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A fragment of purple fabric excavated from the Timna Valley, in southern Israel. AFP PHOTO.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli researchers said they had found scraps of fabric coloured with a purple dye dating from the eras of King David and King Solomon in the south of the country. "The researchers were surprised to find remnants of woven fabric, a tassel and fibres of wool dyed with royal purple," the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Bar Ilan University said. The discovery happened while they were examining coloured textiles from Timna Valley, an ancient copper production district, they said in a joint statement this week. "Direct radiocarbon dating confirms that the finds date from approximately 1000 BCE, corresponding to the biblical monarchies of David and Solomon in Jerusalem," they said. It was the first time purple-dyed Iron Age textiles had been found in Israel or the Levant, they added. The colour was associated with royalty, nobility and priests and the dye "often cost more than gold", said Naama Suke ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day P·P·O·W is presenting all that I have, Gerald Lovellâs first solo exhibition in New York City. Garnering immediate recognition for his candid approach and heavily impastoed canvases, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia.
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| Christie's France to offer 450 lots from the collection of Marion Lambert | | Exhibition brings together works created by artists working in Bilbao in the late 19th and early 20th centuries | | Compton Verney acquires seven Mark Hearld artworks for its renowned British Folk Art Collection | 
An iconic red Fiat 600 Jolly. Estimate: 30,000-40,000.
PARIS.- Christie's France will present the Black Sheep sale on May 25th and 26th. This exceptional ensemble, consisting of approximately 450 lots for an overall estimate of approximately 4 to 6 million euros - which will partly be donated to War Child charity - is an accurate representation of this great art enthusiast's keen eye. She was a prolific collector who always carefully selected the pieces that she would then stage in her interior, alongside the renowned decorator Jacques Grange. Always one step ahead of her time, Marion Lambert celebrates the art of collecting as a discipline in itself. Her fruitful collaboration with Jacques Grange, master of colors and textures, gave birth to this eclectic collection's scenography, translating Marion Lambert's sensibility into subtle compositions. The sheer diversity in this collection of high quality creations reflects Marion Lambert's fearless creativity. Superb classical ... More | | 
Adolfo Guiard, Harvest (La siega), ca. 1892. Oil on canvas, 220,7 x 158,5 cm. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. On loan from a private collection.
BILBAO.- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Bilbao and Painting, an exhibition sponsored by Iberdrola, that brings together a selection of paintings created by artists working in Bilbao in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who traveled to Paris and incorporated the ideas of modernism from French Impressionism and the Avant-gardes. At the turn of the century, Bilbao became one of the most prosperous cities in Spain, thanks to its naval, and iron and steel industries, and its commercial, banking, and cultural activity. There is, at this period, among the citizens of Bilbao a craving and an earnest wish to succeed and steadily advance towards a better future for all, a sort of empathy that unfortunately will be shattered with advent of the Civil War of 1936. The exhibition represents and conceptualizes different ... More | | 
Mark Hearld, The Compton Verney Collage © Compton Verney. Photo: Jamie Woodley.
COMPTON VERNEY.- As part of a £100,000 project to reimagine its Folk Art galleries in 2018, Compton Verneys curatorial team worked with Mark Hearld on the re-hanging of its extensive collection in which he displayed several new works, not only inspired by objects within the collection but also by the animals and rural communities surrounding the Grade 1-listed Georgian mansion and Lancelot Capability Brown-landscaped parkland. One of the objects Hearld created was a mixed media work, The Compton Verney Collage (left), which features a patchwork, made in the mid-1800s for the 98th Regiment. Mark says: I felt it would be exciting to make a large-scale work as a visual foil for the military quilt at the far end of the gallery, something that had graphic impact and scale in effect a paper collage quilt. I decided that a large-scale work made up of a series of individual pieces ... More |
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| They put the bite in trilobite | | Gerald Lovell's first solo exhibition in New York City on view at P·P·O·W | | V&A brings Raphael Cartoons to life at home, ahead of gallery reopening | 
A fossil of Olenoides serratus, one of two types of trilobite whose appendages were studied. Researchers compared some well-preserved appendages of trilobites with those of a contemporary creature the horseshoe crab to figure out how these ancient animals may have hunted and fed. Dave Rudkin via The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Hundreds of millions of years ago, trilobites filled the ancient seas. Now, their iconic fossils are plucked from shale beds to fill museum shelves and eBay stores, quintessential symbols of the teeming Cambrian Period. There is even at least one newspaper column named for them. But despite the trilobites post-extinction popularity, there is still much we dont know about their lives. Were not even quite sure about their diets: While their hardy exoskeletons fossilized easily, the creatures guts, which might reveal a last meal, are much harder to find. Luckily, well-preserved appendages have been discovered for a few species, giving scientists an opportunity to investigate. In a paper published ... More | | 
Gerald Lovell, Grace, 2021. Oil on panel, 72 x 60 ins. 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of Gerald Lovell and P·P·O·W, New York.
