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An employee works in the Dino lab of the LiveScience, during the preview of Naturalis museum in Leiden, the Netherlands, on August 27, 2019. The international knowledge institute was closed for a year because of a major renovation. Phil Nijhuis / ANP / AFP.
LEIDEN.- On Saturday, August 31, Naturalis will reopen to the public. The renovated institute for biodiversity in Leiden is the place for everyone, where both scientists and museum visitors can discover more about nature. Naturalis has become future-proof by bringing scientists and collections together, providing state-of-the-art facilities for biodiversity research, and building a brand-new museum. In the last two years, a drastic renovation and redesign of the existing Naturalis building took place to house the complete Dutch national collection of 42 million objects and provide state-of-the-art facilities for biodiversity research to the 200+ researchers. Next to that, the institute also built a brand-new museum. Edwin van Huis, Managing Director at Naturalis, is delighted to open the museum doors again. The theme of biodiversity is highly relevant. Our studies are at the center of attention, contributing to burning issues such ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museu Picasso de Barcelona is hosting In The Name of the Father, an exhibition curated by Rosa MartÃnez that advances a line of research on the relationship between the latest generations of contemporary artists and the life and work of Pablo Picasso.
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 | | The Fondation Beyeler is celebrating the return of the Staechelin paintings to Basel | | Christie's London announces Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection | | British Museum helps return cuneiform tablets seized by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs to Iraq | 
Paul Gauguin, Landscape with Red Roof. Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 66 cm. Rudolf Staechelin Collection. Photo: Robert Bayer.
BASEL.- After four years, Rudolf Staechelins (18811946) renowned collection of paintings is returning to Basel. To celebrate the return of the Staechelin paintings to Basel and make them accessible to all, the Fondation Beyeler is offering free admission to the museum all weekend (31.8.1.9.19). Following much-acclaimed exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa in Madrid and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D. C., both together with the Im Obersteg Collection, 19 impressionist, post-impressionist and classical modern works will be presented at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel from 31 August 2019. These remarkable paintings by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Ferdinand Hodler, Ãdouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir will be on focussed display until 29 ... More | | 
The Collection is expected to realise in excess of £2 million. © Christies Images Limited 2019.
LONDON.- On the 19 September, Christies will offer Visions of Collecting: Royal and Aristocratic, An Important Private Collection. Comprising 350 lots, this collection reflects a fascination with both Royal provenance with objects from the British and other European Royal families and Britains great country houses. The breadth of furniture, paintings, ceramics, sculpture, tapestries, silver, objects and works of art, lighting and soft furnishings, are united by their romantic and historic past, which have been skilfully and imaginatively woven into a kaleidoscopic vision, Royal and aristocratic, grand and exotic, ornamental and practical, to be enjoyed and treasured again. Leading the sale is Corso auf dem Monte Pincio, 1911 by Max Liebermann, which was owned by Paul Cassirer, the influential modern art dealer and publisher (estimate: £200,000-300,000). The Collection is expected to realise in excess of £2 million. ... More | | 
Cuneiform tablets, ranging in date from the mid-third millennium BC to the Achaemenid period (sixth-fourth centuries BC). Cuneiform tablets, ranging in date from the mid-third millennium BC to the Achaemenid period (sixth-fourth centuries BC).
LONDON.- Today the British Museum celebrated the handover of an important collection of 156 cuneiform tablets to the Government of Iraq. This is the largest such group to be seized in the UK and returned to Iraq. They are Mesopotamian texts written on clay in cuneiform script and were incorrectly declared on entry to the UK in February 2011. After an investigation by HMRCs Fraud Investigation Service, they were identified and seized from a freight forwarder, near Heathrow Airport, in June 2013. Now they are being returned to Iraq through the British Museum. An important part of the British Museums work on cultural heritage involves the partnership with law enforcement agencies on illicit trade being brought into the UK. Objects that are seized are brought to the British ... More |
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| | Focus installation on African art details garments and textiles made from the woven fiber | | Scotland's National Art Collection acquires its first Dorothea Tanning painting | | Banksy truck crashes Bonhams Goodwood Motor Car Sale | 
Suku peoples, prestige cap (mpwa), mid-20th century, raffia with dye, Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Karen and John Reoch, 2011.1.1
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents Wearable Raffia, a new exhibition that celebrates African textile design, drawing from the DMAs extensive collection of African art, one of the leading of its kind in the United States. Opening on August 31, 2019, the exhibition brings together raffia garments from West and Central Africa and the island of Madagascar to reveal the ingenuity of designers across the continent. Organized by Dr. Roslyn A. Walker, the DMAs Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific and The Margaret McDermott Curator of African Art, the exhibition is on view until next summer and can be seen for free in the Museums third floor Textile Gallery. The DMA has one of the most significant collections of African Art in the nation, and it is an incredible resource from which to develop exhibitions and programs that offer new ... More | | 
Tableau vivant (Living Picture) 1954 by Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012). Photo: Stewart Attwood.
