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The painting retrieved from New Mexico was preliminarily authenticated by world-renowned conservator and professor Nancy Odegaard of the Arizona State Museum.
TUCSON, ARIZ.- Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," stolen the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, has been returned to the University of Arizona Museum of Art by a good Samaritan from New Mexico. Preliminary authentication confirms it is the famous painting. The painting was cut out of its frame in a UAMA gallery by a man and a woman who followed a museum staff member inside at approximately 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, 1985. The woman distracted the security guard while the man went upstairs and cut "Woman-Ochre" from its frame with a sharp blade. The two hurried out of the museum and never returned. The heist took no more than 15 minutes. The painting recently was purchased at an estate sale by David Van Auker, owner of Manzanita Ridge Furniture & Antiques in Silver City, New Mexico. The next morning, he put the painting on display in his store and quickly began receiving several comments about how it appeared to be an original work by de Kooning. Va ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Nashed Abel Halim, an Arab-Israeli archaeological digger, holds an old ceramic jar uncovered at an excavation site dating to the Roman period in the Israeli village of Reina, near the northern city of Nazareth, on August 10, 2017. Archeologists discovered thousands cores of mugs on a rare site where Jews used to produce tableware made of chalk-stone, believed to meet the requirements of purity according to Jewish beliefs. The site is located about three kilometers from the place where Jesus performed the miracle of turning into wine water contained in stone jars during the Cana wedding according to Christian tradition. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP
| Fossil teeth suggest earlier entry of modern humans into SE Asia | | Dallas Museum of Art launches enhanced online collection on DMA.org | | Carved bone reveals rituals of prehistoric cannibals | 
A fossil human tooth (right), found in the cave about 130 years ago, with a corresponding scanned image through the tooth (left).
LONDON.- New dating of teeth from a cave in western Sumatra, Indonesia, suggests that modern humans were present in tropical southeast Asia earlier than previously thought. 'Using the latest investigative techniques we have been able to show that the teeth are definitely modern human, and they date from at least 63,000 years ago,' says Prof Chris Stringer, one of the Natural History Museum's human origins experts and co-author on the study. This early date complicates the current scientific consensus of when modern humans spread from Africa to populate the rest of the world. 'They add to a growing picture that Homo sapiens was spreading through Asia towards Australia before the date of around 60,000 years ago usually assigned to the main Out of Africa dispersal,' says Prof Stringer. Earlier work on the site and specimens was carried out by two Dutch ... More | | 
Olowe of Ise, Kneeling female figure with bowl (olumeye), c. 19101938.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the unveiling of a new way to access its online collection of encyclopedic art at DMA.org. The development of the enhanced site is part of the Museums ongoing digitization initiative to expand access to its encyclopedic collection. The DMA simultaneously announced that its global collection has reached more than 24,000, with the collection growing 10% in recent years. The expanded online collection portal features an updated design that enables access to a larger quantity and variety of information now providing a multitude of entry points and pathways to the Museums robust online resource. The enrichment of the Museums online content is supported by a grant from the ODonnell Foundation, bestowed to the DMA in November 2013, to offer the entire collection online. Part of this initiative included photographing the entire permanent collection, a task completed this ... More | | 
The human remains date from around 14,700 years ago, when the cave was occupied by Ice Age Britons.
LONDON.- A patterned prehistoric human bone from an archaeological site in Somerset has revealed that the practices of ancient cannibals were ritualistic, and not simply about survival. Natural History Museum-led research on the human remains from Goughs Cave shows that a forearm bone was filleted, then marked with a zig-zag pattern before being broken open to extract the bone marrow. 'The sequence of modifications performed on this bone suggests that the engraving was a purposeful component of the cannibalistic practice, rich in symbolic connotations,' says Dr Silvia Bello, researcher in human origins at the Museum and lead author on the study. The human remains date from around 14,700 years ago, when the cave was occupied by Ice Age Britons. Through excavations, scientists found human bones intermingled with butchered animal remains, and a range of flint, bone and ivory artefacts. Earlier studies carried ... More |
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| Rock legend's private collection on view at Peabody Essex Museum | | 'A Century of Japanese Prints' includes recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary Japanese art | | Susan Dackerman appointed director of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University | 
Kirk Hammett at the Peabody Essex Museum. © 2016 Peabody Essex Museum. Photography by Allison White.
