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Hermann Parzinger (L), President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and John Johnson from the Chugach Alaska Corporation, hold a wooden object from Berlin's Ethnological Museum during a restitution ceremony in Berlin on May 16, 2018. Germany has returned nine artefacts belonging to indigenous people in Alaska, after determining that they were plundered from graves. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees museums in the German capital, said the burial objects were brought to Berlin in 1882-1884 on commission by the then Royal Museum of Ethnology, but "everything showed today that the objects stemmed from a grave robbery and not from an approved archaeological dig". Ralf Hirschberger / dpa / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Germany has restituted nine artefacts belonging to indigenous people in Alaska after determining they were plundered from graves. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees museums in the German capital, said Wednesday the burial objects were brought to Berlin in 1882-1884 on commission by the then Royal Museum of Ethnology. But "everything shows today that the objects stemmed from a grave robbery and not from an approved archaeological dig," said the foundation. The objects, including two broken masks, a cradle and a wooden idol, were handed over to a representative of the Alaska Chugach people. "The objects were taken from the graves then without the consent of the indigenous people and were therefore removed unlawfully," said Foundation President Hermann Parzinger. "As such, they don't belong in our museums," he added. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor in the North Carolina Museum of Artâ??s piece by Yayoi Kusama titled LIGHT OF LIFE, 2018. The piece is debuting as part of You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences, and will remain in the Museumâ??s permanent collection when the exhibition closes.
| MoMA announces major acquisitions from the Merrill C. Berman Collection | | Getty Conservation Institute and City of Lincoln in England announce launch of innovative heritage management system | | The architecture of Rosario Candela on view at the Museum of the City of New York | 
Valentina Kulagina, International Working Womens Day Is the Fighting Day of the Proletariat. 1931 (detail). Lithograph on paper, 38 Ã 28″ (96.5 Ã 71.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Merrill C. Berman Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art has acquired more than 300 masterworks of The Merrill C. Berman Collection, one of the most significant collections of early 20th-century works on paper in private hands. The Museums acquisition focuses on the core of Mr. Bermans collectionworks that vividly demonstrate the wide-ranging experimentation and political and social engagement of artists in this period. The selected works offer an overview of the major avant-garde movements of the eraDada, the Bauhaus, de Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivismand include unparalleled and pioneering works by renowned figures such as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and Hannah Höch. Its graphic design includes exceptional examples of the periods new typography and dynamic combinations of word and image in posters and books, while its extensive representation of ... More | | 
The elevated position of uphill Lincoln led to the construction of many windmills, of which the Grade II listed Ellis Mill is the sole survivor. Photo: City of Lincoln Council.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Conservation Institute and City of Lincoln Council in England announced today the launch of ARCADE (Access Resource for Conservation and Archaeology in a Development Environment), a dynamic and powerful web-based system that categorizes, maps, and describes the rich cultural heritage of the City of Lincoln. The publicly-accessible database will showcase the diversity of the citys long history from Roman times to the present, reveal the complex relationships of the people and events that shaped Lincolns development, and help guide city efforts to protect and preserve its cultural heritage. ARCADE was built using Arches, an open-source data-management platform created to inventory cultural heritage places, including buildings and structures, archaeological sites and finds, and historic landscapes. Archesdeveloped by the GCI in partnership with World Monuments Fundemploys ... More | | 
Haggin residence, site of 834 Fifth Avenue, c. 1930. Photo by Wurts Bros. Museum of the City of New York, Wurts Bros. Collection, gift of Richard Wurts, X2010.7.1.7084.
NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, May 17, 2018, the Museum of the City of New York opened Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela, an exhibition exploring the legacy of renowned architect Rosario Candela (18901953), who played a major role in transforming and shaping luxury living of 20th century Manhattan with the design of the distinctive prewar apartment buildings that define the cityscapes of iconic streets such as Park and Fifth Avenues and Sutton Place. Candelas elegant yet understated high-rises, including 960 Fifth Avenue, 740 Park Avenue, and One Sutton Place South, featured set-back terraces and neo-Georgian and Art Deco ornament that created the look of New York urbanism between the World Wars. The exhibition is designed by Peter Pennoyer Architects. Graphic design is by Tsang Seymour. Elegance in the Sky tells the remarkable story of how Rosario Candela, an immigrant architect, made a ... More |
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| Kunstgewerbemuseum transformed into a laboratory revolving around the future of eating and living | | Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg features photographer Herb Snitzer | | Contemporary Art showed its strength at Dorotheum | 
Marije Vogelzang, Volumes, 2017, © Marije Vogelzang.
