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The children, aged between four and 14, were sacrificed in a ritual to honour the Chimu culture's gods [Luis Puell/AFP.
LIMA (AFP).- Archeologists in Peru say the 227 bodies they have unearthed from a site used by the pre-Columbian Chimu culture is the biggest-ever discovery of sacrificed children. Archeologists have been digging since last year at the huge sacrificial site in Huanchaco, a beachside tourist town north of the capital Lima. "This is the biggest site where the remains of sacrificed children have been found," chief archeologist Feren Castillo told AFP on Tuesday. Castillo said the children, who were aged between four and 14, were sacrificed in a ritual to honor the Chimu culture's gods. "They were sacrificed to appease the El Nino phenomenon," and show signs of being killed during wet weather, he said. He added that there may still be more to be found. "It's uncontrollable, this thing with the children. Whe ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day That which we do not remember, an exhibition on view at the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by the artist himself, traces the arc of Kentridgeâs thirty-year career and draws connections between the myriad aspects of his work including drawing, collage, stop-motion animation, performance, theatre, tapestry and sculpture.
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| | New arts documentary on Tadao Ando launches today on iTunes | | Exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich presents Henri Matisse as sculptor | | Gemeentemuseum acquires mysterious self-portrait by Paul Thek |
Available today on iTunes, the documentary takes us from the architects studio in Japan, to the construction of Casa Wabi on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico.
LONDON.- Directed by Fernanda RomandÃa, Just Meet is an intimate portrait of Japanese architect Tadao Ando narrated in his own voice. Available today on iTunes, the documentary takes us from the architects studio in Japan, to the construction of Casa Wabi on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. As he discusses boxing, the arts and his enduring passion for architecture, we see how his work comes to life. Designed by Ando, Fundación Casa Wabi is a non-profit, civil organisation that aims to promote collaboration and social commitment through art. Created in 2014 by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi, the foundation gets its name from wabi-sabi, a Japanese concept which presents a vision of the world focused on the acceptance of the ephemeral and the imperfect. Tadao Ando (b.1941 Osaka, Japan) is a self-taught architect who founded Tadao Ando Architectural & Associates in Osaka in 1969. Characteristics of his work incl ... More | |
Workshop in the Segu region, Bamana, Mali Jomooniw male and female figures, early 20th century. Wood and metal, height: 40.5 and 43.3 cm. Private collection, formerly Collection Matisse. Photo: Xavier Martinez.
ZURICH.- From 30 August to 8 December 2019 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents Henri Matisse as sculptor, in an exhibition that brings bronzes in various states together with the sources of his inspiration, including nude photographs and African sculptures. The art education programme is designed to appeal equally to newcomers with an interest in art, specialists and families. Over 70 works, accompanied by reproductions of historical photographs, films and music, offer a vivid presentation of Matisses artistic method. Installed in the large exhibition gallery of the Kunsthaus, the exhibition opens with sculptures by Rodin, Maillol and Bourdelle whom Matisse known for his colourful paintings strove to emulate before breaking free and striking out on his own. His figures undergo a transformation that is akin to a ... More | |
Paul Thek (1933-1988), Farewell to Washington Square (Self-Portrait), circa 1972, acrylic on canvas, collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - acquisition made possible thanks to the Rembrandt Society and the Mondriaan Fund.
THE HAGUE.- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has purchased a key work by American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). Thek painted the piece, entitled Farewell to Washington Square (Self-Portrait), in 1972, shortly before returning to Europe. With this new acquisition the museum now owns three extraordinary works by Thek. The purchase was possible thanks to the support of the Mondrian Fund and the Rembrandt Association, courtesy of its Titus Fund, Coleminks Fund and Post-war and Contemporary Art Fund. Farewell to Washington Square (Self-Portrait) is typical of the work of Paul Thek. His paintings, sculptures and drawings are often personal, spiritual and emotionally charged. This large, mysterious painting was created at his studio in Prince Street, close to Washington Square in New York. It is a self-portrait that is open ... More |
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| | Teresa Margolles opens first exhibition in Chile at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende opens | | Exhibition explores allegory and faith in Netherlandish prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt | | Almodovar recognised with Venice film festival lifetime award |
Teresa Margolles, Copiapó, Desierto de Atacama, 2018. Photo courtesy of Gabinete TM.
