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Pink Roses, 1890, Vincent van Gogh, MIN 1836 © Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
COPENHAGEN.- Helge Jacobsen (1882-1946) is today unknown to most, overshadowed by his famous father, the brewer Carl Jacobsen. But as museum director and foundation chairman Helge Jacobsen has been of immeasurable importance for the arts in Denmark. He stated on several occasions that he saw it as his duty to continue the work of his father, but he also made it clear that he wanted to pursue his personal passion for modern French painting. The Enigmatic Collector: Helge JacobsenÂs Pinacotheca is the first exhibition to tell his story. Like their father, Helge Jacobsen and his younger brother Vagn were trained in the craft of brewing in both Europe and the US, ready to take over the Carlsberg brewery. But the sons did not live up to their fatherÂs expectations, and Helge never played any leading role at the brewery. Helge Jacobsen lived a quiet life in his luxurious villa north of Copenhagen. He was reserved with other people, and called himself Âa weak vesselÂ. He was at his happiest when walking a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Curator and scientific director at the House of history Christian Rapp (R) and curator Hannes Leidinger (L) shows the exam book with the record of Adolf Hitler's failure to integrate the Academy of Fine Arts, during the opening of the exhibition titled "The young Hitler, the formative years of a dictator" at the house of history in Sankt Poelten, Austria on February 27, 2020. The exhibition, running until August 9, 2020, takes place at the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. JOE KLAMAR / AFP
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 | | Hitler's operatic efforts go on display in Austria | | Met announces acquisition of monumental sculptural relief by Charles Ray and 2021 exhibition | | Degas is having a moment, again | 
Curator and scientific director at the House of history Christian Rapp (L) speaks next to curator Hannes Leidinger during the opening of the exhibition titled "The young Hitler, the formative years of a dictator" at the house of history in Sankt Poelten, Austria. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
by Celine Jankowiak
SANKT PÃLTEN (AFP).- Adolf Hitler's admiration for German composer Richard Wagner is well-documented, but that the Nazi dictator attempted to write an opera himself will come as a surprise to many. Nevertheless, a page of the work, entitled "Wieland der Schmied" (Wieland the Smith), goes on display to the public for the first time in a new exhibition on the "Young Hitler" opening in Austria this weekend. A piano sketch of the first page, made by one of Hitler's few friends as a young man, August Kubizek, dates from 1908 when the future Nazi leader would have been around 20. Long speculated about, but never before seen in public, the manuscript was apparently written after Hitler had had only a few months of piano lessons, says Christian Rapp, one of the exhibition's curators. And it clearly demonstrated the future dictator's "inflated sense of his own abilities", Rapp told AFP. The single sheet is believed to be the only surviving page of an ambitious project based ... More | | 
Charles Ray (American, born 1953). Two Horses, 2019. Granite, 10 ft. 3/8 in. à 14 ft. 10 1/4 in. à 8 1/2 in. (305.8 à 452.8 à 21.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Gift of Continental Group, by exchange, and Bequest of Gioconda King, by exchange, 2019 © Charles Ray, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Pari Stave.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Met announced today the acquisition of the monumental sculptural relief Two Horses (2019) by American artist Charles Ray (b. 1953). Two Horses is now on view at The Met in gallery 918 of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. The ten-by-fourteen-foot granite relief by the acclaimed artist portrays two horses in profile, one fully articulated and a second figure behind it that is partially seen, evoking a ghost-like presence. The Met also announced that it will present an exhibition of the artist's work in late 2021. "Charles Ray's practice fuses his deep knowledge of the history of sculpture making with a vivid and dynamic creative force that is all his own," said Max Hollein, Director of The Met. "Two Horses effectively telescopes thousands of years of archaic and classical relief sculpture into an extraordinarily powerful contemporary work, an especially meaningful combination when presented in the midst of the Museum's encyclopedic ... More | | 
"Three Dancers in Yellow Skirts" (circa 1891) by Edgar Degas. The oil on canvas is being offered by Hammer Galleries at the European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Hammer Galleries via The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Getting carried away while looking at art is one of its central pleasures. It is among the reasons we buy pictures or go to museums: to lose ourselves. That experience is only heightened for professionals in the field, who delve even more deeply into the works. But some artists enchant more than others. Art historians get drunk on Degas, said Richard Kendall, an independent curator who has written many books on the impressionist master, known above all for his ballerina depictions. Kendall chuckled and added, Ive devoted an embarrassingly large amount of attention to him. His most recent venture into the work of Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was for a catalog essay about the artists Three Dancers in Yellow Skirts (circa 1891), an oil on canvas being offered by Hammer Galleries at The European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Hammer is mum on the exact asking price but said that it was north of the all-time Degas au ... More |
