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A restorer fixes a restored piece of the face of a man bust, which is one of the two funeral reliefs from Palmyra archeological site that will be restored at the Higher Institute of Conservation and Restoration (ISCR - Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro) in Rome, on February 16, 2017. The busts of a man and a woman, dated from the 2nd and 3rd century AD and destroyed by the Islamic State group (IS), have been entrusted to the care of the technical and restorers of the ISCR in Rome. By the end of this month, they will be returned to their place of origin. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group's destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra will soon be heading back to Syria, after a painstaking restoration in Italy. Recovered by Syrian troops, they had been badly disfigured with what appeared to be hammer blows and are perhaps the only such artefacts to leave the desert site without being stolen. Modern technology aided their saving, which is also being seen as a tribute to Khaled al-Assad, the former head of antiquities at Palmyra, murdered by IS fighters in 2015, at the age of 82. "This is an example of an issue we hold dear: that of cultural diplomacy, the fact that culture can be an instrument for dialogue between people, even when circumstances are difficult," Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini said Thursday. IS jihadists seized Palmyra in May 2015 and began to systematically destroy the city's monuments and temples, while also looting its many archeological treasures. They were driven out in March 2016 but reca ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Approximately twenty percent of the works of art on view in the Davis Museum's permanent collections galleries were created by artists or donated by collectors who immigrated to the United States. For the days leading up to and including the Presidents' Day holiday weekend the museum has removed or cloaked these works to demonstrate symbolically what the Davis Museum would look like without their contributions to the museum's collections and to Wellesley College, and to thereby honor their many invaluable gifts.
| Stolen Italian masterpiece recovered in Morocco: Police | | Arte Povera's Jannis Kounellis dies aged 80 | | Museum Ludwig celebrates Gerhard Richter's eighty-fifth birthday | 
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, Madonna with Saints John Evangelist and Gregory the Miracle Worker, 1639 (detail).
ROME (AFP).- A stolen painting worth up to six million euros by a Baroque Italian known as "The Squinter" has been recovered in Morocco, Italy's art police said Friday. The 17th-century painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino, had been snatched during a night-time robbery from a church in the northern Italian city of Modena in 2014. It was recovered thanks to a wealthy Moroccan businessman and art collector, who was offered it for some 940,000 euros ($1 million) by three dealers in Casablanca, according to the local Gazzetta di Modena. The connoisseur recognised the painting immediately as a Guercino and tipped off the police. The "Madonna with Saints John Evangelist and Gregory the Miracle Worker", painted in 1639, is valued by art historians at between five and six million euros ($5.3 and $6.3 million). "The Moroccan authorities contacted us through Interpol ... More | | 
Arte Povera -- a radical movement that challenged the status quo -- was started in the 1960s during a period of social upheaval in Italy.
ROME (AFP).- Greek-Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, a major figure of the Arte Povera movement, has died in Rome aged 80, Italy's culture ministry said Friday. Born in Piraeus in 1936, he moved to Rome at the age of 20 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, and made his name with a 1969 exhibition where he put on show 12 live horses in the city's Attic Gallery. "It is a sad day, Kounellis has left us. A master, Italian by adoption, who left a mark on contemporary art," Italy's Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said in a tweet. Kounellis worked often with "poor" materials -- coal, jute bags, steel, piles of stones -- and was admired for his challenge to Pop Art and the American hegemony of the 1960s. He was invited to hold solo exhibitions across the world, with works ranging from cuts of hung meat to cages of rats, and using materials such as propane torches, smoke, ground coffee, lead, and recycled wooden objects. Arte ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (947-8), 2016. Ãl auf Leinwand, 50 x 60 cm © Gerhard Richter 2016 (221116).
