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This exhibition is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savages contributions to art and cultural history in light of her role as an artist-activist.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opened its major special exhibition of the fall season, Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman, on August 24. Featuring nearly eighty objects, including sculptures, paintings, works on paper, and archival materials, this exhibition is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savages contributions to art and cultural history in light of her role as an artist-activist. We are honored to present this major exhibition of the American sculptor Augusta Savage at the Palmer this fall, said the museums director, Erin M. Coe. We are dedicated to shedding new light on underrepresented artists, and this examination of Savages career and achievements is both timely and relevant given the current focus on social activism and the concept of the artist-activist, she added. A gifted sculptor, Savage (18921962) was born in Green Cove Springs, Fl ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on August 28, 2019 shows a woman walking past clothing from Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on display at the Ho Chi Minh museum in Hanoi. September 2, 2019 marks 50 years since the death of Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, whose embalmed corpse is visited by millions annually at a stately mausoleum in Hanoi. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP
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 | | Turkey's 'Microangelo' turns tiny objects into artworks | | Uncle Ho's minders: The protectors of Vietnam's embalmed leader | | Canadian shipwreck offers up secrets of lost expedition | 
A paint on a gum pieace by Turkey's micro artist Hasan Kale (unseen) is pictured in Istanbul on August 23, 2019. His canvas could be anything from match sticks, seeds to razors and crown corks. Turkey's micro artist, also known as Turkish Microangelo in reference to Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo, has been hitting his brush onto tiny everyday objects for more than two decades. Ozan KOSE / AFP.
ISTANBUL (AFP).- For Turkey's "Microangelo", any tiny, discarded item could be the canvas for his next mini masterpiece, from a matchstick to a pumpkin seed. The delicate, impeccably detailed miniature paintings of Hasan Kale often require a magnifying glass to be able to see the nuances but can take months to complete. Some of his best-known pieces include a scene from the movie "Pulp Fiction" on the side of a piece of popcorn and the silhouette of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on a grain of rice. "I started this journey 25 years ago with the goal of establishing a new language in art... by transforming the objects that we put aside or see as trash into little capsules of art," he told AFP, at his Istanbul studio. "It is ... More | | 
This photograph taken on August 26, 2019 shows Vietnamese Major General Cao Dinh Kiem, a senior member of the team in charge of guarding the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, during an interview with AFP in Hanoi. Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP.
HANOI (AFP).- The task of safeguarding the embalmed corpse of Vietnam's revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh is gruelling: carefully-selected riflemen work around the clock, watching over the communist nation's founding father who died 50 years ago Monday. Protecting him is the ultimate patriotic service for men in stiff white uniforms at Ho's towering tomb in Hanoi, a monolithic shrine to a man who still pervades public life despite his fading relevance among the youth. The job is a "dream come true" for guard Nguyen Xuan Thang, even if it's not always easy. "We have to have our eyes on everything to deal with any situation that may arise," the 41-year-old lieutenant colonel told AFP. All year round, he works up to four two-hour shifts every day -- often outside the tomb in the blistering summer heat, monsoon rains, or frigid winter weather. Some days he works inside the cool, dark chambers where Ho's waxy body ... More | | 
Canadian parks department officials announced Wednesday the results of a survey of the shipwreck's near-pristine interior.
OTTAWA (AFP).- Almost two centuries after descending to its watery grave, the HMS Terror could offer up new clues to its demise -- and solve one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of Arctic discovery. Canadian parks department officials announced Wednesday the results of a survey of the shipwreck's near-pristine interior -- and revealed that artifacts preserved in the deep might help explain what happened to the polar exploration vessel. The Terror vanished alongside the HMS Erebus during explorer Sir John Franklin's storied Arctic expedition that left Britain in 1845 to discover the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After passing two whaling boats in Baffin Bay in August of that year, the ill-fated ships would never be seen afloat again. The Erebus was found in Victoria Strait in 2014, while the Terror was located under 24 meters (80 feet) of water two years later in what is now known as Terror Bay, off King William Island, Nunavut. Underwater archeologists spent ... More |
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| | Paul Holberton Publishing announces 'Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman' | | New gallery at American Folk Art Museum displays selected masterworks of collection | | Australia's only contemporary art gallery dedicated to women artists opens in Melbourne | 
This book offers an overview of the artists graphic work.
