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☆ What Maya Rudolph's SNL Impression Reveals About Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

And it has different meanings in African American English versus the Mainstream US English more likely spoken by white folks. So when white people unfamiliar with African American English hear that rise and fall, they think the speaker is being kind of argumentative. How "Black" Harris sounds, in other words, is in the ear of the beholder. In 2022, she compared the way Harris talks to audio clips of the comedian Maya Rudolph doing her impression of Harris on "Saturday Night Live." Just about anything Harris does, Rudolph does, too, but more so.

Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Trump, Harris, Nicole Holliday, Holliday, Barack Obama, MAGA, That's, Joe Biden, she's, —, Meryl Streep, Maya Rudolph, Rudolph, I'm, they're, — Harris, She'll, Adam Rogers Organizations: National Association of Black Journalists, Trump, UC Berkeley, Howard University, Howard, Business Locations: California, Oakland , California, Bay, Montreal, United States, Harris

☆ Steve Martin declines offer to play Tim Walz on 'Saturday Night Live': 'I’m not an impressionist'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

You won't see Steve Martin impersonate Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz when "Saturday Night Live" returns in the fall. "They definitely should get Steve Martin [to] play Tim Walz." "I would like to officially launch my campaign for Steve Martin to play @GovTimWalz on SNL. "I imagine a Tim Walz Father of the Bride Sketch with costar [Martin' Short. They’re gonna find somebody really, really good."

Persons: Steve Martin, Tim Walz, Lorne Michaels, Martin, Lorne, I’m, Kamala Harris, @GovTimWalz, Steve, They’re, Rudolph, Harris Organizations: Democratic, Los Angeles Times, SNL, Times, NBC Locations: Minnesota

☆ Forget the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre — here's what you need to do in Paris, according to someone who's been a dozen times.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Kelly Magyarics | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Read previewI've traveled around the world, but even after a dozen visits, Paris remains my favorite city. The Eiffel Tower is iconic, but the view from the Montparnasse Tower is equally stunningThe Montparnasse Tower offers panoramic views of Paris. AdvertisementBut if I were looking for Instagrammable views of Paris' most famous landmark, I'd head to the Montparnasse neighborhood. The rooftop terrace atop Paris' only skyscraper, Montparnasse Tower, has 360-degree city views and tons of space to spread out. It's scheduled to open later this year, and it's a must-see if you're visiting Paris for the first time.

Persons: —, I've, shomos uddin, Mona Lisa, Musée, Venus de Milo, Napoleon, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Les Catacombes, Miguel Sánchez Villafán, Jim Morrison's, I'd, Les, you've, Le, Le Mary Celeste, It's, Breizh Café, Kelly Magyarics Organizations: Service, Business, Eiffel, Gare d'Orsay, Cambridge Public House, Paris, Notre, Dame, Dame Cathedral, pes, Bretagne Locations: Paris, Montparnasse, d'Orsay, Musée d'Orsay, Gare, Père Lachaise, Le Marais, La, Montmartre, Brittany, France

☆ The ‘Olympic Picasso’ finally finds recognition for his athletics-inspired art
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In June, his work, “A Race Against Time” was featured alongside art world legends like Rembrandt, Rodin, Andy Warhol and Banksy in a weighty French tome called “Le Sport dans L ’Art” (Sport in Art). I was like, ‘Wow, how did this happen?’“I didn’t realize how much French artists and French movements had really influenced me as an artist. The ‘Olympic Picasso’ Roald Bradstock finally finds recognition for his athletics-inspired art. “I’d rather have somebody vomit next to my work than ignore it.”The ‘Olympic Picasso’ Roald Bradstock finally finds recognition for his athletics-inspired art. “He was always a big supporter of my Olympic career and supportive of my artistic abilities but was a little frustrated that I didn’t take to other languages,” he said.

