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US artist James Rosenquist stands in front of his art work 'Brazil' at the art museum in Wolfsburg, Germany.
NEW YORK (AFP).- James Rosenquist, a leading pioneer of Pop Art who appropriated industrial painting methods to cultivate his bold, graphic style, has died in New York. He was 83. The internationally acclaimed artist passed away Friday at his home following a long illness, according to The New York Times, citing his wife. Rosenquist transitioned from a commercial sign-painter to a fine artist who, along with contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns, helped launch the 1960s Pop art movement onto the global stage. A genre that blurred the lines between high and low culture by channeling advertising and consumer products, Pop art seemed a natural fit for Rosenquist, who spent years painting large-scale billboards. He translated those skills to his art, moving from more Abstract Expressionist-style work to painting mostly representational, punchy consumerist images. He often juxtaposed his spliced images -- such as cars, home a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A volunteer part of the UN task force "Blue Helmets for Culture" looks at a Madona with child painting in the seriously damaged church of San Francesco in the village of Visso on March 27, 2017, central Italy. The central villages of Visso and Ussita where hit by a strong earthquake on October 27, 2017 forcing the population to flee their homes and leaving empty villages now strictly protected by police road blocks. This UN boby tasked with the protections of the world's cultural patrimony (Unesco) and working with a mixed composition of specialized personnel including approximately 30 civilian experts (historians, scholars, restorers) and 30 officers from Italy's art crime squad, the Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale, is now working to recover Art from the damaged and abandoned villages of central Italy frequently hit by quakes in the last year. FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / AFP
| Paris Pompidou Centre museum shut by security guard strike | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opens exhibition of new work by German artist Georg Baselitz | | New Munnings exhibition explores the little known landscapes of the equestrian artist for the first time | 
This file photo taken on April 11, 2014 shows the Centre Georges Pompidou LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Pompidou Centre modern art museum -- one of the biggest tourist draws in the French capital -- will remain closed this weekend because of a week-long strike by security guards, its management said. Around 100 guards walked out on Monday over a new law which forces them to become civil servants rather than be employed under the terms of their previous contracts. Talks between the guards' unions and the French ministry of culture broke down Thursday. Management said Saturday that they had no option but to keep the museum's doors shut over the weekend when tens of thousands of visitors were expected. The iconic gallery, which attracted 3.3 million art lovers last year, is hosting a major retrospective of the American painter Cy Twombly. A weekend of events entitled "Imagine the France of tomorrow" was moved to another Paris venue. ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Zero Dom, 2015. Bronze patinated, 301,5 x 164 x 151 cm (118,7 x 64,57 x 59,45 in). © Georg Baselitz, Photo : Jochen Littkemann. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announces an exhibition of new work by German artist Georg Baselitz in the Paris Pantin space. Titled Descente (Down), it brings together new paintings and works on paper. The exhibition comprises five groups of works that are stylistically and iconographically linked to the fragmented self-portraits known as the Avignon series, which was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Two of Baselitzs concerns were the notions of late work and age, with particular reference to the historical decision of the city of Avignon to reject the donation of a series of late works by Picasso. In 2017, one year before Baselitzs 80th birthday, these themes are still relevant, as he has recently stated: I have been looking at Picassos late works. Avignon. [...] At the time Picasso had reached his lowest point. Nobody ... More | | 
Sir Alfred Munnings, Barge on the Stour at Dedham (detail), 1930's © The Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings.
DEDHAM.- In the spring of 2015 Charles Henty had a problem. He had inherited his uncles working farm in France and with it an enormous tax bill. Desperate to protect the livelihoods of the farmworkers and maintain his uncles legacy, Charles resolved to sell two paintings from his collection. The only snag was that he had to prove they were genuine. Cue the hit BBC series Fake or Fortune being asked to assist Charles prove whether one was by Sir Alfred Munnings. The painting in question is a landscape of Dedham, the North Essex village in which Munnings lived and had, a century earlier, been made famous by John Constable RA. It was also home to the notorious art forger, Tom Keating... Munnings great reputation had been founded on his depictions of people and horses, rather than countryside vistas, hence the interest of Fake or Fortune and the teams subsequent arrival at Castle House, to call upon the ... More |
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| Dorotheum Auction Week to feature Old Master paintings, 19th century paintings, works of art, and jewellery | | Dylan the Enigmatic accepts 2016 Nobel prize at last | | Hermann Historica to offer a fascinating array of objects from antiquity and the Middle Ages | 
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (15911666), Portrait of Cardinal Bernardino Spada, oil on canvas, 60 x 43 cm, Estimate: 150,000 200,000.
