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"When Sansa opened her eyes again, she was on her knees. She did not remember falling. it seemed to her that the sky was a lighter shade of grey. Dawn, she thought. Another day. Another new day. It was the old days she hungered for. Prayed for. But who could she pray to? The garden had been meant for a godswood once, she knew, but the soil was too thin and stony for a weirwood to take root. A godswood without gods, as empty as me."
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Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.
➺aSoIaF characters: Sansa Stark
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her father's head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
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Bookbinder, book conservator and book arts instructor, Jana Pullman presented a brief program on Friday, February 8th at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA). The presentation was in conjunction with a reception celebrating Pullman as the winner of the 2013 Minnesota Book Artist Award.
This annual award — presented by MCBA and the Minnesota Book Awards, and sponsored by the Lerner Publishing Group — recognizes demonstrated excellence and innovation of artistic work during the past three years, as well as significant contributions to Minnesota's book arts community. Previous recipients, many of whom have served as MCAD instructors, include Cave Paper's Amanda Degener and Bridget O'Malley (2012), Regula Russelle (2011), Wilber H. "Chip" Schilling (2010), Paulette Myers-Rich (2009), and Jody Williams (2008).
During her presentation and slideshow, Pullman explained her primary artistic work in the book arts is in the area of Design Bindings. She creates unique bindings for specific books using materials such as leather (from goat, calf, buffalo, fish and even more exotic creatures), woods, metals, handmade papers, even eggshells. Her high expectation of craftsmanship pushes her to improve technique and explore new approaches. She is continually intrigued by the opportunity to use new materials and loves to utilize historical elements in her work. For Pullman, the book is part of a unique artistic medium that will never die out or be fully replaced.
One specific project highlighted towards the end of her presentation was Open Horizons by Sigurd F. Olson. Pullman explains,"The inspiration for the design came from one of the illustrations in the book. I photocopied it to a larger size and reversed the image so the front cover would have more of the image on it. Then I made a line drawing of the image and began to plan what portions would be onlays, tooled lines, and painted textures and where the spine of the book would cross the shapes." After a process that included airbrush, watercolor, crackled paste technique, acrylic paint, and pasting individual pieces of leather, the final cover is complete and attached to the book. The final product is currently in the Guild of Book Workers 2012-2014 Traveling Exhibition, Horizon.
Pullman will also receive special recognition and an award at the 25th annual Minnesota Book Awards Gala on Saturday, April 13, 2013 at the event's new location—the Hilton Minneapolis.
For information on Jana and her process, visit: http://aboutthebinding.blogspot.com/ or http://westernslopebindery.com/
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However, the two Palm Beach County magnet schools both slipped in this year's ratings. Suncoast in Riviera Beach, which was ranked 28th in the nation by the magazine last year, fell to 88th in the national rankings. That means that, this year, it's ranked lower than Dreyfoos in West Palm Beach, which fell slightly from [More]


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Finally, good news to report about country legend Randy Travis. According to TMZ, Randy Travis is off of booze for good and in the best shape of his life.
Finally, good news to report about country legend Randy Travis. According to TMZ, Randy Travis is off of booze for good and in the best shape of his life.
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Randy Travis' brother, David, was arrested twice in recent weeks, including an arrest last Thursday (Sept. 13) on charges of methamphetamine possession, manufacturing drugs and drug paraphernalia possession. David Traywick (Travis was born Randy Traywick) was also arrested on Aug. 27 in Union County on second degree trespassing and communicating threats charges.
Last week, Randy Travis was cited with a Class C assault after a physical confrontation with his girlfriend's estranged husband in the parking lot of a Texas church. The husband, Dr. Ritchie Beougher, claims the country superstar did much worse than inflict an "unwanted touch" upon him.
Randy Travis is in the news again, but this time, it doesn't have to do with him being naked, intoxicated, assaulting someone, defending his lady friend or being near a church — all of which have been the scenarios for his previous brushes with the law this year. This time, a Chevrolet truck registered to Travis was found tipped over and abandoned in a field behind a Walmart in Frisco, Texas. The singer's lawyer, Larry Friedman, says Travis was not driving the vehicle nor was he responsible for its condition.
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Country singer Randy Travis was arrested again this morning in Plano Texas for intoxication and fighting in a church parking lot.
The 911 call made to Texas dispatchers after a passerby found an unclothed Randy Travis on the side of the road has surfaced on the internet. It's the latest development in the scandal surrounding the troubled country music superstar, who was arrested late Tuesday night (August 7).
Randy Travis was arrested last night for driving drunk and nude, and verbally abusing an officer in Texas. Allegedly.
In court papers filed this week in Tennessee, Elizabeth Travis, ex-wife and ex-manager of country superstar Randy Travis, denies all accusations made by her former husband and seeks monetary damages based on lost earnings. The papers were filed in response to the countersuit made by the 'I Told You So' singer last month.


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The Holly Springs Board of Aldermen, in its July 5 meeting, approved a 10 cents per ccf (100 cubic feet) surcharge on natural gas in order to raise money to replace old cast-iron pipes.
The surcharge will be applied over a period of about 10 years and help the city leverage bonds to replace the aging natural gas system.
The work will be done in three phases and will be completed in year 2020, according to Don Hollingsworth, general manager of the Holly Springs Utility Department. The bonds will be paid off in 2045, he said.
The board reviewed HSUD's standard practices manual, which was reviewed by the Tennessee Valley Authority also, then the board approved the manual update.
The board and mayor discussed a resolution requested by TVA in support of nuclear power. Mayor Andre' DeBerry said he is not in favor of more nuclear power plants in light of problems at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Japan and elsewhere. He said alternative energy sources should be supported. He called more nuclear plants "a disaster waiting to happen."
TVA has had time to reposition itself to develop other alternatives to power generation, he said, adding that he would veto a resolution in support of expansion of nuclear power.
