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In this file photo taken on June 28, 2016, US anthropologist and pathologist, Sherry Fox shows a skull discovered at the excavation site of the first Philistine cemetery ever in the Mediterranean coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon. Ancient bones excavated in Israel and analysed in Germany may have cracked the puzzle of the Philistines' provenance and provided for the first time evidence of the biblical people's European origins, researchers say. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
by Jonah Mandel with Thierry Tranchant in Berlin
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Ancient bones excavated in Israel and analysed in Germany may have cracked the puzzle of the Philistines' provenance and provided for the first time evidence of the biblical people's European origins, researchers say. The findings related to the Old Testament nemesis of the ancient Israelites were published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances and dubbed "extraordinary" by one of the archaeologists involved. Many are familiar with the Philistines through the biblical story of Goliath, the giant Philistine warrior killed by the underdog David and his sling in the Valley of Ella, as told in the Book of Samuel. The Philistines are believed to have arrived in the region in the 12th century BC, but researchers have had no proof that they hailed from elsewhere. Biblical and ancient Egyptian texts indicated their origin to be from "the sea", while their building styles and pottery suggested Aegean influences. "The idea that the Philistines were immigrants was something we could never dem ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on June 29, 2019 shows the the Ishtar Gate at the ancient archaeological site of Babylon, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. Hussein FALEH / AFP
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| | | Artists battle expulsion as rents rise in booming Berlin | | Tutankhamun relic sells for $6 mn in London despite Egyptian outcry | | Erwin Olaf places his photographs in dialogue with Dutch paintings at the Rijksmuseum |
German artist Sebastian Koerbs displays samples of his work in his studio at the "Treptow Ateliers" artist colony in Berlin on June 20, 2019. Painters, sculptors and photographers face losing their workspaces because of gentrification in the booming capital. John MACDOUGALL / AFP.
BERLIN (AFP).- A cemetery has popped up outside a Berlin block of art studios called Treptow Ateliers, with half a dozen crosses marked "Demolition" or "Expulsion". The small "graveyard" is an installation by painters, sculptors and photographers who face losing their workspaces because of gentrification in the booming capital. "It's an installation to draw attention to what's happening here," said painter Lydia Paasche, 41. "Something is being lost here. There won't be one cross standing in the end." All 30 artists in the building have received a notice to vacate the premises they have used since 2013. They have been told to leave by March 2020 as the space is to be demolished and replaced by a five-storey mixed-use complex. Their fate ... More | |
An Egyptian brown quartzite head of Tutankhamen as the God Amen. Estimate on request. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON (AFP).- A 3,000-year-old quartzite head of Egyptian "Boy King" Tutankhamun was auctioned off for $6 million Thursday in London despite a fierce outcry from Cairo. Christie's auction house sold the 28.5-centimetre (11-inch) relic for £4,746,250 ($5,970,000, 5,290,000 euros) at one of its most controversial auctions in years. No information about the buyer was disclosed. The famous pharaoh's finely-chiselled face -- its calm eyes and puffed lips emoting a sense of eternal peace -- came from the private Resandro Collection of ancient art that Christie's last parcelled off for £3 million in 2016. But angry Egyptian officials wanted Thursday's sale halted and the treasure returned. About a dozen protesters waved Egyptian flags and held up signs reading "stop trading in smuggled antiquities" outside the British auction house's London sales ... More | |
Erwin Olaf, Hope Portrait 5, 2005. Acquired thanks to BankGiro Lottery players.
AMSTERDAM.- The Rijksmuseum has been a major source of inspiration for Erwin Olaf since his early youth, with Rembrandt, Jan Steen, Breitner and other Dutch artists being hugely influential on his work. To mark the transfer of his core collection the Rijksmuseum is staging the exhibition 12 x Erwin Olaf, in which Olaf places his photographs in dialogue with Dutch painting. This is the first time that his work is being displayed alongside that of his great examples. This exhibition is being held to mark the transfer of Erwin Olafs core collection. Last year the museum received almost 500 objects from the artist, including prints, portfolios, videos, magazines, books and posters. The vast majority were gifted by the artist, and some were acquired thanks to BankGiro Lottery players. The opening celebrations took place on 2 July, the artists 60th birthday, and the exhibition opened to the public the following day. Olaf says, It fills ... More |
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| | | Van Gogh's Sunflowers under the microscope in a new, scholarly publication | | Rarely seen Rauschenberg works from highly experimental period presented in new exhibition | | UK premiere of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: A Different View |
The book describes the genesis of the paintings, the materials and techniques that were used, the impact of past restorations on their current condition, the discolouration that has occurred and the special significance that the sunflower held for Van Gogh.
