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Organized by the McNay, the exhibition presents over fifty photographs.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography features the work of seventeen artists who interpret stories through pictures, whether real or imagined. Spanning nearly four decades, this survey begins with the art of ground-breaking photographers who emerged during the 1970s and 1980s and continues through today. The images present a wide range of styles and themes?familiar, mysterious, humorous, perplexing?yet they are always compelling to view. Organized by the McNay, the exhibition presents over fifty photographs. Works such as Nan Goldin?s landmark The Ballad of Sexual Dependency demonstrate some artists? explorations of the politics of the day?in this case, the onset of the AIDS crisis?while other examples, including photographs by Tina Barney, Justine Kurland, and Paul Graham investigate class differences, marginalized communities, and social justice. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg (C), her husband Barry Diller (C-R) and Stephen Briganti (3rd R), Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation President and CEO, attend a ceremony to unveil plans and break ground for a new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island in New York on October 6, 2016 KENA BETANCUR / AFP
| New York plans new museum for Statue of Liberty visitors | | Conservation of a 17th-century painting reveals a previously hidden self-portrait of the artist | | French minister says stolen art may fund terror via 'free ports' | 
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks as he attends a ceremony to unveil plans and break ground for a new Statue of Liberty Museum on Liberty Island in New York on October 6, 2016. KENA BETANCUR / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty -- that most recognizable symbol of American freedom -- will be greeted by a modern multimedia museum in future, New York officials said Thursday. The celebrated statue, designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel -- donated by France on the 1876 centenary of US independence and inaugurated on Liberty Island in 1886 -- has not had a museum worthy of the name since 2001. Stringent security regulations put in place after the September 11 attacks had reduced the capacity of the exhibit space inside the monument, so that only 20 percent of visitors to Liberty Island could enter, said the National Park Service, which manages the site. The private foundation that raises funds for Liberty Island and nearby Ellis Island -- and which has already renovated ... More | | 
The glass orb in advance of conservation. Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten, A Vanitas, c.1666-1700.
LONDON.- At first glance, a 17th-century Dutch painting in the Royal Collection of a group of inanimate objects appears to be a typical still life of the period. However, recent conservation work on A Vanitas by Pieter Gerritsz. van Roestraten (c.16301700) has uncovered a new element to the picture the artist's self-portrait. The conservation treatment was undertaken in preparation for the first-ever exhibition of portraits of artists in the Royal Collection. A Vanitas (c.16661700) by Roestraten is one of 150 works that will go on display at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace next month in the exhibition Portrait of the Artist (from 4 November). A 'vanitas' painting was a type of still life that conveyed a message about the misguided pursuit of transient earthly pleasures and was particularly popular in the Netherlands during the 17th century. This example by Roestraten shows a number of objects display ... More | | 
French Economy minister Michel Sapin delivers a speech during a session of questions to the government at the French National Assembly in Paris on October 5, 2016. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Thursday called on the Group of 20 to prevent the use of so-called "free ports" in the sale of stolen art to fund terrorism. "We have to fight the trade in works of art as part of the fight against terrorist financing," he said before a meeting of G20 finance ministers, held in conjunction with annual meetings in Washington of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In countering terrorist financing, "there is a weak link, which is the existence of free ports," he said, places where works of art stolen in Iraq or Syria could be sold to support the Islamic State group. He was referring to the special economic areas like those near international airports that allow the duty-free import, storage and re-export of goods, never passing through customs. Among the best known, ... More |
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| Ansel Adams' camera highlights photography offerings at Heritage | | Portland Art Museum announces Rothko partnership, expansion | | As China rises, top-selling painter looks to his roots | 
Ansel Adams' Arca-Swiss 4x5 View Camera Outfit used from 1964 to 1968.
