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Fossil enthusiast Philip Mullaly holds a giant shark tooth - evidence that a shark nearly twice the size of a great white once stalked Australias ancient oceans - at the Melbourne Museum on August 9, 2018. Up to 7 cms long (2.7 inch), the teeth have been identified as being from an extinct species of mega-toothed shark - the great jagged narrow-toothed shark (Carcharocles angustidens) - which could grow to more than 9 metres long, almost twice the length of todays great white shark. William WEST / AFP.
MELBOURNE (AFP).- A rare set of teeth from a giant prehistoric mega-shark twice the size of the great white have been found on an Australian beach by a keen-eyed amateur enthusiast, scientists said Thursday. Philip Mullaly was strolling along an area known as a fossil hotspot at Jan Juc, on the country's famous Great Ocean Road some 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Melbourne, when he made the find. "I was walking along the beach looking for fossils, turned and saw this shining glint in a boulder and saw a quarter of the tooth exposed," he said. "I was immediately excited, it was just perfect and I knew it was an important find that needed to be shared with people." He told Museums Victoria, and Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate palaeontology, confirmed the sev ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People look at a dolmen as they walk a touristic path in a late neolithic "Ranc de Figere" necropolis on August 1, 2018 near the French department of Ardeche village of Labeaume, south of French Alps. PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP
| Laurence Miller Gallery exhibits works by Fred Herzog and Eadweard Muybridge | | B. Wurtz: "Kitchen Trees" is now open at City Hall Park | | Incisive portrait of the prolific, wildly popular artist Yayoi Kusama to have US theatrical premiere at Film Forum |
Fred Herzog, Crossing Powell 2, 1984. 38 x 28 inch archival inkjet print, printed later Signed, titled, dated and editioned on verso Edition 20.
NEW YORK, NY.- Laurence Miller Gallery is presenting Fred Herzog: Modern Color, the gallery's fourth solo exhibition of Herzog's work, following the release last year of his latest monograph with the same title. Working in the 1950's and 1960's, Herzog was early in the field of color photography, at a time when most fine art photographers were producing only black and white imagery. His use of Kodachrome color slide film, however, limited his ability to make exhibition-quality prints. It was only with the advent of modern digital pigment printing techniques that he was finally able to print and exhibit this important body of early street photography. Laurence Miller Gallery is also presenting Stopping Time, a selection of 30 original collotypes by Eadweard Muybridge, from his Human and Animal Locomotion series. Artists as diverse as Sol Lewitt, Edgar Degas, Francis Bacon ... More | |
Composed of everyday kitchen items, the arboreal sculptures feature brightly colored stacked colanders.
NEW YORK, NY.- B. Wurtzs Kitchen Trees the artists first public art exhibition in his nearly 50-year career is now on view, featuring five new sculptures that bring a splash of whimsy to City Hall Park and invite a renewed outlook on the ordinary. Composed of everyday kitchen items, the arboreal sculptures feature brightly colored stacked colanders that form bulbous trunks, and pots and pans that dangle from the ends of branches bearing plastic fruits and vegetables. The works are inspired by the parks historic fountain and at over 18 feet in height are the largest sculptures Wurtz has ever created! With my sculptures, you can see how theyre made. Everything is obvious, nothing is hidden," Wurtz told T Magazine in a recent conversation about his favorite thing. B. Wurtz arrangements are characteristically made from simple utilitarian objects, such as plastic bags, tin cans, shoelaces, food carriers, and pieces of wood, wire, and mor ... More | |
KUSAMA INFINITY will open on Friday, September 7 for an ongoing engagement at Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St. with daily showtimes at 1:00, 2:40, 4:20, 6:00, 7:45 & 9:30.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of KUSAMA INFINITY, beginning Friday, September 7. Many years in the making, Heather Lenzs film is a stirring portrait of the worlds top-selling female artist, 89-year-old Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is best known for her colorful polka dot- and pumpkin-themed designs and her massively popular mirrored Infinity Rooms. For decades, her work pushed boundaries that often alienated her from her peers and those in power in the art world. She was an underdog with everything stacked against her: growing up in Japan during World War II; life in a dysfunctional upper-crust family that discouraged her creative ambitions; sexism and racism endemic to the art world; and mental illness in a culture where it has a significant stigma. In spite of it all, Kusama ... More |
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| TASCHEN publishes new monograph featuring the complete works of Pieter Bruegel | | Marc Straus opens exhibition featuring live installations made on-site by contemporary artists | | Exhibition highlights prominent history makers of 1968 |
This monograph is the most immersive journey into Bruegels unique visual universe.
