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For Gods of Egypt the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden has assembled a wealth of world-class pieces from international museums and private collections.
LEIDEN.- The mystical world of the ancient Egyptian gods comes to life in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, the Netherlands. The large exhibition Gods of Egypt is entirely devoted to the ancient Egyptian pantheon and brings together more than 500 imposing sculptures of gods and goddesses, magical papyri, gold jewels and richly painted mummy cases, from museums in the Netherlands and abroad, including the British Museum, the Louvre, the Museo Egizio of Turin, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna. Gods of Egypt runs until 31 March. The ancient Egyptians believed that everything - the creation of the cosmos, transient life on earth and eternal life after death lay in the hands of gods and goddesses. These deities determined their entire view of the world and their everyday life. The pharaoh was considered one of the gods and represented the Egyptian gods on earth. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day For the next six weeks, Vincent van Gogh's renowned painting Sunflowers will be in the Van Gogh Museum's restoration studio. During this time, the final phase of comprehensive research into the condition of the work will be completed. The painting will also be restored in order to ensure that it is preserved for future generations in the best possible manner. Sunflowers will go back on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam on Friday 22 February. Photo: Kenny Nagelkerke
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 | | Exhibition shows never-before-published photos from the 1970s of David Bowie | | The Harry Ransom Center acquires archive that examines creative process in photography | | Pace Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Chinese artist Wang Guangle | 
Steve Shapiro, David Bowie. Goggles and Brick Wall. Los Angeles, 1974 © Steve Schapiro, courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the exhibition David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth, which unites two prominent names of the 20th century the worldwide famous photographer Steve Schapiro and the musician and rock icon David Bowie. This exhibition shows never-before-published photos from the 1970s, including the performance with Cher on the Cher Show, and shots from the film set of the popular movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. After that role, Bowie entrenched the character of an odd creature, a stranger and a temporary visitor of our planet. The essential part of the exhibition features Bowies portraits from the famous 12-hour private photo session in Los Angeles in 1974. That collaboration between Schapiro and Bowie provided images for magazine covers such as People and Rolling Stone, and album covers for Station to Station, Low and a compilation album Nothing Has Changed. It ... More | | 
William S. Johnson (American, b. 1940), [Robert Frank in the Polaroid 20 x 24 studio, Boston], 1985. Gelatin silver print, 12.4 x 8.8 cm. Susan E. Cohen and William S. Johnson Creativity Project Archive, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin © William S. Johnson.
AUSTIN, TX.- More than 35 years ago, prominent artists Robert Frank, Dave Heath, Robert Heinecken and John Wood agreed to participate in a project exploring creativity in photography. Led by art historians Susan E. Cohen and William S. Johnson, the three-year collaborative project examined the artists creative process. Until now, no comprehensive record of those efforts has been accessible. The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired the Susan E. Cohen and William S. Johnson Creativity Project archive. Conceived in the early 1980s by Cohen and Johnson, the project included the participation of photographers Frank, Heath, Heinecken and Wood. Years later, Cohen and Johnson reflected that the artists agreed to collaborate with each other ... More | | 
Installation view of Wang Guangle: Duo Color 510 West 25th Street, New York, NY January 11 February 9, 2019. Photographed by Guy Ben-Ari. © Wang Guangle, courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new paintings by renowned Chinese artist Wang Guangle. Wangs fourth international exhibition with Pace and third solo show in New York, Duo Color is on view at 510 West 25th Street from January 11 through February 9, 2019. One of the preeminent contemporary abstract painters, Wangs work is rooted in an investigation of paintings temporality and in the power of the canvas as a vessel of labor and marker of time. He recalls an historical tradition of ancient Chinese scholars and approaches the act of painting as a daily practice for personal moral cultivation and spiritual exploration. This exhibition showcases a selection of 14 new acrylic on canvas paintings, which reflect the artists use of a uniform brushstroke and systematic application of paint. Wang applies each layer of paint beginning from the far edges ... More |
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| | | Inauguration marks completion of restoration of Mughal Gardens of Agra | | Sotheby's to auction the only complete archive of Supreme skate decks in private hands | | Kyu Jin Hwang joins Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac as Associate Director, Asia | 
Garden of the Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah post-conservation Aug. 18, image by Joginder Singh, courtesy WMF.
