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Lunar Mission Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins' Space suit is seen inside the Conservation Laboratory of the Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, near Washington, on June 28, 2019. July 20, 2019, will mark 50 years since Commander Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon and the famous phrase "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". Eric BARADAT / AFP.
by Ivan Couronne
CHANTILLY (AFP).- Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new. You can hardly tell they made a trip to the Moon and back 50 years ago. To their side is the slightly yellowed "Snoopy Cap" (formally known as a "communications carrier") worn by crewmate Buzz Aldrin. The space suit worn by Michael Collins, Apollo 11's third astronaut, is in near mint condition. But the blue silicon fingertips of Armstrong's gloves have begun to degrade -- a process that for now remains invisible to the naked eye -- as has Collins' suit. "After 50 years, we do know that the rubber i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Summer Timed Discovery Auction featuring items priced no higher than $1000 and some starting as low at $25! This auction will feature fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. The sale will be held on Monday, Jul 01, 2019 10:00 AM CDT. In this image: Greek Boeotian Pottery Kantharos. Estimate $700 - $1,050.
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 | | Fondation Maeght opens an exhibition featuring Joan Miro's exceptional graphic work | | Sotheby's to auction the best-surviving NASA videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing | | Exhibition celebrates five decades if Helen Frankenthaler's innovation in printmaking | 
Joan Miró, Derrière Le Miroir n°117 - Miró, 1959. Maeght Editeur, Paris. Photo: Galerie Maeght Paris. © Successió Miró, Adagp Paris, 2019.
SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE.- From 29 June to 17 November 2019, the Fondation Maeght is celebrating Joan Miró, a major player in the foundation's creation alongside Marguerite and Aimé Maeght and their architect friend Josep LluÃs Sert. The exhibition "Joan Miró. Beyond painting." curated by Rosa Maria Malet, former director of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, gives visitors the opportunity to discover an essential aspect of the artist: his exceptional graphic work. The exhibition is centred on the working process of Miró, an artist who produced one of the most remarkable bodies of printed work in the history of art. Made possible largely from an exceptional donation by Adrien Maeght, who worked with Miró in his studio at the ARTE print shop, the show presents over 200 works, including a number of unseen gouaches. Artist's proofs, posters, prints, original lithographs, printing plates, final proofs and rare books complete the exhibition ... More | | 
Representing the earliest, sharpest and most accurate surviving video images of mans first steps on the Moon *Unrestored, unenhanced, and unremastered* Purchased at a government surplus auction directly from NASA in 1976 for $217.77. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- This July, Sothebys will offer the earliest, sharpest, and most accurate surviving video images of mans first steps on the moon: three original NASA videotape recordings of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Unrestored, unenhanced, and unremastered, the significance of the videotapes was recognized during NASAs fruitless search at the time of the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing for its original SSTV recordings. The tapes will headline the auction dedicated to Space Exploration on 20 July in New York the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing when they are estimated to sell for $1/2 million. At a combined run time of 2 hours and 24 minutes, they capture everything from Neil Armstrongs declaration: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind, marking the historic moment the first human set foot on another world, to the long distance ... More | | 
Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1967. Color screenprint. © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Chiron Press, New York.
