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People look at a drawing by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot called "Total Eclipse of the Sun" (1882)on July 1, 2019, part of a new exhibition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to open on July 3, 2019, called "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography". Thomas URBAIN / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. The Met will unveil its "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography" on Wednesday, approximately two weeks before of the five-decade mark since the 1969 space trip that landed the first two people on Earth's satellite. Visitors however, are not limited to the recent past. On display will be works dating as far back as 1610, when Galileo etched the giant glowing body in a book of astronomical observations. "The Moon has always been an object of both science and art, observation and imagination," said exhibit curator Mia Fineman, during a press presentation. The Moon has been photographed since the medium's earliest days, and in 1840 American John William Draper made the first daguerreotype -- an early version of the photo using silver-plated copper. "The fascination with the Moon and the dev ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A member of security walks past dresses and outfits from the wardrobe of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale, celebrating Italian fashion from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, displayed at the Sotheby's showroom auction house, in Paris, on July 1, 2019, ahead of the auction. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP.
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 | | France returns looted relics to Pakistan | | Argentine palaeontologists discover a giant prehistoric condor in Buenos Aires | | Haida monumental poles and cultural treasures begin repatriation journey home to Haida Gwaii | 
French Government repatriated smuggled archaeological artifacts of Pakistan.
PARIS (AFP).- France on Tuesday handed over to Pakistan nearly 450 ancient relics, some dating as far back as 4,000 BC, seized by French customs agents over a decade ago. Customs agents at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport in 2006 intercepted a parcel from Pakistan containing 17 terracotta pots addressed to a museum in the city, claiming they were more than 100 years old. But an expert who examined them concluded they were artefacts dating back to the second or third millennium BC which had likely been stolen from burial sites in Baluchistan, a province in southwest Pakistan. Following an extensive investigation which lasted almost a year and involved a raid on the Paris gallery, investigators found a total of 445 items, some dating as far back as 4,000 BC, with an estimated value of 139,000 euros ($157,000). Among the items on display at the embassy to mark the handover were a series of beautifully-decorated pots, vases and jars, all painstakingly adorned with small, ... More | | 
The current Andean condor has an average wingspan of about 3 meters while this extinct condor had an extension of more than three and a half meters.
BUENOS AIRES (CTYS-UNLAM).- The team of the Paleontological Museum of San Pedro found an extinct condor that exceeded 3.50 meters in length with its wings open, much more than the current Andean condor. Its fossil remains are about 10 thousand years old. The discovery occurred 12 kilometers south of the Buenos Aires city of San Pedro. Dr. Federico Agnolin, researcher at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN), Félix de Azara Foundation and CONICET, said that "it is an exceptional finding, since it is the record of a new species of giant bird that flew over the province of Buenos Aires at the end of the Pleistocene". The current Andean condor has an average wingspan of about 3 meters while this extinct condor had an extension of more than three and a half meters. "The ulna and radius found, belonging to the right wing, are much more robust than the Vultur gryphus, popularly known as the Andean condor, so we estimate that its body mass was ... More | | 
The Haida cultural treasures include two monumental poles, one from MOV and another from UBCs Museum of Anthropology, as well as pole fragments and a number of culturally significant belongings.
