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Nearly 90 works loaned by museums and private collections around the world (France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA) are on display in the Jacobins Church (Ãglise des Jacobins), an Agen architectural jewel and an emblematic place for the MuseumÂs temporary exhibitions.
AGEN.- The City of Agen and its Fine Arts Museum, located between Bordeaux and Toulouse in the South-west of France, is presenting, over the winter of 2019-2020, an outstanding exhibition with a fresh and unexpected view on Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) and his work. Through a selection of works in several media (paintings, drawings, engravings), the exhibition demonstrates the essential characteristics that remain constant in Goyas work and reveal the role played by his collaborators in his studio. The Museums scientific team is assisted in this project by one of the specialists of Goyas work Juliet Wilson-Bareau and the event has received personal support from the French Minister of Culture. Nearly 90 works loaned by museums ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on December 25, 2019 shows one of the thematic lantern sets showcased at the so-called "The Great Lanterns of China" festival at northern LithuaniaÂs Pakruojis Manor. The festival runs until January 6, 2019. Petras Malukas / AFP
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 | | Exhibition at Centre Pompidou presents the work of Christian Boltanski | | Exhibition highlights Rufino Tamayo's engagement with printmaking | | Dendro4Art: A new wood research platform launches | 
le Cur, 2005. Lamp flashing upon a heartbeat recording. View of the installation at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt institute, Germany, 2006. Courtesy Christian Boltanski. Photo © Wolfgang Günzel.
PARIS.- With this vast path in the form of a contemplation on the course of life, the Centre Pompidou presents the work of Christian Boltanski, one of the major contemporary artists of our time, from 13 November 2019 to 16 March 2020. Following a first exhibition of the artists work at the Centre Pompidou in 1984, this event celebrates a fundamental ensemble. Christian Boltanski experiments with numerous forms of artistic expression and matter in an ongoing exploration of the frontier between presence and absence. Over the course of fifty years, Boltanski has developed a body of work which is both sensitive and corrosive, a combination of memory and a continuous exploration of the rites in our western society, conceived as a lucid and watchful eye over our culture, its illusions and disillusions. (
) Since his artistic debut in 1967, Boltanski has been scrutinising ... More | | 
Rufino Tamayo, Man with Tall Hat (Hombre con sombrero alto), c. 1930, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, Art © Tamayo Heirs/Mexico/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation. Rufino Tamayo (18991991) was a leading Mexican artist of the 20th century who achieved international acclaim. Though he was known primarily for his paintings and murals, he also created a robust body of works on paper, which provided an important avenue for formal and technical innovation. Drawn exclusively from LACMAs holdings, the exhibition highlights Tamayos engagement with printmaking and also includes a selection of Mesoamerican sculpture (an important source of inspiration for the artist) from the museums collection. Spanning over 60 years of his prolific career, Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation focuses on Tamayos ... More | | 
The platform explicitly invites users to share data themselves, helping to further strengthen the research community.
COPENHAGEN.- The RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History (The Hague) and CATS Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (Copenhagen) launched a new wood research platform, Dendro4Art, providing unique dendrochronological research data on panel paintings and wooden sculptures. This platform will become a global hub for dendrochronologists and art historians across the world, giving them access to extensive research data that includes raw data and information about dendrochronology. The platform explicitly invites users to share data themselves, helping to further strengthen the research community. In April of this year, the RKD presented dendrochronological reports and work drawings drafted by Em. Prof. Dr. Peter Klein (University of Hamburg). At that time, the research community expressed a strong desire to also consult the raw data from the dendrochronological research ... More |
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| | Prado Museum gifted work by one of the best miniaturists of the Renaissance | | Aerosmith's Steven Tyler's mic, stand & scarves, headline Julien's Auctions MusiCares Online Charity Auction | | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art exhibits works by Jenny Holzer | 
Giulio Clovio, Resurrected Christ, c. 1550. Gouache and watercolor, heightened with gold on vellum, 21cm x 15cm. American Friends of the Prado Museum, donated by Pilar Conde Gutiérrez del Ãlamo.
