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Detail of "Litzlberg am Attersee" by famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt. Officials say the precious Klimt painting now in an Austrian museum was seized by the Nazis and must therefore be returned to the heir of its former owner. The painting belongs to Salzburg's modern art museum MdM Salzburg and is estimated to be worth as much as euro 30 million ($44 million). AP Photo/Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
VIENNA (AP).- An Austrian museum plans to return a precious Gustav Klimt painting to the heir of its rightful owner after researchers discovered it was confiscated by Nazis during World War II, officials said Thursday. The painting, "Litzlberg am Attersee," currently owned by Salzburg's modern art museum, MdM Salzburg, is estimated to be worth as much as euro30 million ($44 million). Research by various experts tasked with tracing the origin of the work showed that the Nazis seized the now 96-year-old painting from an apartment in a village near Vienna of a woman named Amalie Redlich after deporting her to Poland in October 1941, where she was killed, Salzburg deputy governor Wilfried Haslauer and the head of the museum, Toni Stooss, told reporters. ... More |
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Yves Saint Laurent Retrospective in Denver to Present 40 Years of Design Creativity
Yves Saint Laurent, Short cocktail dress, Tribute to Piet Mondrian, Haute couture collection, Fall-Winter 1965. Ecru wool jersey, encrusted with black, red, yellow and blue. © Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Paris / Photo A. Guirkinger.
DENVER, CO.- The Denver Art Museum (DAM) and Foundation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent announced that the DAM presents Yves Saint Laurent, a sweeping retrospective the designer’s 40 years of creativity. The DAM is the only United States venue for the exhibition, which features a stunning selection of 200 haute couture garments along with numerous photographs, drawings and films that illustrate the development of Saint Laurent's style and the historical foundations of his work. Organized thematically, the presentation melds design and art to explore the full arc of Saint Laurant’s career, from his first days at Dior in 1958 through the splendor of his evening dresses from 2002. Curated by Florence Müller ... More | | Egypt Court Jails Officials Over Van Gogh's "Vase with Viscaria" Stolen in August
Vincent Van Gogh's painting entitled 'Poppy Flowers'. EPA/EGYPTIAN CULTURE MINISTRY.
CAIRO (REUTERS).- An Egyptian court on Thursday jailed five officials, including a former head of the state's fine arts department, over the theft of a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, state media said. "Vase with Viscaria" was stolen in August from Cairo's Mahmoud Khalil museum, home to one of the Middle East's finest collections of 19th and 20th-century art. The state MENA news agency and court officials said the five had been found guilty of "causing the theft of the painting," without giving further details. The painting has not been recovered. A police investigation soon after the theft found that security measures at the museum were extremely lax, raising fears about the safety of the treasure trove of art and antiquities on display in Egypt. Legal sources said the court sentenced Mohsen Shaalan, who was head of the culture ministry's fine arts department, to one year ... More | | Titanic Plans Rediscovered After 99 Years, to Be Displayed for the First Time in a Century
A detailed drawing of the RMS Titanic used at Lord Mersey's ennquiry into the 1912 disaster. EPA/HENRY ALDRIDGE AND SON LTD.
BELFAST.- A detailed plan of the RMS Titanic is to go on display for the first time in almost a century. The plan is that used during the British Board of Trade enquiry into the tragic sinking of the White Star liner on 15 April 1912. It will go on display at Belfast City Hall from Saturday 23 April) until Tuesday 26 April, as part of Belfast City Council`s `Titanic 100` programme to mark the centenary of the ship`s launch. The detailed drawing – which is 32 feet six inches long and four feet eight inches tall, and to a scale of 3/8 inch to the foot – is hand-drawn in Indian ink on a single piece of paper and shows all of Titanic`s main features, including passenger accommodation, crew quarters, cargo holds and boiler rooms. A distinctive feature of the plan is a series of red and green chalk markings, indicating where the iceberg was ... More |
 | Library of Birmingham Boosted by Important 19th Century Photography Collection
Francis Bedford, Tour in the East, Birmingham Central Library.
