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Proposal for the redesign of the decoration of the Museums Central Gallery, 1936. Archive of the Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- To mark the recent celebration of the Museums 198th anniversary, as of today the Museo del Prado in collaboration with Telefónica has made its digitalised documentary holdings available to the public. The archive spans documents dating from 1814 on the creation of the design for a new museum to recent ones from the Museums archive; documentation generated by the Museo de la Trinidad which offers an account of its activities from 1839 to its fusion with the Prado in 1872; and letters, personal and professional documentation relating to prominent cultural figures who had close ties to the Museum, such as the Madrazo family and ValentÃn Carderera. Taken as a whole, this material allows for a study of the Museo del Prados almost 200 years of existence and by extension the history of Spanish culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Prados archive houses documents created and received by the institutio ... More |
| Prehistoric women were stronger than modern rowers | | Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of the Estate of Eduardo Chillida | | McNay Art Museum announces major acquisitions of African American art | 
The Cambridge University Womens Boat Club Openweight crew rowing during the 2017 Boat Race on the river Thames in London. Photo: Alastair Fyfe for the University of Cambridge.
MIAMI (AFP).- Prehistoric women had stronger arms than modern-day rowers, likely due to the rigors of early farming which included tilling fields and grinding grain by hand, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the journal Science Advances is the first to compare the bones of women who lived 7,000 years ago in Central Europe to women of today -- specifically championship rowers and British college students. Previous studies have compared female to male bones, but this approach likely underestimated the workload of women because men's bones "respond to strain in a more visibly dramatic way than female bones," said the report. Repeated exercise, or lack of it, can affect bone density, curvature and shape. Researchers found that the arm bones of Neolithic women -- who lived from 7,000 to 7,400 years ago -- were 11-16 percent stronger for their size than rowers from the elite Cambridge University Women's Boat Club. These rowers are mostly ... More | | 
Eduardo Chillida with Homage to Calder at the Larrañaga workshop in Lezo, 1979 ©Zabalaga-Leku. ARS, New York / VEGAP, Madrid 2017. Courtesy Estate of Eduardo Chillida and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth today announced worldwide exclusive representation of The Estate of Eduardo Chillida, Spains foremost sculptor of the twentieth century. Eduardo Chillida is widely recognized for his prominent monumental public sculptures displayed throughout Spain, Germany, France, and the USA, although his varied and pioneering practice also spans small-scale sculpture, plaster work, drawing, engraving, and collage. Chillida drew on his Spanish heritage and a fascination for organic form, as well as influences from European and Eastern philosophies, poetry and history, to develop an artistic voice that communicated and resonated with a continent undergoing rapid transformation. Originally a student of architecture, Chillida created art guided by its principles. His formally rigorous constructions in oxidized iron the material a reference point to the industrial past of the Basque region are imbued with tension ... More | | 
Benny Andrews, The Cop, 1968. Oil with fabric collage on canvas. Collection of the McNay Art Museum. Art © Estate of Benny Andrews/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photograph courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Richard Aste, Director of the McNay Art Museum, announced today the acquisition of three major works all collages -- by three African American artists: The Cop, by Benny Andrews; ghost: rhythms: III, by McArthur Binion; and Kwabena, by Rashaad Newsome. Art museums are in the business of beauty and truth, said Aste. And part of our commitment to truth here, in the first modern art museum in Texas, is celebrating the diverse men and women who define modern in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This purchase by the Museum and the McNay Contemporary Collectors Forum allows the McNay to present a more inclusive and truthful history of modern and contemporary art to our community. The acquistion of these artworks significantly enhances the McNay's holding of examples by artists of color and assists the Museum in expanding the evolving definition of American art, adds René Paul Barill ... More |
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| 'Spiderman' nearly squashed at birth, says creator Lee | | Neil Young's spectacular collections of model trains, classic cars & guitars for sale at Julien's Auctions | | Gagosian Hong Kong presents a selection of paintings and sculptures by Damien Hirst | 
Comic book creator Stan Lee holds up a replica of his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
TOKYO (AFP).- One of the most successful comic book characters in history, Spiderman, nearly didn't get off the ground, 94-year-old creator Stan Lee admitted on Thursday. Lee told reporters in Tokyo he came up with the idea while watching a fly climb a wall and wanted to create a superhero with the same abilities. "Somehow calling him 'flyman' didn't sound dramatic enough. What else could he be? Mosquito man? Then I said: Spiderman. And it sounded so dramatic," said Lee. Lee decided to make his new creation a teenager and give him "many personal problems". "He won't have enough money, he lives with his aunt who is ill and needs medicine and he has to take care of her. And he's also got to fight the bad guys," he said. He took the idea to his publisher who said: "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard." Superheroes have to be adults and cannot have any problems -- that's why they are superheroes, said ... More | | 
