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Fragments of the oldest human fossil found within today's Brazilian borders, known as "Luzia", which were found among the rubble of Rio de Janeiro's National Museum after a fire caused the destruction of the building, are displayed during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on October 19, 2018. Fragments of the 11,500 year old skeleton were recovered after a large scale fire destroyed most of the exhibits and the structure of Rio's 200-year-old National Museum on September 3, 2018. CARL DE SOUZA / AFP.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP).- Brazilian officials said Friday they have recovered pieces of a 12,000-year-old fossil of a neolithic woman that was among the prized artifacts in Rio de Janeiro's burnt down National Museum. "We found almost all of the skull and 80 percent of its fragments have been identified," museum director Alexander Kellner said, adding that fragments of a femur were also uncovered from the ashes. The fossil, nicknamed "Luzia," was discovered in 1970 in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais by a French-led expedition. A Manchester University team later did a digital face reconstruction based on the skull, which was used to model a sculpture of the ancient woman. That sculpture went up in flames on September 2 along with most of the museum's 20 million artifacts. But the original skull fragments, kept in a metal urn in a closet, were found a few days ago. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day View of "Alebrijes" - Mexican folk art traditional sculptures representing fantastical creatures - during the tenth Monumental "Alebrijes" Parade and contest organized by the Folk Art Museum, on October 20, 2018 in Mexico City. More than 190 "Alebrijes" are taking part in the event. ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP
| Exhibition at Compton Verney showcases new research on James McNeill Whistler's technique | | Banksy admits shredding stunt didn't go as planned | | Christie's to offer two masterworks by Alberto Giacometti |
James McNeill Whistler, The Bathing Posts, Brittany, 1893 (detail) © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.- This autumn sees Compton Verney casting a new light on the work of the great late-Victorian master, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), with an exhibition exploring his relationship with nature. Curated in partnership with The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, Whistler and Nature explores the artists revolutionary attitude towards the natural world, as expressed in works ranging from his celebrated London Nocturnes to his Dutch and French coastal and pastoral scenes. This fascinating exhibition of around 90 oil paintings, works on paper and objects - such as the Whistlers sketchbook - shows how his singular vison was underpinned by his enduring kinship with the makers of railroads, bridges and ships - the cornerstones of Victorian wealth and trade. Iconic portraits such as Whistlers Mother are ... More | |
Love is in the Bin. Courtesy Sotheby's.
LONDON (AFP).- Banksy has admitted that one of his biggest pranks yet didn't really go according to plan. The British street artist created an art world sensation by sending one of his paintings through a shredder hidden in a frame moments after it sold at auction for £1,042,000 ($1.4 million, 1.2 million euros). Experts say the "Girl with Balloon" is now probably worth even more because the stunt created a media stir that made many reassess their understanding of performance art. But there was always a nagging question: Why did only half the painting slip through the frame? Was there a deeper meaning? Did Banksy -- whose identity is known only to a select group of loyal friends -- try to tell us something we were still failing to grasp? The secretive artist admitted on a video posted on his Instagram account this week that the real answer was much simpler. ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Femme assise, bronze with brown and green patina. Conceived in 1949-1950 and cast in 1957 | $14-18 million. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- In its November 11 Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies will present two consummate examples by Alberto Giacometti: Femme assise, conceived in 1949-1950 and cast in 1957 ($14-18 million) from a Distinguished Private Collection, and Le Chat The Lambert Cat conceived in 1951 and cast in 1955 ($14-18 million), which was Formerly In The Johanna Lambert Collection. These works come to auction on the heels of Giacomettis widely celebrated retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Adrien Meyer, Co-Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies, remarked: Giacometti created Femme assise during 1949-1950, at the height of a breakthrough period of ... More |
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| Turner Contemporary exhibits never before seen late gouaches by Patrick Heron | | Sculptor Richard Hunt fuses diverse influences | | ISAW presents largest and best preserved hoard of ancient silver ever unearthed |
Patrick Heron, Square Green with Orange, Violet and Lemon: 1969, 1969 (detail) © estate of Patrick Heron. All rights reserved, DACS 2018.