LONDON.- Accompanying an exhibition of drawings by Guercino from the collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman offers an overview of the artists graphic work, ranging from his early genre studies and caricatures, to the dense and dynamic preparatory studies for his paintings, and on to highly finished chalk drawings and landscapes that were ends in themselves. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (15911666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media. The Morgan owns more than thirty-five works by the artist, and these are the subject of a focused exhibition, supplemented by a pair of loans from private New York collections, to be held at the Morgan in the autumn of 2019. This volume accompanies that exhibition. It includes an introductory essay on Guercinos ... More | | 
Edward Hicks (17801849), The Peaceable Kingdom, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 18291831 (detail). Oil on canvas, in original painted wood frame. American Folk Art Museum, gift of Carroll and Donna Janis.
NEW YORK, NY.- The American Folk Art Museum has opened a new gallery that displays a rotating selection of works from its 8,500-piece collection. The new space, commemorated during the museums thirtieth anniversary at its Lincoln Square location, is intended to offer a snapshot of AFAMs effort over its nearly sixty-year history to advance art by the self-taught across time and place. The first exhibition in the new gallery is curated by Dr. Valérie Rousseau, AFAMs senior curator and curator of self-taught art & art brut, and AFAMs former chief curator, Stacy C. Hollander. This inaugural exhibition is funded through the generosity of Daniel Greenberg, Susan Steinhauser, and the Greenberg Foundation. Our new gallery encourages learning and engagement with many of the best examples of self-taught art, revealing ... More | | 
Lisa Fehily, Director Finkelstein Gallery. Photo: Natalia Sikiric.
MELBOURNE.- Finkelstein Gallery, Australias only contemporary art gallery dedicated to women artists has opened in Melbourne with its inaugural group exhibition Finkelstein Gallery presents which runs from 29 August to 28 September 2019. Founded by respected art consultant and advocate Lisa Fehily, the gallery will present works from some of Australias most exciting emerging and established female artists including Cigdem Aydemir, Lisa Roet, Louise Paramour, Monika Behrens, Kate Rohde, Kate Baker, Deborah Kelly, Coady and international artists Kim Lieberman and Sonal Kontaria. Inspired by the under representation of female artists in Australias institutional collections and the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C campaign #Fivewomenartists, Lisa Fehily felt the time was right to open the gallery. After working with artists for many years, I have ... More |
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| | ArtCurious podcast named one of PC Magazine's best podcasts of 2019, the Oprah Magazine's Best History Podcasts | | Selected contractor announced for Art Gallery of New South Wales expansion | | The Louisiana Art & Science Museum is "Over the Rainbow" about new exhibition dedicated to color | 
Podcast listed among some of the biggest shows around, and is one of the top in PC Magazine's "Informative Podcasts" category.
RALEIGH, NC.- The ArtCurious Podcast, an internationally popular, bi-weekly audio show boasting an audience of approximately 30,000 subscribers and hundreds of thousands of downloads, was chosen as one of PC Magazine's Best Podcasts of the Year for the second year in a row. This is a coup for a small, independently produced show, who is now lauded alongside podcast heavyweights like Pod Save America, 99% Invisible, Anna Faris is Unqualified, My Favorite Murder, and many others. In late August 2019, ArtCurious was similarly heralded on O, the Oprah Magazine's website, as one of the Best History Podcasts of 2019, another big accomplishment for an independent program. In addition, ArtCurious is celebrating the upcoming launch of its fifth season. From September through December 2019, ArtCurious will release seven new episodes revealing the connections between fine art and true crime, beginning ... More | | 
Image of the Sydney Modern Project as produced by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA © Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2018.
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales has welcomed the announcement of Richard Crookes Constructions as the selected contractor for the Sydney Modern Project. Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Arts Minister Don Harwin today announced the selected contractor for the Gallerys new building, designed by Pritzker prize-winning architects, SANAA. Art Gallery of New South Wales director Dr Michael Brand said, I welcome the announcement of Richard Crookes Constructions as the selected contractor for the Sydney Modern Project. We look forward to the next stage of the project that will bring physical form to SANAAs magnificent design. We are creating an extraordinary building that will transform our institution and the way visitors engage with art, Dr Brand said. A public Art Garden will link the new and existing gallery buildings, creating a unique art museum experience for all visitors. The ... More | | 
Irene Mamiye. Veil 9992, 2014 (detail). Dye Sublimation Print on aluminum, 40 x 40 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.
