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A picture taken on September 9, 2017 shows an Egyptian labourer unearthing mummies at a newly-uncovered ancient tomb for a goldsmith dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Amun, in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the ancient city of Luxor, which boasts ancient Egyptian temples and burial grounds. The finds at the tomb of "Amun's Goldsmith, Amenemhat", which dates back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), also contained a sculpture carved into a recess of him seated beside his wife, with a portrait of their son painted between them, in addition to another 150 small funerary statues carved in wood, clay and limestone. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the antiquities ministry said. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP.
LUXOR (AFP).- Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The finds, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), were made in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, famed for its temples and burial grounds. The tomb of "Amun's Goldsmith, Amenemhat" contained a sculpture carved into a recess of him seated beside his wife, the ministry said. A portrait of their son was painted between them. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the ministry said. Another shaft led to a chamber where the team found the mummies ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Biennale des Antiquaires event on September 7, 2017 at the Grand Palais venue in Paris. The Biennale des Antiquaires runs from September 11 - 17, 2017. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
| Poussins masterpiece 'Le Massacre des Innocents' is highlight of exhibition at Domaine de Chantilly | | Sotheby's announces sale of Howard Hodgkin's personal collection | | New exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum explores rare luxury books of the Middle Ages |
Portrait de l'artiste Nicolas Poussin, 1649 ©RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Jean-Gilles Berizzi.
PARIS.- From 11 September 2017 to 7 January 2018, Poussins masterpiece Le Massacre des Innocents, will be the highlight of a landmark exhibition at the Domaine de Chantilly. From it origins to its posterity, the work will unveil its mysteries through prestigious loans and will hang side by side with great names of modern art, among whom Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and Annette Messager. A premiere at Chantilly! The Domaine de Chantillys musée Condé owns the finest ensemble of paintings and drawings by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) in France, after the Louvre. In this exceptional collection, Le Massacre des Innocents stands out both because of its illustrious owners (Vincenzo Giustiniani, Lucien Bonaparte, the duc dAumale ) and because of the radically innovative treatment of the subject drawn from the New Testament. The execution ... More | |
Bhupen Khakhar, De-Luxe Tailors, 1972. Est: 250,000 GBP - 350,000 GBP. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- Howard Hodgkin redefined the way in which we look at the world; he developed a personal pictorial language that speaks of interactions and emotions. Just as his eye for the exceptional resonates through his paintings, his ability to identify the extraordinary in unexpected places was deployed in his incessant hunt for art and objects of exquisite beauty. While each of Hodgkins paintings evokes his response to a very particular place, person or situation, the items he surrounded himself with in his home offer a personal portrait of their owner, one of the greatest artists of our time. The kaleidoscope of objects he so carefully drew together take us behind his paintings and cast new light on his aesthetic innovations, revealing what inspired him and what he held close. This October, Sothebys will exhibit some 400 items from the personal collection of Howard Hodgkin to ... More | |
Jeweled Cover of the Lindau Gospels, France, ca. 875. Gold repoussé Crucifixion and ten mourning figures, including personifications of the sun and moon. Workshop of Charles the Bald, grandson of Charlemagne On: The Lindau Gospels, in Latin Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, between 880 and 899. Manuscript on vellum. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1901. © The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M. 1, front cover. Photography by Graham S Haber, 2014.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pierpont Morgan, the founding benefactor of the Morgan Library & Museum, was drawn to the beauty of gems. He acquired and later gave away large collections of valuable stones, including the legendary Star Sapphire of India to New Yorks American Museum of Natural History. He also became fascinated with medieval manuscripts bound in jewel-laden covers. Magnificent Gems: Medieval Treasure Bindings brings together for the first time the Morgans finest examples of these extraordinary works. During the Middle Ages, treasure bindings were considered extreme luxuries, replete with ... More |
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| Wellin Museum of Art opens exhibition of 140 works from its collection | | Christie's announces series of photography auctions | | Exhibit "Mexico Modern" reveals dynamic network of cultural exchange between Mexico and the U.S. |
Dorothy Shakespear. Untitled, c. 191419 (detail). Watercolor and graphite on paper, 4½ x 8¼ in. (11.4 x 20.8 cm). Gift of Omar S. Pound, Class of 1951. © TUA Fifth Will of Omar Pound. Image by John Bentham.
