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César Bas-relief 1961 Relief Acier et fragments de tôle peinte soudés 252 x 281 x 45 cm MNAM / Centre Pompidou, Paris © SBJ / Adagp, Paris 2017 Crédit photo / Photo credit © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Philippe Migeat / Dist. RMN-GP.
PARIS.- This retrospective marks the 20th anniversary of the artists death. Famous by the age of 25, César enjoyed an artistic career of more than 50 years. He is, however, the last major figure among the Nouveaux Réalistes not to have been accorded a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou. Through more than a hundred pieces displayed in the largest of the Centre Pompidous exhibition spaces among them the most famous of his major works, as well as representatives of lesser-known series this exhibition offers an unprecedented overview of the career of one of the greatest sculptors of his time, in all its diversity and coherence. Born in Marseille in 1921, César began his artistic education there before attending the Ãcole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In the French capital he met Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier and Pablo Picasso, among others, and frequented the artists of Saint-Germain-d ... More |
| Asia Week New York announces Aman as presenting sponsor for 2018 edition | | 'Monster bird' fossil found in New Zealand | | Lévy Gorvy mourns the loss of seminal postwar Italian artist Enrico Castellani | 
Amanpuri, Phuket, Thailand.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Asia Week New York Association announces that Aman, whose portfolio of world-renowned restorative resorts and hotels in exceptional destinations, returns as the Presenting Sponsor of Asia Week New York 2018, which will run from March 15 to 24. We gladly salute Amans return as our Presenting Sponsor, says Christina Prescott Walker, chairman of Asia Week New York. Aman and Asia Week New York are ideal counterparts, complementing each other through the assets of iconic hotels and resorts and our prestige galleries and the high quality Asian art they offer. It's a perfect match." Says Chief Operating Officer for Aman, Roland Fasel, We are proud to collaborate with Asia Week New York once again. Amans roots were formed in Asia, therefore celebrating and championing Asian art as well as cultural institutions is close to our hearts. Being a partner of Asia Week is ever ... More | | 
Artististic reconstruction of Kumimanu biceae in size comparison to a human diver. © Senckenberg.
PARIS (AFP).- The fossilised bones of an ancient penguin the size of a pro-wrestler have been discovered in New Zealand, scientists said Tuesday, dubbing the creature "monster bird". With an average height of 1.7 metres (5.5 feet) and a weight of 100 kilogrammes (220 pounds), the giant bird is thought to be one of the world's biggest extinct penguin species, easily dwarfing its cuddly-looking modern descendants. Its huge frame has earned it the scientific name "kumimanu", meaning "monster bird" in the Maori language, researchers wrote in the scientific journal Nature Communications. "It is remarkable that even these early forms reached such an enormous size," said German paleontologist and study co-author Gerald Mayr. The bird is thought to have lived 55-60 million years ago, a period known as the late Paleocene. "We examined the wing and leg bones of this penguin and quickly ... More | | 
Enrico Castellani, c. 2001. Photography by Nando Lanfranco. Courtesy Fondazione Enrico Castellani and Lévy Gorvy.
NEW YORK, NY.- Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Emilio Steinberger, and the staff of Lévy Gorvy deeply mourn the loss of Enrico Castellani. A seminal postwar Italian artist, he passed away on December 1 at the age of 87. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Lorenzo Castellani and the Castellani family. Castellani was a catalytic figure in the European postwar avant-garde, co-founding the experimental journal, Azimuth, and the Galleria Azimut with Piero Manzoni. Together, they organized innovative exhibitions and published essays that provided alternatives to the dogmatic ideologies of Tachisme and Art Informel, which dominated the European art scene at the time. Through his art and writings, Castellani advanced an approach to painting that refuted the traditional conception of the canvas as a transparent window, ... More |
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| Family backs calls to preserve Charlie Chaplin's workhouse | | Ticked off: Tiny 'dracula' with a taste for dino blood | | Remains of Romania's king Michael return home for final farewell | 
Still from Charlie Chaplin's 1921 film "The Kid".
