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| | Olympian world of the Greek gods is recreated at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne
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A man walks past marble statues of Artemis (L) an Apollo (C) at the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition 'Return of the Gods' will run until 26 August 2012. EPA/OLIVER BERG.
COLOGNE.- Even today, the world of the ancient Greek gods has lost none of its fascination. Accounts of the deeds of mighty Zeus, his jealous wife Hera, the twins Apollo and Artemis, beautiful Aph-rodite, and Dionysos the god of wine, are as enthralling as ever after more than 2000 years. Greek poets and artists conveyed a vivid picture of the world of these gods. Their work set creative precedents and were a source of inspiration; they also furnished models and a stim-ulus for new interpretations and original compositions by Roman writers and sculptors. Over a period of more than three hundred years, the Brandenburg-Prussian Electors and Kings in Berlin collected antique works of art, which are now in the museums of ... More |
| British scientists find scores of 'lost' Charles Darwin fossils in an old wooden cabinet | | Miami Art Museum receives $1 million grant for the collection of Contemporary art | | Sotheby's to sell exceptional private collection of fresh-to-market drawings by Lucian Freud | 
A polished section of a 40-million-year-old fossil wood collected by Charles Darwin in 1834. AP Photo/Royal Holloway, University of London, Kevin D'Souza.
By: Cassandra Vinograd, Associated Press
LONDON (AP).- British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Tuesday that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the massive, drafty British Geological Survey. Using a flashlight to peer into the drawers and hold up a slide, Falcon-Lang saw one of the first specimens he had picked up was labeled 'C. Darwin Esq." "It took me a while just to convince myself that it was Darwin's signature on the slide," the paleontologist said, adding he soon realized it was a "quite important and overlooked" specimen. He described the feeling of seeing that famous signature ... More | | 
Iran do Espírito Santo, Restless 21, 2004. Sandblasted glass and mirror, 79 x 18 inches. Collection Miami Art Museum, museum purchase with funds from the MAM Collectors Council.
MIAMI, FL.- As part of its commitment to serving the greater Miami community and in anticipation of its move to a new and expanded facility, Miami Art Museum has redoubled its efforts to build its collection of great works of art for the public to enjoy—and has received a challenge grant of $1 million from the Helena Rubinstein Philanthropic Fund at The Miami Foundation to support this process. Beginning Friday, February 17, 2012, the museum will present a selection of these newly acquired works in the exhibition, Restless: Recent Acquisitions from the MAM Collection. Highlights include works by modern and contemporary masters such as Morris Louis and Fred Wilson, and emerging artists such as Nicolas Lobo, George Sánchez-Calderón and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition will remain on view through Sunday, May 13, 2012. An exhibition preview and Artist Talk by Dara Friedman will be held Thursday, February 16, 2012, ... More | | 
Lucian Freud, Lord Goodman. Charcoal on paper. Executed in 1985. Estimate: £400,000-600,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- In the wake of the strong prices achieved for works on paper by Lucian Freud in 2011, including the auction record which was established by Sotheby’s London in June 2011**, Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale an outstanding group of works on paper by Lucian Freud in the forthcoming Evening Auction of Contemporary Art on Wednesday, February 15th, 2012. This exceptional and encyclopaedic fresh-to-market private collection of five drawings spans more than four decades and attests to Freud’s masterful draughtsmanship. Combined, these extraordinary works are estimated to realise in excess of £1.5 million. Commenting on the sale of these drawings, Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman Sotheby’s Europe and Senior International Specialist in Contemporary Art, said: “These remarkable works on paper provide a fascinating perspective on Freud’s method and the pivotal importance of drawing thro ... More |
| Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists find rare tomb of woman in Egypt's Valley of Kings | | Italian Old Masters in New York: Glowing gold-ground works offered by Moretti Fine Art | | France in miniature, sixteen scale models of fortified towns under the great glass roof of the Grand Palais | 
File photo of an Egyptian archaeologist cleaning a wall at the tomb. EPA/KHALED ELFIQI.
