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Video still caption: Closeup of painting restoration by Mark F. Bockrath. Video still recorded by Pedro Guitierez and Clayton Backes, 2018, Milwaukee Art Museum.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.- An important oil sketch lost to scholars for more than 140 years has been rediscovered at the Milwaukee Art Museum. The true identity of the work was obscured by an old attribution to English landscape painter John Constable (1776?1837). Research and conservation revealed it is actually the study for the major 1833 Salon painting by Theodore Rousseau (1812?1867), View on the Outskirts of Granville, in the collection of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors to the Milwaukee Art Museum will have the opportunity to see the oil sketch in person at the upcoming exhibition Constable? A Landscape Rediscovered, opening September 7, 2018. The exhibition marks the painting?s debut with its correct attribution and investigates the provenance of the work, which entered the Layton Art Collection, Inc. as a gift from Arthur Nye McGeoch (1869?1949), a prominent Milwaukee financier, art collector and real estate magnate. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Shelves filled with products from retail chain Rewe stand on August 20, 2018 at the Staatstheater theatre in Wiesbaden, western Germany, that is used as a supermarket whereas the empty Rewe market is being used as a temporary venue of the Wiesbaden Biennale. The Wiesbaden Biennale art festival titled "Bad News" will be running from August 23, 2018 to September 2, 2018. Silas Stein / dpa / AFP
| Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden receive the Hoffmann collection | | Gammel Holtegaard launches a major solo exhibition presenting the full range of Rita Kernn-Larsen's work | | Museum highlights a pioneering woman photographer | 
Pietro Francesco Cittadini, Stillleben mit einem Hasen, um 1650 (detail). Ãl auf Leinwand, 80 x 130 cm. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gal.-Nr. 385 © SLUB / Deutsche Fotothek / Madlung, Sibylle.
DRESDEN.- The Erika and Rolf Hoffmann collection is an internationally significant private art collection which stands out for its highly quality-focused approach and absolute trust in the works inner strength. In an extremely generous act of donation, the works are now coming to Dresden, where they will be part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (State Art Collection). This was announced today at a press conference in Dresden by the collector Erika Hoffmann-Koenige, the Director General of the SKD Marion Ackermann and the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education Research and the Arts Eva-Maria Stange. The collection comprises some 1,200 works belonging to artistic styles and trends from the 1910s to the present, from the fields of painting, photography, drawings, sculpture, installations, film and video art. The spectrum includes artists such as ... More | | 
Rita Kernn-Larsen, 'The Apple from Normandie (Apple)', 1934. Bought in 1993 from the artist. Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. Photo: Niels Fabæk.
COPENHAGEN.- Rita Kernn-Larsen was a key artist for surrealism both nationally and internationally, but her later art has only rarely received the attention it deserves. In collaboration with Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Gammel Holtegaard launches a major solo exhibition presenting the full range of the previously overlooked life-long oeuvre of the Danish artist. Rita Kernn-Larsen (1904-1998) was a major figure on the international art scene, and one of the few contemporary, Danish surrealist artists to achieve major international recognition during the 1930s. Her breakthrough was based on surrealism, a reaction and attempt to break free from the rationality and utility mentality of the interwar years. The irrational and impulsive and instincts and desire were seen as universally human, and as providing a revolutionary background for the liberation of humankind. Kernn-Larsens visual universe is populated by surreal, mysterious, ... More | | 
Doris Ulmann (American, 18821934), Cheever Meaders and His Daughters, Cleveland, GA, ca. 1933. Posthumous gelatin silver print, printed by Samuel Lifshey, ca. 193437, 8 x 6 inches. Used with permission of the Doris Ulmann Foundation. Berea College Art Collection, Bequest of Doris Ulmann, Accession No. 150.140.3257
ATHENS, GA.- A decade before Walker Evans and James Agee set out to document rural southern people in their book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, the photographer Doris Ulmann was doing the same thing. So why havent most people heard of her? The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is attempting to cast light on this lesser-known artist with the exhibition Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann, which opens August 25 and runs through November 18. Organized by the museums curator of American art, Sarah Kate Gillespie, it is the first complete retrospective of Ulmanns work. Ulmanns work is decidedly difficult to pin down. She self-identified with the pictorialist movement, though her work does not adhere to many of the principles ... More |
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| Les Enluminures to offer four remarkable manuscripts from the Middle Ages at TEFAF New York Fall | | Latvian National Museum of Art opens exhibition of 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish painting | | Wiesbaden Biennale blurs the lines between performance and visual art | 
The Romance of Troy. In French, Illuminated Manuscript on Parchment Southern Netherlands, probably Brussels, c. 1450-60. Seventeen large miniatures by Master of Girart de Roussillon and Workshop.
