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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 18531890), Still Life with Fruit and Chestnuts, 1886. Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 14 in. (27 x 35.6 cm) Gift of Bruno and Sadie Adriani 1960.41 Courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
THE HAGUE (AFP).- Art experts have confirmed that a small still-life at a US museum once dismissed as a fake is in fact by Vincent van Gogh, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said Wednesday. The painting, "Still Life with Fruit and Chestnuts", was donated by a couple to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in 1960 and suspected to be by the Dutch master. Several experts had previously said that the painting dated to 1886 was not a real Van Gogh, and it was not included in previous official catalogues of works by the painter, who committed suicide in 1890. "It is true that at the end of last year, experts from the Van Gogh Museum attributed a painting from the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco as a Vincent van Gogh painting," press officer Milou Bollen told AFP. "There was always a question whether the painting was or was not made by Van Gogh." ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows the Issenheim altarpiece (Retable d'Issenheim) sculpted by Nikolaus of Haguenau and painted by Matthias Grunewald from 1512 to 1516, before it's restoration at the Unterlinden museum in Colmar, northestern France, on February 7, 2019. SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
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 | | Artcurial to offer the Fernand Lafarge Collection | | Christie's announces highlights included in The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | | German auction house pulls 26 'Hitler paintings' on forgery fears | 
Solomon Islands, probably 19th century, Femme assise sur un socle en pyramide. Carved and patina wood. Height: 46 cm Estimate: 15,000 - 20000.
PARIS.- On Wednesday 27th March, Artcurial will host a monumental auction devoted to Old Master & 19th Century Art, during their annual event concurring with the Salon du Dessin. A section of the sale will be devoted to the dispersion of Fernand Lafarge Collection, a tribute to sculpture. Spanning five continents and 2000 years of history, the entire set is composed of 60 pieces from some of the greatest sculptors: Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Aristide Maillol. Ranging from the Haute Ãpoque to Bourdelle, from archaeology to tribal art, thi passionnés s set is both encyclopaedic and pedagogical. This will also be the occasion for enthusiasts and collectors to discover how a family from Amiens became enamoured with sculpture, from generation to generation. The story of the Lafarge family is one of a successful French entrepreneurial ... More | | 
Max Ernst, Mer et soleil, 1926. Estimate: £500,000-800,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Launching 20th Century at Christies on 27 February 2019, The Art of the Surreal sale will follow the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. This years 18th edition of Christies annual The Art of the Surreal auction includes Surrealist works spanning from 1890 to 1974, with 34 lots by 16 artists. The sale includes seven works by René Magritte, led by Le lieu commun (1964, Estimate on Request), one of the finest and largest examples of his iconic bowler-hatted men. Never-before seen at auction, the work offers a unique view of the wandering figure both full-face and hidden behind a column in an ambiguous landscape of either impossible or multiple reality. Six works by Max Ernst and four by Joan Miró are also offered, alongside a rare discovery by Salvador DalÃ, one of the experimental works of Joan Mirós dream paintings, and a rediscovered, large and enigmatic work by Oscar DomÃnguez, ... More | | 
Aquarell sign. A. HITLER bez. Wien "FaÃzieherhaus" Lot 6733.
