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Change has always been a hallmark of Navajo textile design, with the weavers individualism to a greater or lesser degree a continuing theme. Photo: Craig Smith, Heard Museum.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Navajo weavers individualism and flair for experimentation is vividly expressed in textiles from the last quarter of the 19th century. The textiles are rooted in ideas and events the weavers experienced between 1863 and 1868, the hard years of their imprisonment in the Bosque Redondo, and their subsequent return to a reservation. During this time, weavers saw examples of the design system of Hispanic textiles and acquired new materials such as aniline dyes and Germantown yarns that touched off their experiments with color and design. Commercial products at trading posts sparked additional design ideas for weavers. This was a time when outside market influences were at a low point. The old indigenous trading networks had been disrupted, woven garments were being replaced with commercial cloth and traders had not yet developed design constraints of the rug market that developed in the early 1900s. During this time of great change, as the Navajo rebuilt their flocks and repaired t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A gallery assistant poses with a Babylonian cuneiform kudurru (boundary stone) which was looted from Iraq on March 19, 2019 at the British museum in London. The kudurru which was seized at London's Heathrow airport in 2012 was handed over to representatives of the Iraq embassy today at the British museum. Tolga Akmen / AFP
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 | | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden presents Rembrandt's Mark | | Italy's 'genius' film director Franco Zeffirelli dies | | How UK museums and galleries can arrange to protect exhibits on loan from abroad from court-ordered seizure | 
Rembrandt van Rijn, Selbstbildnis mit aufgerissenen Augen, 1630. Kupferstich-Kabinett © SKD, Photo: Andreas Diesend.
DRESDEN.- 2019 marks 350 years since Rembrandts death. The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, which hold one of the most significant collections of his paintings, drawings and prints, are celebrating the artist at this occasion with a large exhibition of his works. Rembrandts Mark centres around the graphic artist and draughtsman and takes a look at an artist who has been studied by artists more than any other. The one-of-a-kind collection at the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden underpins the exhibition, which focusses on Rembrandts narrative compositions, his etched self-portraits and studies of his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. The presentation comprises approximately 100 works from all of the artists creative periods and around 50 etchings and drawings by students of his workshop as well as works by subsequent artists who considered ... More | | 
Italian director Franco Zeffirelli died aged 96 in Rome on June 15, 2019. The director of movies and operas "died serenely after a long illness, which had worsened these last months," Italian media said, citing family members. Tiziana FABI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- The world of cinema was in mourning Saturday after Italian film and opera legend Franco Zeffirelli, feted for his lavish productions, died at home in Rome aged 96. The Oscar-nominated director of movies and operas "died serenely after a long illness, which had worsened these last months," Italian media said, citing family members. "I never wanted this day to come. Franco Zeffirelli departed this morning. One of the greatest men in the world of culture. We join in the grief of his loved ones. Goodbye, dear Master, Florence will never forget you," tweeted Dario Nardella, mayor of the Tuscan city where Zeffirelli was born. "Deep emotion over the death of the master Franco Zeffirelli," tweeted Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte after Zeffirelli died in the presence ... More | | 
The British Museum.
