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The exhibition includes an informal interview with the artist in her studio as well as photographs of the shops where Suescum found her inspiration. Folk Pop: Victoria SuescumÂs Tienditas is on view in the Charles Butt Paperworks Gallery through January 10, 2021.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum is spotlighting more than 60 drawings and watercolors in two new exhibitions opening this month: Folk Pop: Victoria SuescumÂs Tienditas and Hockney to Warhol: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection. Folk Pop features bold acrylic drawings on paper by San Antonio-based artist Victoria Suescum, who has long been fascinated with the paintings on the exterior walls of mom and pop shops in San Antonio, Mexico, and her native Panama. These hand-painted signs advertise the goods and services offered and represent a unique visual approach that combines Pop art, hybrid languages, and advertising traditions. SuescumÂs Tienditas drawings, created between 2012 and 2020, beautifully capture the colors, textures, scale, and forms of the wall paintings that inspired them. In addition to celebrating family-owned small businesses in minority communities, her work also documents these quickly vanishing works of folk art. The e ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A priest (L) and a woman visit the Chora or Kariye Museum, formally the Church of the Holy Saviour, a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church, on August 21, 2020, in the Fatih district in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on August 21, 2020, ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. Located in today's Fatih district in Istanbul, the building was constructed as a monastery in 534 during the Byzantine period. After Istanbul was taken over by the Ottomans in 1453, it was converted into a mosque in 1511, just like Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Serving as a mosque for 434 years, it was converted into a museum by a Council of Ministers decree in 1945, after the Republic of Turkey was established in 1923. BULENT KILIC / AFP
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 | | Turkey converts another former church into mosque | | Locals enjoy rare calm at London museums | | Spirited away: Safe full of cash vanishes from Japan ninja museum | 
A view of the ceiling of the Chora or Kariye Museum, formally the Church of the Holy Saviour, a medieval Byzantine Greek Orthodox church, decorated with 14th-century frescoes of the Last Judgement, in the Fatih district of Istanbul on August 21, 2020. BULENT KILIC / AFP.
by Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi and Burcin Gercek
ISTANBUL (AFP).- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The decision to transform the Kariye Museum into a mosque came just a month after a similarly controversial conversion for the UNESCO World Heritage-recognised Hagia Sophia. Both changes reflect Erdogan's efforts to galvanise his more conservative and nationalist supporters at a time when Turkey is suffering a new spell of inflation and economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus. But the moves have added to Turkey's problems with prelates in both the Orthodox ... More | | 
Museum employees wearing a face mask or covering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pose as they look at artwork entitled "Self-conscious Gene" by British artist Marc Quinn. Ben STANSALL / AFP.
by Alice Ritchie
LONDON (AFP).- Getting close to the animated T-Rex at London's Natural History Museum normally requires long queues and sharp elbows. But today, only a handful of children shriek in delight as it roars. With tourists staying away and visitor numbers limited due to coronavirus, the popular exhibit is unrecognisably quiet -- as are many of the British capital's museums and galleries. It is tough for the institutions' finances, but the lack of crowds is a boon for the few foreign visitors and for locals, who are taking the opportunity to explore their own backyard. Lynsey Wheeldon, 39, from Dunstable, north of London, headed straight to the dinosaurs when she visited the Natural History Museum with her children on a hot August day. "We got in straight away and it was only ... More | | 
Ninja village tour. Photo: specialoperations/w/index.php?curid=25970775
TOKYO (AFP).- They came in the dead of night; no one saw them and nobody knew they were there. Moments later, the Japanese ninja museum was missing a safe full of cash. Under cover of darkness, thieves vanished with the 150-kilogramme (330-pound) strongbox containing around $9,500, paid as admission fees to the Iga-ryu Ninja Museum in central Japan. The museum is dedicated to the legend of the ninja -- the covert martial arts masters and agents of sabotage who prowled the shadows in feudal times, and were famous for secrecy and stealth. But police called to investigate the crime found that the culprits had been less than subtle -- having forced their way into the museum office with a crowbar, Kyodo News agency reported. The safe, which was stolen in the early hours of Monday, contained takings from around 1,100 weekend visitors, the Asahi Shimbun daily reported. The museum, in Iga, features a traditional ninja house and offers interactive ... More |
