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The exhibition of 120 works represents the most comprehensive survey of this facet of his oeuvre ever to go on show. Photo: Michaela Hille / MKG.
HAMBURG.- Along with Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys, Robert Rauschenberg (19252008) numbers among the art-world greats of the second half of the 20th century. All three began their careers as young artists in the post-war period, when people still believed, with an optimism difficult to understand today, that art could do anything. And their understanding of art is correspondingly all-encompassing. For the first, everything is beautiful; for the second, everyone is an artist; and the third, Rauschenberg, sees material for his art in everything around him. Thanks to a generous donation from the Hamburg collector Claus von der Osten, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is devoting an exhibition to Rauschenberg, comprising prints and posters from his extensive collection. Because of this donation, the MKG boasts the worlds most comprehensive collection of its kind with approximately 160 posters designed by Rauschenberg. The ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A visitor walks in front of a wall bearing a projection in the Criptoportico Neroniano, a tunnel in the Palatino Hill in the Ancient Roman Forum (Foro Romano), during a press exhibition in central Rome on July 13, 2017. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP
| 'Earhart' photo taken years before disappearance: Expert | | Archaeologists go high-tech in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case | | Neil Armstrong moon bag on sale for up to $4 million | 
This picture taken on November 13, 2010 shows the dock at Jabor Island, Jaluit Atoll. Giff Johnson / AFP.
MAJURO (AFP).- A photograph supposedly showing Amelia Earhart alive in the Marshall Islands in 1937 that caused a stir earlier this month is from a Japanese book published years before the famed aviatrix disappeared, a military expert said Wednesday. The blurry image apparently showing a white woman sitting on a Marshallese dock generated worldwide interest when it was included in a History Channel documentary screened last weekend. It renewed interest in the fate of the legendary American and her navigator Fred Noonan who disappeared over the Pacific in July 1937 while attempting an around-the-world flight. The programme suggested the undated photograph found in the National Archives in Washington showed Earhart and Noonan were captured by Japanese forces. But military expert Matthew B. Holly said he had tracked the original image to a Japanese photographer's travelogue through Micronesia published before Earhart vanished. Holly ... More | | 
Bio-archeologist Eleanna Prevedorou poses in a lab at the American School of Archeology in Athens. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP.
ATHENS (AFP).- More than 2,500 years ago, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon -- the first recorded Olympic champion -- tried to take over the city of Athens and install himself as its sole ruler. According to Thucydides and Herodotus, Athenian and Greek historians who wrote about the coup, Cylon enticed an army of followers to enter the city and lay siege to the Acropolis. They were defeated, but Cylon managed to escape. Now archaeologists in Athens believe they may have found some of the remains of Cylon's army in a mass grave in Phaleron, four miles (6 kilometres) south of downtown Athens. The discovery of the 80 skeletons of men is "unequalled" in Greece, said site project director Stella Chrysoulaki. The men, young and well-fed, were found lying in the unmarked grave in three rows, some on their backs while others were tossed facedown on their stomachs. All of the men had their hands in iron chains and ... More | | 
The Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return Bag, used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 to bring back the very first pieces of the moon ever collected, is displayed in New York. Jewel SAMAD / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Once nearly thrown out with the trash, a bag that Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon goes on sale in New York next week, valued at $2-4 million. Traces of moon dust and small rock are embedded in what is the only artifact from the Apollo 11 mission in private hands, says Sotheby's, who is organizing the sale on July 20, the 48th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1969. "It's a tremendously rare thing," says Cassandra Hatton, vice president and senior specialist in charge of the sale. "Something that was used by the first man, on the first mission to collect the first samples, it's remarkable." Armstrong collected dust and rock fragments from five different locations on the lunar surface. Given its then unknown nature, the decontamination bag was used to minimize any potential harm the samples might pose. After Apollo 11 returned to Earth, ... More |
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| Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents mid-career survey of Sir David Adjaye's work to date | | Colombia opens bids to retrieve 18th century sunken treasure | | New exhibition at Nassau County Museum of Art demonstrates how artists have portrayed New York City | 
David Adjaye, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut Photo:Guillaume Ziccarelli. Courtesy Adjaye Associates.
