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Masters of the meal still life depicted refined delicacies such as fish, oysters, prawns, cheese, bread, olives and nuts, offset by fine glassware, gilded goblets, pottery jugs or oriental porcelain. Photo: Ivo Hoekstra.
THE HAGUE.- From 9 March through 25 June 2017 the Mauritshuis presents Slow Food: Still Lifes of the Golden Age, the first exhibition to be devoted to the development of meal still lifes in Holland and Flanders from 1600 onwards. The cornerstone of the exhibition is a masterpiece acquired by the museum in 2012, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels by Clara Peeters. The exhibition features 22 masterpieces from Washingtons National Gallery of Art, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Oxfords Ashmolean Museum among others including all the works by Peeters from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. The meal still life a subset of the genre that shows prepared food laid out on a table without figures in the composition - originated around 1600 with painters in Antwerp such as Clara Peeters and Osias Beert. Haarlem-based painters such as Floris van Dijck and Nicolaes Gillis followed them shortly thereafter. Meal still lifes showin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida had the Brooklyn based duo Chargaux visit the museum on March 2 and give a special walk and talk through their galleries. The musicians chose pieces from the collection and performed works.
| Two Yves Saint Laurent museums to open in Paris and Morocco | | A 2,000 year old road was found in Bet Shemesh | | Jihadist tunnels uncover Assyrian winged bulls in Mosul | 
This file photo taken on March 21, 1984 shows French fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent in Paris. PIERRE GUILLAUD / AFP.
PARIS.- Two museums dedicated to the life and work of fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent will open in Paris and Morocco later this year, his foundation said Tuesday. The larger museum in Marrakesh -- where the late designer often retreated to work in the home he shared with his partner Pierre Berge -- hopes to attract up to 700,000 visitors a year. "Both museums are aimed at the general public as well as fashion lovers. Yves Saint Laurent was a major artist of the 20th century," the couple's foundation said in a statement. It holds a collection of more than 5,000 outfits and 15,000 accessories the Algerian-born designer created during his 40-year career. Berge opened Morocco's first museum of Moroccan Berber art in 2011 -- three years after the death of his partner -- to house the ... More | | 
An archaeological excavation was carried out prior to the installation of a water pipeline at the initiative of the Mei Shemesh Company.
JERUSALEM.- A wide and impressive 2,000 year old road dating to the Roman period, in an extraordinary state of preservation, was revealed last February in archaeological excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority near Highway 375. The excavation was conducted prior to laying a water pipeline to Jerusalem, at the initiative of, the Bet Shemesh water corporation "Mei Shemesh". Students from "Ulpanat Amit Noga" in Ramat Bet Shemesh volunteered to participate in the dig. According to Irina Zilberbod, director of the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, The road that we discovered, which 2,000 years ago passed along a route similar to Highway 375 today, was up to 6 meters wide, continued for a distance of approximately 1.5 kilometers, and was apparently meant ... More | | 
A member of the Iraqi troops stands next to archeological findings inside an underground tunnel in east Mosul on March 6, 2017. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
MOSUL (AFP).- Crawl through a labyrinth of narrow tunnels in near total darkness and suddenly they appear: two great winged bulls dating from the Assyrian empire found intact under the ground of Mosul. But as fighting rages to evict the Islamic State (IS) group from the main city in northern Iraq, it will be a race against time to save the archaeological treasures uncovered in the tunnels. The jihadists dug the network of tunnels to plunder artefacts under a hill reputedly housing the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, the Nabi Yunus shrine which they dynamited in July 2014. "We fear it could all collapse at any time," entombing the treasures, said Layla Salih who is in charge of antiquities for Nineveh province. "There are cave-ins in the tunnels every day." Iraqi authorities discovered the ... More |
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| Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery traces the history of the woodcut | | Christie's London Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction achieves $117,781,248 | | Christie's achieves highest price for an Old Master painting at auction in France over the past two decades | 
Albrecht Dürer, Repose on the Flight into Egypt, c.1504, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985), © Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK.
