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A man stands in front of a painting "Susana y los viejos" (Susanna and the Elders) by Spanish artist Jose de Ribera during a preview of the upcoming exhibition "The Young Ribera" at Madrid's El Prado Museum. The exhibition will run from April 5 to July 31. REUTERS/Andrea Comas.
MADRID.- The Museo del Prado presents The Young Ribera, a survey of Ribera’s activity during his period in Rome and in the years following his arrival in Naples in 1616. The exhibition runs from April 5 through July 31, 2011. This is a period of Ribera’s career that was almost completely unknown until recently and one that is the subject of an extremely interesting debate among art historians. Featuring more thirty two works, the exhibition allows for comparisons between the most important paintings currently considered to date from the period in question and focuses on their dating and role in the development of Roman Caravaggesque painting in the second and third decades of the 17th century. Among the works on display is The Raising of Lazarus, acquired by the Museo del Prado in 2001 and now considered to be one of the key reference points in the debate on Ribera’s early artistic activities. Within the c ... More |
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Italian Researchers Announce Hunt in Florence for Remains of Possible Mona Lisa Model
File photo of Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece the "Mona Lisa". AP Photo/Amel Pain.
By: Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press
ROME (AP).- Italian researchers said Tuesday they will dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the model for the "Mona Lisa." If successful, the research might help ascertain the identity of the woman depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece — a mystery that has puzzled scholars and art lovers for centuries and generated countless theories. The project launched Tuesday aims to locate the remains of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a rich silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. Tradition has long linked Gherardini to the painting, which is known in Italian as "La Gioconda" and in French as "La Joconde." Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century ... More | | Masterful Works to Go on Auction at Christie's Russian Art Sale in New York in April
Oleg Tselkov (b. 1934), Five masks, oil on canvas, 92 1/2 x 75 in. Estimate: $100,000 – 150,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2011.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- A collection of costume designs by Alexandre Benois is another highlight of the auction. The nine-lot Benois group hails from A Distinguished Private Collection, including costume designs from the productive middle period of Benois’ career. After the great success of the Ballets Russes production of Petrushka in 1911, Benois’ reputation was assured. Benois had plans to collaborate with Nijinsky on basing a ballet on the music of J.S. Bach as early as 1913, but the plan ultimately came to pass in 1928, when he conceived and designed Les Noces de Psyché for the dancer Ida Rubenstein. The ballet, choreographed by Nijinsky’s sister Bronislava, allowed Benois to indulge his love of 18th Century French art. The costume designs for Psyché and ... More | | Musee Du Quai Branly Presents Exhibition on Dogon Culture and Art History
A visitor looks at figures with raised arms as she visits "The Dogon". REUTERS/Charles Platiau.
PARIS.- The DOGON exhibition presents Dogon culture and art history from the 1st century until today through more than 330 exceptional pieces from international collections and presented together for the first time in France. The exhibition is on view 04/05/11 – 07/24/11 at musee du quai Branly. Dogon area (Mali) art ranks among the best known art created by African cultures. The art from the Dogon area is considered as one of the best known art created by African cultures. Along with the masterpieces that have brought fame to Dogon art, the exhibition presents cultural and daily life objects that reflect the metaphysical and aesthetic concerns of the populations who made them. The typology of these objects, made with various and complex techniques, has rarely been revealed in light of the main pieces of the statuary ensemble. Over ten centuries of ... More |
 | Inland Architect Image Database Now Available on Art Institute of Chicago Website
Monadnock Building and Addition.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Ryerson and Burnham Archives of the Art Institute of Chicago announce the digitization of another major image collection: 5,000 plates from the venerable Chicago-based periodical Inland Architect and News Record. This exceedingly rich visual record from a seminal period in American architecture can now be accessed by the public through the Digital Collections Database (DCD) on the Libraries' website. The multi-year project makes another important architectural archive available for use by scholars and the public, further enhancing what is already one of the richest online resources for art and architecture, built with the goal of providing access to the many rare images and texts in the Art Institute's Ryerson and Burnham Archives. "The Digital Collections Database was launched in 2008 and has been growing steadily ever since," said Jack Perry Brown, Di ... More | | Government of China Detention of Contemporary Artist Ai Weiwei Tests Depth of Crackdown
File photo of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei throwing porcelain sunflower seeds into the air as he poses with his installation "Sunflower Seeds". REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth.