Alderman Harvey Payne motioned to deny TVA's request for a resolution, but his motion died for lack of a second.
Alderman Russell Johnson motioned to table the resolution until the board has time to study it. The motion passed unanimously.
Hollingsworth then asked to board to write off $219,500 in bad debt at HSUD covering the 2010-2011 time period. The board unanimously approved the write-offs.
Public works director Micheal Crittle presented five projects for the board to study. He said they are long-standing concerns that the city should prioritize and solve.
They include replacement of twin culverts on South Center Street near Lemac Avenue. Crittle said the Federal Emergency Management Agency would fund 90 percent of the cost of the project with the state and city sharing the remaining 10 percent equally. The damage is from last year's storms, Crittle said.
A second project on Van Dorn involving collapse of street repair work near Chesterman is a priority project, he said.
An assessment of the cause of the street collapse was found to be caused by water entering an old storm water drain that goes nowhere, he said. Water collects there and scours and undercuts the road bed, he said. The problem was patched up last year by emergency order of the board of aldermen but has not stopped the erosion.
"We want to fix this once and for all when money becomes available," Crittle said.
A third spot is the erosion and silting in Cato's pond near the Holly Springs Bypass. Crittle said silting caused by the construction of the bypass road was partially fixed by the county. He proposed the city construct a retention pond to collect the sediment until the erosion of the roadside ceases. He proposed using city resources.
A fourth problem with erosion of property, owned by James Beard along Highway 178 West by Kingdom Hall Church, is a long-standing erosion problem, he said. The erosion, caused partly by outflow coming from Highway 178 into Beard's yard, has caused lots of erosion and the city will immediately cover an exposed water line and install a concrete ditch to alleviate erosion, he said.
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A Magnificent Menagerie by Carl Swanson
Rating: 5 kitties
FLESH was a breathtaking and sensuous sample of Twin Cities dancers, going far past it's Fringe-friendly elevator speech of "Nudity! And strobelights!" Starting with Ober's utterly surreal evocation of the life cycle of a standing bird and ending with Behm-Thompson's wind-born white owl, this was a muscular, personal and evocative series of dances with sure-footed individual personalities. O'Neill added a dash of sly humor and Virtucio had me rapt as she ricocheted in the spotlight between wild, flailing abandon and total awareness. Lincoln's "Dressage" was a delicate balance between carnality, control and collapse, and gave a whole new meaning to the tern "show horse". A gem of a show, a star for every dancer, and every dancer a star.
The Beasts
The (Beast) Kind of Fringe Show by Carl Swanson
Rating: 5 kitties
"The Beasts" is precisely what I think of when I think of "Fringe show" without cringing- one guy (two, actually, give Ray the SM credit where credit is due) coming out and doing something absurdly silly that takes on new meaning and sincerity because of the way he says it and the time he says it in. Ben Egerman knows how to do this kind of a Fringe show, he's got the accolades to prove it. Even better, he knows haw to bring a Fringe audience along for a ride and keep them intrigued, laughing and involved. The fact that he does this with handmade puppets and bits of cardboard is all part of the magic of theater and makes "The Beasts" a critical, quizzical treat. Way to "foot pu-unch" butt.
Ducklings, Rocks, and Squad Cars
A Life Near Your Own by Carl Swanson
Rating: 5 kitties
This show brought my first tears of the Fringe, even if Ochs would have insisted that they weren't necessary. Ochs' intensely personal and physical presence makes "Ducklings" an incredibly brave work of theater, not a story like a like a fiction, but a catharsis, a purgation of Ochs sometimes terrible and sometimes sweet life. Tightly wound and well crafted by director and collaborators Tom Lloyd and Jeff Shockley, Ochs makes us feel each of his ricocheting emotions and makes the audience a witness, an exchange of trust that is incredibly powerful. If you have experienced these things, you will identify, if not, your world will grow. Afterward, although he was a sweaty mess, I hugged Ochs because it felt good, and right, to share that too.
Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee
Could Have Had a "Buddy Christ" Joke! by Carl Swanson
Rating: 4 kitties
The characters Lepore pulls out are hilarious, a rogues gallery of chakra-opening snake-oil salesmen, internet-based money-making gurus, ego-driven buddhists and self-helplessness addicts. It's a skewering of market-based faith and the ghost of George Carlin bounds gleefully around the stage as Lepore tears out voices and burns up these surface dwellers. Even though the spark of this hysterical and righteous anger may only be intermittently revealed through the cavalcade of caricatures, the button that ends the hour is a deep humanizing note that people of any faith or paths of questioning would do well to hear.
Orange Sunshine Primadonnas by Carl Swanson
Rating: 4 kitties
As Primadonnas struck its final chord & the lights came up, my show companion turned to me with a giddy, hazy grin and roared out, "AM I ON DRUGS?" Which we weren't (to my knowledge) but we had just experienced a hallucinatory, fragmented dose of surrealist theater about the extent to which people will go to create fantastical coping constructs. It was wickedly weird and funny, with campy prison lesbians, songs, drag & the bushily-bearded Garrett Vollmer pulling out wild characterizations in pearls & blond wigs. You won't "get" the show, as any linear narrative is shattered, but if you relax your eyes (which also helps gloss over some of the Fringe-y DIY costuming & sets) to just let your lizard brain take hold, it's a ride worth taking.
Fear Itself
The Fringe Zone by Carl Swanson
Rating: 4 kitties
I saw this show by accident, after being left out of another rush line. Not expecting much, I told my compatriot to smack me if I laughed. I should have told her to hold me when I jumped. Speller adapts these classic literary works with razor precision and times every breath to maximum effect. A bravura piece of storytelling for the brave!
