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This photo taken on July 30, 2020 shows Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, posing in front of a display by artist Yayoi Kusama titled "Infinity mirrored room - glowing lights in Shinano" after an interview at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Philip FONG / AFP.
by Hiroshi Hiyama
TOKYO (AFP).- It's a blockbuster exhibition, featuring some of the biggest names in Japan's contemporary art scene. But will people flock to galleries in the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic? That's the question on the mind of Mami Kataoka, director of the influential Mori Art Museum, which reopens on Friday after a five-month hiatus with one of its most high-profile Japanese art shows in years. "We live in a time when we are asked, 'What is the role of museums and what is the role of art?'" Kataoka told AFP at a press preview of the "STARS" exhibit this week. The exhibition was supposed to open in April, running through the summer to attract visitors in town for the Olympics, with works by leading Japanese art figures like Yayoi Kusama and Takashi Murakami. But the coronavirus has forced a year-long delay of the Games, and the museum closed its doors ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor wearing a face mask takes snapshots of an exhibition at the Colombian National Museum in Bogota on August 1, 2020, during its reopening after months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. DANIEL MUNOZ / AFP
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 | | The investigation that led police to stolen Banksy in Italy | | Online exhibition includes thirteen important paintings made between 1971 and 1976 by Philip Guston | | Thousands set to 'explore' Sir Ed's hut in Antarctica | 
The work was found in an abandoned farmhouse in Abruzzo, according to l'Aquila prosecutor Michele Renzo.
by Katell Prigent
(AFP).- A stolen cutter, CCTV footage, phone taps, loose-tongued suspects... this is how an artwork by famed street artist Banksy painted on the door of the Bataclan club in Paris was discovered in Italy 18 months after being stolen. At 4:00 am on January 26, 2019, three men wearing hoodies and masks take a cutting tool to the metal door of the Bataclan. It is not just any old door, but the emergency exit of the famous Parisian music venue where 90 people were murdered by Islamic State gunmen on November 13, 2015. The stencilled white image is of a "sad young girl" in homage to the victims of the Bataclan attack. It is all over in just a few minutes: the thieves load the door into the back of the Citroen van, whose number plate has been made illegible, according to captured CCTV footage. "It was an important ... More | | 
Philip Guston, Studio note from 28 September 1972. On 8 ½ x 11 in typing paper. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Philip Guston. What Endures, an online exhibition that responds directly to our present moment of overwhelming uncertainty by reflecting upon pain, endurance, and, ultimately, hope for the future, through the work of Philip Guston. Featuring works selected by Musa Mayer, the artists daughter and President of The Guston Foundation, the exhibition includes thirteen important paintings made between 1971 and 1976, a time of social and political turmoil in the United States with many parallels to the current state of crisis in America and the world at large. It was during this period of immense cultural unrest and critical rejection of his new work that Guston, guided solely by his own intuition and determination, pushed forward and committed to creative reinvention, refusing ... More | | 
Hillary's Hut © Jonny Harrison.
CHRISTCHURCH.- Scott Bases oldest building, a hut built by a Sir Edmund Hillary-led team, is about to open its doors to the public virtually. New Zealands Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, today launched Antarctic Heritage Trusts unique virtual reality experience of Sir Edmund Hillarys Antarctic hut at Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate in South Auckland. Developed in partnership with Auckland University of Technology over two years, the virtual reality experience allows users to explore Sir Edmund Hillarys hut in Antarctica. The experience provides insight into how the 23 men of Sir Eds team lived and worked in the worlds most extreme environment more than 60 years ago. Hillarys hut was Scott Bases first building and was built by a team led by Sir Ed to support the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the International Geophysical Year. The Trust conserved the building in time for Scott Bases 60th anniversary in 2017. Users ca ... More |
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| | Qatar Museums to welcome visitors back in August with five special exhibitions | | Exhibition focuses on works from museum's collection by womxn artists | | Coeur d'Alene Art Auction totals over $10 million in sales | 
Miniature portrait of the emperor Rudolf II by Daniel Fröschl, Prague, early 16th century. Gouache on vellum, 12.9 x 10.6 cm. Collection of Qatar Museums.
