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A handout photo from 31 August 2017 shows archaeologists diving at the site of the ancient Roman city of Neapolis (AFP/HO/National Heritage Institute Tunisia/University of Sassari)
NABEUL (AFP).- Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the city of Neapolis was partly submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD. "It's a major discovery," Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, told AFP. He said an underwater expedition had found streets, monuments and around 100 tanks used to produce garum, a fermented fish-based condiment that was a favourite of ancient Rome. "This discovery has allowed us to establish with certainty that Neapolis was a major centre for the manufacture of garum and salt fish, probably the largest centre in the Roman world," said Fantar. "Probably the notables of Neapolis owed their fortune to garum." Fantar's team started work in 2010 in search of the port of Neapolis but only made the breakthrough find of the ruins stretching out over 20 hectares (almost 50 acres) this summer thanks to favourable weather conditions. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of one of the two human skeletons found by archaeologist Michelle Toledo, at the National Directorate of Cultural and Natural Heritage's Department of Archaeology laboratory in San Salvador on August 29, 2017. A double burial and abundant ceramic material about 2,500 years old was discovered by archaeologist Michelle Toledo while she carried out a study on land where a housing development is to be built, in the municipality of Quelepa, 125 km east of San Salvador. MARVIN RECINOS / AFP
| Monet, Van Gogh and other major gifts of Herman Levy the focus of new exhibition at McMaster | | Exhibition dedicated to the great actress and avant-garde woman Lyda Borelli opens in Venice | | Seager Gray Gallery opens first solo exhibition of works by Joan Baez |
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903), Pommiers en Fleur, 1870 (detail). Oil on canvas. Collection of McMaster Museum of Art, Gift of Herman Levy, Esq., O.B.E.
HAMILTON, ON.- A Cultivating Journey examines and celebrates the collection of significant European historical and modern art donated to the McMaster Museum of Art by Hamilton businessman Herman Levy in 1984. Alone, this was a transformative moment for the Museum. The Levy Bequest, announced in 1991 after his death, revealed substantial funds expressly for art purchases with the only proviso that they be non-North American in origin. The openness and generosity of the terms allowed for a unique opportunity to support the Museums prime purpose of teaching and research, and to re-imagine the collection, bringing it forward into the late twentieth century in a purposeful and thought-provoking way. Appropriately, the exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary ... More | |
Lyda Borelli 1910-1915 circa, ICCD-Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale, Archivio Nunes Vais, Roma.
VENICE.- The first exhibition dedicated to Lyda Borelli, the great actress and avant-garde woman of the early twentieth century, is being held on the second floor of the Palazzo Cini from 1 September to 15 November 2017. The exhibition presents the results of an extensive study of the actresss theatre career, already brought together in the book entitled Il Teatro di Lyda Borelli In the year of its tenth anniversary, the Fondazione Cini Institute of Theatre and Opera is celebrating the figure of the great actress Lyda Borelli (La Spezia, 1887 Rome, 1959) - Vittorio Cinis first wife - with a monographic exhibition. She was one of the most fascinating Italian actresses of the early twentieth century, an Art Nouveau icon and avant-garde woman. Lyda Borelli: A Leading Lady of the 20th Century, curated by Maria Ida Biggi, brings back to light the actresss theatre career, from her big successes ... More | |
Joan Baez, Vaclav Havel, 2017. Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 24 in.
MILL VALLEY, CA.- In her first solo painting exhibition, Joan Baez celebrates the Mischief Makers" - portraits of people who have brought about social change through nonviolent action - the risk-taking visionaries. The exhibition reveals the lesser known "coyote element" - the humor and trickery essential in speaking truth to power, where shenanigans, along with music are the heart and soul of many successful nonviolent movements. In her history-making career as an international performer and activist, Joan Baez has been on the front lines of just about every nonviolent social justice and human rights movement. She walked arm-in-arm with Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights marches in Mississippi, got thrown in jail for protesting the War in Vietnam and conspired with Vaclav Havel to spark the Velvet Revolution. Along the way, she serenaded Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung ... More |
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| Bernard Frize returns to Korea with an exhibition of recent works at Perrotin | | Koller's September furniture auction to feature a specially curated section: "Baroque to Belle Epoque" | | David Zwirner exhibits recent paintings and works on paper by Suzan Frecon |
Bernard Frize, Ule, 2005. Acrylic and resin on canvas, 160 x 140 cm. 63 x 55 1/8 in. Unique. Courtesy Perrotin.
