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Albert Birkle (1900 ? 1986), The Acrobat Schulz V 1921 (detail). Oil paint on canvas, 920 x 607 mm. The George Economou Collection © DACS, London 2018.
LONDON.- This summer, Tate Modern will explore the art of the Weimar Republic (1919-33) in a year-long, free display, drawing upon the rich holdings of The George Economou Collection. This presentation of around seventy paintings and works on paper will address the complex paradoxes of the Weimar era, in which liberalisation and anti-militarism flourished in tandem with political and economic uncertainty. These loans offer a rare opportunity to view a range of artworks not ordinarily on public display some of which have never been seen in the United Kingdom before and to see a selection of key Tate works returned to the context in which they were originally created and exhibited nearly one hundred years ago. Although the term magic realism is today commonly associated with the literature of Latin America, it was inherited from the artist and critic Franz Roh who invented it in 1925 to describe a shift from the anxio ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Chilean archaeologist Jose Berenguer shows drawings at the Taira Cave, located at a height of 3,150 meters about 75 km north of Calama, Chile, on July 21, 2018. The paintings left by shepherds almost three millennia ago on the walls of the rocks that flank the course of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from east to west, turn the Taira Valley into the epicenter of art rock in Chile, which aims at becoming a Unesco Heritage Site. Martin BERNETTI / AFP
| The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture acquires coveted Malcolm X manuscripts and notes | | Chile to restrict tourists and non-locals on Easter Island | | MFA Boston receives gift of monumental Chinese scroll from Wan-go H.C. Weng |
Malcolm X in March 1964. Ed Ford, World Telegram staff photographer - Library of Congress. New York World-Telegram & Sun.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem acquired several important manuscripts related to the landmark work The Autobiography of Malcolm X manuscripts that will now be available to the public for the first time. The internationally-renowned New York Public Library research center acquired the items at auction, including: The full 241-page manuscript of The Autobiography of Malcolm X with handwritten corrections and notes from both Malcolm X and collaborator Alex Haley. A previously unpublished chapter from the book, believed to be omitted from publication after Malcolm Xs assassination. The 25-page typewritten chapter titled The Negro is thought to be one of three unpublished chapters in existence. It is as yet unclear why the chapters were removed. A series of literal and literary fragments, or short ... More | |
In this file photo taken on August 11, 2013 Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- are seen on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island. GREGORY BOISSY / AFP.
SANTIAGO (AFP).- Easter Island is known for its unique Moai monumental statues carved by the Rapa Nui people, believed to have arrived on the remote landmass in the southeastern Pacific Ocean in around the 12th century. Despite its isolated location some 3,500 kilometers (2,000 miles) from the coast of Chile, the island is a popular tourist destination, not least due to its remarkable collection of around 900 tall human figures with distinctive features and standing up to 10 meters (32 feet) tall. However, it is those very tourists, alongside mainland migrants, who have become a threat to the island's well-being. Chile, which annexed the territory in 1888, has decided to act. In 2007, Easter Island was designated a special territory while back in March, congress voted to limit the number of tourists and foreign ... More | |
Wan-go H.C. Weng, 2018. Image courtesy Nancy Berliner. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has received a significant gift of a 17th-century Chinese masterpiece, 10,000 Miles along the Yangzi River ( Wanli Changjiang Tu) (1699), from Wan-go H.C. Weng. The prominent collector, whose family has owned the 53-foot-long scroll since 1875, has donated the work to the Museum on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Created by Wang Hui (16321717), the most notable painter of his day in China, the landscape painting evokes a journey along Asias longest waterway, the Yangzi (Yangtze) River, and incorporates references to Chinas great artistic and poetic traditions. This gift enhances the holdings of paintings from the Qing (16441911) dynasty at the MFA, which is renowned for its collection of earlier Song (9601279) and Yuan (12791368) masterpieces. 10,000 Miles along the Yangzi River is the fifth work by Wang Hui to enter the MFAs collection, following ... More |
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| Eiffel Tower strike looms over long lines | | Franklin, first black 'Peanuts' character, turns 50 | | Art Gallery of South Australia welcomes over 1 million visitors off the back of record-breaking Impressionist exhibition |
