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The exhibition New Realities will feature work from leading photographers. Photo Rijksmuseum.
AMSTERDAM.- This summer the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography. Three hundred photos from the museums own collection will show just how varied photography was immediately after its invention in 1839. The exhibition will include portraits, nudes, cityscapes and travel photos, as well as scientific and commercial photography, and the first amateur snapshots. The exhibition New Realities will feature work from leading photographers including William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton and Gustave Le Gray, alongside anonymous surprises which have never previously been shown. One highlight will be work by the first woman photographer, Anna Atkins, who published the first book illustrated with photographs. The Dutch photographers George Hendrik Breitner and Willem Witsen will also be represented. Today photography is a universal language that everyone speaks and understands, but thi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Anishinaabeg: Art & Power, a celebration of the beauty, power, and passion of Indigenous art.
| Fitzwilliam Museum acquires newly discovered Gérôme portrait | | The Whitney to receive two key prewar paintings by Hopper and Hassam | | Christie's sets world auction record for an Enigma Machine sold to online bidder | 
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme, circa 1848 (detail). © The Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge.
CAMBRIDGE.- To commemorate its bicentenary year in 2016, the Fitzwilliam Museum has acquired a newly discovered portrait by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). Gérôme is one of the most important French painters of the 19th century, yet his work is only represented in six British public collections to date. The picture had remained in the artists collection until his death in 1904 and was thought lost, until its reappearance at auction in France in 2013. Recent cleaning has confirmed it as a masterpiece, and in unusually fine condition. The dramatic full-length 'swagger-portrait' is of ClaudeArmand Gérôme, (1827-50) the artist's younger brother, depicted as a student in his uniform from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. This was a very personal work of the artist, and from the early prime of his career. It is a virtuoso example of his skills as a portraitist, and was one of the works that consolidated Gérôme's ... More | | 
Childe Hassam (18591935), Allied Flags, April 1917, 1917 (detail). Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 49 in. (77.5 x 124.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; promised gift of an anonymous donor P.2016.12
NEW YORK, NY.- Adam D. Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, announced today that an anonymous donor has promised two major prewar American paintings to the Museum's permanent collection: Edward Hopper's 1932 painting City Roofs and Childe Hassams Allied Flags, April 1917, also known as Allied Flags, Union League Club (1917). We are thrilled that these two wonderful paintings, City Roofs and Allied Flags, April 1917, have been promised to the Whitney, said Weinberg. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, these paintings, long held in private hands, will be available in coming years to new generations who visit the Whitney to see works from our iconic collection and discover the history of American art. These are among the Whitneys most important acquisitions of recent years, and they add ... More | | 
A Four-Rotor Enigma Cipher Machine, 1944 sold above the high estimate for $547,500. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York Books and Manuscripts sales realize $9,690,563, across three auctions that took place on June 15, 2017, with an overall 75% sold by lot. The various owner sale totaled $6,894,875, setting the highest total ever for a single-session various-owners Books sale at Christies New York. The auctions witnessed active online participation, with top lots selling to online buyers including the record-setting Enigma Cipher Machine, which sold for $547,500, and there was global bidding with registrants across 22 countries. Sven Becker, Head of Books and Manuscripts, comments, We are thrilled by the strong results achieved across these three sales and their broad range of subjects: from musical manuscripts with the highest price paid for Schubert at auction in over 20 years to scientific instruments, including the record price at auction for an Enigma machine. We saw strong participation across ... More |
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| The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros donates 119 works of colonial art to five museums | | MCA, Tate and Qantas announce five new Australian artwork acquisitions | | Exhibition at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts explores the ideals of the late 1960s | 
José Gil de Castro y Morales (17851841), Portrait of Don Juan Francisco de Izcue y Sáez de Texada, 1834. Oil on canvas, 100 x 85 cm (39 3/8 x 33 7/16 in.). Museo de Arte de Lima. Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in honor of Natalia Majluf.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros announced the donation of 119 pieces from its collection of colonial art, one of the five collections that comprise the CPPC, to five leading institutions committed to the conservation and study of the legacies of art from the colonial and early republican periods in Latin America: the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts; and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Peru. The colonial art collection of the CPPC was formed with the intention to create a broad representation of Venezuelan art from the middle of the seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century. This core is complemented by select works from the viceroyalties of New Spain (Mexico) ... More | | 
Helen Johnson, A Feast of Reason and a Flow of Soul, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. MCA Tate Quantas Acquisition.
