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Several hundred coffins were cleared out of the church for extensive renovation works in 1850s, during which the vaults were filled in with earth.
LONDON (AFP).- The remains of five archbishops of Canterbury have been accidentally discovered by builders in a hidden tomb beneath a London church, site developers said Sunday. Some 20 lead coffins were discovered in a crypt underneath St Mary's-at-Lambeth, which sits outside Lambeth Palace, the central London residence of the archbishop of Canterbury -- the highest cleric in England. Two have been identified from name plates, while records show that five were buried in the crypt. Of the two identified archbishops, one is Richard Bancroft, who was in office from 1604 to 1610 and who oversaw the production of the King James Bible, considered a definitive work of the English language. Several hundred coffins were cleared out of the church for extensive renovation works in 1850s, during which the vaults were filled in with earth. But builders accidentally discovered one crypt had been left untouched. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People dressed as 'The Tramp' adjust their costumes as they take part in celebrations to mark the first anniversary of Chaplin's World By Grevin, and Charlie Chaplin's birthday, as the museum plans to set the record for the world's largest gathering of people dressed as The Tramp, on April 16, 2017 in Corsier-sur-Vevey. Chaplins World, a large-scale museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and his lifes work is located in the Manoir de Ban and its park where Chaplin and his family lived through 1952 -1977. Richard Juilliart / AFP
| Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibit arrives at the Heard Museum | | Dresden State Art Collections opens two new permanent exhibitions in the Armoury in the Renaissance wing | | The Met reunites Caravaggio's last two paintings in exhibition | 
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943. © 2016 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and the INBA.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Heard Museum visitors have a rare opportunity to see masterpieces by legendary 20th Century Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera now that the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibit has opened in Phoenix. This is the only North American stop on a limited world tour that began in October at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. The 33 works are being exhibited at the Heard Museum in the newly opened Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery. Shown through Aug. 20, the works are from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. They include Kahlos Self Portrait with Monkeys and Diego on My Mind, and Riveras Calla Lily Vendor and Sunflowers. The Gelmans were Mexican-based European émigrés who were friends of Kahlo and Rivera. Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the Heard will ... More | | 
An important step has been taken along the route to completing the Residenzschloss.
DRESDEN.- Dresdens Royal Palace is the birthplace and centre of the Dresden State Art Collections. This monument to Saxon and European history, which was devastated in the Second World War, has also been Saxonys biggest cultural building site for many years now. Step by step, a Royal seat of Art and Science is being recreated; a museum centre of international influence in which historical and pseudo-historical architectural elements, modern museum galleries and others still with visible signs of damage unite to form a museum architecture at the cutting edge of technology which sets off the unique artistic treasures it holds to best advantage. Now, an important step has been taken along the route to completing the Residenzschloss. At the start of April 2017, the Renaissance Wing at the Residenzschloss has been brought to completion, opening up another 1,113 m² of exhibition space to the ... More | | 
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Milan or Caravaggio 1571-1610 Porto Ercole). The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, 1610 (detail). Oil on canvas. Intesa Sanpaolo Collection, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples
NEW YORK, NY.- The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, Caravaggio's (15711610) last painting, is on exceptional loan from the Banca Intesa Sanpaolo in Naples and presented with The Met's The Denial of Saint Peter, also created by the artist in the last months of his life. Commissioned by the Genoese patrician Marcantonio Doria two months before the artist's death in July 1610, Caravaggio painted The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula in an unprecedented minimalist style; its interpretation of the tragic event that is its subject, combined with the abbreviated manner of painting, has only one parallel: The Denial of Saint Peter. These two extraordinary paintings have not been reunited since a 2004 exhibition in London and Naples devoted to Caravaggio's late work. Since then, there has ... More |
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| Eli Wilner & Co. to hold lecture and exhibition on the design and function of the Orientalist picture frame | | Kate O'Donovan Cook awarded major grant | | Total Charlie: Chaplin fans set a world record | 
