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Gilded Coffin Lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (detail) Late Ptolemaic Period (15050 B.C.) Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255b) Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- A highly ornamented ancient Egyptian coffin from the first century B.C. is the spectacular centerpiece of the exhibition Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin, opening July 20 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recently acquired work, which was inscribed for a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef of Herakleopolis, is being displayed with 70 other works, also from The Met collection. The exhibition has been arranged thematically to illuminate the role of Nedjemankh as a priest in ancient Egypt, his burial, and the decoration on the coffin. Distinctive installations in the exhibition include an imitation leopard skin once worn by a priest and a display of funerary objects depicted in a scene on the coffin. Made of cartonnage (layers of textile stiffened with glue and covered with plaster), the coffin has an elaborately decorated surface that is sheathed in gold. Scenes and texts in thick gesso relief were intended to pr ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In this file photo taken on August 11, 2013 Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- are seen on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. From August 1, 2018 tourists won't be able to stay in Isla de Pascua for more than 30 days and the government will put new controls on new residents. GREGORY BOISSY / AFP
| The National Gallery of Ireland opens a major show on Irish artist Roderic O'Conor | | India excavators find over one thousand 18th-century war rockets | | Sir Charles Saumarez Smith announced as Senior Director of Blain/Southern |
Roderic OConor (1860-1940), Field of Corn, Pont-Aven, 1892. Ulster Museum Belfast.
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland is presenting a major show on Irish artist Roderic OConor (1860- 1940), from 18 July 28 October 2018. This is the first exhibition in over 30 years to explore OConors works across all media. Roderic OConor & the Moderns: Between Paris and Pont-Aven assembles many of the most important paintings, drawings and etchings from his critical years in Paris and Brittany (1886- 1904), when he was a leading member of the Pont-Aven school of artists, and places him at the heart of the late 19th-century avant garde. The exhibition also includes seminal works by his illustrious contemporaries in Pont-Aven, including Paul Gauguin, Émile Bernard and Maurice Denis, and casts new light on OConors connections with Gauguin and Van Gogh. Roderic OConor was born in Co. Roscommon, but moved to France, working between Paris and rural art ... More | |
This photo taken on July 25, 2018 shows Indian archeologists standing over a pile of some of the hundreds of 18th century rockets. Ganesh GANI / AFP.
BANGALORE.- Over a thousand rockets belonging to an 18th-century Muslim warrior king have been found by excavators in an abandoned well in India's southern Karnataka state, an official said Friday. The excavation of the open well in Shimoga district led to unearthing of rockets and shells that were stored by Tipu Sultan for use in wars, according to the state's assistant director of archaeology. The powerful ruler was killed in the fourth Anglo-Mysore war in 1799 after a string of victories in battle against the British East India Company. He is credited with developing an early, indigenous rocket known as the Mysorean rocket, a prototype of British Congreve rockets used in the Napoleonic wars. "Excavation of the open well led to unearthing of over 1,000 corroded rockets that were stored during Tipu's times for use ... More | |
Saumarez Smith has been Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts since 2007. Photo: James Harris.
LONDON.- Blain|Southern announces the appointment of Sir Charles Saumarez Smith as Senior Director of the gallery. Saumarez Smith has been Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts since 2007 and previously Director of the National Gallery, 2002 to 2007; and the National Portrait Gallery, 1994 to 2002. In a statement today he said: I have known Harry Blain and Graham Southern ever since they took the lease on Burlington Gardens for Haunch of Venison. I greatly respect their work and that of the artists they represent, several of whom are RAs. I am very much looking forward to working with them all, using my experience to build upon Blain|Southerns achievements. In a joint statement, Harry Blain and Graham Southern said: We are delighted to welcome Charles to the gallery. Having headed up three ... More |
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| Hyperobjects: Ballroom Marfa presents a group exhibition | | China 'waterfall' skyscraper hit by torrent of ridicule | | Newly expanded Design Gallery opens in IMA Galleries at Newfields |
Installation view of Hyperobjects. Photo: Alex Marks.
