| The
First Art Newspaper on the Net |
Established in 1996 |
Sunday, March 18, 2012 |
| |
"Culture of Sensuality" at Schiller Museum reveals a view of Weimar Classicism
|
|
|
|
A man passes by at the exhibiton 'Weimar Classicism. Culture of sensuality' ('Klassik Weimar. Kultur des Sinnlichen') at the Schiller Museum in Weimar, Germany. The exhibiton is open from 16 March to 10 June 2012. EPA/MICHAEL REICHEL.
WEIMAR.- The exhibition “Weimar Classicism – Culture of Sensuality” examines Weimar Classicism for the first time beyond its immaterial, literary dimension as is usually associated with the texts by Goethe, Schiller, Herder and Wieland. The basis of this particular “culture of sensuality” is the intensive examination of the materiality of artistic, natural and everyday objects. To demonstrate how strongly sensual experiences contributed to the aesthetic and intellectual achievements of Weimar Classicism, the exhibition focuses thematically on three cultural practices in three separate rooms: living, collecting and writing. A fundamental change took place in the perception of interior decoration at the end of the 18th century. The representative “display room” of a house, which emphasised the social status of its owner, was gradually replaced by an individually designed and dynamically changing “parlour”. This trend was the subject of ... More |
| NGA images, a new collection image resource, and open access policy launched by National Gallery of Art |
|
Rare Marilyn Monroe photos, letters, telegrams and a money clip to be sold at Julien's Auctions |
|
Did Washington Monument sink or tilt from quake? Government surveyors trying to find out |
This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Gallery of Art announces the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection at http://images.nga.gov. This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain. "As the Gallery marks its 71st anniversary, it is fitting that we introduce NGA Images and an accompanying open access policy, which underscore the Gallery's mission and national role in making its collection images and information available to scholars, educators, and the general public," said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. "In turn this supports research, teaching, and personal enrichment; promotes interdisciplinary research; and nurtures an appreciation of all that inspires great works of art." Many of the open ... More |
|
A black and white photograph of Allan "Whitey" Snyder applying Marilyn Monroe's makeup on the set of "Lets Make Love." AP Photo/Julien's Auctions.
By: Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP).- A collection of never-before-seen photos of Marilyn Monroe — and their accompanying copyrights — are going up for auction. Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien says more than 100 images of Monroe will be sold the highest bidders later this month. The photos come from the estate of Allan "Whitey" Snyder, Monroe's personal makeup artist for 15 years. One image shows Snyder applying makeup to a lingerie-wearing Monroe on the set of "Let's Make Love" in 1960. Letters, telegrams and a money clip from Monroe to Snyder are also among the lots set to be sold during Julien's Auctions' Hollywood Legends sale on March 31 and April 1. The auction also includes memorabilia from Frank Sinatra, James Dean, Charlie Chaplin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Two original color transparency slides of Marilyn Monroe, taken on the set of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). The photographs were taken by Monroe's makeup artist, A ... More |
|
David Doyle, Chief Geodetic Surveyor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Geodetic Survey, is interviewed. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak.
By: Ben Nuckols, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- The Washington Monument cracked and crumbled when a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the nation's capital last year. But did it sink or tilt? A team of government surveyors is trying to find out. On Tuesday, surveyors were on the grounds of the 555-foot-tall obelisk, taking measurements from several long-established points in the ground known as bench marks where survey work has been done in the past. They're not expecting to find any major changes — perhaps fractions of an inch. But the findings could affect plans for repairing the monument, which is expected to remain closed to visitors until next year. "Obviously the event was not so significant that we see big cracks in the ground," said David Doyle, chief geodetic surveyor with the National Geodetic Survey, which is conducting the survey. "Whatever changes have occurred here would be much, much more subtle." The monument sits about 15 to 20 feet ... More |
|
| Ambitious Vatican restoration of the statue-topped colonnade that cradles St. Peter's Square moves ahead |
|
New Morgan exhibition explores the relationship between animals and the artistic imagination |
|
Under pressure from phone hacking scandal, James Murdoch leaving board of Sotheby's |
Restorer Alessio Tagnani works on the statue of Santa Costanza in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. AP Photo/Trisha Thomas.
