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French archaeologist Lenaic Riaudel swims near the remains of the old Roman harbour of Olbia, near Hyeres, southeastern France, on November 28, 2018. The beach of Almanarre in Hyeres, southeastern France, is a paradise for kite- and windsurfers - and also France's only underwater archeological site. Beneath the water lie the 2000-year-old remains of the port of the Roman city of Olbia. Boris HORVAT / AFP.
by Olivier Lucazeau
PARIS (AFP).- Stretching over four sandy kilometres Almanarre beach in southern France is a mecca for sun lovers and kite surfers. But its greatest treasure -- a 2,000-year-old underwater archaeological site -- lies just a few feet offshore. Welcome to the port of the ancient Roman city of Olbia, which fell victim to a slow rise in Mediterranean waters, but is still open for visits from explorers equipped with a snorkel mask and pair of flippers. A collection of rectangular limestone blocks, some perfectly aligned, others scattered about on the seafloor, make up the watery remains of the dock of the city of Olbia, a fortified trading post founded by the Greeks in the 4th Century BC on the outskirts of the modern-day Riviera town of Hyeres. After the capture of nearby Marseille by Julius Caesar in 49 BC the region gradually came under the control of the Roman empire, which endowed Olbia with a port in the 1st Century AD. The 100-metre (yard) dock was only used for 80 years, according to marine archae ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken at the Beaux-Arts Museum in Lyon, central-eastern France, on November 30, 2018 shows the young Emperor Claude's statue, displayed during an exhibition about the Emperor Claude. An exhibition pays tribute to Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Drusus (08.01.10 B.C to 10.13.54 A.C), who introduced the Gauls in the Roman Senat, by law ingraved in stones called "Les tables Claudiennes". ROMAIN LAFABREGUE / AFP
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| | | Exhibition explores the rich and often paradoxical dialogue between a father and son | | Atlas Gallery opens an exhibition of works by the landscape photographer and environmental activist Ansel Adams | | Artcurial to hold Impressionist & Modern Art and Post War & Contemporary Art auctions |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Artist's Family (La Famille de l'artiste), 1896. Oil on canvas, Overall: 68 1/8 x 54 in. (173 x 137.2 cm). The Barnes Foundation, BF819.
PARIS.- In 1979, Orson Welles paid tribute to Jean Renoir on his death as the greatest of all directors. Alongside other figures such as Stroheim and Chaplin, to name only the generation born in the late 19th century at the time of cinema's invention, Jean Renoir helped make this new mode of expression a major art form, giving the director the role of an author. As he liked to recall, Jean Renoir (1841-1919) was also the son of. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was a major Impressionist artist hailed as one of the masters of French art in the early 20th century. Jean was 26 when his father passed away. Jean inherited a number of paintings and became a player in the Impressionist art market in his own right in the early 1920s, at a time when his fathers work was in high demand. From the late 1910s to 1922, Jean Renoir worked with ceramics, producing and selling pieces in Fauvist colours whose ... More | |
Ansel Adams, Oaktree, Snowstorm, 1936. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.
LONDON.- Atlas Gallery is presenting Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West, an exhibition of works by the celebrated landscape photographer and environmental activist. This is the first time for many that a significant body of Adams work will be exhibited in a London gallery. The exhibition opening on Thursday 29th November will coincide with the Chiltern Street Christmas Evening reflecting its 2018 focus on environmental consciousness. Landscapes of the American West demonstrates Adamss technical mastery and innate sensitivity to nature. It includes some of Adamss most dramatic and recognisable images for example, the haunting Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 in which a solitary moon hovers over wraithlike clouds blanketing a valley near Española in Santa Fe. I felt at the time that it was an wrote. There seems to sense of satisfaction when the shutter is released for certain exposures ... More | |
Fernand Leger, Nature morte à la bouteille, 1937 © Artcurial.
