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Göbekli Tepe calendar
NEW YORK, NY.- A researcher at the University of Edinburgh has discovered what he believes is the earliest calendar of its kind at Gobekli Tepe, an archaeological excavation site in what is now southern Turkey that used to be an ancient complex of templelike enclosures. The researcher, Martin Sweatman, a scientist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said in research published last month that V-shaped markings on the lunisolar calendar, which combines the movements of the moon and sun, recorded a major astronomical ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Vibrant, surreal, and playful, the rock concert posters from 1960s San Francisco capture the energy and excitement of both the music and the era. Opening October 19 at the Portland Art Museum, Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s reveals the passion and creativity of this moment.
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| 'Dancing with the other arts': The Ballets Russes' creative churn | | Miller & Miller Auctions, Ltd's September 7th Petroliana & Advertising auction will feature 308 lots | | Roland Auctions NY presents selection of contemporary art and decorative items August 24th |
A page from Stravinskys autograph manuscript of Firebird with his extensive revisions. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- When Robinson McClellan was sifting through the Robert Owen Lehman collection of musical manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum in 2019, he came across a concentration of famous ballet scores from the early 20th century. The manuscripts were all connected to the Ballets Russes, the revolutionary dance company founded by impresario Sergei Diaghilev in Paris, in 1909. McClellan, an associate curator ... More | |
Canadian 1930s Five Roses Flour (The Worlds Best) porcelain sign, one of the great Canadian general store signs, boasting outstanding graphics (est. CA$15,000-$18,000).
NEW HAMBURG, ON.- Two 1940s-era American automobiles a 1949 Buick Model 76C Roadmaster convertible and a 1948 Chrysler Town & Country woodie convertible plus a 1964 Airstream Overlander Land Yacht 26-foot trailer, a ... More | |
Minas Avetisyan Landscape - Oil Painting painting of a colorful landscape. Est $8,000 - $12,000.
GLEN COVE, NY.- Roland Auctions NY will present their new and quite eclectic Multi-Estates Auction on August 24th at 10am with a focus on contemporary art and decorative arts of all kinds including oil paintings, prints, photographs, bronze, porcelain & ceramic and more. Rolands August 24th sale features hundreds of lots in these areas, along with Antique & Vintage Furniture, ... More |
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| Watch the restoration of a beloved masterpiece: Portland Art Museum's Waterlilies by Claude Monet | | Exhibition of new works by Alexandra Bircken will open at Maureen Paley this September | | The Delaware Art Museum showcases collection of early 20th century illustrations |
Detail of a green passage with the varnish removed on the left third. you can see how the removal of the varnish restores a softer, less intense tonality to the green brushstrokes.
PORTLAND, ORE.- One of the most cherished paintings at the Portland Art Museum (PAM) is getting a long-awaited conservation treatment. Claude Monets Waterlilies (1914-15) is the cornerstone of the Museums strong Impressionist collection and has been loved by visitors for decades. Thanks to a generous grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project, not only will this iconic painting be restored, the ... More | |
Bircken has long held a rooted interest in fabrics and coverings which act as a second skin, a boundary between our inner and outer selves.
LONDON.- Maureen Paley and Herald St announced Gebrochenes Pferd, an exhibition of new works by Alexandra Bircken taking place in both galleries East London premises. Comprising sculpture, wall installation, and photography, this body of work continues Birckens clinical dissections of cars and motorcycles to reveal our visceral connections to the machines which empower us. Through weaving and chromed surfaces, she expands her focus from that of the ... More | |
Jay Jackson (19051954), Etta Moten Barnett Dancing, c. 1940, for American Negro Exposition, 1940. Watercolor, ink, and charcoal on paper, sheet: 12 5/8 à 9 5/8 in. (32.1 à 24.4 cm) Delaware Art Museum, Acquisition Fund, 2022. © Estate of Jay Paul Jackson.
WILMINGTON, DE.- The Delaware Art Museum presents Jazz Age Illustration, opening on Saturday, October 5, 2024, and running through Sunday, January 26, 2025. This much-anticipated original exhibition kicks off DelArts Year of the Illustrator. Jazz Age Illustration is the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and ... More |
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| Hayward Gallery Touring presents 'Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature' | | MoMA announces major Robert Frank exhibition | | Risking his own extinction to rescue the rarest of flowers |
Captain Hook and the Lost Boy, 1992. Coloured etching and aquatint on Somerset paper. Paper: 61.7 x 50.5 cm, Image: 27.7 x 20.1 Paper: 24 1/4 x 19 7/8 in, Image: 10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. Edition of 50. © Ostrich Arts Ltd | Paula Rego Estate.
