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One of the defendants, Wayci R., hides his face behind a folder as he arrives for the opening of the trial over the theft of the so-called "Big Maple Leaf" golden coin from the Bode-Museum last year on January 10, 2019 at a court in Berlin. Three men linked to a notorious Berlin crime family face court from January 10, 2019, over the spectacular theft of the giant 100-kilogramme (220-pound) commemorative gold coin worth 3.75 million euros ($4.3 million). Odd ANDERSEN / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Four men who went on trial in Berlin Thursday denied involvement in the spectacular 2017 museum theft of a giant commemorative gold coin called the "Big Maple Leaf" valued at 3.75 million euros ($4.3 million). Police had "presented not a single shred of firm evidence," argued Toralf Noeding, defence lawyer for the three alleged thieves -- brothers Wayci, 23, and Ahmed Remmo, 20, and their cousin Wissam Remmo, 21. Noeding also said that his clients had suffered prejudice from the broad media coverage of their extended family with roots in Lebanon, which police and prosecutors consider an organised crime group. Also in the dock and claiming innocence was 20-year-old former museum security guard Denis Umut W., the alleged inside man, accused of giving the others crucial information for the break-in. His lawyer Marcel Kelz denied media reports that the ex-guard had made major purchases, including an 11,000 euro gold chain, and shown interest in buying a Mercedes-Benz car and property month ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors look at the ruins at the archaeological site of the ancient Greek city of Cyrene, a colony of Greek Thira (Santorini) and the main city of the Hellenic world founded in 630 BC, located in the outskirts of the town of Shehata, east of Benghazi on January 8, 2019. Abdullah DOMA / AFP
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| | | Sotheby's unveils the full contents of The Female Triumphant sale | | Exhibition of all new paintings by James Siena opens at Pace Gallery | | Sotheby's to offer important American Folk Art from the collection of David Teiger |
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of Mrs. Spencer Perceval, née Jane Wilson (1769-1844), Bust-length, signed and dated lower right: LeBrun / 1804, pastel on paper, 19 by 14 3/4 in.; 48 by 37.5 cm. Estimate $150/250,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled the full contents of The Female Triumphant a group of masterworks by 14 trailblazing female artists from the 16th through the 19th centuries, which they will offer across the Masters Week sales this January in New York. Calvine Harvey, Specialist in Sothebys Old Master Paintings Department in New York, commented: Over the past five years and across the art world, both curators and collectors have been addressing the gender imbalance in their collections, actively investing in female artists who have historically been overlooked in scholarship and undervalued in the market relative to their male counterparts. For example, Sothebys set a new auction record for any living female artist just last fall, when Jenny Savilles Propped from 2014 sold for $12.4 million. However, in looking back to the Old Masters, there is still work ... More | |
Installation view of James Siena: Painting 537 West 24th Street, New York, NY January 11 February 9, 2019. Photographed by Guy Ben-Ari, courtesy Pace Gallery © James Siena, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of all new paintings by James Siena, marking the gallerys sixth solo exhibition by the artist since joining the gallery in 2004. The exhibition will debut Sienas first works using acrylic paint on large format canvases, all created in 2018. James Siena: Painting will be on view from January 11 to February 9, 2019 at 537 West 24th Street. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition with an essay by American poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish. The scale and medium of the new paintings mark a significant departure from Sienas more intimate and intricate enamel on aluminum paintings, which the artist has been known for since the 1990s. The use of acrylic paint and stretched canvas as the support have introduced new levels of painterliness, physicality, and immediacy to his practice. Drawing together approximately 10 paintings ranging in size from 36 x ... More | |
A towering figure of Captain Jinks, likely created by Thomas J. White circa 1880, leads the exemplary selection of folk art sculpture on offer (estimate $400/600,000). Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled highlights from The History of Now: The Important American Folk Art Collection of David Teiger a dedicated sale that will highlight the January 2019 Americana Week auctions in New York. One of the greatest collections of American folk art remaining in private hands, the special offering this January follows the success of our 2018 sales of contemporary art from Teigers collection. Sothebys sales of works from the Teiger collection have totaled more than $100 million to date, with proceeds benefitting Teiger Foundation for the support of contemporary art. The outstanding offering this January represents the zeniths of American folk art material. Led by striking wooden figure of Captain Jinks from circa 1880, the sale also includes many superlative examples of American weathervanes, remarkable ship figureheads, trade figures and exquisite bird decoys. Building on the foundation ... More |
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| | | Blistering barnacles! Tintin rides again... aged 90 | | David Zwirner opens a group exhibition curated by Hilton Als | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Urs Fischer |
A new Tintin book is also in the offing.