NEW YORK, NY.- The camera used a half-century ago by legendary photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams will be offered in a public auction in New York City by Heritage Auctions Photographs auction, October 27. The Arca-Swiss 4x5 inch view camera (est. $70,000-$100,000) was used by Adams for shooting the well-known 1968 image Arches, North Court, Mission San Xavier Del Bac in Tucson, Arizona and other famous photographs of that era. This is the only Ansel Adams view camera ever offered at auction, said Nigel Russell, Heritage Auctions Director of Photography. After he used this camera between 1964 and 1968 he gave it to his assistant, Lillian DeCock, who also became a distinguished photographer. This camera and equipment, along with four other cameras used by DeCock and her husband, were ... More | | 
Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director and Chief Curator.
PORTLAND. ORE.- The Portland Art Museum today announced both an expansion that will unify its campus by connecting the Museums freestanding buildings, and a 20-year partnership with the children of Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko, and Kate Rothko Prizel. The partnership includes the loan to the Museum of major paintings by Mark Rothko from their private collection; paintings will be loaned individually in rotation over the course of the next two decades. The expansion will feature a new glass-walled building, to be named the Rothko Pavilion, in recognition of the artists legacy in Portlandhis home as a youth after immigrating from Latviaand the Museum, where he took art classes as a teenager and where he received his first solo exhibition. The naming was made possible thanks to the lead gift from a donor ... More | | 
Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi in his studio in Beijing. WANG ZHAO / AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- Blue-chip Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi built up a lucrative career by looking to the West for inspiration and buyers, but a new retrospective in Beijing reveals an unlikely turn back towards Chinas own aesthetics and traditions. It is a story increasingly common in the world's second largest economy, where an growing disillusionment with material wealth has sent a generation in search of a heritage lost. Zeng is China's second best-selling living artist, according to wealth publisher the Hurun Report. In the beginning, you feel happy that youve attained a certain kind of recognition, and are sold for a very high price, but as time goes on, it vexes you," he said. "People badmouth you, and the success influences your emotional state and creative process," he added. In 2013, his painting The ... More |
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| Yellowing Taj Mahal to go under scaffold for 'mud pack' | | National Portrait Gallery stages first major exhibition of Picasso portraits for twenty years | | National Gallery of Art acquires masterpiece by Caspar Netscher | 
This file photograph taken on April 16, 2016, shows the Taj Mahal reflected in the Yamuna river in Agra. Prakash SINGH / AFP.
AGRA (AFP).- Scaffolding will cover the Taj Mahal's main dome next year while a "mud pack" is applied to its yellowing marble, authorities said Thursday as they battle the effects of smog on the country's top tourist attraction. The famed monument to love, which attracts millions of visitors, has for years been acquiring a yellow tinge despite a ban on coal-powered industries in the area. Authorities have been applying "mud packs" around the side walls and towers since last year to draw the impurities out of the stone, but have not yet touched the main central dome. "This is a part of the cleaning process through mud-pack therapy and is presently being undertaken at (the) eastern wall of main mausoleum of Taj," said Bhuvan Vikram of the Archaelogical Survey of India (ASI), a state body. "This would be followed by cleaning of other three walls (and) thereafter it would be the ... More | | 
Portrait of Olga Picasso by Pablo Picasso, 1923; Private Collection.
LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery is staging a major exhibition of portraits by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) this autumn. Picasso Portraits (6 October 2016-5 February 2017), sponsored by Goldman Sachs, and in association with the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, includes over 75 portraits by the artist in all media, ranging from well-known masterpieces to works that have never been shown in Britain before. The latter include the extraordinary cubist portrait from 1910 of the German art dealer and early champion of Picassos work, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago; and from a private collection the exquisite portrait executed in 1938 of Nusch Eluard, acrobat, artist and wife of the Surrealist poet Paul Eluard. All phases of the artists career are represented, from the realist portraits of his boyhood to the more gestural canvases of his old age. It is the first large-scale exhibition devoted to ... More | | 
Caspar Netscher, A Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page, 1666. Oil on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington. The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund.
