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Jon Seligman, Director of the Excavations, Surveys and Research Department of the Israel's Antiquities Authority stands at the site where an international team of archaeologists work to unearth parts of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, on on July 25, 2018 in Vilnius, Lithuania. A team of archaeologists announced the discovery of the most revered part of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania's major Jewish shrine before it was destroyed by Nazi and Soviet regimes. The synagogue, dating from the 1630s, was the most important shrine for Lithuania's once vibrant Jewish community. Petras Malukas / AFP.
by Vaidotas Beniusis
VILNIUS (AFP).- For decades, little did the principal of a kindergarten in Lithuania's capital realise that his office stood on top of a sacred part of Vilnius' 17th century Jewish temple, once famous across Europe. An international team of archaeologists on Thursday announced the discovery of the most revered part of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, Lithuania's major Jewish shrine before it was destroyed by Nazi and Soviet regimes. "We've found the bimah, the central prayer platform which was in Tuscan Baroque style. It was one of the central features of the synagogue," Jon Seligman from Israel's Antiquities Authority told AFP. "It is really a very exciting development. When we talk about the presentation of the site to the public in the future, this will be one of the central features of the display," he added. The green and brown, brick and mortar bimah -- a raised platform from which the Jewish holy book, the Torah, is read -- was unearthed just beneath th ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its July Timed Marketplace auction, featuring fabulously priced clearance items and newly listed items at pricing perfect for dealers or collectors. The sale will be held on July 30 at 10:00 AM CDT. In this image: Early 20th C. Papua New Guinea Wood Carving - Crocodile. Estimate $800 - $1,200
| Everledger and TIS drive new breakthrough standard in fine art authentication | | Gagosian Beverly Hills opens an exhibition of new works by Piero Golia. | | British Museum opens new display 'CRW Nevinson: Prints of War and Peace' | 
In a major breakthrough in fine art authentication, Everledger has developed a blockchain-based platform to digitally issue and manage forensic reports from TIS.
LONDON.- Everledger, an independent emerging technology enterprise, and The True Image Solution Ltd (TIS), a leading research company on evaluation and restoration of cultural heritage objects, have today announced a collaboration to combine blockchain technology with forensic artwork reporting. This was announced at the 2nd International Workshop on Analysing Art: New Technologies - New Applications held at The State Russian Museum in St Petersburg this week. The venue houses famous masterpieces such as Kazimir Malevichs Black Square, Ivan Aivazovsks The Ninth Wave and Karl Bryullovs The Last Day of Pompeii. In a major breakthrough in fine art authentication, Everledger has developed a blockchain-based platform to digitally issue and ... More | | 
Piero Golia, Ferragosto Painting #2, 2018. Elastic cotton fabric, 16 x 12 inches, 40.6 x 30.5 cm © Piero Golia. Photography by Joshua White / JWPictures.com. Courtesy of Gagosian.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian is presenting Suddenly, in the middle of the summer, an exhibition of new works by Piero Golia. Though vastly different in medium and process, Golias artworks feature a simple, usually deceptive, arithmetic: one event has led to another, and then another, initiating a chain reaction at the end of which an artwork is left as evidence. Often, the manufacturing becomes the work itself, coming together in situas with The Painter (2016), a robot programmed to create abstract paintings whenever it detects movement in the room; or the Chalets in Hollywood and Dallas, communal settings activated by visitors, events, artists, and objects. However, in Suddenly, in the middle of the summer, works seem just to have materialized in the gallery. ... More | | 
Christopher Richard Wayne Nevinson, The Doctor.
LONDON.- The British Museum presents CRW Nevinson: Prints of War and Peace, a new display celebrating a selection of works documenting Nevinsons experiences during the First World War. This free show commemorates the centenary of Nevinsons substantial gift of 25 of his prints to the British Museum in 1918, with a number of works on display for the first time. Christopher Richard Wayne Nevinson (to give him his full name, though he always preferred to be known by his initials) attended the Slade School of Art from 1909 1912. It was a golden generation of artists that were studying there at the time among his fellow students were: Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash and Dora Carrington. On display is a remarkable self-portrait Nevinson executed while a student at the Slade. This striking work echoes the Old Masters drawings that the schools formidable tutor, Henry Tonks, encouraged ... More |
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| 2018 Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist revealed | | Blain/Southern exhibits a new series of sculptures by Natalie Dray | | Fire destroys late Greek director Angelopoulos' archives: widow | 
Red House, London by 31/44 Architects.
