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Conservation work on the wall paintings in the tomb. © J. Paul Getty Trust.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Conservation Institute announced today that it has nearly completed its work at the Tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt, one of the most famous cultural heritage sites in the world. The projecta multiyear collaboration between the GCI and Egypts Ministry of Antiquities (formerly known as the Supreme Council of Antiquities) focused on conservation and the creation of a sustainable plan for continued conservation and management of the tomb. Work at the legendary site included the conservation of wall paintings, environmental and infrastructure improvements, and training for future care of the site. This project greatly expanded our understanding of one of the best known and significant sites from antiquity, and the methodology used can serve as a model for similar sites, says Tim Whalen, John E. and Louise Bryson Director of the Getty Conservation Institute. The work at Tutankhamens tomb i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Art Basel's sixth edition in Hong Kong features 248 leading galleries from 32 countries, presenting work ranging from Modern masterpieces of the early 20th century to the most contemporary work by both established and emerging artists. 28 galleries will participate in the Hong Kong show for the first time, including important galleries from the United States and Europe as well as a younger generation of galleries from the East. In this image: Lévy Gorvy © Art Basel
| Christie's Paris to offer the collection of the late Nobel Prize Laureate Ilya Prigogine | | Christie's to offer Constantin Brancusi's La Jeune fille sophistiquée (Nancy Cunard) | | Met Museum explores transatlantic career of renowned painter Thomas Cole | 
The small scale stone sculptures from the Mezcala region in the state of Guerrero south of Mexico City have appealed to many ever since they became known in the late 19th and early 20th century. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
PARIS.- The late Nobel Prize Laureate Ilya Prigogine (Moscow 1917 Brussels 2003) and his wife Maryna, started acquiring a variety of Mezcala, Chontal and Olmec works of art in the mid-1960s. This selection of 148 pieces, will come for auction on 9th of April at Christies Paris and has been the subject of several publications, including Carlo Gays Ancient Ritual Stone Artifacts,published in 1995 and has been shown in exhibitions in Brussels, Geneva and Antwerp. The Prigogines were great friends of curators, collectors and gallery owners, such as Frances Pratt; Ed Merrin, of Merrin Gallery New York; David Bramhall, Sentino Micali of Mermoz Galerie, Paris, where they have acquired many of their pieces. The art of Mezcala and Chontal, from the mountainous region of Guerrero, Mexico, is known for its stone sculptures including animal effigies, masks, architectural ... More | | 
Positioned to make a world auction record for the artist. On view in Hong Kong from March 31 April 3. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies May 15th Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art will bring to the market for the first-time Constantin Brancusis, La Jeune fille sophistiquée (Nancy Cunard), a unique sculpture, cast in polished bronze in Paris in 1932 (estimate upon request). La Jeune fille sophistiquée comes from The Collection of Elizabeth Stafford. Mrs. Stafford and her husband Frederick Stafford acquired the work directly from Brancusi during a visit to his studio in 1955, and it has remained in their collection ever since. An extraordinarily rare and important work, La Jeune fille sophistiquée is the only existing bronze example of Brancusis stylized portrait of the Anglo-American heiress and writer Nancy Cunard. The work retains the artists original hand-carved marble base, a factor of immense significance given the importance Brancusi attached to the interaction between materials and the interplay between his sculptur ... More | | 
Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a ThunderstormThe Oxbow, 1836 (detail). Oil on canvas, 51 1/2 x 76 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908 (08.228). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- Celebrated as one of Americas preeminent landscape painters, Thomas Cole (18011848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, emigrated to the United States in his youth, and traveled extensively throughout England and Italy as a young artist. He returned to America to create some of his most ambitious works and inspire a new generation of American artists, launching a national school of landscape art. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Thomas Coles Journey: Atlantic Crossings examines, for the first time, the artists transatlantic career and engagement with European art. With Coles masterworks The Course of Empire series (183436) and The Oxbow (1836) as its centerpiece, the exhibition features more than three dozen examples of his large- ... More |
