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Jason Cooper, a commercial paleontologist, hold a model of the next largest stegosaurus skull against that of Apex in Lindon, Utah, on May 18, 2024. Apex, the largest stegosaurus fossil ever found, is headed to auction; the specimen, found by the paleontologist Jason Cooper, could be auctioned for millions of dollars by Sothebys. (Nina Riggio/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- In May 2022, Jason Cooper, a commercial paleontologist, went for a walk around his property near the aptly named Colorado town of Dinosaur with a friend and found a bit of femur protruding from some rock. That femur led to a stegosaurus fossil, among the largest and most complete ever found, which has subsequently been nicknamed Apex. In July the Sothebys auction house will sell Apex at auction at an estimated value of $4 million to $6 million, making the skeleton the latest flashpoint in a long-running debate about the private fossil trade. Dinosaur fossils have fetched escalating prices at auction houses since 1997, when Sothebys sold Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex to the Field Museum in Chicago for $8.36 million. In 2020, Stan, another largely complete T. rex skeleton, sold at Christies for $31.8 million. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new exhibition exploring the complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of Australian and international works of art.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition features approximately 100 works | | John Lennon's guitar from 'Help!' is sold for $2.9 million at auction | | From 700 A.D., a pre-Viking vessel rises into view |
Georgia OKeeffe. East River from the Shelton (East River No. 1), 192728. New Jersey State Museum Collection. Purchased by the Association for the Arts of the New Jersey State Museum with a gift from Mary Lea Johnson. © Georgia OKeeffe Museum. Photo by Peter S. Jacobs.
CHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago is opening Georgia OKeeffe: My New Yorks on view from June 2September 22, 2024. This exhibitionfeaturing approximately 100 works across a range of media, ... More | |
John Lennons long-lost Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar.
NEW YORK, NY.- A recently discovered guitar that John Lennon used to record multiple Beatles songs in the 1960s before it went missing for 50 years has sold at auction for $2.9 million, becoming one of the most valuable pieces of memorabilia from the band. The 12-string acoustic guitar, called the Hootenanny, was believed to be lost after Lennon and his bandmate George Harrison ... More | |
Heimskringla is the best known of the old Norse kings' sagas.
NEW YORK, NY.- For hundreds of years, Norwegians thought they knew who or what had been interred in an enormous barrow on the island of Leka, which is just off the countrys northern coast, facing the Atlantic Ocean. The grassy hillock is named for King Herlaug, a ninth-century Viking monarch who, if the Norse folklore is to be believed, had himself and 11 companions buried alive ... More |
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| Spectacular Anish Kapoor exhibition at ARKEN is largest ever in Scandinavia | | Peter Halley and Steph Gonzalez-Turner exhibition opens at 'T' Space | | Christie's to offer The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews and Donald Bruce Wilson |
Anish Kapoor, UNSEEN. Photo: David Stjernholm.
COPENHAGEN.- The exhibition Anish Kapoor UNSEEN is the largest presentation of works by the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor in Scandinavia. A major figure in contemporary art over the last 40 years, Kapoor is known for exhibiting at the worldsleading institutions and now his works graces ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art near Copenhagen. The world- ... More | |
Steph Gonzalez-Turner parquetry sculpture close-up, courtesy of the artist.
RHINEBECK, NY.- T Space presents a new installation of wall painting by Peter Halley with sculpture by Steph Gonzalez-Turner. This exhibition will be on view from June 2 - July 28, 2024 at the T Space Gallery: 125 1/2 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck, NY 12572. In the electric landscape of 1980s New York City, Peter Halley liberated the ... More | |
A Louis XVI white-painted Niche A Chien. Estimate: $8,000-12,000 © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced, Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco, and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis, a single, online sale comprising more than 200 lots of 18th- and 19th-century European decorative arts from two distinguished American collections. Ranging from the elegant ... More |
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| BMA presents 'The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists' | | Worcester Art Museum unveils design plans for new Arms and Armor Galleries opening in 2025 | | Christie's announces 'Handbags Online: The New York Edit' |
Henri Matisse. Seated Odalisque, Left Knee Bent, Ornamental Background and Checkerboard. 1928. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland. BMA 1950.255 ©Succession H. Matisse, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BALTIMORE, MD.- On June 2, the Baltimore Museum of Art opens a focus exhibition that explores artistic engagement with color and pattern in 19th-century Japan and 20th-century Europe. The Art of Pattern: Henri Matisse and Japanese Woodcut Artists brings ... More | |
Approximately $6 million project is the culmination of a multi-year initiative to present and preserve this important collection in its home city of Worcester.