LONDON.- The Royal Institute of British Architects has today (Thursday 26 July) announced the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize, with this year marking its twenty-first anniversary. Seven projects have been shortlisted, including woodland classrooms for a school, a touching memorial to 173 people who died in Bethnal Green Tube station during the war and a hostel for vulnerable homeless women. The prize was set up in memory of the teenager who was on the road to becoming an architect when he was tragically murdered in 1993. Supported and founded by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, it is intended to encourage fresh architecture talent and reward the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million. A timber-framed building that draws upon the natural world to create an informal learning space for children with special educational needs. ... More | | 
Natalie Dray, Installation View, Kierkegaardashian, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Blain/Southern. Photo Peter Mallet.
LONDON.- For the final exhibition in Blain|Southerns Lodger series, artist Natalie Dray has created a new series of sculptures, which flicker between rigidity and suppleness, the inorganic and the organic, geometric order and the messy chaos of living things. Here, metal armatures great dented grids, and what might be a modular shelving system have become overgrown with delicate foliage, hand cast in pewter alloys using a home-grown technique of the artists own invention. On close inspection, these fronds are composites, created from grafting the ragged leaves of one plant onto the thorny stems of another, in what appears to be a low-fi form of genetic engineering, or perhaps cosmetic surgery. Notably, Drays flora is not green, but rather borrows its palette from the soft flesh-tones of the beauty counter, as though it ... More | | 
This general view shows the burned home of Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos in the village of Mati, near Athens on July 26, 2018. Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- The house and private archives of Greek cinema godfather Theo Angelopoulos, who died in 2012, were destroyed in this week's deadly wildfires near Athens, his widow said Thursday. The filmmaker, who won the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998 for "Eternity and a Day", often spent summers with his family at the house in Mati, east of the capital. "My husband's books, his letters from celebrities, all the texts that authors had dedicated to him" were destroyed in the fire, Phoebe Angelopoulou told local television. She said the collection had also included texts and poems written by her late husband. Angelopoulou managed to flee the flames, which struck on Monday evening, with her granddaughter, but the house was severely damaged. Angelopoulos pioneered Greece's ... More |
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| Exhibition of Elizabeth Peyton's new paintings & works on paper opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg | | Exhibition of impressive bamboo sculptures.by Honma Hideaki opens at TAI Modern | | Exhibition presents fundamental artistic trends that have developed in Latin America | 
Elizabeth Peyton, Raphael, (Nick Reading), 2018. Oil on board, 124.5 x 91.4 cm. © Elizabeth Peyton Photography by Kristian Emdal Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg.
SALZBURG.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting its first exhibition of works by Elizabeth Peyton with her show Eventyr, her first exhibition in the city since her solo presentation at Salzburger Kunstverein in 2002. The exhibition draws its title from the old Norse word for fairytale or adventure. Through a group of portraits and still life scenes the artist addresses themes that have recurred throughout her career including those of selfhood, passing time, and the condensation of emotion into faces, figures, gestures and objects. At the same time, she erases the distinctions between painterly genres, arriving at an expanded mode of portraiture that oscillates between the personal and the operatic. Peyton has remarked that the subjects she chooses for her paintings are occasions for her to paint about ... More | | 
Honma Hideaki, Slanted Shadow, 2010. Madake & nemagari bamboo, rattan, 28.25 x 12 x 13.25.
SANTA FE, NM.- TAI Modern announces its upcoming exhibition by Honma Hideaki. A celebration of his thirty-year career, this solo show will feature twelve of the artists most impressive bamboo sculptures. Honmas dynamic works pay homage to the natural beauty of his native Sado Island, Japan. He often uses menyadake, a bamboo species said to grow only the island, and hand-cuts bamboo from the groves outside of his home. Certain pieces, such as Flowing Pattern 2018-B, are clearly inspired by the shapes and energy of the surrounding Sea of Japan. The strong curves of the piece delineate the form of a crashing wave, and the layering of bent bamboo strips resemble ripples on the surface of the ocean. The work suggests motion and force without any actual movement. Its mesmerizing quality lies in this visual suspension of motion, something only an artist of Honmas caliber could capture so precisely. In bamboo art, one usually go ... More | | 
David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexico, b.1896, d.1974), Madre Niña (Child Mother), 1956. lithograph E/E, 30 1/8 x 23 1/-8" (77 x 59 cm). Purchase Fund Collection OAS Art Museum of the Americas.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas announces the second in a series of exhibitions accompanying Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, curated by Adriana Ospina. Initiated five years ago, the project aims to rethink the study of the historical and cultural legacy of the AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States (OAS), beginning with a comprehensive catalog of the permanent collection, made publicly available in 2017. The Art of the Americas catalog highlights key pieces of the OAS AMA art collection, representing fundamental artistic trends that have developed in Latin America, including new figuration, geometric and lyrical abstraction, conceptual art, optical and kinetic art. Artists such as Cundo Bermúdez, Fernando ... More |
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| Exhibition at Fergus McCaffrey brings together works by Tetsumi Kudo and Carol Rama | | LACMA launches new podcast series inspired by ongoing exhibition | | The Museum der Moderne Salzburg open a survey exhibition of the oeuvre of Anna Boghiguian | 
Installation view of Kudo/Rama at Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo, June 22, 2018 © Tetsumi Kudo and Carol Rama. Photo: Ryuichi Maruo.