MADRID.- The Resurrected Christ was probably commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese to Giulio Clovio, who finished the work around 1550. The artist used Michelangelos sculpture of the same name, conserved in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, as inspiration for the composition. Known for his friendship with the much younger El Greco, Clovio is considered the best miniaturist and illuminator of the Renaissance, as well as the creator of a new technique where he incorporates the texture and tones of the material whether paper, parchment or vellum to apply color in very fine dots that together appear as a fallen snow over the painting as described by Francisco de Holanda. He is an important innovator who moves away from the medieval tradition of miniatures, conceiving his illustrations as individual, small format paintings. ... More | | 
Among the items are frontman Steven Tylers autographed, iconic Shure SM58 microphone.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions has announced an online charity auction for Musicares®' 30th anniversary of Person of The Year, featuring Aerosmith. In celebration of MusiCares milestone anniversary, Juliens Auctions will host a special online only auction with advance bidding beginning December 27, 2019 to registered bidders on www.JuliensLive.com who are not able to attend the MusiCares Person Of The Year benefit gala honoring Aerosmith at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 24th, 2020. The auction will start closing in real time and in lot order for live bidding at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time on January 24. This GRAMMY® Week event precedes the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards® telecast. In the midst of celebrating 50 years as a band, Aerosmith will be recognized for their considerable philanthropic efforts over five decades and undeniable impact on American music history. A sensational collection of items- some never before seen a ... More | | 
Jenny Holzer, For You, 2019, LED sign with robotics_MMCA installation view.
GWACHEON.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea is presenting the MMCA Commissioned Project FOR YOU: Jenny Holzer from November 23, 2019, to July 5, 2020, at MMCA Seoul and Gwacheon. Jenny Holzer employs written language as her primary medium to address collective concerns and private anxieties. Since 2017, the museum has been collaborating with the artist to present three works at MMCA Seoul (Seoul Box/lobby) and MMCA Gwacheon (outdoor space) for the project, which opened on November 23. In the late 1970s, Holzer began anonymously putting up posters around the streets of New York City. This series, Truisms, consists of brief alphabetized statements on diverse subjects that distill contradictory perspectives and contentious ideas into seemingly straightforward statements of fact. For the past 40 years, her work has continued to draw attention to societal problems and political injustices, ... More |
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| | UK's iconic first red public telephone box listed | | Vito Schnabel Gallery is presenting a pair of parallel solo exhibitions by Francesco Clemente | | Sotheby's 2019 auctions achieve $4.8 billion | 
Created in 1924 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 - 1960), the prototype K2 (Kiosk No.2) telephone box formed the basis of the design of future telephone boxes across the country.
LONDON.- Heritage Minister Helen Whately has announced that the prototype for the UKs first red public telephone box has been upgraded to Grade II* in recognition of its iconic design status. Created in 1924 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (1880 - 1960), the prototype K2 (Kiosk No.2) telephone box formed the basis of the design of future telephone boxes across the country. The timber K2 prototype was designed for a competition launched by the Royal Fine Arts Commission at the request of the Postmaster General to find an alternate to the unpopular concrete K1 structure which had been introduced in 1921. Scotts timber prototype was initially displayed in 1924 outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square with four other designs, and in 1925 it was announced that the K2 telephone box was the one most suitable for ... More | | 
Francesco Clemente, India, 2019, Oil on canvas, 96 x 92 inches (243.8 x 233.7 cm) © Francesco Clemente. Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Projects.
