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Portable altar of Eilbertus from the Guelph Treasure; ca. 1150; stylistically associated with Cologne; historical location: Braunschweig, St. Blasius; champlevé and cloisonné enamel on gilt copper; altar stone of rock crystal; painting on parchment; base decorated with vernis brun; oak core; dimensions: 13.3 x 35.7 x 20.9 cm; Kunstgewerbemuseum © bpk / Kunstgewerbemuseum, SMB / Jürgen Liepe.
by Charlotte Plantive
WASHINGTON (AFP).- The US Supreme Court will hear Monday a case involving an important medieval art collection that Nazi Germany acquired from Jewish dealers. The clash centers on gold crosses, jewels and other religious works from the 11th to the 14th centuries that are now on exhibit in a museum in Berlin. "This case has everything to do with restitution (and) remedying a forced sale, which has major financial implications. But at the heart of it is something that's far more important, which is justice," said Jed Leiber, a musician in California who has sued the German government on behalf of his grandfather. The latter, Saemy Rosenberg, was an art dealer in Frankfurt in the 1920s. Shortly before the stock market crash of 1929, Rosenberg and other Jewish colleagues bought the art trove from the duke of Brunswick, a descendant of a European dynasty known as the House of Guelph. After the market tanked, the dealers managed to sell half of the pieces to American collectors in 1932. The rest they stored i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A view shows the living room of Syrian businessman Sameer Ghadban residence which was once the home of a famous 19th-century Algerian who resisted the French in his homeland and sought exile in Syria, in the old part of Syria's capital Damascus on November 10, 2020. The old city of the Syrian capital is famed for its elegant century-old houses, usually two storeys built around a leafy rectangular courtyard with a carved stone fountain at its centre. While the capital has been largely spared the violence of Syria's almost ten-year war, several of these traditional homes have been abandoned by their owners or damaged in the conflict. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
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| Artcurial will offer an exceptional body of work by Balthus | | Sotheby's shares highlights from cross-category Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac unveils a three-part transformative exhibition with works by over 60 artists | 
Balthus, Le vase bleu - 1963 / 1964. Oil on canvas - 89 x 70 cm. Estimate : 100 000 - 150 000 .
PARIS.- On Tuesday 8 December 2020, Artcurial will present for sale « Balthus à Chassy, the Frédérique Tison collection ». Dedicated to the French figurative painter Balthasar Klossowski, known as Balthus (1908-2001), the sale comprises some 150 works including watercolours, drawings and paintings. The majority of these date from the period 1953 to 1961 when Balthus left Paris to live at the Château de Chassy in Morvan, Bourgogne. It was a place that became a backdrop for his work and influenced his subject matter and his style. Coming midway through his career, this period at Chassy remained one of the most important, the « golden age » for his painting. Balthus led a frugal but highly productive life there. Coming directly from the estate of Frédérique Tison (1938 -2018), the artists model and muse, this is the first time that such a large body of work by Balthus has been offered since the collection of Henriette and André ... More | | 
Alexander Calder, Mariposa. Estimate $6/8 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys shared full highlights from the upcoming Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale, a new cross-category auction that will bring together masterworks encompassing the most renowned artists from the late 19th century to the most in-demand contemporary artists working today. The marquee Evening Sale will be held in New York and livestreamed to the world on Tuesday, 8 December beginning at 6pm EST via Sothebys.com. In addition to Pablo Picassos Buste de Femme Assise, the sale will be highlighted by works from Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Alexander Calder, Barkley L. Hendricks, Glenn Ligon, Mark Bradford, Jenny Saville, and many more. The Evening Sale exhibition is open for appointment viewings at Sothebys York Avenue Galleries from 1-8 December, coinciding with the exhibitions for Design Week, on view 5-9 December, and the recently announced Festival of Wonder, ... More | | 
Alex Katz, Vivien Vertical 2, 2020. Oil on linen, 274,3 x 152,4 cm (108 x 60 in).
