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This picture taken on September 12, 2019 shows the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral's carpet undergoing renovation displayed at 'the Mobilier National' headquarters in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
by Jean-Louis De La Vaissiere
PARIS (AFP).- A rare royal tapestry housed at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris has been spared the water damage officials feared, after firefighters doused the great mediaeval edifice to extinguish last April's devastating blaze. The huge tapestry, finished under the reign of king Louis Philippe in 1838, was evacuated from the gothic monument just days after the fire. It had been stored in two parts in trunks -- which protected it from the molten lead falling from the roof, which was destroyed along with the steeple in the April 15 disaster. But the tapestry had soaked up huge amounts of water, which swelled its weight to three tonnes from just one tonne when it was handed over to France's Mobilier National, which oversees the country's collection of valuable furniture and artworks. "Rolled up, it would have been a bacterial soup" that could have quickly started rotting, said Herve Lemoine, head of the Mobilier National. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, The Who at Pace Global Flagship Opening. Photo: Joe Schildhorn, Zach Hilty, Kelly Taub & Mike Vitelli/BFA.com
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| | Musée Marmottan Monet exhibits works from the largest collection of Mondrians in the world | | Exhibition at the Musée Maillol highlights the pictorial qualities of the great 'Naïve' masters | | Solid gold toilet stolen from English stately home |
Piet Mondrian, Mill in sunlight, 1908. Oil on canvas, 114 x 84 cm © Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
PARIS.- The figurative paintings by Piet Mondrian (18721944) have for a long time remained unknown to the public. However, the man who is now recognised as the most prominent collector of the artists work, Salomon Slijper (18841971), was passionately interested in this long forgotten part of his oeuvre. Having met the master in the Netherlands, where he fled during the First World War, Salomon Slijper, the son of a diamond dealer from Amsterdam, built up a unique collection of paintings and drawings by the artist, whom he befriended. Mondrian selected a series of works that were representative of his work produced between 1891 and 1918, enriching the ensemble with several abstract works executed later; most of the acquisitions were made between 1916 and 1920. Slijper gave the painter considerable financial support. Furthermore, he changed his life. At a time when Mondrian was not able to earn a living from his work and ... More | |
Henri Rousseau, dit le Douanier Rousseau Portrait de Frumence Biche en civil, Non daté. Huile sur toile, 46 x 38 cm. Collection du Musée International dArt Naïf Anatole Jakovsky Ville de Nice © Ville de Nice.
PARIS.- The Musée Maillol is holding an exhibition of more than a hundred works from the fascinating, dreamy, unique, and rich world of the Naïve artists. Called modern primitives by one of their ardent supporters, the collector and art critic Wilhelm Uhde (18741947), these artists renewed painting in their own way, independently from the avantgarde artists and without academicism. Brought together for the first time in Paris, their brightly coloured works shed light on an inter-war period in the history of art that is often overlooked. Based on Henri Rousseau and Séraphine Louis, the exhibition aims to highlight a constellation of overlooked artists such as André Bauchant, Camille Bombois, Ferdinand Desnos, Jean Ãve, René Rimbert, Dominique Peyronnet, and Louis Vivin. Self-taught artists, like the Douanier Rousseau who preceded them, they took up art privately or later in life, driven ... More | |
Thieves have stolen an 18-karat gold toilet from an exhibition of artworks at Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said Saturday -- causing significant flooding. William EDWARDS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- A gang of thieves on Saturday stole an 18-carat gold toilet from Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said, causing flooding that damaged the world-famous stately home. The fully-functioning toilet, dubbed "America", was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and estimated to be worth around £1 million. A 66-year-old man was arrested following the burglary, which took place before dawn at the 18th-century estate near Oxford, southern England. The toilet was one of the star attractions in an exhibition of Cattelan's works that opened on Thursday at the palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Visitors were able to book time slots to use it -- but only for three minutes each, to limit the queues. More than 100,000 people used the loo during the year it was on display at New York's Guggenheim Museum. "The offenders broke into the palace overnight and ... More |
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| | Knife attack badly damages work by top French modern artist | | Christie's Asian Art Week live auctions total $41,641,250 million | | Exhibition presents works from a little-known private collection of Renaissance art |
Daniel Buren (1938 - ), Peinture [Manifestation 3] © Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP © DB - Adagp, Paris.
