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☆ Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ could fetch $95M at Christie’s New York auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-22 | by ( Carlie Porterfield | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A rare painting from René Magritte’s famous “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York this fall, a sum that would break the Surrealist artist’s record at auction and represent a major win for the auction house after softened sales across the industry. “L’empire des lumières,” from 1954, is one of the 27 paintings in which Magritte explored light by painting a sunlit sky above a darkened street scene. René Magritte's L'empire des lumières Courtesy of Chrstie’sThe present painting comes from the estate of the late Mica Ertegun, an interior designer who was married to Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records and a prolific art collector. “But of all the works she lived with, Magritte’s ‘L’empire des lumières’ most nearly captures her aesthetic philosophy in its balance and restraint,” Max Carter, Christie’s vice chairman of 20th and 21st century art, said in a statement. Last week, the auction house revealed it is acquiring Gooding & Company, a collector car auctioneer, 17 years after exiting the car market.

Persons: René, Magritte, Mica Ertegun, Ahmet Ertegun, Joan Miró, David Hockney, Ertegun, Andy Warhol, Magritte’s, ” Max Carter, Ertegun Magritte, Christie’s Organizations: The Art, CNN, Christie’s, Belgian, Atlantic Records, Humanities, Oxford University , Jazz, Lincoln Center, Fund, Gooding & Company Locations: York, ”, Sotheby’s, London, New York

☆ Seven Seas Splendor: World cruise offers swanky suite for $1.7 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The cruise line is pitching this 2027 voyage as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” on board its Seven Seas Splendor liner. The living room area of the Regent Suite, available for $1.7 million on Regent Seven Seas Cruises' upcoming 2027 world cruise. Onboard decadenceWhether guests opt for the Regent Suite or not, prospective Regent Seven Seas Cruises travelers should expect onboard decadence. Cruise line president DeMarco told CNN Travel that the fact Regent Seven Seas’ world cruise is “truly all-inclusive” means there’s “value” associated with these high costs. The cruise line is currently operating a sold-out 2024 world cruise on board its Seven Seas Mariner cruise ship, while its 2025 world cruise also sold out in what Regent Seven Seas’ claimed was “record time.” The cruise line’s 2026 world voyage still has suites available at time of writing.

Persons: CNN —, Andrea DeMarco, there’s, DeMarco, Joan Miró, Picasso, filet mignon Organizations: CNN, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, CNN Travel, Regent, Regent Seven, Suite, Regent Seven Seas, Seas, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Seven Seas, Seven Locations: Bali , Sydney, Mumbai

OVIEDO, Spain (AP) — American actor Meryl Streep on Friday received Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Arts Award at a ceremony presided over by the Spanish royal family in the northern city of Oviedo. “Empathy may be a radical form of outreach and diplomacy useful in other theaters of endeavor” she said. Others honored at the ceremony were bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami, who won the literature prize and U.S. biologists Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg and Bonnie Bassler, who received the scientific and technical research prize. Sports award winner, Kenyan marathon legend Eliud Kipchoge, said in a speech that running for him was much more than a physical exercise. “We must make our world a running world, because a running world is a happy world.

Persons: Meryl Streep, Streep, “, Haruki Murakami, Jeffrey Gordon, Peter Greenberg, Bonnie Bassler, Gordon, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Nuccio Ordine, Eliud Kipchoge, ”, Joan Miró, Princess Leonor, _____ Ciarán Giles Organizations: Asturias Arts, Diseases, Sports, Kenyan Locations: OVIEDO, Spain, American, Oviedo, Scottish, Spanish Catalan, Madrid

☆ 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

☆ A $120 million megayacht linked to a Russian billionaire was seized by authorities, and now residents of a small Caribbean nation are paying $28,000-a-week to maintain it, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A $120 million megayacht linked to a Russian billionaire has been docked in Antigua and Barbuda for 19 months. Now taxpayers in the small country are paying $28,000-a-week to maintain the idle vessel, per the WSJ. The Alfa Nero is a $120 million vessel that was raided by armed police and the FBI in August 2022, having been left in Antigua's Falmouth Harbor since Russia invaded Ukraine six months earlier. The US Treasury Department has linked the Alfa Nero to Andrey Guryev , a Russian oligarch who the department says is a "close associate" of Vladimir Putin. The Journal reports that the country's residents are paying $28,000-a-week in taxes to maintain the Alfa Nero, including the salary of an Italian captain and $2,000-a-day in diesel to keep its air conditioning running.