Persons: Roald Bradstock, wasn’t, He’d, Paul Dickenson, Bradstock –, –, ”, Rembrandt, Rodin, Andy Warhol, Banksy, Pierre de Coubertin –, Bradstock, It’s, “, ” Bradstock, he’s, He’s, I’m, I’ve, Pierre de Coubertin Organizations: CNN, Beaux, Olympic, IOC, Artists, Impressionist, Los Angeles, Bradstock, Great Britain, London Games, CNN Sport, Southern Methodist University in Locations: British, Angeles, Seoul, Art, French, Paris, Great, Southern Methodist University in Texas

☆ Rouen fire: Blaze breaks out in spire of French cathedral
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Sophie Tanno | Chris Liakos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A fire broke out in the spire of the cathedral in the French city of Rouen on Thursday morning. The blaze erupted at the top of the spire of the gothic Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral in Rouen, in the northern region of Normandy. The prefecture confirmed on X that the cathedral was evacuated following the outbreak of the flames and that emergency services were working at the scene. “I turn around and I see the cathedral spire, the tarpaulin that was protecting the restoration work, which was burning, big flames, black smoke.”The construction of Rouen cathedral dates from the 12th century and it was built and rebuilt over a period of 800 years. This blaze comes five years after a massive fire broke out in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, devastating large parts of the 850-year-old church.

Persons: Stéphane, Patrick Waeselynck, ’ ”, Claude Monet Organizations: CNN, Assumption, Normandy’s, Reuters, Notre Dame Cathedral Locations: French, Rouen, Normandy, Normandy’s prefecture, Oise, Paris

☆ Time Traveling Through London With an Impressionist Painter
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Mike Ives | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the early 1870s, an émigré painter watched from a railway footbridge as a steam engine left a station on London’s suburban fringe. His name was Camille Pissarro and he was developing a style of plein-air painting that would soon be called “Impressionism.”Pissarro and a fellow émigré, Claude Monet, only stayed in London for a few months. By April 1874 they were among the painters holding the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris, the subject of a retrospective that runs until July 14 at the Musée d’Orsay and opens on Sept. 8 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. But London was one of their early muses. Monet painted the River Thames and the Palace of Westminster, among other central landmarks, while Pissarro captured scenes in suburbs where houses and train tracks were replacing forests and farmland.

Persons: Camille Pissarro, ” Pissarro, Claude Monet, Monet, Pissarro Organizations: National Gallery of Art, London Locations: London, Paris, Washington, Westminster

☆ Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi: 28 of her artworks mysteriously disappeared three decades ago. They’ve finally returned home to South Africa
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Gertrude Kitongo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —It was a phone call that changed everything. “We have some good news.”Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi had been waiting to hear those words for more than 30 years. Origins of an artistSebidi was born in 1943 near Hammanskraal, South Africa, north of Pretoria. One of artist Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi's early works, which often depict traditional, rural scenes of a time before European colonization came to the African continent. “We need those freedoms.”Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi’s exhibition is on display at the University of Johannesburg Art Gallery until May 17, 2024.

Persons: ”, Helen Sebidi, ” Sebidi, Sebidi, “, John Koenakeefe Mohl, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi “, Mark Read, Everard, “ Helen, Read, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi's, Helen Sebidi “, –, – Sebidi, Kim Berman, ’, Helen Sebidi's, Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Sebedi, Gabriel Baard, ” Baard, ” Berman, Thabo Mbeki –, Jesper Osterberg, Gabriel Baard Baard, Everard Read, Helen Sebidi’s Organizations: South Africa CNN, South, CNN, Johannesburg Art Foundation, Everard Read, Galleries, Federated Union of Black Artists, Millary Colony, Arts, Nyköping Folk, School, University of Johannesburg, “, Smithsonian, Folk High School, Swiss Air Freight, University of Johannesburg Art, Swedish Embassy Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa, Sweden, Hammanskraal, Pretoria, New York, Swedish, Nyköping, Black, “, Stockholm, Sebidi

☆ Sexism, Cheating, and Nightclubs: Inside the Dark Heart of Chess
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Socialites are playing chess on "The Real Housewives of New York City." In 1990, according to the US Chess Federation, only 4% of chess players were women. Out in the world, chess' resurgence has been accompanied by a wave of new clubs and events. I made a pilgrimage to the Marshall Chess Club, a 109-year-old institution in Greenwich Village. The following evening, I went to an East Village bar and found a very different scene at Club Chess.

