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TAMPERE.- During the summer of 2021, the Tampere-Talo presents in its Sorsapuisto Hall an exhibition featuring more than 100 rare posters from a museum collection that is considered to be one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Keith Haringâs style was inspired by hip-hop culture as well as graffiti and pop art and progressed from drawings in the New York City subway to pieces known all over the world. His large murals and posters with societal themes as well as his works that opposed South Africaâs apartheid policy and his works that raised AIDS awareness are uniquely recognizable. In the 1980s, Haring also started to do more work that is commercial. His designs for Swatch wristwatches and Absolut Vodka advertising posters are still remembered, as is his collaboration with the rap group Run DMC on the marketing of the Adidas Superstar sneakers. The Pop Shop art shop he founded continues to have a presence online. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ibrahim Dabale, 50, a native and art guardian, narrates on ancient depictions of wildlife and other cultural practices, characteristic of the time etched into volcanic rock and now conserved on a jagged rocky outcrop at the remote Abourma Rock Art site in the Makarassou Massif of Tadjoura Region, northern Djibouti on April 13, 2021. The archeological site, dating back to the Neolithic period, depicts wild and domesticated animals as well as hunting scenes thought to be common at the time in the area, largely inhospitable for it's rugged terrain and hot climate, near the Djibouti-Ethiopia border. TONY KARUMBA / AFP
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| National Gallery of Australia opens an exhibition of recent work by Sarah Lucas | | Hamburger Kunsthalle receives gift of David Novros' largest portable mural | | Philadelphia Museum of Art displays Thomas Cole masterpiece "The Arch of Nero" in American Galleries |
Sarah Lucas, ALICE COOPER, 2020, installation view, Project 1: Sarah Lucas, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2021 © the artist.
CANBERRA.- Opening this Saturday at the National Gallery of Australia, Project 1: Sarah Lucas brings together recent work by one of Englands most influential and unapologetic artists. Over the past 30 years, Sarah Lucas has built an illustrious career challenging the social constructs of gender through sculpture, photography and performance art. An artist well ahead of her time, Curator Peter Johnson wants Australians to know her name. I think Australians are going to love Lucas an artist who uses crude and humorous imagery to explore the representation of gender and confront the realities of bodily existence, said Johnson. Project 1: Sarah Lucas features two recent sculpture series, including new works from the Bunny series she has been making since 1997. The title refers to the bunnies of Playboy magazine fame, as they challenge the depictions of women in art and pop culture as the objects of male desire. The ... More | |
Prof. Dr. Alexander Klar, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle (left) and Björn Lafrenz at the handover © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 © Hamburger Kunsthalle. Photo: Romanus Fuhrmann.
HAMBURG.- Prof. Dr. Alexander Klar, Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, accepted David Novross large-format work Four Seasons (1974) yesterday from the Lafrenz family as a gift from their collection to mark the artists 80th birthday on 8 August. David Novros, who was born in Los Angeles in 1941 and today lives in New York, counts among the most important American painters of his generation. His works can be found in the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in the Art Institute in Chicago and in The Menil CollecÂtion in Houston. »I would like to express my sincere thanks to the Lafrenz family for the donation of David Novross outstanding work Four Seasons. The gift is also a site-specific stroke of luck for the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Novross pictorial inventions rely on the interplay between structure, proportion, ... More | |
"The Arch of Nero," 1846, by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). Oil on canvas, 60 ¼ x 48 /4 inches. Image courtesy the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art is displaying in its American galleries The Arch of Nero, a masterpiece by the great 19th-century American landscape painter Thomas Cole (18011848), as a long-term loan from the Thomas H. and Diane DeMell Jacobsen PhD Foundation. Purchased by the Foundation at Sothebys American art auction in New York on May 19, 2021, this painting was one of a number of works of art sold by the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, New Jersey, to raise funds for the direct care of its collection. The Arch of Nero was widely considered to be the most important of the works sold by the museum. The Jacobsen Foundation, an organization dedicated to sharing its collection of American art with museums across the country, purchased The Arch of Nero intending to keep this important painting in the public domain. ... More |
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| Phillips opens the Southampton exhibition 'Abstract by Nature: Paintings from the 1950s to the Present' | | Dutch dike threatens muddy Roman ruins | | Djibouti's hidden rock art offers window to the past |
Howard Mehring, Brilliant Corners, 1965. Image courtesy of Phillips.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Phillips announced Abstract by Nature, Paintings from the 1950s to the Present, an exhibition at Phillips Southampton from 7 August-6 September. Inspired by nature, the works presented are an exploration of the purity of color and form in American abstraction from the 1950s Post-War era all the way up to its contemporary iterations. The exhibition includes works from Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Post-War masters such as Jules Olitski, Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb and Kenneth Noland. It also aims to showcase their eventual influence on the abstract practices of contemporary artists, such as Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi and Petra Cortright. Works included in the exhibition will be offered through both Phillips private sales platform and at auction in New York in Fall 2021. On display alongside Abstract by Nature will be the first brick-and-mortar pop-up for The Invisible Collection, the state-of-the art ... More | |
The canal -- more than 10 metres (33 feet) wide -- and road were uncovered last week near the eastern city of Nijmegen.
