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This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost one-third, the space now accommodates the display of more than seven hundred paintings in forty-five galleries, including one rotating special exhibition gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century reopened on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation. This is the first major renovation of the galleries since 1951 and the first overall reinstallation of the collection since 1972. Increased in size by almost one-third, the space now accommodates the display of more than 700 paintings in 45 galleries, including one rotating special exhibition gallery. The galleries are organized both chronologically and geographically to provide an overview of painting in Italy, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Great Britain. Many of the galleries have new floors and moldings and the suites of galleries unfold with a new logic and grandeur. Sculpture, medals, ceramics, and other decorative arts ... More |
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| Partnership of UK museums saves Constable's Salisbury Cathedral masterpiece |
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Mexican archaeologists identify 5,000 cave paintings found in the northern state of Tamaulipas |
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United States photographer Annie Leibovitz wins Spain's Prince of Asturias prize |
John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831 (detail). Oil on canvas, 151.8 x 189.9 mm.
EDINBURGH.- One of the greatest masterpieces of British art, Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831, has been secured for the British public through major grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund (£15.8 million), the Art Fund (£1 million), a very substantial donation from The Manton Foundation, and Tate Members. The acquisition is part of a ground-breaking new partnership, called Aspire, between five national and regional galleries: Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales; the National Galleries of Scotland; Colchester and Ipswich Museums; Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum; and Tate Britain. The partnership will enable the work, owned by Tate, to go on almost constant view in partner venues across the UK. From today it will go on view in the Constable room at Tate Britain until the end of the year before being shown at the five national and regional galleries participating in the programme. The work has been acquire ... More |
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Cave paintings found in the San Carlos mountain range in the Burgos municipality of the Tamaulipas State. Photo: M. Garcia and G. Ramirez/INAH.
MEXICO CITY.- The existence of almost 5 thousand cave paintings found in Sierra de San Carlos, municipality of Burgos, Tamaulipas, made by hunter and collector groups of the region was announced by archaeologist Martha Garcia Sanchez, during the Second Conference of Archaeological History, which took place in the Chapultepec Castle in the National Museum of History. With the help of archaeologist Gustavo Ramirez from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Tamaulipas, the specialist [Martha Garcia] carried out the investigation: The Cave Paintings of the Municipality of Burgos, which enlighten the existence of 4,926 cave paintings made by at least three different hunter and collector groups of the region: guajolotes, iconoplos, and pintos; although there is evidence that proves these moved through the Sierra de San Carlos region and nearby areas to the cadimas, conaynenes, mediquillos, mesquites, cometunas and canaimes, among ... More |
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A file picture taken on June 18, 2009 shows US photographer Annie Leibovitz addressing the media at the inauguration of her exhibition "the Life of a photographer 1990-2005," at PhotoEspana in Madrid. AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE DESMAZES.
MADRID (AFP).- Spain honoured the US photographer Annie Leibovitz, known for her iconic portraits of a naked John Lennon and a pregnant Demi Moore, with its top humanities prize on Thursday. The Prince of Asturias prize jury hailed Leibovitz, 63, as "one of the driving forces of world photojournalism", in a statement naming her the winner of its Communication and Humanities award. "She has achieved recognition for her snapshots and portraits which reflect an era of politics, literature, film, music and sport through its leading figures." Connecticut-born Leibovitz is one of the world's top portrait photographers, with snaps of the powerful and famous that have made the front pages of magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, where she started out in 1970. She snapped Richard Nixon as he quit the White House and George W. Bush's government as it met shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as ... More |
| Sotheby's to sell original receipt for Goya painting in Danny Boyle's art heist movie Trance |
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State Museum displays notes from President Lincoln's autopsy reports, oil painting of Dred Scott |
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London's National Gallery and Birmingham's Barber Institute swap masterpieces |
The receipt is estimated to achieve £25,000-30,000 in Sotheby’s London Music and Manuscripts Sale. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On 5th June, Sotheby’s will sell the original receipt from the Spanish artist Francisco Goya for “Flight of the Witches”, the painting which featured in the Danny Boyle film Trance, starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Sotheby’s Deputy Chairman Lord Mark Poltimore, who plays the chief auctioneer at fictional auction house Delancy’s. The receipt, dated Madrid, 27 June 1798, and in Goya’s hand, reveals that the artist received payment of “six thousand reales” for a celebrated series of six oil paintings about witches and witchcraft including "Vuelo de brujas" (“Flight of the Witches”). The six works were either commissioned by Goya's patrons the Duke and Duchess of Osuna, or purchased by them very soon afterwards. All six remained at Alameda de Osuna until 1896, when the ducal palace and its library was sold by public auction. “Flight of the Witches” is now in the co ... More |
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Notes taken by JJ. Woodward at President Abraham Lincoln's autopsy, April 1865. ecru/ivory paper, one-sided, 32 x 20 cm. Courtesy of New York State Historical Association Collections at Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York.
ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum has added two important artifacts to its current exhibition commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War. The artifacts include the notes taken by two physicians who attended President Lincoln on his death bed and the only existing oil painting of Dred Scott, the African American slave whose 1858 Supreme Court trial pushed the nation to the brink of Civil War. The physicians’ handwritten notes, penned by Assistant Surgeon Joseph Janvier Woodward and Lincoln family physician Robert K. Stone, describe in stark detail President Lincoln’s condition after being shot by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 15, 1865. Dr. Woodward’s notes are stained with the President’s blood. ... More |
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Edouard Manet, Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1876. Oil on canvas, 191.8 x 172.7 cm. The Trustees of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (37.12)© Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham.
LONDON.- An outstanding group of Old Master and 19th-century paintings – including masterpieces by Poussin, Turner, Monet and Manet – have gone on show at the National Gallery, London this summer as part of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the foundation of Birmingham’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Birth of a Collection: Masterpieces from the Barber Institute of Fine Arts runs from 22 May to 1 September 2013. At the same time, outstanding portraits by Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Goya and Cézanne, on loan from the National Gallery, are paired with comparable works at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham. About Face: European Portrait Masterpieces from UK National Collections runs at the Barber Institute from 17 May – 1 September 2013. ... More |
| Between land and sea: The extraordinary bestiary of the Roman mosaic of Lod on view at The Louvre |
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First edition Phillip Otto Runge prints come to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles |
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Alabama's Centre for the Living Arts exhibition examines future possibilities for the Gulf Coast |
La Mosaïque de Lod (détail)© Israel Antiquities Authority / Nicky Davidov.
PARIS.- Remarkably conserved, this great mosaic was discovered in Lod in 1996 during the construction of a highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. This unique pavement, decorating the floor of a house, presents abundant animal life inserted into geometric patterns. Presented in the majestic setting of the cour du Sphinx, in close proximity to the new spaces devoted to the Eastern Mediterranean Provinces of the Roman Empire, the Mosaic of Lod is exceptionally displayed at the Louvre Museum before returning to Lod and to the museum, currently under construction, that will house it. Uncovered during salvage excavations led by archaeologist Miriam Avissar at the site of ancient Lydda, the mosaic belonged to an even larger pavement of which it was the essential decorative piece. The function of the room it occupied, as well as the nature of the building and the identity of its occupants are unknown. Some remaining coats of paint discovered at the t ... More |
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Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810), Night, from Times of Day, 1805. Printmakers: E.G. Krüger and J. A Darnstedt. Etching and engraving. The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Research Institute announced today the acquisition of a rare first edition, Times of Day, by Phillip Otto Runge (1777–1810). Published in 1805, this suite of four prints representing Morning, Evening, Day and Night is widely recognized as a monument of German Romantic art. “This remarkable set of engravings is a radical, personal expression from one of the leaders of the German Romantic movement,” said Thomas W. Gaehtgens, director of the Getty Research Institute. “It is a landmark addition to the Getty Research Institute’s important prints collection.” Runge, along with Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), was one of the leading painters and theorists of the German Romantic movement. He rejected the tradition of academic painting in favor of art that symbolically expressed the essential harmony of nature, humanity, and the divine. The complex iconography of Times of Day, which ... More |
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Installation View of "The Explorer" with "Space Ship" and "Falling Suitcase" 2013, of Dawn DeDeaux's exhibition entitled "Aboard the MotherShip Part One: Postulations of Myth and Math" on view at the Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama.
