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Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau Two Houses, 1908 © Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia, Lugano, Photo: Christoph Münstermann.
VIENNA.- This presentation is the first exhibition in Austria to showcase a selection of some 100 Expressionist works from two eminent European art collections, the Fondazione Gabriele e Anna Braglia, Lugano, as well as the Foundation of Renate and Friedrich Johenning from North Rhine-Westphalia. The exhibition additionally features around ten works from further collections, including the Nolde Foundation Seebüll, the Leopold Museum as well as the Leopold, Private Collection. The paths that led the two passionate collectors to German Expressionism were quite different. While Gabriele Braglia bought a work by the Futurist Mario Sironi already in 1950, he did not discover German Expressionism until the 1980s. Paul Klees watercolor Remembering Romanshorn (1913) marked the beginning of Braglias Expressionist collection activities. Friedrich Johennings interest in this art movement was sparked in 1979, when he purchased the watercolor Cyclamens and Chrysanthemums (19521955) ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sotheby's final auction of 2019, Fabrizio Moretti x Fabrizio Moretti | In Passing totaled an exceptional $1.8 million this week in Sotheby's New York salesroom. The auction achieved 'white glove' status (100% sold), driven by buyers new to Sotheby's as well as record levels of pre-sale bidding on the auction house's app and online auction platform. Courtesy Sotheby's
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 | | Mysterious artist Banksy unveils dark nativity in Bethlehem | | French court upholds plagiarism ruling against Jeff Koons | | Belgian Africa museum in tour guide race row | 
An artwork by street artist Banksy is displayed in his Walled-Off hotel in the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on December 20, 2019. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP.
by Claire Gounon
BETHLEHEM (AFP).- A manger scene juxtaposed against concrete blocks seemingly pierced by a mortar shell: with Christmas looming, the latest Bethlehem offering by secretive artist Banksy appeared Saturday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Dubbed the "Scar of Bethlehem", the baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph are backlit through damaged concrete, chiseled pockmarks exploding out from a gaping hole in four directions to approximate the Christmas Star. The work is installed at Banksy's Walled-Off Hotel, where all rooms overlook a concrete section of the barrier built by Israel to cut off the occupied West Bank from Israeli territory. "Love" and "peace" are respectively graffiti tagged in English and French on the artistic installation's concrete blocks, while three large wrapped presents are at the forefront of the scene. "It is a nativity," the hotel's manager Wissam ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on March 27, 2018 US artist Jeff Koons poses during an interview with AFP in Hong Kong. Anthony WALLACE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A Paris appeals court has upheld an order for American pop artist Jeff Koons to pay damages after deeming that his sculpture "Naked" had plagiarised another artwork. The court this week stood by a ruling two years ago that found the 1988 porcelain sculpture of two naked children had copied a photograph by French artist Jean-Francois Bauret, according to documents seen by AFP on Saturday. It said the artist's company Jeff Koons LLC and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, where his work was due to be displayed, must together pay 20,000 euros ($22,000) to Bauret's family. Jeff Koons LLC must pay another 4,000 euros to the family of the late photographer for using a picture of the sculpture, part of his "Banality" series, on his website. Stephanie Legrand, the lawyer for Bauret's heirs, welcomed the ruling. "The continued use of his image in France is banned by the court, which is a great success for my clients," she said. She also welcomed the court ruling confirming the responsibility ... More | | 
Luba helmet mask, Luba. Katanga, D.R. Congo. Wood (Ricinodendron rautanenii), H 39 cm, inv. no. EO.0.0.23470 © RMCA, Tervuren, photo Jo Van de Vijver.
