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This file photo taken on December 8, 2010 shows the gold coin "Big Maple Leaf" on display at Berlin's Bode Museum. Police said on July 12, 2017 that several people were arrested in connection with the theft of the "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin. Thieves stole the coin weighing 100 kilograms (220 pounds) from Berlin's Bode Museum on March 27, 2017.
by Frank Zeller
BERLIN (AFP).- German police on Wednesday arrested four suspects they linked to an Arabic criminal clan over the spectacular theft of a giant 100-kilogramme (220-pound) gold coin from a Berlin museum early this year. But they found no sign of the loot -- Canada's "Big Maple Leaf" coin, which has a face value of one million Canadian dollars and is estimated to be worth 3.75 million euros ($4.3 million) on the gold market. Police fear the treasure "was either cut into small pieces or taken abroad" since the March 27 night-time heist, said Carsten Pfohl of the Berlin criminal police office. "Unfortunately we have to presume that it was sold off in parts or whole," he said at a press conference. "My hope that we'll recover even parts of the coin is unfortunately relatively low." Around 300 police took part in dawn raids at 14 locations, including apartments and a jeweller's shop in Berlin's Neukoelln district and targets in surrounding Brandenburg state. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman walks before Gyeongbokgung palace in Seoul on July 10, 2017. South Korea is experciencing its annual rainy season, which typically lasts from late June to late July. Ed JONES / AFP
| Dallas Museum of Art announces acquisition of Yayoi Kusama Mirror Room | | Philanthropist Lyda Hill unveils her most recent treasure, the rare Eyes of Africa mineral | | Michael Werner Gallery, New York opens an exhibition of works on paper by Don Van Vliet | 
Yayoi Kusama, All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins, 2016. Wood, mirror, plastic, acrylic, LED. Courtesy YAYOI KUSAMA Inc., Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore and Victoria Miro, London (photography Thierry Bal) © Yayoi Kusama.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of Yayoi Kusamas All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), one of the artists signature Infinity Mirror Rooms. The installation is the first mirror pumpkin room created by Kusama since 1991, and the only Infinity Mirror Room of its kind in a North American collection. Showcasing Kusamas singular approach to installation, the acquisition adds a new dimension to the representation of Conceptual art, Pop art, Minimalism and Surrealism in the DMAs acclaimed modern and contemporary art collection. The work has been acquired through the generous support of collectors Cindy and Howard Rachofsky and will be on view October 1, 2017 through ... More | | 
Fluorite Erongo. Photo: Elliott Fine Minerals International.
DALLAS, TX.- Ten years after a spectacular alien eye mineral was unearthed by a miner in Namibia, the enormous and intensely beautiful specimen dubbed Eyes of Africa made its debut today at the Perot Museum of Nature and Sciences Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall. An unprecedented discovery that has garnered a cult-like following in the mineral-collecting community, the 2-foot-tall Eyes of Africa is not only rare and mesmerizing, but the story and 10-year journey behind its discovery is unusual and intriguing. Thanks to philanthropist, entrepreneur and internationally renowned gem collector Lyda Hill, Eyes of Africa is now on permanent display at the Perot Museum. My passion for science began as a child when I collected rocks, said Hill. So when I saw Eyes of Africa which is by far the largest and most important of all known specimens and then heard the ... More | | 
Don Van Vliet, Untitled, 1986. India ink, gouache, watercolor on paper, 16 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches, 40.5 x 31 cm
NEW YORK, NY.- Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents an exhibition of works on paper by Don Van Vliet. The exhibition comprises drawings and paintings on paper from the 1980s through 2000 and is the first solo showing of Van Vliet's work in New York in 10 years. Born in Glendale, California in 1941, Van Vliet drew and painted constantly as a child and by the age of ten had gained regional notoriety as a prodigious sculptor of life-like animals from clay. Van Vliet continued to draw and paint during his many years performing under the stage name Captain Beefheart. Captain Beefheart, together with his Magic Band, recorded thirteen studio albums of boldly unconventional music and ultimately secured Van Vliet's place in rockand-roll history as one of the most original recording artists of all time. Van Vliet turned away from ... More |
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| Paul Kasmin Gallery's first exhibition with Naama Tsabar opens in New York | | Elad Lassry's compelling image-based practice highlighted in first major Canadian exhibition | | The Whitechapel Gallery opens major exhibition by London-based artist Emma Hart | 
Image features detail of Naama Tsabar, Work On Felt (Variation 15) Black, 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- This summer, Paul Kasmin Gallery presents Transboundary, the gallerys first exhibition with the New York-based Naama Tsabar. Known for performances, installations and sculpture informed by aspects of music and nightlife, Tsabar focuses on the often hidden elements and materials that are at play in constructing physically immersive environments. Her practice oscillates between visual arts and music with reconfigurations of guitars, strings, amplifiers, microphones, cables, gaffer tape and speakers. When interacted with, these objects offer compositions that are both visual and sonic. Transboundary features five new sculptures, the latest evolution in her Work on Felt series, which she first began in 2012. These works are made of industrial materials such as felt, carbon fiber and epoxy and employ her nocturnal color palette of black, dark blue and burgundy. At first glance, Tsabars ... More | | 
Elad Lassry, Fringe, 2011. Chromogenic print, painted frame Collection of Erin and Paul Pariser, New York.
VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery is presenting Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassrys first major exhibition in Canada, on view until October 1, 2017. Investigating the nature of perception with a special focus on the photographic image within the digital era, the exhibition includes more than seventy worksfilms, photographs and sculptureproduced by Lassry over the last decade. Lassry is among a generation of younger photographers working conceptually and over the last decade his thoughtful investigation of the representational image has actively shaped conversations around photography. These conversations continue to be important to Vancouver artists and audiences, and we are therefore immensely pleased to present Elad Lassry and celebrate this significant contemporary artist, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery and co-curator. Lassrys thoughtful analysis ... More | | 
Emma Hart, Mamma Mia! installation at Whitechapel Gallery, 2017. Photo: Thierry Bal © Whitechapel Gallery.
LONDON.- The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition by London-based artist Emma Hart (b. 1974) for the sixth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, a biannual award established in 2005 to champion women artists in the UK. The Prize is a collaboration between the Collezione Maramotti, Max Mara and the Whitechapel Gallery. Harts new large-scale installation titled Mamma Mia! is the result of a six month bespoke residency which started in June 2016 and was divided between three Italian cities: Milan, Todi and Faenza. Hart presents a family of large ceramic heads, suggesting a dialogue with one other. Each sculpture is jug-like in shape: the spout mimics a nose and the opening a mouth. Produced by the artist in Faenza alongside ceramic artisans, each sculpture is glazed incorporating motifs, such as the speech bubble. The interior space of the heads is filled with vivid patterns, designed and hand-painted by Hart a ... More |
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| Ottocento Art Gallery unveils a 20th century Venetian shop painted by Emo Mazzetti | | pavlov's dog opens exhibition of works by Matthieu Bourel | | This summer the Henry Moore Institute presents the first institutional solo exhibition of Jiro Takamatsu | 
Emo Mazzetti ( Treviso 1870 Venice 1955), Small shop in Campo San Barnaba in Venice (detail). Oil on canvas cm 56 x 82 signed ( E. Mazzetti ) and dated ( 1902 ) lower right.
ROME.- A microcosm condensed in a Venetian shop located in Campo San Barnaba, an area located in the Dorsoduro district, close to the monumental neoclassical facade of the homonymous church, is the protagonist of this painting, multisensorial tranche de vie, from which raise smells, colors, scents of an emporium which is a fragment of the small artisan crafts of the early Venetian Twentieth century. A kaleidoscopic sample of objects and foods, an exceptional proof of virtuosity, where the eye is lost in the myriad of lenticular particular captured by the painters brush, the Venetian Mazzetti, specialized in this kind of compositions, as evidenced by the other similar representation, depicting the showcase of an antique shop in the lagoon, coeval to the canvas presented here, on display at the International Exhibition of Monaco in 1901, a painting which gave the Venetian ... More | | 
Matthieu Bourel, Bow & Scrape, 2017, Collage, Inkjet, mixed media, 60 x 42 cm, unique, framed.
