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Artistic reconstruction of a group of Burgessomedusa phasmiformis swimming in the Cambrian sea. Image courtesy: Christian McCall.
by Jack Tamisiea
NEW YORK, NY.- Jellyfish have been floating through Earths oceans seemingly forever. But pinning down the exact origin of these squishy sea creatures, which are some of the earliest complex animals, is difficult. They rarely show up in the fossil record because jellyfish are 95% water and are prone to rapid decay. If you see a jellyfish outside of the water, a couple hours later its just a ball of goo, said Jean-Bernard Caron, a paleontologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But Caron and other scientists recently described a cache of jellyfish fossils from the Cambrian period that found an improbable pathway to preservation. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the scientists posit that these 505 million-year-old animals are among the oldest swimming jellyfish known to science. These new fossils represent the most compelling evidence of Cambrian jellyfish to date, said David Gold, a paleobiologist at the Univers ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day In Infamous Beauty, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art unveils 120 large-format photographs by the artist who rewrote the history of the American cultural scene. The work of New Yorker Andres Serrano (72) conveys strong emotions, contrasts, and the exposure of half-truths.
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| Hamburger Kunsthalle opens an exhibition featuring works dating from the years around 1923 | | British rarities, Lydian Stater help set gold standard in Heritage's World & Ancient Coins ANA event | | Contemporary art giant Yue Minjun launches into Web3 with his first NFT collection on LiveArt |
Anita Rée (18851933), Teresina, 19221925. Ãl auf Leinwand, 81 x 61 cm. Hamburger Kunsthalle © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk. Photo: Elke Walford.
HAMBURG.- To mark the 100th anniversary of the friends society Freunde der Kunsthalle e.V., the Hamburger Kunsthalle pays tribute in 2023 to its major supporter with an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and works on paper from its Modern Art collection dating from the years around 1923. Around 60 exhibits have been selected that provide insights into artistic practice, social currents and historical events in Germany and Hamburg that year. The featured works, by artists including Alma del Banco, Rudolf Belling, Robert Desnos, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Karl Hofer, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Käthe Kollwitz, Karl Kluth, Rudolf Levy, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen, László Moholy-Nagy, Anita Rée and Friedrich Wield, have been loosely inserted into the permanent collection display devoted to Classical Modernism. They shed light on a dazzling period ... More | |
Henry VII (1485-1509) "Fine Gold" Sovereign of 20 Shillings ND (1492) AU50 NGC.
DALLAS, TX.- A Henry VII (1485-1509) "Fine Gold" Sovereign of 20 Shillings ND (1492) AU50 NGC, one of the most storied rarities in all of British numismatics, will capture the attention of the most advanced collectors of British numismatics when it is sold through Heritage Auctions, an Event Auctioneer Partner in ANA's World Fair of Money, at the World & Ancient Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction August 17-19. "This auction showcases a fine selection of curated material and promises to be one of our most successful ANA-affiliated auctions to date," says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. "It features one of our strongest selections of high-grade and scarce British rarities, with the Henry VII Sovereign as the keystone." The Henry VII Fine Gold Sovereign, which was consigned directly to Heritage Auctions from the collection of the British Royal Mint, is the first ... More | |
Artwork from the Kingdom of the Laughing Man (2023) collection by Yue Minjun, Courtesy LiveArt in partnership with iv gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- LiveArt, in partnership with iv gallery, announced a groundbreaking NFT collection, Kingdom of the Laughing Man, by Yue Minjun, one of the worlds most prominent blue-chip contemporary artists working today. Kingdom of the Laughing Man launches with Boundless, a series of 1,200 unique generative NFT artworks echoing Yue Minjuns iconic self-portraits. The first drop is set to launch on August 8, 2023, 5 AM PDT presale / 5 AM PDT sale on LiveArt and is expected to sell out, according to insiders. A pioneer of Chinas Cynical Realism movement, Yue Minjuns fantastical, maniacal self-portraits satirize contemporary society and art historical tropes. Each piece in Boundless sees the artist reinterpreting his signature self-portrait work through the prism of trends within technology, appropriating the crypto-centric PFP (Profile Picture) to create a unique We ... More |
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| Hispanic Society Museum & Library reveals Marta Chilindron's Orange Cube 48 | | Jess Search, a force in the documentary genre, dies at 54 | | Octavia Art Gallery now exhibiting the group exhibition 'Textures' |
