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Members of the archaeology field team watch as University of Alaska Fairbanks professors Ben Potter and Josh Reuther excavate at the Upward Sun River site. UAF photo courtesy of Ben Potter.
by Mariëtte Le Roux
PARIS (AFP).- A baby girl who died in Alaska some 11,500 years ago belonged to a formerly-unknown population group whose discovery has shed light on the peopling of the Americas, a study of her genome revealed Wednesday. By decoding the child's genetic fingerprint, scientists could look back on the history of the first people to conquer the New World, and conclude they likely arrived from Siberia some 20,000 years ago. "The study provides the first direct genomic evidence that all Native American ancestry can be traced back to the same source population during the last Ice Age," researcher Ben Potter of the University of Alaska told AFP. Potter and a team analysed the DNA of an infant whose remains were unearthed at the Upward Sun River archaeological site in Alaska in 2013. She was named Xach'itee'aanenh T'eede Gaay (Sunrise Girlchild) by the indigenous community, and her genome "provided an unprecedented window into the history of her people", said Potter. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on October 27, 2014 shows jeweled objects on display during a press preview of an exhibition titled "Treasures from India, Jewels from the Al-Thani collection" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Thieves made off with several items of Indian maharajahs' treasures owned by a member of the Qatari royal family after an audacious heist on January 3, 2017 at the Doge's palace in Venice, police said. Italian authorities investigating the theft put at around a million euros (USD 1.2 million) the overall value of the collection of Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajahs on display. JEWEL SAMAD / AFP
| BEUYS: Documentary portrait of Joseph Beuys to have U.S. theatrical premiere at Film Forum | | Qatari-owned jewels stolen in audacious Venice heist | | India limits visitors to save Taj Mahal | 
BEUYS (2017, 111 mins.) Directed by Andres Veiel. Produced by Thomas Kufus.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kino Lorber announced the New York theatrical premiere of BEUYS, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel, with an exclusive theatrical engagement at Film Forum starting Wednesday, January 17. The film expands to other national markets in February and March, 2018. Charismatic and controversial German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was a messianic figure, alternately considered a shaman, a kook, a radical political activist, and a breakthrough artistic genius. Filmmaker Andres Veiel mines a rich trove of never-before-seen archival footage, showing how Beuyss teachings (at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf), installations (using felt and fat), happenings (covering himself in honey and gold leaf in How to Explain Paintings to a Dead Hare or locking himself in a room with a coyote in I Like America and America Likes Me), and lectures (money shouldnt be a commodity) argued for a more expansive ... More | | 
Elemento decorativo dal trono di Tipu Sultan Mysore, 1787-1793 circa; plinto 1800 c. Oro, diamanti, rubini, smeraldi, lacca Plinto: marmo nero, metallo dorato, h. 17,1 cm /Elemento decorativo h. 6,8 cm, largh. 5,4 cm, sp. 5,5 cm Plinto h. 10,3 cm, largh. 10 cm, sp. 10 cm © The Al Thani Collection.
ROME (AFP).- Thieves made off with several items of Indian maharajahs' treasures owned by a member of the Qatari royal family after an audacious heist Wednesday at the Doge's palace in Venice, police said. Italian authorities investigating the theft put at around a million euros ($1.2 million) the overall value of the collection of Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajahs on display. Two thieves got away with earrings and a brooch on the final day of a four-month exhibition covering some 270 items showcasing five centuries of Indian craftsmanship. Investigators said the pair had managed to take the items from a reinforced display case after deactivating the alarm system before melting into the crowd and making good their escape. The ... More | | 
A motorist rides past a model of the Taj Mahal in Bangalore on January 3, 2018. MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP.
AGRA (AFP).- India is to restrict the number of daily visitors to the Taj Mahal in an attempt to preserve the iconic 17th-century monument to love, its biggest tourist attraction. Millions of mostly Indian tourists visit the Taj Mahal every year and their numbers are increasing steadily as domestic travel becomes easier. Experts say the vast crowds increase wear and tear on the white marble tomb, which already must undergo regular cleaning to stop it turning yellow from polluted air, and could put pressure on its foundations. In future only 40,000 local tourists will be allowed to enter the historic complex per day, authorities said Wednesday. "We have to ensure the safety of the monument and visitors as well. Crowd management was emerging as a big challenge for us," an official with the Archeological Survey of India -- which controls the monument -- told AFP on condition of anonymity. The restrictions will ... More |
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| Carriageworks unveils monumental installation by German artist Katharina Grosse | | Writers, Slovaks, scandal cast spell of 1968 Prague Spring | | Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau receive 2.1 million visitors in 2017 | 
Katharina Grosse, The Horse Trotted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped, 2017, commissioned by Carriageworks Courtesy the artist and Gagosian © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017, image: Zan Wimberley.
