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A picture taken on July 10, 2019 shows a view of the James Simon Gallery, a new centrally located visitor centre between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Pergamon Museum, on the "Museum Island" in Berlin. The gallery, designed by British architect David Chipperfield, will provide access to all four museums located on the island and is to be inaugurated on July 12, 2019. Soeren Stache / dpa / AFP.
BERLIN.- The time has come: On Saturday, 13 July 2019, the James-Simon-Galerie will open its doors with a big opening celebration. Covering 10,900 m², the central entrance building and reception area, based on plans by David Chipperfeld Architects, will provide visitors with useful information and services, and improve the overall experience of the Museumsinsel Berlin. Along with a space for special exhibitions and an auditorium, a large area for ticket sales and cloakrooms, as well as a shop, a café and a restaurant, the James-Simon-Galerie will provide direct access to the Pergamonmuseum and to the Neues Museum via the Archaeological Promenade. It is named after the great patron of arts James Simon (18511932). Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung PreuÃischer Kulturbesitz: The James-Simon-Galerie is more than just a gateway to the Museumsinsel, and much more than just an urgently needed service building. David Chipper ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong is presenting Out for Summer, a concise exploration of the practice of painting, presented through the lens of nostalgia, a celebration of the quotidian, and of the fleeting, by artists, Qian Jiahua, Guo Hongwei, and Lin Yi-Hsuan.
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 | | Phillips to offer Marlon Brando's Rolex GMT-Master in its flagship New York auction, 'Game Changers' | | Exhibition at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain sheds new light on trees | | Exhibition focuses on Lee Friedlander's five-decade long obsession with signs | 
Marlon Brando on the Set of Apocalypse Now. Photo: Mary Ellen Mark.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, the leading auction house for collectors timepieces of the highest quality, announced the theme of its next New York Auction. Taking place on 10 December, Game Changers will be a tightly curated thematic auction dedicated to watches owned by extraordinary people who are considered game changers in their fields. The evening sale will also include iconic collectors models from leading brands that have changed the course of watchmaking and watch collecting, alongside other important timepieces that are outliers in terms of provenance, aesthetics, condition, and rarity. Phillips flagship New York watch auction, Game Changers will offer what is undoubtedly the most important wristwatch formerly owned by Academy Award® winner Marlon Brando. An iconic Rolex GMT-Master ref. 1675, this watch was worn by Brando in Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now, released in ... More | | 
Mahmoud Khan, Untitled, 2019. Ink on paper, 70 à 49,7 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Polysémie, Marseille, France © Mahmoud Khan.
PARIS.- Bringing together a community of artists, botanists, and philosophers, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain echoes the latest scientific research that sheds new light on trees. Organized around several large ensembles of works, the exhibition Trees gives voice to numerous figures who, through their aesthetic or scientific journey, have developed a strong, intimate link with trees, thereby revealing the beauty and biological wealth of these great protagonists of the living world, threatened today with large-scale deforestation. Underestimated by biology for a long time, treeslike the entirety of the plant kingdomhave been the subject of scientific discoveries in recent years that have allowed us to see the oldest members of our community of living beings* in a new light. Boasting sensory and memory capacities, as well as communication skills, existing in symbiosis with other species and exertin ... More | | 
Lee Friedlander, Montana, 2008 © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery is presenting Lee Friedlander: SIGNS, an exhibition examining the five-decade long obsession of this highly influential photographer. Since the early 1960s, Friedlander has focused on the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to storefront windows to massive billboards. On view from July 11 through August 17, 2019, the exhibition is accompanied by a 112-page hardcover book published by Fraenkel Gallery. Made in New York, San Francisco, and dozens of cities and small towns in between, Friedlanders photographs record milk prices, cola ads, neon lights, road signs, graffiti, and movie marquees. Depicting these texts with precision and sly humor, Friedlanders approach to America transcribes a sort of found poetry of commerce and desire. A large majority of works in the exhibition will be shown for the first time. Also on view are 16 early Friedlander prints, made ... More |
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| | | Christie's France to offer a masterpiece by Nicolas de Staël | | Sotheby's to auction property from the personal collection of Buzz Aldrin | | Solid results for Modern, Contemporary & Swiss art at Koller Zurich | 
Nicolas de Staël, Parc des Princes (Les grands footballeurs) detail. Oil on canvas, 200 x 350 cm. Painted in Paris in 1952. Estimate: 18-25 millions © Christies Images Ltd, 2019.
