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Maxime Lasseron, researching his doctorate at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris, inspects the femur of a Sauropod on July 24, 2019, after it was discovered earlier in the week during excavations at the palaeontological site of Angeac-Charente, near Châteauneuf-sur- Charente, south western France. The 140 million-years-old, two meters long, 500 kilogramme femur of the Jurassic period Sauropod, the largest herbivorous dinosaur known to date, was discovered nestled in a thick layer of clay by a team of volunteer excavators from the National Museum of Natural History working at the palaeontological site. Other bones from the animal's pelvis were also unearthed. GEORGES GOBET / AFP.
ANGEAC-CHARENTE (AFP).- Scientists have unearthed a huge two-metre (6.5-foot) dinosaur bone in a winegrowing village in southwestern France dubbed a "national treasure" for its prehistoric gems. The 140-million-year-old thigh bone, which weighs 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds), is the latest discovery at the vast Angeac-Charente palaeontological site near Bordeaux, where experts and volunteers have dug up thousands of bones over the past decade. But thanks to its remarkably good condition, the femur -- which scientists say probably belonged to a gigantic sauropod -- could help piece together an incomplete set of bones which the latest find resembles. "We were wondering how big it was. We kept saying, 'Oh, there's more!'" said Maxime Lasseron, the doctoral student who made the gigantic discovery. The largest land animals ever to roam the Earth, sauropods were massive plant-eating dinosaurs with a long neck and tail, towering up to 18 metres (59 feet) tall. "It cost me a bit of money, because ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The New Museum is presenting the first New York solo museum presentation by New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg (b. 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina), on view in the Museum's Second Floor Galleries from June 26 to September 15, 2019. "Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces" premieres a new video installation, Spaghetti Blockchain (2019), alongside several of Rottenberg's recent video installations and kinetic sculptures.
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| | | Julien's Auctions announces Property from the Life and Career of Mae West | | Sam Gilliam joins Pace Gallery | | Christie's to offer the remarkable private collection of Jeremy Lancaster |
An inscribed "Mae West" life preserver presented to West by Major George Gaines in 1954. The life preserver is signed by many military members. Accompanied by an image of West being presented with the life preserver. 12 by 19 by 2 1/2 inches. Estimate: $600-800.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced its highly anticipated event Property from the Life and Career of Mae West auction, part of the Legendary Women of Hollywood two-day extravaganza taking place on Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, 2019 at The Standard Oil Building in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com. This special event celebrates the trailblazing career and style of the 1930s American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol. The star who coined legendary one liners such as, "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better," will showcase a dazzling collection of ornate headdresses, tiaras, jewelry, wigs, film and stage worn bodiced gowns and more. Born in Brooklyn ... More | |
Sam Gilliam. Courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Photography by Fredrik Nilsen Studio.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery announced representation of Sam Gilliam, marking the first time the artist will be represented by a New York-based gallery in his six-decade career. Pace has long-championed an innovative and boundary-breaking approach to painting from the work of artists like Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, and Robert Ryman, among many others. Gilliams enduring dedication to expanding the very idea of what painting can be is a vital part of this history. Pace will work in close collaboration with David Kordansky, whose Los Angeles-based gallery has represented Gilliam for many years. Sam Gilliam has been a radical and influential artist since his works first appeared on the scene in the mid-sixties. Inventing the path by which the canvas was freed of its support, he transformed the possibilities of picture making internationally. Draping the canvases in space, they invoke natural phenomena, like experiencing the Auror ... More | |
Pablo Picasso, Jeune homme. Bronze with dark brown patina. Height: 31.5/8in. (80.5cm.) Conceived in wood in Cannes, 6 June 1958; two examples cast in bronze by Valsuani at a later date. Estimate: £900,000-1,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies Frieze Week programme will be launched with a dedicated auction of the remarkable private collection of Jeremy Lancaster on 1 October 2019. A chorus of vivid colour, radical form and brilliant innovation, the collection showcases some of the greatest achievements in post-war British painting, complemented by a stellar selection of European and American works. Many of the works were acquired through the gallery of Leslie Waddington, and a number have passed through notable collections such as Herbert Read, E. J. Power and Charles Saatchi. Such distinguished provenance is testament not only to a shared championship of the post-war British art scene, but also to the exchange with the European and American avant-gardes in which Waddington and his clients played such a vital role. Several of the works ... More |
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| | | New Museum presents the first major New York solo museum exhibition by Mika Rottenberg | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens Mary Corse's first solo museum survey | | Exhibition includes a selection of rare cameras from the 19th century to present |
Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces, 2019. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting the first New York solo museum presentation by New Yorkbased artist Mika Rottenberg (b. 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina), on view in the Museums Second Floor Galleries until September 15, 2019. Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces premieres a new video installation, Spaghetti Blockchain (2019), alongside several of Rottenbergs recent video installations and kinetic sculptures. Employing absurdist satire to address critical issues of our time, Rottenberg creates videos and installations that offer subversive allegories for contemporary life. Her works interweave documentary elements and fiction, and often feature protagonists who work in factory-like settings, manufacturing goods ranging from cultured pearls (NoNoseKnows, 2015) to the millions of brightly colored plastic wholesale items sold in Chinese superstores (Cosmic Generator, 2017). Mika Rottenberg: Easypieces takes ... More | |
Mary Corse, Untitled (Octagonal Blue), 1964, metal flakes in acrylic on canvas, 93 à 67 1/2 in., collection of the artist, courtesy Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Lisson Gallery, and Pace Gallery, © Mary Corse, photograph © Mary Corse.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents Mary Corse: A Survey in Light, the artists first solo museum survey, from July 28 through November 11, 2019. The exhibition, with 20 paintings, two sculptures, and three prints, brings together for the first time Corses key bodies of work, including her early shaped canvases, freestanding sculptures, and light encasements that she engineered in the mid-1960s. Also featured are her breakthrough White Light Paintings, begun in 1968, and the Black Earth series that she initiated after moving in 1970 from downtown Los Angeles to Topanga Canyon, where she lives and works today. Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with LACMA, Mary Corse: A Survey in Light was on view at the Whitney from June 8November ... More | |
Capt. Horatio Ross, [Self-portrait preparing a Collodion plate], 1856 - 1859. Albumen silver print, 7 7/8 Ã 6 3/8 in. Accession No. 84.XP.673.1 The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The camera, once a simple wooden box with a primitive lens and cap for controlling light, has undergone enormous changes since its invention, eventually becoming a tool that is in most peoples back pockets. In Focus: The Camera, on view July 30, 2019 January 5, 2020 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, explores the evolution of this ingenious device through a selection of historic cameras and photographs. During the early 19th century, the three essential components of photographya dark chamber, a light-sensitive substrate, and a method of fixing the imagewere used in different ways in the experiments of Nicéphore Niépce (French, 1765-1833), Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (French, 1787-1851), and William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800-1877). In subsequent decades, advancements such as flexible film stocks, built-in light meters, motor ... More |
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| | | RIBA announces shortlist for first Neave Brown Award for Housing | | Bulgarian singer hits high with record-breaking vocals | | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston announces new Perspectives Capital Campaign |
The Colville Estate. Photo: Peter Landers.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for the very first Neave Brown Award for Housing, named in honour of the late Neave Brown (1929 2018). Neave Brown was a socially-motivated, modernist architect, best known for designing a series of celebrated London housing estates. In 2018, he was awarded the UKs highest honour for architecture, the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, which is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen. The four housing developments in the running for the 2019 Neave Brown Award for Housing are: Thoughtful canalside development comprising six large apartment buildings, with distinctive saw-tooth roofs reflecting the site's industrial past, linked with rows of four storey townhouses. Designed for the University of Cambridge, this new residential quarter is an exemplar of integrated urban design. Incorporating a variety of housing types including generous ap ... More | |
Bulgarian singer Smilyana Zaharieva performs during an interview with AFP in a dome-shaped hall in the village of Starosel, on July 8, 2019. Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP.
STAROSEL (AFP).- Smilyana Zaharieva knew she had a gift when she saw her audience tremble or cry during her performances. Now an official Guinness world record confirms that the Bulgarian singer has one of the most powerful voices on the planet, which can stay pitch perfect despite being as loud as a rock concert. Zaharieva says she burst into tears when she received the official Guinness world record certificate last month, confirming she had achieved the loudest mezzo-soprano vocal note. "When I saw the monitor reading 113.8 decibels, it surprised me," the 48-year-old told AFP of her record-setting attempt last September. Irish teacher Annalisa Flanagan holds the world's loudest shouting record with 121 decibels (dB), but there was no previous singing record. The lively Bulgarian from the ... More | |
Renderings by TILTPIXEL, Houston, Texas. All images courtesy Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
HOUSTON, TX.- When a group of seven Houstonians founded Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1948, the groundwork was established for an institution that was ahead of its timenot just in Texas, but in the entire country. Since the very beginning, CAMHs perspective has been that of an industry leader that inspires and informs both cultural and social change while often offering a first look at the art and artists of tomorrows history booksall while providing free admission for everyone. As one of the oldest, major non-collecting contemporary art museums in the United States, the history of CAMH is one of trailblazing, fearlessness, and resilient passion. As the institution reaches its 70th birthday, these founding principles remain at the heart of the organization. It is with this pioneering spirit that CAMH launches a $3.1 million campaignits first capital campaign in 20 yearsto support a series of critical facility ... More |
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| | | Summer exhibition opens at the Redwood Library & Athenæum 'Per Barclay: House of Oil and Water' | | Moore College of Art & Design receives $5 million, largest-ever single gift from alumna Jane Walentas | | Artist adorns Egyptian cave church with biblical art |
Per Barclay House of Water.