SANTIAGO.- In her first solo exhibition in Chile, the Mexican artist Teresa Margolles (Sinaloa, Mexico, 1963) investigates the social and aesthetic dimensions of conflict, documenting violence engendered by structural and historical inequality in a series of works and interventions carried out throughout the Atacama region and in disenfranchised neighborhoods of Santiago de Chile. La Carne Muerta Nunca se Abriga comprises a new body of work conceived by Margolles for her exhibition at the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Curated by Andrea Pacheco González, the exhibition is the result of extensive fieldwork undertaken throughout Chile, a county whose economic model reinforces social stratification. The effects of this economic injustice on marginalized bodies is documented in photographs, videos, installations and ceramic pieces which make tangible the devastating effects of capitalism in relation to issues such as ... More | |
Dirk Vellert (Flemish, 1480-1547). The Calling of Saints Andrew and Peter, 1523. Engraving. John Howett Fund and museum purchase in honor of Margaret Shufeldt. © Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University. Photo by Bruce M. White, 2011.
ATLANTA, GA.- The Michael C. Carlos Museum presents Through a Glass, Darkly: Allegory and Faith in Netherlandish Prints from Lucas van Leyden to Rembrandt, on view from August 31 through December 1, an exhibition of 90 prints from artists such as Lucas van Leyden, Hendrick Goltzius, Jan Sadeler, and Rembrandt. From 1500-1700, printmakers in the Low Countries were, as a group, the most skilled and prolific in all of Europe, and prints, often combined with text, played an important role in Netherlandish religious culture during this period. Printmakers utilized allegory, the metaphorical substitution of one set of images, objects, and ideas for another, to address the most fundamental issues binding the human and the divinelove, virtue, vice, sin, death, and salvationas well as the post-Reformation religious turmoil that consumed ... More | |
Spanish director Pedro Almodovar acknowledges applause on August 29, 2019 after receiving a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement from Argentinian director and Jury President of the 76th Venice Film Festival Lucrecia Martel (R) during a ceremony at the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido. Vincenzo PINTO / AFP.
VENICE (AFP).- Legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodovar won the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival Thursday, calling the recognition an "act of poetic justice". Event organisers said Almodovar was the "greatest and most influential Spanish director since Luis Bunuel". It is the first time Almodovar has received an award from a top European festival such as Cannes and Venice. Almodovar has directed 21 feature films, including "Volver", "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" and "High Heels". Almodovar screened his first film in Venice in 1983 but it was his second inclusion at the festival in 1998, with "Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown", that provoked controversy when the jury president suggested ... More |
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| | USF Contemporary Art Museum presents The Return of the Real: Robert Lazzarini and Rodrigo Valenzuela | | Lucy McRae: Body Architect opens at National Gallery of Victoria Australia | | Four winners of A.C. Houen Fund's Certificate for Outstanding Architecture 2019 |
Robert Lazzarini, motel door (kicked in), 2012.
TAMPA, FLA.- In an era increasingly dominated by fabricated fears, alternative facts and fake news, the artists Robert Lazzarini (U.S., b. 1965) and Rodrigo Valenzuela (Chile, b. 1982) rearrange, reconstruct and ultimately distort reality in order to question its most fundamental premises. Their two-person exhibition, The Return of the Real, illustrates, among other things, how the real is made up of more than just perceptionits surfaces can, in fact, harbor fantastical possibilities. The Return of the Real is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné and organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. Robert Lazzarini is known for confusing visual and haptic space, thereby complicating the space of pictures and the space of things. Based on appropriated subjects, his sculptures have the effect of interrupting ones standard processes of visual recognition. His work continues the discourse of phenomenology in art, while touching ... More | |
Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, Exploded view, 2008. Colour digital image © Lucy McRae and Bart Hess.
MELBOURNE.- Body architect, designer and science fiction artist Lucy McRae uses film and images to consider how technology could transform the human body in the future. The first survey exhibition of McRaes provocative and beguiling work, Lucy McRae: Body Architect, explores the Los Angeles-based Australian artists collaborations with scientists, through to pop musicians, in her creative research practice over the past thirteen years. McRaes work encourages conversations on the future of human existence through the areas of biology, beauty and health. The exhibition will feature seven of McRaes videos that combine storytelling with speculative science including Future Day Spa and her seminal work Institute of Isolation. Future Day Spa presents an immersive experience, evoking the feeling of being hugged which helped induce the body into a state of relaxation. The hypothetical therapy ... More | |
The new cultural centre in Bodø is very impressive. © David Grandorge.
