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Conservation and restoration specialist Ella Hendriks explains the restoration process of De Zonnebloemen (The Sunflowers) by Vincent van Gogh, on January 24, 2019, in Amsterdam. The world famous painting undergoes restoration work over the course of six weeks in the restoration studio of the Van Gogh Museum. Olaf Kraak / ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE.- The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Thursday its version of "Sunflowers" will no longer be allowed to travel after restoration work showed it was in a "fragile" condition. The museum in the Dutch capital is one of only five in the world with a copy of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece, and it rarely goes abroad, with the last time being in 2014. But international experts involved in the restoration said that even that was too much for the 130-year-old painting, meaning that it will now "stay at home in Amsterdam". "An important conclusion of the research is that the soil and paint layers are stable, but very sensitive to vibrations and changes in air humidity and temperature," Van Gogh Museum director Axel Rueger said. "It is therefore important that the painting is moved as little as possible and in a stable climate. To avoid taking any risks, the museum has decided that it will no longer be possible to let Sunflowers travel." The restoration found that the painting wa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A capital from Byzantine era and antique stones are pictured on December 28, 2018 in the Tombs of the Kings, owned and administered by the French Consulate in East Jerusalem. The ancient site, which is considered the grandest burial compound in the holy city and has been closed for years, includes a sophisticated burial cave that has a mechanism for sealing the entrance by means of a stone that rotates on a hinge. THOMAS COEX / AFP
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| | | Giambologna's bronze statuette Mars once again held by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden | | German police seize 'fake' Hitler watercolours | | Canada acquires rare book previously owned by Adolf Hitler | 
The small bronze, which is one of the oldest items held by the museum complex, came to Dresden in 1587 as a personal gift of the artist Giambologna to Elector Christian I of Saxony. © SKD, Photo: Oliver Killig.
DRESDEN.- For more than 300 years, the statuette of the warrior god Mars, created by the Renaissance artist Giambologna (15291608), was part of the art collection of the Saxon electors. Nearly 100 years ago it entered private ownership. Today it has returned to Saxony and, now owned by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), is being presented to the public. Before the bronze statuette is put on display at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in the Semperbau when the museum reopens in December 2019, it will travel the Free State of Saxony. The welcome-home tour will start at the Stadt- und Bergbaumuseum Freiberg, where, starting today, the Mars will be on view ... More | | 
Portrait of Adolf Hitler. Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA/wikipedia.org
BERLIN.- German police seized three watercolours presented as works of Adolf Hitler before they were due for auction Thursday in Berlin, claiming they were fakes. The Alpine and Rhenish landscapes were dated 1910 and 1911 and were signed A. Hitler. They were offered by auction house Kloss. Berlin police tweeted they had opened an enquiry into "attempted fraud" and "falsification of documents". The starting price was 4,000 euros ($ 4,500) per painting, and each carried a seal of approval by an expert attesting their authenticity. The Nazi dictator tried to enrol in the Vienna Academy of Arts as a young man but was rejected for lack of talent. He continued painting, however, and copied landscapes from post cards which he sold to tourists. A 2015 auction of Hitler watercolours fetched nearly 400,000 euros ($452,000). ... More | | 
Hitler was an avid reader with a collection reportedly containing 6,000 to 16,000 titles.
