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Vinzenz Brinkmann. Photo: Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.
FRANKFURT.- For more than fifteen years, the polychromy of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture has been captivating the public worldwide. Some three million visitors have experienced the GODS IN COLOR firsthand in the museums of cities such as Athens, Istanbul, Copenhagen, London, Malibu, Mexico City, Munich, Berlin, Rome, Vienna and, most recently, San Franciscoas well as those of renowned universities, among them Harvard and Oxford. The Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung is now presenting a major expanded exhibition allowing a nuanced look at the disconcerting phenomenon of statuary polychromy. GODS IN COLORGOLDEN EDITION: Polychromy in Antiquity features more than 100 objects from international museum collections such as the British Museum in London, the Museo Archeologico in Naples, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, the Archäologisches Institut in Göttingen, and the Skulpturensammlung der Staatlichen Kunstsam ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting on the lower frequencies I speak 4U (alquimia sagrada), a solo exhibition of work by william cordova on view January 23 through February 29, 2020. For the artistÂs fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, cordova has developed a multi-media installation seeking to explore "the juxtaposition of past structures to more contemporary structures that illuminate the ephemeral nature of our existence, as beings who create material culture as a means of documentation and memory."
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 | | Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was great for bacteria | | Hester Diamond, passionate art collector, is dead at 91 | | A gorgeous center for photography, far from picture perfect | 
An illustration provided by Victor O. Leshyk/GEOLOGY/GSA, depicts a theory of events precipitated by the impact of an asteroid on earth some 66 million years ago that extinguished nearly 75 percent of all species. Victor O. Leshyk/GEOLOGY/GSA via The New York Times.
by Shannon Hall
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- The asteroid moved 24 times faster than a rifle bullet as it struck Earth some 66 million years ago. Its supersonic shock wave flattened trees across North and South America, and its heat wave sparked incomprehensibly large forest fires. The event lofted so much debris into the atmosphere that photosynthesis shut down. The nonavian dinosaurs disappeared. And nearly 75% of all species were extinguished. At the point of impact, the picture was even more dire. The space rock left a sterile crater nearly 20 miles deep in what is now the Gulf of Mexico. Not a single living thing could have survived. But even at ground zero, life managed to return, and quickly. New findings published in the journal Geology ... More | | 
Piet Mondrian, NEW YORK. 1941/BOOGIE WOOGIE. 1941-42. Estimate: 20,000,000 30,000,000 USD. Sold for: 21,008,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Hester Diamond, a New York art collector, art dealer and interior designer who with her first husband amassed an astonishing modernist collection, later tossed it aside in favor of old masters, and as a decorator loved to mix abstract art with antiques, died on Jan. 23 at her home in Manhattan. She was 91. Her son David Diamond said the cause was metastatic breast cancer. Diamonds career spanned more than six decades, beginning with a part-time gallery job in the 1950s and culminating in the presidency of a research institute dedicated to Florences Medici family. A self-taught art expert, Diamond always insisted that her first criterion for a purchase maybe her only one was loving the piece. There was no strategy, she said in a 2017 oral history interview for the Archives of American Art and the Center for Collecting in America. See an opportunity. Find the buyer. See how it goes. Hester Klein was born on Dec. ... More | | 
Fotografiska is located within a landmark building in the Flatiron district.
