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Edward Weston, Church Door, Hornitos, California, 1940. Gelatin silver print. Collection Center for Creative Photography ©1981, Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents.
AUGUSTA, GA.- Modern Masters: Group f/64: Works from the Bank of America Collection opened to the public on Saturday, April 27, 2019. The exhibition features forty-four photographs by five legendary members of Group f/64ÂAnsel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Brett Weston, and Edward WestonÂwho are regarded as some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. It remains on display through Sunday, July 21, 2019 and will be celebrated at a public event on Thursday, May 2, 2019. ÂWeÂre proud to deepen our commitment to the arts and continue our partnership with one of our local cultural treasures, the Morris Museum of Art, by presenting Modern Masters: Group f/64: Works From the Bank of America Collection, said Ora Parish, Augusta Market President for Bank of America. ÂAt Bank of America, we believe in the power of the arts to help economies thrive, educate and enrich societies, and create greater cultural understanding. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on April 28, 2019 shows people enjoying their visit at the team lab borderless museum of Tokyo. Collective teamLab, known internationally for their innovative "digital art" that combines projections, sound and carefully designed spaces to create immersive experiences. Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP
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 | | Christie's to offer Picasso works from the Norman Granz Collection | | Artcurial to auction the intimate and unprecedented collection of André Malraux | | Christie's will offer Jonas Wood paintings to conserve 600,000 acres of South American rainforest | 
Picassos second wife, Jacqueline Roque is portrayed through her distinctive curved profile in Tête de femme, 1967 (estimate: $300,000 500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Christies will present a remarkable collection of drawings and prints by Picasso from the Collection of Norman and Grete Granz. A Close Friendship: Picasso From The Collection of Norman and Grete Granz will be offered across 20th Century Week (estimate $4 - 6 million). The collection is led by Pablo Picassos Baigneuses et crabe, 1938 (estimate: $1.2 1.8 million), which will be included in the Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 13 May and a robust group of works by the master draftsman will lead the 14 May Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper sale. An impresario of 20th century American jazz music, Norman Granz was responsible for some of the centurys most iconic recordings including the 1956 Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald rendition of Cheek to Cheek. In 1944, the ... More | | 
George Braque, Ciel et oiseaux. Huile sur papier, 64,80 x 50 cm. Estimate: 20 000 - 30 000 © Artcurial
PARIS.- On 19th June, Artcurials Inventories & Collections Department will auction off the personal collection of André Malraux, consisting of over one hundred lots. Delving into the eclectic universe of this cultural and political figure from the twentieth century, the auction takes you on a voyage of discovery into the intimate museum of André Malraux. Among the unique objects that he surrounded himself with in the intimacy of his last home of Verrières-le-Buisson, we must pause on the desk with which he wrote his final books, the works of major artists with whom he became friends in the course of his life such as Georges Braque, Joan Miró and Emile Gilioli. One also discovers his pronounced taste for art from around the world through some objects of primitive, pre-Columbian and Asian art, through to a beautiful set of Haitian paintings. André Malraux caricatures representing Pablo Picasso also reveal his own talents ... More | | 
Jonas Wood, Japanese Garden 3 (detail), oil and acrylic on canvas, 2019 | $500,000 700,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- On May 15, Christies New York Post-War and Contemporary evening sale will commence with the auction of Jonas Woods Japanese Garden 3, a large-scale painting to benefit Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC). The proceeds will fund a 600,000-acre reserve of South American rainforest that will aid the areas biodiversity including protecting several native endangered species and combating climate change. The 2019 work, a large-scale landscape painting measuring 88 x 98 inches, was donated by the artist in a collaboration that was initiated by Art to Acres, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to raising funds for land conservation through art sales. Additionally, GWC and Rainforest Trust have offered a generous 400% match of the hammer price of Japanese Garden 3 to go towards funding the reserve. These organizations will jointly oversee the conservation project, ... More |
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| | | Russian court jails man who attacked tsar painting | | Through major grant, American treasures from Philadelphia Museum of Art to travel to 8 Pennsylvania museums | | Important Ãdouard Vuillard painting acquired by Pallant House Gallery through the Acceptance in Lieu scheme | 
