| Fortuny and Wagner:Wagnerism in the visual arts in Italy opens at Palazzo Fortuny in Venice | | Discovered: French and Italian archaeologists find the lost port of ancient Rome | | Ringling organizes America's first comprehensive Veronese exhibition in two decades | 
Lionello Balestrieri R. Wagner (1813-1883) composant L’anneau du Nibelung s.d. cartolina edita a Parigi da Lapina Collezione.
VENICE.- The Fortuny Museum presents a great exhibition to mark the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth (Leipzig, 1813 - Venice, 1883) in 2013. It is the result of lengthy studies on the influence that the German composer and the “Wagnerism” phenomenon had at an iconographic and aesthetic level on the visual arts in Italy from the end of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. This is the very first time this theme has been studied or been the object of an exhibition. Wagnerism was a true cultural fashion that, in its diverse expressions (literary, musical, and painting) enjoyed widespread and profound diffusion. In the field of the visual arts it was one of the most typical manifestations of the aesthetic style at the turn of the eighteenth century, between late Naturalism, Symbolism and Art Nouveau. The characters and vicissitudes of Wagner’s musical dramas (Valkyries, Nibe ... More | | 
Aerial view of Ostia and the position of its ancient harbor basin clogged. To the left of the picture, the Tiber flows along the Imperial Palace. Photo: S. Keay.
PARIS (AFP).- French and Italian archaeologists have found the remains of a grain port that played a critical role in the rise of ancient Rome, France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said on Thursday. Cores drilled at a location at the mouth of the River Tiber have revealed the site of a port whose existence has been sought for centuries, it said in a press release. The port lies northwest of Ostia, which was established by Rome as a fortress gateway to enable trade to pass upriver towards the city and prevent pirates and marauders. The evidence points to a port established between the fourth and second century BC and had a depth of six metres (20 feet), making it accessible to sea-going vessels, the CNRS said. Rome emerged as the prime power of the Mediterranean thanks in part to trade. It imported huge amounts of wheat, especially from Egypt. In the first century AD, the grain port at Ostia was super- ... More | | 
Paolo Veronese, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, ca. 1570, oil on canvas, Bequest of John Ringling, 1936, SN 82, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla. © The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla.
SARASOTA, FL.- This December, the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art presents a major exhibition of the work of Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), a master of Venetian Renaissance painting. The first comprehensive exhibition of Veronese’s work in North America in over two decades, Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice brings together more than 50 of the artist’s finest paintings and drawings from North American museums and private collections. Presenting imposing altarpieces and smaller religious paintings for private devotion or collectors, striking portraits, depictions of sensual narratives drawn from the classical tradition, and majestic allegories glorifying the Venetian state, the exhibition introduces the range of Veronese’s art, in which the opulence and splendor of ... More |
| New role for Curator Scott Rothkopf at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York | | Rio bids final farewell to star architect Niemeyer with national tribute worthy of a head of state | | Flowers Gallery presents a selection of photographs from Edmund Clark's Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out | 
Scott Rothkopf has been appointed to the newly created post of Curator and Associate Director of Programs. Photo: David Velasco.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that curator Scott Rothkopf has been appointed to the newly created post of Curator and Associate Director of Programs. Working closely with Donna De Salvo, the Museum’s Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, Rothkopf will help advance programming strategy, collection development, and interdepartmental initiatives as the Whitney prepares to move to its new building downtown in 2015. He will also continue in his role as curator. De Salvo noted: "I’m delighted that Scott will be working with me—and with our extraordinary curatorial team—in his new role. We created this position at a transformational moment in the Museum’s history to help us meet the challenges ahead. Three years ago we welcomed Scott as one of the most important emerging voices in the field. He has made enormous contributions to the Museum as a curator and demonst ... More | | 
The tomb of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is seen with his name during his funeral at the Sao Joao Batista cemetery. AFP PHOTO /VANDERLEI ALMEIDA.
