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The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's new exhibit titled "Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend" is previewed August 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. The exhibit features the narwhal's relationship with Inuit culture and the rapidly changing Arctic environment. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The narwhal with its unique, spiraling tusk has inspired legends in Inuit society and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. On Aug. 3, a new exhibition at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History will dive deep into the Arctic world of narwhals to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem unique and important. Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend will present Inuit perspectives on their relationship with narwhals and the latest scientific knowledge about these animals, while illuminating the interconnectedness among narwhals, people and their ecosystems. The exhibition will display real narwhal tusks and skulls, intricate Inuit artwork and cultural artifacts, a whale-skull fossil from an extinct narwhal relative and an 18-foot, life-size model of a male narwhal suspended above the exhibition gallery. Visitors will be immersed in the Arctic environment of the na ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chinese artist Ai Weiwei poses at the mouth of the Riachuelo river in La Boca neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, on August 1, 2017. Weiwei's first anthological exhibition in Latin America will be inaugurated on 18 November,2017 at Proa Foundation in the Argentinian capital. EITAN ABRAMOVICH / AFP
| US tug of war over disputed relic from Lebanon | | Family discovers Norman Rockwell sports print is actually a famous original painting worth $300K+ | | Playground Structure: Blain/Southern opens group exhibition | 
In 2010, the couple sold the head to a private collector in the United States, who loaned it to the Met, which put it on public display.
NEW YORK (AFP).- A tug of war has broken out over an ancient relic from Lebanon that New York's leading art museum suspects may have been stolen during the Lebanese civil war. Manhattan prosecutors have impounded the bull's head and are seeking to return it to Lebanon. But husband-and-wife art collectors from Colorado have filed their own lawsuit, seeking the relic be returned to them. Believed to be of Greek origin, the marble head dates back to around 360 BC and is 13 inches (33 centimeters) tall. It is the second item from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to wind up in the hands of prosecutors in recent weeks. In late July, the Met also surrendered an ancient vase amid concerns that it might have been stolen from Italy. Lynda and William Beierwaltes initially purchased the head in 1996 from a London dealer, who had bought it from an art dealer in Switzerland. According to The New York Times, they paid $1 million ... More | | 
Norman Rockwell, Original Study for "Tough Call", 1948 (detail). Oil on paper, 16 x 15 inches.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions continues its legacy as the premier sports auction house offering a recently discovered Norman Rockwell original Saturday Evening Post cover study for the painting Tough Call in its August 19-20 Sports Platinum Night Auction. Historically significant New York Yankees memorabilia from Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth are also featured in the auction, now open for Internet-only bidding and concluding in Extended Bidding format on Saturday August 20. The newly discovered Norman Rockwell study of "Tough Call" (est. $300,000+) was believed for decades to be just a framed print that was signed by Rockwell to umpire Beans Reardon. After presenting it to Heritage Auctions experts, the owners discovered it is actually an original oil on paper study work for one of Rockwell's most famous paintings. "The Rockwell discovery is a wonderful story and we expect this work to do quite well considering the broad interest across spo ... More | | 
Installation View, Playground Structure, 2017, Courtesy the artist and BlainSouthern, Photo Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- The group exhibition Playground Structure takes its title from a photograph by Jeff Wall that depicts a climbing frame in a suburban park. The climbing frame is an invitation to play, and yet it also resembles an anonymous public artwork that might bring to mind a modernist grid or a constructivist sculpture. In the exhibition, Walls large-scale photograph will be exhibited with paintings from 1969 to the present day by Amy Feldman, Mary Heilmann, Rachel Howard, Jeremy Moon, Ed Moses, Joan Snyder, Daniel Sturgis and Dan Walsh. The exhibition invites viewers to imagine each painting as a playground structure, reconceiving the grid as a space of freedom. The modernist grid has exerted an inescapable influence on minimalism, conceptual art and painting for over a century. In her influential essay Grids (1979), Rosalind Krauss argued that artists used the grid in the early twentieth century to signal an absolute break from the past, and that this emblem ... More |
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| US editor who 'rescued' Anne Frank's diary dies at 93 | | Christie's to offer an important collection of baseball memorabilia and photography | | Cantor Arts Center exhibition presents groundbreaking exhibition of mid-century corporate design | 
