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Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony, by Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop. The painting, now held by the Allentown Art Museum, is to be sold as part of a restitution agreement with the heirs of a Jewish couple. (Allentown Art Museum via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A Pennsylvania museum is relinquishing a valuable 16th century portrait attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop after reaching a settlement with descendants of a German Jewish couple who fled the Nazis before World War II. The Allentown Art Museum agreed to give up Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony after a claim made by the family of Henry and Hertha Bromberg, who fled Germany in 1938. As part of the settlement, the work, an oil on panel dated to around 1534, is to be sold at the Christies old master sale in New York in January. The proceeds are to be divided between the museum and the Bromberg heirs, but the parties have not disclosed details of the arrangement. This work of art entered the market and eventually found its way to the museum only because Henry Bromberg had to flee persecution from Nazi Germany, Max Weintraub, the museums president and CEO, said in a statement. That moral imperative compelled us to act ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tate announced that Archie Moore's landmark artwork kith and kin is being acquired in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Australia. Winner of the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2024 La Biennale de Venezia, kith and kin represents the expansiveness of First Nations Australian history, whilst speaking to the universality of the human family.
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| A rare canopy bed and dresser by Charles Rohlfs will headline Neue Auctions sale | | Significant works by contemporary Latinx and Latin American artists acquired by National Gallery | | Gagosian to present paintings by Mark Grotjahn in New York |
Rare and valuable canopy bed by Charles Rohlfs (American, 1853-1936), crafted circa 1900-1901, exhibited at the 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. (est. $30,000-$50,000).
BEACHWOOD, OHIO .- A rare and valuable canopy bed and dresser by Charles Rohlfs, ceramics from Pablo Picasso and Toshiko Takaezu, a Joan Miro lithograph, an oil painting attributed to David Teniers II, and a nice selection of vintage poster art will all come up for bid in an online-only Fine Art, Antiques & Jewelry auction slated for Saturday, September 7th, by Neue Auctions. The catalog is loaded with 347 lots. The auction will begin at 10 am Eastern time. The Rohlfs ... More | |
Guadalupe Maravilla, Bless You Magic Flying Woman Retablo, 2022. Oil on tin (painting by Alfredo Vilchis), dried gourd, cotton and glue mixture on wood overall: 266.7 x 160.02 x 60.96 cm (105 x 63 x 24 in.) National Gallery of Art New Century Fund 2024.22.2 © the artist. Courtesy of Guadalupe Maravilla and PPOW, New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art has acquired over 40 significant works by contemporary Latinx and Latin American artists of different generations, including Luis Cruz Azaceta, Ken Gonzales-Day, Guadalupe Maravilla, Michael Menchaca, Aberlardo Morell, Sophie Rivera, Joseph RodrÃguez, and Rafael Soriano. Spanning photography, ... More | |
Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Backcountry 55.89), 2023. Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 74 3/8 x 94 inches (188.9 x 238.8 cm) © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian announced Out of Country, an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mark Grotjahn at the gallerys 980 Madison Avenue location in New York. Opening on September 10, Out of Country represents the culmination of the Backcountry series that has occupied the artist since 2021, and features never before exhibited paintings on white grounds, as well as two black-ground paintings. A press preview and tour with the artist will take place at ... More |
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| Rashid Johnson will have career survey at Guggenheim starting in 2025 | | Thaddaeus Ropac presents "Joseph Beuys-John Cage: Eyes that Listen, Ears that See" | | Exhibition at WIELS features work from the late 1980s until the present day by Ana Jotta |
The visual artist Rashid Johnson in the sculpture garden at the Crosby in New York. (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums landmark 1959 building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has always presented singular opportunities for living artists to engage with its sculptural spiraling ramp and central oculus illuminated by a domed skylight. Its an institution that gives agency to solo exhibitions in ways unlike any other museum, said Rashid Johnson, a multidisciplinary artist who served on the Guggenheims board from ... More | |
Joseph Beuys, Quanten, 1945-82. Two-part color screenprint on laid paper. 34.3 x 25.4 cm (13.5 x 10 in).
SALZBURG.- Providing an unprecedented insight into the artistic dialogue between Joseph Beuys and John Cage, this exhibition draws together a selection of their works including some shown to the public for the very first time to explore the personal, creative and conceptual relationship between these two pioneering figures of the 20th century. Highlighting not only the deep respect and admiration the artists had for each other, but also the significant parallels in their visionary thinking, the works on display ... More | |
Ana Jotta, Entrada dos Artistas, 2020. Embroidery and pen on found cotton cloth, 196 à 128 cm. Photo © Marcus Leith. Courtesy of the Artist & greengrassi, London.
