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Carmen Tita Cervera, widow of industrial magnate Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, poses in front of a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir titled "Woman With a Parasol in a Garden" during the media inauguration of the exhibition "Impressionist gardens" at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum November 15, 2010. REUTERS/Juan Medina.
MADRID.- This autumn the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Impressionist Gardens, an extensive survey of the theme of gardens in painting from the mid‐ 19th century to the early 20th century. This is a major project undertaken in collaboration with the National Gallery of Scotland and curated by Clare Wilsdon, Professor at Glasgow University and author of In the Gardens of Impressionism (Thames and Hudson, 2004). The exhibition includes a large group of Impressionist paintings with masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Caillebotte and Berthe Morisot, in addition to works by some of the movement’s forerunners such as Delacroix and Corot and others by leading names of the following generation including Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Klimt, Munch and Nolde, among many others. In total, nearly 140 works will be shown in the exhibition spaces of the Museo Thy ... More |
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Saint Louis Art Museum Announces Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
Dwarf with conch, from an assemblage of figurines from the tomb of an unknown ruler,
550–650; El Peru-Waka', Guatemala; ceramic; Instituto de Antropología e Historia.
ST LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the February 13, 2011 opening of Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, a breathtaking exhibition that showcases more than 90 works of Maya art, many shown for the first time in the United States. The works on view are from Mexico, Belize, Honduras and Guatemala and reveal the ancient Maya people’s powerful fascination with the seas around them. “Fiery Pool marks the first traveling exhibition of Maya art to reach our halls,” said Matthew H. Robb, assistant curator of ancient American and Native American art. “This exhibition offers a dynamic new perspective on the art of the ancient Maya by including everything from monumental stone sculptures to jewels of jade and gold.” The more than 90 works on view demonstrate the importance that the Maya placed on water, surrounded as they were by the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean and cr ... More | | Surrealism, Botero in Latin America Auctions this Week at Christie's and Sotheby's
Claudio Bravo, A Couple (Una Pareja), oil on canvas, 199 x 150 cm. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2010.
By: Walker Simon
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- A voodoo-inspired Cuban work and a portrait of a bullfighting family by Colombian Fernando Botero top this week's Latin American art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York. Christie's expects to see sales of up to $26 million at its auction that starts on Wednesday and Sotheby's is predicting as much as $27 million at its sale beginning on Tuesday, which would be their biggest since the spring 2008 before the financial crisis. "There's a renovated confidence and energy in the market," said Christie's Latin American art chief. He added that there could be a carryover from fall auctions which saw record-smashing prices for contemporary and post-war art. The top lot at Sotheby's is Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam's "Las Abalochas dansent pour Dhambala, dieu de l'unite." Lam visited Haiti with Surrealism founder Andre Breton. The painting takes its ... More | | Paraguay Denied Authorization for British Natural History Museum's Scientific Expedition
A Natural History Museum staff walks inside the Cocoon building at the Darwin Center in London. EPA/ANDY RAIN.
By: Pedro Servin, Associated Press
ASUNCION (AP).- Paraguay denied authorization Monday for a British-led scientific expedition to catalog plants and animals in the country's remote northern corner, saying there isn't enough time to consult with relatives of nomadic Indians who try to remain isolated as they pass through the area. The non-governmental Amotocoide Initiative, an advocacy group for native Ayoreo Indians who live in the dry forests of northern Paraguay, had warned that scientists might carry European diseases to the Indians, leave trash or otherwise suffer violent encounters. Isabel Basualdo, director of the biodiversity office of Paraguay's environmental ministry, said in a statement that the decision follows the recommendation of the Interamerican Human Rights Commission that public hearings and all other legal requirements are complied with before such a visit. Richard Lane, the British Natural History museum's director of science, said the expedition had been suspended while consultations take p ... More |
 | Heritage Auctions Announces Pre-Columbian, Photography, Timepieces and Art Glass Sales
Lalique vase.
