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The 1.93-kilogram bar was found by a construction worker during excavations for a new building along the Alameda. Photo: MNA-INAH.
MEXICO CITY (AFP).- A gold bar found in a Mexico City park in 1981 was part of the Aztec treasure looted by Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago, a new study says. The 1.93-kilogram bar was found by a construction worker during excavations for a new building along the Alameda, a picturesque park in the heart of the Mexican capital. For 39 years, its origins remained a mystery. But thanks to specialized X-rays, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) says it has now confirmed where the bar came from: the Spaniards' hasty, though temporary, retreat during the so-called "Noche Triste," or "Sad Night." That night -- June 30, 1520 -- the Aztecs, furious over the slaughter of their nobles and priests, drove the Spanish invaders from their capital, Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors escaped with as much looted Aztec treasure as they could carry, including, apparently, the gold bar in question. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day 303 Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition of new work by Kim Gordon. In a series of new works on canvas, Gordon presents a world of safety and familial intimacy surreptitiously undermined by insidious, unseen forces. Installation view, Kim Gordon, The Bonfire, 303 Gallery, New York, January 10 - February 22, 2020. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
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 | | Schantz Galleries presents works by Lino Tagliapietra at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary | | William Shakespeare's First Folio to be auctioned at Christie's | | Jan Lievens masterpiece featuring Rembrandt as model to be offered at Sotheby's | 
Lino Tagliapietra. Photo: K. Saul, Schantz Galleries.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Schantz Galleries is presenting LINO 2O2O | La Dolce Vita, at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Lino Tagliapietra has exhibited with Schantz Galleries in over 25 solo shows. This exhibition is a testimony to the Maestros love for his glass and the importance it holds in his life. Utilizing his classic forms and a full spectrum of color, each work is seems to be filled with gratitude for La Dolce Vitathe sweet lifewhich, through his creations, he reminds us to see in the world. In addition to the blown glass sculptures, and a Masai wall installation, Schantz Galleries is exhibiting two large scale Totemic installations to be premiered for the first time in the USA., arriving directly from Murano. This exhibition, Linoʼs 26th solo show with Schantz Galleries, will feature a new "Totem" structure alongside his spectacular pedestal and wall mounted artworks. Utilizing his class ... More | | 
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published According to the True Originall Copies. London: Printed by Isaac Jaggard and Ed. Blount, 1623. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced the auction of William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the First Folio, as part of the Exceptional Sale during Classic Week at Christies New York on 24 April 2020 (estimate $4,000,000 - 6,000,000). The First Folio, bringing together for the first time the collected plays of Shakespeare, ranks as the greatest work of the English language and, indeed, of world literature. Already celebrated on its first publication, it has remained a highly sought-after masterpiece over four centuries. Only six complete copies are known in private hands. Shakespeares First Folio is being sold on behalf of Mills College in Oakland, California. The First Folio will be toured to ... More | | 
Jan Lievenss A Woman Embraced by a Man, depicting friend and rival Rembrandt van Rijn as model, highlights Sotheby's Master Paintings Evening Sale in New York on 29 January. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- On offer from the private collection of J.E. Safra, A Woman Embraced by a Man, is an early masterpiece by one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch painters of the 17th century and is now believed to feature none other than Rembrandt van Rijn as the model for the man. The oil on canvas was painted in 1626-1627, when Lievens was only around 20 years old, yet already established as a fully-fledged and commercially successful artist working in his native Leiden. Despite his youthful age, he was developing as a highly skilled and inventive technician at a rapid pace so much so that he was largely considered to be more talented than his principal rival, Rembrandt. Born in Leiden just over a year apart, both artists studied with the same master and lived near one another, yet ... More |