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (REUTERS).- China's detention of internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei has sparked a petition urging his release, exposing alarm among the nation's liberal intellectuals who see his case as a test of how far a crackdown to stifle dissent could reach. Chinese officials have not commented on the whereabouts of Ai, who was stopped on Sunday from boarding a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong and taken away by border police. There is little doubt he has joined a lengthening list of dissidents and activists in detention or informal custody. Ai has been out of contact; his mobile phone is off. His wife, Lu Qing, told Reuters that police officers ... More | | Max Penson: Photography between Revolution and Tradition at Nailya Alexander Gallery
"Minor," 1940s. Photo: Courtesy Nailya Alexander Gallery.
NEW YORK, N.Y.- Nailya Alexander Gallery and Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan Foundation present “Max Penson: Photography between Revolution and Tradition” featuring 48 vintage gelatin silver prints from the artist’s family estate and several private collections. The exhibition runs from April 5 through May 13, 2011. Max Penson was born in 1893 in the small town of Velizh near Vitebsk, the birthplace of Marc Chagall. Penson managed to finish four classes of the local school before moving to Vilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania) where he studied at the art school of the Antokolsky Society. To escape WWI and Jewish pogroms, the young artist fled to exotic Central Asia, and settled in Kokand, Uzbekistan. There, he helped found an art-production labor-school under the authority of the Kokand Revolutionary Committee. ... More |
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Film Posters from Ghana on View at The International Design Museum in Munich
A general view of the exhibition 'Deadly and Brutal. Film Posters from Ghana'. EPA/ANDREAS GEBERT.
MUNICH.- Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich presents 'Deadly and Brutal' film posters from Ghana, on view until June 26, 2011. Graphic design from West Africa: Ever since the 1980s, hand-painted posters have advertised Nollywood and locally-made action movies or family dramas in Ghana, not to mention the Hollywood blockbusters and martial arts films from the Far East. The drastic imagery with which the movie theaters and venues whet the potential audience’s appetite tends to adapt local myths and religious dogmas from Christian Pentecostal believes alongside advertising elements from Hollywood and Hong Kong. In the posters as in the films, the occult and magic practices play a strong part, as does the antagonism of Good and Evil, the battle waged against the forces of darkness, giving rise, for example, to the noticeable preference for horror movies fueled by the fears of people who find ... More | | Tate Britain Presents Renowned British Architect James Stirling: Notes from the Archive
James Stirling (Firm), Florey Building, The Queen’s College, Oxford: axonometric, 1966–71. James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. Ink, graphite, and colored crayon on tracing paper.
LONDON.-This spring Tate Britain presents James Stirling: Notes from the Archive, an exhibition of selected material from the rich archive of renowned British architect, teacher and Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling (1924–92). Marking a resurgence of interest in his work, this is the first architecture exhibition shown at Tate Britain from April 5 through August 21, 2011 and displayed in the Clore Gallery, a building project completed by Stirling himself. Drawn from the recently-catalogued James Stirling/Michael Wilford fonds at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, the exhibition is co-organised by the CCA and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. James Stirling: Notes from the Archive also coincides with the Tate Britain Millbank Project, ... More | | Picasso Loan to Palestinian Art Academy Suffers Complicated Obstacles
Pablo Picasso's painting Buste de Femme, 1943. AP Photo/Peter Cox, Van Abbe Museum.
By: Tia Goldenberg,Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- A Palestinian art academy is preparing to spruce itself up for a famous guest: a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece that would be the first displayed in the West Bank. But simply arranging the painting's journey remains a far more difficult work in progress over complications such as finding reliable transport and clearing Israeli checkpoints. The more than yearlong negotiations and planning — drawing in the Israeli military, Palestinian curators and Dutch museum officials — highlight the obstacles for even ordinary commerce or movement within the West Bank or through the few openings in the separation barrier with Israel. "Of course, at the beginning, we saw these complications but didn't know to what extent this would reach," said Remco de Blaaij, the curator at the Van Abbemuseum ... More |
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A Hard, Merciless Light: The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939 at Reina Sofia Museum
A visitor walks by photographs during the exhibition "A Tough Light, Without Pity" held at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. EPA/EMILIO NARANJO.
