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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Venice - View of the Campo della Carità looking towards the Duomo della Salute, 1834. oil on paper laid down on canvas, 10 1/2 by 15 in.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- For the first time since Corots lifetime, two of his early paintings of Venice have been reunited. Gallery 19C has recently acquired both works, which when viewed side-by-side provide a rare opportunity to examine the development of Corots plein-air painting style in the early formative years when he was in Italy. Both pictures, painted in 1828 and 1834, depict an on-site view of the Campo della Carità looking towards the Duomo della Salute. The addition of the earlier view now constitutes the fifth known Venetian painting from Corots 1828 trip. It is inscribed 12 Juillet in the same manner as many of Corots plein-air sketches from his first Italian journey, where he would incise the location and date directly into the wet paint with the handle of the brush. The painting is executed in a fluid manner, as if he were sketching in oil. Corots 1828 stay in Venice was possibly cut short due to an outbreak of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A preview of the "Spinosaurus" temporary exhibition at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona on July 12, 2016. The show running from July 12 to March 26, 2017 was developed by the National Geographic Society. JOSEP LAGO / AFP
| Hidden angel mosaic at Bethlehem shrine sees the light | | Unique exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe on view at ARoS | | Two rolls of early Kodak film acquired by the George Eastman Museum | 
An Italian expert renovates an old painting on one of the major columns inside the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem. THOMAS COEX / AFP.
BETHLEHEM (AFP).- It was hidden for decades at the church on the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born until conservationists uncovered it -- an ancient mosaic of an angel. Since 2013, Italian restorationists have been working with the Palestinian government in a mammoth effort to restore the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank -- hailed by Christians as built on the site where Jesus was born. The roof and windows have been restored and mosaics that had become barely visible over centuries have been painstakingly brought back to full colour, one tiny tile at a time. In the course of the work they were surprised to uncover an angel that had been hidden under plaster for decades. With thermal cameras, similar to those used by the military at night, they scanned the walls to see ... More | | 
Robert Mapplethorpe: Self Portrait, 1980. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
AARHUS.- ARoS is showing a unique exhibition of photographs by the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). The exhibition features portraits of Mapplethorpe himself, of celebrated people from the scene of New York in the 1970s and 80s, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Andy Warhol, and Louise Bourgeois as well as the rock icon Patti Smith, Mapplethorpes muse and soul mate. The exhibition also features a number of stringently composed photographs of sensual men and women, of the body builder Lisa Lyon and nude black men, whose well-proportioned and athletic bodies appear static and objectified like antique sculptures. They all attest to Mapplethorpes fascination with the body and eroticism. Mapplethorpes illicit series of photographs from the New York S&M scene gives us an up-close view of extreme forms of sexuality. In addition, there are photographs of marble and ... More | | 
Roll film represented the beginning of Eastman Kodak Companys business model.
ROCHESTER, NY.- The George Eastman Museum recently purchased the only known box of Kodak Film for use in the Kodak camera (sometimes called American Film), introduced by the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company in 1888, and one of only three known boxes of Kodak Transparent Film, introduced in 1889 for use in the Kodak camera. Now a part of the museums internationally renowned technology collection, these unopened boxes of film complete the Eastman Museums holdings related to the original Kodak cameraadding to its examples of the camera, case, shipping box, and sample images. These two rolls of film make a critical contribution to the Eastman Museums holdings of photographic technologyconsidered the leading collection of its kind in the world, said Bruce Barnes, Ron and Donna Fielding Director, George Eastman Museum. Given their importance and rarity, these boxes of film are not only ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art announces next installment of centennial loans | | Geoff Hurst 1966 World Cup shirt falls short of goal at Sotheby's London sale | | Sotheby's announces accessible sale featuring works with an average estimate under $10,000 | 
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 19071954), Fulang-Chang and I, 1937 (assembled after 1939). Generous loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
CLEVELAND, OH.- In celebration of its 2016 centennial, the Cleveland Museum of Art is marking its anniversary with a series of exceptional loans from select collections around the world. Some are directly related to works in the museums permanent holdings; others highlight an artist or object not currently represented in the collection. This year-long program includes masterworks from such eminent museums as The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. More than a dozen works of art spanning five hundred years and representing cultures from four continents will be featured. This month, the museum announces the addition of seven generous loans to be installed in its galleries beginning now through September 3. Among these masterworks is Fulang-Chang and I, by Frida Kahlo. The enigmatic self- ... More | | 
Geoff Hurst 1966 World Cup Football Jersey. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- Probably the most iconic England football shirt in history, worn by Geoff Hurst when he scored a hat-trick in the 4-2 World Cup final victory over West Germany in 1966, failed to net a buyer at auction on Tuesday. The long-sleeved red cotton shirt -- bearing the number 10 -- was valued at between £300,000 (355,000 euros, $395,000) and £500,000, but despite some bids in the room, it fell short of the reserve price at Sotheby's in London. "The shirt is a hugely important and valuable piece of footballing history and it generated a great deal of interest ahead of the sale," said a Sotheby's spokeswoman. "Though widely admired in the months preceding today's auction, and despite having seen bidding in the salesroom, the shirt failed to reach its reserve price so unfortunately did not find a buyer today." Hurst would probably have never featured in the side but for an injury to first-choice striker ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby's announces the second-annual Contemporary Living auction, to be held in New York on 28 July 2016. Consisting of 250 objects from Prints, Photographs and Design, this sale sparks a dialogue between a diverse group of works from these complementary disciplines. The sale features pieces by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Struth, Robert Mapplethorpe, Harry Bertoia and George Nakashima, with an average price point under $10,000 making this an attractive opportunity for both new and established collectors. The exhibition will be on view to the public from 23 through 27 July in Sothebys York Avenue galleries. This seasons catalogue features 11 curated vignettes by interior designer Fernando Santangelo. Santangelos unique aesthetic, wherein he seeks to integrate artwork and furnishings from the past into contemporary environments, can be seen throughout the catalogue. His thoughtful approach to color, p ... More |
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| Michael Joo opens exhibition at the Sackler Gallery | | Exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe opens at White Cube | | Clark Art Institute announces opening date for Manton Research Center | 
Installation view.
