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Gustave Caillebotte (French, 18481894). Oarsman in a Top Hat, 187778 (detail). Oil on canvas, 357⁄16 x 461⁄16 in. (90 Ã 117 cm). Private collection.
MADRID.- This summer, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in collaboration with the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny is presenting an exhibition on the artist Gustave Caillebotte (Paris, 1848 Petit Gennevilliers, 1894), one of the least known but also most original figures of the Impressionist movement. Caillebotte, Painter and Gardener reveals this French artists thematic and stylistic evolution, from his early works painted in Haussmanns modern Paris to his depictions of gardens, which would come to occupy a significant part of his output. Curated by Marina Ferretti, director of Exhibitions and Research at the Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, the exhibition includes a total of 65 works loaned from private collections and international museums including the Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The works on display are presented in four sect ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman applies wax on 'Le Penseur' (The Thinker), a sculpture by late French sculptor Auguste Rodin, to protect it from weather damages and pollution at the Rodin museum in Paris on July 19, 2016. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP.
| New Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant brings focus to paper at the Museo de Arte de Ponce | | Bilbao Fine Arts Museum opens survey exhibition of hyperrealist sculpture from 1973-2016 | | Leading Asia: Sotheby's Asia 2016 half year sales achieve US$461.5 million, up 22% | 
With the new grant, the Museo de Arte de Ponce will offer two thirty-month fellowships for additional qualified staff to work in paper conservation beginning in January 2017.
PONCE, PR.- Works on paper make up a fascinating, fragile and largely unknown part of the Museo de Arte de Ponces collection, comprising around 2,500 drawings, prints and photographs mostly twentieth-century Puerto Rican and Latin American. In the next months, they will come to the fore through an ambitious and overarching plan thanks to the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This prestigious award will greatly support the museums mission at a time of dire financial circumstances on the island. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation began collaborating with the Museo de Arte de Ponce in 2011, when its Board of Directors approved a grant to help establish a paper conservation department in Ponce. Now, a $500,000 grant will further improve the museums stewardship ... More | | 
Duane Hanson, Two Workers. 1993 (detail). Bronce policromado al óleo, técnica mixta y accesorios. © Estate of Duane Hanson / Licensed by VEGAP, 2016. Photo: Axel Thünker. Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn. Courtesy of the Institute for Cultural Exchange, Tübingen.
BILBAO.- On display in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum's BBK Gallery, Hyperrealist Sculpture 1973-2016 presents a selection of 34 works by the 26 artists most representative of this movement. This is the first exhibition that aims to offer an in-depth survey of human figuration spanning the more than fifty years of hyperrealism's existence. In the 1960s and 1970s a number of sculptors began to be interested in a form of realism based on a vivid and lifelike representation of the human figure. Employing traditional techniques such as modelling, casting and painting, they reproduced the body using a range of different focuses but with the shared aim of formulating a clearly contemporary interpretation ... More | | 
Kangxi Seal of the Mandate of Heaven. Photo: Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Commenting on the 2016 first half year results, Kevin Ching, Chief Executive Officer of Sothebys Asia, says: We are delighted by the exceptional half year results that reached 22% over last year. After more than four decades in Asia, Sothebys maintains an unrivalled ability to source the finest and rarest objects from notable collections around the world a critical element to our success. Longstanding relationships with seasoned collectors worldwide led to a number of important consignments from the Pilkington Collection of Chinese ceramics, to Zhang Daqians Peach Blossom Spring, to the Mi Yun Hall Collection of Classical Chinese Paintings that drove remarkable results across collecting categories. We are further encouraged by the growing presence of Asian collectors in our worldwide salerooms, where they are pushing the market forward evidenced ... More |
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| Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 gloves and helmet on display at Smithsonian | | Artist builds wall around Trump's Hollywood star | | French public take 'Sunday painter' Rousseau to their hearts | 