EDINBURGH.- A captivating painting by Surrealist painter Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012), created at a turning-point in her career and kept in her possession for the remainder of her exceptionally long life, has become the first of the artists works to enter Scotlands national art collection, the National Galleries of Scotland announced today. One of the worlds greatest collections of Surrealist art now welcomes Tableau Vivant, an outstanding painting with a rich and fascinating history. It has been purchased with help from Art Fund and the Henry and Sula Walton Fund and follows the Galleries acquisition of major artworks by Surrealists Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalà and René Magritte. It will go on immediate display at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA). Tableau Vivant, painted by Tanning nearly sixty years ago, featured in the artists first exhibition in France at the Galerie Furstenberg ... More | | 
Banksy, Turbo Zone Truck (Laugh Now But One Day Well Be in Charge), 2000. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000. Photo: Bonhams.
CHICHESTER.- A 17-ton truck, covered in graffiti by the artist Banksy, will be offered by Bonhams on Saturday 14 September, at its motor car auction, the Goodwood Revival sale. The vehicle (a Volvo FL6 box lorry), entitled Turbo Zone Truck (Laugh Now But One Day Well Be in Charge), from 2000, is the largest-ever work created by Banksy, with a painted surface area of 80 square metres. The estimate of £1,000,000-1,500,000 ($1,300,000-2,000,000) reflects the works importance. It is accompanied by a Certificate of Authentication issued by Pest Control, Banksys studio. Banksy was at an open-air party on a Spanish hillside to celebrate the millennium, when he was presented with the Volvo FL6 by Mojo, the co-founder of Turbozone International Circus, a touring company known for its extravagant pyrotechnics. Banksy then an ... More |
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| | Polanski film premieres in Venice as protest rages | | Facecrime: A solo exhibition by Jonathan Baldock opens at Tramway | | Galerie Urs Meile Beijing opens an exhibition of works by Ju Ting | 
French composer Alexandre Desplat (L) signs autographs for fans as he arrives for the screening of the film "J'Accuse" (An Officer and a Spy) presented in competition on August 30, 2019 during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. Vincenzo PINTO / AFP.
VENICE (AFP).- Roman Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy" drew mixed reactions from critics Friday at its Venice premiere, hailed as "handsome and involving" by one but "lacking" by another who said parallels drawn by the director between his life and his art were "obscene". The 86-year-old, a fugitive from the US since he was convicted for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in 1978, did not attend the red carpet event for his film about French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus. But its stars, including "The Artist" Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin and fellow French actor Louis Garrel, cracked smiles as they signed autographs for fans. Campaigners have said the mired-in-controversy Polanski's inclusion in the running for the top prize is out of touch in the era of #MeToo movement. Argentine ... More | | 
The exhibition evokes an absurd and unsettling contemporary ruin that the audience wander amongst as though discovering the signs and visual languages of a once prosperous civilization.
