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National Gallery of Australia Head of Australian Art Deborah Hart.
CANBERRA.- For the first time in 25 years, a major retrospective of the work of Australian artist Hugh Ramsay is on display at the National Gallery of Australia, giving audiences a rare chance to see the depth of his artistic achievement through more than 85 works including painting, drawings and sketchbooks. Hugh Ramsay, who died at age 28, left behind a remarkable artistic legacy. A child prodigy, he attended art school at 16 and his talent immediately gained the attention of his peers and teachers. Hugh Ramsay curator Deborah Hart, the Head of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, says Ramsay should be remembered for his prodigious talent rather than for what might have been. One of the main aims of this exhibition is to bring Ramsays remarkable artistic achievements to broad public attention, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Mexican archaeologists confirmed the existence of a palace in the Archaeological Zone of Kulubá, in Yucatán. The structure, 55 meters long, is investigated together with four buildings of Group C of the Mayan pre-Hispanic city, which regains its splendor thanks to experts from INAH. Conservation work is carried out in buildings of Groups A and B; mapping and topographic record; and the old Rancho Kulubá is preserved, dating from the mid-twentieth century. Photo: Mauricio Marat. INAH.
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 | | First museum retrospective of Zilia Sánchez on view at El Museo del Barrio | | National Museum of African American History and Culture opens new exhibition, "We Return Fighting" | | May Stevens, who turned activism into art, is dead at 95 | 
Zilia Sánchez, Afrocubano, 1957. Oil on canvas 27 ½ à 21 ½ in., Private collection, Madrid.
NEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio is presenting Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island) the first museum retrospective of the prolific, innovative, and yet largely under-recognized artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana lives and works in San Juan). Featuring over 40 works and spanning seven decades of Sánchezs career from the 1950s to the present, the show includes paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, sculptural pieces, graphic illustrations, and ephemera, and is accompanied by a major publication and newly commissioned artists documentary. Organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, and curated by Dr. Vesela Sretenović, Phillips Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Soy Isla was previously exhibited at The Phillips Collection and at the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, prior to its New York iteration. The exhibition title, Soy Isla, serves as a personal metaphor for Sánchez's ... More | | 
Sailors reading, writing, and relaxing at the Red Cross Rest Room in New Orleans. National Archives (165-WW-127A-016).
WASHINGTON, DC.- We Return Fighting: The African American Experience in World War I is on view at the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture. On view until June 14, 2020, the exhibition examines the impact of the war on African American life 100 years since it ended. Covering nearly 100 years of history, from 1865 to 1963, the exhibition is divided into three sections: Pre-War, During the War and Post-War. We Return Fighting explores the full range of African American participation in the warfrom serving in segregated units as laborers and supply handlers in the United States and France to earning major military awards after fighting alongside the French in Europe. The exhibition goes beyond war history to show how that global conflict changed African American life, contributing to the birth of the Negro Renaissance ... More | | 
May Stevens, Alice in the Garden (panels A and B), 1988-89. © May Stevens; Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE, New York.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- May Stevens, a painter who for more than 60 years devoted her art to political causes like the civil rights, anti-war and feminist movements, died on Dec. 9 at an assisted-living and memory-loss facility in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was 95. The Ryan Lee gallery, which represented her in New York, said the cause was Alzheimers disease. Stevens was part of a generation of activist artists, which also included her husband, Rudolf Baranik, and their close friends Leon Golub and Nancy Spero. Through the rise of Minimalism and Conceptualism, these artists adhered to an older tradition of expressive painting, and to a belief in the value of art as an instrument of progressive politics and personal liberation. The reason Im an artist, she ... More |
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| | 5,000 years of Asian art in 1 single, thrilling conversation | | Legendary Berlin dance hall faces uncertain future | | Legendary German tenor Peter Schreier dies aged 84 | 
