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This picture taken on January 31, 2019 shows the golden sarcophagus of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun (13321323 BC), displayed in his burial chamber in his underground tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile river opposite the southern Egyptian city of Luxor (650 kilometres south of the capital Cairo). The famous tomb underwent a nine-year conservation by a team of international specialists. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
MONTREAL (AFP).- Tutankhamun, the boy king of ancient Egypt, came to power only after two of his sisters jointly held the throne, according to an Egyptologist at Canada's Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM). Researchers have known for more than half a century that a queen had reigned before Tutankhamun, whose intact tomb was discovered in 1922, sparking global interest in Egyptology. Some thought she was Nefertiti, the sister and wife of Akhenaten, who proclaimed herself "king" following his death. Others believed it to be the eldest daughter Princess Meritaten. UQAM's Valerie Angenot says she has now conducted an analysis based on the study of symbols which revealed that two daughters of Akhenaten seized power at his death while their brother Tutankhamun, aged four or five at the time, was too young to rule. Akhenaten had six daughters before having his son later on, who had a frail constitution and was plagued by ill ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Roman Bajzik (48) works on a wax figurine of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, better known as Sissi in his flat in Bratislava, Slovakia on April 10, 2019. The bald head of Slovak general Milan Rastislav Stefanik is pierced before hairs are inserted into his skull. Stefanik's face remains motionless, his blue eyes do not even blink. The late founder of the former Czechoslovakia is the latest figure to get the wax treatment from Roman Bajzik, a 48-year-old opera teacher who moonlights as Slovakia's very own Monsieur Tussauds. VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP
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 | | Exhibition at Di Donna Galleries explores Surrealism in Mexico | | Incredibly rare study by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden is at risk of being sold abroad | | 'The essential Duchamp' celebrates the legendary work of artist and provocateur Marcel Duchamp | 
Frida Kahlo. Me and My Parrots. 1941. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Di Donna Galleries announces Surrealism in Mexico, an exhibition that explores the robust creative moment that emerged between 1940 and 1955 as an international community of artists fled World War II in Europe and settled in Mexico. There, many principles that had defined the Surrealist movement were broadened and transformed in response to a new topography, new cultures, and the experience of exile, toward the creation of radically innovative new styles. This vibrant art-historical episode was made possible through liberal ideas about collaboration, immigration, and gender roles. It is particularly relevant in the context of todays cultural and political climate, where such issues remain under intense scrutiny and debate. Surrealism in Mexico is unprecedented in the United States for its subject and its scope. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and collages by ... More | | 
500 year old drawing is one of only 28 by the artist known to survive.
LONDON.- Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed an export bar on a 500 year old drawing worth £11.4 million in a bid to keep it in the country. The work, A Young Man Standing, by Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden, is one of only 28 drawings by the artist known to survive and his only drawing not held in a museum collection. Lucas van Leyden (about 1494 - 1533) was primarily famous for his skills as a printmaker. He was the first artist from the Netherlands to gain international fame comparable to that of German Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt and Rubens a century later. This drawing is thought to be a study for a projected engraving. It depicts a young man in contemporary clothing and was probably drawn from life. The sitter is most likely a nobleman - or a studio model posing as one - given the sword he is shown wearing. It is believed to date from around 1520. Early in its history the drawing was stuck onto another sheet, perhaps by a collector to better preserve it, suggesting that even then works ... More | | 
Marcel Duchamp 'Portrait of the artist's father' 1910 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950-134-49 © Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2019.
SYDNEY.- More than a century after Marcel Duchamps (18871968) readymade Fountain was rejected from display in New York and over five decades since the last significant exhibition of his work came to Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents The essential Duchamp. This must-see exhibition from the Philadelphia Museum of Art also marks the 50 year anniversary of the artists death. The essential Duchamp is the most comprehensive survey of the art and life of Duchamp ever to be seen in the Asia Pacific region, bringing together over 125 works from the Philadelphia Museum of Arts world-renowned collection. The travelling exhibition began in 2018 and concludes its tour at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, following on from the Tokyo National Museum, Japan and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea. Dr Michael Brand, director of the Art Gallery of NSW, said The essential Du ... More |
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| | | Exhibition at Blain│Southern debuts Bernar Venet's Continuous Curve series | | One of the greatest watch collections of all time unveiled at Sotheby's | | Metro Pictures opens a two-part exhibition by Robert Longo | 
Bernar Venet, Indeterminacy, 2019, installation view, Courtesy the artist and Blain|Southern, Photo: Trevor Good.
