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Ai Weiwei, F Lotus, 2016. © Ai Weiwei Studio, Photo: © Belvedere, Vienna. 1005 life vests, PVC, polyethylene foam 4876.5 x 4700 x 7.5 cm.
VIENNA (AFP).- Visitors to Vienna's Belvedere Palace were confronted Wednesday with 1,005 refugees' life jackets drifting in the baroque pond -- courtesy of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. The installation, entitled "F. Lotus", consists of 201 rings each holding five life jackets -- retrieved from the Greek island of Lesbos -- arranged in the letter "F" and floating like lotus flowers. Ai, who in February this year attached 14,000 life jackets to the columns of a Berlin concert house, said that the work was his way of addressing the tragedy of Europe's migrant crisis. "There are over 500,000 life jackets left on (Lesbos) and it looks like a landscape," he told reporters. "It is something so related to individuals. It could be the last thing you grab when you have to escape." The artist went too far for some earlier this year when he recreated the death pose of Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler found dead on a Turkish beach in 2015, in a photo shoot for an Indian magazine. China's most prominent con ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on July 15, 2016 shows the Eiffel Tower illuminated with the colours of the French National flag in tribute for the victims of the deadly Bastille Day attack in Nice in Paris. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old dual national, Tunisian-born man zigzagged a truck through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the French city of Nice, killing at least 84 and injuring dozens of children in what President Francois Hollande on July 15 called a "terrorist" attack. MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP
| American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals on view at the Peabody Essex Museum | | The Museo del Prado presents the documentary "Bosch: The Garden of Dreams" | | Wrecking ball or supermarket for Hitler's house |
Childe Hassam, The South Gorge, Appledore, Isles of Shoals, 1912. Oil on canvas. 23 ½ x 19 ½ in. (59.7 x 49.5 cm). Newark Museum, Purchase 1912, The General Fund, 12.571.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals, the first exhibition in more than 25 years to focus on Hassam's paintings of Appledore, the celebrated Maine island. Co-organized with the North Carolina Museum of Art in cooperation with the Shoals Marine Laboratory, the exhibition is on view at PEM from July 16 through November 6, 2016 and features more than 40 of Hassam's greatest oil paintings and watercolors of the coves, inlets, ledges and expansive seascapes that inspired his prolonged creative engagement with this alluring island. A suite of 12 contemporary black-and-white photographs by Alexandra de Steiguer also included in the exhibition artfully captures Appledore today. Six miles off the coasts of southern New Hampshire and Maine, Appledore is the largest island ... More | |
From left to right: Artist Ãlvaro Perdices and filmmaker Andrés Sanz, authors of the videinstallation "Bosch: The Garden of Dreams". Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado is presenting the documentary Bosch. The Garden of Dreams Co-produced with López-Li Films and with the sole sponsorship of Fundación BBVA, the Museo del Prado is presenting a documentary on Bosch as part of its wide-ranging programme of activities organised in conjunction with Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition, the most important exhibition to be held to date on this Netherlandish artist. Open until September 2016, this exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of the death of Jheronimus Bosch includes all the artists most important triptychs, among them the exceptional loan of The Saint Anthony Triptych from the Museo de Arte Antigua in Lisbon. These works are being shown alongside others lent from leading institutions such as the Albertina and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Boston Museum of Fine ... More | |
A memorial stone stands outside the house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- Austria's cabinet approved Tuesday legislation that will see the state seize ownership of the house where Hitler was born, although the government appeared divided on what to do with the building. Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka reiterated his call for the house in the town of Braunau am Inn in northern Austria to be torn down. But Deputy Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner said that the building near the German border has heritage protection and so "cannot be demolished". He said it could be used "for educational purposes" such as a museum. Sobotka said though that the building was "not worthy" of such a status since it was bestowed by the Nazis after Hitler annexed his native country into the Third Reich in 1938. The legislation, still to be approved by parliament, would see the owner, whose family has been in possession of the house for more than century, forcibly dispossessed after years ... More |
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| Ruined Armenian city in Turkey becomes World Heritage | | Rare, lone painting of lupines offered at Bonhams | | A history of Benin in 15,000 photographs |
Manuchihr Mosque west view. Photo: Acarvin/wikipedia.org
