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The installation of the newly acquired Venus and Cupid by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1529), The National Gallery, 20 Feb 2019 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Visitors to the National Gallery are now able to view a new acquisition by one of the Renaissances most significant figures. Venus and Cupid (1529) by Lucas Cranach the Elder (14721553), one of the leading German painters of the early 16th century, is being displayed in Room 4 and is an important addition to the National Gallerys impressive collection of paintings by an artist widely regarded as a master of the German Renaissance. The painting has been generously gifted to the National Gallery from the Drue Heinz Charitable Trust following the death last year of Mrs Heinz, a committed and renowned patron of the arts in the United States and Britain. The painting depicts two mythological figures and is one of a series that Cranach produced during the 1520s and 30s, including the National Gallerys own Cupid complaining to Venus (about 1525). One of the characteristics that defines Cranachs care ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Cinematography winner for "Roma" Alfonso Cuaron poses in the press room with his Oscars during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP.
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| | | Exhibition at Museo Picasso Málaga presents Picasso's first wife Olga Khokhlova and her story | | Van Gogh Museum adds 91 prints by Camille Pissarro to its collection | | Cuaron wins three Oscars for 'Roma' but 'Green Book' is best film |
The exhibition came about from the letters and photographs found in the travel trunk of the Russian dancer, who was Bernard Ruiz-Picassos grandmother, and it covers the years she and Picasso were together as a couple. Photo: Jesús DomÃnguez © Museo Picasso Málaga.
MALAGA.- Olga Khokhlova (Nezhin, Ukraine, 1891 Cannes, France, 1955) was the daughter of a colonel in the Russian Imperial Army. In 1911 she joined the prestigious and innovative Ballet Russes company, which was highly successful in Europe at the start of the 20th-century under the direction of Serguei Diaghilev. She first met Pablo Picasso in Rome in the spring of 1917, when the artist was designing the sets and costumes for the ballet Parade. They were married in Paris, on 12th July 1918, and their first and only child, Paul, was born in February 1921. The couple separated in 1935, although they remained married until Olgas death in Cannes, in 1955. The Russian ballerinas travel trunk, which her son received when he inherited the chateau of Boisgeloup - currently owned by the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA) - contained letters and ... More | |
Camille Pissarro, A Self Portrait (Camille Pissarro, par lui-même), 1890-1891, Etching, 2nd state of 2, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the BankGiro Loterij, the Vincent van Gogh Foundation and The Yellow House members).
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum has acquired a total of 91 prints by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). The sizeable collection reveals the extent of Pissarros experimental approach and contains innumerable unique pieces, including a sought-after self-portrait by the artist. The prints are from the Samuel Josefowitz Collection, and were amassed over many decades with great passion, expertise and patience. The entire collection has now been acquired by the museum. Together, the works provide a comprehensive overview of the artists printed oeuvre. Camille Pissarro was one of the leading and most productive representatives of Impressionist printmaking, creating some 200 etchings and lithographs during his career. His art was a major source of inspiration for Vincent van Gogh. From 1 March to 26 May, 42 of the acquired prints will be on display in a special presentation in the print cabinet in the Exhibition Wing ... More | |
Alfonso Cuaron, winner of the the Foreign Language Film, Cinematography, and Directing awards for 'Roma,' attends the 91st Annual Academy Awards Governors Ball at Hollywood and Highland on February 24, 2019 in Hollywood, California. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Alfonso Cuaron bagged a hat trick of Oscars on Sunday for "Roma," his love letter to his childhood in 1970s Mexico City, but controversial civil rights drama "Green Book" crashed his party with a win for best picture. The 57-year-old Mexican filmmaker won the prizes for best director, cinematography and foreign language film, capping a brilliant awards season for him -- and offering streaming giant Netflix a new feather in its cap. Diversity, though, was perhaps the biggest winner on a night when a beloved black filmmaker won his first competitive Oscar, a superhero blockbuster set in Africa scored big, and two black actors and an Egyptian first-generation American won three of the four acting prizes. The wide range of films honored at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on Sunday bridged the divide between art house fare and popular blockbusters. "I grew ... More |
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| | | Egyptians hail Oscar-winning 'Pharaoh' Rami Malek | | Treasures and masterpieces travel from national collections to museums nationwide | | Fine Modern Art Auction to be held at Doyle on March 6 |
Best Actor winner for "Bohemian Rhapsody" Rami Malek poses in the press room during the 91st Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2019. FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP.
