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Claude Monet (French, 18401926), Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect (effect de soleil), 1903, oil on canvas. Denver Art Museum collection: funds from Helen Dill bequest, 1935.15.
DAYTON, OH.- The Dayton Art Institutes Centennial Focus Exhibition, Monet and Impressionism, is on view through August 25. The DAI is proud to present this exhibition, featuring a special Monet on loan from the Denver Art Museum. Monet and Impressionism provides a spotlight of 13 paintings highlighting Impressionism in France, including works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frederick Frieseke and Henri Matisse. This exhibition explores Claude Monets remarkable influence on art. The centerpiece of the Focus Exhibition are three works by Monet: the DAIs own Waterlilies (1903), the 1903 oil painting Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect (effect de soleil), on loan from the Denver Art Museum, and the pastel Sainte-Adresse, View Across the Estuary (about 18651870), on loan from a private collection. Monet and Impressionism also offers a rare opportunity to see the DAIs d ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Paleontologists Naturalis take part in the construction of the skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex called Trix in Naturalis in Leiden, The Netherlands, on August 6, 2019. After a month-long tour of Europe, T. rex Trix is home in time for the opening of the new museum. Bart Maat / ANP / AFP
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 | | Collection of rare works by famed 97-year-old French modernist opens in New Orleans | | Manson murders grip tourists and Tarantino 50 years on | | Alleged Tate gallery assailant to undergo psychiatric tests | 
Law and Freedom, 30 x 22.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- In one of the most noteworthy exhibitions to open in New Orleans Arts District this year, the Mac-Gryder Gallery presents Françoise Gilots Monotypes: Cartography of Hidden Worlds. Comprising ten rare monotype (or monoprint) works, plus drawings and oil paintings, the exhibition opened August 3, 2019. The exhibit will remain on view through September 28. Gilot, who famously spent more than a decade in a romantic and creative partnership with Pablo Picasso that resulted in two children, came of age as an artist during the German occupation of Paris. While today she is cresting an eight-decade-long career in the modern art world, in 1985, she began the quest to express herself in a new medium. During repeated sessions at Solo Press in New York, she created several series of monoprints, or monotypes: one-of-a-kind painted and collaged ... More | | 
A display of artifacts and souvenirs related to the Manson Family murders of 1969 are displayed at the Dearly Departed Tours and Artifact Museum in Los Angeles on August 7, 2019. Robyn Beck / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America's morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown. But on the 50th anniversary of the murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others at the hands of Charles Manson's apocalyptic cult, he has never seen anything like it. "It's unprecedented really. I've never seen the attention," he told AFP at his museum in Los Angeles. "I'm running extra tours, two or three extra tours a week. The attention is crazy." Michaels drives his customers up to Cielo Drive, the leafy and winding road above exclusive Beverly Hills where director Roman Polanski's wife Tate -- eight-and-a-half months pregnant -- was stabbed to death ... More | | 
A security guard secures the entrance as people stand outside the Tate Modern gallery in London on August 4, 2019. Daniel SORABJI / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A British teenager accused of throwing a six-year-old French boy from a viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in London will undergo psychiatric tests, a court ruled on Thursday. The 17-year-old appeared at a hearing at a London court and spoke only to confirm his identity. He was wearing a blue t-shirt and was unshaven. The trial date has been set for February 3, 2020 and is scheduled to last two weeks. The victim, who was visiting the British capital with his family, was thrown from the 10th floor of the museum and landed on the fifth floor in the incident on Sunday. The boy was airlifted to hospital. While his condition is no longer life-threatening, he suffered fractures to his spine, legs and an arm, as well as bleeding to the brain. Both the defendant and the victim cannot ... More |
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| | | Tate Modern showcases the pioneering and playful work of Dóra Maurer | | Beatles fans come together for 50th anniversary of Abbey Road photo | | Major contemporary art collection gifted to Mead Art Museum - anonymously | 
Relative Quasi Image 1996. Acrylic on canvas and wood, 100 à 100 cm. Private collection © Dóra Maurer Photo: Vintage Galéria / András Bozsó.