ISTANBUL (AFP).- The UN's cultural agency on Friday added a ruined Armenian city inside Turkey's closed border with the ex-Soviet state to its World Heritage list, as it elevated eight other sites across the world to the list ranking. The site of Ani, which lies outside the Turkish city of Kars, was the capital of an Armenian kingdom around the end of the first millenium, before its conquest in 1064 by Seljuk forces hastened a decline then completed by the Mongol conquest and an earthquake. In another sensitive inscription, UNESCO elevated to World Heritage status caves once inhabited by Neanderthals in Britain's overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is claimed by Spain. They joined seven other sites including in Iran, India, China, Micronesia and Spain in being added to the World Heritage list at the meeting of UNESCO in Istanbul. The ruined churches and secular buildings of Ani are a hugely sensitive site, lying directly on the other side of Turkey's completely closed border with Armenia. ... More | |
William Wendt, Lupine Patch, 1921 (detail). Estimate: U.S. $120,000-180,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of North America's most celebrated and respected painters of wildlife Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, active mainly during the first half of the 20th century, leads the California and Western Paintings and Sculpture auction on August 2 at Bonhams Los Angeles. Bonhams is proud to offer a number of works in the August sale from the estate of Sylvia McLauglin, who co-founded the San Francisco Bay conservation group Save the Bay and helped pioneer the tradition of grass-roots environmental activism in California. said Director of California and Western Art Aaron Bastian. Works from the estate include the cover of the catalogue which is a lovely painting by Victor Higgins in exceptional original condition. The sale also includes a sterling painting by Theodore Wores, Lotus Pond, Shiba, Tokyo in a unique and original Aesthetic movement hand-carved gilt camphor wood frame. Important pictures by ... More | |
A man holds a large format camera at the photographic studio of the late Benin photographer Cosme Dossa in Porto-Novo. Delphine Bousquet / AFP.
PORTO-NOVO (AFP).- A thick layer of dust covered the boxes containing photographer Cosme Dossa's life's work at his family home in Benin's capital Porto-Novo. Found in no particular order on the floor and on tables, termites had also eaten their way in. But despite such unpromising conditions, 15,000 negatives were discovered inside, well-preserved in their protective sleeves. To his family's delight, the boxes contained a pictorial treasure trove of marriages, burials, graduations and everyday scenes from the dying days of colonial rule and early days of independence. More than 600 black and white prints had to be delicately cleaned with cotton, then mounted on non-acidic paper. Astonishingly, the Dossa family had little idea what they had in their midst. "We never knew that these photos would be interesting and contribute to history and the ... More |
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| Brazil graffiti artist paints massive Olympic mural | | Group exhibition at Lisson Gallery celebrates the moving image | | Collector of women artists brings contemporary art to Sheffield |
Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra stands next to his huge mural representing the five continents, at the Olympic Boulevard, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 14, 2016. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Perched atop a cherry picker truck several stories high, Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra sprays puffs of paint on a sprawling mural in the colors of the Olympic rings. With three weeks to go to the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Kobra and his assistants are racing to put the finishing touches on the 3,000-square-meter (32,000-square-foot) painting that graces a wall in the city's newly overhauled port district. The mural depicts five indigenous faces representing the continents of the world, awash in the blue, yellow, black, green and red of the Olympics. Thailand's Karen people represent Asia, the Huli of Papua New Guinea represent Oceania, the Tapajos of the Brazilian Amazon represent the Americas, the Chukchi of Siberia represent Europe and the Mursi ... More | |
Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Worship, 2016. Clay animation, digital video, stereo audio. Dimensions variable 8:26 minutes © Djurberg and Berg; Courtesy of Lisson Gallery.
LONDON.- The exhibition Performer/Audience/Mirror celebrates moving image and features work from the 1960s to the present day by eighteen internationally acclaimed artists, including Marina Abramović, John Akomfrah, Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Gerard Byrne, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Christian Jankowski, John Latham, Jonathan Monk, Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra and Sean Snyder. Borrowing its title from Dan Grahams 1977 performance at De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, in which the artist described himself and the seated audience in front of a mirrored wall, the exhibition draws on the interactivity and reflexivity of film and explores its importance as a ... More | |
Valeria Napoleone. Photo: Michael Leckie.
