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In an undated image provided by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, seven bird bone flutes from Eynan-Mallaha, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests. (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem via The New York Times)
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- In flight, the Eurasian kestrel is mostly silent, a small falcon that seems to defy physics as it faces the wind and hovers in midair, tail spread out like a fan. Flapping its wings vigorously, the bird of prey catches every eddy of the breeze while scanning the ground below for quarry. Perched in its breeding grounds, however, the kestrel emits a series of raspy screams, each note a single-syllabled kik-kik-kik. In June, a team of Israeli and French archaeologists proposed that 12,000 years ago, the Natufians, people of a Stone Age culture in the Levant and Western Asia, mimicked the raspy trills of the Eurasian kestrel with tiny notched flutes, or aerophones, carved from waterfowl bones. The flutes, which were discovered decades ago at a site in northern Israel but were inspected only recently, may have been used as hunting aids, for musical and dancing practices or for communicating with birds over short distances, according to the studys authors, who published their paper in ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Curtain call variations on a folly Abbas Akhavan CC 003 Photo by David Stjernholm.
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| Joan Mitchell Foundation has announced 15 recipients of 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowships | | Historic handwritten Apple-1 advertisement draft by Steve Jobs sold for $175,759 at auction | | Haggerty Museum of Art opening first exhibition of Dutch and Flemish art in more than 30 Years |
Sable Smith, Gravity, 2022. Powder coated aluminum, 84 x 60 x 24 inches
NEW YORK, NY.- The Joan Mitchell Foundation announced the 15 recipients of its 2023 Joan Mitchell Fellowships, which award $60,000 in unrestricted funds to artists from across the United States. This years artists reflect a diverse array of practices: from installations that demonstrate the impact of solar energy, to works made from tulle that use color and movement as a feminine rejoinder to the evolution of abstractionism; from land- based art practices that engage with questions of resilience, survival, and memory among Indigenous communities, to sculptural installations that explore the micro-ecologies of non- living systems; and painters and sculptors working in a spectrum of materials, including cement, lace, beads, and the artists hair. Central to the Joan Mitchell Fellowships is longitudinal support that recognizes that the greatest benefits of fellowship opportunities are often nurtured over time, ... More | |
Steve Jobs' Handwritten Apple-1 Ad Copy Fetches $175,759 at Auction.
BOSTON, MA.- An original handwritten advertisement for the Apple-1 Computer, penned entirely by Steve Jobs, sold for $175,759, according to Boston-based RR Auction.The historic artifact, a rough draft specification sheet for the groundbreaking Apple-1, unveils Steve Jobs' meticulous attention to detail and entrepreneurial foresight. The advertisement sheet bears Jobs' full signature in lowercase print, "steven jobs." It features contact information, including his parents' home address and phone numberhistorically, the original headquarters of the Apple Computer Company. Within the draft, Steve Jobs meticulously highlights the technical specifications of the Apple-1, revealing that it was designed to utilize a 6800, 6501, or 6502 microprocessor. He suggests that the 6501 or 6502 is recommended due to the availability of "basic" software. The document delves further into the onboard features, ... More | |
Southern Netherlandish painter, True Likeness of Ignatius of Loyola, 1597/1622. Oil on copper. Museum purchase, Gift of Marquette University Jesuit Community. Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- On Friday, August 25 the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University opened Image in Dispute: Dutch & Flemish Art from the Haggerty Museum of Art's Collection. Curated by Kirk Nickel, PhD, Marc and Lillian Rojtman Consulting Curator of European Art, the exhibition features more than 50 paintings, engravings, and etchings selected from the Haggerty's holdings of Early Modern art. The Haggertys first exhibition of historical Dutch and Flemish art in more than 30 years, Image in Dispute explores how artists in the Low Countriesmodern Belgium, Luxembourg, and Netherlandsresponded to the extraordinary upheaval experienced in their homeland between 1560 and 1680. Religious difference was an explosive factor during this period, contributing to ongoing tensions and acutely visible in the shocking ... More |
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| Kewenig Galerie now representing: Johanna Dumet | | New Head of Collection at Hamburger Kunsthalle: Corinne Diserens | | Fine Art Asia 2023 and Ink Asia 2023 integrate art into technology: New Trends in Collecting |
Festmahl s'il vous plaît!, Dumet's first exhibition at pied-à -terre, will open on 1 September. The show will primarily focus on collages.
BERLIN .- The French painter Johanna Dumet refers to significant genres of European art history with her works. With gouache, oil paint and oil pastels in bold hues, in particular fond of pink and rose, she paints and collages views and motifs that can unfold into narrative scenes. Her style radiates an almost naive impulsiveness and unusually strong energy. She does not correct herself during the painting process and allows for imperfection, particularly in interior scenes and views that evoke personal memories. Her still lifes, which often accompany these space-related paintings, depict flowers, fruit and vegetables as well as randomly picturesque objects or arranged meals. While such compositions may recall the immediacy of social media, Dumet aims ... More | |
Internationally renowned curator takes up new post on September 1, 2023.
