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Due to extensive research, the three museums were able to reconstruct the provenance of five paintings, three color-prints and a wood panel with ivory reliefs, the context of the confiscation and their remaining after 1945. They also found the heirs in London, Zimbabwe and Tel Aviv.
MUNICH.- Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler returns together with the Bavarian State Painting Collections, the Bavarian National Museum and the State Collections of Prints and Drawings, Munich, works of art, which were confiscated by the Gestapo, to the community of heirs from Europe, Asia and Africa: ÂEthical duty, to deal with the provenance of museum inventories thoroughly, profoundly and conscientiously Bavarian State Minister of the Arts Bernd Sibler returned together with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maaz, General Director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections, Prof. Dr. Frank Matthias Kammel, General Director of the Bavarian National Museum, and Dr. Kurt Zeitler, Deputy Director of the State Collection of Prints and Drawings, Munich, nine works of art, which belonged to the Davidsohns, to Hardy Langer, representative of the community of heirs. Due to extensive research, the three museums were able to reconstruct the provenance of five paintings, three color-prints and a wood pa ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In 2019, The Dayton Art Institute (Dayton, Ohio) is celebrating the centennial of its founding. The Ohio History Connection, a statewide history organization with the mission to spark discovery of OhioÂs stories, recently recognized that milestone with an Ohio Historical Marker honoring the museumÂs Centennial. In this photo, Dayton Art Institute Director and CEO Michael Roediger (left) and DAI Board of Trustees Chair Brock Anderson III unveiled the marker at a dedication ceremony held on the museum grounds in July. Photo: Rebecca Tsaloff/Dayton Art Institute
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 | | The National Gallery allocated Bonington's 'View on the River Seine- Morning' under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme | | Pérez Art Museum Miami announces major gift from collector, scholar, and advocate Gordon W. Bailey | | Boy thrown from London's Tate Modern is French tourist visiting UK | 
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 1828), View on the River Seine Morning, about 1825 (detail). Oil on millboard, 30.2 x 35 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- View on the River Seine Morning (about 1825) by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828), one of the most significant artists of the early 19th century and a contemporary of Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable, has been allocated to the National Gallery under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme, administered by Arts Council England. The work of Bonington is vital to our understanding of French and British art of the Romantic period. He was a keen traveller and spent much of his time on sketching tours, which resulted in many light-filled representations of northern France and Venice, painted in both watercolour and oil. Bonington died tragically young from tuberculosis at the age of 25. View on the River Seine Morning may be an imaginary composition rather than a plein-air study. In 1825-6 the artist made a number of these compositions in which he ... More | | 
Sam Doyle, Ford, c. 1970s, house paint on tin, Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Gordon W. Bailey. Photo: Gordon W. Bailey Collection.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami announced a major gift of 46 artworks from Los Angeles-based collector, scholar, and advocate Gordon W. Bailey. The works encompass a variety of media including drawing, painting and sculpture and join artworks Bailey gifted in 2016, increasing his total contribution to 60 objects. All but two of the 28 artists are new additions to PAMMs collection. A number of notable artists from the southern United States such as Sam Doyle, Purvis Young, Thornton Dial, Herbert Singleton, Clementine Hunter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Minnie Evans, Roy Ferdinand, Lonnie Holley, and Leroy Almon are represented. Two important works by Doyle join a third, Cpt. F. Powill, previously given by Bailey, which is currently displayed in PAMMs 35th anniversary exhibition The Gift of Art. Through his works, Doyle chronicled his unique Gullah culture and, more generally, African American achievement. Jean- ... More | | 
People walk past the Tate Modern gallery in central London on August 5, 2019. A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern gallery is no longer in a life-threatening condition, police said Monday. Tolga Akmen / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A six-year-old boy thrown from a tenth-floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern gallery is a French national who was visiting the British capital with his family, police said Monday. The boy is no longer in a life-threatening condition, according to London's Metropolitan Police, who appealed for further witnesses to the Sunday afternoon incident to come forward. A 17-year-old boy who was initially detained by members of the public on the tenth-floor platform and then arrested by officers, remains in custody on suspicion of attempted murder. "This is being treated as an isolated event with no distinct or apparent motive," senior investigating officer DCI John Massey said in a statement, adding there was no known link between the victim and the teen arrested. He said the victim was now in "a stable, but critical condition in ... More |