Wine Jar with Fish and Aquatic Plants. China, Yuan dynasty, 1279 1368. Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration, 11 15/16 x 13 3/4 in. (30.3 x 34.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, The William E. Hutchins Collection, Bequest of Augustus S. Hutchins, 52.87.1. Photo: Brooklyn Museum.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Redesigning an American museums Asian wing is no mean feat. How to convey the very real throughlines that make terms as broad as Chinese art and Japanese art meaningful, while also doing justice to the staggering variety of these ancient, and hugely populous, cultures? And what if you are also, like every other museum, under pressure to demonstrate the relevance of your antique artifacts to the present moment? The Brooklyn Museum, a leading collector of Asian art for more than a century, satisfies these thorny curatorial problems about as well as anyone could in the virtuosic new reinstall of its Japanese and Chinese exhibits. (Arts of Korea, with a fascinating array of stark, monochrome ceramics including an 800-old sea-green cup with a scalloped rim, opened in 2017; sections on South Asian, Southeast Asian, Buddhist, and Himalayan art are still to come.) ... More | | 
German author and historian Marion Kiesow holds up a photograph featuring dance hall founder Fritz Buehler (L), his wife Clara (later Claerchen) and daughter Margarete, in the Spiegelsaal. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
by Yannick Pasquet
BERLIN (AFP).- The dance floor of Claerchens Ballhaus has seen it all: from its first tangos in 1913 to balls for war widows to the Cuban rumba banned by the Nazis. The legendary Berlin institution with a 106-year history has even seen the Macarena and, more recently, was used as a set for a Quentin Tarantino film. Now Claerchens Ballhaus is facing an uncertain future. After a blow-out New Year's feast, the dance hall will close from January 1 for a "complete renovation" under new ownership and nobody knows when it will open again. Under the disco ball, where septuagenarians in high heels rub shoulders with hipsters in checked shirts, there is a lot of concern, because a growing number of nightclubs have closed in Berlin in recent years due to the sharp rise in property prices. The managers who have run the old-fashioned dance hall for the past 15 years have not had their contract renewed by the new owner, along with all the staff. ... More | | 
In this picture from September 24, 2011, German singer and conductor Peter Schreier speaks after he was awarded the Mendelssohn prize in Leipzig. Peter Endig / dpa / AFP.
by Michelle Fitzpatrick
FRANKFURT (AFP).- German singer and conductor Peter Schreier, widely regarded as one of the leading lyric tenors of the 20th century, has died at the age of 84 after a long illness, his family said. Schreier, one of the few international stars to emerge from former communist East Germany, passed away in his beloved home city of Dresden on December 25. Although Schreier retired from opera at the age of 65 in 2000 because he felt too old to be playing young lovers on stage, he continued to give "Lieder" or song recitals for a few more years and then focussed on teaching and conducting until his health problems became too severe. Schreier suffered from heart issues, back and hip pain and had diabetes, according to German media. In a career that spanned decades and encompassed more than 60 different roles, Schreier performed regularly in some of the world's most prestigious opera houses and festivals, from Berlin, Vienna and Salzburg to New York and Milan. ... More |
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| | Meroe Park named Deputy Secretary of Smithsonian Institution | | The A arte Invernizzi presents a solo exhibition of works by Dadamaino | | Toronto's old streetcars, a symbol of city, leave the rails | 
Meroe Park has been named Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Smithsonian, effective Jan. 27, 2020.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Meroe Park was named Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Smithsonian, effective Jan. 27, Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III announced today. Park is the executive vice president of the Partnership for Public Service in Washington, D.C., and former executive director/chief operating officer of the CIA. In her role as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, Park will oversee most of the Smithsonians day-to-day activities across its museums, research centers and education organizations, as well as many administrative and support functions. She will work with the Secretary to implement his vision, overseeing major strategic initiatives and programs. Meroe has been one of our governments leading executives, a committed public servant who has dedicated her career to advancing the mission of organizations while driving programs that support effective government, Bunch said. Shes a strategic th ... More | | 
Dadamaino, Oggetto ottico dinamico, 1962. Alluminio su tavola, 127x127 cm © A arte Invernizzi, Milano Foto Bruno Bani, Milano.