View of exhibit "Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Visor and Gloves," featuring flown Apollo A-7L spacesuit extravehicular visor and gloves in the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Va. Photo by Dane Penland / National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- In commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the first moon landing, the National Air and Space Museum will display Neil Armstrongs lunar extravehicular gloves and helmet for the first time since 2012. The artifacts recently underwent conservation as part of the successful Reboot the Suit Kickstarter campaign conducted in summer 2015. They will be on view for one year, beginning July 20, at the museums Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The opportunity to display these artifacts is rare because of their fragility and the necessity to maintain a controlled environment, said Cathleen Lewis, curator of space history at the museum. We are excited for the opportunity to show our visitors these components ... More | | 
The Hollywood Walk of Fame Star of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is surrounded by a miniture barbed-wire wall placed there by Californian street artist Plastic Jesus. Mark Ralston / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- A Los Angeles-based street artist has taken Donald Trump to his word, building a wall -- but around the Republican presidential hopeful's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The 6-inch wall, made of wooden planks and topped with barbed wire, was put up Tuesday evening around the controversial mogul's star by the artist known as Plastic Jesus. It was taken down early Wednesday. "I built and paid for the wall myself. No Mexican money," tweeted the British-born artist, as curious onlookers took pictures of his work before it was removed. The artist has also created "No Trump Anytime" signs that have been posted in Los Angeles, New York and other cities. Trump has repeatedly vowed during his campaign to build a wall between Mexico and the United States, drawing criticism from rights groups. This is not the first time that Trump's Walk of ... More | | 
Henri Rousseau, known as The Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910) Le Rêve [The Dream], 1910 (detail), oil on canvas, 204.5 x 298.5 cm New York, The Museum of Modern Art, gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 252.1954 © 2016. Digital image, The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Scala, Florence.
PARIS (AFP).- He was once regarded as a bit of a joke. A self-taught "Sunday painter" who couldn't do hands and who was laughed at by other artists for his amateurish technique. But a century after he died penniless in Paris, the public has taken Henri Rousseau to their hearts. An exhibition of his greatest work has become one of the biggest hits of the decade at the Musee d'Orsay -- in spite of a sharp dip in tourist numbers in the French capital. "The Customs Man Rousseau" which closed at the weekend, had nearly 480,000 admissions, the museum said Wednesday, "one of our greatest successes of the last 10 years". The most unlikely avant garde hero in art history worked as a toll booth attendant who only started to dabble with oils when he was in his forties. Rousseau would spend his weekends ... More |
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| Smithsonian American Art Museum acquires artworks by Janet Echelman, Maya Lin and Leo Villareal | | AGO exhibition by Theaster Gates reimagines the house museum as a visionary site for Black freedom | | Michael Simpson painting Squint (19) wins the John Moores Painting Prize 2016 | 
Janet Echelman, 1.8, 2015. Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Courtesy of Janet Echelman, Inc. Photos by Ron Blunt.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced that it has acquired three artworks from its popular exhibition WONDER1.8 Renwick (2015) by Janet Echelman, Folding the Chesapeake (2015) by Maya Lin and Volume (Renwick) (2015) by Leo Villareal. WONDER, the debut exhibition at the recently reopened Renwick Gallery, featured immersive installations by nine leading contemporary artists. The artists were selected for their ability to dissolve the boundaries between craft, art and design, and for their focus on process and materials. Each selected a gallery in the Renwicks historic building and created an installation inspired by that space. More than 700,000 people have seen WONDER since it opened in November 2015; the exhibition closed July 10. When we asked these exemplary artists to ... More | | 
Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum installation shot (detail) © Theaster Gates, 2016.