MOBILE, AL.- The Centre for the Living Arts announces the opening of Future Project (now until January 31, 2014), a nine month exhibition that examines future possibilities for the Gulf Coast, with focus areas that are both expected and unexpected. Dawn DeDeaux (New Orleans, LA), whose Prospect 2, New Orleans Biennial installation was critically acclaimed, has created an environment at the Centre for the Living Arts that subjectively postulates the future through myth. Her installation, which reflects the thinking of Carl Jung, William Blake and others, is infused with collective mythologies that foretell the future along with translations of hard mathematical and scientific equations that speak of a future not too dissimilar from myth. This is evidenced throughout the installation, most notably in the iconic horse perched on a ledge 20 feet above the main gallery staring at is reflection below. DeDeaux invites the viewer into a ... More |
| Late Surrealism: Exhibition at the Menil Collection revisits a pivotal moment in 20th century art |
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Sotheby's to offer a first edition of The Great Gatsby among other Fitzgerald material |
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Sotheby's London Sale of 19th Century European Paintings brings total of $10.5 million |
Max Ernst, Le canard du doute aux lèvres de vermouth, 1948. The Menil Collection, Houston © 2013 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Paul Hester.
HOUSTON, TX.- One of the most profound shifts in the history of modernism took place in New York City in the 1930s and 40s, as artists from Europe took refuge in the United States, and the radical forms of figurative art they brought with them prompted and competed against an impulse toward abstraction among American artists. By the time this period of ferment was over, New York had displaced Paris as the main site of activity for modern art, and a celebrated new movement, Abstract Expressionism, had been born. Many accounts of this period summarize it as the pre-history of Abstract Expressionism, as if its developments had progressed toward a pre-ordained end. To the artists who lived through these years, though, nothing was settled or decided. Viewing this brief but crucial era from within as a fascinating moment in its own right, the Menil Collection will revisit these years as ... More |
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This copy of The Great Gatsby once belonged to the critic and author Malcolm Cowley. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 11 June 2013 the Books and Manuscripts sale at Sotheby’s New York will include a particularly important First edition of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which once belonged to the critic and author Malcolm Cowley. Although the sales at the time were disappointing in comparison to the author’s first bestsellers, The Great Gatsby became Fitzgerald’s masterpiece. The book is now almost universally recognized as standing among the great achievements of 20th century American literature with the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, and more broadly, the American dream, resonating with readers for generations. This important association copy is estimated to fetch $100/150,000. In addition to the importance of the work, the dust-jacket for Gatsby has also achieved iconic status, not only for the image but for the difficulty in obtaining an example in good condition. Wholly different in its Deco style from the earlier book j ... More |
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Employees pose with a painting entitled 'Ninos en la Playa' 1916 by Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla which realised £2,770,500 / $4,162,953 / €3,239,829. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL.
