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In this file photo taken on October 16, 2012, an empty space is seen where a painting by French artist Henri Matisse was stolen at the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, a day after seven masterpieces were stolen in a pre-dawn heist. One of seven paintings stolen six years ago from the museum in The Netherlands as part of a spectacular art heist may have been found in Romania, the public prosector in Bucharest said on November 18, 2018. Public prosecutor Augustin Lazar confirmed to AFP that Romanian authorities were in possession of a painting that "might be" one of those stolen from the Kunsthal Museum, adding it needs to be further examined. Sources told AFP that experts are checking if the canvas is Picasso's "Harlequin Head". ROBIN UTRECHT / ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- A writer who thought she had found a painting by Pablo Picasso stolen in an infamous art heist six years ago said Sunday she was the victim of a "publicity stunt", Dutch media reported. Picasso's "Harlequin Head" was one of seven celebrated paintings snatched from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam in 2012 during a daring robbery local media dubbed "the theft of the century". The artworks by Picasso, Monet, Gauguin, Matisse and Lucian Freud have not been seen since. But Dutch writer Mira Feticu, who wrote a novel based on the brazen heist, thought she had uncovered the piece after she was sent an anonymous letter around 10 days ago "with instructions regarding the place where the painting was hidden" in Romania. Feticu, of Romanian origin, told AFP the tip-off led her to a forest in the east of the country where she dug up an artwork wrapped in plastic. Romanian authorities, who were handed the canvas on Saturday night, said that it "might be" Picasso's painting, which is esti ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The North Carolina Museum of Art moved a Standing Hanukkah Lamp to the entrance of their West Building, making it the first object a visitor sees when walking in, in memorial of those killed in the October 27 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. This ceremonial work of art was once owned by a Jewish couple in Pittsburgh. In the Judaic Art Gallery, in the place of this lamp, hangs a torn black cloth; in Jewish tradition, mourners at a funeral rend their garments as an expression of grief.
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 | | Exhibition offers a representative overview of Alejandra Seeber's current work | | Missing St Mark mosaic finally returns to Cyprus | | Looters plunder Albania's sunken treasures | 
Alejandra Seeber, Future alberguen, 2018. Oil on canvas, 86 x 74 cm / 33 7/8 x 29 1/8 inches. Courtesy: Gary Kuehn and Häusler Contemporary München | Zürich.
MUNICH.- Häusler Contemporary is presenting the third solo exhibition of Alejandra Seeber in Munich. The Argentinean painter, known for her refreshing use of the traditional medium, presents selected works of the past two years and embeds them in a vast, painterly concept that was created especially for the gallery. In her paintings, artist Alejandra Seeber (*1968, Buenos Aires, AR, lives in New York, US) explores the painterly possibilities between figuration and abstraction in her paintings. Their ambivalent imagery cannot be decoded on a linear path, since in her colorful shining paintings, out of nonrepresentational elements, narrative references suddenly emerge. There are allusions to subjects that dissolve instantly into expressive chromaticity and gestural dynamics. These dichotomies and the encounter of different motives let her works become many-faceted and surprising. Seebers new exhibition at Häusler Contemporary ... More | | 
Dutch art detective Arthur Brand poses with the missing mosaic of St Mark, a rare piece of stolen Byzantine art from Cyprus, in a hotel room in The Hague on November 17, 2018. Jan HENNOP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- One of the last missing pieces of Byzantine art stolen from Cyprus in the 1970s was handed back this week by a renowned, and proud Dutch art investigator. Arthur Brand said Friday he handed back the sixth century depiction of Saint Mark during a private ceremony at the Cypriot embassy in The Hague. For Brand, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the art world" because of his exploits to recover stolen works, the handover was a highpoint in his life-long interest in the Byzantine saint -- and the result of a nearly two-year chase across Europe. "This is a very special piece that's more than 1,600 years old. It's one of the last and most beautiful examples of art from the early Byzantine era," said the art sleuth. He showed AFP the mosaic hours before it was handed back. The Cypriot embassy and Church of Cyprus declined to comment when asked about the mosaic and the Cypriot Department of Antiquities ... More | | 
David Ruff, researcher of nautical archaeology, poses onboard the Ina Virazon II vessel, used for an underwater research expedition headed by Institute of Nautical Archaeology of Texas. Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP.
