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On the site remains of housing structures and natural and artificial wells, surrounded by natural stone walls have been located; cenotes and caves have also been detected in surrounding regions. Photo: Archaeologist Fernando Cortés, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Quintana Roo.
Translated by: Liz Marie Gangemi
MEXICO CITY.- Amidst the mangrove and the jungle, experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have recorded a Pre-Hispanic settlement dating from the Mayan Post-Classic period (1200-1546 AD), which represents the first of that era detected in the locality on the eastern coast of the Yucatan peninsula. The ancient village named by the specialists of the INAH Quintana Roo Center, as Mahahual has as a particularity a remarkable proximity to the Caribbean coast, for which, together with the fact that all the structures located at this time are of residential or water supply structures, it is theorized that the fundamental vocations of those who inhabited it were fishing and agriculture. However, according to archaeologist Fernando Cortés de Brasdefer, a continuation of research work will be carried out at the site to find any indications of elite zones, or ritual or civic-religious areas, because the area prospected in the f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Aglaya Nikonorova and her husband Alexander pose as they replicate ÂSalome with the Head of John the Baptist by Guido Reni as they stay at home in self-isolation to prevent spread of the coronavirus in Moscow, April 14, 2020. Isolated from the physical world, people sheltering in place under coronavirus lockdowns are seeking new depths of connection online, like a nearly month-old Facebook group that started in Moscow, where people post their lo-fi recreations of famous paintings now has more than 540,000 members. Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times
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| | Toomey & Co. to offer 17 Oak Park Art League paintings in 'Interiors' auction on May 6 | | Rehs Contemporary presents 50 affordable works to help you fill in those nooks and crannies around your home | | Are your frames properly appraised? |
Through the Woods. Estimate $1,000-2,000.
OAK PARK, IL.- During the Interiors auction on Wednesday, May 6, 2020, Toomey & Co. Auctioneers will offer over 600 lots of fine and decorative artwork, sculpture, early 20th century and modern furniture, art pottery, lighting, silver, jewelry, and more by famous names plus a selection of 17 paintings deaccessioned from the Oak Park Art League. While similar to Toomey & Co.s signature quarterly Art & Design auction, material in the biannual Interiors sale is often available at more affordable price points. This allows collectors and decorators a greater opportunity to acquire a variety of art and design objects. Some of the notable artists and makers featured in Interiors on May 6 are: Marc Chagall, Dale Nichols, Robert Rauschenberg, Margaret Burroughs, Tiffany Studios, Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Georg Jensen, Edward Wormley, Hans Wegner, ... More | |
8-Bit Zero Dr. Mario.
NEW YORK, NY.- While galleries across the country have shut their physical spaces, Rehs Contemporary is continuing to offer online exhibitions through their website. Now that we are all spending a bit more time at home and can get some added art appreciation time, here are 50 affordable works to help you fill in those nooks and crannies around your home! These small gems are the perfect answer for those art lovers who have no more wall space, or even a first-time buyer looking for more accessibly priced artwork. Among the selection is a diverse mix of styles and genres, including landscapes, still lifes, figurative work and abstract you will find work by some of our hottest artists including Stuart Dunkel, Todd Casey, David Palumbo and Kari Tirrell as well as a couple of new members of the gallery roster 8-Bit Zero and Lucia Heffernan. 8-Bit Zero works are heavily influenced ... More | |
Flood in Florence Italy. When our client suffered hurricane damage to her collection (not pictured) our appraisal facilitated the settlement from her insurance in the amount of $900,000, for the damaged frames alone.
