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Städel Museum in Frankfurt opens exhibition of Claude Lorrain's enchanted landscapes
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The Städel Museum presents one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain’s (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career. Photo: Norbert Miguletz.
FRANKFURT.- “In Claude Lorrain, nature declares itself eternal,” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted enthusiastically on the French Baroque artist’s landscape paintings in 1818. According to Germany’s prince among poets and most famous “Grand Tourist,” Lorrain’s idealized, timeless landscapes possess “the highest truth, but no trace of reality.” As of February 2012, the Städel Museum will show one hundred and thirty works created at different points in Claude Lorrain’s (c. 1600 or 1604/05–1682) career, among them thirteen paintings and numerous drawings and prints. Prepared in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, “Claude Lorrain. The Enchanted Landscape” will present the work of the most important landscape painter of the seventeenth century in a monographic exhibition for the first time in Germany after almost thirty years. Besides five drawin ... More |
| From shipwreck in Italy: Thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints |
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Ships, sea monsters, seashores, shells, sirens and sea maidens are all to be discovered in vibrant exhibition |
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Sotheby's to hold a single owner sale of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla |
Italian Financial police scuba divers sail around the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito.
By: Vanessa Gera, Associated Press
ROME (AP).- In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian crystal glassware, thousands of art objects including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master. In other words, a veritable treasure now lies beneath the pristine Italian waters where the luxury liner ran aground last month. Though some objects are bound to disintegrate, there is still hoard enough to tempt treasure seekers — just as the Titanic and countless shipwrecks before have lured seekers of gold, armaments and other riches for as far back as mankind can remember. It may be just a matter of time before treasure hunters set their sights on the sunken spoils of ... More |
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Evelyn De Morgan, Portrait of William De Morgan holding lustre vase, 1909. Oil on canvas.
LONDON.- Curated in conjunction with Arts and Crafts property, National Trust Standen, De Morgans and the Sea gives visitors the opportunity to explore maritime influences in the work of the De Morgans. The theme of the sea was a major source of inspiration for both William De Morgan’s Arts and Crafts ceramics and his wife Evelyn’s paintings. Medieval galleons manned by sailors on the lookout for giant fish, dolphins and sea monsters form part of William De Morgan’s quirky cast of characters. Evelyn’s paintings of mythological subjects such as Ariadne (looking more stoical than distraught after being abandoned on the island of Naxos by her lover Theseus) or her depictions of Hans Christian Anderson’s much adored little mermaid reinterpret these classic tales for a new audience. As well as drawing inspiration from the sea, much of De Morgan’s work was destined to travel the waves themselves, as ... More |
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A seventeenth-century oil-on-canvas capriccio of classical Roman ruins by Marco and Sebastiano Ricci. Est. £150,000-200,000.
LONDON.- Sotheby's announced the Single Owner sale on 14th March 2012 of property from The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva. Descendants of the founder of the most important pasta producer in the world, Giovanni Barilla and in particular his wife Gabriella created one of the greatest collections of ceramics and porcelain in Europe. This collection especially focuses on exceptional Meissen figures – including a wonderful collection of some of the earliest Commedia dell’Arte figures – and some of the rarest groups of Capodimonte and Buen Retiro ever offered on the market. Also featuring an exquisite selection of Venetian eighteenth-century furniture and paintings, sixteenth-century majolica, silver and a group of illuminated books of Hours, ... More |
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| Judge rules against Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. in treasure dispute |
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Works made from motifs in everyday life by Wilhelm Sasnal on view at Haus der Kunst |
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Bill & Melinda Gates visitor center in Seattle is more than a philanthropy museum |
File photo of a Spanish Civil Guard member watching over the treasure-hunting ship Odyssey Explorer after it was seized by Spanish authorities. EPA/Juan Carlos Hidalgo.
