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An expert retouches a replica of a "Bajadasaurus pronuspinax", a new long-spined dinosaur found in Patagonia, during its presentation in Buenos Aires, on February 4, 2019. Juan MABROMATA / AFP.
BUENOS AIRES (AFP).- A herbivorous dinosaur that fended off predators with a row of spines running along its back and lived 140 million years ago has been found in Argentine Patagonia. The discovery of the new species of dicraeosauridae, christened Bajadasaurus pronuspinax, was revealed in scientific journal Nature. A reproduction of its spiny neck was exhibited in the Cultural Science Center in Buenos Aires. "We believe that the long and sharp spines -- very long and thin -- on the neck and back of Bajadasaurus and Amargasaurus cazaui (another dicraeosauridae) must have been to deter possible predators," said Pablo Gallina, an assistant researcher at the state council of scientific and technical investigations (CONICET) and Maimonides University. "We think that had they been just b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A payphone used by KGB agents is on display at The KGB Spy Museum in New York on January 25, 2019. The exhibit presents a never-before-seen collection of items covering the activities of KGB agents and revealing the methods that underlay many of history's top secret espionage operations. The vast exhibition hall, housed in a former warehouse on 14th Street, is home to some 3,500 original period objects, which Lithuanian historian and designer of the museum Julius Urbaitis, 55, claims to have gathered after 30 years of research "around the world." TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP
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 | | Groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence artwork to be offered at auction for the first time | | Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents over 800 Bauhaus objects | | Christie's to offer The George Michael Collection | 
An exciting new step in the field of AI art, Memories of Passersby I self-generates an infinite stream of new portraits. Estimate: £30,000-40,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Heralding the latest development in the rapidly emerging field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art, Sothebys will offer the first self-contained, generative work of Artificial Intelligence ever to appear on the market, as part of the Contemporary Art Day Auction in London on March 6. Titled Memories of Passersby I, Mario Klingemanns groundbreaking installation comprises a wooden console table which hosts an AI computer brain, and two framed screens upon which the machines output - disquieting portraits of imagined male and female faces - blur hypnotically into focus. Differing from the finalised human-curated products of AI which have previously been exhibited or sold at auction, this is the first complete AI model, and only the second AI artwork, ever to appear on the market. A remarkable technological feat, the interminable flow of images presented does not follow a predefined choreograph ... More | | 
Theo van Doesburg, Grundbegriffe der neuen gestaltenden Kunst (no 6 of the Bauhausbücher series), design Theo van Doesburg, 1925. Private collection, the Netherlands.
ROTTERDAM.- netherlands ⇄ bauhaus, with over 800 Bauhaus objects, opens this weekend. It is the final major exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen before its renovation. On the opening day Saturday, February 9 admission to the museum is free for everyone. Prior to the large-scale renovation of the museum building in Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging one last major exhibition in the 1500-square-metre space of the Bodon Gallery. In 2019 it is the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the legendary art and design school that still has a palpable influence on contemporary design and architecture. netherlands ⇄ bauhaus pioneers of a new world offers a unique insight into the inspiring interaction between the Netherlands and the Bauhaus. It lays bare the netherlands ⇄ bauhaus network in a large-scale survey, with over 800 objects and works of art. Th ... More | | 
Michael Craig-Martin, Commissioned Portrait Untitled (George) wall-mounted LCD monitor/computer with integrated software 49½ x 29½ x 4¾in. (125.7 x 74.9 x 11.9cm.) Executed in 2007 £40,000-60,000 $57,000-84,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies will present for auction the art collection of George Michael, British singer and songwriter, and icon of the imaginative spirit of the 1980s and 1990s. Proceeds from this sale will be used to continue George Michaels philanthropic work. One of the most influential and best-selling recording artists of all time, George Michaels private art collection represents a dialogue with his own British contemporaries, artists such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Michael Craig-Martin, and Marc Quinn, who rose to prominence by challenging the status quo of the time, and together creating the Young British Art movement. Through visits to galleries and artists studios, he developed friendships with many of the YBA artists whose work he deeply admired. The collection represents George Michaels dedication to cutting-edge creativity in every ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at ARKEN features Patricia Piccinini's magical and thought-provoking works | | Most comprehensive exhibition of works by Laure Prouvost opens at Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp | | 'Angry Young Man' actor Albert Finney dies aged 82 | 
Patricia Piccinini, 2018. Photo Hilary Walker.
