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Exhibition view Städels Legacy. Master Drawings from the Founders Collection. Photo: Städel Museum Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- With the bequest of his private art collection, the businessman and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (17281816) founded a public art museum of international stature, accessible to all the Städel Museum. The collector left behind an art treasure encompassing not only paintings and prints but also more than 4,600 drawings. For a long time, it was not possible to determine which of the drawings in the museums present-day holdings were originally in his collection. At the time of the bequest, no complete inventory was compiled. Furthermore, in the course the collections reorganization in the 1860s, many drawings were sorted out and sold. For the first time, the Städel Museum has now succeeded in reconstructing the founders drawing collection to a large extent, and identifying the roughly 3,000 works still in the collection today. From 13 May to 16 August 2020, the Städel Museum is presenting a select ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French Culture minister Franck Riester (C) wearing a mask looks at paintings inside the museum of Orleans on May 15, 2020 as France eases lockdown measures taken to curb the spread of the COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus). GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
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 | | Pablo Picasso's Les femmes d'Alger (version 'F') to highlight ONE: A Global Sale of the 20th Century | | The art collections are real; the owners are not | | Intruder snaps selfies in closed Australian museum | 
Pablo Picasso, Les femmes d'Alger (version 'F') detail. Estimate in the region of $25 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- On July 10, Christies will offer Pablo Picassos Les femmes d'Alger (version 'F'), 17 January 1955 (estimate in the region of $25 million) in ONE: a global sale of the 20th century. The present painting hails from the celebrated series of the 15 canvases that Picasso executed between 13 December 1954 and 14 February 1955 based on Eugène Delacroixs masterwork Les femmes dAlger. Together, these paintings constitute Picassos single greatest achievement in the decades following the end of the World War II. The full range of these versions adds up to a master class of modernist pictorial forms, revitalized and created anew. Each of the individual canvases is singular in its own right, a marvel of teeming and brilliant invention. Jessica Fertig, Head of Evening Sale, Impressionist and Modern Art, remarked: The Femmes dAlger paintings are one of Picassos most important and complex series ... More | | 
Fanny Pereire, who has spent more than a decade placing art in television and film productions, in New York, April 20, 2020. I create art collections for people who dont exist, says Pereire. Heather Sten/The New York Times.
by Jillian Steinhauer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Episode 2 of Mrs. America, the new TV show dramatizing the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment, features a glamorous party at the Guggenheim Museum. Its 1972, and Gloria Steinem is launching her new magazine, Ms. She mingles, dances and then talks shop with a fellow womens movement leader, Bella Abzug. As the two walk up the museums ramp, artworks on the walls peek out behind them. Fanny Pereire, who has spent more than a decade placing art in television and film productions, was indispensable to the making of that scene. Her nearly three dozen credits include the Oliver Stone film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), the all-female heist movie Oceans 8 (2018), ... More | | 
Security cameras caught the man taking photos with displays, posing with his head inside the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus skull and searching cupboards.
SYDNEY (AFP).- Police in Australia are hunting a man who took a late-night tour of a closed Sydney museum, posing for selfies with a dinosaur skull before making off with a cowboy hat and a picture. The intruder climbed up scaffolding into The Australian Museum at around 1:00 am last Sunday and went on a leisurely wander through the empty building, local police said. "He was in there for about 40 minutes... he certainly enjoyed his night at the museum," New South Wales Police Detective Chief Inspector Sean Heaney said Friday. Security cameras caught the man taking photos with displays, posing with his head inside the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus skull and searching cupboards. The man eventually left the museum with the hat and a picture from a wall, officers said. The Australian Museum has been closed since last year for renovations and police believe the refurbishment work made his entry easier. Other museums ... More |
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| | Florence's Duomo introduces self-distancing gadget | | Entangled_Paperworks: Exhibition at Nils Stærk presents paper-based works | | Argentine paleontologists find a ten-meter-long megaraptor in Patagonia | 
The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral, better known as the Duomo, and Giottos bell tower, the Campanile, in Florence, Italy. Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times.