SYDNEY.- Carriageworks today unveiled a major new commission by renowned German artist Katharina Grosse of a site-specific installation representing the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international projects. The world premiere of the work titled The Horse Trottted Another Couple of Metres, Then it Stopped is presented free to the public at Carriageworks from 6 January as part of Sydney Festival 2018 and continues until 8 April 2018. Grosses exciting new work envelopes Carriageworks, responding to the unique industrial architecture and grand scale of the heritage building. Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah says: We are honoured to be working with Katharina Grosse on the most ambitious single-artist commission Carriageworks has undertaken. This represents a special opportunity for Australian audiences to experience Katharinas extraordinary vision and ... More | | 
This file photo taken in August 1968 in Prague shows confrontations between demonstrators and the Warsaw Pact troops and tanks, who invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the so called Prague Spring reform and re-establish a totalitarian regime. STR / AFP.
PRAGUE (AFP).- Fifty years ago, writers -- including Milan Kundera -- and a bizarre scandal helped spark a fleeting but heady spell of openness in communist Czechoslovakia before Soviet tanks rolled in to crush it. The 1968 Prague Spring that brought "Socialism with a human face" to Czechoslovakia was personified by the smiling Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak who had become Communist Party (KSC) chief on January 5 the same year. But according to sociologist Jirina Siklova who participated in the events, the short-lived breath of freedom in the Soviet bloc had deeper roots stretching back to the Czechoslovak writers' congress the year before. She believes that dissident writers like Kundera -- whose 1967 satirical novel "The Joke" focused on totalitarianism -- and Vaclav Havel, who decades later became Czech president, paved the way to greater ... More | | 
The most valuable form of learning the history of the camp is by exploring it with one of over 300 educators of the Museum who speak nearly 20 languages.
OśWIęCIM .- Two million one hundred thousand people from all over the world visited the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which are both protected by the Museum, in 2017. Its over 50 thousand more than in 2016, when for the first time the attendance at the Memorial was over 2 million visitors. The top ten countries from which our visitors come are: Poland (498,000), the United Kingdom (339,000), the United States (183,000), Italy (115,000), Spain (101,000), Germany (85,000), Israel (83,000), France (74,000), Czechia (53,000) and Sweden (44,000). In 2017, the number of visitors from several countries increased significantly in comparison with the previous year: Ukraine (48 per cent), Canada (36 per cent) and Greece (32 per cent. The most valuable form of learning the history of the camp is by exploring it with one of over 300 educators of the Museum who speak nearly 20 languages. Their competence ... More |
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| Albert Paley Archives, Seymour Stein Collection, 20th/21st C. design in Rago's January auctions | | Fraenkel Gallery opens "Art & Vinyl: Artists & the Record Album from Picasso to the Present" | | Garvey/Simon opens a group exhibition curated by Joseph A. Gross | 
Albert Paley, Harlequin. Est: $35,000 - 45,000.
LAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- On Friday January 19th, Saturday January 20th, and Sunday January 21st, the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold auctions of Early 20th Century and Modern Design. Mid-priced 20th C. furniture, lighting, and decorative objects: George Nakashima, Paul Evans, Karl Hagenauer, Miguel Berrocal, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Rietveld, Paavo Tynell, Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Wilhelm Kage, Francis Jourdain, Max Ingrand, Gaetano Pesce, Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Fontana Arte, Klaus Ihlenfeld, C. Jere, Jordan Mozer, Tommi Parzinger, Milo Baughman, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Karl Springer, George Nelson, Teco, Rookwood, Frederick Rhead, Jens Jensen, Roseville, William Rice, Lalique, and more. Seymour Stein, a music industry entrepreneur and founder of Sire Records, is best known for working with famed musicians the likes of Madonna and the Ramones. He is also an avid collector and devotee of decorative ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter, Goldberg-Variationen (Butin 060), 1984.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fraenkel Gallery presents Art & Vinyl, an exhibition examining the ways in which artists have been drawn to records and their covers as mediums for original works of art. Comprised of more than one hundred often rare and important examples, this will be the first in-depth exhibition to focus on works of art created specifically for an album, composer or musician. Seen together, the albums span seven decades and a staggering array of conceptual strategies, and sketch an idiosyncratic history of art from the mid-20th century to the present. The exhibition begins with Pablo Picassos depiction of a white dove, printed directly onto the surface of Paul Robesons Songs of Peace in 1949, and continues with works by artists as wide-ranging as Josef Albers, Tauba Auerbach, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Sophie Calle, Jean Dubuffet, Marlene Dumas, Yves ... More | | 
Linda Lindroth, Loos, 2013, Archival pigment print on Epson Hot Press Natural paper, 72h x 44w in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon presents Inward/Outward: Responding to the Built Environment, a group exhibition, curated by Joseph A. Gross, that includes a selection of works, each in dialogue with architecture, interiors, and design. The Exhibition runs from January 4th until February 10th, with an opening reception on Thursday, January 4th from 6-8pm. The commanding photograph Loos, 2013, by Linda Lindroth, towers over viewers like a modernist building. In it, an enlarged, collapsed box takes the shape of a high rise. Its horizontal black and tan lines are a nod to architect Adolf Looss unrealized design for Josephine Bakers residence. Looss buildings, such as The Looshaus (1911), in Vienna, illustrate his distaste for ornament, which he blamed for societal ills and decried as wasteful. Today, amongst conscious efforts to curb wastefulness, repurposed and reclaimed have become designer ... More |
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| New piece of the Moon arrives at the Natural History Museum in London | | Library of Congress acquires archive of humorist, political commentator Art Buchwald | | Oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud soars to $1.08 million at Nadeau's | 
The Museum's collection includes a slice of the Dar al Gani 400 lunar meteorite, which was found in the Sahara desert in 1998.
LONDON.- A new lunar meteorite has joined the Natural History Museum's collection. The sample, weighing 147 grammes, will help researchers' studies into the origin and early evolution of the Moon. Prof Sara Russell, Merit Researcher in the Division of Mineral and Planetary Sciences, says the acquisition comes at a very exciting time for lunar research. She says, 'Both the European Space Agency and NASA have plans to put humans on the Moon, and maybe even a human base. To do that we need to know what resources might be available. 'We need to know whether there is water that can be extracted from the rocks, for example, and what minerals might be there.' Lunar meteorites are rare finds. When an asteroid strikes the surface of the Moon, rocks are launched into space and some eventually fall to Earth. Meteorites are often found in deserts, says Prof Russell, as the dry conditions mean they don't ... More | | 
Art Buchwald's column and political satire was published in The Washington Post and in 500 newspapers worldwide.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress has acquired the archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, commentator and playwright Art Buchwald, best known for his long career as a political satirist, poking fun at the famous and powerful for The Washington Post and in a column syndicated in 500 newspapers worldwide. Buchwald was often considered the Wit of Washington. The archive of approximately 100,000 items includes his columns, plays, screenplays, books, unpublished pieces, correspondence and business records from his personal life and extensive career as a writer and public speaker. His novel The Bollo Caper was adapted as a television movie, and his stage comedy Sheep on the Runway had a run on Broadway. Buchwalds papers document his relationships with a large network of friends and acquaintances. These include journalists Ben Bradlee and Mike Wallace and ... More | | 
Oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud (Am., b. 1920) titled Lollipop Tree, done in 1969, 13 inches by 10 ¼ inches, signed and dated ($1.08 million).
