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Featuring 100 drawings, prints, and posters (approximately half of the Herakleidon Museum?s extensive collection of Toulouse-Lautrec works on paper), the exhibition explores the relationship between portraiture, caricature, and rise of the cult of celebrity in Belle Ãpoque Paris.
GREENWICH, CONN.- A fascination with the spectacle, nightlife, and the tawdry side of celebrity culture is hardly a recent phenomenon. The artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 ? 1901) is famed for his images, created more than a century ago, of entertainers in the cabarets, dance halls, theaters and brothels of Paris. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT, is presenting the major exhibition In the Limelight: Toulouse-Lautrec Portraits from the Herakleidon Museum, which showcases the artist?s portraits of the dancers, singers and other performers who became the icons of the Parisian nightlife in the late 19th century. Featuring 100 drawings, prints, and posters (approximately half of the Herakleidon Museum?s extensive collection of Toulouse-Lautrec works on paper), the exhibition explores the relationship between portraiture, caricature, and rise of the cult of celebrity in Belle Ãpoque Paris. Lautrec wanted to show life as it is, not as it should ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Guggenheim Bilbao Museum is illuminated with the "Reflections" mapping projection by the video design company 59 Productions during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the museum in Bilbao on October 11, 2017. People are able to enjoy this artistic intervention during 28 sessions scheduled for October 13 and 14. ANDER GILLENEA / AFP
| Parthenon Marbles not in any Brexit deal: EU | | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's masterwork 'Schneeberge mit Skiläufern' offered for the first time at auction | | US, Israel pull out of UN cultural body over 'anti-Israel' bias |
Visitors look at the sculpture of the Greek river god Ilissos at the State Hermitage Museum on December 5, 2014 in St. Petersburg. AFP PHOTO/OLGA MALTSEVA.
ATHENS.- Greece cannot hope to benefit from EU cultural repatriation rules to get back the Parthenon Marbles from Britain in the event of Brexit, the European Commission said Thursday. Responding to a Greek eurodeputy's query, EU education and culture commissioner Tibor Navracsics said bloc directives on the repatriation of national treasures apply in cases dating from 1993 onwards. "None of these directives can be applied in this case, as the Parthenon Marbles were removed in the first half of the 19th century," Navracsics' office told Stelios Kouloglou, a eurodeputy with the ruling Greek Syriza party. The Parthenon sculptures are part of the collection popularly known as the "Elgin Marbles" which were removed from Athens by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s when he was ambassador to the Ottoman court. The British parliament purchased the art ... More | |
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Schneeberge mit Skiläufern (detail). Estimate: CHF 1,000,000 1,500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
ZURICH.- Sothebys autumn auction, Swiss Art/Swiss Made will feature an outstanding example of 20th-century avant-garde painting: Ernst Ludwig Kirchners powerful expressionist winter landscape, Schneeberge mit Skiläufern. This depiction of winter scenery was realised in the countryside surrounding the Swiss mountain town of Davos, where Kirchner settled in 1917. The work is characterised by a high degree of abstraction: alongside the range of intense colour and the flat planes of the composition, the effects of light and shadow capture the atmosphere of sunset in the expressionist painters distinctive style. This masterpiece will be offered for the very first time at auction as the leading highlight of the Swiss Art/Swiss Made sale in Zurich on 5 December, with an estimate of CHF 1,000,000 1,500,000. Speaking ahead of the sale, Co-Directors of Sothebys Swiss Art Department, Stephanie Schleining and Urs Lanter, ... More | |
A picture taken on October 12, 2017 shows the flags flying in front of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The United States and its ally Israel said Thursday they were pulling out of the UN's culture and education body, in a move that underlined Washington's drift away from international institutions. The US decision, announced in Washington, follows years of tension at the organisation which it accused of having an "anti-Israel bias". "This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects US concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organisation, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO," US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. The United States has walked out of the 195-member organisation once before under ex-president Ronald Reagan, who quit in 1984 over alleged financial mismanagement and claims of anti-US bias in some of its policies. President George W. Bush announced America's return in 2002, but ... More |
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| First exhibition in a public gallery of Jean Arp's work in the UK since 1966 opens at Turner Contemporary | | Leeds Art Gallery to reopen after almost 2 years closure | | The International Center of Photography announces move to Essex Crossing on the Lower East Side |
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MARGATE.- This Autumn Turner Contemporary presents Arp: The Poetry of Forms , the first exhibition in a public gallery of Jean Arps work in the UK since 1966. Jean Arp, known as Hans when in Germany, was one of the most versatile and powerfully original abstract artists of the 20th century, rejecting art institutions and the practices that he saw as perpetuating elitist values. He was a pioneer in the use of chance when creating his work, influencing 20th century art movements including abstraction, surrealism, and constructivism. everything is an approximation, less than an approximation, for, on rigorous examination, even the most accomplished picture is a filthy, wart - infested approximation, dry magma, a desolate landscape of lunar craters. Jean Arp Over 70 sculptures and reliefs many of which have not been on display previously in the UK feature in Arp: The Poetry of Forms. Alongs ... More | |
Lothar Goetz, Detail of 'Xanadu' (2017), Victoria staircase, Leeds Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Jerry Hardman-Jones.
