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JMW Turner, Going to the Ball (San Martino). © Tate.
WINCHESTER .- In the weeks prior to his death, J.M.W. Turner is said to have declared (to John Ruskin) The Sun is God what he meant by this, no-one really knows, but what is not in any doubt is the central role that the sun played in Turners lifelong obsession with light and how to paint it. An exhibition curated by Hampshire Cultural Trust is the first ever to be devoted solely to the artists lifelong obsession with the sun. Whether it is the soft light of dawn, the uncompromising brilliance of midday or the technicolour vibrancy of sunset, his light-drenched landscapes bear testimony to the central role that the sun assumed in Turners art. Through twelve generous loans from Tate Britain the majority of which are rarely on public display this focused exhibition Turner and the Sun considers how the artist repeatedly explored the transformative effects of sunlight and sought to capture its vivid hues in paint. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors pause and view portraits of immigrants at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island, August 8, 2017 in New York City. Immigration continues to be a hotly debated topic in the United States during the Trump administration. During a press briefing last week, Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump's senior policy advisor, discussed President Trump's support for a 'merit-based' immigration system. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP
| Dinosaurs beheaded at Australian museum | | Country music legend Glen Campbell dead at 81 | | Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts exhibits recently attributed painting by Titian | 
Museum staffer Mitchell Seymour said the damaged dinos were first spotted by visitors, with children puzzled at what happened. Photo: ACT Policing/Twitter.
SYDNEY (AFP).- Three model raptors at Australia's national dinosaur museum have been beheaded by mystery vandals who scaled a fence and removed the parts using an angle grinder or hacksaw, police said Tuesday. Investigators are hunting for the attackers after the damage to the dinosaurs -- which were in an outside display area -- took place late Saturday at the museum in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory police said. "The damage sustained to the (three velociraptor) dinosaurs indicate that an angle grinder or hacksaw was used to remove the heads from the body," they said. "The offenders had climbed a four-foot fence to gain entry." Museum staffer Mitchell Seymour said the damaged dinos were first spotted by visitors, with children puzzled at what happened. "We went out to check it out and ... More | | 
This file photo taken on February 10, 2012 shows Glen Campbell and his wife Kim arriving for the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year. Frederic J. BROWN / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Country music legend Glen Campbell, the mellow-voiced "Rhinestone Cowboy" who sold millions of albums over a career that spanned decades, has died at the age of 81. Campbell, who left his mark on the music, television and movie worlds, died in Nashville, Tennessee, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist," his family said in a statement. Campbell's more than 70 albums sold more than 50 million copies, earning him six Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, and membership in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Musicians Hall of Fame. Completed while he was already ... More | | 
The exhibition presents a unique opportunity to see priceless masterpieces.
MOSCOW.- The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is presenting a large-scale project of exceptional significance Renaissance Venice. Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese. From Italian and Russian collections, exhibiting 25 outstanding works by three of the greatest painters. These works have been brought to Moscow for the first time, and some of them have never been displayed outside of Italy. During the Renaissance, Venice experienced the golden age of art and, first and foremost, painting. In the 16th century, a triad of great masters of the brush Titian Vecellio (c. 14901576), Jacopo Tintoretto (15181594) and Paolo Veronese (15281588) created their famous paintings in this city. These artists played a defining role in the formation of the European artistic culture and rendered an important influence on the development of art over the next centuries. This ... More |
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| Thieves target historic Portuguese decorative tiles | | National Archives begins online release of JFK assassination records | | Carlos Luna drawings depict Latin American culture beyond skin deep | 
Ceramist Cristina Pina, 55 years old, paints a title at her studio and shop at Alfama neighborhood in Lisbon. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP.