LONDON.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Tate announced the acquisition of five additional artworks in their International Joint Acquisition Programme for contemporary Australian art, supported by Qantas. The programme promotes Australian art globally, helping Australian artists reach new audiences. These joint acquisitions by MCA and Tate include three paintings by Helen Johnson (Seat of Power 2016, Bad Debt 2016, and A Feast of Reason and a Flow of Soul 2016), an installation by Richard Bell (Embassy 2013-ongoing) and a video by Peter Kennedy with John Hughes (On Sacred Land 1983-4). In May 2016, the two institutions acquired artworks by Susan Norrie, Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett and Judy Watson. Helen Johnson said: It is an important moment for me to have these three paintings jointly acquired by the MCA and Tate. Addressing, as they do, the depredations of British colonial ... More | | 
John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper Suit, 1967. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, reproduced with permission from Yoko Ono Lennon.
MONTREAL.- As part of the official programming of Montreals 375th anniversary, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Revolution. Initiated by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, the MMFA offers its own version and layout of this immersive exhibition, which takes visitors on a trip through time, exploring the ideals of the late 1960s as expressed in music, film, fashion and design, as well as through activism. The title of this musical exhibition refers to the words of the Beatles song Revolution, composed by John Lennon in 1968 in response to several violent political protests that took place that year, including the May 68 protests in Paris. The exhibition explores the context for the transformations in Western society, driven by young people with a deep desire for change and freedom. From Flower Power to the Black Panthers, miniskirts to the first man on the moon, From Expo 67 to ... More |
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| Royal Ontario Museum exhibition explores the artistic evolution of Anishinaabeg art | | Bilingual exhibition traces history of New York Salsa | | The Royal Institute of British Architects opens national architecture centre | 
Eleanor Kanasawe, Frog Insects, 1976. Wikwemikong First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ontario 976.320.4. Purchased by the Members Committee © Royal Ontario Museum.
TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum presents Anishinaabeg: Art & Power, a celebration of the beauty, power, and passion of Indigenous art. On display in the Museums Third Floor Centre Block from Saturday, June 17 to Sunday, November 19, 2017, the exhibition explores the history, traditions, and legends of the Anishinaabeg through several hundred years of their art. The Anishinaabeg are one of North Americas most populous and diverse Indigenous communities, and their art was deeply influenced by their interactions with different communities over time. The exhibition builds on a universal theme of art moving with people, changing in interesting directions as communities intersect. Josh Basseches, the ROMs Director and CEO, says: We are proud to showcase and honour the beauty and enduring power of Anishinaabeg ... More | | 
Timbales and cowbell, mid-1990s. Courtesy of Margaret Puente and the Museum of the City of New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of the City of New York presents its highly anticipated bilingual exhibition Rhythm and Power: Salsa in New York. The first ever museum exhibition to trace the history of salsa a quintessentially New York cultural development from a local dance movement to a worldwide phenomenon, Rhythm and Power illuminates how the diversity of New York City gave rise to salsa, an up-tempo combination of percussive Latin music and poly-rhythmic, Afro-Caribbean infused dance. A multi-ethnic network of New York musicians and dancers, mostly of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, developed this distinct genre by experimenting with a fusion of musical traditions from the United States, Cuba, and throughout the Americas. The Museums mission is to celebrate and interpret New York City, so we often highlight how the citys unparalleled diversity gives rise to ... More | | 
RIBA North designed by Matt Brook of Broadway Malyan ®Edmund Sumner.
LIVERPOOL.- The Royal Institute of British Architects opens a new national architecture centre, RIBA North, on 17 June on the Liverpool Waterfront. RIBA North, designed by Broadway Malyan, is a place for everyone to discover more about architecture with exhibitions, talks and tours as well as a café and shop. At the heart of RIBA North is the City Gallery, a space for visitors to learn more about Liverpools past present and future, as well as the processes involved in urban development and the evolution of the built environment. RIBA Norths City Gallery includes the Digital City Model, an interactive 3d model which tells a variety of stories about Liverpool and the surrounding area. It is also an extraordinary professional tool, which can be used by developers, architects and planners to host public consultations, anticipate the impact of future development, and encourage the best design approaches. Alongside this ... More |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces new membership program | | The Hague Museum of Photography opens major Peter Hujar retrospective | | In Malaysia fund scandal, DiCaprio returns Oscar won by Brando | 
Now when you enter the Great Hall of the Museum you will see the names of new and renewing Members projected on the wall on the day of their visit.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a new Membership program today, with streamlined categories, expanded core benefits, and newly created events and offerings. The new program provides more of the most popular Member benefitsguest passes and exclusive exhibition viewingsand simplifies joining options for new Members. The new program went into effect this week. "The Met is one of the world's most important art museums, and we have a thriving Membership community that provides critical support for everything we do, from putting on stunning exhibitions to offering complimentary educational programs for students," commented Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Met. Now when you enter the Great Hall of the Museum you will see the names of new and renewing Members projected on the wall on the day of their visit. "We are so very proud of the Members of this Museum and we want everyone to know how important they are ... More | | 
Peter Hujar, World Trade Center at Dusk, 1976 (detail), collection Richard and Ronay Menschel © The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York en/and Fraenkel Gallery.
