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In this file photo taken on August 11, 2013 Moais -- stone statues of the Rapa Nui culture -- are seen on the Ahu Tongariki site on Easter Island, 3700 km off the Chilean coast in the Pacific Ocean. GREGORY BOISSY / AFP.
SANTIAGO (AFP).- Easter Island's indigenous authorities have asked Chile's government to help them recover a unique monumental Moai statue removed 150 years ago and now kept in the British Museum in London. The 2.4-meter (seven feet) tall Hoa Hakananai'a sculpture was allegedly pilfered illegally by Richard Powell aboard the "Topaze" and given to Queen Victoria as a gift. "It's a unique piece, the only tangible link that accounts for two important stages in our ancestral history," the island's Rapa Nui authorities said on Tuesday. Of the more than 900 giant humanoid sculptures on the island, most were carved from volcanic ash between the sixth and 17th centuries, but the Hoa Hakananai'a, which means "the stolen or hidden friend" in the island's indigenous Rapa Nui language, is unique as it was made from basalt. Figures associated with the Tangata Manu (bird ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Tourists take pictures and enjoy the panoramic view of the Eiffel Tower and the city of Paris, from the Tour Montparnasse on August 6, 2018. GERARD JULIEN / AFP
| Cast from the past: World's oldest fishing net sinkers found in South Korea | | Display brings together 31 objects collected through the British Museum's Modern Egypt Project | | The J. Paul Getty Museum opens "Art of Three Faiths: a Torah, a Bible, and a Qur'an" |
Researchers excavated sinkers from South Korea's Cheongju city. AFP PHOTO.
SEOUL (AFP).- Archaeologists excavating a cave in South Korea have found evidence that suggests human beings were using sophisticated techniques to catch fish as far back as 29,000 years ago, much earlier than experts previously thought. Carbon dating procedures on the fourteen limestone sinkers, unearthed in the eastern county of Jeongseon in June, have pushed back "the history of fishing by nets by some 19,000 years", Yonsei University Museum director Han Chang-gyun told AFP. Previously, researchers had excavated sinkers -- stones used to weigh down nets for catching fish -- in Japan's Fukui Prefecture and South Korea's Cheongju city, but those discoveries were all dated back to the Neolithic Era and believed to be around 10,000 years old, Han said. "This discovery suggests humans in the Upper Paleolithic era were actively catching fish for their diet", he added. The limestone sinkers, each ... More | |
Banque Misr (Bank of Egypt) emblem, 1960s © the Trustees of the British Museum.
LONDON.- The Asahi Shimbun Display The Past is Present: Becoming Egyptian in the 20th Century explores how symbols of the ancient past were reworked within modern Egypt to create a visual culture for a cosmopolitan and diverse society. This focussed display, curated by Mohamed Elshahed with the British Museum, brings together 31 objects collected through the British Museums Modern Egypt Project, to explore the ways in which a nation brands itself by drawing on its rich ancient past. While the word Egypt often evokes images of the Pyramids, for most Egyptians today these monuments on the outskirts of Cairo are far removed from everyday life. During the 20th century, a period which marked great change, modernisation and growth in Egypt, symbols encapsulating the distant past appeared regularly in consumer branding and identity making. On display is a Banque Misr (Bank of Egypt) emblem, which combines ... More | |
Decorated Text Page (Book of Genesis) from the Rothschild Pentateuch, France and/or Germany, 1296. Leaf: 10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (27.5 x 21 cm). Ms. 116 (2018.43), fol. 32v.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum recently announced the acquisition of the Rothschild Pentateuch, a manuscript of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Torah. Its acquisition, coupled with works already in the Museums manuscripts collection, allows the Getty to represent the medieval art of illumination in sacred texts from the three Abrahamic religionsJudaism, Christianity, and Islam. Art of Three Faiths: A Torah, a Bible, and a Quran, on view August 7, 2018 through February 3, 2019, showcases three spectacular examples of each of these three: a Christian Bible and a Quran will be shown alongside the newly acquired Torah. This landmark acquisition fulfills one of the Museums longstanding goals of adding to our collection a Hebrew manuscript that can stand comparison in quality and importance ... More |
