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Roman sarcophagus lid, late 2nd century AD, marble, including detail of the Trojan horse. Photograph © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
LONDON.- The British Museum opened its major exhibition for Autumn 2019. The BP exhibition Troy: myth and reality is the first major Troy exhibition in the UK. It reveals the lasting legacy of stories from the Trojan War, first told by early poets such Homer and Virgil and retold and reinterpreted right up to the present day. The show highlights works of art inspired by the tales of war, love and loss that are wrapped up in the Trojan cycle of myths and passed down through generations. Following in the footsteps of the archaeologists and adventurers who sought to prove the reality of ancient Troy, this exhibition showcases the discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann in Turkey in the 1870s, which changed the perception of this epic tale forever. From the Trojan horse to Troilus and Cressida, and Hollywood films and contemporary art, this exhibition tells the stories of Troy that have fascinated and inspired people for more than 3,000 yea ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day The Museum of London is presenting The Clash: London Calling, a free exhibit showcasing a collection of over 150 items from The ClashÂs personal archive including notes, clothing, images and music, many previously unseen, is now open and free to view until April 19, 2020. In this image: Guitar Case with Capitol Theatre backstage sticker. © The Clash.
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 | | France vowed to return looted treasures. But few are heading back | | Helen Frankenthaler display now open at Tate Modern, including major new gift to the collection | | Christie's to offer Marina Abramović's mixed reality work 'The Life' | 
This file photo shows French art historian and professor at the College de France in Paris and the Technishe Universitat of Berlin Benedicte Savoy (R) and Senegalese economist and professor at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal Felwine Sarr (L) posing on March 21, 2018, in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- A year ago this week, in a pioneering announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France said that his country would give back 26 looted treasures to the African state of Benin. It was a bold statement by the leader of a former colonial power. He also took delivery of an independent report he had commissioned, which sent shock waves through museums around the world. In the report, two academics, Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr, recommended that objects removed in colonial times without the consent of their country of origin be permanently returned, if the country asks for them. But 12 months later, and two years since ... More | | 
Helen Frankenthaler Vessel 1961. Collection Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York. © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Jordan Tinker, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
LONDON.- Tate announced today it has received a gift of a major painting by Helen Frankenthaler (19282011), one of the leading figures of abstract American art in the 20th century. Vessel 1961, a spectacular example of the artists work created during an important early stage of her career, has been generously donated by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York and marks the first painting by the artist to enter the museums collection. It is now on show at Tate Modern alongside four other paintings on loan from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation as part of a year-long free display of the artists work. Vessel was made using Frankenthalers signature soak-stain technique, whereby she poured thinned oil paint onto raw canvas placed directly on the studio floor. ... More | | 
Marina Abramović and Todd Eckert.
LONDON.- Christies will offer Marina Abramovićs seminal performance piece The Life - the worlds first Mixed Reality artwork - as a major highlight of its Frieze Week 2020 auction programme. Coinciding with Abramovićs show at Londons Royal Academy of Arts, which is also the first time a woman has been selected for the main galleries in the institutions 250+ year history, The Life is expected to be the first work of its kind to be presented at auction and is offered by Tin Drum, inc. in association with Abramović LLC. A ground-breaking fusion of art and technology, The Life was premiered at Londons Serpentine Gallery in February 2019. The 19-minute performance offers an intimate digital encounter with Abramović herself, experienced via wearable spatial computing devices. A hologram of the artist appears, proceeding to pace around a roped off five-metre circle before evaporating into thin air. Unlike Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality allow ... More |
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| | Gangalidda Garawa and Nyamal Nations receive significant material from Manchester Museum | | Tom Spurgeon, who surveyed the comic book world, dies at 50 | | A golden toilet is still at large | 
The handover ceremony follows the Manchester Museums announcement on the 4th October 2019 that it would unconditionally return 43 items from its collection to four Aboriginal communities. Photo: David Tett.