By: Mitch Stacy, Associated Press
TAMPA (AP).- An attorney for the Spanish government said a federal judge's ruling Tuesday means Florida deep-sea explorers will have to start making plans to hand over 17 tons of silver coins and other treasure from a sunken 19th century galleon. Tampa-based Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. found the treasure off the Portuguese coast in 2007 in the wreck of what is believed to be the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, which was sunk by British warships in 1804. Last year, a federal appeals court in Atlanta affirmed a Tampa judge's ruling that Odyssey must give the treasure back to Spain. The company then requested a stay of court proceedings as it continued its legal fight to keep the treasure. In court documents, the ... More |
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Wilhelm Sasnal, Roy Orbison 1, 2007. Oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm. Private Collection.
MUNICH.- The exhibition provides insight into Sasnal’s work from 1999 to the present. It shows more than 60 paintings and a selection of his films. Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972 in Tarnow, Poland), who has already attracted international attention with a series of solo exhibitions, finds his motifs in everyday life and in the media. His range of images includes portraits of family members and friends to icons of pop culture: a news photograph of a young girl in the rubble of the tsunami disaster in Japan to chapters in Poland’s history, such as World War II and the Holocaust. His paintings swing like a pendulum back and forth between the past and present. Stylistically Wilhelm Sasnal blends the romantic with realism, abstraction with pop. He found his training at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts – the making of still lifes, nudes, and with a huge emphasis on art history, though only up to the beginning of the twentieth century – to be “very technical” and ... More |
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Curator Therese Littleton looks over a tower of cards with messages written by visitors. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson.
By: Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP).- People are already joking it's a good thing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't charging admission for its new visitor center, which showcases Bill Gates' multibillion-dollar philanthropy, not his computers. But most people don't know what to expect from the glass-clad public space in front of the new headquarters of the world's largest charitable foundation. Those who decide to peek in the windows or stop inside will find thought-provoking and even fun exhibits that encourage visitors to focus on how they can make the world a better place. The center opens Saturday in Seattle, just steps from the Space Needle and Experience Music Project, two of the city's biggest tourist attractions. While it's not exactly a "museum of philanthropy," it's also not just a public ... More |
| Winfred Rembert: Amazing Grace Images on Leather at the Hudson River Museum |
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Walker Art Center's Sarah Schultz appointed Director of Education and Curator of Public Practice |
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Lee Adler, former president of the Historic Savannah Foundation, dies at 88 |
Winfred Rembert, All Me II, 2002 (detail). Dye on carved and tooled leather, 31 ½ x 37 ¾ inches. Collection of the artist.
YONKERS, NY.- The work of Winfred Rembert, a self-taught artist, who documents his life and the tumultuous moments of the American Civil Rights Movement, is on view at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, from January 21 through May 5, 2012. In more than 50 works on hand-tooled leather ─ stretched, stained, and etched ─ Rembert constructs scenes from the rural Southern town where he was born and raised, and peoples it with characters working the fields, joyous at church meetings, and enjoying its pool hall, jazz club, and café. His images are alive with figures and color, and dense with pattern. Some, more somber, convey the strife and grief of his own experiences of a near lynching and prison life. Growing up in 1950s rural Georgia, Rembert did backbreaking labor in the cotton fields. A young man, he was arrested during a 1960s civil rights march, and survived a near lynching. A prisoner serving an unjust seven-year se ... More |
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Under Schultz's leadership, the Walker has had significant involvement and participation in several major civic projects.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Sarah Schultz has been named Director of Education and Curator of Public Practice at the Walker Art Center. Schultz has been the Walker’s Director of Education since 2000. The new title reflects the evolution of the Walker's pioneering education department and recognizes Schultz's leadership around several important public initiatives. In 2010, Schultz and her team organized the Walker’s Open Field, the first in a series of summer-long experiments in how museums can engage the public in new ways. Inspired by models of the commons, crowd-sourcing, collective action, and new forms of socially-engaged art practice, Open Field opens the museum to the public and artists together by using four acres of adjacent green space to create an alternative public park--a type of cultural commons with social interaction and creative participation as its guiding philosophies. Open Field hosts over 100 activities ... More |
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Lee Adler II stands in front of the old Telfair Acadamey in Savannah. AP Photo/The Savannah Morning News, Brian LePeter.
