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An ultra-Orthodox Jew looks at parts of a Second Temple period (516 BC-AD 70) public building considered to be one of the most luxurious found to date, as they are unveiled by the Israel Antiquities Authority in Jerusalem, July, 8, 2021. Israeli archaeologists unveiled new parts of a major public building in Jerusalem just metres from where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago. The opulent hall used by elites is the latest discovery to be made public by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) from what it refers to as the Western Wall Tunnels in the Old City in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli archaeologists on Thursday unveiled new parts of a major public building in Jerusalem just metres from where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago. The opulent hall used by elites is the latest discovery to be made public by the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) from what it refers to as the Western Wall Tunnels in the Old City. Along with the rest of east Jerusalem, the Old City was annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War in a move never recognised internationally. The luxurious hall, parts of which had previously been revealed, included a sophisticated fountain. It was probably used for banquets or other gatherings by local elites or to ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An archaeological piece is seen at the National Museum of Costa Rica in San Jose, on July 6, 2021. Costa Rica recovered 1,305 pieces of pre-Columbian art that had been taken from the country at the end of the 19th century, when the railway that crosses from the capital San Jose, in the center of the country, to the province of Limon, in the Caribbean, was built. Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP
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| Hindman Auctions appoints Ashley Galloway as Vice President of Marketing | | Dorotheum achieves most successful Spring Season in its history | | The Met appoints Stephan Wolohojian as John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge of Department of European Paintings |
Ms. Galloway has collaborated with top fashion and media brands, world-renowned art museums and fairs, production companies, and other high-profile institutions.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions announced the appointment of Ashley Galloway as Vice President of Marketing. As an accomplished strategist, Ms. Galloway brings more than 15 years of arts and cultural marketing experience to her role where she will lead marketing initiatives, including expanding digital projects and advertising, events, buyer and audience engagement strategy, and partnerships. Ms. Galloway brings extensive experience in the art, corporate, and nonprofit worlds. We are delighted that Ashley has joined Hindman and will be leading the growth of our Marketing Department, shared Hindmans Chief Executive Officer Jay Krehbiel. Ashleys wide-ranging experience in the cultural world from editorial to major events and fairs to leading her own company is sure to strengthen the business. Ms. ... More | |
Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (Fossombrone 15891655/9 Pesaro) Lot and his daughters, oil on canvas, 147 x 197 cm, Provenance: Private collection, Spain, since the 19th Century, realized price 475,064 World Record Price.
VIENNA.- Despite the problems of the pandemic, a wide-reaching digital strategy, which was implemented even before the pandemic took off, has been instrumental to Dorotheums best ever Spring Season results, mirroring a strong art market worldwide. Auction history was made at the Contemporary Art sale in June when, for the first time, a contemporary Austrian work of art cracked the million euro-milestone. The painting, Wild Animals Are Endangered, by Maria Lassnig, made 1,378,000, a new personal best for the artist who achieved international acclaim late in her career. In the same sale, there were also excellent results for works by Georges Mathieu, Alighiero Boetti and Piero Dorazio. The million-euro mark was also achieved, again for a work by an Austrian artist, at the Modern ... More | |
Stephan Wolohojian. Photo: Courtesy of The Met.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Stephan Wolohojian has been named as the John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge of the Department of European Paintings. The appointment follows a rigorous international search with applicants from major museums in the United States and Europe. He will start in the role this month. Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met, commented: I am delighted that Stephan Wolohojian will take on this important position at the Museum. He will bring scholarly excellence and energetic vision to the role, along with a deep knowledge of all aspects of the curatorial field, from collecting and acquisitions to compelling interpretation and creative installation. We are confident that Stephan and his extremely talented group of colleagues will develop a bold and thoughtful plan for the next phase of the European Paintings department that will capture the imagination of the Museum ... More |
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| Christie's announces online sales of contemporary art | | Exhibition of seminal works by Eduardo Chillida on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset | | The Lost Leonardo directed by Andreas Koefoed to be released in UK cinemas this September |
Mad Dog Jones, (B. 1985), A Bag of Oranges. Single channel video with audio by La+ch 00:01:17 minutes (6000 x 4800 pixels) Executed in 2019-2021. This work is unique and is accompanied by a nonfungible token. Estimate: Unknown. © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY.- This July, Christies presents four online-only auctions spanning post-war and contemporary art and prints and multiples. The sales include: First Open, Contemporary Edition, Trespassing, and Superplastic: The Janky Heist. Christies July Contemporary Edition sale features over 200 striking Prints and Multiples from leading names in the field such as David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring; and contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Dana Schutz, and Damien Hirst. With estimates starting under $1,000, the sale features something for those just beginning their collecting journey and seasoned collectors alike. This summer in New York City, our premier First Open auction presents a stellar selection of todays freshest and most in-demand post-war and contemporary artists. Featuring works by Sam ... More | |
Eduardo Chillida, Lurra G-38 (Earth G-38), 1984. Chamotte clay, 40.6 x 30.2 x 26.8 cm. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. © Zabalaga Leku. San Sebastián, VEGAP (2021) Courtesy of the Estate of Eduardo Chillida and Hauser & Wirth.