LEEDS.- Leeds Art Gallery reopens its galleries tomorrow following the closure of the gallery in January 2016, during which time essential repairs to the original roof and the historic Victorian building have been made. The breadth of the collection is shown in its entirety throughout the galleries including work on paper, painting, sculpture, and audio visual works alongside each other. During the past years renovations, a welcome discovery was made in the form of a barrel vaulted glazed roof on one of the first-floor galleries. This structure had remained hidden above a false ceiling for over 40 years, and is revealed to the public for the first time this week. This new space is marked by the presentation of British sculptor Alison Wilding RAs renowned sculpture, Arena (2000), recently gifted from the Contemporary Art Society. Marking the reopening ... More | |
Lower East Side unification slated for completion in 2019. Rendering by Gentler.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography, the worlds leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, today revealed its plans to reunite the ICP Museum and ICP School in one location on the Lower East Side. The center will be housed on Ludlow Street and will serve as the cultural anchor of Essex Crossing, a $1.5 billion mixed-use project. Essex Crossing is being developed by Delancey Street Associates, which comprises Taconic Investment Partners, BFC Partners, and L+M Development Partners. The ICP School, which serves more than 3,500 students each year, will make the move downtown in summer 2019. The ICP Museum will also shift from its current space at 250 Bowery to Essex Crossing in early 2019, following the close of its fall 2018 exhibition program. We are thrilled to be reuniting the ICP Museum and the ICP School ... More |
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| Artcurial to offer 20 original pieces from the collection of the family of Camille Claudel | | Walker Art Center raises $78 million to complete campus plan | | New exhibition reveals the story behind Sir John Soane's Museum's most treasured possession |
Camille Claudel, Etude du buste de Paul Claudel à 37 ans, 1905. Plâtre. Estimate: 20 000 30 000 / 22 000 33 000 $. @Artcurial
PARIS.- On 27th November, during the prestigious end of year Modern Art auction and following the Rodin sale, Artcurial will highlight Camille Claudel and her work, in association with the Sculpture & Collection, Alexandre Lacroix and Eve Turbat consultancy. Enthusiasts and collectors will be given the opportunity to discover 20 original pieces from the family of the artist. The ensemble includes 20 bronzes, terra cottas, plaster casts and never before seen works and preparatory models for the most famous of Camille Claudels creations. Amongst them, two terracotta studies of Sakountala, created in 1886 in preparation for the final bronze version, LAbandon. The auction also includes a bronze cast of the work by Blot, cast during the lifetime of Camille Claudel. It carries an estimate of 600,000 800,000/ $660,000 - 880,000. With the dispersion of this collection, Artcurial highlights the talent ... More | |
More than half a million people have visited the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden since it opened on June 10, 2017. Photo: Walker Art Center.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center has successfully secured more than $78 million to complete its campus renovation plan, grow its operating endowment, and add major public artworks inside and outside.More than 330 households, corporations, foundations, and government agencies contributed $78 million in support of a $75-million capital campaign to redesign the Walker and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, creating a more welcoming, environmentally sustainable destination for the next generation. In 2011 the Walker formally launched a $55-million fundraising effort and increased it to $75 million in 2015 in order to fund a newly designed front entrance and plaza. The Walker raised $66 million from the private sector to re-landscape the five-acre greenspace adjacent to the Walker (now known as the Wurtele Upper Garden), add a new main entrance and restaurant on Vineland, renovate the entire facade of its iconic 1971 ... More | |
Jan Adam Kruseman, (1804-62), Portrait of Giovanni Belzoni, the Great Belzoni, 1824. © Daniel Katz Gallery, London.
