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In an undated photo from Leeds Museums and Galleries, the mummy of Nesyamun, a priest who lived in Thebes about 3,000 years ago, in his coffin at the Leeds Museum in England. Scientists used a 3-D printer, a loudspeaker and computer software to recreate a part of the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy. Leeds Teaching Hospitals/Leeds Museums and Galleries via The New York Times.
by Nicholas St. Fleur
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In life, Nesyamun was an Egyptian priest who sang and chanted words of worship at the Karnak temple in Thebes. In death, he was ritually mummified and sealed in a coffin with the inscription Nesyamun, true of voice. Now, some 3,000 years into the afterlife, with the aid of a 3D-printed vocal tract, Nesyamun can once again be heard. He had this wish that his voice would somehow continue into perpetuity, said David Howard, a speech scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London. Howard and his team used a CT scanner to create a 3D-printed version of Nesyamuns mouth and throat. They combined it with an electronic larynx to reconstruct the sound that would come out of his vocal tract if he was in his coffin and his larynx came to life again, Howard said. So far the team has synthesized only a single sound from the mummy, which resembles the ah and eh vowel sounds heard in the words bad and bed. But ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Alison Jacques Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition Dorothea Tanning: Worlds in Collision. The exhibition features a rarely displayed body of late work dating from 1981 to 1989, which is being shown together for the first time in the United Kingdom. It includes large scale works on paper in media as varied as graphite, charcoal, crayon, watercolour, gouache, and collage, many of which focus on imagery of the bicycle which preoccupied Tanning at this time. Courtesy of The Destina Foundation, New York, and Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
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| | Beijing to close section of Great Wall, other tourist sites | | Guercino's painting 'Aurora' rediscovered and reunited with drawing | | Art experts warn of a surging market in fake prints |
An area of the sections of the Great Wall at Jinshanling. Photo: Jakub Hałun/Wikipedia.org.
BEIJING (AFP).- China announced Friday it will close a section of the Great Wall and other famous Beijing landmarks to control the spread of a deadly virus that has infected hundreds of people across the country. A range of Lunar New Year festivities have been cancelled to try to contain the virus, and Beijing's Forbidden City and Shanghai's Disneyland have also been closed temporarily. The Ming Tombs and Yinshan Pagoda will also be closed from Saturday, the authority that oversees the sites said, while the Bird's Nest stadium -- the site of the 2008 Olympic Games -- was shuttered from Friday. The Great Wall attracts around 10 million tourists a year and is a popular destination for visitors during the New Year holiday. The Juyongguan section will close, while the Great Wall temple fair was cancelled at the Simatai section of the famous landmark. Tourists at the Gubei water town ... More | |
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino, Aurora, 1662, oil on canvas, 99.7 x 80 cm. Christopher Bishop Fine Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- A 1662 painting of the Roman goddess Aurora by Guercino has been rediscovered and reunited with its preparatory drawing. They are on public view in New York for the first time in hundreds of years, having been previously unknown to scholars. The works can be seen through February 15, 2020, at the new Manhattan location of Christopher Bishop Fine Art. A scholarly catalogue is available upon request. An exhibition, Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman, is currently on view at the Morgan Library & Museum through February 2. The painting, titled Aurora, by the eminent Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), also known as il Guercino, was previously untraced although it appears in the account books of Guercino. The pairing of the painting with its preparatory red ... More | |
John Szoke, a dealer and specialist in Picasso, holds a real print by the artist, in his Manhattan office on Jan. 18, 2020. Kyle Johnson/The New York Times.
by Milton Esterow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In Basel, Swiss authorities are prosecuting a local art expert who they say sold hundreds of fake prints that he passed off online as the work of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso and others over 10 years. In New York, Adrienne R. Fields now spends much of her workweek scanning the internet for forged prints that pop up at website after website. She is head of the legal department for the Artists Rights Society, which protects the intellectual property rights of artists and their estates. It happens every day that Adrienne sends a take down notice to a website, said Ted Feder, president of the society. The two cities, almost 4,000 miles apart, are both on the front lines of the fight against the ... More |
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| | Foam opens first-ever exhibition in the Netherlands of the work of Wright Morris | | The Lumiere Brothers Center For Photography opens an exhibition of works by Alexander Rodchenko | | Exhibition showcases artist Costantino Nivola's impact on New York's built environment |
Wright Morris, Gano Grain Elevator, Kinsley, Kansas, 1940 © Estate of Wright Morris.
