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French President's wife Brigitte Macron (2ndL) talks with daughter of late Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, Maya Picasso (Front R), her son Olivier Widmaier Picasso (L) and daughter Diana Widmaier Picasso (R) during the opening of the "Picasso 1932 : Erotic Year" exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris, on October 8, 2017. IAN LANGSDON / POOL / AFP.
PARIS.- The first exhibition dedicated to the work of an artist from January 1 to December 31, the exhibition Picasso 1932 will present essential masterpieces in Picassos career as Le Rêve (oil on canvas, private collection) and numerous archival documents that place the creations of this year in their context. This event, organized in partnership with the Tate Modern in London, invites the visitor to follow the production of a particularly rich year in a rigorously chronological journey. It will question the famous formula of the artist, according to which the work that is done is a way of keeping his journal? which implies the idea of a coincidence between life and creation. Among the milestones of this exceptional year are the series of bathers and the colorful portraits and compositions around the figure of Marie-Thérèse Walter, posing the question of his works relationship to surrealism. In parallel with these sensual and erotic works, the a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Numerous fine art institutions have been adversely affected by the recent spate of hurricane activity across the United States. To be of the greatest assistance possible during this difficult time, Eli Wilner and Company has established a grant program to offset a sizable portion of restoration costs of frames with storm related damage for not for profit institutions.
| Eli Wilner & Company offers funding towards the conservation of damaged frames resulting from storm activity | | Exhibition includes masterpieces by one of the most celebrated painters of the Italian Renaissance | | Nazi-looted Pissarro painting at centre of legal tussle |
Eli Wilner and Company master artisans carefully apply sheets of gold leaf to the prepared surface of the Irving Couse "Taos Frame."
NEW YORK, NY.- Numerous fine art institutions have been adversely affected by the recent spate of hurricane activity across the United States. To be of the greatest assistance possible during this difficult time, Eli Wilner and Company has established a grant program to offset a sizable portion of restoration costs of frames with storm related damage for not for profit institutions. Eli Wilner and Company conservators have over 270 years of combined experience reversing damage to frames incurred due to exposure to water and fire. They are the preferred provider by both AXA Art Insurance Corporation and the Chubb Group of insurance companies for frame restoration. To contact Eli Wilner and Company for assistance with your restoration projects, please call 212.744.6521, or email info@eliwilner.com. The following case study examines the restoration of an artist-made frame by Irving Couse that sustained significant water damage in a hurricane, and pr ... More | |
Giovanni Bellini, Christ Blessing, about 1500. Tempera and oil on wood panel. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- One of the most beloved and influential religious painters of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini (Venice, about 1435-1516) was also a master in depicting landscape. His paintings of religious scenes often featured evocative natural settings that were as important and affecting as their human subjects. On view October 10, 2017, through January 14, 2018, Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice presents 12 paintings and one drawing that explore the poetic role played by the natural world in the artists religious compositions. The exhibition includes several masterpieces that rarely travel, making this an exceptional opportunity to experience the artistic beauty and iconographic complexity of Bellinis art. Giovanni Bellini skillfully employed natural and built features in his imagery to complement religious subjects and enhance the contemplative, meditative potential of his paintings, said Timothy Potts, ... More | |
Camille La Cueillette des pois, 1887. Gouache, 53,3 x 64,4 cm. Bruce et Robbi Toll Archives du musée Camille-Pissarro, Pontoise / droits réservés.