PARIS.- On the evening of Monday 3rd December, during its prestigious Impressionist & Modern Art and Post War & Contemporary Art, Artcurial will present a collection of major twentieth century works. Modern art will be represented by Fernand Léger, Giacomo Balla, Pierre Bonnard and Marc Chagall, while contemporary art by artists such as Lucio Fontana, Andy Warhol, Caesar and Maria Elena Vieira Da Silva as top-billed artists. The auction will continue on Tuesday 4th December with a segment devoted to contemporary photography. On Monday 3rd December, the auction will commence with the chapter devoted to Impressionist & Modern Art. Nature morte à la bouteille by Fernand Léger will undoubtedly be one of the keystone pieces of this event. Created in 1927, this oil on canvas belongs to a period where the artist is strongly influenced by the Purist movement, a critical response to Cubism. Fernand Léger is at that ... More |
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| | | Landscape drawings by Thomas Gainsborough on view in new installation at the Clark Art Institute | | David Altmejd joins White Cube with a major Hong Kong solo exhibition in March 2019 | | Throckmorton Fine Art opens an exhibition of the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias's paintings and drawings |
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 17271788), Study of Mallows, mid- to late-1750s. Graphite with stumping on paper, with gum fixative. Clark Art Institute. Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.65
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.- Although Thomas Gainsborough (English, 17271788) is widely recognized as one of the most fashionable portrait painters of the eighteenth century, a new installation at the Clark Art Institute provides an opportunity to study the artists landscape drawings, working methods and imaginative approach to representing nature. Thomas Gainsborough: Drawings at the Clark, on view from December 1, 2018 March 17, 2019, marks the first time that the Clarks entire collection of rarely exhibited Gainsborough drawings is being shown together. The installation includes a suite of fourteen sheets from the Manton Collection of British Art, along with two works acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark. Gainsboroughs scenes of the English countryside ... More | |
David Altmejd, Spacing Out, 2017. Photo: Jason Mandella for Galerie Xavier Hufkens.
LONDON.- White Cube announced representation of New York-based artist David Altmejd (b. 1974, Montreal). A solo exhibition of his work, the first in Asia, will open at White Cube Hong Kong in March 2019. Altmejds work combines science, magic, science fiction and gothic romanticism. A perfect object for me, the artist has said, is something that is extremely seductive and extremely repulsive at the same time. Some of Altmejds best-known works are his vast, labyrinthine vitrines built of Plexiglas, often with mirrored elements. They play on the aesthetics of design and display as well as minimalism, but are not simply a means to contain or protect the elements within. Rather, the entire structure is an organism or a machine, making visible the processes of growth and decay that take place inside it. In his recent life-sized sculpted heads, Altmejd combines skilful realism with crude expressionism, using gob ... More | |
Miguel Covarrubias, Rosa con vestido amarillo. Técnica mixta sobre papel, 26.5 x 18 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Throckmorton Fine Art in New York is hosting a special exhibition of signature paintings, caricatures and drawings by the Mexican illustrator, writer and anthropologist Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957). In Covarrubiass hands caricature became a cosmopolitan artform and appeared worldwide in prestigious publications ranging from Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and The New Yorker to Fortune magazine. During the 1920s and 1930s more than 300 Covarrubias caricatures of influential artists and politicians were featured on the covers of influential publications including The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. But caricature was just one expression of Covarrubiass genius. He achieved acclaim in popular arts, fine art, photography, ethnography, archeology, anthropology and dance. His contributions to the cultural oeuvre range from a fascination with the Harlem renaissance and ... More |
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| | | Baltimore Museum of Art announces first named public art commission for U.S. museum | | Vintage Chinese Pattern issues highlight Heritage Auctions' HKINF offerings Dec. 6-7 | | MACBA opens an exhibition featuring works from the 1980s to the present by Jaume Plensa |
Mickalene Thomas - Topical Cream. Photo by Lyndsy Welgos. © Lyndsy Welgos.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today a major new biennial commission made possible by an historic endowment gift from Baltimore philanthropists Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker. As the first named public art commission for a U.S. museum, the Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission fosters the creation of new works by international contemporary artists, cultivates aspiring curators through a parallel fellowship, and activates the BMAs East Lobby with publicly accessible art. A priority for the selection of both the artist and the curatorial fellow is to strengthen the diversity of the museum. Internationally renowned contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas has been chosen for the inaugural commission, and applications for the first curatorial fellow will open in December. Mickalene Thomas installation will transform The Baltimore Museum of Arts ... More | |
Extremely Rare 2nd Variety "Reversed Legends" Pattern 50 Cents. Estimate: $150,000 - $180,000.
