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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), The Prodigal Son Driven Out, 1660s. Oil on canvas. Unframed: 104.5 x 134.5 cm. Framed: 136.2 x 166.4 x 13.5 cm. Presented, Sir Alfred and Lady Beit, 1987 (Beit Collection) NGI.4543. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland.
DUBLIN.- Showcasing a magnificent series of works by one of the most celebrated painters of the Spanish Golden Age, Murillo: The Prodigal Son Restored opened at the National Gallery of Ireland on 29 February 2020. The free exhibition marks thirty years since Murillos series of paintings based on the parable of the Prodigal Son has been on display in the National Gallery of Ireland. This follows a fascinating conservation project undertaken by the Gallery. The Prodigal Son cycle by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (16171682) explores sin, repentance and forgiveness across six paintings, staged in seventeenth-century Seville. Donated to the National Gallery of Ireland by the Beit family in 1987, the works have been conserved over many years in the Paintings Conservation Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland, in a project led by Muirne Lydon. Discoveries from the conservation and subsequent research form part of the exhibition, o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Leonardo DrewÂs City in the Grass, 2019, gets a dusting of snow at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. The installation is part of their spring offerings, NC to the World, where one ticket gives access to North Carolina painters, the beauty of Senegalese jewelry, site-specific indoor and outdoor installations by New York artist Leonardo Drew, and works by Thai artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook. Learn more about dates and ticket packages at ncartmuseum.org/spring2020.
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| | Exhibition of still life paintings by Todd M. Casey opens at Rehs Contemporary | | Paris's Louvre museum closes over staff coronavirus fears | | Major fashion acquisition adds 350+ one-of-a-kind designs by Geoffrey Beene to Phoenix Art Museum fashion collection |
Todd M. Casey Death in the Afternoon (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary is presenting The Art of Still Life; a collection of still life paintings by Todd M. Casey. At first glance, one may make the assumption that any still life painting is just an artists attempt to paint an assortment of stationary objects, and while some may be nothing more than that, oftentimes there is something much greater before our eyes. Casey highlights this dichotomy with thoughtfully developed compositions he is not just an artist but a visual storyteller. Early in life Casey gravitated towards the arts and was encouraged by his parents to develop his talents further. Growing up in Lowell, Massachusetts, offered a rich historical culture that profoundly impacted Caseys understanding of art and its meaning he shares his birthplace with notable figures in the likes of James McNeill Whistler and Jack Kerouac, both of whom are widely celebrated by the city. It was in these formative ye ... More | |
People queue at the Pyramide du louvre entrance on February 28, 2020 in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The Louvre in Paris, the world's most visited museum, turned tourists away on Sunday after staff refused to work because of coronavirus fears, unions and management said. Around 300 staff met in the morning and voted "almost unanimously" not to open, Christian Galani of the CGT labour union told AFP. By Sunday afternoon, visitors were learning the news as they arrived at the entrance. "We're very disappointed," said one tourist, part of an Italian group. "It was the perfect day to go to the museum," he added under a steady drizzle of rain. "No one warned us and nothing is written on the website!" said their guide, who gave her name only as Stefania. Others complained that they had reserved tickets for the afternoon that same morning and there had been no hint of the coming closure at the website. ... More | |
The gift includes more than 350 custom-made Geoffrey Beene ensembles and accessories.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum has accepted a significant gift to its renowned fashion design collection from Patsy Tarr, president of the 2wice Arts Foundation and the founder and publisher of 2wice magazines and books. Spanning the 1980s through the 1990s, the gift of more than 350 custom-made Geoffrey Beene ensembles and accessories, including jumpsuits, trousers, vests, boleros, gowns, collars, and more, establishes the Museum as one of the nations leading institutions with holdings of Beenes designs. We are grateful for this generous gift from Patsy Tarr, said Gilbert Vicario, the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and the Selig Family Chief Curator of Phoenix Art Museum. These one-of-a-kind garments, made specifically for Mrs. Tarr by Geoffrey Beene, significantly increase our holdings of Beenes designs, now one of the most ... More |
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| | 'Immortal Piano' set for Israel auction | | Albertina Museum opens an exhibition of masterpieces from The Hahnloser Collection | | Art Gallery of Ontario's newest European art acquisition is equal parts beauty, mystery and potential |
A picture taken on February 18, 2020 in the Israeli coastal city of Caesarea shows the carvings adorning the Piano of Siena, a 19th century instrument that disappeared for decades and was found recently in an Israeli house. JACK GUEZ / AFP.
