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Crocodile mummies, estimated to be about 2,500 years old, discovered in a tomb at Qubbat al-Hawā, Egypt, on the Niles west bank. The animals were preserved in a ritual likely meant to honor Sobek, a fertility deity worshiped in ancient Egypt. (Patricia Mora Riudavets via The New York Times)
by Sam Jones
NEW YORK, NY.- At first glance, you may think the picture is of living crocodiles moving stealthily through mud. But the animals are mummies, possibly dead for more than 2,500 years and preserved in a ritual that likely honored Sobek, a fertility deity worshipped in ancient Egypt. The mummies were among 10 adult crocodiles, likely from two different species, the remains of which were unearthed recently from a tomb at Qubbat al-Hawa on the west bank of the Nile River. The discovery was detailed in the journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday. The crocodile has played an important role in Egyptian culture for thousands of years. In addition to being linked to a deity, it was a food source, and parts of the animal, like its fat, were used as medicine to treat body pains, stiffness and even balding. Mummified animals, including ibises, cats and baboons, are relatively common finds in Egyptian tombs. Other mummified crocodile remains have been dug up, but most have been juveniles or hatchlings; addi ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Denny Gallery is presenting Sunny, a solo exhibition of new work by painter Judy Ledgerwood, which is on view at the galleryâs New York location from January 7 to February 11, 2023.
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| David Crosby, mainstay of two classic rock bands, dies at 81 | | Asia Week New York & The Winter Show present the spectacular collections of the Havemeyer Family | | A French city appeals to Madonna for clues about a long-lost painting | 
Two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee David Crosby in New York, on Jan. 28, 2016. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
by Jim Farber
NEW YORK, NY.- David Crosby, the outspoken and often-troubled singer, songwriter and guitarist who helped create two of the most influential and beloved American bands of the classic-rock era of the 1960s and 70s the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young has died. He was 81. Patricia Dance, a sister of Crosbys wife, Jan Dance, said in a text message Thursday evening that Crosby died last night. She provided no other details. Crosby was inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as a founding member of the Byrds and as a founder of CSNY. He brought jazz influences to both groups, in the process broadening the possibilities of vocally driven folk-rock. And his reach extended to later generations: His alternate tunings became an inspiration for the innovative ... More | | 
Louisine and Henry O. Havemeyer, 1889 (Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
NEW YORK, NY.- Asia Week New York, in partnership with The Winter Show, will present Partners in Life and Art: The Spectacular Collections of the Havemeyer Family featuring noted authorities Alice Frelinghuysen and Thomas Denenberg. The presentation, moderated by Dessa Goddard, chairman of Asia Week New York, will be held on Saturday, January 28 at 5:00 p.m. in the historic Colonel's Room at the Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York. The Havemeyers were a unique partnership among Gilded Age collectors with shared but separate tastes who ultimately built major museum collections in the United States, says Dessa Goddard. We will explore their separate evolution as collectors which led to their joint passions as collectors and patrons of Impressionist paintings through Mary Cassatt, and pioneering Louis C. Tiffany and his studio. We will discuss the couples interest in both mainstream art ... More | | 
Madonna attends the LaQuan Smith SS 2023 Collection Afterparty in New York, Sept. 12, 2022. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times).
by Jenny Gross
NEW YORK, NY.- A small city in northern France is turning to an unlikely source in an effort to reclaim a painting that it lost more than a century ago: Madonna. In 1872, the Louvre lent the painting, Diana and Endymion by Jérôme-Martin Langlois, to the Picardy Museum in Amiens, France, where it remained until disappearing at some point by the end of World War I. On Monday, the mayor of Amiens, Brigitte Fouré, said in a video that she recently learned Madonna owned a painting that looked just like the missing one. While acknowledging that Madonna is probably unfamiliar with Amiens, Fouré nevertheless claimed a special connection between her city and the pop star. She went on to suggest that the painting that disappeared from the Picardy and the painting belonging to Madonna ... More |
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| Trunks from Muhammad Ali's final fight, 'Drama in Bahama', to be auctioned February 14 | | Li Trincere's Hard Edge, Geometric Paintings from 1980s to 2022 in two simultaneous exhibitions at David Richard Gallery | | Frye Art Museum appoints Jamilee Lacy as Executive Director | 
Images of Alis Drama in Bahama trunks. Photo: Courtesy of Chiswick Auctions.
