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A digital reconstruction of the cranium nicknamed "Dragon Man. Scientists on Friday announced that the massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human. Xijun Ni via The New York Times.
by Carl Zimmer
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Scientists on Friday announced that a massive fossilized skull that is at least 140,000 years old is a new species of ancient human, a finding that could potentially change prevailing views of how and even where our species, Homo sapiens, evolved. The skull belonged to a mature male who had a huge brain, massive brow ridges, deep set eyes and a bulbous nose. It had remained hidden in an abandoned well for 85 years, after a laborer came across it at a construction site in China. The researchers named the new species Homo longi and gave it the nickname Dragon Man, for the Dragon River region of northeast China where the skull was discovered. The team said that Homo longi, and not the Neanderthals, was the extinct human species mostly closely related to our own. If confirmed, that would change how scientists envision the origin of Homo sapiens, which has been built up over the years from fossil discoveries and the analysis of ancient DNA. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day This photograph taken on June 24, 2021 shows sculptures displayed at the Egyptian department of the Louvre Museum in Paris. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP.
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| New My Eternal Soul paintings by Yayoi Kusama on view at David Zwirner | | Exhibition focuses on a crucial five-year period in Robert Smithson's development | | Alone in the temporary new ruins of Rome | 
Installation view, Yayoi Kusama: I WANT YOUR TEARS TO FLOW WITH THE WORDS I WROTE, David Zwirner, New York, June 2021. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting I WANT YOUR TEARS TO FLOW WITH THE WORDS I WROTE, featuring new My Eternal Soul paintings by Yayoi Kusama, at the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, and Victoria Miro, London, are showing concurrent presentations with works from this series this summer. Kusamas work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: pop art and minimalism. Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures. In the late 2000s, Kusama began her ongoing My Eternal Soul paintings, which feature the signature allover qualities of her Infinity Nets and echo the obsessive, recurring geometries of her decades-long output. Conveying the extraordinary vitality th ... More | | 
Robert Smithson, Shift, 1967. Painted metal, 33 x 30 x 20 in. (83.8 x 76.2 x 50.8 cm). Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Marian Goodman Gallery © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York. Photo: Alex Yudzon.
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallery New York and Holt/Smithson Foundation are presenting the first exhibition of Robert Smithson at the New York gallery, which runs from 24 June to 20 August 2021. Abstract Cartography focuses on a crucial five-year period in Robert Smithsons development: 1966 to 1971, a time when his inklings of earthworks began. This careful selection of artworks traces Smithsons radical rethinking of what art could be and where it could be found. In 1966 Smithson was part of a symposium at Yale University, where he discussed the idea of the city as a crystalline network. In the audience was a representative of the architectural consulting firm Tippetts-AbbettMcCarthy-Stratton who was working on a proposal for a new Texas regional airport between Dallas and Fort Worth. Right after the talk, Smithson was invited to join the ... More | | 
The Capitoline Museums in Rome, June 23, 2021. In Rome, the museums are open. Few visitors have returned. Its beautiful, but it cant stay like this. Valerio Mezzanotti/The New York Times.