By Laura Bonilla and Claire de Oliveira
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Rio bade a last farewell to Brazil's iconic architect Oscar Niemeyer Friday ahead of his burial in his native city whose spectacular landscape inspired his creative genius. Top officials, relatives, friends and ordinary people thronged City Hall where the star architect, who died Wednesday at the age of 104, lay in state inside a casket draped in the green and yellow Brazilian flag. It was an emotional affair, but in marked contrast with Thursday's solemn memorial service in the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, the futuristic capital Niemeyer helped created. There, President Dilma Rousseff led members of her government, lawmakers, Supreme Court judges and diplomats in a national tribute, worthy of a head of state, to the man whose soaring architecture captured the essence of Brazil. Inaugurating a Brasilia summit ... More | | 
Edmund Clark, Isolation Unit in Camp 1, 2009. Chromogenic Colour Print. Courtesy of Flowers Gallery, New York/London. Copyright Edmund Clark.
NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers is presenting a selection of photographs from Edmund Clark's Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out. Clark pairs his images with a collection of correspondence titled Letters to Omar and a multimedia installation. Together these visuals confront the assumptions and stereotypes about the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The exhibition will run from November 30th, 2012 through January 12th, 2013, with an opening reception for the artist on Thursday, November 29th, 6-8pm. An artist talk will also take place in the gallery on Saturday, December 1st at 4pm. Edmund Clark is known for his work exploring incarceration through the use of photography, found imagery, and text. In Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out (2010), he examines three ideas of home: The naval base that is home to the American community at Guantanamo; the complex of camps where the detainees have been held, and ... More |
| Exhibition of recent works by Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone and Emilio Prini at Sprovieri | | Peabody Essex Museum appoints Austen Barron Bailly as its first Curator of American Art | | Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to lead Philadelphia's National Constitution Center | 
Giovanni Anselmo, Ultramarine Blue While it Appears Towards Overseas, 2012. Ultramarine blue acrylic paint, 100 x70 cm.
LONDON.- Sprovieri presents an exhibition of recent works by Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone and Emilio Prini. The selection of works brings together some of the most influential living artists of the Arte Povera, the Italian artistic movement that in the late 1960s explored art not only using ‘poor materials’ but also conceiving the image as a conscious action rather than a representation of ideas and concepts. Offering a contemporary transposition of their early subjects and practices, the exhibition reveals how these artists have continuously developed the energy and innovation of their poetics. The work ‘Ultramarine Blue While It Appears Towards Overseas’ by Giovanni Anselmo - especially conceived for this exhibition - reflects the artist’s commitment to create a work which must be ‘the physification of the force behind an action, of the energy of a situation or event ... More | | 
Bailly joins PEM's curatorial team following her post as the head of the American Art department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum announced the appointment of Austen Barron Bailly as the museum's first George Putnam Curator of American Art. Bailly joins PEM's curatorial team following her post as the head of the American Art department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and previous positions held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wildenstein & Co., Inc. in New York. Selected for her interdisciplinary and adventuresome curatorial approach, Bailly joins PEM at the cusp of the museum's landmark $650 million campaign and expansion project. In her curatorial capacity at PEM, Bailly will lead the development of a multi-faceted American art program focusing on exhibitions, new interpretation in the galleries, and expanding the museum's collection which currently includes paintings, decorative arts, photographs, folk ... More | | 
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush gestures while speaking at a news conference. AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek.