ROME (AFP).- Florence's Duomo has introduced gadgets worn around the neck that will allow people to visit the celebrated cathedral, while still respecting safe distances. Italy's most frequented cultural sites are anxious to reopen and recoup lost tourism euros during Italy's two-month lockdown, while assuring visitors it is safe to do so. With its bell tower begun by Giotto, and its Brunelleschi dome, the Duomo is one of the Tuscan city's top tourist attractions. The Duomo said in a statement Saturday that the device will be handed out for free at the beginning of each visit. When two people approach within a range of 2 metres (6.5 feet), the device will beep softly, vibrate and flash. "First in the world to use it in the museum context, this system guarantees the maximum of security and comfort during the visit," said the cathedral, whose official name is the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. The devices will be disinfected after each use. ... More | | 
Gardar Eide Einarsson, Plague Drawing (I), 2020. Graphite, gesso and acrylic on Acryl Deneb 300g paper, 150 x 117 cm. Signed by the artist on the back of the paper.
COPENHAGEN.- The associative links between the works in the exhibition Entangled_Paperworks are legion, but common to them all is a return to the basic but also fragile point of departure in terms of material. The works in the exhibition can be appreciated for their processual insight, their intimacy, and direct approach in drawings, we seek truth rather than power. Paper is at the root of the majority of artistic practices and their development; it is inextricably linked to the development process relative to new artistic departures. Paper is used for both registration and rationalisation. It may constitute a work and be used as currency. Paper is easily disseminated across national borders; it can be mass-produced and penetrate otherwise closed systems. Historically, paper is the very foundation of our information culture and will survive its collapse. In times of crisis, we revert to essentials, we cut to the bone, and use what is at hand. Gardar Eide Einarssons ... More | | 
The megaraptors had several characteristics that allow to describe them as lethal. According to Aranciaga.
BUENOS AIRES (CTYS-UNLAM AGENCY).- Researchers from the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences found a large carnivorous dinosaur about 70 million years old in the southwest of the province of Santa Cruz. Vertebrae, ribs and part of what would be the chest and shoulder girdle of this specimen were recovered. For 15 days, rescue tasks were carried out to extract this megaraptor. Surely, from these fossils, researchers will be able to present in society a new large species within this group of carnivorous dinosaurs with lethal characteristics to attack their preys. Paleontologist Mauro Aranciaga Rolando told the CTyS-UNLaM Agency: "We have found a very large specimen of a new megaraptorid, which were formidable carnivorous dinosaurs, because they had a set of adaptations for hunting that was really spectacular". "Unlike the Tyrannosaurus rex, the megaraptors were slimmer animals, more prepared for the race, with long tails that allowed them to maintain balance, at the same time that they had muscular legs, but elongated to ... More |
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| | Over 250 global artists urge Israel to end Gaza blockade | | Sabrina Amrani opens a show about artist's need to create and to keep in contact | | Heath Ledger signed 'Joker' photo sold for more than 10k at auction | 
Danish-American Actor Viggo Mortensen attends the 17th Marrakech International Film Festival, on December 4, 2018 in Marrakesh. STR / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- More than 250 global artists and writers including rocker Peter Gabriel, director Ken Loach and actor Viggo Mortensen have appealed to Israel to stop the "siege" of Gaza. The coronavirus epidemic could have a devastating effect in "the world's largest open air prison", the artists said in an online letter. "Long before the global outbreak of COVID-19 threatened to overwhelm the already devastated healthcare system in Gaza, the UN had predicted that the blockaded coastal strip would be unliveable by 2020," the letter said. "With the pandemic, Gaza's almost two million inhabitants, predominantly refugees, face a mortal threat in the world's largest open-air prison," it added. Other signatories included poet Taha Adnan, Canadian writer Naomi Klein and British group Massive Attack. The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since 2007 when the Islamist movement Hamas took control of the enclave. ... More | | 
Marlon de Azambuja, Nocturnas, 2018. Low intensity spray paint and tropical plants on paper. 176 x 131 x 6 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting the online group exhibition I Got You Under My Skin, presenting works by Apparatus 22, Marlon de Azambuja, Fuentesal&Arenillas, Sandra Gamarra, Alexandre Gourçon, Bodo Korsig, Joseph La Piana, Julia Llerena, Paloma Polo and Benjamin Sabatier. Weve heard Sinatra singing those words thousands of times on radio, records and movies from a Hollywoods golden age. With this and other songs, The Voice conquered our minds and today we associate those melodies with a whole culture. But what or who had Sinatra under the skin? Obviously, a woman ... It was always a woman. However, we want to go a little further to show the motivation that leads us to this exhibition: within these loves, attachments, desires, which give rise to songs, poetry books, novels, cinema, photography, painting, art in short, stands a human fever that ... More | | 
"Photos signed by Ledger as the Joker are incredibly rare and highly sought-after by cinephiles and comic book enthusiasts alike," said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. Courtesy: RR Auction.