PARIS (AFP).- A painting by impressionist master Camille Pissarro that was seized from its French Jewish owner during World War II is at the centre of a court battle beginning Tuesday in Paris after surfacing at an exhibition. "La Cueillette des Pois" (Picking Peas), a gouache from 1887, emerged earlier this year on display at the French capital's Marmottan Museum, more than 70 years after being snatched from art collector Simon Bauer in Nazi-occupied France. A court will on Tuesday begin examining who are the rightful owners -- Bauer's descendants or an American couple who say they had no idea as to its wartime fate when they bought it at auction in 1995. Bauer, a self-made businessman, was among the thousands of French Jews who were rounded up for deportation in 1944. He narrowly escaped being sent to the Nazi death camps due to a train drivers strike. "La Cueillette des Pois" was one of 93 works that were confiscated from him before he ... More |
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| J. Paul Getty Museum opens "Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts" | | Sotheby's sale offers a unique insight into one of Britain's oldest and most cherished antique galleries | | Exhibition investigates the notion of surface as a privileged place of experimentation and meaning |
Unknown maker, Nuremberg School, The Virgin and Child on a Grassy Bench, about 1500. Pen and brown ink; strip at the top added later Dimensions: 19.2 Ã 15.6 cm. Accession No. 92.GA.103. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Artists, intellectuals, and pious members of society in Renaissance Europe looked to nature for inspiration and guidance in their contemplation of divine order. The elements of the natural worldincluding rocks, trees, flowers, waterways, mountains, and even atmospherewere combined in paintings, drawings, and manuscript illuminations to create expansive landscapes and vistas, which often formed the settings for secular and religious texts. Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts, on view October 10, 2017January 14, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, explores the genre of landscape painting in works of art created for personal or communal devotion. This exhibition draws heavily on the Museums outstanding manuscripts collection, showcasing the exceptional artistic achievement of some of the most ... More | |
An impressive diamond necklace, in the Garland Style, early 20th century. Est. £ 240,000-280,000 / 261,000-305,000 / HK$ 2,430,000-2,830,000. Courtesy of Sothebys.
LONDON.- A remarkable collection of English and continental silver spanning over 500 years, exquisite vintage jewels and objects of vertu from the renowned antiques dealer, S.J. Phillips is to be offered for sale at Sothebys on 18 October 2017. Celebrating the rich and distinguished history of Londons oldest family-owned dealership, the sale will comprise some 260 prized lots from this much-loved treasure house. Founded in 1869 by Solomon Joel Phillips, S.J. Phillips has long been a London institution known for offering pieces of superlative quality and beauty. Establishing themselves as the largest silver dealers of the mid-19th century, the company attracted the patronage of the great collectors of the 20th century, including generations of the Rothschild family. Today, the business is run by the greatgrandsons of Solomon Joel Phillips brothers, Nicolas and Jonathan, and their cousin, Francis and continues to att ... More | |
Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, 1957. Col·lecció MACBA. Fundació MACBA © Lucio Fontana a través de SIAE, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2017. Photo: Gasull Fotografia.
BARCELONA.- Reflections concerning the surface, its material condition and the expansion of the pictorial field occupy a significant place in contemporary artistic practices and form the nucleus of this exhibition. Through 41 works by 24 international artists, MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface raises the following question: how have disciplines such as painting and sculpture been altered and expanded to the point where matter is construed as a critical message? Curated by Antònia Maria Perelló, many of the works in this exhibition explore post-Minimalist practices by incorporating the critical content that they contributed to the language of abstraction. The first section contains works by Ignasi AballÃ, Antoni Tà pies, Lucio Fontana, Karla Black and Art & Language, which question language and the dialectic of the surface. From its deconstruction, painting is ... More |
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| Berlinische Galerie stages one of the biggest Jeanne Mammen retrospectives to date | | Chester Beatty Library displays complete series of Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War | | Museum Voorlinden exhibits the work of Swedish artist Michael Johansson |
Jeanne Mammen, Die GroÃstadt, um 1927, Titelblattentwurf für: Die GroÃstadt, 1927, Jg. I, Heft 1, Berlinische Galerie, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017, Repro: © Kai-Annett Becker.
BERLIN.- Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976), painter and illustrator, is one of the most colourful characters in recent German art history, and yet one of the hardest to unravel. This Berlin artist epitomises a rare type strong, independent women at the outbreak of Modernism. Mammen experienced war, destruction, poverty and the rise from ruins in her own very personal and productive way. By staging one of the biggest Mammen retrospectives to date, the Berlinische Galerie has initiated a rediscovery of her iconic works from the 1920s, her degenerate experiments and her magically poetic abstractions. Jeanne Mammens uvre, with all its fierce fault lines, depicts the political and aesthetic upheavals of the last century in works which are entertaining and at the same time critical commentaries. Art scholars far beyond the confines ... More | |
Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Against the common good (Contra el bien general). The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra), 1810-20, published 1892, Madrid. CBL Wep 1833. © Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
DUBLIN.- Francisco Goyas The Disasters of War has been described as the greatest anti-war manifesto in the history of art. Chester Beatty Library in Dublin holds the entire series of 80 prints (from the second edition of 1892), which depict the horrors of Napoleons invasion of Spain and its aftermath. For the first time 40 of the prints are now on display at a special exhibition in the Library. Goya catalogues the brutality of war and its consequences in a stark, unflinching manner. His realistic depictions of the horrors of war have influenced artists like Manet, Dali and Picasso as well as photojournalists who have striven to capture the reality of conflict. The prints, complete with ironic titles such as: What courage; The deathbeds; Against the common good, were not published until ... More | |
Johansson uses commonplace, often second-hand objects in his playful artwork.