by Jason Farago
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The most enduring images of this city after cataclysm were printed a little over 250 years ago, by the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. His Ruins of Rome etchings depict landmarks like the Pantheon and the Castel SantAngelo, but its most famous images show rubble-strewn gardens and crumbling bridges, and tricorn-hatted gentlemen wandering through collapsed temples and overgrown ossuaries. For 18th-century philosophers and noblemen on the Grand Tour, the dramas of Ruins of Rome made a point about the transience of civilization but they were, even more than that, a high-end tourist guide. The good days are over, but come anyway; Romes cooler with no people. Recently, Ive had my own Piranesian views of the empty Eternal City: on Instagram, mostly, as Rome and other European capitals ... More |
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| Christian Slater is a still-life artist | | Christie's announces 'Expanding Horizons: From European Decorative to Contemporary Arts' online sale | | Stripping away history's layers, and revealing a new museum | 
The actor Christian Slater during a painting class at the Arts Student League in New York, June 14, 2021. The former teen idol actor talks about his career comeback, being a father again and sketching his wife. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Alexis Soloski
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Varriano, an instructor at the Art Students League of New York, stood behind Christian Slaters easel, studying the lines that the 51-year-old actor had sketched. You have chops, man, Varriano said. You have got to keep practicing, man. On a steamy June morning, Slater, spruce in a white denim jacket, black slacks and green sneakers, had arrived at the art schools home, in midtown Manhattan, for a still-life tutorial. A movie star from the 1980s and 90s Heathers, True Romance, Pump Up the Volume Slater now wears glasses and his stubble has gone gray. Behind those glasses, his eyes still have that signature twinkle a twinkle like a floodlight that made him crush ... More | | 
A Louis XV Ormolu-mounted Chinese turquoise-glazed porcelain cat, The Porcelain Gianlong (1736-1795). © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- Christies announced the selling exhibition Expanding Horizons, 34 works chosen to represent the dialogue between East and West in Decorative Art & Contemporary Art. The traditions and aesthetics of Asian works of art were greatly admired in Europe from the early 16th century and resonates among todays established and young artists in much the same way as it did in Europe many centuries ago. In a series of pairings, this exchange across the centuries is being explored and brought to life using virtual reality technology, from 21 June 10 August at Christies.com. The expansion of maritime trade in luxury products such as porcelain, lacquer, wallpaper, silk and other finely-worked artefacts began being imported from east Asia into Europe during this period, where they were acquired and cherished by a number of royal courts and the aristocracy. As the demand for these treasures grew ... More | | 
A fabric detail in the newly refurbished apartments at the Hotel de la Marine in Paris, June 2, 2021. James Hill/The New York Times.
by Roslyn Sulcas and James Hill
PARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- It was a storehouse for the furniture, art, rugs and precious jewels of Frances royal household. Its where Marie Antoinettes death certificate was signed, Napoleon I and Josephine celebrated their coronation ball and the act abolishing slavery in France became law. It was the headquarters of Frances navy for more than 200 years and, during World War II, of a division of Nazi Germanys. The Hôtel de la Marine, the eagerly awaited new Paris museum that opened to the public this month, is layered in history. Now, the grand neoclassical palace on the Place de la Concorde is on view for the first time in almost 250 years after a $157 million, four-year renovation that involved about 200 of Frances finest artisans in the painstaking job of removing the many changes made to the building ... More |
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| Fondation Beyeler granted building permit for extension project with Atelier Peter Zumthor | | Drawings, watercolours and lithographs by John Gould worth over £1.2 million at risk of leaving UK | | A rare 1947 Allard K1 for sale with H&H Classicsat Buxton | 
The extension project of the Fondation Beyeler with Atelier Peter Zumthor House for Art, View from the Iselin-Weber Park. Courtesy Atelier Peter Zumthor.
BASEL.- On 2 June, the Beyeler-Stiftung was granted the building permit for its extension project with Atelier Peter Zumthor by the Canton of Basel-Stadt Buildings Inspectorate (BGI). The path is now clear for construction to begin. In the summer of 2020, the Beyeler-Stiftung Board of Trustees had decided to proceed with the planning application despite the coronavirus pandemic, wishing to send a positive signal to the arts and the economy in Basel and Switzerland in these difficult times. The extension project is of great importance to the long-term development of Switzerlands most visited art museum and will decisively shape the years to come. Construction is scheduled to start in late summer 2021. The extension will create a unique ensemble of museum buildings and almost double the park area open to the public. As Switzerlands most visited art museum, the Fondation Beyeler wants to keep meeting the ... More | | 
Goulds Original Drawings, Vol I and II are at risk of leaving the country.
LONDON.- Goulds Original Drawings, Vol I and II are at risk of leaving the country unless a UK buyer can be found to save the work for the nation. One of Britains most significant ornithologists of the 19th Century, John Goulds work played a role in Charles Darwins theory of evolution and is referenced in Darwins book, On the Origin of Species. Valued at £1,287,500 (inclusive of VAT), the two albums contain 129 process drawings and watercolours by Gould and four unpublished lithographic proofs by Gould, his wife Elizabeth Gould and the pre-eminent artist Henry Constantine Richter. Goulds process drawings are vital for understanding how the lithographic plates were created and the sketches reveal the workings behind not only Goulds most significant publication The Birds of Australia, but also the second volumes of some of Goulds other published works. These important drawings also demonstrate Victorian attempts to catalogue and define different flo ... More | | 
Being top quality, hand-built British cars with American mechanicals, Allard's were very usable and relatively inexpensive to run and maintain.