By: Aya Batrawy, Associated Press
CAIRO (AP).- In a rare find, Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings, an antiquities official said Sunday. It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings, said Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the Antiquities' Ministry in the city of Luxor, The Valley of the Kings in Luxor is a major tourist attraction. In 1922, archaeologists there unearthed the gold funerary mask of Tutankhamun and other stunning items in the tomb of the king who ruled more than 3,000 years ago. Boraiq told The Associated Press that the coffin of the female singer is remarkably intact. He said that when the coffin is opened this week, archaeologists will likely find a mummy and a cartonnage mask molded to her face and made from layers of linen and plaster. The singer's name, Nehmes Bastet, means she was ... More | | 
Giovanni da Rimini (Rimini, documented from 1292 to 1336), Crucifix. Tempera on panel, 633/16 x 513/16 in, 160.5 x 130 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Moretti Fine Art will stage their third annual winter exhibition of early Italian Old Masters at their gallery at 24 East 80th Street, New York, from 18 January to 10 February 2012. Entitled The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: Paintings and Sculpture from the Carlo de Carlo Collection and other provenances, the exhibition will comprise twenty-four paintings and two sculptures, all of which are as remarkable for their beauty as they are for their rarity. Carlo de Carlo (1931-1999) was Florence’s undisputed leading authority in matters of connoisseurship. He was a self-made man blessed with an innate intuition for artistic quality, who developed a special love of early Tuscan painting, particularly for the elegant and colourful world of Sienese art. As well as being a successful and highly-respected dealer, he formed a private collection which was a monument to his expertise. Gaudenz Freuler wri ... More | | 
Plan-relief de la ville de Strasbourg. Musée des Plans-Reliefs© Rmn- René-Gabriel Ojéda.
PARIS.- Arranged around a 650 square-metre map of France, sixteen scale models of fortified towns, produced in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, are to go on show in this prestigious Champs-Élysées setting. Interactive multimedia displays and innovative exhibition design will allow visitors to examine every detail of these extraordinary models. This exhibition is an unmissable opportunity for the general public to view spectacular pieces from the Musée des Plans-reliefs in Paris. These historic models of fortified towns (plans-reliefs) are part of a unique collection begun in 1668 under Louis XIV and expanded until 1873. Initially created for military purposes, the 1/600th-scale models represented fortifications and their surroundings to help the central government prepare defensive operations. But they were also used for reasons of prestige: exhibited until 1777 in the Galerie du Bord de l’Eau of the Louvre, they expressed the power of France. Teams of engineers and topog ... More |
| Cleveland's Rock Hall of Fame and Museum opens new library and archives to public | | Exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume at White Cube | | Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University presents four new exhibitions | 
With a photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono reading in the background, visitors check out a book at the newly-opened Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives. AP Photo/Amy Sancetta.
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such "artifacts" as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour. The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building. Thousands more books and recordings and hundreds of videos will be added as previously stored items and new donations are catalogued, said Andy Leach, director of the library and archives. "We hope to serve music scholars, teachers, students and the general public," Leach said. "We hope to see all of them here." Tuesday's opening of the building on the Cuyahoga ... More | | 
Gary Hume, The Indifferent Owl, 2010. Gloss paint on aluminium Ø 58 1/4 in. (Ø 148 cm)© the artist. Photo: Stephen White, Courtesy White Cube.
LONDON.- White Cube announces 'The Indifferent Owl', an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason's Yard galleries. A painting by Gary Hume is a dynamically ambiguous visual experience. Although each work usually features a recognisable motif - such as a bird or flower - they are often flattened and fractured, and positioned awkwardly in a pictorial space that is brought to life through broad passages of colour that could be repellently acrid or seductively luscious. Negative and positive spaces fluctuate within a painting, stretching figuration ... More | | 
Tina Barney (American, b. 1945), The Daughters, 2002 (detail). Chromogenic color print, 48 x 60 in.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University will feature four exhibitions from January 18 through May 20, 2012 including The Europeans Photographs by Tina Barney; Philip Guston Inevitable Finality, The Gemini G.E.L. Prints; John Stezaker Marriage; and Selections from the Mary B. Finnigan Collection that features works from the Haggerty’s permanent collection. The Europeans Photographs by Tina Barney provides an intimate look at wealthy Europeans at home through the eyes of American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Known for her large, lush and colorful photographs, Barney began capturing images of friends and family in 1975 and quickly gained art-world attention for her often candid, tableau-like images. To produce the works in the exhibition, Barney embarked on her own modern version of the Grand Tour of Europe between 1996 and 2004. She traveled to Austria, Italy, England, ... More |
| Bridgeman Art Library announces representation of the Father Brown Collection taken on the Titanic | | "Enrico David: Head Gas" features new body of work for the artist's first New York presentation | | New York City's American Folk Art Museum celebrates optimistic future with 50th anniversary | 
Self-portrait of Father Browne, 1912. Photo: Fr Browne SJ Collection/UIG. The Bridgeman Art Library. In copyright until 2031.