CHICHESTER.- A new exhibition at Pallant House Gallery showcases highlights from the Gallerys acclaimed print collection to trace the history of the woodcut, from the Northern Renaissance and the Japanese tradition of ukiyo-e prints to contemporary artists working today. The exhibition includes works by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Utagawa Hiroshiga, Edward Wadsworth, Ben Nicholson and contemporary artists including Rebecca Salter and Emma Stibbons. Woodcut is a relief printing technique that first emerged in Japan in the 8th century. Cruder versions of woodcuts began to appear in Europe around the 13th century and developed considerably with the advent of mass-production of paper a century later. The western tradition of the woodcut is often said to have culminated in the late 15th century with the work of Albrecht Dürer who achieved stunning details in his ... More | | 
The top price of the evening was for Peter Doigs spellbinding snow scene Cobourg 3 + 1 More (detail), which sold for £12,709,000 / $15,530,398 / 14,640,768. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction continued the confidence that launched the season, totalling £96,384,000 / $117,781,248 / 111,034,368, a 65% increase on last Februarys equivalent total, with strong sell-through rates of 95% by lot and 98% by value. The top price of the evening was for Peter Doigs spellbinding snow scene Cobourg 3 + 1 More, which saw determined bidding in the saleroom and on the phone and sold for £12,709,000 / $15,530,398 / 14,640,768. Another highlight Mark Rothkos No. 1 (1949), realised a price of £10,693,000 / $13,066,846 / 12,318,336 demonstrating that American artists were a particular draw for collectors. This was echoed with Jean-Michel Basquiats Self Portrait, from the collection of U2s Adam Clayton, selling for £2,225,000 / $2,718,950 / 2,563,200, and Basquiats Alpha Particles (£3,973,000 / $4,855,006 ... More | | 
Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Piazza San Marco with the Basilica and the Campanile (detail). Sold for: 6,738,500 / £5,829,476 / $7,158,309. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
PARIS.- On 7 March 2017, Christies Boniface de Castellane and Anna Gould A way of Life auction realised a total of 14,266,563 / £12,342,004 / $15,155,370. These exceptional results reflect the relevant choices Boni had made when furbishing his legendary Palais Rose with the most exquisite works of art. Lionel Gosset, Head of Collection sales, Christies France: Continuing Christies long history of offering prestigious collections at auction, we are honoured to have paid such a beautiful tribute to this important collection. Its celebrated provenance and the pristine quality of its works have attracted bidders from 19 countries across five continents, establishing once again Christies Frances leadership in selling collections with success. Connoisseurs, collectors and institutions, such as the Sèvres museum (lot 145) and the Lyndhurst museum Anna Goulds childhood home i ... More |
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| Masterpieces of early Chinese photography come to New York | | Six large-scale drawings and three new sculptures by Bernar Venet on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery | | Exhibition explores the role of women in early American democracy | 
John Thomson. Yuen-Fu Monastery Cave. Foochow and the River Min. ca. 1873. Carbon print. Courtesy of the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Masterpieces of Early Chinese Photography brings together 30 original photographs by the greatest figures in nineteenth-century photography of China. These rare early photographs are from the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection. The show runs as part of Asia Week New York, March 7-20. This important exhibition brings together for the first time more than thirty masterpieces of early China photography. These rare nineteenth-century photographs open a window to a lost world, but they are also pinnacles of early photographic art. China presents one of the most dramatic examples of the power of early photography to transcend and survive politics, time, language, and culture. The development of photography allowed the preservation of views of traditional China as it had existed for thousands ... More | | 
