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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus and Cupid (detail) © Compton Verney.
COMPTON VERNEY.- Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) was one of the leading German painters and printmakers of the early sixteenth century. A close friend of Martin Luther, he was the chief artist of the Reformation, producing powerful woodcut illustrations for LutherÂs translation of the Bible. CranachÂs innovations included new types of religious images, portraits, and the development of distinctive, stylised female nudes, often depicting Venus and themes of temptation and its consequences. Featuring some of his most beguiling paintings and illustrations the exhibition also showcases modern and contemporary works, by artists including Pablo Picasso, Ishbel Myerscough and Michael Landy, all demonstrating CranachÂs enduring artistic influence and legacy over the last five centuries. Cranach: Artist & Innovator also has the first public display, in more than 450 years, of a sixteenth century armorial manuscript, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Younger, after its discovery in the archives of the John R ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Spotlighted at the Scholten Japanese Art exhibition, The Baron J. Bachofen von Echt Collection of Golden Age Ukiyo-e is A Glimpse of the Ogiya: Hashidate, Nanakoshi and Hanabito, by Chokosai Eisho, circa. 1795-1801.Three beautiful women are seated in a brothel reception room decorated with an elaborate painting of a peacock covering the background wall. TheyÂre identified from right to left as the well-known and high-ranking courtesans: Hashidate, Nanakoshi and Hanabito. The title places them at the Ogiya brothel located in the Yoshiwara, where they worked.
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 | | Fossil of 43-million-year-old penguin skin found in Argentina | | The talented Mr. Philbrick | | California man pleads guilty in $6 million art fraud case | 
The fossilized skin belongs to the Palaeeudyptes gunnari, one of the many extinct types of penguins that lived in Antarctica during the Eocene period, which lasted from around 56 to 34 million years ago. Photo: Agencia CTyS-UNLaM.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Argentine researchers have announced the discovery of fossilized skin on the remains of the wing of a 43-million-year-old penguin on Marambio Island in the Antarctic. The fossil was actually discovered during a research mission in 2014. The fossil was then studied at the La Plata Museum by Argentine paleontologist Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, the agency for scientific disclosure at La Matanza National University said on Friday. The fossilized skin belongs to the Palaeeudyptes gunnari, one of the many extinct types of penguins that lived in Antarctica during the Eocene period, which lasted from around 56 to 34 million years ago. At that time, Antarctica was covered in woodland and boasted a diverse fauna. "The fossilization of the skin of this wing is unique because it's the first conserved example in the world of a penguin with skin," said Acosta Hospitaleche. "The skin was conserved as a fossil on both surfaces of its wing, enveloping ... More | | 
Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956), Untitled. Price realised: USD 6,517,500. Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
by Jacob Bernstein
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Inigo Philbrick probably didnt set out to become one of the art worlds great enigmas when, at age 24, he opened a gallery and consultancy in London, with the financial assistance of one of the industrys better known dealers. Had elusiveness been Philbricks original intent, he would not likely have gotten himself a house account at Cipriani in London so he could show his dinner companions that he was too important to pull out a credit card. He also would not likely have made a habit of dropping anecdotes about his most powerful clients into conversations. Nor would he have picked VistaJet, the private airplane charter, as his preferred mode of transportation; gotten himself a $58,000 sports watch; or shacked up with a British reality TV personality named Victoria Baker-Harber, shortly after his partner Francisca Mancini gave birth to his daughter. Not if what he really wanted was to be seen nowhere but talked about everywhere. Yet that is what happened in the fal ... More | | 
File photo of Keith Haring painting a mural at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 1986.
by Daniel Victor and Christine Hauser
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A California man pleaded guilty in federal court in Florida to charges that he tried to sell more than $6 million in counterfeit art, which he falsely claimed was created by the likes of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, prosecutors said this week. The man, Philip Righter, 43, forged documentation to support his claims of authenticity for fake paintings and used the artwork as collateral for loans on which he later defaulted, the U.S. attorneys office in the Central District of California and prosecutors in Florida said. He also reported $2.6 million worth of art had been stolen and falsely claimed to have donated art to a charity, leading to more than $100,000 in tax refunds, the California office said. Righter was indicted last year in Florida on counts of wire fraud, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in efforts to sell forged works by Basquiat and Keith Haring, as well as on other charges. He pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggrav ... More |
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| | Louvre Abu Dhabi closed in virus shutdown | | Looted Zimbabwe national bird statues returned to first home | | Culture Minister leads calls to save Welsh medieval scientific manuscript | 
A general view taken on November 6, 2017 shows a room at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum. GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP.