PARIS.- Christies France will offer Parc des Princes by Nicolas de Staël on 17 October during the week of FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair) with an estimate of 18,000,000-25,000,000. The monumental painting has remained in the family of Nicolas de Staël since his passing in 1955, and constitutes a key element in the history of post-war art. Completed in the spring of 1952, this large-scale painting (200x350cm) marks the zenith of the series of soccer players, which Nicolas de Staël painted after attending the France-Sweden match with his wife, on the evening of 26 March 1952, in the renowned Parisian stadium. In the spotlight, the beauty of the interaction between the players proved a striking scene for the artist, who immediately began working on figurative compositions executed with his palette knife. ... More | | 
Lot 108 - Mission Rules Summary, Flown Apollo 11 Data File Sheets MR-1. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will offer property directly from the personal collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin this month in New York, as a highlight of our auction dedicated to Space Exploration on 20 July 2019 the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. The 11 items consigned by Buzz Aldrin are led by a selection of pages from the Flown Apollo 11 Flight Plan and Flown Apollo 11 Data File the manuals used by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to guide them on their great adventure, which represent some of the documents most critical to the success of the entire mission. Each such sheet is signed and inscribed by Aldrin and accompanied by a letter of authenticity. The full Space Exploration auction will open for public exhibition in Sothebys New York galleries on 13 July, alongside Omega Speedmaster: To the Moon and Back an auction dedicated to the official watch of NASA. Buzz A ... More | | 
René Magritte, Les voies et moyens, 1948. Gouache and gold on paper. 40.5 à 32.8 cm. Sold for CHF 440 000.
ZURICH.- The Impressionist & Modern Art auction at Koller on 28 June enjoyed excellent results, with the majority of works selling at or above their upper estimates. René Magrittes Les voies et moyens was painted in 1948 for an exhibition of the artists work in Paris. It represents a rare departure from Magrittes habitual style, during what he called his Période vache, and changed hands for CHF 440,000, against an estimate of CHF 250,000/400,000. Paysage de Corbières by Max Ernst, another artist from the Surrealist movement, sold for CHF 116,000, and Oskar Kokoschkas portrait of Ann Windfohr sold for CHF 146,000, well above its pre-sale estimate of CHF 60,000/80,000. A light-flooded landscape by Alfred Sisley, Autour de la forêt, juin, circa 1885, fetched CHF 800,000. The Swiss Art auction on 28 June featured works by almost all of the greatest names ... More |
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| | | Last German Kaiser's heir seeking return of properties | | Sotheby's joins forces with China's 'Queen of Couture', Guo Pei | | Ancient Pharaonic harp strums along to new tune | 
In this file photo taken on July 8, 2017 head of the Hohenzollern family, Georg Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Prussia (L) and his wife Princess Sophie of Prussia arrive for the church wedding of Prince Ernst August of Hanover and Ekaterina of Hanover. RONNY HARTMANN / AFP.
BERLIN.- The heirs of the former Prussian monarchy are seeking the return of thousands of artworks, memorabilia and other historical artefacts from the German state, the culture ministry said Friday, confirming a report in Der Spiegel magazine. Negotiations have been going on "for several years" between the Hohenzollern family, the federal government as well as the states of Berlin and Brandenburg over the aristocrats' demand for restitution, the ministry told AFP. "The talks... are aimed at finding a lasting solution for different art and collection objects, which are valued differently by the public institutions on the one hand and the Hohenzollern House on the other hand," said the culture ministry in a statement. According to Der Spiegel, the ... More | | 
Guo Pei X Sotheby's © Chris Floyd / Sothebys.
