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Jerusalem Regional Archaeologist of the Israel Antiquities Authority Yuval Baruch points at a unique stone inscription dating to the Second Temple Period (1st Century CE), mentioning Jerusalem, written in Hebrew letters, and using the spelling as we know it today during the unveiling of the find on October 9, 2018 at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The inscription was found this last winter in Jerusalem during an IAA excavation prior to the construction of a new road, during the excavations, the foundations of a Roman structure were exposed, which were supported by columns. The most important discovery was a stone column drum, reused in the Roman structure, upon which the Aramaic inscription appears, written in Hebrew letters typical of the Second Temple Period, around the time of Herod the Great's reign. GALI TIBBON / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israel unveiled Tuesday a stone pillar engraved with an ancient inscription showing that the spelling of Jerusalem in its present-day Hebrew form was already in common use some 2,000 years ago. During construction work in February in Jerusalem, archaeologists unearthed the pillar with the inscription "Hananiah son of Dodalos of Jerusalem," written in Aramaic with Hebrew letters. The Hebrew spelling of the city -- pronounced Yerushalayim -- is the same today. The name of the city in that form appears only rarely from the period of the second Jewish temple (first century AD) and usually in religious and political contexts, said David Mevorach of the Israel Museum, where the stone is now being exhibited. The city's name appears several hundred times in the Bible, almost always in the slightly different form of Yerushalem and only five times as Yerushalayim, said Yuval Baruch of the Israel Antiquities Authority. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day (From L) President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, Swiss architect Jacques Herzog, German State Secretary for Culture and the Media Monika Gruetters and Swiss architect Pierre de Meuron pose behind a model of the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin, during a press conference in Berlin on October 9, 2018. The building, offering 9.000 m2 of exhibition space for art from the second half of the 20th century, will be located in Berlin's Kulturforum area, and will be linked through an underground passage to Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie Museum. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
| Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition to focus on camp aesthetic in fashion | | Sotheby's launches Sotheby's Home: Luxury Design Marketplace | | Exhibition traces the extraordinary adventure of the surrealist avant-garde |
Ensemble, Virgil Abloh (American, born 1980) for Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh (Italian, founded 2013), pre-fall 2018. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo © Johnny Dufort, 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that The Costume Institute's Spring 2019 exhibition will be Camp: Notes on Fashion, on view from May 9 through September 8, 2019 (preceded on May 6 by The Costume Institute Benefit). Presented in The Met Fifth Avenue's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, it will explore the origins of the camp aesthetic and how it has evolved from a place of marginality to become an important influence on mainstream culture. Susan Sontag's 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp' provides the framework for the exhibition, which will examine how fashion designers have used their métier as a vehicle to engage with camp in a myriad of compelling, humorous, and sometimes incongruous ways. "Camp's disruptive nature and subversion of modern aesthetic values has often been ... More | |
Sothebys expands presence in the interiors e-commerce space. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the launch of Sothebys Home, an online consignment marketplace specializing in vintage and antique furniture, decorative objects and accessories. Sothebys Home connects collectors and design lovers with an approachable new platform to buy furniture, art and home décor from showrooms, dealers, interior designers and private individuals. For consignors, Sothebys Home offers a solution encompassing all steps of the selling process, from curation and photography to moving and delivery. Sothebys Home expands the brands growing e-commerce portfolio, which includes a robust program of live and online-only auctions as well as the retail business, Sothebys Wine, providing greater access to premium offerings across categories for customers. The launch of Sothebys Home is supported by the acquisition of Viyet in February 2018. Since being acquired, web traffic to Viyet.com ... More | |
Salvador DalÃ, Lâne pourri, 1928. Olio, sabbia e ghiaia su tavola, 61 x 50 cm. Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris Musée national dart moderne - Centre de création © Salvador DalÃ, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali, by SIAE 2018.
