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The 70 leaves of birch bark that make up the Bakhshali manuscript are incredibly fragile and are housed in this specially designed book at the Bodleian Libraries Weston Library, Oxford. Scholars are able to view both sides of the birch bark through the windows of the book. © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
OXFORD.- The origin of the symbol zero has long been one of the worlds greatest mathematical mysteries. Today, new carbon dating research commissioned by the University of Oxfords Bodleian Libraries into the ancient Indian Bakhshali manuscript, held at the Bodleian, has revealed it to be hundreds of years older than initially thought, making it the worlds oldest recorded origin of the zero symbol that we use today. The surprising results of the first ever radiocarbon dating conducted on the Bakhshali manuscript, a seminal mathematical text which contains hundreds of zeroes, reveal that it dates from as early as the 3rd or 4th century approximately five centuries older than scholars previously believed. This means that the manuscript in fact predates a 9th century inscription of zero on the wall of a temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, which was previously considered to be the oldest recorded example of a zero used as a placeholder in India. The findings are highly signif ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An aerial picture taken from a hot air balloon on September 10, 2017 shows the Temple of Hatshepsut (top R) and the Ramesseum temple (top L) in the southern Egyptian town of Luxor. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP
| Pace London opens first exhibition of Dubuffet's Théâtres de mémoire series in over three decades | | Seminal Andy Warhol Coke Bottle to spearhead special auction 'Up Close' during London's Frieze Week | | Picasso portrait to highlight Christie's Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale in New York | 
Jean Dubuffet, Expectative, August 24, 1979. Acrylic on canvas-backed paper (9 sections), 20 1/16" x 13 3/4".
LONDON.- Pace London is presenting Jean Dubuffet: Théâtres de mémoire, the first exhibition of Dubuffets Théâtres de mémoire series in over three decades and the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the series in London. Curated by Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, and Tamara Corm, Senior Director at Pace London, this exhibition features fifteen monumental paintings on loan from Fondation Dubuffet, Tate, Fondation Beyeler and private collections. Most of the works have never been seen in the UK before, including Les données de linstant (1977), Dramatisations (1978), Les commentaires (1978), and Vestiges et devenirs (1976). Jean Dubuffet: Théâtres de mémoire is on view from 13 September to 21 October 2017 at 6 Burlington Gardens. The Théâtres de mémoire is one of Dubuffets most important series of works, and contains some of the largest paintings he has ever made. The series, which Dubuffet started ... More | | 
Andy Warhol, Coke Bottle (1962), silkscreen ink, acrylic and ballpoint pen on canvas, 11⅛ x 6in. (28.3 x 15.2cm.). Estimate: £1,800,000 2,500,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
LONDON.- Andy Warhols seminal Coke Bottle will lead Up Close, a specially curated Evening Auction that will take place 3 October 2017, during Londons Frieze week. The auction will bring together an exceptional group of works to shed light on how artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol, have turned to small-scale compositions to challenge themselves and unlock new modes of expression. These works can offer a zone of emotional intimacy, an exercise in delicate skill, or even a refreshing liberation from the supervening order of size. One of Warhols very first paintings to incorporate the silkscreen technique for which he became well known, Coke Bottle (1962, estimate £1,800,000 £2,500,000) tells the story of a turning point in twentieth century culture. Having previously worked ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Femme accroupie (Jacqueline), Painted on 8 October 1954. Oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 44 7/8 in. | Estimate: $20-30 million © 2017 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies will offer Pablo Picassos Femme accroupie (Jacqueline), painted on October 8, 1954 as a central highlight of its Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art on 13 November in New York. Marking its first time at auction, Femme accroupie (Jacqueline) comes from a private collection, and is estimated to sell for $20-30 million. The work will be on public view at Christies London from 16 - 19 September, and at Christies Hong Kong from 28 September - 3 October. Christies Global President, Jussi Pylkkanen, remarked, Jacqueline was a beautiful woman and one of Picassos most elegant muses. This painting of Jacqueline hung in Picassos private collection for many years and has rarely been seen in public since 1954. It is a museum quality painting on the grand scale which will capture ... More |
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| Ruiz-Healy Art opens a solo exhibition of Chuck Ramirez photography | | P·P·O·W exhibits new large-scale mixed media drawings by Aurel Schmidt | | Epic quest to document 'miracle' of Hebrew language | 
Chuck Ramirez, Still Life: I Love Mao, 2004. Pigment ink print on watercolor paper, 11.4 x 17.1".