WORCESTER, MASS.- The Worcester Art Museum shared updated plansand the new renderings for its new Arms and Armor Galleries, which are currently under construction and will open in late 2025. Presenting the Museums collection of arms and armor, the second largest of its kind in the Americas, these galleries will span approximately 5,000 square feet. ... More | |
a rare Matte White Niloticus Crocodile Himalaya Retourné Kelly 28 With Palladium Hardware (Estimate $90,000-120,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2024.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies presents Handbags Online: The New York Edit. The auction features a curated edit of rare and exceptional handbags from top luxury houses including Hermès, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton that includes covetable styles for every collector. The sale will be open for bidding from May 30th and will close on June 13th. All offerings will be on exhibition ... More |
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| Lee Jin Woo exhibition now open at White Cube Hong Kong | | National Museum of African Art displays nine Benin bronzes on loan from the government of Nigeria | | Tate announces 2025 exhibition highlights |
Lee Jin Woo portrait © artist. Photo © Chosunilbo.
HONG KONG.- White Cube is presenting the first-ever solo exhibition in Hong Kong of Paris-based Korean artist Lee Jin Woo. Deeply immersed in traditional Korean aesthetics, Lees paintings and works on paper are framed by philosophical enquiry and driven by artistic intuition. Regarding abstraction as an entry point to the universal, the artist seeks to induce a state close to meditation in the consciousness of the viewer ... More | |
Edo artist, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, Plaque, Mid-16th to 17th century, Copper alloy.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African Art will display nine works from the royal court of Benin in a special exhibition opening Monday, June 3. These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022. The so-called bronzes, which were in the museums collection for many years, were stolen from Nigeria ... More | |
Ed Atkins, Untitled 2023 © Ed Atkins.
LONDON.- Tate announced its programme of exhibitions for 2025 across Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St Ives. It includes the UKs first major museum shows for Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ithell Colquhoun, Leigh Bowery, Liliane Lijn and Ed Atkins, a landmark survey of Nigerian Modernism, and exhibitions and commissions covering every medium from paintings, sculptures and photographs to digital installations and live performances. ... More |
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A Look at Like Magic, where artists imagine care-full and joy-full futures into being
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Clark Art Institute presents works by Haitian-American artist Kathia St. HilaireWILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Featuring nearly twenty new and recent works that combine printmaking, painting, collage, and weaving, the Clark Art Institute presents Haitian-American artist Kathia St. Hilaire in its latest contemporary exhibition. Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires is on view May 11 through September 22, 2024 in the galleries of the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. A version of the exhibition will go on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky from October 25, 2024 through February 9, 2025. "Kathia St. Hilaire is a remarkable young artist who creates captivating works that combine a wide range of media, said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. She interweaves Haitis history and her own personal biography into images that are beautiful, sometimes difficult, and utterly original. Informed by her ... More National Museum of African American History and Culture displays space devoted to Black designWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture opened a new space in its Visual Arts Gallery. Reclaiming My Time, the first exhibition in the space devoted to contemporary Black designers opened Friday, May 31. Reclaiming My Time features chairs and other work by designers who engage with ideas related to rest, repose and histories of labor and leisure. The space includes 15 objects from the museums collection, spanning seating, lighting, photography and graphic design. For more details about this exhibition, click here. The rich history and ongoing excellence of Black design is one of the many aspects of Black culture we feature in the Museumand with this show that form of Black creativity is all the more highlighted for its artistry as well as its utility, said Kevin Young, the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the museu ... More Heide Museum of Modern Art unveils exhibition 'Hair Pieces' exploring the significance of hair in contemporary cultureMELBOURNE.- Heide Museum of Modern Art has unveiled a new exhibition exploring the complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through a selection of Australian and international works of art. Presented until 6 October 2024, the exhibition titled Hair Pieces brings together historic and recent works encompassing a wide array of media such as painting, photography, video, installation, sculpture and recorded live performance. For millennia hair has been a resonant and compelling site of meaning, transmitting ideas about gender, mythology, status and power, the body, psychology, feminism and notions of beauty. At once radiant and repellent, and often richly symbolic, it has always assumed ... More Scientists find the largest known genome inside a small plantNEW YORK, NY.- Last year, Jaume Pellicer led a team of fellow scientists into a forest on Grande Terre, an island east of Australia. They were in search of a fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata. Standing just a few inches tall, it was not easy to find on the forest floor. It doesnt catch the eye, said Pellicer, who works at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona in Spain. You would probably step on it and not even realize it. The scientists eventually managed to spot the nondescript fern. When Pellicer and his colleagues studied it in the lab, they discovered it held an extraordinary secret. Tmesipteris oblanceolata has the largest known genome on Earth. As the researchers described in a study published Friday, the ferns cells contain more than 50 times as much DNA as ours do. If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a ... More How rhubarb conquered Germany, then the worldBEELITZ.