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A member of staff poses with a painting entitled 'Nympheas avec reflets de hautes herbes' by French artist Claude Monet at Sotheby's auction house in central London. AFP PHOTO / CARL COURT.
GENEVA (AFP).- Switzerland has seized a painting by Vincent Van Gogh and two others by Claude Monet as part of the global investigation into Malaysia's scandal-tainted sovereign wealth fund, an official said Friday. The works were seized following a request from the United States, one of several countries probing alleged massive fraud at the Malaysian state fund 1MDB, said Swiss justice ministry spokeswoman Ingrid Reyser. "The operation is over and we confiscated the three paintings," Reyser told AFP in an email. She declined to comment on where the paintings had been kept or the individuals involved. Earlier this week, the US justice department filed lawsuits seeking to reclaim more than $1 billion in assets linked to stolen or laundered 1MDB funds. Artworks by Monet and Van Gogh were among the assets listed in the lawsuit filed at a California federal court. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing mounting pressure ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An Indian farmer carries a tray of red chillies as he walks on a roof where others are drying in the village of Sanour on the outskirts of Patiala on July 20, 2016. STR / AFP
| Exhibition includes photographs from all four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh | | "Big Picture: Art After 1945" opens at Seattle Art Museum | | Exhibition featuring 80 photographs by Berenice Abbott on view at Martin Gropius Bau | 
George Hurrell, Hedy Lamarr, 1938, printed 1979, gelatin silver print, Carnegie Museum of Art, gift of Stan Babbitt, © Hurrellphotos.com. By permission.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Strength in Numbers: Photography in Groups brings together nearly 100 photographs from the collections of all four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh for the very first time. Opening in Gallery One at Carnegie Museum of Art, the exhibition explores how photographers throughout history have used multiple images to create narratives or explore subjects more deeply than is possible with a single picture. Organized around themes of People, Place, and Perspective, Strength in Numbers showcases work from Carnegie Museum of Art, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and Carnegie Science Center. Together, the collections from these institutions illustrate how powerful photography can be when displayed in groups. Photographers often seek to better understand others by taking their picture. The theme of People in Strength in Numbers examines the work of photographers who have compiled groups of portraits. ... More | | 
Thermometer, 1959, Jasper Johns, American, born 1930, Oil on canvas with thermometer, 51 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (131.5 x 97.8 cm), Frame 53 1/4 x 40 1/4 x 2 in., Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the museum's 50th year, 91.97, © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, Photo: Paul Macapia.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Big Picture: Art After 1945, featuring significant works of abstract painting and sculpture from SAMs collection. Held in the museums third floor galleries, it opens July 23, 2016, and will stage additional installments throughout the summer and fall. Tracing landmark artistic developments in the decades following World War II, Big Picture reveals how abstraction established itself as a dominant force to be reckoned with. The installation will highlight works from the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection given to the museum, such as Mark Rothkos No. 10 (1952), Jasper Johns Thermometer (1959), and Eva Hesses No Title (1964). It will also feature key loans from other local collections, reflecting the depth and commitment of private collectors ... More | | 
Berenice Abbott, City Arabesque, 1938 © Berenice Abbott/ Commerce Graphics / Getty Images. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
BERLIN.- Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. She spent six decades taking pictures. The Martin-Gropius-Bau is now dedicating an exhibition featuring about 80 pictures. Her famous and iconic pictures from the Changing New York series, early portraits and her pioneering work as a scientific photographer arel being shown. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Berenice Abbott first studied journalism at the Ohio State University in Columbus before she moved to New York in 1918 to switch to sculpting. She became a Bohemian New Yorker, shared an apartment with author Djuna Barnes and befriended the Dadaists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray who were about to move to Paris, the capital of modernity. In 1921, at 22, Abbott also moved to Paris to continue to study sculpting. Without any money, she ran into Man Ray who happened to need an assistant for his portrait studio. Abbott began to work for h ... More |
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| "Anti:modern Salzburg in the Heart of Europe between Tradition and Renewal" opens in Austria | | "Flora and Fauna: Drawings by Francesca Anderson" opens at the Bruce Museum | | The Nivola Museum exhibits artworks by the absolute protagonists of the interwar period | 
Oskar Kokoschka, Self portrait from two views), 1923. Chalk lithograhy on handmade paper © Museum der Moderne Salzburg © Foundation Oskar Kokoschka © Bildrecht, Wien.