NIJMEGEN (AFP).- A set of muddy Roman ruins recently unearthed near a new UNESCO World Heritage site in the Netherlands is to be destroyed by reconstruction work on a dike, archaeologists say. The 2,000-year-old canal and highway discovered in July near the eastern city of Nijmegen surprised experts who were expecting to find only minor ruins during a routine dig ahead of work on the dike. While a far cry from the famed bridges and amphitheatres found elsewhere in Europe, the Dutch ruins are just as important for understanding life on the far northern border of the Roman Empire along the River Rhine. "The problem with Dutch archaeology is that we don't have large stone buildings, we don't have a beautiful Pont du Gard... We just have mud," project leader Eric Norde told AFP, referring to a Roman aqueduct in southern France. But he added: "This is quite a great find. "It is the first time we find a main Roman road ... More | |
Ancient depictions of wildlife and other cultural practices,characteristic of the time, etched into volcanic rock are conserved on a jagged rocky outcrop at the remote Abourma Rock Art site in the Makarassou Massif of Tadjoura Region, northern Djibouti on April 13, 2021. TONY KARUMBA / AFP.
ABOURMA (AFP).- From a distance, the black cliffs appear featureless, scorched by a blazing desert sun. But up close, the basalt reveals engravings of giraffe, ostrich and antelope made 7,000 years ago. These masterful works, etched onto stone in northern Djibouti, are among the most important examples of rock art in the Horn of Africa, a region rich in archaeological heritage and the birthplace of humanity. Stretching three kilometres (almost two miles), some 900 panels at Abourma depict in wonderful relief prehistoric life in these parts, dramatic scenes of early man confronting wildlife, and droving cows. But these centuries-old images, rendered by flint onto igneous rock, also offer a valuable record of a bygone era -- and a land drastically reshaped by millennia of climate ... More |
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| Lalibela: Ethiopia's UNESCO heritage site overrun by rebels | | Galerie Scheffel opens an exhibition of works by Israeli artist Arik Levy | | In Sweden, a patriarchal 'remnant' jars with image of equality |
In this file photograph taken on March 7, 2019, Ethiopian Orthodox devotees walk between the rock-hewn churchs of Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael in Lalibela. EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP.
ADDIS ABABA (AFP).- Rebels from Ethiopia's war-hit region of Tigray swept into Lalibela on Thursday, raising fears for the safety of the UNESCO World Heritage Site famed for its 12th-century rock-hewn churches. The push by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) into the regions of Afar and Amhara -- where Lalibela is located -- is the latest turn in a months-long conflict pitting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed against the rebels. As concern over the violence grows and calls mount to protect Lalibela, here are a few facts about the heritage site: Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978, the Lalibela churches are unique. They are carved from rock and sit below ground level, surrounded by deep, dry moats, with only their roofs visible. The courtyards surrounding these ... More | |
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BAD HOMBURG.- Galerie Scheffel is presenting MineralForest, an exhibition of works by Israeli artist Arik Levy, who lives and works in France. Levy has brought together some 60 of his unmistakable sculptures, paintings and drawings to create a powerful overall installation in Bad Homburg, Germany. The exhibition in the Jakobshallen is open from 17 July until 2 October 2021. Arik Levys sculptural works are distinguished by their carefully modulated artistic form. Precise in their proportions and structural balance, they are inspired by transitions between emotion, science, nature, society and the notion of time. Levy has created a distinct formal alphabet, which he continues to develop and expand. At the same time, his artistic creations are never a sheer formal experiment. Rather, the quality of his works rests, on the one hand, on abstract and personal sculptural answers to questions concerning the role of memory ... More | |
Carl Johan Cronstedt, owner the Fullero estate, holds an old book in a library in his castle in Vaesteras, Sweden on July 22, 2021. Hélène DAUSCHY / AFP.
