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German archaeologist Philipp Roskoschinski (L) and German anthropologist Bettina Jungklaus pose next to the skeletal remains of the so-called "Lady of Bietikow", in Berlin on September 23, 2020. Discovered in May 2020 near the village of Bietikow in northern Brandenburg during excavation for a wind turbine, the skeletal remains of a woman aged 35 to 40 are thought to be 5.000 years old. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines. The "Lady of Bietikow," as she has been named, was found near a village of the same name in northeastern Germany's Uckermark region. The skeleton had been buried in a settlement in a squatting position, one of the oldest known forms of burial, according to local media. Investigations have shown that she was between 30 and 45 years old and died more than 5,000 years ago. That means that she lived during the same period as Oetzi the Iceman, the stunningly preserved corpse found ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor looks at Vera Molnar's 'Untitled' and '2 Lettres M (du Cycle M Comme Malevich)' during 'Degree Zero: Drawing At Midcentury' exhibit press preview at the Museum of Modern Art on October 29, 2020 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP
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| | New research platform Van Gogh Worldwide | | David Zwirner opens a survey exhibition devoted to Donald Judd | | Exhibition highlights connections between artists working across movements, geographies, and generations |
Vincent van Gogh, Terrace of a café at night (Place du Forum), circa 16 September 1888. Oil on canvas 80,7 x 65,3 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum.
AMSTERDAM.- The new digital platform Van Gogh Worldwide launched today. It is a unique, innovative platform publishing information to a high academic standard, and brings together art-historical and technical information about the work of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). The RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Van Gogh Museum and the Kröller-Müller Museum are the three founding partners of Van Gogh Worldwide. They each possess detailed information on Van Goghs work, and they have pooled their expertise to make data available in digital form. The platform has been constructed in collaboration with a large number of partners including museums, private individuals and research institutions, especially the Cultural Heritage Laboratory of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands. The platform provides details of all paintings, drawings and prints by Vincent van Gogh in the Netherlands: over 1000 paintings and works ... More | |
Donald Judd, Untitled, 1994 © 2020 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Judd Foundation and David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner announced Artworks: 19701994, a survey exhibition devoted to Donald Judd that is on view across all three of the gallerys West 19th Street locations in New York. Presented concurrently with The Museum of Modern Arts full-scale retrospective, this exhibition focuses on a selection of works within Judds oeuvre drawn from both public and private collections. With the intention of creating straightforward work without recourse to grand philosophical statements, Judd eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that defines objects as its primary mode of articulation. The unaffected, direct quality of his work demonstrates Judds strong interest in color, form, material, and space, thus establishing him as one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period. Rigorously experimental, Judd would often ... More | |
A visitor takes a photo of Dorothy Dehner's 'New City' during 'Degree Zero: Drawing At Midcentury' exhibit press preview at the Museum of Modern Art on October 29, 2020 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art opened Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury, an exhibition that showcases approximately 80 drawings made between 1948 and 1961 exclusively from the Museums collection, on view November 1, 2020 through February 6, 2021. Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury looks across movements, geographies, and generations to highlight connections between diverse artists who embraced drawing to forge a new visual language in the aftermath of World War II. Modest, immediate, and direct, drawingto use a phrase that circulated among artists and writers during these yearswas the ideal degree zero medium for this degree zero moment. Within this impulse common to artists from across the world, drawing took many forms, from the abstract to the figurative, the organic to the hard-edged. ... More |
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| | Waddington Custot announces representation of Bernar Venet | | Exhibition at Pace Gallery features sixteen paintings and works on paper by Richard Pousette-Dart | | Ultra-rare pink diamond to go under hammer in Geneva |
Bernar Venet, 2020. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Laura Stevens.
