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The researchers believe the figures are those of a young slave and a richer older man, around 40 and presumed to be his owner, based on the vestiges of clothing and their physical appearance. Photo: Pompeii - Parco Archeologico.
by Elisabetta Povoledo
ROME (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Excavations at a suburban villa outside ancient Pompeii this month have recovered the remains of two original dwellers frozen in time by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius one fateful morning nearly 2,000 years ago. The unearthing of the victims whom archaeologists tentatively identified as a wealthy Pompeian landowner and a younger enslaved person offered new insight into the eruption that buried the ancient Roman town, which has been a source of fascination since its rediscovery in the 18th century. The finding is an incredible font of knowledge for us, Massimo Osanna, departing director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, said in a video issued by the Culture Ministry on Saturday. For one thing, the two were dressed in woolen clothing, adding credence to the belief that the eruption occurred in October of 79 A.D. rather than in August of that year, as had previously been thought, Osanna said later in a telephone interview. Buried by ash, pumice and rocks, Pom ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Visitors walk towards a replica of the Gate of Ishtar at the archaeological site of ancient Babylon, about 100Km south of the Iraqi capital, on November 14, 2020. Assaad AL-NIYAZI / AFP
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| Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice | | Kasmin Gallery opens an exhibition of new works by Ian Davenport | | Met Opera seeks pay cuts in exchange for pandemic paychecks | 
Scientists have found evidence of this traumatic event some 179 million years ago in plant fossils in Argentine Patagonia. Photo: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain.
PARIS (AFP).- Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth. If the explosive fireball didn't get them, the plunge in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice -- caused by a blanket of heat-shielding debris in the atmosphere -- did. What most people don't know is that more than 100 million years earlier, another climate change cataclysm devastated a different set of dinosaur species, with many going extinct. Except this time, it was global warming rather than global cooling that did them in, with the planet heating up more quickly than the dinos' capacity to adapt. Scientists have found evidence of this traumatic event some 179 million years ago in plant fossils in Argentine Patagonia. They also discovered a previously unknown dinosaur. The species, called Bagualia alba, is in the f ... More | | 
Ian Davenport, Red and Black Mirrored, 2020. Acrylic on aluminium mounted on aluminium panel, 64 1/8 x 52 1/8 inches, 162.7 x 132.3 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kasmin Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kasmin is presenting an exhibition of new works by Ian Davenport (b. 1966), on view from November 20, 2020January 9, 2021, at 509 West 27th Street. Sequence brings together large-scale paintings spanning two series, several of which have been made by the artist in his studio in London, UK, during the months of lockdown. Davenports meticulous experiments in color sequencing involve remixing palettes inspired by historic works of art and recollected from personal memories of heightened pictorial experience, such as walking through a bluebell forest in Kent, England. Playing with repetition, mirroring, inversion, balance, symmetry and asymmetry, the works engage in simultaneous investigations into color theory, optics, and the paradox between control and chance. The artists signature techniquepouring paint onto a tilted surface according to a rigidly structured, preconceived composition ... More | | 
Workers build a set at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Sept. 13, 2019. Victor Llorente/The New York Times.
by Julia Jacobs
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Metropolitan Opera has offered to start paying many employees who have been furloughed without pay since April up to $1,500 a week in exchange for new union contracts that include long-term pay cuts, the companys general manager said in a meeting with staff Friday. Two months after announcing that the curtains would not part again until fall 2021, the Mets general manager, Peter Gelb, said in a video call with Met employees that the company was willing to cut a deal with unions that would mean their members would receive partial paychecks for the duration of the pandemic. The catch: Employees would have to agree to a 30% cut in pay, half of which would be restored once the Mets box office returned to pre-pandemic levels. Gelb predicted that even after the pandemic subsided, ticket sales would be depressed for several years, ... More |
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| Rare 'Tahiti' portrait by Gauguin set for French sale | | Christie's Geneva Luxury Live & Online Auctions total $50.2 million | | Magazzino Italian Art to expand campus with new pavilion | 
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Teuraheimata a Potoru, 1891,Oil on canvas, 49.4 x 38.4 cm, Jill Newhouse.