by Nioucha Zakavati
VÃSTERÃ S (AFP).- A member of the Swedish nobility, Carl Johan Cronstedt, 75, is the tenth generation to have inherited the family estate and home. Built in 1656 and designed by French-born architect Jean de la Vallee, Fullero castle and its 700-hectare (1,729-acre) estate has been handed down from father to son since 1739, when Cronstedt's ancestor made it a "fideicommissum". Under this centuries-old provision in Sweden's inheritance law, a noble family's property is bequeathed to a single heir -- in practice, usually a son -- to the detriment of other siblings. The aim is to keep the estate intact and although slowly dying out, it is still in use in Sweden today, provoking surprise and controversy in a country that ... More |
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| Bonhams achieves outstanding results in two-day series of Western & California Art sales | | Exhibition of new works by Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha opens at Brighton CCA | | Push to return 116,000 Native American remains is long-awaited |
Maurice Logan (1886-1977), Portrait of a Japanese Woman in an Iris Garden. Price realized: $181,563. Photo: Bonhams.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams saw spirited and lively bidding from enthusiastic buyers in a successful series of three Western and California Art auctions over the two-day period of Tuesday, August 3rd through Wednesday, August 4th. The first sale was the California Art auction on Tuesday, which achieved a total of $2,985,748. Wednesday began with an outstanding single-owner auction, Portrait of the West: The Diane and Sam Stewart Collection, which achieved $5,035,768. This sale included the crown jewel and top lot of the week, Indian Horsemen by Ernest Martin Hennings (1886-1956), which sold for $918,313. The third and final sale comprised of fine Western Art, which realized $1,037,227 in total. The three auctions achieved a combined total of $9,058,743 across 320 lots. Bonhams Western Art Specialist Katherine Halligan said, The excitement has been palpable at Bonhams over the course of the past 48 hours. We were very pleased to see such ... More | |
Alexandre da Cunha, Coconut Figure I, 2020. Photo by Ben Westoby. Courtesy the Artist and Thomas Dane Gallery.
BRIGHTON.- Brighton CCA is presenting Duplex an exhibition of new works by Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha curated in collaboration with Jenni Lomax. This is the artists first solo presentation in a UK public institution for 10 years. Duplex is an articulation of da Cunhas engagement with cultures of consumption, reuse, materiality and art history. Central to da Cunhas practice is the ready-made and specifically, how perceptions of objects are affected by place, time and the results of labour. Da Cunhas complex and subtle process of transforming materials and images create encounters with everyday objects that disentangle the instinctive responses inherent to particular materials, endowing the works with alternative modes of understanding; so cotton becomes marble, mops become tapestry, construction tools become mysterious relics and mundane objects echo art historical precedents. The result is a vibrant dialogu ... More | |
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, who is the first Native American to hold the cabinet post, speaks to reporters at the White House on April 23, 2021. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In 1990, when Congress passed a law that set criteria under which federally recognized Native American tribes could reclaim ancient burial remains and sacred objects, legislators hoped to encourage the return of items by museums and other institutions. But more than three decades later, some officials acknowledge that the law, known as the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, has not been as effective as they had hoped. The remains of more than 116,000 Native American ancestors are still held by institutions around the country, and the National Park Service says that, for nearly all of them, the institutions have not linked the remains to a particular tribe, a designation known as culturally affiliated that allows Indigenous groups to reclaim the bones of their ... More |
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Patricia Wilde, ballerina showcased by Balanchine, dies at 93
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Patricia Wilde, a principal dancer known for her speed and daring as a member of George Balanchines New York City Ballet in its early years, and later an influential teacher and artistic director, died July 17 in Stephens City, Virginia. She was 93. Her daughter, Anya Davis, said the cause was complications of a stroke. Wilde performed more than 40 roles with City Ballet from 1950-65, and Balanchine, the head of the company, often liked to throw her into a part with little rehearsal. He loved that I would just go! she said in Wilde Times, Joel Lobenthals 2016 biography of her. Balanchine once said of her, I can ask her to do anything. Balanchine created many important roles for her, including the kilt-wearing, quick-stepping lassie who opens his Scotch Symphony (1952), and the final, Hungarian-tinged ... More