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| Gagosian appoints Han-I Wang as Senior Director, spearheading the gallery's development in Asia | | Exhibition offers viewers insight into Larry Bell's lifelong dedication to the glass cube | | Detroit Institute of Arts' recent acquisitions on display in "Out of the Crate" gallery |
Han-I Wang. Photo: Courtesy of Gagosian.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian announced the appointment of Han-I Wang as Senior Director, based in Hong Kong. With her deep expertise in modern and contemporary art, Han-I Wang will be integrally involved in the gallerys exhibition program and participation in Asian and global art fairs. She will further develop Gagosians extensive network of private and public clients across Asia. Han-I joins Managing Director Nick Simunovic who has led Gagosians activities in Asia since 2007. Previously, Han-I served as Vice President and Specialist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art department of Christies New York and Hong Kong. There, she developed a keen awareness of the unique characteristics of the Asian market and worked closely with collectors across the entire Asia-Pacific region. Among many achievements, she played a key role in establishing the inaugural Contemporaries sale as well as mounting the highly ... More | |
Larry Bell, Untitled, 1985. Vacuum coated glass with chrome plated metal framing, 26 x 26 x 26 cm / 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. © Larry Bell.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is presenting Larry Bell. Complete Cubes, the gallerys first solo exhibition for the internationally acclaimed American artist in his hometown. Larry Bells innovative approach to sculpture and perceptual phenomena has placed him uniquely at the hub of both Southern Californias Light & Space movement and New York Minimalism in the sixties, which continues to inform his practice today as a forerunner of California Minimalism. This landmark exhibition offers viewers insight into Bells lifelong dedication to the glass cube through a groundbreaking body of work that has become inextricably linked to the emergence of Los Angeles as an internationally significant center of artistic innovation. Complete Cubes ... More | |
Detail of Spirit of '76, 1845, Tompkins H. Matteson, oil on canvas. Museum Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund.
DETROIT, MICH.- Nine recently acquired artworks are on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts beginning July 14 in its Out of the Crate: New Gifts & Purchases gallery that showcases some of the museums newest artworks and gives the public a look at the art acquisition process. The Out of the Crate gallery was initiated in January this year and objects rotate out every six months. This is the second installation of recent purchases and gifts chosen by DIA Director Salvador Salort-Pons. The new gallery has been popular with visitors, and its been exciting for me to choose which pieces of art will go on view for each rotation, said Salort-Pons. We often get questions about how we decide to acquire a work of art, and this gallery provides a fascinating look at the process. The works are from various curatorial departments ... More |
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| Most comprehensive survey exhibition of Vivan Sundaram's work on view at Haus der Kunst | | 3000-year-old Egyptian beauty to be star attraction at TEFAF New York Fall fair | | Palais de Tokyo is presenting a solo exhibition by Laure Prouvost |
May 1968, 1968. Oil, Canvas, 171 x 180 cm. Photograph by Gireesh GV. Collection of the artist, New Delhi.
MUNICH.- Vivan Sundaram belongs to a generation of artists whose work has been strongly influenced by India's anti-colonial revolts. Born in 1943 in Simla, India, he is the nephew of the outstanding Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil and the grandson of Umrao Singh Sher-Gil. He spent the last years of his art education (1966-1968) in London, where he studied under R.B. Kitaj and initially devoted himself to painting. His early works, aesthetically positioned between Minimalism and Pop Art, were considered lost, but have recently been rediscovered and are thus also presented in the exhibition, including a painting from 1968, which bears the emblematic year as a title ("May 1968"). As a student, Sundaram experienced London in the late 1960s, a period marked by the culmination of the socio-political rebellion of the younger generation. When he returned to India in 1970, he felt an affinity towards India's communist party. From this perspective, he followed how India found its way into the global flow ... More | |
From the city of Thebes c.943-716 BC, the 20.3cm high wooden carving is painted in ochre red, the cosmetic lines, eyebrows and pupils in black, the cornea in white.