AGRA.- Significant features of two of Indias most celebrated Mughal gardensMehtab Bagh, and the Garden of the Tomb of Itimad-ud-Daulah at Agrahave been restored following four years of rigorous and complex research and conservation. Today, World Monuments Fund and the Archaeological Survey of India, partners on the restoration, marked the completion during an inauguration ceremony at Itimad-ud-Daulah, alongside project supporters including American Express India. Only a few of the lush sixteenth and seventeenth-century gardens, built for Agras royalty and nobility along the Yamuna riverfront, today remain intact. Others have been significantly altered over time, and those that survive face challenges of urban development, pollution, traffic congestion, and lack of visitor amenities. World Monuments Fund and the Archaeological Survey ... More | | 
The archive will be offered as a single lot in an online-only sale open for bidding today through 25 January. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced that they will auction the only complete archive of skateboard decks produced by iconic streetwear brand Supreme in private hands. Spanning 20 years of production, the archive includes all 248 decks created by Supreme from 19982018, diligently and passionately assembled over decades by collector Ryan Fuller. The archive will be offered as a single lot in an online-only sale open for bidding today through 25 January. The archive is estimated to sell for $800,0001.2 million, and will be sold with no Buyers Premium. Sothebys welcomes fans of Supreme, streetwear, skateboard culture and contemporary art & design to view the entire archive in the New York galleries, open for public exhibition today through 20 January. The archive was exhibited in December 2018 at Jason Vass Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. Titled ... More | | 
Prior to joining the gallery, most recently Kyu managed a renowned private collection based in Europe.
SEOUL.- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announced that Kyu Jin Hwang joins the gallery as Associate Director, Asia. She will work closely with Nick Buckley-Wood, the gallerys Director for Asia, across the continent and in particular in Korea. Kyu joins our growing Asia team at a time when the gallery is developing expertise and relationships in the region's key arts hubs. Based at the London gallery, she will commence by joining the team on our booth at the inaugural Taipei Dangdai art fair in Taiwan. Kyu brings significant expertise and experience to her role and will be working with collectors and institutions throughout Asia, whilst also working with and on behalf of Galerie Thaddaeus Ropacs artists, including Lee Bul in this landmark year for the Korean artist. Following Buls critically acclaimed solo show last year at the Hayward Gallery, London, her exhibition is currently on view at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Prior to joining ... More |
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| | | Richard Saltoun Gallery opens its first solo show with groundbreaking conceptual artist ULAY | | Finest-known 1885 Trade Dollar brings $3.96 million with Heritage Auctions | | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art names new Executive Director | 
Ulay, Elf, 1974-75. Series of 8 Polaroid analogue duplicates, 8.5 x 10.8 cm each. Courtesy Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
LONDON.- Richard Saltoun Gallery is presenting its first solo show with groundbreaking conceptual artist ULAY, who has defined the field of Polaroid photography and performance art for generations. The exhibition aims to show the historical importance of the artists work, whilst also presenting him as a contemporary artist with new work created especially for the show. Alessandro Cassin noted in a recent interview with Ulay that the artists career began with photography, evolved into performance and returned to photography. This evolution is at the core of the exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, featuring many works from the artists vast output, several shown here in public for the first time. The exhibition has been curated by Birte Kleemann. In the early 1970s the hand-held Polaroid camera became Ulays artistic medium of choice. He states: ... More | | 
1885 Trade Dollar, PR66.
ORLANDO, FLA.- The finest-known 1885 Trade dollar among the rarest and most enigmatic issues in all of American coinage sold for $3,960,000 million through Heritage Auctions Thursday evening, Jan. 10, following a winning bid cast by collector Dell Loy Hansen of Logan, Utah. The standing-room-only crowd at Heritage Auctions' Platinum Night U.S. Coin Auction roared with laughter and applause after Hansen bested more than 30 bids to make hobby history." "The sale is fortuitous in that it comes at a time when 19th century Trade dollars were meant to improve commerce with China a national goal we are still working on nearly 150 years later," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "Owning an 1885 Trade dollar is a privilege reserved for only the most elite numismatists, and owning the finest-known specimen is to own an enduring symbol of numismatic and American history," Rohan said. Graded PR66 by Numismatic Guaranty Corporation ... More | | 
OHarrow currently serves as the director of the Honolulu Museum of Art.
