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Pieter de Hooch (1629- in or after 1679), Woman Weighing Gold and Silver Coins, ca. 1664 (detail). "SMB, Gemäldegalerie. Property of Kaiser Friedrich Museumsvereins. Photo Jörg P. Anders.
DELFT.- Museum Prinsenhof Delft today announced three discoveries made in three different paintings by Pieter de Hooch as part of its exhibition, Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the shadow of Vermeer, the largest retrospective exhibition in a generation of the work of the Delft Master. A fingerprint was discovered on the canvas Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room, from the Royal Collection Trust (from the private collection of HM Queen Elizabeth II) and infrared imaging revealed ships masts on A Dutch Courtyard, from the National Gallery of Art (Washington). In the painting A Woman weighing Gold and Silver Coins, from the Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, fragments of a signature were discovered that can very likely be attributed to the famous Delft master. For the Museum Prinsenhof Delft, these discoveries are unexpected and exciting consequences of bringing together 29 paintings for the exhibition (11 October 2019 16 ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Thu Van Tran, Trail Dust at Almine Rech, Paris November 23, 2019 - January 11, 2020 © Thu Van Tran. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
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 | | Cambridge to return looted Benin statue | | Painting by French 'master of black' sets new world record | | German police offer half a million euro reward for stolen jewels | 
The statue known as "Okukor" was taken in 1897 from the former kingdom of Benin. Photo: Chris Loades.
LONDON (AFP).- A Cambridge University college has said it will return a bronze cockerel statue looted from Nigeria, which formed the focus of protests over symbols of Britain's colonial past. The statue known as "Okukor" was taken in 1897 from the former kingdom of Benin, which is now part of southern Nigeria, and given to Jesus college in 1905 by the father of a student. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the college said the recommendation to return it was made by a working group investigating the legacy of slavery. "This royal ancestral heirloom belongs with the current Oba (king) at the Court of Benin," it said, adding that the details of how and when it would be returned had yet to be resolved. The statue was removed from display in 2016 following protests by students, who said it was looted by British troops during a "punitive expedition" as revenge ... More | | 
The work from 1960 of thick black stripes went for 9.6 million euros at an auction in Paris.
PARIS (AFP).- A canvas by the French artist Pierre Soulages has sold for $10.5 million, a new world record for the "painter of black" who is about to celebrate his 100th birthday. The work from 1960 of thick black stripes went for 9.6 million euros at an auction in Paris just days before the Louvre opens a huge retrospective celebrating Soulages' long career. The prolific veteran, who turns 100 on Christmas Eve, and who is still painting, took the radical decision to paint almost entirely in black in the late 1970s. Called "the world's greatest living artist" by former French president Francois Hollande, Soulages told AFP earlier this year that if he was not 100 percent happy with a painting "I burn the canvas outside. If it is mediocre, it goes," he added. The painting sold by the Tajan auction house had been estimated to go for up to six millions. But after a bidding battle that also involved Asian and ... More | | 
Picture taken on April 9, 2019 shows one of the rooms in the Green Vault (Gruenes Gewoelbe) at the Royal Palace in Dresden, eastern Germany. Sebastian Kahnert / dpa / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Investigators in Germany on Thursday offered a half-a-million-euro reward for information about the spectacular heist in which robbers snatched priceless diamonds from a state museum in Dresden. Police said the reward ($550,000) was being offered to anyone providing information "which could lead... to the capture of the perpetrators or the recovery of the stolen items". Police across eastern Germany are continuing their search for the thieves who launched a brazen raid on the Green Vault museum in Dresden's Royal Palace on Monday. Having initiated a partial power cut and broken in through a window, the thieves stole priceless 18th-century jewellery from the collection of the Saxon ruler August the Strong. They stole objects encrusted with hundreds of diamonds, including ... More |
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| | Chiara Parisi appointed Director of the Centre Pompidou Metz | | Antiquities expert charged with trafficking in Cambodian artifacts | | The hoodie enters the museum | 
Chiara Parisi is holder of a state doctorate from the University of La Sapienza in Rome where she taught the history of modern and contemporary art as well as the history of architecture and industrial design.
