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National Geographic Society's Interim President and CEO Michael L. Ulica and Dr Robert Ballard (c) Brian Morrison.
BELFAST.- The Titanic champions pledged their support at the event which formally launched a $20m campaign by Royal Museums Greenwich, National Museums Northern Ireland, Titanic Belfast and Titanic Foundation Limited for the 5,500 artefacts, which were recovered from the seabed by salvors, over the course of seven deep sea expeditions between 1987 and 2004. The National Geographic Society and National Geographic Explorers-at-Large, Dr. Robert Ballard, the famed oceanographer who discovered the RMS Titanic wreck, and James Cameron, film-maker and deep sea explorer, are backing an innovative collaboration between four organisations to purchase the entirety of the Titanic Artefacts Collection and bring them home to the UK and Ireland. At Titanic Belfast, on the exact location where RMS Titanic was designed, built and launched, National Geographic Society Interim President and CEO Michael L. Ulica announced the Societys support via a pledge o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor to Sugar Republic poses in front of a giant wall of neon signs in Melbourne on July 24, 2018. Sugar Republic is an interactive pop-up museum dedicated to the celebration of desserts, candy and all things sweet through 12 amazing sensory rooms. William WEST / AFP
| People -- and politics -- threaten Kano's ancient walls | | Christie's continues to lead art market, sales up 26% | | First portrait of HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, to enter Scotland's national art collection |
Two boys play at a crumbling section of Kano's ancient wall in Kano, Nigeria, on June 12, 2018. AMINU ABUBAKAR / AFP.
KANO (AFP).- Young boys scramble up the remains of a crumbling section of the ancient city wall in the Kofar Na'isa area of Kano, in northern Nigeria. "This wall may not survive the rainy season," warned Falalu Musa, a local resident. "It will soon join the others," he added, pointing to mounds of red earth lying nearby. Houses and commercial buildings have sprung up on other demolished sections or been turned into dumping grounds for rubbish, litter and sewage from the ever more crowded city. Elsewhere, excavators dig into the fortifications for the red iron- and aluminium-rich rock laterite, which is loaded onto donkeys and taken away for use in construction and renovation. What remains of the weakened walls that once stretched 14 kilometres (nine miles) around the city is then prone to crumble at the foundations and collapse when the rains come. The historic walls are under t ... More | |
A historic night at Christie's in New York as the 19th & 20th Century Art Evening Sale, the first sale in the series from the Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, totaled $646,133,594 / £476,148,559 / 541,380,911, exceeding the collection estimate by $100 million.
NEW YORK, NY.- Continued global demand, audience engagement with the diversity of collecting categories and the historic Rockefeller sales helped drive a 26% rise in Christies overall sales to almost £3bn ($4bn, up 35%) compared to £2.35bn in the first half of 2017. Auction sell-through rates across all lots bands increased to 84%. Sales were up across all three selling platforms, with auction sales increasing 20% to £2.65bn ($3.61bn, up 28%), private sales up 135% totalling £287m ($390.3m, up 151%) and online-only auction sales up 40% to £27.7m ($37.7m, up 50%). Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer, commented: It has been a record-breaking first half for Christies. 27% of all buyers were new to us during this period and we ... More | |
Detail of H.R.H. The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, by Victoria Crowe OBE FRSE RSA (b.1945). Oil on linen, 92 x 122 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland. Commissioned with the support of benefactors of the National Galleries of Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- A stunning new portrait of HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, will be unveiled in the Great Hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh today (Tuesday 24 July 2018). The portrait, painted in oil on linen, is the work of the distinguished artist Victoria Crowe and was painted at Birkhall on the Balmoral Estate in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland earlier this year. This is the first portrait of the Duke of Rothesay to enter the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) collection. Victoria Crowe OBE FRSE RSA (b.1945) is a widely admired artist whose practice encompasses portraiture, still life and landscapes. Portraits by her are included in a number of major public and private collections, including that of the National Galleries of Scotland. The first major exhibition ... More |