KANSAS CITY, MO.- After an extensive search, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has named Sean OHarrow as its next Executive Director. We are so eager for Sean OHarrow to bring his vision and enthusiasm to Kemper Museum, stated Mary Kemper Wolf, Chair of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Board of Trustees, and daughter of museum founders, R. Crosby Kemper Jr. and Bebe Hunt. At this point in our history, it was critical to bring in an Executive Director with solid experience, who embraces artists, staff, community, and fundraising responsibilities alike. Wolf continued, Sean thinks creatively about how to do things differently in order to make a positive impact for institutions and their communities. He has the unique ability to dream big, thoughtfully assess risk, and make things happen. This will be an exciting and productive chapter for Kemper Museum and our community with Sean ... More |
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| | | Garis & Hahn opens an exhibition of works by Lisa Adams | | Gladstone Gallery opens an exhibition of new wall paintings by Claudia Comte | | Nathaniel Silver named new Curator of the Collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | 
Lisa Adams, The Hidden Fear of Veracity, 2018 (detail), oil on panel, 42 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Garis & Hahn.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Garis & Hahn presents A Piebald Era, marking Downtown Los Angeles-based painter Lisa Adams's debut solo show with the gallery. The exhibition will open on January 12 and remain on view through February 16, 2019. Occupying the liminal space between abstraction and representation, the imaginary and the real, Adams's highly original paintings depict scenes which lie at the intersection where nature meets the brutality of the human-made, as filtered through a uniquely otherworldly prism. Derived from photographs and experiences as well as her personal imaginings, Adams's idiosyncratic paintings are an admixture of fact and fantasy, amalgamated fragments manifesting in a disjointed whole, a skewed world that is seemingly falling apart. Exploring the contradictions borne from the dichotomy between natural and urban environments, Adams fuses the two worlds into a new disturbing surreality. Conjuring ... More | | 
Installation view, Claudia Comte: The Morphing Scallops, at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2019. Photography by: Roman März. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new wall paintings by Claudia Comte, the artists first exhibition devoted solely to her painting practice. In the beginning was the wall. Before geo-politics, Pink Floyd or wall-drawing was the structure itself: a divider between us and the rest of the world, it builds on the promise of all civilization, of protection and enclosure, of distinguishing that which we have claimed as ours from that which is not. It is the wall, along with its agrarian cousin the fence that separates the mentalities of pirates and farmers, of those who settle and those who raid. How we celebrate that enclosure and how it has been breached at various times by optics, religion and force has been the subject of artists since time immemorial. Delving back 32,000 years into Herzogs Cave of Forgotten Dreams we find in Chauvet the imprint of hunter- ... More | | 
For two years as the Museums Associate Curator, Silver played a key role in making the collection accessible to the widest possible audience.
