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Ali Asghar Mounesan (C), Iran's Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, views Achaemenid-era clay tablets on display at Iran's National Museum in the capital Tehran on October 2, 2019, after they were returned by the United States following a US Supreme Court ruling. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
TEHRAN (AFP).- The National Museum of Iran opened on Wednesday an exhibition of around 300 cuneiform clay tablets returned from the United States after a drawn-out legal saga. Found at the ruins of Persepolis, capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (6th - 4th c. BC) in the south of Iran, these works belonged to a group of 1,783 clay tablets or tablet fragments returned to Iran by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. In the 1930s, the university had received on loan around 30,000 tablets or tablet fragments found at Persepolis for research purposes, Iranian media reported. A large portion of the tablets were returned in three batches between 1948 and 2004 before their restitution was blocked by legal action initiated by American survivors of an attack in Israel in 1997 carried out by the Palestinian group Hamas. Blaming Tehran for supporting the armed group, the plaintiffs demanded the seizure of the tablets and their sale put towards the $71.5 million that Iran was ordered to pay i ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Frieze London 2019. Photo by Linda Nylind. Courtesy Linda Nylind / Frieze.
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| | Artist Banksy opens pop-up shop in trademark dispute | | Hidden for 21 years, Ethiopian crown set to return home | | Hiroshi Sugimoto has hard thoughts and a soft focus |
Scores of people vied for a view of some of the guerilla graffiti artist's works, including the stab vest he designed for grime artist Stormzy to wear during his headline performance at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
LONDON (AFP).- Art fans and curious shoppers crowded around a disused shop in south London on Monday after notorious street artist Banksy set up a mini art exhibition in protest at a greetings card company. Scores of people vied for a view of some of the guerilla graffiti artist's works, including the stab vest he designed for grime artist Stormzy to wear during his headline performance at this year's Glastonbury Festival. The exhibition popped up overnight on Surrey Street, in Croydon, with the exhibits shown behind large glass windows, under a shop sign reading "Gross Domestic Product". Banksy said in a statement that his motivation was "possibly the least poetic reason to ever make some art". "A greetings cards company is contesting the trademark I hold to my art, and attempting to take custody of my name so they can sell their fake Banksy merchandise legally," he wrote. Banksy said he had been prompted ... More | |
This photograph taken on September 27, 2019, shows an 18th-century Ethiopian crown at an undisclosed high-security storage facility in the Netherlands. Jan HENNOP / AFP.
ROTTERDAM (AFP).- A priceless 18th-century Ethiopian crown is set to be returned from the Netherlands to Addis Ababa after a one-time refugee found it in a suitcase and hid it in his apartment for two decades. The ornate gilded copper headgear, featuring images of Christ and the Twelve Apostles, was unearthed after refugee-turned-Dutch-citizen Sirak Asfaw contacted Dutch 'art detective' Arthur Brand. Brand, dubbed the "Indiana Jones of the art world" for his discoveries of missing works, said the crown, which is currently being held in a secure location, would soon be handed to the Ethiopian authorities. Speaking at his apartment in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, Sirak told AFP the remarkable story of how he came into possession of the crown -- which experts say belongs to a series of some of Ethiopia's most important cultural artefacts. Sirak, a former Ethiopian refugee who today works as a management consultant for the Dutch government, fled the ... More | |
Hiroshi Sugimoto during installation of his current exhibiton at the Marian Goodman Gallery, "Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Presence," in New York on Sept. 5, 2019. In his new book, the photographer reveals the essence of important buildings. (Jesse Dittmar/The New York Times)
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Of all contemporary photographers, none has so rigorously explored the nature of his medium as Hiroshi Sugimoto. Since the mid-1970s, and working exclusively in black and white, he has devoted series of images to natural history dioramas, the interiors of movie palaces lighted only by their uncanny glowing screens and the historic personages of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. His photographs have stretched and reshaped the concepts of time, space and light endemic to the medium, and in the process they have altered our grasp of history, visual perception and existence itself. He has anointed fossils the pre-photography time-recording device and called photography a process of making fossils out of the present. About two decades ago, Sugimoto turned to photographing iconic, mostly Modernist buildings (the exception: the Temple ... More |