By: Russ Bynum, Associated Press
SAVANNAH (AP).- Lee Adler II was never content with saving Savannah's historic homes and buildings one at a time. In 1959, he found a way to spare entire city blocks and neighborhoods from the wrecking ball that changed the way preservation groups did business — not just in Georgia, but across the nation. Adler died Sunday at age 88, said Matt Weeks of Fox & Weeks Funeral Directors. A cause of death was not immediately available. As the president of the Historic Savannah Foundation, which Adler led until the mid-1960s, he took an entrepreneurial approach to saving Savannah's architectural treasures by essentially persuading local preservationists to get into the real estate business. The group would buy sagging old properties facing demolition and sell them to buyers who promised to ... More |
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| Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says World Trade Center design flaw could cost millions |
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts appoints Jennifer Jankauskas as Curator of Art |
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Inscribed copy of Ernest Hemingway's first book tops Heritage Auctions' February rare books event |
Commuters pass One World Trade Center. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan.
By: Chris Hawley, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- The agency building the new World Trade Center says a design flaw could add millions of dollars to the cost of the complex's signature tower. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said Tuesday that the loading dock under One World Trade Center won't be finished in time for tenants to move their equipment into the 104-story tower. So it's building five temporary loading bays above ground. A temporary station that was built for the Port Authority Trans Hudson subway is blocking access to the underground loading area. The station can't be dismantled to make way for underground freight areas until crews finish the permanent station. "Several years ago there was a design miss," Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority, told reporters Tuesday. "Should it have been caught? The ... More |
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Jennifer Jankauskas was most recently at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
MONTGOMERY, AL.- The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts announces the appointment of Jennifer Jankauskas to Curator of Art. Jankauskas has held posts as both an independent and institutional curator, most recently at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She began at the MMFA November 14, 2011. "At the MMFA, Jennifer will bring her knowledge of contemporary artists and trends to initiate and shape innovative exhibitions. Her expertise and recommendations will aid in future acquisitions for the permanent collection" said Mark Johnson, MMFA Director. He added, "We are also looking forward to the broad range of exhibitions Jennifer will organize in conjunction with the museum’s outstanding collection of 19th –and 20th-century American paintings and sculpture, Southern regional art, Old Master prints and decorative arts." In her position as Associate Curator at the John Michael Kohler Arts ... More |
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Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- One of just 300 first edition copies printed of Ernest Hemingway’s first book - Three Stories & Ten Poems. [Paris]: Contact Publishing Co., 1923 – is expected to bring $75,000+ when it comes across the auction block on Thursday, Feb. 8, as the lead lot in Heritage Auctions’ Rare Books Signature® Auction, taking place at the company’s Beverly Hills showroom, 9478 West Olympic Boulevard. “Any Hemingway first edition is a highly sought-after thing,” said James Gannon, Director of Rare Books auctions at Heritage, “let alone the very first book he ever published. Making it even more interesting is the warm inscription from Hemingway to two of the editors of The Little Review, the important ‘little magazine’ that published works by avant garde writers of the time such as James Joyce and T. S. Eliot and who published Hemingway’s first mature prose work the very same yea ... More |
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 High Museum to feature folk artist Bill Traylor