BIRMINGHAM.- A collection of rare photographs from the first photography commission for a Royal trip abroad has been purchased by Birmingham Library and Archive Services. Taken by the pioneering British photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894), they chronicle the ‘Tour in the East’ made in 1862 by the Prince of Wales, (the late Edward VII). Bedford became the first official photographer to accompany a member of the British Royal Family when he was invited to travel as part of the entourage of the Prince of Wales on a ‘Tour In The East’ which covered Athens, Corfu, Constantinople, Tripoli, Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Birmingham Library and Archive Services has acquired a rare set of the 172 photographs resulting from this tour for £55000 with grants of £32500 from the Art Fund and £15000 from the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund. The collection will be housed in the Library of Birmingham, currently under con ... More | | New Catalogue to Explore Riches of National Gallery of Scotland's Collection of English Drawings
Joseph Mallord William Turner, One of Twenty Vignettes - On Camp Hill, near Hastings, National Gallery of Scotland.
EDINBURGH.- The rich and diverse collection of English drawings and watercolours in the National Gallery of Scotland will be the subject of a beautifully designed and generously illustrated catalogue, to be published this summer. Featuring outstanding examples of work by the most celebrated British artists, such as William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Gainsborough, the collection is surprisingly little known; this landmark catalogue will for the first time make its full scope and importance clear. English Drawings and Watercolours 1600-1900 - the first in a new series of authoritative and scholarly catalogues about the Scottish national collection - will become a key reference work for a wide range of enthusiasts for British art, including art historians, students, collectors, dealers, artists and picture researchers. Broad in scope, the collection of more than ... More | | Major Pieces from Private Collections of American Indian Art Offered at Sotheby's
Navajo Transitional Blanket. Wedge weave, finely woven in handspun wool, with broad alternating zigzag bands, in natural ivory and two shades of brown, and numerous aniline colors, 73 in. by 60 in. Est. $25/35,000.
NEW YORK.- Sotheby’s 18 May 2011 sale of American Indian Art in New York will include major pieces from a number of distinguished private collections including The Bruce and Nancy Berman Collection of Navajo Blankets, paintings from the Hascoe Family Collection and the Davies-Cooke Collection. The standout highlight from the various owner section of the auction is an Oglala Sioux Beaded and Fringed Hide War Shirt which once belonged to Chief Black Bird, one of the most documented Native Americans of his generation. The shirt is made all the more remarkable by the existence of photographs showing it being worn by its original owner (est. $250/350,000). Photographic documentation of an artifact as important as the Oglala Sioux Shirt is very rare. In this case though, several images exist of Chief ... More |
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American-Scandinavian Foundation Celebrates Centennial with Exhibition of Contemporary Nordic Art
Saana Wang, Hujialou # 60, 2009. C-print, 31 x 37 in. Courtesy of the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- North by New York: New Nordic Art, a focused international loan exhibition concentrating on important trends and issues in contemporary Scandinavian art, opened at Scandinavia House. Organized by The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) and selected by renowned curator and critic Robert Storr, with independent scholar and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, the exhibition is the second in a series of programs celebrating ASF’s centennial. The fifteen artists represented—eight women and seven men—include established leaders of contemporary Nordic art, such as Per Kirkeby and Cecilia Edefalk, as well as mid-career and emerging artists, such as Karin Mamma Andersson, Sara-Vide Ericson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Tal R, and Gunnel Wåhlstrand. The works on view were selected to exemplify the extraordinary diversity of media ... More | | Art 41 Basel Announces Art Statements: Spotlighting Solo Shows by Emerging Artists
Kathryn Andrews, January 23, 2010. Photo: David Kordansky Gallery.