MOSCOW.- Form, Heft, Material, the mid-career survey of world-renowned architect Sir David Adjayes work to date, is on view at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Art Institute of Chicago, offers insight into the global architects unique approach, highlighting the ways he weaves local geographies and cultural legacies into his celebrated designs. Showcasing over twenty examples of his built works, including the Moscow School of Management (Skolkovo), the exhibition also provides rare access to Adjayes research strategies in the early stage of design development. David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material is the first exhibition of a major architect at Garage and inaugurates a new chapter in the Institutions longstanding interest in developing discourse around contemporary architecture and its role in society today. Adjayes firm A ... More | | 
In this file photo Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos speaks during the World Coffee Producers Forum in Medellin, Colombia on July 11, 2017. JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP.
BOGOTA (AFP).- Colombia on Friday opens bidding for investors willing to retrieve billions of dollars in gold and silver from an 18th century ship wreck off the country's Caribbean coast. The Spanish galleon "San Jose" was the main ship in a fleet carrying gold and silver -- likely extracted from Spanish colonial mines in Peru and Bolivia -- and other valuables back to King Philip V. It sank in June 1708 during combat with British warships attempting to take its cargo, as part of the War of Spanish Succession. Only a handful of the ship's crew of 600 survived. President Juan Manuel Santos wants to form a public-private partnership to retrieve the shipwreck items, and build a museum for the recovered pieces and a laboratory to study and conserve the material. The scientific and legal parameters to join the partnership will be made public Friday at a hearing in the Caribbean city of Cartagena. Colombia has not set an official ... More | | 
Georgia O'Keeffe, Brooklyn Bridge, 1949, Charcoal and chalk on paper, 40 X 30 inches. Collection Elie Hirschfeld.
ROSLYN HARBOR, NY.- From its earliest years, New York City was the stage on which the transformation of America played out, reflecting economic and historic upheavals that led to the citys place as both the financial and art capitals of the world. New York, New York presents the citys grit and glamour, its excitement and bustle, and the heartbeat of a great metropolis through the work of John Sloan, Reginald Marsh, Childe Hassam, Red Grooms, Robert Henri, Fairfield Porter, Berenice Abbott, Milton Avery, Georgia OKeeffe, Arthur Leipzig and many others. Guest curated by Director Emerita Constance Schwartz and including more than 140 works of art, New York, New York opens at Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York on Saturday, July 22, 2017 and remains on view through Sunday, November 5, 2017. From the extraordinary to the everyday, New York, New York reveals the daily life of the citys populace at work, in their ... More |
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| Multi-disciplinary artist Charles McGill dies at the age of 53 | | Exhibition presents photographic interpretations pertaining to the meaning, history, and symbolism of the circus | | German film director Wim Wenders wins Helena Vaz da Silva European Award 2017 | 
Watermelon Patch, Harlem, from Playing Through performance, 2001.
NEW YORK, NY.- It is with great sadness that Pavel Zoubok Gallery mourns the loss of their gallery artist and friend Charles McGill (1964-2017), who died at the age of 53 on Sunday, July 9 near his home in Peekskill, New York, following a brief and courageous battle with cancer. Trained as a figurative painter, McGill was best known as a sculptor, creating powerful assemblages of vinyl, leather, plastic and hardware culled from repurposed golf bags that embody a specifically masculine struggle with abstraction, race and class. His deconstruction of this loaded cultural symbol was both a physical and psychological struggle. Its evocative fragments established a formal vocabulary that bears this stress plainly: deliberation in flayed slabs, frustration in wrested chunks, fervor in ousted masses. Appended to substrates or submitted to piecemeal assembly, these components were reconfigured into forms that convey a range of intellectual and corporea ... More | | 
Wiesje Peels, Circus Renaissance, from the series "Mimus," 2014.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- SF Camerawork is presenting Circus, their 2017 Annual Juried Exhibition, on view in the gallery from July 13 through August 19, 2017. This exhibition features local, national, and international artists, and presents a wide range of photographic interpretations pertaining to the meaning, history, and symbolism of the circus. The jury for this exhibition was comprised of Linde Lehtinen (Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA), Paloma Shutes (Photo Editor at California Sunday Magazine), and Arthur Tress (Photographer of Documentary Surrealism). SF Camerawork presents the following 17 finalists, whom the jury selected from over 100 submissions: y'ler Banks is a 13 year-old Berkeley, California based photographer currently working with the First Exposures mentoring program. She uses micro-photography to explore specific components of the circus narrative. Michele Brancati is a photographer currently ... More | | 
Wim Wenders. Photo: eter Lindbergh, 2015.
