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An undated photo provided by Martin Kundrát shows a titanosaur embryo fossil. Scientists arent sure what happened to the rest of its body, leaving only the skull. Martin Kundrát via The New York Times.
by Lucas Joel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Some 20 years ago, someone smuggled dinosaur eggs from Argentina to the United States illegally. The smuggler probably had little clue that inside one of the eggs was one of the best-preserved skulls of a dinosaur embryo ever found, which is now giving us new insights into the facial appearance of one line of our planets erstwhile rulers. When I had a look at this specimen, I quickly realized how unique this is, said Martin Kundrát, a paleobiologist at the Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences at Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, whos the lead author of a study published Thursday in Current Biology about the fossil. It was really amazing to see that such a specimen could really be preserved and still keep a three-dimensional position. The skull is about the size of a table grape. Its right side is still entombed in mudstone and siltstone, and its mouth is closed. It isnt deformed, which is so often the case with bones burie ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Exhibition activity got underway again at Palazzo Albergati in Bologna on 29 August 2020, which marked the start of the eagerly awaited exhibition ÂMonet and the Impressionists. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris': a collection of fifty-seven masterpieces bearing the signatures of Monet and the biggest names in French Impressionism - such as Manet, Renoir, Degas, Corot, Sisley, Caillebotte, Morisot, Boudin, Pissarro and Signac - all from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, renowned throughout the world as the "home of the great Impressionists".
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 | | Bologna is back in business with Monet | | Hindman to offer three days of Asian works of art in September | | Heritage Auctions reunites NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas with NBA All-Star Game MVP trophy | 
Installation view.
BOLOGNA.- Exhibition activity got underway again at Palazzo Albergati in Bologna on 29 August 2020, which marked the start of the eagerly awaited exhibition Monet and the Impressionists. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris: a collection of fifty-seven masterpieces bearing the signatures of Monet and the biggest names in French Impressionism such as Manet, Renoir, Degas, Corot, Sisley, Caillebotte, Morisot, Boudin, Pissarro and Signac all from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, renowned throughout the world as the home of the great Impressionists. This is a real first, given that this is the only time since its foundation in 1934 that the Parisian museum has loaned out a corpus of unique pictures, many of which have never been exhibited anywhere else in the world. Going against the current international trend, as well as being a truly major event in exhibition terms this show also r ... More | | 
A Large Sino-Tibetan Gilt Copper Repoussé Figure of a Seated Lama, 18th/19th century. Height 13 1/2 in., 34.3 cm. Estimate: $8,000.00 - $10,000.00.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman will offer over 1,000 lots across three days beginning with Chinese and Southeast Asian Works of Art on September 24th, followed by Japanese and Korean Works of Art on September 25th, and concluding with an online only auction of Asian Works of Art on September 26th. Following the strong bidder engagement and global interest in the June Asian Works of Art auctions, significant interest is expected this fall. We have seen continued demand for important works from Asia as well as the U.S., despite the current climate. There are exceptional consignments offered in these sales and we are looking forward to the excitement we think these auctions will generate, said Annie Wu, Director and Senior Specialist of Asian Works of Art. Highlighting the Chinese and Southeast Asian Works of Art auction is a ... More | | 
The trophy and its owner were reunited Thursday afternoon.
DALLAS, TX.- NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas has been reunited with his 1984 NBA All-Star Game MVP trophy, one of several items stolen from his former high schools trophy case in recent years. The trophy was among the lots to be featured in Heritage Auctions Summer Platinum Night Sports Collectibles event that takes place August 29-30. But on August 10, Thomas informed Heritage, via Twitter, that the item had been stolen from the trophy case at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Ill., where the Hall of Famer played under legendary coach Gene Pingatore. The trophy, which had been consigned to Heritage Auctions by Absolute Memorabilia owner Peter Kiefor, was immediately pulled from the sale. The Dallas-based auction house immediately began an investigation into Thomas claim. On August 11, the Detroit Pistons great and television ... More |
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| | At the Met, a promising sign: The 'Hot Dog King' is back in business | | 'Black Panther' star Boseman dies after private battle with cancer | | In his own words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA | 
Dan Rossi serves up hot dogs from his cart outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 18, 2009. Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times.
