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A photo provided by Menno Hoogland/Leiden University, of TaÃno ceramic vessels from eastern Dominican Republic, circa A.D. 1400. Ancient DNA shows humans settled the Caribbean in two distinct waves. Menno Hoogland/Leiden University via The New York Times.
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Dr. Juan Aviles went to school in Puerto Rico, teachers taught him that the original people of the island, the Taino, vanished soon after Spain colonized it. Violence, disease and forced labor wiped them out, destroying their culture and language, the teachers said, and the colonizers repopulated the island with slaves, including Indigenous people from Central and South America and Africans. But at home, Aviles heard another story. His grandmother would tell him that they were descended from Taino ancestors and that some of the words they used also descended from the Taino language. âBut, you know, my grandmother had to drop out of school at second grade, so I didnât trust her initially,â said Aviles, now a physician in Goldsboro, North Carolina. Aviles, who studied genetics in graduate school, has become active in using it to help connect people in the Caribbean with their genealogical history. And recent research in the field has led him to recognize that his grandmother was ont ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view "Maja Vukoje. On the Edge". Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2020
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| Gagosian presents an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal | | Pippy Houldsworth Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, and Agnes Martin | | Exhibition features a rarely seen full-set of twenty-four limited edition silver platters by Picasso | 
Edmund de Waal, winter pot (A6), 2020. Porcelain, lead, gold and yellow ochre pigment, 10 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. 26 x 16 cm © Edmund de Waal. Photo: Alzbeta Jaresova. Courtesy Gagosian.
LONDON.- Gagosian is presenting an exhibition of new works by artist and author Edmund de Waal, made during lockdown earlier this year. This is the first time in sixteen years that de Waal has made single works that are not parts of installations. They are specifically designed to be touched and held in the hand. De Waal comments, I made these pots in lockdown during the spring and early summer. I was alone in my studio and silent and I needed to make vessels to touch and hold, to pass on. I needed to return to what I knowthe bowl, the open dish, the lidded jar. When you pick them up you will find the places where I have marked and moved the soft clay. Some of these pots are broken and patched on their rims with folded lead and gold; others are mended with gold lacquer. Some hold shards of porcelain. In the studio I had two old Chinese ... More | | 
Kenturah Davis, Texere II, 2020. Shifu weaving (kozo paper thread weaving, with inked text), in artist frame, 25.4 x 20.3 cm, 10 x 8 in. Courtesy the artist, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London and Matthew Brown LA. Photo: Paul Salveson.
LONDON.- Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin in Lines of Thought, an exhibition exploring the poetics and politics of language. Important unseen work by Kelly and new text drawings and weavings by Davis enter into conversation with the hand-drawn lines and gridded compositions of Martins works on paper. Lines of Thought is the first UK presentation of work by young LA-based artist, Kenturah Davis. Four works (2020) from her series, Limen, pair portraiture with weaving, expressing how individuals are inseparable from the ideas and language that shape identity. Each portrait takes shape through a meticulous process of rubbing pencil across embossed paper inscribed with ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Visage aux Feuilles. Repoussé silver, 42cm. 16 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
LONDON.- Masterpiece Art is presenting an exhibition featuring a rarely seen full-set of twenty-four limited edition silver platters the fruits of a collaboration between Picasso and the celebrated Ateliers Hugo, Aix-en-Provence, France. Each of the limited-edition works feature a different design, which draw upon three recurring themes in the Spanish artists oeuvre bullfighting, Jacqueline Roque and Henri Matisse. Masterpiece Art have created a 3D viewing room for those unable to visit the exhibition. Says Executive Gallery Manager and Sales Director, Alex Cousens: Picassos ceramic work is well known and justly celebrated, but his collaboration with François Hugo was hugely important to him. He took a deep interest in the creation of these platters, the problem-solving nature of the collaboration and this challenging new medium. We are privileged to be able to bring together under one roof an entire ed ... More |
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| Nearly a century later, we're still reading - and changing our minds about - Gatsby | | Pierre Cardin: He dressed Jane Jetson and Lady Gaga | | Flowers Gallery announces the 38th edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition | 
The novels copyright expires as the calendar turns to 2021. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ive long held to the completely unsupported notion that a protagonist is simpler to write than a truly memorable supporting character. Sometimes just a silhouette created with a few slashes of the pen, a few charismatic adjectives seems the more unlikely accomplishment, born out of some surplus wit and energy, some surfeit of love for a fictional world that expresses itself in the desire to animate even its most minor participants. F. Scott Fitzgerald excelled at this sort of character. Few can write a more vivid neighbor, train conductor or, more usually, bartender. Take Owl Eyes (or so hes called, for his large spectacles), one of the many partygoers at Gatsbys mansion. When we first meet him, he has wandered into the library and doesnt seem able to escape he stands paralyzed, staring at the books in inebriated admiration. I wonder ... More | | 
Pierre Cardin with Diane von Furstenberg during an event at the Rockerfeller Center in New York on June 3, 2007. Joe Fornabaio/The New York Times.