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| The Cleveland Museum of Art announces establishment of Center for Chinese Paintings Conservation | | At 85, Yoko Ono plans new album for peace | | Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens an exhibition with the Austrian artist Tobias Pils |
The CMA has been working toward a solution to the lack of Chinese painting conservation expertise in the United States since 2013. Photo courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art has collected exceptional Chinese paintings since its earliest days and has one of the most distinguished collections in the West. As responsible stewards of these important holdings, the museum has sought to increase the level of Chinese painting conservation expertise within the institution, and in turn throughout the United States. Today, the museum announces a transformative $1.5 million gift from June and Simon K.C. Li to establish a Center for Chinese Paintings Conservation. The Li gift matches a $1.5 million endowment challenge grant awarded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Chinese paintings are a special strength of our collection, said William Griswold, director of the Cleveland Museum of Art. While these superb works occupy a critical place ... More | |
In this file photo taken on November 20, 2014 Japanese multimedia artist, singer, and peace activist Yoko Ono speaks during the global launch of the UNICEF IMAGINE project. Jewel SAMAD / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Yoko Ono on Tuesday announced that she is releasing a new album at age 85, saying that her lifelong message of peace was sorely needed in 2018. "Warzone," which will come out on October 19, will revisit songs penned by Ono since 1970, concluding with "Imagine," her seminal pacifist anthem with her late husband John Lennon. "The world is so messed up. Things are very difficult for everybody," she said in a statement. A statement from her representatives added: "It is not too late to change the world. We need Yoko now more than ever." The Japanese-born New Yorker made clear that "Warzone" was not a swan song, saying that she is working on another album. The album's 13 tracks, produced by her son Sean Ono Lennon, are rearranged to strip back the music, bringing to the forefront Ono's voice in the vein ... More | |
Installation view. © Tobias Pils. Courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / New York. Photo: Jorit Aust.
KASTRO, ANTIPAROS.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting a new exhibition with the Austrian artist Tobias Pils. It is the first exhibition with the artist at the exhibition space on Antiparos in Greece. Tobias Pils' paintings and graphic works are almost not interpretable. His process of painting is formed by a planning that negates itself throughout the process of being carried out. As a result, representation flips into abstraction, figurativeness turns into composition. Pils' work creates an uncanniness of interpretation and challenges the notion of subjectivity in painting: His way of painting follows intuition and is created in the context of the everyday of the painter. Yet, he never fulfills his plan but rather turns in different directions while painting. In doing so, he produces manifold forms within one painting. Nevertheless, his practice is always accompanied by technical precision and pictoral thought. In doing so, ... More |
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| The Johnson Collection donates 'The Battle of Gettysburg' painting to the Spartanburg County Public Libraries | | Van Eaton Galleries announces an auction of massive proportions covering six decades of Disneyland history | | The Akron Art Museum wants you to connect with Dot, a new digital tour guide |
Measuring 20 feet in length and over 7 feet in height, the monumental canvas was acquired by the Johnson Collection in 2004.
SPARTANBURG, SC.- What began as a temporary visit has led to a permanent change of address. Previously on loan from the Johnson Collection, The Battle of Gettysburg: Repulse of Longstreets Assault, July 3, 1863 will become part of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries permanent collection, a gift from Susu and George Dean Johnson, Jr. On display since May 2016 in the Moseley Gallery at the Headquarters Library, the panoramic painting records the dramatic sweep, as well as particular details, of the longestand bloodiestengagement of the American Civil War. The defeat of Confederate forces in the Pennsylvania countryside marked a critical turning point in the conflicts outcome. Measuring 20 feet in length and ... More | |
