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Jacob Maris, 'View of Montigny-sur-Loing', 1864, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
THE HAGUE.- The Mesdag Collection in The Hague presents The Dutch in Barbizon: Maris, Mauve, Weissenbruch, an exhibition about nineteenth-century Dutch painters who were drawn to the French village of Barbizon and the nearby Forest of Fontainebleau. French artists went to that area just a stone's throw from Paris to work in the open air, capturing their personal, often rough or sketchy impressions of the unspoilt nature around them. This exhibition features Dutch painters who followed the example of their French peers, visiting the same spots in and around the Forest of Fontainebleau to depict magnificent trees, unusual rock formations and village life. The art works of these French and Dutch artists hang side by side in this exhibition, in the museum that holds one of the finest collections of Barbizon paintings outside France, once assembled by Hendrik Willem Mesdag himself. The Dutch in Barbizon consists of 42 works, gr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Seattle Art Museum is presenting Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect (October 19, 2017 - January 15, 2018), exploring groundbreaking perspectives on the art and legacy of the American painter's 75-year career.
| Mystery ancient stone structures found in Saudi desert | | Papua New Guinea skull 'world's oldest tsunami victim' | | Phillips sets new world record for a wristwatch at auction | 
Al 'Uqaylah Kite 2 overlying 3925-23 - Al 'Uqaylah Gate 4 (GE20150921) (Drawn: Travis Hearn).
SYDNEY (AFP).- Nearly 400 mysterious ancient stone structures have been identified in the Saudi Arabian desert by an Australian researcher using Google Earth. David Kennedy, whose team has spent decades recording thousands of archaeological sites in the Middle East, said the man-made edifices, known as "gates", are thought to have been constructed between 2,000 to 9,000 years ago. But their purpose and function are a mystery. "You can't see them in any intelligible way at the ground level but once you get up a few hundred feet, or with a satellite even higher, they stand out beautifully," the University of Western Australia academic Wednesday said in a statement. Kennedy said he was baffled when he first saw the remote and inhospitable site, in the lava fields of an ancient volcano, on satellite images, despite some 40 years working in the region. "I refer to them ... More | | 
The Aitape Skull. Photo: Arthur Durband.
SYDNEY (AFP).- A 6,000-year-old skull found in Papua New Guinea is likely the world's oldest-known tsunami victim, experts said Thursday after a new analysis of the area it was found in. The partially preserved Aitape Skull was discovered in 1929 by Australian geologist Paul Hossfeld, 12 kilometres (seven miles) inland from the northern coast of the Pacific nation. It was long thought to belong to Homo erectus (upright man), an extinct species thought to be an ancestor of the modern human that died out some 140,000 years ago. But more recent radiocarbon dating estimated it was closer to 6,000 years old, making it a member of our own species -- Homo sapiens. At that time, sea levels were higher and the area would have been near the coast. An international team led by the University of New South Wales returned to the site to collect the same geological deposits observed by Hossfeld. Back in the lab, they studied details of the sediment including its grain ... More | | 
Paul Newmans Rolex Paul Newman Daytona. Sold for: $17,752,500 / CHF 17,709,894 / 15,228,095.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo, the worldwide market leader in watch auctions, is proud to announce that its inaugural New York sale realized $28,875,750 / CHF 28,806,448 / 57,682,198 - the highest total for a watch auction in US history. This historic and record-breaking evening saw global participation from collectors across 43 countries, and a packed saleroom of nearly 700 people enthusiastically vying for some of the finest watches in the world. The auction was led by its star lot Paul Newmans legendary Rolex Paul Newman Daytona, which sold for $17,752,500 / CHF 17,709,894 / 15,228,095, a world record for a wristwatch at auction. The timepiece sold to an anonymous bidder on the phone after 12 minutes of spirited bidding. One of the worlds most legendary and sought after of all mechanical wristwatches, this timepiece is the only exotic-dialed Daytona that Mr. Newma ... More |
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| New digital educational offer at the Städel Museum: Theme digitorial on the Reformation | | Sotheby's announces sale series celebrating the author, editor and oral historian Jean Stein | | Filmmaker Inarritu awarded Oscar for VR show on migrants | 
New digital educational offer at the Städel: theme digitorial on the Reformation. Photo: Städel Museum Frankfurt.