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| | The Museum of Modern Art launches free online course titled What Is Contemporary Art? | | 303 Gallery opens its second solo exhibition of new work by Kim Gordon | | Neil Peart, drummer for Rush, dies at 67 | 
Still from Artist Story film with Sheila Hicks. © 2019 The Museum of Modern Art.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art launches the free massive open online course What Is Contemporary Art?, available now on Coursera. This course offers an in-depth look at over 70 works of art from MoMAs collectionmany of which are currently on view in the expanded Museumfrom 1980 to the present, with a focus on art produced in the last decade. Learners will hear directly from artists, architects, and designers from around the globe about their creative processes, materials, and inspiration. What Is Contemporary Art? can be found at mo.ma/whatiscontemporaryart. What Is Contemporary Art? is organized around five themes: Media from Television to the Internet, Territories & Transit, Materials & Making, Agency, and Power. These themes are explored through artworks drawn from every curatorial department at MoMA. Examples include 3-Dprinted glass and fiber sculptures, performances in a factory and a ... More | | 
Kim Gordon, The Bonfire 13, 2018. Glazed ceramic 3 x 14 1/2 x 5 inches (7.6 x 36.8 x 12.7 cm). © Kim Gordon, courtesy 303 Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- 303 Gallery is presenting its second solo exhibition of new work by Kim Gordon. In a series of new works on canvas, Gordon presents a world of safety and familial intimacy surreptitiously undermined by insidious, unseen forces. Photographs of a group of revelers huddling around a beach bonfire are softened and overlaid with digital framing marks around the human figures, suggesting surveillance technology or facial recognition software. These images are emblematic of a new reality where no moment goes uncaptured, and where even the most ordinary events are packaged and sold, like an Airbnb listing promising a branded experience of intimacy. Gordon amplifies this phenomenon, referencing iconography from the world of music as it dovetails with youthful rebellion. The various crops and crosshairs allude to the logos of both Black Flag and Public Enemy, two groups emblematic of questioning ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on April 17, 2013 Inductee Neil Peart of Rush poses in the press room at the 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Jason Merritt / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.
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NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Neil Peart, the pyrotechnical drummer and high-concept lyricist for the Canadian progressive-rock trio Rush, died on Tuesday in Santa Monica, California. He was 67. The cause was brain cancer, according to a statement by the bands spokesman, Elliot Mintz. Rush was formed in 1968 but found its long-term identity as the trio of Geddy Lee on vocals, keyboards and bass, Alex Lifeson on guitars and Peart on drums after Peart replaced the bands founding drummer, John Rutsey, in 1974. Pearts lyrics transformed the bands songs into multi-section suites exploring science fiction, magic and philosophy, often with the individualist and libertarian sentiments that informed songs like Tom ... More |
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| | Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie presents "Patterns": A group show | | State Museum transfers ownership of cornplanter's pipe tomahawk to Seneca Nation of Indians | | French court orders 52mn euro payout in 'Mona Lisa' Ferrari battle | 
Sheila Hicks, Joie Capturée, 2019. Synthetic Fibers, cotton, 61 cm. Diameter x 10 cm. Depth ( 24 in. x 3 7/8 in. ).
BASEL.- The work included in PATTERNS are comprised of compositional arrangements that create equilibrium, predictabilities, and cohesion. The repetitive tempos and aesthetic rhythms at play in the paintings, textiles, drawings, and sculpture create integrated unified experiences. Originating their own system of repetition, each artist embraces the affordances of pattern to articulate knowingness and foreseeability, forms of stability, and compositional strength. The work in this group exhibition reaches beyond the decorative and activates patterns that offers alternatives to the disorganization and the commotion defining a shapeless social and political contemporaneity. Deploy the quintessential modernist grid, Dan Walshs paintings evoke inexhaustible compositional variations within the limitations of the two-dimensional structure. Stephen Westfalls co-mingles the warp and weft anatomy of textiles with the tenets of hard-edge ... More | | 
The 18th-century pipe tomahawk was gifted to Cornplanter by President Washington. Photo Courtesy: New York State Museum.
