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The exhibition is the first in the German-speaking world to focus on Tiepolos career in its entirety and to shed light on the diversity of his oeuvre from elegant paintings with mythological or historical subjects to dramatic religious pictures as well as caricatures, drawings and etchings.
STUTTGART.- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (16961770) was celebrated by his contemporaries as the best painter of Venice. Born in Venice, he became one of the most important artists of the eighteenth century as sought-after in Italy as he was in Würzburg or Madrid. To mark the 250th anniversary of his death, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart put together a major exhibition which showcases the museums first-rate holdings of the artist in the wider context of outstanding works drawn from public and private collections in Europe and overseas. The exhibition is the first in the German-speaking world to focus on Tiepolos career in its entirety and to shed light on the diversity of his oeuvre from elegant paintings with mythological or historical subjects to dramatic religious pictures as well as caricatures, drawings and etchings. As a modern response to Tiepolo, the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The exhibition Waiting for the Emperor. Monuments Archaeology and Urbanism in the Rome of Napoleon 1809-1814, from 19 December 2019 to 31 May 2020 at the Napoleonic Museum, aims to reconstruct the face, that remained largely only on a design level, of Napoleonic Rome through 50 works - some little known, others completely new, with significant discoveries - from the collections of the Napoleonic Museum and the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi.
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 | | In the swim of digital images, there's nothing boring about sculpture | | The Met receives promised gift of over 700 extraordinary photographs from the William L. Schaeffer Collection | | Rachel Feinstein unveils the darker side of fantasyland | 
Installation view Three Christs, Sleeping Mime, and the Last Supper and Pagan Paradise Charles Ray and the Hill Collection. Courtesy Charles Ray and Hill Art Foundation. Image © Charles Ray. Photograph by Charles Ray.
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In 1846, back when critics were not yet afraid of rendering judgments, Charles Baudelaire went to the Paris Salon and wrote a review that aimed to put an entire art form out of business. Under the title Why Sculpture Is Boring, Baudelaire argued that bronze and marble statuary was vague and elusive, and presents too many faces at once 100 different angles to the spectator. He thought sculpture lacked the authority of painting or architecture, which both made clear where they stand. When a chance illumination, an effect of lamplight, reveals a beauty which was not the one he had thought of, the sculptor must sadly accept that three-dimensional art is always fated to depend on the circumstances of its display. That makes it, the poet insisted, nothing but a complementary art. Baudelaires critique was just one ... More | | 
Unknown American, active 1850s. Studio Photographer at Work, ca. 1855. Salted paper print from paper negative. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William L. Schaeffer Collection, Promised Gift of Jennifer and Philip Maritz, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today an extraordinary promised gift in celebration of the Museums 150th anniversary from Trustee Philip Maritz and his wife, Jennifer, of over 700 American photographs and albums from the 1840s to the 1910s. These rare photographsdaguerreotypes, salted paper prints, ambrotypes, tintypes, albumen silver prints, cyanotypes, platinum prints, and gelatin silver printscome from the renowned private collection of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer. The Met also acquired 70 American Civil War photographs from the William L. Schaeffer Collection with funds provided by Trustee Joyce Frank Menschel. We are incredibly grateful to Jennifer and Philip Maritz for this major gift in honor of the Museums 150th anniversary in 2020. We also thank Joyce Frank Menschel for her critical support that enabled us to add depth to ... More | | 
Rachel Feinstein, a sculptor, at her exhibition "Maiden, Mother, Crone," at the Jewish Museum in New York, on Nov. 20, 2019. Molly Matalon/The New York Times.
by Ruth La Ferla
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- If Rachel Feinstein had a spirit guide, it would probably be Sleeping Beauty. For the artist known for her extravagantly detailed fantasy sculptures, installations and paintings the fairy tale princess may be the most relatable of the otherworldly creatures that animate her work. When I was younger, I was asleep for a long time, my ideas kind of germinating, she said recently, as she steered a visitor through Maiden, Mother, Crone, her exhibition at the Jewish Museum. At Columbia University, where she studied religion and art, and during the early years of her marriage to artist John Currin, I was this really disorganized person who would lie in bed all day long, she recalled. I had this notion that time was never ending. I would daydream; thats what I needed to make art. Traces of that dreamy sensibility have filtered into the 30-year survey of Feinsteins work and her first American museum retrospective. But the ... More |
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| | Louvre's record numbers fall as museum tries to limit visitors | | Richard Artschwager retrospective on view at Mart Rovereto | | Istanbul Jews fight to save their ancestral tongue | 
Posters for the exhibition 'Leonardo da Vinci' are seen on the facade of The Louvre Museum in Paris on October 24, 2019. AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The hordes flocking to the Louvre in Paris fell to 9.6 million in 2019 as the museum tried to limit overcrowding, its director said Friday. After numbers rocketed by a quarter the previous year to a record 10.2 million, the most-visited museum in the world said it set out to actively discourage tourists in the peak summer months. "The real change was in June, July and August," Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez told AFP, when it "purposely" cut visitor numbers by 600,000. "We tried to limit the numbers so that there would not be more than one million visitors a month, which happened in 2018." To do that, the museum shut down completely for some days during the peak summer season, Martinez said, when the French capital was also hit by a heatwave. "We are the only cultural institution in the world to do this and we are very clear with people," he added. "We do this because we ... More | | 
Richard Artschwager, Exclamation Point, 2010 (detail). Private Collection. Courtesy Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. © Richard Artschwager, by SIAE 2019.
