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An archaeologist looks at newly-discovered mummies, part of a collection found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era (323-30 BC) at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt's southern Minya province, about 340 kilometres south of the capital Cairo, on February 2, 2019. Egypt's Antiquities Minister said on February 2 that a joint mission from the ministry and Minya University's Archaeological Studies Research Centre found upon a collection of Ptolemaic burial chambers engraved in rock and filled with a large number of mummies of different sizes and genders. The minister added that the newly discovered tombs may be a familial grave for a family from the elite middle class. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP.
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TUNAH AL-GABAL (AFP).- They are more than 2,000 years old but remain in "good condition": Egypt on Saturday unveiled over 40 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era at a burial site in the centre of the country. Journalists clambered down a ladder and through an underground chamber beneath the sandy soil of Tunah Al-Gabal, 260 kilometres (160 miles) south of Cairo, to glimpse the recent finds. Archaeologist Rami Rasmi told AFP that 12 children and six animals were among the more than 40 mummies, while the rest were adult men and women. The remains were found laid on the floor or in open clay coffins in the crumbling chamber in Minya governorate. While mummification is mostly associated with ancient Egypt, the practice continued under the kingdom founded by Ptolemy, a successor to Alexander the Great, which lasted from 323 BC to 30 BC. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This picture taken on January 31, 2019 shows the golden sarcophagus of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1332 - 1323 BC), displayed in his burial chamber in his underground tomb (KV62) in the Valley of the Kings on the west bank of the Nile river opposite the southern Egyptian city of Luxor (650 kilometres south of the capital Cairo). The famous tomb underwent a nine-year conservation by a team of international specialists. MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP
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| | | The Duchess of Cornwall attends celebration to mark the launch of The Watercolour World | | Perot Museum unveils refined Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall | | Philadelphia Museum of Art to reopen its renovated and reinstalled Chinese Galleries in February |
Duchess of Cornwall marks the launch of The Watercolour World. Photo by Nick Harvey.
LONDON.- Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall attended a reception to celebrate the launch of The Watercolour World, of which she is a joint patron with His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, at the Royal Academy of Arts on Thursday 31 January 2019. The Watercolour World (TWW), is a new online project which uses an overlooked artform to help reveal the world as it looked before photography. Before the invention of the portable camera, most accurate visual records of the world were made in watercolour. While a huge number of these images still exist, they are fragile, inaccessible, and are increasingly being lost. There is an urgent need to save them and to make them available to a wider public. The free, interactive website will act as a unique gateway to the global collection of documentary watercolours made before 1900 in both public and private hands. Users can search either by place or by subjects covering topography, bo ... More | |
The Eyes of Africa fluorite and quartz specimen in the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall.
DALLAS, TX.- Continuing its commitment to keep content relevant and exciting, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science unveiled a refreshed Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall. In conjunction with the beautifully redesigned hall, Museum leaders also announced a new strategic initiative the Gems and Minerals Center of Excellence that aims to elevate interest and understanding of gems and minerals while positioning the Museum in the international spotlight. A new director has been hired to lead this key top-priority initiative. Enhancements to the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall include a redesigned floor plan and new opportunities to educate and engage guests while highlighting one-of-a-kind signature displays and beautiful new pieces. Known for extremely rare and significant specimens, the Museum uses a pioneering loan-versus-own collection method to display and regularly rotate some of the worlds highest-quality ... More | |
Peggy Olley, Associate Conservator of Furniture and Woodwork, treated a pair of wardrobes made from 17001800, China. Qing dynasty, 16441911. Lacquered wood with incised, painted, and gilt decoration; brass fittings. Gifts of A. W. Bahr, 1939. Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019. Photo by Jason Wierzbicki.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- On February 3, 2019, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will open to the public its new galleries of Chinese art following a comprehensive ten-month, $2 million renovation and reinstallation project. The first in more than 40 years for this renowned collection, it represents the next step in an ongoing series of reinstallations that began with the Rodin Museum in 2012 and continued with the renovation of the galleries of South Asian art in 2016. The museums rich holdings of Chinese art span more than 4,000 years of artistic achievement, and this new presentation brings it to life in fresh and revealing ways. Opening with a family festival celebrating the Lunar New Yearthe Year of the Pigit benefits from a multi-year study of ... More |
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| | | Phillips announces 2018 full year results, with sales up 29% to $916.5 Million | | Exhibition illustrates how Tibetan Buddhism empowered rulers through exquisite artworks | | New-York Historical Society launches first ever television series |
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Nu allongé I (Aurore). Patinated bronze, 13 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. Estimate: £5,000,000-7,000,000. Image courtesy Phillips.