FRANKFURT.- The successful and prizewinning digitorial format on exhibitions (which received the Grimme Online Award 2015 in the category Art and Entertainment, for example) is undergoing further development on Städel Director Philipp Demandts initiative: As of now, the Städel Museum also offers digitorials on subjects whose visual presentation can be based on selected works from the Städels rich collection. Digitorials on outstanding artists with works in the Städel Museum will follow. Free of charge for the user, this extension of the Städels digital educational offer has been made possible by the FAZIT-Stiftung and starts with a comprehensive theme digitorial on the Reformation. In line with this years quincentennial of Martin Luthers posting of his theses, the Städel Museums first theme digitorial explores the consequences of the renewal of the Church for art: The shift from devotional to didactic image, ... More | | 
John Chamberlain, Untitled. Painted and chromium-plated steel, 6 5/8 by 7 1/2 by 5 5/8 in. 17 by 19 by 14.5 cm. Executed circa 2000. Estimate: $60/80,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced a series of sales celebrating Jean Stein author, editor and oral historian, who chronicled the lives and work of cultural and political figures in New York, Paris, Hollywood and beyond. A cultural connector, who brought together creators in literature, theater and the visual arts, such as William Faulkner, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and others, Ms. Stein created a world that seamlessly combined her involvement in groundbreaking events in 20th century America with her intellectually curious tastes and sprawling network of friends and admirers. Beginning with our evening and day sales of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art, Sothebys will bring to life The World of Jean Stein. The daughter of Jules Stein, founder of Music Corporation of America, Jean Stein was born and raised in Beverly Hills, before forging her own path in Paris and New York. While studying at the Sorbonne, ... More | | 
Carne y Arena. A user in the experience, 2017. Photo: Emmanuel Lubezki.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Acclaimed filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will be awarded a special Oscar for his virtual reality installation that focuses on the plight of migrants, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday. The Academy said that Inarritu will receive the golden statuette for his six-minute immersive experience "Carne y Arena" (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible), describing it as "a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling." The award will be presented to the director and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki at the 9th Annual Governors Awards in Hollywood on November 11. "Carne y Arena," which is currently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as well as the Fondazione Prada in Milan and Tlatelolco Cultural Center in Mexico City, takes viewers on the harrowing trek many migrants undertake through the Sonoran desert in the US. As sirens wail, each participant ... More |
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| Norton Museum of Art announces plans for first public garden designed by Foster + Partners | | Steve Jobs signed magazine sold for more than 50k at auction | | "Portrait of the Artist" offers rare look at images of artists from the British Royal Collection | 
The Gilbert and Ann Maurer Foyer, as seen from the east, Norton Museum of Art, designed by Foster + Partners, image courtesy of Foster + Partners.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art today announced the design plans for the first public garden designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster. The sub-tropical garden and green space includes the Pamela and Robert B. Goergen Garden, which will feature 11 significant gifts of art from the couple. Native flora will surround The New Nortonthe Museums $100 million, Foster + Partners-designed expansion projectto reinforce the relationship between the building and the landscape, and serve as a new social space for the community. From the beginning, we have conceived of the Norton expansion as an opportunity to create a New Nortonone that embraces its original design, while also creating a more welcoming and inviting campus, said Lord Norman Foster. In our masterplan, it was important for ... More | | 
Steve Jobs signed magazine 'I Love Manufacturing' sells for $50,587.
