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Shell necklace, Northeast Australia, 19th century © The Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- To mark the 250th anniversary of Captain Cooks first voyage, the British Museum opened a new exhibition which re-examines the explorers relationship with the people of the Pacific. Reimagining Captain Cook: Pacific Perspectives looks at the ways Cooks explorations are viewed in the places he visited and by descendants of the people he encountered. Objects from the British Museums collection associated with Cooks voyages are displayed alongside contemporary artworks made by artists from the region. Together, these works demonstrate that the impact of his voyages remains complex, contentious and largely unresolved. The exhibition has seven sections which each focus on a place where Cook is remembered: Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, New Caledonia, Hawaii, Vanuatu and Tahiti, as well as Great Britain. Cooks experience of each place was different and these sections not only explore his encounte ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Raccanello Leprince, ceramic specialists, show Lustrous Iridescence-The Experimental Glazes of Ulise Cantagalli, for their London Art Week Winter 2018 exhibition. London Art Week Winter 2018 Salons are now open at 32 galleries and auction houses in Mayfair and St. James's, continuing through Friday 7 December. Photo: davidowens.co.uk
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 | | Egypt unearths eight ancient mummies | | Pace's new flagship gallery at 540 West 25th Street to open in September 2019 | | East Africa may lose its crown as 'cradle of mankind' | 
The mummies, dating from the Late Period of ancient Egypt, are "covered with a layer of painted cartonnage in the form of a human".
CAIRO (AFP).- Egyptian archaeologists have discovered eight mummies dating back over 2,300 years at a pyramid complex south of Cairo, authorities said Wednesday. "The Egyptian archaeological mission working at the south eastern area of King Amenemhat II's pyramid in Dahshur Necropolis has uncovered a number of ancient burials with eight coffins," the antiquities ministry said in a statement. The mummies, dating from the Late Period of ancient Egypt, are "covered with a layer of painted cartonnage in the form of a human", the statement said. "Three of them are in good condition." Cartonnage, a material often consisting of a mixture of linen or papyrus and plaster, was frequently used to cover mummies. The ministry said it planned to eventually put the mummies and the limestone sarcophagi they were found in on display at museums set to be built in the resort hubs of Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh. The Dahshur ... More | | 
Architectural Renderings, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced that it will open its new flagship gallery in New York in September 2019. Located in the heart of Manhattans Chelsea neighborhood at 540 West 25th Street, Paces new global headquarters is being developed by Weinberg Properties and designed by Bonetti / Kozerski Architecture, in close collaboration with Pace President and CEO Marc Glimcher. Spanning eight stories and measuring approximately 75,000 square feet, the building has been designed as an integrated and dynamic space for artists, collectors, curators, gallery-goers, and Paces international team alike, to gather together and engage with the work of the leading artists that Pace has the honor to represent. With an astute vision for the future of the art gallery model, the new building unites the multi-faceted and evolving roles of the gallery under one roofencompassing expansive indoor and outdoor exhibition galleries; a 10,000- ... More | | 
Evidence of hominin activity from Ain Boucherit faunal assemblages. (A and B) Slicing mark on a medium size bovid humerus shaft from AB-Lw (A) with SEM micrograph detail (B). (C and D) Cutmarked equid calcaneum from AB-Lw (C) with SEM micrograph detail (D). (E) Hammerstone percussed medium size long bone from AB-Lw. (F) Bone flake from AB-Up. (G) Equid tibia from AB-Up showing cortical percussion notch.