(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- P·P·O·W is presenting all that I have, Gerald Lovells first solo exhibition in New York City. Garnering immediate recognition for his candid approach and heavily impastoed canvases, Lovell began painting at the age of 22 after dropping out of the graphic design program at the University of West Georgia. Frustrated by the codified, academic methods ingrained in formal arts education, Lovell utilized YouTube tutorials, his background in photography, and his tightknit, Atlanta-based community of creatives to drive his burgeoning painting practice. An avid photographer, Lovells interest in vernacular photography stems from a childhood in Chicago spent looking through his grandmothers photo albums. Lovell explains My grandmother has these huge photo albums. They're so big and detailed. She is the sole keeper of these images that document my family lineage. I grew up looking ... More | | 
V&A conservator condition checks a Raphael Cartoon. Photo V&A.
LONDON.- The V&A unveiled a host of new digital content about the Raphael Cartoons for everyone to enjoy from home, ahead of the reopening of the transformed Raphael Court to the public after the latest national lockdown lifts. Available on the V&A website, the new online offering provides those based both in the UK and abroad an unprecedented level of access to the Raphael Cartoons from afar, which are lent to the V&A from the Royal Collection by Her Majesty The Queen. Through interactive features and in-depth stories, audiences will be able to learn about the extraordinary design and making of the Cartoons and their long 500-year history, exploring the monumental works of art as never before by zooming into ultra-high-resolution photography, infrared imagery, and 3D scans. This pioneering new imagery was captured in 2019 during a high-resolution recording project carried out by Factum Foundation and supported by the Royal ... More |
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| World's most expensive whisky set to break records in upcoming sale | | Kunstinstituut Melly-the new name for the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art-launches publicly | | Stephen Friedman Gallery opens an exhibition of paintings by Luis Zerbini | 
Whisky Auctioneer Founder Iain Mcclune holding The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old 75cl / US Import. Photo: Peter Dibdin.
PERTH.- The second half of one devoted whisky lovers Perfect Collection will go under the hammer next month in a sale that is set to go down in whisky history. From 12-22 February 2021, over 1,900 bottles of the rarest, most coveted and expensive single malts in existence, including many from Scotlands long lost distilleries, will feature in the sale hosted by online whisky auction specialists, Whisky Auctioneer. Leading the auction is the worlds most expensive bottle of whisky The Macallan 1926 Fine and Rare 60 Year Old. Drawn from hallowed Cask #263, containing liquid distilled nearly a century ago in the height of Americas Prohibition, this is one of no more than 14 in the world adorned with the iconic Fine and Rare label. Considered the most coveted bottle of whisky in existence and the pinnacle in rare whisky collecting, the headline bottling is expected ... More | | 
The renaming results from a multi-year, multi-faceted initiative aimed at achieving an institutional transformation.
