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Edward S. Curtis, Kutenai Duck Hunter, 1910, photogravure, courtesy of the Christopher G. Cardozo Collection.
PALM SPRINGS, CA.- Palm Springs Art Museum is presenting the extraordinary Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks exhibition, featuring vintage photographs that represent an important historical documentary of the Indians of North America; and Changing the Tone: Contemporary American Indian Photographers, showcasing works by living artists of Native American heritage. The exhibitions are on view now through May 29, 2016. Beginning in 1900, Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) set out on a monumental quest to create an unprecedented, comprehensive record of the Indians of North America. The culmination of his 30-year project led to his magnum opus, The North American Indian, a twenty-volume, twenty-portfolio set of handmade books containing a selection of over 2,200 original photographs. Today One Hundred Masterworks stands as a landmark in the history of photography, book publishing, ethnography, and the history of the American West, producing ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day PHNOM PENH.- Cambodians gather around a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama after it was returned from the Denver Art Museum in the US during a ceremony at the Council of Ministers in Phnom Penh on March 28, 2016. The 62-inch-tall torso, which was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex, was handed over by the museum, which had possession since 1986.
| "Wild Reading: Animals in Children's Book Art" opens at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich | | Vincent Van Gogh's "The Night Cafe" seized by the Bolsheviks remains in America | | Artemis Gallery raises the bar for cultural antiquities and ethnographic art with a March 31 auction | 
Wendy Rasmussen, Cover illustration for The Tale of Benjamin Bunny by Beatrix Potter, 2010. Watercolor and colored pencil. Collection of the artist.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The Bruce Museum offers a new adventure into the world of animals with the exhibition Wild Reading: Animals in Childrens Book Art. Through more than thirty contemporary and historic illustrations, the show explores the colorful lives of wild animals, both realistic and exaggerated. Original works by artists such as Quentin Blake (illustrator of books by Roald Dahl and others), Eric Carle, Wendell Minor, Maurice Sendak and others demonstrate the wide range of styles and visual elements used in childrens literature from color, line, and shape to texture and composition. A highlight of this exhibition is taxidermy specimens including a fox, groundhog, rabbit, chipmunk, squirrel, raccoon, birds, and insects from the Museums natural history collection, which has been paired with their illustrated counterparts. Comparisons drawn between the illustrations and specimens address the characteristics that ... More | | 
The decision ends Frenchman Pierre Konowaloff's last legal recourse to claim "The Night Cafe," which the Dutch artist painted in the southern French city of Arles in September 1888.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece can remain in the United States after the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from the descendant of a Russian collector whose property was nationalized after the 1917 Revolution. The decision ends Frenchman Pierre Konowaloff's last legal recourse to claim "The Night Cafe," which the Dutch artist painted in the southern French city of Arles in September 1888. Estimated to be worth $200 million, the canvas is on display at the Yale University Art Gallery in Connecticut. The Impressionist painting was previously owned by Ivan Morozov, a Russian merchant and aristocrat who built an extensive collection of works by some of the greatest painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Communist authorities confiscated Morozov's collection after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1933, the Soviet ... More | | 
Ancient Greek core-form glass amphoriskos (miniature amphora), 6th-4th century BCE, 2.375 inches high, est. $5,500-$7,000. All images courtesy of Artemis Gallery.
BOULDER, CO.- Founded and operated by Bob and Teresa Dodge, Artemis Gallery is widely regarded by private collectors and institutional buyers as the most trusted source for cultural antiquities and ethnographic art. Each piece offered in their sales is rigorously vetted and unconditionally guaranteed to be both authentic and legal to own or resell. Their next auction of investment-grade antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art is set for Thursday, March 31st, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern time. An overview of auction categories reveals broad variety: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Daunian, Etruscan, Near East, Far East, Asian, African/tribal, ethnographic, Spanish colonial, fossils and more. There are excellent-quality pieces at all price points, and no hidden reserves, noted Artemis Gallery Managing Director Teresa Dodge. Many examples of Roman marble ... More |
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| Denver Art Museum returns looted 10th-century sandstone statue to Cambodia | | Philippines authorities put Marcos family jewel images online to teach about graft | | "The Open-Air Studio: The Impressionists in Normandy" on view at the Musée Jacquemart-André | 
A Cambodian woman places a garland around a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama. TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP.
