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While unveiling the newest addition to the national collection, the National Gallery also revealed some exciting plans for her future.
LONDON.- In July 2017, the National Gallery, London acquired a recently discovered, rare self-portrait by the most celebrated female artist of the Italian Baroque ? Artemisia Gentileschi (1593?1654 or later). Yesterday (19 December 2018) Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria, an oil painting from about 1615?17, went on public display in Central Hall of the National Gallery. This follows five months of conservation treatment; the restoration process ? in a first for the Gallery ? was documented through a regular series of short films shared on social media via #NGArtemisia. While unveiling the newest addition to the national collection, the National Gallery also revealed some exciting plans for her future. From March 2019, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria will undertake a pop-up tour of unusual and unexpected venues (not all of them galleries or museums) across the UK. Her ?grand tour? will start at Glasgow ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Brazilian Architect and researcher Carlos Francisico Moura, is seen at the Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 5, 2018. From the outside, it looks like another historic edifice in Rio's rundown city center. Inside, however, is a multi-tiered library so spectacular, so ornate, that stunned visitors feel like they've walked into a movie fantasy set. Carl DE SOUZA / AFP
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| | | Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. opens exhibition of works by Giorgio Morandi | | Caravaggio masterpiece to be exhibited in Germany for the first time | | Tate acquires four watercolours by artist and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst | 
Giorgio Morandi, Paesaggio, 1934 (detail), oil on canvas, 51 x 76 cm.
BOLOGNA.- As the end of 2018 approaches, Galleria d'Arte Maggiore g.a.m. has saved for last the major exhibition of its designed plan to celebrate its first forty years of activity. For this important goal, the gallery director Alessia Calarota curates a considerable Giorgio Morandi retrospective in the historical location of the gallery. Giorgio Morandi was immediately followed and supported with great attention by the founders Franco and Roberta Calarota. He is the painter who better embodies the promotion of the major artists from the XX century carried on by the gallery worldwide. The exhibition features a selected group of oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings from the famous still lives to the refined vases of flowers and the solitary landscapes. They reveal all the quiet but deep pictorial innovation of Morandi between reality and abstraction as well as his influence in the vision of the more contemporary generations of artists. ... More | | 
Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), The Entombment of Christ, 1602/03, canvas, 300 à 203 cm © Città del Vaticano, Musei Vaticani, Pinacoteca Vaticana.
MUNICH.- A unique highlight awaits Munich in spring next year: Caravaggios Entombment of Christ one of the most famous paintings in the Pinacoteca Vaticana and a milestone in the history of art is to be presented at the internationally important, temporary exhibition Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe to be held at the Alte Pinakothek from 17 April onwards. Until 20 May 2019, visitors will be able to experience Caravaggios magnum opus side by side with works by his successors. Even during the lifetime of the artist Michelangelo Merisi (15711610), called Caravaggio after the town in Lombardy of the same name, this monumental painting was already considered one of his best works by his contemporaries. Caravaggio created the altarpiece around 1602/03; it was commissioned by Gerolamo Vittrice for his family chapel in ... More | | 
Sylvia Pankhurst, In a Glasgow Cotton Spinning Mill: Changing the Bobbin 1907.
LONDON.- Tate today announced that it will be acquiring four watercolours by the renowned womens rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960). These paintings from 1907, which depict women working in mills and potteries, will be the first works by Pankhurst to enter Tates collection. The acquisition this year coincides with the centenary of womens suffrage in 1918, a campaign in which Pankhurst herself played a pivotal role. Sylvia Pankhurst used her skill as an artist to highlight the fight for womens rights. She originally trained at the Manchester Municipal School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and went on to design badges, banners and flyers for the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU), a group set up by her mother and sister in 1903. In 1907 she spent several months visiting industries in Northern England and Scotland, documenting the poor working conditions and low wages experienced by women. Sh ... More |
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| | | Kim shoots Trump dead in South Korea art satire | | Christie's sale offers buyers an opportunity to travel around the world in 150 lots | | North Carolina Museum of Art acquires monumental statue by American artist William Wetmore Story | 
The work portrays a film set, with Kim and Trump as friends and quarrelling over money.
