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Tablet Inscribed with a Fragment of the Babylonian Flood Story Epic of Atrahasis in Akkadian, Mesopotamia, First Dynasty of Babylon, reign of King Ammi-saduqa (ca. 16461626 B.C.), Clay, 4 1/2 Ã 3 9/16 in. (11.4 Ã 9 cm). The Morgan Library & Museum.
NEW YORK, NY.- Everyone is familiar with the story of Noah and his ark. But how many of us have come face-to-face with actual animal depictions from this long ago time? Noahs Beasts: Sculpted Animals from Ancient Mesopotamia, a new exhibition on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, offers museum-goers the opportunity to experience the beauty and power of animal representations dating back to 3300 B.C. Bringing together for the first time sixteen works from the Morgan and a host of institutions across the country, the exhibition is a testament to the skill with which early sculptors evoked the animal kingdom in honor of their gods. The exhibition will run through August 27. The art, literature, and music represented in the vast collections of the Morgan Library & Museum take root in the culture of ancient civilization, said Colin B. Bailey, director of the museum. Noahs Beasts brings to life one of the best known ep ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 21-September 17, 2017. © 2017 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar.
| Fondation Beyeler presents 200 photographic works by the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans | | Venetian masterpiece by Italian artist Michele Marieschi to be offered at Sotheby's this summer | | Exhibition focuses on Eric Ravilious and his personal and professional relationships | 
Wolfgang Tillmans, Gedser, 2014. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York.
BASEL.- This years big summer exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is dedicated to the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968). Around 200 photographic works dating from 1986 to 2017 are on show from May 28 to October 1, together with a new audiovisual installation. Following an invitation from the Fondation Beyeler in 2014, on which occasion the artist installed two of his own works in a room with paintings and sculptures from the Beyeler Collection, this summers exhibition with Wolfgang Tillmans marks the first comprehensive engagement with the medium of photography at the Fondation Beyeler. It shows how Tillmans work is concerned with the creation of a new visual language rather than with photography in the conventional sense. Tillmans oeuvre is frequently perceived in connection with his personality. The artists involvement and position in different social contexts yield a narrative that ... More | | 
Michele Marieschi, La Punta della Dogana e san Giorgio Maggiore, 1739-40 (detail). Estimate £500,000 700,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Today, Sothebys announces the sale of a rare eighteenth century oil painting by Italian artist Michele Marieschi, as part of its flagship London Old Master evening sale on 5 July. La Punta della Dogana e san Giorgio Maggiore, comes to the market following a successful restitution settlement, led by Art Recovery International, between the current possessors and the heirs of the previous owners - the Graf family who last saw the painting in 1938, before they fled Nazi occupied Austria. Following over 15 years of negotiations, the work will be offered this summer with an estimate of £500,000 700,000. Originally acquired by Heinrich (Heinz) and Anna Maria (Anny) Graf in 1937, the painting hung in the familys Vienna apartment - a highlight of their small but refined collection. In March 1938, the familys lives were upended with the German annexation of Austria. Ousted from his job and ... More | | 
William Nicholson, Portrait of Diana Low, 1933. © Desmond Banks.
EASTBOURNE.- Towner Art Gallery announced Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship, English Artist Designers: 1922 to 1942. This major exhibition brings to life the significant relationships and collaborations within one of the most widely influential - though largely unexplored - English artist designer networks of the twentieth century. Focused on Eric Ravilious and his personal and professional relationships with Paul Nash, John Nash, Enid Marx, Barnett Freedman, Tirzah Garwood, Edward Bawden, Thomas Hennell, Douglas Percy Bliss, Peggy Angus, Helen Binyon and Diana Low, the show also marks the 75th anniversary of the artists tragic death in Iceland during the Second World War. Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship comprises over 400 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, engravings, books, ceramics, wallpapers, textiles and other ephemera by practitioners who embraced both fine art and design. It highlights key moment ... More |
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| Bangladesh reinstalls controversial statue after outcry | | JFK at 100: A legacy etched in minds of Americans | | Southern rock trailblazer Gregg Allman dead at 69 | 
A statue denounced by religious hardliners as "un-Islamic" is pictured on the grounds of the Supreme Court in Dhaka. AFP.