PHNOM PENH (AFP).- An American museum on Monday returned to Cambodia a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama decades after it was looted from a jungle temple during the kingdom's civil war. The 62-inch-tall torso, which was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex, was handed over by the Denver Art Museum at a ceremony in Phnom Penh. The statue -- still missing its head, arms and feet -- had been in the museum's possession since 1986, the Cambodian government said in a statement. "We are joyful with the torso of Rama returning home," Cambodian official Yim Nolson said at the ceremony, adding that the joy was tempered by the fact that the head was still missing and its whereabouts unknown. "The royal government of Cambodia appeals to all museums and collectors around the world to follow this good example by returning the Rama's head to Cambodia," ... More | | 
An official from the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) holding a diamond-studded piece of jewellery. NOEL CELIS / AFP.
MANILA (AFP).- Philippine authorities are staging an online exhibition of jewelry owned by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his family to try to educate a new generation about the corruption of that era. The postings on Facebook and Twitter by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) come as the family tries to extend its political comeback in elections in May. "The PCGG will be posting selected jewelry items to show and remind the present generation of the excesses and extravagance of the Marcoses in their two-decade dictatorship," the anti-corruption agency said on its website. "The Virtual Jewelry Exhibit" began in mid-March with regular postings showcasing valuables recovered after the dictator was ousted by a military-backed popular uprising in 1986. Aside from pictures of the jewels uploaded regularly, there are postings explaining what they cost the country. A picture of a diamond tiara comes with the caption: "can fund... the treatment ... More | | 
Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926), Ãtretat. La porte dAval, bateaux de pêche sortant du port, Vers 1885. Huile sur toile, 60 x 81 cm. © Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Photo François Jay.
PARIS.- This spring, the Musée Jacquemart-André is presenting an ensemble of some fifty or so prestigious artworksfrom both private collections and major American and European museumsthat retrace the history of Impressionism, from the forefathers of the movement to the Great Masters. The 19th century saw the emergence of a new pictorial genre: plein-air or outdoor landscape painting. This pictorial revolution, born in England, would spread to the continent in the 1820s and over the course of a century, Normandy would become the preferred destination of many avant-garde painters. The regions stunning and diverse landscapes, coupled with the wealth of its architectural heritage, had much to please artists. Furthermore, the growing fashion for sea-bathing attracted many wealthy individuals and families who could easily access Normandy by either boat or stage-coach, and ... More |
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| Exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art in San Antonio questions the cultural context of our time | | Work by 84 photographers from the 1860s through 2002 on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery | | Exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum examines Marcel Duchamp's potent influence on Pop Art | 
Manuel Solano, "TÃo Felipe", 2015. Acrylic on paper, 33.9 x 22".
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Straight from Mexico City--in the same collaborative spirit as past RHA programming---Straight from Berlin (with Galerie EIGEN + ART in Leipzig/Berlin March 2014) and Straight from Spain (with Blanca BerlÃn GalerÃa in Madrid October 2014)---Straight from Mexico City partners with another respected international gallery- GalerÃa Karen Huber in Mexico City. The exhibition will be on display through April 23, 2016. Straight from Mexico City questions the cultural context of our time and the history of painting itself with a critical construction of identity set forth in a pictorial practice. Organized by guest curator Octavio Avendaño Trujillo, guest artist's Eugenia MartÃnez, Kanako Namura, Manuel Solano, and Rafael Uriegas are selected from GalerÃa Karen Huber's roster. In June of this year, four artists from the RHA roster will be included in an exhibition at GalerÃa ... More | | 
