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Yaakov Billig, Director of the Israel Antiquities Authoritys excavation, presents column capitals, part of a collection of several dozen adorned architectural stone artifacts estimated to date from around 701 BC, during a press presentation in Jerusalem on September 3, 2020. The stone artifacts, made of soft limestone with decorative carvings in the architectural style known as 'Proto-Aeolian', are thought to be part of an expensive structure built on a hillside overlooking Jerusalem's old city in the period between the days of King Hezekiah and King Josiah. The importance of the decorative carvings from this period led the Bank of Israel to choose it as the image that adorns the Israeli five shekel coin. Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli archaeologists unveiled Thursday unique 2,700-year-old stone carvings indicating a rebound in prosperity in the Kingdom of Judah following the near destruction of ancient Jerusalem. The two limestone blocks, roughly 50 centimetres (20 inches) wide, have almost perfectly preserved proto-Aeolic carvings reminiscent of spiralling ram horns. The items known as capitals are believed to have topped pillars in the courtyard of a building that was completely destroyed. The Aeolic was an early form of classical architecture developed from Phoenician styles, according to the Ancient History Encyclopedia. The find was made in November by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologist Yaakov Billig in preliminary works for construction of a visitor centre on the Armon Hanatziv promenade, which lies a few kilometres (miles) south of Jerusalem's Old City. Two blocks were uncovered, o ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Hampton's Virtual Art Fair hosted by Christofle, opened featuring 90 international galleries, and 105 booth displays from 11 countries around the world and 30 cities across the US. Over 2,000 pieces of artwork are being displayed in the virtual reality booths in 2D and 3D, and available for purchase on the website directly from the galleries.
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 | | Christie's announces an online collection sale of Old Master pictures | | Galerie Templon presents over twenty works by Edward and Nancy Kienholz | | ICE recovers 19th century painting stolen from Italian monastery | 
The Flight into Egypt by Francois Perrier. Estimate: £8,000-12,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christies announced a prestigious online collection sale of Old Master pictures, Discovering Old Masters: The Legacy of Piero Corsini, live from 23 September 7 October. Piero Corsini (1938-2001) was one of the most successful and charismatic art dealers of his day, and this auction offers a curated selection of works from the Renaissance to the 19th century, featuring predominantly Italian works, with paintings and drawings ranging across all artistic themes, from genre, religious and mythological works, to portraits, landscapes and still lifes. Maja Markovic, Head of Sale, Old Master Pictures, comments: Piero Corsini was one of the most successful and charismatic art dealers of his day, and this auction is a testament to both the insatiable curiosity of his collecting and his connoisseurly intuition for discoveries. The paintings in this sale, many of which have been stored away since his death, are ... More | | 
Kienholz, Useful art No.1, 1992. Mixed media assemblage, 193 x 68,6 x 48,3 cm ; 76 x 27 x 19 in. © Courtesy Templon, Paris Brussels.
PARIS.- Faithful to its historical programming, Galerie Templon is opening its 2020-2021 season with a major exhibition of the Kienholz. Key figures in American art and pioneering installation artists, Edward and Nancy Kienholz are renowned for their hard-hitting art that combines a formal and political radicalism that is particularly relevant today. This exhibition presents over twenty pieces, some of them for the first time in Europe, created between 1978 and 1994. Life-size installations, three-dimensional tableaux and assemblage works made from everyday items, their works lie beyond the boundaries of sculpture, depicting an unsettling world as fascinating as it is repellent. Far from the conventions of readymade or pop art, their strange scenes are populated by human figures and manufactured items that create an ambiguous and mysterious realism. The aim is to offer a fierce ... More | | 
HSI Dallas was able to locate the painting after receiving a tip from the HSI Attaché Office in Rome.
DALLAS, TX.- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Dallas, Texas, recovered a 19th century painting Wednesday that was stolen from the Abbey of Santa Maria in Sylvis in Sesto al Reghena, Italy, in May 2002. The painting called the Assumption of the Virgin Mary was created by Italian artist Giuseppe Pappini in August 1851. HSI Dallas was able to locate the painting after receiving a tip from the HSI Attaché Office in Rome, Italy, in 2019. Based on that tip, HSI tracked the painting to a private art collector in the Dallas-area who had purchased the painting in 2015 from a dealer who was unaware that it was stolen. After learning of the paintings origins, the private collector voluntarily agreed to hand it over to HSI so that it could be repatriated to Italy and returned to the monastery. Investigating the loss or looting of cultural heritage properties and returning them to their ... More |
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| | Laz Emporium: The post-Covid lifestyle brand from Steve Lazarides | | 500-year-old sturgeon found in Danish royal shipwreck | | Works by renowned photographer Aaron Siskind donated to The University of Texas | 
Banksy Captured © Steve Lazarides.