CLINTON, NY.- In celebration of its fifth anniversary, the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College presents an exhibition of 140 works of art featuring selections from its permanent collection. Innovative Approaches, Honored Traditions brings together new acquisitions of contemporary art and works donated over the last 200 years by alumni and friends of the College. Curated by Katherine D. Alcauskas, the Wellins Collection and Exhibitions Specialist, the exhibition is on view from September 9 through December 10, 2017. New acquisitions include three contemporary artworks created in 2016: Elias Simes Tightrope, Familiar Yet Complex 2, a bright patchwork of salvaged electronic components that explores the role of technology in todays society; Michelle Grabners untitled bronze sculpture cast from a hand-crocheted blanket;and Vanessa Germans ... More | |
Edward Weston (18861958), Betty in Her Attic, 1920. Estimate: $600,000-900,000. © Christies Images Limited 2017.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces its fall lineup of October photographs sales, which includes a comprehensive selection of more than 300 photographs to be sold in New York. The complete works on offer include iconic property by many of the most well-known names of the 20th century, including Alfred Stieglitz, Constantin Brâncuși, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and more. Key highlights will be previewed during a multi-city tour, with exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York starting in September 2017. The various-owner sale encompasses many of the most important themes and artists moments in photographic history. The sale will also include four photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, sold to benefit the acquisition fund for the Museums Department of Photography. The MoMA property will be led by two unique Rayograph works by Man Ray f ... More | |
Poster for Mexican tourism, published by Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo, 1940, 97.2 x 73.3 cm. Courtesy Harry Ransom Center.
AUSTIN, TX.- Chronicling two decades of cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States, the exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 19201945 showcases examples of modern Mexican art and design. It also documents the ways through exhibitions, books and articles this art was broadcast to new audiences, primarily in the United States. The exhibition demonstrates how, in the 1920s and 1930s, Mexican art that was initially received as avant-garde gained mainstream acceptance. On display from Sept. 11 through Jan. 1 in the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin, the exhibition highlights the important history of 20th-century art and how artists, museum curators, gallery owners, journalists and publishers in both countries instigated a cultural phenomenon by creating and promoting art that pioneered a synthesis of indigenous traditions and international aesthetics. The ... More |
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| Garvey/Simon opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Jeanette Fintz | | Sotheby's unveils Contemporary Curated with Nina Garcia | | Muscarelle Museum of Art exhibits African American art from its permanent collection |
Jeanette Fintz, The Illusion of Separation #9, 2017 (detail), acrylic on wood panel, 24h x 24w in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Garvey|Simon is presenting the exhibition, Jeanette Fintz: Worldline Schreiber Paintings Plus, featuring a groundbreaking new series of work entitled Worldline Schreiber. The show is curated by Annette Benda Fox, and runs from September 7 - October 7, 2017. This is the artists fifth solo show in New York City. A full color catalog with essay by Carter Ratcliff accompanies the show. Fintzs new Worldline Schreiber paintings (in the main gallery) leap into a spatially ambiguous zone via deconstructed linear geometry and a crystalline blue and white palette. The artist is manipulating geometry to create clashing gestures and elusive planes, often evoking psychological states. She uses two overlapping grid systems that destabilize the symmetry of the picture plane and offer a distillation and reinterpretation of her previous approaches. To date, Fintzs best-known abstract paintings have a vibrant ... More | |
Willem de Kooning, Untitled signed, dated September 5 '78 and dedicated FOR TINO, Bill. Oil and charcoal on paper, 35 3/4 by 30 in. 90.8 by 76.2 cm. Estimate: $200/300,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present the Contemporary Curated auction on 27 September, featuring works from Neither Appearance Nor Illusion: Property from the Collection of Santiago Barberi Gonzalez. For the first time, stunning pieces of 20th century design, from the beloved designers collection, will be offered in addition to works by visionary post-war and contemporary artists. Amplifying this seasons special connection to the fashion community, Marie Claire Creative Director and Project Runway judge, Nina Garcia, will serve as the sales curator, lending her impeccable taste and keen creative eye to selecting a diverse group of works that prompts an engaging dialogue between the spheres of art and fashion. Pieces by Alexander Calder, Lawrence Weiner and Jenny Holzer appear among the fashion authoritys picks ... More | |
Beverly Buchanan, Cabins at State College (S.C.), 1997. Oil pastel on paper. Muscarelle Museum of Art. Purchase, Gift of Alfreda Beresford Topping Lowe, 1997.102.
WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- More than thirty paintings, drawings, works on paper and sculptures by some of this country's most renowned artists are being featured in Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection, on view now at the Muscarelle Museum of Art. The selection embraces a panoply of approaches, ranging from the 19th century realism of Henry Ossawa Tanner to the contemporary conceptualism of Martin Puryear. The subjects include portraiture by realist and folk artists, black-and-white abstractions and colorful landscapes, all drawn from the Muscarelle Museum of Art's young but flourishing holdings of this material. Comprised of a variety of media, styles and time periods, this exhibition exemplifies the plurality of vision among these accomplished artists. The exhibition offers a rare ... More |
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| Boca Raton Museum of Art exhibits most significant gift to museum's photographic collection | | Indigenous artist Margaret Loy Pula opens exhibition at Marc Straus | | Albertz Benda opens career-spanning survey of paintings of German painter Rainer Fetting |
Berenice Abbott, New York Stock Exchange, 1933, Selenium-toned gelatin silver print. Acquired in 2005; Gift of Mr. Isadore Friedman.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- For more than three decades, South Florida residents Isadore and Kelly Friedman acquired artworks with an unfailing eye for quality. Within the Friedman collection, one can literally trace the development of modern art. The Isadore and Kelly Friedman Bequest, received by the Museum in 2006, is the largest gift of American and European art ever presented to the Museum. It frames and defines the remarkable legacy of this long time Museum Trustee and collector, who played an influential role as President of the Museums Board from 2004 to 2006. His greatest desire was to share his enthusiasm for art with as many people as possible, and to ensure that his collection would remain a resource for the residents of Palm Beach County and visitors ... More | |
Margaret Loy Pula, Anatye (detail). 90 x 90 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus is presenting the second solo exhibition of Indigenous artist Margaret Loy Pula. Margaret Loy Pula is a painter who belongs to the Anmatyerre tribe of Utopia in Central Australia. Winner of the 2017 prestigious Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Pula is one of the most celebrated Aboriginal artists today. Dreaming is an Aboriginal philosophy based on the interconnectedness of spirit, land, all people and things. The Anmatyerre preserve imperative knowledge, cultural values and traditions through their Dreaming stories, passed down the generations in art, song and dance. Continuing this ancient legacy, Pulas web-like reductivist paintings are based on the microcosm of her culture, her totem and her fathers Dreaming Anatye or bush potato. More than just a source of sustenance, the bush potato holds a deep spiritual significance to Pulas tribe. The Anatye paintings ... More | |
Rainer Fetting, Drag (Ilko), 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 47 1/4 x 63 inches, 120 x 160 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Albertz Benda is presenting a career-spanning survey of paintings of German painter Rainer Fetting, his first solo show in New York in over three decades. Rainer Fetting: Taxis, Monsters and the Good Old Sea is presented on two floors spanning the last thirty years, divided into distinct themes comprising portraiture, punk and rock music, horror-clown paintings, seascapes and vintage scenes of New York. As Fetting explains, "the diverse subject matter in this show is central to my endeavor to progress the medium of painting. My inspiration and challenge as a painter is to draw from what I have seen and liked most in art history, ranging from Diego Velasquez to Andy Warhol, and many in between- all of whom initiated the spark in me to create my own work." Fetting has often painted the same sitters - ... More |
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Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens exhibition of works by Amanda Ross-Ho
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash opened an exhibition of installation, sculptures, and paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho: My Pen is Huge, on view from September 7 to October 14, 2017. The exhibition is the gallerys third solo exhibition with the artist, and features an installation of works that Ross-Ho produced on-site at the gallery during the month of August including fabricated, oversized objects, and a series of paintings based on works on paper created over the past year. Ross-Hos distinctive and diverse practice broadly engages material culture and artifacts of everyday life and work. For over a decade, her work has explored the ecology of the studio as a primary subject, engaging it through close forensic examination and reflexive call and response. Past works have imported the architectural entirety of the studio into ... More
