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The Ghent Altarpiece open. The bottom left panel of the open left wing has been missing since its theft almost a century ago. Images in this figure, used with permission of copyright holder, Saint-Bavos Cathedral, www.lukasweb.be Art in Flanders; photo Hugo Maertens.
LONDON.- Artificial intelligence has been used to analyse high-resolution digital x-ray images of the world famous Ghent Altarpiece, as part of an investigative project led by UCL. The finding is expected to improve our understanding of art masterpieces and provide new opportunities for art investigation, conservation and presentation. Researchers from the National Gallery, Duke University and UCL worked with technical images acquired from the brothers Van Eycks Ghent Altarpiece, a large and complex 15th-century altarpiece in St Bavo's Cathedral, Belgium. The paper, Artificial Intelligence for Art Investigation: Meeting the Challenge of Separating X-ray Images of the Ghent Altarpiece, demonstrates how academics used a newly developed algorithm to study mixed x-ray images containing features from the front and back of the paintings double-sided panels, which scientists have deconstructed into two clear images. These images are part of a comprehensive set of high resolutio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kaari Upson, installation view, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, f.l.t.r. view on Strump, 2017- 2019; Center, 2017-2019; Police, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
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 | | New American Furniture Study Center opens at Yale West Campus | | Deep concern at cancellation of the exhibition "After 'Freedom of Expression?'" | | Team asks for DNA tests on Napoleon general found in Russia | 
Patricia E. Kane, the Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts, gives a tour of the Hume Furniture Study, Yale West Campus.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.- On September 10, 2019, the Yale University Art Gallery opens the Leslie P. and George H. Hume American Furniture Study Center and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Sack Family Archive in the Collection Studies Center at Yale West Campus, West Haven, Connecticut. Created in 1959 by former curator Meyric R. Rogers, the Furniture Study is a three-dimensional textbook of American furniture dating from 1650 to the present. Roughly half of the objects in the Hume Furniture Study are part of the Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, which includes outstanding examples, such as a 17th-century court cupboard made in the New Haven Colony and an 18th-century rococo-style dressing table made in Philadelphia that is attributed to the so-called Garvan Carver. From the quotidian to the exceptional, the Hume Furniture Study collection illustrates the breadth of American craftsmanship ... More | | 
Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung, "Statue of a Girl of Peace" (2011). Courtesy of the artists.
BARCELONA.- The Aichi Triennial, named after the Japanese Aichi prefecture and located in its capital Nagoya, was founded in 2010. Its stated objectives are to demonstrate trends in cutting edge contemporary art centered around visual art with an international perspective, to incorporate performing arts and to enhance the attractiveness of the city and the region through cultural activities. The 4th edition of the Aichi Triennale saw the inclusion of an exhibition titled After Freedom of Expression?, which was part of the contemporary art showcase. The exhibition was an expansion of the original exhibition Freedom of Expression? held in Tokyo in 2015. The Triennial announced it would be showing works that for the most part [for] one reason or another, due to censorship or self-censorship, [...] were not exhibited in the past in Japan. The exhibition displayed works that had been rejected or removed from public institutions in Japan because of systematic censorship ... More | | 
A picture taken on July 7, 2019 shows an archaeologist working on the supposed remains of French General Charles Etienne Gudin de la Sablonniere in Smolensk. Denis MAXIMOV / AFP.
MOSCOW.- Researchers who discovered a body believed to be that of a general who died during Napoleon's 1812 campaign in Russia, have asked a French laboratory to carry out DNA tests on his remains. Charles Etienne Gudin was hit by a cannonball during the Battle of Valutino on August 19 1812 near Smolensk, a city west of Moscow close to the border with Belarus. His leg was amputated and he died three days later from gangrene, aged 44. The French army cut out his heart, now buried at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, but the site of the rest of his remains was never known, until researchers uncovered the likely skeleton this summer. The researchers had said they would reveal the results of tests on the remains and solve the 200-year-old mystery on Thursday. But at a press conference they said the final results would have to come from a laboratory in France. "For this ... More |
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| | Hayward Gallery exhibits around 50 works by the late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala | | Kunsthalle Basel opens an exhibition of works by Kaari Upson | | Paul Holberton Publishing announces 'Raphael & the Pope's Librarian' | 
Thabiso Sekgala, Second Transition, Tiger, 2012 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery.