ST. MORITZ.- Vito Schnabel Gallery announced its collaboration with New York-based Italian and American artist Francesco Clemente, presenting a pair of parallel solo exhibitions in the United States and Switzerland. Debuting new paintings and frescoes, both shows present boldly expressive, large-scale works that comprise a meditation upon the restless physical and spiritual journey that has shaped the course of the artists acclaimed four-decade career. Francesco Clemente: India is on view at Vito Schnabel Projects, New York, from November 8, 2019 through January 18, 2020. Francesco Clemente: Clouds is on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, from December 18, 2019 through February 2, 2020. The exhibitions highlight Clementes famed nomadism, which embraces divergent geographies and cultural climates, bridging East and West. The scope and ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Meules, sold for $110.7 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys concluded their 2019 auctions last week, reaching an annual sales total of $4.8 billion. From the sale of Claude Monets Meules for $110.7 million a world auction record for Impressionist art to the worlds most expensive sneaker, below is a look back at the major auction moments that helped define the year at Sothebys. Charles Stewart, Sothebys CEO commented: Our 275th anniversary marked an outstanding year for Sothebys, with record sales across categories and geographies. The more than 100 auctions we held over the past two months delivered particularly exceptional results that helped us end 2019 on a very high note. That energy and focus will carry us into 2020, which already promises to be an exciting year. In celebration of fearless and ground-breaking women artists of the pre-modern era, Sothebys Master Week sale series in New York presented The Female ... More |
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| | First full retrospective dedicated to Gego in Brazil on view at Museu de Arte de São Paulo | | Eight months later, Notre-Dame cathedral still broken | | Exhibition examines six photographers' documentation of communities they are not part of | 
Installation view.
SAO PAULO.- Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, Hamburg, Germany, 1912-Caracas Venezuela, 1994) studied architecture and engineering in Stuttgart; facing growing anti-Semitism in her home country, she migrated to Venezuela in 1939, where she worked as an architect. It was not until the early 1950s that she began her career as an artist, first working in watercolors, monotypes and wood engravings, before moving on to three-dimensional metal structures. Working alongside a group of peers that included Carlos Cruz-DÃez, Alejandro Otero and Jesús Rafael Soto, Gego became a leading artist in geometric abstraction and kinetic art, movements aligned with the prewar European avant-gardes, which flourished in Venezuela and Latin America between the late 1940s and late 1960s. Over her lifetime, she was concerned with investigating three forms of systems: parallel lines, linear knots, and the parallax effectby which the shape of a static object changes due to the movement of the spectators observational p ... More | | 
A picture taken on December 26, 2019 shows a giant crane outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, which was partially destroyed when fire broke out beneath the roof on April 15, 2019. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Jean-Louis De La Vaisiere
PARIS (AFP).- Eight months after a devastating fire ravaged the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, engineers are preparing for a crucial but complicated step in the herculean restoration effort: removing a mound of scaffolding mangled in the blaze. Within weeks, they are set to embark on the most delicate operation so far in the rescue effort. They have to extract 10,000 metal pipes forged by the inferno into a giant web-like structure that must be removed for work to proceed, but without further unsettling the enfeebled edifice. The scaffolding was erected for renovation work on the 13th century cathedral before a fire on April 15 tore through Notre-Dame's roof and dramatically toppled its spire. What remains of the metal platform that once encircled ... More | | 
Paul Strand, Boy. Hidalgo, 1933, photogravure from The Mexican Portfolio, 1967, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Aperture Foundation.