by Corey Kilgannon
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed in March, as the coronavirus ravaged New York, the cluster of pushcarts out front one of the most coveted food-vending locations in the city was left with no business. No museum, no customers, said Dan Rossi, 70, a vendor who over 13 years has become known as the museums hot dog king by holding the top sidewalk-selling spot, directly in front of the Mets main steps. Rossi was not about to pack up. For more than five months, he kept his carts dormant at their location, along Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan, and visited constantly from his suburban home to make sure they were not moved. Now, with the museum reopening to the public Saturday, he has fired up his propane grills and resumed selling his $3 dogs and $1 bottles of water. He will again work to lure customers away from the seven vendors who typically flank ... More | | 
Chadwick Boseman in Los Angeles, Nov. 18, 2018. Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times.
by Reggie Ugwu and Michael Levenson
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Chadwick Boseman, the regal actor who embodied a long-held dream of African American moviegoers as the star of the groundbreaking superhero film Black Panther, died Friday. He was 43. A statement posted on Bosemans Instagram account said the actor had learned in 2016 that he had stage 3 colon cancer, and that it had progressed to stage 4. His publicist confirmed that he died in his home in Los Angeles, with his wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, and family by his side. A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much, the statement said. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilsons Ma Raineys Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. Boseman was a private figure by Hollywood standards. He found fame relatively late as an actor he was 35 when he appeared in his first pro ... More | | 
Jacob Lawrence at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1996. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Shuttered since March by the coronavirus pandemic, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are reopening with limited visitorship, various admonitions about masks and social distancing, and several new exhibitions, among them Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle. That show, at the Met, reunites the panels of a lesser-known series that the storied modernist painted during the mid-1950s, exploring themes from the American Revolution to the Westward expansion. Lawrence was a frequent visitor to both museums. In a 1996 interview referenced in the current exhibition, he told Michael Kimmelman, then chief art critic of The New York Times, that a favorite work of his in the Mets European painting galleries was The Journey of the Magi, by early Italian Renaissance artist Sassetta. What follows is an edited, condensed, updated version of that interview. Jacob Lawrence died in 2000, ... More |
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| | Nxt Museum, the first new media art museum in the Netherlands, opens its doors | | Freud's Vienna private rooms open, bereft of furniture | | Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art to present European masterpieces from The Met in 2021 | 
Habitat by Heleen Blanken with Naivi and Stijn van Beek. Part of the inaugural exhibition at Nxt Museum, Shifting Proximities. © Heleen Blanken.
AMSTERDAM.- From today, visitors can immerse themselves in the futuristic world of Nxt Museum. The groundbreaking museum - which is the first in the Netherlands dedicated to New Media Art - opens its doors to the public with the inaugural exhibition Shifting Proximities. Located in the up-and-coming North of Amsterdam, Nxt Museum presents eight large scale, multi-sensory art installations, four of which have been commissioned by and are premiering at Nxt Museum. Each of the multi-disciplinary installations has been created in collaboration with local and international artists, designers, technologists, scientists and musicians, fusing creative ideas with pioneering academic research and technological innovation. Merel van Helsdingen, Founder and Managing Director of the museum, said: Were excited beyond belief to be welcoming our first visitors today after three years in-the making and some hurdles along the ... More | | 
Doctor's bag from Sigmund Freud as a neurologist in an exhibition case in the apartment of the psychologist Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria on August 26, 2020. ALEX HALADA / AFP.
