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This picture taken on November 24, 2018 shows a group of mummies stacked together at the site of Tomb TT28, which was discovered by an Egyptian archaelogical mission at Al-Assasif necropolis on the west bank of the Nile north of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor. Located between the royal tombs at the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings, the Al-Assasif necropolis is the burial site of nobles and senior officials close to the pharaohs. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
LUXOR.- Egypt on Saturday unveiled an ancient tomb, sarcophagi and funerary artifacts discovered in the Theban necropolis of Al-Assasif in the southern city of Luxor. In a ceremony in front of the temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani announced that French and Egyptian archaeologists had discovered "a new tomb... with very nice paintings". Located between the royal tombs at the Valley of the Queens and the Valley of the Kings, the Al-Assasif necropolis is the burial site of nobles and senior officials close to the pharaohs. Among the finds in the tomb are sarcophagi, statues and some 1,000 funerary figurines called "Ushabtis" made of wood, faience and clay. The tomb dates back to the Middle Kingdom, which spanned the 11th and 12th dynasties, and belonged to "Thaw-Irkhet-If", mummification supervisor at the Temple of Mut in Karnak, according to the ministry. Separately, archeologists from the French Institute ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day King Philippe of Belgium (L) and Queen Mathilde (C) of Belgium are shown the World War I Armistice a greement by Elke Freifrau von Boeselager, chief archivist of the foreign ministry at the German History Museum in Berlin on November 23, 2018. Soeren Stache / dpa / AFP
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 | | Hsia Yan's contemporary opus "After George Seurat's Sunday Afternoon" goes on the podium at Gianguan Auctions | | Joseph Beuys's 'Boxing Match for Direct Democracy' acquired by the Museum für Moderne Kunst | | Richard Serra's "Bilbao" donated to the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum | 
After George Seurats Sunday Afternoon by Hsia Yan (Xia Yang). acrylic on canvas, 37 X 50 (94 X 128.3 cm), signed in Pinyin, dated, and framed. The starting bid is a conservative $30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- A recently discovered masterwork, After George Seurats Sunday Afternoon by Chinese contemporary artist Hsia Yan, will go off at Gianguan Auctions on Wednesday evening, December 12. Known as the innovator of Fuzzy Style, Hsia Yan bathes static figures in wavy lines to create the illusion of restless motion. When overlaid on a photorealistic ground as is his adaption of George Seurats pontillistic Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte the result evokes feelings of both familiarity and discontent in the viewer. It took Seurat about two years, 1884-1886, to complete the masterpiece that resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. Although it is not known how long Hsia Yan worked on After George Seurats Sunday Afternoon, the result is as dramatic a break from tradition as Seurats. After George Seurats Sunday Afternoon, is acrylic ... More | | 
Joseph Beuys, Boxkampf für direkte Demokratie, 1972 (detail) © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Photo: Axel Schneider.
FRANKFURT.- The Museum für Moderne Kunst announced the acquisition of the work Boxing Match for Direct Democracy (1972) by Joseph Beuys for the museum collection, and thus a further enhancement to the group of works by the artist already in the MMK holdings. On the occasion of the documenta 5 taking place in Kassel in 1972 under the artistic direction of Harald Szeemann (with assistance from Jean-Christophe Ammann), a boxing match was staged at the Museum Fridericianum on the last day of the exhibition. The contenders in this closing documenta action were Joseph Beuys (19211986) and Abraham David Christian (b. 1952), a young art student of Kassel. In 1972, Beuys who had figured prominently in all documenta exhibitions from 1964 onward , had moved his Düsseldorf information office of the Organization for Direct Democracy by Referendum to Kassel for 100 days. He was in attendance at ... More | | 
This is a work of special importance in the history of the museum and the city of Bilbao.