DHAKA (AFP).- Bangladesh on Sunday reinstalled a controversial statue deemed un-Islamic by religious hardliners on the grounds of the Supreme Court, just days after its removal had sparked angry protests by secular groups. The sculpture of a blindfolded, sari-clad woman holding scales had been in place for less than six months when authorities removed it early Friday under pressure from hardliners, who said it was based on the Greek goddess of justice. Its removal from the front plaza of Bangladesh's top court triggered violent clashes between police and secular groups, who saw the move as further evidence of creeping Islamisation in the officially secular country. But the sculpture's creator Mrinal Haque, who had accused authorities of bowing to hardline groups, said he was asked to reinstall the statue at a different location on the court grounds. "We have just placed the sculpture in front of the Annex Building of the Supreme Court," Haque told AFP ... More | | 
People visit the Eternal Flame at the grave of assassinated former US President John F. Kennedy near the 100th anniversary of his birth at Arlington National Cemetery May 26, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Brendan Smialowski / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- John F. Kennedy -- young, heroic, charismatic -- embodied the overflowing promise of possibility of 20th century America, until an assassin's bullet ended his life in November 1963. One hundred years after his birth, the youngest man ever elected president, who once urged Americans to strive for the "New Frontier," is still a political icon, and the country is celebrating his legacy, which lives on most visibly in his family. "It's an opportunity to reflect on what president Kennedy stood for, and the belief and commitment he had to solve every challenge in front of him," Congressman Joe Kennedy III, a great-nephew of the president, told AFP. The lanky, red-haired grandson of slain attorney general Robert F. Kennedy is part of the family's third generation to carry the political torch, entering the House of Representatives in 2013. For all but two years since ... More | | 
This file photo taken on June 5, 2010 shows Singer/Songwriter Gregg Allman performing during the 2010 BamaJam Music & Arts Festival. RICK DIAMOND / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Gregg Allman, the powerfully bluesy and hard-jamming singer and songwriter who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and emerged as a pioneer of Southern rock, has died at the age of 69. Allman died peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia, according to a statement posted Saturday on his website. No cause of death was immediately given, but the statement said he had "struggled with many health issues over the past several years." Allman, who played keyboard and guitar and sang with a rich, growling voice, was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1999 and underwent a liver transplant in 2010, Billboard reported on its website. Allman's older brother Duane, a co-founder of the group and legendary guitar player, died in a motorcycle accident in 1971 at the age of 24, just as the band was enjoying its first big taste of success. The group's music merged blues, jazz, country and rock with a meandering ... More |
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| Samantha Bittman's first solo exhibition with Morgan Lehman on view in New York | | Dissident Iranian director wins top Cannes prize | | Turner prize nominated artist David Mach exhibits at Griffin Gallery | 
Samantha Bittman, Untitled, 2017. Acrylic on hand-woven textile, 30 h x 24 w in. 76.20h x 60.96w cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman is presenting Samantha Bittmans first solo exhibition with the gallery. In five new works, the artist continues her practice of weaving complex textiles on a loom and painting selected portions of their surfaces. The effect is a simultaneous obfuscation of Bittmans initial compositions as she highlights their structure with acrylic paint, revealing new patterns through the masked or semi-masked surfaces. Her works remain indebted to a textile-making tradition while remaining decidedly contemporary, referencing Op Art, Color Field painting and 20th century abstraction. Bittmans approach is a multi-step process in which she must be mindful of how the final work will look when weaving the paintings support on her loom. Starting with individual threads and bound by the parameters and limitations of the loom itself, Bittman generates ... More | | 
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof poses on May 19, 2017 during a photocall for the film 'Lerd' (A Man of Integrity) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP.