LONDON.- To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Seti I by the Egyptologist Giovanni Battista Belzoni (17781823), Sir John Soanes Museum presents Egypt Uncovered: Belzoni and the Tomb of Pharaoh Seti I a new exhibition revealing the story behind the Museums most treasured possession. Known as The Great Belzoni, Giovanni Battista Belzoni was one of the most famous and pioneering explorers of his age, and played a crucial role in the development of Egyptology as a scientific discipline. A former circus strongman based in London, in 1815 Belzoni took up the role of engineer in Egypt, charged with the removal of large and heavy antiquities. This included the seven-ton bust of Pharaoh Ramesses II, taken from the king's memorial temple at Luxor that now sits in the British Museum. On 17 October 1817, Belzoni made his finest discovery: he found ... More |
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| Albertz Benda opens exhibition of works by Dennis Scholl | | Winston Churchill's half-smoked cigar sells for more than 12k at auction | | Harn Museum of Art displays French art featuring women in the 18th - early 19th centuries |
Dennis Scholl, Geometry of Innocence, 2016. Oil-based colored pencils on paper, 84 1/4 x 59 1/4 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda announces Dennis Scholl: The Book of Impure Intentions, the artists first solo show at the gallery, on view from October 12 November 18, 2017. Through his exquisitely rendered drawings, Dennis Scholl creates dark and mysterious narratives set in self-referential worlds. In his earlier works Scholl challenged the conventional relationship between signified and signifier by extracting objects and figures from their familiar contexts and inserting them into collage-like dreamscapes. Today, the narrative created by the disparate elements is not intended to be coherent, it continues to evolve from the Lacanian concept of manque, or lack. This psychoanalytic theory posits that the lacking of something causes desire to arise, stimulating audiences to interpolate the absences and inconsistencies with their own desires. Nonetheless the most recent works take on an altered direction by st ... More | |
The half-smoked cigar from May 11, 1947 at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, measuring 4″ long, retaining the "La Corona / Winston Churchill" red-and-gold band at the end.
BOSTON, MASS.- Winston Churchill's cigar from a 1947 trip to Paris sold for $12,262 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The half-smoked cigar from May 11, 1947 at Le Bourget Airport in Paris, measuring 4″ long, retaining the "La Corona / Winston Churchill" red-and-gold band at the end. The cigar was retained by Corporal William Alan Turner, Air Quartermaster with 24 Squadron Transport Command, who was a member of the cabin crew that flew Churchill and his wife from RAF Northolt to Paris and home again. Includes a candid photo of Churchill just before boarding his plane, this cigar in hand, signed in fountain pen, "Winston S. Churchill," contained in a small folder with Corporal Turner's pencil annotations on the opposite side: "A photograph I took from the doorway of York MW101 at Le Bourget airport, Paris, on 11th May 1947 just before we flew black ... More | |
Antoine Vestier (Avallon 1740 - 1824 Paris), Allegory of the Arts, 1788. Oil on canvas. The Horvitz Collection.
