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View of the show © Photo Dirk Pauwels © M-Museum Leuven.
LEUVEN.- For five centuries, the Arenberg family belonged to the highest nobility of the Low Countries. The combination of their power, financial wealth and love for art and culture resulted in a number of collections that are impressive because of their extent as well as their quality. The exhibition Power and Beauty. The Arenbergs in M-Museum Leuven brings together more than 230 artworks and documents that were never shown before in a unique reunion that tells the story of the Arenbergs. The exhibition Noble Living. The Castle at Heverlee from Croÿ to Arenberg opens its doors at the University Library at the same moment. It tells the remarkable architectural history of the Arenberg Castle in Heverlee by displaying numerous exceptional pieces that were never shown before. The Arenbergs are already part of the highest nobility since the 16th century. The family left their mark on Europe as generals and diplomat ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors tour the antiquities museum in the Syrian capital Damascus on October 28, 2018. Syria reopened a wing of the capital's famed antiquities museum today after six years of closure to protect its exhibits from the civil war. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art makes images and data more accessible with the launch of Public Met Collection API | | Heard Museum exhibits rare works by Henri Matisse and the Native Alaskan masks that inspired him | | The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza opens first exhibition in Spain in twenty years to be devoted to Max Beckmann | 
File photo of Gallery 454: Egypt and Syria (10th-16th centuries) Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the launch of The Met Collection API (application programming interface), which builds on the Open Access program announced in 2017 and enables any third party to sustainably integrate The Met collection into their website, ensuring up-to-date versions of images and data are available to users. The Open Access program makes all Creative Commons Zero (CC0) data and some 406,000 images of over 205,000 CC0 objects from The Met collection available for use without restriction. Additionally, the first implementation of The Met Collection API is with long-time partner Google, via Google Arts & Culture. "The new Met Collection API further enables the Museum to connect its vast resources with our audiences on a global scale, which is absolutely fundamental ... More | | 
Central Yupik, Lower Yukon, Alaska. Dance mask, representing the Moon-Woman c.1870. Wood, pigment, vegetal fibers, sinew. Private collection. Photo by Craig Smith.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum, located in Phoenix, Ariz., announced the opening of Yua: Henri Matisse and the Inner Arctic Spirit, on Oct. 29, 2018. This will be the publics first and only opportunity to see this groundbreaking exhibition exploring the surprising artistic and spiritual connection between the great 20th century French modern master, Henri Matisse, and the Indigenous people of the Arctic. Matisse is celebrated for his sensuous approach to color and composition. Largely unknown to the general public, however, are his striking black-and-white portraits of Inuit people that were inspired, in part, by a group of Yupik (Native Alaskan) masks collected by his son-in-law Georges Duthuit. In the last decade of his life, while working on his masterpiece La Chapelle de Vence, Matisse became interested in both the physical forms and spiritual ... More | | 
Max Beckmann, Self-portrait with horn, 1938 (detail). Oil on canvas, 43 1/4 Ã 39 1/4 in. (109.9 Ã 101 cm) Neue Galerie New York and Private collection.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Beckmann. Exile figures, the first exhibition in Spain in twenty years to be devoted to the artist, one of the most important of the 20th century. While close to New Objectivity at the outset of his career, Max Beckmann (Leipzig, 1884 New York, 1950) created a unique and independent type of painting, realist in style but filled with symbolic resonances, which came to constitute a vigorous account of society of his day. Following its display at the Museo Thyssen, where it is sponsored by the Comunidad de Madrid, it will travel to CaixaForums exhibition space in Barcelona, from 21 February to 26 May 2019. Curated by Tomàs Llorens the exhibition features a total of 52 works, principally paintings but also sculptures and lithographs, loaned from museums and collections worldwide and including some of the artists most important creations ... More |
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| Extremely rare "holy grail of paper money" $1,000 note sells for $2.04 million | | Exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery features a new body of paintings by Svenja Deininger | | Syria reopens Damascus antiquities museum | 
The 1890 $1,000 Treasury Note known as the Grand Watermelon. Long recorded as About Uncirculated and confirmed as such by PCGS, this is the finest of the seven Grand Watermelon notes known. Of the seven Grand Watermelon notes known all but three are permanently held in government collections.