VLORA (AFP).- Albania's long underexplored coastal waters have become a hotspot for treasure hunters scooping up ancient pottery, sunken ship parts and other shell-encrusted relics that have lain on the seabed for centuries. The 450-kilometre (280-mile) coastline, which is lapped by the Adriatic and Ionian seas, was off-limits under the communist regime which ruled the Balkan state until 1990, with orders to shoot anyone caught diving without authorisation. But today its waters are open, luring archaeologists but also looters eager to plumb the new territory and sell their finds on the art and metals markets. "Much of this wealth resting at the depth of 20-30 metres (66-99 feet) is easily accessible without any special equipment and has almost completely disappeared without a trace," said Albanian archaeologist and art historian Neritan Ceka, among those calling for urgent ... More |
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 | | Giant Damien Hirst uterus sculptures catch eye at Qatar hospital | | Hauser & Wirth New York exhibits new and recent works by Anna Maria Maiolino | | Recently discovered portrait by Piet Mondrian offered at the PAN art and Antique Fair in Amsterdam | 
Workers operate on "The Miraculous Journey", an art installation by artist Damien Hirst outside the Sidra Medical & Research Centre in Qatar's capital Doha, on the day of their unveiling on October 10, 2018. STRINGER / AFP.
DOHA (AFP).- Fourteen giant bronze sculptures by British artist Damien Hirst graphically charting the moment of conception to birth greet patients arriving at an $8-billion hospital in Gulf state Qatar. The vast open-air installation, named "The Miraculous Journey", shows a foetus growing in the womb and culminates with a 14-metre (46-feet) of a naked baby just after birth. The monumental work is the centrepiece of an impressive modern art collection at the Sidra Medicine Hospital, officially opened this week in Doha, that would be the envy of many galleries around the world. "We believe it reflects very much the mission of Sidra, taking care of the healthcare of woman and babies," said Layla Ibrahim Bacha, art specialist with the government-supported Qatar Foundation, which owns most of the artwork. "I think it's perfect for the location, as you can see a lot of people are taking pictures, I think its becoming iconic." ... More | | 
Anna Maria Maiolino, Untitled, from Filogenéticos (Phylogenetics) series, 2018. Acrylic ink on paper, 40.5 x 33.5 cm / 16 x 13 1/4 inches. © Anna Maria Maiolino. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Everton Ballardin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting ERRÂNCIA POÉTICA (POETIC WANDERINGS), a solo exhibition of new and recent works by Anna Maria Maiolino, one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. For over five decades, Maiolino has drawn from her personal history as an artist, migrant, and mother, to produce works that relentlessly challenge accepted notions of desire, language, and sexuality while celebrating the viscerality of embodied experience. On view from 14 November through 22 December 2018, the exhibition highlights multiple dimensions within Maiolinos oeuvre, presenting more than fifty of the artists sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs, and videos, as well as a new site-specific installation that continues her iconic Terra Modelada (Modeled Earth) series. Maiolinos formative migration from post-war Southern Italy to a politically unstable South ... More | | 
Piet Mondrian, Elisabeth Sophia Maria (Betsy) Cavalini (1873-1933) oil on canvas, fully signed and dated 1901, r.b., 73 x 53 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- A recently discovered portrait by Piet Mondrian (1872 1944) is being shown for the first time at the PAN art and Antique Fair in Amsterdam. Earlier this year, during a valuation in Zandvoort, the art dealer and appraiser Willem de Winter from Haarlem, The Netherlands discovered an early oil painting by Piet Mondrian, one of the most famous painters in Dutch art history. The painting shows the portrait of: Elisabeth Sophia Maria (Betsy) Cavalini (1873-1933) oil on canvas, fully signed and dated 1901, r.b., 73 x 53 cm. She was married to: Cornelis (Kees) Bergman (1867-1947). They married March 19, 1902 in Amsterdam. The discovered portrait was painted by Piet Mondrian when he was 29 years old. The portrait is not included in the oeuvre catalog of Robert Welsh and Joop Joosten from 1998. It is a - until now - unknown work that can be added to the oeuvre of the genius Mondrian. The portrait of Elisabeth Sophia Maria Bergman - Cavelini appears to come directly from Cornelis ... More |
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| | | Narrative, cinema and suburbia in the work of Miles Aldridge and Todd Hido explored at Huxley-Parlour Gallery | | Ruiz-Healy Art opens a solo exhibition of the work of Hills Snyder | | Calixto Bieito brings his 'film noir' to Paris Opera | 
#7373, 2008 © Todd Hido courtesy Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
LONDON.- A new exhibition, This Side of Paradise: Narrative, Cinema and Suburbia in the Work of Miles Aldridge and Todd Hido presents twenty large-scale colour works demonstrating how these two contemporary artists investigate the concept of suburbia. Though works by Aldridge and Hido are visually dissimilar, both artists are recognisable for their distinctive cinematic colour palettes, lighting and compositions, and the suggestion of narrative possibilities beyond the edge of the frame. Whereas Hido presents a shadowy, empty, exterior suburban world, Aldridge presents the viewer with brightly lit, garish interiors, focusing on the imagined lives of the women who inhabit them. Hidos works in the exhibition are from his ongoing Houses at Night series, depicting isolated suburban homes in America, photographed at night, replete with voyeuristic undertones ... More | | 