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| | Trustee who funds climate change skeptics leaves Natural History Board | | Which art fair is for you? Let our critic be your guide | | A Frank Lloyd Wright design will have a new life in London | 
The American Museum of Natural History. Benjamin Norman/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Rebekah Mercer, an influential donor to conservative causes including groups that deny climate science has quietly stepped down from the American Museum of Natural History, one of the countrys most prominent science museums. The museum, where Mercer served two three-year terms, said Thursday through a spokeswoman: Ms. Mercers term expired in December 2019 and her position on the board came to an end at that time. Members may serve up to three consecutive terms; the museum did not say if Mercer had sought election to a third term. Mercer did not respond to messages seeking comment. Her presence on the board prompted protests after The New York Times reported in 2017 that the Mercer Family Foundation which Mercer operates with her father, New York investor Robert Mercer had given nearly $8 million to organizations including those that reject the scientific consensus on climate change. Among these beneficiaries are the ... More | | 
One of New Yorks busiest art fair seasons kicks off this week with the Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books. For the gallerists, the process can be nerve-racking but for everyone else, its a blast. Samantha Mash/The New Work Times.
by Will Heinrich
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The opening of The Art Show on Thursday kicks off a carnival of New York art fairs that wont stop until March 9. The city will host at least 10, offering hundreds of booths of modern and contemporary art, from blue chip to brand-new, and even a sampling of antiquarian books. For the gallerists, the process can be nerve-racking. But for everyone else, its a blast. The more you see in a given day, the better the odds youll discover something to love and even if you dont, sensory overload has a thrill of its own. And with so many of the exhibitors flying in from abroad, you can essentially travel the world in an afternoon. Just dont think youll get to everything. I recommend wearing sneakers, resisting the urge to ... More | | 
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 1959), Edgar J. Kaufmann Office, 1935 1937. Panelled room, with panels of swamp cypress plywood © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2018.
by Farah Nayeri
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Frank Lloyd Wrights lasting fame is owed in part to Fallingwater, a house in rural southwestern Pennsylvania for department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. When Wright was hired to design the house, Kaufmann also commissioned him to create something smaller: an office in Pittsburgh. That office will be a star display in the Victoria & Albert Museums East London branch, which is scheduled to open in 2023. Before then, however, the office will be refurbished with help from a grant for 25,000 euros (about $27,000) from the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund. The fund, which was set up in 2012, awards grants to two institutions each year. The committee tries to select one decorative arts project and one fine arts project. Previous grant recipients include the Denver Art Museum, for a painting by Canaletto; the National Gallery in London, for a royal portrait by Anthony van ... More |
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| | For TEFAF, a new year brings a new approach | | There's a new artist in town. The name is Biden. | | Switzerland suspends all major events to combat virus | 
A photo provided by the exhibitor Colnaghi shows an ancient Roman marble depicting the head of a veiled woman, which will be among the gallery's wares at the European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Arturo Sanchez/Colnaghi via The New York Times.
by Ted Loos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- All art fairs have an array of selling points, which are necessary to get dealers and collectors to sign on, given how much the gatherings of galleries have proliferated. March comes amid one of the busiest seasons of the year for such events. But not every fair is described as the Super Bowl and the World Series of traditional art. Los Angeles dealer Eric Weider, co-owner of Gallery 19C, used those words to describe the European Fine Art Fair, known as TEFAF, in Maastricht, Netherlands. Only a combination sports metaphor will do for Weider, who is exhibiting for the first time this year at the fair, featuring more than 275 dealers from March 7-15 at the Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (preview days for VIPs begin on Thursday). Its the best that you ... More | | 
Hunter Biden in his art studio in Los Angeles. Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times.