MANCHESTER.- A delegation of Traditional Owners from the Gangalidda Garawa Nation and representatives from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) attended a moving handover ceremony at Australia House, London. The handover ceremony signified the official return of 18 culturally significant items from the Manchester Museum, part of The University of Manchester, to the Gangalidda Garawa people of the Queensland Gulf Country and the Nyamal people of the inland Pilbara, Western Australia. Gangalidda and Garawa traditional owner, Mangubadijarri Yanner hailed the significance of the occasion for his people and for reconciliation in Australia. As a young Aboriginal person and as a proud Gangalidda man, this is, to me and my community, what true practical reconciliation looks ... More | | 
Tom Spurgeon by Jesse Hamm.
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Tom Spurgeon, a reporter and editor who gained prominence in the world of comic books and graphic novels, covering it in books, blogs and a magazine, died Nov. 13 at his home in Columbus, Ohio. He was 50. His death was confirmed by his friend Eric Reynolds, who did not specify a cause. The two met in 1994 when they were editors at The Comics Journal, a magazine about the comic book industry published by Fantagraphics, where Reynolds is now the associate publisher. With Jordan Raphael, Spurgeon wrote the biography Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, published in 2003. In a review for CNN.com, L.D. Meagher said the biography offered keen insights on how the industry has risen, fallen, survived and teetered on the edge of extinction. The next year, Spurgeon and Raphael started The Comics Reporter, a blog and news website that included Spurgeons in-depth interviews of comic creators. The site won the Eisner Award, the most ... More | | 
Thieves have stolen an 18-karat gold toilet from an exhibition of artworks at Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said Saturday -- causing significant flooding. William EDWARDS / AFP.
WOODSTOCK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Just before 5 a.m. Sept. 14, a fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat gold was stolen from an art exhibition at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. There has been no trace of it since. Police are still looking for the missing john an artwork called America by Maurizio Cattelan but, so far, they remain empty-handed. A spokesman for the force carrying out the investigation, Thames Valley Police, declined to discuss the case, except to confirm that six people had been arrested in connection with the theft, only to be released later without charge. Police may not know what has happened to the toilet, but residents of Woodstock, a town near the palace, have plenty of theories. Richard Jackson, a gardener, said he thought it was still on the palace grounds. The robbers probably threw it off a bridge into one of two lakes ... More |
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| | mumok opens 'Objects Recognized in Flashes' | | The Approach opens an exhibition of works by Hana Miletić | | First Russian exhibition of British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge opens in Moscow | 
Eileen Quinlan, Sophia, 2012. Digitaler C-Print auf Aluminium, 152,4 à 121,9 cm. Courtesy of the Collection Pamela and Arthur Sanders © Eileen Quinlan
VIENNA.- How are analogue and digital images handled in our largely mediatised society? What is the state of play when it comes to the relationship between material and immateriality, between body, screen and photographic surface? If one looks at media outlets or social platforms in digital space today, it is easy to glean the impression that the world consists primarily of goods and advertising. Products and commodity aesthetics are ubiquitous and shape our engagement with photographic images to an unprecedented degree. The omnipresence of these stagings creates imaginary standards, which have now become an integral part of permanent photographic self-presentation. The aesthetic strategies of commercial photography also have ramifications for current artistic debates. The fascination and contradictoriness that emanate from product ... More | | 
Hana Miletic, Materials, 2019. Hand-woven textile (brown-grey raw wool, yellow cottolin bright yellow mercerized cotton and silk), 19 x 25 x 2.5 cm | 7 3/8 x 9 3/4 x 1 in.
LONDON.- Incompatibilities introduces a new body of handwoven textile works by Hana Miletić. Made with bags of discarded, incompatible yarn that the artist bought from the only still existing yarn factory in her hometown Zagreb, the works pay homage to the textile industry in Yugoslavia. Following the civil war and ethnic conflicts in the 1990s, this once booming industry was dismantled and subsequently privatised. The salvaged yarns which are used in the works are remains of the rolls produced in certain colours and reserved exclusively for the export market and are only available at the local market as low quality, sample scraps or incompatible colours. Bringing to the fore the discourses surrounding the politics of colour and trade, Miletićs works are defined by the contents of each scraps yarn bag. The scale of the textile weavings is predetermined by the contents of ... More | | 
Miles Aldridge, I Only Want You To Love Me #1, 2011 (detail) © Miles Aldridge / Courtesy of Christophe Guye Galerie.