PISA.- After working together to organize the 2015 exhibition Modigliani et sesamis, which received great critical acclaim and brought over 100,000 visitors to Palazzo BLU, the Fondazione Palazzo BLU, the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris and MondoMostre have come together once again to present another major exhibition at the venue on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fondazione Palazzo BLU. From 11 October 2018 the public will be able to enjoy the exhibition From Magritte to Duchamp. 1929: Great Works of Surrealism from the Centre Pompidou. For the first time in Italy, the Centre Pompidou will lend a series of masterpieces from the permanent collection of what is the most important European museum of twentieth-century art. The curator of the exhibition is ... More |
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| Phillips launches first series of online-only auctions | | Banksy's seminal protest artwork Slave Labour heads to Julien's Auctions Street & Contemporary Art auction | | Steven Kasher Gallery exhibits works by former Chief Official White House Photographer |
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2007. Estimate: $8,000-12,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- On 18 October, Phillips will launch UnBound, a new series of online-only auctions of contemporary artworks, editions, and photographs to be held on the companys own platform. The first auctions of their kind at Phillips, the UnBound sales embody the companys goal of providing a new way to engage with emerging collectors around the world. The UnBound sales mark an exciting step forward for Phillips, as we continue to invest in digital initiatives that aim to enhance our collectors experiences, said Katherine Lukacher, Phillips recently-appointed Head of Online Sales. Up to 70% of lots in Phillips live auctions receive online bids and the value of winning bids by online bidders has doubled in the last year. With the internet serving as the dominant channel for new Phillips clients, we are happy to be able to provide another option to acquire exceptional works of ... More | |
Banksy, Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) 2012. Black and white aerosol on concrete, embellished with plastic flags. Estimate: $600,000-800,000. Photo: Julien's Auctions.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced that the fall edition of its biannual Street and Contemporary Art Auction will take place November 14, 2018 at Juliens Auctions in Los Angeles and live online at www.juliensauctions.com Front and center will be a piece of one of the most talked about street artists in the news today-Banksy-whose latest at auction made headlines around the world when the work shredded itself seconds after the gavel came down for £1million. Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) is a black and white aerosol on concrete piece (top photo), embellished with plastic flags executed by Banksy in May 2012 on the outer wall of a Poundland discount store in Wood Green, London (estimate: $600,000-$800,000). The piece is mounted on a custom ... More | |
Pete Souza, Shade #10, 2018. Archival pigment print, printed 2018, 32h x 28w in. Edition of 13 + 2 APs; Signed and numbered by photographer. Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery is presenting Throw Shade, Then Vote a solo exhibition of work by Pete Souza, former Chief Official White House Photographer. The exhibition features 13 photographs with texts that are portraits in Presidential contrasts. They tell a tale of the Obama and Trump administrations through a series of visual/textual juxtapositions. Souza's unforgettable images of President Obama hold new power and meaning when framed by the tweets, news headlines, and quotes that defined the first 500 days of the Trump White House. These works are based on Souzas renowned Instagram feed, and are being exhibited to launch the publication of Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents (Little Brown, October 16th). With this timely and ... More |
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| Exhibition at Nohra Haime Gallery explores Sophia Vari's use of color and scale | | First exhibition in France dedicated to the Spanish experimental scene of the 60s and 80s opens in Orléans | | Debut solo exhibition in London by Caitlin Keogh opens at The Approach |
FORMS AND COLORS 1, 2018, watercolor and collage on wood, 63.78 x 51.18 in. 162 x 130 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Forms and Colors Continued/ Color and Scale marks Sophia Varis fifteenth solo exhibition with Nohra Haime Gallery. Throughout her long and internationally spread career, Varis work continues to take dramatic turns. Ranging from monumental sculpture to canvases, geometric collages and wearable jewelry, her work retains a signature strong yet sensitive, recognizable hand. This exhibition gathers work in multiple mediums, and includes new sculptures and collages highlighting powerful explorations into color and scale. Varis work emerges as a reflection of herself through aspects of a multicultural upbringing. Her worldly experience and valuable education greatly influence the progression of her art. Born in Greece in 1940 to a Greek father and Hungarian mother, Vari spent her early childhood in Lausanne, Switzerland. Upon returning to ... More | |
Soledad Sevilla, Mondrian, 1973 (detail). Courtesy Sevilla Soledad.
