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People view Rembrandt van Rijn's painting the Supper at Emmaus at the Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus exhibit at Museum of Art in Philadelphia. The exhibit is scheduled to run from Aug. 3 through Oct. 30. AP Photo/Matt Rourke.
By: Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- A new exhibit coming to the Philadelphia Museum of Art takes a fresh look at religious paintings, drawings and prints by one of history's most revered artists. "Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus" debuts Wednesday in Philadelphia, after its three-month premiere run at the Louvre Museum in Paris. It's the only East Coast stop for the exhibit, which continues through Oct. 30 and contains works from public and private collections in the U.S. and Europe. The exhibition of more than 50 works by the Dutch master and his pupils notably includes a group of oil paintings of Jesus Christ that have not been seen together since they left Rembrandt's Amsterdam studio in 1656. Timothy Rub, chief executive officer and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, called the show "a rare moment to observe the image of Jesus through the imagination of this artistic genius whose life was devoted to repres ... More |
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| Rare Portraits of Early Kings and Queens at National Portrait Gallery for First Time in 36 Years | | Israel's Museum on the Seam Shows Exhibition by Twenty-Eight Muslim-World Artists | | Sotheby's Locks Out Unionized Art Handlers, Sparks Picket Line by Fellow Teamsters | 
King William I, Reigned 1066-87. ©National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- One of the largest and most important sets of portraits of early English kings and queens is to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery for the first time in 36 years. The 16 portraits, from William I to Mary I, are usually on loan to Montacute House, Somerset, but have been brought to the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Making Art in Tudor Britain research project. The portraits and the results of the research feature in a display Picturing History: A Portrait Set of Early Kings and Queens from 19 July – 4 December 2011 before being returned to Montacute House. Between March and May 2011 these paintings underwent technical analysis including dendrochronology (tree-ring dating), infra-red analysis, x-radiography, paint sampling and microscopy. Prior to the research it was thought that the set comprised of at least two groups of portraits: the first painted in the 1590s, and the second thought to ... More | | 
a visitor walks past art works titled "Red Ink" and "Kinder Blitz", 2006, created by American artist Walter Robinson. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue.
By: Amy Teibel, Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP).- A museum on the road separating Jewish west Jerusalem from the Arab neighborhoods in the city's east is attracting a daring group of artists from Middle Eastern nations that shun contact with Israel, trying to erode political barriers through art. It's been a years-long process for the Museum on the Seam, which is one of the few art museums in Israel that aggressively tries to convince Arab and Muslim artists to show in its galleries. That's not an easy task. Many Middle Eastern artists refuse, protesting Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. Many of their governments, notably Iran, make contacts with Israel illegal. In Egypt, which signed a 1979 peace treaty with the Jewish state, rules by many artists organizations forbid members to engage in any ... More | | 
A Sotheby's employee poses for photographs in front of sale highlight. AP Photo/Matt Dunham.
By: Ray Sanchez
NEW YORK (REUTERS).- Unionized art handlers and fellow Teamsters picketed outside Sotheby's on Tuesday after the auction house locked the workers out last week following a drawn-out contract dispute. The 43 art handlers, members of Teamsters Local 814 whose contract expired in early July, were told by the auction house on Friday they could not return to their jobs at Sotheby's Manhattan headquarters and had been replaced by temporary workers. The lockout took hold a month before the start of the critical fall sales, which last season took in hundreds of millions of dollars for Sotheby's and rival Christie's. Sotheby's said in a statement it had been negotiating "in good faith" since May, and had offered "a contract with attractive terms," which the union rejected. "The lockout of our property handlers is an outcome ... More |
| Smithsonian Latino Center Hosts Symposium on Central American Ceramics | | "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" Collection Donated to University of Texas | | "Drawn to the Water" Exhibition at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia | 
Late Pre-Classic Maya Effigy Vessel (Transformation Figure). Guatemala, 400 BC-AD 150. Photo: Alexander Benítez, National Museum of the American Indian. Catalog # 098479.000
NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium Aug. 4 – 5 at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of its Central American Ceramics Research Project. The symposium will begin Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. with a keynote presentation by John Hoopes from the University of Kansas and continue with lectures by experts, scholars and researchers Aug. 5 beginning at 10:30 a.m. The symposium is free and open to the public. This symposium is part of the Latino Center’s Central American Ceramics Research Project, which is an initiative to assess and study the National Museum of the American Indian’s 12,000-piece Central American archaeological ceramics collection. It has been determined that many museums and private collections are in possession of countless numbers of ceramic, stone, gold and jade objects created ... More | | 