PARIS (AFP).- A little-known canvas by post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin that has not left the United States since the 1940s will be put up for sale this month at the virtual Fine Arts Paris fair. The sale comes at a time of growing controversy surrounding Gauguin and his Polynesian period, which included relationships with young girls on the French Pacific island of Tahiti and explicit depictions of them. The only known image of "Teurahaimata a Poturu," an oil painting of a woman against a blue background, is a black-and-white photo held by the Wildenstein French-American art dynasty, which was reproduced in a 1964 catalogue. The work was bought sometime before 1895 by collector Edouard Paulin Jenot and went through several owners before being acquired by an American family in 1943, after going on display just once at a Cleveland museum in 1942. It is one of only a handful painted by Gauguin during his first trip to Tahiti, where he would eventually die in 1903, aged 54. New York gallery owner Jill ... More | | 
The model was F.P. Journes first production watch and also the very first wristwatch ever to use a constant force remontoire, a mechanism to improve timekeeping. It sold to a private collector for CHF525,000 / $577,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
GENEVA.- The Autumn Geneva Luxury sales, which were held this season in a new adapted format, including a live hybrid and online component, achieved a total of CHF45,717,651 / $50,289,416. The Geneva season set the highest total for any online watch sale at Christies, achieving CHF5,344,125 / $5,878,537 as well as a new record price per carat for a fancy purplish/red diamond at $2.6 million. The sales attracted buyers from 26 countries Furthermore, a total of 11 lots sold above $1 million. The Magnificent Jewels sale was driven by international interest and demand for exceptional and privately sourced objects. The top lot of the jewellery auctions was the extraordinary rectangular-cut fancy yellow diamond of 28.88 carats, selling for CHF 2,850,000 / $3,135,000 to a private collector. A new auction record price per ... More | | 
Rendering depicting front view of Magazzino Italian Arts new building, designed by architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo. Image by JC Bragado & J Mingorance and courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art.
COLD SPRING, NY.- Magazzino Italian Art announced today plans to strategically expand its campus in Cold Spring, NY, with the acquisition of 3.5 acres of additional land and creation of a new 13,000-square-foot pavilion for special exhibitions, and public and educational programs. Designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo, the latter of whom designed Magazzinos main building, the new free-standing pavilion will enable the nonprofit museum to support its growing program across its 9.5-acre campus. This expansion will create over 5,000 square feet of flexible exhibition and programming spaces as well as new visitor amenities, including a reading lounge and a café. Groundbreaking is expected to begin in spring 2021, with exhibitions and programs continuing uninterrupted at Magazzinos main building. Since opening to the ... More |
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| Emily Mason exhibition opens at the Bruce Museum | | Exhibition at Ruiz-Healy Art features a diverse selection of works by Chuck Ramirez | | Arecibo Observatory, a great eye on the cosmos, is going dark | 
Emily Mason working in her New York studio. 1996. Photographed by Rolf Gibbs.
GREENWICH, CONN.- Named for one the artists favorite Emily Dickinson poems, the new Bruce Museum exhibition She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms: Paintings and Prints by Emily Mason showcases the vibrant work of Emily Mason (1932-2019). Characterized by brilliant hues laid down in thin layers of varying transparency, often superimposed in surprising color combinations, Masons work is the result of a rare alliance between spontaneity and premeditation. On view in the Bruce Museums recently renovated main art gallery from November 22, 2020 through March 21, 2021, this major new art exhibition highlights Masons earliest experiments in oil on paper and in printmaking from two decades of intense innovation in her career: paintings from 1958 to 1968 and prints from 1985 to 1996. Born into a family with an artistic legacy that stretched back to early American history painter John Trumbull (1756-1843) and included her mo ... More | | 
Chuck Ramirez, Dust Collections and other Tchotchke - Bunny, 1995, 2016. Pigment inkjet print, 51 x 35 in. Ed. 3 of 10.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Ruiz-Healy Art is presenting Chuck Ramirez: Metaphorical Portraits at the San Antonio gallery featuring works by Chuck Ramirez. The exhibition focuses on the artists career-long exploration of bringing dignity to overlooked objects in a media saturated world. The exhibition opened November 12th and will be on view until January 9th. A diverse selection of works, Chuck Ramirez: Metaphorical Portraits probes viewers to reevaluate the significance of almost invisible objects and consider their impact on identity and culture. An exhibition catalogue will be published with essays by Bryan Rindfuss and Dr. Patricia Ruiz-Healy. While Ramirezs work has maintained, if not, increased its relevance since his passing, certain collections like Quarantine are finding a particular global resonance in 2020. Alluding to the bleak and grief-stricken atmosphere of ... More | | 
This aerial view shows a hole in the dish panels of the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, on November 19, 2020. Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP.