AMSTERDAM.- Foam opens 2020 with the first-ever exhibition in the Netherlands of the celebrated American author Wright Morris (1910-1998). As well as being a writer, Morris devoted a short period of his life to photography. In his own distinctive way, he portrayed the poverty and decline that plagued the United States in the 1930s and 40s. He incorporated his photographs in so-called photo-text books in which images and writings reinforced each other. Although relatively unknown, and overshadowed by his prize-winning literature, his photographs are on a par with other iconic photographers of the time. The first thing that stands out about Morris photographs is the absence of people. He typically photographed still-lifes of everyday objects that exuded an atmosphere of poverty and decline. Abandoned houses, dilapidated silos, everyday home interiors and deserted landscapes embody impermanence ... More | |
Alexander Rodchenko, Fire Escape, 1925.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by the outstanding Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko from the collection of the Still Art Foundation, established by Elena and Mikhail Karisalov. The exhibition includes Rodchenkos works of different years, from the first photographic experiments of the 1920s to the end of the 1930s. The exhibition features portraits of Rodchenkos friendsartists, architects, poets, writers, filmmakers, employees of the magazines LEF and Novyi LEF, including the familiar portrait of Lily Brik, which was used in the advertising poster for the Leningrad Department of Gosizdat (State Publishing House), several photographs of Vladimir Mayakovsky from the first photoshoot in Rodchenkos studio on Myasnitskaya Street (1924), and the famous photograph of Osip Brik, where one of the lenses in his spectacles is replaced by the LEF logo.The exhi ... More | |
Costantino Nivola at work, preparing for a sand-casting. Photographer and date unknown. Courtesy of the Nivola Family Archive.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the Fondazione Costantino Nivola, and the Italian Cultural Institute of New York present Nivola in New York I Figure in Field, an exhibition of the work of Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola (1911-1988), known for his large-scale bas-reliefs, murals, and free-standing sculptural installations created in collaboration with architects. On view January 23 through March 15 in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, the exhibition is the first-ever to tell the story of Nivolas built New York City projects through maquettes and sculptures, original drawings, site-specific photographs, and related ephemera. The exhibition also features a timeline outlining 62 projects that Nivola made in collaboration with architects over approximately 40 years. In ... More |
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| | The Holburne Museum exhibits works made between 1982 and 1994 by Grayson Perry | | Poland pushes for Nazi camp in Austria to be remembered | | Kaikodo LLC to open exhibition of collaborative works by Ruth Lozner and Kenzie Raulin |
Childhood Trauma Manifesting Itself in Later Life, 1992. Collection of Mark D.D. Wilson. © Grayson Perry, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro.
BATH.- The first exhibition to survey Grayson Perrys earliest forays into the art world re-introduces the explosive and creative works he made between 1982 and 1994. These ground-breaking lost pots have been reunited for the first time to focus on the formative years of one of Britains most recognisable artists. The show at The Holburne Museum, Bath is also remarkable for the fact that many of the 70 items on display have been crowd-sourced from across the UK, following a hugely successful appeal to the public in 2018. Today, Perry - and his instantly-recognisable alter-ego, Claire - enjoys a reputation bordering on National Treasure status by virtue of his distinctive tapestry, collage and ceramic works that often explore themes of gender, identity and social class and his remarkable work as a witty social commentator on ... More | |
Commemorative plaques are seen in front of people visiting the memorial of former Gusen concentration camp, that was part of the larger complex around the main camp at Mauthausen. JOE KLAMAR / AFP.
by Celine Jankowiak / Blaise Gauquelin
LANGENSTEIN (AFP).- As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of a swathe of Nazi concentration camps, the hitherto neglected site of the Gusen camp in northern Austria has become a bone of contention, with the Polish government demanding it be better preserved. A few dilapidated barracks surrounded by weeds is all that remains of the "sub-camp", where historians say 35,800 detainees -- many of them Polish -- were worked to death. Much to the surprise of the Austrian government, the Polish Embassy in Austria said in December it wanted to buy the partly private land that hosted the site. Austria's government reacted quickly, announcing in January ... More | |
Chapters 1-10 (detail), acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36".