LONDON.- One of the foremost Spanish sculptors of the twentieth century, Eduardo Chillida (1924 2002) is widely celebrated for his monumental sculptures and enduring fascination with interconnected shape, space and organic form. Chillida challenged the constraints of materials such as iron and steel to redefine the language of post-war sculpture, drawing on a deep connection to his native Basque region. The exhibition invites new encounters between Chillidas work and the unique environment of Hauser & Wirth Somerset, drawing parallels with the artists own vision for Chillida Leku, a public museum and sculpture park created during his lifetime. When speaking about Chillida Leku and expanding the relationship between art and nature, Chillida commented, One day I dreamed I was in a utopia: a space where my sculptures could rest and ... More | |
The whole story of the most talked about painting of the century. © The Lost Leonardo. Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
LONDON.- Dogwoof announced the release of award-winning filmmaker Andreas Koefoeds The Lost Leonardo, which will screen in cinemas across the UK & Ireland from 10 September 2021. This captivating film, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, charts the sensational inside story behind the controversial and divisive Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million. From the moment the painting is bought for $1175 at a shady New Orleans auction house, and the restorer discovers masterful Renaissance brushstrokes under the heavy varnish of its cheap restoration, the Salvator Mundis fate is determined by an insatiable quest for fame, money and power. As its price soars, so do questions about its authenticity: is this painting really by Leonardo da Vinci? Unravelling the hidden agendas of the richest men and most powerful art institutions in the world, The Lost Leonardo reveals how vested interests in the S ... More |
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| The UK's largest touring exhibition, the British Art Show 9 opens at Aberdeen Art Gallery | | Lou Reed is the man in Cannes Velvet Underground film | | Tomashi Jackson harvests histories from the land of plenty |
Margaret Salmon, I you me we us, 2018. Installation view: Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2018 © the artist. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Ruth Clark.
ABERDEEN.- This weekend, Hayward Gallery Tourings landmark exhibition, British Art Show, will open its 9th edition in Scotland at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Widely acknowledged as the most important and ambitious recurrent exhibition of contemporary art produced in the UK, the British Art Show brings the work of artists defining new directions in contemporary art to four UK cities. Following its launch in Aberdeen this summer, the exhibition will continue its national tour to multiple venues across the cities of Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth throughout 2022. British Art Show 9 is curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar and will showcase the work of 47 artists in total with 33 presented in Aberdeen, including many significant new commissions and site-specific installations. Focusing on work made since 2015, the exhibition reflects a precarious moment in Britains history. During this time, the politics o ... More | |
US producer Christine Vachon (L) and US director Todd Haynes pose for a photocall for the film "Velvet Underground" at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on July 8, 2021. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP.
by Fiachra Gibbons
CANNES (AFP).- They were an "unlikely pack of beautiful loners" who changed both art and music history, even as they were torn apart by anger and self-destructiveness. Or so claims Todd Haynes, who has become one of the great chroniclers of rock n roll lore, in his new documentary about The Velvet Underground at the Cannes film festival. Haynes has tackled difficult artists before, with an Oscar-nominated semi-fictional film about Bob Dylan ("I'm Not There") and a movie based on David Bowie ("Velvet Goldmine"). Now he turns to Lou Reed and his quintessential arty New York band, once managed by Andy Warhol, that helped revolutionise not just rock, but the way we look at gender and sexuality. Haynes makes no bones about ... More | |
Tomashi Jackson at the Watermill Center, where she had an art residency and created paintings for The Land Claim in partnership with the nearby Parrish Art Museum, in Water Mill, N.Y., June 28, 2021. Clifford Prince King/The New York Times.
