| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- Becky Allan, project curator of the British Museum, holds an edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, which was kept at South Africa?s apartheid-era Robben Island jail in the 1970s, during a photo call ahead of an upcoming exhibition at the museum, central London, Monday, June 18, 2012. The book, which was kept by political prisoner Sonny Venkatrathnam, is signed by 33 inmates - including former South African leader Nelson Mandela, marking their favorite passage or play with a signature and date. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Exhibition of drawings and watercolors spanning five centuries celebrates the collection of Joseph F. McCrindle | | Sotheby's London to offer an extraordinary mid-14th century manuscript in the Welsh language | | Archaeologist finds oldest rock art in Australia; an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago | 
John Singer Sargent, Sir Neville Wilkinson on the Steps of the Palladian Bridge at Wilton House, 1904/1905. Watercolor over graphite, 355 x 254 mm. Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Paying tribute to the remarkable collector Joseph F. McCrindle (1923–2008), the National Gallery of Art presents The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors, on view in the West Building Ground Floor galleries from June 17 through November 25, 2012. The McCrindle exhibition highlights 71 of the nearly 300 old master and modern drawings that are part of McCrindle's extensive gift to the Gallery, documented in full in the accompanying catalogue. In addition to his gift of works on paper, he gave 12 outstanding paintings by Dutch, Flemish, and Italian artists, as well as one by John Singer Sargent. "Joseph McCrindle had a special attachment to the National Gallery of Art, and we are extremely grateful for his enormous generosity over the years, starting in 1991 when he donated a wonderful ... More | | 
Kept in America, the manuscript returns to Britain for the first time in over 150 years. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- On Tuesday, 10th July 2012, Sotheby’s London will offer an extraordinary mid-14th century manuscript written in Medieval Welsh — a language of near-legendary rarity — within its sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures. Almost certainly brought to America by Welsh settlers in the 1700s, it ranks among the earliest medieval manuscripts in that country. The sale in London marks its return to Britain for the first time in at least a century and a half. It is the earliest manuscript of its kind ever offered in a public sale and the first medieval manuscript in Welsh to come to the market since 1923. The manuscript is estimated at £500,000-700,000.* The Laws of Hywel Dda are attributed to Howel the Good, king of Wales (c.880-950). Partly derived from ancient Celtic and Irish justice systems, his laws are exceptionally liberal for their time: they focus on just restitution for crimes rather than violent pu ... More | | 
A fragment of Aboriginal rock art on granite found in Australian Outback. AP Photo/Bryce Barker.
CANBERRA (AP).- An archaeologist says he found the oldest piece of rock art in Australia and one of the oldest in the world: an Aboriginal work created 28,000 years ago in an Outback cave. The dating of one of the thousands of images in the Northern Territory rock shelter known as Nawarla Gabarnmang will be published in the next edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science. University of Southern Queensland archaeologist Bryce Barker said Monday that he found the rock in June last year but only recently had it dated at New Zealand's University of Waikato radiocarbon laboratory. He said the rock art was made with charcoal, so radiocarbon dating could be used to determine its age. Most rock art is made with mineral paint, so its age cannot be accurately measured. "It's the oldest unequivocally dated rock art in Australia" and among the oldest in the world, Barker said. The oldest known rock art is in Spain, where hand stencils and red disks made by blowing paint on to the wall ... More |
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| Sotheby's London presents a rare and important offering of Old Master and British paintings | | James Hyman to present specially curated exhibition for Masterpiece London | | Garbage Guanabara Bay for Rio+20 from Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz | 
Guido Reni, David with the Head of Goliath. Oil on canvas. Estimate: £3-5 million / €3.7-6.2 million / $4.8-8 million. Photo: Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Sotheby’s London will present an outstanding selection of rare and important masterpieces in its Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on July 4th 2012. The sale will, notably, feature no less than three large paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, led by the monumental Battle between Carnival and Lent, one of his most accomplished works. Other highlights include two early 16th century masterpieces of the German Renaissance - Lucas Cranach the Elder’s Feilitzsch Altarpiece and Hans Baldung Grien’s jewel-like Virgin as Queen of Heaven - as well as Guido Reni’s monumental David with the Head of Goliath. The sale comprises 44 works with a combined estimate in excess of £26 million. Alex Bell, Sotheby’s Co-Chairman and Head of Old Master Paintings Worldwide commented: “This is a particularly rich and varied sale, offering collectors the opportunity to acquire ... More | | 
Patrick Caulfield, Three Roses, 1963 (detail). Oil on board, 150 x 157 cms. (58.95 x 61.70 ins).