OTTAWA (AFP).- Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler. Written in German, "Statistics, Media, and Organizations of Jewry in the United States and Canada" is a 137-page report produced in 1944 by Heinz Kloss, a famed German linguist who had contact with US Nazi sympathizers. The book details certain cities' population statistics along with organizations and media outlets key at the time to North America's Jewish communities, Library and Archives Canada said in a statement. "This work hints at the story of what might have happened in Canada had the Allies lost World War II. It also demonstrates that the Holocaust was not a purely European event, but rather an operation that was stopped before it reached North America," it added. The ... More |
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| | | Colnaghi and Ben Brown Fine Arts open exhibition that re-examines the career of Lucio Fontana | | The Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe of Catherine Deneuve achieves $1 million | | Dippy, the UK's most famous dinosaur, is open and awaiting his Scottish audience at Kelvingrove Museum | 
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attesa, 1964. Waterpaint on canvas 46 x 38 cm. (18 1/8 x 15 in.) © the artist. Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts London.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ben Brown Fine Arts and Colnaghi are presenting FONTANA, their first exhibition in partnership at the Colnaghi townhouse in New York. FONTANA re-examines the career of one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century, Lucio Fontana, and features works spanning the artists career, including seminal paintings, drawings and ceramics from the 1930s to the late 1960s, which champion his lifelong appetite for experimentation. The exhibition explores Fontana's beginnings as a sculptor; the artist found great enjoyment working on ceramics throughout his career and the medium is arguably the domain in which he experimented the most artistically. Fontana learned his fathers trade as a sculptor of graveyard memorials and his early sculptural works were reflective of this traditional and figurative influence which can be seen ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on January 18, 2019 a woman takes photos of Yves Saint Laurent creations belonging to French actress Catherine Deneuve on display at Christie's auction house in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
PARIS.- The live auction of the wardrobe of Catherine Deneuve designed by Yves Saint Laurent achieved a total of $1,025,581 / 900,625 / £785,887 and sell-through rates of 100%. The interest in the sale was so immense that 90% of all 129 lots sold multiple times above their pre-sale estimates. The auction lasted 5 hours, witnessing fierce competition from around the globe. Each piece of haute couture or Rive Gauche clothing was a testament to the 40-year long friendship between Frances most iconic actress and one of the worlds most renowned couturier. The pre-sale exhibition during Paris Fashion Week was attended by 4,500 visitors, welcoming young fashion design students, fashionistas and admires of Catherine Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent. The online bidding ... More | | 
Dippy, the Natural History Museum Londons famous Diplodocus, is ready to meet Scottish audiences at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.
GLASGOW.- Dippy, the Natural History Museum Londons famous diplodocus, is ready to meet Scottish visitors at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. The eagerly awaited Dippy on Tour: A Natural History Adventure opened Tuesday 22 January and will run until 6 May 2019. Admission is free and you do not require a ticket to visit, although people are being asked to leave a little extra time to see Dippy, especially at weekends and during school holidays. After delighting over 130,000 people at Ulster Museum Belfast the splendid 292 bone structure, now replete as an impressive 21.3 meter long diplodocus cast, greets guests entering the Centre Hall at Kelvingrove Museum. Dippys visit to Glasgow is the only Scottish stop on an eight city UK wide tour. Director of the Natural History Museum, Sir Michael Dixon said: We are thrilled that Dippy has once again ... More |
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| | | Getty Medal to go to Lorna Simpson, Mary Beard and Ed Ruscha | | Exhibition at Astrup Fearnley Museet focuses on the next generation in Norwegian contemporary art | | Renowned Asian art collection and $23M in funding donated to Texas university | 
Ed Ruscha. Photo: Sten M. Rosenlund. Courtesy, Ed Ruscha and Gagosian.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it will present the annual J. Paul Getty Medal, its highest honor, to renowned Classicist Professor Mary Beard and artists Lorna Simpson and Ed Ruscha. Established in 2013 by the trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the J. Paul Getty Medal has been awarded to 11 distinguished individuals to honor their extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding and support of the arts. We award the Getty Medal to recognize outstanding achievement in the fields in which we work, said Maria Hummer-Tuttle, chair, J. Paul Getty Board of Trustees. We are honored to present the medal this year to three leaders who have helped transform and deepen our understanding and appreciation of the visual arts and the humanities. James Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, said of artist Lorna Simpson, She ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Christian Ãen.