PARIS (AFP).- An attacker wielding a utility knife has badly damaged a work by the celebrated French conceptual artist Daniel Buren at the Pompidou Centre in central Paris, the museum said on Friday. The work, "Peinture [Manifestation 3]", suffered "serious deliberate damage" in Thursday afternoon's attack by the man, the museum said in a statement. It said that a museum attendant alerted security, and video cameras allowed the rapid finding of the suspect. "He made no claim (over the attack) and was handed over to the police," it said. An investigation has been opened by the judicial authorities after the museum filed a complaint to police. The artist, 81, has been informed of the incident and the work itself transferred to the stores of the Pompidou Centre to estimate the damage and restoration needed. It will be replaced on public display by another work from the artist. The Pompidou Centre said it understood th ... More | |
Notable results included a very rare gold dragon-handled cup, Yuan dynasty, that sold for $2,535,000 and set the auction record for a gold work of art from the Yuan dynasty. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies Asian Art Week live auctions totaled USD $41,641,250 (£33,752,998 / 37,662,556 / HK$324,469,071) with online sales to continue through September 25. Deep bidding was witnessed for all categories with active participation from registered bidders spanning 36 countries and 5 continents. Exceptional results were achieved for the two collection sales, Masterpieces of Early Chinese Gold and Silver and Chinese Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, with many lots greatly exceeding their initial sale estimates. Throughout the week of sales eleven new world auction records were set. The top lot of the week was a rare and important large parcel-gilt silver bowl, Tang dynasty, which realized $3,495,000 and set the world auction record for a Chinese silver work of art. Other notable results included a very rare gold dragon-handled cup, ... More | |
Fra Filippo Lippi, (Florence, circa 1406 - Spoleto, 1469), St John the Evangelist, circa 1432-1434, Tempera and gold on panel, 42.8 x 32 cm, Alana Collection, Newark, DE, United States, Photo: © Allison Chipak.
PARIS.- The Musée Jacquemart-André is focusing on the Alana collection, one of the most precious and little-known private collections of Renaissance art in the world, which is currently located in the United States. Echoing its exceptional collection of Italian art, the Musée Jacquemart André is holding an exhibition of more than seventy-five masterpieces by the greatest Italian masters, such as Lorenzo Monaco, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Lippi, Bellini, Carpaccio, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bronzino, and Gentileschi. This exhibition gives visitors a unique chance to admire for the first time pictures, sculptures, and objets dart that have never been exhibited to the general public. The Musée Jacquemart-André was a model for collectors who, in turn, established collections that largely focused on the Italian Renaissance. The ... More |
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| | First ever art power station and contemporary art centre opens its doors | | World's rarest and most valuable Islamic coin to be auctioned by Morton & Eden | | Dallas Museum of Art opens Alex Katz and Ragnar Kjartansson exhibitions in Hoffman Galleries |
E-WERK exterior.
