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A replica of the Venus de Milo is displayed with symbolicly attached prosthetic arms is displayed during an action led by Handicap International to raise awareness on the thousands of amputees worldwide in need of a prosthesis, at the Louvre-Rivoli metro station in Paris on March 6, 2018. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A replica of the Venus de Milo, the famous armless Greek goddess statue, was endowed with two prosthetic limbs made by 3D printers for a campaign by Handicap International carried out in Paris on Tuesday. The operation at the Louvre metro station, just outside the museum in the French capital where the original Venus stands, urges an increased use of quickly made, but often more costly, 3D prosthetics instead of traditional devices. The replica has the goddess holding a moulded apple in her left hand. Other statues across Paris were also being fitted out with prosthetics, including several in the nearby Tuileries Garden such as the "Alexandre Combattant" (Alexander Fighting) by Charles Leboeuf. It was part of the charity's #BodyCantWait campaign, which has already given 19 people resin-based "printed" limbs in Togo, Syria and Madagascar, and will soon provide them to more than 100 people in India. Handicap International says roughly 100 million peop ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction achieved highest total in Europe. The top lot was Andy WarholÂs Six Self Portraits, which realised £22,621,250 / $31,262,568 / €25,290,5573 Artist Auction Records: Mark Bradford, Bear Running from the Shotgun, £3,833,750 / $5,298,243 / €4,286,132 Kelley Walker, Black Star Press, £572,750 / $791,541 / €640,335 Maria Helena Vieira Da Silva, LÂIncendie I (The Fire I), £2,048,750 / $2,831,373 / €2,290,503. Record in the Medium: George Condo, Three Nudes, £488,750 / $675,453 / €546,423 - Work on Paper.
| Einstein letter fetches $100,000 at Jerusalem auction | | Library of Congress conserves, digitizes rare photographs including Harriet Tubman portrait | | The Hamburger Kunsthalle opens Germany's first large-scale monographic exhibition on Thomas Gainsborough | 
A picture taken on March 6, 2018 in Jerusalem shows Winner's auction house owner and manager Gal Wiener holding up a signed letter by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein dated 1928. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- A letter penned by legendary physicist Albert Einstein discussing one of his groundbreaking theories sold in Jerusalem Tuesday for over $100,000 as part of trove of documents that went under the hammer. The handwritten missive, sent in 1928 by Einstein from Berlin to a mathematician about the formalisation of the "Third Stage of the Theory of Relativity", was snapped up by an anonymous buyer for $103,700 (83,600 euros). The letter was written during one of the "most exciting, feverish periods of Einstein's scientific career" as he worked to hammer out one of the major scientific breakthroughs of the last century, auction house Winner's said. It included a second note jotted by Einstein on the back of the envelope refining his thinking. The sum -- while large -- pales in ... More | | 
Detail of Harriet Tubman Portrait.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has conserved and digitized an album containing 48 rare photographs dating to the 1860s including a previously unrecorded portrait of Harriet Tubman and images of other abolitionists and the album will be exhibited for the first time at the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture later this year. Each image was cleaned, digitally scanned and returned to the album. The full collection is now available online at: https://go.usa.gov/xnuBn. The two national cultural institutions jointly acquired the historical album at auction in 2017 by pooling funds to ensure this remarkable gathering of American portraits would be accessible to the public in perpetuity. The images included the previously unknown portrait of Tubman at the back of the album, as well as the only known photograph of John Willis Menard, the first African-American man elected to the U.S. Congress. Si ... More | | 
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), Holywells Park, um 17481750 (detail). Ãl auf Leinwand, 50,8 x 66 cm. Ipswich Museum and Gallery © Ipswich Museum and Gallery.
HAMBURG.- The Hamburger Kunsthalle is mounting Germanys first large-scale monographic exhibition on the English painter Thomas Gainsborough (17271788), concentrating on his role as a pioneer of modern landscape painting. Curated by the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Christoph Martin Vogtherr, the show features some 80 exhibits, comprising around 40 paintings and 40 works on paper. The exhibition will feature works from leading collections in the UK, including the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as well as the Barber Institute in Birmingham, and also by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Munich and by private collections in Germany and the UK. The works on view include icons of British ... More |
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| Exhibition at Moderna Museet explores the boundaries of Latin American Concretism | | Famed Jean-Michel Basquiat painting to travel to Seattle Art Museum | | Sotheby's to offer the only painting by Mahmoud Saïd depicting biblical figures to ever appear at auction | 
Hélio Oiticica, Sem tÃtulo (de la serie Relevos espaciales) (Untitled (from the Spatial Reliefs series)), 1959/1991 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros © César and Claudio Oiticica.