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| | Iris van Herpen designs for nature | | Exhibition explores the relationship between three renegades of the European and American avant-garde | | Terra Foundation acquires Chicago Imagist Roger Brown "Disasters" series painting and other major works |
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, who designed the white concrete friezes with fossil-like patterns that wrap the newly renovated Naturalis Biodiversity Center, inside the center in Leiden, the Netherlands, Aug. 29, 2019. I dont see a difference between architecture and fashion, said van Herpen. They can really talk to each other. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
LEIDEN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The imposing red stone edifice rises from an otherwise empty area in this old Dutch city like a mesa in the American West, bound round and round with what looks like a white ribbon. Get closer, though, and you will discover that the ribbon is actually about 3,300 seamless feet of white concrete friezes with fossil-like patterns inspired by erosion on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, in the Canaries. It seems an extraordinary accessory for the building, until you learn it was designed by the 35-year-old Dutch couturière Iris van Herpen, for the new addition to the renovated Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Netherlands natural history museum. I dont see a difference between architecture and fashion, van Herpen said, taking in the finished building ... More | |
Franz West, Untitled (large sculpture with can), 2009. Papier mâché, styrofoam, acrylic lacquer, can 52 x 41 x 37 3/8 inches (132 x 104 x 95 cm) Private Collection © Archiv Franz West, © Estate Franz West.
LONDON.- Lévy Gorvy is presenting Ride the Wild, an exhibition exploring the relationship between three renegades of the European and American avant-garde: Albert Oehlen, Franz West, and Christopher Wool. These artists were shaped by the radical urban scenes of their youthspost-punk Berlin, Actionist Vienna, and No Wave New Yorkand subsequently became key progenitors of the punk sensibility now prevalent in contemporary art. Ride the Wild considers their shared emphasis on practical and formal dissent, inherited from their respective backgrounds and developed in ways that resonate yet remain unique. Taking a rare installation by Oehlen, Untitled (2005), as its starting point, and featuring landmark works from the 1980s to the present day, the exhibition marks the first instance Oehlen (b. 1954), West (19472012), and Wool (b. 1955) will be exclusively presented ... More | |
Ed Paschke, Topcat Boy, 1970. Acrylic on canvas, 71 x 51 in. (180.3 x 129.5 cm), Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, 2017.3
CHICAGO, IL.- The Terra Foundation for American Art announced the acquisition of The Big Jolt (1972) by Chicago Imagist Roger Brown (19411997). The painting is an example of Browns career-long exploration of natural disasters and their effect on people and nature. The work was acquired in response to a desire to collect works of art by Chicago artists, a plan that began with Art Design Chicagothe 2018 Terra Foundation-initiated citywide celebration of the citys art and design legacy. A focal point of the Art Design Chicago initiative was to more firmly establish for audiences Chicago art and design in the broader conversation of American art and design, said Elizabeth Glassman, Terra Foundation president and CEO. Adding works by major Chicago artists like Roger Brown to the foundations collection, and featuring them in our Terra Collection Initiative exhibition projects with partners around ... More |
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| | Brutalism springs eternal in Morocco | | 'Sinatra of the East' Karel Gott dies at 80 | | Tate acquires new works at Frieze thanks to fund supported by Endeavor |
A photo provided by Andreea Muscurel shows Sidi Harazem, a thermal bath complex east of Fex, Morocco, which was designed by Jean-Francois Zevaco and completed in 1960. An effort is underway to restore it as an architectural masterpiece. (Andreea Muscurel via The New York Times)
FEZ (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Aziza Chaouni was a girl, she spent holidays with her grandmothers at Sidi Harazem, a thermal bath complex built next to an ancient magnesium-rich spring about 7 miles east of Fez, Morocco. One grandmother loved the new complex, designed by Jean-François Zevaco and completed in 1960, soon after Moroccan independence. She was born and raised in Fez, in the old city, and she was very keen on alternative medicine, said Chaouni, a professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto and principal of Aziza Chaouni Projects. She was amazed by the new facilities. We would stay in the bungalows that were modeled after the medina as a child it was like a maze. The other ... More | |
This undated photo taken in Berlin shows Czech pop singer Karel Gott, performing during a TV show. Wolfgang Weihs / DPA / AFP.