CAIRO.- Egyptians on Monday hailed Rami Malek as a new "Pharaoh" after he won the best actor Oscar for his performance as rock singer Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody". Malek, an American of Egyptian origin, received the award on Sunday for his portrayal of the gay icon and lead singer of iconic British band "Queen". On social media, Egyptians highlighted a quote from his Oscar acceptance speech: "I am the son of immigrants from Egypt." Malek's family are Coptic Christians from the Upper Egypt province of Minya. Their "entire village was up until 5 o'clock in the morning" to watch the Oscars ceremony, said 24-year old Fady Essam, Malek's cousin. "We called his mother to congratulate her and urged her to bring him to Egypt to hold a huge celebration ... More | |
Venus Verticordia (1864 -1868) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti © Russell Cotes.
LONDON.- For 2019, the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund has provided 12 museums with a total of £200,000 towards borrowing nationally significant works of art and objects, including: George Stubbs iconic equine portrait Whistlejacket will travel from the National Gallery to Milton Keynes. Wakefield Museum will host Ancient Egyptian mummies and artefacts from the British Museum in Gateway to Eternity, an exhibition exploring burial, taboo and death rituals. JMW Turners landscape masterpieces will tour museums in the North of England, investigating the Romantic artists relationship with the region. Sheep in art will be celebrated by the rural Ceredigion Museum in Wales, borrowing works from Tates collection. Loans from institutions including the V&A and National Museums Liverpool will go on display at museums and galleries throughout the country this year, thanks to funding t ... More | |
John Opper (American, 1908-1994), Untitled Abstraction, 1981 (detail), signed and dated, oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches. Est. $4,000-6,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Following the successful inaugural sale in the category of Fine Modern Art last Fall, Doyle will hold a second auction on Wednesday, March 6 at 10am. Showcasing paintings, drawings, sculpture and fine prints with moderate estimates, the upcoming auction in this new category is certain to generate excitement among seasoned collectors and new buyers alike. The sale presents a wide spectrum of works from various artistic movements and regions of the globe, spanning over one hundred years of creative activity. There are studies for sculpture by such prominent modernists as Jacques Lipchitz and Pietro Consagra; Post-War abstractions by Franz Kline, Albert Kotin, George McNeil, Norman Lewis, and John Opper; and two Color Field works by Sally Michael Avery. Also offered are stage set and costume designs by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and studies by Pavel ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at the Kröller-Müller Museum presents six triptychs by Gilbert & George | | Solo show of works by artist, sculptor and architect Jorge Pardo on view at Petzel Gallery | | The Young and Evil: David Zwirner opens a group exhibition curated by Jarrett Earnest |
Gilbert & George, "The Paintings" (With Us in the Nature), 1971. Photo: Walter Herfst (2010). Kröller-Müller Museum / © artists.