NEW YORK, NY.- Les Enluminures will present a special exhibition and catalogue at this year's showing of TEFAF New York. It consists of four books that are remarkable survivals of what people read in the Middle Ages the finest of medieval Bibles (the greatest text of Western civilization), one of the oldest Books of Hours (the most famous medieval manuscripts of all), biography (the unique legend of an Anglo-Saxon princess), and the history of Troy (the oldest chivalric story in European history). These are all manuscripts unknown on the market for at least eighty years. One of the four was last described in print in 1588; the others were last catalogued for sale in 1909, 1932 and 1938 respectively. All are richly illustrated, with a total of 133 miniatures between them, as well as hundreds of borders and illuminated ... More | | 
Salomon van Ruysdael (ca. 16001670). River Landscape. 1642 (detail). Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art.
RIGA.- The exhibition Baltic Oaks. 16th and 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Painting in the Collection of the Latvian National Museum of Art dedicated to Latvias Centenary will be on view at the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE in Riga (Doma laukums 6) from 25 August to 30 November 2018. The project that includes an exhibition, a scientific conference and scientific publications of several fields is a collaboration of Art Museum RIGA BOURSE (AMRB), the University of Latvia and Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava, which is being developed in cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Latvia and the Netherlands Institute of Art History RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie) in the Hague. The exhibition is a story about the nautical relations with the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, or more precisely the oaks that were shipped from the harbors of Riga, Ventspils ... More | | 
Shelves filled with products from retail chain Rewe stand on August 20, 2018 at the Staatstheater theatre in Wiesbaden, western Germany, that is used as a supermarket whereas the empty Rewe market is being used as a temporary venue of the Wiesbaden Biennale. The Wiesbaden Biennale art festival titled "Bad News" will be running from August 23, 2018 to September 2, 2018. Silas Stein / dpa / AFP.
WIESBADEN.- Bad Newsthats how the Wiesbaden Biennale has announced its playful attack through a constant blurring of the lines between performance and visual art in this years festival. Whether its a warning or expresses the desire for a slightly hybrid fantasy of doom: curators Maria Magdalena Ludewig and Martin Hammer roll out the currently much-discussed question about the relevance of art, theatre and performance and their fusion in a totally new way. Radical approaches in the performative and the unabashed use of the theatrical, all the way to pseudo-/fake popularismeverything is allowed! Who needs historical theatres anymore anyway? A bargain sale, gentrification or the overthrowing of the elitist ... More |
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| Art Gallery of South Australia presents new work by Chiharu Shiota in an Australian first | | Ubiquitous Austin street artist takes over DORF with an immersive installation | | Major cultural legacy donated to 12 U.S. Tribal colleges | 
Chiharu Shiota. Photo by Sunhi Mang. Courtesy of the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
ADELAIDE.- From 24 August 2018, the Art Gallery of South Australia will present three major projects by internationally acclaimed contemporary Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. The Gallery will be transformed with the trilogy of offerings which includes the artists first major solo survey exhibition to be shown in an Australian public gallery, a site-specific installation featuring Shiotas iconic string practice, and a new public work made for the façade of the Gallery. Chiharu Shiota has had a long-standing relationship with Australia dating back to a career-defining experience as an exchange student at the Canberra School of Art in 1994. It was here in Australia that her signature thread installationswere developed, signalling the beginning of her now iconic and bold visual vocabulary that includes drawing, performance and installation. It is this transformative time in Australia that is the starting point for ... More | | 
For this show, ANGRY CLOUD + DESCND draws parallels between atrocious human conflicts of the past century and today's political climate.