BERLIN.- How will we eat in the future, what will provide us with nourishment in our growth-based society with its dwindling resources? We all play a role in shaping the globe through our eating habits. Eating ceased long ago to be a private matter, and is now a highly political act. The Kunstgewerbemuseum is transforming into an artistic-scientific-speculative laboratory for new models of thought and practice revolving around the future of eating and living. For the exhibition, 40 international designers including Werner Aisslinger, Hanan Alkouh, Kosuke Araki, The Beecollective, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, chmara.rosinke, Martà Guixe, Julia Lohmann, Ton Matton, Maurizio Montalti, Silke Riechert, Chloé Rutzerveld, Johanna Schmeer, Carolin Schulze, Susanna Soares, Andrea Staudacher, Austin Stewart, Marije Vogelzang, and Henk Wildschut are presenting their ideas and visio ... More | | 
Herb Snitzer (American, b. 1932), West 71st Street, NYC, 1958, Gelatin silver print. Collection of the Artist.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Photographer Herb Snitzer has spent 61 years capturing images of people from all walks of life, from urban street scenes of 1950s New York, to jazz legend Louis Armstrong on the road in 1960, to activists participating in the 2017 Womens March. An extensive exhibition of Snitzers work is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg through August 5. Can I Get a Witness: Photographs by Herb Snitzer focuses on Snitzers commitment to documenting grassroots community engagement and activism for equal rights. It also includes selections from the MFAs collection of Snitzers portfolio Such Sweet Thunder, which focuses on musicians committed to justice, like singer and activist Nina Simone, who used her voice for empowerment. Snitzer, 85, photographs the world around him with warmth and ... More | | 
Fernando Botero (born in Medellin, Colombia in 1932; lives and works in Paris and New York) LOdalisque, 1998, oil on canvas, 52 x 42 cm, realized price 393,400.
VIENNA.- After the success of Fernando Botero (393,400) at the Modern Art auction, another work by a South American-born artist demonstrated his strength on the art market at Dorotheum, the following day (May 16). At the Contemporary Art auction, the three-dimensional wall object "Untitled (Escritura)" by Jesús Rafael Soto from the collection of artist Gianni Colombo, reached 491,000 euros. An untitled work by abstract expressionist Philip Guston came to a tremendous 470,860 euros. After Dorotheum set the world record for Emilio Vedova last year, they set further benchmarks for its market value, with 430,000 and 234,800 euros respectively for two of the artist's works. Two versions of Lucio Fontana's famous "Concetto Spaziale" from the ... More |
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| Tim Van Laere Gallery opens exhibition of new paintings by Friedrich Kunath | | Sunday Comics & New Yorker covers lead Swann Illustration Auction | | Luke Willis Thompson wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 | 
Friedrich Kunath, We Sailed Out Far (Maybe a Little Bit Too Far), 2017 - 2018. Oil on canvas, 152,8 x 122,9 cm. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp.
ANTWERP.- Tim Van Laere Gallery opened its first solo exhibition of Friedrich Kunath, titled Where is the Madness that You Promised Me. Friedrich Kunaths work is permeated with ambiguity. His personal journey from East to West Berlin, towards his new-found home in Los Angeles presented Kunath with a wide variety of source material ranging from the canon of art history and German philosophy to the idiom of kitsch and the make-believe world of Hollywood and LA. Many of which are impacted by two polesthe culture of wisdom and popular cultureto the point of obsession and even, at times, systematization. Dealing with the universal themes of human existence, such as love, loss, optimism, vulnerability and melancholy, he serves a variety of media, ranging from painting, sculpture, drawing, video and photography, to expansive installations, all provided with a tragicomic pathos and dreams of possibilities. In almost every ... More | | 
Rick Meyerowitz & Maira Kalman, New Yorkistan, pen, ink & watercolor, late sketch for a New Yorker cover, with signed poster, 2001. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries will offer an auction of Illustration Art on Tuesday, June 5, with more than 250 original works of art including comics, pin-ups and covers for books and magazines. Setting the auction apart is a selection of classic original comic strips, led by the original nine-panel Sunday Peanuts strip, Do you like Beethoven?, 1970, by Charles Schulz, featuring Schroeder, Lucy and Freida, inscribed to the conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonics 1978 Beethoven Festival, with an estimate of $20,000 to $30,000. Other Schulz works include a 1992 eight-panel strip featuring Snoopy and Charlie Brown ($15,000 to $25,000), and three panels of Snoopy scheming for his dinner, 1989, estimated at $8,000 to $12,000. Also available is an extremely rare early four-panel strip for Blondie, depicting Blondie and Dagwood before they were married, done in India ... More | | 
Luke Willis Thompson, autoportrait, 2017. Installation view, The Photographers' Gallery 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Kate Elliott.