SHEFFIELD.- Valeria Napoleone, a leading international collector of work by female artists, is exhibiting highlights from her collection in public for the first time this July at Museum Sheffields Graves Gallery. Drawn from a collection with a singular purpose: to champion the work of women artists and redress gender imbalance in the art world, this exhibition offers the chance to see major works by some of the most pioneering artists to have emerged in the past 20 years. This exhibition is the latest installment of Going Public, a series of exhibitions and summits launched in 2015 by Museums Sheffield and project co-originators Mark Doyle and Sebastien Montabonel in collaboration with partner organisations across the city. The project, which shows highlights from some of Europes finest private collections of contemporary and twentieth century art in Sheffield, was established to lead a national conversation about the fu ... More |
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| The Hennessy Art Fund for the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection announced | | Museum of Arts and Design announces new board leaders and trustees | | Morrison Hotel Gallery partners with Rock icon Mick Fleetwood for Maui gallery |
Davie Beattie with his work.
DUBLIN.- Yesterday, Hennessy Ireland and IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) announced a new multi-year partnership and acquisition fund to purchase works by Irish and Irish based artists that are not yet part of the IMMA National Collection of Contemporary and Modern Art. Entitled, The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection, this initiative has enabled IMMA to purchase multiple works for the Collection for the first time since 2011. Artists will be nominated by a selection panel, including Director Sarah Glennie and Head of Collections Christina Kennedy, and each year will include an independent guest curator. This years guest panellist is Emma Lucy OBrien from the VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow, with final recommendations approved by the IMMA Collection & Acquisitions Committee, in line with IMMAs Collection policy. Four works by four different Irish ... More | |
Michele Cohen, Chairman of the Board, Museum of Arts and Design. Photo by Jenna Bascom. Courtesy Museum of Arts and Design 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design announced the appointment of Michele Cohen as Chair of its Board of Trustees. Cohen succeeds Lewis Kruger, who has become Chairman Emeritus. MADs Board of Trustees also elected Ann Kaplan as Secretary, and voted to appoint Joan Hornig and Barbara Waldman as new Trustees. MAD will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this fall, and I welcome the opportunity to lead the board into the next chapter of the Museums history, said Cohen. We are extremely grateful for Lewis Krugers more than twenty-five years on the board and the past seven as Chair. He led us through a period of transition for the Museum and the completion of our capital drive. His steadfast and inspired leadership has been essential to our success. I look ... More | |
Henry Diltz and Mick Fleetwood.
MAUI.- For over sixty years, Rock N' Roll Hall Of Famer Mick Fleetwood has made epiphanic creative decisions. His tenure in Fleetwood Mac has been a creative odyssey of restless exploration and sage artistic instincts. Having sold over 100 million records, the band is one of the best-selling artists, and its music is woven deep within the fabric of our daily lives. Morrison Hotel Gallery has joined forces with this cultural icon for a gallery opening at Fleetwood's General Store in Maui, Hawaii located at 744 Front Street, Lahaina, Hawaii. Fleetwood's is a boutique that incorporates the culture and style of the Hawaiian Islands with a world traveler's flair that only Mick Fleetwood can provide. "Morrison Hotel Gallery is the real deal in fine art music photography," says Fleetwood. "It's a world I have lived and breathed for my whole life, and thus serves as a constant reminder of how lucky ... More |
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Sanger appointed Executive Director of the Museum Association of New York
TROY, NY.- The Board of Directors of the Museum Association of New York (MANY) today announced the appointment of Erika Sanger as Executive Director. Sanger brings with her more than 30 years of experience as an educator and museum professional, and a background in program planning connecting museums and their collections with new audiences. Sanger will provide innovative leadership, vision, and direction for MANY, which represents more than 1,400 museums, zoos, botanical gardens, and aquariums in New York State. MANYs mission is to strengthen the capacity of the states cultural community - delivering innovative training, sharing professional resources, and supporting advocacy of the highest quality. Sanger will join MANY on August 22. She succeeds Devin Lander, who was recently appointed as the New York State Historian. I am excited about the ... More