LONDON.- Hayward Gallery Touring presents a new exhibition of the internationally renowned Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego (1935 - 2022). Launching in September 2024 in Lakeside Arts Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature will showcase ... More | |
Robert Frank. Pablos Bottle at Bleecker Street, New York City. 1973. Gelatin silver print, 19 13/16 à 15 7/8″ (50.3 à 40.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Promised gift of Michael Jesselson. © 2024 The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art announces Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, an exhibition that will provide new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of photographer and filmmaker Robert Franks expansive career. On view from September 15, 2024, to ... More | |
Carlos Magdalena examines a giant Amazon water lily at the Princess of Wales Conservatory. (Andrea DiCenzo/The New York Times)
LONDON.- In Australia, he went plant hunting by helicopter and waded in crocodile-infested waters to watch a water lily bloom. In Mauritius, he grabbed a plant specimen off the ledge of a cliff. Last month, while looking for lilies in a tributary of Colombias piranha-packed Orinoco River, he jumped from plank to plank in the pitch dark at 4 a.m. to get to a floating pontoon. Its not that I am that daring, ... More |
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| The Currier Museum of Art debuts 'Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit' | | The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art presents Cameron Harvey: The Shape of Being and Loop, Hum, Wave | | Thomas Wood career retrospective opens at Whatcom Museum |
Dan Dailey, Aquamotion Circus vase, 2018. Blown glass, nickel and gold-plated bronze, pate de verre, and lampworked glass. 45 x 26 x 17 inches. Photo by Bill Truslow.
MANCHESTER, NH.- New Hampshire is home to the remarkable Dan Dailey (b. 1947), whose creative ideas and innovations in glass have expanded the canon of art. Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit, the first comprehensive museum retrospective in New England, will offer an extensive exploration of the renowned artists extraordinary ... More | |
Cameron Harvey, Ancestor 36 (orange flocking). Photo: David Daigle.
MALIBU, CALIF.- The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University presents two fall exhibitions: Cameron Harvey: The Shape of Being and Loop, Hum, Wave. For her first solo museum exhibition, Los Angeles-based artist Cameron Harvey shares a new body of work inspired by her walks in the Santa Monica Mountains surrounding the Pepperdine campus. Over the past few years, Harvey has developed a distinct idiom ... More | |
Thomas Wood, The Pollinators, 2004. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. Private collection.
BELLINGHAM, WA.- The Whatcom Museum will present Under the Inspiration Tree, a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the 50-year career of esteemed Bellingham painter and printmaker Thomas Wood. The exhibition will showcase nearly 300 original works, including paintings, sculptures, etchings, and pastels, as well as a recreation of the artists studio, featuring his 1976 Hunter Penrose printing press. The exhibition ... More |
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Unveiling Monet's Waterlilies: Episode 1 - What is Conservation?
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Chazen Museum of Art announces 'Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold'MADISON, WI.- How Much A Heart Can Hold marks the museum debut of several new works by Petah Coyne and serves as both a multi-decade exploration of her career and an ode to womens complexity and creativity. Coyne often celebrates under-recognized female authors and Eastern literary figures. Her works showcase the writers and characters; dissect their complex stories; and examine how relationships, social constructs and self-image can shape how women real and fictional experience and navigate the world. The exhibition features sprawling sculptural works made of cloth, human hair, scrap metal, wax, silk flowers and other unorthodox materials. Visitors will also see The Real Guerrillas: The Early Years. The project is an ongoing collaboration with artist Kathy Grove to photograph the Guerrilla Girls, an ... More For Aja Naomi King, an Emmy nomination is a seismic eventNEW YORK, NY.- A few minutes into a conversation with Aja Naomi King, a first time Emmy nominee for her graceful, purposeful supporting turn in the Apple TV+ limited series Lessons in Chemistry, the earth began to move. Oh my God. Earthquake! Earthquake! King said. Once the ground quieted, she collected herself. Sorry, she said. I just really got the fullness of that shake. An Emmy nomination? That has been earthshaking, too. Kings Instagram post about the news is an outpouring of exuberant run-on sentences punctuated by a heart emoji. If you made it to the bottom of this post you deserve an award, she wrote. King, 39, graduated from the School of Drama at Yale in 2010. She had been working professionally for more than a decade, most notably in the tangy ABC procedural How to Get Away With Murder, when ... More 'A lot of us are gone': How the push to diversify publishing fell shortNEW YORK, NY.- When Lisa Lucas was hired in the summer of 2020 to take a big job at the countrys largest book publisher, there was a sense that things were finally starting to change in what has long been an overwhelmingly white industry. Lucas, who became the publisher of Pantheon and Schocken, imprints within Penguin Random House, was an unusual choice for the job. Executives in the book business often spend decades working their way up the ranks. While Lucas was a well-known figure in the literary world she had previously been the executive director of the National Book Foundation, which administers the National Book Awards she had never worked in corporate publishing. Lucas hiring was written up in major news outlets as evidence that publishers were committed to diversifying. As the first Black person to run ... More 'The demand is unstoppable': Can Barcelona survive mass tourism?NEW YORK, NY.