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Rubens, Self-portrait, ca. 1604 (detail), in langdurig bruikleen Rubenshuis, particuliere verzameling, Photo: Ans Brys.
ANTWERP.- The Rubens House in Antwerp has a remarkable new exhibit to unveil: a recently rediscovered Rubens self-portrait. The work, painted in Italy, is the earliest known individual self-portrait by Peter Paul Rubens (15771640) and the second to grace the museums permanent display. It is one of five new loans to add to the lustre of the artists former residence in Antwerp. The Rubens House has been pursuing a highly active loan policy for some considerable time now. Close contacts with private collectors and museums have enabled the institution to share a great many outstanding works with the public in recent years. Today sees the presentation of five new loans of works by Rubens, Otto van Veen and Titian. The most important new addition is a newly identified Rubens self-portrait. The newly discovered painting is Rubens earliest known individual self-portrait. It is a preparatory study for the likeness of himself t ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day On Thursday, Jun 11, 2020 11:00 AM CDT, Artemis Gallery will hold its Coins & Currency Through the Ages auction. Experience coins and currency from across time and across the globe! From the first cities of the ancient world to the modern United States. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Asian, the Americas, Modern, more. In this image: Byzantine Heraclius Gold Solidus - 4.3 g
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 | | As the art world goes online, a generation gap opens | | The National Gallery acquires its first painting by Spanish artist JoaquÃn Sorolla | | Bonhams announces highlights included in its Modern British and Irish Art sale | 
In a photo provided by Memo Vogeler, Tiqui Atencio, a Venezuelan collector based in Monaco, in an undated photo. Atencio said virtual presentations helped her find out about new artists. Memo Vogeler via The New York Times.
by Scott Reyburn
LONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- What with everything else thats going on, international art collectors might seem to be the last people we should worry about right now. Yet this small group of wealthy individuals is the customer base that supports a $60 billion global industry, with an estimated 310,000 businesses employing about 3 million people, according to a report published this year by Art Basel and UBS. And that industry, like so many others, is hurting. The coronavirus pandemic caused a near total shutdown of the art world in April and May. Auctions and art fairs were postponed or converted into online-only events. Sales plummeted. Commercial galleries tried to do some business ... More | | 
JoaquÃn Sorolla (18631923), The Drunkard, Zarauz (El Borracho, Zarauz), 1910 (detail). Oil on canvas, 115 x 140 cm. Bought with the support of a generous legacy from David Leslie Medd, OBE, 2019 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Gallery has acquired its first painting by JoaquÃn Sorolla (18631923). The Drunkard, Zarauz (El Borracho, Zarauz), (1910), can be explored on the National Gallery website from today. The paintings first visit to London was in 2019 for the exhibition Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light; the first major UK exhibition of the artists work in more than a hundred years at the National Gallery. Over 167,000 people visited Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light, which featured more than sixty works by the artist known as Spains Impressionist, and whose last London exhibition, in 1908, advertised him as The Worlds Greatest Living Painter. The Drunkard, Zarauz was purchased for £325k with the support of a generous legacy from David Leslie Medd, OBE, 2019. The newly ... More | | 
Roger Fry (British, 1866-1934) Portrait of E.M. Forster 73 x 60 cm. (28 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.) (Painted in 1911). Estimate: £30,000-50,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- The Bloomsbury Group the early 20th century artists, writers and freethinkers who in Dorothy Parkers memorable phrase lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles scandalised society at the time and has fascinated generations ever since. Two of its most prominent members meet in a striking portrait of the novelist EM Forster by Roger Fry to be offered at Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art sale on 1 July. It is estimated at £30,000-50,000. The art historian Roger Fry (1866-1934) was introduced to the Bloomsbury Group by the painters Vanessa and Clive Bell in 1910, and soon became one of its major intellectual forces. His advocacy of the latest trends in French art he is credited with coining the term post-impressionism made a decisive and lasting contribution to shaping taste within the English-speaking world. He was also a talented artist ... More |