COLOGNE.- On the occasion of Gerhard Richters eighty-fifth birthday on February 9, the Museum Ludwig is presenting twenty-six abstract paintings for the first time, all of which were created last year. These new works, most of which were painted on canvases of very different sizes, feature bright colors and detailed, multilayered compositions. The artist used a paintbrush, a palette knife, a squeegee, and a knife to shape these paintings built up in several layers of oil paint; his many years of experienceduring which he has often made use of chance in the creation of his worksresult in detailed and extremely complex compositions. Richters work is based on doubts about the representability of reality and the question of the meaning of the painted picture. Gerhard Richter has worked on a dazzling renewal of painting for over fifty years. The wide- ranging oeuvre of perhaps the most famous artist of our time presents ... More |
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| The Davis demonstrates a vision of the museum without the contribution of immigrants | | Photographer Bill Cunningham's personal effects donated to the New-York Historical Society | | Marina Abramović's first major retrospective in Europe opens at Moderna Museet | 
At the Davis Museum, paintings have been taken off the walls, and objects under cases have been covered in black cloth. Photo: Courtesy Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- From Thursday, February 16, through Tuesday, February 21, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College is demonstrating the critical role that immigrants to the United States have played in the arts, both in their creative contributions as well as their stewardship of the visual arts, with an initiative called, Art-Less. In support of the American Association of Museum Directors statement on President Trumps recent executive order, the Museum has de-installed or shrouded all works of art in its permanent collections galleries that were either created by or given to Wellesleys art collection by immigrants to the United States. This means approximately 120 works of artroughly 20 percent of the objects on view in the Museums permanent collections gallerieshave been either taken down or covered in black cloth. Every permanent collections ... More | | 
Camera (Nikon Model D5200) with 24 mm. lens (AF Niccor) and strap, used by Bill Cunningham, ca. 2012. Photo: Glenn Castellano, New-York Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society announced that the personal possessions of Bill Cunningham, celebrated New York Times photographer, have been donated to its permanent collection. Donated by John Kurdewan, Cunninghams right-hand man, and Louise Doktor, longtime friend and muse, the objects include Cunninghams personal library of more than 200 books―stuffed with clippings, notes, inscriptions from authors, marginal annotations, and photographs―as well as the Biria bicycle Cunningham rode around the streets of New York, the Nikon camera he used to snap photographs of fashionable New Yorkers on the street and at society events, and his trademark blue jacket, among other items. These objects join FacadesCunninghams collection of photographs in which he paired models in period fashion with historic settingspreviously donated by Cunningham to the ... More | | 
Marina Abramović at the Eric Ericson Hall, 2017. Photo: Moderna Museet / Ã
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STOCKHOLM.- For more than four decades, Marina Abramović has worked with presence and her own body as her primary artistic media. This has made her one of the most widely acknowledged artists of our time. Her uncompromising self-exposure has evoked criticism and praise in equal measure. Now, Moderna Museet opens the exhibition The Cleaner the artists first major retrospective in Europe. The Cleaner was produced in close collaboration with Marina Abramović and features more than 120 works. It presents several of her best-known performances, including the Relation Works with German artist Ulay, her collaborator and partner from 1976-1988. These works take the form of live reperformances, films, installations and photographs from the 1970s to today. Moderna Museet is also delighted to show early paintings and works on paper from the 1960s and onwards, some of which are being exhibited for the first time. Also ... More |
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| Exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art provides a glimpse into Venetian life in the 1700s. | | Exhibition of new works on canvas and photo emulsion paper by Gordon Moore opens at Anita Rogers Gallery | | Crocker Art Museum to show Japanese American internment photographs by Ansel Adams, Leonard Frank | 
Pietro Longhi, The Perfume Seller, c. 1750 1752, Oil on canvas, Fondazione Musei di Venezia, Ca Rezzonico Museo dei Settecento Veneziano.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The grandeur of Venice comes to Americas most historic city in A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s, an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 16 May 21. NOMA is the sole venue in the United States presenting this exhibition of objects providing a glimpse into the pageantry, ceremony and extravagance of Venetian life in the 1700s. It is with great pleasure that NOMA brings this remarkable exhibition to our public. Venice is presented through an elegant, multi-disciplinary installation featuring an exceptional selection of objects, costumes, and paintings that illuminate an extraordinary time in the history of Venice, says Susan M. Taylor, Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the NOMA. A Life of Seduction illuminates 18th century Venetian life and pageantry during the century of Casanova, Canaletto, and Tiepolo, and countless others who spread Venetian taste and style throug ... More | | 
