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An image provided by Kirsten Helgeland, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo/Cc by-Sa 4.0, a gold pendant found near the Jell Mound, another site in Norway. Viking communities maintained extensive trade routes stretching into the Mediterranean. Kirsten Helgeland, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo/Cc by-Sa 4.0 via The New York Times.
by Jenny Gross
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Archaeologists using radar technology have discovered a millennium-old ship burial in southeastern Norway, at a site that they hope will offer clues about life during the period after the fall of the Roman Empire through the end of the Viking Age. Lars Gustavsen, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research and the lead author of a paper on the findings, published Wednesday in the journal Antiquity, said his team made the discovery in April 2018 in Gjellestad, Norway. A farmer notified the local authorities about his plans to build drainage ditches in one of his fields, prompting the archaeological survey. Before we started we knew about maybe one other site like it in that area," Gustavsen said. Now we have another one that could probably provide us with more information about how society was built, what kind of political system they had, what kind of technological systems they had. The archaeologists used a motorized, high-resolution ground ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on November 18, 2020, shows Rembrandt van Rijn's masterpiece "Abraham and the Angels" displayed at Sotheby's in Amsterdam. The work was painted 350 years ago and is temporarily on display in Amsterdam as part of a worldwide exhibition tour. Ramon van Flymen / ANP / AFP
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| Meadows Museum acquires two paintings by Secundino Hernández | | Pace Gallery to expand London presence with new gallery space on Hanover Square in Mayfair | | Smithsonian museums are latest to shutter as virus surges | 
Secundino Hernández (Spanish, b. 1975), OrÃgenes Secretos (Secret Origins), 2020. Acrylic, alkyd, and oil on linen, 55 1/2 x 36 5/8 in. (141 x 93 cm). Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas. Gift of the artist, MM.2020.09. Photo by Kevin Todora.
DALLAS, TX.- The Meadows Museum, SMU, announced today that it has acquired two recent paintings by the contemporary Spanish artist Secundino Hernández (b. 1975). The Madrid-based artists connection with the Meadows began in February 2018, when museum leadership and patrons visited the artists studio while on a trip to the ARCOmadrid Fair. It was on this trip that the Meadows began discussions about bringing both Hernández and his painting Untitled (2019) to visit the museum. The painting has been on view in the Virginia Meadows Galleries for over a year and the artist himself visited Dallas in March of 2020. In tandem with the museums purchase of Untitled (2019), Hernández has announced that he will donate another work, OrÃgenes Secretos ... More | | 
Cross-section from Hanover Street through galleries and workspaces © Jamie Fobert Architects.
LONDON.- Marc Glimcher, President and CEO of Pace Gallery, today announced plans to expand the businesss presence in London with a new 8,600-sq-ft location at 4 Hanover Square. Paces new London gallery will open in autumn 2021 following a significant renovation by architect Jamie Fobert Architects. Fobert enjoys a longstanding relationship with Pace and was responsible for designing their original London gallery on Lexington Street in 2011. For this project, Fobert will completely transform the interior architecture of the existing building to incorporate a number of flexible gallery spaces. Foberts refurbishment will include two elegant galleries on the ground floor and will open up the basement level to create an additional 1,000-sq- ft public gallery. The basement and entry level will be connected by a feature staircase rendered in black steel, giving the impression of a fully integrated space. The new ... More | | 
Seven museums and the National Zoo, which had all reopened by Sept. 25, will be shutting again.
by Sarah Bahr
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As coronavirus cases increase across the country, the Smithsonian will once again temporarily close eight of its Washington-area institutions Monday. The Institutions top priority is to protect the health and safety of its visitors and staff, the Smithsonian said in a statement. We will use this time to reassess, monitor and explore additional risk-mitigation measures. Seven museums and the National Zoo, which had all reopened by Sept. 25, will be shutting again, the statement said. No reopening date was announced. The decision came as a second wave of closures is being announced by museums in a number of states. In recent days, officials in Oregon, Illinois and several other states announced new virus restrictions that will require museums to close once more; and several prominent ... More |
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| Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize for 'Shuggie Bain' | | Running the Paris Opera was never going to be easy. But come on. | | Marianne Boesky announces representation of Suzanne McClelland | 
The writer Douglas Stuart at the Beekman Hotel in New York, Oct. 12, 2020. Daniel Dorsa/The New York Times.
