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A woman looks at "The Lacemaker", an oil on canvas by late Dutch painter Nicolas Maes during the press visit of an exhibition entitled "Vermeer and the masters of genre painting", on February 21, 2017 at the Louvre museum in Paris. FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP.
by Antoine Froidefond / Fiachra Gibbons
PARIS (AFP).- A new blockbuster Vermeer exhibition which opens Wednesday aims to smash the myth that the Dutch master was a solitary genius who worked alone at home cut off from the world. The Louvre in Paris has gathered a third of the 17th-century painter's canvasses for the show -- the most ever shown in one place since his death -- where they will hang alongside nearly 60 painting by his friends, rivals and contemporaries. "We wanted to do away with the stereotype of Vermeer as 'the Sphinx of Delft'," said Blaise Ducos, who is in charge of the museum's vast collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings. Despite his reputation as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Vermeer was all but forgotten after his death in 1675. His reputation was only revived in the late 19th century. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture shows the statue of Pope Urban VIII during the inauguration of the "Hall of the Horatii and Curiatii" (Sala degli Orazi e Curiazi) following its restoration, on February 20, 2017 at the Capitoline Museums (Musei Capitolini) in Rome. Andreas SOLARO / AFP
| Award-winning architect Diébédo Francis Kéré to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017 | | MOLA excavations at Crossrail Farringdon site reveal secrets of Tudor life | | Exhibition at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst presents masterworks of minimal art |
Serpentine Pavilion 2017, Designed by Francis Kéré, Design Render, Exterior ©Kéré Architecture.
LONDON.- Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkino Faso, has been commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens. Kéré, who leads the Berlin-based practice Kéré Architecture, is the seventeenth architect to accept the Serpentine Galleries invitation to design a temporary Pavilion in its grounds. Since its launch in 2000, this annual commission of an international architect to build his or her first structure in London at the time of invitation has become one of the most anticipated events in the global cultural calendar and a leading visitor attraction during Londons summer season. Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and CEO Yana Peel made their selection of the architect, with advisors David Adjaye and Richard ... More | |
Collection of adult slip-on shoes. © Crossrail.
LONDON.- Excavations carried out by MOLA at the Crossrail site at Farringdon have revealed fascinating insights into daily life in Tudor London in recently published findings. The site in the heart of the capital has already provided remarkable information about the Black Death in London, but now analysis of artefacts extracted from the re-discovered Faggeswell brook, that flowed past Charterhouse Square, revealed more about the people living in the area during the 16th and 17th Centuries. Due to the wet ground conditions in the area of the brook, MOLA archaeologists were able to recover rarely found Tudor textiles, leather and plant remains all preserved in excellent condition. It is very rare that textiles and leather survive in the ground, and it is only because of the damp conditions which stopped oxygen form decaying the organic materials that there is such an invaluable insight into the lives of ordinary Londoners and the gentry. Highlights ... More | |
Michael Beutler: outdoor-yellow 13, 2005/2011. Exhibition view MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy Michael Beutler. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- Among the holdings of the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main is an important collection of outstanding works of minimal art of the 1960s and 70s. In a major survey featuring nearly fifty artists, the MMK is now presenting the masterworks of this collection comprehensively for the first time. The unique group of works by American minimalists of the early 1960s made its way into the museum when the city of Frankfurt purchased the former Karl Ströher collection in 1981. An acquisition of 2006, now of the works amassed by the former gallery owner and collector Rolf Ricke, further enhanced the MMK holdings with outstanding examples of post-minimalism. It has long been our wish to present the highlights of this important MMK focus on a comprehensive scale. The exhibition will once again testify to the ... More |
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| Van Doren Waxter opens exhibition of paintings from crucial figure of late-era American abstraction | | New 500 million year-old species shows legged worms were sieving the bottom of ancient seas | | Auction at Artcurial to offer objects through the perspective of its provenance |
Harvey Quaytman, Marienburg, 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 81 3/4 x 68 1/4 inches. (207.6 x 173.4 cm). Signed, titled, dated on reverse.