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| | | Newly discovered Proust novellas to be published in October | | Olafur Eliasson's first solo presentation in Portugal opens at The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art | | Tramway opens the first exhibition in Europe of contemporary artist Nick Cave | 
In this file photo taken on October 30, 2017 a woman holds a copy of French writer Marcel Proust's manuscript "Du cote de chez Swann" (Swann's way) before its auction sale at Sotheby's action house in Paris. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Fans of French literary giant Marcel Proust will soon have the chance to read nine novellas from early in his career that were only unearthed last year, the publishing house said Monday. The nine texts by the author of "Swann's Way" were originally to be part of his first book, "Les Plaisirs et les Jours" (Pleasures and Days), a collection of poems and short stories published in 1896. But Proust, who was still in his 20s, later decided not to include them. They were uncovered by Bernard de Fallois, a noted Proust specialist who died last year, and founder of the Fallois publishing house. It will issue the collection on October 9 under the title "The Mysterious Correspondent and Other Unpublished Novellas." "With this diverse ... More | | 
Olafur Eliasson, Yellow forest, 2017. Bétulas, luzes de frequência única Vista da instalação: Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, 2017. Photo: David von Becker. Cortesia do artista; neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York/ Los Angeles © 2017 Olafur Eliasson.
PORTO.- The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in collaboration with BPI and La Caixa Foundation, are presenting Olafur Eliasson: Y/our future is now, the first solo presentation by the Danish-Icelandic artist in Portugal. Eliasson is renowned for creating artworks that traverse the boundaries of conventional exhibition spaces like the museum and gallery in order to assume an active presence in civic space. In this new exhibition, Eliasson invites visitors to navigate a series of recent large-scale installations and sculptures that invoke cycles, arcs, and curves to embody movement. Placed throughout the Serralves Museum atrium, the central gallery of the Siza building, and the ... More | | 
Nick Cave UNTIL at Tramway.
GLASGOW.- Until is presented at Tramway and is Caves largest and most ambitious project to date, organized by MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts and co-produced with Carriageworks, Sydney and Crystal Bridges/The Momentary, Arkansas. Until is made up of thousands of found objects and millions of beads, creating a rich sensory tapestry, akin to stepping directly inside the belly of one of his iconic Soundsuits. The sheer volume of material that comprises this project is astounding 16,000 wind spinners; millions of beads; thousands of ceramic objects; more than 10 miles of crystals; 24 chandeliers; 1 crocodile; and 17 cast-iron lawn jockeys (racist souvenirs from Americas Jim Crow era). Tramways vast main gallery is filled with a cacophonous, sculptural field of kinetic ornaments leading to a large-scale crystal cloud, topped by a sculptural garden inspired by the artists question is there ... More |
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| | | Record-setting Urban Art Auction surpasses $2.7 million | | National Museum of American History displays luxury 19th-century silk quilts | | 'Nothing but blood': Woman cartoonist draws Syria's Idlib | 
Banksy No Ball Games, 2009: $50,000 record for this print at auction.
DALLAS, TX.- Multiple records for artists and for individual prints were set in Heritage Auctions Urban Art Auction, which realized a total of $2,737,160 in Chicago. The July 22-23 auction boasted sell-through rates of 96.7% by value and 93.1% by lots sold, and benefitted from the visibility gained at a pre-auction viewing at ComplexCon, which drew high traffic, especially at the replica bus stop that carried what turned out to be the auctions top lot. Several of the new records that were set, and six of the top 10 prices realized in the sale, were from artwork by KAWS, one of the art worlds most sought-after contemporary artists. Other artists whose works contributed significantly to the strong final results included Yoshitomo Nara (pictured), Stik and Banksy. Some of the records that fell in the sale included: KAWS Kate Moss, White Gloves, 2001: $51,250 record for this print at auction Banksy No Ball Games, 200 ... More | | 
The reverse of the Bates Family Crazy-patchwork Silk Parlor Throw. Photo: Courtesy of the Smithsonians National Museum of American History.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of American History is displaying nine silk quilts from the national collection along with related needlework artifacts dating from the late 19th into the early 20th centuries in the exhibition Everyday Luxury: Silk Quilts from the National Collection. This rare showing of silk quilts is on view July 30 to January 2020 in The Nicholas F. and Eugenia Taubman Gallery. From the 1870s through the 1920s, the silk industry flourished in America. Paterson, New Jersey, then known as Americas Silk City, produced miles of silk fabric while Connecticut housed many silk-thread factories. Manufacturers marketed silk by giving away pattern booklets and thread holders. As industry competition increased, prices decreased, so much so that by the 1880s, even the girls and young women who worked in the factories could afford ... More | | 
Syrian Cartoonist Amani al-Ali shows one of drawings, depicting a naked President Bashar al-Assad covering his lower torso with a chemical weapons hazard symbol, at her home studio. Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP.