LONDON.- From today until 5 July 2020, Tate Modern showcases the pioneering and playful work of Dóra Maurer (b.1937, Budapest) in a year long, free exhibition. This is the first UK survey to celebrate Maurers five-decade career, bringing together 35 works from her conceptual photographic series and experimental films to her colourful graphic works and striking geometric paintings. It opens alongside a selection of new free displays across Tate Modern, including Sol LeWitt, David Goldblatt and Franciszka and Stefan Themerson. Dóra Maurer emerged as part of a generation of neo-avant-garde Hungarian artists in the 1960s, pursuing highly experimental work in parallel to the official art system of the socialist regime. As an artist, teacher and curator she developed an international network across Europe and became a hugely influential figure for younger artists. The five room show at Tate Modern will span this diverse career, fo ... More | | 
Beatles lookalike band 'Fab Gear' member John Lennon waves from his replica psychedelic rolls royce after joining fans at the famous Abbey Road zebra crossing in London. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Around a thousand Beatles fans came together in London on Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band making their iconic zebra crossing picture for the "Abbey Road" album cover. Beatlemania broke out as fans mobbed the pedestrian crossing outside the Abbey Road Studios, exactly five decades on from the moment when Britain's legendary Fab Four walked over it for the sleeve of their final studio album. The photograph of John Lennon leading band mates Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison over the crossing is instantly recognised worldwide. Beatles tribute band Fab Gear pulled up in a psychedelic Rolls-Royce and recreated the moment, as fans brought the traffic to a standstill. Beatle fans gathered round guitars to sing songs and there were peace signs a-plenty. Mary Anne Laffin, 66, flew in from New York to be at what she called a "holy shrine". As a youngster, she ... More | | 
Andres Serrano, Ringmaster Jonathan Lee Iverson, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 2003. Cibachrome, 20 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia gallery.
AMHERST, MASS.- The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College announced today that it has received a gift of more than 170 works of contemporary art from an anonymous donor, significantly expanding the Meads holdings of recent work. To celebrate this donation, as well as the range of other contemporary artworks that have either been given to or purchased by the Mead in the last several years, the Museum will present the exhibition Starting Something New: Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions and Gifts, opening September 10, 2019, and running through July 26, 2020. This gift, which includes works by established artists such as Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Thomas Ruff, and Cindy Sherman, also includes a significant number of pieces by a diverse roster of emerging and mid-career artists from across the United States and around the world, such as Dario Escobar, Toba Khedoori, ... More |
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| | | Denver Art Museum announces phased campus reopening in June 2020 | | Philadelphia Museum of Art surpasses $450 million raised toward It Starts Here campaign | | Museum of Arts and Design exhibition celebrates work of artist, designer, and entrepreneur Vera Neumann | 
Rendering of the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center (Sie Welcome Center).
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum will begin the phased reopening of its unified campus in June 2020 with the unveiling of three levels of the Gio Ponti-designed Martin Building (formerly referred to as the North Building) and the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center (Sie Welcome Center). In November 2017, the north side of the campus closed to the public for major renovations in order to better serve the museums growing program and visitorship. As part of a long-term vision to create a united footprint, the complete campus will reopen in time for the Martin Buildings 50th anniversary at the end of 2021. The Martin Building is being named in honor of Museum Chairman Lanny Martin and his wife Sharon Martin, who made the lead gift for the projects capital campaign. Designed by Italian architect Gio Ponti and Denver-based James Sudler Associates, the Martin Building opened in 1971. Its seven-story silhouette is celebra ... More | | 
Leslie Anne Miller (Chair of the Board of Trustees), architect Frank Gehry, and Timothy Rub (The George D. Widener Director and CEO) break ground in the Vaulted Walkway to officially kick-off the Core Project and public announcement of It Starts Here: Campaign for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 30, 2017. Photo by Love Me Do Photography, courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art has raised $455 million in support of It Starts Here: Campaign for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leslie Anne Miller, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, announced today. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has made a contribution to this civic effort and believe, as we do, that the museum is the cultural heart of a great city and one of the keys to its future. It is our collective responsibility to secure the resources this institution needs to fulfill its mission and to continue to serve the needs of our community, said Rub. This ... More | | 
