchings and to study the complexity of the techniques used by Rembrandt, as a scan of each etching will rev ... More | | 
Alberto Giacometti, Composition dite abstraite II. Estimate: 1,000,000-1,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- On 10th and 11th December, Christies Paris will offer works from an outstanding collector whose life was driven by his passion for art and collecting. Having grown up in the French countryside, his interest for insects and minerals began at a very early age. As an adult, he would go on to collect wonders of the world including butterflies from Indonesia, fossils, meteorites, and an exceptional dinosaur skeleton. With a continued thirst for knowledge and discovery, he undertook classes in art and culture, followed by employment as an assistant to an expert in rare and ancient books such as atlases and portolan charts. It was here that he likely developed his interest areas such as Latin America, Africa and Asia. For more than ten years he successfully indulged in the antiquarian profession but his adventurous soul pushed him towards new horizons. By this time, he had collected a few treasures ... More | | 
Raoul De Keyser, Kalklijn (Chalk Line). Signed, titled and dated 'raoul de keyser 1970 "KALKLIJN"' (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm. Painted in 1970. Estimate EUR 50,000 - EUR 70,000 (USD 55,867 - USD 78,214). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
AMSTERDAM.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Evening and Day Sales in Amsterdam will take place on 25 and 26 November 2019. Following the successes achieved in London for the esteemed Belgian collection, the Matthys-Colle Collection, and Art for Future, Selected Works from the UniCredit Group, the autumn season of Post-War and Contemporary Art continues to be highlighted by further works with exceptional provenance. This iteration of the Matthys-Colle Collection will present 17 works by artists including Karel Appel, Robert Barry, Tony Cragg, Jan Dibbets and Raoul De Keyser. The selection from Art for Future, Selected Works from the UniCredit Group will offer close to 100 pieces, namely by Austrian and German artists. Returning to Westergas, the Evening Sale ... More |
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| | Pirelli HangarBicocca opens the largest-ever solo exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evans | | Kadri Gopalnath, 69, dies; Brought the saxophone to Indian music | | Exhibition explores the making of the spectacular Ishtar Gate | 
Cerith Wyn Evans, StarStarStar/Steer (totransversephoton), 2019. Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2019. Courtesy of the artist; White Cube and Pirelli HangarBicocca. Produced with the technical support of INELCOM, Madrid. Photo: Agostino Osio.
MILAN.- Pirelli HangarBicocca presents ....the Illuminating Gas, the largest-ever solo exhibition of Cerith Wyn Evansconceived as a harmonious composition in which light, energy, and sound offer visitors a unique synesthetic experience. Twenty-four works, ranging from earlier pieces to new creations, are installed in the exhibition spaces of Pirelli HangarBicocca as elements in an elaborate visual score. Cerith Wyn Evans (Llanelli, Wales, United Kingdom, 1958; lives and works between London and Norwich) began his career on Londons alternative art scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and is one of the most acclaimed British artists of recent decades. A pupil of the artists John Stezaker (1949) and Peter Gidal (1946) at ... More | | 
A photo provided by the Press Information Bureau of India shows the musician Kadri Gopalnath in 2004, the year he was awarded Indias fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri. Golpanath, who became one of the most prominent classical musicians in India, and the first to show on a grand scale how the saxophone, despite its Western-tempered tuning, could be a real asset in Carnatic music, died on Oct. 11, 2019. He was 69. Press Information Bureau of India via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Kadri Gopalnath was a youngster growing up in a village in southern India when he first heard the alto saxophone at a performance by the Mysore Palace Band, a holdover from the years of British rule that mixed Indian and European repertoire. The saxophones sound struck Kadri as something different from the penetrating drone of the nadhaswaram, the traditional double-reed instrument that his father played every day in the local temple, and that Kadri had been learning. The alto saxophones blooming quality felt exotic, and it drew him in. With help from ... More | | 
Mold for a female figurine. Middle Elamite Period, ca. 15001100 BCE.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylons Ishtar Gate, opening new avenues for understanding one of the most spectacular achievements of the ancient world. On view from November 6, 2019, through May 24, 2020, the exhibition features 180 objects that bring to life the synthesis of masterful craftsmanship and ancient beliefs that transformed clay, minerals, and organic materialsseen as magically potent substancesinto this powerful monument. A Wonder to Behold demonstrates how the master craftspeople who designed and built the Ishtar Gate and its affiliated Processional Way were not simply skilled techniciansthough they were certainly that but also artists, historians, and ritual practitioners known as experts (ummânū). They were believed capable of creating artworks that manifested divine ... More |
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| | Sombre mood as Germany marks 30 years of Berlin Wall fall | | Almine Rech opens an exhibition organized with Bill Powers | | Sotheby's to offer Finnish masterpiece by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 