SEOUL.- Perrotin Seoul is presenting a solo show of Bernard Frize, who returns to Korea with an exhibition of recent works. A remarkable work of art attracts a wide range of viewers and simultaneously triggers a profound and sincere rationale and interpretation of the work. In one respect, a painting of a high standard with a wide-ranging visual effect instantly and instinctively draws many viewers, regardless of their aesthetic taste or artistic view. However, on the other hand, those charismatic works provide a private yet open arena that allows viewers to explore intellectually. This is made possible because such works not only possess visual attractiveness but hold the power that invokes self-introspection. And these are also the reasons that we aim for an amalgamation of art and humanities and actively pursue their interaction. Recent works of Bernard Frize continue to be mature and masterly; steadily maintaining the visual aesthetic t ... More | |
An empire circular gueridon "aux pattes de lion" with pietra dura top. Attributed to Jean François Denière, Paris circa 1815/25, the top Italian, circa 1800. Est: CHF 45 000 - 55 000.
ZURICH.- Koller Zurichs Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts auction of nearly 450 lots will include a special section dedicated to the finest from the golden age of European decorative arts: the 18th and 19th centuries. Featured is a pair of Empire giltwood fauteuils made for Napoleon Is imperial Roman residence in the Quirinale Palace, then known as the Palazzo Monte Cavallo. Kollers September auction of Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts in Zurich features a special section entitled: Baroque to Belle Ãpoque: A Selection of Works from the Golden Age of European Decorative Arts. Kollers specialists have assembled circa 75 lots from among the finest examples of European decorative arts and sculpture created over a two-hundred year period, from a pair of wall lights by Charles-André Boulle of circa 1715 to a silver inkwell by Fabergé from circa 1900. Among the highlights ... More | |
distressed cathedral series study, 2015-2016. Watercolor on old Indian paper, 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29.2 x 22.9 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.
LONDON.- David Zwirner presents recent paintings and works on paper by Suzan Frecon in concurrent exhibitions in New York and London, marking the artists first show in London and her fourth overall solo presentation with the gallery. For almost five decades, Frecon has created abstract paintings that address issues of horizontality and verticality, asymmetrical balances, and interacting arrangements of color. Each composition is the result of a deliberative process guided by careful attention to spatial relationships. Working slowly, she accrues paint gradually, allowing the process of arriving at a given configuration to take ultimate precedence. On view at 525 West 19th Street in New York will be large-scale oil paintings composed with asymmetrical curves that result in minor and major measured areas of color. One area cannot exist without ... More |
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| Charlotte Jackson Fine Art opens solo exhibition of new work by Johnnie Winona Ross | | Bonhams to offer a bronze cast of Sir Alfred Gilbert's 'Perseus Arming' | | Major Josef Albers retrospective on view at Villa Hügel in Essen |
Johnnie Winona Ross, Deep Creek Spring, 2010-2017. Mineral pigments burnished on stretched linen, 24 x 22 1/2 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- A solo exhibition of new work, SEEP line, by Johnnie Winona Ross will open at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art on September 1 and extend through October 1. An Opening Reception with the artist will be held on Friday, September 1 from 5-7 p.m. There will be a Gallery Talk, with Johnnie Winona Ross in dialogue with Publisher of Radius Books, David Chickey, on Saturday, September 2 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by a book signing of Johnnie Winona Ross published by Radius books. The gallery is located in the Railyard Arts District at 554 South Guadalupe Street. A profound quiet. Runnels of color surface and descend through woven white. This is not the silence that is secession of sound but the quiet of the world waiting, of a still point of time and experience gathering toward fruition. The silence that radiates from these paintings is the silence of the desert striated canyons, floating mesas, moon on sand, light glinting ... More | |
Perseus Arming by Sir Alfred Gilbert. Estimate £40,000-60,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- A bronze cast of Sir Alfred Gilberts breakthrough work, Perseus Arming, is one of the leading lots in Bonhams Important Design Sale in London on Wednesday 25 October. It is estimated at £40,000-60,000. Gilbert (1854-1834) was a central figure in the New Sculpture movement that revolutionised the medium in Britain towards the end of the 19th century. Best known for his statue commonly referred to as Eros that tops the Shaftesbury Memorial at Piccadilly Circus in London, Gilbert enjoyed his first success with Kiss of Victory, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878. Buoyed by this achievement, he spent time studying and working in Rome and Florence where he was deeply influenced by the great Renaissance sculptors, such as Giambologna and Cellini. The result was Perseus Arming, showing Perseus as a young mortal arming himself to slay the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa the first of the deeds that transformed him int ... More | |
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1964. Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop. © 2017 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst.