José Tapiró y Baró (18361913), A Tangerian Beauty, c. 1891, watercolor on paper, 26 x 18 1/2 in. (unframed), Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The leading U.S. antique frame dealer Eli Wilner and Orientalist art expert Emily M. Weeks, Ph.D. will present an exhibition and lecture on the Orientalist picture frame at Sothebys New York on the afternoon of May 21, 2017. Framing the Orient: The Design and Function of the Orientalist Picture Frame will offer an introduction to this largely unrecognized art form, and will feature an unprecedented display of both replica and antique frames. A question and answer period will follow, and light refreshments will be served. The ebb and flow of Orientalisms popularity from its heyday in the mid-nineteenth century until today has had one distinct art historical advantage: many of the frames associated with its paintings have endured. Unlike other pictures, which were featured in museums, or passed from one private collection ... More | | 
Kate O'Donovan Cook, The Waldorf Series, 14.25 x 19.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Haller Gallery announced the Pollock-Krasner Foundation has awarded artist Kate ODonovan Cook a major grant. This generous funding will enable the artist to continue to create new work in her distinctly painterly photographic vision. The Pollock Krasner Foundation has been an important source of support to individual visual artists of recognized merit since 1985 thanks to the generous bequest of leading Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner, widow of artist Jackson Pollock. The Foundation is the successor to the estates of both artists and was formed with the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to individual artists. Born in San Francisco, Kate O'Donovan Cook came to New York in 1997 to attend Sarah Lawrence College with a concentration in studio arts, primarily painting. She later switched to Fine Art Photography due to an allergic response to chemicals in paint. ... More | | 
A man dressed as 'The Tramp' poses for a photo as people gather to mark the first anniversary of Chaplins World By Grevin, and Charlie Chaplins birthday, at the museum. Richard Juilliart / AFP.
CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY (AFP).- Six hundred and sixty-two people on Sunday set a world record for the biggest gathering of Charlie Chaplins, each donning the black jacket, shoes, bowler hat, toothbrush moustache and cane of the comic's signature creation, the Little Tramp. The unusual rally, drawing Chaplin fans of all ages from all over Europe, took place at a museum dedicated to the artist at his former home in Corsier-sur-Vevey, western Switzerland. "There have been big Charlie Chaplin gatherings in the past, but this is the first to be certified by an officer of the law," Annick Barbezat-Perrin, a spokesman for the museum, told AFP. Chaplin was born in London 128 years ago on Sunday. He died on Christmas Day, 1977, aged 88, after spending the last decades of his life in ... More |
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| AD magazine and PIASA to stage auction of furniture conceived by artists, decorators and designers | | Ancient sacred art resurrected in city of Jesus's birth | | Felicja Blumental International Music Festival announces highlights from this year's edition | 
Miroir Flore et Cabinet Carlina de Elizabeth Garouste (Lot 126 et 127), Lampadaire Neptune de Robert Couturier (Lot 164) et Chaise longue Animal de Raphaël Navot (Lot 66).
PARIS.- On 27 April 2107 AD magazine and PIASA will team up for a fourth time to stage an auction of furniture conceived by artists, decorators and designers. The goal of this fourth sale of Artists-Decorators is to assemble, in the same auction and presentational decor, a broad range of brilliantly original furniture from the ultra-baroque pieces of Elizabeth Garouste to the conceptual items of Raphael Navot. Mixing styles, periods and designers helps redefine ambiance and create innovative interiors. PIASA and AD magazine share the desire to promote aesthetic evolution via tightly themed sales. That on April 27 showcases both young designers like Victoria Wilmotte and leading names in vintage furniture like Paul Evans. Raf Simons, who began as a furniture designer before becoming a couturier ... More | | 
Foreign students of the Bethlehem Icon Center work on their painting during their course, in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem. THOMAS COEX / AFP.
BETHLEHEM (AFP).- Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, signalling the revival of an ancient art being practised in the workshop inside. The building near the Church of the Nativity -- the site where Christians believe Jesus was born -- houses a group of enthusiasts specialising in the sacred art of iconography. They are doing so some 2,000 years after Christian iconography began in nearby Jerusalem -- also where Christians believe Jesus was resurrected after his crucifixion, to be commemorated this Sunday for Easter. They work in both silence and in prayer, with their art a far cry from the cheap mass-produced icons sold in souvenir shops to tourists and pilgrims. "Icons are not commercial objects for us, but holy images that we honour," said Nicola Juha, who heads the ... More | | 
Marcin Dylla.