HAMBURG.- Art historian and curator Dr. Corinne Diserens will become head of the collection of Works on Paper/Photography after 1960 and Media at the Hamburger Kunsthalle as of 1 September 2023. She will thus be working with one of Germanys foremost museum collections of works on paper and photography as well as with an outstanding media collection encompassing over 600 works (video, film, sound and new media) dating from 1960 to the present. Among the artists represented are Hanne Darboven, Dieter Roth, Jill Baroff, Helen Cammock, Thomas Schütte, Walid Raad/The Atlas Group, and photographers ranging from Cindy Sherman and Louise Lawler to Candida Höfer and Thomas Demand. Diserens has a deep grounding in international contemporary ... More | |
Lee Kuang Yu (b. 1954), Celestial vase. Bronze, L. 33 x W. 32 x H. 199 cm. Chini Gallery, Taipei.
HONG KONG.- Fine Art Asia 2023, Asias leading international fine art fair, and Ink Asia 2023, the art fair dedicated to ink art, which is resuming after a three-year hiatus, will be held alongside each other at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from Thursday 5 October to Sunday 8 October 2023, with a VIP Preview on Wednesday, 4 October 2023. Fine Art Asia 2023 and Ink Asia 2023 will return to their normal scale following the pandemic. We would like to extend our warmest welcome to the return of our regular overseas exhibitors, whom we have missed in the past few years. Fine Art Asia 2023 and Ink Asia 2023 will be staged at the peak of the art season in Hong Kong, showcasing a wide range of collection categories and exploring the inextricable relationship between ... More |
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| Survey of new work by Griselda Rosas opens at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | | The Freedman Gallery presents 'Parallels and Rupture' group exhibition curated by Matthew Garrison | | UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher's Baltimore" |
Griselda Rosas, Un camello en el ojo de una aguja [A Camel in the Eye of a Needle] 2022. Found wood, cement, pigment, and rubber from Michoacán, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photography: Daniel Lang for MCASD.
BERKELEY, CA.- The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will present an exhibition of new work by Griselda Rosas, a San Diego- and Tijuana-based artist whose practice explores themes of identity and migration particularly within the US-Mexico border region. MATRIX 282 / Griselda Rosas: Yo te cuido features more than a dozen new artworks by Rosas, centered around two major sculptures that exemplify the artists use of organic and found materials. The exhibition marks the latest installment of the museums MATRIX Program, a vanguard exhibition series that highlights distinctive and important voices in contemporary art. The subtitle of the ... More | |
Willie Cole, Domestic Shield XV, 2020, iron scorched on canvas with resin and wax mounted on wood, 54 x 16 x 2½ inches, image courtesy of Alexander and Bonin, New York.
READING, PA.- The Freedman Gallery opened yesterday Parallels and Rupture, an exhibition curated by Matthew Garrison, that looks at the exploration, experimentation and investigations essential to the creative process while acknowledging the nonlinear nature of art today and its seamless combination of digital and traditional techniques. Art has always been a continuum of parallels and rupture as artists embrace developments in the technologies, methodologies, attitudes, and concepts unique to the historic moment in which they reside. In the process, perspectives and values are chronicled as artists investigate and question the prevailing aesthetics and tenets of their time. Parallels and Rupture builds ... More | |
Amos Badertscher, West$Side Billy #1, 2001. Courtesy of the Artist. © Amos Badertscher.
BALTIMORE, MD.- UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents the exhibition Lost Boys: Amos Badetschers Baltimore, opening on August 30 and closing on December 15, 2023. Lost Boys: Amos Badertschers Baltimore is the first career retrospective of artist Amos Badertscher in the United States. Between the 1960s and 2005, Badertscher (American, 19362023) documented hustlers, club kids, go-go dancers, drag queens, drug addicts, friends, and lovers who were part of LGBTQ+ life in Baltimore. A self-taught photographer, Badertscher worked on the fringes of the polite society into which he was born as an upper-middle class white Baltimorean. Breaking all the rules of documentary photography, as he stated, he developed a signature style of spare portraits staged in his home studio. ... More |
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| Kiang Malingue at Frieze Seoul 2023 with exhibition by Chou Yu-Cheng | | The Strawser Auction Group announces results from the sale of the majolica collection of Ed Flower | | Madison Square Garden given shortest ever permit by council committees |
Chou Yu-Cheng, Origami #47, 2023. Acrylic on paper, paper inlaid on linen, 220 x 200 cm.