A group of urban street dancers practise in front of the Eiffel Tower in the Trocadero fountain to keep cool as summer temperature sore in the French capital Paris on July 26, 2018. Ludovic MARIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Eiffel Tower workers are planning to strike this week over a new access policy for visitors which they say is generating "monstrous" waits at the famous tourist landmark, union officials said Monday. Since early July the monument has set aside half of daily tickets for people who buy them in advance on the internet and choose a scheduled time for their visit. Previously just 20 percent of tickets could be booked ahead of time. But the tower's management has also decided to reserve specific elevators for each type of ticket holder, a move which "creates lines that are at times monstruous and often lopsided," the CGT union said in a statement. During off-peak times for pre-booked tickets, such as early afternoon or evening, the reserved elevator might be half ... More | |
The young Franklin joined the iconic line-up on July 31, 1968.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Franklin, the first African-American to appear in the classic comic strip "Peanuts" alongside Charlie Brown and Snoopy, turns 50 on Tuesday -- a major milestone for a character born in a time of racial tensions after the slaying of Martin Luther King. The young Franklin joined the iconic line-up on July 31, 1968 during a summer of race riots and civil unrest in the wake of King's assassination on April 4 that year. At the time, "Peanuts" was carried in hundreds of newspapers -- and at the height of its popularity, exposing the foibles of humanity through the shenanigans of a group of children and one crafty beagle. Franklin's arrival made a major splash -- and earned mainly praise. It also might not have happened were it not for a Los Angeles teacher and mother-of-three with an idea. On April 15, Harriet Glickman wrote to 'Peanuts' creator Charles Schulz and ... More | |
Installation view. Photo: Andre Castellucci.
ADELAIDE.- Colours of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée dOrsay has generated the largest exhibition attendance figures ever for a ticketed exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition closed on Sunday 29 July after its 123-day season and attracted 159,442 visitors with 35,449* from outside of South Australia. These unprecedented figures round off a stellar year for the Art Gallery which welcomed 1,051,033 visitors to its exhibitions and associated events during the 2017/2018 financial year. With an increase of more than 200,000 from the previous year, the attendance composition includes 800,441 visitors to the North Terrace site and 250,592 to the Gallerys offsite exhibitions including attendances from the Gallerys flagship offerings the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Premier Steven Mars ... More |
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| Talbot Rice Gallery opens exhibition of works by Lucy Skaer | | Krannert Art Museum strengthens collection of works by female artists at close of $10M initiative | | Thiel College faculty members and student repair and document art of pop artist Corita Kent |
Lucy Skaer, The Green Man, exhibition view courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery.
EDINBURGH.- Lucy Skaers exhibition The Green Man is an exploration and reanimation of the desire to collect. Throughout her practice, Skaer mines and manipulates pre-existing imageryfrom art, history, and from her own oeuvre and personal historytransforming and destabilizing relationships between materials and meanings. For this exhibition, Skaer has selected items from the collections of the University of Edinburgh and invited fellow artists to inhabit the galleries of Talbot Rice alongside herFiona Connor, H.D., Will Holder, Nashashibi/Skaer and Hanneline Visnes. To Skaer, the Green Man is a deeply irrational figure, spewing leaves and vines in the place of language. Present in both pagan and Christian imagery, the Green Man made a resurgence after the plague, when wilderness and weeds took over much of the arable land. Skaer has selected items from the collection, ... More | |
Bea Nettles, The Skirted Garden, 1969. Gift of the artist. 2017-20-2.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum has significantly expanded its collection, particularly in acquiring works by female artists, thanks to a five-year, $10 million fundraising initiative that concluded this summer. The fundraising initiative supported programs and renovations, as well as acquisitions. In addition, key donors offered gifts of art and acquisition funds to strengthen the museums collection during the fundraising initiative. This has allowed the museum to add significantly to its holdings, including works of art by Linda Connor, Doris Derby, Bea Nettles, and Melanie Yazzie, among others. There has been an impressive amount of work by female artists acquired recently as a result, said museum director Jon Seydl. Im proud that its something were thinking about not just work by women, but feminist practice and broader questions of gender and ... More | |
Isabella Bungo, a history major with certification in secondary education, working on the restoration of a section of artwork by Corita Kent.