LONDON (AFP).- The children of legendary British comic actor Charlie Chaplin have expressed dismay at the threatened closure of the Cinema Museum, once a workhouse for poor children where he was forced to live. The building in Elephant and Castle, an area of south London that has been undergoing rapid redevelopment in recent years, is owned by a hospital trust which is planning to sell it early next year. The Victorian-era building on Renfrew Road played a significant part in Chaplin's impoverished childhood, family members including his actress daughter Geraldine Chaplin wrote in an open letter. "The workhouse is a building that played a great part in our father's early life," they said. "He and his mother and step-brother, abandoned by their father, lived nearby, in a variety of poor lodgings, and were frequently driven to seek refuge in the workhouse." Chaplin and his half-brother lived at the workhouse on a semi-regular basis throughout their childhoods in the late 19th and early 20th centurie ... More | | 
Reconstruction of the male and engorged female of Deinocroton draculi. Photo: Nature Communications.
PARIS (AFP).- Dinosaurs, the most fearsome creatures ever to walk the Earth, were bugged already 100 million years ago by a paltry pest that still plagues animals today: the bloodsucking tick, scientists have discovered. Preserved for eternity in amber, fossilised tree resin, researchers have found a hard tick -- uncannily similar to those we know -- clinging to a 99-million-year-old dinosaur feather, a team wrote in the journal Nature Communications this week. "The discovery is remarkable because fossils of parasitic, blood-feeding creatures directly associated with remains of their host are exceedingly scarce, and the new specimen is the oldest known to date," they said in a statement. The well-preserved, juvenile insect was less than a millimetre in size, had eight legs, but no eyes. One of its legs was entangled in the barb of a "pennaceous" feather -- those with a central quill as sported by some dinosaurs and their modern offspring: birds. The team could not identify ... More | | 
A man stands in front of flowers displayed on December 13, 2017 on the grills of the former Royal Palace, that houses the National Arts Museum in Bucharest, before the arrival of the coffin of King Michael I of Romania. Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP.
BUCHAREST (AFP).- The body of Romania's beloved former king Michael, who recently died in Switzerland aged 96, returned Wednesday to his home country where he will be laid to rest at a grand state funeral. The remains of one of the last surviving World War II leaders arrived in Bucharest early Wednesday. A solemn ceremony was held at the airport in the presence of the king's five daughters, Romanian officials and senior Orthodox prelates. Covered in the regal coat of arms, the coffin was then taken to the castle north of Bucharest where he was born. It was due to return to Bucharest by late Wednesday and be put on display in the Royal Palace ahead of Saturday's state funeral. The king, who passed away on December 5 following a battle with leukaemia had largely withdrawn from public life after announcing ... More |
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| Gagosian Rome opens exhibition of photographs by Andreas Gursky | | Exhibition at Hôtel de Caumont presents works by Fernando Botero in dialogue with works by Pablo Picasso | | Curators announced for 2019 Whitney Biennial | 
Portrait of Andreas Gursky by Dominik Asbach.
ROME.- Gagosian is presenting photographs by Andreas Gursky, on view for the first time in Italy. Featuring works from the Bangkok series (2011), as well as the monumental Ocean VI (2010), the exhibition coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Rome gallery. Gursky has demonstrated that a photographer can make or constructrather than simply takephotographs about modern life and produce them on the scale of epic painting. Just as history painters of previous centuries found their subjects in the realities of everyday life, he finds inspiration in his own spontaneous visual experience and through reports of global phenomena in the daily media. From initially using the computer as a retouching tool, he began exploring its transformative potential, sometimes combining elements of multiple shots of the same subject into an intricate yet seamless whole, at other times barely altering the image at all. The resulting ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of a Woman, after Cranach the Younger, Cannes, 4 july 1958, engraving, 64 x 53,5 cm, Museu Picasso, Barcelone © Succession Picasso 2017, Don de Jaume Sabartés, 1962 © Photo : Museu Picasso, Barcelona / Gasull Fotografia.