LONDON.- Hayward Gallerys HENI Project Space presents Here Is Elsewhere, a free exhibition bringing together around 50 works by the late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala. Here Is Elsewhere is the artists first solo exhibition in the UK. Central to this exhibition is the artists career-defining series Homeland (20092011), which consists of images taken in the former homelands of Bophuthatswana and KwaNdebele, territories established by the apartheid government to house black South Africans forced to leave urban areas. This important early series explores the notion of home, place and belonging, and touches on both the artists personal history and the political history of South Africa (Sekgala was born in the township of Soweto but grew up in KwaNdebele). Along with striking portraits of young people living in these areas the born- ... More | | 
Kaari Upson, installation view, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019, view on Mothers Legs, 2018 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- Kaari Upson knows only too well the looming sense of impending disaster that clings, like smoke-choked air, to her hometown of San Bernardino, California. Wildfires regularly eat up the landscape; it is a place of frequent earthquakes, recurring drought, high crime and prickly dread, as writer Joan Didion describes it. Upsons all-American father and German émigré mother ended up there, raising the artist in a single-story home built in the ruinous county, shaded by a large ponderosa pine and surrounded by abandoned homes and vacant lots. Her very first artworks swirled around the figure of Larry, her Hugh Hefner-styled San Bernardino neighbor. Subsequent projects tackled the specter of her Pepsi Cola-obsessed mother, as well as consumer culture, and Americanness writ large. Her most recent body of works, created for this ... More | | 
Published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Raphaels death.
LONDON.- Published in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Raphaels death, this engrossing book accompanies an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Raphael and the Popes Librarian brings together for the first time one of the most fascinating works in the museums collection the Gardner Museums portrait of papal librarian Tommaso Inghirami and a painting from the Vatican Museums depicting an episode in his life. This book tells the story of Isabella Stewart Gardner's purchase of the first Raphael in America and explores Inghiramis fascinating career. Nearly five centuries after his death in 1520, Raphaels fame remains undiminished. Crowned prince of painters by Giorgio Vasari, he inspired both artists of his own time and others for centuries afterward. According to the celebrated writer Henry James, Raphaels work was semi-sacred. Gilded Age ... More |
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| | Magnet fishing: The explosive hobby cleaning up French rivers | | Baseball royalty: Hall of Fame players personal items for sale with Julien's Auctions | | US actress Valerie Harper dead at 80 | 
Fishermen remove scrap metal they caught with a "super-powerful" neodyme magnet from the Oise river in Lacroix-Saint-Ouen, northern France, on August 16, 2019. FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP.
