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Visitors admire Caravaggio's "David with the Head of Goliath" during the presentation to journalists of an exhibit dedicated to the Lombard painter titled: "Caravaggio in Rome", in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. The exhibit opening at the Bologna palace in Rome, will run from Feb. 11 to May 15. AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito.
ROME (AP).- Art lovers will get rare glimpses of Caravaggio's often violent life in an exhibit in Rome and combining centuries-old documents from archives as well as paintings, including a portrait last seen in public 100 years ago. Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, a church with a courtyard designed by Baroque artist Borromini and later home to Italy's state archives, hosts the show until May 15. Curators told reporters at a news conference Thursday that one document on display features a drawing done by a judge of a sword and dagger seized from Caravaggio, who was arrested for carrying weapons without proof of permit. Also plucked from the archives is a document of a lawsuit by another painter against the often-ill tempered Caravaggio, who lived from 1573 until 1610. On display is a portrait of Paul V, the early 17th-century pontiff from the Borghese noble family in Rome. The pope lifted a deat ... More |
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Yale and Peruvian Authorities Sign Deal on the Return of Thousands of Incan Artifacts
Lars Fehren-Schmitz, a visiting fellow from Germany, takes DNA samples of Incan artifacts. AP Photo/Yale University, Michael Marsland.
By: John Christoffersen, Associated Press
NEW HAVEN (AP).- Yale University announced Friday that it will send back to Peru thousands of Incan artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago. The agreement allowing for the return of the ceramic pieces, animal and human bones, and metal and stone objects came after Yale and Peru officials announced in November that they had resolved a long-running dispute over the artifacts. San Antonio Abad University in Cuzco will create a center to house the more than 5,000 objects and fragments. The center, to be located in an Incan palace and operated under joint direction by both universities, will include a museum exhibit for the public and a research area for collaborative investigations by the two institutions and visiting scholars. The International Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and Inca Culture will display, conserve and study the Machu Picchu archaeological collections that have been at Yale's Peabody Museum since their excavation by famed sch ... More | | China and U. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology Resolve Dispute Over Exhibit
The Beauty of Xiaohe, a 3,800-year-old mummy discovered in the Tarim Basin in far western China, is shown at the "Secrets of the Silk Road: Mystery Mummies from China". AP Photo/Jae C. Hong.
By: Matt Moore, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A Philadelphia museum said Friday that its exhibit on the Silk Road, including a pair of ancient mummies, will go on after it resolved a dispute with the Chinese government that led to a pared-down event with fake mummies and life-sized photos of the artifacts. The exhibit will reopen Feb. 18 with a full complement of mummies and more ancient artifacts from the Tarim Basin in the autonomous Xinjiang Uyghur region of China, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology said. The artifacts are part of "Secrets of the Silk Road," which opened last Saturday. The exhibit had traveled to museums in California and Texas without issue but the Philadelphia museum was asked to gut its display. Museum spokeswoman Pam Kosty did not say what sparked China's change of heart but said the initial delay was the result of a miscommunication. "We had extraordinary help from the Chinese Embassy and Chi ... More | | Marine Archaeologists Find Whaling Ship from 1823 Wreck Northwest of Honolulu
Archaeologist Kelly Gleason is seen looking at a spear tip from the 19th century whaling ship. AP Photo/Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Greg McFall.
By: Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP).- A fierce sperm whale sank the first whaling ship under George Pollard's command and inspired the classic American novel "Moby-Dick". A mere two years later, a second whaler captained by Pollard struck a coral reef during a night storm and sank in shallow water. Marine archaeologists scouring remote atolls 600 miles northwest of Honolulu have found the wreck site of Pollard's second vessel — the Two Brothers — which went down in 1823. Most of the wooden Nantucket whaling ship disintegrated in Hawaii's warm waters in the nearly two centuries since. But researchers found several harpoons, a hook used to strip whales of their blubber, and try pots or large cauldrons whalers used to turn whale blubber into oil. Corals have grown around and on top of many of the objects, swallowing them into the reef. "To find the physical remains of something that seems to have been lost to time is pretty amazing," said Nathaniel Philbrick, an ... More |
 | The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Acquires Etude Pour 'Le Miel est Plus Douce que la Sang'
Salvador Dalí, Etude Pour 'Le Miel est Plus Douce que la Sang' (detail). Photo: Courtesy Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí. ©Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, 2011.
