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Written by Daniel Flynn
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 02:13 |
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VATICAN CITY (REUTERS).-
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel on
Saturday and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying
contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful." The
Pope told the gathering of hundreds of painters, sculptors, architects, poets
and directors, held beneath the vaulted ceiling of the chapel painted by
Michelangelo, that he wanted to "renew the Church's friendship with the world of
art." Against the backdrop of Michelangelo's vast fresco of the Last
Judgment, which adorns the chapel's altar wall, Benedict lamented that the
once-close cooperation between the Church and the artistic community had
weakened.
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Read more... Pope Benedict Meets Artists from Around the World in the Sistine Chapel
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Written by Daniel Goldsworthy
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 02:12 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Mr.
Fezziwig, Bob Cratchit, the Ghost of Christmas Past—in the age of film and
television these characters from Charles Dickens’s 'A Christmas Carol' are
universally familiar. The story has been told as a stage musical, a serious
dramatic film, and a modern comedy, and this November will be adapted
once again in a new Disney movie starring Jim Carrey. Beginning on November 20,
visitors to The Morgan Library & Museum can view the original manuscript by
Dickens in a special presentation in the museum’s famed McKim Building.
On view through 10 January, 2010.
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Read more... Morgan Library & Museum exhibits Dickens's Original 'A Christmas Carol'
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Written by Jose Antonio Rivas
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 02:11 |
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MEXICO CITY.- Two centuries before our era, the
region of Campania became the favorite place of Roman emperors-from Julius
Caesar to Nero- and aristocrats to relax, due to the beauty of the Bay of
Naples. Pompeii, Herculaneum and nearby villages represented leisure for some
and work for others, like artists. A hundred pieces, which reveal the
luxury and sophistication that this Mediterranean zone reached before the
Vesuvius erupted in 79 of the Common Era, arrive to Mexico as part of the
exhibition "Pompeya y una Villa Romana: Arte y Cultura alrededor de la Bahia de
Napoles" (Pompeii and the Roman Villa. Art and Culture around the Bay of
Naples), to be opened at the National Museum of Anthropology in November 2009.
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Read more... Major Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibition Showcased in Mexico City
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Written by Winston Harley
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 02:11 |
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MAASTRICHT.- TEFAF Maastricht, the world’s
most influential art and antiques fair, will have a record number of 260
exhibitors from 17 countries when the 23rd edition opens at the MECC (Maastricht
Exhibition and Congress Centre) in the southern Netherlands from 12 through 21
March 2010. The European Fine Art Fair will reinforce its reputation
for quality with exhibitors bringing only the very finest art and antiques all
of which will be rigorously vetted by teams of experts. It will expand by
introducing TEFAF on Paper, a new section devoted entirely to works on paper.
The latest in a series of groundbreaking reports specially prepared for TEFAF
will examine how the international art market has fared during the economic
recession.
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Read more... TEFAF Maastricht to be Held March 2010 Biggest Ever
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Written by Gunter Blossman
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Sunday, 22 November 2009 02:10 |
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LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY - The exhibition "Slow
Paintings" is devoted to the development of a highly involved form of painting
as a continual strategy in the history of art, which emerged from the early
1960s onwards. With over 60 paintings and featuring no fewer than 32
artists, "Slow Paintings" provides a comprehensive overview of the
different techniques and conceptual approaches that characterise this style of
painting. The expanse of time invested by individual artists into the production
of the paintings exerts its effect upon the visitor via the unique experience of
sustained deceleration. On view 24 November through 7 February,
2010.
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Read more... Museum Morsbroich Shows Exhibition of "Slow Paintings" By 32 Artists
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Written by Michael Conforti
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:49 |
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WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- During his lifetime, the
Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) achieved tremendous popularity in
Europe and the United States, where he was celebrated for his vibrant
brushwork and striking portraits. The exhibition Giovanni Boldini in
Impressionist Paris illuminates Boldini’s early career when he lived in Paris
and painted the city’s bustling streets, cafes, and concert halls, as well as
charming scenes of its sunny suburban landscapes, while developing his unique
style. Giovanni Boldini in Impressionist Paris, the first Boldini
exhibition in the United States in twenty years, opens at the Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute on February 14, 2010.
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Read more... The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to showcase Impressionist Giovanni Boldini
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Written by Alice Dorment
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:48 |
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VENICE.- The 53rd Venice Biennale comes to an end
on 22nd November 2009, after receiving over 350,000 visitors. The German
Pavilion has been at the forefront of media interest and has been the subject of
heated debate in the national and international press. With his
allusions to Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s revolutionary Frankfurt Kitchen
(1926), Liam Gillick presented an installation that provided a model of
democratic and human formation of living space as a counterpart to the absent
ergonomic functionality of the pavilion’s politically symbolic 1930s
architecture. Between these two perspectives on the paradigm of
modernism, a connection has been made by a cat - cult icon in antiquity, demon
with magic powers in the middle ages, symbol of wisdom in romanticism and
domesticated pet today, but still with superstitious connotations - as a
speaking witness to history. A self-depreciating alter ego for the artist, the
cat stands for this typically formal and enigmatic opposite extreme.