NEW YORK, NY.- Van Doren Waxter announces Harvey Quaytman: Hone, an exhibition of paintings from this crucial figure of late-era American abstraction. Opening February 22, 2017 and remaining on view through April 28, 2017, Harvey Quaytman: Hone marks the gallerys first exhibition of Quaytmans work since representation of the artists estate in 2016. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany this exhibition with an essay by Steven Henry Madoff. Harvey Quaytman came of age in the 70s and 80s when the art world was focused on Neo-Expressionism, Minimalism, Conceptualism and the Pictures Generation. Counter to these movements, Quaytman's work developed in response to Abstract Expressionism in an attempt to develop a more personal approach to abstraction. Harvey Quaytman: Hone features nine paintings made ... More | |
Ovatiovermis cribratus life restoration. Artist: Danielle Dufault. © Royal Ontario Museum.
TORONTO.- A new species of lobopodian, a worm-like animal with soft legs from the Cambrian period (541 to 485 million years ago), has been described for the first time from fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Details of the new species, called Ovatiovermis cribratus, are being published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The new species is only the third lobopodian that has been formally described from the Burgess Shale. It is one of the rarest species found there, and is now in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and an associate professor at the University of Toronto in the Departments Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences and lead author of the study, said: Although Ovatiovermis is no longer than my thumb with all ... More | |
Le Corbusier, Borne éclairante, circa 1953 54. Estimate: 20 000 - 30 000 . © Artcurial.
PARIS.- Provenance plays an essential part in defining an objects pedigree. Its origin, its history, its successive prestigious owners are all essential information that collectors scrutinise before acquiring a piece. For its first sale of the year, on 28th February 2017, the Artcurial design department of has planned the sale of 75 lots, on this theme. Each of the objects will be presented through the perspective of its Provenance. We discover the earliest pieces of furniture by Pierre Guariche, presented at the Salon des Arts Ménager of 1951; furniture from the Steph Simon gallery, the first to believe in 1950s French designers; but also, Charlotte Perriand furniture for Les Arcs; Standard chairs by Jean Prouvé ordered after the Second World War for the conference rooms of the Social Security in Paris; or Corbusier public lighting terminal from Firminy. « Telling the story of a piece of furniture up for auction is retracing t ... More |
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| Arts save young Mexicans from crime | | Vatican to host menorah exhibition with Roman Jews | | Jazz-rock fusion pioneer Larry Coryell dead at 73 |
Twelve-year-old Marcos Emiliano Lopez shows a pinhole camera as he poses for pictures during a photo session at the Factory of Arts and Crafts. Omar TORRES / AFP.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Ex-drug addict Fernando Rivera lived through hell as a youth from a poor and violent suburb of Mexico City -- until art saved him. Now, aged 24, he smiles as he shows the mask with a skull design that he wears when he creates paintings with a spray-can. After spending time in a rehab clinic, he ended up at the Arts and Crafts Factory (FARO), a network of municipal centers that have saved thousands like him from lives of drugs and violence. "It is like being shipwrecked and then finding a place of refuge," he tells AFP. The dead bodies of crime victims used to be found at dawn on the spot where the vast warehouses housing the FARO now stand, on the outskirts of the capital. The spot is home to the Eastern FARO, offering free workshops in art, crafts, drama, literature and more to 2,000 locals. Rivera started off at the center six years ago on a photography course and traveled the country taking pictures of folk customs. ... More | |
People look from the Dome of St. Peter Basilica as Pope Francis addresses the crowd from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square during his Angelus prayer on February 19, 2017 in Vatican City. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP.