DALLAS, TX.- An Extremely Rare 1889 2nd Variety "Reversed Legends" Pattern 50 Cents from the first year of the new mint established in Kwangtung, China highlights Heritage Auctions Dec. 6-7 offering for the Hong Kong International Numismatic Fair (HKINF). Estimated to sell for more than $150,000, the "Reversed Legends" Pattern will cross the block in one of several major auctions set for Heritage Week I Hong Kong, an inaugural series of six sales December 3-10 spanning Fine Jewelry, Watches & Fine Timepieces and Designer Handbags & Luxury Accessories. Heritages HKINF World & Ancient Coins Auction offers a number of rare vintage Chinese pattern issues. Among the gems is the Kuang-hsü silver Pattern 3 Mace and 6 Candareens (50 Cents) ND (1889), MS63 NGC, an exceedingly rare Pattern issue, struck in very small numbers and never introduced into circulation. A Kuang-hsü gold ... More | |
Jaume Plensa, Tervuren, 1989.
BARCELONA.- Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) is an artist of materials, sensations and ideas. His references include literature, especially poetry, music, religion and thought. He considers himself, above all, a sculptor, although his creative process has included multiple disciplines. His work addresses the very condition of being: its physical and spiritual essence, ontological awareness of present and past, moral codes and dogmas, and our relationship with nature. What we cannot explain is, precisely, what makes us human. Plensas objective is not to create objects, but to develop relationships that embrace everyone. The MACBA exhibition will feature works from the 1980s to the present, in a journey showing the dialogue that takes place between works that represent the human figure and those that are abstract. This tension is the thread that runs through the whole of his work, a corpus that highlights the strength of binomials such as weight ... More |
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| | | Qatari female 'pioneers' bask in filmmaking spotlight | | Nick Goss' first exhibition with Contemporary Fine Arts on view in Berlin | | Benrubi Gallery announces the passing of beloved artist Jacqueline Hassink |
Qatari women film-makers pose on the red carpet during the sixth edition of the Ajyal Film Festival at Katara Culture Village in the capital Doha on November 29, 2018. Anne LEVASSEUR / AFPTV / AFP.
DOHA (AFP).- As Qatari filmmakers gathered on the red carpet at Doha's Ajyal Film Festival one thing stood out -- the majority of local directors are women. "I think this is a question that everyone is mesmerised by: the idea that we have more women in filmmaking here in Doha than men," said festival director Fatma al-Remaihi. Among those showing movies at the annual six-day festival were Aisha al-Shammakh, Nouf al-Sulaiti and the rising star of Qatari cinema, Amal al-Muftah. Their films focus on a variety of subjects, from "maligned" Qatari millennials and father-daughter relationships through to stories from the gas-rich country's recent and much less-wealthy past. The women are redressing "many misconceptions about them around the world", said Remaihi, who also heads the Doha Film Institute. The number of female entrants at this year's festival, which runs until ... More | |
Nick Goss, Blue Moon, 2018. Pigment, oil and screenprint on linen, 230 x 180 cm 90 1/2 x 70 3/4 in.
BERLIN.- Contemporary Fine Arts is presenting Dolphin Express, Nick Goss first exhibition with the gallery. The psychology of place echoes through Dolphin Express, a new series of largescale paintings in pigment, oil and screen print on linen, accompanied by a group of watercolour works on paper. The exhibition borrows its title from a local cab company and pays attention to people on the move. In the wake of his last series of paintings which imagined a Ballardian, flooded London, Goss continues to draw upon images of the floods that forced his family to flee their homes in Holland in 1953. Here, the flood is a memory, a way of considering moments of transition and people forced to move. Goss takes his daily commute from South London to Elephant and Castle as a starting point. Screenprints of fabrics found in the neighbourhood stitch together scenes, only to let them unravel. Imagined and inherited images coalesce as commuters hover abov ... More | |
Jacqueline Hassink.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is with the heaviest of hearts that we shared the news of the passing of beloved artist Jacqueline Hassink. Jacqueline lived her life with the greatest integrity, honesty of heart and depth of curiosity. She was an inspiration to us and will be sorely missed. She met life head on, at its best and worst, even when facing down her illness -her strength and fortitude matched only by her humor and grace. Jacqueline was born in 1966 in Enschede (Netherlands). She attended the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and the Academy of Fine Art in Trondheim (Norwary) where she graduated in sculpture in 1992. She then found her way to photography which became her primary medium. From 1996 she lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York. She taught conceptual photography at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and the International Center of Photography in New York. Jacquelines work focused on the structures of economic power and how, as a result of globalization, they ... More |