AMSTERDAM.- Vincent van Goghs Sunflowers paintings are widely viewed as icons of Western European art. Two of these masterpieces the first version painted in August 1888 (National Gallery, London) and the one done in January 1889 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) have been intensively studied by an international, interdisciplinary team of experts. Van Goghs Sunflowers Illuminated: Art Meets Science is a scholarly publication in which more than 30 authors scientists, conservation experts and art historians present the results of several years of research using the latest techniques into the two Sunflowers paintings. The works have been examined in-depth using a wide range of techniques, including state-of-the-art, non-invasive analysis methods, to look closely at and below the paint surface. The book describes the genesis of the ... More | |
Robert Rauschenberg, PubliconStation 1, 1978. Wood, paint, textile, metal, paper, electrical parts, light bulb, gold leaf. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Young, Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery.
VANCOUVER.- This summer, the Vancouver Art Gallery will present Robert Rauschenberg 19651980, an exhibition of important but rarely seen works by the prolific twentieth-century American artist, on view July 6 to October 27, 2019. Comprised primarily of works from the Gallerys permanent collection, this presentation features notable prints, drawings, collages, sculptural works and large-scale fabric constructions from one of the most experimental periods of Rauschenbergs career. The Vancouver Art Gallery is fortunate to count many significant works by important international artists in its permanent collection, and our considerable holdings of Robert Rauschenberg are a highlight, says Daina Augaitis, Interim Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Rauschenbergs radical approach to art making blurred the lines between mediums, demonstrating his incredible ... More | |
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel A Different View The Creation of Adam.
WINCHESTER.- The magnificent Sistine Chapel in the Vatican takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored the Roman building between 1477 and 1480. Just over a quarter of a century later in 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 1564) to paint the chapels huge ceiling. Such was the enormity of the task, it took the artist and his assistants four years to complete. Faced by the challenges of the structural architecture, he developed outstanding painting techniques, setting new standards for future generations of painters. The resultant frescoes changed the course of Western art and are regarded as one of the major artistic accomplishments of human civilization. Unsurprisingly, Michelangelos work continues to draw millions of visitors to the Sistine Chapel, 500 years after they were painted. However, few will have had the privilege of being able to marvel close up at Michelangelos incredible figures of saints, sibyls, prophets a ... More |
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| | | Space-consuming installation by Monica Bonvicini on view at Belvedere 21 | | Camden Arts Centre opens the first institutional exhibition in the UK of Elizabeth Murray | | Exhibition includes more than one hundred photographs by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas |
Installation view "Monica Bonvicini. I CANNOT HIDE MY ANGER". Photo: Jens Ziehe, © Monica Bonvicini and Bildrecht Vienna.
VIENNA.- The exhibition I CANNOT HIDE MY ANGER explores the architecture and exhibition history of the Belvedere 21. The space-consuming installation is a radical intervention that raises controversial questions about society. In the center of the space, Bonvicini has installed a massive cubical structure that gives the exhibition its title. I Cannot Hide My Anger comprises 112 aluminum sheets that surround the inside of the exhibition space (over 1,600 m³) and make it inaccessible to visitors. The empty center thus becomes a negative space. In her site-specific installations Monica Bonvicini explores the psychology of space and institutional critique. In the process she radically lays bare familiar narratives in art history and other cultural areas, calling into question outdated social perceptions. Since the mid-1990s the artist has been investigating political, social, and institutional conditions and their impact both on society and on ... More | |
Elizabeth Murray, Sandpaper Fate, 1992-93. Oil on canvas (three parts). 104 x 102 x 10 in. (264.2 x 259.1 x 25.4 cm). Collection of the Murray-Holman Family Trust, courtesy Pace Gallery, New York. © The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS 2019.