BOSTON, MASS.- A Steve Jobs signed cover of a Newsweek magazine sold for $50,587 according to Boston-based RR Auction. The issue of Newsweek from October 24, 1988, featuring Jobs and his NeXT computer on the front cover, is signed "Steven Jobs, I love manufacturing. In October 1988, Steve Jobs went to Lotus Development Corporation in Cambridge, Ma to unveil the much anticipated NeXT computer. It was expected to revolutionize academia and all things educational. After the elaborate fanfare at the unveiling, a senior buyer with Lotus at the time approached Jobs for his autograph. I realized his visit to Lotus was a pivotal and exciting time in his career, said Diane Williams, a former employee of Lotus in a detailed letter of provenance that accompanied the sale. He hesitated and said 'I don't do autographs' at which point I stepped closer, locked eyes and said 'then write something from ... More | | 
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura), c. 1638-39. Oil on canvas. Royal Collection Trust. Photo: © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017.
VANCOUVER, BC.- The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection, opening on October 28, 2017 and remaining on view until February 4, 2018. Following the acclaimed exhibition that debuted at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace in 2016, Portrait of the Artist: An Exhibition from the Royal Collection presents a remarkable group of works from the Royal Collectionone of the most important art collections in the world. The first of its kind to focus on images of artists within the Royal Collection outside of the UK, the exhibition will showcase self-portraits by world-renowned artists including Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Artemisia Gentileschi, Lucien Freud and David Hockney, as well as images of artists by their friends, relatives and pupils, including the most reliable surviving likeness ... More |
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| Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art launches online collection | | Elliott Felson to serve as Chair, Board of Trustees of The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco | | The Oklahoma City Museum of Art exhibits 90 Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Golden Age | 
William Merritt Chase, American (1849-1916), Memories, 1885/86. Oil on canvas, 59 1/4 x 46 x 3 3/4 in. Museum Purchase, 57.305. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY.
UTICA, NY.- More than 5,000 works of art spanning three centuries will be readily accessible anytime to the public. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art will launch its online collection page Monday, October 30. To visit, go to mwpai.org/collection. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Award Number MA-10-14-0177. MWPAI President and CEO Anna T. DAmbrosio said the project was three years in the making. In addition to the artwork, many of the entries include scholarly interpretation, bibliography, and exhibition histories. The Museum is pleased to offer these highlights as a learning resource for educators, the general public, and colleagues, she said. By making a wealth of images and art history more accessible, the Museum will reach the broadest ... More | | 
Elliott Felson has served on the Board of The CJM since 2010 and has acted as Co-Chair of the Committee on Trustees. Photo: Courtesy of The CJM.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum announced the appointment of Elliott Felson as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Felson began his new role in July 2017. He has served on the Board of The CJM since 2010 and has acted as Co-Chair of the Committee on Trustees. It is an exciting time for The CJM as we get ready to celebrate our tenth anniversary in our Daniel Lebeskind-designed home in the heart of San Franciscos Yerba Buena arts district, says Felson. It is an opportunity to reflect on our past successes and advance our vision for the futurebuilding on our growing reputation for innovative contemporary art exhibitions that explore Jewish culture, history, art and, ideas; engaging new audiences through our family, school, teen, adult, and access programs; and growing a robust and loyal membership. I look forward to working with The Museums talented ... More | | 
Rembrandt va Rijn (1606-1669). Study of the Actor Willem Ruyter as a Countryman, about 1634-8. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum.