by Guy Trebay
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- 1. He had the right name. The Italian-born Frenchman Pierre Cardins surname was perhaps the first French word that many Americans could easily pronounce. People with no inkling of how to utter designer names like Givenchy, with its suppressed g, and the sibilant Gallic uptick at the end of Saint Laurent (let alone the impossible Yves), had little difficulty speaking the two syllables and hard consonants of Caar-dan. Lesson: If you plan to become a household name, pick one anybody can say. 2. He was a gay beacon. True, Cardins sexuality was a secret, albeit a vaguely open one. Leaving aside a brief and very well-publicized affair with Jeanne Moreau, he remained a committed partner ... More | | 
Julie Cockburn, Wishing Well, 2020.
LONDON.- Flowers Gallery is presenting the 38th edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition, which takes place online. Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches, offering a rare opportunity to purchase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and discover new talents. Language, psychoanalysis, socio-political constructions of gender and identity are all at the heart of Colberts practice. Spanning film, photography, ceramics and sculpture, she questions narrative structures and storytelling, weaving surreal and fantastical mise-en-scène in a documentarian approach to characters, figures and people. The Amulet is a response to all the chaos in March. Inspired by the shapes of white blood cells, I like to think of them ... More |
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| Susan R. Ewing announces retirement from Cranbrook Academy of Art | | French theatre legend Robert Hossein dies aged 93 | | Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art wows audiences at Auckland Art Gallery | 
Ewing began her tenure as Interim Director in August of 2018. She was named to the permanent position of Maxine and Stuart Frankel Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art in January of 2019.
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH.- Cranbrook Educational Community announced today that Susan R. Ewing will be retiring as Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art, effective June 30, 2021. When Susan came to us as Interim Director in 2018, she proved herself so capable in the role that we asked her to take on the permanent position shortly thereafter, said Dominic DiMarco, President of Cranbrook Educational Community. This year has certainly presented us with challenges, and Susan has used her remarkable skills as an arts administrator to successfully guide the Academy through this time while positioning it for future success. Her efforts will leave a mark on the community for years to come. Ewing began her tenure as Interim Director in August of 2018. She was named to the ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on February 1, 1971 French actor and director Robert Hossein poses for pictures, in Paris. French actor and director Robert Hossein ,93, died announced his wife on December 31, 2020. AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French actor and director Robert Hossein, famous for his mega-productions of classics such as Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, died Thursday at the age of 93, his wife Candice Patou told AFP. Hossein died in hospital after suffering a "respiratory problem", Patou said. Born in December 30, 1927 to an Iranian Zoroastrian composer father and a Russian Orthodox mother Hossein began acting in his teens. He made his name in the 1960s as the smouldering count of Peyrac in the "Angelique" series of baroque romances. But he was also regularly cast by arthouse directors, including Roger Vadim, who picked him to play the suicidal love interest of Brigitte Bardot in Love on a Pillow in 1962. In later years he threw his energy into huge stage productions ... More | | 
Lisa Reihana, Ihi (still), 2020. Commissioned by Regional Facilities Auckland.
