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This picture taken on June 14, 2018 in Lyon, southern France, shows the hat allegedly attributed to Emperor Napoleon I. This hat would have been collected, after the battle of Waterloo and the escape of Napoleon, by the captain of Dragons, the baron Arnout Jacques van Zuijlen van Nijevelt. This war trophy will go on auction on June 18, 2018. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP.
LYON.- A two-cornered military dress hat said to belong to Napoleon and purportedly picked off the battlefield after his defeat at Waterloo will go under the hammer Monday at an auction in France. It is the latest sale looking to capitalise on the seemingly insatiable appetite for items belonging to the former French emperor, who remains a source of fascination nearly two hundred years after his death. Napoleon insisted on wearing the hats sideways -- rather than with points at the front and back -- so he could easily be spotted on the battlefield. During his 15 years in power he reportedly went through about 120 of the black felted beaver fur "bicorne" hats, most of them made by French hatmakers Poupard, though only a handful of confirmed examples still exist. "They must correspond in terms of dates, and the size of his head," Etienne De Baecque, the auctioneer leading the sale in the eastern city of Lyon, told AFP. While the hat's provenance cannot ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This year's edition of Unlimited consists of 72 large-scale projects, presented by galleries participating in the fair. Curated for the seventh consecutive year by Gianni Jetzer, Curator-at-Large at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the sector features a wide range of presentations, from seminal pieces from the past to work created especially for Art Basel. In this image: A arte Invernizzi. Rodolfo Aricó © Art Basel
| Manifesta 12 opens 16 June featuring the works of 50 participants and 20 venues | | Sotheby's to offer four outstanding paintings charting the path of Impressionism | | Tate announces 2019 exhibition highlights | 
Cooking Sections. Photo by Ryan Lowry.
PALERMO.- Manifesta 12, the European nomadic biennial, will present the work of 50 artists to the public at 20 different venues in Palermo from 16 June to 4 November 2018. A diffuse network of events including artistic installations, videos, performances, urban actions, and literary projects constitutes The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence developed by the Manifesta 12 Creative Mediators Bregtje van der Haak, Dutch journalist and filmmaker; Andrés Jaque, Spanish architect and researcher; Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, an architect born in Sicily, partner of the Rotterdam-based firm OMA; and Mirjam Varadinis, Swiss curator of visual arts. Manifesta, founded in 1993 and still lead by art historian Hedwig Fijen, initiated Manifesta 12 together with the city of Palermo and within the framework of its programme as Italian Capital of Culture. Manifesta 12 presents 35 new works specially commissioned from artists, writers, architects, an ... More | | 
Claude Monet, Citrons sur une branche, oil on canvas, painted in 1884 (est. £2,500,000-3,500,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Sale on 19 June includes four outstanding paintings created by three of the key players in the development, and subsequent success, of Impressionist art. Each of the four paintings embodies a different aspect of the movement, together providing an engaging insight into one of the most important periods of art history. The journey opens with Boudins Crinolines sur la plage (1866) and Monets Le Port de Zaandam (1871), marking the very beginnings of Impressionist painting, with both artists painting en plein air to capture fleeting impressions of time and place. In a rare still-life painted the following decade, Monet adapts the pioneering techniques of this new art to a traditional subject, and the story ends with Pissarros majestic urban view of fin-de-siècle Paris. Helena Newman, Global Co-Head of Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait 1887. Musée d'Orsay. Photo © RMN.