OSLO.- Today four architecture projects were awarded the A.C. Houen Funds Certificate for Outstanding Architecture: Stormen Cultural Centre in Bodø, designed by DRDH Architects, Holmenkollbakken Ski Jump in Oslo, designed by JDS Architects, the Dalaker/Galta Farmhouse on Rennesøy outside of Stavanger, designed by Knut Hjeltnes Sivilarkitekter, and D36 - Green House in Oslo, designed by Element Arkitekter. The National Museum administers the certificate on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. The museum appoints the jury in cooperation with the National Association of Norwegian Architects (NAL), and the certificate is awarded by the Ministry of Culture upon the jury's recommendation. The present jury has consisted of the chair Alexandria Algard (architect, MNAL), Nina Berre (architect, MNAL, PhD), Knut Longva (architect, MNAL), and Ole Gustavsen (rector of the Oslo School of Architecture and Design). ... More |
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| | 'Wait it Out' by Northern Irish artist Sandra Johnston opens at Project Arts Centre | | Migros Museum of Contemporary Art opens an exhibition about loss, remembrance, activism and art in response to HIV/AIDS | | Casino Luxembourg opens two new exhibitions |
Sandra Johnston/Richard Ashrowan That Apart, two-channel HD video projection (production still), 2019 Courtesy the artists. Courtesy the artists. Commissioned and produced by Project Arts Centre, Dublin with support from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Production Residency and Arts Department, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Thyne, UK.
DUBLIN.- Featuring newly commissioned video installations, this landmark solo exhibition by Northern Irish artist Sandra Johnston grew out of conversations surrounding her time spent in Dublin during the late 1990s. As an emerging artist, Johnston was resident at both IMMA and Arthouse and participated in Project Arts Centres OFF Site programme curated by Valerie Connor between 1998 and 1999. During that time, her performance work Reserved took place over two consecutive nights on the rooftop of the former Ormond Hotel with a video installation shown inside the building containing edited footage of her 24-hour performance. Consisting of two main parts, Wait it Out negotiates personal and historical narratives in relation to the reverberation of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. The work ... More | |
Judith Bernstein, Lord God Cock II, 1995-2019. Charcoal on paper, 160 x 120 cm. Courtesy Studio Judith Bernstein.
ZURICH.- The extensive group show United by AIDSAn Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS sheds light on the multifaceted and complex interrelation between art and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. It examines the blurring of the boundary between art production and HIV/AIDS activism and spotlights artists who have been leading voices in this creative discourse, which remains vital today. The presentation gathers positions that illustrate the diversity of the (artistic) response to the HI virus and AIDS, with an explicit focus on works that address themes such as isolation, transformation, and the inexorable passing of time and mortality in relation to the politics of the body and representation. Since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in the second half of the 1990s, AIDS has widely come to be seen as a phenomenon of the past, with little significance for the life of our societies today. On the global scale, however, death ... More | |
Anna Hulačová, Sunshine heritage for sons and daughters, 2019. Installation mixed média. Courtesy lartiste et Hunt Kastner, Prague. Photo: Andrés Lejona.
