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| Madonna and Guy Ritchie Nude Painting Made by Peter Howson Up for Auction at McTear's |
Peter Howson, Madonna & Guy, oil on canvas, 89cm x 120cm. Estimate: £ 15,000 - 22,000. This is the original painting which caused so much controversy and was the subject of enormous international press and media attention. Provenance: Notable private collection (Scotland). Photo: EFE.
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GLASGOW.- An oil painting featuring Madonna and her ex-husband Guy Ritchie naked is to go under the hammer. The 2005 work titled Madonna And Guy, one of several nudes of the star by Peter Howson, is expected to fetch up to £22,00 when it goes on sale at McTear's in Glasgow this Saturday, PA reports. "There is no doubt that the recent split of Madonna and Guy has generated increased interest in the painting," the Telegraph quoted Brian Clements from the auctioneers as saying. ...More
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| Manchester Museum Announces Ansuman Biswas as the Manchester Hermit |
MANCHESTER.- Artist Ansuman Biswas will become the Manchester Hermit, living in the Museum’s Gothic tower for forty days and forty nights.
The Manchester Museum at The University of Manchester holds a collection of over 4 million specimens and objects. Like many museums, only a small proportion of the collection is on public display. Artist Ansuman Biswas will ask the public to ...More
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| Berlinische Galerie Opens Two Exhibitions, One by Klaus Staeck, the other by John Heartfield |
BERLIN.- “Caution: Art!”, one of Klaus Staeck’s most famous posters, surely puts his artistic standpoint in a nutshell. To him, art is political and has a mission. As a means of making the public aware of the contradictions and deficiencies of society, art should provoke, create scandals, and disturb the clandestine business of those who otherwise benefit from general inattentiveness. The natural medium for his urge to highlight society’s flaws is the political poster....More
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| Derrick R. Cartwright Named Next Director of the Seattle Art Museum |
SEATTLE, WA.- Today the Seattle Art Museum’s Board of Trustees announced that Derrick R. Cartwright has been chosen as the Seattle Art Museum’s new Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director following an international search. Mr. Cartwright succeeds Mimi Gates who is retiring on June 30, 2009 after 15 years as the museum’s director. Cartwright has been the ...More
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| Edinburgh Art Festival Unveils 2009 Exhibitions Programme |
EDINBURGH.- The Edinburgh Art Festival, the international showcase for Edinburgh’s galleries and artists, today unveiled the programme for its 6th edition, the core dates for which are 5 August to 5 September 2009. Ranging from major exhibitions by leading British and international artists to work by a new generation of talent, the 2009 EAF programme sees 50 participating galleries, both permanent and temporary, including 11 spaces new to the Festival....More
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| IVAM Opens Confines/Valencia 09: Passages of Contemporary Arts |
VALENCIA.- We find here a term that contains many shades of meaning. It denotes membranes between interior and exterior; wounds that link the familiar with the unfamiliar; brackets that suggest closeness and distance; summits where one peak touches another. The boundary is on this side and that of a frontier: it is what separates our dwelling place from the rest of the world. But it is also ourselves: that which we are intimately made up of....More
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| PHotoEspaña 2009: Mabel Palacín Dilutes the Border Between Reality and Fiction |
LISBON.- Museu Colecção Berardo opens an exhibition of audiovisual installations and a photographic series rethinking about the role of image in the digital world and its role as reality maker. These works of recent production analyze how image have been introduced in our lifes, diluting the boundary between reality and fiction.
In her works, Mabel Palacín has shown a clear concern for the way images have ...More
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| Sotheby's to Sell the Philippe Guimiot & Domitilla de Grunne Tribal Art Collection |
PARIS.- The success of the sales of African & Oceanic Art in New York on May 15 shows that collectors' interest in rare objects in this field remains strong whatever the price-level. The two auctions – devoted to the Renée & Chaïm Gross Collection and items of varied provenance – totalled $10.5m, and yielded several world record prices.
