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Eugène Delacroix (French, 17981863). Three Arab Horsemen at an Encampment, 1832−37. Watercolor over graphite. 8 9/16 x 11 5/8 in. (21.7 x 29.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Alan Salz, 2015 (2015.713.3).
NEW YORK, NY.- Renowned as a giant of French Romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix (17981863) was equally a dedicated and an innovative draftsman. Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix explores the central role of drawing in the artists practice through more than one hundred worksfrom finished watercolors to sketchbooks, from copies after old master prints to preparatory drawings for important projects. As the first North American exhibition devoted to Delacroix's drawings in more than 50 years, it introduces a new generation to the artist's draftsmanship. The exhibition celebrates a major gift to The Met from Karen B. Cohen, an Honorary Trustee and a longstanding supporter of the Museum, of her extraordinary collection of drawings by Delacroix. Assembled with an eye to the artist's process, Mrs. Cohens collection illuminates the ways in which drawing shaped Delacroix's artistic development; ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An expertly curated selection of fine antiquities and ethnographic art from the world's most fascinating cultures will be auctioned by Artemis Gallery on July 19. In this image: Pleistocene Ice Age Juvenile Mammoth Tusk
| Extraordinary Leonora Carrington painting to enter Scotland's national art collection | | African ceramics from the collection of Franz Duke of Bavaria donated to Design Museum in Munich | | New exhibition at Hamburger Kunsthalle: 'Nature Unleashed. The Image of Catastrophe since 1600' | 
Portrait of Max Ernst, c.1939 (detail) by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). © The estate of Leonora Carrington.
EDINBURGH.- A mysterious and powerful portrait by the celebrated Surrealist painter, sculptor and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) has become the first work by the artist to enter the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland, it was announced today. Carrington painted Portrait of Max Ernst in about 1939, two years after she left a privileged but stifling life in England to join the inner circle of the Surrealist movement in Paris. Carringtons painting depicts the German artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), who became her lover in 1937, and with whom she escaped to France that same year. The painting is one of Carringtons most famous works, and has an extraordinary history. By December 1942, following a series of upheavals caused by the outbreak of war, Carrington had become estranged from Ernst and was on her way to Mexico, where she spent much of the rest of her life. She and Ernst met in New York, and as a parting g ... More | | 
Vessel, 19th 20th century, Burkina Faso / Bobo or Bwa, Collection of Franz, Duke of Bavaria. © Die Neue Sammlung. Photo: A. Laurenzo.
MUNICH.- Over 1,300 items of African ceramics from the collection of Franz Duke of Bavaria are going to Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum as donations or items on permanent loan, and will thus be made accessible to the public. Starting in the 1960s, His Royal Highness the Duke of Bavaria has established an important collection of African ceramics. The collection comprises examples from different African regions and focuses in particular on ceramic vessels from the 19th and 20th centuries. In terms of scope, precision of selection, and quality of the individual pieces, the collection is widely regarded as one of the most important collections of African ceramics world-wide. Despite having such a strong reputation among the specialists, it is not widely known. The thrilling, highly aesthetic objects are formally very diverse and include items of everyday use as well as ritually employed vessels. The range of designs oscillates betwee ... More | | 
Claude-Joseph Vernet (17141789), Der Schiffbruch, 1762. Ãl auf Leinwand, 40 x 31 cm © Musées dart et dhistoire, Legs Gustave Revilliod, Genf.
HAMBURG.- In a large-scale exhibition spanning several epochs, the Hamburger Kunsthalle traces based on important works how artists working in different media picture natural catastrophes while also shedding light on humanitys failure to come to terms with nature due, among other things, of our faith in technology. Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600 features approximately 200 exhibits, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, films and videos. As viewers make their way past blazing fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions and sinking ships, they will take note of pictorial constants in the expression of such disasters but will also become aware of the differences in depiction from one era to the next. The shows special appeal lies in the close juxtaposition of artworks created centuries apart. The trajectory of exhibited works spans an arc from the years around 1600 to the present day. Contemporary works serve to anchor the theme in the ... More |
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| Fondazione Prada opens exhibition of works by John Bock | | Phoenix Art Museum presents rarely-shown prints by iconic twentieth-century artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns | | Launch of Public Library's 'Culture Pass' offers free admission to 30+ NYC museums & cultural organizations | 
Exhibition view of John Bock: The Next Quasi-Complex. Photo Jacopo Farina, 18 July 24 September 2018. Fondazione Prada Milano. Courtesy Fondazione Prada.