ROTTERDAM.- In three different episodes, Melly TV opens up the learnings of the institutional name change. It asks how vulnerability is necessary for change. It investigates how the name change is connected to educational reform. And it recognizes and celebrates ongoing processes of change. With talk-shows, neighborhood guests, and commissioned artworks for the screen, Melly TV is presented in partnership with Open Rotterdam and developed with consulting partners Lilith Magazine and Brand New Guys. The new visual identity for Kunstinstituut Melly is the outcome of the institutions annual Work-Learn Project (WLP). This third edition of the WLP was developed in collaboration with the Dutch design academy, Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem) of ArtEZ University of the Arts, and Wkshps (Berlin and New York), a multidisciplinary ... More | | 
Luiz Zerbini, 'Ãfrica', 2020 (detail). Photogravure and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 70cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2in). Copyright Luiz Zerbini. Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo by Pat Kilgore.
LONDON.- Juxtaposing organic and geometric forms, Zerbinis paintings explore the relationship between colour, light and movement. Inspired by the Amazon and Mata Atlântica rainforests, the exhibition reflects the artists ongoing interest in the relationship between nature and humanity in and around Rio de Janeiro. The presentation is available to view online from Monday 25 January and will open to the public as soon as government guidance allows. Across his career, which spans over three decades, Zerbini has developed a complex visual vocabulary at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. He first emerged within the generational (and global) return to painting of the 1980s, centred in Rio de Janeiro around the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts and subsequently defined by the landmark exhibition ... More |
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| Swedish film festival offers nurse an isolated, island cinema for a week | | Annet Gelink Gallery opens an exhibition of new works on paper by Meiro Koizumi | | Exhibition reveals the critical potential of a relatively unexplored area of art by the self-taught | 
Swedish Sandra Fogel watches a movie alone among empty seats in a cinema hall during the Gothenburg Film Festival, on January 30, 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP.
MARSTRAND (AFP).- A front-line Swedish nurse is getting some Covid downtime with a week of private screenings of the Gothenburg film festival, in a former lighthouse off the country's west coast. More than 12,000 candidates from 45 countries applied to watch the festival's films in almost near isolation on an island 400 kilometres (250 miles) from Stockholm. The prize is a week viewing as many of the festival's 70 premieres as they like in a hotel in the former Pater Noster Lighthouse. But they will be in isolation and will have no access to their own computer or laptop. The bright-red lighthouse, built on a tiny island off Sweden's west coast in 1868, is surrounded by a scattering of squat, red buildings originally built to house the lighthouse keeper's family. It can only be ... More | | 
Meiro Koizumi, Fog #10, 2020. Charcoal on paper, 54.5 x 73 cm © The Artist.
AMSTERDAM.- Annet Gelink Gallery is presenting new works on paper by Meiro Koizumi, now on view online on the gallery's Viewing Room and Gallery Viewer. In the ongoing series of Fog drawings, Meiro Koizumi reproduces stills from various movies by renowned Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Ozu was sent to China to fight in the war. According to his diary, at the beginning of the war, he was making plans to make war films once he goes back to his homeland Japan. His diary was filled with ideas of scenes that depict the daily lives of soldiers in a foreign country. But at some point during the war he stopped making such notes. As a soldier, he was the unit leader for a unit that spread chemical gas against the Chinese army. He saw and experienced the worst ... More | | 
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (1910, Marinette, WI1983, Milwaukee, WI); untitled; c. 1940s; 35mm transparency; 1 3/8 x 7/8 in.; © 2019 Lewis B. Greenblatt; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. Photo courtesy of Lewis B. Greenblatt.
