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In a photo provided by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bernardo Bellottoâs âMarketplace at Pirnaâ which is at the center of a dispute over whether its sale to the Nazis in 1938 was voluntary or made under duress. A fight over a landscape painting bought for Hitler is focused on the question of whether its sale was voluntary or forced by economic distress the Nazis helped create. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston via The New York Times.
by Catherine Hickley
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1938, Jewish department-store magnate Max Emden, who left Germany before the Nazis took power, sold three city views by 18th-century painter Bernardo Bellotto to an art buyer for Hitler. The works, which were with Emden in Switzerland, were destined for the Führermuseum that Hitler planned for Linz, Austria, but never built. During World War II, the paintings were hidden in an Austrian salt mine. Officers of the Allied Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Unit known as the Monuments Men recovered them at the end of the war, and two of the Bellottos were returned to the German government. The third, Marketplace at Pirna, was mistakenly sent to the Netherlands. In 2019, Germany returned those two works to Emdens heirs after the governments Advisory Commission on Nazi-looted art determined that Emden was a victim of the systematic destruction of peoples economic livelihoods by the Third Reich as a tool of National Socialist ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Ancient & Ethnographic Art Through The Ages Auction on Thu, Aug 19, 2021 9:00 AM GMT-5. Ancient art from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Fine art, and much more! In this image: Rare Mesopotamian Painted Fresco Chariot / Horse. Estimate $14,000 - $24,000.
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| World-renowned artist Mark di Suvero exhibits paintings at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art | | The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquires rare Paul Revere tankard | | Guarding the last likeness of a loathed dictator? It's a thankless job. |
History and its Shadow includes the premiere of di Suveros latest works, a series of large blacklight paintings and an ephemeral sculpture series called The Triplets.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF.- The San Luis Obispo Museum of Art announces its exhibition History and its Shadow featuring internationally acclaimed artist, Mark di Suvero. SLOMA has partnered with di Suvero to curate the artists largest-ever exhibition of recent paintings at a museum. This groundbreaking show opened to the public on August 14 and runs through November 7, 2021. History and its Shadow includes the premiere of di Suveros latest works, a series of large blacklight paintings and an ephemeral sculpture series called The Triplets. The painted works are meant to be viewed in two different environments, both regular light and UV light, which is a play on the way we know someone by day and then find out subconsciously their dispositions at night. The exhibition also features Mamma Mobius, a monumental sculpture weighing nearly four tons. This contemporary sculpture is on display on the museums lawn for the duration of the exhibition. Mark i ... More | |
Tankard, Marked by Paul Revere, Jr. (1734-1818), Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1795, silver, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund, 2021-45.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has added to its renowned American and British silver collection a rare tankard made ca. 1795 by Americas best-known colonial silversmith, Paul Revere (1734-1818) of Boston, Massachusetts. Originally used as communal drinking vessels, tankards are among the largest forms produced in Reveres shop. Approximately three dozen Revere tankards are known, and this one is typical of those from the 1790s, with tapering sides, midband, tall domed lid and pinecone form finials. Colonial Williamsburg has long sought a significant example of Reveres work, said Ronald L. Hurst, the Foundations Carlisle H. Humelsine chief curator and vice president for museums, preservation and historic resources. With its impressive size, fine detail, and excellent condition, this tankard fills a significant void in our American silver holdings. A beloved American p ... More | |
A bronze statue of Enver Hoxha, Europes most enduring and feared communist tyrant, at a stable in the remote mountain village of Labinot Mal, in central Albania, on July 17, 2021. Laura Boushnak/The New York Times.
