 | | Paris' packed Louvre to make reservations compulsory | | National Portrait Gallery presents "One Life: Marian Anderson" | | £10 million Turner masterpiece may leave British shores | 
The pack passes through the Louvre museum's entrance during the 21st and last stage of the 106th edition of the Tour de France cycling race between Rambouillet and Paris Champs-Elysees, in Paris on July 28, 2019. Pierre LAHALLE / POOL / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The world famous Louvre museum in Paris on Friday urged visitors to book their visit in advance online after seeing a heavy influx this summer, adding reservations would be obligatory by the end of this year. The Louvre, which houses the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and is the most visited museum in the world, has become a victim of its own success and overcrowding is a problem. The problems intensified this summer due to the heatwave that encouraged tourists to take refuge in cool museum rooms. Also a temporary move of the Mona Lisa to another room to allow for refurbishments added to confusion. "Reservations smooth the entry for the public throughout the week," said Vincent Pomarede, the deputy general administrator of the Louvre. "Until now a reservation system has not been obligatory (but) we will put in place an obligatory reservations system, ... More | | 
Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson,1965. Oil on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, J. Hardwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Photo by Travis Fullerton © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Estate of Beauford Delaney, by permission of Derek L. Spratley, Esquire, Court Appointed Administrator.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery is presenting One Life: Marian Anderson, an exhibition exploring the life of the famed contralto, her achievements and how she became a symbol of the civil rights movement. Recognized as one of the greatest American singers of the 20th century, Anderson is perhaps best remembered for her legendary performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where she sang in 1939 after segregationist policies barred her from theaters across Washington, D.C. However, this exhibition broadens the focus, delving into underexplored moments of Andersons decades-long career as a celebrated singer and diplomat. It also highlights the ways she inspired creatives ranging from Harlem Renaissance ... More | | 
Valued at £10 million, the masterpiece was completed at the pinnacle of his career.
LONDON.- The Arts Minister Rebecca Pow has stepped in to place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner in the hope that the work can be saved for the nation. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) was an innovative and internationally renowned English painter, whose revolutionary work had a profound impact on the Romantic view of landscapes across Britain and Europe. Born in London in 1775, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling at the age of 14 and his first exhibition took place the following year. In 1802 Turner made the first of many visits to Europe during which he completed numerous preparatory sketches which inspired his future works. The watercolour at risk of export was completed following Turners 1841 visit to Switzerland where he completed a number of studies of the Rigi mountain, and is part of a trio of famous works, The Red, The Blue and The Dark Rigi. Turners way of working, a serial approach to a sing ... More |
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| | | Homer at the Beach, a Winslow Homer exhibition, at Cape Ann Museum | | Unseen Texas Chainsaw Massacre outtakes and stills sold for a combined $26,880 | | MoMA announces major publication examining the museum's history in the cultural politics of race | 
Winslow Homer (1836-1910), Sunset Fires, 1880 (detail). Watercolor on paper (9 ¾ x 13 5/8). The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Gift of the William A. Coulter Fund, 1964.36.
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- This summer, the Cape Ann Museum will exhibit 51 original works by renowned American artist Winslow Homer. The exhibition, Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painters Journey, 1869-1880, will be the first close examination of the formation of this great artist as a marine painter. The exhibition will include loans from more than 50 public and private collections and will be on view from August 3 to December 1, 2019. The Cape Ann Museum will be its sole venue. In 1869, Winslow Homer (18361910) exhibited his first picture of the sea. He was an ambitious New York illustratornot yet recognized as an artistand freshly back from France. Over the next 11 years, Homers journey would take him to a variety of marine destinations, from New Jersey to Maine, but especiallyand repeatedlyto Gloucester and other parts of Cape Ann. It was on Cape Ann that Homer made his first watercolors and ... More | | 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) Original 400' Reel of Original 16mm Work Print Outtakes sold for $22,800.
