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A preparatory study by the 16th-century Italian artist Giulio Romano in the Louvre Conservation Center, in Lievin, France, Feb. 9, 2021. The museum hopes the facility will become one of Europes largest art research centers. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times.
by Elaine Sciolino
LIÃVIN (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It is the most ambitious move in the history of the Louvre a five-year project to transfer a quarter of a million artworks to an ultramodern storage site 120 miles away in northern France. For more than 16 months, a stream of trucks has quietly hauled treasures from the museums central Paris basement, and other sites, to the Louvre Conservation Center, a fortress of culture set up in the town of Liévin, near Lens. Already 100,000 works have been moved including paintings, carpets, tapestries, grand sculptures, small figurines, furniture and decorative pieces dating from antiquity to the 19th century. With museums in France closed because of the pandemic, Jean-Luc Martinez, the director of the Louvre, has time on his hands. On Tuesday, he took a small group of reporters on a tour of the newly operational site, which is intended to become one of Europes largest art research centers and to welcome museum experts, scholars and conservators from around the w ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Julien's Auctions will present Property from the Gretsch Family Archives Benefiting the Gretsch Foundation, a two-day tribute to one of the most celebrated names in music instrument history to take place on Friday, March 26th and Saturday, March 27th live in Beverly Hills and live online at juliensauctions.com.
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| Egypt unearths 'world's oldest' mass-production brewery | | Exhibition at the Heard Museum explores one of the great American artists of the 20th century | | Indianapolis Museum of Art apologizes for insensitive job posting | 
The brewery likely dates back to the era of King Narmer. Photo: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
CAIRO (AFP).- A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday. The site containing several "units" consisting of about 40 earthenware pots arranged in two rows was uncovered at North Abydos, Sohag, by a joint Egyptian-American team, the ministry said in a statement on its Facebook page. The brewery likely dates back to the era of King Narmer, it quoted the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziry, as saying, adding it believed the find to "be the oldest high-production brewery in the world." Narmer, who ruled more than 5,000 years ago, founded the First Dynasty and unified Upper and Lower Egypt. British archaeologists first discovered the existence of the brewery at the beginning of the 20th century but its location was never precisely determined, the statement said. The joint Egyptian-American team "was able to re-locate and un ... More | | 
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight presents fresh scholarship and appreciation for this Modernist masters inspiration from American Indian culture and the Oklahoma Plains.
PHOENIX, AZ.- The Heard Museum is presenting a new original exhibition, Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight. Leon Polk Smith, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, has been studied and celebrated through major exhibitions, publications and scholarship over many years and yet, a significant source of inspiration and influence on his artistic production remains largely unexplored. Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight takes visitors on the journey of how a young Smith, influenced by American Indian culture in his native Oklahoma, became one of Americas most accomplished painters and a founding icon of midcentury modern art and design. Leon Polk Smith was a renowned Modernist painter and one of the founders of the Hard-edge Painting Movement, an art form of the late 1950s and 60s that emphasized geometric forms in bright colors. The exhibition will illustrate how Smiths paintings ... More | | 
The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has edited and apologized for an employment listing that said it was seeking a director who would not only work to attract a more diverse audience, but also maintain its traditional, core, white art audience. Lyndon French/The New York Times.