by Andrew Higgins
LABINOT MAL (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Swaddled in straw on the dirt floor of a stable, the once omnipotent dictator lies helpless on his back. His face specked with bird droppings, he stares blankly at the sagging roof, a final indignity for a leader whose all-seeing eyes held millions in terrified thrall for four decades. Enver Hoxha, who died in 1985, was Europes most enduring and feared communist tyrant, creating a cult of personality that left the impoverished Balkan nation of Albania awash with grandiose statues, marble busts and giant portraits in his honor. Now, 30 years after the brutal system he left behind imploded, the cult has shrunk to a single tribute in bronze, toppled from its stone pedestal in a remote mountain village and dumped in a stable but still watched over day and night by an elderly Albanian woman and her daughter. ... More |
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| Pérez Art Museum Miami announces new acquisitions by thirteen artists for permanent collection | | National Endowment for the Humanities announces new grants | | Highly-anticipated "The Art of Banksy" exhibition opens in Chicago |
Hélio Oiticica. Macaléia, 1978. Installation with stainless steel, wire mesh, gravel, asphalt, bricks, plants, planters. Cube: 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 inches. © Hélio Oiticica. Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
MIAMI, FLA.- Pérez Art Museum Miami announced significant acquisitions of works by diverse artists for the museums permanent collection, including artists of Cuban and Brazilian origin as well as eleven women artists. Several of the artists are entering the museums collection for the first time, including Karon Davis, Kenturah Davis, Bisa Butler, and Christine Sun Kim. Among the new acquisitions are Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticicas Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable) from 1978purchased with funds from Jorge M. Péreza walk-in installation inspired by the favela communities of Rio de Janeiro; Coco Fuscos The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, a series of photographs purchased by PAMMs International Womens Committee Endowment; and Karon Davis Bobby Seale and The Peoples Free Food Program, ... More | |
Pierpont Morgans Library. The Morgan Library & Museum. Photography by Graham Haber, 2014.
by Sarah Bahr
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Morgan Library & Museum, the University of Chicago and the new Georgia OKeeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, are among 239 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities that were announced Tuesday. The grants, which total $28.4 million and are the second round awarded this year, will support projects at museums, libraries, universities and historic sites in 45 states, as well as in Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. They will enable the creation of a documentary about the Colfax Massacre in which dozens of former slaves were killed in a Louisiana town during Reconstruction by City Lore, a nonprofit New York art gallery; the development of Archaeorover, an autonomous robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to ... More | |
Installation view of The Art of Banksy, Chicago. Photo: Kyle Flubacker.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art of Banksy, the largest touring exhibition of authentic Banksy artworks in the world, opened the Chicago exhibition on the 4th floor of 360 N. State St: a 45,000-square-foot space that was the home of other public exhibits. Situated in the heart of River North adjacent to the Marina Towers, 360 N. State St. is quickly developing a reputation as an exhibition space. The modern venues tall, overarching ceilings provide ample room to showcase Banksys work in all its glory. Guests also have the opportunity to enjoy the spaces outdoor balcony and a VIP/Private reception room on the 3rd floor. The venue stands in a bustling, energetic region of River North, amongst esteemed restaurants, hotels, music venues and more, just steps away from the Chicago Riverwalk. With on-site parking available, 360 N. State St. is easily accessible via numerous L and bus lines, including the nearby Grand Avenue CTA ... More |
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| Earliest Hong Kong banknote ever discovered to be offered at Dix Noonan Webb | | Antwerp-based DMW Gallery and Base-Alpha Gallery join forces to open a new gallery in Brussels | | Michael Krebber's first solo exhibition in Italy on view at The Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation |
Issued by the Oriental Bank Corporation - the first bank to open a branch in Hong Kong - the note is dated 1 June 1860, and has the serial number 20465. It is estimated to sell for £30,000-50,000.
LONDON.- Dix Noonan Webb will be offering a remarkable and recently discovered Hong Kong 1860 Five Dollar Banknote - the earliest known fully issued banknote of any denomination for Hong Kong - in their auction of British, Irish and World Banknotes on Thursday, August 26, 2021 at their Mayfair saleroom (16 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BQ). It is likely to exceed its estimate of £30,000-50,000. Issued by the Oriental Bank Corporation - the first bank to open a branch in Hong Kong - the note is dated 1 June 1860, and has the serial number 20465. It bears the signature of the Manager, John McDouall, at right and the Accountant, James Webster, at left, with a Royal Coat of Arms at upper centre. The only other issued notes from the Oriental Bank Corporation to have survived are dated 1866 and 1879, three of which are in private collections, and several others ... More | |
Caroline Van den Eynden, Red is a memory, 2021 Wood, messing, steel and paint 25 x 40 x 25 cm Unique.
