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The small colorful stained glass paintings were virtually omnipresent in the sixteenth century, gracing monasteries and churches as well as town and guild halls and university buildings. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- In the sixteenth century, small-format stained glass paintings were widely popular in southern Germany and especially in Switzerland. Renowned and highly esteemed artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Niklaus Manuel, and Tobias Stimmer often provided the design drawings. Their fame has endured, but their work in connection with glass painting is largely obscure today. The Kunstmuseum Basels exhibition Luminous Figures. Drawings and Stained Glass Paintings from Holbein to Ringler draws attention to the quality and diversity of these works, spotlighting a fascinating yet almost forgotten facet of Renaissance art. The small colorful stained glass paintings were virtually omnipresent in the sixteenth century, gracing monasteries and churches as well as town and guild halls and university buildings. Few of the final works are extant today, but numerous designs have survived: outstanding Old Masters drawings that are ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hauser & Wirth once again welcomes visitors to its galleries in Hong Kong and Zurich to see work by artists in person. Hauser & Wirth Zürich reopened two exhibitions, 'Günther Förg. surface of bronze' and 'Luchita Hurtado. Installation view, 'Luchita Hurtado. Just Down the Street', Hauser & Wirth Zürich © Luchita Hurtado. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
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 | | Hauser & Wirth's Hong Kong and Zurich galleries are now open | | Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, 92, last of the 'Monuments Women,' dies | | Little Richard, rock's flashy founding father, dies at 87 | 
Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, c. 1968. Oil on paper, 61 x 48.3 cm / 24 x 19 in © Luchita Hurtado. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McLane.
ZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth is once again welcoming visitors to its galleries in Hong Kong and Zurich to see work by artists in person. Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong is now open with a new group presentation which will be followed on 16 June by the first exhibition by Lorna Simpson in Greater China. Hauser & Wirth Zürich reopened two exhibitions, Günther Förg. surface of bronze and Luchita Hurtado. Just Down the Street, which were on view for just 48 hours before the lockdown began in Switzerland. Hauser & Wirth is also welcoming visitors to the bookshop in Hauser & Wirth Publishers headquarters in Zurich. While the galleries in Hong Kong and Zurich are the first to reopen, more locations will follow in the coming months. In each case, Hauser & Wirth is taking careful measures as the galleries open, including monitoring numbers, to keep team and visitors safe while allowing intimate encounters with art. ... More | | 
Motoko Huthwaite. Monuments Men Foundation via The New York Times.
by Katharine Q. Seelye
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite, part of a team of 345 people from 14 countries collectively known as the Monuments Men and Monuments Women who preserved cultural treasures and artworks during and after World War II, died Monday in Taylor, Michigan, outside Detroit. She was 92. Robert Edsel, founder and chairman of the Monuments Men Foundation, said the cause was complications of the coronavirus. She died in a rehabilitation center. Huthwaite was the last of the Monuments Women, who originally numbered 27. Richard Barancik remains the last of the 318 Monuments Men. They were immortalized in a 2014 movie, The Monuments Men, directed by George Clooney and starring him and Matt Damon. The movie was based on the 2009 book of the same title by Edsel and Bret Witter. Edsel is now writing a book on ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 8, 2006, Little Richard performs on the stage of the Terre Neuvas festival in Bobital, western France. ANDRE DURAND / AFP.
