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John Vanderlyn (1776-1852), Study After Poussin (The Baptism of Christ), c. 1798, charcoal on paper, 11 x 17 inches. Palmer Museum of Art, John Driscoll American Drawings Collection.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State presents a special exhibition from the recent gift of 140 American works on paper donated by alumnus Dr. John P. Driscoll in 2018. Drawing on a Legacy: Highlights from the John Driscoll American Drawings Collection, opened on January 21, 2020 and features selections from the expansive gift, one of the most important in the forty-eight-year history of the UniversityÂs art museum. ÂThis inaugural exhibition showcases a selection of superlative works from John DriscollÂs recent gift of American works on paper to the Palmer, said Erin M. Coe, director of the museum. ÂWe at Penn State are so grateful to John for this transformational gift, which will reshape our presentation and interpretation of American art for generations to come. The John Driscoll American Drawings Collection spans more than 150 years of American art history from 1798 to 1950, and in many ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at record books at the Hall of Names, a repository for the names of millions of Holocaust victims, at the Yad Vashem memorial center in Jerusalem on January 20, 2020. World leaders are to travel to Israel this week to mark 75 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed over a million Jews. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP
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 | | Drouot to offer a recently discovered work by Jusepe de Ribera | | Getty Museum opens 'In Focus: Platinum Photographs' | | Masterpiece by Rembrandt pupil Willem Drost loaned to the Rijksmuseum | 
Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), The Mathematician.
PARIS.- Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) was only 20 years old when he painted this work, « The Mathematician ». The Spanish born artist was yet to achieve his renown as the great painter of Naples, the city considered to be one of the most important artistic centers of the 17th century. It is in Rome, before this Neapolitan period, in around 1610, that Ribera paints this singular and striking allegory of Knowledge. The painting is unrecorded and was unknown to Ribera specialists. Now authenticated by Stéphane Pinta from the Cabinet Turquin, the work is to be sold at auction at Drouot on 27 March 2020 by the auction house Daguerre with an estimate of 200,000 to 300,000 Euros. 4 key facts to understand the painting 1. This discovery sheds new light on the artists early period that today lies at the heart of research being done on his oeuvre. 2. The painting portrays one of the artists favorite models, one ... More | | 
Sarah Choate Sears, Helen Sears, 1895. Platinum print. Image: 22.8 Ã 18.7 cm (9 Ã 7 3/8 in.) Accession No. 84.XP.164.21 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Platinum Photographs, featuring more than two dozen striking prints made with platinum and the closely related palladium photographic process. Drawn from the museums collection, the exhibition explores the wide variety of visual characteristics that have come to define the allure and beauty of this medium, which include a velvety matte surface, wide tonal range, and neutral palette. Introduced in 1873 by scientist William Willis Jr. (British, 1841-1923), the use of platinum was quickly embraced by both professional and amateur photographers alike and helped to establish photography as a fine art. The visual qualities of each print could be individualized by changing the temperature of the developer or adding chemicals ... More | | 
Willem Drost (1633-1659) Cimon and Pero, ca. 1655-1657 (detail). Oil on canvas. On loan from the Broere Charitable Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has received on long-term loan a rare work by the artist Willem Drost, a pupil of Rembrandt. Painted around 1655, Cimon and Pero is owned by the Broere Charitable Foundation and the tenth object from its collection to be placed on long-term loan with the Rijksmuseum. Cimon and Pero is the largest known canvas by Drost, who died at an early age, and the first to be added to the Rijksmuseum collection. It now hangs in the museums Gallery of Honour. Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum: Its fantastic that there are people who buy art in order to share it. Millions of people will now be able to enjoy this painting by Rembrandts most important pupil thanks to the Broere Charitable Foundation. There are 41 known works by Willem Drost (1633-1659), who ... More |
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| | The Vero Beach Museum of Art announces the appointment of Anke Van Wagenberg as VBMA Senior Curator | | Galleria Borghese raises funds for the acquisition of a masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini | | Pepperdine mourns the loss of Weisman Museum director Michael Zakian | 
Anke Van Wagenberg is a Dutch art historian educated in the Netherlands. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announces the appointment of Anke Van Wagenberg as VBMA Senior Curator effective January 24, 2020. Anke Van Wagenberg joins the VBMA following over a 25-year career at several notable art museums. She moved to the USA in 1987 and began her career at the National Gallery of Art in the department of Northern Baroque Painting. She also worked for the Walters Art Museum and taught Art History for 12 years at the University of Maryland and at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. Since 2011 she has been Chief Curator at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. Here Anke curated numerous significant exhibitions, including shows focused on Peter Paul Rubens, James Turrell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bill Viola, to name a few. She was pivotal in the growth ... More | | 
Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bronze bust of Urbano VIII Barberini, 1658.