MILAN.- Fondazione Prada presents The Next Quasi-Complex, an exhibition by John Bock, from 18 July to 24 September 2018 in its Milan venue. Conceived by the German artist John Bock (Gribbohm, 1965; lives and works in Berlin) for the Podium exhibition space, the project reflects his own practice that freely employs performative elements with audience engagement, installation, environment among others. His performances, called lectures by the artist himself, parody academic presentations and didactic methods. They are enacted in environments crafted from everyday objects, found materials, detritus, furniture etc., arranged to create a deliberately absurdist, or illogical universe. During his live events, visitors are involved in an experiential and participatory relationship with the artist. For this new project, Bock transforms the ground floor ... More | | 
Robert Rauschenberg, Sack (Stoned Moon), 1969. Lithograph. From an edition of 60, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum is presenting an original exhibition of rarely-shown prints, drawn from the Museums collection, by two giants of twentieth-century art. Rauschenberg and Johns: The Blurring of Art and Life showcases more than 20 works on paper, including lithographs, silkscreens, screen prints, and collage, by neo-Dada artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. These works detail a fascinating visual conversation between two of modern arts most influential creators, evident in their comparable use of familiar objects and contemporary images in service of multiple, often uncertain, meanings. On view from July 14 through November 11 in the Museums Orientation Gallery, Rauschenberg and Johns: The Blurring of Art and Life provides fascinating new insight into the innovative, ... More | | 
Museum of Modern Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), The New York Public Library (NYPL, serving Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island), and Queens Library announced today that they have joined together to launch Culture Pass, a library-led, city-wide initiative providing free access to myriad cultural institutions across the five boroughs to the millions of library card holders. Through the new initiative, patrons may visit, at no cost, 33 of the citys cultural institutions ranging from the Whitney Museum in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to the Noguchi Museum in Queens, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island. Through Culture Pass, participating cultural institutions will provide day-passes for library cardholders to reserve onlinefrom computers at library branches, personal devices, or anywhere they access the internetand then display the printed or digital pass to gain free admission to a specified museum, ... More |
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| Did ancient Romans whale the Mediterranean? | | Smithsonian's new Fossil Hall to open June 8, 2019 | | A bit of the Greek islands in the heart of historic Athens | 
Archaeologists from the University of Cadiz working on the ruins of Baelo Claudia. Photo: D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz (CC licence BY-SA).
PARIS (AFP).- Ancient Roman hunters may have precipitated the disappearance of grey and right whales from the Mediterranean, a study said Wednesday, suggesting commercial whaling is much older than we thought. Bones belonging to the two species were uncovered around the Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain, where they were never thought to have existed at all, a research team reported. The finding suggests right and grey whales were "common" in the North Atlantic 2,000 years ago, likely navigating the strait to calve in the temperate Mediterranean Sea. "The evidence that these two... species were present along the shores of the Roman Empire raises the hypothesis that they may have formed the basis of a forgotten whaling industry," researchers wrote in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The Basques of northern Spain and southwestern France who lived about 1,000 years ago, are widely considered as being the first large-scale whalers. But the latest discovery of bones, identified ... More | | 
In its time, Tyrannosaurus was the largest meat eater in western North America. It feasted on dinosaurs large and small, including plant eaters like the Triceratops. Fewif anyanimals could take down a healthy, adult Tyrannosaurus. Photo: Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History has announced that the Nations T. rex has returned to the museum where it will be the centerpiece of the new 31,000-square-foot fossil hall opening June 8, 2019. The Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton will be featured in the reopened hall alongside more than 700 specimens, including dinosaurs, plants, animals and insects, some never before displayed at the National Museum of Natural History. The exhibition will depict a journey through time of more than 3.7 billion years of life on Earth. Visitors will discover their impact on lifes story as it plays out today and their role in shaping its future. The new hall will be called The David H. Koch Hall of FossilsDeep Time, in recognition of a $35 million gift from David H. Koch, the largest single donation in the history of the museum. The return of ... More | | 
