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by Danny Kemp
AMSTERDAM (AFP).- Like watching paint dry? Soon art lovers will be able to watch one of the world's most famous paintings being restored live and online. Rembrandt's masterpiece "The Night Watch" will undergo a years-long, multi-million-euro overhaul at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum under the full gaze of the public. Restorers will work in a "state of the art clear glass chamber" so visitors can see the 17th century classic receive its makeover -- a process that normally happens in secret. The unique project starting in July 2019 is the biggest in the Rijksmuseum's history, General Director Taco Dibbits said on Tuesday. "The Night Watch by Rembrandt is one of the most famous paintings in the world and we feel we have to preserve it for future generations," Dibbits told AFP. "Over two million people a year come to see The Night Watch, it's a paintin ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Detroit-based artist Louise Jones works on a mural at the North Carolina Museum of Art titled Summer is Where You'll Find Me. The mural is part of the NCMA's new exhibition The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art running through January 20, 2019. The mural is based off of flowers gathered from the NCMA Park
| Microsoft co-founder, investor, philanthropist Allen dead at 65 | | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents the first exhibition to focus on Georg Baselitz's breakthrough decade | | Trump hangs painting of self at bar with Republican presidents |
In this file photo taken on June 23, 2000 Billionaire Paul Allen christens his Experience Music Project museum by smashing a glass guitar during its grand opening in Seattle, Washington. DAN LEVINE / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s and later went on to become an investor, philanthropist and sports team owner, died Monday after his latest battle with cancer at age 65. "My brother was a remarkable individual on every level. While most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, for us he was a much loved brother and uncle, and an exceptional friend," Allen's sister Jody said in a statement announcing his death. In recent years, Allen was known as the owner of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, and part owner of the Major League Soccer team the Seattle Sounders, along with a variety of business and charitable ventures. One of the world's wealthiest billionaires, Allen also founded Stratolaunch Systems, which built the world's largest plane designed as a colossal rocket-launching aircraft touted as the future of space travel. The craft was on track for its first launch demonstration as ... More | |
Die Dornenkrönung [The Crowning with Thorns], 1983. Oil on canvas. Image 300 x 250 cm (118.11 x 98.43 in). Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris. © Georg Baselitz, London 2018.
LONDON.- In 2018, as Georg Baselitz celebrates his 80th birthday, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London presents the first exhibition to focus solely on his work from the 1980s - the decade that saw the artist propelled to international fame, garner widespread critical acclaim and, at times, scandalise the art world. Through paintings, sculptures and works on paper, Georg Baselitz: A Focus on the 1980s traces the artists shift towards a freer, more expressionist application of paint and use of colour, resulting in works of astonishing vigour and formal power. The exhibition presents seminal works from each of the series Baselitz developed during this decade his Strandbilder [Beach Pictures], Orangenesser [Orange Eaters] and Trinker [Drinkers] - including works that have toured internationally but are yet to be exhibited in the UK, and those that are being shown for the first time since created in the 1980s. ... More | |
For President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House that caused a huge uproar on social media when it was revealed over the weekend.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- It could be any Republican president's fantasy: hanging out at a bar with fellow conservative American leaders of years, decades, and even centuries past. For President Donald Trump, that fictional "happy hour" exists, in the form of a painting hanging at the White House that caused a huge uproar on social media when it was revealed over the weekend. The president's critics say the scene is as real as some of the claims Trump made during his interview on "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday where a glimpse of the painting could be seen in the background. Trump's likeness has been ruthlessly disfigured by "high" and "low" artists alike, who have made no secret of their dislike of the Republican president. But in "The Republican Club," a painting by Andy Thomas, an uncharacteristically brawny Trump sports an affable, if slightly pinched smile as he is joined by the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt ... More |
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| Christie's to offer the Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection | | Andrew Jones Auctions announces highlights from its DTLA Collections & Estates Auction | | West Coast Pop artist Mel Ramos dies at age 83 |
Frans Hals, Portrait of a gentleman, aged 37. Estimate: £8-12 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
LONDON.- A focal point within Classic Week, Christies will offer a landmark, two-part sale of The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection in London on 6 & 7 December. This collection is testament to a lifelong passion for superlative works of art, and above all for Old Master paintings of the highest calibre. This is one of the most important private collections of Golden Age Dutch and Flemish pictures to have been formed in living memory, revealing the unerring eye of Eric Albada Jelgersma and his wife Marie-Louise Albada Jelgersma for outstanding quality. Christies will devote a special, stand-alone Old Masters Evening Sale to The Eric Albada Jelgersma Collection comprising over 40 paintings, including works by the greatest artists from the 17th century, notably Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Breughel the Elder, Judith Leyster and Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. ... More | |
German Expressionist painting of factory workers by Toni Anton Wolter (1879-1929) (est. $400-$600).