ROME.- The Galleria Borghese has begun to raise funds to the acquisition of a major work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the bronze bust of Urban VIII Barberini, which was executed in 1658 for Cardinal Antonio Barberini and is currently owned by his descendants. This is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to enhance the permanent collection of the Museum with a masterpiece by one of the artists with whom it most closely identified: Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The person portrayed, Urban VIII, is a figure closely connected with the vicissitudes of Scipione Borgheses collection, of which he was the inspiring theoretician. He likewise conceived and commented on the subjects portrayed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the monumental sculptures executed as a very young man for the Villa Borghese, where they are still to be found. The work is thus closely connected with the place that is waiting to host it. Therefore in addition to the ... More | | 
Longtime director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art Michael R. Zakian.
MALIBU, CA.- Michael R. Zakian, longtime director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University and adjunct professor of art history at Seaver College, passed away on January 14, 2020. He was 62. For more than 25 years, Pepperdine was fortunate to have Michael Zakian lead the Weisman Museum of Art, says Rebecca Carson, managing director of the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts at Pepperdine. His writing and storytelling helped make the work of Rodin, Chihuly, Andy Warhol, Agnes Pelton, and countless other artists come alive for patrons of all ages and backgrounds. Michaels work brought the thousands of people who visit the Weisman each year inspiration, joy, and wonder. He will be sorely missed. In a Pepperdine Magazine story published in 2015 on the occasion of his 20th anniversary at the University, Zakian explained, At Pepperdine my primary goal is education. Im not just ... More |
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| | Perrotin exhibits a new large-scale sculptural installation by Danish artist Jesper Just | | Romancing the stone: Louis Vuitton shows off huge rough diamond | | How US artist Judy Chicago rocked Paris fashion aged 80 | 
Jesper Just: Corporealités (installation image), 2020. Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Photo Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.
NEW YORK, NY.- Perrotin New York is presenting Corporealités, a new large-scale sculptural installation by Danish artist Jesper Just, on view from January 14 through February 15, 2020. The new work is composed of a series of LED sculptures programmed with a new multi-channel video work alongside a spatial intervention into the gallerys first floor. In Jesper Justs early work, beginning in the late 1990s, the artist produced exactingly stylized nonnarrative films. These first films were marked not only by a mastery of the formal aesthetics of cinema but also through a questioning of its power. Loneliness, suspense and yearning are impactful yet familiar devices of Hollywood cinema, often employed by Just to upend the film-watching experience. In this new installation, Just explores ideas of agency, performativity, and interpassivity, frequently using the formal language of ballet to discuss the body in both its idealized ... More | | 
This picture taken on January 21, 2020, shows the second world biggest rough diamond named "Sewelo" displayed at place Vendome's Louis Vuitton luxury shop in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Katia Dolmadian
PARIS (AFP).- The biggest rough diamond discovered in over a century was shown to private clients Tuesday by French luxury handbag-maker Louis Vuitton, which acquired the 1,758-carat gem to make a big splash in the high-end jewellery market. The stone named "Sewelo," meaning "rare find" in the tswana tongue of Botswana where it was discovered, is the size of a tennis ball. It is the second-biggest diamond ever found, after the 3,100-carat "Cullinan" mined in neighbouring South Africa in 1905, which went on to adorn Britain's crown jewels. Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond, which recovered the stone, last week announced a deal with Louis Vuitton and the Antwerp-based diamond manufacturer HB Company to have it carved up and polished. Louis Vuitton, part of ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 1, 2019 US artist Judy Chicago poses prior to the start of the Christian Dior Women's Fall-Winter 2019/2020 Haute Couture collection fashion show in Paris. Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
by Fiachra Gibbons
LONDON.- American artist Judy Chicago had a glint in her eye -- as well she might -- as she posed in front of a giant golden banner embroidered with the legend, "What if women ruled the world?" At 80 the feminist pioneer pulled off the coup of her career Monday by planting a massive temple to the mother goddess on the lawn of one of art's greatest machos, the sculptor Gustave Rodin. But that was not the best of it. One enters the 15-metre (50-foot) high shrine to "The Female Divine" behind the Rodin Museum in Paris through the deity's tastefully stylised vulva. On Monday it hosted half of Hollywood and an embarrassment of pop stars for Dior's haute couture fashion show. "We walk in the way we came out," laughed Chicago, ... More |
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| | Park Avenue Armory celebrates women's suffrage with 100 artists | | New exhibition showcases British color plates from the 18th and 19th centuries | | 21st-century students get inspired by 17th-century art | 
The exterior of the Park Avenue Armory in New York, April 30, 2019. Joshua Bright/The New York Times.