LONDON.- New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018 at Londons Photographers Gallery for autoportrait, a filmic portrait of Diamond Reynolds. He was announced as the 2018 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize by BBC Front Row broadcaster and journalist, John Wilson, at a special award ceremony at The Photographers Gallery, on Thursday 17th May. Thompsons 35mm film autoportrait is a portrayal of Diamond Reynolds. In July 2016, Reynolds used Facebook Live to broadcast the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her partner Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic-stop in Minnesota, United States. Reynolds video circulated widely online and amassed over six million views. In November 2016, Thompson contacted Reynolds to invite her to collaborate on a project which would act ... More |
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| New Museum appoints Stephanie Pereira Director of NEW INC | | Charlemagne Palestine's first major solo exhibition in Belgium opens at BOZAR | | Mo Salah donates his boots to the British Museum | 
Pereira spent six years at Kickstarter, a public benefit corporation that has raised more than $3 billion for creative projects and achieved gender parity in employment. Courtesy New Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- NEW INC cofounders Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, announced today that Stephanie Pereira will become the second director of the New Museums cultural incubator. Julia Kaganskiy, the outgoing inaugural director, concludes a remarkable five-year chapter in which she helped establish NEW INC as a recognized, innovative program and a new cultural paradigm for museums. In September 2018, NEW INC will welcome members to its fifth yearlong cycle. Pereira will oversee the one hundred creative entrepreneurs and a community of four hundred alumni, and steer plans for growth that include NEW INCs space in the New Museums new building designed by OMA, led by Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu. Pereira spent six years at Kickstarter, a public benefit ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Philippe De Gobert.
BRUSSELS.- The internationally-acclaimed New York musician and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine has been living and working in Brussels for over 20 years. 44 years after his legendary performance in the Horta Hall, the artist is presenting his first major solo exhibition in Belgium. A unique opportunity to see his totemic animist sculptures and discover his magic musical universe, constructed with fascinating shapes and sounds, which creates a Sacred Bordello mesmerising and radical. Charlemagne Palestine is a very active artist on the international arts scene, who lives in Brussels. Born in 1947 in New York, he was part of the Soho and Tribeca creative underground scene in the sixties and seventies. During his career, he shared programmes in the same venues as artists and musicians like John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Laurie Anderson, Gilbert & George, Gordon Matta-Clark, Phil Glass and Steve Reich. Charlemagne Palestine has always been an unpredictable ... More | | 
Mo Salahs adidas X17 Deadly Strike boots, recently donated to the British Museum with the colossal statue of Ramses II (around 1250 BC) in the background.