VIENNA (AFP).- All of Sigmund Freud's private rooms in Vienna opened to the public on Saturday -- though they are devoid of any furniture since the Jewish founder of psychoanalysis took almost everything with him when he fled to London before World War II. "We are dealing with an exhibition showing that there is nothing left here," architect Herman Czech told journalists this week ahead of the Sigmund Freud Museum's re-opening after 18 months of renovations. "Bringing back the sofa from London would have been a falsification of history," he added, referring to the famous couch, on which Freud diagnosed his patients. So the rooms -- increasing the exhibition space from 280 to 550 square meters (330 to 660 square yards) in a bourgeois building in Vienna's posh ninth district -- contain only a few personal items. Those include Freud's books, his tanned satchel and his box ... More | | 
Titian, Venus and Adonis 1550s (detail). Oil on canvas, 106.7 x 133.4cm. The Jules Bache Collection 1949 / 49.7.16 Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
BRISBANE.- Brisbanes Gallery of Modern Art will be the exclusive Australian venue for the major exhibition European Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from 12 June to 17 October, 2021. Minister for the Arts Leeanne Enoch today announced European Masterpieces would offer local and visiting audiences a remarkable survey of 500 years of European art from The Mets collection. This incredibly exciting exhibition for Queensland, curated by The Met in New York in consultation with QAGOMA, will feature works by some of the greatest painters of all time, including Rembrandt, Turner, van Gogh, Monet and many more, Minister Enoch said. The Palaszczuk Government is delivering Queenslands plan for economic recovery and by bringing this exhibition exclusively to our state, we are boosting our economy and enhancing our reputation as a centre for visual arts events of the ... More |
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| | Leon Kossoff masterpiece recreated as tapestry by Dovecot Studios | | Artist Nina Chanel Abney launches first AR artwork 'Imaginary Friend' with Acute Art | | Yi Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Lionel Cruet | 
Leon Kossoff and Dovecot Studios, tapestry in progress 4, courtesy of Andy J Mather Photography.
EDINBURGH.- Dovecot Studios, the internationally renowned art studio in Edinburgh, will create a new tapestry inspired by Leon Kossoffs painting Study from Minerva Protects Pax from Mars by Rubens (1981). This unique tapestry has only recently started on the loom and is being woven in Dovecots tapestry studio, which can be viewed by the public via their exclusive Viewing Balcony. The commission, which will take one year to weave, will restart Dovecots tapestry studio after the restrictions imposed by COVID-19. This exciting creation will be first time an artwork by the expressionist painter Kossoff (1926-2019) has been translated into tapestry. While Kossoffs expressive and assertive brushstrokes and the depth of his palette pose a new creative challenge for the Studios, his majestic painting will allow the team of weavers to highlight their own expressive skills and to experiment with both texture and colour on a ... More | | 
Nina Chanel Abney and Imaginary Friend, 2020. Photo: Khari Ricks.
LONDON.- Acute Art announces Nina Chanel Abneys first artwork in augmented reality (AR) for individuals to realise their personal power to shift a situation. To help us through unusual times and to mark the 57th anniversary of the historical March in Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr delivered his I Have a Dream speech as well as yesterday's March Get your knee off our necks, Nina Chanel Abney appropriately debuted Imaginary Friend at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. These monumental AR sculptures are freely available as part of a global public exhibition, across the US (Chicago, Grand Canyon, New York, Los Angeles and Washington, DC) as well as in Europe (Paris, London and Berlin) and Japan (Tokyo). There is also a version of Imaginary Friend available for anyone with the Acute Art app to place and interact with at home. Imaginary Friend tells us of a story in which a character, ... More | | 
Dusk/Daybreak 1, 2020, archival pigment print on photographic paper, 30 x 20 in. 76.2 x 50.8 cm.