CAESAREA (AFP).- A rare piano that could fetch more than a million dollars at auction in Israel next week has a history as elaborate as the wood carvings adorning its frame. The Piano of Siena's 221-year journey began in Turin and has included stops in Paris, a second world war battlefield in North Africa, New York and Tel Aviv. Moshe Porat, an Israeli piano tuner who has researched the instrument, told AFP the light brown upright decorated with carvings of wingless cherubs, animals, flora and other instruments was a "visual masterpiece". "Soon the next chapter will begin with a new owner," Porat said, referring to the sale scheduled for Tuesday at Winner's auction house in Jerusalem. Turin-based harpsichord maker Sebastian Marchisio started building the instrument in 1799, according to Winner's. Marchisio died before completing it but his descendants finished the initial ... More | |
Ferdinand Hodler, Little Girl Picking Flowers, 1887. Oil on canvas. Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, Villa Flora, Winterthur © Photo: Reto Pedrini, Zurich.
VIENNA.- The Albertina Museum is devoting its spring exhibition of 2020 to one of the most important private collections of French modernist art. The Hahnloser Collection came together between 1905 and 1936, initially on the basis of close and friendly exchange between the collecting couple of Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and artist-friends including Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Henri Matisse, and Félix Vallotton. Later on, the collection also came to include works by their predecessors including Cézanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and others. Today, this immense collection contains one-of-a-kind work groupsincluding paintings, sculptures, and works on paperfrom Swiss and French modernism, including such prominent works as Bonnards Reflection, or the Tub (1909), Cézannes Portrait of the Artist (1877/78), Van Goghs The Sower and The Night Café in Arles (1888), Vallottons The White and the ... More | |
Unknown, European. Portrait of a Lady, Three Quarter Length, Holding an Orange Tree Flower, mid-18th century. Oil on canvas, Overall: 80 Ã 56.2 cm. Purchase, 2020. 2019/2437
TORONTO.- If youve read about the AGOs recent acquisitions, then you know its a top priority of the gallery to acquire dynamic and captivating works that will both strengthen and diversify the collection. With this in mind, AGO jumped at the opportunity to purchase the beauty you see pictured above. And whats even more exciting is that it comes to AGO with a fascinating mystery to uncover. Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom is a striking and mysterious portrait that commands your attention. Its central figure is a young woman wearing a luxurious blue silk gown, woven with intricate lace trim. Around her neck and wrists are elegant pearls, which complement her bejewelled drop earrings. She is aware of her own radiance, smizing with piercing brown eyes and regal posture, clasping the front of her gown while presenting an orange tree blossom. Though the subjects presence is arresting and undeniable, her identit ... More |
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| | Canadian artist and educator Lois Etherington Betteridge passes away | | Vatican opens archives on history's most controversial pope | | Solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Peter Stephens on view at David Richard Gallery |
Lois practised and taught her craft fervently and without pause for 67 years. Photo: Keith Betteridge.
GUELPH.- Canada has lost a preeminent artist and educator with the passing of Lois Etherington Betteridge on February 21, 2020 in Guelph, Ontario. Internationally recognized for her exquisite sense of design and fabrication acumen with precious metals and stone, Lois was adored by family, friends, colleagues in the arts and metalsmithing community as well as collectors and students. Born in 1928 to Dorothy and Alfred Etherington in Drummondville, Québec, Lois grew up in Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario. After a year at the Ontario College of Art, Lois graduated, BFA, from the University of Kansas in 1951, and returned to Canada to establish her own studios in Oakville and then Toronto. She later entered Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan for graduate studies, receiving her MFA in 1956 before moving to MacDonald Institute in Guelph. There she taught craft and design, rallied in her red MGA, and married ... More | |
A picture taken on February 27, 2020 shows a detail of the section of the archive dedicated to Pope Pius XII in The Vatican Apostolic Secret Archive. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- The Vatican unseals the archives of history's most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust. Two hundred researchers have already requested access to the mountain of documents, made available after an inventory that took more than 14 years for Holy See archivists to complete. Award-winning German religious historian Hubert Wolf will be in Rome on Monday, armed with six assistants and two years of funding to start exploring documents from the "private secretariat" of the late pope. Wolf, a specialist on the relationship of Pius XII with the Nazis, is anxious to discover the notes of the his 70 ambassadors -- the pontiff's eyes and ears during his time as head of the Catholic Church between 1939 ... More | |