by Alexandra Alter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- When Douglas Stuart began writing a fictional account of his childhood, growing up in Glasgow with an alcoholic mother, he wasnt sure it would ever be published. I wouldnt allow myself to believe I was writing a book, because it was too intimidating, he said during an interview last month. Early responses from editors were equally discouraging: More than 30 publishers rejected the book. He finally sold it to Grove Atlantic, and the novel, Shuggie Bain, drew rapturous reviews. Now, his debut has won the Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, cementing Stuarts reputation as a blazing new literary talent. The award, which was announced Thursday, will likely draw a large new audience to the novel, which came out earlier this year. In a video news conference, Margaret Busby, this years chair of judges, said the vote was unanimous and quick, and she noted that ... More | | 
Alexander Neef, the new director of the Paris Opera, on the roof of the Opera Bastille in Paris, Nov. 3, 2020. James Hill/The New York Times.
by Roslyn Sulcas
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wearing a dark blue suit, masked, and with a part in his hair so straight you could use it as a ruler, Alexander Neef, the new director of the Paris Opera, was holding a meeting in his airy office. It was Oct. 5, the day the companys eminent ballet was to give its first performance since strikes had closed the Operas two theaters last December. But Paris had just been declared a high-risk coronavirus zone the latest sign that normalcy still lay far in the future. Neef was just five weeks into the job leading the Opera, among the most prestigious positions on the global cultural scene, overseeing an annual operating budget of 220 million euros ($261.3 million). There should have been no better time to start than this, the companys 350th anniversary, which was to have culminated this fall with a splashy new production of Richard Wagners epic Ring cycle. Instead, Neef had walked straight into an annus horribilis. Strikes from December to March sh ... More | | 
Suzanne McClelland, Formula for Love 0 PLUS 0 is 0_**Test/Est + Dop/No/Ser x Oxy/Vas is Love, 2020 (detail). Polymer and pastel and spray paint on canvas, 116 x 72 in. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Suzanne McClelland. Photo: Lance Brewer.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marianne Boesky Gallery announced representation of the critically acclaimed artist Suzanne McClelland. In large-scale canvases as well as collaborative books and prints, McClelland has opened new avenues for painting, exploring its visual, linguistic and acoustic dimensions in light of broader cultural and political concerns. To inaugurate the representation of the artist, the gallery will feature a solo presentation of McClellands work at Art Basels Online Viewing Rooms, OVR: Miami Beach, December 2-6, 2020. In tandem with her presentation at OVR: Miami Beach, works by McClelland will also be installed at the gallerys reconfigured 509 W 24th Street space in New York. The 509 location has transitioned to create a space for live viewings of works to complement the gallerys regularly rotating online viewing rooms and virtual art fair presentations, allowing for more intimate experiences in sem ... More |
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| Thematic series of new works by Gerasimos Floratos on view at Almine Rech Paris | | Michael Jordan's historic 'shattered backboard' game worn and signed jersey offered at Sotheby's New York | | Derek Fordjour, from anguish to transcendence | 
Gerasimos Floratos, Treehouse, 2020. Oil and collage on canvas, 182.9 x 182.9 cm. 72 X 72 in © Gerasimos Floratos - Photo : Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.
