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Researchers continue to unravel the events at Las Llamas, and they hope to eventually explain why and how humans appealed to the supernatural in an attempt to control an unpredictable natural world. Photo by Gabriel Prieto / National Geographic.
by Luis Jaime Cisneros
LIMA (PERU).- Archaeologists in Peru have found evidence of the biggest-ever sacrifice of children, uncovering the remains of more than 140 youngsters who were slain alongside 200 llamas as part of a ritual offering some 550 years ago, National Geographic announced on Thursday. The site was located on top of a cliff facing the Pacific Ocean in La Libertad, a northern region where the Chimu civilization arose, an ancient pre-Columbian people who worshipped the moon. The cliff is located just outside the northwestern coastal city of Trujillo, Peru's third largest city which today has 800,000 inhabitants. "While incidents of human sacrifice among the Aztec, Maya and Inca have been recorded in colonial-era Spanish chronicles and documented in modern scientific excavations, the discovery of a large-scale child sacrifice event in the little-known ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Construction crews and archaeologists work on the excavation of an ancient site under the city centre of modern Thessaloniki, on April 25, 2018. A 15-year subway project in Greece's northern metropolis, scheduled to be completed in 2020, has shed light on unknown facets of daily life in the 2300-year-old city's history. The excavation has turned up over 300,000 items of importance including 50,000 coins, in addition to an entire early Christian church. Thessaloniki was an important hub of the Roman empire and later became the second city of the Byzantine empire. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP
| Christie's to offer 22 masterpieces by Richard Diebenkorn | | Exhibition offers a critical inquiry into the collection of the Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | | Sotheby's to offer landmark David Hockney with $20-30 million estimate | 
Richard Diebenkorn, Nude-Elbow on Knee, 1961. Estimate: $800,000-1,200,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- This May, Christies will offer 22 Masterpieces by Richard Diebenkorn: Property Sold to Benefit The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation. The selection will be sold across Christies Evening and Day Sales of Post-War and Contemporary Art on May 17 and 18. Leading the group is Richard Diebenkorns iconic Ocean Park #126, 1984. With an estimate of $16-20 million, the painting is positioned to realize a new world auction record for the artist. The present group demonstrates superb focus, as it traces the artists creative trajectory from abstraction and figuration to the seminal Ocean Park series. Sara Friedlander, International Director, Specialist Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarked: For the past thirty years, the Zuckers have lived with Richard Diebenkorns entire career in their living room. This exceptionally rare exploration of one artist in such depth represents a Dieben ... More | | 
Walter Spies, Rehjagd (Deerhunt), 1932. Oil on canvas, 60 à 50 cm © 2012 Adrian Vickers. Reprinted from Balinese Art by Adrian Vickers. Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.
BERLIN.- Hello World. Revising a Collection is a critical inquiry into the collection of the Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The foundation of every museum is its collection, which itself is shaped by contingent political and cultural conditions. With this exhibition, the Nationalgalerie is exploring the possibility of how a collection predominantly committed to the art of Western Europe and North America might broaden its scope by combining non-Western artistic tendencies and a transcultural approach. What would the collection be like today had a more cosmopolitan understanding of art informed its beginnings? Against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised present and its attendant opportunities and fault lines, as well as current political crises and cultural conflicts, such a revision is especially ... More | | 
David Hockney, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica (detail). Oil on canvas, 78 by 120 in., 198.1 by 304.8 cm. Estimate $20/30 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys unveiled the latest addition to the Contemporary Art Evening Auction, David Hockneys Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica. Featured in critically-acclaimed retrospectives at the Tate Britain, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this large-scale oil painting is a landmark of Hockeys career. Carrying a pre-sale estimate of $20/30 million, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica is poised to break the artists record set by Sothebys in New York in November 2016 for Woldgate Woods when it makes its auction debut on 16 May. The New York exhibition opens to the public on 4 May. David Galperin, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York, commented: Following its tour in the sensational museum retrospective last year, we are honored to bring this exuberant ... More |
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| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago opens an exhibition on Chicago-based photographer Kenneth Josephson | | US lynching memorial seeks reflection on racist history | | Princeton University Art Museum names Bart J. C. Devolder new Conservator of Collections | 
