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| | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum restores Canaletto's 'The Piazza San Marco in Venice' | |
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The procedure undertaken by the museums restoration team has principally consisted in returning the painting to its original state as far as possible, given that it showed considerable deterioration due to the passage of time as a result of earlier restorations and the presence of various layers of oxidised varnish and areas of repainting.
MADRID.- The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has completed the technical study and restoration initiated more than a year ago of Canalettos painting The Piazza San Marco in Venice. This project has been possible through a pioneering micro-sponsorship crowd-funding campaign launched in June 2018, which raised the required 35,000 Euros in barely four months. For the purposes of the campaign the painting was divided into 1,000 sections, each with a symbolic value of 35 Euros, which was the minimum contribution and which allowed many people to contribute by acquiring a little piece of Canaletto. Painted between 1723 and 1724, The Piazza San Marco in Venice is a magnificent early work by the Venetian artist, considered the most important of the 18th-century Italian vedustiti or view painters. It is also one of the few works by Canaletto ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Rosenberg & Co. mounts a solo-artist exhibition called Blue Night, Red Earth: The Work of Nguyen Cam. Nguyen Cam is a contemporary visual artist working primarily in paint, collage, and mixed media. His chosen materials include used rice sacks, corrugated cardboard, and gingko leaves, each relating to his deep, complex relationship with his native country, Vietnam. 19 East 66th Street.
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 | | British Library makes rarely seen historical globes available for up-close, augmented reality viewing | | Vogue's Anna Wintour postpones Met Gala | | Asia Week New York announces schedule changes | 
This month marks the launch of an ambitious British Library project to make 30 historical globes available to all via interactive, digital experiences.
LONDON.- Working alongside the digitisation company Cyreal over the course of two years, imaging specialists at the Library have developed bespoke equipment to photograph and digitise the globes, which form one of the most beautiful but fragile subsets in the British Librarys vast maps collection. The virtual globes will be made available for up-close interaction - including an augmented reality function - on the British Librarys website throughout 2020, with the first seven due for release on 26 March: Possibly the earliest miniature pocket globe, from 1679 by Joseph Moxon Willem Janszoon Blaeus small table star globe of 1606 The unique surviving star globe by Thomas Tuttell, 1700 Johann Doppelmayrs star globe from 1728 Richard Cushees 1730 terrestrial globe with its unusually late inclusion of the ... More | | 
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour said March 16, 2020 New York's Met Gala would be postponed over the coronavirus pandemic. Angela WEISS / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour said Monday New York's Met Gala would be postponed over the coronavirus pandemic, as she rebuked President Donald Trump's handling of the crisis and threw her weight behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden. "Due to the unavoidable and responsible decision by the Metropolitan Museum to close its doors, 'About Time,' and the opening night gala, will be postponed to a later date," the head of the fashion magazine's American edition said in a post on Vogue's website. This year's edition of the sartorially-focused exhibition is to explore "About Time: Fashion and Duration," and was as usual set to open with a star-studded bash the first Monday in May. Wintour also used the lengthy post to endorse former vice president Biden -- who is racing against progressive Bernie ... More | | 
Gozu Tenno, god of warding off pestilene. Late Heian period, 12th century. Courtesy of Carole Davenport.