SALZBURG.- As Salzburg celebrates the bicentennial of its union with Austria, the exhibition Anti:modern spotlights characteristic events and phenomena in the life of this city and region in the heart of Europe between tradition and renewal. The ambitious project unites historic exhibits from the visual arts, society and politics, literature, dance, theater, music, and the sciences with works by renowned contemporary artists to inspire wide-ranging reflections. Is Salzburg indeed anti-modern, as has often been claimed? Theperhaps provocativequestion is the point of departure for this comprehensive exhibition staged on two floors of the Mönchsberg museum venue, which assembles work by an international cast of artists to draw a differentiated picture of modernity. The show examines numerous events and ... More | | 
Francesca Anderson, Great Blue Heron. Scratchboard. Courtesy of the artist.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Artist Francesca Anderson specializes in capturing natural history in her exquisite illustrations of plants and wildlife. Twenty of her scratchboard and pen-and-ink drawings will be on view in the exhibition Flora and Fauna: Drawings by Francesca Anderson at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The show opens on Saturday, July 23, and runs through October 30, 2016. Flora and Fauna brings together a selection of Anderson's large-scale botanical illustrations for which she is best-known and life-size scratchboard illustrations of birds. The three-foot tall, black-and-white images are striking, meticulously drawn from life in exacting detail. Two new pieces created for this show spotlight mounted birds selected from the Bruce Museum collection -- a red-breasted merganser and a barred owl. The exhibitions opening day on July 23 includes a special appearance by the artist, who ... More | | 
Francesco Trombadori, Ritratto di signora in nero, olio su tela, anni Venti. Foto Pietro Paolo Pinna.
ORANI .- Enchanted and suspended atmospheres, still figures, almost frozen, images outside of time, charged with echoes of the classic past and yet evoking the present, the normality of the everyday: these are the features of a well-defined path of Italian art between the two world wars, explored by the exhibition The Daily Myth at the Nivola Museum. The exhibition represents an homage to the late Angelo Tilocca (1952-2015), a key figure in Sardinian art and culture, by displaying a selection of his art collection, focusing on Italian art between the Twenties and Forties. The show - as noted by the curators Giuliana Altea and Antonella Camarda - brings to the Nivola Museum artworks by the absolute protagonists of the interwar period, from Giorgio De Chirico to Felice Casorati, from Mario Sironi to Massimo Campigli, from Arturo Martini to Giacomo Manzù, offering at the same time the chance to rediscover ... More |
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| Ben Brown Fine Arts opens its first solo exhibition in London of works by Ron Arad | | Sculpture by renowned artist Nick Cave on view at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | | Malcolm X handwritten postcard, featuring chimpanzee expressing racial tensions, auctioned for $11,793.75 | 
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LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting its first solo exhibition in London of internationally acclaimed artist, designer and architect Ron Arad. Summer Exhibition is the culmination of Arad's most recent work, spanning sculpture, hand-crafted studio pieces and industrial design, and showcasing the artist's constant experimentation with the boundaries and possibilities of materials, from metals to wood and glass. An eye-catching installation of Arad's brand new Puddles (2016) - 32 unique mirror polished stainless steel tables created specifically for the exhibition - challenges the viewer's sense of reality versus illusion through a subtle game of reflections. Combining intelligent and beautiful design with the artist's pervasive sense of humour, the amorphous shapes of Puddles form a whirlpooled labyrinth as they curve around the gallery space, up the walls and around corners, reminiscent of L'Esprit du Nomade ... More | | 