Vera Neumann, Vera Paints Ibiza in the Sun c. 1970. Screen print on paper, 30 x 23 inches. Courtesy Susan Seid.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design presents Vera Paints a Scarf: The Art and Life of Vera Neumann, the first museum exhibition to comprehensively examine the career of American artist and designer Vera Neumann (1907-1993). On view from August 8, 2019 through January 26, 2020, the exhibition spotlights one of the most successful female design entrepreneurs of the 20th century, and tells the story of an originator of the American lifestyle brand through more than 200 worksfrom a selection of Neumanns paintings, the source of her whimsical design motifs, to her signature scarves, fashions, textiles, and table linens signed with a cursive Vera and stamped with a ladybug. Created in a fresh, modern style that combined simple yet expressive lines with a vivid palette, Veras distinctive designs, ranging from ... More |
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| | | Pop culture sale featuring Woodstock memorabilia up for auction | | Bonhams introduces the sale of Traditional/Individual: Modern Native American Art | | Mark Beasley joins Pace Gallery as Curatorial Director of Pace Live | 
Historic lease documents for Woodstock's original site: "200 acres of vacant land in the Town of Wallkill
to be used and occupied only for a music festival, art show and associated functions"
BOSTON, MASS.- Remembering Woodstock on its 50th anniversary, RR Auction's August Pop Culture sale opens with a selection of associated items, including autographs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Who. Also among Woodstock related memorabilia is The Howard Mills Jr. Wallkill Archive, the historic lease documents for Woodstock's original site. The archive of material concerning the lease for the originally proposed Woodstock site in Wallkill, New York, from the collection of Howard Mills, Jr., the owner of the property. The collection is highlighted by two original copies of the lease agreement between Mills Heights, Inc. and Woodstock Ventures, each signed by Mills, "Howard D. Mills, Jr.," and by Woodstock financier John P. Roberts, "John Roberts," ten pages, May 23, 1969. The lease ... More | | 
Allan Houser, Chiricahua Apache, (1914-1994) "War Pony," modeled 1978, bronze. Estimate: $20,000-40,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces the sale of Traditional/Individual: Modern Native American Art including Selections from the L.D. "Brink" Brinkman Collection on September 16. This new sale, which will offer 78 lots, features works by artists of Native American descent working in a variety of media. Highlighting the sale is Screaming Indian, a painting by Fritz Scholder, 1970 (estimate: $40,000-60,000). The basis of Scholder's 1970s Indian series is completely original in the sense that he has discarded the stereotypical stoic Indian portraiture that had dominated Western painting until that time. Influenced by Francis Bacons famous series of screaming popes, Screaming Indian also showcases the subject's contorted appearance. Acquired directly by the artist, the painting was purchased during a visit to Scholder's studio in Taos in 1970 and has hung in the family home ever ... More | | 
Mark Beasley. Photo ©2016 Darren Hall.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Beasley as the Curatorial Director of Pace Live beginning in September 2019. Based in the gallerys new global headquarters in New York opening on September 14, 2019, Beasley will work closely with Paces international leadership team, led by President and CEO Marc Glimcher, as part of the gallerys expanding curatorial department directed by Andria Hickey, Senior Director and Curator. In this newly developed position, Beasley will create a dynamic new performance program that serves as a site for innovation and responds to the diverse practices of todays artists. Beasley, who was previously the Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., will spearhead Pace Livea multidisciplinary program that encompasses music, dance, film, performance, and conversation. Pace was built on ... More |