NEW YORK, NY.- With the triumphant Grand Opening of its Park Avenue offices in New York, and a very successful inaugural Illustration Art Auction under its belt in October, Heritage Auctions will hold a suite of five auctions – American Indian Art, Vintage & Contemporary Photography, Timepieces, Lalique, Art Glass, & Perfume Bottles and Pre-Columbian Art – Friday through Sunday, Dec. 3-5, at the Fletcher-Sinclair Mansion (Ukrainian Institute), 2 East 79th Street at 5th Avenue. During this time, New York clients will also be able to preview lots in Heritage’s Jewelry and Luxury Accessories Auction, taking place the following week in Dallas, on Monday, Dec. 13. “This series of auctions will give New Yorkers a good sampling, across three full days, of just some of what Heritage has to offer,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “These sales, and the special preview, represent the eclectic ran ... More | | Danish Astronomer's Remains Exhumed from Church of Our Lady Before Tyn
Archeologists lift a tomb stone of a grave of famous Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. AP Photo/Petr David Josek.
By: Karel Janicek, Associated Press
PRAGUE (AP).- Astronomer Tycho Brahe uncovered some of the mysteries of the universe in the 16th century — and now modern-day scientists are delving into the mystery of his sudden death. On Monday, an international team of scientists opened his tomb in the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn near Prague's Old Town Square, where the famous Dane has been buried since 1601. Brahe's extraordinarily accurate stellar and planetary observations, which helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy, are well known and documented but the circumstances surrounding his death at age 54 are murky. Born in 1546 at his family's ancestral castle, Brahe was in Prague in 1601 at the invitation ... More | | Rarities and Rediscoveries: Great Works of Art at TEFAF Maastricht in March 2011
TEFAF Maastricht, from 18-27 March 2011, will include great rarities and recent rediscoveries. Photo: Bastiaan van Musscher.
HELVOIRT.- TEFAF Maastricht has built its reputation as the world’s most influential art and antiques fair on the unique quality of its exhibits. The 24th edition at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 18-27 March 2011 will include great rarities and recent rediscoveries among more than 30,000 works of art, all rigorously vetted by committees of international experts. Among them will be the last fragment of an Egyptian water clock still in private hands, a painting containing one of the few self-portraits of Bernardo Bellotto, and a bronze by Gustave Courbet rediscovered after being lost for more than a century. The European Fine Art Fair also provides talented younger dealers with an opportunity to exhibit at the Fair on a one-off basis through TEFAF Showcase. ... More |
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Renowned Milton Robson Collection Achieves $9.2 Million at RM Auctions Sale
1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Ram Air IV Convertible. Photo Credit: Darin Schnabel ©2010 Courtesy of RM Auctions.
BLENHEIM, ON.- Classic car fever swept over Georgia this past weekend as RM Auctions presented the renowned Milton Robson Collection, posting $9.2 million in sales and setting a string of new auction records. Held at the Robson Estate in Gainesville, GA, the single-day event presented 55 vehicles and a select range of memorabilia before a standing-room only crowd, with bidders hailing from across the continent and as far away as England and Brazil. Bidders in the room were joined by those on the phone and via the Internet, leading to fierce and spirited bidding. Top honors went to a coveted 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge Ram Air IV Convertible, one of only five built and the only Starlight Black example, which sparked a lively bidding war, achieving an impressive $682,000 to set a new auction record. Also garnering significant attention was a 1960 Chrysler 300F Four-Speed Convertible, the only factory four-speed, 400hp convertible ... More | | Architect Richard Meier: "It's Easier to Buy an Apartment in Brooklyn than in Tel Aviv"
File photo of U.S. architect Richard Meier. AP Photo/Marilyn August.
TEL AVIV (PR WEB).- Jewish-American architect, Richard Meier arrived today for a visit to Israel in order to promote "Meier on Rothschild," a residential project that he designed. The new building is at the junction of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby Street in Tel Aviv. At a press conference Meier said that the tower, rising to a height of 32 stories, is a symbol of the changes that Tel Aviv is going through. When asked what he thought about the fact that young people could not afford to buy an apartment in the project, Meier said, “The problem of housing for young people is typical of all big cities and isn't unique to Tel Aviv. We build affordable housing in my home town of Newark in New Jersey that is subsidized by the government. In Israel, affordable housing financed by private enterprise is not possible without political and governmental intervention." So far, 40% of the Tel Aviv luxury apartments in the 32 story Rothschild Boulevard building have been sold. Now the ... More | | Georges Rouault: The Sacred and the Profane at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Two women look at 'Acrobat' an artwork by French painter Georges Rouault. EPA/LUIS TEJIDO.