BILBAO.- The museum has welcomed the donation of the sculpture Bilbao (1983) by Richard Serra (San Francisco, United States, 1939), which was given in memory of MartÃn GarcÃa - Urtiaga and Mercedes Torrontegui by their grandchildren. This is a work of special importance in the history of the museum and the city of Bilbao, since it was a site-specific sculpture made in 1983 by Richard Serra, one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century. That was the year (14 March - 30 April 1983) that the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum was celebrating the exhibition entitled Correspondences. 5 Architects, 5 Sculptors, curated by Carmen Giménez, one of the most renowned art contemporary curators, and by the sculptor Juan Muñoz. The exhibition shed light on the relationships between the art and architecture of the period, and to do so it gathered together projects by ten avant-garde artists: five architects (Emilio Ambasz, Peter Eisenman, Frank O. Gehry, Léo ... More |
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| | | Metro Pictures opens Belavia, an exhibition by Paulina Olowska in the upstairs gallery | | Laws of Motion: Gagosian Hong Kong opens a group exhibition | | Exhibition examines eroticism in paintings and drawings of the male and female nude | 
Paulina Olowska, Prospekt Niezalezhnosti, 2018. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 inches, 220 x 180 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Metro Pictures presents Belavia, an exhibition by Paulina Olowska in the upstairs gallery featuring a new documentary film and related paintings. Since 2016, Olowska has made frequent trips to Belarus to photograph and record its capital Minsk. For the artist, Minsk feels culturally frozen in time and recalls memories of her childhood growing up in communist Poland. The works in the exhibition explore the architecture, style, and traditions of a country that, to Olowska, seems like a hidden socialist utopia. A majority of the film, titled Univermag, was shot at the Minsk location of GUM (short for the Russian Glávnyj Universányj MagazÃn), a renowned department store found throughout cities of the former Soviet Union. Initially inspired by Ãmile Zolas novel The Ladies' Paradise, which recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris, Olowska secretly filmed both customers and sa ... More | | 
Josh Kline, Resentment, 2017. Cheap vacuum cleaner, luxury vacuum cleaner, hardware, duct tape, and unique customized wooden display, 51 3/4 x 38 1/4 x 44 3/4 in. 131.4 x 97.2 x 113.7 cm. Edition of 3 plus 2 AP. Courtesy Gagosian.
HONG KONG.- Gagosian is presenting Laws of Motion, an exhibition of works by Josh Kline, Jeff Koons, Cady Noland, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeff Wall, and Anicka Yi. The exhibition opened in Hong Kong and travel to Gagosian San Francisco in January 2019. Its title refers to Karl Marxs application of scientific laws to systems of capital. Forty years ago, the art of Koons, Noland, Trockel, and Wall merged strategies of commercial display and formalism, isolating inherent social archetypes and stereotypes. Laws of Motion begins with key artworks from the 1980s that responded to a world saturated in the aesthetics and language of advertising, exploiting its techniques while making visible its latent and subconscious pull. Koonss paradigmatic series The New examines themes of domestic use and hygienic order, employing industrial readymades such as vacuum cleaners stacked and ... More | | 
Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop (Kronach 1472 Weimar 1553), The Garden of Eden, Monogrammed with a serpent on the tree trunk, oil on panel, 50.8 x 38.1cm.
LONDON.- This winter, Rafael Valls hosts Sex & Sensuality, an exhibition examining eroticism in paintings and drawings of the male and female nude from 16th Century through to 20th Century. The exhibition will run from 26 November 21 December 2018 at Rafael Valls Ltd, 11 Duke Street St James', London SW1. Artworks range from about £5,000 - £1,000,000. Artists often used subject paintings as veiled attempts at legitimising titillating subjects, which would have been all too obvious to the 17th and 18th Century viewer. Later paintings became more obvious and brazen in their portrayal as attitudes relaxed and this reflects directly into art. Traditionally the nude in Western art is thought to have begun in Ancient Greece, although arguably the first nude is art is the so called Willendorf Venus from around 30,000BC. The rise of Christianity led to a dramatic decrease in the depiction of the naked ... More |
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| | | Investors eye Revolutionary War-era stone farmhouse near Philadelphia to be auctioned Dec. 5 | | Sotheby's announces an auction dedicated to the history of science & technology | | Nohra Haime Gallery exhibits Hugo Bastidas' recent series of large black and white paintings | 
Revolutionary War-era stone farmhouse in Quakertown, Pa., part of an 11+ acre property to be auctioned onsite by Stephensons Auctioneers on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. Image courtesy of Stephensons Auctioneers.