NEW YORK, NY.- Photo | Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie is on view at the American Folk Art Museum from January 24, 2021 through June 6, 2021. Gathering works from the early years of photography through present day, the exhibition reveals the critical potential of a relatively unexplored area of art by the self-taught. I can think of no better way to kick-off the American Folk Art Museums 60th anniversary than with PHOTO | BRUT, said Jason T. Busch, Director and CEO of the Museum. Valérie Rousseaus visionary research has led to a breath-taking, multi-media presentation that will break new ground and provide an irresistible experience for the Museums guests. The exhibition features nearly four hundred works of ... More |
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Jone Kvie in conversation with Milena Høgsberg & Jimmie Durham
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 Group show dedicated to the work of director Andrej Tarkovskij opens onlineROME.- 101 Numeri Pari is presenting Endless Nostalghia, a project curated by Treti Galaxie with works by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Monia Ben Hamouda, Michele Gabriele, Lucia Leuci, Namsal Siedlecki. The project creates a relation between a series of works by Italian artists and the locations where Andrej Tarkovskij (1932-1986) filmed Nostalghia (1983), the sixth and second to last movie by the Russian director, which was also the first realized out of the Soviet Union. The strongly autobiographical picture is filled with a constant feeling of pain and longing for the directors home country, sentiments that are underlined by the framing of the Italian landscapes, that constantly recall Tarkovskijs beloved Russian countryside. Endless Nostalghia wishes to pull together the personal sentiment of nostalgia expressed in the movie by Tarkovskij and the one universally felt ... More  Exhibition showcases work from the elegantly precise, to the remarkably poetic and expressiveSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Museum of Craft and Design begins the year with a new virtual exhibition, Imagining Data, available online. Over the years data has become a buzzword, and a precious commoditywhat we divulge through online activity is more valuable than the purchases and transactions we may be making. Our current statuspersonal, societal, political, environmentalcan be described in terms of numbers and algorithms. Even the Covid-19 pandemic has made statistics an international obsession as we follow contagion, spikes, vaccine efficacy rates, and hospital capacities. Guest curated by Ginger Duggan and Judy Fox of c2-curatorsquared, Imagining Data presents a selection of artists from around the world, who are showing what data can look like, in paintings, drawings, sculpture, audio-visual installation, ... More  Artpace's Main Space exhibition features new work by José VillalobosSAN ANTONIO, TX.- Artpace is presenting de los otros, the first exhibition of 2021 in the Main Space gallery, featuring José Villalobos's work. While Artpace is closed for appointments, the exhibition is visible from N. Main Ave. Jose Villalobos's artwork utilizes objects connected to his Norteño culture to challenge toxic masculinity and the marginalization of queer bodies. de los otros continues his practice of exploiting items related to his cultural heritage to draw attention to its issues. For this exhibition, Villalobos follows the story of a gay bracero worker, Porfirio, to reacknowledge and empower queer voices that are constantly erased from history. "Being queer and coming from a lineage of bracero workers
this history is important to who I am today," says Villalobos. "It is important to who I will be in the future, as an artist, defying erasure." Porfirio ... More  New book presents an impressive collection of portraits of models photographed by Zosia Prominska.NEW YORK, NY.- The book Future Perfect is an impressive collection of portraits of prepubescent models photographed by Zosia Prominska. Staged carefully within the intimate confines of their bedrooms and surrounded by the small details reflecting their teenage or even childish happenstance, they are styled in the latest collections of Polands best designers to resemble the models they themselves dream to become. Early contracts with professional model agencies create hope and drive expectations even before they turn of working age. However, not all will develop into the criteria set by the fashion world. What impact does this have on these individuals and potentially at what cost? Zosia Prominska approaches the subject matter for very personal reasons. The artist herself is a former model and knows too well the demands of the fashion industry ... More  Rebecca Hall explores biracial identity in personal debut 'Passing'LOS ANGELES (AFP).