OSLO.- In this exhibition, Astrup Fearnley Museet focuses on a new generation of Norwegian contemporary artists who represent a great diversity of conceptual premises and visual expressions. In addition to the artists, the project presents a new generation of Norwegian art writers, as well as drawing attention to the art collector as a constructive part of the Norwegian contemporary art scene. A unique link is made between them; Six young artists are connected to a respective art writer and art collector. The trios create a framework for the project that forms the basis for an interesting and important dialogue between artists, writers and collectors. The exhibition is a collaboration between Astrup Fearnley Museet and Talent Norge (Norwegian Talents). The museum has been responsible for the curating and the organisation of the exhibition, while the artists and critics received generous financial support from Talent ... More | | 
Vishnu Cambodia, Khmer Empire (802-1431), c. 9th century. Sandstone, 38 x 19.5 x 9 5/8 in. (96.5 x 49.5 x 24.5 cm). Crow Museum of Asian Art, 1999.30.
DALLAS, TX.- The Trammell and Margaret Crow family has donated the entire collection of the Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art, together with $23 million of support funding, to The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) to create the Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas. The university will continue to operate the Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art in its current space in the downtown Dallas Arts District, where it has been located for more than 20 years. The gift funding will provide for the design and construction of a second museum on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, TX, which will allow for a wider range of the full collection to be viewed by the public. The Crow Museums growing permanent collection demonstrates the diversity of Asian art, with more ... More |
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| | | Boca Raton Museum of Modern Art has opened its new exterior enhancements project designed by Glavovic Studio | | Susan R. Ewing named Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art | | Hionas Gallery opens new space in Tribeca with exhibition of new paintings by David Rhodes and Gary Stephan | 
Over the past 16 years, the Museum has been somewhat camouflaged by the Mizner Park Amphitheater, built immediately after the completion of the Museum and directly to its east.
BOCA RATON FLA.- The Boca Raton Museum of Art has undertaken a major renovation of its exterior landscape. Designed by Glavovic Studio and Studio Roberto Rovira, this $1.8 million project achieves a new prominent visibility for the Museum located in Mizner Park. The museum, which was built in 2001 on a site along Federal Highway, is situated within the most trafficked and pedestrian-friendly area of Boca Raton. The project which began in November 2017 is anticipated to be completed by the end of August. The Museum building, originally designed by Architect, Donald Singer, is a classic postmodern structure with its bold volumes abounding with cornices, windows, and rusticated masonry that are emblematic and evocative of Addison Mizners Mediterranean Revival architecture of the 1920s that has left a distinctive and indelible stamp on Boca Raton. Over ... More | | 
Ewing comes to Cranbrook after serving as a professor and administrator for more than three decades at Miami University of Ohio. Photo: Jodi Miller.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Dominic DiMarco, President of Cranbrook Educational Community, announced today that Susan R. Ewing has been named the Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art. Ewing had previously served in an interim role since August of 2018. An internationally recognized metalsmith, professor, and administrator, she brings decades of experience to Cranbrook. In the few months she has been here, Susan has made remarkable progress at the Academy, said DiMarco. She quickly earned the respect of the students, staff, faculty, and volunteer leadership, who have all been eager to work with her on planning for the future. We look forward to her upcoming initiatives and have full confidence in her guidance. Ewing comes to Cranbrook after serving as a professor and administrator for more than three decades at Miami University of Ohio. An accomplished metalsmith, Ewing joined the Miami University of Ohio faculty in 1981 and served as U ... More | | 
