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Statues of cats are displayed after the announcement of a new discovery carried out by an Egyptian archaeological team in Giza's Saqqara necropolis, south of the capital Cairo, on November 23, 2019. Egypt today unveiled a cache of 75 wooden and bronze statues and five lion cub mummies decorated with hieroglyphics at the Saqqara necropolis near the Giza pyramids in Cairo. Mummified cats, cobras, crocodiles and scarabs were also unearthed among the well-preserved mummies and other objects discovered recently. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
SAQQARA (AFP).- Egypt on Saturday unveiled a cache of 75 wooden and bronze statues and five lion cub mummies decorated with hieroglyphics at the Saqqara necropolis near the Giza pyramids in Cairo. Mummified cats, cobras and crocodiles and scarabs were also unearthed among the well-preserved mummies and other objects discovered recently. The Antiquities Ministry announced the find at the foot of the Bastet Temple, dedicated to the worship of cats among ancient Egyptians, in the vast necropolis. Antiquities Minister Khaled El-Enany described the discovery as "a (whole) museum by itself". He said initial archaeological studies showed that five of the mummies are lion cubs. Other artifacts uncovered in the dig included statues of an Apis bull, a mongoose, an ibis, a falcon and the ancient Egyptian god Anubis in animal form. The artifacts belong to the 26th Dynasty which dates back to the seventh century BC, Enany said. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery is holding its Holiday Timed Marketplace Auction. Lots begin closing Monday, 11/25 at 9:00 AM MT! Join them for their annual Holiday Timed Marketplace Auction, featuring fabulous pricing on lots that are perfect for dealers, collectors, or that special someone on your holiday shopping list. In this image: Luristan Bronze Spear Point. Estimate $400 - $600.
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 | | New exhibition brings together 9 works of Pierre Soulages's iconic Outrenoir series | | The Sphinx takes center stage at Penn Museum | | Buzz Aldrin-signed Tintin print triples sale estimate | 
View of Pierre Soulages exhibition at Perrotin Shanghai. Photo: Ringo Cheung © Pierre Soulages / ADAGP, Paris, 2019. Courtesy of the artist & Perrotin.
SHANGHAI.- Perrotin Shanghai is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Pierre Soulages on the occasion of the artists 100th birthday. This exhibition is the third show presented by Perrotin in collaboration with the artist after New York in 2014 and Tokyo in 2017. This new exhibition brings together 9 works of his iconic Outrenoir series painted in the last 3 years, one painting from 2010 and a masterpiece from 1986. Simultaneously to his exhibition at Perrotin Shanghai, the Musée du Louvre in Paris dedicates a solo exhibition to the artist in the prestigious Salon Carré. The exhibition at Perrotin Shanghai shows the diversity of Soulagess Outrenoir paintings. From the 1940s to the 1970s, black progressively conquered the surface of his calligraphic-like abstract paintings, which also incorporated subtle hints of colors (mainly ocher and blue). His aesthetics radically shifted towards monochrome in 1979, when he ... More | | 
Other components of the Sphinx Gallery include a special display emphasizing the breadth and depth of the Penn Museums collections through 10 artifacts from across the world.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A 25,000-pound monument returned to the limelight, as the centerpiece of the new Sphinx Gallery at the Penn Museum. The colossal red granite Sphinx of Ramses IIhistorys most well-known pharaoh who reigned in ancient Egypt for nearly 67 years and fathered more than 100 childrendates back to between 1293 and 1185 BCE. Excavated by the famous archaeologist W. M. Flinders Petrie and his team, it is the largest sphinx in the Western hemisphere and has served as one of the City of Philadelphias top cultural attractions since its arrival at the Penn Museum in October 1913. From high atop his platform in the 2,000-square-foot Sphinx Gallery, the towering monument now greets guests as they enter the new natural light-filled Main Entrance area, which features abundant seating, two new elevators, an accessibility ramp, ... More | | 
The image from "Explorers on the Moon", a 1950s adventure where the Belgian reporter becomes the first human on the Moon, features an inscription from Aldrin: "First moonwalkers after Tintin."
