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Image of the exhibition galleries ?1819-2019. A place of memory?. Photo © Museo Nacional del Prado. MADRID.- Since the Museo Real opened its doors on 19th November 1819 with works from the Royal Collections, this institution has served as one of the leading depositaries for the history of Western art, a key point of reference for Spanish culture and an object of collective pride. Some two hundred years after it was founded, the Museo del Prado would like to reflect on all this and share its celebrations, especially with those who visit the exhibition that is taking place over almost four months in Halls A and B, an exhibition designed to provide a rich insight into the Museum?s development and historical significance. Organised by Javier Portús, Chief Curator of Spanish Painting (up to 1700) at the Prado, in his own words the exhibition ?proposes a chronological journey through the Museum?s evolution, which enables us to highlight the aspects that have made this a living institution, one that has been especially influenced by the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a Cyber Monday Timed Auction, featuring extraordinarily low prices on lots perfect for dealers, collectors, or that special someone on your holiday shopping list. Lots begin closing Monday, 11/26 at 9:00 AM. In this image: Roman Constans I AE Follis Coin w/ Silver Ring, 21.7 g. Roman, Imperial Period, ca. 337 to 350 CE. Estimate $550 - $825.
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| Sotheby's latest auction house to end rhino horn sales | | MAD Architects designs panoramic viewpoint on the Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam | | In southern Syria, Roman theatre survives civil war intact | The auction house had been due to put three lots of rhinoceros horn under the hammer at a sale next week. HONG KONG (AFP).- Sotheby's on Saturday became the latest international auction house to end the sale of rhino horn artefacts, withdrawing antique lots from an upcoming event in Hong Kong following an outcry from environmental groups. The auction house had been due to put three lots of rhinoceros horn under the hammer at a sale next week. "The company will no longer offer rhino horn artefacts in the future," Nicolas Chow, chairman of Sotheby's Asia confirmed in a statement. "Sotheby's deplores any illegal slaughter and trading of endangered wildlife, and strongly supports conservation efforts from the global community," he added. The decision comes after Bonhams cancelled its sale in Hong Kong of 21 lots of rhino horn carvings, valued at $3.87 million according to Humane Society International, following mounting pressure. "In future, Bonhams ... More | | Fenix design by MAD. ROTTERDAM.- The Chinese architectural firm MAD Architects has been contracted by the Droom en Daad Foundation to design a panoramic viewpoint on top of the historic Fenix warehouse. The Rotterdam based company Bureau Polderman will be responsible for restoring the historic warehouse itself. MAD Architects was founded in 2004 by the Beijing- born Ma Yansong. MAD Architects quickly became renowned as one of the worlds most innovative and dazzling architectural firms. MAD Architects work is characterized by its use of organically and technologically advanced shapes in their designs. People, city and the environment are brought together seamlessly in their buildings. The Katendrecht peninsula, located on the southern banks in the port of Rotterdam once was one of the oldest Chinatowns in Europe. Around the 1900s it was here that one could find opium kits and that the first Chinese restaurant opened its doors in the Netherlan ... More | | Syrian scouts tour the Roman Theatre at Bosra, a World Heritage Site, south of Sweida, in the Daraa province on November 23, 2018. Maher AL MOUNES / AFP. BOSRA (AFP).- Mobile phone in hand, student Abdelaziz al-Aswad bounds up the steps of an UNESCO-listed Roman theatre in southern Syria, elated that the heritage site has survived seven years of civil war. The second-century theatre stands tall in the ancient city of Bosra, which the United Nations cultural body designated as under threat after Syria's conflict broke out. Aswad was among dozens to visit and take pictures of the theatre under grey skies on Friday, as part of an organised trip to the area sanctioned by the tourism ministry. "I travelled 700 kilometres (430 miles) from northern Syria to see the theatre after hearing so much about it," said the 23-year-old, who hails from the northern city of Aleppo. Regime forces retook full control of the surrounding province of Daraa in July, for the first time in six years. Rebels ... More |