by Adam Popescu
LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Dressed in Oxford boots, jeans and a long-sleeve T-shirt, Hunter Biden ushered a reporter down a stone walkway, into a pool house-turned-art studio in the Hollywood Hills. It was filled with colorful works of decorative abstraction psychedelic florals and ethereal patterns that look like nature viewed through a microscope, leaning toward the surreal. There were nearly 100 of them, all by his own hand. Some were signed RH Biden, for Robert Hunter Biden, the 50-year-old son of the former vice president. What do you see? he asked, shifting bottles of ink and a bamboo wok brush. The more critical question might be: How does it look to the outside world? For an unknown artist, his name is very well known, for all the wrong reasons. President Donald Trumps request for foreign help to investigate Bidens role with a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma, set the presidents impeachment in motion. Republicans continue to press ... More | | 
Pascal Strupler, director of the Federal Office of Public Health, holds a flyer prior to a meeting of the taskforce of the Federal Office of Public Health on the prevention of the further spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, on February 28, 2020 in Bern. PETER KLAUNZER / POOL / AFP.
by Dario Thuburn
GENEVA (AFP).- Switzerland on Friday cancelled football matches, carnival celebrations, concerts and the Geneva International Motor Show in a drastic bid to stem the country's new coronavirus outbreak in its early stages. The government announced it was suspending all public and private events with more than 1,000 participants until at least March 15, invoking emergency powers to do so. The ban will even include a Catholic mass due to be held for the first time in 500 years on Saturday at the Geneva cathedral -- a bastion of the Protestant Reformation. In Zurich, concerts by US shock rock pioneer Alice Cooper and guitarist Carlos Santana also had to be cancelled. Google confirmed that an employee in Zurich has been diagnosed with novel coronavirus but its office ... More |
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| | Museum-quality text messages | | Lost painting by Cecilia Beaux finds new home in Georgia | | BAMPFA announces passing of former Director Kevin Consey | 
A photo provided by the Kröller-Müller Museum shows part of the exhibition "Not in So Many Words," focuses on art that employs text and undermines the notion that art is a primarily visual medium. Kröller-Müller Museum via The New York Times.
by Nina Siegal
OTTERLO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This work is installed when the word Time is spoken, says a single white sheet of paper framed behind glass. That is the full extent of the conceptual artwork Time Spoken (1982) by Ian Wilson. In the corner of a gallery at the Kröller-Müller Museum in De Hoge Veluwe National Park, we quietly whisper, Time. And we have installed a work of art. And then we laugh. Such is the comical and sometimes philosophical nature of many of the works on display in this exhibition, Not in So Many Words, on view until May 10. About a two-hour drive from Maastricht, the museum makes a scenic and cultural side trip for visitors to the European Fine Art Fair, or TEFAF, with an exquisite permanent collection that features one of the worlds largest troves ... More | | 
Cecilia Beaux (American, 18551942), Twilight Confidences, 1888 (detail). Oil on canvas. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Museum purchase with funds provided by the William Underwood Eiland Endowment for Acquisitions made possible by M. Smith Griffith and the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation. GMOA 2018.117.
ATHENS, GA.- This February, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is launching a new series of long-term exhibitions installed in its permanent collection. The In Dialogue series creates focused, innovative conversations around a single work of art from the permanent collection. The first In Dialogue opens February 28, running through November 15, and features Cecilia Beauxs painting Twilight Confidences alongside three studies on loan from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The museum acquired Twilight Confidences in 2018 due to a stroke of good luck. The paintings whereabouts were unknown for much of the 20th century. It resurfaced in 2007, when art historian Sylvia Yount was conducting research for the High Museums retrospective on ... More | | 
Consey leaves behind a legacy as one of Americas most accomplished museum directors in the area of capital projects, having overseen multiple new building campaigns at the institutions he led.