NEW YORK, NY.- The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/301569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Albas brutal rule as governor of the Netherlands, and the palpable effects of the Inquisition. To this day, the Flemish artist remains shrouded in mystery. We know neither where nor exactly when he was born. But while early scholarship emphasized the vernacular character of his painting and graphic work, modern research has attached greater importance to its humanistic content. Starting out as a print designer for publisher Hieronymus Cock, Bruegel produced numerous print series that were distributed throughout Europe. These depicted vices and virtues alongside jolly peasant festivals and sweeping landscape panoramas. He would ... More | |
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TOKYO.- Spiral and MARC STRAUS Gallery New York are presenting Every Day Is A Good Day (日々是好日), a performance-based exhibition featuring live installations made on-site by contemporary artists Jong Oh and Jinsu Han. The exhibition is planned by Spiral and curated by MARC STRAUS Gallery director, Ken Tan. The concept of the exhibition derives from the ancient proverb: Nichi nichi kore kōnichi (日々是好日) or Every Day Is A Good Day. First spoken more than a thousand years ago by Zen Master Yun Men, it is a profound meditation on living: that ones experience of life is based on ones perception of it. For the exhibition artists Jong Oh and Jinsu Han will each respond through their respective practices to develop installations that evolve daily throughout the exhibition. Both Jinsu Han and Jong Oh are conceptual-based ... More | |
Unidentified Artist, Jimi Hendrix. Color photolithographic poster on paper. Sheet: 86.5 Ã 56 cm (34 1/16 Ã 22 1/16") National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution NPG.2014.36
WASHINGTON, DC.- The year 1968 was a time of revolutionary change in the United States. Americans across disciplines put forth new ways of thinking that overturned the status quo and influenced the events that transpired over those twelve months. Coincidentally, the Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery also opened to the public that year. In celebration of the museums 50th anniversary, One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey, curated by Portrait Gallery Historian James Barber, presents a time capsule of a diverse group of figures whose legacies continue to affect the nation in ineffaceable ways. The exhibition is on view June 29 through May 19, 2019. It seems prescient that in 1968, when ... More |
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| Brittany's capital revives forgotten heritage: Italian mosaics | | A La Vieille Russie returns to TEFAF Fall New York with a selection of rarely-seen works | | Monumental sculpture installed in new San Diego International Airport expansion |
A picture taken on August 3, 2018, shows a mosaic made by Italian brothers Isidore and Vincent Odorico at the Saint Georges Swimming pool in Rennes, western France. - The Odorico mosaics are now part of the heritage of the city of Rennes, which for ten years has rediscovered these works long forgotten or destroyed. Photo by DAMIEN MEYER / AFP.
RENNES (AFP).- Italian mosaics, once all the rage in France, fell into neglect and ruin by the 1970s, when homeowners began covering them up with parquet floors or even linoleum. The legacy is one that the Brittany capital Rennes has set out to showcase -- and with good reason, because the city boasts dozens of works by key purveyors of the craft -- the Odorico brothers from Italy's northeastern Friuli region. Their mosaics can be spotted in 122 towns and cities across western France, but they are concentrated in Rennes, where the brothers settled in 1882. Every summer, the city's tourism office puts on tours devoted to the work of two generations of ... More | |
Demantoid Garnet and Diamond Salamander Brooch.
