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The ceremony held at the ships home, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, included a spectacular kabuki drop, revealing the ship after having undergone 23 years of extensive treatment, including state-of-the-art innovations, which has changed the face of conservation.
PORTSMOUTH.- After a six-month closure and a multi-million pound investment, the Mary Rose Trust today unveiled to the world the Mary Rose, Henry VIIIs favourite warship, 471 years to the day after it was sunk. The ceremony held at the ships home, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, included a spectacular kabuki drop, revealing the ship after having undergone 23 years of extensive treatment, including state-of-the-art innovations, which has changed the face of conservation. Revealed for the first time ever was a carved wooden Tudor rose, which was discovered at the time of the second excavation in 2005 but only recently identified as the original emblem of the ship, and the first figurehead of its kind, as depicted in 16th-century drawings in the Anthony Scroll. Also revealed was a new CGI display of projected, reconstructed scenes from life on the ship, performed by museum staff. The scenes were created using information and artifacts ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day From July 6 to October 3, 2016 the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is dedicating a major, long overdue exhibition to the color woodcut. In this image: Carl Moser, Cottage in Brittany, 1904, Colour woodcut on washi, Sheet: 29,3 x 45,8 cm, Vienna Albertina, Inv. DG1912/89 © Albertina, Vienna
| Christie's to offer the Leslie Waddington Collection on 4 October 2016 | | Rare archive of Marilyn Monroe photographs auction announced by Julien's Auctions | | Billy Name, photographer who archived Warhol's Factory, dies at 76 | 
A centrepiece of the collection is Jean Dubuffets Visiteur au chapeau bleu avril 1955, 1955 (estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2016.
LONDON.- The Collection of Leslie Waddington will be offered for sale as a single-owner auction at Christies, London during Frieze week October 2016. A celebration of some of the artists he most admired, the sale will feature works from his personal collection including 20th-century icons Josef Albers, Alexander Calder, Milton Avery, Agnes Martin, Francis Picabia, and Jean Dubuffet, as well as works by many of the contemporary artists he represented, and with whom he developed enduring friendships. Assembled over several decades, Waddingtons personal collection is testament to his pioneering spirit as an art dealer who presented a groundbreaking exhibition programme and fostered creative relationships with artists: he brought a range of Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary names to the attention of international audiences and defined the London art landscape ... More | | 
Also to be offered during the Marilyn Monroe event and as part of the Frieda Hull Collection are locks of Marilyn Monroes hair. Photo: Julien's Auctions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced the Frieda Hull Marilyn Monroe Collection and Photography Archive to be auctioned in November 2016 as part of the highly-anticipated David Gainsborough-Roberts and Estate of Lee Strasberg Collections of Marilyn Monroe auction event. Frieda Hull was a member of the now famous Monroe Six, a New York City based group of teenagers who photographed Marilyn whenever and wherever they could. As an airline employee, Hull was in the enviable position of being able to photograph Marilyn also on the West Coast. Much to Marilyns surprise and delight, the group learned of her whereabouts from various sources, including movie magazines and her hairdresser. Many times the team simply waited for Marilyn outside of her hotel, her home, or events she was attending. Over time, Marilyn came to know each member of the group, even inviting them to the Roxbury, CT home she shared ... More | | 
As the staff photographer for the Factory, Name captured such superstars as Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Bob Dylan and the Velvet Underground and Nico. Photo: David Shinbone.
