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The artist Christo on the shore of Lake Iseo, where his work "The Floating Piers" would be installed, in the town of Sulzano, Italy, Sept. 19, 2015. He built a floating walkway, stretching nearly two miles, to connect two small islands. Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist who turned to epic-scale environmental works in the late 1960s, died on May 31, 2020, at his home in New York City. He was 84. Andrea Frazzetta/The New York Times.
by William Grimes
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist who turned to epic-scale environmental works in the late 1960s, stringing a giant curtain across a mountain pass in Colorado, wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and zigzagging thousands of saffron-curtained gates throughout Central Park, died Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 84. His death was announced on his official Facebook page. No cause was specified. Christo he used only his first name was an artistic Pied Piper. His grand projects, often decades in the making and all of them temporary, required the cooperation of dozens, sometimes hundreds, of landowners, government officials, judges, environmental groups, local residents, engineers and workers, many of whom had little interest in art and a deep reluctance to see their lives and their surroundings disrupted by an eccentric visionary speaking in only semi-comprehensible English. Again and again, Christo prevailed, through persistence, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 100 works of art are being featured in the first major exhibition devoted to Baroque artist Giovanna Garzoni. This exhibition bring Palazzo Pitti back to life after the lockdown.
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 | | New-York Historical Society receives promised gift of more than 100 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld collection | | New presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main | | Schantz Galleries presents a collection of new works by Lino Tagliapietra | 
Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), Study for Brooklyn Bridge, 1949. Charcoal and black chalk on paper; 39 7/8 x 29 1/2 in. New-York Historical Society, Promised Gift of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection, Scenes of New York City. © 2020 Georgia OKeeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, announced an extraordinary promised gift from philanthropists and art collectors Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld. The couples Scenes of New York City collection comprises 130 artworks dating from the mid-19th through the 21st-centuries, including works by Isabel Bishop, Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Yvonne Jacquette, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Nevelson, Georgia OKeeffe, Norman Rockwell, and Andy Warhol, among others. The collection of paintings, works on paper in various media, and sculpture includes 113 works by 82 artists not currently represented in New-York Historicals collection. The works are united by a thematic thread that ... More | | 
Städel Museums Collection of Contemporary Art. Photo: Städel Museum - Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN.- The Städel Museums Collection of Contemporary Art is presented anew for the first timenearly a decade after its opening. A history of art after 1945 fans out proceeding from the central square of the Garden Halls, which cover an area of some 3,000 square metres, beginning with major works of art dating from the recent past to the present. A total of approximately 230 works by 170 artists of various schools, styles and groups will reveal surprising comparisons, viewpoints and visual axes between the immediate present and its roots in past decades. In honour of the occasion, a large number of the museums most recent acquisitions and gifts will be on exhibit for the first time, for example works by Miriam Cahn (*1949), René Daniëls (*1950), Carlos Cruz-Diez (19232019), Jimmie Durham (*1940), Asta Gröting (*1961) and Victor Vasarely (19061997). With a wide array ... More | | 
Viewing the newest fused glass panel, Sinfonia, by Lino Tagliapietra.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- Schantz Galleries is presenting a collection of new works by Lino Tagliapietra, featuring his most recent innovations in glass. This exhibition features a new tower structure alongside his spectacular pedestal and wall mounted artworks, such as the 3-piece installation from 2020 entitled Masai, and two recently completed fused glass panels. Some of the works were created specifically for this exhibition during his time working this past February and March. Among works from the Florencia, Fenice, Angel Tear, Kira and other series are a selection of Aquilone (Italian for kite), which is the newest murrine by the Maestro. Teardrop-shaped vessels stretch their necks high, offering exquisite surfaces on which the billowy murrini draw skywardcolorful kites soaring on a summer breeze. Other recent works are the Kuma, an exuberant collection of murrini brimming together in ex ... More |
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| | Art Paris announces an evolution in its partnership with international art platform Artsy | | Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol opens Corita Kent's first solo show in Austria | | The natural universe of Giovanna Garzoni brings Palazzo Pitti back to life | 
Visitors are able to access content featuring artists represented by the one hundred or so national and international galleries that would have been taking part in the fair. Courtesy Art Paris Digital and Art Paris Live.