LONDON.- The Bridgeman Art Library, the leading source of cultural and historical art images for reproduction, announced its representation of the Father Brown Photographic Collection, a valuable chronicle of life onboard the Titanic before tragedy struck 100 years ago. In 1985, a collection of 42,000 photographs – among them, remarkable images and mementos of the Titanic – was uncovered in a Dublin basement. They were the work of a Jesuit Priest named Francis (Frank) Browne, who held passage on the first legs of the Titanic’s maiden voyage. While on board, an American millionaire offered to pay his way through to New York, but Browne’s Jesuit superior providentially ordered his disembarkation in Ireland. After the tragedy in April 1912, Browne’s photographs appeared on the front pages of newspapers around the world, as the sole visual chronicle of the Titanic’s passage from Southampton to Ir ... More | | 
Enrico David, Untitled, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 117.3 x 101.5 in (298 x 258 cm). Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum presents the second exhibition in its recently inaugurated ‘Studio 231’ series. “Head Gas” is the first New York exhibition by Italian-born, Berlin-based artist Enrico David. Over the past twenty years, David has produced a body of work encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage that draws upon a rich variety of sources and expresses a range of complex emotional states. Although his work is highly celebrated throughout Europe the artist was among the nominees for the 2009 Turner Prize, for example—David’s work has rarely been exhibited in the United States. The figures populating David’s work convey the struggle of adaptation, both physical and psychological, of the self and of the image. In his art, we see haunting, incomplete, and sometimes grotesque characters fighting against and merging into backgrounds comprising a personal lexicon of forms. T ... More | | 
Artist unidentified, Mrs. Keyser, Baltimore, c. 1834. Watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, 22 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. Collection American Folk Art Museum, gift of Ralph Esmerian.
NEW YORK (AP).- The American Folk Art Museum, long plagued by financial problems, is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a new exhibition, renewed optimism for its future and its collection intact. At a preview of a new exhibition celebrating its anniversary Tuesday, museum officials discussed its financial status and projection of its future. The museum in September received a $2 million pledge from a longtime trustee and an additional $1 million commitment from other trustees and supporters, said Monty Blanchard Jr., president of the museum board of trustees. Those pledges gave the museum "significant runway to continue the operations of the museum and built it to new heights of artistic greatness," Blanchard said. In addition, he said, the museum has received $500,000 from the Ford Foundation. As late as this summer, the board had been in ... More |
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 World's largest ArtPrize announces 2012 artist/venue registration dates GRAND RAPIDS, MI.- ArtPrize, the radically open, international art competition and social experiment, today announced its registration timeline for 2012. Officials have also announced special dates for submitting art to be installed in the Grand River. ArtPrize 2012 will run from Sept. 19 through Oct. 7. ArtPrize is organized very differently from other competitive art events: ArtPrize organizers do not choose artists, venues choose artists Any space in downtown Grand Rapids can register to be a venue Artists must connect with a venue to participate in the event “The ArtPrize platform creates a system that values creativity, experimentation and above all, collaboration,” said Catherine Creamer, executive director of ArtPrize. “Artists are encouraged to build a relationship and partner with a venue as early as possible to create a memorable and successful installation.” Critical to this process are registration dates: ... More New heArt CitY Gallery in Paris presents Jerome Revon's New York PARIS.