VIENNA.- Scenes from mythology and history, alongside portrait and landscape paintings, seen through the eyes of Old Master painters and painters from the 19th century. Fine historical furniture, royal vases and splendid high-carat rings and jewels: art lovers will find that the upcoming Dorotheum auction week leaves nothing to be desired. Between the 25th and 27th April 2017, the auction bell will keep ringing for works by Apollonio di Giovanni, Francesco Guardi, Guercino, Michele Marieschi, Jacopo Sellaio, Jusepe de Ribera, Pieter and Jan Brueghel, Oswald Achenbach and Tina Blau. A particular highlight from the auction of 19th century paintings will be a portrait of Sisi, Empress of Austria, by Carl Theodor von Piloty and Franz Adam, which was originally given as an engagement gift by the Emperor and which is of considerable historical interest. The Battle of Pharsalos by Apollonio di Giovanni (1414 1465) will be com ... More | | 
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius is seen in line at the entry to a concert with US songwriter and singer Bob Dylan at Stockholm Waterfront NILSSON / TT News Agency / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- After months of uncertainty and controversy, Bob Dylan finally accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature at a jovial, champagne-laced ceremony on Saturday, the Swedish Academy announced. The academy, which awards the coveted prize, ended prolonged speculation as to whether the 75-year-old troubadour would use a concert stopover in Stockholm to accept the gold medal and diploma awarded to him back in October. They were handed to Dylan at a "private ceremony in Stockholm" attended by 12 academy members, Sara Danius, the academy's permanent secretary, said in a blog post. "Spirits were high. Champagne was had," Danius confided. "Quite a bit of time was spent looking closely at the gold medal, in particular the beautifully crafted back, an image of a young man sitting under a laurel tree who listens to the Muse," she added. ... More | | 
A Polish Hussar cuirass with a pronounced medial ridge, 17th century. SP: 15000 Euros. © Hermann Historica oHG 2017.
MUNICH.- This year's Spring Auction at Hermann Historica oHG in Munich will open on 24 April with the usual wide range of high quality precious objects from all eras and originating from all over the world. Until 6 May, over 6,000 collector's pieces, some of them unique, from all specialist areas represented by the auction house will come under the hammer antiquities, arms and armour, works of art, hunting antiques, orders and collectibles from all fields of history and military history. Opening at 75,000 euros, one of the highlights of the antiquities catalogue is an expressive marble portrait of Emperor Hadrian (who reigned between 117 - 138 A.D.). Crafted during the early years of his reign, the larger-than-life portrait reveals a slight inclination of the head towards the left, as is characteristic of most busts of Hadrian. Equally typical is the arrangement of the magnificent head of hair, with the wavy locks combed fo ... More |
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| Harn Museum of Art displays miniature works of Asian art | | MPavilion 2016 designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain gifted to Melbourne Zoo | | Heather James Fine Art presents California Impressionism exhibition | 
Ryuto, Japanese, 19th century. Miniature Album, 19th century. Album of 12 leaves; ink and color on paper, 1 5/8 x 3 in. (4.1 x 7.6 cm). Museum purchase, funds provided by the Kathleen M. Axline Acquisition Endowment. Photo: Randy Batista.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida is marking the five-year anniversary of the opening of the David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing with a new exhibition titled Show Me the Mini. The exhibition features more than 100 miniature works from the Harns Asian art collection dating from the Neolithic period to the present. Show Me the Mini opened March 21, 2017 and is on view through Nov. 25, 2018. The art of miniatures takes many forms and exists across time and cultures. The exhibition highlights the exquisite skills required to create these masterful works of art while addressing issues of size, scale, modeling, ownership, production, and historical and contemporary functions of miniatures. The art on view includes bronzes, ceramics, glass, jades, lacquers, ... More | | 
MPavilion 2016. Photo: Rory Gardiner.