The exhibition marks the inaugural show in the gallerys new space at 356 Broadway (lower level) in Tribeca.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hionas Gallery presents the two-artist exhibition of new paintings by David Rhodes and Gary Stephan, opening on Friday evening, January 25, marking the inaugural show in the gallerys new space at 356 Broadway (lower level) in Tribeca. New Paintings will run from January 26 to February 23, 2019, with viewing hours on concurrent Saturdays (11 AM 5 PM) and by appointment. Together, both artists employ a distinct abstract vocabulary that lends their respective works a near-architectural character, composed of geometric elements, lines, and tonal relationships that invite viewers to inhabit the space and uncover each paintings explicit and implicit qualities. While each artists approach to the canvas differs from one another, the resulting compositions reveal a mutual penchant for communicating an otherwise conceptual language through the use of precise forms. In the latest works by Rhodes, the complementa ... More |
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 Davis Museum receives 75K grant from Warhol Foundation for upcoming exhibition on Fatimah TuggarWELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has been awarded a $75,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant is in support of the upcoming solo exhibition of work by multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar (b. 1967, Kaduna, Nigeria). Opening in September 2019, Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons will explore how Tuggars use of collage across mediasuch as sculpture, photomontage, video, and augmented reality illuminates how humanity has employed technology to reshape its homes (including our shared planetary home) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Curated by Amanda Gilvin, this will be the artists largest solo exhibition to date, and it will be accompanied by the first monographic catalogue of her work. The upcoming exhibition presents the artist, who layers binary codes with ... 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More Japanese manga queen Rumiko Takahashi wins top French prizeANGOULÃME.- Japanese manga creator Rumiko Takahashi has become only the second woman to win the top prize at France's biggest graphic novel festival. The 61-year-old, one of the stars of the Japanese form, took the grand prize at Angouleme Comics Festival -- which opens Thursday -- for her life's work. Two years ago she was one of a number of women French writer Riaad Sattouf said should have got the prize instead of him. The author of the bestselling "Arab of the Future" refused the prize, and lashed Angouleme's failure to honour enough female creators. Takahashi -- who was not in the western French city to receive the prize -- is only the second Japanese to win the accolade, despite the huge popularity of manga in France. Katushiro Otomo, the author of the "Akira" series, won in 2015. France is the biggest market in the world for the ... More The Last Waltz (For Leon): Tim Van Laere Gallery opens a group showANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery is presenting The Last Waltz (For Leon), a group show featuring works by Marcel Dzama, Armen Eloyan, Gelatin, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Anton Henning, Tomasz Kowalski, Friedrich Kunath, Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Ryan Mosley, Peter Rogiers, Ben Sledsens, Ed Templeton, Rinus Van de Velde, Aaron Van Erp, Henk Visch, Franz West and Anke Weyer. The Last Waltz (For Leon) marks an important new step in the gallerys ambition: the gallery will trade the space of the Verlatstraat for a new building designed by OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, located on the Nieuw Zuid in Antwerp. The opening of the new space is planned for April 2019. Together with the majority of artists the gallery brings a last goodbye to the space that shaped the gallery for the last 20 years. All media are represented in this show: ... More Kasmin opens an exhibition of polaroids taken by Andy Warhol between 1974 and 1985NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting an exhibition of Andy Warhols polaroid portraits, on view from January 24 - March 2, 2019, at 297 Tenth Avenue, New York. Beginning in the 1960s, Warhol carried a camera with him almost constantly, obsessively documenting both his personal life and the daily goings on in his studio, The Factory. These images, artworks in their own right, also acted as visual references and formed the basis of many of the artists drawings, silkscreens, and paintings. Highlighting the integral contribution of photography to his art-making process, Warhol referred to his Polaroid Big Shot camera (which he purchased in 1970) as his pencil and paper. Taken between 1974 and 1985, the works feature notable figures such as Liza Minnelli, Muhammad Ali, Bianca Jagger, Dolly Parton, Debbie Harry, and Robert ... More GeorgII Uvs exhibits for the first time in the UK at the Saatchi GalleryLONDON.