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Lebanese President Michel Aoun (2nd-L), French President Emmanuel Macron (2nd-R) and Former French Culture Minister and Head of the Arab World Institute (IMA) Jack Lang (C) attend the inauguration of the exhibition "Oriental Christians: 2,000 Years of History" (Chretiens d'Orient - Deux mille ans d'histoire) at the Arab World Institute in Paris on September 25, 2017. The Lebanese President is on a three-day visit in France. BENOIT TESSIER / POOL / AFP.
PARIS.- It is in Palestine that the Gospels place the preaching of Christ, and it is between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates, along the Nile, and on the banks of the Bosporus, that the new religion developed and set down roots before spreading. Today, in spite of all of the vicissitudes of ancient and contemporary history, Christians in the Middle East are not residual traces of a defunct past, but real stakeholders in an Arab world the construction of which they contributed to enormously. It is to tell their particular histories as full-fledged components of the countries in which they live (Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine) that the Arab World Institute, in coproduction with the MuBA Eugène Leroy, the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Tourcoing, presents, until 14 January 2018, this major exhibition. Developed in close association with representatives of numerous communities, with the help of Oeuvre dOrient, the ex ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A Ru guanyao brush washer, from the court ware of the late Northern Song dynasty, is displayed by Nicolas Chow, Deputy Chairman for Sotheby's Asia, during the Sotheby's Autumn Sales week in Hong Kong on September 28, 2017. Anthony WALLACE / AFP
| Dutch school kids must visit Rembrandt, parliament: Report | | Masterworks from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection to be offered at Sotheby's New York | | Leonardo da Vinci may have drawn 'Nude Mona Lisa', experts say |
The Night Watch.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Compulsory viewings of Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" and visiting parliament at least once are some plans for schoolchildren to be brought in by the new Dutch government, a newspaper reported Thursday. The incoming government also aims to introduce lessons about the Dutch national anthem, called the Wilhelmus, including the meaning of the text and the origins of the melody. The latest proposals revealed by the popular daily tabloid De Telegraaf come as efforts in the Netherlands to cobble together a four-party coalition after the March elections drag on, weighed down by the search for tough compromises. "Schools must take pupils at least once during their school years to visit parliament's lower house and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam," home to Rembrandt's painting, De Telegraaf said. "The four parties forming the coalition, the VVD, CDA, D66 and the Christian Union have reached an agreement on this," the paper said, quoting insider sources. The plans form part of a growing ... More | |
Mark Rothko, Untitled 1968 Estimate $5/7 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that masterworks on paper from the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection will lead the November sales of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art in New York. Drawings and works on paper are the most spontaneous and essential of all artworks, often underpinning everything that an artist subsequently applies to other media. And yet, it is extremely rare for collectors to engage so totally with the creative process by focusing their attention on this medium. Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and Ambassador Carl Spielvogel have meticulously built an unprecedented collection, which offers unique insight into the creative spirit and personality of an impressive array of artists working across the 20th and 21st centuries. From intensely-worked pastels, watercolors and gouaches to the most elemental pen and ink or charcoal drawings, the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection celebrates the primacy of works ... More | |
File photo of a chocolate-made Mona Lisa painting. AFP PHOTO.
PARIS (AFP).- A nude drawing that bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa may have been done by Leonardo da Vinci, experts told AFP Thursday. Scientists at the Louvre in Paris, where his masterpiece is held, have been examining a charcoal drawing known as the "Monna Vanna" which had been attributed to the Florentine master's studio. The large drawing has been held since 1862 in the huge collection of Renaissance art at the Conde Museum at the palace of Chantilly, north of the French capital. Curators from the museum believe that after a month of tests at the Louvre the "drawing is at least in part" by Leonardo. "The drawing has a quality in the way the face and hands are rendered that is truly remarkable. It is not a pale copy," curator Mathieu Deldicque told AFP. "We are looking at something which was worked on in parallel with the Mona Lisa at the end of Leonardo's life," he added. "It is almost certainly a preparatory work for an oil painting," he added, with ... More |
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| Ukraine and Russia fight over Crimean heritage | | Artist to face trial for 'flashing' at Louvre | | Proust paid for good reviews of his masterpiece |
Ivan Aivazovsky, Self-portrait, 1874.
