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Patrick van Mil, director of the Prinsenhof museum, looks at the painting Little Street (Het Straatje) by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) at the museum in Delft, on March 22, 2016. The painting is seen in Delft for the fist time since 320 years. Bart Maat / ANP / AFP.
DELFT.- Museum Prinsenhof Delft is bringing Vermeers The Little Street back to Delft. For the first time in 320 years this famous masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) can be seen in the city where it was painted. The reason for its temporary move is the recent study of The Little Streets location by Professor Dr Frans Grijzenhout, Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam. This study demonstrated that it must have been Vlamingstraat at the site of the present-day numbers 40-42. The exhibition enables you to track every step of the study. It is not a Whodunit but a Where is it, says Patrick van Mil, Director of Museum Prinsenhof Delft, and we present theories of other historians too. People have been looking for this location ever since 1921, when The Little Street became part of the Rijksmuseums collection. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day NEW YORK.- Artifacts on display at the South Street Seaport Museum on March 16, 2016 in New York City. This is the first Post-Hurricane Sandy Exhibition at the Museum. Mireya Acierto/Getty Images/AFP
| Major works from Tate and Centre Pompidou on view at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst | | Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco select Max Hollein as Director | | Masterpiece by Francis Bacon leads Christie's sale of the Marcie-Rivière collection |
Dan Flavin, Untitled (to the citizens of the Swiss cantons) 2, 1987 © Estate of Dan Flavin / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016, Foto/photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- Three of Europes most prestigious museums of modern and contemporary art the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst are bringing major works from their collections together to create a temporary European museum. The conceptual point of departure for this unique international museum collaboration is a vision of the future: The year is 2052. The museums are threatened with extinction, and art is disappearing from society. In this science-fiction scenario, more than eighty masterpieces from three European collections are united in a temporary transnational museum. It features works dating from the 1920s to the present by such prominent artists as Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Duchamp, Isa Genzken, On Kawara, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol and many more. The exhibition was inspired by Ray Bradburys science- ... More | |
Hollein currently serves as director of Frankfurts Schirn Kunsthalle. Photo: Gaby Gerster.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco have chosen Max Hollein as the new director of the largest public arts institution in Northern California, effective June 1, 2016. Hollein currently serves as director of Frankfurts Schirn Kunsthalle (since 2001) and as director of the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection (since 2006). He is known for prodigious fund raising, innovative exhibitions, management and leadership skills, transforming institutions, building collections, and broadening audiences by making art more accessible. He takes over leadership of one of the most popular art institutions in the United States with 1.6 million visitors in 2014, the fourth most-visited museums in the country. Hollein was chosen after an extensive international search by a selection committee of the museums Board of Trustees. We are thrilled to be able to name a new director of such i ... More | |
The top lot of the sale is the final painting of the Men in Blue series by Francis Bacon painted between March and June 1954. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2016.
PARIS.- Christies will offer the Collection Zeineb et Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière, un couple de grands amateurs et mécènes, on 8 and 9 June 2016. This unique sale, gathering major modern and contemporary artworks, antiquities and decorative arts is among the most prestigious private collections of art and design organised by Christies in France. This sale, comprising 370 lots, estimated in the region of 18 million, will pay tribute to the discerning eye of Zeineb and Jean-Pierre Marcie-Rivière, a couple well known for their hospitality and generosity. François de Ricqlès, President of Christies France: This collection is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of Monsieur and Madame Marcie-Rivière, who were often ahead of their time in their selection of a very subtle mix of styles and periods, with works of art from renowned artists. It is a collection of high quality which cannot be compared ... More |
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| Nationally recognized Mummies of the World: The Exhibition will make its debut at the Bowers Museum | | J. Paul Getty Trust announces J. Paul Getty Medal to go to Yo-Yo Ma and Ellsworth Kelly | | "We're Off Then: Travel Pictures from Albrecht Dürer to Olafur Eliasson" on view at the Kupferstichkabinett |
Through modern science, Mummies of the World demonstrates how mummification can take place through natural and intentional practices.