BROOKLYN, NY.- On view now through September 19 at Yi Gallery is an exhibition of new works by New York and San Juan, PR based artist Lionel Cruet. With a photographic aspect, focusing on the ecological state of coastal spaces, Dusk/Daybreak is a series of experimental digital prints that capture daylight transitions using bi-tone pigmented gradations. Working with audiovisual installations and digital prints, Cruet has cultivated a research-based interdisciplinary practice in the arts. His artwork and projects reference layered, postcolonial identities, ecological awareness and geopolitics of the Caribbean to imply connections among that region and other parts of the world. The new works in Dusk/Daybreak continue the artists investigation into these subjects. Confronting the bleak reality of marine debris that lay around the beaches where Cruet collects found objects, each artwork in this exhibition emerges ... More |
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 Digging up graves: an Indonesian community honours its deadTORAJA (AFP).- Families in a mountainous community on Indonesia's Sulawesi island dig up their mummified relatives every three years, clean them and dress them in their favourite clothes to honour their spirits. The "Manene" ritual is carried out by the Torajan people, either before or after the August harvest, when deceased family members are unearthed and their graves cleaned. "Sometimes we even have a conversation with them, asking them to wish us health, prosperity and health," Rony Pasang, whose family carried out the tradition on Saturday, told AFP. Pasang dug up several dead family members including his grandmother and great aunt -- with his children and grandchildren paying respect to the shrivelled, mummified corpses. The family members in the village of Panggala were unearthed and laid out to dry in the sun, before being dressed. ... More Italian coastguard comes to aid of Banksy-funded rescue boatROME (AFP).- An Italian coastguard vessel Saturday rushed to a rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy, which sent out a call for help with more than 200 migrants onboard, and took in 49 of the most vulnerable people on board. The German-flagged MV Louise Michel said it was stranded and needed urgent help after helping a boat carrying at least one dead migrant. The 31-metre (101-foot) vessel's crew said it was overcrowded and unable to move after encountering another boat with 130 people on board trying to cross the sea dividing Europe and Africa. "Given the danger of the situation, the coastguard sent a patrol boat to Lampedusa which took in 49 people deemed the most fragile, including 32 women, 13 children and four men," a statement said. They were transferred to a vessel chartered by the German NGO Sea Watch and ... More The Met Opera's newest star returns, on the small screenNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera placed a big bet on the young Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, casting her in five productions far into the future before she had even sung her first note in New York. Maybe it was a safe bet: By the time Davidsen made her debut with the company last fall, at just 32, she was already one of the fastest-rising singers in the world, collecting competition prizes and performing on operas great stages. But the Met was a new challenge, a house thats prone to hype and acoustically unforgiving for smaller voices; its quickly clear who thrives there and who does not. It took all of one entrance in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys The Queen of Spades to brush off any fears about Davidsens future with the Met. The voice I heard was awe-inspiring in its power, an electric flash that filled the cavernous ... More Galerie Urs Meile opens an exhibition of works by Zhang XueruiBEIJING.- We can imagine Zhang Xueruis paintings as building facades, with equal squares dividing the entire canvas. These squares are parallel to the frame, positing a geometric certainty. The dynamic of the painting comes from its colorsin most cases, each square of color is linked to its neighbor by an almost imperceptible color gradient, making the overall rhythm appear soft and unhurried. The interval shifts in color achieve spatial depth in the picture, but the story within each window is concealed, like flickering lights of varying tone faintly shining through the curtains, while we can never know exactly what is unfolding behind the curtains. They tell a story through non-representational methods, or more precisely, they correspond to a stream-of-consciousness monologue. I hope to manifest in my paintings intimate relationships that are ... More OSL contemporary opens its first solo exhibition with Ane GraffOSLO.- OSL contemporary is presenting their first solo exhibition with Ane Graff. Her artistic practice is informed by feminist new materialisms ongoing re-thinking of our material reality, in which a relational and process-oriented approach to matter -including the matter of living bodies- plays an integral part. Within this framework, Graff focuses on human and non-human relationships; viewing human beings as part of an expansive, material network, stretching inside and outside of our bodies. Her work traces the lines of Western intellectual history to ask how the ideas of human exceptionalism, Cartesian dualism and representational thinking all relate to the ecological disasters we face today, and furthermore, what seem to be their current and future implications for material bodies. As the material meetings of our time are new, Graff sees all material bodies as part ... More Finalists selected for the 