PARIS (AFP).- A print from a classic "Tintin" comic book signed by American astronaut Buzz Aldrin fetched 33,800 euros ($37,250), triple the auction house's estimate, at a Paris sale on Saturday. The image from "Explorers on the Moon", a 1950s adventure where the Belgian reporter becomes the first human on the Moon, features an inscription from Aldrin: "First moonwalkers after Tintin." Aldrin was famously the second man to walk on the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Interest in Tintin memorabilia has only strengthened since author Herge died in 1983 -- an original drawing for a first edition was sold for $1.12 million in June this year. Earlier this week in Paris, an original page from another Tintin book "King Ottokar's Sceptre" sold for 394,000 euros, far above its reserve price. However, the star item at ... More |
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| | Moderna Museet carries out a major rearrangement of its collection | | John Currin's first solo exhibition in Asia set to open at Gagosian Hong Kong | | Parrish Art Museum gifted 64 works by Saul Steinberg | 
Sigrid Hjertén, Ateljéinteriör [Studio Interior], 1916. Photo: Julia Peirone.
STOCKHOLM.- In 2019, Moderna Museets collection have been completely rearranged and nineteen rooms have been thoroughly remodelled. The Moderna Museet collection belongs to the Swedish people, and consists of some 140,000 works of art. It would be impossible to show all this art at once, so the presentation of the collection changes constantly. Normally, this would mean switching individual works, or maybe rehanging an entire room but in 2019, Moderna Museet carried out a major rearrangement of its collection. The presentation highlights themes or individual artists. The rearranged rooms have titles such as A room of ones own, Collage and assemblage, After the wall, and Eccentric abstraction. 2019 has been a busy year for the Museums curators, technicians, conservators and other staff involved in preparing the 297 works to meet the public. The collection display now ... More | | 
John Currin, Untitled, 2019. Oil on canvas, 22 x 16 in 55.9 x 40.6 cm. © John Currin. Photo: Rob McKeever Courtesy Gagosian.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian will present new portraits by John Currin. This is his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong and his first exhibition in Asia. Conflating inspirative sources of high and low culture, from old masters to soft-porn pinups, Currin channels his prodigious painterly skills into idealized yet perverse images that both charm and challenge. As a graduate student at Yale University in the 1980s, Currin recognized a forced masculinity in the Abstract Expressionist mode of painting that he had been practicing; consequently, he began exploring themes of innocence, humor, and eroticism, creating highly mannerist images of horses and girls with feathered hair, large-headed caricatures, and portraits of individuals and couples made in a painterly language entirely his own. Currins detailed renderings of human flesh in sensuous, glowing brushwork has frequently prompted ... More | | 
Saul Steinberg: Modernist Without Portfolio. Installation View. Photo: Gay Mamay.
WATER MILL, NY.- Terrie Sultan, Director of the Parrish Art Museum, and Patterson Sims, Managing Director of The Saul Steinberg Foundation, announced a gift to the Museum of 64 works from the Foundations holdings by the acclaimed artist, famed worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age through the works exhibited nationally and internationally in museums and galleries, and six decades of covers and drawings published in The New Yorker. The acquisition spans 45 years (1945-1990) and features the artists signature drawings in watercolor, pen and ink, pencil, crayon, and other mediaplus rarely shown work: wooden assemblages, wallpaper, and fabric. Forty-nine works by Steinberga Parrish collection artist who lived and worked in Springs, East Hampton for nearly half-centuryare featured in the exhibition Saul Steinberg: Modernist Without Portfolio, part of the current overarching exhibition ... More |
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| | Bassins de Lumières: Opening of a new digital art centre in Bordeaux's submarine base | | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago breaks record with $6 million Benefit Art Auction | | Skarstedt opens an exhibition of new works by George Condo | 
Frances leading private operator in the management and promotion of monuments, museums, and art centres, Culturespaces is pursuing the creation of digital art centres and immersive exhibitions. Photo: Culturespaces - Nuit de Chine; © akg-images / Erich Lessing ; © akg-images ; © Bridgeman Images.
BORDEAUX.- On 17 April 2020, Culturespaces will open the largest digital art centre in the world: the Bassins de Lumières. Frances leading private operator in the management and promotion of monuments, museums, and art centres, Culturespaces is pursuing the creation of digital art centres and immersive exhibitions. Located in Bordeauxs former submarine base, the BASSINS DE LUMIÈRES will present monumental immersive digital exhibitions devoted to the major artists in the history of art and contemporary art. The submarine bases surface area is three times the size of that of the Carrières de Lumières in Les Baux-de-Provence and five times that of the Atelier des Lumières in Paris. The digital exhibitions will be perfectly adapted to the monumental architecture of the ... More | | 
Oliver Barker, MCA 2019 Benefit Art Auction. © MCA Chicago. Photo: Braxton Black.