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Chuck in Context, a special exhibition, which honors the significant survey of Chuck Ramirez's works opening at the McNay Art Museum, Chuck Ramirez: All This and Heaven Too. The exhibits will open concurrently with Ruiz-Healy Art's reception held on Friday, September 15, 2017 from 6:00 8:00pm. A percentage of the sales from Chuck in Context will benefit Casa Chuck, a residency program for critics, curators, and writers housed in the artist's former residence. This exhibition is also presented in conjunction with FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA, an International Photography Festival. As the exclusive representative for the estate of Chuck Ramirez, Ruiz-Healy Art is proud to keep the artist's memory and archives preserved for future generations. This exhibition, Chuck in Context, focuses on the texted-based works by Ramirezincluding the Words series, which has never been shown in its entirety previo ... More | | 
Aurel Schmidt, Tinder Tiger, 2016. Charcoal, pastel, felt pen, iron-ons on t-shirt, 28 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches. Image courtesy P.P.O.W, copyright Aurel Schmidt.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting a solo exhibition by Aurel Schmidt. I Rot Before I Ripen, features new large-scale mixed media drawings as well as an installation. Schmidt uses gestures from landscape to the doodles of pre-pubescent girls as a vehicle to explore art historical tropes, infusing her works with girlish desire and erotic pleasure. Her complex, detailed drawings often depict hybrid or amalgamated forms that disorient the viewer and introduce absurdity, and oftentimes morbidity, into seemingly picturesque scenes. Images of butterflies, flowers, spider webs, snakes, skeletons, penises, and vulvas co-exist in a hyper erotic landscape of sex and death. Using her personal biography she simultaneously examines heterosexuality from a playful, erotic, and adventuring female perspective and investigates how identity can be newly invented. For the last decade, Schmidt has exposed myths about ... More | | 
Gabriel Birnbaum, senior researcher at Historical Dictionary Project at Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, holds old notes written in Hebrew. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- The bespectacled man with two pens in his shirt pocket and a black skullcap atop grey hair points to his computer screen and explains an epic project spanning generations. Gabriel Birnbaum, 66, is a senior researcher helping document and define every Hebrew word ever -- from ancient texts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls to the contemporary novels of Israeli literary figures like Amos Oz. It is a mammoth task under way since 1959, and even though a milestone has been reached on the digital project, there are still many years to go. Called the Historical Dictionary Project at Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language, it will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars, writers and linguists. But it will also act as an anchor for Hebrew, the ancient language revived in spoken form in the 19th century after some 1,700 years. Work completed so far is already a ... More |
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| Palmatary pre-fire Chicago map sells shy of $200k | | Princess Diana's sterling silver card case sold for $20,974 at auction | | Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson opens 'Traverser' by Raymond Depardon | 
J.T. Palmatary, Chicago. Chicago: Braunhold & Sonne, 1857. Presale estimate: $20,000 to $30,000.
CHICAGO, IL.- J.T. Palmatary's rare birds-eye view of pre-fire Chicago sold just shy of $200,000 in Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' September 13 Fine Books and Manuscripts auction conducted in Chicago. It was printed in 1857 by Braunhold & Sonne and is one of four known copies. The three other copies are held by the Library of Congress, the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum. The example offered by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers was the only known obtainable copy of the map in private hands. Having sold to a collector in Chicago, it remains in private hands. "As the map is one of only four known copies, we're thrilled that it sold to a Chicago area collector," said Gretchen Hause, Director of Fine Books and Manuscripts at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Palmatary is known ... More | | 
Princess Diana's personally-owned and -used sterling silver card case, measuring approximately 2.75 x 3.75 x .25, engraved on the front, "Diana," given to her as a gift by her 'Granny.'