GLASGOW.- Facecrime is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Jonathan Baldock (b. 1980) who works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance. Baldock has an ongoing interest in the contrast between the material qualities of ceramic and fabric, drawing them together in his theatrical installations and sculptural assemblages. Facecrime is comprised of a series of ceramic columns inspired by the discovery, in 1974, of more than a thousand perfectly preserved clay tablets, inscribed in cuneiform - an early writing system - ca. 2500 BC, in the ancient city of Ebia, Syria. This exhibition pays homage to these extraordinary artefacts, developing an alternative history of clay as a tool of communication and a carrier of language that defiantly stands the test of time. Drawing from histories of labour, ... More | | 
Ju Ting, Untitled 062019, 2019, acrylic on board, 167 x 133 x 12 cm/
BEIJING.- Galerie Urs Meile Beijing announces artist Ju Tings (*1983) solo exhibition Scales, her first solo exhibition at Galerie Urs Meile Beijing following her 2018 solo exhibition Ju Ting in Lucerne. This exhibition will present the artists latest works from her Pearl and Untitled series. The artist applies many layers of acrylic paint on top of each others onto a wooden panel until obtaining a certain thickness. She then uses various methods to manipulate and model the stacked layers of color. In the Pearl series, the artist uses a carving knife to cut open the paint and reveal the stacked layers of color within. Here the knife plays the role of the paintbrush, forming three-dimensional brushstrokes. At the same time, the artworks surface is embedded with many faintly visible layers. If the viewers move through the exhibition space, they will perceive the subtly shifting colors produced by the rows of vertical l ... More |
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| | ING supports establishing a blockchain-based ecosystem for digital art | | Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Ricardo Mazal & Paul Bloch | | Whyte's announces Irish & International Art Sale including The Butler Gallery Benefit Sale of Contemporary Art | 
The moving image artwork, The Absence of Presence, shows the impact of digitization.
LUXEMBOURG.- WUNDER has completed the first digital art-backed assets transactions using the Patron Protocol on blockchain technology. The ING Collection in Amsterdam purchased one of the first fractional ownership shares, representing 12,5% ownership in a master copy from the video art work by the Romanian artist Dragos Alexandrescu. This transaction, in what is described as the second peer-to-peer transaction of fractional art-based revenue sharing asset tokens, is also important for its support from a major international bank helping to establish a market for digital art and artists. Each step of the transactions was completed via the WUNDER blockchain-based platform, created by the Luxembourg based startup, Artfintech.one. The core team at WUNDER started working together in 2014 in the digital art management and distribution space and after years of research began development of the blockchain ... More | | 
Paul Boch, La Nascita. Carrara marble, 24 x 15 x 15 inches.
NEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art announces Ricardo Mazal & Paul Bloch: Refined Abstractions. The show will run August 31 October 5, 2019. Ricardo Mazals interest in the anthropological practices of diverse global cultures, their spiritual rites, rituals and sacred places comes to the fore in his artistic expression. Through the use of photography, print-making, and the latest digital and video technology, Mazal achieves transformational perspectives and brings formal principles of composition into his work. Rigid blocks of color, flatness, folds, ribbons, stillness and texture have evolved over the span of decades to become the recognizable aesthetic for which he is known. The exhibition will feature paintings from the Bhutan Abstractions series, geometric and organic compositions that resulted from a family trip he took in 2014. Referencing Bhutanese prayer flags billowing in the wind, ... More | | 
May Guinness, Woman with Red Hair. Estimate: 6,000-8,000.
DUBLIN.- Whytes auction of Irish & International Art at 6pm, Monday 16 September 2019 at the RDS will offer collectors another opportunity to acquire key pieces in the first sale of the season. This auction boasts many of the premier names in Irish art including Jack Yeats, Louis le Brocquy, May Guinness, Daniel ONeill, Nathaniel Hone, Basil Blackshaw along with international artists such as Andy Warhol and Raoul Dufy. This sale also includes The Butler Gallery Benefit Auction of Contemporary Art. Whytes invites bidders to view the sale at www.whytes.ie and in person at the RDS, Dublin Saturday through to Monday (day of the sale) 14 to 16 September, 10am-6pm daily. The top lot by price is the 1946 oil by Jack B. Yeats, Hope [Lot 28, 150,000-180,000]. It depicts an intriguing night-time scene. A small boat in the middle of the ocean is being guided by a figure, who stands in the prow, holding an oar aloft. His face ... More |