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Read more... Liam Gillick's "Cat" at the German Pavilion is Subject of Heated Debate As Venice Biennale Ends
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Written by Jannelle Thomas
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 03:25 |
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LONDON.- Bonhams will offer the Mary and George
Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian paintings at its 2009 Autumn Auction. A
foremost collector of fine arts in Hong Kong, George Bloch (12 October 1920 - 27
April 2009) was born into a prominent industrial family in Vienna. He
went to school in England, but his life changed radically in the mid-1930s when
his father died and the Nazis nationalized the family business. In 1938 he moved
to Shanghai, arriving with only twenty pounds in cash, and knowing almost no
one. After a couple of years, he started his own trading business and laid the
foundations for his wealth. In 1949 George uprooted yet again and moved to
Tokyo. The entrepreneur recognized the business opportunities there and
established Herald International Ltd, initially to sell watches to soldiers and
staff on U.S. military bases throughout the Asia-Pacific region. George moved
the company to Hong Kong in 1955.
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Read more... Bonhams Offers Bloch Collection of Lin Fengmian Paintings in London
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Written by Lucille Strickland
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 03:24 |
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NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the auction
Magnificent Tiffany featuring Property from the Gluck Collection will be held as
part of its 20th-Century Decorative Art & Design sales on December 8,
2009. On February 17, 1979, Christie's held the landmark sale
Magnificent Tiffany Featuring The Gluck Collection, the first major Tiffany
offering at auction. The sale was an unparalleled success. It was the first time
a Tiffany lamp commanded more than $100,000, with the "Cob Web" lamp selling for
a then-remarkable $150,000. The Gluck Collection set the bar for future sales in
the category. More than 30 years later, Christie's will offer ten
additional pieces from this legendary collection.
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Read more... Christie's to Sell Extraordinary Tiffany Lamps from the Famous Gluck Collection
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Written by Carrie Blume
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 02:56 |
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PARIS.- Held at the Carrousel du Louvre through
November 22 Paris Photo, the world’s leading fair for 19th Century, modern and
contemporary photography features 102 exhibitors including 89 galleries and 13
publishers. With 75% of selected participants coming from 23 countries,
the 2009 edition is remarkable in terms of its geographical
diversity. With 11 galleries Germany is first among the foreign
participants, followed by the United States with 10 galleries, the United
Kingdom (7), the Netherlands (6), Japan and Spain (5 galleries each), Italy (3),
two each from South Africa, Denmark the United Arab Emirates, Finland, Tunisia,
and finally one for Austria, Belgium, China, South Korea, Hungary, Portugal,
Russia, Lebanon and Morocco. France is represented by 21 galleries, among which
several newcomers make their debut such as La B.A.N.K, Patricia Dorfman,
Dominique Fiat, Françoise Paviot and la Galerie RX.
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Read more... 13th Edition of Paris Photo 2009 Takes Over the Carrousel du Louvre
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Written by Lucas Glassman
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 02:55 |
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COLOGNE.- Georg Baselitz is the winner of this
year's Cologne Fine Art Prize. Worth €10,000, the Prize is sponsored by
Koelnmesse and the Cologne-based Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Editionen.
The Prize is awarded every year in recognition of outstanding achievement and
innovation in the fields of printmaking, photography, serial
imagery and graphic reproduction techniques. An exhibition marking the
award will showcase prints from Baselitz's early career juxtaposed to important
examples of his later graphic work. Forty of the prints, executed between 1964
and 1972, are part of a gift donated by Prinz Franz von Bayern to the Staatliche
Graphische Sammlung in Munich.
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Read more... Cologne Fine Art Prize Recognizes Georg Baselitz's Achievement in the Arts
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Written by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 02:55 |
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VATICAN CITY (AP).-
One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — a
6th century reliquary containing what is revered as fragments of the cross on
which Jesus was crucified — has been restored to its Byzantine-era
glory. The Vatican on Thursday unveiled the restored Crux Vaticana, a
foot-high (40-centimeter-high) jewel-encrusted golden cross containing what
tradition holds are shards of Jesus' cross inside. The cross will be on
public display inside St. Peter's Basilica through April 12,
2010.
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Read more... Crux Vaticana-Golden Cross in Vatican's Collection Gets Restored
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