IDLIB (AFP).- Bent over a computer tablet in war-torn northwest Syria, cartoonist Amani al-Ali takes her pen to the screen to sketch life in the embattled opposition bastion of Idlib. "I'm trying to get across what others struggle to say," said the 30-year-old artist, dressed in a long red jacket and lacey white headscarf. Idlib, a jihadist-run region of three million people, has come under increasing bombardment by the regime and its Russian ally since late April despite a months-old truce deal. Through her cartoons, Ali has boldly challenged traditions to comment on life in the anti-regime bastion, and to condemn seeming international indifference to civilian deaths. In one, the world is depicted as an ostrich burying its head in a mound of blood-drenched skulls as red missiles rain down all around. In another, titled "Eid in Idlib", a warplane drops candy wrappers ... More |
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| | | Dusti Bongé Art Foundation announces new publication | | Artory announces partnerships in digital art | | 'Majestic' WWII Spitfire takes off on round-the-world flight | 
The book offers an in-depth look into Dusti Bongé's life and art, and her relationship to the three cities that most influenced both.
BILOXI, MS.- The Dusti Bongé Art Foundation today announced a major new publicationDusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New Yorkthe first to document the full range of the artists exceptional life and long career. Mississippis pioneering Abstract Expressionist, Bongé (190393) was active in the burgeoning New York art scene and creative communities along the Gulf Coast from the 1930s through the early 1990s. The author, J. Richard Gruber, Ph.D., Director Emeritus of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (the Ogden), examines Bongés art and vision from a regional and national perspective within the evolving cultural context of 20th century American art and society. The publication coincides with Piercing the Inner Wall: The Work of Dusti Bongé, an in-depth exhibition curated by Bradley Sumrall ... More | | 
Eclipses by Dmitrti Cherniak for artxcode.
NEW YORK, NY.- Artory, the art worlds leading blockchain-secured digital art registry, announced today that it will partner with digital art galleries and leaders in pioneering digital art, as well as with the largest fair for digital art, the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF), to register art sales on the blockchain. As a firm supporter of this new segment of the art market, Artory is pleased to showcase a commitment to cultural innovators and expand its network of trusted data sources while guaranteeing a unique solution for both artists and collectors in the digital art space. Artory, through certificates of authenticity and the public art registry, alleviates collectors concerns by offering the security of investment and pride of ownership. Proof of scarcity secures the investment, whilst also allowing artists to prove limited numbers and increase sale potential. The inaugural edition of CADAF took place in New York in May of ... More | | 
British pilot Steve Brooks poses for a photograph in London on July 18, 2019 ahead of his flight around the globe in a Silver Spitfire plane. ISABEL INFANTES / AFP.