LONDON.- Accidental art dealer Steve Lazarides announces the launch of Laz Emporium, an eclectic bazaar reinventing the curiosity shop for our post-Covid age. Laz Emporium is supported by an artisan studio in Lazarides native West Country, equipped with state-of-the-art printing and manufacturing devices. Lazarides circle of artists, plus new creative collaborators, are already at work on distinctive and desirable editions and one-offs to be sold via both online and physical Laz Emporium stores. While Laz Emporium focuses primarily on furniture, homeware, publishing and printing, its heterodox inventory will include all manner of pop culture artefacts and objets danarchy. Many will be imported from Lazarides own collection, built up over many years operating at the cutting edge of the global arts movement. An emporium is a store carrying many different kinds ... More | | 
Diver examines the wooden barrel. Photo: Brett Seymour.
COPENHAGEN (AFP).- A two-metre long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea, archaeologists told AFP. "During archaeological excavations in 2019, a wooden barrel submerged inside the shipwreck revealed the almost complete and well-preserved remains of a sturgeon fish," archaeologists from Lund University in Sweden wrote in a recent article in the Journal of Archeological Science. The discovery, qualified as "unique" by the researchers, was possible thanks to the special characteristics of the Baltic, a semi-closed sea with low oxygen levels. "The wreck is in such good condition because of the strange Baltic environment. The low salinity here is unsuited for shipworm, which eat wood in the world's ocean ... More | | 
Aaron Siskind (American, 19031991), Chicago Scrapyard 2, 1948 (detail). Gelatin silver print, 18.2 x 24.1 cm (image); 20.2 x 25.2 cm (sheet). Harry Ransom Center Photography Collection, Gift of Adam and Susan Finn. 2019:0028:0002 © Aaron Siskind Foundation.
AUSTIN, TX.- A collection of 35 gelatin silver prints by photographer Aaron Siskind (American, 19031991) has been donated to The University of Texas at Austins Harry Ransom Center to enrich the study of photography. The collection, through the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Fine Arts, is gifted to the university by Adam and Susan Finn, noted Houston-based photography collectors. Adam Finn is also an alumnus of UT Austin. The gift underscores the role of private donors in contributing to the universitys research holdings, providing new materials for scholarship and discovery in the ... More |
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| | The Whitney reopens with 3 powerhouse shows | | Von Bartha celebrates 50th anniversary with group exhibition | | Siah Armajani, sculptor of communal spaces, dies at 81 | 
The Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), by Alfredo Ramos MartÃnez at the Whitney Museum of American Art on Feb. 16, 2020. Emiliano Granado/The New York Times.
by Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Siddhartha Mitter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Whitney Museum of American Art reopened Thursday, with new safety guidelines that will require visitors to purchase timed tickets in advance. By the time the museum announced its closure in March, our critics had reviewed two remarkable shows: the first New York museum exhibition of the still-mysterious painter Agnes Pelton; and a grand retrospective of Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Below is an overview of those reviews, plus insights into another strong show at the Whitney, Cauleen Smith: Mutualities. This survey, extended through Nov. 1, presents the underappreciated but inimitable art of American painter Agnes Pelton (1881-1961). It also offers a reminder that the ... More | | 
Terry Haggerty, Untitled, 2019. Photo by Ben Koechlin. Image courtesy the artist & von Bartha.
BASEL.- Von Bartha is presenting a group exhibition, The Backward Glance can be a Glimpse into the Future, 5 September 7 November 2020. Von Bartha celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020 and this exhibition centres on the subject of the gallerys 50 year history. The show is on view in the gallerys Basel space and curated by Swiss curator Beat Wismer. By staging outstanding works from the past hundred years, the exhibition offers reflection on this milestone moment in von Barthas history and looks ahead to the future, incorporating works by 45 leading artists including modern artists Camille Graeser, Yves Laloy, Jean Tinguely and contemporary artists Anna Dickinson, Terry Haggerty, and Sarah Oppenheimer. After 50 successful years, von Bartha is transitioning from the founding generation to the next. The exhibition title highlights this decisive moment, of both reflecting on the past whilst facing ... More | | 
Siah Armajani, Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room #3, 1988, mixed media, dimension variable. Siah Armajani: Spaces for the Public. Spaces for Democracy. (2019), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Courtesy NTU CCA Singapore.
