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A member of Royal Collection Trust staff admires Rembrandt's, 'Portrait of Agatha Bas', 1641, one of the highlights of the exhibition 'Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace' at The Queen's Gallery (4 December 2020-January 2022).
LONDON.- Spectacular paintings widely recognised as among the highlights of the Royal Collection including works by Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Van Dyck and Canaletto have gone on display together in a gallery exhibition for the first time. Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace, opening at The Queens Gallery in London tomorrow (Friday, 4 December), brings together 65 of the most treasured paintings that usually hang in the Picture Gallery, one of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The exhibition gives visitors a unique opportunity to view these world-renowned paintings afresh in a modern gallery setting, away from the historic interiors of Buckingham Palace, where they can usually be seen as part of the annual Summer Opening of the State Rooms. The more intimate display at The Queens Gallery gives audiences the chance to enjoy each painting close up, inviting them to consider what made these works astonishing at ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on December 3, 2020 shows the new path for disabled people leads in front of the Parthenon temple at the Acropolis Archaeological site, in Athens. The Athens Acropolis became fully accessible to the disabled and those with mobility issues with a restoration of its terrain and a new elevator. Greek Prime minister visited the completed works today, to mark the international Day for people with disabilities. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / POOL / AFP
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| World auction record for Wolf Kahn painting set at Bonhams American Art sale | | Fondation César announces 2021 centenary celebration for the renowned French artist, César | | How Francis Ford Coppola got pulled back in to make 'The Godfather, Coda' |
Detail of Evening Encampment by Wolf Kahn (1927-2020). Sold for $162,813, a new world auction record for the artist. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Evening Encampment by Wolf Kahn (1927-2020) set a new auction world record for a work by the artist at Bonhams American Art sale in New York last month (November 24). The painting sold for $162,813, after competitive bidding against a pre-sale estimate of $30,000-50,000. Kahn painted Evening Encampment in 1974 at his summer home in Vermont and drew upon his recent memories of a trip he had made to Kenya. Evening Encampment came with a letter from the artist, in which he asserts that this is one of his best works. Bonhams American Art specialist Aaron Anderson said: Evening Encampment is a superb example of Kahns mastery of style and his ability to portray the atmospheric conditions of the landscape around him with vibrant intensity. We were saddened to learn of the artists passing earlier this year and were honored to have the opportunity to offer such a significant work by him. The sale results ... More | |
César, 1975. Photo: Jean-Claude Sauer. Courtesy Fondation César.
PARIS.- Born in Marseille on the first day of January 1921, César Baldaccini rose from humble beginnings to achieve international renown during his lifetime, through his daring explorations of ways in which an artists hand can guide, craft, and indelibly imprint the worlds many common industrial materials into a new artistic language. From his earliest experiments in the 1950s, fashioning welded iron and bronze into unconventional interpretations of human and animal forms, to his path-breaking car compressions of the late 1950s and early 60s, through his human imprint works of the 1960s and expansions in glass fiber and polyester resin of the 1970s, César masterfully directed his materials into performative, poetic, powerful objects that seem even now to have been completed only moments ago. In his radical rethinking of classicism and embrace of the worlds astonishing material variety, César helped to move sculptural practice from the modern to the contempor ... More | |
Francis Ford Coppola in Napa, Calif., Nov. 20, 2020. Mark Mahaney/The New York Times.