METZ.- Serge Lasvignes, chairman of the board of the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Chairman of the Centre national dart et de culture-Georges Pompidou, has appointed Chiara Parisi Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz for a five year mandate beginning on 2nd December 2019. The board of the Centre Pompidou-Metz proposed Chiara Parisis candidacy to Chairman Lasvignes, out of a list of candidates unanimously drawn up by a commission composed of public personalities represented on the board (the Centre Pompidou, the state, Metz Métropole, the Grand Est Regional Council and the City of Metz) as well as a recognized expert (Marie Lavandier, Director of the Louvre-Lens). Chiara Parisi will therefore succeed Emma Lavigne, appointed Executive President of the Palais de Tokyo in September 2019 and Laurent Le Bon, Executive President of the Musée ... More | | 
Looted Cambodian art for sale by Douglas Latchford. Photo: U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York.
by Julia Jacobs and Tom Mashberg
NEW YORK (AFP).- Investigators have charged Douglas A. J. Latchford, a leading expert on Khmer antiquities, with smuggling looted Cambodian relics and helping to sell them on the international art market by concealing their tainted histories with falsified documentation. In a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday, Latchford, 88, was accused of having served for decades as a conduit for Cambodian antiquities that had been excavated illegally from ancient jungle temples during unrest in the country starting in the mid-1960s, with the beginnings of the Cambodian civil war. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York, Latchford, a dual citizen of Thailand and the United Kingdom, falsified invoices and shipping documents to make it easier to sell those looted ... More | | 
John Edmonds, Untitled (Hood 13), 2018.
ROTTERDAM (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- There are few items of clothing as politically, socially and racially charged as the hoodie. Long a linchpin of streetwear and, more recently, the advertising campaigns and catwalks of high fashion, the hoodie is a contemporary wardrobe staple, a declaration of fealty to a school or team, a comfortable garment for a plane ride and a sight that can trigger fear and panic. Desired and derided in equal measure, regularly misunderstood, the hoodie is now heavy with associations of social inequality, youth culture and police brutality, even banned from certain streets, schools and institutions worldwide. And, as of next month, it will be embraced by a museum. The Hoodie, the first exhibition devoted to its powerful and political nuances, opens Dec. 1 at the Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Dutch institute for architecture, design and digital culture in Rotterdam, Netherlands. A mixed media show of photographs, music, magazines covers and film footage, as well as more ... More |
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| | Christie's Paris announces highlights included in its Asian Art sale | | World record for ab English cameo glass masterpiece at Bonhams | | Rediscovered masterpiece attributed to Francesco Bordoni sells for €3,048,000 | 
A rare and important red lacquer box with a delicately carved lid showcasing three big embossed peonies among lush leaves on an ochre background. Estimate: 80,000-120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- On 12 December, the Asian Art department will present its second sale of the year. This sale, gathering 238 lots for a global estimate between 5 and 7 million euros, offering many exceptional objects of prestigious provenances as well as numerous Asian decorative works of art. One of the remarkable highlights of this sale is a twelve-panel Coromandel lacquer screen from the Kangxi period. Coming from a French private collection and acquired in 1967, it has been published and exhibited many times due to its major historical relevance. The Nanao Island off the Chinese coast towards Taiwan is represented in this work. This screen was offered to the islands governor, General Zhou Hongsheng, for his sixtieth birthday. Its an extremely rare example of a screen executed as a geographical map on which the names of each location are indicated. This ... More | | 
The Origin of Painting by George Woodall. Sold for a new auction world record price of £206,313 (estimate: £120,000-150,000). Sold for: £206,313. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams set a new auction world record for a piece of English cameo glass when The Origin of Painting, a vase by George Woodall, sold for £206,313 at the Fine Glass and British Ceramics sale in London last week. It had been estimated at £120,000-150,000. This overtakes the previous auction world record for English cameo glass held by The Attack, a cameo glass plaque by Thomas and George Woodall, which sold for £169,250 at Bonhams London in May 2013. George Woodall was a British glass artist who, together with his brother Thomas, took the ancient art of cameo glass to new heights in the 19th century. The Woodalls exhibited and sold their work all over the world, but The Origin of Painting was retained by the family and never offered for sale. It shows the young Corinthian, Fielea, sketching the shadow of her lover Ariston on a wall in order to forever capture ... More | | 
The portrait bust of Paul Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1569-1621).
