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A photo provided by Octavio Esparza OlguÃn/UNAM of a relief, carved in a stone block reused in a stairway to a building, at the ancient Maya site that archaeologists are calling Ocomtún, in Mexicos Campeche State. During at least part of the Classic Maya era around 250 to 900 A.D. it was a well populated area. Today it is part of a large ecological preserve where vines and tropical trees snarl boots and tires, and fresh water slips through the porous limestone terrain. (Ivan prajc/ZRC SAZU via The New York Times)
by Alan Yuhas
NEW YORK, NY.- Armed with machetes and chain-saws, hacking through fallen trees and wading through dense scrub, the archaeologists cleared a path down rocky trails. At last, they reached their destination in Mexicos Yucatán Peninsula: a hidden city where pyramids and palaces rose above crowds more than 1,000 years ago, with a ball court and terraces now buried and overgrown. Mexicos National Institute of Anthropology and History hailed their work late last month, saying they had discovered an ancient Maya city in a vast area practically unknown to archaeology. These stories about lost cities in the jungle very often these things are quite minor or being spun by journalists, said Simon Martin, a political anthropologist who was not involved in the work. But this is much closer to the real deal. The team of archaeologists who discovered the ruins named them Ocomtún, using the Yucatec Maya word for the stone columns found around the a ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Senior Yankunytjatjara artist Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan has been announced as the winner of the Hadleys Art Prize 2023, one of Australias richest art prizes worth $100,000, for her work Ngayuku Ngura (My Country).Photo: Jessica King.
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| National Hellenic Museum presents touring sculpture exhibition 'Hellenic Heads: George Petrides' | | Capturing a 21st-century war with 19th-century technology | | Watching for the bus stop gallery |
The Refugee by George Petrides. Photo credit Guillaume Ziccarelli.
CHICAGO, IL.- The National Hellenic Museum in Chicago has opened the presentation of Hellenic Heads: George Petrides. This touring sculpture exhibition features six larger-than-life busts inspired by key periods in Greek history spanning 2,500 years, from ancient times to the present. Following this historical research, Petrides sought out sculptural precedents for inspiration, ranging from works from the above periods to more recent sculptors such as Michelangelo, Houdon and Rodin. Then he asked family members to pose for him, producing six larger-than-life busts for the Hellenic Heads exhibition, which are approximately three feet in height and stand taller than six feet on pedestals. In Hellenic Headswhich premiered last year at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, DCPetrides presents a personal exploration into his Greek background, seeking to understand the cultural influences that ... More | |
Chehov street inhabitants, Bakhmut December 13, 2022.
by Carlotta Gall
SARAJEVO.- The news coverage from Ukraine has been so intense and widespread over the past 16 months that it may seem that the war has been covered to the point of saturation. Yet for all the wealth of film and photographs to come out of the war, there have been significant gaps most notably, a shortage of combat photography. That is not so much for lack of trying, but because of the difficulty of access to the front lines. Photographers are often restricted to press tours and kept well back from the zero line, as the first line is known. As a result, the most memorable photography emerging from the war has been the civilian aspect, urban destruction and the human cost. A new photo exhibition by Israeli freelance photographer Edward Kaprov goes a significant way to remedy that and stands out for its timeless images of war at the front. Kaprov, 48, has turned ... More | |
Felipe Baeza at his studio in the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, June 26, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
by Jori Finkel
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The artist Felipe Baeza knows something about waiting for the bus. Growing up in Chicago in the 1990s, he rode the city bus on his own starting around age 9. Going to college at Cooper Union in New York to study art, he took the bus or subway from his home in Spanish Harlem to get to class. This year, living in Los Angeles for a period without a car, hed take a bus or two or three to get across town, though he sometimes gave up after an absurdly long wait and called an Uber. Starting Aug. 9, the artist, whose home base is Brooklyn, will be giving people something to think about during their own public transportation journey, or purgatory as the case may be. As part of a Public Art Fund program designed to reach people where they live or commute, Baeza will have ... More |
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| The Photographers' Gallery features works of five represented artists in 'Dawn Chorus' | | New books on David Hockney and Renzo Piano to be released this October | | Enea at 50: "Designing Landscapes to Confront the Climate Crisis" |
Julie Cockburn, Falcon. Copyright the artist. Courtesy The Photographers' Gallery.
LONDON.- From flocks and chatterings to parliaments and murders, a multitude of terms describe a collective gathering of birds. This linguistic richness reflects our enduring fascination with our feathered friends. This summer, the Print Sales Gallery at The Photographers Gallery presents a curated menagerie featuring unique perspectives from five of our represented artists. Together, they contribute to and celebrate the rich tapestry of birds in art. Luke Stephenson (b. 1983, UK) is a photographer with the British psyche at the core of his work, intrigued by its many eccentricities. In the eagerly anticipated third chapter of his series, An Incomplete Dictionary of Show Birds, Stephenson draws on his fascination with the unique world of show birdkeeping. Starting over a decade ago, the project has developed into a magnificent collection of ... More | |
Hockney: A Graphic Life by Simon Elliot.