ABU DHABI (AFP).- The Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi closed all tourist attractions, including its branch of famed Paris museum the Louvre, from Saturday until March 31 as a precaution against the coronavirus. "In line with precautionary measures to ensure the health and safety of visitors, #AbuDhabi's main tourist attractions, theme parks & cultural destinations will be temporarily closed from 15 to 31 March to limit large gatherings and protect public health in response to COVID-19," the Abu Dhabi government said on Twitter. The seven members of the United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi is the largest and wealthiest, have recorded 85 cases of the novel coronavirus, according to health ministry figures. Countries around the world have closed museums and cancelled cultural and sporting events in a bid to slow the pandemic's spread. The Louvre Abu Dhabi opened its doors in late 2017 with about 600 pieces including items from early Mesopotamia. It attracted ... More | | 
A sculpture of a bird carved from soapstone was temporarily moved from a museum at the same site to be placed back in its original position at the Great Zimbabwe monument near Masvingo on February 20, 2020. Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP.
ZIMBABWE (AFP).- They figure on Zimbabwe's national flag, banknotes and official documents -- birds representing stone statues taken by colonialists more than a century ago. The eight original sculptures hold great spiritual value for people of the southern African nation and have been made into national emblems. Six of the large carvings were stolen from the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, an imposing stone complex built between the 11th and 13th centuries and attributed to pre-colonial King Munhumutapa. The palatial enclosures are now a UNESCO world heritage site situated in the southeast of Zimbabwe, 25 kilometres (16 miles) from the present day city of Masvingo. Almost all of the prized green-grey soapstone birds that were looted have now been returned to the country. Only one remains in South Africa, where it is kept in the house of 19th century British ... More | | 
Collected scientific works (in Latin) of the physician and astronomer Lewis of Caerleon.
LONDON.- A 15th century manuscript that sheds new light on medieval scientific knowledge could be lost abroad. Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has placed a temporary export bar on the manuscript, which is worth £300,000, in a bid to save the work for the nation by offering a UK buyer or institution an opportunity to purchase the work for the national collection. The manuscript was completed by Lewis of Caerleon (c.1440 c.1500), a Welsh physician and highly accomplished astronomer. He played a crucial role in the royal court of the period, brokering the alliance of the future King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, serving as a physician and astrologer to both the Houses of York and Lancaster, including Henry VII himself. Lewis also spent time imprisoned in the Tower of London during the reign of Richard III for his close association with the Lancastrians. Lewis of Caerleon was a highly skilled astronomer who carried out observations and recorded detailed calculations aimed at predict ... More |
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| | At the library, last call for beauty and books | | Galerie Guido W. Baudach opens an exhibition of works by Philipp Modersohn | | Israel halts leisure, culture activities to stem virus | 
The Rose Main Reading Room in the New York Public Library during the day before it closed due to coronavirus concerns, in New York, March 13, 2020. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Jennifer Schuessler
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- New York has been roiled with closures of cultural institutions this past week, since the effort to stop the coronavirus kicked into high gear. But for a certain kind of New Yorker, the news Friday that the New York Public Library would be closing the soaring Rose Main Reading Room in its 42nd Street flagship along with its 91 other locations at least until April 1 caused a special kind of sadness and alarm. The reading room, lined with two levels of bookshelves and huge arched windows overlooking Bryant Park, is one of the great spaces of New York. Its a Grand Central Terminal for the bookish, complete with (in more ordinary times) crowds of tourists snapping photos from a designated zone near the entrance. The room, an interior landmark stretching the length of two city ... More | | 