ESSEN.- Colour in the works of Josef Albers exerts a powerful and unique effect. Lines, colour, surface and space interact with one another to challenge the perception of the viewer. Albers series Homage to the Square, which consists of more than 2,000 works, became the trademark of this pioneering artist, teacher, art theorist and catalyst. Now the Kulturstiftung Ruhr (Ruhr Arts Trust) and the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop are staging a major retrospective in Essen, bringing his multifaceted work together in the Villa Hügel. Josef Albers. Interaction (16. June to 8. October 2018) is the first major exhibition for thirty years of work by the artist who was born in Bottrop. A good 130 works the majority of which come from important American collections and the Josef Albers Museum are being shown in the former residence of the industrialist Krupp. The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach- ... More |
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| Gallery Hyundai opens solo exhibition of Minjung Kim's work | | Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie in Basel opens exhibition of works by Michelle Grabner | | Cooks and their books: Exhibition rounds up recipes from Romans to present day |
Minjung Kim, Story, 2011 (detail), mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper, 150 x 150cm, courtesy of the artist and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.
SEOUL.- Gallery Hyundai is presenting a solo exhibition of Minjung Kim, Paper, Ink and Fire: After the Process, from 1st September to 8th October 2017. For almost thirty years, Kim has been developing a body of creative works that employ Hanji, the Korean mulberry paper, and ink, as well as fire. Minjung Kim has been exploring the artistic movements of the East and West, using black ink to draw lines or create spontaneous strokes, and repeatedly pastes the layers of Hanji paper which she delicately burns with incense sticks and candles. The use of Hanji and fire as a medium and the subtle, repetitive handwork add depth to her work with a formal richness and unsuspected poetic variations. The careful choice of materials, delicate and controlled burning, and a patient collage of thin Hanji paper every element in the work of Minjung Kim reflects concentration and ... More | |
Installation view.
BASEL.- Michelle Grabner (b. 1962) has been painting and working with paper for decades using various themes, patterns and materials. Recently, she has expanded her practice to include working with bronze by recycling her source materials to create intricate repeating patterns. For her third exhibition with Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, she presents paintings and sculptures that have weight, texture and undercurrents of mathematics, economics, environmental and social concerns. Patterns are based on mathematical sequences that repeat themselves. Whether created by humans, nature or machines, patterns can be observed in our behavior, woven materials, the environment, music... Our daily routine is a series of patterns: domestic, family and professional responsibilities, education, hobbies, budgets, and everything that comprises our lives. Todays hobbies of knitting and crocheting originated from the necessity to clothe ourselves and keep ... More | |
Co-curator Peter Brears in the exhibition. Photo: University of Leeds.
