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Room 12. Hermaphrodite. Deceptive Appearances Section.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is inviting visitors to focus on its collection from a different viewpoint through a selection of 30 paintings, sculptures and drawings which are habitually on display in its galleries. Representing part of the complex western cultural heritage, they can now be viewed as a marvellous testimony to different, minority and, on occasions, silent affective formulas. Each of these independent but interrelated thematic routes reflects an affective reality with a social status that has changed in relation to different periods and places and which has been reflected in art in a range of diverse and appealing ways. On the one had these routes emphasise the way the various iconographies of love have passed unnoticed or were even concealed in the past and on the other, the naturally inclusive fact of their existence. These works refer to concepts such as love between free equals in the classical world and the per ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This year at Art Basel, 291 leading international galleries are presenting works ranging from the early 20th century to contemporary artists. in this image: Lisson Gallery © Art Basel.
| Exhibition demonstrates how king used art as a tool to aid his political strategies | | Getty Museum announces major gift of photographs from Bruce Berman | | Remarkable Tuscan Renaissance Cassoni to be offered in Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale | 
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Christian II (1481-1559), After 1523. Oil on panel, 570 x 420 mm. Photo: The Museum of Southern Jutland Sønderborg Castle.
COPENHAGEN.- Christian II is one of Denmarks most fascinating kings and the first Danish king to properly use visual art to promote himself and his political agendas. From 15 June a new exhibition arranged by The Royal Collection of Graphic Art at SMK demonstrates how he used art as a tool to aid his political strategies. Christian II is famous as the king who married into one of the most powerful noble houses of Europe, angered the aristocracy, lost his crown and was banished from the country. At the same time he had to navigate between the old Catholic Church and the new Lutheran faith. And Christian II was the first Danish king to extensively use pictures in his efforts to promote himself and his political agendas. In a new exhibition arranged by The Royal Collection of Graphic Art, SMK shows how Christian II used pictures strategically both while he was still king and when he was exiled, striving in vain to reclaim ... More | | 
Camilo José Vergara, 65 East 125th Street, Harlem, October 1981 (detail). Chromogenic print. Image: 38.7 à 58.4 cm. 2016.165.44. © Camilo José Vergara. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Bruce Berman and Lea Russo.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a major gift of photographs from collector and film industry executive Bruce Berman. The gift includes 186 works by 26 artists, seven of whom are entering the Gettys collection for the first time. Reflecting Bermans passion for both black and white and color photographs of the American landscape and built environment, the works feature the people, homes, cars, streets, churches, theaters, and bars that are evocative of 20th-century American life. Among the artists included in the gift are luminaries of the American documentary tradition, such as Harry Callahan (American, 19121999), Walker Evans (American, 19031975), Dorothea Lange (American, 18951965), and Camilo José Vergara (American, born Chile, 1944). Berman, a founding member of ... More | | 
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, Lo Scheggia, (San Giovanni Valdarno 1406-1486 Florence), Trajan and the Widow: detail of a cassone panel, tempera and gold on panel, estimate: £300,000-500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Christies Classic Week will present a remarkable collection of Tuscan Renaissance Cassone panels as part of the Old Masters Evening Sale on 6 July 2017. The collection, comprising eight panels in total, is incredibly rare to the market. Typically commissioned to commemorate marriages of the Florentine or Sienese elite until the midfifteenth century, this comprehensive collection of cassoni represent the artistic development of this important Italian tradition including early examples of the genre by the Master of Charles III of Durazzo (active circa 1382) to some of the finest cassone painters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries including Giovanni Toscani and Lo Scheggia. The works will be on view and open to the public in London from 1 to 6 July 2017. Highlighting the collection is an exceptional and ... More |