ROVERETO.- Mart is presenting Italys first retrospective on the work of Richard Artschwager (Washington D.C., 1923Albany, 2013). Of international prominence, the exhibition is curated by Germano Celant and co-produced with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which will host the second stage of the exhibition. Designed as an open labyrinth highlighting the main nuclei of Artschwagers uvre, the exhibition features some 80 works dating from the early 1960s to the first decade of the new millennium: from his first wood and Formica structures and paintings on Celotex to his nylon-bristle sculptures and corner pieces, including his works in horsehair and his blps, which he began making in 1968 and displaying individually or on a citywide scale. With the paintings and sculptures of a long and varied career, Artschwager plots a distinctive course between handcraft and ... More | | 
In this photograph taken on December 8, 2019, 30 year-old Can Evrensel Rodrik who was taught Judeo-Spanish when he was a child by his grandmother, shows a book written in Judeo-Spanish during an interview with AFP in Istanbul. Ozan KOSE / AFP.
by Gokan Gunes
ISTANBUL (AFP).- If there's one thing Dora Beraha regrets in her twilight years, it is not passing on the 500-year-old language of Istanbul's Jews, Ladino, now on the point of extinction. "After us, will there still be people who speak this language?" says 90-year-old Beraha. "Surely, very few. It is possible that it will disappear." Ladino is a unique mix of medieval Castilian and Hebrew, with sprinklings of Turkish, Arabic and Greek, that emerged when Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, with many ending up in the Ottoman empire. Turkey now has the largest community of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel -- around 15,000 -- some of whom are belatedly fighting an uphill battle to preserve the ... More |
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| | Museums & galleries acquire 14-18 NOW commissioned works by Yinka Shonibare and John Akomfrah | | Vaughan Oliver, 62, dies; His designs gave Indie Rock 'physical dimension' | | Animation art sale tops $2.9 million, becomes largest of all time at Heritage Auctions | 
Yinka Shonibare MBEs new work End of Empire, 2016, co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW and Turner Contemporary, on show at Turner Contemporary until 30 October 2016. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images for 14-18 NOW.
LONDON.- 14-18 NOW, the UKs arts programme for the First World War centenary, and Art Fund have joined forces to support the acquisitions by public museums and galleries of two of 14-18 NOWs major co-commissions: Yinka Shonibare CBEs End of Empire and John Akomfrahs Mimesis: African Soldier. Yinka Shonibare CBEs End of Empire will be acquired jointly by Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Wolverhampton Art Gallery. End of Empire was originally co-commissioned by Turner Contemporary and 14-18 NOW, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. John Akomfrahs Mimesis: African Soldier will be acquired by Glasgow Museums and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. Mimesis: ... More | | 
A photo provided by Luca Giorietto shows the graphic designer Vaughan Oliver in 2016. Luca Giorietto via The New York Times.
by Daniel E. Slotnik
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Vaughan Oliver, a British graphic designer whose album covers for independent record label 4AD became visual accompaniments to influential alternative rock bands like Pixies, the Breeders and Cocteau Twins, died Sunday in London. He was 62. His death was confirmed by a spokesman for 4AD, who did not specify the cause. Oliver grew up immersed in rock music and intrigued by album cover art. After studying design, he knew that he wanted to make artwork that was a fitting accompaniment to the music on an album. I always wanted to design sleeves as a kid, he said in an interview with online magazine Designboom. Record sleeves are ephemeral, and I always wanted to make them more than that. Oliver began designing album covers for ... More | | 
Mary Blair Alice in Wonderland Tulgey Wood Signpost Concept Painting (Walt Disney, 1951): $42,000.