LONDON.- Waddington Custot announced its representation of conceptual artist Bernar Venet. Bernar Venet has been a close friend to the gallery for some time says owner Stephane Custot. He has a robust and ambitious approach to sculpture making, frequently producing work on a monumental scale. His impressive and iconic work is a natural fit with our programme, and we are very happy to formalise the relationship with this formidable artist. Waddington Custot will feature Venets work in its online Art Basel Miami Beach 2020 presentation and is planning for the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2022, in London. Venet is best known for his swooping, linear sculptures in steel. The artist rose to prominence through the avant-garde art scene in the mid 1960s as he developed a radical new approach, combining mathematics and scientific language, alongside artists such as Donald Ju ... More | |
Richard Pousette-Dart, Radiance Number 8 (Imploding Light Red) detail, 1973-74. Acrylic on linen, 90" à 90" (228.6 cm à 228.6 cm). © 2020 Estate of Richard Pousette-Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
PALO ALTO, CA.- Pace Gallery is presenting Richard Pousette-Dart, the first exhibition of the artists work at the gallerys Palo Alto location. The show features sixteen paintings and works on paper, spanning from the late 1960s to works made shortly before his death in 1992. Celebrating the interplay of light and color upon painted and drawn surfaces, these energized abstractions evidence the artists intense and enduring interest in exploring the transcendental and symbolic possibilities of abstract painting and drawing. The exhibition runs from October 23 December 23, 2020. A founding member of the New York School, Pousette-Dart is one of the now-famous Irascibles who signed an open letter in 1950 to the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art protesting the museums ... More | |
A picture taken on November 6, 2020 in Geneva shows the The Spirit of the Rose a rare 14.83 carats vivid purple pink diamond during a press preview ahead of sales by Sotheby's auction house. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- An extremely rare pink diamond will be auctioned in Geneva on November 11 by Sotheby's, which says it is worth between $23 and $38 million. Named "The Spirit of the Rose" after a famous Russian ballet, the 14.83-carat diamond mined in Russia is the biggest ever to go under the hammer in its category -- "fancy vivid purple-pink". "The occurrence of pink diamonds in nature is extremely rare in any size," Gary Schuler, head of Sotheby's jewellery division, said in a statement. "Only one per cent of all pink diamonds are larger than 10-carats." Speaking to AFP, Benoit Repellin, head of fine jewellery auctions at Sotheby's Geneva, said the oval-shaped diamond was "completely pure." The rough diamond was unearthed by Russia's Alrosa -- one of the ... More |
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| | Viola Smith, 'fastest girl drummer in the world,' dies at 107 | | High Museum of Art opens major retrospective of photographer Dawoud Bey | | Edvard Munch's photography on display at National Nordic Museum |
Viola Smith in a 1941 publicity photo. Smith, who played a giant 12-piece drum kit and was billed as the fastest girl drummer in the world and who wrote a widely read essay during World War II advocating for big bands to hire female musicians in place of the male ones who had been drafted died on Oct. 21, 2020 at her home in Costa Mesa, Calif. She was 107. Photo: Via Dennis Bartash via The New York Times.
by Alex Vadukul
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Viola Smith, who played a giant 12-piece drum kit and was billed as the fastest girl drummer in the world and who wrote a widely read essay during World War II advocating for big bands to hire female musicians in place of the male ones who had been drafted died Oct. 21 at her home in Costa Mesa, California. She was 107. Her nephew Dennis confirmed her death. Smith, who hailed from a little town in Wisconsin, grew up playing in a jazz band with her seven sisters. Her entrepreneurial father conceived of the group, the Schmitz Sisters Orchestra, and they performed at state fairs and toured the vaudeville circuit. ... More | |
A Boy Eating a Foxy Pop, Brooklyn, NY (1988). Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery. © Dawoud Bey.
ATLANTA, GA.- For more than four decades, renowned photographer Dawoud Bey has created powerful and tender photographs that portray underrepresented communities and explore African American history. From portraits in Harlem and classic street photography to nocturnal landscapes and large-scale studio portraits, his works combine an ethical imperative with an unparalleled mastery of his medium. The High Museum of Art celebrates his important contributions to photography as the exclusive Southeast venue for Dawoud Bey: An American Project, the artists first full career retrospective in 25 years. Co-organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the exhibition features approximately 80 works that span the breadth of Beys career, from his earliest street portraits made in Harlem in the 1970s to his most recent series reimagining sites of the ... More | |
The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch's Photography displays his photographs and films in a way that emphasizes the artists exploration of the camera as an expressive medium.