BERKELEY, CA.- Kevin Consey, the former director of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive from 1999 to 2008 who spearheaded multiple building projects over a distinguished thirty-two-year career of museum leadership, passed away on Wednesday at his home in Kensington, California, surrounded by family and friends. He was sixty-eight years old. "Kevin Consey was a wonderful person and a gifted director who strengthened BAMPFAs position as one of Americas leading university museums, said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ. His unparalleled eye for artistic excellence invigorated BAMPFAs collection and programs, and his vision and persistence laid the groundwork for the museum to flourish in a beautiful new building that he helped to realize. It was a joy to work with Kevin throughout his tenure at BAMPFA, and he will be sorely missed. Consey leaves behind a legacy as one of Americas most accomplish ... More |
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 New board member appointment at Grounds For SculptureHAMILTON, NJ.- Grounds For Sculpture, the 42-acre sculpture park, garden, and contemporary art museum in Hamilton, NJ, announced the appointment of David W. Kaiser, Senior Vice President and Market Executive at Bank of America, to its Board of Trustees. Kaiser, a longtime Hamilton, NJ resident, leads a Bank of America team supporting the growth of small to mid-sized companies in the region. His 30+ years of commercial banking experience, the relationships David has cultivated along the way, and his enthusiasm for GFS made him a prime candidate for the organizations governing board. A graduate of University of Notre Dame, Kaiser holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree. He earned his MBA at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. As a member of Grounds For Sculpture, I am so proud to join this great organization's Board ... More The American Swedish Institute celebrates its 90th anniversary with the exhibition extra/ordinaryMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- extra/ordinary is a playful and imaginative new exhibition produced by the American Swedish Institute in celebration of its 90th anniversary that explores 29 objects from ASIs permanent collection and the untold stories behind them. On view from February 29 July 5, 2020, the exhibition invites visitors to not only re-discover the wonder of the featured objects, many on public display for the first time, but to also experience the Turnblad Mansion in new ways through encounters with such fun surprises as a 20-foot-tall Dala horse and a ballroom full of balls. extra/ordinary pairs the historical artifacts, including carvings, photographs, textiles and musical instruments, with original watercolor paintings and ink illustrations by the Minnesota mother-son team of Tara Sweeney and Nate Christopherson. Developed by ASI, the 7,500 square foot ... More New-York Historical Society leaps into election year with exhibitionsNEW YORK, NY.- As election year 2020 begins, the New-York Historical Society launches a series of special exhibitions that address the cornerstones of citizenship and American democracy. Starting on Presidents Day Weekend, visitors to Meet the Presidents will discover how the role of the president has evolved since George Washington with a re-creation of the White House Oval Office and a new gallery devoted to the powers of the presidency. Opening on the eve of Womens History Month, Women March marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment with an immersive celebration of 200 years of womens political and social activism. Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions: Creating the American Republic explores the important roles state constitutions have played in the history of our country, while The People Count: The Census in the Making ... More Linda Wolfe, 87, dies; Wrote of 'preppie murder' and other crimesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Linda Wolfe, a writer who took her readers behind the scenes of true crimes and into the minds of their perpetrators, including the young man who committed the so-called preppy murder and the judge who stalked his socialite ex-mistress and landed in jail, died Feb. 22 in Manhattan. She was 87. Her granddaughter Rachel S. Bernstein said the cause was complications following bowel surgery. Wolfe studied literature and planned to write short stories. She worked at Partisan Review and Time-Life Books and wrote short fiction as well as writing and editing an anthology cookbook, The Literary Gourmet (1962), which consisted of dining scenes and recipes from literature. All the while, she was clipping out newspaper accounts of true crimes, thinking they would help her plot her fiction. A turning point of sorts came in 1975, when ... More The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents a retrospective exhibition of Guy BourdinMOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents a retrospective exhibition of Guy Bourdin, one of the most influential photographers of the second half of the 20th century, the French artist, innovator and revolutionary of fashion photography. The exhibition features more than 50 of the photographers most recognizable works from various years, from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. For forty years, Guy Bourdin surprised and shocked readers of glossy magazines with provocative images, pushing the boundaries of commercial photography and changing the viewer's perception of fashion photography. Bourdin started his career as a painter and studied photography while serving in the army in the late 1940s. In the early 1950s, he became the protégé of one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century, Man ... More me Collectors Room Berlin celebrates its 10th anniversary with exhibitionBERLIN.