Van Eaton Galleries will host a two-day auction of the entire collection on August 25th and 26th. Courtesy Van Eaton Galleries.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- An abandoned sporting goods store in the San Fernando Valley is not where youd expect to soar with Dumbo The Flying Elephant or snap a photo alongside a 40 foot sea serpent, but Van Eaton Galleries the worlds premiere auction house specializing in Disneyland memorabilia and original animation has created Thats From Disneyland!, a 20,000 square foot pop-up exhibit that offers the public a once in-a-lifetime opportunity to get up-close with pieces of the Disney Parks in an entirely new way. Guests are invited to take a selfie with the once-submerged giant sea serpent from The Submarine Voyage ride, dance along with 6 singing and dancing its A Small World figures, strike a pose with all four ... More | |
Dot is the culmination of more than 18 months of planning and prototyping to create a chatbot (a computer program
AKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum invites visitors to connect with Dot, a new digital tour guide that will rev-up your visits to the museum. Whether you come with family or friends, Dot will make your next visit an interactive experience. The museum will introduce Dot to everyone during a launch party on Thursday, August 2, 2018, at 6:00 P.M. in the museums Beatrice Knapp McDowell lobby. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Dot is the culmination of more than 18 months of planning and prototyping to create a chatbot (a computer program designed to simulate conversation with humans) that visitors can connect with via Facebook Messenger on their smartphone to create an interactive tour through the museum. However, ... More |
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| The sweetest interactive experience launches in Australia | | Rubin Museum hires Daneyal Mahmood as Director of Exhibitions | | Knoxville Museum of Art announces major new publication celebrating Richard Jolley's masterwork "Cycle of Life" |
A visitor to Sugar Republic reclines in a display of balls resembling lollies in Melbourne on July 24, 2018. Sugar Republic is an interactive pop-up museum dedicated to the celebration of desserts, candy and all things sweet through 12 amazing sensory rooms. William WEST / AFP.
MELBOURNE.- Sweet fun-lovers unite! Sugar Republic is an incredible pop-up museum is dedicated to the celebration of desserts, candy and all things sweet through twelve amazing sensory rooms. Relive your childhood as you climb a candy rainbow, splash about in a giant pink bubblegum ball pit and spin the wheel otreats. Take a swing surrounded by fairy floss, dance inside a giant gum ball machine and pose for a sweet selfie in our pink tearoom. Other attractions include a mini cinema, neon candy art, numerous sweet-themed displays and a grown-up candy store. In collaboration with local food creatives, Sugar Republic is openi in Melbournes old MacRobertsons confectionery factory (the birthplace of Freddo and Cherry Ripe) for a limited 8-week season. Its this ... More | |
Mahmood has followed a unique career path that combines entrepreneurship, arts administration, clinical psychology research, and leadership.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Rubin Museum of Art has hired Daneyal Mahmood, currently the Director of Visual Programming at the Watermill Center, as Director of Exhibitions. In this role, Mahmood will shape and oversee the Rubin Museums exhibitions and annual themes, collaborating with the curatorial and design staff and driving strategies for innovative exhibitions, greater and deeper audience engagement, and impactful, memorable experiences. Daneyal is inspiring in his intellectual freshness and does not shy away from experimental exploration, said Jorrit Britschgi, Executive Director. As we move toward even broader public engagement, his unique career background and conceptual approach will ensure that the Rubin Museum creates bold and meaningful exhibitions. Mahmood has followed a unique career path that combines entrepreneurship, arts administration, clinical psychology ... More | |
Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity, 2009-2014. Blown, cast, and acid-etched glass, and welded steel with patina, 105 x 30 x 12 feet. Knoxville Museum of Art, gift of Ann and Steve Bailey © 2014 Elizabeth Felicella Photography.