SEOUL.- Kiang Malingue will be presenting at the 2023 edition of Frieze Seoul a solo presentation by Chou Yu-Cheng, showcasing latest abstract paintings from the Origami series. Chou is known in recent years for systematically developing a body of abstract paintings that derives from the Moody series, first made when the pandemic erupted. These abstract compositions previously incorporated in large-scale mix-media installations such as Chemical Gilding, Keep Calm, Galvanise, Pray, Gradient, Ashes, Manifestation, Unequal, Dissatisfaction, Capitalise, Incense Burner, Survival, Agitation, Hit, Day Light, V are made by layering meticulously coloured sheets of paper in different forms: Chou first applies colour gradients on paper through carefully controlling the flow of the water-based paint, organising and distributing the scattered particles. He then tries out different compositions before combining ... More | |
The surprise lot of the auction was this Art of the Earth Palissy rustic basin by Charles-Jean Avisseau, dated 1856. The piece blasted through its $2,000-$3,000 estimate to finish at $49,200.
WOLCOTTVILLE, IND.- Two majolica creations by the French artist Charles-Jean Avisseau sold for a combined $71,340 and a pair of majolica pieces by George Jones together brought $57,455 at the Part 1 sale of the outstanding majolica collection of Ed Flower (1929-2022) and his wife Marilyn (1930-2017), held August 23rd in Kulpsville. Pa., by Strawser Auction Group. It was the first of three auctions dedicated to the Flower collection. Two more will follow, with dates and times to be determined. The collection in its entirety comprises over 600 pieces in all, by many of the finest names in all of majolica: Minton, George Jones, Holdcroft, Wedgwood, Hugo Lonitz, Palissy, Massier, T.C. Brown Westhead Moore & Co., Copelands and others. The August 23rd auction was well attended both in-person and online, said Michael Strawser of Strawser ... More | |
Madison Square Garden, which is slated for renovation as part of the Penn District revamp led by Vornado Realty Trust, on April 10, 2023. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
by Dana Rubinstein
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Garden, which bills itself as the worlds most famous arena, appears to have lost its bid to operate in perpetuity on top of Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. On Monday, two New York City Council committees voted to grant Madison Square Garden Entertainment a five-year operating permit, half the length of its current 10-year operating permit that expired last month. If the full City Council defers to the committees stance as expected when it votes in September, it will give the Garden its shortest permit in its history; its initial permit was for 50 years. At this time the Council cannot determine the long-term viability of an arena at this location, therefore five years is an appropriate term for this ... More |
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How to track a songbird from Alaska to Peru
NEW YORK, NY.- For an olive-sided flycatcher, migration can be a marathon. Some of the soot-colored songbirds travel more than 15,000 miles a year, winging their way from South America to Alaska and then back again. Its a dizzyingly long journey for a bird that weighs just over an ounce. Alaska populations of olive-sided flycatchers are just on this razor-thin margin of whats biologically possible, said Julie Hagelin, a wildlife research biologist at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and a senior research scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. To survive the long trip, the birds need safe places to rest and refuel. But the locations of these little utopias were a mystery, Hagelin said. So in 2013, she and her colleagues set out to unravel it by tracking the birds. They hoped that identifying the critical stopover sites might provide clues about ... More
The eternal search for the 'Nemesis Bird'
NEW YORK, NY.- In the world of birding, Peter Kaestner stands alone. No one has seen and identified more birds than Kaestner, a retired U.S. diplomat who aspires to become the first birder to spot 10,000 of the planets roughly 11,000 avian species. With 9,697 on his eBird list so far, he is getting close. Yet for all the birds he has looked for and found, there remain a few that he has looked for and not found. He doesnt forget them. There was the Congo peacock a rare multicolored pheasant of the Central African rainforest that he missed in 1978, when his traveling party was stymied by a crash on the remote airstrip they planned to search. There was a black-browed albatross he pursued off the German coast in 2015, some 300 miles and a four-hour ferry ride from Kaestners home in Frankfurt at the time. I made four 10-hour trips to twitch it, to no ... More
"Entwined" being presented at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE
LONDON.- Sundaram Tagore Gallery in tandem with sepiaEYE is presenting Entwined,
curated by Esa Epstein. Featuring the work of Serena Chopra, Pamela Singh, Qiana Mestrich, and Gayatri Ganju, the exhibition is being hosted at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in London. Each artist explores the intersections between nature, philosophy, spirituality, and the natural sciences. Defying distinctions between the internal and external, material and non-material, living or dead, their photographs reveal the artists fascination with nature, humankinds interaction with the earth, and the impact of one on the other. From Ganjus dream imagery to the reflection in community in Singhs, the photographers take on, in artist Carolina Caycedo terms, the feminine and feminist labor of care at the center of environmentalism. ... More
In Japan's 'Gateway to Asia': Street food, night life and a thriving arts scene