WASHINGTON, DC.- An installation by Korean American artist Michael Joo (b. 1966, Ithaca, N.Y.) is being exhibited in the Smithsonians Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Pavilion this year as part of the museums Perspectives contemporary art series. Perspectives: Michael Joo, on view July 2, 2016July 9, 2017, explores the migration patterns of Korean red-crowned cranes. The monumental installation consists of a canvasnearly 13 feet tall and 10 feet wideand a hanging sculpture. The subject of these two new artworks, created specifically for the Sackler, are endangered red-crowned cranes, which are significant in Korean culture. The cranes freely migrate through the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)a pristine ecosystem of 160 miles of unoccupied territory between North and South Korea. Joo employs a combination of painting, sculpture, photography, digital scanning, printmaking and crane specimens in his i ... More | | 
Christine Ay Tjoe, Concealer Player (detail), 2016. Oil on canvas. Diptych: 78 3/4 x 141 3/4 in. (200 x 360 cm) © the artist. Photo © White Cube (George Darrell).
LONDON.- White Cube presents an exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe. One of the most acclaimed Indonesian artists, Ay Tjoes work has been widely exhibited throughout Asia. For this, her first exhibition in the UK, she has produced twelve paintings including two large-scale diptychs, the culmination of several series of work. Ay Tjoe began her career as a graphic artist exploring the intaglio dry point printing technique and then moved into working with textiles. Now encompassing painting on canvas, works on paper, sculpture and large, room-sized installations, her work focuses on the human condition as filtered through her own subjective experience, and addresses themes of philosophy and spirituality. Ay Tjoes paintings are often misunderstood, seen as being purely beautiful. Although they are visually seductive, they deal with abject subject matter, ... More | | 
The Manton Research Center is central to the Clarks mission of advancing and extending the public understanding of art. Photo: Tucker Bair.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institutes newly renovated Manton Research Center will open to the public on November 12, 2016. The completion of the buildings renovation is the final part of the Clarks multi-year campus expansion program. A significant reconfiguration of the buildings first floor provides new public spaces including a gallery and study center for works on paper; a public reading room; and a bookstore and coffee bar, while building-wide upgrades for accessibility and life safety have enhanced its library, auditorium, and administrative offices. The Manton Research Center is central to the Clarks mission of advancing and extending the public understanding of art. Renovation of the building was designed by Selldorf Architects, New York. The center, built in 1973, is home to the Clarks Research and Academic Program, the Williams College Graduate ... More |
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| Phillips presents an exhibition of works by nine artists | | Art AIDS America exhibition on view at The Bronx Museum of the Arts | | Artist Christopher Stone opens "Lost Artist Ibiza" at his studio premises | 
Leo Villareal, Buckyball, 2015. LEDs, custom software, electrical hardware, base, 29 x 19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (73.7 x 50.2 x 50.2 cm). Edition of 8. Photo: Courtesy the artist and Sandra Gering Inc.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips is presenting LIGHT/SOURCE, a selling exhibition that is on view in New York this summer. Featuring works from nine artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Sanford Biggers, Nick Cave, and Tracey Emin, this exhibition aims to explore the complex relationship between works of art using light and the contemporary viewer. LIGHT/SOURCE is on view at 450 Park Avenue until 26 August. Arnold Lehman, Senior Advisor to the Chairman & CEO and curator of the exhibition, said, We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring together works by these esteemed artists and create a larger dialogue about the significance of light in the context of contemporary art. From works that are created from light, to those that are reflective, to those that are actually defined by their lack of luminosity, these pieces are directly ... More | | 
Bill Jacobson, Interim Portrait #373, 1992. Chromogenic color print, 24 x 20 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
BRONX, NY.- This summer The Bronx Museum of the Arts will present Art AIDS America, the first exhibition to examine the deep and ongoing influence of the AIDS crisis on American art and culture. The exhibition will feature more than 125 works in a wide range of media dating from 1981 to the present day, by artists including Félix González-Torres, Derek Jackson, Kia Labeija, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Martin Wong. The exhibition, on view from July 13 through September 25, is organized by the Tacoma Art Museum in partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts. For this presentation, additional works from The Bronx Museum permanent collection will broaden the offering of artistic responses to the AIDS crisis by artists particularly connected to the Bronx, such as Willie Cole, Glenn Ligon, Whitfield Lovell, and others. The Museum is also working ... More | | 
Studio exterior front and parking lot. Images by Francesco Broli.