Lobby poster for the Broadway production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson relating to their careers and their work on the original Broadway production and film of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." The collection consists of eight document boxes of materials, half of which relate to the 1978 musical. The musical was directed by Masterson, who also co-authored the book with Larry L. King. Carol Hall wrote the lyrics for the musical. The stage musical starred Glynn as Mona Stangley, the owner of a brothel in the fictional town of Gilbert, Texas. The show ran for more than 1,500 performances on Broadway, toured extensively and was adapted to film in 1982. "We chose the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin to house our film and ... More | | 
Fred Wagner, Coal Barges on the Lower Schuylkill , c.1905. Oil on canvas. Loan courtesy of Newman Galleries, Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Independence Seaport Museum opened an exhibition, Drawn to the Water Artists of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Capture our Region’s Waterways, 1830 – Present. The exhibit features art by students, instructors and exhibitors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. All of the paintings depict a water scene from around the Delaware Valley, and exhibit panels include, not only the artist’s name and year the scene was painted, but also a map showing the location of the scene and where the artist would have been standing to capture the view. The Museum has also created a free coloring sketchbook that visitors can use to create their own artwork, and will organize three plein air (open air) painting events where artists will create paintings that will be installed in the exhibit to show contemporary views. The exhibit, which is included in the price of regular Museum admis ... More |
| 14th to 18th Century Religious Paintings on View at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza | | Filipinos Cry Sacrilege Over Art with Christ, Phallic Symbols by Artist Mideo Cruz | | Vincent Van Gogh Returns to Dulwich Picture Gallery for Bicentenary Celebration | 
Giovanni Paolo Panini, La Expulsión de los Mercaderes del Templo, 1724. Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 98.4 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
MADRID.- Within its Permanent Collection of Old Master Paintings, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has a group of works depicting episodes from the life of Christ, from his childhood to the period after the Resurrection. Between 2 August and 4 September and in conjunction with the celebration of World Youth Day 2011, the Museum will be presenting the exhibition Encounters. It comprises a selection of nine of the above-mentioned paintings by 14th- to 18th-century artists including Albrecht Dürer, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Aert de Gelder, Il Guercino and Matthias Stom. The exhibition will enable visitors to become familiar with the works of these celebrated artists of the northern schools (Dutch, Flemish and German) as well as those from southern Europe, in particular Italy, expressed in a range of styles that correspond to the particular schools with which these painters are associated. ... More | | 
Artist Mideo Cruz speaks about his art installation "Poleteismo", on exhibition at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco.
By: Michaela Cabrera
MANILA (REUTERS).- An art installation that mixes Christ with kitschy symbols of pop culture and includes a crucifix with a movable penis has set off an uproar in the Philippines among conservative Catholics, who say the installations are a mockery of their faith. Mideo Cruz, the artist responsible for the installation -- intended to be a commentary on icon worship -- has been branded a "demon" and bombarded with death threats and hate mail since his work featured in an exhibit in Manila that began June 17. "May your soul burn to (sic) hell, you Devil pro (sic) artist," wrote a furious Facebook user, one of dozens denouncing Cruz's work. Cruz, a 37-year-old visual and performance artist who has exhibited in such international art centres as New York, Paris and Tokyo, said he had ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Self-portrait With Felt Hat, 1888, Oil on canvas, 44 x 37.5 cm. Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation).
LONDON.- Every month during the Gallery’s bicentenary celebration year a spectacular masterpiece will hang on the end wall of the Gallery’s enfilade. Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in Paris, in the winter of 1887-1888. It reflects that city’s infl uence in its adaption of Pointillism, the use of small dots of pure colour to create an optical illusion of light. The technique had been quite recently developed by Georges Seurat in 1886. However, Van Gogh was never a slavish follower of other peoples’ theories, though a passionate developer of his own. While clearly interested in the colouristic effects that Pointillism enabled, Van Gogh liked his colours to shine to their maximum intensity – he uses not dots, but slabs of colour, and lays them out with a sense of direction to increase the sense of three dimensions. But, more than that, ... More |
| Edmund Gardner Re-Opens at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool | | Art Gallery of Ontario Celebrates Canadian Artist Group General Idea with Retrospective | | Artist Zefrey Throwell Organizes Naked Performance Art on Wall Street that Ends in Arrests | 
The Edmund Gardner in dry dock at Merseyside Maritime Museum.
