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Galemin Shemer, excavation director of the Israel Antiquities Authority, presents a half-million-year-old stone. Photo: Samuel Magal, Israel Antiquities Authority.
JERUSALEM.- Israeli archaeologists announced Sunday they have uncovered a rare site dating back some half a million years -- just next to a modern highway and only several metres underground. Archaeologists envision the site at Jaljulia, northeast of Tel Aviv, as a sort of "paradise" for prehistoric hunter-gatherers, with a stream, vegetation and an abundance of animals. They have uncovered hundreds of flint handaxes as part of the dig just next to Route 6, one of Israel's busiest highways, the Israel Antiquities Authority said. "It's hard to believe that between Jaljulia and highway 6, five metres below the surface, an ancient landscape some half of a million years old has been so amazingly preserved," Ran Barkai, head of Tel Aviv University's archaeology department, which participated in the dig, said in a statement. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A detail of a section of York Minster's 600 year-old Great East Window, following a 10-year conservation and restoration project, is pictured in York, northern England on January 2, 2018. All 311 panels of the window, which is the country's largest single expanse of medieval stained glass, were removed and restored by York Glaziers Trust - a task which took 92,400 hours and cost 11.5 million pounds. OLI SCARFF / AFP
| Hans Holbein the Younger's 'A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling' is travelling the UK in 2018-19 | | Sotheby's to offer a fascinating group of objects celebrating Nelson's legend | | Whistler acquisition a major highlight of new works at the National Gallery of Australia | 
Hans Holbein the Younger, A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling (Anne Lovell?), about 1526-8. Oil on oak, 56 x 38.8 cm © The National Gallery, London.
LONDON.- The Masterpiece Tour is part of the National Gallerys commitment to promote the understanding, knowledge, and appreciation of Old Master paintings to as wide an audience as possible. This opportunity to bring hugely popular works to the publics doorstep is being made possible by the generous support of Christies. Located in the West Midlands, the New Art Gallery Walsall was opened by the Queen in 2000 as one of a number of cultural projects inaugurated for the millennium. A focus for civic pride and community identity for the people of Walsall and the region, the Gallery has a permanent collection of over 3,000 works and aims to explore ways in which art galleries can contribute to peoples lives; connecting visitors with the work of the best contemporary and historic artists. Stephen Snoddy, Director said: "The New Art Gallery Walsall is truly honoured to have been chosen by the ... More | | 
The Victory Jack - An Exceptionally Large Fragment of the Union Flag, Believed to have flown from HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar (est. £80,000-100,000). Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Following the great success of the last four Of Royal and Noble Descent sales, Sothebys London will present a further selection of 256 fascinating royal and aristocratic heirlooms on 17 January 2018. The sale is spearheaded by an outstanding group of objects celebrating Britain's national hero and legend, Lord Horatio Nelson, including a large fragment of the Union Jack believed to have flown from his ship, HMS Victory at the battle of Trafalgar and captivating love letters Nelson sent to his famous mistress Lady Hamilton, shedding light on a liaison that scandalised 18th-century England. Covering centuries of history, the sale is further distinguished by furniture, paintings, decorative arts and precious objects having belonged to important European dynasties and historical figures, including the Duchesse du Berry, the House of Bourbon and a number ... More | | 
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Harmony in blue and pearl: The Sands, Dieppe c 1885 (detail). Oil on panel. Purchased 2017.
