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A cast of a human jaw found during the archaeological dig at the Red Bank Battlefield site where the remains of Hessian soldiers killed in 1777 were found, in New Jersey on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of 13 Hessian soldiers killed by American forces in the bloody Battle of Red Bank near Philadelphia. Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times.
by Zach Zorich
NEW YORK, NY.- Archaeologists working at Red Bank Battlefield, a site along the Delaware River south of Philadelphia, have uncovered the remains of 13 Hessian mercenaries who were killed during a bloody Revolutionary War battle. The remains were found in a former trench that was part of the defenses of Fort Mercer, where 500 American patriots were stationed to prevent British ships from supplying troops in the city. On Oct. 22, 1777, a contingent of 2,000 Hessian soldiers fighting for the British set out to overwhelm the small force, but the day ended in a resounding defeat, with 377 Hessians killed but only 14 American casualties. Finding bone, finding Hessians was not on my radar, said Jennifer Janofsky, a historian at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, and the director of Red Bank Battlefield Park. We have documentation from that period showing where mass graves are. This was not on the map. Genetic studies are being conducted on the remains, which include isolated ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day White Cube is presenting its first ever outdoor sculpture exhibition, bringing contemporary art to the historic setting of Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire. With over 20 works by 12 artists, this exhibition takes over the grounds of the stately home, from its woodland groves and lawns to mellow brick walls and a Tudor barn.
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| Cheekwood acquires sculpture from notable Nashville-born, Brooklyn-based artist Virginia Overton | | Nationalmuseum acquires sculpture by Carl Richard Söderström | | Sprüth Magers presents new glass sculptures by Andreas Schulze in Venice | 
Virginia Overton, Untitled (4x8 view), 2018, Installation view, Built, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, 2018. Courtesy the Artist and Bortolami, New York. Photo by Nicholas Knight.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Cheekwood Estate & Gardens continues to grow its contemporary outdoor sculpture collection with the acquisition of Untitled (4x8) from internationally recognized, Brooklyn-based artist Virginia Overton. Overton was born in Nashville in 1971 and maintains strong connections to Middle Tennessee, where her family has owned a farm for more than a century. Untitled (4x8) has been exhibited around the world with two earlier versions in European and American private collections. The third version of the series has been fabricated specifically for Cheekwood and will be permanently installed on The Ann & Monroe Carrell Jr. Family Sculpture Trail, the second addition since the trails major renovation and reopening in 2020. Untitled (4x8) will debut on Oct. 8 in conjunction with the Frist Art Museums exhibition ... More | | 
Carl Richard Söderström: Dancing Bear, 2021. Black stoneware, glazed. NMK 57/2022. Photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has acquired a ceramic sculpture of a bear by Carl Richard Söderström. In the piece, titled Dancing Bear, the artist reasserted his mastery of colour and reconnected with his background as a painter. The sculpture follows in a long tradition of animal portraits in Swedish ceramic art. Earlier ceramic sculptures by Carl Richard Söderström (born 1960) were monochrome black or white. He explored the structure of clay and form by creating organic outgrowths with stripes or cavities. In Dancing Bear (2021), he believes he reasserted his mastery of colour and reconnected with his background as a painter, which is why he regards this as a key work in his oeuvre. The sculpture stands 70 centimetres high and is crafted from black stoneware clay. It was fired three times at high temperatures with multiple layers of thick glazes, followed by two firings ... More | | 
Installation view.
VENICE.- Sprüth Magers and DH Office are presenting the exhibition project Relax by Andreas Schulze in Venice. The exhibition focuses on his new glass sculptures entitled Relax - bookends shown for the first time - consisting of two glass bricks placed at right angles to each other consisting of two glass bricks placed at right angles to each other and an organic, almost ornamental form on top. Embedded in his unique visual language, the sculptures, created in Murano, repeat two frequent motifs in the artist's work, combining an everyday object with a seemingly banal curved shape into something unusually harmonious. The sausage-like forms appear in an almost relaxed posture that reflects the title of the new body of work and the theme of the exhibition. The simplicity of the works, the unique combination of rough and smooth textures, dark and light colors, underscores Schulze's interest in closely examining everyday life through idiosyncra ... More |
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| Jeremy Eden awarded Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ People's Choice award for portrait of Samuel Johnson | | Phillips in collaboration with The Artist Room presents New Romantics in Seoul | | Bortolami announces the passing of Mary Obering | 
Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ Peoples Choice award winner, Jeremy Eden Samuel Johnson OAM © the artist, image © AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins.