PRAGUE (AFP).- Czech pop singer Karel Gott, who was a particular favourite in neighbouring Germany where media once dubbed him the "Sinatra of the East", died at 80, his family said Wednesday. "With the deepest sadness in my heart I announce that shortly before midnight on Tuesday my beloved husband Karel Gott passed away after a long and serious illness," his wife Ivana Gottova wrote on his website. "He passed away at home, in quiet sleep, surrounded by his family." Gott revealed last month he was undergoing treatment for acute leukemia, years after recovering from a cancer. "Extremely sad news for our whole country. Karel Gott was a real artist who gave himself to others," said Czech President Milos Zeman. "Karel Gott gave his life to generations, he gave himself to us all," he added in a message tweeted by his spokesman. Prime Minister Andrej Babis said he would propos ... More | |
Patrick Staff, Weed Killer 2017. Single-channel HD video, color, sound, 16 min 49 sec Edition 5 of 5, 2 AP.
LONDON.- The following works have been acquired as gifts to the Tate collection thanks to the Frieze Tate Fund 2019 to benefit the Tate collection. It is the first time that works have been acquired from both Frieze London and Frieze Masters. The works are: Jagoda Buić (born 1930), Orpheus 1972. Wool, sisal and metallic thread, 2900 x 1100 mm. Richard Saltoun Gallery, Frieze Masters, G11 Marc Camille Chaimowicz (born 1947), Folding Screen (Five-Part) 1979. Acrylic paint and hand tinted photographs on wood Dimensions variable; unfolded, 2240 x 1770 x 25 mm. Andrew Kreps Gallery, Frieze London, C3 Patrick Staff (born 1987), Weed Killer 2017. Single-channel HD video, color, sound, 16 min 49 sec Edition 5 of 5, 2 AP. Commonwealth & Council, Frieze London, H7 Paulo Nazareth (born 1977), IMAGES THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE WORLD [A FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN BLACK, WHO WERE LYNCHED IN 1946 BY ... More |
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| | Christie's to offer The Ron and Diane Disney Miller Collection | | Minneapolis Institute of Art appoints Katherine Crawford Luber as Director and President | | Embattled opera star Placido Domingo resigns from LA Opera |
Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park #108. Oil on canvas. Painted in 1978. Estimate: $7,000,000 9,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer The Ron and Diane Disney Miller Collection, a dynamic grouping of paintings, drawings, works on paper, and sculpture in the categories of Impressionist and Modern, Post-War and Contemporary, and American Art. Building on the philanthropic traditions begun by Diane Disney Millers father, Walt Disney, the sale of these works will benefit causes close to the familys heart through the late couples eponymous charitable fund. Together, Ron and Diane Disney Miller built an impressive private collection of works by artists such as Richard Diebenkorn, Milton Avery, and Wayne Thiebaudfigures whose works, like the animations of her father, are infused with bold experimentation in line, color, and movement. Of particular poignancy are works in the collection that reflect both the Millers connection to California, as well as the artists own association with The ... More | |
Luber comes to Minneapolis from the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the only encyclopedic fine art institution in south Texas, where she has served as the Kelso Director for the last eight years.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Board of Trustees at the Minneapolis Institute of Art today announced it has elected Dr. Katherine Crawford Luber to be the museums next Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President. Luber will succeed Kaywin Feldman, who left Mia in March 2019 to become the director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Luber comes to Minneapolis from the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA), the only encyclopedic fine art institution in south Texas, where she has served as the Kelso Director for the last eight years. A committee appointed by Mias Board of Trustees identified Luber through an extensive search. The process was diverse by race, gender, LGBTQ+ status, nationality, and geography. On January 2, 2020, Luber will begin her new role as head of Mia, the largest arts institution in Minneapolis, overseeing the museums renowned ... More | |
In this file photo taken on November 23, 2018 Spanish opera singer Placido Domingo speaks onstage at his 50th anniversary celebration at the season premiere of Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Angela Weiss / AFP.