LONDON.- James Hyman will present a specially curated exhibition for Masterpiece London, Metamorphoses and the Art of Love, inspired by the poetry of Ovid. The exhibition takes as its starting point Ovid’s celebrated Metamorphoses with its compendium of Greek and Roman myths concerning transformation, and his Ars Armatoria (Art of Love), a three-part instructional guide to love and seduction. Ovid’s Metamorphoses addresses the theme of transformation, most often of human beings into other natural forms. The exhibition includes key works that explore this theme. A centre piece is provided by one of Ivon Hitchens greatest and largest paintings, The Fountain of Acis. Inspired by the nymph Acis’s transformation into a stream, it includes not only a Greek temple but also a voluptuous depiction of beloved Galatea side the water. Man Ray’s unique, large-scale, solarised nude – which we will disp ... More | | 
Brazilian artist Vik Muniz poses for a photo as he stands in his "Landscape" project that uses waste to recreate the image of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro. AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo.
By: Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP).- Ah, there's Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, pretty as a poster, its Sugarloaf Mountain standing proud over sweeping sandy beaches and azure waters. And all of it made of trash. Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz is turning Rio's detritus into a unique portrait of the city's most iconic landscape. His "Landscape Project" is a meditation on the ever-quickening pace of consumer culture that is taking place on the margins of the United Nations' Rio+20 conference on sustainable development. The idea is to build a giant collage out of trash and then take a photo of it from a bird's eye view. The resulting fine-art print, as with others he has done before, will likely look so realistic that many viewers will not realize ... More |
| Rare look at the career of Regionalist painter Roger Medearis opens at the Huntington | | Safani Gallery offers a rare anthropoid sarcophagus lid and coffin at Masterpiece London | | Terra Foundation for American Art's new collections head selection evinces global goals | 
Roger Medearis, Godly Susan, 1941. Egg tempera on board, 27 5/8 x 23 5/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Roger and Elizabeth Medearis.
SAN MARINO, CA.- The career of American painter Roger Medearis (1920–2001) is explored in a special exhibition, “Roger Medearis: His Regionalism,” on view at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens from June 16 through Sept. 17, 2012. With a title inspired by the artist’s unpublished book My Regionalism, the exhibition of more than 30 works brings together those given to The Huntington by his widow, Elizabeth (Betty) Medearis, as well as those on loan from private collections and a painting borrowed from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum. Examples of Medearis’ accomplishments in various media, including paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture, along with letters and photographs, trace the artist’s career, from his beginnings as a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute through the develop- ... More | | 
The Posno Sarcophagus, a rare anthropoid sarcophagus lid and coffin with its mummy board.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New York-based Safani Gallery, will offer the Posno Sarcophagus, a rare anthropoid sarcophagus lid and coffin with its mummy board at Masterpiece London, it was announced by Luciano deMarsillac, Associate Director of the gallery. Masterpiece London opens on June 28 through July 4 on the South Grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3. “This ensemble represents an important chapter in the history of ancient Egyptian funerary art because it was created during Dynasty XXI of the Third Intermediate Period (about 1000-900 BC),” said deMarsillac. “It was a time of international political upheaval, often termed the Dark Ages, when Egypt’s position as the dominant world power waned.” According to deMarsillac, Gustav Posno ranks among the famous collectors of antiquities of the 19th century. Once established in Cairo he began to collect antiquities, which he exhibited for the first t ... More | | 
Turner is Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Terra Foundation for American Art announced the appointment of Elizabeth Hutton Turner as its new Vice President of Collections and Curatorial Affairs. Turner, Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia (UVa.), will begin the new position in January 2013. “We’re forging a new approach for bringing historic American art to audiences across the globe with projects underway in Brazil, China, and Korea,” said Terra Foundation President and CEO Elizabeth Glassman. “The growing appetite for American art over the past several years dovetails with our mission, and Beth Turner is someone who can invigorate and proactively align our collection for an eager international audience.” Containing nearly 750 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by artists such as Mary Cassatt, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, and James McNeill Whistler, the foundation’s renowned collect ... More |
| BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art profiles commissioning legacy during 10th birthday season | | Brilliant results for works by William Trost Richards and Jean Paul Riopelle at Keno Auctions sale | | El Paso Museum of Art Director Dr. Michael Tomor talks about the future plans for the museum | 
Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet 2001 Photo: Atsushi Nakamichi / Nacása & Partners Inc. Courtesy of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, 2009.