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| | Part of China's Great Wall not built for war: Study | | Mask-clad music lovers trickle in as Vienna concert houses reopen | | 'Pointer Sisters' founding member Bonnie dead at 69 | 
An area of the sections of the Great Wall at Jinshanling. Photo: Jakub Hałun/Wikipedia.org.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- The northern segment of the Great Wall of China was built not to block invading armies but rather to monitor civilian movement, an Israeli archaeologist said Tuesday. When researchers fully mapped the Great Wall's 740-kilometre (460-mile) Northern Line for the first time, their findings challenged previous assumptions. "Prior to our research, most people thought the wall's purpose was to stop Genghis Khan's army," said Gideon Shelach-Lavi from Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who led the two-year study. But the Northern Line, lying mostly in Mongolia, winds through valleys, is relatively low in height and close to paths, pointing to non-military functions. "Our conclusion is that it was more about monitoring or blocking the movement of people and livestock, maybe to tax them," Shelach-Lavi said. He suggested people may have been seeking warmer southern pastures during a medieval cold spell. Construction of the Great Wall, which is split ... More | | 
Vienna's State Opera director Dominique Meyer poses for a picture prior to a concert at a stairway of the State Opera in Vienna, Austria on June 8, 2020. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
by Julia Zappei
VIENNA (AFP).- After months of lying silent because of the coronavirus pandemic, Vienna's illustrious classical music venues are throwing open their doors -- but their vast halls can now play host to only 100 audience members at a time. Those eager concert-goers have snapped up the few available tickets for the first shows to be put on since Austria's concert houses shut their doors in March under a strict lockdown to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. As the increase in infections has abated and the country eases its restrictions, venues such as Vienna's State Opera are now allowed to reopen after hundreds of shows were cancelled. "I watched live streams, from Paris, New York, Vienna, but it's something else when you sit in the concert hall and so I'm so happy that it's starting again ... More | | 
In this file photo Bonnie Pointer of the Pointer Sisters attends The Hollywood Chamber Of Commerce 98th Annual Board Installation And Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala at Avalon Hollywood on April 10, 2019 in Los Angeles. Leon Bennett / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- Bonnie Pointer, one of the four original members of The Pointer Sisters sibling musical group, has died at the age of 69, a statement on the group's website said Monday. The sisters -- Bonnie, Anita, Ruth and the late June -- began singing in their father's church in Oakland, California, and rose to fame in the 1970s. Their songs included hits such as "I'm So Excited" and "Jump (For My Love)." The quartet won the first of three Grammy Musical Awards for their 1975 hit song "Fairytale." The song, co-written by Bonnie and her sister Anita, won in the Best Country Duo or Group category and was later recorded by Elvis Presley. Bonnie Pointer left the group in the mid-1970s for a Motown solo career, and her biggest solo was the 1978 hit "Heaven Must Have Sent You." "Because of ... More |
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| | Phillips unveils highlights for Hong Kong July sales of jewels and hadeite | | Renaissance in France's Loire Valley: 'rebirth' for Chambord castle | | Street art star unveils Paris mural to George Floyd, Adama Traore | 
An Exceptional and Very Rare 21.52-carat Colombian No-oil Emerald and Diamond Ring. Estimate: HK$7.59.5M/ US$960,000 1,200,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
HONG KONG.- Phillips Hong Kong Jewels and Jadeite July Sale will take place on 8 July at the JW Marriott. The sale will offer an extraordinary selection of unique and iconic signed pieces by renowned houses including Harry Winston, Chopard, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, alongside a specially-curated collection of magnificent coloured diamonds and gemstones, superb natural pearls, jadeite jewels and a wide selection of top quality white diamonds. Forming the cover lot of this seasons sale catalogue is an exceptional and very rare 21.52 carat Colombian no oil emerald and diamond ring (estimate: HK$ 7,500,000 - 9,500,000). This magnificent Colombian emerald displays a rich and classic bluish-green colour typical of its origin. Possessing excellent transparency, it is also free from any clarity treatment. A no oil Colombian emerald over 5 carats is considered very unusual and this gemstone of over 20 carats ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 27, 2018 a "blood moon" eclipse is seen over the roof of the Chambord Castle in Chambord, France. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP.