SYDNEY.- Jeremy Eden has been announced as the winner of the Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ Peoples Choice award for his portrait of Gold Logie award-winning actor and cancer charity campaigner Samuel Johnson OAM. The artist and his sitter bonded over their shared experience of losing close family members to cancer Edens mother and Johnsons sister and the portrait captures both of their stories. Sydney-based Eden first met Johnson, who is based in Victoria, over video in 2021 while the actor was recovering from a near-fatal car accident. Eden then flew to Melbourne for a live sitting with Johnson, before returning to Sydney where he painted for up to six hours a day for 10 weeks to complete the portrait. Johnson, who founded the cancer research charity Love Your Sister with his late sister Connie before she passed away in 2017, encouraged Eden to also include his own story ... More | | 
Annie Morris, Stack 8, Cobalt Blue, 2016. Image courtesy of Phillips.
SEOUL.- Phillips, in collaboration with The Artist Room, announced New Romantics, an exhibition of works which highlight the new spirit of Romanticism that is being revived by certain emerging and mid-career artists from the United Kingdom and beyond. Showcasing works by 23 artists, this presentation at Lee Eugean Gallery in Seouls Gangnam district from 31 August to 6 September will coincide with the debut of Frieze Seoul, and the citys flagship art fairs Kiaf SEOUL & Kiaf PLUS. The works featured in this exhibition will be on sale in Hong Kong from 19 September to 21 October 2022. Henry Highley, Director of Private Sales, Europe and Principal Auctioneer, Phillips, said: New Romantics marks the first time Phillips is hosting a contemporary art exhibition outside of our auction calendar in Seoul, as the art scene in South Korea continues to thrive. We have witnessed incredible growth in the market ... More | | 
Mary Obering. Portrait by Mark Hartman.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bortolami announce the passing of Mary Obering, who died on July 29th in New York. Throughout her prolific career, Obering brought profound innovation to minimalist painting, marrying her interest in Renaissance Art with abstraction. The artist ushered in unexpected materials, including gold leaf and egg tempera, to balanced compositions inspired by her interest in science and the landscape tradition. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1937 to Harvey and Marjorie McLean, Obering studied experimental psychology at Harvard under B.F. Skinner, and received an MFA at the University of Denver, before relocating to New York City in 1971, at the behest of her close friend Carl Andre. Within the years after her move to New York, she would present a solo exhibition at Artists Space (1973), curated by Andre, and her paintings in the second ever Whitney Biennial (1975). Obering remained in New York throughout her life, eventually splitt ... More |
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| The pedal steel gets its resurrection | | AstaGuru's 'Opulent Collectibles' auction impresses collectors of vintage and antique decoratives | | Pérez Art Museum Miami presents 'Mariano: Variations on a Theme' | 
The pedal steel belonging to Luke Schneider, curator of the newest volume of the long-running guitar compilation Imaginational Anthem, at his home in Greenbrier, Tenn., July 28, 2022. Morgan Hornsby/The New York Times.
by Grayson Haver Currin
NEW YORK, NY.- When DaShawn Hickman was 4 years old, living just 32 steps from the tiny granite House of God church in Mount Airy, North Carolina, he picked up a lap steel his uncle had built for his mother. Stretching the electric guitar across his tiny knees for the first time, using a D-cell battery as his slide, he traced the hymns his mother sang. Hickman soon graduated to the pedal steel, the lap steels Byzantine successor, with as many as 24 strings controlled not only with two hands but also with both feet and knees. A quick study, Hickman was 13 when he began leading services at House of God with his steel/strings, the centerpiece of a century-old style of Black gospel called sacred steel. ... More | | 
An exceptional four-poster king-size colonial teak wood bed (lot no.107) was sold at INR 19,72,627.