GAINESVILLE, FL.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is presenting an exhibition of more than 150 drawings, pastels, paintings and sculptures addressing some of the most important and defining questions of womens lives in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection is on view from Oct. 6 to Dec. 31, 2017. Ranging from spirited, improvisational sketches and figural studies to highly finished drawings of exquisite beauty, the works included in the exhibition are by many of the most prominent artists of the time. They include Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, as well as lesser-known artists both male and female, such as Anne Vallayer-Coster, Gabrielle Capet, François-André Vincent and Philibert-Louis Debucourt. Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment has been organized into sections that address cultural attitu ... More |
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Picasso's mansion fails to find new buyer
NICE (AFP).- A New Zealand financier has two months to come up with 20.1 million euros ($24 million) to buy Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mansion on the French Riviera after no new bidders emerged Thursday. Rayo Withanage was the highest bidder at an auction in June for the estate at Mougins in the hills near Cannes, where the artist spent his twilight years. But the Dutch Achmea Bank selling the house put it back under the hammer Thursday because it said Withanage "hadn't yet got together the funds" to complete the transaction. But a judge in the Riviera town of Grasse gave Fiji-born Withanage two more months to come up with the cash after no other bidder came forward. "We have been in discussions with him for a year. Let's hope he gets over the finishing line," said Maxime Van Rolleghem, a lawyer for the bank. He described the three-hectare estate overlooking ... More
The Walking Dead finds sanctuary at the Smithsonian
WASHINGTON, DC.- In a special ceremony, the Smithsonians National Museum of American History accepted a donation of artifacts from AMCs post-apocalyptic television series The Walking Dead. Cast members and AMC executives were on-site for the donation ceremony, which featured objects used and worn by characters over the past seven seasons, including the crossbow wielded by fan favorite Daryl Dixon, Michonnes katana blade, Carl Grimes costume from the first two seasons and Merle Dixons weaponized arm rig. The Walking Dead adapts Robert Kirkmans comic book series depicting the aftermath of an epidemic that transforms people into flesh-eating zombies, dubbed walkers. The show follows former police officer Rick Grimes who leads a group of survivors seeking a safe haven. As the world overrun by the walkers takes its toll, the ... More
P·P·O·W opens solo exhibition of work by Robin F. Williams
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W presents Your Good Taste is Showing, a solo exhibition by Robin F. Williams. In her third exhibition with P.P.O.W, Williams extends her longstanding interest in gender roles to the strangeness of feminine identity in our current moment. The works bring together a variety of painting techniques, including oil, airbrush, and the staining of raw canvas, resulting in lush, deeply textured works. The complexity and variety of the medium mirrors the layered narrative of the works themselves, reflecting the internal contradiction that Williams reveals in her subject. The dissonance between perceived status, internal desires and a need for self-expression, create the framework for the exhibition. The exhibition features works at the intersection of genre painting and portraiture; women in unexpected, awkward, and uncomfortable poses. These scenarios ... More
Christie's announces highlights from the Fall sale of Prints & Multiples in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the two-day sale of Prints & Multiples taking place over three sessions from October 24-25. This sale includes over 300 lots by major artists of the 20th to 21st centuries including contemporary editions by Louise Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warholand modern works by Marc Chagall, Edward Hopper, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picassoamong others. The auction features property from several private collections including The Collection of Marc Bell, The Collection of Melva Bucksbaum, and The Collection of Senator Jacob K. Javits, and Marian B. Javits. Beginning the first ten lots of the sale is complete set of Andy Warhols Campbells Soup II screenprints, 1969 (sold individually) from The Estate of Dr. Giuseppe Rossi. Dr. Rossi was the chest and vascular surgeon ... More
Irish Museum of Modern Art opens a major exhibition of the work of William Crozier
DUBLIN.- IMMA presents William Crozier, The Edge of the Landscape. This is the first major presentation of Croziers work in Ireland since the retrospective held at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and the RHA, Dublin in 1991. Best-known in Ireland for the lyrical landscapes made close to his home in West Cork from the mid-1980s, this exhibition of 30 works presents William Croziers early work, inspired by the Existentialist movement and the anxieties of the post-war period. For Crozier the landscape was the source of his visceral paintings. Instinctive, animated brush strokes convey the primitive energy he unearthed in the natural world. This is evident in both the lyrical landscapes of his West-Cork work, and the ravaged landscapes of this earlier period; symbolising the torment and fear of the post-war condition at the heart of existentialism. In the introduction to Croziers ... More
Bob Dylan shares center stage with many fine art luminaries at Woodshed Art Auctions