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| | The Städel Museum offers free access to more than 22,000 art works | | Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery opens a solo exhibition of works by Patricia Piccinini | | Kunsthaus Zürich opens 'Kader Attia: Remembering the Future' | 
Johannes Vermeer (16321675), The Geographer, 1669. Oil on canvas, 51.6 x 45.4 cm. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. CC BY-SA 4.0 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum has now made more than 22,000 works in its Digital Collection available for free downloading under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0. This licence enables anyone interested in art to reproduce and share the images of artworks in the public domain, as well as to use and process them for any purpose, provided the Städel Museum is identified in a credit line. Popular works in the Städel collection, for example Sandro Botticellis Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as a Nymph) (ca. 1480), Franz Marcs Dog Lying in the Snow (ca. 1911), Paula Modersohn-Beckers Man Lying beneath a Blossoming Tree (1903), Rembrandts Self-Portrait Leaning on a Stone Wall (1639), Johannes Vermeers Geographer (1669) and many more are thus available for free downloading by way of the Digital Collection. Entirely in keeping with the wishes of the museums ... More | | 
Patricia Piccinini, Shoeform (Sprout), 2019. Resin and automotive paint, 60 x 35 x 37 cm. Edition 1 of 3 + 1 AP. Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
SYDNEY.- Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is presenting a highly anticipated solo exhibition with one of Australias most acclaimed contemporary artists, Patricia Piccinini. The Gardeners Eye features an iconic hyper-realistic life-size sculpture, an assembly of smaller mechanical sculptures, her signature Panelworks, and a suite of drawings. Woven within this exhibition are new works that investigate the notions of nature and its relationship with the contemporary world. Her work reveals a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how people might re-imagine our relationship with nature. This exhibition describes both the resilience of the natural world and the seemingly dissonant fragility of this system as it interacts with the built environment. This new body of work continues the artists long-term interest in the tensions between the natural and the artificial, the aesthetic and the deformed, ... More | | 
Kader Attia, La Mer Morte, 2015. Installation with blue second-hand clothes. Dimensions variable. Installation view Kunsthaus Zürich, 2020. Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Nagel Draxler and Regen Projects, photo: Franca Candrian, © 2020. ProLitteris, Zurich.
ZURICH.- From 21 August to 15 November 2020 the Kunsthaus Zürich presents sculptures, photos, videos and installations by the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia. His first exhibition in German-speaking Switzerland revolves around Europes colonial past and its legacy. Kader Attia was born in 1970 to Algerian parents in a suburb north of Paris. Now working in Berlin and Paris, he draws on the experience of living in two cultures as the basis for his artistic practice. At the centre of the exhibition Kader Attia. Remembering the Future, which comprises a total of 38 works, is the new video installation The Objects Interlacing (2020), which Attia has created specially for the Kunsthaus Zürich. In it, he addresses the much-debated topical issue of restitution of non-Western, especially African artefacts. The work is an attempt to delve deeper into this complex subject. ... More |
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| | The Morgan announces reopening following COVID-19 closure | | Public Art Fund debuts five new painted bronze bells by Davina Semo | | Online now: Stella X Smart Works Fashion Auction in association with Christie's | 
J. Pierpont Morgans Library The Morgan Library & Museum. Photo: Graham Haber, 2014.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced its public reopening beginning with a free opening weekend September 5 and 6, 2020 and advanced access for members September 2 to 4, 2020. Advanced registration for the Member Preview will be available starting Friday, August 21st , 2020. All other tickets go on sale Wednesday, August 26th, 2020. Opening hours will be Wednesday through Sunday from 10:30am to 5pm with 10:30am to 11:30am on Wednesdays and Saturdays reserved for Members. The Morgans popular Free Fridays program will continue from 3pm to 5pm every Friday afternoon. Colin B. Bailey, Director of the Morgan Library & Museum, stated, The Morgan Library & Museum is so pleased to reopen its doors to the resilient citizens of New York City and beyond. These past few months have encouraged us to look deep ... More | | 
Davina Semo, Reverberation, 2020. Patinated cast bronze bell, UV protected 2-stage catalyzed urethane automotive finish, galvanized steel chain and hardware, clapper. Presented by Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1, August 20, 2020 April 18, 2021. Courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy of Public Art Fund, NY.