LONDON.- Tate today announced highlights of its 2019 exhibitions for all four Tate galleries in London, Liverpool and St Ives. The programme covers 200 years of groundbreaking art, from William Blakes visionary paintings and prints to Otobong Nkangas thought-provoking installations and performances, and features major solo shows of artists from Asia, Africa, Europe and America. Radical figures who have challenged convention and redefined art-making will be celebrated across the year, including Olafur Eliasson, Natalia Goncharova, Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Dorothea Tanning and Vincent van Gogh. In January 2019, Tate Modern will open Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory, showing how this innovative and much-loved French painter captured fleeting moments in time with his beautifully coloured landscapes and intimate domestic scenes. This will be followed by a survey of Franz ... More |
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| New display explores how Scotland's place in the world dramatically transformed from 1760-1860 | | Explore black and white photography in 'Natural Abstraction: Brett Weston and His Contemporaries' | | The Baltimore Museum of Art and SFMOMA co-organize Joan Mitchell retrospective | 
George Willison, Mohamed Ali Khan Walejah, 1717 - 1795. Nawab of the Carnatic, 1777. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, bequeathed by Douglas Willison Clark 1994 © National Galleries of Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- A dynamic new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery explores how Scotlands place in the world was dramatically transformed from the 17th century, as the country emerged as a leader of European cultural life and a major force in Britains industrial and imperial expansion. The Remaking of Scotland: Nation, Migration, Globalisation 1760-1860 will trace this remarkable transformation through the many extraordinary personalities who contributed to this turning point in Scottish history, bringing together a range of fascinating paintings, sculptures and drawings from the National Galleries of Scotlands outstanding collection. As well as tracing the changes that took place within Scotland in the areas of science, technology and literature, it will also look beyond Scotlands borders to highlight the many Scots who ventured further ... More | | 
Brett Weston (American, 19111993), Building, New York, 1945, gelatin silver print, 14 à 11 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift from the Christian Keesee Collection, 2015.72 © Brett Weston.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- The son of a famed photographer, Brett Weston (19111993) was born into the world of American Modernism. Apprenticed early at his fathers side, he quickly developed his own individual style and rose to prominence as part of a generation of Modernist photographers who explored abstraction in the middle of the 20th century.
In 2015, the Indianapolis Museum of Art acquired its first 11 photographs by Weston, thanks to the generosity of the Christian Keesee Collection. These will be on view as part of Natural Abstraction: Brett Weston and His Contemporaries, opening in the Susan and Charles Golden Gallery on Floor 2 of the Museum. Westons works will be featured alongside those by eight of his colleagues, ranging from Ansel Adams to Aaron Siskind, allowing guests to explore the different ways each transformed subjects found ... More | | 
Joan Mitchell in her Vétheuil studio, 1983. Photo by Robert Freson, Joan Mitchell Foundation Archives.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are co-organizing a comprehensive retrospective of American artist Joan Mitchell. The exhibition will bring together a breathtaking array of paintings, drawings, and prints from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe that together reveal Mitchells inner landscapeexperience, sensation, memoryexpressed with an intensely athletic grace. Mitchells acclaimed masterworks will be joined by rarely seen paintings and works on paper, bringing to life the artists varied creative processes and the intense experiences they embody, inviting the viewer to experience the trajectory of her career. The exhibition is co-curated by Katy Siegel, BMA Senior Programming & Research Curator and Thaw Chair of Modern Art at Stony Brook University, and Sarah Roberts, SFMOMA Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture. It will open in B ... More |
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| Montevideo: No longer the 'forgotten capital' of tango? | | Cranbrook Art Museum launches Punk graphics and Shepard Fairey exhibitions | | Glimmer of hope for Romania's faded architectural gems | 
People dance tango at Chamuyo milonga in Montevideo on April 29, 2018. Pablo PORCIUNCULA BRUNE / AFP.