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents Its Alive! Classic Horror and Sci-Fi Art from the Kirk Hammett Collection, an exhibition of graphic art that has seeped into the public imagination and reflected societys deepest fears and anxieties for nearly a century. Best known as lead guitarist of the famed rock band Metallica, Kirk Hammett is also an obsessive collector of visually arresting horror and sci-fi film art and has dedicated the last three decades to creating one of the worlds most important collections. Hammett credits his collection as a primary source for his own sonic creativity, reflecting, the stuff of horror has a mojo that always works on me. I start producing ideas. They just flow like liquid. Its Alive! -- on view at PEM August 12 through November 26 -- explores the interplay of creativity, emotion and popular culture through 135 works from 20th-century cinema, including posters by an interna ... More | | 
Yoshida Hiroshi; Sailing Boats Night, from the series The Seto Inland Sea, 1926; color woodblock print; Saint Louis Art Museum, The Margaret and Irvin Dagen Fund for Modern and Contemporary Japanese Prints in honor of Steven Owyoung 67:2016.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Saint Louis Art Museum is presenting A Century of Japanese Prints, an exhibition featuring more than 70 of the finest examples of the museums collection of modern and contemporary Japanese prints, two-thirds of which have never been on view at the museum. The exhibition opened Aug. 11 in Galleries 234 and 235. The museum recently celebrated the depth of its collection of Meiji-period military art with the exhibition Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan. This exhibition also highlights Japans visual culture, but it focuses on non-military works that reveal the creative approaches to modern Japanese printmaking. The museum has been building its collection of modern and contemporary Japanese prints since the early 1980s through donations of works as well as purchases made possible by the William K. Bixby ... More | | 
Most recently, Dackerman was a Getty scholar and consortium professor at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Photo: Rebecca Zamora / Getty Research Institute.
STANFORD, CA.- Scholar, curator and educator Susan Dackerman has been appointed the John and Jill Freidenrich Director of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, one of the most visited university museums in the country. She will join the staff on Sept. 18. Dackermans contributions to art scholarship and museology are numerous. In addition to organizing exhibitions and writing about art and its histories from the Renaissance to the present, Dackerman also is committed to refining the role of the university museum. In her various museum positions, she has been a liaison between academia and the museum and developed programs for integrating academic work into the galleries, museum publications and public events. In addition, she has devised a program for training graduate students in the production of museum-based scholarship. We ... More |
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| Akron Art Museum presents the sometimes weighty, sometimes lighthearted Heavy Metal | | Tampa Museum of Art presents "Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperralistic Paintings" | | RM Sotheby's gathers seven decades of Ferrari's finest for Maranello sale | 
Yayoi Kusama, Chair, 1962, enamel on chair and sewn and stuffed cloth pouches, 42 x 27 x 33 in. Collection of the Akron Art Museum. Gift of Wilbur J. Markstrom in honor of Rice A. Hershey, Jr.
AKRON, OH.- Whether in pure element, alloy or compound form, metal has served as a mother lode of ideas and materials for artists for centuries. On Saturday, August 12 the Akron Art Museum presents contemporary approaches to all things metallic in Heavy Metal, which pairs internationally known artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Lorna Simpson with artists who live in the Northeast Ohio community. Artists in the exhibition utilize metal or materials that resemble it to explore topics that include race and gender equality, personal narratives, the proliferation of warfare and others. Sculpture, jewelry, video, printmaking, painting, metalpoint, assemblage, tintypes and daguerreotypes will be on display. Associate Curator Theresa Bembnister said, Metal is rich in cultural connotations. Regardless of whether they are using gold, copper, silver, iron or another metal, the artists in this ... More | | 
Ralph Goings (American, b. 1928), Collins Diner, 1985-86 (detail). Oil on canvas. Tampa Museum of Art, Museum Purchase 1986.003. © Ralph Goings.
