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In a photo provided by Luigi Spina, Archaeologists working in the ruins of the former Roman city excavated a thermopolium, or snack bar, containing food that dates back to A.D. 79. Luigi Spina/Archeological Park of Pompeii via The New York Times.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Wine turned white with crushed fava beans. A soupy concoction of snails, sheep and fish. If these do not sound particularly appetizing today, they appear to have been all the rage in ancient Pompeii, as evidenced by ancient leftovers found during excavations this month at the archaeological site of the former Roman city. They were found in a thermopolium or snack bar serving street food popular in A.D. 79. Two years after it was first partly unearthed, archaeologists began to excavate the interior of the shop this October. In December, they found food and drink residue that is expected to provide fresh clues about the ancient populations culinary tastes. The work offers another insight into daily life at Pompeii and represents the first time an area of this type has been excavated in its entirety and analyzed with modern technology, Massimo Osanna, the departing director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, said Saturday. Human life in Pom ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis will hold its End-of-Year Clearance Ancient Ethnographic sale on Tue, Dec 29, 2020 11:00 AM GMT-6. The timed End-of-Year Clearance sale features discounted pricing on authentic antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, plus Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, Fossils, jewelry, more. In this image: 19th C. European Wood Chest, Figural / Religious Scenes. Estimate $2,200 - $3,300.
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| Barbara Rose, critic and historian of Modern art, dies at 84 | | Hauser and Wirth exhibits two bodies of work from different periods by Philip Guston | | Can Jeff Koons teach me to paint? | 
Rose is probably best known as the author of the textbook American Art Since 1900, which became a campus perennial in the 1970s.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Barbara Rose, the influential art historian and critic who began her career as a champion of minimalism and wrote about culture with an authority informed by her close friendships with two generations of artists in New York and abroad, died Friday in Concord, New Hampshire. She was 84. Her death, in a hospice, was confirmed by her husband, Richard Du Boff, who said that she had breast cancer for a decade. Rose is probably best known as the author of the textbook American Art Since 1900, which became a campus perennial in the 1970s. But, extending her reach beyond academia, she preferred exploring the unfolding art of the present. She was an art critic for Vogue and New York magazines and produced eight documentary films. A devotee of the ritual known as studio visits, she was always traipsing to artists lofts to look at their latest paintings and probe for helpful information. The reason I interviewed artists is because I really ... More | | 
Philip Guston, October Fall, 1952 (detail). Quill and ink on paper, 30.5 x 43.2 cm / 12 x 17 in. Photo: Timothy Doyon. © The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth.
ST. MORITZ.- The visionary art of the American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) spans half a century and continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary culture today. Recognized as a pioneer of abstract expressionism before his return to figuration in the late 1960s, for Guston painting was an encounter between thought and feeling, image and idea. Within this exhibition, Hauser & Wirth presents two bodies of work from different periods, abstract (1952-64) and figurative (1968-1977), that together show the depth and complexity of his personal iconography. Available to view in person and online, the significant collection of 14 drawings and paintings reveals Gustons complete commitment to direct experience, moving between a pictorial language relating to his studio and painting tools, to contemplative motifs of his wife, the poet Musa McKim, and their shared lives together. These deeply personal works transcend ... More | | 
In this file photo Jeff Koons attends the S.I. Newhouse memorial at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, Nov. 27, 2017. Nina Westervelt/The New York Times.