PRINCETON, NJ.- One of the most influential artists to emerge from the mid-20th century, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) may be best known for her innovative abstract paintings in which she poured washes of color over great expanses of raw canvas. She was also the most prolific printmaker of her generation. Frankenthalers print works are remarkable for the diversity of techniques she employed, the number of studios with which she collaborated and the ways in which her engagement with printmaking could parallel simultaneously independent and in sync with her practice as a painter. More than 50 prints by the artist, spanning five decades and more than a dozen printmaking processes, including lithography, woodcut, etching and engraving, are on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from June 29 through Oct. 20, 2019. Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity examines the ... More |
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| | | Parrasch Heijnen Gallery participates in the multi-venue Dilexi Gallery retrospective | | Exhibition features Don McCullin's photographs from his ambitious journey to the fringes of the Roman Empire | | The Dalà welcomes summer with three new special exhibits | 
Tony DeLap, Modern Times III, 1966. Wood, fiberglass and lacquer, 39 x 67-1/2 x 39 inches. Dimensions variable.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is participating in the multi-venue Dilexi Gallery retrospective with a historic presentation of works by Arlo Acton, Tony DeLap, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, and Richard Van Buren. The Dilexi gallery began out of necessity--a deep-seated need to have a serious space for counterculture artists in the heart of vibrantly active beatnik San Francisco. In 1958, Jim Newman and Bob Alexander filled this void championing free-spirited and nonconformist artists. Dilexi, which derives from Latin to select, to value highly, to love, was the conduit necessary for these disparate artists to experiment with new materials and non-traditional techniques that eventually became their individual styles outside any singular art movement. Pivotal museum exhibitions such as Primary Structures (1966: Jewish Museum, New York, ... More | | 
The Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon, 2008 © Don McCullin.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE.- Château La Coste and Hamiltons Gallery are presenting Southern Frontiers, a carefully curated selection of Sir Don McCullins photographs from his ambitious journey to the fringes of the Roman Empire. Throughout a long and distinguished career, McCullin has travelled extensively and he has become familiar with certain remote parts of the globe. This particular series is divided into two parts. The Levant stretches from the ruins of Baalbek in the Lebanon to Palmyra in Syria, and Jirash in Jordan. The second area is known as the Moghreb and covers a sweeping journey through the North African coastal countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya - where he has photographed the great ruins of Leptus Magna. McCullins photographs are taken on a large-format film camera and include the different themes of this great photographers multifaceted practice. The immediate impression for the ... More | | 
Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, Portrait of Francisco Sabatini, c 1775-79. Oil on canvas, 32 5/8 x 24 1/2 in. Meadows Museum at SMU, Dallas. Algur H. Meadows Collection. MM.67.03.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Dalà Museum opened three distinct special exhibitions: one showcases Salvador DalÃs legendary Masterworks in augmented reality; one features paintings and first-edition prints by renowned Spanish artist Francisco Goya; and one exhibits rarely seen Dalà bronzes and large-scale outdoor sculptures. This first-ever trio of simultaneous exhibit openings underscores the Museums commitment to providing unique cultural inspiration for the local community and the world at large. Were delighted to present such a wealth of new offerings simultaneously, said Dr. Hank Hine, Executive Director of The DalÃ. Each exhibit, so different in content and scope, will individually enrich our visitors experience here at the Museum. Collectively, they provide guests with even deeper insights into Salvador DalÃ, his influences ... More |
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| | | MOCO Hôtel des collections, an exhibition centre for international public or private collection opens in Montpelli | | Pre-Columbian gold pushes American Indian and Tribal Art auction above $1 Million | | Mary's New Home and other works: Alexander and Bonin opens a group show | 
Ideally located, MOCO now serves as the main headquarters for Montpellier Contemporary. © PCA - STREAM.
MONTPELLIER.- Montpellier Contemporain (MOCO) is an arts ecosystem, ranging from arts training related activities to art collections. The model is unique to Montpellier and encompasses an arts school and two exhibition centres: ESBA (Montpellier Art School), La Panacée, Contemporary Art Centre and, from today, MOCO Hôtel des collections, an exhibition centre for public or private international collections. Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des collections on June 29, the MOCO unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private collection begun in 2011 by Yasuharu Ishikawa, a Japanese entrepreneur born in 1970 at Okayama, is characterized by exceptional coherence and a Japanese feel that derives primarily from its emphasis on minimal, understated, subtle forms. On this occasion, the exhibition The Street. Where the world is made. is also presented ... More | | 
A Large and Important Gold Pendant, from the Central American Diquis culture, more than doubled its high pre-auction estimate when it drew $50,000 to claim top-lot honors in the sale.