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York has announced that due to the Coronavirus outbreak, many galleries, thirty-two in all, have changed their schedules. Most will be open by-appointment only, while others from outside of the New York metropolitan region have or are in the process of closing. As of press time, several galleries remain open. Says Katherine Martin, chairman of Asia Week New York, Our main priority is to ensure the publics health and safety during this challenging time. I want to thank all of our participants who mounted some amazing exhibitions and the people who came out to see them. According to Ms. Martin, information about the respective exhibitions or catalogues can be accessed on each of the gallerys websites. The following is a list of the changes: Closing on Monday, March 16: J.J. Lally & Co. Thomas Murray Susan Ollemans Zetterquist Galleries ... More |
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| | French actress Suzy Delair, who won fame in the 1940s, dies aged 102 | | Crocker acquires Edna M. Reindel's "The Bull Fight" | | Work on Notre-Dame in Paris halted by coronavirus | 
In this file photo taken in 1950 in the Harcourt Studio in Paris, French actress and singer Suzy Delair poses during a photo session. Suzy Delair has died on the night of March 15 to March 16, 2020, at 102 years old, her relatives announced on March 16. AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French cinema actress Suzy Delair, who shot to fame in two classic movies during the 1940s, has died aged 102, a source close to her said on Monday. Delair, who also was one of the most celebrated figures of the Paris music hall scene in the 1940s and 1950s, died overnight Sunday to Monday in a retirement home, said the source, confirming a report in the Le Point magazine. Born in 1917, Delair was discovered by the French director Henri-Georges Clouzot who directed her in two of his most celebrated works and was also her partner for a decade. Her breakthrough role came in Clouzot's comedy thriller "The Murderer Lives at Number 21" made in 1942 at the height of World War II, where she starred alongside French actor Pierre Fresnay. But her best known role came as a music hall performer in Clouzot's 1947 detective thriller "Quai des Orfevres", the director's first ... More | | 
Edna M. Reindel (American, 18941990), The Bull Fight, ca. 1936 (detail). Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 1/4 in. Crocker Art Museum purchase.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum has acquired "The Bull Fight," a 1936 oil painting by Surrealist and American Regionalist Edna M. Reindel (18941990). The artist, whose work is included in important museum collections nationwide, came to California from the East Coast. Born in Detroit, Reindel started taking watercolor classes locally before moving to New York. She trained at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and graduated in 1923. For a time, she worked as a freelance book illustrator. In 1926, she won a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship that allowed her to spend summers painting at Laurelton Hall, the Tiffany estate on Long Island. There, she met and became friends with artist Luigi Lucioni, whose tight, meticulous painting style influenced her own. In 1937, Reindel moved to San Fernando in Southern California to help care for her sick brother. Following his death three years later, she settled in Santa Monica and ... More | | 
French authorities halted restoration work on the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on March 16, 2020, as the country braces for additional measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Philippe LOPEZ / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French authorities halted restoration work on the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday as the country braces for additional measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Workers at the historic landmark in the centre of the French capital had been dismantling the molten metal scaffolding around the church's spire, which collapsed in the catastrophic blaze last April. Officials told AFP that decontamination measures set in place to deal with danger from the huge quantities of lead that melted in the fire were incompatible with rules set down to deal with the coronavirus. France has closed down all schools, theatres, cinemas and a range of shops, with only those selling food and other essential items allowed to remain open. Paris officials on Monday also announced the closure of all public parks and gardens in a bid to prevent people ... More |
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| | When a pandemic arrives at the playhouse door | | Nicole Herden new Museum of Nebraska Art executive director | | New book tells the secrets behind world-renowned masterpieces | 
From left, Ellen Barkin, John Benjamin Hickey and Joe Mantello in the play The Normal Heart at the Golden Theater in New York, April 20, 2011. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Alexis Soloski
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Thursday afternoon, the school nurse called. My 6-year-old daughter had run a fever and complained of a sore throat. Could I come and get her? It could be the flu, we agreed, or possibly strep throat. Neither of us wanted to name other possibilities. I called our pediatric practice as I walked to her school, securing an appointment for a strep test. While we were waiting, with her sucking a dripping Popsicle, and me twitchily checking my phone and trying not to spiral, I saw the announcement that all Broadway productions would close immediately, reopening in mid-April at the earliest. As we walked to the medical practice the first strep test was negative, but the doctor insisted on running a second and honestly Ive never felt so grateful to have a bacterial ... More | | 
Herden was hired after a national search and replaces Audrey Kauders, who retired in June 2019 after 17 years at MONA.
