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Etruscan specialist Federica Sacchetti cleans ceremonial objects inside an Etruscan grave on March 27, 2019, at an archaeological site in Aleria, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica. An underground Etruscan grave nearly 24 centuries old has been discovered under a Roman necropolis south of Aleria, a first in 40 years which provides a "key of comprehension" to this ancient Mediterranean civilisation. PASCAL POCHARD-CASABIANCA / AFP.
PARIS.- A team of Inrap archaeologists is currently excavating an Etruscan tomb in AleriaLamajone (Corsica). This excavation, curated by the State (DRAC Corsica), first uncovered two road sections and an Etruscan and Romain necropolis. The discovery of a hypogeuman underground burial chamber dug into the rockled to a prescription for further excavation. This unusual research undertaken by the State contributes to our knowledge of Etruscan funerary practices, the Antique occupation of Corsica, and the diversity of its exchanges with the Mediterranean world. A few hundred meters from the Antique city, the excavation of the necropolis, surrounded by circulation routes, extends across one hectare. The state of preservation of the Antique burials is remarkable despite the acidic soil in Corsica, which usually destroys bones. Several funerary practices are represented: inhumation in pits, masonry coffins, studded wood coffins, funeral pyres, ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, Qatar, on March 28, 2019. The complex form of the desert rose, found in QatarÂs arid desert regions, inspired the striking design of the new museum building, conceived by French architect Jean Nouvel. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/National Museum of Qatar.
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| | | French museum renames masterpieces after black subjects | | Exhibition presents 12 great marbles and over 110 works by Antonio Canova | | National Museum of Qatar opens to the public |
Portrait de Madeleine by Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1800).
PARIS (AFP).- French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long overlooked black subjects in a ground-breaking new Paris show on the representation of people of colour in art. The centrepiece of the show, Manet's "Olympia", the scandalous painting of a naked reclining prostitute that marks the birth of "modern art", has kept its title. However, top billing for the painting in its display now goes to "Laure", the woman who posed as her black maid. But several major works have been given new names after curators of "Black Models: From Gericault to Matisse" -- which opened Tuesday at the d'Orsay Museum -- turned historical detective to hunt down the identity of their sitters. The enormous exhibition with paintings by Delacroix, Gauguin, Picasso, Bonnard and Cezanne tackles the depiction of black and mixed race people in French art from the country's final abolition of slavery in 1848 until the 1950s. American scholar ... More | |
Installation view.
NAPLES.- For the first time, an exhibition focuses on the continuous, intense and fruitful relationship that tied Canova to the classical world, making him not only a "new Fidia in the eyes of his contemporaries, but also an artist capable of to dismantle and renew the Ancient by looking at nature. "To imitate, not to copy the ancients" to "become inimitable" was the warning of Winckelmann, the father of neoclassicism: a warning followed by Canova throughout all the course of his artistic activity. From the juvenile Theseus and the Minotaur to the Sleeping Endymion, accomplished shortly before his death, the Ancient / Modern dialogue is an indispensable constant of its work; up to the point of touching, in this path, tips that worth a paradigma: one above all, the creation of the Triumphant Perseus, the new "Apollo del Belvedere". "The National Archaeological Museum of Naples, where the great Canovian statue of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon is located, seemed to be in the words of Direc ... More | |
French architect Jean Nouvel poses People in front of the National Museum of Qatar, in Doha, Qatar, on March 28, 2019. Photo by Ammar Abd Rabbo/National Museum of Qatar.
DOHA.- Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Qatar Museums opened the National Museum of Qatar to the public on 28 March 2019, welcoming the world to an unparalleled immersive experience housed in a new architectural masterpiece by Jean Nouvel. The Museums winding, 1.5-kilometer gallery path is a journey through a series of unique, encompassing environments, each of which tells its part of the story of Qatar through a special combination of architectural space, music, poetry, oral histories, evocative aromas, archaeological and heritage objects, commissioned artworks, monumentally-scaled art films, and more. Together, the eleven permanent galleries take visitors from the formation of the Qatar peninsula millions of years ago to the nations exciting ... More |
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| | | Piermarq Gallery exhibits works by Doug Argue | | Veiled world of Qing Empresses revealed in Smithsonian's Freer│Sackler exhibition | | Janet Jackson, Radiohead, The Cure enter Rock Hall of Fame |
Doug Argue, Life, 2018. Oil on paper, 60 x 40 in.
