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This picture taken on September 10, 2020 shows archaeologists from the Fine Arts Department in Ratchaburi looking at newly-discovered cave paintings in Khao Sam Roi Yot national park in the coastal Prachuap Kiri Khan province. An antelope, a lonely figure, a family linking arms -- Kanniga shines her flashlight across a cave to reveal paintings believed to date back to the pre-historic era, a stunning discovery for Thailand's scrappy team of archaeologists. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP.
by Dene-Hern Chen
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN (AFP).- An antelope, a lonely figure, a family linking arms -- Kanniga Premjai shines her flashlight across a cave to reveal long-hidden paintings, a stunning discovery for Thailand's scrappy team of archaeologists. For months, Kanniga and her small team have combed Sam Roi Yot National Park, about four hours southwest of Bangkok, following a ranger wielding a machete as he slashes a path through thorny vegetation. They had searched about 40 caves -- with no luck -- before they stumbled on a cavern located a steep climb through rocky cliff terrain. "I screamed when we found the paintings," she tells AFP, pointing out clusters of rust-coloured figures that look like they are holding hands. The dark walls initially shrouded the etchings, but careful examination and the use of a mobile application -- which helps researchers enhanc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Exceptional Antiquities, Asian, Ethnographic sale on Thu, Oct 08, 2020 9:00 AM CDT. The sale includes museum-worthy examples of Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Far East / Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal,Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fossils, Ancient Jewelry, Fine Art, and more! In this image: Sican / Lambayeque Gold Crown Warriors Encircling. Estimate $26,000 - $36,000.
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| | Eddie Van Halen, virtuoso of the rock guitar, dies at 65 | | First fossil feather ever found belonged to this dinosaur | | Tate Modern opens the most substantial survey of Bruce Nauman's work in London for more than 20 years |
In this file photo taken on May 17, 2015 Musician Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen performs onstage during the 2015 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
by Jim Farber
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Eddie Van Halen, whose razzle-dazzle guitar-playing combining complex harmonics, innovative fingerings and ingenious devices he patented for his instrument made him the most influential guitarist of his generation and his band, Van Halen, one of the most popular rock acts of all time, died on Tuesday. He was 65. Van Halens son, Wolfgang, said in a statement that his father had lost his long and arduous battle with cancer. The statement did not say where he died. Van Halen structured his solos the way Macys choreographs its Independence Day fireworks shows: shooting off rockets of sound that seemed to explode in a shower of light and color. His outpouring of riffs, runs and solos was hyperactive and athletic, joyous and wry, making ... More | |
In an undated photo from Helmut Tischlinger & Ryan Carney, the right wing of the Altmuhl archaeopteryx fossil. Helmut Tischlinger & Ryan Carney via The New York Times.
by Lucas Joel
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The feather looks like any feather you might find on the ground. But its not. Its about 150 million years old, and it fluttered to the ground back when the dinosaurs roamed what is today called Bavaria. Its entombed in limestone, and, when paleontologists unearthed it in 1861, it became the first fossil feather ever discovered. Many paleontologists think the feather came from archaeopteryx lithographica, a creature that, with its feathered wings and sharp-toothed mouth, bears features of both dinosaurs and birds, making it a herald of the evolutionary transition between the two groups. But that first-known fossil feather isnt attached to an archaeopteryx skeleton, and so for more than a century, not all scientists have agreed on the identity of the feathers owner. Theres been this debate, even when the feather ... More | |
Installation view of Bruce Nauman at Tate Modern featuring One Hundred Live and Die 1984. Photograph by Tate Photography (Matt Greenwood). Artwork © Bruce Nauman / ARS, NY and DACS, London 2020.
LONDON.- Tate Modern today opens a new exhibition exploring the full breadth of Bruce Naumans ground-breaking work as an artist. This is the museums first new exhibition since reopening earlier this year, and it is the most substantial survey of Naumans work in London for more than 20 years. A restlessly inventive artist, Bruce Nauman (b.1941) has employed a wide range of media including sculpture, sound, film, video and neon. Since the late 1960s, he has continually tested and reinvented what an artwork can be by reshaping traditional forms and creating new ones. He is now widely recognised as one of the most innovative and influential artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through more than 40 works, the exhibition explores the distinctive themes that have preoccupied Nauman during his remarkable 50-year career. Unfolding across a sequence of immersive installations inviting deep viewer ... More |
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| | Sotheby's first live streamed Contemporary Art Evening Sale in Asia achieves US$88 million | | The Vero Beach Museum of Art reopens | | French MPs vote to return stolen artefacts to Benin, Senegal |
The sale was led by Gerhard Richters fresh-to-auction Abstraktes Bild (649-2), which attracted a 10-minute bidding war. Courtesy Sotheby's.