FIGUERES.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí announce that it has acquired the work by Salvador Dalí: Étude pour ‘Le miel est plus douce que la sang’, at the auction which took place at Christie’s London, on February, 9th, 2011 at 10pm, for a final price of £4,073,250. The work, lot 106 of the auction catalogue, an oil on wood from 1926-1927 representing one the first surrealist works of the artist, is a complete study for the painting of 1927 “Honey is sweeter than blood” – today disappeared. One of the very first of Dalí's Surreal paintings, Study for Honey is Sweeter than Blood is a landmark work that, along with Little Ashes (Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid) and Apparatus and Hand (Salvador Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida) represents Dalí's first mature articulation ... More | | INAH's Exhibition "Teotihuacan City of Gods" has Been Visited by 350,000 Europeans
Teotihuacan mural. Photo: DMC INAH/M Montano.
MEXICO CITY.- The greatest exhibition ever mounted regarding Teotihuacan continues being popular in Europe: more than 350,000 persons have admired it in museums of France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy, and in March 2011 it will continue visiting the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Madrid. Teotihuacan. Ciudad de los Dioses, (Teotihuacan. City of Gods) is integrated by nearly 450 items gathered throughout 100 years of explorations at the Prehispanic site, and is currently open at the Palace of Exhibitions in Rome, until late February 2011. The show organized by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has allowed people of other countries to learn more about one of the most important cultures of the Americas, as well as the divulgation of the refinement reached by this culture. After its display at Nave Lewis in Monterrey, Mexico, where 75,000 visited it, and the National Museum of Anthropology (MNA) ... More | | Art & Design of the 20th/21st Century to Honor Massimo and Lella Vignelli with Award
Poltrona Frau Showrooms, Italy, 2000. Vignelli Associates.
BOSTON, MA .- AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries, the only annual art and design show of its kind, will honor design visionaries Massimo and Lella Vignelli with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its fourth annual show April 7-10, 2011 in Boston. For over 50 years, Massimo and Lella Vignelli have achieved renown as two of the most innovative minds in the design community. Their work includes countless graphic and corporate identity programs and exhibition, interior, furniture, and consumer product designs for many leading American and European companies and institutions. Massimo Vignelli is also widely known for his design of the iconic 1966 New York City subway map. The award will be presented at the Gala Preview on Thursday, April 7, which benefits Boston Architectural College. On Friday evening, Apri ... More |
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Guggenheim Exhibition Explores Language and Translation through Video, Film, and New Media
Jenny Perlin, Transcript, 2006. Color video projection, with sound, 11 min., 25 sec. Courtesy the artist and Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim: Found in Translation brings together eleven works by eleven artists that look to translation as both a model and a metaphor to critically comment on the past and to produce richly imagined possibilities for the present. Drawn from private loans and from the Guggenheim’s extensive collection of video, film, and new media, the exhibition focuses on artists who have come of age professionally within the past fifteen years, and includes four recent acquisitions that are shown at the museum for the first time. Organized by Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Found in Translation, the third exhibition in the Deutsche Bank Series at the Guggenheim, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, from February 11 through May 1, 2011, and will travel ... More | | Royal Academy of Arts Stage Premiums Featuring the Work of 16 Postgraduate Students
Archie Franks, Fuseli. Oil on canvas, 48 x 32cm, 2010.
LONDON.- In February the Royal Academy of Arts stage Premiums which feature the work of 16 postgraduate students. This annual exhibition held in the Sackler Wing of Galleries comprises contemporary artwork by postgraduates in their second year at the Royal Academy Schools. Premiums provides an excellent opportunity to view new work by emerging artists at the interim point of their 3 year course. Works in the exhibition includes painting, sculpture, video and photography. The RA Schools offer students the opportunity to develop their ideas and working practices on a unique three-year postgraduate course. Attracting applicants from across the world, those exhibiting students reflect the international reputation of the Schools and the creativity of its artists. With a total of 60 places available, the Schools offer a wide range of opportunities including tutorials and lectures given by leading figures in the art world, i ... More | | Historic Landmarks in the United Kingdom to Host Olympic Parties in 2012
The Olympic Stadium floodlights cast their light over a snowy scene after they were officially switched on by at the Olympic Park in Stratford, London. AP Photo/Rebecca Naden.