TOKYO.- Fergus McCaffrey brings together the innovative and challenging biomorphic sculptures of Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (19351990) with the psychosexual assemblages, paintings, and drawings of self-taught Italian artist Carol Rama (19182015). Kudo / Rama is on view at Fergus McCaffreys Tokyo gallery from June 26 August 4, 2018. Featuring a selection of twenty-five works spanning from 1962 to 2000, this exhibition explores the visionary insights offered in both artists practices; featuring prescient works that diagnose the most urgent interpersonal, societal, and ecological traumas of our time. Juxtaposed, the affinities between Kudos and Ramas radical sensibilities and subversive approaches to material are apparent; both artists used a wide array of found objects in uncanny combinations to explore the bodily and psychological, proposing possibilities for a post-human aesthetic. The conc ... More | | 
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi, Suhrab fights Gurdafarid, Shahnama, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a new podcast inspired by the exhibition In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art (May 6September 9, 2018). Titled Time & Again, the podcast considers Irans potent history through the epic poem Shahnama, which tells tales of warriors and kings and of love and betrayals. The podcast explores this text from the viewpoint of artists and scholars who are inspired by this thousand-year poem and considers how a work of art is the bedrock of Iranian society. Time & Again is hosted by Iranian-American actor and comedian Maz Jobrani and curator of Islamic art and department head of Art of the Middle East at LACMA, Linda Komaroff, and features interviews with artists, academics, curators, and filmmakers over the course of four thematic episodes. Though Iran is often in the news, for most Americans it is little ... More | | 
Anna Boghiguian with A Play to Play, 2013 Detail Installation, mixed media Acquired with funding from the friends and patrons of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in honor of Sabine Breitwieser.
SALZBURG.- The Museum der Moderne Salzburgs survey of the oeuvre of Anna Boghiguian (1946 Cairo, EG)her first institutional exhibition in the German-speaking worldshowcases numerous expansive key works by the artist as well as a spectacular new installation in the Rupertinums atrium. In her drawings, collages, artists books, and installations, Boghiguian creates narrative spaces that let her probe the sustained impact of historic political and economic conditions on the contemporary world. By tracing the emergence of ancient channels of commerce such as the routes of the salt trade, she teases out lasting effects of colonialism and slavery. The impulses that animate the artists work, which is informed by expressionist and representational visual idioms, derive from her study of human existence in a globalized world. Boghiguian is an attentive observer ... More |
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 New, year-long exhibition devoted to different modes of transportation opens at the Akron Art MuseumAKRON, OH.- The Akron Art Museum launched a new, year-long exhibition devoted to different modes of transportation in its Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery on July 26, 2018. Planes, Trains and Automobiles features prints, paintings and photography from the museum collection that explore transportation from such artists as Lee Friedlander, O. Winston Link, Bea Nettles and Raphael Gleitsmann. Central to the exhibition is a newly-commissioned work, Aeromorphiscope, an imaginative, interactive soft sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Isla Hansen. Akron Art Museum Director of Education Alison Caplan said, Whether its revving up your engine to head out on a cross country road trip or jumping on your bicycle to pick up a gallon of milk across town, transportation is an important part of life. The artists featured in Plains, Trains and ... More Israeli cartoonist fired after drawing Netanyahu as pigJERUSALEM (AFP).- An Israeli news publisher said Thursday it had fired a cartoonist who depicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as one of the pigs in George Orwell's political satire "Animal Farm". Following passage last week of a controversial law which critics say discriminates against non-Jewish Israelis, the Jerusalem Report news magazine published cartoonist Avi Katz's take on a selfie taken with Netanyahu by triumphant members of his right-wing Likud party after the vote. Katz sketched them with pigs' heads, provoking outrage among some readers in Israel where pigs are considered unclean and eating pork is forbidden under Jewish law. To make clear the reference to Orwell's book, Katz captioned his drawing "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". The line echoes a key phrase from the leader of the revolutionary pigs who ... More Block Museum presents Paul Chan's 'Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization'EVANSTON, ILL.