AUSTIN, TX.- Following a widely successful inaugural exhibition, DORF presents Return of the Litvak, a selection of new work by Austin-based street artist ANGRY CLOUD + DESCND, and a concurrent fundraiser for the Beto ORourke campaign for U.S. Senate. ANGRY CLOUD + DESCND, a prolific street artist, has showered Austin with his signature clouds for the past few years; making them is a cathartic expression for him that reclaims public spaces from pervasive, bland development. The artist often paints his imagery directly onto cut-out, repurposed cardboard and wood, attaching them to street poles, signage, highway overpasses, and overlooked urban spaces. His characters appear to react to the surrounding chaos and noise and incorporate intriguing wordplay that calls into question systems of power. For this show, ANGRY CLOUD + DESCND draws parallels between ... More | | 
Núhltmkilaka Koskimo, 1914.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- A major U.S. foundation, group of private donors, and Christopher Cardozo Fine Art are donating complete sets of an artisanal Republication of The North American Indian by Edward Curtis to 12 tribal colleges. The donation includes several hundred contemporary Curtis photographs, and a curated, digital collection of materials originally created by Edward Curtis for his landmark photoethnographic publication. With an aggregate value of over $500,000, the donation is being made in recognition of the 10,000 Native Americans who collaborated in the creation of the original publication, and to support current efforts by Native people to reconnect with their history, culture, and traditions. The North American Indian by Edward Curtis was the most ambitious and expensive ethno-photographic project ever undertaken. Championed by Theodore Roosevelt, and with early patronage from J.P. Morgan, Curtis traveled the ... More |
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| Memorial Hall visitors 'witness' new artistic perspective on Kentucky history | | 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous' host Robin Leach dies | | Fall exhibitions announced at Allentown Art Museum | 
While this work was just completed last week by Philadelphia-based artist Karyn Olivier, the displaced figures depicted in the new art should be familiar to those who visit Memorial Hall regularly. Photos by Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, KY.- As students, faculty, staff and visitors enter University of Kentuckys Memorial Hall this fall it is highly likely their eyes will be drawn upward to a new creation in the dome at the buildings entry. The gold-leafed artwork, Witness, which features African-American and Native American images, hopes to shine new light on many misrepresented Kentuckians from the states history. While this work was just completed last week by Philadelphia-based artist Karyn Olivier, the displaced figures depicted in the new art should be familiar to those who visit Memorial Hall regularly. A horse carriage driver, a young child in a tree, musicians providing entertainment, four figures planting, three figures working land, two sitting near a pond, several at the train station, and a lone Native American with a hatchet these images are all elements of a 1934 mural created ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 1, 2006, television host Robin Leach arrives at the Tao nightclub at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino for a cocktail party before the grand opening of the Venetian's new poker room. Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Robin Leach, the high priest of pizzazz and an early pioneer of reality TV with hit show "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," has died, family and colleagues announced on Friday. He was 76. The suave presenter, known for his catchphrase "champagne wishes and caviar dreams" on the 1980s and 90s series, practically invented bling, regaling audiences for more than a decade with stories of lavish living and fabulous wealth. Leach had been in hospital in Las Vegas since suffering a stroke on vacation in Mexico late last year and died on Thursday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where Leach worked as a celebrity columnist. "Sad to report the death of famed celeb reporter, friend and colleague #RobinLeach @ 1:50 a.m. in #LasVegas. He would have been 77 Wednesday," columnist John ... More | | 
Juan Pedro López (Venezuelan, 17241787), Our Lady of Solitude, 18th century, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the ColeccÃón Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
ALLENTOWN, PA.- With an official opening day of Sunday, September 9, 2018, the fall exhibitions at the Allentown Art Museum will bring art to the Lehigh Valley that spans centuries and geographies. The Museums entire second floor will feature art from the Caribbean and Central America in three must-see exhibitions that will showcase the vitality of the regions artistic traditions and explore themes of spirituality, cultural exchange, trade, and colonization. Power and Piety will present 56 paintings, sculpture, silver pieces, furniture, and other decorative devotional objects that attest to the tremendous interchange of cultures that occurred in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of the Caribbean basin from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries. Designed for use in Catholic churches, convents, and monasteries and in private homes, these objects were made by artisans from the Americas but based on the iconographies, styles ... More |