OTTERLO.- From 16 February until 5 May, the Kröller-Müller Museum presents the exhibition With us in the nature. The title refers to the visitors favourite The Paintings (with Us in the Nature) by Gilbert & George. The British artists Gilbert (San Martin de Tor 1943) & George (Plymouth 1942) operate as a duo. Always smartly dressed in a suit, they can be seen in performances, videos, films and artist books. Despite this diversity, they use the overarching term sculpture for all their activities. With the necessary humour and ability to put things into perspective, they seek to merge art and life in their work and to share their insights and experiences with everyone. Art for all is their motto. In the early seventies, they made many drawings and one series of large paintings of themselves: The Paintings (with Us in the Nature). In this series of six triptychs, each of which is almost ... More | |
Drawing, 1990. Airplane Model (Balsa Wood, glue, hardware), 53 x 46 inches 134.6 x 116.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting Eccentric Reflexivity 19881994, a solo show of works by artist, sculptor and architect Jorge Pardo. On view through April 20, this exhibition of early works marks the artists tenth exhibition at Petzel and his first at the gallerys Upper East Side location. In essence, Eccentric Reflexivity 19881994 is a non-nostalgic remembrance, appreciation, and documentation of the process of becoming an artist, featuring works imagined, created and produced during a specific period in Jorge Pardos life while and just after he was a student at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The exhibition explores and investigates Pardos playful aesthetic, while offering sly anti-Duchampean commentary on what can transform everyday objects, or ready-madesmany imbued with symbolic, art historical and ... More | |
Pavel Tchelitchew, George Platt Lynes, c. 1937-1942.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting The Young and Evil, a group exhibition curated by Jarrett Earnest, at the gallerys 533 West 19th Street location in New York. The exhibition features significant works from the first half of the twentieth century by Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Jensen Yow, and their circle. This group of artists and writers looked away from abstraction toward older sources and modelsclassical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical contentendeavoring to depict their own lives. Drawn from important public and private collections, key works include a painting from Paul Cadmuss infamous sailor trilogy, Shore Leave (1933), on loan from the Whitney Museum ... More |
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| | | Bonhams celebrates Asia Week with four sales from March 18-20 | | New online gallery network offers solutions for mid-size galleries | | Sabrina Amrani opens XOXO, comet boy, Timothy Hyunsoo Lee's third solo exhibition with the gallery |
A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Panjarnata Mahakala, Lord of The Pavilion, Tibet, circa 17th century (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams announces Asia Week New York from March 18 to 20, which includes a series of four auctions - Chinese Works of Art on March 18, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art on March 19, Fine Japanese and Korean Art on March 20, as well as a special sale of Fine Japanese Prints including Property from the Collection of the late Bertram and Ruth Malenka. Bonhams will also present an exceptional non-selling exhibition Glass Mountains, Silver Moon, A Special Exhibition of Masterpieces of Japanese Art from a Private Collection and will be on view starting March 14. Bonhams sale of Chinese Works of Art features over 260 lots, which includes exceptional furniture, a strong selection of snuff bottles, early pottery, classical and modern paintings. Highlighting the sale is a magnificent and massive pair ... More | |
Jean-Daniel Compain. Photo: OPC.
NEW YORK, NY.- The WAL (World Art Lounge), a new global collaborative business solution for midsize art galleries, announces the launch of its exclusive membership program, which will mitigate risks for galleries interested in exploring new markets and reduce barriers to entry, as well as provide galleries with customized solutions to enhance their regional and international business strategy. Having been in the art world for nearly two decades, I continue to be impressed by the unstoppable creative spirit in this industry, says Jean-Daniel Compain, Founder and Chairman of The WAL. With an increasingly competitive global landscape and mounting operational pressures, galleries are having to reimagine and evolve their business strategies. We have created The WAL to offer galleries bespoke and innovative solutions to attracting new business, as well as venturing into new markets at a reasonable cost. With the ... More | |
Gosa (Comet boy as an offering), 2019. Korean silk, synthetic cotton stuffing, polyurethane varnish. Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani.