by Dave Itzkoff
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the final scene of The Godfather Part III, Michael Corleone, the aged protagonist of this epic crime drama, is left in solitude to contemplate his sins, gripped with guilt over actions that have devastated his family and the knowledge that he cannot change what he has done. Francis Ford Coppola, the director and co-screenwriter of the Godfather series, has never approached his work in quite the same way. These three movies have won a combined nine Academy Awards, grossed more than $1.1 billion when adjusted for inflation and gained an exalted status in the popular consciousness. But rather than regard them as immutable monuments, Coppola has treated them like an unfinished painting he is free to update. He has previously restored and reordered portions of the Godfather story, modifying its multigenerational tale of corruption, vengeance and family duty as his own ideas ... More |
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| Norton Museum of Art appoints Ghislain d'Humières as its new Director and CEO | | Exhibition at Pace Gallery brings together nine paintings and three drawings by Adrian Ghenie | | Lehmann Maupin exhibits iconic works by acclaimed Korean artist Do Ho Suh |
DHumières recently served as the Director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. Photo: Chris Humphries.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Ghislain dHumières as its new Director and CEO. DHumières, who served as the Director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Director and Chief Curator of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, and held leadership positions at other major arts institutions, will assume his role on January 18, 2021. DHumières brings extensive expertise in community engagement and increasing access to art, expanding public programming, building and caring for collections, and fundraising to the Norton. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment for the institution, which reopened to the public on November 20 following an eight-month closure because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Ghislain brings tremendous experience to the Norton; his track record of creating meaningful connections with local communities in cities across the United States ... More | |
Adrian Ghenie, Mr Turner 2, 2020. Oil on canvas, mounted on board, 22-13/16" à 16-9/16" à 13/16" (57.9 cm à 42.1 cm à 2.1 cm). © Adrian Ghenie, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hooligans, Adrian Ghenies fourth solo exhibition with Pace Gallery, brings together nine paintings and three drawings, all made during the last year. Influenced by Impressionist painters, as well as J.M.W. Turner, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin, this new body of work continues Ghenies exploration of abstract figures, layered shapes, and gestural painting techniques to create complex images intertwined with art historical narratives. Ghenies meditation on the idea of hooliganism examines the crucial role of rebellion in the artistic process, which rejects or ignores tradition to create the new. Since the mid-2000s, Ghenie has created drawings, collages, and paintings that excavate the history of art as well as the darkest chapters of Europes past, notably World War II and the subsequent rise of communism, including in his native Romania. Somber and ... More | |
Do Ho Su, Hub-1, Entrance, 296-8, Sungbook-Dong, Sungboo-Ku, Seoul, Korea, 2018. Polyester fabric and stainless steel, 93.11 x 75.59 x 94.09 inches, 236.5 x 192 x 239 cm © Do Ho Suh. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
LONDON.- Lehmann Maupin announced a presentation of iconic works by acclaimed Korean artist Do Ho Suh. Showcasing the range of Suhs practice--including large and small-scale architectural fabric works, thread drawings, watercolors, and bronze sculpture--this marks the second presentation in the gallerys newly opened London space and the first of Suhs in London since 2017. Notably, this presentation also marks twenty years since Suhs first exhibition with Lehmann Maupin in the United States. Born in Seoul and now based in London, Suh is known for a multidisciplinary practice that confronts questions of home, memory, marginality and the correlation between psychic and physical space. His autobiographical fabric sculptures recreate, to scale, spaces of his former residences and studios. Reflecting ... More |
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| Eiffel Tower steps fetch 274,000 euros at auction | | Carly Fiorina elected Chair of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Board of Trustees | | Irish Museum of Modern Art opens major retrospective by Portuguese artist Paula Rego |
In this file photo taken on November 12, 2020 shows a section of the original Eiffel Tower's stairs, displayed in front of the Artcurial auction house in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A 14-step chunk of the Eiffel Tower's spiral staircase was sold for 274,475 euros ($328,427) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly 10 times the guide price, auction house Artcurial said. The nearly-three-metre-high artefact was part of the original 1889 staircase that connected the second and third floors of the monument for nearly a century before a lift was installed in 1983. The staircase was taken down and cut up into 24 chunks. Twenty pieces were sold to private collections, three were given to French museums and the last was put on display on the first floor of the Paris landmark dubbed the Iron Lady. Today, parts of the staircase can be found next to the Statue of Liberty in New York and at the Yoshii Foundation in Japan. The chunk sold on Tuesday by a Canadian art collector had been expected to fetch between 30,000 and 40,000 euros but a European collection forked out 274,475 euros ($328,427) for a ... More | |
Presently, Fiorina is founder and chairman of Carly Fiorina Enterprises, which counsels companies on building high-performance teams, developing leaders at every level, and creating equitable and inclusive workplace cultures. Photo: Marvin Joseph, courtesy of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation board of trustees has elected Carly Fiorina chair of the board, on which she has served since 2017. She succeeds Thurston R. Moore, who has led the board since 2018. In her new role, Fiorina will leverage her business expertise and innate ability to help organizations reach their highest potential to help the foundation reach new audiences and thrive in a post-pandemic world. Newly elected to the foundation board are Sheila Johnson, Founder & CEO of Salamander Hotels & Resorts and co-founder of BET; Wally Martinez, managing partner of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP; and Walter S. Robertson III, managing director of Lowe, Brockenbrough & Company. Colonial Williamsburgs educational mission to tell the complete story of America is ... More | |
Paula Rego, War, 2003, Pastel on paper mounted on aluminium, 160 x 120cm, © Paula Rego Courtesy Museu Paula Rego: Casa das Histórias, Cascais.