by Arthur Lubow
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- In an image-saturated world, Fotografiska a Stockholm institution that has recently established an outpost in New York aims to lure people off their phones to venture out to see photographs displayed on walls. The strategy is brilliant: provide in the real world what people seek in virtual reality. Give them a community that revolves around photographs, and which in turn will supply them with pictures they can funnel back into their Instagram feeds. Within a landmark building in the Flatiron district that stays open every night until 11 or midnight, Fotografiska offers a cafe, bar and bookstore on the ground floor and an elegant restaurant (named Veronika, after the patron saint of photography) for dinner one floor up. All these dining and shopping spaces are thronged. Veronika, with an Eastern and Central European menu, is booked solid for the next month. And then, oh yes, ... More |
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| | LACMA receives $50 million gift from the W.M. Keck Foundation for its Building LACMA campaign | | Croatia's Rijeka celebrates capital of culture kickoff | | The Morgan brings Jean-Jacques Lequeu Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France | 
Daytime view of north stairs facing east, Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Thanks to a leadership gift of $50 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation and gifts from other civic leaders, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced today that it is on track to raise $650 million for its Building LACMA campaign in support of its planned David Geffen Galleries. The goal to cover the $650 million cost of the building construction will be met by the end of February, with more than $640 million in commitments already made. Construction of the new building will begin at that time, as planned and on budget. In 2019, LACMA received unanimous approval for the building project and its environmental impact report from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and unanimous approval for the airspace vacation over Wilshire Boulevard from the Los Angeles City Council, clearing the way for construction. Early pre-construction site work, construction of temporary facilities, and abatement have begun, and groundbreaking for ... More | | 
Fireworks explode as Old traditional boats sail in the port of Rijeka on February 1, 2020. Denis LOVROVIC / AFP.
RIJEKA (AFP).- Croatia's port city of Rijeka on Saturday held festivities to celebrate its inauguration as a European capital of culture for 2020. Thousands of people, including many tourists, braved the rainy weather to attend the cultural party with dozens of events held throughout the northern Adriatic port, according to an AFP photographer. Hundreds of performers took part in the festivities, including concerts including at the city's historic fish market building. Visitors could also learn about Rijeka's eventful recent history from a 200-meter-long (656-foot) timeline running along its main Korzo street. Croatia's third-largest city is the country's first to be awarded the title of European Capital of Culture which is this year shared with Ireland's Galway. The central ceremony dubbed 'Opera Industriale' was held Saturday evening at the Rijeka port, a symbol of the city's openness. The open-air event involved more than 100 ... More | | 
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (17571826), The Great Yawner, 1777-1824 (detail). Pen and black ink, brown and gray wash, red chalk. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Departement des Estampes et de la photographie.
NEW YORK, NY.- Six months before he died in poverty and obscurity, architect and draftsman Jean‐Jacques Lequeu (1757 1826) donated one of the most singular and fascinating graphic oeuvres of his time to the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The Morgan Library & Museum is the first institution in New York City to present a selection of these works. Some sixty of Lequeus several hundred drawings are now on view in Jean Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect, the first museum retrospective to bring significant public and scholarly attention to one of the most imaginative architects of the Enlightenment. Lequeus meticulous drawings in pen and wash include highly detailed renderings of buildings and imaginary monuments populating invented landscapes. His mission was to see and describe everything systematically ... More |
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| | Exhibition surveys the rich range of artistic responses to life during the belle époque | | Indiana State Museum opens exhibit on opioid crisis | | Exhibition of early European open-air painting reveals new scholarship and recently discovered works | 
Edgar Degas (French, 18341917), Women Ironing, begun c. 18751876; reworked c. 18821886. Oil on canvas, 32-1/4 x 29-3/4 in. (81.9 x 75.5 cm). Norton Simon Art Foundation.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum is presenting By Day & by Night: Paris in the Belle Ãpoque, an exhibition that surveys the rich range of artistic responses to life in the French capital during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this time, later dubbed the belle époque, or beautiful era, Paris was at the forefront of urban development and cultural innovation. Its citizens witnessed the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the ascendancy of the Montmartre district as an epicenter for art and entertainment and the brightening of their metropolis under the glow of electric light. For artists like Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso, however, it was often the less triumphant details of modern ... More | | 
Installation view.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND.- The United States is in the middle of a crisis that is impacting our families and communities, with Indiana at the epicenter: opioid use disorder. This February, the Indiana State Museum plans to talk about it. A new exhibit that has been in the works for more than two years FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis is on view at the museum from Feb. 1, 2020, through Feb. 7, 2021. Working with more than 50 community partners from around the state, the exhibit explores the many faces of this crisis that affects all Hoosiers. Substance use impacts our family, friends and neighbors. Thats why continuing to help more people enter recovery will always remain a top priority, said Gov. Eric J. Holcomb. The more we know about the ways it affects people, the better equipped well be to avoid dependence or support someone you love. FIX invites visitors to ... More | | 
Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, View of the Waterfalls at Tivoli, 1788. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Fern and George Wachter.