LONDON.- At almost 3000 years old, this Egyptian sarcophagus mask of a woman has a 19th century provenance to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Dorset. From the city of Thebes c.943-716 BC, the 20.3cm high wooden carving is painted in ochre red, the cosmetic lines, eyebrows and pupils in black, the cornea in white. Unusually for such a piece, the records give an exact date for the sale to Lieut-General Fox Pitt-Rivers (1827-1900) of Dorset. He acquired it from W. Talbot Ready, Rathbone Place, London, W, for £1.15.0 on 17th March 1891. Mayfair ancient art gallery Charles Ede Ltd will offer it for $65,000 at the TEFAF New York Fall fair from October 27-31 at the Park Avenue Armory. Established in 1971, Charles Ede Ltd. is one of the leading international dealers in ancient art from around the Mediterranean. Renowned for its thorough research and providing depth of provenance, it continues the tradition of its founder, Charles Ede, who s ... More | |
Laure Prouvost, view of the exhibition GDM Grand Dads Visitor Center, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2016. Photo Agostino Osio. Courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan.
PARIS.- For her first solo show in a Parisian institution, Laure Prouvost presents Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing; an exhibition manifesting as an escape that is both psychological and geographical. The Palais de Tokyo has been transformed into a space where nature is purported to have taken over from humanity. Inspired by global warming, the exhibition invites us to explore and celebrate ambiguity by being at once intimate and expansive. Messages elsewhere spill over from the confines of the exhibition: IDEALLY THIS PLANT WOULD GROW BOOBS AND PRODUCE MILK or IDEALLY HERE WOULD BE A SMALL CRACK IN THE WALL YOU COULD PASS THROUGH in a demonstration of cognitive delinquency for both language and space. Through these multiplying and concertinaing viewpoints, Ring, Sing and Drink for Trespassing operates as an ode to diagonal lines, the transcending of limits and the joy of slipping ove ... More |
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| Ruby City announces acquisition of Gillian Wearing's acclaimed photograph | | Peter Marino Collection brings world class artwork to Southampton Arts Center | | Steven Holl Architects wins University College Dublin's Future Campus competition |
Gillian Wearing, Me as an Artist, 1984 (detail).
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruby City announced the acquisition of Gillian Wearings photograph, Me as an Artist in 1984, a self-portrait of the artist in her studio, donning a haunting, flesh-toned mask of her own face and surrounded by work she made at age 20. Known for her affiliation with the Young British Artists, the 1997 Turner Prize-winners practice centers around the documentation of everyday life. Her work often addresses ideas of anonymity and role-play in addition to the concealed self, speaking to the complex perceptions of being a maker. Over the past 15 years, Wearing has used silicon prosthetics to reconstruct a number of family photographs, transforming herself into her parents, brother and uncle as well as her younger self as a way of drawing a physical connection between herself and others with whom she shares a genetic link. She has also employed this technique to imagine herself as other famous artists, including ... More | |
Georg Baselitz, Lehr nich ratte much wilm, 2013 (detail). Oil on canvas, 118.5" H x 108.25" W. ©Georg Baselitz 2018. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian. Photo: Jochen Littkemann.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- In 1978 architect Peter Marino acquired an artwork from his friend Andy Warhol. Since, The Peter Marino Collection has grown to thousands of paintings and mixed media pieces representing some of the most notable artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, a select number of which are being presented with Southampton Arts Center in the heart of Southampton Village, N.Y. this summer. The exhibition, COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection is open from July 28 through September 23. These works are one of the largest assemblages of world-class contemporary art displayed publicly on the East End, said Tom Dunn, Executive Director of Southampton Arts Center. We couldnt be more excited for the show or more ... More | |
The new gateway building for the Centre for Creative Design. Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects.