NEWPORT, RI.- The Redwood Library & Athenaeum, the nations first purpose-built library structure and think space, presents Per Barclay: House of Oil and Water. Organized by the Redwood Contemporary Art Initiative (RCAI), the exhibition comprises three interconnected parts: Barclays six-foot glass house in the Redwood Delivery Room (Untitled, 2018), a clutch of the artists monumental Oil Room photographs in the Redwoods Peirce Prince gallery, and a site specific Oil Room installation in Abraham Redwoods eighteenth-century summer house outside on the Redwood grounds. The exhibition continues the Redwoods Material Politics project, a three-year slate of contemporary art programming that plumbs the political and social implications of the materials and processes of contemporary art. Exhibition curator Leora Maltz-Leca comments: By painting with oil and sculpting ... More | |
Jane and David Walentas.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- New York artist and philanthropist Jane Walentas, a 1966 graduate of Moore College of Art & Design, and her husband, David Walentas, have provided Moore with a gift of $5 millionthe single largest donation in the 170-year history of the College. This generous gift will fund scholarships for deserving women artists who wish to receive their education at Moore, the nations first and only visual art and design school for undergraduate women. Jane Walentas, who also received a Master of Fine Arts degree from NYU and worked for many years as an art director in cosmetic advertising for Elizabeth Arden, Avon and Estee Lauder, is a longtime member of Moores Board of Trustees, and played an integral role in the launch of Moores Visionary Woman Scholarship Program in 2005. She is well-known for restoring and operating Janes Carousel, a historic 1922 carousel ... More | |
This picture taken on May 30, 2019 shows a view of a relief sculpture made by Polish artist Mario at the St. Simon the Tanner Monastery complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo's eastern hillside Mokkatam district. Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Whistling a tune, Mario nimbly clambered up the scaffolding enveloping part of the rock-hewn St. Simon Monastery atop Cairo's Mokkatam hills to add the final touches to his latest sculpture. He had spent more than two decades carving the rugged insides of the seven cave churches and chapels of the monastery with designs inspired by biblical stories. It was all done to fulfil the wishes of the monastery's parish priest who met Mario in the early 1990s in Cairo. The Polish artist, who had arrived in Egypt earlier on an educational mission, was then looking for an opportunity to serve God at the monastery. "I want you to turn the mountain into an open Bible," Mario recalls the priest telling him. Back then, Mario had no experience in sculpting. But he ... More |
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Amy Smith-Stewart named Senior Curator at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
RIDGEFIELD, CONN.- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum announced that it has appointed Amy Smith-Stewart as Senior Curator. Smith-Stewart has been Curator at the Museum since September 2013 where she has organized twenty-nine exhibitions and projects. On view now at the Museum are three exhibitions organized by Smith-Stewart, Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art (accompanied by the artists first hardbound monograph co-published with Gregory R. Miller & Co.); N. Dash; and Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age. Smith-Stewarts unique perspective has brought artists to The Aldrich during seminal stages of their careersup and coming artists, such as Hayal Pozanti, Julia Rommel, David Brooks, Xaviera Simmons, Virginia Overton, and Jessi Reaves and mid-to-late career artists such as Mary Beth Edelson, Jackie Winsor, Suzanne ... More
Gavin Gardiner Ltd announces highlights included in its Auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns
AUCHTERARDER.- Gavin Gardiner Ltds auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns at the prestigious Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire on Monday, August 26, 2019 at 5pm will include a fine 12-bore Creative Art engraved round action ejector over and under gun by well-known Scottish gunmaker David McKay Brown. Built in 2006, it is estimated to fetch £18,000-24,000. David McKay Brown was apprenticed to Alex Martin of Glasgow in the year 1958 and subsequently by John Dickson and Son of Edinburgh for the last three years. In 1967 he set up his own business, initially repairing guns, but his ultimate intention was to build guns bearing his own name, the first McKay Brown gun being manufactured in 1974. David was impressed with the qualities of the Dickson round action and being a Scottish maker himself, he decided to build his ... More
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations presents "La Fabrique des illusions"
MARSEILLE.- Photography and its history have only ever been questioned from a point of view that has been distorted by painting or, more broadly, the graphic arts. La Fabrique des illusions suggests a different way of thinking about the origins of this medium, particularly in its relations to theatre and the performing arts. Orientalist photography can be just that special place for such a necessary overhaul, the latter having always functioned in the mode of simulation. In the 19th century, photography and theatre introduced new modes of representation. This was the time when visual spectacle was inventeda complex scenography with special effects and a mass of new images. The perspective of photography in all visual performances during the 19th century, especially in theatre, is based on common codes and references that are understood ... More
Hales Gallery now reprsents artist Sunil Gupta
