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An Israeli archeologist shows a rare golden earring believed to be more than 2,000 years-old, discovered at the archeological site of the City of David in East Jerusalem near the walls of the old city on 8 August 2018. A Hellenistic-era golden earring, featuring ornamentation of an horned animal, was discovered in the Givati Parking Lot in the City of David National Park encircling the Old City walls. The discovery was made during archeological digs carried out by the Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University. The spectacular gold earring, shaped like a horned animal, dates back to the second or third century BCE, during the Hellenistic period. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israel on Wednesday unveiled a golden earring dating from the second or third century BC, found in the shadow of the Old City walls in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said the artifact, in the Hellenistic style and shaped like a horned animal, was found in October in the City of David National Park, between the Old City and the flashpoint Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan. The find was not announced publicly until now to give archeologists time to study the find and publish an academic paper. "It is unclear whether the gold earring was worn by a man or a woman, nor do we know their cultural or religious identity, but we can say for certain that whoever wore this earring definitely belonged to Jerusalem's upper class," an IAA statement said, citing "the quality of the gold piece of jewelry". Following the conquest of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, Jerusalem remained under Hellenist rule for the next 200 years. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Conservator Corey Riley and Deputy Director for Art and Curator of American and Modern Art John Coffey examine a newly acquired silver Torah Crown from early 18th-century Venice at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The piece was acquired in December 2016 and is now on view in the Judaic gallery. The NCMA is one of only two art museums in the US with a permanent Judaic collection.
| British photographer Sir Don McCullin's first gallery exhibition in the U.S. on view at Hauser & Wirth | | Abbot Hall exhibition focuses on the father of modern sculpture | | Twenty treasures of Japanese metalwork to lead Asian Art Sales at Bonhams New York |
Don McCullin, Shell shocked US Marine, 1968. Printed in 2018. Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 53.2 x 35.8 cm. Sheet: 67 x 49.4 cm. © Don McCullin. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Dominic Brown Photography.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting the first gallery exhibition in the United States by British photographer Sir Don McCullin, CBE, including a selection of his acclaimed images of war from around the world and societal upheaval in his home country. This show is a prelude to McCullins forthcoming retrospective at Tate Britain in 2019, which will be the museums first survey for a living photographer. The exhibition at Hauser & Wirth introduces American audiences to the photographers unique ability to convey the emotion and humanity of his subject matter with the unvarnished grit of traditional photojournalism. The majority of works on view are limited-edition platinum prints, ... More | |
Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1880-81, The Burrell Collection © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection.
KENDAL.- One of Auguste Rodins most famous works will go on show at Abbot Hall Art Gallery Kendal this summer. Rodin: rethinking the fragment opens on 10 August and runs until 27 October. On display is The Thinker (1880-81) - one of Rodins most striking works. The iconic piece is on loan from the Burrell Collection in Glasgow and takes centre stage. The Thinker is shown alongside three objects from the British Museum: A classical torso from a marble statuette of Venus (about 1st century AD). Royal Academy medal (about 1901), showing the Athenian Acropolis alongside the Belvedere Torso. Eugène Carrières portrait of Auguste Rodin, Rodin sculpting (1900). Abbot Hall is the very first venue in the country to host this British Museum Partnership Spotlight Loan, generously suppo ... More | |
A cloisonne enamel and gilt-bronze archaistic "taotie' censer and cover, 19th century. Estimate $40,000-60,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- On September 10 and 12, Bonhams will offer three auctions Chinese Works of Art and Paintings, Ancient Skills, New Worlds: Twenty Treasures of Japanese Metalwork from a Private Collection, and Fine Japanese and Korean Art. The sales present an array of 600 rare and exquisite metalwork, cloisonné, ceramics, prints, and paintings with accessible estimates, which offers an opportunity for both seasoned and new collectors to develop and enrich their collections. Public exhibitions begin September 6. The sale of Chinese Works of Art and Paintings will be held on September 10 and features 300 lots, representing works from a variety of collecting categories including ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, cloisonné, furniture, scholars objects, and ... More |
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| Sotheby's Hong Kong offers the earliest existing Old Master Q cover artwork | | The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts opens first-ever solo exhibition of Jean-Michel Othoniel in Canada | | Exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield explores Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain |
Alfonso Wong, Old Master Q - Rock'n Roll, 1964. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- This August, Old Master Q, an enduring icon which encapsulates the collective memory of Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora, returns once again to Sothebys. Entitled Old Master Q 2.0, the selling exhibition is yet another collaboration between Sothebys and Old Master Q, following the hugely successful 2014 exhibition of Mr. Alphonso Wongs original works. The exhibition will take place at Sothebys Hong Kong Sl2 Gallery throughout 10 25 August 2018, and will be the final public selling exhibition of the late artist. Old Master Q 2.0 will exhibit original works by the father-and-son duo, including Mr. Alphonso Wongs early colour covers and comic strips in four- and six-frame formats, as well as acrylic paintings by Professor Joseph Wong, whose playful and contemporary interpretation of Old Master Q characters vests a unique life energy into this quintessential cultural icon of Hong Kong. The star lo ... More | |
Jean-Michel Othoniel / SODRAC (2018). Photo © Guillaume Ziccarelli.