TEL AVIV.- Since 1999 the annual Felicja Blumental International Music Festival has played an important role in making Tel Aviv's musical scene ever interesting and alive. Although Tel Aviv has always been well known for its classical music activities, it never before had a classical music festival that combines, in one intense and exciting week, chamber, orchestral and vocal music, as well as films, plays and folk music. Many of todays Israeli stars made their debut at this festival, which features the young and unknown as well as established artists, ensembles and orchestras. Starting with intimate concert performances of piano recitals (Louis Lortie, Freddie Kempf, Shay Wozner, Konstantin Lifschitz, Roman Rabinovich, Antony Barishevsky), vocal recitals (Philippe Jaroussky, Karita Mattila, Sarah Walker, Edith Mathis, Michael Chance, Stephanie dOustrac), and chamber music groups (such as St. Petersburg ... More |
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| Peter Blum's first exhibition of works by the Swiss artist Sonja Sekula to open in New York | | Almine Rech Gallery opens exhibition of works by Ziad Antar | | Nara Roesler opens exhibition of works by Daniel Buren | 
Sonja Sekula, The Voyage. Photo: Courtesy Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum announces the gallerys first exhibition of works by the Swiss artist Sonja Sekula (19181963) titled A Survey, on view at 20 West 57th Street, New York. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 22 from 4 to 6 pm. The exhibition runs through June 24. While many of her male counterparts gained wide notoriety during their lifetime, Sonja Sekula has not been fully recognized for her active role and unique voice within the seminal art movements of the mid-20th century. A Survey consists of a select group of paintings and works on paper that span Sekulas short but prolific career (1942-1963). Sonja Sekula was born in Lucerne, Switzerland, to a Hungarian father and Swiss mother. In 1936, the family moved to New York, where at the age of eighteen Sekula began her studies in art, philosophy and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1941, she also attended the Art Students ... More | | 
Ziad Antar, Axiom 11, 2012 (detail). Ink jet on photographic archival paper, mounted on dibond, 120 x 120 cm., 47 x 47 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
LONDON.- Ziad Antar photographs liminal places and things. His practice revolves around the ambivalence of the relationship between reality and its technological representation. He realises photo-sculptures or three-dimensional forms within the exhibition space through a succession of formalist paradoxes. Not unlike cast sculpture, photography is a direct imprint of reality. It offers a matrix from which counter-forms can be printed and therefore its process is comparable to that of moulding. At least, this is exactly what the artists experiments suggest, while playing with different forms of representation to create an image in between, that is, a sculptural transcription of a photograph at the limen of realism. In Saudi Arabia, Ziad Antar has taken photographs of enigmatic sculptural forms on the Jeddah Corniche undergoing ... More | | 
Exhibition view Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, 2017. Photo: Everton Ballardin © Galeria Nara Roesler.
SAO PAULO.- Following interventions at Galeria Nara Roesler in Rio de Janeiro in 2015, Daniel Buren brings previously unseen works to the gallery's São Paulo venue. The acclaimed French artist is presenting pieces created specifically for this exhibition. The show features nine different sets of three-dimensional wall objects, in addition to sets of 814 mirrors each. Buren, whose Brazilian appearances also include the São Paulo Art Biennial (1983 and 1985) and a showing at Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica (2001), abandoned painting in 1965 for a highly conceptual brand of art based on restraint in the use of elements. He began to use a striped curtain material, the components of which became the basis of his artistic syntaxalternating white and colored vertical stripes 8.7 centimeters wide. Boasting his trademark frugality of means, whose results are nonetheless rich and complex, ... More |
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During the Garden Museum redevelopment the tomb of five archbishops was uncovered
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 Heritage Museums & Gardens opens "Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views"SANDWICH, MASS.- Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA (Cape Cod) opened for the season, April 15-October 9, 10 am-5 pm daily. This seasons special exhibit is Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views; guest curator is New York Art Expert Lauren Della Monica. The term landscape has taken on a much broader scope since the days of 19th century Hudson River School painters with idealized scenes of the bounty of Americas landscape. Informed by the past and ever-conscious of the styles and movements of art history, contemporary painters craft their own visions of landscape painting as vibrant departures from these antiquated scenes. Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views features American landscape paintings executed in a variety of media from 49 of the countrys best contemporary painters. Each artist featured takes acute notice ... More New exhibition celebrates affordable and accessible art BRIGHTON.- In its debut jaunt outside of London, the Vending Machine Art Gallery III is being hosted by seafront music venue and cocktail bar Patterns in Brighton this April. An exhibition and affordable art project focused on bringing art out of traditional gallery spaces and making it more accessible, prints are on display in the venue and available to purchase from the machine from just £20 a pop. Working with a diverse collection of over 35 emerging local and London based artists, the return of the Vending Machine Art Gallery showcases artistic interpretations around the theme Views to audiences outside of the typical gallery demographic. More on the theme from the curators Tom and Hannah: 'Brighton, the city that celebrates individuality and positivity welcomes everyone's views. Inspiration can come from anything from politics to sexuality or even something ... More Ronny Quevedo presents a series of new and site-specific works at the Queens MuseumQUEENS, NY.- no hay medio tiempo / there is no halftime brings together a series of new and site-specific works in a reflection on the global mobility of people and their cultures. A transplant from Ecuador, Ronny Quevedo grew up playing soccer in Flushing Meadows Corona Park with his late father, a player and referee. No hay medio tiempo, a phrase used in the titles for the larger exhibition and its centerpiece, refers to his fathers assertion that halftime is not a break, but rather a moment signaling the end of the first half and the start of the second. Applying this notion beyond the world of games, Quevedos work investigates cycles of beginning and ending in objects, life, and memory. Quevedo has turned the Museums skylight-lit atrium into an arena with an energetically complex line drawing that animates the surface of its wooden floor. Against the bold, geometric ... More Musicians chase fame on west Africa's musical islandsPRAIA (AFP).- Every April, the tiny island capital of Cape Verde is taken over for a week by musicians of all stripes, trailing dreams of record deals and sold-out stadiums. Two events, the Atlantic Music Expo (AME) and the more established Kriol Jazz Festival, draw talent from as far away Haiti and Brazil, intent on showing what they have to offer to international producers on an archipelago famed for its own rich musical heritage. "During this fifth edition of the AME, foreign producers showed a lot of interest towards Cape Verdian artists like Lucibela and Os Tubaroes," said Jose da Silva, the festival's executive director, as the week drew to a close. Da Silva knows the world music industry better than most, having spotted the talent of Cesaria Evora, Cape Verde's "barefoot diva", who made the island nation's bittersweet "morna" ballads internationally famous. He describes Lucibela, ... More mudac exhibits the work of Swiss designer David BielanderLAUSANNE.- The Swiss designer living in Munich, David Bielander translates everyday objects into jewellery. The elements of a chair are thus transformed into a sausage necklace, drawing pins into the scales of a koi carp and disposable lighter hoods into flying insects. Bielanders practice shows a close attention to objects and materials alike: the artist talks of only revealing that which is already there the sausage in the chair, the scale in the drawing pin and in some way listening to the forms contained within things. David Bielanders world is inhabited by numerous animal figures: snakes, pigs, elephants, slugs or prawns. The jewellery maker is less interested in their symbolism than in their immediate familiarity to the viewer. As a result of this ambivalence and playfulness, when his pieces are worn, they truly come to life: his slug pins launch a slithering attack ... More Exhibition of new work by British artist Paul Johnson on view at Camden Arts CentreLONDON.- Camden Arts Centre presents an exhibition of new work by British artist Paul Johnson. For this ambitious installation, Johnson dismantled his entire studio and reconstruct fragments in Gallery 3. For Teardrop Centre, Johnson breaks down every aspect of his studio: from architectural and structural elements such as the flooring and his studio door, to the more humble and even mundane, such as discarded coffee cup lids and receipts. Johnson is interested in the potential for any of these things to transform into art works. In this exhibition, Johnson takes works that have been meticulously crafted over long periods of time and juxtaposes them with newly cast sculptures of found objects and remnants from his daily activities, questioning the value of labour and considering the potential of materials. Johnsons work is anchored by an enquiry into the way objects ... More Deborah Emont Scott named Louise Taft Semple President/CEO of the Taft Museum of ArtCINCINNATI, OH.