Nick Cave, American (b. 1959). Property, 2014. Mixed media, 92 Ã 239 1/2 Ã 53 inches. Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: James Prinz.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Property, a profound sculpture by Nick Cave, one of Americas foremost contemporary artists, has been acquired by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and will be on view in the museums Project Space beginning July 23. The sculpture, like Caves other celebrated works, explores issues of race, gender, oppression, identity and history. The expansive assemblage incorporates about 1,000 found objects that reference race and racism, recall African American life or hold strong personal meanings for Cave, a Missouri-born artist who attended the Kansas City Art Institute and is now recognized internationally. Cave seeks to transform problematic objects through reuse and new contexts. The title Property suggests slavery as well as the life cycle ... More | | 
The postcard was written to Malcolm Xs friend, the comedian Redd Foxx.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- A Malcolm X handwritten note on the back of a postcard featuring a photo of a chimpanzee sold last night for $11,793.75 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions. Bidding for the postcard began at $4,000, which attracted nine bids. The postcard was written to Malcolm Xs friend, the comedian Redd Foxx. It is postmarked from Miami with the date February 19, 1964. Malcolm X was in Miami to attend his friend Muhammed Alis (then Cassius Clay) heavyweight championship fight against Sonny Liston on February 25. The souvenir postcard from Miamis Monkey Jungle reads in full, One hundred years have passed since the Civil War, and these chimpanzees get more recognition, respect & freedom in American than our people do, because even the monkeys that lead them have more sense than the monkeys that lead us. / Bro[ther] Malcolm X. Malcolm X left the ... More |
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| Thiebaud, Arneson, Pia Camil & more at new UC Davis Museum | | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents "Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott" | | Towner opens "Some Are Nights Others Stars" | 
Aerial View Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Photograph by Iwan Baan, courtesy of SOIL and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
DAVIS, CA.- The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, announces the opening exhibitions that will inaugurate its new, architecturally significant museum building beginning Sunday, November 13. Hoof & Foot: A Field Study is a site-specific commission by Bay Area artist Chris Sollars; A Pot for a Latch is a participatory installation by the Mexico City-based artist Pia Camil; Out Our Way is the most comprehensive museum exhibition to ever examine the forces that in the early 60s propelled UC Davis into the forefront of art internationally; and The Making of a Museum is an exhibition on the architecture and making of the new museum organized by the architectural firm SO IL. Exhibitions remain on view from November 13, 2016 through March 24, 2017. Our new contemporary art museum is a place where artists, students and scholars from every discipline will be encouraged to co ... More | | 
Gordon Parks, Husband and Wife, Sunday morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950. Photograph, gelatin silver print.
RICHMOND, VA.- An exhibition featuring works by the noted African American photographer Gordon Parks will be on view from July 23 to October 30 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The 42 photographs that comprise Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott examine the realities of life under segregation in 1950s America. As the first African American photographer hired full time by Life magazine, Parks was frequently given assignments involving social issues affecting black America. For an assignment on the impact of school segregation, Parks returned to his hometown of Fort Scott, Kansas to reconnect with childhood friends all of whom went to the same all-black elementary school though only one was still living in Fort Scott at the time. To hear their stories, Parks traveled to Kansas City, Saint Louis, Columbus, Detroit, and Chicago, and his narrative shifted its focus to the Great Migration north by African Americans. The resulting series of pho ... More | | 
Michael Armitage, Karikor, 2015. Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London. © The artist.
