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Installation view of Botticelli Reimagined at the V&A, 5 March - 3 July 2016. ©Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
By: Ouerdya Ait Abdelmalek
LONDON.- From Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in a James Bond film to fashion by Dolce & Gabbana, Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" has been one of the most influential works in modern art history. An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London focuses on the legacy of the painting created in Renaissance Italy around 1485 through fashion, photography and the visual arts more broadly. A grand tour organised by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the late 1930s helped to forge the global reputation of the work. Co-curator Ana Debenedetti said part of its success is in the main subject: a woman with long blonde hair that fits the Western ideal of beauty. "She fits the image of perfect beauty celebrated since the Middle Ages in poetry, literature and which was embedded in our imagination: the Western woman, blonde, with a pale complexion and a large ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day MONTIGNAC.- Artists work on true-to-life replica of renowned Lascaux's Stone Age cave paintings, on February 29, 2016, at the future international cave arts museum, Lascaux IV, in Montignac, western France. The cave of Lascaux is one of the largest decorated caves of the Paleolithic. The age of the paintings and engravings is estimated between about 18.000 and 17.000 years. The cave of Lascaux is reproduced identically to be mounted in the International Centre of the parietal art of Montignac-Lascaux. MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP.
| MCH Group announces plans to enhance its position in the global art market | | Rare Jackson Pollock sculpture "Untitled, 1956" acquired by Dallas Museum of Art | | Banksy identity theory supported by Queen Mary University of London study | 
The intended development of the regional art fair portfolio by MCH does not affect the globally leading Art Basel shows. © Art Basel.
LONDON.- MCH Group, a leading international live marketing group, today announces its plans to enhance MCHs position in the global market of art fairs. This is part of its strategic aim to expand its range of services and to make its product portfolio more international. MCH will build a new portfolio of leading regional art fairs. The portfolio will be built through partnerships with experienced partners and could include joint ventures, acquisitions and new art fair launches. The intended development of the regional art fair portfolio by MCH does not affect the globally leading Art Basel shows. Art Basel is owned by MCH, but is not involved in this independent strategic initiative and Art Basel will not be expanded by new fairs. The regional art fairs will be operated by separate, locally located and autonomous teams. MCH is in contact and discussion with different art show ... More | | 
Untitled, 1956, on view in Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots Dallas Museum of Art, 2016. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced today that it has acquired one of Jackson Pollocks only existing sculptures, a work that offers unique insight into the artists creative trajectory. Created just weeks before Pollocks death, Untitled (1956) is one of just six of the artists sculptures in existence, all but one of which are currently held in private collections. The sculpture is currently receiving a rare public presentation in the DMAs celebrated exhibition Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, only the third major U.S. museum exhibition to focus solely on the artist, and the largest-ever survey of Pollocks black paintings. Primarily known for his iconic drip paintings, Pollock produced more than a dozen sculptures over the course of his career, many of which were later lost or destroyed by the artist himself. The surviving sculptures reflect Pollocks distinctive aesthetic and ... More | | 
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London said the pattern of how Banksy's artworks were distributed suggested he was artist Robin Gunningham.
LONDON (AFP).- British academics have used geographic profiling in a study which backs up a theory about the identity of mysterious street artist Banksy, they said Friday. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London said the pattern of how Banksy's artworks were distributed suggested he was artist Robin Gunningham, in a study published in the Journal of Spatial Science. Gunningham was first named as Banksy by the Daily Mail newspaper in 2008. Banksy's often politically-themed street art has made him a celebrity in Britain, despite his true identity never having been confirmed. His most high-profile recent project was Dismaland, which last year mocked the conventions of amusement parks and was located in southwest England. Geographic profiling is a technique used in fields from criminology to studying patterns of infectious disease. The study analysed a series ... More |
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| Museum of Fine Arts Ghent organizes first major retrospective ever devoted to Marthe Donas | | Important unique works by Marcel Broodthaers on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | 18th-century paintings go on display in new exhibition celebrating Scotland's enduring love affair with Italy | 
Marthe Donas, Head of a Child, 1918-19. Oil on panel, 25 x 18,5 cm. Private Collection.