by Andrew Russeth
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The history of vanguard artists teaching as a job, as art, or as some combination of the two is rich and varied. Joseph Beuys conceived of lectures as performances, explaining artworks to a dead hare in a famous 1965 piece. Faith Ringgold has worked with students from pre-K through college and composed remarkable childrens books. Ian Wilson, who died in April, spent years leading discussions of his ideas in a Socratic style. Now Jeff Koons has entered the classroom at age 65, signing on as an instructor for MasterClass, the video platform through which celebrities like RuPaul, Natalie Portman and Usher have shared their expertise. The schools tuition for unlimited access is $180, billed yearly. I signed up immediately (Im a fan), curious to see how Koons might adapt his grand vision for artists with more modest ambitions. I had struggled through one drawing class in ... More |
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| Nara Roesler now represents Maria Klabin | | Exhibition at Vito Schnabel Gallery features six new plate paintings by Julian Schnabel | | Explore Indian identity through multiple lenses in Peabody Essex Museum's new South Asian Art Galleries | 
Maria Klabin, untitled, 2019 (detail). Oil paint on canvas, 270 x 325 cm | 106.3 x 128 in
NEW YORK, NY.- Nara Roesler announced the representation of Maria Klabin (Rio de Janeiro, 1978). A painter at her core, Klabin's work aligns with the rich Brazilian contemporary painting scene, through an ambitious approach to large scale canvases, printmaking and drawing. Her repertoire is figurative and engages with scenes and occurrences -often stressing their landscape dimension- that permeate everyday life, being seen and experienced exhaustively. The artists process lays in constantly producing and assembling drawings, photographs, and annotations, which she draws from her immediate entourage. The accumulation of thoughts and images entwine and come to make sense as a whole, unveiling intriguing relations that form the backbone of the artist's pictorial endeavor. In her own words, Klabin develops works as if writing a story, or a diary, but a diary of things that dont really happen. Its a narrative that could only ... More | | 
Julian Schnabel, Trees of Home (for Peter Beard) 6, 2020. Oil, plates, bondo on wood, 72 x 60 x 12 inches (182.9 x 152.4 x 30.5 cm). Courtesy the artist and Vito Schnabel Gallery.
ST. MORITZ.- Julian Schnabel: Trees of Home (For Peter Beard), featuring six new plate paintings, is on view at Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz from December 19, 2020 through April 4, 2021. The artists subject is always what to paint and how to paint, in this case the distinctive allée of trees in Saint-Rémy de Provence, made famous by the many paintings and drawings of Vincent van Gogh, who spent a year in that small towns asylum, provide an opportunity. With the Trees of Home (For Peter Beard), Schnabel celebrates the notion of an enriching dialogue with a subject, a technique, a relationship that endures and evolves over time. He has dedicated the exhibition to the memory of his lifelong friend, the late American artist and photographer Peter Beard. The first time I met Peter was about 45 years ago, ... More | | 
Hanuman revealing Rama and Sita in his Heart, mid-19th to early 20th-century. © 2020 Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/PEM.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum opened three new galleries that provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of India and its people through more than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs and personal correspondence. The installations trace the history of India from its colonial period through its independence in 1947 and the rise of a vibrant movement in modern Indian art. These new South Asian Art galleries are part of PEMs ongoing initiative to reinstall its vast and storied collection in new and surprising ways. In an attempt to simplify and explain a diverse, complex and heavily-populated nation under British colonial rule, Indian art made for export in the 18th and 19th centuries often created and perpetuated cultural stereotypes. The subjects and themes of these works, which include colorful representations of Hindu ... More |
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| Ninth edition of The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair goes online | | 'Take beautiful pictures of our people' | | Asia Week New York partners with Tibetan Luxury Hotel Group | 
William & Mary veneered burr and figured walnut bookcase, English, 96 in high x 39 in wide x 23 in deep, circa 1695, £38,500 from William Cook.
LONDON.- As with many events planned for early in 2021, the ninth edition of The Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair that usually takes place annually, at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square in London, will be in a new guise and can be found online at www.mayfairfair.com and on social media (Facebook @AntiquesDealersFairLtd, Twitter & Instagram @ADFLfairs). Still supported by influential market leader for Mayfair property, Wetherell, The Virtual Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair is keeping in line with the usual physical event and exhibitors. The fair opens on Thursday 7 until Sunday 10 January 2021 with some 43 stands comprising an impressive and diverse mix of art and antique dealers, mainly members of The British Antique Dealers Association or LAPADA The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. Organiser ... More | | 
James "Jimmie" Mannas, No Way Out, Harlem, NYC, 1964. Gelatin silver print, mount: 15 1/16 à 11 in. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment, 2019.201. © Jimmie Mannas.
by Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Shawn Walker was up on 125th Street in Harlem with Louis Draper and Ray Francis, hanging out and taking pictures. It was the summer of 1964, and the friends, in their 20s, were members of a fledgling photography collective called the Kamoinge Workshop. Thats when celebrated photographer Roy DeCarava walked up. The workshops mentor at the time, DeCarava was on assignment that day for Newsweek. Harlem had just experienced riots, after the killing of an unarmed Black man by an off-duty cop. Newsweeks editors needed an image to suit the angle of their cover story Harlem: Hatred in the Streets. DeCarava ... More | | 
Songtsam Retreat Lijiang.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Asia Week New York Association announced that Songtsam Hotels, Resorts & Tours, the award-winning luxury boutique hotel and travel group, is Presenting Sponsor for a second year. Located in the Chinese provinces of Tibet and Yunnan, the twelve properties consist of four Linka resort hotels and eight lodges. We are delighted that Songtsam is continuing their partnership with Asia Week New York in 2021, which opens March 11th through the 20th, says chairman Katherine Martin. Their commitment to Tibetan beauty and exploration synergizes with our esteemed group of specialists in this very significant field. Says Florence Li, Director of International Sales and Marketing, We are very happy to return as Presenting Sponsor of Asia Week New York. We strive to preserve and share the cultures and spirituality of the Tibetan plateau, and our association with Asia Week New York underscores ... More |
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| John Fletcher, aka Ecstasy of the group Whodini, dies at 56 | | Artist's first solo museum exhibition includes human-scale installations and multimedia sculptures | | Vienna's Secession opens an exhibition of thirteen new drawings by Till Megerle | 
He was, the executive who signed Whodini said, truly one of the first rap stars and a sex symbol when they were very scarce in the early days of rap.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Fletcher, who as Ecstasy of the foundational hip-hop group Whodini was the engine for some of the genres first pop successes, wearing a flamboyant Zorro-esque hat all the while, died Wednesday. He was 56. Jonnelle Fletcher, his daughter, confirmed the death in a statement but did not specify the cause or say where he died. In the mid-1980s, Whodini made up initially of Fletcher and Jalil Hutchins, who were later joined by the DJ Grandmaster Dee (born Drew Carter) released a string of essential hits, including Friends, Freaks Come Out at Night and One Love. Whodini presented as street-savvy sophisticates with a pop ear, and Fletcher was the groups outsize character and most vivid rapper. I cant sing, he told The Los Angeles Times in 1987. But I heard somebody rap one day and I said to myself, I can do that. I rap in pitch. I try to be unique. I have ... More | | 
Part of the Jefrë: Points of Connection Exhibit. © 2019 studio JEFRE LLC.
ORLANDO, FLA.- JEFRÃ: Points of Connection, the first solo exhibition of Florida-based artist JEFRÃ whose large-scale work has transformed public spaces in the U.S. and abroad, is on view at the Orlando Museum of Art. Through January 3rd, 2021, the exhibition presents 40 works across the variety of mediums including sculpture, video, and site-specific installation. The exhibition is presented by AdventHealth and Dr. Phillips Charities. Additional support comes from The Mall at Millenia and Monster XP. Designed to be a touchless, interactive exhibition, Points of Connection introduces JEFRÃ's past projects alongside a series of works exemplifying his current studio practice. Across six galleries, visitors are guided by the stanzas of the artists poem "Heart to Heart" as they interact with immersive installations exploring his identity as a second-generation immigrant, history with heart disease, and creative work as a city place maker. The exhi ... More | | 
Till Megerle, Untitled, 2019. Photo: N.V.