THE HAGUE.- Wim Wenders, the renowned film director, producer, photographer and author from Germany, is the winner of the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage 2017. The Award paid tribute to this exceptional artist for his unique contribution to communicating Europes multicultural story and ideals. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Award, named after the late Portuguese cultural activist who was also Member of the European Parliament, Helena Vaz da Silva, the Jury also gave Special Recognition to a current Member of the European Parliament, Silvia Costa from Italy, for her outstanding contribution to the development of an EU strategy on cultural heritage and to the promotion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The presentation ceremony will take place on 24 October 2017 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. The Helena Vaz da Silva European Award was established in 2013 by Centro Nacional de ... More |
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| Gray's Auctioneers offers memorabilia, ephemera and souvenirs from the World's Fairs | | Exhibition presents a selection of work by six artists who create representations of female sexuality | | Exhibition at Leopold Museum provides insights into the past 40 years of Jan Fabre's performative work | 
1939 New York Poster.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The Worlds Fairs make their way to Grays Auctioneers on July 31st at 11am. Over a century has passed since the first exhibitions shared the latest advancements in science, art, travel and technologies of the time. The fairs gave rise to the popularity of the souvenir, giving the public a chance to keep a memory of the time spent in those grand buildings, exhibition halls and their respective host cities. Chicago was home to two extensive worlds fairs, the first being the Columbian Exhibition of 1893 which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus arrival to the New World. A few of the grand buildings are depicted on lot 88, a pair of Japanese Kutani Porcelain Vases. Another impressive piece is lot 43, a large circular copper and brass plaque. The central bas-relief brass medallion of the plaque depicts Lady Liberty embracing the earth and unveiling America, within a double banding of s ... More | | 
Betty Tompkins, Double Drip Mouth, 1971. Colored pencil on paper, 14 x 11.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Venus is presenting CUNT,
an exhibition featuring work by Judith Bernstein, VALIE EXPORT, Dorothy Iannone, Marilyn Minter, Carolee Schneemann, and Betty Tompkins. Comprised of important and historical works from each artists career, as well as new works produced expressly for the exhibition, the show will be on view through September 2nd, 2017. On view in the gallery is an expansive selection of work in diverse media by six artists who unapologetically create representations of female sexuality. Bound by a dedication to alter the ways in which womens bodies are represented in both fine art and media, these artists worked independently of one another to create images that unabashedly portray the vagina as a locus of power. The exhibition features works produced between 1964 and the present, in order to situate these artists practices as in part a ... More | | 
Exhibition view, 2017 © Leopold Museum, Vienna, Photo: Lisa Rastl.