- 10 years me Collectors Room Berlin: This anniversary will be celebrated from 29 February to 17 May 2020 with an exhibition that takes a highly personal look into both, the activities of the foundation and the Olbricht Collection. Flows of energy pass through us, moving us, our world, and everything in our universe. Thomas Olbricht has often also described his experience and life with art as a flow of energy that he likes to share with as many people as possible. This art space in fact took its name after this wish of his: moving energies me Collectors Room Berlin. Moving energies, or energy flows resulting from the interplay of diverse objects, genres and epochs, also characterize the eclecticism of the Olbricht Collection. Exhibits, which include model fire engines, Art Nouveau objects, romantic landscape paintings, designer furniture, African ... More Exhibition of works from the collection of Gino Di Maggio opens in ToulouseTOULOUSE.- For the first time, Les Abattoirs, Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse is presenting works acquired over a number of years by Gino Di Maggio (born in 1940), an Italian collector who has spent time with and promoted artists who disrupted the international art scene from the 1950s and 60s onwards. This exhibition brings together fifty artists, from Yoko Ono to César, from John Cage to Kazuo Shiraga, from Lee Ufan to Robert Filliou, and from Daniel Spoerri to Ben Vautier, centred around more than one hundred works. It shines a spotlight on a collection that has been formed through a desire to support creation and publishing rather than for accumulation or investment, thus revealing one of the art worlds personalities, who has remained behind the scenes for a long time. More than a simple compilation of exceptional works, this exhibition tells ... More A retrospective of the weird and wonderful Nancy Fouts opens at Hang Up GalleryLONDON.- Hang-Up Gallery is presenting Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns, a retrospective dedicated to the extraordinary work of Nancy Fouts. American-born artist Nancy Fouts, who passed away in April 2019, is best known for her distinctive sculptural works, which reconfigure commonplace objects and materials with a subversive and playful humour. Nancys work brings together these seemingly disconnected items, religious artefacts, creatures and symbols to create bizarre juxtapositions of the everyday, wickedly funny taxidermy sculptures, and even giving Old Master paintings a surreal twist. The artist described her approach to gleaning ideas as beachcombing, rediscovering the familiar with a perspective that she likened to childhood naivety. Admired for her boundless enthusiasm and passion for disrupting the everyday, the modern-day ... More 'Savor: A Revolution in Food Culture' investigates radical changes in the history of diningHARTFORD, CONN.- What many of us eat, the way food is cooked, and how we dine continue to be influenced by radical changes that took place in France and England between 1650 and 1789, the start of the French Revolution. Savor: A Revolution in Food Culture explores the details and events behind this transformation. Centuries before our time, light, flavorful cuisine was promoted by intellectuals and prepared by cooks and connoisseurs. The changing food culture inspired the invention of ceramic and silver ware vessels designed to serve the latest dishes. Replete with rare objects, from tureens in the forms of cauliflowers and chickens, to early cookbooks and gardening manuals, Savor reveals fascinating histories and stories about advances in horticulture, surprisingly modern philosophies on healthy eating, and a shift to more informal dining. Savor will be on ... More The Freud Museum presents the drawings of American artist Ida ApplebroogLONDON.- The Freud Museum presents the drawings of American artist, Ida Applebroog, from her Mercy Hospital series. In 2009, Ida Applebroogs assistants found a box labelled Mercy Hospital, long forgotten by the artist. Inside were drawings executed during a period in 1969 when she was struggling with her mental health. She had checked herself into San Diegos Mercy Hospital for six weeks where she had created over 100 drawings bound in large sketchbooks. A number of these drawings will be on display in the Freud Museum London. Born in 1929, Ida Applebroog is a pioneering feminist who addresses themes such as gender politics, sexual identity, violence, power and domestic space in her multimedia artworks. She has spent the past five decades conducting a sustained inquiry into the polemics of human relations. She has an instantly recognisable style ... More Kunstmuseum Luzern opens Marion Baruch Retrospektive - innenausseninnen LUCERNE.- It is possible to outline the caesurae of the 20th century by referencing the life and career of the artist Marion Baruch (*1929) in Romania, Israel, Italy, Great Britain and France: fascism, communism, capitalism, feminism, pacifism, migration, social classes, nations, religions, language communities, political ideologies. Through her art, Baruch addresses social themes and observes inner worlds and outer spaces. innenausseninnen is an immediately understandable term she has coined, it is just that here aussen (outside) is innen (inside). Language is central to Baruchs work. innenausseninnen designates a search for a perspective, an experimental set up assessing the mechanisms of integration and/or exclusion. For her project Une chambre vide (2009) the artist cleared out a room in her small apartment in Paris so that she could ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, France painter Balthus was born February 29, 1908. Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 - February 18, 2001), known as Balthus, was a Polish-French modern artist. He is known for his erotically charged images of pubescent girls, but also for the refined, dreamlike quality of his imagery. Throughout his career, Balthus rejected the usual conventions of the art world. He insisted that his paintings should be seen and not read about, and he resisted any attempts made to build a biographical profile. A telegram sent to the Tate Gallery as it prepared for its 1968 retrospective of his works read
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