SEOUL.- Kim Jong Un, a smoking pistol in his hand, looks down at the dead body of Donald Trump, sprawled on a red carpet next to a metal bag overflowing with US dollars. Behind the North Korean leader glows a neon slogan saying "The show must go on!" The scene is part of an installation art exhibition in Seoul -- a satire of the diplomacy over the Korean peninsula that has become "a big political show featuring two of the world's biggest showmen." The piece by South Korean artist Lim Young-sun marks the end of a whirlwind year on the flashpoint peninsula, during which Kim and Trump traded threats of war and personal attacks against each other -- before their dramatic, first summit in Singapore. The colourful war of words between the leaders of the impoverished but nuclear-armed North and the world's top superpower -- as well as their highly-publicised summit in June -- dominated global headlines this year. "I just wanted to show our political reality we live in, in which citizens get nervou ... More | | 
An Italian polychrome-painted wood sculpture of Saint Sebastian early 16th century, Emilia or Le Marche Estimate: £8,00012,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
LONDON.- Christies will hold the auction of Peter Petrou Tales of the Unexpected in London on 30 January 2019. This eclectic sale epitomises the addictive and contagious passion for collecting which underpins the most intriguing collections, invariably sparked by insatiable curiosity and a sense of joy. Presenting an opportunity to travel around the world in 150 lots, spanning 3,000 years of history from 1000 BC to the 21st Century, the sale comprises early sculpture, decorative arts, science and natural history, Japanese, Chinese and Indian works of art, alongside the ethnographical and the plain unusual. With estimates starting from £300 to £100,000, the collection is expected to realise in the region of £1 million. The 10-day pre-sale public exhibition will open on 14 January, providing a veritable feast for the eyes and the imagination. Benedict Winter, Head of Sale: Christies is thrilled to offer the ... More | | 
William Wetmore Story, Saul under the Influence of the Evil Spirit, modeled 185863; carved 186465, marble with original marble base in three sections, H. 64 x W. 34 x D. 64 1/2 in; base: H. 34 1/2 x W. 39 1/4 x D. 68 3/4 in., North Carolina Museum of Art, Gift of Anne Faircloth and Frederick Beaujeu-Dufour in honor of John W. Coffey.
RALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art has acquired a long-lost masterpiece of American sculpture, Saul under the Influence of the Evil Spirit by William Wetmore Story. The statue was completed in Rome in 1865 and was exhibited that same year in Dublin at the behest of Pope Pius IX. Bought by an English aristocrat for his country house in Gloucestershire, the statue disappeared for 150 years. The house later became Rendcomb College, a private boarding school, which sold the statue to the NCMA earlier this year. The acquisition fills an important gap in the Museums American art collection, adding a monumental neoclassical marble figure to the collection. Its pursuit became something of an obsession for John Coffey, who has served as the NCMA curator of American ... More |
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| | | Asher B. Durand's Progress, most valuable gift of a single work of art in VMFA's history, enters museum collection | | Sotheby's sales of Important Judaica and Israeli & International Art total $5.5 million in New York City | | Christie's announces highlights from the Americana Week 2019 series of auctions | 
Asher B. Durand (American, 1796-1886), Progress, (The Advance of Civilization), 1853 (detail). Oil on canvas. Gift of an Anonymous Donor.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts recently received the generous anonymous gift of Asher B. Durands painting Progress (The Advance of Civilization), which was approved by the VMFA Board of Trustees yesterday. One of the most important works of American art in private hands, this is the highest valued gift of a single work of art in VMFAs history, and represents the first time the painting has been held outside of private collections since it was painted in 1853. Because of the extraordinary generosity of the donor, this beloved, canonical painting now enters the public domain, allowing the citizens of Virginia to be among the first to benefit from its presence in its new home at VMFA. Commissioned by the financier and industrialist Charles Gould (18111870), this work complements VMFAs collection of paintings by other Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Cole, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Frederic Edwin Chur ... More | | 