Kenneth Josephson Polapans, 1973, 1973 Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- In partnership with Art Design Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents an exhibition on Chicago-based photographer Kenneth Josephson who changed the way we think about photography. Josephson's conceptual photography pushes the boundaries of the medium, demonstrating that photographs can convey an idea as well as an image. His work focuses on the unique qualities of a photograph, such as its ability to be cropped, reproduced, circulated, or archived. With visual techniques like taking photographs of photographs, his images often comment on themselves with a wry sense of humor, and anticipated the rise of the selfie in today's world. The exhibition is organized by Lauren Fulton, former MCA Curatorial Research Fellow and Chief Curator Michael Darling. Influential to artists of all kinds, Josephson has spent his career carefully examining the building blocks of photography. His methods are the result of ... More | | 
Wretha Hudson, 73, discovers a marker commemorating lynchings in Lee County, Texas while visiting the National Memorial For Peace And Justice. Bob Miller/Getty Images/AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- A unique memorial remembering the thousands of black Americans lynched in public acts of torture opened Thursday in the southern US. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, aims to promote reflection on the country's history of racial inequality, the reverberations of which are still felt today. "This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and to equal justice," Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) behind the project, says on the memorial's website. EJI, a non-profit legal assistance group, documented the lynching of more than 4,400 black people in the United States between 1877 and 1950. While slavery lasted for centuries, "nothing ... More | | 
Widely recognized for his technical skills, Devolder has coordinated an international team of conservators on the Ghent Altarpiece Restoration Project for the past five years. Photo: Griet Dekoninck.
PRINCETON, NJ.- The Princeton University Art Museum announced that Bart J. C. Devolder will join the Museum staff as conservator of collections, beginning July 1, 2018. Devolder will be responsible for leadership and operation of the Museums conservation laboratory and for the physical care of the Museums extensive collections. As conservator at the Princeton University Art Museum, Devolder will examine, document, analyze, research and preserve objects from all areas of the Museums encyclopedic collections, ranging from ancient to contemporary art and spanning a period of 50,000 years. As a paintings specialist, Devolder is expected to personally oversee and carry out the conservation of works in the Museums paintings holdings. Additionally, he will develop and oversee faculty and student collaborations, including innovative ... More |
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| Sotheby's Prints & Multiples Auction totals $8 million, led by Jasper Johns's $1.6 million 'Flags I' | | Georgia O'Keeffe Museum acquires notable O'Keeffe painting | | 'Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt 1938-1948' opens at Moderna Museet in Stockholm | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Nude with Yellow Pillow (C. 283). Relief print in colors, 1994. Estimate $100/150,000. Sold for $225,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys spring auction of Prints & Multiples concluded this morning in New York with a total of $8 million, meeting its high estimate. The sale was led by striking works by Jasper Johns and Henri Matisse that each sold for over $1 million, cementing their status as the top lots of the week across all auction houses. The sale was 86.1% sold by lot, with over half of the lots offered realizing prices above their high estimates and an average per-lot value of $56,000. Mary Bartow, Head of Sothebys Prints & Multiples Department in New York, stated: We were delighted to see continued and robust interest in this field, with strong participation from American, European and Asian private collectors. Among our diverse offerings, this seasons auction of Prints & Multiples highlighted the markets appetite ... More | | 
Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia OKeeffe, 1930-1931. Gelatin silver print. Georgia OKeeffe Museum [2014.3.58].
SANTA DE, NM.- The Georgia OKeeffe Museum added to its collection Georgia OKeeffes painting, Kachina (1931). Acquired from notable modern art collectors Jan and Marica Vilcek, the oil on wood piece joins the Museums holdings of more than 140 of the artists iconic oil paintings. Kachina reflects OKeeffes early experiences in New Mexico. The image represents a katsina, a Hopi religious idol. What is clear to me, as an artist, is that OKeeffe is looking at the katsina doll as a subject matter and art, wrote Ramona Sakiestewa in an essay featured in Georgia OKeeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land, the accompanying catalogue for the Museums 2012 exhibition of the same name. Sakiestewa is a Hopi artist and secretary of the OKeeffe Museums Board of Trustees. The Georgia OKeeffe in New Mexico exhibition marked the last time ... More | | 
Mayo, Portrait Surrealiste, 1937.