- In the past month, millions of people have found themselves stumbling through the contorted and catchy syllables of a song about, of all things, a woman named Barbara and some rhubarb-loving barbarians who drink beer while getting their beards barbered. In German. Or more rightly: Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbier. The hyper-compound words of the popular German tongue twister about Barbara, her bombastic rhubarb cake and her hirsute customers shot to inexplicable and extreme popularity this spring, a few months after a pair of comedic musical content creators from Berlin posted a rap version late last year. Their silly ditty has more than 47 million views on TikTok; for a brief moment on some online streaming charts, Barbara beat out Beyoncé. Beyoncé. There is a prejudice that, first, Germans dont ... More A celebration of Frank London's music will be missing one thing: HimNEW YORK, NY.- Frank London is one of those musicians who somehow seems to be everywhere, participating in a bit of everything. At 66, the trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader has collaborated with everyone from Mel Tormé to LL Cool J. A founding member of the Klezmatics, a band that helped to revitalize the klezmer style during the late 80s, London has worked for decades at a fertile crossroads where Jewish music meets downtown jazz. With two new albums involving both styles arriving imminently, he arranged to throw a party, and invited dozens of friends and colleagues to play. The celebration in New York City, happening Monday at the Brooklyn venue Roulette, features the Klezmatics alongside three of Londons bands: Conspiracy Brass, a buoyant, funky horns-and-percussion aggregation; the Elders, a soulful, ... More Berkshire Museum opens summer exhibitionPITTSFIELD, MASS.- Berkshire Museum displays "The Animal Art of Julie Bell" an extraordinary exhibition showcasing the captivating works of one of today's most acclaimed fantasy artists. On view to the public June 1 through September 29. Fantasy Artist Julie Bell has received several awards for her work, including nine awards at the 2014 Art Renewal Centers International Salon, where she won first and third place in the Animal Category and first place in the Imaginative Realism Category. When Im painting animals with all their beauty and wild nature, I experience the kind of at-one-with-the-universe feeling described by people who meditate. Its both soothing and exciting, the way nature itself is. I know without a doubt that this is what I was meant to do Bell noted. Jesse Kowalski, Berkshire Museums Chief Curator said of the ... More Tony Gonzalez's solo exhibition 'Little Red' opens at Garage Art CenterBAYSIDE, NY.- Garage Art Center announced the opening of a solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Tony Gonzalez. The exhibition, titled "Little Red," is on view from June 1st, 2024, to June 30th, 2024, showcasing a captivating series of photographs inspired by the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood." Tony Gonzalez, a prominent figure in the art world, currently resides in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. With over 30 years of experience teaching photography at prestigious institutions such as The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and New York University, Gonzalez has made a significant impact on the field. Since 2002, he has been a full-time faculty member at Queens College, CUNY, where he serves as a Tenured Professor and Chair of the Art Department. The "Little ... More Art Institute of Chicago appoints Toyia K. Stewart as Vice President of Human Resources, People and CultureCHICAGO, IL.- The Art Institute of Chicago announced the recent appointment of Toyia K. Stewart as our new Vice President of Human Resources, People and Culture. In her role, Toyia will oversee all museum-specific efforts to advance an intentional workplace culture, helping to build upon and nurture the great diversity, inclusion, and talent development work of the People and Culture team. Toyia joins the museum from Roosevelt University where she served as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. Throughout her more than 25 years of human resources experience, she has held many roles across HR and diversity programs. At Roosevelt, she led projects related to talent acquisition, development ... More The Met highlights nineteenth-century American literary postersNEW YORK, NY.- During the 1890s, a new type of poster emerged in the United States, one that more closely resembled a work of art than an advertisement. These sleek, sophisticated posters publicized magazines, newspapers, books, and other forms of literature. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 7 through June 11, 2024, The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection presents more than 50 highlights from the Museum's outstanding collection of some 500 works, developed over four decades through the vision and support of Leonard A. Lauder. The exhibition marks the occasion of the publication of The Art of the Literary Poster: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Featuring 135 full-page color plates, the book offers new scholarship that approaches literary posters from the perspectives ... More Exhibition at Kunstraum LLC examines layers of identity across different contextsBROOKLYN, NY.- Kunstraum LLC presents Identity in Context originating from the Kunstraum network. This exhibition is curated by curator-in-residence Emireth Herrera Valdés. Featuring seven artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, this exhibition examines layers of identity across different contexts. Clarisse Lo's photographic works, Echo and Echo #4, 2023 examines familial bonds and generational connections. Capturing the essence of her grandfather's life, each photograph reveals layers of existence, inviting viewers on a journey of rediscovery that transcends generations. Steven Anthony Johnson II's artwork, Mae Mae and No-No, 2021 addresses issues of identity and "otherness." Crafted from charcoal, graphite, and wax, this drawing captures both motion and stillness within a domestic scene, encouraging profound reflection ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra was born June 02, 1959. Rineke Dijkstra (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam. Dijkstra has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, the 1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (now Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) and the 2017 Hasselblad Award. In this image: Rineke Dijkstra, I See a Woman Crying 2009 (videostill, detail), collection De Pont Museum. Photo: Peter Cox.
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