Bummerville, CA (detail)
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting its first solo-exhibition for the work of Hills Snyder, Altered States (Part Four), an ongoing visual project and written series by the Texas-based artist. The exhibit features 120 drawings, based on photographs gathered in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Kansas and South Dakota. The exhibition opened to the public on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. The show is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay written by Neil Fauerso. A closing reception and artist talk will take place on Saturday, January 12th at 1:00pm. As stated by Snyder, his travels follow a line that goes through towns selected by virtue of their namesnot because they are odd or funny, but because they are evocativeemotional states, hoped for ideals, downers, and reckonings
Nowhere, Happy, Bonanza, Lost Springs, Recluse, Keystone, ... More | | 
Spanish opera director Calixto Bieito poses during a photo session on November 15, 2018 at the Opera Bastille in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Spain's Calixto Bieito built his reputation by shattering operatic norms, but his new production of "Simon Boccanegra" in Paris shows the restrained side of a director more known for performances featuring sex, blood and violence. "I don't have a formula that I use each time in every opera," Bieito told AFP in an interview as his interpretation of the Verdi work premiered at the Opera Bastille this past week. "I have different facets," he said. The 55-year-old Catalan native, once described as the "Quentin Tarantino of opera," has for years staged some of the most outlandish and controversial reworkings of the classics. His torrid "Carmen" by Georges Bizet, which has been staged in different cities over the past 20 years, has been branded both "vulgar" and "brilliant", depending on the critic. In 2002 he secured his place in opera history ... More |
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| | | Exhibition presents works spanning the years 1905 to 1930 made by Max Weber | | Freeman's announces highlights included in the American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction | | Howard Greenberg Gallery opens exhibition of color photographs by Vivian Maier | 
Max Weber, Decoration with Cloud, 1913. Oil on canvas, 60 3/8 x 40 3/8 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Gallery is presenting the exhibition, Max Weber: Becoming Modern. Spanning the years 1905 to 1930, the paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures that make up the exhibition explore Webers transformation from art student to arbiter of the avant-garde. Weber arrived in Paris in 1905 and enrolled at the Académies Julian and Colarossi, pursuing a traditional, academic course of study. He left Paris four years later an avant-garde artist, an acolyte of Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, and Rousseau, determined to change the course of art in the United States. By 1930, Weber had become a superstar, with a retrospective that year at MOMA, the first that institution had devoted to an American artist. Webers rise to stardom, however, was not marked by an easy line of successes, but rather by a trail of baffled critics, financial hardship, and a public whose tastes and perceptions were years behind Webers evolved ... More | | 
Early May Stockton by leading Pennsylvania Impressionist Daniel Garber (Lot 124, estimate: $70,000-100,000) shows a church spire rising above a verdant landscape.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Sunday, December 9, Freemans will host its winter American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists auction. With an enthusiastic response from its consignors, the strong offering of nearly 160 lots features works of art by distinguished American artists including Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Milton Avery (1885-1965), Joseph Stella (1877-1946) and William Glackens (1870-1938), as well as Pennsylvania Impressionists Fern Coppedge (1883-1951), Edward Redfield (1869-1965) and Daniel Garber (1880-1958). Anchored by two quintessential works by two generations of Wyeths (Newell Convers, 1882-1945, and Andrew, 1917-2009), the sale also includes several fine groupings of paintings, such as five snowscapes by Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962), along with a selection of about 30 works of art from the Collection ... More | | 
Location and date unknown. © Estate of Vivian Maier, Courtesy Maloof Collection and
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The color work of street photographer Vivian Maier is the subject of a new exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery from November 14, 2018 through January 5, 2019. Many of the photographs are on view for the first time, deepening the understanding of Maiers oeuvre and her keenness to record and present her interpretation of the world around her. Dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, Vivian Maier: The Color Work captures the street life of Chicago and New York, and includes a number of her enigmatic self-portraits. The exhibition coincides with the publicaton of Vivian Maier: The Color Work (Harper Design | HarperCollins, November 2018), the first book devoted to her color images. With a foreword by renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz and text by Colin Westerbeck, a former curator of photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, the book was created in partnership with Howard ... More |