NEW YORK, NY.- Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format in Hockney. From his childhood in Bradford and early years making it as an artist, to his sun-drenched Los Angeles period, his triumphal return to the UK and his recent iPad drawings that proudly exclaim that spring cannot be cancelled, this charming biography traces the captivating life and times of David Hockney. Drawn entirely on an iPad in a fun, fully illustrated style and in homage to Hockney's own iPad drawings this is a colorful, thought-provoking and joyous story of one of the world's best-loved artists. Hockney: A Graphic Life publishes October 3, 2023. Simon Elliott is a criminal barrister, art obsessive and standup comedian. Inspired by Hockneys message spring cannot be cancelled, and with time to fill (thanks to Covid), Simon engrossed himself in all things Hockney, le ... More | |
Enzo Enea at the Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland @Roland Tännler.
ZURICH.- To celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, Enea has embarked on projects to show how landscape design can confront the urgent challenge of climate change and teach green skills to future generations. 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of Enea, a global landscape architecture firm with offices in Zurich, New York, Miami and Milan, that began in 1973 as a small family business manufacturing and importing Italian terracotta and stone into Switzerland. Twenty years later the second generation of his Italian family to run the business, the landscape architect Enzo Enea grew up in gardens, which ignited his passion for the power and beauty of green space to enhance our world and wellbeing. This sensitivity to the natural world inspired Enea to train both as an engineer in Switzerland and a landscape architect in ... More |
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| Kerlin Gallery currently hosting the group exhibition 'Here Comes Love' | | 'See the Sea' at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, opening today | | 'Dancing in the Shadow of Henry' now on view at the Royal College of Art |
Jennifer Mehigan, Voynich Study 2, 2023. Inkjet on canvas, 30 x 20 cm.
DUBLIN.- Kerlin Gallery is currently hosting HERE COMES LOVE, an exhibition by seven artists Justin Fitzpatrick, Vanessa Jones, Sam Keogh, Jennifer Mehigan, Sarah Pichlkostner, Tai Shani, and Lee Welch. Justin Fitzpatrick presents us with elaborate and fantastical paintings of mysterious figures and mutating forms; sinewy lines evoke art nouveau detailing, fused with elements of the gothic, macabre, and even body horror. In a portrait of the surrealist artist Pavel Tchelitchew, highly stylised musculoskeletal structures seem visible through the skin, while ornate, vegetal forms and insects link his subject to the earth, to burial, perhaps a resurrection of sorts. Born in Dublin and based in France, Fitzpatrick works with sculpture and text in addition to painting. His work is informed by metaphysical poetry, ... More | |
Stormy Sea from the Hotel Metropole c.1890 by Benjamin Constant. Image Credit: Brighton & Hove Museums.
BRIGHTON .- Artists and writers have been inspired by the sea at Brighton & Hove since it was a tiny 16th-century fishing village. This family-friendly display of paintings from our fine art collection includes dramatic seascapes, beachside scenes and pictures of the magnificent seafront and its bustling crowds. From quiet shores and seafront working scenes to Regency splendour and parade, sail through romantic sea and skies to views of todays vibrant seafront. Paintings include works by Spencer Gore, Ruskin Spear and local artist Richard Henry Nibbs who has recently had a blue plaque unveiled in his memory at Buckingham Place, Brighton. Others showing nautical scenes include Wilfred Avery, John Wilson Carmichael and French portrait painter Jacques-Emile Blanche. Hove artist Charles Burleigh captures the buzz ... More | |
Chicken and Egg by Sarah Staton. Photo: Buildhollywood.