by Hilarie M. Sheets
WATER MILL, NY.- Whats happening with communities of color there? It was the first question Tomashi Jackson asked when the Parrish Art Museum here invited her to partner in a project on Long Islands East End. While Jackson had been a house guest of her New York gallerist, the artist had no firsthand experience with the Hamptons, renowned for its beautiful landscape inspirational to generations of artists, and its exorbitantly priced second homes of the rich and famous. But when Corinne Erni, the Parrish curator, began recounting stories of immigration arrests here, and of Latino people being stopped in their cars for traffic violations that turned into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and family separations, ... More |
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| Italians pay last respects to TV diva who was 'one of us' | | Asheville Art Museum opens Olympics-themed exhibitions for summer 2021 | | 'Paddington: The Story of a Bear' exhibition opens at the British Library |
Rome's Mayor Virginia Raggi walks past the coffin during the funeral of Italian entertainer Raffaella Carra at the Ara Coeli Church at Rome's Capitol Hill on July 9, 2021. Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Some people stood quietly, some bowed, some made the sign of the cross. Others stretched their arms over a fragrant jungle of bouquets mostly in yellow, her favorite color so that they could caress the coffin. The floral tribute grew bigger by the hour as hundreds of fans endured Thursdays blistering heat to pay their respects to Raffaella Carrà , a beloved television star who died Monday. Everyone loved Raffaella, said Leonora Mingaio, an educator, her voice breaking, shortly after visiting the vast ceremonial room in Romes City Hall where Carrà , 78, was lying in state, a ceremonial guard in attendance. She deserves to be honored, she said. The outpouring of affection for Carrà after her death from what her family said ... More | |
Mark Stanitz, Negative Side Up, 1978, gold and mixed media, 10 à 5 ¼ à ¾ inches. Asheville Art Museum. © Mark Stanitz.
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum is presenting a group of three exhibitions drawn from the Museums Collection in conjunction with the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The exhibitions feature photographs of athletes by Walter Iooss Jr.; representations of athletes in a variety of media; and glass, ceramic, fashion, and sculpture which utilize gold, silver, and bronze. They will be on view in the Explore Asheville Exhibition Hall through October 4, 2021. With these three exhibitions, the Asheville Art Museum is looking forward to bringing the Olympics to Asheville, says Whitney Richardson, associate curator. Athletes, sports fanatics, and those who enjoy art that captures the human athletic form will, I hope, all find something valuable in visiting these exhibitions. Some of the artworks are by renowned artists and some depict world-famous athletes, but it all speaks to the importance of the Olympics ... More | |
First edition of A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond given to his parents, illustrated by Peggy Fortnum, published by HarperCollins Publishers in 1958, © P & Co. Ltd 2021, photo: David Jensen.