PARIS (AFP).- Jumping jellyfish! Tintin may be 90 years old Thursday, but the boy hero is about to get himself into a whole new snake pit of scrapes. Casterman, which publishes his comic book adventures, said a new film featuring the cub reporter by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson is in the pipeline, with Steven Spielberg -- who made Tintin's first Hollywood outing in 2011 -- producing this time. A new Tintin book is also in the offing, the Belgian publishing house said. Speculation is mounting that the new movie is likely to be a mix of "King Ottokar's Sceptre", a swashbuckling jape from 1938 that was a thinly disguised satire on Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria the same year, and the later story, "The Calculus Affair". Casterman's editorial director Benoit Mouchart said that it is part of a planned trilogy of live-action Tintin films. "There are several leads that could b ... More | |
Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, writer, Harlem, New York, 1945 © The Richard Avedon Foundation. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting a group exhibition curated by Hilton Als, which features works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Richard Avedon, Karl Bissinger, Beauford Delaney, Marlene Dumas, Glenn Ligon, Cameron Rowland, Kara Walker, and James Welling, among other artists. Troubled times get the tyrants and prophets they deserve. During our current epoch, the revival of interest in author James Baldwin (19241987), the subject of God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, has been particularly intense. This is in part due, of course, to his ability to analyze and articulate how power abuses through cunning and force and why, in the end, its up to the people to topple kingdoms. As a galvanizing humanitarian force, Baldwin is ... More | |
Urs Fischer, 2 Socks, 2018. Aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, two- component adhesive, primer, gesso, solvent-based screen printing ink , 89 1/2 à 67 1/2 à 2 inches, 227.3 à 171.5 à 5.1 cm © Urs Fischer. Courtesy Gagosian.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian presents Images, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Urs Fischer. In Fischers work, images emerge from an odd liminal space between the real and the imagined, between what does, and could, exist. Over the past year, he has been creating paintings digitally, inventing things, rooms, and spaces using color and light. On a screen, as opposed to paper or canvas, Fischer is able to paint with light itselfmoving illuminated pixels around, juxtaposing clean lines and gradients, and reflecting on the subtle atmospheric changes across day and night, summer and winter, Los Angeles and New York. Silkscreened onto aluminum panels, the paintings ... More |
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| | | Exhibition considers how contemporary artists engage with political, ideological and formal borders | | American artist Wyatt Kahn's second exhibition with Xavier Hufkens opens in Brussels | | Jail for radical Russian artist who set Bank of France on fire |
Jorge Mendez Blake, Amerika, 2019. Bricks, edition of "Amerika" by Franz Kafka, 72 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 400 in. 185.1 x 30.2 x 1016 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan is presenting Borders, a group exhibition that considers how contemporary artists engage with political, ideological and formal borders. Borders are synonymous with state power, sovereignty and national identity. They define both belonging and otherness. In the face of rising nationalism and the growing global refugee crisis, borders across the world are tightening and also unraveling. This exhibition will seek to create a framework and a dialogue about borders as both places of productive exchange and barriers of exclusion. Borders visually define space; utilizing form, color, and line to separate, delineate and frame fields of visual perception. In painting, formal borders call attention to the works nature both as an image and an object, and provide compositional structure. In sculpture and installation-based work, borders ... More | |
Wyatt Kahn, Coti/Cosi, 2018. Oil stick on lead on panel, 236,2 x 196,8 x 7,6 cm.
BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced the opening of American artist Wyatt Kahns second exhibition with the gallery. The presentation focuses on a new series of works in milled lead and oil-based pigment, which are shown alongside compositions in natural canvas and a group of related drawings. This not only gives an overview of the interrelated nature of Kahns practice but also highlights new developments in his on-going exploration of the dialogue between painting and sculpture. At first glance, Wyatt Kahns works in lead and oil stick form a striking visual contrast to the canvas constructions with which he established his reputation. Yet despite the obvious material and chromatic differences, the two bodies of work are closely related. They are even constructed in an identical fashion: shaped wooden frames are wrapped in pliable materials, be it canvas or lead. In terms of their manufacture and wall-mounted ... More | |
In this file photo taken on January 16, 2017 Russian artist Piotr Pavlenski (L) and his wife Oksana Chaliguina (R) pose in Paris. MARTIN BUREAU / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- A court jailed an exiled Russian artist Thursday for setting fire to the facade of a French central bank building, a performance that was filmed and circulated on social media. Pyotr Pavlensky, 34, received a one-year jail term and two years suspended for the stunt, but should walk free, having already served 11 months in custody. His former partner, Oksana Shalygina, received a two-year sentence, 16 months of which were suspended. But Pavlensky was also ordered to pay 21,678 euros ($25,000) in damages to the Banque de France. "Never!" he said in Russian. Pavlensky fled to France and was given asylum in 2017 after several provocative protests drew the ire of Russian authorities, not least one in which he nailed his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square. In France, Pavlensky kept up his work. In October 2017 he and Oksana Shalygina torched the ... More |
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| | | Elvis Express: fans rock n' roll their way to outback festival | | LA's The Good Luck Gallery to feature rare works at The Outsider Art Fair | | Legacy gift to establish first named position at The Contemporary Jewish Museum |
An Elvis fan uses the train window as a mirror at Central station before boarding a train to The Parkes Elvis Festival, in Sydney on January 10, 2019. PETER PARKS / AFP.
SYDNEY (AFP).- Elvis Presley may have "left the building" four decades ago, but his spirit was alive and well at Sydney's main station Thursday, as hundreds of fans boarded trains to an outback festival celebrating their idol. Dressed in colourful sequined jumpsuits, blue suede shoes and having used copious amounts of hairspray, lookalikes sang and danced to hits belted out by tribute artists. The party atmosphere was a fitting tribute to the cultural and musical legacy of "The King", whose appeal has spanned decades and generations, and reached far beyond his American roots. The revellers at Central station were boarding the "Elvis Express" and "Blue Suede Express", two trains put on to take them to the small outback town of Parkes, 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of Sydney. "He was just a gorgeous guy and I just ... More | |
Helen Rae, November 14 2018, 2018. Colored pencil/graphite on paper, 24x18".
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Good Luck Gallery, the only commercial space on the West Coast dedicated to showing Self-taught art including Outsider, Folk and Visionary work, will exhibit at The Outside Art Fair, which opens on January 17-20, 2019, at The Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Among the highlights at Booth 26 is a painting, by the famed Outsider artist William Hawkins, which has been in a private collection and not seen for decades. "I'm thrilled to present a cross-section of some of the most exciting artists in the field today, says Paige Wery, who established The Good Luck Gallery, five years ago in L.A.'s historic Chinatown Arts District. "Needless to say, the Hawkins is an important focal point of my stand, but equally so are other familiar names such as Helen Rae, Willard Hill, and Cathy Ward, while new discoveries Ted Diamond and AJ Aucoin round out our offerings." Each of these artists' works is a reflection of their ... More | |
Fraidy Aber, The CJMs Director of Education since 2009, assumed the new title on January 10, 2019. Photo: Gary Sexton Photography.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Contemporary Jewish Museum has received a generous gift from an anonymous donor to establish The Museums first named position, The Constance Wolf Director of Education and Civic Engagement. The newly created title honors The Museums commitment to its award-winning education program and the work of Constance Wolf, former Director and CEO from 1999 to 2011. Wolf, who oversaw the design and construction of The CJMs Daniel Libeskind-designed building, which opened to the public in 2008, and the launch of The Museums new exhibition and programmatic focus, is known in the field for her expertise in museum education and community engagement. Fraidy Aber, The CJMs Director of Education since 2009, assumed the new title on January 10, 2019. The gift and named position acknowledge Abers leadership of The Museums ... More |