BERLIN.- Blain|Southern Berlin presents two major bodies of works from the last decade by conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941, France). The exhibition debuts Venets Continuous Curve series, which stems from the artists renowned Indeterminate Line sculptures, several iterations of which are shown here, alongside related works on paper. Five large Indeterminate Line sculptures of looping rolled steel stand freely on the ground floor of the gallery. Their order and balance find their counterpoint in what appears to be the same loops, collapsed into a chaotic heap that obstructs the entrance. Venet describes this Effondrement: Five Indeterminate Lines and the accompanying Indeterminate Lines as the result of improvised, intuitive, and empirical work. These sculptures don't create themselves. One must witness their production to understand how difficult it is to cold-twist these full steel bars, the largest ... More | | 
George Daniels, The Space Traveller I, 1982 (est. $900,000 - 1.2 million / £700,000 - 1 million). Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON.- Highlights from one of the most important collections of timepieces remaining in private hands were unveiled at Sothebys in London yesterday. Chronicling the history of watchmaking from the Renaissance through to the present day and embracing each of the European epicentres of the watchmaking industry over time, this extraordinary collection of over 800 long-unseen pieces unparalleled in its scope and comprehensiveness - will be offered in four dedicated sales at various locations (London, Geneva, New York and Hong Kong between July 2019 and October 2020). Put together over a life-time dedicated to seeking out the best examples of their kind, Masterworks of Time encompasses all the ground-breaking technological and artistic innovations of the last 500 years: from early watches with German stackfreeds, to double dialled astronomical timepieces, superb enamels, form watches, musical ... More | | 
Robert Longo, Study of Torn Flag, 2018 (detail). Ink and charcoal on vellum, 21 1/8 x 27 15/16 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Longos Amerika marks the beginning of a two-part exhibition by the artist and is a continuation of his Destroyer Cycle series, an investigation into the politics of power, futility, and aggression. Longo will open the second part of the exhibition, Fugitive Images, in November at Metro Pictures. Amerika consists of three large-scale works that reflect the fraught events dominating the current U.S. news cycle. Entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by Longos Death Star 2018, a monumental sculpture that responds to the exponential proliferation of mass shootings in the United States. The rear gallery features a chilling, three-panel charcoal drawing of the White House rendered in the artists uncompromising technique. In the upstairs gallery, an immersive film installation incorporates iconic imagery extracted from the mediasome of which Longo has used as source material for his extraor ... More |
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| | | LiveAuctioneers partners with Fiverr to deliver creative & digital services to auction houses | | Christie's to offer perhaps the most significant collection of shawls ever to be offered at auction | | Gagosian opens an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Jonas Wood | 
In collaboration with Fiverr, LiveAuctioneers will be able to refer its auction-house partners to carefully vetted professional talent across eight verticals. Image source: LiveAuctioneers
NEW YORK, NY.- Following several months of collaborative planning, industry-leading online-auction marketplace LiveAuctioneers has announced a new partnership with Fiverr, a marketplace that connects businesses with freelancers offering digital services across eight verticals, including graphic design, digital marketing, programming and tech; and video and animation. Under the terms of the partnership, LiveAuctioneers will offer its auction-house clients access to Fiverr Pro, a tier of hand-vetted, top-quality professionals who are trusted by some of the worlds leading brands. The new collaboration is unusual in that it innovatively unites a B2B marketplace (Fiverr) with a B2C marketplace (LiveAuctioneers). It also represents the first time Fiverr has ventured into the dynamic world of online auctions. Among the hundreds of thousands of services available ... More | | 
A Moon Shawl (Chandar) North India, circa 1825, 120 X 140 cm. Estimate: £7,000 £10,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019.