PARIS.- This winter, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac celebrates the 30th anniversary of its Parisian galleries with a transformative exhibition bringing together new and historical works by over 60 artists at the Pantin space. Organized in three parts, the exhibition will be unveiled over the course of seven months. The first part opened on Sunday 6th December, thirty years after Thaddaeus Ropac inaugurated the first gallery in Paris in 1990. At the time, the inaugural exhibition Vertigo curated by Christian Leigh presented to an European audience cutting-edge American art, reflecting the gallerys focus since its foundation in Salzburg in 1983. Vertigo, a conceptual exhibition comprising works by Peter Halley, Jeff Koons and Sturtevant among others, was described by critic Jerry Saltz as a loss of faith in your own eye, in your own sense of reality and charted the course for the gallerys programme in Paris, which has broadened ... More |
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| First major survey of the work of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye opens at Tate Britain | | David L. Lander, Squiggy on 'Laverne & Shirley,' dies at 73 | | Frick announces two curatorial appointments | 
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Mystic Edifice 2020. Oil on linen, 750x 550 mm. Courtesy the Artist, Corvi-Mora, London, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Marcus Leith.
LONDON.- Tate Britain is presenting the first major survey of the work of British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977). Widely considered to be one of the most important figurative painters working today, Yiadom-Boakye is celebrated for her enigmatic oil paintings of human subjects who are entirely imagined by the artist. This exhibition brings together over 70 paintings spanning almost two decades, including works from her graduate exhibition and new paintings shown for the first time. The figures in Yiadom-Boakyes paintings feel both familiar and mysterious. Each of her works is created from a composite archive of found images and her own imagination, raising questions of identity and representation. Her paintings are created in spontaneous and instinctive bursts, revealing expressive, short brushstrokes and a distinctive palette of dark, dramatic tones ... More | | 
Laverne & Shirley ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. The comedy starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio, Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, as well as Michael McKean and David L Lander as Lenny & Squiggy.
by Anita Gates
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- David L. Lander, the comic actor who for seven seasons made entrance-laughter inevitable as Squiggy on the ABC series Laverne & Shirley, died Friday at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 73. His death was confirmed in a statement from his family. No cause was specified, but Lander had lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 35 years. He and his comedy partner, Michael McKean, joined Laverne & Shirley, a sitcom about boy-crazy brewery workers in 1950s Milwaukee, when it began in 1976. The running gag was that just as the title characters (played by Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams) would begin to discuss something ... More | | 
Marie-Laure Buku Pongo appointed Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Frick Collection announces that it is filling two curatorial posts. Marie-Laure Buku Pongo has been appointed Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, overseeing the museums substantial holdings in furniture, ceramics, textiles, enamels, clocks, and other objects. This endowed position was created in 2007 with the support of a generous challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Giulio Dalvit will become Assistant Curator of Sculpture, focusing on the museums sculpture and medals collections. They will begin in these capacities in 2021. Comments Ian Wardropper, the Fricks Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, We are delighted to welcome Marie-Laure and Giulio to our curatorial department in positions vital to the ongoing care, interpretation, and display of our fine and decorative arts collections. Both are formidable emerging scholars ... More |
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| Museum Tinguely opens the first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Katja Aufleger | | William S. Morris III, Morris Museum of Art founder & chairman, receives 2020 Governor's Award | | BCKJ Architects named winners of the 2020 RA Dorfman Award for Architecture | 
Katja Aufleger, FLUTE, 2019 (in Zusammenarbeit mit Schulkindern aus Kibera) Installationsansicht «Katja Aufleger. GONE» Plastikflaschen, Klebeband, Metall Je ca. 120 à 8 à 8 cm © Courtesy of the artist; Galerie STAMPA, Basel; Galerie Conradi, Hamburg. Photo: Gina Folly.
BASEL.- The first solo exhibition in Switzerland by Katja Aufleger (born 1983 in Oldenburg, lives and works in Berlin) brings together works from the past decade: breakable sculptures, hazardous chemicals and video works. With transparent materials such as glass, plastic and coloured liquids, but also immaterial components like sound and movement Aufleger develops fragile installations and films. At first glance, the objects seem familiar and appealing, but on closer inspection it becomes clear that the works are inhabited by uncertain or even dangerous tensions. Using this kind of ambivalences the artist criticises institutions and questions power structures and systems. The exhibition GONE will be on view until March 14, 2021 and is accompanied ... More | | 
Morris Museum of Art founder and chairman William S. Morris III.