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Fresh off a successful inaugural auction in September that grossed over $1 million and saw the sale of a lovely Tiffany Studios drop head Dragonfly lamp for $200,000, Andrew Jones Auctions will come back strong with a DTLA Collections & Estates Auction on Sunday, October 21st, online and in the firms gallery at 2221 South Main Street in Los Angeles. The auction will be packed with 500 lots of art, design, furnishings and accessories. Our gallery will be the venue to discover different, fun, quirky and out-of-the-ordinary accessories and furnishings, as well as antiques and luxe décor for the home, garden, loft, gallery or retail space, at affordable prices, said Andrew Jones, the president and CEO of Andrew Jones Auctions. Mr. Jones added, We are delighted to bring to an established and new market such a varied collection of affordable works of art from the exotic to the whimsical and everyth ... More | |
Among the great painters of the American Pop Art movement, Mel Ramos was the most provocative. Photo: Crocker Art Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mel Ramos, the West Coast Pop artist known for his portraits of female nudes that are incongruously paired with brand logos, died on Sunday in Oakland, California. He was 83. His death, on Sunday, Oct. 14, at Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, was confirmed by his daughter and studio manager, Rochelle Leininger. The cause was heart failure. Among the great painters of the American Pop Art movement, Mel Ramos was the most provocative. Throughout the course of his sixty-year career, Ramos experimented with different series that depicted the female form, each that was imbued with ironic undertones.Evolving from his early Pop portraits of comic book heroines in the 1960s, Ramos later series humorously explored the idealization and depiction of the nude female form in art, fashion and advertising. Rising to acclaim in 1963 after his inclusion ... More |
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| Bulgaria urged to save communist-era architectural 'masterpiece' | | Jill Newhouse Gallery opens the first gallery exhibition in NY in over 40 years of the works of Eugène Delacroix | | New Pompeii evidence rewrites Vesuvius eruption history |
In this file photo taken on September 27, 2018 experts from Europa Nostra, a NGO for protection and celebration of Europe's cultural and natural heritage inspect the crumbling oval skeleton of the House of the Bulgarian Communist Party on mount Buzludzha in central Bulgaria. Nikolay DOYCHINOV / AFP.
BUZLUDZHA PEAK.- Perched like a vast flying saucer on a central Bulgarian mountainside, Buzludzha is a brutalist concrete monument that was built to glorify communism nearly 40 years ago. The striking circular building has been left to fall victim to vandalism and decay, as Bulgaria has been eager to forget its communist past, but now western experts want to preserve it as a heritage site. The 70-metre (230-foot) high structure -- made of 70,000 tonnes of concrete, 3,000 tonnes of reinforced steel and 40 tonnes of glass -- looks like it is hovering at around 1,400 metres above sea level. It has a 40-metre-wide ceremonial hall with room for 400 people and was covered from floor to ceiling in mosaics depicting the history of Bulgaria's communist party. Inaugurated in 1981, it fell ... More | |
Eugène Delacroix, Sheet of Studies of Horses, a Moroccan Man in a Turban, and a landscape drawing on stationary from the French Ministry.