LUCKENWALDE.- E-WERK Luckenwalde is a new Kraftwerk and Kunstzentrum in Brandenburg spanning 10,000m2. E-WERK Luckenwalde simultaneously produces and supplies renewable Kunststrom (art power) to the national grid and presents a bi-annual contemporary art programme. As a functioning sculpture, multipurpose tool and dynamic site of production, each floor is tailored to the energy and art programme, which encompasses a first floor contemporary art centre, ground floor production site with several fully equipped workshops, and affordable artist studios on the third and fourth floors. After discussing environmental concerns for many years, now is the time to take action, so it is with great pleasure to make concrete change by reopening E-WERK Luckenwalde. We seek to reach beyond the contemporary art world by feeding art-powered electricity into the grid; fusing function with metaphor by connecting electricity with art. Af ... More | |
An Umayyad gold dinar dated 105h (723AD) from the Mine of the Commander of the Faithful
LONDON.- One of the worlds rarest and most highly-prized of all Islamic gold coins is to be offered for auction in London on Thursday 24 October 2019. Measuring a mere 20mm across, about the size of a modern £1 piece, the gold coin has an auction estimate of £1.4-1.6 million. This is the highest estimate for any lot previously offered for sale by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden. The reason for this expensive price tag is the fact that this Umayyad dinar, dated 105h (723AD), bears a short line of text Madin Amir al-Muminin, which translates as Mine of the Commander of the Faithful. In other words it states that the dinar was made from gold mined at a location owned by the Caliph himself. As the successor to the Prophet Muhammad, the Caliph was all-important. He was the supreme religious and political leader of the early Islamic state, making this the ultimate provenance for any Islamic relic. What mak ... More | |
Alex Katz, Emma 3, 2017, The Rachosfky Collection, Photo by Paul Takeuchi.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art presents two intimate contemporary solo exhibitionsFocus On: Alex Katz, an exhibition of works by the celebrated 92-year-old American painter, and Focus On: Ragnar Kjartansson, a presentation of an immersive video installation and the debut of a commissioned work by the Icelandic artist. Organized by Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, the DMAs Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, with works loaned from local collections, the separate shows offer glimpses into personally meaningful moments from each of the artists lives. Both exhibitions open on September 15, 2019 and will be on view through March 22, 2020 in the Hoffman Galleries on Level 1. The DMA is known around the world for its outstanding collection of contemporary art, and our free focus exhibitions allow us to maximize our audiences exposure to some of the best ... More |
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| | Bonhams unveils ex-Le Mans Bouriat/Chiron Bugatti Type 55 to be offered at 2020 Grand Palais sale | | Vintage Cibachrome color photographs by John Humble on view at Joseph Bellows Gallery | | Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' photographer dies |
Ex-Le Mans Bouriat/Chiron Bugatti Type 55. Estimate on Request. Photo: Bonhams.
PARIS.- One of the most important Bugatti sports cars of the marques golden era, to be offered as a highlight in the 2020 Bonhams Grand Palais Sale in Paris, was unveiled today to the worlds media at a preview of the Bonhams Goodwood Revival sale. The 1932 Bugatti Type 55 chassis no. 55221 which started life as a works entry in that years 24 Hours of Le Mans, co-driven by two of Frances finest and most charismatic racing drivers of the 1930s, Louis Chironand Count Guy Bouriat-Quintart, is being offered for the first time at auction following an incredible 56 years in the ownership of one discerning British family. Estimate on request. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire an extremely historic and important motor car owned by the same family for 56 years, said Sholto Gilbertson, Director, Bonhams UK Motor Cars. Over the years, the family have resisted many offers and we are ... More | |
178 Street at Manhattan Place, Torrance, 1979. vintage Cibachrome print, 20 x 16 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition, John Humble Los Angeles Cibachromes. The exhibition opened September 16th and continues thru October 31st 2019, with a reception scheduled October 12th, from 5-8 pm. The exhibition presents a selection of vintage Cibachrome color photographs that the artist created in 1980 as he began his highly acclaimed extended exploration and documentation of the greater Los Angeles landscape. Using a view camera and color materials, Humble created a vast document of the citys urban surroundings, describing a changing physical and social landscape. The artist noted, "swift changes in the built environment, particularly the often awkward and interesting juxtapositions of old and new. Humbles brilliant photographs follow a particular lineage of picture making, one that honors their subject through a clear and straightforward rendering. His ... More | |
"Tank Man" has become one of the defining images of the 20th century, but the image remains largely unrecognised in China due to censorship of the image and the wider crackdown.
