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This file photo taken on March 20, 2014 shows a woman taking a look at relics and reliquaries during an exhibition at the Museum of religious art in the Fourviere Basilica in Lyon, southeastern France. The museum in Lyon was robbed in the night from May 12 to 13, 2017 comprising its main piece in the collection, a crown of the Virgin decorated with almost 1,800 gems, according to the museum on May 13, 2017. PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP.
LYON (AFP).- A 19th century crown, encrusted with almost 1,800 gem stones, has been stolen from a museum of religious art in central France, the museum authorities said Saturday. The thieves broke in overnight Friday and managed to overcome the "sophisticated security system" at the Museum of Fourviere in the city of Lyon, the museum said in a statement. They got away with the Crown of the Virgin, the centrepiece of the collection, which was created in 1899 with 1,791 precious stones and pearls gifted by well-to-do Lyonese families of the day. The value of the piece was put at "a little over a million euros". Each gemstone was painstakingly logged last year by a team of researchers, the museum said, a fact that will help trace each part of it. The robbers got away with two other pieces from the museum's permanent collection, a ring and a chalice. The museum, situated on a hill next to a basilica, was closed as investigations continued. The museum displays treasures from the basilica which are repr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The fast-paced sights and sounds of the fashion runway have come to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this spring with Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style, a multifaceted exhibition that opened May 6, and continues through August 27, 2017.
| Basquiat headlines New York art auction season | | Exhibition analyzes the Parisian art scene of the late 19th century | | Extraordinary collection of Modern art visits the Kimbell Art Museum | 
A Sotheby's official speaks about an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat during a media preview May 5, 2017 at Sotheby's In New York. Don Emmert / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Jean-Michel Basquiat occupies star billing on the auction block in New York this season, catapulting the artist into the rostrum of 20th century greats nearly three decades after his death. Riding high on last year's $57 million auction record set when a Japanese billionaire snapped up a self-portrait, at least 14 works by the US wonderkid of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent are on sale at Christie's and Sotheby's next week. "He was a street artist so it took a bit of time for him to be assimilated," explains Loic Gouzer, chairman of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's. "Now every museum in the world is begging to get Basquiat." Christie's and Sotheby's -- the esteemed houses founded in 18th century London -- are chasing combined sales of at least $1.1 billion when they auction hundreds of contemporary, modern and impressionist works of art from May 15-19 in New York. The top estimate for the week is a 1982 Basquiat, "Untitled" -- a skull-like head on ... More | | 
Théo van Rysselberghe, Kalf Mill in Knokke or Windmill in Flanders (Le Moulin du Kalf à Knokke or Moulin en Flandre]), 1894. Oil on canvas, 80 x 70 cm (31 1/2 x 27 9/16 inches). Private collection.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting Paris, Fin de Siècle: Signac, Redon, Toulouse - Lautrec, and Their Contemporaries , an exhibition that analyzes the Parisian art scene, underscoring the most important French avant-gardes of the late 19th century, particularly the NeoImpressionists, Symbolists, and Nabis. The leading exponents of these movements are represented in the show by approximately 125 paintings, pastels, drawings, and prints. Fin-de-siècle Paris was a time and place of political upheaval and cultural transformation, during which sustained economic crisis and social problems spurred the rise of radical left-wing groups and an attendant backlash of conservatism that plagued France throughout the late 1890s. In 1894, President Sadi Carnot fell victim to an anarchist assassination, while the nationally divisive Dreyfus Affair began with the unlawful conviction for treason of Alfred ... More | | 
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Dancers at the Barre, c. 1900. Oil on canvas, 51 1/4 x 38 1/2 in. Acquired 1944. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
FORT WORTH, TX.- On May 14, the Kimbell Art Museum opened the special exhibition A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection, which brings to the Kimbell more than 70 paintings and sculptures from one of the world's greatest museums of modern art. The Phillips Collection is, in fact, America's first museum devoted exclusively to modern art, founded in 1921 in the Washington, D.C., residence of a wealthy Pittsburgh family. The display concentrates on the great masters of the 20th century: Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso. But because Duncan Phillips, the museum's founder, wanted to showcase "modern art and its sources," his collection also includes earlier works by Jean-Siméon Chardin, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Eugene Delacroix, J.A.D. Ingres and Edouard Manet, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist mast ... More |
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| Exhibition celebrates the genius of Alighiero Boetti with over 20 spectacular works | | Barnebys outlines the growth of the celebrity market | | Bilbao Fine Arts Museum hosts two important works executed by El Greco | 
Installation view. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- Twenty-two years after the posthumous homage to Boetti curated by Germano Celant at the 2001 Venice Biennale, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini hosts an unprecedented journey through the work of Alighiero Boetti (1940-94), one of Italys most prominent and influential artists. Alighiero Boetti: Minimum/Maximum, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Istituto di Storia dellArte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, with the collaboration of the Archivio Alighiero Boetti, presents an original juxtaposition between the minimum and maximum formats of the artists most iconic cycles of works in order to explore Boettis artistic process and iconography. From one to many, micro to macro, and private to public, Mimimum/Maximum explores the Boettis dialectical approach to art and examines the radically conceptual role of an artist who liked to define himself as a creator ... More | | 
A stunning scarlet red dress worn by Marilyn Monroe made £120,000 at Christies.
