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The well-preserved remains of a prehistoric miner, found in the salt mine in the year 1734, is pictured on August 16, 2018, in Hallstatt, Austria. Like for all mines, a fresh round of strengthening work has become necessary for Hallstatt, the world's oldest salt mine which is located in the Austrian Alps. But Hallstatt isn't like other mines. Alex HALADA / AFP.
by Philippe Schwab
HALLSTATT (AFP).- All mines need regular reinforcement against collapse, and Hallstatt, the world's oldest salt mine perched in the Austrian Alps, is no exception. But Hallstatt isn't like other mines. Exploited for 7,000 years, the mine has yielded not only a steady supply of salt but also archaeological discoveries attesting to the existence of a rich civilisation dating back to the early part of the first millennium BC. So far less than two percent of the prehistoric tunnel network is thought to have been explored, with the new round of reinforcement work, which began this month, protecting the dig's achievements, according to chief archaeologist Hans Reschreiter. "Like in all the mines, the mountain puts pressure on the tunnels and they could cave in if nothing is done," Reschreiter told AFP. ... More |
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| Art Institute of Chicago exhibits large-scale paintings by Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter | | The Moss Arts Center celebrates the work of trailblazing artist Jacob Lawrence with latest exhibition | | Lucretia by Artemisia Gentileschi to be auctioned at Dorotheum | 
Vivian Suter, Untitled (Rack), n.d. Courtesy of the artist and the Art Institute of Chicago.
CHICAGO, IL.- From August 25, 2018-January 27, 2019, the large-scale paintings by Argentine-Swiss artist Vivian Suter will transform Kenneth and Anne Griffin Court at the Art Institute of Chicago. Suter installs her work as an immersive interior that mirrors the exterior of her home: the Guatemalan rainforest. Describing the installation, exhibition curator Hendrik Folkerts, Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, says, Vivian Suter: el bosque interior fully inhabits the interior of Griffin Court and brings the life that is at the core of these magnificent paintings into the heart of the Art Institute of Chicago. For 30 years, Suter has lived and worked in a remote studio on a former coffee plantation in Panajachel, Guatemala, over 100 miles from Guatemala City. Much like the porous architecture of the Central American rainforest, Suters colorful paintings on untreated canvases are exposed to the ... More | | 
Jacob Lawrence; Forward Together, 1997 (detail); silkscreen on paper; 25.5 x 40.125 inches. Copyright 2018 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
BLACKSBURG, VA.- Experience a comprehensive overview of printmaking works by the influential American artist Jacob Lawrence (b.1917, d. 2000) in the exhibition History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, currently on view at Virginia Techs Moss Arts Center. A prominent 20th-century artist, Lawrence is renowned for his depiction of African-American life as well as epic narratives of African-American history. Presented in the Ruth C. Horton Gallery, Sherwood Payne Quillen 71 Reception Gallery, and Miles C. Horton Jr. Gallery, History, Labor, Life: The Prints of Jacob Lawrence features more than 90 works produced by Lawrence from 1963 to 2000. Lawrence started exploring printmaking as an already well-established artist. Printmaking suited his ... More | | 
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653) Lucretia, oil on canvas, 133 x 106 cm. Estimate: 500,000 - 700,000.
VIENNA.- An important painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of art historys most celebrated female painters, is to be offered for sale at auction at Dorotheum this Autumn. The painting, entitled Lucretia, is an exceptional and rare work by the 17th century Italian baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. It will be one of the highlights of Dorotheums auction week in October (23 25 October 2018). The painting is estimated at 500,000 - 700,000 and has been consigned from an aristocratic collection where it has been since the mid-nineteenth century. Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) often painted heroic women of Ancient and Christian mythology. The subject of this work, is the Roman noblewoman Lucretia, popular symbol of female defiance against tyranny. The artists subject matter reflected her own life. As a young woman she suffered sexual abuse and, most unusually for her time, participated in the prosecuti ... More |
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| Exhibition venerates the 10-year anniversary of the 'Beautiful Losers' documentary | | Wartski to open a new showrrom in September | | Damiani to publish 'Charles H. Traub: Taradiddle' | 
Tom Sachs, Phone Books, 1994-1997.
