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Vincent van Gogh, New Church and old houses in The Hague, 1883, oil on canvas/panel, 35.5 x 26.2 cm, Albricht Art Gallery Oosterbeek collection
ZUNDERT.- After more than half a century, a genuine Van Gogh painting can once again be seen in Zundert. The Vincent van GoghHuis will be exhibiting The New Church and old houses in The Hague (1883) from 21 December 2016 to 29 January 2017. The work, which has a special Christmas message, has been loaned by the Albricht Art Gallery in Oosterbeek. The museum in Zundert is delighted by this opportunity. The last time that any of Van Goghs original works were on show in his birthplace was in 1964, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Van Gogh monument by Ossip Zadkine. Then, as in his centenary year of 1953, an exhibition was staged with works loaned by the Van Gogh family. That has not been possible ever since. Even so it was a cherished dream that the museum, which opened in 2008 on the spot where he was born, should display one of Van Goghs works from time to time. Thanks to the loan from the Albricht Art Gallery, this has n ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Reynolda House Museum of American Art conservation staff check the condition of Georgia O'Keeffe's Pool in the Woods, Lake George, after it came home recently from the Tate Modern's blockbuster retrospective on O'Keeffe, and before it heads out again to be part of an upcoming Brooklyn exhibiiton.
| Van Gogh Museum purchases neo-impressionist painting by Paul Signac | | Getty Museum explores artistic responses to journalism in new exhibition | | ArtCenter/South Florida and Bruce High Quality Foundation University announce new partnership |
Paul Signac, The Ponton de la Félicité at Asnières (Opus n. 143), 1886 (detail).
AMSTERDAM.- The Van Gogh Museum recently purchased a work by Van Goghs contemporary Paul Signac (1863-1935), The Ponton de la Félicité at Asnières (Opus no. 143), 1886, at the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale held by Christies, New York. Signac depicted the banks of the River Seine at Asnières in fresh complementary colours in the then ground-breaking pointillist technique. Georges Seurat was the originator of this innovative method of painting, whereby an image is built up of individual dots and lines applied in unmixed, contrasting colours. Various Neo-Impressionist painters, including Signac, followed Seurat in mastering this technique. Vincent van Gogh, who lived in Paris between 1886 and 1888, would have seen this work at the 1887 Salon des Indépendants, then the most important exhibition of modern art in general and Neo-Impressionism in particular. Van Gogh and Signac both painted ... More | |
Donald R. Blumberg, Untitled from the series Daily Photographs, 19691970, 19691970. Gelatin silver print. Image: 58.1 X 40 cm (22 7/8 X 15 3/4 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift in honor of the artist © Donald Blumberg 2008.90.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Photographs have helped shape peoples perceptions of current events since the late-nineteenth century. The ubiquity of newspapers, magazines, and televised news during the mid-twentieth century gave rise to the modern mass media culture, eventually spawning critical discourse from a variety of perspectives. The philosopher Marshall McLuhans writings during the 1960s, including the now-famous concept that the medium is the message, assert that the form in which information is as significant as the content, an insight that has influenced a generation of artists and critics. Featuring photographs and video made over the last forty years, Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media, on view December 20, 2016-April 30, 2017 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, ... More | |
Maria del Valle, Executive Director of ArtCenter/South Florida.
MIAMI, FLA.- ArtCenter/South Florida and Bruce High Quality Foundation University announce the launch of MFU: Miami, the pilot first semester of ArtCenters new fellowship program that bring together alternative education initiatives with distinguished faculty and cultural change-makers to develop new dialogues and scenarios that shed light on contemporary realities in the cultural sphere and beyond. MFU: Miami was developed for artists specifically interested in art education and curating public programming that brings forth new methods for the exchange of knowledge. As the daunting costs of degrees and student loans become increasingly more challenging for todays artists, ArtCenter/South Florida aims to provide new solutions and alternative paths that can really make a difference in an artists career, said Maria del Valle, ArtCenters Executive Director. The new fellowship program is designed ... More |
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| Veggie stew on the menu 10,000 years ago | | South Korea prosecutors say artist's 'fake' work is genuine | | New acquisition for the Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Archaeobotanical remains. Photo: The Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome.