S copy of, "The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank" displayed at the Anne Frank Center in New York City. Andrew Burton / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Judith Jones, the legendary editor who rescued Anne Frank's diary from a US publisher's rejection pile, died on Wednesday. She was 93. Jones, a luminary of the publishing world, who also introduced the world to American culinary writer Julia Child, was close to literary giants such as John Updike, Anne Tyler, William Maxwell, John Hersey, Peter Taylor and Sharon Olds. She passed away at her home in Vermont, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group said in a statement. She worked for Knopf for more than 50 years, joining the company in 1957 and officially retiring only in 2011. "Judith was a legend in book publishing," said Sonny Mehta, chairman and editor-in-chief, paying tribute to the once young assistant who rescued Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl" from a rejection pile in Paris. The diary, which the young ... More | | 
1866 Unions vs. Athletics trophy baseball. Estimate: $15,000- 20,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will present The Golden Age of Baseball, an online sale running from August 16-23, with a concurrent public exhibition at its Rockefeller Center Galleries in New York. Comprised of a remarkable assemblage photographs, contracts, autographed letters, baseballs and bats, the sale will offer approximately 400 lots. Estimates start at $500 while the top lot of the auction is a Mike King Kelly professional model bat, estimated at $70,000-80,000. The contents of the auction are from the National Pastime Museum, which is an online museum based on a private collection of baseball artifacts. This sale marks the second tranche of the collection, building upon the successful first sale in 2016. "This auction presents a fantastic opportunity for a range of baseball enthusiasts, from beginners to seasoned collectors, to acquire a work related to a favorite team or individual player." remarks Simeon ... More | | 
Charles Eames (U.S.A., 19071978) and Ray Eames (U.S.A, 19121988), Molded Fiberglass chair with table arm, for Herman Miller, Inc., 196061. Fiberglass, fabric, metal, and plastic. LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Gift of the employees of Herman Miller, Inc., L.31.2.2015.
STANFORD, CA.- A major exhibition on view at the Cantor Arts Center presents a fascinating new perspective on the creation and production of mid-century modern design. Creativity on the Line: Design for the Corporate World, 19501975, explores the groundbreaking work of major American designers such as Eliot Noyes and Paul Rand (for IBM and Westinghouse), Charles and Ray Eames (for Herman Miller) and Ivan Chermayeff (for Mobil Oil). European designers, including Ettore Sottsass and Marcello Nizzoli (for Olivetti) and Dieter Rams (for Braun), are also represented. While these designers have been highly regarded for their innovations in classic works of modern design, this exhibition and its accompanying catalogue instead ... More |
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| Julian Opie unveils new works as Van Dyck's self-portrait returns to the National Portrait Gallery | | Bonhams California and Western Paintings and Sculpture sale achieve US$2.3 million | | Thames & Hudson to publish 'I See a City: Todd Webb's New York' | 
George. by Julian Opie, 2014.
LONDON.- Artist Julian Opie has made new work to display alongside the National Portrait Gallerys self-portrait of Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), acquired in 2014 after a major public fundraising appeal, as it returns to the Gallery following a three-year nationwide tour. In Julian Opie after Van Dyck (6 October 2017 - 7 January 2018) one of Britains foremost contemporary artists has been invited to present his work in dialogue with Van Dyck's self-portrait (c.1640) in the seventeenth-century galleries. The powerful new and recent works shown in this free display include Faime. (2016), Lucia, back 3. (2017) and Beach Head, 6. (2017). While, at first glance, Opies portraits are distinctly modern in their concise and abstracted forms, the style, composition and media are inspired by a variety of historic and contemporary visual sources. These range from ancient Egyptian and Roman art, and Dutch and British painted portraits ... More | | 
Edgar Payne (1883-1947), The Jungfrau, oil on canvas. Painted circa 1923-1924. Price realized: $223,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The August 1 sale of California and Western Paintings and Sculpture sale achieved US$2,271,625 and was 81% sold by lot and 89% sold by value. The top lot of the sale was The Jungfrau by Edgar Payne, which realized $223,500. Scot Levitt, Bonhams Director of Fine Arts, commented: Tonight, we saw strength and active bidding throughout the entire sale with an increase of online bidders. Unique works and those from private collections performed especially well. Paintings by William Wendt were well represented and all sold within estimate and have continued to be a consistent seller ever since Bonhams set the world auction record for the artist in 2015. Ahead of the seminal retrospective of paintings by E. Charlton Fortune, we were pleased to sell a rare still life by the artist for an impressive price of $106,250. Edgar Payne spent ... More | | 
The Battery, New York 1946 (Peanut Man). © Todd Webb Archive.