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Tramway exhibits Lucy Beech's new film 'Reproductive Exile'
GLASGOW.- Lucy Beechs new film addresses the power and agency of reproductive relations, exploring female labour, visibility and the flow of bodily revenue streams in what has come to be known as Reproductive Exile. The film follows a woman engaging in cross-border, assisted reproduction. Within this process she is confronted with a constellation of invisible female bodies; human and non-human that work, care and provide for her reproductive journey. From anonymous urine donors providing hormones purified from their bodily waste, to intended parents, their brokers and surrogate hosts. In Reproductive Exile the protagonist comes to terms with how her journey is both facilitated by and impacts different bodies. The story unfolds in a private, international clinic built in a former public sanatorium in Czech Republic where the lack of legislation associated with reproductive ... More
Morgan Lehman Gallery opens a multidisciplinary project by jeweler Jennifer Odell and painter Elisa Johns
NEW YORK, NY.- Morgan Lehman Gallery is presenting a pop-up exhibition at the High Line Nine, a modern arcade-style group of gallery spaces between West 27th and 28th Streets, underneath the High Line and adjacent to the Zaha Hadid building at 520 West 28th. A Tale of Five Rings is a multidisciplinary project by jeweler Jennifer Odell and painter Elisa Johns. Weaving together poetic writing with sensuous imagery and objects, this collaboration brings to life an archetypal tale about character. Odell's jewelry unites precious colored stones and gleaming hand-hammered metals in a style that is unmistakably contemporary, yet honors a more mystical time in human history. In each unique piece, there is a distinct sense of the symbolic made visible through the beautiful. These ideas play out equally in the delicate and mysterious paintings of Elisa Johns, ... More
BALTIC announces Irene Aristizábal as Head of Curatorial and Public Practice
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announced the appointment of Irene Aristizábal in the new role of Head of Curatorial and Public Practice. She will take up the position in March 2019 and will lead the curatorial team, working with BALTICs Director Sarah Munro to deliver BALTICs ambitious civic mission on both a local and global level. Irene Aristizábal has worked as Head of Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary since 2013, where she has curated exhibitions and commissioned projects by Pia Camil, Steffani Jemison, Otobong Nkanga, Simon Starling, Michael Beutler, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Sun Ra, Rana Hamadeh, Danai Anesiadou, Danh Võ, Carol Rama and Asco. Recent group exhibitions include Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender Resistance (2018 co-curated with Rosie Cooper and Cédric Fauq) and States of America: ... More
Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art opens 'queer timɘs school prints'
GLASGOW.- queer timɘs school prints is a new exhibition at Glasgows Gallery Of Modern Art that explores the histories and experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Polysexual, Queer, Intersex + Allies (LGBTPQI+A) in Scotland over the past 50 years. The exhibition opened on 1 December 2019 (World Aids Day) and is part of an art and citizenship project commissioned and acquired by Glasgow Museums from Jason E. Bowman, a Scottish artist and curator, researcher and educator based at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The exhibition includes print commissions from a further nine artists and will be open until 10 March 2019. The queer timɘs school prints exhibition is the culmination of the wider Queer Times project which has taken place over the course of this year. Led by GoMA, the project Queer Times received ... More
Contemporary womenswear brand debuts Lygia Clark editions
NEW YORK, NY.- UMA | Raquel Davidowicz - the Brazilian-based, contemporary womenswear fashion brand headed by Chief Designer and Co-Founder Raquel Davidowicz, debuts a series of sculptural editions by iconic Brazilian mid-century artist Lygia Clark, available in time for the holiday season at the brands newly opened SoHo location. UMA | Raquel Davidowicz, co-founded and designed by Raquel Davidowicz, is a Brazilian, family-owned brand specialized in timeless pieces for the contemporary woman. Manufactured in Sao Paulo and serving a global clientele, UMA | Raquel Davidowicz focuses on outstanding quality, fair work relationships and modern aesthetics regardless of age or size. A result of a collaboration with Clarks granddaughter, art entrepreneur Alessandra Clark, the editions are based on the artists celebrated, interactive ... More
Exhibition explores one of the most divisive topics affecting society today, migration