STOCKHOLM.- Concrete Matters highlights the seminal period from the mid-1930s to the 1970s when Latin American artists were exploring the boundaries of Concretism, and of art itself. The period also presents the emerging Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement in the 1950s, which challenged the notion of the work of art as a static object. This exhibition features some 80 works from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela. The age of representational fiction in art has come to an end. Man is less and less sensitive to illusory images. (
) The old phantasmagorias no longer satisfy the aesthetic appetite of the new man, formed in a reality that demands of him his total presence, without reservations. These are the introductory words of the Inventionist Manifesto (Manifiesto invencionista), which was signed by 16 artists in Buenos ... More | | 
Untitled, 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat, American, 19601988, acrylic, spray paint, and oilstick on canvas, 72 1/8 x 68 1/8 in., Yusaku Maezawa Collection, © 2018 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announces the West Coasts first museum presentation of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiats famed work, Untitled (1982). The special one-painting exhibition, BasquiatUntitled (March 21August 13, 2018) offers a rare opportunity to see this painting, which has never been publicly exhibited since its unveiling in 1982. Untitled comes to Seattle courtesy of collector Yusaku Maezawa, who recently acquired the work. SAM is the second stop of an international tour of the painting that began at the Brooklyn Museum, in the borough where the artist grew up. At SAM, Untitled (1982) will be on view in its galleries of modern and contemporary art. We are pleased to bring this extraordinary painting to Seattle, says Kimerly Rorschach, SAMs Illsley Ball ... More | | 
Mahmoud Saïd, Adam & Eve, 1937 (detail). Est. £300,000-500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Appearing at auction for the first time, this sumptuous painting by Mahmoud Saïd depicts the Quranic icons, Adam and Eve as two imposing, almost surreal, figures within a lush desert oasis. Saïd is renowned the founder of modern Egyptian art during a time of intellectual renaissance in the country, and this daring and vivid work from 1937 perfectly encapsulates the dialogue between the history of art in Europe and the sensuous qualities of the prevailing Egyptian spirit. Adam and Eve will highlight Sothebys 20th Century Art / Middle East auction on 24 April, when it will be offered with an estimate of £300,000-500,000. Ashkan Baghestani, Sothebys Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art Specialist and Head of Sale, said: Seminal in its subject matter and the sheer force of painting, Mahmoud Saïds unique depiction of Adam and Eve is one of the most important works by the artists to ever appear at auction. The paintin ... More |
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| British Museum display explores the legacy of the world's first slave revolution | | Sotheby's Hong Kong announces highlights from the Fine Chinese Paintings 2018 Spring Sales | | Lévy Gorvy opens an exhibition devoted to the Ben-Day dot | 
Haitian Vodou boula drum. Wood, skin, 500mm x 320mm, early 1900s © the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The Asahi Shimbun display A revolutionary legacy: Haiti and Toussaint Louverture explores the legacy of the worlds first slave revolution, the Haitian Revolution, which led to the abolition of slavery and the formation of Haiti as an independent republic in 1804. This display includes a selection of objects commemorating the man who emerged in the 1790s as the Revolutions foremost leader: Toussaint Louverture. At the centre of the display is a new acquisition of an imposing screenprint showing Louverture in military uniform, by the African American artist Jacob Lawrence. Specially acquired for this display, Lawrences boldly-coloured image of Louverture is the first work by the artist to enter the British Museums collection. Artists like Lawrence emerged from the Harlem Renaissance movement in the 1930s which saw the rise of African American ... More | | 
Huang Binhong (1864-1955) Studio Amid Majestic Mountains 1947 (detail), ink and colour on paper, hanging scroll 128.5 by 61 cm Estimate: HK$15,000,000 - 20,000,000 / US$2,000,000 2,500,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
HONG KONG.- Sothebys Fine Chinese Paintings Spring Sale 2018 will be held on 2 April at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Estimated in excess of HK$200 million*, the sale features 280 exquisite paintings by modern Chinese artists and is headlined by two works making their auction debuts: Spectacular Mountains in Spring Snow, a prodigious six-foot long Zhang Daqian splashed ink-and-colour painting and calligraphy, and a work by Huang Binhong commissioned in celebration of renowned book collector Mo Bojis 70th birthday. Other highlights include a Fu Baoshi scroll depicting a dramatic snow trekking scene from the 1940s from the M K Lau Collection and a number of important pieces from notable collections, such as works by Yu Feian from The ... More | | 
Gerald Laing, Shout, 1965 © The Estate of Gerald Laing.