BOSTON, MASS.- Princess Diana's sterling silver card case sold for $20,974 according to Boston-MA based RR Auction. The case was among belongings Diana had personally donated to charity months before her death on Aug. 31, 1997. Engraved on the front, "Diana," and was given to her as a gift by her 'Granny.' The handsome case has a lovely, ornate design on the exterior with leather card pockets inside. "What makes these items incredibly special is the strong sentimental value they offer, many coming directly from Princess Diana," said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. Highlights from the sale include, but are not limited by: Dianas hand-written French vocabulary book from her time ... More | | 
Allemagne (ex-RDA), 1990 (detail) © Raymond Depardon / Magnum Photos.
PARIS.- From 13 September to 17 December 2017, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is presenting Traverser by Raymond Depardon. Writer, photographer and director, he seems to be able to do it all. This exhibition hinges on four main themes: La terre natale [homeland] in dialogue with Le voyage [journey] then La douleur [pain] in dialogue with Lenfermement [confinement]. With writing as the Ariadnes thread, this exhibition invites on a journey through the artists work from his beginnings at Le Garet Farm until today. Its not easy to produce a book and an exhibition of Raymond Depardons pictures which take in the full breadth of his work. There are too many possibles. Hes covered all aspects of real life photography, from his first hesitant steps at Le Garet Farm, to celebrity hideouts, ... More |
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| Does permanence matter? Ephemeral Urbanism featured in exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne | | Group exhibition that reflects on the relationship between art and architecture | | First edition of art berlin opens with 110 international galleries from 16 countries | 
Tepito Market, Mexico City. © 2015 Google, DigitalGlobe.
MUNICH.- How long-term should urban planning be? Munichs Oktoberfest, the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in India (or the largest gathering of humans on the planet), the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, and other major events demonstrate that flexible architectural configurations are temporarily deployed around the globe to provide medium-term shelter, often to enormous crowds. Such structures fulfill a range of functional tasks and are used in religious and cultural festivals or can take the form of military camps, refugee camps, or even temporary mining towns. This show traces a global phenomenon that has become increasingly topical given todays current state of mass migration triggered by climate change, political strife, and natural disasters. While the ephemeral in architecture and urbanism has generally been considered to be of minor value, this exhibition claims the oppositepresenting examples ... More | | 
Elena Alonso, Untitled (Order of materials 4), 2017, Mixed media on paper, 38 x 30 cm. Courtesy of artist and Green Art Gallery Dubai.
DUBAI.- Green Art Gallery is presenting a group exhibition that reflects on the relationship between art and architecture, exploring the ways they influence and feed off each other. Infusing symbols that have been traditionally used in architecture, the artists in the exhibition question other formal enquiries and the relationship between man, objects and the space they inhibit. They produce fleeting and ambiguous realities which, momentarily, disturb our conditioned relationship with the objects that surround us. Theatre of the Absurd features works by Farah Atassi, Ana Mazzei, Nika Neelova, Hemali Bhuta and Elena Alonso. In her grid-like paintings, French-Syrian artist Farah Atassi continues to consider space through an exploration of decorative motifs and architectural models. Using display objects that overlap and interlock, the artist creates ambiguous spaces with nods ... More | | 
Installation View. © art berlin, 2017. Photo: Stefan Korte.
BERLIN.- The first edition of art berlin is now open. From 14-17 September 2017, the new art fair hosts 110 international galleries from 16 countries presenting a comprehensive overview of the current art market, from emerging and established contemporary positions up to works of Modern art. art berlin has emerged from a partnership between abc art berlin contemporary and Art Cologne and is organized by Koelnmesse. The range of presented artworks reflects the diversity of the galleries taking part in art berlin. In addition to the return of several galleries who formerly participated in abc, such as Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Bo Bjerggaard, Mehdi Chouakri, Galerie Eigen + Art, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Future Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Klemm´s, König Galerie, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Meyer Riegger, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Galerie Neu, neugerriemschneider, Piktogram, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian-French businessman Ettore Bugatti was born September 15, 1881. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (15 September 1881 - 21 August 1947) was an Italian-born French automobile designer and manufacturer. He is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E. Bugatti. In this image: "1925 Bugatti Brescia, Chassis no. 2461 Engine no. 879". Photo: Courtesy Bonhams.
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