LONDON.- Christies will present An Important Private Collection of Kashmir Shawls, perhaps the most significant collection of shawls ever to be offered at auction. Dating back from the 17th to the late 19th century, these hand-woven, decorated Kashmir shawls were created as items of luxury. Traditionally worn by men and women, these treasured heirlooms were handed down in the family for generations, prized for the very fine quality of wool used and their intricate embroidered decoration. The high level of craftsmanship achieved by Kashmiri weavers remains unmatched anywhere in the world. Comprising 85 lots with prices ranging from £1,000 12,000, the online sale will be open for bidding between 11-18 June. A few highlights offering a glimpse into this opulent collection are on display alongside the Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds sale, from the 25th of April to the 2nd of May. Known in Kashmir as pashmina, the s ... More | | 
Jonas Wood, Young Architect, 2019. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 110 x 78 in. 279.4 x 198.1 cm © Jonas Wood, photography by Marten Elder. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian is presenting new paintings and works on paper by Jonas Wood. In his boldly colored graphic works, Wood combines art historical references with images of the objects, interiors, and people that comprise the fabric of his daily life. Translating the three-dimensional world around him into pure color and line, he confounds expectations of scale and vantage point, causing the flat picture plane to bristle with an abstract charge. One room of this exhibition is dedicated to a series of new paintings of architectural interiors and exteriors. Wood composes these through a process of layering and collaging, using photography, projection, drawing, and then painting. Sources are translated and mixed into generations, which then become the basis for the large-scale paintings. The seams are dissolved in the final work, even if the impression ... More |
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| | | New exhibition seeks to contextualise Stanley Spencer's place in the canon of Modern British art | | TEFAF and Artvest Partners announce sale of Artvest ownership interest in TEFAF New York | | Cincinnati Art Museum to activate grounds, connect to community and Eden Park with Art Climb project | 
Stanley Spencer, St Veronica Unmasking Christ, 1921, oil on canvas, 994 x 840 mm © Estate Stanley Spencer & Bridgeman Images, London. Courtesy of the Stanley Spencer Gallery.
COOKHAM.- David Bomberg, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Mark Gertler are amongst the seventeen artists featured in Counterpoint - Stanley Spencer and his Contemporaries, a major exhibition that seeks to offer new perspectives on Spencers work and contextualise his place in the history of Modern British art, opening 28 April 2019 at the Stanley Spencer Gallery. The presentation, which will mark the 60th anniversary of the artists death, is comprised of thirty-nine works twenty from the Stanley Spencer Gallery and nineteen spectacular loans from the Ingram Collection. The loans include works by many of the leading lights of twentieth century British art, as well as highly deserving pieces by less well-known figures such as Glyn Philpot and Dod Proctor. All help us to understand how Spencers work fits into the canon of Modern British art at the beginning of the 20th century. ... More | | 
Gmurzynska at TEFAF New York Spring 2018. Photo: Kirsten Chilstrom.
NEW YORK, NY.- TEFAF, The European Fine Art Foundation, the not-for-profit entity that founded the TEFAF Maastricht Fair, and Artvest Partners LLC, the New York Art Advisory and Investment Firm and Co-Founder of TEFAF New York, have announced the sale of Artvests 49% ownership stake in TEFAF New York to TEFAF. Effective immediately, TEFAF will fully own and manage TEFAF New York as part of its global integration strategy. TEFAF is extremely grateful to Jeff Rabin and Michael Plummer for all of their great work in laying the critical foundation for our successful expansion here in New York, said Nanne Dekking, Chairman of TEFAF. In very short order, together Artvest and TEFAF created one of the best operational teams in the Fair Industry, two of the most beautiful and successful Fairs in the Americas, and integrated them into the cultural and collecting fabric of New York and the US at large. TEFAF New York Spring wil ... More | | 
Concept design from Emersion and Human Nature for Cincinnati Art Museum.