SYDNEY.- Doug Argue's paintings are often made with layers of radiant brushwork and scrims of crisp stencilled letters that envelop the entire canvas to suggest the passage of time, light, motion, and how the past informs the present. In technique, his is a dichotomy of precision and painterly gesture. In content, his paintings are cerebral with interweaving narratives and layers of meaning. Argue expresses the flux of life, suggesting the passage of time, and how the past informs the present. The atomized letters, "particulate matter" as Argue calls them, are culled from various texts including writers such as Petrarch, Melville and Rimbaud. They work harmoniously with other visual elements to create the possibility for unlimited patterns and meaning. Argue's use of letters are usually not meant to be read, rather they often serve a spatial or rhythmic function, like visual musical notes, the way they float, stretch, skew, or ... More | |
Probably Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688 1766) and other court painters, Empress Xiaozhuang, China, Beijing, Qianlong period (173695), ca. 1750. Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk. Palace Museum, Gu6379 © The Palace Museum.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Empresses of Chinas Forbidden City, 16441912 is on view at the Smithsonians Arthur M. Sackler Gallery March 30 through June 23. This major international exhibition, the largest at the Freer|Sackler in more than a decade, explores empresses lives during the emperor-centric Qing dynasty. Despite the empresses accomplishments and status, they are largely missing from Qing court history. Through imperial portraits, narrative paintings, furnishings, attire (jewelry and costume) and religious art, the exhibition reveals and fills in the little-known details about the world of these women and how they were able to influence court history in many spheres, including religion, art and politics. Nearly 135 objects made for, by and about the empresses are on display, bringing these women ... More | |
Inductee Robert Smith (C) and members of The Cure speak onstage at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony - Show at Barclays Center on March 29, 2019 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Genre-bending acts Radiohead and The Cure led a British invasion into Brooklyn Friday night to take their spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, while pop icon Janet Jackson entered the shrine in an induction many industry insiders consider long overdue. American folk rock legend Stevie Nicks became the first woman inducted twice -- having already earned a spot in the rock pantheon as a member of band Fleetwood Mac -- during a gala concert at New York's Barclays Center in Brooklyn to celebrate the seven 2019 honorees. Heavy metal group Def Leppard, pop experimentalists Roxy Music and English psychedelic rock harmonists The Zombies rounded out the five-strong class of British inductees. The inclusion of Jackson -- whose socially conscious, sexually ... More |
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| | | Over the Influence opens Liu Bolin's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong | | MoMA PS1 exhibition features more than 100 works from across Nancy Spero's six-decade career | | Two marble busts by Houdon sell for a combined $1.475 million at Cottone Auctions |
Liu Bolin, Supermarket Pyongyang, Epson ultra giclée print, 2018. © Liu Bolin / Courtesy of the Artist.
HONG KONG.- Over the Influence is presenting New Change, a major new exhibition of Chinese artist Liu Bolin in Hong Kong. Featuring new sculptures, photographs derived from over five years of performances, and a live performance at an off-site venue, the show continues the artists ongoing exploration of critical issues and political controversies across the globe. Timed to coincide with Art Week in Hong Kong, New Change opened on March 28 and runs until April 27, 2019. Known as Invisible Man, Liu Bolin has become internationally recognized for developing a unique visual composition that exemplifies the relationship between contemporary life and the urban environment. Fusing sculpture, performance and photography, Lius work keeps pushing the transformative potential of the individual and collective expressions of resistance, and investigates diverse themes from ancestral traditions and ... More | |
Nancy Spero. Sheela-Na-Gig. 1991. Handprinted collage on paper. 64.8 x 47 cm (25.5 x 18.5 inches). © 2019 The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, NY, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 will present a major survey of the work of artist and activist Nancy Spero (American, 19262009). A celebrated figure in the cultural life of New York City, Spero produced a radical body of work that confronted oppression and inequality while challenging the aesthetic orthodoxies of contemporary art. Among the first feminist artists, Spero drew on archetypal representations of women from diverse cultures and times in an attempt to reframe history itself from a perspective that she termed woman as protagonist. Organized by Julie Ault, Paper Mirror brings together more than 100 works made over six decades in the first major museum exhibition in the U.S. since the artists death, on view from March 31 through June 23, 2019. The exhibition is currently ... More | |
Two rediscovered marble busts by the French 18th century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741-1828 Paris), purchased by a European phone bidder ($1.475 million).