Clark Art Institute appoints new Director for Research and Academic Program
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- The Clark Art Institute announced the appointment of Lisa Saltzman to serve as the Starr Director of its Research and Academic Program (RAP). Saltzman is the chair of the Department of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College and is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities. She will lead the programs international agenda of intellectual events and collaborations and will oversee the Clarks residential Fellows program, all based on the Institutes 140-acre campus. Lisa Saltzman brings exceptional qualifications and tremendous energy to her new role as the leader of our Research and Academic Program, and I am confident that she will enhance RAPs leadership in visual arts scholarship, engaging diverse voices and sparking global conversations that will broaden its influence, said Olivier Meslay, Felda and Dena ... More
Edward Cella Art & Architecture opens exhibition of new still-life paintings by Robert Minervini
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art & Architecture is presenting Robert Minervini: Life in the Shadows, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. Through a reductive process that partially abstracts his subjects and compositions, Minervini is presenting new still-life paintings that combine both flat and atmospherically deep space with art historical references. Imbued with symbolic imagery, temporal concepts, and worldly vanity the artist describes his work by saying: I am not interested in depicting specific sites . . . my source material is made up from places that I see and reimagine in my studio. . . I manipulate space the same way you might manipulate pots and things on your patio. From these ideas, Minervini effortlessly combines psychologically balanced compositions that suggest a reach toward perfection while reminding us that there is nothing ... More
Photographic portraits in focus at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
NASHVILLE, TENN.- An exhibition of contemporary photographic portraits opens the fall exhibition season at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery on September 11, 2017. Who Are We? Identity and the Contemporary Photographic Portrait examines how, in our image-saturated world, photographs have increasingly played a primary role in shaping identity. The exhibition will be on view through December 7, 2017. The photographic portrait, with its roots in early nineteenth-century France, has continually challenged how we view ourselves. Such works have become increasingly fluid over time and almost as difficult to grasp as the nature of identity itself. These portraits, in their early form, insisted on their realism, a mirror within the context of traditional painting. As Susan Sontag observed in her seminal collection of essays on photography, photographs furnish ... More
The Olympia Arms Fair to be held on 30th September at Pillar Hall, London
LONDON.- Within the splendid neo classical interior of Pillar Hall, W14, the new Olympia Arms Fair will showcase intriguing objects from international military history spanning in excess of 3 millennia. This inaugural event is for dealers, collectors and enthusiasts of antique arms, armour and militaria. The fair is also hoping to attract new visitors with interest in the subject from the UK and abroad. Organised by Thomas Del Mar antique arms and armour auctioneer and founder of the auction cooperative 25 Blythe Road located around the corner from Pillar Hall, the timeline of objects for sale will cover Bronze Age to the First World War. Pieces will include Bronze Age axes, medieval armour, swashbuckling rapier swords, and the first self-igniting firearms such as matchlock, wheellock and flintlock pistols. Over forty dealers from the UK, Europe and the United States have ... More
Engraved and bejewelled gilded sculpture leads Bonhams images of devotion sale
HONG KONG.- A Tibetan bronze featuring an exquisite robe adorned with both inset stones and incised patterns is the top lot at Bonhams Images of Devotion sale on Tuesday 3 October at Bonhams Hong Kong, Admiralty. Carrying an estimate of HK$15,000,000-25,000,000, this exceptionally rare sculpture is the only known of its kind. The bronze depicts Akshobhya, the Buddha of the East, in an ornate patchwork robe, wielding his vajra - the symbol of Buddhisms power - in his right hand and with an ungilded alms bowl in his lap. The bowl, and the patchwork robe, are enduring symbols of Buddhisms renunciation of the material world; and yet by the time of this sculptures creation in 15th-century Tibet, the humble robe had been transformed into the finest conceivable garment of the period. Bonhams Global Head of Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, ... More
Belgian Laurent Van der Stockt wins international photojournalism honour