MELBOURNE.- Naomi Milgrom AO, Founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, today announced that MPavilion 2016, designed by award-winning Indian architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai, has been gifted to the people of Melbourne and will be relocated from its temporary site at the Queen Victoria Gardens to its new home at the Melbourne Zoo in Parkville. The relocation is underway with assistance from the City of Melbourne, Naomi Milgrom Foundation and Kane Constructions. Bijoy Jains MPavilion is part of an international movement in handmade architecture encapsulating Jains ongoing interest in traditional craftsmanship and human connectedness. The Melbourne Zoo occupies a special place in the heart of Melburnians and Im thrilled that this beautiful pavilion will continue to inspire people of all ages,--Naomi Milgrom said. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle said the third MPavilion would provide a lasting cultural legacy for Melbourne: ... More | | 
Joseph Kleitsch, The Blue Thread, 1926. Signed lower right, Joseph Kleitsch, oil on canvas, 60 1/8 x 55 1/8 in.
PALM DESERT, CA.- Heather James Fine Art, celebrating its 20th anniversary, continues its tradition of celebrating California Impressionists with the latest exhibition, California Impressionism, on view through May. The exhibition showcases bright, optimistic paintings that changed the course of the prevailing art style of the early 20th century, while uniquely highlighting some of the women of this movement. Many American Impressionists traveled to France to study with the French Impressionists, and when returning to the United States found that California provided the most similar lighting and colors to the French Riviera and countryside. California Impressionism flourished as a distinct subset of American Impressionism, depicting the states exceptional beauty with a focus on coastlines, canyons, deserts, forests, and mountains. The works in the exhibition are of beautiful ... More |
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| Bronze royal tent support leads Bonhams Islamic and Indian Art Sale | | NEH awards $173,833 grant to VMFA to digitize Louis Draper archive | | Exhibition spotlights the convergence of fashion and craft in the Counterculture movement | 
A monumental bronze Royal tent support (zhigri), late 12th Century. Estimated £100,000-150,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- An extraordinary and rare zhigri, used to support the tents under which kings and princes sheltered from the heat in 12th century Persia, is offered at Bonhams Islamic and Indian Sale in London on 25 April 2017. It is estimated at £100,000 150,000. Zhigri were initially thought to have been monumental candle stands. However, their depiction in a number of significant illustrated manuscripts led to the discovery that they bridged two adjoining wooden poles to support imperial tents made of heavy materials. This particular piece was discovered in Kyrgyzstan, and has been housed in a private UK Collection since 1950. Only 10 other Persian tent supports are known to exist, and they are all housed in museums in Russia, Kyrgyzstan and the Kazakh Republic. A further highlight is a rare Maghribi metal-thread embroidered panel (probably 18th Century), estimated at £60,000-80,000. This is an exquisite example of a textile ... More | | 
Contact sheet from photoshoot with Langston Hughes, before 1967, Louis H. Draper (American, 1935-2002). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives; Acquired from the Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust with the Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment Fund. Image © Louis H. Draper Preservation Trust.