Peter Stephens, Heirloom, 2019. Acrylic and collage on wood, 63 x 54.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is presenting, Dantes Cardigan, a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings by Buffalo-based artist Peter Stephens and his debut presentation with the Gallery. The exhibition is on view from February 26 through March 20, 2020 at David Richard Gallery located at 211 East 121 Street, New York, New York. The presentation includes 18 paintings, in a variety of sizes from 18 inches square up to and including a painting 72 x 108 inches, that evolved from a new creative process over the past five years that changed Stephens studio practice and generated for him an all new visual language. Born out of the artists long-term interest in the fundamental physics underlying the structure and behavior of matter in the natural world, these paintings have become a synthetic abstraction of systems, patterns, sequences and random mutations derived from a set of defined ... More |
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| | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings by Dan Colen | | Marc Straus announces the representation of Anne Samat | | To play Maria Callas, Monica Bellucci confronts stage fright |
Dan Colen, HELP, 201920 (detail). Oil on canvas, 28 x 46 1/2 in. 71.1 x 118.1 cm © Dan Colen. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting HELP, an exhibition of new paintings by Dan Colen. Moving between diverse styles and subjects, Colen investigates the conceptual stakes of materiality and mark making. In his earliest paintings, elements of the supernatural intrude into naturalistic renderings of interior spaces, while his more recent canvases explore the technical, physical, and thematic limits of the medium itself. Colen has often worked with unconventional materials such as chewing gum, soil, and trash, relinquishing control of his works final appearance to their unpredictable surfaces. Nevertheless, representational imagery has remained a through line across his oeuvre, allowing him to conduct an ever-evolving inquiry into the objecthood and authority of painting as a medium. In his new canvases, Colen uses the motif of the message in a ... More | |
Freedom to Love...5, 2017, 115.3 x 72 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Who claims that threads of wool cannot be hair, or that the fanning tines of a yard rake attached to each other cannot be comforting, like extended arms open wide for an embrace? Anne Samat, an artist from Malaysia, questions identities and the means by which they can be portrayed. Instead of literal representations she instead uses wool and thread and humble household goods from 99 cent stores to construct totemic wall sculptures that embody the distilled memories and feelings she has of family and friends. Domestic and industrial items removed from their utilitarian functions and transformed into anthropomorphized structures. Marc Straus announced representation of Anne Samat in the United States, joining Richard Koh Fine Art, who has championed her work in Asia for many years. For Samat, it is paramount to embody what one feels to be from within − without fear, without coercion. Her works often have clear gender assignmen ... More | |
In this file photo taken on May 19, 2019 Italian actress Monica Bellucci poses during a photocall for the film "The Best Years of a Life (Les Plus Belles Annees D'Une Vie)" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
by Rana Moussaoui
PARIS (AFP).- It seems hard to believe, but Monica Bellucci -- who has spent four decades in the limelight as a model and actress -- says she suffers from stage fight. Now appearing on stage in Paris, incarnating opera singer Maria Callas, the Italian diva confesses experiencing pure "terror". "It is not that I was afraid of theatre, I am still afraid of theatre. I tremble," the 55-year-old told AFP. "Going on stage is almost a kind of violence that I put myself through." Bellucci is playing the 20th-century opera star in a month-long show entitled: "Maria Callas: Lettres et Memoirs (Maria Callas: letters and memories) at the Bouffes Parisiens theatre until March 28. Film acting, said the actress who has played in two ... More |
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For ballet shoes, one Russian company is on pointe
MOSCOW (AFP).- Craftsman Sergei Murza runs his fingers over the pink satin of a pointe shoe he has just finished making. Then he gives it the final test: the ballet slipper balances perfectly on its tip. Murza produces the shoes in the Moscow workshop of Grishko, a company born in the chaos of the collapse of the Soviet Union and now one of the world's top makers of ballet pointe shoes. In a country better known for exporting oil and arms, Grishko is a rare success story for Russian craftmanship, its shoes sold around the globe and gracing the stages of the world's top ballet venues. It's hardly surprising, founder Nikolay Grishko says, given the aura that surrounds Russia's storied ballet tradition. "It is in Russia that classical ballet has reached its highest level," says the 71-year-old, who founded the company more than 30 years ago and continues to ... More