COPENHAGEN.- Its magical, its alluring, its disturbing and its bizarre Patricia Piccininis (b. 1965) peculiar world offers a truly unique experience. ARKENs staged and evocative exhibition unfolds the Australian artists practice in all its entirety with video, small and large hyper-realistic sculptures and installations. The exhibition invites the audience on a marvelous journey through a series of vivid scenes where hybrid creatures interact in different everyday situations. In Piccininis playful and transcending universe, digital and biotechnological opportunities have shaped new hybrid life forms. Fact and fiction merge in Piccininis art. She draws inspiration from science fiction, folktales and Surrealism in stories that also weave together elements from biology and other sciences. The works thematize climate change and high-tech conditions which in various radical ... More | | 
Laure Prouvost, The Artist, 2010, Courtesy of Tamares Real Estate Holdings, Inc. in collaboration with Zabludowicz Collection. Photo M HKA.
ANTWERP.- This exhibition is the largest organised to date on the practice of artist Laure Prouvost. Offering a wide-angle panorama of Provousts career ranging from a key selection of her formative monologue video works, through to recent major installations the exhibition seeks to portray the work of an artist developing complex thought through artistic languages. This museum survey delves into the philosophical depths of Prouvosts work, and considers the notion of the pre-verbal, as well as its incompatibility with the verbal. The exhibition presents a substantial body of work by Prouvost, emphasising the web of ideas the artist develops for considering the complex state of mental life. Her practice has deep resonance to the significant ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on March 14, 2000, British actor Albert Finney arrives to attend the premiere of his new film "Erin Brockovich" in Los Angeles. LUCY NICHOLSON / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Veteran actor Albert Finney, who found fame as one of Britain's "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s and 60s and went on to star in films including "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Erin Brockovich", has died at the age of 82, a family spokesman said Friday. Finney, who received four best actor Oscar nominations and won three Golden Globes, "passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side", the spokesman said. A Shakespearean actor, he mixed his movie career with television roles and acclaimed stage performances. He made his name in the gritty kitchen-sink drama "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960, becoming part of the wave of working-class actors and writers who revolutionised British ... More |
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| | | Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum receives SpaceShipTwo rocket motor from Virgin Galactic | | Works spanning Robert Mangold's career from 1967 to 2017 on view at Galerie Greta Meert | | Superman and Wonder Woman have landed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | 
Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson speaks during a ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2019. Jim WATSON / AFP.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Air and Space Museum received RocketMotorTwo, the hybrid engine that powered Virgin Galactics SpaceShipTwo, called VSS Unity, into space for the first time Dec. 13, 2018. This historic flight showcased Virgin Galactics newest vehicle, capable of carrying up to six passengers into space. RocketMotorTwo will eventually be displayed in the Future of Spaceflight exhibition, scheduled to open in 2024 as part of the museums seven-year renovation. SpaceShipTwos rocket motor is an exciting addition to the national collection of milestone spaceflight artifacts, said Ellen Stofan, John and Adrienne Mars Director of the museum. It is a unique piece of history that represents a new era in space travel and is sure to inspire the next generation of innovators and explorers. Virgin Galactic pioneered commercial spaceflight with ... More | | 
Robert Mangold, Plane / Figure IV, 1992, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 266,7 x 233,5 cm (bottom) 165,5 cm (top).