CHICAGO, IL.- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, announced that the MCA raised a record-breaking $6 million at the 2019 Benefit Art Auction on Saturday night, November 16, 2019. This Benefit Art Auction was the most successful in the museum's history. According to Gary Metzner, Senior Vice President of Sotheby's, which sponsored the art auction, this auction was a record for museums in the Midwest. The highest winning bid of the night was $1,150,000 for the 2018 painting "Untitled" by famed American artist Richard Prince, donated by Larry Gagosian and the artist. All proceeds from the auction support the MCA's exhibitions and programming, which offer compelling opportunities to explore, challenge, discuss, and reflect on contemporary art and culture. MCA Director Madeleine Grynsztejn said, "The extraordinary generosity that takes place at each of our storied auctions is an ... More | | 
George Condo, Fashion Model, 2019. Oil on linen, 132 x 120 inches. 335.3 x 304.8 cm. © George Condo / ARS (Artists Rights Society), New York. Courtesy of the artist and Skarstedt, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Skarstedt is presenting George Condo: Paintings & Works on Paper, an exhibition of new works on view from November 11 December 21, 2019 at Skarstedt, 19 East 64th Street. The exhibition presents six large scale works on paper which explore the inner activity of the human psyche in relationship with the external presence of the physical body. Executed on a scale traditionally reserved for major paintings, these recent works on paper feature ravishingly beautiful surfaces built up from layer upon layer of gesso, ink washes and metallic paints. Along side these larger works on paper is a suite of smaller improvisational drawings which are colorful and humorous and further engage many of Condos ideas about Psychological Cubism as applied to the portrait, revealing multiple simultaneous states of joy and horror, familiarity and the alien. A suite ... More |
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| | Spectacular campaign poster leads Heritage Auctions' Lincoln Specialty Sale above $1.8 Million | | Kunsthalle Basel opens annual Regionale exhibition | | Colette's Burgundy: Seeking vestiges of a writer's world | 
Lincoln & Johnson: Awesome, Mammoth 41" x 54" 1864 Jugate Campaign Poster.
DALLAS, TX.- A massive jugate poster from Abraham Lincolns 1864 presidential campaign set a record for the most ever paid for a political poster when it sold for $250,000 to push the final total for Heritage Auctions Lincoln and His Times Americana & Political Auction to $1,853,301. The Lincoln & Johnson: Awesome, Mammoth 1864 Jugate Campaign Poster, which also established a new standard for any Lincoln campaign item, is massive it measures 41 inches wide by 54 inches high and spectacular, one of just three known examples of what is considered the finest campaign display item for the 16th President. It features 12-inch portraits of both Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, his Vice Presidential candidate and eventual successor as President. The demand for the poster allowed it to race far beyond its pre-auction estimate of $100,000+. "This poster is simply stunning, and an unquestioned rarity that commanded the attention of serious co ... More | | 
Installation view, Eine Karte -35/65+, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL.- To what extent does a place play a role in artistic creation? The annual Regionale has a predetermined focus on a specific location and geography. Since its inception twenty years ago, this is a unique premise for an exhibition project at the center of Europe, uniting three countries, their histories and traditions: Germany, France, and Switzerland. Correspondingly, does age, beyond the biographical, play a role in artistic creation? For the exhibition Eine Karte -35/65+ (Engl. A Map -35/65+) and based on this question, works by artists of a specific age-range were selected: those under 35 and those over 65. The exhibition thus becomes an inventory that controversially relies on demographics and biographies to interrupt the familiar continuum that typically guides exhibition makingwhich often either focuses on a single generation or several related generations all the better to open up alternative perspectives. Through this roundup, the exhibition brings ... More | | 
A letter written by the French novelist Colette on display at the Musee Colette in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, France, May 2019. Joann Pai/The New York Times.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- With her wry sense of humor honed by a coquettish but self-doubting vanity, French novelist Colette would doubtless have been flattered to see the painstakingly authentic renovation of her childhood home by Paris decorator Jacques Grange in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. Born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in 1873 in this Burgundian village 115 miles south of Paris, she went on to become a legend of French letters. Colette wrote more than 30 books and was made a member of the Belgian Royal Academy, the prestigious French Académie Goncourt and a grand officer of the French Legion of Honor, before becoming the first Frenchwoman ever accorded a state funeral in 1954 (shes buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris). As I knew from having read her most autobiographical works, Colettes sensibility, by turns tender and sharp, sensual and austere, had been born and ... More |