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| McNay Art Museum Board of Trustees appoint William J. Chiego Director Emeritus | | Exhibition examines Andy Warhol's interest in celebrity and Hollywood | | Gu Jingzho teapot soars to $19,000 at Gianguan Auctions | 
William J. Chiego has been appointed Director Emeritus of the McNay Art Museum.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Effective July 1, 2017, William J. Chiego, former Director of the McNay Art Museum, is appointed Director Emeritus; it was announced today by Toby Calvert, President of the Board of Trustees. This honorific designation acknowledges Chiegos 25 years of visionary leadership at the McNay. The McNay Art Museum and San Antonios community are immensely grateful to William J. Chiego and his work in transforming the McNay into a world-class museum of the 21st century, Calvert said. What Bill managed to accomplish for the Museum will forever define artistic excellence in San Antonio. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we proudly honor him with this well-deserved distinction Under Chiegos leadership, the Museums collection more than doubled from 9,000 to over 20,000 works of art, and the McNays footprint nearly tripled to over 100,000 square feet. Chiego ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Female Movie Star Composite, ca. 1962. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Andy Warhol Museum announces Andy Warhol: Stars of the Silver Screen, opening June 16, 2017. The exhibition explores Andy Warhols fascination with Hollywood, fame, and stardom through artworks and hundreds of archival objects from The Warhols vast collection of the artists personal items. Warhols interest in celebrity and Hollywood stars was ignited while attending cinemas with his older brothers in gritty, industrial 1930s Pittsburgh. He reveled in the glamorous actors, elegant costumes, and sophisticated settings of movies from Hollywoods golden era. Warhols lifelong infatuation with fame can be traced from his earliest movie star scrapbook he started when he was a young boy to a Frank Sinatra biography that was on his hospital bedside table when he died in 1987. As ... More | | 
The masterful reeded bamboo Zisha teapot by Gu Jingzho that commanded $19,000 at Gianguan Auctions June 10 sale.
NEW YORK, NY.- When a Zisha (purple clay) teapot by 20th century ceramic master
Gu Jingzhou made $2 million dollars at auction in 2010, it took the collecting world by surprise. Since then, the maestros work has commanded great interest, as it did at Gianguan Auctions June 10 sale when a spare, high profile pot made $19,000. The reeded bamboo teapot with a mouse finial, caterpillar spout and three artists seals was expected to hit the mid-four figures. Although interest had been strong during the preview, no one foresaw the fierce bidding war that ensued after the opening bid of $3,750. The lucky buyer took the rarity for $19,000 USD, nearly five times the catalog estimate. This is the second time in as many auctions that Gianguan Auctions has seen a Gu Jingzho Zisha teapot more than quadruple its estimate. ... More |
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| Exhibition marks the 450th anniversary of the accession of the Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol | | Record prices for rare imperial Chinese artworks and Himalayan sculpture | | Upper East Side Gallery presents major exhibition of historic Japanese bamboo art | 
Francesco Terzio (um 1523 Bergamo - 1591 Rom (?)), Erzherzog Ferdinand II., nach 1557. © KHM-Museumsverband.
INNSBRUCK.- 450 years ago, on January, 17 1567, Archduke Ferdinand II (1525-1595) made his solemn entry into Innsbruck. Ambras Castle Innsbruck is marking this anniversary by dedicating a major exhibition to the princely sovereign of Tyrol for the first time. For around thirty years the Habsburg Archduke guided the fortunes of the County of Tyrol. Prior to that, he was appointed administrating governor to the Kingdom of Bohemia, taking up residence in Prague in 1547. Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, was not just a regent descended from one of Europes most influential ruling dynasties who held political office in Prague and Innsbruck. As a commissioning patron he also surrounded himself with European artists and was instrumental in promoting the Renaissance in central Europe. Indeed, many events are to be held throughout Tyrol in 2017 to mark the 450th anniversary. This first-rate exhibition is set to be the cultural event of the year in Innsbruck. At Ambras ... More | | 