AUGUSTA, GA.- Morris Museum of Art founder and chairman William S. Morris III has been named a recipient of the 2020 Governors Award for the Arts and Humanities. Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp, in partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Humanities, presented the awards to all nine awardees on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. The two most important things in life are, I think, family and community. Thats why my late wife Sissie and I founded the Morris Museum of Art. Wed reached a point in our lives when we had the means to do something of significance for Augusta, the place that is our home. It had an obvious need that we could address. So thats what we did. The museum is our contribution to the well-being of Augusta. Witnessing its growth and success over its first 28 years of service, knowing that Augusta is a better placea better communitybecause of it, really is reward enough. Receiving ... More | | 
Badaling Forest Experience Center, Beijing, 2014. BCKJ Architects. Photo by Zhangyong.
LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts announced this evening on Thursday 3 December 2020 at an online presentation, that Dong Mei and Liu Xiaochuan, of BCKJ Architects, an architectural practice from China, have been awarded the 2020 Royal Academy Dorfman Award, honouring an international talent that represents the future of architecture. The award, supported by the Dorfman Foundation, was to be decided from four finalists and announced in March 2020, but was delayed due to Covid-19. The distinguished international jury recently convened to decide the winner, chaired by the Royal Academician and founder of Foster + Partners, Norman Foster. Jury members included co-founder of Stanton Williams, Alan Stanton RA, artist duo Jane and Louise Wilson RA, Pondicherry and Berlin-based architect, Anupama Kundoo and Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics, Ricky Burdett. They were joined by last years winner ... More |
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| Reflex Amsterdam exhibits a set of recent works by Daniel Firman | | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens new Shen Wei Painting In Motion exhibition | | Tobias Pils now represented by David Kordansky Gallery | 
Daniel Firman, Switch Up - Gathering. Courtesy Reflex Amsterdam.
AMSTERDAM.- Reflex Amsterdam is presenting a set of recent works by Daniel Firman. All sculptures in the exhibition Switch Up revolve around the idea of the body and the object: the body with the object; the body without an object; the object without the body. The exhibition is constructed like a crossfade where each sculpture becomes like a planar surface on which movement from one work to another is activated. Attitude and Gathering, two of the most important series of works from the artist, in conjunction with a third more recent one, Plastic Confetti, give this show all the dimensions of an extremely contemporary vision of our world. Daniel Firman: "The Switch Up exhibition shows a compendium of decisions where identity is erased in favor of a globalization of information where, more broadly, object and matter end up taking their own authority and lasting autonomy. ... More | | 
Shen Wei, Reflecting Elements Number 1, 2019. Oil on linen, 63 ¾ x 44 ⅝ in. (162 x 113.5 cm). Photo: Inès Leroy Galan © Shen Wei.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opened a museum-wide exhibition, Painting in Motion, featuring new and recent work, along with a world premiere film commission, from multidisciplinary Chinese-American artist Shen Wei. Shen Weis artistic practice draws upon both Chinese and western culture, encompassing not only dancefor which he became world famous after choreographing the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympicsbut also painting, drawing, and filmmaking. Known for his interconnected artistic approach, Shen Wei blends various disciplines to explore aspects of spirituality, perception, and movement, while defying traditional boundaries between disciplines, geographies, and cultures. Painting in Motion, which features never-before-shown paintings and film, is the first ... More | | 
Tobias Pils, Photography © Elfie Semotan.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- David Kordansky Gallery announced its representation of Tobias Pils. Working within a palette of blacks and whites and the range of grays that can be made from them, Pils creates mixed-media paintings full of abstract and representational elements. These elements are often arranged so that they flow from one to the next seemingly of their own accord, obeying the dictates of a painterly logic that generates meaning through the accumulation of many small moments. As such, his works are endlessly captivating as arrangements of textures, flows, and material inventionin a sense, as symphonic, non-objective compositions, even when their mythological content and primal imagery tempt narrative readings. This syncretic approach reflects a mind that revels in contradictions, even as it seeks to suture together contrasting passages with a subtle and virtuosic array of mark-making strategies that ... More |