Saint Louis Art Museum acquires an 18th-century Italian Torah ark curtain. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual December auctions of Important Judaica and Israeli & International Art concluded yesterday in New York with a combined total of $5.5 million. From important manuscripts to ceremonial silver and fine art, below is a look at what drove the results: The offering of books and manuscripts was led by the only known Kabbalistic Manuscript with Autograph Notes by Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz, one of the preeminent kabbalists of the 18th century which sold for $325,000 (estimate $250/350,000). Considered an extraordinary kabbalist by his contemporaries and by subsequent scholars, Eibeschuetz likely wrote well over one hundred amulets and authored at least two full-length Kabbalistic tracts. Despite his prodigious literary activity, precious few autograph manuscripts of Eibeschuetzs survive, making its sale all the more remarkable. Strong interest in the Second Oldest Recorded Pre-Expulsion Sephardic Torah Scr ... More | | 
Ammi Phillips (1788 1865), Girl in Red Dress with Dog, 1830-1835. Oil on canvas. Estimate: $ 800,000 1,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Americana Week 2019, a series of auctions, viewings and events, to be held January 12-18. The week of sales is comprised of Chinese Export Art Featuring the Hodroff Collection, Part IV on January 17, Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver and Prints on January 17-18, Outsider and Vernacular Art on January 18 and a special single owner collection Little Cassiobury: The Collection of Susan Lyall on January 16. Object highlights across the week include a stunning example by Ammi Phillips Girl in Red Dress with Dog ($800,000-1,200,000), a Queen Anne Carved Walnut Compass-Seat Side Chair from Philadelphia, circa 1750 ($200,000300,000), a rare oil painting attributed to Lamqua, Portrait of Houqua, circa 1840-1870 ($40,000-60,000), and an American parcel-gilt presentation tray depicting the Brooklyn Bridge, made by Gorham in 1889 for the 25th wedding anniversary of the bridges ... More |
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| | | Austria celebrates 200 years of beloved carol 'Silent Night' | | Chief Curator and Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art resigns from Tampa Museum of Art | | Three ancient cities revived: Museum of Cycladic Art opens new archaeological exhibition | 
In this file photo taken on December 10, 2003 the Silent-Night-Memorial-Chapel in Austrian village of Oberndorf is pictured. The Silent-Night-Chapel stands on the original site of St. Nikolaus Church where Christmas carol "Silent Night! Holy Night!" was heard for the first time on Christmas Eve in 1818. Joe KLAMAR / AFP.
OBERNDORF BEI SALZBURG (AFP).- Austria has something special to celebrate this festive period as it marks 200 years since the first performance of one of the world's most beloved Christmas carols, "Silent Night". Celebrations of the anniversary will culminate with a special December 24 performance of "Stille Nacht" at the chapel in Oberndorf village, near Salzburg, where it was first performed 200 years ago to the day. "We are expecting around 6,000 people this Christmas Eve, where normally we would have 3-4,000," Clemens Konrad, the head of Oberndorf's tourism office, told AFP. The song's origins gave little hint as to the global renown it would achieve, being translated into 300 languages ... More | | 
Pevnick will join the Cleveland Museum of art (CMA) as Curator of Greek and Roman Art in March 2019.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art has announced the resignation of Seth D. Pevnick, Chief Curator and Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art, where he has served since 2009. Pevnick will join the Cleveland Museum of art (CMA) as Curator of Greek and Roman Art in March 2019. As we reflect on Seths ten-year career with the Museum, we thank him for his great contributions to the field, the profession, and to the Tampa Museum of Art as the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek and Roman Art, as Chief Curator, and from July of 2014 through April of 2015 as Interim Director. During the years working with Seth, I have been particularly impressed with his scholarly pursuits and with his interest and ability to reflect on Ancient art in a modern context, ensuring our community understands the continued relevance of classical art in our contemporary lives. He frequently quoted Ancient prose and text during ... More | | 
Terracotta bust of bearded male figure, possibly Zeus, 31 BC 324 AD. Photo: George Anastasakis © Museum of Cycladic Art.