CANNES (AFP).- An Iranian film-maker who was jailed for "anti-regime propaganda" won the top prize at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes film festival Saturday. Mohammad Rasoulof won for "Lerd" about a man working on a goldfish farm in northern Iran who becomes snagged in corrupt ties between the local leaders and businessmen. Rasoulof, 45, took best director in the same competition six years ago for "Goodbye" while he was in jail. He had been sentenced to six years in prison in 2010 for making a documentary about protests that followed the disputed re-election of the then Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the previous year. He was also banned for making films for 20 years, but the sentence was reduced to one year on appeal. Another of his films, "Manuscripts Don't Burn" ... More | | 
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LONDON.- Scottish artist David Machs solo exhibition at Griffin Gallery is his first new newspaper installation for 15 years. Turner prize nominated Mach constructed a gargantuan installation from 20-tonnes of newspaper. Machs installation looks like a wave of paper, exploding through one of the gallery walls, and cascading through the room. Machs past installations have engulfed objects whole such as cars, furniture and airplanes. The large-scale piece creates an organic volume of colour and texture, characteristic of Machs work. The installation has been largely improvised, and took shape while it was being installed. Machs last newspaper installation Bangers n Mash was exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow in 2002. Machs most recent worldwide solo exhibitions include Hong Kong (Opera Gallery, 2012) and New York (Forum Gallery, 2013). Machs artistic style is based on flowing asse ... More |
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| Exhibition at National Gallery of Canada explores the work of two established Canadian artists | | Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a rare solo exhibition of the British monk Dom Sylvester Houédard | | Display at British Museum encourages a deeper appreciation for the craft behind woodblock prints | 
Damian Moppett, Studio in Basement (Combine), 2005, watercolor on paper, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Gift of the Rennie Foundation, 2017. © Damian Moppett, Courtesy Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Photo: Blaine Campbell.
OTTAWA.- Ron Moppett and Damian Moppett, who are also father and son, are established Canadian artists whose works have been collected by the National Gallery of Canada since the early stages of their respective careers. The Gallery acquired its first work by Calgary-based Ron Moppett in 1971, and the first work by Vancouver-based Damian Moppett in the early 2000s. Works by these two artists are presented together until September 10, 2017, for the National Gallery of Canadas latest Masterpiece in Focus exhibition: Related Works: Ron Moppett and Damian Moppett. "Inspired by a strong exhibition mounted by the Art Gallery of Alberta last year, this show also articulates the stories of how key works by each artist became part of the national collection, through purchase as well as donations from prominent Canadian collectors, as well as the artists ... More | | 
Dom Sylvester Houedard (1924-1992), successful cube transplant in honor of chairman mao, 1970. Signed by: d/h 70 (l.r.) print (silkscreen) 78.5 x 58.3 cm Edition 70 of 75.
LONDON.- Sixties America gave the world Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and a roster of other Beat poets. In Britain the Beat movement was altogether more sedate but in typical low-key fashion Britain did produce one truly outstanding counter-culture figure; Dom Sylvester Houédard, Benedictine monk, artist, poet, intellectual and theologian. In a rare solo exhibition, Richard Saltoun Gallery has brought together a remarkable collection of typestracts, curated by Andrew Hunt, that covers the key years between 1963 1975. This first substantial presentation of the artist in almost five decades, aims to reinstate the importance of Dom Sylvester Houédard as a key figure of the counter-cultural and transnational art movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. Widely recognised during his lifetime as one of the leading theorists and outstanding practitioners of concrete poetry, dshs work, both as an artist and theologian, ... More | | 
Utagawa Kunisada (17861864), Shokunin (Artisans) detail. Woodblock print triptych showing the process of printmaking, 1857.