LISBON (AFP).- Gaping holes on the crumbling walls of an abandoned palace in the heart of Lisbon mark where decorative ceramic tiles have been yanked off, to the displeasure of passing tourists. Thieves are swiping the elaborately painted tiles, which cover buildings across Portugal, to sell them on the black market. Just one of these tiles, called azulejos, can fetch thousands of euros. And abandoned buildings like the 17th century Pombal Palace, are especially vulnerable. This was once the family home of the Marquis de Pombal, the statesman who rebuilt Lisbon after a massive earthquake devastated the city in 1755. Owned by Lisbon's cash-strapped city hall for the last five decades, it has fallen into ruin due to lack of maintenance. And since a cultural association, Carpe Diem, moved out at the end of July, the palace has been empty. ... More | | 
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Archives released a group of documents (the first of several expected releases), along with 17 audio files, previously withheld in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The materials released are available online only. Access to the original paper records will occur at a future date. Download the files online here Highlights of this release include 17 audio files of interviews of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected to the United States in January 1964. Nosenko claimed to have been the officer in charge of the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald during Oswalds time in the Soviet Union. The interviews were conducted in January, February, and July of 1964. This set of 3,810 documents is the first to be processed for release, and includes FBI and CIA records441 documents previously withheld in full and 3,369 documents previously ... More | | 
Carlos Luna, El Oraculo (The Oracle), 2017, Gouache and charcoal on amate paper. Courtesy of the artist.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Weaving together the artistic roots of his native Cuba with influences from Mexico, Carlos Lunas art explores the layers of personal and popular stories that have shaped his world. In Deep Line Drawings, on view August 8 through December 31, 2017 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the artist invites viewers to experience the depth of the line and the richness that is underneath the skin of his work. Luna incorporates cultural symbols and language in his use of traditional processes to reveal a vibrant look at modern perceptions of Latin America. Carlos Luna was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba in 1969. He was affiliated with Art of the 80s movement of dissident artists but left the country in in 1991, as did many Cubans who emigrated after the fall of the Soviet Union. As a young artist he learned from Picassos Cubism, Legers mechanical images, and Latin ... More |
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| Rizzoli to publish Tina Barney, the definitive book on the now legendary photographer | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art unveils 2018 exhibitions | | Showgirl who became 'empress of the Paris night' dies | 
© Tina Barney contributions by Tina Barney and Peter Galassi, Rizzoli New York, 2017. Photography © Tina Barney.
NEW YORK, NY.- Internationally acclaimed American artist Tina Barney burst on the scene in the early 1980s with her provocative yet intimate photographs capturing the domestic lives and social rituals of East Coast upper-class families. In choosing color over black and white, and producing large-format prints, she broke with the traditions of established fine art photography at the time. Her unflinching, honest portrayal of her subjects, many of whom are family and friends, remains completely original. Tina Barney, the definitive book on the now legendary photographer, includes color and black-and-white photographs spanning more than three decades. Straddling the fine line between candid and staged photography, Barneys complex tableaux suggest rich narratives or, as she has written, the synchronization of psychological, emotional, and sociological plots that bind a family together. This retrospectiv ... More | | 
Georgia OKeeffe, Abstraction, modeled 1946, cast ca. 1979 1980. White lacquered bronze, 6 Ã 35 Ã 17 in. Courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces its temporary exhibition schedule for 2018, which includes the U.S. debut of Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, as well as Crystal Bridges-organized exhibitions, Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art, and Native North America. Our 2018 exhibitions complement the story of American art shared through our permanent collection, said Rod Bigelow, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Executive Director & Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. You can explore how American culture was shaped through Black artists of the 1960s through the 80s; the legacy of Georgia OKeeffe alongside contemporary artists, and how we think about contemporary American art through the lens of Native artists. Crystal Bridges developed the latter two exhibitions to create an ... More | | 
This file photo shows Helene Martini, nicknamed the "Empress of the night", who overlooked 17 cabarets and directed the 'Folies Bergeres' cabaret for 37 years. JOEL SAGET / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- Helene Martini, the Polish showgirl who became the "empress" of postwar Paris nightlife after she won the lottery and married a spy, has died on the eve of her 93rd birthday, her lawyer said Tuesday. A striking beauty who began as a nude befeathered model in the legendary Folies Bergere cabaret, she ended up owning it and 16 other theatres and clubs in the French capital, including Frank Sinatra's favourite, Le Pussy Cat. Martini was known as the "Countess" and lived "marvellously alone" to the end in a vast harem-themed apartment above her Folies Pigalle club, complete with a bubblegum pink boudoir. Iron-willed and eternally optimistic, she was the only member of her aristocratic polyglot family from what is now Belarus to have survived World War II. She was liberated from a Nazi concentration camp only to be sent to another camp by the Russians ... More |
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| Intervention by artist Hew Locke on view in the Bremen Town Hall | | Fisher Landau Center for Art extends Lorna Simpson's "Hypothetical?" through October | | The Museum of Everything on view at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart | 
Hew Locke und seine Arbeit Cui Bono, 2017, im Rathaus Bremen © the artist and courtesy Hales Gallery, London / VG BildKunst, Bonn 2017. Photo: Senatspressestelle.