By: Trisha Thomas, Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP).- An ambitious project to clean the statue-topped colonnade that cradles St. Peter's Square is likely to last at least three more years, the director of the Vatican restoration says. The work on Gian Lorenzo Bernini's columns began in 2009, after some two years of preliminary studies, and it is proceeding in sections so the square can still be used for Vatican events, including papal appearances. Guy Devreux, who directs the Vatican's workshop for marble and limestone structures, spoke to The Associated Press during a tour that included a close-up look from atop scaffolding. He said the work, which also involves cleaning two fountains and Egyptian obelisk, is arranged so the square is always accessible to tourists who flock year-round and especially as Easter approaches. The tradition of outdoor papal ... More |
|
John James Audubon, Gray Rabbit: Old male, female, and young, 1841. Watercolor and graphite, with gouache. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Photo: Graham S. Haber, 2011.
NEW YORK, NY.- Animals have provided a particularly fertile source of inspiration for artists, writers, and composers for centuries. From the carving of ancient seals with fearsome lions and mythical beasts, to the depiction of the serpent in representations of Biblical scenes by such luminaries as Albrecht Dürer, to more recent portrayals of endearing animal figures in children’s stories, such as Babar and Winnie the Pooh, animals are everywhere. Beginning March 2, The Morgan Library & Museum explores the representation of animals—as symbols, muses, moral teachers, talking creatures, and beloved companions—in eighty works of art, demonstrating the varied roles animals have played in the hands of some of the most renowned artists represented in the Morgan’s collections. In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan ... More |
|
File photo of the then Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, James Murdoch. AP Photo/Sang Tan.
LONDON (AP).- News Corp. executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain's tabloid phone hacking scandal, is stepping down from the board of Sotheby's, the auction house has said. In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, the auctioneer said Murdoch had decided not to stand for re-election at Sotheby's May 8 annual meeting in order to focus on his role as News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer. The auctioneer said Murdoch had been "a valued member of the Sotheby's board." "Sotheby's will seek to find opportunities to continue to engage with Mr. Murdoch in the areas of his expertise," it said. Murdoch, the younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has been shedding posts to concentrate on his role in his father's television business as News Corp. struggles to shake off the phone-hacking furor. Last month he quit as chairman of News International, News Corp.'s British newspaper division. He also has resigned from the board of drug ... More |
| United States Art Critics Association announces annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries |
|
Important books, atlases, and manuscripts: Christie's to offer the library of Kenneth Nebenzahl |
|
Egyptomania reveals the West's enduring romance with Egypt and its dramatic influence on decorative arts |
Kurt Schwitters, Merz 1926, 3. Cicero, 1926. Paint on wood nailed on wood, 26-7/8 x 19-5/8 x 3-1/8 inches. Sammlung NORD/LB in der Niedersächsischen Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum Hannover. Photo: Michael Herling / Aline Gwose, Sprengel Museum Hannover © ARS New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The US section of the International Association of Art Critics/AICA-USA announces its annual awards to honor artists, curators, museums, galleries and other cultural institutions in recognition of excellence in the conception and realization of exhibitions. The winning projects were nominated and voted on by the 400 active members to honor outstanding exhibitions of the previous season (June 2010-June 2011). The 24 winners of first and second places in twelve categories, selected from over one hundred finalists, include exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists Christian Marclay, Sarah Sze and Al Weiwei, the 20th century artists Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Kurt Schwitters, and Paul Thek, as well as thematic exhibitions dealing with history of drawing through the twentieth century, contemporary Japanese art, and Fluxus.
Awards will be presented ... More |
|
The ‘Liber Insularum Archipelagi’ of Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- On April 10, Christie's New York will auction the private library of Kenneth Nebenzahl, renowned dealer, cartographic scholar and author from Chicago. Formed over the past fifty years, the collection includes some of the greatest rarities in the fields of cartography, exploration and Americana. Highlights of the 165 lot auction include the ‘Liber Insularum Archipelagi’ of Cristoforo Buondelmonti, the most important Renaissance illustrated travel book of the Eastern Mediterranean. It is a primary source for the Aegean, with the famous bird’s-eye view of an as yet unconquered Constantinople (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). This manuscript portolan atlas treats in considerable detail the geography and history of the Greek Archipelago. The woodcut charts of Bartolomeo ‘dalli Sonnetti’ show the same in first printed form (estimate: $150,000-200,000). Battista Agnese’s manuscript portolan atlas of circa 1542-46 is a tribute to the school of ... More |
|
Bottle designed by Baccarat, French, established 1765, for Bichara, French, Mounira, c. 1930, perfume introduced 1913. Glass and thread. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Alice and Mike Hogg Collection, gift of Alice C. Simkins.