Major John Hitchens retrospective opens at Southampton City Art Gallery
SOUTHAMPTON.- Southampton City Art Gallery is presenting a retrospective by the acclaimed British painter John Hitchens. Entitled Aspects of Landscape, the exhibition features more than fifty works spanning almost six decades and charts the artists journey from descriptive to a unique form of abstract painting. Hitchens first came to public prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, when his work was represented by the London galleries, Marjorie Parr and Montpelier Studio. Since this period his work has been acquired by many public institutions and private collections in the UK and overseas. Then as now, his main subject and source of inspiration is the landscape of the British Isles, its hills and field patterns, woodland, sea, the night sky and forms in nature and the South Downs and woodlands that surround his studio, which he has known since ... More
MOTHER...An artwork by artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison launches in Cambridgeshire
CAMBRIDGESHIRE.- MOTHER is an artwork by artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison that engages with the connections between the natural world and our mental health. The work is inspired by writer Richard Mabeys book Nature Cure, in which he recovers from severe depression through walking, watching and writing about the Eastern regions beautiful and unexplored landscapes. It has been commissioned by Cambridgeshire based Wysing Arts Centre as part of the region-wide arts commissioning programme, New Geographies, which aims to bring contemporary art to unexpected places in the East of England. All locations for art works were nominated by members of the public in this case Wicken Fen suggested for its sublime peaty landscape. MOTHER is a sculptural structure that has been created specifically ... More
Joint exhibition of works by Riccardo Guarneri and Qingzhen Han opens at rosenfeld
LONDON.- rosenfeld is presenting a joint exhibition of the 86 year old Florentine artist Riccardo Guarneri and the 29 year old Chinese artist from Dalian, Qingzhen Han. The artists place light and the infinite at the centre of their artistic practice; both being viewed as a conduit to the mysteries of spirituality and the cosmos. Guarneri and Han speak of the impalpable and both concern themselves with the visible and the virtually invisible as, in different ways, their canvases take us on a voyage of initiation. Formally very different, yet conceptually connected even though from a generational and cultural perspective they are worlds apart. Guarneris pastel colours divide the canvas into apparently rational areas of line, colour and space, the whole ending in a visual equivalent of silence. We negotiate the painting through passages of pure colour ... More
Race and rally cars head to the grid at H&H Classics' next auction online
LONDON.- The next Auction Online at H&H features a number of race and rally cars including this 1972 Chevron B20, the only Formula 3 version of its B20 design built by Chevron. It is estimated to sell for £38,000 to £42,000 at the March 4th sale. The Chevron was a works car for Chris Skeeping in 1972. It has been the winner of Formula 4, Monoposto and HSCC Classic and the F3 Championships. It has had just four owners from new and is ready to compete. The car comes with a fully documented history, has been professionally maintained and features a low mileage Twin Cam engine. Car number one of only eleven B20s built by Chevron; this is the only Formula 3 version ever produced and was the works car for Chris Skeaping who raced it in F3 events in England and Europe. Chriss best result was 3rd at Silverstone, 14 May 1972. ... More
Impressionist painting by Frits Thaulow to headline Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers sale
CRANSTON, RI.- An Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Norwegian artist Frits Thaulow (1847-1906), depicting a young woman by the edge of a river with her home in Norway behind her, is an expected headliner in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Estates Fine Art & Antiques auction on Saturday, March 14th, online and in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue, at 11 am EST. The painting, titled Woman by a River, has a pre-sale estimate of $15,000-$25,000. Thaulow studied art in Copenhagen with marine specialist C. F. Sorensen before going to France where he was introduced to contemporary French realism. He applied French realism to his paintings of Norway before permanently moving to France, where he mingled with French artists and became good friends with Claude Monet, effectively becoming a main link between France and Norway. ... More
'Rethreading and Retracing: Textiles & Techniques by Bita Ghezelayagh' opens at Aga Khan Centre Gallery