Puppet masters: War Horse at Bonhams charity auction
LONDON.- Original puppets from the smash-hit play, War Horse Joey, Topthorn, the Goose and a pair of crows will all head to Bonhams in London on 13 September 2016, to be sold at an evening charity auction in aid of the Handspring Trust. Joey and Topthorn will make a special appearance on the night for guests. This is the only time a full set of these famous puppets will be made available at auction. The Victoria and Albert Museum was the first to acquire one of these magnificent puppets in 2013. In all eight sets were made, of which three are being preserved for future productions. Being one of five remaining sets, this set will be signed and numbered 1/5 by Adrian Kohler, Handsprings Master Puppeteer. War Horse, based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, is the most successful play ever mounted by the Royal National Theatre of London. During its eight-year run ... More
First solo exhibition in the U.S. by Portuguese photographer André Cepeda opens at Fridman Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Fridman Gallery presents At the Eyes Ground, the first solo exhibition in the United States by the acclaimed Portuguese photographer André Cepeda. Cepeda is intrigued by ways in which art can reference time and space. Several of his series, including Depois (After, 2015), Rua Stan Getz (Stan Getz Street, 2014), Rien (Nothingness, 2012), and Ontem (Yesterday, 2010) allude to temporality and physical location in their titles, yet in their subject matter do not directly pinpoint a specific time or place. Rather, Cepeda documents time and place the concepts. Cepedas photographs record the emotional effect of transition. Transition is the in-between state; it is the nothingness that encompasses the before and the after. Cepedas shots of ... More
Leading British artist and YBA exhibits at Jerwood Gallery
HASTINGS.- This summer Jerwood Gallery welcomes leading British artist and YBA (Young British Artist) Marcus Harvey to the gallery for his largest UK public gallery exhibition to date. Inselaffe, will centre around Harvey's most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which forge motifs and emblems of Britishness, such as military memorabilia and joke shop knick-knacks into collaged portraits of historical figures - from Nelson to Margaret Thatcher and from Napoleon to Tony Blair. Inselaffe is a German word meaning Island Monkey and is used, perhaps derogatively but mostly light heartedly, to describe the people of England. It derives from a tongue in cheek theory that evolution must have stalled in the UK. This exhibition features tough but humorous sculpture, unapologetic and brash, political yet ambiguous, considered yet painterly, and reflects on Harvey's ... More
Auction house founder Ted Hake receives lifetime achievement award at political memorabilia convention
HARRISBURG, PA.- Ted Hake, founder of Hakes Americana & Collectibles, was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) 2016 National Convention. The prestigious award was presented at a July 9 banquet highlighting a 5-day series of club-sponsored events headquartered at the Harrisburg Hilton. Regarded as a top expert on political memorabilia and a trailblazer of Americas collectibles industry, Hake launched his Hakes Americana auction business in 1967. At that time, there were only three national publications serving collectors and no auction houses at all that dealt exclusively in 20th-century American pop culture. Hake issued his first presidential campaign-item sales lists while employed by General Electric at the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair. My first ... More
Kunsthalle Wien opens first extensive solo show dedicated to Nathalie Du Pasquier
VIENNA.- BIG OBJECTS NOT ALWAYS SILENT is the telling title for Nathalie Du Pasquiers first solo-exhibition in Austria. Covering an artistic career spanning 35 years, the exhibition brings together her paintings and patterns, sculptures and designs, constructions, carpets, and ceramics to create a world of different cities, of architectures and forms that fall under one roof to build a new understanding of how her practice has evolved. Larger than life, her work looks at the trope of the still life in an entirely fresh and individual way. The exhibition enters new terrain to see and understand how Du Pasquier considers and plays with complex arrangements of forms, the expressive and emotive relations between things, and the space between objects and their representation. Working between the fields of fine arts, design and craft, she repeatedly breaks the rules ... More
Colorful American Indian trade blankets on view at the Maryhill Museum of Art