LONDON.- Among the million objects listed daily for sale on Barnebys search engine, provided by some 2,000 auction houses globally, there is a significant and growing amount of so called celebrity memorabilia. This area of collecting is seeing a huge growth in prices paid. Take just one item, the little gingham dress worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. In 2012 it sold for $490,000 and just two years later this plain simple little blue gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 movie sold for $1.56m at auction in New York. Described as bearing sweat stains around the neck but in good condition, the costume was believed to be one of only two such pinafores that Garland actually wore on-screen for the classic musical. It was sold to an unidentified buyer bidding by telephone. A year before in 2014, the cowardly lion costume worn in the movie ... More | | 
El Greco, Portrait of Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva. Museo del Greco (Toledo).
BILBAO.- The presentation of two important works from the collection of the Museo del Greco (Toledo), Portrait of Antonio de Covarrubias y Leiva and Portrait of Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva, two oil paintings of the same size (68 x 57 cm) executed by El Greco around 1600, provide the starting point for this new edition of the Guest Work programme, which will be accompanied by various lectures and encounters with experts and artists aimed at strengthening the visiting public's involvement in this programme. The two portraits by El Greco are displayed in Room 7 of the museum, which is devoted to 16th- and early 17th-century court portraiture and its role as a representation of power through the concept of majesty and dynastic interests. Portraits of Philip II, his sister Juana de Austria and his grandson Felipe Manuel de Saboya create a pictorial sequence initiated ... More |
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| Exhibition at Kunsthal KAdE zooms in on the use of colour by the six main exponents of De Stijl | | Summer exhibition celebrates the largest acquisition in the Frick Collection's history | | Swatch celebrates the spectacular work of British abstract artist Ian Davenport in Venice | 
Installation view.
AMERSFOORT.- Red, yellow and blue the three primary colours have become synonymous with the art movement known as De Stijl. But that single iconic colour combination has tended to mask the reality of the diversity of ideas advanced by its various members. At the end of the day, Piet Mondriaan, Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, Gerrit Rietveld, Georges Vantongerloo and Vilmos Huszár all formulated their own individual views on colour. In this exhibition, Kunsthal KAdE zooms in on the use of colour by the six main exponents of De Stijl and goes on to examine how artists have continued to investigate the autonomous power of colour in the postWorld War II period: from the abstract expressionism and concrete art of the 1960s and 70s through to the work of artists who are today still exploring colour as an independent element. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is lending top works like Barnett ... More | | 
Pierre-Jean David dAngers (17881856), Josephine Bonaparte, ca. 1832, gilt copper alloy (cast), Scher Collection, promised gift to The Frick Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Over the course of six decades, Stephen K. Schera collector, scholar, and curatorhas assembled the most comprehensive and significant private collection of portrait medals in the world, part of which he and his wife, Janie Woo Scher, gave to The Frick Collection last year. To celebrate the Schers generous gift of what is the largest acquisition in the museums history, the Frick presents more than one hundred of the finest examples from their collection in The Pursuit of Immortality, on view from May 9 through September 10, 2017. The exhibition is organized by Aimee Ng, Associate Curator, The Frick Collection, and Stephen K. Scher. Comments Director Ian Wardropper, Henry Clay Frick had an abiding interest in portraiture as expressed in the paintings, sculpture, enamels, and works on paper he ... More | | 
The Swatch Pavilion in the Giardini area presents a spectacular site-specific installation by Ian Davenport. All rights reserved Swatch.