Steidl announces U.S. release of 'Property Rights' by Mitch Epstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitch Epstein, a celebrated artist and pioneer of fine-art color photography in the 1970s, has published a new work, Property Rights. The new book culminates a half-century of Epsteins work portraying the American landscape and its connection to historical events and social change. This collection of photographs and short texts examines the American governments ongoing legacy of property confiscation and how communities gather to resist, providing a visual and written account of conflict and hope. Property Rights asks us to reflect on how our relationship to the land has defined Americas history, and exposes the racial and economic motives behind the historical appropriation of property. In keeping with Epsteins 50-year exploration of American life, Property Rights questions the relationship between ... More
Fine minerals from China to shimmer in spotlight at Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- A spectacular Fluorite from Chifeng City, China, could bring $100,000 or more in Heritage Auctions Treasures of China Fine Minerals Auction Sept. 2. This impressive specimen is among the top draws in one of the finest selections of minerals from China ever offered at auction. This Fluorite is impressive in aesthetics and in size it measures more than five inches across and has a remarkable red-pink hue, with better translucency than can be found in most other sizable pieces, Heritage Auctions Nature & Science Director Craig Kissick said. It is an exceptional example, befitting of its spot in this extraordinary selection of minerals from China, which is as impressive as any ever offered at auction, This extraordinary specimen hails from the world-famous pocket of Pink Fluorite found in August 2018, and is one of the larger ... More
Herbert Schlosser, a force behind 'SNL' and 'Laugh-In,' dies at 95
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Herbert Schlosser, a longtime NBC executive who put an indelible stamp on the network by negotiating Johnny Carsons first deal to host The Tonight Show, putting Rowan & Martins Laugh-In on the air and overseeing the development of Saturday Night Live, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. His death was confirmed by his wife, Judith Schlosser. Herbert Schlosser was president of NBC in 1974 when he faced a late-night predicament: Carson no longer wanted the network to carry repeats of Tonight on weekends. But pleasing Carson, the networks most important star, led to an inevitable question: What would NBC televise at 11:30 on Saturday nights? Schlosser wrote a memo in early 1975 that laid out the fundamentals of an original program that would be televised from NBCs headquarters ... More
Missoula Art Museum exhibits new works by Anne Appleby
MISSOULA, MONT.- Montana artist Anne Appleby is well-known for her muted color-field paintings that offer an abstract take on the natural world. Recently, Appleby has embarked on a new stage of her career to incorporate more representational imagery of the environment. The exhibit, A Hymn for the Mother, embodies this radical shift and opened at the Missoula Art Museum Friday, August 6. Anne Appleby lives outside Jefferson City, Mont., and draws upon her surroundings in the Elkhorn Mountains to inform her work. A Hymn for the Mother represents a pivotal point in her artistic direction as she explores more traditional and romantic landscapes as opposed to distillations of pure color. According to Appleby, the idea of a hymn, or an expression of reverence, will continue to inform her future work. The exhibit punctuates an important time in Annes ... More
'Bix' review: A jazz legend fondly remembered
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Although this iteration of this 1981 documentary is a restoration, one ought not go to see Bix: Aint None of Them Play Like Him Yet expecting a shiny cinematographic object. The movie looks like a 40-year-old mix of talking-head and archival footage. What makes it extraordinary is the story it tells of an uncanny musician and his beautiful playing and songs. Born in 1903, Bix Beiderbecke didnt live to be 30, but he made an impression on jazz that is still felt today. He was raised in Davenport, Iowa, in a straight-laced German American household. A child prodigy, Beiderbecke first fell in love with jazz via the frenetically bouncy tune Tiger Rag. But he was also devoted to the work of Debussy and Ravel, and he brought their dreamy impressionism to his music. That influence persisted in jazz for decades. (Its said ... More
'The Threepenny Opera,' without the 'Cabaret' clichés
BERLIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This winter, after live performances had made a modest return in Germany, the coronavirus pandemic brought them to another halt. But at the Berliner Ensemble in January, preparations were underway for a highly anticipated new staging of The Threepenny Opera. That play with music by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill had its 1928 premiere in the companys house, and became the citys most famous music theater export and perhaps the most iconic cultural artifact of Weimar-era Berlin. I am working behind Bertolt Brechts wooden production desk! said Barrie Kosky, the productions Australian director, with some astonishment. Although the cast had been rehearsing for eight weeks, no one could say when opening night would be. The only good thing for me, personally, thats come out ... More
Speed Art Museum opens new exhibition: Ralph Eugene Meatyard's "The Unforeseen Wilderness"
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museum announced its newest exhibition, Ralph Eugene Meatyards The Unforeseen Wilderness. Opening August 6, 2021, the exhibition highlights a remarkable portfolio of images that celebrate the beauty and mystery of Kentuckys own Red River Gorge. A resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Meatyard made a living as an optician while exploring his passion for photography with the Lexington Camera Club under the mentorship of photographers such as Cranston Ritchie and Van Deren Coke. In 1962, the Army Corps of Engineers received approval from Congress to dam the Red River in east-central Kentucky in an effort to control decades-long flooding in the area. In response, the University Press of Kentucky commissioned poet and essayist Wendell Berry to write a book advocating for the preservation ... More
'The Future Isn't What It Used To Be' by Esiri Erheriene-Essi opens at Maruani Mercier
KNOKKE.- Following her breakthrough exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam after being nominated for the Prix de Rome in 2019 (the oldest and most prestigious award in the Netherlands for artists under the age of 40), Esiri Erheriene-Essi, the London-born but Amsterdam-based artist, made her name as one of the most promising emerging painters of her generation. After completing a two-year residency at Amsterdams post graduated institute De Ateliers, Erheriene-Essi developed a highly personal approach to her work, concentrating on large-scale figurative paintings that give prominence to images of Black people, by exploring the untold, often unknown and forgotten or even neglected narratives of members from the African diaspora. As a British born Nigerian, the artist is drawn to and analyses images of Black life that she sources ... More
Pavlov's Dog opens 'Luzia Simons & Anton Hofreiter: Watching Flowers'
BERLIN.- A politician who paints flowers? I first read about it in SZ magazine and found the pictures simply likeable. I also found the fact that a politician is artistically active great. I immediately thought of the tulip pictures by photographer Luzia Simons, which have inspired me for years, and not only because of their refined technique. Her tulips are oversized, they also show the exaggeration of the plant by the Dutch in the 16th century, who had a cult around the tulip. In Hofreiter's watercolours, however, the tulips stand innocently in their natural habitat. Clear in their composition, painted with strong colours, they always come down to the essential, their natural presence. They reveal a beauty, but do not show idylls. In a second group of pictures, pavlov's dog presents their paintings, which were created in Brazil and Peru. Ten percent of all known ... More
Tel Aviv Museum of Art opens a solo exhibition of photography by Aenne Biermann
TEL AVIV.- This is the first solo exhibition in Israel of Aenne Biermann, one of the foremost avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. The show at Tel Aviv Museum of Art presents this artists unique output with over one hundred of her original prints, including works from the family collection on public view for the first time. Aenne Biermann (18981933), a self-taught German Jewish photographer, used her camera as a means of modern, avant-garde artistic expression from the mid-1920s onward. She is known today as one of the most important representatives of Neue Fotografie (New Photography), part of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) movement in German art that arose during the 1920s as a reaction against Expressionism. This artistic trend was characterized by unsentimental preoccupation with reality ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Emil Nolde was born August 07, 1867. Emil Nolde (7 August 1867 - 13 April 1956) was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors. Golden yellows and deep reds appear frequently in his work, giving a luminous quality to otherwise somber tones. His watercolors include vivid, brooding storm-scapes and brilliant florals. In this image: Members of the media take a look at some of the paintings by German artist Emil Nolde presented at the Grand Palais in Paris, Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008. Painting at left is: Leute Im Dortkrug, (At the Village Hotel).
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