MUMBAI.- AstaGuru Auction House recently concluded its 75th auction Opulent Collectibles with impressive results. The antique and vintage collectible sale held online on July 30-31, 2022, generated a total revenue of INR 7,49,38,622. The auction presented an exquisite assortment of over 250 antique and vintage decorative collectibles spanning genres, including colonial furniture, crystal lumineers, Persian carpets, as well as a host of ceramic items belonging to China, Japan, and other countries. Talking about the impressive auction results, Radhika Kerkar, Auction Specialist - AstaGuru Auction House, says The auction result surpassed our expectations, and we witnessed enthusiastic bidding from collectors, especially for the segment of furniture. Considering the fact that this was the second Opulent Collectibles auction by AstaGuru in 2022, the response is a clear indication of a robust ... More | | 
Mariano RodrÃguez. Mujer con gallo (Woman with Rooster), 1941. Collection of Ramón and Nercys Cernuda. © Fundación Mariano RodrÃguez.
MIAMI, FL.- Pérez Art Museum Miami will open a major solo exhibition featuring artworks by Cuban artist Mariano RodrÃguez for the first time in the United States, opening on August 5, 2022. The exhibition includes works from across six decades of the artists career, featuring paintings, watercolors, and drawings on loan from leading private and institutional collections, including the artists estate, which has provided unprecedented access to rare works and archival material. The artist, widely known simply as Mariano, is regarded as one of the most important and influential painters of the segunda vanguardia. The second generation of Cuban modernists (1938-50) used their work to construct and express their vision of Cuban national identity. Rural life, the quotidian and Afro-Cuban culture served as inspiration for that identity as demonstrated in this exhibition. While best ... More |
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| Zeitz MOCAA opens a site-specific commission of monumental scale by Joël Andrianomearisoa | | Oscar Wilde first edition, Tom of Finland original illustrations, historic ephemera, & more at Swann | | Buxton Contemporary presents a newly commissioned work by Susan Jacobs | 
Portrait of Joël Andrianomearisoa by Iac Júnior, courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA.
CAPE TOWN.- Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa announces a riveting site-specific commission of monumental scale by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa titled The Five Continents of All Our Desires. The installation is supported by Fonds Yavarhoussen, Madagascar, and will be on view from 2 August 2022 to 25 June 2023 in the museums atrium. Andrianomearisoas practice encompasses working in multidisciplinary ways with materiality and scale as important considerations. Imbued with complex emotional experiences, his delicate, often ambiguous works are an ongoing series of ever-evolving exercises that consider the aesthetic and architecture of feelings that all perceive yet cannot put a name to. Zeitz MOCAA Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh says: It is a revelation and honour to host an artwork of this scale and ambition in our museum. The generosity and intentionality with which Joël approached this ... More | | 
Tom of Finland, Portrait of Eric, graphite on paper, with two autograph letters signed, 1985. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale is at auction Thursday, August 18. In its fourth iteration and entering the fifth year, the sale continues to deliver exceptional works by LGBTQ+ artists, creatives, and activists. Leading the sale is Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, 1891one of 250 original copies signed by the author and re-bound in modern full red Morocco by Robert Wu in 2019 ($25,000-35,000). Further works relating to Wilde include an 1893 autograph letter signed offering a friends daughter a minor role in Lady Windermere's Fan ($6,000-9,000) and an 1882 silver print portrait of the author by Napoleon Sarony ($2,000-3,000). Additional literary material includes a signed and inscribed first edition of Tennessee Williams Grand, 1964 ($500-700), a 1990 autograph note signed by Allen Ginsberg ($100-200), and a first edition of Nazi persecuted ... More | | 
View of The Ants are in the Idiom, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 2022. Courtesy of Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. Photo: Christian Capurro.