SANTA ANA, CA.- The nationally recognized Mummies of the World: The Exhibition made its debut at the Bowers Museum on March 18, 2016. The exhibition features more than 150 artifacts, real human and animal mummies from across the globe. With over 1.4 million visitors experiencing Mummies of the World to date, the display at Bowers Museum is the first time the exhibit has been to Orange County. As the largest exhibition of real mummies and related artifacts ever assembled, the exhibit provides a window into the lives of ancient people from every region of the world including Europe, South America and Ancient Egypt, offering unprecedented insights into past cultures and civilizations. Through modern science, Mummies of the World demonstrates how mummification can take place ... More | |
Ellsworth Kelly. Image courtesy Jack Shear.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it will award its highest honor, the annual J. Paul Getty Medal, to musician Yo-Yo Ma and, posthumously, to artist Ellsworth Kelly. The J. Paul Getty Medal was established in 2013 by the trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust to honor extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding and support of the arts. With this Medal we honor two of our nations greatest artists: Yo-Yo Ma for his distinguished contributions to the conservation and understanding of the worlds many and diverse cultures, and Ellsworth Kelly for his mastery in paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality, said Maria Hummer-Tuttle, chair, J. Paul Getty Board of Trustees. In addition to his accomplished career as a master cellist, Ma founded the Silk Road Ensemble and the nonprofit Silkroad to promote the creation of new music, cross-cultural partnerships, education ... More | |
Eduard Hildebrandt Peking: Tientsin 1863. Aquarell © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Dietmar Katz.
BERLIN.- Everyone is on a journey. Travelling, being on the road, mobility all have been integral themes since the dawn of humanity. In its 2016 summer exhibition, Berlins Kupferstichkabinett is showing the most beautiful, seductive and curious travel pictures from over five centuries. The arc spans from gorgeously illustrated books from the Age of Discovery around the year 1500, via the art spawned by Humboldt's travels, the enigmatic paradises of Paul Gauguin and Nolde's deeply sceptical South Sea watercolours, right through to Ed Ruscha's 1960s gas station in middle-ofnowhere America and Franz Ackermann's mental maps". The theme of travel and art on paper are intricately connected for the travel picture is based on mobile media. It is with notations in sketchbooks, drawings, watercolours and oil sketches that ... More |
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| New York's World Trade Center defends Belgian tribute; Confusion that lights looked wrong | | Metallica's "Master of Puppets" first metal recording in United States historical registry | | Russian President Vladimir Putin's wax figure introduced in Serbia's wax museum |
The spire of One World Trade Center is lit on March 22, 2016 in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- New York's World Trade Center was lit black, yellow and red in solidarity with Belgium over the Brussels attacks, a spokesman said Wednesday despite confusion that the lights looked wrong. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that the 408-foot (124-meter) spire on the tallest building in the United States would be lit in the colors of the Belgian flag after dark. It was to be an especially poignant tribute given the World Trade Center is built on the site of the 9/11 attacks on New York. But a series of photographs published by AFP and other media showed the colors to be blue, white and red -- those of the French flag that lit up the Trade Center after the November attacks in Paris. It sparked remarks on social media from observers, and media speculation that the Trade Center had made a mistake. "Making lights appear black is always tricky," Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority, which owns and runs the ... More | |
This file photo taken on November 11, 2014 shows Metallica performing during "The Concert for Valor" on the National Mall in Washington, DC. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Metallica's album "Master of Puppets" on Wednesday became the first heavy metal recording chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress due to its historical importance. The US government-run library's National Recording Registry each year selects 25 pieces judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and keeps the best-quality originals to safeguard for future generations. "Master of Puppets," released in 1986 as the third album by Metallica, "shows the group moving away from its thrash metal history and reputation and exploring new ideas," the Library of Congress said in a statement. "Thrash, a reaction against the pop metal of the early 1980s, aimed to renew metal by emphasizing speed and aggression," it said, while crediting "Master of Puppets" with also aiming to "break free of thrash orthodoxy." Other selections ... More | |
A picture taken on March 23, 2016, shows a life-size wax figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin. STR / AFP.