FRANKFURT AM MAIN (AFP).- A German auction house Thursday scrapped the planned sale of 26 artworks attributed to Adolf Hitler, after doubts emerged about their authenticity just days before they were to go under the hammer. Five other paintings signed "A. Hitler", all of them watercolours, will still be auctioned off on Saturday as scheduled, according to the Weidler auction house in the southern city of Nuremberg. A vase, wicker armchair and table cloth presumed to have belonged to the late Nazi dictator also remain on offer in what Weidler has billed a "special auction". "Unfortunately we must inform you that some of the pictures have been dropped because of a review," the auction house said in a statement. The move came after prosecutors on Wednesday collected 63 artworks from the Weidler premises bearing the signature "A.H." or "A. Hitler", over suspicions the works were not created by Hitler himself. ... More |
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| | | Frost Art Museum at FIU opens 'Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre: To Survive on This Shore' | | Exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus | | To divinity and beyond: Questions over Ukraine space church's future | 
Justin Vivian, 54, New York, NY, 2017. Image courtesy of projects+gallery and Jess T. Dugan.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Frost Art Museum at Florida International University presents the first-ever museum showing of Jess T. Dugan and Vanessa Fabbre: To Survive on This Shore. One of the definitions of ageism is to regard older persons as unworthy of attention. These photos and interviews reveal how our culture lacks representation of older adults who are transgender and gender non-conforming. Dugan and Fabbre traveled from coast to coast, across the U.S. to document these life stories. Due to the recent news about efforts to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military, and the terribly disproportionate levels of violence committed against transgender people, this exhibition is timely and powerful. The duo collaborated on documenting these life stories, from big cities to small towns, creating an important record of transgender experience and activism. This exhibition was organized by Barrett Barrera ... More | | 
Marcel Breuer, Armlehnstuhl ti 1a, 1923/24, Bauhaus Weimar. Erworben mit Hilfe der Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung. Foto: Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum (A. Laurenzo).
MUNICH.- To mark the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus reform school, Die Neue Sammlung The Design Museum is showing important Bauhaus objects in dialog with contemporary art for one year. The exhibition was realized in cooperation with artist Tilo Schulz (born 1972 in Leipzig, lives in Berlin) that juxtaposes 40 historical Bauhaus objects with five contemporary art works. In 1925, the year Die Neue Sammlung was established, the Bauhaus had to leave Weimar and move to Dessau. The Bauhaus publishing firm was already located in Munich, and the city presented itself as an alternative to Dessau. And with the young institution of Die Neue Sammlung, a Munich museum became one of the first museums to acquire contemporary Bauhaus works that are today considered icons of modern design. Pieces from this ... More | | 
A guide waits for visitors at the space museum located in Saint Paraskeva church in Pereyaslav-Khemlnytsky, a small town some 80 kilometers southeast of Kiev on January 11, 2019. ALEKSEY FILIPPOV / AFP.
PEREYASLAV-KHMELNYTSKY (AFP).- Inside a traditional Orthodox church topped with a gold cross, instead of icons, visitors can see a lunar rover and the helmet of the first man in space Yuri Gagarin. The wooden church in central Ukraine is one of thousands of buildings that were repurposed or simply destroyed during an anti-religion campaign in the Soviet era. But now some believers are asking whether it's time for the blue and grey painted structure to be returned to the Church, especially as Ukraine is undergoing a religious revival. Last month the country created its own Orthodox Church in a historic break with the Russian Orthodox Church, against a backdrop of its ongoing war with Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 10,000 people. "Today, when it is no longer forbidden to pray and believe ... More |
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| | | Marian Goodman Gallery appoints Philipp Kaiser as Chief Executive Director of Artists and Programs | | Galerie Lelong & Co. now represents Barthélémy Toguo | | Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir's 'Shoplifter' brings joy and playfulness to Kiasma | 
Kaiser has led museum institutions and curated groundbreaking exhibitions in Europe and the United States over the past twenty years.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery announced that art historian and curator Philipp Kaiser has been named as Chief Executive Director of Artists and Programs at Marian Goodman Galleries. In this newly established position, Kaiser will oversee programming for the gallerys three spaces internationally, in New York, Paris and London. This will include the development of special exhibition projects for each space and directing the gallerys overall larger strategic mission with artists and museums. In this creative leadership role, Philipp will work in tandem with founder Marian Goodman to support and further the extraordinary enterprise created over forty years ago. Founder Marian Goodman, said, I am delighted and honored to welcome Philipp to the Gallery and greatly look forward to him sharing with us the benefits of his vast experience as museum director ... More | | 
Barthélémy Toguo in his Paris studio, 2016. Photo by Fabrice Gibert. © Barthélémy Toguo. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. and Bandjoun Station.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, announced representation of Barthélémy Toguo. Represented by the Paris location of the gallery since 2010, Toguo's relationship with the gallery will now extend to New York. Toguo will present his first solo exhibition in New York in ten years, Urban Requiem, at Galerie Lelong & Co. on March 15, 2019. Born in Cameroon and based in New York, Barthélémy Toguo works across painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, performance, and installation to address enduring and immediately relevant issues of borders, exile, and displacement. At the core of his practice is the notion of belonging, which stems from his dual French/Cameroonian nationality. Through poetic, hopeful, and often figural gestures connecting nature with the human body, Toguo foregrounds concerns with both ecological and societal implications. Recently ... More | | 
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Shoplifter, 2019. Photo: Finnish National Gallery/Petri Virtanen.