- British actress Rebecca Hall on Saturday described how she drew on her own biracial identity to direct her first film "Passing", as it premiered at this year's online Sundance Film Festival. Adapted from Nella Larsen's seminal novel, the movie explores "racial passing," as two childhood friends of mixed racial heritage have a chance encounter in 1920s New York while both pretending to be white. "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" star Hall is the daughter of celebrated British director Sir Peter Hall and Detroit-born opera singer Maria Ewing, whose own father was Black. "It was something in my family that was always known and not known -- that my grandfather passed for white, and probably his parents were both African-American and passed for white also," said Hall. After several "evasive" conversations within the family about race, "I started ... More  A Broadway theater owner rethinks post-pandemic ticket sellingNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As many live performance venues rethink their operations in anticipation of a post-pandemic reopening, one of Broadways major theater owners has decided to overhaul its ticketing practices. Jujamcyn Theaters, home to the musicals Hadestown, Moulin Rouge! and The Book of Mormon, said Friday that it had reached an agreement with SeatGeek, a disruptive newcomer to the marketplace, to handle of all its ticketing. It had been using Ticketmaster, the dominant platform for concerts and other live events. The agreement is SeatGeeks first on Broadway; the company, which is based in New York, works primarily in the sports industry in the United States, but also has theater clients in Londons West End. Were always scanning the landscape for what is new and what is possible, but the shutdown ... More  Sophie, who pushed the boundaries of pop music, dies at 34NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Sophie, an innovative producer and performer whose music distilled speed, noise, melody, clarity and catchiness into what would soon be called hyperpop, died on Saturday in Athens, Greece. She was 34. Her death, after an accident, was confirmed in a statement from her management company, Modern Matters, which said that Sophie, who was Scottish, had been living in Greece, and that true to her spirituality she had climbed up to watch the full moon and accidentally slipped and fell. Sophie worked simultaneously at the experimental fringes of dance music and the center of pop, recording with Madonna, Charli XCX and rapper Vince Staples. Her 2018 album, Oil of Every Pearls Un-Insides, was nominated for a Grammy Award as best dance/electronic album. Sophies first appearances onstage ... More  Paris, shuttered, must be imaginedPARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Well always have Paris. Turns out perhaps the most famous line in the movies was wrong. Paris is gone for now, its lifeblood cut off by the closure of all restaurants, its nights silenced by a 6 p.m. curfew aimed at eliminating the national pastime of the aperitif, its cafe bonhomie lost to domestic morosity. Blight has taken the City of Light. Taboos fall. People eat sandwiches in the drizzle on city benches. They yield oh, the horror! to takeout in the form of le click-and-collect. They dine earlier an abominable Americanization. They contemplate with resignation the chalk-on-blackboard offerings of long-shuttered restaurants still promising a veal blanquette or a boeuf bourguignon. These menus are fossils from the pre-pandemic world. Gone the museums, gone the tourist-filled riverboats plying the Seine, ... More  The Animals guitarist Hilton Valentine dies at 77LONDON (AFP).- Hilton Valentine, a founding member and original guitarist for the British 60s pop group The Animals, has died at the age of 77, the band's record label said. "Our deepest sympathies go out to @HiltonValentine's family and friends on his passing ... at the age of 77," the label ABKCO Music, posted on Twitter. "Valentine was a pioneering guitar player influencing the sound of rock and roll for decades to come," it added in a statement Friday. The band was best known for its 1964 hit House of the Rising Sun, which rose to the top of the charts in both Britain and the United States. Born in North Shields, northeast England, Valentine formed The Animals with singer Eric Burdon, bass player Chas Chandler, organist Alan Price and drummer John Steel in 1963. The band went on to have a number of other hits including Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood and We Gotta Get Out Of This Place. ... More  Peace in troubled Libya brings back traditional weaversLIBYA (AFP).- In front of a bundle of palm fronds, Halima Mohamad squats down to weave in an abandoned school in Tawergha, a town once a flashpoint in Libya's decade-long war. Mohamad makes baskets from date palm leaves, using traditional skills handed down over the generations and reconnecting her to a way of life nearly destroyed by the chaos of conflict. "We must preserve this heritage inherited from our ancestors," said 55-year-old Mohamad. "It's our identity." The mother of two spends an average of 16 hours a day in the room that serves as her workshop, plaiting the fronds into baskets, trays, floor mats and wall decorations. The town has suffered; when Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi was toppled in 2011 in a NATO-backed uprising, people took revenge on those seen as his supporters -- including the entire town of Tawergha. Its 40,000 ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Japanese painter and sculptor Takashi Murakami was born February 01, 1962. Takashi Murakami (born February 1, 1962) is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media (such as painting and sculpture) as well as commercial media (such as fashion, merchandise, and animation) and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. In this image: Installation view, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats its Own Leg, MCA Chicago, June 6 - September 24, 2017. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA.
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