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Legendary opera singer Placido Domingo, who is facing myriad sexual harassment accusations, announced Wednesday that was resigning as general director of the Los Angeles Opera, effectively putting an end to his career in the United States. "Recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an atmosphere in which my ability to serve this company that I so love has been compromised," Domingo, 78, wrote in a statement obtained by AFP. "While I will continue to work to clear my name, I have decided that it is in the best interests of LA Opera for me to resign as its general director and withdraw from my future scheduled performances at this time. "I do so with a heavy heart and at the same time wish to convey to the company's dedicated board ... More |
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Winner of the 2019 Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize announced at Frieze
LONDON.- Today, Camden Arts Centre and Frieze announce Julien Creuzet as the recipient of the 2019 Camden Arts Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze. Creuzet, who is represented by High Art, Paris, will realise a major exhibition at Camden Arts Centre in October 2020. This annual prize Âunveiled for the first time at Frieze London 2018 and now in its second year offers invaluable critical exposure to an emerging artist, that goes with having their first show at a London institution. The prize winner will be supported by the experienced Camden Arts Centre curatorial team, and the show will be underpinned by an extensive programme of public talks and events. French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet is a visual artist, video-maker, performer and poet. Creuzets work addresses his own diasporic experience and focuses on issues of migration, creolization ... More
Freeman's announces highlights included in the auction of Modern & Contemporary Art
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans October 29 auction of Modern & Contemporary Art features important examples from a wide range of artistic movements including Minimalism, Pop Art, Color Field Painting, Cubism, Op Art and Abstract Expressionism. Notable lots include significant and fresh-to-market examples by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Zao Wou-Ki, Ellsworth Kelly, M.F. Husain, Jules Olitski, Henri Matisse, Patrick Heron, Claes Oldenburg and Jules Pascin, among others. Leading the sale is Helen Frankenthalers Red Hot, 2002 (Lot 52; $120,000-180,000). Rendered in acrylic on paper, Red Hot is an excellent example of the artists work in this medium. Frankenthaler once famously asserted that paper is painting, and from 1992-2002 she painted exclusively on paper. Red Hot was executed during this important period and, with its rich ... More
Bowers Museum showcases the iconic work of two extraordinary modern masters
SANTA ANA, CA.- On view at the Bowers Museum this fall 2019, two monumental exhibitions Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia and Arthur Beaumont: Art of the Sea feature the pivotal works of modern artists who differ greatly in medium but are bound by the same fearless approach. Dimensions of Form: Tamayo and Mixografia features the artistic legacy of Mexican-born artist Rufino Tamayo. Fifty prints on loan from MixografÃa ® in Los Angeles will showcase the enormous depth and range of this pivotal artists work, from silhouetted figures to celestial bodies and the feathered serpent-god Quetzalcoatl, this exhibition illustrates the fourth great ones last collaborative expedition to add form to a typically flat medium. The fruit of this venture is MixografÃa, a studio and a medium whose perfect marriage of artistry and technology allowed Tamayo ... More
Figge Art Museum selects new Executive Director
DAVENPORT, IA.- After an extensive nationwide search, The Figge Art Museum announced that Michelle Hargrave will become Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the museum effective December 9, 2019. A museum professional with two decades of experience, Hargrave currently serves as the Deputy Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT. Her extensive background growing cultural institutions will serve her well as she continues the growth and success of the Figge, said Ken Koupal, President of the Figge Board of Trustees. Her experience and leadership abilities combine nicely with our opportunity to take the Figge to the next level as a regional resource and cultural center for the Quad Cities. As Deputy Director of the NBMAA, Hargrave oversaw significant growth in the NBMAAs programs, contributed ... More
Designs to last
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In fashion, do all roads lead to France? Thats the obvious conclusion as designer after designer decamps even just temporarily to Paris from New York, London or Tokyo. Its as if the only way to be taken seriously is to show in the French capital (the latest example: Telfar Clemens), as if being a part of the grand finale of ready-to-wear month is the ultimate sign that one has arrived. Now, two French-fashion exhibitions in New York are examining some of the reasons. Paris, Capital of Fashion, at The Museum at FIT, focuses on the spare-no-expense, color-drenched explosion of finery that took off in the Ancién Regime (from the 15th to 18th centuries) and hasnt stopped since; French Fashion, Women, and the First World War, at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, depicts how the French fashion industry persevered ... More