LONDON.- This stunning race car a 1947 Allard K1 was the subject of a recent comprehensive restoration and will now be sold by H&H Classics at Buxton (The Pavilion Gardens) on July 7th. It is estimated to sell for £60,000 to £65,000 at the auction. This highly interesting period competition car has a history, substantiated by much correspondence and other paperwork. It is one of just 151 K1s made. Allard, much like Ferrari and Porsche, began as a phenomenon of the Automotive Renaissance - those exciting, innocent years immediately following World War II. All three marques were race-bred lines fostered by charismatic genius, and all three earned immediate respect on the road as well as on the track. Being top quality, hand-built British cars with American mechanicals, Allard's were very usable and relatively inexpensive to run and maintain. With their powerful and torquey V8 engines, three-speed manual ... More |
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| Metro Pictures opens Wish, a group exhibition | | Gerald Peters Gallery opens solo exhibitions of works by Scott Kelley and Penelope Gottlieb | | Vivian Suter presents her work at Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid's Retiro Park | 
Torbjørn Rødland, Floor Flowers, 2015. Chromogenic print, 30 x 23 5/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.
NEW YORK, NY.- Wish brings together works by Reza Abdoh, Jean Genet, Nash Glynn, Torbjørn Rødland, Elliot Reed, Heji Shin, and Nora Turato. In his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), Freud asserts that every dream is the expression of a wish. However, in dreams these repressed wishes often manifest themselves in distorted form in order to be tolerable to the dreamer. The works in the exhibition can be viewed as dream-images that represent desires considered too uncomfortable, taboo or salacious to the conscious mind. Wish is intended to unfold like a dream, with the wish exemplified by each artwork made available to viewers for interpretation. In Jean Genets 1950 film Un chant damour, a voyeuristic prison guard excitedly leers at prisoners in their cells. In one well-known scene, he observes two prisoners struggle for intimacy despite the wall that separates their cells. The first man ... More | | 
Penelope Gottlieb, Solanum dulcamara. Acrylic and ink over a digital reproduction of an Audubon print, 38 x 25 ½ inches.
SANTA FE, NM.- Gerald Peters Gallery is presenting, GRAY SALTLOST IN AH-SHI-SLE-PAH an exhibition of new work by Scott Kelley. His detailed watercolor and gouache paintings of animals, birds, and other objects from nature are inspired by his travels in New Mexico. Drawn to extreme places, Kelley brings his own unique vision of the Southwest, at once playful, imaginative, and elegantly rendered. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why New Mexico was so oddly familiar. I drove and drove - 2,600 miles in 10 days! - and still, I couldn't place it. The feeling was particularly strong at Ah Shi Sle Pah, getting lost amongst the hoodoos and chocolate mushrooms, watching the tumbleweeds roll by along the playa. And then, it hit me: Krazy Kat! I have lived with those cartoons my whole life - Krazy and Ignatz must have really put the desert in my head, because everywhere I looked, it was Kokonino County. The mesas, the tortured little ... More | | 
The installation at the Palacio de Velázquez was conceived by the artist herself taking into account the architectural characteristics of this unique building.
