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A photo provided by the Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrà nia Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona shows a silver diadem recovered from a 3,700-year-old grave in the La Almoloya archaeological site in southern Spain. The tomb has prompted archaeologists to reconsider assumptions about womens power in Bronze Age European societies. Arqueoecologia Social Mediterrà nia Research Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona via The New York Times.
by Jennifer Pinkowski
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- About 3,700 years ago, a man and a woman were buried together in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Their tomb was an ovoid jar beneath the floor of a grand hall in an expansive hilltop complex known as La Almoloya, in what is now Murcia, Spain. Its one of many archaeological sites associated with El Argar culture of the Early Bronze Age that controlled an area about the size of Belgium from 2200 B.C. to 1500 B.C. Judging by the 29 high-value objects in the tomb, described Thursday in the journal Antiquity, the couple appear to have been members of the Argaric upper class. And the woman may have been the more important of the two, raising questions for archaeologists about who wielded power among the Argarics, and adding more evidence to a debate about the role of women in prehistoric Europe. She died in her 20s, possibly of tuberculosis, and had been placed on her back with her legs bent toward the man. In life, she had a range of congenital anomalies such as a shortened, f ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The solo exhibition âThe Concept of History' currently on view at Richard Saltoun Gallery links Peter Kennardâs work to the political thinking of Hannah Arendt through their shared belief that history is a construct managed and controlled by those in power.
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| El Museo del Barrio opens "Estamos Bien - La Trienal 20/21" | | Digital art gallery Purslane presents an online exhibition Mnemosyne featuring the work of female and non-binary artists | | Christie's announces the 20th Century Art Evening Sale is now online for browsing | 
Maria Gaspar, Disappearance Suit (Marin Headlands, CA), 2017. Site-specific performance still, 24 x 36 in. Image courtesy: Maria Gaspar.
NEW YORK.- El Museo del Barrio, the first and leading museum in the country dedicated to preserving and presenting Latino art and culture, revealed the exhibition highlights for Estamos Bien - La Trienal 20/21, the Museums first large-scale national survey of Latinx art. Curated by El Museo del Barrios Chief Curator, Rodrigo Moura, Curator Susanna V. Temkin, and Guest Curator and Artist Elia Alba, the exhibition is on view to the public from March 13 to September 26. Following two years of research and studio visits by the curatorial team, Estamos Bien features the works of 42 Latinx artists and collectives from across the United States and Puerto Rico. Originally scheduled to coincide with the 2020 U.S. Census and the presidential election, La Trienal opens in El Museos galleries one year after the museum first closed due to the pandemic with works that ... More | | 
'Reflection', acrylic and oil on paper, 21 x 29.5 cm, 2021. Amy Beager. Image courtesy: Amy Beager, Purslane.
LONDON.- New socially conscious digital art gallery Purslane presents an online exhibition Mnemosyne featuring the work of female and non-binary artists. The exhibition was launched on International Womens Day on 8 March 2021 in aid of domestic abuse charity Refuge. The group exhibition brings together 14 of the UKs most exciting emerging artists and rising stars including Daisy Parris, Cecilia Reeve, Eleanor Johnson, Jessie Stevenson, Eimear Roibeard, Hazel Florez, Amy Beager, Salome Wu, Liorah Tchiprout, Ariane Hughes, Nour Saleh, Kate Burling, Venetia Berry and Alma Berrow. Taking its name from the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne is an exploration of the fundamental aspects of human condition. Inspired by Purslane founder Charlie Siddicks studies of Jungian theory, myths and archetypes, the new exhibition was curated to draw attention to the pressing ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir (Jacqueline), 1962. Estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000. Image: © Christie's Images Ltd 2021.
