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The skeletal remains were found in Tultepec, near the site where President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government is building a new airport for Mexico City. Photo: Melitón Tapia.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- Archaeologists said Wednesday they have made the largest-ever discovery of mammoth remains: a trove of 800 bones from at least 14 of the extinct giants found in central Mexico. Moreover, they believe they have made the first-ever find of a mammoth trap set by humans, who would have used it to capture the huge herbivores more than 14,000 years ago, said Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). "This is the largest find of its kind ever made," the institute said in a statement. The skeletal remains were found in Tultepec, near the site where President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government is building a new airport for Mexico City. Some bore signs that the animals had been hunted, leading experts to conclude that they had found "the world's first mammoth trap," it said. "Mammoths lived here for thousands of years. The herds grew, reproduced, died, were hunted... They lived alongside other species, including horses and camels," archaeologist Luis Cordoba told jour ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Eli Wilner's exquisite paintings are on exhibition and available for acquisition in a limited engagement presentation at LaMantia Gallery, Long Island's premier fine art gallery. In his current exhibit "Montauk Moments", artist Eli Wilner captures the essence of Montauk in a series of landscape, nautical and floral paintings. Wilner, a long-time resident of Montauk said, "I feel wonderful when I see the beauty of Montauk. I feel even better when I paint it. Art is my refuge... and the why is complicated: my art and its color allow me to gesture, to connect, and it's quite obvious I have no choice but to create".
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 | | It's time to take down the Mona Lisa | | Hundreds of bottles of liquor salvaged from WWI-era Baltic wreck | | Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens 'Print selections from the Milbank Collection' | 
Visitors of the Louvre Museum wait to see the "Mona Lisa" on Oct. 24, 2019. Some 80 percent of visitors, according to the Louvres research, are here for the "Mona Lisa" and most of them leave unhappy. Elliott Verdier/The New York Times.
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Even in a city saturated with excellent fall exhibitions, from the Grand Palais retrospective of El Greco to the Fondation Louis Vuittons showcase of Charlotte Perriand, the show of the season here is the decade-in-the-works Leonardo da Vinci, at the Musée du Louvre. Mandatory timed tickets are sold out through November for this thorough, deeply serious exhibition, which sloughs off the myths that cling to this least productive of Renaissance masters. You will find here a cleaner, sprightlier Leonardo or at least you will in the show downstairs, where four of the Louvres five paintings by the artist have been relocated. Upstairs, where Leonardos most famous work remains, is still a fiasco. The Louvre houses the greatest collection of art anywhere in Europe, within a palace that is ... More | | 
A Swedish team has salvaged hundreds of bottles of liquor from the wreck of a ship sunk by a German submarine during World War I in the Baltic Sea. OCEAN X TEAM/AFP / STR.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- A Swedish team has salvaged hundreds of bottles of liquor from the wreck of a ship sunk during World War I in the Baltic Sea. Ocean X, a group that specialises in salvaging alcohol from shipwrecks, said it was testing the bottles from a cargo bound for tsarist Russia to see if they were still fit to drink. The group brought 600 bottles of cognac and 300 bottles of Benedictine -- a herbal liqueur -- to shore on October 22 after recovering them from the wreck of the Kyros, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1917. Bottles of the cognac, produced by the now-defunct distillers De Haartman, and the Benedictine are being tested in a laboratory. "The conditions in the Baltic are very suitable for storing these kind of beverages because it's... dark and very cold," said Peter Lindberg, who led the expedition. The Kyros left Sweden in May 1917 and was sunk in the Sea of Aland with ... More | | 
Steven Sorman, "The swinging bridge", 1980. Lithograph, woodcut, linocut, etching & silkscreen. Signed & numbered 21/39, lower right, 23 by 18 inches, (sheet), 30 1/4 by 25 inches, (framed). Provenance: The Milbank Collection.
NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting an exhibition titled Print selections from the Milbank Collection. The exhibit includes a whole variety of different print mediums by established American artists. The exhibition runs from November 7th-December 19th. The prints span over four decades, from the 1970s through the 2000s and were in the collection of the prestigious law firm Milbank. Exhibited artist are; Caio Fonseca, April Gornik, John Newman, Steven Sorman, Yvonne Jacquette, Ellen Phelan, Duncan Hannah, Tamara Gonzales & David Dupuis. One of the tour de force prints is the Caio Fonseca Seven string etching No. 4. The artist has used Color spite bite, sugar lift aquatint, soft ground etching & chine colle to create this bold and brilliant blue abstract shapes that are both angular and curved and ... More |
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| | Exhibition at Jeu de Paume presents a selection of 150 photographs by Peter Hujar | | Music Museum forced to leave Zutphen | | Every photo tells a story. His spoke volumes | 
David Wojnarowicz, 1981. Tirage gélatino-argentique, Collection of Ronay and Richard Menschel © Peter Hujar Archive, LLC, courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
PARIS.- The life and art of Peter Hujar (19341987) were rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well-read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His mature career paralleled the public unfolding of gay life between the Stonewall uprising* in 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. After graduating from high school in 1953, Hujar worked as an assistant to commercial photographers until 1968. Five years of contributing features to mass-market magazines convinced him that a fashion career wasnt right for me and in 1973 he opted for an autonomous, near-penniless life as an artist. In his loft studio above a theater in the East Village, Hujar focused on those who obeyed their creative instincts and shunned mainstream success. At age forty-two, he published his only monograph, ... More | | 
Museum Geelvinck will continue its activities for the preservation of living musical heritage elsewhere.
ZUTPHEN.- The Geelvinck Music Museum Zutphen closed its doors for the public on November 4th 2019. Already hindered by the unwilling attitude of the current Municipal Executive, Museum Geelvinck has been unable to reach agreement on the initially intended continuation of its Music Museum in Zutphen. In 2017, the municipality had provided the historic building 'De Wildeman' as a fitting venue for the Music Museum. A structural moisture problem, which, on closer inspection, turned out to have a dramatic scale, was ultimately the last blow. Museum Geelvinck will continue its activities for the preservation of living musical heritage elsewhere. In 2017, the new Music Museum Zutphen was warmly welcomed by the previous Municipal Executive. It offered a unique opportunity for the city to profile itself with Ludwig van Beethoven. In the 19th century, it was assumed that this icon of classical music was born in Zutphen. Museum Geelvinck, which keeps ... More | | 
New York Times photographer Sam Falk in a rare moment in front of the lens, circa 1950. Falks pictures for The New York Times brought a vivid sense of art to its pages. The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- To tell the story, completely and instantly, was how Sam Falk described his mission as a photographer. A staff photographer at The New York Times from 1925 to 1969 a turbulent and transformative era in American history Falk brought a sense of timing, framing and narrative that enriched the visual sensibility of the paper. For just 3 cents, the reading public could see pictures that could have just as easily hung in a museum. In fact, many later would. Mr. Falk brings us into even more intimate communion with the city, wrote one reviewer of New York: True North, a book from 1964 featuring Falks work. He has a reporters knack of being in the right place at the right moment and an artists ability to capitalize on the moment. With equal skill he shares with us a darkling glimpse of some crapshooters caught by police ... More |
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| | TEFAF New York Fall 2019 closes to notable sales and successful collaborations | | Pace Gallery opens the first exhibition in its Geneva gallery of works by Antoni Tàpies | | New report: Climate change threatens important cultural landscapes | 
Art Viewing TEFAF New York Fall 2019. Photo: Kirsten Chilstrom.
NEW YORK, NY.- TEFAF New York Fall 2019 ran from November 1st to 5th, with a Preview Day on October 31st, continuing the Fairs tradition of presenting a diverse variety of art and artifacts from around the world. At no other fair in America are guests able to purchase masterpieces, spanning disciplines and centuries of sculpture, painting, drawing, jewelry, furniture, manuscripts, tribal art, and more. This year, TEFAF New York Fall welcomed a selection of contemporary and modern galleries to the fold, garnering impressive sales and notable clientele throughout its run. Among the most notable sales of the Fair took place at Lillian Nassau (Booth 320), where an American institution purchased a Unique Iron Fireplace From Laurelton Hall, which was owned and designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany in 1882. Lillian Nassau set aside special pieces all year in order to debut them at TEFAF New York Fall 2019, a strategy that proved successful ... More | | 
Antoni Tà pies, Ondulacions ocres, 2008. Mixed media on wood, 78-3/4" x 66-3/4" (200 cm x 169.5 cm) © 2019 Fundació Antoni Tà pies / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid.