MARFA, TX.- Hyperobjects is a group exhibition co-organized by philosopher and Rice University professor Timothy Morton and Ballroom Marfa Director & Curator Laura Copelin, engaging ideas from Morton's theory to confront the overwhelming scale of today's ecological crisis. The exhibition features installations from the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Megan May Daalder, Tara Donovan, Nance Klehm, Postcommodity, Emilija Skarnulyte, and Sissel Marie Tonn with Jonathan Reus, as well as objects and loans from David Brooks, the Center for Big Bend Studies, Rafa Esparza, Raviv Ganchrow, Paul Johnson, Candice Lin, the Long Now Foundation, Iván Navarro, the A. Michael Powell Herbarium, the Rio Grande Research Center, Oscar Santillán, and the University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory. Morton asks: Where are we? Marfa, Texas, the USA, Earth...? When are we? This week? ... More | |
This photo taken on July 20, 2018 shows a 108-meter-high (350 feet) artificial waterfall on the facade of the Liebian International Building in Guiyang in China's southwestern Guizhou province. AFP.
BEIJING (AFP).- A skyscraper in southwest China that boasts what its owner calls the world's largest man-made waterfall has become the latest example of over-the-top architecture to draw national ridicule. The tower in the city of Guiyang was built with a spectacular 108-metre (350-feet) cascade tumbling down its face -- but cash flow could prove a problem for the ostentatious design. Although the Liebian International Building is not yet finished, the water feature was completed two years ago. However it has only been turned on six times, with the owners blaming the high cost -- 800 yuan ($120) per hour -- of pumping water to the top of the 121-metre-high structure. Constructed by the Ludi Industry Group, the building will house a shopping mall, offices and a luxury hotel. Its signature artificial ... More | |
More than 150 new objects are on view in the renovated gallery, many of which have never been on display before. Image courtesy of Newfields.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Starting July 27, explore the renovated Design Gallery inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields and discover never-before-seen highlights of the collection. The Design Gallery in the IMA Galleries is the largest permanent collection gallery devoted to modern and contemporary design of any art museum in the country. Over several months it has undergone a complete thematic update, including a refreshed layout and design, a rotation of more than 150 new objects and new interactive features. It has also been expanded to include an 800-square-foot interactive Design Lab. In 2014, the IMA received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provided financial support to create more interpretive and interactive elements and convert a former storage area into a hands-on ... More |
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| Third solo show of work by Joshua Lutz on view at ClampArt in New York | | Phillips announces touring exhibition of works by Raoul Dufy from a French private collection | | Bolivian water frog in lovelorn race against clock |
Joshua Lutz, Head of the Class, 2017, Archival pigment print; Courtesy of ClampArt, New York City. © Joshua Lutz.
NEW YORK, NY.- ClampArt announces Joshua Lutz: Mind the Gap, the artists third solo show at the gallery. The exhibition coincides with the release of Lutzs monograph of the same title from Schilt Publishing (Hard-cover, 160 pages, 9.7 x 8.2 inches, $50). The images and text in the book attempt to locate some semblance of truth in the chaos of hierarchy, class, and privilege. It is a journey for clarity, hijacked by sex, addiction, and mental illness. As they travel between black-and-white and color photographs, the audience is confronted with a sensation of ground-lessness. Protagonists in the story are found clinging to and grasping at everything they believe to be true. Mind the Gap points to the physical and psychological gap one confronts in daily life. It is a reference to the gap between thoughts as well as the gap between ... More | |
Raoul Dufy, Le grand orchestre, c. 1946. Estimate: $350,000 - 450,000. Image courtesy Phillips.
PARIS.- Phillips presents an important collection of works by Raoul Dufy, to be debuted in Paris before highlights are exhibited in London, Hong Kong and finally New York in November where the majority of works will be offered in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale. Transforming Phillips Paris gallery on Rue du Bac, this exhibition will open to the public on 13 September 2018 for one week. Presenting 10 masterworks from throughout the career of French Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy, the exhibition will include eight paintings and two works on paper. These significant artworks all come from an important private French collection in which they have remained unseen for the past 25 years. Nathalie Zaquin-Boulakia, International Specialist, said, We are honoured to have been entrusted with this impressive selection of works by Raoul Dufy, which we look forward to exhibiting in Paris, ... More | |
The frogs live about 15 years and Romeo was found nine years ago.