PARIS.- Art Paris announces an evolution in its partnership with international art platform Artsy, with whom an online edition of the fair is being presented. Thanks to this partnership, visitors are able to access content featuring artists represented by the one hundred or so national and international galleries that would have been taking part in the fair. Art Paris Digital is also the opportunity to purchase a selection of more than 1,000 recent works by these artists. Talking about this initiative Artsy Chief Revenue Officer Dustyn Kim commented: "Artsy has always set itself the task of promoting artistic creation and artists worldwide. As a result of the pandemic and the difficulties that the art world is currently encountering, we are more than ever committed to this cause and are actively supporting the art world and our partners. We are delighted to be able to help Art Paris with an exclusive online edition on Artsy in replacement of the physical ... More | | 
Corita Kent, heroes and sheroes (love your brother, sacred heart and kings dream), 1969. Serigraphs, various different dimensions, exhibition view Corita Kent___Joyful Revolutionary, Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, 2020. Courtesy Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles. Photo: Günter Kresser.
INNSBRUCK.- The silkscreens of Corita Kent (1918-1986) combine diverse visual and textual sources in unexpected and joyous ways. She colorfully juxtaposed the aesthetic experience of everyday life, spiritual messages, literary quotations, and items taken from popular culture and mass media sources, mobilizing them in the service of social justice. In her work, letters and language become form and image, form and image become content. Corita Kents serigraphs can be regarded both as Pop Art and a precursor to the Pictures Generation. Joining the Order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles at the age of 18, she remained a member of the order for three decades, becoming a renowned art professor at Immaculate Heart College and eventually heading its art department. She was a fervent advocate for peace and ... More | | 
Carlo Maratti (Camerano 1625 - Roma 1713), Portrait of Giovanna Garzoni, circa 1665. Oil on canvas, 64 x 49 cm. Ascoli Piceno, Pinacoteca Civica.
FLORENCE.- Flowers, plants and exotic shells, bizarre insects and animals with expressions bordering on the human: the forms and the poetry of nature take pride of place in the exhibition entitled The Immensity of the Universe in the art of Giovanna Garzoni hosted in the Andito degli Angiolini from 28 May to 28 June. With this substantial retrospective (the first large monographic exhibition devoted to the Baroque female painter from the Marche) the Gallerie degli Uffizi was planning to celebrate a major female figure to mark Women's Day on 8 March 2020. "Hibernated" by the lockdown, however, the exhibition has now become a symbol of the return to normal life after the closure of almost three months occasioned by the COVID-19 epidemic. The exhibition comprises roughly 100 paintings, illuminations on parchment (Garzoni's favourite support) and drawings, in addition to a large floral altar fontral over 4 mt. in length, accompanied by and interacting with period porcelain, ivory pieces ... More |
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| | Kensington Church Street Art & Antique Dealers' Association announces virtual summer showcase | | John Loengard, Life photographer and chronicler, dies at 85 | | Taj Mahal damaged in deadly India thunderstorm | 
Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks. Mahogany table clock by Eardley Norton, commissioned by George III.
LONDON.- In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant cancellation of the inaugural KCSADA Summer Showcase with concurrent exhibitions planned by the fine art and antiques dealers in Kensington Church Street, London, the Kensington Church Street Art & Antique Dealers Association is planning a Virtual Summer Showcase to run at exactly the same time as originally planned Friday 19 to Sunday 30 June 2020. The KCSADA Virtual Summer Showcase will take place online at www.antiques-london.com and also on Instagram @antiqueslondon. The theme of Fit for Royalty reflects the high calibre of works to be displayed, in many cases with regal connections, and the proximity to some of the royal borough's inhabitants. Despite not being able to welcome visitors to the individual galleries in Kensington Church Street, the planned exhibits will make an impressive show with items spanning the ancient to the contemporary, all for sale. Ric ... More | | 
John Loengard, 1981, New York City: James Van Der Zee photographs Eubie Blake, in an art gallery on Madison Avenue (detail).
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Life magazine sent John Loengard to Miami to photograph the Beatles in February 1964, he had a quirky idea: pose them in a swimming pool as a Fab Four of bobbing heads. But on a very chilly day, he could find only an unheated pool. The Beatles were reluctant to take the dip, but their manager, Brian Epstein, urged them in, citing Lifes importance. It was very, very cold, and they were turning blue, so after a minute or two we let them get out, Loengard told The Guardian in 2005. The picture caught John, Paul, George and Ringo smiling and singing in the water during their introduction to the United States. To Loengard, it was his most American picture in 11 years as one of Lifes leading photographers. Loengard died on May 24 at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. His daughter Anna Loengard said the cause was heart failure. From around age ... More | | 
In this picture taken on May 30, 2020, workers stand on the railing of the Taj Mahal after it was damaged due to heavy rainstorm in Agra. Pawan Sharma / AFP.