NEW YORK, NY.- With so much unknown about how and when our cultural institutions will be able to reach a new state of normalcy, and what further events might occur between now and then, now is the ideal time for institutions to take a closer look at any vulnerabilities within their collections, and have an accurate understanding of each individual objects' condition and value. With the goal of providing assistance to museums and other non-profit institutions during these challenging and uncertain times, Eli Wilner is currently offering a limited number of free antique frame appraisals. Normally retailing for $2,500 per frame, Wilner will provide 50 non-profit institutions with one free retail ... More |
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| | He can't travel, but his art can | | Visitors asked to picture 'staying in' as National Gallery's new digital programme brings art to the home during closure | | Hauser & Wirth announces details of 'Beside Itself,' its first Virtual Reality exhibition using new HWVR technology |
The artist Serge Alain Nitegeka at his studio in Johannesburg, March 16, 2020. Nitegeka cant leave South Africa, but his art, on the refugee condition, is traveling. Gulshan Khan/The New York Times.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Serge Alain Nitegeka hasnt been free to roam in a while. For over five years, the Johannesburg artist has been unable to leave South Africa as he waits for his case for citizenship there to be resolved. (He was born in Rwanda.) Overseas exhibitions, commissions hes had them. But from a remove. Paintings are easy enough: You pack them and give instructions for how they need to hang. Installations are more complicated. One new work involves a plot of fresh soil, a bundle of twigs, as in firewood, and Nitegekas sculptures of makeshift objects that migrants and refugees often carry. The work represents a pit stop on a forced journey; its spirit requires that the dirt and wood be local. For Nitegekas exhibition Black Migrant, his fourth with ... More | |
Johannes Vermeer, A Young Woman standing at a Virginal, about 1670-2 © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The National Gallery is bringing its pictures to our homes in a major new digital programme. Inspired by the legacy of the Myra Hess concerts, which took place at the Gallery during the Second World War, the programme produced entirely from home across its social media, website and emails celebrates the creative possibilities of staying in and the ways that art can help mental wellbeing during the coronavirus lockdown. The Gallery serves a digital audience of over 10 million people every year, with a digital reach of hundreds of millions of people. After record increases in visits to some of its online content of over 2,000% on last year, following closure of its Trafalgar Square site, the Gallerys new digital programme - with a tagline The Nations Gallery, in the nations homes - looks at the different ways people can look at, use and respond to art wherever they are. Through this digital initiative the Gallery will be open 24/7 with free art for everyo ... More | |
ArtLab, in software installation view of Ellen Gallaghers DeLuxe, 2004-2005 and Mark Bradfords Chicago, 2019 created in HWVR. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth © the artists. Courtesy the artists and Hauser & Wirth.
MENORCA.- Hauser & Wirth announces the gallerys first entirely VR-based exhibition under the newly launched research and innovation arm ArtLab. Opening on 30 April, the group exhibition, entitled Beside Itself, will take place in the gallery of the future Hauser & Wirth Menorca, allowing visitors a first look at the art centre ahead of its opening in 2021. Visitors will be able to experience the exhibition created in HWVR, a first in virtual reality exhibition modeling, through the gallerys website. Beside Itself takes its title from a wall piece by Lawrence Weiner and brings together text-based works from the following artists: Louise Bourgeois, Mark Bradford, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Luchita Hurtado, Mike Kelley, Glenn Ligon, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Lorna Simpson and ... More |
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| | Acclaimed Swedish author Per Olov Enquist dies aged 85 | | Bored Russians posted silly art parodies. The world has joined in. | | Ludwig Museum Budapest's Slow Life exhibition goes online |
"The Visit of the Royal Physician".
by Pia Ohlin
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Per Olov Enquist, one of Sweden's most acclaimed authors who wrote "The Visit of the Royal Physician," has died aged 85, his family told Swedish media on Sunday. The patriarch of 20th century Scandinavian literature, Enquist is known for powerful stories that weave his own melancholic life into the dark side of history. In his more than 20 novels, plays and essays, he drew heavily on his own experience as an oppressed child in a strictly religious home, as an athlete, a journalist and a destructive alcoholic, his leftwing convictions filling his writings. Born in 1934 in Hjoggbole in Sweden's far north, his books -- including "The Crystal Eye" (1961), "The Parable Book" (2013), "The Magnetist's Fifth Winter" (1964) and "The March of the Musicians" (1978) -- have been translated into a dozen languages. He won the 2001 August Prize, Swedish literature's top honour, for "The Visit of the Royal Physician", which earned him broad international acclaim and ... More | |
Sergei Tessler replicates the Discobolus of Myron of Eleutherae as he stays at home in self-isolation to prevent spread of the coronavirus in Moscow. Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times.
by Anton Troianovski
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Under lockdown, the banal melds with the sublime. A sausage becomes a rose. A tangerine, a sunflower. And when your teenage son doesnt clean his room, just this once, the chaos can evoke Wassily Kandinsky. Isolated from the physical world, people sheltering in place under coronavirus lockdowns are seeking new depths of connection online. Many have a lot of time on their hands or children to entertain. And amid the bleakness of the pandemic, some report a surge in creativity. Perhaps this helps explain why a nearly month-old Facebook group where people post their lo-fi re-creations of famous paintings now has more than 540,000 members. It was started in Moscow by a project manager at a tech company, and its predominant language is Russian, but more than one-third ... More | |
Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan: Minden természet hajtóereje, installáció, 2019 Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan: The Driving Force Of All Nature, installation, 2019.