Orange Cube 48, Marta Chilindron, Twin-wall polycarbonate, 48 x 48 x 48 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Hispanic Society Museum & Library the primary institution dedicated to the preservation, study, understanding, exhibition and enjoyment of art and cultures of Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries and communities and the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, have unveiled Marta Chilindrons Orange Cube 48, installed on the HSM&Ls Lower Terrace in New York City under the direction of Orlando Hernandez-Ying, a curatorial associate at the HSM&L who serves as the in-house curator of this project. Chilindron, an Argentinean- born, New York-based contemporary artist, is the 2023 winner of the HSM&L and NoMAAs open call for artists to create a summer outdoor installation on the Audubon Terrace (Broadway between 155th and 156th streets). Orange Cube 48 is a folding immersive sculpture made of 66 square panels, measuring 48 x 48 in. (122 x 122 cm.), of translucent 3/8 in. twin- ... More | |
As one of the leaders of Doc Society, she supported countless filmmakers, with an emphasis on underrepresented groups and unconventional stories.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK, NY.- Jess Search, a producer on dozens of important documentaries and a catalyst on many more as one of the directors of Doc Society, a nonprofit organization she helped found in 2005 that supports documentary filmmakers, died Monday in London. She was 54. Doc Society said in a statement that the death, in a hospital, was caused by brain cancer. Search had announced last month that she was stepping away from the organization because of her illness. Search had been a central figure in the documentary scene in Britain and beyond for years. She was gender-nonconforming (she used the pronouns she and her but preferred not to use the gendered courtesy title Ms.), and she had a special interest in promoting work by filmmakers from underrepresented populations ... More | |
Karen Margolis, Blue (from the Empty Vessels Series). Cotton-covered wire, thread, maps and found objects, 21 x 11 inches. Photo Courtesy of the artist and Octavia Art Gallery.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery has opened TEXTURES, a group exhibition featuring the work of Scott Andresen, Dan Charbonnet, Karen Margolis, Raymond Saá Meghan Shimek, and Julie Silvers. Texture is a vital part of any artwork. It adds depth, complexity, and visual interest that transforms an image and helps to define the form by creating atmosphere and depth. This exhibition brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists who are utilizing a variety of materials, including metallic thread, canvas strips, sewn paper, Merino and Targhee wool, moss, stones, and clay. In this exhibition, Scott Andresen explores themes of repair with hand dyed silk, metallic thread, and acrylic paint on canvas. He uses textile mending techniques as each piece goes through the separate stages of construction, destruction, ... More |
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| 'Oppenheimer' and the shadow of Stalin | | Campaign for the church of Santa Maria e San Donato on Murano nearly completed | | James Brooks: A Painting is a Real Thing - first full-scale retrospective in 35 years at Parrish Art Museum |
Any viewer of Oppenheimer the movie would be wise to hold the malignancy of Stalin, the scale of his success at both conquest and manipulation, in mind while watching its complex heros complex fate unfold, writes Ross Douthat. (Gabriel Alcala/The New York Times)
by Ross Douthat
NEW YORK, NY.- With its depth of historical re-creation, its cast of famous figures given tantalizingly brief appearances, its scientific, political and sociological threads running away in multiple directions, a movie like Christopher Nolans Oppenheimer doubles as an encouragement to read more deeply into the history it portrays. My newsroom colleague Amanda Taub offered a reading list recently, starting with the movies source material, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwins American Prometheus, and widening to books like Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb, John Herseys Hiroshima and even Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn depicting a visit paid in 1941 ... More | |
Detail of the cracks in the vault of the presbytery before conservation. Photo: Matteo De Fina.
VENICE.- In June 2022, Save Venice launched a campaign for the church of Santa Maria e San Donato on Murano to fund the conservation of the 12th-century mosaic of the Madonna Orante on a field of gold as well as structural integrations of the central apse and treatment of the exterior walls. Over the last year this substantial work has taken place with the collaboration of conservators, architects, engineers, and officials from the Italian Ministry of Culture and Catholic Diocese of Venice. The project is nearly completed, and the public inauguration has been planned for Sunday, September 24, 2023. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to The Thompson Family Foundation for its major support of the project, and to Linda & William DeBene and the Associazione Triveneta Chiavi DOro for their contributions. Nearly a century had passed since San Donatos wall mosaics were last conserved, and their brilliance had become ... More | |
James Brooks (American, 19061992). Ashawagh, 1970. Silkscreen, 22 x 30 inches.
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Gift of the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation.