by Sarah Bahr
INDIANAPOLIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has edited and apologized for an employment listing that said it was seeking a director who would work not only to attract a more diverse audience but also to maintain its traditional, core, white art audience. The museums director and CEO, Charles Venable, said in an interview Saturday that the decision to use white was intentional and explained that it had been intended to indicate that the museum would not abandon its existing audience as part of its efforts toward greater diversity, equity and inclusion. I deeply regret that the choice of language clearly has not worked out to mirror our overall intention of building our core art audience by welcoming more ... More |
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| First artworks from Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld's promised gift now on view at the New-York Historical Society | | Paul Manship exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum examines the artist's conversation with antiquity | | Toulouse-Lautrec's vivid world comes alive at the Polk Museum of Art | 
George Luks (1867-1933), Foggy Night, New York, ca. 19001930. Oil on canvas; 30 1/4 x 25 in. New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection, Scenes of New York City, 2020.35.3.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society announced that the first artworks from philanthropists and art collectors Elie and Sarah Hirschfelds extraordinary promised gift have joined the Museums collection and are now on view.. Depicting New York locations still recognizable today, the works include The Boat Harbor (Gowanus Pier), ca. 1888, by William Merritt Chase; Early Spring, Washington Square, ca. 1910, by William James Glackens; Foggy Night, New York by George Luks, ca. 19001930; and Dredging in the East River, ca. 1879, by John Henry Twachtman. The full Hirschfeld collection is slated to be displayed at New-York Historical in fall 2021 in an exhibition featuring a whos who of 19th- to 21st-century artists, including Isabel Bishop, Christo, Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Keith Haring, Edward Hopper, Jacob ... More | | 
Paul Manship, Prometheus, c. 1933. Bronze with gilding. Minnesota Museum of American Art, Bequest of Paul H. Manship. © Estate of Paul Manship.
HARTFORD, CONN.- One of the most celebrated American sculptors of the early-twentieth century, Paul Manship (1885-1966) blended ancient motifs to fit modern sensibilities. After studying at the American Academy in Rome (1909-12), Manship returned to New York City, where his dramatic, energetic works in bronze reinterpreted forms, stories, and styles of the past for the modern American age. His streamlined, Art Deco style, and ability to represent his subjects at peak moments of drama attracted critical acclaim, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s. Seen together in this exhibition, his signature bronzes and associated sketches paired with ancient artifacts illuminate how Manship became a master of sampling imagery and melding disparate visual elements from multiple cultural traditions. "Today we call this a mash-up," says Erin Monroe, Robert ... More | | 
'Divan Japonais' (WP11), Color Lithograph, 1893. 38x24 inches, Courtesy of PAN Art Connections Inc.
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art announced its newest and largest ever exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec and the Belle Ãpoque. Featuring more than 225 works, the exhibition offers visitors remarkable insider access to the world of Post-Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the greatest masters in the history of art. This large-scale exhibition, which occupies all three of the Museums main gallery spaces, aims to transport audiences back to France and into the so-called Belle Ãpoque, or Beautiful Age, of late 19th century Paris. With its hundreds of works displayed throughout the Museum, this extraordinary exhibition immerses visitors fully in the avant-garde culture of 1890s France through Toulouse-Lautrecs illustrations of the period. Proclaimed as one of the greatest modern masters, Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) created an incredible array of works over the course ... More |
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| Art Projects International exhibits works created over the last ten years by Il Lee | | Galeria Jaqueline Martins opens an exhibition of works by Adriano Amaral & Victor Gerhard | | Gallery Wendi Norris announces publication of Alice Rahon's first monograph | 
Installation view of Il Lee, WBL-2001, 2020. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 46 x 36 inches (106.7 x 91.4 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Art Projects International, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Art Projects International is presenting Il Lee: Paintings. The exhibition presents paintings selected from an important body of work Lee has been developing over the last ten years, most on view for the first time. These acrylic and oil on canvas paintings feature his approach of incising a top layer of paint with line to reveal a bottom layer of ground. Lees signature lines travel the canvas edge to edge and are concentrated at intervals to create fields of edgeless forms that are intrinsically complex in their creation, variety, and interconnection. Importantly, these paintings have a parallel history with Lees well known ballpoint pen work and share the distinction of tracing their lineage to Lees early mature style of the 1980s. Many know the accomplishment of Lees celebrated ballpoint pen works on paper and on ... More | | 
Adriano Amaral Untitled 2018. Photo courtesy: Galeria Jaqueline Martins.