WINDSOR, CONN.- Only a few times has an item ever sold for over $1 million at a Connecticut auction, but this very rare feat was accomplished on January 1st when an oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920), titled Lollipop Tree, soared to $1.08 million at Nadeaus Auction Gallerys annual New Years Day auction. The sale price includes the buyers premium. With a pre-sale estimate of $400,000-$800,000, the painting was easily the auctions expected top lot, but what wasnt expected was the fact that it finished at more than $200,000 beyond even the high figure. The colorful and whimsical painting, 13 inches by 10 ¼ inches, was artist signed and dated 1969 in pencil and still had the Allan Stone Galleries (N.Y.) label on verso, from 1970. Wayne Thiebaud is a pop artist widely known for his colorful works depicting everyday objects, such as pies, lipstick, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries an ... More |
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 "In the Land of Pasaquan: The Story of Eddie Owens Martin" on view at IntuitCHICAGO, IL.- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art announces its exhibition, In the Land of Pasaquan: The Story of Eddie Owens Martin. Eddie Owens Martin (1908-1986), who, in his later years, referred to himself as St. EOM, was the creator of Pasaquan. This visionary artist, who had no formal training, reveled in the intuitive creative art process. St. EOM was influenced by many artistic traditions, including Mesoamerican, African and eastern art, but the content of his work was constructed from utopian visions. This exhibition features a large selection of never-before-seen original drawings, sculptures, paintings, regalia, adornments and other examples of art by St. EOM. Through the use of original art, informational text panels, and vintage and contemporary photographs, this colorful exhibit tells the incredible story of the life of the creator of Pasaquan. ... More Exhibition of paintings from the 1980s by Ann Purcell opens at Berry Campbell GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Berry Campbell Gallery announces a special exhibition of paintings from the 1980s by Ann Purcell from January 4 through February 3, 2018. The opening reception for Ann Purcell: Caravan Series is Thursday, January 4 from 6 to 8 pm. For Ann Purcell, a nationally recognized artist, whose abstract work is represented in museums across the United States, process is a critical factor. The gestural and alive qualities of her paintings, collages, and works on paper reflect her use of process as a means of expression and exploration, as she works within tensions of paradox, ambiguity, duality, and contradiction. Her method is related to dancean important form for her beginning in her childhoodas well as to music, while she draws on her thorough grounding in European and American Expressionist traditions. The breadth of art history ... More Haines Gallery opens a solo exhibition of new work by photographer David MaiselSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Haines Gallery presents Proving Ground, a solo exhibition of new work by photographer David Maisel (b. 1961, New York, NY; lives and works in San Francisco, CA). Best known for his striking aerial photographs that chronicle environments impacted by human intervention, here Maisel debuts a new body of work, fifteen years in the making, investigating the landscape and architecture of Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site in a remote region of Utahs Great Salt Lake Desert. Proving Ground is Maisels seventh solo exhibition at Haines Gallery. Since its inception in 1946, Dugway Proving Ground has served as a center for development and testing of chemical and biological weapons and defense programs. Although larger than the state of Rhode Island, it remains terra incognita, virtually invisible to and unknown by the ... More MIT List Visual Arts Center exhibition series features video by Adam PendletonCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center's next iteration of its List Projects exhibition series features Adam Pendleton and his video portrait Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer (201617). Adam Pendletons multi-disciplinary practice across painting, sculpture, video, and performance searches for radical juxtapositions. Appropriating found images and text, Pendleton brings together often divergent ideas to destabilize the present and envision new aesthetic, cultural, and political futures. Since 2008, Pendletons fragmentary, visionary process has been driven by a conceptual paradigm the artist termed Black Dada, which takes inspiration from Amiri Barakas 1964 poem Black Dada Nihilismus. Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer centers around a meal Pendleton and Rainer share ... More John Lennon's Monkey bike for sale with H&H Classics at the National Motorcycle Museum in MarchLONDON.- Once in a while a motorcycle comes to market that is guaranteed to create huge excitement the John Lennon Monkey-Trail bike XUC 91H for sale with H&H Classics is just such a machine. John Lennon used the bike as a fun way of getting around his Tittenhurst Park estate in Surrey, where he lived from 1969 to 1971. H&H Classics say that the bike is estimated to sell for £30,000 plus. Mark Bryan, Head of Sales for H&H Classics Motorcycle Department, says: Naturally we are thrilled to be entrusted with the marketing and sale of this bike, given its extraordinary provenance. The Honda Monkey/Trail Bike XUC 91H was acquired by John Harington from Henry Graham, of Hook Hampshire, who at the time was owner of a business in Farnborough Hampshire - Motor Cycle City in around 1971. Henry Graham said that he had bought the motorbike ... More Dr. Nathaniel Silver at Gardner Museum wins I Tatti Prize for Best EssayBOSTON, MASS.