LACROIX-SAINT-OUEN (AFP).- Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France's rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters and the odd kitchen appliance. Sometimes, too, they fish other more unexpected objects out of the water, such as unexploded munitions. Magnet fishing has fast become a popular pastime, according to public safety officials, but French authorities have clamped down over fears that historical battle sites could still harbour active weapons. As in other countries, participants in France tie a super magnet to a rope and drop it into waterways, partly for treasure hunting, partly for environmental reasons. On the banks of the Oise river, in a town about 75 kilometres (47 miles) north of Paris, Owen Gressier, 20, and his three fellow magnet fishermen cast their neodymium magnets. After several attempts at their spot near a ... More | | 
A 1947 Babe Ruth Sultan of Swat Award Presented to John Mize for Outstanding Batting Achievement. Estimate: $10,000-$20,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- History and investment opportunities intersect for baseball fans attending Juliens Auctions A Southern Gentlemans Collection event in Beverly Hills on November 14th. With the Sports category leading the sale, high value baseballs and game worn jerseys each carry with them stories about some of the greatest moments and players of the sport. Brett Hughes, Managing Director Global Sports at Juliens Auctions, says: Once in a while a collection comes our way that you can feel the history, opportunity, and excitement all at once. This collection - compiled over the course of 30 years by Goodman Basil Espy¬ III, M.D., is just that exciting. It includes the kinds of items that makes the heart of any baseball fan and collector beat faster. Much faster. An indication of the strength of this market can be seen in the price rises we are seeing. A Babe Ruth uniform similar to one sold in 2008 fo ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on February 02, 2015 Actress Valerie Harper arrives at the AARP The Magazine's 14th Annual Movies For Grownups Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on February 2, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. Valerie MACON / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Valerie Harper, one of US television's biggest stars in the 1970s for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spin-off "Rhoda," died Friday after a long battle with lung and brain cancer. She was 80. Harper won four Emmys and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern, Moore's brash, wisecracking and neurotic neighbor, eventually earning her own sitcom. A 1974 episode of "Rhoda" in which her character got married was watched by more than 50 million Americans, which The New York Times described as a cultural phenomenon in which "we got together as a nation, in anticipation and retrospection, to watch a marriage." Harper's husband Tony Cacciotti wrote in a message posted on Twitter by their adopted daughter Cristina: "My beautiful ... More |
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| | MACT/CACT Museo e Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino opens new exhibition | | Finalists selected For the 2019 Betty Bowen Award | | Watch the history of City Hall come alive at National Gallery Singapore | 
Tal Shoshan (1969), Self Portrait, 2010, colored pencils on photograph, 50 X 60 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
BELLINZONA.- This exhibition on view at MACT/CACT Museo e Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino sets out to examine how Israeli contemporary art goes about expressing the concept of identity behind the notion of hshuma (social shame). The research engaged in for the purpose of defining this exhibition started from the perception and the analysis of the concept of identity by the adoption of the negative Id, of what is prohibited and of all forms of behaviour considered to be unacceptable, and tracing their links to the term shame. In socio-political terms, the concept of shame reopens the entire discussion about the definition of Israeli identity, which originated fundamentally in a profoundly Ashkenazi historical experience. Indeed, HSHUMA is not just another perspective on Israeli contemporary art, but a concept that interpenetrates with the historical and political reality of this ... More | | 
Evening Forecast, Anthony White, 2018, Polylactic Acid (PLA) on Panel, 60 x 42 x 1 in., Courtesy of artist, © Anthony White and Greg Kucera Gallery.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum and the Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, announced the five artists selected as finalists for this years Betty Bowen Award: Andrea Joyce Heimer, Anthony Hudson, Adair Rutledge, Lynne Siefert, and Anthony White. The juried award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The award was founded in 1977 to honor the legacy of Betty Bowen (1918 1977), who was an avid champion of artists in the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Bowens friends, the award is administered by SAM. The Betty Bowen Committeecomprising Northwest curators, collectors, and artistsreviewed 545 applications from visual artists residing in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. One of this years finalists will receive an unrestricted cash award in the amount of $15,000 and will have their work displayed at the Seattle Art Museum. At the discretion of the committe ... More | | 
Multimedia exhibition, City Hall: If Walls Could Talk, will open to the public from 1 September 2019. Courtesy of National Gallery Singapore.