LONDON.- To celebrate Mo Salah winning the Golden Boot for being the top goalscorer in the Premier League this season, adidas has donated a pair Salahs boots to the British Museum where they will enter the world famous Egyptian collection. Neal Spencer, Keeper of Ancient Egypt and Sudan said, This acquisition brings the British Museums world-famous Egyptian collection right up to date. The boots tell a story of a modern Egyptian icon, performing in the UK, with a truly global impact. Displayed amidst the statues of ancient pharaohs, we now show the boots with which Mo Saleh won the Golden Boot for Liverpool. Salah will shortly lead his national team, known as The Pharaohs, to the World Cup Finals. This acquisition builds on our recent project to acquire objects to tell the story of day-to-day life in 20th and 21st century Egypt. From sport, to entertainment, worldwide trade to design, this collection is now accessible ... More |
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 New gallery Sion and Moore opens its doors in London with exhibition of works by Nigel ShafranLONDON.- Sion and Moore, a new commercial gallery project dedicated to photography, announced its inaugural show, Work Books 1984 2018, a presentation of work by the photographer Nigel Shafran. The exhibition, which has been designed by Michael Marriott, is comprised of approximately 40 books containing drawings, notes, small photographs and other printed matter, as well as films of the books none of which have been shown in London before. Shafrans work books are the quotidian working space in which he develops his ideas, but they also contain imagery and ephemera such as car road tax discs, newspaper clippings, actual cut grass or his sons first tooth that are not geared towards a final photograph. The books evince Shafrans interest in recording lived experience and bestowing value upon the everyday. Writer David Chandler suggests they ... More RYAN LEE opens an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Tim BradenNEW YORK, NY.- RYAN LEE announces Long, Long, to Everywhere, an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Tim Braden. In these latest works, Braden brings new perspective to familiar subjects, revisiting themes of wanderlust, exploration and adventure. Dreamy scenes of sailboat races, southern French beaches, Brazilian explorers and Spanish gardens evoke memories of travel rather than depicting specific locations. These fragmented landscapes are meditations on the act of looking as much as they are visualizations of their content. Drawing on his own travels, his collection of vintage travelogues and snapshots from his friends vacations for his subject matter, Bradens paintings combine patches of color and light to produce scenes that recall both the specificity of personal experience and nostalgia for a time and place. They are exercises ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals announces the John Pence Collection of Realists & Abstract Art Part IISAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present The John Pence Collection of Academic Realists & Abstract Art, Part II, on Sunday, June 10, 2018, at 10:30 am PDT. Featuring artists from the 19th and 20th centuries, this sale offers over 200 lots of diverse subject matter works in oil, watercolor, acrylic, crayon, pencil, egg tempura and mixed media; as well as etchings, lithographs and sculpture. Artists from the 19th century include Raymond Nott, Jacques Maroger, Walter Engelhardt, Robert Hallowell, Michael von Meyer, Frank Herrmann and Carroll Thayer Berry. Works from the 20th century were created by Will Wilson, Randall Lake, Robert Maione, Douglas Fenn Wilson, Jason Gaillard, Robert LaVigne, Michael Bergt, John Koenig, Daniel Phill, Steve Armstrong and Gary Viviano, among others. Women artists represented in the auction ... More Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery is dedicated to modern slavery and the trafficking of womenLONDON.- The 8th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award, chaired by Monique Villa, CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Founder of Trust Women, is dedicated to modern slavery and the trafficking of women. The laureate, French photographer Lizzie Sadin, worked on the trafficking of women and girls in Nepal, from prostitution to enslavement. Her photo reportage is on show at the Saatchi Gallery from 15 May to 15 June 2018. After the devastating 2015 earthquake that killed 9,000 people and displaced 650,000 others, the lives of many Nepalese have been shattered. Unemployment and the precariousness of living conditions have risen dramatically since then, leading to an increase in trafficking, notably of women. While in Nepal, photographer Lizzie Sadin explored how the trafficking and forced prostitution of women are not ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center opens Diary w/o Dates, Allison Katz's first solo exhibition in the US CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Diary w/o Dates, the first solo exhibition in the US by Canadian-born, London-based artist Allison Katz. Diary w/o Dates is a suite of twelve paintings that construct a mythical present. Katz warps the organizing principles of time, her paintings simultaneously calling to the past and proposing the future. This body of work comes out of parallels she sees between the grid of the calendar and the grid of the canvas, exploring the structured intervals of time and the physical constraints of the painting surface. In this recent work, Katz plays with self-portraiture, negotiating memory and projection in figurative painting. In doing so, she complicates the viewers relationship to the narrator and how a diaristic premise functions in relation to belief and doubt. For Katz, content is generated from all corners of life: family, ... More Exhibition addresses a crisis of representation surrounding viruses LONDON.