Fletcher & Zenobia Save the Circus (by Edward Gorey)
One-Ring Circus by Carl Swanson
Rating: 2 kitties
It felt like the old Borscht Belt joke about food: The jokes were bad, and I could hardly hear them! Knowing the kind of physicality Live Action Set is capable of, this adaptation felt frenetic and rushed, without the clarity or articulation to let Gorey's dark tongue-in-cheek jabs shine. The Bring-Your-Own Venue didn't particularly help them, as sitting a few rows back, all the action lower to the ground was lost to sight, the rumble of outside noise often drowned out the performers and not to mention, there was a large girder partially blocking the view. Although there were some sharp & funny moments with M. Zut-Alors' patter and Kimberly Richardson's tightrope act, I came with high hopes and left with a twee headache.


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I remember this well. I think it is hilarious how they had no idea how to act, I mean seriously act. Its like someone grabbed them backstage and told them "Okay, after you win, I want you guys to raise your hands up in the air like you are shocked". Then they went out there and just kept raising their hands in disbelief over and over again because they did not have any clue what else to do. I counted, I thought it was so funny. Between the two of them there were about 21 hand raisings.
I loved the jobbers. In the Memphis area we had Pat Hutchinson. He made the Mulkey's look cut. We had native American jobber Speedy Tall Tree. We also had a masked guy in pink called...get this "The Pink Panther". We also had Keith Eric (who actually looked decent) who probably lost to Lawler 180 times alone, and I will never forget Freezer Thompson a William "the Fridge" Perry knock off who scored a smattering of wins along a horrid career.
Thanks for the memories I hope you give us more Classic Jobber segments.
BTW...you have to watch one of the videos offered at the end of the Mulkey video. The one called Best Wrestling Promo ever, cut by a guy I have never heard of Jumping Jeff Farmer....awesome. I looked him up and wikipedia says he is the guy who was nWo Sting. That can't be right can it? If it is, it's even more hilarious.
Yeah I miss the jobbers too. I do have a couple more Classic Jobber ideas in mind, but gonna need to do some research first. Couple of my personal favorite WWF jobbers are on tap next.
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It's been about a year since Cory Duckworth became the new president of Jamestown Community College, and he says he inherited a great foundation.
JCC is an integral part of the community in both Jamestown and Olean, with a solid financial base and enrollment figures that, while declining, are still higher than they were before the recession drove a new wave of students to community colleges. JCC had about 2,640 enrolled full-time students in fall 2013.
But Duckworth says he's also very aware that JCC is situated in economically stagnant communities, which simultaneously feed the college its student base and also rely on it for a well-trained workforce.
To that end, Duckworth has launched a series of meetings with business stakeholders in the Jamestown and Olean communities, convening more than 70 of them. The point is to forge even deeper connections with employers, high schools, politicians and nonprofit agencies.
"It's very clear we are a community college and we are here to meet the community's needs," Duckworth said.
The president is preparing to hire a new vice president for enrollment, marketing and communications who will be dedicating time at each of JCC's campuses (Olean and Jamestown) reaching out to various constituents. That person will be tasked with once again driving enrollment upward while establishing even firmer integration into the communities. The college will be interested in talking about the issue of poverty and how it affects the preparedness of the students that enter.
An institution like JCC has to strengthen its pipelines and promote itself to student populations, both traditional and among displaced homemakers and frustrated workers.
"I don't think we've ever exploited the market," he said. "There's plenty of people out here. The challenge is getting them to see higher education as a viable means for their own progress."
Duckworth said he's also spearheading a push into high-tech degrees, which aren't currently represented by jobs in the Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. The idea is to educate a next-generation workforce, with the idea that they'll help local companies become more innovative and eventually drive the economy forward.
"Sometimes we try to just educate students for exactly what's here," he said. "This might be a case that we educate students for businesses and industry that aren't here."
JCC recently purchased 50 acres of property adjacent to the Jamestown campus which includes a house that is in good condition and will soon house JCC's alumni and foundation offices. The rest of the setting will remain pastoral for now, and could become class space for professors seeking a quiet outdoor getaway.
It is also embarking on a major expansion of its Manufacturing Institute in Jamestown, though Duckworth said that the budget and schematics are still being developed. The project will include "maker space," where manufacturers can work on prototypes or other projects with equipment the college owns.


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In the Details: Sir Kenneth Branagh
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He takes his coffee black with a single spoonful of raw manuka honey.
He shaves as directed by Woody Allen, who imparted these instructions when the pair madeCelebrity: in a hot shower, very steamy, soap on the mirror, and with some rapidity, like "a knife through butter." When not shaving, he instead draws a very deep bath, stirring in restorative potions—these days, anti-stress oil and anti-bacterial Olbas Oil. He likes a "modesty" veil of bubbles, waist-down, but decries "this fiddle-faddle of suds near my ears."
When craving a sweet, he melts a Mars candy bar on the stove with a glob of honey, dribbling the resulting warm goo over vanilla ice cream.
His celebratory drink is lately a single martini, one in "a proper glass out of a James Bond film," mixed at dawn to end a week of night shoots. It traipses with him across the dew-silvered lawns of his rural Berkshire estate as he checks in on the vegetable patch with the dog: "There's an aubergine that's looking very likely, and a courgette that has my name on it."
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New Constable discovered verso
November 28 2013
Picture: V&A
The V&A has discovered a sketch (above) by John Constable on the reverse of their Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead. The picture was found when a later re-lining canvas was removed. More here.
New Claude discovery at Christie's
November 7 2013
Picture: Christie's
Christie's December Old Master sale catalogues are online, and the cover lot for their evening sale is a newly discovered £3m-£5m Claude landscape. The picture was nearly a bargain of the year, having been included (but withdrawn) in a Christie's South Kensington sale earlier this year as 'follower of Claude'. More details in Christie's press release here.
The enticing-sleeper-withdrawn-at-the-last-minute thing happens a lot these days. There's a reason for this, and I'll leave to you to figure it out.