HONG KONG.- Tonight in Hong Kong, Sothebys sale of Contemporary Art realised HK$684,106,000 / US$88,201,787, the highest ever total for a various-owner sale in this category staged at Sothebys Asia. Live-streamed to the world from Hong Kong, the sale was 92% sold by lot. This season, the Contemporary Art Evening Sale adopts Sothebys pioneering live-streaming auction format a first in Asia - with Hong Kong-based auctioneer Ian McGinlay taking bids from specialists on phone banks in real time in New York, Hong Kong and London, creating a truly global auction experience as Hong Kong reaches new heights as a global platform for Asian and Western contemporary art. The sale was led by Gerhard Richters fresh-to-auction Abstraktes Bild (649-2), which attracted a 10-minute bidding war. The winning bid came from the Pola Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan at HK$214,631,000 / US$29,283,854, achieving the highest price for any We ... More | |
The VBMAs number one priority is to the safety of its staff and guests. We are fully committed to keeping everyone who enters the VBMA safe at all times, said Executive Director/ CEO Brady Roberts.
VERO BEACH, FLA.- The Vero Beach Museum of Art announced it will reopen its galleries and sculpture parks to the public on Wednesday, October 7, 2020. With the declining rate of new COVID cases in Indian River County, the exhibition galleries will open with required visitation guidelines, limited gallery capacity, and contact-less admission ticketing. The Museums new health, procedural, and cleaning protocols and restrictions are outlined below: Facemasks are required for all visitors ages 2+, temperatures will be taken for anyone entering the Museum, 6ft social distancing guidelines are to be maintained, and all visitors will be encouraged to regularly wash their hands. The higher-touch areas in the building, including the auditorium, ArtZone, and Museum Café, will remain closed until further notice, and there will be no group tours in the first stage of reopening. Some public programs, such as Art Talks, ... More | |
In this file photo taken on May 28, 2020 President of the "Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac" , Emmanuel Kasarherou poses in Paris. FRANCK FIFE / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously voted to return prized artefacts to Benin and Senegal more than a century after they were looted by colonial forces and hauled back to Paris to be displayed in museums. The pieces include a royal throne and statues taken by the French army during a war in Benin -- then the wealthy African kingdom of Dahomey -- as well a sabre once wielded by a 19th-century Muslim sheik in what is today Senegal. After 49 MPs in the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, voted Tuesday night in favour of the bill -- with none voting against -- it will now head to the Senate. If approved, France will officially restore to Benin 26 items from the Treasure of Behanzin, looted during the 1892 pillaging of the palace of Abomey. They include the throne of King Glele -- a centrepiece of the 70,000-odd African objects held at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris. Senegal will get ... More |
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| | Fergus McCaffrey announces the death of Noriyuki Haraguchi | | Third major gift of Steichen photographs broadens Block Museum teaching collection | | Exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Beverly Fishman on view at Miles McEnery Gallery |
Noriyuki Haraguchi, Tsumu 147, 1966. Mixed media on panel, 52 3/4 x 66 7/8 x 3 1/2
inches (134 x 170 x 9 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Fergus McCaffrey announced the death of Noriyuki Haraguchi (19462020). The extraordinary Japanese artist of global importance rose to prominence in the late 1960s through the development of painting and sculpture that engaged with cultural and environmental issues through a post-minimalist vocabulary. A statement from Frances Morris and Sook-Kyung Lee of Tate Modern, London: "Noriyuki Haraguchi made history as the first Japenese artist to show in Documenta 6 in 1977. His memorable large scale oil pool work, with its fluid reflective surface, was indicative of the complex conversation his work facilitated between raw and manufactured materials exploring notions of modernity, industrialisation and nature in works with a beguiling formal beauty. Shaped by early memories of fighter jets encountered as a child on the US naval base in Yokosuka where he grew up, Haraguchis ... More | |
Edward Steichen, Amelia Earhart, Vanity Fair, 1931. Gelatin silver print, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.
