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Written by Alice Benninger
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:38 |
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LONDON.- On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, Sotheby’s London will
offer for sale one of the finest figure paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796-1875) ever to have appeared on the market. Estimated at
£800,000-1,200,000, "Jeune femme à la fontaine" enjoyed an exceptional early
provenance before it was requisitioned during the Nazi period. It has
now been restituted to the heirs of its erstwhile owners and will be one of the
centrepieces of Sotheby’s forthcoming sale of 19th Century Paintings. Jeune
femme à la fontaine’s journey through history provides a story that is as
compelling as those behind the restituted works by Gustav Klimt and Hendrick
Goltzius recently sold at Sotheby’s.
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Read more... Nazi-Looted Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Painting to Be Sold by Sotheby’s
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Written by Mike Collett-White
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:38 |
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LONDON (REUTERS).- Art history has been less than
kind to Paul Sandby, an 18th century British painter whose name was eclipsed by
contemporaries like Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds. But a new
exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy sets out to remind visitors of
Sandby's importance in promoting the status of the watercolor, recognizing the
power of print and taking on William Hogarth, whose works he dared to
parody. A founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768, Sandby was
regarded as "the father of English watercolor," and in focusing on landscapes
and scenes across England, Scotland and Wales rather than Italy, he left an
important record of social, economic and political change. "Paul Sandby:
Picturing Britain" runs from March 13-June 13 in the Sackler Wing.
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Read more... The Royal Academy Show Focuses on "Neglected" British Painter Paul Sandby
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Written by Bernard Gimble
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:37 |
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LONDON.- The EyeWriter has today, Friday 12 March
2010, been chosen as the winner of the first FutureEverything Award, a £10,000
prize set up by FutureEverything to celebrate the creative imagination that will
shape our future. The EyeWriter is a pair of low-cost eye-tracking glasses that
allow artists and graffiti writers with paralysis to draw using only their
eyes. Inspired by Tony Quan, a graffiti writer, social activist and
publisher who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (AML) in 2003,
The EyeWriter is the result of a collaboration with five other artists and a
production company. It is an ongoing project to empower people suffering from
degenerative neuromuscular diseases with creative technologies.
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Read more... Prize Awarded to Glasses that Enable Paralysed Artists to Draw
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Written by Dieter Grossman
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:37 |
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BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents a
selection of Emil Holmer’s recent paintings. Dead Letters is the first solo
exhibition of the Swedish artist at the gallery. Born in Karlstad in 1975,
Holmer studied at the Academy of Arts in Umeå and at the U.D.K. in
Berlin, where he was a guest student in the class of Tony Cragg. In
recent years, Holmer had several solo exhibitions in Europe, Australia and South
Africa. On view 12 March through 24 April, 2010.
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Read more... Galerie Michael Janssen presents Emil Holmer's "Dead Letters
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Written by Cecilia Alemani
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:36 |
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LONDON.- Tate Modern is ten years young on 12 May
2010. Over 45 million visitors have passed through the gallery’s doors since it
first opened to the public ten years ago. Tate Modern is the world’s most
visited gallery of modern art and is one of the UK’s top three free tourist
attractions. To celebrate its tenth anniversary, Tate Modern will stage a major
free arts festival, No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents, in the
Turbine Hall from 14 through16 May 2010. Tate Modern has been a
catalyst both for the transformation of public attitudes to the visual arts in
the UK and for the regeneration of north Southwark. It has become synonymous
with groundbreaking artist projects, such as the celebrated Unilever Series,
innovative Collection displays, a critically acclaimed exhibition programme and
a highly renowned film and live performance programme.
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Read more... Tate Modern Stages Free Arts Festival for Tenth Anniversary Celebrations
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Written by Regina Skvold
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:36 |
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ATLANTA, GA.- The closing of the exhibition “The
Louvre and the Masterpiece” last weekend marked the culmination of “Louvre
Atlanta,” the High Museum ’s unprecedented three-year partnership with the Musée
du Louvre in Paris. During the course of the partnership, the
High welcomed over 1.3 million visitors to the museum for seven
exhibitions that brought a combined 493 treasures from the Louvre’s collection
to Atlanta. Masterworks from all eight of the Louvre's curatorial departments
have traveled to the High, including rare works by artists including Raphael,
Titian, Vermeer, Rembrandt and Velázquez.