ATHENS.- The Museum of Cycladic Art and the Regional Services of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports (Ephorates of Antiquities of Chania, Rethymno, and Herakleion) are co-organizing the exhibition entitled Crete. Emerging cities: Aptera ― Eleutherna ― Knossos. Three ancient cities revived from 12 December 2018 to 30 April 2019. This is a multi-faceted exhibition with rich audio-visual aids, including screens, maps, and innovative technologies. The exhibition focuses on three of Cretes one-hundred cities, according to Homer (hekatompolis), and their common characteristics: their establishment, acme, decline, destruction, abandonment, and demise. Cities with centuries-long history, cities that were abandoned and forgotten, but are also tangible examples of archaeological investigation using similar or different approaches. The exhibition ... More |
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 Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR presents a retrospective of works by American artist Ruth MartenBRÃHL.- For the first time, Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR is showing a retrospective of works by American artist Ruth Marten (b. 1949), who has become famous for her surprising, witty and subversive treatments of old prints. Approximately 200 works on paper, paintings and objects spanning nearly five decades will be on display in Brühl until February 24, 2019. Born in New York City, the artist, who still lives there today, began her career in 1972 as a tattoo artist, being one of the first women with this profession in the 1970s. At the 10th Biennale at the Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1977, during the same time her paintings were being displayed in the exhibition, she set up a stand where she tattooed men and women artists (among them, Marina Abramović). Likewise, her tattoo performance became a main attraction at the opening of the Punk Art Show ... More Exhibition of Joan Miró's work to travel to embassies and consulates of Spain MADRID.- Abertis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, and the Fundació Joan Miró have signed a collaboration agreement this morning to promote Spanish culture and artists in the world, through the Embassies and Consulates of Spain abroad. Thanks to this agreement, the three institutions will organize an itinerant exhibition with works by the Catalan artist Joan Miró from the Fundació Joan Miró. The set of works will consist of 3 paintings (Personnage, Oiseau I, Personnage, Oiseau II, and Personnage, Oiseau III) and 2 sculptures (Femme, Oiseau and Femme), all of them original, as well as a modern photographic copy of Joaquim Gomis , photographer and friend of the surrealist artist of the 20th century. Under the title Universe Miró, this itinerant exhibition will initially tour the embassies of Spain in Rome, Berlin, ... More Kunsthalle Mainz opens exhibition of works by Lara FavarettoMAINZ.- NEED OR NO NEED these four words say it all about Lara Favarettos approach to art. What objects do we need? What materials do we use? What do we discard, throw away and scrap? And theres more: what is necessary for an artistic composition, or for a sculpture? What is too much, and what is too little in art, in our society, in our lives? The Italian artist develops objects, installations and situations that fuel our thoughts, in a manner that is deeply rooted in the material aesthetics of Arte Povera, but goes far beyond them. Lara Favaretto repeatedly limits herself by taking things away, by intercepting or adding them on. Its tempting to describe her as a composer who connects objects, materials, colours and forms in unusual arrangements full of tension. Her materials are poor, in other words everyday and simple: wood, metal, concrete ... More Exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art focuses on the reigns of the last two Romanov rulersATHENS, GA.- What happens when an emperor doesnt want to be an emperor? That was true for Nicholas II of Russia, the last ruler of the 300-year-long Romanov dynasty and the subject of the exhibition The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia and on view there December 22 through March 17. The museum has been building a collection of Russian art for several years and has developed several exhibitions from the gifts that make up that collection. The majority of objects in The Reluctant Autocrat come from the Parker Collection, assembled over more than four decades and including more than 2,200 separate objects. Asen Kirin, Parker Curator of Russian Art at the museum and professor of art history at UGAs Lamar Dodd School of Art, ... More McMillian Collection, 'The Holiday Table,' Georgian portrait lift Heritage Auctions sale beyond $1.2 millionDALLAS, TX.- More than a dozen competitive bidders pursued a British Portrait of a gentleman in Turkish dress, traditionally thought to be Edward Wortley Montagu (1713-1776) to $27,500 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction Dec. 7-9 in Dallas. The strong return helped lift the total for the sale to $1,262,273. The final price for the top lot was more than four times its high pre-auction estimate, a total driven by bids from 13 collectors. Coming to auction from a titled family, the portrait likely depicts Montagu, a fine linguist and eccentric figure who also was painted by George Romney. Montagu settled in Venice in 1773 after years of adventuring in the Middle East, where he lived in the Oriental style, and pretended he was the illegitimate son of the Turkish Sultan, which entitled him to wear the saffron ... More New commission by audio visual artists Greenaway & Greenaway to mark London Borough of Culture 2019LONDON.