EVANSTON, ILL.- Northwestern Universitys Block Museum of Art has acquired 41 silver gelatin and platinum prints by renowned American artist Edward Steichen from collectors Richard and Jackie Hollander. The donation broadens the museums already significant holding of vintage prints by Steichen. The gift is the third to the museum from the Hollander family, who donated 49 Steichen prints to The Block in 2013 and 44 in 2017. The extraordinary new group of works includes portraits of historical figures such as Carl Sandburg, Amelia Earhart and Thomas Mann; examples of the artists commercial advertising images for brands such as Kodak and Jergens; fashion studies for Vogue and Vanity Fair; and early photographic experiments executed in the late 19th century during the artists teenage years. Regarded as one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Steichen (18791973) ... More | |
Installation view of Beverly Fishman's exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by Beverly Fishman. I Dream of Sleep remains on view through 10 October 2020. The show is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring an essay by Amy Rahn. Since the early 1980s, Beverly Fishman has developed a distinctive body of hard-edge, dimensional, abstract paintings that are infused with emotion. While her works have been compared to those of Finish Fetish artists like John McCracken and Robert Irwin, as well as those of Peter Halley, she affirms that her practice deviates from a direct dialogue with (implicitly male) hard-edged abstraction. Fishmans works are instead grounded in a messier lineage of paintings and sculpture that occupy an interchangeable space between form and feeling - that channel loss and joy, contemplation and analysis along the lines of color. Shape and color are united with questions of id ... More |
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| | Damien Hirst remembers 'immortal' 90s with new show | | Julius Caesar "assassination coin" may be worth millions | | Newly discovered Degas offered at Bonhams New York prints sale |
Damien Hirst, Up, Up and Away, 1997. © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.
LONDON (AFP).- Turner prize-winner Damien Hirst looks back on his time as one of the most notorious "Young British Artists" in a new solo retrospective show opening in London on Wednesday. "End of a Century" includes more than 50 installations, paintings and sculptures from his time as a student in the 1980s through to the 1990s, when he and others such as Tracey Emin dominated the UK art scene. There are some well-known works, including from the iconic series Natural History -- animals preserved in formaldehyde and displayed in large tanks -- alongside others that have never before been shown in public. Speaking to AFP about his work back then, he recalled a time of drugs and drinking, saying: "It felt like a massive celebration, and I felt immortal in some way. "So it's quite funny to see the works in here. They look a little bit old and broken and there's pencil marks. "Things are ageing in a kind of nostalgic way, ... More | |
Et tu Brute? Authenticators in the United States and United Kingdom confirm the third known gold Ides of March coin. Photo: Numismatic Guaranty Corporation.
LONDON.- A previously unrecorded example of a valuable ancient Ides of March gold coin commemorating the assassination of Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. has been confirmed by rare coin authenticators in the United States and the United Kingdom. Experts describe it as a masterpiece. It was made in 42 B.C., two years after the famous assassination, and is one of the most important and valuable coins of the ancient world. The front has a portrait of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of Caesars assassins, and the other side dramatically has two daggers and the words EID MAR, a Latin abbreviation for Ides of March, explained Mark Salzberg, Chairman of Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (www.NGCcoin.com) in Sarasota, Florida, the company whose experts who confirmed its authenticity. Though nearly 100 Ides of March coins made in silver are known, ... More | |
Detail of Chevaux dans la Prairie by Edgar Degas. Estimate: 20,000-30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- A newly discovered, working proof of the etching, Chevaux dans la Prairie (Horses in the Meadow), 1891-1892, by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is one of the leading lots in Bonhams Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples sale in New York on Friday 30 October. From the collection of the important Impressionist collector, David David-Weil, the work is estimated at $20,000-30,000. The origin of the print is Degas masterly 1872 oil painting of the same name, now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The artist sold the painting to his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, for his personal collection. In 1891, Galerie Durand-Ruel commissioned a deluxe, limited edition, bound volume of prints after paintings in Durand-Ruels private collection, including Chevaux dans la Prairie. The reproduction of the paintings was executed by the printer and copyist. A.M. Lauzet. When Degas saw the Lauzet version of Chevaux ... More |
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Rare Picasso ceramics come to Heritage Auctions
DALLAS, TX.- Among the top lots in Heritage Auctions Oct. 22 Prints and Multiples Auction is Le déjeuner sur l'herbe by Pablo Picasso. Anticipated to sell for $40,000, the title is translated, Luncheon on the Grass. The earthenware plate is one of the artists many desirable interpretations of the original 1863 oil painting by Edouard Manet, and it leads a selection of 56 lots of Picassos ceramic and print works, by far the largest group of its kind in the sale. A particularly impressive collection of ceramics on offer demonstrates Picassos noted ability to adapt to a multitude of media while fully expressing his creativity. The group is offered at various price points to assure that, no matter the budget, welcome entry estimates greet every collector, said Holly Sherratt, Director of Prints and Multiples. Picasso began working with ceramics toward the end of his career; ... More