MILAN.- The A arte Invernizzi gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Dadamaino (Milan 1930-2004). The event retraces the various stages of the artists research, revealing the consistency and continuity of her aesthetic and personal choices over the years. In the highly productive period of the radical resetting of artistic forms, writes Bruno Corà , in the late 1950s and early 1960, together with the proposals put forward by Piero Manzoni and Enrico Castellani, the creators of Azimuth, came the flanking action of the works of Dadamaino, one of the fully formed artists who emerged from the spatialist ambitions launched by Fontana. Not unlike the other artists, Dadamaino rapidly reached an authoritative artistic autonomy of her own. At the entrance to the gallery is Oggetto ottico-dinamico [Optical-Dynamic Object] (1962), in which the various aluminium tesserae that the artist applied to the pan ... More | | 
A streetcar travels a street in Toronto, Canada, December 7, 2019. OLIVIER MONNIER / AFP.
by Olivier Monnier
TORONTO (AFP).- Toronto, Canada's biggest city, is known for a few things: the iconic CN Tower, the ice Hockey Hall of Fame, great food from around the world and its historic streetcars. But by year's end, the trolleys will be retired and replaced with sleek new trams -- a decision that has been met with a mix of sentimental sadness and scorn. "I like these streetcars because they have a history in Toronto," says 37-year-old Kenneth, riding at the back of one of the old trams on line 511, running along Bathurst Street. "They're an icon." Toronto's original 19th century trolley cars were pulled by horses, before the cars were powered by electricity in the 1920s. The historic tall, narrow, red and white streetcars, formally known as Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (CLRV), were commissioned in the late 1970s. To board, riders must climb three big steps. To request a stop, one pulls down on a yellow cord pinned to windows running the ... More |
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| | Sotheby's appoints Wenhao Yu as Deputy Chairman, Jewellery, Asia | | Works of video art by Jesse Jones on view at the Guggenheim Bilbao | | LiveAuctioneers named one of New York's 'Best Places to Work' for fourth consecutive year | 
Prior to joining Sothebys, Mr. Yu was Deputy General Manager and Head of Jewels and Prestige Collection Department at Poly Auction Hong Kong. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announced the appointment of Wenhao Yu as Deputy Chairman, Jewellery, Asia. Based in Hong Kong, Mr. Yu will assume a senior leadership role, responsible for driving and further developing Sothebys jewellery business across Asia. Kevin Ching, CEO of Sothebys Asia, comments, We are thrilled to welcome Wenhao to this critical role in Sothebys Asia. Our Jewellery team will benefit immensely from his extensive business connections, profound industry experience, as well as his outstanding track record. Wenhao will be a great addition to the team as we continue to strengthen our expertise and sourcing capabilities to meet the fast-growing interest and demand from the region. Coming from a finance background, Mr. Yu studied at Sothebys Institute of Art in London before joining Poly Auction Beijing in 2010 as Senior Manager. He ... More | | 
Jesse Jones, Tremble, Tremble, 2017. Film, sculpture, moving curtain, sound and light scenography. Variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist © Jesse Jones.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the exhibition Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble as part of the 2019 programming of the Film & Video gallery, a space where the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents referential works of video art and video installation, and explores the moving image as a key artistic language of our time. This is an ambitious installation by the artist Jesse Jones (Dublin, 1978) which weaves together film, sculpture, live actions, and sound. The core of the work shows images of a female giantess witch embodying female power and the power of supernatural forces on two giant video screens. This figure proclaims a new legal order, called In U tera G igantae , based on the shamanic power of women, invalidating any other law or government. Tremble Tremble was originally created in 2017 for the Irish pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale and reflects a time of intense debates on the abortion ... More | | 
Members of LiveAuctioneers New York City team. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.