BRUSSELS.- Galeria Jaqueline Martins, in its second exhibition at their new Brussels space, presents a new project where two distinct Brazilian artists (Adriano Amaral and Victor Gerhard), although from different generations, can be related by their mutual alchemy of materials and experimental processes whose outcomes are neverknown beforehand. The exhibition opened on February 13 and will be on view at Rue aux Laines, 14 (Brussels) until April 3rd, 2021. The essay especially commissioned for the show was written by Brazilian (London based) curator and art-critic Kiki Mazzucchelli. In an episode of the show Voices, aired in 1983 on Britains Channel 4, John Berger and Susan Sontag, sitting opposite each other at a small table, spend the best part of an hour discussing the nature of literary narrative. As the conversation unfolds, it becomes clearer and clearer that they are on opposite sides in more ways ... More | | 
Alice Rahon, 2021 / ISBN: 978-0-9795141-5-9. Ships March 31, 2021. Photo: Courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Gallery Wendi Norris announced their publication of Alice Rahon, the first monograph on the French-Mexican painter-poet. This 128-page book is illustrated with highlights of her artwork from 1939 through the 1970s, forming a tangible, albeit limited, representation of her oeuvre. Alice Rahon includes an introduction by Wendi Norris as well as new research explored in three ground-breaking essays. The worlds foremost expert on Rahons life and work, Tere Arcq, proffers ten, formative touchstones to greater understand Rahons creative output in Alice Rahon: Tracing the Marvelous. Her essay has been updated and translated from Spanish in its entirety from its original publication in 2009, on the occasion of Rahons solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico. Renowned Mexico City-based scholar and curator Daniel Garza ... More |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts features a selection of contemporary works in special installation, Experience & Expression | | Solo exhibition of new works by Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery | | Tiny blobs of brain cells could reveal how your mind differs from a Neanderthal's | 
Ebony G. Patterson (Jamaican, born 1981).
bearing witness
, 2017. Archival dyes on jacquard, with embroidery, hand-knotted threads; 52 Ã 69 in. (132.1 Ã 175.3 cm). Museum purchase, Bequest of W. Hawkins Ferry by exchange, 2018.7.
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts presents a selection of contemporary works in the permanent collection installation Experience & Expression, on view Saturday, January 30 through Sunday, October 3, 2021. Free with museum admission, the works on view draw from the museums permanent collection of contemporary art, whose galleries are currently being utilized for the exhibition Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020. This installation includes approximately 25 works, including recently acquired objects that have never, or rarely been seen by the public, by artists such as McArthur Binion, Rashid Johnson, Elias Sime, and Avery Singer. Other artists in the installation include Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Jennifer Bartlett, Hernan Bas, Nicholas Hlobo, Allie McGhee, Yoko ... More | | 
Lines, 2019, 5177-19 natural earth pigments on hollow log, 250 x 20 x 20 cm.
SYDNEY.- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery welcomes the new year with a highly anticipated solo exhibition of new works by Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu. This is the artist's first exhibition following her popularly and critically acclaimed solo show in 2020, the moment eternal at Darwin's Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT). Featuring more than 60 of Yunupiŋu's works, this major presentation is the first time MAGNT has held a solo exhibition for an Aboriginal Australian artist. Acclaimed for her extraordinary gift of mark making and storytelling, Yunupiŋu is one of the most celebrated and influential Aboriginal Australian artists. Her art practice remains independent of bark painting traditions that she inherited from the Yirrkala region/Yolgnu people of Arnhem Land where she lives. Her figurative and abstract works unleash a unique set of personal narrative paintings revolving around her own experiences. Nyapanyapa Yu ... More | | 
A cross section of a human brain organoid showing the formation of the cortical plate, the embryonic precursor of the cerebral cortex. Muotri Lab/UC San Diego via The New York Times.
