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Installation view of Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines at NGV International, 1 December 2019 11 April 2020 © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York © Keith Haring Foundation. Photo: Tom Ross.
MELBOURNE.- In an unprecedented, world premiere exhibition, the National Gallery of Victoria is presenting the work of two of the most significant and influential artists of the late twentieth century in Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines. Exclusive to Melbourne, the exhibition offers new and fascinating insights into their unique visual languages and reveals, for the first time, the many intersections between their lives, practices and ideas. Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV, said: With diverse works on loan from public and private collections world-wide, the Crossing Lines exhibition offers an outstanding platform to explore the formidable works of two of the finest artists to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. The works of Haring and Basquiat remain so impactful as they demonstrate a complete mastering of how to use visual language and communicate bold statements on politics, race and social justice. Dr. Die ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (L) speaks with former WWII prisoner Ernst Verduin (R) and former resistance fighter Joke Folmer (C) during the re-opening of the Camp Vught National Memorial on November 27, 2019, in Vught. The Camp Vught National Memorial is located at the WII Camp Vught Nazi concentration camp, first used 1943, emprisoning 31,000 and in which 749 died. Sem VAN DER WAL / ANP / AFP
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 | | Climate change adds wrinkle to art collectors' concerns | | Beautiful Monsters in Early European Prints and Drawings (1450-1700) on view at the National Gallery of Canada | | Latin dictionary's journey: A to Zythum in 125 years (and counting) | 
Marc Atlan, a creative director in the fashion and perfume industries, at home in Los Angeles with his extensive art collection. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.
by Paul Sullivan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Marc Atlan, a creative director in the fashion and perfume industries, moved to Los Angeles 20 years ago, with a substantial art collection he amassed in France and has continued to add to it, often to his wifes chagrin. But, he admits somewhat sheepishly, he has no idea how many pieces he has. Its a vast collection, he said, adding, Collecting is a disease. Atlan, 52, also lives in a city ripe for natural disasters from earthquakes to wildfires to mudslides that could destroy or severely damage his collection. If being a collector is imbued with the romance of money and taste, then keeping track of all the pieces in a collection is its opposite. Verifying the purchase price and date, the artists information, the history of a work is about as romantic as accounting. But this drudgery ... More | | 
Hendrick Goltzius, The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus, 1588 (detail). National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2019. Photo: NGC.
OTTAWA.- Monsters and supernatural creatures , sometimes horrifying, always fascinating created between 300 and 500 years ago are the subject of a new exhibition of works on paper on view at the National Gallery of Canada from November 29, 2019, to March 29, 2020. Beautiful Monsters in Early European Prints and Drawings (14501700) presents nearly 70 rarely exhibited prints and drawings by 45 artists selected from the National Gallery of Canada collection, including a number of recent acquisitions and promised gifts. Springing from the imagination of artists such as German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer (14711528) and fed by the collective fears of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, these images were produced using a variety of techniques including etching, engraving, woodcut and drawing. By looking at these works from the Gallerys collection closely, one can see all the talent and ingenuity ... More | | 
Material from the archive of the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. Gordon Welters/The New York Times.
by Annalisa Quinn
MUNICH (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When German researchers began working on a new Latin dictionary in the 1890s, they thought they might finish in 15 or 20 years. In the 125 years since, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) has seen the fall of an empire, two world wars and the division and reunification of Germany. In the meantime, they are up to the letter R. This is not for lack of effort. Most dictionaries focus on the most prominent or recent meaning of a word; this one aims to show every single way anyone ever used it, from the earliest Latin inscriptions in the sixth century B.C. to around A.D. 600. The dictionarys founder, Eduard Wölfflin, who died in 1908, described entries in the TLL not as definitions, but biographies of words. The first entry, for the letter A, was published in 1900. The TLL is expected to reach its final word zythum, an Egyptian beer by 2050. A scholarly project ... More |
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| | Finnish National Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Helene Schjerfbeck | | Artist's studio: How about the living room? | | Museum showcases a neglected segment of the art world: Women | 
Helene Schjerfbeck, Self-Portrait (18841885). Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum, Friends of Ateneum Collection. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Henri Tuomi.