PERPIGNAN (AFP).- Belgian photographer Laurent Van der Stockt was honoured Saturday at photojournalism's biggest annual festival for his coverage of the battle of Mosul in Iraq for the French daily Le Monde. Van der Stockt, 53, won the Visa d'Or for News, the most prestigious award handed out at the "Visa Pour L'Image" festival in Perpignan, southwestern France. The reporter won the same prize in 2013 for his work covering rebels in the war in Syria, when he witnessed a chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad's regime. The 2017 award honoured his work during the battle for Mosul -- longest urban battle since Stalingrad -- which he covered from the start to the bitter end, embedded with Iraqi special forces. The prize recognised that this proximity to the fighting, the suicide attacks, and to terrified civilians gave his coverage a singular force. After some 25 years ... More
Sotheby's S/2 opens 'Robert Indiana: Works from the Collection of Herbert Lust'
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys S|2 is presenting Robert Indiana: Works from the Collection of Herbert Lust from 8 September 6 October 2017 in New York. Consisting of 30 paintings and drawings from the collection of Herbert Lust, the artists friend and patron, the exhibition has a particular focus on Indianas early career when he first emerged on the scene at the forefront of Pop Art alongside Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rosenquist. The exhibition includes but also goes beyond Indianas well known LOVE imagery to present an artist deeply inspired by the American Dream, both good and bad, and the societal ideas that surround it. The exhibition presents Herbert Lusts entire collection of paintings and drawings by Robert Indiana which are unveiled to the public for the first time. Nicholas Cinque, S|2 Gallery Director, New York, commented: We are incredibly excited ... More
Group exhibition curated around notions of lingering opens at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
PARIS.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting Déjeuner sur lherbe, a group exhibition curated around notions of lingering. The title is less a direct reference to Edouard Manets groundbreaking painting than a point of departure to explore the complex span of interpretations related to it. Just like Manet refused to conform to convention and initiated a new freedom from traditional subjects and modes of representation, the works presented in the exhibition deliberately take the landscape genre as a way to capture a contemporary state of being. The artists in Déjeuner sur lherbe question the appropriation and circulation of this archetype in visual culture. They often adopt a critical approach towards our overstimulated ways of living, either by inviting us to think about recreation and social gathering or by reconsidering the tension between nature and culture. In some ... More
New Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts exhibition captures images of Camden's past and its future
CAMDEN, NJ.- As Cyril Reade explains, the story of Camdens transformation is a complex one. Like many northeastern American cities, he notes, the city experienced the decline of its traditional manufacturing base and the ensuing departure of its residents to the surrounding suburbs. However, adds Reade, a new chapter has only just begun. Today, Camden is attracting new industries, says Reade, director of the RutgersCamden Center for the Arts. Educational and medical establishments are strengthening their commitment to the city and existing neighborhoods are being rebuilt and enlivened by residents and workers committed to the revitalization of their city. Capturing Camdens past and its forward trajectory, six contemporary artists have been invited to share their works utilizing an array of divergent media in the RutgersCamden Center ... More
Glasgow School of Art unveils full size prototype of a section of the Mackintosh Library
GLASGOW.- The Glasgow School of Art unveiled the full size prototype of a Mackintosh Library bay at the workshops of specialist carpenters, Laurence McIntosh. Six months in the making the prototype has been used to test and retest every aspect of the design and manufacture of this centrepiece of the Mackintosh Building restoration. The process began with detailed research of items retrieved and information gathered in the archaeological survey complemented by detailed consultation of Mackintoshs original designs, early photography, letters and other documentation. The challenge then was to translate this mainly 2D imagery into the 3D prototype. Today marks a hugely significant step in the restoration of the Mackintosh Building, says Professor Tom Inns, Director of The Glasgow School of Art. From the outset we said that we would restore the building ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island September 11, 1609. Henry Hudson (c. 1560s/70s - 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. In this image: Undated engraving of Henry Hudson.
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