CANBERRA.- In a coup for Australia, the National Gallery of Australia has secured James A. Whistlers Harmony in blue and pearl: The Sands, Dieppe 1885. Purchased for $1.4million and with the support of a handful of generous private donors from Australia and the US, this rare seascape painted on a small scale belongs to a group of works described as superficially, the size of your hand, but artistically, as large as a continent.* Notwithstanding the fact that Whistler was American, we intend to display this marvel of rapid brushwork in the room with our Australian Impressionist collection, featuring masterworks by Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts and Frederick McCubbin, said Gerard Vaughan, NGA Director. Whistlers connection with this turning point in Australian paintingconsidered highly innovative and contemporary for the timemakes this work relevant to our national collection. We are gratef ... More |
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| Leading international galleries sign up to TEFAF New York Spring 2018 | | Barbara Thumm celebrates 20th anniversary with group exhibition | | French star singer France Gall dies aged 70 | 
New York is the unparalleled global center for modern and contemporary art and TEFAF will offer collectors such a strong line up of leading international galleries, building on the success of TEFAF New York Spring 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of the acclaimed second edition of TEFAF New York Fall, TEFAF announces the 2018 exhibitor list for TEFAF New York Spring. 90 exhibitorsincluding 24 new participants will take part in the second iteration of the Fair, which launched in May 2017. The Fair is dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design and takes place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from May 4 to 8, 2018. New York is the unparalleled global center for modern and contemporary art and TEFAF will offer collectors such a strong line up of leading international galleries, building on the success of TEFAF New York Spring 2017. New exhibitors to the Fair: Galerie 1900 2000 (France) Bel etage Kunsthandel GmbH (Austria) Galeria Gisela Capitain (Germany) Massimo De Carlo (Italy, Hong Kong, UK) Galerie Bernard Dulon (France) ... More | | 
Alex Katz, Vivien, 2011. Oil on canvas, 167.6 x 121.9 cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaes Ropac.
BERLIN.- Twenty years, I can hardly comprehend it myself. But yet the time passed in the famously so-called blink of an eyelid. When I look back, the time unfolds and so many ideas and aspirations, plans, projects, also disappointments, struggle and the rollercoaster of the market, as well as great success and the intoxicating feeling to maybe have succeeded in inscribing something into the greater narrative of art history. What I have always adored and what still today is inspiring me, is the magical moment when an exhibition project falls into place in the gallery space and the works suddenly begin to exude their breath-taking presence. So, I have asked myself, how can one represent all these countless moments, condensing them into one single show? I started an inner dialogue between, the gallerist, the collector and the curator of my own memory museum. The discussion was lively: what should be included, how big, next to which work, how much space, what to emphasize? Sitting in front of ... More | | 
This file photo taken in December 1971 shows French singer France Gall posing in Paris. France Gall, died at age 70 in the morning on January 7, 2018, according to her communication manager. AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- French singer France Gall, who shot to fame in the 1960s with a series of hits and a sexually suggestive song about lollipops written by Serge Gainsbourg, died Sunday aged 70, her spokeswoman announced. Gall, who became a star in 1965 when she won the Eurovision song contest as a strikingly blonde and slightly awkward teenager, had been battling cancer for two years and died in a hospital west of Paris. With her blonde bob and eyeliner she became a icon at home of the swinging sixties, while internationally she was the little-known inspiration behind the Frank Sinatra classic "My Way". Sinatra's hit was an English adaptation of the 1968 song "Comme d'Habitude" which was written by French glam-rocker Francois about his break-up with the Parisian singer. During the early part of her career in the 1960s and 70s she formed partnerships with some of the most famed French musicians of the ... More |
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| "Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention" on view at Hartware Medienkunstverein | | Row erupts over revered French novelist's anti-Semitic pamphlets | | Marc Straus opens its second solo exhibition of works by German artist Anna Leonhardt | 
Installation view of "Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention", HMKV in Dortmund. Photo: Hannes Woidich.
DORTMUND.- The exhibition Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention, curated by Inke Arns and Fabian Saavedra-Lara, puts Afrofuturism in dialogue with alternative technological solutions and imaginations. The speculative narratives unfolding in the artworks on display are confronted with actual inventions from maker scenes in different African countries. This creates a double shift of perspective: While the artworks project decidedly African and diasporic sci-fi visions, the real devices appear as evidence of a technological development that is already underway. The exhibition thus presents Africa as a continent of technological innovation. The exhibition Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention curated by Inke Arns and Fabian Saavedra-Lara shows 20 international artistic positions and 12 tech projects from the maker scenes in various countries of ... More | | 
"Trifles for a Massacre" ("Bagatelles pour un Massacre").