SINGAPORE.- The City Hall has had a long and colourful history since its completion in 1929. From serving as a bomb shelter during the Japanese Occupation to housing Singapores first Public Complaints Bureau, the building has borne witness to key moments in Singapores history. In conjunction with the Singapore Bicentennial commemoration, National Gallery Singapore will present City Hall: If Walls Could Talk from 1 September 2019 to cast the spotlight on pivotal moments that have occurred within and around the walls of this grand dame. Slated to run for two years, the immersive multimedia experience in the City Hall Chamber introduces audiences to the rich stories and evolving functions of the building in decades past as Singapore grew from colony to city-state and in more recent times when it transformed into National Gallery Singapore. The first long-term exhibition staged within the Chamber, City Hall: If Wall ... More |
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Massimo Bottura at the Intersection of Art and Artisan
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 Ivory Coast bids singer DJ Arafat farewell, fans open his coffinABIDJAN (AFP).- Fans of Ivorian singer DJ Arafat opened his coffin Saturday to take photos of the corpse, prompting police to fire teargas after an overnight funeral concert where tens of thousands paid tribute to the one of West Africa's most popular stars. Following hours of musical homage, tears, and solemn reminiscence at Abijan's main stadium, events took a dark turn as fans battled police preventing them from entering the cemetery where the singer's family gave him a private burial. But several did make into the Williamsville cemetery in Abidjan's working-class Adjame district, forced open the fresh grave and coffin, and took photos and videos that they shared on social media. Police fired teargas to disperse the grave profaners, and several people were injured, witnesses told AFP. "We wanted to see the body of our idol before the tomb was sealed," ... More  Exhibition explores rapid economic and social change in 1990s ChinaBEIJING.- From August 31 to November 24, 2019, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art presents the group exhibition Society Guidance: Part II, featuring work by Chen Zhen (1955 2000, Shanghai), Huang Jingyuan (b. 1979, Xian), Li Juchuan (b. 1964, Shashi, Hubei province), Double Fly Art Center (established 2008), Shi Yong (b. 1963, Shanghai), Xing Danwen (b. 1967, Xi an), Xu Tan (b. 1957, Wuhan), and Xu Yong (b. 1954, Shanghai), made during, or in relation to, the 1990s. Also included is a special presentation devoted to Wildlife Art Project (initiated 1997), a unique art program of the period. The exhibition is a continuation of Society Guidance: Part 1, exhibited from May 18 to August 18, 2019, which presented artworks together with a reading room of archival materials, to outline for viewers the wider context of rapid economic and social ... More  Bronze censer soars to $30,000 at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers' Fine Art & Antiques AuctionCRANSTON, RI.- An 18th century Chinese Qing Dynasty bronze tripod censer, originally used to burn incense to honor ancestors, purify the air or cure ailments, soared to $30,000 at a Fine Art & Antiques Auction held August 17th by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. The sale featured 380 lots, pulled from prominent estates. The front and underside of the 5-inch-tall censer were both impressed with the Xuande character seal mark. In overall good condition, with original untouched patina, the lot sailed past its pre-sale estimate of $3,000-$5,000 to be the sales top achiever. The event featured French furniture and accessories, lovely paintings, bronzes, jewelry, clocks, Chinese arts, modern arts and more. Overall it was a great day, with active participation from both the house and ... More  Statues for equality: Australians unveil sculptures of 10 womenNEW YORK (AFP).- Ten statues of famous women were installed in New York this week as the first part of an international project by Australian artists to highlight gender imbalance in monuments. Media mogul and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett and three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas were among the personalities chosen by the public to be carved in bronze. The statues, which stand around 6.5 feet (two meters) tall, are the work of husband-and-wife sculpting duo Gillie and Marc Schattner, who want women to be fairly represented in public art. They say on their website that less than three percent of New York's statues are of women. The figure is three percent in London and four percent in Sydney, they add. "It's gorgeous!" said 46-year-old Leslie Daniels as she stopped to look at the installation on ... More  K11 MUSEA redefines Victoria Harbour waterfront with debut art collection from leading artistsHONG KONG.