LONDON.- Japanese woodblock printing is a traditional craft still widely practiced today. This Asahi Shimbun Display focuses on the workshops of the master block cutter and master printer to reveal the roots of the craft in Japanese prints of the Edo period (1615-1868). The display focuses on a print triptych by Utagawa Kunisada (1786 1864), which shows how Japanese woodblock prints were traditionally made. Also on display is a rare brush drawing that Katsushika Hokusai (1760- 1849) prepared for a print, and a beautiful example of Sudden Shower at Shōno from the series Fifty-three Stations along the Tōkaidō Highway by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). The Hokusai brush drawing is extremely rare. A print artists original preparatory drawing was usually pasted face down on the woodblock and destroyed as the master block cutter cut through it with a chisel to transfer the outlines of the design to the block. Absolute precision was then required to remove exces ... More |
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 Hynek Martinec opens second solo show at ParafinLONDON.- Hynek Martinecs second solo exhibition at Parafin develops his works ongoing engagement with art history and his search for visual connections between diverse historical moments. Martinecs paintings and drawings explore ideas about time, history, reality and spirituality, often appropriating imagery from vintage photographs and the Old Masters, and these new works have been developed in response to an invitation from the National Gallery in Prague to respond to the museums Baroque collection. The exhibition includes both paintings and drawings. The upper gallery is devoted to Martinecs technically extraordinary hyperrealist paintings. These grisaille works address different registers of reality by bringing together historical and contemporary references. Martinecs works seem to suggest that multiple realities including the present and ... More Freeman's diamonds soar above estimatesPHILADELPHIA, PA.- On Wednesday May 17, Freemans held a well-curated Fine Jewelry auction in which several diamonds soared beyond their estimates. Top lots of the sale included a marquise diamond solitaire as well as a Belle Ãpoque diamond solitaire ring, set with an old Europeancut diamond. The diamond solitaire, lot 131, is accompanied by a GIA certificate stating G color and VS-2 clarity. It is centered with marquise-shaped diamond weighing 8.02 carats. The piece was a highlight from a prominent collection within the sale, Property of a Palm Beach Lady. When this striking piece came up for sale, a full bank of phone clerks stood to bid on behalf of their eager clients. Estimated between $80,000-100,000, the ring exceeded expectations, ultimately selling for $200,000. The excitement was far from over. Moments later another exceptional ring elicited ... More Edward Hopper House opens solo exhibition of works by artist Mercedes HelnweinNYACK, NY.- Mercedes Helnwein is presenting oil pastels from her series Chaos Theory at the Edward Hopper House May 26 - August 6, 2017. Focusing on suburban American adolescence and family life, Helnwein sources her imagery from anonymous photographs or from characters posed in living room sets she creates in her studio. The original scenes are replicated in oil pastel (a medium the artist feels lends itself to amplifying the disquiet of the seemingly innocuous moments), laying bare the angst and tension with which family rituals and youthful endeavors are often fraught. From trick-or-treating and family gatherings to school dances and class pictures, she returns to subjects of quotidian adolescent and familial routines over and over to capture the accidental emotions and inherent dramas that she believes these isolated moments betray. Helnweins ... More Debut exhibition of the artist and filmmaker Robert Perkins opens at Benjamin Spademan Rare BooksLONDON.- Benjamin Spademan announced that the debut exhibition of the artist and filmmaker Robert Perkins open at his London gallery on the 25th of May. Entitled The Written Image, the two-part show is a presentation of paintings, prints and collages created by Perkins in collaboration with renowned poets, from Seamus Heaney to Allen Ginsberg. The genesis for the project that would become The Written Image series came from the notable poet Elizabeth Bishop. As a student at Harvard University in the 1970s, Perkins was accepted into Bishops small creative writing seminar. At their first one-on-one meeting, she let Perkins sit down before saying, Youre not a poet. What are you? Caught off guard, he replied, I want to be a painter. Upon learning that Perkins wanted to be an artist, she wrote out her poem The Fish, and asked him to illustrate it. Perkins then ... More The Foundling Museum opens its first ever exhibition devoted to Hetty Feather and the Foundling HospitalLONDON.- Since the first book was published in 2008, Dame Jacqueline Wilsons Hetty Feather series has delighted young audiences with the adventures of its eponymous heroine, the spirited Victorian foundling Hetty Feather. A new family-friendly exhibition, Picturing Hetty Feather, explores how this much-loved character has brought to life the history of Londons Foundling Hospital, on page, stage and screen. Visitors can discover the world of Hetty Feather through television props, rarely-seen archival items and hands-on activities. In 2008, Dame Jacqueline Wilson became one of the Museums first Foundling Fellows. For her Fellowship, Wilson researched the Hospitals history and developed her character Hetty Feather, a girl who uses imaginative storytelling or, as she calls it, picturing to deal with lifes challenges. Immensely popular with her young ... More Offer Waterman opens exhibition of new works by Alison WildingLONDON.