GREENVILLE, PA.- Professor of Painting and Curator of Art Sean McConnor, Assistant Professor of History Sheila Nowinski, Ph.D., and student Isabella Bungo 19 recently wrapped up a 10-week artwork restoration and historical research project funded by a grant from the Greenville Neuromodulation Center Faculty/Student Research Institute at Thiel College, a leading liberal arts college in northwest Pennsylvania. Bungo, of Pittsburgh, is a history major with a secondary education certification. She is a 2015 graduate of Fox Chapel High School. In September 2017, the Department of Art exhibited a show of women printmakers. Some of the featured prints on exhibition were from Corita Kent, a popular silk-screen artist, who worked in both Los Angeles and Boston. Through Nowinski and McConnors combined interest ... More |
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| Renowned tennis collection available ahead of US Open | | Malaysia drops sedition case against political cartoonist | | Photography exhibition examines visual culture of political demonstrations in the 1960s |
Fine Molded Copper Lady Tennis Player Weathervane.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions, a leading antiques auction destination specializing in fresh to the market collections, announced today it will hold a Fine Art, Asian, & Antiques Auction, which will include tennis historian, Jeanne Cherrys entire collection. From August 29-31, collectors from across the country are invited to Morphys Denver, PA location to survey some of the finest historical furniture, art, and tennis antiques dating back to the 17th century. Known for spurring the tennis collector community as both a scholar of the sport and leading member of the Tennis Collectors of America and the UKs Tennis Collectors' Society, Jeanne Cherrys decades of collecting and antiquing accrued into a one-of-a-kind collection. Cherrys full assortment of books, ephemera, photography, equipment, clothing, fine art, jewelry, and furniture inspired by the timeless sport will be offered ... More | |
Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque -- who goes by the pen-name Zunar -- was repeatedly targeted under the former government for his cartoons.
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP).- A Malaysian political cartoonist said Monday that nine sedition charges against him had been dropped after the scandal-mired regime that he had frequently lampooned was booted out of power. Zulkifli Anwar Ulhaque -- who goes by the pen-name Zunar -- was repeatedly targeted under the former government for his cartoons, which often mocked ex-prime minister Najib Razak and his luxury-loving wife. Some of his collections were banned. He was hit with nine counts of sedition in 2015, stemming not from his artistic work but Twitter criticism about the jailing of then-opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. It was a record number for a single court appearance in Malaysia, according to his lawyers. But at a hearing in Kuala Lumpur Monday, prosecutors said the ... More | |
Gordon Parks, American, 19122006, for LIFE magazine, Untitled, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963 (detail), printed 2016. Inkjet print. Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams, and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund. © The Gordon Parks Foundation.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The civil rights movement and the movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam came to a head in the 1960s, inspiring protests across the country. Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of political demonstrations around the country and on Princetons campus. At a time when the coverage and circulation of news media were rapidly expanding, many of these photographs became icons of social struggle, fundamentally changing the ways people have visualized the United States ever since. Drawn from Princeton University collections, the images ... More |
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Nasher Sculpture Center presents its first-ever sound sculpture
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center is presenting Sightings: Luke Fowler on view through August 19, 2018. The exhibition features a newly commissioned sound piece, the first sound sculpture to be presented at the Nasher Sculpture Center. Sightings: Luke Fowler is the result of a partnership between the Nasher Sculpture Center and Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland, two institutions with unique outdoor settings for artone a contemporary garden in a dynamic urban setting and the other a lush garden at an ancient castle in a bucolic rural setting. The two art spaces have jointly commissioned Scottish artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler to create a sound sculpture for each location. For this commission, Fowler draws on practices of focused listening and architectural acoustics to create a multichannel sound installation. Using everyday objects ... More