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 James Dean crash site photographs up for auction BOSTON, MASS.- A collection of 30 original glossy photos, many unpublished, which vividly document the fatal car crash site of Hollywood actor James Dean will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. Dean was tragically killed at the age of 24 when his 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder, coined the "Little Bastard," collided with a 1950 Ford Custom driven by Donald Turnupseed on September 30, 1955; the accident occurred when the actor was driving westbound on U.S. Route 466 en route to a racing event at the Salinas, California Municipal Airport. The collection consists of 12 overhead views of the junction of Route 466 and Route 41, which lay a fascinating visual groundwork of the surrounding landscape route. Also featured is a total of 18 'ground-level' photos, with nine showing Routes 466 and 41 in up-close detailreplete with telephone poles, mountainous ... More Susan Norrie wins the 2019 Don Macfarlane PrizeMELBOURNE.- Sydney based artist Susan Norrie is the 2019 winner of the Don Macfarlane Prize, an annual $50,000, no-strings-attached cash prize awarded to an Australian artist in recognition of their unwavering, agenda-setting arts practice and contribution to Australian art. Named after benefactor Don Macfarlane, a respected Melbourne businessman who throughout his life took immense pleasure in the arts, the prize is decided by an Advisory Committee made up of senior members of Australias visual arts community. For the recipient, news of the $50,000 prize comes via an out-of-the-blue phone call arguably one of the best calls theyll receive in their lifetime. This year, Sydney-based artist Susan Norrie received the surprise call. Born in 1953, Susan Norrie originally trained as a painter, shifting towards film and installation in the mid-1990s with ... More FOTOHOF presents an installation featuring Ukrainian press photographs from the period 1957 to 1971SALZBURG.- An interactive installation featuring Ukrainian press photographs from the period 1957 to 1971 invites you to play with the past. The main part of the exhibition is comprised of photographs from the archive of Iryna Pap, a press photographer born in 1917 who worked for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, among others. Her work is representative of a social realism in Soviet photography that ranges from photographs of smiling factory workers and new urban building projects to documenting congresses within the Party. In its context the affirmative imagery can be seen both as a form of documentary and as a document per se. For the presentation at the FOTOHOF archiv, the photographs (along with their original sleeves and descriptions) have been reproduced on cards so visitors can re-arrange them into new groups of photographs ... More Exhibition at K-Gold Temporary Gallery explores the notion of the wunderkammerLESBOS.- K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents the group exhibition I woke with a marble head in my hands curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis, taking up a neoclassical residence at the village of Agia Paraskevi in Lesvos. In an attempt to outline the complexities of our times, the show explores the notion of the wunderkammer. The empty house as an open showcase becomes the stage of presenting various methods of mapping, collecting, and archiving in artistic practices. The title of the sixth summer show refers to the poem by George Seferis, which, as a contemporary Odyssey, points out the continuity between past and present, and how it is inscribed in both personal experience and cultural memory. Lesvos has a significant history of collecting that ranges from prehistoric findings of the Petrified Forest, archaeology, and folk culture to the unique collection of Tériade ... More Adelaide artist Hossein Valamanesh premieres Enter at ACE Open ADELAIDE.- ACE Open premieres a new solo exhibition, In Love, by renowned multi-disciplinary artist, Hossein Valamanesh. Drawing upon the artists fascination with enduring ideas of love, existence and the nature of being, In Love features a major new architectural commission Enter and premieres video work, Passing, to South Australian audiences. In Love is on exhibition 8 August 28 September, 2019. The concept of Enter has evolved from a series of works on paper into a translucent structure that allows the viewer to enter, interact and become a part of the work. This experience transforms the work to become alive as outside viewers observe others in the work and are in the work itself. Enter is presented alongside the two-channel moving image installation Passing, 2014, in collaboration with Nassiem Valamanesh, which depicts both the ... More Exhibition showcases works by artists who explore alternative image-making methodsHONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT is presenting "Ritual of Synthesis", a group exhibition by LI Hiu Wa, Urich LAU and SIU Wai Hang. The exhibition opened on 3 August 2019 and remains on view through 31 August 2019. The exhibition showcases works by three artists who explore alternative photography and image-making methods in their practices. The artists have developed their own unique processes and visual languages that allow them to reflect on photography as a medium in contemporary art. SIU Wai Hang employs an analogue approach to photography and explores its materiality in his series. "Strokes of Light" focuses on light as a medium, which is fundamental to photography and essential for visual perception. SIU developed a series of prints using the leading end of photographic roll film that is exposed to light before being loaded into the ... More Dame Margaret Hodge, MP visits Art-Exit exhibition to view portrait of her Jewish immigrant grandfatherLONDON.