BRUSSELS (AFP).- Belgium's Africa Museum launched an investigation Saturday into allegations that a guide made racist comments and defended the country's brutal colonial past during a tour with students. The museum director told AFP the guide's comments, which apparently included downplaying the widespread mutilation of local workers in Belgian-ruled Congo, were unacceptable and "totally against the spirit of what we stand for". The row comes just a year after the museum, once notorious for its uncritical celebration of Belgian colonial exploits in central Africa, reopened following a major refurbishment that sought to bring it up to date. Belgian rule in the late 19th and early 20th century was notoriously brutal and exploitative. Run as a private royal estate by former king Leopold II, the African colonies covered lands now included in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. During a tour with masters students in history ... More |
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| | Israeli museum explains the emojis of ancient Egypt | | Stars with stripes: Ketterer Kunst announces online only auction with works starting at € 1 | | Exhibition embarks the visitor on an enchanting voyage of discovery | 
A visitor whose shadow is seen on the wall (R), watches a video installation of a woman using emojis to talk, at the exhibition "Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2019. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- How does an academic explain the importance of ancient hieroglyphics to modern audiences glued to their phones? Through the cunning use of emojis. The Israel Museum in Jerusalem this week opened the "Emoglyphs" exhibition, comparing the pictograms of antiquity to those of today. "I usually find it very hard to explain how hieroglyphs are used as a script," the show's curator, Shirly Ben-Dor Evian, told AFP. "Then it occurred to me that some of the things can now be explained more easily because we are all writing with pictures now -- it has become very widespread." From the heart symbol to little monkeys and foaming glasses of beer, the pictograms of our own time have ... More | | 
Günther Uecker, Steppenbrand, 2008. Color lithograph, 80.2 x 60.4 cm / 31.5 x 23.7 inches. Starting price: 1,580.
MUNICH.- Whether in colors or in black and white, horizontal or vertical, in strictly geometrical order or in playful waves: Stripes are incredibly versatile. Thats also what international stars like Damien Hirst, Mel Ramos and Günther Uecker see in them. Ketterer Kunst has compiled around 60 Stripe Works by renowned artists for an exclusive online only auction. They will be up for auction on www.ketterer-internet-auctions.com between January 15 and February 15, 3 pm some of them with estimate prices starting at 1. In this theme auction Mel Ramos Molly in her zebra-striped outfit in front of a shiny golden background is all for stripes from head to toe, while Damien Hirsts two silkscreens Colour Chart and Colour Chart (Glitter) from 2017 render homage to the color stripe by stripe. Apart from stripes, other geometric ... More | | 
François Boucher (1703 - 1770), The Afternoon Meal, oil on canvas, 1739 © Musée du Louvre, RMNGrand Palais, photography by Franck Raux.
BESANÃON.- From 9 November 2019 to 2 March 2020, Besançons Museum of Fine Art and Archaeology is presenting Une des provinces du Rococo. La Chine rêvée de François Boucher (One of the provinces of Rococo. François Bouchers idealised China), an exhibition which embarks the visitor on an enchanting voyage of discovery. The illustrious yet little known François Boucher was one of the key figures in eighteenth century painting along with Watteau or Fragonard, and was one of the artists displaying the greatest talent in his efforts to renew the decorative arts. At a time when China, an ancient and distant civilisation, was drawing closer to France thanks to the trade in objets dart, Boucher offered a window into this fascinating world, creating numerous Chinese subjects which were almost instantly adopted ... More |
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| | Janet Borden, Inc. opens a new exhibition of seasonal photographs by gallery artists | | Vienna Ballet Academy removes leader's power after abuse scandal | | Christie's announces Americana Week 2020 | 
Neil Winokur, Pickle Ornament.