HOUSTON, TX.- An exhibition opening at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston March 18, Egyptomania, explores the Egyptian Revivals of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries through some 40 objects, including photographs, Georgian garden sphinxes, 19th-century “Aegyptian” furniture and Art Deco perfume bottles with pharaoh-head stoppers. The works will be on view through July 29, 2012. “Westerners have long had an enduring romance with the idea of Egypt and its ancient people, of whom only their grand edifices really remain. We are captivated by their poignant narrative and other-worldliness,” said Christine Gervais, associate curator of decorative arts and Rienzi. “Egyptomania captures the way this fascination translates into European and American decorative arts objects, from clocks, perfume bottles and ceramics to ... More |
|
| Metamorphosis of Japan after the War: Photography 1945-1964 on view at Berlin's Museum for Photography |
|
Pace Gallery exhibition explores the influence of myths and archetypes of Abstract Expressionism |
|
Masterpieces to celebrate a special occasion: TEFAF Maastricht's silver jubilee |
Ken Domon, Children looking at a picture-card show, Tokyo 1953© Ken Domon Museum of Photography.
By: Marc Feustel
BERLIN.- On August 15th, 1945 the Pacific War came to an end and with it fourteen years of bombings, of deprivation and of great sacrifice for the Japanese people. The collapse of Japanese militaristic rule and the arrival of the US occupation forces thrust the nation into a new and uncertain era. It was in this context that photography took on a central role in the nation’s rediscovery of self and it soon became a vital contributor to Japanese society in the immediate postwar years. Metamorphosis of Japan after the War. Photography 1945 - 1964 reveals the changing face of life in Japan from the end of the Pacific War in 1945 to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964 through photographs by 11 of Japan’s leading post-war photographers. By observing the role of photography in the evolution of post-war Japan, this exhibition shows how photography was able to play a crucial role in the search for the ... More |
|
Installation view of Mythology The Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, February 22–March 24, 2012. Photo by: Kerry Ryan McFate / Courtesy The Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Pace Gallery presents Mythology, a group exhibition exploring the influence of myths and archetypes on the origins of Abstract Expressionism. As many midcentury artists abandoned figurative work, they embraced the long artistic tradition of looking to primitive myths and archaic art for inspiration, using mythology as both a reference to and an expression of primal human passion. Focusing on moments of stylistic transformation from figuration to abstraction, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in which non-figurative and biomorphic forms call forth an eternal subject matter. Mythology will be on view through April 14, 2012. The exhibition begins with the work of Surrealists Joan Miró, Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, and André Masson, whose menageries of fantastic characters and interest in automatism informed the work of groundbreaking American artists Arshile Gorky, Alexander Cal ... More |
|
Mater Dolorosa by Quentin Massys, c. 1510, oil on panel, gold ground, 75.5 x 54.8 cm. Photo: Harry Heuts.