LA PAZ (AFP).- Romeo the water frog, a social media star whose desperate need to mate has not been met, is now staring down extinction as stoically as an amphibian can. Romeo is the last known frog of his kind -- a Sehuencas water frog, or Telmatobius yuracare. And he has been fruitlessly calling for a mate from his tank at the Cochabamba Natural History Museum for years on end. Unable to hook him up with a local, his minders in February launched a global call for help finding a Juliet for the little guy with a purposeful, gold-specked stare. About $25,000 was raised to help with the campaign -- but so far, months have come and gone without so much as a solid lead. So his lonely croak goes unanswered. The frogs live about 15 years and Romeo was found nine years ago. Nobody immediately suspected finding him a mate would be such an uphill battle. ... More |
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| Exhibition highlights postcards as both valuable historical documents and masterworks of graphic design | | Longest established gallery venue in L.A. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts to vacate its La Brea Avenue gallery location | | Kunsthalle Mannheim launches its digital strategy with the opening of the Creative Lab |
5th Camp Dux, Opera Balilla, 1935. Lithograph (divided back). Leonard A. Lauder Postcard ArchivePromised gift of Leonard A. Lauder.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will open The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars on July 28. On view through January 21, 2019 Loose lips might sink ships! Strong men, to the front! The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars presents approximately 150 postcards from World War I through the end of World War II, a time of conflict and upheaval on a global scale. With pithy slogans and bold colors, striking graphics and biting caricatures, postcards from the first half of the 20th century conveyed messages that were easily understood and remembered. This is art with an agenda, meant to justify war, lionize leaders, demonize the enemy, or underscore the need for citizens to make sacrifices for the cause. The Art of Influence highlights postcards as both valuable historical documents and masterworks of graphic design. Featuring approximately 150 postcards produc ... More | |
According to the Rutberg gallery, its intentions to announce a new location are delayed by difficulty in finding its new home in L.A.'s overheated real estate environment.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Los Angeles' longest established gallery venue, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, has announced that after 37 years at its La Brea Avenue location, its gallery building has come under new ownership, requiring the gallery to find a new location. An art dealer for more than 45 years, Jack Rutberg moved onto La Brea Avenue in 1981. The gallery is internationally noted for its exhibitions and many educational programs including lectures by noteworthy art world personages - artists, art historians, critics, and composers. Since its inaugural exhibition featuring Arshile Gorky and Hans Burkhardt, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts has featured a continuous program of significant modern and contemporary art exhibitions, many of which have traveled to museums internationally. The gallery has been a mainstay of L.A.s evolving cultural landscape and continues to be a source for collectors, other dealers and museums. ... More | |
The Creative Lab is part of the Kunsthalles digital strategy, together with the Collection Wall and the multimedia app.
MANNHEIM.- Visitors of the art nouveau west wing can now take advantage of further offerings that form part of Kunsthalle Mannheims innovative digital strategy. With them, the museum opens up new possibilities for outreach and seeks to attract younger museum-goers. Real and virtual museum spheres intersect, controlled by a central Museum Orchestration Server (MOS). Our tailor-made digital offerings enhance our exhibitions and better allow our visitors to actively to take part in what we offeralso making the museum more accessible, museum director Dr. Ulrike Lorenz explains. The Kunsthalle 4.0 is an arena for experiences accessible around the world, 24 hours a day, complementing the analog museum. The Creative Lab is part of the Kunsthalles digital strategy, together with the Collection Wall and the multimedia app. Besides presenting collection themes such as the focus on sculpture, the Creative Lab is a ... More |
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Lessons in loyalty at North Korea's top school
PYONGYANG (AFP).- Not many schools have classrooms equipped with tanks, jet fighter simulators, and grenade launchers. But North Korea's Mangyongdae Revolutionary School for boys is no ordinary establishment. Originally set up by the North's founder Kim Il Sung to educate the orphans of those killed in the fight against Japanese colonial rule, it has evolved to become the country's top school, and one of the institutions that knits the ruling elite together. A bronze statue of Kim and his son and successor Kim Jong Il - an old boy - embracing pupils overlooks the playing field, and the corridors are lined with weapons identification posters. One room is crammed with small arms, another holds a tank with moving caterpillar tracks, and shooting is a key subject, with training taking place on an electronic range. The 1,000 shaven-headed boys wear a military-style ... More