KEARNEY, NE.- The Museum of Nebraska Art has hired Nicole Herden of Boise, Idaho, as its new executive director. Herden has managed curatorial and museum facilities projects for more than 10 years, including the past four as curator of art at Boise Art Museum, where she developed over a dozen exhibitions annually while expanding the permanent collection by nearly 500 works of art. She also served two years as registrar at BAM, which houses more than 4,000 objects. The mission of MONA and its phenomenal collection is an ideal fit with my background, Herden said. The historical and contemporary focus is of interest to me. A lot of things at MONA align with my scholarly interests as well as the professional museum work Ive dedicated my career to. Im excited about the museums relationship with UNK and all of the perspectives university faculty, students and staff can bring to MONA. Herden ... More | | 
What Great Paintings Say. 100 Masterpieces in Detail. Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen. Hardcover with fold-outs, 24.4 x 34 cm, 4.56 kg, 762 pages.
NEW YORK, NY.- This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties. We meet Greek heroes and poor German poets and roam from cathedrals to cabaret bars, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France. As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated ... More |
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| | Gladstone Gallery exhibits a series of large-scale inkjet paintings by Michael Williams | | London Original Print Fair 2020 announces cancellation | | Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth focuses on Günther Förg's work from the mid 1980's through to 2008 | 
Michael Williams, Spider, 2019. Inkjet on canvas, 106 7/8 x 77 1/4 inches (271.5 x 196.2 cm) © Michael Williams. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new works by Michael Williams. For this exhibition, Williams presents a series of large-scale inkjet paintings that continue his exploration of the possibilities and complications inherent to making and understanding a painting in the digital age. The works on view are composed entirely in Photoshop with the use of a digital drawing pad. By rendering these works in the format of flattened inkjet prints, Williams questions the action of painting as a physical extension of the body. Utilizing the full potential of these new processes, Williams makes paintings that can also function formally and move the conversation beyond what defines the analog versus the digital. Through a series of compositions that incorporate both familiar and new subjects, Williams demonstrates his singular approach to artmaking. The gallery is accessible by appointment ... More | | 
The London Original Print Fair is a much-loved fixture in the art calendar and has been held at the Royal Academy of Arts since 1985. This is the first time an edition has been cancelled.
LONDON.- The 35th London Original Print Fair which was due to take place at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1-3 May 2020 has today been cancelled. In light of the evolving situation with COVID-19 Coronavirus, the Directors of the Fair have worked closely with the Royal Academy to make this decision. Gordon Cooke, Founder and Chairman and Helen Rosslyn, Director of the London Original Print Fair said: Given our responsibility towards our 51 exhibitors, our visitors, and the staff at the Royal Academy, we feel we have no choice but to cancel this years Fair. The safety of exhibitors and guests remains our top priority; this decision comes in the light of the new estimate from Public Health England about when the Coronavirus is likely to be at its most widespread in the UK. We had been looking forward to celebrating the 35th edition of LOPF and welcoming exhibitors and guests to what promised to be another vibrant Fair ... More | | 
Günther Förg, Untitled (Mask), 1990. Bronze, 44 x 30 x 30 cm / 17 3/8 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. Photo: Bernhard Strauss. © Estate Günther Förg, Suisse / DACS, London 2020. Courtesy Estate Günther Förg, Suisse.