HELSINKI.- The year 2019 at Kiasma kicks off in February with a show by the internationally renowned New York-based Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter. For Kiasmas fifth floor she created a site-specific installation Nervescape VIII. The subtly humorous installation made from synthetic hair allows viewers to enter into a colorful world and to pet the hair as if it were a shy old mammoth, like the artist describes it. Joy, playfulness, and innocence are potential experiences Shoplifter conveys within her art. Hair, both real and fake, is Shoplifters signature material and trademark. She sees hair as being associated with fashion, self-expression and vanity. We use our hair to tell other people who we are. As a raw material for art, hair evokes mixed feelings: a furry work of art can be appealing and repelling at the same time. Hair is like a remnant of the wildness that we possess, says Shop ... More |
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| | | 300 rare artists' postcards go on show at the British Museum | | David Bomford, Conservation Chair, and Zahira Véliz Bomford, Senior Paintings Conservator, to retire | | 'Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze' features new works that showcase the power of contemporary portraiture | 
Gilbert & George, Keith Arnatt, Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Art & Language, Barry Flanagan and others, The New Art, 1972 (detail). Reproduced by permission of the artist.
LONDON.- The British Museum opened the first survey of postcard art to be held in a major museum in the UK. The exhibition - The World Exists to Be Put On A Postcard: artists postcards from 1960 to now - features over 300 postcard works of art from some of the most famous artists of the past five decades including Gilbert & George, Susan Hiller, Guerrilla Girls, Tacita Dean, Yoko Ono, Bruce Nauman, Dieter Roth, Gavin Turk and Rachel Whitehead. Many of these pieces are on display for the first time. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a major donation of over 1,000 artists postcards generously given to the British Museum last year. The postcards were collected together by the writer and curator Jeremy Cooper specifically to be donated to the Museum so that the history and creativity of this overlooked medium ... More | | 
David Bomford Headshot. Photo by Sarah Hobson.
HOUSTON, TX.- Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced a significant transition in conservation and curatorial leadership at the MFAH: David Bomford, Chairman, Department of Conservation, and Audrey Jones Beck Curator, Department of European Art; and Zahira (Soni) Véliz Bomford, Senior Paintings Conservator, will retire in March 2019. The Bomfords, who were appointed simultaneously in 2012, will relocate from Houston to the United Kingdom. Per Knutås, currently Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, has been appointed to succeed David Bomford in his role as Head of Conservation, beginning in July 2019. A related release on Knutåss appointment is available here. During their six years at the MFAH, both David and Soni have made enormous contributions not only to this Museum, but to the fields of conservation and European art, said Tinterow. When they joined me in Houston in 201 ... More | | 
Jordan Casteel, Charles, 2016. Oil on canvas; 78 x 60 in. Collection of Jordan Casteel. Image courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York © Jordan Casteel.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum opened Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, an exhibition of about 30 paintings by Denver-born artist Jordan Casteel, who is now based in Harlem, New York. This presentation represents Casteels first major museum exhibition, and provides audiences with a first look at new work by one of the most acclaimed emerging artists working today. The exhibition showcases Casteel's large-scale portraits that depict the black subjects who drive her practice. Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, is on view Feb. 2, 2019 through Aug. 18, 2019, in the Gallagher Gallery of the Hamilton Building at the DAM. Following its debut at the DAM, it will travel to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University from Sept. 25, 2019 to Jan. 6, 2020. It is an honor to present Jordan Casteels first solo museum ... More |