BELGRADE (AFP).- A Serbian museum introduced Wednesday a wax figure of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a sign of gratitude to the Balkan country's traditional ally, Tanjug news agency reported. The figure was introduced at a ceremony attended by a few thousand people including Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic who said Russia was a "strong political partner" and praised Putin's support for Serbia. In the 1990s, Serbia was a pariah state under international sanctions due to the aggressive wartime policy of then strongman Slobodan Milosevic and eventually was bombed by NATO over his violent Kosovo policy. Kosovo in 2008 declared independence from Serbia, a move recognised by more than 100 countries, including the United States and most of EU countries. Both Serbia and Russia rejected the move, and Moscow has threatened to veto Kosovo's UN membership bid at the UN Security Council. Putin is the first foreigner ... More |
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| Major survey of contemporary artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists opens in Monaco | | Parachute jackets and bandage skirts: fashion in communist Poland on view at the National Museum in Krakow | | Next artist shortlist for the BMW Art Journey announced during Art Basel in Hong Kong |
The ambitious display Australia: Defending the Oceans at the Heart of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art brings together 50 artists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage.
MONACO.- Australia: Defending the Oceans at the Heart of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art is a major survey of contemporary artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists to be hosted in the world renowned Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in Europe this year, as part of the exhibition Taba Naba Australia, Oceania, Arts of the Sea People. Running 24 March to 30 September 2016, this innovative project is ambitious in both scale and intent. Comprising works by 50 artists from across Australias east and north coasts, it will fill the Museums three floors including the rooftop terrace where a 670 square metre installation will be seen against a spectacular backdrop of Monaco and the Mediterranean Sea. As well as providing a prestigious international platform to showcase the artworks to a global arts ... More | |
This picture taken on March 16, 2016 shows the exhibition "FASHION able in Communist Poland" which presents Polish fashion in the time of communism in at the National Museum in Krakow. BARTOSZ SIEDLIK / AFP.
KRAKOW (AFP).- An elegant former hotel employee remembers dyeing gauze bandages and turning them into ruffled skirts to remain fashionable despite chronic shortages in communist-era Poland. "It was a major challenge; to make something that was impossible to get your hands on otherwise," recalled Iwona Koczwanska who groaned when asked her age. "We had to be creative. I remember once sewing myself a lovely summer dress out of a duvet cover," she told AFP at the "FASHIONable in Communist Poland" exhibition at the National Museum in Krakow. Dressed in a leopard-print hat, beige turtleneck and long brown skirt with tassels, Koczwanska reminisced while watching old fashion reels projected onto a gallery wall. "Look how drab the women are. That's how it was. ... More | |
Newsha Tavakolian.