PARIS (AFP).- The planned publication of anti-Semitic pamphlets written by a revered novelist has sparked a fierce row in France, with Prime Minister Edouard Philippe weighing in on the debate in favour of their release. Three racist 1930s texts by Louis-Ferdinand Celine are set to appear in a volume by leading French publishing house Gallimard in May, sparking angry calls for the book to be banned. Philippe said Sunday he thought the pamphlets should be published, but only alongside a carefully composed critical and contextual commentary. "I am not afraid of these pamphlets' publication, but they must be thoughtfully accompanied," the prime minister said in an interview with French weekly the Journal du Dimanche. "There are very good reasons to detest the man himself, but you cannot deny the writer's central position in French literature," he added. Celine, best known for his 1932 novel "Journey ... More | | 
Anna Leonhardt, Screens, 2017. Oil on Linen, 65 x 50 in. 165 x 127 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting its second solo exhibition of German artist Anna Leonhardt. The exhibition features new paintings on view from January 7, 2018 through February 9th, 2018. Since her successful inaugural exhibition in April 2016, Anna Leonhardt has continued her investigation into the unsettled dichotomy of figure and ground in painting. The art critic Barry Schwabsky writes Its tempting to see them (the paintings) as composed of two superimposed zones. The first would be a dense layer of colors woven together with a palette knife to form a dense gray or sequence of graysa rich alloy closer in resonance to the subdued lyricism of early Brice Marden (the Grove Group of 1972-76, for example) than to the neutral or generic implacability of Gerhard Richters gray paintings of the same era, but more enveloping than either. Indeed, Leonhardts indelible chromatic fields are, as Schw ... More |
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| Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents three video installations by Isaac Julien | | The unlimited possibilities of plastic explored in exhibition at Daelim Museum | | Exceptional edition of the Der Blaue Reiter Almanac showcased at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 
Isaac Julien, Emerald City (Playtime), 2013. Endura Ultra photograph, 160 x 240 cm. © the artist.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is presenting Playtime, an ambitious exhibition of three video installations by award-winning British artist Isaac Julien exploring the wide-ranging effects of how information, labor, and capital circulate in our global, networked societies. Playtime is presented in partnership with San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and the Kramlich Collection. The exhibition includes the US premiere of Juliens seven-screen installation, Playtime, featuring a cast of international film stars, including James Franco, Maggie Cheung, and Mercedes Cabral. KAPITAL, a two-screen companion piece to Playtime, documents the public discussion, Choreographing Capital," held at Londons Hayward Gallery between the artist, social theorist David Harvey, and an audience of academic luminaries such as Irit Rogoff, Paul Gilroy and the late Stuart Hall. Better Life (Ten Thousand ... More | | 
Suspension lamp KD 5 and KD 6 (1959-1981) by Achille Castiglioni, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
SEOUL.- D Museum presents Plastic Fantastic, a unique exhibition showcasing designs born from the artistic imagination of international designers and the unlimited possibilities of plastic, until March 4 2018. Plastic Fantastic illustrates the magical journey of plastic, the substance sometimes described as the 20th century's miracle material, as it entered the public realm and brought such wide-ranging transformation to our everyday lives. The exhibition offers an overview of more than 2,700 products, items of furniture, lights, graphic designs, and photographs produced over the past half-century via the individuality and innovative spirit of around 40 international creators. One of key highlights of Plastic Fantastic is its exploration of the close, decades-long collaboration between giants of international design and Kartell , the leading Italian design brand that, for three generations, has helped develop a new identity ... More | | 
This work is a rare, numbered exemplar of the almanacs luxury edition, housed in its original box and containing two coloured and signed woodcuts by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.