NEW YORK, NY.- RVCA announces a gallery exhibition, entitled Now & Then: A Decade of Beautiful Losers, on view in New York City at The Hole Gallery. The Now & Then: A Decade of Beautiful Losers exhibition venerates the 10-year anniversary of the Beautiful Losers documentary that made its US premiere on August 8, 2008 at the IFC center in New York. Beautiful Losers, directed by Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard, captured the characteristic spirit of a community of artists affiliated with the Alleged Gallery in Manhattan in the early 1990s. Beautiful Losers depicted a community of artists including Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, Mike Mills, Thomas Campbell, Jo Jackson, Shepard Fairey, Chris Johanson, and Margaret Kilgallen during the Alleged Gallery era. In present-day, a community to which these artists belong still exists in the form of the RVCA Artist Network Program. ... More | | 
Pomander, German, 16th Century Silver and Silver-gilt.
LONDON.- Wartski, the distinguished family business specialising in works of art by Carl Fabergé, antique jewellery, silver and objets de vertu, announced the opening of its new showroom on Monday 24th September 2018. Founded by Morris Wartski in 1865, the firm's first known premises were located in Bangor, North Wales. By 1907, two shops had been established in the fashionable seaside resort of Llandudno. Four years later Emanuel Snowman, Morris Wartskis son-in-law, opened another branch in London. He was among the first to negotiate with the government of the Soviet Union in the 1920s, purchasing treasures that had been confiscated after the revolution of 1917. For more than a decade he acquired many important works of art, including a gold chalice commissioned by Catherine the Great (now in the Hillwood Museum). Kenneth Snowman, Emanuels son, built ... More | | 
Coincidental moments that reveal the humor and absurdity of our global society.
NEW YORK, NY.- Twenty years ago Charles Traub abandoned all pretense of trying to find specific themes and subjects in his photographic wanderings other than to make 'Taradiddles', embracing fully the digital image which is always questioned for its further and inherent potential for distortion. Ironically, the witty and sardonic juxtaposition of Traubs images, are only a matter of framing his discoveries - here, there and everywhere. This volume is a collection of trifles that become matters of remarkable social commentary when Traub photographs them - For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. (Charles H. Traub) - in a hundred plus images Traub seems to have captured the common incongruities of a global society. Traub took these pictures in more than ... More |
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| Boscobel opens 2018 exhibition 'Campaign Furniture: The March of Portable Design' | | i8 Gallery opens a late summer show featuring the work of five American artists | | New exhibition at Canadian Museum of Nature reveals Canadian women trailblazers in the natural sciences | 
England, Collapsible armchair, c. 1840s. On loan from Michael Pashby Antiques, New York.
GARRISON, NY.- Boscobel House and Gardens announces its 2018 exhibition, Campaign Furniture: The March of Portable Design, featuring two dozen 18th- and 19th- century examples that are as functional as they are elegant. Collapsible chairs, tables, beds, and more were once considered essential equipment for military officers, Hudson River School artists, and well-heeled tourists. These ingeniously designed objects document the desire for the comforts of home, even when out on the road. Campaign Furniture was inspired by Boscobels renowned collection of New York furniture, the rich military and artistic history of the Hudson River Valley, and the tens of thousands of picnickers who bring their own stylish equipment to Boscobel every summer. Campaign Furniture: The March of Portable Design opened on Saturday, August 25 and runs through Sunday, November 4. Admission is included with tickets to the house or grounds. All are welcome at the openi ... More | | 
B. Ingrid Olson, Future Body, plastic drawing, 2017, PVA size, acrylic, vinyl paint and sand on polyurethane foam, 76 x 38 x 11,5 cm.
