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Timely exhibition echoes the perilous issues confronting our world today
MIAMI, FLA.- Miamis leading arts lovers, patrons, artists, cultural and community leaders declared the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU as the place to be this Season, at the U.S. premiere of Stranded in Shanghai: Arthur Rothsteins Photographs of the Hongkew Ghetto, 1946, the timely exhibition featuring a lesson from history about tolerance, compassion for human suffering and solidarity. These themes ring true just as powerfully today during our troubled times as they did in the 1940s, when Shanghai became the last hope for desperate refugees fleeing Nazi terror. The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU is thrilled to present the U.S. premiere of Stranded in Shanghai, said the museums Executive Director, Susan Gladstone. We are honored to shine a light on this little-known segment of history that mirrors so much of our present. We must know history in order to proceed successfully with our future. Rothsteins works are ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Members of the environmental activist group '350.org' lie on the floor in front of Theodore Gericault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa" at The Louvre Museum in Paris on March 12, 2018, as they seek to denounce the sponsorship partnership between the French museum and the Total energy company. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP
| The J. Paul Getty Museum presents "Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India" | | 'Little black dress' designer Hubert de Givenchy dies aged 91 | | Climate protest prompts partial evacuation at Louvre | 
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Shah Jahan, about 1656 - 1661. Dark brown ink and dark brown wash with scratching out Dimensions: Unframed: 22.5 à 17.1 cm. Accession No. EX.2018.3.41 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1978.38 Image © The Cleveland Museum of Art.
LOS ANGELES.- Among the most surprising aspects of Rembrandts prodigious output are twenty-three surviving drawings closely based on portraits made by artists working in Mughal India. These drawings mark a striking diversion for this quintessentially Dutch Golden Age artist, the only time he made a careful and extensive study of art from a dramatically different culture. Rembrandt and the Inspiration of India, on view March 13 June 24, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, explores for the first time the artists Mughal drawings, exhibiting them alongside the Mughal paintings that inspired them to assess the impact of Indian art and culture on Rembrandts artistic interests and working process as a draftsman. Rembrandt may be ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 04, 1957 French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy reads a magazine aboard a flight in Beauvais. French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy died aged 91 it was announced on March 12, 2018. STF / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Hubert de Givenchy, the aristocratic French fashion designer famous for the "little black dress" and styling Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy, has died aged 91, his partner said Monday. Givenchy set the template for ladylike chic in the 1950s and 1960s, dressing everyone from Princess Grace of Monaco to Jane Fonda. His longtime partner, the former haute couture designer Philippe Venet, announced his death through the Givenchy fashion house, saying he had died in his sleep on Saturday. "It is with huge sadness that we inform you that Hubert Taffin de Givenchy has died," it said in a statement to AFP. With his perfect manners and old-school charm, the tall and handsome count was the very acme of French elegance and refinement. But it was his 40- ... More | | 
Members of the environmental activist group '350.org' lie on the floor in front of Theodore Gericault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa" at The Louvre Museum. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre briefly evacuated one its busiest rooms on Monday after black-clad environmental activists staged a protest against oil giant Total's patronage of the Paris museum. About a dozen protesters lay down on the floor in front of "The Raft of the Medusa", an iconic 19th-century painting by Theodore Gericault showing the shipwreck of a French navy frigate. The demonstrators entered inconspicuously before lying down in front of the painting chanting slogans against Total, an AFP reporter said. The Louvre confirmed it had evacuated museum-goers from the room for around 10 minutes after the protest around 10.30 am (0930 GMT). The activist group 350.org, which campaigns against the use of fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy, said it staged the demonstration "to symbolise victims of the oil industry". The ... More |
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| Historical Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam preserved | | Recently discovered Manzoni for sale at Bernaerts Auctioneers in Antwerp | | Met Opera sacks legendary conductor Levine after abuse probe | 
The history of the Fenix warehouses is closely connected with that of Rotterdam and of Katendrecht in particular.