LONDON.- The 20th Century Art Evening Sale will take place on 23 March 2021, a key auction within Christies series of livestream sales that will see collectors convene in London via our livestreamed salerooms in Hong Kong and New York. Jean-Michel Basquiats Warrior (1982, estimate: HK$240,000-320,000) will launch the evening and is poised to become the most expensive Western artwork ever offered in Asia. Directly following this, the 20th Century Art Evening Sale will be highlighted by two portraits by Pablo Picasso that represent two very distinct periods of Picasso's oeuvre: Femme nue couchée au collier (Marie-Thérèse) (1932, estimate: £9,000,000-15,000,000) and Femme assise dans un fauteuil noir (Jacqueline) (1962, estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000). 20th Century Modern Masters from a Private French Collection includes work ... More |
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| 'We'll be back,' Broadway says, on shutdown anniversary | | Beeple has won. Here's what we've lost. | | Stories of Resistance explores forms of resistance across the world | 
Costumes from shows including Wicked and Phantom of the Opera on display during the We Will Be Back pop-up performance in Manhattans Times Square, March. 12, 2021. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One year ago, the grim news that Broadway was shutting down was sweeping through the theater district. Performers were packing up their things and heading home; theater staff members were stationed in lobbies to intercept ticket holders and explain to them that the show was canceled. As a return date was pushed further and further, performers and theater staff resigned themselves to finding work elsewhere. But on Friday, the anniversary of the day their beloved industry shut its doors, Broadway singers, dancers, actors and front-of-house staffers gathered in Times Square, just across from the TKTS discount ticket booth, to perform live for a small audience of industry insiders and passe ... More | | 
Beeple, Everydays The First 5000 Days, NFT, 21,069 pixels x 21,069 pixels (316,939,910 bytes).
by Jason Farago
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- I want to be a machine, Andy Warhol once said. Apparently the public wouldnt mind, either. Lately a digital artist from South Carolina, known mononymously as Beeple, has won a following by using 3D-rendering software to make colorful, digestible pastiches, which he now sells as files authenticated with a unique bit of code. On Thursday, a montage of these digital files, titled Everydays The First 5000 Days, went on the block in a one-lot online auction at Christies, where it became the What Does the Fox Say? of art sales. A crypto whale known only by the pseudonym Metakovan paid $69 million (with fees) for some indiscriminately collated pictures of cartoon monsters, gross-out gags and a breastfeeding Donald Trump which suddenly makes this computer illustrator the third-highest-selling artist alive. The purchase ... More | | 
Guadalupe Maravilla. Disease Thrower #4, 2019. Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and P·P·O·W, New York.
ST. LOUIS, MO.- The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Stories of Resistance, a major group exhibition that explores artistic forms of resistance from across the world. Through visual narratives, the artists amplify and bring to focus the multitude of conditions that ignite and inspire people to resist. Resistance emerges from both within and outside of governmental, corporate, or institutional structures and systems of power. It takes shape in labor movements, protests, and in speaking out about injustice. Resistance is as loud as shouts, drums, and mass marches in the streets, and as quiet as hands sifting through archives, recovering and rewriting histories that had been erased. Stories of Resistance is on view from March 12 through August 15, 2021. St. Louis serves as an ideal platform for Stories of Resistance. Resistance movements that have arisen here, most especially the rise of Black ... More |
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| Crean & Company open its first solo artist show on British figurative painter Rupert Shrive | | New Banksy exhibition "The Mystery of Banksy - A Genius Mind" opens in Munich | | Unit London showcases Amadeo Morelos' first solo exhibition with the gallery | 
Rupert Shrive, La Lune, 2020. Oil on polyester, 29 x 22 cm.
LONDON.- Crean & Company announce its first solo artist show on British figurative painter Rupert Shrive. Entitled Soho to Montmartre: Observations on Life, this recent collection of works reflects on Shrives artistic trajectory and the influence of his time spent living in London, Paris and Valencia. The show features a diverse range of 35 artworks, from his cross-genre paintings and landscape compositions to his new series of Lockdown Lives still lives animated with unusual objects which together illustrate the evolution of the artists unique figurative style. At the heart of Shrives practice is an interest in abstracting human form. His work is influenced by the School of London of the 1970s: a group of figurative painters that included David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, with whom Shrive became acquainted in the pubs of Soho while a St Martins student in the 1980s ... More | | 
Mystery of Banksy. Image: Dominik Gruss.
