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  Centre Pompidou 20 October 2021 – 7 March 2022   Curators Bernard Blistène and Pamela Sticht   Excellent article - lots more images Born in 1938, Hans-Georg Kern (his real name) was marked by his childhood in Saxony during the Nazi period and by the atrocities of war he was witness to. He was born in the village Großbaselitz (renamed Deutschbaselitz in 1948) which inspired the pseudonym he adopted in 1961. As of 1949, he grew up under the authoritarian regime of the German Democratic Republic, where abstract painting was prohibited, as an alleged expression of ‘capitalist decline.’ 1   In 1956, young Baselitz enrolled in the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst in Weissensee, East Berlin, and began studying painting under Walter Womacka (1925-2010), who was to earn a reputation as one of the most significant representatives of social realism in the GDR. When Baselitz began to draw on the work of Picasso for the paintings he produced in school, he w...

It's truly quite something when the world's most famous Nazi war criminal-hunting organisation, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center , puts the BBC third this year on its annual ‘Global Antisemitism Top Ten’ list.  Only Iran and Hamas beat the UK licence fee-funded broadcaster.  The Mail on Sunday has the story .  To its founder Marvin Hier's concerns about antisemitism and inaccuracy in BBC reporting including about Israel, a BBC spokesman is quoted replying in the usual BBC fashion: ‘‘Antisemitism is abhorrent. The BBC strives to serve the Jewish community, and all communities across our country, fairly with accurate and impartial reporting.’’ -------------- Rabbi Hier may have been too early to for the latest issue - a tweet from the BBC's Middle East reporter Tom Bateman on 23 December: Israeli soldiers have shot dead a 26-year-old Palestinian man - Muhammad Issa Abbas, killed last night near al-Amari refugee camp. IDF says they fired on a ...

Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum 14 June to 11 September 2022 For the first time in Spain, the museum is presenting a retrospective on the American painter Alex Katz (born New York, 1927), one of the key figures in the history of 20 th century American art and a forerunner of Pop Art who continues active today. The exhibition is curated by Guillermo Solana, the museum’s artistic director, and it benefits from the support of the artist and his studio, who are in close contact with this project. The display includes around 30 large-format oils accompanied by various studies, offering a survey of all of the artist’s habitual themes: his individual, double and group portraits together with his distinctive flowers and sweeping landscapes painted with bright colours and flat backgrounds. Alex Katz The Red Smile, 1963 Oil on canvas. 200 x 292 cm. Whitney Museum of American Art. Purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee, New York. © 2021 Alex Katz/Artists Rights So...

 J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center  October 19, 2021, to January 9, 202 The Morgan Library & Museum     February 11, 2022 through May 15, 2022 Co-organized with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, this marks the first major U.S. exhibition dedicated to the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98– 1543). The Morgan’s display will feature around sixty objects from over twenty lenders across the globe, including thirty-one paintings and drawings by Holbein himself. Hans Holbein the Younger was among the most skilled, versatile, and inventive European artists of the sixteenth century. He created captivating portraits of courtiers, merchants, scholars, and statesmen in Basel, Switzerland, and later in England, and served as a court painter to King Henry VIII (1491–1547). Enriched by inscriptions, insignia, and evocative attributes, his portraits not only conveyed truthful likenesses but also celebrated the individuals’ identities, values, aspirations, ...

Christie’s will launch  19 th  Century American Art  during the January 2022 Americana Week. The curated sale of 69 lots is dedicated to 19th Century American paintings, drawings and sculpture, and is anchored by two noteworthy collections from Houston, Texas—the James William Glanville and Nancy Hart Glanville Collection and the Estate of Patrick Rutherford, Jr.—which feature important works by Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church and John Frederick Kensett. Leading the sale is the resplendent  In the Yosemite  by Albert Bierstadt which captures the awe of Cathedral Rocks on a crystalline day, and is among the property from the Estate of Patrick Rutherford, Jr. (estimate: $300,000-500,000).  Frederic Church’s  Winter Scene in Hartford , painted  circa  1846-47, is a beautiful winter landscape of the artist’s hometown which reflects the influence of Thomas Cole (estimate: $200,000-300,000). Along with Hudson River School landscapes...

If you're not already in the Christmas spirit, here's a 'very BBC' tweet [and re-tweet]: So this year's Reith lecturer says something that chimes with the BBC's departing environment activist that in turn chimes with the BBC's highly opinionated world affairs editor, naturally copying in George Moonbat. Now which of Private Frazer from Dad's Army 's catchphrases   to use: "We're doomed!" or "Rubbish!"? 

There's breaking news this afternoon, and some media outlets are emphasising and de-emphasising certain aspects of it, each according to their tastes.   The Daily Telegraph goes with a bare factual headline naming the murdered MP and the accused: The Times names the murdered MP and the accused, and adds a court drawing of the accused: The Guardian goes with the name of the accused and a court drawing of the accused, but doesn't mention the murdered MP's name: Sky News mentions the murdered MP's name and doesn't name the accused, using 'Man' instead, but features a photo of the accused: And the BBC gives the name of the murdered MP but doesn't give the name of the accused, also instead going with 'Man', and doesn't feature a court drawing of the accused, using a photo of the murdered MP instead: It looks as if the BBC is trying to not highlight a particular aspect of the story, doesn't it?