NEW YORK, NY.- Phillips announced that overall sales in 2018 rose 29% to $916.5 million from $708.8 million in 2017, driven by a strong market for 20th century and contemporary art, increased sales in Hong Kong and strong performances by all of the companys departments. This year marks the highest annual total achieved for Phillips in company history. Auction sales increased 27% to $794.3 million from $625.4 million a year earlier, and private sales ended the year at $122.2 million, up 46% from $83.5 million. The companys overall sales are up 129% since 2014, when Phillips posted sales of $400 million. Its been an extraordinary year at Phillips, said Edward Dolman, Chief Executive Officer. Our strategy of focusing exclusively on the 20th and 21st centuries, our continued expansion in Asia, and our move to increase our Modern Art offerings have all played a role in our remarkable growth. We ... More | |
Panjaranatha Mahakala; Tibet; 14th century; steatite with color and gilding; 7 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (17.8 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm); The Metropolitan Museum of Art; gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015; 2015.500.4.18.
NEW YORK, NY.- Religion has influenced and empowered countless political leaders throughout history, and Tibetan Buddhism is no exception. Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism is the first exhibition of its kind to explore Tibetan Buddhisms dynamic political role in the empires of Asia from the 7th to the early 20th century. The exhibition places Himalayan art in a larger global context and sheds light on a little-known aspect of Tibetan Buddhism related to power, one that may run counter to popular perceptions yet is critical to understanding its importance on the world stage. Tibetan Buddhism offered a divine means to power and legitimacy to rule, with images serving as a means of political propagation and embodiments of power. Artworks on view in the exhibition, many for the first time in the United States, illustrate empires that not only embraced Tibetan ... More | |
David M. Rubenstein sits down with Doris Kearns Goodwin in an upcoming episode of New-York Historical Society Presents. Photo: Don Pollard.
NEW YORK, NY.- The New-York Historical Society announced today the launch of the institutions first television series, New-York Historical Society Presents. Premiering on WNET on February 3, the series features conversations between philanthropist David M. Rubenstein and world-renowned historians, including Ron Chernow, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Walter Isaacson. Other episodes hosted by CNN and New-York Historical Presidential Historian Douglas Brinkley focus on American presidents and their legacies with special guests as New-York Historical seeks to broaden its audience for these insightful conversations. For over a decade the New-York Historical Society has steadily expanded the impact of its exhibitions, public programs, and educational efforts by sharing its great intellectual and artistic treasures with audiences beyond its walls, said Dr. Louise Mirrer, president and CEO of New-York Historical ... More |
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| | | Heritage Auctions launches weekly World Currency Auctions | | Ian Cheng's debut exhibition with Gladstone Gallery opens in New York | | MIT List Visual Arts Center unveils a newly commissioned work created by Olafur Eliasson |
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Heritage Auctions, the world's largest auctioneer of currency and coins, has introduced a World Currency Weekly Auction that runs each Tuesday on HA.com. The weekly auctions came about because of the continued growth in recent years of the Heritage Auctions Currency Department, which eclipsed $41 million in sales in 2018. "The increase in popularity and demand for World Currency offered by Heritage Auctions in recent years has called for the birth of a dedicated platform," Heritage Auctions Vice President Dustin Johnston said. "We foresee a continued growth in World Currency, and the Weekly Tuesday auctions will go a long way toward allowing Heritage to meet the needs of collectors everywhere. They will have a variety of graded and ungraded banknotes from across the globe." The next World Currency Signature Auction will be April 24-30 in Schaumburg, Illinois. "These weekly auctions are a byproduct of the exceptional prices realized that w ... More | |
Ian Chang, BOB: Production Drawings (2018-2019), Double-sided, 8.5inch x 11inch, ink on grey stock. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
NEW YORK, NY.- Gladstone Gallery is presenting an exhibition by Ian Cheng, the artist's debut with the gallery, and the United States premiere of BOB (Bag of Beliefs). The first in a new series of artificial lifeforms, BOB takes the form of a chimeric branching serpent. BOB advances Chengs use of simulation to focus on an individual agent's capacity to deal with surprise: the subjective difference between expectations and perception. Over the course of its lifetime, BOB's body, mind, and personality evolve to better confront the continuous stream of life's surprises, and metabolize them into familiar routines. Crucially, BOB incorporates the tutoring influence of the viewer to help offset BOB's temptation to only satisfy its immediate impulses and childhood biases. As BOB dies many deaths whether through failures of personality, bad parenting, random accident, or a life well lived BOB may become synonymous with a reoccurri ... More | |
Olafur Eliasson, Northwest Passage, 2018. Stainless steel, LED lights, diffusers. An MIT Percent-for-Art Commission for MIT.nano. Photo: Anton Grassl.