TAMPA, FLA.- The Tampa Museum of Art announced their summer exhibition, Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting, a major show of photorealistic works on view through October 22, 2017. This exhibition is presented by Bank of America and is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the Arts Council of Hillsborough and Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners. Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting traces the evolution of Photorealism from 1960 to today. The exhibition presents the work of some 30 artists known for their hyperrealistic depictions of ordinary objects and scenes of everyday life such as American diners, chrome features on cars and motorcycles, as well as meticulous portraits. Art dealer and author Louis K. Meisel coined the term photorealism in the late ... More | | 
1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider by Scaglietti. Photo: Darin Schnabel © 2017 Courtesy of RM Sothebys.
BLENHEIM, ON.- RM Sothebys announced an incredible lineup of recent entries for its single-marque Ferrari Leggenda e Passione sale, set for 9 September in partnership with Ferrari. Held at the legendary marques factory in Maranello, the auction celebrates Ferraris 70th anniversary year with automotive milestones across seven decades. Highlights among recent entries for the exclusive event are led by a genuine, numbers-matching 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider by Scaglietti, chassis no. 1503 GT. One of the most desirable examples of the ultimate open Ferrari of its era, 1503 GT is offered from nearly two decades of single ownership, having seldom been shown over this time. Sporting a beautifully maintained restoration and with fascinating history, it is ready for enjoyment on the show field or the vintage rally circuit (Est. 7,500,000 - 9,500,000). Nearly 30 years down the road in Ferraris rich ... More |
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| Cosmoscow announces artists and exhibitors for the 5th edition | | PAFA opens "A Collaborative Language: Selections from the Experimental Printmaking Institute" | | Knoxville Museum of Art opens American Impressionism exhibition | 
Cosmoscow announces record number of participants and artists and the launch of new displays.
MOSCOW.- The 5th-anniversary edition of Cosmoscow, Russias only international contemporary art fair, will take place in the historic market building, Gostiny Dvor, on 8-10 September 2017 supported by strategic partner Credit Suisse, jewelery partner Messika, automotive partner Bentley and official partner Beluga Transatlantic. Cosmoscow welcomes a record number of galleries and artists introducing 54 galleries from European countries including Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Georgia, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America that will exhibit works by more than 150 artists. The 2017 edition will launch a number of new initiatives to tie into the fairs long-term development goals. Innovations to the Fair include new sections such as Collaborations, Focus and Past Present and a special Cosmoscow Stand Prize will be awarded offering free participation in ... More | | 
Richard Anuszkiewicz, I, Twin Portals, 2003. Serigraph, 22 x 15.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts presents a new exhibition celebrating the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI) at Lafayette College and its 20-year history as one of the nation's leaders in fine art prints. Through the creative vision of its founder, master printmaker Curlee Raven Holton, EPI transcends boundaries by developing innovative visual methodologies that articulate the non-verbal exchanges between environment and experience, medium and process, and ultimately artist and printmaker. A Collaborative Language: Selections from The Experimental Printmaking Institute, featuring EPI's generous gift to PAFA of over 60 prints, details how EPI functions as a destination for artists to create fresh vocabularies with printers and Lafayette students, collectively reinventing approaches to surface, form, structure, and technique that allow artists to realize their work in imaginative ways. "Printmaking is all about ... More | | 
Robert Reid (Stockbridge, Massachusetts 1862-1929 Clifton Springs, New York), Summer Breezes, ca. 1910-20 (detail). Oil on canvas, 33 ¾ x 39 inches, Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.- The Knoxville Museum of Art announces American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artists Colony from August 11 through November 12, 2017. Drawn from the extensive collection of the Reading Public Museum, this vibrant exhibition examines the key role played by artists colonies in the development of American Impressionism. It features more than 50 paintings and works on paper by Frank W. Benson, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, William Paxton, Robert Reid, Chauncey Ryder, John Twachtman, Julian Alden Weir, and many others. Many of the nationally prominent artists represented in this exhibition have ties to East Tennessee and the KMAs ongoing display Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee. More than a dozen participated in large art exhibitions held in conjunction ... More |
