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Pablo Picasso, Les Femmes à leur toilette Paris, 1937. Papier collé, papiers peints découpés, collés et gouache sur papier marouflé sur toile, 299 x 448 cm. Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979, MP176 © Succession Picasso 2018.
PARIS.- What does 'masterpiece' mean to Pablo Picasso? The exhibition "Picasso. Masterpieces!" seeks to answer this question by assembling many of Picasso's great works from around the world, some of which are being exhibited in Paris for the very first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over the world dialogue with those from the collection of the Musée national Picasso-Paris to offer a new interpretation of Picasso's creations, with particular attention to the critical reception of his works. Focusing on past exhibitions, reviews, and texts, this show explores how Picasso's works have become, thoughtout the years, iconic masterpieces. The archives of the Musée national Picasso-Paris play an essential role in recounting this story. Achieving perfect beauty, the absolute masterpiece: this is the dream that the painter Frenhofer, the hero of Honoré de Balzac's novel, Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, pursued in vain. P ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture shows a mural painting in Ferrol, on September 2, 2018, during the annual street art festival "Meninas de Canido" set up in 2008 to breathe new life in a dying neighborhood. Angry at the announced death of his neighborhood, Canido, in Ferrol, Eduardo Hermida painted his version of Velazquez's 'Meninas' on a wall. An act of protest that gave birth to a festival and gave new colors to this city of Galicia. MIGUEL RIOPA / AFP
| Sweden returns Nazi-looted Kokoschka painting to Jewish heir | | Stolen 'Wizard of Oz' slippers found after 13 years | | Epiris announces the acquisition of Bonhams auction house | 
This undated handout photo made available by the Swedish state museum for modern art in Stockholm on September 4, 2018 shows the painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka from 1910 titled Marquis Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac AFP Photo/Prallan Allsten.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Sweden's modern museum on Tuesday said it had returned a Nazi-confiscated painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka to the heir of a persecuted Jewish art collector. "It is with joy and relief that we see the Kokoschka painting return to its rightful owner," the state-owned Moderna Museet in Stockholm said in a statement. Known for his expressionist portraits and paintings of landscapes, Kokoschka's portrait of "Marquis Joseph de Montesquiou-Fezensac" (1910) initially belonged to Alfred Flechtheim, a well-known art collector and gallery owner who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933. "The painting was taken from him because he was Jewish," the Moderna Museet in Stockholm said in a statement, adding it had therefore "decided to return the work ... More | | 
The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington -- which has another pair of Dorothy's slippers on display (pictured above) -- authenticated the recovered pair. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution.
CHICAGO (AFP).- They are the world's most recognizable shoes, but have somehow evaded detection for 13 years since being stolen from a Minnesota museum. But on Tuesday, the ruby-red slippers worn by Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" came home again. US authorities announced they had recovered the famous sequined shoes -- one of four pairs worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 American classic film. The shoes were snatched in the dead of night in 2005 from a shattered glass case at the Judy Garland Museum in the late actress's birthplace of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. A $1 million reward had been offered for their return. But the culprit and the fate of the shoes had remained a mystery. Authorities shed little light on what happened to the shoes, telling reporters only that they had recovered the famous pair and that there were- ... More | | 
Founded in 1793, Bonhams is one of the world's largest and most renowned auctioneers of fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Epiris today announces that Epiris Fund II, advised by Epiris LLP, has agreed the acquisition of Bonhams, the global auction house, from private shareholders. This is Fund IIs fourth investment. Financial terms are not being disclosed. Founded in 1793, Bonhams is one of the world's largest and most renowned auctioneers of fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. The business holds more than 250 sales a year at its flagship salerooms, which include London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. In 2017, Bonhams sold more than 50,000 lots, generating over £450 million of hammer sales. The company is led by CEO Matthew Girling and CFO Jonathan Fairhurst who will be joined by Bruno Vinciguerra as Executive Chairman. Bruno served for eight years as COO at Sothebys, and before that held senior roles at Bain, Dell and Disney. Matthew Girling, CEO of Bonhams, said: We are delighted to have found a ... More |
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| Gerhard Richter's Schädel (Skull), 1983, unveiled at Christie's Hong Kong for the first time in 30 years | | Phillips to offer property from the Estate of Howard Karshan | | Chinese paintings & calligraphy offered at Sotheby's New York | 
Gerhard Richter, Schädel (Skull) detail. Oil on canvas, 31½ x 25 3/5 in. (80 x 65cms). Painted in 1983.