- CAPSID is a new multi-media installation by London-based British artist John Walter (b.1978). The result of collaboration between Walter and molecular virologist Professor Greg Towers of University College London, the show addresses a crisis of representation surrounding viruses such as HIV, by bringing new scientific knowledge about viral capsids to the attention of the wider public. Made possible by a Large Arts Award from the Wellcome Trust and funding from Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, CAPSID spans both galleries at CGP London - The Gallery and Dilston Grove - from 17 May until 8 July 2018 and tours to HOME in Manchester in Autumn 2018. Admission is free. Capsids are protein shells contained within viruses that help protect and deliver viruses to host cells during infection. The project uses the imagery and narratives associated ... More Exhibition at Akademie der Künste focuses on Elfi Mikesch, Rosa von Praunheim, and Werner Schroeter BERLIN.- The exhibition By-Products of Love focuses on three artists who were bound together by an intense, lifelong friendship: photographer, cinematographer and director Elfi Mikesch, filmmaker and activist Rosa von Praunheim and theatre, opera and film director Werner Schroeter (19452010). The title By-Products of love refers to Werner Schroeters Poussières damour (1996), a film about the creation and transience of art, which pays great homage to opera. The poetess, the activist, and the aesthete as Rosa von Praunheim characterised them - have left a lasting impression on the canon of imagery of the artistic underground: all three of them cross borders between art forms. Mikesch, von Praunheim and Schroeter defiantly advocate divergent sexualities, whilst rejecting convention as lifes principle and artistic standpoint. All three of them continually ... More Seattle Art Fair announces 2018 exhibitor listSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Fair, presented by AIG, announced the exhibitor list for its fourth edition. This years Seattle Art Fair will take place August 2 - 5 2018 at the CenturyLink Field Event Center. The 2018 Seattle Art Fair boasts a diverse roster of local, national, and international galleries representing 34 cities from 10 countries, including 23 international galleries. The fourth edition of the fair welcomes returning international stalwarts such as David Zwirner, Gagosian, Galerie Lelong & Co., and Adams and Ollman, and Seattles Greg Kucera Gallery, Foster/White Gallery and James Harris Gallery. The fair continues to expand its reach, drawing new exhibitors from around the globe, including Tokyo's Gallery Yufuku and Talion Gallery, Berlin's Kuckei+Kuckei, Los Angeles' Samuel Freeman Gallery, and New Yorks C24 Gallery and Hirschl & Adler ... More The Cleveland Museum of Art appoints Deputy DirectorsCLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has announced the promotion of three members of its executive leadership team to the position of deputy director: John Easley, deputy director and chief philanthropy officer; Heather Lemonedes, deputy director and chief curator; and Cyra Levenson, deputy director and head of public and academic engagement. I am extremely fortunate to work with a highly accomplished seven-member team of senior executives, but it has been several years since I have had a deputy, said William Griswold, director of the CMA. John, Heather and Cyra are outstanding and talented museum professionals, and Im pleased to recognize the roles they play, together with the scope of their responsibilities, with their appointment to the position of deputy director. As members of our executive management team, ... More Science meets art meets ocean: Douglas Coupland's Vortex opens at The Vancouver AquariumVANCOUVER.- Internationally renowned for his work in contemporary thought, literature, visual, and public art, Douglas Coupland now adds environmental art to his remarkable portfolio. Vortex the first-ever full-scale artistic imagining of the Pacific Trash Vortex or Great Pacific Garbage Patch opens May 18, 2018 at the Vancouver Aquarium®, an Ocean Wise® initiative. Vortex, presented by Layfield Group, is exploration of the escalating global ocean plastic pollution crisis and the evolving human relationship with this ubiquitous material in an emotive, provocative, and inspirational way. We live in a disposable world and its having a grave impact on our ocean. Every day we use and throw away plastic cups, straws, bags, bottles, and other single-use items. More than 80 per cent of plastic waste in the ocean is coming from land-based sources and every one of us can ... More Kunsthalle Basel opens exhibition of works by Raphaela VogelBASEL.- Ultranackt, or ultra naked, the exhibitions title, offers a first clue. How could nakedness be raised to a higher power? By skinning, Raphaela Vogel seems to suggest in the final room of this first solo exhibition outside her native Germany. Here, she appears in a video donning a full-body leotard imprinted with human musculature as if revealed by flaying. In other artworks leading up to it, she is, alternately, in her birthday suit, her body pressed against a lone tree and the earth, or barely clothed, barreling down a waterslide. Camera operator, editor, costume and lighting designer, sound technician: Vogel typically occupies all of these roles, including that of sole human protagonist of her videos. Thus if there is a thread that runs through the artists work like a red-hot vein, it is the centrality of the artist herself, unabashedly exposed and exposing; if not literally ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American architect Walter Gropius was born May 18, 1883. Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 - 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. In this image: Walter/Ise Gropius, 1928. Blick auf Lower Manhattan von der Brooklyn Bridge, New York. Bildnachweis: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin/ © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2008.
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