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 Mystery, magic and discovery at Rago Auctions on December 1LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- On Saturday, December 1, Rago Auctions hosts Curiouser and Curiouser: Fine and Outsider Art. Exceptional Objects. Ragos Curiouser and Curiouser auction is filled with beautiful, intriguing and remarkable objects, as well as significant discoveries. The most important of these discoveries is a major find in the American folk art field: the forty-three inch high figure of a young boy (lot 1124), exceptionally carved and painted with great sensitivity, purchased over 20 years ago in the Buffalo, New York area. Hitherto unidentified, only attributed as of production of the print auction catalog, this sculpture, ca 1840, has now been confirmed as the work of Asa Ames (1823-1851). Relatively unknown until the American Folk Art Museums 2008 exhibit Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing, today Ames is an icon in the folk art field. Despite the acclaim ... More Explore 21st century notions of the sublime in exhibition of contemporary paintings NORFOLK, VA.- The Chrysler Museum of Art is presenting a sweeping survey of contemporary art from around the world with Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century. Organized by Frist Art Museums Chief Curator Mark Scala, the exhibition is on view Nov. 16, 2018April 28, 2019 and celebrates paintings capacity to weave together images of physical reality, memories, emotions and the virtual world. Artists in the exhibition dramatically describe the destabilizing effects of current forces such as globalism, mass migration, radical ideologies and the rapid expansion of technology. These forces are so powerful that they can cause fright or excitement with the promise of new human possibilities. Chaos and Awes thesis stems from the 18th century philosophical idea of the sublime, feeling overwhelmed by the immeasurable nature of God and the natural ... More Exhibition explores Japanese minimalism and the delicate art of paperLONDON.- Japan House London presents its third exhibition SUBTLE: Delicate or Infinitesimal, the ultimate exploration of Japanese minimalism and the delicate art of paper. Following hugely successful shows at Japan Houses international sister locations in Los Angeles and São Paulo, SUBTLE intends to reawaken our sense to the limitless possibilities of what can be done with fine paper. On view from 13 November 24 December 2018, the exhibition presents works designed and crafted from among 15 creators living and working in Japan from diverse disciplines across art, animation, architecture, fashion, graphic design and literature. These unique creations explore this fascination with paper, highlighting the individual choices of material and the diversity of textures, colours, techniques and applications specific to their creative practice. The ... More Baltimore Museum of Art presents new video installations by artist collaborative DISBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents DIS │ A Good Crisis, an exhibition of video works organized by the New York-based collective DIS (run by principals Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro, in dialogue with their numerous collaborators). On view November 14, 2018, through November 17, 2019, this immersive video installation invites visitors into critical conversations on the subjects of money, politics, and contemporary media. The exhibition is being presented in two installation environments in the BMAs Joseph Education Center, as well as online as part of The DIS Edutainment Network. Through razor-sharp writing and engaging performances inspired by contemporary media culture, DISs videos compel viewers to reflect on some of the most important issues of our time, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis ... More IAIN BAXTER&'s first solo exhibition with Hales Gallery opens in LondonLONDON.- Hales opened &Information, IAIN BAXTER&s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Pioneering conceptual artist BAXTER& sees the world as an Infoscape, viewing ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Centring on photographic works, the exhibition explores the artists philosophy of art as information, encompassing technology, ideology and social organisation. IAIN BAXTER& was born in Middlesbrough, England before moving to Calgary, Canada, a year after he was born. In 2005 Iain Baxter became IAIN BAXTER&, legally changing his name - the ampersand symbolises an unending collaboration with the viewer and the interconnectedness of life. Often referring to himself as The &Man, he has trademarked his name (BAXTER&), the ampersand (&) and cultivated a brand. Over a rich and complex practice spanning sixty years, BAXTER& ... More Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens exhibition of works by Vadim GushchinMOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of the famous Russian photographer Vadim Gushchin. Working with subject abstraction, the author creates a "poetic catalog" of the world of things around us. Each series he shot is devoted