LUXEMBOURG .- I dreamed I was a house is an immersive exhibition curated by insitu collective that unlocks the psychological potential of the domestic home. In psychoanalysis, dreaming of a house is considered to be a reflection of ones self, whereby the individual spaces relate to different facets of our personality. In a similar direction, this exhibition overlays two types of interior spaces the mind and the home so that the architecture of the home evokes the hidden depths of the human psyche: from the vortex of the hallway, to the social façade of the dining room, to the intimacy of the bedroom, and down to the shadowy subconscious, hidden in the basement. Working within the historical building of Casino Luxembourg, insitu collective has invited six artists to create individual domestic environments or rooms. These rooms form a metaphorical collage of a house that brings to life the emotional resonance of our most private spaces. The unique spatial ... More |
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Massimo Bottura at the Intersection of Art and Artisan
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Contemporary Istanbul announces galleries for 14th edition
ISTANBUL.- Contemporary Istanbul (CI), the leading annual art fair in the region, announces today the galleries for its 14th edition, taking place 12 15 September 2019 in the Istanbul Congress Center and the Rumeli Hall at the Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center. Situated at the meeting point of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, in one of the great cities of the world, CI is overseen by artistic director Anissa Touati. In 2019, CI continues to be supported by its main sponsor, Akbank. CI presents international contemporary art galleries alongside Turkish galleries, offering global reach to the flourishing local art scene and market. The 14th edition of the fair will feature 73 galleries from 22 countries, 510 artists and more than 1,400 artworks. CI is pleased that galleries such as Marlborough Gallery, New York, Barcelona, Madrid, London; Mark Hachem, New York, ... More
Exhibition of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis debuts at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection
KLEINBURG, ON.- The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is presenting the debut of its highly anticipated exhibition Maud Lewis this summer. The exhibition is on view through January 5, 2020. Featuring more than 130 works by beloved Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (1903 1970), the exhibition focuses on her endearing artistic accomplishments, featuring many never-before-seen pieces. We are overjoyed to be presenting the work of this remarkable woman, says McMichael Chief Curator Sarah Milroy. She had a distinctive gift for colour and composition, wringing endless delightful variations in marvellous profusion. Her colours sing, and the happiness they convey is more remarkable given the difficulties of her life. Shes truly inspiring, both as an artist and as a creative and resilient human being. Lewiss work is built around the serial repetition of images, symbols and motifs. ... More
'Cosmological Arrows: Journeys Through Inner and Outer Space' opens at Bonniers Konsthall
STOCKHOLM.- What will be the future of our planet and what responsibility do we take for our actions? What does it actually mean to be human? The exhibition Cosmological Arrows gathers a group of contemporary artists who use science fiction and space to pose fundamental questions about humankinds existence and how we treat the world we live in. The works highlight concepts and visions that freely traverse subjects such as astronomy, the environment, colonization, gender, futurism and artificial intelligence. Science fiction is a sprawling and fascinating genre within which real and fictive conceptions of the world are allowed to congregate. Organizers intend for the exhibition to emphasize how the artists use space and the genre of science fiction as an imaginary laboratory that forms the basis for discussions of todays ethical, moral and existential dilemmas. Science ... More
Exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft focuses on the first ten years of CalArts
HANNOVER.- Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts focuses on the legendary founding years (1970 1980) of the California Institute of the Arts, which has produced numerous well-known artists. This wide-ranging group exhibition presents a variety of perspectives on the school: parallel movements from the milieus of Conceptual Art, feminist art, and Fluxus as well as the schools radical pedagogical concepts will be brought together for the first time. CalArts, which was founded by Walt Disney, opened near Los Angeles in 1970. In its early years, the school developed a radical, groundbreaking model whose interdisciplinary nature was based on previous European and American examples such as the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. It put teachers and students on equal footing and dispensed with a grading system. With the institutional establishment of conceptual ... More
Lea Pinsky named as Art Encounter's inaugural Executive Director
EVANSTON, ILL.- Art Encounter, a 41-year-old non-profit visual arts organization in the Chicago metropolitan area, announced the appointment of Lea Pinsky as its first-ever Executive Director, effective July 2019. The creation of an Executive Director position comes as the result of Art Encounters succession planning and strategic plan to advance the organization forward toward greater sustainability and maturity. Pinsky was unanimously approved by Art Encounters Board of Directors following a six-month candidate search. In this inaugural position as Executive Director, Ms. Pinsky will collaborate with staff and partner with the Board of Directors to lead and implement the strategic vision of Art Encounter and carry out its mission. We are thrilled to appoint Lea as Art Encounters first Executive Director, said Gale Goldstick-Cohen, President of Art Encounters Board of Directors. ... More