MONTEVIDEO (AFP).- Every night, 69-year-old Edinson chooses one of his 11 pairs of dance shoes, slips into a smart suit and heads out to dance tango in the clubs of Montevideo, a city that is looking to breathe new life into an old tradition, one that has long been eclipsed by its more famous neighbor, Buenos Aires. "I've been dancing for 10 years now," said Edinson, a retired soldier, and this stylized exit from his house has become a nightly ritual, "no matter what the weather is." With a nod of his carefully coiffured-head, he invites a woman onto the parquet dance floor, where they skillfully glide past other couples in a club that is almost hidden behind a covered market. It is here that the Joventango ("Young tango") association organizes so-called "milongas" every week, evenings of dance that are open to initiates as well as to the merely curious and the passing tourist. Tango was born in the late 19th-century, behind the closed ... More | | 
Ramones. Arturo Vega designed Showcase Poster, 1975.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will debut the exhibitionToo Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986, the largest exhibition of its kind exploring the unique visual language of the punk and post-punk movements from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Since its rebellious inception in the 1970s, punk has always exhibited very visual forms of expression, says Director of Cranbrook Art Museum Andrew Blauvelt, who is curating the exhibition. The energy of the movement created a powerful subcultural phenomena that transcended music to affect other fields such as visual art and design. At the same time, the Museum will debut the original exhibition Shepard Fairey: Salad Days, 1989-1999, which considers Faireys first 10 years of artistic practice and its roots in the graphic language and philosophies of the punk scene. Punks ethos played a decisive role in the artists early ... More | | 
Partial interior view of the Imperial Baths built at the end of the 19th century, today abandoned, at Baile Herculane, southwestern Romania, May 11, 2018. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP.
BAILE HERCULANE (AFP).- In a spa town nestled near Romania's border with Bulgaria and Serbia, Oana Chirila puts on her hard hat and gets down to work with a dozen other young architects to try to save their country's heritage. Some of the precious architectural gems they are striving to restore bore witness to centuries of Romanian history and the crowned heads who ruled it through the ages. Yet their sheer longevity has left many needing more than just a little tender loving care, which Chirila and her team have resolved to supply as they beaver away in a vaulted, once sumptuous hall at the heart of the charming but down-at-heel imperial Herculane Baths resort. Chirila has embarked on an ambitious project to restore lustre to the crumbling, neglected baths complex, built between 1883 and 1886, which has suffered from a combination of official apathy and unhappy ... More |
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| Exhibition invites visitors to gradually learn about the main concepts in Kader Attia's work | | Artist explores Augmented Reality in Grounds For Sculpture exhibition | | Paddle8 x Solar Panel Art Series auction to benefit Little Sun Foundation | 
Kader Attia, Indépendance Tchao, 2014. Sculpture. Vintage metallic boxes from the French colonial administration. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nagel Draxler Berlin/Cologne. Photo: Simon Vogel © Kader Attia, VEGAP, 2018.
BARCELONA.- Keeping wounds visible is to accept the real. So I set out to repair these wounds by pursuing what my research taught me was fundamental: that repair is an oxymoron that also includes the wound. To deny the wound is to maintain the pain it generates. By repairing historys cracks with metal staples, with yarn or with patches from other, often contradictory cultures, I give voice to the victims; I allow trauma to speak to us and thus to pave the way for catharsis. Kader Attia (Dugny, 1970) defines his artistic practice as the embodiment of a political experience. His work is an exploration that stems, in his words, from the urge to recover, through form, the field of emotion in the public debate with the aim of repairing the wounds ... More | | 
Michael Rees, Synth Cell 007 Stone, Tapping Feet, 2017-18, air-inflated PVC vinyl, ink jet print on vinyl, steel, augmented reality app, 2.8 x 2.8 x 2.8 meters, collection of the artist, photo: Ken Ek.