MONTREAL.- The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting Motion Emotion, an emotionally evocative exhibition themed on the violence of the elements. This is the first-ever solo exhibition of Jean-Michel Othoniel in Canada, and presents recent works by the world-renowned French artist. Since 2016, the Museums visitors have been able to enjoy the Peony Knot, a sculpture on permanent display in the event stairway of the MMFAs Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace. This monumental work is composed of 212 beads of mirrored blown glass and stainless steel. The orange, amber, red, pink and plum beads evoke the peonys various shades. Suspended from the ceiling, the sculpture presents as a dynamic graphic line, a string of beads that appear to move in space. Peony Knot is the first work by the prolific artist to become part of a Canadian museums collection. The elements and the shapes of nature have ... More | |
Lee Miller, Bathing Feature, Vogue Studio, London, England, 1941. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2018. All rights reserved.
WAKEFIELD.- Lee Miller (1907 1977) was one of the most original photographic artists of the 20th century, whose work spanned the fields of fashion, photojournalism and art. Arriving in Paris in 1929 Miller became Man Rays apprentice, muse and collaborator and quickly became part of the Surrealist network, creating striking and experimental surrealist photographs. Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain will be the first exhibition to explore Millers involvement with the surrealist circles in Britain, where the movement burgeoned in the late 1930s. London became the destination for many artists leaving increasingly troubling political situations on the continent in the immediate post-war period, and for a brief but intense time, Britain was a Surrealist centre. The exhibition tells the story of Surrealism in Britain through Millers lens, focussing on the artists she knew, photographed, ... More |
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| Italian hat maker Borsalino finds new owners | | The Kunstmuseum Luzern exhibits a selection of about 600 drawings by Erwin Wurm | | Exhibition focuses on Otto Wagner's lasting influence of his epochal works on other architects and designers |
Employees work at the Borsalino hat company's factory in Alessandria on March 30, 2016. A group of investors is determined to revive the legendary brand by maintaining what has made it successful: handcrafting and ancestral traditions. GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP.
MILAN (AFP).- Italy's Borsalino, one of the world's most famous hat makers whose fedora was made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the film "Casablanca" and Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones", officially passed into new ownership on Wednesday, a month after being put up for auction. Swiss-Italian investment fund Haeres Equita, which has already been managing the hat maker since the end of 2015, was the only bidder in an auction organised by its administrators on July 12. And since no new offer has been forthcoming since, Haeres Equita is now officially the new owner of Borsalino, the brand, its factory in Alessandria, the equipment, work contracts and retailing rights. The hat maker, whose fedora was also worn by Alain Delon and Jean- ... More | |
Erwin Wurm, ohne Titel, 2016, Farbstift auf Papier, Courtesy of the artist.
LUCERNE.- The Austrian Erwin Wurm (*1954) is one of the world stars of contemporary art and his name is mentioned regularly among those of the most important creative artists. In 2015 he showed instructions for One Minute Sculptures in a group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. It was then that the idea for a joint project was born: an exhibition purely of drawings accompanied by an extensive publication. The Kunstmuseum Luzern is now showing a selection of about 600 drawings which Erwin Wurm has done over the past years. They are highly diverse both thematically and technically: pencil, crayon, ball point pen, watercolours, collage, sometimes fine lines, sometimes wide, ample brushstrokes or else felt pen on glossy magazines. Be it at home or when travelling, Erwin Wurm draws on a daily basis and so captures whatever his mind wanders to. He works with the paper that is locally available, in different ... More | |
Otto Wagner, Chair Model No. 6050, for the securities exchange hall in the Imperial Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank annex, Vienna, 1912/13. Execution: Gebrüder Thonet © Wagner:Werk, Museum Postsparkasse, Vienna.