VANCOUVER.- Today on the unceded territorities of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, at the ancestral village of Senakw /sən̓aʔqʷ, the Museum of Vancouver hosted a cultural ceremony to mark the repatriation of Haida cultural treasures to Haida Gwaii. The Haida cultural treasures include two monumental poles, one from MOV and another from UBCs Museum of Anthropology, as well as pole fragments and a number of culturally significant belongings. For decades, a number of sacred and culturally sensitive belongings from the Haida Nation have been held in the City of Vancouvers collection at MOV. As part of Vancouvers ongoing commitment as a City of Reconciliation, as well as the Haida Now exhibition currently on view, MOV is actively engaged in partnership with the Haida Repatriation Committee, the Council of the Haida Nation and the Haida Gwaii Museum to deaccession and repatriate ... More |
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| | | Newly-discovered Warder from the Lewis Chessmen Workshop makes £735,000 | | Desert-dwelling carnivorous dinosaur found in Brazil | | Bethlehem's Nativity Church removed from UNESCO endangered list | 
Record for a medieval chess piece at Auction. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- A newly discovered warder attributed to the Lewis Chessmen workshop sold just now at Sothebys in London to an anonymous buyer for £735,000 / $927,423 a new record for a medieval chess piece at auction. Acquired for £5 in 1964 by an antiques dealer in Edinburgh and passed down the same family by descent, the chess piece was stored away in his home before being inherited by his daughter, who believed it was special and perhaps imbued with some magical significance. The warder then passed onto the next generation of the family, who approached Sothebys to shed light on what was in fact an important historic artefact. Alexander Kader, Sothebys Co-Worldwide Head of European Sculpture & Works of Art, began a year-long study of the warder, a process that included detailed research, art historical analysis and careful comparison with the Lewis chessmen on display in UK public collections. He deduced that the chessman ... More | | 
State University of Maringa paleontologists work at the site where fossilised bones of a dinosaur were found in Maringa, Parana state, Brazil. UEM/AFP / Heitor MARCON.
SAO PAULO (AFP).- A desert-based carnivorous dinosaur that used claws to capture small prey 90 million years ago has been unearthed in southern Brazil, scientists said last week. Just over a meter and a half in length (five feet), the fossil remains of the Vespersaurus paranaensis were found in Cruzeiro do Oeste municipality of Parana state, a team of paleontologists from Brazil and Argentina said in a statement. The Vespersaurus was a theropod, a group of two-footed, meat-eating dinosaurs that included the better known tyrannosaurus and velociraptor. Footprints now believed to belong to this new species of dinosaur were discovered in Cruzeiro do Oeste in the 1970s. "It's incredible that, nearly 50 years later, it seems that we have discovered what type of dinosaur would have produced those enigmatic footprints," said Paulo Manzig of the Paleontology ... More | | 
A view of a stained glass window at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on July 2, 2019. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP.
BETHLEHEM (AFP).- Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, was removed from UNESCO's list of endangered world heritage sites Tuesday following restorations there. The church was named a UNESCO world heritage site in 2012 and placed on its endangered list the same year due to its poor condition. Church and Palestinian officials have since overseen high-quality work restoring "roof, exterior facades, mosaics and doors," UNESCO said in a statement. A previous plan of concern to UNESCO to dig a tunnel underneath Manger Square, in front of the church, was also abandoned, it said. The committee reached the decision to remove it from the endangered list during a meeting in Baku, which began on June 30 and continues until July 10, it said in a statement. The Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches share custody of the site ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Nahmad Contemporary presents a selection of collages by Kurt Schwitters | | A Century at Sea: Guernsey's to hold a comprehensive maritime auction | | Italian star Claudia Cardinale puts her wardrobe up for sale | 
The exhibition highlights a collection of abstract collages that the artist created between the 1920s and 1940s.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nahmad Contemporary is presenting Kurt Schwitters: A Selection of Collages, scheduled to run through August 24, 2019. Presenting the works of 20th centurys great master of collage and forefather of assemblage, the exhibition highlights a collection of abstract collages that the artist created between the 1920s and 1940s. Associated with the rise of European Dadaism, a movement rooted in the defiance of bourgeois art conventions, German artist Kurt Schwitters (18871948) unearthed poetic beauty amid the discards of a broken society. Beginning in 1918 in the wake of the First World War, the artist assembled collages out of trashranging from receipts and bus tickets to labels and stampsfound in Hannovers war-torn streets. In an attempt to reconcile ... More | | 
Herreschoff One Half Rater "Wee Winn" replica.