BALTIMORE, MD.- Numismatic auction house Stacks Bowers Galleries sold a very rare and valuable $1,000 bill for $2.04 million during Part III of the Joel R. Anderson Collection sale at the 2018 Winter Whitman Expo in Baltimore. Known as the Grand Watermelon Treasury Note, it was the first-ever paper bill to break the $1 million mark when it last sold in 2005. Grand Watermelon notes gained their famous nickname due to the distinctive large green zeros on the back of the note which bear a striking resemblance to the juicy fruit. The face design portrays Union Major General George Meade at left. Meade is best known for being the victorious commander of Union forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. Near center is an ornate 1000 die counter with floral ornaments. The Joel R. Anderson Collection is the most valuable collection of federally-issued United States ... More | | 
Svenja Deininger, Untitled, 2018 (detail). Oil on canvas, 39 2/5 x 39 2/5 inches, 100 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Svenja Deininger. Photo: Markus Woergoetter.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting Crescendo, Viennese artist Svenja Deiningers third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a new body of paintings that captures Deiningers fluid manipulation of color and form, resulting in complex compositions that arise organically as she works the canvas. Driven by both formal inquiry and a deep understanding of physical environment, Deininger creates a holistic experience. Crescendo is on view at the gallerys 509 W. 24th Street location from October 25 through December 22, 2018. Deininger approaches each exhibition as a distinct moment in time, following a single conceptual thread or inkling until it completes in a discrete body of work. In this way, Deininger is much like a composer, weaving together gesture, color, and line to create an intricacy of texture and rhythm, with each painting bringing a singular note and weight to the ... More | | 
Visitors tour the antiquities museum in the Syrian capital Damascus on October 28, 2018. Syria reopened a wing of the capital's famed antiquities museum today after six years of closure to protect its exhibits from the civil war. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP.
DAMASCUS (AFP).- The antiquities museum in the capital of war-torn Syria reopened its doors after six years on Sunday, with a two-millenia-old lion standing proud in the garden. Its jaws ajar, the three metre stone Lion of Al-Lat towered over a fountain after surviving the country's seven-year conflict and damage inflicted by Islamic State group jihadists. The lion was just one of the artefacts on show after the museum reopened one of its wings, revealing once again some of its thousands of treasures for the first time since 2012. Other parts of the museum are to reopen soon. The Damascus museum, founded in 1920, was closed one year into the civil war as the then national head of antiquities Maamoun Abdulkarim took action to protect its pieces from rebel rockets or looting. He was petrified that the country's museums would be looted like in neighbouring Iraq after the US-led invasion of 2003. "We closed ... More |
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| National Veterans Memorial and Museum designed by Allied Works opens | | Solo exhibition of photographs by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara opens at Pace/MacGill Gallery | | Susan Philipsz premieres two new acoustic works at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | 
National Veterans Memorial and Museum. Photo by Jeremy Bittermann.