CINCINNATI, OH.- The Cincinnati Art Museums commitment to engaging with its community will soon be physically represented with a new project, the Art Climb. With this project, the museum seeks to engage with its surrounding historic, vital neighborhoods, including Walnut Hills. This effort to activate the museum grounds will allow new and broader access through casual and recreational art interactions outside the walls of the museum. The Art Climb includes a staircase from the sidewalk near the intersection of Eden Park Drive and Gilbert Avenue and leading up to the front museum entrance. This project will open up the museum grounds, connect the museum to its neighbors and provide a space to incorporate outdoor artworks. Multiple flights of steps and landings will span the hill at the northern corner of the museums grounds, around 450 feet from the street to the parking lot. Art Climb will incorporate a lighting component that will ... More |
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 Ingleby Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Charles AveryEDINBURGH.- Since 2005 Charles Averys practise has focused on a fictional Island; an all-encompassing, immersive investigation of the fabric and possibilities of another place. Through drawings, texts and objects Avery describes the inhabitants, architecture, philosophies, customs and idiosyncrasies of this imagined territory. With accents of the Scottish Hebrides and East London, the Island is situated at the centre of an archipelago of innumerable constituents. Its capital is the port city of Onomatopoeia: originally a stepping off point for pioneers and travellers, turned bustling boomtown, turned citadel, turned depression ravaged slum, turned regenerated city of culture. It has many eras, all encompassed by a monumental city wall separating it from the dark and violent wilderness beyond. Charles Averys exhibition; The Gates ... More Caspian photo exhibit by Chloe Dewe Mathews opens at Harvard museumCAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Caspian: The Elements is a new exhibit featuring the evocative imagery of Chloe Dewe Mathews, the 2014 recipient of the Peabody Museums Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibit documents her extraordinary five-year journey through the contested borderlands of the Caspian Sea. "Chloe Dewe Mathewss exhibit will immerse the viewer into the striking Caspian landscape through enormous murals of ice flows, rocky terrain, raging fire, and viscous oil," said Ilisa Barbash, the Peabody Museum's Curator of Visual Anthropology. "Photographs of people living and working in these landscapes communicate their complex relationship with their environment." The exhibit reveals the essential role played by elemental materials like oil, rock, and uranium in the practical, artistic, spiritual, and therapeutic aspects of daily life. Caspian: ... More Retrospective of influential Native American artist T.C. Cannon makes final stop in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- The Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York is hosting the final showing of T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America April 6 through Sept. 16. Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), the retrospective examines the life and career of T.C. Cannon (Caddo and Kiowa, 19461978), a Native American artist who mastered multiple artistic disciplines. Despite Cannons short life, he produced a wide-ranging oeuvre. At the Edge of America features nearly 80 works, including many of his best-known paintings, supplemented by works on paper, poetry and musical recordings. The exhibition is a testament to Cannons craft and a personal exploration of a life and career affected by the politics and society of America in the mid-20th century. What is evident in the artistry ... More Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra opens an exhibition at Postmasters GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters Gallery announces a solo exhibition of the prominent Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra. As early as her breakthrough work Pyramid of Animals (1993) Kozyra has made the interdependent relationship of people and animals the focus and the metaphorical tool of her practice. For her sixth exhibition at Postmasters Kozyra presents a survey of important projects centered on human/animal power dynamics and culminating in the most recent photographic series, Homo Quadrupeds (2018). Kozyra is, first and foremost, a creator of striking, complex, photographs, videos and performances where the symbols of subjugation and oppression have been intentionally complicated and jarringly re-presented in ways that make us question our assumptions of what is right, what we know, what we expect, and what we put up with. She ... More Hall of fame uniforms, championship rings and the Enos Slaughter Collection anchor Heritage auctionDALLAS, TX.- Nearly 2,000 lots feature the finest game used gear, autographs and general sports ephemera in the marketplace packs the most important sports memorabilia auction of the season. Heritage Auctions Spring Memorabilia Auction is open for bidding at HA.com/50013 and will close in extended bidding format, May 16-17. The auction event may draw more than $4 million in bids and the beloved backstop of the Brooklyn Bums is positioned to notch the top result in the sale: Roy Campanellas 1956 home white flannel jersey likely to surpass its $100,000-up pre-auction estimate. The largest Super Bowl ring ever designed issued to members of the 2016 New England Patriots bears a pre-auction estimate of $60,000-up. It is the first of its kind to see the hobbys auction block. Hall of Fame outfielder Enos Slaughter, best remembered for scoring ... More Jenkins Johnson Projects features the work of Rico Gatson and Baseera KhanNEW YORK, NY.