DALLAS, TX.- A reel and film stills of previously unseen outtakes from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the most famous horror films of all time, chased away pre-auction estimates of $2,500 to sell for a combined $28,880 in Heritage Auctions' July 27-28 Movie Posters auction. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973) Original 400' Reel of Original 16mm Work Print Outtakes sold for $22,800. The offered outtakes have never been seen by the public and never have been included in any documentary about the film, which director Tobe Hooper created on a budget of just $60,000. The final cut was violent and shocking enough to terrorize generations of audiences. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre changed the genre of horror films," Heritage Auctions Vintage Posters Director Grey Smith said. "It was marketed originally as being based on true events, which only added to the effect it had on audiences. This reel of outtakes contains images and scenes that never have been seen ... More | | 
Fred Eversley, Untitled. 1971. Threecolor, three-layer cast polyester, 36 1/2 in. diam. à 9 7/8 in. © Frederick Eversley. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar © The Museum of Modern Art, Department of Imaging and Visual Resources.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announced the publication of Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, to be released on September 3. This landmark publication represents the first effort by The Museum of Modern Art to examine its history and collection by highlighting the role of black artists, the black community, and art about blackness over the past nine decades. Among Others features nearly 200 works in the Museums collection by 132 black artists from around the world, as well as a selection of works by nonblack artists dealing with race and race-related subjects. Each work is discussed in a short text, commissioned for this volume. The contributing authors include MoMA curators and an array of scholars, curators, and artists who are among the strongest voices in current research on art and cultural difference. Among Others offers a variety of generational and political perspectives and presents ... More |
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| | | Assembling Art: Works by Vin Giuliani exhibition opens at the Bruce Museum | | Rare baseball signed by automotive pioneer Henry Ford to be auctioned | | Bats use leaves as mirrors to find their prey in the dark | 
Vin Giuliani (1930-1976), Future of Being Human, 1974. Multi-media painted wood assemblage, 16 x 12.5 in. Gift of the Giuliani Family. Bruce Museum 82.29.10.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Opening Saturday, August 3, 2019, the Bruce Museum's newest exhibition, Assembling Art: Works by Vin Giuliani, will display the creations of Greenwich native Vincent Vin Giuliani, who transformed scrap wood, trinkets, and a colorful variety of found objects into artistic assemblages that represent everything from kitschy Americana to questions about the human psyche. Inspired by Pop Arts mockery of American consumerism, Giuliani combined everyday objects to illustrate economic, social, and political issues of the 1960s and 1970s. Vin Giuliani grew up in Greenwich, CT, with his brother John and his parents Amalia and Nicola. They lived at 353 Greenwich Avenue where his father ran a shoe repair shop. Giuliani attended Greenwich High School, where he was an avid art student and contributor to the schools yearbook. After graduating in 1948, Giuliani studied art at the Pratt Institute in New York. He continued ... More | | 
Henry Ford signed the World Fairs commemorative baseballs for students at the Ford Trade School in New York City on December 16, 1933.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A baseball signed by Henry Ford will be auctioned by Huggins & Scott Auctions from July 26-August 8. It is just the second baseball signed by Ford to be offered at auction. Interested bidders may participate in the auction online. The Ford Motor Company had custom-made baseballs produced for A Century of Progress International Exposition Worlds Fair in 1933-1934. The Worlds Fair was held in Chicago to commemorate the citys centennial. The Ford Motor Company issued baseballs with the 1903 Ford 1933 Safety Glass Exhibit" logo stamped on the balls. The balls also featured an art deco V8 logo promoting the V8 engine the Ford Motor Company introduced the previous year. The Safety Glass Exhibit was considered one of the highlights of the Worlds Fair. The exhibition was held in the Travel and Transportation building, which hosted the Automobile Theatre. Visitors entered a screen-enclosed tun ... More | | 
Close-up of a bat (Micronycteris microtis) approaching a katydid on an artificial leaf. Recorded using an infrared sensitive high-speed camera at 500 frames per second. Photo: Inga Geipel.
WASHINGTON, DC.- On moonless nights in a tropical forest, bats slice through the inky darkness, snatching up insects resting silently on leavesa seemingly impossible feat. New experiments at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute show that by changing their approach angle, the echolocating leaf-nosed bats can use this sixth sense to find acoustically camouflaged prey. These new findings, published in Current Biology, have exciting implications for the evolution of predator-prey interactions. For many years it was thought to be a sensory impossibility for bats to find silent, motionless prey resting on leaves by echolocation alone, said Inga Geipel, Tupper Postdoctoral Fellow at STRI. Geipels team discovered how the bats achieve the impossible. By combining evidence from experiments using a biosonar device to create and measure artificial signals, with evidence from high-speed video observations ... More |
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| | | Tanabe Chikuunsai IV creates a site-specific installation within TAI Modern's walls | | De La Warr Pavilion presents exhibition of work by the Chicago Imagists | | Exhibition at Somerset House celebrates the impact of 50 years of Black creativity | 
Connection, 2019, by Tanabe Chikuunsai IV (Japanese, b. 1973), installation in progress with the artist and apprentices. Installation at Asian Art Museum. Photograph Courtesy Asian Art Museum.