Gordon Moore, Cage (For. J.C.), 2016, Acrylic, Oil and Pumice on Canvas, 65 x 42.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery presents an exhibition of new works on canvas and photo emulsion paper by the American painter, Gordon Moore. The exhibition is on view February 15 April 1, 2017 at 77 Mercer Street #2N, New York, NY. In this exhibition Moore's current work continues an interest in the dialogue he has developed over the past decade between the spontaneous flow of painterly liquids and the specific structural framework of his abstract configurations. The esoteric nature of abstraction offers an unlimited potential for invention. Using photo-emulsion paper as a ground for drawing, Moore embraces and encourages the imperfections inherent in the interaction between developer and emulsion. This in turn nurtures Moore's large scale works on canvas which explore a similar approach to depth, dimension, balance and asymmetry. Moore's pieces are exercises in asymmetrical equilibrium that challenge the viewers natu ... More | | 
Leonard Frank, Building K, Men's Dormitory (formerly Forum) Hastings Park, Vancouver, BC, 1942 (detail). Eastwood Collection NNM 1994.69.3.18.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- Following Japans bombing of Pearl Harbor, the governments of the United States and Canada forcibly relocated citizens of Japanese ancestry. Two renowned photographers American Ansel Adams and Canadian Leonard Frank documented the relocation and internment of their fellow citizens. On February 19, 2017, exactly 75 years to the day after Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the order authorizing the imprisonment of Japanese Americans, the Crocker Art Museum will open Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank. This compelling collection includes more than 60 images taken by Adams and Frank in the incarceration camps. To coincide with the exhibition opening, the Museum will also host a Day of Remembrance, to honor the resilience of Japanese Americans imprisoned in the camps. While San Francisco-born photographer Ansel Adams (1902- ... More |
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| Jenny Sabin Studio wins 2017 Young Architects Program | | Georgia Museum of Art shows prints by Atlantan Michael Ellison | | Dutch creator of Miffy the rabbit dies at 89 | 
Made of responsive tubular structures in a lightweight knitted fabric, Lumen features a canopy of recycled, photo-luminescent, and solar active textiles that absorb, collect, and deliver light.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Lumen by Jenny Sabin Studio has been named the winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1s annual Young Architects Program. Opening on June 29 in the MoMA PS1 courtyard, this years construction is an immersive design that evolves over the course of a day, providing a cooling respite from the midday sun and a responsive glowing light after sundown. Drawn from among five finalists, Jenny Sabin Studios Lumen will serve as a temporary urban landscape for the 20th season of Warm Up, MoMA PS1s pioneering outdoor music series. Lumen will remain on view through the summer. Now in its 18th edition, the Young Architects Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has offered emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design ... More | | 
Michael Ellison (American, d. 2001) Ding, 1991. Print. 24 x 18 1/4 inches (image). The Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection of African American Art.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents the exhibition Michael Ellison: Urban Impressions from February 18 through May 21, 2017. Organized by Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, it features block prints and collage works on paper by the Atlanta-based printmaker. This exhibition is part of the museums commitment to presenting single-artist shows by under-recognized African American artists. Ellison was born in New York City but grew up in Collier Heights, a middle-class African American neighborhood in southwest Atlanta. He studied art at Atlanta College of Art on the GI Bill, where he learned printmaking. The title of the exhibition comes from the way in which one of Ellisons early printmaking instructors, Norman ... More | | 
This file photo taken on March 31, 2011 shows Dutch Illustrator Dick Bruna. Koen Van WEEL / ANP / AFP.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Dutch artist and illustrator Dick Bruna, creator of beloved children's character Miffy the white rabbit, has died aged 89, his publishing house said Friday. The author, who penned 124 picture books during a career which spanned six decades, died in his sleep late Thursday in his hometown of Utrecht, publishers Mercis said. Over 85 million Miffy books have been sold around the world, translated into more than 50 languages. "It has been a great privilege to have known and worked with Dick Bruna so intensively over the past 40 years," Mercis director Marja Kerkhof said in a statement. His death was a "great loss for Dutch design," added Marco Grob, from the Utrecht Central Museum, which also runs a museum dedicated to Miffy that opened in February 2016. Bruna's work "forms a bridge between 20th and 21st century design," Grob added. ... More |