NEW YORK, NY.- Public Art Fund unveiled Reverberation, a new exhibition of large-scale bells by San Francisco-based sculptor Davina Semo. Consisting of five, four-foot tall bright orange bronze bells, and housed in structures towering over 14 feet in height, Reverberation enlivens Brooklyn Bridge Parks Pier 1 along the New York City waterfront. From ancient times, bells have served special roles in civic lifeto signal time, celebrate momentous occasions, invite people into public spaces, and summon community action. So, too, have ships traveling along the harbor sounded bells to communicate with those around them. By adapting this traditional form, ... More | | 
Lot 7, Victoria Beckhams Black Bustiers, one William Tempest, both circa 2008, Estimate: £700-1,000. Photo: Kevin Davies, Art Direction by Krishna Sheth.
LONDON.- Christies unveils the Stella X Smart Works Fashion Auction, an online charity sale comprising 33 lots, each donated by an iconic woman based on its significance, from representing a particularly important moment, memory or achievement to a defining look from their fashion journey. Donors include Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss, Lara Stone, Gemma Arterton and Dame Shirley Bassey amongst others. The auction is now live online here, and will be open for bidding until 15 September, to raise vital funds in support of UK charity Smart Works. The auction features Jane Birkin's iconic Black Togo Leather Birkin 35 (estimate: £8,000-10,000) and Dame Helena Morrissey's Alexander McQueen gown (estimate: £10,000-15,000), worn to the Soiree dOr dinner in 2011, and part of the legendary designers final 2010 collection. Further highlights include two of Victoria ... More |
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| | Kehrer Verlag publishes Ashok Sinha's 'Gas and Glamour: Roadside Architecture in Los Angeles' | | Largest study of dinosaur skulls shows that evolution slowed down in birds | | A walk through Harlem, New York's most storied neighborhood | 
Bob's Big Boy Broiler. © Ashok Sinha.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gas and Glamour is a tribute to Americas golden age of the automobile, a time when cars themselves were objects of beauty and the act of driving was celebrated. Those cars are no longer on the streets today, but the celebratory roadside vernacular architecture from that era remains. As an architectural photographer, Ashok Sinha wanted to connect with that lost design history and capture LAs car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, star-spangled coffee shops, gas stations, car washes, and other structures that once lured the gaze of passing motorists. I will never forget, driving, driving, in my fathers 1964 metallic turquoise Ford Mustang. It was the models first year and everywhere we went we caused a sensation. Especially when we pulled into our local hamburger joint, a glowing box of pink and green Lucite, and ... More | | 
3D scan of dinosaur skull used in the study © R. Felice.
LONDON.- A team of scientists at the Natural History Museum, led by Dr. Ryan Felice, scientific associate, and Prof. Anjali Goswami, research leader, has revealed that the great diversity found in birds skulls today actually represents a huge bottleneck and evolutionary slowdown compared to other dinosaurs. We think of birds as being incredibly diverse, with huge variation seen from hawks to hummingbirds and pigeons to pelicans. Although the earliest birds evolved 150 million years ago in the Jurassic previous studies have shown that their modern diversity evolved in a burst of evolution after the other dinosaurs died out in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. However, it turns out that bird diversity is only the tip of the iceberg of broader variation in dinosaurs, the precursor to modern birds. To understand the variation in bird ... More | | 
The historic cast iron watchtower in Marcus Garvey Park, a predecessor to steel-frame skyscrapers, in New York, Aug. 13, 2020. DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times.