REYKJAVÃK.- Seeing Believing Having Holding brings together five American artists living across the United States: Kelly Akashi (Los Angeles, CA) Kahlil Robert Irving (St. Louis, MO), Michelle Lopez (Philadelphia, PA), B. Ingrid Olson (Chicago, IL), and Daniel Rios Rodriguez (San Antonio, TX). Each artist makes tactile, composite objects and images, generating conditions of doubt, pleasure, and a kind of skepticism in the face of physical fact. Expressive of varied subjectivities, together their works play our most stabilizing senses against each other. Provoking unsettling relationships between touch and vision, they register deeply felt bodily experiences colored by the United States precarious and destabilizing cultural moment. Michelle Lopezs (b. 1970) distended forms appear to withdraw from the space they occupy even as they expose the fragility of material relationships and the built environment. The gaps, ... More | | 
The star specimen in the show is a 16-foot-tall giraffe skeleton from the museums collections. It accompanies a display about zoologist Anne Innis Dagg who travelled solo to South Africa in 1956 to study giraffes in the wild.
OTTAWA.- Meet inspirational women who have broken barriers to pursue their passion for science in a new exhibition developed by the Canadian Museum of Nature. Courage and Passion: Canadian Women in Natural Sciences reveals the contributions of innovative trailblazers in science from the 17th century right up to present times. It also addresses the social and gender barriers these women faced, with contemporary insights to inspire girls and young women with an interest in science. The exhibition opened July 28, 2018 and runs for seven months until March 31, 2019. The launch marked 100 years since women won the right to vote in federal elections, a milestone passed in the museum when it served as the temporary home for Parliament following the fire that destroyed the Centre Block in 1916. We are proud to present this ... More |
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| Exhibition revisits the history of the British atomic test program | | Depot. Depository. Rays: A Project by Petrine Vinje set to open at Fotogalleriet | | Queensland Art Gallery announces 2018 Brisbane International Film Festival | 
Hugh Ramage, Taranaki, oil on canvas, 42 x 37 cm, 2014, copyright the artist.
CANBERRA.- An award-winning national touring exhibition of artworks by over 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, commemorating the British atomic tests in Australia in the 1950s, opened this week at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. Black Mist Burnt Country features artworks from the past seven decades, selected from public and private collections, including works by Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Pam Debenham, Toni Robertson, Rosemary Laing, Jonathan Kumintjarra Brown, Judy Watson, Hilda Moodoo and Yvonne Edwards. Developed by the Burrinja Dandenong Ranges Cultural Centre, Black Mist Burnt Country revisits the history of the British atomic test program at Maralinga, Emu Field and Montebello Islands and examines the impact on people and land, as well as its on-going legacies. It presents works across the mediums of painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, new ... More | | 
Through a number of projects, Vinje has explored the exercise of power within the aesthetic realm.
OSLO.- Fotogalleriet iannounces the largest solo presentation to date of Norwegian artist Petrine Vinje. Altering Fotogalleriets exhibition space into a sensorial installation, the project Depot. Depository. Rays aims at challenging traditional views on gender roles, while addressing historical paradigmatic shifts connected to personal collapse. Through a number of projects, Vinje has explored the exercise of power within the aesthetic realm. Depot. Depository. Rays will tell the story of her encounter with the Czech photographer Frantiek DrtÃkol (1883-1961), an artist internationally celebrated as a master of Modernism, and widely known for his studio work on portraits and nudes. DrtÃkol had close contact with the European avant-gardes during the interwar years and held a close dialogue with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Rudolf Steiner. DrtÃkol explored geometrical and organic forms at the interplay ... More | | 
GOMA will host the Queensland premiere of Celeste, a compelling love story by Brisbane-born film director Ben Hackworth.
