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Oscar Murillo, Turner Prize 2019 Evening Reception. Credit Stuart Wilson Getty Images (6)
LONDON (AFP).- This year's prestigious Turner Prize will be shared by all four shortlisted artists after they formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global "political crisis", in a shock win announced Tuesday. Oscar Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Tai Shani were all named winners on Tuesday evening at a ceremony at the Turner Contemporary gallery in the seaside town of Margate, in southeast England. The four -- who had not met each other before being shortlisted -- will split the £40,000 ($52,000, 47,000 euros) prize money for one of the world's most prestigious awards for visual and contemporary art. British Vogue magazine editor Edward Enninful, who announced the prize, called the decision "incredible". Ahead of the announcement, the four had sent a plea to the judges explaining their reasons for forming the collective. "At this time of political crisis in Britain and much of ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day What to give this holiday season? Ancient & Ethnographic Art of course! Artemis Gallery's special Holiday auction on Thursday December 5 features hundreds of unique finds from Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Near East. Asian art from India, China, Japan, Thailand, more! In this image: Egyptian Wood / Painted Gesso Sarcophagus Head Panel. Estimate $8,000 - $12,000.
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| | Rare Gauguin fetches 9.5 mn euros at Paris auction | | Hans van Manen donates early Mapplethorpe photographs to the Rijksmuseum | | Getty Research Institute opens 'Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics' |
Paul Gauguin, Te Bourao II (detail). Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and titled on the lower right "97 TE BOURAO P.Gauguin", 73 X 92 cm. Estimate: 5-7 M .
PARIS (AFP).- A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched 9.5 million euros ($10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said. The bidding had drawn keen interest amid growing controversy over Gauguin's relationships with young girls on the Polynesian island and his depictions of them. The 1897 painting, "Te Bourao II" or "tree" in the local Tahitian language, had been expected to go for around five to seven million euros. The buyer is an "international collector", the Artcurial auction house said, adding the artwork depicting an evocative Tahiti landscape would remain in France. It is one of the few paintings from the post-impressionist's Tahiti period still in private hands. According to Artcurial, the last sale in France of a Gauguin from this period was 22 years ago. Recent years have seen increasing ... More | |
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self portrait with cigaret, 1980, signed, dated and numbered 4/15, a black-white photo (gelatin silver print), 35,7 x 35,7 cm. Donated by Hans van Manen en Henk van Dijk, 2019. ©Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
AMSTERDAM.- The Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen and his partner are donating to the Rijksmuseum 24 works by the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). They comprise 21 photographs including a self-portrait, two portraits of Hans van Manen himself, and homo-erotic work, as well as 3 porcelain plates featuring photographs of flowers. In a few years time these newly acquired works will be part of a major retrospective currently under preparation at the Rijksmuseum, on American photography from 1839 to the present day. Hans van Manen: Donating these works now means I can enjoy doing so myself, in the knowledge that they will stay together for ever. I have been looking at them for 40 years; now other people will be able to enjoy them. Taco Dibbits, ... More | |
Käthe Kollwitz, The People, Fall 1922. Sheet 7 of War Woodcut, printed in black ink on japan paper, and reworked with white and off-white gouache and black ink State III of VII Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2016.PR.34) Partial Gift of Dr. Richard A. Simms © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Käthe Kollwitz (18671945), one of the foremost graphic artists of the 20th century, is celebrated for her affecting portrayals of poverty, injustice, and loss in a society troubled by turbulent societal change and devastated by two world wars. Presenting rare works on paper spanning all five decades of her career, Käthe Kollwitz: Prints, Process, Politics, casts light on the extraordinary technical virtuosity of these powerful images. The exhibition, on view at the Getty Research Institute from December 3, 2019 through March 29, 2020, is drawn from the Dr. Richard A. Simms Collection of Prints and Drawings, which was a partial gift to the Getty Research Institute in 2016. Uniting a passion for social justice with a ... More |
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| | Sand cars replace sand castles at Miami art festival Art Basel | | Berlin agrees to Checkpoint Charlie facelift | | Early director of the J. Paul Getty Museum Stephen Garrett passes away |
Art Collector Eugene Sadovoy attends Art Basel Miami Beach Meridians VIP Opening at Miami Beach Convention Center on December 03, 2019 in Miami Beach, Florida. Cindy Ord/Getty Images for ABMB/AFP.