Anonymous, Untitled, c. 1886. Gelatin silver print, printed later, 8 5/8 x 6 ¼ inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- A Democracy of Imagery, an exhibition of work by 84 photographers from the 1860s through 2002, on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 24 April 30, 2016. Curated by Colin Westerbeck, the exhibition presents 100 images by artists including Richard Avedon, Edward Burtynsky, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Saul Leiter, Vivian Maier, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joel Meyerowitz, and Gordon Parks. A book entitled A Democracy of Imagery will be published later this year by Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library, 2016. In 2014, Colin Westerbeck had the genesis of an idea for a photography exhibition based on a challenge. Writing about Howard Greenberg in the books foreword, Westerbeck notes, I approached him because I suspected I could do a museum-quality exhibitionone with the reach and variety of the slow time over which museum holdings accumulateout ... More | | 
Marcel Duchamp (French, 18871968), L.H.O.O.Q. or La Joconde, 1964 (replica of 1919 original). Colored reproduction, heightened with pencil and white gouache, Edition of 35, No. 6 (Arturo Schwartz edition), 11-3/4 x 7-7/8 in. (29.8 x 20.0 cm). Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Virginia Dwan © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2016.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents Duchamp to Pop, an exhibition that examines Marcel Duchamps potent influence on Pop Art and its leading artists, among them Andy Warhol, Jim Dine and Ed Ruscha. Approximately 40 artworks from the Museums exceptional collection of 20th-century art, along with a handful of loans, are brought together to pay tribute to the creative genius of Duchamp and demonstrate his resounding impact on a select group of artists born half a century later. The exhibition also presents materials from the archives of the Pasadena Art Museum (which later became the Norton Simon Museum) that pertain ... More |
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| Exhibition of recent paintings by Royal Academician Terry Setch on view at Flowers Gallery | | 'Very doubtful' Palmyra can be restored after IS: UN expert Annie Sartre-Fauriat | | Exhibition of works by the late Venezuelan artist Oswaldo Vigas opens in Sao Paulo | 
Over the course of his six-decade career, Setch has become known for his radical approaches to painting. Photo: Francesca Jones.
LONDON.- Flowers Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by Royal Academician Terry Setch. Over the course of his six-decade career, Setch has become known for his radical approaches to painting, in which he has synthesized the actions of the body with the experience of the natural environment. Characterized by the fusion of natural and synthetic elements, Setchs paintings have incorporated industrially produced materials and environmental detritus since the 1970s, including resins, microcrystalline wax, polymers, and found plastic objects. The present exhibition brings together new works on the theme of the beach landscape, a subject that has been a continuous presence in Setchs work since 1969, when he first moved to the Penarth coast in South Wales. As well as becoming a second studio for the production of his paintings, the beachscape provided Setch with important metaphors for wider contemporary polit ... More | | 
A combination of images shows a file photo of the iconic Temple of Bel prior to being blown up and the remains of the temple after Syrian troops recaptured the ancient site of Palmyra. AL MOUNES / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A Syrian expert for the UN's cultural body said Monday she was "very doubtful" the destruction caused to Palmyra's ancient monuments during its occupation by the Islamic State group can be repaired. "Everyone is excited because Palmyra has been 'liberated', but we should not forget everything that has been destroyed," said Annie Sartre-Fauriat, who belongs to a group of experts on Syrian heritage set up by UNESCO in 2013. "I am very doubtful about the capacity, even with international aid, of rebuilding the site at Palmyra," she told AFP. "When I hear that we are going to reconstruct the temple of Bel, that seems illusory. We are not going to rebuild something that has been reduced to dust. Rebuild what? A new temple? I think there are probably other priorities in Syria before rebuilding ruins." The Russian-backed Syrian army ousted IS from Palmyra on Sunday at the climax of a three-week ... More | | 
Oswaldo Vigas, Ligúrea Lúdica, 1970. Oil on canvas, 39.3 x 31.5 in.