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 Friends with Books: Art Book Fair to launch 6th edition in BerlinBERLIN.- Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Europes leading art book fair committed to the distribution and promotion of artists books celebrates its sixth edition in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. From September 2022, 2019, a diverse array of over 200 international artists and publisher exhibitors will present their publications, attesting to the resurgence of the discipline. Free to the public, the fair will additionally host lectures, book presentations, panel discussions, performances and art installations that explore the evolution and visibility of this experimental field of publishing in todays digital climate. The 2019 edition will feature a series of curated temporary Art Installations by artists including Tamami Iinuma (FR/JP), Kathrin Köster (DE), Marlena Kudlicka (PL) and Rudolf Samohejl (CZ). For the second ... More  WOAW opens Rostarr exhibition 'Introspectives'HONG KONG.- Curated by Kevin Poon and WOAW team, WOAW presents Rostarr Introspectives art show this summer. New York City artist Roman K Yang-Rostarr, with an impressive resume of work that goes back for many years, carries on what he calls an Introspectives for his latest show. He invites viewers to hop on a journey to experience his ideas and innermost thoughts through showcasing previous and never-before-seen pieces of different mediums. Known as an abstract painter and calligrapher, Rostarrs introspective features work based on faces and characters with bold images and colors. His attention to materials and medium allows viewers to explore his introspection through handmade paper, sumi ink and more. Rostarrs work often sees himself return to his deepest, innermost thoughts, inviting us to reflect on our own ideas and feelings. ... More  Capsule Shanghai opens a solo exhibition of works by Ivy HaldemanSHANGHAI.- Capsule Shanghai announced the opening of New York-based artist Ivy Haldemans solo exhibition, (Hesitate), the first presentation of the artists oeuvre in Shanghai, China. It will feature her most recent paintings and an LED neon-light installation. Comprised of three idiosyncratic visual tropes: a hotdog figure, hollow business suits in pairs, and gesticulating fingers, Ivy Haldemans immaculate imageries allow sensuality, vulnerability, and imagination to contend with a variety of culturally pervasive notions. This exhibition complicates the dichotomies of what qualifies as the natural versus the artificial, the free versus the subjugated. As suggested in its title, a momentary pause from repose to performance, a disjunction between mind and body, may be the elusive position from which a viewer reframes their perception of being human. ... More  Linklater to spend 20 years making new movieLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Pioneering director Richard Linklater, known for his wildly ambitious projects, has announced that his latest movie will be filmed over a 20-year span. Linklater famously shot his Oscar-winning "Boyhood" over 12 years, allowing its star Ellar Coltrane to naturally age on screen from a five-year-old up to his first day of college. He will go one step further with his adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Merrily We Roll Along," which tells the story of a Broadway composer who moves to Hollywood to produce movies. "I first saw, and fell in love with 'Merrily' in the '80s and I can't think of a better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical," Linklater said in a statement. "I don't enter this multi-year experience lightly, but it seems the best, perhaps the only way, to do this story justice on film." The musical begins ... More  Stunning ceylon sapphire ring, jewelry from rare designers among top draws in Heritage Auctions saleDALLAS, TX.- Investment-caliber gems and stunning pieces from rare designers are among the top attractions in Heritage Auctions' Fall Fine Jewelry Auction Sept. 23 in Beverly Hills, California. Among the rare designers spotlighted in the sale are Marchak, Sterlé, Flato, Taffin, Jean Vendome and Verdura. "This is an exceptional auction, because there is such a wide range of beautiful, high-quality jewelry, Heritage Auctions Senior Director of Fine Jewelry Jill Burgum said. "The sale has an outstanding selection of pieces by rare artists, but also features some stunning pieces, from investment-level gems to some gorgeous curiosities that rarely reach the auction block. A dazzling Ceylon Sapphire, Platinum Ring, Dubail Paris, French (estimate: $100,000-150,000) boasts a square cushion-shaped sapphire weighing 28.45 carats, set in platinum and ... More  The Mexican Museum welcomes new board membersSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Mexican Museum announced the addition of three new members to the Board of Trustees to assist in the expansion and construction of its new facility in San Franciscos Yerba Buena Gardens Arts District. An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, the new museum will be a space that is accessible, transparent, and focused on providing diverse communities with educational events and enjoyable experiences through art and culture of Mexican and Latin American origin. We have exceptional leaders in the arenas of international business strategy and development, international law, and education joining our very committed board of trustees, said Andy Kluger, Chairman of The Mexican Museum Board of Trustees. Its a great moment in time as we will soon realize our founder, late celebrated San Francisco artist, ... More  TD partners with The Shed at Hudson Yards to expand culture and arts across New York CityNEW YORK, NY.