MELBOURNE.- The ants are in the idiom is a presentation of newly commissioned work by Australian-born, London-based artist Susan Jacobs. A meditation on the relationship between language and matter, the exhibition is an expansive sculptural environment that draws the viewer into a web of visual riddles. Jacobs poetic approach to materials is underpinned by research into systems of thought that have shapedand mis-shapedhuman knowledge. Playful allusions to science, psychology and mythology jostle with visual puns and word games. Enlivened by the imaginative potential of misinterpretation, the exhibition is a rhizomatic sculptural network that stimulates a process of associative looking in the viewer. The artist has developed this work over several years, experimenting with materials in her studio to articulate a sculptural language informed by cumulative layers ... More |
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 Eli N. Evans, who wrote about Jews in the American south, dies at 85NEW YORK, NY.- Eli N. Evans, a courtly Carolina Tarheel who rose to the upper ranks of the New York philanthropic world, but who left his biggest mark as the author of three books exploring the culture and history of Jews in the American South, including his own family, died July 26 in New York Citys Manhattan borough. He was 85. The death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his son and sole survivor, Joshua Evans, who said the cause was complications of COVID-19. With a law degree from Yale and a stint as a White House speechwriter, Eli Evans was part of a cohort of erudite Southern expatriates who landed on Manhattans literary scene in the 1950s and 60s many of whom, including Willie Morris, the Mississippi-born editor of Harpers Magazine, became good friends of his. Like them, Evans, who worked at the Carnegie Corp. before becoming ... More  Bernard Marson, a catalyst for SoHo's renaissance,dies at 91NEW YORK, NY.- Bernard Marson, who as an architect and developer figured prominently in the transformation of a lower Manhattan industrial district into SoHo, an affordable neighborhood for artists to work and live before it evolved into an enclave of chic boutiques, celebrity bars and overpriced apartments, died July 9 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 91. His death was confirmed by his son, Alexander. Mr. Marson was responsible almost single-handedly for the growth of New York Citys SoHo into an artist community and historic district, Raquel Ramati, who headed the Urban Design Group in Mayor John Lindsays administration, said in recommending him for a fellowship with the American Institute of Architects. Marson was already a prominent architect in the late 1970s when he happened upon the South Houston Industrial District, a 50- ... More  'Paint brush warrior' Tom Phillips announced as 2022 Guildhouse FellowADELAIDE.- Guildhouse, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation have today announced South Australian painter Tom Phillips as the 2022 Guildhouse Fellow a twelve-month fellowship valued at over $50,000. The Guildhouse Fellowship was inaugurated in 2019 with the generous support of leading philanthropists, the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, to recognise and elevate South Australian artistic ambition. The annual fellowship offers a transformative opportunity for one mid-career South Australian visual artist each year, awarding funding to support research and development, including the creation of new work, with a presentation outcome at AGSA. This years Guildhouse Fellow, Adelaide-based expressionist artist Tom Phillips, paints from a place of personal experience, highlighting issues of social ... More  SuperRare's 'Ghost In The Machine' opens at SoHo GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- SuperRare, the largest decentralized platform dedicated to original cryptoart, announces Ghost in the Machine, an exhibition featuring 17 digital artists exploring the liminal space between physical and digital practices. Curated by SuperRares Mika Bar-On Nesher and An Rong, the exhibition is the fifth exhibition at the SuperRare gallery pop-up in SoHo, on view August 4 - August 20, 2022. The machines we created are haunted by us, much of our lives are encoded into them in the form of data, states Bar-On Nesher. When given a place to create, or even speak with that data, what does it reflect back to us? Ghost in the Machine, is a study of the mysterious and ever-entwined relationship between humans and their machines. SuperRare Gallery is proud to exhibit artists creating at the forefront the digital art revolutionre ... More  At the BlackStar Film Festival, a revelatory understanding of cinemaNEW YORK, NY.- Dont call it the Black Sundance. Though it was dubbed that by Ebony magazine, the BlackStar Film Festival, now in its 11th year, is a cultural institution all its own. Sharing a similar focus on independent cinema with its Park City counterpart, BlackStar kicking off Wednesday in Philadelphia with a slate of 77 features and shorts from all over the world partly distinguishes itself from other festivals with its emphasis on work made exclusively by Black, brown and Indigenous artists. But as a regular of the festival, Ive always been struck by its ambitious bridging of cultural specificity, social justice and the avant-garde, making it an exciting, expansive and revelatory cinematic experience. Founded by Maori Karmael Holmes in 2012, it was conceived as a one-off event to showcase Black films that hadnt been screened in the Philadelphia ... More  Mo Ostin, music powerhouse who put artists first, dies at 95NEW YORK, NY.