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| Kallir Family announces gift of Grandma Moses paintings to Smithsonian | | The last standing "Naked Trump" statue to be sold at Julien's Auctions | | San Antonio Museum of Art opens exhibition of animal mummies | 
Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma") Moses, Out for Christmas Trees, 1046 (detail). © Grandma Moses Properties Co. NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jane Kallir, Co-Director of The Galerie St. Etienne, announced a major donation of paintings by Anna Mary Robertson Grandma Moses to the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C. Over the course of the next seven years, 10 masterworks will be donated by Kallir and her family in memory of Otto Kallir. The Kallir gift begins with three paintings: Out for Christmas Trees, 1946; Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, 1946; and Turkeys, 1958, the first two of which are currently on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The remaining seven works are in the process of being selected. All 10 will be among the highlights of a travelling Grandma Moses exhibition, set to begin at SAAM in the fall of 2023. Jane Kallir is a consultant for the exhibition. In Grandma Moses Goes to the Big City, Moses depicts herself amidst the bustle of a working farm, about to embark on a rare trip ... More | | 
The sculpture depicting Trump in the flesh titled "The Emperor Has No Balls" is the last statue remaining not vandalized or destroyed. The piece is estimated to sell between $20,000-$30,000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced the spring edition of its biannual Street and Urban Art auction will take place May 2, 2018 live at the first ever Street and Urban Art auction at Mana Contemporary in collaboration with Mana Contemporary Urban Art Projects one of the largest and most innovative contemporary art organizations in the United States and Juxtapoz Art and Cultural Magazine, www.juxtapoz.com and also live online on juliensauctions.com. Featured will be one of the most talked about pieces created in August 2016 by West Coast anarchist collective INDECLINE ndash;"the naked Donald Trump statue"ndash;more than one year after the 45th President was sworn into office. The collection will include an extraordinary and diverse canvas of works by some of the most influential and iconoclastic street artists of our time including Banksy, Jean-Michel ... More | | 
Falcon Mummy. Egyptian (Late Period-Roman Period), ca. 712 BC AD 395. Falcon remains and linen, h. 9 ¾ in. (24.8 cm); w. 3 in. (7.6 cm). San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Beryl and Hank McCleary, 2003.50.1.1. Photography by Peggy Tenison.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art is presenting Egyptian Animal Mummies: Science Explores an Ancient Religion. The exhibition focuses on the creation of animal mummies, their role in ancient Egyptian religion, and their burial. Recently conserved for this exhibition, the mummies include a cat, three crocodiles, two ibises, and three falcons. In collaboration with the San Antonio Zoo and the Radiology Department at University of Texas Health San Antonio, the mummies underwent modern scientific methods of examination including X-ray imaging and CT scanning, which made it possible to understand and analyze the contents of the mummies without unwrapping them. These tests and their results are being featured in the exhibition. Not everyone knows there was a practice of mummifying animals, said Sarah ... More |
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| V&A acquire important wall-hanging from De Wit at BRAFA 2018 | | Hamiltons opens an exhibition of exceptional and rarely seen Robert Frank prints | | Louvre Lens exhibits masterpieces of the 19th-century Persian art | 
Bacchus Triumphant (or Autumn), late 17th century (around 1683), workshop of the Saint Joseph convent in Paris, wool and silk on linen canvas, 440 cm x 274 cm, Royal Manufacturers De Wit Fine Tapestries.
LONDON.- An important sale has come to light from the 63rd edition of BRAFA 2018, which took place from 27 January - 4 February. It has been announced that the V & A acquired an important embroidered wall-hanging entitled Bacchus Triumphant from the Royal Manufacturers De Wit Fine Tapestries Belgium, one of the worlds oldest leading tapestry weavers and restorers. The large-scale embroidered wall-hanging has been attributed to the embroidery workshop of the Saint Joseph convent in Paris, made at the end of the 17th century and representing Louis-César de Bourbon, Count of Vexin, second son of King Louis XIV and the Marquise de Montespan. The work belongs to a series of eight pieces representing the Sun King, his mistress Madame de Montespan and ... More | | 
London 1951 (detail) © Robert Frank.