PARIS (AFP).- Humans used ceramic pots to cook wild plants more than 10,000 years ago, well before the advent of agriculture, researchers reported Monday. The findings are the earliest direct proof that our species processed plants for food. The vessels, discovered in Libya, contained traces of wild grasses such as cattail or cockspur, as well as the leaves and fruit from fig trees, and the family of plants that includes cinnamon, nutmeg and star anise. There were even aquatic plants, some of which are still consumed today. Learning to cook was crucial to human evolution. It broadened our diet and made available new sources of energy. Many of the plants discovered would have been poisonous or indigestible eaten raw. No one knows exactly when our ancestors began to roast meat over an open fire, but the first heat-resistant ceramic vessels date from about 15,000 years ago. Evidence that they were used soon after that to boil animal products -- whether meat ... More | |
In this picture taken on December 19, 2016, members of the prosecutors' team hold a copy of the painting "Beautiful Woman" by Chun Kyung-Ja. YONHAP / AFP.
SEOUL (AFP).- A painting attributed to one of South Korea's most renowned artists has been declared genuine by state prosecutors, despite the insistence of the late artist herself that it was a fake. The painting "Beautiful Woman" by Chun Kyung-Ja has been the focus of a bizarre, decades-long dispute over its authenticity, and Monday's announcement by the prosecutors looks unlikely to end the matter, with Chun's family vowing to pursue efforts to have it declared a forgery. Born in 1924 in a small town in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, Chun Kyung-Ja was best known for her paintings of female figures and flowers using vivid primary colours that broke with traditional South Korean styles. Her works have recently sold at auction for between $700,000 and $1 million. Before her death last year at the age of 91, Chun had repeatedly insisted that "Beautiful Woman" -- a 1971 portrait owned by the South's National ... More | |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Purchased with funds donated by Alberto and Gioietta Vitale, the Guggenheim Circle of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Sothebys, and through prior gifts of the M.R. Taylor Bequest and Asbjorn Lunde, 2016.
VENICE.- The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation has acquired six, precious black and white vintage prints by American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), that will enrich the Foundations collections at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. They consist of images of Peggys museum-gallery in New York, Art of This Century, and were taken in 1942. The purchase, from the Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York, was made possible with funds donated by Alberto and Gioietta Vitale, the Guggenheim Circle of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Sotheby's, and through prior gifts of the M.R. Taylor Bequest and Asbjorn Lunde, 2016. On 20 October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim opened her museum-gallery Art of This Century in New York. Designed by the visionary Romanian-Austrian architect Frederick Kiesler, ... More |
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| Exhibition traces Surrealism's lineage from historic masters to today's practitioners | | Tensions fly as Mucha's epic Slav paintings set for tour | | 100,000 people visit the Design Museum's new home in its first four weeks |
Enrico Baj, Le General Mechant et Decore (Angry General with Decorations), 1961. Oil, fabric, G-string, beads, metal, ribbons, lace, metal string, colored glass, leather buttons, and medals. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, gift of Joseph and Jory Shapiro.
STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University opens The Conjured Life: The Legacy of Surrealism, an extraordinary exhibition set to chronicle the mesmerizing and unsettling nature of the Surrealist movement from historic master artists like René Magritte and Marcel Duchamp to todays artistic superstars, including Cindy Sherman, Jimmie Durham, and David Lynch. Having originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the shows cross-historical approach, for which the Cantor is renowned, enables viewers to witness Surrealisms lasting impact on contemporary artistic practices. Im thrilled to bring this exhibition to Stanford and to the Bay Area, said Alison Gass, Chief Curator and Associate Director for Exhibitions and Collections ... More | |
Apoteóza z dějin Slovanstva, 1926, vaječná tempera, olej, plátno, 480 x 405 cm.
PRAGUE.- The giant Slav Epic series by Art Nouveau icon Alfons Mucha is caught in a legal tug-of-war between the city of Prague and the Czech painter's grandson, triggered by plans to send the work on tour to Japan. Though the late artist seduced early 20th century Paris with his floral posters of actress Sarah Bernhardt, Mucha considered his masterpiece to be the 20 huge paintings that recount the history of the Slavic people. But his grandson, John Mucha, has sued the city, questioning Prague's ownership of the allegoric cycle inspired in part by mythology, with a local court scheduled to take up the case in January. The legal wrangling puts a question mark on plans to display the canvases -- ranging between 20 and 50 square metres (215 and 540 square feet) -- in Japan next year. "The Japanese are great admirers of Alfons Mucha," says Magdalena Jurikova, director of the Prague City Gallery in charge of the work. "One ... More | |
Record breaking crowds visit the Design Museum in its new west London home.