CAMBRIDGE.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center unveiled Northwest Passage (2018), a newly commissioned Percent-for-Art work by Olafur Eliasson for MIT.nano (Building 12), MITs new state of the art production and research complex devoted to nanoscience and nanotechnology. Eliasson will present an artist talk about this project on February 26, 6 PM, Ray and Maria Stat Center, Bldg., 32, Rm. 123, 32 Vasser St., Cambridge MA. Northwest Passage, spanning 90 feet, is comprised of 30 polished stainless-steel panels, each of a different size and abstract shape, installed on the breezeway ceiling of the space, floating above visitors to MIT.nano (Building 12). These mirrored forms base their silhouette and configuration on the pattern of free-floating ice, the product of thinning ice coverage, found in the Northwest Passage between North America and the Arctic Circle. Seven semi-circular rings, each lined with an LED light and diffuser, are reflec ... More |
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| | | Louise Fishman's "Blonde Ambition" to be featured in "Emphatic" American painting exhibition at Krannert Art Museum | | Palo Alto Art Center exhibition encourages viewers to find art in the skies | | Astrup Fearnley Museet opens exhibition of works by Frank Benson |
Louise Fishman, Blonde Ambition, 1995. Oil on linen. Museum purchase through the John N. Chester Fund and the Art Acquisition Fund. 2019-1-1.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum has newly acquired a large-scale painting by abstract painter and University of Illinois alumna Louise Fishman. It is the first work by Fishman to enter the museums collection, and the latest of many artworks by women that KAM has recently added to the collection. The new acquisition will be on view in a spring exhibition of large-scale 20th century paintings entitled "Emphatic: American Painting from the Collection," opening on Feb 28. Fishmans 1995 painting Blonde Ambition is more than 7 feet tall and 5 feet long, with brilliant white gestures of paint across a dark background. Madonna's 1995 concert tour of the same name, which Fishman saw that year, inspired the artist, and the painting connects to a network of powerful blondes referenced in her work, including Marilyn Monroe ... More | |
Jenifer Kent, Still, 2016, ink on clayboard, 24 x 24 in., courtesy of the artist and Dolby Chadwick Gallery.
PALO ALTO, CA.- Viewers of the Palo Alto Art Centers latest exhibition, The Sheltering Sky, are invited to look skyward through artworks that provoke discussions of time, weather, the stars, climate change, the horizon line, and notions of heaven. The free exhibition runs from January 19- April 7, 2019. This exhibition explores the awe that we, and specifically the artists included, experience when looking skyward, says Palo Alto Art Center Curator Selene Foster. With its immensity, immateriality, and variability, the sky has been an enduring subject in art history, fascinating and challenging generations of artists. The Sheltering Sky is a multi-media exhibition of images navigating the far reaching, upward gaze of contemporary artists. The exhibition features three site-specific installations. Artist Sukey Bryan transformed both the front and back of the ... More | |
Frank Benson (1976), A Portrait of the Artist's Mother, 2004. Bronse, uretan, oljemaling, funnet objekt, laminert base, 64 x 38 x 41 cm. Astrup Fearnley Samlingen.