AUCKLAND.- In the largest exhibition ever presented by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art offers insights into the development of Māori art from the 1950s to the present day. The first major exhibition of its kind in nearly 20 years, Toi Tū Toi Ora is informed by a Māori worldview, and includes more than 300 artworks, exploring cultural histories, Māori knowledge, identity and place. Spanning 70 years with work by 111 artists, Toi Tū Toi Ora presents both an aspiration and a challenge to realise a future in which contemporary Māori art continues to stand tall toi tū and healthy toi ora while reinforcing the wisdom and ideas that empower Māori and Indigenous ways of knowing. Showcasing iconic artworks by some of Aotearoa New Zealands most significant artists Ralph Hotere, Lonnie Hutchinson, Robyn Kahuk ... More |
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| Landmark new commission by Nathan Coley revealed on Liverpool's World Heritage Waterfront | | BTS' "Dynamite" costumes to headline Julien's Auctions MusiCares Charity Relief Auction | | Galleries come together to launch a collaborative online exhibitions platform: In Touch | 
From Here, 2020, by Nathan Coley, St Georges Dock Pumping Station, Mann Island, Liverpool © Photography by Mark McNulty.
LIVERPOOL.- The installation From Here, 2020 is a co-commission between Liverpool Biennial and Culture Liverpool and is the latest in a series of high-profile outdoor artworks on the waterfront following 2018s Liverpool Mountain by Ugo Rondinone. The text-based light sculpture is made up of the words From Here, All the Worlds Futures, From Here, All the Worlds Pasts. Inspired by the writing of German philosopher, Walter Benjamin, and acknowledging the curator, Okwui Enwezors influential exhibition All The Worlds Futures at Venice Biennale 2015, Nathan Coleys expansion of the phrase presents a new meaning that reinforces the power of Liverpool as a place, its history and speaks to the hope for the future. Measuring twenty metres in length, the work has been designed specifically to wrap around the four sides of the St. Georges Dock Pumping Station, ... More | | 
These are the first costumes from the global music phenomenon ever to come up for auction.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions has announced Musicares® Charity Relief Auction will take place live in Beverly Hills and online at juliensauctions.com on Friday, January 29th, 2021. This Official GRAMMY® Week event precedes the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards® telecast. Proceeds will benefit MusiCares, the leading music industry charity, to provide aid to music people devastated by COVID-19. MusiCares provides a support system of health and human services across a spectrum of need including physical and mental health, addiction recovery, unforeseen personal emergencies and disaster relief. To launch the initiative, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kookalso known to the world as the global music phenomenon, BTShave generously offered a group of their pastel colored ensembles worn in their 2020 music video for Dynamite, the global superstars smash hit which debuted No.1 on Billboard Hot 100. The officia ... More | | 
Dhruvi Acharya, Wisdom of Crowds?, 2020. Ink, metallic pigment, watercolors on Arches paper, 24 x 18 in. Photo: Courtesy Chemould Prescott Road.
MUMBAI.- In Touch is a digital exhibitions platform created in partnership between galleries to present online exhibitions. Its collaborative nature makes this a unique platform, bringing together a diverse range of programs and artists. In its fourth edition, In Touch presents thirteen galleries from India and Dubai. Participating galleries are Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai; Chemould Prescott Road, Bombay; Experimenter, Kolkata; Green Art Gallery, Dubai; Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai; Gallery Espace, New Delhi; Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; PHOTOINK, New Delhi; GALLERYSKE, Bangalore/New Delhi; Shrine Empire, New Delhi; Tradition and Beyond, New Delhi; and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi. The platform enables the art community to connect with each other through organized and synergistic exhibition- ... More |
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The Colour and Abstraction of Master Chinese Artist Chu Teh-Chun