VIENNA.- In his exhibition To be kind, Till Megerle presents thirteen new drawings from the past three years. The works show scenes involving oddly convoluted and deformed bodies as well as portraits of young people posing before landscapes on the urban periphery that are steeped in an atmosphere of vague alienation and taciturnity. The pictures insistently point up the protean, alien, and psychedelic facets of the quotidian. The familiar is distorted so as to become unreal, uncovering what was repressed or thought to have been overcome and revealing a latent violence that Aziza Harmel addresses in the publication accompanying the exhibition: This back and forth between the mundane and the monstrous never manifests in Tills work for the sake of balance, but rather it is a pursuit of intensity and an acknowledgment of the immanence of violence. Violence here is a double bind that indicates a relationship between the means of living in the current system of governance and the omnipres ... More |
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 Barry Lopez, lyrical writer who was likened to Thoreau, dies at 75NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Barry Lopez, a lyrical writer who steeped himself in Arctic wildernesses, the habitats of wolves and exotic landscapes around the world for award-winning books that explored the kinship of nature and human culture, died Friday while at his home in Eugene, Oregon. He was 75. His wife, Debra Gwartney, confirmed his death and said Lopez had had prostate cancer. She said the family had been living in a temporary home in Eugene since September after their longtime riverfront home in McKenzie, Oregon, was consumed by a wildfire. In a half-century of travel to 80 countries that generated nearly a score of nonfiction and fiction works, including volumes of essays and short stories, Lopez embraced landscapes and literature with humanitarian, environmental and spiritual sensibilities that some critics likened ... More  Tel Aviv Museum of Art opens 94-year-old artist's first museum exhibitionTEL AVIV.- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art opened a solo and a first museum exhibition for Melech Berger, a 94-year-old artist who worked for decades outside the central circles of the art world. The museum turns its gaze to the creative body of work by an idealistic artist, who believes in lofty social values, such as peace, brotherhood and equality between races, peoples and species. The choice to display art created outside the mainstream and the existing artistic order, is one possible response to the upheaval we are experiencing in the present period. Museums face fundamental question at this time as well as a demand for redefinition. Faced with a changing world order and a demand from the art world to respond to the current reality, Melech Berger's work offers an unexpected example of art mobilized for ideas. Of art that takes it upon ... More  Chinese artist Zhang Jian's first solo exhibition in Hong Kong opens at Gallery EXITHONG KONG.- Gallery EXIT is presenting Searching, the first solo exhibition of Chinese artist ZHANG Jian in Hong Kong.The exhibition opened on 9 December2020 and remains on view through 30 January 2021. ZHANGs art practice is informed by both impressionism and abstract expressionism. His paintings capture the light and atmosphere of outdoor sceneries using energetic brushstrokes with brilliant colours. Having grown up in the countryside, he has fond memories of nature and has been greatly inspired by it. Currently residing in the city of Beijing, he is still able to connect to nature and enjoy the greenery in urban areas by spending time at the seaside, city parks and outdoor recreational sites. Since the early 2000s, ZHANG has been using photographic images as visual references for his works. The artist employs smooth, broad ... More  Fanny Waterman, doyenne of the Leeds Piano Competition, dies at 100NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Fanny Waterman, the British pianist and teacher who co-founded the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition and oversaw it as chair and artistic director for more than five decades, died Dec. 20 at a care home in Ilkley, Yorkshire. She was 100. Her death was announced by the Leeds competition. The idea of presenting an international music competition in 1960s Leeds, a gritty industrial city in northern England, seemed risky. But Waterman, a Leeds native who learned perseverance from her poor Russian immigrant father, believed in the vitality of her hometown and was certain she could draw support for the venture. I dreamt it up one night, and I was so excited that I woke up my husband, she said in a 2010 interview with The Jewish Chronicle. He was born in London, Waterman ... More  Director MCA and Director 22nd Biennale of Sydney NIRIN listed in ArtReview's contemporary art Power 100 SYDNEY.- MCA Director Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, and artist and Artistic Director of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney NIRIN Brook Andrew, have been named in the international art publication ArtReviews Power 100 list for 2020, an annual ranking of the most influential figures in the world of contemporary art. The 19th edition of ArtReviews Power 100 list was compiled by a panel of 20 artists, curators and critics from around the world, ranking individuals and organisations that have had major influence on art over the past 12 months. Elizabeth Ann Macgregor - the only Australian museum director listed - joins other directors including Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem; Glenn D. Lowry Director of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); Maria Balshaw and Frances Morris Directors of Tate and Tate Modern, Brook ... More  Rubell Museum celebrates first anniversary with new exhibitionsMIAMI, FLA.