MADRID.- The Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid's Retiro Park hosts from 25 June, 2021 to 2 May, 2022 an exhibition devoted to Argentinian-Swiss artist Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, 1949). Organized by Museo Reina SofÃa, the exhibition shows nearly 500 paintings, from her pieces made on paper in the 80s to very recent work produced at her workshop in Panajachel, in the Guatemalan jungle. Across her career, Suter has never strayed too far from the Basel art scene, the city that was her home between 1962 and 1982, where she studied and where she started to create her first works in the late 1960s. In 1982 she installed her studio and home at Panajachel, on the land of an old coffee plantation surrounding Lake Atitlán, in the Guatemalan jungle. Since then, her work has evolved in an ever-closer exchange with the natural environment, reflected in frameless colourist canvases that flow profoundly with the ... More |
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 Parrasch Heijnen opens an exhibition of new work by Rosy KeyserLOS ANGELES, CA.- Parrasch Heijnen is presenting ARP 273, the gallerys first exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Rosy Keyser (b. 1974, Baltimore, MD). In Keysers most recent body of work, the interaction of disparate parts colliding, generates deliberate beauty and symbiotic flow. Relationships between the artists surfaces are that of both friction and integration. Keysers emerging constructions come from using her anatomy as a multitool for physical change. She paints, bends, casts, and conducts all in an effort to describe aspects of nature. Keysers paintings exist as poetic forms realized in tangible objects. Evidence of exchange through disruption flows, welcoming shifts and calling the material to life. The artist uses painting as a tactile and physical exercise like abstractionists before her, yet she pushes beyond the simply gestural. The materials are recast, distorted and ... More  Karma opens an exhibition of recent paintings by Andrew CranstonNEW YORK, NY.- Karma is presenting Waiting for the Bell, an exhibition of recent paintings by Andrew Cranston (b. 1969, Hawick, UK). This is the artists first New York solo exhibition. Cranston creates transportive images that destabilize our sense of time: they invite the viewer to explore a space between nostalgia and the realm of the dream. Dense blots of oil graze on top of washes of distemper, guiding the viewers eye through thick and thin layers of pigment. Kindling the wistful poetics of a distant, perhaps imagined, memory, Cranstons vignettes remove themselves from the constant rhythm of time. The images in Waiting for the Bell conjure a state of liminalitythe feeling of being suspended in a dream before the alarm jolts one back to reality. Dappled brushwork, delicate hues, and cloisonne-like textures dance across the surfaces of Crantons still lives, landscapes, and ... More  John Sacret Young, creative force behind 'China Beach,' dies at 75NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- John Sacret Young, a writer and producer who was behind the television series China Beach, set at a Vietnam War military hospital, and whose work often explored the psychological wounds of war, died June 3 at his home in Brentwood, California. He was 75. The cause was brain cancer, his wife, Claudia Sloan, said. Young was the executive producer of China Beach, which recounted the experiences of several women at an evacuation hospital, on ABC from 1988 to 1991. He created the show with William Broyles Jr., a former editor at Newsweek who had served in Vietnam and went on to write the screenplay for Ron Howards Apollo 13 (1995). Young was later a writer and producer of the Aaron Sorkin series The West Wing (1999-2006) and co-executive producer and writer of the Netflix series Firefly Lane, which was released in February. ... More  For a major debut, a young violinist gets personalNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- In another life, Randall Goosby would have been a pianist. When offered the opportunity to learn an instrument as a child, he chose the violin but was told he was too small for it. So he started on piano instead. He struggled, and his mother, who had nudged him and his siblings toward lessons in the first place, could see that his self-esteem was beginning to wane. Then they decided to give the violin another try, and something clicked. I would come home from school, and whereas my brother and sister wanted to play, I would throw open the violin case, Goosby, now 24, recalled in a recent interview. I was pretty much playing violin all the time. He breezed through the first several books of the Suzuki method at a pace that would make an average violin student feel inept. All signs pointed to something more promising than a simple love for a new ... More  Contemporary Czech photography comes to London to expose the universal vulnerabilities of our timesLONDON.- The Czech Centre London reopened its art gallery with an impressive group exhibition of contemporary Czech photography showcasing a broad spectrum of human vulnerabilities and desires through the lenses of twelve photographers of the middle and young generations. Ranging from topics of motherhood, inclusivity and nature to pollution, consumerism and wounds to the body and soul, the exhibition discloses the one thing we have in common - the need for tenderness. Initially created by curator Michal Nanoru for New York audience, where the show was well received in autumn 2019, the London edition has been given a major remake to reflect the changes the world has gone through over the last two years and to offer a fresh perspective. The exhibition curator Michal Nanoru on Tender in London: Two years have passed since the original Tender exhibition in New ... More  Specialized experiences offer fresh looks on ParisPARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- As the second most visited city in the world (that is, pre-pandemic), Paris has always