MADRID.- Museo Reina Sofía presents A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939 and runs from April 6 through August 22, 2011. A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939 examines the period during the history of 20th century photography in which photography joined forces with various worker movements (ranging from trade unionism to the creation of “workers' states” like the Soviet one), motivated by growing working-class consciousness and the idea of taking over the means of production and reproduction of images. By looking at the artistic avant-garde in its interconnection with the political avant-garde, this exhibition challenges hegemonic historiography that focuses primarily on other movements arising in the history of photography, such as the New Vision. The exhibition ... More | | In New Book Jenness Cortez Reexamines the Classic Paradox of Realism
Jenness Cortez, The Price of Freedom (detail).
AVERILL PARK, N.Y.- AMI Publishers announces the release of a new book entitled, "Homage to the Creative Spirit: The Paintings of Jenness Cortez" by Baylor University art historian Dr. Karen Pope. Robert Yassin, former director of both the Indianapolis and Tucson Museums of Art, wrote the book foreword. For centuries artists have been challenging their intellects and skills by paying homage to the painters who preceded them. Today, Jenness Cortez has emerged as the twenty-first century's most notable exponent of this facet of art history. Her masterful work gives Cortez solid footing in the colorful lineage of artists who have appropriated vintage images and woven them into their own distinctive, recognizable fabric. In this new book, Cortez reexamines the classic paradox of realism: the painting both as a "window" into an imagined space and as a physical object. Her work challenges the viewers' intellectual curiosity an ... More | | Banksy Images Created on Third Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to Sell at Bonhams
Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Nola Red'.
LONDON.- A painting, which features one of the images created by the enigmatic Oscar-nominated graffiti artist, Banksy, to commemorate the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond Street, as part of its sale of Post War and Contemporary Art and Design on 13 April. It has attracted a pre-sale estimate of £50,000 – 80,000. The image was one of more than a dozen murals that Banksy grafittied onto buildings around the city of New Orleans in September 2008. While this image, entitled NOLA, depicts a young girl sheltering from red rain under an umbrella, other pictures included a young boy flying a fridge like a kite and Abraham Lincoln as a homeless man. Banksy, who, earlier this year, was nominated for an Oscar for his first feature documentary film Exit Through The Gift Shop, said at the time: “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operat ... More |
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 Strong Prices for Swann Gallerys' March 24 Auction of Fine PhotographsNEW YORK, N.Y.- Swann Galleries’ March 24 auction of Fine Photographs saw active bidding from dealers and collectors alike, resulting in a successful sale of material from the 19th through 21st centuries. Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs at Swann, said, “The results of today’s auction demonstrate that the market for classical photography is operating at a full gallop. Just as there is tremendous demand for iconic vintage and modern prints by master 20th-century photographers, prices for scarce photobooks and photographically illustrated volumes—Swann’s market niche—are also climbing.” The sale’s top lot was Adam Clark Vroman’s lavish album Arizona and New Mexico, Volume II, with more than 165 platinum prints of Native Americans, their dwellings and the famous Snake Dance, 1897, which sold for $62,400*--a record price for a work by the photographer at a ... More Mughal Masterpiece: Portrait of Emperor Jahangir Sells for £1.4 Million at BonhamsLONDON.- The magnificent portrait the Mughal Emperor Jahangir who reigned from 1605-1627, attributed to Abu'l Hasan, Nadir al-Zaman and dated AH 1026/AD 1617, sold for £1,420,000 at Bonhams Indian and Islamic Sale today, April 5th. It went to a Middle Eastern museum. The sale total was £2.7m. The picture is a political tour de force in which the Emperor lays claim to a world-wide ambition. This is achieved through its full life-size magnificence, use of precious items in it s creation, and the words that accompany it, all make his all conquering ambition plain. The portrait in gouache heightened with gold leaf on a fine woven cotton canvas shows the Emperor seated on a European-style throne. His head is surrounded by a radiating nimbus and he is wearing an embroidered floral tunic over a patka ... More High Museum of Art Appoints Kimberly Watson New Director of Museum AdvancementATLANTA, GA.