NEW YORK, NY.- Billy Name, the in-house photographer at Andy Warhols studio and one of the few surviving members of the Factory, died at the age of 76 in Highland, New York on Monday, July 18. Born William Linich Jr. in 1940, Name grew up in Poughkeepsie, NY. In 1958 he settled in Manhattan and became involved in the avant garde downtown art scene working for the Fluxus group, Yoko Ono and LaMonte Young. He met Warhol in 1959 and it was Warhol who renamed him Billy Name. Besides being Warhols assistant, he was also his lover. While known as the Factorys photographer, Name was the one who redecorated Warhols the space by covering the walls in silver spray paint and aluminum foil. The space was hailed as the place to see and be seen and attacted New Yorks demimonde. While the silver décor seemed to evoke a sense of futurism of Warhols work, Name said he was inspired by the repainting ... More |
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| Indianapolis Museum of Art acquires major painting for renowned Neo-Impressionist collection | | The Trust for Governors Island unveils Cabin, a new permanent installation by British artist Rachel Whiteread | | J. Paul Getty Museum announces appointment of Julian Brooks to Senior Curator of Drawings | 
Henri Delavallée (French, 18621943), The Boot Polisher, 1890 (detail), oil on canvas, 62-5/8 à 31-7/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wood Art Purchase Endowment Fund, 2016.1.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art unveiled the newest addition to its celebrated Neo-Impressionist collection todayHenri Delavallées painting, The Boot Polisher (1890). Now on display in the IMAs Robert H. & Ina M. Mohlman Gallery, the canvas, a large-scale figural painting, is a major addition to the IMAs Neo-Impressionist collection. The collection is considered the finest outside of Europe and includes works by Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac and Théo van Rysselberghe. The oil paintingmeasuring approximately 62 by 31 inchesmade its only previous appearance in America during the IMAs 2014 exhibition, Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904. The international exhibition was the first to examine the role of portraiture in the paintings and drawings by followers of Seurat, founder of the Neo-Impressionist ... More | | 
Rachel Whitereads Cabin on Discovery Hill. Photo by Tim Schenck.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Trust for Governors Island today unveiled a new permanent site-specific artwork by British artist and Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread. Entitled Cabin, the installation will be on view this season daily from July 19 - September 25, 2016, Monday-Friday 10am- 6pm, Saturday/Sunday 10am-7pm. Cabin is located on Discovery Hill, one of the four Hills on Governors Island. Designed by acclaimed Dutch landscape architects West 8, the Hills are the culmination of the award-winning Governors Island Park and Public Space Master Plan. Rising 25 to 70 feet above the Island, the Hills offer an extraordinary experience of art, play, and views. Cabin is the latest work featured in Art CommissionsGI, The Trust's public art program. Art CommissionsGI has been led by curator Tom Eccles, the Executive Director of CCS Bard and the Hessel Museum. Cabin is the first major permanent public commission in the US for Whiteread, and her first public ... More | | 
Julian Brooks has been a curator of drawings at the Museum since 2004.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, announced today the appointment of Julian Brooks as senior curator and head of the Department of Drawings. Brooks, who has been a curator of drawings at the Museum since 2004, succeeds Lee Hendrix, who retired at the end of June following a 32-year career at the Getty. Throughout his twelve years at the Getty, Julian distinguished himself as a curator of outstanding exhibitions most recently on Andrea del Sarto and as a connoisseur of drawings for acquisition, at the same time, becoming progressively more and more involved with the management of the department, says Potts. During the search process, it became clear from our conversations with colleagues at home and abroad that he was the ideal candidate to lead the departments continued growth in the development of the collection and the associated programs of exhibitions, ... More |
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| Nelson-Atkins to unveil renovated Bloch Galleries of European Art in winter 2017 | | Grand piano suspended above Television Centre by Turner Prize-nominee Catherine Yass | | Julien's Auctions announces sale of Property from the Collection of Jane Fonda | 
Vincent van Gogh, Restaurant Rispal at Asnieres, 1887. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 23 5/8 in. Gift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch, 2015.13.10.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- In March 2017, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will open the renovated Bloch Galleries in the museums original 1933 Beaux-Arts building, featuring the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, on view for the first time since 2007. Comprised of nearly 30 masterpieces acquired by the Bloch family over the course of two decades and gifted to the museum in 2010, the Bloch Collection nearly doubles the museums current holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In 2015, the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation provided a $11.7-million gift to support renovation of the museums European art galleries to integrate the Bloch Collection into its existing collections and keep the work on permanent view. This transformational gift underscores the Bloch familys enduring commitment to ... More | | 
Catherine Yass, Air Piano.