MOSCOW.- The Lumiere Brothers Photography Center presents the first Russian exhibition of British fashion photographer Miles Aldridge, which features more than forty of the photographers most recognizable works. The King of Color Miles Aldridge is a favorite photographer and cover artist for magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, GQ, Vanity Fair, Numéro, The New York Times and The New Yorker. On the one hand, his works fit perfectly into the aesthetics of glossy magazines, because in terms of their visual characteristics they correspond to societys ideas of beauty. On the other hand, they criticize the ideals of the modern world and the system of which they are a part. Aldridge always frames a woman: beautiful, sexy, strong. Moreover, she often finds herself in situations or places that emphasize the roles assigned to her by society: wife, mother, housewife, lover. The ideal femme fatale appears ... More |
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| | Paul Mogensen epresented by Blum & Poe | | Mexican artist's first European retrospective exhibition opens at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | | It's her exhibition, and she's sharing | 
Paul Mogensen no title, 1969-1970 Acrylic on bare canvas 20 x 28 inches. © Paul Mogensen Courtesy of the artist, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo, and Karma, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- In collaboration with Karma, Blum & Poe announced the representation of artist Paul Mogensen. A solo exhibition of the painters work will take place at Blum & Poe Los Angeles in 2020, following a presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019. Over a fifty-year career, Mogensen has explored painting through mathematical progressions and classical ratios in structured arrangements of squares, rectangles and lines; through an engagement with the wall and negative space; and through color straight from the tube. Initially a student of mathematics and chemistry before he discovered art, he says, I use arithmetic to find the form. His works are precise with Morse-code-like sequences, unmediated by associative or narrative props, or by any sign of the artists hand in the paints application. The works are unobstructed even by the storyline of Mogensens own ... More | | 
Carlos Amorales, Black Cloud, 2007 (installation view). Collection of Diane and Bruce Halle. Photo: Peter Tijhuis.
AMSTERDAM.- The first ever retrospective exhibition in Europe of the work of Carlos Amorales will open at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam during Amsterdam Art Weekend 2019. Carlos Amorales The Factory showcases the work of one of Mexicos most important contemporary artists from the 1990s to the present day the most recent piece was made especially for the exhibition. Spanning 14 rooms of the museum, the exhibition includes spatial works, installations, paintings, drawings, videos, prints, textiles, animations, and sound works, which Amorales incorporates in his open, non-chronological, large-scale spatial installations. Visitors will be able to navigate their own route around Amoraless world of fantastical images and stories that explore the field of tension between the individual and society. Carlos Amorales began his career in Amsterdam in the 1990s, as a student at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie. It wa ... More | | 
The artist Mickalene Thomas in front of an elaborate lobby installation for her show at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Nov. 4, 2019. Andrew Mangum/The New York Times.
BALTIMORE (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Few artists have had more museum exposure in the past couple of years than Mickalene Thomas, a prolific maker in several media. In 2018 alone, her name was in the title of at least four different shows, and since then her work has been included in many other exhibitions across the country. But it wasnt always thus. The New York-based Thomas, now 48, rocketed to art-world fame in 2012 with a show at the now-named Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Museum, Mickalene Thomas: Origin of the Universe. Her rhinestone-encrusted, collage-style paintings of black women in domestic spaces were praised, noticed, talked about but the exhibition, for all its attention, didnt travel after Brooklyn. Despite the efforts of the curators, No one took that show, Thomas recalled, during a daylong tour of this city, which included visits to a gallery and ... More |