- K11 MUSEA, a 10-year project built in collaboration with 100 creative powers, is presenting its art collection at Victoria Dockside Asias new cultural district on the iconic Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront in Victoria Harbour. Among the 100 creatives involved in the making of K11 MUSEA, 40 of which are leading international and Hong Kong local contemporary artists. The collection is aesthetically inspired by the citys waterfront culture, meticulously collected and curated in context to its geographical location, under the direction of its founder Adrian Cheng. The collection celebrates the fast-moving lifestyle of Hong Kong and attracts next-generation consumers that are alluding to new retail experiences interwoven with culture, creativity and innovation. The 10-storey complex and its surroundings are conceived as ... More  Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair to show works related to Qatar's historical contextMOSCOW.- As part of the programme of the 7th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, the Embassy of the State of Qatar to the Russian Federation and Qatar Airways will present the White Sun exhibition project uniting photographs and an installation by Soundwalk Collective that are related to Qatars historical context. The exhibition will include works by such photographers as Henry Dallal, Abdulla Artuyev, Vlad Loktev, Mikhail Rozanov, and Danila Tkachenko. Arabian Sands, an audiovisual installation by Soundwalk Collective, and Oasis, a project by Danila Tkachenko, form the centerpiece of the exhibition. Oasis series was created upon commission from the National Museum of Qatar as part of Year of Culture Qatar-Russia 2018. In this series, Danila explores the issues of preservation of national identity now that the ... More  Chatsworth announces full line up for Arts FestivalCHATSWORTH.- A dynamic collection of artists, makers and designers has been announced in the full line-up for the Chatsworth Arts Festival as it returns for its fifth edition with a weekend of culture, talks, thought and performance covering music; design; painting, sculpture, and ceramics; dance; illustration and animation; film, theatre and photography; gardens; and writing. Running from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September at the Peak District home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, the festival opens with a DJ set and talk in the garden from Block 9, designers of temporary alternative realities. Their collaborations include Banksy to Birmingham Opera, Gorillaz to Dua Lipa, while their annual performance at the Glastonbury Festival draws 50,000 festival-goers to enjoy "the best area of the best festival in the world" (BBC). Headline acts for this years ... More  Russian scientists give audience astonishing scientific demonstrations at the WOW! HOW? showHONG KONG.- Russian Club Hong Kong will present the biggest Russian Science show WOW! HOW? Show in Hong Kong! During the two days on 21st and 22nd September with 6 performances in total, the Hong Kong début scientific show will bring adults and kids an interactive science exploration and spectacular family activity at Sheung Wan Civic Centre! Today, Mr. Sergey Shklyaev, Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer and Mr. Maxim Trofimovich, Leading Science Developer of the WOW! HOW? Science Show demonstrated a series of experiments at the media preview of WOW! HOW? Show held at The Habour School, leaving students and media friends all in awe. The preview was a breath-taking journey of scientific exploration to the mysterious Space. The WOW! HOW? team led participants a trip to the Solar system starting from the Earth orbit, ... More  Monash Gallery of Art presents a major exhibition of works by Bill HensonMELBOURNE.- The light fades but the gods remain is a major exhibition at Monash Gallery of Art, showcasing two key series by Bill Henson exploring the suburb of Glen Waverley where he grew up. In celebration of MGAs 25th anniversary, Bill Henson was commissioned to revisit the suburb of his childhood and to produce a new body of work that reflects upon his earlier series Untitled 198586, known by many as the suburban series. This ground-breaking commission offers an unparalleled insight into one of Australias most revered artists, as he explores the notion of home, intensifying the everyday to a point of dramatic revelation and romantic beauty. "In Hensons new works, revisiting Glen Waverley after some 35 years, we might expect to find the suburban sprawl denser than before, or replaced by blocks of flats and shopping centres but, on the ... More  Salon Art + Design 2019 announces exhibitors NEW YORK, NY.- Salon Art + Design, produced by Sanford L. Smith + Associates, returns for its eighth edition at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from November 14 - 18, 2019. Presenting the worlds best design vintage, modern and contemporary enhanced by blue-chip 20th century and contemporary art, the Salon will feature 56 leading art and design galleries (from 13 different countries), spotlighting the trends of collectible design. Salon has differentiated itself from other fairs by including a highly curated mixture of historic and contemporary collectible design and fine art. Just as top interior designers create eclectic homes for discerning clients, Salon exhibitors are encouraged to create immersive environments mirroring the way we live today. The success of Salon lies in the quality of its exhibiting galleries, the extremely ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. Per Kirkeby (1 September 1938 - 9 May 2018) was a Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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