OSLO.- Frank Benson (b. 1976) is one of the most fascinating sculptors of his generation of American contemporary artists. Through the years he has developed an important body of sculptures and photographs. However, it is not a large body, since the artist has a perfectionist, slow and meditative relationship with time within his creative processes. Bensons early sculptures were smaller, composed of different elements that created narratives with a surrealistic flair. Then came Human Statue (2005), a sculpture of a man pretending to be a statue. This hyperrealist work introduced a series of human-scale figurative sculptures on which he has been working for the last ten to fifteen years. Human Statue has an unnerving presence, due to the attitude and abstruse expression ... More |
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Bonhams Los Angeles unveils outdoor murals painted by 'The Most Famous Artist'
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Bonhams announces its collaboration with The Most Famous Artist aka Matty Mo in celebration of the upcoming auction of The L.D. Brink Brinkman Collection on February 8. Matty has painted two vibrant murals of the beautiful and graphic patterns of Bohlin saddles. They are currently on display on the outside walls of Bonhams Los Angeles, in concurrence with the public exhibition of The L.D. Brink Brinkman Collection from February 2- 15. Matty Mo, The Most Famous Artist, added: It is an honor to collaborate with Bonhams for the Brinkman sale. Weve created two color-forward selfie-friendly murals inspired by works from the Brinkman collection on Sunset Boulevard that are sure to turn heads. The overall design is inspired by the history, geography and craftsmanship of an Edward H. Bohlin parade saddle and the colorways ... More
Fine American, European, African, Chinese & Asian items will be offered at Converse Auctions
MALVERN, PA.- A 1900 Patek Philippe 14kt gold pocket watch, a Rolex Oyster Submariner watch, several magnificently carved Chinese cabinets in singles and pairs, a 17-volume set of Lord Byrons books from 1832 and two sets of John Ruskin volumes are just a taste of whats in Converse Auctions online-only East Meets West Auction, Friday, February 15th at 10 am EST. The auction is packed with 586 lots of fine American, European, African, Chinese and other Asian items a tantalizing blend of objects from the East alongside items from the Western culture (hence the title East Meets West). All lots have a starting bid of $10, a tactic designed to encourage newcomers to the collecting world, and old pros as well, to bid early and bid often. Although the auction is online-only, the sale can be previewed live in the Malvern gallery, at 57 Lancaster Avenue. ... More
Elevation 1049: Site-specific work and performances presented in and above Gstaad
GSTAAD.- Elevation 1049 announced its third winter iteration, Frequencies, curated by Neville Wakefield and Olympia Scarry. Launching over the weekend of February 1-3, 2019, Elevation 1049: Frequencies features Mirage Gstaad, a new outdoor site specific sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken that will remain on view in Gstaad, for the first time, over the course of two years, reflecting and interacting with the mountain landscape over the changing seasons. Frequencies convenes for the opening weekend a diverse group of international visual and performing artists from multiple generations and backgrounds who are presenting a dense program of live performances in various indoor and outdoor locations in and around Gstaad. Participating artists are: Nina Beier, Suzanne Ciani, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Zhana Ivanova, ... More
The MAST Foundation opens an exhibition of large colour images by Thomas Struth
BOLOGNA.- The MAST Foundation presents a selection of large colour images by the German photographer Thomas Struth. The images represent the cutting edge, experimentation and innovation in human activity. Shot in industrial and scientific research sites throughout the world, the photographs on exhibit call into question the development of technology as the unique promise of human progress. In 2007, I began research on a new corpus of works entitled Nature & Politics, which calls into question the relationship between these two categories and technological development as a unique promise of human progress. More recently, I added three works shot at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin to this category, which deal with the direct relationship between the human body and technology and the theme of mortality. Within this sphere, Id ... More
The Polk Museum of Art presents a collection of works by contemporary artist Charles Williams
LAKELAND, FLA.- The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College is presenting SUN + LIGHT, a collection of works by contemporary artist Charles Williams, which opened today. Williams will discuss his exhibition, which explores black history and the treatment of African Americans throughout U.S. history, during a Point of View Gallery Talk at noon on Feb. 8. Admission is free. SUN + LIGHT is a collection of works from Williams series titled, Everyone Loves the Sunshine. The exhibition juxtaposes Williams own personal encounters, past and present, with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Williams attempts to strike a balance between the movements peaceful and violent protests, and of varied expressions of power. He recounts stories told to him by his grandmother about this period in U.S. history and the belief she passed down ... More
Turner Contemporary opens the largest UK exhibition of Scottish artist Katie Paterson to date
