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Albert Paley, Arc III, steel, cast glass, 27 x 19 x 42.5.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- With the steel rails of the track running along outside the historical train station, Schantz Galleries presents Albert Paley: Glass and Steel, celebrating the work of one of the most distinguished and influential metal sculptors in the world. Jim Schantz and Albert Paley have curated a collection of ten sculptures incorporating both steel and glass that show the two materials in graceful synergy. The transformation from station to gallery is beautifully executed and well suited to this important exhibition, located at 2 Depot Street in Stockbridge. Artist Albert Paley investigates form, explores material characteristics and technical processes, and forges abstract masterpiecesall in service to the notion that art provides access to the intangible facets of the human condition such as emotion, intellect, memory, and aspiration. Paley manipulates material, form, color, and light to create an environment of heightened co ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view of the group exhibition The Secret History of Everything at Perrotin New York, 2020. Photographer: Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy of the artists and Perrotin.
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 | | Jerusalem site reveals ancient Judean tax centre | | Man questioned over French cathedral fire rearrested: prosecutor | | Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green dies aged 73 | 
A picture taken on July 22, 2020, shows clay figurines of women unearthed at an excavation site, dating back to the Kingdom of Judah 2700 years ago, in Jerusalem. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Seal impressions dating back 2,700 years were unveiled in Jerusalem this week offering rare new details about the administration in the ancient Kingdom of Judah, including tax collection. The kingdom, which lasted from around from around 940 to 586 BC before being destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, was centred in Jerusalem. A few kilometres from the Old City, in the modern day west Jerusalem neighbourhood of Arona, excavators from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered the remains of a compound with parts of its ancient ashlar walls still visible. The material found at the site -- a few hundred metres from the US embassy -- includes more than 120 broken clay jar handles bearing seal impressions that show the Hebrew word "lamelekh", meaning "belonging to the king". Other ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on July 18, 2020 firefighters are at work to put out a fire at the Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul cathedral in Nantes, western France. Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP.
RENNES (AFP).- A man who was held and released last week by French police investigating a fire at the gothic cathedral of Nantes was on Saturday rearrested, prosecutors said. The fire broke out on July 18, hours after the volunteer alter server at the cathedral closed the building up for the night. Prosecutors launched an arson investigation into the blaze, which they said appeared to have broken out in three different parts of the Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nantes, western France. Following developments in the inquiry, the man, a 39-year-old Rwandan national, was rearrested early on Saturday and later appeared before a judge in the city, prosecutor Pierre Sennes said in a statement. Sennes said last week the man had closed up as part of "normal procedure" and it was "premature" to suggest he was ... More | | 
Peter Green with harmonica and guitar (Bilston, England, 2009). Photo: Tony Hisgett.
LONDON (AFP).- Peter Green, the influential blues guitarist who co-founded British rock giants Fleetwood Mac, has died at the age of 73, his family's legal representatives announced on Saturday. "It is with great sadness that the family of Peter Green announce his death this weekend, peacefully in his sleep," said a statement from Swan Turton solicitors. "A further statement will be provided in the coming days." The virtuoso blues/rock guitarist, described by B.B. King as having "the sweetest tone I ever heard..., the only one who gave me the cold sweats", formed Fleetwood Mac with drummer Mick Fleetwood in London in 1967. He was behind songs such as "Albatross" and "Oh Well" that helped define the band's unique sound and propel them to worldwide fame. Green also penned "Black Magic Woman", covered famously by Carlos Santana in 1970. The same year, mental health issues and substance abuse ... More |
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| | Bombed and looted: Yemen battles to save its heritage | | Sotheby's presents a survey of 20th & 21st Century Design in New York | | 50th anniversary of the Isle of White Festival celebrated in landmark exhibition | 
A vendor displays a traditional dagger known as Janbiya for sale on July, 14, 2020 in Yemen's third city of Taez. AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP.
