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Abdul Karim al-Kafarnah, a Palestinian resident of Beit Hanun, holds a seal at a freshly-discovered cemetery in the garden of his house in the town in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 26, 2018. Experts said the graves were part of a loculus tomb that possibly dates from the late Roman-Byzantine era in the fourth to sixth century CE. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP.
BEIT HANUN (AFP).- When Abdul Karim al-Kafarnah went to check the rainwater gushing down a hole in his garden he was in for quite a shock -- hidden steps led him down to an ancient grave complex. The 24-year-old lives in the Beit Hanoun district of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli border which suffered intensive bombardment during the 2014 conflict between the Israeli army and Palestinian militants. The family home was destroyed and the surrounding plots heavily churned up, leaving extensive craters in the ground. The flash-flooding earlier this week led him to one particular spot, where, on removing a large stone, he found a staircase leading four metres (13 feet) down into an ancient tomb. I discovered the place where the water was falling in, he told AFP. I lifted the stone and a stale smell came out. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This file photo taken on April 13, 2006 shows a light and sound show projected on the walls of a quarry in the southern French city of Les Baux de Provence. The City Hall of Baux-de-Provence was sentenced by a court in Tarascon to pay 5.8 million euros to the company which had created video projections in the quarries and was later ousted in favor of another. In 2010, the company 'Cathedrale d'images' which organized the projections for 35 years, had to close its doors after the decision of the City Hall, which the company has been contesting for many years. BORIS HORVAT / AFP
| Paul Kasmin Gallery opens a solo exhibition of sculpture by Robert Indiana | | American self-taught and avant-garde art explored in major traveling exhibition | | American and European Modern masters featured in two exclusive exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum | 
Robert Indiana, ONE through ZERO 1978-2003, polychrome aluminum, 30 x 30 x 15 inches each sculpture (excluding base), 33 1/4 x 33 x 17 inches each sculpture (including base). Installation view at Paul Kasmin Gallery 2018 © 2018 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Christopher Stach.
NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of sculpture by Robert Indiana. The exhibition, which honors the artist in his 90th year and celebrates over 15 years of representation by the gallery, includes two iconic works: LOVE WALL and ONE through ZERO. Indianas archetypal stacked LOVE composition, with its bold serif lettering of VE stacked beneath the L and off-kilter O, is one of the most ubiquitous works of art of the 20th century. LOVE WALL (1966-2006) consists of four of Indianas classic LOVE compositions arranged in mirrored orientations with the four Os joined at the center, constructing an impressive 12ft high, Cor-ten steel monument. LOVE WALL is a monumental and superlative ... More | | 
Marsden Hartley, Adelard the Drowned, Master of the "Phantom", c. 1938-1939. Oil on board, unframed: 28 x 22 in. The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Bequest of Hudson D. Walker from the Ione and Hudson D. Walker Collection.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Their classification may have variedfrom folk and primitive to naïve and visionarybut intermittently throughout the history of modern art, gates have opened, boundaries have dissolved, and those creating art on the periphery have entered the art world. Outliers and American Vanguard Art is the first major exhibition to explore those key moments in American art history when avant-garde artists and outsiders intersected, and how their interchanges ushered in new paradigms based on inclusion, integration, and assimilation. On view in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, from January 28 through May 13, 2018, the exhibition brings together some 250 works in a range of media by more than 80 schooled and unschooled artists, ... More | | 
Juan Gris, Spanish, 18871927, Still Life with Newspaper, 1916. Oil on canvas. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1950.
PRINCETON, NJ.- Innovative works by great modern artists including Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Dove, Georgia OKeeffe, Marsden Hartley and Milton Avery are included in two exhibitions on view this winter at the Princeton University Art Museum. The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from The Phillips Collection offers an analysis of modernist still life through 38 paintings from the landmark collection assembled by Duncan Phillips and his wife, the artist Marjorie Acker Phillips. The paintings on view many of them rarely seen masterworks of modern art provide entrée to a period in which artists sought new aesthetic strategies that responded to a rapidly changing world. The Artist Sees Differently is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum, the exhibitions only venue, from Jan. 27 through Apr. 29, 2018. When it first opened to the public in 1921, the Phil ... More |
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| Massimo De Carlo, Milan opens exhibition of works by Swiss artist Olivier Mosset | | Exhibition presents ancient tools and gathered objects as evidence of the earliest forms of artistic intention | | Crocker Art Museum opens the largest Exhibition of E. Charlton Fortune's work ever assembled | 
Olivier Mosset, Installation views Massimo De Carlo, Milan/Ventura, 2018. Photo by Roberto Marossi. Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong.
