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A photo provided by Ben Meissner shows the solar observatory on Mount Tlaloc, Mexico. Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise may have followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years. (Ben Meissner via The New York Times)
by Becky Ferreira
NEW YORK, NY.- Long before Europeans colonized North America, the Indigenous peoples in the valley where Mexico City would later arise may have followed a natural solar calendar that was so accurate it accounted for leap years. The horizon calendar, proposed in a new study, relied on natural landmarks in the valleys rugged eastern mountains, and was kept in sync with the astronomical year by a temple atop a sacred volcano. The system may have been used by the Aztec culture, which flourished in the area from roughly 1300 to 1500, though previous civilizations also referred to the horizon to tell time. Earths trip around the sun isnt divided into 365 perfectly discrete days. Every year, there is an extra quarter of a day. Failing to account for that time can add up, disrupting a civilizations calendar. Tracking the days was a concern in the valley, known as the Basin of Mexico, where as many as 3 million people lived before Europeans arrived, making it among the most ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day "Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces," 2022. Exhibition view: New Museum, New York. Photo: Dario Lasagni. Courtesy New Museum
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| New Museum presents first American museum survey of Theaster Gates | | Museum für Moderne Kunst opens a comprehensive exhibition of works by Rosemarie Trockel | | Gertrude Abercrombie, Edward Hopper, Bernard Buffet highlight Hindman's December Fine Art Auctions | 
Theaster Gates, Cross in Sections, 2022 (detail). Old growth pine, 57 à 57 à 2 3/4 in. (144.8 à 144.8 à 6.9 cm). © Theaster Gates. Courtesy Theaster Gates. Photo: Jim Prinz Photography.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting the first American museum survey exhibition devoted to Theaster Gates, encompassing the full range of the artists practice across a variety of media creating communal spaces for preservation, remembrance, and exchange. This landmark exhibition is accompanied by a presentation of newly commissioned works by Vivian Caccuri and Miles Greenberg exploring the relationship between bodies and sound waves. Taking place across three floors of the museum, this exhibition encapsulates the full range of Theaster Gatess artistic activities, featuring artworks produced over the past twenty years and site-specific environments created especially for this presentation. Gates has titled the exhibition ... More | | 
Rosemarie Trockel, Aus Yvonne, 1997, Grażyna Kulczyk Collection, © The artist & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- As rigid as they are different, the white men look out at us. They are the Clock Owners. They are the time regime, dictating the pace of each day. Notre-Dame, a 2.9 meter- long hairpin, leans quietly against the wall. Adroit and elegant, it tames the wild, the impetuous, and the provocative: it is both an instrument of liberation and a weapon. Reducing it to mere aeration, four extraction fans fill a window cavity. Without providing either insight or outlook, the very idea of the window is distorted; instead of an opening, it becomes an exclusion barrier. The brutality and absurdity of normative regimes emerge openly in the work of Rosemarie Trockel. Definitions, restrictions, paternalism, and violence due to gender become visible and transparent. Her advance is a risky, courageous, combative, and humorous one. In all media ... More | | 
Edward Hopper (American, 18821967), Night Shadows, 1921 (detail). Price Realized: $59,375.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindmans December Fine Art auctions featured notable milestones including a new world auction record for the late Surrealist artist Gertrude Abercrombie, continuing to illustrate the firms position as a leader in offering her works. Overall, French painters, female artists, American Realists and abstract artists were among top performers out of the 270 lots presented across the American & European Art, Post-War & Contemporary Art and Prints & Multiples sales. The American & European auction was led by French painter Blanche Hoschedé-Monets Jardin en fleurs (Les rosiers). The sale also included an impressive performance by American figurative painter Doris Emrick Lees vibrantly colored pastoral scene Spring Lakes, which soared past its $8,000-12,000 estimate to realize $46,875. Highlights: Top Lot of Sale: Lot 15 | Blanche Hoschedé-Monet ... More |
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| African American Museum delays opening | | Exhibition at White Cube Mason's Yard presents works by David Altmejd | | Bertoia's wraps stellar year with $2.7M November auction of toys and Christmas antiques from prestigious collections | 
The focus spans centuries and continents, from the global impact of slavery and the diaspora to contemporary conversations about race and social justice.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK, NY.- The International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, has building issues that will delay the eagerly awaited centers opening until later in 2023, museum leaders said. Last week, the leaders said the January opening was postponed because of faulty humidity and temperature controls required to protect its exhibits and artifacts, which tell the stories of the passage of thousands of enslaved Africans to the United States. The International African American Museum is at the former Gadsden Wharf, once a large port where nearly half of all enslaved Africans arrived; remnants of the wooden wharf were found by archaeologists in 2014 during an exploratory dig for the museum site. We regret this turn of events and any inconvenience to our loyal members, Tonya M. Matthews, the museums president and CEO, said in a Dec. 16 letter to donors ... More | | 
David Altmejds work is a unique and heady mix of science and magic, science fiction and gothic romanticism: a post-apocalyptic vision which is at the same time essentially optimistic, containing as it always does the potential for regeneration, evolution and invention.