PARIS.- On Wednesday 20 November 2019 the sale of this previously unknown bronze, attributed to Francesco Bordoni (1574-1654), of superior quality and in remarkable condition, became one of the art market's star successes. The portrait of Paul Phélypeaux, Seigneur de Pontchartrain, sold for 3,048,000 (including buyer's commission) - 2,400,000 (hammer price) - under the hammer of auctioneer Géraldine d'Ouince from the auction house of De Baecque & Associés, at Drouot. The fierce bidding war, played out before a packed salesroom, began at 500,000, the low estimate for this larger than life size sculpture. Two telephone bidders battled all the way to 1,200,000 before giving up in favor of three others in the room. The sparring carried on between two bidders who had come in person to assist at the sale. The bust made 3,048,000 (including buyer's commission) - 2,400,000 (hammer price) - an unprecedented price i ... More |
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| | Two centuries later, a composer gets a second look | | Flowers Gallery opens an exhibition of the work of Josef Herman | | Exhibition at mumok deals with the myriad developments of modernism | 
Italian pictural school (17th century ), Portrait of Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851). Oil on canvas. Naples, Museo di Strumenti del Conservatorio. Item Number: XIR224998
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Composer Gaspare Spontini wasnt known for his modesty. In 1844, at 70, he traveled to Dresden, Germany, to conduct his opera La Vestale at the invitation of the young Richard Wagner. The older composer discouraged Wagner from a career as a dramatic artist, saying that he, Spontini, had brought the art of opera to such heights that any attempt to follow him could only have ruinous consequences. But Wagner later wrote that, despite Spontinis vanity, the meeting only raised his high esteem for the master. Berlioz, too, was a passionate admirer who devoted two chapters to Spontini in Evenings with the Orchestra. In those days, Spontini was at the apogee of the opera world. Yet his reputation faded, along with those of other grand-opera stars. La Vestale, a spectacular success at its 1807 ... More | | 
Josef Herman, The Dream, 1942, oil on canvas © The Estate of Josef Herman, courtesy of Flowers Gallery.
LONDON.- Flowers Gallery opened an exhibition of the work of Josef Herman as part of the nationwide Insiders/Outsiders arts festival. Josef Herman was renowned for capturing the essence of the British working classes, making a distinct contribution to the artistic scene in Britain from his arrival in 1940. His transcendent images of coal miners, fishermen and farm workers from Wales, Scotland and Suffolk represented the dignity of ordinary people and a reverence for the quiet beauty in everyday life. Josef Herman was born in 1911 in Warsaw, where he grew up in a predominantly Jewish working class neighbourhood. He moved to Brussels in 1938 to escape the oppressive political conditions in Poland and fled to France and then Britain in 1940, remaining in the UK for the rest of his life. The exhibition Journey is the first major exhibition of Hermans work since 2011. It includes key works drawn from ... More | | 
Juan Gris, Carafe, verre et journal, 1919. 40 x 33 cm. Oil on canvas mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Schenkung / donation Emanuel and Sofie Fohn, 1994 © mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.