meant brisk business when it comes to guided tours and excursions for travelers. From historical walks and cooking classes to outings that grant exclusive access to artists workshops, museum archives and private mansions, there are activities for almost any interest. But as visitors trickle back into the city after a year that was not only shaped by the pandemic but also by a global reckoning on race, social justice and womens issues, the tours and experiences offered by a growing number of small companies that emphasize seldom-told stories about local life and history are taking on new resonance. Im trying to update the citys narrative by explicitly recognizing womens impact, said Heidi Evans about her walking-tour company, Women of Paris. Evans started Women of ... More  Romulo Yanes, whose photographs captured the beauty of food, dies at 62NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Romulo Yanes, who in his 26 years as the staff photographer helped define Gourmet magazines striking visual identity by capturing the natural beauty of food without relying solely on the embellishments of ornamental props or elaborate styling, died June 16 at his home in Tampa, Florida. He was 62. His husband, Robert Schaublin-Yanes, said the cause was peritoneal cancer. Before the 1980s, when Yanes (pronounced YAH-ness) arrived at Gourmet, food photography in cookbooks and magazines was typified by a lifestyle sensibility that placed a gauzy focus on everything but the food itself. Styling could be theatrical, lavish props were heavily used, and the finished photographs were seen as obligatory accompaniments to recipes. Yanes brought a sense of elegant realism to his craft, and he let his delectable subjects take center stage. I want ... More  Stephen Dunn, poet who celebrated the ordinary, dies at 82NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Stephen Dunn, whose plain-spoken poems about the small things in life and the bigger things within them filled numerous collections, one of which, Different Hours, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, died on Thursday, his 82nd birthday, at his home in Frostburg, Maryland. His daughter Susanne Dunn said the cause was complications of Parkinsons disease. Beginning with his first full-length collection, Looking for Holes in the Ceiling, in 1974, Dunn specialized in poems about surviving, coping with and looking for meaning in the ordinary passages of life, or at least of the middle-class life he was familiar with. He wrote of marriages under stress, the vicissitudes of aging, a hawk that smashed into his window but then flew again. Some poems were fanciful. A sequence of them in his 2003 collection, Local Visitations, imagined writers from the past in the ... More  The Polygon Gallery presents Interior Infinite, a celebration of radical togetherness and unique self-expressionVANCOUVER.- The Polygon Gallery presents Interior Infinite, on view from June 25 to September 5, 2021. Marking the first feature exhibition curated by The Polygons Curator Justin Ramsey, the group show explores carnivalesque expression as an act of resistance against the status quo. Interior Infinite features a group of 15 international artists whose works span photography, video, performance, and sculpture, including Nick Cave, Dana Claxton, Zanele Muholi, Aïda Muluneh, Skeena Reece, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Sin Wai Kin, Carrie Mae Weems, and Zadie Xa. Whether through social media feeds or identity politics, we are constantly told that the self is a true, immutable thing this is a vast oversimplification, says Ramsey. Every single person is a work in ... More  The Royal Society of Sculptors set to launch a dynamic summer programme LONDON.- The Royal Society of Sculptors annual Summer Exhibition returns featuring a curated selection of works from members and fellows. The 2021 Summer Exhibition has been curated by Sigrid Kirk inspired by the possibility of a new exuberant era for the arts. Drawing a parallel between the 1920s and 2020s, Sigrid Kirk looks to the years following World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic as inspiration for a manic flight into sociability. The Roaring Twenties, also known as the Années folles (crazy years), were marked by social, artistic and cultural dynamism. There was a sense of novelty and a break with tradition where everything seemed possible. Artists, poets and writers adopted an increasingly experimental and innovative approach to their work leading to significant movements such as Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism and Art Deco. For 2021 members have been invited to ... More  JAY-Z & Derrick Adams celebrate 25th anniversary of 'Reasonable Doubt' album with NFT auction at Sotheby'sNEW YORK, NY.- To celebrate the 25th anniversary of JAY-Zs Reasonable Doubt, his pioneering and landmark debut album that was originally released on 25 June 1996 and forever changed Hip Hop, the legendary artist, entrepreneur and philanthropist has commissioned critically admired multi-disciplinary artist Derrick Adams to create a one-of-one animated digital artwork that comments on and recontextualizes the albums iconic cover, which will be sold by Sothebys as an NFT in a special single-lot auction. Having met several years ago, JAY-Z and Adams established an immediate artistic dialogue between them, and this collaboration marks the first NFT either has created and offered for sale. The auction is also the only official event ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter Philip Guston was born June 27, 1913. Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 - June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. In this image: Philip Guston, "Untitled", (book, ball and shoe), 1971. Oil on paper, 50.2 x 70.5 cm., 19 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches. (T004167) ©The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy: Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
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