DALLAS, TX.- A painting from the halls of the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans and a trove of work by iconic Disney artist Mary Blair helped make Heritage Auctions Animation Art Auction the largest such auction of all time, with sales totaling $2,965,596 Dec. 13-15 in Beverly Hills, California. The total smashed the previous record of $2,068,451, achieved by Heritage Auctions in June 2019. The result of this sale, Heritages June Animation Art Auction that sold a total of $2,068,451, the Mickey Mouse and Friends the Animation Art Internet Auction that brought $144,095, as well as the animation art lots that sold in the weekly comics online auctions led to the best year ever in animation art sales, with totals exceeding $6 million.ac This was a phenomenal auction, the biggest ever held, covering three days and featuring 1,838 lots, Heritage Auctions Animated Art Director Jim Lentz said. Animation art, especially Disney ... More |
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| | Copenhagen Contemporary exhibits works by the Danish-Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour | | Season of photography at the National Museum Cardiff | | Life beneath an urban canopy | 
Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind. Installation view of Monument for Lost Time, 2019. Copenhagen Contemporary. Photographer Anders Sune Berg.
COPENHAGEN.- With her science fiction works, the Danish-Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour creates conversations about history, recollection, and identity following a climate disaster. The exhibition Heirloom the Danish entry at this year's prestigious Venice Biennale can now, for the first time, be experienced by a Danish audience at Copenhagen Contemporary along with other works thus developing Sansour's universe even further. The exhibition Heirloom presents Larissa Sansour's evocative dark science fiction film In Vitro and the large-scale sculpture Monument for Lost Time . Both works were created in collaboration with the writer and artist Søren Lind and shown for the first time in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019. This total installation from Venice has now been specially adapted to hall 3 at CC. Additionally, the work trilogy A Spa ce Exodus (2009), Nation Estate (2012), and In the ... More | | 
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Blaenserchan Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales, GB, 1966 © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher, courtesy Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Bernd und Hilla Becher Archive, Cologne, 2019.
CARDIFF.- National Museum Cardiff's Photography Season presents work by four of the most influential artists/photographers in the history of the medium: August Sander, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Martin Parr. The exhibitions predominantly comprise loaned photographs, a number of which have never been exhibited before, and all of which are being displayed for the first time in Wales. ARTIST ROOMS: August Sander presents over eighty photographs by August Sander (1876-1964), one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. The photographs are drawn from Sanders monumental project People of the Twentieth Century, which classifies individuals and groups of people according to profession and social class. The exhibition is drawn from a major collection of over 170 modern ... More | | 
Scaffolding at a construction site on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn on Dec. 7, 2019. David La Spina/The New York Times.
by Penelope Green
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Unloved and janky, scaffolding is New York Citys other architecture, its Tinker Toy exoskeleton. It has enraged and inspired its residents, while forever altering their behavior there are those who cleave to its shelter during bad weather or skittishly avoid it as they continue to rail against its persistence and ubiquity, perhaps unaware of the history behind much of it. On a late May evening in 1979, Grace Gold, then a 17-year-old freshman at Barnard College, was walking with a friend on 115th Street when a chunk of masonry fell from the lintel of a Columbia University building and killed her. The next year, New York City adopted a law that required building facades be inspected regularly; under the laws current incarnation, buildings over six stories must be looked over every five years. ... More |
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 Underage rape probe opened into French author MatzneffPARIS (AFP).- Paris prosecutors on Friday opened a rape investigation into the author Gabriel Matzneff, a day after the publication of a book detailing his sexual relationship with a girl of 14 over three decades ago. The case has attracted huge interest in France, which is only now beginning to scrutinise attitudes after decades of what is seen by some as an overly permissive attitude towards sexual exploitation of women and paedophilia. The probe was launched after an examination of the book "Consent", published on Thursday, where author Vanessa Springora describes a sexual relationship she had with Matzneff in the mid-1980s when he was 36 years her senior, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said in a statement. Heitz said the inquiry would focus on "rapes committed against a minor" aged under 15. In "Consent", Springora, 47, now a leading publisher, ... More German designer Zobel quits fashion label CourregesPARIS (AFP).- German fashion designer Yolanda Zobel parted company with Courreges Friday, less than two years after she was brought in to revive the French fashion label. Her departure comes just a month before she was meant to show her latest autumn winter collection at Paris fashion week. Courreges said she was leaving after they "mutually decided to end their collaboration". She would now "focus on new creative projects", the brand added in a statement. Zobel -- who drew inspiration from Berlin's dance scene -- was seen as a breath of fresh air when she was brought in in February 2018 to rethink the brand, best known for its 1960s futurist look. She vowed to bring Courreges back to its mould-breaking roots and create "a whole new universe for a free human... engaged and yet able to indulge in liberating moments of fun." Zobel quickly made headlines by promising ... More Ballet dancers down tutus in longest strike ever at Paris OperaPARIS (AFP).- Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the "Sun King" Louis XIV. The opera -- one of the oldest and most prestigious in the world -- confirmed to AFP that the dispute is now the costliest in its history, with 63 ballet and opera performances cancelled since dancers walked out on December 5. Technical and backstage staff have joined them on the picket lines as part of a wider clash over French government pension reforms that has paralysed the country's public transport system for nearly four weeks. While the opera has seen plenty of strikes by stagehands, it is almost unheard of to have dancers downing tutus. Their decision to take to the streets for the first time in the opera's 350-year existence made international headlines. The month of transport disruption ... More Photographer John Offenbach explores the nature of what it means to identify as Jewish todayLONDON.- Jew is a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum London by photographer John Offenbach exploring the nature of what it means to identify as Jewish today: from religious to secular, rich to homeless, criminal to lawful through 34 striking large-scale photographs. A major art book on the subject featuring the full set of 120 works was launched during the exhibition's opening. Both the exhibition and the publication bring together the diverse faces of Jewish people from myriad walks of life, dispelling the myth that there is just one type of Jew. For Offenbach, this has been a very personal project, traveling the world to capture the subjective essence of Jewish identity across 12 different countries, from Ethiopia to Ukraine, and Argentina to China. Despite experiencing some initial resistance regarding the project's title, Offenbach was adamant that this body ... More Bangkok Art Biennale 2020 announces its curatorial team and themeBANGKOK.- The 2nd Bangkok Art Biennale returns on 10th October 2020 through 21st February 2021, after a critically acclaimed inaugural edition. BAB 2020 announced its curatorial team and theme Escape Routes, aiming to present an intense, provocative and criticizing perception on the world. Organised by the Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation, in collaboration of Thai Beverage Company Limited (ThaiBev) and public and private sectors, the first edition, BAB 2018, attracted over 2 million visitors from around the world. In the grave new world that we live in, cracks are appearing everywhere; subverted by whether the nature or humans themselves. Millions of people wake up to realise that they are facing unescapable situations trapped in dilemma. The fantasy paradise in the land of plenty where wine, milk and honey flowed as people ... More Kimsooja installs her works at landmarks throughout the City of PoitiersPOITIERS.- For this first edition of Traversées, the City of Poitiers at the suggestion of Emma Lavigne and Emmanuelle de Montgazon has invited South Korean artist Kimsooja to install her works at landmarks throughout the city. Kimsoojas work will be complemented by other artists, of all backgrounds and ages, who have inspired her in the context of Traversées and with whom she shares a strong affinity. The project comprises a journey through the city, a traversée, creating paths that intersect, join together and split apart. A parallel programme has also been developed alongside cultural actors and stakeholders from the local area. The programme features showcase events, meetings and activities held in public spaces and unexpected locations. This inaugural edition serves as a statement of intent for what will become a regular event, inextricably ... More Curtain goes down on New York Musical FestivalNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The New York Musical Festival, which paved a path to exposure for the creators of new musicals even landing a few shows eventually on Broadway has shut down after 15 years. The board of directors said in a statement Thursday that a nationwide arts funding crisis had caught up to the festival, which closed immediately and declared bankruptcy. Margot Astrachan, the vice chairwoman, said Friday that she and other board members couldnt discuss the situation because of the bankruptcy filing. But the annual festival, which featured readings, workshops and some staged productions, had been facing a shortfall recently, with several key leaders announcing their resignations at the start of 2020. More than 400 shows have premiered at the summer festival, one of a handful of musical-focused developmental ... More Wesleyan University's Center for the Arts appoints Interim Director Jennifer CalienesMIDDLETOWN, CONN.- Wesleyan Universitys Center for the Arts has appointed Jennifer Calienes as Interim Director starting Monday, January 13, 2020. She will remain in the position until a successor is identified and begins work. Jennifer Calienes comes to Wesleyan with two decades of experience in nonprofit arts management. She has been a national arts consultant since 2014, working with clients including Urban Bush Women, the New England Foundation for the Arts, AXIS Dance Company, and the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron. Most recently, she served as Interim Deputy Director at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in 2018. Previously she served as the founding Executive and Artistic Director and Associate in Dance at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. Originally from ... More 'Little Women' director 'sad' at awards snub of female filmmakersPARIS (AFP).- Top Hollywood woman director Greta Gerwig said she was "disappointed" that she had been snubbed by the Golden Globes, with the producer of her hit film "Little Women" blaming the "unconscious bias" of male movie critics. With the awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about to kick off the Oscar season on Sunday, Gerwig told AFP she had been saddened to have been "bumped out" of the best director race. However, her adaptation of the much-loved novel by Louisa May Alcott won nods for best actress for its lead Saoirse Ronan and best music for French composer Alexandre Desplat. "Of course, I'm disappointed. I love the film that we made and of course it's lovely to be honoured," said Gerwig, one of only five women ever to be nominated for a best director Oscar for her last film, "Lady Bird". But the fact "Little ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Marsden Hartley was born January 04, 1877. Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. In this image: The Iron Cross, 1915, oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1952.
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