EASTBOURNE.- Towner presents Some Are Nights Others Stars, a major exhibition by five internationally renowned artists whose works embody contrasting experiences of displacement and loss with the dynamics of movement and transformation. In interrelated film installations, large-scale sculptural works, paintings and drawings, the exhibition explores contemporary concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance. Central to the exhibition, and in its first UK presentation outside London is Isaac Juliens three-screen film installation Ten Thousand Waves (2010) inspired by the tragic incident at Morecambe Bay in 2004 in which 23 cockle-pickers lost their lives. Revolving around a protagonist spirit guide Mazu, a mythological sea goddess and protector of fishermen played by Maggie Cheung, the film is a poetic melding of contemporary Chinese culture with ancient myths; from the remote Fujia ... More |
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 Galeria Nara Roesler announces their representation of Los Carpinteros founding member NEW YORK, NY.- Galeria Nara Roesler announces their representation of Alexandre Arrechea. Alexandre Arrechea (b. 1970, Trinidad, Cuba) is a founding member (from 1991 through 2003) of the Cuban artist collective Los Carpinteros. The work of Alexandre Arrechea employs visual metaphors for ongoing social themes of inequality, cultural disenfranchisement, and the disputed position of art in a global, media driven society. Like many artists of his generation, he manipulates symbols and materials in an ambivalent manner, causing the viewer to leave the work with no specific point of view. Alexandre Arrechea's main solo exhibitions include: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana; PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Los Angeles; and New Museum in New York. His works are ... More Spink to offer over 1,400 lots of fine stamps and postal historyLONDON.- With over 1,400 lots of fine stamps and postal history coming under the hammer, July 26 and 27 will be a busy two days with something to interest most stamp collectors. This sale boasts not only some of the finest philately, but some of the most interesting stories too. This sale even has items that have been caught between the devil of a volcano and the deep blue sea! First and foremost, lot 1215 deserves centre stage as one of the star lots of the auction. Its a Rhodesian £1 scarlet and reddish mauve upper left corner pair, with a distinguishing long gash in the Queens ear. This marks it as a monumental rarity, with only one other recorded example of an error Gash in Queens ear item known. This is a great showpiece of Rhodesian philately were sure will set the auction room bidding furiously. Lot 1215, estimated: £20,000-25,000. Not far behind is lot 1255. A 1961 ... More First major solo exhibition by designer, art director and fashion stylist Judy Blame on view in LondonLONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, is presenting the first major solo exhibition by accessories designer, art director and fashion stylist Judy Blame. Safety pins, buttons, badges, pearls, bottle tops, cutlery, plastic bags, toy soldiers and keys form an inventory of objects that Blame has innovatively adapted to create his trademark jewellery and other accessories. In the early 1980s Blames non-conformist attitude and a desire to distinguish himself within the London club scene motivated him to produce jewellery. His modest resources shaped his DIY approach and led him to incorporate found objects as a foundation for making his adornments; early creations questioned established material hierarchies and were testimony to the harsh realities of industrial and economic decline. It was during this period that he encountered a range of creative ... More North Carolina Museum of Art installs work by Cuban artist Yoan Capote in Museum ParkRALEIGH, NC.- The North Carolina Museum of Art has been given a new work by Cuban artist Yoan Capote now installed in its 164-acre Museum Park. The sculpture, titled Open Mind (Barricades), is made from metal crowd-control barricades and is designed to resemble a brain if viewed from above. A gift by an anonymous donor, it is the first installation funded by the NCMAs new Art in the Environment Fund, which was established to support permanent, loaned, and temporary installations of public art in the Museum Park and community. Open Mind is the second work by Capote in the Museums permanent collection. Appropriating utilitarian metal barricades used for crowd control, Capote created the intricate labyrinth, Open Mind, modeled after a diagram of the human brain. He imagines visitors walking through the maze like neurons interacting inside the brain. ... More Exhibition of Latin American art in Mallorca collections on view at the Museum Es BaluardPALMA DE MALLORCA.