A tourist makes his way along a passageway in the tiny Anafiotika district of Athens, under the Acropolis archaeological site on July 6, 2018. LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- "The Acropolis? It's that way." Residents of historic Anafiotika are used to giving directions to tourists, lost in the narrow, winding alleyways of this unique but little-known hillside neighbourhood in the heart of Athens. Looking as if it's lifted straight out of the Greek islands, Anafiotika's tiny white-washed houses with brightly-painted shutters and doors were designed to resemble their builders' own Aegean Sea homes. The tranquil neighbourhood was constructed on the northeastern side of the hill leading up to the ancient Acropolis, and its 100-odd, tile-roofed houses -- known as the Anafiotika -- are as old as the modern Greek capital itself. "The Anafiotika have real historical value," says architect Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, a resident of the nearby historic Plaka district. "Working-class architecture with Cycladic elements -- it's like a journey back in time," he said. When the Bavarian prince, Otto, became Greece's king in 183 ... More |
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| An important landscape by William Wendt leads Bonhams California and Western Paintings & Sculpture sale | | Magali Teisseire appointed Head of Jewellery & Watches at Sotheby's France and Monaco | | Turner Contemporary reaches 2.8 million visits | 
William Wendt (1865-1946), Patriarchs of the Grove, oil on canvas. Painted in 1920 (detail). Estimate: $250,000-350,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- On August 7, Bonhams will present an exceptional auction of California and Western Paintings & Sculpture, which includes 142 California Impressionist, Fauvist and Tonalist styles by artists such as William Wendt, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, Joseph Raphael, Edgar Payne, Selden Connor Gile, Armin Hansen and Granville Redmond. The Pacific Northwest is also represented in a special collection of early 20th century Alaskan landscapes by Sydney Laurence and Eustace Paul Ziegler, and the American West with works by Joseph Henry Sharp, Maynard Dixon, and Edward Borein. Leading the sale is Patriarchs of the Grove by William Wendt (1865-1946), a painting distinguished by its early provenance and extensive publication history (estimate: $250,000-350,000). Images of Patriarchs of the Grove dominated the art scene of Southern California from just after the Great War until the dawn of the Great Depression. It was reproduced in the most respected pu ... More | | 
Magali Teisseires appointment coincides with the launch of both live and online jewellery and watches auctions at Sothebys in Paris this autumn. Courtesy Sotheby's.
PARIS.- Sothebys announced the appointment of Magali Teisseire as Head of the Jewellery and Watches Divisions in France and Monaco. Based in Paris, she will work closely with our teams in Monaco, London, Milan, Geneva, New York and Hong Kong. Her arrival follows the appointment earlier this year, in February, of Laurence Nicolas at the helm of the Global Jewellery and Watches Divisions. A gemmologist, Magali Teisseire studied history of art and law before starting her career as an auctioneer and specialising in jewellery and horology. Having led the jewellery division of an important French auction house between 2004 and 2011, she then developed her expertise in the domain of e-commerce. After working for an online auction company, she created her own business selling jewellery and watches online, while pursuing her activities as a jewellery expert working with various auction houses in Paris and elsewhere in France. ... More | | 
Turner Contemporarys building was designed by award-winning architect David Chipperfield. Photo: Benjamin Beker, courtesy Turner Contemporary.
MARGATE.- Since opening in 2011, Turner Contemporary has now welcomed 2.8 million visits to the gallery, bringing world-class art to Margate, offering unique learning opportunities, and putting over £67 million into the local economy. The gallery has drawn audiences from Kent, London and beyond, attracting thousands of British and international tourists, with 39% of visitors citing Turner Contemporary as their motivation for visiting Margate. In the past year, the gallery successfully installed a human-sized statue by Turner Prize winner Antony Gormley in the sea, and brought Tracey Emins famous My bed to Margate. Artworks have travelled across the globe from Cambodia and MoMA in New York. In Spring Turner Contemporary worked with members of the community to deliver a pioneering exhibition, Journeys with The Waste Land, which saw local people curate the show, selecting the artworks and designing the layout. The exh ... More |
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 Pompeii becomes a contemporary art gallery in new Newcastle University projectNEWCASTLE.- A fascinating new project sees contemporary artworks installed among the ancient ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, creating two art venues in stunning, historically resonant settings. Over the next year, two Roman houses - the House of the Beautiful Courtyard at Herculaneum and the House of the Cryptoporticus in Pompeii - are, quite literally, forming the backdrop to a venture that aims to create a new dialogue between contemporary art, Roman wall painting and archaeological remains. The driving force behind Expanded Interiors is Catrin Huber, a visual artist and senior lecturer in Newcastle Universitys Fine Art Department. Huber has assembled a team of experts in archaeology and digital technology (Professor Ian Haynes, Dr Thea Ravasi, Alex Turner), and contemporary art (Rosie Morris) from across the University, in order to explore ... More New travelling exhibition to recognize anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroadSACRAMENTO, CA.