- In recognition of support from The Louise Taft Semple Foundation, Taft Museum of Art President/CEO Deborah Emont Scott has been named the Louise Taft Semple President/CEO. I am honored to serve as the Louise Taft Semple President/CEO, said Deborah Emont Scott. This new title reflects the tremendous support that The Louise Taft Semple Foundation has given to the Taft Museum of Art during its almost 85-year history. It also recognizes the robust family ties still in place today. Support for the Taft Museum of Art from The Louise Taft Semple Foundation ranges from the directorship to the 2004 renovation and expansion of the Museum. Most recently, the Foundation made a significant gift to the Endowment campaign. According to Dudley S. Taft, Sr., Chair of The Louise Taft Semple Foundation and President, Taft Broadcasting, ... More New, multi-sensory exhibition features work from growing collection of Latin American artEUGENE, ORE.- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, located on the University of Oregon campus, presents the exhibition Diálogos, on view through October 8, 2017. The exhibition features recent acquisitions of art from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. Organized by Cheryl Hartup, Associate Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American Art, Diálogos the Spanish word for dialogues activates exchanges between art and artists, the viewer and the object, and the museum and the communities it serves. The exhibition features fifteen prints, photographs, kinetic sculptures, and mixed media objects by artists from Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Diálogos' began with the conversations I saw taking place between works of art, and I installed objects in pairs and small groups to reflect these interchanges, says Hartup. ... More Exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery explores the way the food system worksGLASSBORO, NJ.- In How Food Moves, artists explore how food transits through complex patterns of distribution in between the point of origin (the farm) and its point of consumption (the plate). Increasingly, contemporary artists are creatively grappling with the complexity of food's trajectory in this regard through research-based and participatory practices. Mr. Tucker, Graduate Program Director in Social and Studio Practices at Moore College of Art and Design, has brought together 10 multidisciplinary artists projects that grapple creatively with the complexity of foods trajectory using research-based and participatory practices, community actions, video and photo documentations, interactive objects, digital technologies, and newly-commissioned pieces by artists who focus their inquiry from the regional context of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. For many of the artists, this ... More Intuit celebrates Henry Darger's 125th birthday with new exhibitionCHICAGO, IL.- Intuit:The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art opened Betwixt and Between: Henry Darger's Vivian Girls, the third exhibition of Chicago's Henry Darger, a yearlong series of exhibits and programming honoring the artist's life and work. The exhibition opened Wednesday, April 12, the 125th anniversary of Henry Darger's birth. The exhibition features major works by Henry Darger that include double-sided, panoramic drawings with watercolor and collage spanning up to eight feet long, portraits of the Vivian princesses, and traced images and resource materials from Intuit's archives. The seven Vivian girls are the protagonists of Darger's 15,000 page war-torn epic, The Story of the Vivian Girls, in what is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Story, caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. The Vivian girls' intersexual nature and frequent ... More Sleeping Beauty: Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens group exhibitionSANTA FE, NM.- A group exhibition of gallery artists and special guests, Sleeping Beauty opened at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on March 31 and extend through April 24. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street. Like the folklore, Sleeping Beauty offers the viewer a feeling of hibernation in winters white blanket, but on closer inspection reveals glimpses of color as the kiss of spring promises to share the secret of new life in the work. Paul Sarkisians massive painting, Untitled (white line51), 2005 moves across the wall with grace. Composed of 51 panels of polyurethane on wood, it forms a vast snowy backdrop for the exhibition. Bill Jacobsons photograph presents the quiet elegance of gray and white. William Metcalf and Clark Walding both exhibit works that appear white, but are built from layers of colored paint that peak ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Louise Nevelson died April 17, 1988. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson (born Leah Berliawsky; September 23, 1899 - April 17, 1988) was an American artist. Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist "crates" grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her "assemblages" or assemblies, one of which was three stories high: "When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you're really bringing them to life - a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created". In this image: Artist Louise Nevelson poses beneath her work "Sky Gate, New York" during its unveiling at New York's World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Tues. Dec. 12, 1978. The sculpture, formed of black wood and measuring 17 feet high, 32 feet wide and one foot deep, was created for the trade center.
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