ALGIERS (AFP).- Archaeologists in Algeria have discovered stone tools and cut animal bones that may be up to 2.4 million years old, bringing into question East Africa's title as the cradle of humanity, according to research published Thursday in the journal Science. The artifacts -- more ancient than those discovered in the region until now -- were found in Setif, some 200 miles (300 kilometers) east of Algiers, by a team of international researchers, including Algerians. The tools closely resemble those called Oldowan, found until now mainly in East Africa. The tools were unearthed near dozens of fossilized animal bones which contained cut marks, as if relics of prehistoric butchers. The bones came from ... More |
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| | | Massimo De Carlo opens the first exhibition by American artist Tony Lewis in China | | Berlinische Galerie opens the first-ever comprehensive retrospective devoted to the Novembergruppe | | V&A reopens the Cast Courts with new interpretation gallery and secret hideaway within Trajan's Column | 
Tony Lewis, Engine insist itself nothing short etc. Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong, 2018. Photo: iMAGE28. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
HONG KONG.- Massimo De Carlo Hong Kong is presenting Engine Insist Itself Nothing Short Etc. the first exhibition by American artist Tony Lewis in China. Tony Lewiss practice centres on the relationship between semiotics, language and the universal, creating a narrative that shifts constantly between historical and autobiographical. Graphite pencil and paper are the mediums the artist uses to trace and create abstract narratives and reflections on the notion of the gestural, embodying the artists research for pure abstraction. In Engine Insist Itself Nothing Short Etc. Tony Lewis presents a group of six large-scale, vibrant, drawings. The Gregg Shorthand graphite form is the primary form and linguistic tool for the drawing: the Gregg Shorthand is a form of stenography that was invented by John Robert Gregg in 1888, like cursive longhand, it is completely based on elliptical figures and lines that bisect them it is the ... More | | 
Moriz Melzer, Segnung, 1917-1922 © Moriz Melzer: Rechtsnachfolger Moriz Melzer, bpk/Nationalgalerie, SMB/Volker-H. Schneider.
BERLIN.- Democracy and diversity. When the First World War ended and the Emperor abdicated, the doors were thrown wide open to freedom and justice in Germany. Things were not easy for the fledgling democracy. The Novembergruppe, an association of artists formed in Berlin during the revolution of November 1918, grew rapidly to become a strong, innovative player in the world of art and the public arena of the Weimar Republic. With its pluralist concept, the association benefited from the governments liberal policy on promoting the arts. Open to any style in the visual arts, as well as to architects, writers, composers and film-makers, the Novembergruppe was a platform for freedom, democracy and diversity. Artists did not have to join in order to take part. A bold commitment to modernism was enough. Between 1919 and 1932 the Novembergruppe staged almost 40 exhibitions (some outside Berlin and even in other European countries), ... More | | 
After extensive restoration and conservation work, the West Court now renamed the Ruddock Family Cast Court reopens to the public revealing historic features, including original 19th-century floors and wall colours. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
LONDON.- The V&A opens the second and final phase of its redevelopment of the Cast Courts, returning these iconic galleries to their original splendour. The renovation also features a brand-new gallery exploring the history, processes and significance of casts and copies as well as looking to their contemporary relevance and future in the digital age. New exhibits include a scaled-down digital reproduction of the arch of Palmyra that was destroyed by ISIS in 2015. Following the completion of the Weston Cast Court in 2014, the opening of these two galleries concludes this major project, which began in 2011. After extensive restoration and conservation work, the West Court now renamed the Ruddock Family Cast Court, in recognition of the generosity of the Ruddock Foundation for the Arts reopens to the public revealing historic features, including original ... More |
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| | | Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announces two major university-level education initiatives | | Kestner Gesellschaft opens survey exhibition of the work of Teresa Burga | | Pussy Riot activists plot South Africa art project | 
Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1967, screenprint, 25 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (65.4 x 45.4 cm). © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Chiron Press, New York. Photograph by Steven Sloman, courtesy of Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation today announced two new initiatives for arts funding: the Frankenthaler Scholarships in painting and art history and the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative for university-affiliated museums. These multi-year efforts will greatly expand the Foundations reach to students of art and art history at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels. Clifford Ross, Chair of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundations Board of Trustees, stated, Helen had a strong interest in supporting college- and university-level art education. Her own fortunate training at Bennington, and her active lecture schedule at art schools and universities during her career, made her aware of the benefits of an enlightened and stimulating education. With Frankenthaler Scholarships, we ... More | | 
Tereas Burga, Work that disappears when the spectator tries to approach it, 1970 / 2017. Installation mit Sensoren und Glühbirnen, 220 x 220 cm. Courtesy die Künstlerin und die Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin.