CHICHESTER (AFP).- An original Spitfire plane took off from Britain on Monday on an unprecedented attempt to fly the iconic World War II fighter around the globe. The gleaming silver aircraft set off from Goodwood Aerodrome outside Chichester near the south coast of England for the first leg of the epic four-month journey. The restored 76-year-old fighter served in World War II but has been de-militarised, stripped of its guns and paintwork, revealing the shining, silvery aluminium underneath. The Silver Spitfire was heading for Lossiemouth in Scotland on the first stage of its attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean via the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and the wilds of remote northern Canada. The single-seater plane will visit around 30 countries and soar over some of the world's ... More |
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 The Lisbon Architecture Triennale distinguishes Denise Scott Brown with Lifetime Achievement AwardLISBON.- The Lisbon Architecture Triennale announced Denise Scott Brown as the winner of the Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Lifetime Achievement Award 2019. With a consistent practice throughout her life, the architect and urban planner whose work touched so many different fields remains an icon in the world of architecture. Born in Zambia (and growing up in South Africa), Scott Brown moved to the United States of America, from where she profoundly influenced architectural thought, along with her late husband, Robert Venturi. The jury of the award highlighted the contributions to the field of architecture and the built environment. At a time when architects, urban scholars and practitioners are invited to think through all of the scales of the built environment together, Denise Scott Browns work stands as an inspiring example of what is possible: moving ... More Rare Scottish silver cup lights up August saleCAMBRIDGE.- An extremely rare 17th century Scottish provincial silver tumbler cup topped a vibrant Cheffins August Jewellery, Silver & Watches Sale on Thursday 01 August 2019 when selling for £11,000. Made in Banff, a small Aberdeenshire town in the north of Scotland, during the reign of Charles II the cup was in remarkable condition for its age so it was no surprise to see it attract so much attention. A pair of earrings made by London jewellers Graff, a name synonymous with luxury and exceptional quality, realised £10,000. The magnificent earrings were described as a a pair of asymmetric double clusters featuring 12.5cts of diamonds and 5cts of emeralds. Another set of earrings that sold well on the day was an impressive pair of turquoise and diamond articulated drops that sold for £7,500, smashing its estimate of £4,000-£6,000. The same price was ... More Museum invites artists to produce site-specific works that investigate the Bauhaus and ModernismSTUTTGART.- One hundred years ago, the Bauhaus was founded in Weimar. The eventful history of the avant-garde school and, with it, that of Modernism unfolded across several sites. Were one to chart the Bauhaus and its global network, Stuttgart would be one of the places that left its mark on the Bauhaus and that was, in turn, marked by its influence. As an institution committed to active knowledge production, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has invited Dani Gal, Michaela Melián, Martin Schmidl and Boris Sieverts to produce site-specific works that investigate and exemplify not only the people, ideas, impact and reception of the Bauhaus and Modernism in Stuttgart but also the Modernist impulses emanating from Stuttgart. How can we build on the ambitions of the Bauhaus and the universalist aspirations of Modernism and what lessons can ... More Ogden Museum announces Louisiana Contemporary Prize winnersNEW ORLEANS, LA.- The Ogden Museum of Southern Art announced today the artists who have received awards as part of Louisiana Contemporary, the Museums annual juried exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists from across the state. Each year, with support from The Helis Foundation, the Ogden Museum honors four of the presenting artists, highlighting some of the most provocative and compelling works in the exhibition. This year, the lead award, The Helis Foundation Art Prize, which comes with $5,000, has been given to artist Jessica Strahan, whose most recent paintings explore the African diaspora within the context of life in New Orleans. Artists Sarrah Danziger, Thomas Deaton, and Rachel David were also recognized for their exceptional work. The Ogden Museum first launched Louisiana Contemporary in 2012, to establish a vehicle ... More Village People creator dies aged 82PARIS (AFP).- Henri Belolo, the music producer who helped create the Village People, has died aged 82, the French authors' copyright board said Monday. The Moroccan-born songwriter and impresario was one of the pioneers of the disco movement, which swept the world's dancefloors in the late 1970s. He formed the six-piece band which had huge hits such as "Y.M.C.A", "In the Navy" and "Macho Man" along with fellow Frenchman Jacques Morali after he moved to New York. Village People played on camp gay fantasy characters of butch builders, bikers, cowboys and soldiers, and quickly became a pop culture sensation. "Y.M.C.A" quickly became an anthem for the LGBT community. Although Belolo was not gay himself, he saw the band's image as embodying the carefree party spirit of the community in the years before the AIDS epidemic. The French ... More The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum opens Sara Cwynar's first solo museum exhibition