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Article date: Friday, September 20, 2019

Getty to Devote $100 Million to Address Threats to the World's Ancient Cultural Heritage

The J. Paul Getty Trust will embark on an unprecedented and ambitious $100-million, decade-long global initiative to promote a greater understanding of the world’s cultural heritage and its universal value to society, including far-reaching education, research, and conservation efforts.

Article date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019

J. Paul Getty Medal Goes to Lorna Simpson, Ed Ruscha, and Mary Beard

More than 300 guests celebrated the presentation of the J. Paul Getty Medal to artists Ed Ruscha and Lorna Simpson and historian Mary Beard at a dinner at the Getty Center on Monday. The Getty Medal is the Getty’s highest honor, given annually to recognize extraordinary achievement in the fields of museology, art historical research, conservation science, and philanthropy, the founding interests of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Article date: Friday, September 13, 2019

Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece at the National Gallery of London

The Gallery becomes a painting studio, an imagined chapel and a room-sized experiment in this immersive exhibition that leads visitors through the mind of Leonardo da Vinci to explore his masterpiece, ‘The Virgin of the Rocks’.

Article date: Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Robert Frank, Trailblazing Photographer of American Life, Dies

Robert Frank, the Swiss-born photographer who captured the loneliness and heartache of life in his 1958 book “The Americans” and became a trailblazer for the Beat Generation, has died. He was 94.

Article date: Friday, September 6, 2019

LA Police Work to Track Down Owners of Stolen Art

The Los Angeles police department has launched a program to track down stolen art. Operation Demetra, named after a similar European task force, was launched in June after an auction house contacted police to say they had received a few paintings they suspected were stolen.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts

The Royal Academy of Arts unites Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. Explore more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

MCH Group Sells its Shares in India Art Fair

MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd, MCH Group company in Basel (Switzerland), is selling its 65.0 percent stake in Seventh Plane Networks Private Limited in New Delhi (India) to Angus Montgomery (HK) Limited based in Hong Kong.

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Peter Lindbergh the Legend of Fashion Photography Passes Away at 74

Fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh, whose trademark was the dramatic black and white portrait, has died at 74. The German photographer passed away on Tuesday, his official Instagram account said, leaving a "big void".

Article date: Wednesday, September 4, 2019

An Exhibition of Ukrainian Photographer Evgeny Pavlov "Freedom Street" Opens in Kyiv

The Freedom Street, a retrospective of the iconic Ukrainian artist Evgeny Pavlov opens in the independent art space Set on 12 September. The exhibition will feature photographic series from 1970 to 2003, archival materials and videos. Most of the works of Evgeny Pavlov in Kiev will be on display for the first time.

Article date: Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Tomás Saraceno - in orbit Installation at K21 Ständehaus

Suspended at a height of more than 25 m above the piazza of K21 is the enormous installation in orbit, a work by the artist Tomás Saraceno. The installation appears as a surreal landscape, and is reminiscent of a sea of clouds or floating planetary bodies. The physically accessible work is constructed of virtually transparent steel mesh that interlaces three levels spanning the massive glass dome. Five air-filled "spheres" are positioned within the net structure that encompasses an area of 2500 m².

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