VIENNA.- In recent years, mumoks classical modernism collection was shown under ever-changing thematic contexts. This years presentation deals with the myriad developments of modernism, its chronologies, and variouseven contemporaryattempts at historicization. One of the exhibitions conceptual jumping-off points is the question of how the avant-gardes were perceived in the early twentieth century: Is modernism a historical period? The first documenta exhibitions (1955 and 1959) significantly shaped our view of this time. In 1955, a cleansed modernism (Walter Grasskamp) was presented under the slogan Abstraction as a World Languagea modernism that, while offering a historical perspective, factored out the historical events that came ... More |
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 Exhibition examines the interpretation of the past and its connection to our presentMUNICH.- In its new exhibition, Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism shows contemporary works of art from 46 international artists. At the center of the works is an examination of the interpretation of the past and its connection to our present. The location of the exhibition the works of art are shown in the permanent exhibition and throughout the building opens up a dialog between contemporary art and the remembrance work presented by the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. Tell me about yesterday tomorrow expands the examination of German history with international perspectives, opens ones view to global realities of life, and tells of the past and the future in multifaceted images. It is about the relationship between the past ... More Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibits a video game, scientific illustration, and riddlesTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is presenting Games, 2013-2019, a groundbreaking, three-part exhibition by artist Shachar Freddy Kislev. The exhibition, which lives on the fringes of art and play, covers new ground for the museum: it marks the first time the Tel Aviv museum has exhibited a video game, presented scientific illustration, and displayed riddles. It features hallucinatory scientific illustration, a video game based on Google Image Search, and an abstract sculptural playground for toddlers. Bound together by a sense of play, the projects operate at the outer periphery of art - at the threshold between art and games, and art and science. Google What is image search in reverse. The game shows the user a search result, and he has to guess the query. The user asks himself: what do these images have in common? What ... More FOTOHOF opens an exhibition of works by Hannah ModighSALZBURG.- Hannah Modigh is one of Sweden's rising photographers. Through her sensitive, poetic essays and photobooks of crisis-ridden places in the USA − be it small towns plagued by drugs in the Appalachian Mountains (Hillbilly Heroin, Honey) or the impoverished areas of Louisiana (Hurricane Season) or through portraits of Swedish youths in search of identity (Milky Way) − Modigh attracted international attention. Hannah Modig's recent work, entitled Delta, will be shown at FOTOHOF: it will be her first solo show in Austria. Delta consists of an extensive series of small-format and intimate photographs; Modigh has searched in recent years for traces representing the presence of an "absence". "Some branches continue, some dry out, the traces left behind. This is how we float, like a delta. My grandmother was 100 years old when she died, shortly thereafter ... More Sotheby's Milan announces an online sale of the private collection of an Italian fashion aficionadoMILAN.- A treasure trove of 177 memorable designs by iconic French fashion house Chanel is being unveiled at Sothebys Milan, ahead of an online sale later this month. Since its foundation in 1910, the haute couture label has been synonymous with luxury and glamour, and this auction charts decades of timeless trends. Presenting vivid bags in every imaginable colour, elegant dresses, unique jewellery and an abundance of coveted accessories all from the vast wardrobe of a devoted lover of fashion. Visit the exhibition at the neoclassical Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan on 3 and 4 December, or place your bid online from 29 November 5 December and find the perfect ensemble to exude Christmas chic this year. Multicolour Fringe Fabric Bag, Chanel (est. 500 1,000) Shearling Pop Art Patchwork, Chanel, Fall 2014 (est. 1,500 2,500) Gold Brocade Bag and Jacket, Chanel ( ... More signs and symbols opens a solo exhibition by Belgian artist Benoît PlatéusNEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Scissors, hangers and other batteries, a solo exhibition by Belgian artist Benoît Platéus. For this exhibition, Platéus continues his process of frottage, whereby the artist takes objects found in the streets of New York or from his studio in Brussels and rubs them onto paper, which is then glued onto a wood panel and painted upon. Platéus likes to wander. Objects catch his attention discarded hangers lying on a curb, coins melded into newly-laid tar in the street, a barely recognizable crushed can. There is a happenstance randomness to the frottages. The objects Platéus instinctively is drawn to have already undergone a transformative event. The coins were dropped, the hanger was bent, the can was flattened. And perhaps these events have gone unnoticed. Yet Platéus recognizes them and continues ... More Gray's Auctioneers announces highlights included in its Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Art auctionCLEVELAND, OH.