WASSENAAR.- Museum Voorlinden is exhibiting the work of Swedish artist Michael Johansson (1975). Johansson's methodology is one of collecting, organising, stacking, and puzzling. The everyday objects that he brings together are given new form and context in his sculptures and installations. In addition to a number of existing works, the museum is also showcasing a 40-square-meter, site-specific work, created especially for this exhibition. For this project, team Voorlinden put themselves in Johansson's shoes and collected all kinds of objects, which Johansson will use to create a new, wall-to-wall artwork. Besides work in the cabinets, visitors will be surprised by the artist at unexpected locations in and around the museum. Johansson uses commonplace, often second-hand objects in his playful artwork. He combs through jumble sales and second-hand shops for old televisions, transistor radios, video recorders, and other ... More |
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| Carl Solway exhibits works by artists who incorporate forms of illumination in their work | | Josephine Meckseper's first solo exhibition in Mexico City on view at PROYECTOSMONCLOVA | | Cubans pay tribute to 'Che' on 50th anniversary of his death |
Erwin Redl, Reflections, on Patterns and Signs, 2015. Light painting 12 RGB LED-bars on white board with stainless steel frame, microprocessor, 36.5 x 36.5 x 3.5 inches/ 93 x 93 x 9 cm (width x height x depth). Edition of 10.
CINCINNATI, OH.- This exhibition features eight artists residing in the U.S. and Canada who incorporate various forms of illumination in their work. The sources of light emanating from their pieces may be incandescent light bulbs, LED bulbs or screens, video projection or candles. Included are works by Jim Campbell, Diane Landry, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Brian Eno, Mery Lynn McCorkle, Alan Rath, Erwin Redl and Jody Zellen. Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco. He received degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. He transitioned from filmmaking to interactive video installations in the mid 1980s. His custom electronic sculptures and installations have made him a leading figure in the use of computer technology as an art form. His best-known work involves pixilated representations ... More | |
Untitled, 2013. Acrylic on wood, 56.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm. Courtesy of the artist and PROYECTOSMONCLOVA © Josephine Meckseper.
MEXICO CITY.- PROYECTOSMONCLOVA is presenting Josephine Mecksepers first solo exhibition in Mexico City. Mecksepers practice is premised in a consideration of the visual and material cultures of consumerism, art history, counter-culture, and 20th century modes of display through installations, assemblages, and film. Using methods of retail display such as glass vitrines, shelves, shop windows, combined with a methodical and confrontational use of mirrors and reflection, her work establishes a non-linear narrative that highlights capitalisms infinite tendency to appropriate, replicate, and corrupt. In her show at PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Meckseper juxtaposes paradoxical elements such as a film still of Sharon Stone, references to Brancusis endless column, a mannequin hand, and a painting that reads AUSSTELLUNG [exhibition]. A series of paintings of casual brushy strokes made with toilet wands eludes ... More | |
A graffiti depicting the image of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a street of Havana, on October 2, 2017. YAMIL LAGE / AFP.