NEW YORK, NY.- I See a City: Todd Webb's New York (Thames & Hudson, November 21, 2017) presents the master documentary photographer's intimate and wonderfully rich exploration of the everyday life and architecture of New York in the years following World War II. Armed with a large format camera and tripod, Webb walked around New York day and night, in all seasons and weather, engaging with the people and the landscape surrounding him. He captured in his candid and inimitable way a city of contrasts -- Midtown skyscrapers, the elevated train tracks along Third Avenue, quirky signs and storefronts, food vendors and open air markets, and the bustling street life in the Bowery, Harlem near 125th Street, and old ethnic enclaves in Lower Manhattan. Webb loved to work at street level giving him a more human vantage point. His work is clear, direct and layered with light and shadow, ... More |
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| Leonard Bernstein exhibition receives $250,000 NEH grant | | LACMA announces 2017 Art+Film Gala honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas | | Krannert Art Museum launches expanded website, provides online access to collection | 
Young Leonard Bernstein. Courtesy of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $250,000 grant to the National Museum of American Jewish History in support of the forthcoming exhibition, Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music. On view March 16 September 2, 2018, the exhibition will celebrate the centennial birthday of one of the 20th centurys most influential cultural figures. It will feature more than 100 one-of-a-kind historic artifacts, sound installations, and interactive media to explore how Bernstein leveraged his love of learning and teaching, public celebrity, and musical talent to inspire social change. This show of support by the NEH is reinforcement of the scholarly, public value of our work and confirmation of our strong programmatic track record, said Ivy Barsky, NMAJHs CEO and Gwen Goodman Director. A vote of confidence from the discerning NEH is valuable leverage for securing other prospective donors. ... More | | 
Christopher Bedford and Mark Bradford installing Bradford's 2014 Rose exhibition. Photo by Caitlin Julia Rubin.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announces the date and honorees of its 2017 Art+Film Gala. On Saturday, November 4, notables from the art, film, fashion, and entertainment industries will gather at LACMA to honor artist Mark Bradford and filmmaker George Lucas. Now in its seventh year, the 2017 Art+Film Gala is co-chaired by LACMA trustee Eva Chow and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who continue to champion the museums film initiatives. Gucci once again shows its invaluable support as the presenting sponsor of the annual event. LACMA has enjoyed a long relationship with Mark, from our first purchase of his work in 2002 as part of the museum's Art Here and Now program to the acquisition of his monumental 2013 painting Shoot the Coin. He was also co-curator and artist of our founding exhibition at Charles White Elementary School, which set a new direction for our many education ... More | | 
The redesigned website will enable visitors to learn more about the museums collection.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois has recently launched an expanded, redesigned website, kam.illinois.edu, that opens online access to the museums panoramic collection of art to students, researchers, and online visitors. The redesigned website will enable visitors to learn more about the museums collection galleries and institutional history, give teachers resources to bring art into their classrooms and learn more about the public engagement program Krannert Art MuseumWeek at the Museum, and give students and art researchers access to original curatorial research related to exhibitions at KAM. Online visitors will also be able to do something new: search the art collection through the museum website. As the second-largest general fine arts museum in the state of Illinois and a major cultural institution on campus, we strongly believe it is important to make the art collection as acces ... More |
