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Axel Ruger (C), Director of the Van Gogh museum poses next to two recently recovered stolen paintings by late Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh entitled "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen" (L) and "The Beach At Scheveningen During A Storm" (R) in Naples on September 30, 2016. Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam 14 years ago have been recoved from the home of a notorious Italian drug boss near Naples, Italian and museum officials announced on September 30, 2016. The 1882 "Seascape at Scheveningen" and 1884/85 "Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen" were "recovered during a massive, continuing investigation... conducted by a specialised Italian prosecutions team investigating organised crime," the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement. MARIO LAPORTA / AFP.
NAPLES (AFP).- Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam 14 years ago have been recoved from the home of a notorious Italian drug boss near Naples, Italian and museum officials announced on Friday. The 1882 "Seascape at Scheveningen" and 1884/85 "Congregation leaving the Reformed Church at Nuenen" were "recovered during a massive, continuing investigation... conducted by a specialised Italian prosecutions team investigating organised crime," the Van Gogh Museum said in a statement. Italian investigators raided a home belonging to infamous drug baron Raffaele Imperiale, who was arrested 10 years ago at the same location at Castellammare di Stabia, some 34 kilometres (21 miles) southeast of Naples, a notorious hotspot for Neapolitan mafia activity. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor takes pictures of the exhibition "Joan Miro: Materiality and Metamorphosis", based on the collection of 84 works by Spanish painter Miro, owned by the Portuguese state, at the Serralves Museum in Porto, on September 30, 2016. The exhibition covers a six-decade period in Joan Miros's career - from 1924 to 1981. It focuses in particular on the transformation of pictorial languages that the Catalan artist first developed in the mid-1920s. The exhibition considers his artistic metamorphoses across the mediums of drawing, painting, collage and work in tapestry. MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
| Richter tour de force from the collection of Eric Clapton to be sold in New York | | Largest-ever retrospective in the Netherlands of Jean Tinguely opens at the Stedelijk Museum | | Masterpiece by de Kooning highlights Post-War and Contemporary Evening sale in New York | 
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (detail). Estimate in the range of $20 million. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gerhard Richters Abstraktes Bild from the Collection of Eric Clapton will highlight Christies November 15, Evening Auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York (Estimate in the range of $20million). Dating from the artists most celebrated period of abstraction and one of the highlights of the fall season, Abstraktes Bild was acquired by the rock legend Eric Clapton at auction in 2001. The painting will be unveiled at Christies London, and on view to the public from October 1-6, 2016. Francis Outred, Chairman and Head of Post War and Contemporary Art EMERI, remarked: This series marks a moment of great professional triumph for the Richter. First exhibited at Anthony dOffay Gallery in 1995 as a group of four paintings, one of which is now in the joint collection of Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland, the further three were acquired at auction by Eric Clapton from the ... More | | 
Jean Tinguely, Meta-mechanical sculpture untitled, 1954. Private Collection Potsdam. Photo: Christian Baur, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam, 2016.
AMSTERDAM.- Swiss artist Jean Tinguely (19251991) is famous for his playful, boldly kinetic machines and explosive performances. Everything had to be different, everything had to move. Precisely twenty-five years after his death, on October 1st, the Stedelijk opens a Tinguely retrospective: the largest-ever exhibition of the artist to be mounted in a Dutch museum. With over a hundred machine sculptures, most of which are in working order, paired with films, photos, drawings, and archive materials, the presentation takes the public on a chronological and thematic journey of Tinguelys artistic development and ideas, from his love of absurd play to his fascination for destruction and ephemerality. The presentation features his early wire sculptures and reliefs, in which Tinguely imitated and animated the abstract paintings of artists such as Malevich, Miró, and Klee; the interactive drawing machines and wild dancing installations ... More | | 
Being sold exactly 10 years after setting world auction record for any Post-War work of art on November 15, 2006 at Christies New York. © Christies Images Limited 2016.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present Willem de Koonings 1977 masterpiece, Untitled XXV, in its November 15 Evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York. Estimated in the region of $40 million, Untitled XXV comes to the auction market for the first time since setting the world auction record for any example of Post-War Art in the very same saleroom exactly ten-years ago to the date. Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarked: Untitled XXV is an unequivocal Abstract Expressionist tour de force. We are very proud to be unveiling this work in London, where the extraordinary international presence of the Royal Academys Abstract Expressionist show has been so well received. Untitled XXV is a pinnacle picture from one of the most remarkable years in de Koonings career. Its vivid colors and painterly dynamism ... More |