SIMFEROPOL (AFP).- The painting "Moonlit Night" by famed 19th century maritime artist Ivan Aivazovsky is a study in tranquillity: two boats sailing calmly across a placid sea. But now the masterpiece is caught up at the centre of a storm between Ukraine and Russia as the violent feud between the two neighbours has spilt over into a cultural tug of war. At Ukraine's request, last month Interpol added the painting, and 51 others by artists such as Ivan Shishkin and Isaac Levitan, to its list of stolen artworks. Kiev insists the collection -- valued at some $1.3 million (1.1 million euros) -- was illegally spirited away into Russian-controlled territory as Moscow took over and then annexed the Crimea peninsula in 2014. The tussle over the artworks -- owned by the Simferopol Art Museum in the Russian-held region -- is just the tip of the iceberg in a furious dispute over artistic heritage and cultural identity raging between the two foes. When Moscow seized Crimea, an estimated 1.2 million ... More | |
Deborah de Robertis spread her bare legs before Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece on Sunday in the Louvre museum.
PARIS (AFP).- A woman performance artist who exposes herself in museums is to be prosecuted for exhibitionism after baring her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa in Paris, her lawyer said Thursday. Deborah de Robertis spread her bare legs before Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece on Sunday in the Louvre museum, shouting "Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright" as several dozen tourists looked on. "The goal was not to exhibit my genitals," the 33-year-old told AFP, "but to copy a famous photograph by Valie Export" -- an Austrian performance artist known for her sexually provocative acts during the 1970s. "My message is to question the place of women artists in the history of art. That's why it's necessary to do my performances in museums," said Robertis, who has dual French and Luxembourg nationality. Robertis was in custody for two days before appearing ... More | |
A Marcel Proust original edition of "Du cote de chez Swann" (Swann's Way) is displayed at Sotheby's. Thomas Samson / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The French writer Marcel Proust paid for glowing reviews of the first volume of his "Remembrance of Things Past" to be put into newspapers, letters by the great author reveal. The novelist wrote the notices himself and sent them to be typed up by his publisher "so there is no trace of my handwriting" to distance himself "absolutely from the money that will change hands". The letters have come to light with an extremely rare copy of "Swann's Way" which is expected to go for around half a million euros ($580,000) when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby's in Paris next month. They make it clear that Proust orchestrated the operation himself from his bed, promising his editor at the publishers Grasset that he would "of course, pay him back in full". The wealthy writer paid 300 francs -- around 1,000 euros ($1,175) today -- for a flattering reference to "Swann's Way" ... More |
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| Sotheby's inaugural Sale of Postwar and Contemporary Photographs totals $2.5 million | | Hyde displays van Gogh work | | Serpentine Gallery opens exhibition of works by Wade Guyton |
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, A Storybook Life (Complete Series). Estimate $250/350,000. Sold for $468,500. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys inaugural sale of Postwar and Contemporary Photographs concluded today in New York with a strong total of $2.5 million. The sale was led by Philip-Lorca diCorcias A Storybook Life (Complete Series), a group of 76 chromogenic prints that soared well past the presale high estimate to $468,500 more than four times the previous auction record for the artist. The sale was led by a group of important photographs from the distinguished Ames Collection, which totaled $1.5 million. Emily Bierman, Head of Sothebys Photographs Department in New York, commented: Were delighted with the results of todays sale our first dedicated auction of Postwar and Contemporary photographs. We saw robust interest in works by international artists, including Thomas Struth, Helena Almeida and Kohei Yoshiyuki, including a new auction record for Yoshiyuki. Its been a pleasure to continue the Ames Co ... More | |
Vincent van Gogh (1853 1890), Dutch, Orchard with Arles in the Background, 1888, reed pen, pen, ink, and graphite on laid paper, Bequest of Charlotte Pruyn Hyde, 1971.81.
GLENS FALLS, NY.- When Vincent van Gogh met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Paris in 1886, the friends defied convention, challenging the established definition of art. Their idiosyncratic focus on line and color is displayed in Deux Enfants Terribles, an exhibition from the permanent collection in the Rotunda Gallery at The Hyde Collection. The exhibition includes van Gogh's Orchard with Arles in the Background, The Hydes only work by the Dutch artist. Van Gogh employed a variety of pen strokes to imbue the scene with a sense of springs arrival in a dormant Mediterranean fruit orchard. A few dots from a reed pen indicate the first appearance of buds. Below, the grass, rendered in short vertical strokes begins to grow again; pinwheel strokes denote the flowering of dandelions. Believing that art should convey emotion, and driven to instill his work with his own presence, ... More | |
Wade Guyton, Installation view, 'Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged' Serpentine Gallery, London (29 September 2017 - 4 February 2018). Courtesy of the artist. Photo: James Campbell.