BOSTON, MASS.- Dr. Nathaniel Silver, 38, was recently named the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection. For two years as the Museums Associate Curator, Silver played a key role in making the collection accessible to the widest possible audience. He contributed to the development of the institutions recently launched strategic plan, which opens new avenues of public outreach, and supervised content creation for the museum-wide digitization project. During this time, he curated several critically acclaimed exhibitions. They include the forthcoming Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes (2019) and last years Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth, a New York Times Top Ten pick of 2018 and The Boston Globes Best Old Master Show in 2018. He also conceived of the annual program Close Up and inaugurated it with the first installment focusing on Piermatteo DAmelias Annunciation. In ... More |
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 Taylor J. Acosta appointed Associate Curator of European Art at Joslyn Art MuseumOMAHA, NE.- Joslyn Art Museum announces the appointment of Taylor J. Acosta, Ph.D., as the Museum's new associate curator of European art. A scholar of nineteenth-century European painting, Dr. Acosta has worked as a curator in institutional and private contexts. Most recently, she was at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) as a curatorial intern, supported by a graduate research fellowship from the University of Minnesota. While there, she co-curated the exhibition International Modernism: Art in a Fast-Changing World, a thematic installation of paintings, drawings, sculpture, design, and photography from Mias permanent collection. Prior to her work with Mia, she served as the curator of a prominent private collection. Dr. Acosta earned a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Minnesota in 2018, and her dissertation, Real and Ideal: The Realism ... More Holabird Western Americana Collections to offer nearly 4,000 lots of AmericanaRENO, NEV.- Holabird Western Americana Collections is following up its massive to die for auction in December with another five-day colossus comprising nearly 4,000 lots of Americana. The auction appropriately titled Treasures Galore will be held Thursday to Monday, January 24th thru 28th, online and in Holabirds gallery located at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite 308) in Reno. Start times all five days will be 8 am PST. An office preview will be held Wednesday, Jan. 23rd, from 9-5 (or by appointment). For those unable to attend the sale in person, online bidding will be facilitated by iCollector.com and Invaluable.com. This is the third sale in what has been an exciting fall and winter season, said Fred Holabird of Holabird Western Americana Collections. Day 1, on Thursday, January 24th, will kick off with nearly 100 lots of antique bottles, many of them from ... More Bortolami presents Germanic Artifacts, Lena Henke's first solo exhibition with the galleryNEW YORK, NY.- In the belly of the gallery there is an over-sized Germanic boar with stout legs. The animal has been meticulously sculpted by Henke and dyed purple. The UR Mutter (mother of origin), whose udders hang low, cocks an ample rear towards her snout to form an arc with her body. Among the first animals to be domesticated by Die Germanen, the boar is an unexpected but fierce, intelligent protector. Henke has cast a second boar in chainmail, using UR Mutter as the mother mold to get the shape. The resting Wildschwein lays in death, like a ghost or hollowed out link to the past. Germanic Artifacts calls on the spirit of the ancient Teutoburg Forest, a historic woodland neighboring the artist's childhood home. Henke's installation reflects the early architectural structures of the Germanic tribes that lived among the forest's marshes and thickets ... More Honor Fraser opens an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Sarah CainLOS ANGELES, CA.- In the paintings of Sarah Cain, spatial constraints and material pieties fall away with fearless colors, easily expanding out from canvases into installations which have in the past included furniture, clothing, jewelry, and found objects. A spirited post-minimalist, Cain crafts an abstraction intertwined with life. For The Sun Will Not Wait, the artist will create a new floor painting onsite prior to the opening along with a body of new canvases concluding with an upward view through a skylight work inspired by a major commission by the San Francisco Arts Commission for a stained-glass wall at the San Francisco International Airport to be unveiled in June 2019. Other forthcoming projects include Platform: Sarah Cain, a new site-specific installation on the Rice University campus in Houston in 2020 and a solo exhibition at Skidmore Colleges Tang ... More Original works in watercolor and ink by Chuck D on view at Subliminal ProjectsLOS ANGELES, CA.- Subliminal Projects presents Chuck D: ARTMAGGEDON, a select exhibition of original works in watercolor and ink by iconic artist, author and music legend Chuck D. Chuck D is a hero and a legend, not just to me but to many people who value the power of his music, his outspoken social and political voice, and his positive influence on culture. Im very excited to announce that our gallery Subliminal Projects will be opening an exhibition of Chucks artwork this January. His artwork provides a unique and vital point of view, and Im always happy to celebrate his dynamic impact on the world. Thanks for the inspiration, Chuck! -Shepard Fairey Like hip hop, visual art has the power to deliver a message with an explosive force. Shepard has created a space to remind us all that visual art has a voice, a place, an impact on the world we ... More The Blaffer Art Museum opens a new exhibition of paintings by the American artist Rebecca MorrisHOUSTON, TX.