MARGATE.- Turner Contemporary is exhibiting a group of never before seen late gouaches by Patrick Heron (1920-99), as part of the retrospective exhibition on view now in Margate. The group of seven gouaches on paper were produced in February and March 1999, in the last weeks of Patrick Herons life, and have never been exhibited publicly before. These vividly coloured paintings were produced in an extraordinary burst of creativity in the year following Herons major retrospective at Tate, after which he struggled to paint for some time. Encouraged by his daughters to begin painting again by making small works on paper, Heron returned to gouache, a medium he had used earlier in his career, most notably in the group of over forty topographical abstractions evoking the light and colour of the Sydney Botanical gardens during a residency at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1989/90. Between November 1998 and ... More | |
Richard Hunt (American, b. 1935), Minor Monument #1, 1963. Welded chromed steel, 50 x 32 x 18 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta. Photographer: John Lusis.
ATHENS, GA.- Art and experimental zoology arent the most obvious of pairings, but sculptor Richard Hunt worked in an animal lab at the University of Chicago as a teenager, earning money to pay for college. The result was an influence that has spanned his six-decades-long career, which is on view in Richard Hunt: Synthesis. This exhibition organized by the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is on view from October 20 through February 3. Hunt has created more than 130 large-scale public commissions and helped change the role of public sculpture in the late 20th and early 21st century. He got his start in Chicago, where he was born. His father was a barber from rural Georgia and his mother a librarian, who encouraged his early interest in the arts by taking him to museums. When he was 13, Hunt began attending the Junior School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ... More | |
Statuette of Mercury. Roman, 175225 CE. Findspot: Berthouville, France. Silver and gold. H. 56.3 cm; Diam. 16 cm. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: Inv. 56.1 Photo: Tahnee Cracchiola © Getty-BnF.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World presents Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury, bringing a spectacular cache of ancient silver, discovered in 1830 in northern France, together with a rich selection of additional Roman luxury objects, all drawn from the unparalleled collections of the Cabinet des Médailles (now the Department of Coins, Medals, and Antiques), of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. With approximately 160 works, the exhibition offers insight into the rich cross-cultural exchange that characterized the Roman province of Gaul, as well as the cultural significance of Roman luxury arts. Highlights include two important silver statuettes of the Roman god Mercury; superbly worked Late Antique missoria (silver platters); drinking cups, offering bowls, and other vessels; cameos; intaglios; jewelry; figurines; and ... More |
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| Exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of bacteria | | Immersive exhibition explores five centuries of the artistic and cultural heritage of the city of Jodhpur and its people | | Ketterer Kunst announces highlights from its Auction of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Autographs, and Decorative Prints |
A giant inflatable E. coli sculpture created by renowned artist Luke Jerram.
OXFORD.- As soon as we hear the word bacteria most of us think of illness and disease, but a fascinating and enlightening new exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History breaks this long-held myth. This autumn, Bacterial World seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of bacteria and counter the popular misconception that they are all bad, or to be feared. Incorporating more than 55 exhibits spanning monumental art, geological and deep-sea specimens, film, and digital interactives Bacterial World demonstrates how these tiny organisms wield huge influence over us, shaping the past, present and future of life on our planet. The exhibition features items generously loaned from institutions including the Wellcome Collection, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the Natural History Museum, London. Bacteria were ... More | |
Portrait of Maharaja Jaswant Singh II, 1895, Bert Harris, Jodhpur, oil on canvas, 59 7/8 Ã 48 3/8 in., Umaid Bhawan Palace, photo: Neil Greentree.
SEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Peacock in the Desert: The Royal Arts of Jodhpur, India (October 18, 2018January 21, 2019), showcasing five centuries of artistic creation from the kingdom of MarwarJodhpur in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in partnership with the Mehrangarh Museum Trust of Jodhpur, the exhibition features 250 objects from the 16th to the mid-20th century including intricate paintings, decorative arts, elaborate tents, canopies, textiles, jewelry, and weapons, presented with photos and videos that evoke the impressive setting of the Mehrangarh Museum. Peacock in the Desert presents a vision of a cosmopolitan court culture that relies on art as an essential aspect of its rule. Established in the 15th century, ... More | |
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HAMBURG.- They were created by grand masters: the books, manuscripts, prints and miniatures that will be called up in the auction of Rare Books at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on 26 November. Here is a small preview of the precious gems: Historically unique is what accounts for the Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten: The first German edition of the World Chronic by Hartmann Schedel, made in Nuremberg in 1493, is one of the most richly illustrated incunabula of all. The well-preserved copy in old coloring and a 16th century pigskin binding is the auctions top lot and will be called up with an estimate of 120,000. Hourly, was the intended usage rate of the splendidly colored Latin and French Book of Hours manuscript that was made at Troyes around 1470. The marvelously illuminated parchment script is particularly captivating for its 15 full-page miniatures, it has been estimated at 25,000. Additional ... More |
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| Liz West installs ambitious outdoor work made entirely from luminous fluorescent acrylic | | The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia opens major exhibition by South African photographer David Goldblatt | | Exhibition at Ubuntu Art Gallery looks back on three decades of works by Hassaan Ali |
Aglow consists of one hundred and sixty-nine hemispherical fluorescent coloured acrylic bowls arranged on the ground in a hexagon shape. © Aglow by Liz West, 2018. Image courtesy Nemozena | Julien Philippy.
PARIS.- Liz Wests new installation work Aglow has been created in partnership with luxury clothing brand Nemozena. This ambitious outdoor work made entirely from luminous fluorescent acrylic launched at the Musée Nissim de Camondo for Paris Fashion Week. Aglow consists of one hundred and sixty-nine hemispherical fluorescent coloured acrylic bowls arranged on the ground in a hexagon shape. The edges of these multiple unplugged fluorescent bowls in six neon colours will glow as if charged with electricity. These 'live' edges and choice of material embodies West's interest in the relationship between colour and light and their ability to enhance the viewers perception of the work. Liz West comments about the new work; The acrylic bowls offer a highly reflective concave surface ... More | |
David Goldblatt, Young man at home, White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972, silver gelatin photograph on fibre-based paper, image courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town © The David Goldblatt Legacy Trust.
SYDNEY.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is presenting a major retrospective of internationally-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt. With a career spanning over six decades, photographer David Goldblatt is one of the greatest living photographers of our time, noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the rise and dismantling of Apartheid. With their intense human focus, his photographs offer powerful reflection and insight into South Africas turbulent history. This exhibition comes hot on the heels of this years Sydney International Art Series exhibition at the MCA, Pipilotti Rist: Sip My Ocean, which attracted over 110,000 attendees the largest crowd for a Sydney International Art Series exhibition that the MCA has held since the re-opening ... More | |
This long-awaited retrospective spans thirty years of a critical phase in the artists work.
CAIRO.- Ubuntu Art Gallery is presenting the first monographic show of works by Nubian artist Hassaan Ali. This long-awaited retrospective spans thirty years of a critical phase in the artists work - from the 1980s to the present day and examines his versatile and expressive signature style by presenting seminal works executed in various media on a variety of substrates and surfaces. The contemporary landscape of Sudanese art would be incomplete without mentioning a significant figure like Hassaan Ali. A self-taught artist with a thoroughly academic background toiling away quietly yet assiduously in his Cairo studio, far from the frenzy of the commercial and commodified art world outside; he has remained loyal to his artistic vision and carried on regardless with his own distinctive creative process. Free, emotive and a highly personal visual vocabulary tackling questions about exile, absence and solitude al ... More |
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Are museums deciding on the right exhibitions?