- On the first anniversary of the opening of its new home in Allapattah, the Rubell Museum has unveiled four new exhibitions that showcase the breadth of its extensive holdings in contemporary art. With over 7,200 works across media, the collection features unprecedented range, tracing key artists, moments, and movements in vital art centers over the past 50 years. The exhibitions include solo presentations of work by Genesis Tramaine , the Rubell Museums Artist-in-Residence; Hernan Bas; and Yayoi Kusama; and a selection of highlights from the collection with defining and seminal works by artists the Rubells championed early in their careers. Originally launched in 1993 as the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Art Foundation, the museum was renamed to underscore the Rubells dedication to serving ... More  The Winter Show announces exhibitors for 2021 online editionNEW YORK, NY.- The Winter Show announced the participating exhibitors for its inaugural 2021 online edition, taking place January 2231, 2021, with VIP Preview Access on January 1921, 2021. The Winter Shows new virtual platform will feature some 60 exhibitors, bringing together a dynamic group of leading international dealers that represent a diverse and global mix of fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present day. The Show is New Yorks longest-running art, antiques, and design fair, established in 1954 by East Side House Settlement to benefit the community-based organizations critical mission serving the Bronx and Northern Manhattan. All net proceeds from The Winter Shows VIP Preview Access, general admissions, and any additional donations directly benefit East Side House and contribute substantially to the ... More  Aworanka: The fastest, easiest and safest way of acquiring African artLAGOS.- The first African Art Gallery Aggregator has been launched in Nigeria to facilitate the acquisition of African art. The online marketplace was born with ten different galleries representing up to two hundred and fifty artists. Over the past few years, African art has become highly popular and has reached new records in prices. Unfortunately the prices seen at European and American auctions are far from what the galleries or artists receive for their work says Ana Acha, founder of Aworanka. Our main objective is to create a transparent process for both the art collectors and the galleries. Aworankas buying process is intuitive and simple and it includes a number of security and transparency measures that make this marketplace the best platform to acquire African art. First of all, the website has only partnered with officially registered galleries ... More  Gallery 1957 opens a group show of contemporary art curated by Danny DunsonACCRA.- Gallery 1957 opened Collective Reflections: Contemporary African and Diasporic Expressions of a New Vanguard, a celebratory group exhibition responding to a year of unprecedented challenges. Curated by Danny Dunson, founder of Legacy Brothers Lab - a global arts incubator residency dedicated to the development of emerging contemporary artists - the exhibition runs across both the Gallery I and II spaces from 16 December 2020 to 17 January 2021. Presenting over 60 works from 10 international artists, the show encompasses painting, mixed media on canvas, works on paper, collage, three dimensional sculpture and textiles. Responding to a year of individual and collective critical evaluations of universal humanity, particularly with regards to race, the artists on show - each from disparate backgrounds - reflect ... More  Holy Cross' Cantor Art Gallery exhibits the 'New Gilded Age' by Boston artist B. LynchWORCESTER, MASS.- The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, is presenting the work of Boston-based artist B. Lynch in the exhibition New Gilded Age from Tues., Oct. 13 through Fri., Feb. 5. A dedicated exhibition website can be viewed here. Lynch, a former studio art faculty member and director of the Trustman Gallery at Simmons University, studied Japanese and East Asian culture and Japanese Theatre and Performance at the University of Kansas and in Japan as an undergraduate and graduate student, then later painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and holds an MFA from Lesley University School of Art and Design. Lynchs interest in theatrical presentation is a catalyst for her multidimensional and immersive world of characters, complete with props, scenes and story ... More  I think Beethoven encoded his deafness in his musicNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- From the time I was a little girl, I have been fascinated with how deafness affected Beethoven. If you look at his piano sonatas, in that first one in F minor, the hands are very close together, and the physical choreographies of the left and right hands are not that dissimilar. As he gets older, the activity of the hands become more dissimilar in his piano work and farther apart. The progression over the course of the sonatas a musical document of his hearing loss in transition is not perfectly linear by any stretch of the imagination, but its undeniable. By the time of the Waldstein Sonata, not only are the hands far apart, but they are doing very different things: that left hand pounding in thick chords against the right hands spare little descending line, for instance. Well, I recall from my therapy classes ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss/French painter Félix Vallotton was born December 28, 1865. Félix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut. In this image: Félix Vallotton, La Néva, brume légère, 1913. Photo: Sotheby's.
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