New Worcester Art Museum exhibition focuses on local artist Susan Swinand
WORCESTER, MASS.- Works by Shrewsbury artist Susan Swinand, winner of the Sally R. Bishop Prize for Best in Show at the 2019 ArtsWorcester Biennial, are the focus of a new exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum opening on October 7. Nature Imagined by Susan Swinand features 31 paintings and drawings by the artist, representing a variety of mediums and including 14 new works created for this exhibition. Organized in collaboration with ArtsWorcester, the exhibition will remain on view through February 7, 2021. A virtual talk with the artist will take place on Tuesday, November 10 at 6pm. Links to the free Zoom event can be found on the Museums website, worcesterart.org. Primarily a painter with a preference for water-based media and abstraction, Swinand has long found the natural world a source of inspiration. Nature Imagined ... More
Cal State LA exhibition highlights renowned Los Angeles artist Betye Saar
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Nearly half a century after Cal State LA hosted renowned Los Angeles artist Betye Saars first solo show, the work of the iconic assemblage artist has returned to the university as part of a new art exhibition. Saar, 94, is known for her celebrated assemblage worksstirring collections and collages of materials and recycled everyday objects that explore themes of race, gender, family and mysticism. Her first solo survey exhibition was displayed at Cal State LA in 1973. Betye Saar: Selected Works 1964-1973 included pieces that reclaimed derogatory Black memorabilia and explored spirituality. In the five decades since, Saars poignant pieces conveying the personal, political and historical have inspired the work of generations of artists. Mojo Rising, a new exhibition at the Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at Cal State LA, honors ... More
The University of Chicago commissions Jenny Holzer to create new text-based public artwork
CHICAGO, IL.- The University of Chicago debuted a new public art commission by world-renowned artist and alumna Jenny Holzer (EX74), YOU BE MY ALLY, on the UChicago campus and worldwide through a web-based augmented reality app. The text-based artwork is Holzers first augmented reality (AR) project using virtual projections in the United States and her first work created in collaboration with a universitys students and faculty. Holzer received UChicagos Rosenberger Medal in 2019 in recognition of her wide-reaching impact on public art. YOU BE MY ALLY features 29 excerpts from historically significant readings from UChicagos Core curriculum, including works by distinguished writers W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Keller, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, and Virginia Woolf. The title of the project itself is an excerpt ... More
Oxford's History of Science Museum reopens with exhibition of rare Islamic metalwork
OXFORD.- Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld, a new exhibition at the History of Science Museum provides a modern day interpretation on Islamic metalwork spanning the 11th to 16th centuries, with an accompanying online exhibition and contributions by the local community. The exhibition opens on the day that the History of Science Museum reopens its doors to the public Friday, 9 October 2020. The exhibition will explore how the intersections of cultures across the Islamic world influenced the creation of this metalwork, some of the finest produced. Part of a national tour supported by Art Fund and in partnership with the Subject Specialist Network for Islamic Art and Material Culture, the exhibition features a stunning array of objects on loan from The Courtauld, many never seen outside of London before this tour. These include a delicate ... More
Mystery Pier Books to auction rarities with GWS Auctions
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kruse GWS Auctions announced the upcoming Literary Masterpieces & Treasured Archives Auction featuring the collection of rare first edition books from the famous Los Angeles based book shop Mystery Pier Books. For the very first time, Mystery Pier Books will offer a wide collection of its most coveted books which are all first editions to bidders around the globe, in a one-day auction to take place online on Saturday, October 17, 2020 in Los Angeles beginning at 10:00 a.m. PT. Dame Brigitte Kruse, founder of Kruse GWS Auctions, will lead the auction. More than 165 books will be available and include a wide array of prized books that appeal to all types of collectors and book loversfrom Charles Darwins The Decent of Man to a complete set of J. R. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Ring series; from Ayn Rand to Dr. Seuss. Included ... More
An international who's who of comics creations, from Tank Girl to Charlie Brown, realize $1.6 million
DALLAS, TX.- Charles Schulzs Peanuts made its comic-strip debut on Oct. 2, 1950. Seventy years and one day later, that Boy Named Charlie Brown topped Heritage Auctions European Comic Art event when an original Easter-themed Sunday strip from April 1968 sold over the weekend for $62,500. Apropos, perhaps, for this uniquely American creation often put on shelves alongside Sartre and Beckett. The Oct. 3-4 sale realized $1,596,546 as more than 2,100 bidders from around the globe participated in an event highlighted by original works from creators ranging from Moebius to Alex Raymond, Philippe Druillet to Jack Kirby, Milo Manara to Jamie Hewlett. Truly, a global whos who of whats what throughout the mediums storied history. Our third European sale was a roaring success, said Joe Mannarino, Heritage Auctions New York-based ... More
Nobel Literature Prize 2020: Controversy or crowdpleaser?