VIENNA.- To mark the 100th anniversary of Otto Wagners death the MAK exhibition Post-Otto Wagner: From the Postal Savings Bank to Post-Modernism directs its focus on the lasting influence of his epochal works on other architects and designers. Wagner is considered to be one of the most important pioneers of early Modernism: His rejection of the use of historical styles, his globally respected writings on architecture and urban planning, and his excellent structures are still inspiring today. The MAK exhibition takes a look not only at the interaction between Wagner and his contemporaries, but also at his influence on his students and later generations of architects and designers in particular. With buildings like the Imperial Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank, the St. Leopold ... More |
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| Department of Voids: Artist duo benandsebastian exhibit at Den Frie | | S/2 London to present Tsuyoshi Maekawa and Ewen Henderson in two concurrent solo exhibitions | | 10 Years 10 Artists: Octavia Art Gallery celebrates tenth anniversary with a group exhibition |
Installation view of Department of Voids. Photo by David Stjernholm.
COPENHAGEN.- Intelligent, meticulous, and conceptually stringent are just some of the words that can be used to describe the exhibition Department of Voids - Den Frie which opened on Friday, June 22nd. Behind the exhibition is the artist duo benandsebastian Ben Clement and Sebastian de la Cour. Department of Voids - Den Frie is part of benandsebastians ongoing work, the para-institution Museum of Nothing. The project is dedicated to showing and reflecting on the presence of absence, creating the mental and physical space to question museal authority, institutional display, classification criteria, and the exhibition as medium. Inspiration for the exhibition came in the form of two empty transport cases for artefacts that disappeared from a Copenhagen museum collection. The only thing left were the shells of the containers that once held them, carefully made to fit and worn by use. Any information on what they once contained had been l ... More | |
Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Untitled, 1976, 161.5 by 125.5 cm. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- From 20 July to 21 September, Sothebys S│2 London is presenting two solo exhibitions: one dedicated to Japanese artist, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, in gallery one, and the other to British sculptor, Ewen Henderson in gallery two. Whilst working in completely different geographical and cultural spheres, Maekawa and Hendersons practices sought to experiment with materiality and pioneer new processes of abstraction. The S│2 exhibition of Tsuyoshi Maekawa focuses primarily on the artists work following the dissolution of the Gutai Art Association, of which Maekawa had been a member. Ewen Hendersons investigation into the alchemic potentials of clay, or as he called it fluxed earth, necessitates a fresh reading and re-contextualisation of his position within the history of sculpture. Born in Osaka, Maekawa joined the Gutai Art Association in 1962 and, under the tutelage of Jiro Yoshihara, experimente ... More | |
Bradley Kerl, Highland Village, 2016. Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery is presenting 10 Years 10 Artists, a group exhibition including works by Gil Bruvel, Jerry Cabrera, James Henderson, Bradley Kerl, Jeffrey Pitt, Mason Saltarrelli, Regina Scully, Anne Senstad, Ken Tate, and Philemona Williamson. In celebration of the gallery's 10-year anniversary this exhibition celebrates the past, present, and future of Octavia Art Gallery. Established in 2008, Octavia Art Gallery expanded in 2013 from its Magazine Street location onto Julia Street in the heart of the New Orleans Arts District and opened a second location in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas. Over the years, Octavia Art Gallery has continued its commitment to showcasing the work of local, national, and international emerging and established artists along with modern masters, emphasizing the preservation and conservation of unique and authentic artistic cultures worldwide. The gallery also continues to offer a ... More |
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Ghost:2561: A video and performance art series to open in Bangkok
BANGKOK.- The Ghost series takes the idea of the ghost and expands upon its connotations by looking at the contemporary condition shared by people across the globe. Although each culture has its own concept of ghosts, common is the notion that ghosts give form and presence to invisible systems. To experience a ghost connects you to the infinite reverberations of human experience simultaneously as it brings you back to your own body. Uniting past and present, singularity and multiplicity, these currents of time flow through the works in Ghost:2561. Ghost:2561 views humanity through a screen, taking inspiration from the layers of data that mediate contemporary life across diverse localities. It aims to look at the intersection between the influx of data that has transformed human lives globally and an understanding of the world amongst ... More