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| China Institute Gallery reopens in lower Manhattan | | £1.6m Research Centre for Spanish Art announced | | Comic writer confirms Wonder Woman is 'queer' | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd 6th Centuries, the inaugural exhibition at China Institute Gallerys new space at 100 Washington Street in lower Manhattan, is on view from September 30, 2016, through March 19, 2017. The exhibition is the first major survey to examine Chinese culture and its international influences during the Six Dynasties period, as well as the relationship between the two dominant political centers in the North and South. Art in a Time of Chaos presents more than 100 ceramics, sculpture, calligraphy, and paintings from the 3rd through 6th centuries, many only recently unearthed. Most of the artworks are on public view for the first time in the U.S., and a number have not been exhibited in China. The landmark show is organized by China Institute Gallery, the only organization in the U.S. dedicated to showing Chinese art from all periods, and th ... More | | 
Professor Stuart Corbridge, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, signs the partnership agreement between Durham University and Santander with Ana BotÃn, Santander Group Executive Chairman and Nathan Bostock, Santander UK CEO. © Sean Elliott, Courtesy Auckland Castle Trust / Zurbarán Trust.
DURHAM.- A corner of North East England is set to become an international centre for research and excellence into Spanish and Latin American art and culture under a new agreement announced today (Thursday 29 September 2016). Durham University and Auckland Castle Trust have entered into a new partnership to create The Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. The centre will link academic research by Durham University to the curatorial programme at Auckland Castles Spanish Gallery and support public engagement and regional regeneration. A formal partnership agreement was ... More | | 
This file photo taken on March 22, 2016 shows Israeli actress Gal Gadot after arriving to attend the European Premiere of the film "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice". JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- The writer of the Wonder Woman comic series has confirmed the superhero is bisexual, putting an end to a long held debate on whether she'd had relationships with other women. Speculation has been rife for many years over the sexuality of the Amazonian princess, who hails from the island Themyscira, which is populated solely by female warriors. Although she becomes romantically involved with a man who washes up on the island, storylines over the years have implied, if not explicitly stated, that she has also been in love with women. Greg Rucka, who returned to DC Comics this year to craft the "Rebirth" series commemorating Wonder Woman's 75th year in print, told the Comicosity news website Wonder Woman was "queer." The word -- which has several definitions ... More |
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| MoMA explores the collaborative partnerships and processes that have shaped the modern interior | | Northeast's tallest peak temporarily relocates to the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire | | White Cube opens exhibition featuring sculpture and a large-scale installation by Virginia Overton | 
Eileen Gray. Chairs for the Villa Tempe a Pailla. c.1935. Nickel-plated tubular steel and leather, 28 3/4 Ã 21 3/4 Ã 16 1/2″ (73 Ã 55.2 Ã 41.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Alice and Tom Tisch, Sid Bass, USM Foundation, and Committee of Architecture and Design Fund.
NEW YORK, NY.- With How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior, The Museum of Modern Art examines a range of environmentsdomestic interiors, exhibition displays, and retail spaceswith the aim of exploring the complex collaborative partnerships, materials, and processes that have shaped the modern interior. On view from October 1, 2016, to April 23, 2017, the exhibition focuses on specific interior spaces from the 1920s to the 1950s. Rather than concentrating on isolated masterworks, attention is given to the synthesis of design elements within each setting, and to the connection of external factors and attitudesaesthetic, social, technological, and politicalthat these propositions express in material and spatial form. How Should We Live? is organized by Juliet ... More | | 
Albert Bierstadt (American, 18301902), The Emerald Pool, 1870 (detail), Oil on canvas, 76 1/2 x 119 in., Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 89.59.
MANCHESTER, NH.- A persistent, often fierce wind blows across the barren stone peak that is Mount Washington. Above the tree line very little grows, and yet theres always life here, as scientists, tourists and adventurers share the 6,288-foot mountain. For more than two centuries, the Northeasts highest summit has captured the American imagination. Mount Washington: The Crown of New England, on view at the Currier Museum of Art from October 1, 2016 through January 16, 2017, brings together for the first time many of the most important early images of the Mount Washington region and it returns Albert Bierstadts monumental 10-foot-wide painting, The Emerald Pool (1870), to New England for the first time since it was painted. The exhibition includes 40 paintings and a rich selection of historic prints, vintage photographs, scientific reports and guidebooks that helped make Mount Washington an international symbol of the American wilde ... More | | 
Virginia Overton, Solo exhibition, White Cube Bermondsey, London, 30 September - 6 November 2016 © Virginia Overton. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell).
