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Detail of the process of removing oxidised varnish.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents the results of the restoration and technical study of one of the most iconic works in its collection, Caravaggios Saint Catherine of Alexandria, carried out with the collaboration of Asisa. Having undergone treatment in the Museums workshop, the painting is on view in room 11 in a display designed by the Restoration Department. The show includes X-ray images and infrared reflectograms which illustrate the most interesting aspects of the work performed, explain the methods used, and attest to the excellent quality of the painting. It also features a video of the entire restoration process, the most significant discoveries, and interesting details of the painting. With this exhibition the Museum, aware of the interest aroused by restoration work, sets out to familiarise visitors with the working methods used by restorers, who are essential to deciding on the most appr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will gold a special End-of-Year Clearance sale featuring discounted pricing on antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, more. The sale will be held on Thursday, Dec 20, 2018 9:00 AM CST. In this image: Moche Bi-chrome Stirrup Vessel - Erotic Skeleton & Lady. Estimate $1,500 - $2,000.
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 | | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag to become Kunstmuseum Den Haag | | Toomey & Co. Auctioneers ends impressive first year with new 'Tradition & Innovation' sale | | Paris goes Klimt crazy as a million pay to see digital show | 
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Photo: Gerrit Schreurs.
THE HAGUE.- From autumn 2019 Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be known as Kunstmuseum Den Haag. The new name will make it clear that the museum is the leading venue for modern, contemporary and decorative art in The Hague. The name Kunstmuseum Den Haag will truly reflect what we are, says director Benno Tempel, a museum co-founded by artists. A museum where there was art before there was a building. A museum housed in a work of art, for the building designed by architect H.P. Berlage is also part of the museums collection. Gemeentemuseum Den Haags prestigious collection is international renowned. The works of Piet Mondrian of which the museum has the largest collection in the world are known throughout the world. The magnificent art deco building, a design by Dutch architect H.P. Berlage, is also universally admired and loved. An icon of modern museum architecture, it is nevertheless built ... More | | 
Charles Sumner Greene (1868-1957) and Henry Mather Greene (1870-1954) for the William T. Bolton house, dining table, Pasadena, California, 1906. Mahogany, ebony inlay, signed with branded mark. Closed: 28"w x 48"d x 29 3/4"h; open: 66"w. Sold for $100,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- Toomey & Co. Auctioneers concluded the first year under its new brand with two very successful auctions on December 2. Tradition & Innovation, an inaugural auction of important works from the 19th century through today, was followed by Art & Design, with nearly 700 prominent fine and decorative artworks including furniture, paintings, pottery, sculpture and lighting. The two sales combined realized $2.2 million. For Tradition & Innovation, Toomey & Co. presented an exceptional selection of items across a variety of artistic movements and media by painters, furniture makers, designers, ceramicists, silversmiths, sculptors and architects who have helped define the world of art and design for more than a century. Tradition & Innovation ... More | | 
The immersive exhibition in an old foundry in eastern Paris uses 140 projectors to flood the walls and floors of the space with the Viennese master's work on a 35-minute loop.
PARIS (AFP).- More than a million people have flocked up to see a digital exhibition dedicated to the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt in Paris, according to the organisers. The show at L'Atelier des Lumieres, which claims to be the biggest video projection gallery in the world, comes as another show featuring Klimt's pupil Egon Schiele has become a hit on the other side of the French capital. The immersive exhibition in an old foundry in eastern Paris uses 140 projectors to flood the walls and floors of the space with the Viennese master's work on a 35-minute loop. Culturespaces, the private company behind the Klimt show, said it will be extended until January 4. The exhibition will be followed in late February by another sound and light show using some of the best-known canvasses by Vincent Van Gogh, including "Sunflowers" and "The ... More |
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| | | 'Big' director Penny Marshall dead at 75 | | Exhibition featuring new sculptures and drawings by Tony Cragg on view at Buchmann Galerie | | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces Vanessa German as the recipient of the 2018 Don Tyson Prize | 
In this file photo taken on April 07, 2004, actress/director Penny Marshall arrives for the 1st Annual Palms Casino Royale to benefit the Los Angeles Lakers Youth Foundation at Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, California. Doug Benc / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Penny Marshall, the star of ABC's "Laverne and Shirley" who became one of the most successful female directors in history at the helm of "Big," "A League of Their Own" and a string of other hit movies, has died. She was 75. The filmmaker died peacefully in her Hollywood Hills on Monday due to complications from diabetes, her publicist told AFP. Marshall's "heartbroken" family described her as a "tomboy who loved sports, doing puzzles of any kind, drinking milk and Pepsi together and being with her family." "Big" star Tom Hanks, who has gone on to appear in a further 60-plus movies, winning two Oscars, led an outpouring of affection and sadness from Hollywood. "Goodbye, Penny. Man, did we laugh a lot! Wish we still could. Love you. Hanx," he tweeted. ... More | | 
Untitled (Double Stack), 2018. Bronze, 100 (h) x 68 x 54 cm 39¼ (h) x 26¾ x 21¼ in.