MUNICH.- Hes world famous but still a mystery Banksy, the Bristol-born and to this day anonymous graffiti artist and painter, known for challenging the boundaries of the art market, who has been causing a sensation with his work for many years. With The Mystery of Banksy A Genius Mind, a brand new show in honour of the art icon arrives to Munich! The new exhibition, which is seen for the first time, documents the entire creative period to this day with more than 100 motifs of the street art artist: graffiti, photographs, sculptures, video installations and prints on various materials such as canvas, fabric, aluminum, forex and plexiglass, including some originals, which were reproduced and collected especially for this exhibition. A specially produced video documentation sheds light on the most important career stages. The works are not for sale. Highlights of the exhibition include: the globally unique, true-to-origi ... More | | 
Amadeo Morelos, Pumping Up, 2017. Oil on canvas, 102 x 76 cm. Image: Amadeo Morelos: Providence at Unit London.
LONDON.- Providence is an exhibition that demonstrates Amadeo Morelos profound love for the depth of expression different mediums can afford the artist. With such a broad range of interests, Morelos has many strands of thought to pick from and weave together in his practice. The foundation for Providence is an interest in the parallels between the mythological hero and the artist. Both figures possess an innate gift, one which they feel compelled to pursue; they put themselves on show, exposing themselves to judgement; and, most importantly in this case, they are both linked strongly to an appreciation of the human form. Morelos first became interested in these ideas when learning about the travelling carnivals of the nineteenth century, freak shows attended by a braying public. He began to look at the modern day ... More |
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| Patrick Dupond, French ballet virtuoso, dies at 61 | | Phoenix Art Museum presents two exhibitions of work by Arizona-based contemporary artists | | From crypto art to trading cards, investment manias abound | 
French dancer Patrick Dupond performs the role of Drosselmeyer, dance teacher, on December 16, 1993, during the premiere of "The Nutcracker" (Casse-Noisette), Tchaikovsky's ballet, on the stage of the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Pierre Verdy / AFP.
by Roslyn Sulcas
NEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Patrick Dupond, a star dancer and former director of the Paris Opera Ballet who won worldwide renown in the 1980s and 90s for his virtuosity, glittering technique and flamboyant personality, died March 5 in Soissons, France. He was 61. His death confirmed by his companion, Leila Da Rocha, who did not specify the cause was major news in France, where Dupond was a household name, synonymous with dance for many. A statement issued from the Ãlysée Palace said, The president of the Republic and his wife hail a great star of the 20th century, who was able to conquer new audiences for dance and make his talent felt beyond our borders. Dupond shot into the limelight at 17, when he became ... More | | 
Square of the Week, 8/17 8/23, 2020, Nancy Nakamoto, Torrence, CA. Image courtesy: Nancy Nakamoto.
PHOENIX, AZ.- Phoenix Art Museum presents Ann Morton: The Violet Protest and the 2019 Phoenix Art Museum Artists Grants Recipients Exhibition. The two exhibitions, which were previously postponed due to the Museums temporary closure necessitated by COVID-19, show works by the 2019 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient, Ann Morton, and the 2019 Phoenix Art Museum Artists Grants recipients, Christina Gednalske, Danielle Hacche, Lena Klett, Nazafarin Lotfi, and Kimberly Lyle, who represent the Museums first all-women artists grants cohort. Featured installations, paintings, mixed-media works, and more will explore political divides in the United States, the power of collaboration, identity, memory and perception, and communication and technology. We are delighted to present these exhibitions featuring works by Arizona-based artists, said Tim Rodgers, PhD, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix ... More | | 
Scott Cutler, chief executive of StockX, a sneaker and collectibles marketplace, in Detroit on June 24, 2019. Nick Hagen/The New York Times.