BATON ROUGE, LA.- The Louisiana Art & Science Museum is presenting Harmonies in Color: Six Contemporary Perspectives, an exhibition featuring artwork by six nationally recognized artists devoted to the subject of color. The show opened on August 24 and run through March 1, 2020. Organized by LASM, Harmonies in Color provides a glimpse into how artists are using color as more than simply a means to beautify their work. Included are paintings, photographs, and sculptures by renowned colorists Gabriele Evertz, Irene Mamiye, Pard Morrison, Robert Swain, and Sanford Wurmfeld, as well as a site-specific installation by Jen Pack. The exhibition includes references to major milestones in the scientific investigation of color, color themes and theories, and color as a subject of art. In their work, each of these artists address color, investigating its aesthetic, emotive, and optical qualities from their own ... More |
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| | Waverly Rare Books to auction compete Tasha Tudor book art in Sept. 12 auction | | Morphy's presents rare antique toys, banks, dolls & figural cast iron novelties, Sept. 24-25 | | Seattle Art Museum presents award-winner Natalie Ball's solo exhibition | 
Second-edition copy of Stephen Cranes classic book The Red Badge of Courage (D. Appleton & Co., N.Y., 1896), est. $1,000-$2,000. Waverly Rare Books image.
FALLS CHURCH, VA.- The Waverly Rare Books division of Quinns Auction Galleries will conduct a Sept. 12, 2019 auction packed with 471 lots of rare books, high-quality prints, autographs and other ephemera. A featured lot is a complete set of original watercolors by beloved childrens author Tasha Tudor for her 1966 book The Great Corgiville Kidnapping, with impeccable family provenance. Additional highlights include early editions of James Joyces Ulysses and Stephen Cranes The Red Badge of Courage; rare documents signed by John Hancock, Gustave Flaubert, Johannes Brahms and Honore de Balzac; and original artworks prepared for the U.S. Capitol and the George Washington Masonic Temple by the muralist Allyn Cox. Tasha Tudor (1915-2008, Mass./Vt.) was a beloved illustrator and writer of children's books. The original Tudor watercolors in the auction 55 in all, 41 of which are signed and dated ... More | | 
Very rare Henry Hart Presto cast-iron mechanical bank. Book example shown on Pg. 208 of Mechanical Banks by Dan Morphy. Estimate $30,000-$60,000. Images courtesy of Morphy Auctions.
DENVER, PA.- Although Morphy Auctions is one of Americas largest and busiest auction houses, with a year-round calendar of sales in many categories, the Pennsylvania-based company launched its business in 1997 with a specialty in fine antique toys and banks. Their enduring leadership role in the toy community has been paid back handsomely with a loyal worldwide following of antique and vintage toy, bank and figural cast-iron collectors who never miss their sales. Morphys next big toy, bank and doll event will take place at their gallery on September 24-25, with all forms of bidding available, including absentee, by phone, or live via the Internet through Morphy Live. More than 1,500 lots are entered, including 200+ mechanical and still banks, 200+ boxed Marx and Buddy L pressed steel vehicles, over 150 trains, 150 advertising figures, a sweet selection of more than 100 ... More | | 
Installation view of Natalie Ball: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake at the Seattle Art Museum. © Seattle Art Museum. Photo: Natali Wiseman.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Natalie Ball: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake (August 10November 17, 2019), the solo exhibition of the winner of the 2018 Betty Bowen Award. Natalie Ball approaches her sculptural work through the lens of auto-ethnography, dislodging dominant narratives and expectations surrounding Native experience and history to establish more complex racial narratives. For her solo show at SAM, Ball created two new mixed-media sculptures that wryly challenge the visual legacies and representations of Native Americans. In the two works, the artist uses traditional Indigenous forms, playfully suggestive homonyms, repurposed fabrics, and animal hides to complicate and reclaim Indigenous histories and forms of knowledge. Re-Run (2019) features a large textile stretched loosely across two large pine sticks. Its composed of various ... More |
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 Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to release The Wizard of Oz on 4K Ultra HD Blu-rayLONDON.- Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced today that 1939s acclaimed and beloved classic The Wizard of Oz will be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-rayTM on 28th October 2019 and on Digital Download on 29th October 2019. Directed by Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) and starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale, The Wizard of Oz is widely considered to be one of the most influential films in cinematic history. Exclusive to the Limited Edition Anniversary collection, you can own The Wizard of Oz film alongside the CD soundtrack in this truly unique 80th Anniversary boxset. Showcased in a stunning pop-up design, this collection contains 4 discs (4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray feature, Blu-ray special features, and CD soundtrack), a set of premium art cards, a reproduction of the original film poster, and the marvellous map of Oz. Adapted from L. Frank ... More  Artists commemorate murdered and missing women, girls, queer, and trans community members TORONTO.