ALBANY, NY.- The New York State Museum and the Seneca Nation today announced that a pipe tomahawk originally given to the respected Seneca leader and diplomat Cornplanter by President George Washington has been officially returned to the Seneca Nation. The announcement took place at the Nations Onöhsagwe:de Cultural Center, where the pipe tomahawk has been on loan since March 2019. The 18th-century pipe tomahawk was gifted to Cornplanter by President Washington at one of several meetings between United States and Iroquois Confederacy leaders in the years 1792 1794. The Cornplanter pipe tomahawk entered the New York State Museums collection in 1851 from Seneca diplomat Ely Parker. Sometime between 1947 and 1950 the object went missing from the Museum and for nearly 70 years was in the hands of private collectors. Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, the pipe tomahawk was returned to the State Museum in June ... More | | 
A Ferrari 250 GTO, similar to a rare model whose sale is being disputed by the children of a storied French leather and fur company A Ferrari 250 GTO, similar to a rare model whose sale is being disputed by the children of a storied French leather and fur company AFP/File.
LIMOGES.- A French appeals court has ordered the son of a renowned Ferrari collector to pay his siblings millions of euros over the disputed sale of a coveted racer considered the storied Italian automaker's "Mona Lisa". Patrick Bardinon was sued for breach of trust after auctioning off the rare 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO to a Taiwanese buyer in 2014 for 38 million euros ($42 million at current rates) -- a record at the time. He says it was a gift from his father Pierre Bardinon, a descendent of the family behind luxury fur and leather house Chapal, after Patrick was in an horrendous racing accident. "My father thought I had died that day," he said last March when the lawsuit first came to court. But Anne and Jean-Francois Bardinon claim their brother secretly removed the car from their father's collection and unlawfully sold the crown ... More |
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| | 'Elliot Norquist: Mail Room' opens at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of ceramic works by the late John Mason | | Pinakothek der Moderne announces the death of Florian Hufnagl | 
Elliot Norquist, Forever, 2019. Painted steel, 36 x 27 x 6 inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- You know what they are as soon as you walk into the gallery: windowed security envelope, sign here tab, file folder, manila envelope. Except, not quite. The two foot by three foot manila envelope is writ large, its perfect recreated folds, the metal hasp, the circular window they simultaneously are and are not quite familiar. What is going on here? Those familiar with Elliot Norquists work, his metal wall sculpture in particular, will recognize at once the attitude of seriousplay at work here. And while these representative pieces may at first feel like a radical departure for someone who has devoted himself almost wholly to the study of minimal geometries, a little time, a bit longer spent with these Mail Room pieces, sets off an aha of recognition. There is the triangle, the rectangle, the circle. There are the interacting planes, subtly highlighted by the faintly shadowed folds that recreate an envelopes clever cons ... More | | 
Orange Cross, 1963. Glazed stoneware, 64 x 49 x 16 inches, 162.6 x 124.5 x 40.6 cm © 1963 Estate of John Mason. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting Geometric Force, an exhibition of ceramic works by the late John Mason. One of the most visionary ceramic artists of the last century, Mason brought his medium into conversation with Abstract Expressionism by extending the physical and spatial properties of clay. He began his career on the West Coast in the 1950s, as part of a group of artists who studied with the pioneering ceramist Peter Voulkos at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles. Mason and his contemporaries challenged conventional ideas about ceramics, making large, abstract, subversive works. Mason worked at scale, his wall reliefs and expressionistic sculptural works matching the ambitious painting and sculpture of the era. In his Los Angeles studio, which he shared for a time with Voulkos, they began employing industrial techniques and technologies: humidifiers from ... More | | 
From 1998 to 2013 Florian Hufnagl was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bavarian State Museums. Photo: Hannes Magerstaedt.