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 Matthew Marks presents works by David Weiss made between the late 1960s and the early 1980sNEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks announced David Weiss Drawings, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition presents a cross-section of the artists works on paper made between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, before he began collaborating with Peter Fischli. In those early years David Weiss (19462012) explored a range of visual idioms with the same playful curiosity that infused his later collaborative work with Fischli. Some of the earliest drawings were made during his extensive travels from his native Switzerland to London, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Mexico, Morocco, and Italy. Many of them convey this restless spirit, particularly the multi-sheet Metamorphoses, with their hallucinatory transformations of free-associated images, or his World Maps drawings, which depict the earths major landmasses ... More Cape Ann Museum appoints Oliver Barker as new DirectorGLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Board of Directors of the Cape Ann Museum, announced today that Oliver Barker has been appointed Director of the Museum, effective April 1, 2019. Barker will succeed Ronda Faloon who is retiring after serving as Executive Director since 2006. During her tenure, she has led the Museum through a period of tremendous growth. Barker will work closely with CAMs Board of Directors to set Museum-wide strategies and priorities in accordance with CAMs Strategic Plan 2018-2023. The plan envisions expanded and updated facilities, including the building of a new Collections and Curatorial Center to store the Museums significant and growing holdings prior to its 150th Anniversary in 2023. Responsible for management of all areas of the Museum, Barker most recently served as Manager, Foundation, Government ... More PEER presents new paintings by Jadé Fadojutimi in her first solo exhibition in a UK institutionLONDON.- PEER presents The Numbing Vibrancy of Characters at Play, new paintings by young artist Jadé Fadojutimi in her first solo exhibition in a UK public institution, including new large-scale works specially created for the gallerys street-facing space. Fadojutimi is a young artist who has developed a vibrant and distinctive language of painting that fluctuates between abstract gesture and repeated forms or motifs that seem to exist on the very edge of graphic description. For her, the stretched canvas provides a physical space onto and into which she can enact a variety of scenarios where the material of the paint itself has the power to assume a vast range of identities. The artists recent work has captured scenes of familiar unfamiliarity, where distant places and foliage bleed in and out of abstraction, with the paintings naturally relating ... More MATRIX 181 at the Wadsworth Atheneum features the paintings of Emily Mae Smith HARTFORD, CONN.- MATRIX, the Wadsworth Atheneums groundbreaking contemporary exhibition series, has set some new goals. Upcoming projects will embrace experimental art, performance art, and explore new developments in painting. In looking at contemporary painting the Wadsworth found a unique vision in the work of Emily Mae Smith. The exhibition marks the first MATRIX show since 2013 to feature an artist who is solely a painter. For her MATRIX project, Smith engages with a masterpiece from the Wadsworths permanent collection: William Holman Hunts The Lady of Shalott (c. 1888‒1905). Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181 is on view February 7 through May 5, 2019. Smith was chosen by Artsy as 1 of 20 female artists pushing figurative painting forward. With a nod to distinct painting movements from the history of art, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, ... More Original exhibition examines the representation of fluid identity SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museums newest original exhibition, Show Me as I Want to Be Seen, presents the work of groundbreaking French Jewish artist, Surrealist, and activist Claude Cahun (18941954) and her lifelong lover and collaborator Marcel Moore (18921972) in dialogue with ten contemporary artists to examine the complex and empowered representation of fluid identity. Cahun and Moore are recognized as pioneers in their bold depictions of unfixed selfhood. The pair is best known for their striking, collaboratively produced photographic portraits of Cahun, who would perform wildly varying iterations of the self by assuming various guises, gender presentations, and modes of affect. Together, Cahun and Moore declared a definition of selfhood that was almost entirely unprecedented at the timeavowing ... More Exhibition of landscape paintings by American artist Tula Telfair opens at Forum GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- From February 7 to March 30, 2019, Forum Gallery presents Reverie, an exhibition of landscape paintings by American artist Tula Telfair. In this exhibition, her sixth at Forum, Tula Telfair delves deeply into the depths of memory, recalling her upbringing as the child of scientists in West Africa. Although none of the subjects is literal, the powerful images she remembers inform each painting she creates. In her practice, Tula Telfair has often imagined a place she may have visited, or that may not exist; now, in the fourteen paintings that comprise Reverie, she explores the inner reaches of her dreams and memories, taking us to places she has been or believes in so fully that she is able to portray and take the viewer to the essential, emotional center of every location as she recalls not only the place, but the sense of discovery, of wonder ... More Berlin filmfest rolls out red carpet for women trailblazersBERLIN (AFP).