BERLIN.- Buchmann Galerie is presenting an exhibition featuring new sculptures and drawings by Tony Cragg. In the front exhibition space, a monumental sculpture from the new work group Skulls, measuring 240 x 227 x 172 cm, makes a powerful impression with its complex interlock of internal and external spaces. The entire volume of this work constructed from layered plywood is permeated by innumerable close-lying and in some cases interlaced, tube-like forms. They open up a surprising insight into the sculpture's internal depths. Resembling foam and yet conveying solidity, the work evokes organic forms, the innermost part of which generates the exterior. Tony Cragg explains: "There exists a real psychological pressure and need for the viewer to see beyond the surface and that all the forms we see provide a connection to the greater and more fundamental external and internal forces that make them." The group of work Hedges, inspired by ... More | | 
Vanessa German and Alice Walton.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces Vanessa German as the 2018 recipient of the Don Tyson Prize, a $200,000 biennial award for outstanding achievement in American art. Tyson Foods chairman, John Tyson, along with Crystal Bridges founder and board chair, Alice Walton and Crystal Bridges curator, contemporary art, Lauren Haynes presented the prize to German at the Art House in Homewood, Pa. on Monday, December 17. Crystal Bridges began taking nominations for the Don Tyson Prize in early 2018 for organizations and individual artists working in any medium anywhere in the US. A national jury of museum peers and art historians reviewed the applications and selected German, recognizing her artwork as pushing boundaries and taking risks in the field of American art, as well as positively impacting her community through art experiences. The Don Tyson Prize recognizes Vanessa for changing the way we experience art and ... More |
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| | | Rare Anglo-Saxon pendant is voted Britain's favourite work of art in Art Fund's 2018 poll | | Harn Museum of Art displays a century of East Asian landscapes addressing both the modern and traditional | | Famed Italian archtitect Renzo Piano to design new Genoa bridge | 
Unknown maker, Anglo-Saxon pendant (650-700), Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery.
LONDON.- An Anglo-Saxon gold pendant, found in Winfarthing, Norfolk and acquired by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, is announced today as winner of Britains favourite work of art acquired for a museum with Art Fund support in 2018. It is currently on display at the British Library as part of its Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms exhibition. The pendant was voted the nations favourite acquisition of the year from a shortlist of 10 works of art and objects that Art Fund helped UK museums to buy in 2018. 5,000 members of the public voted. The shortlist of works ranged from Grayson Perrys Posh Art at Victoria Art Gallery, Artemisia Gentileschis Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria at the National Gallery, Yinka Shonibares Earth at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Leonora Carringtons Portrait of Max Ernst at National Galleries of Scotland to an unknown artists Am not I a man and a brother at ... More | | 
YANG Yongliang, Chinese, born 1980, Viridescence, page 2, 2009, Ink and color on paper, Gift of Philip and Phyllis DeLaney in honor of David and Mary Ann Cofrin.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida welcomes the new year with an innovative exhibition in the David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing titled Inside Outside: Outside InsideA Century of East Asian Landscapes 1900s2000s. Artists from China, Japan and Korea illustrate more than thirty landscapes using formats clearly rooted in tradition but reflect the rapid transformation of urban and natural environments. Inside Outside: Outside Inside is on view from December 18, 2018 to December 1, 2019. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, ceramic and video works that highlight how East Asian landscape traditions remain vibrant in our contemporary world. By employing new media and methods of interpretation, artists, in dialogue with earlier conventions, often simultaneously echo and contradict artistic traditions. Tensions ... More | | 
This photo taken on on September 7, 2018 shows Italian architect Renzo Piano during the presentation of Piano's project for a new bridge. Andrea LEONI / AFP.