TAEZ (AFP).- The two facades of the National Museum in the Yemeni city of Taez bear testament to the ravages of a war that has consumed the Arabian Peninsula country. One side has been beautifully restored to its former grandeur, recalling a traditional palace from earlier eras. The other is pocked with damage, crumbling away to reveal collapsed floors and shattered walls. The refurbished side is resplendent with curved ornamental mouldings juxtaposed with intricate ochre brickwork, reminiscent of the style of old Sanaa, one of Yemen's four UNESCO World Heritage sites. Established as an Ottoman palace, then a residence for one of Yemen's last kings, it became a museum in 1967. It has since been "bombed" and "pillaged" according to its director, Ramzi al-Damini. Taez, in Yemen's southwest, is under government ... More | | 
François-Xavier Lalanne, Singe I and Singe II, estimates $400/600,000 each. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys will present their summer sales of 20th and 21st Century Design in New York on 30 July. Comprising over 200 works, the two auctions showcase an extraordinary and diverse range of works by some of the industry's most iconic and highly-coveted designers. All of the works on offer will be on view by appointment in Sothebys New York galleries beginning 25 July. The bi-annual offering of Important Design presents a curated survey of works from the last century, with important pieces spanning American and European prewar decorative arts to postwar and Contemporary design. The sale closes with a section dedicated to Contemporary design, led by a pair of Unique Extruded High Console Tables by Marc Newson, which were commissioned directly from the artist by their present owner in 2010 and executed in white Carrara C marble (estimates ... More | | 
Jimi Hendrix - Isle of Wight 1970 by Charles Everest. © CameronLife Photo Library.
LONDON.- Masterpiece Art will present Wight Spirit, 1968-70, an exhibition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal Isle of Wight Festival. Opening on Monday 27 July, the show is comprised of new sculptures by Guy Portelli and a selection of photographs some never seen before taken by the late Charles Everest. In addition, the gallery has created a feature-length documentary which will bring to light the festivals history and legacy. When it began in 1968, 10,000 people attended the event, but by 1970 this had swelled to 600,000. That year the line-up included Jimi Hendrix, The Who and the Doors, and was a landmark in Britains cultural history, as well as serving as the progenitor for countless other open-air festivals. Guy Portelli, who has curated the show, says: The Isle of Wight Festival is Europes Woodstock. You could argue it has more significance, and yet it isnt ... More |
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| | National Gallery of Ireland exhibition marks George Bernard Shaw's birthday | | Survey by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and BNO reveals impact of Covid-19 pandemic on Dutch designers | | Original exhibitions highlight Oklahoma City Museum of Art's permanent collection | 
John Collier (1850-1934), Portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Dramatist, 1927. Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cm. Presented, Mrs B Shaw, the Heirs wife, 1928 NGI.899 Photo © National Gallery of Ireland.
DUBLIN.- Coinciding with George Bernard Shaws birthday, 26 July, a special display Shaw and the Gallery: A Priceless Education, is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland. The exhibition explores the relationship between the Nobel Prize winning author, and the Gallery. The exhibition continues until 4 April 2021. Marking 70 years since Shaws death, the display of selected works from the Gallerys archives - from original postcards and letters to photos and sculpture - invites visitors to discover the story of one of the countrys most influential writers and the place he called the cherished asylum of my boyhood. Just before Shaws 94th birthday, he completed his last will, leaving one third of his posthumous royalties to the Gallery. These royalties increased substantially with the production of My Fair Lady, a musical based on Shaw's ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Peggy Janssen, styling: Heidi Willems - PURE styling.
AMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam teamed up with BNO, the professional association for Dutch designers, to ask over 100 designers how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted their professional lives both in terms of content and earnings. The survey brings to light the precarious yet resilient position of the designer. The Covid-19 crisis is heavily impacting the Dutch design community. Of the designers who participated in the survey, 45% reported losing over half their sales during the first three months of lockdown. More than 50% of designers expect to see a sales drop of between 25% and 50% in the long term (up to 2021), and over 20% of designers anticipate an even greater dip in sales. More than half the designers surveyed feel that the support measures provided by the Dutch government are insufficient. A large number of designers said that they had received no support at all. ... More | | 
Gabriele Münter (German, 18771962) Flowers and Fruit, 1949, Oil on board, 25 ½ x 19 ½ in. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R.A. Young, 2002.015
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK.- Two new, original exhibitions are now open at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art: Art with a History and The Art of Light. Art with a History, which explores the provenance, or ownership history, of 13 works of art from OKCMOAs permanent collection, was researched and curated by Kress Fellow for Provenance Research Dr. Bryn Schockmel. The Art of Light celebrates Oklahoma Contemporarys inaugural exhibition, Bright Golden Haze, with three historical artworks that use light as the medium. Understanding the provenance of a work of art adds to its cultural and historical value, said Schockmel. It allows us to better situate an artwork in the past and to appreciate what meaning it may have held for previous collectors. The goal of provenance research is to trace the ownership history of an object, from the time ... More |
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| | Machu Picchu empty for anniversary as Peru virus cases soar | | rosenfeld opens 'Between the Forceps and the Stone', the gallery's summer exhibition | | Regis Philbin, TV's indignant everyman, dies at 88 | 
In this file photo taken on December 30, 2014, view of the Machu Picchu complex, the Inca fortress enclaved in the south eastern Andes of Peru. Cris BOURONCLE / AFP.
LIMA (AFP).- Peru's former Inca citadel Machu Picchu on Friday marked 109 years since it was rediscovered by US explorer Hiram Bingham -- but the iconic site stood empty of tourists after plans to reopen for the anniversary had to be scrapped. The jewel of Peruvian tourism closed to visitors in mid-March as the country locked down to combat the coronavirus pandemic -- and a recent surge in infections led authorities to shelve its reopening plans, indefinitely for now. "Last year many people came for the anniversary, but unfortunately this time we won't have any visitors because we still don't have a reopening date for Machu Picchu," Darwin Baca, mayor of the nearby Machu Picchu settlement, told AFP. "It might be in August because cases are still increasing in Cusco." The former Inca capital of Cusco is the nearest big city ... More | | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- I know no one is going to show me everything, We all come and go unknown Each so deep and superficial, Between the forceps and the stone. - Joni Mitchell Hejira Although these words by the Canadian poet, singer and songwriter relate to human beings and the impossibility that any single person can convey all the ultimate truths about life, it applies equally well to our extraordinarily multifarious contemporary art world. This exhibition brings together five artists hailing from five different countries and covers painting, both abstract and figurative, sculpture and installation. Each quite distinct, they are, in, an inevitably restricted way, illustrate a few of the many, many truths which exist in todays contemporary art cornucopia. Although there are inevitably connections between some of them, such as the importance of nature, no one element unites all five. If one lived in fourteenth century Florence, the absolute harbinger of artistic truth would ... More | | 
Regis Philbin on the set of his talk show, at WABC's studio in Manhattan, Oct. 20, 1999. He was 88. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Robert D. McFadden
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Regis Philbin, the talk- and game-show host who regaled America over morning coffee with Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa for decades, and who made television history in 1999 by introducing the runaway hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, died Friday night. He was 88. His death was announced by his family in a statement. The statement did not say where he died or specify the cause. In a world of annoyances, Philbin was the indignant Everyman, under siege from all sides by the damned computers, the horrible traffic, the inconsiderate people who were always late. There was no soap in the mens room. Hailing a cab was hopeless. Losing a wallet in a rental car? Fuhgeddaboudit! Even his own family was down on him for buying a chain ... More |