LONDON.- On the ground floor of the gallery we encounter a human figure with the ears of a hare, seated in yogic pose. Its giant ears, stretching almost to the ceiling, seem to probe the limits of the room, while in front of it is a burrow from which the figure appears to have excavated the very matter from which it is made. The contrast of these feet of clay and ears spread like dragonfly wings suggest that a transformation is occurring, from the material to the ethereal. The Hare is the presiding spirit of the exhibition, whom Altmejd recognises as the Jungian archetype of the Trickster. According to Carl Jungs theory of the collective unconscious, our ancestral memories are represented by certain universal themes and roles which appear throughout our literature, art and dreams, and these archetypes can explain our psychology. Trickster is irrational and capricious, a prankster and shapeshifter ... More | | 
Masudaya Machine Man robot from the celebrated Gang of Five series, pristine to near-mint condition. Provenance: F.H. Griffith collection. Sold within estimate for $60,000.
VINELAND, N.J..- Bertoia Auctions concluded a memorable year of high-profile events with a $2.7 million sale of toys, banks and Christmas antiques held on November 17-18 at their New Jersey gallery. The 1,179-lot selection presented on November 17-18 was steeped in toy-collecting history, with an abundance of exquisite, well-provenanced pieces coming from the lifetime collections of Bob Brady, Jack White, and Curtis and Linda Smith. The interest was tremendous. The number of bidders who signed up for this sale surpassed that of many of our past auctions, said Michael Bertoia, president and principal auctioneer at Bertoia Auctions. There was a lot of international participation, including from countries where we had not seen bidders come from before, like Russia, Thailand and even Ukraine. Regardless, the majority of the auctions contents went to US bidders in the room or on the phones, with additional successful ... More |
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| "Marc Dennis: Once upon a Time" now on view at GAVLAK in solo exhibition | | Christmas at Dollywood, with Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady | | Priska Pasquer announces the opening of Priska Pasqquer Paris | 
Marc Dennis, Almost Everything About Her, 2022.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF.- GAVLAK is now presenting Once Upon A Time, a solo exhibition of new ten paintings by New York-based artist Marc Dennis. The exhibition marks the artists second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Los Angeles. Once Upon A Time began on December 15, and will continue through January 28, 2023. For the event an open house took place with the artist on Thursday, December 15th. From time immemorial, the arts have been the source of challenges to our perception. Artists employed a trompe-loeil effect, like photo-realism, to examine the interstice between the object as image and the image as object. In this new body of work Marc Dennis looks to explore who and what is left to trompe? Marc Dennis keeps alive the tradition of illusion in Western art, moving beyond the picture as a site of realness (or, perhaps, truthiness) and into a realm of philosophical inquiry ... More | | 
Children play in fake snow at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., Dec. 9, 2022. Nearly 3 million people a year come to the theme park. (Stacy Kranitz/The New York Times)
by Melena Ryzik
PIGEON FORGE, TENN.- In June or July, Dollywood employees begin stringing more than 6 million twinkle lights across Dolly Partons namesake theme park here in the Smoky Mountains. In a mad sprint just after Halloween, they add more than 650 evergreens, including a 50-footer that serves as a canvas for a light show about a polar bear. The steam train that whistles through the park is topped with a giant wreath; Santa stuffies appear as balloon pop prizes. By early November, Heidi Lou Parton, Dollys niece, is onstage, surrounded by glistening firs, harmonizing on You Are My Christmas, a song written for her father, Randy Parton. She was all of 4 when she made her debut at Dollywood ... More | | 
The gallery will be located behind the Picasso Museum in the historical Marais district at 6 rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris.