ORLEANS.- The Frac Centre-Val de Loire will inaugurate the first exhibition in France dedicated to the Spanish experimental scene of the 1960s and 1980s. The retrospective portrays the incredible adventure of the University of Madrids Computing Center, which brought together artists, architects, engineers, scientists and intellectuals to explore the possibilities offered by automatic computer generated calculation. These pioneers formed a community whosecollectiveexperience working at the crossroads of art and computing asserted a different form of artistic production between disciplines. The first computer at the Spanish university made its appearance in 1968, marking the beginning of the Computing Centers activities. After decades of cultural isolation, artists, architects and musicians began reflecting on the uses of computers within their creative processes. ... More | |
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LONDON.- The Approach is hosting the debut solo exhibition in London by New York-based artist Caitlin Keogh. In this exhibition of new works, Caitlin Keogh revisits anatomical themes, depicted in an illustrational style emphasising line and clarity. Keoghs paintings are body-like, containing borders that permit exchange but that can also knot densely within themselves. This group of works returns to the motif of the intestine, literal and symbolic, imagining the torsos interior as the site of painting. Metabolism and digestion play out in The Cat, showing a cat licking itself in front of the bones of a bird, and in Discipline Has Replaced Despair, with a stylised graphic indicating the passage of matter through the gut by the turning hands of a clock. But rather than considering these notions in purely visceral terms, the work refers more broadly to consuming, processing, and organising information. Marginalia and ... More |
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| Board names Linda Harrison eighth Director of Newark Museum | | Annenberg Space for Photography names Katie Hollander new Director ahead of 10th anniversary | | Contemporary Jewish Museum Chief Curator Renny Pritikin to retire |
She has been Director and CEO of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) since 2013.
NEWARK, NJ.- After a comprehensive, nationwide search, the Newark Museum Board of Trustees has appointed Linda Harrison as its new Director and Chief Executive Officer. Harrison will lead New Jerseys largest museum, home to one of the most internationally respected global collections, effective January 2019. She will be the Museums eighth director, succeeding Steven Kern who left his position in 2017. According to Board Co-Chairs Clifford Blanchard and Christine Gilfillan, Harrison comes to the Museum with more than 20 years of leadership experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. She has been Director and CEO of the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) since 2013. Blanchard said that Harrison is joining the Museum during an incredible time of transformation for both the institution and the City of Newark, pointing to the Museums recent revitalization efforts that included the reopening of its h ... More | |
Hollander brings to the vibrant and evolving L.A. art scene her wide and deep experience in New York.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Annenberg Space for Photography, L.A.s premier destination for photography, names arts veteran Katie Hollander as its new director today. Hollander has served as the interim director since November 2017. It was imperative for me to find someone who not only understands the founding vision for how the Annenberg Space for Photography has contributed to the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, but who also could propel us into our next decade with strong leadership and new, thought-provoking ideas, said Annenberg Foundation Chairman, President and CEO Wallis Annenberg. Katie has already proven that she can inspire others, and I know she will continue to build on the momentum weve achieved in our first 10 years with great success. Hollander brings to the vibrant and evolving L.A. art scene her wide and deep experience in New York. She was Deputy and then Executive ... More | |
Pritikin has been at the vanguard of the field for much of his career.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Renny Pritikin, who has served as Chief Curator at The Contemporary Jewish Museum since 2014 and has been a leading figure in the San Francisco Bay Area arts community for decades, has announced his retirement at the end of December 2018. After forty years in the field and approaching my seventieth birthday, with a great exhibition schedule lined up at The CJM over the next several years and an incredible professional team in place, I think this is an appropriate moment to step back from my daily responsibilities, says Pritikin. I am grateful to our Executive Director and the trustees and supporters of The CJM, and for the great fortune I have had to work with so many artists, mentor emerging curators, and collaborate with so many talented colleagues. We are so proud of the work Renny has done for The CJM, says Lori Starr, Executive Director, The CJM. Renny has succeeded ... More |
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Exhibition focuses on atworks that are purposely and strategically hard to see