by Erin Griffith
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- This past week, a trading card featuring quarterback Tom Brady sold for a record $1.3 million. The total value of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin hit $1 trillion. And Christies sold a digital artwork by an artist known as Beeple for $69.3 million after bids started at just $100. These seemingly singular events were all connected, part of a series of manias that have gripped the financial world. For months, professional and everyday investors have pushed up the prices of stocks and real estate. Now the frenzy has spilled over into the riskiest and in some cases, wackiest assets, including digital ephemera and media, cryptocurrencies, collectibles like trading cards and even sneakers. The surges have been driven by a unique set of conditions. Even as millions were laid off in the pandemic, many peoples bank acco ... More |
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Curbed Vanity: A Contemporary Foil by Chris Schanck
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 Get outside and safely visit a National ParkNEW YORK, NY (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Expansive vistas, serene lakes, abundant wildlife and good old fresh air whats not to love about national parks? So many Americans have taken refuge in parks during the pandemic that 15 of them set recreation visitation records in 2020. All of the parks have adjusted their operations as a result of COVID-19, and with social-distancing protocols still in place almost a year later, there could be competition for campsites, ferry rides, programs and, in some cases, day passes at the most popular parks. This is the year to be prepared, said John Kelly, a management assistant at Acadia National Park in Maine. Visitors really need to plan ahead and be extra thoughtful and ready for things to be different. All parks are required to abide by President Joe Bidens executive order mandating ... More  Orson Welles's Too Much Johnson now available online with voice-over commentary and musical accompanimentROCHESTER, NY.- One of the landmark projects of the George Eastman Museums Moving Image Department was the preservation of Orson Welless 1938 comedy, Too Much Johnson. The film, once thought lost, can be viewed at eastman.org/TooMuchJohnson. The digitized version of the film includes new recorded voice-over commentary by Anthony LAbbate, preservation manager, and Caroline Yeager, associate curator, of the George Eastman Museum. The online film also includes a new musical score provided by Philip C. Carli and inspired by Paul Bowless score for the original Mercury Theatre stage production. For the first time, people from all over the world will have acce ... More  United States Artists President & CEO Deana Haggag steps down to join The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCHICAGO, IL.- United States Artists announces that Deana Haggag will be stepping down as President & CEO to join The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a Program Officer in Arts and Culture, focusing on the current and emerging infrastructure and field-wide needs of artists and arts organizations. We are enormously grateful to Deana for her leadership of United States Artists during the past four years. She has done a magnificent job working with the board and staff to build a strong organization in support of individual artists, said Ed Henry, USA Board Chair. We are in a great position to continue to expand our support and services to artists throughout the country and we are fortunate to engage Jamie Bennett to continue our work. During Haggags tenure, USA saw unprecedented growth in its ability to serve and support our nations artis ... More  Hancock Shaker Village announces new staff appointed to key positions across museumPITTSFIELD, MA.- Hancock Shaker Village, one of the most comprehensively interpreted Shaker sites in the U.S. and the oldest working farm in Western Massachusetts, announced the appointments of Linda Johnson as Curator and Brenda Lynch as Director of Development, a newly created position. We are so pleased to welcome these dynamic professionals, who will help the Village advance its goals of not only preserving the legacy and material culture of the Shakers, but providing deeper connections to the museums extraordinary content through access to its collections, exhibitions, programs, and landscape, said Jennifer Trainer Thompson, Director of Hancock Shaker Village. Dr. Johnson will oversee the 22,000 object collection, which includes the largest single collection (25) of spirit or gift drawings, as well as 20 historic buildings ... More  Von Bartha announces representation of Olaf Breuning and Athene Galiciadis in SwitzerlandBASEL.