LONDON.- This summer, Camden Arts Centre will present the first institutional exhibition in the UK of celebrated American painter Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007). Though her art and life had significant influence on several generations of artists, Murrays work has rarely been seen in Europe and her impact here is still too little known. Absorbing influences from Arp to late Kandinsky, Murray was part of a group of artists who rejected the cool, hard-edged painting style of her contemporaries in the late 1960s New York, instead drawing inspiration from a lineage of Cubist-derived Minimalism and Surrealist-influenced Pop, as well as the Chicago Imagists and their irreverent cartoon realism. With her bold use of colours, evocative biomorphic shapes, lighting-strike cut-outs and abstracted ... More | |
Ugo Mulas, Andy Warhol, Philip Fagan, and Gerard Malanga at the Factory (detail). © Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Matthew Marks is presenting Ugo Mulas: New York The New Art Scene, an exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street. Curated by Hendel Teicher, the exhibition includes more than one hundred photographs by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas (19281973). The exhibitions title comes from Mulass 1967 book of the same name. Between 1964 and 1967, Mulas took three trips to New York, where he documented a remarkable moment in the history of modern art. The photographs in the exhibition convey the excitement of that moment, focusing on Mulass photographs of six artists who left a deep impression on him: Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. Though he spoke no English, Mulas quickly bonded with the artists. He grasped the significance of their work, and they allowed him to capture them in intimate ... More |
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| | | Whistler and Pennell etchings go on display at Sudley House | | National Building Museum and Rockwell Group present Lawn | | New exhibition explores climate, culture, and innovation in Dutch maritime painting |
The exhibition travels to Sudley following a popular stint at Lady Lever Art Gallery where it was seen by more than 65,000 people.
SUDLEY.- Works by two of the most influential and innovative etchers, James McNeill Whistler and Joseph Pennell, go on final display at Sudley House from 5 July 2019 to March 2020. Whistler and Pennell: Etching the City features more than 30 prints. Together these images capture the changing landscape of two major cities, New York and London in the final years of the industrial revolution. The exhibition travels to Sudley following a popular stint at Lady Lever Art Gallery where it was seen by more than 65,000 people. These fragile works on paper are light-sensitive and can only be displayed for short periods of time to preserve them. The exhibition at Sudley House is likely to be the last time these prints will displayed collectively for the next 10 years. Curator of the exhibition, Alex Patterson said: The prints in this exhibition are bursting with detail, showing the bustle and energy of two ... More | |
People visit the 2019 Summer Block Party installation, "Lawn", a vast, sloping green space mimicking grass built on a scaffolding superstructure, and featuring hammocks, lawn games and snacks, at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, July 3, 2019. SAUL LOEB / AFP.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Building Museum partnered with the LAB at Rockwell Group to present the 2019 Summer Block Party installation. Lawn is an immersive installation taking up the entirety of the Museums Great Hall, and presents interactive experiences for all ages. Lawn is open July 4 through September 2, 2019. Lawn allows guests to unwind with quintessential summer activities while connecting to the design of the Museum. It features a vast, sloping green space built on a scaffolding superstructure. Visitors purchase tickets at a reception area that features a building-scale mural of the sky, containing a dimensional title treatment set against a pixelated cloudscape made up of classic summertime iconography. Guests ... More | |
Works highlighted in this exhibition (from pieces circa 1595 through the 19th century), were produced during a time of well-documented climate variations deemed the Little Ice Age,.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS.- A new exhibition of Dutch and Flemish maritime art and culture opened at the New Bedford Whaling Museum this summer. De Wind is Op! Climate, Culture and Innovation in Dutch Maritime Painting opened on July 2, 2019 and will run until summer 2020. The Whaling Museum stewards one of the most important collections of maritime Dutch and Flemish paintings and prints outside of the Netherlands, and showcases a selection within the exhibition while exploring the collection through the lenses of wind, climate, and the sea. Works highlighted in this exhibition (from pieces circa 1595 through the 19th century), were produced during a time of well-documented climate variations deemed the Little Ice Age, which perfectly coincided with one of the most culturally and economically ... More |
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Five finalists for the inaugural 'Women in Design Award' announced by Good Design Australia