NEW YORK, NY.- LiveAuctioneers, the worlds leading online marketplace for auctions of fine art, antiques and investment-grade collectibles, has been named One of the Best Places to Work in New York City by Crains New York Business for 2019. It is the fourth consecutive year that LiveAuctioneers has been selected for the coveted honor. The annual competition identifies, recognizes and honors the 100 best employers in New York City from a pool of more than 200,000 eligible companies. Its selections are determined from input received from both employees and employers, and consider such factors as workplace environment and culture, employee benefits, company policies, and human resources practices. To compile the annual ranking, Crains once again partnered with Best Companies Group, an independent research firm. More than 20,000 New York City employees were surveyed with a 76-question form that delved into their wo ... More |
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Bryan Stevenson on the power of art to communicate justice
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 Kate Figes, feminist author on family life, dies at 62NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Kate Figes, a feminist writer known for her shrewd, sisterly books about family life, among them a primer on the turmoil of new motherhood and investigations into long-term relationships and infidelity, died Dec. 7 at her home in London. She was 62. Felicity Rubinstein, her literary agent, said the cause was cancer. Figes most successful book, a bestseller in the United Kingdom that enabled her to break into the U.S. market, was Life After Birth (1998). In the book, drawing on interviews with hundreds of new mothers, she explored the extreme shifts in identity that women undergo after childbirth as well as topics like sexual desire, sleeplessness and maternal ambivalence, a virtually taboo subject at the time (and one that elicited hate mail). Figes contended that a mothers unconditional love for her child does not necessarily ... More Art Sonje Center presents Heecheon Kim's solo exhibition Deep in the Forking TanksSEOUL.- Art Sonje Center is presenting Heecheon Kims solo exhibition Deep in the Forking Tanks until January 19, 2020. Deep in the Forking Tanks, the new video that provides the title for this exhibition, has artist Heecheon Kim meeting with divers and venturing down deep into the water. Before entering the water, he goes into a flotation tank to experience a simulated dive. Also known as a sensory deprivation tank, it literally enables to cut off sense of sight, hearing, and smell. Inside one of these tanks, a person loses the sensations of their body and is capable of focusing fully on their mind. (Indeed, it is for this reason that athletes have sometimes used the tanks for image training.) But as the training goes on, one starts to become confused at whether they are in a simulation or actually diving. While they are being drawn into a state in which ... More IIT Ropar inaugurates the tallest contemporary stone-carved pillars in India MUMBAI.- Stone Oasis has designed and installed four 12m (41ft) high monumental pillars for a project commissioned by IIT Ropar. The project, supported by the Archeological Survey of India, serves as homage to the intellectual progress and excellence achieved in the land of Rupnagar, which houses the new IIT campus and stands over the roots of the great Indus Valley Civilization. The pillars, which took over a year to complete, mark a list of firsts that includes being the tallest stone-carved panel in India, and one of the largest works employing bas relief carving outside the sphere of temple carvings. The visually commanding installation spreads over 1,600m2 of area and consists of four 12m (41 ft) high pillars with 16 facades in total. Each facade carries bas relief carvings depicting a unique story built around central figures unearthed ... More Art Museum of WVU receives Richard Hamilton Acquisition PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) and David Tunick, President of the IFPDA Board of Directors, announced that the 2019 IFPDA Foundation Richard Hamilton Acquisition Prize has been awarded to the Art Museum of West Virginia University (WVU). This annual prize, made possible by the generosity of Champion & Partners, contributes $10,000 to the chosen museums acquisition of one or more prints from any period at the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, which ran from October 23-27, 2019, at the Javits Center in New York City. This year, the Art Museum of WVU has selected two pieces from the Fair to further diversify its already formidable collection of prints. One of the acquired works is Self Portrait on Float (2019), a woodblock print with gold leaf collage by artist Derrick Adams ... More The Merchant House exhibits a group of works by Craigie HorsfieldAMSTERDAM.- The Merchant House offers an immersive reflection on a remarkable group of works by Craigie Horsfield (1949, UK). A protean artist working in photography, film, sound, drawing, performance, and installation, Horsfield continues to merge his deep relational thinking on art and society with the exploration of radical print possibilities. The proposed lineup of Horsfields unique prints invites us to explore the space of relations that he has famously opened and continues to investigate in his breathtaking art. A small group of affecting prints in Horsfields second solo show at TMH invites a gradual examination. Over more than four decades of work with social projects, he has redefined many modes and forms of art (including photography) on the premise that all encounters of daily lifeno matter how briefleave a relational ... More Exhibition at NEMO Science Museum addresses all aspects of human lifeAMSTERDAM.