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 Exhibition focuses on artists who stage encounters between the earth and the bodyCHICAGO, IL.- This summer, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens a body measured against the earth, an exhibition of work largely drawn from the MCA Collection that focuses on artists who stage encounters between the earth and the body. The title comes from a quote, Walking
is how the body measures itself against the Earth, by ecofeminist writer Rebecca Solnit, who writes about the spiritual, intellectual, and aesthetic significance of walking. The exhibition features artists using their bodies as their primary tool to measure, understand, and document the landscape, and investigating specific places and histories. A body measured against the earth is on view from August 25, 2018 to April 7, 2019 and is organized by Jared Quinton, former MCA Curatorial Fellow. The exhibition takes inspiration from the ephemeral earth-body works staged ... More KMAC Museum opens a solo show by renowned interdisciplinary artist Jibade-Khalil LOUISVILLE, KY.- KMAC Museum in Louisville, Kentucky presents Poems For Every Occasion, a solo show by renowned interdisciplinary artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman. Huffman builds on a foundation rooted in poetry, synthesizing traditional and contemporary linguistic forms into a creative practice that employs multimedia platforms including videos, photographs, performances, and text-based works. Poems For Every Occasion features recent videos and digital-based collages using Huffmans personal archive of constructed images, text, and sounds, combined with an exhaustive database of pop culture material. In an era where daily life is mediated through our screens, Huffmans work reveals the effects of a media-saturated environment on the American imagination, and transforms the ideas and aesthetics of mass communication into ... More Bernstein feted by Boston Symphony on centennialNEW YORK (AFP).- Top names in the classical music world are converging on the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home of Tanglewood to celebrate the legacy of Leonard Bernstein on his centennial. On what would have been the 100th birthday on Saturday of Bernstein, widely seen as musical history's most influential US-born conductor, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will throw one of its biggest-ever galas at Tanglewood, its restful oasis in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. The orchestra will take the celebrations to France on September 15-16 with the "Boston Weekend" at the Philharmonie de Paris, playing Bernstein's "Serenade" based on Plato's "Symposium" alongside other works including symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich. The events cap a year of commemorations for Bernstein's centennial that included the publication ... More Hundreds of items from the lifetime collections of Pat Bovard and Sherry Smithson to be auctionedPANAMA CITY, FLA.- Items from the lifetime collections of Pat Bovard and Sherry Smithson of Lynn Haven, a suburb of Panama City a massive accumulation of objects that began with a six-foot-tall Coca-Cola bottle and snowballed from there into thousands of collectibles in many categories will come up for bid Saturday, September 22nd, at The Specialists of the South, Inc. The auction, packed with over 600 lots, will be held in The Specialists of the Souths gallery, located at 544 East 6th Street in Panama City, starting at 8 am Central time. Previews will be held the week of auction, from 9 am to 4 pm, and on auction day from 7 am until the start of sale at 8. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be facilitated by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. To say that Pat and Sherry are serious collectors doesnt do justice to what ... More Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst opens Koki Tanaka's 'Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie)'XURICH.- In view of the worldwide rise of nationalism, populism, and xenophobia, the artistic social studies of Koki Tanaka (b. Tochigi, Japan, 1975) focus on how we live together in societies. Realized especially for his exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, the project Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie) (2018) highlights an example from Tanakas native country, the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese, to plead for vigilance toward racism and discrimination. The project centers on a series of conversations in various settings between two protagonists who have not met before. Shadowed by the artist and his camera team, they travel to various locations in Tokyo to grapple with questions of (their own cultural) identity and how to take a stand against the simplistic worldviews of racist groups. ... More First solo show in Sydney for Darwin based artist Joshua Bonson opens at Cooee Art GallerySYDNEY.