IBIZA.- After a long career as a practising artist has decided to move on from outside gallery representation to running his own space. From the gallery he is able to form a one to one base with his collectors, direct personal contact, something generally appreciated by both parties. The gallery which is situated in the Ibiza countryside boasts spacious private garden and patio areas where children can play, and adults can chill. The space is open daily throughout the year. Art lovers, collectors, and the curious are welcomed by Christopher in person. Once inside they are able to browse the sculpture, wall art and furniture design work produced by the artist. Another new social aspect of this venture will include Lost Artist hosting open evenings where the guests can come along, meet each other, enjoy a drink and generally socialise without any obligation to buy. The first experimental evening held earlier ... More |
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 McMaster Museum of Art appoints Rhéanne Chartrand as Aboriginal Curatorial ResidentHAMILTON, ON.- The McMaster Museum of Art announced that Rhéanne Chartrand has been named the MMA's inaugural Aboriginal Curatorial Resident. Her one-year residency runs July, 2016 through June, 2017. During the year, Chartrand will develop two exhibitions at McMaster centered on Indigenous art. More specifically, her focus will be contemporary Indigenous artists and the history of curatorial practice related to Indigenous art in Canada. Leading up to the exhibitions, her work at the Museum will include collections research, programming and partnerships with Indigenous communities. Chartrand has worked with numerous galleries and cultural organizations including Aboriginal Pavillion for Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance, and aluCine Latin Film+Media Arts Festival. She brings rich experience and energy to the MMA residency, as well ... More Lena Henke's first solo-show in Switzerland on view at SALTSBIRSFELDEN.- Lena Henke (born 1982 in Warburg (GER), lives and works in New York City and Frankfurt am Main) has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Henkes work references urban planning, Land Art, human relationships, sexuality and Fetishism, consistently infiltrating the patriarchal structure of art history with a very smart and humorous tone. Her formal language and use of materials often alludes to Minimal combined vividly with Surrealist imagery. For her first solo-show in Switzerland the artist has created a completely new body of work inspired by research into two separate systems of architecture and utility. The first, a catalog of utopic outdoor sites since the 16th centurysome of which still exist, others forgotten or never realized. The second, an extensive look into New Yorks water shed system ... More Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair heads to Hastings HASTINGS.- Following hugely successful trips to Margate and Folkestone, the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair heads to Hastings on Saturday, 16 JULY 2016 for further fun and frivolity at the seaside. The fairs originator and organiser Karen Ashton has assembled a glorious line-up of art world stars, including legendary punk poet John Cooper Clarke, Marcus Harvey and Sir Peter Blake, all of whom will be at the event selling prized editions of their works. In collaboration with Alteria Art, Cooper Clarke has created a silkscreen print with the lyrics of one of his most famous poems, Chicken Town. The artwork features an outline of Cooper Clarkes hand the hand being this years theme overlaid with verses from the poem, and will be sold with an MP3 player in the form of a pin badge and headphones. The MP3 player features one track of Cooper Clarke reading the poem. Pop ... More London Art Week 2016 records strong salesLONDON.- The fourth edition of London Art Week drew to a successful close on Friday 8 July with participants reporting a significant number of visitors, including a notable number of international curators, and strong sales and reserves across a variety of collecting disciplines at price levels from around £1,000 to over £1 million. London Art Week brought together 46 leading art galleries and three auction houses and presented a wealth of paintings, drawings, sculpture and works of art dating from antiquity to the 20th century. With more dedicated exhibitions than ever before, this year offered gallery displays focused on a wide range of specialist subjects including ancient arms and armour, 16th-century stained glass, Dutch flower paintings, ancient Greek coins, artists sketchbook pages, medieval and Renaissance sculpture and Tudor portraits, among others. Visitors ... More Catharine Czudej's first solo exhibition in Germany on view at the Kölnischer KunstvereinCOLOGNE.- The Kölnischer Kunstverein presents SHHHHH, Catharine Czudejs first solo exhibition in Germany. The artist was born in Johannesburg in 1985 and now lives in New York. Her work encompasses sculptures, installations, paintings and films which reflect her occupation with labor, power dynamics and moral structures. Her art is characterized by its humorous approach and absurdist take on the everyday. Responding to canonised ideas or phenomena Czudej sets off a chain of free associations linked to the cultural subconscious in an attempt to implicate the viewer in her conspiracy. Czudej has gathered together both existing and newly produced works in the central hall of the Kölnischer Kunstverein to form an environment that suggests an apartment in many respects, calling to mind the work of Pop artists like Claes Oldenburg or the installations of Paul Thek. ... More Nouveau Musée National de Monaco presents an offsite project by Mike Nelson MONACO.