WATER MILL, NY.- The Parrish Art Museum presents James Brooks: A Painting Is a Real Thingthe first full-scale retrospective in 35 years of work by the Abstract Expressionist, a celebrated painter of the 1950s New York School, who embraced experimentation and risk throughout his seven-decade career. The exhibition comprises over 100 of the most important paintings, prints, and works on paper by Brooks (19061992) from the 1920s to 1983, primarily selected from a major gift to the Museum by the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation in 2017, as well as loans from public and private collections. A Painting Is a Real Thing is organized by Klaus Ottmann, Ph.D., the newly appointed Adjunct Curator of the Collection, with support from Assistant Curator and Publications Coordinator Kaitlin Halloran. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully ... More |
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| Acropolis will limit visitor numbers as Europe tackles a tourist crush | | Museum of Arts and Design presents costume exhibition highlighting eras of Taylor Swift | | The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents a group exhibition featuring significant and diverse works of art |
The Acropolis, seen from afar in Athens, Oct. 5, 2018. (Eirini Vourloumis/The New York Times)
ATHENS.- Greece will start capping the number of visitors to the Acropolis, government officials said, an effort to curb overcrowding at its most popular archaeological site amid wider worries about the impact of tourists thronging European attractions. The cap of 20,000 visitors a day will be tested beginning Sept. 4, and similar measures will be rolled out to other ancient sites across the country, according to Greeces culture minister, Lina Mendoni. She said the restrictions were spurred by worries over potential damage to the site and the experiences of both staff members and visitors. Obviously tourism is desirable for the country, for all of us, Mendoni said to Greek radio on Wednesday. But we have to find a way of preventing overtourism from harming the monument. The restrictions on the ancient citadel above Athens come during a travel renaissance in the wake ... More | |
Installation view of Taylor Swift: Storyteller at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (May 20, 2023 to September 4, 2023). Photo by Bruce M. White; courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design is presenting Taylor Swift: Storyteller, a career-spanning look at the artistic reinventions of the 12-time GRAMMY Awardwinning artist who is one of the most prolific songwriters in history. The exhibition will be on view exclusively at MAD through September 4, 2023. Taylor Swift: Storyteller highlights include the cheerleader and ballerina ensembles from the award-winning music video for Shake It Off (2014); the red wedding dress and bellhop uniform from I Bet You Think About Me (Taylors Version) (From The Vault), which featured Miles Teller and was directed by Blake Lively (2021); and the sparkling ensemble from Bejeweled (2022), directed by Taylor Swift. Concert attire by couture fashion houses is being featured along with ... More | |
Jeffrey Meris, Tét Chaje, 2022, Galvanized steel, hydrocal, AC motor, hardware, light fixtures, epoxy resin, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown Gallery.
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is presenting Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art, a group exhibition presenting significant and diverse works of art, which incorporate or reference thirty-five of the 118 elements on the periodic table by artists Matthew Barney, Edward Burtynsky, Rachel Berwick, Dove Bradshaw, Julian Charrière, Compound Interest, The Dufala Brothers, Ashley Epps*, Philp Grausman, Tom Lehrer, Bryan McGovern Wilson, Jeffrey Meris, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Simon Patterson, Beverly Pepper, Winston Roeth*, Peter Selgin, Sunny A. Smith*, Edward Steed, Carlos Vega, Eleanor White*, and Robert Williams. Prima Materia will be on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art ... More |
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Wembley Park transforms into Playable Neighbourhood as giant digital screens become video game consoles
LONDON.- Londons newest playable neighbourhood, Wembley Park, is launching a unique, interactive digital PlayDays event concept across several dates this August. Starting Saturday 5th August, the first PlayDays: Creatures of Wembley Park event will turn the North West London neighbourhood into an interactive video game console where children of all ages can use everyday objects to make the urban landscape playable. The event has been curated by Walt, a new studio led by Iain Simons, founder and creative director of northern Englands acclaimed GameCity Interactive Entertainment Festival and co-founder of the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham, together with Wembley Park. Visitors will ... More
Mark Margolis, scene stealer from 'Breaking Bad,' dies at 83
NEW YORK, NY.- Mark Margolis, the prolific actor whose simmering air of menace as the fearsome former drug lord Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad transformed the innocent ding of a bellhop bell into a harbinger of doom, died on Thursday in New York. He was 83. His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital following a brief illness, was confirmed in a statement on Friday by his son, Morgan Margolis. Margolis lived in Manhattan. Margolis notched more than 160 credits in movies and on television, gaining particular notice with memorable roles in Brian De Palmas Scarface (1983), playing opposite Al Pacino as a cocaine-syndicate henchman, and in the Jim Carrey comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), in which he played Venturas aggrieved landlord with delicious malevolence. He also became a go-to actor for director Darren Aronofsky, appearing ... More
Award-winning Bay of Plenty artist Alex Miln announces his latest exhibitions
