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Matthias Meyer at work in the clean laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Photo: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
by Marlowe Hood
PARIS (AFP).- Denny was an inter-species love child. Her mother was a Neanderthal, but her father was Denisovan, a distinct species of primitive human that also roamed the Eurasian continent 50,000 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. Nicknamed by Oxford University scientists, Denisova 11 -- her official name -- was at least 13 when she died, for reasons unknown. "There was earlier evidence of interbreeding between different hominin, or early human, groups," said lead author Vivian Slon, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "But this is the first time that we have found a direct, first-generation offspring," she told AFP. Denny's surprising ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A picture taken on August 16, 2018 shows the installation of the annual Flower Carpet on the Grand Place - Grote Markt Square in the city center of Brussels. This year's flower carpet is dedicated to Mexican region Guanajuato with its rich culture and flower tradition. The city also celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Grand Place becoming a Unesco World Heritage site. NICOLAS MAETERLINCK / Belga / AFP
| Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable to open in September at Film Forum | | Christie's announces highlights from its Asian Art Week series of auctions | | Exhibition of photographs printed in Cibachrome by Charles Johnstone on view at Joseph Bellows Gallery | 
Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable will have a 2-week engagement, September 19 October 2, at Film Forum.
NEW YORK, NY.- Film Forum will present the U.S. theatrical premiere of Sasha Waters Freyers Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, beginning Wednesday, September 19. What is a photograph? Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) asks in his iconic, gravelly Bronx accent. Winogrand was a compulsive street photographer (although he hated that term), working for decades in NYC, then in Texas and California, to create a huge body of work (hundreds of thousands of images taken with his 35mm Leica) that comprise an encyclopedic portrait of America. During his lifetime he was celebrated (as a favorite of MoMA curator John Szarkowski) and criticized (for his book, Women Are Beautiful) and then more-or-less forgotten after his untimely death at age 56. Winogrand left behind so many unseen images (more than 10,000 rolls of film over 250,000 pictures) that is has taken until now for ... More | | 
Japanese double wood box inscribed by the renowned scholar Fujio Koyama (1900-1975). Estimate: $100,000-150,000. © Christies Images Limited 2018.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Asian Art Week, a series of auctions, viewings, and events, from September 7-14. This season presents eight distinct auctions featuring over 900 lots spanning all epochs and categories of Asian Art from Chinese archaic bronzes through contemporary Indian painting. In addition to the four category sales, this season includes four thematic auctions: Qianlong's Precious Vessel: The Zuo Bao Yi Gui, a single-lot sale dedicated to a revered bronze formerly in the collection of the Qianlong Emperor; Masterpieces of Cizhou Ware: The Linyushanren Collection, Part IV, the fourth auction of a sale series of rare Chinese ceramics from an important private Japanese collection; Fine Chinese Jade Carvings from Private Collections, presenting a range of jades from five private collections; and The Ruth and Carl Barron Collection of Fine Chinese Snuff Bottles: Part VI. The week of sales ... More | | 
Church of God, Manhattan, 2011 (detail). Cibachrome print, 10 x 10 inches.
LA JOLLA, CA.- Joseph Bellows Gallery is presenting an exhibition, Charles Johnstone: Cibachromes. This solo exhibition features key selections from Johnstones portfolios: Brooklyn Corrugated Iron Fences, Thirty Four Basketball Courts, A Few Empty Pools, Some New York Handball Courts, and New York Storefront Churches printed in the luminous Cibachrome color process. The exhibition opened August 17th and continues through September 28th, 2018. Johnstones portfolios and subsequent books imply, as does his objective recording of the subject, a linkage to artists that have preceded him, specifically Ed Ruscha and the photographers of the New Topographic era. The artist works as a localist, surveying with his camera places within the city he has called home his entire life, steadily making sets, edited collections of urban environments. Commenting on his body of work, Some New York Handball Courts, photography critic William Meyers ... More |
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| Inaugural Lower East Side (L.E.S) Art Week 2018: Over 20 galleries will present female artists | | Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio presents Thomas Georg Blank's 'Veo Mis Huesos ' | | Syrian torture chambers brought to life in haunting drawings | 
This year, each gallery was asked to present either a solo or group show of established or emerging female artists.