DALLAS, TX.- A surge in demand for pre-Columbian art made of solid gold lifted Heritage Auctions Ethnographic Art: American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Auction to $1,004,553 June 25 in Dallas, Texas. A Large and Important Gold Pendant, from the Central American Diquis culture, more than doubled its high pre-auction estimate when it drew $50,000 to claim top-lot honors in the sale. The Diquis was a pre-Columbian culture in what is now Costa Rica that produced some extraordinary gold art, Heritage Auctions Senior Ethnographic Art Specialist Delia Sullivan said. The popularity of the Diquis lots in this auction are a reflection of the upward trajectory in the quality of pre-Columbian and Ethnographic lots Heritage offers. The Diquis culture flourished from AD 700 to 1530. The rare pendant, from a private collection in Atlanta, Georgia, can be traced back to Enrique Vargas Alfaro, who sold high-quality pre-Columbian ... More | | 
Willie Cole, Woman in Heels, 2019. Bronze, 70 x 25 x 30 in. Image: Joerg Lohse. Photo courtesy Alexander and Bonin, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Alexander and Bonin is presenting Marys New Home and other works, a group show with work by Michael Buthe, Roman Cochet, Willie Cole, Diango Hernández, Robert Kinmont, Stefan Kürten, Jorge Macchi and Rita McBride. Roman Cochets work depicts scenes in which humanity appears to have vanished. A sense of desolation is palpable as untamed vegetation and overturned furniture fill in the gaps of human civilization. Also on display are half-plant, halfrobot sculptures cast in resin and composed of a banal array of objects, from plastic vegetation to computer cables. Michael Buthe reveals a universe that is exuberant and dreamlike in his paintings and installations. In the 1970s, this was expressed in the form of room-sized environments. The paintings and objects which follow in the 1980s and early 1990s consist of intensely colored assemblages that seem on the verge of self-combustion. A central facet of Wi ... More |
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| | | SculptureCenter announces new Director Christian Rattemeyer | | Abstract by Nature: Sean Kelly opens a group exhibition featuring major works by an international group of artists | | The East Hampton Historical Society opens 'Thomas Moran Discovers the American West' | 
Rattemeyer joins the museum after 12 years at The Museum of Modern Art, where he served as Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Photo: Noah Rabinowitz.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- SculptureCenter announced the appointment of Christian Rattemeyer to the position of Director effective November 1, 2019. Rattemeyer joins the museum after 12 years at The Museum of Modern Art, where he served as Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. He succeeds Mary Ceruti who is now Executive Director of the Walker Art Center. As the new Director, Rattemeyer will oversee all exhibitions and programming, and continue to lead the institution that is respected for its independent vision, intellectual rigor, and dedication to commissioning new work by emerging and established artists. SculptureCenter has always been an artist-centric institution, founded by artists in 1928, and Rattemeyers life-long engagement with artists working in contemporary ... More | | 
Callum Innes, Two Identified Forms, 2012. Oil on canvas, 83 5/8 x 81 5/8 inches (212.5 x 207.5 cm) © Callum Innes. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly is presenting Abstract by Nature, a group exhibition featuring major works by an international group of artists, each of whom engages both traditional and non-traditional methods to produce meditative works that have a distinctly timeless quality. Working with a broad range of media including painting, sculpture, ceramic, film and video, the artists included in Abstract by Nature share an interest in creating works that reflect, evoke or transform elements of the natural world into pure poetic forms, in balance with, and inspired by, natural and cultural environments. Abstract by Nature features a diverse roster of emerging, mid-career and established artists including Callum Innes, Markus KarstieÃ, Hyun-Sook Song, Su Xiaobai, Wu Chi-Tsung and a selection of historic Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics. Positioning contemporary works of art alongside antiquities ... More | | 
Thomas Moran.