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| Restitution of African art from France: "We need this memory" | | David Zwirner opens an exhibition featuring works by four American artists associated with Minimalism | | Perrotin Tokyo opens a solo exhibition of celebrated India-based artist, Bharti Kher | This file photo shows Funerary crown of the Kingdom of Dahomey dating from 1860-1889, on May 18, 2018 at the Quai Branly Museum-Jacques Chirac in Paris. GERARD JULIEN / AFP. LAGOS (AFP).- The debate over the restitution of thousands of African cultural artefacts from France has become heated, but in West Africa conservators prefer to call it "collaboration" and are preparing for their return. The French presidency announced on Friday night that it was restoring "without delay" 26 works plundered by the French army in 1892 and claimed by the authorities in Benin. The recommendations come with the delivery of a non-binding report that proposes a change in legislation and urges the return of museum artefacts to Africa from France. Alain Godonou, a Beninese conservator responsible for heritage at the new national agency for tourism promotion in Benin, has been working on this issue for more than 30 years and says now is the time for reflection. The small West African country of Benin, formerly Dahomey, ... More | | nstallation view, Flavin, Judd, McCracken Sandback, David Zwirner Hong Kong, 2018. courtesy David Zwirner Hong Kong, New York, London. HONG KONG.- David Zwirner Hong Kong is presenting an exhibition of work by Dan Flavin (19331996), Donald Judd (19281994), John McCracken (19342011), and Fred Sandback (19432003), four American artists associated with Minimalism, one of the most significant artistic developments of the late twentieth century. Each artist is being represented by a focused presentation of his work in a single room, allowing visitors to experience both the commonalities and distinctions in the individual approaches to reductive form, material, color, and space. Since its inception, David Zwirner has featured critically acclaimed exhibitions devoted to the work of artists associated with Minimal art and is recognized as one of the foremost international galleries to present this work to the public. Highlighting historically significant installations, this exhibition is the first major presentation of Minimal ... More | | View of the exhibition Djinns, things, places at Perrotin Tokyo. November 14 December 15, 2018 © Photo: Kei Okano. Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin. TOKYO.- Perrotin Tokyo is presenting a solo exhibition of celebrated India-based artist, Bharti Kher. Situated in a legacy of work that weaves as many linguistic pirouettes as material ones, Bharti Khers first solo show in Japan is named Djinns, things, places for a reason. This time there is no pachyderm, no spermatozoid symbol covering it, no phallic largesse inviting us, as there was during the group exhibition she participated in at Mori Art Museum, Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art (2008). This time the elephant in the room is you and the introspective silence she has skilfully stitched for you to confront, rather to place within yourself. Here she stands in the land of the divine beasts that protect, and of spirit masters that never quite leave. It is in this land that belongs as much to Pokémon of today as it does to the mystical dragons of folklore, that Kher chooses ... More |
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| AGO reveals which Infinity Mirror Room by Yayoi Kusama will come to the AGO...forever | | Major exhibition in Salzburg of works by VALIE EXPORT opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | | The Cleveland Museum of Art opens 'Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern' | Yayoi Kusama, INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER, © YAYOI KUSAMA. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/ Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photograph courtesy Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio. TORONTO.- In the lead up to Giving Tuesday, today the Art Gallery of Ontario revealed the name of the Infinity Mirror Room it hopes to acquire in recognition of the thousands of people who have donated to the #InfinityAGO campaign. INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET'S SURVIVE FOREVER is an extraordinary artwork featuring mirrored orbs suspended from the ceiling and arranged on the ground. The room is bigger than many other Infinity Mirror Rooms It can fit four people inside it at a time. The installation, artnet describes, ups the ante by placing an Infinity Room within an Infinity Room...[installing] a mirrored rectangular column inside a mirror installation. If you peer through the holes of the column, you can see a seemingly endless array of steel orbs extending in every direction. Launched on November 1, the #InfinityAGO campaign is ... More | | VALIE EXPORT, HOMOMETER, 1973. Black and white photograph of an action at the sea in Belgium, 38,6 x 28,3 cm. Photo: Eric Timmermann. SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac opened a major exhibition in Salzburg of works by VALIE EXPORT titled Body Politics, presenting her photography, photo collages and films dating from 1968 to 1983. Following the announcement of the gallerys representation of VALIE EXPORT in October 2017, the close collaboration with the artist was inaugurated with an exhibition in Paris curated by Caroline Bourgeois. This exhibition in Salzburg focuses on works from her series of Körperkonfigurationen [Body Configurations] (1972-82), the three-part photographic work Identitätstransfer 1-3 [Identity Transfer 1-3] (1968), documentations of the performances HOMOMETER (1973) and HOMO METER II (1976), two showcases on the theme of Hand Figurations and Body Configurations (1972-82), the photo collage EXTREM / ITÃTEN DES VERHALTENS [EXTREM / ITIES OF BEHAVIOUR] (1972), the video installation Body Tape (1970), as well as the videos/films Body Politics (1974), Syn ... More | | 2 Yellow Leaves (Yellow Leaves), 1928. Georgia OKeeffe (American, 18871986). Oil on canvas; 40 x 30 1/8 in. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Georgia OKeeffe, 87.136.6. © Brooklyn Museum. Photo: Brooklyn Museum. CLEVELAND, OH.- Georgia OKeeffe: Living Modern offers a unique look into the fascinating connections among the paintings, personal style, and public persona of one of Americas most celebrated artists. Throughout her 65-year career, OKeeffe defied convention and forged a fiercely independent identity that was integral to her art. Showcasing approximately 140 objects, including paintings, drawings, and sculptures alongside her garments (many shown for the first time) and photographic portraits of her, the exhibition reveals OKeeffes determination to be strikingly modern in both her art and her life. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, Georgia OKeeffe: Living Modern is on view in the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Gallery from November 23, 2018 to March 3, 2019. Georgia OKeeffe is a beloved icon of 20th-century American art, said William Griswold, director of the ... More |
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| Items pertaining to some of the greatest figures in history offered at University Archives | | Christie's Watches Online Winter Holiday Sale to offer over 300 watches ranging from vintage to contemporary | | Tiffany, sevres, Warhol and Longo command impressive prices at Clars' Important November 18th, 2018 sale | Two-page letter, written in French in a clerical hand and signed by Napoleon Bonaparte, penned in Germany in 1807 and addressed to Napoleons Minister of War (est. $2,000-$2,400). WESTPORT, CONN.- Items pertaining to Napoleon Bonaparte, Albert Einstein, JFK, George Patton, Abraham Lincoln and dozens of other luminaries throughout world history and popular culture can be purchased in time for holiday delivery during University Archives internet-only auction already up and online. Live bidding will begin Wednesday, Dec. 5th at 10:30 am Eastern. As with all University Archives auctions, this one is packed with rare and highly collectible autographed documents, manuscripts, books, photos and relics. The full catalog showing all 284 lots can be viewed now, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Online bidding is being provided by Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. If payment is prompt, bidders can receive a truly unique gift item delivered in time for the holidays, said John Reznikoff, the president and owner of University Archives. This is our large ... More | | Moritz Grossmann, BENU Tourbillon Orange Titanium, MG-002066. Estimate: $60,000-100,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018. NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces the Christies Watches Online: Winter Holiday Sale (November 27 December 10 & 11). The online sale includes over 300 watches ranging from vintage to contemporary with timepieces by Patek Philippe, Rolex, OMEGA, Audemars Piguet, Universal Geneva, Cartier, among others. Highlights include a Big Red Rolex Daytona reference 6263 (estimate: $80,000-120,000), a sought-after Patek Philippe reference 2526 retailed by Serpico y Lainos (estimate: $30,000-50,000) and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore T3 (estimate: $26,000-45,000). In addition, a selection of 24 unique pieces by Moritz Grossmann, in celebration of the brands 10th anniversary. The Moritz Grossmann 10th anniversary collection aims to celebrate its history by including pieces that require a diverse range of skills from its master watchmakers. Founded in November 2008, Christine Hutter established ... More | | Andy Warhols Mao (1972), a screenprint of the iconic image of the Chinese Communist party leader, sold for $46,125. OAKLAND, CA.- Exceptional offerings in both Decorative Arts and Fine Art lead the sale at Clars November 18th Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art Auction. The impressive works presented drew bidders from around the world resulting in very strong prices and a few exciting surprises. The investment level property offered at this sale came from prominent California estates, museums, private institutions and special collections. Following are the highlights from this important sale. Investment level sterling silver was anticipated to be a star in this auction and the results did not disappoint. An impressive pair of American sterling silver candelabra designed by George Paulding Farnham for Tiffany & Co., 1902-1907, was presented with an estimate of $35,000 55,000. The importance of these candelabra was quickly noted by bidders who drove the final sale price to $52,275. A very exciting surprise was seen on a pair of monum ... More |