PARIS.- Gerasimos Floratos lives and works near Times Square, in the diverse and vibrant neighbourhood of Hells Kitchen. His Greek-American parents run a Deli there; the artist has set up his studio downstairs, connected to the outside world only by basement windows through which he can just perceive the feet of passers-by and bustle of the city. As both an internal production tool and observation point of the outside, the studio has become the matrix of his work, which oscillates between the private and the public, between isolation and togetherness. The exhibition entitled Psychogeography references a term Gerasimos Floratos often uses and which he has borrowed from Guy Debord. This science was invented in the 1950s, when the French intellectual was actively involved in the Letterist International collective, and proposed to analyse and reinvent the ... More | | 
Michael Jordan's Shattered Backboard Game Worn and Signed Stefanel Trieste Jersey. Photo: Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys is presenting Michael Jordan Shattered, an online auction of Michael Jordan memorabilia. Celebrating Michael Jordans astonishing legacy as one of the greatest athletes in modern history, the dedicated, online auction is open for bidding today through 3 December. The selection of game worn and signed pairs of Nike Air Jordan 1s, deadstock Air Jordan releases and more is led by Jordans historic game worn and signed Shattered Backboard jersey (estimate $300/500,000). Brahm Wachter, Sothebys Director of eCommerce Development, commented: In 1985 when Stefanel sponsored the Stefanel Trieste team, spectators witnessed a spectacular moment in sporting history, as Michael Jordan almost flying completed one of the most remarkable dunks of all time, shattering the backboard into thousands of pieces. 35 years later after inspiring multiple Nike releases and colorway ... More | | 
The artist Derek Fordjour outside his studio in an industrial building in the Bronx, where he was preparing for a solo show at Petzel Gallery, Nov. 5, 2020. Rafael Rios/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In a bare room upstairs from his art studio inside an industrial building in the South Bronx, Derek Fordjour watched as three puppeteers brought a character drawn right out of his paintings to three-dimensional life. The artist was forging yet another branch of his multiform practice: a live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition. Fordjour often depicts Black athletes and performers dancers, riders, rowers, drum majors as strivers who navigate the ambiguities that come with their achievement, and the racial scrutiny that accompanies visibility in the mainstream culture. The wood puppet was a vessel for these concerns. He had an athletic look, in breeches and a tunic. The top was a striped number ... More |
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| Monumental rare masterwork by Clyfford Still to star in Phillips' Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art | | Work by Richter and Calder smash estimates at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale | | Fresh-to-market Norman Rockwell and Daniel Garber works headline Freeman's sale | 
Clyfford Still, PH-407, 1964 (detail). Estimate: In the Region of $17 million. Image courtesy of Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced a rare, Maryland work by Clyfford Still as a major highlight of the fall season. Known as one of the fathers of Abstract Expressionism, Still was regarded as an influencer to some of the most significant artists of the 20th century, including Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. This magnificent, large scale work was painted in 1964 after Still left the New York art scene and relocated to the Maryland countryside, specifically keeping his work out of public view. A testament to his concern for the paintings he created during this time, he left a will with strict instructions to keep them together in a Museum dedicated to his works. As a result, PH-407 is now one of only a few dozen paintings that are estimated to remain in private hands. It is a superb example from the artists body of work from the Maryland years of production, which are being celebrated for the first time in the current exhibition at the Clyffo ... More | | 
Gerhard Richter (born 1932) Abstraktes Bild (Untitled) 679-3,1988. Sold for $3,450,312. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Signature works by Gerhard Richter and Alexander Calder, shattered their estimates at Bonhams Post-War & Contemporary Art sale today (November 18) in New York. Created during the peak of Richters implementation of a pioneering new form of abstraction, Abstraktes Bild (Untitled) 679-3 sold for $3,450,312 against an estimate of $1,500,000- 2,500,000. Calders Little Red and Blue, a trademark monumental mobile by the innovative 20th century master of sculptural abstraction, sold for $2,070,312. It had been estimated at $1,000,000- 1,500,000. The sale made a total of $7,817,538 with 71% by sold by lot and 89% sold by value. Jacqueline Towers-Perkins, Bonhams Vice President, Director of Post-War & Contemporary Art, commented: Both Richters Abstraktes Bild (Untitled) 679-3 and Calders Little Red and Blue were exceptional signature works by two titans of contemporary art. Each work ... More | | 
Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958), The Last of Winter (detail). Estimate: $250,000-400,000.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Freemans will hold its much-anticipated signature American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists sale on December 6th, 2020 which will showcase a large number of American 20th-century icons such as Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent, Fitz Henry Lane, Horace Pippin and Bessie Potter Vonnoh. It will also be an excellent opportunity for collectors to acquire the finest examples of paintings by Pennsylvania Impressionists. Decembers sale will offer numerous works by two of the movements greats, Daniel Garber and Edward Willis Redfield as well as George Sotter, Walter Schofield and Fern Coppedge. Norman Rockwell's 1929 painted advertisement The Melody Stilled by Cold (Lot 48; $300,000 - 500,000) will make its auction debut with Freeman's. The painting, commissioned by Capitol Boilers & Radiators, shows a violinist interrupting his tune to warm his hands. It is an early example of Rockwells ... More |
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 The Muck presents newly completed sculpture gardenFULLERTON, CALIF.- The Muckenthaler Cultural Center invites the public to its newly completed outdoor sculpture garden. The sculpture garden is free and open to the public. Visitors can roam the center's 8.5 acres grounds and take a self-guided tour with an interactive, online map, and learn about the featured artists on The Muck's website. The center began the sculpture garden in May with "Godot" by local sculptor Bret Price as a way to allow the public safe access to art during the Covid-19 crisis. Price also installed the final piece in the sculpture garden, large-scale metal sculpture "Happenstance." The Muck's outdoor artwork also includes work by Jimmy Centeno, Sofia Enriquez, Katherine England, and Daniel Miller, as well as a collection of eight Papa New Guinea Story Poles on long term loan from the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana. ... More A festival of new Asian art, seeking a directionNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- You could find reasons for both enthusiasm and skepticism when Asia Society announced last year that it would present a triennial of contemporary art, centered on art from what the organizers called Asia and the world. Enthusiasm: Our supposedly global galleries and museums still engage too little with a continent thats home to 60% of the worlds population, and the more new Asian art we see here, the better. And admission would be free. Skepticism: There are now more than 300 biennial and triennial exhibitions of contemporary art worldwide. In New York alone, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, MoMA PS1, the Queens Museum, El Museo del Barrio, the International Center of Photography and the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University all gum up their galleries with perennial ... More Artsy inaugurates Art Cologne partnership with online-only editionCOLOGNE.- Artsy continues to support the art market in 2020 with online-only editions of canceled in-person art fairs, and is proud to announce that it will exclusively present on Artsy this years postponed editions of Art Cologne and Cologne Fine Art & Design. The online-only 2020 editions of each art fair will take place on Artsy, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling art by leading international artists, from November 18th until November 29th. The shows will include each art fairs full exhibitor list with a combined roster of more than 200 participating galleries. Art Cologne is not only the oldest art fair in the worldthe storied show is among the top three most important to take place in Continental Europe, and it is the premier art fair in Germany. Art Colognes April 2020 edition was postponed until November this year due ... More Exhibition features never-before-seen paintings, prints and photography by Alexis HunterLONDON.- Curated by Hettie Judah, this online exhibition is Richard Saltoun's Gallerys first presentation of work by the provocative feminist artist Alexis Hunter (19482014) since announcing representation of her estate. The two-part exhibition features never-before-seen paintings, prints and photography. It follows the 2018 presentation of Hunters work at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, her first solo show in London since 1981. Part 2: Callisto, also curated by Hettie Judah, launches on 7 December. View the online exhibition by visiting the gallerys website. With gallery doors closed due to the recent lockdown brought on by COVID-19, it is satisfying to picture Alexis Hunters rowdy, seductive output in such close proximity to Londons long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi show. If you bury yourself in Artemisias golden folds, you know she really loved painting, Hu ... More Headlands Center for the Arts announces new Executive DirectorSAUSALITO, CALIF.- Headlands Center for the Arts announced Maricelle (Mari) Robles as its next Executive Director. Robles is an arts leader, educator, and organizer who is coming to Headlands after working with several arts and social impact organizations, including Prospect.5 New Orleans and Elevate Prize Foundation. She has a longstanding career history working at the intersection of art and education, including as the Educator-in-Charge, Public Programs and Engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She will assume the position of Executive Director on December 14, 2020. Robles is passionate about building meaningful relationships between the arts and new and broad communities, and is driven by the desire to connect people of all backgrounds to quality arts education. As a Latinx woman of Puerto Rican heritage, ... More Paintings by Eddie Martinez and Ben Enwonwu headline Bruneau & Co. sale CRANSTON, RI.- Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers will hold its first-ever Modern & Contemporary Art auction on Monday, November 30th, with 76 curated lots headlined by a very large, untitled double-stack Blockhead painting by Eddie Martinez (Conn./N.Y., b. 1977) and a portrait oil on canvas rendering by Ben Enwonwu (Nigerian, 1917-1994). Both should sell in the six figures. Also offered will be a collaborative artwork by Josh Sperling and Sam Friedman (both born in New York in 1984); multiple offerings by Paul Insect (U.K., b. 1971); a Sensationalist painting by Wes Lang (N.J., b. 1972); a geometric abstract silkscreen by Josef Albers (German/American, 1888-1976); a pencil on woven paper by Ryan Travis Christian (Calif./Ill., b. 1983); a selection of sculptures, plushes and accessories by KAWS (American, b. 1974); and Case Studyo releases. ... More June Kelly Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Carmen CiceroNEW YORK, NY.- The Human Condition, an exhibition of figurative expressionism revealing Carmen Ciceros humorous and storytelling approach to creating paintings that evoke contemplation about events common to most lives, and some which are inevitable for all, will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on Friday, November 20. The exhibition will remain on view through December 30, 2020. Understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by human condition is a philosophical problem, yet we grasp the meaning as embodying the whole of the experience of being human and living human lives. There are biologically determined events common to all such as birth and death. Within experiences of the human condition are the senses described as joy, fright and other emotions associated with actuality. Cicero presents ... More Ken Spears, partner in an animation powerhouse, dies at 82NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Ken Spears, who helped create Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, the series starring a gang of mystery-solving teenagers and a hapless, hungry dog that became one of the most lucrative franchises in the history of animation, died Nov. 6 in Brea, California. He was 82. The cause was complications of Lewy body dementia, his son Kevin said. Spears died at an assisted-living facility. Joe Ruby, Scooby-Doos co-creator and Spears longtime business partner, died in August. Spears was just out of the Navy when a friends father, William Hanna, offered him a job in the editing studio of his new company, Hanna-Barbera. As Spears said later, he initially had no idea Hanna was in the cartoon business; he just liked the salary $104 a week. At Hanna-Barbera, he met Ruby, also newly sprung from the Navy, ... More 'Between the World and Me': From page to stage to screenNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Back in August, when COVID-19 had loosened its chokehold on New York City, director Kamilah Forbes and various cast and crew members gathered in Central Park for a location shoot, one of the first the city had allowed. It was the final week of filming for Between the World and Me, a television special based on Ta-Nehisi Coates memoir, a meditation on the history and lived experience of Black people in America. Near the parks Ramble, an actress dressed as Amy Cooper the white woman who in May called emergency services to complain, fraudulently, that a Black bird-watcher had threatened her played with a three-legged dog. A COVID coordinator distributed nitrile gloves and squirts from a tub of hand sanitizer. Hairdressers and makeup artists hovered in plastic ponchos and face shields. ... More Collection of stoneware and Americana more than doubles presale estimate at Cowan's AuctionsCINCINNATI, OH.- Property from the Estate of Louis Hahn, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania more than doubled its presale estimates in a two-day sale at Cowans Auctions on November 11 and 12. The more than 800-lot auction featured the largest and most important Western Pennsylvania stoneware collection to appear at auction in recent memory, along with a collection of advertising tins, signs and store displays, painted American furniture, and folk and decorative art. The sale totaled $616,885 across the two days against a presale estimate of $277,450 and saw a remarkable 97% of lots sell. I first ran into Louis Hahn completely by accident at an antique mall in Pittsburgh, said Wes Cowan, Hindman Vice Chair and Cowans Founder. From those first casual conversations I could tell that this was a special ... More Glory days gone, Gabon's only circus fights for survivalLIBREVILLE (AFP).- Wiltrid Mabiala climbs to the top of a human pyramid -- backwards -- with the lithe agility of a cat. Six metres (20 feet) below, a thin mat offers little protection if he puts a foot wrong. The leopard print-clad acrobat is a performer with Le Cirque de l'Equateur, which once represented Gabon at the world's biggest circus festivals, but now cannot afford even basic safety equipment. The mats are falling apart, the safety ropes have snapped and the acrobatic nets are long gone. The small central African country's only circus troupe -- and its only circus school -- is facing ruin. The oldest member of the troupe, Seraphin Abessolo, has spent nearly 30 of his 49 years with the circus. "The circus is all about stage equipment -- trampolines, juggling gear, diabolos. All of that is gone. Even though we have specialists in all those areas ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico died November 20, 1978. Giorgio de Chirico (July 10, 1888 - November 20, 1978) was a Greek-born Italian artist. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work. In this image: Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico stands in front of one of his paintings in his apartment in Rome, Italy on Feb. 12, 1955.
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