- Grays Auctioneers will finish the year in style with a Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Art auction on Wednesday, December 11th, online and in the Cleveland gallery located at 10717 Detroit Avenue, starting promptly at 11 am Eastern time. Offered will be treasures from fine estates across northeast Ohio, as well as a gorgeous collection of Persian rugs, runners and carpets. Fine art will be offered in abundance, starting with lots 1 and 2, a pair of oil on board paintings by Harold Newton, a founder of the legendary Florida Highwaymen group of artists. Both paintings depict a beach by moonlight, gently lapping waves and palm trees rustling in the warm evening breezes. The glow of the moon appears to be peeking out from under the frame, a masterful, elegant trick of the eye. Both paintings carry estimates of $3,000-$5,000. ... More Seattle Art Museum debuts new installation by Haida artist Michael Nicoll YahgulaanasSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Michael Nicoll Yahgulaanas: Carpe Fin (November 1, 2019November 1, 2020), a new installation featuring work by the Vancouver-based Haida artist. The centerpiece is Carpe Fin, a 6 x 19foot watercolor mural that is a major commission for SAMs collection. Yahgulaanas describes its style as Haida manga, blending several artistic and cultural traditions including Haida formline art, Japanese manga, Pop Art, and graphic novels. Created with watercolor and ink on handmade mulberry paper from Japan, Carpe Fin bursts with figures, landscapes, and action scenes inspired by a traditional Haida oral story: a sea mammal hunter goes in pursuit of food to feed his starving community and is taken underwater to the realm of a powerful spirit. Yahgulanaas refreshes the story for contemporary ... More Dresden museum partly reopens after jewelry heistBERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Royal Palace museum in Dresden, Germany, reopened to the public Wednesday, except for the rooms known as the Green Vault, where police continued to hunt for evidence to help them track down the thieves who broke in two days earlier, making off with 11 rare Baroque jewels. Police said evidence indicated that four thieves had carried out the robbery early Monday, spraying a fire extinguisher in their wake to erase their tracks. The thieves broke an iron gate and a window to enter a room in the Green Vault on the ground floor of the museum. Among the treasures in the Green Vault founded by August the Strong, prince-elector of Saxony and king of Poland were several sets of royal jewels. The thieves used an ax to break the security glass and steal three of them the Diamond Rose, Diamond and ... More Three solo exhibitions are now open at Anna LaudelISTANBUL.- Anna Laudel, one of Istanbul's leading and dynamic contemporary art galleries, continues its exhibition programme with solo shows of three contemporary artists using different mediums and techniques. The exhibitions showcase In the Shade of Time by Hayal İncedoğan, Selfie by Fırat Neziroğlu and SYZYGY by Halil Vurucuoğlu until 19 January 2020. Opened on the 26th of November, the exhibitions focus on compelling themes diverging from botanical sciences to the dichotomy and rediscovery of life. Presenting a conceptual depth with her versatile productions,Hayal İncedoğan presents the collateral aspects of time, space and memory perception spectacularly in her exhibition ... More A walk on the frontier of art, where the sky is the limitNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When walking on the High Line, its tough to look more lost than some of the tourists, but I did a pretty good job of it last month when I tripped on a curb while looking at art. (I caught myself before falling, but still.) I was taking in an exhibition from Aery, a new augmented reality platform tailored to digital art exhibitions. Looking up to the heavens through an iPad, and not at my feet, I was using a loaner tablet to get an artwork by Richard Humann to magically appear. But it worked: On the iPad, a constellation of a rose appeared, at an angle in the sky and topped by a crown, as Humann intended. A couple of out-of-towners who were watching me seemed mightily impressed when they looked over my shoulder at the screen. The technologies known as augmented reality and virtual reality (AR and VR, for short) may ... More CIMAM appoints Mami Kataoka as the new President for the triennial 2020-2022SYDNEY.- CIMAM has held its Annual Conference from November 15 to 17 hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney, with a successful attendance of over 200 participants and the appointment of the new President for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), in addition to the nomination of the new Board. The outgoing Board and the new elected Board members present in Sydney appointed Mami Kataoka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Mori Art Museum, to be the new President of CIMAM. Suzanne Cotter, Director, Mudam LuxembourgMusée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg has been appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the organization. The outgoing President for the period of 201719, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, has been named Honorary Member of CIMAM in gratitude ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist James Rosenquist was born November 29, 1933. James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933 - March 31, 2017) was an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. In this image: Then 71-year-old US artist James Rosenquist stands in front of his art work 'Brazil' which he created in 2004 at the art museum in Wolfsburg, Germany on Thursday, 17 February 2005. The piece was part of a retrospective which included 150 works of art spanning across three decades, allowing an insight into the work of a leading representative of US American Pop Art. The exhibition ran until 05 June 2005.
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