by Michael Kimmelman
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Its a refuge and magnet, storied crucible and cradle, a cultural capital, shaped by waves of migration, a recent tsunami of gentrification and the ongoing struggles for racial justice. Harlem is the American saga packed into one neighborhood, its architecture a palimpsest of African American and Latino experience in the city and of much else that has defined New York over the centuries. The Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye, the lead designer for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, began to explore the area while working on a mixed-usehousing development at 155th ... More |
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 Hayward Gallery Touring announces new dates for Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As MediumLONDON.- Hayward Gallery Touring and Drawing Room, London, presents Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium, a major exhibition of artists and works inspired by mediumistic methodologies and their deep cultural history. Bringing together more than 30 international artists from the 19th century to the present day, it explores the changing terms of artistic engagement with mediumship. The exhibition features works inspired by spirit experiences during séances and trances, to practices of automatism, surrealist experiments, and communications with higher powers and other realities. The exhibition takes as its starting point the visionary work of William Blake and the largely forgotten Victorian spirit artists Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt and Barbara Honywood, whose work based on experiences and communication with the world of the spirits ... More SP-Arte launches virtual fair with strong participation of local galleriesSAO PAULO.- The first edition of the SP-Arte Viewing Room will take place from the 24 30 August 2020, bringing 136 exhibitors together in a single digital space, including leading design and art galleries in the national and international markets, publishing houses, magazines, collectives and independent art projects. SP-Arte launches its first online edition following the global trend of art institutions and fairs moving their activities to the digital realm. SP-Arte Viewing Room is hosted on www.sp-arte.com, a web page which receives a monthly average of 40,000 visitors. Over the week-long event, the public will be able to view photographs, videos, paintings and artworks of other various media by artists represented by galleries such as 1 Mira Madrid (Madrid), Almeida e Dale (São Paulo), Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London), Galleria Continua (San ... More José León Cerrillo opens a solo exhibition at Andréhn Schiptjenko, StockholmSTOCKHOLM.- Using language, a system of meaning with inherent flaws and implied power structures, as a starting point and drawing from different sources (psychoanalytic theory, graphic ideologies, geometric abstraction) Cerrillo continues his exploration into the possibilities and contradictions of thinking about abstraction through a wide range of media, from printed posters to sculpture, installations and performance. Cerrillos work is usually structured serially. This not only allows the work to be an ongoing investigation, an open set, but also admits for the possibility of a retroactive reading. Past scenarios can be reused and rethought. By changing its fixed status, past work becomes material for new work, new work that in turn has the possibility of affecting the way that the original work is understood. The future helping the past. The present exhibition ... More Virus curbs see elephant idols shrunk for major Indian festivalMUMBAI (AFP).- Indian authorities have imposed tough anti-coronavirus restrictions on gatherings and the size of Ganesha elephant god idols for one of the biggest religious festivals of the year that started Saturday. The 10 days of prayers and family gatherings for Ganesh Chaturthi started under a pandemic cloud with the country closing on three million infections and 56,000 deaths. Most major cities have ordered that effigies of the popular elephant-headed god Ganesha, which can draw thousands of Hindu devotees onto the streets, be shrunk back. Traditionally, the idols can tower 10 metres (30 feet) high or more and need dozens of people to carry them but this year authorities said they can be no more than 1.1 metres tall in a bid to cut crowds. In New Delhi, no Ganesha idols will be shown in public while hard-hit Mumbai has cut back ... More German trial concerts to probe virus infection risksBERLIN (AFP).- A German university launched a series of pop concerts under coronavirus conditions on Saturday, hoping the mass experiment with 2,000 people can determine whether large events can safely resume. Tim Bendzko, a well-known singer in Germany, agreed to give three separate performances over the course of the day in eastern city Leipzig, allowing researchers from nearby Halle University to try out different configurations for the gigs. Only young, healthy volunteers were allowed to attend in a bid to limit infection risks. As the audience arrives at the Leipzig Arena concert hall, they submit to a temperature check. All the participants have to wear masks meeting the high-protection FFP2 standard, as well as an electronic device allowing tracking of their movements within the space. Using fluorescent disinfectants, the researchers will ... More Jack Sherman, early guitarist for Chili Peppers, dies at 64WASHINGTON (AFP).