- Presenting the last works of Jerome Revon, means offering a free trip in the heart of the Big Apple to the viewer :an urban and graphic city, always in movement. The artist is fascinated by the works of Norman Foster, Jean Nouvel, Franck Ghery, Richard Meyer and many others. He likes to capture the soul of big cities like Paris, London, Beijing , Brussels, … For this exhibit he focuses his works on New York City. It’s a tribute to this city which has become one of the world’s leading capitals city of modern art since the 30’-40’. Then it became the birth city of Pop Art and Street Art and nowadays it’s always and definitely an eternal muse. A city where everything is possible, where encounters are easy and where movement, renewal and speed are major attributes. Some people consider that New York belongs to the XXth century and the future of modernity is somewhere else, in others cities. But Jerome Revon shows ... More Life of animation director Chuck Jones to be celebrated with The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus LAS VEGAS, NEV.- For generations of animation fans there is no greater legend than Chuck Jones. The creator of the famed Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for Warner Bros., Tom & Jerry cartoons, the TV version of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas and many other well-known classics, Jones was a pioneer in the art of animation and a fine artist in his own right. His life and legacy will be celebrated on January 19 with the official grand opening of The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus Las Vegas. Many of Jones' family will welcome celebrities, animation aficionados and visitors to the new attraction when they open the attraction in an appropriate and unconventional way at 11 a.m. Among those in attendance will be Jones' widow, Marian Jones, daughter, Linda Clough, and grandchildren Craig, Todd, and Valerie Kausen. The Chuck Jones Experience is a nearly 10,000-square-foot destination ... More Heritage Auctions' Orlando FUN currency event realizes $8.4+ Million DALLAS, TX.- The finest of three known $20 Nevada Red Seal notes, a $20 1902 Red Seal Fr. 641 The Nixon NB Ch. # (P)8424, by far the greatest note to emerge from The Platte River Cash Hoard, brought $66,125 as the top note in Heritage Auctions Jan. 5-10 Signature® Orlando FUN Currency Auction, which realized an impressive $8.4+ million total. All prices include 15% Buyer’s Premium. “The Platte River Hoard is without a doubt a great currency find,” said Allen Mincho, Director of Currency Auctions at Heritage, “and this $20 Red Seal is easily the best of that significant bunch and a reminder that significant rarities are still awaiting discovery even a century after their issue. A mere 14 Red Seals have been reported from all the banks in Nevada combined, and – obviously – collectors put a premium on them.” The Currency section of the FUN auction saw more than 3,340 bidders vying for 3,717 lots ... More Edgar Allan Poe fans: Last vigil for mystery man By: Sarah Brumfield, Associated Press
BALTIMORE (AP).- Is the "Poe Toaster" nevermore? For decades, a mysterious man left a three roses and cognac on Edgar Allan Poe's grave to mark the anniversary of the writer's birth. But after the visitor, dubbed the "Poe Toaster," failed to appear two years in a row, Poe fans are planning one last vigil this week before calling an end to the annual Jan. 19 tradition. The gothic master's tales of the macabre still connect with readers more than 200 years after his birth, including his most famous poem, "The Raven," and short stories including "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum." Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is considered the first modern detective story. Poe House and Museum Curator Jeff Jerome, who has kept watch for the "Poe Toaster" since 1978, ... More New York City man gets jail for fake Hirst print appraisals NEW YORK (AP).- A New York City man who was victimized in an art fraud but then committed his own forgery has been sentenced to 60 days in jail. Richard Silver paid $84,000 in restitution before his sentencing Tuesday in Manhattan. The 44-year-old real estate broker, photographer and part-time art dealer pleaded guilty last week to misdemeanor forgery and false-filing charges. Silver unwittingly bought what turned out to be fake prints by British artist Damien Hirst. The Irvine, Calif.-based seller went to prison for the scam. Silver admitted he then falsified appraisals as he resold the pieces. Defense lawyer Vinoo Varghese says Silver altered legitimate appraisals for some prints to match other works so he could ship them quickly. Silver also admitted he didn't report the sale profits on state taxes. ... More |
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