FRANKLIN, MASS.- Its not often Bob Dylan shares center stage with anyone certainly not 19th and early 20th century painters but thats exactly what happened on September 20th when a collection of 25 limited edition giclee prints signed and numbered by the singer-songwriter came up for bid alongside such fine art luminaries as Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall and Gustav Klimt. It was a two-session online-only auction, conducted by Woodshed Art Auctions, based in Franklin. Session 1 featured the 25 signed Dylan prints, which all carried estimates of $2,000-$3,000 and ended up selling for prices ranging from $5,312 (for Train Tracks) to a pair of giclees titled Cassandra ($1,250 and $1,062). The runner-up lot was titled Cityscape; it fetched $3,750. Session 2, held later that day, was one of Woodsheds Art Auctions popular Prestige Signature Collection ... More
Lavar Munroe debuts a new body of mixed media paintings and sculpture at Jack Bell Gallery
LONDON.- Jack Bell Gallery is presenting Lavar Munroes third solo exhibition at the gallery. Munroe debuts a new body of mixed media paintings and sculpture that utilises wall and ground to explore impermanence, memory and the concept of heroics. Gun dogs, according to the dictionary, are types of hunting dogs developed to assist hunters in finding and retrieving game. The term gun dog is also synonymous with attack dog. An attack dog is defined as any dog trained by a human to defend or attack a territory, property or persons either on command, on sight or by inferred provocation. Throughout history dogs have been used for various reasons ranging from farm work, to slave hunting, to law enforcement and personal protection. The black mind and body have endured extreme trauma in relation to these animals. During slavery the dog was used to hunt, ... More
Rare planetarium leads Bonhams Science and Technology Sale
LONDON.- A rare and impressive Benjamin Martin Planetarium is the top lot at Bonhams Important Instruments of Science & Technology sale on 31 October in London. It is expected to fetch £80,000-120,000. This rare, philosophical instrument cleverly demonstrates the movement of the earth and alternatively, the orbits of the then known planets around the sun by use of a hand-cranked geared mechanism. Signed by its maker, Benjamin Martin of London, one of the leading instrument makers in London in the 18th century, the planetarium is a fine working example of the exquisite output from his workshop in Fleet Street. It dates from 1765-70, during which time Martin received a commission from Harvard University, Massachusetts, to produce a collection of scientific instruments. The international recognition of Martins work further underlines his lasting ... More
Walk the runway with "Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion" at the Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI, OH.- Contemporary Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has won international acclaim as one of the most visionary designers of the twenty-first century. Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion at the Cincinnati Art Museum will showcase the artists avant-garde garments that combine art, engineering, architecture and science, October 13, 2017January 7, 2018. Van Herpen takes fashion into the future. Credited with introducing 3-D printing to fashion, the designer seamlessly blends high-tech processes with traditional handwork, creating imaginative sculptural garments from materials as diverse as metal umbrella ribs, industrial yarns, woven metal, leather strips and transparent acrylic. Her work has been worn by celebrities including Lady Gaga, Tilda Swinton, Beyoncé, and Bjork and has graced the runways of Amsterdam, London and Paris. ... More
Family life in 2017 is up for discussion in new exhibition at National Gallery of Denmark
COPENHAGEN.- British artist Gillian Wearing is interested in real life experiences. In her art she gives people a voice, examining and documenting relationships such as those in the family. SMK, National Gallery of Denmark now presents an exhibition featuring the Turner Prize-winning artist. Throughout her career Gillian Wearing has addressed the question of how the concept of family is perceived and should be understood today. She seeks to illuminate the many different ways relationships form the patterns of our lives. From 13 October 2017 Gillian Wearing Family Stories features a range of the artists works from 1992 to the present day that works with the theme of the family. The work includes photography, film and sculpture. Gillian Wearing explains her interest: I look for situations where there is an element of truth. People cant relate to a made-up fantasy ... More
Freeman's to offer the collection of Father Ivan Storojev
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will offer the collection of Father Ivan Storojev, including materials relating to the last days of the Imperial family and a collection of theological works. The lot is to be sold on the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in our Oct. 17 Silver, Objets de Vertu, & Russian Works of Art sale. On July 14, 1918, only two days before her execution by the hands of a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg, the former Empress Alexandra Feodorovna wrote In her diary, 10:30. Had the joy of an obednitsa [church service] - the young Priest [came] for the 2nd time. This was the last religious service the deeply pious Imperial family would ever attend, and the young priest was Father Ivan Vladimirovich Storojev (1878-1927). Guards from the Ipatiev House had banged on his door early that morning. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova died October 13, 1822. Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical style, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque sculpture. In this image: An assistant shows the Associated Press a handmade book portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, with a dedication to US President Barack Obama in the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner", in Rome, on Thursday, July 2, 2009. World leaders attending the Group of Eight summit opening Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Italy will be presented with a gift from the past and one for the future. Handmade books portraying works by Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, as well as gold coins representing an imaginary future world currency will be given to the participants at the opening of the three-day summit.
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