NEWPORT, RI.- On July 19th and 20th at Newport, Rhode Islands renowned, non-profit International Yacht Restoration School, Guernseys will be holding a massive nautically-themed auction focusing on great ocean liners, majestic sailing ships and other maritime-related treasures. While a number of lots in the sale will be coming directly from IYRS, several important private collections constitute the bulk of items to be sold. These include the former collection of noted maritime author Mark D. Warren, the Sam Taylor and George McMath collections, and items from the collection of the late accomplished wreck diver, Bart Malone. The categories of items in the sale will include Marine Art, rare Artifacts and Ephemera, and fine Ship Models. Of great interest to many collectors and enthusiasts will undoubtedly be Ella Whites walking stick. A Titanic survivor, Mrs. White made her way during ... More | | 
Italo-Tunisian actress Claudia Cardinale poses during a photo session at the Sotheby's showroom next to dresses and outfits from her wardrobe that will go on auction, on July 2, 2019 in Paris. Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The wardrobe of screen legend Claudia Cardinale is to go under the hammer in Paris next week, with the star saying her clothes show "the liberation of women". The Italian actress who featured in such classics as "The Leopard", Fellini's "8 1/2" and Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the West" told AFP: "These dresses don't show just my story but a chapter in women's history." Born in Tunisia, where she first came to notice after winning a beauty contest in 1957, Cardinale was both a sex symbol and an outspoken advocate of women's rights. "You can feel I think the liberation of women of my generation" through the clothes, she added. The Nina Ricci haute couture gown that she ... More |
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| | | 2019 Young Architects Program: Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana now open | | Works by Betye Saar, Ralph Coburn, and Joe Overstreet enter the Rose Art Museum's permanent collection | | The UK's best new homes: Houses in the running for RIBA House of the Year 2019 | 
Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana (Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss), winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1s 20th annual Young Architects Program, is on view at MoMA PS1 from June 28 through September 2, 2019. This years architectural installation is an immersive junglescape set within a 40-foot-high, 90-foot-wide cyclorama structure. Selected from among five finalists, Hórama Rama serves as a temporary built environment for MoMA PS1s pioneering outdoor music series, Warm Up. For 20 years, the Young Architects Program at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has offered emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each years winners to develop creative designs for a temporary and ... More | | 
Betye Saar, Supreme Quality, 1998, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, 2019.9. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California; Photo Tim Lanterman for the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
WALTHAM, MASS.- The Rose Art Museum has announced that three major works have newly entered the museums permanent collection. The most recent acquisitions purchased with funds from museum endowments include Betye Saars mixed media assemblage Supreme Quality (1998), Ralph Coburns multi-part painting Random Sequence Participatory Composition (1962), and Joe Overstreets monumental sculptural painting untitled (1972) from the Flight Patterns series. These important works add further depth to the Roses outstanding modern and contemporary collection and join new and significant works by Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez and American artists Kay Rosen and Adam Pendleton that have been added to the permanent ... More | | 
Max Fordham House (London) by bere:architects. Photo: Tim Crocker.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the longlist for the 2019 RIBA House of the Year. Among the 20 projects in the running to win the UKs most prestigious award for a new house or extension are a: Cork-built home in the grounds of a listed mill in Berkshire (Cork House) Highly-sustainable self-build Passivhaus in East Sussex (Hill House Passivhaus) New home occupying the footprint of two garages in Kensington, London (Earls Court house) Converted Arts and Crafts stable block in Llanhennock (Silver How) The 20 longlisted homes are: Black House (Armadale, Isle of Skye) by Dualchas Cork House (Berkshire) by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne & Oliver Wilton Earls Court house (London) by Sophie Hicks Architects The Ghost House (Stratford-upon-Avon) by BPN The Green House (Tiverton) by David Sheppard ... More |