LONDON.- On Sunday 17 July 2016, a grand piano was suspended over Television Centre, the iconic former home of the BBC in White City, by the artist Catherine Yass as one of eight artist residencies at the west London site. Chosen from over 360 submissions to an open call, each artist has responded to a brief to create a unique experience in the site's East Tower, which is set for demolition and redevelopment later in the year. The residencies have been commissioned by White Noise, a live research project about urban change, and are running between 9 June and 31 July 2016. Catherine Yass has represented the UK at the Indian Triennale and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2002. Her work features in a number of major important collections worldwide including Tate, London. Catherine Yass's proposal evokes the presence and absence of the building. It builds on a body of work that engages with extraordinary aerial views and ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda. Lithograph.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Julien's Auctions, the world record breaking auction house to the stars, has announced Property from the Collection of Jane Fonda, an exquisite collection of fashion, art, jewelry, decorative arts and personal items representing the life and career of the cinematic icon. Two-time Academy award winner and seven time nominee, Emmy Award winner and four-time Golden Globe winner, Fonda has appeared in more than 50 films and television series. The age-defying actress has firmly established herself as an icon of her generation and a Hollywood legend who paved the way for women throughout her entire life. Born to Hollywood actor Henry Fonda and Frances Ford Seymour, Jane Fonda began her career in the off-Broadway play There was a Little Girl where she received her first Tony Award nomination. Shortly thereafter, Fonda starred in a range of films including Barefoot in the Park as free spirited Corrie, as TV ... More |
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| Virtuoso launches concerto for Instagram | | Bonhams offer camera entrepeneur's coveted collection | | The RAF Museum is over run with Pokémon Go characters | 
The Israeli artist, who has led a revival of his instrument and regularly plays premier classical venues, posted the first of five movements of his "InstaConcerto."
NEW YORK (AFP).- In an experiment that acknowledges the modern era's shortening attention spans, mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital on Monday launched a concerto for Instagram with movements of 15 seconds. The Israeli artist, who has led a revival of his instrument and regularly plays premier classical venues, posted the first of five movements of his "InstaConcerto." Avital plans to post the subsequent movements of the concerto -- composed by Slovak-born conductor and pianist Peter Breiner -- each day on his Instagram account at @aviavital. "We wanted to raise questions with this project, both about the artistic value of the composition within the given restrictions of the time-frame, and about the attention span of our generation and its relationship to classical music," Avital said in a statement. In Western classical music, ... More | | 
Leica IIIg, no. 861719. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A treasure trove of photographic memorabilia from brands including Leica and Nikon, will be offered as part of the Robert White Collection Sale, taking place at Bonhams on 19 September 2016. Robert White (1953-2015) was the founder of one of the UKs leading photographic retailers, having started in business with a small camera shop in Poole, where he was born. Jon Baddeley, Bonhams Global Director of Collectors Sales, said: As one would expect from a man who made cameras and photography his lifes work, the pieces collected by Robert White are rare, of immense quality, and are of historical significance. From the Leicavit MP, no. 294 which is in completely original condition to how it was made some 50 years ago to a Leica III that comes complete with a very large wooden dummy model for shop displays in the early 1930s. Robert certainly had an eye for quality. The Leicavit MP, no. 294 was int ... More | | 
Visitors to the RAF Museum are able to use the FREE WIFI facilities to help them catch characters like Hypno, Drowzee, Spearow and many more!
