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In a photo provided by Yousuke Kaifu, a Mata Menge humerus fragment, left, shown to scale with the humerus of another Homo floresiensis specimen from Liang Bua cave, in Flores, Indonesia. New fossils from Indonesia, including the smallest humerus ever found from an adult hominin, belonged to the tiny Homo floresiensis species, researchers said. (Yousuke Kaifu via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- A new study describes 700,000-year-old teeth and arm bones from one of our most enigmatic relatives: a toddler-size hobbit who lived on a small island between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that the species, Homo floresiensis, sometimes nicknamed hobbits, could be even smaller than previously thought. But the results still left scientists divided over how such exceptional humans evolved. The hobbits were first discovered 20 years ago inside the Liang Bua cave on the Indonesian island of Flores. Australian and Indonesian scientists uncovered bones and teeth, along with stone tools that were most likely used to butcher meat. Based on those bones, the researchers estimated that Homo floresiensis stood 106 centimeters tall about 3 1/2 feet. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, 2018 Photo: My Matson/Moderna Museet © Maurizio Cattelan 2024.
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| The Met Announces Exhibition Featuring Major Works Exploring Systems of Power by Jesse Krimes | | Living with the Gods explores 3,000 years of spiritual belief and practice through 200 great works of art at the MFAH | | Modernism celebrates its 45th anniversary |
Jesse Krimes (American, b. 1982). Purgatory (detail), 2009. Soap, ink, playing cards, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York © Jesse Krimes.
NEW YORK, NY.- This October, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open the exhibition Jesse Krimes: Corrections that will explore the critical role photography has played in structuring systems of power in society, policing, prosecution, incarceration, and identification from the singular perspective of artist Jesse Krimes (American, born 1982). The exhibition will present three ... More | |
Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls, Huastec, Veracruz (Northern), Mexico, AD 9001521. Conch shell, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by James C. Flores in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. at One Great Night in November, 2007.
HOUSTON, TX.- In October, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples, an expansive exhibition of more than 200 objects made over 3,000 years in order to help humans make contact with the divine. For the exhibition, MFAH Director Gary Tinterow has invited British art historian and longtime ... More | |
Gottfried Helnwein Suspects 2000.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- In the spring of 1980, six years before Mikhail Gorbachev introduced glasnost to the Soviet Union, Modernism gallery brought Russian avant-garde [1910-1930] art to the West Coast of the United States. Barely six months old and situated in a large, minimalist-designed, second-floor space in San Franciscos then edgy South of Market district, Modernism defied censorship in the USSR and provincialism in San Francisco with a museum-quality exhibition that included ... More |
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| Angus McDonald awarded 2024 Archibald Prize ANZ People's Choice award | | Musket balls found in Massachusetts recall 'shot heard round the world' | | Lincoln Center taps education leader as next president |
Angus McDonald, Professor Marcia Langton AO, oil on canvas, 154.5 x 271.5 cm © the artist, image © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
SYDNEY.- Seven-time Archibald Prize finalist Angus McDonald has won the 2024 Archibald Prize ANZ Peoples Choice award for his portrait of Aboriginal writer and academic Marcia Langton AO. McDonald is only the fifth artist to have won the Peoples Choice award more than once since the prize was first awarded in 1988. Based in Lennox Head, McDonald is a strong advocate for human rights and social justice and ... More | |
Recently discovered musket balls from Minute Man National Historical Park in Lincoln, Mass. (Public Archaeology Lab for National Park Service via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Early last year, archaeologists discovered five round objects while working near trails at the Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord, Massachusetts. The spheres ranged from as small as a pea to about the size of a marble and were scattered in the dirt near the site of a Revolutionary War battlefield. They were musket balls used at the outset ... More | |
Mariko Silver, who will serve as the next president and chief executive of Lincoln Center, in New York, Aug. 6, 2024. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Mariko Silver, a prominent leader in education, government and the nonprofit sphere, will serve as the next president and CEO of Lincoln Center, the organization announced Wednesday. Silver, who previously led Bennington College in Vermont and the Henry Luce Foundation in New York, will succeed Henry Timms, who left last month after five years in the job. She will take the reins of Lincoln Center ... More |
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| Festival winners crowd New York Film Festival main slate lineup | | Tate St Ives unveils preliminary designs for the Palais de Danse | | The impact of Hungarian American artists on 20th-century photography explored in VMFA's new exhibition |
Top titles from Cannes and Berlin, like Sean Bakers Anora and Mati Diops Dahomey, join new work by Pedro Almodóvar, Steve McQueen and RaMell Ross. (Arden Wray/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- This falls New York Film Festival will feature celebrated prizewinners from Cannes and the Berlinale, organizers announced Tuesday, unveiling a main slate that will join new works from filmmakers Pedro Almodóvar, Steve McQueen and RaMell Ross. The festival, which runs Sept. 27 to Oct. 14, will screen films from 24 countries and include two world premieres, five North ... More | |
Barbara Hepworth with the plaster prototype for Single Form (Memorial) in the Palais de Danse, March 1962. Photograph Studio St Ives © Bowness.