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 Hollywood productions shut down again as LA Covid cases soarLOS ANGELES (AFP).- Most Hollywood productions have shut down again until at least mid-January, the movie industry's acting union announced, as Covid-19 cases soar to record levels in Los Angeles. SAG-AFTRA said the majority of entertainment productions will "remain on hiatus until the second or third week of January if not later," in a statement to members late Tuesday. The message comes after Los Angeles county health officials on Christmas Eve urged filmmakers to "consider pausing work for a few weeks during this catastrophic surge in COVID cases." Los Angeles -- the nation's most populous county -- has emerged as the latest US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, topping 7,000 Covid hospitalizations for the first time Monday. The sprawling county of 10 million people has suffered nearly 750,000 cases including just under ... More  'Growing Up Travelling: The Inside World of the Irish Traveller Children' by Jamie JohnsonNEW YORK, NY.- American photographer Jamie Johnson has devoted her over 20-year career to photographing children and the process of growing up. In 2014 she was invited to Ireland to document the Irish Travellers, a nomadic, ethnic minority that have lived on the margins of Irish society for centuries. She was introduced to a group of Travellers at the Ballinasloe Horse Fair and Festival, an annual event in County Galway where Travellers from Ireland and Europe come to set up camps, reunite with family and friends, and sell puppies and ponies. The children are left to run footloose and fancy free with dolls, animals, and candy cigarettes. While the Travellers dont usually like outsiders, Johnsons warmth, kindness and show of respect won them over and she was granted full access to photograph their lives and culture. Johnson, a mother of two ... More  Launch of online gallery Crean & Company champions global line-up of contemporary artistsLONDON.- December 2020 marked the launch of Crean & Company, a new UK-based online gallery set to champion an international community of established and emerging mixed-media contemporary artists. The launch coincides with the virtual opening of Avoiding the Hodgepodge (1 December 2020-15 January 2021), the inaugural exhibition outlining the vision and concept of the gallery, whose represented artists include textile artist Carolina Mazzolari, sculptor Thomas Merrett and painter Rupert Shrive. Crean & Company has been founded by lifelong art collector Nick Crean and art historian Clementine Perrins. The gallerists have adopted an optimistic and future-orientated outlook, looking to harness the virtual potential of showcasing their community of artists and makers to a global audience of collectors. A timely venture, the gallery ... More  MPavilion announces trailblazing, adaptive takeover of Parkade CarparkMELBOURNE.- The Naomi Milgrom Foundation, in collaboration with the City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria announced that from 8 January 2021 MPavilionAustralia's most loved architecture and design eventwill take residency at the architecturally significant Parkade Carpark designed by Melbourne architect Peter McIntyre AO at 34 Little Collins Street, Melbourne. As an extraordinary contribution to the City of Melbournes recovery strategy, MPavilion Parkade, will be a highly-accessible cultural destination, hosting events, workshops, and performances designed to stimulate, entertain, and engage the public, 7-days-a-week. In a timely example of adaptive re-usethe process of reusing an existing building for a purpose other than that for which it was designedMPavilion will use the Parkade car park as a new home for its unique, ... More  Art Gallery of South Australia announces highlights of 2021 program ADELAIDE.- The Art Gallery of South Australia announced the highlights of its 2021 program that promises to be both explorative and contemplative. AGSA Director Rhana Devenport ONZM says, In 2021, the Art Gallery of South Australia promises fresh new horizons through a spirited exhibition program that highlights modern and contemporary Australian art. The voyage is at the forefront of this years artistic program from journeys with surrealists at sea, to the Antarctic circle, from sunrise vistas to the emergence of the next generation of Australian artists. We invite audiences to engage with AGSA as a destination for meaningful and memorable encounters with art. In late February, AGSA presents the most comprehensive retrospective ever staged of Clarice Beckett, one of Australias most admired modernist artists. Clarice Beckett: ... More  Lee Seung Taek's 'Non-Art: The Inversive Act' on view at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary ArtSEOUL.- The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea unveiled Lee Seung Taek's NonArt: The Inversive Act at the MMCA Seoul. Lee Seung Taek (b. 1932) is a representative figure in Korean experimental art who continued to produce works of art spanning installation, sculpture, painting, photography, land art, and performance art since the 1950s until today. Lee Seung Taek's Non-Art: The Inversive Act is a large-scale retrospective that aims to revisit the sixty-year career of Lee, who has played a pioneering role in transforming the Korean contemporary art scene with his unique artistic values. The title of the exhibition, Lee Seung Taek's Non-Art: The Inversive Act encapsulates the artist's artistic career during which he challenged fixed notion of art and inverting every kind of object and idea. ... More  The Architectural Digest Design Show is now the NY Luxury Design FairNEW YORK, NY.