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 Saint Louis Art Museum marks 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus with special installationsST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum commemorates the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus with an installation featuring highlights from among the museums collection of Bauhaus objects. The works in this installation show the strengths of many of the leaders and teachers from the Bauhaus school, such as Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The Bauhaus and its Legacy is on view in Gallery 250. The installation, as well as a related video installation in Gallery 301, are on view through Oct. 20. Established in Germany in 1919, the Bauhaus was one of the 20th centurys most influential schools of art, architecture and design. It moved between the cities of Weimar, Dessau and Berlin before the Nazi government closed it in 1933. The Bauhaus embraced a unity of art and design, and ... More Repetto Gallery opens exhibition of works on paper by Giulio PaoliniLONDON.- Repetto Gallery in London announced the solo show by Giulio Paolini Works on paper from Sale dattesa series, from June 20th to September 20th. Paolini loves this quote by Jorge Louis Borges: How do I compose a poem? I put myself in a passive situation, and I wait. I wait, and my only concern is that it all ends in beauty. I feel like I am receiving a gift, and I dont even know if it comes from my own memory or something else. And I try not to intervene too much. Art as waiting. Inspiration as gift. The enthusiasm of creation: in Greek, Enthousiasmòs, Ãnthous, Ãn-theos, in God, to be full of a God, to be possessed by a God, the Socratic demon. As his beloved Borges, Paolini likes to think about the gesture of waiting a space, or a place that listen like an antenna or a metaphysical receiver. Listening to a voice that may arrive, that will soon surround us: a far, mysterious, diff ... More Argentine cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo dies aged 86MADRID.- Argentinian cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo, known for drawing characters with bulbous noses, has died in Spain aged 86, his representatives said Monday. Mordillo's work appeared in top French magazines such as Paris-Match and Marie Claire. Born in Buenos Aires in 1932 to Spanish parents, Mordillo spent some time in Lima and New York before moving to Paris in 1963 where he had his breakthrough moment. He said in interviews that he was first inspired to embark on this career path when he watched Walt Disney's "Snow White" at the cinema. He also illustrated children's books and illustrated greetings cards for the Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards. "We are very sad to confirm that Mr. Mordillo died in the night from June 29 to June 30" on the island of Majorca, Adrienne Hak of Amsterdam-based Rubinstein Royalty Management which represented ... More Marciano Art Foundation opens the first large-scale solo exhibition in the U.S. of works by Donna HuancaLOS ANGELES, CA.- Marciano Art Foundation is presenting OBSIDIAN LADDER, the first large-scale solo exhibition in the United States by Bolivian American artist Donna Huanca. Huanca's site-specific installation for MAFs 13,000-square-foot Theater Gallery reveals a new topography of triggered senses, combining sound, scent, and live performance. These elements will be experienced together against a constellation of carved steel sculptures and skin paintings, along with performances by models every Saturday throughout the duration of the exhibition, June 28 through December 1, 2019. Alongside the exhibition, MAF will host a series of public programs with artists, activists, and scholars discussing topics related to the performance of gender and sexuality in contemporary life. Events will take place on select Saturdays throughout the duration ... More New Zealand-born artist Fiona Connor opens exhibition at the SecessionVIENNA.- The New Zealand-born artist Fiona Connor makes sculptural installations in which she replicates objects and structures of everyday life. Her recreations of bulletin boards, drinking fountains, furniture, and doors not only draw attention to these widely overlooked items and their forms, they also reconstruct the histories and micro-economies of communities. Many of her works respond to the infrastructure of the places and environments where she exhibits them, uncovering the underlying mechanisms that may inform our interactions with art and art institutions. The sculptures reveal the artists deep curiosity about how things are made. They play with the ambiguity of the handmade and the manufactured, as well as with the boundaries of an art object. For her exhibition at the Secession, #8, Closed for Installation, Sequence of Events, Connor has ... More Gerald Peters Projects opens an exhibition of recent paintings and ceramic vessels by Lorraine ShemeshSANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Projects is presenting The Space Between Us, an exhibition of recent paintings and ceramic vessels by New York-based artist Lorraine Shemesh. Shemeshs new paintings demonstrate a unique approach that marries figuration with abstract expressionist concerns. The recent series represents an exploration of movement and pattern as two dancers interact and press against the edge of the canvas in a dynamic way. Working with the charged form of the figure, she addresses issues of disjuncture and harmony, the politics of communication, and the use of camouflage in poetic form. The featured works in clay were inspired by the layered rock formations of New Mexico. Using a Japanese process called neriage, Shemesh wove and intertwined different-colored clay bodies, building patterns reminiscent of those found ... More The Venet Foundation shows a selection of twenty works by Claude Viallat LE MUY.