EAST HAMPTON VILLAGE, NY.- The East Hampton Historical Society, stewards of the Thomas & Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, announce their newest exhibition: Thomas Moran Discovers the American West, on display from June 29 until November 9, 2019. This artful and historically curated exhibition details Morans adventurous participation in the 1871 Hayden Expedition to Wyoming, and explores its impact on both the art world and the National Parks Service. The exhibition traces Thomas Morans empowerment as an artist as he explored the American West on a trajectory to become one of the leaders of both the National Parks movement, and a small group of artists who promote Americas pride in its landscape and natural wonders. The substantial portion of this exhibit is material that is returning to Mr. Morans Studio after being gifted to Yellowstone National Park in the 1940s. This enlightening collection of his watercolors, a sketchbook, oil pai ... More |
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 Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery opens an exhibition of works by the French artist Louis GranetLUXEMBOURG .- Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery welcomed the French artist Louis Granet for his first solo show at the gallery from 28 June until 7 September 2019. The art of Louis Granet can be read as the metaphor of the itinerary of the painter. Louis Granet develops a technique and a construction in his work rooted in the art of comic illustration. His practice of the comic acquires a whole new dimension on the canvas. Initially cartoon author and passionate by drawing he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, France before joining the School of Comic Illustration of Angoulême, France and he finally attended to the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, France. Thus the work of Louis Granet creates a link between comic and painting. Sequencing the canvas as a comic strip and the use of vivid colours imitate the style characteristics but this change ... More Locks Gallery announces representation of Louise FishmanPHILADELPHIA, PA.- In a career spanning over five decades to date, American painter Louise Fishman has produced an astounding body of work in gestural painting, engaging the materiality of mark making with an enduring passion. Locks Gallery announced its representation of this native Philadelphian. Both embracing and redefining the aggressively masculine tradition of Abstract Expressionism, [Fishman] has employed its formal language to create large-scale, gestural abstractions that share the physicality, dynamism, and emotional force of that movement while remaining visually poetic and intimate in tone.1 Louise Fishman was born in 1939 in Philadelphia. She earned her BFA in Painting and Printmaking and a BS in Art Education at the Stella Elkins Tyler School of Art in 1963 and completed her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the University ... More London's Tower Bridge an icon at 125 years oldLONDON (AFP).- London's iconic Tower Bridge celebrates its 125th anniversary on Sunday by showing off the weird and wacky alternative designs that were nearly built instead. The globally-recognised landmark which opens and closes for large boats plying the River Thames, has become one of the symbols of the British capital. But it could have been very different. The fairytale castle-style masterpiece was just one of 50 designs which vied to solve the conundrum of erecting a much-needed new bridge that would still allow large ships into what was the world's busiest port. "There were all sorts of weird and wonderful, really creative ideas," said Tower Bridge head Chris Earlie. "There were spiral roadways -- like you would see in car parks -- either side of the River Thames and then a high-level bridge," the bridgemaster told AFP. "One design that got quite ... More BelgianArtPrize 2020 shortlist announcedBRUSSELS.- The Jury have announced the five artists shortlisted for the BelgianArtPrize 2020: Agency, Sammy Baloji, Saddie Choua, Jacqueline Mesmaeker and Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Each of the five shortlisted artists will present a new artistic project to be shown at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) from March 19 to May 24, 2020. The winner will be announced in May 2020 at an award ceremony at BOZAR. The shortlisted artists were chosen from an extensive list of 184 nominated artists compiled by 79 art professionals and collectors. The organizers called upon an advisory committee to carefully set up this renewed panel of nominators who represent the diversity of the ecosystems that make up and contribute to the richness of the Belgian art scene. The nominators were invited to nominate up to 5 artists taking into account the BelgianArtPrizes ... More Davis Museum appoints Kara Schneiderman to leadership teamWELLESLEY, MASS.- Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro Director of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, has appointed Kara Schneiderman as the Associate Director for Operations and Collections Management effective June 3. Schneiderman will work closely with Fischman on the overall management of the Davis Museums growing collections and the long-term strategic planning of the institution. Schneiderman will also oversee financial management, museum technology, security and facilities, and daily operations for the Davis. Kara has an impressive history of managing major collections in prestigious institutions, said Lisa Fischman. Her expertise will be critical as we move into the next phase of the Davis as the collections continue to expand in breadth and depth. Schneiderman was previously Director of Collections for Harvard Universitys ... More Baltimore Museum of Art opens a branch location at Lexington MarketBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art