LONDON.- The RAF Museum is known for its legendary aircraft collection but alongside these iconic exhibits it now houses 6 Pokéstops, a Gym and numerous characters from the game that has taken over the world! Says Kevin Carter, Head of Digital Experience: My kids are gamers and they popped in to the Museum last week and were excited about the huge number Pokémon characters on site. Since then we have noticed a number of visitors playing the game here. As a free Museum with free wifi, they are most welcome! Visitors to the RAF Museum are able to use our FREE WIFI facilities to help them catch characters like Hypno, Drowzee, Spearow and many more! The Museum has a Gym by the replica aircraft in the car park. We also have a total of 6 Pokestops, which usually placed on locations of interest or tourist spots. ... More |
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 Copperfield London opens group exhibitionLONDON.- Copperfield, London presents Miseratione non mercede, with works by David Escalona, Julia Varela, Oscar Santillan and Marco Godoy. Translated to 'compassion not gain', the title draws on a Latin inscription in an old operating theatre. Hidden in the roof of the nearby St Thomass Church this was a space where those without money could receive pre-anaesthetic surgical treatment. Always in reference to the body, the exhibition contains interconnected expressions of empathy, communication and the overcoming of adversity. What it is to be with, to be without and to recognise that all require support in some measure. Escalonas work explores the world from the perspective of a vulnerable body. A gilded wheelchair titled El Carro de Apolo (Apollos Carriage) and a limply hanging parachute titled Misetatione non mercede II are typical of his combination of ... More Serpentine launches new digital platform: Serpentine Mobile ToursLONDON.- The Serpentine Galleries introduce a new digital platform that offers visitors access to additional, exclusive programme content, including artist interviews and curated tours, as they explore the gallery spaces. The new Mobile Tours are supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and form part of a larger digital engagement programme, which aims to provide greater access and create new gallery experiences for Serpentine visitors. Launched to coincide with the Serpentines expanded summer programmes, the Mobile Tours include recordings by American artist Alex Katz and painter, essayist and poet Etel Adnan, Serpentine Pavilion designer Bjarke Ingels and the designers of the four Summer Houses - Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÃ), Barkow Leibinger, Yona Friedman and Asif Khan. Taking advantage of its unique position within Kensington Gardens, the Serpentine Galleries is ... More The Mullin Automotive Museum celebrates California artistsOXNARD, CA.- The Mullin Automotive Museum has debuted a new fine art exhibit California Artists, which opened with its new Cars and Carriages exhibition. The show will run through the end of the year. The art show displays a diverse collection of paintings and photography by a variety of California artists from the past half century. The show features works from Harold Cleworth, Art Reid, Charles Arnoldi, Ben Abril, Laddie John Dill, Bruce Cohen, Sigrid Burton, Larry Cohen, Jack Schultz, William Dorsey, Hank Pitcher, Peter Lodato and Dennis Leon. California is an incredibly diverse state with a nearly infinite number of landscapes and vistas, each more beautiful than the last, said Museum Founder Peter Mullin. This great natural beauty has influenced an almost equally infinite number of Californian artists to create truly beautiful works of art. Were pleased to be able ... More A thousand forms in the conquest of space: Cristóbal Gabarrón in CannesCANNES.- This summer the leading Spanish artist, painter and sculptor Cristóbal Gabarrón (Mula, Murcia, Spain 1945) invades the city of Cannes with his major retrospective Mille formes à la conquête de l'espace (A thousand forms in the conquest of space). Formed by over 200 artworks, the exhibit is taking place in ten popular locations such as the Centre d'art La Malmaison, La Croisette, or Le Suquet, among others. Cristóbal Gabarrón picks up where earlier generations of painters like Antoni Tà pies (19232012) and Antonio Saura (19301998) left off. Due to its modernity, his paintings and sculptures contribute to the present cultural debate in museology. Hence, he is an active participant in current trends. His work evolves to abstraction mainly based on transformation of the human being. He addresses life, death, justice, peace, and war. Accordingly, the city ... More Sara MacKillop creates works especially for Haus der Kunst Capsule exhibitionMUNICH.- Sara MacKillop (born 1973 in Bromley, UK) created the works on view especially for the Capsule exhibition. Her works belong to the tradition of conceptual art and minimalism. The London artist is co-founder of the Artist Self-Publishers' Fair London 2015. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions in the Kunsthalle Charlottenburg, Copenhagen (2013), Spike Iceland in Bristol (2011), White Columns in New York (2011) and Whitechapel Project Space in London (2009). Upon entering her space, visitors leaving the dark realm of Capsule 05 enter into the light. The new works are minimalistic, airy and individual assemblages. Similar in design to earlier works, such as "Pens" (2006), in which the artist combined the same type of pens to form a kind of post, these assemblages are rooted in the everyday. They initially appear to consist of ordinary office materials, such ... More Francesca Pasquali_Metamorphoses on view at Tornabuoni ArtLONDON.