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- This year's Nobel Literature Prize field is wide open ahead of Thursday's announcement, with literary circles abuzz about whether the nod will go to yet another controversial pick or a crowd-pleaser. Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Hungary's Peter Nadas and American novelist Thomas Pynchon. The Swedish Academy's decision to honour Austrian novelist Peter Handke last year unleashed a flood of criticism, leaving many wondering how it could crown a writer known for supporting Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the Balkan wars and denying the extent of Serbian terror. But the 18-member Academy, which defended its choice as one based solely on literary merit, is no stranger to controversy. ... More
Exhibition examines the way dreams have been depicted in art from antiquity to the present day
LONDON.- Colnaghi, London, opened Dreamsongs: from Medicine to Demons to Artificial Intelligence, a group exhibition which examines the way dreams have been depicted in art from antiquity to the present day. Curated by Bjorn Stern, the presentation is comprised of more than forty paintings, drawings, sculptures and multi-media works by a diverse range of artists, including Jan van Wechelen, Frederick Charles Underhill, Takis, Salvador Dali, Albrecht Dürer and Max Ernst. The arrangement of the show loosely falls into the five categories of the dream identified by the Latin scholar Macrobius in response to Ciceros poem: insomnium, visium, somnium, oraculum and visio. Adds Stern: The exhibition also features stone carvings, vases, porcelains, clocks, books and multimedia works. In choosing these and other objects, I am seeking to break away ... More
Almine Rech London opens a new exhibition by Ha Chong-Hyun
LONDON.- Almine Rech London is presenting a new exhibition by Ha Chong-Hyun, the artist's third solo exhibition with the gallery. Back then I tried to destroy the existing order, including the concept of painting on a canvas. Thats Ha Chong-Hyun, speaking to The Korea Times last year, reflecting on the beginnings of what he would later term his Conjunction paintings, works that would, in turn, propel him to the forefront of what would eventually become known as the Danseakhwa movement. Â As is the case with anything revolutionary, the Conjunction paintings, the first of which was begun in 1973 and made public in 1974, represent a paradoxical (and simultaneous) process of assertion and denial. In these works, Ha rendered painting, as far as possible, no more than a material fact, simultaneously diminishing the trace of human agency in its creation. ... More
Records set in $1.6 million Heritage Luxury Accessories Auction
DALLAS, TX.- Multiple records fell and an Hermès wicker picnic bag sold for $47,500 to lead Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Live Auction to $1,608,631.75 Oct. 4. Offered at Heritage for the first time, the Hermès Jaune de Naples Swift Leather & Osier Wicker Mini Kelly Picnic with Palladium Hardware, drew nearly a dozen bids before finding a new home at more than double the low pre-auction estimate. Done in Fauve Barenia leather and Osier Wicker with Palladium hardware, it features one top handle and a flap top with a turnlock closure; the Fauve Chevre leather interior includes three slip pockets. The auction was spectacular! Outstanding lots were the Petit H Minaudière, the Kelly Mini Picnic and the Dalmatian Kelly, Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane DAmato said, and I look forward to our Holiday sale having equally ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer Irving Penn died October 07, 2009. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 - October 7, 2009) was an American photographer most known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography even after his death. In this image: A collector, left, makes a comment as a Christie's auction house worker holds Irving Penn's classic image of Jean Patchet that appeared in Vogue magazine's cover in 1950, during a presentation in London, Friday May 13, 2005.
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