- This summer the Venet Foundation pays homage to Claude Viallat, one of the major colorist of his generation. Curated by Alexandre Devals, director of the foundation, Claude Viallat Unleashing Color shows a selection of twenty works by Claude Viallat realized on military tarpaulins, a series that started in the 1970s and has continued over the past years. The exhibitions core features works shown at CAPC (the Museum of Contemporary Art) in Bordeaux in 1980, a major retrospective of Claude Viallats work for the use of a thick support, the search of polychromy, and the cut-out of the canvas in registers.This exhibition was a turning point in Viallats work and celebrated him as one of the leading figures in French painting. The CAPC was still a raw space in the late 1970s, and to tackle its vast size, the centers founder and then director Jean-Louis ... More Explore the impact of the kimono on global fashion in new exhibition at the Cincinnati Art MuseumCINCINNATI, OH.- In Kimono: Refashioning Contemporary Style, on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum from June 28September 15, 2019, visitors can experience more than 50 ensembles by Japanese, European and American designers including Coco Chanel, Christian Louboutin, John Galliano, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Rei Kawakubo, Iris van Herpen and Issey Miyake. Organized by the Kyoto Costume Institute in Japan and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the exhibition features fashion from the 1870s to the present day along with kimono, Japanese prints, paintings and textiles. Kimonoliterally translated thing to wearhas impacted international fashion since Japan opened its ports to the world in the mid-1850s. The form and silhouette of kimono, its two-dimensional structure and motifs used as surface embellishment, have all ... More Melbourne Museum launches new exhibition River of LanguageMELBOURNE.- Melbourne Museum kicked off its NAIDOC Week celebrations with the launch of an immersive soundscape exhibition that celebrates UNESCOs International Year of Indigenous Languages and the 25th Anniversary of the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages. Co-curated with VACL, ngulu wurneet, galada-al wurrung-u, parniwaru tyalingi, waran woorroong-ee, barringgi dyaling - River of Language encourages visitors to be immersed in Aboriginal ways of Knowing, Being and Doing, and learn through listening and observation. The VACL curatorial working group of Vicki Couzens and Brendan Kennedy, ask visitors to take the time and, "learn to see the world through our eyes, through our words, stories and images." In Aboriginal culture, land and language are inextricably linked. Language is directly connected ... More Brazilian artist's newest sculptural homage to ancient goddess debuts at Aspen Art MuseumASPEN, CO.- The Aspen Art Museum announced its presentation of Erika Verzuttis Venus Yogini, a new large-scale, bronze sculptural work that represents an extension of the Brazilian-born artists recent production of smaller sculptures that incorporate organic shapes to depict the ancient goddess of fertility. The newly commissioned work is being featured on the AAMs exterior Crown Commons through Sunday, October 6, 2019. Grounded in the everyday and deriving source material from ordinary objects, contemporary artist Erika Verzutti creates unique hybrid objects that take on anthropomorphic qualities and playfully fuse elements of the real and the fantastical. Dedicated to an artistic process that embraces chance and invites tactility through a canny use of materials, Verzuttis works invoke the contemporary and echo the archaeological, while ... More Paul Baker Prindle named Director of the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art MuseumLONG BEACH, CA.- Paul Baker Prindle will join California State University, Long Beach as Director of the campus art museum, following his directorship at University of Nevada, Reno. Highly experienced in capital expansions and capacity building, Baker Prindle will work with stakeholders ahead of a significant expansion, as the University Art Museum is transformed into the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, or the Kleefeld Contemporary for short. He has opened two new museums in the past ten years while also engaging in major acquisition and program innovation initiatives. He looks forward to deepening the museums commitment to collecting and sharing exceptional contemporary art. Baker Prindles professional practice emphasizes diversity, inclusiveness, and viewer participation in arts programming, while serving ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter John Singleton Copley was born July 03, 1738. John Singleton Copley RA (1738 - September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish. In this image: John Singleton Copley, The Fountaine Family, 1776. Tate.
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