by Holland Cotter
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Siah Armajani, an Iranian-born American artist whose architecturally scaled, politically inflected public sculptures have been internationally influential, even as he kept a low profile in the art world, died Aug. 27 at his home in Minneapolis, a city he had lived and worked in for 60 years. He was 81. The cause was heart disease, said Olga Viso, a former director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which showed Armajani early on and in 2018 helped organize a long-overdue career survey. I am interested in the nobility of usefulness, Armajani said in a 1990 profile in The New Yorker. My intention is to build open, available, useful, common, public gathering places. Gathering places that are neighborly. ... More |
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| | Carnegie Museum of Art's "Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries" opens | | Bridget Riley opens an exhibition across all three of Max Hetzler's locations in Berlin | | Kamel Mennour opens Brutal Family Roots, a new exhibition by Mohamed Bourouissa | 
Trevor Paglen, "Beckett" (Even the Dead Are Not Safe) Eigenface, 2017, dye sublimation print. © Trevor Paglen. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art opened its major exhibition, Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries. This exhibition is part of the third iteration of the Hillman Photography Initiative (HPI), a CMOA project committed to exploring new ideas about photography. This cycle of the initiative, titled Mirror with a Memory, will also feature an interdisciplinary podcast series hosted by Martine Syms, launching in October, a scholarly publication, slated for December 2020, and free online programs taking place throughout the fall. Visitors to CMOA can purchase a timed ticket, which includes access to Trevor Paglen: Opposing Geometries. With the development and advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), there has been a radical change in the way that surveillance systems capture, categorize, and synthesize photographs. Mirror with a Memory explores the many ways artists probe the intersections of photography, surveillance, and AItheir past, present, ... More | | 
Installation view: Bridget Riley, Galerie Max Hetzler, BleibtreustraÃe 15/16, Berlin, 5 September 24 October 2020. Photo: def image. Image © Bridget Riley. All rights reserved. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris | London.
BERLIN.- Galerie Max Hetzler is presenting a comprehensive solo exhibition with works by internationally acclaimed artist Bridget Riley on view across all three gallery locations in Berlin. This is the artist's seventh solo exhibition with the gallery. Since the beginning of her career, Bridget Riley has constantly redefined the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. Being acutely aware of how individual and collective experiences taint ones vision of the world, the artist creates works that free colour and form from their illustrative potential, enabling what the artist refers to as pure sight. Riley develops paintings through the accumulation and distribution of particular formsvertical and horizontal stripes, circles, triangles, and rhomboids, curving bandsthat move rhythmically across the surface. The artist's profound observations of movement, light and colour lead to a co ... More | | 
Exhibition view « Brutal Family Roots », kamel mennour (47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts), Paris, 2020 © Photo. archives kamel mennour, Paris/London © ADAGP Mohamed Bourouissa. Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London.