SANTA FE, NM.- In the world of Japanese art, its hard to miss Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. From his colossal installations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museé Guimet to recent solo exhibitions in Paris and Belgium, Tanabe has emerged as a leader and representative for a younger generation of bamboo artists. TAI Modern is presenting the exhibition Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, in which the artist has created a site-specific installation within the gallerys walls. For this exhibition, I will create a conceptual bamboo art installation within a gallery space. Beginning in 2011, these large-scale spatial art installations are the basis of my current artistic activities. For installations, I use tiger bamboo with tiger-striped patterns that grow in ... More | | 
Installation view.
BEXHILL-ON-SEA.- In the mid-1960s, Chicago saw an explosion of artistic activity centred around a small group of artists who would later become known as the Chicago Imagists. Their distinct and lively visual style would go on to influence some of the most important artists of the 20th century. Having mostly studied in proximity to one another at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, they shared an enthusiasm for Surrealism and Art Brut, comic books, non-Western and self-taught artists, commercial advertising and the music, markets, sideshows and architecture of the city they lived in. They learned from teachers at the School of the Art Institute, and in turn their teachers learned from them. The strong bonds developed at art school has kept this group of artists affiliated under the moniker Chicago Imagism, despite the diversity of their work. This exhibition will focus ... More | | 
Yinka Shonibare's 'Self Portrait (after Warhol)' as part of Get Up, Stand Up Now © Peter Macdiarmid.
LONDON.- This summer, Somerset House celebrates the impact of 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond, with a landmark exhibition showcasing art, film, photography, music, literature, design and fashion. It is the first time that this distinguished group of approximately 100 artists are represented together, with their work articulating and addressing the Black experience and sensibility, from the post-war era to the present day. Historic artworks and new commissions sit alongside items from personal archives, much of which has never been seen by the public before. Through these original photographs, letters, films and audio clips, the exhibition connects the creative, the personal and the political, reflecting how artists have responded to the issues of our times. Curated by acclaimed artist Zak Ové, Get ... More |
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 It's Like Poetry: Building a Toshiko Takaezu archive at Racine Art MuseumRACINE, WI.- Open August 2, 2019 through July 26, 2020 in the Windows on Fifth Gallery at the Racine Art Museum, It's Like Poetry: Building a Toshiko Takaezu Archive at RAM features a variety of works from RAM's collection by renowned artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011). This exhibition will replace Raise Your Glass (Goblets): Recent Acquisitions from Alan and Barbara Boroff and the Kohler Foundation, Inc., which is on view in the unique, street-facing gallery space until July 21. RAMs archive now numbers over 30 works, including Takaezus most expansive grouping, the installation comprised of 14 human-sized forms, the Star Series. Significantly, RAMs holdings span the range of Takaezus working careerwith a double-spouted pot from the 1950s being the earliest and the Star Series (1999-2000) being the latest. There are also ... More 'Z' for Zorro, 100 years onPARIS (AFP).- The dashing masked avenger Zorro made his first swashbuckling appearance 100 years ago in the pages of a US magazine to become an international icon alongside the likes of Tarzan and Superman. The original caped crusader, Zorro was created by US writer Johnston McCulley and introduced in the story "The Curse of Capistrano", carried in a Californian pulp magazine over five weeks starting from August 9, 1919. In conceiving the sword-wielding defender of the downtrodden, McCulley set the stage for a whole century of superheroes. "Zorro is the original caped crusader. Before Batman, before Superman, before Wonder Woman there was Zorro," American history professor Stephen Andes, who studies the history and myth of Zorro, says on his website. The prolific McCulley (1883-1958) went on to pen about 60 books about Zorro, ... More Explore what it means to live in community in the Fine Arts Center's new exhibition COLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College will present a free special exhibition, Utopia: A New Society for All, on view August 3 - November 3, 2019. Born from the artists desire to build community, Utopia exists both as a 4-by-7-foot diorama- based installation and as a conceptual art piece, bringing virtual reality into the real world. Anyone can apply to become a citizen of Utopia. Over 80 people from all over the world already have. Upon acceptance, artist and Utopia Founder and Facilitator Becky Wareing Steele renders each applicant in 1:160 scale in a process called miniaturization. She then places them within the Southwest-inspired landscape of the diorama where they inhabit an Earthship-style dwelling. As much a thought experiment as an art installation, Utopia explores what it means to live in ... More Solo exhibition featuring new works by Los Angeles-based artist Manfred Menz opens at CMay GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- CMay Gallery presents Heaven on Earth, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Los Angeles-based artist Manfred Menz. Does the Goodyear Blimp dream of advertising