Several of Youngs guitars, recording equipment and instruments will be offered.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced that Property from the Collection of Neil Young will close out the world-record breaking auction houses 2017 season on December 9, 2017 in Los Angeles and live online. Juliens Auctions will honor the two-time inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame legend in a never before seen auction event presenting the multi-Grammy and Juno award winning singer/songwriters extraordinary personal collection of model trains, classic cars, guitars, recording gear, clothing, memorabilia and more. (photo left to right: Youngs Lionel Western Pacific 1954 model train, 1953 Buick Roadmaster code 76X Skylark Convertible and 1957 Gretsch Country Club 6182 guitar) The globally respected, prolific and mercurial Neil Young has forged a 50 year long storied career that has been revered by legions of fans, peers and critics around the world and earned him recognition as one of the grea ... More | | 
Installation view, "DAMIEN HIRST: Visual Candy and Natural History" at Gagosian Hong Kong, November 23, 2017 to January 13, 2018. Courtesy Gagosian. Artworks © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved. DACS 2017.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is presenting Visual Candy and Natural History, a selection of paintings and sculptures by Damien Hirst from the early- to mid-1990s. The exhibition coincides with Hirsts most ambitious and complex project to date, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, on view at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana in Venice until December 3. Since emerging onto the international art scene in the late 1980s as the protagonist of a generation of British artists, Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings that examine the complex relationships between art, beauty, religion, science, life and death. Through series as diverse as the Spot Paintings, Medicine Cabinets, Natural History and butterfly Kaleidoscope Paintings, ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art announces major initiative to address lack of diversity in art museums | | Exhibition of women artists of the Modern British period on view at Aidan Meller | | Exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts spans eight decades of German painting | 
Leadership grants to support efforts to diversify museum staffing and expand outreach. Photo: Keith Berr Photography.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art announced today the creation of a citywide diversity initiative to address the long-standing lack of diversity in the museum profession. The CMA joins a national cohort of museums that have received funding under the Ford and Walton Family Foundations Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI). According to a report by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation conducted in 2015, only 16 percent of senior museum positions are held by persons of color. This funding, combined with a grant from the Cleveland Foundation through its Arts Mastery Initiative, will support the Diversity Leadership Initiative at the Cleveland Museum of Art. This program draws together multiple anchor institutions with the aim of nurturing and developing talent for the field. The CMA recognizes that ... More | | 
Doris Zinkheisen, Oil on canvas, signed.
OXFORD.- Aidan Meller is presenting an exhibition of women artists of the Modern British period. Bringing together original artwork made between 1910-1970, Modern British Retold offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant moments for British art. With technological progress and international conflict transforming traditional gender roles, art of this period marks an important step for womens artistic achievement. Exhibiting the work of artists who had studied at the Slade School of Art during its so-called Crisis of Brilliance, the show represents major female contributors of the period. Working alongside the likes of Paul Nash, David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, and Stanley Spencer, these women produced artwork that is just beginning to gain the recognition it deserves. Studying under Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer, and William Coldstream, artists such as Ruth Collett, Dorothy Hepworth and Nan ... More | | 
Günther Förg, Ohne Titel [Untitled], 1990, Acrylic on lead on wood, 149.9 x 110.5 cm. (59 1/8 x 43 1/2 in.). © the artist, 2017. Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts, London. Photo: Tom Carter Photography.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting Aspects of German Art (Part Two), an exhibition which spans eight decades of German painting and features work by some of the most important and pioneering artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition begins in the 1920s with Max Beckmann, whose work emerges directly from his experiences during the First and Second World Wars, the political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of Nazism, his subsequent exile in Amsterdam and his final emigration to the United States. With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio-economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of ... More |
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| Sophie Jung develops a new sculptural installation at Blain/Southern | | L.A. artist releases alphabet book of eccentric 30 characters | | Capitain Petzel opens second solo exhibition by visual artist and musician Stephen Prina | 
Sophie Jung, Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water, 2017, Courtesy the artist and Blain/Southern.