- Jack Sherman, a rock guitarist who played on the first album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and co-wrote several of the Grammy-winning group's early songs, has died at age 64, the group announced Saturday. The group listed no cause of death. "We of the RHCP family would like to wish Jack Sherman smooth sailing into the worlds beyond, for he has passed," the Chili Peppers said on Twitter. "Jack played on our debut album as well as our first tour of the USA." The Chili Peppers paid further homage in a second tweet, saying, "He was a unique dude and we thank him for all times good, bad and in between." In 1984, Sherman replaced guitarist Hillel Slovak for the group's first album, "The Red Hot Chili Peppers," and he collaborated on the second, "Freaky Styley" in 1985, according to the Deadline website. Slovak later ... More Top supermodels unite: Auction of their portraits to benefit Gates Philanthropy PartnersLOS ANGELES, CA.- Internationally admired for their beauty and grace, supermodels rule the catwalks of Paris, New York and Milan, influencing fashion trends across all media. Now six of the worlds favorite supermodels, together with Hungarian-American artist Judy Konkoly, are combining their talent and celebrity to fight a global threat that knows no borders: COVID-19. Under the auspices of the non-profit organization Faces Unite, Konkoly and supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio approached Heidi Klum, Lily Aldridge, Miranda Kerr and two other high-profile friends from the uppermost echelon of the modeling profession about participating in an art auction to benefit Gates Philanthropy Partners efforts to combat COVID-19. With all six of the models immediately on board, a summer project began that would yield a stunning original Konkoly portrait ... More St. Vincents, Antwerp exhibits works by Brussels-based designer studiokhachatryanANTWERP.- Brussels-based designer studiokhachatryan is presenting an exciting panorama of unique and limited-editions works at interdisciplinary space St. Vincents, Antwerp. With his innately curious nature and mathematical mind, designer Noro Khachatryan, founder of studiokhachatryan, is seeking to build bridges between objects and architecture. The designer creates sculptural objects and architectural elements in natural and industrial materials (stone, concrete, semi-precious metals and wood) and this purified visual language encourages the viewer to have his own interpretation of the work. The exhibition presents a roster of works which are perfect examples of this process. Meronyms, for instance, is a series of objects fueled by a profound interest in the details and structural elements found in classical urban architecture. The black ... More Monterey Museum of Art opens "Gretchen Andrew: Future News"MONTEREY, CA.- The Monterey Museum of Art announced Grechen Andrew: Future News, a hybrid virtual and in-person exhibition at montereyart.org and MMA Pacific Street. Andrew will also be in residence at MMA La Mirada throughout the fall. Andrews exhibition uses vision boards to playfully hypnotize Google search results, exposing the inherent limitations of its binary technology while simultaneously using these limitations to reclaim the internet as a forward-thinking tool of possibility. Future News reframes conversations about truth online in terms of what search engine artist Gretchen Andrew calls positive failures. By using her vision boards to playfully hypnotize Google search results, she exposes the inherent and structural limitations of 1s and 0s binary technology while simultaneously using these limitations to reclaim the internet ... More Museum Folkwang opens a comprehensive exhibition of works by US artist Keith HaringESSEN.- Museum Folkwang is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of works by US artist Keith Haring (195890). With his unmistakable motifs of dancing figures, barking dogs and flying saucers, his message was comprehensible to all. The exhibition presents him not only as an artist, but also as a performer, activist and organiser who never compromised on innovation and relevance in his quest for a fairer society. Some 200 exhibits are on display, including famous paintings, large-format drawings, early video works, sculptures, photographs and archive material. The exhibition positions Harings oeuvre against the backdrop of global interconnectedness and contemporary social change, themes that the artist began to tackle early on in his career and which he promoted through artistic and commercial strategies alike. While his work is inspired ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor Alexander Milne Calder was born August 23, 1846. Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 - June 4, 1923) was an American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander "Sandy" Calder, would become significant sculptors in the 20th century. In this image: William Warner Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery (1889).
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