LONDON.- White Cube Bermondsey presents an exhibition by Virginia Overton. Installed across the North Galleries and the 9 x 9 x 9 space, the exhibition features new work including sculpture and large-scale installation. Overtons working process is driven by experiment and is often site-responsive and intuitive, beginning with the volumetric understanding of a space in three dimensions. Favouring natural or reclaimed building materials such as wooden planks, stone, glass or metal, her minimal sculptures and installations foreground the physiological encounter, using the drama of proportion, weight and balance to allow the powerful, sensory qualities and inherent associations of the materials to come through. In the North Galleries a new series of sculptures made from marble and mirrored glass taken from a library in Columbus OH, USA, destabilise the viewers perception of both the works material and the surrounding space, as ... More |
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| Roman Ondak's first solo show in London for more than a decade opens at South London Gallery | | United States artist Robert Therrien opens major solo exhibition at Parasol unit, London | | Exhibition featuring 37 contemporary women artists opens at the National Museum of Women in the Arts | 
Roman Ondak, The Source of Art is in the Life of a People, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Courtesy the artist, kurimanzutto. Photo Andy Keate.
LONDON.- For his first solo show in London for more than a decade, internationally acclaimed artist Roman Ondak presents an exhibition lasting one hundred days that brings together a new body of work exploring ideas around the passage of time and the intertwining of present and past. Symbolising a period of one hundred years, on each day of the show a pre-sawn disk is separated from the trunk of an oak tree to reveal the delineation in ink of one of its agedefining rings and a key historical event which occurred in that year which has been stamped onto the wood in ink. The artists inevitably subjective selection of events to highlight exposes the impossibility of an objective, unbiased history, as well as the impact of the teaching on our understanding and interpretation of the past. Gradually evolving over the course of the show as the oak tree is incrementally transferred ... More | | 
Robert Therrien, No title, 1985. Tin on bronze, 87 x 41.3 cm (34¼ x 16¼ in). Courtesy of Mary Patricia Anderson Pence. Photography by Douglas M. Parker Studio.
LONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art presents Robert Therrien: Works 1975 1995 , the first major solo exhibition in Europe of the artists works from this 20-year period. The exhibition of 43 works includes sculptures, reliefs and works on paper executed in two and three dimensions and various media. The show marks a significant contribution to art history at a crucial period within the artists oeuvre, and is especially important as a number of these early works are held in private collections and have not been seen in public for many years. Robert Therriens earlier works interact with some of the vital art movements of the late twentieth century, including Minimalism, Pop Art and Conceptualism. Taking his inspiration from everyday things a water pitcher, a hat, a snowman, a cloud, for example he simplifies their form and manipulates the scale of his then idealised motifs, which rec ... More | | 
Hayv Kahraman, Prelude, 2011; Oil on panel, 36 x 24 in.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents the exhibition No Man's Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection on view from Sept. 30, 2016, through Jan. 8, 2017. Born in 16 countries across five continents, 37 contemporary artists use their aesthetically diverse work to address varied political and intellectual themes. The presentation is organized by the Rubell Family Collection (RFC)/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, in collaboration with NMWA. The exhibition in Washington, D.C., centers on the process of making as well as images of the female bodyboth topics that extend from the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Among the celebrated artists whose work is featured in the exhibition are Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas, Isa Genzken, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Peyton, Dana Schutz, Mickalene Thomas and Rosemarie Trockel. This highly focused selection of 59 works concentrates on painting and sculpture. T ... More |