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 $1 million grant sparks implementation of landscape plan for the Florence Griswold MuseumOLD LYME, CONN.- The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the Robert F. Schumann Foundation. The grant will allow the Museum to implement a transformative landscape master plan designed to completely re-envision how the historic landscape is interpreted by providing visitors with a more authentic sense of the Lyme Art Colony painters interaction with the land and the sites agrarian past. Robert Schumann was a devoted trustee and patron of the Museum for nearly two decades. Museum staff seeks to honor Schumann's legacy as an avid naturalist and philanthropist by dedicating a major component of the project in his honor. At the turn of the last century, Impressionist painters gathered at Florence Griswold's boardinghouse along the Lieutenant River in Old Lyme to capture the landscape on canvas, ... More Artist collective Auto Body creates public art installation for Parrish Road ShowWATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museums creative off-site summer series Parrish Road Show features the Bellport-based artist collective Auto Body, which transform common roadside signage into public art through text-based artworks positioned along a 35-mile span of Montauk Highway. Auto Body reimagines the advertising medium from an object that promotes consumerism to one that calls attention to natural environments of the region. The exhibition is on view from August 1 through September 4. The project also serves to enhance the perception of Montauk Highway, one of the oldest roadways on Long Island, from a utilitarian thoroughfare to a space for viewing art. Several local businesses along the highway collaborate by offering their property as sites for the artworks, which consist of nature-themed colloquial phrases painted on wood boards. Each work ... More Musicians flee Libya for 'right to rap'ABOARD THE MS AQUARIUS (AFP).- A group of rappers who say they had to flee Libya for their art were on their way to Italy Wednesday after being rescued by a charity boat. The self-described musicians were among a group of 17 mostly Libyan men picked up by the Aquarius, a vessel operated by French NGO SOS Mediterranee and international humanitarian organisation Doctors without Borders (MSF), from a fishing boat in distress in waters off the Libyan coast. "I'm (a) rapper, I do rap music, so I got to get out of Libya," one of the men, Youssef, told AFP. "I have to get out of Libya for freedom of speech, you know about that. Libya is a dangerous zone right now for arts..." Youssef, from the country's second city Benghazi, said he had paid a trafficker he met in a coffee shop in the capital Tripoli to get on the boat. "So I was talking and someone after I finished talking ... More Alien Trump descends on Mexico in artist's billboardMEXICO CITY (AFP).- His skin is blue, his face contorted and his eyes bulge from his head, but the hair is unmistakable: that alien in the giant billboard over one of Mexico City's busiest roads is Donald Trump. In case the US president's distinctive blond swirl didn't tip you off, the artist has put an American flag in the background and framed the whole thing with Trump's campaign slogan: "Make America great again." Ironically, this extraterrestrial Trump has landed in Mexico because he could not find a home in the United States. American artist Mitch O'Connell created the work in 2015 for a horror film festival in Chicago headlined by the 1988 cult classic "They Live." But what began as a publicity poster turned into a zeitgeisty political statement, he told AFP. "I was drawing a poster of the 'They Live' alien and the TV was on my drawing table. There was Trump, campaigning ... More 'To see Stalin': Latest WWII film aims to stir up RussiansVOSKRESENSK (AFP).- A group of Soviet mechanicsslog through a muddy forest on a mission that would eventually help change the course of World War II: reaching dictator Joseph Stalin. Among them is an engineer who wants to convince the Kremlin leader that a new tank he has designed can transform the Soviet Union's outdated forces a year ahead of the invasion by Nazi Germany. Based on a little-known chapter of Soviet history from 1940 -- this is the scenario for a new film being shot outside Moscow with state funding. The movie -- currently with the working title "To See Stalin" -- is the latest in a string of government-backed productions about inspiring tales from World War II aimed at bolstering patriotic fervour that the Kremlin can then tap. But critics argue that they tend to whitewash the crimes of the Soviet leadership while downplaying the tragedies ... More Venice Biennale 2015 German pavilion exhibition opens in Mumbai MUMBAI.