LONDON.- Paddington: The Story of a Bear (9 July 31 October 2021) is a new family-friendly exhibition celebrating one of the worlds most beloved fictional bears over 60 years on from when he was first published by HarperCollins Childrens Books in 1958. Opening to the public today, visitors will journey through Paddingtons creation and arrival in the UK from Peru, finding a home with a new family, and his exciting adventures in London and beyond. The exhibition will also explore how author Michael Bond took inspiration from his own life and family in creating Paddington. The exhibition has activities for visitors to practise their hard stares, take their own self pawtrait and follow the trail of marmalade left by Paddington, as well as a special printed guide for families. Two local primary schools in Camden Argyle Primary School and Edith Neville Primary School have ... More |
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5-minute meditation: Van Huysum's 'Flowers in a Terracotta Vase' | National Gallery
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Val Kilmer documentary charts Hollywood rise and fall
CANNES (AFP).- Val Kilmer has made an intriguing and bittersweet return to the big screen at the Cannes film festival in a new documentary charting his stratospheric rise and later fall in Hollywood through his own home recordings. The Amazon-produced documentary "Val" is a tender portrait of the actor, now 61, whose career has seen more ups and downs than the fighter jets in his breakout film "Top Gun". Most striking is Kilmer's voice, turned into a near-incomprehensible rasp by treatment for throat cancer. It has not quite ended his career -- he is due to reprise his iconic role as Iceman this autumn in the long-awaited sequel "Top Gun: Maverick". But the documentary shows him as as a shadow of his former self, reduced to a life of signing autographs at conventions -- as he puts it, "selling his old self". The film draws heavily from Kilmer's huge library ... More
Immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrates museum's tenth anniversary
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- On November 11, 2011, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened its doors for the first time. Over the course of a decade, the museum has greeted over five million visitors from around the world to enjoy world-class art, architecture, and nature. This year marks a decade since Crystal Bridges opened, and the museum is recognizing this milestone with a new exhibition celebrating its collection and community. Crystal Bridges at 10 is an immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrating the museums collection and the local community one decade into the museums lifetime. Primarily drawing from the museums collection, the exhibition features 130+ artworks, presenting crowd favorites in new ways, showcasing works never before on view at the museum, and lifting up artist voices. Step into Maxfield ... More
Theater is in the streets of New York, if you listen
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It is so easy to forget: that native footpaths predated avenues, that streams surged where subways now rattle, that deer and rabbits used to bound underfoot at every grimy crosswalk. And here is another thing we may have forgotten during this past strange year: what it feels like to constitute an audience. For those of us still dragging our heels on returning to indoor theater, even as antibodies now power walk through our veins, a handful of new audio and walking tours The Visitation, Current, Tour Noir: A Dame To Guide For and Bizarre Brooklyn provide a gentle, socially distanced return to spectatorship. (Another, Endure: Run Woman Show in Central Park, just began performances and continues through August.) They also reintroduce participants to the hidden stories and secret corners of New ... More
Danny Shanahan, cartoonist with an absurd touch, dies at 64
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Danny Shanahan, a mirthful cartoonist who had a stand-up comics gift for one-liners but whose long association with The New Yorker ended last year under a cloud, died Monday in a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. He was 64. The cause was multiple system organ failure, his wife, Janet Stetson, said. He had been living in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. From 1988 through last year, Shanahan published about 1,000 cartoons in The New Yorker. Drawn with a casual style and an absurdists eye, they were populated by a panoply of characters, including clowns, snowmen, praying mantises, cats, dogs, cavemen, elves, monkeys, athletes, businessmen, politicians, Santa Claus and Elvis. In one cartoon, a dog looks up from his menu in a restaurant and asks the server, Is the homework fresh? In another, ... More
Clare Peploe, film director who jumbled genres, dies at 79
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Clare Peploe, a director and screenwriter who liked to merge genres in her own films, and who also made significant contributions to some of the movies of her husband, celebrated filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, died June 24 in Rome. She was 79. The cause was cancer, said Alessandra Bracaglia, her assistant. As a director, Peploe made a quick impact with her first effort, a comic short called Couples and Robbers, about newlyweds who commit a robbery, which she wrote with Ernie Eban; it was nominated for the short-subject Oscar in 1981. In this comedy-thriller she has demonstrated that in her very first film she is a talent to be reckoned with, Richard Roud wrote in The Guardian Weekly when the film played at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. The casting and direction of actors is superb. If someone doesnt ... More
Exhibition of work by some of the UK's leading potters of the 20th-century goes on display at Court Barn