opened a branch location at Lexington Market, the worlds oldest continually operating public market. BMA Lexington Market is a 250-square-foot space that will host a variety of art programs and collaborative activities. The branch is showcasing photography created by youth at the Greenmount West Community Center who worked with New Orleans-based artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick. BMA Lexington Market is located near the arcade in the East Market. It will have regular hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Admission is free. BMA Lexington Market encourages all visitors to explore ideas and questions on a wide range of subjects of local, regional, and national interest through art. The flexible space features reproductions from the BMAs collection and offers opportunities ... More Holabird Western Americana Collections' announces huge, 4,000-lot Americana auctionRENO, NEV.- Everything good about summer collectibles mining artifacts, all elements of Western history, manuscript archives, antique bottles and marbles, rare stocks and bonds, gold, numismatics and much more will be packed into Holabird Western Americana Collections five-day, 4,000-lot Americana Auction, planned for Thursday thru Monday, July 11th to 15th. The auction will be held online and in Holabirds gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. Start times each day are 8 am Pacific time. Previews will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, July 9th-10th, from 10 am-5 pm. To schedule a private preview call 775-851-1859. For those unable to attend the sale in person, online bidding will be facilitated by iCollector.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, AuctionMobility.com and Auctionzip.com. Telephone ... More First glimpses of restored iconic Ray Harryhausen models commemorate late cinema titan's 99th birthdayEDINBURGH.- To celebrate the 99th birthday anniversary of the cinematic titan Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013), today the National Galleries of Scotland and Harryhausens daughter Vanessa on behalf of the Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, revealed the very first glimpses of several recently restored models created by the legendary filmmaker who changed the face of modern cinema. These ground-breaking monuments to cinematic history will go on display next year at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) in Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema, the largest and widest-ranging exhibition of Harryhausens work ever seen. The models will join newly restored and previously unseen material from Harryhausens matchless collection and archive, from 23 May 2020. Writing specifically for the legendary filmmakers 2020 centenary celebrations ... More France's Meyer new director of La Scala in MilanMILAN (AFP).- France's Dominique Meyer, currently the director of the Vienna Opera, was appointed Friday to direct Italy's famous La Scala Theatre in Milan, the city's mayor said. Meyer, 64, previously director of the Paris and Lausanne Operas, will take over from current Scala director Alexander Pereira. There will be a year or so of overlap: Meyer will take up the post from "mid-2020", while Pereira will stay on until mid-2021, according to Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan and president of the Scala Foundation. At the head of the prestigious Vienna Staatsoper since 2010, Meyer achieved high attendance figures, with some 610,000 spectators per season. He also successfully developed live paid broadcasts and brought in former French star dancer Manuel Legris as ballet director. Critics accused him however of timidity in his programming ... More Original 'Star Wars' creators lift lid on special effects challengesBEVETLY HILLS (AFP).- Remember the scene when Luke Skywalker failed his first attempt to blow up the Death Star? Or when C3PO chased him up the stairs of his Tatooine desert home? Of course you don't -- both were among countless improvised changes made to the original "Star Wars" due to budget, time and technological restraints, its creators explained at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills on Thursday. At an event celebrating visual effects innovation in the classic sci-films, luminaries who created George Lucas's 1977 blockbuster contrasted their world of filming -- and sometimes blowing up -- wooden Star Destroyer models with today's digital masterpieces. "The technology and techniques of the 70s put considerable constraints on the way shots had to be staged," said John Knoll, chief creative officer ... More Winners of the first Mansfield-Ruddock Prize for art announcedOXFORD.- On Wednesday 26 June, the winners of the first Mansfield-Ruddock Prize for art were announced at the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University. The Mansfield-Ruddock Prize is a new prize, kindly funded by the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts, facilitated by Sir Paul Ruddock. Its object is to acquire one graduate and one undergraduate work from the Ruskin School of Art degree show each year for Mansfield College. Through displaying works by Ruskin students in the College setting, Mansfield aims to open up new conversations and debates around contemporary art, to inspire its students and visitors, and support some of the many talented emerging artists graduating from the Ruskin School of Art. The inaugural jury consists of acclaimed artist Marc Quinn; Victoria Siddall, Director of the Frieze Art Fairs; and BAFTA-winning filmmaker ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Stanley Spencer was born June 30, 1891. Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. In this image: Sarah Tubb and the Heavenly Visitors, 1933 by Stanley Spencer © Estate of Stanley Spencer, Bridgeman Images, London.
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