WASHINGTON, DC.- At the September meeting of the board of trustees, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, acquired its first work by Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher, A Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page (1666). This captivating painting makes its US debut in the exhibition Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt (October 4, 2016January 2, 2017) as one of fewer than 10 works by the artist on public view in the country. In addition, the painting is shown for the first time alongside a drawing from the British Museum that Netscher made after the painting. "We are delighted to add a work by Caspar Netscher to the Gallery's outstanding collection of 17th-century Dutch high-life genre scenes," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art, Washington. "We are very grateful to Lee and Juliet Folger for helping us acquire this superb work in another ... More |
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| Recreated treasures of Iraq and Syria on show at Colosseum | | Most comprehensive survey to date of preeminent American artist Agnes Martin opens at the Guggenheim | | France's Apocalypse Tapestry to be restored to medieval glory | 
A Corazziere (Italian Cuirassiers Regiment) stands in front of the entrance of the exhibition, "Rising from Destruction Ebla, Nimrod, Palmyra". ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Exact replicas of three architectural treasures damaged or destroyed by the Islamic State group (IS) in Syria and Iraq went on show Thursday at the Colosseum in Rome. The full-scale reproductions of the winged human-headed bull from Nimrud in Iraq, part of the state archives hall from the ancient Syrian kingdom of Ebla, and half the roof of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra will be on display until December 11. "For several years we have been discussing the importance of Italy, and the world, taking action to protect the cultural heritage of war zones, and this exhibition bears extraordinary witness to this endeavour," Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said at the opening. Syrian archaeological authorities also arranged for two Palmyra statues damaged by IS to be brought to Rome. Such an emergency "corridor for cultural goods... has never happened during wartime before," said Francesco Rutelli, head of "Incontro ... More | | 
Agnes Martin, The Egg, 1963. Ink on paper, 21.6 x 15.2 cm. Courtesy The Elkon Gallery, New York © 2015 Agnes Martin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- From October 7, 2016 through January 11, 2017, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present a major retrospective of the work of American painter Agnes Martin (19122004), the first since her death. One of the preeminent painters of the twentieth century, Martin created subtle and evocative paintings composed of grids and stripes and frequently inscribed with penciled lines. Her canvases significantly influenced artists of her time and subsequent generations. Often associated with Minimalism yet kindred with the Abstract Expressionists, Martin was one of the few prominent female artists to emerge from these prevailingly masculine art movements of the late 1950s and 60s. This historic survey, the most comprehensive ever mounted, features more than 115 works and traces Martins career from her lesser-known paintings of the 1950s to her final canvases of the early 2000s. Agnes Martin is organized by Tate Modern, Lond ... More | | 
A woman restoring a section of the "Apocalypse Tapestry" (13771382). LOIC VENANCE / AFP.
ANGERS (AFP).- Dusty and somewhat faded, as befits its onetime use as insulation for horse stables, a priceless piece of medieval artistic heritage, France's Apocalypse Tapestry, is getting a welcome clean-up. As the French culture miinstry says, it's high time "to see what state this old lady of upwards of 600 years of age is in." In truth, she is a little frayed at the edges, her once gloriously vivid red, blue, green and yellow threads less eye-catching than when the 104-metre (340 feet) oeuvre of wool and silk, showing the Apocalypse according to the Revelation of Saint John, was first crafted at the behest of Louis I, duke of Anjou, in 1373. This feast of dragons, angels and seven-headed beasts depicting in gory style John's vision of the last days, was done about three centuries later than the better known Norman conquest era Bayeux Tapestry embroidered cloth -- but it is larger. The work, which purports to be the longest tapestry in the world, originally stood 5.8 metres high compared with its ... More |