RICHMOND, VA.- The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a $173,833 grant to digitize, preserve and share its archive of photographs, negatives and other materials from Richmond-born photographer Louis Draper (19352002). In the 1960s and 1970s, Draper played an influential role in capturing the vantage point of African Americans during the civil rights era, elevating their photographic representation beyond stereotypes often depicted in popular media. In 1963, he was a founding member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective of African American photographers. In March 2016, VMFA announced the acquisition of Drapers archive, which is anchored by 2,822 photographs, 42,116 negatives, 748 contact sheets, ... More | | 
Installation view of 'Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture,' 2017. Photo by Jenna Bascom. Courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture, on view now and running through August 20. The exhibition brings together over two dozen seminal artists working in the 1960s and '70s who fought for change by sewing, embroidering, quilting, patch-working, and tie-dyeing their identity. Counter-Couture takes place as part of MADs spring series of exhibitions, all of which focus on fashion. This is our first season to be wholly dedicated to one of New Yorks most beloved and celebrated creative fields, said William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator Shannon R. Stratton. Weve selected a group of shows that embrace craftsmanship, cultural commentary, and critical thinking in fashion practices. In keeping with MADs dedication to investigating studio process in modern and ... More |
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 Los Angeles Modern Auctions announces date for Spring 2017 AuctionLOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA), the premier auction house for modern art and design on the West Coast, has announced the date of its Spring auction: Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 12pm (PST). The May 21, 2017 auction will represent a wide range of modern and contemporary fine art and design including sculptures by George Rickey, Louise Nevelson, Jean Arp and Howard Ben Tré; paintings by Mary Corse, Alex Katz, and Paul Jenkins as well as three important works by Claire Falkenstein. Additionally, the auction will feature a strong representation of modern design with furniture by George Nakashima, KEM Weber, and Tejo Remy; and ceramics by Pablo Picasso, Gertrud & Otto Natzler, and a monumental work by Beatrice Wood. We are building upon the foundations we first created over two decades ago, says Peter Loughrey, ... More The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair to be held in MayPETWORTH.- The market town of Petworth is getting excited in anticipation of visitors flocking to the area for The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair, which is taking place for the third successive year in the 'Capability' Brown designed grounds of the palatial Petworth mansion from Friday 5 until Sunday 7 May 2017 in West Sussex. Petworth town itself boasts around 30 antiques and art galleries, as well as award winning restaurants, pubs and much more. Easily accessible from London, the south and further afield, Petworth has a lot to offer those wishing to enjoy a day out or even a weekend away. Antiques fair ticket holders have the added advantage of free parking right outside the marquee inside Petworth Park and free entry to view the magnificent Turners, and other Old Masters by Van Dyck and Reynolds housed in the National Trust run property. Over ... More Crawford Art Gallery exhibits short film by Jasmina Cibic CORK .- Crawford Art Gallery presents the short film The Nation Loves it (2015) by Jasmina Cibic as part of its continuing screening programme featuring Irish and International artists. Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana 1979, based in London) works in performance, installation and film, employing a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider the currency and formats of national representation. Cibic re-envisions nationally representative architecture and art as props and framing devices that nation states and political bodies use when they assert control and enact protocol rituals. The film explores the role of architecture as an agent of political rhetoric through a single character whose speech is an amalgam of the words of global public figures scripted from a myriad of political speeches. These redacted proclamations were originally ... More Exhibition at sepiaEYE chronicles contemporary LGBTQ life in DelhiNEW YORK, NY.- sepiaEYE presents the groundbreaking exhibition Delhi: Communities of Belonging by noted photographers Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh that chronicles contemporary LGBTQ life in Delhi. Gupta and Singhs project masterfully enables us to witness the intimate, ordinary and loving moments of 17 diverse individuals and couples. Gupta and Singh have created a rich and tender mosaic of the ways in which a diverse set of sitters navigate life, work and love in a country where antisodomy laws dating back to the British Empire were only recently struck down in 2009 and then were restored after the Supreme Court turned back the ruling in 2013. Gupta and Singh photographed an array of friendship networks accentuating human warmth through the thoughtful dialogue that departs from a pre-supposed victim narrative of queer lives. Ponni and Indu share ... More Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions to offer transport related items NEWBURY.- This spring, a remarkable collection of fine model engineering and transport related items will be auctioned at Donnington Priory, Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions Newbury base. The sale, comprising 141 lots ranging from £20-£25,000, will take place at 12 noon on Wednesday 26th April 2017. The top lot (lot 31, est. £20,000-£25,000) is a gold award winning model of a 7 1⁄4 inch gauge LSWR Beyer Peacock 2-4-0 Joseph Beattie Standard Well Tank Locomotive No 257, built by Mr John P Dean of Chichester in 2005 after four years work. This locomotive has won several awards, including The Model Engineer Exhibition 2007 Gold Award and the Bradbury Winter Memorial Challenge Cup. Built in 1996/97 by Great Northern Steam Company as one of a pair, lot 32 is another sale highlight. The exhibition quality 7 1⁄4 inch gauge live steam coal fired model of the ... More Exhibition explores the politics of the gaze and otherness via the female bodyBROOKLYN, NY.