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 Expo Chicago's Nicole Barry is the new Deputy Director of the Armory ShowNEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show announced today that Nicole Berry has been appointed Deputy Director, with direct oversight of VIP and visitor relations, effective October 2016. Ms. Berry joins The Armory Show from Expo Chicago, where she has served as Deputy Director since 2011, playing a prominent role in expanding the fairs exhibitor list and collector base, both internationally and in the American Midwest. Staged in the art capital of the world, The Armory Show is New Yorks premier art fair and one of the most widely attended global art events, welcoming over 65,000 visitors annually. Ms. Berry brings to the fair expansive and meaningful collector relations coupled with over a decade of experience in galleries and art fairs. In her new role, Ms. Berry will oversee The Armory Shows expanded VIP program and improved visitor services as well as ... More Cooper Hewitt opens third exhibition in its series on socially responsible designNEW YORK, NY.- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents By the People: Designing a Better America, the third exhibition in its series on socially responsible design, from Sept. 30 through Feb. 26, 2017. The first exhibition in the series to focus on conditions in the U.S. and its bordering countries, By the People explores the challenges faced by urban, suburban and rural communities. Organized by Cynthia E. Smith, Cooper Hewitts curator of socially responsible design, the exhibition features 60 design projects from every region across the U.S. Smith conducted more than two years of field researchtraveling to shrinking post-industrial cities, sprawling metro regions, struggling rural towns, along border regions, areas impacted by natural and man-made disaster and places of persistent povertyin search of collaborative designs for more equitable, ... More Alan Kluger announces gift of art to Pérez Art Museum Miami's permanent collection MIAMI, FLA.- At the Ninth Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Events, South Floridas business community gathered to honor Cricket Taplin and The Sol Taplin Charitable Foundation with PAMM Corporate Honors. Taplin, a renowned philanthropist and art collector involved with numerous arts groups and charitable organizations, has played a fundamental role in the South Florida arts community for over 25 years. Cricket Taplin and her late husband Marty were community philanthropists that brought their joint passion of art collecting into the public sphere and fostered the fledging artistic community in South Florida years before the arrival of the revolutionary fair Art Basel Miami Beach, said PAMM board of trustees Chairman Aaron Podhurst. In honor of her and Taplin foundation, we are pleased to donate all funds from the Luncheon ... More Ludwig Muzeum in Budapest opens "Young Poland: Afterimages of Reality"BUDAPEST.- Poles are still struggling with identity issues, 27 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Only after 1989 were they able to discuss and examine Poland publicly, without censorship, for the first time in 50 years. Today, they continue to ponder the true nature of Poland and the Poles. The 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century were marked by an attempt to process the Communist past and wartime traumas. The younger generationdistanced from history and free of the typical Polish complexes of the Communist erais actively engaged in building an identity, as well as revisiting the Socialist past and the history of Poland. At the same time, it encounters current problems stemming from globalization, commercialization, and a crisis of values, which are common to young people everywhere. The group exhibition Young Poland Afterimages of Reality is an attempt ... More Music school hits right note for Kabul's street childrenKABUL (AFP).- Short and upright in his grey suit, Wahidullah enchants his audience as his fingers dance over the piano keys. The 20-year-old used to sell chewing gum in the streets of Kabul, until he passed an audition at the Afghan National Institute of Music (Anim) and his life changed tune. Ahmad Sarmast, the school's founder, believes children deserve a better life than polishing shoes or selling trinkets to motorists. At Anim, he teaches music theory and singing, English, strings or percussion, Mozart, Schubert and Afghan classics -- the latter particularly helpful when it comes to pleasing their parents. "Music still has a bad reputation in this country... People think it is forbidden in the Koran, [but] it's a wrong interpretation," he says from his office overlooking the courtyard playground -- "the happiest place in the country", by his reckoning. Nearly ... More Carnegie Museum of Art stages colorful, spectacular, immersive exhibition of Brazilian artist Hélio OiticicaPITTSBURGH, PA.- Visitors to the exhibition of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (19371980) at Carnegie Museum of Art can expect to walk across sand and pebbles, traverse bold, colorful structures, and say hello to a friendly Amazon parrot. Thats part of the experience of Tropicália (196667), a massive, multisensory installation at the heart of Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium. If Tropicália is a kind of journey into the artists immersive work, then Eden (1969) is the destination. This huge installation includes spaces and structures for relaxation, reading, conversation, and music. Its surfaces provide tactile experiences for bare feet: strewn with sand or leaves, a pool of water. Occupying the majestic Hall of Sculpture at CMOA, it is rarely staged due to its size and complexity. The exhibition is the most complete retrospective of the artist to date, and the first to explore ... More Arnolfini presents a selection of work from the last 25 years by Daphne WrightBRISTOL.