NEW YORK, NY.- Janet Borden, Inc. opened HOLIDAZE, a new exhibition of seasonal photographs by gallery artists. The exhibition is on view from 19 December 2019 - 18 January 2020. HOLIDAZE 2019 celebrates the wonderful and exciting photographs that gallery artists have made commemorating the holiday season. It's a light-hearted show with surprising takes on a well-known trope. From Martin Parrs fancy cocktails on a floor in Cambridge to the saturated photographs of Neil Winokur's Menorah and Christmas ornaments, this show is a collection of photographs that celebrates the wider landscape of the winter holidays. David Brandon Geetings surreal and comic still life questions our experience of photographic images by presenting us an illusory composition. Jim Dows photograph of the stairway at the Salamagundi Club in New York blends charming architecture with vernacular decorations, turning an exclusive ... More | | 
Competitors run by the State Opera during the 36th edition of Vienna Marathon on April 7, 2019 in Vienna. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The Vienna State Opera on Friday removed all responsibilities from Simona Noja-Nebyla, the managing director of its historic ballet academy. The move came just days after an independent commission said the academy had endangered the well-being of its students. The academy had given its students insufficient medical and therapeutic care, the commission, which was set up by the Austrian government, said in a report issued Tuesday. There also seemed to be no awareness that it had a responsibility for its students health. The decision to effectively dismiss Noja-Nebyla was announced in a news release Friday by the company that oversees all Austrias federal theaters. The commission was set up in April after allegations of physical and mental abuse at the academy were revealed by Falter, an Austrian ... More | | 
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington. Painted 1796-1803. Estimate: $200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Americana Week 2020, a series of auctions, viewings and events, to be held January 11-24. The week of sales is comprised of Outsider Art on January 17, Chinese Export Art Featuring the Tibor Collection, Part II on January 23, and Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver on January 24. Object highlights across the week include a majestic composition by Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom ($1,500,000-3,500,000), The Gould Family Queen Anne Carved Walnut High Chest-of-Drawers, Newport, 1750-1770 ($300,000-400,000), Bill Traylors Man on White, Woman on Red / Man with Black Dog (double-sided) ($200,000-400,000) from the Collection of Alice Walker, a double-sided work by Henry Darger Untitled (188/189), double sided ($400,000-600,000) and ... More |
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| | Phase 2, an aerosol art innovator, is dead at 64 | | Exhibition presents works by African American artists in the The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's collection | | Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert announces representation of the Patrick Heron Estate | 
A photo provided by David Schmidlapp shows the graffiti artist Michael Lawrence Marrow, better known as Phase 2, in 1996. David Schmidlapp via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was one of the most prolific, inventive and emulated New York graffiti writers, and who later in his career produced early hip-hops most innovative flyers, died on Dec. 12 at a nursing and rehabilitation center in the Bronx. He was 64. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrigs disease, his longtime friend David Schmidlapp said. In the South Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s, all the creative components that would coalesce into what became widely known as hip-hop were beginning to take shape. At the center of them all was Phase 2, an intuitive, disruptive talent who first made his mark as a writer of graffiti although he hated the term. He had a natural gift or ability to stylize letters, said Alan Ket, a founder of the Museum of Graffiti in Miami, adding that he continued to ... More | | 
This exhibition has been organized by Heather Nickels, Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellowship in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora.
MEMPHIS, TN.- The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art announces an exciting new exhibition, A Journey Towards Self-Definition: African American Artists in the Permanent Collection, curated by Heather Nickels, the museums Joyce Blackmon Curatorial Fellow in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora. The exhibition, which is on view through May 10, 2020, includes work by Gordon Parks, Ernest C. Withers, Edwin Jeffrey Jr., Joe Light, James Van der Zee, Patrick Kelly, William Edmondson, Purvis Young, Lonnie Holley, and a number of anonymous vernacular photographers. Nickels arrived at the Brooks in early August 2019. In July 2019, she completed a masters degree in the History of Art from the world-renowned Courtauld Institute of Art in London, U.K. During her studies, she worked as a Prints Room Assistant at The Courtauld Gallery and as a Digital Assistant at the Courtaulds Research Forum, ... More | | 
In this file photo: Susanna Heron, artist and daughter of one of Britains most influential and important figures in post-war British art.