by Maggy Donaldson, with Shaun Tandon
NEW YORK (AFP).- Little Richard, whose outrageous showmanship and lightning-fast rhythms intoxicated crowds with hits like "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally," has died. He was 87 years old. Reverend Bill Minson, a friend of the legendary musician, told AFP Little Richard died following a battle with cancer Saturday morning. With a distinctive range from robust belting to howling falsetto, Richard transfixed audiences and inspired artists including The Beatles as he transformed the blues into the feverish new style of rock 'n' roll alongside Fats Domino and Chuck Berry. His raunchy 1955 song "Tutti Frutti" became a sort of opening salvo of rock 'n' roll's entry into American life, starting with his nonsensical but instantly thrilling first line: "Awop bop a loo mop / Alop bam boom." Richard stunned buttoned-down post-World War II America with ... More |
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| | Satish Gujral, versatile Indian artist, is dead at 94 | | Greece's 'invisible' artists call for help in virus squeeze | | Haus der Kunst reopening to the public on 11 May: Duration of exhibitions extended | 
Gujral, whose art-making spanned nearly 70 years, died March 26 at his home in Delhi. He was 94. The death was announced on his website.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Satish Gujral, one of Indias best-known artists, was always game to try something new. His early paintings reflected the violence and displacement that accompanied the partitioning of India in 1947 into the countries of India and Pakistan. Later he switched to murals and sculpture. He painted some portraits. And, though not formally trained as an architect, he designed notable buildings, most famously the Belgian Embassy in New Delhi. His exploratory spirit was evident on a more personal level as well. In 1998, when he was in his 70s, Gujral went to Australia to receive a cochlear implant so that he might hear again, something he had not experienced since a childhood illness left him deaf. I have lived life to its ... More | | 
A Greek artist and member of an artist union wears a red nose and a protective facemask as he demonstrates with others in front of the Greek parliament at Syntagma square, in central Athens. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
by Hélène Colliopoulou
ATHENS (AFP).- "For us, there is no return to normality." Despite being one of Greece's best-known folk singers, Natassa Bofiliou is among thousands of artists worried about the economic impact of coronavirus lockdowns that have only just begun to be eased. In a country where art is widely seen as a pastime, and performers have long struggled to secure steady pay and royalties, the closure of theatres and cinemas and the cancellation of summer festivals has wrought havoc. Having lived through Greece's 10-year economic crisis, 37-year-old Bofiliou is no stranger to job insecurity. "The state has never really seriously concerned itself with the problems ... More | | 
Monira Al Qadiri, Holy Quarter, 2020. Installation view. Haus der Kunst, 2020. Photo: Maximilian Geuter.
MUNICH.- On Monday, 11 May, Haus der Kunst will reopen to the public, in accordance with the guidelines set by the Ministry of Art. The duration of the exhibitions, which have not been open to the public since 13 March because of the museums closure, will be extended, making them accessible to the public for longer: Theaster Gates: Black Chapel ends on 16 August 2020. Brainwashed. Sammlung Goetz in Haus der Kunst will also be extended until 16 August 2020; the presentation in the air-raid shelter can be viewed, as usual, Thursdays through Sundays. The Kapsel exhibitions Sung Tieu. Zugwangand Monira Al Qadiri. Holy Quarter will be extended until 30 August 2020. The major exhibition in the East Wing, Franz Erhard Walther. Shifting Perspectives is on view until 29 November 2020. The museums usual opening hours Monday to Sun ... More |
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| | Artcurial to offer the most iconic Ritz Paris dinner services, glasses and silverware | | Don Henley handwritten 'Desperado' lyrics in auction to benefit North Texas Food Bank | | Plan to remove a million-pound granite sculpture draws fire | 
Glasses from the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Paris, scenography by Laurent Buttazzoni © Charlotte Hess for Artcurial.
PARIS.- Following its spectacular 2018 sale dedicated to the historic furnishings of the Ritz Paris, Artcurial is to auction almost 1,500 lots dedicated to French Arts of the Table and Arts of Living on 21st, 22nd and 23st June 2020. Six of the most beautiful dinner services from the successive layouts of the Parisian palace hotel will be presented for sale. From the iconic Marthe service commissioned by César Ritz in 1898 for the opening of the hotel to the Ritz Club service designed by Jean Boggio, more than 450 lots of Limoges porcelain will go under the hammer. Each piece embodies this legendary place that has always stood for elegance and the French art de vivre, and attracted guests from all over the world: celebrities, artists, royalty and writers, including Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel and Audrey Hepburn. The hotel's gold- and silverware will also be showcased, with around ... More | | 
Don Henley Handwritten "Desperado" Lyrics.
