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Image of the exhibition galleries. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The recent addition to the Museums collection of Portrait of Manuela Isidra Téllez-Girón, future Duchess of Abrantes by AugustÃn Esteve y Marqués, acquired with funds from the Ãscar Alzaga Villaamil donation, will allow for greater knowledge of this interesting painter who was in his day considered the finest court portraitist after Francisco de Goya. This work completes the Alzaga donation, which was accepted last March and comprises six important paintings plus funding for the acquisition of a seventh. For the first time the exhibition brings together Esteves portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Osunas children, including outstanding works loaned by the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, the Duque del Infantado collection and the Masaveu and MartÃnez Lanzas-de las Heras collections, with the aim of providing a context for the portrait of Manuela Isidra. Furthermore, through the organisation of this exhibition the Prado is the first museum to focus on Esteve with t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day China's President Xi Jinping (L) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin visit an exhibition on China's cultural heritage prior to the opening of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen on September 3, 2017. The five BRICS nations hold their annual summit in China under the shadow of a Sino-Indian border spat and growing questions about the grouping's relevance. Mikhail KLIMETYEV / Sputnik / AFP
| Modernism opens a major exhibition of prints and drawings by Edvard Munch | | Exhibition provides an insight into Faurschou Foundation's diverse art collection | | The Renaissance art collection of a powerful Italian family comes to Auckland | 
The Girls on the Bridge, 1918, woodcut and lithograph on zinc plate print in two colors.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Modernism is presenting a major exhibition of prints and drawings by the legendary Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). Encompassing thirty works produced between 1894 to 1930, the exhibition complements a concurrent retrospective of Munch's paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Modernism exhibition features some of Munch's most famous images, including The Sick Child, Madonna, and The Kiss painted versions of which are simultaneously on view at SFMOMA affording viewers a rare opportunity to see how he treated key themes including death and love in diverse media. Printmaking was central to Munch's practice, and works on paper were as significant to him artistically as oils on canvas. Over the course of five decades, beginning in 1894, he printed some eighteen thousand impressions, representing hundreds of motifs, realized as etchings, lithographs, ... More | | 
Tracey Emin, The more of you the more I love you, 2016. Neon (flamingo pink) and mirror / dibond installation Dimensions variable. Photo by Anders Sune Berg © Faurschou Foundation.
COPENHAGEN.- Faurschou Foundation is presenting the exhibition, Recent Acquisitions, which introduces a selection of the newly acquired artworks from its collection. Featuring works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Tracey Emin, Anselm Kiefer, Paul McCarthy, Bjarne Melgaard and Ai Weiwei, Recent Acquisitions provides an insight into Faurschou Foundations diverse art genre. Since it first opened its doors in Copenhagens North Harbour with an explosive solo exhibition of Cai Guo-Qiang in September 2012, Faurschou Foundation has presented both group and solo exhibitions to Copenhagen, with works by some of the most important artists of our time, such as Louise Bourgeois, Ai Weiwei, Liu Xiaodong, Shirin Neshat, Christian Lemmerz, Mona Hatoum and Santiago Sierra. The artworks presented in Recent Acquisitions highlight ... More | | 
Matteo Rosselli, The Triumph of David, 1610. Oil on copper. Florence, Galleria Corsini.