LONDON.- Objects on loan from abroad in temporary exhibitions in UK museums are protected from seizure by the UK courts when they are on display in a museum or gallery which has been approved by the Culture Secretary and where the museum or gallery has published information about the objects on loan. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport offers protection for international loans in this way because, in some cases, the ownership of art can be disputed and many other countries will not lend to the UK without this protection. This guide explains the application process and conditions which must be met by participating institutions. It also includes a list of museums and galleries which have already received approval. An object is only protected if it is: usually kept outside the UK not owned by a person resident in the UK not in contravention of a prohibition or restriction on import brought into the UK for temporary public display by an ... More |
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| | | Record set as Babe Ruth jersey sells for $5.6 million | | Exhibition explores the art, architecture, design, and philosophy of the early years of the Bauhaus | | Exhibition at Häusler Contemporary gives an exciting insight into the diversity of contemporary object art | 
Scarce and Important Babe Ruth New York Yankees professional model road jersey c.1928-30.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A New York Yankees jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth was sold at auction for a record-breaking $5.6 million, a statement said Saturday. Hunt Auctions said the jersey, which dates from the 1928-1930 period of Ruth's career, went under the hammer for $5,640,000, making it the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold. "The legacy and significance of Babe Ruth to the game of baseball and American popular culture is unmatched by any other figure in the history of this country," president of Hunt Auctions David Hunt said in a statement. "While the record-setting prices attained today are certainly astonishing I am not surprised at all given the incredible materials and the mythical status the Babe holds in the history of this country." The jersey was from Ruth's private family collection and was part of a collection of items auctioned at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. ... More | | 
Léna Bergner (German, 19061981), Durchdringung (Penetration) for Paul Klee's Course, ca. 19251932. Watercolor and graphite on paper. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (850514) © Heirs of Léna Bergner.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Bauhaus is widely regarded as the most influential school of art and design of the 20th century. Marking the 100th anniversary of the schools opening, Bauhaus Beginnings on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 11 through October 13, 2019 examines the founding principles of the landmark institution. The Bauhaus was a German school of art and design whose brief yet highly influential existence rendered it a key site in the development of a new modern vision for arts education. Established in 1919 after the end of World War I, the Bauhaus sought to erode distinctions between crafts and the fine arts through a program of study centered on theory and practical experience. For a century the Bauhaus has widely inspired ... More | | 
Hamish Fulton »A seven day walk via Mulhacen summit Sierra Nevada Spain winter«, 1992: P. Cipriani.
ZURICH.- Coinciding with Häusler Contemporary's exhibition, «Tableau Zurich» features a seven-part installation by Hamish Fulton. A cooperation in the context of «Gasträume». With a group show of seven gallery artists and one guest artist, the gallery continues in Zurich the reflection on sculpture started at the Munich gallery at the beginning of the year. The presentation gives an exciting insight into the diversity of contemporary object art and also provides a cross-section of our program. Sculpture evokes an encounter in space and invites the viewer as a physical counterpart to self-positioning. These characteristics make sculpture so interesting in the digital age, as interaction is increasingly taking place in virtual spheres. Following the success of the exhibition »Nur Skulptur (Sculpture Only)« in the Munich gallery, the gallery continues its investigation of the object in Zurich. With seven main artistic ... More |
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| | | Rare seventeenth century poetry manuscript at risk of export | | Museum wins national award for exhibition label writing | | Julien's Auctions two day :legends" auction results announced | 
Manuscript of works by the poet John Donne is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can step in to save it.
LONDON.- An incredibly rare Stuart manuscript of works by the poet John Donne is at risk of leaving the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the £466,000 asking price. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has today announced a temporary export bar on the work in a bid to save it for the nation. John Donne (1572 - 1631) was an English poet and cleric whose works were widely appreciated and circulated among his contemporaries in manuscript form. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, Donne was one of the best known poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Donne was ordained in 1615 and became the royal chaplain to King James I. During his lifetime, Donne did not want to be thought of as a poet or author and was said to regret allowing his longer poems to be printed in 1611 and 1612 making this manuscript, a ... More | | 