- Michael E. Shapiro, the Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, announces that the Museum has appointed Kimberly Watson as the new Director of Museum Advancement. Watson will oversee the High’s advancement department, which consists of individual, corporate, foundation and government support as well as the High’s largest fundraiser, the Wine Auction. Watson joined the High on April 4, 2011. “Kimberly will bring a great depth of knowledge to this position from her extensive fundraising and publicity planning experience for a diverse group of major non-profit institutions in New York,” stated Michael E. Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director. “We are looking forward to welcoming Kimberly during such an important fundraising time for the Museum. She will play an important role in continuing to grow the High’s successful outreach to s ... More Childhood. Photographs by Isabel Muñoz on View at IVAMVALENCIA.- Childhood. Photographs by Isabel Muñoz hopes to make people aware of the reality and rights of children all over the world through 68 pictures and texts. The exhibition gathers portraits captured in 20 countries of Europe, Africa, Asia and America which, from particular cases, offer a global overview of their current situation. Isabel Muñoz has been awarded the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts 2009, Premio PhotoEspaña 2009 and World Press Photo 2000 and 2005. The exhibition has been organized by UNICEF in collaboration with the Agencia Española de Cooperación para el Desarrollo (AECID). On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalogue has been published with the photographs displayed and texts by journalists of El País Semanal. On view from April 5 through June 26, 2011 at IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. Conve ... More artMRKT Hamptons to Debut July 14-17, 2011NEW YORK, N.Y.- artMRKT, a newly formed Brooklyn-based organizer of art fairs, has announced the debut of artMRKT Hamptons, a new fair to be held Thursday, July 14 through Sunday, July 17, 2011, on the grounds of the Bridgehampton Historical Society in Bridgehampton, New York. artMRKT Hamptons will present more than 35 leading local, national and international galleries in a state-of-the-art tented venue. artMRKT, founded last year by third generation gallerist Max Fishko and longtime business partner Jeffrey Wainhause, is gearing up to be one of the nation’s premiere fine art fair companies. In December, artMRKT announced the launch of artMRKT San Francisco, a modern and contemporary art fair to be held May 19 through 22, 1011, in San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center with 65 local, national and international galleries. The company is also working to create a fair in Houston, TX. “First and foremost, ... MoreTy Pennington, Cineflix Productions and Heritage Auctions Team Up for ABC-TV PilotLONG BEACH, CA.- One of America's leading reality TV personalities, Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and Heritage Auctions will conduct a very special television first made-for-TV auction event, on April 16, aboard The Queen Mary. The auction is being produced for an ABC-TV pilot by Cineflix Productions. The event will feature a special variety of items - including, but not limited to, a Les Paul-owned 9/11-themed Les Paul guitar, being sold to benefit Cystic Fibrosis research, a singular copy The Warren Commission Report, signed by all 47 people who worked on it, a personalized Elvis Presley owned silver and diamond ring owned by a former girlfriend, a First Edition Book of Mormon, unpublished Marilyn Monroe photographs, a near mint copy of Spider-Man #1 from The Gary Dahlberg Collection, and much more - all chosen for their rarity, value and the uniqueness of the consignor's story. "We at Heritage are thrilled to ... More Artprice: the 2010 Art Market Annual Report - China Winner of the Past DecadePARIS.- During the past decade, two strong trends have emerged: firstly, as per the words of Thierry Ehrmann, the Ceo and founder of Artprice, the world leader in art market information, "we have seen a veritable revolution in the geopolitics of the global art market... Over the last 10 years, China jumped from ninth place to first place in 2010, becoming the world's largest auction marketplace for Fine Art and overtaking the United States and the UK, the grand masters of the market since the 1950s." France, constantly loosing competitiveness year after year, comes out the big looser of the past decade, as shown by delay in implementing the auction reform required for 28 Dec. 2009 by the European Directive, and by the Drouot scandal, which is an ongoing judicial saga. The second strong trend in the year 2010 is the unanimous statement by art market players that an unprecedented mutation has affected the commerce of art. The m ... More |
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