HANOVER.- With the exhibition Aleatory Structures , the Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting an extensive survey exhibition by the South American artist Teresa Burga (*1935 in Iquitos, Peru). For the first time in Germany, the past fifty years of her oeuvre will be presented with over 100 works. Burgas lifes work is characterized by an extraordinary diversity, spanning paintings, Pop Art objects, sculptures, cybernetic installations, and drawings. Her work is also shaped by an analytical approach throughout the creative process, which manifests for instance in mathematical models and diagrams that she uses to deconstruct traditional gender roles as well as artistic authorship. Although Burga was often ahead of her time, in many cases she has been overlooked. The exhibition also seeks to contribute to finally establishing the artists position in the art-historical canon alongside other artists of her generation such ... More | | 
Olya Kurachyova (L) and Veronika Nikulshina, members of Pussy Riot, a Russian Protest Punk band and art collective, share a laugh during a press conference on November 30, 2018, in Cape Town, where they take part in various art projects. Rodger BOSCH / AFP.
CAPE TOWN.- Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot hinted Friday at an attention-grabbing outcome after a two-week artistic collaboration in South Africa, but they stuck to their vow to keep their next performance a secret. The group, famed for their protests against President Vladimir Putin, have been working in Cape Town with Italian performance artist Marinella Senatore. "The main goal of our art is to attract attention and highlight stuff that seems to be hidden in the shadows," Nika Nikulshina told a news conference. "When you describe yourself as a political activist, I just realised that you must be prepared for everything." Asked about their next work, fellow member Olga Kurachyova said "We never tell." The anarchist collective -- often decked out in neon balaclavas and tights -- has made its name with politically charged ... More |
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| | | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opens 'Diana Thater: A Runaway World' | | All signs point to a big day of buying at Morphy's Dec. 12 Advertising & General Store Auction | | The Museum der Moderne Salzburg surveys the art of the 2017 Otto Breicha Prize for Artistic Photography honoree | 
Diana Thater, A Runaway World, 2017. Installation for two video projectors, two media players, and Altuglas Visio screens. 182.9 x 325.1 x 325.1 cm. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York / London / Hong Kong.
BILBAO.- From November 29, 2018 to March 18, 2019, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Diana Thater: A Runaway World , an exhibition by the Californian artist Diana Thater (San Francisco, 1962), a pioneer of video installation and the application of new technologies to the moving image. This is the third and last exhibition to be held in 2018 in the Film & Video Gallery, where the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao programs shows that explore major works of video art, video installation, and the moving image as artistic language. The works of Diana Thater engage in dialogue with key references in art history, from Impressionism to Minimal art, while addressing major concerns in contemporary culture. In the Film & Video Gallery, Thater presents three pieces that explore one of the key themes of her work: the ... More | | 
Lawrence (Tiger Brand) Paint porcelain sign, double-sided, near-mint condition. Est. $2,500-$5,000. Image courtesy of Morphy Auctions.
DENVER, PA.- No matter what the product or service may be, it pays to advertise. Merchants and manufacturers of the modern era know the value of signage and messaging, although the concept itself began with the Ancient Egyptians, who painted primitive ads on papyrus. While there are no prehistoric examples in Morphys December 12 Advertising & General Store Auction, collectors are sure to respond enthusiastically to the eye-catching 800-lot selection chosen for the sale. In addition to 230 signs, there are tins and containers; store displays, soda fountain and barbershop items; as well as approximately 280 lots pertaining to Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and other soda pop brands. Additional specialty categories include candy, alcohol, tobacco, ice cream, coffee, and automotive advertising. Many beautiful ceramic syrup dispensers will be on hand to sweeten the sale. Among them are a Drink Wineberry 5-Cent model ... More | | 
Lisl Ponger Untitled, 2013. From the series La Catrina or another Mexican Afternoon. Chromogenic print © Lisl Ponger / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2018.