NEW YORK, NY.- Jill Newhouse Gallery is presenting the first gallery exhibition in New York in over forty years of the works of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Timed to coincide with two major exhibitions of the artists work at the Metropolitan Museum, the show includes works in all media- oil, watercolor, ink, pencil and pastel- and spans Delacroixs entire career, illustrating the principal themes and aesthetic concerns of his extraordinary oeuvre. Orientalist subjects appear in several rare watercolors from the artists seminal North African journey of 1832. Spiraling figures and gyrating wild beasts are portrayed with Delacroixs unique gestural draftsmanship. Ecorchés, or flayed anatomical studies, show the importance of the traditional artistic training he received, while revealing Delacroix's genius in creating compositions. Copies after Rembrandt, Rubens, and Goya point to Delacroixs lifelong admiration for t ... More | |
This file photo shows the damaged wall of a tomb at the ancient ruins of Pompeii, near Naples, southern Italy. AFP PHOTO / MARIO LAPORTA.
ROME (AFP).- A newly-discovered inscription at Pompeii proves the city was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius after October 17, 79 AD and not on August 24 as previously thought, archeologists said Tuesday. Archeologists recently discovered that a worker had inscribed the date of "the 16th day before the calends of November", meaning October 17, on a house at Pompeii, the head of archeology at the site, Massimo Osanna, told Italian media. Pompeii and Herculaneum were previously thought to have been destroyed by the massive eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24, based on contemporary writings and archeological finds. Nevertheless, evidence such as autumnal fruits on branches found in the ashen ruins had suggested a later date since the 19th century, Osanna said. "Today, with much humility, perhaps we will rewrite the history books because we date the eruption ... More |
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| Christie's to present five works from the collection of Francois and Susan de Menil | | Sotheby's to offer three paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe to benefit the Acquisitions Fund of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum | | Centre Pompidou- Metz hosts an important exhibition featuring the night in modern and contemporary painting |
Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Medici Slot Machine) © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 15 November, Christies Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art will be highlighted by Works from the Collection of François and Susan de Menil. Encompassing five lots, this grouping encapsulates the impeccable tastes of architect and filmmaker François de Menil, and his wife and business colleague Susan. Leading the selection is a consummate painting by post-war master, Mark Rothko, who is represented by Untitled (Rust, Blacks on Plum) (estimate: $35-45 million). Painted in a period of creative ferment between his two greatest series, the present work was executed shortly after the completion of the Seagram Murals in 1960. During this time, he began to contemplate the shimmering dark plums, blacks, and purples that became the predominant palette in the panels at the Rothko Chapel commission that was soon to follow. Completing the selection, is an exemplary group of four works by Joseph Cornell, made between the 1930& ... More | |
Georgia OKeeffe, Calla Lilies on Red, 1928. Oil on canvas, 32 ⅛ by 17 ⅛ inches. Estimate $8/12 million © 2018 The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Four years following the sale of Georgia OKeeffes iconic flower painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, Sothebys announced that they will again offer important works by the artist from the Georgia OKeeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico to benefit its Acquisitions Fund. On 14 November, Sothebys will present works by OKeeffe in a Contemporary Art Evening Auction for the first time: A Street from 1926, one of the most psychologically penetrating paintings from the artists rare and distinguished series of New York cityscapes (estimate $12/18 million), and Calla Lilies on Red from 1928, a vibrant depiction of the flower with which OKeeffe would become synonymous (estimate $8/12 million). The American Art Auction on 16 November will feature Cottonwood Tree in Spring from 1943, which reveals the profound inspiration OKeeffe gleaned from ... More | |
Paul Klee, Growth of plants [Pflanzenwachstum], 1921. Huile sur carton, 54 x 40 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. © Droits réservés © Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM, Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Dist. RMN-GP