COLUMBUS, OH.- The first national institution dedicated to honoring U.S. veterans and celebrating their service opened the doors to its home, designed by Allied Works Architecture, on October 27, 2018. Neither a war memorial nor military museum, the National Veterans Memorial and Museum is a civic and cultural institution that seeks to interweave the role of veterans and the act of service within a broader national context. Located in downtown Columbus, Ohio, the new 53,000square-foot building unites architecture and landscape in one gesture as it creates an iconic, new civic space to tell the story of veterans on an individual and collective level. It has been an immense privilege to help realize the vision of late Senator John Glenn in the creation of our countrys first museum dedicated to service, said Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works. Our design for the museum and memorial helps to articulate the i ... More | | 
Sakhalin, 2014. Two pigment prints each image 16 1/2 x 22 1/8 in. Signed verso. Edition of 7 with 2 APs. © Yoshitomo Nara; courtesy Pace and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace/MacGill Gallery is presenting yoshitomo nara: all things must pass, but nothing is lost / precious days around me, sometimes farther along, sometimes under my feet, a solo exhibition of photographs by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Showcasing a selection of color and black-andwhite prints from 1983 to present day, the exhibition marks the New York debut of Naras work in photography and is on view from October 25, 2018 through January 12, 2019. Nara is internationally renowned for his distinctive paintings, sculptures, and drawings of single figures, but his near lifelong pursuit of photographic expression remains relatively unexplored. His interest in the medium originated at age 13 when his parents gave him his first camera and began informing his artistic practice a decade later ... More | | 
Susan Philipsz, Lachrimae Antiquae IV, 2017. Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and salt on canvas, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches, 50 x 50 cm. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York / Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting A Single Voice, a solo exhibition of recent works by Turner-prize winning artist, Susan Philipsz on view at 521 West 21st Street, New York from October 25 through December 15, 2018. This is Philipszs fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and serves as the United States premiere of two new acoustic works, A Single Voice and Seven Tears. Together, these ambitious installations continue the artists ongoing exploration of the visceral, emotive, and architectural potentials of sound when projected in a specific environment. Occupying the first floor gallery is Philipsz seminal installation, A Single Voice. Made up of a largescale film projection installed alongside a sculptural arrangement of 12 speakers, this is the artists first major piece utilizing film as a medium. The sound is adapted ... More |
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| 'Have you news of my boy?': Kipling's vain search for lost son | | 'Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers' opens at National Museums Scotland | | Gallery IMMAGIS presents iconic as well as newly discovered works by photographers Sylvie Blum and Giovanni Gastel | 
A picture taken on October 18, 2018 shows the grave of John Kipling, son of British writer Rudyard Kipling, at the Sainte Mary's military cemetary in Haisnes, near the city of Lille, northern France. DENIS CHARLET / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, an ardent supporter of his country's entry into World War I, did everything he could to make sure his only son would join the fight. Yet just a few weeks after John Kipling touched French soil on the day of his 18th birthday, he was reported missing during the devastating Battle of Loos on September 27, 1915. His father and mother Carrie would spend the next several years desperately searching for him, hoping against all odds that he might have survived. It was not until 1919 that Kipling publicly acknowledged his son was probably dead, one of the 1.1 million soldiers lost by the British Empire in the war. The author of "The Jungle Book", the first Briton to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, fiercely defended the war as a patriotic duty for all able-bodied men. He threw himself ... More | | 
The 70 samplers in the exhibition are on loan from American collector Leslie B Durst.
EDINBURGH.- Embroidered Stories: Scottish Samplers showcases an extraordinary collection of Scottish needlework from the 18th and 19th centuries. The 70 samplers in the exhibition are on loan from American collector Leslie B Durst, a philanthropist and passionate supporter of the arts who has assembled a remarkable collection of samplers from Europe and North America. The Leslie B Durst sampler collection is one of the largest and most comprehensive private collections in the world, and includes over 500 Scottish samplers, dating from the early 18th to the mid-19th century. Leslie intends to bequeath this remarkable collection of Scottish samplers to National Museums Scotland. Mostly made by young girls as part of their education, samplers were primarily a demonstration of sewing skills. Every sampler is both a study in needlework but, moreover, each one is a fascinating piece of social history and it is the stories stitched into the samplers that interest ... More | | 
Sylvie Blum, Candy Lips, 2014. © Sylvie Blum. Image courtesy IMMAGIS.