BASEL.- For Art 41 Basel the Art Statements sector spotlights 26 solo projects by young artists. Selected by the Art Basel Committee from more than 300 applications, the participating artists come from 14 different countries. The Art Statements sector has promoted young artists for over 10 years now, offering them a special platform that brings them to the eyes of an international audience of curators, collectors and art critics. Many previous participating artists have been awarded major exhibitions as a result of being discovered at Art Statements. All projects on show will be created especially for Art 41 Basel. The participating artists come from Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. Since 1999, the Bâloise Group has awarded its annual Baloise ... More | | Hirshhorn Museum Presents "Directions: Grazia Toderi", Italian Video Artist's U.S. Museum Debut
Grazia Toderi, "Orbite Rosse (Red Orbit)," 2009 (detail). Installation view, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK. Courtesy of the artist.
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum presents the recent work of Grazia Toderi (Italian, b. Padua, 1963) for the next installation of the museum’s “Directions” series that highlights artists from around the globe working in a diverse array of media. On view April 21–Sept. 5, “Directions: Grazia Toderi” features two large-scale video projections, “Orbite Rosse” (2009) and “Rossa Babele” (2007) and is organized by associate curator, Kelly Gordon. Toderi traces her fascination with visualizing the infinite to a formative moment in her childhood—watching the simulcast of the first moonwalk. This historic event of “collective unity” parallels the sensibility the artist seeks to affect with the imagery she chooses for her works, which are most often realized as drawings, videos proje- ... More |
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Auctioneer Don Presley's May 7-8 Sale Includes Select Offerings From California Estates
KPM porcelain plaque. Don Presley Auctions image.
ORANGE, CA.- There probably isn’t a stretch of highway between Beverly Hills and Newport Beach that auctioneer Don Presley doesn’t know. That’s his turf, and when the owners of fine estates in those well-heeled communities decide to part with their art and antiques, it’s often Presley whose number they call on speed dial. True to form, the Orange, Calif., auctioneer has gathered together an outstanding array of primarily European, Asian and American art and antiques for his May 7-8 auction, with much of it coming from prestigious local addresses. A Beverly Hills consignor was the source for a pair of superb, 30-inch-tall Chinese carved-ivory emperor and empress figures. “The carving is fantastic, and I’ve never seen ivory figures of this type in such a large size,” said Presley. The star lot amongst 250 Chinese antiques cataloged in the sale, the marked figures will be offered as a pair with a $6,000 ... More | | Collection of Archaeological Pieces Seized in Germany Handed Over to Mexico
The delivery of the Prehispanic lot took place in a symbolic way with the delivery of a greenstone mask and the signature of the corresponding protocols. Photo: INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- After a 7-year process conducted by legal and diplomatic ways before the German Government, which concluded with success, Mexico recovered 49 archaeological pieces illegally subtracted from national territory. This is the first delivery made to Mexico of Prehispanic objects seized in 2004 in Frankfurt, part of the Patterson Collection. Repatriation of the cultural goods was possible thanks to the will and cooperation of the German Government and the joint work in the matter of recuperation of cultural goods illegally subtracted done by the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry (SRE), the Office of the Mexican Attorney General (PGR) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). After legal and ... More | | Eleven Hand-Drawn Maps of London Featured in New Display at the Museum of London
Hoxton Square.