Danny Lyon, Segregated drinking fountains in the county courthouse in Albany, Georgia, 1962. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery © Danny Lyon and Magnum Photos, New York DAM L-2018-4.7
WILMINGTON, DE.- Recognizing the value in sharing community reflections and encouraging viewers to make personal connections with works of art, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has honored the Delaware Art Museum with two Excellence in Label Writing Awards. The award-winning labels were part of a series of community contributions written by African American leaders in greater Wilmington in response to photographs in the 2018 exhibition Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Melva Lawson Ware, a Delaware Historical Society trustee, and TAHIRA, a storyteller and musician based in Delaware, crafted the featured text. Their award-winning stories, as well as local, personal reflections and memories from other local leaders, were displayed as wall labels next to ... More | | 
Marlon Brandos 1969 Harley Davidson sold for $179,200 is the auctions top selling item.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions held its two-day marquee Hollywood auction event, Legends June 13-14, 2019 at The Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills in front of a buzzing crowd of collectors and fans bidding live on the floor, online and on the phone across the globe. The top selling item of the event was Marlon Brandos owned 1969 Harley Davidson which sold for $179,200 nearly three times its original starting estimate of $60,000. The black Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide motorcycle purchased by Brando in 1970 has 13,859 miles. Another iconic Hollywood vehicle that revved up the auction block was the sale of a 2008 Ford Mustang GT K.I.T.T. from the Knight Rider NBC TV movie which sold for $51,200. Another top auction highlight owned by another iconic Hollywood driver came from the King of Cool Steve McQueen and his circa 1890s black Hendee & Nelson Manufacturing Company bicycle that sold for ... More |
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| | | 'A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex' opens at the Palace of Holyroodhouse | | Exhibition of Ann Aspinwall's recent work in silkscreen, etching, linocut, and collagraph opens in New York | | Freeman's inaugural sale at new flagship location to be largest auction of American Flags | 
Curator Caroline de Guitaut makes final adjustments to the special exhibition 'A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex', part of a visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse from 14 June to 6 October 2019. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019, photographer David Cheskin.
EDINBURGH.- A visit to the Palace of Holyroodhouse now includes the special exhibition A Royal Wedding: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, a display of Their Royal Highnesses wedding outfits, and the page and bridesmaid outfits of His Royal Highness Prince George and Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte. In a recording made for visitors to the exhibition, The Duke and Duchess (known as the Earl and Countess of Dumbarton in Scotland) discuss their plans for the wedding, including the choice of outfits, music and flowers. The Duchess says, A great level of detail went into the planning of our wedding day. We knew how large the scale of the event would be, so in making choices that were really personal and meaningful, it ... More | | 
Ray III, 2019. Linocut and collagraph with hand coloring, 39 x 27 1/2 inches. Edition 2 of 10.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon, in collaboration with McKenzie Fine Art, is presenting Ann Aspinwall: Spirit of Place, an exhibition of the artists recent work in silkscreen, etching, linocut, and collagraph. Limiting herself to the minimal elements of undulating parallel lines and a few carefully selected colors, Aspinwall creates luminous expanses that are suggestive of landscape, water, and sky. This is the artists second solo exhibition in New York and the first collaboration between Garvey|Simon and McKenzie Fine Art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with an essay by independent curator Marilyn Symmes. Ann Aspinwall: Spirit of Place features several new works created specifically for this exhibition, including a vibrant large-scale series of editioned prints and two series of unique hand-colored linocuts. Other works include Spumante, 2017 ... More | | 
This fall, Freemans will present A Grand Old Flag: The Stars and Stripes Collection of Dr. Peter J. Keim, the largest collection of historic American Flags ever offered at auction.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Recognized as one of the most comprehensive collections of historic American Flags, The Stars and Stripes Collection of Dr. Peter J. Keim ranges from 13-star Flags to 50-star Flags, with most in-between iterations. Built over 40 years with passion, perseverance and a steadfast commitment to rarity and historical significance, the collection includes an impressive array of over 400 Flags, as well as related books, patriotic memorabilia and artifacts from 19th and 20th century popular culture. Freemans is honored to share Dr. Keims vision of American history as well as his vast knowledge of the American Flag and its evolution, says Lynda Cain, Freemans Vice President and Head of the American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts Department. These Flags tell our countrys compelling story through the individual ... More |