JAKARTA (AFP).- The photographer who snapped the defining image of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown -- a solitary man defiantly blocking the path of a column of tanks -- has died in Indonesia, according to US officials. American authorities confirmed the death of 64-year-old Charlie Cole in Bali, where the Texan had been a long-time resident. "We offer our sincerest condolences to the family on their loss," a state department official told AFP. Cole won the 1990 World Press Photo award for his picture of a man in a white shirt, carrying a shopping bag in each hand, striding out into the road the day after troops killed hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in the heart of Beijing. The man, whose identity remains unknown, stopped in front of a column of tanks and armoured vehicles stretching far down the road, later climbing onto the vehicle ... More |
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Andrew Kreps Gallery opens new space with exhibition of works by Roe Ethridge
NEW YORK, NY.- Andrew Kreps Gallery is presenting Roe Ethridges exhibition Sanctuary 2, the first exhibition at the gallerys new 22 Cortlandt Alley location. In Ethridges new photograph Oslo Grace at Willets Point, the subject gives a knowing smile, their gaze falling just left of camera. Sitting on a reflective pink mat, with a vanitas-style bounty of fruits, they appear to be almost copied and pasted into the muddy, tow lot that they turn their back towards. This gesture is seemingly reciprocated by both Citi Field Stadium towering above, with its billboards and LED screens enacting a similar disconnect to their surroundings, and the image itself, which despite its cues, refuses to fit squarely as a meditation on gentrification nor as an uncanny celebration of artifice. This tension is at the core of Ethridges practice, and the exhibition, as he assumes the mediums ... More
First Brussels exhibition of artist Franz Ackermann on view at Galerie Templon
BRUSSELS.- The spaces at Galerie Templon are taking on a baroque tinge with the first Brussels exhibition of artist Franz Ackermann. Following on from his Paris exhibition in 2016 exploring international metropolises, Our Houses draws on the European capital's energy and transforms the gallery space with a combination of mural paintings, imposing oils on canvas, a sculpture and a series of small format works on the city of Brussels. Over the last twenty years, Franz Ackermann has created a body of work that draws on his personal experience of travel and of his encounter with architecture and the urban space. His mental maps use a mixture of sensations and memories of the global cities he has explored. They then feed into his installations and large, vivid paintings where architectural constructions and organic rhythms meet. With Our Houses ... More
Joan Myers turns her lens to the contemporary American West in new book
LONDON.- In this latest collection of photographs, taken over the last forty-plus years, Joan Myers turns her lens to the contemporary American West. In so doing, she turns our conception of western landscapes and the life contained within them upside down, revealing the changes the region has undergone over the last half-century. Her perspective is at once elegiac and ironic, capturing the myth and reality of the West, its shaping and appropriation by Hollywood, popular culture, and the ever-present, but fracturing American dream. A larger-than-life statue of a cowboy stands on the same lot with a 1960s Cadillac Coupe de Ville. A man in Wrangler jeans and a cowboy hat sits for his portrait on a dais with a Hopi maiden, cows, and deer made out of barbed wire in front of a curtain featuring a photograph of iconic cliffs and sky. A ... More
As part of London Design Festival 2019 The Design Museum, London opens Yuri Suzuki 'Sound in Mind'
LONDON.- Sound artist and former Design Museum 'Designer in Residence' (2012), Yuri Suzuki explores how we navigate and connect to the surrounding world through sound, and how new technologies can be made more relatable through novel implementations of sound design. This free interactive sound display takes place on the first floor of the museums atrium and connects the space by listening tubes. The distinct sections allow members of the public to listen to conversations and spaces between the floors. Garden of Russolo, an installation consisting of sound-absorbing boxes is also on display, allowing visitors to create a sonic experience using their own voice. Artist Yuri Suzuki says I am delighted to present "Sound in Mind", which focuses on my practice as a sound artist to date, and how sound can be used as ... More
Eye Filmmuseum opens an exhibition focusing specifically on Andrei Tarkovsky's quest for existential truth
AMSTERDAM.- With associative films rich in imagery, such as Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), The Mirror (1974) and especially Stalker (1979), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932‒1986) made his name as a leading innovator of the language of cinema. This autumn, Eye Filmmuseum presents an exhibition and film programme devoted to the celebrated filmmaker and mystic, focusing specifically on Tarkovskys quest for existential truth. In addition to immersing the visitor in Tarkovskys imagery, the exhibition includes unique documents letters, photos and Polaroids that have never previously been displayed. Moreover, the accompanying film programme features digitally restored films. The work of Andrei Tarkovsky weaves together dreams and memories, past and present. The painterly beauty of his images, his metaphysical ... More
Exhibition features sixteen new paintings and five new sculptures by Gary Hume