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MUNICH.- Following the lighthearted summer exhibition Best of ME + CO & Pool Party by the French-Italian selfie king, Jean Pigozzi, Gallery IMMAGIS in Munich is presenting a first-class double exhibition. Power Meets Poetry showcases iconic as well as newly discovered works by photographers Sylvie Blum and Giovanni Gastel, paying tribute to strong women with an attractive juxtaposition of images from the 1990s to the present. Sylvie Blum (b. 1967, Austria) is a classic example of a model turned photographer. The former model was photographed by the likes of Helmut Newton and Jan Saudek, and after marrying renowned erotic photographer Günter Blum she became his model and muse. Honing her photographic skills at the Mannheim College of Art, she moved behind the camera after Günter Blums death. The body of work she has developed since the end of the 1990s, inspired by photographers such as Leni ... More |
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 Masterpieces of horology to lead Sotheby's Geneva auction of Important Watches on 13 NovemberGENEVA.- Sothebys Geneva unveiled the highlights of its upcoming auction of Important Watches, to take place on 13 November. The sale, at Mandarin Oriental, Geneva, will feature a highly impressive selection of extremely rare pieces, which will include The Asprey by Patek Philippe, one of the most important vintage wristwatches in the world, estimated at CHF 2-4 million ($2,040,000 4,040,000). This museum-quality piece will lead a selection of exceptional and rare vintage watches by Patek Philippe. With very strong market demand for extraordinary vintage Rolex, we are also delighted to present a number of outstanding wristwatches from the manufacturer from the 1950s to the 1970s, each boasting characteristics highly prized by todays collectors. The selection of contemporary watches in the sale is led by a unique and breathtaking piece by Richard Mille ... More The Prince's Trust to sell celebrity outfits at Julien's AuctionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Princes Trust believes that every young person deserves the chance to succeed - so to raise funds for its work it is auctioning a collection of spectacular showbiz outfits of leading musicians and actors with Juliens Auctions upcoming ICONS & IDOLS: ROCK-N-ROLL auction event on Saturday, November 10 live in Hard Rock Café in New York and online at juliensauctions.com. A marquee lineup featuring of items donated by Britney Spears, Lionel Richie, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Joan Collins, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and more will star on the auction stage. The mission of The Princes Trust is to help 11 to 30 year olds who are unemployed or struggling at school, to transform their lives. The Trust programme helps with practical advice and financial support, building confidence and stabilizing lives, helping young people to achieve ... More Exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Huang Rui opens at Boers-Li Gallery New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Boers-Li Gallery New York is presenting an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Huang Rui, dating from the 1980s to the present. This is the first U.S. exhibition of Huang Ruis most recent series, Zen Space. Huang Rui is widely recognized for his foundational role in the development of post-Cultural Revolution art as a founding member of the audacious Stars Group, for his early application of Western art concepts abstract expressionism, cubism, fauvism to Chinese contemporary art, and as a founder and defender of Beijings 798 Art District. Huang characterizes his art as determined, deep exploration, and Zen Space, his latest series, as growing from
a continuous experimentation towards the most essential statement of art. This body of work takes shape in part through Huangs consideration of the Confucian order of society and ... More Wilde, the web and the world: The British Library comes to Hong KongLONDON.- The life, work and literary legacy of Oscar Wilde will be centre-stage at a special event taking place at Hong Kong International Literary Festival on 4 November 2018. The British Library Session will feature renowned theatre directors Tang Shu-wing and Dominic Dromgoole (former Artistic Director of Shakespeares Globe), Dr Marco Wang of The University of Hong Kong and British Library curator Alexandra Ault, who has responsibility for one of the worlds most important collections of original Oscar Wilde manuscripts, held by the British Library. The panel event which will explore stage and film adaptations of Wilde, connections between the Hong Kong and UK literary landscapes, and Wildes status for LGBTQ audiences and creators is one of several to take place in Hong Kong as part of the Librarys three-year programme to share its collections ... More Crocker Art Museum opens exhibition of works by California landscape painter Raymond Dabb Yelland SACRAMENTO, CA.- Raymond Dabb Yelland: California Landscape Painter is the first exhibition in more than 50 years to celebrate the life and work of this important 19thcentury artist. From Yellands arrival in Oakland in 1873 until his death in 1900, he rendered beautiful views of West Coast scenery, incorporating changing fashions of landscape art into paintings that retain credibility as depictions of real places. Yelland (1848 1900) became noted early in his career for quiet coastal scenes in a variation of the Hudson River School style, known today as Luminism. Along with prominent Eastern artists such as John F. Kensett, Yelland explored harmonies created by light reflected in atmosphere. Paintings like Point Bonita from Point Lobos (fig. 1) contrast the sunset warmth of the headlands with the cool blue of the ocean. As the orange and blue ... More Brill Gallery exhibits important diptychs and watercolors by Eve SonnemanNORTH ADAMS, MASS.