BRISBANE.- The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art will present the 2018 Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) from 11 to 21 October. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines today announced BIFF 2018 would launch on Thursday 11 October at GOMA with the Queensland premiere of Celeste, a compelling love story by Brisbane-born film director Ben Hackworth set in the tropical splendour of Far North Queensland. Following the screening of Celeste, BIFF 2018 will offer local and visiting audiences more than 100 Australian and International new release and classic feature films, documentaries and shorts. BIFF 2018 will showcase films from around the world, with a series of curated highlights exploring current ideas from Iranian, Asian, and African filmmakers. There will also be screenings with live music, conversations, panel discussions and much more, ... More |
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 Cosmoscow 2018 full list of galleries and artists announcedMOSCOW.- The 6th Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair will take place at Moscows Gostiny Dvor on 79 September 2018, supported by Main Partner Qatar Airways, Strategic Partner Credit Suisse, Automobile Partner Audi, Official Partner Beluga, and Official Hotel St. Regis Moscow Nikolskaya. The VIP Preview and Vernissage will take place on 6 September 2018. Cosmoscow 2018 will showcase a record number of galleries and artists introducing 70 galleries from Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kingdom of Bahrain, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Poland that will exhibit works by more than 200 artists. I am pleased to announce an increasing number of Cosmoscow exhibitors. It further confirms that the fair is expanding and that the Russian art market is blossoming. The introduction of three new curated sections further confirms the diversity ... More Celebrate design, antiques, and elegance at Winterthur's 55th Annual Delaware Antiques ShowWINTERTHUR, DE.- Celebrate inspiration and elegance at Winterthurs 55th Annual Delaware Antiques Show, a spectacular showcase of art, antiques, and design featuring 60 exceptional dealers, November 911, 2018, at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington. Charlotte Moss, one of the countrys leading interior designers, serves as Honorary Chair and Keynote Lecturer. The Delaware Antiques Showone of the nations most acclaimed showsfeatures the best of American antiques and decorative arts, including furniture, paintings, rugs, ceramics, silver, and jewelry. I like to think that Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont would have a wonderful time if he returned to the Delaware Antiques Show, said Tom Savage, director of Museum Affairs and coordinator of the show. This show is the place to find the best in American antiques, ... More Nick Gentry unveils rhino sculpture made from 500 used compact disksLONDON.- The British artist Nick Gentry unveiled his rhino sculpture at St Pancras, made from 500 used compact disks contributed by members of the public. The exhibition is part of the Tusk Rhino Trail, which is on view until the 22nd September. There are twenty-one amazing rhinos in total, painted by leading international artists, on display at iconic London locations. Notable artists include: The Chapman Brothers, Ronnie Wood, Mark Quinn, Gavin Turk and Eileen Cooper. This showcase runs alongside Nick Gentrys joint exhibition Human Connection at Opera Gallery from the 14th 28th September. Drawing upon recycled and obsolete technological materials as the grounds for his paintings, London-based artist Nick Gentry creates a conversation between digital and analogue processes. Gentry constructs his painting supports out of materials such ... More Titanic timepiece collector casts $57,500 winning bid for victim's pocket watch at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A pocket watch recovered from R.M.S. Titanic passenger Sinai Kantor, a Russian immigrant who got his wife to one of the liners few lifeboats before perishing in icy waters, sold for $57,500 on a winning bid cast by John Miottel, a collector of timepieces relating to the famous disaster. Heritage Auctions offered the pocket watch on Saturday, Aug. 25, in a public auction of important Americana memorabilia. Miottel operates the Miottel Museum and already owns timepieces from Titanic victims Col. John Jacob Astor, the liners richest passenger and the eras richest person in the world, as well as a watch formerly owned by Oscar Woody, the Titanic's U.S. Postal Clerk. Miottel also holds the timepiece once owned by the first person to receive the distress call from the doomed Titanic, Harold Thomas Cottam, who served as a wireless operator on the rescue ... More New exhibition features works all made from paper by Cuban artist Elsa MoraEUGENE, ORE.- The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon will feature the latest exhibition of works made by Cuban artist Elsa Mora. Paper Weight, comprised of works painstakingly made solely of paper and glue, will be on view in the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery from Wednesday, August 29, 2018, through Sunday, January 20, 2019. For the last eleven years, Mora has explored the expressive potential of paper, says Jill Hartz, JSMA executive director and exhibition curator. She sees the malleability of this material as a metaphor for the mind and its ability to morph and adapt. Moras 2-D and 3-D pieces are inspired by the minds five cognitive faculties: consciousness, perception, thinking, judgment, and memory. Thematically, Mora is interested in studying the intricacies of the human brain, the wonders that it can produce, and ... More Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc exhibits a dozen pieces specifically produced for the Rochechouart CastleROCHECHOUART.