NEW YORK, NY.- A La Vieille Russie announced its return to TEFAF Fall New York this October at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street. The gallerys presentation will include a carefully curated selection of rare works of antique and estate jewelry ranging from the 1800s through the 1970s with offerings from European and American designers such as Cartier, Flato, Tiffany & Co., and Van Cleef & Arpels. In addition, there will be works of art by Peter Carl Fabergé, the legendary Russian jeweler. Peter Schaffer, Director of ALVR, comments, We are thrilled to once again participate at TEFAF, which is widely regarded as the worlds leading fair for fine art, antiques, and design. We will be showcasing a number of works that will pique the interest of both our established clients as well as newcomers. Highlights include a pair of Cartier coral bead earrings as well as a Cartier gold bracelet with lapis beads, both from the 1950s; ... More | |
The suspended artwork is composed of over 25 gracefully curved ladders elegantly soaring throughout the lobby atrium.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- Portland, ME artist Aaron T Stephan has installed a 70-foot long monumental sculpture in the newly opened International Arrivals facility at San Diego International Airport titled Paths Woven. The suspended artwork is composed of over 25 gracefully curved ladders elegantly soaring throughout the lobby atrium. Paths Woven begins in the west end of the lobby with a single ladder made from Claro Walnut; a regional hardwood representing the local community. Over the span of the atrium space, the simple path of one ladder is joined by additional maple ladders that appear and weave together to culminate in a dynamic cloud of line and form. As a whole, the work embraces a sense of wonder and welcome in a beautiful natural material. It identifies San Diego as a place of strong community and personal ... More |
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| BIG's pleated skyscraper completes in Shenzen | | Exhibition of works from the early 1950s to the early 1990s by Jess on view at Kohn Gallery | | Jenkins Johnson Gallery opens a cross-generational exhibition |
The 96,000m2 office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen. © Laurian Ghinitoiu.
SHENZEN.- The new home for Shenzhen Energy Company looks different because it performs differently: the building skin is developed to maximize the sustainable performance and workplace comfort in the local subtropical climate of Chinas tech and innovation hub in Shenzhen. The 96,000m2 office development for the state-owned Shenzhen Energy Company is designed to look and feel at home in the cultural, political and business center of Shenzhen, while standing out as a new social and sustainable landmark at the main axis of the city. BIG won the international design competition in the city known as Chinas Silicon Valley with ARUP and Transsolar in 2009 and started construction in 2012. Shenzhen Energy Mansion is our first realized example of engineering without engines the idea that we can ... More | |
Jess, Four OClock Shadow of Purple Papier-Mâché, 1955, oil wash on unsized canvas, 39 x 26 inches.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery is presenting Jess Secret Compartments, an exhibition of works from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. This exhibition presents examples of work from Jess most important series including painting (Romantic, Erotic, Translation, Salvages), Paste-Ups, as well as drawing and collaborations with writers and poets. This marks the first time this traveling exhibition, organized by Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, is on view in Los Angeles. The earliest works in the exhibition are paintings that date from the early 1950s to the mid-1950s these paintings are generally considered Jess Romantic series. Created shortly after he left art school in San Francisco, and influenced by his teachers Clyfford Still and Edward Corbett, these works are colorful, impressionistically painted landscapes, sometimes with figures or moody abstractions. Here Jess foments his lifelong ... More | |
David Shrobe, Portal, 2017, oil, acrylic, graphite, stain, ink, fabric, wood, and mixed media, 42 x 38 x 7 inches.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery announces Summertime , a cross-generational exhibition that brings artists from Jenkins Johnson Projects, Brooklyn into conversation with the gallery's San Francisco Gallery. This international show presents the timbre of the city in the summer by uniting exhilarating works by Harlan Mack, Devin N. Morris, Enrico Riley, and Kennedy Yanko from Jenkins Johnson Projects with works by Ben Aronson, Wesaam Al-Badry, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Lalla Essaydi, Blessing Ngobeni, Mimi Plumb, Ken Graves & Eva Lipman, Nnenna Okore, Paccarik Orue, Gordon Parks, and David Shrobe. The exhibition is on view from July 18 through September 15, 2018. The gallery will be closed on Labor Day weekend. Enrico Riley addresses the experiences of African Americans. His paintings depict the intensity of violence and horror faced by Black Americans for centuries. His ... More |
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Femke Herregraven's first institutional solo exhibition on view at Westfälischer Kunstverein