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Terry Skoda named Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement at the Museum of Arts and Design
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design today announced the appointment of Terry Skoda as its Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement, effective January 7, 2019. In this executive leadership position, Skoda will guide key revenue areas for the Museum, including major gifts, planned giving, grants, corporate and foundation relations, and special events. "I am delighted to have Terry's expert counsel at this critical time of growth for MAD," said Chris Scoates, MAD's Nanette L. Laitman Director. "He is a seasoned and successful fundraiser, whose contributions will be instrumental to realizing our strategic and programmatic goals and significantly expanding our base of supporters." Skoda brings to MAD nearly two decades of experience within the New York City cultural institutional landscape, spanning the fields of advancement, marketing, communications, ... More
Paul Holberton Publishing announces 'Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816): A Drawings Dealer in Paris'
LONDON.- This extraordinary and original study traces the career of the influential Paris art dealer Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816). Using Constantins dealers mark and a wealth of unpublished archival material, Joachim Jacoby reconstructs Constantins hitherto unknown business activities and rediscovers an early and important instance of a bourgeois art dealer. In the course of the 18th century, drawings by old and contemporary masters became an esteemed collectors item and, in consequence, a highly valued commodity of the art market. This study looks at this business from the perspective of the art dealer Guillaume Jean Constantin (1755-1816), who was active in Paris during the last quarter of the 18th and ... More
Exhibition featuring new paintings, woodblock prints, and lithographs by Sandow Birk opens at P·P·O·W
NEW YORK, NY.- PPOW is presenting Triumph of Hate, the gallerys fourth exhibition with Sandow Birk, featuring new paintings, woodblock prints, and lithographs. Birk is best known for his politically-minded work that presents contemporary takes on history paintings and historic texts. While he creates works in a variety of media and scales, Birk unites his practice through social commentary. The presentation in Triumph of Hate illuminates injustices and inspires empathy in todays political landscape, and continues the artists investigation of using traditional practices to offer a new perspective on contemporary events. The exhibition marks a return to painting for Birk, who has primarily focused on creating large-scale drawings in recent years. These chaotic scenes depict recent events in American culture. Populated with crowds, they are not immediately ... More
Arctic art house: Russian region nurtures local film boom
YAKUTSK (AFP).- In Russia's remote Yakutia region the film industry is booming, despite shooting schedules being restricted by some of the coldest winters on Earth and directors blaming "spirits" for disturbing the production crew. Six time zones away from the country's film schools and without central state funding for its filmmakers, the region nonetheless produces half of all Russian movies made outside Moscow and Saint Petersburg. "Everybody wants to make movies," said Alexei Romanov, who turned his back on a promising career as a filmmaker in Saint Petersburg three decades ago to return to his native Siberia. "We have films with miniscule budgets and hilariously small fees but they make more in the cinemas here than Hollywood blockbusters," he said. When the director came back to Yakutia, a vast territory that is home to fewer than a million people, ... More
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art opens Italian artist Chiara Camoni's first UK solo exhibition
MIDDLESBROUGH.- MIMA presents Italian artist Chiara Camonis first UK solo exhibition through the display of a new acquisition, showing from 8 January to 10 February 2019. MIMA has acquired three large sculptures from Camonis most recent series Sisters (iron, glazed clay, candles, fire, 2017) with support from the first edition of the Contemporary Art Societys Jackson Tang Ceramic Award. This purchase makes the Middlesbrough Collection the UKs first public collection to acquire Camonis work. Sister1, Sister3 and Sister4 are glazed clay forms with multi-coloured candles that are lit during the works display, with the subsequent dripping wax forming part of the piece. They will be shown for one month, during which time different individuals and groups who represent MIMAs constituents and communities will light the candles in a daily event. This activation ... More
Simon Lee Gallery opens the first solo exhibition in Asia by Los Angeles-based artist Channing Hansen