BRUSSELS.- Following their previous successful collaboration for Ballroom-Project during the last three editions of the Antwerp Art Weekend, Ida Wollens from DMW Gallery and Bart Vanderbiesen from Base-Alpha Gallery decided to join forces permanently with the opening of Ballroom Gallery Brussels. Ballroom-Project originated as a commercial platform for non-Antwerp galleries to participate in a major city-project in Antwerp. The project is based on collegiality, the exchange of networks and energy. After two very successful physical editions and one digital edition, this idea is extended to a permanent exhibition space, which aims to connect the different actors within the contemporary art world and to support and guide a young generation of artists. In addition to their respective individual spaces in Antwerp, their joint project Ballroom Gallery lands in the prestigious Koningsstraat in Brussels. The 140m2 space is located right ... More | |
Installation view of Michael Krebber's exhibition at The Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation. Photo: Tiberio Sorvillo.
BOLZANO.- The Antonio Dalle Nogare Foundation presents Michael Krebbers first solo exhibition in Italy, entitled Studiofloor and Diamond Paintings. Michael Krebber (b. Cologne, 1954) is an internationally acclaimed artist and a figure central to the German art scene between the 1980s and 90s. Over the years he has become a reference point for a generation of younger artists, thanks to his constant and attentive focus on questioning the conventions and limits of the medium of painting, which he sees as a space for dialogue and a cross-genre hotbed, rather than something focused on the production of an object. For decades, Krebbers art has been distinguished by a conceptual approach to painting, based on the conviction that it is impossible to invent anything new in art, as everything has already been invented. Rather than inventing something new, Krebbers minimal and apparently unresolve ... More |
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| Chairman of H&H Classics, Simon Hope, to sell part of his private collection at Duxford | | Taschen publishes a definitive survey of Kengo Kuma's oeuvre | | Paul Holberton to publish "Towards the Sun: The Artist-Traveller at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" |
1964 Ford Mustang Hardtop Coupe Racer - Estimate £40,000 - £50,000.
LONDON.- When youve spent more than three decades auctioning some of the finest classic cars, as Simon Hope, Chairman of H&H Classics has done, what do you choose for your own collection? At the companys next sale at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford, you will be able to see and bid on part of Simon Hopes private collection, four cars that he handpicked over the years. Simon has a passion for V8s as well as cars that can be used for a specific purpose, such as the Bentley for pre-war rallying and touring. He is not bothered about investment and value, but buys very much with his heart and with a passion for cars he genuinely likes to drive or rally. What is clear from this collection is that they run well and are fun to drive. You can be sure each of these four vehicles will be a pleasure to own. Speaking about the sale of part of his collection Simon says: I believe cars ... More | |
Kuma. Complete Works 1988Today. Kengo Kuma, Philip Jodidio. Hardcover, printed on two different paper stocks, 30.8 x 39 cm, 4.97 kg, 460 pages ISBN 978-3-8365-7512-6
NEW YORK, NY.- After Tadao Ando, Toyo Ito, and Fumihiko Maki, Kengo Kuma has breathed renewed vigor and lightness into Japanese architecture. Departing from the modernist skyscraper of the 20th century, Kuma traveled through his native Japan to develop a truly sustainable approach, translating local craftsmanship and resources into site-specific, timely buildings. Informed by tradition, and with both feet firmly planted in the present, this materialist heralds a new tactile architecture marked by its engaging surfaces, innovative structures, and fluid forms, reconnecting people with the physicality of a house. Kumas objective, above all else, is just to respect the culture and environment of the place where I am working. To this end, Kuma shaped the China Academy of Arts Folk Art Museum partially from discarded ... More | |
Kenneth McConkeys brilliant study of globetrotting British artists adventurous, experimental, anticipating the next cliché has anecdotes as well as art, exquisite vignettes as well as important points to make in the post-Said Orientalism debate, and a wealth of apposite quotations and connoisseurship.