- On Thursday 8 August The Rt. Hon. Dame Margaret Hodge, MP, visited Ben Uri Gallery and Museums revealing exhibition Art-Exit: 1939 a Very Different Europe at 12 Star Gallery, Europe House, 32 Smith Square, Westminster, to view the recently discovered portrait of her grandfather painted on the front page of The Times newspaper dated 6 August 1940, whilst interned at the Huyton Internment Camp outside Liverpool. Dame Margarets connection to the exhibition and to this image, is deeply personal. Through a number of striking coincidences, the sitter in the portrait, with his distinctive white moustache and bright blue eyes, was identified by a member of Margaret's family as Wilhelm Hollitscher (1873-1943), former Chief Engineer of the Danube Steamboat Shipping Company, and Dame Margarets grandfather. Hollitscher, a Jew, ... More Woody Auction's sale highlighted by lifetime Americana collectionDOUGLASS, KAN.- An antiques, furniture and fine jewelry auction headlined by the James R. and Barbara A. Miller Americana collection of Colorado 378 lots in all will be held on Saturday, September 7th, by Woody Auction, online and in the firms auction hall located at 130 East Third Street in Douglass. Doors will swing open for this highly anticipated event promptly at 9:30 am Central time. This exciting auction is certain to grab the hearts of true collectors, said Jason Woody, Operations Manager of Woody Auction. What could be more special than participating in a private collection of antiques assembled over nearly sixty years? Im talking about the Miller Americana collection, one loaded with art glass, outstanding furniture, dazzling jewelry, lamps and an incredible, 35-star flag folk art table. A pair of silver, five-arm candelabra having an 800/1000 ... More Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association to host vetted debut auction in association with Jasper52NEW YORK, NY.- The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA) has formed a new partnership with Jasper52, a New York company that provides auction marketing and catalog-production services to sellers of high-quality art, antiques and vintage collectibles. The first joint venture teaming ATADA dealers with Jasper52 is a Sunday, August 18 online tribal art auction running exclusively through LiveAuctioneers. The boutique selection of carefully curated cultural art includes jewelry, handcrafted pottery, masks, figures, textiles, weapons, and other high-quality objects. One of the top highlights is a superb Northwest Coast ceremonial dance mask made circa 1870 and repainted around 1900-1910. Standing 8½ inches tall, it is made of wood and tanned hide with feather nubs. The mask is the work of the Heiltsu tribe (Bella Bella) of the central coast ... More Mecca vendors cash in on hajj pilgrimageMECCA (AFP).- In the Saudi city of Mecca, dotted with fast food eateries and stalls selling Chinese-made trinkets, vendors are ready to cash in on the annual hajj pilgrimage. "Business is going very well," said Faisal Addais from his stall close to the Grand Mosque -- Islam's holiest site. "The customers are foreigners and speak all languages," added the 41-year-old Yemeni, who sells religious souvenirs. To overcome linguistic challenges, sales are often conducted with the help of a calculator. Potential customers stroll past the stalls and shops, while pigeons coo at their ankles on the bustling thoroughfare. Retailer Ali said his sales were expected to "increase five-fold" during hajj, which this year is expected to attract 2.5 million worshippers from Saudi and across the world between Friday and Tuesday. Completing hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam ... More TEFAF New York announces exhibitor list line up and curated booth collaborations for fall fairNEW YORK, NY.- TEFAF announces the 2019 exhibitor line-up for TEFAF New York Fall which returns to the historic Park Avenue Armory, November 1-5, 2019, honoring art from antiquity to the early 20th century. 90 exhibitors including 16 participants new to TEFAF New York, will take part in the fourth iteration of the Fair, which launched in October 2016 to wide acclaim. This years Fair will introduce a series of curated booth collaborations each presenting a dynamic mix of exhibitors, specializing in historic and contemporary works, together in the same space. These collaborative presentations, set in select historic rooms of the Park Avenue Armory, will showcase the influence various eras have on each other throughout the art historical canon. Some of the worlds top contemporary and modern art specialists have joined TEFAF New York Fall ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American fashion designer Michael Kors was born August 09, 1959. Michael Kors (born Karl Anderson, Jr.; August 9, 1959) is an American fashion designer. He is best known for designing classic American sportswear for women. In this image: Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Michael Kors poses for a photograph while doing an interview promoting the launch of the new season of Project Runway in Times Square on Thursday, July 19, 2012.
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