BUDAPEST.- The idea of the exhibition Slow Life. Radical Practices of the Everyday was conceived almost two years ago and the Ludwig Museums curatorial team has been working on the preparation and implementation of the exhibition for months. At the time, curators could not have guessed that with the nearly five-month exhibition and program series scheduled for April 2020, they would be dealing with topics that would become imminently close and pressing as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic. "Slow-life" has suddenly become an everyday reality, a forced way of life in the global world. The Quarantine of consumption, the Stay Home Movement, the decline in air travel, the slowing economy are just some of the unexpected consequences of the coronavirus, which ruthlessly point to the positive effects of slower life, but also pose enormous challenges to humanity. Ludwig Museum Budapest is closed ... More |
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| | Art for the soul: Virtual exhibition showcases the Asian American artists of Chicago & the Midwest | | Casula Powerhouse innovate with virtual exhibition | | A tribute to the 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T from the film 'Vanishing Point' for sale by H&H |
Tshab Her, Nam Hab Kuv (Mom and Me) - 32.5 x 26.25
CHICAGO, IL.- Created by artist and independent curator Jenny Lam, SLAYSIAN is the long-awaited follow-up to 2016s acclaimed LEXICON, which was itself the successor to 2012s acclaimed I CAN DO THAT, which was named the audience choice for Best Art Exhibit in the 20th anniversary edition of NewCitys Best of Chicago issue. This group exhibition was originally scheduled to open on March 20, 2020, with a reception in a 5,000 sq. ft. space, free and open to the public. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the physical show has been postponed indefinitely. Most of the shows 39 participating artists were discovered via an open call, and for some of them, SLAYSIAN would have been their first exhibition ever. All of these artists work deserves to be seen far and wide. So until things get better (have hope; they will), heres a digital exhibition. In the safety of your own home, and ... More | |
Cang Xin. Consubstantiality 2009. Performance.
SYDNEY.- Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre have brought their phenomenal exhibition Pulse of the Dragon online, with the launch of an innovative new virtual tour that allows viewers to experience the exhibition from the comfort of their own homes. CPACs 3D virtual tour incorporates state of the art technology that allows art connoisseurs to walk through the exhibition one click at a time. For a fully immersive experience, audiences can engage with clickable markers throughout the gallery that provide curatorial insights and artist interviews. Pulse of the Dragon is a stunning showcase of contemporary art, featuring 10 local Chinese-Australian artists and Chinese artists coming together to traverse cultural traditions: religious witchcraft and mythology, folk arts and culture. Pulse of the Dragon is curated by internationally recognised local artist Guan Wei and China based ... More | |
A true Muscle Car was typically a four-seater Coupe that could light-up its rear tyres and slide round a corner at will.