Bonhams announces partnership with Invaluable and thesaleroom.com
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams has announced a long-term partnership with two online auction-aggregator sites, thesaleroom.com and Invaluable, on which it will list and webcast the majority of its global sales for the first time. Invaluable and thesaleroom.com are internationally regarded as premier online portals for art and antique auctions, and the partnerships will enable Bonhams sales to reach the thousands of bidders that visit Invaluable and thesaleroom.com every day, and will help attract them earlier in their buying journey. Bonhams Executive Chairman, Bruno Vinciguerra, said, Bonhams is excited by the reach of both Invaluable and thesaleroom.com, and by what their presence can do to further our sales strategy. Invaluable and thesaleroom.com have an unrivalled bidder base internationally and both have a proven ability to generate new , ... More
Magnificent Assyrian palace reliefs on view at the Getty Villa
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the ninth to seventh centuries B.C., the Assyrians, based in northern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), forged a great empire that extended at its height from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and parts of Turkey in the west, through Iraq to the mountains of Iran and Armenia in the east. To glorify their reigns, the Assyrian rulers built majestic palaces adorned with relief sculptures that portray the king as a mighty warrior and hunter, and confront visitors with imposing images of winged bulls, demons and other mythological guardians. Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq, on view at the Getty Villa October 2, 2019 to September 5, 2022, presents a selection of these famous relief sculptures as a special loan from the British Museum in London. Among the greatest masterpieces of Mesopotamian art, the Assyrian reliefs have, since their discovery ... More
Cadogan Contemporary opens a solo exhibition featuring new works by artist Elise Ansel
LONDON.- Cadogan Contemporary is presenting yes I said Yes, a solo exhibition featuring new works by acclaimed American artist Elise Ansel. Central to Ansels project is her practice of translating Old Master paintings into a contemporary pictorial language through the lens of feminine subjectivity. She uses an idiom of energetic gestural abstraction to mine art historical imagery for colour and narrative structure, abstracting and interrupting the representational content, in order to excavate and transform meanings and messages embedded in the works from which her paintings spring. Comprised of over fifteen paintings, the exhibition includes responses to masterpieces such as Titians Rape of Europa (1560-62). Ansel transforms scenes of violence against women into images of consensual pleasure. ... More
€1 million expected for Bible from Gutenberg press
HAMBURG.- It came right off Gutenbergs printing press, the first press in the history of book printing. The Biblia latina from Johannes Fust and Peter Schöffer, direct successors of Johannes Gutenberg, is an absolute masterpiece and was still printed during the lifetime of the inventor of book printing. On occasion of the 65th company anniversary of Ketterer Kunst it will be called up in the Rare Books Auction in Hamburg on November 25. The estimate is at 1 million. With movable metal letters Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the book production method. Just seven years after the world-renowned Gutenberg Bible was made, his master student Peter Schöffer created the precious Fust-Schöffer Bible with his own, more modern letters. Not only is this the finest work from the first decades of book printing, it is a very special gem, as it is the first book ... More
Christie's to offer Ed Ruscha masterpiece from the Collection of Joan Quinn
NEW YORK, NY.- On November 13, Christies Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art will be highlighted by Ed Ruschas Hurting the Word Radio #2, 1964 (estimate: $30-40 million)* from the collection of Joan and Jack Quinn, Beverly Hills. Joan Quinn and her late husband Jack, represent a pivotal moment in the history of Contemporary art, as Los Angeles came to symbolize an innovative and prolific brand of creative freedom. Ruschas canvas being offered here is a sublime example of the conceptual creativity that emanated from Los Angeles in the early 1960s, that which would make Ed Ruscha into one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Quinns acquired Hurting the Word Radio #2 directly from the artist in the early 70s, marking this as the first time the canvas has ever been offered at auction. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Pierre Bonnard was born October 03, 1867. Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 - 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Meligny. In this image: Pierre Bonnard, "Dancers," 1896. Oil on cardboard. 28 x 36 cm. Musée d'Orsay © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.
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