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| More News | Annotated book revealing the thoughts of Michael Jackson expected to fetch £8,000 at Omega Auctions NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS.- A book closely annotated by Michael Jackson that gives a fascinating insight into the thoughts and interests of the King of Pop is expected to fetch up to £8,000 when offered for sale by Omega Auctions on November 27. Robert Greenes The 48 Laws of Power, published in 1998, is a bestseller assessing the factors that have made people powerful throughout history. Popular with Hollywood celebrities among others, the book clearly enthralled Jackson, who wrote notes throughout this copy, including exclamations of Wow, True and Great, as well as more detailed inscriptions. The relatively juvenile handwriting in which he puts down his thoughts may well be a legacy of Jacksons lost childhood, as he sacrificed stable schooling for a life on the road, but his views are sometimes incisive. On one page he writes: You create ... More Exhibition at Stedelijk Museum features recent work from artists living in the Netherlands AMSTERDAM.- Freedom of Movement is the latest edition of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdams Municipal Art Acquisitions, a biannual show that features recent work from artists living in the Netherlands. The Municipal Art Acquisitions always focuses on a different discipline, and this years version brings together artists who work within the field of time-based media, which includes film and video work, internet art, performance, dance, sound art, and workshops. During the course of the exhibition, the Stedelijk will acquire several of the works on display for its internationally renowned collection. Artists in the Netherlands were invited to submit work to Freedom of Movement via an open call. Out of 399 submissions, the jurywhich consisted of choreographer Ligia Lewis, curator and Shadow Channel director Juha van t Zelfde, artist Harm van den Dorpel and curator ... More VNH Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by artist Kon Trubkovich PARIS.- VNH Gallery opened the solo exhibition by artist Kon Trubkovich (born in 1979 Moscow, Russia) entitled Minor Demons (22 November - 21 December 2018). This is his first solo exhibition in France. Kon Trubkovichs practice explores memory and history through film, painting and sculpture. He is best known for his paintings, which incorporate stills from found movie footage and family home films of his Moscow childhood. Trubkovich casts the people, places and elements from the video stills into theoretical stages adding characters as he works and alternating narratives. The dreamlike and puzzling environments elevate the video stills to a new subjective dimension, creating a vivid manifestation of the imperfect human grasp of the past through recollection. The paintings presented at VNH Gallery pull from intimate events; ruminations on fatherhood, ... More Exhibition of works by Bruno Munari on view at kaufmann repetto MILAN.- kaufmann repetto is presenting Ognuno vede ciò che sa (Everyone sees what they know), an exhibition of works by Bruno Munari (1907-1998) curated by Alberto Salvadori. The show has been realized in collaboration with Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, who organized the first comprehensive exhibition of the artists work in the United States this May 2018. Bruno Munari was a versatile character in 20th century art, a man who created a genuine idea of an alternative reality over the course of his career. He is part of that narrow handful of key-figures consistently out of sync with the various movements and manifestos of his time; his strong sense of self-irony, a distinctive element of his personality and art, has always shielded him from belonging to any singular group or artistic movement. A leading graphic designer and designer of objects, an artist, ... More Solo exhibition by Berlin-based painter Iris Schomaker opens at Reflex Gallery AMSTERDAM.- Coinciding with Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018, Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam opened its second solo-exhibition by Berlin-based painter Iris Schomaker on Saturday 24 November. Following a successful first exhibition last year, this show exclusively includes new works on paper: four large pieces (approx. 240 x 160), some smaller works and a series of portraits. The exhibition runs from 23 November 2018 until 12 January 2019. Titled Walking the Line, the paintings in this show share a theme of finding balance; in form, composition, colour and life. Distinctively working with abstracted figures and geometric formations, Schomaker's process is often an exploration and contemplation of lines, yet always in order to find equilibrium. Revealing the entire process from sketch to finished painting in each piece, one finds thin charcoal lines next to multi-layered strips ... More The Hyde Collection exhibits Japanese woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection GLENS FALLS, NY.- A new exhibition at The Hyde Collection chronicles the development of Japanese woodcuts during a key period in the nations history and highlights examples of their influence on modern Western artists. Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection runs through December 30. Ukiyo-e was an art movement patronized by Japans merchant class. Politically powerless during the Edo era (1603-1868) indeed, Japans merchants were considered the lowest class in society, under the noble samurai, productive farmers, and useful artisans they found an outlet for their wealth and energies in cheap, reproducible prints that portrayed their indulgent pleasures. Ukiyo-e was quite unlike the ancient, tradition-bound art of Japans imperial and shogunate courts. The medium, woodcut ... More Group of netsuke from Edmund de Waal's collection raises over £98,000 for Refugee Council LONDON.