SALZBURG.- Lisl Ponger (b. Nuremberg, DE, 1947) launched her career as a film and photography artist in the early 1970s. In staged photographic pieces such as La Catrina (2013) and Teilnehmende Beobachterin (2016), Ponger pinpoints the ways in which stereotypes, racist ideas, and scopic constructions that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century have persisted and even thrived in photography. She is also a collector, gathering objects of Western vernacular culture and trinkets from tourist souvenir shops that reveal the Western engagement with foreign cultures for her fictional Museum MuKul (Museum for Foreign and Familiar Cultures). Divided into three sections, her exhibition Professione: fotografa showcases numerous major photographic tableaus and a selection of early films as well as objects and sculptures from the Museum MuKul. Also on display is the installation The Master Narrative ... More |
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 First Canadian solo exhibition of Mickalene Thomas features 25 new and recent worksTORONTO.- Internationally acclaimed for her powerful portraits of Black women, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) comes to the Art Gallery of Ontario this fall with a remarkable exhibition that sparks urgent questions about race and sexuality and how we see the Black female body. Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires, which explores Black celebrity culture and Western art history through a queer feminist lens, includes paintings, video montages, silkscreens, photographs and several immersive living room tableaux. Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires is Thomass first large scale solo exhibition in Canada and has taken over Level 5 of the AGOs David & Vivian Campbell Centre for Contemporary Art. A unique international partnership between the AGO and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CACNO), the exhibition opened in Toronto on Nov. 29, ... More The Mint Museum opens its first exhibition to focus on collageCHARLOTTE, NC.- Drawing together nearly 100 works from the museums Modern & Contemporary Collection, Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum is the museums first exhibition to focus on this dynamic, engaging medium. This technique, in which materials from different sources are cut, torn, and layered to create new meanings and narratives, experienced a renaissance after World War II, due in large part to Charlotte native Romare Bearden, whose work plays a special role in this exhibition. Bearden has long had a special place at The Mint Museum, which maintains a gallery dedicated to his work at Mint Museum Uptown. In this special exhibition, he and his work serve as a point of departure to explore the medium for which he is best known. It was great fun pulling together Under Construction, noted Dr. Jonathan Stuhlman, ... More Major exhibition of American impressionist painter Emil Carlsen opens at Lyman Allyn Art MuseumNEW LONDON, CONN.- Emil Carlsen (1848-1932) is counted among an important group of American painters who flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carlsens lush and painterly approach took French Impressionism and later Tonalists work a step further in the direction of serenity and quiet sensory beauty. His work reflects the American tendency to appreciate concrete form and clear meaning in subject matter. Carlsen, a master colorist, possessed a sophisticated sense of design and an ability to find subtle beauty in the everyday subject. The exhibition was organized by the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, and has also traveled to the Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia. Emil Carlsens Quiet Harmonies will be on view at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum from December 1, 2018 through ... More Hoor Al Qasimi appointed Curator of Lahore Biennale 2020 LAHORE.- Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Founding Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, has been appointed Curator of the second Lahore Biennale (LB02), opening in early 2020 and on view across the city of Lahore, Pakistan. Director of the internationally-respected Sharjah Biennial since 2002 and President of the International Biennial Association, Al Qasimi will bring her extensive expertise to LB02, which will feature new commissions, large-scale installations, and discursive programming. The inaugural Lahore Biennale (LB01), held in March 2018, showcased over 100 artworks in some of Lahores major venues and saw the participation of various artists and scholars from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India. For LB02, the Biennial will extend its regional scope to West Asia and the Middle East. Chairman of the Board of the Lahore Biennale Foundation ... More 2003 U.S. $25 Gold Eagle coin brings a record $4,688 at Bruneau & Co.CRANSTON, RI.