LONDON.- Innovative art tech company Vastari has launched two international reports to help museums use their resources more efficiently to produce successful exhibitions for their audiences. Vastari surveyed over 500 international institutions to find out how museums across the globe create, finance and collaborate on exhibitions. Vastari has collated and analysed the data generated by the survey into two reports in order to provide museums with a valuable picture of how they can improve their own practices to generate income, build collaborative relationships and better serve their audiences. The reports also intend to raise awareness within the wider market of the constraints faced by museums. These first editions of the reports are based on data from institutions primarily situated across Europe and North America. As more institutions around the world ... More
University Archives to offer rare and highly collectible autographed documents
WESTPORT, CONN.- A rare, 1785 hand-colored portrait engraving of George Washington, printed for and sold by the London publisher Carington Bowles (British, 1724-1793), will be a featured lot in University Archives next online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, October 31st. Live bidding for the 283-lot auction is scheduled to start promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. As with all University Archives auctions, this one is loaded with rare and highly collectible autographed documents, manuscripts, books, photos and relics. The full catalog can be viewed now, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Online bidding is being provided by the major platforms, Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Major categories in the sale include JFK and many other U.S. presidents, and scientific items (to include Darwin, ... More
Major new exhibition looks at Arab art of the 'Revolution Generations'
DOHA.- Revolution Generations, a ground-breaking exhibition curated by Abdellah Karroum, Director of Mathaf, presents artists from the Arab World, Turkey, Iran and diaspora, looking at important moments of change in the history of modern and contemporary art; specifically the 1950s - 1960s Post-Independence(s) era; a period between 1970s - 1990s, and the 2000s Pre-revolutions decades, when underground artistic movements developed in the region in response to the absence of freedom of expression. Offering a historical narrative, Revolution Generations introduces artists as vital actors of social and cultural change in each of these periods of modern and contemporary history. The exhibition is staged in three parts. Chapter one looks at the fight for independence in North Africa, the Middle East countries and beyond in the 1950s, the beginning ... More
Christie's collaborates with Mark-Francis Vandelli to curate The Collector London Sales
LONDON.- Christies will present the autumn edition of The Collector sales on 13 and 14 November in London; an array of decorative arts and furniture ranging across: English Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art; European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics, and Silver & 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art. In celebration of the diverse styles and origins of the pieces within the auctions, Christies has partnered with avid collector and aesthete Mark-Francis Vandelli, a television personality known for his eccentric and exacting taste, to curate his selection of the sales within The Collector preview, open to the public from 9 to 12 November at the London King Street Galleries. Bringing theatricality and flair to Christies sale rooms, Mark-Francis has designed a series of film set-style vignettes; a Manhattan penthouse, a Parisian hôtel particulier ... More
The Fabric of India art exhibition makes U.S. debut at the Cincinnati Art Museum
CINCINNATI, OH.- Discover the richness of Indian textiles from the fifteenth century to today in The Fabric of India, on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum October 19, 2018January 6, 2019. Organized by the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, this exhibition is the first to explore the dynamic and multifaceted world of handmade textiles from India. Showcasing the finest examples from the V&As world-renowned collection together with masterpieces from international partners, leading fashion and textile designers and additions from the Cincinnati Art Museums permanent collection, this exhibition features over 170 handmade objects. Visitors can expect a stunning range of historic dress, heirloom fabrics and cutting edge fashion. Handmade textiles are embedded in every aspect of Indias identity and the history of these fabrics dates back ... More
Rare gold cup with a Russian royal inscription estimated to fetch £2,000-£3,000 at auction
LONDON.- An ornate gold cup being offered in an auction of Islamic & Indian Art at Chiswick Auctions on October 26th, 2018 bears a remarkable inscription on its base: 'This cup was granted by His Imperial Majesty the heir to the throne (tsesarevitch) Alexander Nikolaevitch, October 1850'. The person mentioned is Alexander Nikolaevitch (or Nikolayevich) Romanov, Tsar Nicholas I's heir to the throne. He succeeded to the throne on his father's death in 1855 and was crowned Tsar Alexander II. He is remembered in Russia to this day as a great reformer and the promoter of the serfs' emancipation in 1861. The young Alexander received a liberal education and differently from his predecessors, he was taken on a six-month tour of Russia in 1837, visiting 20 provinces in the country. His travels continued in the years to come, when he visited ... More