Philipp Modersohn, young stone with future, 2020. Sand, pebble stones, stones, glass, Asilikos, epoxy resin, 165 x 70 x 73 cm. Courtesy the artist & Galerie Guido W. Baudach Photo: Roman März
BERLIN.- Galerie Guido W. Baudach is presenting attitudes of heat, the third solo show of Philipp Modersohn with the gallery. The Berlin based artist (*1986) in his practice examines the relation of nature, art and society. Philipp Modersohn has participated in various exhibitions at home and abroad, e.g. Ich bin ein Riss, ich will durch Wände gehen, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, 2018; Ausstellen des Ausstellens, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2017; verbacken & verwittern, Oldenburger Kunstverein, 2016 (solo); Loose Container, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, 2015 (solo); Die Punktierung der Sphaerenarena, Tiergarten, Berlin, 2014 (solo); Spacerologia, Manitiusa Park, Poznan, 2013. Philipp Modersohn is one of the co-founders of The Intensive Independent International Amateur Academy. From May 2020 his work will be shown in the exhibition object notes at Kunstverein ... More | | 
Visitors walk past the Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday Israel would shut down eateries, shopping centres and gyms in a bid to halt the spread of novel coronavirus. "Everything pertaining to leisure activities will be halted tomorrow morning," he said in a televised address. A treasury official speaking after Netanyahu said that besides a shutdown of restaurants, shopping malls, cafes, hotels and gyms, a school closure announced Thursday would be expanded to include kindergartens. Netanyahu also said he would ask the government's approval -- at a cabinet meeting to be held via video conference -- to allow "technologies used in the war against terror" to be used to track the movements of Israelis with coronavirus. The new instructions also prohibit gatherings of over 10 people and advise people to stay at least two metres (six feet) away from one another. The army meanwhile told combat soldiers set to return from a weekend at home to prepare to stay in their bases for a month ... More |
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| | Tate Britain exhibition celebrates the brief but astonishing career of Aubrey Beardsley | | Georgia Museum of Art receives large gift of "cutting-edge" contemporary art | | Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, musician, artist and provocateur, dies at 70 | 
How la Beale Isoud Wrote to Sir Tristram c.1893. Ink on paper, 276 x 215 mm. Alessandra and Simon Wilson.
LONDON.- Tate Britains major new exhibition celebrates the brief but astonishing career of Aubrey Beardsley. Although he died tragically young at the age of just 25, Beardsleys strange, sinuous black-and-white images have continued to shock and delight for over a century. Bringing together 200 spectacular works, this is the largest display of his original drawings in over 50 years and the first exhibition of his work at Tate since 1923. Beardsley (1872-98) became one of the enfants terribles of fin-de-siècle London, best remembered for illustrating Oscar Wilde's controversial play Salomé. His opulent imagery anticipated the elegance of Art Nouveau but also alighted on the subversive and erotic aspects of life and legend, shocking audiences with a bizarre sense of humour and fascination with the grotesque. Beardsley was prolific, producing hundreds of illustrations for books, periodicals and posters in ... More | | 
In celebration of the donation, the museum plans to have a small exhibition this summer with a larger one to follow that will introduce visitors to the works provided by the Shlesingers.
ATHENS, GA.- The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received a major gift from John and Sara Shlesinger consisting of 110 contemporary works of art from the Shlesingers personal collection, spanning a wide variety of artists and mediums. A partial list of artists represented in the donation includes Damien Hirst, Daniel Arsham, Shannon Ebner, David Altjmed and Mike Kelley. According to William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, this gift will fundamentally transform how the museum operates. This gift from Sara and John Shlesinger to the Georgia Museum of Art is certainly a quantitative change for our collection, but most important, it is a qualitative one, said Eiland. It gives us the means not only to teach and to exhibit the cutting-edge art of the past 25 years, but also allows us to help students and our general audiences to find, to understand and to step beyond ... More | | 
Genesis P-Orridge at her New York apartment, Oct. 18, 2018. Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times.