LONDON.- This autumn, Sothebys will join forces with Chinas Queen of Couture, Guo Pei. In 2015, Chinas most renowned couturier shot onto the international stage when musician Rihanna chose to wear one of her designs to the Met Gala a dramatic trailing yellow gown which sparked a global media frenzy. A modern messenger of her cultural heritage, Guo Pei has breathed new life into embroidery and painting traditions that date back thousands of years over the course of her 30-year career. Her elaborate designs showcase the finest of traditional Chinese craftsmanship while incorporating contemporary innovation and Western style. Over the next four months, Guo Pei will immerse her creative mind in two aspects of Sothebys activities that speak closely to her interests, inspirations and heritage. In October, Guo Pei will turn her hand to curating a selection of works from the second edition of our GOLD: Th ... More | | 
Iman Haddo (R), a 20-year-old musician, plays a semsemia fan during a music session at the Canal 20 cultural museum in the northeastern city of Port Said at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal, on May 29, 2019. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
PORT SAID (AFP).- When Mohamed Ghaly's workshop was reduced to rubble in February, he could never imagine that a new cultural centre dedicated to an instrument with Pharaonic roots would thrive just months later. The semsemia, similar to a harp and made of beechwood with steel strings, is believed to have ancient Egyptian roots. It appears on ornate engravings on tombs. Ghaly, a carpenter by trade, is one of the last craftsmen in Egypt keeping the cultural heritage of the instrument alive. "It's an enchanting instrument that summons you in a way, and I answered its call," he told AFP. In the last century, the triangular lyre-lookalike with a round bottom has become associated with the coastal towns dotted around the Suez Canal, especially Port Said. It was brought over by ... More |
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| | | Simon Lee Gallery exhibits works by Qian Jiahua, Guo Hongwei, and Lin Yi-Hsuan | | Exhibition of horror and sci-fi art from the Kirk Hammett Collection features cinema art and memorabiliara | | Outstanding Georges Seurat painting shown in Scotland for first time | 
Qian Jiahua, Red Edge, 2018. Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 170 cm (78 3/4 x 66 7/8 in.) Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.
HONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong is presenting Out for Summer, a concise exploration of the practice of painting, presented through the lens of nostalgia, a celebration of the quotidian, and of the fleeting, by artists, Qian Jiahua, Guo Hongwei, and Lin Yi-Hsuan. United by their personal, buoyant treatment of colour, line and form, each artist distinctly delivers paintings that are as introspective in their intimacy, as they are inviting in their warm approachability. Guos paintings are imbued with the endless sense of adventure and fantasy inherent to summer. Panda Variation exposes a bizarre but amusing scene; a gaggle of pandas tumble one over the other, against a surprisingly stark, and seemingly random, background. The artist takes inspiration from reference images based on childhood photographs, enhanced by his technique of diluting his paintings to mimic the erosion, replacement and deletion ... More | | 
Nosferatu, about 1931, produced by Prana Film, Germany, printed in Spain, lithograph, 42 1/4 x 29 1/8 in. (107.3 x 74 cm). Courtesy of the Kirk Hammett Horror and Sci-Fi Memorabilia Collection.
TORONTO.- On July 13, the Royal Ontario Museum unveils the Canadian-exclusive presentation of Its Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection, with presenting sponsor Cosmo Music. This otherworldly and imaginative exhibition features a trove of rare artwork and collectible objects amassed over decades by consummate collector Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist of Metallica. Exploring the interplay of creativity, emotion and popular culture, the exhibition includes more than 100 pieces from 20th-century cinema ranging from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921) to Alien (1979). Its Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection is organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, and is on view July 13, 2019 through January 5, 2020. Horror and sci-fi are among the most versatile, dynamic ... More | | 
oung Woman Powdering Herself, c.1888-90 by George Seurat (1859-91). Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5cm. Collection: The Courtauld Gallery, London, gift from Samuel Courtauld, 1932. Photo: The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London.