Lights are projected in front of the TV Tower near the Alexander Platz in Berlin, during a rehearsal of a 3D video installation on November 3, 2019 in Berlin. Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Germany opened Monday a week of festivities marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as Donald Trump's America First, Britain's Brexit and Russia's resurgence put a strain on ties. Gone, too, is the euphoric optimism for liberal democracy and freedom that characterised the momentous event on November 9, 1989, as Germany grapples with a surge in far-right support in its former communist states. "The spirit of optimism" seen 30 years ago, or even five or 10 years ago, "is not perceivable" today, noted Berlin official Klaus Lederer, whose office spearheaded the festivities.. Issuing a warning against "the current situation in the world" as he launched the week of celebrations, Berlin ... More | | 
Daniel Heidkamp, Appel Room, 2019. Oil on linen, 76,2 x 61 cm 30 x 24 inches © Daniel Heidkamp. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Almine Rech Paris is presenting CHORUS, the third exhibition organized with Bill Powers (following Cliche in New York and Early 21st Century Art in London, both 2018). A riff on music producer Tom Dowds famous line Dont bore us, get to the chorus, this sentiment speaks to the audiences relationship with contemporary western culture. They want the hook without the set up, drop the bass and make it all chorus, no verse. Group shows are a type of chorus, a gathering of disparate voices brought together. Historically, the Greek chorus included characters speaking on the dramatic action viewed before us as a unified response. Genesis Tramaines paintings translate these choral actors into portraits of Jesus apostles. Jonathan Gardner reminds us that currency is a faith-based agreement tacitly stamped with the approval of the masses in their acceptance of its value. ... More | | 
Akseli Gallen-Kallela's Finnish Masterpiece Palokärki (Great Black Woodpecker or Wilderness). Estimate: $1.8/2.5 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will present Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallelas Palokärki (Great Black Woodpecker or Wilderness) as a highlight of their Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 12 November 2019 in New York, where it will make its auction debut after residing in the same private collection for more than 45 years. As one of the finest examples of Nordic painting, the transfixing, serene landscape painting is estimated to sell for $1.8/2.5 million, and it is poised to set a new auction record for the artist. Gallen-Kallelas current auction record was established by Sothebys London in July 2019 when View Over a Lake at Sunset sold for $886,100, 474% above the high estimate. Simon Shaw, Vice Chairman of Sothebys Global Fine Art Division, remarked: We are delighted to present this sensational work by Akseli Gallen-Kallela this November the first time that a work by the Finnish ... More |
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 Garage find: 1962 TVR Grantura to be offered at H&H Classics Buxton saleLONDON.- An early TVR Grantura which has covered just 20,600 miles from new is being offered for sale by its owner of the past 57 years Alan Rodda, at the H&H Classics Buxton sale on November 27 with an estimate of £10,000 to £12,000. This garage find has already attracted a lot of interest and is offered for sale by its first (private) registered keeper. The two-seater has covered just 20,600 miles from new. It was supplied by Aitchison-Hopton of Chester who owned TVR at the time but is thought to have been built during 1959. It features the original Coventry-Climax FWE engine, last serviced at 20,415 miles, making it an unrepeatable opportunity. Enthusiast buyers could specify the engine, tune, and typically with 83bhp and weighing in at only 660kg, performance was sensational. Fitted with its current 1220cc Coventry-Climax FWE engine (number ... More Graffiti speak volumes in Chile's protest crisisSANTIAGO (AFP).- A visitor wondering what the deadly unrest in Chile is about can learn a lot from the graffiti that has blanketed the capital's streets. AFP has photographed some of the striking slogans and murals in Santiago as Chileans vent their rage at the government. Protests against a rise in traffic fares swelled into a general outpouring of rage at economic hardship, expensive education and healthcare and tight pensions. Many of the graffiti made a scrawled plea for "Dignity". "They won't keep us quiet any longer," the slogans warn. "The status quo is slavery for us." After starting three weeks ago, the demonstrations descended into deadly clashes between protesters and police. Twenty people have been killed in the unrest. UN human rights authorities are investigating allegations of police brutality. ... More Stanley Spencer's Swan Upping returns to CookhamCOOKHAM.- The Stanley Spencer Gallery will present Painting by the Thames: Swan Upping at Cookham, opening November 7 2019. Built around one of the artists most celebrated works, Swan Upping at Cookham (1915 -1919), the exhibition brings together rarely seen paintings and drawings from the Gallerys collection to reveal one of Spencers inspirations, the River Thames. The title work, which is on loan from the Tate, depicts the practice of Swan Upping, where mute swans are caught, marked and then released. Spencer was moved to capture this annual ceremony as he sat in Holy Trinity church at Cookham and heard the people of the village walking by on their way to the nearby river. The beautiful Berkshire village of his birth was his constant inspiration and much of his life was spent there. The artist was fascinated by the river for its beauty ... More Writer quotes George Best after winning France's top literary prizePARIS (AFP).- The winner of France's top literary award quoted the footballer George Best after being announced as the winner of the Prix Goncourt on Monday. Jean-Paul Dubois paraphrased one of the late hard-drinking Belfast-born star's most famous quips after he was mobbed when the prize was announced in a Paris restaurant. "It's a pleasure to be standing here. It's a pleasure just to be standing up," he said. Dubois, 69, suffers from a problem with his inner ear that sometimes leaves him dizzy. His moving and colourful epic about a prisoner looking back on his life also had the judges in a spin, pipping the heavily-tipped favourite Amelie Nothomb, one of France's biggest bestselling authors, by six votes to four. "I am very happy and flattered. Anything can happen (in life)!" Dubois declared after his new book, "Tous les hommes n'habitent pas le monde ... More Venice gondoliers dive into murky canals for nocturnal clean-upVENICE (AFP).