DOHA.- Qatar Museums today announced that the reopening of its institutions will continue in August with new temporary and online exhibitions at the Museum of Islamic Art, National Museum of Qatar, and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, as well as the reopening of museum libraries and all of QMs parks and playgrounds with temporary restrictions in place. This phased-in expansion of services follows the July reopening of heritage sites and the permanent collection galleries of a number of QM museums, in accordance with recommendations from Qatars Health Protection & Communicable Disease Control office of the Ministry of Public Health. New health and safety protocols include requiring visitors to purchase tickets in advance on QMs website, to present a green health status on the Ehteraz virus-tracing app, and to bring and wear face coverings ... More | | 
Ree Morton, Terminal Clusters, 1974. Collection Walker Art Center, T.B. Walker Acquisition Fund, 2011.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Walker Art Center presents Dont let this be easy, an institutional project taking the form of an exhibition focused on works from the Walkers collection by womxn artists (a term designed to be more inclusive of nonbinary individuals, trans women, and women of color). The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Feminist Art Coalition (FAC), a nationwide effort involving more than 100 museums committed to social justice and structural change. Dont let this be easy highlights the diverse and experimental practices of womxn artists beginning in the 1970s and spanning some 50 years through a selection of paintings, sculptures, moving image works, artists books, and materials from the archives. To this day, these artworks challenge traditional museum categories and collecting practices, calling attention to the limitations inherent in institutional divisions and policies. The shows title encompasse ... More | | 
Thomas Moran (18371926), Green River, Wyoming, 1883 (detail), oil on canvas, 13.25 Ã 20 in. Estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000. Sold at the 2020 Auction: $1,633,800.
RENO, NEV.- The Coeur dAlene Art Auction brought a strong total of over $10.4 million during this years sale. The highlight of the 2020 sale was Thomas Morans Green River, Wyoming (1883), which fetched over $1.6 million the highest price for the influential Western landscape artist at auction this year. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, the largest single auction event in the classic Western and American Art field saw multiple lots sell for over $100,000, realizing a sales rate of over 88-percent for July 25ths 264-lot sale. The top price of the sale was achieved by Morans 1883 painting Green River, Wyoming, selling for $1,633,800, eclipsing the high estimate of $1,500,000. Painted in the prime of his career, Green River, Wyoming was the most significant Moran painting of this size and subject matter to come to market in recent ... More |
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| | Exhibition celebrating Evelyne Axell's feminist take on Pop Art opens at Muzeum Susch | | Queensland Art Gallery revs up to reopen next week ahead of 'The Motorcycle' | | Miles McEnery Gallery now representing Rico Gatson | 
Evelyne Axell, The Champions (Les Championnes), 1966, diptych, oil on canvas, spray paint on cut-out canvas, two panels, 160 à 60 cm each. Courtesy Collection Philippe Axell, Photo Paul Louis. © ADAGP, Paris - Prolitteris, Zurich 2020.
SUSCH.- Muzeum Susch presents Body Double, a solo presentation of the major Pop Art figure, Evelyne Axell (1935-1972). Axell embraced Pop Art in the 1960s, pioneering an original feminist take on the male-dominated genre. Axell ultimately transcended the established economies of Pop Art iconography at the time, her distinct body of work populated by an all-female universe reclaiming the discourse of womens sexuality. Evelyne Axells career was tragically cut short by her untimely death in a car accident, aged just 37, meaning her work and contribution to early feminist art and Pop Art was subsequently left out of the dominant narrative of art history, alongside her contemporaries such as Pauline Boty, Rosalind Drexler, Kiki Kogelnik, and Dorothy Iannone, who have only found due recognition ... More | | 
Vespa GS150 1960. Courtesy: Vespa House and Frank Tonon. Photo: Anne-Marie De Boni.