Nazi loot extravaganza
November 4 2013
Picture: Focus
Up to 1500 artworks, from Durer to Picasso, stolen by the Nazis and lost since the war have been found in a flat in Munich. From The Guardian:
The works, which would originally have been confiscated as "degenerate art" by the Nazis or taken from Jewish collectors in the 1930s and 1940s, had made their way into the hands of a German art collector, Hildebrand Gurlitt. When Gurlitt died, the artworks were passed down to his son, Cornelius – all without the knowledge of the authorities.
Gurlitt, who had not previously been on the radar of the police, attracted the attention of the customs authorities only after a random cash check during a train journey from Switzerland to Munich in 2010, according to Focus. Further police investigations led to a raid on Gurlitt's flat in Schwabing in spring 2011. Police discovered a vast collection of masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists.
The artworks are thought to have been stored amid juice cartons and tins of food on homemade shelves in a darkened room. Since their seizure, they have been stored in a safe customs building outside Munich, where the art historian Meike Hoffmann, from Berlin university, has been assessing their precise origin and value. When contacted by the Guardian, Hoffmann said she was under an obligation to maintain secrecy and would not be able to comment on the Focus report until Monday.
Very weird that the German police have know about this since 2011, but have not made a squeak since. You can see the original story in Focus, in German, here. You can see Godfrey Barker discuss the discovery here, and a shot of the unassuming flat where the pictures were found here. There's an ecellent interview with Anne Webber from the Commission for Looted Art in Europe on the Today programme here, at 1hr 22 mins in. Anne rightly says that the police's two and half year delay in publishing the list of looted pictures is almost as big a story as the discovery itself. She says that there is a 'culture of secrecy' in that part of Germany when it comes to Nazi loot. Munich, of course, was where the Nazi party began.
Update - a reader writes:
What one wonders of course is precisely what was going on with that trove of art.
The non owner who has held it is a recluse but realized about USD 1.2 million from one sale in recent years. More than he appears to spend in a decade. And there were other sales.
Was this being held to finance a nefarious purpose or is that just a plot for the next Michael Fassbender film.
Of course perhaps it is just further proof to the remaining deniers of what happened in Europe seventy years ago.
Update II - Catherine Hickley has more information at Bloomberg:
A stash of art uncovered in a Munich apartment in 2012 included top quality works that were previously unknown, among them a self-portrait by Otto Dix, said Meike Hoffmann, an art historian investigating the hoard.
The cache of almost 1,500 paintings, lithographs, drawings and prints included works by Max Beckmann, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Max Liebermann, said Siegfried Kloeble of the Munich customs authorities. Some of the art dates back as far as the 16th century. It was stored correctly and in good condition, Hoffmann said.
Some works were seized by the Nazis from German museums -- others may have been sold by Jewish families under duress, Hoffmann said. Reinhard Nemetz, the chief prosecutor in Augsburg, said authorities won't publish a list of the artworks online.
"The legal situation of the artworks is very complex," Nemetz said at a news conference today in Augsburg. "We don't want a situation where there are 10 claims for one painting."
This last statement is completely bonkers. It just sounds as if Herr Nemetz can't be bothered to return these pictures to their rightful owners.
Sleeper Alert
October 29 2013
Picture: ATG
The Antiques Trade Gazette reports that the above picture made £240,000 at a Lyon & Turnbull sale in Edinburgh sale last week, against a £8,000-£12,000 estimate. It was catalogued as by a 16th Century follower of Dieric Bouts, who painted this very similar composition in the Staatliche Museum in Berlin.
More of Leonardo's Sala delle Asse mural uncovered
October 24 2013
Picture: Affaritaliani.it
Removal of whitewash in Sforzesco Castle, Italy, has apparently revealed the remains of Leonardo's decoration in the Sala delle Asse. From the Gazzetta del Sud:
New sections of artwork by Leonardo da Vinci have been found in a room of the Sforzesco Castle, where he was the court artist for the duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro, in the late 1400s. Restoration work on the Sala delle Asse (room of the planks), which da Vinci decorated from April to September of 1498 with a mural of trees soaring into a vaulted canopy, has revealed additional sections of the original work under several layers of whitewash - sometimes up to 17 - according to representatives of the Florentine restoration institute Opificio delle Pietre Dure. Restoration workers say they are uncovering a monochrome section of the mural depicting a huge tree root [below], stuck in rock at the base of the many trees that adorn the room - a giant, surprising 'trompe l'oeil'. Analyses done on the face of the mural to reconstruct the original composition give "quite interesting results", they say, and give hope of restoring large parts of the original decoration. So far the work of scraping away newer layers has been performed with mechanical means, like scalpels and hammers, but further work will likely require other methods, like ultrasound scaling, laser instruments and chemical products.
More photos of the work in action here.
Newly found Brueghel the Younger at Frieze
October 17 2013
Picture: FT
It's good to see that one of the headline pictures from this week's Frieze fairs has come from the Masters (ie, 'old') part. Congratulations to famed Old Master dealer Johnny Van Haeften for finding a lost work by Pieter Breughel the Younger in East Africa. The FT reports:
"I can tell you, it nearly blew my socks off," Johnny Van Haeften laughed. "In my – what is it? – almost 44 years in the art world I've never known an experience like this."
Van Haeften, one of London's most respected dealers in Old Masters, sounded almost breathless as he told his story. Speaking from his Mayfair gallery, he was describing his first sight of a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger that has for the 400 years since its creation been completely unknown to the world.
It has been continuously in the possession of the same English family since a distant ancestor bought it, direct from the artist's studio, in Antwerp in 1611.
The owners had never publicised their precious possession, although they were well aware of its pedigree. Until the 1950s they even had among the family papers the original receipt, Van Haeften tells me, made out in Antwerp in 1611 for the purchase price of 200 florints. (If that mislaid piece of paper ever comes to light, it will in itself be a fascinating object for art historians.)