TORONTO.- Contemporary American artist Theaster Gates makes his Canadian debut this summer with an ambitious solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In a series of large-scale installations, Gates creates symbolic spaces in the tradition of the house museum, each dedicated to the potential of Black creativity and freedom past, present and future. Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum opens in Toronto on July 21, 2016 and runs til Oct. 30, 2016, filling the entire fifth floor of the AGOs Contemporary Tower. Curated by Kitty Scott, the AGOs Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern & Contemporary Art, the exhibition upends the conservative customs associated with house museums, which are so often connected to narrow ideas of cultural heritage and national identity. By reimagining the traditional house museum and locating it inside the AGO, Gates calls attention ... More | | 
Squint (19) by Michael Simpson is the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2016 © Dave Jones.
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery has announced the winner of the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2016 is artist Michael Simpson with his painting Squint (19). Simpson (b.1940, Dorset) receives the £25,000 first prize for his work, which is one of a continuing series of paintings by the artist. The winning painting depicts a ladder positioned underneath a leper squint. In medieval times, a squint referred to a small opening in the wall of a medieval church, which allowed people with leprosy and other undesirables a chance to look within, in order to access the sermon. Simpsons painting will be displayed at the Walker Art Gallery as part of the John Moores Painting Prize 2016 exhibition, which runs from 9 July to 27 November during Liverpool Biennial 2016. The exhibition will showcase 54 works in total, which have been selected from more than 2,500 entries. Sandra Penketh, ... More |
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| Ansel Adams exhibition helps Reynolda House Museum of American Art set new annual attendance record | | Bertoia's sets world auction record as Marklin boat hammers $271,400 in $1.4M Spring Toy Auction | | Catalina Island Museum announces Julie Perlin Lee as Executive Director | 
Annual attendance at Reynolda House from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 was 35% higher than its average annual attendance over the past 11 years.
WINSTON-SALEM, NC.- Reynolda House Museum of American Art shattered its previous attendance records this year, thanks in large part to its exclusive exhibition of Ansel Adams photography that closed July 17. Annual attendance at Reynolda House from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016 was 35% higher than its average annual attendance over the past 11 years. More than 55,000 visitors came to the museum for tours and events, bolstered by two major exhibitions: The Artists Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, on view fall 2015, and Ansel Adams: Eloquent Light, on view spring and summer 2016. The Museum was closed in January and February for internal improvements, making the total visitation even more notable. Average daily attendance for both of the museums two exhibitions was among the top three highest visited exhibitions since the museum opened its Mary ... More | | 
Marklin oceanliner Amerika, German, early 1900s, all original, 38 inches long, $271,400. Images are courtesy of Bertoia Auctions.
VINELAND, NJ.- Bidders ventured into the outer limits at Bertoias May 20-21 spring toy auction, as one lot after another spurred aggressive competition to achieve estimate-smashing prices. From the moment a German-made Marklin oceanliner Amerika set sail, there was little doubt where it was headed: straight to the top of prices realized. The pristine 38-inch-long vessel, all original and retaining its lifeboats, masts, four stacks and other beautifully detailed appointments, cruised at top speed as it rose through the bidding ranks toward a final payday of $271,400, almost four times its high estimate. The buyer was a private party from Europe who chose to remain anonymous. This boat was an extraordinary find, said Bertoia Auctions owner, Jeanne Bertoia. It had come out of an attic where it had remained for many years. When it was removed from its storage place, the boat had layers of dust and grime, ... More | | 
Julie Perlin Lee is Vice President of Collections and Exhibition Development at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND.- The Catalina Island Museum announces the upcoming departure of its Executive Director, Dr. Michael De Marsche. Planned from the beginning of his tenure, Dr. De Marsche joined the Catalina Island Museum in 2010 and immediately went to work re-invigorating the museum. Under his leadership the museums former location in the Avalon Casino was completely renovated. In addition, special exhibitions traveling from other collections were introduced to the Catalina Island Museums exhibitions schedule. As a result, museum membership climbed steadily from 300 to nearly 2,000. In 2011, Dr. De Marsche directed the launch of a capital campaign that has to date exceeded its goal three times and now stands at over $10.5 million. It is one of the most successful capital campaigns in the history of Catalina Island. Dr. De Marsches experience with building and renovating museums ... More |