STOCKHOLM.- During spring and summer Moderna Museet presents an exhibition about Art et Liberté, a group of surrealist artists based in Cairo during the Second World War. The exhibition sheds new light on our understanding of modernism through the groups artistic contributions to the Surrealist movement. It features more than 200 artworks and archival documents, on show for the first time in Sweden. Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (19381948) is the first comprehensive museum exhibition about the Art et Liberté Group (jamaat al-fann wal hurriyyah/Art and Liberty), a surrealist collective of artists and writers working in Cairo. Founded on December 22, 1938 upon the publication of their manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art, the Group provided a restless generation of young artists, intellectuals and political activists with a heterogeneous platform for cultural and political reform. ... More |
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| KP Projects opens the first U.S. solo exhibition of works by photographer Henri Dauman | | Blum and Poe opens exhibition of over fifty new paintings by Dave Muller | | Landmark Palestinian art museum opens doors in US | 
Andy Warhol. ©Henri Dauman. All rights Reserved.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- From April 28 through May 12th, KP Projects Gallery in Los Angeles will be hosting the first U.S. solo exhibition of works by photographer Henri Dauman :: According to TIME magazine, Henri Dauman created photos that play like a slideshow of some of the biggest moments in American history and popular culture. From JFK to Brigitte Bardot, Henri Dauman's iconic photography defined the 20th century. Now he's stepping out from behind the camera for the first time. KP Projects is proud to present Henri Daumans first U.S. solo exhibition, spanning four decades as a photojournalist and photographer. Seminal, yet relatively unknown by name, Daumans work captures a powerful cultural and social narrative that serves as elegant testimony to modern America. Born in 1933 in Montmartre, the historic French arrondissement famed for its artistic roots, Daumans early childhood was plagued by extreme tragedy, losing bot ... More | | 
Dave Muller, Can't Touch a Rainbow, 2018. Acrylic on gessoed wood, 24 (diameter) 1 1/4 inches (61 x 3.2 centimeters). © Dave Muller, Courtesy of the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo.
NEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe presents Sex & Death & Rock & Roll, Dave Mullers tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. This presentation marks the first New York solo show for the Los Angeles-based artist in a decade. In over fifty new paintings depicting the circular labels of assorted vinyl albums and singles, Muller draws upon his endless fascination and encyclopedic knowledge of music and its capacity to shape both individual and cultural identities. He culls resonant records from the 20s through the 90s, some familiar and others forgotten, tapping into shared poetic moments and a collective dialogue. The exhibitions title updates the 1977 song Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll by Ian Dury & the Blockheads, lyrics that came to stereotype the excesses of rock star lifestyle. Paintings are organized thematically ... More | | 
Faisal Saleh, founder of Palestinian Museum, speaks during the inauguration of the facility in Woodbridge, Connecticut, April 22, 2018. This is the first museum in the United States dedicated to Palestinian art. HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP.