Turner's Scottish Welsh Turner
October 4 2013
Picture: Telegraph
The Telegraph reports that the above Turner in the Fitzwilliam Museum, which was formerly thought to show a scene in Wales, has now been identified as a scene in Scotland:
Inspired by the majestic Scottish landscapes during his first visit to the highlands in 1801, Joseph Turner created the watercolour painting, entitled The Traveller - Vide Ossian's War of Caros, the following year.
It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London during 1802, but was incorrectly catalogued as a Welsh Mountain Landscape in the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge University during the 1970s.
Now artistic detective work by Professor Murdo MacDonald, of Dundee University, and Eric Shanes, a former chairman of the Turner Society, has proved the painting is a depiction of the Loch Lomond area.
The pair used maps to scout the Scottish countryside to pinpoint the location as Rubha Mor, six miles to the south of Inveruglas.
I was driving along Loch Lomond earlier this week, and very beautiful it was too. I can see why Turner felt the place was worth painting. Full details of the discovery will appear in the next issue of Turner Society News, the journal of the Turner Society.
NPG buys Anne Clifford portrait
October 4 2013
Picture: The Guardian
The National Portrait Gallery has acquired a newly identified portrait of Lady Anne Clifford by William Larkin. The portrait was found by the Weiss Gallery in London. More details here.
First photo of Titian's(?) 'Concert'
October 4 2013
Picture: NG3, Possibly by Titian, 'The Music Lesson', about 1535, Oil on canvas 100.4 x 126.1 cm, (C) National Gallery, London
The National Gallery have kindly sent me a photo of the newly cleaned 'Concert', or as it is now called 'The Music Lesson', which I posted about below, and which is featured in the latest issue of The Burlington Magazine. The Gallery catalogues the work as 'Possibly by Titian'. It's hard to judge the picture from this, not least because it has obviously suffered significant damage in the past. The best bit is the central figure below, which, in his jacket, is quite Titian-esque.
Move along folks, nothing to see here...
October 4 2013
Picture: Die Welt
How do you get a story in practically every paper in the world, with little or no effort? Easy, mention the words 'Leonardo', 'discovery' and 'expert' in the same press release. Hey presto, global media attention. The writer Fiona McLaren got wide coverage last year for claiming that she owned Leonardo's 'last commission'. She doesn't, but she's still going great guns with the idea, as this lecture at the University of Dundee shows.
Anyway, the latest claim is the above portrait, of Isabella D'Este, which relates to the known Leonardo drawing in the Louvre. I find it hard to believe that it is by the greatest painter that ever lived, judging by the photo. I know it's dangerous to speculate from images, but AHN-ers don't like it when I sit on the fence. The drapery is really feeble. And did the same artist who painted the sublime hand in The Lady with an Ermine really paint that limp and formless thing above? I doubt it. But Leonardo 'expert' Carlo Pedretti has said he did. From The Guardian:
"There are no doubts that the portrait is Leonardo's work," said Carlo Pedretti, an emeritus professor of art history at the University of California.
If acknowledged as genuine – and if experts concur it was painted before the Mona Lisa – the portrait could shake up academic studies of one of the world's most famous painting.
The 61cm by 46.5cm portrait, which uses the same pigment in the paint and the same primer used by Leonardo, is the completed version of a sketch he made of D'Este, which, like the Mona Lisa, hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
The unnamed family which owns the portrait, and asked for it to be analysed, has kept a collection of about 400 paintings in Turgi, Switzerland since the start of the 20th century, reported the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
It's painted with old paint, on old primer - so it must be by Leonardo, right? Or might there have been thousands of artists around at that time who happened to use contemporary paints and techniques?
Regular readers will remember the most recent Pedretti blessing, for the so-called Isleworth Madonna, which just isn't, not in a million years, by Leonardo (as the highly respected Leonardo scholar Prof. Martin Kemp has vainly tried to point out). Pedretti was also involved in that weird 'Leonardo sculpture' business I mentioned last year. You'd think by now that the press would be wary of people claiming to discover Leonardos without amassing a proper consensus among Leonardo scholars. But on it goes.
Update - The Telegraph has spoken to Martin Kemp:
Martin Kemp, professor emeritus of the history of art at Trinity College, Oxford, and one of the world's foremost experts on da Vinci, said if the find was authenticated it would be worth "tens of millions of pounds" because there are only 15 to 20 genuine da Vinci works in the world.
But he raised doubts about whether the painting was really the work of Leonardo. The portrait found in Switzerland is painted on canvas, whereas Leonardo favoured wooden boards.
"Canvas was not used by Leonardo or anyone in his production line," Prof Kemp told The Daily Telegraph. "Although with Leonardo, the one thing I have learnt is never to be surprised."
There are further doubts – Leonardo gave away his original sketch to the marquesa, so he would not have been able to refer to it later in order to paint a full oil version.
"You can't rule out the possibility but it seems unlikely," Prof Kemp said. It was more likely to have been produced by one of the many artists operating in northern Italy who copied Leonardo's works.
Update II - Professor Kemp has further written on his blog:
Another promotion of a non-Leonardo, pushed by the Corriere della Serra, which has been a great newspaper. I was contacted by someone called Veronica Artioli - not, apparently, an accredited arts journalist. I declined to express a visual opinion on the basis of the poor reproductions I had seen but made it clear that any attribution to Leonardo was not consistent with the documentation. The result is that I am implicitly cited as a supporter of the attribution. I will be asking for a retraction.
Having looked further at this, it is clear that the painting cannot be by Leonardo, on the basis of the documented account of Leonardo's relations with Isabella d'Este and his evident failure to paint her portrait.
Update III - a reader writes:
These "Leonardo" discoveries are getting quite tedious as you rightly point out. What is even more annoying is the unreflective acceptance by people and organizations that really should know better. Today, I found it on the TEFAF [The European Fine Art Fair] facebook-page. They are not really helping critical thinking, are they?