- theMART announced the launch of the NY Luxury Design Fair, an innovative and immersive design experience for trade professionals and consumers, September 912, 2021. The new show is an exciting evolution of the long-running Architectural Digest Design Show, created by the same producers. Offering a fresh take on a twenty-year tradition, the NY Luxury Design Fair will provide access to the best in home design, combining dynamic emerging talent with the newest introductions and launches from preeminent brands across many categories. Located on the West Side of Manhattan, adjacent to Hudson Yards, the largest development in U.S. history, the steel-and-glass structure of the I.M. Pei-designed Javits Center will provide the setting for exploration and discovery. The inaugural annual event is set to unite international ... More  Sabrina Amrani presents the third solo exhibition of Nicène Kossentini's work at the galleryMADRID.- Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia, 1977) continues to explore the social and political dimension of culture. For Memorising, the artist prepared a series of works based on texts by Arab philosophers, thinkers and poets, such as Ibn Khaldun or Khalil Gibran. The calligraphic texts here disappear in an exercise of miniature writing that makes the reading complex and the meaning impossible: works in which famous quotes are intertwined, poems are superimposed, or history texts are dissolved in water. Nicène questions not only the liquid aspect of culture and tradition, but also the concepts of identity, civilization and history. How does a civilization survive and evolve when tangible knowledge becomes unintelligible? In the words of the historian of Al-Andalus and father of political sociology Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406): "Language is one of the ... More  Taipei Dangdai announces new dates for 2021 editionTAIPEI.- Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas has announced new dates for its forthcoming edition in light of recent changes to the art fair calendar in Asia in 2021. Originally scheduled to take place from 15-17 January, the Fair will now be held from 2-4 July (VIP Preview 1 July) at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center. The second edition of Taipei Dangdai which took place in January 2020 featured 99 of the worlds leading galleries and welcomed strong attendance from Taiwan, Asia and around the world. With over 40,000 visitors attending the fair, galleries reported strong sales and networking opportunities. Building on the success of interim activations since the last edition of the Fair, such as the launch of 'Taipei Connections in May, several new initiatives will be announced in the coming months to provide opportunities for galleries and collectors to connect. These ... More  Kohn Gallery presents a solo exhibition by New York based artist Sophia NarrettLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery is presenting Soul Kiss, its first solo exhibition by New York based artist Sophia Narrett. Known for her elaborately embroidered shaped canvases, Narrett weaves together spatially unfolding narratives of desire and sexuality. Each work invites the viewer to engage alongside it in a transcendent exercise of introspection, where the pursuit of sustained love is in concert with the search for the self. "My work is about constructing something with a language that is problematic but using it to make my own narrative -- sitting with what might be uncomfortable, and sometimes its about subverting that. Exploring topics of role play, the emotional results of escapism and the evolving nature of identity, Narretts process of embroidery is both slow and careful. Each stitch is a painstaking practice ... More  Tim Ross partners with National Gallery of Australia to explore artistic inspirationCANBERRA.- Design enthusiast Tim Ross passion for art was seeded by a book gifted to his mother before he was even born a publication which is now the inspiration behind a new podcast series on the influence of art in our lives, developed in partnership with the National Gallery of Australia. Constant is a five-part series that includes interviews with a range of Australian artists plus essays, videos and photo galleries, all hosted on the National Gallerys website. In Constant, Ross takes the audience on a journey of discovery about some renowned and some lesser-known Australian artists. These include Ben Quilty talking about Margaret Olley, a discussion about Sidney Nolan with filmmaker Sally Aitken, who directed a documentary on the artist, a digital project inspired by a 1975 collaboration between artist Syd Ball and Split Enz, and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Chinese painter Qi Baishi was born January 01, 1864. Qi Baishi (1 January 1864 - 16 September 1957) was a Chinese painter, noted for the whimsical, often playful style of his watercolor works. Born to a peasant family from Xiangtan, Hunan, Qi became a carpenter at 14, and learned to paint by himself. After he turned 40, he traveled, visiting various scenic spots in China. After 1917 he settled in Beijing. In this image: Qi Baishi, Crabs, circa 1930. Album leaf, ink on paper. University of Michigan Museum of Art. Gift of Sotokichi Katsuizumi, 1949/1.199.
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