DUBLIN.- University College Dublin (UCD) and Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC) announced today that the team led by Steven Holl Architects has won the Future Campus University College Dublin International Design Competition. The international jurywhich included Sir David Adjaye, Principal, Adjaye Associates; Ann Beha, Principal, Ann Beha Architects and Member, Harvard University Design Advisory Panel; acclaimed urban planner Joe Berridge, Partner, Urban Strategies, Inc.; Dermot Desmond, Chairman, International Investment & Underwriting; Sean Mulryan, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Ballymore; and Dr Paul Thompson, Vice-Chancellor, Royal College of Art, London amongst other distinguished figureswas hugely impressed by SHAs design proposal for a Centre for Creative Design and Entrance Precinct Masterplan vision for ... More |
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Frazetta's Escape on Venus leads Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction above $6.6 million
DALLAS, TX.- Frenetic bidding drove the final price for Frank Frazettas Escape on Venus Painting Original Art (1972) to $660,000 to claim top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction Aug. 2-4 in Dallas, Texas, which brought in a total of $6,670,739. The price realized by Escape on Venus was the third-highest ever through Heritage Auctions for a Frazetta painting. Death Dealer 6 Painting Original Art (1990) brought a record $1,792,500 in May 2018, and Frank Frazetta At The Earth's Core Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (1974), sold for $1,075,500 in August 2016. Used as the cover image for the 1974 re-issue of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel of the same name, Escape on Venus was created in 1972 and released as a print later in the decade. The result for this painting continues a trend of Frazetta paintings that have enjoyed ... More
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst exhibits works from the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2018
FRANKFURT.- For the third time the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst is presenting the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at MMK 3.The exhibition shows the works by Mathieu Asselin, Rafal Milach, Batia Suter and Luke Willis Thompson. The winner of the £ 30,000 Prize, who was announced on 17 May is Luke Willis Thompson. He was honoured for his film installation autoportrait. The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is awarded annually to a contemporary photo artist. One of the worlds most prestigious photography prizes, it calls attention to pioneering tendencies in contemporary photography and to the artists whose works help shape the current international photography scene. The 2018 shortlist showcases diverse and innovative photographic practices, which recognise and celebrate the many ... More
DESTE presents a site-specific project by David Shrigley
ATHENS.- Every summer since 2009, DESTE has invited an artist or group of artists to create an exhibition in the Foundations Project Space, a former slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra. This year, DESTE is presenting a site-specific project by David Shrigley titled Laughterhouse, which is on view between June 19 and September 30, 2018. Laughterhouse is a presentation in the Slaughterhouse of a documentary film about goats whose cries sound like those of human beings. It is amusing to behold goats making these sounds and it is intended to be a funny film. However; slaughterhouses are not funny places. Particularly if you are a vegetarian or a goat. The contradiction between the comedy of the film and the history of the space is the motivation behind this artwork. David Shrigley was born in 1968 in Macclesfield, UK. He is now based in Brighton, UK. ... More
Getty Publications releases 'Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- In 1911, the French publisher Lucien Vogel challenged Edward Steichen to create the first artistic, rather than merely documentary, fashion photographs, a moment that is now considered to be a turning point in the history of fashion photography. As fashion changed over the next century, so did the photography of fashion. Steichen's modernist approach was forthright and visually arresting. In the 1930s, the photographer Martin Munkácsi pioneered a gritty, photojournalistic style. In the 1960s, Richard Avedon encouraged his models to express their personalities by smiling and laughing and Helmut Newton brought an explosion of sexuality into fashion images, turning the tables on traditional gender stereotypes. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bruce Weber and Herb Ritts made male sexuality an important part of fashion photography. Today, following ... More
Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga looks into the textile collection of Mobilier national
RIGA.- A Latvian centenary exhibition, Colour of Gobelins. Contemporary Gobelins from the Mobilier national Collection in France, is on view at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga (Skārņu iela 10) until 30 September 2018. The exhibition Colour of Gobelins offers a look into the textile collection of Mobilier national (National Furniture Foundation) in France, where the Gobelins Manufactory, since its founding in the 17th century, continues to cultivate outstanding traditions of craftsmanship and maintains a constant link to modern art, reflecting every periods originality of aesthetic values and its special role on the stage of art. Along with works made from sketches of many famous artists, the exhibition also includes two recent large-format tapestries made at Mobilier national manufactories in Paris and Beauvais by Latvian textile artist Egils ... More
Major new exhibition of Barbara Rae's work on view at the Royal Scottish Academy
