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Installation view "Dido" (1781). Füssli. Drama und Theater, 2018. Photo: Julian Salinas.
BASEL.- With almost seventy paintings, the first comprehensive monographic exhibition of the work of the Swiss-born artist Henry Fuseli (17411825) at the Kunstmuseum Basel turns the spotlight on two of his most important sources of inspiration: literature and the stage. Fuselis entire oeuvre is steeped in his engagement with the canon of great literature he began to explore during his student years in Zurich. He borrows motifs from ancient mythology, John Miltons Paradise Lost, or Shakespeares dramas and stages them in theatrical tableaus: highly effective compositions in which hard lighting throws the strained and contorted bodies of his heroes and virgins into sharp relief, while visions of specters, fallen angels, fairies, and other supernatural apparitions make for spectacular and often lugubrious fantastic scenes. Spanning the shift from classicism to Romanticism, Fuselis art jettisons ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Banksy has been Banksied. The guerilla artist who puts up his work in public spaces without asking authorisation is the subject of a new show in Madrid featuring his works -- without his authorisation.
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| | | Record-breaking year for treasure discovered by the public | | National Gallery of Art elects Kaywin Feldman as its fifth Director, succeeding Earl A. Powell III | | Guggenheim Museum to open daily beginning in 2019 |
Late Bronze Age gold bulla from the Shropshire Marches. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
LONDON.- The British Museum today revealed that the number of Treasure discoveries made by members of the public has hit a record level for the second year running. The provisional number of Treasure finds generally defined as gold and silver objects over 300 years old, or groups of coins and prehistoric metalwork in 2017 is 1,267 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Some 78,000 archaeological items were recorded on a voluntary basis with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 2017 which includes treasure finds totaling 79,353 new recorded entries on the PAS database. 93% were found by metal detectorists. Norfolk was the county which produced the most finds, followed by Lincolnshire and Suffolk. There are now over 1.3million objects recorded by the PAS on its database and freely accessible to the public. The PAS scheme is managed by the British Museum in England and the ... More | |
Kaywin Feldman currently serves as the Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia). Photo courtesy Minneapolis Institute of Art.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, today announced that its Board of Trustees elected Kaywin Feldman to be the institution's next directorthe fifth in the Gallery's 77-year history. She will succeed Earl A. Powell III, who has served as the director since 1992. The Gallery announced in November 2017 that Powell would step down in 2019 after more than 25 years of service. In April 2018, a committee of the Board of Trustees, assisted by the firm of Phillips Oppenheim, inaugurated an extensive search to identify the best person to lead the preeminent U.S. institution, which houses the nation's collection of fine art and receives more than 5.2 million visitors annually from around the world. The first woman to be named the Gallery's director, Kaywin Feldman currently serves as the Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President of the ... More | |
Opening day at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959. Photo: Robert E. Mates © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In 2019 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates 60 years as an architectural icon. Since opening its doors on October 21, 1959, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building has inspired generations of visitors as a unique temple of spirit where radical art and architecture meet. The Guggenheim will initiate a new seven-day-a-week schedule with evening hours on Tuesdays and Saturdays to coincide with this milestone. Museum events leading up to the buildings anniversary day in October will offer members and the public new opportunities for inspiration, connection, and contemplation. On-site tours and activities will explore the history and details of the architectural masterpiece, and The Wright restaurant and Cafe 3 will update their menus with favorites of the museums visionary founders. Guggenheim fans around the world can look forward to behind-the-scenes videos, ... More |