BREMEN.- For the past 30 years, the British-Guyanese artist Hew Locke (*1959 in Edinburgh, Scotland) has explored themes relating to race, colonialism and globalization. For the exhibition The Blind Spot: Bremen, Colonialism and Art at the Kunsthalle Bremen (5 August 19 November 2017), he has created a spectacular and provocative intervention in the historic town hall of the Hanseatic City of Bremen. His work Cui Bono replaces one of the large-scale ship models hanging from the ceiling of the town halls main gallery. His ship sculpture makes reference to the trading and shipping history of Bremen as well as to current issues relating to migration and flight. In his works, award-winning artist Hew Locke (Paul Hamlyn Award and East International Award 2000) combines references to high and pop culture, questioning ... More | | 
Lorna Simpson, Hypothetical?, 1992 (detail). Photograph, text, instrument mouthpieces and sound. Dimensions variable. Whitney Museum of American Art. Promised gift of Emily Fisher Landau. P.2010.262.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Fisher Landau Center for Art is presenting Hypothetical? Lorna Simpsons sound installation including text, a photograph and mouthpieces from wind instruments. First shown in 1993 at the Whitney Biennial, the artwork was purchased directly from the exhibition and has not been on view since her retrospective traveled throughout the United States from 2006-07, organized by the American Federation of Arts. As David Kiehl wrote in his 2010 catalogue essay for LEGACY: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection :
It takes its title from a framed newspaper excerpt regarding a question posed to Tom Bradley, the African American mayor of Los Angeles, in the wake of the citys riots following the April, 1992 acquittal of the LAPD officers charged with beating African American motorist Rodney King. Asked if whether he would ... More | | 
Terry Williams, Fridge, 2012. Fabric, thread and cardboard. Photo: Mona/Mitch Osbourne. Courtesy of The Museum of Everything.
HOBART.- Mona is hosting an astonishing exhibition of art objects selected and curated by The Museum of Everything the worlds first wandering institution for the untrained, unintentional, undiscovered and unclassifiable artists of modern times. James Brett, Founder, The Museum of Everything said, The Museum of Everything is not an exhibition of art objects. It is a dictionary of private languages, a survey of human behaviours and an encyclopedia of profound beliefs. Our artists do not create for the markets or museums. They make because they must andfrom Henry Darger to Nek Chand Sainihave something vital to say about the essence of their lives. We invite you to discover them and their lifetimes labour; and we hope that they move you as they have always moved us. This is the first time The Museum of Everything is visiting Australia. We have long admired The Museum ... More |
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 Japan actor who played original Godzilla dies at 88TOKYO (AFP).- Haruo Nakajima, the actor who played Japan's iconic city-wrecking monster Godzilla in the original 1954 movie, has died, film studio Toho said Tuesday. He was 88. Nakajima, who went on to appear as the iconic creature a dozen times, died of pneumonia on Monday, said a spokesman for the studio that produced the Godzilla films. Originally a stuntman, Nakajima at the age of 25 first took on the role of the giant monster awakened by a hydrogen bomb test to rise out of a roiling sea and swim to Japan where it crushes Tokyo. Godzilla, a walking, radiation-breathing analogy for nuclear disaster resonated in Japan. Just nine years earlier the country had suffered the world's first, and still only, atomic bomb attacks at the hands of the United States in the closing days of World War II. The US also carried out a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific ... More Art collector Lio Malca brings the sculpture Untitled (Headstand) by Keith Haring to IbizaIBIZA.- La Nave Salinas was conceived as a warehouse to store the salt harvested from the sea in nearby salt fields. Built in 1941 as part of a jobs program during the post-civil war crisis in Spain, art collector and patron Lio Malca revived the 700 sq meter structure in 2015, opening with a successful exhibition by New York-based artist KAWS, featuring a 21 feet tall sculpture which drew over 5,000 visitors. Today, La Nave Salinas is an exhibition space with cutting-edge programming open to the public during the summer season. The purpose and philosophy of La Nave Salinas is to bring art closer to the public and share with the island and its visitors, Lio Malcas collections among others. For the summer of 2017, La Nave will showcase an extraordinary exhibition by Keith Haring that reunites a group of iconic art-works such as The Pop Shop Tokyo (1988), found and ... More Frieze announces new curatorial advisors for Frieze New York 2018NEW YORK, NY.