- Europe's first major film festival of the year, the Berlinale, kicked off Thursday with jury president Juliette Binoche welcoming an unprecedented line-up of female directors. The 11-day event prides itself on being the most politically engaged of the A-list cinema showcases, presenting 400 movies from around the world, most on hard-hitting topical themes including rising extremism and economic exploitation. But its red carpet promises a steady stream of glamour too with Christian Bale, Diane Kruger, Tilda Swinton, Catherine Deneuve, Jonah Hill, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Casey Affleck all awaited in the frosty German capital. French Oscar winner Binoche, 54, is leading a six-member panel choosing the winner of the prestigious Golden and Silver Bear prizes, to be awarded at a gala ceremony on February 16. Last year, with the #MeToo movement against ... More The battle for Hmong heritage in VietnamVIETNAM (AFP).- Vuong Duy Bao surveys his ancestral palace, a vestige of Vietnam's marginalised Hmong ethnic minority that he says was taken from his family by local officials. The wooden structure is laden with historic markers: opium flowers carved into pillars in a nod to the region's once-booming trade, and an iron fence made with metal imported from former colonial ruler France. Built in 1903 by Bao's warlord grandfather with his opium fortune, the retired civil servant claims local authorities took possession of the property in the northern Ha Giang province from his family and are now refusing to return it. "Hmong people all over the world acknowledge this as (our) family home... so we can't lose it," he told AFP from the building, which authorities run as a museum. Both sides agree it is an architectural treasure since the historically nomadic Hmong rarely ... More The International Center of Photography announces 2019 Infinity Award winnersNEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography, the worlds leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture, today announced the 2019 honorees of its annual Infinity Awards, the leading honor for excellence in the field. The 35th annual ICP Infinity Awards will be held on the evening of Tuesday, April 2 at Ziegfeld Ballroom (141 West 54th Street, New York City). The event is ICPs largest fundraiser and benefits its education and exhibition programs. At ICPs annual Infinity Awards, we honor the significant talents of those using photography, writing, and visual arts to make an impact, says Mark Lubell, executive director of ICP. As the news cycle continues to churn, and journalists remain under attack, this is the perfect moment to celebrate those who bravely harness the power of images to help inform our understanding of the world. ... More Galerie Thierry Bigaignon opens exhibition of Catherine Balet's new series 'Moods in a Room'PARIS.- Playing with transparencies and surrealist collages, Catherine Balet's new series Moods in a Room plays with virtual reality by mixing pictorial textures and digital photographic elements. She superimposes them in multiple layers, giving a material feel to the unreal and a virtuality to her material images! The resulting compositions reveal the various states of consciousness of the artist, and illustrate her commitment to endlessly explore the dualities between content and absence, space and surface. The technique the artist adopted, using layers of images, allows her to create photographs that play on many levels and whose transparency shapes the depth of the pictorial space. The underside (made with a digitized version of her own paintings) exists as much as the top layer and reveals a matter usually unknown in photography. The mat ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Guercino was born February 08, 1591. Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 - December 22, 1666), best known as Guercino, or il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner is in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. In this image: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, A Study for Hercules, in three-quarter-length, 1640s. Photo: Cecilia Heisser/Nationalmuseum
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