DALLAS, TX.- The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers email came a few hours after Heritage Auctions event benefitting the North Texas Food Bank went live. Eagles co-founder, singer and songwriter Don Henley asked how he could participate in DFW Sports Superstars Are "In This Together. In the end he offered two extraordinary items: newly handwritten lyrics to one of his bands most famous songs, and a guitar signed by the bands current line-up. This is the same auction featuring a one-of-a-kind painting of the Dallas Cowboys most famous play created and signed by its architects, Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson; a player-for-a-day experience and team-signed soccer ball from FC Dallas; four plaza-level tickets and a team meet-and-greet with the Dallas Stars; and dozens of rare autographed collectibles from stars and legends of the Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars. 100 percent of the total proceeds, including the entire ... More | | 
A rendering of the proposed pavilion and plaza that National Geographic is preparing to build at its headquarters in Washington. Hickok Cole via The New York Times.
by Rebecca J. Ritzel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Explorers affiliated with the National Geographic Society have a long history of surmounting stone in places like Mount Everest. But the 130-year-old organization has decided that more than 1 million pounds of artfully placed granite are in the way of plans to expand its headquarters in Washington. The boulders, part of a sculpture called Marabar, by Elyn Zimmerman, were installed by the society almost four decades ago in an outdoor plaza at its four-building campus. The societys board had once stood and applauded when plans for Marabar were unveiled, according to David Childs, the architect who chose Zimmerman, then a young artist early in what would become a celebrated career. ... More |
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| | IFPDA Fine Print Fair moves online featuring all 150 members of the IFPDA | | Babe Ruth's 1921 home run bat sells for $930,000 at Heritage Auctions' Spring Sports Sale | | Amina Zoubir's first solo show in Sweden on view at Södertälje konsthall | 
Calvin Marcus, Los Angeles Painting, 2019 (detail). Collotype on Torinoko Yuki paper made by Yamaji Seishijo in Echizen, Japan, 17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches. Edition of 33. © Calvin Marcus.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jenny Gibbs, Executive Director of the IFPDA, and David Tunick, President of the IFPDA, have announced a new digital initiative -- the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair Online: Spring 2020. The online exclusive fair will feature approximately 150 exhibitors, all vetted members of the IFPDA. Originally scheduled to be held at the Javits Center in New York in October with 70 exhibitors, the IFPDA has moved the fair online, invited all members to participate, and waived all exhibitor fees in response to the current economic and health crises. The fair will be accessible through the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair website and on Artsy.com. The IFPDA is a non-profit association representing a world-wide community of 150 galleries and print publishers. The IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair is the worlds largest international art fair; ... More | | 
1921 Babe Ruth 52nd Home Run (Career #155) Game Used "Hotel Ansonia" Bat, PSA/DNA GU 10.
DALLAS, TX.- A mythic sluggers hefty weapon. A once-and-future basketballers signed footwear. An executives sparkling jewelry. A ticket to a game. These are just some of the items that that stole the show Friday when the curtain fell on the second night of the three-day Heritage Auctions Spring Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction. When bidding ended, the nights tally was more than $3.5 million, far exceeding pre-auction estimates. Thats on top of the more than $8 million realized 24 hours earlier, when significant cards from Shoeless Joe Jackson, Michael Jordan and countless others set historic marks. Leading off the nights impressive run was a historic Babe Ruth game-used bat that ended up selling for $930,000, making it the fifth-highest selling bat of all time. The bat sold Friday night was the very one Ruth used to hit his 52nd home run of the 1921 season, against his former ... More | | 
Installation view of Amina Zoubir taking a stance on berber queens: history and mythology at Södertälje Konsthall, 2020.