- Eve Sonneman has secured a unique position for herself in the world of contemporary art internationally. Sonnemans career was launched in the Young Photographers Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971. From there, she participated in the 1977 Documenta and in the Biennales of Venice, Paris, Strasbourg and Australia. Sonneman was with Leo Castelli for twelve years and Sidney Janis for four years. Since 2009, she has been represented by Nohra Haime Gallery, New York. Sonneman is mostly known for her diptychs and Polaroid Sonnegrams. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Art Institute of Chicago, Menil Foundation, Corcoran, MOCA-LA, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and in more than thirty other museums ... More The FLAG Art Foundation exhibits new and recent works by Kamrooz AramNEW YORK, NY.- The FLAG Art Foundation is presenting Kamrooz Aram: An Object, A Gesture, A Décor, on view October 27, 2018-January 19, 2019, on its 10th floor. Kamrooz Aram exhibits new and recent paintings, sculptural works, and collages, highlighting the complex position of ornament throughout the history of modern art. Arams works challenge conventional art historical hierarchies that have placed fine art and the decorative arts in separate categories of value; mediating patterns lifted from Persian carpets through gestural abstraction, allowing color field painting to become backdrops for ceramics, and employing wall painting with reference to encyclopedic museums, where viewers typical engage the decorative arts. Arams paintings engage a process of building and destroying the image by layering patterns, geometric forms, delicate ... More October auction continues strong 2018 results by Heritage Silver & VertuDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu sales totaled more than $1.4 million in 2018. We have been fortunate to see extraordinary works in silver this year, and to have clients seeking this level of design and craftsmanship, Heritage Auctions Director of Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Karen Rigdon said. "The success of these auctions makes us very optimistic about the future of silver and vertu at Heritage Auctions. Competitive bidders pursued a Yossi Swed Partial Gilt Silver Ship-Form Menorah with Display Case, 1992-93 until it finally closed at $30,000 to claim top-lot honors in an October 15 auction. Whimsy and surprises abound as elaborate mechanical workings turn the ship into a centerpiece for the Hanukkah celebration. Two pair of silver candelabra by Danish silver manufacturer Georg Jensen in the Pomegranate pattern prompted ... More Neil Goldberg's first solo show with Cristin Tierney Gallery opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery is presenting Neil Goldberg: Vote in the Midterm Elections. This is Goldbergs first solo show with the gallery, and includes video, photography, and performance. Vote in the Midterm Elections continues through Saturday, December 15th. Goldbergs exhibition title is a call to action and an acknowledgment of the horrific and surreal context in which this show opens. It is also reflective of the artists engaged approach to the place and time he inhabits. A longtime New Yorker, Goldberg frames and illuminates often overlooked moments of beauty, absurdity, and humanity within a constantly changing and at times chaotic urban setting. Each project mirrors our world back to us, asking us to look closer and attune ourselves to the act of attention itself. Goldberg's call to vote, pragmatic and inciting even couched within ... More UK's biggest art prize opens at National Museum CardiffCARDIFF.- On October 26th the Artes Mundi 8 Prize and Exhibition in Cardiff opened its doors to the British public, presenting a major exhibition of works from five of the worlds most challenging and innovative contemporary artists. The UKs leading political art prize, Artes Mundi celebrates the work of international artists tackling the biggest issues facing our world, from near constant surveillance and entrenched racism, to industrial exploitation on a global scale and state control of individual freedoms. Artes Mundi 8 is also the UKs biggest art prize, with a prize fund of £40,000; the winner will be announced at an award ceremony in Cardiff on 24th January 2019. Tackling social injustice and the human condition head on, artists in this years exhibition include MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Trevor Paglen (USA), whose photography interrogates the secrecy ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor and painter Niki de Saint Phalle was born October 29, 1930. Niki de Saint Phalle (born Catherine-Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle, 29 October 1930 - 21 May 2002) was a French-American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker. She was one of the few women artists widely known for monumental sculpture, but also for her commitments. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Sphinx' by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), at the Max-Ernst-Museum in Bruehl, Germany.
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