SYDNEY.- Australias Good Design Awards today unveiled the five finalists for the inaugural Women in Design Award, with the winner to be announced on 11 July 2019 at the 61st annual Good Design Awards ceremony. The award attracted more than 60 nominations, with the five finalists chosen by a selection committee of Australian and international leaders in the design and creative industries. The five nominees are Sharon Gauci, Executive Director at General Motors and the first Australian woman to hold this position; Judith Glover, RMIT lecturer in Industrial Design and founder of cult sex toy brand Goldfrau; Liane Rossler, founder of Superlocalstudio and co-founder of Dinosaur Designs, Vanessa Bird, architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding winning architectural practice Bird de la Coeur Architects and Ros Moriarty, Designer and Managing ... More
TarraWarra Museum of Art appoints Nina Miall as Curator for TarraWarra Biennial 2020
TARRAWARRA.- Nina Miall, Sydney-based independent curator and writer, has been appointed as the curator for TarraWarra Museum of Arts TarraWarra Biennial 2020, opening in August 2020. TarraWarra Museum of Art Director, Victoria Lynn, said the appointment of Miall to curate the TarraWarra Biennial 2020 is an expression of the Museums commitment to art as a world-making activity. Nina Miall is one of the most respected curators in Australia and has curated numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, the US, Asia and Australia. The wealth of her experience speaks to TarraWarra Museum of Arts desire to present Australian art in a global context, Ms Lynn said. Miall was most recently Curator at Carriageworks, Sydney (20122017), where she co-curated the inaugural multi-venue biennial exhibition The National 2017: New Australian Art, which ... More
July fine autographs & artifacts auction featuring animation art
BOSTON, MASS.- With well over 1,000 lots spanning a dozen genres, RR Auction's July Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale is highlighted by special Animation Art section with online bidding through July 10. Highlights include works by Eyvind Earle that feature a panorama concept storyboard painting from Lady and the Tramp. The magnificent original panorama concept storyboard painting by Earle from Lady and the Tramp, showing Lady and Tramp together in the iconic 'Bella Notte' scene, sitting together at a table outside Tony & Joe's restaurant with a clothesline strung above them in the alley. Mary Blair concept storyboard painting from Cinderella. The spectacular original concept storyboard painting by Blair featuring the coach from Cinderella, showing the magical horse-drawn carriage traveling through town on the way to the ball. The large, marvelous ... More
First UK solo exhibition of works by Patricia DomÃnguez opens at Gasworks
LONDON.- Chilean artist Patricia DomÃnguez explores rituals and healing practices emerging in the contact zones between multiple cultures, worldviews and livelihoods. Informed by the study of ethnobotany in South America, her first UK solo exhibition invites the viewer to envision possible futures for humans, plants and animals thriving in the cracks of modernity. The exhibition features newly-commissioned work including a video installation presented alongside a series of cybernetic altars and totem figures. These derive from DomÃnguezs residency at Gasworks in 2017, when she infiltrated prayer and wellness facilities in the privately-owned estate of Canary Wharf, one of Londons financial hubs. Building on this experience, the exhibition confronts the effects of neoliberal productivity on the body, signalled by the presence of healing plants such ... More
Kunstforeningen GL STRAND opens an exhibition of works by photographer Richard Mosse
COPENHAGEN.- In the cross field between documentary and art, prize-winning artist and photographer, Richard Mosse challenges our perspective on conflict and disaster. His latest video Incomingnow on view at Kunstforeningen GL STRANDbears witness to the migration crisis caused by war, persecution, poverty and climate change. Richard Mosse (b. 1980 Ireland) has developed a body of work that is both unabashedly aesthetic whilst simultaneously fraught with political and ethical implications. Throughout his work, Mosse subverts weaponized photographic technologies, using them to confront the viewer and refresh documentary forms. His recent works, Incoming and The Castle, are made in response to the mass migration crisis unfolding across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, the largest displacement of people since the ... More
Montauk Beach House presents works by Leah Schrager
NEW YORK, NY.- Artist Leah Schrager announced her exhibition entitled Unprotected Specs, on view at the Montauk Beach House from July 5. Her exhibition will include 11 visual works and her first in-person (IRL) performance entitled Angles on a Woman. Schragers art uses the base image of herself which she digitally alters, enhances, and/or censors. The results are printed on photographic paper or aluminum. There will also be a discussion with the artist on July 7th at noon at the Montauk Beach House. Schragers performance Angles on a Woman is a reflection of her process and an investigation of Jacques Derridas Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography, in which he states that photography is as much production as recording of images, as much act as gaze, as much performative event as passive archivization. To ... More