- The Gardiner Museum presents the Canadian debut of Cannupa Hanska Luger: Every One & Kali Spitzer: Sister, an installation that brings visibility to the crisis surrounding murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, trans, and queer community members. Made up of over 4,000 clay beads created by hundreds of communities across the United States and Canada in response to artist Cannupa Hanksa Lugers call to action shared over social media, Every One (2018) re-humanizes the large and abstract data of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer, and trans community members by representing each life with a handmade object. The object is the echo of the impact, it is what remains after many people have worked with their hands in a collective action of healing and solidarity. ... More  Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts presents Reality & Essence: The realistic painting of Huang Chia-NingKAOHSIUNG CITY.- The exhibition title Reality & Essence: The realistic painting of Huang Chia-Ning came from a term in Buddhism. It means the law (Sanskrit: dharma), and is the essence of truth. It is the correct wisdom or insight, and therefore the real meaning of Reality & Essence is to see the insight without obstacles and understand the truth. The exhibition Reality & Essence: The realistic painting of Huang Chia-Ning tries to reflect and explore the relationship between "painting" and "reality." In the whole process of "realistic painting," it is not the precision of "skills" itself that achieves artistic quality, but rather "insight" determines the "essence." "Insight" means seeing with mental perception, it is about the state of the mind. From Snails, Doves, Cauliflower, X-ray Film, these titles are easy to understand. One can find that the title of Huang Chia-Ning's ... More  Ry David Bradley joins Sullivan+StrumpfSINGAPORE.- One of Asia-Pacifics leading contemporary art galleries, Sullivan+Strumpf announced its representation of Ry David Bradley. Born in Australia and based in London, Bradley is known for his process-based practice, which investigates the nature of painting in an era where the boundaries between picture, video, and virtual reality are increasingly blurred. Sullivan+Strumpf, founders and directors, Joanna Strumpf and Ursula Sullivan said Bradley is an artist at the forefront of exploration into the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art. The discussion about our digital age has been difficult for artists to approach, but Rys work stands out for addressing the theme with visual sophistication. His complex works examine the way we see the present in relation to the past and future in a way that is visually intriguing ... More  Brussels Design September to offer more than 100 design events in the cityBRUSSELS.- Over the years, Brussels Design September has become the annual flagship event for design enthusiasts. For one month, the city hosts an array of over 100 unmissable cultural and commercial events offering a meeting platform between the public and a great number of Belgian and international designers. Brussels Design September will feature exhibitions, conferences, open houses, an Arts & Crafts tour, Commerce Design Brussels and Brussels Design Market. A multitude of dialogues between designers, architects and design lovers as well as the chance to discover urban trails between the many pop-up stores, shops, workshops, galleries and cultural spaces. This years edition will be marked by the latest trends in Belgian and international design and will be highlighted by the multi-disciplinary spirit of different influences, movements, ... More  Bienen professor's music gives voice to coral reefs in crisisCHICAGO, IL.- A teeming world of marine life, displayed on 89 giant panels, immerses viewers inside a thriving coral ecosystem. Colorful, undulating creatures dance to a score of celestial harmonies providing a glimpse of an underwater world often overlooked by humans. Welcome to Choral, an installation combining art, architecture and technology. The multidimensional effort was designed and informed by artists and researchers with ties to Northwestern University and is on display at 150 Media Stream through Sept. 30 at 150 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago. The creators of Choral are composer Jay Alan Yim, an associate professor of composition and music technology at the Bienen School of Music, and 3D/video artist Marlena Novak (83 MFA Weinberg), an adjunct associate professor of film, video, new media and animation ... More  It's Urgent! - Part II: Luma Westbau opens an exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich ObristZURICH.