- TD today announced its partnership with The Shed, the new arts center on Manhattan's Far West Side, as lead sponsor of the "Open Call" artist commissioning program. Along with TD Securities and TD Bank Group, TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® is investing $1.5 million to support a large-scale initiative dedicated to developing and presenting new works from artists based in New York City who have not yet received major institutional support. TD's sponsorship will also fund a program that provides priority tickets to individuals who typically cannot afford them, including underserved families, residents of NYCHA public housing and students at Title 1 schools. "TD is deeply committed to New York City. For us, empowering communities at a local level starts with sponsoring initiatives that strive to make a positive, ... More  London Art Book Fair opens next weekLONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery is transformed by over 70 creative and cutting-edge publishers for four days from Thursday 5 September. The London Art Book Fair returns with a vibrant mix of art books, independent titles and magazines from around the world. Exhibitors range from publishing behemoths to independent presses and represent a diverse international cohort from 16 different countries, from Chile to Israel, Korea to the USA. An expansive public programme of talks, workshops and events includes artists Sir Michael Craig-Martin (b. 1941) and Paul Winstanley (b. 1954) in conversation with Goldsmiths Head of Art Richard Noble; Turner Prize nominated artist Tai Shani (b. 1976) on her new book Our Fatal Magic (2019); a discussion about making historically overlooked female artists more visible with publisher ... More  Harvard museum picks seasonal "Fruits in Decay" as the new focus of the Glass Flowers GalleryCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Imagine an orchard, lush and bursting with ripe fruit in the sweltering summer sun. Not all of the fruit weighing down the branches and vines will be fit to consume. Some strawberries will dampen and shrivel with mold, some peaches will be blighted in the shade, and some pears will become pockmarked with age. However, there is a beauty in this natural decaying process that repeats with each season. Perhaps the rot will be cut away and the fruit will be preserved as jam, jellies, pie, or compote. Maybe a hungry child or traveler will wander through the orchard rows and choose a less-than- perfect specimen for their late afternoon snack. Right now, in orchards in New England and beyond, microscopic agents are at work consuming the fruit to its core in a world beyond our sight. The Harvard Museum of Natural History ... More  The twelfth edition of the Art Moves Festival starts on 6 September in Toruń, PolandTORUń.- The International Art on Billboards Festival Art Moves is organised in Toruń for the twelfth time. This year the event is held under the slogan of An impending disaster or a chance to save yourself and the world?. Like every year, during the festival, we show the works of talented debutants and renowned international artists in the city space of Toruń. The festival will be ended at 8 October 2019. Over the past few years,billboard art has become a cultural must have. Billboard exhibitions are being held from Teheran and Mexico City to Paris, Los Angeles and New York. Toruń is one of the pioneers of this trend Art Moves is the first, and so far the only, cyclical festival promoting this kind of art in the world. Billboards are unequivocally associated with advertisingall over the world, but not in Toruń for a few autumn weeks the billboards become anti-billboards, a ... More  KMAC Triennial Crown of Rays exhibition opens at KMAC MuseumLOUISVILLE, KY.- KMAC Museum announces the opening of the KMAC Triennial Crown of Rays exhibition showcasing contemporary art of the Commonwealth. The exhibition will run through December 1, 2019. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the goldenrod, the official state flower of Kentucky. Specifically, it calls upon the Crown of Rays, a cultivated plant within the Goldenrod genus. With its star-like appearance and deep roots in the area, it symbolizes all creative thinkers, makers and citizens of Kentucky, both native and foreign. Were thrilled to introduce this new triennial exhibition of contemporary art to the region, says KMAC Museum Curator Joey Yates. The selected artists reflect the biodiversity of the state, as each firmly stems from this environment and is a vibrant part of our contemporary art ecosystem. Submissions ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Helen Levitt was born August 31, 1913. Helen Levitt (August 31, 1913 - March 29, 2009) was an American photographer. She was particularly noted for "street photography" around New York City, and has been called "the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time. She lived in New York City and remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years. New York's "visual poet laureate" was notoriously private and publicity sh.
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