ZURICH.- A survey exhibition of Günther Förgs sculptures, titled surface of bronze, opened at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, focusing on this artists work from the mid 1980s through to 2008. The exhibition presents rarely, and never before seen, pieces to contextualise this important part of Förgs multifaceted, complex and varied practice. As an artist he insistently, and resolutely, questioned and expanded upon Modernisms formal vocabulary in a laconic oeuvre that encompassed painting, photography, drawing and sculpture. This presentation will highlight how he upturned and challenged classical bronze, translating it with his tactile, painterly and spontaneous methods. Förgs bronze sculptures do not reflect on an aesthetic order or classical perfection but display his delight in the act of making and in the sensual presence of the work. This is evident in the depressions, scratches and imprints stre ... More |
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 Smithsonian announces $12 million commitment from Bonnie and Jere Broh-KahnWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian announced a $12 million commitment from Bonnie and Jere Broh-Kahn to support education programs across the Institution. The Broh-Kahns of Bethesda, Maryland, are longtime friends and supporters of the Smithsonian, contributing to multiple museums beginning with their first gift in 1992. The couples recent gift of $2 million will name the Broh-Kahn Weil Director of Education at the National Museum of Natural History and the National Air and Space Museum. An $8 million bequest will endow the positions. The Broh-Kahns have also committed $2 million through a bequest to establish endowments at the National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of American History to support their education programs. The Broh-Kahns generous gifts to education enable us to advance one ... More Ben Eastham appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief art-agendaNEW YORK, NY.- As art-agenda approaches its tenth birthday in Juneglobal pandemics notwithstandingits mission to deliver intelligent, original and influential writing on contemporary art continues to evolve. It is in the spirit of change that we are pleased to announce Ben Eastham as the new Editor-in-Chief of art-agenda. He succeeds Filipa Ramos who, in her six years at the helm, has expanded the publications remit through the introduction of features such as Conversations, Rearview, and Double Take, as well as initiating cross-institutional collaborations such as META, with Textwork/Ricard Foundation. The reception for these seriesin combination with exhibition reviews and roundupshas reinforced our founding belief that intelligent, long-form art criticism is migrating online. In addition to this, Filipa oversaw the recent renovation of ... More California Institute of the Arts Appoints João Ribas as Executive Director of REDCATVALENCIA, CA.- California Institute of the Arts announced the appointment of João Ribas as the Steven D. Lavine Executive Director of the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), and Vice President for Cultural Partnerships. REDCAT is CalArts multidisciplinary center for innovative visual, performing, and media artists, and is part of the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County in downtown Los Angeles. The second director in REDCATs 17-year history, Ribas was selected through a nine-month search process assisted by the search firm Phillips Oppenheim and led by a committee chaired by Tracie Costantino, Provost of CalArts; and comprised of Tim Disney, Chair of CalArts Board of Trustees; and CalArts faculty members Berenice Reynaud, Michael Ned Holte, and Chi-wang Yang. The search engaged all of CalArts internal ... More Ben Brown Fine Arts presents one of Rob and Nick Carter's most technically pioneering projects to dateLONDON.- Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting Dark Factory Portraits, the first exhibition with Rob and Nick Carter at the London gallery, and one of the artists' most technically pioneering projects to date. The gallery is open by appointment only. The Carters are known for their creative and playful engagement with digital age technologies. Their new series of paintings has its genesis in a series of reports on the future of the workforce. According to a 2013 study by researchers at Oxford University and consulting firm Deloitte, 35% of UK jobs are liable to be fully automated by the mid-2030s. The future for artists is relatively secure according to projections, because the more a job relies on a combination of empathy, creative thinking, social intelligence and advanced levels of manual dexterity, the safer it is from the reach of the machine. Nevertheless, the ... More Mary Weatherford to receive 2020 Aspen Award for ArtASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum announced American artist Mary Weatherford as the recipient of its 2020 Aspen Award for Art. Weatherford will be honored at the AAMs annual ArtCrush summer gala on Friday, August 7, 2020, and will give an artist talk starting at 5 p.m on Thursday, August 6, 2020. Her work will also be the subject of a forthcoming Aspen Art Museum solo exhibition opening October 2020. The Aspen Award for Art was established by the museum in 2005 to recognize individual artists making exemplary contributions to the expression and/or application of contemporary art. Weatherford joins previous Aspen Award for Art honorees Richard Tuttle, Tony Feher, Jim Hodges, Ed Ruscha, Fred Tomaselli, Marilyn Minter, Roni Horn, Tom Sachs, Teresita Fernández, Ernesto Neto, Lorna Simpson, Gabriel Orozco, Lawrence Weiner, ... More Art Central presents a special edition online catalogue showcasing works by participating galleriesHONG KONG.