NEW YORK, NY.- Kaikodo LLC will present In Context: Collaborative Works by Ruth Lozner and Kenzie Raulin, an exhibition of collaborative paintings and objects that speaks to a reverence for books and the parsing of words and meaning, that will be on view February 1 and 2 at 74 East 79th Street. Says Carol Conover, managing director of Kaikodo LLC, a leading Asian art gallery, As Asian art is rooted in the quest for knowledge, I think that Ruth and Kenzies work is derived from the same pursuit and we welcome the opportunity to show their artwork within the context of our gallery. For the past two years, artists Ruth Lozner and Kenzie Raulin have adopted a mode of working that is quite different from the common traditional or even modernist model. They work collaboratively: equally sharing concepts and aesthetics, techniques and skills, experience and perspective, while happily working side-by-side on the same ... More |
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| | Exhibition of new works by the American artist David Salle opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac | | Peter Blum Gallery opens an exhibition of work by visual artist Nicholas Galanin | | Christie's Americana Week totals $14,795,313 |
David Salle, Self-ironing Pants, 2019. Oil, acrylic and charcoal on linen, 198,1 x 152,4 cm (78 x 60 in). © David Salle / ADAGP, Paris, 2020. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London Paris Salzburg Photo: John Berens.
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Self-ironing Pants and Other Paintings, an exhibition of new works by the American artist David Salle. Comprising large-scale paintings, this series presents a radical visual approach, juxtaposing images sourced from advertising with black-and-white cartoons appropriated from The New Yorker magazine of the 1950s. These works create a pictorial space that is deliberately fragmentary, playing with suspended narratives and including allusions to Pop art, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism. David Salles paintings present objects in vibrant colours culled from advertising imagery, floating past each other in virtual space, at times grossly enlarged, shown upside-down or from a skewed perspective. By combining seemingly unrelated images of cars, edibles, cigarettes, coffee- ... More | |
Land Swipe, 2019. Acrylic on deer hide, 36 x 60 inches (91.4 x 152.4 cm). Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Peter Blum Gallery is presenting an exhibition of work by visual artist Nicholas Galanin entitled, Carry a Song / Disrupt an Anthem at 176 Grand Street, New York. This is the artists first solo exhibition in New York and it follows his acclaimed participation in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. The show runs through March 28, 2020. Nicholas Galanin works from his experience as a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist, simultaneously exploring his Indigenous identity and contemporary art practice. With a keen observation of past and present, Galanin exposes intentionally obscured collective memory and barriers to the acquisition of knowledge while celebrating the resilience and strength of Indigenous people and their culture. As Galanin says, the exhibitions title implies that "to carry the songs of Indigenous people, to carry the songs of the land, is inherently disruptive of the national anthem." Expressing his art through ... More | |
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington. Painted 1796-1803. Estimate: $200,000-300,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
NEW YORK, NY.- The top lot of the Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Silver sale was Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom, which achieved $4,575,000, and was also the top lot of the week. Other top lots in the sale include Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, which sold for $975,000 against an estimate of $200,000-300,000, Joshua Johnson, A Pair of Portraits: Boy with Squirrel and Girl with Dog, which realized $495,000 against an estimate of $100,000-150,000. Chinese Export Art Featuring the Tibor Collection, Part II totaled $1,923,375 with 88% sold by value and 79% sold by lot. The top lot of the sale was A Pair of Famille Rose Soldier Vases and Covers, Qianlong Period (1736-1795), from the Tibor Collection, which realized $250,000. Additional top lots from the Tibor Collection included A Rare Early Mexican Market Blue and White Jar, Wanli Period, circa 1600, which achieved ... More |
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Peru promises to protect Machu Picchu as it builds airport
LIMA (AFP).- Peru's government promised on Thursday to protect the Machu Picchu sanctuary and other Inca ruins when building a new airport to serve the ancient civilization's capital of Cusco. Machu Picchu and the Inca road system are UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the UN agency has previously expressed concerns over the proposed airport at Chinchero, less than 60 kilometers from the Inca sanctuary that was built in the 15th century. "We have made a commitment that before work begins on constructing the Chinchero airport, in June of this year, we will present the heritage impact study that UNESCO demands," Transport Minister Edmer Trujillo, who is responsible for the project, told journalists. UNESCO has told Peru that even though the airport will be built outside of the archeological areas, it is necessary to study how a potential increase ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers' sale will feature artworks by John Singer Sargent, Jeff Koons, others
CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co.s next major auction, slated for Saturday, February 15, will be a two-session affair, with bidding available online and in the Cranston gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. Session 1, beginning promptly at 10 am Eastern time, will feature an important single-owner collection of steam engines, cast-iron and other pre-World War II toys and other items. Session 2, starting at 12:30 pm, will feature Bruneau & Co.s normal mix of antiques, fine art, decorative arts, silver and more, to include an outstanding collection of English, German and French Majolica; a collection of four Russian icons and a silver and gilt copper crucifix from the St. Peters and St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Providence, R.I. All are 19th century or earlier. Handling the single-owner collection of steam engines and early mechanical ... More
Simon Lee Gallery announces Percussia a solo exhibition of new work by France-Lise McGurn
LONDON.- a href="https://www.simonleegallery.com/" target="_blank">Simon Lee Gallery announces Percussia a solo exhibition of new work by Glasgow-based artist France-Lise McGurn. This is the artists debut exhibition with the gallery and the first in London since Sleepless, her 2019 solo exhibition at Tate Britain. The artist will present new paintings, works on paper and site-specific wall paintings across both gallery floors. The exhibition coincides with a major site-specific commission by the artist on view at Tramway in Glasgow. The atmospheric practice of France-Lise McGurn transports the viewer from the public realm of the gallery and into the most personal quarters of the artists life: her studio, her bedroom, her mind and musings. McGurns figurative practice delivers a wholly immersive experience, launching the viewer into a ... More
Works by François Morellet on view at kamel mennour
PARIS.- Everything you say about the tables of sounds, durations, amplitudes, used in your Music of Changes is, as you will see, along exactly the same lines as I am working at the moment . . . The only thing, forgive me, which I am not happy with, is the method of absolute chance . . . On the contrary, I believe that chance must be extremely controlled: by using tables in general, or series of tables, I believe that it would be possible to direct the phenomenon of the automatism of chance, whether written down or not, which I mistrust as a facility that is not absolutely necessary. Dated December 1951 this letter from Pierre Boulez to John Cage crystallises the issues and tensions inherent in creative methods deriving from recourse to chance. Cages Music of Changes, for example, draws on the I Ching (The Book of Changes), a Chinese work of augury whose ... More
Brooklyn Museum opens an exhibition that offers a feminist look at works from its collection
BROOKLYN, NY.- This exhibition presents more than 50 works from across the Brooklyn Museums collections. Following the 2018 exhibition Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Out of Place also explores collection works anew through an intersectional feminist framework. Out of Place features more than forty artists from remarkably different contexts whose unconventional materials and approaches call for a broader and more dynamic understanding of modern and contemporary art. Examining how contexts change the way we see art, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection showcases artists who have traditionally been seen as out of place in most major collecting museums. The exhibition is organized around three distinct cultural contexts for making and understanding creativitymuseums and art spaces, place- ... More
Exotics from elite designers among top draws in Heritage Auctions sale
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary array of luxury handbags from prized designers including Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton will be highlighted Heritage Auctions Winter Luxury Accessories Online Auction Feb. 9 at 4 p.m. (Eastern time) on HA.com. "This is our first online sale of the year, with a full catalog of nearly 200 lots," Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane DAmato said. "We have put together a spectacular signature online auction format that allows us to combine the same exclusive selection of bags, jewelry and accessories as our live Signature sales with the ease and excitement of an internet sale." An Hermès 35cm Vert Titien Alligator Birkin Bag with Gold Hardware (estimate: $35,000-50,000) leads an amazing group of exotic skin handbags, an array that includes crocodile, alligator, lizard and python, among others. This bag, with two ... More
Alison Jacques Gallery exhibits a rarely displayed body of late work by Dorothea Tanning
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery is presenting the solo exhibition Dorothea Tanning: Worlds in Collision. The exhibition features a rarely displayed body of late work dating from 1981 to 1989, which is being shown together for the first time in the United Kingdom. It includes large scale works on paper in media as varied as graphite, charcoal, crayon, watercolour, gouache, and collage, many of which focus on imagery of the bicycle which preoccupied Tanning at this time. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the monograph Dorothea Tanning: Transformations by Victoria Carruthers. The works presented were created during the decade following Tannings return to New York in 1980 after having lived in France for some thirty years. Many encapsulate the energy of city life she enjoyed in Manhattan, propelled forward by speed and sound. ... More
