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This picture taken on December 15, 2018 shows a view of a newly-discovered tomb belonging to the high priest "Wahtye" who served during the fifth dynasty reign of King Neferirkare (between 2500-2300 BC), at the Saqqara necropolis, 30 kilometres south of the Egyptian capital Cairo. The well-preserved tomb is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife and other members of his family, the ministry said in a statement. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP.
CAIRO (AFP).- Egyptian archaeologists have discovered the tomb of a priest dating back more than 4,400 years in the pyramid complex of Saqqara south of the capital Cairo, authorities said Saturday. "Today we are announcing the last discovery of the year 2018, it's a new discovery, it's a private tomb," Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Enany told an audience of invited guests including reporters. "It is exceptionally well preserved, coloured, with sculpture inside. It belongs to a high official priest... (and) is more than 4,400 years old," he said. The tomb belongs to "Wahtye", a high priest who served during the fifth dynasty reign of King Neferirkare, the antiquities ministry said. His tomb is decorated with scenes showing the royal priest alongside his mother, wife and other members of his family, the ministry said in a statement. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The statue known as 'Victorious Youth' (CENTER R) is displayed at the Getty Villa on December 13, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. After a ten-year legal battle, the top court in Italy has ruled that the 2,000-year-old bronze statue should be returned to Italy by the Getty museum. Italian officials say the statue was found in Italian territorial waters while the Getty Trust argues the statue was discovered in international waters. Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP
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 | | SFMOMA opens first major Vija Celmins retrospective in more than 25 years | | "Ansel Adams in Our Time" at MFA Boston examines photographer's visual legacy through a present-day lens | | First-of-its-kind exhibit exploring the artistic dialogue between René Magritte and Salvador Dalà opens | 
Vija Celmins, House #2, 1965; wood, cardboard, and oil paint; private collection; © Vija Celmins; photo: courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Long admired for her skillfully detailed renderings of natural imagery, Vija Celmins has created paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints for more than five decades. From December 15, 2018, through March 31, 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents the global debut of Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory, the first North American retrospective of the artists work in more than 25 years. Featuring nearly 150 works, the exhibition spans the breadth of Celminss career, from the 1960s to the present. Organized in loose chronological order by subject including studio objects, disaster works, oceanscapes, lunar drawings, desert floors, night skies and spider webs it presents a wide variety of media, including paintings, drawings in graphite and charcoal and sculptures. For more than 50 years, Celmins has sustained an extraordinary career, pursuing a unique vision using familiar subjects as a ... More | | 
Ansel Adams (American, 19021984), Pine Forest in Snow, Yosemite National Park, about 1932. Photograph, gelatin silver print. The Lane Collection © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
BOSTON, MASS.- Ansel Adams (19021984) is the rare artist whose works have helped to define a genre. Over the last half-century, his black-and-white photographs have become, for many viewers, visual embodiments of the sites he captured: Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks, the Sierra Nevada, the American Southwest and more. These images constitute an iconic visual legacyone that continues to inspire and provoke. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ansel Adams in Our Time offers a new perspective on one of the best-known and most beloved American photographers by placing him into a dual conversation with his predecessors and contemporary artists. While crafting his own modernist vision, Adams followed in the footsteps of 19th-century forerunners in government survey and expedition photography such as ... More | | 
Salvador DalÃ, Portrait of Gala, c. 1932. Oil on panel. Collection of the Dalà Museum, St. Petersburg, F: (USA) 2018 © Salvador DalÃ. Fundacio Gala- Salvador DalÃ. (Artists Rights Society), 2018.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Dalà Museum, in partnership with The Magritte Museum (a part of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium), unveiled its special Magritte & Dalà exhibition. On display through May 19, 2019, this exhibit is the very first to explore these renowned artists as a sole pairing, following the common threads and creative divergences between their distinctive bodies of work. Magritte & Dalà is co-curated by Dr. William Jeffett, Chief Curator of Exhibitions at The Dalà Museum, and Dr. Michel Draguet, General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. This is the only opportunity visitors have to explore this exhibit in the United States before it travels to Brussels in the fall of 2019. Magritte & Dalà provides viewers with the opportunity to trace these artists journeys from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, the period when the two artists careers overlapped and they displayed their works in the ... More |
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| | | Aurel Scheibler announces the passing of Troels Wörsel at the age of 68 | | Beatles photographs never exhibited surface in new portfolio by George Harrison's wife Pattie Boyd | | The Detroit Institute of Arts opens "Ruben and Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love" | 
Troels Wörsel, Galeri Riis 2017. Photo: Danby Choi.