LONDON.- Hamiltons presents a selection of exceptional and rarely seen Robert Frank prints, including pictures from Franks seminal visit in 1953 to a coal-mining village in Wales, along with a selection of prints from his sojourns in London, Paris and America taken during the 1950s and early 60s. Franks endeavour to establish a new form of poetic, narrative photography is a common thread throughout these images. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of photography it was Jack Kerouc who first defined Frank as a genius Frank found fame in the early 1960s with his ground-breaking book The Americans. The series offers a profound insight into the countrys cultural and social conditions and, despite initially perplexing critics due to its unorthodox style, soon became and still remains widely regarded as a pivotal work in 20th century art history. Its origins can be traced to Frank ... More | | 
Césarine Davin, Asker-Khan, the Persian Ambassador in Paris, in 1808. France, Paris, 1809. Oil on canvas. Versailles, musée du Château de Versailles et du Trianon © RMN-GP (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot.
LENS.- The Louvre-Lens Museum presents a worldwide exclusive: the first retrospective dedicated to the magnificent art of the Qajar dynasty, the glorious sovereigns who ruled Iran from 1786 to 1925. The original and surprising art created during this period was particularly rich and bountiful, driven in part by exceptionally talented court artists. This fascinating but little-known history is the focus of this exhibition, which displays over 400 works from a wide range of private collections and major European, North American and Middle Eastern institutions. Many of the pieces are appearing here for the first time anywhere in the world. During this extraordinary period, the artistic development of pieces intended for the court focused on traditional techniques ... More |
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| On view now at Sotheby's Paris: 3,000 years of sculptural masterpieces | | Stanley Kubrick auction in Italy fetches 90,000 euros | | Unbridled bidding for Old Masters at Koller | 
Fang Statue of an Ancestor by the Master of Ntem, Ntem Valley, Gabon. 19th Century. Estimate: $3/5 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
PARIS.- Sothebys presents The Shape of Beauty: Sculpture from the Collection of Howard and Saretta Barnet this May during the marquee spring sale week of Impressionist & Modern Art and Contemporary Art. The Barnet Collection is the result of many years of thoughtful, scholarly collecting by the New York couple, who began to acquire art in the 1950s. The tightly curated group covers an astonishingly wide geographic range and long span of time, featuring African, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, American Indian Art and Antiquities and reveals an intellectual and inquisitive approach to collecting. From an 8th century Greek Bronze Figure of a horse to an exceptional and iconic 19th century Fang reliquary sculpture, each work is of exceptionally high quality. Many have been extensively published and exhibited, and stand as icons of their respective genres. The Barnets were sophisticated ... More | | 
A man displays objects from the movie "A Clockwork Orange" from the collection "Cinema Stanley Kubrick" at the Aste Bolaffi auction house in Turin on March 23, 2018. MARCO BERTORELLO / AFP.
TURIN (AFP).- Symbols of the life and work of Stanley Kubrick went up for auction in Italy on Tuesday, with bidders splashing tens of thousands of euros for memorabilia from one of the 20th century's leading filmmakers. Termed "the most important collection of material relating to the life and work of Stanley Kubrick ever offered at auction", the items began going under the hammer mid-afternoon and fetched nearly 90,000 euros ($112,000). Props, promotional materials and costume items from groundbreaking films such as "Doctor Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and even Kubrick's old shopping lists, were all up for grabs. Some went for eye-catching sums at the Bolaffi auction house sale in the northern city of Turin. The jacket worn by horror icon Jack Torrance, masterfully played by Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" as he descends into madness while snowbound with ... More | | 
Anthony van Dyck, (Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London), Portrait of an Italian Noblewoman. Oil on Canvas. 48 x 37.7 cm. Sold for CHF 264 500.