BRISBANE.- From 7 August the doors of Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art are set to reopen as preparations for the world exclusive exhibition The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire rev up. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said thousands of visitors had returned to experience the permanent collection and exhibitions including Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me the Way to Go Home since QAG reopened on 23 June. Now, in line with the Queensland Governments Roadmap to Recovery and our COVID-19 safety plan in place, we look forward to welcoming visitors back to our second site the Gallery of Modern Art as we prepare for our must-see summer exhibition, The Motorcycle. From 28 November to 26 April, 2021, The Motorcycle will feature more than 100 motorcycles from the 1870s to the present day, right across GOMAs entire ground floor. It will run the full design gamut from the ... More | | 
Rico Gatson in his studio, Brooklyn, New York, 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery announced its representation of Rico Gatson. Rico Gatson is a Brooklyn based mixed media artist working across abstraction and figuration. With a multifaceted practice that spans painting, video, sculpture and installation, Gatson considers himself an object-maker inspired by Conceptualism, Afro-Futurism and spirituality. For the past twenty years, Gatsons body of work has been recognized for its powerful political discourse often rooted in significant moments in Black history. He presents the viewer with a myriad of images related to pivotal moments that include the Watts Riots, the presidential election of Barack Obama and the formation of the Black Panthers. Gatsons striking, graphic visual language combines African textile-inspired colors and bold patterns with stark black and white line work. These vibrational elements take shape both on canvas and paper, as well as on towering totems, thre ... More |
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| | James Silberman, editor who nurtured literary careers, dies at 93 | | Exhibition at Tallinn Art Hall re-examines Olev Subbi's legacy | | Exhibition of new works by Martha Jungwirth inaugurates Modern Art's new London space | 
Silberman published E.L. Doctorows Ragtime (1975).
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- James Silberman, a revered book editor whose meticulousness, intuition and patience helped propel the publishing careers of a distinguished roster of authors, including James Baldwin, Marilyn French, Hunter S. Thompson and Alvin Toffler, died on July 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 93. His son, Michael, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Silberman was a man who knows how to edit a manuscript, to read a manuscript and to publish a manuscript, another of his authors, Elie Wiesel, told The New York Times in 1991. Silbermans career path was serendipitous. A government major at Harvard, he enrolled in the Radcliffe Publishing Course (now the Columbia Publishing Course) after graduating in 1950, then got hired in the shipping department of The Writer, which, he recalled in an oral history, was in the business of selling a magazine to aspiring writers, telling ... More | | 
Exhibition view 'Olev Subbi: Landscapes from the End of Times', Tallinn Art Hall. Photo: Aurelia Minev.
TALLINN.- This exhibition mainly focuses on the legacy of Olev Subbi (19302013) and is a tribute to the artist who belongs among the classics of Estonian painting. Despite the difficulties he experienced after the war, he built his philosophy of survival on constructive optimism and discovering beauty in everything around him. Subbis paintings are a window to parallel worlds that neither belong to the present nor the past or future and where landscape becomes a place of hope, memory, remembrance, and construction of the future, writes Ãngels Miralda, curator of the exhibition. Ninety years after Olev Subbis birth, Tallinn Art Hall re-examines his practice in the context of some of the most tumultuous moments of Estonian Art History. The exhibition offers a new perspective on his practice alongside the work of contemporary international artists that expand upon his interests in the connection between ecolog ... More | | 
Martha Jungwirth, Untitled, 2020. Oil on cardboard, 41 x 31.8 cm. 16 1/8 x 12 1/2 in.
LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of new works by Martha Jungwirth, inaugurating the gallerys new London space in St Jamess, Mayfair. Occupying a ground and lower ground floor space on Bury Street, London SW1 the new location provides 1,200 sq ft of exhibition space as well as viewing room and office and operates alongside Modern Art's existing location at Helmet Row, EC1. Martha Jungwirth was born in 1940 in Vienna, where she continues to live and work. From 1956 to 1963 she studied under Professor Carl Unger at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna. In 1968, along with Wolfgang Herzig, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Peter Pongratz, Franz Ringel and Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Jungwirth co-founded the artistic group Realities", of which she was the only female member. In the decades following, despite her works ingenuity and relevance to artistic developments at the time, Jungwirth did not receive the ... More |
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 New short film created by Fairfield University Art Museum, captures essence of its Cuban art exhibitionFAIRFIELD, CONN.- In a time of self-isolation and closure, a new short film premiering this week documents the Cuban art exhibition presented by the Fairfield University Art Museum in spring 2020, and makes it available to communities currently unable to physically visit the museum. The film explores the artwork, the contemporary Cuban artists and their inspirations, along with related lectures, and captures the many curricular and community interactions that grew out of the exhibition, according to Carey Weber, executive director at the museum. A collaboration of Michelle Farrell, PhD, and Javier Labrador Deulofeu, the short film, Tracing Archives of Consciousness: Six Cuban Artists, can be accessed and enjoyed on the museums exhibition web page www.fairfield.edu/museum/cuba, and on the museums YouTube channel. Six internationally ... More Malik B., longtime member of the Roots, is dead at 47NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Malik B., the elusive emcee best known for his work with the Roots, died Wednesday. He was 47. His death was confirmed by his cousin Don Champion. Members of the Roots also posted public statements on their Instagram and Twitter accounts, though the statements did not say where he died or specify the cause. Malik joined the hip-hop group then known as the Square Roots after he met the founders, Questlove (Ahmir Thompson) and Black Thought (Tariq Trotter), in 1991 at Millersville University in rural Millersville, Pennsylvania. By 1993, the Roots had dropped Square from their name and self-released their debut album, Organix. Touring relentlessly, they soon developed a cult following in Europe. New members filtered in and out each year. Malik appeared on three more albums Do You Want ... More Pi Artworks London opens a solo exhibition of works by Nancy AtakanLONDON.- Pi Artworks London is presenting Nancy Atakans solo exhibition Remembering the Future as part of London Collective on Vortic Collect. Using lace, cloth cut outs, thread drawings, photographs, and antique textiles from her personal collection, in a new series of needlework pieces Atakan continues with and expands upon the topics of the relationship between word and image, storytelling, female experiences, globalization and gentrification. Atakan used her small home studio to produce this body of work during the three and a half month 2020 Covid-19 lockdown. As she read, wrote, sewed, imagined and looked out onto the flowers on her terrace and the trees in Macka Park in Istanbul, she became convinced that the key to the survival of future generations rested with learning from the vegetal world. In her film, Oleander, her ... More Durden and Ray opens Personal Contacts, a six-part series of exhibitionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Durden and Ray presents Personal Contacts, a six-part series of exhibitions featuring four artists paired with four members of the collectives curatorial team. Beginning with the success of We Are Here / Here We Are, an outdoor exhibition last spring that featured 100 artists from all parts of Los Angeles County, Durden and Ray continues to explore novel ways to promote the work of artists during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a 3D interactive panorama of Personal Contacts; a series of live video interviews with the artists; and an exhibition that can been seen by appointment at their downtown Los Angeles gallery in the Bendix Building. Every two weeks, four different members will invite their selections to join in. The artists invited have been selected for various reasons, including formal through-lines with their work, shared ... More Alexia Lobaina appointed Associate Curator of Education at The Cornell Fine Arts MuseumWINTER PARK, FLA.- The Cornell Fine Arts Museum announced the appointment of Alexia Lobaina as the museum's new Associate Curator of Education. In this position, Lobaina will oversee the creation and implementation of educational programming for both campus and external communities. Lobaina comes to CFAM with experience in academic museums and in the areas of education and engagement. Before joining the staff at the Cornell, Lobaina worked at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens in Miami, Florida as Learning Programs Facilitator with school groups and adult learners. Lobaina is currently earning a PhD in curatorial studies at Florida State University, where she also received an MA in art history and cultural heritage, a BA in art history, and a BS in photography and digital design. In addition to her time at Vizcaya, Lobaina has held ... More Northern Ireland's Ulster Museum reopens to the public, Access for All strategy announcedBELFAST.