BERLIN.- It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Troels Wörsel at the age of 68 on December 12, 2018 in Cologne. Troels Wörsel (born 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark), moved to Munich in 1974 and lived in Cologne from the early 1980s and later also in Pietrasanta, Italy. In a career spanning four decades, Troels Wörsel became known for his singulary powerful approach to painting as well as printmaking, artist books and photography and being a passionate chef. Troels Wörsels work has been exhibited in significant museums and institutions, such as the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2008), the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2007), Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (2006), and the Musée des Beaux-Art de Nantes (1996) and as early as 1982, the Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn showed a retrospective of the artist. His work has been represented by Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Erhard Klein, Bonn, Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, David Nolan, New York, and Galleri Riis, Oslo. ... More | | 
George Harrison with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during a private lecture at the Maharishi's ashram in Rishikesh. © Pattie Boyd.
AMSTERDAM.- A rare group of photographs documenting the Beatles' historic visit to Rishikesh, India in 1968 have surfaced in a portfolio compiled by Pattie Boyd, the former wife of George Harrison and the celebrated model of "Swinging Sixties" London. Twelve of the sixteen black-and-whte photographs in the portfolio Pattie Boyd and The Beatles in Rishikesh have never been exhibited. During her ten-year marriage to George Harrison, Pattie Boyd was a prominent member of the Beatles' inner circle and enjoyed the kind of access to the group that only a handful of people would ever know. Boyd introduced Harrison to Transcendental Meditation in August of 1967, and she accompanied the Beatles the following year when they made their historic trek to Rishikesh, a small town near the foothills of the Himalayas. Well known as a religious center that has attracted yogis and gurus for centuries, Rishikesh was ... More | | 
Francisco Goya, Dona Amalia Bonells de Costa, ca. 1805. Oil on canvas. Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund DIA no. 41.80
DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Ruben and Isabel Toledo: Labor of Love, a major exhibition of new works created by the artistic couple in response to works in the DIAs permanent collection. This three-part exhibition project includes a large-scale installation designed by the Toledos in response to iconic Diego Rivera cartoons from his Detroit Industry Murals; additional new works by the Toledos responding to works in the DIAs collection, located throughout the museum; and a collaboration with local nonprofit Sew Great Detroit, through which the Toledos worked with seamstresses from the organization to generate a collection of handmade limited-edition tote bags to complement the exhibition. For Labor of Love, Ruben and Isabel Toledo produced an innovative range of new works that highlight their creative synergy, connect the past with the present, and will inspire the ... More |
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| | | Danziger Gallery exhibits 20 dye transfer prints by Irish artist Jean Curran | | Apple to roll out new Snoopy, Peanuts cartoon series | | Monumental sculptural installation by John Baldessari on view at Marian Goodman London | 
Jean Curran, From "The Vertigo Project". 2018 (detail). 20 x 24 inch dye transfer print. Edition of 10.
NEW YORK, NY.- Danziger Gallery is presenting a series of 20 dye transfer prints by Irish artist Jean Curran a work of editing and re-presentation that takes key scenes from Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo to reveal the cinematographic artistry of the film in a fresh and novel way. Produced with the full co-operation of the Hitchcock estate, Curran first edited select frames from a rare original Technicolor dye imbibition print of Vertigo from 1958, and then printed them using the same dye transfer process by which the movie was made. Editing 20 still images from the hundreds of thousands of frames that make up the film, Curran switches from moving pictures to still prints to create a medium-jumping work in its own right. Vertigo was first released on the 9th of May, 1958 and is now largely recognized as Hitchcocks greatest achievement. The story follows a police detective (Jimmy Stewart) who falls obsessively in love with t ... More | | 
Schulz wrote and illustrated the Peanuts cartoon strip starting in 1950. The final strip ran in newspapers one day after his death in February 2000, according to the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Apple will produce a new animated series starring Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, created by the late American cartoonist Charles Schulz, for its video platform, a source close to the deal said Friday, confirming press reports. The agreement was reached with Apple, "in a highly competitive environment" and at the expense of other candidates, with the Canadian group DHX Media, which holds 80% of the rights of Snoopy and Peanuts, said the source. DHX bought this stake, as well as rights to Peanuts gang member Peppermint Patty, for $345 million in 2017. The commitment is for DHX to produce a new animated series, specials and short programs around the Peanuts gang, a bunch of kids with the dog Snoopy. The Canadian group will also create educational programs including the Peanuts gang, exclusively for ... More | | 
Installation view of Brain/Cloud (Two Views): with Palm Tree and Seascape, 2009 Polyurethane, paint, resin, aluminum, video camera, projector, inkjet prints on vinyl Brain/Cloud: 111 1/2 x 159 1/2 x 54 in. (283.2 x 405.1 x 137.2 cm). Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Paris and London. Photo: Thierry Bal.