- Rochechouart Museum welcomes Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc for an exhibition of his works from 7th July to mid-December, 2018. A dozen pieces specifically produced for the occasion make up a maze-like display installed in the vast top-floor gallery of Rochechouart Castle. Over the last ten years, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc has investigated the effects of invasive cultural domination and post-colonial scars. In excavating the past, he invokes such influential historical figures as the theorist of decolonization Franz Fanon, film director Sarah Maldoror or the Tricontinental a political magazine published in Cuba encouraging struggles for independence in third world countries. Sometimes, the traces are evoked through absences such as the missing human presences in ... More Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma opens exhibition of works by Finnish artist Pilvi Takala HELSINKI.- Finnish artist Pilvi Takala (b. 1981) poses undercover, employing performative intervention to discern the unwritten rules of communities. Through active observation, Takala is able to quietly test the parameters of a situation; this experience and its repercussions form the basis of her works. Throughout, attention is drawn to the fragile nature of personal and collective boundaries. Takalas exhibition Second Shift at Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, is a survey of key works engaging with these themes. Second Shift is a sociological term coined in the 1980s to describe the domestic and care work, performed primarily by women, in addition to their actual paid jobs; although today these issues are more commonly discussed in terms of emotional labour. For those who are expected to provide emotional labour it is a thankless ... More The San Antonio Museum of Art opens a focused exhibition of nineteen objects by Marilyn Lanfear SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The San Antonio Museum of Art is presenting Marilyn Lanfear: Material Memory, a focused exhibition of nineteen objects celebrating Texan artist Marilyn Lanfear and her work of the past forty years. Lanfear uses a wide range of materials in her work to tell stories and preserve memories. Personal family histories are her inspiration, but her works reflect universal themes. I think viewers will find resonance in Lanfears poetic exploration of memory, history, and family, said Curatorial Associate Lana Meador, and the curator of the exhibition. Lanfear is known for using family narratives in her work, but the materials she uses invite viewers to reflect on their own experiences. Marilyn Lanfear was born in Waco, Texas, in 1930, and raised in Corpus Christi. Though Lanfear always knew she wanted to be an artist, she put her dream ... More M-ARCO to open 'Fundamentalist Cubes: Inside Spaces by Bruce Nauman, Absalon, and Gregor Schneider'MARSEILLE.- The exhibition Fundamentalist Cubes focuses on the figure of the empty space in the work of Bruce Nauman, Absalon, and Gregor Schneider, where bare rooms, corridors, and other architectural settings undergo personification, becoming a body, a psychic structure. Rather than a symmetrical mirror, the personification of architectural settings in the work of the three artists turns empty spaces into an ambivalent reflection of a body, a mechanism of simultaneous assertion and negation, introducing presence in terms of absence, and vice versa. The title of the exhibition presupposes a shift from fundamental to fundamentalist cubes, in the course of which the universal geometry of elementary, absolute shapes is being replaced by a concoction of reductivist aesthetic and expressive overload. Following Minimalisms critique of the white cube, ... More Videobrasil to showcase Minerva Cuevas's video worksSÃO PAULO.- With a body of video work that documents political environments in order to tackle ecological and social contemporary issues, Mexican artist Minerva Cuevas (Mexico City, 1975) is at the center of a major exhibition that will occupy Galpão VB from September through to December 2018. Gathering six video installations and two slide projections, Dissidência (Dissidence) is the first solo show by Cuevas to be held in Brazil. Frequently appropriating the language of marketing and advertisement, many of her works engage with pop culture icons to re-frame and confront social relations, and the exploitation of natural resources. Galpão will be entirely occupied by video installations developed along Cuevas' research based career. Titled after one of Cuevass emblematic works, Dissidência serves to establish opposition and active ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch painter Frans Hals died August 26, 1666. Frans Hals the Elder (c. 1582 - 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits, who lived and worked in Haarlem. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and he helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group portraiture. In this image: Early 1630s painting by Dutch master Frans Hals titled, "Portrait of a Man."
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