AGRA (AFP).- A deadly thunderstorm that rolled across parts of northern India damaged sections of the Taj Mahal complex, including the main gate and a railing running below its five lofty domes, officials said Sunday. One of the New Seven Wonders of the World, India's top tourist attraction has been shut since mid-March as part of measures to try and combat the coronavirus pandemic. AFP images showed workers assessing the railing of the main mausoleum, after the storm on Friday night battered Agra city in northern Uttar Pradesh state. "One sandstone railing which was a part of the original structure has been damaged," Superintending Archaeologist of the Archaeological Survey of India, Vasant Kumar Swarnkar, told AFP. "One marble railing which was a later addition, a false ceiling in the tourist holding area and the base stone of the main gate has also been damaged." He added there was no damage to the main ... More |
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| | "100 Years of Collecting," to debut at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Tandem with museum's reopening | | The Mima reopens on the 3rd of June | | Van Gogh Museum announces IMG as new licensing agent | 
Oil painting by Kansas City artist Daniel MacMorris of Sergeant Ian MacGregor, Canadian Highland Regiment, who attended the site dedication of the Liberty Memorial on Nov.1, 1921.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- How does a museum collection begin? Where do you start? How do you continue? How do you determine what should/shouldnt become a part of a collection? Can a collection ever become complete? That National WWI Museum and Memorial started amassing objects and documents from the First World War in 1920 and has continually addressed these questions ever since. A pair of special exhibitions opening on Monday, June 1 for members and on Tuesday, June 2 when the National WWI Museum and Memorial reopens to the public shed light on how the organization came to possess the most comprehensive World War I collection in the world. 100 Years of Collecting and 100 Years of Collecting Art provide a window ... More | | 
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BRUSSELS.- The Mima will be reopening its doors on Wednesday, the 3rd of June! Every effort will be made to offer visitors the best possible visit in compliance with the required safety conditions. Visitors will be limited to 40 per hour in order to respect a ratio of 20 square metres per person. We have therefore set up an eticketing system so that visitors can reserve a time slot and buy their ticket. A tour respecting social distancing rules will be organised, giving visitors the best possible experience of the ZOO exhibition. Hydroalcoholic gel will also be available. By reopening its doors to the public, the Mima is eager to play its part in the urgent revival of cultural life. In doing so, Mima also stands in solidarity with other cultural actors that are still in lockdown, such as theatres, cinemas, festivals, concert halls and other venues that are not yet authorised to restart ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, 'Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat', 1887. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum has appointed IMG as its licensing representative. This company will represent the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam brand in various countries, including the United States and countries in Asia. Licensed product and content collaborations make Vincent van Goghs life and work accessible to more people. Sven Thierhoff, VP of Licensing, IMG: Van Goghs work is widely recognised as having the power of a cultural brand, enriching and inspiring individuals everywhere. We feel extremely privileged to be working with the prestigious Van Gogh Museum, which houses the worlds largest Van Gogh collection, and together we look forward to making his art accessible to people who might not have the opportunity to visit and experience ... More |
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More The National Gallery of Victoria to re-open June 27MELBOURNE.- The National Gallery of Victoria announced today that it will re-open its doors to the public on June 27, 2020. In line with the Victorian Governments move to ease restrictions, based on the advice of the Chief Health Officer, the NGV is pleased to announce it will re-open both NGV International and NGV Australia on June 27, 2020, said Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV. The wellbeing of our staff and visitors remains of the utmost importance. In accordance with Victorian Government and Creative Victoria guidelines, the NGV will ensure appropriate public health and physical distancing measures are put in place to ensure the safety of our staff and visitors, he said. These measures will include free timed ticketing, appropriate queue management and increased cleaning of facilities, as well as increased hand sanitiser stations. The NGV will host ... More The 22nd Biennale of Sydney reopens with extended datesSYDNEY.