- Highlighting the ever-present oppressive accusatory patriarchal watchful eye, Deborah Castillo, Luiza Kurzyna, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow and Joiri Minaya stare right back. They claim their space and declare their stance, whilst erasing the established doctrines, staging and re-establishing their own legacy, heritage, image, presence, narrative and dignity through humor, protest, action and re-activation. Kunstraum presents Shes a Maniac , the starting of 2017 exhibition season curated by established NY-based interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator Katya Grokhovsky, founder of Feminist Urgent an in-flux curatorial platform and series of round-table conversations. Exploring the politics of the gaze and otherness via the female body, the group show Shes a Maniac includes four female NYC based artists. In video, performance, sculpture, ... More Exhibition marks Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg's return to their signature stop-motion animation styleLONDON.- Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Bergs perverse and psychologically probing exhibition, Who am I to Judge, or, It Must be Something Delicious, looks at human natures capricious and erotic inclinations, capturing those moments when one succumbs to carnal pleasure without thought for morality or social standards. The exhibition marks the artists return to their signature stop-motion animation style in three darkly humorous films, two of which make their debut in London. Working collaboratively, Nathalie Djurbergs claymation vignettes are overlaid with soundtracks produced by Hans Berg, with both sonic and visual elements being edited and combined to create one pulsating environment, complemented by a new sculptural installation made specifically for the exhibition. Shown in a continuous loop in a custom-built viewing room in the backspace of 27 ... More African faces in Paris look for art buyers at Piasa auctionPARIS.- The next sale of Contemporary African Art at PIASA, the leading auction house in Paris, on April 20th will focus on the theme of African Faces spanning a wide range of mediums from paper, painting and photography. This will be Piasas third Origins and Trajectories auction, dedicated to Contemporary art from Africa and the Diaspora and is part of the huge and growing interest in this relatively new and hottest part of the art market. Piasa has played a central role in the breakthrough of Contemporary African Art into the mainstream, a process that is still currently gaining interest and energy. Christophe Person of Piasa, says: In this auction are works that show both the creativity orf artists in Africa but also reflects the struggling of parts of Africa which is the driving force behind the thousands of immigrants, including talented artists seeking a better life in Europe. ... More Assouline to publish 'Maria by Callas' by Tom Volf in MayLONDON.- In 2013, decades after the legendary prima donna left the scene forever, filmmaker Tom Volf fell in love with Maria Callas. Since then, he has traveled the globe to uncover lost archives on Callass life and work, meeting and interviewing many of the renowned sopranos closest friends and colleagues, who opened their collections to him, unveiling a trove of previously unknown photos, many of which originally came from Marias own albums. Composed with the support of many of Marias loved ones, including Nadia Stancioff, her longtime best friend, and Georges Prêtre, her favorite conductor, who for the first time in forty years agreed to collaborate on a book about her, Maria by Callas is the definitive, unique product of countless hours of research, offering a new perspectivea personal album as Maria herself would have presented, invoking the divas ... More Yevgeny Yevtushenko, angry young poet of Soviet thawMOSCOW.- Soviet Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died on Saturday at the age of 84, was feted at home and abroad for non-conformism during the post-Stalinist thaw, but dismayed many by later becoming a pillar of the Soviet regime. His narrative poems "Zima Junction" (1956) and above all "Babi Yar" (1961), both published before he was 30, propelled Yevtushenko to hero status among Soviet liberals basking in the brief period of artistic openness permitted by Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev. His attacks on Stalinism and Soviet bureaucracy, culminating in "The Heirs of Stalin" (1962), together with his demands for greater artistic freedom, were tacitly sanctioned by the Communist Party and he was allowed to travel widely abroad, where he read to enthusiastic audiences. With his boyish good looks and message of revolt against the burden of the past, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Max Ernst was born April 02, 1891. Max Ernst (2 April 1891 - 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism. In this image: The work of art 'petales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie' (1934) by Max Ernst (1891-1976) is on display as (L-R) Werner Spies, a Max Ernst specialist, Guido Magnaguagno, director of the museum and Annja Mueller-Alsbach, the exhibition curator, present the exhibition 'Max Ernst- In The Garden Of Nymph Ancolie' during a press conference at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland on 11 September 2007. The exhibition 'Max Ernst - In The Garden Of Nymph Ancolie' can be seen from 12 September 2007, until 27 January 2008. In the heart of the Basel exhibition will be the monumental painting 'petales et jardin de la nymphe Ancolie' which is to be restored in a special show workshop.
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