WOODBRIDGE (AFP).- A bucolic Connecticut town may have outwardly little in common with the Middle East, but it's home to a new art museum hoping to change US attitudes toward the Palestinians. Tucked away in Woodbridge, an affluent community near Yale University 80 miles (128 kilometers) north of Manhattan, it is well off the museum circuit and the bright lights of a big city, at least for now. The achievement is that it exists at all, funded on a shoe-string budget of half-a-million dollars, and nine months in the making by its Palestinian-American businessman founder, determined to create the first museum dedicated to Palestinian art in the United States. Israel's imminent 70th anniversary, the prospective US embassy move to Jerusalem, Washington's close relationship ... More |
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 Brazilian prisoners get fashionable in couture projectSAO PAULO (AFP).- Never mind running away -- these Brazilian prisoners prefer the fashion runway. The inmates of the Adriano Marrey penitentiary near Sao Paulo are part of a project using couture to help rehabilitate convicts and give them a chance to stitch together a new life. "Yarn and the crochet hook are my new weapons," said Honorato Bezerra, who has been an inmate for four years. Here it's not mail sacks that the prisoners sew, but trendy dresses, beachwear, jackets and other apparel that all saw their debut this week on the catwalk at Sao Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW). Their main technique is crocheting, which Bezerra first learned from a cellmate and now perfects in weekly classes with Brazilian designer Gustavo Silvestre. The work results in more than the daringly revealing dresses or baggy pants sent out onto the runway at SPFW. "Crocheting ... More Oustanding survey of the late Agustin Fernandez opens at Salle Jean Mouly in ParisPARIS.- This exhibition presents paintings, collages and drawings by Agustin Fernandez, whose life follows an existential exploration that begins in Havana and takes him to Paris, Puerto Rico and then New York. His work, characterized by an enigmatic symbolism, cuts across figuration and abstraction, relentlessly questioning: What is a body, a body in exile? His highly sculptural paintings invoke relief and invite touch, like the caress of a body unfolding onto a projection screen. Fernandez makes tangible physical and psychological tensions, the coexistence between pleasure and pain, animality and cerebral construction. The body becomes an arena for the battle between intimacy and societal taboos. Forms interact, what is happening? The ambiguity of his work gives free rein to fantasy although Fernandez insists: I am not an erotic but a metaphysical ... More Bonhams announces highlights from its Important Asian Art Sale in Sydney SYDNEY.- Bonhams Sydney announced the sale of previously unseen Chinese paintings from three private collections along with a selection of early Chinese pottery from The Reid Family Collection, including exquisite pieces from some of the most important kilns in China from the 12th and 13th century, to be offered in the Important Asian Art Sale in Sydney on 9 May 2018. A rare 19th century Tibetan Thangka from the collection of Dr Paul Sutherland will be offered for sale. In excellent condition, the thangka was included in the highly acclaimed Art Gallery of NSW 2007 exhibition titled Goddess: Divine Energy. Some 30 Chinese paintings from various private collections, a selection of imperial Chinese porcelain, Tibetan bronzes, and Chinese works of art of scholarly interest will also be presented at the Bonhams Important Asian Art Sale. Director of Bonhams Australia, ... More Rago announces highlights from its auctions of Early 20th Century and Modern DesignLAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- On Saturday, May 19th and Sunday, May 20th the Rago Arts and Auction Center will hold its auctions of Early 20th Century and Modern Design. Featuring ceramics by Rookwood, Fulper, Grueby, Marblehead, John Bennett, early Van Briggle, Newcomb College, Teco, and North Dakota School of Mines. European pottery by Martin Brothers, Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Zsolnay, Moorcroft, and Clement Massier. Furniture by Gustav Stickley, Roycroft, L. & J.G. Stickley, Limbert, and Rose Valley. An important and rare table and ten chairs by Arthur Eddy and Frederick Roehrig from the Eddy House. Superb lighting by Lillian Palmer, Elizabeth Burton, Tiffany Studios, Dirk Van Erp, Gustav Stickley, Unique, and Handel. Art glass by Tiffany Studios, Gallé, Daum, Loetz, Lalique, Quezal, and Burgun Schverer. Silver and metalwork by Liberty & Co., Demétre ... More Cooee Art announces Important Australian Aboriginal Art Sale SYDNEY.