VATICAN CITY (AFP).- The Vatican and Rome's Jewish community on Monday presented an ambitious exhibition on the menorah which will bring together 130 works featuring the iconic Jewish candelabrum, an ancient symbol of the faith. The show on the seven-candle Hebrew lamp will run simultaneously from May 15 to July 23 at the Vatican museums and the synagogue complex in a city which once housed one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. The artifacts are being loaned by nearly 20 museums around the world, including London's National Gallery and the Louvre in Paris. Among them will be one of the earliest known depictions of a menorah, an engraved stone found at the site in Israel where a synagogue from the Second Temple period was discovered by archaeologists in 2009. Christian medieval candlesticks inspired by the menorah, ... More | |
This file photo taken on July 20, 2012 shows Larry Coryell during the 47th Heineken Jazzaldia. Rafa RIVAS / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Fusion pioneer Larry Coryell, one of the first guitarists to win an audience bringing a rock edge to the jazz guitar, has died. He was 73. The guitarist, who kept a busy recording and touring schedule and had concerts planned well into 2017, died of natural causes at a New York hotel Sunday after playing two nights at the city's Iridium club, his publicist said. Coryell was best known for his 1970 album "Spaces" in which he stayed true to jazz but brought a new rock power and psychedelic ambience to the music, on which he teamed up with pianist Chick Corea and fellow guitarist John McLaughlin. Coryell came to be known in some jazz circles as the "Godfather of Fusion" although jazz legend Miles Davis defined fusion with his rockier, improvisational album "Bitches Brew," also released in 1970. Born in Texas and raised in Seattle, Coryell arrived in New York in the 1960s and immersed himself in the jazz scene but also studied classical guitar ... More |
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| Miquel Navarro's Imaginary Archaeologies occupies San Sebastian's Kubo-kutxa gallery | | Art and emblems of friendships with the Kennedys offered in Bonhams' New York sale | | Artcurial to offer major urban art pieces from a private collection |
Miquel Navarro. Imaginary Archaeologies. Placón, 2011. @Argazkia. Photo: Juantxo Egaña.
SAN SEBASTIAN.- San Sebastians Kubo-kutxa Gallery hosts Miquel Navarro. Imaginary Archaeologies, an exhibition taking a tour of the sculptors work through iconic pieces in his career such as several of his Cities and Placón, an enormous sculpture 3.5 metres tall in solid aluminium on display for the first time. The exhibition runs from 17th February until 21st May 2017. The large-format pieces in the exhibition, curated by Dolores Durán Ãcar are accompanied by work books and other smaller pieces, a series of small sculptures, little clay figures in a nod to academia and archaeology, presented as that laboratory of creation and experimentation which is the sculptors studio. This is the first time an exhibition is being held held in San Sebastian on the work of Miquel Navarro, National Visual Arts Award (1986) and one of the leading representatives of the ... More | |
An image of Jackie Kennedy on the Georgetown University campus, included in a group of photos shot by Orlando Suero in 1954. Estimate: $3,000-5,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Kennedy Years, a special section in the Fine Books & Manuscripts sale in New York on March 9, has several items on offer that tell the story of JFKs days as a young senator arriving in Washington D.C. with his beautiful young bride, his nomination to the Democratic ticket, and his presidential campaign and presidency. Leading the sale is the original plaster maquette for the bust of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, modeled by renowned sculptor Felix De Weldon, best known for his Marines Corps Memorial, in mid to late 1963, estimated at $150,000-200,000. After Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, Jackie Kennedy worked closely with the sculptor to ensure the most accurate depiction of the fallen president. Most notably she re-shaped the mouth so the bust ... More | |
Kaws, Companion (Original Fake), 2010. Fibre de verre peinte. Estimate: 150 000 250 000 / 175 000 285 000 $.
PARIS.- For the first time, on 28th February 2017, the Artcurial Urban Art department is presenting a sale entirely dedicated to the dispersion of a private collection. Entitled « Urban Anthology », this set of 23 works offers a prospective of the most iconic urban artists from the last decades. From historical graffiti from the 1990s by the American Rammellzee to a Pablo Picasso-inspired Banksy, a monumental two-meters high Companion by Kaws, these major urban art pieces are the reflection of the conviction and audacity animated by the choices of this collector. In order to magnify the precursory spirit of the collector who gathered these works together, Artcurial wished to stage the collection in a place symbolizing creation. The pieces were photographed at the National Dance Centre in Pantin, a concrete building dating ... More |