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 Tornabuoni announces new location in ParisPARIS.- Tornabuoni Art announced a return to its historic Parisian space at 16 Avenue Matignon in October 2020. Tornabuoni Art opened its first Paris gallery in 2009 in the same location, in the heart of the 8th arrondissement, within walking distance from the Grand Palais and the Champs Elysées in a district that is becoming ever more of a center for cultural and art market activity. In 2017, when this building required renovations, the gallery moved to the Passage de Retz, a 17th-century townhouse in the Marais. This expanded space provided an opportunity for Tornabuoni Art, a specialist in Italian avant-garde art, to reach out to new audiences, as well as to stage widely acclaimed, large-scale exhibitions of artists including Alighiero Boetti, Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Burri, among others. After three years, the avenue Matignon building has been ... More Kehrer Verlag publishes Reinout van den Bergh's EboundjaNEW YORK, NY.- Eboundja is a photo project that occupies van den Bergh from 2011 onwards. Since 2009, the 30 families of the same-named fishing village in southern Cameroon are in great uncertainty about their future. The village is situated in the middle of a coastal strip where the Chinese, in exchange for Cameroon's iron ore, are constructing a deep sea harbour. The inhabitants are vulnerable to the combination of a corrupt government and megalomaniac project developers. In a series of photographs van den Bergh shows, with great commitment, the decline as well as the intimacy and beauty of the small community; the resignation but also the pride and resistance. »In all I have come to Eboundja seven times, each time staying more than a month. And with every visit, my love for the village grew. Initially, it was my plan to cover ... 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More All Shook Up: Norwegian Elvis impersonator sets world recordOSLO (AFP).- A Norwegian Elvis Presley impersonator set a world record on Saturday by singing the legendary entertainer's songs for more than 50 hours straight in an online competition. Kjell Henning Bjornestad, whose stage name is Kjell Elvis, sang non-stop for 50 hours, 50 minutes and 50 seconds, smashing the previous record, recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, by more than seven hours. The title of the previous Elvis champion, a German by the name of Thomas "Curtis" Gaethje, had remained intact for more than 16 years. "I'll never do this again", Bjornestad, dressed in an Elvis costume, told Norwegian television after completing his performance early Saturday in an Oslo bar. His manager said Kjell Elvis, who sang through two days and two nights, had been told to go easy on the coffee, and to rely instead on smoothies, fruit and ... 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More The UK's leading contemporary art prize and exhibition Artes Mundi 9 announces new dates and plansLONDON.- Artes Mundi announced new dates for the ninth edition of the biennial exhibition and prize. Originally scheduled for October 2020, it will now take place in Spring 2021. Artes Mundi 9 will take place from 13th February 2021 to 6th June 2021 in Cardiff, across three venues, National Museum Cardiff, Chapter and g39. For this edition the winner of the Artes Mundi 9 Prize will be announced ahead of the exhibition opening on 11th February, instead of toward the end of the exhibition as in previous years. Artes Mundi presents the UKs leading international contemporary art prize and is an important arbiter of cultural exchange between the UK and the international visual arts community. Bringing together a major biennial exhibition of some of the worlds most celebrated contemporary artists, Artes Mundi 9 promises to be the foremost ... 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More Delaware Art Museum announces exhibition of Helen Mason and Margo AllmanWILMINGTON, DE.- Scheduled for late March, the opening of Layered Abstraction: Helen Mason and Margo Allman was delayed due Covid-19 and the Museums subsequent closure. Now, with our recent reopening, Layered Abstraction is on view for the public. For more than 50 years, Margo Allman and Helen Mason have challenged traditional expectations for contemporary art in the greater Wilmington area. The Delaware Art Museum celebrates these two pioneering artists with a Distinguished Artist Series retrospective in its premier exhibition gallery space through January 17, 2021. Both Allman and Mason have dedicated their artistic careers to exploring the infinite possibilities of abstraction. Margo Allmans work was first exhibited at the Museum during its 43rd Annual Delaware Show in 1956. Since then, Allman has participated in countless juried ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American photographer William Eggleston was born July 26, 1939. William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. Eggleston's mature work is characterized by its ordinary subject-matter. In this image: William Eggleston. Untitled (Leg with Red Shoe, Paris), 2007. Pigment print, 22 x 28 in. Edition of 7. © Eggleston Artistic Trust. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
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