LIVERPOOL.- The pilot cutter Edmund Gardner – one of the world’s 50 most important preserved ships – re-opens to the public for the first time since 2006. The iconic ship, part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s historic vessels collection, is located in one of the Canning graving docks. Free guided tours are held every Thursday and Saturday between 4 August and 1 October 2011. Edmund Gardner has been closed to the public for five years during building work linked to the new Museum of Liverpool which opened on 19 July 2011. Volunteer guides take members of the public around the ship that was home to River Mersey pilots between 1953 and 1981. Three tours take place on Thursdays and Saturdays at 1100, 1230 and 1430 and last about one hour. There is a limit of 10 places per tour – places must be booked in advance on 0151 478 4788. Some restrictions apply as the boat is not fully ... More | | 
Playing Doctor, 1992. Chromogenic print, 76,2 x 53,3 cm. Image courtesy the Estate of General Idea and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
TORONTO, ON.- The Art Gallery of Ontario opened an exhibition of unprecedented scale that celebrates the work of the Canadian artist group General Idea. Occupying more than 20,000 sq. ft. of Gallery space on the fourth and fifth floors of the AGO’s Vivian & David Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art, Haute Culture: General Idea — A Retrospective, 1969 – 1994 will be on view through January 1, 2012. The exhibition features 336 works by the groundbreaking multidisciplinary group, including 107 works from the AGO collection, spanning their prolific and influential 25-year career. Curated by Paris-based independent curator Frédéric Bonnet, Haute Culture is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to General Idea, a collaboration between artists AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal that began Toronto in 1969. The group’s transgressive con- ... More | | 
An unidentified man wears only a tie and socks as he participates in a performance art piece. AP Photo/newcriteria.wordpress.com, Anthony Miler.
By: Karen Zraick, Associated Press
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece — and then they got arrested. The two men and a woman were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct Monday morning outside the New York Stock Exchange. Manhattan artist Zefrey Throwell organized the 5-minute social critique of Wall Street with dozens of volunteers acting like people at work. He says he didn't intend to provoke police and his target was U.S. and world financial institutions. Among those arrested was Brooklyn personal trainer and performance artist Eric Clinton Anderson, who played a naked janitor outside the stock exchange's heavily guarded front door. He jokes, "Somebody needs to clean up Wall Street." Arrested with Anderson were another Brooklyn man and a ... More |
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 RAF Book of Heroes Llisting 107 Signatures of Battle of Britain Pilots Makes 33,600 at Bonhams OXFORD.- A small leather-bound book that powerfully evokes ‘The Few’ of WWII Battle of Britain, listing 107 signatures of RAF flying officers, sold at Bonhams Militaria Sale in Oxford yesterday, August 2nd, for £33,600. The pre-sale estimate was just £6,000 to £8,000. It went to a private British buyer. Collected by Norman Phillips, a mess steward at RAF Marklesham Heath in 1941, the little book’s leather cover was apparently cut from a mess chair by Group Captain Douglas Bader CBE, DSO & Bar,DFC, whose remarkable story – flying again after losing both his legs – was the basis of the film ‘Reach for the Sky’. Winston Churchill, in a conversation with Douglas Bader, referred to the book as "not a book of names, but a book of heroes. God forbid it should ever be lost." The book contains the signatures of the following, as well as many others. Squadron Leader D. R. S. Bader D.S.O., D.F.C. and ... More Military, Diplomatic and Civilians Buy Paintings by Artist Embedded with Brit Forces in Afghanistan LONDON.- In February 2010 the Suffolk-based artist, Jules George, was sponsored by the Ministry of Defence to visit Afghanistan as an officially sanctioned war artist embedded with 2 Yorks (Green Howards), and the Household Cavalry Regiment, both part of the 11th Light Brigade. The results of his time in Afghanistan with the British Army is currently on view in a selling exhibition at Bonhams in New Bond Street, from Friday July 22nd to August 5th. Viewing times are from 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday (no weekend viewing). Prices range from £180 for prints to £16,000 for paintings of landscapes. Speaking about the exhibition Jules George said: “I don’t suppose that there are that many images of the stunning landscapes of Afghanistan for sale in the UK.” Among his favourite images from the collection are two massive landscapes, lots 62 and 65, each priced at £16,000. “The landscape illustrated in these paint ... More National Portrait Gallery to Be First Museum to Create a Five-Sense Visitor Experience... for One Night Only LONDON.