by Dennis Overbye
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- One of the great icons of human curiosity, the Arecibo radio telescope, is going to be torn down, the National Science Foundation, its owner, announced Thursday. From its perch in the mountains of Puerto Rico, the observatory has served for decades as the vanguard of the search for alien civilizations and guarded the planet against killer asteroids. The telescope, with an antenna 1,000 feet across nestled in a sinkhole valley and a 900-ton constellation of girders and electronics hanging in the air above it, was long the largest single antenna in the world, a destination for astronomers as well as a location for Hollywood movies like Contact. Like the rest of the island commonwealth, it has been lashed and damaged by hurricanes in recent ... More |
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| PEM celebrates 250 years of female designers challenging fashion norms and fighting for opportunity | | Chinese immigration in BC told as a story that is both local and global, historical and contemporary in exhibition | | Timken Museum of Art to become the first museum worldwide to adopt revolutionary anti-viral technology | 
Maggy Rouff, Lucerne dress (detail), 1949 . Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 0331925. © Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Photo by Alice de Groot.
SALEM, MASS.- This fall, the Peabody Essex Museum goes behind the seams to reveal the often-overlooked contributions of women in the fashion world with its headlining exhibition, Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion. From 19th-century White House seamstress Elizabeth Keckley to Gabrielle Coco Chanel and contemporary labels like Chromat, women designers continue to radically transform our ideas about identity and presentation. Through more than 100 works, Made It celebrates the stories of women who revolutionized many aspects of the fashion industry and traces how these efforts parallel the history of womens global struggle for equity and opportunity. Show-stopping ensembles, street fashion, ready-to-wear and haute couture illuminate issues of representation, creativity and consumption. The exhibition is organized in ... More | | 
Installation view.
VANCOUVER.- The Museum of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia in partnership with the Province of British Columbia present A Seat at the Table: Chinese Immigration and British Columbia, a new feature exhibition. A Seat at the Table looks at Chinese immigration to this province as a story that is local and global, historical and contemporary. Using food and restaurant culture as an entry point, A Seat at the Table at MOV features stories that point to the great diversity of immigrant experiences and of the communities that immigrants develop. In this 4000-sq ft exhibition, environments evoking the quintessential Chinese Canadian diner and dim sum restaurant, set the stage for moving stories of separation, loss and alienation but also of solidarity, tenacity and success. Seated in a restaurant booth, visitors learn about people like Chin Nee Young, who arrived on Vancouver Island in 1908 at the age of 14. Another story comes fr ... More | | 
The Timkens doors are currently closed while the anti-viral system is installed and tested.