ST IVES.- Tate St Ives today unveiled Adam Khan Architects first stage designs for the transformation of the Palais de Danse. This historic Grade II-listed building in the heart of St Ives was once a cinema and a dance hall before it was purchased by Barbara Hepworth in the 1960s as her second studio. It will now be restored and reactivated as a place for art making, performances and events, as well as offering fascinating new insights ... More | |
Marilyn Monroe, ca. 1949, André de Dienes (American, born Hungary, 19131985), gelatin silver print, 30 5/8 x 24 5/8 in. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 2021.598, Photograph © Andre De Dienes/MUUS Collection.
RICHMOND, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced its upcoming exhibition, American, born Hungary: Kertész, Capa, and the Hungarian American Photographic Legacy, on view at the museum from Oct. 5, 2024, to Jan. 26, 2025. The exhibition will fill a missing chapter in art history and is slated to be the most comprehensive exhibition ... More |
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| Poetic installation offers a tangible experience of social inequality in India | | ICA/Boston presents the U.S. premiere of Christian Marclay's latest video installation | | MCA Chicago announces Chicago Works │ Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons |
Amol K Patil, Exhibition overview, 2023. Photo: Tomek Dersu Aaron.
TILBURG.- Starting this autumn, De Ponts new wing will provide space for works by the young Indian artist Amol K Patil (1987). Never-before displayed kinetic sculptures, drawings, poetry, audio recordings and light effects will merge to create a theatrical environment. Patils work centres on the social situation of labourers and the rigid caste system in his homeland. A style of housing known as chawl, characteristic of the tenement ... More | |
Christian Marclay, Doors (still), 2022. Single-channel video projection (color and black-and-white; continuous loop). Courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. © Christian Marclay.
BOSTON, MASS.- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) presents the U.S. debut of Christian Marclays Doors, a captivating single-channel video that stitches together hundreds of film clips depicting movement in and out of doorways. In Doors (2022), Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, California) creates a continuously ... More | |
Andrea Carlson, 2023. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.
CHICAGO, IL.- The MCA announced Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons, the artists first solo museum exhibition in Chicago. This exhibition is part of Chicago Works, an exhibition series at the MCA that features artists shaping the contemporary art scene in the city and beyond. Opening on August 3, 2024, and running through February 2, 2025, Chicago Works | Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is ... More |
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Charles Cyphers, who played Sheriff Brackett in 'Halloween,' dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Charles Cyphers, who played the gruff and broad-shouldered Sheriff Leigh Brackett alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in the classic horror film Halloween (1978) and in two sequels, has died. He was 85. His management company, Chris Roe Management, announced the death on social media Tuesday. It did not provide additional details. As Brackett, Cyphers was a part of the charge to find the masked murderer Michael Myers in Halloween, the slasher film that a critic for The New York Times, Jason Zinoman, decades later described as a relentlessly terrifying masterpiece. In a pivotal scene in the movie, directed by John Carpenter, ... More Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents major Keith Puccinelli exhibition SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.- The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the exhibition POOCH: The Art Full Life of Keith Julius Puccinelli will headline the fall 2024 season. POOCH celebrates the extraordinary contributions Puccinelli made to the Central Coast art and design community and showcases over 250 works from the AD&A Museums Keith and Francis Puccinelli Collection. A catalogue documenting the exhibition will be released later in fall. Organized by the AD&A Museum and guest curated by Meg Linton, the exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, September 7 with a public reception from 4pm to 6pm and will remain on view through December 15, 2024. Gallery hours are Wednesday through ... More Serpentine announces upcomming programmeLONDON.- This autumn, Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition of LA-based artist Lauren Halsey and features the latest installment in its year of AI with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst. The live programme, hosted in Minsuk Cho's Serpentine Pavilion titled Archipelagic Void, includes performances that activate the space. Continuing its commitment to bringing art beyond gallery walls, Serpentine offers large-scale public art in Kensington Gardens. Gerhard Richter's STRIP-TOWER is displayed at Serpentine South, Yayoi Kusama's tallest Pumpkin sculpture is by the Round Pond, and Atta Kwami's final mural remains on view until September. This October, Serpentine will stage The Call, the first solo exhibition of Berlin-based artists and musicians Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst. Presented at Serpentine North from 4 October 2024 to ... More Cooper Hewitt announces "Making Home-Smithsonian Design Triennial"NEW YORK, NY.- This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present Making HomeSmithsonian Design Triennial. Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, the exhibition explores designs role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the U.S., U.S. territories and tribal nations. On view Nov. 2 through summer 2025, Making Home is the seventh offering in the museums Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design. Making Home is the first in the Triennial series to be presented in collaboration with another Smithsonian museum, in this case the Smithsonians National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Design Triennial series has a long history of looking critically at issues ... More How 100-year-old Ella Jenkins revolutionized children's musicNEW YORK, NY.- When Ella Jenkins began recording young peoples music in the 1950s and 60s, her albums featured tracks that many of that eras parents and teachers would probably never have dreamed of playing for children: a love chant from North Africa. A Mexican hand-clapping song. A Maori Indian battle chant. And even Another Man Done Gone, an American chain-gang lament whose lyrics she changed, turning it into a freedom cry. She found this way of introducing children to sometimes very difficult topics and material, but with a kind of gentleness, said Gayle Wald, a professor of American studies at George Washington University and the author of a forthcoming biography of Jenkins. She never lied to them. She certainly never talked down to them. Jenkins unorthodox approach became a huge success: She ... More 50 years later, Philippe Petit is still a 'man on wire'NEW YORK, NY.- It was 50 years ago this week that Philippe Petit defied gravity, and the police, by walking a high wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center, braving the winds some 1,350 feet above the streets of Manhattan. Petit, who will turn 75 next week, still has enviable balance, as was clear the other day when he ascended a simple metal ladder to reach what looked like a short divers platform 20 feet off the ground. A wire stretched out before him. Taking hold of a balancing pole, he stepped into the air, striding gracefully as if he were on solid ground pausing only occasionally to assert his balance against the wire rolling underfoot. People think in old age you cannot do anything anymore, he said in an interview. I think its the opposite. I think Im more majestic, more in control, more beautiful to look at today at 74 ... More Marc Straus announces the fifth solo exhibition of new paintings by German artist Anna LeonhardtNEW YORK, NY.- Marc Straus announces Jose, the fifth solo exhibition of new paintings by German artist Anna Leonhardt. Leonhardts latest works reflect her exploration of color, space, and the dynamic interplay between light and form. The title Jose emerged from a DADA-inspired letter lottery process, underscoring Leonhardts engagement with chance, language, and intuition in her studio practice. Leonhardts artistic evolution is marked by a deep inquiry into the essence of painting. Reflecting on her formative years, the artist recalls, I realized I wanted a better understanding of the process itself and what I actually hoped to find there. The question of figure in space became the center of my research (at that time I was still making figurative paintings). Her transition from figuration to abstraction was propelled by an exploration ... More Lorenza de' Medici, who elevated Italian cooking, is dead at 97NEW YORK, NY.- Before Lorenza de Medici began publishing her cookbooks in the late 1980s, Italian cuisine outside Italy was often considered unremarkable fare: red sauce, white sauce, pizza and pasta, all of which could be whipped up in haste from frozen, processed ingredients. But in books like Italy the Beautiful Cookbook (1988) and The Renaissance of Italian Cooking (1989), and later in her 13-part PBS show, The de Medici Kitchen, de Medici showed that Italian cooking could be something else entirely: light salads and soups, elegant preparations and, above all, fresh ingredients, ideally bought that morning from a local farmer. For those with enough money, she offered intimate one-day to one-week cooking courses at her familys winery outside Florence, Badia a Coltibuono. Her students stayed in the estates thousand-year-old complex, ... More The Met Opera plans a new 'Ring' with a familiar maestroNEW YORK, NY.- Richard Wagners Ring cycle is a mammoth undertaking for any opera company: a four-opera, 15-hour epic that features a cast of warriors, gods, giants and dwarves and some of the most daunting music in the repertoire. The Metropolitan Opera said Tuesday that it would again stage operas most ambitious work, starting in the 2027-28 season, the companys first new production of the Ring cycle in nearly two decades. And a familiar face will be on the podium: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Mets music director since 2018, who is extending his contract through 2030. The production, which will be staged by visionary theater director Yuval Sharon, is to feature soprano Lise Davidsen, one of operas brightest stars, as Brünnhilde. Peter Gelb, the Mets general manager, said the company had decided to stage a new Ring ... More How far will a reader go to hear songs inspired by books?NEW YORK, NY.- Halfway through the first show of their summer tour, the Bookshop Band introduced a song written for the launch of Underland, Robert Macfarlanes epic tome exploring the mysteries of the subterranean world. Its about this sense of something much bigger than we are, Beth Porter told the audience at Rheged, an arts center in Penrith, just outside the Lake District in northern England. Our place in history is very tiny, really, but its also important. Two minutes later, as if to emphasize this point, the power went out with a soft thud. The crowd gasped, myself included. Five emergency bulbs illuminated Porter, her husband Ben Please and their menagerie of string instruments on the small stage. The pair glanced at one another across a pool of yellow light a quick meeting of eyeballs. Porter kept singing. Please k ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, portrait painter Sir Godfrey Kneller was born August 08, 1646. Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (8 August 1646 - 19 October 1723) was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. In this image: Sir Godfrey Kneller - Self portrait.
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