Qatar Museums bring world-famous Pearls exhibition to Moscow
MOCOW.- A new edition of the critically acclaimed Pearls: Treasures from the Seas and the Rivers exhibition is on view in Moscow as part of the Qatar Russia 2018 Year of Culture. The exhibition is curated specifically for this years Year of Culture programme and displays 50 new, never-before-shown artefacts. A Qatar Museums exhibition, the showcase is being hosted by the World Diamond Museum at the State Historical Museum in Moscow from 11 July 2018 to 1 October 2018. Comprising 100 pieces of jewellery and other examples of pearl craftsmanship, Pearls: Treasures from the Seas and the Rivers introduce visitors to a selection of jewellery made from freshwater pearls born in Central Asia for the first time. Other masterpiece objects on show at the State Historical Museum include a spectacular tiara worn by Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria ... More
Exhibition of contemporary art in Southeast Asia opens in Manila
MANILA.- The Philippines organizes an exhibition of contemporary art in Southeast Asia in Manila to mark the 50th year of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Titled Ties of History: Art in Southeast Asia, it gathers ten artists to represent the member-states of the organization. Taken from the ASEAN Declaration in 1967, the phrase ties of history may allude to the blessings and burdens of being together and being different in a region that is thought to be shared. The works of the artists speak to this complex and productive condition as they express the many ways by which the various strands of subjectivity as citizen-artists weave and unravel in the project of making selves in particular places, making nations in an international world, and making regions across forests and islands in the geopoetic gestures of contemporary art. The Philippines chaired ... More
Lumieres Hong Kong announces its return in November 2018
HONG KONG.- Hong Kongs first very own light festival, Lumieres Hong Kong, has made its grand debut in November 2017. Throughout the three-night festival, 16 heritage landmarks in Hong Kong and Kowloon areas have attracted half-a-million spectators, with light projections and installations inspired by local history and culture, as well as The Village situated at Chater Garden, in the heart of the city. In collaboration with youth communities and organisations, Lumieres Hong Kong has curated an eventful programme of activities including workshops, guided tours, and performances, for a wide audience to partake. With the vision to become a world-class annual light festival, Lumieres Hong Kong will be returning for a second edition this year, bringing in new local and international artists for a showcase of exchange between creativity and heritage ... More
José Luis Puche's first solo show at a museum on view at the CAC Malaga
MALAGA.- The CAC Malaga is presenting The Snow Is Dancing, the first solo show at a museum by the Málaga artist José Luis Puche. It comprises 29 small and large-format works produced in the last four years, most of them never before exhibited in public. José Luis Puche (Málaga, 1976) has a PhD in art history. His career as an artist took off in 2005 when he held his first solo show in his home city. By 2008, just three years later, he was able to break into the international scene. Drawing is the pivot around which his work revolves, and he evidences a truly astonishing technical skill in this respect, considering that he is self-taught but perhaps also because of his uninhibited approach. As a draughtsman, his learning is the slow result of a fierce determination from early childhood, and both his technical knowledge and stylistic evolution owe everything to the selective ... More
Perrotin Tokyo present exhibition of works by Belgian artist Pieter Vermeersch
TOKYO.- Beyond any sense of fading light or imminent sunrise, paintings by Belgian artist Pieter Vermeersch veer away from seeing the world in simple terms. Instead, they abstract its image through materiality, picturing the world as a series of carefully controlled encounters. Their restlessness and curiosity seek out the unexpected and unknown. Towards the end of Eric Rohmers film Le Rayon Vert (1986), a restless Delphine (Marie Rivière) and curious Jacques (Vincent Gauthier) wait for a flash of light said to magically appear as the sun drops behind the horizon. This fading light is briefly exchanged for a moment of genuine connection between the two, while daybreak on the other side of the world creates its own sense of resolve, with Ryunosuke Akutagawa describing the Japanese rising sun as a quieting influence over the restless conflict of sleep. ... More
Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair announces 2018 programme's highlights