Persons: we'd, she'd, I'd, festers, Judit Polgár, Gary Kasparov, —, Juliana Gallin, Jennifer Shahade, Alejandro Ramírez, Ramírez —, Ramírez, Shahade, Levy, Hikaru Nakamura, Rey, Anna Cramling, Miguel Pereira, Cramling, Nakamura, Bill Withers, Frank Marshall, Alexander Luke Bahta —, athleisure, you've, it's, Magnus Carlsen, Hans Niemann, Carlsen, Niemann, Dean Mouhtaropoulos, I've, Kasparov, they're, Vladimir Kramnik, Chess.com, Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Dan Timbrell, doesn't Organizations: Mechanics ' Institute, Housewives, New, US Chess Federation, FIDE, Washington Post, Marshall Chess Club, Chess, The Guardian, New York, whacking, Computer, YouTube Locations: San Francisco, New York City, Berkeley , California, Greenwich Village, hipsters, American, East, Canadian, Romanian, Netherlands, It's, New York, Russian

☆ The US was getting too expensive. So this artist relocated to France for a slower-paced life
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Ditching the US and relocating close to the French Pyrenees wasn’t part of Taylor Barnes’ life plan. ‘Visually inspiring’US artist Taylor Barnes, from Los Angeles, relocated to the medieval village of Saissac close to the French Pyrenees in 2021. Taylor Barnes“I considered, among many things, where I would like to live out the last quarter of my life,” Barnes tells CNN. Cozy hideawayIn 2019, Barnes bought an abandoned crawfish restaurant and converted it into a residency for artists. Since moving to Saissac, Barnes says she has happily embraced a slower-paced lifestyle.

Persons: Taylor Barnes, Barnes, Taylor Barnes “, ” Barnes, “, ”, she’d, Cozy hideaway, Dennis Miranda Zamorano, Sonya, Berger Blanc, apéros, She’s, it’s, Carte, Barnes isn’t Organizations: CNN, Berger Blanc Suisse, Barnes Locations: Los Angeles, Saissac, Aude, France, Montagne, French, California, Spain, Saissac ., England, Ireland, Netherlands, America

☆ US Constitution encasement vandalized with red powder at National Archives
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Angela Fritz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release. “The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. The individuals were immediately detained by security at the time of the incident, around 2:30 p.m., and officials are investigating, the Archives said. The National Archives Rotunda will remain closed for cleaning Thursday, the Archives said, but the rest of the National Archives Building will be open on its regular schedule. The Constitution is on permanent display as part of the “Charters of Freedom” exhibit showing the United States’ founding documents, along with the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

Persons: Colleen Shogan, Vincent van Gogh’s, ”, Claude Monet, of, Alicia Jennings, Rashard Rose, Laura Paddison Organizations: CNN, Archives, United, National Locations: Washington , DC, Giverny, “, United States

☆ Opinion | Mighty Shiva Was Never Meant to Live in Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Erin Thompson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“Museums have lots and lots of stuff,” I usually answer, fighting the urge to roll my eyes. Now Manhattan’s Rubin Museum of Art, which features art from the Himalayas, has announced that it will close later this year. But looted artifacts alone — removed from their original context, quarantined in an antiseptic display case — cannot do this. Unlike, say, Impressionist paintings or Pop Art sculptures, ritual objects were not meant to be seen in a gallery at a time of the viewer’s choosing. Used alongside music, scents and tastes, these holy relics are tools to help participants in rituals achieve a transcendent experience.