LONDON.- In the late 19th century, the American illustrator and publisher Benjamin Day developed a cost-effective printing technique that used dots in different densities to reproduce images on a mass scale. This process, named after its inventor, matured over the next century and was utilised to print newspapers, advertisements, and pulp comic books in the 1950s and 60s. Sigmar Polke (Germany, 19412010), Roy Lichtenstein (United States, 19231997), and Gerald Laing (United Kingdom, 19362011) along with the rest of the worlddevoured this imagery daily, and chose to reconfigure it in their works. On view at Lévy Gorvys London location, Source and Stimul us: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing is an exhibition devoted to the Ben-Day dot. Featuring exceptional works by the trio of legendary artists, this is the first exhibition to connect them on the basis of their manipulation of the dot, transforming imagery from t ... More |
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| Belvedere 21 presents a comprehensive cross-section of Rachel Whiteread's thirty-year career | | An ancient holy book symbolises the fate of Sarajevo's Jews | | Exhibition of new paintings as well as works on paper by Raffi Kalenderian on view at Buchmann Galerie | 
Rachel Whiteread, "LOOK, LOOK, LOOK", 2012. Resin, Three panels each 189.5 Ã 39.5 Ã 15. Private collection; Photo courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce.
VIENNA.- Rachel Whiteread is recognised internationally as one of the leading artists of her generation. She is best known in Vienna for her Holocaust Memorial on Judenplatz. With this monument, the British artist left a lasting mark on the city and altered the discourse of remembrance. From 7 March to 29 July 2018, the Belvedere 21 is showing a comprehensive cross-section of the acclaimed Turner Prize-winners thirty-year oeuvre. Showing this exhibition about the famous artist Rachel Whiteread at the Belvedere 21 is a milestone for us. It is the ideal situation: one of the most globally influential artists of our age who is simultaneously closely connected to the city of Vienna, explains Stella Rollig, CEO of the Belvedere and Belvedere 21. Rachel Whiteread is renowned for her casts of empty spaces that range in scale from ... More | | 
This photograph taken on February 22, 2018, shows visitors to The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo. ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP.
SARAJEVO (AFP).- Eli Tauber, a pillar of Sarajevo's Jewish community, waited anxiously for worshippers to arrive at the synagogue as there must be at least 10 men present before starting the Sabbath prayers. To the historian's great relief 11 men and a woman, most of them elderly, turned up for the service led by a local man who represents the Jews on Bosnia's ecumenical council. The rabbi lives in Israel and only comes to Sarajevo for the Jewish Passover and New Year holidays. No more than 800 Jews still live in the Bosnian capital, according to their community's 74-year-old leader, Jakob Finci. Before World War II they numbered around 12,500, accounting for 15 to 20 percent of the city's population, but many were killed during the Holocaust. Still Jews remain part of the multi-cultural and religious identity of Sarajevo alongside ... More | | 
Jacque, 2018. Oil on canvas, 122 x 91,5 cm / 48 x 36 in.