SEATTLE, WA.- After a successful run at New Yorks Scandinavia House that received great reviews from New York Times and others, the photography of Edvard Munch is currently on display at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle now through January 31, 2021. Curated by distinguished Munch scholar, Dr. Patricia Berman of Wellesley College, The Experimental Self: Edvard Munchs Photography presents works from the rich collection of Oslos Munch Museum and shares new research on one of the most significant artists of his day. After displaying the journalistic photography of Jacob Riis this spring and discussing a pictures power to change lives, it is wonderful to host another celebrated Nordic artist whose photography reflects the artistic potential found in the camera of the late 19th and early 20th century, said Executive Director/CEO Eric Nelson. Internationally celebrated ... More |
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| | Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents an installation by Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno | | Cowan's offers largest and most important Western Pennsylvania stoneware collection in decades | | Concord Museum opens an exhibition of works by plein air painter Loring Wilkins Coleman |
Tomás Saraceno, Moving Atmospheres, installation view, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2020. Photo: Alexey Narodizkiy © Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
MOSCOW.- The tenth Garage Atrium Commission is an installation by Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno, who is known for his works at the intersection of art, technology, and environmental advocacy. A product of Saracenos long-standing occupation with lighter than air movement and utopian modes of co-existing, the installation for Garage is the largest presentation of his practice in Russia to date. Moving Atmospheres, a partially mirrored sphere suspended in the air, propels us toward an Aerocene epoch. Saracenos call to this new era is championed by the multi-disciplinary community group Aerocene. For more than a decade he has been imagining a world free from the carbon, extractivism, capitalism, and patriarchy that fuels some forms of life, a new way of being with the atmosphere and emissions-free travel, free from solar panels, lithium, helium, hydrogen, and fossil fuels. This new era stands in stark contrast ... More | |
The top lot of the auction is an important Ohio stoneware water cooler with patriotic eagle (Lot 98). The 21-inch cooler from the 1840s is estimated to sell for $10,000 - $15,000.
CINCINNATI, OH.- Cowan's Auctions will offer a selection of property from the Estate of Louis Hahn, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania in a two-day auction that will feature over 800 lots. Session I will be held on November 11 and will feature the largest and most important Western Pennsylvania stoneware collection to appear at auction in recent memory. The session will also feature other Midwestern stoneware, and a collection of advertising tins, signs and store displays. On November 12, Session II will include a wide variety of Americana including painted furniture, baskets, samplers and Pennsylvania watercolors, early lighting and other metalware, bentwood and painted boxes, early blown and molded glassware, garden ornaments, tin toys, and treenware. Western Pennsylvania was a center of stoneware production in the 19th century and the Hahn Collection contains examples ... More | |
Loring W. Coleman, New England Classic, Groton, Massachusetts, 1985 (detail). Watercolor. Anonymous Gift (2017) 13 33. Photograph permission courtesy of the Family of Loring W. Coleman.