BOSTON, MASS.- A rare Heath Ledger signed photo sold for $10,236, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The color satin-finish photograph of Ledger in his Oscar-winning role as the Joker in the 2008 film The Dark Knight, is signed and inscribed, "To Daniel, Big smile! Heath." Ledger succumbed to accidental intoxication from prescription drugs on January 22, 2008, a few months after he had finished filming his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight. The film was in its editing phase at the time of Ledger's death, and was released in the United States on July 18, 2008. Ledger received numerous posthumous nominations and awards for the Dark Knight, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe for the same category. "Photos signed by Ledger as the Joker are incredibly rare and highly sought-after by cinephiles and ... More |
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| | Tributes paid after death of Beatles photographer Astrid Kirchherr | | 140 Works from the collection of legendary dealer Danny Katz to be offered in Sotheby's online auction | | Acute Art release Olafur Eliasson's first AR artwork whilst in lockdown | 
Astrid Kirchherr during the exhibition of her photographs on November 15, 2012 in Kyiv (Ukraine). Photo: Vadim1913/wikipedia.org.
LONDON (AFP).- Tributes emerged Saturday for German photographer Astrid Kirchherr, whose striking images of The Beatles in the early 1960s helped turn them into cultural icons, following the announcement of her death this week aged 81. Kirchherr passed away on Wednesday in Hamburg a few days before her 82nd birthday, Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn confirmed Friday. "Her gift to the Beatles was immeasurable," he said on Twitter, describing Kirchherr as "intelligent, inspirational, innovative... smart, loving and (an) uplifting friend to many". Those close to her told several German media outlets, including the weekly Die Zeit and NDR public television, that she had died after a serious illness. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr took to social media to pay his own tribute. "God bless Astrid a beautiful human being and she took great photos," he said. Kirchherr met and befriended the ba ... More | | 
Reg Butler, Figure in Space, 1957. Estimate: £40,000-60,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Later this month, Sothebys is set to offer works from the collection of one of the most original and respected figures in the art world, Danny Katz, in a dedicated online sale. Exemplifying the legendary dealers broad interests, Refining Taste: Works Selected by Danny Katz (20-27 May) will present over 140 lots personally chosen by Danny himself, spanning a wide range of collecting disciplines including Antiquities, Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, Modern British Art and European sculpture the field in which Katzs reputation was first established. Renowned for his discerning eye and the rich displays in his Mayfair gallery, Danny Katz has a long-held reputation as one of Londons leading art dealers. Now, after more than 50 years in the art world, Katz has taken the decision to narrow his focus of the works of art he handles, prompting him to select this carefully-curated group for sa ... More | | 
Olafur Eliasson, WUNDERKAMMER, 2020 (detail).