- Von Bartha announces representation of Swiss artists Olaf Breuning and Athene Galiciadis in Switzerland. Von Bartha will present a solo exhibition of work by Olaf Breuning at its S-chanf space this Spring, 27 March 29 May 2021. Additionally, the gallery will present a solo exhibition of work by Athene Galiciadis at its Basel space from 12 November 23 December 2021. Stefan von Bartha, Director said: "Having closely followed the practice of Olaf Breuning and Athene Galiciadis, we are thrilled for these artists to join the von Bartha roster. I am convinced that Olaf Breuning is going to be one of the most significant rediscoveries within the Swiss art scene in the coming years. His new body of work, the woodcut paintings, have opened an entirely new chapter within his work and we are looking forward to presenting it to our Swiss audience. Athene ... More  kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita KentMILAN.- kaufmann repetto announces a solo exhibition of artist Corita Kent (b. 1918, Fort Dodge, d. 1986, Boston). Developed in collaboration with the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles, to the everyday miracle presents a retrospective view of Kent's work, bringing together over 40 prints and watercolors as well as a selection of archival materials spanning from the early 1950s until her death in 1986. Corita Kent was an artist, educator, and advocate for social justice whose work reflects the ascendancy of Pop Art, the spiritual renewal of the Second Vatican Council and the political activism of the 1960s. A catholic nun for more than three decades, Kent was deeply committed to cultural, social, and aesthetic innovation. Her idiosyncratic approach to art and outspoken engagement with the world made her a target of criticism by conservative clergy but ... More  Lévy Gorvy opens an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Paulo MonteiroNEW YORK, NY.- Lévy Gorvy presents The Two Sides of an Empty Line, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Paulo Monteiro. Monteiro rejects monumentality and grand statements in his art in favor of expressive immediacy and intimacy, and an embrace of contingency, subtle humor, and gesture, stating: Im more connected to the expression, to the poetic, instead of sticking to a technique that favors me. Monteiro emerged as an artist in São Paulo, where he was born in 1961 and where he continues to live and work. Initially drawn to illustration and cartoon imagery, he was inspired to cultivate his painting practice in 1981, when he first encountered the late work of Philip Guston in Philip Guston: Seus Ãltimos Anos, the American exhibition at that years São Paulo Bienal. In 1983, he cofounded the artists group Casa 7 with Fábio Miguez, Rodr ... More  The Fundació Joan Miró presents Miró-ADLAN. An Archive of Modernity (1932-1936)BARCELONA.- In November 1932, the association known as ADLAN (Amics de lArt Nou [Friends of New Art]) was born in Barcelona, gathering members of the Catalan petite bourgeoisie who championed a new cultural modernity. From then until June 1936, right before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, ADLAN organized over fifty events in an intense, heterogeneous program committed to all creative disciplines: painting, architecture, literature, chamber music, jazz, circus, film, dance, photography, etc. Their gatherings were private and held in alternative spaces, yet achieved a high public profile, partly due to their impact on the press of that time. Artists of the stature of Alexander Calder, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Remedios Varo, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalà showed their work under the auspices of ADLAN. Linked by ties of friendship with its prom ... More  Desert X artists dig beneath the sandy surfacePALM SPRINGS, CA (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The odds were fully stacked against the Desert X biennial taking place this year. Bigger and better-organized destination exhibitions have punted on their plans since the pandemic struck, and even in the best of years, Desert X, which commissions site-specific public art in and around Palm Springs, has a hard time raising money to realize its projects. Its decision two years ago to accept funding from the Saudi Arabian government for a spinoff event caused prominent board members to resign and artists to speak out in protest. And the guest curator chosen for the 2021 edition, César GarcÃa-Alvarez, fell ill with COVID-19 last year, just as he began working with artists to develop their projects. I was very sick from mid-March through the end of May, and I still am; Im a COVID long-hauler, he said. It was ... More |
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Mental Escapology, St. Moritz 
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich.
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