LONDON.- A unique souvenir of Muhammad Alis final boxing match will be offered on February 14 at Chiswick Auctions Autographs and Memorabilia sale in London. The MacGregor boxing trunks were worn by Ali during the Drama in Bahama, a December 11, 1981 match at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau that pitted the legendary American athlete against Jamaican Trevor Berbick. Age was not on the once-invincible Alis side. He was 39 years old, overweight at 236 lbs, and already suffering brain damage from having absorbed too many blows. In contrast, Berbick was a youthful 27 years old and would go on to win a WBC Heavyweight title. Despite concerns about his fitness prior to the fight, Ali tried putting some combinations together in the early rounds and even landed a few solid jabs, but by the sixth round he appeared tired and started getting hit. The 10-round contest which failed to sell out ... More | | 
Li Trincere, Untitled (T09), 1987. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Copyright © Li Trincere. Courtesy David Richard Gallery, LLC.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Richard Gallery is currently presenting two simultaneous exhibitions by New York artist Li Trincere that span four decades of her studio practice focused on hard edge, geometric paintings. The first presentation includes earlier paintings dating from the late 1980s through the early 1990s. The second presentation debuts her newest series of paintings created in 2022 as well as selections of recent paintings from 2021, both conceived and created during the covid pandemic and funded with the assistance of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. While the primary focus of both exhibitions is Trinceres paintings, drawings are an integral part of her art making and produced in parallel with paintings. Both paintings and drawings are conceived and produced as stand alone works and rarely is there a painting corresponding directly to a drawing. Each presentation includes a selection of representative ... More | | 
Ms. Lacy comes to the Frye from Providence College Galleries, Rhode Island, where she has served as Inaugural Director and Chief Curator since 2014.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum Board of Trustees announces the appointment of Jamilee Lacy as the museums Executive Director following a comprehensive international search. Ms. Lacy comes to the Frye from Providence College Galleries, Rhode Island, where she has served as Inaugural Director and Chief Curator since 2014. Beginning March 1, 2023, Lacy will assume the director role, which was previously held by Joseph Rosa through March 2022. I am honored to have been selected as the Fryes Executive Director, says Lacy. I am inspired by the museums supportive board, talented and generous staff, and the incredible creative energy in Seattle. It is especially meaningful to be joining the arts community in a city where breaking from convention is the model for innovative thinking. I believe the Frye is uniquely poised to collaborate with this regions wealth of talent to explore the most urgent social ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth announces co-representation of the Winfred Rembert Estate with Fort Gansevoort | | Bonhams to sell contents of Meldon Park & classic private Scottish estate | | Baltimore Museum of Art accounces acquisition of more than 150 artworks for its Encyclopedic Collection | 
First exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York opens in February.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth announced co-representation of the Winfred Rembert Estate with Fort Gansevoort. Winfred Remberts life story, which began in 1945 in the Jim Crow era of the American South, and concluded in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died in March 2021, is one of perseverance and resistance in the face of racial violence and inequity, and of the power of art as a form of witness and reckoning. Recalling the achievements of African American figurative masters such as Jacob Lawrence, Hale Woodruff, and Horace Pippin, Remberts deeply personal artworks foreground truths about the aftermath of slavery and the persistence of racial injustice in America, while also celebrating the people and places of Cuthbert, Georgias Black community. His unique oeuvre was executed in tooled and painted leather, a craft Rembert learned from fellow inmate T.J. the Tooler during seven years of incarceration and hard labo ... More | | 
John Graham Lough, British, 1789-1876, Duncan's Horses. Estimates £7,000-10,000. Photo: Bonhams.