MILAN.- Massimo De Carlo starts the New Year with an exhibition by Swiss artist Olivier Mosset, based in Tucson Arizona, with whom Massimo De Carlo has collaborated for 30 years, since 1987. Olivier Mosset is well known for his minimalist practice that investigates conceptual abstraction through painting. The artist explores a variety of monochrome colour blocks, surfaces, geometrical patterns, dimensions via methodical repetition of gestures and a radical approach to the canvas; removed from any type of subjectivity. The exhibition is structured as a small retrospective, where the artist has selected a number of works from different periods of his career. The iconic circle oil paintings (here from the 1970s), which are part of a series of 200 identical canvases that Mosset produced between 1966 and 1974 and epitomize his radical ... More | | 
Handaxe, France, ca. 500,000-300,000. Flint, 6 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (15.2 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm). Tony Berlant Collection.
DALLAS, TX.- The Nasher Sculpture Center opened First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone, an exhibition exploring prehistoric tools and collected objects as evidence of the beginnings of artistic intention and craft. The show is on view January 27 - April 29, 2018. The exhibition is the product of a unique curatorial collaboration between Los Angeles-based artist Tony Berlant and anthropologist Dr. Thomas Wynn, Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone is the first museum exhibition to present ancient handaxes as works of art. Traditionally understood as the longest-used tool in human history, the handaxe is equally fascinating for its non-utilitarian, aesthetic qualities. While handaxes are not raremillions have been discovered throughout the worldFirst Sculpture presents a refined and exemplary collection of these objects, which ... More | | 
Charlton Fortune, Feeding Chickens, 1918. Oil on canvas, 28 x 26 inches. Crocker Art Museum, Melza and Ted Barr Collection.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the January 28 opening of E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit, an exhibition of work by one of California's most progressive female artists. This exhibition brings together approximately 85 of Fortune's portrait drawings, her most important impressionist and modern landscapes, and ecclesiastical paintings and furnishings made for the Catholic Church. Euphemia Charlton Fortune (18851969), who went by Effie and signed her paintings E. Charlton Fortune, was born in Sausalito, California, and came of age during a time when women began to redefine their expected roles in society. She studied at San Franciscos Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and continued her training at the Art Students League in New York. After travelling abroad, Fortune returned to California in 1912, and spent that summer painting in ... More |
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| Hauser & Wirth opens 'The Garden' an exhibition of new paintings by Zhang Enli | | The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU appoints new Director of Development: Natasha D'Souza | | Galerie Max Hetzler opens two exhibitions of works by André Butzer | 
Zhang Enli, The Broken Sofa, 2017. Oil on canvas, 220 x 180 cm / 86 5/8 x 70 7/8 in. © Zhang Enli. Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth.
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting The Garden, an exhibition of new paintings by Zhang Enli. A champion of overlooked spaces and objects, Zhang Enli works from sketches, photographs, and memories to render his experience of the world in variegated brushstrokes and intimations of figures. His works, grounded in his immediate surroundings, involve a ceaseless scrutiny of ways of seeing. For the paintings on view in The Garden, Zhang Enli has drawn inspiration from the gardens that populate the industrialized cityscape of Shanghai, articulating his impressions of their organic forms through expansive, immersive paintings that envelop viewers in an uncanny sense of recognition. Having achieved acclaim for his earlier figural paintings, Zhang Enli has dedicated recent years to developing his own abstract visual language. In his ... More | | 
DSouza joins the museum after serving as Associate Director of Development at United Way of Miami-Dade.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, the Smithsonian Affiliate in Miami, announces the appointment of the museums new Director of Development, Natasha DSouza, a renowned development expert with more than 15 years of fundraising leadership experience and a portfolio that exceeds $7 million in annual giving. DSouza joins the museum after serving as Associate Director of Development at United Way of Miami-Dade and previously leading some of Miamis most prominent non-profits and community organizations. In her new role at the Frost Art Museum FIU, she will be responsible for developing and implementing the annual fundraising plan and major gifts/fundraising objectives, cultivating the dedicated donor base, endowment growth, and increasing contributions for expanded programming. The museum is part of Florida International University, and ... More | | 