BILBAO.- Starting today and until the 13th of February 2011, Georges Rouault. The Sacred and the Profane exhibition containing 156 works of art, including oil paintings, etchings and even one of the artist's stained glass windows, will allow visitors to discover one of the most outstanding artists of the XX century for themselves. In spite of the fact that some of the artist's most important works such as Parade (c. 1907-1910), L’apprenti-ouvrier (1925), Veronique (1945) and the Miserere series of etchings (of which the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum has 4 prints) will be on display, the exhibition cannot be considered a conventional retrospective as such. Its originality resides in its exhibiting a fair number of hitherto unknown and unfinished works from Rouault's studio - to which the artist rarely granted access - that his wife, Marthe Rouault, donated to France in 1963. By offering such a wide selection of works organis ... More |
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Neo-Expressionist Painting from Berlin on View at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Salome, Kirchner Letter,1979.
TEL AVIV.- The exhibition is held in honor of Susan and Martin Sanders' generous gift to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which includes important works by some of the prominent Neo-Expressionists active in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s: Karl Horst Hödicke, Rainer Fetting, Salomé, Helmut Middendorf and Peter Chevalier. Their works represent interesting aspects of the worldwide "back to painting" trend that swept through western Europe and the USA at the time—figurative and expressive art, full of myths, symbols and narrative, that developed as a backlash to 1960s and 1970s minimal and conceptual art. Minimalism's esthetics of reduction and the centrality of the theoretical-consceptual aspect in conceptual art eventually excluded the medium of painting from the language and discourse of art and precluded expressive utterances. Faced with the programmatic formalism of this rationalistic art, the Neo-Expressionists felt compelle ... More | | Fine Meissen Porcelain that Survived the 1945 Dresden Bombing for Sale
Fragment from another Meissen Augustus Rex vase c.1730. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Rare surviving items from the world-famous collection of Meissen porcelain assembled by Gustav and Charlotte von Klemperer from the late nineteenth century, which miraculously survived Nazi looting and the 1945 bombing of Dresden, are to be auctioned at Bonhams New Bond Street on 8th December 2010. Edmund de Waal has written an evocative account of the collection, “Fragments can be more powerful than things kept whole...Pick up the vase made for Augustus the Strong in 1730. It is a shard, but it has survived not just the ferocity of a kiln, but a terrible century. When you pick it up it tells you about beauty, about a family and about survival.” (Bonhams magazine) Von Klemperer (1852-1926), chairman of the Dresdner Bank, collected 834 pieces of fine Meissen over a period of three decades and it is commonly considered to have been the greatest ever collection of Meissen porcelain of the modern collecting era ... More | | London's Cultural Strategy: "We Must Continue to Invest in Creativity" Says London Mayor
London is one of the most significant centres of cultural, artistic and intellectual life.