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary is staging the largest UK exhibition of Scottish artist Katie Paterson to date, paired with JMW Turner. Conceived by Paterson as an exhibition of ideas, it includes the majority of Patersons existing works, which explore our relationship with the vastness and wonder of the universe; our desire to see the un-seeable, to know the unknowable. The exhibition also includes several new commissions and 30 of Patersons Ideas artworks designed to live in the imagination interspersed with works by JMW Turner. Like Paterson, Turner was fascinated by the sublime wonder of nature, capturing the changing and atmospheric qualities of light, air and weather in his paintings, while also being deeply curious about science and the physical world. Paterson has selected a group of over 20 watercolours from Tates collection ... More
Warren Alpert Medical Center of Brown University presents Hair Stories: Photographs by Rohina Hoffman
PROVIDENCE, RI.- From an early age, Indian born, Los Angeles-based fine art photographer Rohina Hoffman understood that hair had power. At the age of seven, Hoffman's two ponytails were unceremoniously cut off leaving her with a boy's haircut for a good part of her childhood. The trauma of losing control of her identity at such a young age has stayed with Hoffman her entire life and provided the early inspiration for her photography series Hair Stories. A solo exhibition of the work is on view at the Warren Alpert Medical Center of Brown University (222 Richmond St, Providence, RI 02903) from Saturday, February 2 until Friday, May 31, 2019. A closing reception and book signing with Rohina Hoffman will take place Friday, May 24. The accompanying book will be published world wide by Damiani on March 26, 2019. Hair Stories, is a series of excerpted ... More
Exhibition treats visitors to a rare look at Johnny Swing's work at Shelburne Museum
SHELBURNE, VT.- Johnny Swing: Design Sense is on view at Shelburne Museum from February 2, through June 2, 2019. The exhibition is the first in a new series that explores the creative processes of innovative artists and designers working throughout New England today. Based in Brookline, Vermont, Johnny Swing is best known for his luxurious coin furniture and large-scale architectural lighting. Johnny Swing: Design Sense provides visitors with a fascinating glimpse into the various phases of the artists philosophy and practice, from the early conceptual stages of sketching and model making to fabricating molds and engineering the structural elements, culminating in sophisticated works that blur the lines between art and design. Johnny Swing: Design Sense pulls back the welding curtain to reveal this internationally renowned studio furniture makers ... More
Exhibition at Lucy Bell Gallery explores contemporary photographic arboretum
ST LEONARDS ON SEA.- An Arboretum in the general sense is a botanical collection, composed exclusively of trees. Historically botanical illustrators and artists have studied plants to describe different species and their formations and characteristics. Hastings is home to one of the largest Arboretums' in the UK, at Alexandra Park which has one of the best collections of trees in Britain, originally planted by Robert Marnock (18001889) who was one of the outstanding English horticulturalists and garden designers of the 19th century. This exhibition of works by Zoe Sim, Kirsten Reynolds, John Stezaker, Jean-luc Brouard, Allan Grainger, Faith Powell, Melissa Moore, Ieuan Morris, and Kristof Szentgyorgyvary explores contemporary photographic practice using various lighting, film and digital processes to produce a contemporary ... More
The Ravestijn Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs by Robin de Puy
AMSTERDAM.- The portraits in this exhibition have nothing in common at first glance. From a model named Birk on his way to fame to Randy, an adolescent boy who grows up in Ely, Nevada. There are portraits of young people and of elderly people, of broken shopping trolleys and of worn out hands. Beautiful and ugly. But does ugly actually exist? Not in the images of Robin de Puy. She finds beauty in what others regard as unsightly. Unexpected, moving beauty is what links the photos in the exhibition LOVE ME. And in every image De Puy is present. As a photographer she determines who participates in her photographic world, she is the director. And in her world everyone has a very specific, undeniable beauty. De Puy selects her models based on a very personal criterion: there must be a sense of recognition between her and the person portrayed. They ... More
Solo show of new work by British artist Ian Kiaer opens at Alison Jacques Gallery
LONDON.- Alison Jacques Gallery is presenting Endnote, ping, the first solo show of new work by British artist Ian Kiaer since his solo exhibition Endnote, tooth at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2017-2018). For two decades, Kiaer has worked with found materials to produce paintings, sculptures and installations that rest between chance and intentionality. The title of the show refers to Samuel Beckett's short story Ping (1966) that alludes to an embodied space where repeated words defy a linear reading in favour of something more spatial, material and rhythmic. Kiaer's new series of multi-layered paintings comprise of Plexiglas from discarded bus shelters laid over delicate watercolours. The new mark making coexists with marks and traces already on the plexi, allowing images and text to emerge and encapsulate time. The works in the exhibition ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell was born February 03, 1894. Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. In this image: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Four Freedoms, 1943. Assemblage. Story illustrations for four February- March, 1943 issues of The Saturday Evening Post, Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. ©SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.
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