FORT WORTH, TX.- The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is presenting Looking In: Photography from the Outside, on view December 21, 2019, through May 10, 2020. Drawing from the Carters world-renowned photography collection, this exhibition features over 60 works by twentieth-century artists Richard Avedon, Morris Engel, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, and Paul Strand. Looking In examines the way artists have photographed groups they are not part of, exploring how they navigate their identity as outsider to an insular community. Twentieth-century books and magazines often employed artists to photograph unfamiliar communities and cultures for photo-essays, offering readers an opportunity to learn more about people they may never meet, but sometimes creating an implied dichotomy between the audience and the subject. These images walk the line between privacy and ethics, ... More |
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ANTONY GORMLEY AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON
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 Exhibition at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa surveys Jörg Immendorff's careerMADRID.- This retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of Jörg Immendorff (Bleckede, Germany, 1945 Düsseldorf, Germany, 2007) surveys a career spanning more than four decades, setting forth the key stages and transformations in the artists work: from the sociopolitical and political upheaval works he conceived between the 1960s and early 1980s, to the encoded paintings in the latter stages of his output. At the end of the 1970s, Immendorffs outlook as a political activist, teacher and artist strongly shifted in focus. In 1976, a pivotal year in his career, he took part in the Venice Biennale with an action that involved handing out flyers which criticised the German Democratic Republics deprivation of liberty and called for the cooperation of international artists to turn the situation around. Two years later, he began Café Deutschland, a series based on Renato ... More An international exhibition helps shed new light on disability TALLINN.- The international exhibition of contemporary art, Disarming Language: Disability, Communication, Rupture opened at Tallinn Art Hall on 14 December. Works by 13 artists have been selected by curators Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme. The exhibition has been produced in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor of Justice and the ARGOS Centre for Art and Media in Brussels. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006) is an international human rights treaty of the United Nations aiming to protect the rights of people with disabilities through language and law. Building upon the treaty, "Disarming Language: Disability, Communication, Rupture" looks at ways in which conceptions of language and communication are informed and enhanced by disability. In bringing together artists, graphic designers, writers, and activists, ... More The Winter Show 2020 announces exhibitor highlightsNEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show returns to the Park Avenue Armory from January 24February 2, 2020 for its 66th year, bringing together 72 of the worlds leading experts in the fine and decorative arts. The 2020 edition features a range of exhibitors, including new, returning, and longtime participants, whose offerings span 5,000 years of museum-quality art and antiques from around the globe. The Winter Show is an annual benefit for East Side House Settlement, a community-based organization serving the Bronx and northern Manhattan. The upcoming edition offers collectors and connoisseurs the opportunity to acquire and encounter an extensive range of works from antiquity to the present, including painting, photography, sculpture, tapestry, prints, ceramics, jewelry, arms, antique furniture, and contemporary design. The 2020 fair includes ... More Peter Wollen, who wrote a film theory bible, is dead at 81NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Peter Wollen, who in a wide-ranging career wrote the influential film theory book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, directed or co-directed films, wrote screenplays for others and curated art exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, died Dec. 17 in West Sussex, England. He was 81. His wife, writer and artist Leslie Dick, said the cause was Alzheimers disease. He had been in institutional care in England for 14 years, she said. Born in England, he had taught in the United States for many years. Signs and Meaning in Cinema, published in 1969, resulted from work Wollen was doing for the British Film Institute on a book series called Cinema One. I was editing the series, he said in a 2001 interview with Serge Guilbaut and Scott Watson of the University of British Columbia, and I commissioned myself to write a book. The ... More The Met to extend display of Wangechi Mutu sculptures through June 2020NEW YORK, NY.