LONDON.- Aga Khan Centre Gallery is presenting an exhibition by the internationally renowned Iranian textile artist Bita Ghezelayagh. Somewhere between an artisan and a conceptual artist, Ghezelayagh uses her individualistic style to add a distinctively modern character to textiles of the past. Her work evokes grand themes of courtship, kingship, communication and glories of war while simultaneously celebrating the humblest units of artistic creation: the stitch, knot and rivet. The exhibition begins with an invitation into a darkened space that shimmers in the far corner, attracting the viewer to take a closer look. Tile-sized mirror works echo the elaborate muqarnas of Islamic architecture. These are placed in a more intimate space while her other works, bathed in light, catch the viewers eye with flashes of bright velvety colours and an ... More
MWPAI exhibition celebrates Women's Suffrage and honors female artists
UTICA, NY.- Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote with the exhibition, Celebrating Suffrage, featuring more than 200 years of art made by women and honoring womens innovative creative pursuits before and after they were officially recognized as full citizens of the United States. Celebrating Suffrage, on view February 29 through April 19, explores art as a vehicle for women, as individuals or in groups, to reflect, reform, or challenge social beliefs and political practices of their era. Works by artists including Mary Cassatt, Elaine Reicheck, Carrie Mae Weems, and others are drawn from the MWPAI permanent collection and by fulltime women faculty members at PrattMWP College of Art & Design. ... More
Lynda Benglis sculpture soars to $184,500 and two new records set on 20th century furniture at Clars
OAKLAND, CA.- Sculpture and fine art, 20th Century Design and the Oceanic and Tribal Collection of Richard I.M. Kelton of Marina Del Rey, CA, were the star performers at Clars February 23rd auction. Realizing prices far beyond their estimates, this sale presented investment level works from private estates and museums that drew bidders from around the world. The stainless steel mesh and aluminum sculpture titled Norseman by Lynda Benglis (American, b. 1941), flew past all presale expectations. Benglis is regarded as the pioneer in free-form sculpture who radically pushed the limits on this medium in the 1960s. Today, some 60 years later, she is still creating and, according to the August 16, 2019 story in the New York Times, she is more prolific that ever. The demand for her abstract works was evident on February 23rd when Norseman was presented ... More
Holabird Western Americana Collections announces results of 'Objects of Our Affection' auction
RENO, NEV.- A large Native American-themed oil painting by Nevada gaming artist Franz Trevors sold for $6,250, an ornate sterling silvered Mexican Charro parade-style saddle used in the Pasadena Rose Parade around 1940 brought $4,500, and a collection of 45 Alaska tokens fetched $5,375 in Holabird Western Americana Collections four-day auction held Feb. 14-17. The Objects of Our Affection auction was packed with over 2,500 lots of numismatics, mining collectibles, Americana, railroad memorabilia and more. It was held online and in the Holabird gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. The overall gross was $356,000, as 2,450 people registered to bid online via iCollector, LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable and Auctionzip. Featured were Part 1 of the John Reynolds collection of exonumia (numismatic items such as ... More
From Bonn to Vienna, in search of Beethoven, the man
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Even the most casual visitor to Vienna cant help but be bombarded by the citys Mozart-industrial complex. Mozarts face peers out from the wrappers of ubiquitous chocolate-covered candies called Mozart Kugeln, grand cafes offer Mozart tortes, and souvenir shops sell Mozart key chains, stuffed Mozarts and even Mozart rubber duckies. Hawkers outside major sights arent pushing hop-on, hop-off bus tours but tickets to touristy concerts dominated by Strauss waltzes and, yes, the music of Mozart. You cant help but wonder: What about Beethoven? Dont get me wrong. I love Mozart, and its charming to see the city where he spent the last decade of his life celebrating him with so much kitsch. But Beethoven spent his last 35 years there, and it was in Vienna that he wrote or premiered most of his major works including ... More
Laumeier Sculpture Park presents 'Mark Dion: Follies'
ST. LOUIS, MO.- Laumeier Sculpture Park is presenting Mark Dion: Follies. Mark Dion has fashioned a world-wide reputation as an innovative sculptor and installation artist whose points of departure include the intersections of the historical and the contemporary, as well as the man-made and natural worlds. Mark Dion: Follies is the most comprehensive look at the artists architectural works from the 1990s to the present; sheds or shacks filled with the tools of the trade for scientists, botanists and naturalists who live in, study and collect natural specimens. Laumeier is presenting selections from the original exhibition. Visitors can experience sculptural installations such as Hunting Blind (The Glutton) and Hunting Blind (The Dandy Rococo), Dions elaborate takes on the outdoor protective structures used by hunters, as ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Berthe Morisot died March 02, 1895. Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841 - March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. In this image: Berthe Morisot, Grain field, c.1875, Musée d'Orsay.
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