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This exhibition explores a crucial, yet forgotten chapter in the history of ancient civilizations. Pharaoh in Canaan tells the revelatory story of the cross-cultural dynamics between Canaan and Egypt and the resulting and often astonishing aesthetic, ritual, and cultural affinities that developed between these two distinct peoples, said James S. Snyder, the Anne and Jerome Fisher Director of the Israel Museum.
JERUSALEM.- A major exhibition opening at the Israel Museum provides audiences with an unprecedented opportunity to explore the cross-cultural ties between Egypt and Canaan during the second millennium BCE. On view March 4 through October 25, 2016, Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story presents more than 680 objects that reflect the cross-fertilization of ritual practices and aesthetic vocabularies between these two distinct ancient cultures. From large-scale royal victory stelae and anthropoid coffins to scarabs and amulets, the display features an array of archaeological artifacts discovered in Israel and Egyptincluding many drawn from the Museums own collections, together with major loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.; the Louvre Museum, Paris; the Kunsthistorisches Museum; Vienna; the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy; and numerous other ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE.- Ghanaian artist El Anatsui poses in front of one of his installations at the Chaumont-sur-Loire castle on February 29, 2016. The Chaumont-sur-Loire castle, famous for its International Garden Festival, will exhibit at its Centre of Arts and Nature from April 1 through November 2, 2016 the work of El Anatsui. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
| Recovering Yoko Ono delays trip to open exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon | | Saint's treasure worth more than British crown jewels sparks battle between Naples and Church | | Exhibition at Musée national suisse presents works by Louis-Auguste Brun, painter to Marie-Antoinette | 
File photo of Yoko posing for photographers at the Guggenheim Bilbao. Photograph: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images.
LYON (AFP).- Yoko Ono will not attend the launch of a retrospective of her work in France next week as she is still recovering from a severe bout of flu, gallery managers said Saturday. The 83-year-old's doctor had "strongly advised her against any travel before she has completely recovered", said Thierry Raspail, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon. The Japanese singer and artist, widow of Beatle John Lennon, "is recovering from a severe case of influenza and (is) doing well", Raspail added in a statement, citing her doctor. Ono was briefly hospitalised in New York last month on her doctor's advice, but returned to her New York apartment a day later. Her son Sean Lennon said she had flu, and dismissed initial reports that Ono had suffered a stroke. The Lyon show, Ono's first retrospective in France, will open on Tuesday. While she will not ... More | | 
People gather at the Saint Januarius chapel in the Dome of Naples. Mario LAPORTA / AFP.
NAPLES (AFP).- Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Naples on Saturday in a bid to prevent the Catholic Church gaining any control over the treasure of a local saint that is reputedly worth more than British crown jewels. "We're protecting a centuries-old institution, we will not stand for interference from either the Church or the government," Paolo Jorio, director of the San Gennaro museum where the jewels are kept, told AFP. The protest was sparked by a decree issued by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. Critics say his move opens the door to Church control as it threatens a lay council that for centuries has guarded the jewel-encrusted treasures, donated by kings and aristocrats in honour of San Gennaro. Over three thousand locals, some wearing T-shirts with pictures of the saint, tied white handkerchiefs to the gate of the museum and neighbouring chapel, with many holding signs reading "Don't touch the treasure". ... More | | 
Marie-Antoinette et Louis XVI à la chasse à courre, 1783. Huile sur toile, 100 x 81,5 cm. Versailles, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon. © Château de Versailles, RMN-Grand Palais. Photographie Christophe Fouin.
PRANGINS .- From 4 March to 10 July 2016, the Swiss National Museum Château de Prangins presents an exhibition devoted to the remarkable career of Louis-Auguste Brun, a painter from the Geneva school best known for his equestrian portraits of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Some one hundred works, together with a film recounting the surprising last years of his life as both art dealer and Vaud patriot, allow visitors to explore the life of an individual who defies easy classification. With scent-based guided tours and a Marie-Antoinette-inspired menu at the Café du Château, its an experience for all the senses. A skilled draughtsman and an outstanding painter of portraits, animals and landscapes, the Swiss artist Louis-Auguste Brun (1758-1815) is today principally ... More |
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| Exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris presents new paintings by Niele Toroni | | Art Gallery of Ontario partners with Tate Modern to present Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective | | Sotheby's to present second offering of Indian miniature paintings from the Estate of Dr. Claus Virch | 
Niele Toroni, Installation view. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris.