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting XOXO, comet boy, Timothy Hyunsoo Lees third solo exhibition at the gallery. The character of the comet boy was born out of Lees frustration with his realization that he, as an artist, was merely a vessel for production; life is short, everyone is meant to die; and ultimately, as a human he could not even breach the essence of spirituality why we find wonder, emotions, beauty, and pain in this world. The comet boy emerges from this anxiety as a spiritual messiah that is autobiographical in nature but also universally relatable. The works presented in XOXO, comet boy use the imagery of masks, and the process of masking and revealing, to narrate a story about the power structures that form an individuals identity that of sexuality, religion, and racial politics. As such, the concept of borders pervades the ... More |
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Peaches and Pears | Paul Cézanne's 'Nature morte de peches et poires'
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The Fourth Antique Arms Fair takes place at Pillar Hall, Olympia London on 2nd March 2019
LONDON.- The Fourth Antique Arms Fair incorporating the Park Lane Arms Fair will be held at Olympia London in the Pillar Hall on 2nd March 2019. The fair, consisting of over 50 exhibitors welcomes a number of well-known UK and international antique arms, armour, militaria, tribal and Asian works of art dealers including: Runjeet Singh, Peter Finer, West Street Antiques, Morion Antiques from Finland, Galerie Mestdagh from Brussels, The Irish Grenadier from County Down, and the fair organisers are particularly pleased to welcome Alexander Biesbroek of Alexander Ancient Art from the Netherlands who is exhibiting for the first time at Pillar Hall. The fair continues to support the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust with a percentage of the ticket sales supporting the charity. Thomas Del Mar comments: We are delighted to have combined the two fairs and hope ... More
London premiere of Andy Holden's 'Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape' at The Cinema Museum
LONDON.- The Cinema Museum announced the London premiere of Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape (2011-2017), Andy Holden's acclaimed film proposing that the world is now best understood as a cartoon. More than five years in the making, and containing nearly 400 clips from the golden age of animation, Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape and related cartoon shorts are given a special screening within the evocative setting of The Cinema Museum, the countrys only museum dedicated to cinema culture. Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape sees the limitless possibilities of todays world through the prism of ten motion laws delivered in a tone that is part-lecture, part-documentary and part-conspiracy theory, by the artist in the form of a cartoon avatar. New laws such as Everything falls faster than an anvil and Any body suspended in space ... More
Arab American National Museum appoints new Director
DEARBORN, MICH.- Following a comprehensive international search, the leadership of ACCESS the largest Arab American community nonprofit in the United States welcomes to their Arab American National Museum a new director, Dr. Diana Abouali. At home in both North America and the Middle East, fluent in English and Arabic, Abouali has worked in the higher education, cultural heritage and museum sectors in the U.S., Palestine and Jordan. She will begin her tenure as AANM director on April 1, 2019. We are confident that with Dianas impressive background and innovative outlook, she is the best choice to lead our Arab American National Museum, says Hassan Jaber, ACCESS executive director and chief executive officer. We at ACCESS are all excited to work with Diana to help the Museum deliver on its mission of telling the story of Arab ... More
IU Eskenazi Museum of Art hires Julie Ribits as The Beverly and Gayl W. Doster Painting Conservator
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has hired Julie Ribits as The Beverly and Gayl W. Doster Painting Conservator. In addition to managing the long-term care and study of approximately 1,200 paintings in the collection, Ribits will oversee the museums new Conservation Center. The paintings in the museums collection are primarily European and American, dating from ca. 1500 to the present. Particular strengths include Italian Renaissance and Baroque, nineteenth-century American, and modernist styles such as German Expressionism, Cubism, and postwar abstraction. In 2017, the museum began a $30 million renovation that includes the creation of four centers: Education, Conservation, Curatorial Studies, and Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. The Conservation Center will serve as a state-of-the-art ... More
Post-rock pioneer Mark Hollis of Talk Talk dies
NEW YORK (AFP).- Music industry figures paid tribute Monday to Mark Hollis, the "genius" frontman of the British new wave group Talk Talk, after a former bandmate announced that the singer had died aged 64. "I am very shocked and saddened to hear the news of the passing of Mark Hollis," bassist Paul Webb wrote on Facebook. "Musically he was a genius and it was a honour and a privilege to have been in the band for him," Webb wrote, praising Hollis' "trailblazing musical ideas." Representatives of Hollis did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and his cause of death remained unknown. The group formed in London in 1981, rising to fame in the 1980s throughout Europe on the success of synth-pop hits including "Talk Talk," "It's My Life" and "Such a Shame." But the band turned their sound in a new direction with their 1986 album "The ... More