LONDON.- For the second in Blain|Southerns new series of exhibitions, collectively titled Lodger, its curator Tom Morton has invited the artist Sophie Jung to develop a new sculptural installation, accompanied by a performance that exists as both a live event and a looping video work. For this exhibition, Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water, Jung will transform Blain|Southerns lower gallery into an environment that recalls at once a bunker, an ice cellar, a Brechtian stage set, and a dressing room. Scale, here, is subject to sudden glitches, and the most mundane of objects coffee mugs, shower curtains, hat stands  hum with histories, ironies, and a simmering sense of fury. Jung is a storyteller. In her sculptural installations and the performances and texts that attend them she weaves free-wheeling, deeply idiosyncratic, and sharply funny narratives, which draw ... More | | 
Renowned graphic artist and illustrator creates a new book of letterforms that combine Victorian eccentricity with Pixar-style character design.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Stefan G. Bucher, creator of the popular Daily Monster® series and of the Saks Fifth Avenue Yeti, turns his eye to letterforms, bringing to life the hidden personalities of the alphabet in his new book Stefan G. Buchers LetterHeads An Eccentric Alphabet published by Unnamed Press of Eagle Rock, California. Learning to read and write are two of the earliest and most fundamental ways in which were raised to participate in human civilization, Bucher explains. Letterforms are the tools that allow us to learn and to share our thoughts. They serve us every day of our lives, but how often do we see them not for what they do but for who they are? I thought it was high time to let them have the spotlight. A very special alphabet book, LetterHeads is the first to feature sculpted portraits of ... More | | 
Stephen Prina, November 24, 2017 February 3, 2018 © the artist, Courtesy Capitain Petzel, Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe.
BERLIN.- Capitain Petzel is presenting the second solo exhibition by visual artist and musician Stephen Prina, titled »As He Remembered It« which is on view on three levels of the gallery's exhibition space from November 24, 2017 to January 13, 2018. The exhibition is an abridged version of the installation of the same title originally exhibited at Secession 2011 and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2013. The most recent example of the ongoing project entitled »Equisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet« will be included in the exhibition, amongst others. »As He Remembered It« is linked to an anecdote that Stephen Prina recalls as follows: »Sometime in the early-to-mid 1980s, Chris Williams and I found ourselves on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles late one night. From across the street, we could see ... More |
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 Michael Jackson's impact on art revealed in new showPARIS (AFP).- Pop legend Michael Jackson's "huge impact" on contemporary art will be explored in a new exhibition in Paris and London next year. The "groundbreaking" show claims it will tell the "untold story" of how the king of pop became "one of the most influential figures in art of the last half century", inspiring artists from Andy Warhol to David LaChapelle and Grayson Perry. Works featuring Jackson by some 40 artists including Gary Hume, Maggi Hambling, Catherine Opie and Yan Pei Ming will be brought together for the first time in "Michael Jackson: On the Wall" at the National Portrait Gallery in London in June, before the show travels to the Grand Palais in Paris in November. Jackson is credited with helping turn the music video into an art form, and of popularising the robot and moonwalk dance moves. Curator Dr Nicholas Cullinan, who runs the London ... More Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts appoints Catherine Opie to its Board of DirectorsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts announced today the appointment of artist Catherine Opie to its Board of Directors. She joins Chair John C. Welchman and members Stephanie Barron, Gary Cypres, Jim Shaw, and Joan Weinstein. We are delighted to welcome Cathy Opie to the board of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, said Board Chair John C. Welchman. Her excellence as an artist, generous commitment to community engagement, philanthropic experience, and candid artworld wisdom will greatly benefit the Foundations mission as we move forward. The Foundation was created in 2007 by the influential artist Mike Kelley to support arts organizations that offered compelling and high-quality programming in the artsincluding experimental practices, underknown artists, or challenging content across a wide array ... More Treasured icons of modern design available at Bonhams auctionNEW YORK, NY.- On Dec. 14, 2017, the Modern Decorative Art + Design auction at Bonhams New York will be led with rare lamps by Alberto Giacometti, spectacular window panels by Frank Lloyd Wright and by George Grant Elmslie, and a selection of incredible Danish lighting design by Poul Henningsen, including an original iconic Artichoke lamp from the Langelinie Pavilion, Copenhagen. The top lots of the sale are two sets of lamps by Alberto Giacometti, famed for his attenuated representations of the human form. These elegant lamps, a pair of Ãtoile bronze table lamps in one lot (estimate: $80,000-120,000) and a single Osselet bronze floor lamp in another (estimate: $100,000-150,000), were commissioned by renowned minimalist interior designer Jean Michel Frank, and echo the artistic elongated style found in Giacomettis sculptures. Two masterful ... More The Approach opens exhibition of works by Jack LavenderLONDON.