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 Il Guercino leads Old Master Drawings at Swann GalleriesNEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries curated sale of Old Master Drawings on Tuesday, November 5 brought original works, studies and preparatory drawings from the most sought-after European draughtsmen from the past several centuries. Leading the auction was Il Guercinos late-1640s red chalk study of St. Gregory being greeted by a dovelikely a drawing related to an unfulfilled commission for a painting of the saint. The Holy Spirit Appearing to St. Gregory sold for $21,250. Additional Italian drawings included Christs Charge to Peter from the circle of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. Based on one of Raphaels seven large cartoons painted as designs for tapestries, the work represented the Italian Renaissance at $10,625. Mannerism featured a red chalk drawing A Figure Scene with a Woman Feeding a Monkey, a Seated Man, Putti and a Boar ... More Ackerman Studios presents 'Sacred Sceneries' by Ewan David Eason at After Nyne GalleryLONDON.- Eason is a London based artist, who since 2010, has steadily attracted the attention of institutions like the Barbican, the RA and Christie's. His stunning collection of gold circular maps, have also featured in the Sunday Times Style Magazine, World of Interiors and BBCs The Night Manager. Simply put, he produces contemporary maps of major cities, gilded in gold and silver leaf. The overall effect is arresting. Iconic topographical surfaces in shimmering precious metals create an understandably, powerful and abstract beauty. And then your eye zooms in to an intricate network of connective tissue made up of places and rivers all of which you realise will be rewritten in as little as a decade. Our fascination with maps is well known. These navigational tools have taken many forms over the years and have always had a powerful effect on the imagination. Easons ... More Maurizio Nannucci's greatest artwork illuminates the Pilotta Monumental Complex in ParmaPARMA.- Time, Past, Present and Future, the winner of the fourth edition of the international competition organised by the Italian Council, extends around four sides of San Pietro courtyard inside Pilotta Monumental Complex in Parma, one of Italys oldest historical complexes housing the National Gallery, Farnese Theatre, Archaeology Museum, Palatine Library and Bodoni Museum, creating a monumental new entrance to the building. Time, Past, Present and Future, the biggest permanent work Maurizio Nannucci has ever designed in Italy, was presented and lit up on Friday 22nd November 2019. It is 190 metres long and features 55 letters made of neon glass from Murano illuminated by blue light. The work creates an ideal link between the complexs history and the present day, between art from the past and contemporary art, and between the inside ... More Enter the city of Paris in 1929 and explore the art of more than 20 artistic revolutionariesST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Paris, a timeless city both intellectual and sensuous, was vibrating with the spirit of liberation in 1929. Among those pulsing with the energy and excitement of the era were groundbreaking artists, galvanized to forge vital new creative paths with cultural and political meaning. Midnight in Paris: Surrealism at the Crossroads, 1929, profiles the work, friendship and clashes of more than 20 avant-garde artists of the era, from the painters Salvador Dalà and René Magritte, to sculptors Hans Arp and Alexander Calder, to filmmakers Germaine Dulac and Luis Buñuel. Man Ray, the great American artist, and perhaps the first paparazzo, made splendid photo portraits of these and other Surrealists, turning them into international celebrities. The year 1929 in Paris was one of those rare moments when the artists of the time knew they were reshaping ... More Posthumous Leonard Cohen album offers apt final waltzNEW YORK (AFP).- Though his storied career needed no epilogue, Leonard Cohen's graceful new posthumous album "Thanks for the Dance" offers a satisfying postscript, giving fans one last chance to savor his inimitable poetry. Mere weeks before his death at age 82, Cohen released his 2016 album "You Want It Darker," a stirring work whose lyrics continue his metaphysical exploration of death, spirituality, and his place in the universe. Though many saw it as the final chapter from a singular talent, Cohen had more reckoning to do -- and the unfinished pieces he left behind are now integrated into his vast body of work. In mourning his father's death, Cohen's son Adam, also a musician, grew determined to do justice to the raw vocal recordings left behind. He assembled a number of star musicians including Spanish guitarist Javier Mas, Daniel Lanois and Jennifer ... More Jean-Michel Othoniel's first exhibition in Shanghai on view at PerrotinSHANGHAI.- Perrotin Shanghai is presenting a solo exhibition of new works by Jean-Michel Othoniel, marking his first exhibition in Shanghai. Using his signature module of geometric elements, such as bricks or beads, Othoniel creates significant glass sculptures that range from small-scale to monumental. For this exhibition, he presents a new series of suspended necklace sculptures alongside one new work in his brick series, titled Precious Stonewall. Taken together, these signature works provide an introduction of Othoniels artistic practice to Shanghai. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Othoniel has experimented with and expanded on the use of various alchemic materials, most notably sulfur and glass. Othoniel began working with sulfur in the late 1980s, which led him to embark on a research trip to the Aeolian Islands in 1989. There, ... More Meet the artists in Mickalene Thomas's orbitNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Some she has known for years, others she discovered recently. All the eight artists Mickalene Thomas chose to include in her new exhibition, A Moments Pleasure, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, emphasize her broad network of like-minded creators. One commonality is that they are playing between figuration and abstraction, in the words of Carlyn Thomas, a curatorial assistant who worked on the show a balance similar to Mickalene Thomas own art. Derrick Adams, 49, based in Brooklyn, New York, creates layered, collagelike works depicting African American lives in many media. He hopes to create a residency in Baltimore, saying, The highest point of success is to help other artists. Zoë Charlton, 46, who has five works on vellum in the show depicting African American figures, recently had ... More New book captures a rapidly changing culture and a unique moment in Tottenham Hotspur's historyLONDON.- Photographer and life-long Tottenham Hotspur fan, Martin Andersen has turned his camera on his fellow fans to create Cant Smile Without You, an intimate and often visceral collection of photographs taken at home, away, and across Europe from 2013 until 2017 with the last game played at the White Hart Lane stadium. Selected and edited from over one hundred different games, Andersen presents an authentic and unflinching documentation of the fans and their resultant relationships and community. His imagery depicts the drama, tensions, and raw emotions involved in such unwavering support of a football team that infiltrates every part of life. Capturing a rapidly changing culture and a unique moment in Tottenham Hotspurs history following the demolition of the 118 year-old stadium at White Hart Lane at the end of the 2016/17 season, the monochrome images in Can& ... More Holabird to hold 5-day Holiday Treasures Auction, Dec. 5-9 in RenoRENO, NEV.- A five-day Holiday Treasures Auction packed with a staggering 4,379 lots in a wide array of collecting categories including Western Americana, railroadiana, gold, minerals, music memorabilia, mining, art, Native Americana, militaria, aviation, postal history, coins, tokens and more will be held Thursday thru Monday, December 5th-9th, by Holabird Western Americana Auctions, online and live in the gallery at 3555 Airway Drive (Suite #308) in Reno. Day 1, December 5th, will be the sales busiest day, in terms of the sheer number of categories. These will include art, militaria, Native Americana, firearms and weapons, general Americana, autographs, antiquarian books, bottles, clothing, comic books, cowboy collectibles, ephemera, entertainment industry, furnishings, 3D items, gaming, jewelry, maps, music and photography. Also offered ... More Telfair Museums announces curatorial promotionsSAVANNAH, GA.- Telfair Museums announces two curatorial appointments, promoting two current staff members to new roles. Effective November 25, Erin Dunn will be promoted to the position of Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Effective January 1, Jessica Mumford Estes will assume the title of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the museum. Erin Dunn has been a member of Telfairs staff since 2014, most recently holding the title of Assistant Curator. During her tenure at the institution, she has curated more than 20 exhibitions, including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography (2016), which subsequently toured to the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art and received a publication grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Dunn has also played a vital role in ... More First solo exhibition of works by American artist Leo Villareal in London opens at PaceLONDON.- Pace Gallery is presenting the first solo exhibition of works by American artist Leo Villareal at Pace in London. The exhibition is on view at 6 Burlington Gardens from 22 November 2019 to 18 January 2020, and coincides with the recent launch of Villareals Illuminated River, a major public artwork that, upon completion, will illuminate 14 bridges along the Thames. Launched in July 2019, four bridges, London, Cannon Street, Southwark and Millennium, are now lit up in unison with sequenced LED patterns subtly unfolding across each unique structure. Firmly rooted in abstraction, Villareals works utilize LED lights and custom software to translate the layered and sequential logic of systems into beguiling visual experiences. The works in the exhibition exist at the vanguard of digital technology while drawing on a history of practices engaged with mass ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born November 24, 1864. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 - 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. In this image: A man passes in front of two posters by French artist Toulouse Lautrec, belonging to Brussels' Musée d'Ixelles, which were shown for the first time in Spain under the title 'Toulouse Lautrec. The origin of the modern poster', at Valencian Museum of Illustration and Modernity, in Valencia, eastern Spain, Thursday 29 September 2005.
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