By: Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It might not be the White House, but former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will follow in his father's footsteps as head of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The younger Bush on Thursday was named the next chairman of the Philadelphia museum, a job former President George H.W. Bush held from 2007-2008. Another former president, Bill Clinton, has held the post the last four years. Bush, 59, said he feels a cultural shift brewing in the United States. He's been reading up on U.S. and world history to try to prepare for it. "I think ... there's going to be a time of cultural change in our country," Bush said, "and typically these have been done in ways that people didn't anticipate. "I want to learn about the past so I can think about the future," he said. But asked if a run for president is in his future in 2016, Bush demurred and ... More |
| Dazzling prices in £6m Bonhams Fine Jewellery Sale with over £1m for Van Cleef & Arpels brooch | | If you will it, it is not a dream: Yael Bartana opens solo exhibition at Vienna's Secession | | Portland Museum of Art breaks records for the month of November with Winslow Homer exhibition | 
A magnificent and rare art deco natural pearl, emerald and diamond brooch by Van Cleef & Arpels: £1,138,850. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A stunning pearl, diamond and emerald art deco brooch by the renowned jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels topped Bonhams Fine Jewellery sale, making £1,138,850, yesterday, 6th December 2012. The brooch, which was estimated at £250,000 – 350,000 was among several lots which far exceeded their estimates, in a sale which realised over £6 million and sold 93 per cent by value. In a packed saleroom, bidders entered a series of fierce battles for the striking designs and rare pieces. Among the most highly anticipated lots were several museum-quality pieces by Van Cleef & Arpels, the jeweller favoured by stars such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor. In addition to the exquisite brooch, designed as a geometric labyrinth of diamonds with two main pendants of emerald and pearl, two further Van Cleef & Arpels pieces made prices well over their estimates. A ruby and diamond bracelet from 1923 sold for £361,250 against a pre-sale estimate of £40,000 – 60,000 and ... More | | 
Yael Bartana, Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Traum, installation view Secession 2012. Photo: Oliver Ottenschlaeger. Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam & Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv & artist.
VIENNA.- “Are we bound forever to remain suspended in the limbo of the endless issues of our identity?” This is one of the questions put to Theodor Herzl and Sigmund Freud during the performance accompanying the opening of Yael Bartana’s exhibition Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Traum (If you will it, it is not a dream). Here, Yael Bartana addresses the spirits of two pioneers, Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl who, in different approaches sought to bring redemption to the individual and to the collective – and whom she declares the spiritual gods of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), which she founded in 2007. The founder of modern psychoanalysis and the visionary of a state for Jews lived just a couple of houses away from each other on Berggasse in Vienna, yet their paths never crossed. Yael Bartana thus brings them together in her installation Wenn ... More | | 
Winslow Homer, Saco Bay, 1896. Oil on canvas, 23 13/16 x 37 15/16 inches. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
PORTLAND, ME.- The Portland Museum of Art experienced its highest attended and most successful November. The popularity of the exhibition Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine drew more than 22,000 visitors and quadrupled the number of new members for the month. The PMA store partnered with local designers to create custom and limited edition Winslow Homer products that helped generate revenue double that of November 2011. Weatherbeaten stands to be the most popular fall exhibition in PMA’s history. Due to the success of the show, the PMA’s hours will be extended until 8 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, December 13 through the last day of the exhibition on December 30. Tickets are $17 for adults and reservations are recommended by calling (207) 775-6148. “This extraordinary Winslow Homer exhibition has been a huge success for the Portland Museum of Art and has had a significant cultural and economic imp ... More |