A very important imperial bronze bell "Bozhong" China, Qianlong, dated 1761. With inscription by Emperor Qianlong. Sold for CHF 1.2 million
ZURICH.- The 13-14 June Asian Art auctions at Koller Zurich were enormously successful, with a string of top prices for Chinese & Himalayan art, particularly for three rare Chinese Imperial artworks from a private collection - which alone realized 2.64 million Swiss Francs - as well as for lamaistic sculpture from the Himalaya region, which saw very competitive bidding and record prices. The two-day auction series realized in total 8.4 million Swiss Francs, against a pre-sale estimate of 2.9 million, making it the most successful Asian Art auction of any European auction house this season. Regi Preiswerk, Head of Department for Asian Art at Koller: We were thrilled to be able to offer these magnificent works in our auction. Because of an intensive marketing campaign in China, including our presence at the International Antiques Fair in Hong Kong, we attracted a significant number of new bidders and buyers to the auction, whom we ... More | | 
Iizuka Shokansai (1919 2004), Mount Fuji Handled Flower Basket. Showa era (1926-1989), second half of the 20th century. Bamboo; parallel-line construction, wrapping, knotting; black-lacquered bamboo otoshi. W 19½ in. (49.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Erik Thomsen Gallery announces an exhibition of masterpieces by Japans most outstanding masters of bamboo basketry. Nearly all the 30 works on display were made by members of craft dynasties that flourished during the early and middle years of the twentieth century. The primary focus of the exhibition is a large group of baskets by Iizuka family, in particular Rokansai (18901958), who worked in Tokyo and is widely judged to be the greatest of all bamboo masters. Well versed in painting, calligraphy, and poetry, Rokansai devoted his life to elevating basketry to the same level as those prestigious disciplines. He was the first not only to develop a theory of bamboo art, classifying his works as shin (informal), gyo (semi-formal), and so (grass or informal), but also to make the naming of his baskets central to his artistic practice, signaling his conviction that bamboo art should ... More |
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| Decades later, Yoko Ono to be credited on 'Imagine' | | Exhibition at Foam presents 120 works by Gordon Parks | | 'Moscow Does not Believe in Tears' star Batalov dies | 
This file photo taken on July 29, 2015 shows Yoko Ono looking on during a dedication ceremony for a giant tapestry. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nearly half a century after John Lennon released "Imagine," his widow and artistic collaborator Yoko Ono will be listed as a co-writer. The announcement was made as the iconic 1971 ode to world peace was declared "song of the century" at a gala Wednesday in New York of the National Music Publishers Association. As Oko and their son Sean Lennon came up to receive a trophy, the association announced unexpectedly that Oko would join John Lennon on the songwriting credits. The gala was played a BBC interview with John Lennon in 1980, shortly before he was assassinated, in which he said that "Imagine" was inspired in part by lines in Ono's conceptual art book "Grapefruit." "'Imagine' should have been credited as a Lennon/Ono song. If it had been anyone other than my wife I would have given them credit," John Lennon said. Sean Lennon later wrote on Facebook that the announcement was the ... More | | 
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 (detail). © Photograph by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
AMSTERDAM.- The camera can be a powerful weapon against repression, racism, violence, and inequality. The American photographer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) referred to the camera as his weapon of choice and used photography to expose the deep divisions in American society. Parks was an important champion of equal rights for African Americans and in his work addressed themes such as poverty, marginalisation and injustice. Aside from his iconic portraits of legends like Martin Luther King, he especially achieved fame through his photographic essays for the prestigious Life Magazine and his films The Learning Tree and Shaft. With the exhibition Gordon Parks - I Am You. Selected Works 1942-1978, Foam presents 120 works from the collection of The Gordon Parks Foundation, including vintage prints, contact sheets, magazines, and film excerpts. Gordon Parks is best known for his black ... More | | 
Batalov starred in Vladimir Menshov's 1981 Oscar winner "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears".