- Cooee Art Gallery presents SKIN, the first solo show in Sydney for Darwin based artist Joshua Bonson. The exhibition will be on view at Cooee Art Gallery Paddington until the 8th September 2018. Bonson shares stories of his Indigenous heritage through his work. SKIN is a celebration of his family's totem - The Saltwater Crocodile - and his personal view of the world. Whilst in his senior years at school, Bonson started to dabble with paint, creating textured black and white paintings in acrylics in what he describes as a 3D style. He applies his paint thickly creating works that are contemporary in appearance yet embody age old Indigenous traditions and meanings. The idea is to recreate the scales of a saltwater crocodile, which my grandfather told me is my totem. The armoured skin of the reptile is shown by the built-up serrations of the paint and ... More Whyte's announces highlights from its Eclectic Collector AuctionDUBLIN.- The eclectic array of collectibles in this popular series of auctions hosted by Whytes includes historic artefacts, manuscripts, documents and printed ephemera, also maps, books, Irish provincial silver, advertising signs and posters, jewellery and watches, militaria and weapons, coins, medals & banknotes, curios etc. HMS Terrible was the largest steam-powered, paddle-wheel frigate in the world when she was launched in 1845. Her ships log 1847-1850 begins with her service on the coast of Ireland, commencing with the loading in Woolwich, of fresh beef and vegetables and a bale of clothing for the Relief Association for Belmullet and their landing in Black Sod Bay. Other items carried to Ireland for famine relief included bags of bread (35 to 495 at a time), sacks of barley, seed oats, swede, parsnip and turnip seed. Later entries include references ... More Sellout artist Leah Fraser's new show opens at Arthouse GallerySYDNEY.- Arthouse Gallery is presenting a new collection of lyrical paintings by Sydney artist Leah Fraser. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Fraser was granted an Art Production Residency in Arquetopia, Puebla Mexico (2012) and has regularly exhibited throughout Australia in sellout solo and group shows. She has also been a finalist in a number of awards, including the Blake Prize for Religious Art (2014 & 2009), the Moreton Bay Art Prize (2016) and the Portia Geach Memorial Award (2017). The otherworldly paintings of Leah Fraser form an ocular poetry. Each work is a lyrical stanza narrating the mysteries of existence across history and mythology. Moving through liminal realms, ethereal beings coalesce with a dense bounty of flora and fauna in silent symbiosis. Fraser calls upon the symbologies of various cultures to excavate ... More The Kestner Gesellschaft opens an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Nevin Aladağ HANNOVER.- The Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting an exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Nevin Aladağ (*1972 in Van, Turkey) entitled Best Friends in the Claussen-Halle. In her work Aladağ deals with current social questions about the self-determination of identity and the hybridization of cultural spaces. At documenta 14 her work was presented to a broad audience. The exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft is an experimental format: in a single room the show will take place over two periods. In the first part of the exhibition, which will open in late August 2018, the themes of friendship, neighborhood, and social coexistence will be dealt with based on the photo series Best Friends (20122015) and the video work Hochparterre [Mezzanine] (2009/2010). In the second part, which will start in December 2018, the exhibition will change with the addition of new works. ... More Exhibition investigates the criminal justice system in the United StatesHOUSTON, TX.- The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces its exhibition Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, the largest and most comprehensive museum presentation to investigate the criminal justice system in the United States. Presented through the eyes of more than thirty artists, with works spanning the past forty years, Walls Turned Sideways is organized by Guest Curator Risa Puleo. Walls Turned Sideways features work by artists from across the nation that addresses the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, and the prisonindustrial complex. Representing a range of contemporary art production made both in the studio and the social realm, the exhibition includes artworks that take social justice issues as a subject matter; and position the prison and court systems as structures for dismantling through institutional ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Dorothea Tanning was born August 25, 1910. Dorothea Margaret Tanning (August 25, 1910 - January 31, 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Her early work was influenced by Surrealism. In this image: Dorothea Tanning, Untitled (Set Design for The Night Shadow or an Unrealized Ballet), c. 1950. Graphite, ink, and gouache on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm, 10 x 14 ins © ADAGP. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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