BRUSSELS.- Over the course of the past five decades, Ana Jotta (1946, Lisbon, Portugal) has developed a deeply personal artistic vocabulary that rejects and even antagonizes all forms of classification and identification. Instead of any recognizable style, she takes from, subverts, and trespasses across various aesthetic categories, making a world that exists only on her own terms. Instead of attempting to encompass Jottas entire ... More |
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| Congratulations! You made the film festival. Now finish your movie. | | Stephen Friedman Gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush | | Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature |
Dea Kulumbegashvili, the Georgian director of the Venice Film Festival competition title April, in Potsdam, Germany, Aug. 16, 2024. With the Venice Film Festival beginning, filmmakers are racing to the finish line to have their work ready for screening. (Gordon Welters/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When a movie is selected to premiere at a festival, its a time of celebration for the filmmakers. But its not an end to their labors. Very often, theres work left to be done on the movie before its unveiled to the world. While fans excitedly scroll through the latest showcase at an ... More | |
Known for vibrant depictions of landscapes, still lifes, and portraiture, Glabushs new works explore the interplay of nature and memory, blending familiar and abstract scenes through expansive, colourful, and textural compositions.
NEW YORK, NY.- Stephen Friedman Gallery presents The letters of this alphabet were trees, an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush, marking his New York debut. Based in the countryside near London, Ontario, Glabush is celebrated for his brilliantly colored landscapes depicting forests, fields, flowers, sea and sky. ... More | |
Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, translators of Russian literature, at home near Dijon, France. (Clara Watt/The New York Times)
PARIS.- The first time Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translated a Russian novel together, it felt as if another man had joined their marriage: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was a mariage à trois, Volokhonsky said over coffee at her and Pevears rambling apartment in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Dostoyevsky was always in our mind. We just lived with him. They were, Pevear recalled, pouring themselves into ... More |
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| franklin parrasch gallery announces "Ellen Siebers: Bouquet" | | Artworks by four contemporary artists help you discover more about the relationship between humans and nature | | Bruce W. Pepich retires from Racine Art Museum |
Siebers jewel-like paintings are often descriptions of scenes from nature, whether historical, or from her known environment.
NEW YORK, NY.- Franklin Parrasch Gallery will present Ellen Siebers: Bouquet, the gallerys first solo exhibition with the artist (b. 1986, Madison, WI). Ellen Siebers highly atmospheric, evocative paintings revel in the possibility of beauty and visual poetry and the capacity to depict a fleeting experience or sensation in each lived moment, transforming the quotidian into something ... More | |
Andy Holden, Auguries (Mistle Thrush) - Auspiciën (grote lijster), 2024. Photo: Marjon Gemmeke.
OTTERLO.- No museum in the Netherlands is as intertwined with nature as the Kröller-Müller Museum. In the exhibition The Wood for the Trees, four artists examine the relationship between humans and nature in different ways through their work. In the sculpture garden, Circus Andersom creates two sensory walks to accompany the exhibition. In Natural Selection, British artist Andy Holden (Bedford, 1982) gives a leading role to birds, to ... More | |
RAM Executive Director and Curator of Collections Bruce W. Pepich, Photography: David E. Jackson.
RACINE, WI .- After building a career that spanned five decades and included the creation of a new museum, RAM announced that RAM Executive Director and Curator of Collections Bruce W. Pepich will retire at the end of 2024. Pepich plans to remain throughout 2025 as Consultant for Permanent Collection Projects before retiring fullyensuring the integrity of the largest collection of contemporary craft in North ... More |
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Museum Ludwig announces "Schultze Projects #4 - Kresiah Mukwazhi"COLOGNE.- Every two to three years, an artist is invited to create a new work for the Museum Ludwigs largest wall, located in front of the main staircase. Schultze Projects pays homage to artist couple Bernard Schultze and Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), whose artistic estates are managed by the Museum Ludwig and commemorated with this series, which was initiated in 2017. For the fourth edition of Schultze Projects, artist Kresiah Mukwazhi (b. 1992 in Harare, Zimbabwe) has created a new mural. Mukwazhi often sources pieces of used clothing or cloth that she sews together and paints to create works that address male violence against women in her home country. She views art as a form of protest and self-empowerment, as well as a starting point for encouraging and supporting women. Mukwazhi understands her artistic practice as visual ... More Guggenheim curator will stage exhibition of Caribbean DiasporaNEW YORK, NY.- The National Gallery of Jamaica announced Friday that curator Ashley James would organize this years Kingston Biennial, a showcase of artists from the Caribbean and African diasporas that aims to link the regional art scene with international audiences. I have always seen myself as Jamaican American, said James, 36, whose parents immigrated to New York from the country in the 1970s. But it has never been in the context of my work until now. The exhibition will be named Green X Gold inspired by the colors of the Jamaican flag and include more than two dozen artists looking at environmental concerns and how the tourism industry promotes an idealized version of the Caribbean to the outside world. Some artists featured in the show, which is scheduled to open Dec. 15, will be Oneika Russell, Joiri ... More Marina Cicogna's glamorous, cinematic legacyNEW YORK, NY.