10 juin 2010

Inca artifact of a bone shawl pin adorned with two birds. Museum of Natural History. Photo: Yale Peabody/AP. NEW HAVEN (AP).- Incan artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago and held by Yale University belong to the people of Peru, U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd said Wednesday. Peru has had a lawsuit pending in federal court in Connecticut since 2008 demanding Yale return artifacts taken by scholar Hiram Bingham III between 1911 and 1915. Yale says it returned dozens of boxes of artifacts in 1921 and that Peru knew... [Lire la suite]

Titien - L'homme au gant. Palais Fesch - Musée des Beaux Arts AJACCIO [10.06.10] – Un portrait d’homme conservé au musée Fesch d’Ajaccio attribué à Titien, mais avec des réserves, vient d’être authentifié avec certitude comme étant de la main de l’artiste vénitien. Voilà une belle annonce pour la réouverture du musée Fesch d’Ajaccio rénové, qui devient le Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-Arts. « L’Homme au gant », un tableau longtemps attribué à Giorgione, puis à Titien vient d’être authentifié comme étant une œuvre de... [Lire la suite]

Shen Shaomin, Unknown Creature No. 18-Multiped, 2002. Bone, bonemeal, glue, 11 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 196 7/8 inches, (30x 50x 500 cm). Photo: Courtesy Eli Klein Fine Art. NEW YORK, NY.- Eli Klein Fine Art presents Shen Shaomin’s first solo exhibition in New York. A world renowned conceptual artist, Shen Shaomin pushes unconventional materials to new limits. His art comments on contemporary issues from politics to human nature. This exhibition will feature Shen Shaomin’s new bonsai ink paintings. These delicate paintings on silk are... [Lire la suite]

CARTIER. Importante bague en or gris composée de sept rangs de diamants de taille brillant. photo Aguttes Signée. Tour de doigt: 52 - Estimation : 8 000 / 8 500 € CARTIER. Broche en or gris ornée d'opales dans un entourage de diamants de taille huit-huit et de saphirs, rubis et améthystes cabochons. photo Aguttes Signée. Poids brut: 9gr - Estimation : 6 500 / 8 000 € CARTIER. Bague jonc en or jaune, décor facetté serti de diamants de taille ancienne. Vers 1940. photo Aguttes Signée. Poids brut: 14gr. Tour... [Lire la suite]

Jacopo Tintoretto, "Apollo (or Hymen) Crowning a Poet and Giving Him a Spouse". 1560s or 1570s, 8' 10" x 7' 9" (2.67m x 2.34m). Photo: National Trust/Hamilton Kerr Institute. DORSET.- A hidden painting by Jacopo Tintoretto, the last of the three great Venetian Renaissance painters, has gone on public display for the first time and can be seen at Kingston Lacy in Dorset. The painting has spent most of the last 30 years in storage but, following a major programme of cleaning and restoration, "Apollo (or... [Lire la suite]

Daniel Buren et Alberto Giacometti, Vue de l’exposition «Oeuvres contemporaines, 1964-1966», 2010. Courtesy Kamel Mennour/Fondation Giacometti, Paris © DB/ADAGP, Fondation Giacometti, Paris/Succession Giacometti, Paris, 2010/ADAGP; Photo: Jean-Pierre Lagiewski Faire se rencontrer l'oeuvre de deux artistes ne laisse parfois pas beaucoup d'alternative entre créer un dialogue (chercher l'affinité, la complémentarité ou la complicité des oeuvres entre elles) et jouer le repoussoir (exhausser les différences). A fortiori quand l'un... [Lire la suite]

Fingers belonging to Italian scientist Galileo are displayed in a reliquary at the Galileo Museum in Florence. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico FLORENCE (REUTERS).- A tooth, thumb and finger cut off from the body of renowned Italian scientist Galileo, who died in 1642, go on display this week in Florence after an art collector found them by chance last year. The body parts, along with another finger and a vertebrae, were cut from Galileo's corpse by scientists and historians during a burial ceremony 95 years after his death.... [Lire la suite]