SAO PAULO.- Oswaldo Vigas 19432013, a three-year, traveling exhibition featuring sixty-three paintings and six sculptures by the late Venezuelan artist will be on view at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC- USP) from April 2 July 3, 2016. Organized by the Oswaldo Vigas Foundation, the exhibition, which spans seven decades of Vigas life, is curated by Venezuelan art historian and art critic Bélgica RodrÃguez and guest-curated by Katja Weitering, Artistic Director of the Cobra Museum of Modern Art (The Netherlands). Imre Kis-Jovak, a member of the International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques (ICAMT), is responsible for the exhibition design. ICAMT is one of the 30 International Committees of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Ana Luisa Dias Leite is the exhibition project manager. Oswaldo Vigas 1943-2013 launched at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima (MAC Lima) and then travelled to the Santia ... More |
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 "Breaking Ground: Printmaking in the US, 1940-1960" on view at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtPHILADELPHIA, PA.- This exhibition presents some of the most highly experimental prints that convey the breadth and vitality of artistic innovation in the United States during the period. Embracing the ways in which American artists brought the practice of printmaking to new heights, the selection ranges from color prints published by the Works Progress Administration (1935-43) to the technically advanced prints produced at independent workshops in the late 1950s and early 1960s, highlighting work that unites technical craft with creative expression. Unparalleled examples of craftsmanship by Anni Albers, Harry Bertoia, Mary Callery, Antonio Frasconi, Stanley William Hayter, Sue Fuller, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg will be on view. A key influence on printmaking in the United States was the British printmaker Stanley William Hayter, who moved his print workshop ... More Rowan gallery creates historic restaging of renowned 1970s exhibition GLASSBORO, NJ.- The Sister Chapel, a historic collaborative installation created at the height of the womens art movement, opens at Rowan University Art Gallery West on March 31, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., for its first public exhibition since 1980. Presented during National Womens History Month, the exhibition runs from March 28 through the end of June. It includes the work of Alice Neel, June Blum, Betty Holliday, Shirley Gorelick, May Stevens, Elsa M. Goldsmith, Sylvia Sleigh, Cynthia Mailman, Diana Kurz, Martha Edelheit, Sharon Wybrants, Maureen Connor, and Ilise Greenstein. An opening reception features a panel discussion with five of the contributing artists: Maureen Connor, Martha Edelheit, Diana Kurz, Cynthia Mailman, and Sharon Wybrants. The moderator, Andrew D. Hottle, spent eight years researching and writing an extensive history of this important ... More Martha Russo's first solo museum exhibition opens at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary ArtBOULDER, CO.- Coalescere brings together 25 years of work by the sculptor and installation artist Martha Russo. The artists first solo museum exhibition, coalescere will explore the progression of Russos work, highlighting sculptural pieces created over the course of her artistic practice as well as a series of new works and large-scale, site-specific installations. The exhibition title, which is from the Latin come together, reflects Russos interest in bringing together her diverse body of work, allowing visitors to explore the themes and forms that carry throughout her career. The title also speaks to the nature of her newest works, which feature thousands of individual elements pieced together to create unexpected and surprising new forms. Russos organic, abstract sculptures and installations push the boundaries of clay. She playfully references a multiplicity of sources ... More First mid-career survey of Doug DuBois' photographs on view at Aperture GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Doug DuBois approaches his work slowly and engages in long-term photographic projects. He tells stories that reveal both a profound humanity and the inexorable passing of time. The Hermès Foundation and Aperture Foundation are presenting the exhibition In Good Time, the first mid-career survey of DuBois photographs, curated by Cory Jacobs. This retrospective contains three different bodies of work: All the Days and Nights, Avella, and My Last Day at Seventeen. Family is a recurring theme in DuBois work, and his first project on the subject, All the Days and Nights, took over twenty years to complete. In 1984, DuBois began photographing his own family, tracing the complicated and nuanced relationships that unfolded as time passed and events transpired, such as his fathers near-fatal accident, subsequent recovery, and the impact on ... More Rehearsal: Exhibition at Copperfield presents a series of paintings by Jane BustinLONDON.- Jane Bustin (b. 1964 Hertfordshire, UK) works within an expanded understanding of painting, mixing fresco techniques with oil washed aluminium, acrylic panel painting with ceramic and glazes, mirrored copper with latex, polyurethane and woven cotton. Bustin's solo exhibition Rehearsal presents a series of paintings that take Modernist Russian ballet icon Vaslav Nijinsky (1890 - 1950) as a central reference. For all the apparent poise and fragility of ballet, every worthy composition is bold in its own right, underpinned by immense strength. Similarly her paintings balance the fragility of millimetre thin ceramic, fabric and pale tones with hard edges, metal and vivid colour. Reflection is inherent in the work due to the polished metal panels that recur in her compositions, but Bustin makes particular use of the edge of her works, reflecting light off carefully chosen ... More Lorna Bieber's newest creation 'Tapestry' on view at the George Eastman MuseumROCHESTER, NY.