GENESEO, NY.- Two rediscovered marble busts by the French 18th century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741-1828 Paris) sold for a combined $1.475 million at the Fine Art & Antiques Auction held March 23rd by Cottone Auctions, online and in the firms gallery. The busts were the top achievers in an auction that featured just over 300 lots, totaling over $3 million in sales. Both busts were recorded in the FRICK Art Reference Library in New York in 1932 and had been passed down through the descendants of the Honorable Irwin Boyle Laughlin (1871-1941), an American diplomat serving in the State Department from 1903-1932 who acquired them in 1926 from the Paris dealer Paul Gouvert. They were rediscovered, remarkably, at an estate in Geneseo, where Cottone is based. The busts ... More |
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| | | Harn Museum of Art celebrates the arts of creativity, discovery and inquiry in new exhibition | | The Ravestijn Gallery opens new space with exhibition of works by Vincent Fournier | | SFMOMA exhibition explores the transmission of photographs from mail art to social media |
Yayoi Kusama, Nets-Infinity (TWOS), 2004 (detail). Acrylic on canvas, museum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Art Acquisition Endowment and friends of the Harn Museum.
GAINESVILLE, FLA.- The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida celebrates creativity, discovery and inquiry through its newest exhibition Divergent Convergence opening March 31. Offered as part of the University of Florida's campus-wide, year-long celebration of invention and creativity, the exhibition investigates how various artists discover and question the past, reinterpret the present, and imagine the future. Divergent Convergence: The Arts of Creativity, Discovery & Inquiry will be on view through July 21, 2019. The highest levels of creativity require both divergent and convergent thinking. Divergent thinking, whether as an individual or as a collective, encourages the generation of numerous ideas leading to multiple solutions. Convergent thinking promotes the use of information and a set of rules ... More | |
General Boris V., 2007 ® Vincent Fournier. Courtesy The Ravestijn Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- The Ravestijn Gallery is presenting the return of Vincent Fournier and his series Space Utopia in its new gallery. Space Utopia collects over a decade of Fourniers work surrounding space exploration on earth. Evoking a tenacious nostalgia toward the science fiction of the twentieth century, his photographs reflect on international space travel over generations. His latest work consists of several NASA Space Centers (including Houston and Cape Canaveral) and presents the worlds most powerful rocket, SLS, which will launch astronauts in the agencys Orion spacecraft on missions to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. Such images remind us of a time when space was still an unknown territory; a time when the race for discovery was broadcasted worldwide in black and white. Through his eerie perspective, and sometimes humorous approach, Fournier connects these romanticised memories of the past ... More | |
Corinne Vionnet, San Francisco, 2006, from the series Photo Opportunities, 200514; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, John Caldwell, Curator of Painting and Sculpture (1989 93), Fund for Contemporary Art purchase; © Corinne Vionnet.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On June 11, 1997, French software engineer Philippe Kahn sent a grainy color photograph of his infant daughter Sophie, moments after she was born, to his family and friends using a cobbled-together contraption made up of his mobile phone, a digital camera and a linked online network. This transmission marked a decisive moment in the history of sharing photosan essential component of photography since its inception. Technology has escalatedand acceleratedthe creation, distribution and consumption of photographic imagery, and as a result, millions of images are now sent across the Internet each day. On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from March 30 through August 4, 2019, snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social ... More |
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From Basquiat to Burri - Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art Comes to Milan
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Atlas Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Bauhaus artist and photographer Florence Henri
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery is presenting an exhibition of photographs and paintings by Bauhaus artist and photographer Florence Henri (1893-1982). Florence Henris work has featured in major institutional exhibitions worldwide, but this is the first time in many years that such a large body of the artists work is available for sale. Despite enjoying considerable popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, Henris work was forgotten until it resurfaced through a fortuitous series of discoveries in the mid-1970s that led to a thorough study of her work and the creation of her archive. Henri trained first as a pianist in Rome and then as a painter under Fernand Léger, from whom she adopted the visual language of Cubism. At the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1924, she was also taught by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Henri enrolled at the Bauhaus school of art, design and ... More