Bernar Venet, Indeterminate Line, 2016. Oilstick, graphite and collage on paper, 86 5/8 x 60 1/4 inches, 220 x 153 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery announces Bernar Venet: Arcs, on view at 297 Tenth Avenue from March 9 April 22, 2017. The exhibition features six large-scale drawings and three new sculptures by the French conceptual artist. The gallery will publish a fully-illustrated pamphlet with an essay by American art critic, Carter Ratcliff. With this new series of drawings, the artist deepens his radical, lifelong exploration of the line and material. Ratcliff writes, A drawing is an end in itself, not merely a step on the way to realizing a sculpture, nor is a small sculpture of any less importance than one of the artists immense outdoor pieces. Stretching to seven feet tall, these drawings are the artists largest to date. Venet uses graphite, oilstick and collage to create groups of four, five and seven arcs in six different configurations onto a white background. With their exacting ... More | | 
Bass Otis (17841861), Mrs. James Madison (Dolley Madison, 17681849), ca. 1817. Oil on canvas. Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan. New-York Historical Society.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society inaugurates the new Center for Womens History with a special exhibition showcasing the hidden contributions of women who helped to build and secure the fledgling democracy of early America. On view in the Joyce B. Cowin Womens History Gallery from March 8 through July 28, 2017, Saving Washington highlights the role of First Lady Dolley Madison. Featuring more than 150 objects and artifacts in an immersive installation, the exhibition brings visitors back to the period between the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and beyond. A highlight of the transformed fourth floor of the Museum, this exhibition illustrates the new Centers mission to reveal the often-overlooked stories of women who impacted American history. Much is known about the Founding Fathers and their contributions to the origins of our ... More |
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| Strauss & Co sets new South Africa record for single-auction turnover | | Paddle8 inaugural Music Photography Sale of 2017 highlights 50 years of Pop, Punk and Hip Hop images | | Dickinson Gallery announces highlights to be presented at TEFAF Maastricht 2017 | 
Irma Stern, Young Arab. R13 641 600.
CAPE TOWN.- The big three Irma Stern, Maggie Laubser and J.H. Pierneef were central pillars of Strauss & Cos monumental late-summer auction in Cape Town, which generated a record turnover of R70.6 million. The superb result, achieved on a solid 84% sell-through rate, surpassed the previous single-auction high of R66.8 million set in Johannesburg in 2010 by R3.8 million. This superb result sends a strong and encouraging message to the market, said Frank Kilbourn, Strauss & Cos chairman. There was a significant demand for high quality work across all the categories. I am particularly pleased by the performance of the contemporary work we offered, especially young painters Jessica Webster and Georgina Gratrix and photographers Pieter Hugo and Mikhael Subotzky. Young Arab, a gestural portrait by Irma Stern, was the evenings highest grossing single lot and sold for R13.6 mill ... More | | 
Francesco Scavullo, Janis Joplin, Ten Vintage Photographs, 1969. $8,500.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paddle8 presents its first Backstage Pass: Music Photography sale of 2017, live through March 14, which celebrates important musical milestones of the past 50 years. The more than 100 lots in the sale include portraits and performance photographs of the biggest stars in popular music, including The Beatles, Bob Marley, George Michael, Nirvana, Blondie, and Prince. 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love and the explosive Monterey Pop Festival, an event which launched the careers of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. A key lot in Backstage Pass: Music Photography is a rare set of 10 vintage prints of Joplin, taken by the noted fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo. Photographs of Monterey Pop performers Hendrix, The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane and others are also included in the sale. The summer of 1967 ... More | | 
Lucas Cranach the Elder, Judith with the Head of Holofernes.