HELSINKI.- Following the presentation at the Royal Academy in London, the Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition travels to Ateneum Art Museum in Helsinki (Finnish National Gallery). The exhibition is twice the size of the London iteration, including five works never previously displayed in Finland and a newly discovered work never seen in public before; Girl from Barösund. Through My Travels I Found Myself Helene Schjerfbeck describes Helenes journey of self-discovery and how she grew from talented student to one of Europes most influential artists. The exhibition focuses specifically on Schjerfbecks years of travel, during which she stayed in Paris, Pont-Aven in northern France, Fiesole in Italy, and St Ives in England at the end of the 19th century. During this time Schjerfbeck collected new working methods, techniques and subject matter which are prevalent throughout her work, traits that continued to appear within her ... More | | 
Erin Lorek, an artist whose work involves casting sheets of glass using large iron plates, at her workspace in a shared three-bedroom brownstone apartment in Brooklyn. Calla Kessler/The New York Times.
by Kim Velsey
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Erin Lorek is an artist whose practice involves casting sheets of glass using large iron plates, work that would ideally be done in a concrete-floored, industrial warehouse with a freight elevator, rather than the living room of a shared, three-bedroom apartment in a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone. Mine is not a very romantic situation the huge beautiful Brooklyn loft. Its never been that for me, said Lorek, 41, who works full time doing production lighting and pays $1,250 a month for her live/work arrangement. I could never justify a $700 or $1,000 studio space. You cant get anything in this city for less; $500 will get you a tiny, shared windowless room. Lorek is fortunate that her roommates other artists who also work out of the apartment ... More | | 
Irene Rice Pereira . Red Form. 1939‑1940. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Michael and Anis Merson, Baltimore, BMA 2010.44. © Estate of Irene Rice Pereira / permission courtesy Djelloul Marbrook.
by Aimee Ortiz
BALTIMORE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Baltimore Museum of Art introduced an initiative last month dedicated to the presentation of the achievements of female-identifying artists. When the museum announced its plan in August, it said it was part of a broader vision to address race and gender diversity gaps within the museum field. Christopher Bedford, the museum director, said in an interview this week that while the institution has a very glorious history of women leading the charge, that is not necessarily reflected in either our exhibition history or the constitution of our collection. Women have long been overlooked in the art world; thats the rule, not the exception, according to experts. A study published in the online journal PLOS One in March found that men accounted for 87% of the artists at 18 major museums ... More |
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| | Internationally renowned Bamako Encounters opens in Mali | | Ben Brown Fine Arts opens an exhibition of selected works by Candida Höfer | | William Blake lights up London Skyline | 
Adji Dieye, Maggic Cube (Blending In), 2019.
BAMAKO.- Bamako Encounters, the historical and internationally renowned Biennale for Photography and Video Art on the African Continent, opened its 25th anniversary edition. The Biennale runs in Bamako, Mali from the 30th of November 2019 to the 31st of January 2020. Conceived by Artistic Director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and a curatorial team comprised of Aziza Harmel, Astrid Sokona Lepoultier and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, with artistic advisors Akinbode Akinbiyi, Seydou Camara and scenographer Cheick Diallo, this edition is an invitation to think about the artistic practice of photography as a stream of consciousness, as well as to consider photography beyond the tight corset of the photographic; the moment of a snapshot emanates from a flow of thoughts and associations reflecting the photographers inner voice, which is unavoidably and constantly in motion. Titled Streams of Consciousness, after the eponymous ... More | | 
Candida Höfer, La Salle Labrouste La Bibliothèque de LINHA Paris III 2017 (detail), C-print, Edition of 6, 180 x 189 cm. (70 7/8 x 74 3/8 in.). Courtesy Ben Brown Fine Arts.
LONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting an exhibition of selected works by esteemed gallery artist Candida Höfer at the London gallery from 28 November 2019 to 25 January 2020. Höfers most iconic, superlative images of libraries and theatres, from locations in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Russia, have been brought together to exemplify the artists mastery in depicting sublime, grand spaces with inimitable technical virtuosity. This is the artists tenth solo exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts, having been the first artist exhibited at the gallery upon its opening in London in 2004. Included in the exhibition is a newly released work, Bolshoi Teatr Moskwa II 2017, from a series in Moscow commissioned by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, following Höfers successful collaboration with the ... More | | 
William Blakes 'The Ancient of Days' 1827, projected by Tate Britain onto St Pauls Cathedral 2019. Photo: © Tate (Alex Wojcik).
LONDON.- William Blakes final masterpiece illuminates the iconic dome of St Pauls Cathedral to celebrate the artists birthday. The dramatic illustration Ancient of Days 1827 was described by Blake as the best I have ever finished and will be visible across London this weekend. Tate Britain is currently staging the UKs largest survey of works by Blake for a generation and has collaborated with St Pauls Cathedral - home to the most visited Blake memorial in the UK - to recreate his vision on a monumental scale. Now renowned as a poet, Blake also had grand ambitions as a visual artist, proposing vast frescos that were never realised. Living and working in London for most of his life, the artist imagined adorning the walls of churches and public buildings in the city. The cityscape of London, dominated by St Pauls Cathedral, inspired Blakes powerful artworks and writing. His well-known poem Ho ... More |
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| | London Art Week Winter 2019: Female pioneers among discoveries and highlights | | Marilyn Yalom, feminist author and historian, is dead at 87 | | XR technologies implemented within museum spaces to further augment the educational experience | 
Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, c 1577, oil on copper, Callisto Fine Arts.
LONDON.- The third iteration of London Art Week Winter opens 1-6 December 2019, featuring more than 30 selling exhibitions and auctions, and presenting the inaugural London Art Week Winter Symposium at the National Gallery. Specialist dealers present academic discoveries and carefully curated, themed presentations spanning 5,000 years of art in all its varied forms. An exceptional discovery is offered by Callisto Fine Arts of an early signed work by Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), the first woman to make a living in her own right as an artist, and with her own studio. Previously unpublished, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine is painted in oil on copper, and likely dates prior to 1577; it was probably destined for the private devotional use of a sophisticated patron. The work is a major addition to the catalogue of Lavinia Fontana, and will be published in the forthcoming book on this special artist by Vera Fortunati. ... More | | 
A photo provided by Reid Yalom shows the author Marilyn Yalom in 2007. Reid Yalom via The New York Times.
by Katharine Q. Seelye
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Marilyn Yalom, a prolific feminist author and cultural historian whose subjects included the history of women as partners in marriage as well as the history of the female breast, died Nov. 20 at her home in Palo Alto, California. She was 87. Her son Reid Yalom said the cause was multiple myeloma. Yalom was a professor of French language and literature in the mid-1970s, as the womens movement was gaining steam, when she segued into feminist scholarship at what is now Stanford Universitys Clayman Institute for Gender Research. While she had already written a number of academic works, she did not start writing her more notable books until her late 50s. One of the first was Maternity, Mortality, and the Literature of Madness (1985), which suggests ... More | | 
On Tuesday November 26, 2019 MOV hosted, Rebooting Greek Language, a launch event with the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at SFU. Photo: Dale Northey.