On 17 June 2009 Sotheby’s France will present an exceptional sale of tribal art, featuring the personal collection...More
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| Kunstmuseum Bonn Opens Raimund Kummer: For Your Eyes Only |
BONN.- Raimund Kummer was born in 1954. He belongs to those artists who have been focussing on conditions regarding the production and presentation of art since the seventies. Further achievements were a wider concept of material and sculpture, and also the introduction of a narrative category in sculpture. By claiming public places as venues for art and through his context related works, Raimund Kummer anticipated artistic approaches which have long since become established....More
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| British Museum Celebrates India with Exhibition and Season Dedicated to Indian Culture |
LONDON.- Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur is a rare opportunity to view a unique type of Indian royal court painting ranging in date from the 17th-19th centuries. The exhibition will feature an exceptional loan from India and will be made up of 54 paintings from the royal collection at the Mehrangarh Museum Trust in Jodhpur, which was set up by the current maharaja, Gaj Singh II, in 1972. Remarkably, none of these paintings has ever ...More
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| Frye Art Museum Announces Second Round of Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Cuts |
SEATTLE, WA.- This week the Frye Art Museum announced cuts to the Museum’s annual budget including staff layoffs, senior staff salary reductions, furloughs in summer, and decreases in budgets throughout the Museum including exhibition, education, and marketing program areas. These cuts, along with an earlier round of cuts in September, bring the Frye’s 2009 fiscal year budget from $3.9 million to $3.6 million. ...More
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| Call for Submissions for Singapore Art Show 2009 |
SINGAPORE.- The National Arts Council (NAC) and Singapore Art Museum invite visual arts submissions from Singapore and Singapore-based artists for the Singapore Art Exhibition 2009, co-presented by both organisations.
The Singapore Art Exhibition 2009 is the main feature of the Singapore Art Show (SAS), organised by the National Arts Council. The SAS is a national platform ...More
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| Imperial War Museum to Open Exhibition Which will Explore the Build-up to and Preparations for War |
LONDON.- Seventy years after the radio announcement that informed the nation that Britain was at war, Imperial War Museum London is mounting Outbreak 1939, a new special exhibition, which will explore the build-up to and preparations for war, an overview of the key events of 3 September and an account the early months of the conflict. The exhibition is being launched in association with the ITV1 documentary of the same name, to be screened in September 2009....More
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| Richard Schmid Makes Premier Appearance in NYC at Salmagundi Club |
NEW YORK, NY.- The Salmagundi Club, located at 47 Fifth Avenue, will host Richard Schmid and His Influence, which features new Schmid paintings as well as distinguished masterpieces from private collections. Also showcased are art works by twelve nationally recognized artists whom Schmid has directly taught, mentored, and influenced. The theme of the installation is Childhood Innocence,...More
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| American Institute of Conservation Honors the Getty Conservation Institute with its Highest Organizational Award |
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) will be honored today by the American Institute of Conservation (AIC) with the highest award it bestows on conservation organizations - the Distinguished Award for the Advancement of the Field of Conservation. ...More
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| Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Maya River Port in Southeast Mexico |
BALANCAN, MEXICO (EFE).- The finding of 23 archaeological pieces from about 600 BC has strengthened the historic importance of the Maya city of Moral-Reforma, a river port located in the current Mexican state of Tabasco which was almost unknown until a group of experts began excavating it three months ago.
The archaeological site, which is 87 hectares (217 acres) in size, is located adjacent to the ranching community of Reforma....More
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| Artist Easton Selby to Open Root Work in Cheekwood's Temporary Contemporary Gallery |
NASHVILLE, TN.- Opening July 11 and on display until September 20, photographer Easton Selby's exhibition Root Work is directly influenced by the spectrum of religious belief systems, mysticism, and magic that creep below the surface of Southern soil.
For Selby, the word "roots" brings to mind a number of deeper meanings: the roots of giant live oaks lining Southern boulevards, the roots of family heritage,...More
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| Bust of Argentine Independence Hero Unveiled in Vienna |
VIENNA.(EFE)- A bust of Latin American liberator Jose de San Martin was unveiled Tuesday next to the U.N. headquarters in Vienna by Argentine Ambassador Eugenio Maria Curia.
The sculpture is in the so-called "Latin American corner" of Danube Park, where busts of other independence leaders and politicians from the region, such as Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Salvador Allende have ...More
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