Russian State Tretyakov Gallery officials attend a press conference after Ilya Repin's world famous painting of the 16th century Russian Tsar, titled "Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan on November 16, 1581." was damaged in Moscow. Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A Moscow court on Tuesday sent a man who attacked a painting of Ivan the Terrible to a penal colony for two and a half years, news agencies reported. Igor Podporin attacked a work by 19-century artist Ilya Repin showing the 16th-century tsar killing his son, damaging the work in three places. He used part of a security barrier at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery to break the glass covering the painting during the last year's attack. At first, the builder from the southwestern city of Voronezh told police he was under the influence of alcohol at the time. But in court he said he had wanted to damage the painting because it was "a lie" -- a smear on the reputation of Russia's first tsar. At Zamoskvoretsky district court, Judge Natalya Cheprasova sentenced him to two and a half years in a "correctional colony," agencies reported. The Tretyakov is now ... More | | 
Tanis, 1915, by Daniel Garber. Oil on canvas, 60 à 46 1/4 inches; framed: 71 1/2 à 57 5/16 à 3 5/8 inches. © Estate of Daniel Garber. Purchased with funds contributed by Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest, 2011. Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A transformational new initiative of Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art has awarded more than $700,000 to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The funding supports a program of sharing treasures from the Museums renowned collections with communities across Pennsylvania. An official from the Terra Foundation for American Art, along with directors from nine museums, joined legislators and arts supporters in the Rotunda of the Pennsylvania State Capitol today to announce the program. The Art Bridges + Terra Foundation Initiative supports multi-year, multi-institutional exhibition partnerships that engage local communities with outstanding works of American art. Sharing collections and resources, these collaborative partners create a series of exhibitions that are content rich, include in-depth educational and ... More | | 
Ãdouard Vuillard, Modèle assise dans un fauteuil, se coiffant, c.1903 (detail), oil on board, 61 x 67cm, Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax from the estate of Lord Hutchinson and allocated to Pallant House Gallery 2019.
CHICHESTER.- A significant oil painting by Ãdouard Vuillard has been allocated to Pallant House Gallery via HM Governments Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme, run by the Arts Council. The painting was accepted from the estate of Lord Hutchinson and will go on display at the Gallery as part of the current Art Quake: Post-impressionism and British art exhibition, until June 2019, before entering the collection displays for summer 2019. Ãdouard Vuillards Modèle assise dans un fauteuil, se coiffant (c.1903), translated as Model seated in a chair, combing her hair, is a remarkable addition to the Gallerys permanent collection of British and international modern art from 1900 to now. It joins an existing collection of continental artworks by artists including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, André Derain, Pablo Picasso and Gino Severini. Until now, Vuillard has only been represented in ... More |
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| | | Christie's Paris announces highlights included in its Asian Art sale | | Exhibition of rare and seminal designs by Italo-Brazilian artist Lina Bo Bardi on view at Gladstone Gallery | | Relatives contact the Stedelijk: The full story revealed behind the painting Working-Class Woman by Charley Toorop | 
The sale will offer an imperial vase made of cloisonné enamel of striking beauty from the Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate: 70,000-90,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
PARIS.- On 12 June, Christies Paris will present its Asian Art sale, always very selective, which will offer high quality items, including a large range of works of art coming from European private collections. The section dedicated to China will offer a beautiful white jade and rust double-gourd vase. Dating from the Qianlong period (1736-1795), sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty, this vase is meticulously carved and stand on a delicate circular foot. It is adorned with a double handled decorated with bats flying among clouds, the upper and lower parts are respectively embellished with the characters da' and 'ji', thus forming the term 'da ji', which means 'great luck'. The neck is flanked with two handles holding a mobile ring with a bat carved in relief with outstretched wings ... More | | 
Hercules Barsotti, Leituras superpostas, 1965. Acrylic on canvas, 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. © Hercules Barsotti. Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels and Bergamin & Gomide.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of rare and seminal designs by Italo-Brazilian artist Lina Bo Bardi in collaboration with Giancarlo Palanti, accompanied by a selection of important works by artists whom worked concurrently to Bo Bardi in Brazil. Best known for her prolific career as an architect and designer, Bo Bardi dedicated herself to arts emancipation from the predilection for western modernism in favor of the combination of contemporary formalism mixed with regional vernacular. Lina Bo Bardis work represents the creative and social modernity throughout Mid-Century Brazil, an era characterized by cultural and artistic experimentation, and this exhibition demonstrates her important place in history. Born in Rome in 1914 and educated ... More | | 
Two granddaughters of Johanna 'Jansje' Punt, left Toos Punt, right Anja Offringa-Punt.