NEW YORK, NY.- For TEFAF Maastricht 2017, Dickinson Gallery will showcase a range of Old Master, Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary paintings, sculptures and works on paper, many of which have not been seen on the international art market in decades. Among the highlights are a rare Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Lucas Cranach the Elder; a wild and exuberant Bacchanale by Lovis Corinth; an iconic view of Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul Cézanne; a Bauhaus-period still life by Paul Klee, in its original artists frame; and Jean Dubuffets Alentour la Maison, an exploration of artistic processes. Outstanding among the old masters on view is Cranachs Judith with the Head of Holofernes, which has remained in the same private collection since the 1960s. On the reverse of this beautifully preserved panel, a series of inscriptions indicate the works ... More |
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 Pair of drawings by Marc Chagall combine for more than $25,000 at The Woodshed GalleryFRANKLIN, MASS.- A pair of drawings on white paper by the renowned Russian-born French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) combined for over $25,000 in an online-only fine art auction held February 22nd by The Woodshed Gallery, based in Franklin. The sale featured nearly 200 prints and drawings by Old and Modern Masters representing four centuries of artwork on paper. The Chagalls were the top two selling lots of the auction. Village Berger Descending (aka Dream of the Dance), a sanguine figural drawing on white Arches paper, sold for $16,250, while another drawing, titled Violinist and Family, unframed and on white paper, finished at $9,600. Both were done in the poetic and figurative style that made Chagall one of the most popular modern artists. Both drawings were previously owned by the Ashkenazy Gallery in Los Angeles. A flood in 1990 resulted in a large ... More German opera singer Kurt Moll dies at 78BERLIN (AFP).- German opera singer Kurt Moll, whose deep bass voice and interpretations of Mozart, Wagner and Strauss won him admirers worldwide, has died aged 78, the Bavarian State Opera announced. Moll died on Sunday "after a long and serious illness," it said, without specifying the cause of death. Moll, who originally wanted to be a cellist, was one of the most famous operatic bass singers of the post World War II era. He made his debut in 1968 at the Bayreuth Festival which celebrates the works of Richard Wagner and performed for Pope VI at the Vatican and leading opera houses worldwide. In 1970, he performed what would go on to be a lifelong signature role for him: Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at the renowned Salzburg Festival. "Kurt Moll could bring the great bass roles from Wagner, Mozart and Strauss to life like no one else," Bavarian ... More Mosul museum: a prime target for jihadistsMOSUL (AFP).- Iraqi security forces recaptured the Mosul museum, where Islamic State group militants infamously filmed themselves smashing priceless artefacts, police said on Tuesday. Iraqi forces "recaptured the archaeological museum," Lieutenant General Raed Shakir Jawdat said in a statement, without specifying when this occurred. The museum was on a police list of sites recaptured from IS during an ongoing offensive to reclaim Mosul, along with the central bank building, which was looted by the jihadists. Lieutenant Colonel Abdulamir al-Mohammedawi of the Rapid Response Division, the special forces unit that usually spearheads operations with the federal police, also confirmed the museum's recapture, saying it was retaken on Monday. IS "stole the artefacts and completely destroyed the museum," Mohammedawi said. The jihadist group released a video in February ... More Exhibition offers an examination of two architectural schemes proposed for the City of LondonLONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects unveils a major new exhibition, Mies van der Rohe + James Stirling: Circling the Square (8 March 2017 to 25 June 2017) offering a renewed examination of two iconic architectural schemes proposed for the same site in the City of London. Commissioned by architectural patron and developer Lord Peter Palumbo, Mies van der Rohes unrealised Mansion House Square project will be explored alongside its built successor, James Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates newly listed Number One Poultry. Presented together for the first time, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to draw comparisons between the design methods of two of the most highly recognised architects of the 20th century, and to trace the continuity in purpose and approach that unites two seemingly dissimilar architectural ... More Thought-provoking contemporary exhibition opens at Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumBOSTON, MASS.- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum opens a thought-provoking, sound art exhibition this spring called, Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, featuring 12 artists and architects from around the world who use a broad range of approaches to sound art. Various forms of active listening are being explored in the Museum and in nearby neighborhoods for the exhibition, which opens March 8 and runs through Sept. 5, 2017. Listen Hear features 10 installations of sound art eight designed to be experienced inside the Museum. Two others are off-site, public art works: a free app that offers an immersive sound walk of the Back Bay Fens, the urban park system adjacent to the Museum; and a sound environment installed at the Ruggles MBTA Station. Most of the works are conceived as site-specific installations for the Museums spaces including the ... More Exhibition at P! presents multi-faceted results from Wong Kit Yi's 20-day Arctic voyageNEW YORK, NY.