LONDON.- Acute Art presents WUNDERKAMMER, a new AR project by acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. WUNDERKAMMER is an intriguing collection of natural elements, small artworks, and experiments from the artists studio rendered in augmented reality. These AR collectibles meld the well-known with startling movement and unexpected actions from a glowing sun and a shimmering rainbow to a cloud that emits rain. Some evoke contemplation while others are humorous. Presented at a time where movement and physical togetherness are restricted, WUNDERKAMMMER invites you to sculpt your immediate environment by adding objects and atmospheres to your personal space. In the first collection of objects to be released, you will additionally find a friendly-looking puffin; a floating compass that always returns to true north; an insect; and a Little Sun, Eliassons solar-powered lantern, that can be charged by the AR sun. As ... More |
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 signs and symbols presents a video exhibition by Tony OrricoNEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting Leveraging sound from sensation with every in and out breath until the heart becomes a tender object, a video exhibition by Tony Orrico as part of the gallery's ongoing series of online-only solo presentations. Leveraging sound from sensation with every in and out breath until the heart becomes a tender object is the capture of an impromptu performance by Orrico. Bedsheets sourced from the artists quarters become the arena for this spontaneous, 22 minute action. They hang in a ring, stapled to the ceiling of his studio, and are tied in a low gather that resembles the anatomy housing the breath. The fabric begins to move and ripple; which appears to be caused by the growing intensity of the sound and breath. As the videographer navigates the terrain of Orricos body (as if to be searching for the origin ... More Happy 100th anniversary to the Michigan Avenue Bridge and the "Mag Mile" at the Elmhurst Art MuseumELMHURST, IL.- Thirty-three years ago, Jack Nixon, the creator of Studies in Light and Form: The Chicago Seven and the Michigan Avenue Bridge Sculptures had no inkling that in the year 2020, his monumental drawing masterpiece would become so relevant to Chicagos architectural history. Christened on May 14, 1920 at the southern foot of the future Magnificent Mile, the bridge and its four limestone pylon sculptures would later be highlighted by the Wrigley, Tribune, Carbon & Carbide, Lincoln Tower, and Jewelers Buildings, as well as the newly refurbished InterContinental and London House hotels. The bridge and its towering neighbors are the main illustrative subjects in a one man show currently being exhibited at the Elmhurst Art Museums Guild Gallery. The suite of six drawings produced as one piece of art, having taken four solid years of ... More Sports stars and a rock and roll hall of famer help Heritage Auctions raise $100,000 for charityDALLAS, TX.- Thanks to Don Henley, Roger Staubach and a galaxy of Dallas-Fort Worth sports stars, Heritage Auctions raised $100,000 for the North Texas Food Bank the during its "In This Together Charity Auction Event Wednesday night. "This effort will provide 300,000 meals for hungry North Texans during a critical time, said Trisha Cunningham, President and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank. "A special 'thank you to the team at Heritage Auctions for their effort that has yielded some amazing results. The charity auction included several one-of-a-kind items created especially for this event, including: · Lyrics to the Eagles 1973 American standard "Desperado, handwritten by Henley for this event, which sold for $33,600 · A guitar donated by Henley and signed by the current Eagles lineup, which went for $12,600 · A diagram of the legendary ... More David Carter, a historian of Stonewall, is dead at 67NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- David Carter, whose careful research into the Stonewall Inn uprising of 1969, a pivotal event in gay rights history, culminated in an authoritative book on the subject and helped win the area in Greenwich Village where the episode occurred a listing in the National Register of Historic Places, died on May 1 at his home in Manhattan. He was 67. His brother, William, said the cause was a heart attack. Carters best-known book, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, was published in 2004, when a younger generation might not have fully appreciated how oppressive life was for gay men and women in the New York of the 1960s. Carter conjured the times bluntly. By 1966 over one hundred men were arrested each week for homosexual solicitation as a result of police entrapment, he wrote. In the ... More 'The Cultivated Landscape of Alvar Aalto' on show at the Alvar Aalto MuseumHELSINKI.- Alvar Aalto Museum opened to the public with special arrangements on May 14, 2020. As for the Finnish landscape, I have always been immersed in it. When I began to appreciate the balance and harmony it exudes, I also began to understand how we humans should treat our natural surroundings. Alvar Aalto 1972 The Alvar Aalto Museums main exhibition this year, The Cultivated Landscape of Alvar Aalto, showcases Alvar Aaltos (18981976) design with the emphasis on the connection between architecture and the surrounding landscape and nature. The affinity between Aaltos production and nature is an oft-repeated theme, but analysis of buildings with regard to landscape architecture is still an under-researched topic. The landscape was an integral aspect of architecture for Alvar Aalto. He was interested in how a building can ... More Prickly pastime: Cactus inspires lockdown art projectLONDON (AFP).