VIENNA.- The Belgian artist Jan Fabre (born in 1958) is among the most innovative and influential personalities of international contemporary art. Working as a visual artist, a theater maker and author, he has created a profoundly personal cosmos. The presentation Stigmata Actions & Performances 19762016, curated by the eminent Italian art historian Germano Celant, is on display for the first time in Vienna as part of the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival. Presenting an exceptionally extensive body of work within a unique setting, the exhibition provides comprehensive insights into the past 40 years of Fabres performative work. Alongside Fabres early performances, including Money Performance (1979), IIad of the Bic Art, the Bic Art Room (1981) and Sanguis / Mantis (2001), as well as current works, such as An attempt to ... More |
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 Los Angeles artist Andy Kolar exhibits works at Walter Maciel GalleryLOS ANGELES, CA.- Walter Maciel Gallery is presenting Easy now. by Los Angeles artist Andy Kolar. The exhibition consists of abstract painting, sculpture and two installations marking Kolars second solo show with the gallery. A departure from Kolars previous work, this exhibition draws a tighter intertwined narrative between his abstract paintings and their translations into objects. The relationship shared by all of the components in the show begins to fall in or onto itself becoming more self-referential while at the same time opening into a more external dialogue. Central to the exhibition is a sculptural installation, Move it, Move it depicting a full scale, wooden gantry used to move heavy objects and typically made of aluminum or steel. The gantry is built to be functional however the use of plywood in its construction renders it mostly useless for any real application. ... More A selection of recent works by Mark Brosseau on view at UPSTATE Gallery on MainSPARTANBURG, SC .- UPSTATE Gallery on Main is presenting Inhabiting Experience, a selection of recent works by Greenville, SC, painter Mark Brosseau. The exhibition opened on July 11 and runs through August 25, 2017. An artist reception will be held on July 20 from 5-8 pm during Spartanburg ArtWalk. Inspired in part by his artist residency in Iceland, Brosseaus pulsating abstractions celebrate the idiosyncrasy of visual experience and simultaneously negotiate our facility to process it. Using effervescent color and primary forms in deceptively complex ways, alternatively opaque and revealing layers create neatly stacked yet constantly mobilized spaces. Both whimsical and seductive, these ever-shifting images gently challenge the viewer to find their own stability in our oscillating universe. I use painting to ask questions about existence and learn about ... More Google virtual exhibition features fashion collection of Smithsonian museumWASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture has joined more than 180 cultural institutions from New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, São Paulo and around the world for the We Wear Culture project presented by the Google Cultural Institute. The newly launched fashion project represents the largest virtual exhibition of global style showcasing clothing evolution around the world and examining the cultural significance of the clothes worn today. Using state-of-the-art technology, We Wear Culture allows users to explore everything from the career of the father of haute couture, Charles Frederick Worth, to the ancient Silk Road trade route, through the courtly fashions of Versailles to the anarchic style of the British punk movement and ... More Mexican artist aims for record mural on US border wallTIJUANA (AFP).- On the imposing metal sheets of the border fence that divides Tijuana, Mexico from San Diego, California, a hand reaches out in friendship amid a burst of butterflies. Nearby, in darker tones, a pile of skulls is crowned by a steely cross. This massive meditation on humanity at its best and worst is the work of Mexican artist Enrique Chiu, who is seeking to set a Guinness World Record for the longest mural ever painted. Named the "Mural of Brotherhood," the painting is nearly two kilometers (a mile and a quarter) long. And Chiu's canvas could get a lot bigger if US President Donald Trump gets his way: his planned border wall would stretch some 1,600 kilometers. The current world record holder for the largest outdoor mural is in the US state of Colorado and measures 3.2 kilometers long and more than 17 meters high. Chiu is n ... More No visitors allowed on Japan's men-only UNESCO islandTOKYO (AFP).- Visitors will not be allowed to set foot on a men-only UNESCO World Heritage island in Japan from next year, an official said Saturday. The tiny landmass of Okinoshima, where women are banned and male visitors must bathe naked in the sea before visiting its shrine, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site last week. Limited numbers are currently permitted to land on the island in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) -- this year it was 200 -- for a yearly festival that lasts just two hours, but they must adhere to strict rules. But Munakata Taisha, the shrine which owns Okinoshima, has decided to ban travel for anyone apart from priests from next year to protect the island from being damaged, a spokesman told AFP. "A strict preservation is required now that the island has got the UNESCO listing," he said. "It will be risky if 200 visitors continue to come to the ... More Dutch project tests floating cities to seek more spaceTHE HAGUE.