GHENT.- Just after the First World War, the enigmatic Tour Donas enjoyed a glittering career in the European art world. Concealed behind this pseudonym was the young Antwerp artist Marthe Donas (1885-1967), the only Belgian woman in the international avant-garde. The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent is organizing the first major retrospective ever devoted to this remarkable woman. The emphasis is on Donas most creative years between the end of 1916, when she settled in Paris, and 1927, which marked the beginning of a long hiatus from painting. In the years immediately following the first World War, the enigmatic painter Tour Donas builds a blitz career with expositions in Europe and in the US. After a few years the young Belgian artist Marthe Donas (1885-1967) emerges from behind this unusual pseudonym. Born in Antwerp, Marthe would become the only Belgian woman to make it big in the international avant-garde. The Mu ... More | | 
Les animaux de la ferme, 1974 (detail). Offset print in colour, 32 1/8 x 23 5/8 inches, 81.5 x 60 cm © 2016 The Estate of Marcel Broodthaers / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announces Marcel Broodthaers on view from March 3 April 23, 2016 at 515 West 27th Street New York. The exhibition features important unique works illustrating Broodthaers broad range in material and format, including his seminal series of paintings on vacuum-formed plastic, multi-part canvas works, drawings, photography and installation. This show also marks the first time the artists complete editions and books have been shown together in the United States and includes twenty artist books from 1957 1975, as well as twenty-six editioned works from 1964-1975. Broodthaers' (1924 - 1976) career as a visual artist began in 1964 after two decades working as a published poet, collector and dealer of rare books. From the age of 40 until his death in 1976, he was the subject of seventy solo exhibitions, flexibly moving across ... More | | 
Domenico Corvi (17211803), David Allan (1744-1796), 1774. Oil on canvas, 74.3 x 61.3 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Presented by the Royal Scottish Academy 1910 © National Galleries of Scotland. Photo: Antonio Reeve.
EDINBURGH.- An enthralling new exhibition set to open at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery this spring will highlight Scotlands fascination with Italy during the eighteenth century. Featuring a selection of stunning works from across the National Galleries of Scotlands collection, Scots in Italy: Artists and Adventurers will bring to life the experiences of the numerous individuals who travelled in pursuit of the unique cultural and professional opportunities that the experience of Italian life and art offered over this period. A series of paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints will show the impact the journey made on scores of Scots, documenting their experiences and charting their influence, both in Italy and in Scotland. Celebrated as the centre of classical and modern European civilisation, Italys matchless heritage made it the ... More |
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| Retrospective exhibition of photographs by Hiro on view at Pace/MacGill Gallery | | Raoul Wallenberg World War II 'Schutz-Pass' documents up for auction | | J. Paul Getty Museum announces Susanne Gänsicke as Senior Conservator Of Antiquities | 
Salt Flats, Wendover, Utah, July 23, 1973 © Hiro.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace/MacGill Gallery is presenting a retrospective exhibition of photographs by Hiro. Featuring color fashion images from the 1960s and 70s, celebrity portraits, and personal work projects, Hiro celebrates the originality of vision, technical innovation, and precision of execution that mark the photographers distinguished and enduring career. The exhibition is on view from February 25 through April 16, 2016. Born Yasuhiro Wakabayashi to Japanese parents in Shanghai in 1930, Hiro arrived in New York City in 1954, where he began his photographic training as an assistant to Richard Avedon. Through Avedons introduction, he started working under renowned art director Alexey Brodovitch at Harpers Bazaar in 1956. Hiros fashion and editorial career quickly flourished, and by 1963 he was the only photographer under contract with the magazine a position he enjoyed for the next ten years. ... More | | 
A Jewish familys Schutz-Passesa remarkable World War II archive up for sale.