LONDON.- Gerhard Richters Schädel (Skull) (1983, estimate on request) will be unveiled at Christies Hong Kong for the first time in 30 years, in advance of Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, and is one of the highlight works of Christies Frieze Week auction series. Last exhibited in January 1988 at the Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Schädel (Skull) is a masterpiece that stems from the height of his photo-painting practice. Executed in 1983, it is the first of the iconic series of only eight skull paintings created that year, of which four are now displayed in museum collections. The work will be on view from 4-7 September, Christies Hong Kong; 15-18 September, Christies Rockefeller Center, New York; and from 28 September 2018 at Christies King Street, London. The Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will take place on 4 October 2018. Francis Outred, Chairman and Head of Po ... More | | 
Georg Baselitz, Jäger mit Hund, signed and dated 'G. Baselitz 67' lower right. Graphite on paper, 62.9 x 48.6 cm (24 3/4 x 19 1/8 in.) Executed in 1967. Estimate: £250,000 - 350,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced the sale of works from the Estate of Howard Karshan. Over the course of nearly fifty years, Howard Karshan and his wife, Linda, assembled one of the most significant collections of modern and post-war paintings and works on paper. A true ode to the intimacy and unique sensibility of drawing, it encompasses an incredible array of works by artists ranging from Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Sam Francis, and Cy Twombly, to Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz and Bruce Nauman, among many others. The selection of works to be sold at Phillips offers unique insights into the extraordinary legacy of one of the most significant collectors of the past century. Cheyenne Westphal, Phillips Chairman, said, The collection Howard and Linda amassed spans the breadth ... More | | 
Zhang Daqian, Invitation to Visit. Estimate $200/300,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual autumn auctions of Classical Chinese Paintings & Calligraphy in New York will be held on 13 September, as a highlight of our Asia Week sales series. Featuring the personal collection of two students of the modern master Zhang Daqian, the sales open for public exhibition in our York Avenue galleries on 7 September. Tang Hung (19262018) stood apart among the many students of ink master Zhang Daqian (18991983). He had deep personal connections to his teacher. His father, Tang Yi (19041972), known as Haolan, had also been his student, as had his wife Fung Bi-Che (19162009). Throughout the decades, while Tang Hung and Fung Bi-Che were actively exhibiting internationally, the husband and wife acquired works that moved them, using a discerning aesthetic eye to choose individual works with strong artistic purpose, be it a unique flourish of brushwork ... More |
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| Russia's 'biggest Beatles fan' dies in Saint Petersburg | | Peri Schwartz: Color & Process opens at Gallery NAGA in Boston | | Detroit Institute of Arts receives monumental Ursula von Rydingsvard sculpture | 
A sealled door of the Beatles Museum created by a fan of the Beatles band Kolya Vasin, in Saint Petersburg, on September 4, 2018. OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP.
SAINT PETERSBURG (AFP).- A man nicknamed Russia's "biggest Beatles fan" has died in Saint Petersburg at the age of 73 after failing to realise a long-held dream to create a temple to the British band's music. Kolya Vasin became a prominent figure of the underground scene in the 1960s, when Soviet authorities considered rock music an unwanted phenomenon of Western bourgeois culture. "Our friend and colleague Nikolai (Kolya) Vasin died tragically on August 29," the official website of cultural centre "Pushkinskaya 10" that houses the Beatles museum Vasin founded in 1991 said. Local media reported a man later identified as Vasin had thrown himself from the third floor of a central Saint Petersburg shopping centre on August 29. "Kolya's greatest dream was ... More | | 
Studio XLIX 2018 oil on canvas 46 x 48.