by Gina Doggett
CHAMBORD (AFP).- Visitors to Chambord in France's Loire Valley are restricted to one-way traffic on the famous double helix stairway at the centre of the grandiose castle that reopened on Friday after 10 weeks under coronavirus lockdown. "They are using the very idea of the stairway" believed to be the brainchild of Leonardo da Vinci, said Francois Boutin, 56, a physical therapist visiting from southwestern France. The striking structure allows people to move from one floor to another without crossing paths. "It shows how avant-garde Leonardo was," Boutin quipped. The chateau has put in place a "demanding sanitary protocol, which we are testing today for the first time," said Chambord's director Jean d'Haussonville. In addition to signs imposing one-way traffic, face masks are mandatory and hand gel stations are at regular intervals throughout the immense ... More | | 
Assa Traore, the sister of Adama Traore, a black man who died in police custody in 2016, gives a press conference on June 9, 2020 in Paris. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP.
by Camille Bouissou / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- A huge mural by French street art star JR was unveiled in Paris on Tuesday paying tribute to George Floyd and Adama Traore, a young black man who died in police custody in France. Traore's death four years ago has become the focus of renewed protests across France over claims of police racism and brutality following the anger unleashed in the US after Floyd was killed in similar circumstances in Minneapolis last month. Some 20,000 people rallied in front of a courthouse in Paris last Tuesday to demand justice for Traore and Floyd, defying a coronavirus ban on public gatherings. And a further 23,000 attended demonstrations across the country on Saturday calling for an end to police violence. More French protests were called Tuesday as Floyd was laid to rest in Houston, Texas. Oscar-nominated black French film ... More |
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| | Theater artists decry racism in their industry | | Zeit Contemporary Art opens 'Andy Warhol: The Last Decade' | | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam announces the appointment of Yvette Mutumba and Adam Szymczyk as curators-at-large | 
Lynn Nottage, a playwright and one of the signatories to the We See You, White American Theater statement, in New York on May 13, 2018. Andrew White for The New York Times.
by Michael Paulson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- More than 300 theater artists black, indigenous and people of color on Monday published a blistering statement addressed to White American Theater decrying racial injustice in their industry. You are all a part of this house of cards built on white fragility and supremacy, said the statement, which was published on the web. And this is a house that will not stand. The signatories include Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda; film and television stars Viola Davis and Blair Underwood; and many Tony Award winners, including actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson and playwright David ... More | | 
Andy Warhol. Dollar Sign, 1981. Synthetic Polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. 20 x 16 in. 50.8 x 40.6 cm. © 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Zeit Contemporary Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Zeit Contemporary Art presents Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, an online viewing room devoted to an often overlooked yet crucial period in Andy Warhol's oeuvre. The late 1970s and 1980s proved to be the most prolific and mature part of his career, a period in which Warhol returned to hand-painted images and renewed his visual vocabulary, breaking boundaries in novel ways while reflecting on his early contributions to Pop art. "The 70s were sort of quiet... I think the 80s are going to be more exciting... In the 70s, nothing really different happened in art," Warhol said in an interview to Art News in 1980. This viewing room focuses on four persistent themes: symbols of power, portraiture, abstraction and advertisements. ... More | | 
Yvette Mutumba. Photo: Benjamin Renter.
AMSTERDAM.- The position of curator-at-large has been newly created at the Stedelijk to energize the institution with a diversity of ideas, adding alternative perspectives for the exhibition program, collection and research and public program. In contrast to a guest curator, the curators-at-large commit to the museum for a longer period of time (initially two years) and are able to initiate their own projects, while also addressing the museums structures and conceptual frame. The appointment of Mutumba and Szymczyk forms part of the consistent strategy of the Stedelijk to question its own established knowledge and engage with a multiplicity of narratives that transcend Western European modernism, and thus examine the museums own foundations. The curators-at-large are involved with the museums team on several levels. In their new roles, Mutumba and Szymczyk intervene in the development of upcoming ... More |
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In Conversation with Peggy Guggenheim Collection Director Karole P. B. Vail