BOSTON, MASS.- A remarkable Raoul Wallenberg World War II archive consisting of a Jewish familys Schutz-Passes will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The collection consisting of three one-page documents in German and Hungarian, each signed and dated August 20, 1944. Collection of three blue and gold two-language Schutz-Pass documents issued to Jewish family members George Gergely, his wife Margit, and their daughter Maria; their son, Peter Georg, also appears on the fathers passport. The passports are filled out in type with their personal information and bear affixed images to the upper right. The bottom portions bear printed statements in German and Hungarian and are hastily signed in the lower left corner by Wallenberg, and countersigned by Swedish Minister to Budapest Carl Ivan Danielsson; in the area that Wallenberg customarily signed is an ... More | | 
Susanne Gänsicke, Objects Conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the appointment of Susanne Gänsicke as Senior Conservator of Antiquities. Currently Conservator of Objects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ms. Gänsicke will join the Museums Antiquities Conservation department at the Getty Villa this July. It is with great pleasure that I welcome Susanne Gänsicke to the Getty, says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. As the new Senior Conservator of Antiquities, Susanne will not only continue the fine tradition established by her predecessor for the department, but will bring a new perspective to managing the collection at the Villa and to the partnerships we pursue with institutions both in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, as we solidify plans for a reinstallation of the Getty Villa, she will play a critical role in that project. ... More |
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| Sadie Coles HQ presents a series of sculptures and installations by Steven Claydon | | Art Gallery of Nova Scotia appoints Diane Chisholm as new Chief Advancement Officer | | In new exhibition, Kunsthalle Zürich once again pushes the frontier in what art possibly means | 
Installation View, Steven Claydon, The Gilded Bough, SCHQ, Kingly St, 01 March - 02 April 2016. © The Artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London.
LONDON.- Steven Claydons second exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, The Gilded Bough, features a series of sculptures and installations in which he probes and dismantles notions of meaning, aura and currency. Throughout, Claydon returns to the counterintuitive idea that cloaking an object might allow it to be seen more clearly a paradox found in the process of scanning electron microscopy, where samples are typically coated in ultra-thin layers of gold before going under the microscope (the conductive material increases the quantity of secondary electrons that can be detected from their surfaces). Using gold plating as a material and a metaphor, Claydon equivocates between the surfaces and essences of objects. Gilding becomes a means of scrutinising. Claydons latest works express the fine often fugitive line between culturally- ... More | | 
Chisholm joins the Gallery from Dalhousie University, where she was Senior Development Officer, Office of the Vice-President and the Schulich School of Law.
HALIFAX.- The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has appointed Diane Chisholm as Chief Advancement Officer. A senior development professional with a significant network and strong track record, Chisholm will lead a strategic review of fundraising at the Gallery and prepare a case for support for a capital campaign. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is building for the future, said Lisa Bugden, Interim CEO. From internationally-recognized exhibitions and innovative programming, to increased engagement efforts, the Gallery is poised for a new era in connecting communities and people with art. Dianes skills and expertise will be key in helping to get us there. Chisholm joins the Gallery from Dalhousie University, where she was Senior Development Officer, Office of the Vice-President and the Schulich School of Law. During her 12-year tenure, she championed numerous development ... More | | 
Installation view: The Playground Project Kunsthalle Zürich 2016. Photo: Annik Wetter.
ZURICH.- After showing a puppet theater, a theater project, invitation cards and bodybuilding, Kunsthalle Zürich is once again pushing the frontier in what art possibly means. Until the 1980sand in rare cases until todayplaygrounds were places for social experiments, risky projects, and spectacular sculptures. Architects, urban planners, artists, parents, and children were invited to leave their comfort zone and to venture something new. Curated by Gabriela Burkhalter, The Playground Project brings many of these exemplary, but nowadays forgotten initiatives, pioneering acts, and adventures back, and install three playgrounds for children to run, hide and climb. May our cities invent new playgrounds! The playground is a byproduct of the industrialized city of the twentieth century. Even now, it continues to be both an ugly duckling and a coveted space. A focal point for ideas about education and childhood, ... More |