LONDON.- The Serpentine presents the work of the American artist Wade Guyton, a truly 21st century painter. He uses digital technologies iPhones, cameras, computers and consumer-grade Epson printers as tools to create both large-scale paintings on linen and smaller compositions on paper. In his practice, Guyton explores the translations that occur between these tools, transforming three dimensions into digital information that is subsequently reproduced on surfaces and in space. This new exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, entitled Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged, presents a body of work completed in the past two years. Guytons choice of title bears witness to the site of both the first installation of the work, in Germany, and its place of production in downtown Manhattan. It also references Guytons encounter with the painting Das Pariser Atelier ... More |
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| New exhibition explores Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability | | Exhibition of landscapes, both real and imagined, on view at Gagosian Hong Kong | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces new acquisitions |
Joseph Highmore, The Angel of Mercy, c1746 (detail). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
LONDON.- A highly successful artist and Governor of the Foundling Hospital, Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) is best known as a portrait painter of the Georgian middle class. However, during the 1740s Highmores art radically shifted as he turned his focus to societal attitudes towards women and sexuality. Curated by Highmore expert, Dr Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts explores this ten-year period and his disruptive commentary, reflecting his engagement with the work of the new Foundling Hospital and its mission to support desperate and abused women. On public display in the UK for the first time is a remarkable painting that still retains the power to shock. In 1744 Highmore created a series of 12 paintings on his own initiative inspired by Samuel Richardsons international bestseller, Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. First published in 1740, the novels sixth edition of 1742 included illustrations by Hubert Gravelot and Francis Hayman. However, unlike the commissioned illustrations, H ... More | |
Installation view, "Arcadia" at Gagosian Hong Kong, September 26 to November 11, 2017. Courtesy Gagosian. Artworks: All rights reserved.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is presenting Arcadia, an exhibition of landscapes, both real and imagined, by modern and contemporary gallery artists. The term "Arcadia" originated in ancient Greece, referring to the inland reaches of the Peloponnese where shepherds lived, far from the sea. The term took on a symbolic meaning during the Hellenistic era, invoking rural life as an escape from the moral corruption of the dense, bustling metropolis. Subsequently, this pastoral paradise became an artistic preoccupation for the ages. Idyllic "Arcadian" landscapes were described by Virgil, in his Eclogues, and Cy Twombly scratched the word into his paintings. The sixteenth-century Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano applied the name "Arcadia" to the entire North American Atlantic coast north of Virginia, Twomblys birthplace. Photographs of Twomblys daily life, included in this exhibition, range from his time as a student at Black Mou ... More | |
Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote (17301803), c. 177172. Joseph Wright of Derby (English, born Derby, 17341797). Oil on canvas; 127 x 100 cm (50 x 40 in.). Cleveland Museum of Art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Arts recent acquisitions include a portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote by British artist Joseph Wright of Derby, a drawing by German Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, a 14th-century Japanese hanging scroll featuring the Buddhist deity Aizen Myōō, Wisdom King of Passion, and a monumental oil painting on canvas by contemporary Chinese artist Liu Wei. Often described as among the artists most successful and appealing portraits, Joseph Wright of Derbys Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote is one of a limited group of small-scale likenesses made in the early 1770s, depicting the figures at full length in a landscape setting. The subject, Charles Heathcote, of Derby, joined the army in 1745 at the age of 15, and rose through the ranks. At the time of his retirement in 1772, Heathcote was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 35th Foot (Royal Sussex). The figure is ... More |
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Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford named Director of National Museum of African Art
WASHINGTON, DC.- Augustus (Gus) Casely-Hayford, who writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on African culture, has been named Director of the Smithsonians National Museum of African Art effective Feb. 5, 2018. He is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London and a member of its Centre of African Studies Council. He also sits on the Board of the Caine Prize for African literature. Casely-Hayford is currently writing and presenting a series of films on landscape art for British television. Born in London, Casely-Hayford was educated at SOAS, where he received his doctorate in African history and was later awarded an honorary fellowship. As Director of Africa 05, he organized the largest African arts season in Britain with more than 150 venues hosting 1,000 events. He has presented two series of The Lost ... More