by Devi Lockwood
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- One hundred years ago, the ratification of the 19th Amendment granted (some) women the right to vote. On Thursday, the Park Avenue Armory announced that it had invited 10 cultural institutions in New York City to commission 100 female artists to create work that both celebrated and interrogated the history of womens suffrage. The project, called 100 Years | 100 Women, was conceived in partnership with the National Black Theater and also involves the Apollo Theater, the Juilliard School, the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, the Laundromat Project, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of the Moving Image, National Sawdust, New York University and Urban Bush Women. Each will commission 10 artists. The artists names will be announced Feb. 15 as part of the Armorys annual Culture in a Changing America symposium. The commissioned projects which ... More | | 
John Parker Lawson (d.1852), author; James Duffield Harding (1798-1863), artist; L. Sabatier, lithographer. Stirling Castle (detail). Colored lithograph. From Scotland Delineated in a Series of Views with Historical, Antiquarian and Descriptive Letterpress, Volume II. London: E. Gambart & Co., 1854.
PRINCETON, NJ.- In Pursuit of the Picturesque, an exhibition featuring British color plate books published between 1776 and 1868, will open at the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, located in the Firestone Library lobby, on Jan. 22. Showcasing selected items from the collection of Leonard L. Milberg, Princeton University Class of 1953, the exhibition includes nearly 40 large books with colorful, detailed imagery from the British Empire at the turn of the 19th century. This selection from Milbergs collection of 115 color plate books portrays an expanding global empire at the advent of lithographic printing, which captured color and imagery with more beauty and ease than ever before. Milberg has collected color plate books since the 1980s, though his love of art began in the 1950s. During his Army days in Alaska, ... More | | 
Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606 1669), Self-Portrait in a Velvet Cap with Plume, 1638. Etching. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. S. William Pelletier.
ATHENS, GA.- During the 2019 fall semester, University of Georgia students in two classes at the Lamar Dodd School of Art spent hours at the Georgia Museum of Art, looking through prints in the museums collection. Now, the product of their work, the exhibition Reflecting on Rembrandt: 500 Years of Etching, is on view from January 18 to April 19, 2020, celebrating the 350th anniversary of Rembrandts death. The exhibition includes prints selected from the museums collection as well as some created by the students, both commemorating the artists profound impact as a printmaker. UGA students in ARHI 4310/6310 Northern Baroque Art (taught by Dr. Shelley Zuraw) and ARST 3315 Printmaking: Etching (taught by Mark Callahan) first repeatedly visited the museums collections, looking at prints in its rich collection of works on paper. The printmaking students then created prints using the same techniques ... More |
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 Gladstone Gallery opens Spectrum, an exhibition of new works by T. J. WilcoxNEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery presents Spectrum, an exhibition of new works by T. J. Wilcox. For this show, Wilcox debuts a six-part silent film based on different colors of the rainbow. In its installation, each hue blends together and elaborates a figure or event that has been seminal to the artists experience in becoming an artist and as a gay man. The works in this show explore the artists maturation and identity in ways that are both deeply personal and universal. Alongside the film, Wilcox presents a series of new photocollages on silk based on the video works that comprise Spectrum, adding this new material to his expanding practice. The elliptical narratives from Spectrum transform a series of visual fragments into dissected fractions of light that delve into a variety of topics significant to Wilcoxs identity and research interests. Drawing from a range ... More Award-winning artist Amar Kanwar to exhibit two solo projects in The NYU Abu Dhabi Art GalleryABU DHABI.- In a groundbreaking collaboration across Abu Dhabi and Dubai, The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and Ishara Art Foundation both opened solo projects in spring 2020 by Amar Kanwar, one of Indias most critically-acclaimed and internationally-exhibited contemporary artists. The award-winning artist explores the politics and intricacies of power, violence, and justice, through poetic films and comprehensive multimedia works. The Ishara Art Foundation, a non-profit institution dedicated to contemporary South Asian art and artists in West Asia, hosts Such a Morning (2017) from January 20 to May 20, while The NYUAD Art Gallery, the Universitys academic museum-gallery, shows The Sovereign Forest from January 22 to May 30. Chairperson at Ishara Art Foundation, Smita Prabhakar, comments: Our goal at Ishara Art Foundation is to champion ... More Air de Paris opens an exhibition of works by Sturtevant ROMAINVILLE.