MIAMI (AFP).- On Miami Beach, more than 60 cars sculpted out of sand are drawing attention at this year's Art Basel international festival, but the aim of their creator is as much about raising awareness of climate change as tickling art lovers' palates. The sand cars, which form what looks like a traffic jam sinking into the world-famous beach, have proven a favorite with visitors who snap selfies in front of the installation, entitled "Order of Importance" and created by 46-year-old Argentine sculptor Leandro Erlich. Erlich told reporters Monday the work is a reflection on the crisis the world is facing due to climate change and "our responsibility, our implication in the events that are starting to happen to the planet." The title "has to do with understanding what our priorities are right now and thinking about our future," he said. The artist was walking among the sand cars with Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber, who congratulated Erlich ... More | |
This file photo taken on June 23, 2019 shows tourists posing for a photo at Checkpoint Charlie, a former checkpoint connecting the former US sector with the Soviet sector in then divided Berlin. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- Berlin's controversial and overcrowded Cold War landmark Checkpoint Charlie is set for a dramatic facelift, after the city government agreed a contested redevelopment plan Tuesday. Located at the very heart of the once divided city, the border crossing between then-communist East and democratic West was famously the scene of a dramatic stand-off between Soviet and American tanks in October 1961. Since German reunification in 1990 it has welcomed thousands of visitors per day to a bewildering hotch-potch of private and public museums and memorials. Widely derided by Berliners as a "historical Disneyland", the attraction also has problems with overcrowding and hustling of tourists. In November, the local authorities cracked down on actors dressed as US soldiers posing for selfies, in response to reports of aggressive touting. Now plans ... More | |
Stephen Garrett was the first director of the Getty Villa in Malibu.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Stephen George Garrett, first director of the Getty Villa in Malibu, passed away on Monday, December 2, in Santa Monica, California. Born in Ashtead, England, on December 26, 1922, Stephen, a student at the Dragon School, Oxford, and Charterhouse School, Surrey, graduated with a degree in Architecture from Trinity College, Cambridge. His university studies were interrupted by his service in the British Royal Navy during the Second World War, including three separate landings on Sword Beach on DDay. He returned to Cambridge after his service, graduating in 1950. A chartered architect working in private practice in London, Stephen was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and taught at the Inchbald School of Design. By great good fortune he was hired by J. Paul Getty to renovate a villa off the coast of Naples, Italy. The project went well, and Stephen then began working with Getty as consultant architect during the construction of the Getty Villa museum in Malibu, Ca ... More |
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| | Robert K. Massie, narrator of Russian history, is dead at 90 | | Montreal Museum of Fine Arts exhibits works from the collection of W. Bruce C. Bailey | | Clyfford Still Museum announces official launch of Clyfford Still Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works |
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert K. Massie at his home in Irvington, N.Y., Nov. 1, 2011. Massie, who wrote readable and respected biographies of Russian royals, including Nicholas and Alexandra, which became a movie, died on Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, at his home. He was 90. Karsten Moran/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Robert K. Massie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who wrote gripping, tautly narrated and immensely popular books on giants of Russian history, died on Monday at his home in Irvington, New York. He was 90. The cause was complications of Alzheimers disease, said his wife, the literary agent Deborah Karl. In monumental biographies of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Catherine the Great (1729-96) and Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, who were assassinated with their five children and others in 1918, Massie captivated audiences with detailed accounts that read to many like engrossing novels. One was even grist for Hollywood: Nicholas and Alexandra (1967) was adapted into a film of the same title in 1971. He understands plot ... More | |
Beau Dick (1955-2017), Bukwus (Kwakwakawakw Mask), 2012, cedar, cedar bark, paint, aluminium, copper, horse hair. Photo Joseph Hartman.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is opening its doors to a selection of artworks from the remarkable art collection of Ontario philanthropist, collector and patron W. Bruce C. Bailey. The exhibition For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you brings together a selection of over 100 paintings, photographs, works on paper, and sculptures spanning vastly different time periods and cultures, drawn from his extraordinary collection. These works encourage visitors to consider how art can reflect a unique sensibility and simultaneously unearth shared commonalities, inviting us to better understand difference. Nathalie Bondil, MMFAs Director General and Chief Curator, has this to say: So many words could be used to describe Bruce Bailey: gentleman-farmer, magician of the everyday, brilliant intellect, passionate heart, friend to artists, patron of the arts, lavish salonnier and extravagant businessman. An O ... More | |
Installation view of the Clyfford Still Museum's inaugural exhibition. The experience of the collection is enlivened by natural light that enters the galleries through a series of skylights over a cast-in-place, perforated concrete ceiling.
DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum announced the official launch of Clyfford Still: The Complete Works Catalogue Raisonné. This landmark publication documents all known works by the artist. The long-anticipated major scholarly project will present Stills entire oeuvre for the first time, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and lost works. Clyfford Still, a leading first-generation artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, created nearly 4,000 works of art during his 60-year career. After the artists death in 1980, the Clyfford Still Estate was sealed from public and scholarly view. In 2004, Stills wife, Patricia Still, selected the City of Denver to receive the substantial Still collection. The next year, she also bequeathed her estate, which included select paintings by her husband as well as his complete archives, to the city. The Clyfford Still Museum opened in 2011 and ... More |
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| | Blain│Southern now representing Mircea Suciu | | Pace/MacGill opens a presentation of aerial photographs by Emmet Gowin | | Prague grants Milan Kundera citizenship stripped under communism |
Mircea Suciu, Photo: Cornel Lazia.
LONDON.- Blain|Southern announced the representation of Romanian artist Mircea Suciu in London and New York. Universal Fatigue, the artist's first exhibition with the gallery, opens at the New York space on 17 January 2020. Suciu is also represented by Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp). Part of the Cluj School, Mircea Suciu (b. 1978, Baia Mare, Romania) is regarded as one of Romanias leading artists. Predominantly working in acrylic and oil paint combined with monoprint techniques, Suciu depicts solitary figures or groupssometimes state and religious authoritiesin sparse surroundings and caught in moments of inner conflict. Suciu grew up in an area of Romania loaded with historical conflict and came of age during and after the 1989 revolution. Fascinated by what he describes as the absurd actions of man Suciu explores human foibles and existential problems in his work, pointing to the psychological terrain ... More | |
Yucca Flat, Looking West Toward the Yucca Fault, Area 10, Nevada Test Site, 1996 (detail) © Emmet Gowin; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery and Pace/MacGill are presenting Emmet Gowin: The Nevada Test Site, a presentation of aerial photographs surveying the uniquely scarred landscape of Americas primary nuclear testing location for over four decades. On view through December 21, 2019, the exhibition coincides with the publication of Gowins latest monograph, The Nevada Test Site, by Princeton University Press and marks his debut at Paces new Chelsea location. Since 1980, renowned American photographer Emmet Gowin has explored both the natural and man-made alteration of the earths surface from an airborne perspective. Finding that from the air, places and subjects usually forbidden or inaccessible were now fully visible, with a scope and wholeness that a close-up or ground view could never provide, he has created ... More | |
This file photo taken on October 14, 1973 shows Czech writer Milan Kundera. AFP.
PRAGUE (AFP).- Novelist Milan Kundera has gained Czech citizenship four decades after communist Czechoslovakia stripped him of citizenship following his emigration to France, the Czech foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Ministry spokeswoman Zuzana Stichova told AFP that Kundera and his wife Vera had received the documents from the Czech ambassador to Paris on November 28. "There was no ceremony, just a personal delivery," she said, adding the ministry appreciated Kundera whose "books made the Czech Republic famous worldwide". Communist authorities in then-Czechoslovakia banned Kundera's books and stripped him of citizenship following the publication of "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in 1979, in which he called then-Czechoslovak president Gustav Husak "the president of forgetting". Kundera, who is 90, left his home country for France in 1975 ... More |
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Contemporary artist Harif Guzman brings The Last Mile to Miami Art Week
MIAMI, FLA.- Renowned New York City contemporary artist Harif Guzman is presenting his new public art installation, entitled The Last Mile, in Miamis Little Haiti neighborhood during Miami Art Week. A portrayal of the American Dream, The Last Mile is a 9-foot tall and 15-foot wide structure representative of the wall between the USA and Mexico. Guzman invites viewers to experience, at an interactive scale, what thousands of immigrants face daily in their quest for a hopeful future and a better life. Made from steel, cement and cinder blocks, the walls materials demonstrate the strength and power in this first obstacle to obtaining the dream. The installation also features an 18-foot wooden sculpture that is representative of the immigrant worker coming across with honest intention. The figure is made from different sizes and types of reclaimed wood, symbolizing ... More