- Union Pacific, in partnership with Joslyn Art Museum and the Union Pacific Museum in Council Bluffs, Iowa, announces a new travelling exhibition in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. The Race to Promontory: The Transcontinental Railroad and the American West celebrates the Meeting of the Rails at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, through the photographs and stereographs of Andrew Joseph Russell (1830 1902) and Alfred A. Hart (1816 1908). Drawn exclusively from the Union Pacific Historic Collection, located at the Union Pacific Railroad Museum, these images represent the largest collection in the world of original photographs documenting the construction of the transcontinental railroad between 1866 and 1869. Appropriately, this transformative endeavor was captured by the equally groundbreaking ... More Exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe celebrates Polish Radio Experimental StudioKARLSRUHE.- The Polish Radio Experimental Studio (PRES) was founded in Warsaw in 1957. Its establishment also had symbolic value, as it became a major platform for freedom of expression within the Eastern Bloc. During the Iron Curtain era, the studio became an exclusive space for creative autonomy. PRES was the only platform that enabled artistic exchange with the West, inviting guests from the United States, Western Europe and Scandinavian countries. The exhibition co-organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the international cultural program accompanying the centenary of Poland regaining independence shows PRES as an institution oriented towards audio-visual experimentation that managed to establish a new language that is open to the listeners interpretation through the influence of visual arts. Thanks to its modern technology ... More Daylight Books to publish 'NASA's Space Shuttle Program 1981-1986' by John A. ChakeresNEW YORK, NY.- In 1961, at the age of eight, John A. Chakeres witnessed an event on television in his third-grade classroom that would have a major impact on his life. Broadcast from Cape Canaveral, Florida, he watched Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. launch into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to make a sub-orbital flight. The excitement of that day never left him, and triggered his interest in photography. He would set his father's Rolleiflex camera in front of the television set and photograph the space launches. In the 1970s Chakeres embarked on a career as a professional photographer and published several books. When NASA's Space Shuttle Program started in 1981 with the launch of the first Space Shuttle Columbia, he saw a golden opportunity to combine his love of photography ... More 'Grease' at 40: still the one that we wantLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Four decades have passed since the Rydell High gang twisted, hand jived and crooned their way into the hearts of teenagers the world over -- but we're all still hopelessly devoted to "Grease." The classic musical, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, took moviegoers back to their high school days with girl next door Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) and bad-boy T-Bird leader Danny (John Travolta). "When we finished it, we really didn't know what kind of impact it would have," filmmaker Randal Kleiser, who made his feature-length theatrical directing debut with "Grease," said in an interview with AFP. "We thought it would do well with teenagers for a summer or two but never thought that, 40 years later, that amazing amount of response from all over the world, and all ages, would happen." Based on a hit Broadway musical about the love affairs of 1950s ... More Saint Louis Art Museum promotes Mark Macinski to Assistant DirectorST. LOUIS, MO.- Mark Macinski has been promoted to assistant director for operations and security, the Saint Louis Art Museum announced today. Macinski oversees the museums departments of building operations, engineering, and protection services. His promotion reflects a change in the museums management group that also included the promotion of Jeanette Fausz to assistant director for exhibitions and collections. This promotion recognizes Marks supervision of multiple departments and organizational functions, as well as his commitment to maintaining the safety and security of the museum and its visitors, said Brent R. Benjamin, the Barbara B. Taylor Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Macinski joined the museum as manager of protection services in 2002. In 2013, he assumed the additional responsibility for building operations. Macinski served ... More In the Manner of's Fine Art Auction will feature fresh paintings and drawings from private collectionsFRANKLIN, MASS.- Rare, market-fresh paintings and drawings from private collections in Europe and the Americas to include decorative artworks in the styles of, and attributed to, master artists such as Warhol, Basquiat, Monet, Klein, de Kooning, Renoir, Matisse, van Gogh, Picasso and others will be sold at the next In the Manner Of auction on Thursday, July 26th. Other prime works include sketches and paintings attributed to Wifredo Lam, Gustav Klimt, Cy Twombly, Joan Miro, Arshile Gorky, Franz Marc, Antoni Tapies and many others. It will be just the third auction for the young firm that deals exclusively in antique and vintage artworks done in the styles of master artists (hence the name In the Manner Of) and only its second gallery sale. Like the previous auction in late June, this one will have a live component. The preview and live event will be held ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Caravaggio died July 18, 1610. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. In this image: A photographer and a cameraman take a picture of Caravaggio's painting "The calling of Saints Peter and Andrew" in Rome, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. The painting, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, languished for years in a dusty storeroom before being identified as the work of Italian master Caravaggio, on show at the Gate Termini Art Gallery in Rome.
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