- On 21 November 2018, 79 netsuke from the collection of Edmund de Waal were sold at auction at Matthew Barton Ltd., London for £98,961*, with proceeds going to the charity Refugee Council. Passed down through five generations of Edmund de Waals family, the collection was the inspiration for his best-selling family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. From November 2018, the main collection will go on long-term loan to the Jewish Museum in Vienna, joining his family archive donated to the museum earlier this year. In November 2019, there will be an exhibition at the museum about the family and its collections which will subsequently tour internationally. A condition of the loan is that the public will be able to handle the small sculptures. Edmund de Waal said: The decision to place the netsuke on loan allows them to tell the story of migration, ... More To reclaim Baghdad, Iraqi artists grapple with its ghosts BAGHDAD (AFP).- Dressed in a multi-coloured beanie and grey sneakers, Zaid Saad had just finished setting up his contemporary art exhibit on Baghdad's sandy riverbank when police showed up. The piece was part of a two-day walking tour of Iraq's capital, an effort by young artists to address social dilemmas and reclaim Baghdad's identity after more than a decade of violence. But at virtually every turn, organisers came up against some of the very stereotypes they sought to break down, from blast walls to jumpy security guards and sceptical members of Iraq's conservative society. Saad's art, for example, was set up in a highly-sensitive area: directly across the Tigris River from Baghdad's Green Zone, the walled-off enclave housing parliament, other government offices, and numerous embassies. Police officers arrived as he was preparing ... More Mannheimer Kunstverein exhibits works by Susanna Hertrich MANNHEIM.- In his 1864 lecture titled On the dependence of our world view on the duration of our moment, Russian biologist Karl Ernst von Baer discussed the subjectivity of human sensory perception, explaining that human beings can only process one sensory stimulus per second. His insights helped to lay the foundations of a theory of virtuality, effectively making him a precursor of cybernetics. The limitations of human sensory skills, along with the resulting inexperiencability of the totality of the outside world, are a recurring concern in the discourse of cybernetics and in the work of Susanna Hertrich. The cybernetic perspective on the world considers human beings to be part of a larger, nonhierarchical system made up also of machines and other actors, interacting with one another in automatic reciprocity. In the face of the present dynamics of algorithmic ... More Stuart Shave/Modern Art opens an exhibition of new works by Bojan Šarčević LONDON.- Modern Art is presenting an exhibition of new works by Bojan arčević. This is the artists fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. arčevićs exhibition at Modern Art consists of a series of new works made from commercial freezers, farmed ice crystals, and an audio component. In the exhibition, various readymade freezers powered on and at work occupy the otherwise empty ground floor of the gallery. The humidity in the air inside the gallery space affects the ever-growing frost within them. Eerie monoliths, they formally evoke both Minimalism and an abandoned supermarket. Over the humming of their motors, audio tracks, punctuated by distortion, can be heard periodically. Transducer speakers installed within the freezers emit vibrations that rely on solid or liquid particles to generate sound. As such, the thick layer of frozen condensation ... More Exhibition of new and recent works by artist Tim Ebner opens at DENK gallery LOS ANGELES, CA.- DENK gallery is presenting new and recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Tim Ebner in Metal Paintings. The geometric Finish-Fetish inspired pieces of the late 80s for which Ebner received international attention, gave way to subsequent bodies of representational painting and sculpture and later forays into painterly abstraction. The artist's newest work combines the formal concision of his earlier interest in Minimalism with the material-rigor of craft to produce sculptural paintings in an expanded field. Technically informed by his experience working with Blacksmiths at a forge, Ebner's recent pieces are physical exertions, bent, hammered and shaped from 26 gauge cold roll steel, an industrial sheet metal the artist later finishes in glassy urethane. These works, produced through a physically demanding and substantially resistant ... More
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| href=' Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice Denis was born November 25, 1870. Maurice Denis (25 November 1870 - 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer, who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art. He was associated with Les Nabis then the Symbolist movement, and then with a return to neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Following the First World War, he founded the Ateliers d'Art Sacré (Workshops of Sacred Art), decorated the interiors of churches, and worked for a revival of religious art. In this image: Triple Portrait of Marthe (1892).
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