- The Met announced that The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us has been extended by five months; Wangechi Mutu's four sculptures will remain on view in the niches of The Met Fifth Avenue facade through June 8, 2020. The installation went on view on September 9, 2019, inaugurating The Met's new annual commission for the Museum's facade. "Wangechi Mutu's deeply powerful sculptures fuse the art of the past with perspectives from the present into these entirely original works of art that have been inspiring conversations and reactions from visitors and passersby since they were unveiled," said Max Hollein, Director of The Met. "We are thrilled to announce that The NewOnes, will free Us will remain on view through the spring, and honored to have these striking figures preside over the Museum ... More Exhibition examines humankind's ecological impact on the planetLONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts is presenting an exhibition examining humankinds ecological impact on the planet. As early as the 1950s, scientists started raising serious concerns about the damaging effects of modern life on the environment. Since then, experts have been joined by creative practitioners in an effort to draw wider attention to the fragility of the planet and to stabilise its endangered ecosystems for future generations. Tackling issues from climate change to food shortage, species extinction and resource depletion, Eco-Visionaries will bring together artists, designers and architects from across the globe who are confronting these environmental issues through their practice. At a critical moment in the history of the planet, the exhibition will present innovative works that reconsider the relationship between humans and nature ... More Message from the Skies 2020 returns with Shorelines as part of Edinburgh's HogmanayEDINBURGH.- From New Years Day to Burns Night on 25 January 2020, Message from the Skies returns for a free journey of discovery through the streets of Edinburgh, the worlds first UNESCO City of Literature. Message from the Skies 2020 - Shorelines, presents a collection of written pieces to Scotland reflecting on our relationship with our seas, waters and coasts and our maritime heritage at the start of Scotlands Year of Coasts and Waters 2020. Message from the Skies 2020 marks the third edition of the innovative cross artform collaboration, delivered by Edinburghs Hogmanay producer Underbelly on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Welcoming the beginning of Scotlands Year of Coasts and Waters, the words of five celebrated writers: Charlotte Runcie, Irvine Welsh, Kathleen Jamie, ... More Tiffany Studios and Rolex set the tone for luxury at Morphy's $1.9M Fine & Decorative Arts AuctionDENVER, PA.- The luxuriant colors and incomparable artistry of Tiffany Studios dominated Morphys $1.9 million Fine & Decorative Arts Auction held December 12 at the companys busy Pennsylvania gallery. Exquisite examples of Tiffany table, floor and hanging lamps many of them quite rare were among the stars of the 767-lot sale. An opulent masterpiece from a long-held collection, a circa-1910 Tiffany Venetian lamp with an intricately patterned leaded-glass shade and jewel-studded gilt-bronze base soared to the top of prices realized, earning $104,550 against a pre-sale estimate of $50,000-$80,000. A floral beauty from the virtuosos at Tiffany, a vibrant Peony table lamp with signed shade and base swept past expectations to settle at $70,110. A Tiffany bronze, leaded and stained-glass chandelier in the October Night pattern, ... More After a decade, a Monteverdi masterpiece flies freeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Tradition dictates that the musical calendar year ends, for most concertgoers, with Handels Messiah. But 10 years ago, a plucky early-music ensemble rang in the New Year with an even older choral masterpiece, full of pomp, glitter and moments of deep contemplation. When Jolle Greenleaf, a soprano and the artistic director of Tenet, organized a performance of Monteverdis Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) on Jan. 3, 2010, in New York, she meant for it to be a one-off event. After all, that year marked the 400th anniversary of the work, informally referred to as the 1610 Vespers. But Greenleafs production, with the musicians volunteering their work, attracted a crowd of 800 and the attention of critics. (James R. Oestreich, writing in The New York Times, called it quite simply ... More Bellevue Arts Museum celebrates father of feral lowbrow art in new exhibitionBELLEVUE, WA.- Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination, which is on view at Bellevue Arts Museum, presents recent works from Los Angeles-based artist Robert Williams. Williams is a unique and contradictory figure in contemporary American art, best known for painting exquisitely detailed allegories and epic history paintings. The Father of Exponential Imagination features over forty recent oil paintings alongside two of Williamss major sculptures, The Rapacious Wheel and Errant Levity. The exhibition coincides with the publication of a major new monograph on Williamss work by Seattle-based publisher Fantagraphics Books, due November 2019. Williams began his career as a key figure on the 1960s hot rod scene, creating advertisements for Ed Big Daddy Roth, and gained a further following through his ... More Artist Rayyane Tabet explores the surprising story of ancient stone reliefs in Met exhibitionNEW YORK, NY.- A new exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art tells the story of the ninth-century B.C.E. stone reliefs excavated in the early 20th century at Tell Halaf, Syria and their subsequent destruction, loss, or dispersal to museum collections around the world, including The Met. Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property, on view through January 18, 2021, examines the circuitous journey of The Met's four reliefs, which came to the Museum under the aegis of the World War II-era Alien Property Custodian Act. The exhibition also highlights the very personal connection of the reliefs to contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet (born 1983). "The stories that Rayyane Tabet tells in this exhibition are rooted in both intensely personal experiences, and some of the most complex cultural heritage issues currently being grappled with in the worldincluding the role ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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