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 Doyle sets world auction record for Daniel HuntingtonNEW YORK, NY.- The October 5 auction of American Paintings, Furniture & Decorative Arts at Doyle showcased a wide range of American paintings of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including fine examples of portraiture; Hudson River, western and regional landscapes; marine paintings and still lifes. Highlighting the sale was a painting by Daniel Huntington (1816-1906) entitled The Counterfeit Note, which attracted a great deal of attention from collectors, institutions and trade alike. With spirited competition from determined bidders on the telephones and the Internet, the painting soared past its estimate of $35,000-55,000 to achieve a stunning $406,000 -- A World Auction Record for the Artist. The work was acquired by a major American Art collection. The record price of $406,000 more than doubled the prior auction record of $159,200 set in 2003 and far surpassed ... More Albert Einstein letter to his son discussing solving his Unified Field Theory up for auction BOSTON, MASS.- A letter written by physicist Albert Einstein to his son discussing his happiness with his work to solve the Unified Field Theory will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The one page letter in German, signed Papa, undated but circa early 1929. Letter to his son Eduard Einstein, nicknamed Tetel, in full (translated): Your letter made me very happy, particularly your comment regarding the hotel. Just like you, I hate it and it is with delight that I am detecting here a deep inner kinship between us, which I treasure. It seems to me it has been so long since I have seen you and I am longing to have you around me once again. For Easter, Albert and his wife will be visiting here. You could be coming at the same time, no matter. I would make sure you have sleeping quarters at a friends house while Albert is here. By the way, there is still another ... More Prince's secretive studio complex opens to the publicMINNEAPOLIS (AFP).- Music fans around the world and Minnesota residents have long wondered about Paisley Park, the late pop icon Prince's mysterious studio complex to which few have had full access. On Thursday, the mystery came to an end for some fans who snared tour tickets and descended on the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen to see inside the late "Purple Rain" star's 55,000-square-foot (5,100-square-meter) inner sanctum. The unveiling was decidedly muted. Organizers required ticket holders to meet at an offsite location and be bused into the complex in groups. Outside the gates, there were more TV trucks than fans as the first bus arrived at 8:30 am local time (1330 GMT). Sonja Fagan, a 37-year-old from Dublin, had missed the emailed instructions to gather offsite and instead had shown up at the gates with a bouquet of roses, saying Paisley Park was now ... More In Old Damascus, a sombre exhibit of artists who have fled Syria's warDAMASCUS (AFP).- In a traditional cafe in the heart of Damascus, young Syrians linger at an art exhibition evoking the despair and loss of their country's war. The only thing missing? The artists themselves. Instead of standing proudly by their works, the artists in the exhibition "And They Left" are scattered across Europe, having fled Syria's brutal five-year conflict in search of safety abroad. They entrusted their pieces to Bernar Jomaa, 39, who curated the exhibition of works coloured by sorrow and nostalgia. After arranging the last of a series of carved sculptures, Jomaa logs into Skype to show artist Sara Khatib, now living in Denmark, her section of the display. Khatib, 29, begins to cry as she sees her work -- including a stone figure of a woman hugging herself -- displayed in her homeland, thousands of miles (kilometres) away. "I was really moved by the idea of the exhibit. ... More Espace Muraille exhibits works by Swiss artist Philippe LardyGENEVA.- Philippe Lardy is a Swiss artist who has returned to his home country after a career as an illustrator in the United States and France. He will be exhibiting his works in Espace Murailles gallery from 7 October to 17 December 2016. Life Forms seeks to reconnect with the creativity of childhood a world of play incorporating chance, accident and free interpretation. More than thirty works, mostly recent paintings, have been created using a variety of media, shapes and colours. Visitors will be transported to the heart of a universe of symbolism in perpetual evolution. Caroline and Eric Freymond, creators of Espace Muraille, have given the Genevan artist free rein: We have long followed Philippe Lardys work and he is an artist we have truly fallen in love with. Theres something remarkable about his unusual career, particularly the way he has made the transition from ... More Pinault Collection on view for the first time in Germany at Museum FolkwangESSEN.