LONDON.- Since opening to the public on the 24 November, the Design Museum in Kensington has welcomed over 100,000 visitors through its doors. This unprecedented interest in the museum has created a strong base for reaching the expected visitor figure of 650,000 for the museums first year of opening. Attracting between 200,000 and 250,000 visitors annually in its previous location in Shad Thames, south-east London, the museums new building in Kensington has reached half of this figure in its first four weeks. The move to Kensington offered the museum a larger building, state-of-the-art facilities, the chance to display a free permanent collection display and improved transport links, all proving to be decisive factors in the improved audience footfall. In addition to the free-to-visit permanent exhibition Designer Maker User, the Design Museum also offers two temporary galleries currently displaying ... More |
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| Artist brings beauty to war-damaged Gaza home | | The secret world of Japan's hidden Christians | | Cannabis museum opens in pot-friendly Uruguay |
Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen poses as she works on her latest project the 'Shaath House'. SAID KHATIB / AFP.
KHAN YUNIS (AFP).- Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen walks past a column formed from rubble to show off her latest creation, a barren house in the Gaza Strip where doorless rooms face into bleak, empty space. The 'Shaath House' in Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian territory was largely destroyed by an Israeli attack in the 2014 Gaza war but Teeuwen, 52, specialises in turning unwanted places into works of art. Working with Palestinian engineers and artists and the Palestinian Red Crescent, she is "transforming a demolished house into a beautiful sculpture" which will serve briefly as a museum. There is one major difference however between the Gaza house and her previous works, in the Netherlands, Russia and South Africa. Teeuwen usually works in buildings that are due to be destroyed in a few months, turning them into temporary exhibits in ... More | |
Japanese 'hidden Christian' Masatsugu Tanimoto, wearing a kimono, poses for a portrait. Behrouz MEHRI / AFP.
IKITSUKI (AFP).- Japanese rice farmer Masatsugu Tanimoto doesn't think of himself as a Christian, and you'd almost never find him in a church. But every so often, he and others meet to recite prayers drawn from another time and place. The group, dressed in sober kimonos and sandals, rapidly make the sign of the cross as they sing a mish-mash of Portuguese, Latin and Japanese -- evoking the memory of their ancestors, the so-called 'hidden Christians', who were brutally persecuted in the 17th century, when Shoguns ruled Japan. Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese is bringing their harrowing story to the big screen just before Christmas in his newest movie 'Silence', based on the 1966 novel by famed Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. "If the film properly recounts the story of my ancestors, I'd gladly go see it," Tanimoto told AFP after singing with several ... More | |
Now, a museum in central Montevideo will help people learn more about one of the world's oldest crops, according to its director, Eduardo Blasina.
MONTEVIDEO (AFP).- Smoke it, eat it, weave it, heal with it: a museum devoted to spreading the good word about pot opened in marijuana-friendly Uruguay. The South American country is a global pioneer when it comes to cannabis: under a 2013 law, the government supervises its production as part of a plan to undermine drug traffickers. Now, a museum in central Montevideo will help people learn more about one of the world's oldest crops, according to its director, Eduardo Blasina. "Cannabis has historically had so many different benefits," he said. "It has been used as food, as a textile, to make fishing nets and paper, and today it is providing us with novel types of medicine," he said. Amsterdam, which also has a hash and marijuana museum, is contributing items for display, Blasina said. One of the curiosities on show is a medical prescription for cannabis -- written ... More |
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Grammys to honor Nina Simone, Velvet Underground
NEW YORK (AFP).- Legendary singer Nina Simone, art-rock pioneers The Velvet Underground and funk great Sly Stone will receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards in 2017, the Recording Academy announced Monday. The music industry body each year presents the special prizes for career-spanning influence, in addition to the regular Grammys which recognize the past year's works. Simone -- who never received a Grammy during her lifetime -- was a young piano prodigy who, as an African American in the segregated US South, was discouraged from classical music. She became one of the most celebrated singers of soul and a staunch civil rights activist, with classic tracks such as "To Be Young, Gifted and Black." The Velvet Underground, led by John Cale and the late Lou Reed, revolutionized rock music by bringing an aesthetic from avant-garde art. The band's 1967 debut ... More