AMSTERDAM.- It is one of the most popular artworks in STEDELIJK BASE: the painting Working-Class Woman (1942-43) by Charley Toorop. On the right, in front of a crumbling wall sits a woman, gazing straight ahead, her hands in her lap, a menacing sky and charred buildings in the background. But the Stedelijk knew very little about who the identity of the woman in the portrait. In her letters, Charley Toorop had described her sitter as a working-class woman and called her Mother Punt. But who exactly was Mrs Punt, and why did she look so sad
.? The museum was completely in the dark. More came to light when a journalist from the Dutch newspaper Noord-Hollands Dagblad mistakenly identified her as Trijntje Klomp-Zult. Mrs Punts relatives respondedthey knew her true identitythe woman in the picture was their grandmother. The family contacted the museum ... More |
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| | | End of fair report: Art Brussels 19 | | Superb collection of Chinese export porcelain offered at Bonhams Fine Chinese Art sale | | McMaster Museum of Art welcomes new senior curator, Pamela Edmonds | 
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BRUSSELS.- Art Brussels once again attracted experienced and considered Belgian and international collectors who flocked to the fair this year, as well as numerous institutions and high-profile art world personalities creating an electric atmosphere with strong sales across the board. With a retention rate of returning galleries at 70% (compared to the 50% at other major art fairs according to the 2019 UBS Art Market Report), galleries came out in force with expertly curated booths and a mixture of established and emerging artists across PRIME, DISCOVERY, REDISCOVERY, SOLOand INVITED sections. This year the fair proved that it continues to be at the centre of the citys ever-growing, thriving art scene. New and loyal international and national collectors in attendance this year are Mr.Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Mr. Alain Servais, members of the Vanhaerents family, Mr. and Mrs. Susan and Michael Hort, Mr. Kamiar Maleki, ... More | | 
Rare pair of famille rose 'goose' tureens and covers, Qianlong, circa 1760. Estimate: £150,000-200,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Bonhams will offer a distinguished European private collection of Chinese export porcelain at its Fine Chinese Art sale in New Bond Street, London on Thursday 16 May. The highlight of the collection is a very fine and rare pair of famille rose 'goose' tureens and covers, Qianlong, circa 1760, estimated at £150,000-200,000. Goose tureens are exceptionally rare due to their extremely delicate forms and the difficulty involved in both modelling and firing them successfully, as well as transporting them back to Europe. Animal tureens such as the pair of geese were used as extravagant centrepieces for table settings fashionable in Europe in the 18th century. Such tureens were made in a variety of animal forms including boar-heads and crabs (such as a pair of small famille rose boar-head tureens and covers and a rare polychrome crab ... More | | 
With more than 20 years of curatorial, administrative and educational experience in arts institutions across the country, Edmonds research interests focus on contemporary Canadian art and the politics of representation.