ROTTERDAM.- The Droom en Daad foundation has been given the opportunity to acquire the Fenixloods II on Katendrecht, one of the former docks in Rotterdam. The City of Rotterdam agrees with the intention to sell, because the ambitions of Droom en Daad make an important contribution to the development of the Katendrecht district. On the ground floor there will be a combination of cultural, culinary and creative facilities. On the first floor, Droom & Daad has plans to tell the story of emigrants. From 1872 onwards, the area around Katendrecht and the Wilhelminapier had developed into the location from which millions left the Old World in search of a better life, in the first place, via Ellis Island, in New York. The Stadsarchief, Maritiem Museum, Museum Rotterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum and Wereldmuseum will corporate to realise a permanent exhibition on immigration. Ellis Island is also a partner. Robert Simons, alderman for Urban ... More | | 
Piero Manzoni (1933-1963), Achrome, 1958. Tela grinzata e caolino/ wrinkled canvas and kaolin. 30 x 24.5 cm. Estimate: 300,000-400,000.
ANTWERP.- The present work was in the former collection of the painter Guy Vandenbranden (1926-2014). Yoeri Vanlangendonck, whose gallery Callewaert-Vanlangendonck owns the estate of the painter Vandenbranden, confirms hereby that the painter had a Achrome in his possession, given by Manzoni personally. Vandenbranden gave this work to his friend and maecenas, doctor and psychiatrist T.Piron at his birthday, somewhere in the 1960s. Vandenbranden would have had regrets about this gift. The work is one of the earliest 'achromes' Manzoni made from 1957 on and one of the most important exemples of the narrow liason between the Antwerp group G58 and the international avant-garde scene ZERO, also from 1958. Manzoni and Vandenbranden apparently met eachother in Milan, in Bar Jamaica around 1958 together with a.o. Lucio Fontana and Jef Verheyen. Vandenbranden in a letter from 1989: 'A lot of ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on May 13, 1996, US conductor James Levine is pictured during a rehearsal in Frankfurt, Germany. ARNE DEDERT / DPA / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's Metropolitan Opera on Monday it fired legendary conductor James Levine, for decades the face of its orchestra, after finding "credible evidence" that he sexually abused younger musicians. The leading US opera house had already suspended Levine in December after allegations first became public against him. Levine guided the Met's orchestra for 40 years as music director. The Met said it has "terminated its relationship" with Levine, who retired in 2016 amid failing health but until the scandal had remained a frequent presence as a conductor. "The investigation uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Levine had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct both before and during the period when he worked at the Met," the opera house said in a statement. The three-month investigation concludes a spectacular fall from grace for a musician often hailed as one of the top US conductors of his generation. ... More |
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| Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin opens exhibition of works by Georg Herold | | Russian theatre titan Oleg Tabakov dies | | Art Institute of Chicago appoints Melinda Watt as the new Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles | 
Herold has long been interested in knocking down anything put on a pedestal, literally or metaphorically.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts gallery is presenting Beverlys Cousine, Georg Herolds fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes works made between 1993 and 2018 that exemplify many of the material investigations that have garnered him international renown for nearly three decades. Herold has long been interested in knocking down anything put on a pedestal, literally or metaphorically. This unruliness and his use of crude materials, however, bely the scrupulous precision that informs his practice. Each work communicates a search for harmonious incongruence in form and content. While similar paradoxes can be traced through Herolds works the precarious equilibrium of bricks on canvas, the critique of and absurd complicity in obscene luxury in the caviar paintings they cannot be reduced to these dichotomies. While Herold is an artist of international importance, his German sensibility and e ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on September 30, 2010 Oleg Tabakov, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre's artistic director smiles during a videoconference with French cultural workers. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- One of Russia's most beloved actors who had dominated Moscow's theatrical life since the Soviet era, Oleg Tabakov, passed away in hospital on Monday, his theatre said. Tabakov was 82 and artistic director of the legendary Moscow Art Theatre, which he had steered since 2000 and where he trained generations of actors. "The Moscow Art Theatre announces with regret that Oleg Tabakov, a great Russian artist, teacher and director ... has passed away after a long illness," the theatre said in a statement on its website. Born to a family of doctors in provincial Saratov on the Volga river, Tabakov skyrocketed to fame as a young actor in the 1960s after graduating from the Moscow Art Theatre's studio school. His best-known roles include that of Nikolai Rostov in Sergei Bondarchuk's film War and Peace ... More | | 