NEW YORK, NY.- Theres a soothing hum to laid-back Fukuoka, the largest city on the Japanese island of Kyushu. Its hard to miss on a weekend afternoon as you stroll down Meiji-dori Avenue, the citys wide downtown spine, passing places like the Kabuki theater Hakata-za and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Eventually, you will reach the slow-flowing Naka River, whose banks are lined with the traditional open-air food stalls known as yatai, a signature attraction in this culinary and arts haven. With a sprawling commercial port that was Japans largest between the 12th and 16th centuries and which, to this day, links the country with China, Korea and other parts of the Pacific, Fukuoka has long been considered Japans Gateway to Asia. A popular destination for vacationing Japanese, the city is also drawing tourists from abroad, especially noticeable since ... More
Nicholas Hitchon, 65, who aged 7 years at a time in the 'Up' documentaries
NEW YORK, NY.- Nicholas Hitchon, whose life was chronicled in the acclaimed Up series of British documentaries, beginning when he was a boy in the English countryside in 1964 and continuing through the decades as he grew to become a researcher and professor at the University of Wisconsin, died July 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was 65. A posting on the universitys website announced his death, from throat cancer. In the most recent installment of the series, 63 Up, in 2019, he described his struggles with the disease. Hitchon was a student in a one-room primary school in Littondale, north of Manchester, when a researcher working on a Granada Television project came looking for a 7-year-old willing to participate in what was originally viewed as a one-shot TV special. Young Nick was only 6, but he was talkative and unintimidated ... More
Queer history was made in '90s clubs. These flyers captured it.
NEW YORK, NY.- In the new book Getting In, journalist David Kennerley takes an electric visual stroll through New Yorks 1990s gay club scene. Not with photos, exactly, but through flyers more than 200 of them featuring polychromatic drag queens and come-hither hunks who enticed him to dance to Frankie Knuckles and Junior Vasquez remixes at popular nightclubs like Twilo and the Palladium, and parties like Jackie 60 and Lick It! People threw the flyers on the ground, Kennerley, 63, said in a recent interview at a midtown cafe. I thought, why would you throw this out? Its going to be a memento. Kennerley assembled the book from his collection of more than 1,200 flyers that he acquired from several sources promoters outside clubs, now-closed gay shops and bars, club mailing lists all before social media. A self-described ... More
Birds without borders
NEW YORK, NY.- Americas birds are in trouble. Since 1970, nearly 3 billion have vanished from the skies over North America. Most of those losses have been in migratory species, which may breed in the United States or Canada in the summer before heading elsewhere for the winter. Many spend more time on Caribbean beaches or in Costa Rican forests than they do in American backyards. Theyre really visitors to North America, said Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, co-director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Protecting these birds will require working across international borders and safeguarding all of their habitats, many of which are under threat. If migrating birds lose their winter refuges, the consequences will ripple across the hemisphere. If we lose Central Americas forests, we can lose ... More
Undeterred by inclement weather this summer, road line slithers towards Eden St
BAR HARBOR, ME.- Like the water moccasin that Andy Goldsworthy references in his description of Road Line, his latest monumental permanent art installation taking place this summer on the campus of College of the Atlantic, the renowned artist and his crew of local ma- sons and artisans have been swamped in an ongoing trend of wet weather, as the piece snakes for more than a thousand feet from Frenchman Bay to Eden Street. The Road Line art installa- tion is expected to be completed by early September. A native of England, who had adopted Scotland as his permanent home years ago, Goldsworthy has proceeded with his installation undeterred by Maines unusually soggy sum- mer weather, which is more akin to that of the U.K. than a typical summer in Maine. The Road Line sculpture, on which Goldsworthy officially began work in late ... More
67th BFI London Film Festival announces LFF Expanded's programme of Immersive Art and Extended Realities
LONDON.- The 67th BFI London Film Festival (4 15 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce the line-up for LFF Expanded, the Festivals programme of Immersive Art and Extended Realities, running from 6 22 October 2023. The BFI London Film Festival celebrates the moving image in all its forms from shorts and features to television and immersive and LFF Expanded invites audience to explore and experience these powerful new ways of telling stories on screen. Featuring British and international artists, filmmakers and creative teams, such as Shirin Neshat, Tania de Montaigne, Bjarne Melgaard, Karen Palmer, Darren Emerson and Anagram, this years programme offers audiences ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely died August 30, 1991. Jean Tinguely (22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland - 30 August 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely's art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society. In this image: Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely poses next to one of his sculptural machines at a retrospective exhibition of his kinetic art works on December 6, 1988 at the Centre Beaubourg (Centre Georges Pompidou) in Paris, France.
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