Jasmine Becket-Griffith juxtaposes fantasy & psychology in solo show at Corey Helford Gallery
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Corey Helford Gallery premiered Jasmine Becket-Griffiths newest solo show, Magical Thinking, on Saturday, July 28 in the Main Gallery. This is Becket-Griffiths second solo show with Corey Helford. Two years in the making, Magical Thinking premieres twenty new acrylic paintings and over a dozen small-scale studies, as well as the debut of her first-ever large-scale sculptural installation. I love the term Magical Thinking, says Becket-Griffith. It has the unapologetically optimistic feel of being a euphemistic term for positive vibes, but it is also technically a psychological disorder indicating the inappropriately fallacious attribution of cause and effect between actions and events, with sometimes sinister implications. Being a painter, a (very) amateur philosopher, and a dilettante in various scientific and mathemati ... More
Memories, metals and multisensory realms at Casula Powerhouse
SYDNEY.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre unveiled three brand new exhibitions merging past, present and future, showcasing intercultural connection to home, iconic Western Sydney architecture, and one of the Earths most malleable metals. Running 28 July 16 September, the three exhibitions include: multisensory project Laka, revealing the long held connections between Yolngu and Hindu worldviews; large-scale illustrations Estate of Tomorrow, a nostalgic retrospective on once-utopian Western Sydney public housing estates; and Copper, showcasing the metals endless applications in art. The launch also includes a free screening of the Laka feature film. The cross-cultural love story follows Sri Lankan Australian man Siddhartha and Yolngu woman Lily as they prepare for the birth of their first child. From a kiss in Sydney suburbia to a bush birth in the Arnhem ... More
ACMI + Artbank Commission: Innovative new artwork asks who killed trailblazing activist
MELBOURNE.- ACMI and Artbank present the world premiere of the inaugural Artbank +ACMI Commission The Beehive, by artist Zanny Begg. This three year, $210,000 commissioning program is the first of its kind in Australia and will support Australian artists and filmmakers working at the nexus of film and art enabling them to make a new, ambitious and experimental screen based work, and to explore new forms and methodologies in their practice. Based on the unsolved murder of famous Sydney anti-development campaigner Juanita Nielsen in 1975, Zanny Beggs The Beehive examines themes of gentrification, corruption, sex-work, feminism and non-conformist lifestyles. Created using an algorithm, the film will be randomly compiled from a reservoir of scripted fictions, documentary interviews and choreographed sequences exploring the implications of this infamous ... More
MIT List Visual Arts Center's upcoming exhibition features Delia Gonzalez's most recent body of work
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center features Athens-based artist Delia Gonzalez as part of its List Projects exhibition series. Gonzalez works in drawing, sculpture, music, film, dance, and performance. She draws inspiration from a broad range of sources including the history of the cinema, surrealism, Greek mythology, and different mystical traditions. In her most recent body of work, The Last Days of Pompeii (2017), the fate of the ancient Roman city serves as vehicle for a fantastical reflection on apocalyptic destruction and cyclical renewal, all conceived against the backdrop of the contemporary political landscapes of the United States and Greece. List Projects: Delia Gonzalez opens July 31 and remains on view through September 30, 2018. Pompeiis dramatic demise under the ashes of erupting Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. has ... More
Hong Kong buskers take a bow in final show before shutdown
HONG KONG.- The rumbustious street performers who have long claimed one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping districts as their informal stage took their final bow Sunday night after local authorities caved to noise complaints over their legendary cacophony. Under the glow of Mong Kok's famous neon signs, buskers have been entertaining crowds -- and irking neighbours -- for nearly two decades in Sai Yeung Choi Street South, an area which has been regularly closed to traffic to make way for pedestrians and performers since 2000. Over the years, a motley line-up including an acrobat in his sixties performing stunts to Michael Jackson and karaoke bands surrounded by fans clapping along on plastic stools gave ear-splitting shows to tinny music blasted from amplifiers. Drawing cheers and consternation equally, the street performers have received 320 noise complaints ... More
Holiday reads: Beachgoers check out French seaside libraries