PARIS.- Gallery-owner Priska Pasquer announced the opening of Priska Pasqquer Paris on January 14, 2023. This branch in the capital of France will be located behind the Picasso Museum in the historical Marais district at 6 rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris. Priska Pasquer has been closely associated with the Parisian art scene ever since she first took part in Paris Photo in 1999. Since opening her own gallery in Cologne a year later, she has regularly participated in both Paris Photo and Art Paris and been appointed to the selection committees of both fairs. Priska Pasquer has built up a large network in Paris and initiated many projects there. They include temporary solo exhibitions in the Marais with for example Rinko Kawauchi, a solo exhibition by Heinz Hajek-Halke at the Pompidou Centre, the first extensive presentation of Japanese ... More |
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| Exhibition at Galloire brings together five world-renowned artists | | AstaGuru presents extraordinary landmark creations in its 'Historic Masterpieces' Modern Indian Art Auction | | A horde of monkeys descend on the Carlone Hall at the Upper Belvedere | 
Miguel Chevalier, Méta Cités.
DUBAI.- Elemental Perception brings together five world-renowned artists: Julio Le Parc, Blair Thurman, Jan Kalab, Miguel Chevalier, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet at Galloire in City Walk, Dubai. These artists collectively manipulate geometric forms, and utilise colour and light to evoke a fundamental response from, and innate connection with the viewer. The works invite one to intuit; to see by sense: They prompt us to consider the organic and the machine, our path from primordial soup to our technology-driven tomorrow, and whilst some of the works invite us to revel in pure beauty and our romantic dreams of youth, they also challenge us to ponder our ultimate trajectory of decay. This exhibition is a regional-first for Julio Le Parc, master and pioneer of Op Art and Kinetic Art. In a selection of key pieces within the show, we see the range of his oeuvre across paintings and immersive installations ... More | | 
One of the main highlights of the auction is lot no.1, is a masterpiece by respected artist Hemendranath Mazumdar and is appearing in an auction for the first time. Depicting the immortal image of Radha & Krishna, the work showcases the brilliant confluence of the artists motivation; in terms of technique and subject matter. It will be offered with an estimate of INR 1,00,00,000 1,50,00,000
MUMBAI.- In its upcoming Historic Masterpieces Modern Indian Art auction, AstaGuru will present a stellar collection of works by highly respected artists who greatly contributed to establishing the definition of Modern Indian Art. The finely curated catalogue for the auction showcases creations by 19 revered names including Hemendranath Mazumdar, F.N. Souza, S.H. Raza, Jehangir Sabavala, M.F. Husain, Akbar Padamsee, Bikash Bhattacharjee, Krishen Khanna, Jogen Chowdhury, Prabhakar Barwe, K.G. Subramanyan, Ram Kumar, J. Swaminathan, Somnath Hore, Himmat Shah ... More | | 
Exhibition view "CARLONE CONTEMPORARY: Rona Pondick". Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna.