- Continuing a long-standing partnership with Artsy since 2015, Art Central Hong Kong announces a special Artsy online catalogue to support the galleries and artists of its cancelled 2020 edition at no cost to those participating. Launching on 18 March 2020, the online platform will serve as a unique opportunity for galleries to promote to a wide audience the works previously selected to have been on view and for sale at the fair. Reflecting the strength of the region and burgeoning gallery scene in Hong Kong, Art Central 2020 was set to feature a record number of Hong Kong-based exhibitors, alongside a strong contingent of leading regional and international galleries. The special edition digital catalogue will offer extended site presence and longer opportunity for collector enquiry for the participating galleries. This digital catalogue forms part of Artsy's ... More Movie crowds stay away. Theaters hope it's not for good.LOS ANGELES (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For most of last week, movie theater executives clung grimly on. At issue, among other things, was CinemaCon, an annual Las Vegas event intended to bolster the most fragile part of the film business: leaving the house, buying a ticket and sitting in the dark with strangers to watch stories unfold on big screens. The National Association of Theater Owners was under pressure to call off the convention because of the coronavirus pandemic, but worries abounded about potential consumer fallout. What message would canceling the confab send to potential ticket buyers, including those increasingly likely to skip cinemas even in the best of times and watch films on streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus? U.S. cinemas, after all, were staying open in the face of the pandemic. ... More Heritage Auctions' Mark Borckardt named 2020 Numismatist of the Year DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Senior Numismatist Mark Borckardt received one of the highest individual honors within the hobby when he was named 2020 Numismatist of the Year by the American Numismatic Association. This honor is important to me, Borckardt said. This award validates my numismatic work over many years. A numismatist for 40 years, Borckardt has been at Heritage Auctions for 16 years. He was nominated for the award by Kagins numismatist David McCarthy. First presented in 1995, the Numismatist of the Year Award was established to recognize individuals within the numismatic community who have demonstrated long-term leadership in the field and to the Association, according to money.org, the ANA website. Nominees must be ANA members who have clearly demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field ... More Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Kathleen KuckaNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art announces Kathleen Kucka: Slow Burn, her first solo exhibition at the gallery. The show will run through April 25th. The gallery is open by appointment only The exhibition showcases new eye-catching paintings and prints Kucka has spent the past year creating. Her multi-step process is an activation of the picture plane employing unconventional, if but contradictory methods. Using different tools, such as coal fire starters, torches, irons, or hot plates, Kucka carefully burns the surface of the canvas, negating pictorial conventions and the medium of the paint itself. Some markings form calculated straight, concentric or radial patterns, while others take on more random, fluid arrangements. She paints or leaves the canvas bare, intentionally leaving traces of the scored and smoked areas as evidence ... More Pax Romana's "finest auction selection to date" to be offered March 29 onlineLONDON.- Discerning collectors of antiquities and ancient art know the Pax Romana name represents uncompromising quality and authenticity. While the London firm, headed by Dr. Ivan Bonchev (PhD, University of Oxford), conducts business from a tastefully appointed gallery in central London, many of its sales to international customers are transacted through LiveAuctioneers online-bidding platform. The next fully curated event a no-reserve auction of ancient jewellery, weaponry and classical art will take place on Sunday, March 29. This is our finest sale to date, with many unique artifacts and important works of art from distinguished collections, Dr Bonchev said. As always, weve prepared a selection that spans a wide price range to accommodate beginners as well as advanced collectors and dealers. All can find something ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English fashion designer Alexander McQueen was born March 17, 1969. Lee Alexander McQueen, CBE (17 March 1969 - 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier. He is known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own Alexander McQueen label. His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003. McQueen died by suicide in 2010, at the age of forty, at his home in Mayfair, London. In this image: Burning Down the House, 1996 by David LaChapelle. ©David LaChapelle Studio.
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