1:01 Curator Peter Jonathon Bell worked with museums in Berlin and across the country in order to bring this together, says Jill Dunne, director of marketing and communications. Bell s book of the same name is the basis for the exhibition. They tell the story of this historical moment when World War II was happening and the Nazis were involved in attempting to loot artworks, and talking about specific artwork that toured America in the 1940s and became the first blockbuster art exhibition that this country has ever seen.
Claude Lorrain (French, active in Italy, 1604–1682), An Artist Studying from Nature, 1639, oil on canvas.
From Op Art to NFTs, Heritage Auction s Modern & Contemporary event travels back to the future
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), CHOKK, 1976. Acrylic on canvas, 81 x 75 inches. Estimate: $200,000 - $300,000.
DALLAS, TX
.-Heritage Auctions May 13 Modern & Contemporary Signature Auction is a decidedly frisky peek at the past, present and future of the definition of art, spanning decades to include masterworks by revered pioneers, celebrated revolutionaries and treasured upstarts. The sale, open now, includes a beer can fashioned into a rattle by Alexander Calder in the 1940s, a hypnotic work made in the 1970s by Op art co-founder Victor Vasarely and three digital Everydays by coveted NFT world-shaker and headline-maker Beeple. And everything imaginable in between.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Sketch of conductor, attributed to Alfred Edward Chalon, 1840. Art Institute of Chicago, Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.
In 1557 the legal printer Richard Tottel published an auspicious volume of English poetry:
Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other, or as Thomas Warton, who wrote the first modern literary history in the late eighteenth century, called it, “the first printed miscellany of English poetry.” According to Warton, Tottel salvaged “many admirable specimens of antient genius” when he “collected at a critical period, and preserved in a printed volume” poems that had previously “mouldered in manuscript.”
tells the story of how and why some of the worldâs most iconic European paintings left Germany immediately after World War II and toured the United States in what became the first blockbuster art exhibition of our time. Walter Farmer, Cincinnatiâs own âMonuments Man,â played a central role in this pivotal episode in the history of art and war.
The exhibition can only be seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum from July 9âOct. 3, 2021.
During the final years of World War II, Allied forces endeavored to protect artworks, archives and monuments of historical and cultural significance across Europe, and they worked to return works looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners in the postwar period.
Galerie Gmurzynska opens its first New York exhibition dedicated to Arnulf Rainer
Arnulf Rainer, Übermalung, 1958. Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 66 cm, 20.28 x 25.98 inches.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Galerie Gmurzynska ispresenting its first New York exhibition dedicated to Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer, a key figure of Art Informel and one of the most influential living artists of our day. The works are on view from April 15th to June 12th at the flagship NYC location at 43 East 78th Street.
The oeuvre of Arnulf Rainer spans more than sixty years of a constant and committed research of the expressive possibilities of painting. From the beginning of his career, Rainer has been exploring and experimenting with different techniques and disciplines, especially drawing, printing techniques, photography and painting.