Persons: Nero, Alfa Nero, Andrey Guryev, Vladimir Putin, Eric Schmidt, Guryev's, it's, Joan Miró, Tom Paterson Organizations: Service, Street Journal, FBI, US Treasury Department, Bloomberg, Alfa, Guardian, Google Locations: Russian, Antigua, Barbuda, Caribbean, Wall, Silicon, Antigua's Falmouth Harbor, Russia, Ukraine, Falmouth Harbor, Italian

☆ Why Miró’s Yellows Have Lost Their Brilliance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Katherine Kornei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” there’s no shortage of seminal artwork that was made with a striking hue known as cadmium yellow. But that riot of color that artists squeezed from their paint tubes isn’t necessarily what museum goers see today: cadmium yellow’s brilliance often diminishes over time, as the paint fades and turns chalky. A team of art conservators and scientists recently analyzed bits of degraded cadmium yellow paint taken from pieces painted by the Spanish artist Joan Miró in the 1970s. Cadmium yellow paint is an amalgam primarily of cadmium and sulfur. Miró described the color as “splendid.” Tubes of cadmium yellow paint, including Cadmium Yellow Lemon No.1 produced by the Parisian manufacturer Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet, litter Miró’s two studios in Mallorca, Spain.

Persons: Edvard Munch’s “, ”, Joan Miró, Miró, Lucien Lefebvre, Mar Gómez Lobón, Pilar, Joan Miro Organizations: Heritage, Mar Locations: Spanish, Mallorca, Spain

☆ A Local’s Guide to Majorca
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Gisela Williams | Richard Pedaline | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

T’s new monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Majorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, has been a classic summer destination for Europeans and Brits for decades. In the last few years, a number of artists and designers have left larger cities in Europe and moved to Majorca. For the first installment of our series of Flocking To travel guides, we asked four locals or frequent visitors to Majorca to share the places they love most. One word of advice for first-time visitors: Majorca sprawls across roughly 1,400 square miles (it’s about the size of Long Island), so if you’re planning on exploring, you might want to rent a car.

Persons: helipads, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Deià —, Gertrude Stein —, Joan Miró, Miquel Barceló, ikat Locations: Majorca, Balearic, Polish, French, Valldemossa, British, American, Deià, Barcelona, Palma ., Asia, Europe, Sóller, Palma’s Old, Long

☆ Why Remedios Varo, one of the ‘three witches’ of surrealism, continues to fascinate today
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Like many of her contemporaries, Varo fled Europe as war bore down on the continent, arriving in Mexico in 1941. It took more than a decade for her to exhibit her work there, but when she did, she left her mark. Alchemy and artistryDuring her life in Mexico City, Varo bonded with fellow artist Carrington and photographer Kati Horna. Remedios Varo/ARS, New York/VEGAP, Madrid/Art Institute of ChicagoVaro’s sense of humor periodically cuts through in her work. You see that on the surface of her work, with story and material coming together into one unified composition.

Persons: CNN —, Remedios Varo —, —, los Remedios Alicia y Rodriga, Uranga —, André Breton, Varo, Juliana, Remedios Varo, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Max Ernst, ”, Varo’s, “ Remedios Varo, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Caitlin Haskell, Tere Arcq, El Juglar, “, ” Haskell, Walter Gruen, Carrington, Kati Horna, George Gurdjieff, El, Rodrigo Chapa, Katrina Rush Organizations: CNN, Mexico City, Artists Rights Society, Art Institute of Chicago, Arte Moderno, York’s Museum of Modern, Art Institute Locations: Mexico, Spanish, Paris, Europe, New York, Madrid, Varo’s, Mexico —, United States, El, Mexico City, Venice, Ciencia

☆ Spanish police nab art thieves, recover 100-year old Dali drawings
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A Mosso d'Esquadra police officer handles a recovered charcoal drawing by Spanish artist Salvador Dali that had been stolen in Barcelona, Spain, in this handout photo released on February 17, 2023. Mossos d'Esquadra/Handout via REUTERSBARCELONA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Spanish police have recovered two 100-year-old drawings by surrealist painter Salvador Dali that were stolen last year in a burglary in Barcelona. They also seized other art works including graphic works by fellow Spanish artist Joan Miro, luxury watches and valuable coins and banknotes. The art works - two dark rural sceneries drawn on brown paper - were authenticated by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, which holds the rights on the late painter's works, police said. The three brothers are alleged by Catalan police to have specifically targeted homes in the Barcelona region with art works and collections of coins and other antiques.