- On a steamy August evening, a stream of young people bearing boxes of pizza and bottles of cheap cava began the uphill slog to Carmel Bunkers in Barcelona. Set on a hill overlooking the Catalan capital, the concrete structures once housed antiaircraft weapons that protected the city during Spains civil war in the 1930s. Later the site became a destination for residents on evening strolls and a hangout for local youths. But that was before Instagram and TikTok. Several years ago, inspired by social media, young tourists began making the Bunkers a favorite spot for drinking, carousing and the inevitable sunset selfie. Last spring the noise, litter and sheer number of visitors spurred the city to erect fences around the site. Now, hundreds of visitors find any space they can amid the surrounding scrub and rocks. Or they simply ... More What's the next 'Baby Reindeer'? This producer might have the script.EDINBURGH.- One day in fall 2018, British theater producer Francesca Moody was rummaging around in her bag for something to read during a train ride when she found a script shed been meaning to look at for weeks. Glancing at its first page, she read a scene in which a man logs onto his voicemail. You have 50 new messages, the cellphones robotic voice says. The messages are all from a woman named Martha. For the rest of the train journey, Moody couldnt take her eyes off the script of Baby Reindeer, a one-man play about a comedians struggles with a female stalker who he occasionally, with self-destructive results, encourages. It was just a thriller, Moody recalled in a recent interview. And what was amazing was it wasnt a normal victim-perpetrator narrative. It was about all the gray areas in between. When the train reached its destination ... More Mattress Factory presents the latest work by artist-in-residence Azza El Siddique PITTSBURGH, PA.- Mattress Factory announced the opening of Echoes to Omega, a new exhibition by Azza El Siddique, a Sudanese-born artist living in New Haven, CT. Deeply informed by her multicultural upbringing, her work delves into themes of migration, mythology, and mortality. Azza El Siddiques inspiration for this exhibition was spurred when she came across the story of an archeological anomaly. In 1913, a team of archaeologists unearthed an extraordinary figure from the sands of present-day Sudan. They found the statue of Lady Sennuwy, an Egyptian noblewoman, which was carved nearly 4,000 years ago from hard, gray granodiorite. The sculpture had emerged from the ancient city of Kerma, one of Nubias largest archaeological sites. This 14-foot tall, 2,300-pound statue was originally carved in Egypt, likely residing ... More The godfather of French contemporary dance passes the torchMONTPELLIER.- But is he really leaving? Even after Jean-Paul Montanari announced in March that he would retire as director of Montpellier Danse, the summer festival, which he has led for 41 years, the question persisted, half-humorously, in dance circles. Montanari has been threatening to retire forever this is perhaps my last festival, he would often say in melancholy tones but he is so closely identified with Montpellier Danse that its hard to imagine the festival without his monklike silhouette, his half-amused smile and occasional caustic asides. But he really is leaving. Ive come to the end of that road, Montanari, 76, said, speaking in French in an interview in his small, spare apartment near the Montpellier railway station. I have done everything I wanted, and ... More The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Oma-je by French artist Laure ProuvostMONTREAL.- The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art will present Oma-je, the largest North American exhibition to date by acclaimed French artist Laure Prouvost, opening to the public on November 1, 2024. This touring show has evolved from its 2023 iteration at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon and will unfold as a journey across seven of the PHI Foundations galleries in Montréal. This immersive presentation celebrates Prouvosts relationship to family, friends, and their loved ones, as well as inspirational thinkers, activists, chosen kin, and artistic predecessors. Oma-je honours both intellectual inheritance and embodied ways of knowing, shifting attention from Grandfather to Grandmother and forefather to foremother. Love, touch, and teaching are irreversibly entangled and celebrated. The exhibition celebrates, references, ... More The Yale University Art Gallery announces "The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917"NEW HAVEN, CONN.- The Yale University Art Gallery will present The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 18761917, featuring more than one hundred artists studies created for large commissions at civic institutions nationwide. From precise pencil drawings and sensuous pastels to dynamic bronzes and virtuosic oil paintings, these expressions of energy and vitality reveal dramatically different approaches to the creative process and present the clearest and most direct manifestation of the artists ideas. Among the well-known figures highlighted in the exhibition are Edwin Austin Abbey, Edwin Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, Violet Oakley, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and John ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was born August 22, 1908. Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. In this image: A man looks at images at the opening of a photo exhibit Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004, at The Museum of The City of New York, which features the work of photographers from the Magnum photo agency. At right is Harlem,1947 (Easter Sunday) by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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