MAASTRICHT.- Exhibitors at TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s finest art and antiques fair, have brought an extraordinary range of treasures to celebrate its Silver Jubilee this year. A unique Henry Moore sculpture, a collection of 200 previously unpublished drawings by Andy Warhol, a contemporary artwork that has turned a world-famous Bosschaert painting into a film, and a pendant that once belonged to the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor are just a few of the highlights of The European Fine Art Fair at the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 16-25 March 2012. Some dealers are mounting special exhibitions to mark the 25th edition of the Fair which has become renowned for its absolute commitment to quality and connoisseurship. Landau Fine Art of Montreal is exhibiting Reclining Figure: Curved, a unique black marble sculpture by Henry Moore that has never been on the open market before. ... More |
|
| More News |
 Munier painting, Russian porcelain and Jewelry to highlight Grogan's March auction
DEDHAM, MA.- Grogan and Company Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers announced their upcoming March Two Day Auction will be held on Saturday, March 24th and Sunday, March 25th. The auction will include over 1000 lots of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorations, Silver, Jewelry and Oriental Rugs from many prominent New England estates and collections. Session one, of the two-day auction, will begin on Saturday at 12 noon and will include property from the Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes. Gomes’ personal collection includes fine art, antiques and books from two residences: Sparks House, Cambridge and Oceanside, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Highlights from his collection include a George III Inlaid Mahogany Secretary Bookcase, estimated at $3,000-5,000 and a 19th century English School Portrait of a Gentleman reading New Monthly Magazine, 50 x 40 ... More Berlin Holocaust memorial undergoing repairs
BERLIN (AP).- Officials at Berlin's Holocaust memorial say repair work is underway on hundreds of the concrete blocks that make up the 7-year-old monument, which have developed potentially dangerous cracks. Memorial foundation spokesman Uwe Neumaerker said Friday experts say the damage to 380 of the 2,711 blocks is so bad that pieces of concrete could fall off and hit visitors wandering through the undulating field of slabs. Each affected block will be shored up with one or two steel bands. The damage, blamed on the weather, has been a problem for several years. The foundation unsuccessfully tried to fix the blocks with resin in 2008. The monument to the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis was opened in 2005 and is one of Berlin's top tourist attractions. ... More Jimmy Robert conceives an exhibition at Jeu de Paume that inhabits language as a non-place
PARIS.- The work of Jimmy Robert deals with performance and the experience of limits: of the works, of his body, of identity itself and of the disciplines Robert occupies. Spreading from sculpture to drawing, film to movement, Robert’s practice questions both the gap and the intersection between image and language. For the Satellite project, Jimmy Robert conceived an exhibition that inhabits language as a non-place, as a site for testing and expanding boundaries. Robert reflects on language as being conditioned by history, institutions and society, ascertaining it as a construction. A theatricality of language and of movement is at the centre of most of the shown works. In the video Paramètres (2011), Robert endeavors to fit in his facial contour cutout geometrical drawings. For each movement, corresponding to each attempt, the artist utters a paragraph of a text ... More Titanic museums to mark anniversary of sinking
NASHVILLE (AP).- Titanic museums in the Smoky Mountains and Branson, Mo., have told the ship's story to 7 million visitors in the past six years. Now the attractions are marking the Titanic centennial by sponsoring a Coast Guard cutter to take 1.5 million rose petals to the North Atlantic site where the ship sank 100 years ago. The museums also will have special ceremonies April 14 in Tennessee and Missouri to commemorate the anniversary. The flowers will be dropped at the location to memorialize the victims on the luxury liner, which sank April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. More than 1,500 of the 2,200 on board died. The cutter will leave Boston April 10 and join several commercial cruises in the area for the occasion. The museum-sponsored trip is not open to the public. "It's a memorial, and we're just going to do the ceremony," said Rick Laney, a spokesman for the museums, ... More New York based artist, writer, and Director of Behavior Michael Portnoy exhibits at Ibid Projects
LONDON.- Ibid Projects announces its second solo show with Michael Portnoy, entitled I’m back fore ground! Michael Portnoy is a New York based artist, writer, and Director of Behavior. His practice spans dance-theater, Relational Stalinism, experimental stand-up, prog-operatic spectacle, abstract gambling, the improvement of biennials, and Icelandic cockroach porn. Portnoy's art circles the rules and mechanics of human exchange and ideation - language playing a crucial role in the works. This show builds on Portnoy's recent explorations of a genre of destabilizing jokes known as "carrot jokes", first proposed by cognitive linguists Chlopicki and Petray (1981). One of the primary features of these jokes is that their background has essentially occluded the foreground, i.e. all of the establishing features of the situation (setting, character, theme, style, etc.) have overcrowded ... More New York City's Anne Frank Center opens in new location
NEW YORK (AP).- New York City's Anne Frank Center has moved to a new Manhattan location near ground zero. The first phase of the new 2,700-square-foot space opened to the public on Thursday. The center is dedicated to raising awareness of intolerance. It had been located in a much smaller space in the city's Soho neighborhood. Interactive exhibits, photographs and excerpts from her diary retell the story of the 13-year-old girl who went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam in 1942. The center is two blocks from the World Trade Center and across the street from the Park51 Muslim community center. The museum also will feature a replica of the bedroom where Frank hid for two years. ... More |
|
|
|
|
|
