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‘Violence’ moves NY museum to shut down anti-Trump art show

Feb 12, 2017

NEW YORK (AFP) -- A streaming video performance installation that aimed to provide a forum for anti-Trump expression was shut down after it became “a flashpoint for violence,” New York’s Museum of the Moving Image said Friday. The participatory project “He Will Not Divide US,” by actor Shia LaBeouf and two other artists, kicked off the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Jan. 20. It had intended...
Painting stolen by Nazis returned to Jewish owner’s heirs

Feb 9, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) - Some 80 years ago, the Nazis forced prominent German Jewish art gallery owner Max Stern to sell his family’s roughly 400-piece collection before he was exiled from his country. FBI agents on Wednesday returned one of those works, a 17th century oil painting by a Dutch master, to representatives of the Dr. and Mrs. Max Stern Foundation during a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Her...
Traveling exhibition features Rockwell‘s ‘Four Freedoms’

Feb 8, 2017

STOCKBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) - Norman Rockwell’s most celebrated series of paintings is embarking on a multiyear tour across the US and to Europe. The exhibit titled “Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms” opens June 2018 at the New York Historical Society and ends with a five-month run starting June 2020 at the Memorial de Caen museum in France. The exhibit features R...
New document by Chun Kyung-ja says ‘Beautiful Woman’ is fake

Feb 8, 2017

A document surfaced Tuesday that suggests “Beautiful Woman” might be a fake, in the latest twist in the decadeslong dispute over the painting‘s authenticity. The bereaved family and lawyers of renowned painter Chun Kyung-ja unveiled the notarized paper written by the painter herself, on which the artist reiterated her previous claim that she didn’t paint it. “An official at the Gwacheon branch ...
Original Korean musical to open off-Broadway

Feb 7, 2017

English-language version of psychological thriller will be performed by US cast
Stolen Van Goghs on show in Naples

Feb 7, 2017

NAPLES, Italy (AFP) -- Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam in 2002 and recovered last year in Italy will be on show in Naples from Tuesday until Feb. 26. The brief exhibition at the Capodimonte museum has been organized as a thank you to the southern city for the local police‘s role in tracking down the two small but hugely valuable and historically significant oil paintings. The work...
Vibrant Tate show traces of David Hockney’s artistic journey

Feb 7, 2017

LONDON (AP) - It’s not often an artist finds himself occupying 12 rooms of London’s leading museum of British art and the front page of populist tabloid The Sun. But David Hockney is unique. For curators of a major retrospective opening this week at Tate Britain, Hockney is an innovator whose 60-year career has taken in sketching, painting, printmaking, photography and digital iPad experiments. ...
Dutch city unveils ‘largest ever Mondrian painting’

Feb 6, 2017

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch officials unveiled Friday what they called “the largest Mondrian painting in the world” to celebrate the Netherlands’ best-known abstract artist, who helped found an influential art movement a century ago. The replica “painting” made from thin stick-on plastic sheets features Piet Mondrian’s famous design of straight black lines and striking red, yellow and ...
Rodin Museum fetes sculptor with passion-themed installation

Feb 6, 2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Auguste Rodin’s sensuous piece “The Kiss” will, fittingly, form the core of an installation at Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum centered on the theme of passion to mark the 100th anniversary of the French sculptor’s death. “The Kiss,” in marble, portrays a couple forever locked in an amorous embrace. The new installation’s marble, bronze and plaster casts feature pairings includin...
Art star Anish Kapoor wins $1m Jewish prize

Feb 6, 2017

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor was named on Monday as this year's winner of the million-dollar Genesis Prize, awarded for commitment to Israel and Judaism, organizers said. British-Indian Kapoor “is one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation,” they said in a statement. He won the prestigious Turner Prize in 1991 and was knighted in 2013. “Kapoor will use ...
Mozart meets his match: Stage hit ‘Amadeus’ comes to screen

Feb 5, 2017

LONDON (AP) -- For a play that makes audience members contemplate their own mediocrity, “Amadeus” is quite the crowd-pleaser. Britain’s National Theatre has a sold-out hit with a revival of Peter Shaffer’s play about bad-boy genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his jealous rival Antonio Salieri, composer to the 18th-century Viennese court. The production, which mixes actors, opera singers and a 2...
PyeongChang opens art biennale to add cultural ambiance to winter games

Feb 3, 2017

An international art festival to celebrate the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics will open in the eastern city of Gangneung next week as South Korea is looking for ways to make the global sports event rich with culture and art. The 2018 Winter Olympics will take place mainly in PyeongChang, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul, from Feb. 9 -25, but some of the events will also be held in the nei...
No more nerds, sex bombs: Female animators draw away cliches

Jan 25, 2017

SANTA CLARITA, California (AP) - The California Institute of the Arts was created partly by Walt Disney’s desire to bring more top-flight animators into the profession. And it has during its 47 years, though for a long time almost all were men. Now, nearly three-quarters of CalArts’ more than 250 animation students are women, and there’s a new goal: ensure that when they land jobs, they get to d...
UK’s Tate art galleries get first female chief

Jan 18, 2017

LONDON (AFP) - Britain’s prestigious Tate institution, which runs four of the country’s best known art galleries, announced Tuesday it would have its first female director with the appointment of Maria Balshaw. The 46-year-old will succeed Nicholas Serota in one of the most influential jobs in the country’s arts industry after transforming Manchester’s cultural landscape. “I am honored to be as...
Milan’s Brera protects artworks after humidity system fails

Jan 16, 2017

MILAN (AP) - Restorers at Milan’s famous Brera Art Gallery have taken measures to protect the collection after its humidity control system failed during a “once-in-a-decade” dry, cold spell that moved through Milan last weekend, officials said. Donato Bramante’s “Christ at the Column” and a Bastiani piece were removed from their exhibit spaces for immediate stabilization and 40 other artworks w...