- Mo Ostin, who in his many years as the powerful chief executive of Warner Bros. Records made a point of putting the artist first, in the process encouraging the most important works of musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young and Prince, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 95. The death was confirmed by his granddaughter Annabelle Ostin. Between the early 60s and the mid-90s, under legendary record man Mo Ostin, no company was more successful at artist development or operated with more sophistication, the music industry trade publication Hits wrote in 2016. The list of artists signed to the constellation of affiliated Warner Bros. labels when they were guided by Ostin reads like a dream-world music hall of fame. It includes pivotal singers of the 1950s like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Sammy ... More  The Shed presents 'Tiona Nekkia McClodden: The Trace of an Implied Presence'NEW YORK, NY.- The Shed presents Tiona Nekkia McCloddens The Trace of an Implied Presence, on view August 3 through December 11, 2022. The Trace of an Implied Presence meditates on the living history and influence of contemporary Black dance in the United States. The exhibition centers on a multichannel video installation inspired by the artists research into the Brooklyn Academy of Musics 1983 landmark festival, Dance Black America, a dynamic presentation of American dance that featured legendary Black dancers, choreographers, scholars, and dance companies. In The Sheds Level 2 Gallery, the installation features four individual dance floors that function as stages for projected images of archival dance footage, film portraits of key figures involved with the festival, and the artists own documentation of the Philly Bop, ... More  New Frontier's Aug. 27 annual auction features iconic John Wayne film-worn hats & apparelCHEYENNE, WYO.- No movie character played by the immortal John Wayne was ever accused of being all hat, no cattle. Whether playing a cattle baron in The Cowboys and Chisum or portraying such unforgettable characters as True Grits Rooster Cogburn and Alamo hero Davy Crockett, Wayne always delivered onscreen credibility. His decades-long career and signature persona made him one of the worlds most admired Western stars. New Frontier Auctions announced that, as featured highlights of their August 27 auction at the Cheyenne Firearms & Western Collectibles Show, they will offer eight very special items screen-worn by The Duke. All of the items are from a single-owner private collection and have been heavily vetted, said New Frontier owner Scott Tarbell. Each John Wayne lot comes with affidavits and letters of authenticity ... More  "Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters" launches two new projectsPOMPEII.- In autumn 2022, Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters the first long-term, contemporary art programme, established by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii launches its first printed publication as well as a new yearly programme of Digital Fellowships, whose inaugural participants are seven international artists, designers, thinkers, and researchers: Formafantasma, Allison Katz, Miao Ying, Legacy Russell, Anri Sala, Rose Salane, and Sissel Tolaas. Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters was conceived in 2020 by Massimo Osanna (General Director of Italys National Museums) and Andrea Viliani (Director of the Museum of Civilizations, Rome), and since 2021 it has been overseen by Gabriel Zuchtriegel (General Director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii). The programme is curated by Andrea Viliani and Stella Bottai with Caterina Avataneo. Project Management: Laura ... More  Nicola Vassell Gallery presents a group show examining novel and stirring interpretations of interior spaceNEW YORK, NY.- Nicola Vassell Gallery is presenting Uncanny Interiors, a group show examining novel and stirring interpretations of interior space, including still lifes and figures in rooms. The exhibition includes works by Anne Buckwalter, Lenz Geerk, Vera Girivi, David Hockney, Shara Hughes, Che Lovelace, Kerry James Marshall, Henri Matisse, Danielle McKinney, Kent OConnor, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Tschabalala Self and Paul Anthony Smith. No matter how unsettling the uncanny, it is something we frequently encounter, and are innately conversant with. It is not an alien disturbance, but rather, a destabilization of that which is familiar. Each exhibiting artist agitates perception with a unique rendering of an interior. Anne ... More  15th Triennial Kleinplastik Fellbach announces winners of the Triennial PrizeFELLBACH.- The winners of the Triennial Prize have been chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Triennial Kleinplastik Fellbach since 1980. Among others, Anish Kapoor (1995), Ayse Erkmen (1998), Tony Oursler (2001, Friedrike Klotz (2010)) and Rachel Kheedori (2013) were awarded. This year, for the first time, the prize will be awarded to two female artists: the Triennial Prize, endowed with 5000, to the Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri, a newly established Young Artist Prize, endowed with 2500 to the Namibian artist Stéphané Edith Conradie. The prizes will be awarded on Saturday, October 1, 2022 during the closing ceremony of the exhibition in the Alte Kelter in Fellbach by Mayor Gabriele Zull, the laudation will be given by the curator of the 15th Triennial Small Sculpture Fellbach Elke aus dem Moore. Monira Al Qadiri is the recipient of this year's Triennial Prize, selected by the Board ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French designer Louis Vuitton was born August 04, 1821. Louis Vuitton (4 August 1821 - 27 February 1892), was the founder of the world-famous Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH. Prior to this, he had been appointed as trunk-maker to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Napoleon. In this image: In the courtyard of the Asnières workshops, around 1888, Louis, Georges and Gaston L. Vuitton (sitting on a Bed trunk) © LOUIS VUITTON ARCHIVES.
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