2020 Betty Bowen AwardSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum and the Betty Bowen Committee, chaired by Gary Glant, announced the six artists selected as finalists for this years Betty Bowen Award: Dawn Cerny, Roland Dahwen, Elijah Hasan, Marilyn Montufar, Christian Alborz Oldham, and Tariqa Waters. The juried award honors a Northwest artist for their original, exceptional, and compelling work. The award was founded in 1977 to honor the legacy of Betty Bowen (19181977), who was an avid champion of artists in the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Bowens friends, the award is administered by SAM. The Betty Bowen Committeecomprising Northwest curators, collectors, and artistsreviewed 615 applications from visual artists residing in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. One of this years finalists will receive an unrestricted cash award in the amount ... More Kunstfest Weimar 2020 opens against the oddsWEIMAR.- Kunstfest Weimar opened on Thursday night. The programme has had to be adapted and adjusted to work in the current restrictions but it remains as diverse, contemporary and rich with politically relevant work as ever. The Festival runs until 13 September. Festival Director Rolf C Hemke said: When festival cancellations were coming in thick and fast in March, we were able, as a festival taking place in late summer, to bide our time. Weve had a lot of questions to ask ourselves how do we react to the circumstances? What do we do about the large dance and opera productions? What about the international artists and companies we present from elsewhere in Europe and from further afield? This festival will be different that is for certain, but also still bold, diverse, contemporary and relevant. The Festival this year will present 60 different ... More New book offers the ultimate insight into the exclusive and avant-garde wardrobe of Myung-il SongTIELT.- Myung-il Song is a South Korean fashion and art collector and the founder of SONG the legendary concept store for fashion, art and interior-design in Vienna. Over the past 21 years, she has built an unrivalled fashion collection, and her shop which combines edgy design and up-and-coming artists has quickly become the most popular platform for avant-garde fashion and art in the city. Song combines personality with exclusivity, mixing great variety with a highly individual approach. With this artfully produced book, Lannoo Publishers are presenting the incredibly rich SONG fashion archives to the outside world for the very first time. The collection includes unique pieces by Dirk Van Saene, Martin Margiela, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Bernhard Willhelm, Stephen Jones, Kei Ninomiya, Paul Harnden Shoemakers, and ... More Important Falklands War group of medals to be sold at Dix Noonan WebbLONDON.- An important Falklands War D.C.M. group of six medals awarded to Sergeant, later Captain, J. S. Pettinger, of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, who distinguished himself on countless occasions, whilst serving as Patrol Commander D (Patrol) Company during 11 days of operations in and around the Mount Longdon area will be offered by Dix Noonan Webb in their live online auction of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Thursday, September 17, 2020 on their website www.dnw.co.uk. They are estimated to fetch £100,000-120,000. ... the battle of Mount Longdon was won to a considerable extent by the persistence and determination of a relatively small group of soldiers who continued to slug it out for dominance against a well-entrenched enemy. In reports and reminiscences of the battle, the same names crop ... More Alice Koller, author of the solitary life, dies at 94NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- At 37, Alice Koller was unsettled. She had a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, a résumé of small-bore jobs in and out of academia, and no fixed address. She was bright and educated, yet had floundered. In the winter of 1962, she rented a house on Nantucket, bought herself a German shepherd puppy and set out to interrogate her life. The stakes were high: As she later wrote, she was fully prepared to end it all should she not succeed. The book that recorded her experience, An Unknown Woman, was eventually published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1982. It attracted devoted fans who were inspired by Kollers self-reckoning, a feminists Walden. As her life was reduced to small essential acts making coffee, walking on the beach and caring for her puppy she found they were enough to sustain her. I ... More Linda Manz, young star of 'Days of Heaven,' dies at 58NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Linda Manz, the artfully sullen actress who won glowing reviews as the narrator and the little sister in Terrence Malicks haunting film Days of Heaven (1978), died on Aug. 14. She was 58. A GoFundMe page set up by her son Michael Guthrie to pay for funeral expenses said she had lung cancer and pneumonia. He did not say where she died. Days of Heaven, which takes place in 1916, follows two street-wise Chicago lovers, Bill and Abby (played by Richard Gere and Brooke Adams), who pose as brother and sister while working in the wheat fields of a rich Texas farmer. The deception leads to a dangerous romantic triangle. Manz, who was 4-foot-10 and played Bills younger sister, was 15 when she was cast and 17 when the film opened. (Malick took his time editing.) In a review from 1997, film critic Roger Ebert ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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