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 Avoiding a Greek tragedy for Athens' modernist architectureATHENS (AFP).- Although in the shadow of its ancient hilltop Parthenon, Athens is also home to elegant architectural gems from the 19th and 20th centuries which marked its emergence as modern Greece's capital. But their numbers are dwindling fast after Greece's long and devastating economic crisis left many with little option but to tear them down rather than pay for their restoration. "Due to the crisis, it's expensive and difficult to repair these buildings, there is no financial help from the Greek state," says Maria Daniil, an architect, who specialises in buildings of the late 19th-early 20th century. "People prefer to abandon or to demolish them," she adds. In the 1980s, Daniil had access to state funding that helped her restore her 1936 family home in Koukaki, a neighbourhood in the foothills of the Acropolis. Occupying 300 square metres (3,228 square feet), ... More Ancient sites turned refugee camps as millions fled Partition NEW DELHI (AFP).- The Partition of India sparked one of the greatest mass migrations in modern history, with millions seeking sanctuary from the violence inside ancient tombs and forts -- transforming them into sprawling refugee camps. More than 15 million people were displaced following India's independence from Britain in 1947, with Muslims embarking for the newly formed Pakistan as Hindus and Sikhs moved in the opposite direction. At least a million died along the journey, the rest pouring into fetid camps erected in cities already pushed to the brink by violence, looting and food shortages. In New Delhi, where law and order had almost completely broken down, tens of thousands of Muslims sheltered behind the 16th-century walls of Humayan's Tomb waiting for safe passage to Pakistan. Tents were erected in the fine gardens surrounding the spectacular mausoleum ... More Russia's devout royalists protest racy biopic of tsarMOSCOW (AFP).- Russia on Thursday approved the cinema release of a racy film about Tsar Nicholas II's affair with a ballerina, despite protests from opponents and even threats of arson attacks. Matilda, a film directed by Alexei Uchitel focuses on Nicholas II's historically documented relationship with ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska. This was before his marriage to Queen Victoria's granddaughter Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1894 and his ascent to the throne that same year. Due out on October 25, the film has been granted it a 16+ release, the culture ministry said in a statement -- a decision likely to disappoint its critics. Despite having watched only the trailer, conservative, nationalist and Russian Orthodox protesters have condemned the film, saying Nicholas II must be shown as an "untouchable" holy figure. In one scene in the trailer, Nicholas is excited by seeing ... More Winner announced for John Fries Award 2017SYDNEY.- Copyright Agency | Viscopy has announced the winner of its prestigious annual John Fries Award 2017 which recognises the talents of early career visual artists from Australia and New Zealand with a $10,000 non-acquisitive art award. The John Fries Award 2017, now in its eighth year, will be presented to the winning artist at the opening of the exhibition featuring the 12 finalist works on Friday 11th August at Sydneys UNSW Galleries. The exhibition is open to the public from 12 August 2 September 2017. The John Fries Award 2017 has been awarded to Kuba Dorabialski a Sydney artist originally from Wrocław, Poland. The winning single channel video work was created as a new work for the award. Invocation Trilogy #1: Floor Dance of Lenin's Resurrection 2017 was selected by the judges who acknowledged the ambitious and complex work ... More Art Stage Jakarta announces winners of the inaugural Indonesia Art Award JAKARTA.