- She threw at least one party that would have made Bacchus envious, photographed Greta Garbo and Marilyn Monroe (both friends), co-produced the Oscar-winning Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and distributed films by directors Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others. If a person can personify a global film festival, Marina Cicogna was for decades the face of the Venice Film Festival. Born in 1934, two years after her maternal grandfather, Giuseppe Volpi (who was one of Benito Mussolinis finance ministers), helped found the festival, Cicogna helped transform it into a global event. She also championed Italian cinema as a producer and distributor, and she pushed the boundaries of what women could achieve in a male-dominated industry. For those who knew Cicogna, ... More Three shows announced for the 2025 Adelaide FestivalADELAIDE.- The opera Innocence, directed by prolific Australian director Simon Stone; Club Amour performed by legendary German dance company Pina Bauschs Tanztheater Wuppertal; and Australian Dance Theatres 60th anniversary show A Quiet Language are the first ticketed shows to be announced for the 2025 Adelaide Festival. Artistic Director Brett Sheehy AO said: The three productions in our avant-launch are each extraordinary artistic achievements. I want to thank former artistic directors Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy for securing Innocence. I remember with awe Simons brilliant, genre-breaking realisation of The Cherry Orchard for my 2014 Melbourne Theatre Company season, before he began his stellar international career, and my own introduction to Pina Bausch and Tanztheater Wuppertal was at the 1982 ... More The Fridericianum will open the first extensive solo exhibition by Melvin Edwards at a European institutionKASSEL.- Under the title Some Bright Morning, the Fridericianum is presenting the first extensive solo exhibition by Melvin Edwards at a European institution. Featuring over 50 works, the show offers the opportunity to get to know the diverse abstract language of form of this sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman. With a forward-looking approach to the questions, practices, and forms of modernism, Melvin Edwards established a body of work in the early 1960s that captivates with its great individuality and rigor. His oeuvre includes wall-mounted reliefsthe Lynch Fragmentsbarbed wire installations, freestanding sculptures, and works on paper. Although the works of Edwards, born in Houston, Texas, in 1937, are sited in the realm of abstraction, they allude to tangible points of reference. They evoke thoughts, feelings, and images ... More A great year for movies. The best year to start writing about them.NEW YORK, NY.- One thing to love about time is how liberating it can be. I, for instance, am at liberty to look at the Top 10 movies for the weekend of Aug. 20, 1999 when The Sixth Sense, in its third week out, began its monopoly of the chart and declare The Thomas Crown Affair the best of the lot. What could be going on here? Am I actually saying that a Pierce Brosnan-Rene Russo remake of the old Steve McQueen-Faye Dunaway love heist, from 1968, was always superior to M. Night Shyamalans whered-that-come-from supernatural smash? Or have 25 years ripened one and grayed the other? Hadnt The Blair Witch Project opened in July yet was still very much a thing? (It had, yet it was, down at No. 5.) Only one of the 10 movies was a sequel. In the mix were Julia Roberts, at her commercial peak, in Runaway Bride (No. ... More A personal view of Japanese contemporary art: Takahashi Ryutaro CollectionTOKYO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection. Presently comprising over 3,500 items, the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection is reputed as one of the most important collections of Japanese contemporary art in terms of both quality and quantity. A showcase of outstanding works by artists with a highly critical mindset, this exhibition explores the state of contemporary Japan from the specific viewpoint of a 1946-born art collector. The exhibition is modeled around the personal viewpoint of TAKAHASHI Ryutaro as one face representing postwar Japan. Born in 1946, and growing up as a spearhead of the baby boomer generation, he joined the Zenkyoto student movement, and was directly exposed to the dense mixture of culture and politics ... More The Julia Stoschek Foundation will present Gaia's Corner (2024)DUSSELDORF.- The Julia Stoschek Foundation will present Gaias Corner (2024), a new site specific work by Magdalena Mitterhofer and Shade Théret. The performance will take place by the water feature in front of the main entrance of K20 on Düsseldorfs Grabbeplatz, accompanied by live music. Gaias Corner refers to the myth of the Greek goddess Gaia, the mother of all life, and to the question of how architectural spaces and urban structures influence our perception of nature and artificiality. In their collaborations, Magdalena Mitterhofer and Shade Théret operate at the interface of theater, film, performance, and visual art. They often break the fourth wall by shifting the stage space into public areas, thus disrupting the illusion of theater. Their works have been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstverein München, Volksbühne ... More 'Now you see me' by Chris Day opens at Walker Art GalleryLIVERPOOL.- Walker Art Gallery announced the opening of a new installation by innovative glass artist Chris Day. Titled 'Now you see me', this stunning blown glass and mixed media modular work is exhibited alongside the painting that inspired it 'The Card Party' by Gawen Hamilton (1698-1737). Day's installation was catalysed by his discovery of 'The Card Party among the gallerys collection, in which a small Black servant is hidden within the scene. Through his work, Day sheds light on this child's story and the experiences of others who have been silenced. The artist's signature 'copper cages' encase blown glass pieces, creating a quasi-reflective surface where viewers can observe an image that is present, yet not quite there mirroring the essence of the boy in the painting. Chris Day describes himself as mixed race and often explores ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Titian died August 27, 1576. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 - 27 August 1576) known in English as Titian was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. In this image: A woman looks at Titian's painting "Mary Magdalene in Penitence" during a press preview of an exhibition of 16th and 17th century Italian painting at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, on Monday Sept. 22, 2008. The exhibition "From Titian to Pietro da Cortona: Myth Poetry and the Sacred," ran until Dec. 20. On display were 24 works by Titian and other Italian masters, on loan from a score of Italian galleries and collections.
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