Persons: It’s, Manhattan’s Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of, Museum of Art Locations: Cambodia

LONDON (AP) — A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch 50 million pounds ($64 million) at auction next month. Christie’s auction house announced Saturday that it will offer “L’ami intime” (The Intimate Friend) at a March 7 sale in London marking a century of the surrealist movement in art. The painting includes several of the Belgian artist’s signature motifs, including a bowler-hatted man and fluffy white clouds on a blue sky. Last exhibited publicly in Brussels in 1998, it’s being auctioned for the first time since 1980, and has a pre-sale estimate of between 30 million and 50 million pounds ($38 million and $64 million). Camu said Magritte, who died in 1967, has become the most “in-demand” of all the surrealists.

Persons: René Magritte, hasn’t, Olivier Camu, Magritte, Last, it’s, Andre Breton’s, ” Camu, Camu, Salvador Dali, “ Magritte, —, “, ”, Gilbert Kaplan —, Lena Kaplan Locations: London, Belgian, Brussels, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong

☆ Jewish groups in Spain are troubled by their government's decision to cling onto a painting looted by the Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The decision has appalled the family, and those in the Jewish community. Spain's leading Jewish organization has long supported the family's legal fight to wrest the painting from the Spanish museum that holds it. AdvertisementThe museum, for its part, welcomed the US court's decision, while declining to comment on the views of the Jewish community in Spain. Californian law doesn't give owners rights over stolen goods. But in Spain, if you buy stolen goods in good faith, you have stronger claims.

Persons: —, Spain's, Bernardo Cremades, Lilly Neubauer, Camille Pissarro, Neubauer, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, We've, Cremades, Francisco Franco, Cornelis van der, Ramón, Ernest Urtasun, Consuelo Callahan Organizations: Service, Business, Federation of Jewish Communities, Federation of Young, Saint, Guardian, Museo Nacional Thyssen, Bornemisza, Los Angeles Times, Circuit, Appeals, Spanish, El, BI Locations: California, Spain, Germany, Spanish, Bornemisza, Madrid, Basque

☆ Spanish museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US court rules
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Reuters —A US appeals court said on Tuesday that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum may keep a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro that the Nazis looted from a Jewish woman, rejecting an ownership claim that her heirs have pursued for more than two decades. The 3-0 decision by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, came in one of the oldest Nazi art theft cases, which began in 2005 and reached the US Supreme Court two years ago. After learning where the painting was, Neubauer’s grandson, Claude Cassirer, petitioned for its return in 2001, and sued four years later. The painting (far right) on display at Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, which acquired the work in 1993. The decision came two years after the Supreme Court threw out an earlier 9th Circuit decision because it misapplied choice-of-law rules.

Persons: Madrid’s Thyssen, Camille Pissarro, “, “ Rue Saint Honore, pluie, Rue, Rue Saint Honore, Lilly Neubauer, Thyssen, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, Neubauer’s, Claude Cassirer, David, Madrid's Thyssen, Susana Vera, Judge Carlos Bea, Consuelo Callahan, ”, Spain’s, Thaddeus Stauber Organizations: Reuters, 9th, Supreme Court, “ Rue Saint, Rue Saint, Bornemisza, United Jewish Federation of San Locations: Bornemisza, Pasadena , California, Paris, Nazi Germany, United Jewish Federation of San Diego County, California, Spain, Nazi

☆ Spain Museum Can Keep Nazi-Looted Painting, Judges Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A US court said Spain could keep a priceless painting looted by the Nazis from its Jewish owner. The Spanish-backed nonprofit didn't know the painting was looted when it bought the collection, the judges said, giving it a stronger claim within Spanish law. Advertisement"Under California law the plaintiffs would recover the art, while under Spanish law they would not," they wrote. "Thus, Spanish law must apply." It argued that neither the Spanish state-backed nonprofit nor Thyssen-Bornemisza knew the painting was stolen when he bought it.