LONDON.- The BUILDHOLLYWOOD family announced the launch of Dancing in the Shadow of Henry, a new collaboration with artist, curator and Head of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, Sarah Staton. Reflecting on Henry Moores Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 3, which sits in the nearby Brandon Estate, just south of Kennington Park, Dancing in the Shadow of Henry is transforming a small street-side piece of land on Camberwell New Road into a lively new permanent, pocket sculpture garden. Dancing in the Shadow of Henry is part of BUILDHOLLYWOODs ongoing Your Space Or Mine initiative, giving artists and creatives across the UK a unique platform to present their work outdoors and connect with communities across our cities. The sculptural street-side interventions enlivens and energises the site, becoming a catalyst for a new creative configuration between ... More |
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| Summer 2023 International Artists-in-Residence unveil new artwork at Artpace San Antonio | | Maruani Mercier opens today the exhibition 'Calder & Miró' | | 'Boundry Encounters' opening today at Modern Art Oxford |
Xin Liu, Artpace. Photo Credit Beth Devillier.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace are presenting the Summer 2023 International Artist-in-Residence exhibitions. Xin Liu (London, England), Michi Meko (Atlanta, Georgia), and Ryan Takaba (San Antonio, Texas), were selected by Guest Curator Alejo Benedetti, Acting Curator, Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art. The artists opened their debut exhibitions at a reception earlier this month. Artist and engineer Xin Liu presents her captivating exhibition, At the End of Everything, which delves into the nature of oil as an assertive, almost sentient resource rather than a passive substance and explores the intersection of oil, life, and death. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a striking pyramid-shaped structure suspended over an oil fountain, with a glass globe containing oil at its core. Coming from a background deeply connected to petroleum exploitation in her hometown of Karamay, Xinjiang, China, Liu's residency ... More | |
Successió Miró © 2023 ADAGP, Images Copyright:© 2023 Calder Foundation, New York / SABAM Belgium. Homepage Photograph by Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs.
KNOKKE .- The gallery Maruani Mercier has announced a special tandem exhibition devoted to modernist giants Alexander Calder and Joan Miró. Opening today July 22 to August 31, 2023 at their seaside gallery space at Zeedijk 759 in Knokke, the exhibition presents paintings, drawings, engravings, collages, and bronze sculptures by the American and Spanish artists, who had forged one of the most important artistic dialogues in the 20th century. When Alexander Calder and Joan Miró met between the two great wars in 1920s Paris, the stars were aligned. The two found each other amidst the creative circles consisting of Braque, Dali, and Picasso, where many new ideas were exchanged. Though the rise of fascism forced them to return to their home countries, the two artists remained in contact, influencing, and exhibiting together until Calders ... More | |
Anya Gleizer, Grannys Bones installation view, 2019. Image courtesy the artist.
OXFORD.- Modern Art Oxford opens its summer programme, Boundary Encounters, which brings together creative communities for a participatory series of new commissions, residencies, live events and a collaboratively selected archive display. Through these activities visitors will be invited to use the gallery as a space for exploration and participation as a way to create shared learning experiences with other visitors. Boundary Encounters features new commissions from Valerie Asiimwe Amani, Julie Freeman, Harold Offeh, and Deborah Pill. Amanis site-specific installation connects multiple perspectives and histories, featuring moving image, text and textile, celebrating community through the themes of friendship, courage, and revival. Freemans commission explores multiple forms of learning from the past through data gathered from the gallerys archive. Her sonic work ... More |
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NEW YORK, NY.- The first time Albie Cullen said goodbye to the Grateful Dead was on Aug. 9, 1995. A co-worker told Cullen, an attorney for a Boston-area music label, that Jerry Garcia, the Deads iconic lead guitarist, had died that day. Cullen had attended dozens of shows. He reveled in the Deads improvisational spirit, the way no two performances were alike: When you saw the Stones a dozen times, he explained recently, it was pretty much the same show. Despite the Garcia news, Cullen kept his plans to see RatDog a side project of Garcias bandmate Bob Weir play a concert in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, that evening. Weir, a rhythm guitarist, told the crowd that Garcia who at 53 suffered a fatal heart attack at a drug rehab facility ... More
"Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art" at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth
HANOVER, N.H..- The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, is now presenting Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art from July 22, 2023, to May 25, 2024, featuring over 75 works drawn from the museums collection of African and African diaspora art. Emphasizing the role of women artists and feminine aesthetics in crafting African and African diaspora art histories, this exhibition surveys themes of home, kinship, motherhood, femininity, and intimacy in both historic and contemporary works. I began imagining plans for Homecoming: Domesticity and Kinship in Global African Art in early 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a period that coincided with an uptick in conditions of and activist responses to anti- Black racism and xenophobia, explains Alexandra Thomas, curatorial research associate at the Hood Museum of Art and curator ... More
"The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" now on view at Freight+Volume