BOSTON, MASS.- Peri Schwartz uses her studio as her subject matter. In the studio, she creates stage sets using books, bottles, and the architecture of the space. She is constantly arranging, re-arranging, adding, and subtracting from her still life throughout each painting. In the catalog that accompanies the exhibition, Lauren P. Della Monica, curator, writes about Schwartzs compositions. In some of the work, the bottles and jars are the subject, their blocks of color creating the composition. In the Studio paintings, they provide a sense of scale within the larger room, defining the center of the canvas. Often the bottles and jars are merely suggestedobjects in space with their ghostly details intentionally left undone, having been moved again and again. Even within the formality of the work, Schwartz creates life and exuberance. Della Monica continues, "The work feels architectural and yet exudes ... More | | 
Ursula von Rydingsvard by Alex John Beck for Artsy.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts received a gift of the monumental Ursula von Rydingsvard sculpture Bowl with Folds from ardent museum supporters Janis B. and William M Wetsman. The piece will be on long-term loan to College for Creative Studies (CCS) for installation in its Josephine F. Ford Sculpture Garden, located on John R St. at Kirby St. Von Rydingsvard will give a free talk about her work at the museum Oct. 16 at 7 p.m., sponsored in part by the Reva Stocker Lecture Series Fund and the A. Alfred Taubman Foundation and organized by the DIAs Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art. We are happy to continue our long-time collaboration with CCS, said Salvador Salort-Pons, DIA director. While we actively loan art to other institutions, it is especially meaningful to work with our cultural center neighbors. The CCS sculpture garden was ... More |
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| Government cuts blamed for Brazil National Museum inferno | | Jana Baumann completes team of curators at Haus der Kunst | | Large-scale retrospective of the work of Danh Vo opens at the National Gallery of Denmark | 
Firefighters and Federal Police members talk in front of Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, on September 3, 2018. Mauro Pimentel / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Brazilian officials on Monday blamed years of government cutbacks for an inferno that gutted the treasured National Museum, described by President Michel Temer as a "tragic" loss of knowledge and heritage. Even before the embers had begun to cool Monday, grief over the huge cultural loss gave way to anger at funding cuts many say are threatening Brazil's multi-cultural heritage. The museum's destruction caused a social media outcry and a crowd of around 500 protesters gathered to form a human chain around its still-smoldering remains. "It's not enough just to cry, it is necessary that the federal government, which has resources, helps the museum to reconstruct its history," director ... More | | 
Dr. Jana Baumann. Photo: Diana Pfammatter.
MUNICH.- Haus der Kunst announced that Dr. Jana Baumann will begin her work as a Senior curator at Haus der Kunst on 15 October this year. Jana Baumann (b. 1984) completed her studies in Art History at the University of Bonn in 2010. She received her doctorate from the University of Bonn under Prof. Anne-Marie Bonnet; her dissertation, "Museum als Avantgarde. Museen moderner Kunst in Deutschland 1919-1933," was published in 2016 by Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin. As a Associate Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art, Jana Baumann was responsible for the following exhibitions at the Städel Museum Frankfurt: · Victor Vasarely. In the Labyrinth of Modernity; in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou, Paris (opening 26.9.2018), curator · Photographs Become Pictures. The Becher Class (2017), co-curator · David Claerbout. Die rein ... More | | 
Danh Vo, Untitled (ring), 2009. Gold, handwritten document. 2 cm diameter, height 3 cm including hanging nail. Photo: Galerie Bortolozzi.
COPENHAGEN.- The National Gallery of Denmark is presenting a large-scale retrospective featuring one of Denmarks most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists: Danh Vo. The exhibition at SMK is the result of a unique collaboration with The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Full-scale replicas of the folds of the Statue of Libertys robes, a chandelier that has witnessed major turning points in history, and letters from a warring and ballet-loving Henry Kissinger. This autumn, SMK presents the largest exhibition ever presented in Denmark featuring the work of Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo (b. 1975). More than 75 works of art, including several entirely new works produced especially for SMK, fill the museums exhibition rooms. At the same time Vo also takes over ... More |
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 V&A acquires Xbox adaptive controller set to revolutionise accessibility in videogamingLONDON.- Today the V&A announces it has acquired an Xbox Adaptive Controller as part of its Rapid Response Collecting programme. As the first adaptive controller designed and manufactured at large-scale by a leading technology company, it represents a landmark moment in videogame play, and demonstrates how design can be harnessed to encourage inclusivity. From today, the controller is on display in the museums Rapid Response Collecting gallery, which explores how current global events, political changes and pop cultural phenomena impact, or are influenced by, design, art, architecture and technology. Developed by Microsoft in consultation with players with limited mobility, and charities including SpecialEffect (UK) and AbleGamers (US), the Xbox Adaptive Controller was created in reaction to a lack of well-designed and reasonably-priced ... More Massey Klein opens a solo exhibition of new works by Matthew LarsonNEW YORK, NY.