LONDON.- This beast of a car is finished in the correct shade of Alpine White with Black vinyl upholstery as a tribute to Kowalski's rubber-burning ride in the cult 1971 film, Vanishing Point. It could be yours if you bid for it at H&H Classics Online Only sale on April 29th. For everyone who loves muscle cars and films that include a great car chase, this is one of the most memorable, featuring a Dodge Challenger R/T like the one for sale with H&H. Restored to a high standard it is powered by a massive 440ci (7.2 litre) 390HP V8 allied to 3-speed automatic transmission. Looking every inch the road racer, the Dodge sports a prominent boot lid spoiler, deep dish wheels, bonnet retaining pins and quad tunnel exhaust tips. In the film Vanishing Point, a delivery driver called Kowalski (Barry Newman) ... More |
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Gavin Gardiner sells rare Purdley rifle, built for the Prince of Wales' Indian tour of 1875/6 for £10,000
LONDON.- A rare James Purdey & Sons .360 double barrel hammer rifle, built in 1875 for the Prince of Wales Indian tour of 1875/6 sold for £10,000 in Gavin Gardiner Limiteds online/ live auction of Modern & Vintage Sporting Guns on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. It had been estimated to fetch £8,000 12,000 and was purchased by an UK Private Buyer [lot 137]. The rifle was presented to the Nizam of the Decan, the ruler of the state of Hydrabad, in South Central India, by the Prince of Wales on the tour, and is engraved on the rib H.H. The Nizam of the Decan from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, KG, GCSI 1876. It carries a gold oval engraved with the Royal crest and the Order of the Star of India. It was in its original makers case with the Nizams name on the lid. As Gavin Gardiner explained: In October 1875, Albert Edward Prince of Wales, the ... More
Collecting Covid: The Museum of London seeks to mark unprecedented pandemic for the future
LONDON.- COVID-19 is affecting the lives of the global population in unprecedented ways. London saw its first cases of the virus appear in January 2020, swiftly followed by a huge shift in our social and working lives in March; organisations began to close and restrictions were made on peoples movement across the city. The Museum of London is seeking to collect both objects and first-hand experiences to reflect Londoners lives during this time, in order to keep a record and to ensure future generations of Londoners will be able to learn about and understand this extraordinary period. As a major urban centre, London has faced several epidemics, including smallpox and the 1889 -1893 and 1918 flu pandemics. The museum holds collections relating to these outbreaks, such as the dress Queen Victoria wore to mourn the loss of her grandson ... More
Shelburne Museum launches Museum at Home, new online exhibitions designed for remote delivery
SHELBURNE, VT.- While visitors are not able to visit Shelburne Museum due to stay-at-home measures in place in the state, the museum is bringing the experience to visitors in their homes, offering online exhibitions with recorded talks from curators, behind the scenes conservation insights and activities. The first exhibition, Color, Pattern, Whimsy, & Scale is focused on Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb and her passion for American folk art. The exhibition explores her collecting ethos as she assembled one of the earliest and largest collections that would become the foundation for the museum. Typically this time of year we would be gearing up for new summer exhibitions in our galleries. While we are not able to do that at this time, our impulse to engage the community, to offer a welcome diversion and to be here for our visitors ... More
Public can demo new online music-mixing app to celebrate library's 220th birthday
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Library of Congress is celebrating its 220th birthday today with a present for music-makers and music-lovers everywhere: a chance to play with Citizen DJ, a groundbreaking project that inspires hip-hop music-making from home and opens new doors into the Librarys extensive audio collections. Citizen DJ is an open-source web-browser application created by Library of Congress 2020 Innovator in Residence Brian Foo in partnership with LC Labs. Using some of the Librarys free-to-use audio and moving image collections, Citizen DJ enables users to select short samples to create their own beats and sound mixes. By using the tool, musicians, students, researchers and curious citizens alike can discover items in the Library's vast collections that they likely would never have known exist. While the project is scheduled to officially ... More
Extremeley rare silver penny sells for £11,160 at Dix Noonan Webb
LONDON.- An extremely rare Silver penny of the boy king Edward the Martyr - the teenager who ruled Saxon Britain in the 10th century that was found on the Isle of Wight sold on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 for £11,160 in an online/ live auction at Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists in their sale of Coins. It was estimated to fetch £5,000-7,000 and it was bought by an UK Collector via a commission bid after competitive bidding from the internet. Following the sale, Nigel Mills, Antiquities Expert, Dix Noonan Webb said: The price realised for the Edward the Martyr penny exceeded our expectations and reflects the quality and rarity of the coin combined with the fact that it is a new discovery and it is first time that it has been offered for sale. It was discovered in March 2018 by a 68-year-old retired ... More
Daylight Books to publish 'Phil Bergerson: A Retrospective'
NEW YORK, NY.- Phil Bergerson: A Retrospective (Daylight, May 2020) is a survey of the illustrious 50-year career of Canadian photographer and educator Phil Bergerson (b. 1947, Toronto, Canada) which began in the 1970s with his exploration of performance art, drawing, painting and printmaking, before embracing photography exclusively. His early imagery includes an investigation of vernacular photography by manipulating found family snapshots to imbue them with new meanings, and the creation of grid-based works presenting multiple images that comment on the excesses of consumer culture. In the late 1980s while on a sabbatical from teaching at Ryerson University, Bergerson found his calling as a photographer in the American social and cultural landscape. The focus of his work ever since has been the signs, display windows, ... More
Isolate > Create > Connect: A global creative response to social isolation by children
PERTH.- Barking Gecko Theatre, Western Australias longest-running professional theatre company, in collaboration with ThinkArts in India, has created a new digital initiative Isolate > Create > Connect to highlight the similarities and differences that children are experiencing right now across the globe. This will become a lasting record of how life in isolation during COVID-19 was experienced by young people. Through a weekly video delivered by teaching artists from BGT and ThinkArts online, children aged 5 to 17 will be set a creative task inviting them to create a small artwork capturing their perspective on the world right now. Once their creation is complete, it will be uploaded digitally to the BGT website. Each week, for 10-weeks, BGT will share the full gallery of creative contributions submitted. In doing so, Isolate > Create > Connect will create ... More
The ballet world needs Robert Garland. Why isn't it calling?