- Art Stage Jakarta, organiser of the Award for Authenticity, Leadership, Excellence, Quality, Seriousness in Art has presented 13 Awards to significant players across the spectrum of Indonesias art scene. The award recognises and acknowledges their tremendous talent, passion, commitment and contribution to the Indonesian art world. Winners were judged and selected by 100 to 200 recognised individuals from the Indonesian art scene. The awards for Best Artist, Best Young Artist, Best Curator, Best Young Curator, Best Gallery, Best Young Gallery, Best Art Institution, Best Exhibition, Best Collector, Best Young Collector, Best Art Publication, Life Achievement Awards and the Bhinneka Award were presented at a Gala Award Ceremony at the Institut Francais dIndonesie. I would like to congratulate all the winners of the 13 award categories. who have truly ... More Solo exhibition of work by Rashaad Newsome opens at the Madison Museum of Contemporary ArtMADISON, WI.- The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art presents a solo exhibition of work by Rashaad Newsome, a New York-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice combines collage, video, music, computer programming, sculpture, and performance. Rashaad Newsome: ICON focuses on a selection of the artists performative videos that honor and celebrate the origins and continued dynamism of Vogue, a dance phenomenon that emerged from Harlems queer ballroom scene. The exhibition includes two of Newsomes earlier video works, both of which stand out as silent and poetic meditations on the human form in motion, in addition to his more recent pieces that merge dance, sound, and image into exuberant expressions of cultural agency. Rashaad Newsome: ICON opens to the public on Saturday, August 12, and will be on view in MMoCAs Imprint ... More Celebrity designer Lana Marks offers Princess Diana handbag in Heritage Luxury Accessories AuctionDALLAS, TX.- Luxury accessories designer to Hollywood, celebrities, and royalty Lana Marks, one of Princess Diana's closest friends, has exclusively produced an Emerald Green Princess Diana Handbag (est. $20,000+), which will be included in Heritage Auctions' Luxury Accessories Auction on Sept. 26 in Beverly Hills. All proceeds from this one-of-a-kind handbag will be donated to one of Princess Diana's favorite charities, the American Red Cross, to benefit children relocated to shelters after major disasters. Lana Marks is currently producing only a very limited number of Princess Diana Handbags, and is completely sold out of alligator and crocodile versions in the United States. "Princess Diana was such an excellent person and good friend, and I know she would be thrilled to see us honoring her memory," Marks says. "She was so passionate about helping children ... More Part 1 auction of a lifetime art glass and antique collection to be held Sept. 9thDOUGLASS, KAN.- Fred and Maxine Zumthurn of California accumulated so many pieces of art glass and other antiques over the course of their long and fruitful lives (Maxine has passed away), it will take at least two auctions possibly more to liquidate their entire collection. The first of these auctions is planned for Saturday, September 9th, in the gallery of Woody Auction, at 120 Third Street in Douglass. Part 1 of this exciting collection is sure to catch the attention of serious collectors, said Jason Woody of Woody Auction. Sold will be brides baskets, pickle castors, napkin rings, R. S. Prussia, inkwells, Wave Crest, cut glass and more nearly 450 lots in all. And, as always at Woody Auction, every item will be sold to the highest bidder, without reserve. The auction will begin at 9:30 am Central time. For those unable to attend in person, online bidding will be provided ... More Exhibition presents a selection of over 50 works by Yale University's 2017 MFA Photography graduatesSAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Casemore Kirkeby is presenting Doublespeak, a selection of over fifty new works by Yale Universitys 2017 MFA Photography graduates. The exhibition features work by Farah Al Qasimi, Bek Andersen, Lance Brewer, Harry Griffin, Matthew Leifheit, Walker Olesen, Res, Anna Shimshak, Danna Singer, and Chau Tran, who explore moments between fact and fiction, evidence and artifice, through the medium of photography. Operating within a unique two-year span of unprecedented American politics and media coverage, the artists contend with a new age of documentary anxiety in which truth, consequence, and reality bend under the weight of perceived emotional authenticity. As the title suggests, Doublespeak engages with the distortion of meaning, and within this context the photograph serves as a historical vehicle ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat died August 12, 1988. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 - August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. In this image: A gallery assistant poses with US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Warrior" at Sotheby's auction house in central London on June 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL.
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