- For one night only the National Portrait Gallery will become the first museum to offer a total sensory visitor experience where people can listen to sonic landscapes and DJ sets, see exhibitions and films, taste cocktails and even be intoxicated by a specially created perfume. The event is set to be one of the most far-reaching explorations of the power of the senses. On Friday 5 August, as part of the Gallery’s programme of late openings, Late Shift, in partnership with FTI Consulting, ReAnimate will be a night to indulge the senses. Exploring body and movement, the evening is inspired by the Gallery’s recently-opened Road to 2012: Changing Pace exhibition of portraits of Olympic and Paralympic participants. Curated in partnership with Martyn Ware, Illustrious and Karen Pearson, Folded Wing, ReAnimate will offer sonic soundscapes, an artist’s panel discussion, an exclusive DJ set from Illum Sphere and ... More History's Shadow: New Book Examines Art and Artifacts through Museum Conservation X-Rays NEW YORK, N.Y.- History’s Shadow, a new photography book by artist David Maisel (Nazraeli Press, $75, hardcover, 72 pages, ISBN 978-1-59005-278-4), examines art and artifacts through museum conservation x-rays. Like spectral transmissions conveying messages across time, the images in History’s Shadow make the invisible visible – expressing the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us. The book will be published October 1, 2011 and includes an essay by David Maisel and a short story by Jonathan Lethem. Maisel’s work has always been concerned with processes of memory, excavation, and transformation. History's Shadow fuses the temporal, the artistic and the scientific, allowing us to see into previously hidden realms. The subjects of History’s Shadow are re-photographed x-rays of three-dimensional objects from the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, an ... More Installation by Beverly Fishman on View at Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion TOLEDO, OH.- Pill Spill, a floor installation by Beverly Fishman, is on view through September within the cavity between the walls of the Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion®. Not only do the building’s glass walls make viewing the installation possible, they are integral to the work. The installation contains more than 120 unique glass capsules, ranging in size from 6 to 15 inches, placed in the glass-enclosed spaces along the Parkwood Avenue entrance to the building. Pill Spill treats the Glass Pavilion as a “body” by releasing capsules into the curved glass hollows between its exterior and interior glass walls, transforming them into an architectural circulatory system. The installation was created as part of the Museum’s Guest Artist Pavilion Project (GAPP). As 2010 GAPP artist-in-residence, Fishman worked with Glass Pavilion staff to execute her vision. For more than 20 years, Fish ... More 12th Istanbul Biennial to Bring Together Artworks that Connect Political and Social Subjects ISTANBUL.- Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), 2011 will bring together artworks that connect political and social subjects with aesthetic and formal concerns. The curatorial point of departure is the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957 1996), whose pieces in different media provide examples of an artistic practice that is both politically outspoken and aesthetically progressive. Composed of five group exhibitions each occupying a distinct space, the exhibitions will feature a large number of artists’ works brought together under a particular argument, functioning as thematic anchors for the five biennial sections. 50 solo presentations will be installed around the group shows, each linking to the subjects of the group shows, but will push the themes further, exploring the subjects the group exhibitions have introduced. Untitled (Abstraction) is inspired by "Untitled" (Bloodwork—Steady Decli ... MorePoland Earmarks Funds for Auschwitz Memorial WARSAW (AP).- Poland's government has earmarked funds to improve accessibility to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp memorial for visitors and to develop educational programs about the notorious Holocaust site. At a session on Tuesday, the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged almost 34 million zlotys ($12 million) to local authorities to be spent between 2012 and 2015 on developing access roads leading to the museum and other infrastructure. The money also would be spent on teaching undergraduate students about human rights, international relations and peace initiatives. Nazi Germans who occupied Poland during World War II killed more than 1 million people in 1940-45 at Auschwitz and nearby Birkenau. Most of the victims were Jewish ... More A.B.A. Gallery Files Motion to Dismiss Baseless ClaimsNEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE).- A.B.A. Gallery, a leading New York-based art gallery specializing in 19th century, 20th century, and contemporary Russian works of art, today filed a motion to dismiss all claims against it and its owner Anatol Bekkerman previously made by Arthur Properties S.A. in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The baseless claims relate to the purchase by Olekandr Savchuk in late 2006 and 2007 of 18 paintings by well-known Russian artists from A.B.A. Gallery for total consideration of $9.58 million. Arthur Properties, the named Plaintiff in the complaint, claims to be representing Mr. Savchuk, the actual purchaser of the paintings. The motion to dismiss focuses on certain defects in the claims, including Arthur Properties? lack of standing to sue, the fact that there is no such claim as ?overpricing? under U.S. law and the failure of Arthur Properties to assert its claims in a timely fashion. The motion notes that Arthur Properties? in ... More |
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