PARIS.- Marian Goodman Gallery presents for the first time at 79, rue du Temple an exhibition of Niele Toroni. En passant presents new paintings on canvas, oilcloth and paper as well as two site-specific interventions. Niele Toroni belongs to the first generation of European minimalist painters active since the 1960s. His practice aims to affirm the existence of painting as such. His working method, sometimes considered radical, is as famous as it is unvarying: since 1967, he has been applying, on every type of surface, imprints of a no. 50 paintbrush at regular intervals of 30 cm. While there is no privileged color, the imprints in any given work are monochrome, and thus no travail/peinture (work/painting) is ever alike, just as no imprint of a no. 50 paintbrush is ever alike. Toroni, who does not think of himself as an artist but as a painter, declares that his work comes into view, and ... More | | 
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Georgia OKeeffe, 1918. Photograph, palladium print on paper, 243 x 192 mm. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © The J. Paul Getty Trust.
TORONTO.- The Art Gallery of Ontario is set to present a major retrospective of pioneering American painter Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), featuring over 100 paintings by one the 20th centurys most successful and influential modernists. The exhibition will examine OKeeffes entire career, charting the progression of her practice from her early abstract experiments to her late work, in addition to her trajectory west, and her profound influence and legacy. Organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with the AGO and the Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Georgia OKeeffe will make its only North American stop in Toronto in the summer of 2017. Opening with the moment of her first showings at the 291 gallery in New York in 1916 and 1917, the exhibition will feature OKeeffes earliest mature works made while she was working as a teacher in Virginia and Texas. The works on ... More | | 
An Illustration from the Shah Jahan Album: A Portrait of Sheikh Amudi Envoy of His Excellency Zayd, The Sharif of Mecca. Ascribed to Hashim, India, Imperial Mughal, circa 1643. Image: 7 ¾ by 5 inches. Estimate $20/30,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the second offering of works from the Estate of Dr. Claus Virch in the Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Works of Art auction on 16 March. Dr. Virch, former curator of European Old Master paintings and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was a renaissance man with refined taste and varied interests. Assembled during the Golden Age of Indian art collecting in the 1960s and 1970s, the collection spans 500 years of painting in the subcontinent and is completely fresh to the market, creating an exciting opportunity for institutional and private collectors alike. Noteworthy for its breadth and depth, this group of works is a testament to Dr. Virchs trained eye and his affinity for beauty and cross-cultural connections in art. Amongst the many delights from this collection ... More |
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| Exhibition of works by New York based, British artist Nicola Tyson opens at Petzel Gallery | | Krannert Art Museum to unveil rare panoramic painting of scenes from the life of Christ | | Almine Rech Gallery in Paris opens exhibition of paintings by artist Brian Calvin | 
Portrait Head #68. Acrylic on paper, 20 x 14 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Petzel Gallery announces an exhibition of works by New York based, British artist Nicola Tyson. This is her tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. For Nicola Tyson, drawing is a distinct and generative practice, allowing full imaginative exploration. In her own words: When I begin to draw, I have no idea whats going to appear. I work swiftly, to stay just ahead of the cage of language, the linear mind and rational decision-making. I just let the forms grow themselvesself-organize
. Nicola Tyson Works on Paper explores a range of works made between 2002 and 2016 from the artists sketchbook pages to large graphite drawings and giant, life-sized ink drawings. Included also are a selection of her acrylic paintings on paper, titled Portrait Heads. In these, the artist first paints the image directly onto a glass plate, then pressing paper onto it, produces varying textures and ... More | | 
Marcus Mote, Panorama - Scenes from the Life of Christ, 19th century. Distemper on Cotton Muslin. Approx. 7 x 525 feet. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on behalf of its Krannert Art Museum. Gift of Anita C. Crawford, 1991-21-1.1/.3. Photographs by Molly Briggs.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.- Krannert Art Museum will unveil a portion of a rare panoramic painting in the museums permanent collection. The painting which dates to the 1870s and comprises three rolls of muslin, which are 525 feet long in total and seven feet high is one of fewer than two dozen surviving examples in the world of moving panoramas, said Molly Briggs. Briggs is a University of Illinois doctoral student in landscape architecture who is writing her dissertation on panoramic media in Chicago, and who is a painter and an instructor in the School of Art and Design. She has been researching Krannert Art Museums painting and will serve as a guest curator ... More | | 
Brian Calvin, Sweater Weather, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 142 x 178 cm 55 7/8 inches x 70 1/8 inches © Brian Calvin Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery.