- The exhibition "The Agony and the Ecstasy" opened at the Es Baluard Museum in Palma de Mallorca and is on view until October 2nd 2016. Subtitled "Latin American art in Mallorca collections; a review based on contemporaneity", the exhibition shows 90 works of art, including painting, photography, installations, etc. (from private collections and art galleries) by 55 of the most important Latin American artists on the contemporary international art scene. Curated by Nekane Aramburu, Director of Es Baluard, and assisted by Gerardo Mosquera, this exhibit is a project that shows the evolution of contemporary Latin American art through its presence in the collections of Mallorca. As Gerardo Mosquera points out this proves "the growing importance of private collectors in the articulation of the market, circulation and legitimization of art". The genealogy of the ... More Exhibition of works by twelve contemporary painters and sculptors on view at the Tibor de Nagy GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is presenting a group exhibition of twelve contemporary painters and sculptors. The paintings, mostly of a modest easel size, vary in mediums from the traditional oil and acrylic to the exotic such as nail polish or gold leaf. Scaling from the intimate tabletop or wall-mounted reliefs to large floor sized assemblages, the sculptures also present a wide array of materials from clay, wood and stone to aqua-resin, polyurethane foam and shoelaces. The exhibited works toy with the notion of still life not so much in a literal sense or as a rethinking of the representation of objects, but more as an abstract and magical reflection of qualities that make up objects. The artists as object makers imbue these things with a life of their own liberating them from the confines of the specifically definable. In the end, they no longer share a relationship ... More New Sky Arts TV series reveals Merseyside has the best art detectivesLONDON.- Overnight on Friday 1st July, millions of pounds worth of priceless masterpieces by celebrated British Artists were switched for copies at museums and galleries around the UK. The stunt was part of Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge a forthcoming series for Sky Arts starring Giles Coren and Rose Balston, produced by IWC Media and GroupM Entertainment. Throughout July, members of the public of all ages and experience are invited to use their detective skills to spot the seven copies hiding in plain sight on the walls of six galleries in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London and Manchester. All seven displays are also available for investigation online, via the competition website: skyartsfake.com As the national competition reaches its halfway point, initial statistics* reveal that: · fake animal and portrait paintings are easiest to detect and Merseyside art-spotters ... More The Vincent van GoghHuis exhibits the work of Pieter Laurens MolZUNDERT.- The Vincent van GoghHuis presents the exhibition Pieter Laurens Mol Wiegezang (voor Vincent) | Lullaby (for Vincent). Especially for this presentation in Van Goghs birthplace Zundert, Mol selected a wide range of studies, drawings, photos and installations in which he refers to Van Gogh. The collected works date from different periods of time and show us the artists long-lasting fascination for Vincent van Gogh. Over the years Pieter Laurens Mol (Breda, 1946) has often referred to Vincent and the region of Brabant, where both artists grew up. Their mutual origin is pointed out in a striking manner in the work Moedervlek (Birth Mark), a map of the province of North-Brabant repainted in dark brown. Its meaning is manifold. In the first place it denotes a birth mark, but on further consideration it also refers to a beauty spot (a Tache de Beauté in French) ... More Jacksonville art auction offers a unique date night experience JACKSONVILLE, FLA.- Baterbys Art Gallery presents a special live art auction event on Saturday, July 30th, featuring a collection of over 300 works of art by some of the biggest names in the world of fine art. The event will be hosted by ProSource of Jacksonville in their showroom at 5250 Sunbeam Rd in Jacksonville. The preview and registration portion of the event will commence at 5pm and the live auction will begin at 6pm. The event is open to the public however, RSVPs are required. Whether youre a new couple, or married for 40 years, finding new twists on date nights can inspire and lead to great things. According to a Robb report, attending a live edu tainment art auction is one of the top ten most rewarding date nights a couple can experience. Whether you are an experienced collector or new to the world of fine art, this art auction event is a fun and ... More Corey Helford Gallery unveils new works by pop surrealist pioneer Camille Rose GarciaLOS ANGELES, CA.- Corey Helford Gallery unveiled new works from internationally recognized Los Angeles artist and pop surrealist pioneer Camille Rose Garcia. Garcias newest series of gothic-psychedelic nature paintings, titled Phantasmacabre, is her first solo show in Los Angeles since 2011 and debuts the biggest paintings of her career. In addition, this is Garcias first show with CHG. Influenced by the surrealist and deeply symbolic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jungian archetypes, and fairy tales, Phantasmacabre depicts a lush and layered symbolic world that explores the realm of memories and dreams. Mother nature dominates, with fecund, tangly gardens overtaking painful subconscious memes. Candy colors, repeating patterns, and psychedelic symmetry form an underlying organic structure for the paintings. Figurative fragments from childrens books ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Philipp Otto Runge was born July 23, 1777. Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 - 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman. He made a late start to his career and died young, nonetheless he is considered among the best German Romantic painters.
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