- Tornabuoni Art London is presenting Francesca Pasquali_Metamorphoses, the first of a series of solo exhibitions taking place in the summer months, introducing emerging Italian artists to the London art scene. Providing a platform for contemporary Italian art is a project very dear to gallery owner Ursula Casamonti, who explains: The idea of opening our exhibition programme which is normally Modern-focused to emerging artists has been at the top of the London gallerys agenda from the very start. For our first summer in London, we wanted to introduce Francesca Pasquali, a young artist whose work Tornabuoni Art has been following and promoting for many years. While Pasquali has encountered great success in Italy, she is little known abroad and we are proud to be presenting her first solo exhibition in London. Metamorphoses, created in collaboration ... More Works by Timm Rautert on view in DresdenDRESDEN.- Timm Rauterts Bildanalytische Photographie (Image-analytical photography) counts among the seminal works of German art photography of the 1960s and 1970s. In 2014 the Kupferstich-Kabinett acquired this group of fifty-six works, most of which are composed of several images. They are conceived as unique art works, as each of the images exists in only a single impression. The exhibition presents Bildanalytische Photographie for the first time in its entirety. Timm Rautert worked on Bildanalytische Photographie in the period of 1968 and 1974, a time of radical discourse about the role of art in society. He was then a student of Otto Steinert at the Folkwang Art School in Essen, gaining his degree in 1971. During his studies and in the following years Timm Rautert travelled to the United States of America several times, where he was in c ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center presents works by Ethan Hayes-ChuteCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Ethan Hayes-Chutes installations, sculptures, drawings, text pieces, and performances explore ideas of self-sufficiency and self-preservation as alternative models for living. He constructs small, near-functional cabins and partial interiors out of entirely salvaged materials; the structures variously make reference to landscapes on the margin, life off the grid, ecology and waste. Many of Hayes-Chutes recent works reflect a DIY vernacular approach to architecture and technology, and investigate processes of labor, production, and redistribution. The exhibition at the List presents a new architectural installation developed for Bakalar Gallery that includes the display of a number of repurposed 1980s Epson HX-20 Notebook computers, a series of smaller assemblages using found and retrofitted objects, as well as selected video works from ... More Exhibition of recent watercolor and Sumi ink works on paper by Eva Lundsager on view at Van Doren Waxter NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter is presenting Other Night Other Light, an exhibition of recent watercolor and Sumi ink works on paper by Eva Lundsager, on view through August 26, 2016. The 20 works on paper exist in an ambiguous state between representational and abstract landscapes, eluding categorization and engaging a world in flux. An interview with Associate Director Paul Brainard and the artist accompanies the e-catalogue. Completed in 2015-16, the works on view approach an idea of classic landscape but remain in denial of that reference point through multiple disorienting horizon lines and enigmatic forms. Kinetic, possibly violent motion is arrested within their confines: glowing orbs expand, explode and collapse in on themselves, suggesting atmospheric changes or cosmic reactions. The attendant tension, augmented by spontaneous drips and splashes ... More Works by Mexican women artists from the Daros Latinamerica Collection on view at Kunstmuseum BernBERN.- Without Restraint presents together for the first time contemporary Mexican art by women from the Daros Latinamerica Collection (Zurich), Europes largest and most important collection of its kind. Seven women artists who live and work in Mexico show their lifeworld from a decidedly female point of view and respond to international artistic movements with very different approaches. In Without Restraint 35 works including photographs, videos, objects, and installations by the following internationally acclaimed women artists are exhibited: Ximena Cuevas (*1963), Claudia Fernández (*1965), Teresa Margolles (*1963), Betsabeé Romero (*1963), Maruch Sántiz Gómez (*1975), Teresa Serrano (*1936) and Melanie Smith (*1965). These multifaceted and thought-provoking works provide an overview of the most characteristic features of the Mexican contemporary art ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Lucian Freud died July 20, 2011. Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (8 December 1922 - 20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time. His works are noted for their psychological penetration, and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model. In this image: A Sotheby's employee holds British Artist Lucian Freud's 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' during a Sotheby's auction preview in London.
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