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New Black Power! Exhibition on view at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NEW YORK, NY.- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opened its latest exhibition Black Power! in the newly-renovated Main Exhibition Hall. On display through December 2017, Black Power! invites visitors to delve deeper into the heterogeneous and ideologically diverse global movement that shaped black consciousness and built an immense legacy of community organizing and advocacy that continues to resonate in the United States of America and around the world today. Visitors also confront misconceptions and truths about the Black Power movement. Black Power! serves as another touchstone in the Schomburgs Black Power 50 focus, a yearlong examination into the 50th anniversary of the Black Power movement. Stokely Carmichael and fellow Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Willie Ricks introduced ... More
First mid-career retrospective of Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi opens in Geneva
GENEVA.- The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève presents Perla Pollina the first mid-career retrospective of Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi from February 22 to April 30, 2017. Perla Pollina comprises over 70 works, spanning 1996 to 2016 and covering the different aspects of his rich and intricate production. Through an array of unconventional techniques, Cuoghis paintings, drawings, sculptures and animations bear the imperative to always contest the known, the familiar, the accepted, and the understood. Known for his legendary transformation into an old man for seven years when in his twenties, Roberto Cuoghi is one of todays most mysterious artists. Concepts of perpetual experimentation, rule breaking, continuous and processual learning are central to his work. As Anthony Huberman, contributor to the catalogue states, A radical thinker, Roberto Cuoghi ... More
Cal State LA's Fine Arts Gallery features works by artist Frank Romero
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Frank Romero remembers watching stylish lowrider cars cruising the streets of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, and seeing the vivid imagery inside a small Catholic church where he attended mass as a boy. It was filled, not only with statues, but oil paintings and all kinds of religious art and flowers; and of course what I saw on the streets was just so colorful," recalls Romero, who is an alumnus of California State University, Los Angeles and grew up in communities near the University. The images and experiences of Romeros youth influenced his art in a profound way. His paintings, many of which depict the unique cultural and social underpinnings of Mexican American life, have been displayed around the world and have earned Romero widespread acclaim. Now Romeros work is on display through March 10 at the Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery. ... More
Shipwreck silver, offbeat Americana and Gen. MacArthur's monogrammed luggage attract bidders worldwide
WILLOUGHBY, OH.- The fun factor was off the charts at Milestones January 14 New Years Spectacular Auction, where bidders could view Spanish silver from a 1622 shipwreck, try on amusing antique parade heads or practice a dignified military gait while toting General Douglas MacArthurs monogrammed personal luggage. This auction generated lots of excitement, with bidders from around the world taking part, said Milestone Auctions co-owner Chris Sammet. We had a very large in-house crowd plus many Internet and phone bidders. There were some items that we expected would draw a lot of interest, but in the run-up to the sale there were phone calls and emails about almost everything in the catalog. The grand total for the day was $365,010 (all prices quoted inclusive of 20% buyers premium). To no ones surprise, the top lot was a 1045ozt silver bar recovered ... More
Bonniers Konsthall opens solo exhibition of work by Susan Philipsz
STOCKHOLM.- Bonniers Konsthall presents the solo exhibition Lost in Space with The Global Fine Art Award-winner Susan Philipsz, Bonniers Konsthalls guest artist 2017. Susan Philipsz embarked on the journey to create a new installation for the Konsthall by seeking inspiration from a key Swedish literary and opera workthe space opera Aniara. This installation is also Philipszs most extensive film production to date, and was produced on site in Sweden. The main work, A Single Voice, is a new work by the artist inspired by composer Karl-Birger Blomdahls Aniara, a space opera based on Harry Martinson's space epic of the same name. In the piece Philipsz has set the first violin apart and recorded it tone by tone. Each tone has in turn been given its own speaker and by distributing them throughout Bonniers Konsthall Philipsz creates what can be called ... More
Manaf Halbouni to make new work in UK inspired by the conflict in Syria
HUNTLY.- German-Syrian artist, Manaf Halbouni, whose controversial Monument artwork was unveiled in Dresden earlier this month is to undertake an artist residency and make new work in the UK inspired by the conflict in Syria. Halbouni has been invited by arts organisation Deveron Projects to come to Huntly in North East Scotland where he will spend 3 months working with a community that includes refugees who have fled the conflict in Syria. 32-year old Halbouni was born in Damascus to a Syrian father and German mother who had met whilst the former was studying architecture at Dresden University. Halbouni has studied at the art school in Damascus and has been based in Germany at the Dresden school of Fine Art - since 2009. The starting point for Halbounis UK residency, which will begin in mid March, is the Sykes-Picot Agreement: the secret ... More