LONDON.- Today’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings at Sotheby’s London brought a total of £6,988,575 / $10,501,033 / €8,172,455. Together with the results of The Orientalist Sale in London in April (£6,339,500 / $9,967,149), this brings the total for Sotheby’s London sales of 19th Century European Paintings thus far this year to £13.3 / $20.2 million. Commenting on the sale, Adrian Biddell, Head of Sotheby’s 19th Century European Paintings Department, said: “The sale illustrated how the strength of the market lies in top quality works across all fields. It was particularly strong in prime Spanish and Scandinavian works, Sorolla topping the bill. There was also spirited demand for the works of Turkish interest, the robust results following our recent Orientalist sale.” The auction was led by Joaquín Sorolla’s Niños en la playa, which sold to a Private Collector for ... More |
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 Early Spider-Man original art and first comic top $4+ million auction at Heritage
DALLAS, TX.- The Amazing Spider-Man proved himself the top hero over the three-day span of Heritage Auctions' $4+ million May 16-18 Comics Signature® Auction as John Romita, Sr.'s The Amazing Spider-Man #85 Kingpin and the Schemer Cover Original Art (Marvel, 1970) and a CGC-certified 8.0 copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 (Spider-Man's first appearance) realized identical $71,7000 prices. All prices include Buyer's Premium. "Bidding was steady, prices were solid and interest remained strong throughout the auction," said Barry Sandoval, Director of Auction Operations for the Comics category at Heritage. "Spider-Man and Batman related material, from the comics to the original art, continue to be the mainstay of collectors, with early comic strip and pre-code comic book art also proving quite popular." Two pieces of early comic strip and book art stood out in particular when they ... More Morphy's auction a mix of antique advertising, coin-op machines and occupational shaving mugs
DENVER, PA.- Morphy’s is like a second home to antique advertising collectors, who regard the central Pennsylvania company’s auctions as a premier source of fresh-to-market pieces from long-held collections. On June 1st, Morphy’s will conduct a 537-lot specialty sale comprised exclusively of antique advertising, coin-op and penny arcade machines; and rare occupational shaving mugs. In keeping with their new, across-the-board policy, the auction will begin at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. The session will open with an exceptional single-owner collection of 150+ shaving mugs that includes several exciting rarities. Lot 29 depicts two men bowling and has an estimate of $1,500-$2,500; while Lot 122 features the image of an early airplane whose pilot wears duster-type goggles, est. $2,500-$3,000. An elusive stock market-related mug entered as Lot 89 is emblazoned with the image of a ... More Yorkshire Sculpture Park plans to rescue historic building
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is campaigning to save one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Bretton Estate and transform it into a gallery space. The 270-year-old YSP Chapel is in an urgent state of repair and must be restored soon, in order to keep it open to the public. The Park’s fundraisers have secured financial support from English Heritage, Country Houses Foundation, The Wolfson Foundation and The Pilgrim Trust but are £100,000 short of the £500,000 needed to complete the full restoration plan. They are now asking visitors and supporters to give whatever they can to help reach the total. Andy Carver, Director of Development at YSP said: “At a time when public funding is becoming increasingly scarce, we depend on the people and organisations that love YSP to give us their financial support. Restoring the chapel is an important and exciting project ... More What is Contemporary? Group exhibition of Contemporary photography and works of art from the past
LONDON.- Brancolini Grimaldi announces a group exhibition of contemporary photography and works of art from the past. Curated by photographer Domingo Milella and antiques specialist Bruno Botticelli, What is Contemporary? will place work by Dan Holdsworth, Lise Sarfati, Clare Strand and Domingo Milella alongside antique sculpture, painting and artefacts, asking us to think outside of proscribed categories of art and to re-evaluate boundaries imposed by time and place. The exhibition aims to bring art from different periods into a single span of time, into a continuous dialogue between now and then. What relationship does an unfinished painting of a woman by Antonio Di Donnino Del Mazziere from early 16th century Florence have to a photograph by Lise Safarti? How does the monumental landscape photography of Dan Holdsworth relate to a piece of marble representing ... More Bonhams smashes record for Ben Enwonwu, one of Africa's leading artists