ZURICH.- At times the bidding seemed to know no bounds in Kollers Old Master Paintings auction on 23 March. Numerous works sold for multiples of their pre-sale estimates, providing ample evidence (if any was needed) that the market for good-quality works in this field is still going strong. The top lot was a memento mori painting by 17th-century Flemish artist Carstian Luyckx, charged with fascinating symbolic imagery related to the politics of war. Estimated at CHF 30 000 40 000, the bidding soared to CHF 538 000, the second highest price ever realized by a work by Luyckx at auction. This rediscovered painting was a major revelation within the artists oeuvre. Another sleeper was Anthony van Dycks portrait of an Italian noblewoman. Its imperfect condition prevented it from selling for much more than $50 000 the last time it was offered in New York in 1999, but this time it elicited extraordinary interest, and a ... More |
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 The Art Institute of Chicago announces the appointment of Colin C. Mackenzie as Curator of Chinese ArtCHICAGO, IL.- Executive Director of Initiatives in Asia and Pritzker Chair of Asian Art & Curator of Chinese Art Tao Wang announced today the appointment of Colin C. Mackenzie as the new curator of Chinese art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mackenzie most recently served as Senior Curator of East Asian Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (200918), where he oversaw the reinstallation of three Chinese galleries in addition to regular small exhibitions in the Chinese painting gallery, Chinese furniture gallery, and Japanese gallery. Mackenzie has had a long and distinguished career in the field of Chinese art and as a museum professional. He obtained his PhD degree in Chinese art and archaeology in 1990 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has since served as Curator and Head of Department of Asian ... More Simon Lee Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Jim ShawHONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw. This is the first exhibition of paintings by the influential American artist to be held in Asia. Shaw moved to California from his hometown of Midland, Michigan in 1975 to attend Cal Arts, and along with fellow Michigan-native Mike Kelley, is one of a number of notable artists to emerge from the school in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Over the past thirty years, he has become one of the United States most influential and visionary artists, working in painting, sculpture, and drawing, and building connections between his own critical and psychological perspective and Americas broader political, social, and spiritual histories. His work is distinguished by rigorous formal and structural analyses of neglected forms from vernacular culture, informed by his ... More 'Babette's Feast' actress Audran dies at 85PARIS (AFP).- French actress Stephane Audran, best known for her leading role in the Oscar-winning "Babette's Feast", died Tuesday at the age of 85, her family told AFP. Although she also starred in Luis Bunuel's 1972 classic "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", it was only in middle age that the great beauty became a big name internationally. As well as winning the best foreign film Oscar in 1989, "Babette's Feast" -- the story of a French refugee who introduces an uptight Danish community to the sensual joys of food -- also won a Golden Globe and Audran a Bafta best actress nomination. But it was her two-decade-long partnership with French director Claude Chabrol, whom she later married, that made Audran a household name in France. She won best actress at the Berlin film festival in 1968 for playing a bisexual woman in "Les Biches" (The Hinds) ... More A recent series of photographic assemblages by Bruno V. Roels on view at Howard Greenberg GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- A Palm Tree Is A Palm Tree Is A Palm Tree, a recent series of photographic assemblages by Bruno V. Roels, are on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 22 - May 5, 2018. A Palm Tree Is A Palm Tree Is A Palm Tree, a play on Gertrude Steins line of verse a rose is a rose is a rose, explores the multiplicity of the iconic palm tree in photographic repetition and variation. Of his instantly-recognizable and internationally symbolic muse, Roels has said, Every palm tree is alike, and looks the same no matter what its location. Each is different, though, as each is shaped by the events of its location. He has photographed palm trees predominantly in the south of Europe. As Roels considers the act of printing as important as the act of photographing itself, he uses analog photographic techniques such as solarization and under- ... More MSU Broad acquires Jim Shaw's 'The Hidden World', among other worksEAST LANSING, MI.- The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has acquired Jim Shaws personal collection of religious and didactic art, The Hidden World, comprised of more than a thousand objects collected over the span of fifty years. The Hidden World contains books, posters, magazines, pamphlets, photographs, T-shirts, record sleeves, and illustrations which have long served as one of Shaws primary sources of creative inspiration. The Hidden World is a collection of objects from various sects, not-so-secret societies, evangelical and fundamentalist movements, new age spiritualists, fraternal orders, medical and scientific speculations, and conspiracy theorists. Much of the collection was produced by anonymous authors and artists, and found at flea markets, thrift stores, and online. Lifelong friend and collaborator Mike Kelley said ... More Archive of material relating to the raid on Entebbe in 1976 will be auctioned WESTPORT, CONN.