☆ Creatorii vaccinului anti-COVID-19, recompensaţi cu Premiul Prinţesa de Asturias pentru Cercetare Ştiinţifică şi Tehnică pe anul 2021
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-23 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +3 min

Şapte cercetători care au dezvoltat câteva dintre vaccinurile împotriva COVID-19 au fost recompensaţi miercuri cu premiul Prinţesa de Asturias pentru Cercetare Ştiinţifică şi Tehnică pe anul 2021, la care optau 48 de aspiranţi de 17 naţionalităţi, relatează EFE.Cercetătorii recompensaţi sunt biologul ungar Katalin Karikó; imunologul american Drew Weissman; medicii germani Ugur Sahin şi Ozlem Tureci; biologul canadian Derrick Rossi; vaccinologul britanic Sarah Gilbert şi biochimistul american Philip Felgner, scrie agerpres.ro Potrivit deciziei juriului prezidat de fizicianul spaniol activitatea celor şapte cercetători constituie un excelente exemplu al importanţei ştiinţei de bază pentru a ajuta la protejarea sănătăţii la scară globală.Conform membrilor juriului, cercetătorii recompensaţi anul acesta au condus, prin activitatea lor îndelungată în cercetările de bază, la aplicaţii inovatoare precum obţinerea într-un timp extraordinar de scurt, de vaccinuri eficiente pentru a lupta împotriva pandemiei de COVID-19.Decizia juriului arată totodată că dezvoltarea tehnologiei inovatoare a ARN mesager, precum şi producţia de vaccinuri bazate pe adenovirus, deschid calea plină de speranţă spre utilizarea lor în alte boli infecţioase.Anul trecut, matematicienii francezi Yves Meyer şi Emmanuel Candes, belgianca Ingrid Daubechies şi australianul Terence Tao au fost recompensaţi împreună cu acest premiu pentru contribuţiile lor revoluţionare şi importante la teoriile şi tehnicile moderne de procesare matematică a datelor şi semnalelor.Este cel de-al şaselea premiu Prinţesa de Asturias decernat miercurea acestea după premiul pentru Arte acordat artistei sârbe Marina Abramovic, pentru cariera sa de peste 50 de ani în arta performativă, premiul pentru Comunicare şi Ştiinţe Umane acordat ziaristei şi scriitoarei americane Gloria Steinem, simbol al feminismul în SUA; premiului pentru pentru Literatură cu care a fost recompensat Emmanuel Carrere, jurnalist, scriitor, scenarist, critic şi regizor francez şi premiului pentru Cooperare Internaţională, acordat pe 16 iunie organizaţiei CAMFED (Campaign for Female Education o Campana para la Escolarización Femenina) mişcare panafricană ce investeşte în educaţia tinerelor şi a fetelor.Ceremonia de înmânare a premiilor Prinţesa de Asturias va avea lor în octombrie la Oviedo, într-o gală solemnă prezidată de regii Spaniei. Premiile Prinţesa de Asturias sunt atribuite anual unor personalităţi din domenii foarte diverse: arte, cooperare internaţională, ştiinţe sociale, comunicare, sporturi, cercetare ştiinţifică şi litere.Fiecare premiu Prinţesa de Asturias constă într-o reproducere a statuetei concepute de Joan Miro - simbol reprezentativ al premiului - un cec în valoare de 50.000 de euro, o diplomă şi o insignă.

Persons: Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman, canadian Derrick Rossi, Sarah Gilbert, american Philip Felgner, Yves Meyer, Emmanuel Candes, Ingrid Daubechies, Tao, Gloria, Emmanuel Carrere, Joan Miro Organizations: Education Locations: Asturias, canadian, american, Prinţesa, SUA, francez, Oviedo, Spaniei

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