Gasworks opens the first solo exhibition in London by Lauren Gault
LONDON.- Gasworks presents C I T H R A, the first solo exhibition in London by Lauren Gault, a Glasgow-based artist born in Belfast. Through her experimentation with unorthodox materials, techniques and manufacturing processes, Gault's work explores the transitions between different states of matter and non-human time scales, while also addressing the ethical and political implications of our everyday interactions with the environment. In her sculptures, materials as diverse as polished horn, blown glass, pumped air, light, water or agricultural milk powder are transformed by processes involving pressure, tension and release. Her work evokes intangible encounters between radically different materialities and opens up a space for objects to communicate and resonate with one another. Following her residency at Gasworks, which took place between ... More
Jonathan Meese celebrates his 50th birthday with a solo exhibition at Tim Van Laere Gallery
ANTWERP.- German artist Jonathan Meese (b. 1970, Tokyo; lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg) turned 50 on 23 January 2020. To celebrate this, Tim Van Laere Gallery has organised a large solo exhibition with new work. The exhibition includes paintings and sculptures. Meese also introduces canvas sculptures, a new aspect in his oeuvre. Meese is renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings, installations, ecstatic performances and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media. Apparently effortlessly, he has developed in all genres an independent and at the same time unique vocabulary that gives his work a variety, visual energy and quality which, according to Robert Fleck, has been unheard of since Picasso. All of Meeses work share a humor tending towards the grotesque, as well as a powerful, original ... More
Bellevue Arts Museum opens first exhibition in the Northwest for Chicago artist Nicole Gordon
BELLEVUE, WA.- Bellevue Arts Museum is presentingfor the first time in the Northwestthe art of Chicago-based painter Nicole Gordon. Altered States, which opened at BAM on January 24, 2020, demonstrating the breadth of Gordons surrealist vision through large-scale paintings, sculpture, and installations. The exhibition presents a suite of new paintings by Gordon. A painter of hallucinatory lucidity and skill, Gordons large-scale canvases meticulously depict a liquid dreamscape of all-too-solid fantasy. Drawn from post-surrealist archetypal images of wood-paneled rooms, pensive children, deserted carnival rides, or empty urban landscapes, her compositions are then seemingly run through super-saturated sci-fi, skate-punk, and psychedelic filters. Altered States also features sculptures and installations created by Gordon, inspired by selected ... More
Ebbe Stub Wittrup addresses national identity and cultural ownership in exhibition
COPENHAGEN.- In the exhibition Botanical Drift, the artist Ebbe Stub Wittrup addresses national identity and cultural ownership. As the artist follows in the footsteps of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich, a narrative emerges on Western economy and scientific logic as opposed to local knowledge and experience. Ebbe Stub Wittrup, mostly known for his photographic works, shows a different aspect of his practice in this exhibition. In four installations created specifically for Copenhagen Contemporary's hall 5, he examines phenomena, linking the imperial self-image of past times with present-day global power struggles. Ebbe Stub Wittrup took inspiration for the exhibition from the Forstbotaniske Have (Arboretum) in Charlottenlund, Copenhagen, home to a tree with the strange name of Pinus wallichiana. The tree is named after, ... More
Exhibition at K21 presents works by four combative and pioneering women Conceptual artists
DUSSELDORF.- The exhibition conceived for the spaces of the Bel Etage and for the Archive Dorothee and Konrad Fischer in K21 presents works by four first-generation Conceptual artists: Eleanor Antin, Lee Lozano, Adrian Piper, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. To this day, their work deals with relevant sociopolitical and feminist themes, such as institutional critique, racism, identity and gender politics, as well as ecological issues. The point of departure for the presentation is a series of documents that have rarely or never been shown before letters, concepts, and photographs from the Archive Dorothee and Konrad Fischer which chronicle contacts between the internationally influential gallerist Konrad Fischer and Lucy R. Lippard, as well as women Conceptual artists from the late 1960s and early 1970s such as Eleanor Antin, Hanne ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Govert Flinck was born January 25, 1615. Govert (or Govaert) Teuniszoon Flinck (25 January 1615 - 2 February 1660) was a Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age. For many years Flinck laboured on the lines of Rembrandt, following that master's style in all the works which he executed between 1636 and 1648. With aspirations as a history painter, however, he looked to the swelling forms and grand action of Peter Paul Rubens, which led to many commissions for official and diplomatic painting. In this image: Blessing of Jacob (1638)
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