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Vancouver has recently partnered with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University to explore the potential of Extended Reality as a tool for enhanced educational programing and opportunities. Known as Between Worlds - A Greek Civilization XR Experience, this pilot project uses a repertoire of spatial interface technologies in order to implement an experimental XR digital hub that can support experiential cultural interaction and feedback within immersive virtual spaces. With technology evolving at such a quick rate its really important for us to find things that compliment and augment what we already do, says Mauro Vescera, CEO at MOV, This partnership is a great opportunity to explore XR with respect to education by ... More |
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 Black and white beauty leads H&H Classics sale at BuxtonLONDON.- This head-turning black and white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, the cover lot for the H&H Classics sale at Buxton, sold for £51,750, patently making hearts beat faster. Extensively restored in 2000 including the fitment of a larger 5.7 litre V8 engine and four-speed manual gearbox, the Vette had the performance to back-up its outlandish appearance. Now in its eighth generation, the Corvette story began life in 1953 with the C1 - a model that captivated a generation of American youngsters. It was the work of the legendary Harley Earl and inspired by the great European road/race offerings of the day. It borrowed its name - of French origin - from centuries of small, fast warships. The newcomer was first seen in concept form at the New York Auto Show, and generated sufficient interest for General Motors to hand-build a batch of 300 Polo White ... More Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin opens a new exhibition: Body PerformanceBERLIN.- On 29 November 2019, the new exhibition Body Performance opened at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin with works by Vanessa Beecroft, Yang Fudong, Inez & Vinoodh, Jürgen Klauke, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Barbara Probst, Viviane Sassen, Cindy Sherman, Bernd Uhlig, and Erwin Wurm. Performance is an independent art form, and photography is its constant companion. For the first time in Germany, this group exhibition brings together photo sequences whose origins lie in performance art, dance, and other staged events, complemented by a selection of street photography and conceptual photography series. With their common focus on the human body, the images document or interpret performances, which in many cases have also been initiated by the photographers themselves. The close connection between ... More Weiss Berlin opens an exhibition of works by Phil SimsBERLIN.- I wrote the following essay for a catalog to an exhibition at the Shirley Cerf Gallery of San Francisco held in March, 1980. This exhibition titled Color Painting was composed of myself and four friends all concerned with color as their primary emphasis. I decided to republish this essay in this exhibition catalog because the ideas presented still hold for me some 40 years later. The working out of these ideas has been my painting life. The one thing not mentioned in the essay is the aspect of light in color painting. Today I describe myself as a painter of color and light, for over the years light has come to mean color and color to mean light. In the essay I write
a color image is the articulation of the painting surface
Today, I would write and this articulation is defined by the light it holds. --Phil Sims, 2019 As we enter the decade of the 80s there ... More QUAD Gallery in Derby opens an exhibition of works by miniature painting pioneer Imran QureshiDERBY.- A new exhibition in QUAD Gallery features an artwork made from over 30,000 pieces of paper forming an immense and astonishing paper mountain a work by contemporary miniature painting pioneer, Imran Qureshi, an internationally renowned artist from Pakistan. The centrepiece of the show references those ..who have been buried without their lives honoured or the circumstances of their deaths investigated. Qureshis new exhibition in QUAD includes a site-specific installation, recent works on canvas, the UK premier of new video works and offer an insight into the world of contemporary miniature painting the medium he is most celebrated for. Imran Qureshi is arguably one of the most renowned artists to emerge from Pakistan in the last twenty years. At the core of Qureshis practice is Contemporary miniature painting, rooted in the tradition ... More They keep Times Square in order, and a statue front and centerNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Damon Dorsey was 23 and searching for a job when he stumbled upon an opening in Times Squares security department. More than 15 years later, every shift still brings something new. One night in late September, it was a 27-foot-tall monument. Dorsey was on duty when Rumors of War, a bronze statue of a triumphant African American man riding a horse, atop a limestone base, was brought in by flatbed truck. Meant as a retort to Confederate monuments, it was created by Kehinde Wiley, best known for his vibrant portrait of President Barack Obama. And since it arrived, in addition to his typical duties of keeping hundreds of thousands of tourists, locals, sightseeing bus ticket hawkers, Elmos and Mickey Mice from running over each other, Dorsey has been a kind of docent, explaining the piece to anyone who seems ... More Justin Fitzpatrick's second solo exhibition at Sultana opens in ParisPARIS.