- Offer Waterman announces Acanthus Asymmetrically, a new exhibition by the acclaimed British artist Alison Wilding, presented in association with Karsten Schubert. The exhibition at Offer Watermans Mayfair gallery includes 12 new and recent sculptures, alongside a selection of works on paper and prints. Wilding is widely regarded as one of the most important sculptors of her generation, her work is held in numerous public collections worldwide and has been shown at the Serpentine Gallery and MoMA NY and in three survey exhibitions at the Tate, including the Duveen Galleries in 2013 and a retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 1991. Richard Cork, in his book, New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money; Art in the 1980s, neatly encapsulates the enduring appeal of this understated but mercurial artist; a wealth of complex relationships can be uncovered in Wildings ... More Dutch photographer Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski exhibits at Eduard Planting GalleryAMSTERDAM.- Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents from 28 May until 23 July the exhibition 'New Sequences' by Dutch photographer Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski. The gallery also has a nice collection of his vintage work in stock, as well as many of his books, including the famous 'Sequences: the ultimate selection'. Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski received international acclaim as one of the founders of black and white sequential photography (photo series) in the seventies. After fifteen years, he decided to stop because the method did not bring him new insights. However, since 2016 he started to make sequences again, at the same deserted beaches in Mexico he used before. This time in color and as intrusive as the classical predecessors, but at the same time completely contemporary and surprising. Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski (Oosterhout, 1949) uses his camera ... More CAFAM opens group presentation of experimental fiber installations and sculptures by eleven artists LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents Material as Metaphor, a group exhibition of thirty-one large-scale, abstract works by eleven contemporary West Coast artists who experiment with the intersections of fiber art and sculpture. Using materials such as vinyl, industrial felt, wire, cotton canvas, and nylon stockings, each presented work reveals the artists intimacy and intentionality with their medium and process. The exhibition title is taken from a 1982 essay by Bauhaus artist and teacher Anni Albers, who said What I am trying to get across is that material is a means of communication, urging artists to learn the language of their chosen materials. The exhibition features site-specific installations by Lloyd Hamrol and Lisa Soto, as well as wall works and standalone sculptures by Joel Allen, Miyoshi Barosh, Phyllis Green, Mary Little, Christy Matson, Victoria ... More Mini Golf at the Indianapolis Museum of Art returns with new artist-designed holes INDIANAPOLIS, IN.- Tee off the summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Arts new, artist-designed putt-putt course. Following a tremendously successful first summer, Mini Golf at the IMA is back. The course, located on the IMAs Alliance Sculpture Court, features brand new holes designed by local and regional artists, along with some familiar favorites. Each hole is inspired by the natural world, as seen across the IMA campus in the gardens, The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres, galleries and in exhibitions such as Audubon: Drawn to Nature. Guests will putt through the plains of Africa, discover the king of the jungle, escape a molten carpet of hot lava, float past gleaming glaciers, travel downstream on the White River and weave through cattails and rocks in Indiana wetlands. Come enjoy a sunny afternoon with friends or bring the whole family ... More Rita Neuman Collection to be offered at Michaan's AuctionsALAMEDA, CA.- The private collection of renowned Los Angeles antiquarian Rita Neuman will be offered in an exclusive auction at Michaans on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 10:00 am PST. Over 150 lots of Continental furniture, art and decorative objects will be offered. This collection from Rita Neumans own residence is the culmination of a remarkable career. A native New Yorker, Rita was at heart a Parisian in her sensibilities, grace and discerning taste. Her lifelong passion for 18th and 19th century French and Continental art and design led her to seek out the finest treasures: exploring the winding streets of Paris, traveling the world for nearly 70 years. Ritas self-education began in her twenties and her expertise accrued rapidly as her interests expanded and her collection grew. Over the years, Rita earned an impeccable reputation as a noted connoisseur and ... More Frist Center opens Nashville artist Vadis Turner's first monographic museum exhibitionNASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Nashville-born artist Vadis Turners first monographic museum exhibition, Vadis Turner: Tempest, on view in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from May 26 through September 10, 2017. Turners practice revolves around transforming everyday materialstypically those associated with women and their work, such as ribbons and beddinginto bold, textured assemblages that assert value on female experiences, especially rites of passage, and question traditional gender roles. Tempest is being presented alongside State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, a large survey of contemporary art on view in the Ingram Gallery. Turner returned to the Nashville area in 2014 after living in Boston and New York for many years. Although trained as a painter, shortly after graduate ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Hoover Dam was completed May 29, 1935. Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. When completed in 1936, it was both the world's largest hydroelectric power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. It was surpassed in both these respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. It is currently the world's 38th-largest hydroelectric generating station. In this image: Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams (1942).
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