ROTTERDAM.- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showcasing an exceptional edition of the Der Blaue Reiter Almanac (1912), acquired from the estate of Arthur Lehning (18992000). It is on show until 14 January 2018. The Der Blaue Reiter Almanac is being presented on the basis of its genesis, at the same time dramatically exploring the revolutionary artistic ideas of the German group of Expressionist artists known as Der Blaue Reiter The Blue Rider. This work is a rare, numbered exemplar of the almanacs luxury edition, housed in its original box and containing two coloured and signed woodcuts by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. The Der Blaue Reiter Almanac is the first changeover in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningens revamped presentation of its permanent collection. The Der Blaue Reiter Almanac was ... More |
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 Denny Gallery opens a solo exhibition by Scott AndersonNEW YORK, NY.- Denny Gallery is presenting Streaming by Lamp and by Fire, a solo exhibition by Scott Anderson. Scott Andersons process begins with a vestigial image or snippet of memory lingering in his mind. He then excavates these pre-existing images, searching for hidden possibilities and meanings within them and using them as raw material to develop new forms. The drama of his dreamy narratives take shape over time: he begins with drawing and sketches, and through the act of painting, further allows the images to become more ambiguous or transform into something the he could not have originally predicted. Andersons process is visible in the many different kinds of mark-making in oil crayon and oil paint and in the complexity of the resulting compositional space. The title of Andersons exhibition of new paintings, Streaming by Lamp ... More Network of four independent institutions for contemporary art based in Graz announce winter exhibitionsGRAZ.- Although archives safeguard and preserve documents, they are not always accessible to the public, or else access to these documents is considerably restricted. So archives regulate the relationship between the visible, the accessible, and the concealed. For this reason, it is often exceedingly difficult to reconstruct the histories/stories of institutions. Since the year 2017, Camera Austria has been exploring its own archive in a different way: all archival material is being presented in two exhibitions. The Vienna-based artists Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch have developed a publication concept for this archive, so that it will remain available as reference collection in Camera Austrias library after the exhibitions are over. Boris Groys writes that an archive is suspended as soon as it becomes the subject of an exhibition. Yet instead of transforming the archive ... More 'Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation' on view at the Fabric Workshop and MuseumPHILADELPHIA, PA.- This year The Fabric Workshop and Museum unpacks its own history, along with a good number of little-known narratives within contemporary art. The occasion is its 40th anniversary and capping the year has been the literal unpacking of a rarely-exhibited holding within the Museums collectionArtist Boxes bursting with notes, sketches, prototypes and ephemera packed by an array of artists ranging from Laurie Anderson, Cai Guo-Qiang and Richard Tuttle to Mark Bradford, Hella Jongerius and Robert Pruitt. Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation pairs evocative items from almost 60 boxes containing process materials from its artists residencies with the finished works that were produced in FWMs Workshop. The selection is drawn from 371 boxes stacked floor to ceiling in the Museums archive and from the permanent collection ... More Rome's 'mangy' Christmas tree offered eternal lifeROME (AFP).- It was mocked for its wilting needles and bare branches, but Rome's Christmas tree has captured the hearts of locals and tourists alike and there are now plans afoot to save it from the chipper. The Eternal City's tree, affectionately nicknamed "Spelacchio", which translates as "Mangy"or "Baldy", may end up on display in Rome's MAXXI modern art museum, the Corriere della Sera and Messaggero dailies said Saturday. The Norway spruce -- which was estimated to have cost the city some 48,000 euros ($57,000) -- was declared dead on its arrival in Rome from northern Italy in December, with many saying it was a metaphor for the state of the capital. But the underdog, pitifully weedy in comparison with the majestic trees at the Vatican and rival cities like Milan, soon built up a following of devoted supporters, as well as a Twitter account of its own. "They ... More Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's an indigenous superheroMELBOURNE.