BRUSSELS.- On the occasion of its seventh exhibition with Robert Mangold, Galerie Greta Meert presents a large selection of works spanning the artists career from 1967 to 2017. The exhibition comprises works on paper, shaped canvases and works on Masonite panels the artists characteristic materials. Beginning with the seemingly simple idea of starting over, Robert Mangolds work operates a reduction of painting to its most primary elements: shapes, planes, colours, lines, scale and materials. Often working through extensive series of preliminary sketches, Mangold is a calculated and precise artist who has repeatedly been portrayed as a formalist. Yet he has also described himself a romantic artist and his line drawings are best defined by their quasi-lyrical quality. Originally responding to the influence of late abstract expressionism and to the rise of pop art, Mangold remains hard to classify even w ... More | | 
Mel Ramos, Wonder Woman, 1962. Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 in. Rochelle and Darren Leininger Family Collection.
BENTONVILLE, ARK.- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents the debut of Men of Steel, Women of Wonder on view February 9 to April 22, 2019. The exhibition, organized by Crystal Bridges, features approximately 70 artworks, including paintings, photography, video, sculptures, performance art, and more, created by over 50 US and international artists, including Renée Cox, Mel Ramos, Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Dara Birnbaum, Roger Shimomura, Jacky Tsai, Enrique Chogoya, Michael Ray Charles, Raymond Pettibon, Pope.L, Norman Rockwell, and more. We are excited to debut of Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, which continues our commitment to organize fresh and innovative exhibitions that inspire creative conversations, said Rod Bigelow, executive director and chief diversity & inclusion officer of Crystal Bridges. Through the lens of Superman and Wonder Woman, ... More |
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| | | Art Museum of West Virginia University names new Director | | The Davis Museum challenges the expected in 'Art_Latin_America: Against the Survey' | | First major retrospective of George Shaw's work opens at the Holburne Museum | 
Tubutis joins the Art Museum of WVU from his position as associate director of the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
MORGANTOWN, WV.- As the second director of the Art Museum of West Virginia University, Todd J. Tubutis plans to build on the progress of establishing the museum as a vibrant cultural hub for both the campus and the community. Tubutis, who succeeds the retired Joyce Ice as director, begins his tenure Feb. 25, the College of Creative Arts announced today. As we head into the museums fourth year of operation, we know Todd will bring his eagerness and many refreshing ideas to help us engage more West Virginians in experiencing the transformative power of art, said College of Creative Arts Dean Keith Jackson. Tubutis said he plans to continue compelling exhibitions and programs and grow the museums collections in meaningful ways. There is great potential to engage students and faculty in all disciplines, keeping the rigor and curiosity ... More | | 
Olga Albizu, Untitled, 1959. Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 in. (55.9 cm x 76.2 cm) Museum purchase, The Dorothy Johnston Towne (Class of 1923) Fund, 2018.165 Artwork: Courtesy of the artists estate.
WELLESLEY, MASS.- The Davis Museum at Wellesley College presents Art_Latin_America: Against the Survey, an exhibition highlighting important works of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art from the Museums extensive permanent collections. The show features 150 objects by nearly 100 artists including 32 womenfrom Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Also represented are U.S. and European artists who worked in Latin America, as well as many of Latin American descent based in the United States. The exhibition, on view in the Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery and Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery, runs from February 7 through June 9, 2019. Using the diversity of the Davis Museum collection as a case studyespecially ... More | | 
Detail of Ash Wednesday: 8:30 am, 2004-5, Part of the Ian and Mercedes Stoutzkers gift to the Tate.