LONDON.- Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert announced its representation of the estate of Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999) with a loan exhibition of paintings in Autumn 2020 to mark the centenary of the artists birth. Known for his contribution to post-war abstract art, both as an artist and as a respected writer and critic, Patrick Heron is recognised as a leading figure of his generation. His engagement with colour and light, as well as his acknowledgment of masters of the School of Paris such as Braque, Matisse and Bonnard, saw his painting shift from figuration in the 1940s to his distinct mode of abstraction in the 1960s. Selected by the leading writer and curator David Anfam, the exhibition in September 2020 at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert will focus on the mature abstract work of the mid-1960s through to the mid-1970s and will include loans from public and private collections as well as the estate. James Holland-Hibbert, Director of Hazlitt ... More |
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 kamel mennour exhibits works by French architect and urban planner Christian de PortzamparcPARIS.- Christian de Portzamparc is a leading French architect and urban planner, who was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1994 and at the age of 50 as the first French winner. In 2006, the Collège de France created a 53rd chair dedicated to artistic creation. Christian de Portzamparc was its first holder. He received the 2018 Praemium Imperiale Arts Award for Architecture by the Japan Art Association. His imaginative architectural style is known for its distinctive features such as bold designs, an artistic approach and the creativity that comes from drawing and colour. He is especially esteemed as a designer of concert halls and an urban planner. He studied architecture in Paris and New York, and became famous for his creation of the rue des Hautes Formes dwellings in Paris and the large scale project for President François ... More CCA Tel Aviv presents presents presents the latest iteration of Jonathan Monk's "Exhibit Model"TEL AVIV.- Jonathan Monk (*1969, Leicester, United Kingdom; lives and works in Berlin) creates works rooted in a playful engagement with the history of postwar and contemporary art, mainly with the so-called art + movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, and Arte Povera. In his continuous appropriation, research, rediscovery, and reinterpretation of works by John Baldessari, Sol LeWitt, Alighiero Boetti, and others Monk induces us to reflect on pieces that may seem familiar and yet, in their present metamorphosis, appear completely strange. This ambivalent feeling seems to derive from our deep conviction that we know what we are looking at, but not quite, not really: it could very well be either identical to the thing itself, or something else. Versatile and ironic, Monk has worked in various media, and his engagement ... More Grey Flannel's Jan. 22 auction presents elite game-used sports memorabiliaSCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.- More than 750 lots of generously illustrated, premium-quality sports memorabilia items, including important game-used apparel and autographed material, are now available to view and bid on at Grey Flannel Auctions website. All major sports are represented, with an emphasis on provenance, authenticity and rarity throughout. Bidding will close on January 22, 2020. The sale will open with an exceedingly rare 1902 Baltimore Orioles game-used jersey described by Director of Operations Michael Russek as the earliest of all professional baseball jerseys handled by Grey Flannel over its 30-year history. It is a little-known fact that the iconic New York Yankees franchise began play in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles, with no relation to the current Orioles organization, Russek noted. The team was purchased and renamed the New ... More Alaska Gold Rush nugget brings top dollar at Holabird's Holiday Treasures auctionRENO, NEV.- A beautiful 4.51 troy ounce Alaska Gold Rush gold nugget from the Atlin mining district, located just east of Skagway in Yukon, Alaska climbed to $10,845, and an oil on board painting of two miners on mules loaded with various items, titled Panhandlers, signed by Texas artist William Forrest Martin, nicely framed, realized $8,540 at Holabird Western Americana Collections massive, five day Holiday Treasures Auction held December 5th through the 9th. The auction was packed with a staggering 4,379 lots in a wide array of collecting categories including Western Americana, railroadiana, gold, minerals, music memorabilia, mining, art, Native Americana, militaria, aviation, postal history, coins, tokens and more online and live in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. The painting and gold nugget were the two ... More Inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award 2020 announces 10 shortlisted fellowsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Today Frieze and Deutsche Bank announced the ten shortlisted fellows that will headline the inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award. Presented in partnership with award-winning, non-profit film academy Ghetto Film School (GFS), the initiative offers a platform and development program for ten emerging, Los Angeles-based filmmakers aged 20-34 years old. Frieze Los Angeles takes place February 14 16, 2020 at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Launched in 2019, Frieze Los Angeles brings together more than 70 galleries from around the world and is supported by global lead partner Deutsche Bank for the second consecutive year. The ten shortlisted fellows are as follows: Danielle Boyd, Mya Dodson, Michelle Jihyon Kim, Nabeer Khan, Silvia Lara, Alima Lee, Timothy Offor, Toryn Seabrooks, ... More The Shed's second season to feature new commissions and familiar facesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- As it settles into New Yorks cultural fabric, the Shed the $475 million arts center in Hudson Yards