LONDON.- The art of Ben Enwonwu (1917 – 1994) took centre stage at Bonhams’ sale of Modern and Contemporary African Art at Bonhams New Bond Street, May 22, with a new world record for the artist at £361,250 against his previous best of £125,000. His record work,l a collection of seven wooden sculptures of figures holding newspapers (lot 129), was commissioned by the Daily Mirror in 1961. The figures had been estimated to sell for £80,000 to £120,000 but tripled the high estimate to make £361,250. The 120 lot sale made a total of over £ 1.3 million. New world records were also set for over twenty other artists, including Erhabor Emokpae, Uche Okeke, Uzo Egonu and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu. Giles Peppiatt, Head of African Art at Bonhams, comments: “African Contemporary Art took another step forward today with world record prices achieved. The national spotlight ... More Contemporary spin on ancient art in Rome exhibition
ROME (AFP).- From ancient Greek statues with futuristic helmets to gladiator shields decorated with shoes, a series of Italian contemporary art works are going on show among the ruins of Rome's Forum. Many of the creations by 17 artists -- spread throughout the vast complex which was once the teeming heart of Rome -- were made especially for the "Post-Classical" exhibition opening Thursday, which explores the links between contemporary art and antiquity. The collection includes works by members of the Arte Povera movement -- Greek-born Jannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giulio Paolini -- as well as independents Vanessa Beecroft and Claudio Parmiggiani, and photographer Mimmo Jodice. "What brings them together is the need to reinvent the fundamental themes of Classicism, to the point of rendering them unrecognisable," the exhibition's curator Vincenzo ... More Alexander Calder brooch may bring $30,000 in Heritage Auctions' Signature Silver Event
DALLAS, TX.- A rare Alexander Calder silver and steel wire pin — gifted in the 1940s directly from the artist to Jean Hatton Duffy, editor of Progressive Architecture, and one of the few examples of Calder jewelry to appear at auction — is expected to bring $30,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' Silver Signature® Auction. The June 14 auction kicks off a two-day treasure trove of fine silver, European paintings and decorative arts including a broad range of highly sought makers and finely crafted objects. "The Calder brooch with its impeccable provenance well represents this auction's emphasis on beautifully executed designs from a wide spectrum of silversmiths working in American, England, the Continent and Asia." said Ed Beardsley, Vice President and Managing Director of Fine & Decorative Arts. "We are looking forward to a two day auction, with this fine collection of silver ... More Steven Sebring's Revolution opens at the 69th Regiment Armory
NEW YORK, NY.- 100 years ago Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending Staircase No.2 was first exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. American art has never been the same. Today Steven Sebring descends onto the same space to unveil an ambitious exhibition. It’s title: Revolution. Through the exploration of motion, Sebring brings emotion to art and science. He evokes the lessons of the modern masters but opens the doors for all to witness to a coup: seeing will never be the same. Photographs, sculpture, interactive media and a collection of films become a visual symphony in four parts. A four dimensional exploration, a photographic investigation of light from multiple perspectives through time; the fractured Proto-Cubism of Picasso, Braque, and Duchamp re-envisioned; the RIG, a one of a kind process that captures form and movement from every angle; and ... More Pat Steir creates new work for National Academy exhibition
NEW YORK, NY.- Pat Steir has created three new paintings being exhibited at the National Academy Museum. On view from May 23 through September 8, 2013, the artist's most recent works - Orange, Green, and Yellow, which measure 132 x 50 inches each-from her Waterfall series and shown with the artist's largest canvas to date, Blue River, (135 ¾ x 445 ¾ inches). Steir's monumental paintings depict more than simply the fluidity of water and paint. They also suggest a metaphysical place in which psychological states of being ebb and flow. On the subject of water, Steir has stated: "I paint water often, but don't depict it; it is the paint itself that flows." For the artist, these paintings are explorations of perception, mood, and a contemplative space. They are immense, durational, and experiential not only through their sheer size, but also through their inherent gestural and evocative ... More |
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Directed by Jay Buim, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow, Creative Time. Additional footage by Kyle Repka and James N. Kienitz Williams
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In 1740 he surveyed Stonehenge and the Stanton Drew stone circles.
He later wrote extensively about Bladud and Neo-Druidism. Because
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