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 Martin Myrone appointed Convenor of the British Art Network LONDON.- Dr Martin Myrone, Senior Curator, Pre-1800 British Art at Tate Britain, has been appointed Convenor of the British Art Network. The Network brings together over 700 specialists working on British art, including curators, researchers and academics, reflecting the combined strength of the UKs public collections and curatorial expertise. As Convenor, Martin will lead and develop the activities of this community in close collaboration with the British Art Networks co-chairs Mark Hallett (Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) and Alex Farquharson (Director of Tate Britain). He will take up the post on 1 September 2020 and be based at the Paul Mellon Centre. Martin is an art historian and curator of international standing. His many exhibitions at Tate Britain have included Gothic Nightmares in 2006, John Martin ... More Salzburg Festival saves 100th edition with slimmed-down eventVIENNA.- The Salzburg Festival of music and drama will go ahead in August, organisers said Tuesday -- but with special measures in place to meet the threat of the coronavirus. And while the event has escaped the global wave of cancellations caused by the pandemic, the 100th edition has been radically stripped down. All 80,000 tickets on sale -- down from the usual 230,000 -- will be personalised to enable contact tracing in case of an infection. Organisers will also operate a system for seating the audience similar to that used for boarding planes, with one group after another called to embark rather than all at once. Spectators will have to wear masks until they are seated and there will be no intermissions or catering. "We know we are walking on thin ice... But the longing for performances is just so big," said artistic director Markus Hinterhaeuser, explaining the safety precautions ... More A 22-metre-high bronze sculpture by the Belgian artist Thomas Lerooy installed in KnokkeKNOKKE.- A 22-metre-high bronze sculpture by the Belgian artist Thomas Lerooy will be installed in Knokke on 16 June 2020. The sculpture, entitled Tower, is Lerooys first permanent sculpture in the public space. Tower consists of 49 bronze heads busts all facing the sea. The faces have been manipulated and abstracted in such a way that the noses, eyes, ears and chins are all on the same vertical axis, levelling out the differences and making everyone look alike. As is often the case in Lerooys work, Tower, which can be seen as a sequel to Lerooys earlier works Obelrisk (2007) and Never Listen to Your Best Friend (2007), refers to the transience, the ephemerality of life and the meaning of existence or the lack of it. The bronze will patinate and age naturally under the influence of time, the salt from the sea, and the wind. The title of the work is as simple ... More Manifesta 13 Marseille announces the participants of its central exhibitionMARSEILLE.- The Artistic Team (Katerina Chuchalina, Stefan Kalmár, Alya Sebti) of Manifesta 13 Marseilles central exhibition Traits dunion.s announces its 47 participants and an exhibition devised into 6 plots: The Home, The Refuge, The Almshouse, The Port, The Park and The School. These plots will open successively from the 28th of August until 9th of October, after which they will be on view concurrently until the 29th of November 2020. Marseille is marked by endless transit. It is a continuous site of arrival and departure, providing space for escape and sanctuary. At the same time, Marseille epitomises resistance and has always offered unique moments of tension. Marseille is an exceptional city within the European matrix: the ultimate unresolved city in perpetual motion, revolving around multiple centres, historic and informal. Marseilles infinite ... More Alessio Bolzoni presents billboard project in MilanMILAN.- Alessio Bolzoni, an internationally renowned photographer whose work is known for its constant visual experimentation, lives and works in London, but, since March, has decided to quarantine in Milan. By the end of the harsh Italian Lockdown, while walking through the streets of the City, once again busy, Bolzoni felt the need of reflecting upon human proximity, precisely because of this delicate re-start moment. Thus he envisioned Action Reaction. Billboard Project, curated by Art critic and historian Teresa Macrì. This work is a dedication to Milan during an exceptional historic contingency, in which the whole town and its citizens are re-creating everyday life and reorganising themselves. From Thursday the 11th until Sunday the 26th of June, 26 billboards will be located in some of the most representative areas of the City. 16 selected sites, from Viale ... More Leading artists donate works to 100 NHS staff respite rooms across 5 east London hospitalsLONDON.- In response to the current crisis, Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the largest in the UK, is upgrading existing areas and creating new spaces in which clinical staff can find rest and respite. Aligning with these developments, #100NHSRooms is a charitably funded initiative bringing new artworks to 100 rooms across Barts Health, including St Bartholomews, Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham Hospital. Vital Arts, the Arts & Health service for Barts Health NHS Trust, has collaborated with artist Shezad Dawood and Modern Forms on this project to further their ongoing mission to support the wellbeing of both patients and hospital employees through the arts. With mounting evidence demonstrating the benefits of art on mental health in clinical settings, the initiative will be a lasting legacy of a commitment to the well-being ... More Delineating Dreams: Inaugural exhibition from Kovet.ArtLONDON.