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Adolf Hitler and André François-Poncet, French politician and diplomat, at an exhibition of French art. Berlin, Parizer Platz, 1937. Photograph by Heinrich Hoffmann published in the newspaper "B.Z." © Ullsteinbild / Roger-Viollet.
by Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- A new exhibition has uncovered a hoard of art looted from a Jewish family almost wiped out by the Nazis in the Louvre and other leading French museums. The show about the booming art market in occupied Paris, when more than two million objects went under the hammer in a frenzy of forced sales and looting, has turned up works by Delacroix and Forain taken from the family by the collaborationist French Vichy authorities. Curator Emmanuelle Polack discovered that the Louvre bought a dozen works seized from the Dorvilles while researching a new book on how Jewish families and some of the most important dealers in modern art were plundered. The paintings are still in the French national collection, with three loaned to the Shoah Memorial museum in Paris for the show. Three more works taken from the family -- most of whom perished in Auschwitz -- have turned up in the Gurlitt hoard of 1,500 Old Masters, Impressionist and Cubist works found in a Munich apartment in 2011. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Singapore, March 19, 2019. At the opening of his solo exhibition ÂI am MeÂ, artist Naufal Abshar poses for the more than 12 million Instagram followers of Indonesian song writer and music producer Maia Estanty and of her husband, businessman, film producer and art enthusiast Irwan Danny Mussry. Photo Elliot Mermet, courtesy Art Porters Gallery.
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| | | First exhibition devoted to iconoclasm in ancient Egypt opens in St. Louis | | First-class diamonds lead Sotheby's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Spring Sale | | The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents 'Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes' |
Scribe Statue of Amunhotep, Son of Nebiry, circa 14261400 B.C.E. Limestone, 26 x 13 3/16 in. (66 x 33.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.29E. Photo: Brooklyn Museum.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- What is the potential of images to shape memory and legacy, and how do they function as instruments of religious, cultural, and political conflicts? These questions are at the heart of Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt, an exhibition examining specific moments from the rich history of one of the world's oldest and longest-lasting civilizations, periods when clashes between competing leaders, religions, and ideologies resulted in damage to and destruction of sacred and political images. Comprising some 40 masterpieces on loan from the Brooklyn Museum, this revelatory exhibition shows how exploring the motivations behind the destruction or defacement of objects can open avenues for a more expansive understanding of the art of ancient Egypt, where images functioned not only as a means of representation, but also as ... More | |
The Spectacular 88.22-Carat Oval Brilliant Diamond. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- On 2 April, Sothebys Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Spring Sale 2019 will present a wealth of colour and design through rare gems and intricately crafted jewels. Headlined by the spectacular 88.22-Carat Oval Diamond, a rare and important D Colour, Flawless, Type IIa, oval brilliant diamond, perfect according to every critical criterion (Est. HK$88 - 100 million / US$11.2 - 12.7 million), the sale also features a myriad of fancy coloured diamonds ranging from highly coveted pinks and blues to yellows and greens. A stunning selection of coloured gemstones will be presented alongside iconic designs by famed jewellers such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari. Yvonne Chu, Acting Head of Department, Jewellery, Sothebys, comments: We are proud to present a meticulously curated auction showcasing decades of jewellery design, from the renowned Van Cleef & Arpels Mystery Set Bellflowers br ... More | |
Léon Bakst, Costume for a Nymph, from Narcisse, 1911. Dress: Silk and paint with repp detail at waist. Center-back L. 92 cm; Underarm chest ca. 78 cm (unfitted); Waistline 74 cm. DansmuseetMuseum Rolf de Maré Stockholm: DM 1969/47. Image © Dansmuseet Musée Rolf de Maré Stockholm.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World continues to illuminate the rich dialogue between the ancient and the modern with Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, an exhibition exploring the seminal role of antiquity in shaping the radically new creations of the famed ballet troupe founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev. The first exhibition to examine this topic, Hymn to Apollo contains around 95 objects, including outstanding examples of ancient pottery, sculpture, metalwork, and more, coupled with costumes, photographs, watercolors, musical scores, digitized films of Ballets Russes productions, and a rich trove of archival material. Hymn to Apollo is on view from March 6 through June 2, 2019. It has been organized by ISAW and is co-curated by ... More |