AUCKLAND.- The art and lives of a Florentine dynasty is being revealed in Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmakis new exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence which opened on Saturday 2 September 2017. Drawn from the extensive private art collection of the eminent Corsini family in Florence, Italy, the exhibition features Renaissance and Baroque painting by artists such as Botticelli, Caravaggio, Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo. It is the first time this collection has toured outside Italy and the first time a Florentine private collection is being displayed in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Corsini Collection provides a window onto the Corsini familys continuing passion for art and their ongoing loyalty to the city of Florence, which have prevailed through the devastation of World War II and the inescapable forces of nature during the flood in Florence in 1966. Auckland Art Gallery Director ... More |
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| World's oldest wine may have been Italian | | Dayton Art Institute names Jerry N. Smith Chief Curator | | Walter Becker, rock bohemian of Steely Dan, dead at 67 | 
In this file photo green-skinned Chardonnay grapes are pictured in the vineyard of the Champagne house Pommery-Vranken during the grape harvest on August 30, 2017 in Reims. FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Researchers have discovered that the oldest wine in the world may have been Italian, after finding traces of 6,000-year-old fermented grapes off the west coast of Sicily. A team of researchers studied residue in terracotta jars found in a cave on Mount Kronio near Agrigento, Italy. The site was "probably a holy site where offerings were made to the gods", Enrico Greco, a chemist at the University of Catania, told AFP. "The fact that the jars were found in a cave saved them from being buried and allowed the contents to be preserved, even though it has solidified over the centuries," Greco said. Several analysis techniques, including nuclear magnetic resonance, revealed the presence of tartaric acid, the primary acid in grapes. "We ruled out fatty residues from meat or oil, and as there were no traces of grape seeds ... More | | 
Smith most recently served as the Hazel and William Hough Chief Curator and Interim Director at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institute has announced the appointment of Jerry N. Smith, Ph.D., as the museums Chief Curator, effective September 26. After an extensive national search, we are excited to welcome Dr. Jerry Smith to the museum and the Dayton community, said The Dayton Art Institutes Director & CEO Michael R. Roediger. Dr. Smith possesses an extensive curatorial, scholarly and administrative backgroundskills that will be immediately utilized as the museum prepares for its centennial in 2019. In his role as Chief Curator, Smith will provide leadership to the museums curatorial department, guiding the vision of future collection installations and special exhibitions. A key part of that will be the reinstallation and reinterpretation of the museums permanent collection galleries, planned as part of The DAIs centennial celebrations. The Dayton Art ... More | | 
This file photo taken on October 10, 2015 shows Walter Becker of Steely Dan performing at the Beacon Theatre in New York City. Santiago Felipe / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Walter Becker, a bassist whose eclectic tastes from jazz to reggae helped create the intricate bohemian rock sound of Steely Dan, died Sunday. He was 67. His death was announced in a brief notice on his official website, with no further details released. Becker in July missed The Classic East and The Classic West -- twin festivals in Los Angeles and New York featuring rock veterans including Steely Dan -- with his bandmate Donald Fagen saying Becker was recovering from an unspecified ailment. A New York native, Becker met Fagen while studying north of the city at Bard College. The pair moved to California where they gained both mainstream and underground recognition for their artistic brand of rock. Steely Dan -- named for a phallic toy from Beat novelist William S. Burroughs' classic novel "Naked ... More |
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| New Harry Benson photo book: Persons of Interest, releasing this November | | Alan Cristea Gallery presents a new body of work on paper by Emma Stibbon | | Perrotin opens John Hendersons second solo show in Hong Kong | 
Harry Benson: Persons of Interest by Harry Benson, published by powerHouse Books.