BERLIN.- The artist Matthieu Bourel cuts, combines and puts together, what doesn't belong together in the first place - following the tradition of the Dadaists. His visually powerful collages catapult us into a world, of which we don't know if it's a reminiscence of a bygone or the prophecy of a forthcoming one - it's solely the artist's world. The artist takes refined twists and turns beyond any straight visual narrative and cleverly evades an interpretation. Among others the analogue process, physical contact with the raw material is important for the artist when creating his own visual worlds. Bourel describes his work as "data-ism", a term, which references to a fundamental problem of our time: the permanent data flow we are constantly exposed to. Artists deal with that in their own way: Bourel reorganizes and reformates his image sources, creates something new out of the existing and evokes nostalgia for a period in time, that never truly existed. Matthieu Bourel / EK ... More | | 
Jiro Takamatsu, Point No. 15 (19612) © The Estate of Jiro Takamatsu. Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates / Stephen Friedman Gallery / Fergus McCaffrey.
LEEDS.- Jiro Takamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture celebrates the work of this leading figure of post-war art. Through over seventy sculptures, drawings and documents loaned from collections in Japan, USA and Europe, the exhibition traces Takamatsus artistic practice through his exhibition history, focusing on works from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. The exhibition shows Takamatsus participation in landmark international exhibitions, such as Venice Biennale (1968) and Documenta 6 (1977), and contributions to exhibitions in Japan where experimental practices flourished, including the annual Yomiuri Indépendant (1958-63), Tokyo Biennial: Between Man and Matter (1970) and Expo 70, Osaka (1970). Jiro Takamatsu (1936-98) is central to the development of post-war art in Japan. Having trained as a painter, Takamatsu turned to sculpture in 1961. For the following three decades he explored the nature ... More |
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| Exhibition of Sandy Skoglund's 1978 photographic series Food Still Lifes opens at Ryan Lee | | Italian Casablanca movie poster expected to bring $180,000 at Heritage Auctions | | C/O Berlin opens 'Optical Illusions: Contemporary Still Life' | 
Sandy Skoglund, Cookies on a Plate, 1978 (detail). Archival pigment inkjet, 22 x 28 inches, Edition of 25.
NEW YORK, NY.- Ryan Lee presents Food Still Lifes, an exhibition of the 1978 photographic series of the same name by Sandy Skoglund. Each of the Food Still Lifes considers the staging and arranging not only of traditional still life compositions but of 70s consumer culture. Though celebrated as early examples of the high-anxiety psychedelic pop tableaux for which Skoglund is best known, the complete series of ten photographs has been exhibited only twice previously. Each image in the series depicts a meticulous arrangement of processed food canned meat or vegetables, marble cake, and cookies against vividly patterned contact papers. These brightly colored surroundings mimic the patterns of the food itself and fill the frame of the image, creating a dizzying perspectival distortion. In Peas on a Plate, a diamond of green peas sits atop a polka-dotted red plate at the center of the image. The spherical shape ... More | | 
Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1946). First Post-War Release Italian 4 - Fogli (55.5" X 78.25") Luigi Martinati Artwork.
DALLAS, TX.- A truly special piece from a film widely regarded as one of the greatest ever made, the 1946 Casablanca Italian 4 Fogli with Luigi Martinati Artwork is expected to sell for as much as $180,000 July 29-30 in Dallas. This 55.5-by-78.25-inch work of art is the first of its kind to surface in recent history; the poster, and many more, will hit the block on July 29-30 at Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters Signature Auction. "This Casablanca rarity is one of the finest in the entire hobby," said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Posters at Heritage Auctions. "To own this poster is on par with owning the pinnacle of poster art." Also on offer is a Frankenstein (Universal, 1931) One Sheet (est. $80,000), which is one out of six copies known to exist. The sequel to Frankenstein also makes an appearance at auction. A French Grande (46.5-by-62-inch) of The Bride of Frankensteinfrom 1935 is expected ... More | | 
Portrait (No.1), 2015 © Oskar Schmidt / Parrotta Contemporary Art.