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| | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires three works by English miniaturists | | The Beatles in Liverpool Auction heads to Julien's Auctions May 9 | | Glenstone announces works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kerry James Marshall, and Charles Ray on view this spring |
Jeremiah Meyer, A Boy In Blue Coat, 1780s. Photo: Anna Danielsson / Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired three English works by miniaturists Jeremiah Meyer, Ozias Humphry and John Cox Dillman Engleheart. The portraits in question are all examples of the blossoming of portrait miniatures as an art form from the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The acquisitions represent an important addition to the museums collection of portrait miniatures, which is one of the foremost in the world. Despite the name, a portrait miniature is defined not by its format but by its materials and painting technique.The French word miniature refers to the technique of painting with red lead (minium). As in medieval manuscripts, this was applied to vellum. Around 1700 ivory also was used as a painting surface, and in about 1820 large-format ivory was first extracted with the veneer method. This was just before miniature painting lost the battle for portraiture to photography. Jeremiah Meyer (17351789) pr ... More | |
The Beatles signed and inscribed school notebook. Estimate: 10,000-20,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced that Music Icons: The Beatles in Liverpool, their annual auction extravaganza of the Fab Fours most iconic and historic memorabilia to take place on Thursday, May 9 live for the first time at The Beatles Story Museum in Liverpool, UK, the birthplace of The Beatles and online at juliensauctions.com. In addition Juliens Auctions will partner once again with The Beatles Story to bring their Beatles and Merseybeat Memorabilia Day back home to Liverpool on Friday, May 10th 2019 (12-8 p.m. GMT) for a spectacular two-day Beatlemania event. Fans and collectors are invited to bring in their Beatles memorabilia to have appraised by the experts for free at The Beatles Storys Fab4 Cafe on the Royal Albert Dock. The Beatles are the foremost and most influential music band of all time that were a phenomenon upon their arrival on the music scene in Liverpool in 1960 and chan ... More | |
Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum IX, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, twelve joined panels, 107¾ x 96 inches (274 x 244 cm) © Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. Photo: Ron Amstutz. Courtesy: Matthew Marks Gallery.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum today announced that its first new art installations since opening the Pavilions in 2018 will feature two works by Ellsworth Kelly, on view starting today, and three works by Kerry James Marshall, debuting on April 18. The museum also will install a new outdoor sculpture by Charles Ray in late spring. Works by Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923, d. 2015) to be installed in Room 1 of the Pavilions are the sculpture Untitled, 1996, and the large-scale painting Spectrum IX, 2014. Both are examples of the artists practice of using shapes and motifs drawn from lived experience which he frequently revisited throughout his decades-long career. Known for his contributions to American abstraction, Kelly had a singular pared-down style that at times allied him with Color Field Painting and Minimal Art, although he always asserted that his inspiration came from nature and ... More |
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| | | Mexico's 'voladores' seek to keep ancestors' flying spirit alive | | Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens exhibition of works by the Campana Brothers | | The Broad presents West Coast debut of 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983' |
Young Totonac native Gabriel San Martin, who performs the "Voladores" (flyers) ritual, poses for a picture, at Papantla Indigenous Arts Centre, ahead of the Tajin Summit Festival -aimed at preserving the Totonac legacy- in Papantla. RODRIGO ARANGUA / AFP.
PAPANTLA DE OLARTE.- Four teenagers climb to the top of a towering pole, fasten themselves to ropes and throw themselves, headfirst and backwards, into the air. No, it's not the latest social media challenge. It's the "danza de los voladores," the dance of the flyers, a more than 2,500-year-old ritual practiced by the Totonac people of central Mexico, who are fighting to keep the tradition alive by giving it some modern tweaks. Spinning in widening circles around the pole as they fly upside-down through the air, the four dancers slowly descend to the ground, dressed in white tunics, red pants and conical hats with rainbow-colored streamers that trail across the sky. A fifth dancer balances atop the pole -- a 30-meter (nearly 100-foot) tree trunk ... More | |
Fernando and Humberto Campana, 2017. Courtesy of Estudio Campana. Photo by Fernando Laszlo.