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 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opens Nancy Lupo exhibitionSAN DIEGO, CA.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is presenting Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant at its downtown location from November 22, 2019 through March 15, 2020. The exhibition is the Los Angeles-based artists first solo museum show. For Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant, Lupo stages a conversation between the architecture of MCASD Downtowns Farrell Gallery and a new sculpture, tentatively titled Open Mouth. The sculpture is composed of a circular arrangement of 16 cast aluminum benches, which viewers are invited to engage with their bodies. The benches approximate, in 3/4-scale, versions of benches Lupo noticed at Termini train station in Rome. While the aesthetics of most public furnishings are meant to recede behind their functionality, the odd end pieces of the Termini bench stand out for their ... More Avant Gallery opens the first solo exhibition of artist Felipe Echeverry, AKA LassoNEW YORK, NY.- Avant Gallery is presenting Conversations with a Stranger, the first solo exhibition of artist Felipe Echeverry, AKA Lasso. The show features a collection of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper at the gallerys Hudson Yards location. The exhibition is on view through December 22, 2019. Through textural ruminations on community and connection, Lasso draws from the solace of observation. Seats on a crowded subway car have the solemnity of church pews at Sunday mass. A bar full of people, each ensnared by their own devices, considers the performance of the everyday, singular routines shared by hundreds. Lasso finds harmony in a cacophonous scene. His oft-intuitive mark-making reflects on the vitality of circumstance, measured from the eyes of a steady hand and the viscerality of a calm observer. The diasporic experience ... More First solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Darryl Westly opens at PARISTEXASLALOS ANGELES, CA.- PARISTEXASLA is presenting Interior/ Exterior, the first solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Darryl Westly. Inspired by internet culture and ever-shifting ways of seeing Westlys hyperrealistc oil on canvas works meditate on the newest lens through which representation and identity are presented. In Interior/ Exterior disrupted space, disjointed landscapes, and pixelated environments inform Darryl Westlys unique painting style as he examines culture and ethnicity as seen through our hand-held screens. Using a signature layered aesthetic, Westly melds the mental and the physical, historical elements and present-day tropes, reality and performance of the self; all boundaries become blurred. Up close, his large-scale paintings appear to be an abstraction of colorful liquescent shapes. However, on closer examination the forms assemble ... More Who needs canvas? In Dakar, street artists express their visions on sides of homesDAKAR (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- On one wall, the painting of a marabout, a Muslim holy man, peers out from behind a line hung with laundry. Nearby, a poster of an African woman in a bustle has been pasted to a house. Still further along, women socialize in front of a wall covered in an intricate black-and-white abstract pattern. These are the painted houses of the Médina, a poor and working-class neighborhood near downtown Dakar. The neighborhood has welcomed street artists from all over the world to practice their craft in what the founder of the project calls the open sky museum. Dozens of wall paintings dot the neighborhood, bringing color to usually drab cement walls and adding to the flourishing international art scene in Dakar. Artists from not just Senegal but Burkina Faso, Algeria, Morocco, Congo, France and Italy have come to paint on these ... More Unusual items from around the world featured at Turner Auctions + AppraisalsSOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals presents a Cabinet of Curiosities on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 10:30 am PST, offering many interesting and unusual items from around the world. Sourced primarily from one collection, this online auction offers an eclectic array of 110 lots from ancient times to the 20th century. Among the highlights are a Dorothy C. Thorpe ice bucket, a grouping of Maori jade, and an 18th-century Italian marble statue of Santa Marina. Paintings include works by Donald Teague, James Gleeson, Carlo Grubacs, and Hugo de Fitchner. The sale's intriguing antiquities feature a terra cotta head and statue, a phyxis, 18 ancient bronze arrows and spear points, and an Etruscan plate. From Asia are Japanese items including a porcelain platter, Mongolian bowls, an Indonesian keris and knife, and a katar from India. ... More Tala Madani's first solo show in Austria opens at SecessionVIENNA.