Paris's Louvre museum: eight centuries of history
PARIS (AFP).- From a medieval fortress protecting Paris to one of the world's biggest and most-visited museums, the Louvre has been reinvented many times over the centuries. Today it attracts 10 million visitors a year, most of them tourists drawn by star attractions such as the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo. On the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of I.M. Pei's landmark glass pyramid within one of its courtyards, here is a look back over some of the colourful episodes in the long life of the Louvre. It started off as a Middle Age fortress set up by King Philippe-Auguste in 1190 as part of an enclosure to defend Paris, then several times smaller than it is today. As part of the fortification, the moated Louvre Castle monitored entry from the river Seine just as the Tower of London did with the Thames. The base of its "Grosse Tour", a large tower that served ... More
Skira editore publishes 'Haegue Yang. Anthology 2006-2018'
MILAN.- On the occasion of the 24th edition of miart and the Milano Art Week, Fondazione Furla and Triennale Milano co-present the newly released volume, Haegue Yang. Anthology 20062018. Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow published by Skira editore. Compiled together for the first time in English with an Italian appendix, this fully illustrated anthology contains four conversations and eleven essays on Yangs work, written between 2006 and 2018. As editor of this anthology, Bruna Roccasalva will discuss with Haegue Yang the diverse aspects of the extraordinary venture behind this book production. As Roccasalva explains, The decision to structure the publication not as a traditional catalogue but as an anthology is complementary to the premises on which the exhibition is grounded. While the exhibition project comprises all of Yangs ... More
Tolarno Galleries now representing Justine Varga
MELBOURNE.- Tolarno Galleries announced representation of Justine Varga, who has just been declared the recipient of the esteemed 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, now presented as a biennial by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation. Varga is known for her luminous photographs, some made with a camera and some without (and some made with a combination of the two). Employing techniques that deserve comparison with the earliest nineteenth-century photographic experiments, Varga refigures the act of photographing for our contemporary moment. Her work has been described as: an autobiographical witnessing of the world a memoire, rather than merely an act of representation. Film registers performative gestures, while in some instances the film is drawn upon, handled, scratched, spat on and ... More
Native American art and culture celebrated at western Pennsylvania museum
GREENSBURG, PA.- This spring, visitors to The Westmoreland Museum of American Art will experience visual art as well as performances, discussions, and culinary adventures, that explore Native American culture and the effects of colonialism. The program is anchored by an exhibition: Mingled Visions: The Photographs of Edward S. Curtis and Will Wilson, on display March 30 through June 30, 2019. In tandem, a second exhibition, The Outsiders Gaze, explores the role of 19th- and early 20th-century European American artists in creating and reinforcing stereotypes of Native Americans. The Westmoreland, located in Greensburg, is Western Pennsylvanias only museum dedicated to American art. Striving to create more opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience art in a variety of forms, the Museum has expanded programming ... More
The Contemporary Austin brings exhibition by Abraham Cruzvillegas to its downtown museum location
AUSTIN, TX.- From March 30 through July 14, 2019, The Contemporary Austinled by Executive Director and CEO Louis Grachospresents an exhibition by artist Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968 in Mexico City) at its Jones Center location, 700 Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. Abraham Cruzvillegas: Hi, how are you, Gonzo? fills both floors of the museum with site-specific, mixed media work in which recycled materials are transformed into abstract sculptural objects. These objects are then used as platforms to engage other artists, community members, and museum visitors as active participants in the artworks, allowing for creativity, experimentation, and social dialogue through collaborative activations that complete and transform the works on view. The exhibition is co-organized by Heather Pesanti, Chief Curator & Director of Curatorial ... More
Artist Katie Paterson launches 'First There is a Mountain'