SAN DIEGO, CA.- The Timken Museum of Artthe Jewel Box of San Diegos Balboa Parkannounced today that it will install state-of-the-art, patented, anti-viral technologies, originally engineered in conjunction with the United States Department of Defense, to ensure the health of visitors. This innovative system will maximize the capture and kill rate of airborne pathogens at a level considerably higher than that of hospital operating rooms. The Timken and Putnam families, innovators themselves, created our free museum in 1965 as a result of their successes in technology and engineering, stated Chairman of the Board Jessie J. Knight, Jr. In fact, their work revolutionized the transportation and beverage industries. We are honored to carry on that tradition by being the first museum in the world to bring cuttingedge, military grade technology into practical, everyday use. We look forward to sharing this ... More |
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 Signed letter from Confederate General to Robert E. Lee headed to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- An assortment of 108 letters from the personal collection of one of the top collectors and dealers of Civil War memorabilia will be delivered to new homes in Heritage Auctions' Arms & Armor, Civil War & Militaria Auction Dec 6. Calvin Packard has been a collector of Civil War letters and documents who has amassed an extraordinary collection over more than half a century. After 35 years as a teacher in Ohio, Packard began his new chapter as a full-time dealer of Civil War memorabilia in 2007. "We are thrilled to offer a 'Chronological Walk Through the Civil War' as told by the personal 'Civil War Battlefield Collection' of Calvin Packard," Heritage Auctions Americana Director Curtis Lindner said. "When he transitioned out of teaching, he had the opportunity to pursue his passion for Civil War materials full-time. He is a fixture at all of the Civil ... More A world-record day for the Dark Knight as 'Detective Comics' No. 27 sells for $1.5 millionDALLAS, TX.- A copy of 1939's Detective Comics 27 sold Thursday for $1.5 million the highest price ever realized for any Batman comic book. The issue containing the Dark Knight's debut was sold during the first session of Heritage Auctions' four-day Comics & Comic Art event that runs through Nov. 22. Thursday's sale of this unrestored copy, which is graded Fine/Very Fine 7.0 by Certified Guaranty Company, broke a decade-old record for a Batman title. Previously, the highest price paid for an issue of Detective Comics No. 27 was set on Feb. 25, 2010, when Heritage Auctions sold an 8.0-graded copy of the book for $1,075,000. Detective Comics No. 27 is now the most expensive comic book ever sold by the Dallas-based auction house, the world's leading auctioneer of comic books and original comic art. For the last year, that title ... More Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh hosts UK premiere for Artists' Moving Image seriesEDINBURGH.- The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh hosts the UK premiere of a series of artists moving image work this winter: We Are Here: Future Ecologies. We Are Here: Artists Moving Image from the British Council Collection and LUX interrogates how contemporary artists explore themes such as nationalism, marginality and intimacy through biography, documentary, poetry and fiction in film. In a series of five artists film programmes that include compilations and individual installations, some of the UKs most outstanding emerging and established artists disrupt old narratives and encourage new global discussions. The exhibition of Future Ecologies can be seen from 21 November 2020 - 28 February 2021 via bookable time slot. Exhibiting artists include the 2018 Turner Prize winner and Scotland in Venice 2019 artist Charlotte Prodger, Uriel ... More GNYP Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Brian HarteBERLIN.- Landscape is the work of the mind, claimed the great historian Simon Schama. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock. Be it an idyllic plain field or an obscure wasteland, landscapes are also reservoirs of references; our references, indistinguishable from our biographies. Landscapes may look beautiful and bright from a distance, like the very narrative we tell ourselves of who we are. But come closer and youll notice how injured and scarred its surface is, full of mysterious traces and unjustifiable marks. Theres more to a landscape than meets the eye. It may sound a bit peculiar to classify Brian Hartes works as landscapes. In his third exhibition with GNYP Gallery, however, Harte is clearly showing a new departure from his previous oeuvre, expanding his occupation area from the unmistakable inside ... More Portraits of Tupac and Biggie receive the luxury treatmentNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Photographer Chi Modu was working for The Amsterdam News in 1991 and looking for freelance work. A fan of hip-hop acts like Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys and LL Cool J, he stopped by the offices of The Source, the small magazine that would become the most important rap outlet of the decade. Modu soon found himself at work connecting with artists who oftentimes, at that point, were all but unknown. They would later become some of the most recognizable entertainers in the world. The photographer, now 54, said that even back then, he was thinking in historical terms. Im a documentarian, he said. As a documentarian, you really want people to be able to look at your photographs and see what was going on. Thirty years later, Modus pictures of Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang ... More Len Barry, 78, dies; Soulful voice of 'Bristol Stomp' and '1-2-3'NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Len Barry, the lead singer of the Dovells on their danceable early-1960s hits Bristol Stomp and You Cant