WASHINGTON, DC.- An integral part of art education in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, painting en plein air (in the open air) was a core practice for artists in Europe. Intrepid paintersdeveloping their abilities to quickly capturing effects of light and atmospheremade sometimes arduous journeys to study landscapes at breathtaking sites, ranging from the Baltic coast and Swiss Alps to the streets of Paris and ruins of Rome. True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 17801870 presents some 100 oil sketches made outdoors across Europe by artists such as Carl Blechen, Jules Coignet, André Giroux, Anton Sminck Pitloo, Carl Frederik Sørensen, and Joseph Mallord William Turner. On view in the West Building of the ... More |
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| | Where did the $9 million cars go? | | Bergen Kunsthall features sculptures, drawings, paintings, collages and photographs by Simone Fattal | | In former Syria rebel stronghold, nothing was spared | 
An undated photo provided by Bonhams shows the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 that failed to sell at the Bonhams Arizona auction. Bonhams via The New York Times.
by Jerry Garrett
SCOTTSDALE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- When classic cars hit the auction block these days, $3 million seems to be the new $10 million. As the global economy has endured a trade war and other uncertainties, some of the exuberance in this billion-dollar business, which surged after the last recession, is showing signs of ebbing. The Arizona Auction Week, one of the markets two annual tent-pole events, just completed its mid-January run with sales down 3% from last year. That drop was nowhere near as disastrous as the 34% slide at the industrys other tent-pole extravaganza, last August in Monterey, California. But the falloff in Arizona to $244 million, from $251 million in 2019, still felt ominous. It was enough to prompt speculation about the near-term future of this formerly white-hot market. The top sale price this year in Arizona, among ... More | | 
Simone Fattal, Young Man, 2019. Glazed stoneware, 60 x 38 x 18 cm. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy the artist and kaufmann repetto, Milan / New York.
BERGEN.- The exhibition features sculptures, drawings, paintings, collages and photographs by the Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal, spanning from the early 1970s until today. The works are presented in a characteristic non-chronologic installation in which a myriad of narrative threads and layers appear through the juxtapositions of works in different media and on different scales. Simone Fattal is mostly known for her work in clay and stoneware, glazed in luminous colours or shades of sand and brown. The works visibly exhibit the traces of their own making barely formed, liminal, but highly suggestive. The many long-legged figures, assorted vessels or architectural ruins relate to her interest in mythology and archaeology, and chart themes such as the ravages of war and recovery. A whole world of memories, ideas and references to history, poetry and contemporary politics is precipitated in the works, which have come to life in close interaction with the sites and ... More | | 
An ancient sarcophagus stands at the museum of Maaret al-Numan in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on January 30, 2020. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP.
by Maher al-Mounes
MAARET AL-NUMAN (AFP).- Once the throbbing heart of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Maaret al-Numan is an eerie ghost town where few buildings have been spared by nine years of war. Following a major ground offensive, the Syrian army captured the town in the northwestern province of Idlib on Wednesday, a key prize in its push to reconquer the country's last rebel enclave. A day after government forces moved into the deserted town and set up their first checkpoints there since 2012, the landscape was one of desolation. Maaret al-Numan, home to around 150,000 people four months ago, is now a field of levelled or gutted buildings, where shops' iron shutters are riddled with bullet holes and shrapnel scars. The only people left in the once-bustling town are a handful of soldiers taking up positions on the rubble-littered streets. Majed ... More |
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 Mary Higgins Clark, queen of suspense and a fixture on bestseller lists, dies at 92NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Mary Higgins Clark, a fixture on bestseller lists for decades whose more than 50 novels earned her the sobriquet Queen of Suspense, died Friday in Naples, Florida. She was 92 and had homes in Saddle River, New Jersey, Manhattan and Cape Cod. Her death was announced by her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, also a mystery novelist. Mary Higgins Clark, whose books sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone, was still writing until recently, her daughter said, and had a book published in November. Legions of readers were addicted to her page-turners, which popped up on the market one after another. She wanted to create stories that would make a reader say: This could be me. That could be my daughter. This could happen to us, she told Marilyn Stasio in a 1997 interview ... More Monica King Contemporary opens the first solo exhibition in New York City of Taylor Anton WhiteNEW YORK, NY.