- Massey Klein presents Vice Versa, a solo exhibition of new works by Matthew Larson. This is the artists first solo exhibition in New York. Vice Versa has also been included in New York Textile Month, a month-long city-wide festival designed to celebrate textile creativity and promote textile awareness. Larsons most recent body of work continues his decade-long exploration with fiber. His practice, a highly unique variation on weaving, uses mass-produced and commonly available materials such as acrylic and wool fiber, and velcro. Following a labor-intensive process developed by the artist, Larson embeds individual strands of fiber into velcro mounted on linen, which he then stretches over a panel. Through controlled use of line, he achieves precise patterns and striations of color and texture. Larsons process defies categorization, transitioning between ... More China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2018 to be held from 30 September to 3 OctoberHONG KONG.- The China Guardian Hong Kong Autumn Auctions 2018 will take place from 30 September to 3 October at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The sale series will present remarkable artworks from all around the globe. The auction series encompasses Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy, Asian 20th Century and Contemporary Art, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Classical Chinese Furniture as well as Jewellery, Watches and Luxury Goods. Selected highlights will be exhibited at the Guardian Art Center in Beijing from 7 to 9 September before a full-scale exhibition at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on 30 September and 1 October ahead of the auctions. Ms. Hu Yanyan, President of China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd, says, This Autumn we are delighted to welcome you to a spectacular showcase of art ... More Willem Dafoe: 'I flirted with Van Gogh's ghost'VENICE (AFP).- When Willem Dafoe was limbering up to play Vincent Van Gogh in a new film about the famously tormented painter, he did something that will give museum curators nightmares for years to come. He was leafing through a "lost" sketchbook of the artist's from his time in Arles, when the film's director -- the flamboyant American painter Julian Schnabel -- looked at him like a man possessed. "We had the white gloves on and everything," Dafoe told AFP, "and we were gently going through it looking at the drawings. Then at one point Julian grabbed my hand and slammed it down on one of the sketches. "It was like something out of 'The Exorcist'," the actor said. "He was forcing a transmission -- a connection between me and Van Gogh -- and I think it worked." Critics at the Venice film festival agree, with Dafoe an early favourite for the best actor prize after "At Eternity's Gate" was pre ... More Whitechapel Gallery opens its 10th Children's Commission, No Ordinary ProtestLONDON.- Whitechapel Gallery is presenting its 10th Childrens Commission, No Ordinary Protest, an immersive new installation that combines film, sound and performance. Over the course of one year, artist Mikhail Karikis (b. 1975, Greece) has collaborated with a group of local 7 to 8 year-old school children to create this work especially for the Gallery. Launched in 2009, Whitechapel Gallerys Childrens Commissioning Programme offers young audiences the opportunity to create a new work of art with a leading international contemporary artist. This work is then exhibited within the main galleries. Previous artists commissioned for the series include Assemble (2017), Rivane Neuenschwander (2015) and Eva Rothschild (2012). Sofia Victorino, Director of Education and Public Programmes, Whitechapel Gallery, said Karikis work touches upon themes that affect ... 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More Yan Xing's first solo exhibition in South America opens at Galeria Jaqueline MartinsSAO PAULO.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins is presenting Opfer, by Yan Xing. This is the Chinese artists first solo exhibition in South America. It is on view from August 25th through October 13th, 2018. Opfer (Sacrificethe title is a bow to Andrei Tarkovskys last film) presents an artist who is edgy, conceptual and provocative. Yan Xing has been receiving international acclaim over the past years. His multi-component, highly integrated interdisciplinary projects combine diverse media such as performance, video, photography, installation and painting. His body of work is being built through intense research that seeks to reflect critically on how narratives are manufactured in art, literature, history, and critical theory. Sharp in its presentation, his work is charged with a daunting primitive edge of aggression, intimating that far darker and crueler realities lie beneath the surface. This exhibit ... More Rowan University Art Gallery opens exhibition of works by Heather UjiieGLASSBORO, NJ.- Heather Ujiie: Terra Incognita blends the disciplines of textiles, fashion design, and visual art to create an ethereal, imaginary and mythological world. In her work, Ujiie builds upon the imagery found in Hieronymus Boschs painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, and infuses it with her own vision inspired by botanical studies, living networks, sexual identities, and commonalities between living creatures. Much of what the artist is currently creating has evolved out of re-contextualizing historic printed cloth, and illuminated manuscript paintings from the Moghul Empire, to contemporary symbols of the feminine in global cultures. Three mythological deities and animal hybrid forms - The Goddess, The Demon, and the Warrior - dominate the world created by the artist. Each of the textile installations and sculptural figures reveals the power ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Caspar David Friedrich was born September 05, 1774. Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 - 7 May 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins. In this image: Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840), Giant Mountains, not dated, Oil on canvas, 73,5 x 102,5.
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