ArtCircle exhibits work by ten artists associated with minimalism and post-minimalism
LONDON.- ArtCircle announces a group exhibition featuring work by ten artists associated with minimalism and post-minimalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Entitled The Essence of Things, ArtCircles second presentation is curated by Berlin-based curator and gallerist Daniel Marzona, and includes works by Carl Andre, Richard Tuttle and François Morellet. Beginning in the late 1950s, artists on both sides of the Atlantic began to question the emphasis on interior subjectivity in the then-dominant movements of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel. Their inquiries led to a paring-back of art making to its essentials: the use of industrial materials, simple geometric forms, serial or other systems, and a focus on the physical object in space, drawing attention to the materiality of the works themselves rather than any overt symbolic or emotional content. The Essence ... More
Iswanto Hartono connects the history of the Oude Kerk with Indonesia's colonial past
AMSTERDAM.- Together with Indonesian artist Iswanto Hartono, the Oude Kerk presents an exhibition in the context of the Europalia Indonesia. From 29 September to 15 November 2017, Iswanto Hartono connects the history of the Oude Kerk with Indonesias colonial past, from an anthropological and archaeological perspective. Hartono created a site-specific work for the Oude Kerk. Within this monumental building he reflects upon the topic of colonization, a matter strongly related to the Oude Kerk. The many decorated graves of former acclaimed heroes, men who sailed out to colonize the world, bear witness to this. It was these men who became national heroes, and who have come to symbolize the ethnocentrism experiencing and judging others based on ones own cultural perspective that has characterized Europe since the 17th century. Hartono ... More
QUAD, Derby presents two film works by Hetain Patel
DERBY.- A new exhibition in QUAD, Derby includes a premiere of work by East Midlands artist Hetain Patel. The new exhibition consists of two film works: a major new work, Dont Look at the Finger (2017), commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella with Manchester Art Gallery and QUAD, and The Jump (2015). It is the UK premiere of The Jump in QUAD, Derby which is simultaneously also be shown at The Manchester Art Gallery, marking 50 years since Patels family emigrated from India to the UK. The Jump connects the widely-recognised fantasy of action and superhero films with the domestic setting of his British Indian family home in Bolton, in the UK. Featuring 17 of his family members, the film is shot in Patels Grandmothers home, the house that he and all of his relatives have lived in at various points since moving to the UK, and where his Grandmother ... More
Berlin State Museums opens "Exchanging Gazes: Between China and Europe 1669-1907"
BERLIN.- China and Europe are linked by a long tradition of reciprocal cultural exchange. These transactions were particularly intensive during the Qing dynasty (16441911), which is regarded as one of the key phases of Chinese cultural and political history. Exquisite gifts were exchanged. European envoys attempted to establish official trade relations with China. But their efforts were in vain, as the Chinese established trade barriers, with the exception of the port of Canton although they were very much interested in European science, art, and culture. The exhibition illustrates the richly varied nature of this mutual fascination in objects ranging in date between 1669 and 1907. Many of the almost one hundred pieces could be classified as Chinoiserie or so-called Europerie: they provide us with information about early modern European images of China and also allow us ... More
Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas Contemporary and MIACA present 'Invisible Cities'
DALLAS, TX.- The Crow Collection of Asian Art, in partnership with Dallas Contemporary and the Moving Image Archive for Contemporary Art: MIACA (Hong Kong), announced the presentation of Invisible Cities, an exhibition and screening series showcasing more than 20 contemporary video works by renowned and emerging artists from China, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam. Exhibited as a series of video installations and screenings at the Crow Collection of Asian Art and Dallas Contemporary, these pivotal works represent recent key developments in moving image art in Asia. Invisible Cities runs Friday, Sept. 29, through Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, at the Crow Collection of Asian Art and Dallas Contemporary. Presented as a compilation of fragmentary urban images, this project ... More
The Frick Pittsburgh launches new mobile landscape app
PITTSBURGH, PA.- The Frick Pittsburgh this week launched a new mobile app that provides visitors new ways to experience the museum's 5.5-acre grounds and gardens. Since 2015, the Frick has completed several initiatives to increase access and improve the experience of visitors to its lush Point Breeze site. These initiatives include the opening of a new pedestrian entrance at Penn and Homewood Avenues, the installation of a new system of walking paths, and the addition of new wayfinding and identification signage on site. The recently developed mobile landscape app complements these efforts. Thanks to the generous support of the Colcom Foundation, the robust app is now available for free download on the iTunes and Android stores. "We are thrilled to make the Frick's first-ever app available to the public," comments Robin Nicholson, executive director. "In addition ... More