EDINBURGH.- An important painting by Post-Impressionist and Pointillist pioneer Georges Seurat (1859-1891) has gone on display in Scotland for the first time, having been loaned to the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) from one of Europes most significant collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, The Courtauld Gallery. Young Woman Powdering Herself, which has never previously been shown north of the border, was painted between 1888 and 1890 and is an unusual portrait depicting Seurats mistress Madeleine Knobloch (1868-1903). Knoblochs identity was kept concealed even after this artwork was first exhibited in 1890, and their clandestine relationship, which included having a child together, remained a secret to all but the artists closest friends until after the Seurats premature death in ... More |
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 Part II of The North Yorkshire Moors collection of British coins a white glove sale at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- Dix Noonan Webb, the international coin, medal, banknote and jewellery specialists, announced the results of Part II of The North Yorkshire Moors collection of British coins formed by Marvin Lessen, which was 100% sold when it was offered on Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at their auction rooms in central Mayfair. The sale comprising 526 lots saw a gross total of £284,400 (£341,280 including buyers' premium). Part I was sold in April 2018, and the combined total realised for the two parts of the Lessen collection so far sold is £542,860 (£651,432). The highest price of the sale was for a rare penny (class IIa) from the Lichfield Mint - only four Pennies of this mint are known - dating from the reign of Richard I (1189-1199) which fetched £11,400 against an estimate of £3,000-4,000. There was a lot of interest in it and it was bought by a UK collector [Lot 463] ... More Exhibition presents paintings and drawings by Peter Dreher, Konrad Klapheck and Des LawrenceLONDON.- The Real: Three Propositions presents paintings and drawings by Peter Dreher, Konrad Klapheck and Des Lawrence, all of whom use precise, lucid, figurative styles to depict people, places and things. These artists merge realms of appearance and consciousness to varying degrees in their work, intermixing objectivity and subjectivity as they conjure things and their meanings in two dimensions. At a time when images and information, factual and fictional, circulate instantaneously, they ask the viewer to slow down and to consider how matter and mind intertwine when the world is re-envisioned. Peter Dreher (b.1932, Mannheim, Germany) has been painting and drawing the same empty drinking glass nearly every day since 1974. Working, he says, as exactly, as accurately and faithfully as possible, Dreher divides the canvases into two subtly different groups of ... More Glenn Murcutt MPavilion 2019 design revealedMELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation today released the design for MPavilion 2019, the sixth MPavilion in an ongoing series, by Australias only Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, Glenn Murcutt AO. The refined, white minimal design reflects Murcutts significant contribution to climate-responsive architecture. Celebrating the fiftieth year of Murcutts globally influential design practice, MPavilion 2019 will be a milestone summer attraction built in the Queen Victoria Gardens. MPavilion 2019 relays Murcutts longstanding interest in buildings that make efficient use of site and climatic conditions. Prioritising a view of the river and city skyline, the MPavilion consists of a climate responsive rectangular plan with steel frames supporting wing-like trusses covered in tensioned translucent fabric, resulting in a buoyant white roof that will be lit from within ... More Shaken-up version of classic Chinese play 'Teahouse' causes stirAVIGNON (AFP).- Dozens of people have walked out of a challenging new version of a classic Chinese play staged in France since Tuesday under a huge four-tonne wheel symbolising history crushing the Chinese people. Lao She's epic "Teahouse", which recounts the tumultuous first five decades of the 20th century through three generations of a Chinese family, was one of the most hotly anticipated shows at the Avignon festival. But the new version of the saga about social injustice, hunger and corruption took a critical bashing with French daily Le Monde comparing its "over-the-top special effects" and live Chinese rap and techno music to something that one might see in a "naff stadium rock opera". Pioneering Chinese director Meng Jinghui -- who described himself "a bit of a rebel" -- is one of the first to dare to overhaul the text since it was first staged in 1958 ... More Cuba's aging rockers finally earn their dueHAVANA (AFP).- For decades, their songs were banned, and even called the "music of the enemy." But Cuba's rockers have finally found their place in a nation where salsa, rumba and reggaeton usually reign. This year, Havana will celebrate the International Day of Rock and Roll -- which falls on Saturday -- with three days of concerts. Each day, 13 groups will take the stage at Maxim Rock, the club that also serves as the home of the government-sanctioned Cuban Rock Agency, for a 10-hour marathon. It will be a far cry from the many years when the classic rocker look -- long hair, tight jeans and leather bracelets -- was at odds with the "new man" image, hard-working and serious, vaunted by the authorities during Fidel Castro's revolution. Despite the obvious difficulties, most of Cuba's rockers chose to remain at home and dedicate themselves to their ... More Despite financial hurdles, New York still seducing jazz artistsNEW YORK (AFP).