LONDON.- The Campana Brothers return to London for their first solo show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery to present Hybridism, a collection of 13 recent furniture objects and sculptures from 22 March to 17 May 2019. Featuring materially complex works, Hybridism explores the Campana Brothers sculptural experimentation and their foray into the artistic realm of personal expression and societal commentary. Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Campana Brothers, Humberto and Fernando, view themselves as hybrids. Their studio, Estudio Campana, works in partnership with local communities, NGOs and factories to create pieces that celebrate the bright colours and rich textures of their native country. Adopting an environmental ethos, the brothers utilise existing everyday materials, reinventing them in order to achieve simple solutions that do not compromise on their principles of aesthetic or design. The intuitively ... More | |
Dawoud Bey attends The Broad Museum celebration for the opening of Soul Of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 Art Exhibition at The Broad on March 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for The Broad Museum/AFP.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On Saturday, March 23, The Broad opened Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983, the internationally acclaimed exhibition that celebrates the work of more than 60 Black artists made over two revolutionary decades in American history, beginning in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement. The Broad, which attracted a record 815,000 visitors in 2018 (the museums highest annual attendance in its three-year history and a 12% increase from 2017), is debuting the exhibition on the West Coast. Soul of a Nation examines the influences, from the civil rights and Black Power movements to Minimalism and developments in abstraction, on artists such as Romare Bearden, Barkley Hendricks, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, ... More |
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| | | International group exhibition puts Europe and the EU on the agenda this spring at Kunsthal Charlottenborg | | Sala:GAM presents Jonathan Miralda Fuksman | | Trustees and deCordova receive unanimous vote of approval to move forward with plans for integration |
Monica Bonvicini, SCALE OF THINGS (to come), 2010. Installation view, Europa Endlos, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2019. Photo by Anders Sune Berg. Courtesy Monica Bonvicini, König Galerie, Berlin; Galerie Peter Kilchman, Zürich; Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Mailand and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
COPENHAGEN.- In the group exhibition Europa Endlos a number of todays most prominent artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Jeremy Deller, Olafur Eliasson, Fischli Weiss, Bouchra Khalili and Wolfgang Tillmans are occupied with themes such as identity, borders, community and migration. The exhibition is curated by Henriette Bretton-Meyer and opened on Thursday 21 March at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in collaboration with the documentary film festival CPH:DOX. In 2019, Kunsthal Charlottenborg puts Europe and the EU on the agenda with the group exhibition Europa Endlos presented in collaboration with CPH:DOX, one of the worlds most important documentary film festivals. The exhibition runs during the spring of 2019 which ... More | |
For this exhibition in Sala : GAM, dedicated to contemporary art, inside the gallery, the curators Esteban King, Juan Pérez Figueroa and Bartolomé Delmar have selected a series that can be understood as a meeting point for Miraldas all elements and formal concerns.
MEXICO CITY.- As a result of a playful exercise, a selection of drawings made by Jonathan Miralda with editorial purposes has been translated into the pictorial field and GalerÃa de Arte Mexicano hosts it in an exhibition that synthesizes the artist motifs throughout his career: the city and its inhabitants. The formal depuration that characterizes this series of works has displaced the illustrative role of his compositions, leading them to geometric explorations which transform the space into a character. The city is a flexible and labile being, populated by billboards, antennas, water tanks, circus tents, metal curtains, gates, water bodies and images reflected on smoked glass surfaces. It is a dynamic and polymorphic city which seems to have a life of its own, we go deep ... More | |
DeWitt Godfrey, Lincoln, 2012. Photo by Alison Abbott.