EDINBURGH.- The handsome Georgian house Meldon Park, built in 1832 for the wealthy Cookson family, sits in a 3,800-acre estate in Northumberland. Described as the last flowering of the Georgian country-house tradition, Meldon Park is notable for its huge windows on the south and east sides, a nod perhaps to the glass and chemical works which were the foundation of the Cookson fortune. (The estate itself is considerably older; a previous owner James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, lost it to the Crown following his attainder for treason in the 1715 Jacobite rising). Meldon Park has been home to seven generations of the Cookson family (their occupancy only broken when the house served as a childrens hospital during World War II) but is now being sold and a selection of its contents will be offered for sale at Bonhams 248-lot Collections Sale in Edinburgh on Thursday 2 February 2023. Among the highlights is The Arch of ... More | | 
Lilly Steiner. Portrait of a Woman. 1928. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The John Dorsey and Robert W. Armacost Acquisitions Endowment, BMA 2022.206.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced today that it has acquired, through purchase and gift, 162 works of art, capturing a wide range of artistic perspectives and innovations. The latest group of acquisitions highlights the museums expanded efforts to close critical gaps across the full range of its collection departments. This work emphasizes both historic and contemporary omissions and focuses on revealing the fuller spectrum of voices and practices that have shaped the development of art across time, culture, and geography. The new acquisitions also continue the BMAs work to support Baltimore- based and -affiliated artists at pivotal moments in their careers. Among some of the highlights are historic and contemporary paintings and works on paper by Sarah Biffin, Lucy Bull, Nancy Ellen Craig, Cianne Fragione, Beatrice Glow, Rachel Jones, Bertina Lopes, Nengi Omuku, Anil Revri, Deborah Roberts, Esphyr Slobodkina ... More |
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| Convelio delivers record-breaking year in shipments, sales and investment | | Artcurial to offer the furniture of the Hotel Bauer Palazzo, Venice | | Art Central returns to Hong Kong from 22 to 25 March 2023 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre | 
Co-founders Edouard Gouin (L) and Clément Ouizille (R) have steered the fine art shipping start-up to new heights in 2022 © Convelio.
PARIS.- In 2022, Convelio, the worlds leading tech-led fine art shipper, has achieved a new company record in shipments carried, its best year-on-year revenue growth, and received the industrys highest ever investment funding. The historic year situates it perfectly to enter its sixth year of business as a market leader supplying shipping services to the $65 billion global art and antiques market. The retreat of Covid-19 in 2022 has revealed an art market that is far more attuned to technology, particularly e-commerce, than ever before, with Convelio ready to work with galleries and collectors alike around the world for their changing logistical needs. Convelios co-founder and CEO, Edouard Gouin, says: The Covid-19 pandemic exponentially motivated art market players to move online and it saw them invest in digital channels. They quickly realised that digitalising not only made their business cheaper ... More | | 
Attributed to Claudio Francesco Beaumont, Chryseis returned to her father and Quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, Oil on canvas, a pair. Dimensions : 233 x 196 cm. Estimate : 40.000 - 80.000.
PARIS.- After 142 years of activity, the Hotel Bauer Palazzo is embarking on a new chapter in its history. Reminiscent of the 1940s, when its state-of-the-art renovation established it as a reference for comfort, the institution is continuing its transformation with the aim of redefining the standard of Venetian luxury in 2025. The 10,000 items offered for sale continue to resonate with the voices of illustrious visitors who, from Marilyn Monroe to King Charles and Camilla, have contributed to the reputation of the hotel. From Giovanni Sardis Gothic-Byzantine style to Marino Meos modernist travertine, the hotels facades alone sum up the eclecticism of this place where everything is a contrast and a combination at once. Art Deco meets Baroque style, painted wood meets gilded wood, Venetian millefiori and Murano glass meet English furniture ... More | | 
Art Central 2023 © Vanessa Li Photography, All Rights Reserved.