André Butzer, Vater von Mirinda (Bleod Stumpf), 2003. Private Collection, Courtesy of Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin I Paris.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting exhibitions with works by André Butzer in Bleibtreustrasse 45 and Goethestrasse 2/3. For the first time Galerie Max Hetzler presents such a comprehensive selection of works by André Butzer in two parallel running exhibitions. The gallery space at Bleibtreustrasse displays recent paintings from 2016 and 2017 as well as a new artist book created in collaboration with Hans Werner Holzwarth (Holzwarth Publications). Whereas the space at Goethestrasse offers an insight into the early work of the artist with paintings from 1999 to 2008, selected from private collections. Since 2010, Butzer creates the so called N-Bilder (N-images). N is an artistic measuring conceived by Butzer, which is not a calculable, rational quantity but rather represents a recurring, fertile space. The white, bar-like interstice that clearly determined ... More |
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| Moscow cinema stops showing 'Death of Stalin' after police raid | | Exhibition focuses on Teenie Harris's work documenting the experiences of black soldiers | | Dirk Stewen presents two new bodies of collage and watercolor at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | 
A police officer enters the Pioner (Pioneer) cinema in Moscow on January 26, 2018. Ola CICHOWLAS / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- A Moscow cinema which screened British comedy "The Death of Stalin" in defiance of an official ban has announced that it will stop showing the film after a raid by Russian police on Friday. The culture ministry on Tuesday withdrew permission to screen British director Armando Iannucci's film, which satirises the death of the dictator, after Russian officials labelled it offensive and "extremist". But Moscow cinema Pioneer, named after the Soviet youth organisation, had decided to go ahead with its screenings of the film. Reports of the cinema's planned defiance led the culture ministry on Thursday to warn movie houses they would bear "legal responsibility" for showing the film. On Friday, six policemen accompanied by a group of men in civilian clothing went to the cinema following a matinee screening of the film, and at one point held an administrator and other cinema employees behind closed doors. Asked by AFP why they were there, the policemen repeatedly ... More | | 
Charles Teenie Harris, Woman wearing military uniform, with two other women, and sign in background reading Can YOU Qualify of the WAC or the WAF? c. 1949, Carnegie Museum of Art, Heinz Family Fund.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art presents Teenie Harris Photographs: Service and Sacrifice, open January 27May 28, 2018. The exhibition is the latest from CMOAs Teenie Harris Archive, focusing on Harriss work documenting the experiences of black soldiers. During World War II, Charles Teenie Harris photographed thousands of African American soldiers who fought for a nation that didnt always fight for them. Separated by years of Army service, Master Sergeant Eugene Boyer Jr. and former Staff Sergeant Lance A. Woods have selected 25 Harris images that speak to their experiencesthe honor of military service, and the sacrifices that the families of service members make. In addition, Harris photographed more than 1,000 soldiers in his studio over the course of his career. Many of these portraits ... More | | 
Dirk Stewen, Femme aux Bras Croises, 2017. Gouache and watercolor on paper. 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches; 45.1 x 34.9 x 3.8 cm (framed) 14 3/4 x 11 x 1 1/2 inches; 37.5 x 27.9 x 3.8 cm (unframed). Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is presenting Dirk Stewen: Transition, on view January 6 - February 15, 2018. Known for creating unique works that draw on a multiplicity of art-making techniques including photography, drawing, assemblage, painting, collage, and embroidery, Stewen presents two new bodies of collage and watercolor for his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. In the upstairs gallery, successions of framed works on paper proliferate the main space, as if sentences punctuating the surrounding architecture. Upon closer look, the individual compositions do include text, but only as modest fragments awash with the brilliant oranges, deep blues, and flesh-toned forms that permeate the papers surface. Following his Feuchtwanger residency at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 2013, Stewen ... More |
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More Royal Ontario Museum presents a new and original exhibition of Black Canadian Contemporary art TORONTO.- The Royal Ontario Museum announces the ROM-original exhibition Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art. Opening Saturday, January 27, 2018, the exhibition, which features the works of nine artists, explores contemporary art, race and historical identity in Canada. Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art is an important exhibition that grapples with current and historical interpretations of Black culture and identity in this country, says Josh Basseches, the ROMs Director and CEO. The work represented in this exhibition not only encourages visitors to reexamine their idea of what Canada is, but offers a broader telling of the Canadian story through the Black Canadian experience. The exhibition features original work from Canadian artists Sandra Brewster, Michèle Pearson Clarke Chantal Gibson, ... 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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Alice Neel was born January 28, 1900. Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 - October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. In this image: Ballet Dancer, 1950. Hall Collection. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London.
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