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 VALIE EXPORT receives the Roswitha Haftmann PrizeZURICH.- The Board of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has decided to award the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2019, which is endowed with CHF 150,000, to the Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940). The film-maker, media and performance artist, who has used her professional name as her artistic concept and logo since 1967, receives the award in recognition of her lifes work. In the Boards view, she is one of the most important international pioneers in these genres. Her body action Tap and Touch Cinema, in which passers-by touched her exposed breasts within a cardboard box, caused a scandal that was documented in film and photographs and has, the jury notes, become part of the founding myth of Actionism whose legacy endures to this day. VALIE EXPORT took part in documenta 6 in 1977 and documenta 12 in 2007 in Kassel, and in 1980 ... More Exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein questions of the performativity of genderBERLIN.- Alexandra Bachzetsis presents her first solo exhibition in a Berlin institution at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.): A thematic overview of more recent and older works that revolve around the topic area of instruction. Since 2001, the artist has been creating performance works, some of which have been realized in collaboration with various partners. More and more, she transfers these performative works into videos, publications, and sculptures. The exhibition Instruction Pieces brings together five works by the artist that deal with the interfaces between language, body, movement, and space. The body of work Escape Act (2018) forms the core of the exhibition at the n.b.k. Showroom. In an eponymous performance, Bachzetsis, together with six performers aged between 21 and 80, picked up on stereotypical ideals of body and behavior spread by mass ... More Michael Rosenfeld Gallery opens a seven-decade-survey exploring the work of of Morris GravesNEW YORK, NY.- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presentung Calix, Cup, Chalice, Grail, Urn, Goblet: Presenting the Sexual Essence of Morris Graves, the gallerys third solo exhibition for Morris Graves (1910-2001). On view from June 15 to August 2, 2019, this exhibition is a seven-decade survey exploring the artists symbolic use of vessels in luminous, spiritual works that exemplify the essence of his mystical relationship with nature. From early oil paintings to surrealist works on paper and later quiet still-lifes, the imagery of the chalice is reflective of Gravess expansive world view. Drawn to its sensual form, Graves explained that the shape of the chalice originates from the sexual anatomy of flowers: the urn-shaped calix bears the flowers reproductive organs, defined by the male pollen-bearing stamen that surrounds the female seed-bearing pistil. ... More Czech banjos, mandolins win over US bluegrass starsPRAGUE (AFP).- Star banjo player Ned Luberecki sits back in an armchair at a Prague music hall, contemplates the instrument he's holding, then gently begins strumming. "I'm still waiting on a name for it. I've just decided she's a 'she'. But it should be a Czech name," the American musician says of his six-month-old handmade banjo, crafted in a tiny village tucked away on a Czech mountain range. Luberecki, who was named the 2018 Banjo Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), is one of several renowned artists of the country and western style music to play banjos and mandolins made by Rosta Capek. The Czech craftsman supplies instruments to the likes of 15-time Grammy winner Ricky Skaggs and Grammy nominee Doyle Lawson, both American bluegrass stalwarts. Chasing away Flatt and Scruggs, his dog and cat named ... More Film-maker Jonas Mekas laid to rest in native LithuaniaVILNIUS (AFP).- The ashes of Lithuanian-born American filmmaker Jonas Mekas were buried back in his home country on Sunday, months after his death in New York, public broadcaster LRT reported. In a private ceremony, his ashes were buried next to his parents at a cemetery in Semeniskiai, northeastern Lithuania, where he was born in 1922. Mekas was a key figure of US underground cinema and was widely regarded as the "godfather of avant-garde cinema". After being imprisoned in a labour camp in Germany during World War II, Mekas settled in New York in 1949, where he went on to become a pillar of independent film. "He has always been deeply connected to Lithuania through the memory dimension in his films and his Lithuanian poetry," art critic Lolita Jablonskiene told AFP. At the time of his death at age 96 on January 23, Mekas was still ... More A Phillips X Private selling exhibition to showcase American women artists from 1945 to todayNEW YORK, NY.