- Monica King Contemporary presents the first solo exhibition in New York City of Taylor Anton White, Free_Hotdog.pdf, from January 31 through March 14, 2020. Free_Hotdog.pdf features new mixed-media compositions in the artists signature exuberant and multifaceted style. The exhibition features works consisting of what White describes as contradictory elements that should be discordant but somehow come together to exist in a state of tenuous balance. Whites art defies categorization-amalgamating abstraction, text, found objects, and clearly defined imagery-sometimes all within a single work. He utilizes a vast spectrum of media in his practice, ranging from spiral bindings, spray paint, and charcoal to at times incorporating inversed images of his own childrens drawings, calling into question entrenched notions ... More moCa Cleveland announces the new exhibition Temporary Spaces of Joy and FreedomCLEVELAND, OH.- This winter, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland presents Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom, in the Toby Devan Lewis Gallery and Interior Stair from January 31May 17, 2020. Conceived and organized by Gund Curatorial Fellow La Tanya Autry, who previously held curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Mississippi Museum of Art, Temporary Spaces of Joy and Freedom celebrates dynamic modes of connection and soulful regeneration. The exhibition takes its title from a 2018 discussion published in the Literary Review of Canada between Canadian poet and scholar Dionne Brand and Betasamosake Simpson, and includes the work of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Cara Mumford and Amanda Strong, Tricia Hersey, John Edmonds, Vaimoana Niumeitolu and Kyle Goen. Temporary Spaces of Joy ... More 'Creature Comfort: Animals in the House' opens at Shelburne Museum SHELBURNE, VT.- A new exhibition at Shelburne Museum explores how our love of animals manifests itself in a myriad of ways in our domestic lives, including paintings and carvings, ceramics and rugs. Ranging in date from the 18th century to the present day, the selected decorative art objects explore complex themes related to animal/human bonds, including domestication, emotional connections, and ethical treatment. Creature Comfort explores the creative ways animal forms have been adapted to create a wide range of beautiful and functional household objects that celebrate our beloved companions. Shelburne Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb loved her dogs. At one point she had five poodles, and her sister gave her a throw pillow with all five of them depicted. Animals remained a theme throughout her folk art collecting from ceramics ... More New exhibition at Weatherspoon Art Museum highlights "hoops" in the SouthGREENSBORO, NC.- From its storied invention in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith as a recreational activity for incorrigible youth, to its current multibillion-dollar industry today, basketball has uniquely captured Americas imaginationand stolen North Carolinas heart. Embedded in basketballs history are many of the topics fueling current social concerns and contemporary art. Divisions between rural and urban cultures can be considered in the distinctions between the sports development in farming town gymnasiums and inner-city playgrounds. Increasing commercialization can be traced through its intersections with fashion, franchising, and pop music. Issues of racial equity reverberate through the NBA and NCAA. And, the advancement of womens roles can likewise be considered through the early adaptation of rules for female athletes, ... More Exhibition at Somerset House explores the fascinating world of mushroomsLONDON.- Launching its 2020 season, Somerset House invites visitors to explore the fascinating world of mushrooms in a new exhibition from curator and writer, Francesca Gavin. Through the work of over 40 artists, designers and musicians, Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi celebrates the rich legacy and incredible potential of the remarkable organism, the ideas it inspires in the poetic, spiritual and psychedelic, and the powerful promise it offers to reimagine societys relationship with the planet, inspiring new thinking around design and architecture. An extensive events programme from leading artists and experts accompanies the exhibition, spanning design, sustainability, health and beauty. Exhibition highlights include: Seminal American artist, Cy Twomblys expressive portfolio Natural History Part I, Mushrooms explores ... More New group exhibition at Argos loosely inspired by the title of a Chantal Akerman filmBRUSSELS.