NEW YORK, NY.- International Print Center New York is presenting Edge Visibility, curated in conjunction with the SeptemberOctober issue of the scholarly journal Art in Print by its editor-in-chief, Susan Tallman. The issue focuses on atworks that are purposely and strategically hard to see; since such works are by nature extremely difficult to reproduce, the accompanying exhibition provides the opportunity to experience them in all their elusive and evasive presence. Among the more than 50 works on view are prints from the 17th century to the presentlaborious micro-engravings, subtle watermarks, and evanescent images printed with UV-reactive inks. The material properties of specific print techniques are critical to how these works court and tease the eye. Chris Ofilis multi-layered, opalescent etching portfolio Black Shunga, 200815 relies ... More
P.P.O.W's first exhibition with multimedia artist Hew Locke opens in New York
NEW YORK, NY.- P.P.O.W presents Patriots, the gallerys first exhibition with multimedia artist Hew Locke. The exhibition will continue Lockes investigation into the role public statues play in the way national identity and history are formed, an element of his practice that he has been exploring since 2002. This interest was initially born out of seeing a statue of Queen Victoria taken down during his childhood in Georgetown, Guyana an event that toppled his notion that the status quo was in fact static. Later, while living in London, Locke became fascinated with the Victorian statues that dotted the city, emblematic sculptures that were so visible that they had essentially become invisible to passersby. Embarking on a project that he dubbed the Impossible Proposals, Locke began photographing these iconic statues from Richard the Lion Hearted, to the slave trader ... More
Exhibition featuring music-inspired multimedia works by Kevin Bourgeois opens at Olsen Gruin
NEW YORK, NY.- Olsen Gruin announces Wall of Sound, an exhibition featuring music-inspired multimedia works by Kevin Bourgeois. The anticipated show comprises a curated selection of collage and acrylic compositions on wood panel. Music has always been an intrinsic element in Bourgeois creative process and daily routine. I consider it a universal cultural language with many diverse incarnations and forms, he affirms. Wall of Sound turns its focus toward the visual art that complements the vast lexicon of music. The phrase Wall of Sound was originally devised to describe Phil Spectors production methods. According to Spector, the aim was to create a dense aesthetic critical shorthand, mixed well enough that the audience would then perceive each of the different combinations as one distinct sound or form. This concept mirrors the augmenting ... More
Shannon's to host semi-annual live Fine Art auction at their Milford, Connecticut gallery
MILFORD, CONN.- Important American paintings from the 19th century through the contemporary era will be available during Shannons semi-annual American and European Fine Art Auction to be held at 6PM on Thursday, October 25, 2018 in Milford, Connecticut. Featuring 238 lots, the auction will include quality examples of American Impressionism, American Coastal scenes, Modernism and European paintings. Leading the auction is a New England landscape by American Impressionist Willard Leroy Metcalf. The painting, titled The Road that Leads Home, romantically depicts a quiet village scene. Metcalf masterfully captures the atmosphere and the shadows of the trees. The painting is fresh-to-the-market and in very good condition. It will be listed in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne on the artist. (est. $200,000-300,000) Another leading highlight in American ... More
Design auction in London led by one of the most important vases by René Lalique
LONDON.- Christies Design sale on 17 October will include an extensive range of rare and bold works of international 20th Century Design including one of the largest René Lalique vase ever to be offered at auction (estimate: £300,000 - £500,000) as well as a rare bureau by Paul Dupré-Lafon from 1929 (estimate: £250,000 - £350,000). The private collection of architect and gallerist Zeev Aram is also a highlight, as it contains rare and unique works of design by renowned British artists such as Peter Blake, Howard Hodgkin, Edouardo Paolozzi and Allen Jones. Zeev Aram had originally asked these famous artists to create prototype furniture models for a landmark exhibition in celebration of the 21st anniversary of his gallery and we are pleased to present this selection of inventive and individualistic works to new and discerning collectors ... More
In Iraq's city of bookshops, theology and poetry rub spines
NAJAF (AFP).- In the covered alleyways of old Najaf in Iraq, poetry and philosophy books compete on laden shelves with economic treatises, the Koran and other theological tomes for students' attention. Since leaving his native Bangladesh for the Shiite holy city three years ago, religious student Mohammed Ali Reda has regularly frequented secondhand bookstores. There are many like him in Najaf. Some wear turbans -- black for descendants of the Prophet Mohammed, and white for religious scholars. "I am still at the start of my apprenticeship", said Reda, in one of the dozens of bookshops in the city's Howeish market. Wearing a simple white robe and scarf, he speaks in hesitant Arabic, like his Iranian, Pakistani and Turkish student peers. "For the moment, we have lessons i ... More