CHIPPING CAMPDEN.- The renaissance of the British love of ceramics can arguably be traced back to 2003, when Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize with a selection of his Grecian urn-like pots from his show, Guerrilla Tactics the first time it was awarded to a ceramic artist. As Perrys fame grew to the status of National Treasure, in 2015 Channel 4 launched its hit show The Great Pottery Throw Down, doing for ceramics what Master Chef and Bake Off had done for cookery and baking respectively. With this ongoing and heightened interest in pottery as an artform in its own right, the announcement of a major survey of the work of Bernard Leach (1887-1979) alongside several of his contemporaries at Court Barn in Chipping Campden, is sure to draw visitors. Ceramic art flourished in Britain during the 20th-century, with pioneering potters ... More
Winterthur's "Caring for Your Collections" a practical guide to preserving cherished objects
WINTERTHUR, DE.- Whether its a personal letter or grandmothers jewelry, an antique wedding photo or a family quilt, Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide will help you to preserve your item for generations to come. Its easy to do an internet search to get information about taking care of the objects you own, but how reliable is that information? Will it help or harm the things you hold dear? says Joy Gardiner, director of conservation at Winterthur and co-editor, with Joan Irving, senior conservator of paper. This book will give you practical information to help you know what you should and shouldnt do to prolong the life of your objects. Youll also find advice about proper storage and display, plus a variety of resources. Caring for Your Cherished Objects: The Winterthur Guide will help you to assess your possessions, ... More
Hundreds of hard-to-find items in today's market will cross the auction block at Stevens Auction Company
ABERDEEN, MISS.- The lifelong antique collection of Bill and Betty Murphy, who traveled for years buying fine items to fill their 10,000-square-foot home situated on a high bluff overlooking the Ohio River in Madison, Indiana, will be sold on Saturday, July 31st, at 10 am Central time, by Stevens Auction Company, online and live in the Aberdeen gallery at 609 North Meridian Street. This auction contains the best lamp collections we have ever sold, plus rare and unusual antique furniture, Persian rugs, china, clocks, fine porcelains, mantel mirrors, collectibles and other fine home furnishings, said Dwight Stevens of Stevens Auction Company. We trucked everything in the Murphys beautiful mansion home in Indiana to our gallery to make this auction possible. The estate also contains items from the prolific furniture makers J. H. Belter, ... More
Collection amassed by Bart Kiser offered in Heritage Auctions' inaugural Trading Card Games Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Pokémon was bigger than a game for Rad Dad Bart Kiser. It was as big as the love he had for his children. Kiser gifted a portion of his massive card game collection to his children Christmas morning 1999. Some of us were a little too young to know what was going on, says son Matt Kiser, watching home video of that holiday morning. But we see our family We see, especially our dad who loved us and was doing everything he can to share in that passion with us kids. The loving father, Bart Kiser earned the nickname Rad Dad from his career as a radiologist. He connected with his kids through the colorful cards depicting pocket monsters. Although Bart Kiser died in 2018, his family is once again reminded of his love and generosity in sharing the familys Pokémon passion. This is by far one of the most extraordinary collections Ive ... More
Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia hires new chief curator from Smithsonian
SAVANNAH, GA.- Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia -- the oldest public art museum in the South and the first U.S. museum founded by a woman -- has hired an accomplished art-world veteran as its new chief curator and director of curatorial affairs. Crawford Alexander Mann III will join Telfair in November 2021 from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., where he has been curator of prints and drawings since 2017. At the Smithsonian, Mann has organized world-class exhibitions including the major upcoming survey Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano. Before the Smithsonian, he served as the Joan and Macon Brock Curator of American Art at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and as the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum ... More
Crescent City Auction Gallery to hold a two-day Important Summer Estates Auction
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Itll be Christmas in July in New Orleans when Crescent City Auction Gallery holds a big, two-day Important Summer Estates Auction the weekend of July 17th and 18th. The sale is brimming with over 800 quality lots of fine French, English and American furniture, over mantel mirrors, original paintings by local and regional artists, fine jewelry and couture pieces, a piano, sterling silver, nativity sets, model boats and more. Start times both days will be 10 am Central time. Expected top lots include a large 20th century patinated bronze fountain figure of the Four Seasons, 87 inches tall by 53 inches wide (estimate: $5,000-$10,000); an oil on canvas painting by the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), titled Country Road, signed lower left, 17 ½ inches by 20 ¾ inches (estimate: $30,000-$50,000); and paintings ... More
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Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
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Design 1900 â Now
Flashback On a day like today, Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830. Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 - 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In this image: Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théâtre-Français et l'avenue de l'Opéra, effet de pluie, 1898. Huile sur toile, 73, 6 x 91, 4 cm. Minneapolis, Institute of Art, fonds William Hood Dunwoody © Photo : Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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