I wonder what this tells us about Tefaf vetting.
Update IV - TEFAF gets in touch to tell us:
We believe it's always a good thing to be very critical regarding the authenticity of a piece of art. TEFAF Maastricht is unrivalled in its standards and the methods it applies to establish the authenticity, quality and condition of every painting and object on sale at the fair. Without any exception a TEFAF vetting committee consists of several experts rather than one. By sharing news about (proclaimed) discoveries on our facebook page we hope to enable the discussion amongst our friends. Feel free to participate, we value your thoughts. We are excited to have this discussion and remain curious what further examination will teach us.
The first Las Meninas?
October 3 2013
Picture: National Trust
A Spanish art historian, Dr Matias Diaz Padron (Director of the Instituto Moll, the 'Centre for the Study of Flemish Pictures' in Spain) has claimed that a previously overlooked 56 x 48 inch replica of 'Las Meninas' belonging to the National Trust (above) is in fact Velasquez's preliminary study for the work. Says The Guardian:
Díaz Padrón argued that the painting was "believed to be, and documented as, a Velázquez original in the 17th and 18th centuries … by the professors of the Royal Academy, including Francisco de Goya". It was only in the 19th and 20th centuries that the painting's provenance was changed, he said, with historians coming to believe it to be a later copy by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Velázquez's son-in-law and successor as painter to the royal court.
He argued that this was a mistake and that the painting was the first "boceto or modeletto" — a first draft or sketch – painted by Velázquez, which the king then asked him to reproduce on a larger scale, which now hangs in the Prado.
Díaz Padrón said: "Today, the moment has arrived to revise these judgments, and restore the painting's authorship to Velázquez." He said: "I don't see any differences between the boceto and the definitive work … the colours are typical of Velázquez in both pictures."
The debate is anything but settled, however, and the Prado museum denies that the painting in Kingston Lacy, bought by the English landowner and art collector William Bankes in the early 19th century, is an original.
I haven't got access to good images of the Kingston Lacy picture. There's one on the National Trust website here, and another on Your Paintings here. I'll try and get hold of a good photo. Compare with the original in the Prado here. In the meantime, it's interesting to note that if, as the Prado maintains, the Kingston Lacy picture is just a copy, then it isn't a particularly diligent copy. You can't, for example, see the all-important king and queen in the mirror (though it's possible I suppose that this is due to condition issues), and you'd have to wonder why a copyist would leave this out. Of course, if it is was a study by Velasquez, then it would make sense for him just to sketch in the mirror.
So keep an open mind folks. It looks to be a freely painted thing, of some quality. Mind you, if it was, as previously suggested, by Velasquez's talented son-in-law, Del Mazo, then it would also be a work of quality. Anyway, if the Kingston Lacy picture is 'right', then they'll have found a Rembrandt and a Velasquez in one year - amazing.
Update - a reader writes:
Díaz Padrón says that Lay Kingston painting, is a preliminary study of Las Meninas, but this is unlikely. In the X-ray test performed to Las Meninas, will appreciate, numerous changes, introduced during the process of composition. These changes are only in the original canvas and not in the copy. This is a copy of the basic composition of the canvas of the Prado, once finished. If this was a modeletto, would reflect occult version of the Prado painting, not the final version.
Diaz Padron insists on ignoring the evidence, physical and chemical. According to him: "An artist is not a pigment, not a glue, not a color" but a painting, it is.
Update II - another reader writes:
Confusion over the works of Velasquez and del Mazo has been around for centuries.
Aside from the Kingston Lacy painting, the National Gallery paid £10,000 in 1890 for what it thought was a famous original portrait by Velasquez of Admiral Pareja. For some years now that work has been "downgraded" and is generally thought to be by del Mazo.
What's always intrigued me is that the Gallery has a fully authenticated del Mazo which, while it bears some similarities to the Admiral Pareja portrait, is much less impressive. If the Admiral Pareja portrait is a copy by del Mazo, he clearly had some facility in imitating Velasquez's technique – see also the rather splendid work in York.
Update III - the Grumpy Art Historian has found that the picture was 'discovered' before, about 15 years ago.
September 13 2013
Image, detail, courtesy of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, KBE
...for the bad service lately - I'm thick in the editing of Samuel Cooper catalogue. Above is our design for the exhibition flyer, which is a detail of Cooper's c.1653 portrait of Oliver Cromwell. The Protector famously instructed Cooper to paint him 'warts and all', and you can see the best painted wart in the whole of art history above Cromwell's eyebrow.
For your diaries, everyone, the exhibition opens 13th November till 7th December, Monday-Friday 10-5, Saturdays 12-4. We're going to have a lot of new things to say about Cooper and portraiture in England in the mid 17th Century...
Update - a reader writes:
I spotted in a recent update you attributed the Cromwell 'Warts an All' quote to a work by Samuel Cooper. I always understood this to be an instruction he'd given to Peter Lely - and in fact have set this as a question in a recent quiz I wrote...
Do you believe it to have been Cooper instead? Or was it just a mistype?
Good question! It is commonly believed to have been said to Lely, as shown in this Horrible Histories clip, but, as we shall show in our exhibition and catalogue, must in fact have been said to Cooper.
Still more Van Gogh news
September 10 2013
Picture: TAN
We've probably learnt more new things about Van Gogh in the last week than in a whole decade. Amazing. Following on from his Sunflower revelations, and the epic unveiling yesterday in Amsterdam of an entirely unknown painting by the artist, Martin Bailey reports in The Art Newspaper on a previously unknown drawing by Van Gogh (above).
Even more Van Gogh news - a new Van Gogh unveiled
September 9 2013
Picture: New York Times
It's all go for Van Gogh at the moment. The Van Gogh museum has unveiled a previously unknown painting by Van Gogh. The New York Times reports:
The painting has been in the private collection of a family for several years, but the museum would not release any more information about the owners because of privacy concerns, Mr. Rüger said. Two years ago, they brought it to the Van Gogh Museum to seek authentication, and researchers from the museum have been examining it ever since, said Mr. Rüger. The museum recently concluded that the work was a van Gogh because the painting's pigments correspond with those of van Gogh's palette from Arles.