- Dr. Nathaniel Silver, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums Associate Curator of the Collection, recently received the I Tatti Prize for Best Essay by a Junior Scholar from Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Center. The biannual prize is awarded to a junior scholar for the best scholarly article published in the centers journal. Dr. Silvers essay, titled Creating a Renaissance Painter: Pesellino, Connoisseurship, and the Romantik, (I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 18, No. 2), explores art historians process of creating the canon of Renaissance art through the lens of the Florentine painter il Pesellino (1422-1457). Silver looks closely at art historians such as William Young Ottley, Giovanni Morelli, and Bernard Berenson and their research that shaped Pesellinos modern identity. Dr. Silvers ... More Mary Boone Gallery opens exhibition of paintings by Kathe BurkhartNEW YORK, NY.- On 4 January 2018, Mary Boone Gallery will open at its Fifth Avenue location From the Liz Taylor Series , an exhibition of paintings by Kathe Burkhart curated by Piper Marshall. Kathe Burkhart has painted depictions of Elizabeth Taylor for more than thirty years. Both performance and working method, Burkharts paintings comprise a lively and imaginative catalogue from the many films of the screen star. This exhibition features a selection of the large-scale works created between 1982 and 2017. In each painting the artist takes a multipart approach, first by presenting Taylor in different archetypal guises: the femme fatale, the proper lady, the damsel in distress. Carefully rendered in white paint, the body directs our attention, the blankness providing a screen for viewer identification and projection. Burkhart interrupts this artificial construct by adding ... More Leigh Ruple's first exhibition with Morgan Lehman Gallery opens in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman presents Leigh Ruple: Lovers Way, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Leigh Ruple's recent paintings depict scenes from the artist's Brooklyn neighborhood. Ruple, ever interested in the possibility of profundity in the ordinary, gravitates towards sights that produce in her a longing to reimagine a grander, more fantastical narrative than what actually appears. Making rough drawings from memory and testing out different compositions and color ideas, she cycles through versions of a remembered scene before employing reference photos as a means to heighten the works' realism and ensure that the details are convincing. In all of Ruple's work, metaphor and meaning emerge from carefully orchestrated formal strategies including complex spatial arrangements and powerful color relationships. The artist describes ... More Times Square Arts' January Midnight Moment features FX Harsono's "Writing in the Rain"NEW YORK, NY.- A seminal figure in the Indonesian contemporary art scene, Harsono has been deeply engaged with social and political issues, including the role of the artist in the recovery of repressed histories, cultures, and identities. Writing in the Rain is a stark depiction of the artist writing his name in Chinese characters with a brush as rain slowly washes the ink away. FX Harsono was born in 1949 in Blitar (East Java), Indonesia, and lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia. He was educated at the Jakarta Art Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia and Sekolah Tinggi Seni Rupa Indonesi (STSRI ASRI), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In recognition of his decades-long commitment to art and to freedom of expression in art, Harsono was awarded the Joseph Balestier Award for the Freedom of Art in 2015, presented by the US embassy in Singapore, and in 2014 he was given the Prince ... More Nancy Toomey Fine Art opens exhibition of works by Miya AndoSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nancy Toomey Fine Art announces an exhibition of works by Miya Ando entitled Oborozuki (Moon Obscured by Clouds) on view from January 4 to February 22, 2018. Miya Andos inspiration for this exhibition is the Japanese word Oborozuki, meaning the moon obscured by clouds. Pieces in the show, Andos second at Nancy Toomey Fine Art, include a new series of paintings on aluminum entitled Yoake (Dawn), ink on aluminum called Kumo (Cloud), as well as works on paper, Gekkou (Moonlight). Andos inspiration for the theme of this exhibition is derived from the oldest known Japanese novel The Tale of Genji. Written by Murasaki Shikibu, the book is composed of minute, poetic observations of nature by its lead female protagonist, Lady Murasaki. This ancient novel takes as its premise the fundamental interconnectivity of all things, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Marsden Hartley was born January 04, 2018. Marsden Hartley (January 4, 1877 - September 2, 1943) was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley was born in Lewiston, Maine, where his English parents had settled. He was the youngest of nine children. In this image: The Iron Cross, 1915, oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 47 ¼ in. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1952.
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