- For more than twenty years, artist Lorna Bieber has made the world of reproduced photographic images the subject of her work. The George Eastman Museum is showing Biebers newest creation, Tapestry (2015) as part of the exhibition Fabrications, organized by the museum. Lorna Bieber: Fabrications will be on view through June 5. Trained as a painter, Bieber became interested in photography while working for large-circulation magazines in the late 1980s. She subsequently developed a working method in which she photocopies stock images and then enlarges, reduces, and paints and/or draws on them until the images become thoroughly her own. In her earliest works of this type, she photographed the results and presented them as individual large-scale gelatin silver prints or as grids of 11Ã17-inch photographs that form monumental panels. ... More P.P.O.W adds Betty Tompkins to roster NEW YORK, NY.- P.P.O.W announced it now represents Betty Tompkins. Tompkins, a pioneering, feminist artist is best known for her direct depiction of the female body, sexuality, and sexual desire. Tompkins creates paintings, drawings, photographs, and videos that take often take as their starting point images found in pornographic magazines, using them to create classically framed, carefully textured works. The gallery will mount a retrospective of her works in 2017 that will include an early body of word works that feature stamped images of language used to describe women, as well as a series of collage works that draw on images culled from pornographic images from the 1950s era. Tompkins is a natural addition to PPOWs roster, as the gallery has a long history as a platform for showing works by female and LGBTQ artists exploring social and political constructions of the body ... More Rare bronze cast from famed Parliament Square statue of Churchill to be auctioned by Sworders, April 12STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, UK.- Sworders auctioneers of Stansted Mountfichet in Essex, England, will offer an extremely rare head-and-shoulders bronze of Sir Winston Churchill at their April 12 auction. It is one of only six casts taken from the statue erected in Londons Parliament Square in 1973 to honor the man voted the greatest Briton ever to have lived. The original 12ft-high bronze was created by Ivor Roberts-Jones RA (1913-96), while the plaster cast taken to create the limited edition of six bronze busts was supervised by Nigel Boonham, past president of the Society of Portrait Sculptors, on behalf of the Trustees of the Ivor Roberts-Jones Estate. Of monumental size, it stands 34 inches (86.5cm) high by 51 inches wide (130cm) wide and carries an auction estimate of £60,000-£80,000 ($85,000-$115,000). Roberts-Jones was a founder member of the Society ... More Rare 1776 Declaration of Independence broadside at auction in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- A rare July 1776 Broadside Printing of the Declaration of Independence by Ezekiel Russell of Salem, Massachusetts-Bay - the Colony's authorized edition which was sent to an Ipswich Pastor to be read to his congregation, will cross the auction block in New York on April 5, 2016. It is estimated to bring $160,000+. The earliest broadside printings of the Declaration, of which this is one, were ephemeral in nature and extremely few have survived to this day, said Sandra Palomino, Director of Historical Manuscripts at Heritage Auctions, the company conducting the auction. This document was printed within days of the founding of the United States and has survived almost 250 years since that time. Its an extraordinary thing. The Declaration was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, proclaiming the 13 American colonies to be ... More Exhibition showcases historic collection of early BC photographs for the first timeVANCOUVER, BC.- A new exhibition of historic photography at Presentation House Gallery explores the dramatic changes taking place in British Columbia from 1860 to the early twentieth century, as the colonial territory on the west coast of North America joined Canada and entered an era of rapid transformation. Opening on March 30th, NANITCH: Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection showcases publicly for the first time hundreds of photographs and other materials from UBC Librarys spectacular Uno Langmann Family Collection of BC Photographs. The Langmann Collection was donated to UBC by prominent Vancouver gallerist and businessman Uno Langmann and his wife Dianne, and the Uno Langmann Ltd. Mr. Langmann spent decades gathering thousands of rare early photographs of BC for his private collection. Now the ... More Art Gallery of Hamilton explore the work of visionary artistsHAMILTON.- Two exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Hamilton highlight the works of artists who dared to offer a new vision. 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group on view from February 20 to May 8, 2016 -- explores the works of some of Canadas most avant-garde artists of the time, and stresses its unique role in developing women artists. Fearful Symmetry: The Art of John Scott on view from February 6 to May 15, 2016 showcases three decades of powerful work by an artist who championed the plight of the worker as a human tool in the face of global industry. 1920s Modernism in Montreal: The Beaver Hall Group is the first comprehensive exhibition to examine the impact and complexity of one of Canada and Quebecs most significant group of artists, says AGH President and CEO Shelley Falconer. A counterpart to Ontarios Group of Seven, the more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and draftsman Georges Seurat died March 29, 1891. Georges Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the technique of painting known as pointillism. His large-scale work A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884-1886) altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism. It is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting. In this image: "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte -- 1884" by artist Georges-Pierre Seurat.
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