- An extensive archive of material pertaining to the 1976 hijacking of Air France flight 139 from Tel-Aviv, Israel to Paris a news story so important it was the inspiration for five movies, including the one currently in theaters titled 7 Days in Entebbe is up for bid in University Archives online-only auction slated for Tuesday, April 10th at 10:30 am Eastern time. Bidders can view all 254 lots now, and register to bid, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Online bidding is being facilitated by Invaluable.com. The auction is packed with important, scarce and collectible signed documents and other items relating to some of the most important names in all of history. Several archives are in the spotlight due to their rarity, importance and high estimates. The Entebbe archive comprises thousands of pages in Hebrew, English and French relating ... More New plan unveiled for Edinburgh's UNESCO World Heritage SiteEDINBURGH.- A new plan for Edinburghs Old and New Towns World Heritage Site was launched today which includes commitments to improve the quality of new development, better manage tourism growth, and deepen residents awareness and understanding of the site among other actions. The historic area, which was inscribed by UNESCO in 1995, covers most of the City Centre from Quartermile to Dean Village and from the West End to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The new plan, which runs for five years, is intended to protect and manage the outstanding universal value of the site. After an extensive public consultation exercise, the plan was written by the partners responsible for the management of the site: City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh World Heritage and Historic Environment Scotland. Among the 39 actions is creating place ... More Group exhibition brings to life a cross-section of artistic approaches to rethinking geometryHONG KONG.- To coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong 2018, K11 Art Foundation presents Emerald City, a group exhibition that brings to life a cross-section of artistic approaches to rethinking geometry in relation to the connectivity of universal knowledge through space. The exhibition shows approximately 40 artworks across multiple genres of art, including painting, sculpture, video, photography, and site-specific installation in Cosco Tower and chi art space in Hong Kong, exploring how geometry, the measurement of the Earth (geo), has influenced our imagination of the world. Through a number of successful collaborations with some of the worlds top cultural institutions, KAF has facilitated the deepening of international audiences understanding of Chinese contemporary art since its establishment in 2010. As the first major exhibition curated and ... More Cosmoscow and Qatar Airways announce 5-year partnershipMOSCOW.- Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair and Qatar Airways announce the start of 5-year partnership within the Qatar-Russia Year of Culture. As the General Partner of Cosmoscow, Qatar Airways will be represented at the main venue of the Fair at Gostiny Dvor from 6 to 9 September, 2018 and will have an opportunity to participate in a number of Cosmoscow projects and programmes. The Memorandum of Understanding between Cosmoscow and Qatar Airways was signed in the presence of His Excellency Mr. Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali, Minister of Culture and Sport of the State of Qatar at the St. Regis Moscow Nikolskaya on March 26, 2018. Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, commented: Qatar Airways celebrates strong links with Russia, with triple daily flights to Moscow and daily flights to St. ... More Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña named 2018 artist-in-residencPRINCETON, NJ.- Renowned Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña is the Princeton University Art Museums 2018 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, international artist-in-residence. On April 10, as a part of her residency, Vicuña will perform with Colombian pianist and composer Ricardo Gallo, offering a special opportunity to experience their longstanding multilingual and interdisciplinary collaboration. Vicuñas residency also highlights a recent acquisition of the artists work now on view at the Museum as part of the installation Migration and Material Alchemy. Born in 1948 in Santiago, Chile, Vicuña is known for her practice that combines poetry, drawing, sculpture, filmmaking, performance and activism. By weaving together cultural traditions indigenous to the Andean region with those that developed with the arrival of the colonial Spanish and others who followed, her ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter and architect Raphael was born March 28, 1483. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. In this image: Raphael, Self-Portrait, 1506 (detail) © Galleria degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi.
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