BERLIN.- C/O Berlin is presenting the exhibition entitled Optical Illusions . Contemporary Still Life with works by Lucas Blalock, Annette Kelm, Antje Peters and Oskar Schmidt from July 13th to September 10th, 2017. Set tables, elaborate floral arrangements, ostentatious compositions of books, trophies, glasses, and instruments count among the well-known motifs of classical still lifes and have for centuries been a canon of European art history. These once precious and symbolically charged objects have gradually given way to everyday objects. Meanwhile, perfume bottles, marbles, soft candy, hair shampoo, Starbucks cups, and pizza boxes are the objects of todays still lifes. The traditionally picturesque subject is currently experiencing a renaissance in contemporary photography, breaking down the distinctions between artistically arranged still life on the one hand and commercial ... More |
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 Fantasia art leads record-breaking $1.4 million Animation Art Auction at HeritageDALLAS, TX.- A record-breaking $1.4 million worth of rare animation art, concept drawings and poster art changed hands in Heritage Auctions' Animation Art Auction July 1-2 in Dallas. The event featured a grand selection of original Fantasia artwork, and the leader of the famed Disney musical feature was Kay Nielsen's depiction of the demon Chernabog in the Night on Bald Mountain Concept Painting, which sold for an astounding $59,750. "This was our sixth consecutive Animation auction to top the $1 million mark," said Jim Lentz, Director of Animation Art for Heritage. "Our formula has been to auction primarily fresh material that never had been offered for sale before, with almost no reserves, and to cross-promote it to a new generation of bidders as well as seasoned animation collectors. We plan to continue in this vein and also to continue emphasizing ... More LluÃs Lleó's outdoor paintings on view on Park AvenueNEW YORK, NY.- A series of five front-and-back outdoor paintings on carved sandstone slabs from Catalonia by New York-based Spanish artist LluÃs Lleó are on view on Park Avenue until August 11, 2017. Morphos Nest in the Cadmium House, a site-specific installation, parades along the Park Avenue Malls from 52nd to 56th Streets. The 13-foot, 7,000-pound paintings are part of NYC Parks Art in the Parks program and are presented in conjunction with the Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue. For Lleó, the Park Avenue paintings are an encounter between tradition and modernity, a merger of Catalan Romanesque frescoes and the work of modern American masters such as Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, and Agnes Martin. With poetic finesse, Lleó carves into the thick and dense sandstone, which he combines with ancestral fresco painting to create a tension ... More Mini at the centre of London's swinging 70s offered at H&H ClassicsLONDON.- This superb Mini Cooper S which was transformed by the coachbuilder Wood & Pickett to Margrave specification when new, was once owned by Leonard Albert Lewis, better known as Leonard of Mayfair, hairdresser to the stars. The car is coming up for sale with auctioneers H&H Classics Ltd on July 26th at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford and is estimated to sell for £40,000 to £50,000. Leonard converted 6 Upper Grosvenor Street, London W1 into a five-storey hairdressing salon and counted the following as clients: President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Taylor, Bob Marley, Marie Helvin, Jerry Hall, David Bowie, Warren Beatty, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minelli, Meryl Streep, Faye Dunaway, Barbara Streisand, Christine Keeler, Reggie Kray, Grace Kelly, Jack Nicholson and Stanley Kubrick. Responsible ... More Londoners set to take the stage where Shakespeare once actedLONDON.- A BBC Introducing singer, an award-winning playwright and an eclectic comedian are among the performers announced for an open stage night at The Stage, the site of Shakespeares Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch. The open stage night takes place on Tuesday 18 July from 7pm, with performers ranging across the arts, who will showcase their wide variety of talents where Shakespeare himself once performed. A full list of the performers is as follows: Amaria Braithwaite: BBC Introducing vocalist Perdy Vydra: Vocalist and instrumentalist, covering The Cure The Malachites: Shoreditchs Shakespeare Company, performing scenes from Richard III Paul McGarrity: A MOLA archaeologist by day, and stand-up comedian by night Lizzie Conrad Hughes: Artistic Director for Shake-scene Shakespeare, a group of actors who will perform using ... More Tim Youd's first solo exhibition in New York City opens at Cristin Tierney GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Cristin Tierney Gallery presents Tim Youd: Ecstatic Reading, opening Thursday, July 13th and continuing through Friday, August 18th. This is Youds first solo exhibition in New York City, and the artist will be performing at the opening. For his New York debut, Youd will continue his 100 Novels project by retyping Patricia Highsmiths The Talented Mr. Ripley at the Cristin Tierney Gallery. The exhibition will also feature a selection of drawings and works on paper. A performance and visual artist, Youd is presently retyping 100 novels over a ten-year period while concurrently compiling a body of related paintings, drawings, and sculptures. During each of his performances, Youd retypes novels on the same make and model typewriter the author used, in a location charged with literary significance specific to the novel. This summer, Youd is retyping four ... More Jayne Anita Smith unveils her latest works in her first solo show of 2017 in London's Gallery 8LONDON.