- Opening June 19 at Phillips New York will be the exhibition NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today, which was curated by Arnold Lehman, Phillips Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum. It is part of Phillips X, the auction houses private selling platform. The exhibition will include approximately seventy artists spanning the past seventy-five years, including Berenice Abbott, Diana Al-Hadid, Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis Jenny Holzer, Agnes Martin, Elizabeth Murray, Louise Nevelson, Howardena Pindell, Susan Rothenberg, Betye Saar, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith, and Hannah Wilke. Paintings, photographs, and sculpture will offer an overview of the exceptional range and immense talent of these women artists from WWll to the moment the exhibition opens with one work completed specifically for ... More Diamonds and designers shine in Rago's June jewelry auctionsLAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago's Fine and Unreserved Jewelry Auctions on June 7 & 9 achieved total sales of $1,700,863 across two sessions and 1,134 lots. The honor of top lot was shared by two pieces that each achieved $46,875: lot 1463, a Harry Winston sapphire and diamond platinum ring featuring a 5.11 carat Ceylon sapphire; and lot 1037, a Georgian rose-cut diamond button ring, the central diamond of which once belonged to the last Emperor of Mexico, Maximilian I. Designs featuring substantial diamonds also performed admirably in the sale including: lot 1096, a 4.89 carat diamond Art Deco engagement ring retailed by J. E. Caldwell with its original box which sold for $43,750; lot 1545, an unmounted 5.12 carat square step-cut diamond which achieved $40,625; lot 1546, a 3.59 carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring, which exceeded the high estimate ... More Group exhibition celebrates artists whose work explores and engages with gender identityLONDON.- Hayward Gallery presents Kiss My Genders, a group exhibition celebrating more than 30 international artists whose work explores and engages with gender identity. Spanning the past 50 years, Kiss My Genders brings together over 100 artworks by different generations of artists from around the world. Employing a wide range of approaches, these artists share an interest in articulating and engaging with gender fluidity, as well as with non-binary, trans and intersex identities. While the artists in Kiss My Genders work across a wide variety of media including installation, video, painting, sculpture and wall drawings the exhibition places a particular emphasis on works that revisit the tradition of photographic portraiture. A number of artists in the exhibition treat the body itself as sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty ... More Chakshu Patel joins The Studio Museum in HarlemNEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem announced the appointment of Chakshu Patel as its Director of Institutional Advancement. She will take up her position on June 17, working with Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden and colleagues across the institution to secure the support necessary to realize the Studio Museums vital mission. The Studio Museum is currently in the largest campaign in its fifty-year history, for the purpose of funding construction of its new building designed by Adjaye Associates in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, providing an operating reserve, and increasing the endowment. The campaign to date has proceeded strongly, with contributions from public and private donors enabling the Museum to commence the first major phase of the building project. Patel will build on this success, leading the strategic direction, ... More Kalakriti Contemporary opens an exhibition of works by Ekta SinghaHYDERABAD.- Kalakriti Contemporary presents A Note on Remembrance by Ekta Singha. The crux of Ekta's work is the personal interpretation of layers of experiences woven with the paraphernalia of design motifs, forms and elements derived from miniature paintings. Her interest in Mughal, Persian and Rajput miniature paintings has helped her generate a language of her own. Then its the Visual experiences in a different point of time that she had received consciously and subconsciously that makes its entrance in the pictorial surface that is layered with metaphorical and personal references. Anecdotes and memories of ancestral home and lineage in Bangladesh had played a strong role in her work. Creating patterns remain an integral part of my work and not just as an ornamental design. Rather it becomes an important visual tool to subtly transform ... More Japan's anime industry in crisis even as its popularity soarsANNECY (AFP).- Japan's booming animation industry is in crisis -- with low pay, long hours and a huge shortage of artists -- just as its global popularity has never been higher. Three of the 10 feature films in the running for top prize at the world's most important animation festival in Annecy in France -- which ended Saturday -- are from Japan. The country is the only real challenger to Hollywood's dominance of the labour-intensive genre. But just as Japanese anime seemed to be threatening to loosen Pixar and Disney's grip on the popular imagination with the likes of the teen mega hit "Your Name" and a Nintendo Super Mario movie in the pipeline, long-running structural problems are in danger of sapping its rise. With talk of a talent shortage, its greatest star, the legendary Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki, has come out of retirement at 78 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch illustrator M. C. Escher was born June 17, 1898. Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. In this image: Installation view, ESCHER. The Exhibition & Experience at Industry City, June 8, 2018 - February 3, 2019. Photo by Adam Reich. Courtesy Arthemisia.
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