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will open special exhibition, Master Strokes: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Golden Age, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London Oct. 28. This marks the first time this collection, featuring 90 masterpieces by artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Sir Anthony van Dyck and Rembrandt van Rijn, has been exhibited outside Europe. This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see this collection in the U.S., said director of curatorial affairs Dr. Michael J. Anderson. The exhibition is organized by period and genre and showcases works of a great variety of subject matter. This is exciting for us, as we recently reinstalled our permanent collection on our second floor around the concept of genre. I encourage everyone who visits Master Strokes to also spend time in our second-floor galleries; the exhibition will help illuminate and ... More |
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 Utah Museum of Fine Arts opens exhibition of works by Katie Paterson SALT LAKE CITY, UT.- The Utah Museum of Fine Arts series of contemporary art from around the globe restarts today with an exhibition that brings 10,000 solar eclipses to Salt Lake City. salt 13: Katie Paterson, on view October 27, 2017 through May 20, 2018, presents recent works from the Scottish artist, whose explorations of space and time often use technology to bring together the commonplace and the cosmic. Patersons exhibition is the thirteenth in the UMFAs salt series of contemporary art and the first since the newly remodeled Museum reopened in late August. The literal centerpiece of Patersons show is Totality (2016), a large, rotating ball covered with approximately 10,000 images of historic solar eclipses printed on tiny squares of mirror. The images, recorded by mankind at locations across the planet, span hundreds of years from drawings made ... More US museum debuts first 3-D holograms of Holocaust survivorsCHICAGO (AFP).- Seated onstage at a museum near Chicago, Adina Sella talks about her life as a Holocaust survivor. A group of young school kids is entranced -- all the more so because Sella is not actually there. Her likeness is being beamed in the form of an interactive and moving hologram, part of a first-of-its-kind exhibition debuting this weekend at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, which aims to preserve accounts of a fast-disappearing generation. "She has their undivided attention," teacher Samantha O'Neill of Chicago's Northside Catholic Academy said. "It really does look like she is sitting on the stage in front of you." The exhibit uses voice-recognition technology and machine learning to let visitors ask questions about survivors' ... More Galerie Lelong & Co. opens a solo exhibition of new work by McArthur BinionNEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Route One: Box Two, a solo exhibition of new work by McArthur Binion, which opened on October 26th. Binions new series includes his largest painting to date. Expanding upon his renowned DNA paintings, these works feature images of his self-described birth house in Mississippi and refer to its rural address, Route One: Box Two. Over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, Binion has cultivated a unique visual style that involves building an under conscious to his paintings with repetitious photocopies of private documents such as his birth certificate. These sections of biographic information are then meticulously covered with grid marks in thickly applied oil sticka mode of abstraction that is alive with personal narrative and distinction within an artistic movement that was often ... More Fall 2017 exhibitions feature Pop Art icon Andy Warhol and Swiss-American artist Christian MarclayGRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- The Grand Rapids Art Museum announces its fall exhibitions opening October 28, Andy Warhols American Icons and Christian Marclay: Video Quartet. American Icons will be on view at the Museum through February 11, 2018, and Video Quartet will be open through January 14, 2018. Organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Andy Warhols American Icons showcases Warhols vision and celebration of America by bringing together paintings, prints, photographs, and films that create a handbook of American cultural icons. Andy Warhol makes a dramatic return to the Grand Rapids Art Museum this fall, commented GRAMs Director and CEO Dana Friis-Hansen. One of the Museum's first exhibitions in its new building was Rapid Exposure: Warhol in Series in Spring 2008. We cant think of a better way to celebrate our tenth ... More Saffronart announces highlights from the Kochi Biennale Foundation Fundraiser AuctionMUMBAI.- Saffronart and the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF) will hold a fundraiser auction on 31 October 2017 in support of Indias largest and most reputed arts festival. The KBF Fundraiser auction features artworks by over 40 leading modern and contemporary artists. Most artworks on offer have no reserve prices, and there will be no Buyers Premium on any of the lots. Net proceeds will benefit the efforts of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which showcases leading talent from India and around the world. Among the lots on offer are works by Amrita Sher-Gil, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Manisha Parekh, Varunika Saraf, Vivan Sundaram, Thukral and Tagra, Atul Dodiya, G R Iranna, B Manjunath Kamath, Parvathi Nayar, Bharat Sikka, Pushpamala N, and interna ... More Jean-Francois Rauzier debuts