MOSCOW.- The 6th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair announces details of its main programming, including a number of participating Russian and international galleries and special projects. The fair will take place at Moscows Gostiny Dvor on September 69, 2018 supported by Main Partner Qatar Airways, Strategic Partner Credit Suisse, Official Partner Beluga and Official Hotel St. Regis Moscow Nikolskaya. Cosmoscow 2018 will feature more than 70 Russian and international galleries, demonstrating a 30% growth as compared with the previous year. The extensive on-site programming that include Focus, Galleries, Past Present, and Projects sections will be enhanced with three new curated sections including Editions, Design, and Frame. Editions section features galleries, which deal with prints and multiples. Design section, curated ... More
Fujiko Nakaya creates new signature 'fog sculptures' for Boston's largest park system
BOSTON, MASS.- To mark the Emerald Necklace Conservancys 20th Anniversary year, the Conservancy will undertake three major initiatives to engage communities and increase visibility for Bostons largest park system. The first will be to attract new visitors with a summer exhibition of climate responsive art. Fog x FLO: Fujiko Nakaya on the Emerald Necklace will debut for the city the internationally renowned fog sculptures of Fujiko Nakaya (b. 1933), created in response to the landmarked landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (FLO). The Conservancy will also develop and pilot new way-finding approaches to orient park visitors along the exhibition sites in the Emerald Necklace and will research, design, and install new educational and interpretive displays in the Emerald Necklace Conservancys Shattuck Visitor Center at 125 The Fenway. Free ... More
30 years after Myanmar uprising, dissidents fear struggle forgotten
YANGON (AFP).- Ko Shell had his teeth knocked out during torture sessions and spent 14 years in six jails, but as the 30th anniversary looms of the famed Myanmar pro-democracy uprising that led to his incarceration, he says those sacrifices are being forgotten. Sitting in a tea shop in downtown Yangon, he worries history is not being taught to the younger generation, a frustration mirroring wider disappointment with the government among many jailed for opposing the junta which ruled for four decades. "All the true stories were not shared with the public," the 49-year-old said. Military regimes in Myanmar imprisoned nearly 10,000 people since the army first seized power in 1962, sending the country into decades of isolation. Most were jailed in the years after nationwide strikes on August 8, 1988, part of broader anti-junta demonstrations that catapulted ... More
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit hires new Senior Curator
DETROIT, MICH.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroits Executive Director Elysia Borowy-Reeder, and Founder, Founding Director, and Board President Marsha Miro, announced the appointment of Larry Ossei-Mensah as the museums Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator. Ossei-Mensah comes to MOCAD after almost a decade as an independent curator and cultural critic, and co-founder of ARTNOIR, a global collective of culturalists who design experiences aimed at engaging this generations dynamic and diverse creative class. As an independent curator, Ossei-Mensah has organized exhibitions, programs, and events in partnership with a variety of organizations around the globe in cities in like New York, Johannesburg, and, most recently, Rome, where he co-curated a group show with Serena Trizzino at Anna Marra Contemporanea that included Derrick ... More
This year's VIENNA ART WEEK to be held from 19 to 25 November 2018
VIENNA.- From 19 to 25 November 2018, Vienna is once again celebrating art. Promising Paradise is the promising motto of this years VIENNA ART WEEK, when the art hub Vienna enters the limelight with a high-profile program ranging from classical offerings to avant-garde art. Approximately 200 events from no less than 70 program partners offer boundless opportunities to explore the citys vibrant art scene. The ambiguity of the programmatic title Promising Paradise is part of the concept of VIENNA ART WEEK 2018. Is it about a promising paradise or about a promised paradise? Is it about a paradise found or about a paradise lost? Artistic Director Robert Punkenhofer on the concept of this years VIENNA ART WEEK: We examine how art deals with the myth-enshrouded concept of paradise and take a look at images associated with paradise as a non-place ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch died August 09, 1516. Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/Netherlandish draughtsman and painter from Brabant. He is widely considered one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. In this image: Hieronymus Bosch, Christ Carrying the Cross, ca 1510-1516.
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