- Kovet.Art was founded to discover and nurture artistic talent by combining art market expertise with a rigorous development programme for emerging artists. Working with a select number of top-class art degree students per year, Kovet.Art provides them with a system that includes both strategic guidance and practical support from an expert in house team and visiting lecturers, to develop their practice and profile. Kovet.Art is dedicated to building a strong roster of outstanding young artists that are pushing boundaries of their practice in meaningful ways. To supports its mission, Kovet.Art is aligned with several of the UKs leading art colleges who will be developed into campus partners, including: Slade School of Art, Central Saint Martins, the University of Leeds and Camberwell College of Arts. Delineating Dreams, the first in exhibition ... More Oscar Castillo photography exhibit open for private viewing at The MuckFULLERTON, CA.- A new exhibit entitled L@s Raramuris/Tarahumaras invites viewers to take a glimpse at the culture of the Tarahumara long distance runners through the lens of famed photographer Oscar Castillo. This collection of photographs, taken in 1972, highlights the beauty of the runners traditional culture in the high Sierras of Chihuahua, Mexico, and their fight to uphold their traditions amidst modernization. Castillos fascination with the cultural and political fabric of various societies started when he was stationed in Japan as a Marine. He was drawn to the vibrant scenes of anti-nuclear weapons protests as well as the kaleidoscope of traditional Japanese clothing the protestors wore. From then on, he began exploring the notion of community, family, and a sense of belonging. The artist is best known for his photographic documentation of the Chicano ... More Powerful portraits by Amoako Boafo offered at Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Art saleLONDON.- Two works by the rising star and much-admired artist of Art Basel Miami 2019, Amoako Boafo, Portrait of a Young Lady, and Portrait of a Young Man, will feature in Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Art sale on 23 June in London. Each work has an estimate of £6,000-9,000. Born in Accra, Ghana in 1984 and based in Vienna, Austria, Amoako Boafo is a fast emerging artist. Having studied at the Ghanatta College of Art and Design in Ghana, he followed curator and fellow artist, Sunanda Mesquita, now his wife, to Vienna in 2014, to pursue an MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He was awarded the Walter Koschatzky Art Award in 2017, for works on paper by an artist under the age of 35, and the STRABAG Artaward International in 2019 for works by an artist under the age of 40. Last year, Boafo made his Art Basel Miami debut ... More The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts receives $2M gift to endow curatorial positionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced that it is the recipient of a gift totaling $2 million from National Trustee Ken Woodcock. This generous gift will endow the museums Curator of Historical American Art position, which will henceforth be named The Kenneth R. Woodcock Curator of Historical American Art. This position is currently held by Dr. Anna O. Marley. A National Trustee since 2015, Mr. Woodcocks previous generous support of PAFA includes a major gift to name the Dorothy & Kenneth Woodcock Archives, which maintains documents, photographs, and other vital materials that chronicle PAFAs 215-year history; as well as major support for PAFAs capital campaign, PAFA First: For the Future of American Art. Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock have lent work from their extensive personal collection of historical ... More Taymour Grahne opens an online solo exhibition of new paintings by Craig Kucia LONDON.- Taymour Grahne is presenting whales, an online solo exhibition by LA based artist Craig Kucia. The latest paintings by Craig Kucia mark the first time this idiosyncratic artists practice has taken the shape of a long term investment into a continued subject matter. In this case, the new works all feature the image of a whale, portrayed in profile, emerging from the ocean as the compositions central motif. The canvases are all intimate in scale, painted in a wide variety of techniques ranging from flat and graphic to thick impasto applications, and all are encased in a hand-painted artists frame. Upon first encounter, the viewer is immediately confronted with the image of the whale, but it is in the details and compositional subtleties that these paintings become activated; taking on different narrative qualities, emotional impact, and allegorical ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French-Swiss painter Gustave Courbet was born June 10, 1819. Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 - 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. In this image: A visitor observes the painting 'The girl at the Seine'(1856/57)of French painter Gustave Courbet at the Schirn museum in Frankfurt Main, Germany. The artwork is a part of the exhibition 'A Dream of Modern Art - Courbet', which is under the patronage of German President Christian Wulff and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and at the Schirn from 15 october 2010 until 30 January 2011.
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