It was also painted on the same type of canvas, with the same type of underpainting he used for at least one other painting, "The Rocks" (owned by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston) of the same area at the same time. The work was also listed as part of Theo van Gogh's collection in 1890, and was sold in 1901.
"Sunset at Montmajour" is comparable in size to van Gogh's "Sunflower" painting of the same year. The owners brought it to the museum once before in 1991, said Mr. Rüger, but at the time no one recognized it as a van Gogh. "This time, we have topographical information plus a number of other factors that have helped us to establish authenticity. Research is so much more advanced now, so we could come to a very different conclusion."
Update - read more on the Van Gogh museum website here. the full analysis will be in October's The Burlington Magazine.
'The Sunflowers are Mine'
September 5 2013
Pictures: Aurum Publishing, and TAN
You might think that of perhaps the two most famous images in art history, Leonardo's Mona Lisa and Van Gogh's Sunflowers series, we know all there is to know. For the Mona Lisa that is, I would say, true, though that doesn't stop the fantasists coming up with new theories on who she is and what she's doing. It seems, however, that we knew comparatively little about Van Gogh's series of sunflower paintings, given how much extraordinary new information has been uncovered by Martin Bailey in his new book, The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece.
Perhaps the most eye catching revelation is the discovery that Van Gogh designed his own frame for at least one sunflower painting, which was destroyed in World War 2 (above):
A rare early colour image of Vincent van Gogh's Six Sunflowers has been tracked down in Japan. It reveals that Van Gogh designed a bold orange frame for his still life. The framed painting, once in a private Japanese collection, was destroyed in an American bombing raid during the Second World War.
This newly discovered image is from a very scarce portfolio produced in Tokyo in 1921, which has escaped the attention of art historians. It is reproduced in The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece, by Martin Bailey, to be published by Frances Lincoln on 5 September.
Van Gogh's narrow wooden frame was painted in orange, producing a dramatic effect when set against the blue background of the still life. This reflects Van Gogh's love of complementary colours (such as orange and blue), which have a vibrant effect when placed next to each other. Van Gogh has also varied the orange, so that it is a deep orange where it is next to the blue background and a lighter orange next to the lilac table.
We can now see how Van Gogh wanted to present his Six Sunflowers: the yellow-ochre sunflowers were set against a rich royal blue background and then framed in orange. This framing would have been revolutionary in 1888, when pictures were traditionally hung in gilt frames or, for very modern works, in white frames.
Astonishingly, Martin also managed to find new information about one of the most celebrated stories not only in Van Gogh's life, but in the whole of art history - the artist's mutilation of his ear. Writing in The Art Newspaper, Martin says:
While researching my book on Van Gogh's Sunflowers I was astonished to find that the artist's self-mutilation had been reported soon after it happened in a Parisian newspaper. It appeared in Le Petit Journal on 26 December 1888, three days after Van Gogh slashed off the lower part of his left ear, following a row with Gauguin. Until recently, only one short newspaper report of the mutilation was known, which was published a few days later in an Arles weekly, Le Forum Républicain.
The newly discovered article in a Parisian daily records important details. Le Petit Journal reported that Van Gogh used a razor. He then went to a "house of ill repute", where he "gave his ear in a folded piece of paper" to the doorkeeper. Van Gogh told the recipient: "Take it, it will be useful". These baffling words suggest that Van Gogh must have been suffering from an acute mental problem throughout the night, and did not just slice off part of his ear in a passing moment of madness.
The Parisian report is also important in another sense. Van Gogh's self-mutilation was the first item of provincial news in Le Petit Journal, so the article must have attracted considerable attention in the capital. It would have been seen by many of his friends and much discussed in the Paris bars that Van Gogh frequented. This must have only added to the distress of his brother Theo, who was a respectable figure running an art gallery.
It seems astonishing that a virtually unknown individual living over 600km away who mutilated himself would have warranted this attention in a four-page Parisian newspaper (taking a quarter of the space devoted to provincial news that day). But even then, there was something sensationalist about the ear incident which grabbed public attention.
Other discoveries include news that:
- Van Gogh completed his original four paintings of Sunflowers in less than a week, twice as fast as has been assumed. He chose to depict sunflowers because the weather was bad and his models failed to show up.
- There is also a second "unknown" Sunflowers painting which has always been hidden away in private collections. This is Van Gogh's Three Sunflowers, with a bright turquoise background. It has never been exhibited in living memory and its whereabouts have been a mystery. Bailey reveals that Three Sunflowers was acquired by the Swiss-based Greek shipping tycoon George Embiricos, who sold it in the late 1990s. It was then bought by the present owner, a very discreet collector with a taste for Van Gogh.
Martin has written other books on Van Gogh; Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors, Van Gogh and Sir Richard Wallace's Pictures, and Letters from Provence (the Illustrated Letters).
Rembrandt sleeper blocked for export
July 17 2013
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The recently discovered Rembrandt self-portrait, sold last year to the Getty, has been temporarily barred for export. If a UK museum wishes to buy it, it must raise £16.5m by the 15th October. Unlikely, you'd have to say, but best of luck to anyone trying.
Connoisseurship alive and well in Texas
July 16 2013
Video: Rice University*
Congratulations to Melisa Palermo, a PhD student at Rice University at Texas, who has identified a manuscript illumination by Pedro de Palma in the University's collection. From the Rice website:
Using an art historian's keen eye and analytical skills (art historians call it "connoisseurship"), Palermo was able to identify the previously unattributed manuscript and its image of an Old Testament prophet as the work of 15th-century Spanish painter Pedro de Palma. Hand-drawn on a large vellum sheet and beautifully illustrated, the manuscript had been donated to Rice in 1949 by New York City bookseller and antiquarian Paul Gottschalk and is housed in the library's Woodson Research Center as part of the Illuminated Sacred Music Manuscript Collection.