LONDON.- A display of 11 hand-drawn maps of London goes on show at the Museum of London from the 21 April 2011. The exhibition looks at mapping London, not as a factual or geographical tool but based on the individual experiences, perceptions and imaginations of Londoners. The maps have all been created by members of the public and are personal projections of their relationships with the capital’s landscape. In partnership with Londonist.com, readers were encouraged to submit hand-drawn maps, focussing on their own experiences and connections with certain areas of London. As well as being visually compelling, each map has an interesting story to tell. The narratives range from an amusing portrayal of London’s public toilets and an illustration of Brixton, under the guise of a tree, to the superimposition of the nineteenth-century Kensington ... More |
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 Penn Museum Launches Louis Shotridge Digital ArchivePHILADELPHIA, PA.- or the first time, scholars, students, and community leaders interested in learning more about Southeastern Alaskan Native history and culture can explore the remarkable Shotridge collection online. The Shotridge collection is widely acclaimed as one of the finest Tlingit collections in the world because of the kinds of objects represented and their detailed documentation. This digital archive contains 570 objects, 2,600 written documents, 500 black-and-white photographs, and eight sound recordings. Louis Shotridge's records contextualize Southeast Alaska’s Native American history and art in the first three decades of the 20th century. Louis V. Shotridge (Stoowukáa) was a Tlingit ethnologist born in 1882 to an influential Tlingit family in Klukwan, Alaska. He and his wife Florence (Kaatxwaantséx) came to the Penn Museum in 1912 at the invitation of the Museum's American Section Curator George ... More Czech Town Offers History, Castle, Beer and Bears By: Shirley O'Bryan Smith, Associated Press
CESKY KRUMLOV (AP).- Centuries of history have earned this Czech town a designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It's a Bohemian beauty, tucked into a horseshoe bend on the Vltava River, with interesting architecture, an enormous castle and a nearby national park. But here's something Cesky Krumlov has that you don't find in most historic cities: live bears in the dry moat surrounding the castle. And visiting the town of Cesky Krumlov this year offers an extra benefit: It's the year of the Rosenbergs, who reigned over southern Bohemia for around 400 years. The family's last male heir died in 1611, and special exhibitions and events are planned all year to honor the family, including tours of Rosenberg sites, museum exhibits and extended festivals. The castle is one of those ... More Frieze Writer's Prize: Call for EntriesLONDON.- Frieze, the leading magazine for contemporary art and culture, is inviting entries for the Frieze Writer's Prize 2011. Frieze Writer's Prize was established in 2006 and is presented annually. The aim of the prize is to promote and encourage new critics from across the world, and many of the previous winners and commended entrants have gone on to contribute to frieze magazine. The judges for 2011 will be novelist Hari Kunzru; the art historian and critic Katy Siegel and senior editor of frieze, Dan Fox. Writers are invited to submit an unpublished 700-word review in English of a recent contemporary art exhibition. Applicants must be over 18-years old and must not have had more than three pieces of writing on art published in a newspaper or magazine. The closing date for entries is 27 June 2011 and the winner of the prize will be announced in September. The winner will be awarded £2,000 and commissioned to write a revi ... More Arkansas Properties Included on National RegisterLITTLE ROCK (AP).- Three Arkansas properties have been accepted by the National Register of Historic Places. Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Director Frances McSwain announced Wednesday that Maxwell Street and North Jackson Street bridges in DeWitt and the Maxie Theater in Trumann had been placed on the country's official list of historically significant properties. The Maxwell Street Bridge is a single-span, reinforced-concrete structure erected around 1910. The North Jackson Street Bridge, also circa 1910, is a two-span concrete bridge that is unique in construction and was built before concrete bridges became widely used in Arkansas. The Maxie Theater is an Art Deco-style structure constructed in 1947. The theater is an example of a single-screen movie theater that continues to show movies and an example of the Art Deco style of architecture in Trumann. ... MoreInaugural Wine Auction Realizes $1.65+ Million at Heritage AuctionsBEVERLY HILLS, CA.- An Imperial of Chateau Lafite Rothschild 1982 brought $28,680 as the top lot of Heritage Auctions' $1.65+ million Inaugural Signature® Wine Auction, April 1, held at the company's Beverly Hills location, 9478, West Olympic Boulevard. All prices include 19.5% buyer's Premium. "This auction was a great launch for us, and it was no surprise to see the great vintages of Chateau Lafite Rothschild commanding top prices," said Frank Martell, Director of Rare & Fine Wines at Heritage. "For that matter, even lesser vintages achieved strong prices, such as a case of the 1984, which brought $11,353. Our practices of publishing all reserves and revealing current absentee bid levels as the auction progresses were exceptionally well received, but it was most interesting that our top buyer participated using our live bidding tool – a very exciting development that speaks to the strength of the Heritage platform." Besides the C ... More |
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