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead opened to the public at midnight on Friday 13 July 2002. This summer, to mark the 10 year anniversary of the opening, BALTIC will present a season of exhibitions highlighting its legacy of commissioning new work. It will re-stage Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet and present two new commissions by 2007 Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger and Newcastle based artist Richard Rigg. The Forty Part Motet was co-commissioned and staged as part of BALTIC’s preopening programme at the Castle Keep in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2001. The work has since travelled internationally and now features in several major international collections such as the National Gallery of Canada in Ontario Canada and Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil. A reworking of the renaissance choral work for forty voices Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui 1573 by Thomas Tallis, The Forty Part Motet consists of ... More | | 
William Trost Richards, The Otter Cliffs, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1866. Oil on panel backed canvas, 36 1/4 x 29 in. Sold amount: $235,600 (Estimate: $40,000-100,000).
NEW YORK, NY.- Keno Auctions’ Important American and European Paintings sale, the first auction conducted at the company’s headquarters, achieved a total of $1.512 million, exceeding the pre-sale high estimate of $1.265 million by $300,000. The auction was 73% sold by lot (including aftersales), with 49 buyers; 11 of whom were successful through the internet. The Otter Cliffs, Mount Desert Island, Maine, 1866 by William Trost Richards, which was purchased more than 60 years ago as a sleeper at a Vermont country auction by the consignor, was the sale’s highest selling lot achieving the price of $235,600 (est. $40,000/100,000) after several minutes of fierce bidding in the room and telephone. Jean-Paul Riopelle, a member of the Canadian artists group Les Automatistes, created the dynamic painting Folâtre in 1957; the oil on canvas clearly shows the master at the peak of his creative genius. The picture was ... More | | 
El Paso Museum of Art is shaping the way for a brighter art community.