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Choreographer Robert Garland knows it might sound crazy, but for him the introduction of the clock radio was everything. It transformed lives, Garland said in an interview at Dance Theater of Harlem last month. It went from buzzer to music. And for him, as a child growing up in Philadelphia, that music was Chaka Khan and Rufus, he said. There was Sly and the Family Stone. And there was Stevie Wonder. Music is everything to Garland, who is the resident choreographer at Dance Theater and director of its school, where his specialty is ballet. He was about to premiere his latest, Higher Ground, when the coronavirus pandemic forced the company to cancel performances, including a City Center season this month. For Garland, theres an eerie similarity to the tone of his new work, set to a selection of socially ... More
Bye bye tutus, hello masks: French opera houses join COVID battle
PARIS (AFP).- Normally they make tutus and elaborate costumes for some of the greatest opera and ballet stars in the world. But the costume makers from opera houses across France are now turning their considerable talents to making masks. Since the beginning of April, Christine Neumeister, the costume director of the Paris Opera, has been driving around collecting masks 30 of her couturiers have made while locked down at home. The first week they made 1,000 for the Red Cross and a Paris maternity hospital, and the following week they made a similar number for the Salvation Army. Packed into "tutu bags" marked "Opera de Paris", they have to be among the chicest personal protection accessories around -- although staff from the French couture houses Dior and Louis Vuitton have also been volunteering to turn their hands to mask making. ... More
Rothko Chapel announces 2020 Ãscar Romero Award recipients
HOUSTON, TX.- The Rothko Chapel today announced three recipients of the biannual Ãscar Romero Award, which recognizes courageous, grassroots, human rights advocacy. The 2020 award focuses on climate justice, and the Chapels honorees exemplify a commitment to climate advocacy in the face of enormous economic and political pressures. The three recipients of the 2020 Ãscar Romero Awards are Gérman Chirinos of Honduras, Bernadette Demientieff of Alaska, and Jorge DÃaz of Puerto Rico. Since its founding in 1971, the Rothko Chapel has operated at the vanguard of social justice, hosting symposia for scholars, activists and religious leaders from around the globe to engage in discussions on issues affecting human rights, and to work towards a culture of mutual understanding. Since 1986, the Chapel has granted the ORA to grassroots ... More
The Museum of Neon Art launches bright new online initiatives
GLENDALE, CA.- The Museum of Neon Art may be dark to visitors during Safer at Home, but the persistent glow of curiosity, creativity, care, and community endures. MONA has created unique education initiatives that are accessible online. These include social media studio visits, family guides, and guided walks. Many of these offerings will be expanded upon further, over the next few months, but many can be enjoyed and accessed today by visiting MONAs website. Though this crisis puts the museum in financial strain, it also enables us to think deeply about our values. We believe in supporting our community, whether it is our talented and dedicated staff, our Glendale neighbors, or our global following. A museum is only as strong as the community it supports. The Safer at Home act has provided MONA the opportunity to show that museums are not ... More
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Roy De Forest
Franz Klainsek
Niclas Riepshoff
Charles Atlas
Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter and illustrator Jan van Goyen died April 27, 1656. Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (13 January 1596 - 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known. In this image: River Scene, 1652.
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