The Rockefeller Beetles exhibit opens at Harvard Museum of Natural History
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.- Over the span of 90 years, banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller collected beetles from around the world, eventually building a personal collection of more than 150,000 specimens. In 2017, his longstanding support for the entomology department of the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology culminated in a gift to the museum of this extraordinary collection. The Harvard Museum of Natural History celebrates this monumental gift with The Rockefeller Beetlesa new exhibit that features hundreds of specimens from this exceptional collection and that recounts the story of a man whose childhood pursuit grew into a lifelong passion. The collection is superb, worldwide, and the biggest collection ever donated to Harvard Universitys Museum of Comparative Zoology as far as we know, said the MCZs ... More
Melbourne-based design practice Hecker Guthrie awarded the Rigg Design Prize 2018
MELBOURNE.- Melbourne design practice Hecker Guthrie has been awarded the prestigious Rigg Design Prize, the highest accolade for Australian contemporary design. The $30,000 triennial prize was announced at the opening of the National Gallery of Victorias Rigg Design Prize 2018 exhibition, which features bespoke, purpose-built interior rooms by ten shortlisted Australian interior designers. It is the first major presentation of contemporary interior design in the NGVs history. Creating a custom-made room in response to the theme of domestic living, lead designers Paul Hecker and Hamish Guthrie created an interior, The table is the base, which celebrates the table as a modest yet powerful object, often pulling and binding people together as they gather around it. By playing with the form and scale of ... More
DeCordova opens exhibition of iconic photographs by Larry Fink
LINCOLN, MASS.- This October, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum opened Larry Fink: Primal Empathy, a distinctive presentation of Finks iconic candid black-and-white photography. The exhibition, which features over 40 photographs from the artists extensive career, is on view October 19, 2018 through March 10, 2019. Drawn from deCordovas permanent collection with loans from the artist, this exhibition focuses on empathy in Finks work. Whether photographing members of elite urban society or rural farmers, empathy drives his curiosity about our shared humanity and shapes his decisions for lighting, framing, and positioning his subjects. This unprecedented exhibition explores Finks critical compassion across series that span his career, including his best-known project Social Graces, his surprisingly tender images of boxers, and close ... More
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opens exhibition of photographs of and about the New South
CHARLESTON, SC.- The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston presents the exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South October 19, 2018, to March 2, 2019, held simultaneously at both the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the City Gallery at Waterfront Park. Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South comprises fifty-six photographers visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it offers a composite image of the region. The photographs echo stories told about the South as a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities. The projects purpose is to investigate the senses of place in the South that congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers looking, their ... More
Exhibition at the Portland Art Museum presents more than 100 paintings and works of calligraphy
PORTLAND, ORE.- The Portland Art Museum is presenting the world premiere of Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles. Presenting more than 100 paintings and works of calligraphy from one of the finest private collections of Japanese art in North America, the exhibition opened October 13, 2018, and remains on view through January 13, 2019. Formed over two decades, the collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles is exceptional in its quality and breadth, and unique in that it is deeply informed by classical Japanese taste as well as welcoming of idiosyncratic departures from the canon. Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art focuses on one of the great strengths of their holdings: visual art closely tied to poetic traditions. Poetry, painting, and calligraphy have always been deeply intertwined in East Asia, but ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Domenichino was born October 21, 1581. Domenico Zampieri, known as Domenichino for his shortness (October 21, 1581 - April 6, 1641), was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese or Carracci School of painters. Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoemaker, and there initially studied under Denis Calvaert. In this image: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) The Way to Calvary.
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