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 Charles Phillips donates $1M to mark appointment as Chairman of Apollo Theater's boardNEW YORK, NY.- The Apollo Theater announced today that Charles Phillips has been elected the non-profit Theaters new Chairman of the Board. Phillips, who has served on the Apollos Board of Directors since 2015 and most recently as its Vice Chairman, marked his new role with a generous $1 million gift to the Apollo Theaters Emergency Fund, which was created to ensure the iconic non-profits continued financial stability amid its closure due to COVID-19. Phillips succeeds longtime Chair Richard Dick Parsons, who has led the Apollos Board since 2001 and was integral in preserving the cultural landmark as a place for innovation and Black excellence. Parsons has been elected Chairman Emeritus and will remain on the Executive Committee and will serve as a senior advisor to the Theater. From his work on the Boards Executive ... More Who was the star? In this dance film, It was the cameraNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Draped over a bare wooden floor with one leg bent behind and the other extended to the side, dancer Bettie de Jong slowly rotates, opening an arm and then a knee as if her limbs long and luxurious were pages in a book. She spirals up, balanced on one foot while the other leg unfurls high to the side. Her arms lift radiantly but without force. Finally, she descends back to where she started and performs the sequence again. And again. In the mesmerizing film 9 Variations on a Dance Theme (1966), filmmaker Hilary Harris trains his lens on de Jong, a longtime muse of choreographer Paul Taylor. De Jong repeats the variation, but as the film progresses it becomes less a straightforward dance than an intimate, cinematic exploration of the moving body. Shot in hazy black and white, 9 Variations is a ... More Warren Berlinger, film and television character actor, dies at 83NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Warren Berlinger, whose career as a character actor spanned more than six decades and featured myriad roles in film and television dramas and comedies, died Wednesday at the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, California. He was 83. Berlingers daughter Elizabeth Berlinger Tarantini said the cause of death was cancer. On television in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, his roles included appearances on Operation Petticoat, Too Close for Comfort and Murder, She Wrote. He also appeared on Friends, Columbo and Charlies Angels. Berlinger appeared in several episodes of the sitcom Happy Days during the 1970s and 80s, in roles including Dr. Logan, Mr. Vanburen and Army Sgt. Betchler. His most recent television credit was from 2016 on Grace and Frankie. In film, Berlinger, ... More Lights, camera, construction!NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The long lists of shows displayed on streaming sites, which seem to grow exponentially by the day, serve to tell you whats on. But in New York City, they also might reveal a bit about the future of your block. Many of the studios that produced the television series, which have turned New York into a small-screen production hub, are now planning to open new facilities or expand whats already here, some in parts of the city that have been unfamiliar with such large-scale investment. Fueled by a pandemic-era demand for stay-at-home entertainment, and generous tax breaks, the studios are targeting a range of locations in Queens and Brooklyn, including historic redbrick enclaves, working-class sections of the waterfront, and industrial precincts known not for celebrities but concrete plants. These areas may ... More NewArtProjects opens three new exhibitionsLONDON.- During 2020 many artists circumstances have changed, and this is also true for Fergus Hare, during the last year his studio time has been affected in the same way as for many artists. He has had his children at home, and the lockdowns have meant that trips made by the family have been cancelled. The show also contains some very domestic works, family scenes and images of life at home that have caught his eye. In addition he has however managed to produce a stunning body of new works, centred around his home in Sussex, as the local beach and the South Downs have remained accessible through out. The resulting paintings contain some of Hares signature themes, sunsets over the hills, trees silhouetted against a twilight sky, and gardens. These are shown alongside a new series of works that recall past travels and scenes taken from ... More ASU Art Museum opens a new exhibition by boredomresearchTEMPE, AZ.- From the textbooks of ancient Greek physician Hippocrates to current research on the coronavirus pandemic, we know that human health is impacted by environmental factors. British artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith of boredomresearch worked with leading science institutions to create dynamic video installations that explore how large scale environmental changes alter disease transmission. Restless Balance takes on new relevance as we navigate the complexities of a global pandemic and re-examine the delicate relationship between human health and our social and natural environments, said Brittany Corrales, curator at the ASU Art Museum. The exhibition includes the U.S. premiere of the video installation, In Search of Chemozoa, along with three earlier works. In Search of Chemozoa was