NEW YORK, NY.- With unique access to the most intriguing and enduring legends of our time, Harry Benson: Persons of Interest is a compelling masterpiece of photojournalism and portraiture. With decades spent deliberately being in the just the right place at just the the right time, Benson's photographs and writings of his encounters and adventures are sure to be of broad interest to photography afficionados, history lovers, and people young and old. With subjects ranging from Queen Elizabeth to Amy Winehouse, from Frank Sinatra to Brad Pitt, from Greta Garbo to Kate Moss, from Winston Churchill to Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, Benson delights us with his images of the lives of the rich, powerful, and famous. Critic Leonard Maltin said it all when he wrote, "Harry Benson has been witness to the key events of the past half-century and has never failed to capture their ... More | | 
Caldera Overlook, 2017 (detail). Four-part woodcut on Japanese paper. Edition of 10. Overall sheet size: 214 x 372 cm. Courtesy artist and Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The Alan Cristea Gallery, London, unveiled a new body of work on paper by Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) for her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Volcano (2 30 September 2017) features new drawings and an immense woodcut made in response to her recent residency in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park where she lived and worked amongst the sacred and fabled volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa, some of the biggest and most active in the world. Stibbon explains, I am drawn to environments undergoing transition or change. During my time on the flanks of Kilauea I became acutely aware that this is a contingent landscape, liable to shift or transform at any time. Working from sketches and photographic records of eruptions, rivers of molten lava and volcanic features ... More | | 
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HONG KONG.- Following exhibitions in Hong Kong, New York, and Paris, Perrotin is presenting John Hendersons second solo show in Hong Kong. John Hendersons oeuvre has long revolved around the problematic of modernism, abstraction, and the painterly gesture. In this sense, he could possibly be situated in the context of a larger wave of processbased abstraction in recent years, one that is marked by the flatness of the picture plane, a preoccupation with process, and improvised gestures indexing the real. As the critic David Geers has argued, this trend is in equal parts, a generational fatigue with theory; a growing split between hand-made artistic production and social practice; and a legitimate and thrifty attempt to keep it real in the face of an ever-expansive image culture and slick commodity art. 1 Yet what sets Henderson apart is his reflexive distance ... More |
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| Exhibition of photographs along the Underground Railroad opens at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum | | Iconic 1969 Dune Buggy to be auctioned off in Los Angeles Modern Auctions October auction | | Muscarelle Museum of Art hosts comprehensive survey of renowned sculptor | 
Within Reach. Crossing the St. Clair River to Canada just south of Port Huron, Michigan, 2014.
BONNIER SPRINGS, KS.- They left in the middle of the night -- often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. In the decades prior to the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, a traveling exhibition which opened Friday, September 1 at the Wyandotte County Historical Museum (631 North 126th Street, Bonner Springs, Kansas 66012), American photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images taken in the dead of night that reveal historical sites, cities and places that freedom-seekers passed through, including homes of abolitionists who offered them sanctuary. Michna-Bales' haunting photographs follow a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north into Canada -- a ... More | | 
Glass Enterprises Bounty Hunter Dune Buggy (1969). Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000. Photo: Los Angeles Modern Auctions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Regarded as the industrys leading West Coast-based auction house, Los Angeles Modern Auctions, today announced it will be adding a 1969 Glass Enterprises Bounty Hunter Dune Buggy to its upcoming auction. Considered a classic of 60s industrial design, drivers and design aficionados can all appreciate the detail of a well-crafted dune buggy. We are extremely excited to have this uniquely styled and customized piece of 60s pop culture, said Peter Loughrey, Director of Modern Design & Fine Art at LAMA. Not only does this design work to add to the overall auction content, but it enumerates our ability as an auction house to sell any medium of modern and industrial era art. Painted in a shockingly bright yellow, the 1969 Bounty Hunter Dune Buggy demands attention. Having taken one year complete in 1969, builder and owner, Bill Lazelere made sure no detail went overlooked. From the chrome details throughout, ... More | | 