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is presenting Gary Hume: Destroyed School Paintings, the new exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. The exhibition features sixteen new paintings and five new sculptures. The paintings were inspired by news photographs of schoolrooms destroyed in recent conflicts in the Middle East. The contrast between the naive rendering and innocent subject matter of the wall decorations and the brutal destruction surrounding them is at the heart of Humes new work. This distressing poignancy compelled Hume to bring these found images out of the news cycle and into the realm of more lasting contemplation through painting, initiating a deeper, more empathetic experience of the ravages of war. In contrast to the paintings, the sculptures in the exhibition are painted a ghostly white. Humes familiar Wonky ... More
Sabrina Amrani opens an exhibition of works by Jong Oh
MADRID.- Sabrina Amrani is presenting Sunstone, the second solo exhibition by Jong Oh in the gallery, as part of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. Sunstone is a type of mineral which is used to locate the sun in an overcast or snowy sky by holding it up and noting where it emits, reflects or transmits light. The Vikings first used it as an aid for navigation in the open sea and many other sailors after them. The word is an intimate reference to the artist nomadic life but also a strong metaphor to how light affects, and is part of, his subtle and almost invisible sculptures and installations. Jong Oh's artistic practice is quite particular since he does not use a studio but creates minimal sculptures in situ that respond to a given spatial situation. Responding to the nuanced configuration of each site, the artist constructs spatial structures by suspending and interconnecting ... More
Galerie Templon now represents Billie Zangewa
PARIS.- Galerie Templon announced that it now represents Billie Zangewa in Europe. Born in 1973 in Malawi, Billie Zangewa lives and works in Johannesburg. She uses silk samples to create vibrant tapestries. Her figurative compositions are inspired by her personal experiences and her private life, chronicling the ordinary existence of a urban black woman. When Zangewa went to Johannesburg in the 1990s, after graduating from Rhodes University, leaving the suburban Botswana world where she was brought up by her mother behind, she discovered urban life and a patriarchal society which looks down on the domestic tasks women are left to perform. Her professors encouraged her to politicise her message and distance herself from private and sentimental topics, seen as trivial. However, attracted by the fashion world where she spent several years ... More
Legacies of abstraction, feminism, and language at the UK Art Museum
LEXINGTON, KY.- The University of Kentucky Art Museum announced the opening of three new exhibitions, all featuring women artists whose works examine various aspects of feminism, language, abstraction and the power of everyday objects to stir emotions. The free public exhibitions featuring the work of Joan Snyder, Judy Ledgerwood, UKs own Crystal Gregory, Bethany Collins and Laura Letinsky opened Sept. 14 and run through Dec. 8. Interwoven brings together diverse artists of different generations who make work deeply informed by feminism in their embrace of personal narratives, symbols or choice of motifs. The trio shares an interest in rich texture, a dynamic use of color and gesture, and a strong interest in material and process, even while their art is strongly individual. UK Art Museum Director Stuart Horodner states, Interwoven is a ... More
Petzel Gallery opens a solo show of works by Stephen Prina
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery is presenting English for Foreigners (abridged), a solo show of works by Stephen Prina. The exhibition is on view from September 11 to October 26 and marks the artists seventeenth exhibition at Petzel and his first at the gallerys Upper East Side location. Pete [Peter] [Pietro] Prina, *October 22, 1905, May 9, 1975, my father, played clarinet for the local band in the Comune di Canischio, in the Piedmont region of Northwestern Italy. One day the Blackshirts arrived and demanded that the band perform Giovinezza, the anthem of the Italian National Fascist Party. It was this event that convinced him it was time to emigrate from Italyimmigrate to America. He set sail on the RMS Mauretania from The Port of Cherbourg, France, and arrived at The Port of New York on October 5, 1923, at the age of seventeen. English for Foreigners, ... More
Slow down, sit down, look again: Gitta Gschwendtner brings new design perspectives to the National Trust
LONDON.- Fenton House, a 17th-century merchant home in Hampstead, offers people a fascinating insight into history and heritage, but its probably not the first place youd have looked for cutting-edge contemporary design. That changed on 12 September, when Please Sit arrives at Fenton House. The National Trust, who care for the house, commissioned designer Gitta Gschwendtner as guest host to engage with Fentons rich and characterful heritage and create a series of installations within the house. Gitta, alongside five other participating designers, selected and responded to a particular detail of their chosen room whether a feature of its interior, its existing furniture or the artefacts it contains and offer their interpretation by creating new seating. These interventions create a unique collision of past and present to encourage ... More
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Art After Stonewall 1969-1989
Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born September 15, 1881. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams
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