- A resolute force from the moment she first appeared on the scene, Sturtevant was always stirring things up. If her repetitions of works by artist peers conceptually strike viewers like a brick thrown against the head, the recent videos are no less trouble. In these videos, short scenes of extreme examples from the realms of consumer and entertainment cultures, such as beauty, food, porn, and sports, are collaged and montaged to produce a noisy, restless state of agitation, confusion, and movement back and forth, without it ever being clear what started off this big brouhaha in the first place. Ranging from footage taped from television game shows and commercials in early examples, such as The Final Articulation of Origins (1999), The Greening of America (2000), and Shifting Mental Structures (Millionaire/Money) (2000), to filmed ... More EXPO CHICAGO appoints Eboni S. Gates Head of VIP Relations and Strategic InitiativesCHICAGO, IL.- EXPO CHICAGO, The International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art, today announced the appointment of Eboni S. Gates as Head of VIP Relations and Strategic Initiatives in advance of the ninth annual edition, returning to Navy Pier's Festival Hall September 24 27, 2020. EXPO CHICAGOs VIP Relations team provides collectors, art advisors, civic leaders, museum directors, board members, trustees, patrons and artists with unique access to Chicago's cultural scene. As Head of VIP Relations and Strategic Initiatives, Gates will cultivate the exposition's offerings for local, regional and global arts patrons. We are extremely proud to welcome Eboni to the team as she brings her extensive professional background and international relationships to the benefit of EXPO CHICAGO," said Tony Karman, President | Director ... More Yad Vashem: Jerusalem's Holocaust memorialJERUSALEM (AFP).- Yad Vashem, the sprawling Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem, recounts the extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany. The complex spread across 20 hectares (50 acres) is due to host dozens of world leaders this week to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a concentration and death camp built by the Third Reich in Poland, where more than a million people perished. Here are key facts about Yad Vashem, established by the Israeli state in 1953 with a mandate to foster remembrance and research of the Holocaust. Visitors to Yad Vashem move through an exhibit tracing a historical narrative from the rise of the Nazis in the early 1930s to the confinement of Jews in ghettos and the mass slaughter perpetrated in gas chambers in the camps. "Our goal is to tell the story of the Holocaust but also to be ... More Inside Prada's pop-up private clubNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The It bag may be more like an old hat these days at least when it comes to fashions front row. But exclusivity is not exactly out of style; its just no longer symbolized by something you can swing from your arm. In 2020, partying with Prada is what counts. And its an experience money cant buy. This week Prada Mode, the Milanese luxury labels roving private members club, has hit Paris. Introduced in 2018, the club already landed in Miami and Hong Kong during Art Basel, and in London for Frieze. Now its fourth edition was to open for two days, Sunday and Monday, during the couture shows in the French capital, taking over the art nouveau restaurant Maxims on rue Royale, where the likes of Aristotle Onassis and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor once dined. It is the latest iteration of luxurys drive to own ... More Zoë Sheehan Saldaña's meticulously produced objects on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art MuseumRIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The work of Zoë Sheehan Saldaña tends to hide in plain sight. Strike Anywhere matches, life jackets, terrycloth towels and straight pins: these are just a few of the artists elaborate handmade undertakings, which convincingly masquerade as their industrially produced counterparts. For her exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, the artists largest to date, Sheehan presents a selection of her meticulously produced objects and furnishings, which call attention to self-reliance, labor systems, and the utopia/dystopia paradox. Zoë Sheehan Saldaña: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here is on view at The Aldrich until May 25, 2020. The exhibition is an extended meditation on the anxious, sometimes hysterical tenor of contemporary life. Sheehan has taught herself, or collaborated with experts, to produce objects through ... More The Chimney opens the first solo exhibition of French artist Anne-Charlotte Finel in the U.S.BROOKLYN, NY.