Straight outta Karachi: Pakistan's surprise hip hop hub
KARACHI (AFP).- Haunted by gang violence and poverty for decades, Lyari was once considered one of Pakistan's most dangerous areas, but those grim realities also inspired a generation of artists and spawned a burgeoning hip hop scene. With its close proximity to the sea and history of smuggling, the largely ethnic Balochi neighbourhood in Karachi stands apart for its history of violence and lawlessness -- even by Pakistan's standards. When Karachi served as a major transport hub during the Afghan jihad against the Soviets, Lyari was hit hard by the influx of weapons and drugs -- and the surge in brutality such black market businesses bring. Heavily armed gangs and political hit squads exerted iron-fisted control over large swathes of Lyari, squashing economic growth while residents battled with the fallout, including rampant drug abuse and poverty. "Lyari was a ... More
Pioneering Saudi filmmaker vies for Venice glory amid gender row
VENICE (AFP).- Saudi Arabia's Haifaa al-Mansour cried as she spoke about the barriers to women's success around the world Thursday in Venice, where she is one of only two female directors in contention for the festival's top prize. Mansour's film "The Perfect Candidate" tells the story of a young Saudi doctor who decides to run in local elections in her city despite formidable resistance. The movie dwells on the challenges and new opportunities in the conservative kingdom. The director, who had to direct parts of her acclaimed 2012 film "Wadjda" while concealed in the back of a van, said Saudi Arabia was now "more open", but women were "shy" to grasp new freedoms and opportunities, such as driving and voting. "I don't have to be in a van now," she said at a press conference at the Venice film festival, which is itself facing controversy over a lack of female representation. ... More
American Folk Art Museum announces new curator of Folk Art Emelie Gevalt
NEW YORK, NY.- Jason T. Busch, the Director of the American Folk Art Museum, announced today that Emelie Gevalt will become curator of folk art at the museum beginning November 2019. Gevalt comes to AFAM from the Art of the Americas department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she has been instrumental in launching the museums strategic folk art initiative, including preparations for a Henry Luce Foundation-funded exhibition on works in the museums folk art collection, Collecting Stories: The Invention of Folk Art opening in May 2020. Prior to that position, she served in leadership roles at Christies in New York in the Estates, Appraisals, and Valuations department. Gevalt is pursuing her doctorate in art history at the University of Delaware, where she is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Track PhD Fellow, focusing on eighteenth- and ... More
Fondazione Giorgio Cini presents 'Marianna Kennedy: Invincible Truth'
VENICE.- Invincible Truth is an exhibition, curated by Lars Rachen and Paolo Vincenzi, of works by the London based artist and designer Marianna Kennedy. The choice of works found inspiration in the rooms of Sala Borges of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The exhibition will be open to the public free of charge from Sunday, the 1st September to Sunday, the 22nd September 2019. The project arose and has taken shape as a creative dialogue with the spaces dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and with the city of Venice. They form an ideal setting for the presentation of a series of past and recent works by the artist, including two new creations that give the exhibition its title. Also, there are two large-format Artist Books made by traditional techniques. Through the exploration of emblematic and ... More
Ylinka Barotto and Frauke V. Josenhans will oversee exhibitions for the Moody and Rice Public Art
HOUSTON, TX.- The staff at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University will grow this fall as it adds two associate curators. Ylinka Barotto, former Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum assistant curator, and Frauke V. Josenhans, former Yale University Art Gallery associate curator, will be responsible for developing, organizing and executing visual art exhibitions and projects for both the Moody and Rice Public Art. We are delighted to welcome Ylinka Barotto and Frauke Josenhans to our dynamic team said Alison Weaver, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts. Were looking forward to the creative contributions these two talented women will make in support of the Moodys mission to foster interdisciplinary conversation through the arts. Through projects that engage both the Moody and Rice Public Art, we have the opportunity to broaden the ... More
ifa-Galerie Berlin opens an exhibition of works by Saba Innab
BERLIN.- Saba Innabs solo exhibition Station Point, curated by Omar Berrada, is a response to ifa Gallery Berlins one-year programme Untie to Tie - Movement.Bewegung. In technical drawings, a station point is the point from which a perspective is constructed. Anything that is located behind it, or in its blind spot, will be absent from the drawing. Innabs Station Point probes spatial representation as a way to reflect on the entanglements of architecture and power. The exhibition unfolds across three chapters that organize the gallery space. The show opens on a personal note, with a letter from Saba Innab to Malevich, highlighting the blind spots of European avant-gardes and registering the impossibility of love between a Palestinian architect and the modern art movements that nourished her education. The second chapter, composed of a sketchbook, a drawing, ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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