METZ.- The exhibition covers two levels, on the first Lost in Darkness features night-time as we know it: a moment we live through daily whether lit by the stars or a street lamp, when nightfall arouses our innermost feelings, reveals our obsessions, and conjures up our dreams. On the second level From Intimacy to Cosmos focusses on an abstract and cosmogonic relationship to night-time, when stars are observed. One understands the tangible aspects of the night sky and wonders where we stand in this universe. Designed by Pascal Rodriguez, assisted by Perrine Villemur, the immersive scenography accompanies the visitors experience as they travel into the night. The layout of the first gallery follows the pattern of a town the visitor can wander through, at the opposite end they arrive at a large apse dedicated to the world of dreams ... More |
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Restoration of The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum
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Phillips announces highlights from November Photographs auction
LONDON.- Phillips Photographs sale showcases many of the key moments in the history of photography and brings to the fore leading contemporary artists of today. Available for sale only at Phillips, the 20 lots in this edition of ULTIMATE range from rare masterpieces to sold-out editions and unique collaborations. Leading this curation is Early French Masterworks from the Hyman Collection, featuring rare, important works by the first practitioners of paper photography in France, and an exciting collaboration with Magnum Photos presents exclusive works by Mikhael Subotzky, Cristina de Middel, Alex Majoli, Newsha Tavakolian, and Jérôme Sessini. Following Phillips May 2018 offering of POLAROIDS from the Piero Bisazza Collection, which was 100% sold, this sale includes the final presentation from this collection, with unique Polaroid prints by Helmut Newton, ... More
The Musée de l'Elysée opens the first museum exhibition in Switzerland of Liu Bolin's work
LAUSANNE.- The first museum exhibition in Switzerland of Liu Bolins work, The Theater of Appearances brings together almost fifty monumental photographs and several sculptures illustrating the main themes addressed by the Chinese artist over his career: the political and economic strategies of the Chinese government, ancestral traditions and religious and cultural symbols, individual or collective acts of resistance, the transformation of the urban environment, ecological damages and a hyper-consumerist society. In 2005, his series Hiding in the City opened with a self-portrait of Liu Bolin, immobile, covered in paint and melting into the rubble of his own studio located in the artists quarter razed by the Chinese government. Since then, any and all locations may be a potential source of creation, but in which he will only appear paradoxically: imperceptible ... More
Jeu de Paume opens the first museum exhibition devoted to the filmworks of Ana Mendieta
PARIS.- The exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta is the first museum exhibition devoted to the filmworks of this highly acclaimed Cuban-American artist (Havana, 1948 - New York, 1985). Bringing together 20 moving image works and 27 related photographs, the exhibition is the largest gathering of the artists filmic work ever presented as a full-scale exhibition in France. Ana Mendieta is widely regarded as one of the most prolific and innovative artists of the post-war era. The recent exhibitions devoted to her work in Europe (Berlin, London, Prague, Salzburg, Turin and Umeå) revealed the power of her artistic vision and the influence of her work on the generations of artists that came after her. Mendietas work continues to have a strong impact on people of all ages and backgrounds. During her brief career, from 1971 to 1985, ... More
Exhibition explores fake news, sensationalist headlines, and conspiracy theories through jewelry
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting Fake News and True Love: Fourteen Stories by Robert Baines, a solo exhibition of jewelry by Australian artist Robert Baines, on view October 16, 2018, through March 3, 2019. The exhibition centers on fourteen fanciful news stories, of which Baines' jewelry serves as "evidence." Using rings, parures, neckpieces, and bracelets, the artist highlights the constructed nature of collective history, manipulating what is accepted as truth to address the influence that fake news, sensational headlines, and the fabrication of alternative realities has on our perception of events. "At a time when the fundamental nature of reality is being challenged, we are excited to bring to MAD an exhibition that stimulates discussion surrounding what is real and what isn't," said MAD Assistant Curator Barbara ... More
Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy's 'The Universal Photographer' on view at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
THE HAGUE.- Shortly after U. was born he started taking photographs. The distinguishing feature of his pictures was their frog perspective no surprise, as U. lay mainly on his back. We learn this in the first chapter of The Universal Photographer, a book about the strange life and work of the universal photographer U. (1955-2016). It is the latest publication by artists Anne Geene (b. 1983) and Arjan de Nooy (b. 1965) who, with their humorous, pseudo-scientific work, make their audience look at the world in a new way. They are presenting The Universal Photographer in the form of an exhibition in Gemeentemuseum Den Haags Projects Gallery. Geene and De Nooy have used U. to produce an encyclopaedia of photography. The fictional character took more photographs of more subjects in more styles than any photographer before him. Numerous ... More