Melinda Watt, Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles. Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
CHICAGO, IL.- President and Eloise W. Martin Director James Rondeau announced today the appointment of Melinda Watt as the new Chair and Christa C. Mayer Thurman Curator of Textiles. Watt most recently served as Curator in the Department of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (2016-2018) and supervising curator for the Antonio Ratti Textile Center (20092018) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she oversaw exhibitions, research, and collections management for over 16,000 Western European textiles and 500 fans, and led one of the largest, most technically advanced facilities for the study and storage of textiles in any major art museum in the world. She helped define a comprehensive, inclusive strategy for the care and research of works from all of the world's civilizationsarchaeological fragments, tapestries, carpets, quilts, ecclesiastical ... More |
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| Glenstone Museum expansion to open October 4 | | National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates acquisition of two works by Mildred Thompson | | Sotheby's appoints Nicolas Chow as Chairman, Asia | 
Water Court of The Pavilions, 2017. Photo: Iwan Baan Courtesy: Glenstone Museum.
POTOMAC, MD.- Glenstone Museum today announced that it will open its major expansion to the public on October 4, 2018, inaugurating a 204,000-square-foot museum building known as the Pavilions, a group of new visitor amenities and an additional 130 acres of landscape. People may begin in early September to schedule visits to experience the expanded museum. Admission to Glenstone is always free. Glenstone has changed dramatically since it opened in 2006 with a single 30,000-square-foot building and a 100-acre landscape, said Mitchell P. Rales, founder of Glenstone Museum. But throughout this transformation, weve maintained a single mission: to create a seamless integration of art, architecture, and landscape and make it available free of charge to all who wish to visit. Were thrilled to begin welcoming visitors to this fully realized experience starting in October. The expansion provides 50,000 ... More | | 
Mildred Thompson, Magnetic Fields, 1990; oil on canvas, 62 x 48 in.; Gift of the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Georgia Committee and the National Museum of Women in the Arts; ©The Mildred Thompson Estate; Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts announced the acquisition of two works by Mildred Thompson (19392003) in celebration of the museums 30th-anniversary year. With a career spanning more than four decades, Thompson created paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures with a signature approach to abstraction. Inspired by the Atlanta-based Thompsons inclusion in the recent exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, the Georgia Committee of NMWA purchased a painting from her Magnetic Fields series for the museum. Camille Ann Brewer gifted a second work by Thompson to the museum to honor the memory of the artist. We are thrilled that donor Camille ... More | | 
Mr. Nicolas Chow first joined Sothebys in 1999 and has played a pivotal role in leading the Chinese art market in Asia since 2003. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys announced the promotion of Nicolas Chow to Chairman of Sothebys Asia, who brings to the new role a unique combination of world-class expertise, exceptional client relationships and deep understanding of the market that will help drive Sothebys strategy in Asia. Kevin Ching, CEO of Sothebys Asia, comments: Nicolas, already our Worldwide Head of Chinese Works of Art has been exemplary in his leadership and expertise. Always a team player and never slow to offer his assistance to any colleague seeking his advice, Nicolas is also one of the most forward-looking and creative members of Sothebys. His promotion to Chairman, Asia is well deserved. Nicolas Chow, Chairman of Sothebys Asia, International Head and Chairman, Chinese Works of Art, expresses, It has been my great privilege and joy to develop the Chinese art market at Sothebys for the last twenty years and I a ... More |