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 Dubai street art turns urban sprawl into open-air museumDUBAI (AFP).- The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's high-rises, and the Middle East's largest shopping centre Dubai Mall. But a group of street artists now also wants to turn the concrete walls of a fast-growing urban sprawl into an open-air museum that celebrates Emirati heritage and speaks to everyone in the multicultural city. From poetry painted in intricate Arabic calligraphy to a portrait of an old man rowing a wooden boat, the art of the government-funded Dubai Street Museum is bringing new life to the city. The project features the work of 16 mural and graffiti artists of different genres and nationalities, including four Emiratis. They include Malaysian-based Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic -- who has been likened to British graffiti artist Banksy -- and Tunisian street artist The Inkman. ... More Good things come in small packages at Racine Art MuseumRACINE, WI.- Thanks to the generous gifts of donors and supporters, the Racine Art Museum owns over 9,000 pieces, crowning it as America's largest collection of contemporary craft. Open at Racine Art Museum, February 19 - June 4, 2017, Small Gifts from Big Donors focuses on the small-scale gifts of significant donors to RAM's collection. The museum's collection would not be where it is today were it not for their combined generosity. "Collectors donate and purchase artwork with the generous goal of gifting their acquisitions to their favored museum," quotes RAM Executive Director and Curator of Collections Bruce W. Pepich. "As many institutions are persistently strapped for funds, these gifts allow museums to build their collections and direct funding to community art education programming and growing audiences." The collectors honored in this exhibition series ... More Exhibition provides extensive insights into the photographic oeuvre of Claudia Andujar FRANKFURT.- The exhibition Claudia Andujar. Tomorrow must not be like yesterday is the first in Europe to provide extensive insights into the photographic uvre of Claudia Andujar (b. in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1931). The artist and activist has lived in São Paulo since 1955. When she arrived there, she hadnt learned Portuguese yet, but the camera offered her a means of communicating through images instead of language. Since that time, Andujars photographic praxis has been closely linked with recent Brazilian history and the countrys contrasts and conflicts. Andujar initially worked as a photographer for various Brazilian and American magazines. In 1971, her travels took her to the Yanomami, the largest indigenous ethnic group in the Amazon region. From then on she dedicated herself to the protection of the Yanomami, who are threatened by the invasion ... More MOCA Jacksonville chooses new director with international experienceJACKSONVILLE, FLA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville scoured the globe to find a respected international curator and scholar to be its next director: CaitlÃn Doherty. She has engaged with artists, students, and communities around the world throughout a career that spans Scotland, Ireland, Qatar, and the United States. CaitlÃn possesses a truly creative and inspired intellect along with a practical business mind, MOCA Board of Trustees Chair Charles Gilman III said. Her genuine personality enables her to lead at the staff level but also to excite members across our constituencies. That MOCA has successfully attracted such talent speaks to our reputation as a serious contributor in the broader world of contemporary art. Doherty said she looks forward to further developing MOCA as a distinct and necessary artistic leader in ... More Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam opens second part of Jordan Wolfson's first exhibition in the NetherlandsAMSTERDAM.- The first solo exhibition by American artist Jordan Wolfson in the Netherlands unfolds in two parts. Previously, MANIC/LOVE was on display; now, it is followed by TRUTH/LOVE, which offers an in-depth overview of the artists work through twelve 16 mm films, animated videos produced during the early years of his career, the recent video Animation Masks, and a selection of objects. Also featured is his first animatronic, Female figure (2014), a fascinating yet terrifying robotic sculpture equipped with facial recognition technology that enables it to interact with viewers. In his recent animated videos, Wolfson draws upon a vast array of visual material. His multi-layered videos are a fluid collage of computer images, traditionally drawn scenes, photos, texts, and other references from popular culture. With their polished 3D animation, the figures ... More Julia Jacquette's first major museum survey opens at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of ArtCLINTON, NY.- The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art presents Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, the artists first major museum survey. The exhibition features two site-specific murals, as well as oil paintings, ceramics, and works on paper from the last decade, including original drawings from the graphic memoir Playground of My Mind. Jacquettes work addresses the challenge of navigating the contemporary media landscape that so directly addresses ones identity and sense of self-worth. Exposing our seemingly insatiable longing for the ideal, the work of this New York-based artist focuses on commercialized objects of desire such as prepared meals drawn from 1950s cookbook illustrations; ornate interiors of the wealthy sampled from contemporary glossy lifestyle magazines; and shimmering swimming pools extracted from luxury ad campaigns; among ... More Sixty-six of Scotland's finest emerging artists & architects exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy GalleriesEDINBURGH.