SANTA CLARA (AFP).- Tens of thousands of Cubans turned out on Sunday to pay tribute to Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, on the 50th anniversary of his death. An estimated 70,000 people thronged the streets outside a mausoleum in this town 300 kilometers (186 miles) east of the capital Havana which houses the remains of Guevara and of some of his former comrades. President Raul Castro, dressed in his general's uniform, was among those attending the ceremony in Santa Clara, which was the site of a December 1958 battle that finally sent Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile. Raul Castro fought alongside Guevara during the Cuban revolution led by his brother Fidel Castro. The 39-year-old Guevara was captured and executed by a CIA-trained unit of the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967. This year's ceremony was the first in the absence of Fidel Castro, who ... More |
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Artemis Gallery auction features rare Olmec "baby" and 5th century BC Italian warrior's breastplate
BOULDER, COLO.- Artemis Gallery, renowned for its impeccably curated auctions of fine cultural artifacts, will conduct a 380-lot sale on October 12 featuring superb antiquities and museum-level ancient and ethnographic art. Boasting an especially high-quality selection, the auction contains unique objects and artworks from Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, as well as Asian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian, African and Native American cultures and tribes. Additional categories include Spanish colonial and Russian art; fossils, ancient jewelry and many more. Bidders may participate by phone, absentee or live via the Internet. In keeping with the Artemis Gallery tradition, each item is backed by an ironclad guarantee that it is as described in the auction catalog and legal to buy or resell. A certificate of authenticity will accompany ... More
Leading Colombian artists Jim Amaral and Valentino Cortázar exhibit at LAMB Arts
LONDON.- LAMB Arts is presenting two solo exhibitions by two leading Colombian artists Jim Amaral and Valentino Cortázar. Jim Amaral: Quote Unquote presents 24 surreal watercolour paintings that depict erotic and playful floating figures. Valentino Cortázars Cave Project: Diario debuts pages of Cortázars diary that contain works that were produced during his travels from Deia to Ibiza. Both shows offer an interesting insight into the surrealist worlds of two mature Colombian artists, through new and old bodies of work. Jim Amaral, known for his erotic drawings and bronze sculptures, produced his series of watercolours obsessively between 2002 2003, creating almost 100 pieces in total. In this exhibition, 24 of his watercolours are being presented in the top floor of the gallery. Using his characteristic colours, Amaral draws bodies that are ambiguous characters floating ... More
The Monarch of the Glen set for landmark tour across Scotland
EDINBURGH.- One of the most celebrated paintings in the world the iconic Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer will embark on a landmark tour around Scotland this week, following its acquisition for the nation earlier this year. Landseers masterpiece, which was painted in 1851, famously depicts a proud stag imperiously surveying a Highlands landscape, and is recognised the world over as an image closely associated with Scotland. Following a four-month fundraising campaign, the painting was acquired in March by the National Galleries of Scotland, with overwhelming support from the public, from The National Lottery, Art Fund, private trusts and foundations, Scottish Government acquisition grant funding and by a part gift by previous owners Diageo Scotland Ltd. After a summer of attracting admiring crowds in Edinburgh, The Monarch of the ... More
Pump House Gallery opens exhibition of recent work by artist David Panos
LONDON.- Wandsworth Council's Pump House Gallery is presenting Time Crystals, an exhibition of recent work by artist David Panos that examines the contemporary revival of cultural motifs from the 1980s and 90s - particularly from 'alternative' and 'rave' subcultures. Through the lens of Panoss personal memories of youth culture in the period around 1989, the exhibition explores how media and industrialised fast fashion transform how we might interpret and remember the past. Colliding and contrasting authentic archival material, digital compositing and animation, choreography and contemporary club footage in a presentation of videos and installation elements, Panos both extends and undermines his own memory and opens up alternative futures. The exhibition is accompanied by a public programme of discussions, performances and activities designed ... More
Tabari Artspace announces new name and visual identity of their gallery
DUBAI.- Tabari Artspace announces the new name and visual identity of their gallery formerly known as ARTSPACE Dubai. A solo exhibition of new works by one of Egypts most influential and established contemporary artists, Mohamed Abla will be the first at the gallery under its new name. Mohamed Abla: The Silk Road includes a selection of abstract artworks which synthesise calligraphy, collage and traditional Middle Eastern techniques, as well as a series of new paintings entitled The Silk Road, which explore folktales from North Africa, the Levant, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent. A common theme in Ablas work is the exploration of new methods of mark making. For The Silk Road series, the artist employs the Turkish Ebru technique (paper marbling), which is the act of floating paper in a tray filled with water and oil paint. The paint is then carefully transferred ... More
Original oil painting by Norman Rockwell up for auction