PARIS.- Imagine an exhibition with paintings of Brian Calvin in Paris and during the opening one would follow bits of conversations between guests coming from different worlds. Philip Guston for instance, would explain to Louis Aragon how we inherited back in the future the myth of abstract art: There is something ridiculous and miserly in the fact that painting is autonomous, pure and for itself. Painting is impure. It is the adjustment of impurities which forces its continuity. We are image-makers and image-ridden. Aragon would agree with the last words, smile and walk further. A number of small paintings with lips, entitled Mouthfeel, caught his eye. One thousands miles of waves of suns further and looking at the new paintings of ... More |
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| New solo show of paintings by John Henderson opens at Galerie Perrotin in Paris | | Kashmir sapphires, diamonds, and signed jewelry featured at Skinner Fine Jewelry Auction on March 22 | | Solar panels installed at IU Art Museum to offset power used by Light Totem | 
John Henderson, Untitled Painting, 2016. Oil on canvas. 61 x 45.7 cm. /24 x 18 inches. Photo: Claire Dorn. Courtesy Galerie Perrotin.
PARIS.- Following exhibitions in Hong Kong and New York, Galerie Perrotin presents a new solo show in Paris by John Henderson. Notions of authorship and a questioning of the creative process are recurrent themes in Hendersons art, central tropes that are subtly and enigmatically articulated and rehearsed through works in painting, sculpture, photography and video. Often forming a play of deceptive appearances, these works raise issues related to legibility, resemblance and translation. A series of metal paintings on display are in fact sculptures of paintings, highly detailed copper reproductions created using a casting method known as electrotyping. These ghostly painting-objects are distillations of the various signs and stages of the painting processaccumulations of standard painterly languages, textures, and indexes (impasto brush strokes, drags and scrapes, the grain of the canvas) compressed into a single ... More | | 
Signed pieces on offer include a pair of 18kt Gold and Gem-set Day/Night Earpendants by Van Cleef & Arpels (Lot 450, $30,000-$40,000)
BOSTON, MASS.- Skinner, Inc. will present its first Fine Jewelry auction of 2016 in its Boston gallery on Tuesday, March 22 at 10AM. With over 500 lots on offer, the auction will feature a selection of fine colored stones including Kashmir sapphires and Colombian emeralds; large diamonds; signed pieces from world-renowned jewelers; and antique and period jewelry of impeccable provenance. Skinner will offer two Kashmir sapphires in this sale. The first is an Art Deco Platinum, Sapphire, and Diamond Ring (Lot 563, Estimated between $12,000 and $15,000) which centers an oval Kashmir sapphire weighing approx. 2.19 cts. The second, from the same New England estate, is a Sapphire, Cultured Pearl, and Diamond Necklace (Lot 553, $18,000-$22,000) set with a cushion-cut Kashmir sapphire weighing approx. 2.30 cts. Among the other notable colored gems in the auction are an Art Deco Platinum, ... More | | 
This project was the initiative of the IU Art Museum Green Team led by the efforts of Jeanne Leimkuhler. Photo: Kevin Montague.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- In January, solar panels were installed on the roof of the IU Art Museum to generate enough power to offset the electricity used by our iconic sculpture Light Totem, created in 2007 by Rob Shakespeare, IU professor emeritus in Lighting Design. This project was the initiative of the IU Art Museum Green Team led by the efforts of Jeanne Leimkuhler. The project was funded by a grant from the Indiana University Student Sustainability Council, with additional funding provided by Facility Operations, a unit of the Office of the Vice President for Capital Planning and Facilities, and the Office of Sustainability at Indiana University. This project is a tremendous example of collaboration between students, faculty, and staff across multiple departments at Indiana University. We hope that Light Totem can now be seen not only a shining beacon for the arts at Indiana University, but also as an inspiration ... More |
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 New book features the work of many of today's most talented figurative paintersNEW YORK, NY.- Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Todays best figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary topics involving race, gender, political and social issues. The paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by todays contemporary international artists. Bodies of Work examines the continuing compulsion in fine art to render the human figure through a curated collection of the work of international artists. Portraitist Marlene Dumas, born in South Africa and a resident of Amsterdam, presents figures in a gritty, unsentimental manner, evoking the essence of the human condition, while American Kerry James Marshall paints the life of African Americans in the twentieth ... More Jeff Zilm's first UK solo exhibition opens at Simon Lee Gallery, LondonLONDON.