PARIS.- Kamel Mennour is presenting Brutal Family Roots, a new exhibition by Mohamed Bourouissa, following his project shown at NIRIN, the 2020 Biennale of Sydney and his previous installations at 2018 Liverpool Biennial, the 2018 Marcel Duchamp Prize, and the 2019 Sharjah Biennial. The experience as a child, being in a place and becoming emotionally attached to plants, people, smells, movements and languages, is often the foundation that becomes conflicted once we start to move around the world. Plants, like humans, drop their seeds and sprout new lands, or are removed, relocated and transported to be planted in places far from their ancestors. Bourouissa has been inspired by gardens, collaborations, migration and working with communities for many years, as evidenced in Resilience Garden, 2018, commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial. This pre-occupation with gardens ... More |
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 Auction features outstanding items from the estate of tycoon T. Boone PickensDALLAS, TX.- Outstanding items from the estate of the late Texas and Oklahoma oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens plus exceptional pieces from the stately R.L. Thornton Chateau mansion just outside of Dallas and other prominent estates will all be packed into a monster four-day Texas Billionaires auction planned for September 12th-15th by J. Garrett Auctioneers, based in Dallas. The auction will be held online, via LiveAuctioneers.com and Invaluable.com, with phone and absentee bids accepted. There will be no live gallery bidding. Auction times are 12 noon Central on September 12th and 13th, and 11 am Central on September 14th and 15th. Over 2,300 quality lots will come up for bid over the course of the four days. Collectors should mark their calendars. The auctions fine art category is extensive and will feature original paintings by masters old ... More Hermès Crocodile Birkin could snag $60K+ at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A selection of luxurious travel bags, hard-to-find wicker handbags and a limited-edition "Endless Road Birkin will be among the top attractions in Heritage Auctions' Luxury Accessories Live auction Oct. 4. "Travel this season is very sophisticated, stylish and chic, Heritage Auctions Luxury Accessories Director Diane D'Amato said. "This auction has an array of bags that are perfect for your next getaway, bags that are useful as well as romantic and luxurious. The Hermès 60cm Miel Porosus Crocodile Birkin Bag with Palladium Hardware (estimate: $40,000-60,000) is a beautiful bag offering the ideal combination of subtle brilliance and style. Done in Miel Porosus Crocodile with Palladium hardware, it features two rolled handles and a flap top with a turnlock closure, while the interior is in Miel Chevre leather. The bag includes a lock, two keys ... More Rare photos illuminate the unconventional relationship between two of Mexico's most famous artistsST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Dalà Museum invites visitors to delve into the lives of one of the most fascinating and tumultuous couples in the history of art. Mexican artists Diego Rivera (1886-1957) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) were married, divorced and remarried, and their relationship was fraught with both conflict and deep affection. Diego & Frida: A Visual History is on view from Sept. 5, 2020-Jan. 3, 2021. More than 60 reproductions of rare historical photographs offer a personal look into the vibrant world of Rivera and Kahlos rich and harrowing 25-year relationship. The images, captured by their friends and family including Manuel Ãlvarez Bravo, Nickolas Muray, Edward Weston, Guillermo Kahlo and others, showcase their upbringing, family histories, professional careers and more, culminating with the ... More First Super Mario Bros. 3 video game prototype headed to Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- A certified prototype for Super Mario Bros. 3 one of the most influential video game titles ever created will be one of the biggest attractions in Heritage Auctions' Comics Auction Sept. 10-13. Super Mario Bros. 3 Wata-Certified Prototype, NES Nintendo 1990 USA is the first video game prototype developed by Nintendo, and the first prototype for a Mario game, that Heritage Auctions has ever has offered. "We are undoubtedly on the verge of a historic sale as far as the Super Mario Bros. 3 prototype is concerned, Heritage Auctions Video Games Director Valarie McLeckie said. "Historically, Nintendo has always ensured all internal production materials never leave the company's walls. Prototypes, especially those as important as this one, are usually kept indefinitely, destroyed or dismantled for parts once their purpose to the developers ... More Galerie Nathalie Obadia opens an exhibition of works by French artist Benoît MairePARIS.- Galerie Nathalie Obadia is presenting Miss Rankin, French artist Benoît Maires second exhibition, following his first held in 2018, rue du Cloître Saint-Merri. Benoît Maires practice is at the crossroads between philosophy and art, thought and matter: his strength resides in his ability to give body to an idea, by focusing on the sensory qualities of a work. Following a kind of protean approach, which combines painting, installation, furniture and video, the exhibition articulates itself around a group of new canvases from his series Clouds paintings, sculptures and collages that convey the artists allegorical universe and his recent progress. The front page of the New York World Telegram, on the pivotal date of December 8, 1941, indicates: light rains tonight [