ATLANTA (AP).- A new exhibition set to open at Atlanta's High Museum of Art showcases the work of Bill Traylor, who was born into slavery in Alabama and became a highly respected self-taught artist after he began drawing while sitting on the sidewalks of Montgomery as an old man. The exhibition, which opens Sunday, features 65 of Traylor's drawings pulled from the collections of the High and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. The images were made in pencil, poster paint, charcoal and crayon, mostly on discarded pieces of cardboard. They feature animals and people, sometimes alone and other times in complex interactions in both rural and urban settings. "There's nothing harder to do than simple," said High curator of folk art Susan Crawley. "His drawings are so eloquent and so evocative, and he used such simple materials." Traylor was born into slavery on a plantation near Benton, Ala., in the mid- ... More First major solo show by British video-maker Elizabeth Price at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art presents the first major solo show by British video-maker Elizabeth Price. The exhibition comprises of three works: Choir 2011, shown for the first time in its entirety, User Group Disco 2009 and the new West Hinder 2012. Price creates dense and immersive video installations that bring together image, text and music in apocalyptic, phantasmagorical narratives. She uses existing bodies of historical material to generate fantasy stories, drawing upon archives of photography, film and collections of artefacts. In each work the narration, delivered through onscreen rolling text, is also derived from existing sources - information produced by corporations and public institutions along with texts from philosophical essays, advertising scripts and literary stories. Choir 2011 is a trilogy of videos that draws on three very different archives of photography and digital film. Throughout ... More Exhibition featuring works by post-war and contemporary Russian artists at Erarta Galleries Zurich
ZURICH.- Erarta Galleries Zurich presents In Search for Inner Freedom, an exhibition featuring works by post-war and contemporary Russian artists. The selected works touch upon the intimate questions of freedom and choice, and share with its audience an overview of how these issues have been addressed by Russian artists of different generations. Freedom is one of the key definitions in Russian philosophical, political and aesthetical thought of the epoch, starting with the reforms of Peter the Great in the 18th Century and escalating to the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. The intellectual stratum of Russian society received both reforms and the revolution as the greatest attempts of acquiring freedom, and yet, paradoxically, these unprecedented events, originally aimed to liberate, caused the unexampled oppressions of freedom of thought and self-expression of 20th Century Russia. It is quite natural therefore that ... More World-class Contemporary artists donate works to 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
NEW YORK, NY.- The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express, today announced the 11 major contemporary artists who will contribute their artwork to the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program, sponsored by CHANEL. Works by Peter Dayton, Walton Ford, Stephen Hannock, JR, Kim Keever, Clifford Ross, Nathan Sawaya, Cindy Sherman, Hugo Tillman, Kara Walker, and Stanley Whitney will be presented to the filmmakers whose films are selected by the TFF jury as winners in their respective categories. The Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards Program was created by TFF co-founder Jane Rosenthal to celebrate New York artists. This year’s TFF will run April 18-29, 2012. The artwork, which consists of paintings, photographs, etchings, prints and sculptures, will be publicly exhibited free and open to the public April 5 – 25, 2012 between the hours of 11am – 7pm (closed on ... More Gold nuggets stolen from $3M courthouse collection
YREKA, CA (AP).- Investigators in a far Northern California town sought leads Thursday in the theft of large chunks of gold from the county courthouse's $3 million historical collection, as residents lamented the loss of an important piece of their cultural heritage. Thieves smashed a lobby display case and stole the gold from the Siskiyou County Courthouse in Yreka, the site of an 1851 Gold Rush known as the second Mother Lode. Surveillance footage shows two men broke into the courthouse around 1 a.m. Wednesday, said Allison Giannini, a spokeswoman for the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office. In addition to searching for the suspects, investigators were trying to figure out how the thieves broke the display case's supposedly unbreakable glass and why no alarm alerted authorities to the heist, Giannini said. The total collection was worth $3 million, officials said. The county was still taking inventory to determine how ... More Actor John Travolta to donate jet to Ga. museum
WARNER ROBINS (AP).- Actor John Travolta plans to donate a jet plane to a museum in central Georgia. Robins Air Force Base spokeswoman Chrissy Miner says the actor will donate a G-2 Gulfstream executive jet to the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins. Museum officials say Travolta, who is a pilot, is donating the plane in honor of his son Jett, who died in 2009. Miner tells the Telegraph newspaper in Macon (http://bit.ly/KYnzY) the plane is now in central Georgia. Plans call for the jet to be used as a display for an upcoming air show planned for April. ... More |
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