DUBLIN.- Obedience and Defiance is the first retrospective of Paula Regos work to be held in Ireland. Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935 and is one of the most influential figurative artists working today. She is celebrated for her intense and courageous paintings, drawings and prints and for her outstanding and suggestive story-telling abilities. The exhibition spans over 50 years of her international career, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Rego trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and has lived in London since the early 1970s. She is admired for her courageous exploration of moral challenges to humanity, including violence, poverty, political tyranny, gender discrimination, abortion, human trafficking, female genital mutilation (FGM) and grief. Other works in the exhibition begin with her Portuguese roots and lived experiences, or respond to current affairs and stories from literature, cinema, folklore, mythology and art history. In the 1990s Rego began creating scenes in her ... More |
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| Christie's announces 'Apter-Fredericks: 75 Years of Important English Furniture' | | Phillips' New Now Auction will feature 10 works to benefit the Yinka Shonibare Foundation | | Threat to landmark Italian stadium enrages conservationists |
Estimates range from £500 - £250,000. An exhibition and viewing for the sale will take place at Christies, King Street from 13 January 18 January. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies announces the sale of Apter-Fredericks: 75 Years of Important English Furniture taking place live on 19 January 2021 at Christies King Street. The sale, which comprises 140 lots, encompasses English furniture and works of art from distinguished provenances such as Spencer House, Langley Park and Cliveden. Works include pieces by the foremost craftsmen and designers of the 18th and 19th centuries including Chippendale, Ince & Mayhew, Linnell, Gomm, Lock, Cobb, Bullock and Gillows, as well as a selection of Chinese works of art. Internationally renowned for the superlative quality, condition and provenance of their pieces, Apter-Fredericks remains an industry byword for the very finest furniture and works of art, a reputation which has been built by three generations of the family over the last 75 years. Dealing from their prestigious showroom located on London's Fulham Road, Apter-Fredericks ... More | |
Claire Barclay, Untitled. Screenprint on paper, in 2 parts, each 60 x 42 cm (23 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.) Executed in 2018. Estimate £1,000 - 2,000.