VIENNA.- Magical human-animal hybrids have populated the artists sculptural world since the year 2000. The cavorting monkeys incorporating parts of the human body are simultaneously wild, erotic, aggressive, and whimsical; the human facethe artist herselfeither suffering or ecstatic. An overriding impression of ambivalence exists, of attraction and repulsion, and of other often contradictory impulses and drives. From Egyptian sphinxes and deities, Greek centaurs, Ovids Metamorphoses, to mermaids in fairy-tales, chimera have exerted a fascination since time immemorial. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is arguably the most famous example from modern times, and was a source of inspiration for the artist. Monkeys was created over a period of several years using an elaborate process. Transitions between human and animal ... More |
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 The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair returning to Mayfair, London - first time since pandemic in 2020LONDON.- The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair returns to Londons West End and the five-star London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6JP from Thursday 12 to Sunday 15 January 2023. Previously held annually until interrupted by the pandemic, this ninth edition is back to starting the year in style once again. The fair boasts a good mix of disciplines courtesy of members of The British Antique Dealers Association and LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers, who have signed up to exhibit. The fair has a magnificent international following including interior designers, collectors and, with its central location, lures overseas visitors to London, as well as people seeking unique pieces for their interiors. Organiser Ingrid Nilson of The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited said We are delighted to be back in Mayfair, at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square ... More  Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee presents exhibition by Jimmie DurhamNAPLES.- Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, in cooperation with Fondazione Morra Greco, as part of the 2022-2023 edition of Progetto XXI, presents Jimmie Durham: And now, so far in the future That no one will recognize Any of my jokes, -an oblique narrative of Durhams artistic work, thought and political activism, of his readings, attitudes, and positions. The exhibition began will begin on December 23rd, and continue through to April 10th. Conceived as a counterpoint to and in dialogue with the retrospective Jimmie Durham: humanity is not a completed project, curated by Kathryn Weir, which simultaneously opens at Madre, the Campania Regions museum of contemporary art, the exhibition presents sculptures from the Fondazione Morra Greco Collection, poems, writings, objects, prints, photographs, carpets, books, videos, documents ... More  Coffee culture: Starbucks brings Betsy Silverman's recycled magazine art to Harvard Square CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The Out of Town News returns to Harvard Square! Read all about it! No, the beloved and iconic newsstand building for decades the epicenter of this Cambridge neighborhood remains shuttered, as it has been since 2019. But the newsstands pulsing heyday is depicted in one of two new artworks displayed in the recently opened Starbucks coffee shop in the Abbot Building at 1 John F. Kennedy Street. Both artworks were created by the Boston-area artist, Betsy Silverman, who practices a unique style of creating images with stunning realism entirely from recycled magazines. There is no paint, ink, or pencil, Silverman explains. I use magazines, scissors, and glue, the way other artists use brushes and paint. My color palette is the thousands of magazines I have in my studio. A close look at Silvermans artwork reveals ... More  Tony Vaccaro centennial exhibition on view at Monroe Gallery of Photography SANTA FE, NM.- A new exhibitions celebrates the 100th birthday of acclaimed photographer Tony Vaccaro in Santa Fe. The show has been on view at Monroe Gallery in Santa Fe since November 25, 2022, and will end on January 15, 2023. Vaccaro is known for his photographs of WWII, which were the subject of a 2016 HBO documentary, and his editorial work for Life, Look, Newsweek, Vanity Fair and countless other publications. The exhibitions coincide with Tony Vaccaro 100! on view at the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, Germany. In both locations, Tony Vaccaro: The Centennial Exhibition, juxtaposes the living legends powerful war images with the lyrical mid-century fashion, film, and pop culture photographs that came later. On view are more than two dozen photographs dating from 1944-1979. From the battlefields of Europe to the rooftops of Manhattan ... More  'Thatcher's Children' by Craig Easton to be published February 2022LIVERPOOL.- Thatchers Children, a long-term project by photographer Craig Easton, examines the intergenerational nature of poverty as experienced by three generations of the Williams family in the north of England. The passage of time shown in the book demonstrates how deprivation is connected to the social policy failures of successive governments. A selection of the work from the series will be included in the exhibition Is Anybody Listening? at Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool from 12 January 26 February 2023, before touring the UK. Thatchers Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless families in Blackpool, England. The project was made in response to a speech by Peter Lilley, then Secretary of State for Social Security, in which he announced his determination to close down the something-for-nothing society. ... More  Marianne Boesky Gallery now representing Martyn CrossNEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced representation of UK-based painter Martyn Cross, in partnership with Hales Gallery, London. Cross works across a range of scales, from the intimate to the monumental, producing landscapes that are vast, immersive, and otherworldly. Informed by medieval imagery, various literary genres, and his deep connection to printed books, Crosss work is at once earthbound and celestial. A solo exhibition of Crosss work at Marianne Boesky Gallerys New York space is slated for the fall of 2023. Working with a distinctive, muted color palette, Cross layers scratched and scrubbed dry-brushed pigment to yield a weathered, worn texture glowing with the internal luminosity of medieval manuscripts and frescoes. I see the paintings equally as objects as much as I do paintings, Cross said ... More  Exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum celebrates the creative vision of Jim HensonGRAND RAPIDS, MICH.- The Grand Rapids Art Museum is presenting The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited, with presenting support from PNC Bank. Organized by the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), the traveling exhibition will remain on view through January 14, 2023. The traveling exhibition is a version of MoMIs ongoing The Jim Henson Exhibition, which is on view at its home in New York City. The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited is a dynamic new visitor experience exploring Jim Hensons groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture. This comprehensive exhibition reveals how Henson and his team of builders, performers, and writers brought to life the enduringly popular worlds of The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and much more ... More  Elayne Jones, pioneering percussionist, is dead at 94NEW YORK, NY.- Elayne Jones, a timpanist who was said to be the first Black principal player in a major American orchestra when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972, and who mounted a legal battle over racial and sexual discrimination when she was denied tenure two years later, died Saturday at her home in Walnut Creek, California. She was 94. Her daughter Cheryl Stanley said the cause was dementia. The charismatic, Juilliard-trained Jones was not only a rare woman among the orchestral percussionists of her time; she also helped lead a generation of Black musicians in confronting the pervasive and enduring racism of the classical music industry. Her appointment in San Francisco, under that ensembles modish music director, Seiji Ozawa, projected a forward-looking vision of classical music, scholar Grace Wang has written. Admired for her lyricism and finesse ... More  On TikTok, an organist finds an audience, and herselfNEW YORK, NY.- Once a month, Anna Lapwood heads to the Royal Albert Hall in London to practice on its grand pipe organ from midnight until 6 a.m. a rare moment of downtime in the busy venues schedule. Often, the only people who hear her rehearse are the venues security staff. But there is another audience that gets to watch her later: Lapwoods more than 420,000 fans on TikTok. At the start of each rehearsal, Lapwood props her phone against the organs console, so it can capture her every move: her fingers moving rapidly across the organs four keyboards, her feet skittering across the pedals and a look of delight spreading across her face as the sounds emerge from the organs 9,999 pipes. When Lapwood has finished playing for the night, she chooses several funny or interesting sections from the footage such as a vibrant rendition of a movie soundtrack ... More  Onstage, it's finally beginning to look a lot like Christmas againNEW YORK, NY.- The Rockettes are high-kicking their way through the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The Sugarplum Fairy, after an unsought interregnum, is presiding over the Land of Sweets at the New York City Ballet. All around the country, choirs are singing hallelujahs in Handels Messiah and Scrooges are learning to replace bahs with blessings. After two years of Christmastime washouts there was 2020, when live performance was still impossible in many places, and then last winter, when the omicron variant wave stopped many productions arts lovers and arts institutions say that they are determined that this will be their first fully staged holiday in three years. It feels absolutely like the first Christmas post-COVID there are more tourists in town, Times Square feels very alive again, people are venturing out in a way that I havent witnessed since 2019 ... More  Digital artwork virtually repdroduces the 5000-kilometer transnational migratory journey of a single monarch butterflyNEW YORK, NY.- El Museo del Barrio is presenting Reynier Leyva Novo: MeĞhuselah, from October 27, 2022 to March 26, 2023. Conceived by the Cuban-born and Houston based artist Reynier Levya Novo, the digital artwork virtually reproduces the 5000-kilometer transnational migratory journey of a single monarch butterfly, tracking its travel from southern Canada across the United States to Mexico. Embodied through the life of a virtual avatar, the epic journey is hosted and reproduced in real time on a specially designed, open-access, dedicated website. Commissioned by El Museo del Barrio with the support of VIA Art Fund, the in-person mixed-reality presentation at El Museo debuts in conjunction with the Fall exhibition, Juan Francisco Elso: Por América ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh was born December 23, 1908. Yousuf Karsh, CC (December 23, 1908 - July 13, 2002) was an Armenian-Canadian photographer best known for his portraits of notable individuals. He has been described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. In this image: Yousuf Karsh, Ford of Canada (surgeons), 1951.
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