CONCORD, MASS.- The Concord Museum debuted a new exhibition titled Home by Loring W. Coleman, a notable plein air painter of New England landscapes on Friday, November 6, 2020 through January 31, 2021. In his 2011 autobiography, Coleman wrote about the exhibitions title painting: Home the title speaks for itself, for the painting represents the old farmhouses that still remain in New England and in my thoughts. In 2017, the Concord Museum was honored to receive an anonymous gift of forty-seven works of art by Loring Wilkins Coleman. Curator David Wood explained, We are pleased to present this new exhibition that celebrates the work of an accomplished artist who had a strong Concord connection and who explored a changing New England with a sense of wonder and authenticity. Home features twenty-six of Colemans works in watercolor. Loring Colemans painting reward ... More |
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Gigi Proietti, actor who embodied the Roman spirit, dies at 80
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Gigi Proietti, a versatile actor who personified the sardonic, sometimes rough-hewn humor of his fellow Romans and was best-known for a long-running television role as a Carabiniere police chief, died here on Monday, his 80th birthday. The cause was heart failure, said a spokeswoman for the Globe Theater in Rome, where he had been artistic director since 2003. Proietti began his acting career in Romes experimental theater scene but quickly took center stage in a renowned one-man show a mélange of jokes, traditional songs and touching sketches called A Me Gli Occhi, Please (All Eyes on Me, Please). The show drew some 500,000 spectators during its run in a Rome circus tent from 1976 to 1978. He became a television star in variety shows, comedies and dramas, mostly on Italys national broadcaster. He ... More
Gorgeous large-scale Casablanca poster headed to Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- An extraordinary Casablanca six sheet could bring $300,000 when it comes to auction in Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters Auction Nov. 21-22. One of just a handful of copies known to remain in existence, the Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942) Six Sheet (estimate: $150,000-300,000) is an undeniable treasure for collectors of elite movie posters. There are design similarities between this poster and the Style B half sheet for Michael Curtiz's beloved classic film, but the portraits on this poster are of a quality unmatched on any of the other American posters. "The artwork and color on this poster are exceptional, and that is only magnified by the sheer scale of this masterpiece, which measures nearly eight feet in each direction," Heritage Auctions Vintage Posters Director Grey Smith said. "The dominant images are of two storied actors, ... More
Bradley Ertaskiran exhibits Joseph Tisiga's most recent body of work
MONTREAL.- Bradley Ertaskiran is presenting, Joseph Tisigas solo exhibition: A voice emerged from an empty room saying get up, telling me to get up. The apparition was paralyzing from November 7 to December 19, 2020. In Joseph Tisigas most recent body of work there exists a particularly imposing sense of isolation that is nuanced with fantasy and fear. This comes in the form of watercolours on paper (or, drawings as the artist refers to them), several medium and large-scale oil paintings on canvas, a massive grid of artificial turf covered panels laden with plaster cast cigarette butts and a disassembled wall tent. The invisible subtext of this collection of work is rooted in the artists turbulent relocation from his home in Whitehorse, Yukon to Montreal in the fall of 2019, which converged into the multitude of troubling events defining 2020. Tisiga writes: The transition from Whi ... More
'Thomas Gainsborough. The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters' wins prize
LONDON.- Thomas Gainsborough. The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters by Hugh Belsey has been announced as the winner of the 18th annual William MB Berger Prize for British Art History. The work published by Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art saw off a shortlist including works spanning more than 400 years of art history, books exploring Roger Fry, Nicholas Hilliard, Van Gogh, Edward Lear & 20th-century British architects. The annual prize created to recognize excellence in the field of British art history was created in 2001 by the Berger Collection Educational Trust (BCET) and The British Art Journal, in honour of the late American collector and patron William MB Berger. Since its inception, the Berger Prize has come to be recognized as the most respected in the field. A ... More
British artist Morag Myerscough creates colourful installation in Paris in response to coronavirus
PARIS.- London artist Morag Myerscough revealed 'A NEW NOW, a site-specific urban installation located close to the Pompidou Centre in the heart of Paris. As Myerscoughs first major public response to the current times, the eye-popping sculpture, standing at over eight metres tall, aims to set an intention, to rebuild a new now post-Covid. Painted by Morag in her London studio over a three week period, the artwork is a multiple of chaotic geometric shapes, growing up from the ground and rising up to a strong neon statement: A NEW NOW laid over a calm graduated sunrise, intended to spark the imagination of passers-by with simple arresting confidence and joyous optimism. Born and bred in London, she is fascinated by how colour, pattern and words can change urban environments and peoples perceptions of space and sense of place. Her ... More
Johns Hopkins University selects BIG to rejuvenate the social experience for students