LONDON.- Phillips has partnered with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation to offer a selection of works in the London New Now auction on 15 December. Proceeds from the sale of these works will directly benefit the Foundation which focuses on hosting and supporting artist residencies, education, and professional development programmes in the UK and Nigeria. Ten contemporary artists including Claire Barclay, Olafur Eliasson, Antony Gormley, Chantal Joffe, Jason Martin, Conrad Shawcross, Yinka Shonibare, David Shrigley, Wolfgang Tillmans and Kara Walker have generously donated works to be offered at auction in aid of the Foundation. The selection notably includes rare to market works such as Antony Gormleys 2018 STAY 1 (MEME) II and Yinka Shonibares 2019 Bird which comes from Shonibares body of quilt works which have never before been shown in London and will be launched in the New Now auction this December. Simon ... More | |
Repair work at the Artemio Franchi, a reinforced concrete stadium designed 90 years ago by the Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi and considered a seminal example of 20th-century architecture, in Florence, Italy, Dec. 1, 2020. Susan Wright/The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The pages of the Italian passport offer a crash-course of sorts on high points in the countrys architecture. After the Pantheon in Rome and the Ducal Palace in Venice, page 31 shows a more modern structure: the cantilevered grandstand canopy of Florences main sports stadium, designed 90 years ago by Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi. Immediately acclaimed for its avant-garde design, the reinforced concrete Artemio Franchi stadium is known to contemporary architects and engineers through countless textbooks on 20th-century architecture. So, when the new American owner of ACF Fiorentina, the stadiums resident soccer team, announced this year that he wanted to tear the stadium down to build a more comfortable and ... More |
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Nationalmuseum acquires Inger Blix Kvammen necklace
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has been gifted Inger Blix Kvammens necklace Eternity Cap Kanin 2 by the Bengt Julin Fund, administered by the Friends of Nationalmuseum. The jewellery piece is a large crocheted, knitted and embroidered collar in oxidised silver, with portraits concealed amongst the threads. The necklace will be on display in the Treasury when the museum reopens. The memento mori, a symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death, is a motif with a long historical tradition in art. Colourful bouquets of flowers that will soon wither, half-drunk glasses of wine and extinguished candles; artists have chosen many images to give the viewer pause to humbly ponder lifes most fundamental truth that we as individuals have but a short time here on earth. While Norwegian artist Inger Blix Kvammens (b. 1954) jewellery also contains elements ... More
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU opens "Tesoro: Pepe Mar's Love Letter to the Frost"
MIAMI, FLA.- This Miami Art Week Frost Art Museum FIU presents a new exhibition Tesoro: Pepe Mars Love Letter to the Frost. In Tesoro, Pepe Maran artist who marries a broad range of visual references and personal obsessions spanning art, fashion, queer history, and Mexican culturehas created an installation drawn from the Frost Art Museums collection. Mar envisions the Museums permanent collection of art from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe, as special treasures and presents them as gifts to the public. I wanted to make a collage of the collection as an extension of my artistic practice to create new definitions for the objects on view and encourage unexpected connections throughout the installation, reflected Mar. Organized visually across thematic chapters such as Theatre of the City; Mirror, ... More
Theater to stream: Holiday specials edition
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lets get the 800-pound fruitcake out of the way: If you love A Christmas Carol, this is the year to binge it, as companies across the United States are dreaming up innovative remote ways to present the show. A gender-bending new musical, Estella Scrooge, even updates Scrooge (Betsy Wolfe) as a Wall Street meanie with a taste for foreclosures. The shows nifty cast also includes Lauren Patten (Jagged Little Pill), Patrick Page, Clifton Duncan and Danny Burstein. But December is not just for remorseful capitalists and ghosts busting the space-time continuum its also for giving, with several opportunities to help your favorite companies or organizations. Among them is the Acting Companys holiday benefit Dec. 17, hosted by Rainn Wilson and starring Kevin Kline, Harriet Harris and Jesse L. Martin. ... More
5 minutes that will make you love Beethoven
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In the past, weve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st century composers, the violin, Baroque music and sopranos. Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the stormy, tender music of Beethoven, who was born 250 years ago this month. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy. Forget that famous portrait of Beethoven, scowling with arched eyebrows and Medusa hair. For all its anguish, his music teems with hope. The seemingly inescapable low point of the Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat (Op. 110), a resigned arioso, gives way to a wondrous fugue. Later, that ariosos darkness returns a reminder, even a relapse but is fought ... More
Dwight D. Opperman Foundation gives $1M to reimagine visitor experience at Library of Congress
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation is donating $1 million to reimagine and enhance the visitor experience at the Library of Congress with a new orientation gallery, exhibitions and learning lab, the Library announced today. The Phoenix-based foundations donation to support design and construction of the Librarys visitor experience is one of several major gifts to the project in 2020 and was announced just after Giving Tuesday. The Library is pursuing a multi-year plan to transform the experience of its nearly 2 million annual visitors, share more of its national treasures with the public and show how Library collections connect with visitors own creativity and research. "The Library of Congress is, in my opinion, the nation's greatest cultural institution," said Julie Opperman, chairman of the Dwight D. Opperman ... More