SÃDERTÃLJE.- What does it mean to be a woman in Algeria? That question has followed artist Amina Zoubir throughout her upbringing in the country, evolving to an essential orientation within her artistry through video, performance in public space, sculptures, drawings and installations. Growing up in the 1980s and the '90s, she witnessed a violent era of civil war between the government and various Islamic groups changing the society and its public sphere. A war through which Algerian women operated in different roles, while the legacy of a long brutal colonial history with France continued to foster a misogynist society. Hence, social and gender related matters in contemporary Algerian society are very much affiliated with postcolonial issues. During the last centuries, both the Arab invasion and France's colonial politics have contributed to a specific male ... More |
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 Indian Market partners with Clark Hulings Fund to create virtual marketSANTA FE, NM.- Santa Fe Indian Market and the Clark Hulings Fund for Visual Artists announced a significant collaboration aimed at providing opportunities for Native artists to showcase and sell artwork amid the Coronavirus pandemic. The like-minded organizations, both based in New Mexico, are jointly committed to providing artists with the training and support they need to be economically successful. SWAIAs mission, in addition to producing the Santa Fe Indian Market, is creating economic and cultural opportunities for Native American and First Nations artists. The partnership with the Clark Hulings Fund arrives at a moment when SWAIA is approaching our centennial yearestablishing new methods of assisting Native artists and preparing them for success in the next 100 years. We are fortunate to receive the expertise of the Clark Hulings ... More Stylish metals will highlight Benefit Shop auction May 20MOUNT KISCO, NY.- While the offerings at this monthss Red Carpet auction at The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. on Wednesday, May 20, at 10 am, are far-ranging, from Asian art and African masks to midcentury furniture and Pop art, a high point will be metalware. Sleek and chic, metal is all the rage today in design. Featuring everything from framed art to statuary and accessories, this auction boasts a wealth of interesting metalware pieces. Metal makes for a stylish and luxurious finish, said Pam Stone, owner and founder of The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. We have some lovely midcentury metal-framed works of art as well as bronze sculptures, decorative accessories and fine dining items. Chrome was a favorite material for famed Modernist furniture designer ... More Skopje artists pierce humdrum of confinementSKOPJE (AFP).- Before kicking off a recent rock show in Skopje, the leader of the band Funk Shui did something he had never done before: apologise for the noise the group was about to make. That's because the musicians were jamming in an urban courtyard surrounded by apartment blocks, as part of a city initiative to entertain citizens -- and help struggling artists -- hemmed in by coronavirus curfews. When concert halls, bars and clubs shuttered after North Macedonia went into lockdown in early March, performers were suddenly starting at blank calendars and empty wallets, while fans were robbed of their entertainment fix. But the country's artists and cultural institutions have been quick to adapt. With backing from city hall, they have launched the "Culture in the time of Corona" programme to save Skopje's entertainment scene. During the nightly ... More Stranded German circus faces uncertain futureMUELHEIM AN DER RUHR (AFP).- On a normal Thursday afternoon, Josef Traenkler would be pulling on his clown costume, sharpening his knives or grooming his horses for a performance. Instead, the German entertainer is holed up inside a tent painting circus wagons with his brother. Restrictions to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Germany have brought business to a grinding halt for Circus Altano, a family firm with 16 performers. "We are not allowed to perform any more," the 44-year-old said. "So we're doing things now that we wouldn't have had time to do otherwise." The big top -- along with its 20 horses, llamas, goats and dogs -- has been stuck since early March in a field in Muelheim an der Ruehr near Essen airport. The team of knife throwers, fire jugglers and acrobats would usually move on at least every 10 days. Today, they were supposed ... More Serbia slams EU's 'fake' description of inventor Tesla as CroatianBELGRADE (AFP).- Serbia's culture minister on Friday called for an apology over the European Union's "fake" description of Nikola Tesla, the famous pioneer of modern electrical engineering, as a Croatian on the bloc's official website. A source of pride in both countries, Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in a Croatian village in 1856, when the country was a part of the old Austro-Hungarian empire. He won fame in the United States as one of the world's greatest inventors and remains especially beloved in Serbia, where his ashes are housed. A webpage about Croatia in the EU's Learning Corner for children, however, writes that: "Famous Croatian Nikola Tesla was one of the first people to discover X-ray imaging". Responding in a statement, Serbia's Culture Minister Vladan Vukosavljevic said he was appalled to see "that the virus of this fake ... More Quentin Blake works with Hastings Contemporary robot to present prophetic exhibitionHASTINGS.