LONDON.- The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called on government and private industry not to turn away from the arts and to continue supporting the capital’s vibrant arts scene as he launched his Cultural Strategy at City Hall. The capital has long been a magnet for talent, new ideas and artistic excellence and as the reality of public funding cuts takes hold, the Mayor is calling on government and business not to forget that London’s creative economy currently generates £18bn a year – vital revenues that the capital and country cannot afford to lose. On the worldwide stage, London is one of the most significant centres of cultural, artistic and intellectual life, with unrivalled collections of art, libraries, historical artefacts and architecture stretching across centuries and continents. At the same time, the city sets cutting-edge trends in contemporary culture, attracting the best and brightest of the world’s talent in the arts, fashion, film, publish ... More |
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American Charged with Stealing Stuffed Birds in UK
LONDON (AP).- British police say they have arrested and charged an American man for stealing hundreds of rare bird skins from a British museum outside London. Detectives investigating the theft of nearly 300 brightly colored stuffed birds from the Natural History Museum in Tring arrested Edwin Rist on Friday. Police said Monday the 22-year-old has been charged with burglary and money laundering offenses. The bird skins disappeared after reports of a break-in at the museum in June last year. Richard Lane, director of science at the museum, said the specimens were valuable and included male trogons and quetzals from Central and South America, and birds of paradise from New Guinea. He said the bird collection at the museum, northwest of London, is one of the most important in the world. ... More
Edinburgh International Festival Heads East in 2011
By: Ian MacKenzie
EDINBURGH (REUTERS).- The Edinburgh International Festival EIF focuses on the Orient in 2011, as Festival Director Jonathan Mills brings a heady mix of acts to the world's largest annual artistic extravaganza from the Far East ranging through China and Japan, Vietnam and India. The program theme for the three-week festival, running from next August 12 to September 4, is normally announced in March. But Mills took the opportunity of a visit to Beijing to release some of the details Monday, five months early. "For centuries the mysterious and alluring civilizations to the East have inspired and fascinated artists from the West," the Festival said in a statement. "Festival 2011 juxtaposes traditional Asian art with the Orientalism it continues to inspire throughout Europe and the West, offering unique opportunities to discover more about the societies that are redefining the modern world every day." The acts include the National Ballet of China, with the classic ... More
Crystal Bridges Masterworks on Display at Philbrook Museum of Art
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Four masterworks from the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art permanent collection will be on view just a short drive from Northwest Arkansas. The works are on loan to the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., through May 15, 2011. Cattleya Orchid, Two Hummingbirds and a Beetle, ca. 1875-1890 oil on canvas by Martin Johnson Heade, and October Interior, 1963 oil on canvas by Fairfield Porter, are currently on display in the Philbrook’s contemporary gallery. A French Music Hall, 1906 oil on canvas by Everett Shinn, and The Steel Mill, 1930 oil on canvas on Masonite by Thomas Hart Benton, will be in the American galleries in early December. “We are pleased to share this glimpse of the Crystal Bridges Museum collection with the public and to strengthen our relationship with such a wonderful neighbor and colleague museum,” said Don Bacigalupi, Crystal Bridges executive director. &# ... More
Opryland Hotel Reopens in Tennessee After Flood Damage
By: Joe Edwards, Associated Press
NASHVILLE (AP).- Decked out in more than 2 million Christmas lights, the sprawling Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center reopened Monday after historic Nashville flooding shuttered the cornerstone of the city's tourism business for six months. The hotel, known for its indoor waterfalls and garden-filled atriums, has 2,881 guest rooms and bills itself as the largest non-gaming hotel in the continental United States. In May, flooding from the nearby Cumberland River caused about $200 million in damage and left part of the resort in up to 10 feet of water. Ten people died in Nashville after it rained 13.5 inches over two days. Among the guests Monday were newlyweds Stephen and Mary Doty of Evansville, Ind., who set their wedding date so their honeymoon would coincide with the reopening. "We've walked all around and there's no sign of damage," said Stephen, a desi ... More
Chinese Mine in Afghanistan Threatens Ancient Find
By: Heidi Vogt, Associated Press
MES AYNAK (AP).- It was another day on the rocky hillside, as archaeologists and laborers dug out statues of Buddha and excavated a sprawling 2,600-year-old Buddhist monastery. A Chinese woman in slacks, carrying an umbrella against the Afghan sun, politely inquired about their progress. She had more than a passing interest. The woman represents a Chinese company eager to develop the world's second-biggest unexploited copper mine, lying beneath the ruins. The mine is the centerpiece of China's drive to invest in Afghanistan, a country trying to get its economy off the ground while still mired in war. Beijing's $3.5 billion stake in the mine — the largest foreign investment in Afghanistan by far — gets its foot in the door for future deals to exploit Afghanistan's largely untapped mineral wealth, including iron, gold, and cobalt. The Afghan government stands to reap a potential $1.2 billion a year in revenues from the mine, as well as the creatio ... More
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