Ed Atkins creates a new series of works for exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau
BERLIN.- A gigantic baby, a foppish boy and a drowned man weep, drool and eat grotesque sandwiches of shit, corpses, flags and masks, failing to learn anything. A nameless crowd careens down a hole, forever or forms letters in choreographed formation. A spartan, looping piano piece by Jürg Frey is performed in a concrete cell, a hermits cot and a bucolic garden in midsummer. Reflexive information panels by Contemporary Art Writing Daily essay a barbaric real world entirely absent from the exhibition. Credits roll to denote an ending that never begins, and social media corporations sponsor everything, seemingly unbidden. Ed Atkins is one of the most distinctive representatives of a generation of artists explicitly responding to digital medias ever-increasing ubiquity; Atkins creates worlds of crazed artificiality and desperate realism. His computer-generated ... More
Artist Richard Erdman donates three sculptures to University of Vermont
WILLISTON, VT.- Vermont sculptor Richard Erdman has donated three works of art to the University of Vermont. The first, Arete Blu, was installed at the Dudley H. Davis Center in early September. A reception recognizing the donation and the artist will take place on Wednesday, October 4, from 4-5 p.m. at the sculpture site on the rooftop terrace of the Davis Center. Members of the academic and artistic community will attend the reception, and Erdman will join UVM president Tom Sullivan and Fleming Museum Director Janie Cohen in speaking. Erdman graduated from UVM in 1975, and was recognized with an honorary doctor of letters in 2016. In light of that recognition and his experience as a student, the artist resolved to give back to the university where he started his artistic career and the students still crafting their own creative paths. Hence, his donation of ... More
Freeman's announces highlights from its Silver, Objets de Vertu & Russian Works of Art Sale
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Noting the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the sale opens with an exceptional group of Pre-revolutionary Russian masterworks, including an Imperial presentation ring by Michael Perkhin for Faberge (Lot 21 Est. $80,000-120,000), an exceptional cloisonne enamel box by Feodor Ruckert (Lot 8 Est. $30,000-50,000), and a rare silver presentation cup in the form of a cockerel by Alexander Sokolov (Lot 9 Est. 30,000-50,000). Wrapping up the Russian section are two important historical collections documenting the last days of the Russian Imperial Family at Ekaterinburg. Never before seen in the United States, The Lintern Archive (Lot 26, 30,000-50,000) comprises a rare Romanov family photographic album which likely belonged to Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the Imperial children. The album contains 66 photographs, ... More
New wide-ranging acquisitions join prestigious PAFA Collection of American Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces the addition of 28 historic, modern, and contemporary works to its permanent collection of American art. The new acquisitions include paintings, photographs, sculpture, mixed-media collages, and works on paper by many leading artists working today. Highlights in the latest group of purchases include Audrey Flack's monumental photorealist painting World War II (Vanitas) (1976-77); Unraveling (2017) by Sonya Clark, which will be performed at PAFA on November 4; a sketchbook with drawings by Linda Kramer; and two mixed media print investigations into interior space from 2016 by Mickalene Thomas. PAFA is also excited to announce the purchase of photographs from Cassils' powerful performance Becoming an Image, shown at PAFA in December 2016. These photographs ... More
Toby Ziegler opens exhibition at the Freud Museum
LONDON.- The Freud Museum London is presenting Toby Ziegler: The Genesis Speech. Below, and in his own words, the acclaimed contemporary artist introduces his work in the context of the museum. In the final scene of Lindsay Andersons 1982 film Britannia Hospital the protagonist Professor Mil-lar reveals his plans for the future of humanity. As the culmination to his apocalyptic vision of a fu-ture of overpopulation and environmental destruction, he unveils his solution: Genesis, a luminous pyramid-shaped super computer containing a huge pulsating brain, onto which he intends to upload the entire human race. When Genesis finally speaks, its deep vocoder voice paraphrases a monologue originally spoken by Hamlet in Shakespeares play: What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infi-nite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Tintoretto was born September 29, 1518. Tintoretto (September 29, 1518 - May 31, 1594), real name Jacopo Comin, was a Venetian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school. For his phenomenal energy in painting he was termed Il Furioso. His work is characterized by its muscular figures, dramatic gestures and bold use of perspective in the Mannerist style, while maintaining color and light typical of the Venetian School. In this image: A man looks at 'The Coronation of the Virgin, The Paradise' a painting by 16th century Venetian artist Tintoretto, on display at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Wednesday, June 7, 2006.
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