LONDON.- This groundbreaking new book explores the complex history of the artist-traveller in a series of chapters that take the reader from southern Europe to north Africa, the Middle East, India and Japan, revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today. McConkey alerts us to a generation of painters trained in academies and artists colonies in Europe that acted as crèches for those would go on to explore life and landscape further afield. At the height of British Imperial power, and facilitated by engineering and technological advance, the burgeoning tourism and travel industry rippled into the production of specialist goods and services that included a dedicated publishing sector. Essential to this ... More |
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Powerhouse welcomes new Chief Operating Officer
SYDNEY.- The Powerhouse welcomes Mark Wilsdon to the new role of Chief Operating Officer during a transformational period of renewal. Mr Wilsdon brings over 30 years of experience in the arts, cultural, tourism and hospitality sectors, including an exceptionally successful tenure as the founding Co-CEO of the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) where he oversaw the establishment and extraordinary growth of the world-renowned institution. As a highly respected industry leader Mr Wilsdon brings strong financial and commercial acumen as well as significant expertise in the delivery of visitor experience strategies. Mr Wilsdon begins the role at the Powerhouse in November and will be central to the transformation of the museum across its sites including the new flagship Powerhouse Parramatta, the renewal of Powerhouse Ultimo and the expansion ... More
Parishioners killed in quake-damaged historic Haiti church
LES ANGLAIS (AFP).- Its bell tower and yellow walls a sharp contrast with Haiti's blue tropical sky, the historic Immaculee Conception church was the pride of Les Anglais, until it was destroyed by an earthquake Saturday, burying several faithful inside. On August 14, at exactly 8:29 am (1229 GMT), a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, reducing the church's facade and steeple to a pile of rubble in seconds. At least 17 people were crushed to death by the collapsing wall and roof. "I had just finished celebrating the 6:30 am morning mass and had entered the presbytery to have coffee before returning to celebrate baptisms" when the quake struck, said parish priest Wilson Exantus Andre. "The oldest of the deceased was 24 years old. What is hard is that a woman who has only two children, 18 years old and 3 years old, lost them both," the priest, ... More
Lincoln Center hopes a $20 million donation will help fuel a revival
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Lincoln Center announced Tuesday that it would use a $20 million gift from philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano to help bring back and revitalize opera, jazz, theater and dance on its campus. The donation will help the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater and Jazz at Lincoln Center pay for some of their upcoming endeavors, such as the U.S. premiere of the Brett Dean opera Hamlet at the Met and the revival of New York City Ballets annual art series. This fund will be very helpful in making it possible for us to get our doors open as soon and as safely as we can, said Katherine Farley, chair of Lincoln Centers board. Distribution of the donation, over five years, represents an effort by Lincoln Center to forge closer ties with its constituent organizations, which are run independently. ... More
Ankara print dresses? These aren't Shakespeare's 'Merry Wives.'
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Saheem Ali, the director of this summers Shakespeare in the Park production of Merry Wives, thought about which costume designer he wanted to create the clothes for the show, he knew immediately that it should be Dede Ayite. The two have been friends for years, and have worked together on Twelfth Night for the Public Mobile Unit, Fires in the Mirror at Signature Theater Company and the upcoming Nollywood Dreams at the MCC Theater. Dede fit the bill for this particular project to a T, he said. Not only because of her artistry, he added, but because of her identity. He knew the Ghanaian-born costume designer would bring an authenticity and a truth to the world that I couldnt imagine any other designer bringing up for this particular world. In playwright Jocelyn Biohs modern take on Shakespeares ... More
It's never too late to record your first album
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One day a couple of years back, the woman who has long cleaned Russ Ellis house in Berkeley, California, showed up with a new helper. Ellis did not think to ask her name. Perhaps he forgot. Or maybe the recovering academic a celebrated architecture professor at the University of California, Berkeley, later a vice chancellor had other things on his mind. Whatever the case, the lapse rattled him. Russell Ellis, your fathers mother was born into slavery, he said to himself. You have the right to invisibilize no one. He not only learned the womans name then and there Eliza but pledged to sing it next time she came by. With that pledge, something strange shook loose in him. A song walked right in. Eliiiiiza. Eliiiiiiiiiza. And then the urge kept coming. Calling on experienced musician friends to help, Ellis spent ... More
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery reopens with exhibition of works by Mike Cloud