by John Leland
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the provocative British musician, writer and visual artist who pushed the limits of gender and the self, often using her own skin as her medium, has dropped her body. At least, that is how she might have described the transition. Even in death, she would not have wanted to be held to drab social norms. Genesis daughters Genesse and Caresse P-Orridge announced her death in a statement shared on Facebook by the artists manager, Ryan Martin. They said Genesis died at her home in New York on Saturday from leukemia. She was 70. Genesis led the influential British rock bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, dabbled as a dominatrix in New York, ran a soup kitchen in Kathmandu, hid out from Scotland Yard, organized a cultlike fan club that asked initiates to send in their bodily fluids, and undertook a long-running surgical project to merge ... More |
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 Spring fine art auctions to grab spotlight at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A wide range of auctions that includes a masterpiece from the most popular American illustrator to exceptional photographs, rare minerals and gemstones, art glass and silver make Heritage Auctions slate of spring Fine Art auctions a priority destination for art collectors of all kinds. "I am very excited by the offerings in our Spring season, Heritage Auctions Vice President Ed Beardsley said. "The breadth and quality of fine and decorative arts is unsurpassed. Having experts in offices around the country, along with our incredible online outreach, has brought us some wonderful opportunities, as evidenced by the lots being offered this season. The spring auctions include, but are not limited to: April 4: Ansel Adams Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, California, 1944 (estimate: $30,000-50,000) could claim top-lot honors in Heritage ... More Steven Nelson announced as new Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual ArtsWASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announced today the appointment of Steven Nelson as dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Nelson is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Professor at CASVA (20182020), on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is professor of African and African American art history and director of the UCLA African Studies Center. Nelson will become CASVAs third dean since its founding in 1979 and will succeed Elizabeth Cropper, who will retire in late May 2020. Nelson will begin his tenure in July. I am so pleased that Steven Nelson will be our next dean of CASVA. Stevens teaching legacy and international scholarly reputation in the field of art history, combined with his remarkable ability to provide support for a wide-ranging community of scholars makes him ... More Rare early stories by Frank Frazetta will headline Weiss Auctions' March 26 saleLYNBROOK, NY.- Rare early stories by the renowned American fantasy and science fiction artist Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), done when he was a boy in his mid-teens and quite possibly the earliest Frazetta comic art in existence, will be centerpiece lots in Weiss Auctions next big sale planned for Thursday, March 26th, online and in the Lynbrook gallery at 74 Merrick Road. The auction, with a 10 am Eastern start time, is packed with more than 500 lots of comics, comic art, sports memorabilia, animation art and Disney collectibles. Highlights include another great group of artwork from the estate of the Polish-born American comic book artist Joe Kubert (1926-2012), Part 1 of The Golden Age Comic Art Find from the Bailey Publishing archive. The Bailey Publishing archive includes hundreds of pages of original Golden Age comic art, covers, stories ... More Laia Abril wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2020AMSTERDAM.- The Foam Paul Huf Award 2020 goes to Laia Abril (1986, ES). From a selection of 95 portfolios from 27 countries, each chosen by 30 nominators worldwide, the jury of five industry specialists chose this years winner today. Laia Abril wins the prize for her long term project The History of Misogyny from which she submitted Chapter one: On Abortion and Chapter two: Rape. The Foam Paul Huf Award is presented annually to a photography talent under the age of 35 to encourage photographers in their artistic development. Foam has organized the award annually since 2007 and the winner is chosen by an independent international jury. Abril was chosen by the majority of the jury as the fourteenth winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award. The jury report states: Laia Abrils ambition to bring relevant societal topics like abortion and rape to the spotlight, ... More Broadway is closed, but London's theaters carry onLONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Broadway, theater doors are shut. In Milan, the Teatro alla Scala opera house is silent. In Paris, theaters including the storied Comédie-Française announced Friday they were closing down temporarily, too. Across the United States and across Europe, theaters and other cultural venues have drawn the curtains as authorities try to halt the spread of the coronavirus. But Friday afternoon, inside the National Theater in London, the show was going on. Dozens of people milled around in the foyer of the concrete building on the south bank of the river Thames, many of them with a drink in hand. They were about to go in and see The Seven Streams of the River Ota, Robert Lepages seven-hour saga about the repercussions of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Tasha Kitcher, 22, said she wasnt worried ... More Auction featuring the collections of the late FBI agent Bill Rosenbaum will be held March 21stAMESBURY, MASS.- A Collectors Novelty Auction featuring the G-Man and tobacciana collections of the late FBI agent William L. Rosenbaum plus vintage pinball machines, slot machines, general advertising and novelty lots from other collectors will be held Saturday, March 21st, by John McInnis Auctioneers, online and in the Amesbury gallery at 76 Main Street. The auction will begin promptly at 11 am Eastern time. Doors will open at 8 am for an all-day auction preview that will last throughout the sale. Private previews by appointment will be held on Thursday and Friday, March 19th and 20th. To schedule an appointment, call 800-822-1417. For those unable to attend in person, Internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Terms and more information ... More Anicka Yi to undertake 2020 Hyundai Commission for the Turbine HallLONDON.- Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor today announced that Anicka Yi will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Her new site-specific work for the Turbine Hall will be open to the public from 6 October 2020 to 10 January 2021. Anicka Yi explores the links between art and science. While drawing from the research of philosophers who are concerned with emerging forms of life and intelligence, her work also addresses present day questions around migration, class and gender. She is known for the way her works activate different senses and for experimenting with unorthodox materials that have ranged from tempura batter to kombucha leather. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, Yi created giant pods made of kelp filled with animatronic insects, as well as panels of soil in which an artificial intelligence controlled the environment of living organisms. ... More Juno Terrace in Palazzo Vecchio and Verrocchio's Putto reunited following restorationFLORENCE.- The Juno Terrace, adjacent to the Rooms of the Elements (Quartiere degli Elementi) in the Palazzo Vecchio Museum, has been restored and reunited with Andrea del Verrocchios Putto with a Dolphin. Both the Terrace and Putto were restored thanks to funding from the Friends of Florence Foundation. The Putto was featured in the 2019 exhibition Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo presented at Palazzo Strozzi and, titled Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Following restoration costing approximately 60,000 euros, the Putto and Terrace were unveiled last week in Palazzo Vecchio during a ceremony attended by Tommaso Sacchi, municipal commissioner for cultural affairs; Simonetta Brandolini dAdda, president of the Friends of Florence Foundation; and restorers ... More Amazing Fantasy #15, unique Play Station console lift Heritage Auctions sale beyond $10.75 millionDALLAS, TX.- One of the finest known copies of the issue in which Spider-Man made his first appearance soared to $795,000, boosting the final total for Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Auction to $10,760,781 March 5-8 in Dallas, Texas. In all, 17 different consignors will receive settlement checks of at least $100,000. Amazing Fantasy #15 (Marvel, 1962) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages is one of just six copies known to exist with a 9.4 grade there are only four known copies with a higher grade of the issue considered the most valuable and in-demand comic book of the Silver Age. The final price was the highest by a wide margin for a 1960s comic sold through Heritage Auctions (the previous high was $492,937.50). The auction also made history when the only remaining "Play Station prototype, co-developed during the 1990s by Nintendo ... More When the Big Apple's culture meccas shut down, they made lemonadeNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Patty Schlafer flew in late Thursday from Wisconsin, and her sister, Kathy Coughlin, flew up from Atlanta the same night, for a trip of a lifetime that had been a year in the works. Along with Coughlins daughter, Beth Coughlin-Leonard, 32, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, the women were meeting in New York City to celebrate Schlafers 60th birthday. They had hatched the plan last spring and kicked around the idea of coming in February until Coughlin who last visited the city for the Worlds Fair in 1965 protested that it would be far too cold. Pushing the weekend to mid-March didnt seem like a big deal. They had a fantastic Broadway weekend lined up: Wicked on Friday, Dear Evan Hansen on Saturday, and Sunday, for their big finale, Hadestown. Then, as the sisters cab made its way from LaGuardia ... More Rare fully functional Apple-1 Computer sold for USD $458,711 at auctionBOSTON, MASS.- An extremely rare fully functional Apple-1 computer sold for $458,711, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The Apple-1 was originally conceived by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as a bare circuit board to be sold as a kit and completed by electronics hobbyists, their initial market being Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club. Seeking a larger audience, Jobs approached Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world. Aiming to elevate the computer beyond the realm of the hobbyist, Terrell agreed to purchase 50 Apple-1 computers, but only if they were fully assembled. The Apple-1 thus became one of the first computers which did not require soldering by the end-user. Altogether, over a span of about ten months, Jobs and Wozniak produced about 200 Apple-1 computers and sold 175 of them. This Apple-1 ... More She went blind. Then she danced.NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- There are different responses to unexpected hardship, and when Marion Sheppard began to go blind, she cycled through many of them. She pitied herself and cried long and hard, because this wasnt right this wasnt fair. Her hearing had been severely impaired since early childhood and shed endured schoolyard teasing about that, so hadnt she paid her dues? Done her time? She raged. Why me? she asked, many times. Its a cliché, but for a reason. She really did want to know why shed been singled out. She trembled. This was the end, wasnt it? Not of life, but of independence. Of freedom. She spent months wrestling with those emotions, until she realized that they had pinned her in place. Time was marching on, and she wasnt moving at all. Her choice was clear: She could surrender to ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Hungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely died March 15, 1997. Victor Vasarely (9 April 1906 - 15 March 1997), was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of op art. In this image: Cheyt - Pyr, Serigraph, 68.5 X 66 cm.
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