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 'World's oldest' theatre actor dies aged 97BUCHAREST (AFP).- Romanian legend Radu Beligan, who held the Guinness record as the world's oldest theatre actor, died on Wednesday aged 97 in a hospital in the capital Bucharest, medical staff said. After a prolific career spanning more than 70 years, the star passed away in his sleep, the director of the Elias hospital, Dana Safta, said. Beligan last performed in April at the National Theatre in Bucharest, where he had played a lead role in Jean Anouilhs "Number Number" to sellout audiences since 2004. Born on December 18, 1918, Beligan made his debut in 1937 in Bucharest in a stage version of "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. He went on to star in some 100 plays and movies, and became a well-known TV and radio personality. But he was also criticised in artists' circles for his membership of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party ... More Sotheby's S/2 & Cultural Counsel present Fish People at The Surf LodgeNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys S|2, the gallery arm of Sothebys Contemporary Art Department, and Cultural Counsel present Fish People, a week-long exhibition of The Estate of Joel Mesler at The Surf Lodge in Montauk. On view on 21 28 July 2016, Fish People features a selection of ten paintings by the artist-dealer, each of which responds to the cultural history of the sea, New York Citys annual migration to Long Island resort towns, and vacation-induced identity shifts. With his trademark wit and idiosyncratic figurative style, Mesler presents a body of work that is both as vacant and generous as a long weekend by the sea. Composed on raw linen with an economy of gesture and palette, the subjects of these nuanced paintings float in isolation. A grinning man wears a shirt emblazoned Down and Out in Montauk, a nod to Orwell seemingly at odds with the comfort radiating ... More After the age of dinosaurs came the age of ant farmersWASHINGTON, DC.- A group of South American ants has farmed fungi since shortly after the dinosaurs died out, according to an international research team including Smithsonian scientists. The genes of the ant farmers and their fungal crops reveal a surprisingly ancient history of mutual adaptations. This evolutionary give-and-take has led to some speciesthe leafcutter antsdeveloping industrial-scale farming that surpasses human agriculture in its efficiency. The key chapters of the history of ant agriculture are written into the genes of both the insects and their crop fungi. A team including Jacobus Boomsma, research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and biology professor at the University of Copenhagen with his colleagues there, Sanne Nygaard and Guojie Zhang, looked at the genes of seven species of farming ants and their ... More The Dixon announces a newly endowed position: The Martha R. Robinson Curator MEMPHIS, TENN.- In the fall of 2016, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens will honor the late Martha R. Robinson, one of its most impressive donors. Throughout her life and beyond, Mrs. Robinson was a supporter of the museum's fine art acquisitions and curatorial projects. Beginning in September, the curator position at the Dixon, currently held by Julie N. Pierotti, will be known in perpetuity as the Martha R. Robinson Curator. Martha Robinson was an exceptionally generous and enthusiastic supporter of the Dixon. A trustee in the 1980s and 1990s, she possessed a great love for art, and was an effective advocate of the museums nineteenth-century French paintings collection. Mrs. Robinson was frequently called upon to champion and fund new acquisitions, and she seems never to have rebuffed a request to contribute. When the Dixon Gallery and Gardens ... More Roman portraits and their Baroque appropriation on view in DresdenDRESDEN.- The Dresden Antiquities Collection is one of the oldest collections amassed in Dresden by the kings and prince electors, and one of the oldest large collections of antiquities presented in a museum outside Italy. The items, on view behind glass in storage depots at the Albertinum, are currently waiting to be presented again in the eastern gallery of the Semperbau at the Zwinger. The sculptures from classical antiquity and the Baroque period have not been presented to the public in a fitting manner since 2002, the year of a major flood on the Elbe, followed by the reconstruction of the Albertinum and its reopening as a museum for modern art. The collection displays a selection of some 50 classical and Baroque portraits and portrait statues. These portraits sculptures combining authenticity and idealisation played a crucial role in defining and communicating political, ... More Antiquorum appoints Charles Tearle as Horological ConsultantNEW YORK, NY.