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 Beautiful Liars: Group exhibition on view at Proto GalleryHOBOKEN, NJ.- Memory is a battleground between imagination and facts. As historians of our own lives we appear inattentive and can barely distinguish between things that actually took place and those wed like to believe were happening. And what about our memory of the events that we have not witnessed or lived through? Beautiful Liars delegates the job of recollecting the historical and mythological past to the artists: six women who, to paraphrase Robert Hughes, make us remember things they have not seen. The artworks in the exhibition employ a wide range of artistic forms and mediums to engage the viewer in their imaginary narratives. The stories told by the artists may not be entirely truthful, but they have a more important claim the psychological and emotional veracity, the kind of truth that goes beyond the mere accuracy of facts, names and numbers. Suzanne Goldenberg ... More "When We Are One: Mapping Americas Road from Revolution to Independence" opens in WilliamsburgWILLIAMSBURG.- When We Are One: Mapping Americas Road from Revolution to Independence opens on March 5 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museums, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, visitors young and old will not only see the story of how our nation was created and its events surrounding the fight for freedom from a map-makers perspective. They will also learn fascinating facts that illuminate life and customs in the eighteenth century. For example, did you know that glass could not be manufactured in pieces large enough to span the surface of a map that was larger than a single sheet of folio paper (about 24 by 19)? Therefore, large wall maps were often pasted to linen and attached to rollers so that they were both lightweight and easily portable, such as the case of A MAP of the British and French Dominions in North America, a black-and- ... More Skinner to offer Asian works of art at auction in BostonBOSTON, MASS.- Skinner, Inc. announces its first Asian Works of Art auction of 2016, to be held in Boston Saturday, March 19 at 11AM. Encompassing more than 500 lots and featuring Chinese and Persian ceramics, jades, textiles, cloisonné and an important Coromandel screen, the sale will coincide with the annual Spring Asia Week celebration of Asian art in New York. The sale includes Chinese ceramics which were formerly in the collections of Dudley L. Pickman (1779-1846), a founding member of the East India Marine Society (forerunner of todays Peabody Essex Museum), and Charles G. Loring (1828-1902), the first Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Both the Pickmans and the Lorings were early China trade families who donated ceramics and other Asian works of art to MFA, Boston. Among the highlights in this section of the sale are a Sky-blue Glazed Bottle ... More New York based painter Sebastian Blanck exhibits at De Buck GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery announces a solo exhibition by New York based painter Sebastian Blanck. The exhibition, entitled Everyday, marks the artists debut at the gallery and is on view from March 1 through March 29, 2016. Sebastian Blancks work provides an glimpse into the artists day-to-day life. His paintings are populated by a collection of the important figures in his world; his wife, children and friends, in ordinary settings and occurrences. Ephemeral moments like a boy flying a kite, or a woman looking off in to the distance, are captured by Blanck in his journal-like daily painting practice. In an age defined so often by spectacle, Blancks focus on the charm of simple moments and close relationships is refreshing. Blanck uses a collage technique that layers painted paper over watercolor onto stretched paper. His color and draftsmanship vibrantly capture ... More Major exhibition dedicated to the art of Frank Mechau opens at Colorado Springs Fine Arts CenterCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO.- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center announces a major exhibition dedicated to the art of Frank Mechau (1904-1946). Colorado artist Frank Mechau is among the greatest artists associated with early 20th century development of American Art and the FACs first decades. This third major offering in the FAC Legacy Series, runs March 5 through May 15. This exhibition will explore Mechaus uniquely western vision through a selection of approximately 60 paintings, drawings and prints spanning the artists career and our very own courtyard mural Wild Horses. Mechau grew up on the Western Slope of Colorado and studied a spectrum of historic and Modern art forms in New York, Paris and throughout Europe. Mechau believed that his findings in the history of art and aesthetics converged toward the American scene, prompting him back ... More Exhibition of new paintings by Clare Woods and sculptures by Des Hughes opens at Pallant House GalleryCHICHESTER.- This spring Pallant House Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Clare Woods and sculptures by Des Hughes created in response to key Modern British artworks in the Gallerys collection. The exhibition is the first time the Gallery has commissioned an in-depth engagement with the art collection itself, rather than the domestic architecture of the Queen Anne townhouse. It is also the first time that contemporary artists Clare Woods and Des Hughes, partners for over 25 years, have exhibited together. In addition, Clare Woods has created a monumental painting, Lady Midnight (2015), as the latest contemporary commission for the 18th century stairwell. Clare Woods (b. 1972) and Des Hughes (b. 1970) both have a deep interest in the works of Modern British artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, Eduardo ... More Ex-Nigel Mansell 1984 Audi Quattro for sale with H&H Classics at IWM DuxfordLONDON.