HAMILTON, NJ.- Grounds For Sculpture is presenting Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells, which opened to the public on June 2, 2018. On view in GFSs West Gallery, Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells presents an unparalleled dialogue between object, perception, and reality. Recognized internationally as one of the pioneers of new digital media, Michael Rees has continually pushed the boundaries of sculpture creating thoughtful viewer-to-object encounters. There is always a sense of discovery of new materials and technologies across Rees oeuvres. His newest sculptures challenge the viewer to experience how the boundaries of our physical and digital experiences are converging. Since the advent of our internet age, Michael Rees has been redefining objects by using digital ... More | | 
Moneyless, Untitled.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solar Panel Art Series, in partnership with online auction house Paddle8 and Olafur Eliassons Little Sun Foundation, announces a series of three online auctions of artworks to benefit Solar Schools Program. The Inaugural sale features 18 commissioned works by internationally renowned artists such as Felipe Pantone, Carolina Amaya, Rosh333, Ron Miller and XOOOOX. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Olafur Eliassons Little Sun Foundation, which helps provide school children living off the energy grid in Rwanda with access to clean and reliable light. The artworks will be on view at the Tech Open Air Festival in Berlin from 19 - 22 June and will be live to bidders worldwide on Paddle8 June 15 - 29, 2018. The 18 works in the sale feature used solar panels provided by The Solar Panel Art Series, powered by The Beam Magazine, which each artist transformed into unique works of art. Proceed ... More |
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More Kunsthalle Basel shows Luke Willis Thompson's new single-screen 35 mm silent filmBASEL.- First there is blackness. It is already an image. Interrupting it, just a few seconds into _Human, Luke Willis Thompsons new single-screen 35 mm silent film projection, is a strange and luminous apparitionsome sort of peak perhaps?that appears for just a few fleeting frames. Then blackness again, before a slow pan, a close-up of a nervous crisscrossing of lines and marks on what appears to be a brittle, dry surface. The lines dont quite form a grid, nothing so rational as that. This could be an arid landscape pictured by a satellite or a piece of charred tracing paper. That it is a close-up of skinwith its estuaries of wrinkles, melanin deposits, and potholes of poresdoes not immediately suggest itself. Then, in a blue flash, a similarly ethereal and skinly combination of form and texture. No sooner has this image-burst passed, than another close-up ... More Firstsite, Colchester opens exhibition by the artist and graphic designer Scott KingCOLCHESTER.- Firstsite, Colchester, presents A New Life in Frigg, an exhibition by the artist and graphic designer Scott King. In the show King invites visitors to the fictional town of Frigg, which is based on the former Butlins holiday camp at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. It is part of the artists ongoing Butlins-inspired series Britlins a combination of the words 'Britain' and 'Butlins' that plays with the power of collective nostalgia to reimagine a new society modeled on an idealised vision of the past. A New Life in Frigg explores the idea of the 1970s holiday camp as utopian micro-societies, remembered through the colourful, hyperreal photography that was used on promotional postcards. Produced by the John Hinde Studio, these elaborately staged and cinematically lit images have informed the ironic euphoria of Britlins design vocabulary. Reinforcing ... More Moderna Museet exhibits works by Nathalie Djurberg and Hans BergSTOCKHOLM.- Nathalie Djurbergs animated worlds and Hans Bergs electronic music conjure up scenes with a surrealistic approach. This summer, Moderna Museet features the internationally renowned duos stop motion films and spatial installations along with an entirely new VR piece. The exhibition describes an inner journey, an attempt to make existence more comprehensible in a flow of impulses and impressions. Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg create animated worlds out of objects, music and moving images dreamlike realities to immerse yourself in. Their playfully-told fables blend humour with darkness, suspending any moral laws of gravity. Their intense chamber pieces enact fragments of memories repressed between innocence and shame, or feverish daydreams of role play and desire. They topple accepted truths about mans supremacy in nature ... 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More Rare banner from Cromwell's royal funeral offered at BonhamsLONDON.- A banner that formed part of the Royal Regalia used at the funeral of Oliver Cromwell in November 1658, is to be offered at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscript Sale in London on Wednesday 20 June. The banner also known as an escutcheon - is painted with his arms as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and surmounted by the royal crown. It is estimated at £8,000-12,000. Of the 2006 escutcheons used at the funeral ceremonies, only four are known to have survived. Two are in museums and one at Westminster School, making the banner in the sale the only one in private hands. It was the subject of the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow Detectives, in March 2015. Scientifically analysed, it was compared to the other surviving examples and found to be in particularly good condition. An inscription added in the 18th century, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn was born June 16, 1917. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally and continues to inform the art of photography. In this image: Irving Penn, Leontyne Price, New York, 1961, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation. Copyright © Condé Nast.
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