EDINBURGH.- This December, Edinburghs City Art Centre hosts a topical and thought-provoking exhibition exploring one of the most divisive topics affecting society today, migration. Another Country Contemporary Artists on Immigration which runs from 1st December 2018 17th March 2019. The exhibition brings together new and existing work from eleven artists from distinct ethnic and culturally diverse backgrounds to tackle issues surrounding contemporary migration, a complex subject with rapidly growing relevance in the current political climate. The work presented by the artists in Another Country is highly personal as most of the artists are migrants themselves. The artists who have contributed to the exhibition are: Irineu Destorelles, Graham Fagen, Andrew Gilbert, Euan Gray, Birthe Jorgensen, Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Owen Logan, Toby Paterson, ... More
Visual artist Martyn Marsland Mills presents his solo show tied up with Sophia at Improper Walls
VIENNA.- An illustrative study and window into the wonderful world of Shibari, Tied up with Sophia, is a body-positive, personal and thought-provoking collection of sensually soaked work. A delicately hand-drawn series of pencil and watercolor snapshots and studies were unveiled to the public for the first time. This brand new body of work is being presented by the distinctly graphic illustrator, Martyn Marsland Mills, in collaboration with the sex-positive performer and teacher, Sophia Rose, who acts as both our guide and muse throughout. Juxtaposing the stark and striking geometric shapes of the ropes against the soft natural curves and contortions of the body, this visually arresting and loving homage to its subject is erotically charged, yet remains meditative and intimate at the same time. Martyn is a professional dreamer and Odinic wanderer whom ... More
Solo exhibition of new works by Ping Zheng on view at Kristen Lorello
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello is presenting a solo exhibition of new works by Ping Zheng. This is Zheng's first exhibition with the gallery. Works on paper in oil stick feature elements of landscape, bold lines, and geometric shapes that at times suggest portions of the human form. A group of small compositions develops a simple u-shaped outline. Appearing at first in an inchoate phase, the motif evolves into scenic elements within the artist's larger works: moonlight reflecting in water, overlapping mountains, and a cave flooded at its entry point. Layers of overlapping marks in varied tones, lines scratched into an impastoed surface, and repeated specks of color suggest hovering energies and growth. Finding inspiration in the works of preceding artists such as Thomas Nozkowski, Hilma Af Klint, and Forrest Bess, Zheng's works convey a sense of personal ... More
Drawing Room opens the first solo exhibition by the artist Manuel Frolik
HAMBURG.- Drawing Room is hosting the first solo exhibition by the artist Manuel Frolik (born 1979 in Vogtland and currently living and working in Dresden). In this exhibition entitled Jewels we are showing two early sculptural works from 2011 (Dead Sailor. Self-portrait as a dead hero) and 2012 (The Jewels of Mirabelou); six small-format silicone sculptures from the year 2016; and pigment prints from his two series of works of 2017 and 2018, Phytophilia Dresdense and Herbarium Dresdense. In his works, Frolik poses the question of authenticity and authorship, and plays with our preconceptions about originals and forgeries. His process-oriented works are based on the appropriation and defamiliarization of "found footage", or rather of perfectly detailed reproductions of hyper-realistic or amorphous sculptural figures and objects. For his series of works Phytophilia ... More
Estate of Colletta Ray McMillian, holiday gift, holiday table lead Heritage Auctions sale
DALLAS, TX.- Selections from the Holiday Table, the Holiday Gift and the Estate of Colletta Ray McMillian are among the lots expected to generate the highest demand in Heritage Auctions' Fine & Decorative Arts Including Estates Auction Dec. 7-9 in Dallas, Texas. "We are happy to offer three collections within this auction, including the Estate of Colletta Ray McMillian, as well as items from The Holiday Table and The Holiday Gift," Heritage Auctions Silver & Decorative Art Director Karen Rigdon said. "In addition, this auction includes a strong array of modern and contemporary art, which gives this sale a wide range that will appeal to collectors of all levels and with varied areas of collecting interest." A native of Houston, Texas, Colletta Ray McMillian was known for her devotion to assorted charities, working on numerous boards, including the Baylor College of Medicine. Her lavish but conservative homes, created together with decorators Michael Ba ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Georges Seurat was born December 02, 1859. Georges-Pierre Seurat (2 December 1859 - 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. In this image: Georges Seurat, 1859-1891, Au Divan japonais, Conté crayon and gouache on paper. Executed circa 1887-88, 750 000-1 000 000 ?. Sold : 4 992 750 ?. World record for a drawing by Seurat. Second highest price ever achieved for a work by Seurat at auction. Highest price for a work of art at auction in Paris in 2008. © Sotheby?s/ Art Digital Studio.
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