- An adorable circa 1920 Tiffany & Co. platinum repeater pocket watch sold for $12,500 and a 2003 U.S. $25 Liberty Eagle gold coin climbed to a record $4,688 at an Estate Antiques & Fine Art Auction held Thanksgiving weekend, November 24th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers, online and in the Bruneau & Co. gallery located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Offered were about 500 lots of fine jewelry, sterling silver, original artworks, furniture, art glass, sculpture, folk art, Asian objects and more. Online bidding was via bidLIVE.Bruneauandco.com, LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Bidsquare.com, and by downloading the mobile app Bruneau & Co. on iTunes and GooglePlay. Telephone and absentee bids were also accepted. It was a great feeling to start the auction with excitement seven lots in, hammering down the Tiffany ... More Monumental works by RETNA, Mr. Brainwash lead Heritage Auctions' Urban Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Urban Art Auction Dec. 4-5 includes such a comprehensive range among its 443 lots that the sale is being broken into four sessions. The live session will be at 11 a.m. (Central Time) Dec. 4, while internet sessions will be held at 1 p.m. Dec. 4 and at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Dec. 5. The auction will begin with a curated live session featuring the top 50 lots from a variety of disciplines, including: RETNA Conversation Piece, 2012 (estimate: $60,000-80,000), created in acrylic, enamel and crystalline on canvas, is a powerful piece that reflects the artists origin as a graffiti artist, including his constructed script derived from Blackletter, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Arabic, Native American and Hebrew calligraphy. The 96-by-80-inch painting is the largest, most important and highest-estimated work by the artist ever offered at auction. RETNA ... More Hollis Taggart opens an exhibition of works by Jeffery C. BectonNEW YORK, NY.- Jeffery C. Becton is among the leading artists using digital technologies within photography practice. Nearly a decade prior to the advent of personal computers that employed a graphic user interface, Becton was already experimenting with early software applications for formatting type digitally at the Yale School of Arts computer lab. This early engagement with digital tools primed him for the depth of formal and conceptual possibilities that new technologies of the 1980s would bring to artistic production. Since 1990, Becton has worked in a genre that he refers to as digital montage, combining elements of photography with painting, drawing, and the collaging of other scanned materials. This fusion of multiple formal vocabularies gives rise to ambiguities of time, space, and location within his images, creating alternative realities that are rich with ... More mumok puts on permanent show several works by Friedrich KieslerVIENNA.- In January 2017 the collectors, and husband and wife, Gertraud and Dieter Bogner gave a very special gift to mumokapproximately thirty works by the Austrian-American architect, artist, stage designer, designer, and theorist Friedrich Kiesler. One of Kieslers major works, Endless House (1950), has gone on permanent show at mumok, along with a number of further works. Endless House is a work that perfectly typifies the art and theory of Friedrich Kiesler. The most conspicuous feature of this biomorphous architectural vision is the fact that space is continuously in flow. The body of this unusual architectural model is somehow spherical and yet irregular. The floor, walls and ceilings seem to be made of endless loops. Kiesler made only two full models of Endless House, one of which is held in the New York Whitney Museum. Gertraud ... More DENK Gallery opens an exhibition of works by self-taught artist Donnie MollsLOS ANGELES, CA.- DENK gallery is presenting new works by Los Angeles-based artist Donnie Molls in Nation of Consumption. A Southern California native, Molls' labor-intensive practice combines photo-based chemical processes with painting. Merging fine art materials with industrial and automotive ones, Molls engages the Californian art histories of both Finish Fetish and Light and Space while investigating the legacies of Americana and its origins in consumer culture. In Nation of Consumption, Molls examines the legacy of the consumer castaway and the life of the object once it has outlived its use. A self-taught artist, Molls has developed a mixed-media technique using one of the oldest chemical photo developing processes available. Washing silver gelatin bromide onto panel and canvas to develop negatives directly onto their surfaces, the artist then ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American architect Minoru Yamasaki was born December 01, 1912. Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912 - February 6, 1986 was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects. Yamasaki was one of the most prominent architects of the 20th century. He and fellow architect Edward Durell Stone are generally considered to be the two master practitioners of "New Formalism". In this image: The original complex in March 2001. The tower on the left, with antenna spire, was 1 WTC. The tower on the right was 2 WTC.
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