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibits works by contemporary female photographers
MONTREAL.- The exhibition She Photographs, organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, presents 70 works mostly from the Museum collection by 30 contemporary photographers from here and abroad: Raymonde April, Claire Beaugrand-Champagne, Geneviève Cadieux, Jacynthe Carrier, Sorel Cohen, Ãliane Excoffier, Janieta Eyre, Lorraine Gilbert, Nan Goldin, Maryse Goudreau, Katy Grannan, Angela Grauerholz, Clara Gutsche, Shari Hatt, Isabelle Hayeur, Spring Hurlbut, Sarah Anne Johnson, Holly King, Justine Kurland, Suzy Lake, Laura Letinsky, Carol Marino, Julie Moos, Catherine Opie, Sylvie Readman, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Kiki Smith, Barbara Steinman, Andrea Szilasi and Marnie Weber. A feminine echo of the Museums major retrospective of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe on view this fall, this rich body of work, which is mostly ... More
Keith Haring exhibit now open at The Petersen
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Petersen Automotive Museum announces its newest exhibition in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery, The Unconventional Canvases of Keith Haring. The new exhibit, which opened Saturday, December 17th, 2016 and runs until Sunday, June 4th, 2017, explores the works and themes of beloved New York artist Keith Haring and features five vehicles, each covered in Harings unique work. This is the first exhibit of its kind to feature five Haring works of this type. BMW continues its long history of support for the arts and culture, as a proud partner of the Petersen museum and through its support of this gallery. Keith Haring was such an important and loved figure in the art world and we are honored to be able to display such a unique collection of his art, said Terry Karges, Executive Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum. We ... More
Visually stunning 1934 $5,000 Federal Reserve Note could cash in at $120,000
DALLAS, TX.- A trio of unique items that includes a fresh-to-market $5,000 Federal Reserve Note, a target of outlaw Jesse James and a historic collection of Confederate paper will highlight Heritage Auctions' Florida United Numismatists Currency Signature Auction's Platinum Night Jan. 4-10 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The notes represent just a small sample of items available from the amazing Dr. Schmalhausen Collection, the Gilmore Sem Collection and selections from the Yuri Solovey Collection, and a Private New York Collection Part II. The $5,000 1934 Federal Reserve Note PMG Choice About Unc 58 has been part of the census for a few decades, though it never made its way through a public auction. Schmalhausen hand-picked this $5,000 note for its stunning eye appeal for his collection. The technical grade of 58 bestowed by PMG omits some very important ... More
Sworders to launch specialist Prints department with first sale on May 24
STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET.- Sworders are to launch a Print department with two auctions a year, starting with a launch sale on May 24 entitled 500 Years of Printmaking. Curated by Shane Xu, who worked at Bloomsbury Auctions for a number of years, the sale will feature works by some of the greatest names of British print-making, such as Eric Gill, Elisabeth Frink, John Piper, Patrick Caulfield and Henry Moore, as well as masters of the art from other countries, such as Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Matisse and DalÃ. This is an exciting and timely departure for us at Sworders as the new print department will complement the significant strides we have been making in our Modern British art sales over the past year, said managing director Guy Schooling. Shanes knowledge and expertise, as well as her fluent Chinese, knowledge of Japanese and proven track record of building ... More
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents "FOCUS: Lorna Simpson"
FORT WORTH, TX.- Since the beginning of her career in the mid-1980s, Lorna Simpson has become known for her conceptual photographs and videos that question the nature of representation, and challenge historical and preconceived views of racial and sexual identity. Rooted in her longstanding interest in photography and photographic collage, Simpson's recent paintings incorporate found imagery, often taken from AP photographs and vintage magazines, which the artist overpaints and divides across several panels. These paintings continue to investigate identity, while also confronting current events both public and private. FOCUS: Lorna Simpson is the first museum exhibition to feature the artist's acrylic, ink, and silkscreened paintings. One motif featured consistently throughout the all-new works created for FOCUS: Lorna Simpson is photographs of ... More
French acting great Michele Morgan dies, aged 96