By: Stephen Wilson, Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP).- More than a year before their athletes duel on the track, in the pool and on the playing fields, Olympic committees from around the world are engaged in a fierce competition in the host city of the 2012 Games. It has nothing to do with running, jumping or throwing. No medals are at stake. Yet plenty of prestige and money are on the line as national Olympic committees scramble to snap up some of London's best-known landmarks for their hospitality houses and pavilions during the games. From Marble Arch to Alexandra Palace to Somerset House, Olympic bodies have picked historic venues to host fans, athletes, sponsors and VIPs — and throw a party or two. ... More |
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Gagosian Gallery Paris Presents "Rodin - Sugimoto," an Exhibition of Sculpture and Photography
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stylized Sculpture 117, designer: Cristobal Balenciaga, 2007 : Gelatin silver print 58 3/4 x 47 inches (framed 71 3/4 x 60 inches) Edition of 5 SUGIM 2007. 0012 © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents “Rodin – Sugimoto,” an exhibition of sculpture and photography, on view from February 11 through March 25, 2011. Auguste Rodin brought monumental public sculpture forward into the modern era. Although educated in the academic traditions and idealized subjects of classical and Renaissance sculpture, he embraced truth to nature as his artistic credo. His uncanny ability to imbue inert substances with movement and feeling reveals the idiosyncrasies and psychological depths of the human subjects that he portrayed. His agile use of form and the bravura of his modeling in pursuit of turbulent, light-catching surfaces have established him as one of the progenitors of modern sculpture. Three monumental sculptures spanning the last thirty years of Rodin’s career represent the force and vigor of his approach, which emphasized the quality of flesh while suggesting emotion thro ... More | | Time Magazine's Image of Disfigured Afghan Woman Wins World Press Photo Prize for 2010
The 1st Prize Daily Life Stories of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest by Martin Roemers, The Netherlands, Panos Pictures. Metropolis. AP Photo/Martin Roemers/Panos Pictures.
By: Toby Sterling,Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP).- A South African photographer's portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism's most coveted prizes. Jodi Bieber's posed picture, which contrasts the woman's arresting beauty against the results of the violence done to her after she fled an abusive marriage, was published on the cover of Time magazine Aug. 1. Bieber, 44, a winner of eight previous World Press Photo awards since 1998, is a freelance photojournalist affiliated with the Institute for Artist Management/Goodman Gallery. She has published two books on her native South Africa. Jury members said the photo, though shocking, was chosen because it addresses violence against women with a dignified image. The woman, 18-year-old Bibi Aisha, was rescued by the U.S. military and now lives ... More | | The Warrior Emperor and China's Terracotta Army on View at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Archer. Earthenware and paint. Qin dynasty, 221-206 BC. Excavated in 1986 at Terracotta Army Pit No. 2. Lintong, Shaanxi province. Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Army Museum, 005511© Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and the Shaanxi Cultural Heritage Promotion Centre, People’s Republic of China, 2009.