COPENHAGEN.- BIG have been selected as the designer of the new Student Center for Johns Hopkins University; the result of a months-long international design competition led by a special advisory committee. Students and student affairs staff were included throughout the process, and more than 1,200 students, faculty, staff, and alumni responded to a June survey, inviting evaluation of the four design finalists. Feedback on BIG's concept was overwhelmingly positive, with survey respondents embracing the building's open feel, connections to surrounding exterior spaces, abundance of natural daylight, and integrated features that support the university's sustainability goals. BIG has teamed up with Shepley Bulfinch as Architect of Record, along with Rockwell Group for interior design and Michael Van Valkenburg Associates for landscape design. ... More
Toronto Biennial of Art announces preliminary list of artists for its 2021 edition
TORONTO.- The Toronto Biennial of Art today announced an initial selection of Canadian and international artists for the second edition of the city-wide event on view September 25 through December 5, 2021. Commissioned and invited participants contributing to exhibitions, programs, and residencies include Nadia Belerique, Judy Chicago, Sebastian De Line, Jorge González, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Brian Jungen, Waqas Khan, Vanessa Kwan, Ange Loft, Mata Aho Collective, Eric-Paul Riege, Camille Turner, and Syrus Marcus Ware. The curatorial team, Tairone Bastien, Clare Butcher, Candice Hopkins, Myung-Sun Kim, and Katie Lawson are coming together to work collectively across projects. Additional contributors, partners, and sponsors will be announced in the coming months. The Biennial commissions will take place in diverse venues ... More
Heide Museum of Modern Art celebrates 40th anniversary
MELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art announced highlights from its 2021 program, celebrating the museum's 40th anniversary with a diverse range of exhibitions including the first Australian museum exhibition of celebrated British artist Bruce Munro, a major retrospective of renowned Australian modernist Sidney Nolan, and important surveys of respected Australian artists Robert Owen and Margel Hinder. 2021 will also see the opening of a much-anticipated Healing Garden within the Heide grounds. Next years program builds on the museums longstanding commitment to support and present the work of women artists with a significant retrospective of Australian sculptor Margel Hinder in collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian premiere of an award-winning video installation by Polish artist Agnieszka Polska, ... More
Jing Kewen's first solo exhibition with Massimo de Carlo opens in Hong Kong
HONG KONG.- For his first solo exhibition with Massimo De Carlo, Jing Kewen presents a selection of works created across the span of 20 years. The exhibition narrates a journey through the artists oeuvre highlighting a language which has made him a unique voice among his peers. As a member of the Chinese avant-garde, Kewen has nonetheless chosen to accept a new era beginning in the 1990s, influenced by globalization and post-modernism. Instead of a critical or satirical depiction of these changes, Kewen re-examines and re-evaluates the past with a multifaceted perspective. As a Realist artist, Kewen has worked to make his highly believable paintings seem as objective as possible. His recurrent theme is that of China just after the Cultural Revolution: a time of both hardship and idealism that may seem unreal with the countrys ... More
The woman who built Beethoven's pianos
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Morgan Library & Museum owns part of an original sketch of Beethovens Hammerklavier Piano Sonata. In the margin, British publisher Vincent Novello writes that the document was given to him by Mrs. Streiker one of Beethovens oldest and most sincere friends. Nannette Streichers marginalized place in history is encapsulated in these scribbled lines. While she was indeed one of the closest friends of Beethoven, whose 250th birthday will be celebrated in December, she was also one of the finest piano builders in Europe. She owned her own company employing her husband, Andreas Streicher, a pianist and teacher, to handle sales, bookkeeping and business correspondence. But many Beethoven scholars, perhaps finding it inconceivable that an 18th-century woman ... More
10 rare high value lots to bid on at the Strauss & Co live virtual auction
JOHANNESBURG.- Luxury and collectability are hallmarks of each of the 928 lots of visual art, decorative arts, furniture, jewellery and fine wine featured in Strauss & Cos forthcoming marquee sale, NORTH/SOUTH (8-11 November 2020). Spread over four days and composed of eight curated sessions, this dynamic hybrid auction features a number of rare and high-value lots of particular interest to discriminating collectors. One of the highlights of the Tasso Foundation Collection of important South African art assembled by the late Giulio Bertrand of Morgenster, due to be sold on Monday 9 November at 7pm, is Irma Sterns 1948 marine landscape The Grand Canal, Venice (estimate R5 7 million). Stern represented South Africa at four editions of the Venice Biennale in the 1950s. Long established as South Africas foremost artist ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American illustrator Norman Rockwell died November 08, 1978. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace (1951), The Problem We All Live With, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. In this image: Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum, discusses the painting "Girl at Mirror", Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007, in Akron, Ohio.
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