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Jean (Hans) Arp, Sans titre, vers 1926. Huile sur bois, 75 x 106 cm. Musée Collection Berardo, Lisbonne. Crédit photographique : DR - © ADAGP, Paris, 2008.
LISBON (AFP).- Portugal has seized a trove of contemporary artwork, including paintings by Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, from its debt-riddled owner, the government said on Tuesday. "There has been a court ruling to this effect," a spokeswoman for the Culture Ministry said, confirming media reports. For months, three Portuguese banks had tried but failed to seize the art collection from Portuguese businessman Jose Berardo. The 75-year-old had offered the works as collateral for his debt which totalled nearly one billion euros ($1.1 billion). The lenders refused to comment on the case when contacted by AFP. The modern art collection of more than 900 works which includes, besides Miro and Mondrian, other famous artists such as Gerhard Richter and Francis Bacon, was valued in 2006 at 316 million euros. But the collection could have doubled in value since then given the growth in the art market. Bacon's "Self-Portrait", for example, sold for over 17 million euros when it was auctioned at Southeby's last ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photo taken on June 11, 2019 shows cultural advocate Leo Emmanuel Castro holding a piece of bamboo inscribed with indigenous Baybayin script at his shop in Manila. From tattoos, shirts, and artworks to a computer font and mobile apps, Baybayin found a rebirth among millennials and professionals learning its 17 characters beyond the marginal mention in history class. Ted ALJIBE / AFP
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 | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires painting by the French painter Coupin de la Couperie | | Mark di Suvero's tallest sculpture unveiled at Storm King this summer | | Three important works by Peter Lanyon acquired for the nation | 
Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie, Raphael Adjusts Fornarinas Hair Before Painting her Portrait, 1824. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum recently acquired a work by French painter Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie. The painting is called Raphael Adjusts Fornarinas Hair Before Painting her Portrait and was put on display at the Saloon in 1824. It is a fine example of what is known as the Troubadour style, which became popular in the years following the French Revolution. The painting Raphael Adjusts Fornarinas Hair Before Painting her Portrait by the painter Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie (17731851) is one of the more prominent examples of the genre known as the Troubadour style. It was commissioned by Anne Marie Hortense Perrégaux, Duchess of Ragusa (17791857), and was exhibited at the Saloon of 1824. The motif with the famous Renaissance painter also shows that the Troubadour style encompasses anecdotal depictions of the Renaissance despite the Middle Ages having ended. The adored Renaissance painter is depicted a ... More | | 
View of the south fields, all works by Mark di Suvero. Left to right: Figolu, 200511. Courtesy the artist and Spacetime C.C. E=MC2 , 1996-97. Courtesy the artist and Spacetime C.C. ©Mark di Suvero, courtesy the artist and Spacetime C.C., New York. Photo courtesy Storm King Art Center.
MOUNTAINVILLE, NY.- Storm King Art Center is presenting the first US exhibition of internationally renowned sculptor Mark di Suveros E=MC2 (1996-97), which at nearly 100 feet is the tallest sculpture by the American artist to date. Created in di Suveros studio in Chalon-sur-Soâne, France, E=MC2 (1996-97) was previously shown in Paris in 1997 as part of a two-year-long citywide exhibition of the artists work and has been on display in Valenciennes, France for the past 10 years. Widely regarded as one of the most important American artists to emerge from the Abstract Expressionist era, di Suvero remains a prolific artist today with a career spanning more than sixty years. The exhibition of E=MC2 (1996-97) at Storm King continues an unparalleled five-decade-long dialogue between the artist and the Art Center. The new work, ... More | | 
Clevedon Bandstand, oil on canvas, 1964 (detail) © Peter Lanyon Estate, with thanks to Gimpel Fils.
LONDON.- Three works by Peter Lanyon (1918 1964) have been acquired for the nation and allocated to three different UK art galleries through the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme. They have been accepted from the estate of his widow, Sheila Lanyon. An oil painting has been allocated to Tate, and two large gouaches to the University of Birminghams Research and Cultural Collections, and the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool. Clevedon Bandstand, 1964 is an abstract landscape painting executed in the last year of Lanyons life, before his tragic early death resulting from complications from a gliding accident. It is one of a handful of paintings that indicate a striking new direction in his work, showing how his earlier use of heavily worked layers of paint had given way to thin washes of oil of a brighter and more primary palette. The two gouaches were studies for murals the artist was to paint at Liverpool and Birmingham universities. The Birmingham mural was to b ... More |
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| | | National Gallery of Victoria displays Chinas ancient Terracotta Warriors | | Multiple records fall as Heritage Auctions' Summer Trading Card event reaches $8.3 million | | Foundation consortium acquires historic African American photographic archive | 
These sculptures have been contextualised by an unprecedented Australian presentation of more than 150 exquisite ancient treasures of Chinese historic art.