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that look and act something like a brain. These so-called brain organoids have been used to study how brains develop into layers, how they begin to spontaneously make electrical waves and even how that development might change in zero gravity. Now researchers are using these pea-size clusters to explore our evolutionary past. In a study published Thursday, a team of scientists described how a gene likely carried by Neanderthals and our other ancient cousins triggered striking changes in the anatomy and function of brain organoids. As dramatic as the changes are, the scientists say its too soon to know what these changes mean ... More |
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 Rio feeling 'saudades' for Covid-canceled carnivalRIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Rio de Janeiro would normally be kicking off its famed carnival now, but instead of booming drumlines, glittering floats and barely clad dancers, the Brazilian city's "Sambadrome" is hosting a Covid-19 vaccination drive this year. The pandemic forced Rio authorities to cancel carnival for the first time in 109 years, leaving the iconic beach city full of "saudades" -- a Portuguese word that roughly translates as "longing" -- for its biggest party of the year. "For everyone who loves dancing and playing samba, for the entire Afro-Brazilian population, this is a very difficult time," said Nilcemar Nogueira, founder of Rio's Samba Museum, an homage to the percussion-driven musical style at the heart of carnival. "Instead of a party, we're mourning our dead," she told AFP at the museum, where rather than partying a small group of musicians ... More  S.M.A.K. opens 'Timelapse', a solo exhibition by Oliver LaricGHENT.- From 13 February until 30 May, S.M.A.K. presents Timelapse, a solo exhibition by the Austrian artist Oliver Laric. In his practice, Oliver Laric questions the authenticity of images. His focus lies less on the classical distinction between the original and the copy and more on the endless possibilities of repetition, change and dissemination that are offered by art history and the contemporary digitised world. Starting from the idea that the authentic is not bound to one form, that images have been reused since time immemorial, and that remixes and bootlegs have their own level of realism, he makes spatial and digital work that, in the latter case, is sometimes made freely accessible to the public. Oliver Larics recent sculptures are based on scans of existing statues and involve a sophisticated 3D modelling and printing process. With ... More  Branch Arts presents Kate Daudy's Miracles, an online journey of reflections from lockdownCHARLBURY.- Kate Daudy has been busy through lockdown reflecting on the everyday sublime. I KNEW YOU WOULD COME BACK TO ME presents phenomenon that have touched Daudy in a collection of multi-media artworks shown as a slowly observed online exhibition and offered for sale through Branch Arts. Launched on 12 February to mark 2021s Chinese New Year, the individual contemplations take us on a journey through Daudys experience of Covid19 in 2020. From a reflection on a strangers gift of apples to the deeper question of identity as represented by our unique fingerprint, Daudy uses her gift with written word to underline her understanding that human existence amounts amongst other things to the sum of what our thoughts make it. The artworks include a multitude of media, including sculpture, drawing, collage, ... More  New Aldwych disused station tour and London Transport Museum's After Dark events go virtual LONDON.- London Transport Museum is taking its Museum After Dark events online for people to soak up some culture and help beat the lockdown boredom. Three free events will take place on selected Thursdays throughout February and March at 19:30 to bring audiences a mix of transport trivia quizzes and opportunities to get crafty and creative at home. The series will kick off on 11 February with an All the Stations Special hosted by the railway exploring extraordinaire duo Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe. Test your transport trivia knowledge and theirs in this special London Transport Museum themed edition of their All the Stations quiz. This is a free event and will be streamed on the All The Stations YouTube channel. On 25 February, Sarah Hyndman, author of Why Fonts Matter and founder of Type Tasting will host a special London Transport ... More  Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art announces digital publication 'The Strangeness of Beauty'LONDON.- Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is presenting The Strangeness of Beauty, an online project examining the notion of aesthetics in contemporary art. Curated by Ziba Ardalan, Founder, Artistic and Executive Director of Parasol unit, the project takes place on our website and each week we present a new issue of contributions from invited artists, writers, curators and art professionals responding to questions surrounding the phenomena of beauty and strangeness within contemporary art practice. It is probably true to say that from the onset of their creative work, artists confront the concept of beauty and aesthetics, even though they may go against it later in their career. According to the philosopher Denis Dutton, beauty is far more than a passing thought or feeling, rather our response to it arises from deep within our mind from ... More  Honor Fraser Gallery opens 'Men to Match My Mountains', an exhibition of new works by Rosson CrowASPEN, CO.