ÃTRETAT (AFP).- Going to the beach can be tough work, but if you need a break from all the gruelling swimming and sunbathing this summer, a trip to one of France's pop-up seaside libraries could be just the thing. Lulled by the gentle cries of seagulls in the distance, flocks of readers have been heading to the book-filled beach huts that authorities have opened along the coast of Normandy in northern France and elsewhere. "It's a perfect break for reading and relaxing between two dips in the sea," said 52-year-old hairdresser Isabelle from her deckchair at the library in Etretat, a Normandy resort famed for its dramatic white cliffs. "Since I'm not going away on holiday, this is my treat every afternoon," she said, before diving back into a detective novel. Etretat is one of 12 local resorts where authorities have set up library beach-huts this summer. Open from July 7 until August 26, each ... More
Exact copy of car that made motor racing history in the 1960s for sale with Aguttes Auctions
PARIS.- Les Grands Heures Automobiles has become one of the major events for classic cars in Europe and this will be the second auction that Aguttes hold at this event on the Linas-Montlhéry Autodrome, Montlhéry, 30km south of Paris on Sunday September 30th. This one of a kind version of the AC Cobra will be presented at this sale. This AC Mk II 289 FIA was built in 1997 by AC Cars Ltd, using the original drawings and specification. As is attested by the AC certificate, the car is in every way identical to those built in 1964 and is equipped with aluminium bodywork and the Ford 4.7 litre, 380 bhp V8 engine with Weber carburettors. It is a car that made motor racing history in the 1960s combining as it did American and British engineering and power. The paintwork is Viking Blue, the livery of the official Shelby Competition team which took part in major events ... More
New exhibition from Swiss artist Boris Rebetez opens at von Bartha
S-CHANF.- Von Bartha dedicates this years summer show in S-chanf, Engadin, to Swiss artist Boris Rebetez. Under the title Sentence, Rebetez has united a series of sculptural works, on display from 29 July to 7 September 2018. With a background in language and writing, the series is underpinned by a modernist grammar based on geometrical elements such as the triangle, square angle and circle. Akin to contemporary architecture, these means of expression shape the artists visual vocabulary, bringing the sculptures to life as complete syntactical forms. Consisting of finely wrought and colourfully painted steel, Rebetezs sculptures render visible the different directions and movements within a specific space. Reminiscent of forms without function be it structures, vessels or containers - Rebetez invites the viewer to consider the objects as traces ... More
'Weronika Gęsicka: I remember my birth' on view at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
WARSAW.- A grater, a funnel, a pot, a corkscrew... What we know is not what we remember. What we remember may have never happened. These are the suggestions of I remember my birth, the exhibition by Weronika Gęsicka, an artist fascinated by memory and its hidden mechanisms. Her latest works are shown at the Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art until August 26. I remember my birth is the title of the exhibition by Weronika Gęsicka presented at the Project Room. It refers, among other things, to a common psychological phenomenon known as a false memory, where a person recalls something that did not happen. The claim in the title is obviously falsescientists have repeatedly shown that it is impossible to remember the moment of our birth. "Memory is a subject that can be analyzed from many perspectives," says Weronika Gęsicka. "It is not simply a record ... More
UMMA announces new Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
ANN ARBOR, MICH.- The University of Michigan Museum of Art has appointed Vera Grant to deputy director of curatorial affairs and curator of modern and contemporary art. In this newly created role, she will develop and lead a dynamic program of contemporary and historic exhibitions and provide strategic vision and managerial oversight for the museums exhibitions, collections, publications and conservation. Vera Grant has exceptional experience, intellectual range, an immersive approach to visual culture and commitment to broad public dialogue, and underrepresented voices and perspectives, said Christina Olsen, UMMA director. She is the perfect creative partner to join us in shaping the museums future, and I look forward to working with her to develop exciting new ways to engage the entire university and our broader public. Since ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet was born July 31, 1901. Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 - 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. In this image: Jean Dubuffet, Monument á la bête debout (1969-1983) Coll. Fondation Dubuffet, Paris ©2017 Fondation Dubuffet, Paris / Pictoright, Netherlands.
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