The Authentication Company, LLC marks, identifies petroliana, automobilia
NOKOMIS, ILL.- A new company has been formed to mark and identify petroliana, automobilia and antique advertising items as a means for ensuring their originality and authenticity. Its The Authentication Company, LLC and it specializes in marking original period-correct items, to include signs, globes, cans, metal thermometers, displays and various other advertising items. The Authentication Company, LLC (nicknamed TAC, pronounced tack), is the brainchild of two men: Dan Matthews (an auctioneer who specializes in petroliana and authored two books on the subject) and Joey Whiteside (a lifelong petroliana collector who specializes in advertising signs). TAC guarantees that all items that have been marked with our security holograms and serial numbers to be original and not reproductions, explained Dan Matthews. Items that are found to be authentic ... More
Stick it like Gianni: Italian scores with football album collection
SAN FELICE SUL PANARO (AFP).- Newspapers recalling decades of sporting glory line the walls, cupboards overflow with stickers of footballing legends and on a desk, pristine packets lie tantalisingly waiting to be opened: welcome to the home of Gianni Bellini, the man with a claim to the biggest football sticker album collection in the world. Bellini boasts 4,000 complete albums filled with some two million stickers and another 400,000 yet to stick in. "Every day after I've finished work and picked up my grandson from school, I spend at least 4 to 6 hours working on them," Bellini tells AFP. The 54-year-old typographer lives in the small town of San Felice sul Panaro around 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Modena -- the heartland of renowned sticker maker Panini. He began his collection around age 13, before taking a small break a few years later, "more interested in girls" ... More
A $5 million nickel and paper money collection highlight Stack's Bowers Galleries auction
IRVINE, CA.- Numismatic auction house Stacks Bowers Galleries has announced their forthcoming auction highlights of one the rarest nickels in existence and the most valuable U.S. paper money collection ever assembled. The Eliasberg Nickel, the finest and most valuable U.S. nickel in existence, and Part II of the legendary Joel R. Anderson collection of United States paper money will be crossing the block at the Stacks Bowers Galleries official auction of the American Numismatic Associations Worlds Fair of Money at Philadelphias Pennsylvania Convention Center, August 14-18. The Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, one of only five ever produced, is the finest graded example of its kind and traces its provenance to the only complete collection of United States coins by date and mintmark. It comes from the family of Dr. William Morton-Smith, an old-time colle ... More
The Gathering 'Shahrazad' card sets $72,000 record in Heritage Auctions sale
DALLAS, TX.- A storm of competitive bidding drove the final price for original art and a copy of Kaja Foglio's Magic: The Gathering: Arabian Nights "Shahrazad" Card (Wizards of the West Coast, 1993) to $72,000 in Heritage Auctions' July 22 Sunday Internet Comics, Animation & Art Auction. The result for this original art, which measure 7 by 5-1/2 inches and comes from the Ethan Roberts Estate Collection, broke the previous record for the most paid for any lot in Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet auction. "Any original art from Magic: The Gathering is highly sought by fans," Heritage Auctions comics cataloger Weldon Adams said. "Art by a favorite artist such as Kaja Foglio is even more desirable and collectors drove the bidding sky-high on this item." The "Shahrazad" card is among the rarest cards from Series A or Series B. It is from ... More
Iraq street satirists peddle culture change
KUT (AFP).- On a strip of pavement in the southern Iraqi city of Kut, a gaggle of amateur comedians pulls in the crowds every Friday -- drawing chuckles, smiles and knowing nods. With a rich repertoire of skits, Khaled al-Atbi and his peers poke fun at politicians more interested in lining their pockets than rebuilding a country devastated by decades of war. "Theatre is a message," said the 42-year-old al-Atbi, director and actor in the seven-strong troupe. "With our satire, we condemn... corruption, lack of public services and tribal activities," he said, citing those factors as central to discontent in Iraq. Since the US-led ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has been plagued by graft and sectarian fighting, culminating in the Islamic State group seizing around a third of its territory in 2014. As Iraq seeks to move beyond the brutal war that last year ... More
Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher present a new installation at ODETTA