- The Biennale of Sydney announced that NIRIN, its 22nd edition, will be reopening from 16 June, with some venues opening from 1 June 2020. Following an announcement by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian that museums and galleries will be permitted to reopen in June, the Biennale of Sydney rallied partner arts organisations to extend the exhibition period for NIRIN. The free contemporary art exhibition presented across greater Sydney was previously scheduled to conclude on 8 June 2020. Under the artistic direction of acclaimed Indigenous Australian artist, Brook Andrew, this years Biennale, which is artist- and First Nations-led, showcases more than 700 artworks by 101 artists and collectives from around the world. The exhibition opened to unprecedented acclaim in March but, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, closed to the public after only 10 ... More Sullivan+Strumpf is now representing Natalya HughesSYDNEY.- Sullivan+Strumpf announces the representation of artist Natalya Hughes. The gallery has been following Natalya's work since 2005. Natalya Hughes' practice is concerned with decorative and ornamental traditions and their associations with the feminine, the body and excess. Recent bodies of work investigate the relationship between Modernist painters and their anonymous women subjects. I was never enthralled by that thick, expressionist painting style in the same way that other people seem to be; Ive always been a very flat, neat painter ... I was drawn to [de Kooning and Kirchner] not because they have a decorative aesthetic ... [but] because I wondered what would happen if I brought that aesthetic to [the same subject]. Those artists would have loathed me to do that, Im sure. Natalya recently completed the Queensland Art Gallery | ... More Meteorological Mobilities opens online at apexartNEW YORK, NY.- One of the most tangible impacts of today's environmental crisiswhich is advancing more rapidly than at any other time in recorded historywill be human displacement. Climate-induced migration is a global phenomenon that is increasingly affecting communities and individuals. Coastal regions such as the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Sundarbans islands in the Bay of Bengal, Tuvalu in the South Pacific, the Alaskan coast, and many more are threatened by rising seas, putting their governments and communities under pressure. Either due to sea level rise, erosion, or desertification, people are called to urgently address the impacts of rapid environmental changes. However, dealing with changes requires more than regional strategies and solutions, it demands economic and social reorganization and a major retooling of our economies, ... More The Cy Twombly Foundation donates to the city of GaetaGAETA.- The Cy Twombly Foundation, headed by Nicola Del Roscio, has undertaken an important action of support for Gaeta (LT), the small city in Lazio where the great American artist lived from the 1990s until his death in 2011. In response to the appeal launched by its mayor Cosmo Mitrano to raise funds for the setting up of a modern centre of specialist diagnostics at the former Monsignor Di Liegro hospital facility in Gaeta, whose Department of Infectious Diseases was reopened on 24 March last, the foundation has donated $500,000 (equivalent to 478,000), with the aim of providing the region of the Gulf of Gaeta and southern Lazio with an institution that will also be able to respond quickly and effectively to the terrible health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a mark of appreciation for this crucial pledge, the city council has ... More Rare coin linked discovered in Colchester 50 years ago to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- An extremely rare coin was minted by the Emperor Carausius, the first ever Brexiteer, who rebelled against the Roman Empire and led a breakaway British Empire between 286-293 is to be offered by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb in a live online auction of Ancient and Islamic Coins on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 11am on their website www.DNW.co.uk. The bronze coin, known as an antoninianus, was struck by Carausius in 291 in order to pay his army. It was discovered by Kevin Scillitoe in Colchester and is one of only two known examples with this reverse. Kevin found the coin in the mid 1970s when he was just a 10 year-old boy (see photo above). At the time, the river in Colchester was being dredged and the resulting spoil heaps were deposited along the roads leading out of the town. ... 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More bo.lee gallery opens a virtual show of works by Lindsey Bull, Minyoung Choi, and Nettle GrellierLONDON.- bo.lee gallery is presenting its final lockdown virtual show 3.3. This series of exhibitions is inspired by the rule of three, the writing principle that a trio is more pleasing and effective and offers the minimum quantity required to form a rhythm or pattern. This simple rule enables a playful visual freedom and a dialogue to emerge between the selected artists. Lindsey Bull's paintings depict a curious cross-section of people - they often seem lonely, melancholic, shy and introverted, as if trying to avoid our gaze or to distance themselves from the world. But they are also often eccentric, gregarious characters who enjoy their subcultural affiliations and live out inner fantasies through their outward appearance. While Bull is interested in the image, the fashions, the look of such individuals and groups, it is equally their inner lives that she is trying ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English illustrator and animator Gerald Scarfe was born June 01, 1936. Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker. In this image: Gerald Scarfe, Famous old bag, 336 by 353mm, pen, ink and watercolour drawing. Estimate: £2,000-3,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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