]; tomorrow cloudy followed by clearing, cooler than today, just above the headline, in bold type: 1500 DEAD IN HAWAII CONGRES ... More Aargauer Kunsthaus presents a sound installation by Martina MächlerAARAU.- In her CARAVAN exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the artist Martina Mächler (1991) takes us on a tour through the presentation of the collection on the first floor. An audio installation of subtle sounds and fragments of texts plays from speakers and guides us through the different galleries. The works of Martina Mächler ( 1991) are preceded by in depth examinations of narratives, space, movement and body. She takes a close look, for instance, at the specific circumstances of her surroundings, developing her often language based and usually ephemeral works in and with the spaces in which she presents them. For her CARAVAN exhibition Mächler realises a sound installation, responding to the situation on the upper floor of the Aargauer Kunsthaus. In the skylight galleries of the original museum building from 1959 ... More Artists give voices to plants in new exhibition at Kunstmuseum LiechtensteinVADUZ.- Scientists in the twenty-first century use the term Anthropocene to describe the realisation that human beings profoundly change the ecology of the Earth. Parliament of Plants takes this insight to offer new ways of talking about the complex interconnections that link everything to everything else. The artists in this exhibition question not only the Aristotelian position that regarded plants as close to the inorganic world, but also the Anthropocentric view that continues to define much of the Western world, even today. They illustrate principles of nature, give voices to plants from a wide range of different perspectives and testify to the extraordinary qualities of plants. Inextricably linked with our survival, a paradigm shift is taking place in the sciences regarding our understanding of plants. The exhibition is presented as an open structure. Aspects ... More Baronian Xippas opens its sixth exhibition of works by Lionel EstèveBRUSSELS.- Albert Baronian and Renos Xippas announced that the gallery is holding the sixth solo exhibition of works by Lionel Estève called Une histoire simple. The characteristic that particularly defines Lionel Estève is his capacity to combine informality and fragility to create the effectiveness of a work that guides the eye of the beholder more than actually revealing something to them. It arouses the perception of an infinite reality by revealing a space that is palpable and almost tactile. He has spent the last thirty years discovering different materials and manual techniques such as working with glass, frescoes, ceramics, watercolour, collages, and sculpture in all its forms. He also explores a wide range of non-academic techniques that he himself has more or less invented in order to create assemblages, sculptures, mobiles and installations. His ... More Norwegian-Sámi artist Joar Nango opens the Festival Exhibition 2020 at Bergen KunsthallBERGEN.- The Festival Exhibition 2020 at Bergen Kunsthall presents Norwegian-Sámi artist Joar Nango. Initially trained as an architect, Nango constructs his exhibitions as laboratories, investigating traditions and experiences from his cultural background in Northern Norway, characterized by flexibility, pragmatism and adaptation to nature. The exhibition is less a finished product than an arena for a social process of creating places and situations with possibilities for improvisation and collective action. Nangos work addresses indigenous identity and decolonialization, looking at these topics not in isolation, but as an expression of the ongoing dynamics between the so-called cultural centre and its peripheries. The exhibition is based on a theoretical framework that Nango has set up together with collaborators from different artistic or academic backgrounds, ... More Almine Rech presents a new series of vivid geometric paintings by Farah Atassi PARIS.- Almine Rech is presenting Paintings the second solo show by Farah Atassi. In her latest series of vivid geometric paintings, Farah Atassi intermingles references to modernist painting, decorative arts, textile motifs and folk art. Having long used colorful triangles, rectangles and circles to construct fanciful unpopulated interior scenes, Atassi has only recently begun to assemble these shapes into stylized still lifes and human forms. The suite of twelve new paintings (all 2020) presented for the first time at Almine Rech features Cubist-style female figures, musical instruments, domestic objects and circus props depicted in rooms whose colorfully patterened décors variously recall Mondrian paintings, Memphis Group designs, Scottish tartans and Pucci textiles. Unsurprisingly, Atassis foray into still life and portraiture is not without complication. Flouting ... More Artangel presents a new installation by Elizabeth Price LONDON.- Slow Dans, the most ambitious installation to date by Turner Prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price, is being presented by Artangel in a 19th century assembly room on Borough Road in London from 4 September 25 October 2020. This is the first major presentation of Prices work in London since she was awarded the Turner Prize in 2012. Fusing the crispness of pop with the complexity of weaving, Price has created a trilogy of dazzling new multi-screen works that delve deep into social and cultural histories, from the decline of the coal industry to the sexual politics of the office. The installation is accompanied by a new series of short video works, created by Price while self-isolating during lockdown, which will premiere exclusively on Artangels website. This brand-new body of work called Foot Notes draws on Prices cache of research for Slow ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Spanish-born illustrator Sergio Aragonés was born September 06, 1937. Sergio Aragonés Domenech (born 6 September 1937, Sant Mateu, Castellón, Spain) is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer. In this image: Mad Magazine cartoonist Jack Davis, seated far right, takes a photo of fellow cartoonist Sergio Aragones, left, and Benjamin Meglin during an event to honor Aragones, Davis, and others, including Benjamin's grandfather former magazine editor Nick Meglin, Friday, Oct. 11, 2011 in Savannah, Ga. Aragones and Davis were among eight veteran MAD contributors gathering Saturday for a rare reunion.
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