- Known previously for her monochromatic works, across different mediums, Smith has recently begun experimenting with colour, incorporating graphite, oils, gesso and acrylic into her complex and immersive pieces. With a passion for delving into the complexity of our existence, Smith explores what it means to be human in a chaotic post-modern world, in which the pursuit of the sublime and ethereal have long since been forgotten. Smiths compositions express heartbreaking sadness, desire, and passionate longing. Her process begins with a series of intricate drawings, often depicting figures, both human and spirit like. Smith builds on these haunting drawings with oils and acrylics, producing distorted landscapes with bold contrasting colours. The title work, Fools Paradise is a floating dreamscape of colour, reminiscent of a Babylonian landscape. In Smiths smaller ... More Recent photographs made in response to the 2016 US presidential election on view at Fraenkel GallerySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery presents Richard Misrach: The Writing on the Wall, recent photographs made in response to the 2016 US presidential election. For four decades Richard Misrach has been one of the most significant and influential photographers of the American landscape. He is perhaps best known for his monumental, ongoing epic, Desert Cantos, a multifaceted study of our political, cultural, and environmental relationship to the natural world. The exhibition, on view at Fraenkel Gallery from July 13 August 19, 2017, marks the premiere of Premonitions and The Writing on the Wall, two new chapters in the Desert Cantos project. Made over the past year, Misrachs recent photographs are a direct response to the highly charged political climate and accompanying rhetoric of hostility felt across America today. In his ... More South African jazz musician Ray Phiri diesJOHANNESBURG (AFP).- Renowned South African jazz singer and guitarist Ray Phiri, who played on Paul Simon's groundbreaking Graceland album, has died after a long battle with lung cancer, his family said Wednesday. Phiri, 70, was the lead vocalist of the successful band Stimela, and gained an international audience through his work on 1986's Graceland. "I spoke to him on Monday and he was struggling but unfortunately, there was nothing we could have done," a family spokesman told local media. "The doctors say they tried all that they could to help him out." Tributes poured in for the raspy-voiced singer, including from South African President Jacob Zuma. "He was a musical giant. This is indeed a huge loss for South Africa and the music industry as a whole," Zuma said in a statement. Phiri was known for using his music to promote social causes ... More The California African American Museum's summer season presents four new exhibitionsLOS ANGELES, CA.- The California African American Museum announced today that it is presenting four new exhibitions in summer 2017, including a large-scale, site-specific work by Gary Simmons, an exhibition that examines black silent films, a selection of portraiture from Los Angeles-area collections, and paintings and photographs by artists from the Caribbean and Brazil that comprise the Museums latest permanent collection exhibition. George O. Davis, Executive Director of CAAM said, This summers exhibitions and programs build on the momentum of CAAMs new direction, and especially take advantage of summertime to welcome families, vacationers, and old and new friends of CAAM. Visitors will notice CAAMs fresh look and feel extend even to its building, which is being enlivened with ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals' live online sale features 200+ lots of top-quality Navajo and Zuni jewelrySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On Sunday, July 30, 2017, Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present over 200 lots of Southwest jewelry and sculpture Part 4 of the private collection from the vault of a major Southern California dealer/collector. Jewelry offerings many old pawn items handcrafted of heavy, solid sterling or coin silver and embellished with gem-quality turquoise or coral stones, hardstone or coins feature works from the Navajo and Zuni. The majority were crafted by talented artists; many include makers marks. Among the exceptional range of items are cuff, Mexican silver and other bracelets; squash blossom and heishi necklaces and sets; concho belts; belt buckles; watch cuffs and watch bands; Western belt buckles; men's and ladies' rings; decorative silver items; match boxes; jewelry items including earrings, pendants, pins, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo died July 13, 2017. Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 ? July 13, 1954; born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and is perhaps best known for her self-portraits. In this image: From left to right: Frances Flynn Payne, who is selecting dancers; artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and Mrs. William C. Hammer, artistic director of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, seen in Philadelphia, March 31, 1932, where they are preparing the ballet "Horsepower" at the Metropolitan.
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