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of University of the Arts presents the first Philadelphia exhibition of paintings by Mike Cloud, widely known for his large-scale, layered and constructed paintings. Clouds paintings complicate with layers of meaning. He constructs tiered stretchers, often in stellate forms, to which he applies objects such as childrens clothing. The canvases are stapled within the stretchers so that they are exposed as things, constructs, objectified not illusionistic, inverted, exposed, raw. The clothing supplies an understandable scale indexed to a small body. His texts and paint marks then are coded communication rituals. For Cloud, painting retains an allegorical function, its system is imbued with a history, a site (the wall), and an evolving lexicon of marks. There is an urgency to his exploration of new forms ... More
Recent work by artist Aaron Nachtailer presented alongside the Unesco monuments in Ravenna
RAVENNA.- In these unusual times and year, Dante Alighieri is celebrated in the city of Ravenna, Italy, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his passing by many disciplines and also contemporary art. Throughout August, Ravenna is the scene for the site-specific installations by artist Aaron Nachtailer entitled "Mi Inferno / Tu Paradiso - Miraggio", a series of works that are being displayed alongside the city´s Unesco heritage sites. Ravenna is the first stage of the Miraggio project. Following the exhibition at Battistero Neoniano, Basilica of San Vitale and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Miraggio will be presented in other sites and continue in Florence, Paris and Buenos Aires. "Miraggio is a poetic and imaginative work - explain the organizers -. A translation, using the language of contemporary art, of Dante's vision: his journey into the bowels ... More
UK adults planning 66m trips to museums and galleries this summer
LONDON.- People across the UK are planning a massive 66m trips to museums and galleries this summer, as lockdown lifts and beloved institutions across the country reopen their doors. But according to new consumer research commissioned by Art Fund the national charity for art the vast majority (65%) of people who are planning to visit a museum or gallery this summer will do so to one of the top ten biggest museums in the UK, compared with just 39% who said they would visit one of the 2,000-plus smaller venues across the country. Eight of the top ten museums and galleries in the UK are based in London however, and the data suggests that there could be a regional disparity in museums fortunes, with large, London-based institutions enjoying a busy and successful re-opening, while smaller, regional museums and galleries continue to struggle. ... More
Palazzo Biscari presents "Mondo: Museo Archeologico del Reale"
CATANIA .- From July 11 until August 31, 2021, Palazzo Biscari hosts MONDO: Museo Archeologico del Reale. The exhibition project stems from a reflection on the museum as a historical device that invents nature and the multiplicity of the real through taxonomically organized knowledge. This project arises from new research about the Museo Biscari, one of the first museums open to the public in Sicily, founded in Catania in 1758 by Ignazio Paternò Castello (17191786). Inaugurated a few decades after a devastating 1693 earthquake, it intended to give back a sense of identity and collective memory grounded in archeological findings. In 1934 the collection was given to the Civic Museum of Castello Ursino, where many of the objects remained in storage. For Mondo, after almost a century, some of those objects and artifacts have returned ... More
A soprano with a bottomless appetite for risk
BAYREUTH (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Asmik Grigorian was hungry after all. The soprano, whose debut at the Bayreuth Festival the evening before had been met with a roaring ovation, initially ordered an espresso to help her wake up. But then she wanted more. Do you have ice cream? she asked a waiter. Chocolate? he responded. Strawberry, vanilla All, she said, cutting him off. All of it. He returned with a coupe glass nearly overflowing with five scoops of different flavors. And she ate it all. Grigorian, 40, approached dessert the way she does opera: with daring, total commitment and a bottomless appetite. She has a voice by turns steely and lyrical, immense and delicate, and she is one of the fiercest dramatic talents in the field. Her Bayreuth debut, as Senta in Wagners Der Fliegende Holländer, is one of many high-profile ... More
Greenwich Living Design has new name, new look, new location
STAMFORD, CONN.- The longtime Stamford company known as Greenwich Living Antique & Design Center has a new name, a new look and a new location. Now called Greenwich Living Design, the firm relocated in June into a 22,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at 375 Fairfield Avenue, where it will anchor Stamfords burgeoning Waterside Design District, alongside Stark Carpet, Holly Hunt and Schwartz Design Showroom, just to name a few. The move is a mere five minutes from its former location on Canal Street, but it brings with it many internal and external changes for the family-owned and operated gallery, chief among them its place in the Stamford Waterside Design District, a creative neighborhood and shopping destination dedicated to interior design and architecture and serving decorators, designers and design-enthusiasts alike. Greenwich ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris was born August 18, 1863. Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 18, 1863 - March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. In this image: The First Thanksgiving 1621.
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