AIX-EN-PROVENCE .- The exhibition "Botero: a dialogue with Picasso", which is being held at the Hôtel de Caumont in Aix-en-Provence from 24 November 2017 to 11 March 2018, presents the Colombian masters rich oeuvre from a unique perspective, which explores his artistic affinities with Pablo Picasso. Sixty works by Botero (oils, works on paper, and sculptures) are complemented by twenty major works by Picasso, originating from the collections in the Musée National Picasso-Paris and the Museo Picasso in Barcelona. Despite very different origins, lives, and careers, the two great artists share common geographical and cultural points of reference. In his youth, Fernando Botero (born in 1932) took an interest in the work of ... More | | 
Rujeko Hockley (left) and Jane Panetta (right). Photograph by Scott Rudd.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that the 2019 Whitney Biennial will be co-curated by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley, members of the Museums curatorial staff. The Whitneys signature survey of the current state of contemporary art in the U.S., the Biennial goes on view in May 2019. This will be the 79th in the Museums series of Annual and Biennial exhibitions, inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. The 2019 Whitney Biennial is presented by Tiffany & Co, lead sponsor of the Biennial through 2021. In announcing the selection of the curators, Scott Rothkopf, the Whitneys Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, said: "Jane and Ru are two of the most compelling and engaged curatorial voices of our moment, with broad and sensitive instincts for artistic and cultural relevance. ... More |
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| Auction record for a relief print by Roy Lichtenstein | | Bon Jovi, Nina Simone enter Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | | Exhibition of works by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov on view at Sprovieri | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Thinking Nude, State I., 1994 (detail). Colour relief print. 89,9 x 142 cm Estimate: CHF 90 000 / 140 000 Auction Record: CHF 222 500.
ZURICH.- Of the 470 works of modern and contemporary art which came under the hammer during Kollers auctions on 8 and 9 December, 80% found buyers. The total result of 8 million Swiss francs exceeded the total of low estimates by 15%. Bidders in the standing-room-only saleroom competed with numerous telephone bidders, as well as online bidders who were often active into the five figures. With a result of CHF 222 500 (EUR 190 000), Roy Lichtensteins colour relief print Thinking Nude, State I (lot 3731) became the highest-priced print from this series ever to be sold at auction. The successful bidder for a work on paper by Mark Tobey, Blue Interval (lot 3414) was spontaneously applauded by the saleroom after a long bidding war ended at CHF 140 900 (EUR 121 000), more than 12 times the pre-sale estimate. A Chinese collector ... More | | 
Bon Jovi.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Arena-packing anthem rockers Bon Jovi, soul legend Nina Simone and gritty English pub band Dire Straits on Wednesday won spots in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. New Wave pop songwriters The Cars, R&B-infused progressive rockers The Moody Blues and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the gospel inspiration for early rockers, rounded up spots in the 2018 class that will enter the shrine to rock culture. The Hall of Fame, which surveyed some 1,000 historians and music industry players to select the new inductees, will welcome the six artists in a gala concert on April 14 in its home base of Cleveland. Bon Jovi, the hard rockers from New Jersey led by namesake Jon Bon Jovi, came out on top in a survey that drew 6.8 million fans, whose preferences were taken into account to give an extra vote to five acts. With a string of quickly memorable hits such as "Livin' on a Prayer," "You Give Love a Bad Name" and ... More | | 
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.