HONG KONG.- Art Central, presented with Lead Partner UOB, will return to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre for its 2023 edition. As a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week, the eighth edition of Art Central will be held from Wednesday to Saturday, 22 to 25 March 2023 (Preview on Tuesday, 21 March) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, showcasing the next generation of talent from Asias most innovative galleries alongside distinguished artists from around the world. Art Central 2023 welcomes the participation by 70 diverse and ambitious galleries from around the globe from Hong Kong to Busan, Johannesburg to New York, Madrid, Tokyo and beyond. With the recent lifting of travel restrictions in Hong Kong, the Fair looks forward to reuniting local and international audiences in a truly multicultural celebration of art. For this years Fair, Art Central is honored to welcome Hong Kong-based independent ... More |
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Exhibition Previewâ"Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty"
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 Battle of the Nile medals sell for a hammer price £100,000 at NoonansLONDON.- The Important Battle of the Nile 1798 Post Captains Naval Gold Medal awarded to Davidge Gould, Captain of the 74-gun H.M.S. Audacious was sold by Noonans in their sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria for a hammer price £100,000 on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Estimated at £80,000-100,000, it was bought online by a private collector [lot 316]. Gould had also been embroiled in the controversy around Lord Nelsons affair with Lady Emma Hamilton. Before the sale, Christopher Mellor-Hill, Head of Client Liaison at Noonans commented: The Gold medal speaks for itself in that very few of these ever come on the market having survived being melted down for their gold content, were only awarded to the Captains of The HMS Ships in such important and successful naval actions. It is being sold by a collector ... More  Carbon 12 announces the release of 'MS 00 22 Michael Sailstorfer: Works 2000-2022'DUBAI.- Michael Sailstorfer (b. Velden/Vils, Germany, 1979; lives and works in Berlin) is one of the most renowned German sculptors and object artists of his generation. His sculptural creations, which often require extensive planning and complex production processes, are the results of reflections on and reinterpretations of everyday objects: intriguing, bizarre, and sometimes humorous experimental arrangements and artifacts that interact with their environments, create spaces, or self-deconstruct. These transformative processes combine conceptual depth with poetic allure and tell stories of the passage of time and disintegration. Many of Sailstorfers installations depend on the beholders active engagement for their effect. He typically documents his sculptural experiments with the camera and later shares them with the public in the form of videos or photographs ... More  Yukihiro Takahashi, pioneer of electronic pop music, dies at 70NEW YORK, NY.- Yukihiro Takahashi, a drummer and vocalist whose wide artistic range and gleeful embrace of music technology made him a leading figure in Japans pop scene for nearly 50 years, most prominently with the Yellow Magic Orchestra, one of his countrys most successful musical acts, died on Jan. 11 in Karuizawa, Japan. He was 70. The cause was aspiration pneumonia, a complication of a brain tumor, his management company said in a statement. Takahashi and Yellow Magic Orchestra, which he founded in 1978 with musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto and Haruomi Hosono, were often ranked alongside the German electronic group Kraftwerk as pioneers in electronic music and significant influences on emergent genres like hip-hop, New Wave and techno. Yellow Magic Orchestra was among the first bands to employ in live shows devices like the Roland TR-808 Rhythm ... More  David Byrne, Maria Cornejo celebrate the latest art 'drop'NEW YORK, NY.- Last week, creative industry insiders filled the concrete and wood lobby of the Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn to see the work of Lakea Shepard in the latest drop by GBA, a new art, commerce and lifestyle platform for underrepresented communities of artists. The pieces, on display until January 30, are based on slave masks devices of control and punishment used on enslaved people in the New World. Shepard assembles the masks with beads, gems, thread and ephemera, using traditional African basketmaking, embroidery and embellishment techniques to portray the challenges facing Black people in contemporary society. Shepard, 32, a sculptor, mixed media designer and milliner, grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and earned her degree from the College ... More  Review: A dance searching for harmony in an unequal worldNEW YORK, NY.- The Equality of Night and Day, a New York premiere by the choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his company, Evidence, essentially starts out mid thought. A voice says, And finally. Its so no-nonsense that it practically sounds like a complete sentence. Spoken by the activist Angela Davis in a tone verging on weariness, the and finally urges the crowd at least the one you imagine standing before her to think about the larger picture, as she talks about issues that ail the United States, like the assault against affirmative action and the increasing conservatism. The dancer Joyce Edwards, a silky powerhouse full of drama whether seemingly motionless or rippling her body with fervor, is poised center stage: She bends forward and rises back up with crossed wrists until her arms lift and bloom out like glorious wings ... More  Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge opens 'The Story of My Life. Object Biography as Concept, Method and Genre'BERLIN.