Persons: —, Lilly Neubauer, Camille Pissarro's, Neubauer, Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen, Bornemisza, Claude Cassirer, Sam Dubbin, Spain's, Consuelo Callahan Organizations: Service, Saint, Business, Madrid's, Nacional Thyssen, Guardian, Madrid's Museo Nacional Thyssen, US, Appeals, Art, Los Angeles Times, Thyssen, Times Locations: Spain, Germany, Paris, Pissarro's, Spanish, California

☆ ‘The Hesitant Fiancée’s’ 19th-century eye-roll is connecting with fed-up women on TikTok
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

She’s “The Hesitant Fiancée,” the eponymous subject of the painter Auguste Toulmouche’s 1866 painting. Toulmouche wasn’t a feminist painter, but his work speaks to women todayToulmouche painted scenes of elegant, wealthy French women in domestic settings, often chronicling their romantic exploits. The seated woman in "The Hesitant Fiancée" has inspired TikTok users to create memes based on their own eye roll-worthy moments when they had to swallow their anger. Auguste Toulmouche/From WikipediaWhile Toulmouche was “by no means a painter of feminist art,” Brown said, the women in his paintings are interpreted today as slyly subversive. “Read as a narrative that unfolds across the two works, it looks like the young woman from ‘Forbidden Fruit’ knows what’s about to happen to her.”‘The Hesitant Fiancée’ is courting TikTok fansThe revival of “The Hesitant Fiancée” has been centuries in the making.

Persons: she’s, Auguste Toulmouche’s, She’s, “, Fiancée ”, Kathryn Brown, ”, Brown, Toulmouche wasn’t, Émile Zola, ” Brown, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Auguste Toulmouche, Toulmouche, They’ve, —, that’s, “ Read, TikTok, Kira, @TheArtRevival, Tatyana, Art, would’ve, who’s, ” Kira Organizations: CNN, Loughborough University, Beaux, Arts ’ Paris Salon, Toulmouche Locations: ”, France

☆ Matisse and Derain: The Audacious ‘Wild Beasts’ of Fauvism in a Radiant Show
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Roberta Smith | More About Roberta Smith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you ever took an art history survey in college, you may recall the blur of Fauvism. Fauvism, which lasted from about 1904 to 1908, is the first and probably the shortest of Modernism’s art movements. It is also one of the messiest, populated by a shifting cast of painters and locales. It lacks a manifesto or statement of goals, or even much stylistic coherence, and its tortuous buildup may have been longer than the trend itself. But in at least two ways the achievement of “les Fauves,” or “the wild beasts,” a term coined by the French critic Louis Vauxcelles — is foundational to modernist painting.

Persons: Picasso’s, Louis Vauxcelles —, Seurat, Cézanne, van Gogh Locations: French

☆ A beginner's guide to investing in art — that won't break the bank
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Lucy Handley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Will Ramsay, founder and CEO of the Affordable Art Fair, which puts on exhibits worldwide, said collecting art is easier than people might think. However, contemporary art is likely to increase in value over the long term, Diament said. There's also a satisfaction in buying something from a living artist, Diament said. "Some people like color, other people like to focus on drawings without color … you have people who collect just one artist," Taylor said. Provenance — which refers to the history and ownership of a piece — is often an important consideration when buying art.

Persons: Nicholas Bowlby, Puja Bhatia, You've, Karen Taylor, Taylor, Maria Artool, Will Ramsay, Robert Diament, Diament, you'll, Tracey Emin, Carlotta Cardana, There's, Knight Frank, Knight, Ramsay, Eileen Agar, Jeff Spicer, George Romney, Voltaire, Magda Archer, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Carl Freedman, Benjamin Senior, Richard Parkes Bonington, Judith Burrows, he'd, It's, Artool, Isabelle Paagman, Sotheby's, Paagman, Shepard Fairey Organizations: CNBC, Fair, of, Bloomberg, Getty, Knight, Investment, Art Market Research, Whitechapel Gallery, Art, San, Wallace Locations: London, U.K, British, Austin, Berlin, Brisbane, Latvian, Britain, Venice, American, Europe, Italy, Paris, France