- Hastings Contemporary is presenting a spectacular and prescient new exhibition by Sir Quentin Blake, one of the UKs best loved living artists. We Live In Worrying Times captures Blake at the heights of his creativity, bringing together a thrilling collection of more than 170 new drawings, paintings and a large-scale mural described as Blakes Guernica, which with its rawness and originality is unlike anything the artist has produced in his illustrious career. Earlier this year, Sir Quentin began energetically producing a new body of work around the theme of concern for the state of the world we currently live in. The resulting exhibition We Live In Worrying Times - was due to open at Hastings Contemporary during Easter and was later postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which time the gallery has been able to launch its Robot Tours, ... More Laura Prepon meditates on motherhood and clayNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Laura Prepon had already planned on spending the spring indoors. Prepon, who gave birth to her second child with her husband, actor Ben Foster, at the end of February, had scheduled a six-week maternity leave. She hadnt put a pandemic on the calendar. But, because we had planned to be isolated, I think it was a softer landing for us, she said Wednesday from her apartment in southern Brooklyn, New York. Before she had her first child, a daughter who is now 2, she had enjoyed adrenaline-tempting hobbies like motorcycling, paragliding, high-stakes poker and the occasional Kilimanjaro ascent. Her recent enthusiasm hobby now? Ceramics. Its just very meditative for me, she said. So two weeks before her due date, Prepon, in a chambray shirt and maternity jeans, spent a morning at Bklyn Clay, an airy, shelf-packed ... More With Hollywood productions on hold, documentary filmmakers keep goingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer know about putting themselves at risk for their work. While they were shooting thousands of hours of footage for The Square, the 2013 documentary directed by Noujaim and produced by Amer on the popular uprising in Cairo, they were often in the middle of the action in Tahrir Square, where the military shot protesters and dispersed crowds with tear gas. Some of their footage was confiscated, and Noujaim was arrested and held for 36 hours. Now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, conditions are arguably more difficult, they said. At the height of the revolution, things got pretty chaotic and our office was raided, Amer said. That was a visible threat. You knew when the army was coming for you. This is not like anything weve seen before. This is an invisible threat thats affecting ... More Maradona autographs shirt to help Buenos Aires poorBUENOS AIRES (AFP).- Diego Maradona has lent a hand in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in his hometown by autographing an Argentina national team jersey for a raffle. The sale raised money for an underprivileged area on the outskirts of Buenos Aires affected by quarantine rules. "We're going to get through it," Maradona wrote on the jersey, a replica of the one he wore when he led his country to victory in the 1986 World Cup. The jersey was first offered at auction, but is being raffled to those who have given donations in an initiative that has collected hygiene products, masks and around 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of food for charity. "Diego can't even imagine what he has done for us, it's priceless. I'll be grateful to him until the day I die," said local resident Marta Gutierrez. In addition to the pandemic, Argentina is facing a serious economic ... More Paul Shelden, clarinetist and classical music advocate, dies at 79NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Paul Shelden, a clarinetist whose wide-ranging career took him to Broadway, the White House and a stage shared with Leonard Bernstein, died on April 17 at his home in Hewlett, New York, on Long Island. He was 79. The cause was complications of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, his son, Seth, said. Not only a performer, Shelden was also a longtime teacher and administrator at Brooklyn College. And as an advocate for the accessibility of classical music, he worked to bring countless public school students to concerts in New York and founded the company Diplomatte Musical Instruments to offer affordably priced instruments. Paul Melvin Shelden was born on March 8, 1941, in Brooklyn, to Victor and Reba Shelden. His father was a machinist and amateur boxer; his mother was a homemaker and customer ... More A novelist breaks the code of being a woman in JapanTOKYO (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- To explain the pressure felt by women in Japanese society, the novelist Mieko Kawakami recalls a playground prank from elementary school. The boys would run around and flip up the skirts of certain girls to catch a glimpse of their underwear. That was mortifying enough. Yet it was just as shameful for the girls whose skirts didnt get flipped. It meant you werent popular, said Kawakami, 43, the author of Breasts and Eggs, a best-selling novel in Japan that was published in English in April. Its a humiliation among women not to be desired by men. Thats a very strong code in Japanese society. Its a code she knows well, but one that she and her characters have gone about transcending. Breasts and Eggs, which won one of Japans most coveted literary prizes in 2008, helped establish her as one of the ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and illustrator Hokusai died May 10, 1849. Katsushika Hokusai (c. October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku Sanjuroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this image: A woman looks at the artwork 'Women in various walks of life' (around 1793) during a press preview of the Hokusai retrospective at the Martin Gropius Bau museum in Berlin, Germany.
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