QUAKERTOWN, PA.- On Wednesday, December 5, bidders will have a rare opportunity to acquire a Revolutionary War-era stone farmhouse on a sizable spread of subdividable land near Philadelphia. Stephensons Auctioneers of Southampton, Pa., will conduct the on-site sale of the property, which consists of the 18th-century farmhouse plus a two-story banked barn with four horse stables, heated workshop with 220-volt electricity, and separate walled-off area suitable for use as an office, storage or additional work area. Rebuilt in the 1970s using the original foundation and materials, the barn is sturdy and can support the weight of vehicles. The land itself consists of 8.45 acres in Richland Township with an adjacent 2.67-acre parcel in West Rockhill Township. Everything will be auctioned as ... More | | 
A Fully Operational Three-Rotor Enima I Cipher Machine. Erfurt, Germany: Olympia Büromaschinenwerke AG for Heimsoeth Und Rinke, 1944. Estimate $180/200,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present Geek Week: an inaugural presentation of sales and events during which the auction house will offer over 400 lots dedicated to space exploration and the history of science and technology. Exhibitions opened to the public in New York City on Sunday, 25 November. In the year of the centenary of his birth, the second annual History of Science & Technology auction will be headlined by the Nobel Prize, papers and books of the brilliant, inspiring, and much-beloved theoretical physicist Richard P. Feynman. Spanning the full length of his career from his early days at Los Alamos and Cornell through his final days at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and covering topics such as the atom bomb, QED, Nanotechnology and Computing the remarkable and enlightening collection of papers are the only known archive ... More | | 
Hugo Bastidas, Garden of Delights, 2017. Oil on canvas, 50 x 50 in. 127 x 127 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Codefication, Hugo Bastidas recent series of large black and white paintings, represents the artists interest in how we reach deeper levels of understanding when we look at an image, hear a story, or read an article. It is an ongoing challenge to reread, decode, and come to ones own conclusions. These works of oil on linen are in line with his oeuvre in terms of a restrained palette, medium, and the ways in which they are quietly layered in meaning. The piece corresponding to the title of the exhibition, Codefication, responds specifically to societys current debacle of deciphering messages. Reading between the lines and retaining independent thought in the face of what is presented to us is not a new phenomenon. However, as language and our ways of receiving news change, there are new skills to be developed in order to preserve critical thinking. Within Codefication, there is a logical system behind the unfamiliar arrangement of letters and ... More |
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| | | Nine Madrid museums loan a selection of 28 works from their collections for exhibition | | Some exceptional highlights of Chiswick Auctions' first Photographica sale next week | | Queensland Art Gallery's flagship Asia Pacific Triennial opens | 
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1939. Oil on wood. 60 x 45 cm. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃa, Madrid.
MADRID.- To bring its anniversary commemorations to a close, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza has invited nine Madrid museums to take part in the celebrations by lending a selection of 28 works from their collections. These pieces are displayed in the galleries housing the permanent collection in order to engage in dialogue with some of the paintings normally on show there. Some of the works establish contrasts between periods, media and styles, drawing attention to different interpretations of the same theme; others are objects related to the accompanying paintings and enable visitors to view the pieces from a new perspective. The selection includes paintings, sculptures, reliefs, objects and furniture ranging from a figurine from the 5th century BC to paintings by Pablo Picasso and Antonio Saura, and ... More | | 
Bert Hardy, Wartime Terminus, 1942.
LONDON.- Amongst the highlights of the Photographs section of the Photographica sale at Chiswick Auctions on November 28th, 2018 is a highly rare Box of Pinups dating from 1965 , featuring some of the biggest names of the 60s - Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, The Beatles, Jean Shrimpton, Cecil Beaton, Terence Stamp and Rudolf Nureyev. This book of half-tone prints was created by David Bailey, a new breed of photographer at the time. The book (lot 419 in the sale), is estimated to fetch £700-£1,000. There are also some photographs by Terry ONeill of Shirley Maclaine in London in 1975 and Elton John with friends in London in 1976. Phototgrapher Barrie Wentzell captured the Rolling Stones from a position on the stage, while they performed their live concert in Hyde Park in 1969. The sale also features Wentzells photo of Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot together in 1967. Bruce Davidsons picture o ... More | | 
Zico Albaiquni, The Imbroglio Tropical Paradise, 2018. Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm. Courtesy the artist and Yavuz Gallery.
BRISBANE.- This summer, visitors to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art will discover more than 400 artworks by over 80 individuals, collectives and groups with The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9). QAGOMA Director Chris Saines said APT9 was an expansive free exhibition that captured the energy of new art being created in Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Developed by our specialist team of QAGOMA curators, APT9 presents some of the most exciting and important contemporary art being created in the region, including major new commissions designed for the Gallerys signature spaces, Mr Saines said. Following three years of curatorial travel and extensive research, the ninth edition of our flagship exhibition series offers an accessible contemporary art experience across the entire ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz was born November 26, 1922. Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists, including Jim Davis, Bill Watterson, and Matt Groening. In this image: Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts © Somerset House.
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