KNOXVILLE, TN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art announced a new publication celebrating Richard Jolleys masterwork Cycle of Life: Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity (2014), one of the worlds largest figural glass-andsteel sculptures that is on permanent display at KMA. The hardbound 144-page volume Richard Jolley: Cycle of Life includes essays by KMA Curator Stephen Wicks and distinguished scholars and authors J. Richard Gruber, Robert C. Morgan, and Lilly Wei examining the work, Jolleys practice, and the rich artistic traditions of the region. The publication features photography by Hei Park documenting the creation of the monumental sculpture throughout Jolleys five-year process and Elizabeth Felicella of its completed installation. The publication is a deeply compelling and visually stunning ... More |
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Shaker Museum / Mount Lebanon launches a multimedia driving tour app of New Lebanon, NY
NEW LEBANON, NY.- Many small rural towns contain hidden treasures if only you know where to look. The Shaker Museum has just made it easier by releasing Water and the Word, a multi-media app exploring the astonishing early history of New Lebanon, NY. This 16-stop, one to two hour driving tour explores the period following the American Revolution, when the hope of attaining personal and community perfection gripped the Shakers as well as many of New Lebanons leading citizens and led to significant social reforms that helped define American democracy. Researched, written, and narrated by Ruth J. Abram, founder of Behold! New Lebanon and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, the driving tour app also features original music and optional illustrated audio chapters offering more information at each location. Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon became the ... More
Massimo De Carlo London opens an exhibition of works by the Chinese painter Lu Song
LONDON.- Massimo De Carlo London presents The Room Upstairs an exhibition by the Chinese painter Lu Song. Lu Song is based in Beijing, where he returned after graduating from the Wimbledon College of Art London in 2006. The artist creates evocative acrylic landscape paintings, inspired by 19th century German Romanticism, which focus on the conception and depiction of an idealised place of safety or comfort and the connections and disconnections between humans and nature. For The Room Upstairs the artist has created a new series of canvases that are inspired by the novel 1984 the dystopian political masterpiece written in 1949 by George Orwell. The author was deeply disturbed by the widespread cruelties and oppressions he observed in communist countries, and was particularly concerned by the role of technology in enabling oppressive governments ... More
Major new exhibition at the Freud Museum reveals the stories of Freud's and his family's escape and exile
LONDON.- On Saturday 4 June 1938, Sigmund Freud, his wife, Martha, and their daughter, Anna left Vienna forever. On the same day, Freud sent a note to his friend, the writer, Arnold Zweig. In it he wrote, briefly, Leaving today for 39 Elsworthy Road, London NW3 . Freud's note was simple, but behind it lay a complex and dangerous series of events and an urgent need to escape. Hitler's annexation of Austria to Germany on 13 March had placed Austrian Jews in immediate danger. Within days, Freud's apartment and publishing house had been raided. A week later, Anna was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Now, after weeks of uncertainty, Freud, Martha and Anna boarded a train to take them across Europe to Paris, and from there to London and a new life. Other family members had escaped just weeks earlier, but many friends and relatives remained behind ... More
New Museum appoints V. Mitch McEwen as Curator of IdeasCity
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director, and Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, cofounders of IdeasCity, today announced the appointment of V. Mitch McEwen as Curator of IdeasCity, the institutions high-profile, multi-pronged initiative that explores the future of cities with culture as a driving force. IdeasCity is a collaborative, creative enterprise thatthrough conferences, workshops, commissions, projects, and exhibitionsinvestigates key issues, proposes solutions, and seeds concrete actions around a convening of an international network of thought leaders and cultural activists. IdeasCity builds on the New Museums mission of New Art, New Ideas by expanding the Museum beyond its walls into the civic realm. The Curator is a two-year appointment linked to the biennial presentation of IdeasCity in New York and is responsible for the two-year cycle ... More
Book fair turns the page for literature in Somaliland
HARGEISA (AFP).- Aged just 16, Abdishakur Mohamed confidently presented his latest work to the Hargeisa book fair, an event that has transformed Somaliland's literary scene over the past decade. Abdishakur spent four years writing "Ab-ka haleel" ("In the footsteps of our ancestors"), intended as a rebuttal of friends who he says were not "embracing their culture". "Instead they see it as unimportant, and their Somali identity is in danger," he told AFP. At the first annual event in 2008, organisers only exhibited a handful of books borrowed from friends and attracted just 200 visitors. Ten years on and literature has taken a prominent place in Somaliland's culture. New writers have emerged, volumes are being edited, book clubs formed and public libraries opened. The book fair, being held from Saturday July 21 to Thursday July 26, has been a key factor in Somaliland's embrace of literature. ... More
Ukraine teens pen plays to bridge war divide