- H&H Classics are delighted to announce that the 1984 Audi Quattro once owned by Nigel Mansel will form part of the IWM Duxford sale on April 20th. It is estimated to sell for £30,000 - £40,000. Starting readily upon inspection and looking every inch the 1980s icon that it is, this very nicely restored Quattro is offered for sale with a copy of the Isle of Man registration document in Nigel Mansells name, an Isle of Man tax disc (also in Mr Mansells name), V5C Registration Document, MOT certificate valid until November 2016 and a copy of Audi Driver magazine (January 2016 issue) for which it graced the front cover. Among the defining performance cars of the 1980s, the first generation (or ur) Audi Quattro boasted supercar-humbling pace thanks to its superb four-wheel drive system, rally-bred suspension and punchy turbocharged engine. Damian Jones, Sales Manager ... More FreedmanArt exhibits the work of New York artist Glenn GoldbergNEW YORK, NY.- FreedmanArt presents "Of Leaves and Clouds," an invitational exhibition featuring paintings, works on paper, and collages by the New York artist Glenn Goldberg, opening Saturday, March 5, 2016. The subject, "Of Leaves and Clouds," will include themes present throughout decades of Goldbergs work. This exhibition focuses on Goldberg's intimate relationship to a vast world of natural forms. Rather than literal representations of nature (leaves, clouds), these elements reshape themselves and invite sustained looking. The recent paintings bear Goldberg's language of recognizable "dots" and transparent washes of color and grisaille. At once tactile and ephemeral, the "dots" articulate spaces that are both shallow and deep, alive, and unnervingly still. In a recent review, Roberta Smith said of Goldberg's paintings: He builds his images from infinitesimal dots that give ... More Celebrated Bangladeshi artists premiere works confronting social and political issues in new exhibitionEAST LANSING, MICH.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (Broad MSU) will present, for the first time, a joint exhibition of contemporary Bangladeshi artists Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman. The exhibition will explore the artists commentary on and challenge of social values, expectations, and conventions that are a part of everyday liferaising questions about national and global issues including gender-specific violence and sociopolitical conflict. The exhibition will mark the first time Lipi and Rahmans works are put in dialogue with one anotherrevealing an interchange of ideas, overlapping themes, as well as connections between materials used. On view March 5 August 7, 2016, The Artist as Activist will include nearly 40 works across media, as well as never-before-seen pieces by both artists. Many of the societal ... More Picasso and Battiss converse at Strauss auctionCAPE TOWN.- Strauss & Cos 14 March auction offers art lovers insights into the art and ideas shared by Picasso and Battiss when they met in Paris in the 40s. The two met in Picassos Paris studio in 1949. The previous year had been a game-changer for Battiss, according to Senior Art Specialist, Emma Bedford. In 1948 he had visited rock art sites in Namibia for the first time and hunted with the Heikum bushmen from Namutoni in the Etosha region. He was already familiar with many of the major painted shelters and petroglyph sites that he had previously visited in southern Africa, including those in Zimbabwe, the Eastern Cape and the Drakensberg area. His research culminated in the publication in 1948 of The artists of the rocks, which was to become a classis of rock art literature. When a copy was presented to Picasso he studied the images thoughtfully, before enquiring, ... More Romanian artist Teodora Axentes second solo exhibition at Ana Cristea Gallery opensNEW YORK, NY.- Ana Cristea Gallery presents The Deceiver Deceived Romanian artist Teodora Axentes second solo exhibition at the gallery. Axentes canvases dip into an ancient magic that calls forth power from the physical. Her subjects play out elaborate rituals of their own making. Steeped in a mystic silence as if in dialogue with a deity, it appears that their author must observe their efforts trancelike from above. However Axente meticulously stages each scene before beginning each piece. Each and every canvas reveals its own theatrical world with setting, props, and a subset of metaphors. Each acts out the dichotomy between matter and spirit, between substance and becoming, even as it narrates the individual subjects efforts to unify these two planes of existence. How can you get at the substance of a thing? The substance of an I?. Despite the antiquated ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, was born March 05, 1696. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. In this image: Two employees carry a rediscovered painting by Giambattista Tiepolo, titled 'Portrait of a lady as Flora', as they prepare to put it on display at Christie's auction house in London, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. The painting lost for over 200 years and found in the attic of a French chateau is to be auctioned in a sale on Dec. 2, and is expected to fetch between GBP 700,000 to 900,000 pounds (USD 1.1 to 1.4 million; euro 836,000 to 1.1 million
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