BATH.- George Shaw makes remarkable paintings of Tile Hill, the council estate in Coventry where he grew up in the Seventies and Eighties, that reveal the latent beauty even in the most mundane subject matter. Shaws hyper-realistic paintings record the run-down and often over-looked aspects of modern life. Where landscape painters such as Constable and Turner found majesty and the sublime in pastoral settings, Shaw does so in a world of abandoned garages, huge England flags in windows and foreboding paths through suburban woodland. A Corner of a Foreign Field is the first major retrospective of Shaws work, and Baths Holburne Museum is the only European venue for this exhibition. It features 20 paintings and 50 drawings that span Shaws career from 1996 to the present day, including several new works never previously seen in the UK. Much of A Corner of a Foreign Field focuses on scenes of the Tile ... More |
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 MIT List Visual Arts Center opens two new solo exhibitionsCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center is presenting two solo exhibitions featuring recent and new sculptural work by Kapwani Kiwanga and Kathleen Ryan. Kapwani Kiwanga is a Paris-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavating and considering the global impact of colonialism and how it permeates contemporary culture. Her work is research-driven, instigated by marginalized or forgotten histories, and articulated across a range of materials and mediums including sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance. At the core of her exhibition at the List Center is an interest in surveillance and the systems used in controlling the movement of bodies in space. Kiwanga follows the lineage of surveillance in relation to blackness in America, from its colonial roots in slavery to Jim Crow era networks of resistance to the visibility new industry ... More Quartz Studio opens the first solo show in Italy by the Swedish artist Astrid SvangrenTURIN.- Quartz Studio is presenting her spinning takes place near the mouth / I see what I eat / I eat what I see / It is an eating that is about risk, the first solo show in Italy by the Swedish artist Astrid Svangren (Göteborg, Sweden, 1972), drafted by the Danish curator Nina Wöhlk. The site-specific installation conceived for Quartz Studio - states the artist - seeks to think through colour as a living entity. Something that has agency, the ability to shape and be shaped by the context that gives it its form. It explores colour as a language that gives meaning to feelings, thoughts, and dreams and all their contradictions, and which resists any other form of expression. Colour as irreducible to language; experienced only as lived. The work is an attempt to know what cannot be said. The work presents itself as a homely, feminine setting in an abstract sense, with constructed weavers ... More Andréhn-Schiptjenko opens new gallery space with exhibition of works by Tony MatelliSTOCKHOLM.- Andréhn-Schiptjenko is presenting Tony Matellis sixth solo show at the gallery, celebrating two decades of collaboration with the artist. The exhibition coincides with the opening of the gallerys new space at Linnégatan 31 in Stockholm. Matelli works in a variety of sculptural techniques and materials, his uvre displaying an uncanny fusion of conceptual clarity and technical breadth. Many issues of his generation alienation, ambivalence, and decadence manifest themselves directly in his work. His sculptures possess a concision and frankness that can simultaneously seem crass and profound. There is also an element of provocation; a protest against playing by the universally accepted rules or conventions that exist as an inseparable part of the world that surrounds us. His sculptures can best be described as antimonuments, ... More Inaugural Connect Art Fair impresses as friendly fair with steady flow of sales LONDON.- Connect The Independent Art Fair opened its doors for the first time at the Mall Galleries on Tuesday, 29th January 2019. The Fair had been eagerly anticipated by dealers and art collectors alike and the queue to get in was testament to that. The first day saw lots of visitors through the door of which a high percentage converted into buyers. Although the wintery weather and particularly the weather forecast caused a couple of quieter days, but Friday and Saturday saw many collectors coming to buy. Set up by a co-operative of art dealers, who were aiming to fill the sudden gap in the fair calendar created by the absence of fairs focusing on the discerning, entry and mid-level, collector, both dealers and visitors were impressed by the high standard of exhibitors and the friendliness of the Fair. There was something for everyone although ... More The Poster Prize for Illustration 2019 winners announcedLONDON.- The winners of the prestigious Poster Prize for Illustration 2019 awards have been announced. The competition, which is open to illustrators and students of illustration around the world, is organized by the Association of Illustrators and London Transport Museum. Artists were invited to respond to the theme of London Stories and create an illustration that visually captures a well-known or obscure London narrative; stories that are contemporary or historical, real or imagined. Over 1,500 illustrations were submitted by professional artists and students worldwide. An exhibition in the Museum showcases 100 of the best which were chosen by an independent panel of judges made up of experts from the art and design world. The illustrations will be on display in the Exterion Media Gallery until 14 July 2019. Visitors will be able to enjoy a breadth of interpretations ... More At last, an exhibition about landscape architecture!OSLO.