BROOKLYN, NY.- ODETTA is presenting a new solo installation that collaborating partners Chris Klapper and Patrick Gallagher, called Dataatadata: 3-sphere. Rather than the traditional summer group exhibition, ODETTA offers one artist, or in this case, a two-person team, to create the monumental sculptural installation of their wildest dreams. The only rule is that they cannot walk it in the door. It must be built on site. To this end, Chris and Patrick, husband and wife, began work on Dataatadata: 3 Sphere over a year ago. Working up in scale with four models for their primary sculpture, Projective Plane, the artists have pushed beyond their preconceived limitations to realize this larger idea. Their work is a visual representation of the concepts of infinity and higher dimensional space using transparent materials, carved walls and programmable LED. The final result ... More
Goodwin Fine Art exhibits recent work by photographers Danae Falliers and Brenda Biondo
DENVER, COLO.- Goodwin Fine Art is presenting recent work by photographers Danae Falliers and Brenda Biondo. This marks the first exhibition in the gallery for Danae Falliers and the third showing at Goodwin Fine Art of Brenda Biondos photographic work. Re:union brings together photographs from Danae Falliers most recent series Reservoir and Fragments along with the ongoing series Prairie. Common to all three bodies of work is as Falliers references in her artist statement by video artist, Steina Vasulka, we live in a horizontal world. The horizon line forever implicit in the landscape with depictions of the Cherry Creek reservoir in Reservoir no. 5, to the dividing line which separates land from sky in the image, Prairie no.1. In Falliers most recent series Fragments the horizon line migrates to the upper reaches of the composition giving nod to the ... More
Kunsthalle Bremen exhibits works by ten young and promising positions in contemporary art
BREMEN.- This year the Kunstpreis der BöttcherstraÃe in Bremen (Prize of the BöttcherstraÃe in Bremen) will be awarded for the 46th time. From 28 July to 30 September 2018, the Kunsthalle Bremen will present ten young and promising positions in contemporary art. In recent months, distinguished curators such as Johan Holten, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Susanne Pfeffer and Bettina Steinbrügge have nominated ten artists from the German-speaking area. The Prize of the BöttcherstraÃe in Bremen is among the leading and highest awards in the field of contemporary art in Germany. The competition features 30,000 Euro in prize money for the winner and, in 2018, it will be held for the 46th time in the Kunsthalle Bremen. A prominent, five-member jury will determine the winner of the prize during the course of the exhibition. In the past, many of the prize winners and ... More
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates to offer Wentz Collection
MT. CRAWFORD, VA.- The Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates Summer Americana & Variety Auction contains a true diversity of material and will include everything from rare Civil War material and vintage concert posters to country furniture and silver coins. The large auction will take place over two days, Friday, August 24, 2018 and Saturday, August 25, 2018 with absentee, phone, internet, and in-house bidding available. Fridays session, beginning at 9:30 am, should start the weekend off with a bang and features the 50-plus year collection of the late Joan M. Wentz, Germansville, PA, highlighted by American folk and decorative art, including weathervanes, portraits, powder horns, and rare toleware; Holiday decorations, including Christmas and Easter articles, ornaments, candy containers, and toys; lighting, including over 130 miniature lamps; glass, ... More
Drawing reimagines history in the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018
SYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales announces Playback the third Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial, from 7 July until 21 October 2018. Continuing the legacy of the Dobell Prize for Drawing and supported by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation, this exhibition presents new work by eight contemporary Australian artists who are exploring history through crossovers between drawing and the moving image. In Playback works by Vernon Ah Kee, Sharon Goodwin, Laura Hindmarsh, Locust Jones, Dorota Mytych, Jason Phu, Lucienne Rickard and Nick Strike respond to images found in art history, archives, newspapers, cinema and online. By reanimating images from the past, the artists selected for Playback enliven our sense of curiosity about history but also encourage us to understand the ways in which history repeats itself," said Art Gallery of NSW curator ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French-American artist Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887. Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 - 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada. In this image: Marcel Duchamp, Nu sur nu, 1910-1911, oil on panel 65 x 51 cm.
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