- In fall 2016, the Museum Folkwang in collaboration with the Pinault Collection is staging a multifaceted exhibition to examine the self-representation of artists in their works. It is the first time that the exceptional body of artworks assembled by François Pinault is to be shown in such depth in Germany. Dancing with Myself (October 7, 2016January 15, 2017) is a wild, playful, poetic, and political dance through contemporary art moving from the late 1960s up to our own time. In the exhibition, the artists own body is the starting point for the act of artistic creation and instigates a critical engagement with the self that goes beyond the classical self-portrait. The presence of the artist is shown in the individual works in a wide range of forms: body, biography, social and sexual identity, humor, melancholiaall these aspects either play a part in or serve ... More Solo exhibition of new work by Toby Ziegler opens at Simon Lee GalleryLONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of new work by Toby Ziegler, his fourth exhibition with the gallery. Matisses Large Reclining Nude (The Pink Nude), 1936 provides the starting point for Zieglers new series of paintings and a new two channel video work (all 2016). Ziegler was drawn to the paintings embodiment of a shift from figuration to abstraction. The development of Matisses painting between May and October 1935 was documented in a series of 22 black and white slides that illustrate the paintings evolution from illusionistic to two dimensional space. Through this surviving documentation we can see how Matisse edited, cropped, flattened and stretched the body in its context to greater effect in the painting, retaining the human figure, whilst tightening and streamlining the motif like a piece of typography or a logo. This analogue animation ... More Exhibition of Congolese popular paintings opens at Centre for Fine Arts BrusselsBRUSSELS.- Congolese popular painting is inextricably linked to daily life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It bears the stamp of the collective memory, as illustrated by the exhibition Congo Art Works. Popular Painting. The exhibition presents a selection of portraits, landscapes and allegorical paintings as well as canvases inspired by urban and historical themes. These works were produced between 1968 and 2012. Humour is present even when the subject is serious: the paintings encourage a critical reflection on religion, politics and social issues. A selection of historical objects, archival photographs, drawings and records broaden the perspective by establishing links with other, older Congolese art forms. A unique insight. Congo Art Works. Popular Painting, an exhibition of the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), in collaboration with the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, brings ... More Moderna Museet features Thomas Schütte's oeuvre in a major exhibitionSTOCKHOLM.- Thomas Schütte is best known as a sculptor, but his practice includes a wide range of media and formats. Schütte describes himself as a seismograph that registers phenomena around him. His works touches on eternal questions concerning the human condition freedom and responsibility, power and vulnerability. The intimate and personal is juxtaposed with the monumental and authoritarian. Moderna Museet is now featuring his oeuvre in a major exhibition. The exhibition Thomas Schütte: United Enemies takes the artists sculptural works from the past two decades as its starting point. Schüttes figurative sculptures merge the public scene with the private sphere. Frequently alternating between different scales and materials, he combines small plasticine creatures with giants cast in bronze. Fragmentary figures in steel and aluminium are presented alongside ... More "From here to eternity" opens at Maison ParticulièreBRUSSELS.- From here to eternity, the exhibition on view at Maison Particulière starting in October 2016 is the culmination of a journey that began with Origin(s) in April 2011. Given its span (over six months), the fewer number of both works on display (30) and artists (19), From here to eternity is, all at the same time, a continuation, a first, and a last. A continuation, because as in almost every case, a guest artist has been invited for this offering: Angelo Musco, who symbolizes the central theme of the exhibition. A continuation, because literature takes a place of prominence to illuminate the works of art, thanks to literary guest Victor Ginsburgh, who was there for Origins(s), just as he is now for Eternity. This time, Dantes Divine Comedy seemed an obvious choice to him for this event: Maison Particulière is built on three levels, just as the literary masterpiece and the ... More Ghana government wants to relocate 'racist' Gandhi statueACCRA (AFP).- Ghana's government said Wednesday that it wants to relocate a statue of Mahatma Gandhi off of a university campus after professors launched a petition claiming he was racist. A statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee as a symbol of close ties between the two countries. But in September a group of professors launched a petition calling for the removal of the statue because they say Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines "first and foremost." "It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eurasian super-power," said the petition, which quotes passages written by Ghandi that say Indians are "infinitely superior" to black Africans. Ghana's ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement that it has ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most 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 even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared at the Vogue magazine' cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
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