- Every thing has a life of its own but can things tell their own stories? A proud teapot and a homeless drum, a belligerent chamber pot and an antique gold coin, Goethes shoe buckle and Lou Reeds wax doll, a depressed mobile phone, Kafkas Odradek, Bernd the Bread and 50 other things provide answers in the exhibition The Story of My Life. Object Biography as Concept, Method, and Genre. Objects encounter different fates between production, use, loss or repair. They are gifted, sold and auctioned, loved and kept, collected and exhibited, they disappear and are rediscovered again, they are stolen and sometimes returned. They travel around the world or lie still in drawers and depots for years. They get broken, thrown away, restored and recycled ... More  Gregg Bordowitz named Director of Whitney Museum's Independent Study ProgramNEW YORK, NY.- The Whitney Museum of American Art has appointed Gregg Bordowitz, highly recognized artist, writer, and teacher, as director of its celebrated Independent Study Program (ISP). Bordowitza committed teacher who, among many other accomplishments, has spent years as a visiting faculty member with the ISPwill begin his tenure as director on February 1. For the last 25 years, Bordowitz has also taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, acting first as a professor and then chair of the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department. Since 2013, Bordowitz has served as the founding director of the schools Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts program. Bordowitz, an ISP alumnus from the 1985/86 class, succeeds founding ISP director Ron Clark, who is retiring after a 54-year tenure ... More  At Under the Radar, family histories bubble up with no easy answersNEW YORK, NY.- The Public Theaters experimental theater festival, Under the Radar, is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, New York Times critics review a second selection of the works on display, including those by Roger Guenveur Smith, Kaneza Schaal and Annie Saunders. Think of them as bite-size dramas. Its unnerving how seldom Otto Frank blinks in Roger Guenveur Smiths hourlong Otto Frank. But then why would he? Having for 35 years tended the posthumous flame of his murdered daughter Anne while doing the same for her sister and mother and six million others Otto might well have had to force himself to keep seeing. You may need to blink, though. Not because the story Smith tells in his crushing, exhausting monologue, part of the Public Theaters Under the Radar Festival, can come as a surprise ... More  Shelburne Museum establishes Curator of Native American ArtSHELBURNE, VT.- Shelburne Museum has established a new curatorship in Native American Art and appointed the first curator to hold the position, announced Thomas Denenberg, John Wilmerding Director of Shelburne Museum. Victoria Sunnergren is the museums first Associate Curator of Native American Art, a post funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. In her new position, Sunnergren will lead the interpretation and exhibition of the museums collection of Indigenous art and material culture and organize an exhibition highlighting The Perry Collection of Native American masterworks. Sunnergren will guide the museums program in collaboration with an advisory board of Indigenous artists, curators, and community leaders. This curatorship is an essential part of Shelburnes goal to become a center of gravity for the study and exploration of Indigenous ... More  Giant glowing lantern illuminates in the Garment District, serving as midtown Manhattan's guiding lightNEW YORK, NY.- An oversized, illuminating lantern is serving as a symbol of hope, brightness and guiding light in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, as the Garment District Alliance unveiled Living Lanternan inviting, kinetic installation that offers a meditative effect through its mesmerizing movement and changes in color. Located on the Broadway plazas in the Garment District between 39th and 40th Streets, Living Lantern is free and will be available to the public through February 24th. Living Lantern is an entrancing work of art that is bringing a sense of tranquility to the Garment District and truly enhancing the pedestrian experience, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. We are so proud to introduce this extraordinary piece of public art to our neighborhood this winter, and we encourage the public to take a moment ... More  Intergenerational Community Arts Council names Pia Monique Murray as its 2023 Artist-in-ResidenceBROOKLYN, NY.- BRIC is pleased to announce Pia Monique Murray as the artist-in-residence for the third cycle of the Intergenerational Community Arts Council (ICAC). The ICAC is a multigenerational team of residents developing joyous, values-driven arts programming by, for, and with members of the Atlantic Terminal, Farragut, Ingersoll, and Gowanus NYCHA houses and surrounding Brooklyn neighborhoods. Murray will work with the programs third cohort on developing Spread Love (working title), a series of performance events that will travel to four local community centers at local public housing developments in May-June 2023. For the first time in ICAC history, the members developed an open call for an artist who works specifically in set design and installation to help develop visual, physical, and interactive elements for their performance ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Jean-François Millet died January 20, 1875. Jean-François Millet (October 4, 1814 - January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. In this image: The Angelus by Jean Francois Millet.
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