☆ Amid Criticism, a Museum Says It Must Sell Its Cézannes to Survive
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Catherine Hickley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

One of the Cézannes in particular, a still life titled “Fruits et pot de gingembre,” is a highlight of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, which houses a small collection of Impressionist works. The museum said it was financially necessary to sell the painting, and perhaps two others, to keep the foundation that owns it from insolvency. The still life is estimated to fetch $35 million to $55 million at an auction on Thursday at Christie’s in New York. “Bequests and donations come to museums because people think they will be safe,” said Bezzola, who argued the sale should be canceled. “All the important collections in Switzerland come from private donations and bequests, so this sends a terrible signal.”

Persons: Paul Cézanne, Tobia Bezzola, ”, Bezzola Organizations: International Council of Museums Locations: Swiss, Baden, Christie’s, New York, Switzerland

☆ Monet painting to go on sale at Paris auction for first time in decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Drouot employee poses with the painting "Les Saules, Giverny, 1886" (The Willows, Giverny), by painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) ahead of its auction at Drouot auction house in Paris, France, November 3, 2023. The landscape "Les Saules, Giverny" ("The Willows, Giverny"), dating from 1886, is reappearing on the French art market, where Monet’s paintings have become increasingly rare. "Paintings of Claude Monet of this scale, of this dimension no longer really exist among French families. Though not as famous as Monet's water lilies or the Gare Saint Lazare paintings, which can command prices reaching 100 million euros, "Les Saules, Giverny" bears the artist's trademark style. "It's an oeuvre typical of Claude Monet, notably by the brush strokes and how he makes the light come out," Nordmann said.

Persons: Claude Monet, Abdul Saboor, Ader, They're, David Nordmann, Les, Nordmann, Monet, Mary Cassatt, Clotaire Achi, Michaela Cabrera, Dominique Vidalon, Bill Berkrot Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Reuters, Saint Lazare, Thomson Locations: Giverny, Paris, France, Nice, American

☆ Unseen Monet painting expected to fetch more than $65 million at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A previously unseen painting by Claude Monet is expected to fetch more than $65 million when it goes on sale in New York early next month, according to a statement released by Christie’s auction house. Entitled “Le bassin aux nymphéas” or “Water lily pond,” the two-meter- (6.6-foot-) wide painting forms part of Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” series, depicting light dappling across the water, casting reflections of water lilies and willow trees. Painted around 1917-1919, it dates from the latter period of Monet’s life, as he produced a series of works depicting water lilies that now hang in museums worldwide. Significant Monet paintings have previously fetched eye-watering sums of money at auction. Another in the “Water Lilies” series sold for $84.7 million at Christie’s in May 2018, while a painting from the “Haystacks” series sold for $110.7 million at Sotheby’s a year later.

Persons: Claude Monet, “, nature’s, ” Max Carter, Monet, ” Carter, Vincent van Gogh, Jackson Pollock Organizations: CNN, Century, Christie’s Locations: New York, Monet’s, Sotheby’s

☆ Sharon Stone debuts new art exhibition
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Helen Stoilas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Greenwich, Connecticut CNN —Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. “I just get in this kind of trance,” Stone said of her daily painting practice during an interview with CNN. Courtesy C. Parker GalleryMany of the works in the show draw on social issues, as well as personal experience. “I created these works to understand the essence of pure creativity that comes from heartfelt truth,” Stone said in a statement accompanying the exhibition. ChiChi Ubina/Courtesy C. Parker GalleryStone now spends much of her time in the studio trying to translate how she sees the world onto canvas.