- In November 2017, Cooee Art, Australias oldest established Aboriginal specialist dealership, launched its new auction wing, The Cooee Art MarketPlace, with an auction that achieved a success rate of 78% for a sales total of $2,709,506. This result more than vindicated the decade Cooee has spent building the online resources to underpin auctions specialising in the Indigenous art of Australia and Oceania resources that are available on its website free of charge to both potential buyers and sellers. The sale highlight, Emily Kngwarreyes international art sensation Earths Creation I (275x632cm) sold for $2,1 million. New secondary market records were set for 19 individual artists, including many up-and-coming artists from the APY Lands. Now Cooee Art MarketPlace has consigned a fine selection of artefacts, sculptures, paintings, and prints for the first ... More Modern Art opens a two-person show of sculpture and paintings by Otto Boll and Jef VerheyenLONDON.- Modern Art is presenting a two-person show with Otto Boll and Jef Verheyen. This is the gallerys first show with both artists. The exhibition comprises a series of sculptures by Boll, made during the 1980s through to 2015, in combination with a selection of paintings by Verheyen dating from the mid-1970s. Positioned in response to the architecture of the gallery, and to each other, the works articulate certain kinds of perceptual and philosophical experiences through acutely crafted formal dialogues between light and shadow, line, colour, and abstraction. Otto Bolls minimalist steel, aluminium and nylon sculptures made from the 1970s and 1980s challenge visual perception. Suspended mid-air, their extremities are so finely chiseled that they appear to dissolve at the edges. They oscillate between two- and three-dimensional objects; slight, elegant ... More Carpenters Workshop Gallery opens exhibition of works by Italian designer Vincenzo De CotiisNEW YORK, NY.- Carpenters Workshop Gallery | New York is presenting Baroquisme, a solo gallery exhibition of works by contemporary Italian designer Vincenzo De Cotiis, from April 26th through June 23rd. The exhibition, the artists second in the US, presents the sculptural collection Baroquisme, the artists tribute to the daring, experimental spirit of the Italian Baroque. In the series, De Cotiis emphasizes decoration vis-à -vis an architectural sensibility, creating a contemporary twist of shapes and functions by pairing precious noble materials - silvered castbrass, French marble, Murano glass - steeped in rich artistic heritage with unexpected contemporary materials such as fiberglass. The artists perspective: The design is certainly generating part of the idea. The organic gestures of ... More Rare, highly graded Sandy Koufax and Hank Aaron cards up for auctionDENVER, COLO.- Small Traditions internet-only Spring Premium Auction, online now and ending on Saturday, May 5th, is highlighted by the Cardbull Hank Aaron collection and the K-15 Koufax! Collection. Together they showcase dozens of some of the highest-graded and most coveted baseball cards in existence. The auction is open for bidding at www.smalltraditions.com. The Cardbull Collection features PSA 9 graded copies of every one of Hank Aarons standard Topps issues (except his 1954 rookie card, 1958 Yellow Letter variation and 1960 issue, which are all in PSA 8 condition). Several Pop 1 highest graded Hank Aaron oddball issues are also in the sale. Hank Aaron is in the Baseball Hall of Fame and is second all-time on the home run list. The Cardbull Collection is a complete run of the 23 basic Topps cards printed during Aarons stellar ... More Mara De Luca's first solo exhibition in New York opens at TOTAHNEW YORK, NY.- TOTAH is presenting Mara De Luca Talisman, the artist's first solo exhibition in New York. Bringing together a selection of mixed-media paintings and one moving-image work, Talisman surveys De Lucas decade-long examination of the aesthetics of emotion. Inspired by both the baroque and the modern, De Luca is fascinated by the deconstruction of the icon, and suspension of disbelief. De Lucas latest work demonstrates a new visual convention, one where the miraculous and the procedural collide, breaking the fourth wall1, and forcing the gaze of the viewer to alternate between rapture and analysis, within or between works. Building a tense equilibrium between heavily labored process and pure illusion, De Luca works in acrylic and oil on canvas, pouring layer upon thinned layer over her canvases, then tearing, rolling, slicing and wrapping ... More Glass exhibition breaks boundaries at The Harley GalleryWELBECK .- Many of the finest glass artists in the country will be displaying their work in a new, exclusive exhibition of some of the best and most challenging contemporary glasswork opening at The Harley Gallery on the Welbeck Estate, between Nottingham and Sheffield. Loud and Clear runs from 28 April to 15 July 2018 aims to present some of the most technically challenging glasswork currently being created and includes floating glass panels etched with photographs, to brightly coloured vessels, to extraordinary sculpture such as Erin Dicksons Bed. The artist stripped her bedroom of all personal belongings, leaving only a bedframe. The mattress was replaced with a large sheet of glass, upon which she slept for five consecutive nights. Using photography to show a view from below the glass bed the artwork reveals the effect that glass has on the body, exposing ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, "Untitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1)," 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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