- Did you know that Norway was the first country in Europe to educate landscape architects? Have you ever considered that outdoor spaces such as gardens, parks, urban spaces, and cemeteries have all been designed and planned by someone? In 2019 it will be a hundred years since the landscape architect programme began at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. The centennial is being celebrated with the Outdoor Matters exhibition at the National Museum Architecture. The exhibition runs from 8 February to 1 September 2019. Landscape architecture involves designing and managing outdoor spaces, and the discipline is a vital part of building a green society. Using archival drawings from NMBU, the exhibition places particular emphasis on the pioneering age of landscape architecture from 1900 to 1960. The exhibition has been set ... More James Freeman Gallery opens a solo exhibition with new work by British artist James MortimerLONDON.- Land of Mortimer, a solo exhibition with new work by British artist James Mortimer takes place from Friday 8 February to Saturday 2 March 2019 at James Freeman Gallery. Mortimers new body of work includes provocative oil paintings and ink drawings exploring nature and humanity, often through a skewed comedic lens. His pieces feature stylised idyllic landscapes characterised by darkly humorous undertones and macabre scenarios. Naked figures and exotic animals fight and romp amidst clear blue waters, palm trees and fields of wheat, displaying universal elements of the human condition. Mortimers work draws from an amalgam of memory and imagination, usually painting from the minds eye and sometimes using his own body and a collection of stuffed animals and skeletons as models for his figures. Among the works created for the show include ... More FACTION Art Projects opens annual exhibition celebrating the local talent of HarlemNEW YORK, NY.- FACTION Art Projects have announced their second Harlem Perspectives, an annual exhibition celebrating the local talent of Harlem and uptown New York. Harlem Perspectives II is co-curated by Leanne Stella of Art In FLUX, and showcases an eclectic mix of local artists who live and work above Manhattans 110th Street. This years edition of Harlem Perspectives presents works by a selection of artists who deconstruct history through their process of art making. With their hands, a brush, or through a lens, the artists investigate, manipulate and work materials and objects that are charged with a personal and/or political narrative. While teasing, tearing and appropriating materials, the artists examine the cultural values and historical significance placed on the objects or subjects in their work. The resulting works define a new narrative ... More Kunstverein München opens a solo exhibition of new sculptures and installations by Eva FàbregasMUNICH.- From 9 February until 5 May 2019, Kunstverein München presents Those things that your fingers can tell a solo exhibition comprised of new sculptures and installations by Eva Fà bregas. Fà bregas practice primarily concerns forms of somatic experimentation, exploring the eroticism of consumer objects, the social engineering of desire, and cultures of wellness, therapy, and heightened sensation. Her recent work concerns all those objects, tools, and instruments that are used with, for, and on our bodies, either to produce sensorial effects (pleasure, relaxation, therapy, euphoria, etc.), to correct our posture, discipline our bodies, or even to become part of them. As a visual glossary for this research, Fà bregas presents a massive drawing on three walls, populated by forms alluding to a wide variety of therapeutic, prosthetic, ergonomic, ... More National Museum of the American Indian opens "Section 14: The Other Palm Springs, California"WASHINGTON, DC.- Just one block from downtown Palm Springs, with its busy restaurants, hotels and shopping district, lies the other Palm SpringsSection 14. It is the square-mile section of land that forms the heart of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation. Native American tribes, such as the Agua Caliente Band, are sovereignNative nations, not federal, state or city governments, have the inherent right to govern their people and territories. Over the years, however, corporations, property developers and non-tribal governments have challenged this sovereignty. The Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian presents Section 14: The Other Palm Springs, California, an exhibition that tells the story of the Agua Caliente Bands struggle for justice and rights to their land in the popular California resort town. Section 14: The Other Palm Springs, California, ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter Gerhard Richter was born February 09, 1932. Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In this image: German artist Gerhard Richter gestures in front of his painting "Abstract Painting (946-3)" during a press conference before the opening of the exhibition "Gerhard Richter, New Paintings" on May 19, 2017. ROBERT MICHAEL / AFP.
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