- Dutch researchers unveiled Tuesday a model of what could become within two decades a floating mega-island to be used as a creative solution for accommodating housing, ports, farms or parks. Made up of 87 floating triangles of different sizes, the huge, flexible island made of concrete or steel would eventually stretch 1.5 to two kilometres (one to 1.2 miles), or a total of three square kilometres. Squeezed for space in this tiny northern European country, "some cities are starting to look into floating solutions, like a floating park on the river for example, where they want to have an area for recreation close by the city centre," Olaf Waals from the Maritime Research Institute of the Netherlands (MARIN) told AFP. If plans for floating islands go ahead it would be a twist in the history of this low-lying country, much of which down the centuries has been reclaimed from ... More Heritage Auctions offering rare, high-grade U.S. gold, ancient Shekel at ANA Convention AuctionDALLAS, TX.- The largest numismatic convention of the year, the American Numismatic Association (ANA) Convention, will feature historically-important discoveries during Heritage Auctions' Aug. 2-3 Platinum Night events in Denver. The live auctions span U.S. gold, World and Ancient rarities and choice currency specimens. "We are offering rarities not seen on the market in generations," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "We are confident the market will respond to the amazing variety and quality on tap." Highlighting a stellar group of Colonial coins, the prohibitively rare 1792 Parmelee Birch Cent crosses the block in Heritage's Aug. 2 U.S. Coins Platinum Night session. A 1652 New England Shilling XF45, PCGS Secure, CAC, is notable for being one of just eight collectible examples in private hands and a 1652 Willow Tree Sixpence, Noe 1-A, W-130, Salmon ... More Heritage Auctions enters strategic partnership with Auction ClubDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions, the largest auction house founded in America and the world's third largest overall, has entered into a strategic partnership with Auction Club, a large-scale database of fine art auction records from over 1,500 auction houses. "Heritage Auctions' dedication to transparency is a seamless match with Auction Club's mission," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. "We are excited to add more than 100,000 fine art sales results to Auction Club's database." Auction Club is the only large-scale provider of historic fine art auction results that does not organize auctions or have its own marketplace, and because of that Auction Club can operate fully independent and objective. "A partnership with Heritage became possible because of that independence. Rather than competing with auction companies or sales platforms, we surface ... More Exhibition offers a study of photography outside of a traditional academic settingNEW YORK, NY.- Foley Gallery is presenting The Exhibition Lab Exhibition, a group show featuring work by Eva Fazzari, Susan Evans Grove, Amy Montali, Francis Minien, Alex Nelson, David Bernstein, Miles Kerr and Aleya Lehmann Bench. The Exhibition Lab is a study of photography outside of a traditional academic setting. The initiative was co-founded by Michael Foley in 2010 as a study center for fine art photography dedicated to learning by critique. Students of the Ex Lab meet over the course of 5 months, holding critique sessions with one another and one-on-one sessions with Foley. Guest Faculty included Elinor Carucci, Martine Fougeron and Andrew Moore. David Bernsteins images of homes in his adoptive-state of Ohio allow the viewer to experience this landscape as he does; both familiar and foreign. While Bernstein has lived in the Midwest for nearly ... More Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv presents 'Agnieszka Kurant: Assembly Line'TEL AVIV.- The CCA presents Agnieszka Kurants first solo exhibition in Israel. Kurant focuses on collective intelligence, shared fictions, as well as invisible and immaterial labor. She questions singular authorship with works such as Production Line, a series of drawings crowdsourced to thousands of online workers, and A.A.I., sculptures made out of colored sand, gold and crystals by colonies of termites. Kurants examination of invisible labor and the unseen forces of control extend to works such as, Air Rights, a levitating meteorite, and Cutaways, a short film featuring three characters who were cut out of major films during the editing process and who are re-played by their original Hollywood actors. By pointing to invisible labor and shared authorship, Kurant also raises questions about value. In the art world in particular, the authors identity is paramount to es ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Joshua Reynolds was born July 16, 1723. Sir Joshua Reynolds RA FRS FRSA (16 July 1723 - 23 February 1792) was an influential 18th-century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769. In this image: Britain's Prince Charles, left gestures towards a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Commodore Keppel, with Roy Clare of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, Thursday Nov. 16, 2006. Prince Charles toured an exhibition of naval paintings at the museum and officially opened the collection.
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