THE HAGUE.- American photographer Peter Hujar (1934-1987) started his career in the 1950s as an assistant to commercial photographers, but became a part of the group of underground artists, poets and musicians who formed the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 80s. His portraits of the often outrageous characters who formed the Manhattan art and entertainment scene at that period, as well as his animal and landscape photographs, are meticulously shot and soberly composed. Peter Hujar Speed of Life, a major retrospective presented by the Hague Museum of Photography in cooperation with the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, includes over a hundred vintage photographs made by Peter Hujar in the period between the mid-1950s and his premature death in 1987. Nan Goldin said she believes that Peter Hujar deserves to be as famous as Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989), a younger photographer whos ... More | | 
In this file photo US actor Leonardo DiCaprio gives a speech at the start of the 11th Hour auction at Christie's in New York, May 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Duand.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed Friday that he has turned over an Oscar won by Marlon Brando, along with other gifts, amid an inquiry into a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. US authorities are seeking to recover billions in money and assets allegedly embezzled by businessmen with political connections in Malaysia. The scandal has rocked the Malaysian governing class, exposing Prime Minister Najib Razak to allegations of corruption, which he has denied. A spokesman for DiCaprio said in a statement that the 42-year-old actor had contacted the US Justice Department last July after learning of a civil action against "certain parties involved in the making of 'The Wolf of Wall Street,'" a movie in which DiCaprio starred. He offered to surrender to US authorities any gifts "from the parties named in the civil complaint." DiCaprio "initiated return of these items," ... More |
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 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole brings together around 80 paintings and works on paper by Steve GianakosDOLE.- Whos Afraid of Steve Gianakos? There are plenty of reasons why this little word play borrowed from the title of Edward Albees play, adapted for the cinema by Mike Nichols in 1966, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) might cross ones mind when contemplating the oeuvre of the New York artist Steve Gianakos. First of all, because the mid-sixties was around the time when Gianakos began to exhibit his early drawings in the US and it was at the very center of the Pop Art explosion on one hand and the remarkable appearance of Minimal Art on the other, that he developed his artistic language and universe. Otherwise there are literally hundreds of reasons to be afraid of Steve Gianakos: His oeuvre cobbles together different elements, poaches from others, touches every aspect of art while respecting nothing, pillages Picasso, Dada and Surrealism as well ... More Exhibition of Beverly Buchanan's shack sculptures and drawings opens at David Klein GalleryDETROIT, MICH.- David Klein Gallery presents Beverly Buchanan, Low Country. The exhibition includes Buchanans iconic shack sculptures and brightly colored drawings inspired by her childhood memories of traditional Southern tobacco barns and small houses. Best known for her exploration of the vernacular architecture of the American South, Buchanan describes her interest in the rural shacks: Remembering the look and feel of structures has been a strong focus in my drawings and sculptures. My vision and interest shifted to the reality of current places and their surrounding landscape. The house and its yard and the road behind and across
...the first sight of the house made me feel like a bolt of lightning had hit me. Beverly Buchanan was born in Fuquay, NC in 1940 and grew up in Orangeburg, SC where her father was the ... More Anila Quayyum Agha wins Cincinnati Art Museum's Schiele Prize; Light-based installation now on viewCINCINNATI, OH.- Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha has been named the recipient of Cincinnati Art Museums 2017 Schiele Prize. This prize honors the legacy of Marjorie Schiele, a Cincinnati artist whose generous bequest of the Hanke-Schiele Fund makes this award possible. Aghas All the Flowers are for Me (Red) is the first purchase with the museums new Alice Bimel Endowment for Asian Art. The museums recent acquisition is a five-foot laser-cut steel cube displayed suspended from the ceiling and lit from within. Light emanates from the red lacquered cube, enveloping the gallery in intricate shadows that ripple and change as visitors move through the space. Inspired by Islamic architectural forms, the geometric and floral patterns cast upon the walls, floor and ceiling create an immersive experience. Anila Quayyum Aghas artworks create interactive ... More Fine and Decorative Arts Auction realizes $1.5 million for HeritageDALLAS, TX.