PARIS (AFP).- French screen legend Michele Morgan, who starred in some 70 movies and took home the best actress prize at the first-ever Cannes film festival, died on Tuesday, aged 96, her family said. An icon of glamour, Morgan was remembered for a regal azure gaze which she first turned on Jean Gabin as an 18-year-old ingenue in "Port of Shadows" ("Quai des Brumes"), a 1938 gangster movie. "You've got lovely eyes, you know," he told her, forever sealing Morgan's fate in French filmography as the "most beautiful pair of eyes in cinema". "It bothers me to hear that repeated so often", she was known to say much later -- though she still gave her 1977 memoirs the title "With eyes like that..." "Michele Morgan was more than just a gaze. She personified elegance and grace, and her legend left its mark on many generations," French President Francois Hollande said ... More
First woman named to head Vatican Museums
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- Pope Francis on Tuesday named Italian Barbara Jutte as the next head of the Vatican Museums, making her the first woman to take charge of the Catholic Church's artistic treasures. Jutte, 54, steps up from her current role as deputy director on January 1, taking over from Antonio Paolucci, 77, an art historian and former Italian culture minister. Jutte, a native of Rome, has worked at the Vatican since 1996. She will be taking over one of the world's greatest collections of artworks, contained in seven kilometres (four miles) of galleries and including the celebrated Sistine Chapel. The museums draw in four million visitors each year despite a relatively hefty standard adult entry price of 16 euros ($16.60). Most reviews are highly favourable despite some grumbling that the visitor experience is negatively affected by overcrowding. ... More
The Mine opens solo show of new works by French artist Vincent Abadie Hafez.
DUBAI.- The Mine is presenting Superplasticizer, a solo show of new works by French artist Vincent Abadie Hafez. Construction materials, like people, have yield points. Theres only so much they can be malleable or flexible; theres only so much they can take before something snaps. We can understand the city the same way. Dubai is often dismissed as fake, as super-plastic, with a similar kind of brittle fragility at its core. Yet when certain superplasticizing polymers are added to fresh concrete paste, the result is a dramatically stronger material that is far less susceptible to stress. They also act as a dispersant, spreading gravel and sands evenly throughout the admixture, and prohibiting particle segregation. Transposed to Dubai, truly a multicultural city, the superplasticizer functions as the kind of social glue and emotional intelligence that quietly holds together ... More
Structural Tensions #2: Group show curated by Angel Moya Garcia on view at the Eduardo Secci Gallery
FLORENCE.- The Eduardo Secci Gallery is presenting the group show Structural Tensions #2, curated by Angel Moya Garcia. The Structural Tensions trilogy is an organic project divided into three independent yet interconnected exhibitions, which are presented within the gallerys spaces step-by-step. If the first exhibition, which was carried out last February, focused on the central role of the individual in the construction of the perceived space, through environmental installations by Carlo Bernardini, Monika Grzymala, Roberto Pugliese and Ester Stocker, the second one analyses the different possibilities of matter as an element of representation and, finally, the third one, scheduled for next year, will study the entropic processes of the everyday environment. The five guest artists developed the second chapter of the trilogy as an analysis of the possibilities and ... More
Robin Veder named Executive Editor for Smithsonian American Art Museum's journal
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced today that Robin Veder will join its staff Jan. 9, 2017, as the executive editor of American Art, the museums peer-reviewed journal for new scholarship. Veder comes to the museum from Pennsylvania State University in Harrisburg, PA, where she held a position as tenured associate professor of humanities, art history and visual culture from 2010 through 2016 and as an assistant professor from 2004 to 2010. American Art is produced by the museums Research and Scholars Center and is copublished with the University of Chicago Press. It seeks to promote sound scholarship and thoughtprovoking interpretation on topics in the fine arts, popular culture, public art, film, electronic multimedia, decorative arts and craft from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Since its inception in ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Vicente Masip, died December 21, 1579. Vicente Juan Masip (also Vicente Macip; 1475?1545) was a Spanish painter of the Renaissance period. he was one of the main members of the considered the premier painter of the Valencian school of painters. His son, Juan de Juanes, imitated his style. His two daughters, Dorotea and Margarita, were also painters. His most prominent pupil was Nicolas Borras. In this image: Martyrdom of St. Ines. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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