HAMILTON.- Award-winning Papamoa-based artist Alex Miln announced two upcoming exhibitions in New Zealand, which will showcase his unique 3D sculptural art pieces, which combine a clever play on form, function and medium with a dash of satire. From 12 August - 14 September, Alex will be showcasing his Signs Fiction exhibition at the Soul Gallery in Hamilton. The works within the exhibition question how Americana popular culture has seeped into New Zealand and helped to shape Kiwiana pop culture. Alex says, Kiwiana didnt develop in isolation, it was inspired by American popular culture, which has slowly infiltrated our society. While we have our own perceptions about our own iconic imagery, the works that Ive created ask us to put aside our own perceptions and look under the rug to uncover the full story, even if it reveals an inconvenient ... More
Nancy Race exhibition opens at MAGallery
MADISON, GA.- Continuing its tradition of introducing dynamic new artists to the Madison/Morgan County community, MAGallery will be hosting a month-long exhibition by abstract artist Nancy Race. Celebrating Freedom opens with a catered reception and live music on Friday, August 18 from 6 8 PM, where guests will have the opportunity to meet Ms. Race and mingle with other artists and guests. This is a free reception, and the public is invited to attend. The exhibition will remain at MAGallery through September 16, and all works are available for purchase. Mixed media, collage and random hardware store implements are Ms. Races tools of the trade, with which she creates pieces either organic or geometric in nature, but always colorful. Race describes her process as intuitive and one that allows her the freedom to create with abandon through vigorous ... More
MoMA PS1 opens an exhibition by a sibling duo working as artists and musicians
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 is presenting a newly commissioned, multimedia installation made collaboratively by Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, b. 1985, Inland Empire, CA) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton (b. 1983, San Diego, CA), a sibling duo working as artists and musicians who belong to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people. On view from March 16 through October 2, 2023 in PS1s double-height ground-floor gallery, this immersive work interlaces sound and music with a mural that incorporates personal stories from the artists family and the Aymara comprising several Indigenous nations who live across the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Southern Peru, and Northern Chile. Honoring their great-great-grandparents, Aymara leaders Francisco Tancara and Rosa Quiñones, the artists incarnate their elders' dream, ... More
Exhibit Columbus announces 2023 Opening Weekend events
COLUMBUS, IN.- Landmark Columbus Foundation announced the Opening Weekend of the 2023 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition, Public by Design, with the Opening Celebration on Friday, August 25, and a day of free, public events on Saturday, August 26. The Exhibit Columbus community (including the Curatorial Team, Landmark Columbus Foundation Staff and Board, Participants, volunteers, and supporters) has been working together for over a year to create what will be a ground-breaking exhibition that showcases how art and architecture can help build a sense of belonging while revitalizing and reimagining historic downtowns as equitable, beautiful, and joyful places. This is the only exhibition of its kind that engages in an international dialogue connected to the biennial exhibition structure while exploring the challenges that cities ... More
Surf culture on the North shore of Hawai'i - new photo book from Damiani
OAHU, HAWAII.- Oregon-based photographer Brown W. Cannon III has been a surfer for more than three decades, with a family legacy in Hawaii for nearly a century. NORTH (Damiani Books, 2023) compiles a series he has been working on for more than ten years that captures the allure of surf culture and community on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii. All subjects were photographed by Cannon against a 10x20 foot cloth backdrop that serves to highlight every detail of their faces, bodies, and personalities. Scars, taut muscles, wrinkles, sun-weathered skin, ornate tattoos, their gear and tools of their trade all tell a visual story of life on the water. Twenty-one subjects shared personal narratives with writers Steve Hawk and Bruce Jenkins in 2023, in a talk-story format that pays homage to Hawaiian tradition. Some of the tales are funny, some are harrowing, ... More
Paper Monument's 'Track changes: a handbook for art criticism' now available
BROOKLYN, NY.- Paper Monuments publication Track changes: a handbook for art criticism, edited by Mira Dayal and Josephine Heston is now available for purchase through n+1. This timely collection of essays by 25 art writers and editors is a rigorous and multifaceted guide to the practice of art criticism todaya mentor in book form. ABOUT TRACK CHANGES: Written by art critics for art critics, the book will be equally valuable for those entering the field as it is for those with established careers. It differs from many publications on art writing by foregrounding principles and intentions, with insights from diverse critics on the choices they make in their writing and why. Case studies, conversational excerpts, manifestos, and reflections offer a collective response to a set of ongoing questions: How do critics and editors o ... More
Centre Pompidou presents "Over the Rainbow"
PARIS.- This exhibition features over 500 works and documents, mainly from the Centre Pompidou collection. Starting in the early 20th century, it illustrates how artists have helped to transform the representation of minority sexualities and participated in campaigns by LGBTQIA+ communities to gain recognition of their rights, supporting an emancipation movement after witnessing the formation of transgressive, sometimes clandestine subcultures opening up the way to the assertion of open activism in the public sphere in the late 1960s. Rather than providing a unidimensional account, Over the Rainbow* proposes a constellation of diverse works with one point in common: each in its own way asserts what homophobic representation denigrates. Rooted in an eminently social dimension, the works exhibited are mainly deployed in disciplines ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller was born August 08, 1646. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August 1646 - 19 October 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. In this image: Sir Godfrey Kneller - Self portrait.
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