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 Winchester rifle belonging to "Doc" Carver, partner of Buffalo Bill, to be sold at auction LONDON.- A rifle that encapsulates the magic of the Wild West will be included in Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s final auction of 2012, of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles, which will take place on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London. Belonging to "Doc" Carver, "Champion Shot of the World", who was a well known sharpshooter and contemporary of Buffalo Bill Cody, the major parts are from a .44 wcf model 1873 lever action rifle and are estimated at £800-1,200. It is inscribed "Presented to My Friend Charles A. Gillig by Dr Wm F. Carver, Dec 14 1880". “Doc” Carver trained as a dentist, however it was his career as a showman and champion rifle shot for which he is remembered. As a friend of Cody's he acquired considerable notoriety as a rifle shot. Following his success he toured extensively and arrived in Europe in 1879 ... More Aargauer Kunsthaus opens survey of current art practices in the Canton of Aargau AARAU.- At the end of the year the Aargauer Kunsthaus belongs largely to the Aargau artists. 52 artists accepted the invitation extended by the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Aargauer Kuratorium to present their most recent work in the annual show. The resulting Auswahl 12 exhibition is a varied and stimulating survey of current art practices in the Canton of Aargau. Included in the exhibition is this year's guest artist, Anton Egloff. The annual exhibition provides an opportunity for local artists to present their latest work. Aargau artists can apply for inclusion in the exhibition as well as for work grants offered by the Aargauer Kuratorium. In October, two juries of experts, one selected by the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the other by the Aargauer Kuratorium, independently judged the submitted works. This year, a total of 231 artists have submitted their files. Out of these, 52 Aargau ... More Shortlist of The Art India Breakthrough Artist Award at the Skoda Prize announced NEW DELHI.- In 2011, The SKODA Prize platform was extended to create a prize for artists at the beginning of their careers with the Art India Breakthrough Artist Award at The Skoda Prize – which recognizes younger artists under the age of 35 who are selected on the basis of their debut solo exhibitions in India. The Art India Breakthrough Artist Award at The Skoda Prize is supported by Art India, which has been one of the most highly regarded art magazines in India for over a decade. Through its association with ART India, The SKODA Prize also supports the development of critical dialogue, and writing about Indian contemporary art. The Art India Breakthrough Artist Award at The Skoda Prize aims to showcase emerging artists who are at the beginning of their careers and to help them gain exposure to a wider audience. Madhuban Mitra and Manas Bhattacharya won the first Breakthrough ... More Pérez Art Museum Miami capital campaign receives $5 million contribution MIAMI, FL.- Miami Art Museum Director Thom Collins announced today that the Museum received a $5 million contribution to the capital campaign for its new, Herzog & de Meuron-designed facility, opening as Pérez Art Museum Miami in December 2013. The gift from Constance and Miguel B. ‘Mike’ Fernandez and family, Chairman, MBF Healthcare Partners, brings the total private donations raised to $75.5 million, exceeding the campaign’s bricks-and-mortar goal by over $3 million. “On behalf of the Museum and the public we serve, I want to express our gratitude to Mike Fernandez for his incredible generosity,” said Collins. “This community is so fortunate to have great leaders like Mike Fernandez who believe in the transformative role that a museum can play in the life of our city and who are willing to step up and invest to make this public resource a reality. With the funds for ... More Alaska reclaims missing moon rocks since 1973 ANCHORAGE (AP).- A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following the settlement of a lawsuit by a man who claimed he rescued the rocks from the rubble. State and federal officials at a news conference Thursday displayed the returned relic — tiny moon rocks encased in a golf ball-size acrylic glass ball and mounted on a walnut plaque above a small Alaska flag that traveled to the moon aboard Apollo 11. President Richard Nixon presented the plaque to Alaska Gov. Keith Miller in 1969. It was on display at the Alaska Transportation Museum in 1973 when an arsonist torched the building. Witnesses remembered seeing the plaque intact, but it disappeared until the foster son of the transportation museum director made a claim of ownership in 2010. Coleman Anderson, a vessel captain who ... More Navajo child's blanket leads Bonhams $1.28 million Native American Art Sale in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Bonhams announced its Native American Art auction, December 3 in San Francisco, achieved more than $1.28 million, with 90% of the lots sold. The sale brought strong bidding across categories, by clients in the auction room, as well as on the phones and Internet. The star lot of the auction was a very tightly woven Navajo classic child's blanket, featuring end bands of alternating chevrons and stripes and a diamond band center, in indigo, recarded pink, raveled cochineal-dyed and handspun yarns, sold for $60,000 (est. $20,000-40,000). The Weavings category of the sale also included many other examples that sold well, such as a Navajo late classic chief's blanket in a nine-spot pattern of diamond-form lozenges, overlaid on striped ground, sold for $17,500 (est. $10,000-15,000); a very tightly woven classic Saltillo blanket, with two sections joined at the center, ... 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