new series of hyperphotos at Waterhouse & Dodd New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Waterhouse & Dodd is presenting a solo exhibition of French photographer, Jean-Francois Rauzier, featuring a spectacular new series of the artists Hyperphotos on view at the gallerys temporary pop-up space, located at 1070 Madison Avenue, NYC. Depicting fantastical versions of landscapes and iconic architecture is central to Rauziers artistic exploration and mastery as a photographer. In this new body of work, Rauzier continues in his signature style combining iconic cities such as New York into compositions referencing art historical imagery. In addition, this show debuts a selection of special new works Rauzier has just completed on Cuban themes. In these Hyperphotos, he uses the stunning architectural and historical landscapes of Cuba, combined with his extensive knowledge of art and cultural history, literature, and humour, to create ... More Blum & Poe opens first solo presentation on the West Coast since 2011 of the work of Lynda BenglisLOS ANGELES, CA.- Blum & Poe is presenting an exhibition by acclaimed artist Lynda Benglis. This marks her first solo presentation on the West Coast since the 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and offers a broad overview of her output and ethos across the last three decades. Lynda Benglis legendary practice began in 1960s New York City, her commitment to merging content and form, subverting the paradigms of Minimalism and Modernism, established her formidable role in contemporary art history as a leader in the Post Minimalism movement. Her iconic works have been coined frozen gestures referencing the body and the landscape, sexual and gender politicsrealized in poured latex, wax, polyurethane, ceramics, bronze, paper, video, glass, neon, and more. Spanning two levels of exhibition space ... More Demisch Danant opens exhibition of ceramic works by celebrated Belgian artist-designer Jos DevriendtNEW YORK, NY.- Demisch Danant is presenting I AM I, an exhibition of ceramic works by celebrated Belgian artist-designer Jos Devriendt. Comprising more than 90 unique lamps, vessels, and objects, the presentation is Devriendts first solo exhibition in New York City. On view from October 26 through December 16, 2017, I AM I continues Demisch Danants exploration into European design since the 1950s, through exhibitions, publications, and programs that connect postwar and contemporary advances in form and technology as points along a continuum of cultural change. For the past 20 years, Devriendt has been working with the mushroom as an archetypal form translated into functional sculpture. Part of an ongoing series known as Night and Day, Devriendts lamps express his interest in the ways in which time and atmosphere can transform our perception ... More Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents new exhibition in partnership with Art LicksWAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents On the heights, an exhibition of new work, developed in response to the Parks landscape and heritage by artists Miriam Austin, Sam Belinfante, Tom Lovelace and Frances Scott. The exhibition runs from 28 October until 3 December 2017. YSP partnered with Art Licks, a London-based arts organisation, to invite the four artists to spend two weeks living and working at the Park in April 2017. On the heights curated by the Director of Art Licks, Holly Willats, in collaboration with YSP presents the resulting work in the Bothy Gallery and open air. The works in the exhibition sensitively consider the extraordinary setting of YSP and explore the history, stories and landscape of the area, presenting a new dialogue between nature and experimental contemporary art practice for visitors to explore. The context ... More Christie's to hold a sale dedicated to the work of Avant-Garde designer Jean Royère PARIS.- Christies will organise an auction paying tribute to the work of French designer Jean Royère on 20 November. In concomitance with the second edition of Pierre Martin-Viviers monograph: Jean Royère published by Norma, Christies will offer 30 lots showing the large range of the designers creations. Born in 1902, Jean Royère will only become a designer at the age of 29 when he decides to resign from his position in the import-export trade in order to create a new business as an interior designer. Royère encounters an immediate success, especially with the refurbishing of the Brasserie Carlton on the Champs-Elysées and later with the Hotel Saint-Georges in Beirut, Lebanon which brings him international recognition. Thanks to his talent, the French designer will sign several contracts with the high society of the Near and Middle-East. Amongst ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Andre Masson died October 28, 1987. André-Aimé-René Masson (4 January 1896 - 28 October 1987) was a French artist. Masson drew the cover of the first issue of Georges Bataille's review, Acéphale, in 1936, and participated in all its issues until 1939. His stepbrother, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, was the last private owner of Gustave Courbet's provocative painting L'Origine du monde (The Origin of the World); Lacan asked Masson to paint a surrealist variant. In this image: Artist Roy Lichtenstein has applied his trademark benday dots to the cover of a limited edition 1985 Taittinger champagne, center. At left is a bottle designed by Victor Vasarely and on the right one by Andre Masson. All are part of the "Art in Wine'' exhibit in Brussels' Credit Communal gallery.
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