BOSTON, MASS.- An original painting by Norman Rockwell of R. E. Roberson will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The distinguished portrait of Roberson was painted in 1971 while he served as the fifth president of American Mutual Insurance Company. The painting is accomplished oil on canvas board, signed in the lower right in red paint, Norman Rockwell. Beautifully framed with a small nameplate plaque at the bottom of the frame, reading: R. Earl Roberson, President 1964-1975. Provenance: Collection of Charles G. Martignette, Heritage, 2010. This portrait is reproduced as figure P118 on page 1003 of Norman Rockwell: A Definitive Catalogue by Laurie Moffatt, published by The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge in 1986. As the preeminent painter-illustrator of the 20th century, Rockwell is an iconic American artist and his original artwork ... More
Contemporary art meets pop music in special exhibition at ARKEN
COPENHAGEN.- Experience compelling artworks and music videos in a major exhibition that speaks to the eyes and ears, vocal cords and sense of rhythm. Contemporary art meets pop music in the special exhibition MY MUSIC at ARKEN in a sensual explosion of music video, video art, sculpture, painting and installation. In recent years there has been a wealth of encounters between music and art. Pop music and visual art unfold through each others artistic and commercial modes of expression and serve up sparkling as well as acerbic and humorous comments on our society and the ideals in which we reflect ourselves. The exhibition MY MUSIC takes a close look at this creative encounter and shows art and music videos by among others Lady Gaga, Pipilotti Rist, Candice Breitz, Marilyn Minter, Katy Perry and Jesper Just. The Swedish video artist Nathalie Djurbergs modelling- ... More
Louisiana opens exhibition featuring works by 10 international artists
COPENHAGEN.- Louisianas autumn exhibition, Being There, presents 10 international artists with a focus on mankinds navigation between physical and digital reality. The works, several created specifically for this exhibition, are the artists interpretations of human existence in the forms it takes in the light of the widespread and ongoing digitalization of our lives. Life is increasingly taking form on the premises of the Internet. We conform to its laws; we choose the paths it points out for us; we adhere to the facts with which it presents us; we meet the significant other it says is a match for us. Smartphones and computers in that sense become extensions of ourselves digital limbs, because they take over a range of chores, actions and functions we have earlier had to deal with ourselves. The emergence of the Internet has also influenced the visual ... More
Bolshoi and Met announce first ever operatic collaboration
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russia's Bolshoi theatre and New York's Metropolitan Opera on Monday announced plans to work together for the first time, co-producing three operas all starring Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. The New York opera house's general manager Peter Gelb and Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin announced the plans at a joint news conference in the Moscow theatre. The theatres will co-produce three operas -- Verdi's "Aida," Strauss's "Salome" and Wagner's "Lohengrin" -- to be staged both in Moscow and in New York between 2019 and 2022. The Met's star singer Netrebko, who holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship, will perform on both stages in the lead roles in "Aida" and "Salome" and the main soprano role in "Lohengrin," the theatres said in a joint statement. The major cultural exchange between the Russian and US musical heavyweights comes ... More
Star-crossed 'Don Quixote' actor Rochefort dies aged 87
PARIS (AFP).- Jean Rochefort, the French actor who played a key role in one of the most cursed movie sagas in Hollywood history, has died aged 87, his daughter told AFP Monday. Rochefort was a French national treasure who had scored a major international hit in 1990 with "The Hairdresser's Husband" when he was cast to play Don Quixote in 1998 by the former Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, who dreamed of bringing the "unfilmable" Cervantes novel to the big screen. But things soon began to go wrong with the wildly ambitious project, in which Johnny Depp was to play a marketing executive sent back in time whom the elderly knight mistakes for his squire, Sancho Panza. The veteran actor was struck by a prostate infection on the first day of shooting in Spain which left him in agony on the back of his half-starved horse. Then on the second ... More
Asterix returns in chariot race through Italy
PARIS (AFP).- Asterix is to ride again in the 37th book in the legendary comic series, its publishers said Monday. "Asterix and the Chariot Race" will hit the bookshelves on October 19 recounting the adventures of the shrewd Gallic hero and his rotund sidekick Obelix during a mad dash down the length of ancient Italy. The only Asterix story to be set entirely on the Italian peninsula, it takes place in 50 BC with Julius Caesar trying to prove "that all of Italy is in thrall to Rome" even though "many regions are determined to maintain their independence." To burnish Roman glory and showcase the "dazzling excellence of Roman roads" Caesar invites teams from all over the known world to compete in the race. There is only one catch -- "the Roman competitor must absolutely cross the finishing first," the publishers said. Caesar's charioteer and the latest Asterix baddie is a masked ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Dorothea Lange died October 10, 1965. Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. In this image: A large photo of "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange hangs in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum with the other photos, background, that Lange took while photographing the mother and children, as part of the "This Great Nation Will Endure" exhibit on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, in Hyde Park, N.Y.
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