VENICE.- The thrilling love story of Swatch & Art returns to Venice as the Swiss watchmaker resumes its role as main partner of the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. A variety of installations at both the Arsenale and Giardini venues take up the Swatch Faces 2017 theme: resident artists from the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai present their work, and color is celebrated in the spectacular work of British abstract artist Ian Davenport. Since opening in November 2011, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel residency has hosted more than 240 artists from around the world in the landmark hotel on the Bund in Shanghai. Swatch Faces 2017 encourages cross-cultural exchange through contemporary art: Swatch has invited four international artists from its unique artist residency to bring their art to the historic Arsenale shipyards ... More |
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| Kunsthaus Bregenz opens "Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance" | | Exhibition of works by legendary Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida debuts at The Dali | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts showcases art, innovation of haute couture design | 
Adrián Villar Rojas, The Theater of Disappearance, 2017. Exhibition view ground floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Jörg Baumann. Courtesy of Adrián Villar Rojas, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York | Paris | London und kurimanzutto, Mexiko City © Adrián Villar Rojas, Kunsthaus Bregenz.
BREGENZ .- The vast painted wooden floor spans the entire space. Distressed gold leaf is discernible, amongst darkened colors and mysteriously curved forms. In his exhibition Adrián Villar Rojas enacts the ground floor as an immense empty stage, even the freestanding structure designed by Peter Zumthor, serving as reception desk and ticket counter, has been removed and relocated to the basement. A towering mirrored cuboid rises to the ceiling. The space is filled with colorful multi-faceted light that flows in through colored film attached behind the windows. The color range originates from Wong Kar Wais film 2046, a tragic love film revolving around memory set in Hong Kong and ... More | | 
Enparantza (Square). Sculpture. Eduardo Chillida, 1990. © 2017 Zabalaga-Leku, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Discover how a sculptors hands rework the world, refining form and shaping space as The Dali presents the special exhibition Memory, Mind, Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida. Opened this Saturday, May 13, and on display through September 24, 2017, the exhibit features world-renowned Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillidas works in paper, alabaster, steel and stone. More than 60 works are on display including 16 sculptures, a large-scale wall mural, numerous drawings and gravitations, the artists unique approach to paper collage. This is the Museums first exhibition dedicated to sculpture since the opening of its new building in 2011. Following the emotive Frida Kahlo at The Dali The Dalis most visited exhibit in its history the Chillida show continues the Museums tradition of contextualizing its ... More | | 
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RICHMOND, VA.- The fast-paced sights and sounds of the fashion runway have come to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this spring with Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style, a multifaceted exhibition that opened May 6, and continues through August 27, 2017. Drawn from the unparalleled collection of the Paris-based Fondation Pierre Bergé Yves Saint Laurent and other private collections, this breathtaking exhibition offers an intimate and comprehensive look at the lifetime achievement of Saint Laurent, one of historys most radical and influential fashion designers. Featuring 100 examples of haute couture and ready-to-wear garmentssome never shown publicly beforethis exhibition reveals Saint Laurents artistic genius, as well as his working process, and the sources of his design inspiration. VMFA is the only East Coast venue for the exhibition, which has been organized by the Seattle Art Museum in partnership ... More |
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 Centre d'art contemporain Brétigny opens exhibition of works by visual artist Liz Magic Laser BRÃTIGNY-SUR-ORGE .- One of the movie scenes that has impressed me the most over the last years features Julianne Moore, alias Havana Seegrand, struggling with her coach, Stafford Weiss, played by John Cusack, in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, which was adapted from the cult book by Bruce Wagner. The woman is lying on her stomach on a gym mat, the man, positioned behind her, is directing her to scream to root out the anxiety and fears surrounding her past and present relationship with her mother, a famous actress who is deceased. We see the actress, her face streaming with tears, yelling out words of welcome to the ghost of a mother, Mi casa es tu casa! The therapy mockingly practiced by Stafford Weiss is known as Primal Therapy. Very popular in the 1970s and developed by the American psychologist Arthur Janov, the therapy involves helping ... More Jerry Garcia guitar on auction to back rights groupNEW YORK (AFP).