on the East CoastRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is hosting the New York-based Canadian artist Sara Cwynars (b. 1985, Vancouver) first solo museum exhibition on the East Coast, Gilded Age. Cwynars practice spans photography, installation, book-making, and film, and surveys the transitory object-life of visual matter in our time of image infatuation. The exhibition is on view at The Aldrich June 9 to November 10, 2019. With a background in graphic design and a practice steeped in conceptual art, informed by artists before her such as Sherrie Levine and Sarah Charlesworth, Cwynars studio methodology is centered on an exploration of the internalized power dynamics dwelling inside designed images. The works selected for this exhibition specifically interrogate what constitutes a pretty picture. Appropriating imagery that ranges from art history ... More Frye Art Museum acquires works by four artists from the 2019 Seattle Art FairSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Fair announced the Frye Art Museum has selected four artworks from the fifth edition of the fair, expanding the museums permanent collection with a total of six artworks over the course of the two-year partnership between the art fair and Seattle institution. This year, the Frye Art Museum acquired artworks from four Pacific Northwest galleries. From Portland, a work on paper by Jeffry Mitchell from PDX CONTEMPORARY ART and a multimedia artwork by Ko Kirk Yamahira from Russo Lee Gallery. From Seattle, a drawing by Mary Ann Peters from James Harris Gallery and a painting by Anthony White from Greg Kucera Gallery. Last year, the Frye Art Museum selected artworks by Toyin Ojih Odutola from Albuquerques Tamarind Institute and Ellen Lesperance from Portland-based gallery Adams and Ollman. The ... More Glasgow Museums acquires works by local and international female artistsGLASGOW.- Glasgow Museums announced 14 recent acquisitions for the citys fine art collection which include sculpture, video, painting and works on paper by artists Sara Barker, Kate Charlesworth, Michelle Hannah, Sharon Hayes, Winnie Herbstein, Mandy McIntosh and the Feegie Needlers, Carol Rhodes, Kate V Robertson, Anne Robinson, Siân Robinson Davies and Camara Taylor. Acquired as part of a significant strand of Glasgow Museums collecting approach, developed in 2015 to address gender inequality, these works make an unequivocal statement about the value and quality of work by contemporary women and non-binary artists. The new acquisitions increase the number of works by women in the Glasgow Museums fine art collection, which already includes internationally renowned artists Karla Black, Christine Borland Anne Collier, Jacqueline ... More BRIC names Michael Liburd as board chair and announces four new board membersBROOKLYN, NY.- BRIC, the leading presenter of free arts and culture programming in Brooklyn, announced today that Michael Liburd has been elected to serve as the new Chair of the Board of Trustees, and that Susan Jurevics, Jin Kang, Martha Redbone and Kim Soule have been elected new trustees. A believer in the power of media, art and culture to transform lives, Liburd has been on the BRIC board since 2010, helping to ensure that all New Yorkers have access to the arts. "It's an exciting time in BRIC's evolution. I'm humbled and honored to serve as the new Chair and to work with Kristina Newman-Scott, BRIC's talented staff and our engaged board to build on our 40 year legacy of serving the community. I love what BRIC adds to the NYC cultural landscape: television, podcasting, live events, visual arts, and arts education. All executed with excellence. ... More Havana comes to Harlem in new public art project this AugustNEW YORK, NY.- An international public art project that brings together photography, dance and education to celebrate Afro-Cuban Rumba, returns to Harlem with an eclectic new program. Liquid Heat | La Rumba Llama by artist Jessica Angel is a photography installation and international education program celebrating the rhythms of Cuba. Liquid Heat | La Rumba Llama takes place at Harlem Hospital Mural Pavilion from Monday 5 August to Monday 30 September as part of HARLEM WEEK. Angel has worked with renowned Afro-Cuban dancers and the Pogolotti community, a Havana neighborhood famous for its Rumba, to create a series of vibrant, life-sized photographs that capture the energy and passion of Rumba. The never seen before photographs are being accompanied by a custom-made soundtrack including a reading by Alden Knight ... More Kunsthalle Mannheim exhibits works by Nadine FechtMANNHEIM.- The exhibition Nadine Fecht. AMOK is being shown at the Graphic Collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim until October 13, 2019. Nadine Fecht operates at the edge of the possible. Whether it be when she draws with a bundle of up to 1,805 ballpoint pens bound together to form a block, or when she writes one and the same sentence such as I am feeling blue, or I am not hysterical in an endless sequence on a large sheet of paper, thus testing the limits of her physical and psychological endurance. Fecht opens up fields of tension, leaving the visitor in an open dialog, which is less about finding simple answers than enduring the tension between the questions and possible answers. Her works address socio-political themes such as discipline and self-discipline, social expectations, emancipation and self-appropriation processes. She ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Andy Warhol was born August 06, 1928. Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.
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