KIEV.- A boy flees his war-scarred hometown, leaving his mother behind. A gay youth struggles for acceptance from his parents. A gang harasses a young black footballer. These and other dramas took centre stage in a show in Kiev this month, which brought together teenagers from the east and west of Ukraine to write plays. "It is moving," said 15-year-old Filip Kazlauskas, who wrote one of the pieces, a rock opera entitled "Romeo from Avdiivka". "I wanted to achieve the effect of making audiences sad and making them burst into tears." The play is named after the teenager's eastern hometown, which lies on the frontline of the conflict dividing the country. Performed by professional actors, it won a standing ovation from the audience. But the event was really about the young playwrights -- in a bid to bridge the cultural divide in the war-scarred country. ... More
The Museum of Contemporary Photography opens exhibition of works by Lucas Foglia
CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago is presenting Lucas Foglia: Human Nature from July 19 September 30, 2018. The relationship between humans and nature is both symbiotic and fraught. In the present era of climate change, scientists and conservationists are scrambling to find solutions to myriad challenges such as resource depletion, ecosystem transformation, overpopulation, and species extinction. As our destruction of the natural world becomes more pervasive, our interactions with wilderness are in turn increasingly restrained, and the experiences we do have with nature often occur in human-made environments. In fact, we are spending more time than ever indoors, even as social science research indicates that a connection to nature is vital to our well-being. Lucas Foglia is interested in these complexities ... More
Solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Alison O'Daniel on view at Shulamit Nazarian
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shulamit Nazarian is presenting Say the word Nowhere. Say Headphones. Say Nothing., a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Alison ODaniel. This exhibition marks the third in a series of concurrent presentations by the artist including new works in Made in L.A. 2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and The Infinite Ear at the Garage Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow. The exhibition title, Say the word Nowhere. Say Headphones. Say Nothing., is inspired by audiology tests, in which a patient is asked to listen to a series of compound words while an audiologist covers his or her own mouth to prevent lip reading. ODaniel is hard of hearing, wears hearing aids, and lip-reads. Her multi-disciplinary practiceincluding video, sculpture, and installationexplores sound and its perceived absence as a central concept. ... More
Lenbachhaus opens exhibition of films from 1970-1999 by Marcia Hafif
MUNICH.- Starting in the 1970s, Marcia Hafif (19292018) probed the impact of pure color in paintings that eschewed figuration and composition to represent nothing but themselves. This reduction let Hafif undertake an analytical examination of fundamental components of painting such as material, brushwork, surface, and format. Among the works from the KiCo Collection on permanent loan to the Lenbachhaus are more than twenty paintings and drawings from all periods of Hafifs oeuvre. They have been on view in presentations of art from the collections on several occasions since 2003. Marcia Hafif: Films (19701999) turns the spotlight on a lesser-known aspect of her oeuvre: film and language. After living and working in Rome for several years in the 1960s, the painter returned to her native California, where she made friends in Los Angeless experimental arts scene. Exchanging ideas ... More
Dallas Museum of Art creates new curatorial position in Islamic and Medieval art
DALLAS, TX.- Dr. AgustÃn Arteaga, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, announced today the establishment of a new endowed curatorial position. Dr. Heather Ecker has been appointed as the DMAs first Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art, bringing nearly two decades of diverse curatorial, teaching, and institutional experiences to the role. Dr. Ecker will begin at the DMA on July 30, 2018. This new curatorial position is a crucial step in fulfilling the DMAs commitment to advancing scholarship and building engaging exhibitions and programs around the full spectrum of the Museums incredible holdings. We are deeply grateful to Marguerite Hoffman and Tom Lentz for so generously funding this new position, said Arteaga. I am also very pleased to welcome Heather Ecker to the new role, ... More
Claudia Einecke appointed Curator of European Art at High Museum of Art
ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Dr. Claudia Einecke as the Frances B. Bunzl Family curator of European art. Einecke will oversee the European art department, including related exhibitions and programs, as well as its collection of more than 1,000 paintings, sculptures and works on paper spanning the 14th through the mid-20th century. Among the holdings are important gifts of Renaissance and Baroque art from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, a substantial collection of works on paper, and Impressionist and early modern works by renowned 19th- and 20th-century artists including Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Ãmile Bernard and Henri Matisse. Einecke also will contribute to the completion of the Museums current collection reinstallation, which will debut in October. She will join the High on Aug. ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American artist Thomas Eakins was born July 25, 1844. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 - June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. In this image: Thomas Eakins, "The Gross Clinic", 1875. Photo: courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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