created with researchers at the Arizona Cancer ... More Meet me at the green screenNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Are you making a kissy face, Max? Shereen Ahmed is blushing as she leans into her Zoom window to ask a question of her co-star, Max von Essen. Yeah, I think I am going to close my eyes, he replies. Then he leans into blank space with puckered lips. She does the same, becoming half of a Norman Rockwell valentine, and the primal act of musical theater, the ingénue kissing the juvenile, has taken place only with the actors hundreds of miles apart, locked down in their apartments, acting into their iPhones, while the rest of us in the cast watch from our own muted Zoom squares. We 13 actors had come together for two weeks to create a full-length, fully produced remote version of the classic holiday season musical Meet Me in St. Louis for the Irish Repertory Theatre, in New York City, which will ... More St Nicholas tradition triumphs over Covid in PraguePRAGUE (AFP).- Christmas tradition won out over coronavirus in Prague on Saturday with a Covid-compliant, socially-distanced St Nicholas giving out presents to excited children. Under normal circumstances, St Nicholas, a bearded man accompanied by the devil and an angel, would call on children in the Czech Republic to give them presents in exchange for a song or a poem. But with coronavirus measures the world over throwing up obstacles to festive celebrations, Prague-based circus company Cirk La Putyka opted for a drive-through solution. "Over the past nine months we have been looking for different ways to approach the audience," company director Rosta Novak told AFP. "This is just another way to do that at a time when theatres can't play and bands cannot perform," he added. In line with tradition, cars first drove through "hell" with ... More Cooking Sections present their new project 'Salmon: A Red Herring' at Tate BritainLONDON.- This winter, London-based Cooking Sections present their new project Salmon: A Red Herring at Tate Britain, reflecting on the impact of salmon farms on the environment. This is the latest in Tate Britains ongoing Art Now series of free exhibitions showcasing emerging talent and highlighting new developments in British art. Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) is a duo of spatial practitioners examining the systems that organise the world through food. Using installation, performance, mapping and video, their research-based practice explores the overlapping boundaries between visual arts, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Salmon: A Red Herring is a continuation of Cooking Sections long-term body of work CLIMAVORE which explores how our diet can address and respond to the climate ... More Taymour Grahne Projects reopens with a continuation of 'The New York Times Drawings 1996-1998'NEW YORK, NY.- Taymour Grahne Projects reopened to the public on December 3 for the continuation of its current show 'The New York Times Drawings 1996 - 1998,' a solo exhibition by NYC-based artist Nicky Nodjoumi (b. 1942) of his iconic newspaper works from the 1990s. The show is the artists first London solo exhibition. Nicky Nodjoumi's works have been acquired by prominent museum collections worldwide, including: the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the British Museum in London, LACMA in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, among others. In 2014, Nicky had a solo exhibition at the Cleveland Institute of Art titled 'The Accident, and in 2019 a solo exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute, titled The Long Day. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn. His shows have been ... More Being, not seeing, 'The Nutcracker'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On a November afternoon, seven young students twirled, hopped and lifted their chests to the sky, as Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker played through their computer speakers. Gathered for a weekly Zoom class, they had arrived at a part of the lesson that one of their teachers, Jenny Seham, called freestyle snow dancing: a moment to channel, through improvised movement, the wonder of Tchaikovskys music and the freedom of swirling snow. You guys really captured the feel for me, Seham said when they had finished. The important thing is that youre listening to the music. Listening is a fundamental skill for anyone learning to dance, but especially so for Sehams students. As a longtime teaching artist with National Dance Institute, which brings dance education to New York City children, Seham ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born December 07, 1598. Gian Lorenzo Bernini (also spelled Gianlorenzo or Giovanni Lorenzo) (Naples, 7 December 1598 - Rome, 28 November 1680) was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect. In addition he painted, wrote plays, and designed metalwork and stage sets. In this image: After a long restauration, the head of the Medusa by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini was displayed in Rome, on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The sculpture was exhibited in the Capitol museum in Rome until January. The work of restoration emphasized the lights and the shadows on the sculpture.
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