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Prado goes LED, and unveils a new Ribera
July 9 2013
Picture: Museo Prado
The Prado Museum has announced that it is to convert its galleries to LED lighting. These give a much more natural sense of light, and as I've noted here before, it's probably as close to daylight as you can get. Mind you, there was that slightly alarming study into how LED lights cause some yellow pigments to go brown...
Still, basking happily for now in the Prado's new LEDs is a recently cleaned and newly attributed work by Jose de Ribera, Saint Jerome Writing. The picture was long thought to be by Esteban March, but recent restoration by the Prado has prompted a rethink. From the Prado's press release:
Formerly in the collection of Isabella Farnese, this work has been on deposit since 1940 at the Casa-Museo Colón in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. That loan agreement was cancelled last year in order for the work to be studied and restored.
Saint Jerome writing was in the Casa-Museo Colón in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with an attribution to the Valencian painter Esteban March. The expert on Caravaggism, Gianni Papi, has, however, recently identified and published it as an early work by José de Ribera, basing his attribution on the work's close stylistic and compositional similarities with various works painted by Ribera around 1615, including some of the paintings in his series on "The Senses". The present painting shares their descriptive preciseness and markedly tenebrist use of light, the origins of which lie in Ribera's highly personal interpretation of Caravaggio's models. In the light of the painting's importance, it has been brought to the Prado for restoration and display in the galleries devoted to naturalism and Ribera. To replace the painting, the Casa-Museo Colón has received the long-term deposit of Saint Andrew, also by Ribera. From the viewpoint of the Prado's collections, this is an important addition, given that together with his painting of The Raising of Lazarus, it will allow the public to gain an idea of the originality and high quality of Ribera's work during his early years, which is a unique period in his career and one not represented in the Prado's collection until around twelve years ago.
The painting arrived at the Museum with problems around its edges due to damp and an old attack of woodworm. The pictorial surface was generally well preserved but had an abnormal appearance due to the oxidization of the varnishes, surface irregularities caused by an old lining and an earlier selective cleaning that had concentrated on some zones to the detriment of others. During the restoration process the edges have been consolidated and straightened, dirt and oxidized varnishes have been removed, some small losses have been replaced and the painting has been cleaned. The result is the recovery of numerous spatial planes and as a consequence, a sense of volume in the saint's figure.
'Manner of Romney' (ctd.)
July 6 2013
Picture: Tate
I mentioned a few weeks ago a picture I'd come across on the Tate's website, called 'Manner of Romney'. I wrote that I felt it was by Romney, and the Tate's curatorial department kindly asked me to their store rooms to see it. I'm happy to report that it is certainly by Romney, and that the compiler of the forthcoming Romney catalogue Raisonne, Alex Kidson, agrees with the attribution.
'Finding Van Dyck'
June 19 2013
Picture: Philip Mould & Co.
If you want to know all about how to tell the difference between a real Van Dyck and a copy, or indeed a studio work, then the catalogue for our 2011 Van Dyck exhibition is now online.
Update - a reader writes:
I like your blog and your wit
I have nothing against an internet catalogue, but why publish an e-catalogue for your new exhibition "Rediscovering Van Dyck" if nearly half of the photographs when you browse it online are missing due to copyright problems?


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Wireless adapter doesn´t activate at windows startup
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I just bought a Sager notebook, model np9170, with ivy bridge 3610qm, amd 7970m. The other components are standard. The wireless card is a Realtek RTL8723AE.
I've installed windows 7 64 bits and the drivers from sager DVD.
The wireless card is not working correctly. After installation, the adapter works correctly, but when I restart windows, the wireless adapter is not enabled, despite the wireless LED remains lit.
The function keys (fn + f11) does not work. I can only use the wireless by following these steps: by going into Device Manager, deactivating and reactivating the wireless realtek. After doing this, it works normally and the function keys return to work.
However, after restarting Windows, the wireless stops working again, and I have to repeat the steps: deactivate and reactivate the card realtek in device manager.
I made a small fix that works around the problem: I created a batch file with the following lines: "netsh interface set interface NameOfAdapter disable; netsh interface set interface NameOfAdapter enable" and put this batch to run on windows startup... Now when entering the windows, the network is disconnected and connected, and works normally... It´s a small hack, but works...
Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this issue definitively? Thanks!
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Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
The link below shows two possible fixes for this problem. One is to uninstall which ever anti virus is being used and reinstall drivers. The other goes into services to make sure that "WLAN AutoConfig" is set to start automatically.
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Thanks for the answer.
I do not use any antivirus or firewall.
And i have checked the settings in WLAN AutoConfig on services.msc, it's marked to start automatically.
I think my problem is different =(
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small update: I realized that when i enter windows in safe mode with network support, the wireless adpater runs fine, without problems...
So it's a problem that affects the normal version of windows, but does not affect the safe mode.
Any ideas?
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Sounds like a driver issue then. Are you using the absolute latest drivers for the wireless card? The driver discs that ship with systems are usually good for only one thing...drink coasters for when you do the clean install. The drivers on disc are often outdated by the time you get the computer delivered.
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Sounds like a driver issue then. Are you using the absolute latest drivers for the wireless card? The driver discs that ship with systems are usually good for only one thing...drink coasters for when you do the clean install. The drivers on disc are often outdated by the time you get the computer delivered.
Is there any chance the problem is caused by a non-legitimate copy of windows?
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With any non-legit copy of Windows, it's always possible to have strange issues. There's no telling how the files have been tampered with or what kind of malware has been tucked into the OS.
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Hey guys. Problem solved here.
The problem was a bugged copy of windows.
Thank you everyone who helped
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