Enchanting Favist-style painting by Jean de Botton sells at Ahlers & Ogletree
ATLANTA, GA.- A GIA-certified 6.77-carat modern Champagne diamond ring slipped onto a new finger for $31,000 and a monumental figural hall bench (or settle), attributed to R. J. Horner (N.Y., 1853-1922), gaveled for $28,320 at Ahlers & Ogletrees New Years Signature Estates Auction, held January 14th-16th in the firms gallery at 715 Miami Circle (Suite 210) in Atlanta. About 200 of the 1,491 lots in the sale were from the estate of Diane Smith McIver, a prominent businesswoman and former president of Corey Airport Services in Atlanta who recently passed away. These included fine purses and bags by high-end designers, high-end estate jewelry and luxurious furs and designer outfits. The diamond ring just mentioned was not from her estate. The ring, however, was the top lot in an auction that netted about $1.1 million. The fine diamond boasted Y-Z color and ... More
"In art, I look for the purest form of things: Interview with the artist Daniele Bongiovanni
LUGANO.- Daniele Bongiovanni is an italian painter internationally active, who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. After a long period of training, projects around Italy and abroad, publications like the book ''L'incerto'' (poetry and visual art), edited by Centro Studi Giulio Pastore, he begins in 2008 a significant artistic career. After numerous exhibitions throughout the country, having presented the ''Pelle Sporca'' collection in a solo show at the Italian Contemporary Art Museum in America, he exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennale, in national pavilion; thereafter followed by other international events, which led him to exhibit in many cities: Paris, Las Vegas, Milan, Melbourne, Rome, Liverpool, New York, Bologna, Turin, Lugano, Hong Kong, Brescia, Ireland, Singapore, Bologna, Miami. For the moment, I am working on projects related to some philosophical ... More
Wang Dawei's newest oil paintings and some works on paper on view at FQ Projects
SHANGHAI.- Loners - Wang Daweis solo exhibition is the first show FQ Projects presents in the year 2017.This exhibition showcases Daweis newest 15 oil paintings and some works on paper he created since he went to stay in the States in 2015. People have always been the main focus in Daweis works. He has painted the restlessness, void and depression of urban life, as well as the desire, anger and ignorance of urban dwellers. Observing life and people in life from a third persons perspective has been the artists way of finding and collecting materials. After moving to the USA, his unfamiliarity in language made him going further in inner observing and experiencing. The loner identity pulled him away from real life, let him fully become an outsider in a foreign country. For example in this new body of work, there are two safeguards relaxing themselves, ... More
Morgan Lehman Gallery exhibits new large-scale oil paintings by Jeff Perrott
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery is presenting new large-scale oil paintings by Jeff Perrott. This will be the artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Over the years, Perrott has committed himself to exploring the possibilities of abstraction, interrogating its core tenets and material processes to reveal new and interesting ways of seeing. The works on view are part of an ongoing project that Perrott refers to as Random Walks. He explains, the Random Walks question what I call the will to power or will to domination of abstract painting by redirecting my hand through the operation of chance: by forcing a negotiation with contingency. At the same time, as chance is choice, the process pushes through its own blindness to what I think of as a different sort of power, not so motivated by domination, but by curiosity with and participation in the thrownness of the situation. ... More
Artist to hatch chicks after being locked in rock
PARIS (AFP).- Like many young fathers, Abraham Poincheval has very little time to himself to ponder life's big questions. So on Wednesday the French artist will be entombed for a week inside a 12-tonne limestone boulder in a modern art museum in Paris. "I think of it as an inner journey to find out what the world is," said Poincheval, who has hollowed out a hole in the rock just big enough for himself to fit inside. If he survives his time as the rock's "beating heart", the 44-year-old will then sit on a dozen eggs until they hatch. "It is the first time I will have worked with living things," the artist told AFP. Poincheval is no stranger to often bizarre and hair-raising performances. He once spent a fortnight inside a stuffed bear, was buried under a rock for eight days and navigated France's Rhone river inside a giant corked bottle. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French artist Charles Le Brun died February 22, 1690. Charles Le Brun (24 February 1619 - 22 February 1690) was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV "the greatest French artist of all time", he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art. In this image: Visitors look at a cabinet, designed by painter Charles Le Brun at the exhibition "Louis XIV, the man and the king" at the Chateau de Versailles, west of Paris, Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. The exhibition brings together more than 300 exceptional works coming from collections all over the world. It will run through October 20, 2009 - February 7, 2010.
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