- Arnolfini and National Trust Tyntesfield present a selection of work from the last 25 years by the Bristol-based artist Daphne Wright, who has developed a series of conceptual ideas and sculptural languages which have been quietly influential. Her work is the result of a relentless curiosity into the way in which materials can create an involvement with often unspoken human preoccupations. The exhibition at Arnolfini includes major projects by the artist including Where do Broken Hearts Go? (2000), Stallion (2009), Kitchen Table (2014) and Domestic Shrubbery (2009). Emotional Archaeology extends to National Trust Tyntesfield with the presentation of works that respond directly to the history of the estate, including The Prayer Project (2009) and Bulls (2002). Wright has been based in Bristol for nearly two decades; she has divided her time between ... More "Michael Wyshock: Between Zero and One" opens 4th art season at Alfstad& Contemporary SARASOTA, FLA.- Alfstad& Contemporary presents the inaugural show of its fourth season, Between Zero and One, a solo exhibition of works by artist Michael Wyshock, in which he examines the space that exists between spaces, and how those spaces are altered when objects are realigned in both color and form. The Opening Night reception is September 30th and the exhibit runs through October 28th. Between Zero and One highlights Michaels intellectual and intuitive color, layering and manipulation techniques, says Sam Alfstad of Alfstad& Contemporary. His work is adventurous, showcasing art that displays depth, texture and a refinement that is visually stimulating. My work focuses on the navigation and exploration of external and internal space, somewhere between zero and one, says Wyshock, I explore this space through fractal language in painting, ... More Solo exhibition by Japanese-Brazilian painter and sculptor Tomie Ohtake opens at White RainbowLONDON.- White Rainbow announces Imperfect Geometry, a solo exhibition by Japanese-Brazilian painter and sculptor Tomie Ohtake (1913-2015). A celebrated and household name in Brazil but under-recognised in Europe, this is Ohtakes first solo exhibition in the UK in over 20 years. Ohtake moved from her native Kyoto to Sao Paolo in 1936, where she lived and worked until the end of her life. Her career as an artist began at the age of 37, when she became a member of the Seibi group, which brought together artists of Japanese descent. She immersed herself in an exploration of abstraction first in paint, and expanding into printmaking and sculpture in later years. She worked until the end of her life at 101. A leading proponent of an informal, gestural and lyrical style of painting, Ohtake gradually moved away from the prevailing strain of geometric abstraction ... More yours mine & ours' inaugural project offers a comprehensive view of a single painting by Nicole WittenbergNEW YORK, NY.- yours mine & ours announces its inaugural project, The Yellow Kiss, a comprehensive view of a single painting by Nicole Wittenberg. The Yellow Kiss presents an investigation into the medium of paint and a series of drawings that construct a singular gesture. Through a process of constructed studies, the painting is built from the artifacts of a single video still. What results is an image that has been mined and distilled, and recreated, not from imitation but from imagination. The Yellow Kiss recreates Wittenbergs studio process in the gallery with one large-scale painting on the main level and a group of works on paper in the lower gallery. Wittenberg uses amateur pornography as source imagery by way of Giottos Meeting at the Golden Gate. Seeing delicacy and humor in the intimate flashes, she maintains equal interest in painted and cinematic sources. Wittenbergs ... More Delfina Foundation opens first solo institutional UK show by Canadian artist Jean-Paul KellyLONDON.- Delfina Foundation presents an exhibition of new work by Canadian artist, Jean-Paul Kelly. Exploring the relationship between materiality and perception, Kelly examines complex associations between found photographs, videos, and sounds from documentaries, photojournalism, and online media streams. By working through these documents, Kelly seeks to illuminate the gap between physical matter and the subjective experience of it in the world. In this new installation, That ends that matter, Kelly questions documentary practices in UK courtrooms through a three-channel video and works on paper. In winter 2015, whilst in residence at Delfina Foundation, Kelly attended City of London Magistrates Court in Central London for eight weeks as a visitor, during which time he observed the daily events in one courtroom. The UKs Criminal Justice Act forbids ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Richard Avedon died October 01, 2004. Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century." IN this image: Amon Carter Museum Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach points to a Richard Avedon photograph of Boyd Fortin, Friday, Sept. 9, 2005, in Fort Worth, Texas. The photo is part of the "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon" exhibit.
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