BERLIN.- Buchmann Galerie announced its third solo exhibition with Raffi Kalenderian (*1981, lives and works in Los Angeles). The gallery is presenting new paintings as well as works on paper. In the exhibition Raffi Kalenderian concentrates exclusively on portraits of people in his own personal circle. Using oils, the painter plumbs the possibilities of the portrait genre with powerful colours and a passion for the textures attainable through oil paint. The protagonists from Los Angeles young urban scene pose for the painter sitting or standing in intimate spaces; as a rule, the image sections concentrate on the figure. The models are placed in front of almost psychedelic backgrounds in strong colours. The contrast between figure and background, between model and abstract colour fields gives the images their tension, abstracting the portraits. The brightly colourful patterns of the background are influenced by ... More |
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 First UK survey of the work of Forensic Architecture opens at the Institute of Contemporary ArtsLONDON.- The Institute of Contemporary Arts presents the first UK survey of the work of Forensic Architecture, an independent research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. The exhibition marks the beginning of a long-term collaboration between Forensic Architecture and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, extending into new areas of investigative research, and the development of a curriculum built around the methodologies and concepts that underpin the work of the agency. Forensic Architecture is both the name of the research group established in 2010, and a form of investigative practice that traverses architectural, journalistic, legal and political fields, and moves from theoretical examination to practical application. In recent years Forensic Architecture has undertaken a series of investigations into human rights violations ... More Baltimore Museum of Art debuts first museum exhibition of Baltimore-based artist Stephen TownsBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art presents the first exhibition dedicated to the stunning textile work of Baltimorebased artist Stephen Towns. Stephen Towns: Rumination and a Reckoning, on view March 7 through September 2, 2018, features 10 luminous quilts constructed in fabric, glass beads, metallic threads, and translucent tulle that delve into the perspectives of women, people of color, and the institution of slavery in American history. Trained as a painter and self-taught in the art of quilting, Towns joins a long tradition of African American artists and makers, primarily women, who have invented creative methods of recording history and memory with fabric. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the artists monumental installation, Birth of a Nation (2014), which addresses the foundational role of black womens labor in American history. The quilt ... More Pi Artworks London opens a new exhibition of work by Ipek DubenLONDON.- Pi Artworks London are presenting a new exhibition of work by New York and Istanbul based artist Ipek Duben. Duben has worked for over 30 years as a multi-media artist, focussing on documentary images which address individual subjectivities. in via incognita brings together sculptural art books and wall pieces based on documentary material that looks head on at one of the issues that is most pressing in our lives today and has been for centuries global migration. It will be Dubens first major show of works in London since the early 1980s. in via incognita includes two art books; Farewell My Homeland, first shown in New York in 2006 as a multimedia installation and No Name (2017). Farewell My Homeland reflects on forced migration at the time of crossing borders, meanwhile in No Name the focus is now on a deep sense of loss and burn out memories. ... More Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels opens exhibition of works by Jason FoxBRUSSELS.- Almine Rech Gallery is presenting the first exhibition by Jason Fox with the gallery in Brussels.
Jason Foxs first solo show was held at Feature in New York in the early nineties, just after MoMAs High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (the first major exhibition to address the relationship between modern art and popular and commercial culture.) and only two years before Mike Kelley organized The Uncanny at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem. Foxs work itself acts as a link between these events, and they in turn allow us to chronologically situate his acts of borrowing from both art history and from record sleeves of the seventies. Although considered as common practice today, this kind of artistic approach was not so widespread at the time. In a recent interview with artist Joe Bradley, Fox explicits his position: The early nineties was another death- ... More New major work in the ARKEN collection: Candice Breitz, Love StoryCOPENHAGEN.- South African Candice Breitz is one of the strongest voices in contemporary art right now. Her highly topical, thought-provoking video installation Love Story was one of the most talked-about works at the Venice Biennale in 2017. With support from the New Carlsberg Foundation it is now to become a new highlight of the ARKEN collection. What stories do we choose to listen to? Do we allow ourselves to be affected by tear-jerking performances by actors while the sufferings of real people leave us cold? In Love Story Candice Breitz raises issues of empathy and solidarity. The work is based on six people's personal stories of fleeing from their home countries. The large video installation is shown in two rooms: first the audience see the two American actors Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin in a fast-paced montage set up in cinema format, in which they ... More Iranians welcome Louvre show despite tense diplomacyTEHRAN (AFP).