- Simon Lee Gallery announces Jeff Zilms first UK solo exhibition at Simon Lee Gallery, London. Zilms multimedia practice investigates the slippage between technological platforms and ways they are consumed and decoded in the social realm. His best known film paintings take as their starting point the physical properties of film stock and cinema as a material medium. Like the Structural filmmakers of the 1960s, Zilm emphasizes the materiality of film and its apparatus. For over a decade the artist has sourced 8mm, 16mm and 35mm black and white films for this ongoing project. Using a homemade bath, he chemically destabilizes the emulsion so that he can extract the filmic image and optical sound track from the reels of celluloid. The film, once fully extracted and finally in a liquid state, is then transcribed in its entirety onto a single canvas. Each canvas is prepared with ... More The other GTO: Bonhams offers legendary 1980s supercarMONTE CARLO.- The Ferrari 288 GTO was so desirable that before production had even begun, every single one had been sold. Bonhams now offers a superb example, estimated at 1,300,000-1,700,000, to be sold at the Monaco Sale, taking place in Monte Carlo on 13 May. From 1984-1987 only 272 Ferrari 288s were built. The model was developed to fulfill the FIAs (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile) newly introduced Group B race and rally regulations, which required at least 200 road-going models in production. However, the demand for the exotic new model was so great that Ferrari built an extra 72. James Knight, Bonhams International Group Motoring Director, said: Rarely does a car take on iconic status when new, but the Ferrari 288 GTO achieved just that. It was, and still is, considered by many to be one of the finest high-performance cars ever built. In many ... More Tel Aviv Museum of Art exhibits "Ben Hagari: Potter's Will"TEL AVIV.- In his tragicomic video installations, Ben Hagari creates absurd settings which prompt questions about identity and territory. Trapped in a mechanical apparatus, the figure of the artist is reborn into modern or archaic cultural situations, often associated with a technological failure, with radicalization, or the inversion of a mechanism. Hagari's oeuvre surrenders the influence of theater and cinema. He blurs the boundaries between "on stage" and "behind the scenes," reformulating the relationship between an object and its maker, usually while inverting roles as well as physical states. The exhibition features Hagari's new work Potter's Will (201516), comprising a video and a sculptural installation: a set with a potter's studio on a rotating platform, extracted from the film screened next to it. In the video, Hagari revisits the potter's wheel, thereby delving ... More The weird, wonderful and beautiful at Bonhams Book SaleLONDON.- A renowned collection of rare books, many in unique bindings, goes under the hammer at Bonhams Books and Manuscripts sale in London on 16 March. The collection is being offered in some 130 separate lots which are expected to sell for a total of up to £150,000. Highlights include: · A spectacularly macabre copy of Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe bound by Susan Allix with a plastic hand holding the skull of a rabbit and a dagger and quails skull. It is estimated at £1,000-1,500. · A rare copy of Les Delassements d'Eros, a book of erotic art by Gerda Wegener, wife of painter Einar Wegener, who is better known as Lili Elbe one of the first-ever documented recipients of sex reassignment surgery. Their story is the subject of the recent Oscar nominated film, The Danish Girl. The estimate is £800-1,200. · A book of original aquatints of modern ... More Major international galleries to attend Art Paris Art FairPARIS.- Art Paris Art Fair, the leading fair for modern and contemporary art in the spring is in a class of its own with a selection of 143 galleries from 22 countries making it both global and local as well as international and regional. Alongside major international galleries like Daniel Templon, Nathalie Obadia, Gana Art, Sundaram Tagore and Flowers, the fair focuses on exploring the regions of Europe and in particular the cities that are home to uncommon art scenes. Miquel Alzueta is specialised in contemporary art and modern design. Located in a large space in a former factory in Barcelona, the gallery brings to Art Paris Art Fair a number of established and emerging Spanish artists such as Manolo Ballesteros (1965-), Ivan Franco (1979-), Regina Giménez (1966-), Antonio Gonzalez (1974-)... Art Paris Art Fair takes a particular interest in the art scenes of Eastern Europe, ... More Exhibition of works by Ericka Beckman opens at Mary Boone GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Mary Boone Gallery opened at its Fifth Avenue location Hiatus by Ericka Beckman. The exhibition, curated by Piper Marshall, realizes the eponymous film as a doubleprojection; the original film is screened alongside never-before-seen, original material. How might it be possible to create a sense of freedom within a mediated age of representation? Ericka Beckman When cyber-punk protagonist Wanda loads a floppy disk onto her computer and slips into a wired-up black suit, she transports herself into virtual space where the game is on. We see the setting change from her office to a Tetris-like black box; we see her growing programs by tilling a garden