- National Museums NI has begun the phased reopening of its museums with the announcement that the Ulster Museum has now reopened to the public with an emphasis on encouraging people from all communities to visit. The Ulster Museum officially opened its doors on Thursday 30 July welcoming its first visitors since the venue closed over four months ago. It is the first of National Museums NIs four sites to reopen, with the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster American Folk Park set to reopen on August 13 and the Ulster Transport Museum the following week on August 20. Prior to reopening, the Ulster Museum was awarded the Were Good to Go mark. The UK-wide industry standard, managed locally by Tourism Northern Ireland, signifies how tourism and hospitality businesses have implemented the appropriate processes and health and ... More Swiss tone down national celebrations as virus cases riseGENEVA (AFP).- Switzerland held muted celebrations on its national day Saturday as the Swiss president warned the coronavirus crisis was far from over, with positive tests spiking again. "The virus is still there. We have to live with it while we wait for a vaccine," President Simonetta Sommaruga told national broadcaster RTS. "It's not over -- that is very clear." The wealthy Alpine nation has recorded 35,323 positive tests and 1,706 deaths since the pandemic began. Daily case numbers were low and stable but have crept up again in recent weeks, with the 200 mark being passed on Thursday and Friday for the first time since April 23. In response, Geneva has shut down its nightclubs again. The August 1 date marks the signing of the Federal Charter of 1291, when three of Switzerland's now 26 cantons first joined together in confeder ... More Dix Noonan Webb to hold second annual auction devoted to Indian coinsLONDON.- The third and final part of a Collection of Coins of the Indian Sultanates will be offered by International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb in a live online auction of Indian Coins and Historical Medals on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 10am on their website www.DNW.co.uk. Among the highlights of the Collection, which comprises 284 lots in this particular sale, will be an extremely rare Tanka from the reign of the Bahmanid sultan Ghiyath al-din Tahmatan (799h) which is expected to fetch £2,000-£2,600; while an extremely fine and rare Nazarana Tanka of the Malwa sultan Nasir Shah (906-916h) is estimated at £1,200-£1,500, and a very fine and rare Tanka from the reign of the Kashmir sultan Zayn al-Abidin (823-874h) is expected to fetch £1,000-£1,200. Expert in charge, Tim Wilkes, commented: ... More The CAS acquires 106 works by 16 artists for museums and communities across the UK LONDON.- The Contemporary Art Societys Rapid Response Fund has bought 106 works of art for 16 museums across the UK, financially supporting artists and helping museums reach out to new audiences as they beginning their re-opening programmes as coronavirus-based restrictions ease. The final round of acquisitions includes a drawing made in lockdown by Claudette Johnson, recent photographs of a community in during the height of the pandemic by Exeter-based photographer Michelle Sank and a mixed-media installation investigating the surveillance of Black bodies by Keith Piper, a founder of the BLK Art Group. This is the final round of funding as part of the Rapid Response Fund, which has seen £234,000 spent on museums around the UK. A self-portrait by Claudette Johnson, an artist associated with the BLK Art Group, founded in ... More Yisrael Dror Hemed is the Winner of the Shiff Prize for Art 2020TEL AVIV.- The artist Yisrael Dror Hemed is the winner of the Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative Realist Art for 2020. The prize consists of a grant of $10,000 to the artist, and a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, accompanied by a catalogue. Over eighty artists entered the running for this years award, and the winning artist was selected by the 2020 Shiff Prize jury: Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Doron Rabina; Curator Emanuela Calò, Director and Chief Curator of the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Dr. Aya Lurie; Gil Brandes, attorney-at-law; and art collector Doron Sebbag. Tel Aviv Museum of Art Director, Tanya Cohen-Uzieli, and family representative Dubi Shiff, served as observers. Yisrael Dror Hemed, born in 1975, lives and works in Netanya. He has had no formal art training, apart from painting studies with the artist ... More MAMbo, Bologna announces Nuovo Forno del Pane, a new cross-disciplinary production centerBOLOGNA.- Our contemporary society, and museums as parts of it, are facing a totally unprecedented situation. The pandemic has upended long-established ways of living and working, including the very possibility of experiencing art. This necessarily requires to rethink the nature of the public museum institution, its function and role for the city and its target community. The board of Istituzione Bologna Musei, the Arts and City Promotion Council and the corresponding Department at the Comune di Bologna, have initiated an in-depth analysis of these essential issues, and museum artistic director Lorenzo Balbi, along with the staff of MAMbo Museo dArte Moderna di Bologna, have responded by submitting a project that redefines the identity and strategy of the museum. Nuovo Forno del Pane is a cross-disciplinary production center that transforms the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and the couple became the parents of two daughters. In this image: A self-portrait of British painter Thomas Gainsborough, painted about 1787, is seen to the right as a security guard watches over paintings in the Thomas Gainsborough exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, June 9, 2003, in Boston.
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