MUNICH.- As the son of an architect who grew up in Munich the later museum director was well placed to make the topic of design the major focus of his life. Florian Hufnagl studied Classical Archaeology, Modern and Contemporary History, and History of Art at the LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität). In 1976, with Norbert Lieb as his supervisory, he was awarded a doctorate for his dissertation on Munich-based architect Gottfried von Neureuther (1811-1887). After completing a stint as a trainee at the Bavarian National Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hufnagl initially freelanced as an art historian. He then embarked on a museum career in 1980 when he was appointed to work as a curator under Hans Wichmann, who was Director of Die Neue Sammlung at the time, which was then still known as the State Museum of Applied Arts and Design. In ... More |
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 A Director making his mark in more ways than oneLONDON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Director Jamie Lloyd was giving me a tour of his tattoos. Not the Pegasus on his chest or the skeleton astronaut floating on his back, although he gamely described those, but the onyx-inked adornments that cover his arms and hands, that wreathe his neck, that wrap around his shaved head. When I asked about the dragon at his throat, he told me it had been one of the ones that hurt the least, then pointed to the flame-licked skulls on either side of his neck: his covert way, he said, of representing dramas traditional emblems for comedy and tragedy. I thought maybe itd be a little bit tacky to have theater masks on my neck, he added, a laugh bubbling up, and its true: His dragon would have eaten them for lunch. It was early December, and we were in a lounge beneath the Playhouse Theater, where Lloyds West ... More Exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Zachary Leener opens at Klaus GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Klaus Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new ceramic sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Zachary Leener. Each of the eight domestically scaled works made for this exhibition feature a duo of sentinel-like ovoid forms bookending mutable configurations between them. The convex exterior structures are glazed in mild tones and precise checkered patterns, and seem to converse with each other while presiding over a set of more raw and tactile constructions within. Leeners practice emphasizes a philosophi-spiritual approach to artmaking, a cleansing labor where objects are imbued with answers to the questions the studio asks. The title of this exhibition, which is the title of each of the individual works on view, is Shekhinah, a term borrowed from Jewish mystical theology with an elastic array of definitions: a dwelling or setting; ... More Not just crawling across the art worldNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Artists often adopt personas in their work master painter, trickster, savant and you can see this in the 13 performances of the maverick artist William Pope.L at the Museum of Modern Art. And he uses the characters in his show, member: Pope.L, 1978-2001, to critique race and class in the United States. Member is one of three exhibitions of Pope.Ls work mounted last fall, collectively titled Instigation, Aspiration, Perspiration, and organized by MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Public Art Fund. At the Whitney, his room-size Choir features an industrial water tank installed in a darkened space and eerie sound elements created by contact microphones placed near the pipes leading to the tank. Pope.L does this to show how even neutral or natural elements like water get embroiled in social ... More Peru to plant one million trees around Machu PicchuLIMA (AFP).- Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra launched a campaign on Thursday to reforest the Machu Picchu archeological site in order to protect it from mud slides and forest fires. Vizcarra has pledged to plant one million trees in the 35,000-hectare protected archeological complex that features the stunning Inca citadel. "We're here to begin the planting of a million trees in the protected zone around the Machu Picchu sanctuary," said Vizcarra. The Machu Picchu estate -- which includes three distinct areas for agriculture, accommodation and religious ceremonies -- is the most iconic site from the Inca empire that ruled a large swathe of western South America for 100 years before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Vizcarra said the ambitious target of one million trees is "a commitment from the government, the region, the municipality and all ... More Trio of appointments strengthens Cheffins teamCAMBRIDGE .- Nicolas Martineau, who has worked for Christies for over 30 years, is one of a trio of appointments Cheffins Fine Art have made as the Cambridge-based firm continues its expansion. Nicolas will be primarily working alongside Jonathan Law in Cheffins private client department, developing new business for Cheffins around the country. As a director at Christies for over 12 years and an experienced auctioneer both in house and on behalf of charities, Nick has a wide breadth of knowledge and a particular interest in topographical pictures. The appointment follows Antiques Roadshow specialist Adam Schoon joining as a consultant and new departmental assistant Gabrielle Downie, who has a masters degree in Art History at UCL and previously worked at Newnham College in Cambridge. Charles Ashton, director at Cheffins Fine ... More Philippe Cognée focuses on flowers in exhibition at Galerie TemplonPARIS.