- What do a match-studded turnip, celeriac embedded with coffee capsules and a kiwano melon decorated with lollipops and pins have in common? All are the brainchild of a British man trying to keep busy during lockdown, reproducing the shape of the novel coronavirus from everyday objects. "The idea started a bit randomly," Lorenzo Saa told AFP at his flat in north London. "I have a cactus at the house, one of these beautiful round ones, and it sat there and I looked at it and it made me think of all these images that we were seeing of COVIDs. "And so I had some felt balls, I put them on the cactus, and it was like, 'Oh my God, this is COVID-19.'" Saa, who works for an investment consulting firm, spends four hours a day on his increasingly inventive creations before posting them to a dedicated Instagram account, covid19replicas. Most ... More Ty, British rapper who bridged generations and genres, dies at 47NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ty, a British rapper known for a lyrically thoughtful, musically polyglot approach to hip-hop and for serving as a bridge between generations of British rap, died on May 7 in London. He was 47. His death was announced on a GoFundMe page that had been established by a family friend, Diane Laidlaw, while he was hospitalized with complications of the coronavirus. He was placed in a medically induced coma, woke from it and later died of pneumonia. In the late 1990s and 2000s, just before the early flickers of the rap-adjacent genre known as grime presaged a sound and scene with a firm British identity, Ty was among the most adventurous British MCs a wordplay-focused scene-builder indebted to American movements like the Native Tongues and the New York underground. Though he received ... More Why are there almost no memorials to the flu of 1918?NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont, a 5-ton granite bench sits on a triangle of grass. It is a mere 5 feet high and 3 feet deep, which seems modest in scale relative to the calamity it commemorates. 1918 Spanish Flu Memorial reads an inscription on the front. Over 50 million deaths worldwide is chiseled on the back. Installed two years ago, the bench was underwritten by Brian Zecchinelli and his wife, Karen, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Wayside, a restaurant they own in nearby Montpelier. It opened in 1918, just a few months before influenza scythed through Barre, killing nearly 200 people, the largest loss of life of any town in the state. One of the dead was Zecchinellis grandfather, Germinio, an Italian immigrant who worked as a craftsman in a local granite factory, one of many in a town that still ... More Nick Kotz, crusading journalist and author, dies at 87NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who exposed health hazards in the nations slaughterhouses, the gamut of hunger in America and the politics behind the Pentagons B-1 bomber, died on April 26 in Broad Run, Virginia. He was 87. His wife, Mary Lynn Kotz, an author, said he died in an accident on his cattle farm after he had mistakenly left his 2006 Mercedes in neutral as he tried to retrieve a package from the back seat. The car struck him as it rolled backward. Kotz was a Washington correspondent for The Des Moines Register and its sister paper The Minneapolis Tribune when he wrote a series of articles in the mid-1960s on the unsanitary and unsafe conditions in meatpacking plants. He found that many plants were not subject to federal inspection because they were not engaged in interstate ... More Brookgreen Gardens opens 'Bruce Munro at Brookgreen: Southern Light'MURRELLS INLET, SC.- Brookgreen Gardens, South Carolinas premier botanical garden, announced the opening of Bruce Munro at Brookgreen: Southern Light, an immersive light art installation throughout Brookgreens outdoor garden spaces. The installation is now on display, with enhanced COVID-19 safety procedures, Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Bruce Munro at Brookgreen: Southern Light consists of seven works of art in light and mixed media, each designed specifically for the natural garden spaces where they are installed. Brookgreens exhibit is the only opportunity to see Munros work in the eastern United States in 2020. The following illuminated installations consist of tens of thousands of components and are placed throughout the sculpture gardens and arboretum: Field of Light - 11,700 stems ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Sandro Botticelli died May 17, 1510. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c. 1445 - May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". In this image: Alessandro Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist. Tempera, oil and gold on panel / 46.3 x 36.8 cm. Estimate: $5,000,000-7,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
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