- Venice's gondoliers have been swapping boating hats for scuba helmets and diving into canals in a clean-up operation of the UNESCO city that has turned up everything from washing machines to bicycles. "It's another world down there", Lorenzo Brunello told AFPTV late Sunday as he prepared to plunge into the murky waters in the first nighttime trawl for garbage cluttering up the famous city's waterways. It is the sixth time since February that gondoliers have stripped off their trademark stripey tops and donned wetsuits to bring to the surface unwanted belongings, from tires and television sets to vintage radios and telephones. Their efforts have been rewarded, with over 2.5 tonnes of rubbish collected so far. About six or seven gondoliers show up for each session. Sunday's haul near the famous Rialto bridge brought up a kitchen ... More Steve McQueen launches epic portrait of the future of London on hundreds of billboards across the cityLONDON.- One of the most ambitious visual portraits of citizenship ever undertaken in one of the worlds largest cities was launched today on over 600 billboards across all of Londons 33 boroughs. Each billboard features a class photograph of Year 3 pupils from a London primary school, taken as part of an ambitious new project created by London-born Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen in partnership with Tate Britain, Artangel and A New Direction. From 4 18 November 2019 people in London will catch sight of Year 3 classes on 613 billboards on roadsides, railways and underground stations across London. Artangel, who are renowned for producing extraordinary art in unexpected places, have worked with Steve McQueen to create the outdoor exhibition. Year 3 is considered a milestone year in a childs development ... More Phillips names Kirsten MacDonald as Regional Director for ScandinaviaCOPENHAGEN.- Phillips announced the appointment of Kirsten MacDonald as Regional Director for Scandinavia, based in Copenhagen. This important hire continues Phillips expansion across Europe and efforts in building a commanding presence in the Scandinavian marketplace as the leading global auction house for 20th and 21st century art and design. Scandinavia enjoys a rich heritage of art and design and is a home to many serious collectors, said Cheyenne Westphal, Global Chairwoman of Phillips. I am delighted that Kirsten has joined our team as part of our continued expansion as we work to provide clients throughout Europe the best service across all of the collecting categories in which we specialise. She will partner with Phillips senior executives in Europe, Asia and the United States to further develop our global client relationships, focusing ... More Christie's proposes restructure of education businessLONDON.- Christies confirms it has undertaken a review of its wholly-owned Christies Education business model, signaling a strategic shift away from traditional higher education graduate degree programs towards online learning and non-degree continuing education courses. An initial restructuring proposal was announced today to faculty and staff, subject to a mandatory consultation period which is now underway. Christies Education currently comprises three components: Higher Education (Masters degree programs), Continuing Education (short courses, symposia, conferences) and Online Education (online courses). In recent years, the Continuing Education and Online Education components have outpaced the traditional degree program in terms of enrollment, growth, and global reach, with participants from 59 countries now engaged through ... More Images of wellness and illness across time and cultures profiled in special exhibitionPRINCETON, NJ.- Throughout history and across cultures, concepts of illness and healing have been given concrete form through art. States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing features over 80 objects from around the world, from antiquity to the present including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs and multimedia that collectively illuminate the role that art plays in shaping our perceptions and experiences of illness and healing. The works of art represent and respond to pandemics and infectious disease, mental illness, the hopes and dangers associated with childbirth and the complexities of care. Organized by Veronica White, curator of academic programs, and Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, curator of prints and drawings, the exhibition is on view exclusively at the Princeton University Art Museum ... More Zabludowicz Collection opens an exhibition of works by Florian MeisenbergLONDON.- Florian Meisenbergs practice brings together painting, sculpture and installation with digital simulations experienced through the screen or virtual reality headsets. His works encourage a process of continuous translation from the material to the virtual, causing shifts in perspective from protagonist to voyeur. In Pre-Alpha (a preliminary stage of software development that may still be unstable and unresolved), users are able to manipulate a wire-frame model in the virtual environment using just their hands to shape, skin and texture forms before uploading their creations to an ever-growing public archive. For Meisenberg, the virtual space is a means to explore the utopian possibilities of lucid dreaming through which we intuitively respond to things that feel impossible and intangible. Viewers observe this intimate choreography of hands moving through virtual space, not seeing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Maurice Utrillo died November 05, 1955. Maurice Utrillo (born Maurice Valadon (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who were born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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