LEEDS.- A new exhibition at the University of Leeds explores the rise of the celebrity chef and how recipes have been collected and compiled since Roman times. Cooks and their Books: Collecting Cookery Books in Leeds is the latest exhibition at the Universitys Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery. Opening on 1 September and running until the end of January, it highlights the Universitys outstanding Cookery Collection of books, papers and objects relating to food, drink and cooking which date from 2,500 BC to the present day. The collection was established in 1939 when Blanche Legat Leigh, a former Lady Mayoress of Leeds, donated her collection of 1,500 historic volumes and manuscripts to Leeds University Library. Dr Stella Butler, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, said: This exhibition showcases the Universitys rich collection of books on cookery and related ... More |
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Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern the oldest art academy in German-speaking Switzerland
LUCERNE.- The oldest art academy in German-speaking Switzerland celebrates its birthday in 2017. Over the past 140 years, and under various names, the Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst has trained countless sculptors, drawing teachers, illustrators, textile designers and fine artists. Some came to study in Lucerne and stayed, others grew up in Central Switzerland and then went elsewhere. What has become of those former students? What topics are they pursuing? In what media are they working? With the three-part exhibition series Fortsetzung folgt (To be continued), the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the akku Kunstplattform address these questions by means of current works by about 20 artists aged between 30 and 84 years. To begin with, Kunstmuseum Luzern is showing works by Jonas Burkhalter, Karin and Didi Fromherz and Andri Pol at the Kunstmuseum ... More
Museum Ludwig examines Heinrich Böll's relationship to photography and taking photographs
COLOGNE.- On the centenary of Heinrich Bölls birth, in its new rooms for photography the Museum Ludwig examines Bölls relationship to photography and taking photographsas a public figure, as an object of study, as an aid to his literary work, and as a motif in his writings. One year after Heinrich Bölls death, in 1986 the Museum Ludwig was opened in a newly constructed building. The address: Heinrich-Böll-Platz. The museums photography collection contains numerous works that show Heinrich Böll. After all, as an author he was a sought-after subject for photographers. During Bölls lifetime, two volumes of portraits of him photographed by Heinz Held, among others, were published. Böll maintained a friendship with Held and also allowed him to document his private lifea remarkable exception, since Böll tended to be camera-shy. A selection of portraits of Böll from ... More
Code 2: Bringing the international world of galleries to Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN.- Code Art Fair returns to Copenhagen with a strong selection of the best galleries from Denmark and abroad, as well as a free, ambitious programme of talks, films and performances. Code strives to create a brand new model of the contemporary art fair for an internationally interested art audience - driven by the goal of putting the Danish city firmly on the map as a capital for contemporary art. Once again Code Art Fair unfolds in the light, soaring atrium court of Bella Center. In only its second year, there has been strong competition for space at the art fair, giving visitors the opportunity to experience more than 60 quality galleries from cities like London, Berlin, Paris, Mexico City, Istanbul and New York. The new art fair has attracted leading world names, with a list of galleries that includes Perrotin (Paris/New York/Hong Kong/Seoul/Tokyo), ... More
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University presents a screening program and exhibition
BOSTON, MASS.- The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University will present Dream States: Video and the Political Imaginary, a screening program and exhibition that engages the intersection of desire, the unconscious, and political realities. Artists featured in the exhibition include Keren Cytter, T.R. Uthco & Art Farm, Ruth Patir, and The Propeller Group. The exhibition, which opens Sept. 1 and will run through Oct. 14 in the Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, will be accompanied by artist talks and screenings at SMFA at Tufts. Accompanying Dream States is a selection of performance videos by pioneering artist and curator Martha Wilson. In her performances, Wilson role-plays public figures and creates critical statements about gender, public policy, and arts political capacity. Located in the gallery spaces in both Medford and in Boston, the ... More
Festus Toll and Simen Gjersvold win the 2017 TENT Academy Awards
ROTTERDAM.- Festus Toll and Simen Gjersvold are the big winners at the annual awards for final-exam show videos, films, shorts, and animations. Festus Toll won the 2017 TENT Academy Award on Saturday evening 27 August. Simen Gjersvold won the Best Foreign Film Award, the award for the best exam-show video by a young artist from Norway. Igrayne Hörmanns film won the Publics Choice award. The awards were presented by the jury, chaired by Rutger Wolfson, at KINO cinema in Rotterdam. We Will Maintain by Festus Toll wins the award for the best final exam video from art academies in the Netherlands. It is about a Kenyan child whose uncle predicts that a child of mixed Afro-European parentage will neither feel at home in Africa or Europe. Twelve years later, the child is a filmmaker examining the meaning of his uncles prophetic words. The jury appreciated ... More