HAMILTON.- Pamela Edmonds has been appointed senior curator of the McMaster Museum of Art. With more than 20 years of curatorial, administrative and educational experience in arts institutions across the country, Edmonds research interests focus on contemporary Canadian art and the politics of representation. In my practice, I am interested not only in the notion of decolonization within white cube spaces, but also in cross-cultural approaches to curation, says Edmonds. I am honoured to be appointed the position of senior curator at the McMaster Museum of Art, an institution committed to both artistic innovation and critical museology. I am thrilled to be joining such an amazing team. Edmonds work is informed by critical dialogues ... More |
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 Pogba's World Cup-winning boots sell for 30,000 eurosPARIS (AFP).- The football boots with which Paul Pogba effectively won the World Cup for France last year were sold for 30,000 euros ($33,470) at a Paris auction on Monday. The Manchester United midfielder, who scored France's third goal in the 4-2 victory over Croatia, had donated them to a French charity which helps high school students from tough areas. Christie's auction house had hoped that the boots would go for between 35,000 and 50,000 euros. Pogba, who grew up on a deprived estate in the Paris suburbs, also donated the France shirt he wore during the team's victory over Iceland in the Euro 2016 quarter final, in which he also scored. It sold for 4,000 euros -- four times the estimation. And another shirt which he wore in a 2017 World Cup qualification game against Holland went for three times its estimate at 3,000 euros. The gifted midfielder's ... More Asia Society announces inaugural Triennial of AsiaNEW YORK, NY.- In the spring of 2020, Asia Society will launch the inaugural Triennial of Asia, a festival of art, ideas, and innovation. This first edition of the Triennial, themed We Do Not Dream Alone, will be composed of a multi-venue exhibition, policy discussions, forums, and performances. The festival will bring together around forty artists with scientists, historians, policy analysts, and thought leaders from countries spanning Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Beginning in spring 2020, programming will introduce the ideas and issues of the Triennial. The centerpiece of the Triennial, an exhibition entitled We Do Not Dream Alone, will open to the public on June 5, 2020 and continue through August 9. It is being conceived of as a multi-venue initiative that includes Asia Society and other sites across New York City. Artists in the exhibition ... More The Workshop and Fann A Porter present 'Gusts of Wind' by Shereen Shalhoub DUBAI.- With a series of experimental sculptural clay works, The Workshop and Fann A Porter present Gusts of Wind, the first Dubai solo exhibition of Shereen Shalhoub. The artist, who trained at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York and lives and works in Dubai. She participated in last years Sikka Art Fair as well as exhibiting an installation at Al Jalilah Cultural Center in Dubai and now presents a body of work using clay and a variety of techniques to probe the nature of what it means to be human. Many pieces in the exhibition reveal varying perceptions of birds wings, which the artist is using as a symbol for human experience. In some, the visible details of feathers are clear and others are more abstract and fluid, a result achieved through piping. The free-flowing forms are made by piping clay as slip - a medium used for moulding and casting the material. ... More Mingei partners with designers to build "Installations at the Station"SAN DIEGO, CA.- Mingei International Museum announced that artist-designers Miki Iwasaki and Jason Xavier Lane were selected by NTC Foundation's Art in Public Places Committee, to participate in the rotating public art program Installations at the Station. Their projects are helping to transform the historic 100-acre former Naval Training Center site into a thriving arts and culture destination for the community. Mingei reached out to Iwasaki and Lane to bring to life folk art, craft and design through site-specific outdoor art installations in ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station with the assistance of arts organization Set & Drift. In collaborating with these artists, Mingei aims to promote the work of contemporary living designers that reflect the Mingei philosophy, a joy in making by hand useful objects of timeless beauty, and to incite conversations about ... More Rare 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar sets $108,000 world record price at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A 1964 Kennedy Half Dollar sold for a world record $108,000, making it the most expensive coin of its type, during a public auction of rare U.S. Coins held Thursday, April 25, 2019, by Heritage Auctions. The rare example of the rather common piece of pocket change is one of about a dozen special issues struck in 90 percent silver and 10 percent copper for special coin sets issued by the U.S. Mint during the mid-1960s. The sale smashed the $47,000 previous world record price, set by Heritage Auctions in 2016. Both the seller and the winning bidder wish to remain anonymous at this time. Heritage Auctions presented the coin at an auction during the Central States Numismatic Society (CSNS) Convention just outside of Chicago in Schaumburg, Illinois. This the king of Kennedy half dollars, said Todd Imhof, Vice President at Heritage Auctions, ... More France, Italy mark 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death in Loire ValleyAMBOISE (AFP).