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russian actor Alexei Batalov, who starred in Oscar-winning melodrama "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" and Cannes-winning film "The Cranes are Flying" has died at 88, news agencies reported Thursday. He died overnight after months of serious illness, his assistant Vladimir Ivanov told TASS. Batalov starred in Vladimir Menshov's 1981 Oscar winner "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" -- a saga about three friends and their chequered love and work lives -- as a manual worker who struggles in a relationship with a more successful career woman. He was awarded a State Prize by the Soviet Union for his role in the film. The actor also starred in Mikhail Kalatozov's World War II movie "The Cranes are Flying", which begins with lyrical love scenes with his co-star Tatyana Samoilova and then sees him die tragically in battle. The film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival, heralding a new thaw in Soviet arts after the 1953 death ... More |
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 In tense times, top conductor creates UN of orchestrasNEW YORK (AFP).- In his eight years leading the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert has witnessed the power of music to connect cultures -- and watched as political strife consumes much of the world. Closing his tenure in one of classical music's most prestigious positions, Gilbert is planning a next chapter by creating a sort of United Nations of orchestras. Dubbed Musicians for Unity, Gilbert envisions a group of artists from around the world who can come together at short notice. The musicians will "play concerts that express hope for peace and cooperation and shared humanity," he told AFP. Gilbert experimented with the idea last week as he led his last series at the Philharmonic's home in Lincoln Center. At his invitation, the orchestra ... More Political turmoil finds artistic outlet at Basel fairBASEL.- Hundreds of glass bottles suspended in nets or hanging from chains hauntingly illustrate the horrors of the slave trade, while 40,000 golden bullets are poised menacingly above an egg-covered surface. The global political turmoil has left its mark on many of the works on display at this year's Art Basel, the world's biggest contemporary art fair. With allusions to mass-migration tragedies, political populism, violent extremism and protest movements, even the more historically focused pieces appear to speak directly to today's angst-provoking realities. "This edition of Art Basel was chosen at a particularly political time," the fair's director, Marc Spiegler, told AFP ahead of the public opening on Thursday. He said many recent pieces allude to the current political turbulence, but there are many others that are "particularly relevant even though they were made ... More Come As You Are: Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran opens group exhibition curated by Benjamin KleinMONTREAL.- The productive, challenging, and exciting juxtaposition of artistic contrasts is a stimulating driving force behind the creation of group shows. With that in mind, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran announces Come As You Are, curated by Benjamin Klein. In both range and scope this exhibition offers a visually powerful series of interlocking parts through which each work is rendered simultaneously highly individualized yet complementary to and with one another. The variety of voices and personalities that flow by and between each artist and their work creates an enriching environment through which to analyze the interplay between medium, style, and conceptual strategies within contemporary art. Come As You Are generates a textured conversation between major stylistic territories of contemporary art through both a display and investigation of its most highly developed ... More Greenhill presents North Carolina artist Richard Fennell retrospectiveGREENSBORO, NC.- GreenHill presents The Edge of Perception: Richard Fennell Retrospective on display June 16 August 20, 2017. Richard Fennell is most widely known for the luminous landscapes, interiors and still lifes he has painted during the past four decades while based in the communities of Whitsett and Grassy Creek, North Carolina. The vivid palette and Impressionist paint handling that are most often associated with Fennells style are the result of a lifelong aesthetic drive. Fennell explains, My work, as personal as it is, is basically the study of light upon form and space. In pursuit of this study, I try to merge a visual truth of what is seen with basic abstract elements inherent in both painting and nature. As the first comprehensive look at his work, GreenHills exhibition presents the different means Fennell has used to merge these elements. Fennells ... More Palais de Tokyo opens Gareth Nyandoro's first solo show in FrancePARIS.- For his first solo show in France, Gareth Nyandoro has produced an installation inspired from the urban space. Ephemeral sales sites, such as the stands of the Parisian bouquinistes (booksellers) on the banks of the Seine, are misappropriated and reused as exhibitions elements. The works on paper which are deployed there are inhabited by famous African football players. These at once graphic and sculptural scenes bring to mind references to the sporting life and, by extension, Africas social and political organisation. The artists drawings, hung, incised and in part stretched out on the floor, are extended into sculptures and allow for a connection of the representation to the world and to the visitors. They are an invitation to walk around the works on paper, among characters depicted at life scale and amidst a space which seems to reproduce the world ... More Sous Les Etoiles Gallery opens exhibition of photographs by David ZimmermanNEW YORK, NY.- Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is presenting One Voice, American photographer David Zimmermans third solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the past two decades, Zimmermans art has come to focus on endangered landscapes and cultures displaced by environmental, social, economic and political causes. One Voice is an ongoing project that began in 2011. For the past six years, David Zimmerman has lived and worked amongst Tibetan refugees in Northern India, creating a series of intimate portraits. Photographing the exile is to make a state of the time. It is the time that passes and also the time which resists, which never ceases to address its question, its anger, its refusal, its energy of survival. As David Zimmerman said: One Voice is the story of a peoples struggle to adapt and survive in a new reality. For those who seem to have lost everything ... More The Anderson Collection at Stanford University receives new gifts of artSTANFORD, CA.- The Anderson Collection at Stanford University accepted 13 gifts of art into the museums permanent collection this academic year. These are the first acquisitions since the museum opened in 2014, originally as a non-collecting institution, and the first gifts not from the Anderson family. The new direction is a welcome one for students, faculty, the Stanford community, the Anderson family and beyond. New to the collection is Bill Jensens watercolor and gouache Study for Denial, 1985-86; three sculptural works and eight works on paper ranging from 1958 to 1997 by Manuel Neri; and Mary Weatherfords black painting, 2017. The new acquisitions are in keeping with the original collection of 121 works of post-World War II modern and contemporary American art by 86 artists given to Stanford by Harry W. Hunk and Mary Margaret Moo Anderson ... More Exhibition investigates ways in which artists make illusion and deception an integral part of their workNEW YORK, NY.- Hirschl & Adler Galleries announces its summer gallery exhibition, License to Deceive. With alternative facts dominating todays news, this exhibition explores how trickery has captivated artists and delighted viewers throughout art history. Focusing on still life, landscape painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts from the 19th century to the present, License to Deceive investigates ways in which artists make illusion and deception an integral part of their work. The challenge to fool the eye goes back to the beginnings of Western art history. Pliny the Elder illustrated Zeuxis brilliance in a tale in which the ancient painter created an image of grapes with such accuracy that birds pecked at the fruit. Many artists have since followed in Zeuxis footsteps, displaying their technical prowess in works that offer the illusion of three dimensions in two. Hirschl & Adler is fortunate t ... More £9.4m from National Lottery to transform the National Portrait GalleryLONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery has been awarded funding of £9.4 million from The National Lottery towards a £35.5m transformation programme, which will be the Gallerys biggest ever development and its most significant project since the opening of its Ondaatje Wing in 2000, it was announced today, Thursday 15 June 2017. The National Lottery support will go towards the project Inspiring People: Transforming our National Portrait Gallery. For the first time in the Gallerys history there will be a comprehensive re-display of the Collection across all the galleries combined with a significant refurbishment, creating twenty per cent more public and gallery spaces. The transformation will also see the Gallerys most extensive programme of activities nationwide with plans to engage audiences onsite, locally, regionally and online. As part of the project, ... More Battle-scarred D-Day Flag tops $1 million Arms & Armor sale at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions June 11 Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Auction in Dallas sold $1 million with Lieutenant William L. Willhoits D-Day Battle-Scarred Flag taking top lot honors at $55,000. The exceedingly rare Operation Overlord and Neptune "Situation Map" owned and used by Gen. Omar Bradley made its auction debut and hammered for $43,750. The auction was 93 percent sold by lot. "This flag is not only memorable because of the pivotal days it was flown, it is momentous because of the story that comes with it." said Jason Watson, Arms & Armor Consignment Director at Heritage. "Ensign Willhoit, a true American hero, assumed command of the LCT 540 after his officer-in-charge was killed in the first moments of the assault. Despite his young age, Wilhoit persisted and continued to fight and lead for the next four days of the landing." Additional ... More Isaac Newton signed 'South Sea Company' document sold for $53k at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- A rare Isaac Newton signed document sold for $53,805 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The one-page document signed Is. Newton, and dated November 15, 1721. The pay order issued to "the Accountant General of the South Sea Company," John Grigsby. In full: "Pray pay to Dr. Francis Fauquier the four per cent Dividend due at Midsummer last upon sixteen thousand two hundred & seventy-two pounds four shillings & nine pence South Sea stock in my name & his Receipt shall be your sufficient discharge." In the spring of 1720, the South Sea Company, created as a public-private partnership to stabilize and reduce the cost of national debt, witnessed an incredible boom in company stock. Newton, a stockholder and the current Master of the Royal Mint, wisely sold off his South Sea shares in late April after nearly doubling his initial investment ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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