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| | | The Cleveland Museum of Art announces major new acquisition: Sleeping Christ Child by Filippo Parodi | | Sotheby's unveils its sales of Important Judaica and Israeli & International Art | | Exhibition of spatial reliefs and drawings by Hélio Oiticica on view at Galerie Lelong & Co. |
Sleeping Christ Child, c. 1675. Filippo Parodi (Italian, 16301702). Marble; 63 x 102 x 42 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of Filippo Parodis Sleeping Christ Child, an outstanding example of monumental Italian Baroque narrative sculpture. Parodi began his career as a woodcarver and subsequently worked in both wood and stone. He made two trips to Rome where he worked in the studio of Gianlorenzo Bernini (15981680), the leading sculptor of the Italian Baroque. The French sculptor Pierre Puget (16201694), active in Genoa during the 1660s, was also a key influence. After Pugets departure from the city in 1669, Parodi became the leading Genoese sculptor in wood and marble. Sculpted about 1675 for Genoas wealthy Durazzo family, Parodis Sleeping Christ Child, a rare signed work, is a compelling interpretation of a traditional Christian subject. Christ, depicted as a young child, is sprawled on a bed of straw, his head thrown back in slumber ... More | |
A Rare And Large Hungarian Parcel-Gilt Silver Set Of Torah Crown And Pair Of Finials, Johannes Mathias Roth, Budapest, Late 18th Century. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys annual sales of Israeli & International Art and Important Judaica will take place on 18 & 19 December in New York. The sales will offer a diverse array of Hebrew books and manuscripts, ritual silver and metalwork from a distinguished private collection, ceremonial textiles, and important paintings. The exhibitions will be on public view in our York Avenue galleries beginning 12 December. Sothebys will open the Important Judaica auction with an extraordinary selection of ritual silver and metalwork from a Distinguished Private Collection. Spanning 250 years and many countries of Europe and North Africa, the 136 piece collection tells the story of the culture and religious practice of the Jews, throughout their history. Highlights include a Rare and Large Hungarian Parcel-Gilt Set of Torah Crown and Pair of Finials made in Budapest in 1780 by Johannes Mathias Roth (estimate $150/250,000), a ... More | |
Hélio Oiticica, Relevo Espacial, 1959-60. Acrylic on wood, 38.6 x 47.25 x 7.9 inches (98 x 120 x 20 cm). © Projeto Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro Courtesy Projeto Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Lelong & Co. is presenting Hélio Oiticica: Spatial Relief and Drawings, 195559, a solo exhibition of the artists early gouache drawings and an example of his signature Relevo Espacial (Spatial Relief). On view are two series by OiticicaGrupo Frente and Metaesquemasfrom the 1950s that would anticipate Oiticicas later Relevo Espacial and investigations of three-dimensional space. Oiticica was part of the Rio de Janeiro-based Grupo Frente, an artist collective led by Ivan Serpa from 195456. Members such as Oiticica, Lygia Clark, and Lygia Pape approached art through a rigorous commitment to experimentation and a rejection of traditional expressive means. During this time, Oiticica created a series of Grupo Frente works (195456) that reveal an early intuitive understanding of color and ... More |
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| | | After more than thirty years, a new inventory of the Museum Ludwig collection is being published | | Olafur Eliasson public art installation Ice Watch brings the reality of climate change to London | | Putin praises dissident writer Solzehnitsyn on centenary |
Museum Ludwig. Art. 20th/21st Centuries. Collection. Painting, Sculpture, New Media.
COLOGNE.- It has been more than three decades since the inventory of the Museum Ludwig collection was published by Siegfried Gohr on the occasion of the opening of the new museum building on Heinrich-Böll-Platz in 1986. Since then, numerous acquisitions and donations have enriched our holdings, focuses within the collection have been expanded, and important works have been added, particularly in international contemporary art. The demand for a new inventory became more and more pressing, and work on this major book project began during the preparations for the celebration of the museums fortieth anniversary in 2016. The new publication offers a wide-ranging look at the categories of painting, sculpture, installations, and new media within the collection. Spanning a total of 640 pages, it features 2,366 artworks by 948 artists. For the first time, almost all the works within these genres will be ... More | |
The blocks of ice were sourced from the waters of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, where they were melting into the ocean after having been lost from the ice sheet.