- Following from his successful presentation at Paris Internationale, British artist Jack Lavender has created an installation of new works that continue his focus on time as a subject matter. As a whole, Lavenders practice attempts to investigate how his own personal narratives run concurrently with external and universal ones. He uses found materials and images and recontextualises them to make his various installations and sculptural collages. Lavenders new exhibition Baggy to Bootcut in The Annexe is comprised of enlarged drawings printed as PVC banners, stone sculptures and appropriated business cards. The drawings are bound to memory: Jack takes an object with either personal meaning (a piece of jewellery) or historical significance (a prehistoric bone) as the subject focus and creates a drawing, then a drawing of that drawing from ... More Fully stocked with hundreds of hard-to-find items, smart vending machines to launch in DubaiDUBAI.- In partnership with Virgin Megastore, Sole DXB introduces an experimental update to its own concept store, Early Retirement, for 2017. This landmark approach to retail positions exclusive collaborations pieces, event merch and rare Tokyo sourced goods, within specially imported automated retail vending machines, offering consumers a unique and engaging purchasing experience. In place for just three days (7-9 December) offering super limited quantities of goods, the iconic pop-up takes a smart turn this December. Fully stocked with hundreds of hard-to-find items treasures dispensed from the smart vending machines will include everything from Andy Warhol and Fragment Be@rbrick collectible toys, to 8-Bit music composers and original 1980's Walkmans & hip-hop tapes. All hand-selected from some of Tokyo's best kept backstreet ... More Cyril Power's Sunshine Roof leads Bonhams Prints & Multiples saleLONDON.- The Sunshine Roof, a rare linocut by Cyril Power, is one of the leading lots at Bonhams Prints and Multiples sale on 18 December at the New Bond Street saleroom. The print is estimated at £25,000-30,000. Cyril Power (1872-1951) began his career as an architect, making the transition to printmaking in the 1920s. He became both lecturer and student at the Grosvenor school in Pimlico, London. Famous for its vibrant prints that engage the contemporary styles of Futurism and Vorticism, the Grosvenor School sought to express the dynamism of the modern, machine age. Along with his contemporary Sybil Andrews, Power became one of the most prominent alumnus of the school his years as an architect manifest in fine draughtsmanship that uses dynamic patterns and rhythms of colour to convey the hectic pace of modern life in London. Executed circa 1934, ... More Irene de Andrés explores the complexity of postcolonial relations in exhibition at Fundació Joan MiróBARCELONA.- More than a thousand ships are estimated to have been sunk off the coast of Colombia, laden with treasure valued at nearly ten billion dollars. In recent years, this estimate has generated intense debate and considerable legislative activity aimed at regulating property and exploitation rights. Under Colombian law, all such valuable objects and elements submerged in the countrys territorial waters are known as shipwrecked species. For Irene de Andrés, the discovery of this unusually poetic legal term planted the seed for a project that plunges into the complexity of postcolonial relations and emerges with an expository essay on the evocative capacity of the concept of shipwreck. The artist begins with the discovery of the galleon San José in November 2015. This flagship of the Spanish Armada, sunk in the Battle of Baru more than three centuries earlier, was ... More Taka Ishii Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by photographer Lynn SternNEW YORK, NY.- Taka Ishii Gallery New York presents a solo exhibition of works by New York-based photographer Lynn Stern from November 30 to December 22. This exhibition, her first with Taka Ishii Gallery New York, includes her early Skull series produced in 1991 almost in its entirety. Artists throughout history have been in thrall to the depiction of death. Stern has made that fascination the focal point of a 25-year exploration of the subject. The resulting book, SKULL, reproduces 8 series of skull photographs, many never before presented, and includes an accompanying essay by renowned art critic, Donald Kuspit, contextualizing Sterns work within art history through comparisons with paintings, sculptures and photographs made during the last seven centuries of western art. Stern has also contributed an essay describing in personal terms ... More Alicia McCarthy exhibits new drawings and large scale paintings at Jack Hanley GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is presenting Fall, the gallerys seventh solo exhibition by Oakland based artist Alicia McCarthy. For this presentation, the artist shows new drawings and large scale paintings of her characteristic colorful geometric shapes and patterns. Alicia McCarthys paintings incorporate geometric shapes, grids and patterns in a distinct handmade quality that bear the artists hallmarks. Loose grids of intertwining woven lines suggest a rhythmic order that skips a beat at a closer look. Following the lines of the weaves, the eye is drawn deeper into the painting getting lost trying to decipher its ways. Opaque lines of pencil, crayon, spray paint or latex paint form arrays of colors while emphasizing each individual line. Splashes of paint and spray paint look like tags by the artist herself and call to mind McCarthys affiliation with the San ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet was born December 1, 1716. Étienne Maurice Falconet (December 1, 1716 - January 4, 1791) is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour. In this image: A Russian groom jumps to his wife during a wedding ceremony near the statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman monument, by Etienne Maurice Falconet in St Petersburg, Russia, 26 June 2010.
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