MUNSTER.- In her first institutional solo exhibition A reversal of what is expected at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, the Dutch artist Femke Herregraven (b. 1982 in Nijmegen) takes a close look at the concept of catastrophe. Derived from the Greek, this term was initially not negatively connoted in any explicit sense, but meant instead a reversal, an unexpected change or (quite literally) a movement from a higher to a lower position. One is reminded here of the structure of Classical Greek tragedy, in which the protagonist is heading towards ineluctable catastrophe, the outcome of which he determines and its resolution supposedly resulting in catharsis for the audience. In this context, it also emerges that the impending catastrophe is not really a sudden, singular event, but rather a continual unfolding process, which undermines existing systems and leads to regulation ... More
Rental Gallery presents 'Syphilis' curated by Anton Kern and Adam Cohen
EAST HAMPTON, NY.- Syphilis is an exhibition that reflects on hope and fear, pleasure and mortality. The idea originated from a conversation about this disease and how it can serve as a metaphor. Artists in the show explore themes of love and lechery in equal measure. A pair of silicone lips by Mika Rottenberg protrude from the wall, parted slightly to reveal a kaleidoscopic video. Drawings by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Carroll Dunham are unabashedly erotic. Works by John Currin and Julie Curtiss are seductive and sinister. Mike Kuchars paintings on paper are a Dionysian celebration of the male form while Sam McKinniss paints the beauty of internet celebrity without irony, laying bare a sense of danger hiding somewhere beneath the surface. Richard Princes untitled (portrait) from 2015 is sourced from Instagram and translates the appropriation of the 1970s picture ... More
Gloucester painter Jeffrey Marshall opens "Gone... Fishing" at Cape Ann Museum
GLOUCESTER, MASS.- The Cape Ann Museum is hosting Gone Fishing, a special exhibition of recent work by Gloucester artist Jeffrey Marshall on display from August 10, 2018 through November 25, 2018. Using a variety of materials including oil, pastel and conté, ink and grease pencil, Marshall works out of a studio overlooking the Morse Sibley Wharf in East Gloucester. It is one of the few remaining wharves from which Gloucesters dwindling number of day-fishermen continues to work. At the site, he has discovered a world littered with the detritus of the working waterfront: buoys and nets, twisted cables and rusted engine parts, bright-blue plastic barrels, dumpsters, storage containers, and, of course, pickup trucks of all shapes and sizes. Parked on the old wharf, the trucks seem out of place and time. And yet, there they are, serving as mobile offices, ... More
Exhibition at Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge explores the eroticism of things
BERLIN.- What makes things erotic? Is it the explicit depiction of naked bodies and sexual practices? Or is it the implicitly suggestive form, color, and materiality of things themselves? Some things are designated for erotic use from the beginning, others only get eroticized retrospectively. While nudes have entered many living rooms as replicas of respectable works in the art-historical canon, erotica has often gotten censored, tabooed, and banned. The distinction between eroticism, art, and pornography has always been in constant flux and continues to sway peoples perception and categorization of sexually charged things. This exhibition builds upon the collections of sexologists Magnus Hirschfeld (18681935) and Alfred C. Kinsey (18941956) and art collector Naomi Wilzig (19342015). All three collectors considered erotic things documents ... More
Sarajevo film fest honours Turkish Palme d'Or winner
SARAJEVO (AFP).- Turkish director and Cannes Palme d'Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan on Friday received an outstanding contribution award at the opening of the Sarajevo film festival. "This is great honour for me, really, and I accept it with my heart," the director said after receiving the "Heart of Sarajevo" award. Ceylan scooped the top prize at the Cannes film festival in 2014 for his epic drama "Winter Sleep". His latest feature, "The Wild Pear Tree", was also selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The Sarajevo film festival, now in its 24th year, will also celebrate Ceylan's talent as a stills photographer with a exhibition of his work in the Bosnian capital. The festival kicked off on Friday night with an open-air screening of "Cold War" by Oscar winner Pawel Pawlikowski, who took home the prize for best director at this year's Cannes festival. Pawlikowski also won th ... More
Light and sound unite in multi-disciplinary work
SARASOTA, FLA.- This summer the John and Mable Ringling Museum will present VOLUMES, an immersive audio-visual installation by contemporary artist Ezra Masch. The piece uses live sound from a drum set to activate lights in a site-specific, 3-dimensional grid. Velocity and pitch determine the amount of light that will fill the Monda Gallery for Contemporary Art. The work gives percussionists the opportunity to improvise and compose with light and space. The Ringling has put out an open call to drummers wishing to play the piece throughout its run. More than 50 musicians from the local community and beyond will participate, experimenting with the visual patterns and forms generated in the lights as they play. In addition to these daily performances, there will be eight ticketed shows featuring musicians that have been curated ... More