Persons: Sharon Stone, hasn’t, “, ” Stone, ” Sharon Stone's, Stone, Parker, ”, Tiffany Benincasa, ” Benincasa, Vonne, lockdowns, CNN’s Chris Wallace, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miró, “ Amelia, Amelia Earhart, Claude Monet, Giverny ”, Claude Monet’s Organizations: Greenwich , Connecticut CNN, CNN, Parker, of Affairs, Edinboro University Locations: Greenwich , Connecticut, Jerusalem, Israel, Greenwich, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, Giverny, France

☆ Auction features items from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ Jackie Kennedy, British royals
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Alicia Powell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

“They're very rare,” said David Lowenherz, the owner of Lion Heart Autographs, the collectors running this auction. “They are virtually unheard of in any kind of...private collection,” he said of the printed scores that were using during the production of the 1939 classic. The auction, the largest Lion Heart Autographs has held and due to run until Nov. 1, includes other memorabilia. A holiday card issued by the royal family in 1980 and signed by the Queen Mother shows her standing beside her daughters, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret. Another item is a 1987 letter by Jackie Kennedy, wife of former President John F. Kennedy, on plans for Pennsylvania Avenue and signed, “affectionately, Jackie.”The auction also features a letter signed by Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who founded the modern state of Israel in 1948.

Persons: Oz, ”, Jackie Kennedy, Queen Mother, Ray Bolger, They’re, “, David Lowenherz, Lion, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, John F, Kennedy, Jackie, Israel’s, David Ben, Gurion, Giuseppe Verdi, English, Anna Bishop, Claude Monet, Napoleon Bonaparte’s, Alicia Powell, Christina Anagnostopoulos, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Pennsylvania, Neapolitan Press, Thomson Locations: Oz, Israel, Italian, Russia

☆ One family’s battle to be reunited with art looted by the Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Aurore Laborie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The lawyer — Laurence Eisenstein, whose firm works to recover artwork looted by the Nazis — said he’d been speaking to a British scholar who’d come across the name René Gimpel in art collectors’ archives. Thousands of objects lost or lootedAs well as being a famous gallerist of his time, René Gimpel was a very well-connected man. Captured sometime between 1916 and 1933, it showed the three Derain paintings in question hanging on the art dealer’s wall. In 2020, seven years after they began their fight, the Gimpel heirs were finally reunited with the three Derain paintings. Dumas said this is often not the case for Jewish families trying to recover their ancestors’ stolen art.

Persons: Claire Gimpel’s, — Laurence Eisenstein, —, he’d, who’d, René, Eisenstein, Claire, Ian Locke, ” Claire, he’s, André Derain, Claude Monet, René Gimpel, Clarisse Vuitton, Louis Vuitton’s, Monet, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Johannes Vermeer, ”, Monte, Odile Firer, — René, — Locke, Hôtel Doucet, ’, “ I’m, Palais Bourbon —, Locke, “, Crécy, Corinne Hershkovitch, ” Hershkovitch, Sarah Tilotta, Margaux Dumas, Diderot, Derain, Benoît Payan, Payan, Dumas, Marseille's, Benoit Payan, Gimpel, Alain Robert, SIPA, They’re Organizations: France CNN —, CNN, Gestapo, Europe —, Palais Bourbon, Chapelle, Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Culture, University Paris, Technical University Berlin, Smithsonian Archives, American Art, Mayor, French Ministry of, Belgium ”, ” Locations: Paris, France, British, French, Gimpel, Vichy France, Cannes, French Vichy, Neuengamme, Hamburg, Europe, Spontini, German, Nice, Troyes, Marseille, René’s Paris, Vichy, Belgium

PARIS (AP) — Planted in a field, Vincent van Gogh painted furiously, bending the thick oils, riotous yellows and sumptuous blues to his will. And it had a doctor who specialized in depression, Paul Gachet, who took Van Gogh on as a patient. The exhibit includes 11 paintings that Van Gogh painted on unusual elongated canvases, experimenting to stunning effect. Another version of the exhibition, with 10 of the elongated canvases, was first shown at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum earlier this year. “It’s a real fireworks show.”"Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: The Final Months" runs at the Musée d'Orsay through Feb. 4, 2024.

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