LINCOLN, MASS.- The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) and deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announced the two organizations received approval at The Town of Lincolns Annual Town Meeting on Saturday, March 23, 2019 to move forward with plans for integration. The nonprofit institutions have been collaborating and working closely together to pursue a permanent relationship that would bring deCordova under the umbrella of The Trustees. The positive vote is an important next step in the integration process, including the completion of a fundraising campaign by both organizations to secure the deCordovas endowment, in order to ensure operational stability. We are so pleased to receive this vote of approval from The Town of Lincoln today and thank everyone from the community who came out to offer their support, says Barbara Erickson, Trustees President & CEO. Todays vote brings us another step closer to realizing this important partnership between two organization ... More |
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Conversations on the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria
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Group exhibition showcases multidisciplinary artworks created by international female art leaders
LONDON.- A new exhibition focusing on diverse expressions of femaleness opened at Dellasposa. The Future is Female, with its roots in Labyris Books eponymous slogan of the 70s, captures the universal female experience as well as individual instances of what it is to be female via the work of four artists working in different mediums, from sculpture to paintings to collage. Jessica McBride, co-Founder of the gallery, Dellasposa, is working towards the wider representation of overlooked voices, bodies and talents in the art world. By showcasing work by female artists in the new exhibition, The Future is Female, McBride and her co-Founder, Julian Phillimore, are doing their damnedest to affect change in an industry that has as yet to fully examine and confront its inherent intersectional issues surrounding the female condition. There are significant gaps ... More
Bonhams announces Marc Sands as Chief Marketing Officer
LONDON.- Bonhams, the international auction house, announces the appointment of Marc Sands as Chief Marketing Officer. Sands will be based in Bonhams London headquarters in New Bond Street, and will be responsible for marketing, communications, events and customer services. Marc has more than 20 years experience in the marketing industry at some of the best-known brands in the world, including the Tate and the Guardian Media Group, where he was responsible for a digital transformation. Most recently, he held the position as Chief Marketing Officer at Christies, where he created and implemented the marketing strategy and revolutionised Christies digital presence. One of Marcs most remarkable campaigns for the auction house was the marketing of Leonardo da Vincis painting, Salvator Mundi, which was acquired for the Louvre Abu ... More
Ocean Space's inaugural program features large-scale installation by artist Joan Jonas
VENICE.- Ocean Space, a new collaborative platform for change, launches its first phase this spring as it opens its doors to the public on March 24. Initiated by TBA21Academy, this new embassy for the oceans catalyzes transdisciplinary research and fosters collective action, encouraging audiences to radically reimagine how we see and treat the defining feature of our blue planet. Located in the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Italy, Ocean Space reintegrates the historic building back into the cultural fabric of the city, after two years of conservation and renewal, and more than 100 years of being largely closed to the public. To inaugurate Ocean Space, TBA21Academy presents an immersive multimedia installation by the acclaimed artist Joan Jonas, the culmination of three years of intensive research and explorations with the nomadic academy. Moving ... More
Extra City Kunsthal exhibition presents works by artists engaging with a broad understanding of the toxic
ANTWERP.- We are living in a time in which the human impact on our planet is so terrifyingly profound that it shall leave its traces for millennia to come. At the heart of this accelerating planetary change lies the excessive and expanding modes of extraction, production, and disposal necessary to support the perpetual economic growth inherent to the modern, and particularly Western, project. Deadly Affairs addresses environmental injustice by bringing into view the externalities (contamination of humans and non-humans) inherent to the logic of capital accumulation. It traces the exploitation of labour, land and resources from within Europe to a space outside of its borders, focusing on how the privileges Europeans presently enjoy, and the rights granted by certain forms of citizenship, are only possible because of abuses that take place outside the confines of its jurisdiction. ... More
Galerie Fons Welters presents works by Kasper Bosmans, Mariana Castillo Deball, and Jennifer Tee
AMSTERDAM.- The term Push Angle refers to the travel angle in welding where the electrode is pointing in the direction of travel. This angle does not only bring together two objects, but can also be seen as a metaphor: the moment when stories meet and create a new point of view. In the work of Kasper Bosmans, Mariana Castillo Deball and Jennifer Tee, different times and cycles are often juxtaposed to navigate through a world that has different manifestations. The artists use signs and objects from the cultural past, myths, decoration, Taoist magic and the subconscious in an intuitive way. In Bosmans work decoration plays an important role, ever since modernism often wrongly dismissed as an inferior art form and only called 'beautiful'. Bosmans shows that decoration is pre-eminently the latent carrier of specific messages or ideologies. Take for example the quilt ... More
Lisson Gallery opens Julian Opie's first solo gallery exhibition in New York City