- The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco is presenting an offsite project by Mike Nelson Cloak a site-specific intervention in the UBS building located on avenue de Grande-Bretagne in Monaco. This project was done in collaboration with Galleria Franco Noero, Torino. Mike Nelson is represented by: Galleria Franco Noero, Torino; 303 Gallery, New York; Neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Matt's Gallery, London. Mike Nelson is known for his immersive installations, which often play on socio-political preconceptions and subvert the viewers sense of place. Informed by fiction, his practice develops parallel realities where various determinants of life and everyday existence conflate to create new understandings and question existing perspectives. For NNMNs project at the UBS Monaco building the artist has proposed to render all that is visible within ... More Racine Art Museum shines this summerRACINE, WI.- Why do things that shine appeal to so many people? Scientific studies shared in early 2014 link that attraction to innate characteristics of human beings, including critical connections to sunlight and water. Open through October 2, 2016, Precious Metals: Shining Examples from RAM's Collection is an exhibition that plays with the concept of preciousness and how we assign value to objects. Culturally and socially, a shiny surface also seems to suggest something luxurious or to be treasured. Linked to this, the so-called "precious metals"--generally, gold, silver, and varieties of platinum--are historically associated with being rare, naturally occurring, lustrous, and of high economic value. Mainly comprised of shiny artworks made of precious metals, the exhibition also features shiny artworks of other materials and other metals--a comparison that draws ... More Waterways IV: Heather Gaudio Fine Art opens a group exhibitionNEW CANAAN, CONN.- Heather Gaudio Fine Art announces Waterways IV, a group exhibition showcasing themes and interpretations on water, its environment and our interaction with it. On view will be paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography by Will Clift, Beth Dary, Peter Dayton, Betsy Eby, Karen Gunderson, Alex Katz, Wayne Levin, Jonathan Smith, Alex Weinstein and Katherine Young. The exhibition will be held July 13th-September 10th, with an opening reception for the artists on Wednesday, July 13th from 5-7pm. Sculptor Will Clift embraces balance and form with three-dimensional gestures made of wood and carbon fiber. Inspired by a shape or a movement that has caught his eye, Clifts work often defies rationale with separate elements coming together in unlikely yet perfect equilibrium. The sculptures are so intuitive they often require the artist himself ... More Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester: Solo exhibition by Brent Birnbaum opens at Denny GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Denny Gallery announces Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester, a solo exhibition by Brent Birnbaum on view from July 13th to August 26th, 2016. Voyeur Voyager Forager Forester is a continuation of Birnbaums practice of collecting obsolescent objects and repurposing these collections with whimsy and aesthetic rigor. The installation comprises more than forty used, wood-paneled mini-refrigerators stacked in totems of varied height, which will be positioned close together filling the main space of the gallery. The interiors of the fridges house micro-worlds of color-coordinated elements from Birnbaums collections and miniature objects he has fabricated. The viewer will be able to explore the interiors of the fridges, inviting an experience of voyeurism and discovery. The fridges will be plugged in and humming, moving the air in the space, so that the experience ... More The Getty and Rothschild Foundation announce inaugural Getty Rothschild FellowshipLOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty and the Rothschild Foundation today announced the creation of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship, which will support innovative scholarship in the history of art, collecting, and conservation, using the collection and resources of both institutions. The fellowship offers art historians, museum professionals, or conservators the opportunity to research and study at both the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. The inaugural fellow is Dr. David Saunders, a foremost expert in the area of conservation science who will work on museum and gallery lighting during the fellowship. The Getty and the Rothschild Foundation hold similar values regarding the understanding and conservation of visual art around the world, and it is only appropriate that we would work together to support individuals who demonstrate ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo died July 13, 1954. Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and is perhaps best known for her self-portraits. In this image: From left to right: Frances Flynn Payne, who is selecting dancers; artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and Mrs. William C. Hammer, artistic director of the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company, seen in Philadelphia, March 31, 1932, where they are preparing the ballet "Horsepower" at the Metropolitan.
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