- Over a century since the declared closure of the frontier, the idea of the West as a symbol of freedom has persistently loomed large in the American psyche. In this surreal and hallucinogenic series of paintings, Rosson Crow harnesses her signature maximalist approach to confront the selective nostalgia of American history. Challenging the fetishization of the mythic American cowboy, these large-scale and immersive canvases present the Western landscape through a fun house mirror of projected mythologies, dreams, and anxieties. For the 19th century American, the newly acquired Western territories composed a seemingly endless expanse, one which held the fantasy of a fresh start in the wilderness. The collision of self-governance with a wealth of natural resources ushered delusions of a great new civilization, one built ... More  Michelle Poonawalla exhibits a new series of works on paper titled Love at 079 Stories in AhmedabadAHMEDABAD.- Michelle Poonwalla is showing a new series of drawings at 079 Stories gallery in Ahmedabad as part of KAGAZ, a group exhibition of works on paper which runs until the 26 February. Poonawlla is showcasing five portraits taken in her home city of Pune. The drawings celebrate friendship and companionship and show the importance of having someone there for you in these most challenging of times that many of us around the world are currently facing. For Poonawalla, drawings and works on paper represent a very personal and emotive medium, allowing her to delicately portray the emotion of the subjects. As with Poonawallas larger body of work the drawings are intended to create a moment of reflection for the viewer and ask them to think about their surroundings and the wider world. Talking about the exhibition Poonawalla notes ... More  Houston Center for Contemporary Craft opens an exhibition of sculptures by Anna MayerHOUSTON, TX.- This spring, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Forms of Inheritance: The Work of Anna Mayer, an exhibition of ceramic and bronze sculptures that explores humanitys reckoning with mortality and demonstrates the fragility and fierceness of the natural world. Anna Mayers social and sculptural practice explores the impact of humanity throughout geologic time, with a focus on the temporal relationship between humans and the land beyond an individuals life span. Her work in the exhibition reflects deeply upon the realities of death and decay. Drawing upon a language of mourning and burial practices, she uses materials like raw clay and porcelain dinnerware to communicate a narrative of what remains when people die and what is left for others to inherit. By grinding pieces of dinnerware she inherited and mixing the bits ... More  Canadian Centre for Architecture reopens with three new exhibitionsMONTREAL.- The Canadian Centre for Architecture announced the reopening of their galleries and bookstore to the public, as of Wednesday, 10 February 2021. The three exhibitions in the galleries can now finally receive visitors. The Things Around Us: 51N4E and Rural Urban Framework (through 19 September 2021), discusses how and why we should rethink the role of the architect, and explores the meaning of context today. The exhibition, presented in the CCAs main galleries, is curated by Francesco Garutti (CCA Curator, Contemporary Architecture) in collaboration with Rural Urban Framework (Hong Kong) and 51N4E (Brussels). Both offices work at the seams of urbanization, with projects situated in transitional settlements in Ulaanbaatar, in the new vernacular of rural China, in the transforming centres of Western European cities and in Albanias ... More  Foregrounding works explore the power of visibility and invisibility at the Walker Art CenterMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Low Visibility draws from the Walker Art Centers collections, foregrounding works that explore the power of visibility and invisibility. Today, visibilitythe state of being able to see or be seenis a matter of global political urgency, catalyzed by developments in military weaponry, increased surveillance, and complex disinformation campaigns. Against this backdrop, the international, multigenerational group of artists in this exhibition has developed strategies to avoid being seen or, conversely, to shed light on things typically hidden or overlooked. What would it mean to disappear in an era of near total surveillance? How do we protect our privacy online? Or how might we make something visible in an oversaturated image sphere? Can we trust the images that we see? Works on view question the tactics of camouflage in todays world ... More  Obscure musicology journal sparks battles over race and free speechNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- A periodical devoted to the study of a long-dead European music theorist is an unlikely suspect to spark an explosive battle over race and free speech. But the tiny Journal of Schenkerian Studies, with a paid circulation of about 30 copies an issue per year, has ignited a fiery reckoning over race and the limits of academic free speech, along with whiffs of a generational struggle. The battle threatens to consume the career of Timothy Jackson, a 62-year-old music theory professor at the University of North Texas, and led to calls to dissolve the journal. It also prompted Jackson to file an unusual lawsuit charging the university with violating his First Amendment rights while accusing his critics of defamation. This tale began in the autumn of 2019 when Philip Ewell, a Black music theory professor at Hunter College ... More |
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz 
TIM VAN LAERE GALLERY 
Madelynn Green 
Patrick Angus
Flashback On a day like today, French painter Charles-André van Loo was born February 15, 1705. Carle or Charles-André van Loo (15 February 1705 - 15 July 1765) was a French subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. In this image: Perseus and Andromeda.
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