that opened this year has a question to answer: After a flashy first season that has included a kung fu musical, Björk and a concert series conceived by director Steve McQueen, how do you keep people interested? The venues sophomore season, announced Friday, is a response to that question. One thing we wanted to do was to have a wide enough range of commissions in that first season to demonstrate that there was something for most people in our program, Alex Poots, the Sheds artistic director and chief executive, said in an interview. Theres less pressure on this season to do everything, he added. Its still an eclectic mix. The 2020 season will include the world premiere of Help, a theatrical ... More Ward Just, an ex-journalist who found larger truths in fiction, dies at 84NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Ward Just, a journalist for whom the Vietnam War was both a personal trauma and a national tragedy, inspiring him to write novels about people whose lives are shaped by war, political intrigue, myopic diplomats and various forces beyond their control, died Thursday at a hospital in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was 84. His daughter Julie Just said the cause was Lewy body dementia. Just was recognized not only as a prominent reporter on the Vietnam War, like David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett and several others, but also as a novelist and short-story writer of the first rank. His spare and graceful prose in a score of novels and numerous short stories was compared to Ernest Hemingways, while his perceptions about American society reminded some critics of Henry James. The milieu I knew as a reporter ... More 7.7 billion snowflakes in the RijksmuseumAMSTERDAM.- In the dark month of December, the Rijksmuseum is hosting a very special light project. Until 6 January, 7.7 billion snowflakes will fall in the entrance hall: thats one little light for every inhabitant of our planet. In the Atrium a huge round cloth has been installed just under the ceiling. Stand under it and you get the feeling of being in a swirling snowstorm. Its as if you can look through to the sky. But theres more to this project: By looking up to the light, to the snow, to the cosmos, we feel small and insignificant, says project conceiver and designer Christian Borstlap of studio Part of a Bigger Plan. The boundlessness of the space reminds us of who we are and what we want for ourselves and our future. In the space of a month, 7.7 billion snowflakes will fall: thats one little light for every inhabitant of our planet. Christian Borstlap is the founder of Studio Part of a ... More Contemporary designers, diamond set jewels lift Holiday Fine Jewelry Auction above $4.6 millionDALLAS, TX.- A dozen competitive bidders boosted a Diamond, White Gold Pendant-Necklace to $175,000, claiming top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Holiday Fine Jewelry Auction Dec. 8 in New York. The result for the necklace and items from four important estates, one from Massachusetts and three from California, helped the total for the sale reach $4,683,189. This was a solid auction with a lot of exciting bidding wars for offerings that were mainly contemporary designer brand names and a lot of diamond set jewels, said Jill Burgum, Senior Director of Fine Jewelry at Heritage Auctions. We saw an increase in our average price per lot sold, which reflected not only the quality of the jewelry offered, but also the strength of the economy and the exuberant nature generated by those feeling the holiday season. The top lot is a dazzling ... More Cevdet Erek presents an architectural installation with sound at Hamburger BahnhofBERLIN.- In Bergama Stereo, an architectural installation with sound, the Istanbul-based artist and musician Cevdet Erek references the form, the historically attributed function, and the reception of the Pergamon Altar, now located in Berlin, and creates a new interpretation of the famous Hellenistic edifice, which dates back to the second century BC. Bergama is the Turkish name for the ancient city of Pergamon as well as the contemporary city and district in the province of Izmir. The famous gigantomachy frieze of the altar, whose fragments were transported to Berlin at the end of the 19th century from its original location in today's Western Turkey, is interpreted with a 34-channel sound composition that fills the space. Here, sound assumes the central role that visual elements play in the original altar, creating a multi-dimensional narrative. The sculptural ... More Marianne Boesky Gallery opens a focused exhibition of eight works by Cosima von BoninASPEN, CO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery opened Cosima von Bonin, a focused exhibition of eight works by the Cologne-based conceptual artist. Inspired by popular and vernacular culture, movies, fashion, and music, von Bonin examines cultural phenomena and the contradictions and relationships therein. Her multifaceted practice embraces sculpture, photography, textile paintings which she refers to as "Lappen" (translation "rags"), installation, performance, film, video, and music. For the exhibition, Marianne Boesky Gallery presents works from across a decade of von Bonins career, capturing the dynamic and open approach that has made von Bonin one of the most influential German artists of her generation. The exhibition will remain on view at the gallerys Aspen location through February 2, 2020. Von Bonin's work touches upon ideas of identity and self-reflection ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced. By the 1980s, he was exhibiting his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums internationally. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his art in 1992. In this image: Basquiat: Boom For Real. Installation view Barbican Art Gallery 21 September 2017 - 28 January 2018 © Tristan Fewings / Getty Images Artwork: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1982 Courtesy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.
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