- Shit Moms is the title both of Tala Madanis exhibition at Secession, her first solo show in Austria, and a new body of work. She deals here with concepts of domestic life and, more specifically, the idea(l)s and (corpo)realities of motherhood. While the title refers to the colloquial term for women who in some way fail their job or role as a mother, it also literally designates her approach to the theme: smeared, somewhat shapeless female bodies appear as mother figures made of excrement. The shit mothers, shown in tender mother-and-child intimacy (At My Toilette #1, #2, #3) drawing on the Western iconography of the Virgin Madonna and Child (the paradox of virgin maternity being a subject that has attracted Madanis interest for a long time) or surrounded, crawled over and jumped on by triples, quads and even larger tribes of infants, ... More NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announces new Board Chair: France Bishop GoodFORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.- NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale announces the appointment of Francie Bishop Good as Chair of its Board of Governors. She succeeds Dr. Stanley Goodman, who will continue to serve on the boards executive committee. An artist and leading advocate for the arts, Good has been a member of NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdales Board of Governors for over 20 years, and served as Co-Chair of the collections committee. Goods artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami. She lives and works in Fort Lauderdale and New York, and is a longtime champion and supporter of women artists. With her husband David Horvitz, Good established the Fort Lauderdale-based alternative arts space, Girls Club, with a mission of educating ... More Adrián Villar Rojas realises radical installation in Oude KerkAMSTERDAM.- This immersive installation by artist Adrián Villar Rojas (Rosario, Argentina 1980) is titled Poems for Earthlings. Various objects, sounds and interventions through the interior of Amsterdam's Oude Kerk investigate the complex relationship between the impact of humans on their environment and vice versa. Typical of the anthropocene (a proposed geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems) is that it challenges us to think in terms of enormous time scales and spatial distances that go beyond human experience but have increasingly come to influence our daily lives on every level. With this installation, Villar Rojas poses new questions on the meaning of preservation, referring to the World Wars in Europe, when heritage was protected on a monumental scale as a starting ... More Adrian Ghenie opens exhibition at The State Hermitage Museum, St PetersburgSAINT PETERSBURG.- As a boy Adrian Ghenie came across a catalogue of Dutch paintings from The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, which had a profound effect on him, forming the basis for his encyclopaedic knowledge of art history. In his solo exhibition in the General Staff building at the Hermitage Museum, I have turned my only face
Paintings by Adrian Ghenie, the artists new works make reference to the work of the Old Masters in an artistic homage to the museums collection. I remember there was a window open and a curtain blowing in the wind; this detail and the memory of it gave me a lot of peace. To me the museum felt like a home for art, not like a temple to art. Adrian Ghenie recalling his first visit to the museum in 2017. Taking its title from 'On horseback at dawn' by Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu (19331983), ... More 2019 East Hampton House & Garden TourEAST HAMPTON, NY.- The East Hampton Historical Society announces their 2019 House & Garden Tour, showcasing some of the finest examples of historical and modern architecture in the Hamptons. This years tour consisting of five unique houses is scheduled for Saturday, November 30, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. A kick-off Cocktail Party on the evening of Friday, November 29, welcomes in this years highly anticipated House Tour. This annual event, now in its 35th year, will be held at the historical Maidstone Club, ringing in the East End holiday season in style! The East Hampton Historical Societys House Tour Committee has creatively selected five houses that express the unique spirit of living on the East End. The societys annual house tour offers a one-time-only glimpse inside some of our towns most storied residences. Whether you tend ... More Yorkshire landscape and coastline focus of new exhibition by artist Melvyn EvansWAKEFIELD.- The Yorkshire landscape and its dramatic coastline are the focus of Imprinting the Land, a new exhibition by artist Melvyn Evans at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Evans is a skilled artist, illustrator and printmaker, whose bold lino cut prints featuring seascapes and landscapes have been exhibited UK-wide. His work references our relationship with landscape and the power of place, a concern shared with many of the artists whose work is shown at YSP, from Henry Moore to Andy Goldsworthy. Featuring original drawings, paintings and lino prints all of which are available to buy the exhibition draws on Evans fascination with the links between rural traditions and our connection to the British landscape. Evans explores sense of place through depictions of landmarks, monuments, chalk figures, coastal paths and fishing boats, using strong, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, The Drama of Man and Woman' opened November 25, 2011. OLDENBURG.- An employee of the Horst Janssen Museum in Oldenburg walks through the exhibition 'Max Klinger. The Drama of Man and Woman' and checks the art works helped by the catalogue of the special exhibition in Oldenburg, Germany. About 100 exhibits concerned with the relationship of man and woman were presented between 25 November 2011 and 19 February 2012 at the museum.
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