- One of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia's most famous guitars is going back on auction, where it could fetch more than $1 million to back a civil rights group. Known as Wolf, the electric guitar was custom-made by luthier Doug Irwin. Garcia debuted it at a 1973 concert in New York before the instrument -- along with Hell's Angels bikers -- became ever-present during the Dead's perpetual touring. Dan Pritzker, a music-loving philanthropist who is an heir to the wealthy Chicago family known for the Hyatt hotel chain, bought Wolf for $789,500 from the auction house Guernsey's in 2002. Pritzker, who occasionally loaned the guitar to musicians, decided to put it back on auction, announcing that all proceeds would go to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which wages legal battles against white supremacists and other hate groups. "He called me three ... More Artist Bernardo Oyarzún and curator Ticio Escobar represent Chile at the 57th Venice Art Biennale VENICE.- The National Council of Culture and Arts Chile announced details of artist Bernardo Oyarzún and curator Ticio Escobars presentation for Chile at the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2017. Bernardo Oyarzún represents the Chilean pavilion in the Arsenale at the Venice Art Biennale. The exhibition has been curated by Ticio Escobar. Mr. Ernesto Ottone, Minister of Culture of Chile, said: We are extremely happy with the decision made by the jury. I have admired the work of Bernardo Oyarzún for many years and am very excited about this project. Oyarzún explores the relationship between contemporary art and indigenous peoples, and I think this project will offer an important insight into the subject. Oyarzúns project explores the theme of the current representation of the Mapuche community, a group of indigenous inhabitants of ... More Paris 'love locks' sale raises thousands for refugeesPARIS (AFP).- A charity auction selling off "love locks" from Paris bridges to raise money for refugees on Saturday brought in over $270,000, though the event was briefly interrupted by protests from far-right nationalists. For years tourists inscribed their initials on padlocks and hooked them to the railings of bridges, most famously the Pont des Arts near the Louvre, throwing the key into the River Seine to express their undying devotion. But officials cracked down on the practice and started removing the locks in 2015 after one section of the Pont des Arts collapsed under the weight of thousands of locks. Hundreds of people took part in the auction at Credit Municipal de Paris in which 150 bunches of the locks -- mounted on displays of wood or recycled paving stones, or hanging from acrylic stands -- went under the hammer. Fifteen sections of the original Pont des Arts railings ... More Serena Maisto's debut exhibition with Cortesi Gallery opens in LuganoLUGANO.- Cortesi Gallery presents Serena Maistos debut exhibition with the gallery, Time line. My Walk with Basquiat. The new project on show is born from the artists encounter with the oeuvre of Edo Bertoglio, the swiss photographer and film director who portrayed the unique energy of 1980s New York. Maisto focuses on one of the central and most controversial personalities of that scene, Jean-Michel Basquiat (19601988), whose impressive career and anguished soul were masterfully captured by Bertoglio in a fascinating series of photographs and in Downtown 81, a movie featuring Basquiat himself as its leading character. Serena Maisto and Edo Bertoglio are both deeply connected with New York. Bertoglio experienced the city in full, between the 70s and 80s, making close friends with musical idols and artists such as Madonna, Blondie, Grace Jones, Keith Haring ... More Pavilion of the Republic of Albania presents works by Leonard QylafiVENICE.- Albanias representation at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, is the exhibition Occurrence in Present Tense by Leonard Qylafi, curated by Vanessa Joan Müller. As the presence of the past in the today, recollection shapes our understanding of history. The evolution it undergoes over time is an issue of quality as much as distance: experience becomes fact, witnessed events turn into objective matter. Living recollection is superseded by collective memory, which for its part resorts to material supports such as books and archives, films and photographs. Leonard Qylafis artistic practice takes these material supports of remembrance as a point of departure to look at the process of transformation that shapes our understanding of the past. His paintings and videos are as much investigations of the processes shaping his countrys ... More Exhibition at Kehrer Galerie gives insight into architect Max Dudler's workBERLIN.