Christie's announces What Goes Around Comes Around 25th anniversary sale
NEW YORK, NY.- In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the premier luxury vintage retailer What Goes Around Comes Around will partner with Christies to present a special one-off auction of rare collectible fashion items this autumn. Sneak preview exhibitions of this exciting curated sale, which features one of a kind items and coveted vintage pieces from a wide range of designers including Hermès and Chanel, will be open to the public in New York in September following an opening reception in Beverly Hills. The auction, comprised of classics, collection items & novelty luxury pieces sourced from around the world, will be timed to immediately follow New York Fashion Week on September 18. This landmark partnership, which will be on view during New York Fashion Week, is sure to be a focal point for consumers with an appetite for luxury fashion, accessories and ... More
Month long installation explores sound systems and Notting Hill Carnival's heritage
LONDON.- Boiler Room and Somerset House Studios artist Gaika collaborate on System, a sound system culture installation. Marking 70 years of Windrush, the month long installation explores sound systems and Notting Hill Carnivals heritage beyond the borders of West London at Somerset House. SYSTEM by musician and performance artist Gaika is an evocative art installation at Somerset House Studios telling the history of sound system culture in London commissioned by Boiler Room. SYSTEM challenges the media perception of Carnival by showcasing a fair representation of the stories, characters, statistics and under celebrated sound system culture at Carnival and beyond. It forms part of a wider campaign from Boiler Room to celebrate the positive cultural impact of migration. The audio visual installation has been made up of curated archive material ... More
Revellers descend on Serbian town for raucous trumpet festival
GUCA (AFP).- Rowdy brass bands and revellers ruled the streets of the small Serbian town of Guca on Saturday as its annual trumpet festival hit full stride with music, meat and alcohol flowing in abundance. The four-day affair, which ends on Sunday, sees hundreds of thousands of music-lovers from Serbia and abroad descend on Guca, a mountain town of several thousand people that locals say is best described as "quiet" during the rest of the year. Now in its 58th edition, the festival draws the best players of "Balkan brass" -- a distinct regional style - to battle it out on stage for prestigious awards. During the day musicians also go table-to-table in restaurants and bars lining the streets, stirring up spontaneous dance parties as they blare their horns for tips. "We're very fascinated by the rhythm of this kind of music," said Martin Miers, a trombone player who travelled ... More
Winners of inaugural 'Write on Art' prize announced
LONDON.- Art UK and The Paul Mellon Centre announced the winners of the inaugural Write on Art prize an award that was launched at the end of 2017 to encourage a greater interest in art and art history at schools in the face of a disturbing decline in the teaching of the subjects. Almost 200 students in Years 10 to 13 submitted essays on A work from the Art UK website that fascinates you which were pored over by a jury that included Dr Gabriele Finaldi (Director of the National Gallery), Jackie Wullschlager (Chief Art Critic, The Financial Times), Turner Prize-winner Jeremy Deller, cultural historian and broadcaster Dr Janina Ramirez and Dr David Dibosa, Course Leader for MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea College of Arts. First place in the Years 12/13 category was taken by Catherine Jamieson from Esher College who wrote on Bacchus ... More
Edge of Now on view at Nam June Paik Art Center
SEOUL.- Nam June Paik Art Center (Director: Jinsuk Suh) in association with Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, China (CAC) and Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany (ZKM) host the international collaborative exhibition the Three Rooms project Edge of Now. The exhibition being held from July 12 to September 16 provides an opportunity to verify different perspectives and attitudes of the artists exploring technological media-based art. The Three Rooms project, co-organized by Nam June Paik Art Center, CAC and ZKM in the form of competition, is aimed to discover and support new media artists in Korea, China and Germany. This year, 15 members of the recommendation committee recommended 30 new artists and Kim Heecheon, Yang Jian and Verena Friedrich, who have presented new sensibilities and views in this era of changing technologies and media, are finally ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, English poet and painter William Blake died August 12, 1827. William Blake (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. In this image: William Blake, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (formerly called 'The Triple Hecate'), about 1795. Polytype on paper, 41.60 x 56.10 cm. Scottish National Gallery.
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