- The point of departure for Its Urgent! is an exhibition model that I started (with Christian Boltanski and Betrand Lavier) in 1993 with do it. For this on-going, flexible and open-ended show, we invite artists to write instructions, scores and recipes that can then be interpreted by others each time they are presented. For example, poet Eileen Myles (who is also included in the new Its Urgent! project) made a piece called How to Run for President of the United States. Her text is a reminder that even in these frightening times, democracy belongs to the people, and that art can be a means of reclaiming it. The idea for do it was to create new, less predictable situations, eschewing classical exhibitions in favour of other modes of display and visibility, thus creating new forms of exchange, encounter and social space, opening up to new audiences. The do it project ... More  Hemingway sculpture re-dedication at Beaver Island District LibraryBEAVER ISLAND, MICH.- In the Summer of 2018, Beaver Island residents and art lovers alike were devastated to learn their prized Hemingway Project Sculpture had been taken from outside the Beaver Island District Library. The sculpture went missing for 3 months until the bandits caved to outside pressure and returned the sculpture, under cover of darkness to its original location. The sculpture, by renowned artist and arts educator John Sauvé, had proudly graced the entrance to the library since 2016. Regally standing nine feet tall, the steel installation drew attention from library and island visitors and was a popular spot for photo opportunities. It is a key piece of Sauvés The Hemingway Sculpture Project. The collection of installations across the state highlights and pays homage to the many Michigan locations that influenced and impacted ... More  Germany asks Polish forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreakWARSAW (AFP).- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Sunday asked Poland's forgiveness 80 years after Germany's attack triggered World War II while his Polish counterpart denounced Russia's recent "imperialist" aggression against its neighbours. Poland suffered some of the worst horrors of World War II: nearly six million Poles died in the conflict that killed more than 50 million people overall. That figure includes the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, half of them Polish. "I bow before the Polish victims of German tyranny. And I ask your forgiveness," Steinmeier said at pre-dawn ceremonies in the western Polish city of Wielun where Germany's first bombs fell 80 years ago. "It was Germans who committed these crimes against humanity in Poland. Anyone calling them things of the past, or claiming that the vile rule of terror of the National Socialists ... More  Seoul Museum of Art celebrates Eunme Ahn's 30th anniversary as an artistSEOUL.- Seoul Museum of Art holds the exhibition Eunme Ahn_Known Future by Eunme Ahn, an artist who has introduced the cultural identity of Korea and Asia to the world through her modern dance and performance works that go beyond the genre divisions of contemporary art. As a dancer and choreographer, Eunme Ahn has continuously produced and performed new works. She celebrates her 30th anniversary as an artist this year. Then, is Eunme Ahn_Known Future a retrospective exhibit on the past 30 years? The answer is both affirmative and negative. This exhibition is designed to be an appreciation of the contemporary artists who have collaborated with her and the active audience who have supported her as well as a celebration for the discussion on our future and its direction. Intended to be both retrospective as well as explorative of the future, Eunme Ahn_Known ... More  First edition of POSITIONS Munich Art Fair will take place from 17-20 October MUNICH.- The first edition of POSITIONS Munich Art Fair will take place from 17 - 20 October 2019 at Reithalle Munich. After two very successful editions of paper positions munich, the fair will now be expanded to POSITIONS Munich Art Fair with a special sector paper positions munich. The POSITIONS Munich Art Fair invites 37 international galleries to participate with their most important positions of contemporary and modern art. Works of all artistic media can now be presented. As a special section, paper positions munich will remain part of the new fair and will continue to focus on this particular genre. The galleries and their artists will be given the opportunity to present works dedicated to the medium of paper with all its specific characteristics, its fragility and its enormous versatility. ALMACEN, Tel Aviv AMBACHER CONTEMPORARY, Munich/Paris Galerie ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri Rousseau died September 02, 1910. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 -September 2, 1910) was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality. In this image: Employees of the Grand Palais museum in Paris take Henri Rousseau's painting "Foret tropicale avec singes," (1910), away for packing Thursday June 22, 2006, for transportation to the U.S. for the "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris" exhibit, the first all-Rousseau retrospective in two decades which opened Sunday, July 16, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building in Washington.
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