- Jenkins Johnson Projects is presenting Free to Be, featuring the work of Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan. The title takes its inspiration from Free to Be You and Me, a pioneering childrens program from the 1970's, whose episodic nature challenged traditional gender designations and promoted multiple views of equality. Artists Rico Gatson and Baseera Khan draw upon their own personal history, family, politics, and spirituality. Selected works are placed in dialogue sharing material and imagistic experiences of respect and friendship alongside expansive notions of power dynamics, openness, and freedom. Both artists are based out of Brooklyn, continuing the Project Spaces commitment to dialogue and engagement with the local community. Rico Gatson exhibits a new group of works on paper of women activists from the late 60s ... More Chicago mayor brokers deal to end lengthy Symphony strikeCHICAGO (AFP).- The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will likely end its seven-week strike after the city's mayor Rahm Emanuel intervened to broker an agreement, his office said Friday, without detailing the terms. The musicians' association said it would vote to ratify the deal Saturday, noting that it had yet to be briefed on the contents. The high-profile walkout over salary and the future of the players' pensions triggered the standoff in early March. "I am pleased to announce that, after convening both parties at City Hall for a successful negotiating session, the management and the musicians have reached an agreement in principle to bring the music back to Symphony Center," Emanuel said in a statement. "The symphony is an integral part of Chicago's rich cultural fabric, but its economic impact extends beyond the musicians and management to the stagehands, ushers, ... More Crescent City Auction Gallery announces an 864-lot, weekend auction eventNEW YORK, NY.- A beautiful Galle mold blown Clematis vase, an unusual carved oak Robert Jupe-style dining table, a 152-piece set of sterling flatware by Gorham, a lovely Pairpoint reverse painted lamp and an outstanding collection of bronze sculptures are just a few of the expected top lots in Crescent City Auction Gallerys next big auction, slated for May 11th-12th. The 864-lot, weekend auction event is being held online as well as in Crescent Citys spacious gallery, located at 1330 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, starting at 9 am on Saturday, May 11th (lots 1-600) and 10 am Sunday, May 12th (lots 601-864). Both times are Central. Internet bidding will be facilitated by the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com. The auction is packed with the broad mix of merchandise people have come to expect from a Crescent City auction: ... More Newark Museum exhibition celebrates sparkling gift of Steuben GlassNEWARK, NJ.- A sparkling, colorful gift of Steuben glass from The Thomas N. Armstrong III Collection will be on display in an upcoming exhibition at the Newark Museum. Unexpected Color: A Journey Through Glass, opening on April 28, 2019, showcases more than 130 works in glass designed by Frederick Carder for the famed Steuben Glass Works from 1903 to 1933 and used in a variety of settings by the collector. The exhibition presents a jewel box of shimmering glass, organized by Carders colors that he created and patented. Carder was fascinated with ancient glass colors and forms, and he worked to recreate the iridescent colors of excavated ancient Greek and Roman glass. He also designed new shapes inspired by Chinese and Venetian glass as well as shapes influenced by Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, modern at the time. Carder kept detailed ... 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More 'An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions' opens at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art CenterPOUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- An Era of Opportunity: Three Decades of Acquisitions is on view April 26 September 8, 2019, at The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. The exhibition is a tribute to James Mundy (Vassar, class of 1974) upon his retirement after 28 years as the Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Mundy assumed the role of director in 1991 in time to complete the planning of the Art Centers present building designed by Cesar Pelli, which opened its doors to visitors in 1993. Organized by the curators of the Art Center, the special exhibition spotlights more than ninety drawings, prints, photographs, hanging and hand scrolls, sculptures, and paintings acquired over three decades, and encompasses art from across the geographic scope of the collection. A majority of works on view are light-sensitive ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Yves Klein was born April 28, 1928. Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. In this image: Yves Klein, "Untitled Fire-Color Painting (FC 1)," 1961. Private Collection. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Image courtesy Yves Klein Archives.
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