LONDON.- Sprovieri is presenting Quotations, the eighth exhibition of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the gallery. The series Quotations is built on dramaturgy, the play in the conflict between two juxtaposed, different painting practices that have different origins, each of which has its own historical roots. (
) The traditions of suprematism demand that multi-coloured geometric planes are grouped and fly around somewhere nearby the centre of the painting space, this depth and distance of white space belongs to them, these second and third planes (speaking in the language of classic painting) are the place of their existence. In Quotations there is a rearrangement of these geometric figures from the depths where they floated around forward (to the foreground), towards the frame of the painting where they, in accordance with the visual laws of painting, turned out to be immobile. In this way, the space ... More |
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More Isuma to represent Canada at the 58th International Art Exhibition- La Biennale di Venezia in 2019OTTAWA.- The National Gallery of Canada announced today that the artist collective Isuma, led by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, will represent Canada at the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Isuma, meaning to think, or a state of thoughtfulness in Inuktitut, is Canadas first Inuit video-based production company. It was co-founded in 1990 by Kunuk, Cohn, Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998), and Pauloosie Qulitalik (1939-2012) to preserve Inuit culture and language and to present Inuit stories to Inuit and non-Inuit audiences around the world. Since the mid-1990s the Isuma collective has been challenging stereotypes about ways of life in the North and breaking boundaries in video art, including the first video-based work to win a major film award at the prestigious Cannes film ... More 'Girl Like You' singer of Smithereens dead at 62NEW YORK (AFP).- The Smithereens' frontman Pat DiNizio, who turned up the volume on classic pop with hits such as "A Girl Like You," has died, his bandmates said Wednesday. He was 62. The band, which has stayed active since its heyday in the late 1980s and planned a tour next month, announced his death on Facebook but did not reveal details. "Pat had the magic touch. He channeled the essence of joy and heartbreak into hook-laden three-minute pop songs, infused with a lifelong passion for rock and roll," the surviving members of The Smithereens wrote. DiNizio struggled with a nerve disorder a decade ago and in September said that he had suffered a severe fall at home. In 2015, he appealed with embarrassment for fans' contributions after another fall during a blizzard as he lacked coverage for his medical expenses. Growing up in New Jersey, DiNizio had planned ... More Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sales in Amsterdam show continued growth AMSTERDAM.- Following the Post-War and Contemporary Art auctions in Paris on 5 & 6 December, Christies Post-War and Contemporary auctions 2017 were concluded in Amsterdam with continued success. The 12 & 13 December evening and day auctions, which took place at Amsterdams famous Westergasfabriek in the magnificent Zuiveringshal West, saw bidders from 42 countries and realised a combined total of 9,186,625 / $10,805,767 / £8,080,739, selling 86% by lot and 94% by value. The 12 & 13 December auctions continue the success of the Amsterdam Post-War sales since the inauguration in 2009, with average sell-through rates of 90% and an increase of 20% year on year, from totaling 13,980,838 in 2016 to 16,887,238 in 2017. The evening auction was led by Sigmar Polkes (1941-2010) Untitled (2005), which featured the motif of raster dots ... More Bello-issima! 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More Fine & Decorative Arts featuring the Holiday Table surpasses $1.8 million at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- More than 1,200 lots pushed Heritage Auctions' winter Fine & Decorative Art Auction past $1.8 million Dec. 8-10 in Dallas. The auction's theme focused on The Holiday Table, which presented full dinner and stemware service sets from private collections. Nearly 1,700 bidders participated during the three-day event. "In our first, of what certainly will be a tradition, The Holiday Table brought a fresh take and appeal to a broad range of bidders," said Karen Rigdon, Director of Silver and Decorative Arts at Heritage Auctions. Auction highlights were diverse and, in many cases, well exceed expectations. An oil on canvas by Lowell Nesbitt titled Three Iris on Blue, 1978, sold for $40,000. An iconic piece of Wall Street history, Charging Bull, a rare prototype for New York's iconic Wall Street Bull sold for $37,500. The 14-inch bronze is one of 10 known that artist ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter George Rodrigue died December 14, 2013. George Rodrigue (March 13, 1944 - December 14, 2013) was an American artist originally from New Iberia, Louisiana, who in the late 1960s began painting Louisiana landscapes, followed soon after by outdoor family gatherings and southwest Louisiana 19th-century and early 20th-century genre scenes. His paintings often include moss-clad oak trees, which are common to an area of French Louisiana known as Acadiana. In the mid-1990s Rodrigue's Blue Dog paintings, based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou, catapulted him to worldwide fame.In this image: Wendy and Me.
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