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 Palais de Tokyo commissions Neil Beloufa to create 'The Enemy of my Enemy'PARIS.- The Enemy of my Enemy [lEnnemi de mon Ennemi] is a project by Neïl Beloufa (b. 1985 in Paris, lives and works in Paris), commissioned by Palais de Tokyo. It consists of a scenographic dispositive that represents a chaotic and fragmented vision of the ways in which history is written and in which power is legitimized in the contemporary era. Drawing inspiration from official communication, memorials, war museums, and political propaganda as well as current events, advertising, and video games, the exhibition explores the interchangeability of strategies and discourses. In doing so, it plays upon the permanent ambiguity between good and evil, heroes and villains, postures and impostures. The scenographic dispositive, specially created by the artist for this exhibition, integrates works of art, documents, images, artefacts, reproductions and objects ... More A lost masterpiece from the Qianlong Era to make its auction debutHONG KONG.- This April Sothebys Hong Kong will present a highly important handscroll, Ten Auspicious Landscapes of Taishan, the greatest masterpiece of the renowned imperial court painter Qian Weicheng. This rediscovered heirloom has reemerged and is making its auction debut after a hundred years. Presented in ten sections, the scroll depicts ten spectacular views of Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang province and is also inscribed with ten poems written by the Qianlong Emperor. The work is estimated at HK$50,000,000 - 70,000,000 / US$ 6,400,000-8,960,000, and is offered in a dedicated sale titled A Rediscovered Imperial Heirloom on 3 April 2018 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Ten Auspicious Landscapes of Taishan by Qian Weicheng is an exemplar of the Golden Age of Qing court art during the reign of the Qianlong ... More Prominent artists donate works to benefit the Studio Museum's new building projectNEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that an intergenerational group of prominent artists with close ties to the mission and history of The Studio Museum in Harlem will donate important works for auction this May at Sothebys New York to benefit the institution. Artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Mark Bradford, Sam Gilliam, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, Lorna Simpson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye will participate in Creating Space: Artists for The Studio Museum in Harlem: An Auction to Benefit the Museums New Building, supporting the campaign to construct the museums new home designed by Adjaye Associates in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. The donated works will be offered in Sothebys Contemporary Art auctions on 16 & 17 May in New York, and will be on public exhibition in Sothebys York Avenue galleries beginning 4 May. A ... More Race is on to save historic Sunderland buildingSUNDERLAND.- A heritage charity working to save Sunderlands historic Holy Trinity church from collapse and give it a new lease of life has launched a crowdfunding appeal to raise £20,000 in six weeks. The 18th-century building is an important piece of Wearside history: as well as acting as a parish church it was also Sunderlands first public library, its Civic Hall and Magistrates Court and even housed the citys fire engine. Today the Grade I listed Georgian building is at risk of being lost if swift action is not taken. The race is on to fund ambitious plans to carry out structural work and transform the building into a centre for music, storytelling and events, with the help of national organisations and local people and partners. The Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity that protects historic churches at risk, launched a public appeal last October ... More Over 300 disadvantaged youth involved in nationwide art initiativeWATERLOO, NSW.- After a hugely successful inaugural year, the Harmony Art Collective, in collaboration with Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), the Australian Government and aMBUSH Gallery, returns to unite disadvantaged youths aged 15-24 through art. Having expanded its footprint to WA for the first time, the nationwide initiative will culminate in a breathtaking public exhibition of the works at Darling Quarters OPEN from 12 March 27 April 2018 as part of Harmony Day (21 March). The project has uncovered some incredible new talent, including Mohamed Bulhan who has lived through attacks on his family in Somalia, to finding empowerment through art; Simon Shahin, a Syrian migrant who went from living just a kilometre away from the terrorist frontline to pursuing photography and Bella Ndayikeze, who has found a safe space to express ... More Refocused opening days pay dividends for exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht 2018HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Maastricht 2018 saw a new lease of life injected into the Fair following a revision of the Fair Preview. This year, for the first time the opening was spread over two days: an Early Access Day on Thursday March 8th and a Preview Day on Friday March 9th. Over 12,000 visitors attended during the first two days, with 5,000 attending the Early Access Day. The feedback has been extremely positive with many sales reported during the first two days of the Fair. Exhibitor Thomas Heneage (Stand 384) said we have had the best sales at the start of the Fair in over 27 years. TEFAF Maastricht continues until Sunday 18th March, at the MECC. Sales were reported from the first moments of the Fair, which opened on Thursday 8th March. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art (Stand 304) sold a large oil-on-canvas by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785) depicting ... More Modern and Contemporary African art to be offered at Sotheby's LondonLONDON.- Formed in 2016 in response to growing market demand, Modern and Contemporary African Art is the newest specialist department at Sothebys, championing the work of artists from the continent. Following our inaugural sale in May last year, the second dedicated auction will take place in London on 28 March 2018, including works by 62 artists from 16 countries across Africa, many of whom have rarely - if ever - been offered at international auction before. Hannah OLeary, Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at Sothebys, said: The international spotlight on Modern and Contemporary African Art is growing ever stronger as museums, critics and art fairs increasingly look to profile art from the region. Artists from the continent, who were previously overlooked by the secondary market, are finally starting to receive their due recognition. Sothebys ... More Historic accounts & signed material at Swann African Americana AuctionNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana on Thursday, March 29 sheds light on some of the darker moments in American history and provides crucial context for cultural sea changes, from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement. Setting the auction apart is a selection of documents concerning named individuals who are too often lost to history. First-person accounts of enslaved people rarely appear on the market because literacy was uncommon in the community. An archive of 1842-45 letters revealing multiple perspectives regarding a single incident includes a letter by Gabriel Johnson, a man enslaved at Mount Vernon, declaring that he would not be whipped by anyone but his own master. It is addressed to John Augustine Washington and is believed to be the only extant letter written from the infamous Bruins Slave ... More Ottocento Art Gallery to offer a remarkable view of Ostend hippodrome painted by Carlo BrancaccioROME.- Among latest acquisitions, Ottocento Art Gallery offers a masterpiece by Italian painter Carlo Brancaccio (Naples 1861 1920), an astonishing watercolour which show an incredible view of Ostende Hippodrome. Born in 1861, the Neapolitan painter Carlo Brancaccio leaves in 1883 the mathematics studies to devote himself exclusively to the painting, guided by the advice of E. Dalbono, his close friend and painter, at the beginning of his career. Appreciated landscape painter, able to elaborate a well-liked personal research, though moving from the adoption of instances and figurative themes common to other painters active in the same period, Brancaccio favored the glimpses and views set in Naples by fixing them, as Schettini writes, in impressions in which the precision of the landscape reference was lyrical in a spiritual and suffused atmosphere. In this ... More KAWS artworks hit five-figure prices in Urban Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The first major auction of streetwear by from brands like Supreme and BAPE, including artworks by KAWS, hit five-figure sale prices in Heritage Auctions March 6 Urban Art & Supreme Featuring The Collection of Madchild Fine Art Online Auction in New York. Popular contemporary artist KAWS produced 47 of the 111 lots (42.3 percent) offered, and every work offered in the sale sold. KAWS is extremely hot right now, with art critics, fans and collectors alike, Heritage Auctions Director of Modern & Contemporary Art Leon Benrimon said. His popularity is international, and is reflected by the number of bidders who pursued his work in this sale. The top lot of the night was by another major contemporary artist, as RETNA Eastern Realm (two works), 2014 claimed the events highest sale price when it went for $11,875. Recognized as an elite graffiti artist, ... More Wendy Yu endows lead curatorial position at The Costume InstituteNEW YORK, NY.- Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced the endowment of the position of Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, made possible by a donation from Chinese investor and philanthropist Wendy Yu on behalf of her Hong Kong-based company, Yu Holdings. The endowment will exist in perpetuity at The Costume Institute, and Andrew Bolton, currently Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, will become the position's first incumbent, assuming the title of Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, effective immediately. The Met has 50 endowed positions in its curatorial, conservation, and other departments. "We are immensely grateful to Wendy Yu for so generously funding this position at The Costume Institute," said Mr. Weiss. "Her support will make it possible for The ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges de La Tour was born March 13, 1593. Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
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