- In 2019, Waltham Forest will be the first ever London Borough of Culture, giving locals the chance to experience world-class culture on their doorstep. To mark the opening of London Borough of Culture 2019, audio visual artists Greenaway & Greenaway have been commissioned to form a unique collaboration with award-winning musician Talvin Singh to create a twelveminute spectacle that will be projected onto the Town Hall as part of the opening event, Welcome To The Forest. Greenaway & Greenaways piece is part documentary, part video mapping, part music video. Titled Into the Forest, it is a transformative, site-specific and site-responsive light artwork featuring 1,000 video portraits, 10 local businesses, 12 spoken word artists and 4 dancers. Celebrating Greenaway & Greenaways 10th anniversary, this spectacular ... More "Garden of Contemplation" given to honor people of Lockerbie, ScotlandBOSTON, MASS.- The National Trust for Scotlands internationally-renowned Threave Garden and Estate has gained an inspiring new feature thanks to the generosity of American donors. The Garden of Contemplation will be formally dedicated on Saturday, December 22, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The new space has been thoughtfully and carefully designed to provide a peaceful setting that evokes contemplation and reflection. It combines clever use of hard landscaping, planting, and sculptural features and was created as a result of the generous support of donors from The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA, based in Boston, Massachusetts, and one of its Trustees, Victoria Cummock. Victoria was inspired to support the project out of a love of Scotland that emerged ... More New members of the Supervisory Board of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam appointedAMSTERDAM.- The Board of Mayor and Alderpersons of the Municipality of Amsterdam appointed the following four persons to serve as members of the Supervisory Board of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Carla Aalse, Henriëtte Prast, Maarten Doorman and Homme ten Have. The Board of Mayor and Alderpersons also decided to convert the temporary chairmanship of Truze Lodder into a regular statutory appointment. Immediately following the decision of Board of Mayor and Alderpersons, the new Supervisory Board chose Truze Lodder as chairman and Carla Aalse as vice-chairman from its midst, and will draw up a balanced rotation schedule in the near future. Together with Jos van Rooijen, the aforementioned five persons will form an expert Supervisory Board able to properly perform its supervisory and advisory duties, and the role of employer. ... More Sotheby's 2018 auctions reach $5.3 billionNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys concluded its 2018 auctions this week, reaching an annual sales total of $5.3 billion that represents a 12% increase over its 2017 results. New world auction record for any single bottle of Japanese whisky: the Yamazaki Single Malt Whisky Aged 50 Years NV sells for HK$2.3 million / $298,879. The highest price for any painting ever sold at auction in Europe: Pablo Picassos Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) makes auction debut to sell for £49.8 million / $69.2 million. To celebrate the first anniversary of its London salon, Sothebys Diamonds unveils for private sale the rarest white diamond ever to come to the market. At 102.34 carats, the stone is the only known round brilliant-cut diamond over 100 carats to have achieved perfection in all critical criteria: colour, clarity, cut and carat. Peter Doigs landscape ... More NYU's Institute of Fine Arts announces transformative gift to endow curatorial programNEW YORK, NY.- Christine Poggi, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, announced the establishment of the Marica and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Program, made possible by the vision and generosity of Marica Vilcek, Chair of the Institute of Fine Arts Board of Trustees, and her husband, the renowned scientist Jan Vilcek. The Institutes Curatorial Studies Program has been an integral part of the schools curriculum since the 1950s. With the Vilceks gift, the Institute will launch a newly designed program to give MA and PhD students greater opportunities for museum-based courses taught by prominent curators at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Frick Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, along with several other museums. The program ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Masaccio was born December 21, 1401. Masaccio (Italian: December 21, 1401 - summer 1428), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at imitating nature, recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality. Masaccio died at twenty-six and little is known about the exact circumstances of his death. In this image: San Giovenale Triptych (1422).
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