17th-21st century silver showcased in Heritage Auctions' Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu auction
DALLAS, TX.- Fine silver from the late 17th into the 21st centuries from the some of the worlds greatest silversmiths will be presented in Heritage Auctions Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Auction Oct. 15 in Dallas, Texas. The auction includes silver from the Houston estate of Colletta Ray McMillian, whose range of interest spanned periods and styles, and includes strong designs from some of the best workshops of the 19th and 20th centuries, said Heritage Auctions Silver & Objects of Vertu Director Karen Rigdon. Mrs. McMillian collected with a discerning eye, finding fine examples by English silversmiths like Robert Hennell II to American work by Tiffany & Companys John Moore and iconic creations by the Danish workshop of Georg Jensen. Three extraordinary menorah from Yossi Sweds Jerusalem workshop include the whimsical Partial ... More
Exhibition of new watercolour paintings by Martha Ossowska Persson opens at Cecilia Hillström Gallery
STOCKHOLM.- Cecilia Hillström Gallery is presenting Martha Ossowska Perssons first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition Into the Hideous Hidden consists of new large-scale watercolour paintings, where Ossowska Persson has continued to work on her multi-layered exploration of the human body and embedded human behaviours. In the series of works presented in the duo exhibition Splendor in the Touch in 2015 at the gallery, the artist focused on capturing bodies and limbs in moments of physical contact or tactile games that can be perceived as both an encounter and a threat. With the watercolour paintings in Into the Hideous Hidden she goes deeper, focusing on the spaces and tensions between the encounters of flesh. The close-ups of fingers and hands intertwined in new arrangements and the new tonality of dark blue, purple and pink ... More
Artcurial announces highlights from its Automobiles sur Les Champs sale
PARIS.- The Automobiles sur Les Champs sale is always a highly anticipated event for collectors car enthusiasts. Over the course of a weekend, the most beautiful avenue in the world is transformed into a backdrop for cars from a different era, attracting crowds and inspiring dreams. For the 14th edition of this sale, taking place on 4 November at 17.00, some 70 vehicles will come under the hammer of Maître Hervé Poulain. Starring in this autumnal sale will be an exceptional 1937 BMW 328 Roadster and the private collection of a Facel Vega enthusiast. « Another great vintage for our Automobiles sur les Champs sale: a private collection of magnificent Facel Vega and a fantastic BMW 328 race car ! All appearing on the most beautiful avenue in our city of lights.» --Matthieu Lamoure, Managing director, Artcurial Motorcars This outstanding BMW 328 ... More
Exhibition offers the opportunity to get closer to the working process of Alejandro Aravena
HUMLEBÃK.- The exhibition So Far ... Elementa | Alejandro Aravena is the second in Louisianas series of monographic architecture exhibitions. These exhibitions offer the opportunity to get closer to the working process of an individual studio as well as greater understanding of how ideas become form. In accordance with the world around us, the architects of the series are interested in sustainability and political and social challenges such as climate change and overpopulation, urbanization and cultural heritage. How do intentions, expression and method play together for the individual architect? It is this question that the exhibition series intends to clarify. Its all about the question, not the answer this is how Elemental Studios Pritzker Prize-winning founder, Alejandro Aravena, describes the core of their practice. ... More
Rolls-Royce owned by Roger Daltrey of The Who to be offered at H&H Classics
LONDON.- This stunning 1966 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III 'Flying Spur' Sports Saloon will be sold by H&H Classics at Duxford on October 17 for an estimate of £165,000 - £185,000. The car comes trailing a fascinating history of former owners including one of the richest men in Britain at the time, Wensley Haydon-Baillie and also one of the countrys best known musicians, Roger Daltrey. This classically elegant Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III Flying Spur has an astonishing musical history, linked as it was to two musicians who were part of the famous band The Who. It is just one of 35 RHD Silver Cloud III Sports Saloons to wear this style of Flying Spur coachwork by Mulliner Park Ward, design No.2042. One could say it is Rolls-Royce royalty. Interestingly, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones owned the Bentley equivalent which he christened ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice de Vlaminck died October 11, 1958. Maurice de Vlaminck (4 April 1876 - 11 October 1958) was a French painter. Along with André Derain and Henri Matisse he is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour. Vlaminck was one of the Fauves at the controversial Salon d'Automne exhibition of 1905.
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