Sit Down and later a solo artist whose career peaked with his infectious love song 1-2-3, died Nov. 5 in a hospital in Philadelphia. He was 78. His son Spencer Borisoff said the cause was myelodysplasia, a bone marrow disease. The Dovells were a doo-wop group whose members had all sung lead at various times. When the group auditioned for Cameo-Parkway Records in Philadelphia in late 1960, Barry sang lead on No, No, No, a song he had written. They got the deal, and his strong, soulful voice secured his role with the group. Lenny had a great voice, Jerry Gross, one of the Dovells, said in a phone interview. He had the sound they wanted. The back cover of the groups first album, ... More In 'Small Axe,' Letitia Wright plays a real-life Black PantherNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Letitia Wright broke onto the international stage with her performance as Shuri, the spirited, no-nonsense princess of Wakanda in Black Panther. Four years later, Wright channels similar characteristics to play Altheia Jones-LeCointe, a leader of the British Black Panther movement, in Steve McQueens Mangrove, the first feature-length installment in his anthology series Small Axe on Amazon Prime Video. Jones-LeCointe left Trinidad in 1965 to study for a doctorate in biochemistry at University College London, then became involved in anti-racist activism and education before helping to shape the British Black Panthers. In Mangrove, Wrights Jones-LeCointe is a fierce agent of self-determination and political engagement. The five films in Small Axe, all directed by McQueen, explore various aspects ... More Nelly Kaplan, whose films explored female strength, dies at 89NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Nelly Kaplan, whose witty, satire-tinged French films about female empowerment and revenge made her a distinctive voice in a male-dominated era, died Nov. 12 in Geneva. She was 89. The Société des Réalisateurs de Films, the French filmmakers association, announced her death on its website. French news agencies, quoting a relative, said the cause was COVID-19. Kaplan, who was born in Argentina, arrived in Paris in her early 20s and became both a filmmaking and a romantic partner of Abel Gance, the French director known for the innovative silent movie Napoleon (1927). In 1969, she drew acclaim with her first feature, A Very Curious Girl. (The French title was La Fiancée du Pirate, or The Pirates Fiancée.) It starred Bernadette Lafont, an actress already well known from the New ... More Jan Morris, celebrated writer of place and history, is dead at 94NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Jan Morris, the acclaimed British journalist, travel writer and historian who wrote about historys sweep and the details of place with equal eloquence and chronicled her life as a transgender woman, died on Friday in Wales. She was 94. Her son Twm Morys said in an email that she died in a hospital near the village of Llanystumdwy, where she lived. He did not give the cause. As James Morris she was a military officer in one of Britains most renowned cavalry regiments and then a daring journalist who climbed three-quarters of the way up Mount Everest for an exclusive series of dispatches from the first conquest of that mountain, the worlds highest. She continued a brilliant writing career with reports on wars and revolutions from a score of countries, and with much-admired books like Pax Britannica, the ... More Christie's presents Rare Watches New York: Online, 24 November to 10 December 2020NEW YORK, NY.- Christies New York announces Rare Watches New York: Online (November 24 December 10) featuring a selection of important vintage and modern timepieces celebrating the most renowned manufactures such as Patek Philippe, Rolex, Cartier, F.P. Journe, Audemars Piguet and many more. Curated with passion, the sale comprises incredible rarities, including a magnificent Patek Philippe reference 1463 in pink gold retailed by Serpico Y Laino ($400,000-600,000), an extremely rare Patek Philippe Nautilus reference 3800 in pink gold ($250,000-450,000), and a magnificently preserved Rolex reference 6236 now known as Jean Claude Killy ($240,000-440,000), after the celebrated Olympic skier and Rolex ambassador. The auction will present a great selection of Rolex Daytona chronographs, led by a reference 6263 with Paul ... More Two Hong Kong political films win at Taiwan Golden Horse AwardsTAIPEI (AFP).- Two Hong Kong films that cast an uncomfortable spotlight on China won accolades at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards on Saturday, as the island staged its largest film festival after successfully containing the coronavirus. While many film festivals have been forced largely online or cancelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Golden Horse Awards -- dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars" -- went ahead in Taiwan which has seen just 611 infections and seven deaths. US-based Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and Chinese American actress Bai Ling, dressed in a red gown with a long train reading "Love Peace," were among the legion of entertainers who walked down the red carpet ahead of the ceremony in Taipei's Sun Yat-sen memorial hall. Chinese cinematic talents used to dominate the Golden Horse nominations but the festival ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter and illustrator Miguel Covarrubias was born November 22, 1904. Miguel Covarrubias also known as José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (22 November 1904 - 4 February 1957) was a Mexican painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ethnologist and art historian. Miguel's artwork and celebrity caricatures have been featured in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines. In this image: Covarrubias's caricature of himself as an Olmec.
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