LONDON.- First There is a Mountain is a new artwork that connects the public to the worlds diverse mountains. Launching on 31 March at Leysdown Beach, Isle of Sheppey, and touring the UK until 27 October 2019, the project involves the creation of buckets and spades with which the public are invited to build mountains of sand across the UK coastline and play out the worlds natural geography against a series of tidal times. The five pails are scale models of five of Earths mountains: Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Shasta (USA), Mount Fuji (Asia), Stromboli (Europe), and Uluru (Oceania) nested together. First There is a Mountain is choreographed over the period of daylight saving time during British Summer Time. Following the launch, the artwork will go on to tour twenty-five high profile coastal art venues around the UK who will each stage a sand pail ... More
£11m Edinburgh Printmakers site opens with site specific work by Thomas Kilpper + Callum Innes
EDINBURGH.- Edinburgh Printmakers at Castle Mills, Dundee Street, will open to the public on Saturday 27 April 2019 with The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics by German printmaker Thomas Kilpper, a site specific floor carving commissioned to mark the organisation's move into the major new development and responding to the social history of the building. The new institution for the Scottish capital is the former headquarters of the North British Rubber Company. Established in 1967 as the first open access studio in the UK, Edinburgh Printmakers is an arts charity specialising in printmaking. Castle Mills, the new £11 million home of Edinburgh Printmakers houses an enhanced open access print studio, traditional and digital processes, a dedicated learning space, artist accommodation, art galleries, a shop, a creative industries hub, ... More
Exhibitors point the way ahead in more ways than one at Europe's largest cartographic display in June
LONDON.- Donald Trumps geopolitical standpoint is the constant subject of headlines these days a sort of comic horror show but back in the 1980s it was President Ronald Reagan who was mercilessly parodied on shows like Spitting Image as the global bogeyman. Clear evidence of this can be found in this serio-comic map satirizing Reagans view of the world, dating to 1987. Designed David Horsey, an artist working for the Seattle Post Intelligencer, it is one of the many and varied maps that will be on offer at Europes largest map fair, The London Map Fair, at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington Gore on June 8 and 9. Horseys vision depicts President Reagan as a sheriff, his figure filling an exaggerated California, hands twitching over his six-guns. The rest of the U.S. is divided between the Mid and South-West (Republicans and Other ... More
Miaja Art Collections opens an exhibition of works by Davd Yarrow
SINGAPORE.- Premiering in Singapore, Miaja Art Collections is presenting a solo exhibition by David Yarrow: Its Five O Clock Somewhere. The world-renowned London based fine art photographer comes to Lion City to showcase his evocative, pin sharp black and white signature prints. Presented over two gallery floors; the exhibition displays 28 fine art photography prints, including some new images - only available at Miaja Art Collections. Its Five O Clock Somewhere exclusively features limited edition prints from Yarrows recently completed project in Montana with iconic supermodel Cindy Crawford. The exhibition also showcases photos that have captured the beauty and unique character of endangered wild animals in Borneo, Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Iceland amongst other remote places, and his iconic image Cara Cigar with Cara Delevingne all available to collect ... More
The Fondation d'entreprise Hermès opens an exhibition of works by artist Dominique Ghesquière
SAINT-LOUIS-LÃS-BITCHE.- The Fondation dentreprise Hermès continues its programme of exhibitions at La Grande Place, Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis in Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche (Moselle) with a solo presentation by artist Dominique Ghesquière. The show is part of the Foundations worldwide programme of events at its contemporary art spaces in Brussels, Singapore, Seoul and Tokyo, and in association with leading French art institutions (Simple Shapes at the Centre Pompidou-Metz and Lesprit du Bauhaus at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris). The Foundation stages two exhibitions per year at La Grande Place, devoted to new work in contemporary art with a focus on artisan expertise. Each event is part of a themed series of three consecutive exhibitions devised in collaboration with cultural institutions from the Lorraine region, with the support of the ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter John Constable died March 31, 1837. John Constable, RA (11 June 1776 - 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home -- now known as "Constable Country" -- which he invested with an intensity of affection. In this image: A Sea Beach - Brighton, Photo: Bonhams.
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