- The Chimney is presenting Jacklighting, the first solo exhibition of French artist Anne-Charlotte Finel in the United States. Jacklighting refers to the nocturnal hunting practice of shining bright lights into a dark field in order to momentarily blind and stun animals. As if operating with a similar unnatural lighting system, the artist records transitory and ambiguous spaces through the lenses of her camera. In three video projects, Finel captures urban, rural, and underground landscapes that resist clarity and intelligibility. She experiments with architectural broad shots, close-ups, and microscopic scale. Installed at different angles, heights and on various surfaces, the works on display at The Chimney explore the malleability of pixels, the abstraction and limits of perceived images. The installation is accompanied by a sound piece by electro ... More Exhibition of new film, sculpture and musical works by Athanasios Argianas opens in LondonLONDON.- Camden Arts Centre is presenting Hollowed Water, an exhibition of new film, sculpture and musical works by Greek artist Athanasios Argianas. Argianass practice emerges from an interest in esoteric technologies and the traces of modernism that are found in unexpected places. An artist and composer with a background in classical music, Argianas often works across disciplines, exploring how the procedures and protocols associated with one might be brought into play in another. This first major show of his work in the United Kingdom draws on his existing research into film, music and ceramic sculpture; and expands on work begun during a residency at Camden Arts Centre in 2018-19, when Argianas developed new sound recordings and a series of semi-functional objects that operate as stages and support structures for music ... More Van Doren Waxter and CHART present 'Jackie Saccoccio: Femme Brut' a two-venue exhibition of paintings NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter and CHART, a new and dynamic collaborative space in Tribeca opened by Clara Ha, announces Jackie Saccoccio: Femme Brut, a two-venue exhibition of the American artists paintings, drawings, and prints to go on view at 23 East 73rd Street and 74 Franklin Street, respectively, from January 22, 2020, with the uptown presentation through March 14 and the downtown presentation through March 21. Saccoccio is admired for her radiant abstractions and an expanding use of the canvas as a painting tool. Her adventurous body-aware practice and formal concerns align her with contemporary painters recognized for pushing the medium. A recipient of an American Academy in Rome Prize and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Saccoccio has exhibited continuously since her White Columns White ... More Peru to install cameras at Machu Picchu after damageLIMA (AFP).- Peru is installing security cameras at its world renowned Machu Picchu site after it was damaged earlier this month by foreign tourists, authorities said Tuesday. "We are going to strengthen security at Machu Picchu by installing high-tech cameras," Jose Bastante, head of the archeological park, told AFP. Bastante said 18 cameras will be located at three strategic points of the citadel as well as access points from surrounding mountains. "This will allow us to better control visitors and avoid any action or infraction to the regulations, also any type of risk," he said, adding that drones were also being used for security. Five tourists accused of damaging the iconic site were deported to Bolivia last week and barred from returning to the country for 15 years. A sixth, from Argentina, was fined $360 and must pay $1,500 to the culture ministry for repairs after he admitted to damagin ... More Luftwaffe flies Holocaust survivor to Germany for exhibitionESSEN (AFP).- For decades Naftali Fuerst stayed silent about his horrifying childhood experiences of three Nazi concentration camps and a death march. So even he was surprised to find himself onboard a Luftwaffe plane heading for Germany and a photography exhibition in which he stars. "I don't know if I am dreaming or if it is true... because 75 years ago, I was suppose to be already in another world," the 87-year-old said on board the plane, in a video posted on Twitter by the German Defence Ministry. "To have such an experience, to be given this honour 75 years later, that's unbelievable." The Slovakia-born grandfather is one of 75 people whose portraits appear in the "Survivors - Faces of Life after the Holocaust" exhibition by acclaimed German photographer Martin Schoeller. The show is one of numerous events worldwide ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Nicolas Lancret was born January 22, 1690. Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.
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