- The acclaimed Russian artist GeorgII Uvs exhibits for the first time in the UK at the Saatchi Gallery with the exhibition, Full Circle: The Beauty of Inevitability. Comprised of four series of oil paintings created in Malta between 2014 and 2017, the works, entitled Mesozoic, Genesis, Code and Wings, symbolise an immersive panorama of the cycles of life. Uvs vision of the world is grounded in science, notably geology and mathematics. Drawing on these disciplines, he offers the viewer a journey from the Mesozoic era, to Genesis and the creation of life, to the codes that embody intellectual development and knowledge, and, finally, to Wings, which reveals the return to a state of unfettered liberation and freedom. Through his fascination with mathematics, Uvs gives meaning to arithmetic as Renaissance, algebra as Post-Impressionism and to high mathemat ... More Joan Jonas exhibits new drawings in Gardner Museum galleries and façade this month BOSTON, MASS.- Joan Jonas, a 2017 Artist-In-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, opened two installations of new drawings in the Museums Fenway Gallery and on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade on Jan. 23, highlighting her keen interest in the fragility and beauty of nature, animals, and the environment. Over the years, Ms. Jonas has developed a strong visual language to embrace these concerns. With these two exhibitions, she reminds us of how closely connected humans are to the animal world as well as the perils many creatures face today, said Pieranna Cavalchini, the Museums Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art. Joan Jonas: I Know Why They Left is an exhibition of 55 new drawings in the Fenway Gallery, and Blue to Blue, a site-specific installation of her drawings outside on the Museums façade. ... More SculptureCenter presents first U.S. solo exhibition by Istanbul-based artist Banu CennetoğluLONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- In her wide ranging cross-disciplinary practice, Banu Cennetoğlu uses objects, images, texts, and printed matter to continuously scrutinize, contemplate, and question the position of the artist/individual vis-à -vis and within the complex geopolitical conditions of our time. Her work presents a mode of hyper-reflexivity that advocates for perseverance and introspection in this moment of unrestrained expressionism. Cennetoğlus exhibition at SculptureCenter presents a number of works that deal with the gathering, presentation, circulation, and residue of information, data, and images. The exhibition includes 1 January 1970 21 March 2018 · H O W B E I T · Guilty feet have got no rhythm · Keçiboynuzu · AS IS · MurMur · I measure every grief I meet · Taq u Raq · A piercing Comfort it affords · Stitch · Made in Fall · Yes. But. ... More Assemblages and sculptural objects by Hesam Rahmanian on view at Gallery Isabelle van den EyndeDUBAI.- Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is presenting Dont worry, spiders, I keep house casually, the second solo exhibition of Dubai-based artist Hesam Rahmanian. The exhibition consists of assemblages, sculptural objects, and groupings such as deadlines and corner works, paintings that have taken on spatial, architectural form. The name of the exhibition is derived from a haiku by famed Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828), considered one of the masters of the form. Issas poems often reference, or are directly addressed to the often forgotten plants and forms of life that the human species shares its world with. This careful awareness of beings on the periphery of our existence extends into the work itself. The artists Dubai studio and home plays a significant role in the production of these works. One of the creatures living in this collective environment, the artist shares space with fello ... More Unique works ranging from The Beatles to Buffalo Bill will be offered at Rare Posters AuctionsNEW YORK, NY.- The 435 lots of beloved masterpieces and rare iterations will be auctioned on Sunday, February 24th, by Poster Auctions International, Inc., online and in New York City. A wide selection of important and timeless prints from heralded artists such as Steven Frykholm, Keith Haring, E. McKnight Kauffer, Alphonse Mucha, Edward Penfield, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Andy Warhol and many others will be in Poster Auctions Internationals Auction #77, scheduled for Sunday, February 24th. The Rare Posters Auction will be held online at posterauctions.com, and in PAIs gallery, at 26 West 17th Street in New York City. The auction will begin promptly at 11 am EST. From beloved masterpieces to rarely seen iterations, this auction is bursting with 435 lots, said Jack Rennert, president of Poster Auctions International, Inc. These include ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Govert Flinck was born January 25, 1615. Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 - 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting. In this image: Blessing of Jacob (1638).
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