HONG KONG.- Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, announced the first solo exhibition in Asia by Los Angeles-based artist Channing Hansen. In Pattern Recognition Hansen presents a new series of his signature hand-knitted textile-based works, which bring together craft and computation to explore theories related to the intersection of art, science and technology. Hansens labour-intensive process sees him skirt, wash, dye, blend and spin the wool that he then uses to knit the works by hand, using a pattern that is determined by a computer-generated algorithm whose data set draws from a range of scientific concepts and mathematical formulae. Potentially encompassing an infinite combination of colours, fibres and patterns, this algorithm dictates the composition but the works appearance is not known until it is complete. Once finished, each knitted textile ... More
"Selections from the Clyde Hensley Collection of East Cuban Art" opens at Upstate Gallery on Main
SPARTANBURG, SC.- Upstate Gallery on Main, sponsored by the University of South Carolina Upstate, is presenting Selections from the Clyde Hensley Collection of East Cuban Art. The exhibition opened on January 10 and runs through February 23, 2019. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Clyde Hensley collected over 500 pieces of art from the semiisolated, easternmost region of Cuba called Oriente, formerly referred to as Oriente Province. Upon Hensley's first trip to Oriente as part of a cultural exchange and humanitarian aid project, he found the local artists constrained yet energized by shortages of art supplies and thus creating inspired improvisations. "When I met them," Hensley recalls, "they were painting on sugar and flour bags. They needed supplies. So I began taking them everything I could: canvas, paint, brushes, you name it. These are artists who paint ... More
Exhibition of sculptural paintings by Leah Guadagnoli opens at Asya Geisberg Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Asya Geisberg Gallery is presenting Soft Violence, an exhibition of sculptural paintings by Leah Guadagnoli. With a sparer touch than her prior work, the artist has presented a sort of exaggerated logo, a calling card of absurd proportions, with textured panels, upholstered shapes, and painted canvas uniting to form a streamlined rectangular result. Whereas her recent work incorporated digitally-printed patterns on fabric and eclectic juxtapositions, this series has a reined-in seriousness that belies gaudy Miami sunsets and remaining hints of Saved by the Bell, and its heightened simplicity acts as a cohesive statement on abstractions potential as graphic power. The images seem familiar, but they are a design for a non-existent entity - fully empty, thwarting connection. Inspired initially by a logo of a local diner, Guadagnoli was attracted ... More
21st edition of Art Paris puts the focus on women artists and Latin America
PARIS.- From April 4 to 7, Art Paris 2019 brings together 150 modern and contemporary art galleries from 20 different countries under the glass roof of the Grand Palais. The fair explores the European art scene from the post-war period to the present day, whilst inviting visitors to discover the new horizons of international creation. The 21st edition has opted for a thematic approach by choosing to showcase women artists from France and Latin America, this years guest of honour. Finally, the VIP visits programme illustrates the effervescence of the Parisian scene in spring a time when the French capital literally becomes the centre of the art world and highlights the Latin American presence in the City of Light. Curated by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, 25 specific projects by women artists have been selected from amongst ... More
Tao Hui's solo exhibition 'Rhythm and Senses' opens at Edouard Malingue Gallery
HONG KONG.- How we live and relate to each other in light of increased digitisation is at the core of Rhythm and Senses, the first solo exhibition of Tao Hui (b. 1987, Chongqing) at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong. Tao Hui is a Chinese artist born in the city of Chongqing. Using the language of video and installation, Tao Hui expresses collective experience, the focus of which is often social identity, gender status, ethnicity and cultural crisis. Running throughout his work is a sense of misplacement, prompting the audience to face their own cultural histories, living conditions and social identities. Exploring the pace of our present existence and our responses to such, Tao Hui navigates through four distinct works the unstable complications we face, our shifting perceptions as well as spiritual needs. Rhythm and Senses is a dissection of our contemporary condition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Parmigianino was born January 11, 1503. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (11 January 1503 - 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. In this image: Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40)
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