GENEVA.- Pace Gallery presents the first exhibition in its Geneva gallery of works by Antoni TÃ pies at Quai des Bergues, 15-17, from 8 November 2019 to 10 January 2020. The exhibition examines TÃ piess central theme of transformation, both physical and spiritual, which he explores through the use of signs and symbols. Organized in collaboration with the estate of the artist, the exhibition marks twenty-seven years of representation of the artist by Pace and is the gallerys tenth solo show of TÃ pies works. For TÃ pies, art is ritual, not commodity. It is not intended to be worshiped, but neither is it meant to decorate or please. The purpose of art, then, is to alter and heighten consciousness, bringing us into contact in the most powerful way with reality, not as it is pictured but as it literally exists in time and space, a constant reminder of our own mortality and of mans inability ... More | | 
Giant Sequoia Range, Sequoia Nevada Mountains, CA, 2016. Photo ® Jonathan Irish, courtesy Save The Redwoods League.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Cultural Landscape Foundation today unveiled Landslide, its annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. The Landslide 2019: Living in Nature report highlights ten cultural landscapes throughout the nation that are threatened by flooding, wildfires, regional drought, and other effects of human-induced climate change. The ten sites demonstrate the wide array of effects from climate change and the scope of its impact on our natural and cultural resources. Ranging from small parcels to thousands of acres, the sites are also geographically and typologically diverse, comprising agrarian landscapes, living communities, and historical monuments and stretching from Hawai'i to the Heartland. The richly illustrated report includes an introduction by Jonathan B. Jarvis, the former director of the National Park Service and currently the executive director of the Institute ... More |
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| | Prada presents 'Rear Windows', an exhibition by Li Qing at Prada Rong Zhai in Shanghai | | Marie Laforêt, French actress and singer, is dead at 80 | | Sotheby's to offer Audubon's iconic 'Birds of America' in special single lot auction for $6/8M this December | 
Exhibition view of Rear Windows by Li Qing Prada Rong Zhai 7 November 2019 - 19 January 2020. Photo: Jacky Zhang from Z-Vision. Courtesy Prada.
SHANGHAI.- Prada presents Rear Windows, a new exhibition project by artist Li Qing, with the support of Fondazione Prada. Curated by Jérôme Sans, the show is on view from 7 November 2019 to 19 January 2020 in the premises of Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historical residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in October 2017. Rear Windows is an immersive and collaborative project conceived on site by the artist Li Qing and the curator as a specific storyboard, an in-depth exploration of the history and the space of Prada Rong Zhai, creating a connection between the past times and the current urban environment of Shanghai. Prada Rong Zhai can be considered as a palimpsest of Shanghai's century-old history. Before being restored to become a place dedicated to cultural activities, the building was the private residence of a successful entrepreneur, Mr Rong Zongjing, and then a public property after ... More | | 
In this file photo taken in 1969, French singer and actress Marie Laforet poses for a picture. Marie Laforet has passed away in Switzerland at age 80, her family announced on November 3, 2019. AFP.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Marie Laforêt, the French actress and singer known in Europe as the girl with the golden eyes (la fille aux yeux dor), died on Saturday in Genolier, Switzerland, a small town in the Nyon district north of Geneva. She was 80. The death was announced in a statement from her family. Laforêt appeared in some 35 feature films, as well as numerous television movies and mini-series, but her music career was even more successful than her work onscreen. She sold more than 35 million records, counting among her biggest hits Vendanges lAmour, Ivan, Boris et Moi, Viens, Viens and Il A Neigé sur Yesterday (It Has Snowed on Yesterday), a 1977 tribute to the Beatles. Her songs were strongly influenced by folk music, and she even recorded versions of American folk songs, including House of the Rising Sun. She came from a bourgeois ... More | | 
John James Audubon, Plate American Flamingo, remarkable work sought to depict every known species of bird in the United States at actual size. Single-lot estimated to sell for $6/8 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announces that an early subscribers edition of John James Audubons incomparable The Birds of America will be offered in a single-lot sale immediately following Sothebys Fine Books and Manuscripts auction on 18 December. Estimated to sell for $6/8 million, the work is now on public view in Sothebys York Avenue galleries through 11 November, alongside works from Sothebys marquee auctions of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary Art. Extended viewing of the edition will be available 16 18 November, where it will be exhibited alongside work from Sothebys American Art auction, and from 14 17 December with work from the Fine Books and Manuscripts auction. Featuring 435 magnificent hand colored etched plates depicting 1,065 life-size birds representing 489 supposed species of the then-known birds found in the ... More |