EDINBURGH.- In 2015 internationally-renowned artist Barbara Rae CBE RA RSA began a series of journeys of discovery into the Arctic, following in the footsteps of her namesake, the Orcadian explorer Dr John Rae. The resulting new body of paintings, monotypes and intaglio prints represents Raes deep-rooted fascination with the topography and history of place. Rae joined her first voyage to the Northwest Passage travelling with One Ocean Expeditions in 2015. She returned in 2016 and 2017, drawn by her interest in the story of John Rae. The exhibition draws parallels between Raes journey and that of John Rae and shows how their paths intertwined. From her starting point on John Raes home isle of Orkney, Rae travelled to Greenland and Canada, voyaging through some of the most inhospitable places on earth. The sketchbooks of both Barbara Rae and ... More
viennacontemporary 2018: Austria's International Art Fair will be held 27-30 September 2018
VIENNA.- "Viennas art scene has finally grown beyond art-historical treasures and I am very happy that viennacontemporary is among this new generation bursting with fresh energy. Im also grateful for the support from more prominent players, who have been generously sharing their longstanding experience with us. The fairhas established an individual character and, as in previous years, we want to show the best of Austria and CEE. viennacontemporary stands out in the art market for the highest concentration of Eastern European galleries worldwide and a continuously growing international scope, with special attention to emerging art markets," says Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Artistic Director of viennacontemporary. From 27 to 30 September 2018, viennacontemporary will once again gather more than 100 galleries and institutions from 23 ... More
Paris Photo announces exhibitors and a new sector for its 2018 edition
PARIS.- For its 22nd edition, Paris Photo, the premier international art fair for photography, announces 180 exhibitors for the main gallery sector and the book sector 149 galleries and 31 art book dealers representing 28 countries, reunited at the Grand Palais from 8 - 11 November 2018. The selection presents a rich and diverse panorama for Paris Photos ever-growing audiences (64,542 in 2017): collectors, experts, museum directors and committees, curators, artists, professionals, amateurs of art and photography, come from the world over to discover the best of photographic creation from the 19th century to today. Paris Photo welcomes 25 new galleries (compared to 2017) including 17 first-ever participations, testifying to the vivacity of the market and the increasing interest for image-based art. Among this years newcomers, Marc Selwyn (Los Angeles) with ... More
Galerie Richard opens exhibition of works by Eduardo Portillo
NEW YORK, NY.- Galerie Richard adds Eduardo Portillo in his roster of represented artists and exhibits his works for the first time in New York City from June 27th to August 31st in a solo show entitled Slanted + OverLit. Eduardo Portillo was born in El Congo, El Salvador in 1986, and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. Portillos paintings relate as much the literal edges than the surface of the pictural plane, realizing his personal desire to deviate from the rectilinear into real space. From his beginnings, he has been developing a specific aesthetics based on protrusions, dents of resistance which point out in unexpected parts of the canvas as if the material itself had the last word. His work is also about light, space, and color. Probably in reaction to the flatness of digital screens that humans watch in average eight hours a day in developed ... More
New book from Taschen allows you to see Amy Winehouse the way she saw herself
NEW YORK, NY.- When 22-year-old American photographer Blake Wood moved to London in 2007, a mutual friend introduced him to Amy Winehouse. After winning five Grammy Awards for her 2006 album Back to Black, the celebrated singer with the sultry and emotionally raw voice was at the height of her celebrity, but struggling with her wayward partner and the scrutiny of constant media attention. Bonding personally and creatively, Wood and Winehouse developed a close friendship and would become inseparable for the next two years. From images of Winehouse performing in Paris to playing drums at her home studio in Camden Town, London, from lovingly composed portraits of her at ease on St. Lucia to carefree vamping for the camera, this is an intimate visual diary of the soul diva at a time when she was one of the most celebrated voices on earth. ... More
Exhibition at Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Center focuses on the concept of durability
THESSALONIKI .- Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative collaborates with the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Center of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, co-organizing the exhibition "Resilient Futures". An exhibition focusing on the concept of durability that brings together the ports of Piraeus and of Thessaloniki; two of the most important ports of our country have been united through contemporary art in a symbolic manner. From June 5th to September 23rd 2018, the two cities are bridged together on the occasion of a unique venture dedicated to video art and environmental awareness, through works of prominent international artists. In regards to resilience, we refer to the means and strategies by which people, communities and institutions adapt to changing circumstances and seek imaginative ways to survive and cope with the consequences ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden died August 08, 1533. Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 8 August 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, was a Dutch engraver and painter. Lucas van Leyden was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as a very accomplished engraver. In this image: Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leyden ca. 1494 - 1533 Leyden), The Archangel Gabriel announcing the birth of Christ, Pen and brown ink; traces of squaring in black chalk, 8 5/16 Ã 6 1/2 in. (21.1 Ã 16.5 cm).
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