- Once upon a time, there was a gallery called K. that lived in the storefront at 334 Broome Street where P! now stands. Its third exhibition, in Spring 2015, was by an artist named Wong Kit Yi. Her project, North Pole Futures, focused on an idiosyncratic financial, legal, and social proposition: the show offered intrepid collectors a chance to commission the artist to create a customized artwork at the North Pole. By selecting a color, an unusual word, and a specific date, each commissioner established a conceptual prompt for their individual piece, which Wong Kit Yi promised to complete during her upcoming Arctic residency. Based upon trust, the artists futures represented a unique bond between patron and performer, reflecting both the fixity and fickle uncertainty of the North Pole. Now, Futures, Again at P! picks up where North Pole Futures left off. ... More Exhibition at Belfast Exposed opens up the photographic archive of Victor SloanBELFAST.- Belfast Exposed is presenting, BEFORE, an exhibition opening up the photographic archive of Victor Sloan, one of Northern Irelands most prominent contemporary artists. Sloan is known internationally for his visceral art works of images relating to the Troubles. These works are made through a process of intervening directly onto photographic negatives by scoring, scratching and mark-making with a number of materials including pen, paint and bleach. This new exhibition reveals an excerpt from an extensive but little seen body of archival photographs that Sloan made in the 1970s and 80s in Northern Ireland. The images document the activities and characters that populated Sloan's daily life; the urban development of his hometown of Craigavon; and the constant and pervasive presence of the political conflict. For the artist these photographs functioned ... More Abstract Configurations: Marco Angelini's work on view at Relais Rione PonteROME.- Relais Rione Ponte, in collaboration with Emmeotto gallery, announced the exhibition project by the artist Marco Angelini titled Abstract Configurations. The research of Marco Angelini begins from matter, an essential element of endless possibilities where chromatic surface, thanks to the combination of shapes and colors, becomes the connective tissue of heterogeneous modes of expression: the ultimate goal of the work is the exemplification of an idea, a thought, a dream. The artist, in this exhibition, retraces twelve year of his career conducted between New York, Warsaw and Rome, a selection of thirty eight works, exquisitely furnished in the spaces of the Relais, it will channel the viewer into a chromatic universe that is, in the first instance, an aesthetic audacity connected to painting. Material and colors are intertwined, space acquires, via the withdrawal ... More More Than Just Words [On the Poetic]: Kunsthalle Wien opens group exhibitionVIENNA.- What makes a verbal message a work of art? (Roman Jakobson) The linguist Roman Jakobson (18961982) distinguishes six functions of language that are necessary for communication to occur. The poetic function is the most important for him, since it transforms the formal appearance of language into a form of special information. Poetic language thrives on connotations and polyvalent levels of meaning. The addition of sound and rhythm enhances the way things are represented and privileges form over content. Poetic language is (not yet) poetry or literature. When words are consciously perceived in their aesthetic and sonic dimension, when they arent merely understood as a practical component of communication, then the poetic function of language is already at work. More Than Just Words [On the Poetic] elevates the idea of the ... More Betonsalon - Center for Art and Research opens a solo exhibition by Emmanuelle Lainé.PARIS.- Bétonsalon Center for Art and Research presents a solo exhibition by Emmanuelle Lainé. With Incremental Self, the French artist takes over the refurbished spaces of Bétonsalon by means of a monumental installation integrating a multi-screen film with an accumulation of objects and pieces of furniture deviated from their original context. Our lives are fragile and precarious. Yet they are multiple, collective, and uncontrollable. This is what artist Emmanuelle Lainé manifests in her exhibition Incremental Self: Transparent Bodies. The bodies we observe in her filmic installationstudents, retired artists, workersare in transitional places where different sorts of exchanges are taking place. They are evolving in spaces of negotiation where successive layers of identity are being performed in interaction with given economic, sensible, and even symbolic facts and objects. ... More Contemporary artists in search of a lost masterpiece MUNICH.- There are few masterpieces of modern art with a history as tumultuous as Franz Marcs painting Der Turm der blauen Pferde (1913). Held alternately in Munich and Berlin, the painting forged a link between these two important artistic centres. It was nearly destroyed, then saved and once again held securely, only to disappear without trace following the Second World War. To this day, art historians and historians continue to ask: where is Der Turm der blauen Pferde? This question is at the centre of speculations by a group of artists from Berlin and Munich, the results of which are presented in two parallel exhibitions. Franz Marc painted this piece in the countryside near Munich in the spring of 1913, exhibiting it later that year. Following his death in the First World War, the painting was displayed prominently in 1919 at the commemorative exhibition of the New ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Anselm Kiefer was born March 08, 1945. Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.
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