MELBOURNE.- In a dual presentation of Chinese art and culture past and present, the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series at the National Gallery of Victoria is presenting Chinas ancient Terracotta Warriors alongside a parallel display of new works by one of the worlds most exciting contemporary artists, Cai Guo-Qiang, at NGV International, May 2019. Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality is a large-scale presentation of the Qin Emperors Terracotta Warriors, which, discovered in 1974 in Chinas Shaanxi province, are regarded as one of the greatest archaeological finds of the twentieth century and widely described as the eighth wonder of the world. The exhibition features eight warrior figures and two life-size horses from the Imperial Army, as well as two half-size replica bronze chariots, each drawn by four horses. These sculptures have been contextualised by an unprecedented Australian ... More | | 
The most astonishing result of the sale was the $252,000 price for the rare Eddie Plank, graded PSA VG 3, more than doubling a competitors sale price for an EX 5 example less than two years ago.
DALLAS, TX.- The worlds largest sports collectibles auctioneer dropped the hammer on more than 2,200 trading card lots late last week, recording more than $8.3 million in a highly competitive online auction. The sale contained the first of three 2019 offerings in Part I of The David Hall T206 Collection, the most comprehensive assembly of the hobbys premier tobacco issue. That incredible collection from the founder of Collectors Universe supplied three six-figure results to the eye-popping Heritage tally, the most astonishing result of the sale being the $252,000 price for the rare Eddie Plank, graded PSA VG 3, more than doubling a competitors sale price for an EX 5 example less than two years ago. A Red Background Ty Cobb with a Hindu back commanded $126,000 at VG-EX 4, while the only PSA-graded Walter Johnson Hands at Chest with ... More | | 
Ebony Magazine Vol. 24 No. 10. Photo: Johnson Publishing Company.
WASHINGTON, DC.- A consortium of foundations the Ford Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation today acquired the archive of Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), publisher of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines. The acquisition is pending court approval and the closing of the sale. The archive includes more than 4 million prints and negatives comprising the most significant collection of photographs cataloguing African American life in the 20th century. The archive was acquired for $30 million as part of an auction of the assets of JPC in connection with its Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. The foundation consortium will donate the archives to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Getty Research Institute, and other leading cultural institutions for the public benefit to ensure the broadest access for the general ... More |
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| | | National Postal Museum announces Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award recipients | | First museum survey of the work of Harmony Hammond on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum | | New exhibition 'Archive In Motion' celebrates 75 years of The New York Public Library Performing Arts Division | 
Alfredo Harp Helú. Courtesy National Postal Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Postal Museum has announced the 2019 Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award recipients, Alfredo Harp Helú, Janet R. Klug and Charles F. Shreve. They will be honored at a gala at the museum Oct. 19. The Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award (SPAA) was established in 2002 to honor and celebrate living individuals for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of philately. This achievement may include original research that significantly advances the understanding of philately, exceptional service to the philatelic community or sustained promotion of philately to the benefit of current and future collectors. The National Postal Museum is honored to present this prestigious award to these distinguished individuals, said Elliot Gruber, director of the museum. This lifetime achievement award recognizes their exceptional service to the international philatelic community, to ... More | | 
Harmony Hammond, Material Witness: Five Decades of Art, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, March 3 to September 15, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York © 2018 Harmony Hammond / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Jason Mandella.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting the first museum survey of the work of the trailblazing artist, feminist and lesbian scholar, curator, activist, and author Harmony Hammond. Spanning almost fifty years, 1971 to 2018, the exhibition brings together her earliest painted sculptures and sculpted paintings, mixed-media and monumental installational paintings of the 1980s and 1990s, and recent thickly painted near monochromes, as well as works on paper, ephemera, and publications. Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art are on view at The Aldrich from March 3 to September 15, 2019. For five decades, Hammond has created an inimitable approach that unites Minimalist and ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1944, a young music librarian named Genevieve Oswald at The New York Public Library argued that dance materials didn't fit well into the Music or Theatre archives, and should be collected separately and differently. What she created was one of the first archives devoted entirely to dance, originally called the Library's Dance Collection, and now known as the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. In the 75 years since its creation, the Dance Division has become the worlds preeminent collection of dance research materials, and an invaluable resource to students, practitioners of all levels, researchers, writers, enthusiasts and artists. Chronicling the art of dance in all its forms, the Division acts as much more than a library. It preserves the history of dance by gathering diverse written, visual, and aural resources, and works to ensure the art form's continuity through active documentation ... More |
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| | | Heavens below: Introducing Siloam, Mona's new extension | | Captivating past-meet-present photos show England's changing face | | The CAPC invites Scottish artist Ruth Ewan to exhibit in its iconic nave | 
Central tunnel in Siloam, Mona's new underground extension. Photo: Mona/Jesse Hunniford. Image courtesy of Mona, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
HOBART.- Mona opened Siloam, a vast new subterranean excavation. This $27 million extension is a complex of chambers, gallery spaces and connecting tunnels featuring artworks by Alfredo Jaar, Ai Weiwei, Oliver Beer, and Christopher Townend. Alfredo Jaar has created an immersive journey simulating heaven, hell and purgatory in The Divine Comedy, 2019. Visitors enterten at a timeinto three pavilions interpreting each of the realms of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem. They will encounter fire and flood in Inferno; hover between life and death with American performance artist Joan Jonas (in a film) in Purgatorio; and, finally, simply exist in the sensory void of Paradiso. Ai Weiwei's White House, 2015, is formed from the bones of a Qing Dynasty home, constructed from interlocking pieces of wood, all ... More | | 
This project is part of a series of creative content campaigns NeoMam Studios have been commissioned to produce for On Stride to inspire people in the UK to see their local towns and cities in a whole new light.