LONDON.- Ice Watch, a major public art installation created by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson and award winning geologist Minik Rosing highlighting the impact of climate change, was launched today. Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the launch was attended by Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries. The installation is in two parts: 24 blocks are arranged in a circular formation on Bankside outside Tate Modern, where a major exhibition of Eliassons work will open in July 2019, and six blocks are on display in the heart of the City of London outside Bloombergs European headquarters. The blocks of ice were sourced from the waters of the Nuup ... More | |
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the unveiling ceremony of a statue of Russian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Moscow on December 11, 2018. December 11 marks the 100th anniversary of Solzhenitsyn's birth. Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled a statue honouring writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the centenary of his birth Tuesday, hailing as a patriot the dissident whose work was once banned. "Even in exile, Solzhenitsyn never permitted malicious talk of his homeland and he opposed any manifestation of Russophobia," Putin said at a ceremony in Moscow. The unveiling of the statue, which shows the bearded Solzhenitsyn standing with his hands behind his back, was one of a number of events in Moscow to mark the 100-year anniversary of the writer's birth. The winner of the 1970 Nobel literature prize exposed "the features of a totalitarian system that brought suffering and great hardship to millions of people," Putin said, as ... More |
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| | | Syria accuses international forces of 'illegal' archaeological digs | | The Fine Art Society to celebrate their history on New Bond Street with a sale at Sotheby's | | 'Looking at the Overlooked' by John Myers published by RRB PhotoBooks |
Syrians walk past artefacts recovered by the government from archaelogical sites affected by fighting across the country, on display at an exhibition titled "Syria's Recovered Treasures" at the Damascus Opera House in the capital. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP.
DAMASCUS (AFP).- Syria's government on Monday accused US, French and Turkish forces in the north of the country of carrying out "illegal archaeological digs", but offered no evidence to back up the allegation. "Information we have received indicates an acceleration in the pace of excavation work, pillaging and theft," a foreign ministry official was quoted as saying by state-run SANA news agency. The unnamed official said digs were being conducted in the areas around Manbij, Raqa and Hasakeh in the north of the country, which are dominated by a Kurdish-led alliance backed up by the US. The official also pointed to the regions of Afrin and Idlib controlled by pro-Turkish rebels. Syria's complex seven-year conflict has drawn in a raft of international players, including a US- ... More | |
James McNeil Whistler, The Rialto, 1879 -80 (detail). Estimate: £7,000 10,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- After 142 years on New Bond Street, one of Londons oldest commercial art gallery, The Fine Art Society relocated from their iconic Mayfair space earlier this year. To mark this new chapter, they are to offer over 300 works in an auction at Sothebys in February. Since its foundation in 1876, The Fine Art Society has championed living artists, either bringing their work to the publics attention for the first time, or presenting it in unexpected ways. Such has been the impact of this historic institution on the evolution of the art market, that its story is in many ways also that of Bond Street, and of the wider London art world. The sale in February 2019 will include pieces by some of the most prominent artists of the last 150 years. From James McNeil Whistler, whose ideas influenced not only the art world but also the broader culture of the late 19th-century, to the godfather of British Pop Art, Sir Peter Blake, ... More | |
Television no 4, 1973 © John Myers courtesy RRB PhotoBooks.
LONDON.- Looking at the Overlooked describes photographer John Myers way of encountering the world. The images in this new book, many previously unpublished, were all taken within walking distance of his home in Stourbridge in the West Midlands between 1972 and 1981. The photographs are a study of the mundane and every day which is often seen, yet frequently dismissed. The sequencing of images in the book follows a journey through a generic town encountering the dual carriageway, the golf course and the lift doors at Waitrose. There is a deliberate absence of people, no implied narrative nor event about to unfold after the frame. These are landscapes of stark austerity photographs of substations, shops, houses, televisions and landscapes without incident and with hindsight represent an evolution of the New Topographics photographic movement in the West Midlands. The & ... More |
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Maggot cheese, putrid sea herring or virgin boy eggs -- bon appetit!
LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Care for some maggot cheese, fried tarantula or a bat? Or how about fried locusts, grasshoppers or virgin boy eggs? These delicacies are among some 80 items featured at the Disgusting Food Museum that opened in Los Angeles On Sunday, aiming to expose visitors to different cultures and foods and what we may all be eating in the future. Samuel West, the museum's founder, said he came up with the idea for the two-month exhibit -- which first opened in his native Sweden in October -- in light of the ongoing debate about environmentally sustainable sources of protein and food security. "If we can change people's notions of disgust, maybe we can also open them up to new sustainable proteins," said West, pointing to platefuls of Iru locust beans eaten in Nigeria, mopane worms eaten in South Africa or Nsenene, grasshoppers ... More
The largest collection of unique Gilbert Albert pieces ever to be put up for auction achieves CHF 830,000
GENEVA.- This exceptional sale of creations by artist and jeweller Gilbert Albert, put together by Piguet Auction House was met with huge success. Held in front of a crowded saleroom which never thinned from the 4pm start until the 11.30 pm finish, all but a few of the 427 lots by this prestigious Genevan jeweller found buyers. It is the largest sale of jeweller Gilbert Alberts creations ever to be organised in the world, states Bernard Piguet, Director and Chief Auctioneer at the auction house. We have found real pleasure in preparing this sale which created this event in Geneva. Many people came to witness this historic sale as well as bidders participating via the internet and by telephone. After a temporary exhibition at Genevas Beau-Rivage Hotel in November as well as the viewing at the auction house salerooms, the two sessions presented 427 lots ... More
Exhibition features photographs/illustrations depicting war's destruction on environment
KANSAS CITY, MO.- When asked to describe the geography of the Western Front in the aftermath of World War I, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom John Masefield said, It was a waste so utter that even the ruin was ruined. World War I left behind an unprecedented path of desolate landscapes. By the end of the war, much of the Western Front resembled anything but rolling country sides. Instead, the destruction yielded topography akin to an uninhabited planet. On view now at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, Devastated Lands examines the battered landscapes through a series of jarring photographs and illustrations from the Museum and Memorials collection. The environmental effect of World War I is so significant that its practically uncalculatable, said National WWI Museum and Memorial Senior Curator Doran Cart. More than 100 ... More
Ulster Museum's art collections revitalised by New Blood exhibition
BELFAST.- A painting of Belfast poet Medbh McGuckian from 1989 by renowned artist Peter Edwards has gone on display in the Ulster Museum alongside work from Northern Irish artists, some of which have never been exhibited before. Edwards recently gifted painting to National Museums NI, features in a new exhibition New Blood: Recent Art Acquisitions 201418. Seventeen works are on display in the exhibition, some of which have been gifted or bequeathed while others have been purchased by National Museums NI or are on long term loan. Works have been received from artists, the public and through support from the Friends of the Ulster Museum. Paintings on display in the Ulster Museum for the first time include Connemara Woman Knitting by County Armagh artist Charles Lamb and Glengormley-born Basil Blackshaws Gypsy which have both been gifted ... More
Early copy of DC Comics Flash #105 climbs to $20,000 at Bruneau & Co's Toys & Comics sale
CRANSTON, RI.- A copy of DC Comics Flash #105 (Feb.-Mar. 1959) in superb condition, with a grade of CBCS 9.0, soared to $20,000 at a Toy & Comic Auction that featured many rare superhero comics, including Flash, Hulk, Spider-Man, Superman, Batman and Robin, held Dec. 1st by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the showroom at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. With an estimate of $15,000-$25,000, the copy of Flash #105 was expected to do well. The book featured the first Silver Age Flash in his own title, plus the first appearance and origin of Mirror Master and the origin of Flash retold. When compared to the CGC census 6 in the 9.0 grade, only five are graded higher. Its ranked #13 on Overstreets list of the top 50 Silver Age comics. The auction was packed with 388 lots of toys, comics and comic art. While comic books reigned ... More
Pietro Roccasalva's first solo exhibition in London on view at Massimo De Carlo
LONDON.- Massimo De Carlo is presenting Hétalvó by Pietro Roccasalva, this is the first solo exhibition in London by the Italian artist, who lives and works in Milan. Even though Roccasalvas practice involves many different mediums, painting is the constant, crucial element that channels the artist narrative, and around which all other mediums circle. For the exhibition the artist presents a new body of work, composed of large-scale canvases and a series of smaller paintings that is named as the exhibition itself: Hétalvó. Each painting aims to embody in a different way the poetic narrative of Roccasalvas installation The Seven Sleepers . This immersive installation, that was first exhibited in Roccasalvas survey show at MAGASIN in Grenoble in 2013, and is now part of the MoMA collection, is a sculptural/performance-based piece from the still life / tableau vivant ... More