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 Offer Waterman Gallery announces debut New York exhibition recent paintings by Diarmuid KelleyNEW YORK, NY.- Offer Waterman Gallery announces the debut New York exhibition of paintings by Diarmuid Kelley, November 7-30, 2019. The exhibition, Recent Paintings, features more than 20 of the artists signature large-scale portraits and still lifes, taking over Stellan Holm at 1018 Madison Avenue. Recent Paintings marks the first solo exhibition by the acclaimed British artist outside of London and the gallerys first independent presentation in New York. Im thrilled to present Kelleys work to New York, states gallerist Offer Waterman. There is a strong market for figurative painting and Kelleys recent paintings have resonated with collectors, this will be a prime opportunity for his New York audience to discover the works in person for the first time. In my recent works, Ive been experimenting with different color combinations, which Im excited to debut in New York, stat ... More James Cohan announces the representation of Tuan Andrew NguyenNEW YORK, NY.- James Cohan announces its representation of Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The gallery will present a solo exhibition of Nguyens work in February 2020. Tuan Andrew Nguyen works between narrative and objects, moving image and material. Nguyen explores strategies of political resistance through rituals, the making of objects both as testimony and devotion, supernaturalisms and the impact of mass media on these moments of resistance. Since returning to Vietnam in 2004, Nguyen has made art that is deeply rooted in the nations turbulent history. He often spotlights social issues metaphorically through objects, such as animal skulls or totemic assemblage sculptures, and conceptually with moving image, intertwining historical and mythical narratives with contemporary imaginaries. Major recent projects include The Specter ... More Blind singer goes from streets to stardom in north NigeriaKADUNA (AFP).- Yahaya Makaho feels his way to the microphone before launching into a song for his new album at a recording studio in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna. Blind since early childhood, the singer has overcome obstacles that often crush the dreams of disabled people in this region and risen from street beggar to star. In the last four years his songs and music videos have become hits among the roughly 80 million Hausa-speaking Nigerians and broader West Africa. "I see myself as a superstar who has broken the jinx associated with physical disabilities," Makaho, 37, told AFP, wearing his trademark sunglasses. "I have punctured the stereotype people have that once you are blind all you can do is take a bowl and go begging for alms on the streets." Life can be tough in northern Nigeria, where poverty rates and unemployment are high -- and for blind ... More West Africa's premier international art fair re-asserts itself as the choice destination in NigeriaLAGOS.- For its 4th edition, ART X Lagos had exceptionally strong attendance from both established and new collectors, institutions and art enthusiasts, affirming its position as one of the leading destinations for collecting African art. ART X Lagos move to The Federal Palace allowed for strong growth for the internationally facing fair, adding more curated sections and an enhanced visitor experience, including the introduction of a successful performance art section. Asserting their profile as a cultural hub, the fair continues to redefine conventional models, delivering an exciting programme of special projects, talks and live music events, to a broad audience of over 9,000 visitors. ART X Lagos reports strong sales across the board. Newcomers such as Everard Read Gallery (South Africa) and Galerie MAM Douala (Cameroun) enjoyed good sales, alongside ... More New drawings and sculptures by Tatiana Trouvé on view at Gagosian Beverly HillsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Gagosian is presenting On the Eve of Never Leaving, new drawings and sculptures by Tatiana Trouvé. This is her first exhibition in Los Angeles. In her large-scale drawings, cast and carved sculptures, and site-specific installations, Trouvé assesses the relationship between memory and material, pitting the ceaseless flow of time against the remarkable endurance of common objects. Combining fragments from both natural and constructed ecosystems, she creates hauntingly familiar realms in which forest, street, studio, and dream coalesce. On the Eve of Never Leaving is a translation of Na Véspera de Não Partir Nunca, the title of a poem by Ãlvaro de Campos, one of the many heteronyms of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (18881935). De Camposs deeply melancholic writings often deal with notions of time ... More Jamea Richmond-Edwards explores Detroit's Fashion and style in 7 Mile GirlsGLASSBORO, NJ.- Rowan University Art Gallery presents 7 Mile Girls, an exhibition exploring the connection between Black female style of Detroits inner city, with designer fashion and self-empowerment. Featuring several new works by artist Jamea Richmond-Edwards alongside paintings loaned by the Rubell Family Collection, the exhibition runs November 7 December 21, 2019. Richmond-Edwards grew up observing the Black communitys fashion style in Detroits inner-city during the late 1980s and early 90s. Popular and idolized were Coogi sweaters, red gators, and designer bags from Gucci and Louis Vuitton. She understood the correlation of the fashion industry around the Black female experience and their complex relationship with luxury clothing. The artifice of dressing became the driving narrative of her work and her form of Black aesthetic ... More Centro Pecci opens 'The Missing Planet: Visions and re-visions of Soviet Times'PRATO.