- A diverse collection of decorative items, many with an Asian motif, led the way at Heritage Auctions $1.5 million dollar Fine and Decorative Arts including Estates Auction June 10-12. Nearly 1,500 bidders from around the world bid on the 1,293 lots via phone, internet and HALive!. An ornate and intricate Chinese Carved, Lacquered and Inlaid Table Cabinet sold for an impressive $45,000, leading the auction. Two other Asian-inspired pieces joined the table cabinet as high value lots: a Large Chinese Carved Coral Figural Group sold for $27,500 and a fine pair of Mintons Partial Gilt Pate-sur-Pate Porcelain Moon Flask Vases realized $25,000. We were pleased to see strong results in a wide range of categories from the Asian Art and clocks to English and French furniture, said Karen Rigdon, Director of Silver and Decorative Arts at Heritage ... More Jack Fischer Gallery opens exhibits works by Ted LarsenSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The works I create supply commentary on minimalist belief systems and the ultimate importance of High Art practice. An artist's work usually adheres to the construct of a cohesive direction with the work illustrating a single theme or underscoring a didactic agenda. But such a logical order has no specific place in my studio practice. Introducing alternative and salvage materials to my own formally driven abstract sculpture, I hope to bring purist shapes and surfaces back down to earth. I quest for new materials, "non-art materials" to create my work. The work is based on a post-meduim studio practice. I am constructing bricolage works in order to re-purpose the materials and re-identify their meanings: to re-contextualize and re-label the idea of Ready-mades. It is my on-going experimentation with contexts, hybrids, and scale. The works keep ... More Emma Hart & Jonathan Baldock's radical reimagining of Punch & Judy at Grundy Art GalleryBLACKPOOL.- Jonathan Baldock and Emma Harts exhibition LOVE LIFE returns in dramatically expanded form for ACT II at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool, following ACT I at PEER in London last year. In the artists most ambitious collaboration to date, Baldock and Hart have radically re-imagined the traditional seaside show of Punch and Judy. Through ceramic sculptures, videos, installations and other works, the artists transform the puppet booth living quarters of the pair into an oversized and darkly humorous place where the ever-present threat of violence acquires a new resonance in an era of cyber-bullying. In Blackpool, LOVE LIFE fills the Edwardian rooms of the Grundy with a series of new works and displays that draw on the history of popular culture in the town. In one new work, Baldock and Hart have commissioned Blackpool Councils ... More Carnegie Museum of Art launches new Bradford Young installationPITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces REkOGNIZE, a new multichannel video work by artist and Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young (Selma, Arrival). Part of the Hillman Photography Initiatives LIGHTIME, the work has been installed in CMOAs Scaife Galleries of contemporary art. REkOGNIZE is a meditation on photography, memory, and movement. Young finds inspiration in Pittsburghs Hill District neighborhood, a site of the early 20th-century Great Migration. During this time, millions of African Americans moved from the rural southern United States to cities in the north and west. The Hill District saw a flourishing of culture during these years and was a site of artistic development for luminaries such as August Wilson, Charles Teenie Harris, Errol Garner, and many others. REkOGNIZE takes its visual cues from the Pittsburgh ... More Museum of Sex appoints Serge Becker as Creative and Artistic DirectorNEW YORK, NY.- Ahead of the 15-year-anniversary of the Museum of Sex, owner and founder Daniel Gluck announced the appointment of Serge Becker as the new creative and artistic director. Becker has spent the last 35 years at the intersection of the arts and social life of New York City, while building an iconoclastic career spanning many genres. Getting his start as an art director at seminal 80's art club Area, Becker then went on to help create some of the city's most iconic hospitality and entertainment venues such as Joe's Pub, La Esquina, The Box, Miss Lily's chief among them. A creator of hospitality and entertainment venues, Becker is known as part of a vanguard of innovative outsiders that brought a fresh look and theatrical feel to their places, and redefined the role of restaurants and nightlight to the city. These venues were generally the first outposts ... More Portrait of English Civil War turncoat offered at Bonhams Old Master Paintings SaleLONDON.- A recently discovered work, Portrait of Thomas Pope, by the English portrait painter William Larkin, features at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale in London on Wednesday 5 July. It is estimated at £40,000-60,000. Thomas Pope (1598-1667/68) was born and educated in Oxfordshire. Despite changing sides during the political turbulence of mid-17th century England, Pope not only survived, but prospered. He was first imprisoned during the English Civil War by the Royalists, who were loyal to King Charles I. Many years later, he was held in connection with a plot to restore the monarchy, when England was under the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe, was a member of a distinguished English family. One of his forebears, also named Thomas Pope, founded Trinity College Cambridge in 1556, and his direct descendent, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mumtaz Mahal dies-Emperor Shah Jahan I builds Taj Mahal June 17, 1631. The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal (also "the Taj") is considered the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Islamic, Indian and Persian architectural styles. In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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