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Read more... Louvre Atlanta" Partnership Brings in Over 1.3 Million Visitors to the High Museum of Art
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Written by Giles Peppiatt
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:35 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams’ March 10th ‘Africa Now’ sale
was met with great enthusiasm by both American and International buyers. Taking
place at the auctioneers’ Madison Avenue galleries this was the first sale of
modern & contemporary African art ever to be held in New York. Consisting of
140 lots the auction featured work by both new and established artists from
fourteen African Nations. As part of the celebrations surrounding the
sale the ‘Keep a Child Alive’ charity and Afren partnered with Bonhams to host a
reception which took place the evening before the sale.
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Read more... 'Africa Now' Auction Draws International Attention to Bonhams
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Written by Sylvia Glazer
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:34 |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- At the March 11, 2010
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, a story of
continuity and change will unfold as 40-year-old David Levine officially steps
into his new role as Chair of the Board, succeeding one of San Francisco's most
prominent leaders and longtime Museum Chair, Roselyne "Cissie" Swig.
Since its founding, the CJM has had distinguished individuals serving as the
Chair of the Board, beginning with Alfred Fromm in 1982 and including Bernard
Osher, Phyllis Moldaw, Richard Swig, Claude Ganz, Joyce Linker, Fred Levinson,
Stephen Leavitt, and Warren Hellman. Roselyne Chroman Swig is the tenth
individual to serve as the Chair. Five of the former Chairs Moldaw,
Linker, Leavitt, Hellman, and Swig continue to serve as Trustees of the
CJM.
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Read more... David Levine Appointed New Chair of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's Board
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Written by Velma Bull
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:04 |
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AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum is today launching an
ambitious restoration programme at Tefaf Maastricht. Masterpieces
specially
selected from the Rijksmuseum’s collection will undergo an intensive
restoration
process to ensure that they shine like never before by the time the
museum’s
main building re-opens in 2013. The pieces in question include
Woman in
Blue Reading A Letter by Vermeer, Six burial figures from the T’ang
Dynasty, a
mahogany period room from 1748 called The Beuning room, and the Silver
table
ornament by Jamnitzer which is one of the absolute highlights of the
museum’s
collection of European silversmithery. The Rijksmuseum is seeking
sponsors for
each of these projects.
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Read more... Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Launches Ambitious Restoration Program
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Written by Miles Hellerman
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:03 |
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WASHINGTON (AP).- The United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum says 30 million visitors have now come through its
doors. The
museum said Wednesday that the milestone was passed this week. The
museum has
been open since April 1993. A museum spokesman says 1.75
million people
visited last year. Museum officials also note that 88 heads of state and
more
than 3,500 foreign officials from more than 130 different countries have
toured
the museum.
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Read more... U.S. Holocaust Museum Passes 30 Million Visitors in Washington, DC
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Written by Walter Ungerman
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 04:02 |
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MAASTRICHT,NL - Quality, rarity and
provenance
have become the hallmarks of TEFAF Maastricht and the world’s most
influential
art and antiques fair has an extraordinary range of important works on
show at
the MECC (Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre) from 12 through 21
March
2010. Highlights of the 23rd edition of the Fair in the
southern
Netherlands include a bed that once belonged to the great French
diplomat
Talleyrand, the Italian Expressionist Marino Marini’s greatest picture,
one of
the last major paintings by Paul Gauguin and a key early work by Damien
Hirst.
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Read more... Museum Quality Masterpieces at The European Fine Art Fair in Maastrich
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Written by Rudolph Gooding
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Saturday, 13 March 2010 02:23 |
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NEW
YORK, NY.- Christie’s has been entrusted with the sale of
"Three
Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia
McCabe",
the most significant group of photographs by Irving Penn (1917-2009)
ever to
come to auction. The sale will take place on the evening of April 14,
2010 at
Christie’s New York and will be preceded by public exhibitions
in its
Galleries at Rockefeller Center through March 12, and April 10 through
13. The
67 photographs in the Collection were gifts from Irving Penn to Patricia
McCabe,
his trusted personal assistant for over thirty years.
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Read more... Photos by Irving Penn on Offer for the Very First Time at Christie's Auction
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