- The group exhibition 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080/1000 Bruxelles brings together artists who engage with Brussels as a dynamic field of critical research and creative expression. Presenting a wide range of practices, including video, textile, sound, design, and publications, it comprises a range of backgrounds and aesthetic sensibilities that are alternately poetic, political, subjective, or collective. Even though its title references the 1975 Chantal Akerman film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the exhibition does not address the figure of Akerman or her work directly. Instead, it freely explores some of the underlying themes of the film, including loss, repetition, ritual, and the challenges of belonging to a particular place or community. In this way, the exhibition is both a bridge between Brussels in the 1970s and Brussels ... 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More Sikkema Jenkins & Co. opens an exhibition of works by william cordovaNEW YORK, NY.- Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is presenting on the lower frequencies I speak 4U (alquimia sagrada), a solo exhibition of work by william cordova on view January 23 through February 29, 2020. For the artists fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, cordova has developed a multi-media installation seeking to explore the juxtaposition of past structures to more contemporary structures that illuminate the ephemeral nature of our existence, as beings who create material culture as a means of documentation and memory.1 The exhibition incorporates large-scale drawing collages, photography, and sculpture into an environment that reflects on abstract forms rooted in sacred geometries, while also drawing from historical moments and monuments of resistance. Two large scale sculptures, untitled (RMLZ), and untitled ... More Del Pitt Feldman, master of the art of crocheting, dies at 90NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Del Pitt Feldman, whose crocheted designs embraced a homegrown technique that had been relegated to potholders and simple scarves and helped redefine it as a respected medium for fashion and art, died on Jan. 14 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She was 90. Her daughter Melissa E. Feldman confirmed the death, at an assisted living facility. Feldman was best known for creating hand-crocheted garments with a breezy, confident ease; the tactile drape and raised texture of the material became key elements of each items design. Intentionally wide stitchwork resembling oversize fishnet became a trademark. The clothes were sold mostly at Studio Del, a boutique she opened in 1965 on East Seventh Street in Manhattans East Village. The garments including open-weave vests, string bikinis, minidresses and capes ... More Marine Hugonnier unveils a new body of work at Ingleby Gallery EDINBURGH.- Marine Hugonnier is an artist whose work researches politics of vision. Across film, photography and work on paper she engages with an on-going questioning of the gaze and of image-making procedures. Although French, she partly grew up in the US and studied philosophy and anthropology before becoming an artist. These disciplines continue to influence her practice. For this exhibition Hugonnier unveils a new body of work under the title Travel Posters, a series of large format images exploring the acclaimed Pan Am advertising campaign designed by Yvan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar in 1971 and photographed by Magnum's photographers. These posters which feature evocative, unspectacular and anti-corporate images of far-flung places, are emblematic of the most progressive design of the 1970s and are now a symbol ... More Midcentury Modern, antiques, Abstract art to be offered at Benefit Shop Foundation Feb. 19MOUNT KISCO, NY.- Midcentury Modern is still a new old favorite and buyers will find plenty of designer examples at The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. in its Red Carpet auction on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 10 am. With pieces coming in from tony estates in the Hamptons, Manhattans Park Avenue, a waterfront estate in Bedford and Greenwich, Conn., the auction will also cover all bases from antique to retro with top-draw items in a wealth of other collecting categories from fine art and antiques to fashion, jewelry and garden statuary. I am very excited about all the midcentury modern furniture in the sale from Egg chairs to a Paul Evans Cityscape table and much more, said Pam Stone, owner and founder of The Benefit Shop Foundation, Inc. Buyers will also find we have some very nice period antique pieces, including a Chippendale dresser ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican illustrator José Guadalupe Posada was born February 02, 1853. José Guadalupe Posada (February 2, 1853 - January 20, 1913) was a Mexican political printmaker and engraver whose work has influenced many Latin American artists and cartoonists because of its satirical acuteness and social engagement. He used skulls, calaveras, and bones to make political and cultural critiques. Among his famous works was La Catrina. In this image: José Guadalupe Posada, Calavera de la Catrina (Skull of the Female Dandy), from the portfolio 36 Grabados: José Guadalupe Posada, published by Arsacio Vanegas, Mexico City, Mexico, c. 1910, printed 1943, photo-relief etching with engraving, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the friends of Freda Radoff.
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