Fred Eversley (American, b. 1941), Untitled, (Unity I), 1980. Acrylic, 76 x 24 x 6 inches. Collection of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The Muscarelle Museum of Art opened a landmark exhibition by one of Americas most important sculptors, Fred Eversley: 50 Years an Artist, Light & Space & Energy. Fred Eversley (b. 1941) was among the founding members of the postwar Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1960s and went on to achieve international renown. The exhibition, which comprises twenty-three sculptures ranging in date from 1970 to 2004, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Eversleys distinguished career and is the most comprehensive survey of his work ever presented in an East Coast museum. It is on view at the museum from September 1 until December 10. To host the Eversley show, the upstairs galleries where Botticelli and the Renaissance held court last spring have been transformed from opulence to evanescence. Cast in polyester resin spun in a high-speed centrifuge, Eversleys sculptures are laboriously hand-polished until ... More |
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 Smack My Glitch Up at DKUK showcases recent glitch art in its many formsLONDON.- Emerging from its historic existence at the fringes of art and technology, in the shifting world of new media and electronic art, glitch has evolved into a trend within popular culture. Glitch art appropriates the aesthetics of technical failure, be that analogue or digital. It can be seen in music videos such as Kanye Wests Welcome to Heartbreak (2009) and in Hollywood blockbusters such as Ghost in the Shell (2017). But what does its permeation across different mediums and formats mean for the art form? Has its appropriation killed glitch art? Or does its ubiquity create a new visual language that everyone can use to create artworks that disrupt the digital image and create a message within the medium itself? The ubiquity of the glitch is accompanied by a democratisation of the tools of production. No longer dependent upon knowledge of coding, the ... More Victoria and Abdul: a 130-year-old story for our timesVENICE (AFP).- Grouchy, greedy and constipated: nobody could accuse Stephen Frears of kowtowing with his portrayal of Queen Victoria in his new film "Victoria & Abdul", which premiered in Venice on Sunday. The director, who won a string of awards for "The Queen," his 2006 depiction of Queen Elizabeth II in turmoil at the time of Princess Diana's death, returns to royal questions in a tale of the current British monarch's great, great grandmother's friendship with a young Indian Muslim, Abdul Karim, in the final years of her long reign. Set at a time when the British Empire was at its peak and India was its "Jewel in the Crown", Frears' script lampoons the pomposity, arrogance and ignorance of the Imperial age. But, he says, the convention-defying, cross-cultural relationship at its heart has resonance today, when Britain and India's relationship has been transformed but racism and ... More In Warsaw, youths rescue Europe's largest Jewish cemeteryWARSAW (AFP).- Wielding axes, rakes and shears, young European volunteers with sweat on their brows have been sprucing up the continent's largest Jewish cemetery, a Warsaw site largely neglected since the Holocaust. "At the cemetery's entrance, the pathways are rather well kept and the graves well preserved, but the rest of it, like this spot here, is more of a jungle," says volunteer Stanislaw Knapowski. "There's a lot of wild vegetation and trees that have been growing since the end of the Second World War," explains this Boy Scout from Poznan, a city in western Poland. Over nine days last month, he cleared the cemetery grounds with around 60 other volunteers from a dozen countries, among them Belarusians, Danes, Finns, Germans and Spaniards. They were recruited by Civil Service International, a global nonprofit organisation, and its Polish ... More Exhibition of the photo museum of fictional businessman Osip Mandelstam opens at Tallinn Art HallTALLINN.- Image Drain, the main exhibition of contemporary art biennial Tallinn Photomonth, is now open at Tallinn Art Hall and Museum of Photography, with the participation of 13 artists from all over the world. The exhibition, curated by Anthea Buys, combines artworks with a fictional story about a Russian businessman, his dreams and his interest in the technology of photography. In todays era of total saturation with images, the outlines of the photograph have blurred completely. A photographic image used to be a unique wonder, the creation of which required minutes, if not hours to be spent in the darkroom. Nowadays, taking a picture is as simple as pressing a button and the result can be seen by countless people all over the world. What is a true photo, then? Is it an image on paper or pixels on a glowing screen? And what is that gleam ... More Exhibition of new works by Alex Eckman-Lawn and Jason Chen opens at Paradigm Gallery + StudioPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Paradigm Gallery + Studio announces Asynchronist, an exhibition of new works by Alex Eckman-Lawn and Jason Chen. The presentation explores the aesthetic and conceptual connections between the artists practices, with a particular focus on the use of paper cut mediums to investigate the notion of separation. Several works on view were made collaboratively, a first for both artists. The exhibition is on view August 25October 21, 2017. Calling to mind the work of Max Ernst and Joseph Cornell, this exhibition presents EckmanLawns cut paper and collage pieces that explore the artists fear of the body, particularly how the body physically entraps and cages the human subject. Drawing from his experience as an illustrator, he creates a visual narrative using his own distinct vocabulary of symbols and images, combining seemingly disparate ... 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Flashback On a day like today, George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak September 04, 1888. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmakers Eadward Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.
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