- Today, Frieze announced Ruba Katrib (Curator, SculptureCenter, USA) and Andrew Bonacina (Chief Curator, Hepworth Wakefield, UK) as the new Curatorial Advisors for its special Frame section at next years Frieze New York in May of 2018. Katrib and Bonacina will advise the exhibitors participating next spring in Frame at Frieze New York, which showcases ambitious solo artist presentations by the worlds most relevant and exciting emerging galleries, all established in 2010 or later. Across its three fairs, Frieze brings together leading international curators to help shape the fairs dynamic and thought-provoking programs, making them agenda-setting events for the art world. The subsidized Frame section at Frieze New York features galleries established in 2010 or later presenting single artist stands that feature some of todays leading ... More Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. exhibits works by women artistsNEW YORK, NY.- This exhibition was conceived of by Jill Moser, who organized it in collaboration with Melissa Meyer. Both have long-standing relationships with gallerist Jill Weinberg Adams, and have had numerous solo shows at Lennon, Weinberg. The gallery opened in Soho in 1988, and during its nearly three decades has been stalwart in support of its evolving roster of artists who are women, and who work in a wide range of mediums including painting, video, photography, sculpture, installation and printmaking. Moser and Meyer reached out to the eleven women who either are currently or were formerly represented by the gallery, a group who Moser recognized as "A kind of accidental community that provided an opportunity to explore a question: what are the lines of influence and affinities among women artists, lines that cross time, place and medium. We ... More New Curator and Director of the Galleries at Montserrat College of ArtBEVERLY, MASS.- Montserrat College of Art has named Michele LHeureux as the new director and curator of the galleries. An experienced curator and cultural educator, LHeureux comes to Montserrat from Wheaton College, where she served as director and curator of the colleges galleries. Prior to Wheaton, she served as curator and director of the arts at Brandeis Universitys Kniznick Gallery. During her career, she has created more than 50 exhibitions across multiple venues. LHeureux brings to Montserrat her experience working with public programs and world-class artists, which are two of the areas for which the Montserrat College of Art Galleries have come to be recognized. She is an accomplished writer and educator. She holds an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; an MA in Philosophy of Art from Temple University, ... More Davis Museum receives Warhol grant for exhibition on Fatimah TuggerWELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has been awarded a grant in support of an exhibition of the work of Nigeria born, U.S.-based multi-media artist Fatimah Tuggar. The exhibition, which will go on view at the Davis Museum in Fall 2019, will investigate the ways that race and gender shape human understandings of technology and the home. Curated by Dr. Amanda Gilvin, this will be the artists largest solo exhibition to date, and it will be accompanied by the first monographic catalogue of her work. Working in sculpture, video, digital photography, and virtual reality, Fatimah Tuggar has been innovating across media for decades, said Gilvin, Assistant Curator at Davis Museum at Wellesley College. This exhibition will provide opportunities for many different areas of study including art, humanities, computer science, and more. In preparation ... More Virtual Reality exhibition brings together six of today's most exciting contemporary artistsLONDON.- Nausea brings together six of today's most exciting contemporary artists to create work in response to the most sophisticated Virtual Reality system currently available. Seven months of collaboration culminated in an exhibition that explores various notions of virtual perception, interaction and aesthetics. Users can navigate new work by Eddie Peake, Florian Meisenberg, Anne de Vries, Ruben Grilo, Jack Strange and Anna K.E. through an innovative system of portals controlled by their actions in real time and space. The first edition of Nausea premiered in November 2016 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View and continued at SVVR (Silicon Valley Virtual Reality) in Redwood City. This is the first public exhibition in the UK. Rubén Grilo has created an elevator scene that takes direct inspiration from the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... More Nominees announced for the TENT Academy Awards 2017ROTTERDAM.- In recent weeks, curators, art critics, and film experts scouted twelve students from Dutch art academies and five students from Norwegian art schools for the annual video, film, and animation competition. The jury, led by Rutger Wolfson, announces the winners of the TENT Academy Award and the Best Foreign Film Award at KINO cinema on Saturday 26 August. The nominees for the TENT Academy Award 2017 are: Kotryna Buruckaitė - Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam Ole Nieling - ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Enschede Bram van Dijk - Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam Valentina Gal - ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem Festus Toll - Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost, Den Bosch/Breda Michelle Verhoeks - Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving St. Joost, Den Bosch/Breda Igrayne Hörmann - ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors poses for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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