Grounds For Sculpture welcomes new board member, Alexander Gladney
HAMILTON, NJ.- Grounds For Sculpture, the 42-acre sculpture park, arboretum, and museum in Hamilton, NJ, announced the appointment of Alexander Gladney, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Capital Health System, Inc., to its Board of Trustees. A graduate of Georgetown University, Gladney holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Fine Arts. Following his undergraduate education, he attended Temple University School of Law, earning his Juris Doctorate with a focus on Corporate Law. At Capital Health, Gladney manages a variety of responsibilities across several departments, including corporate, real estate, contract, and voting rights law. Outside of his professional endeavors, Gladney is a committed philanthropist, and is particularly passionate about organizations and causes related to the healthcare field and communities ... More
Roving cinema plays public service role in Central Africa
BAYANGA (AFP).- A giant screen flickers to life in a remote village in the equatorial forest of the Central African Republic. Some 200 villagers avidly take in an evening of films thanks to a travelling cinema team with the dual goal of entertaining and enlightening. Ambulant Digital Cinema (CNA) brought its show to the southwestern village of Bayanga along bumpy rutted tracks, aiming to reach people living in remote parts of a deeply poor country scarred by violence. "Some people are astounded when they see a car, so imagine what it's like when we're projecting films," said Serge Mbilika, a state television journalist who brought CNA into the light of day in April 2018. Silence falls across the clearing among the mango trees once a presenter announces the first film, her voice rising over birdsong and the chirping of crickets. Then a booming voice surprises the audience. ... More
Cally Spooner's second solo exhibition with ZERO... on view in Milan
MILAN.- In experimental physics, dead time is the time that a measuring detector uses, after receiving an external impulse, to perform a new survey. For detection systems that record discrete events, such as particle and nuclear detectors, the dead time is the time after each event during which the system is not able to record another event. It is the instant immediately following a stimulus during which a device is insensitive to further stresses. This is also the case for the flash of a camera, which takes a few seconds to recharge between one shot and the next. Dead Time is also a synonym for downtime. Downtime means that a system or service is not working at a given time. The term is usually used in discussions about the provision of information technology systems or services. Downtime is also known as idle time. Business managers and those in positions ... More
Arc de Triomphe to reopen after Paris protest damage
PARIS (AFP).- The soaring Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs-Elysees in Paris will reopen Wednesday after being covered in graffiti and ransacked during anti-government protests which rocked the capital on December 1, the French monuments commission said. The arc, under which lies the tomb of the unknown soldier, commemorating France's war dead, has been a focal point of the "yellow vest" rallies against fuel tax increases and the cost of living which began on November 17. But the demonstrations degenerated into daylong clashes with police early this month, with protesters spray-painting the arc with slogans such as "the yellow vests will win." The protesters later managed to break into the monument where they smashed sculptures and display cases in an underground gallery and snatched commemorative medals and other items. ... More
ESSEX ROAD 5: Eight contemporary artists interpret a very particular part of London
LONDON.- Tintypes ESSEX ROAD project has reached its landmark fifth birthday. A popular and much anticipated local event, the annual commissions are now recognised for their significance within the ecology of moving image arts in the UK enabling eight artists each year to make new work. Over the past five years, Tintype has commissioned and produced 40 artists films, which are back-projected into the gallerys window and viewed from the street as a form of public art. The driving force behind the project is the desire to work with outstanding artists, producing new work that is shown in an unusual context. Whilst the brief is very simple to make a short film that responds to one London street, Essex Road the results have been astonishingly diverse. Turning a prism onto a very specific locale has, perhaps counter-intuitively, encouraged a magnificently ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Norwegian painter and illustrator Edvard Munch was born December 12, 1863. Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 - 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. His best known work is The Scream, painted in 1893. In this image: Edvard Munch, The Artist and His Model, 1919 - 21; oil on canvas; 47 7/16 x 78 3/4 in.; photo: courtesy the Munch Museum, Oslo.
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