MONTREAL.- From February 12 to June 26, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracotta Army, a major exhibition of archaeological works that will take visitors on a faraway journey covering 1,000 years of Chinese history. In 1974, the fortuitous discovery of artifacts from the Emperor Ying Zheng’s tomb complex, the most important in China and one of the largest in the world, revealed priceless treasures. It was the last great archaeological discovery of the 20th century after King Tut’s tomb. The site was placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1987. Thanks to the exceptional co-operation of the province of Shaanxi and loans from 16 of that region’s most important archaeological research institutes and museums, 240 remarkable works, including many that have only recently ... More |
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Sales of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's this Week Total £140m /$225m /165m
LONDON.- Sotheby's series of Impressionist & Modern Art sales in London this week realised a combined total of £140,156,325 / $225,190,077 /E165,107,883 – surpassing the pre-sale estimate* for the series (£95,924,000 - £136,388,000). Helena Newman, Chairman, Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Europe, commented: "Over the course of the week's charged sales, we have seen a hungry, collector driven market competing avidly for works of the highest calibre. The depth of bidding was remarkable: 920 buyers registered to participate in what proved to be an extremely spirited series of auctions, punctuated by a succession of newly established records. This ranks as the third-highest total ever for Sotheby's series of Impressionist & Modern art sales and is a significant indicator of the vitality of this area of the market." Commenting on the sales, Melanie Clore, Chairman, Sotheby's Europe, said: "The top two prices this week for I ... More
The Wine Cellar of Douglas Bunn, a Key Figure in British Showjumping, has a near Perfect Round at Bonhams
LONDON.- Douglas Bunn’s wine cellar from Hickstead Place achieved a total of £284,000 with some 99 per cent sold at Bonhams Sale of Fine Wine at New Bond Street on February 10th. The pre-sale estimate was £200,000. Top item in the sale, Lot 33, a case of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982 (12 bottles), made £39,100 and Lot 99, a bottle of Hermitage, La Chapelle, 1961, was the most expensive item in the sale at £ 4,945. The whole sale of which this collection formed a part made £728,400 with 98 per cent sold. Master of Wine, Richard Harvey, who heads Bonhams Wine Department, comments: “This collection sold really well because of its impeccable provenance. Douglas Bunn obviously had a good eye for a horse but he had an equally good palate. His wine collection was superb and included all the names one would expect in a cellar of this calibre.” In building the reputation and growing success of Hickstead, Bunn was also ... More
International Center of Photography Announces 2011 Infinity Award Winners
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography announced the recipients of the 27th Annual Infinity Awards. Recognized around the world, the awards are widely respected as the leading honor for excellence in the field of photography. The 2011 honorees will be celebrated at a gala event on Tuesday, May 10, at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, in New York City. “Infinity Award recipients are dedicated to exploring photography’s cultural influence and how it opens new opportunities for communication and personal expression,” states ICP Ehrenkranz Director Willis E. Hartshorn. “This year’s recipients capture the importance of how photography shapes our sense of history in an ever more image-conscious world. We are pleased to recognize their achievements.” Each year ICP acknowledges the work of those whose powerful images and words excite, engage, and enliven us. Since 1985, the annual ICP Infinity Award ... More
NYU Professor Temporarily Removes Camera from Head
NEW YORK (AP).- A New York University professor says the tiny camera inserted into the back of his head for a yearlong art project has been temporarily removed due to a risk of infection. In the meantime, Wafaa Bilal (wah-FAH' bih-LAHL') says he will wear it around his neck. The interactive piece beams images to a web site and a Persian Gulf museum. The Iraqi-born artist teaches at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He had minor surgery last Friday to remove one of the posts holding the camera to his head because his body was rejecting it. He hopes the wound will heal quickly so he can reattach the camera. The art piece was commissioned by the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. ... More
The Portland Museum of Art's Winslow Homer Studio is the Inspiration for J.Crew's Spring 2011 Men's Collection
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art’s Winslow Homer Studio is the inspiration for J.Crew’s Spring 2011 Men’s Collection. The Museum’s catalogue for the exhibition Winslow Homer and the Poetics of Place, designed by Daniel Pepice and authored by Museum Chief Curator Thomas Denenberg, and the Museum’s Homer painting Weatherbeaten are featured in a promotional video on J.Crew’s website for the spring collection. The http://www.jcrew.com/mens_feature/presentation.jsp To research the spring men’s line, J.Crew Head of Men’s design Frank Muytjens took his team to the Winslow Homer Studio, where this 19th-century American artist painted his famous images of the coast of Maine. In the promotional video, Muytjens states that he was influenced by “the beautiful watercolors by Winslow Homer of the Maine coast where you can see all the different hues of the oce ... More
Fans Rally to Raise Money for RoboCop Statue in Detroit
DETROIT, MI (REUTERS).- Like RoboCop himself in the cult classic movie, plans for a statue of the mechanized crime fighter in Detroit may not be dead after all. On Monday, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing touched off a debate on the internet when his office rejected a suggestion that the struggling city erect a statue to RoboCop. The question had come into the mayor's office via Twitter from someone who later tweeted that the idea had been a joke. But by Thursday, more than 4,000 people had joined a Facebook page to support the idea of bringing a RoboCop statue to Detroit, and a group of artists pledged to raise $50,000 to fund its construction in an online campaign. In the 1987 movie starring Peter Weller, a mortally wounded Detroit police officer is brought back to life as a half-man, half-machine crime-fighter. Some Detroiters have argued that the city should not celebrate a movi ... More
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