- What do we consist of as human beings? What makes us the same, and how are we different? NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam recently opened Humania. This exhibition is about you, about who and what you are. Teenagers are addressed directly with a clear graphic and spatial concept and a personal tone of voice. In this exhibition, you discover everything about mankind through yourself. The open setup invites you to observe other visitors and as a consequence, you become part of the story yourself. The continuous comparison makes you discover yourself. You can test your eyesight or your reaction speed and discover what your name tells you about you. The outcome is not interpreted; it is neither good nor bad. You enter the exhibition through a tunnel that resets you after previous impressions. You hear questions ... More Jeddah Arts announces theme and curator of 7th edition opening in January 2020JEDDAH.- Entitled I Love You, Urgently, the seventh edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts is a call to action in response to the environmental emergency from the specificity of a local context. At a time when Saudi Arabia is undergoing a rapid transformation, it asks local and international artists, architects, designers and thinkers to seek out tangible solutions, and to formulate alternative and symbiotic ways to inhabit our planet. The title of the seventh edition is an unexpected address. As it departs from the scientific vernacular, it emphasizes the highly personal dynamics we are living today. Through exhibitions, commissions and a series of dialogues, talks and debates taking place in the gallery spaces of the Saudi Art Council and in Al-Balad, the historic city center of Jeddah, participants are invited to address three specific themes: ideas of biomimicry, ... More British Library exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic, to open in Japan in Autumn 2020LONDON.- The British Library announced that Harry Potter: A History of Magic will open in Japan at Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art from 5 September 8 November 2020, and Tokyo Station Gallery from 21 November 2020 7 February 2021. The exhibitions will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Japanese edition of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone and follow on from the UK in JAPAN 2019-20 initiative by the British Council and the British Embassy Tokyo to highlight the breadth of the UK relationship with Japan. UK in JAPAN 2019-20 spans from the Rugby World Cup and continues until the end of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in September 2020. This marks the next chapter for the British Librarys most successful exhibition, which attracted 170,000 visitors between October 2017 and February 2018, ... More Crescent City Auction Gallery announces Winter Estates Catalog AuctionNEW ORLEANS, LA.- A gorgeous carved oak nine-piece dining room suite in the style of the 19th century New York furniture maker R. J. Horner, an oil on board painting by the renowned Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter (1886-1988), a fine selection of Newcomb Pottery (to include pieces by Sadie Irvine), and an early 20th century patinated bronze sculpture by Anna Vaughn Wyatt Huntington (American, 1876-1973) will all come up for bid January 18th-19th. Theyre a few expected top achievers in Crescent City Auction Gallerys upcoming Important Winter Estates Catalog Auction, slated for that weekend, online and in Crescent Citys gallery at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, starting at 10 am Central both days. Nearly 900 quality lots in a wide variety of collecting categories will come up for bid across the two days, with Internet ... More Photography exhibition focuses on Michigan's Great LakesDETROIT, MICH.- Photographs of Michigans sprawling coastlines are the focus of a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigans Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash is on view through May 3, 2020. In his images of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior as well as Lake St. Clair and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers, Gaydashs large, black-and-white photographs display timeless and ethereal views of these shorelines unlike anything seen or photographed by the average tourist. This intimate exhibition of 17 oversized photographic prints include some panoramic views over six feet in length, giving visitors the opportunity to experience moments in time captured by the Detroit-area artist, along with his observations. According to Gaydash, these images are far from a typical great day at the beach, as Gaydash traveled to locations during ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Max Beckmann died December 27, 1950. Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 - December 27, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. In the 1920s, he was associated with the New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit), an outgrowth of Expressionism that opposed its introverted emotionalism. In this image: Auctioneer and Global President Jussi Pylkkänen selling Max BeckmannÂs Hölle der Vögel (Birds Hell) (1937-38), for £36,005,000. © ChristieÂs Images Limited 2017.
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