- The dreaming of comics and cosplay is no mere fantasy play for Indigenous artists. Creating Aboriginal superheroes or reimagining oneself in the image of a powerful crusader can be an important form of finding a personal identity. That why the new exhibition of Koori comics at Bunjilaka Aboriginal Culture Centre at Melbourne Museum has the name Marramb-ik, a Kulin phrase meaning I am. Marramb-ik explores the past, present and future of Aboriginal comics, from the pioneering Kaptn Koori, created in 1985 by the late Lin Onus, to the imaginative drawings of eight-year-old artist Oscar Edwards. It comes at a time when Aboriginal comic culture is thriving, with Australias the first Indigenous Comicon to be held in Melbourne next year. Workshops and cosplay activities are planned while the exhibition is on show. The exhibition focuses on two ... More Todd Merrill Studio to exhibit works by Knox Martin at UNTITLED San Francisco 2018SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Todd Merrill Studio presents an exhibition of contemporary artists exploring the human figure through the themes of movement, expression, and abstraction. Each of the three artists brings a unique viewpoint through their individual disciplines of painting, sculpture, and photography. Anchoring our exhibition is noted New York painter Knox Martin. At 94, Martins six decade career has garnered attention from critics and collectors alike. One of the last living members of the New York School, his works have been placed in over 40 important museum collections in the U.S. and internationally. In addition, the playful nature of Martins paintings has been realized into numerous large-scale mural commissions. Martins abstract paintings are marked by impeccable draftsmanship, a ... More Exhibition of new work by Mexican American artist Carlos Ramirez on view at Jonathan LeVine ProjectsJERSEY CITY, NJ.- Jonathan LeVine Projects is presenting The Killing of a Ghost, an exhibition of new work by Mexican American artist Carlos Ramirez in what is his debut solo show at the gallery. Ramirez's paintings and sculptures speak of the inequalities within Mexican American communities, disguising the political as popular and championing the common man as underdog. Creating brightly colored compositions of Mexican caricatures set against a backdrop of religious iconography, folklore and corporate logos, his work presents viewers with familiar yet foreign perspectives Influenced by graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary posters, prison art and tattoos, Ramirez's is tremendously resourceful when creating his work and often travels across the border to Mexicali and Oaxaca to scavenge for materials. As a result his mixed- ... More Moody Blues star Ray Thomas dead at 76LONDON (AFP).- Musician and singer Ray Thomas, a founding member of the band Moody Blues, has died at the age of 76, his record label said on Sunday. Thomas, a flautist and vocalist, died suddenly at home in Surrey, England, on Thursday, according to a statement released by Cherry Red Records and Esoteric Recordings. "We are deeply shocked by his passing and will miss his warmth, humour and kindness," the label said. "It was a privilege to have known and worked with him and our thoughts are with his family and his wife Lee at this sad time." Thomas revealed on his website in 2014 that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer the previous year. "My cancer was in-operable but I have a fantastic doctor who immediately started me on a new treatment that has had [a] 90 percent success rate," he wrote. "The cancer is being held in remission but I'll be receiving ... More National Gallery of Victoria acquires Mel O'Callaghan's powerful seven-minute video work EnsembleMELBOURNE.- The human body is pushed to its limits in Australian artist Mel OCallaghans powerful seven-minute video work Ensemble. Exploring the idea of resilience in the face of violence, Ensemble features one man pitted against the visceral force of a jet of water. Born in Sydney and currently residing in Paris, OCallaghans diverse and dynamic practice spans painting, film, installation and performance. Prior to its Australian premiere at NGV Australia, this large-scale, silent video installation was shown at the Centre Pompidou, in both Paris and Malaga in 2016, and at the Institut dArt Contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes in Lyon, France in 2016. Recently acquired by the NGV, the work is an expansive two channel video and is projected over a 10-metre-wide space. Using two frames, OCallaghan isolates her subject in one and his opponents in the another. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American painter Albert Bierstadt was born January 08, 2018. Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 - February 18, 1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century. In this image: Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail, ca. 1873. Oil on canvas, 54 à 84¾ in. (137.2 à 215.3 cm). Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Mrs. Vincenzo Ardenghi.
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