NEW YORK, NY.- For Julian Opies first solo gallery exhibition in New York City, Lisson Gallery presents a new body of work focused on the artists portraits, presenting both individual heads and full-length groups. As Opies first presentation in Manhattan since his major Public Art Fund commission in City Hall Park in 2004, this presentation captures the people and daily routines that make up life in communities around New York City. Over the years Opie has quietly observed the homogenisation of the world in cities and the people around him from friends to strangers on the street to produce portraits of individuals and society. Whether recreating a skyscraper, a serene landscape on the Cornish coast, or a selection of runners in a city park, Opie constructs an environment, a space that echoes the colours and shapes he observes. Fascinated by the act ... More
Exhibition presents work by three artists who each respond to pressing ecological concerns
LONDON.- létrangère announced What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?, an exhibition of work by three artists who each respond to pressing ecological concerns, including anthropogenic climate change, the catastrophic impact of our reliance on concrete, and the over-production of waste through consumerism and industrial capitalism. What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? includes paintings made of found soil and wood ash; sculpture formed from recycled household garbage; and photographic documentation of a micro-rewilding project situated in a defunct 1930s transformer station on the outskirts of Wrocław, Poland. Together, the works in the exhibition form a multivalent critique of the conceptual and material legacy of Modernism that is at the same time oriented towards a range of imagined futures. This is the first time that Yelena Popova, ... More
PROYECTOSMONCLOVA opens an exhibition of works by Julius Heinemann
MEXICO CITY.- Since the beginning of thought, reason and perception have embodied a profound polemic. Within this debate about the relationship between the senses and rationality, Julius Heinemanns artistic practice suggests a study of different layers of perception, understood as a key for the relationship between the subject and reality. Perception is a crucial element of Heinemanns work, as he proposes a practice that distances us from the occidentalization of knowledge - in which an object is limited to its mere function within the rational discourse and approximates us to the object and the world through an unmediated experience beyond the boundaries of reason. As Paul Valéry, who once said that a bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning, Julius Heinemann is not interested in an art work that is caught in linguistic categories, intellectual attributions ... More
Lily Agius Gallery opens a new solo exhibition of works by American realist painter SJ Fuerst
SLIEMA.- A playful world full of colour and beauty will be unveiled by American realist painter, SJ Fuerst, in a new solo exhibition at Lily Agius Gallery, Malta. Entitled Forest Fresh, the exhibition is comprised of eleven variously scaled oil paintings, along with sketches executed in the same medium on floppy disks. Playing off the exhibitions title, which takes its name from one of the works in the show, the artist will create a walk through installation made up of sixteen undecorated, artificial Christmas trees, along with an audio soundtrack of birdsong and pine scented air-fresheners. Says SJ Fuerst: As soon as visitors enter the gallery I want them to feel like they've left reality and stepped into one of my paintings, a surreal but real world made out of artificial and mass-produced versions of nature. I see it a bit like fashion designers who build elaborate sets for their runway ... More
Boulder-sized sunfish washes ashore in Australia
SYDNEY (AFP).- A boulder-sized fish of a kind known to "sink yachts" has washed up on an Australian beach. The 1.8 metre (six feet) specimen -- believed to be a Mola Mola, or ocean sunfish -- came ashore near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia at the weekend. The enormous creature is distinct for both its size and peculiar shape featuring a flattened body and fins. The fish can weigh up to 2.5 tons (2,200 kilogrammes), according to National Geographic. A photo circulating on social media showed two people on a beach standing over the giant specimen, which had died. "The amount of news and media from all over the world wanting to report it has been on another level," Linette Grzelak, who posted the image to Facebook, told AFP. "Never expected this." South Australian Museum fish collection manager Ralph Foster said the ... More
First major solo museum exhibition of Jonas Wood opens exclusively at the Dallas Museum of Art
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art will present the first major solo museum exhibition of work by American painter Jonas Wood. Bringing together approximately 35 works across 13 years of Woods career, the exhibition Jonas Wood traces the artists fascination with psychology, memory, and the self to shed light on a practice that is both deeply personal and universal. It will be on view exclusively at the DMA from March 24, 2019 through July 14, 2019. As a platform for creative expression, the DMA is always seeking to engage audiences with the most influential and exciting artists of our time, said the DMAs Eugene McDermott Director Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga. Jonas Wood is certainly an artist whose work deserves deeper exploration and resonates with a wide audience. We are proud to provide this museum setting for a solo exhibition that further reveals ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." In this image: Tina on the Azotea, with kimono, 1924. Edward Weston (American, 1886Â1958). Photograph, platinum or palladium print. The Lane Collection. Photograph courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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