until an electrical storm threatens her crop and power supply, bringing with it Wang Player 33, from Houston who lays claim to her land. In the film Hiatus, the virtual reality game world serves ... More Donald Groscost, David Burdeny and Jeremy Holmes exhibit at Heather Gaudio Fine ArtNEW CANAAN, CT .- Heather Gaudio Fine Art announces its exhibition Defying Perceptions being held March 5 - April 9, 2016. The show features engaging interpretations of imagery, perspective and spatial relations as seen through works by Donald Groscost, David Burdeny and Jeremy Holmes. New York based artist Donald Groscost creates large paintings that challenge the viewers perception of the traditional medium. The show features his earlier works executed in the early 2000s, which are formal investigations of painterly abstraction and the process of image simulation in our digitized era. By applying and scraping away layers of pigment over and over again onto a prepared surface, Groscosts paintings wondrously achieve a depth and texture with an incredibly smooth finish. His oils on canvas deceivingly appear to be created by some form of virtual media, ... More Marina Zurkow's second solo exhibition with bitforms gallery on view in New YorkNEW YORK, NY.- bitforms gallery is presenting MORE&MORE (the invisible oceans), Marina Zurkow's second solo exhibition with the gallery. The ocean makes up 71 percent of our planet's surface. So, how is it that we know more about Mars than the marine environments of Earth? As impenetrable as the deep oceans are to humans, we imperviously live in a black box of international shipping, reducing the ocean to a surface rather than an environmental force. MORE&MORE is a socioeconomic, post-natural foray into the infrastructure of global trade: a systemic means to a never-ending end of economic growth. Here, the Harmonized System Commodity Description and Coding System, or Harmonized System (HS), rules the world. With roughly 26,000 items in 99 categories, the HS tariff code is an opaque, granular (yet oblique) language unto itself. Everything is reduced ... More Afghan creativity, resilience and hope are highlighted in dynamic exhibitionWASHINGTON, DC.- Turquoise Mountain: Artists Transforming Afghanistan converts the Smithsonians International Gallery into a space that evokes the vibrant marketplace of Old Kabul with artisans demonstrating their skills in jewelry making, woodworking, calligraphy, ceramics and other crafts. This exhibition highlights the vitality of these new Afghan artisans and demonstrates the power of art and culture to tell the story of artistic creativity, resilience and hope, said Julian Raby, The Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art. This is a powerful moment meant to transcend the headlines of war and conflict. The exhibition, presented by the Smithsonians Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery from March 5 through Jan. 29, 2017, invites visitors to experience the rebirth of Afghanistans cultural legacy ... More Indianapolis Museum of Art celebrates Hoosier quilt maker in new Bicentennial exhibitionINDIANAPOLIS, IN.- The Indianapolis Museum of Art continues its celebration of Indianas Bicentennial this week with A Joy Forever: Marie Webster Quilts, which opened March 4 in the Gerald and Dorit Paul Galleries. The exhibition features 25 appliqued quilts by Marie Webster, an Indiana native who rose to national fame in the early 20th century. Webster was discovered in 1911 when Ladies Home Journal, one of the most widely circulated magazines in the country during the period, included four of her quilts in full color for the first time. The exposure propelled the relatively unknown, amateur quilt maker from Marion, Ind. into the national spotlight. Also on display in the exhibition are some of Websters patterns, original pages from Ladies Home Journal and a digital version of Websters scrapbook, which invites guests to browse through Websters fan letters, news clippings ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist and sculptor Michelangelo, was born  March 06, 1475. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 - 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. In this image: Director of the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy, Pina Ragionieri in front of a Michelangelo drawing of Cleopatra Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 in Williamsburg, Va. Twenty-five drawings by Michelangelo begin a two-city U.S. exhibition in Virginia on Saturday, Feb. 9, including some works never before seen in the United States and many that offer a glimpse into the mind of the master and the tumultuous times in which he lived.
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