HONG KONG.- Following last years premiere of the BMW Art Journey, an expert jury today announced the third shortlist. As a joint initiative of Art Basel and BMW, the BMW Art Journey enables emerging artist to go on a journey of their own choice to develop new ideas and create new projects. Three artists showing in Discoveries, the sector for emerging artists at Art Basel's Hong Kong show, were nominated for the shortlist: Based in Cornwall, United Kingdom, Abigail Reynolds studied English Literature at Oxford University before pursuing Fine Art at Goldsmiths University. Her interest in books prompts her collages, sculptures, films and most recently, printmaking. The ideas driving Reynolds work are based on reportage photography books, her interest in networks of association and how our sense of time is affected by technology. She has exhibited at art institutions and galleries in London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Eindhoven ... More |
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Joan Goldberg joins Heritage Auctions as Director - Florida
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions has announced Joan Goldberg has joined the firm in a newly-created role serving Florida collectors and consignors. Bringing more than 30 years of broad-spectrum experience, Goldberg will be headquartered in The Palm Beaches, as Heritage readies plans to expand its auction operations and open a new office in the region by spring, 2017. Heritage has maintained an important roster of clients in Florida across dozens of categories said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions, and a dedicated representative is just one way in which we will service existing and new buyers and sellers in the nearly 40 categories in which Heritage holds auctions. As President of Diversified Circle, Inc., a management-consulting firm, Goldbergs clients included government and nonprofit organizations, brand and event marketing firms, and specialty retail ... More
Jenny Hutchinson hired as Head Museum Educator at The Hyde
GLENS FALLS, NY.- Jenny Hutchinson, a native of Queensbury, has been appointed the new head of Museum Education at The Hyde Collection. In this role, Hutchinson will design and grow The Hydes full slate of educational and public programs, which includes workshops, lectures, drop-in sessions, tours, demonstrations, and community outreach. These programs serve a wide range of audiences, including children, adults, families, and students. Since the start of 2016, The Hyde has experienced a 41% percent growth in visitorship. Building on this momentum, Hutchinson will focus on creating new opportunities to engage visitors through programs that enhance the level of understanding and relevance of the Museums collections and special exhibitions. We are excited to bring Jennys enthusiasm and talent to The Hyde, said director Erin Coe. Her experience in the ... More
Korean artist Park Seo-Bo opens his third exhibition at Galerie Perrotin
HONG KONG.- Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong is presenting the third exhibition dedicated to Korean artist Park Seo-Bo, following his first solo show at Galerie Perrotin, Paris in 2014 and Galerie Perrotin, New York in 2015. Born in 1931, Park Seo-Bo is a seminal figure in Korean contemporary art and one of the founding members of the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement, a synthesis between traditional Korean spirit and Western abstraction, which emerged in the early 1970s in post-war Korea and has gained international recognition since; demonstrated among others by the exhibitions dedicated to CHUNG Chang-Sup at Galerie Perrotin Paris and New York, the current exhibition ORIGIN at Galerie Perrotin, Paris curated by PARK Seo-Bo that features the 3 original founding members of the Origin group founded in 1962: CHOI Myoung-Young, LEE Seung-Jio and SUH Seung- ... More
Art Basel Cities: Art Basel launches new initiative
BASEL.- Art Basel today announced its new Art Basel Cities initiative, which will expand Art Basel's engagement in the art world from staging art fairs to working with cities to develop cultural events with international resonance. Art Basel Cities will offer the art world new opportunities to discover and engage with cultural scenes across the world. As part of this initiative, Art Basel will work with selected partner cities to develop vibrant and content-driven programs specific to the city, connecting them to the global art world through Art Basel's network. Art Basel will use its expertise, network, and communication channels to support cities in developing their individual cultural landscape. In addition to hosting unique art events in the partner cities, the program will bring projects from these cities back to the Art Basel shows, providing them with additional platforms to engage ... More
A carnival of colour: Spectacular collection of Indian miniatures to be offered at Bonhams
LONDON.- Following two market-leading auctions of Islamic and Indian Art in April and October 2015, Bonhams announces its auction of Islamic and Indian Art in London on 19 April 2016. The 315-lot sale features exceptional items in several categories including glassware and ceramics, calligraphy and illustration, carving, bronze, carpets, miniatures and textiles. Key highlights of the sale include 50 miniatures encapsulating a broad range of Indian painting from 17th to 19th century. The miniatures are part of the celebrated collection of Indian art belonging to New Yorkers, Evelyn and Peter Kraus. The miniatures depict traditional scenes from India, painted in vibrant gouache and lavishly accented with gold leaf. One of the highlights of this collection is Maharaja Man Singh Celebrating the festival of Holi, estimated at £20,000-30,000, a celebratory portrayal of the ancient Hindu ... More