ROME (AFP).- Authorities in Genoa on Tuesday chose a design by Italy's most famous living architect Renzo Piano for a bridge to replace the Morandi overpass which collapsed in August, killing 43 people and injuring dozens. Piano, 81, who is originally from Genoa, had submitted a proposal in September for the new bridge. "This will last for a 1,000 years and will be built of steel," he said then. It will "have elements of a boat because that is something from Genoa," he explained, adding that it would be a streamlined and luminous white structure. "We have asked the architect Renzo Piano to oversee the project to ensure that the original idea is respected," said Marco Bucci, the mayor of the northern port city. The contract was awarded to a consortium of three Italian construction companies, Salini Impregilo, Fincantieri and Italferr. Their proposal is based on an idea donated free of charge by ... More |
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| | | Trenchard Collection gift completes RAF Centenary year for the RAF Museum | | Nicolas Poussin's 'The Triumph of Pan' will be travelling the UK in 2019 | | Warhol screenprints top Bonhams London Print sale | 
Lord Trenchard and Maggie Appleton, CEO RAF Museum.
LONDON.- The Trenchard papers are a fabulous and unique record of Lord Trenchards career. The archive includes documents which relate to Lord Trenchards military career pre-First World War. Files containing speeches, correspondence with a number of notable individuals and policy documents provide insight into his leadership and continued involvement with the RAF as well as his time as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. Maggie Appleton, RAF Museum CEO, said: This is an incredibly exciting and enriching collection to receive at the close of the RAFs centenary year. The archive is a precious primary resource for researchers which is of national and international importance. The RAF Museum is honoured and delighted to hold this for the nation and make it accessible to the public. In addition to the Archive, there are further papers, some photograph albums, press cutting books, certificates and ... More | | 
Nicolas Poussin, The Triumph of Pan, 1636 (detail). Oil on canvas, 135.9 x 146 cm. Bought with contributions from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund, 1982 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The three venues for the National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2019 are Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; York Art Gallery; and Auckland Castle, part of The Auckland Project, County Durham. Over a period of one year the annual National Gallery Masterpiece Tour offers three museums and galleries outside London the opportunity to display a major work from the Gallerys collection. The Gallery is committed to sharing the collection throughout the UK, and the Masterpiece Tour, made possible by the generous support of Christies, this year enables those in north and south-west England to access one of its masterpieces in their own region. At Baths Victoria Art Gallery, Poussins masterpiece will be shown alongside works from Bath & North East Somerset Councils own art collection, which includes works from the 15th century to the present day. ... More | | 
Marilyn screenprint in colours, 1967, sold for an impressive £52,500. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Two screenprints by Andy Warhol were the top lots at Bonhams Prints and Multiples sale in London today (Tuesday 18 December). Marilyn screenprint in colours, 1967, sold for an impressive £52,500 while Mao screenprint in colours, 1972, achieved £46,250. Both had an estimate of £20,000-30,000. The 167-lot sale made a total of £1,179,38. Lucia Tro Santafe, head of Bonhams Prints and Multiples, said We are thrilled with the result of todays auction which comes at the end of a strong year. The impressive results achieved by the top lots show that demand remains high for modern masters such as Warhol, Bacon and Miró Los Proverbios (The Proverbs) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes also performed well in the sale. The complete set of 18 etchings, before 1824, sold for £35,000. Other highlights included: Ãtude pour une corrida, 1971, lithograph in colours by Francis Bacon sold for £35,000 Mick Jagger, a scre ... More |
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 Houellebecq keeps France guessing with 'angry' new novelPARIS (AFP).- Having praised Donald Trump last week as "one of the best American presidents", Michel Houellebecq, the ageing bad boy of French letters, may have another shock up his sleeve. The controversial writer, who made his reputation with bestselling novels about sex tourism, swingers clubs and everyday misogyny, has called his next novel after the "happy chemical" which engenders well-being and happiness. "Serotonin", which will be published in French on January 4, and then in Italian a week later, comes months after Houellebecq married for a third time, to a Chinese woman some two decades his junior. Wags on social media have joked that with such a feelgood title, the arch-miserablist may be softening his notoriously cynical view of life in his old age. But others have warned that the nihilism that marked novels such as "Atomised", "Platform" and ... 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More Vancouver Art Gallery acquires 334 pieces of artwork for its permanent collection in 2018VANCOUVER.