- The second edition of the book »Max Dudler« is being published by Kehrer Verlag in May 2017. The English publication was updated and extended by 30 projects. Coinciding with the release Kehrer gallery in Berlin is presenting an extensive exhibition of the Swiss architect that opened with introductory words by Prof. Dr, Michael Mönninger on May 12, 2017. The exhibition »Max Dudler« gives insight into this architectʼs work. Important elements of his creative process are assembled here: original hand drawings from the formative years of his office that show Dudlerʼs roots in the rationalism of his teachers Oswald Mathias Ungers and Aldo Rossi that were developed further with the beginning analysis of these ideas; large-format photographs by architectural photographer Stefan Müller, who in a way shows Max Dudlerʼs buildings in real size and conveys an ... More Summer-long exhibition of photographs by Robert Graham opens at The Erie Canal MuseumSYRACUSE, NY.- The Erie Canal Museum announces the opening of a summer-long exhibition of photographs by Commodore Robert Graham of Rochester, New York. Erie Canal Abstract: Pictures at an Expedition opened on Wednesday, May 10 at the Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, New York. Graham took the photographs with abstract imagery in mind while on a 2015 trip along the Erie Canal. The works, from a book by the same name, are on display in the Museum's Link Gallery through August, 2017. Graham is the author of several other books of photography, including Three Generations on the Erie Canal, whose works were exhibited at the Museum several years ago. Both books are in the library of the museum. Robert Graham (b.1954) was four years old when his father took him for his first boat ride on the Erie Canal. His grandfather was a ... More Tunisia seeks UNESCO status for Jewish pilgrimage isleDJERBA (AFP).- Tunisia plans to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, site of Africa's oldest synagogue and an annual Jewish pilgrimage, its culture minister said on Sunday. Speaking on the last day of the pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue, Mohamed Zine El-Abidine said the island was important for its "cultural and religious uniqueness". He said the application to add Djerba to the World Heritage List would highlight the rich religious heritage of the island, which is home to centuries-old mosques, churches and synagogues. He did not give a specific time frame for the application. The cultural agency of the United Nations already lists eight sites in the North African country, including the old cities of Tunis and Sousse and the city of Carthage, once the capital of the Mediterranean-wide Phoenician empire. Some 3,000 pilgrims attended ... More Museum puts over 500 rare archives onlineWILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum recently launched its new web-based platform with the Delaware Heritage Collection, allowing selections from the Museum's 2,000 linear feet of archival material to be seen from anywhere in the world. Original letters from Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his mistress, photographs of artist and illustrator John Sloan in his studio, and scrapbooks chronicling the Museum's history are some of the materials now available online through the new Digital Collections portal. The Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives has embarked upon a digitization initiative to provide free access to our most significant collections, including the John Sloan, Howard Pyle, and Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft, Jr. Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collections. The archives are available through the Delaware Heritage ... More Singapore Pavilion opens at the 57th Venice Biennale with works by artist Zai KuningVENICE.- The Singapore Pavilion at the 57th edition of the Venice Biennale was officially opened on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 by Guest-of-Honour Ms Grace Fu, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Singapore, at the Sale dArmi building at the Arsenale in Venice. Multidisciplinary artist Zai Kuning represents Singapore with a work that resurrects, reimagines and weaves together his artistic obsession, imaginings, and dreams of an ancient Malay world. Titled Dapunta Hyang: Transmission of Knowledge, it is a culmination of decades of Zais research since the late-90s on the forgotten stories of the orang laut (sea people), and mak yong, a dying pre-Islamic operatic tradition, throughout the Riau Archipelago; alongside the narrative of the first Malay king of Srivijaya, Dapunta Hyang Sri Jayanasa. Zai Kuning is the first contemporary visual artist to resurrect Dapunta ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Polish-Born painter Tamara de Lempicka was born May 15, 1898. Tamara de Lempicka, born Maria Górska in Warsaw, in partitioned Poland, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Born into a wealthy and prominent family, her father was Boris Gurwik-Górski, a Polish lawyer, and her mother, the former Malvina Decler, a Polish socialite. In this image: A painting entitled 'M. Tadeusz Lempicki' in the exhibition of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka (1898 to 1980) at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, Mexico on 02 June 2009. Key art deco artist de Lempicka's pictures are being collected by celebrities like Jack Nicholson, Madonna and Barbara Streisand.
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