- The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University has announced a new exhibition highlighting a significant gift of media art to its permanent collection. Through Nov. 4, the Block Museum is devoting its first-floor gallery to the media work Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization by contemporary artist Paul Chan. Paul Chan (b. 1973) is an American artist, activist, writer and publisher. His work addresses relationships between politics and aesthetics, philosophy and popular culture, and art and grassroots activism. These themes figure prominently in Happiness (finally) after 35,000 years of civilization, Chans first major artwork, which was started in 1999 and completed in 2003. A 17-minute looped Flash animation, Happiness is inspired as much by the history of utopian thought and the U.S. invasion of Iraq as by Web 1.0 banner ads. The exhibition is on view ... More Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum welcomes Oracle Challenger III LONDON.- The National Air and Space Museum will receive Sean D. Tuckers Oracle Challenger III high-performance aircraft for the future We All Fly exhibition. The museum has received a $10 million gift from the Thomas W. Haas Foundation for construction of the gallery, which will be named the Thomas W. Haas We All Fly gallery in recognition of the foundations gift. The Oracle Challenger III will be displayed at the entrance to the gallery, the first exhibition at the museum in more than four decades to be dedicated exclusively to general aviation. The generous support from Tom Haas and the exciting addition to our collection of the Oracle Challenger III will help us showcase why aviation is so important to all of our lives, said Ellen Stofan, the John and Adrienne Mars Director of the National Air and Space Museum. Sean Tuckers aircraft will no doubt inspire future pilots and avia ... More RM Sotheby's offers Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR in MontereyBLENHEIM.- RM Sothebys has announced final headline entries for its Monterey sale, 24-25 August at the newly renovated Monterey Conference Center. Adding to what is already the companys most historic auction offering to date, RM Sothebys has secured an incredibly rare 1998 Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK GTR, serial no. 09/25. The CLK GTR joins an unparalleled lineup of 150 exceptional motor cars set for RM Sothebys 2018 Monterey sale, of which no less than 35 carry individual pre-sale estimates exceeding $1 million. The GT1-era of the 1990s was the stuff of motorsports legend. Initially intended to be a series for modified road cars and gentlemen drivers, the class saw major manufacturers like McLaren, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche throwing the full weight of their expertise towards factory-built race cars meant to do nothing but win the FIA GT1 ... More 'Our World Heritage' exhibition opens at the historic Tron Kirk in EdinburghEDINBURGH.- A new exhibition which showcases the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, as well as Scotlands five other World Heritage Sites, opened today at the historic Tron Kirk on Edinburghs Royal Mile. The exhibition, housed within the atmospheric 17th century former kirk, attempts to capture the essence of the World Heritage Site in Edinburgh through the voices and opinions of local people. The story is told in a series of videos, quotes, and specially commissioned portraits from award-winning Scottish photographer Alicia Bruce. Our World Heritage explains what makes Edinburghs heritage so special and internationally recognised as well as highlighting some of the issues associated with the World Heritage Site. A series of sections, with titles such as City of Contrasts, Survival Stories, and High and Mighty set out the formal reasons for the citys UNESCO ... More Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's papers now onlineWASHINGTON, DC.- Writings and personal records of the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted, known for his work on New Yorks Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and many other landscapes, have been digitized and are now available online from the Library of Congress. The archive was digitized to serve as a resource in advance of the bicentennial of Olmsteds birth, which will be celebrated with partner organizations in 2022. The Frederick Law Olmsted collection includes about 24,000 items, mostly dating from 1838 to 1903. The papers document the private and professional life of Olmsted whose career spanned farming, journalism, conservation, landscape architecture and urban and suburban planning. Olmsted also served as part of the U.S. Sanitary Commission during ... More Gray's Auctioneers to offer 295 lots of fine furniture, decorative arts, rugs, jewelry, and dollsCLEVELAND, OH.- A pair of dazzling, GIA-certified diamond rings and oil paintings by Charles Sprague Pearce (Am./Fr., 1851-1914) and Balthazar Paul Ommeganck (Flemish, 1755-1826) are just a few of the expected top lots at Grays Auctioneers Sizzling Summer Auction scheduled for Wednesday, August 8th, online and in Grays showroom at 10717 Detroit Avenue. Bidders will be presented with 295 lots of fine art, furniture, decorative arts, rugs, jewelry, dolls and more, beginning at 11 am Eastern time. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be available through the Grays Auctioneers website, at GraysAuctioneers.com, and at LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Our mid-summer auction features a wonderful array of treasures. said Serena Harragin, CEO of Grays ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer William Eggleston was born July 27, 1939. William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. In this image: Untitled, 1970-1973; from William Eggleston, Chromes; published by Steidl in 2011, Image courtesy The Eggleston Artistic Trust and ROSEGALLERY.
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