- The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is presenting Rebecca Morris: The Ache of Bright, a new exhibition of paintings by the American artist Rebecca Morris. Since the early 1990s, Rebecca Morris has explored the vast visual language of abstract painting. Inventing an extensive array of original forms, compositional rules, and improvisational associations, Morris creates highly considered images that simultaneously construct and disassemble themselves. Varying widely in scale and density, her works are both unpredictable and precise, often featuring an ebullient cacophony of hues, patterns, layers, and gestures. Rebecca Morris: The Ache of BrightMorris's first United States solo museum presentation since 2005features a selection of ten major paintings made in the last four years. They represent the full range ... More Patrick Carpentier's first exhibition at MLF │ Marie-Laure Fleisch on view in BrusselsBRUSSELS.- MLF l Marie-Laure Fleisch is presenting Patrick Carpentiers first exhibition at the gallery, A SHORT-TERM EFFECT, AN ECHO. Often taking lyrics from songs by the British rock group The Cure, the artist evokes a certain period in time. The word echo is essential, as throughout this exhibition the spectator is confronted with works which develop in multiple forms or variations, evoking a sense of familiarity. Working with the idea of assemblage as the main concept for the exhibition, the artist presents a series of sculptures in ceramic, metal and mixed media, as well as a series of collages. Largely inspired by themes of adolescence, wonder and geometry, often in relationship with the notion of play, Carpentier works primarily with sculpture and photography. He modifies and combines familiar forms, imagery or graphics to transform the original item, ... More Anita Rogers Gallery opens a group exhibition of work by three artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery presents a group exhibition of work by three artists: John Ashworth, Gordon Moore and Mark Webber. The gallery introduces John Ashworth to the gallery for the first time; Ashworths detailed acrylic paintings on paper, canvas and panel are rich in texture, detail and illuminated color. Moores works on photo emulsion paper explore depth, perspective, balance and asymmetry. Webbers hydrocal and plaster sculptures recall architectural forms but are firmly sculpture; the works are defined by their elegant lines and careful balance. The exhibition is on view January 9 February 2, 2019 at 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10013. Born in New York in 1939, painter/sculptor John Ashworth began appreciating art at the age of 8 while visiting seminal institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, The ... More Contemporary collage from Central Asia on view at Sapar ContemporaryNEW YORK, NY.- Sapar Contemporary in collaboration with Aspan Gallery (Almaty) is presenting Beyond Fragmentation: Contemporary Collage from Central Asia. Since antiquity, Central Asia has been a nexus of trade and cultural exchange, where caravans laden with precious goods crisscrossed the desert sands along the Silk Road carrying with them new religions like Buddhism and Islam. Renowned geographer Owen Lattimore (19001989) characterized Central Asia as the Pivot of Asia, for its importance in shaping and directing global history and cultural exchange.During the nineteenth century, in a conflict dubbed The Great Game, the British and Russian Empires jostled over this region, which spans from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east, for supremacy over this politically strategic territory rich in natural resources. Today, ... More Rare 1943 Lincoln Cent sells for $204,000 at Heritage AuctionsORLANDO, FLA.- A rare 1943 Lincoln cent found in a teen's high school cafeteria pocket change sold for $204,000 Thursday evening, Jan. 10, at a public auction of U.S. coins held in Orlando, Florida, by Heritage Auctions, the world's largest coin auctioneer. More than 30 bids quickly pushed the coin past its pre-auction estimate of $170,000. The rarity was mistakenly minted in bronze, instead of zinc-coated steel, which was needed to save copper and bronze to fill metal shortages during World War II. At the time, the United States Mint steadfastly denied such coins existed, until the truth came out in 1947 after teenager Don Lutes found the first bronze Lincoln cent in pocket change from his high school cafeteria in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Only 10 to 15 examples of a 1943 bronze Lincoln cents are known to exist. "This is the first time this coin had ever appeared ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera was born January 12, 1591. Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, 1591 - September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, also known as José de Ribera and Josep de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto ("the Little Spaniard") by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. In this image: Jusepe de Ribera, Saint James the Lesser, ca. 1632.
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