clouds? In a series of 14 photographs, Menz manipulates mundane cloudscapes into opportunities for advertisement. Chemtrails are decorated with the American Airlines logo; Coca-Cola perches on a serene cumulus peaking out from a hilltop; Netflix takes over a nimbus threatening to blot out blue skies. Menzs work seems simple and impertinent at first glance: a warning of things to come from the malignant growth of corporate culture and our complacency watching it float by on our screens. Its so on the nose with the au currant meta-humor of deep fakes, it feels as insipid as an SNL sketch. Heaven on Earth lands somewhere between comical and cautionary: ... More Heide Museum of Modern Art opens a ceramics exhibition featuring leading artists from around the worldMELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art is presenting the work of twelve leading international and Australian artists in a new exhibition titled An Idea Needing to Be Made: Contemporary Ceramics. The exhibition explores the idea of the vessel form and its continued use and reinvention by contemporary artists working in clay. Presented from 27 July to 20 October 2019, the project brings together a number of key influencers in contemporary ceramics from across Europe, America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. An Idea Needing to Be Made: Contemporary Ceramics is foregrounded historically by the work of Australias most celebrated potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, whose interest in and interrogation of the vessel and the still life tradition ushered in a new way of thinking about function, display and purpose. In the exhibition each artist uses the ... More High Museum of Art and glo to debut new work by choreographer Lauri StallingsATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art has commissioned its first choreographer as artist in residence, glo founder Lauri Stallings, to create Supple Means of Connection, a new suite of live art designed for the Museums galleries. Stallings site-based work will inhabit the Cousins galleries from Aug. 3 through Sept. 8 during regular museum hours. A Rome Prize nominee and Creative Time artist, Stallings creates works of very diverse context, scale and textures. Supple Means of Connection will be both a gallery installation and a public artwork exploring themes of family, falling and maps with respect to womens roles. Interrogating the infinite challenges of human co-existenceas well as the blurred lines between the fragility of the human body and the fragility of natureStallings mixes forms that defy the boundaries of genre and offers choreography ... More The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts opens a major installation of work by Julian HoeberPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts is presenting a major installation of work by Julian Hoeber. Born in Philadelphia, Hoeber studied art history at Tufts and studio practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Hoeber's intelligent and eclectic work reflects his education and concerns. His is a paradoxical practice that literally encompasses perception; both that of the viewer and the artist. Hoeber's objects mimic and are real things in the world such as tables, cabinets and architecture. His canvases reveal both their recto and verso, become concrete objects set into and deconstructing the gallery's white cube walls. Conceptualization, design, making and art history merge. As such, Hoeber has no signature ... More Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers announces highlights included in their Fine Art & Antiques AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- A Fine Art & Antiques Auction featuring items pulled from several fine estates around New England and beyond to include a great selection of French furniture and accessories, marvelous paintings, bronzes, jewelry, clocks, Chinese arts, modern arts and more will be conducted on Saturday, August 17th, at 12 noon Eastern, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. The auction 380 lots in all will be held online and in the Bruneau & Co. gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Online bidding will be provided by bidLIVE.Bruneauandco.com, Bidsquare.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com, or by downloading the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes or GooglePlay. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. A 200-lot pre-auction, with no online bidding, will precede the main event, at 10 am Eastern. ... More Large-scale public art installation in Seattle addresses border wallSEATTLE, WA.- On August 3, New York-based artist Molly Gochman will open, in Seattle, Red Sand Project: Border US-MX, a large-scale earthwork created to bring attention to how the ongoing battles over the border are making vulnerable populations even more susceptible to mistreatment, abuse, and trafficking. The 350-foot long, 2-foot wide installation, which replicates the US-Mexico border in red sand, will open at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, timed to the Seattle Art Fair, and is part of a long-term vision to present the work at airports and other highly visible public sites across the country. On view for approximately one year, the installation will be activated by a series of public programs developed in collaboration with non-profit organizations local to Seattle, including Refugees Northwest and NW Immigrants Rights Project, among others. The installation ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died August 03, 2004. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: USA. New York City. Manhattan. 1947. Near the Hall of Records. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
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