Bruneau & Co. announces Winter Comic & Toy Auction, December 14th
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, Altered Reality Entertainment and Travis Landry, Bruneau & Co.s Director of Pop Culture, are combining forces to hold a Winter Comic Book & Toy auction extravaganza on Saturday, December 14th, online and in Bruneau & Co.s gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. The auction will begin promptly at 11 am Eastern time. The sale is packed with over 350 lots of rare graded comic books, to include many Marvel and DC comics; generous key book lots; an original graded set of Star Wars 12 backs; a Vinyl Cape Jawa; a factory sealed Blue Snaggletooth and more. Since its inception, Bruneau & Co. has partnered with Altered Reality Entertainment (the parent company of Rhode Island Comic Con) to organize toy, comic, and collectible auctions, bringing Pop Culture to a live auction setting. There is no better ... More
Phillips opens FIGHT BETI, FIGHT! An immersive exhibition of works by Maria Qamar
PARIS.- Phillips announces FIGHT BETI, FIGHT! This selling exhibition of original artworks and dedicated merchandise by contemporary artist Maria Qamar comes together to create an immersive and interactive experience of the artists fight against the inequalities that women, especially of colour, still have to endure in society today. FIGHT BETI, FIGHT! is on public view in Phillips Paris galleries of 46 Rue du Bac from December 2 to 20, 2019. This is the first solo show in Paris by the Canada-based Desi-Pop artist Maria Qamar. Her signature ironic comic style, reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein and Marjorie Strider, is punctuated by defiant feminist messages that incorporate Hindi slang. It is a seductively humorous and defiant rebellion against womens oppression through race and gender bias, enforced by societal and cultural norms from both the ... More
Davis Museum names Heather Hughes new Kemper Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs and Exhibitions
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College announced that Dr. Heather Hughes has been appointed the Kemper Assistant Curator of Academic Affairs and Exhibitions, effective January 6, 2020. As a member of the curatorial team, Hughes will create and oversee cross-disciplinary projects, programs, and exhibitions designed to engage faculty and students from a wide variety of disciplines with the permanent collections at the Davis. A specialist in Northern European works on paper produced between 1550 and 1750, Heather brings scholarly rigor, broad art historical knowledge, and pedagogical expertise to the Davis, said Amanda Gilvin, the Davis Museums Sonja Novak Koerner 51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs. In her curatorial projects and teaching, she has worked on topics ... More
Japanese swords among highlights in Heritage Auctions' Civil War, Militaria, Arms & Armor Auction
DALLAS, TX.- A spectacular selection of 71 Japanese swords, firearms and a suit of armor, considered the finest such collection offered at auction in nearly three decades, is among the headline items offered in Heritage Auctions Civil War, Militaria, Arms & Armor Auction Dec. 8 in Dallas, Texas. This collection has been called the finest to come to auction since Dr. Walter Comptons collection sold in 1992, Heritage Auctions Arms & Armor Consignment Director David Carde said. There is extraordinary historical significance to some of these pieces, some of which are going to auction for the first time. Among the top lots in the collection is a Spectacular Museum-Worthy Juyo Heavy Silver High Relief Dragon Mounted Wakizashi with Signed Fuchi and Tsuba (estimate: $25,000+), which features a 58.7-cm cutting edge and wild medari hamon with tobiyaki spots. ... More
Sudan cinema flickers back to life after Bashir ouster
KHARTOUM (AFP).- Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema which has languished through decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir, he sees new hope. Bashir's Islamist-backed rule of 30 years had seen cinemas shuttered and US sanctions prevent imports of vital equipment in a country once known as a pioneer for film-making in Africa. When Afifi attended a 2008 short film festival in Munich, the winning film -- an Iraqi documentary shot on a handycam -- inspired him to return home and set up a training centre and production house. "I wanted to remind people that there is a place called Sudan, which was once renowned in the field of cinema, and that it still has its heart beating for this art," he told AFP. The Sudan Film Factory, based in a suburban ... More
Paris ballet's foreign legion reaches for the stars