LONDON.- Marian Goodman Gallery London is presenting the monumental sculptural installation Brain/Cloud (Two Views): with Palm Tree and Seascape, 2009, by John Baldessari. This is the first time that the work has been shown since Baldessaris major 2010 travelling retrospective Pure Beauty, which premiered at Tate Modern in 2009. Brain/Cloud (Two Views): with Palm Tree and Seascape comprises an enormous wall-mounted cerebral cortex, made from painted polyurethane, two inkjet prints of a seascape, one with a foregrounding palm tree, and a time-delayed video which projects the viewer looking at the sculpture fifteen seconds earlier. The work a wry allusion to René Magrittes Not to Be Reproduced, ... More |
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| | | Colombian crime movie wins top award at Havana's 40th film festival | | Rosenfeld Porcini opens exhibition of works by Robert Muntean | | Tippet Rise Art Center to break ground on Francis Kéré-designed pavilion | 
The winning Colombian film -- titled "Birds of Passage" in English -- was directed by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego.
HAVANA (AFP).- The Colombian crime film "Pajaros de Verano" has won the prized Coral Award at the 40th edition of the popular Havana Film Festival. The festival, which in its heyday in the 1980s drew a half-million moviegoers but of late has struggled with reduced budgets, continues through Sunday, but prizes were awarded Friday night. The winning Colombian film -- titled "Birds of Passage" in English -- was directed by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego. Starring Carmina Martinez, Natalia Reyes and Jose Acosta, it has been selected to represent Colombia at next February's Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. "Birds of Passage" tells the story of the rise and fall of an indigenous Colombian family caught up in the risky bonanza of marijuana trafficking to the United States, which threatens the family's culture, ... More | | 
Robert Muntean, Feel good now, 2018 (detail).
LONDON.- Robert Munteans paintings have an umbilical relationship to music. Just as the improvisatory quality of the rhythm reveals an endless sense of possibilities, so does the artists paintings. The music of the groups that crucially influenced Munteans idea of art the first disc of Jesus and Mary Chain, The Swans and Sonic Youth - oscillate endlessly between melody and dissonance in the same way as the artists practise. One has to work to enter their musical world; similarly, Munteans style eschews any easy path into his paintings denying us an easy, linear narrative. Just like Honey, the artists second solo show at rosenfeld porcini, features a selection from Munteans latest body of work comprising of oil paintings on canvas, oil paintings on paper attached to canvas and framed collages, which act as the initial inspiration for his compositions. The title refers to the pure pleasure to be gained from ... More | | 
Exterior view of the pavilion designed by Francis Kéré at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana. Rendering courtesy of Kéré Architecture.
FISHTAIL, MT.- Tippet Rise Art Center today announced that it will soon break ground on the latest of the lovingly crafted, sculptural buildings that dot its landscape: a new pavilion designed by the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. The 1,900-square-foot gathering place is scheduled to open in summer 2019. The scenic new pavilion is being built close to the art centers central campus, amid aspen and cottonwood trees near the bank of Grove Creek. The design is inspired by the traditional togunas of the Dogon culture of Mali: sacred shelters with wooden pillars, carved with ornaments representing the ancestors. The togunas layered roof of wood and millet straw allows for protection from the sun as well as ventilation within the space beneath. Tippet Rises pavilion will be constructed of locally and sustainably sourced ponderosa ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter Remedios Varo was born December 16, 1908. Remedios Varo Uranga (16 December 1908 - 8 October 1963) was a Spanish-Mexican para-surrealist painter and anarchist. Born in Girona, Spain in 1908, she studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. She is known as one of the world famous para-surrealist artists of the 20th Century. During the Spanish Civil War she fled to Paris where she was greatly influenced by the surrealist movement. She met her second husband, the French surrealist poet Benjamin Péret, in Barcelona. In this image: Remedios Varo (Spanish/Mexican 1908-1963), Vampiros vegetarianos. Oil on canvas. Painted in 1962. Estimate: $1,500,000 - 2,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2015.
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