- The ninth annual RSA New Contemporaries exhibition will take place at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries in Edinburgh from 18th February to the 15th March 2016. Showcasing 66 graduates selected from the degree shows in 2016, this carefully curated exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see the best of Scotlands emerging talent under one roof. RSA New Contemporaries continues to cement its position as Scotlands most important showcase for emerging artists. In addition to the initial selection for the exhibition and the opportunity that this brings, the value of exhibition prizes now total over £40,000 and provide their recipients with yet another stepping stone in the early careers of these recent graduates. The RSA in now in year three of our partnership with William Grant & Sons, offering one artist the opportunity of a three-month funded (£10k) residency at the ... More Cristin Tierney Gallery announces representation of Tim YoudNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery announced representation of Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd. Known for his work in visual art and performance, Youd will be staging performances of 100 Novels in Europe and the United States throughout 2017. In May, Youd will retype Patricia Highsmiths Those Who Walk Away in Venice during the Biennale previews in collaboration with the Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University. In July, Cristin Tierney Gallery will debut Youds first solo exhibition in New York City. In his 100 Novels project, Youd retypes 100 novels over a ten-year period while concurrently compiling a body of related sculptures, paintings, and drawings. During the extended performances, the artist retypes selected novels on the same make and model typewriter the author used, in a location charged with literary significance specific to the subject matter. ... More Exhibition presents 34 images of Muslim New YorkersNEW YORK, NY.- On Saturday, February 18, 2017, the Museum of the City of New York will open a special installation, Muslim in New York: Highlights from the Photography Collection, featuring 34 historic images of Muslim New Yorkers in the 20th and 21st centuries by photographers Alexander Alland, Ed Grazda, Mel Rosenthal, and Robert Gerhardt. This special installation comes at a time when the place of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries is being scrutinized, and even challenged, on a national level, said Whitney Donhauser, the Museums Ronay Menschel Director. The Museums rich photography collection, begun in the 1930s and growing each year, speaks eloquently to the enormous diversity of our city and the many ways in which immigration and religious diversity has enriched and benefited New York, the quintessential city of immigrants. We ... More Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum surveys career of pioneering artist and author Rosalyn DrexlerST. LOUIS, MO.- A kiss. A punch. A body braced for impact. The paintings of Rosalyn Drexler exude uncanny stillness, anticipation and, frequently, the dread of imminent violence. Moments of intimacy and conflict are frozen, sliced and readied for examination excerpts from narratives whose conclusions can only be guessed. The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is presenting Rosalyn Drexler: Who Does She Think She Is?, the first full-career retrospective for the multitalented artist. Surveying six decades of work, the exhibition features major paintings and collages alongside rarely seen early sculptures. Also included are books, photographs and other materials documenting Drexlers wide-ranging and colorful career as a novelist, playwright and briefly professional wrestler. Born in the Bronx in 1926, the self-trained ... More Laguna Art Museum opens spring exhibitionsLAGUNA BEACH, CA.- On February 19, 2017, Laguna Art Museum opens three new exhibitions: From Wendt to Thiebaud: Recent Gifts for the Permanent Collection; The Golden Decade: Photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55; and Stanton Macdonald-Wright: The Haiga Portfolio. The exhibitions close May 29, 2017. The museum presents a selection of about eighty works of art that are recent gifts for the permanent collection, many of them displayed for the first time. Like most museums, Laguna Art Museum grows and strengthens its collection largely through works of art donated by collectors and artists. Over the past five years it has reaped the benefit of extraordinary generosity, adding museum-quality paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and prints from all periods of the history of California art. The exhibition is a celebration of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American glass artist Louis Comfort Tiffany was born February 18, 1848. Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 - January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. Tiffany was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels and metalwork. In this image: Creation by Louis Comfort Tiffany are displayed as part of an exhibition at the Luxembourg Museum devoted to the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, who founded the New York-based Tiffany & Co. in 1837, in Paris, Monday Sept. 14, 2009.
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