PARIS (AFP).- Watching YouTube as a child in Australia, the idea of one day joining the ranks of the hallowed Paris Opera Ballet seemed nothing short of an impossible dream. It didn't stop Bianca Scudamore daydreaming about it, though. And now, having just turned 19, she's the rising star at the world renowned company, where a cosmopolitan generation of young dancers are making names for themselves. Unlike the Royal Ballet in London or the New York City-based American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet has very few foreign dancers -- of its 154, only 25 are not from France. That's more than was traditionally the case, as dancers from elsewhere have in recent years been accepted into its hierarchical ranks, some even without having first trained at the company's prestigious ballet school -- unthinkable, at one time. In 2012, Argentina's Ludmila Pagliero beca ... More
Desmond Morris' collection of paintings by Congo the chimpanzee to be exhibited and sold
LONDON.- Surrealist artist and zoologist Desmond Morris is selling his private collection of paintings and drawings by Congo the chimpanzee, with whom he famously worked from 1956-1959, observing and recording the apes interest in creating art for arts sake and sharing his findings with the public through books and television. The Mayor Gallerys exhibition of some 55 paintings, pastels by the chimp is the last opportunity to acquire work by Congo, who made some 400 artworks during the experimental three-year period. Morris, whose research methods were extremely rigorous, worked with a number of other apes over the years, but none exhibited Congos ability to focus. No other apes were controlling the mark making and varying the patterns as he was, Morris recalls. I originally picked Congo out as one of the more boisterous at the zoo ... More
Sci-Fi, utopia and ritual: The Blazing World opens at Sotheby's S𗈖 Gallery
LONDON.- This December in London, Sothebys S|2 gallery presents The Blazing World; a diverse group exhibition of artworks which draw upon themes of science-fiction, utopia, ritual and the fragility of human hope and existence. The artists included in the show are: Stano Filko, Peter Hujar, Marguerite Humeau, Charlotte Johannesson, Clementine Keith-Roach, Arik Levy, Charlotte Prodger, Paul Thek, Tishan Hsu, Nanda Vigo, Anna Zemánková. Following the success of previous S|2 shows (including Where Were You at Night and House of the Sleeping Beauties) in which a work of literature formed the conceptual framework for the exhibition, The Blazing World takes its title from a forward-thinking seventeenth century fictional text of the same name, written by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. A segment of the original text will ... More
Phillips hosts 'Silhouette: Fashion Photographs by Alberto Rizzo'
NEW YORK, NY.- This December, Phillips will host the private selling exhibition Silhouette: Fashion Photographs by Alberto Rizzo. Taking place from 4-9 December, the exhibition will showcase the award-winning artists groundbreaking work and enduring legacy in the field of fashion photography through the display of thirty-six carefully selected lifetime prints. This showing of Rizzos work will run concurrently with the pre-sale exhibition of Phillips Jewels auction. Sarah Krueger, Head of Photographs, New York, said, The exhibition is a celebration of Alberto Rizzos most powerful and graphic images. Throughout his illustrious career, Rizzo redefined the standards for innovative fashion photography, always encouraging the public to challenge its expectations and embrace the avant-garde. Silhouette, the first solo show dedicated to Rizzo in over a decade, ... More
A new exhibition marks 70 years of fine art at the University of Leeds
LEEDS.- Why does a university need fine art? Why do fine artists need a university? A multimedia exhibition reviews this debate across seven decades of fine art at the University of Leeds. Opening on 4 December, Lessons in the studio: Studio in the seminar 70 years of Fine Art at the University of Leeds is curated by art historian Griselda Pollock and artist Sam Belinfante. The exhibition explores a long conversation between making art and studying the history of art in the context of the radical social and cultural changes since 1949. Head of School Dr Joanne Crawford said: Many people, words and objects have made their presence felt here at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies during the last 70 years. Whilst it is good to look towards the future and think about what is to come, it is equally important to consider the past; to ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko died December 04, 1956. Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. In this image: A Tate Modern staff looks over the works of Aleksander Rodchenko's (1891-1956), 'Composition no.50, 1918, (L) and Liubov Popova's' (1889-1924), ' Painterly Architectonic' (R) at the Rodchenko and Popova - Defining Constructivism exhibit at the Tate Modern in London, Britain, 10 February 2009. Arguably two of Russia's most influential and important artists, Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) and Liubov Popova (1889-1924), Defining Constructivism explored the work of these two great artists from 1917 to 1925.
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