NEW YORK, NY.- Freight+Volume is presenting today The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, a group exhibition featuring works by Will Watson, Mary DeVincentis, Ezra Johnson, Natalie Westbrook, Karen Finley, and Madalena Pequito. Alluding to Traffic's 1971 hit track, The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys captures the full gamut of ethical uncertaintyfrom laissez-faire fun in the sun to words as weapons of protest. Recasting the miasmic, tobacco-infused atmosphere of the songs lyrics Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you to be more mindful of the various social grievances that surround us on all sides, The Low Spark of High- Heeled Boys unpacks like a cautionary tale about the use and abuse of pretenses to social conscience. Each of the six artists on view has an individuated stance on the relationship between users and suppliers: the unending ... More
Sargent's Daughters now representing Yaron Michael Hakim
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargent's Daughters announced representation of Yaron Michael Hakim, following his recent solo exhibition at Sargent's Daughters West. Hakim considers identity through the lens of speciation, disrupting the established order of self and other, human and more-than-human. Embedded in Los Angeles' ecology and culture, Hakim offers a new approach to understanding hybrid identities; his camouflaged self-portraits often blend his features with those of the non-native, wild parrots that fly over his East LA home. His latest series investigates the exchange of flora across continents. His forthcoming artist book, Yaron Michael Hakim: Psittaciformes will be published with Grand Central Art Center and X Artists Books in September 2023, with an essay by John Spiak (Director/Chief Curator at Grand Central Art Center), text by poet Amy ... More
Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan wins $100,000 Hadley's Art Prize 2023
HOBART.- Senior Yankunytjatjara artist Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan has been announced as the winner of the Hadleys Art Prize 2023, one of Australias richest art prizes worth $100,000, for her work Ngayuku Ngura (My Country). The annual acquisitive art prize is awarded to the most outstanding portrayal of the Australian landscape. Cullinans work was selected out of the 30 finalists by an expert judging panel comprising one of Australias most acclaimed and awarded artists Wendy Sharpe AM, celebrated Tasmanian artist Milan Milojevic, and artist, curator, writer and Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, Dr Fiona Foley. Vicki Yatjiki Cullinan, from Indulkana Community in South Australia, has over 20 years of experience in painting, printmaking and drawing. A highly respected leader in her community, Cullinan has in recent years turned ... More
Upstate Art Weekend is bigger than it's ever been
NEW YORK, NY.- In just three years, Upstate Art Weekend has grown from an informal map for visiting city folk to an annual festival of more than 100 participants across 10 New York counties. At this weekends fourth edition, youll be able to wander through private artists studios at the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory, Beacon Open Studios or Newburghs Atlas Studios; bid in an auction supporting the New York Abortion Access Fund at Noise for Now in Kingston; even preview a Borscht Belt Museum set to open in Ellenville in 2025. And then there are the performances: On Friday, the Hudson Valley Intertribal Noise Symposium brings a lineup of Indigenous sound artists to the idyllic sculpture park at Art Omi, and on Saturday, the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art hosts an outdoor performance by Emily Johnson in conjunction with its show ... More
Aindrea Emelife to curate the Nigerian Pavilion in the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024
VENICE.- Aindrea Emelife, the closely watched Nigerian-British curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA), has been selected to curate the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by the Edo State Governor and commissioner of the pavilion, His Excellency Godwin Obaseki. Emelife has selected eight artists to present works in response to the theme and title Nigeria Imaginary. The artists to be featured in the group exhibition are Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ndidi Dike, Onyeka Igwe, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Abraham Oghobase, Precious Okoyomon, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and Fatimah Tuggar. Nigeria Imaginary looks at the many Nigerias that live in our minds: the Nigeria ... More
Martha Saxton, historian who explored women's lives, dies at 77
NEW YORK, NY.- Martha Saxton, a historian whose penetrating examinations of womens lives led her to new insights into figures ranging from author Louisa May Alcott to 1950s actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield to Mary Washington, the mother of the first president of the United States, died Tuesday at her home in Norfolk, Connecticut. She was 77. Her daughter, Josephine Saxton Ferorelli, said the cause was lung cancer. First as a freelance writer and later as an assistant professor of history and womens studies at Amherst College, Saxton excavated womens lives from under the morass of male privilege set down both at her subjects time and by historians over the intervening years. I have spent my life studying and writing North American womens history to try to retrieve some of what has been lost, to try to replace incomprehension ... More
Review: Dancing with dictators in David Byrne's 'Here Lies Love'
NEW YORK, NY.- Its the applause including my own I find troubling. Not that there isnt plenty to praise in Here Lies Love, the immersive disco-bio-musical about Imelda Marcos that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theater. The infernally catchy songs by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, performed by a tireless and inspired all-Filipino cast, will have you clapping whether you want to or not. Their chunky beats, abetted by insistent dance motivators, may even prompt you to bop at your seat if you have one. Because the real star of this show is the astonishing architectural transformation of the theater itself, by set designer David Korins. Opened in 1924 as a movie palace, more lately the home of King Kong and West Side Story, the Broadway has now been substantially gutted, its nearly 1,800 seats reduced to about 800, with standing ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Edward Hopper was born July 22, 1882. Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967) was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life. In this image: A woman looks at the painting "South Carolina Morning" by American artist Edward Hopper during a press conference in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday, May 7, 2009.
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