Sara Guerrero-Rippberger appointed MoMI Deputy Director of Education and Community Engagement
QUEENS, NY.- Museum of the Moving Image has hired Sara Angel Guerrero-Rippberger to serve as the Museums Deputy Director of Education and Community Engagement, a newly created senior management position. Museum of the Moving Image strives to empower youth to become thoughtful and creative content creators of the rapidly converging mediums of film, television, and games, as well as participatory social media platforms. For the past two years, Dr. Guerrero-Rippberger served as the Director of Education and Public Engagement at No Longer Empty, an organization that activates engagement with art and social issues through site-responsive and community-centered exhibitions integrated with educational and cultural programming. Dr. Guerrero-Rippberger also served as board member of the Queens-based art space Local Project, Inc. and ... More
Surge brings bold contemporary art from rural Scotland to Edinburgh
EDINBURGH.- Upland presents new work by a dozen established and emerging Dumfries and Galloway artists and makers at Patriothall Gallery. Surge, an exhibition of contemporary and experimental art from one of Scotlands most rural regions, opens in Edinburgh on September 2. It is intended to underline the diversity and freshness of art and craft from Dumfries and Galloway. Contributors include established national and international painters like Amy Winstanley, Bea Last and Aspect and Threadneedle prizewinner Patricia Cain. There will also be work by ceramicist Andrew Adair, photographer Colin Tennant and mixed media artists Denise Zygadlo, Maggie Ayres, Silvana McLean, Sarah Stewart and Katie Anderson. Morag Paterson, known internationally for her stills photography will be breaking new ground with a video installation. A second video installation ... More
Tramway presents European premiere of Luiz Roque's HEAVEN
GLASGOW.- Tramway presents the European premier of HEAVEN, a film work by Brazilian artist Luiz Roque from Saturday 2 September. Luiz Roques HEAVEN is about an intense love story surviving under pressure. In the year 2080, a time when the Epstein-Barr virus (mononucleosis) mutates into a much more aggressive version connected to immunodeficiency diseases a complex sociopolitical tangle comes to surface. Not by chance, the narrative takes place a hundred years after the beginning of the 1980, a decade marked by the discovery of AIDS a process that took over the news and absorbed the global imagination, and was deliberately used to create social stigmas. In the movie, the new potential epidemic is transmitted through saliva, and hitting mainly the transsexual community, that now has to struggle in a resistance against both the deep ... More
Copenhagen Contemporary opens "Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms"
COPENHAGEN.- Copenhagen Contemporary presents Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms in collaboration with CHART and City of Basel: an international group exhibition with artists and works that address the constantly changing conditions of forms of life on planet Earth. At a time of accelerating transformations in global ecosystems, humans and animals leave and lose their natural habitat. The exhibition reflects the unruly state of migrating species trying to adapt to a new world where nature, culture and technology are inextricably entangled and enmeshed. The expression "ex situ" means "off-site" or "out of place." It is used by conservation biologists for the preservation of fauna and flora in man-made environments. The shows starting point is to rethink the art space CC, which is housed in a large post-industrial boxsimilar to a water tankon the harbour ... More
Uppsala Cathedral exhibits five works by American video artist Bill Viola
UPPSALA.- Five works by American video artist Bill Viola are being exhibited in Uppsala Cathedral. The Cathedral Parish intends to acquire one of the works as part of Reformation Year 2017. We are very pleased that Bill Viola wants to collaborate with us. It is an art event that will attract attention not just in Sweden but far beyond our borders, says Kristin Windolf-Granberg, Assistant Priest in the Uppsala Cathedral Parish and project manager for the event. Bill Viola, born in 1951 in New York, is counted as a leading contemporary video artist, with works held in major art galleries and museums around the world. He is also represented in several churches and cathedrals. His work is usually described as touching on the fundamental experiences of human existence, such as birth, death and deliverance. The background to the Cathedral Parishs plan to acquire a work by Bill ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Danish artist Per Kirkeby was born September 01, 1938. September 1, 1938.- Per Kirkeby (born Copenhagen, September 1, 1938) is a Danish painter, poet, filmmaker and sculptor. In this image: Danish Crown Princess Mary, left, talks with Danish artist Per Kirkeby, right, at the opening of his art exhibition in Tate Modern gallery in London, Tuesday June 16, 2009.
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