Greenhouse Auctions draws new and established collectors to inaugural sale
NEW YORK, NY.- Greenhouse Auctions, a new model for supporting and discovering artists, drew bidders from around the world and created new connections between collectors and artists in its inaugural sale held yesterday. Titled Sourdough, the online auction featured 17 new and never-before-seen works created during the past several months of the pandemic lockdown offered by 17 artists and eight international galleries. 60 bidders from countries including Belgium, Canada, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, Spain, and South Korea, as well as from cities across the United States , participated in the sale, resulting in lots selling 85% by value. The inaugural sale also occasioned Greenhouse Auctions first donationa percentage of the sellers commissionto a new scholarship it developed in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund ... More
Gibbes Museum of Art announces winner of 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Gibbes Museum of Art is proud to announce Stephen L. Hayes Jr. as the 2020 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art. A North Carolina-based artist, Hayes makes workswoodcuts, sculptures, installations small and largefrom found materials that draw on social and economic themes ingrained in the history of the U.S. and African Americans. Hayes will be awarded a $10,000 cash prize and will be recognized at the Society 1858 Amy P. Coy Forum scheduled for February 2021. Amidst the challenges of 2020, Society 1858 and the Gibbes are thrilled to be able to continue celebrating the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, says Angela Mack, executive director of the Gibbes Museum of Art. We are also excited to announce Stephen as this years winner. His creations contribute to the understanding of the ... More
Halcyon Gallery, London reopens with group exhibition Us Now
LONDON.- In the context of this years historic US election, ongoing questions over Brexit, and the global pandemic that affects us all, the question of identity, on both an individual and societal level, feels more pertinent than ever before as nationalism proliferates throughout the world and communities clash with each other. US NOW explores how artists appropriate national and political figures, imagery and iconography in their work in order to address this subject. Flags are an enduring art historical motif, the strong iconography of the American flag was famously exploited by pop artist Jasper Johns, who recognised the ubiquitous presence of the Stars and Stripes in everyday life. The flag motif is explored throughout this exhibition in a diverse range of media, from oil on canvas, digital screens to actual banknotes. The exhibition sees the launch ... More
Black voguers populate billboards in a Times Square 'Midnight Moment'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Just before midnight every evening in December, some 70 digital billboards encircling the gaudy canyon of Times Square will be co-opted for three minutes by slow-motion images of Black voguers, performing dances of resistance, resilience and liberation. The video installation is the work of Rashaad Newsome, a multidisciplinary artist who has remixed footage from live performances of his 2019 piece Black Magic. The opportunity to stage Black Magic in Times Square a storied crossroads of commercialism, celebration, protest, performance was a great proposition to do something transgressive, said Newsome, 40, who grew up in New Orleans and is now based in Oakland, California, and Brooklyn, New York. Showing Newsomes work at a museum like hers, which focuses on queer ... More
Museums' collections diversify and grow through New Collecting Awards
LONDON.- Today Art Fund announced funding to help expand and diversify museum collections. It will enable museums such as the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, to collect contemporary works by indigenous artists which address the colonial history of the organisation and National Galleries of Scotland to commission new photographic portraits that reflects the diversity of Scotlands population. Five rising curators have been awarded the funding through Art Funds New Collecting Awards. The New Collecting Awards give curators 100% funding to research and buy works that grow their museums collections in new directions or deepen existing ones. The scheme has awarded a total of 35 curators over £1.8 million during the past six years. Each winning curator receives a budget for acquisitions alongside funding for research, travel, and training, ... More
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco appoint inaugural Curator of African Art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco announced the appointment of Natasha Becker as the inaugural curator of African art. Reporting to the curator in charge of the Museums department of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Becker now oversees the Museums collection of African art, envisioning new and expansive ways to interpret and present artworks in focused exhibitions and in dialogue with other works of art in the Museums collection. Born and raised in South Africa, Becker has focused on presenting the work of African artists, African American artists, and artists of the African diaspora. Working in both Cape Town and New York City over the past decade, she has organized numerous exhibitions and international initiatives as an independent curator. Prior to joining the Museums, she ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko died December 04, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889-1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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