- The Goethe Institut Mumbai/Max Mueller Bhavan presents FABRIK: On the Circulation of Data, Goods and People, the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015. The exhibition, supported by ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), Germany, will be held across Gallery MMB (Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Kalaghoda) and Chemould Prescott Road. The Venice Biennale is the oldest art show of its kind, and provides permanent pavilions to exhibiting countries. The pavilions house curated exhibitions from member countries, that speak to the latest trends and concerns in contemporary art. Fabrik is curated by Florian Ebner, with Lars Willumeit and features four large works by artists Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony and Jasmina Metwali/Philip Rizk. In the words of the curator, The German Pavilion has often acted as an artistic echo chamber for German ... More Solo exhibition of the Slovak avant-gardist Stano Filko on view at Kunsthalle BratislavaBRATISLAVA.- Kunsthalle Bratislava is presenting a solo exhibition of the famous Slovak avant-gardist Stano Filko. The exhibition with the conceptual title 2037 held in Kunsthalle LAB honors the author in the symbolic event of his 80th birthday. The exhibition is accessible to the visitors and passersby until August 27, 2017. Stano Filko (1937, Veľká Hradná 2015, Bratislava) studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1959 1965. Shortly after his successful emergence in the second half of the 1960s at home and abroad he was subjected to normalization, expelled from the Union and got an exhibition ban. Responding to the invitation to take part in the prestigious contemporary art show Documenta 7 in Kassel, he loaded his koda car with 100 graphics and small works, which he exhibited with the car without the possibility of returning to his homeland. In 1981, he emigrated ... More Keith L. Prewitt, former Deputy Director for the Secret Service, named Chief Security Officer at The MetNEW YORK, NY.- Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Keith L. Prewitt has been appointed to the role of Chief Security Officer for the Museum. Mr. Prewitt is presently Vice President for Cable Security and Facilities at Comcast Corporation, where he oversees the development and implementation of security and risk-management practices, while setting the strategic vision for the organization in coordination with other key functions within company. "The safety and security of The Met's visitors, staff, and collection are of utmost importance," said Mr. Weiss. "Keith's dedication to his work, coupled with his vast experience in the field, ensures that the Museum will continue to maintain its exceedingly high standards in this absolutely critical area." Before joining Comcast Corporation, Mr. Prewitt served as President of Harvard ... More Group exhibition featuring the work of three Hong Kong based artists opens at Gallery EXITHONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT announces a group exhibition featuring the work of three Hong Kong based artists, Mark CHUNG, Silas FONG and Nicole WONG. The exhibition opened on 29 July 2017 and remains on view through 19 August 2017. Although each of them has their own unique voice, all the artists showcased in this exhibition hail from a new generation that has grown up during the multimedia era. The omnipresence of images, videos and other kinds of information, easily accessible through the internet, has shaped their interdisciplinary approach to art-making. All are comfortable working in different formats and are at home in a variety of mediums, including installation, video, photography and performance art. The work of Mark CHUNG revolves around light and the passage of time. In "dontletthesunbreak.ooo", for instance, he makes use of publicly accessible ... More Gavin Gardiner Ltd's auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns to be held at GleneaglesLONDON.- Gavin Gardiner Ltds auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns at the prestigious Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 5pm will be celebrating 50 years of auctions since Sothebys started the annual flagship sales in 1967. This years sale will include around 200 lots of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns, Rifles and Accessories from 1860 to the present day. Highlights include several examples with an interesting provenance including a pair of 12-bore The Premier Quality sidelock ejector guns by E. J. Churchill that were built in 1928 and are estimated to fetch £8,000-12,000. The guns were subsequently owned by the prominent racehorse trainer, Vincent OBrien whose initials the case bears. Michael Vincent OBrien (1917-2009) was an Irish racehorse trainer who in 2003 was voted the greatest influence ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson died August 03, 2017. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 ? August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: USA. New York City. Manhattan. 1947. Near the Hall of Records. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos.
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