LONDON.- Hales Gallery announced the representation of celebrated artist Sunil Gupta (b. 1953 New Delhi, India) across London and New York. Hales is dedicated to broadening the understanding of Guptas work and legacy, continuing the gallerys commitment to artists whose vital work has reshaped art history. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing a rich body of work that has pioneered a unique social and political commentary. The artists diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to complex themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history. Across a career predominantly focused on photography ... More
Dr. Pascal Bertrand receives Getty Rothschild Fellowship
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Getty and the Rothschild Foundation today announced Dr. Pascal Bertrand will be the fourth recipient of the Getty Rothschild Fellowship. The fellowship supports innovative scholarship in the history of art, collecting and conservation, using the collection and resources of both institutions. It offers the selected art historian, museum professional or conservator the opportunity to research and study at both the Getty in Los Angeles and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, England. Bertrand is currently Professor of Art History at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne in Pessac, France. His primary areas of research include the history of European tapestries (14th to 21st centuries), as well as the history of furniture and the decorative arts in general. Bertrand served as scientific and executive manager of ARACHNE, a research project ... More
University of Maryland, Phillips Collection announce book prize winner
WASHINGTON, DC.- The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection has awarded its latest University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize to the manuscript Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery. Written by Caitlin Beach, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at Fordham University, the manuscript addresses sculptures relationship to slavery and abolition in transatlantic contexts. The University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize supports publication of a first book by an emerging scholar presenting new research in modern or contemporary art from 1780 to the present. The winning books are published by the University of California Press, in collaboration with the University of Maryland and The Phillips Collection. The winning author also receives a $5,000 cash prize. This is the ... More
Exhibition focuses on the city of Athens and its constantly evolving artistic landscape
ATHENS.- The New Museum and the DESTE Foundation, in collaboration with the Benaki Museum, Athens, present The Same River Twice, an exhibition of Athens-based artists. The exhibition, on view at the Benaki Museum / Pireos 138 through September 22, 2019, focuses on the city of Athens and its constantly evolving artistic landscape, which is host to countless artist-run initiatives and exhibition spaces, cross-disciplinary happenings and collaborations, and a dauntless energy that has enticed many non-Greek artists to relocate and call Athens home. Featuring over thirty artists of diverse ages and nationalities, working across all mediums, the exhibition offers a portrait of a city with an artistic dynamism that continues to unfold as artists seek new models for creative output and exchange. The Same River Twice borrows its title from an aphorism attributed ... More
George Segal sculpture memorializing tragic events at Kent State University in 1970 on view in N.Y.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Jewish Museum presents Personas: George Segal's Abraham and Isaac, an installation of the life-sized plaster sculpture by American artist George Segal (American, 1924-2000), being shown at the Museum for the first time. The artist adapted the biblical story of Abraham, who was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac as proof of his obedience and faith in God, as an allegory for the 1970 tragedy at Kent State University in Ohio. During the incident, National Guardsmen, who were ordered to control an escalated anti-Vietnam protest, shot and killed four students, wounding nine others. The exhibition is on view from July 19, 2019 through October 2020. In addition to the sculpture Abraham and Isaac (In Memory of May 4, 1970, Kent State University) (1978), the exhibition includes the iconic photograph taken by then Kent State photo ... More
Farah Al Qasimi's first solo exhibition at a US institution includes the premiere of a new video
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center announces List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi, the artists first solo exhibition at a US institution. Working in photography, video, and performance, Al Qasimi considers how images inscribe identity along the lines of gender, nationality, and class. Her photographs borrow conventions from sources as diverse as documentary photography and Renaissance painting, manipulating codified expectations of how images are constructed and understood between Euro-American and Middle Eastern cultural contexts. We are delighted to work with Farah on this timely presentation. Her photographs and moving images are as visually lush as they're controlled, offering insight into complex historical and contemporary conditions that influence the formation of gender and cultural identity, says exhibition curator Henriette ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Henry Moore was born July 30, 1898. July 30, 1898.- Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. In this image: English Sculptor Henry Moore stands beside his sculpture "Seated Nude" on display as part of the "Art 70" show in Basel, Switzerland, June 9, 1970. Moore represented Britain in the show.
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