- Why do we consider it an insult to call somebody a whore? Do we imply that there is something degrading about being one? The word prostitute is so firmly fossilised in our linguistic systems as bad that this insult, meaningless as it is, persists as a verbal defence mechanism even amongst the most progressive of people. The whore, the essentially despicable woman, exists in language only because of the one who gives his name to this exhibition; the conservative divinity invented by English poet William Blake, Urizen. Dissecting the fabric of reality with his compass, this old bearded man undertakes the enormous task of dividing the world into fixed categories. For Blake, Urizen is a malevolent figure. He wages war on the poetics generated by confusion by imposing baseless and often outdated taxonomies. Although obsolete, these taxonomies continue ... More He's a young black magician. People ask: 'Are you the new Houdini?'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Two months ago, Rajon Lynch, 23, was teaching magic in Shanghai when he got an email from the Houdini Museum of New York. For Lynch, who grew up in Wisconsin performing in the same childhood town as Harry Houdini, it was a request that seemed set up by the gods of magic. The museums owner, Roger Dreyer, needed a new director and had heard about Lynch. He was intrigued I was from same place as Houdini, recalled Lynch, who immediately bought a one-way ticket to New York to meet with Dreyer. New York City has many prominent museums. The Houdini Museum tucked away on the fourth floor of a building in Midtown Manhattan is not one of them. But it has one of the worlds largest displays of the famed escape artists memorabilia, with well over 200 items. The museum, which shares a modest-size room wit ... More Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi explore the intriguing idea of non-linear time at S.M.A.KGHENT.- For the first time, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer bring together films and works from their joint and individual practices in the exhibition Future Sun. The paintings, sculptures and films complement each other and add new meanings to the three oeuvres. Skaer and Nashashibi have been working together as Nashashibi/Skaer since 2005. Their joint practice is a meeting place for the development of work that is separate from the individual artists and leads a life of its own. Nashashibi/Skaer make meditative films about art, mythology and the world. They often take the work of other artists as a starting point for exploring themes that touch them personally, such as identity, the portrayal of women, beauty and its pitfalls, colonisation and political conflicts. Their films reject plot-based rules and follow an associative, sometimes cryptic trail of images ... More "From Domenico Bresolin to Issupoff: Landscapes from Venice to Russia" on view at Ponti Art Gallery ROME.- Ponti Art Gallery is offering important masterpieces coming from several private collections gathered in the usual monthly exhibition aimed to the sale. The selection starts from a series of oil paintings, made by Domenico Bresolin. Settled in Venice, where he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice with G. Borsato, T. Orsi and F. Bagnara, after brief stays in Florence and Rome, Domenico Bresolin, who was welcomed on May 13, 1830 among the members of art of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, he devoted himself to photography as a functional study tool for improving the outcomes of painting, especially in the field of perspective and verisimilitude. Bresolin performs high quality photographic prints, characterized by an extreme compositional rigor, which recall monuments and Venetian palaces with the spirit of a systematic photographic ... More New BBC poll reveals the 100 greatest films directed by womenLONDON.- BBC Culture has released its list of the 100 Greatest Films Directed by Women. This is BBC Cultures most comprehensive international poll of film experts ever, with votes from 368 critics in 84 countries. The winning film is Jane Campions The Piano (1993), which earned votes from a full 43.5% of participating critics. The critics voted for 761 different films in total. Agnès Varda was the most popular director in terms of number of films, with 6 films in the top 100, followed by Kathryn Bigelow, Claire Denis, Lynne Ramsay and Sofia Coppola. Varda also received the most individual votes. We are delighted to present BBC Cultures biggest and most international poll of film critics yet of the 100 greatest films directed by women, said BBC Culture editor Rebecca Laurence. We were overwhelmed by the huge response, with 368 critics voting ... More Immersive wall-sized panels of Tadashi Kawamta on view at Kamel MennourPARIS.- Early anthropological studies considered landscape a container of social and cultural actions, as a representative of nature, as opposed to civilisation. Landscape was later on defined as a field of co-existence between the aesthetic appearance of territorial, vegetal and archaeologic forms, and their interferences with human built forms. Lately landscape was understood as the perception of the human upon his surrounding context, as a cognitive and symbolic construction of space. Tim Ingold proposes landscape as an archive of foregoing generations dwelling in space, by which the human defines his identity . The notion of landscape crystallises as ecological in its essence a balance between the individual and his environment. The immersive wall-sized panels of Tadashi Kawamta exhibited at the Kamel Mennour gallery 6 rue du Pont ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet was born December 01, 1716. Ãtienne Maurice Falconet (December 1, 1716 - January 4, 1791) is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour. In this image: A Russian groom jumps to his wife during a wedding ceremony near the statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman monument, by Etienne Maurice Falconet in St Petersburg, Russia, 26 June 2010.
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