Time-capsule collection from the Virginia House Museum comes to Freeman's
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Declared by the National Register of Historic Places to be a noteworthy representative of a peculiar residential building type prevalent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century period of American architecture, Virginia House was the permanent residence of American diplomat Alexander Weddell (1876-1948) and his wife Virginia Chase Steedman Weddell (1874-1948). Their 16th century English manor was originally constructed as Hawks Nest by Thomas Hawkins (aka Fisher) in Warwick, England out of materials salvaged from the Warwick Priory; it was saved from demolition by the Weddells, who utimately deconstructed and shipped the predominantly Tudor house overseas to Virginia where it was reassembled and modified in the late 1920s. An amalgam of architectural styles, the house is also furnished eclectically, ... More
Emily Young installs permanent sculptures on the seabed in Tuscany
TALAMONE.- Emily Youngs determination to raise awareness of environmental issues through art has taken an unprecedented scope. A 12-ton carved piece of Carrara marble (The Weeping Guardian) was laid 8 meters down on the seafloor off the coast of Tuscany, at Talamone in the summer of 2015. It is one of a planned group of twenty-five huge more or less carved stones put into the sea as part of a 5-year project to prevent illegal trawling along that coastline. This stone guardian of the waters, designed and carved by Emily Young with assistance from Louis Russell and Johnny Cass, will rest there for millennia, doing his quiet work. Emily Young was born in London into a family of writers, artists, politicians and adventurers. Her grandmother was the sculptor Kathleen Scott, a colleague of Auguste Rodin. As a young woman, Young worked primarily as a painter, ... More
RYAN LEE opens its first exhibition of the work of Vivian Browne
NEW YORK, NY.- RYAN LEE is presenting Little Men, its first exhibition of the work of Vivian Browne (1929-1993). Browne is part of an important generation of African American women artists of the mid-twentieth century whose powerful, socio-politically driven work defined an era of activism and transformation in American art. Like many of her contemporaries, recognition for Browne is long overduea fact further underscored by the unsettling relevance of her work some fifty years after its creation. Little Men, comprised of large-scale paintings and works on paper, is considered to be Brownes first major body of work, and remains distinct from the rest of her oeuvre. The series depicts a succession of aging white mencorpulent, wrinkled, and baldingin various states of frustration and rage. These little men are expressively colored blurs of motion ... More
Works by James McNeill Whistler and Albert Bierstadt headline Woodshed Art Auctions sale
FRANKLIN, MASS.- A rare oil on board painting by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), titled Peasant Woman and done during Whistlers time spent in Venice, plus an original landscape work by Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830-1902), will be in Woodshed Art Auctions 157-lot fine art auction, live and online, slated for Thursday, March 7th, at 5:30 pm Eastern time. The auction officially titled Whistler to Warhol: Master Oil Paintings & Drawings will be held online and live in the 500 Gallery, at 475 Franklin Village Drive in Franklin. People can register and bid now, at www.woodshedartauctions.com. Previews will be held at the 500 Gallery in Franklin starting Wednesday, February 27th. Phone and absentee bids will be taken. The paintings by Whistler and Bieratadt are the sales undisputed headliners, but also featured will be a wide selection ... More
Perth artist Miik Green receives inaugural $10,000 Alcoa Aluminium Sculpture Award at Sculpture by the Sea
PERTH.- Sculpture by the Sea and Alcoa of Australia announced the highly regarded Western Australian visual artist Miik Green as the inaugural recipient of the Alcoa Aluminium Sculpture Award of $10,000. The new award, which highlights Alcoas 15 years of continued commitment to supporting artists in Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe that use aluminium in striking and unique ways, was presented to Green for the creation of a sculpture substantially comprised of aluminium for the upcoming Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2019 exhibition. His work Thicket 018 is a large structure of 6mm aluminium rods that will reflect and shimmer as viewers approach, creating exciting optical moments that will capture the imagination of visitors to exhibition from 1-18 March on the famous white sands of Cottesloe Beach. Said Miik Green: My work is about opposing forces ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French illustrator and painter Honoré Daumier was born February 26, 1808. Honoré-Victorin Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century. In this image: Honore Daumier, Lunch in the Country, c. 1867 - 1868. Oil on panel, 26 x 34 cm. National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Photo © National Museum of Wales
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