- The Missing Planet opens a new series of exhibitions that occur semi-annually, conceived by the director, Cristiana Perella and dedicated to developing the themes, time periods and languages of Centro Peccis collection, each time entrusting the curatorship of the exhibition to an invited expert under the guise of guest curator while supported by the head of collections and archives, Stefano Pezzato. The curation of this first exhibition is entrusted to Marco Scotini, who started from the dozens of works in Centro Peccis collection, incorporating them with works from important collections and Italian and international institutes, to construct a galaxy of principal artistic research results developed in the former Soviet republics, from Russia to the Baltic, Caucasian and central Asian provinces, from the ... More At 88, Agnes Denes finally gets the retrospective she deservesNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Well be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates at the Shed. And well be right to ponder why this artist, who was born in Budapest 88 years ago and has lived in New York City for more than 60 years, is only now having a retrospective here. Must neglect be the price paid by brilliant art that lies outside ready marketing categories, that baffles conventional critical thinking, that manages to be, paradoxically, mortality-haunted and hopeful? Too often the answer is yes, particularly if the art is by a woman. I learned of Denes late, in 1982, by which time she already had a significant career. I was living in Lower Manhattan, two blocks from the Hudson River and an empty grass-stubbled urban prairie that had been formed by landfill excavated from ... More Elite Marvel comics #1 leads Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The best copy of the first Marvel Comics issue could bring $1 million or more as the top lot in Heritage Auctions Comics & Comic Art Auction Nov. 21-24 in Dallas, Texas. Marvel Comics #1 Windy City pedigree (Timely, 1939) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages. (estimate: $1,000,000+), from the Windy City pedigree, is by far the highest-graded known copy of what is widely considered the ultimate of all Marvel comics, of which only two other copies have earned a grade as high as 9.0. As a matter of perspective, consider that only one other 9.4 exists in CGCs census for all of the top six most valuable Golden Age issues
combined. It is nearly impossible to describe the significance of this issue carrying such a high grade, Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Ed Jaster said. This is an 80-year-old copy of the issue that launched ... More Museum of Arts and Design announces Indira Allegra as winner of 2019 Burke PrizeNEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Arts and Design announced Indira Allegra as the winner of the 2019 Burke Prize for contemporary craft. Named for craft collectors Marian and Russell Burke, the juried prize constitutes an unrestricted award in the amount of $50,000 given to an artist age forty-five or under working in glass, fiber, clay, metal, or wood. The Burke Prize recognizes the achievements of a young artist who is advancing the mediums and disciplines that shaped the American studio craft movement. The work of Allegra and her fellow finalists for the Burke Prize is on view in MADs galleries through April 12, 2020. The twenty-first century is turning into a transformative era for the advancement of craft in the United States, said Chris Scoates, MADs Nanette L. Laitman Director. "Artists like Indira are enriching our knowledge of materials and techniques, ... More Ansel Adams and The American West: Photographs to benefit The Center for Creative PhotographyNEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Ansel Adams And The American West: Photographs From The Center For Creative Photography, a sale of 150 Ansel Adams photographs to benefit The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, which begins with a live auction on 10 December at Christies New York and will follow with additional online sales in the spring and fall of 2020. The works explore the American West as captured by Adams and will benefit the Center in establishing a new acquisition endowment with the goal of diversifying their permanent collection. Highlights from the December sale include Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, gelatin silver print (estimate: $30,000 50,000), Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, circa 1940, gelatin silver print (estimate: $30,000 50,000), The Tetons and the Snake River, Grand ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American illustrator Norman Rockwell died November 08, 1978. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine for more than four decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, Saying Grace (1951), The Problem We All Live With, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his work for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); producing covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. In this image: Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum, discusses the painting "Girl at Mirror", Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007, in Akron, Ohio.
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