GOLDENDALE, WASH.- A Kaleidoscope of Color: American Indian Trade Blankets will be on view at Maryhill Museum of Art July 16 November 15, 2016. The exhibition will explore commercially produced trade blankets as an important facet of Indian culture, showcasing 20 pre-1925 blankets from well-known historic manufacturers such as Buell Manufacturing Company, J. Capps & Sons, Racine Woolen Mills, Oregon City Woolen Mills, and Pendleton Woolen Mills. The featured blankets are from private collections and offer a rare opportunity to see some of the most colorful items ever created by American industrial designers. Historically, North Americas Native peoples fashioned warm wearing robes from woven cotton, yucca, feathers or rabbit skins, or from tanned elk and buffalo hide. Trade blankets made by outsiders first appeared on the continent in the 18th century, when ... More
New exhibition this summer showcases Sheffield as a leader in making and manufacture
SHEFFIELD.- A new exhibition on view at the Millennium Gallery this summer showcases Sheffield as a true city of making. Made in Sheffield celebrates the remarkable breadth of manufacture and craftsmanship that has earnt the city an international reputation for excellence and innovation. Made in Sheffield reflects the diversity of design and production that takes place in the city region today; from global aeronautical engineering and world-class manufacturing to ground-breaking digital industries, as well as the many talented individuals working in studios and workshops across Sheffield. Curated by Museums Sheffield, the exhibition sees over 100 Sheffield companies at the forefront of their industry represented in a range of inventive and visually striking displays. Visitors have the ... More
Caroline Achaintre's largest and most significant exhibition to date opens at BALTIC
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead announces a major survey exhibition of Caroline Achaintre with new and recent work. It is the artists largest and most significant exhibition to date. Achaintre works across a diverse range of media that includes watercolours, linocuts, textiles and ceramics. Her drawings, hand-tufted wall hangings and sculptures are colourful and potent, evoking the subversive spirit of European carnival and creating an atmosphere that is both playful and absurd. Including German Expressionism, modernist sculpture and Primitivism among her influences, the artist also references more contemporary subcultural genres such as sci-fi, the heavy metal scene, cartoons and horror films. Drawing is the foundation of Achaintres practice. Made with watercolour and ink, the artists delicate works on paper oscillate between ... More
The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh opens two exhibitions
EDINBURGH.- The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh presents Annie Kevans: Selected Portraits. This exhibition marks the first time that Kevans work has been exhibited in Scotland. Works from Kevans series The Muses of Jean Paul Gaultier are available to purchase for the first time, having previously been on display at the Barbican Art Gallery, Le Grand Palais, and the National Gallery of Victoria. Kevans paintings reflect our distorted perceptions of figures in the public eye. Her works examine the duality of truth and falsehood by creating 'portraits' which may or may not be based on real documentation. She believes that a persons identity is not preset, but is a shifting temporary construction and her work questions our view on history and perceptions of what is the truth. The subjects of these series include overlooked female artists, the mistresses of American presidents, and iconic ... More
The Brutalist Playground comes to S1 Artspace at Park Hill
SHEFFIELD.- S1 Artspace welcomed The Brutalist Playground exhibition to Sheffield by Turner Prize winning architecture collective Assemble and artist Simon Terrill as the North of England exhibition venue. The Brutalist Playground was originally commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2015 and has been reimagined for the Brutalist icon that is the Park Hill estate in Sheffield. It features a newly commissioned addition based on the estates original playgrounds built by architects Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith between 1957-61. The exhibition investigates the materiality and visual language of post-war landscapes through an immersive, climbable and conceptual landscape. Marie Bak Mortensen, Head of Exhibitions, RIBA; The Brutalist Playground was received enthusiastically by audiences and critics when it opened in London and was ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joshua Reynolds was born July 16, 1723. Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769. In this image: Britain's Prince Charles, left gestures towards a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Commodore Keppel, with Roy Clare of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, Thursday Nov. 16, 2006. Prince Charles toured an exhibition of naval paintings at the museum and officially opened the collection.
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