LONDON.- Short of inventing yourself a time machine, its difficult to picture precisely how Englands cities have changed since Victorian times. But thanks to the wonder of archive images and roving photographers, NeoMam Studios have created a new set of animated images that instantly transport you back 125 years to the altogether quieter street life of England at the end of the 19th century. NeoMam Studios decided to focus on 7 cities and towns across England: Bristol (St. Augustine Parade) Newcastle (Black Gate and Castle) Liverpool (St. Georges Hall) Scarborough (the Spa at South Bay) London (Victoria Embankment) Worthing (Marine Parade) Manchester (Victoria Street) This project is part of a series of creative ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Arthur Pequin.
BORDEAUX.- It Rains, It Rains, the first solo exhibition of the Scottish artist Ruth Ewan in France, borrows its title from the folk song Il pleut, il pleut, bergère written by the French revolutionary poet, actor and politician Fabre dÃglantine, who is said to have calmly recited the lyrics before his execution in 1794. Ewans exhibition comprises the installation Back to the Fields, first shown in 2015 and entirely reconfigured for the CAPCs iconic nave, as well as a series of objects connected to the French Republican calendar. The Republican calendar was adopted by the Convention in 1793, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to replace the Gregorian calendar. Embodying and carrying the Republican ideals directly into the life of every citizen, it was in use for twelve years. It completed the dismantling of the Ancien Régime by reorganising time itself. According to the idea that with the advent of the ... More |
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 Sydney Contemporary announces artists for its innovative Installation Contemporary programSYDNEY.- Sydney Contemporary announced 15 Australian and international artists for their innovative and highly anticipated Installation Contemporary program being presented for the duration of the fair from 12-15 September 2019. Now approaching its fifth edition, Sydney Contemporary welcomes Installation Contemporary back this year as one of the highlights of the Fair presenting an opportunity for audiences to view innovative, site-specific and interactive installations in the environment of Carriageworks. Installation Contemporary has been curated by newly appointed Dr Mikala Tai, a curator, researcher, academic and the Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Designed to exhibit large-scale artworks in a diverse range of media, Installation Contemporary responds to the unique architecture of Carriageworks and presents the viewer with ... More Moderne Gallery makes trailblazing movePHILADELPHIA, PA.- In January 2019 the renowned Moderne Gallery, established in 1984, as one of just five galleries in Old City Philadelphia, opened a new chapter in its history by being the first tenant to move into The Showrooms at 2220 (2220 East Allegheny Avenue, 19134), in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. Ever the visionary, Moderne Gallerys Founder and Co-director Robert Aibel has always been on the leading edge of discoveries and trends in the market for the finest works of vintage and contemporary studio furniture, studio ceramics, turned wood and much more. The move into a large wide-open space at The Showrooms at 2220, a former 19th Century candy factory, increases the Gallerys presentation opportunities and defines a new marketing approach. Clients will be able to see Moderne Gallerys full inventory in one location. ... More World Monuments Fund names Bénédicte de Montlaur CEONEW YORK, NY.- World Monuments Fund today named Bénédicte de Montlaur its next Chief Executive Officer. Ms. de Montlaur will become the fourth head of the worlds leading heritage conservation organization. Since 1965, WMF has partnered with local stakeholders to safeguard more than 600 sites worldwide, including Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the Forbidden Citys Qianlong Garden in Beijing, China, and Civil Rights sites across Alabama in the United States. Ms. de Montlaur, whose mandate as Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States ends next month, has spent the last two decades working on three continents as a senior diplomat at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to directing French-American cultural, educational, and artistic relations in her current role, she held positions including ... More Moscow's Roma theatre plays on against troubled backdropMOSCOW (AFP).