- For his return to Galerie Templon, the painter Philippe Cognée, famous for his blurred wax-paintings, is branching off in a radically different direction. After exploring supermarkets, highways, skyscrapers and slaughterhouses, his focus is now on flowers, which he masterfully metamorphoses into monumental vanities. For many years, Philippe Cognée seemed obsessed with everyday life. He made a name for himself with his monochrome paintings of fridges and washing machines that filled the entire plane of the canvas. Observing the world through the prism of photography, video or Google map, he developed large scale compositions featuring high-rises, supermarkets, roads, deserted suburbs and anonymous crowds, toeing the line of abstraction. His visual language of richly textured and sensual wax, melted, crushed, ripped off with plastic ... More Alasdair Gray, Scottish author of daring prose, dies at 85NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Alasdair Gray, who wrote some of Scotlands most celebrated and strange fiction, which he often interlaced with his own sharply etched illustrations, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in Glasgow. He was 85. His niece Kat Rolley said the cause was complications of pneumonia. Grays first novel, Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981), wasnt published until he was 46, but it came to be hailed as a masterpiece. He wrote six more novels and six collections of short stories, influencing a generation of writers. In a wide-ranging career, he also created artwork, much of it seen in the streets of Glasgow. The narrative of Lanark unfolds out of order it begins with Book Three and the focus shifts between the parallel universes of postwar Glasgow and a futuristic, hellish universe called Unthank. As the two main characters, ... More Restored synagogue heralds new chapter for Egypt's JewsALEXANDRIA (AFP).- Egypt unveiled Friday a newly renovated 14th century synagogue in Alexandria as part of a push to market the country's rich cultural heritage The Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue, boasting green and violet stained glass windows and towering marble columns, was built in its current form in 1850 by an Italian architect on top of the original edifice dating back to 1354. The temple was bombed during Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798. In cooperation with the military, Egypt's antiquities ministry oversaw the 64-billion-pound ($4-million) renovation which lasted over three years after the roof and staircase collapsed in 2016. Sitting in the back wooden rows, Yolande Mizrahi, a septuagenarian Jew born and raised in Alexandria, was delighted with the conservation. "If it wasn't for (President Abdel Fattah) al-Sisi, this ... More signs and symbols opens a solo exhibition by Annabel DaouNEW YORK, NY.- signs and symbols is presenting When in the Course of Human Events, a solo exhibition by Annabel Daou. The work was conceived during a six-month performance in residence at signs and symbols where Daou presented her ongoing project, FORTUNE. For this exhibition, Daou incorporates language, paper and recorded audio into a complex and performative visual object and sound installation. The exhibition features a single scroll-like work that extends the length of the gallery. Daou conceives of the piece as an expansive edict or charter. Unfurled into the exhibition space, the black ink-dyed microfiber paper evokes both the street and the artists studio floor, which is imprinted across its surface. The text is written in white correction fluid that has been inked over and re-inscribed in places, suggesting a perpetually revised and amended ... More 24 years later, Roberto Alagna steps back into 'Bohème' at the MetNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A skeletal set had been constructed deep within the Metropolitan Opera earlier this week for a rehearsal of Puccinis La Bohème, and the antics of the opening act ensued in a rough approximation of a garret apartment in 19th-century Paris. Then came the most famous knock on a door in all of opera, as Mimì, the fragile, doomed seamstress, arrived to ask the poet Rodolfo to light her candle. In the companys classic Franco Zeffirelli production, after Rodolfo calls out to ask whos at the door and a womans voice answers, he rushes over to a mirror to neaten his hair. Its a charmingly corny moment that rarely fails to earn a chuckle from the audience. As he smoothed down his temples on Monday, it was obvious that the tenor Roberto Alagna, who sings Rodolfo at the Met through Jan. 25, is grayer ... More Mayor to name Paris street after David BowiePARIS (AFP).- A Paris street will soon be named after the late British rock star David Bowie, a local mayor announced on Friday. "There will soon be a Rue David Bowie in the 13th arrondissement of Paris," Jerome Coumet, mayor of the district told AFP. The socialist mayor, a professed fan of Bowie who died in 2016, said a new road near the major Austerlitz station in the southeast of the French capital would bear the name off the music megastar. "The naming must be approved by the Paris council in February, something which Coumet said would normally happen without problems. Bowie who created such enduring hits as "Heroes" and "Space Oddity", "had a strong link with the city of lights", he added Bowie would have turned 73 on Wednesday. ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Parmigianino was born January 11, 1503. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (11 January 1503 - 24 August 1540) was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat untypical Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. In this image: Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40)
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