Exhibition of new photographs by Sharon Core opens at Yancey Richardson Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- The Yancey Richardson Gallery presents Understory, an exhibition of new photographs by Sharon Core exploring the theater of growth, decay and predation in a cultivated closed landscape environment created by the artist. The stage for these works is a large geodesic dome constructed by Core on her property in the Hudson Valley. The environment serves not only as a vivarium for plant, reptile, amphibian and insect life, but also as a living studio one containing an elaborate staging of the conceit of art as the mirror of nature. In her earlier series of still lifes Early American and 1606 1907, Core examined the play between photographic truth and painted illusion. In Understory she looks beyond the frame, outward and downward into the environment itself. Teeming with shrubs, vines, weeds, exotic and native cultivars along with decomposing wood, ... More
Jonas Mekas in person for Walden screening
MIAMI, FLA.- Obsolete Media Miami (O.M.M.) will welcome seminal artist, filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas to the Miami Design District on Saturday, March 26 for a reception and screening of the artists diary film opus Walden Parts I and II. The special evening marks the first public screening of Walden in Miami and will benefit O.M.M., an experimental art studio establishing a picture and moving image archive and resource for artists, designers, filmmakers, researchers and writers. There is a profound contemporary relevance and legacy in Jonas Mekas artistic practice and the way in which his 1960 16mm diary films anticipated our social media streams, said Barron Sherer, Principal Obsolete Media Miami. We are proud to partner with the Miami Design District and Ground Control to bring this celebrated archivist, filmmaker, writer and champion of underground aesthetics to Miami. ... More
Art preserves history Loch Ryan's Second World War flying boats
DUMFRIES.- Wig Bays years as a vital base for the flying boats that hunted enemy submarines are being commemorated in an art and environment project. The aircraft were scrapped long ago, the RAF camp near Stranraer and its hangers have all but vanished, and even those who were children in the war years have grown old. But Solway Firth Partnership, with funding from Dumfries and Galloway Council, has teamed up with the local community, environmental art organisation Wide Open, and artist and designer Kenny Mackay, to preserve the story of this fascinating piece of Scotlands history. The project is part of the partnerships drive to encourage sustainable tourism by attracting visitors interested in its World War II history and wildlife. A sound installation has been created at the observation post once used to watch out for German mines. Visitors entering the structure ... More
First solo gallery exhibition of the ink painter Li Huayi in Hong Kong opens at Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery
HONG KONG.- Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery is presenting Exotica: Latest Works of Li Huayi, the first solo gallery exhibition of the master ink painter in Hong Kong. The exhibition features Lis latest series of large scale, monumental landscape paintings, inspired by his travels to remote areas of China since 2007, which were unveiled to the public for the very first time. The exhibition opened on Monday, March 22nd, and will run through May 21st, 2016. When encountering one of Li Huayis paintings, viewers often find themselves astonished by the atmosphere and beauty of his expansive landscapes. His works draw their inspiration from Song Dynasty landscape painting the grandeur, solemnness, majesty and elegance are all present; yet they go further the scenes seem to envelop the viewer, somehow placing you within the painting itself. Surrounded by a wilderness of ... More
"Wasteland. New Art from Los Angeles" on view at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS.- The exhibition Wasteland. New Art from Los Angeles takes place in two parallel venues in Paris, the Mona Bismarck American Center and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin, from 12 March to 17 July 2016. The curator, Shamim M. Momin, Director and Curator of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) has brought together the work of fourteen artists. On the occasion of this unprecedented collaboration between LAND, the Mona Bismarck American Center, and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, two exhibitions are being presented simultaneously, including some of the most interesting artists working in Los Angeles today. New works have been commissioned to the fourteen artists in order to create an engaging dialogue between the two exhibition venues. Drawing on T.S. Eliots seminal modernist poem, The Waste Land, as the thematic thread between the 14 ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Edward Weston was born March 24, 1886. Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 - January 1, 1958) was a 20th century American photographer. He has been called one of the most innovative and influential American photographers In this image: The 1937 gelatin silver print of a ranch along the San Simeon Highway in California, left, taken by Edward Weston is one of many viewed by Bruce Polonsky, standing, and Betsy McCutchen at the Portland Art Musuem in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2004. Weston's use of crisp resolution, negative space and light patterns can be seen in each of the artist's photos currently on exhibit at the Museum in the show, "Edward Weston: A Photographer's Love of Life", through Nov. 28.
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