- Iranians gave a warm welcome to a new exhibition by France's Louvre on Tuesday -- the first major show by a foreign museum in the country. "It was great. I never thought I'd see such artworks in my life," said Mehdi, a 26-year-old student. The exhibition certainly appeared to go down better than Monday's visit by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who faced a day of tense discussions with Iranian officials before inaugurating the Louvre show. The ever-combative Kayhan newspaper summed up the view of Le Drian's visit with the headline: "Impudent guest gets a dressing-down". Le Drian has angered Iran's leaders with his stern criticism of their missile programme and foreign interventions. "It was a tough trip, without concessions," he told reporters on the way back to Paris late Monday. The Louvre show re ... More Phillips strengthens its 20th Century & Contemporary Art team in AsiaHONG KONG.- Phillips announced the appointment of Isaure de Viel Castel as Head of Department, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, and Senior Director, based in Hong Kong. The position strengthens Phillips growing team of experienced specialists in this critical segment. Based in Hong Kong, Ms. de Viel Castel will supervise the 20th Century & Contemporary Art auction in Hong Kong under the direction of Jonathan Crockett, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Asia, and Deputy Chairman, Asia, who will continue to oversee the strategic development of this category in Asia. Ms. de Viel Castel will also work closely with the global 20th Century & Contemporary Art department and contribute to the sales in London and New York. We are delighted that Isaure is joining us, said Jonathan Crockett, Head of 20th Century & Contemporary ... More Exhibition presents illustrations from the Royal Academy lectures of Sir John SoaneBERLIN.- This new temporary loan exhibition is the third collaborative project between the Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin and Sir John Soanes Museum, London. The exhibition showcases a series of remarkable drawings produced by Sir John Soane to illustrate his lectures at the Royal Academy of Arts, London between 1809 and 1820. Beautifully rendered by Soanes pupils from his own office and spanning subjects ranging from pre-history to the latest buildings of Regency London, these coloured illustrations offer a fascinating insight into Soanes architectural mind and his role as an educator. On 28th March 1806, John Soane (17531837) was elected Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, succeeding his old master, George Dance. As Professor of Architecture, Soane was required to deliver six lectures annually to the students of the Royal ... More National Maritime Museum Cornwall opens "Titanic Stories"FALMOUTH.- National Maritime Museum Cornwall announces a major new exhibition, Titanic Stories, which examines the stories of the Titanics momentous sinking on 15 April 1912, re-appraising many of the myths, controversies and assumptions that still linger around one of the most well-known historic events of the 20th century. It will be on display at the exhibition galleries at the Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall, from 8 March 2018 until 7 January 2019. Working in collaboration with private collectors from overseas and national museums in the UK, Titanic Stories presents rare and never-seen-before objects and items, as well as retelling the personal stories of many of the survivors, victims and descendants of the Titanic disaster, including those from Cornwall. The exhibition will offer new contextual information around the iconic sinking ... More Mercedes-Benz from the Rolland Collection leads $6.8 Million Collector Car Show & Auction DALLAS, TX.- A rare 2008 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren from the Rolland Collection of custom exotics and racing cars sold for $308,000, making it the top seller in a $6.8 million auction of collectible vehicles. Heritage Auctions and Leake Auction Company presented the storied California collection during Leake's Feb. 23-24 Collector Car Show and Auction in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Rolland Collection's selection of 24 rarities included Indianapolis race cars, midget race cars from the 1950s and custom hot rods. The entire collection crossed the block without reserve and sparked intense bidder interest. Close to 400 lots crossed the block during the two-day auction with 77 percent of the vehicles sold. "We knew the Rolland Collection was something special and it is wonderful to see one of its vehicles come out on top," said Jim Halperin, Co-Founder of Heritage ... More Metro Pictures opens exhibition of works by Oliver LaricNEW YORK, NY.- Oliver Laric premieres a new video animation in "Year of the Dog," his first one-person exhibition in New York at Metro Pictures. The animation continues his inquiry into concepts of metamorphosis, encompassing concerns about time and the complex dynamic between human and nonhuman lifeforms. Against a white background, linear animations of fish, fungi, and other figures move and change shape. The lines composing the animations continually extend or contract to zoom in on greater and greater detail, magnifying a sense of time as the images change. While the shapes and figures, as in his previous video works, are drawn from cartoons and Japanese anime, Laric's subject matter has grown to also include animations based on live footage. He constructed the animation via an exacting technique in which each line moves continually between ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-American painter Piet Mondrian was born March 07, 1872. Pieter Cornelis "Piet" Mondriaan, after 1906 Mondrian (7 March 1872 - 1 February 1944), was a Dutch painter and theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements. In this image: Mondrian restoration project team with Sea after sunset (1909) Photo: Alice de Groot.
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