- Antiquorum Auctioneers announced the appointment of Charles Tearle as horological consultant to Antiquorum. Based in Los Angeles, Charles will work closely with Antiquorums team of experts in New York and Hong Kong to bring to market rare and exceptional timepieces and build upon Antiquorums thriving business throughout the United States and Asia. Charles Tearle began his illustrious career in 1990 when he joined Somlo Antiques, a prestigious watch retailer in London. Charles further fueled his love for fine timepieces heading up watch departments at various prominent auction houses in Europe, the United States and Asia. In 2008, Charles was appointed Director & Watch Expert at Antiquorum initially based in California before he was promoted to running the watch departments in New York and Hong Kong. Following his successes at celebrated ... More West Kowloon Cultural District Authority appoints M+ Executive DirectorHONG KONG.- The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority today announced the appointment of Ms Suhanya Raffel to the position of Executive Director, M+ of the WKCDA. Ms Raffel, currently the Deputy Director and Director of Collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, is a renowned museum specialist with many years of senior management experience in collection and exhibition, research and programming. Prior to that, she was at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, where she held many senior executive positions from 1994, including Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collection Development from 2010 and Acting Director in 2012. Ms Raffel has acquired a reputation for high-level scholarship in the field of contemporary Asian art, most notably with her leadership of the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary ... More KW Institute for Contemporary Art announces its new artistic teamBERLIN.- Under the new directorship of Krist Gruijthuijsen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin announced the new artistic team as part of its restructuring. In expanding the artistic side of the team KW wants to underline its ambition for the future by committing to a large number of projects and exhibitions happening in and around the premises of KW, within the city of Berlin, and internationally. The new artistic team will consist of Anna Gritz as curator, Leaver-Yap and Tirdad Zolghadr as associate curators, Maurin Dietrich and Cathrin Mayer as assistant curators/project managers, and Marc Hollenstein as graphic designer. Anna Gritz previously worked as a curator at the South London Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, where she programmed performance, films, and exhibitions and commissioned new works by artists including Juliette ... More Publishers take on China at Hong Kong book fair HONG KONG (AFP).- Hong Kong's feisty publishing industry vowed to take on China by selling books critical of Beijing, despite the disappearances of five city booksellers, as a major annual book fair began Wednesday. The booksellers, who went missing last year and resurfaced in the mainland, worked for a Hong Kong publishing house known for gossipy titles about China's political leaders. One of the men is still detained and another, who skipped bail and is now in Hong Kong, has revealed how he was blindfolded and interrogated for months during his detention. Some mainstream bookstores in Hong Kong removed works likely to offend mainland authorities from their shelves in the wake of the disappearances. And while independent shop owners are still willing to stock the books, some have told AFP that salacious or critical titles about Beijing politics have ... More 'Pretty Woman' director Garry Marshall dies at 81LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Hollywood director, producer and comedy giant Garry Marshall died on Tuesday at the age of 81, leaving a legacy that includes "Happy Days," "Pretty Woman" and countless other iconic hits. The mogul died of pneumonia after suffering a stroke in hospital in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank, according to his publicist. Directors Guild of America president Paris Barclay led tributes to Marshall, hailing his gift for storytelling which "brought joy, laughter and an enormous, beating heart to every screen, large and small." "It was an honor, and a delight, for all of us who had the pleasure of serving alongside of him," Barclay said. Born in New York to a dance teacher mother and film director father, Marshall got his showbiz break in the 1950s, writing jokes for programs including The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. His first big TV hit was "The Odd Couple," and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-born American artist Arshile Gorky died July 21, 1948. Arshile Gorky ( April 15, 1904 - July 21, 1948) was an American painter of Armenian descent who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide. In this image: Arshile Gorky, "Waterfall", 1943. Tate. ©Tate Painting.
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