- With passionate songs, flowing dresses and the wild strumming of guitars, a Moscow theatre has staged colourful aspects of Roma culture since the shows' heyday in the early Soviet era. Calling itself the "world's only" Roma theatre, the state-funded Romen Theatre occupies a huge building close to the city centre and holds near-nightly shows. It was founded in the 1930s as a symbol of the "friendship of the peoples", a phrase coined by Joseph Stalin for relations between the USSR's many ethnic groups -- even though Soviet authorities persecuted numerous non-Russian minorities. Today, some 200,000 Roma live in Russia, according to official statistics, mostly in the European part of the country. And, like elsewhere in Europe, the communities often have tense relations with their neighbours. In June, a massive inter-ethnic brawl in the village ... More The 10th edition of Beirut Art Fair will take place from 18 to 22 September 2019BEIRUT.- The 10th edition of Beirut Art Fair, the international modern and contemporary art fair with a focus on the scenes of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region), will take place from 18 to 22 September 2019 in Beirut. A space for artistic revelations, Beirut Art Fair celebrates its tenth anniversary this year and entrusts its artistic direction to Franco-Lebanese curator Joanna Abou Sleiman-Chevalier. After a steady decade of growth, Beirut Art Fair has become a major event in the art fair calendar, attracting every year a growing number of visitors from around the world. For its 10-year anniversary, Beirut Art Fair reaffirms its commitment to the discovery of the local and international contemporary scene and wishes to celebrate Lebanon and its sometimes little-known treasures by presenting exceptional and never-exhibited-before works from private ... More Taryn Simon's landmark performance work An Occupation of Loss released on vinyl by The Vinyl FactoryLONDON.- Recitations of grief and mourning recorded on the occasion of the London performance of Taryn Simons An Occupation of Loss will be released on limited-edition vinyl on 16 September 2019, published by The Vinyl Factory. Co-commissioned by Artangel and Park Avenue Armory, An Occupation of Loss was first presented in September 2016 at Park Avenue Armory, New York. The London performance took place in April 2018 below Islington Green in a cavernous concrete space selected for its unusual sonic properties. In An Occupation of Loss, professional mourners simultaneously broadcast their lamentations, many of which trace their origins to pre-Islamic and pre-Christian times, enacting rituals of grief. Their sonic mourning was performed in recitations that include Northern Albanian laments, which seek to excavate uncried ... More Monash University Museum of Art opens a survey of contemporary artist book publishingMELBOURNE.- bookworks is a survey of contemporary artist book publishing that brings together six of the worlds leading exponents to Monash University Museum of Art from 24 July until 21 September 2019. The exhibition explores the thematic connections between books, art and publishing from the conceptual, technical and material form of artist books their history, production, classification and distribution. Featuring the work of artists, graphic designers, book makers and publishers, the exhibition will host workshops and forums, as well as an independent art library. Curator, influential Australian designer and educator Warren Taylor, has brought together a group of leading practitioners including Adam Cruickshank (AUD), Will Holder (UK), Olaf Nicolai (GER), Roma Publications (NDL), Batia Suter (NDL) and Ella Sutherland (NZ). ... 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More Springfield Art Museum and park board mount large-scale public art installationSPRINGFIELD, MO.- The Springfield Art Museum announced an expansive outdoor sculpture installation with Kansas City artist Shawn Bitters, in collaboration with the Springfield-Greene County Park Board. Burn Out, which was recently featured in Open Spaces Kansas City, was installed on the Museum's grounds and throughout nearby Phelps Grove Park on July 17 and will remain on view for one year. Bitters was a featured artist in the Museum's 2018 4x4: Midwest Invitational Exhibition. The 23 screen-printed aluminum stones in Burn Out form a narrative; each rock is encoded, representing a letter, that when joined together, tell a story. The stones can be read by moving through the landscape. The title of the work references the necessary destruction of fire in certain landscapes such as the prairies of the Midwest. The shape of the stones is based ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet was born July 31, 1901. Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this image: A young lady looks at "Paysage charbonneux" by French artist Jean Dubuffet dated 1946, and valued at 3.5 million Marks (1.5 million Dollars) at the 34th International fair for modern art "Art Cologne" in Cologne, Germany, Friday, November 3, 2000.
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