- Its lilts and grooves can feel like nostalgic rhythms from a bygone era, but jazz remains a thriving contemporary art form -- and its proponents still flock to New York hoping to catch a break. Despite a booming rents that have left few affordable bases for struggling artists of all stripes, jazz musicians tend to consider the American cultural metropolis the premier petri dish for cultivating their craft. "There's a long history," said Clovis Nicolas, a bassist who grew up near Marseille and has called New York home for 16 years. After a few visits in his late 20s he decided to move there from Paris. "I was getting so much information and inspiration from the music scene that it would make me play better," he recalled. "The standards are pretty high. It's a place where all the best musicians from the US and the world come to meet," the ... More Exhibition at Foam presents the work of multi-disciplinary artist Dominic HawgoodAMSTERDAM.- As part of the Next Level exhibition series, Foam presents the work of multi-disciplinary artist Dominic Hawgood (1980, UK). In this exhibition, titled Casting Out the Self, Hawgood visualises the effect of the drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which he personally experienced as a transfer into the digital realm. His work creates a hallucinatory effect: photographs seem to move, flat surfaces reveal hidden depths, and the perception of space turns out to be an illusion. Hawgood researches and appropriates elements of computational photography into his work, leading into intriguing site-specific installations and sculptural elements that refer to both spiritual ceremonies and the digital rituals of computer graphics. Through lighting design, Hawgood creates a unique atmosphere that transforms the exhibition space into a twilight zone between physical and ... More Gemeentemuseum Den Haag opens German artist KP Brehmer's first ever retrospective in the NetherlandsTHE HAGUE.- What would the Dutch flag look like if the three colours were divided on the basis of wealth in the country? In 1972 German artist KP Brehmer reworked the German flag in this way, highlighting the unequal distribution of wealth in West Germany. The flag was hoisted at Documenta 5, and will be one of the iconic works on display in KP Brehmer: Real Art Fake News at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the artists first ever retrospective in the Netherlands. I myself see art, along with science and philosophy, as a tool for appropriating reality. - KP Brehmer The work of KP Brehmer (1938-1997) includes paintings, prints, drawings and films that resemble diagrams, infographics, abstract art or advertising posters. There is an irony in his visual idiom which comments on the art world, the media landscape and society. This was the artists ... More British Library acquires Granta's archive to mark the magazine's fortieth anniversaryLONDON.- Granta magazine was founded by Cambridge university students in 1889 before being re-launched in 1979 by editor Bill Buford, who transformed it into one of the worlds most important literary periodicals. The magazine has launched the careers of some of the UKs most significant contemporary writers, among them Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith, as well as introducing the work of many international writers to a British readership. Comprising around three-hundred boxes of material, the Granta magazine archive is a key source for understanding every aspect of late twentieth-century writing and publishing, including practical financial and administrative decisions; relationships between literary agents, publishers, and authors; and issues of gender, race, and foreign-language representation in British publishing. Featuring correspondence ... More Kunstverein Hannover opens an exhibition of works by Henrike NaumannHANNOVER.- Henrike Naumanns (b. 1984) artistic practice takes German-German reunification and its consequences as its starting point. What happened after 1989, and how has identity been shaped since then? Using furniture that sometimes says more than many words, Naumann creates sets of the post-reunification era with all its trashy objects and post-post-modernist wall units made of shiny surfaces rather than solid materials. Within these sets, the artist screens films she has made since completing her scenography studies (Potsdam 2012) showing young adults who became radicalized with right-wing attitudes in these very surroundings, so to speak like the triad of far-right German neo-Nazi terrorists who conspired in Naumanns hometown of Zwickau. Naumann stumbled upon the figure of Birgit Breuel and consequently Expo 2000 the ... More Leslie Wright joins Shelburne Museum as Director of AdvancementSHELBURNE, VT.- Leslie Wright has been named Director of Advancement at Shelburne Museum, director Thomas Denenberg announced. Wright joins the Museum from Orton Family Foundation, a Vermont-based nonprofit focused on community development in small cities and towns across the country, where she was senior associate. Prior to working at Orton, Wright was communications and marketing manager for Shelburne Museum. We are delighted to have Leslie back at Shelburne Museum in a new role. Her knowledge of the Museum and passion for our mission are valuable assets that will serve the Museum well as she heads up fundraising and plays a key role in all aspects of support for the Museum, from the annual fund to corporate support and membership, Denenberg said. Wrights background also includes her work as an award- ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Piero Manzoni was born July 13, 1933. Meroni Manzoni di Chiosca e Poggiolo, better known as Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 - February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. In this image: Piero Manzoni (1933-1963), Milano et-mitologiaa (Milan and mythology), 1956. Oil on board. Private Collection Milan© Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano, by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2013, 95 x 130 cm.
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