to one of the objects of everyday life it is interesting to the artist as an idea, a sign. Sustained minimalism, apparent repeatability and compositional simplicity are recognizable features of the photographic language of Gushchin. The exhibition includes works created by the artist over the past three years. Photos of this period are a new stage in the work of Gushchin and at the same time a continuation of the cycle of minimalist still lifes. His focus is centered on the book an object that has managed to preserve its enduring cultural significance in an era of technological revolutions ... More Rare early works by Walter Darby Bannard on view at Berry Campbell GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery is presenting Walter Darby Bannard: Paintings from 1969 to 1975 featuring seventeen important paintings, including several large-scale canvases that have not been seen since the 1970s. In these rare early works, Bannard used Alkyd resin paints before turning to acrylic gels in 1976. This is Berry Campbell Gallerys fourth solo exhibition of Walter Darby Bannard since announcing the artists representation in 2013. The exhibition runs from November 15 through December 21, 2018. The brochure essay, written by esteemed art historian and curator, Phyllis Tuchman, explores a look anew at Bannards middle period for the first time in half a century. Tuchman writes: In a series of dense, speculative essays he began publishing in Artforum in 1966, Bannard focused on pivotal issues he and his fellow ... More Gregory Halpern awarded photography commission of the Hermès FoundationPARIS.- Gregory Halpern is the fourth laureate of Immersion, A French-American Photography Commission of the Hermès Foundation. This edition of the photography programme of the Fondation dentreprise Hermès benefits from a new partnership between the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. Founded in 2014, Immersion, A French-American Photography Commission of the Hermès Foundation is an annual photography programme featuring exchange residencies, exhibitions and publications. On a yearly alternating basis, Immersion is open to either photographers based in the United States who are mentored by an English-speaking professional as they create a new photographic work in France, or to photographers based in France, who are mentored by a French professional as they create ... More Emily Mullin's first solo exhibition with Jack Hanley Gallery on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery is presenting 'Woman on Top', Emily Mullins first solo exhibition with the gallery. Woman on Top presents a new series of wall-mounted reliefs of ceramic vessels and flowers on hand-painted steel shelves. Mullins three-dimensional still lifes explore the potential of the frame, the tradition of still life painting and forms of representation. The bent displays on which the vessels and floral arrangements are placed replicate the form of the cyclorama - the photographic space that dissolves the line between floor and wall. By extending the shelfs patterns onto the actual space of the gallerys walls, Mullin spins a web of meta presentations between the flat image, object, and real space. Mullins visual and historical influences can be found in a variety of genres including ancient Cycladic vessels, Gunta Stozls heavily patterned weavings, ... More Scott Fraser's ambitiously witty and highly detailed paintings on view at Jenkins Johnson GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco is presenting Earthly Delights, a solo exhibition of Scott Frasers ambitiously witty and highly detailed paintings. This is the third solo exhibition of one of Americas leading contemporary realist still life painters at Jenkins Johnson Gallery. Earthly Delights reveals the culmination of the artists recent investigations into objects in various states of stillness, suspension, and animation. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by William Kherbek. The exhibition is on view from November 1 through December 22, 2018. Mixing a classical approach to painting with contemporary objects and innovative compositions, Fraser experiments with cause and effect as well as sleight of hand, putting his own unique stamp on the subject matter. This newest exhibition ... More On December 8, Native American jewelry to be sold at Turner Auctions + AppraisalsSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Native American Jewelry on Saturday, December 8, 2018. Offering over 300 lots, mostly from one major collector, this extensive sale features a fine selection of Native American and Southwest jewelry, including bracelets, squash blossom and heishi necklaces, rings, numerous watch cuffs and watch bands, concho and other belts, brooches and pins, pendants, hat bands, belt buckles, bolos, and ketohs. Most are Native American, including Navajo and Zuni, with sterling or coin silver; most have turquoise, coral or other embellishments. All are Old Pawn or vintage. Several other related items round out the sale, including a Navajo rug, silver desk set, and bead work items. Of note, this is the final sale of items from a major collector whose exceptional jewelry Turner Auctions + Appraisals ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Calvin Klein was born November 19, 1942. Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry. In this image: Calvin Klein at the Vanity Fair party celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival. Photo: David Shankbone.
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