Finnish cult author Arto Paasilinna dies at 76
HELSINKI (AFP).- Finnish cult author Arto Paasilinna, best known for his 1975 whimsical novel "The Year of the Hare", has died age 76, his publisher said on Tuesday. One of Finland's most read authors, Paasilinna penned more than 35 books which were translated into dozens of languages. He died Monday in a nursing home in Espoo, near Helsinki, his Finnish publisher WSOY said in a statement. The former lumberjack turned journalist and novelist, originally from Finland's northern Lapland region, sold more than eight million books over a career spanning 50 years. His stories describe the unbelievable adventures of such characters as a senile engineer and his travel companion, an old woman constantly being harassed by her rascal of a nephew, and a world-weary journalist who has adopted a hare with a broken foot. His tragi-comical stories about life ... More
Two exceptional European paintings added to Toledo Museum of Art collection
TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired two remarkable works of European art with funds from the Museums Georgia Welles Apollo Society. The paintings, by John Anster Fitzgerald (English, 1819-1906) and Dirck Hals (Dutch, 1591-1656), will be on view in the Museums Gallery 32 and Gallery 23 beginning Oct. 17. We are delighted when high-caliber European masterworks are added to our esteemed collection, said TMAs Edward Drummond and Florence Scott Libbey Director Brian Kennedy. Thanks to The Georgia Welles Apollo Society and Senior Curator Lawrence Nichols for enabling us to share even broader and deeper stories about Victorian England and the Dutch Golden Age. John Anster Fitzgerald is known for his fantastical and detailed fairy paintings, a genre depicting supernatural beings, both benign and nightmarish ... More
World Heritage sites threatened by sea level rise
PARIS (AFP).- From Venice and the tower of Pisa to the medieval city of Rhodes, dozens of UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Mediterranean basin are deeply threatened by rising sea levels, researchers warned Tuesday. All but two of 49 UN-recognised icons of human civilisation rimming the Mediterranean Sea risk being damaged by the rising watermark, soil erosion, or both, with few options for protecting most of them, they reported in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Venice and its lagoon, the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia, and Ferrera, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta, all hit the top of a risk scale devised for the study. "These World Heritage Sites are located along the northern Adriatic Sea, where extreme sea levels are highest as high storm surges coincide with high sea level rise," the authors explained. In 2013, the UN's climate ... More
Seattle Art Museum appoints Dr. Theresa Papanikolas as Curator of American Art
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum announced today the appointment of Dr. Theresa Papanikolas as its Ann M. Barwick Curator of American Art. Papanikolas, an expert in 20th-century American art, will begin her tenure at SAM in January 2019. She will oversee the development, research, presentation, and care of SAMs collection of American art. She will also organize exhibitions that explore new and challenging narratives of American art and connect to the contemporary moment. Were thrilled that Theresa will be joining us here at SAM, says Kimerly Rorschach, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. Shes an inspired curator who will continue to build on the wonderful American art program started in 2004 by Patricia Junker. She has broad expertise in European as well as American art and brings an exciting vision of deepening the connections between ... More
Two paintings by Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo are on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
EUGENE, ORE.- Two master paintings are on view at the University of Oregons Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: Diego Riveras La ofrenda (The Offering) and Rufino Tamayos Perro aullando a la luna (Dog Howling at the Moon). These works are on loan to the JSMA for one year from the collection of Art Bridges, a recently established nonprofit foundation dedicated to providing institutions across the U.S. access to outstanding works of American art. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo were key participants in the international avant-garde, says Cheryl Hartup, JSMA Associate Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American Art. Through their cross-cultural exchanges in Mexico and the United States, they shaped the visual vocabulary of modern art during a period of social ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Childe Hassam was born October 17, 1859. Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century. In this image: Childe Hassam, Sunset Sky, 1905, oil on wood panel, 4 3/4 x 7 3/4 in., Alexandria and Michael Altman, Image courtesy of Michael Altman Fine Art and Advisory Services, LLC.
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