Contemporary photojournalism exhibit opens
SANTA FE, NM.- Monroe Gallery of Photography presents a important exhibition of photographs covering 21st Century events documented by the new-wave of fearless frontline photojournalists. Living In History opens Friday, July 5, with a reception from 5-7 pm with several of the photojournalists present. The exhibit will continue through September 22, 2019. Generation Z, born in 1995 or later, will soon become the largest living population in the United States, Gen Z already makes up 32 percent of the worlds population and 40 percent of consumers. Growing up post-9/11, its population has a very different view of the world: one that is dangerous with many natural, human-caused, and technological disasters: terrorist attacks, school shootings, hurricanes, epidemics, cyber threats, climate change, and environmental damage. With the proliferation ... More
Manchester International Festival opens
MANCHESTER.- Internationally acclaimed artists from over 20 countries present 20 UK and world premieres for the Manchester International Festival (MIF 19) which opened on 4 July and runs until 21 July 2019, the worlds first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester. Highlights include: Yoko Ono opens MIF19 with BELLS FOR PEACE, a mass-participatory artwork which invites thousands of people to ring and sing out for peace Legendary filmmaker David Lynch takes over HOME for the duration of the Festival with his largest UK exhibition of visual art to date, alongside film screenings, Lynch-inspired gigs and more Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah collaborate for the first time on Tree, a journey into the soul and spirit of contemporary South Africa which blends music, drama and dance The legacy of Nico, ... More
The Untitled Space opens an exhibition of works by artist Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface
NEW YORK, NY.- The Untitled Space is presenting a special exhibit and event with Artist Kat Toronto aka Miss Meatface, who is visiting from London, UK for an artist talk, zine signing and solo exhibition curated by gallery director Indira Cesarine launched on July 2nd, 2019. The exhibit, which features a selection of artwork created over the last several years, including photography, ceramics, zines, and videos, will additionally be on view from July 8-13, 2019. Kat Toronto, AKA Miss Meatface is a multidisciplinary artist hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area who works in performance-based photography. She uses her often unsettling and surreal images to explore cultural ideals of feminine beauty and the objectification of women in a feminist society by toying with the push and pull of dominance and submission, as well as the acts of revealing and concealing. ... More
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers to offer a lifetime single-owner collection of Coca-Cola collectibles
CRANSTON, RI.- The single-owner collection of Russell Buteau of Millville, Massachusetts a lifelong collector of Coca-Cola items and antiques for over 40 years is an expected highlight of Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers upcoming Antiques, Collectibles & Fine Art Auction planned for Saturday, July 13th, at 12 noon Eastern, online and in the Bruneau gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue. Ive known Russell since my first job working at a local auction house when I was 13 years old, said Travis Landry, a Bruneau & Co. specialist and auctioneer. Ive watched my father and him buy advertising signs together. He even lives in the town where my dad is police chief. Hes been around me for as long as Ive been in antiques. Its an honor to handle his collection. Coca-Cola is Mr. Buteaus specialty. One lot that should draw intense bidder interest is a circa 1939 Coca-Cola salesmans sample ... More
Proyectos Monclova opens an exhibition of works by Anna Virnich
MEXICO CITY.- The olfactory dimension is rarely accounted for in the discourse of painting. We talk about material bases, about colors and canvases, stretchers and frames; we talk about a whole arsenal of gestures, about a brushstroke done this way or that, about raking, dripping, scraping, you name it; we talk about the dialectic of figure and ground or impasto techniques. But what about the smell of painting? It is strangely ignored but, then, just imagine the scent of fresh oil paint, of paint yet to dry. Heavy as it is, it fills the room and creates an almost bodily yet strangely ephemeral presence countering and, at the same time, supplementing the flatness of the canvas on the wall. Scent, thus, can add a whole layer of meaning and authentication to painting. You wont find the smell of oil paint in the work of Anna Virnich, even though the olfactory features quite ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American-Italian painter Cy Twombly died July 05, 2011. Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 - July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. In this image: Cy Twombly, (American, 1928 2011), Anabasis (Bronze), 2011. Bronze, 46 1/16 x 19 1/8 x 19 5/16 inches, Base (pedestal): 39 à 26 1/4 à 26 inches. © Cy Twombly Foundation.
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