- Five hundred years after the death of Italian master painter Leonardo da Vinci, the Loire Valley town where he spent his last three years will host top-level festivities celebrating his life. The Renaissance genius died in the French town of Amboise in 1519, at the age of 67. And France's Emmanuel Macron and Italian President Sergio Mattarella are travelling here on Thursday to mark the anniversary. Leonardo was 64 when he was invited to France by the young Francis I, at a time when rivals Michelangelo and Raphael were rising stars on the Italian peninsula. And with his own commissions drying up, it came as a great relief and no small vindication for the Tuscan artist, who received a handsome stipend as the "first painter, engineer and architect of the king". He brought with him three of his favourite paintings: the Mona Lisa, the Virgin and ... More Woodstock organizer says embattled festival still onNEW YORK (AFP).- The promoter behind the largest festival marking Woodstock's 50th anniversary insisted Tuesday that the show would go on, one day after the event's principal financier backed out and said it was canceled. Michael Lang, a brain behind 1969's iconic weekend, said organizers were continuing to work with local authorities to "keep things on track" for the festival slated for August 16-18 in upstate New York. "Yesterday, our financial partner, Dentsu-Aegis, made the decision to pull out and informed us that they were cancelling the festival at the same time they let the press release go public," Lang said in a statement, referring to the Japanese-owned company whose London-based investment firm Amplifi Live had one day prior said this summer's festival wouldn't happen. "We have yet to understand why they would try to prevent the festival from ... More Two Pussy Riot members granted asylum in SwedenSTOCKHOLM (AFP).- Sweden on Tuesday granted political asylum to two activist members of the Russian protest collective Pussy Riot who had feared being arrested if they had returned to Moscow, Swedish public television SVT reported. The pair, Lusine Djanyan and Alexey Knedlyakovsky, parents of two children, initially lodged asylum claims in 2017 , citing harassment and death threats in Russia as a result of their direct action and anti-government concerts. These claims were rejected by Sweden's immigration office but the couple appealed the decision. "I am very happy that my children will be able to grow up in security, in particular in view of what has been going on (in Russia)" Djanyan told SVT after the immigration tribunal granted their asylum appeal. The anarchist Pussy Riot collective -- often decked out in neon balaclavas ... More Milestone to offer historically important archives at May 11 Firearms & Militaria AuctionWILLOUGHBY, OH.- Time marches on, but as any collector of militaria will attest, history marches to a drum that will resonate forever. The uniforms, weapons and paraphernalia of centuries of war serve as tangible reminders that freedom comes at a great price, and its all the more reason why such items never lose their appeal at auction, says Miles King, co-owner of Milestone Auctions. The suburban Cleveland company will conduct a robust pre-Memorial Day auction on May 11 featuring firearms and militaria from long-held collections, including a very special archive of D-Day items that will be offered in 11 consecutive lots. The 898-lot auction covers seven main categories, each with its own enthusiastic following: Antique & Collector Firearms, Civil War, Indian Wars/Spanish American War, WWI U.S. ... More Turner Auctions + Appraisals opens the door to treasures from a couture closet SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present Treasures from a Couture Closet on Sunday, May 19, 2019, at 10:30 am PDT. Offering a selection of high-fashion goods from several collectors and estates, the sale features 135 lots, many from the world's most celebrated designers. Highlights include coveted items from Chanel, Louis Vuitton luggage and accessories, a rare Gianni Versace 4-row Medusa necklace, a selection of Hermes scarves, and a gold Rolls-Royce keychain. From Chanel are vintage bags and other leather goods, a ladies wool & silk suit, shoes, earrings and sunglasses. The sale's numerous jewelry items include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, brooches, pendants, rings, watches and stick pins. Many are of gold, white gold or sterling silver, set with precious or semi-precious stones such as diamonds, rubies, turquoise, coral, jade, cultured ... More French want Notre-Dame rebuilt as it was: surveyPARIS (AFP).- A narrow majority of French people want the fire-ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral to be rebuilt exactly as it was, a survey said Tuesday. As the French government prepares to push through legislation that aims to reconstruct the famous Paris landmark within five years, the poll showed that 54 percent of French people want it restored to just as it was before the devastating fire on April 15. Only a quarter support the idea that the rebuilding should include a modern "architectural gesture" championed by French President Emmanuel Macron, while a further 21 percent of those surveyed by YouGov for two French media outlets had no opinion. France has launched an international architectural competition for the reconstruction of the cathedral's 19th-century spire, which collapsed into the nave during the inferno. But Macron's insistence on a speedy ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Sally Mann was born May 01, 1951. Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer, best known for her large-format, black-and-white photographs -- at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. In this image: Sally Mann, Emmett, Jessie and Virginia, 1994. From the Immediate Family series. Gelatin silver enlargement print. © Sally Mann.
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