By: Haydeé Munoz
EL PASO, TX.- El Paso Museum of Art has grown significantly in the past years. With a vast programming, community art classes, a large permanent collection, and the first Library devoted to the Fine Arts to be opened to the public in the U.S., the museum is growing bigger and stronger every year. With exhibitions with artists such as Andy Warhol, Roman Rockwell, Picasso, Rembrandt, Matisse, Monet, or great local artists such as Margarita Cabrera, El Paso Museum of Art is shaping the way for a brighter art community. We talked to Dr. Michael Tomor, Director of the Museum, about the future plans for the museum. How have these six years as Director of the Museum been for you? How do you think things are improving? How do you think the response from the community has changed over this period of time? I am continuing on a process that has been going on here for fifty years, so I certainly didn’t build the ... More |
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 Music mogul donates audio interviews to US library WASHINGTON (AP).- A retired music executive will donate more than 200 audio interviews with popular singers including Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney and others to the Library of Congress, officials announced Monday. The gift includes interviews that Joe Smith recorded over two years while president of Capitol Records/EMI. He compiled the candid oral histories for his book, "Off the Record," published in 1988. The collection includes interviews with dozens of big names, including Barbra Streisand, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tina Turner and others. Now the recordings have been digitized by the world's largest library and will be available to researchers at its reading room on Capitol Hill. Some will be streamed on the library's website later this year to provide wider access. Librarian of Congress James Billington said Smith is providing an intimate look ... More Gettysburg on horseback takes riders back in time By: Nancy Nussbaum, Associated Press
GETTYSBURG, PA (AP).- A twig snaps and brush rustles in woods on the Gettysburg battlefield. My horse does not flinch. It's nothing more than a small animal scurrying away. But on a hot summer day nearly 150 years earlier, it could have been the enemy. The rolling farmland that is Gettysburg can be toured in a number of ways, but on horseback you can transport yourself to the vantage and vulnerability of a Civil War officer on horseback directing his troops in the three-day battle. On a recent family trip, my husband, our daughters, ages 9 and 14, and I toured the battlefields on horseback with a Gettysburg licensed battlefield guide. The tour allowed us to go into sections of the battlefield that were not part of auto or bus tours and provided intricate ... More Cult springs up around Hungary's World War II leader By: Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press
CSOKAKO (AP).- They came in droves — war veterans and far-right politicians, Hussars on horseback and guardsmen in camouflage. About 1,000 people gathered in this village over the weekend to unveil a bronze bust of Admiral Miklos Horthy, Hungary's ruler between 1920 and 1944. Most Hungarians view Horthy as an authoritarian who dragged Hungary into a disastrous alliance with Adolf Hitler and was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust. But as Hungary struggles to fend off recession and nationalist sentiment rises, there is a growing movement to recast Horthy as a patriotic hero who stood up to the Soviet Union and only reluctantly threw in his lot with Hitler. And critics say the ... More Israel Museum exhibition sheds light on culture and life of Hasidic Jews JERUSALEM.- The Israel Museum offers an illuminating exploration of the culture of the ultra-orthodox Hasidim in its new exhibition A World Apart Next Door: Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews. On view from June 19 – November 30, 2012, the exhibition sheds light on lesser-known aspects of the culture of the Hasidim through photographs, drawings, engravings, video, music, and rarely seen objects relating to the social and spiritual life of this often hidden community. A World Apart Next Door places a special focus on the clothing of Hasidic men, women, and children, deciphering for visitors the rich codes woven into their garments. The exhibition also explores the connection between the Hasidim and their charismatic leaders, or Rebbes, and the life-cycle events and seasonal traditions that are the foundation of life in the Hasidic community. “Hasidic culture is a ... More Black and White Spider Awards honors photographer Jack Dzamba from Boston LONDON.- Professional photographer Jack Dzamba (Dziamba) of Icron Image International, Inc. of Boston, MA, USA was presented with the 7th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Nomination in the category of Fashion at the prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow. The live online ceremony webcast Saturday, June 9, 2012 was attended by photography fans in 72 countries who logged on to see the climax of the industry's most important event for black and white photography. The awards international Jury included judges from National Geographic, and the Tate, London, who honored Spider Fellows with 180 coveted title awards and 875 nominees in 14 categories from 8,223 entries. "It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from over 8,000 entries we received this year," said Basil O'Brien, the awards Creative Director. "Jack Dzamba's ... More Lavish Mughal paintings embellish revised edition of The Imperial Image WASHINGTON, DC.- For centuries in the Islamic world, books have been treasured as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true for India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy empire that extended across most of the South Asian subcontinent. The greatest imperial patrons formed grand workshops that brought together and nurtured India’s leading painters, calligraphers and illuminators. Today, the lavish manuscripts and paintings they created remain a vibrant part of India’s cultural and artistic history. In his popular 1981 book The Imperial Image: Paintings for the Mughal Court, Milo Cleveland Beach, pre-eminent Mughal art historian and former director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, presented the Freer’s superb collection of Mughal painting. This newly revised and expanded edition adds many of the ... More |
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