- The Vancouver Art Gallery announces the recent acquisition of an impressive 334 works to its expanding collection in 2018, the majority of which were gifted through the generosity of private donors. Some of these notable pieces include a photo series by Sarah Anne Johnson, recently presented works by Elad Lassry, a portfolio of works by Fred Herzog, as well as contemporary works by Indigenous artists Brian Jungen, Sonny Assu, and Wayne Alfred. The Gallery is proud to add remarkable works of art to its collection due to an outpouring of support by donors from Canada and abroad in 2018, says Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. These gifts further strengthen the collection, especially our holdings of contemporary artworks by BC-based artists and prominent Indigenous artists, as well as photography ... 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More Mario Pfeifer exhibits two video installations at the Kunstsammlungen ChemnitzCHEMNITZ.- The Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz is showing two video installations by Mario Pfeifer Again / Noch einmal (2018) and Ãber Angst und Bildung, Enttäuschung und Gerechtigkeit, Protest und Spaltung in Sachsen / Deutschland (About anxiety and education, disappointment and justice, protest and division in Saxony, 2016-ff.). Mario Pfeifers Again / Noch einmal garnered international success at the Berlin Biennale this summer. For this 2-channel video installation Pfeifer, who was born in Dresden in 1981, reconstructed an incident that took place in 2016 and in which, after a row with a supermarket cashier in the Saxon village of Arnsdorf, Schabas Al-Aziz, a refugee from Iraq, was physically harassed by four local residents and later tied to a tree. Whereas the four men were allowed to return home unobstructed by the police, Al-Aziz was taken ... 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More Da Vinci design jewel still key for Tuscan silk weaversFLORENCE (AFP).- Five hundred years after the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a silk mill incorporating one of his designs is still shuttling some of the finest threads in the world across its looms. Tucked away in the historic San Frediano neighbourhood in Florence, L'Antico Setificio Fiorentino was founded in 1786 and is one of the oldest silk workshops in Europe. Its looms date back to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, but the jewel at its heart is a machine to unwind the reels of threads, designed by Renaissance genius Da Vinci, who died in 1519. "It is a warping machine made in the late 17th century according to the maestro's original design, and we still make passementerie (tassels, cords, trimmings) today" using it, silk worker Beatrice Fazzini told AFP. The polymath's device is used to prepare the threads before they are placed on the loom, following a technique ... More Rare imperial Russian government bond highlights Archives International Auction's saleFORT LEE, NJ.- Archives International Auctions 50th Milestone Auction held on December 3rd & 4th, 2018 was highlighted by a 1917 Imperial Russian Government 4% Savings Bond Specimen estimated at $400 to $600 and hammering for $12,810 smashing all previous records for Russian Specimen bonds on December 3rd, 2018, the first day of a two day sale, held at the historic Collectors Club in New York City. The 1917 Russian Savings Bond was the top lot in an auction packed with more than 1,150 lots of rare and highly collectible Chinese, U.S. and Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily and important Autographs and Historic Ephemera. The Dec. 3rd session featured nearly 478 lots of U.S. & World Scripophily, U.S. & Chinese Banknotes, Worldwide Banknotes and security printing ephemera. The second day of the sale, on Dec. 4th, had 682 lots of rare ... 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More PINTA Miami 2018 reports record attendance and strong salesMIAMI, FLA.- The 12th edition of PINTA Miami, the leading Latin American art fair with a global perspective, took place from December 5-9 during Miami Art Week. Across 100,000 square feet at the Mana Wynwood Convention Center, more than 300 works by artists represented by 83 galleries from 14 countries were exhibited. PINTA Miami 2018 was attended by 42,000 people, an increase of 40% from 2017. This included several influential collectors, such as Tiki Atencio Demirdjian, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Tanya Brillembourg, Pilar Lladó, Juan Carlos Maldonado, Jorge Perez, and Anton Apostolatos. There were also representatives from the acquisition committees of museums, notably the Tate, Guggenheim, MALI and Museo del Barrio. Significant sales were made by the participating galleries. The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation purchased ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner died December 19, 1851. Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 - 19 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner,[a] was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. In this image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, "The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834," 1834 - 1835. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. The John Howard McFadden Collection.
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