NEW YORK, NY.- In October 2018, a list of prominent galleries on the Lower East Side will band together to host their inaugural Art Week. The twenty or so participating galleries are within walking distance from one another, allowing visitors to familiarize themselves with the neighborhood. A primary goal of the event is to begin to introduce each gallerys unique artistic vision to new audiences. Throughout the week dedicated events will be held at the galleries, such as artist talks, gallery walk-throughs, performances, poetry readings, panel discussions, and more, all geared to help attendees become acquainted with the host gallery as well as get a better understanding of each gallerys voice and the artists they represent. Motivated by our passion and desire to share our gallery platform, we were looking to widen our audience ... More | | 
Through the soundscape of one of the worlds most densely populated regions, Veo Mis Huesos is a song for Mexico City.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Veo Mis Huesos is a video installation by Thomas Georg Blank, guest curated by Dr. Angelika Jansen and presented in celebration of San Antonios newest Sister City, Darmstadt, Germany, in collaboration with the Lone Star Art Alliance and the City of Darmstadt. Through the soundscape of one of the worlds most densely populated regions, Veo Mis Huesos is a song for Mexico City. Blank uses improvised music by musicians to visualize structure and chaos. When describing the work Blank states, Only sound can reach the bones bones never see a canvas or taste a delicious meal, but sonic vibrations can and will find their way. Sound cant be stopped by surfaceswhen its waves hit an obstacle, they immediately start shaking it. Used in medical devices, ultrasonic waves make visible what is hidden under ... More | | 
Syrian artist and painter Najah Albukai looks on during an AFP interview on August 20, 2018 in Yerres. Zakaria ABDELKAFI / AFP.
YERRES (AFP).- Najah Albukai's head is filled with the dead and disappeared of Syria's civil war. The prisoners with whom the 49-year-old art teacher shared a cell in Syria fill two black ink drawings hanging on the wall in the living room of his French apartment where he lives in exile with his wife and teenage daughter. One of them shows row upon row of hunched naked men with dark, sunken eyes, their arms shielding their genitals. In another, they look down on stacks of jumbled emaciated corpses, as if contemplating their fate. "In prison you're suspended between life and death. It's an apocalyptic time. You feel as if you're in a nightmare," Albukai told AFP in an interview. Three years after his escape from the homeland, Albukai's experiences in the regime's torture chambers continue to explode on to his sketchpad. ... More |
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| Forum Gallery to present, Artists by Artists: The Artist as Subject, at EXPO Chicago 2018 | | Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art receives a transformative gift from artist Hung Liu and master printer David Salgado | | Smithsonian traveling exhibition highlights changing landscape of rural America | 
Elaine de Kooning, Harold Rosenberg #2, 1956. Oil on canvas, 48 1/4 x 36 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Forum Gallery will present, Artists by Artists: The Artist as Subject, at EXPO Chicago 2018, an exhibition of over 40 works by artists featuring other artists as their subjects, i.e. poets, actors, writers and visual artists. From the earliest work in the show, a 1905 portrait by John Singer Sargent of socialite and writer Lady Alice Lowther, to Alyssa Monks recent painting of contemporary painter Betsy Eby, this exhibition reminds us that portraiture is as compelling and vital a discipline today as it has been throughout history. Friendship, comradery, fascination and respect are united in many of the works on display as the creators portray the sometimes conflicting emotional and aesthetic connections they feel to the subjects they have chosen. The intense, abstract expressionist portrait of art critic and writer Harold Rosenberg by Elaine de Kooning is matched by the serenity of Pablo Picassos 1942 drawing of his ... More | | 
Hung LIU, Communism is the Truth I, 2011, Mixed media print, Trillium Graphics, Brisbane, CA, U.S.A.
EUGENE, ORE.- Renowned contemporary Chinese artist Hung LIU (LIU Hung 刘虹) and Trillium Graphics master printer David Salgado have donated 55 works of art to the University of Oregons Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art that exemplify the innovative mixed-media techniques they developed in which printed and painted elements are embedded in layers of resin to evocative, gestural effect. The JSMAs traditional Chinese collection forms the foundation of our holdings, but we have few works by contemporary Chinese artists, says Jill Hartz, JSMA Executive Director. This is a truly transformative gift that will strengthen our collection and enhance both research and teaching by our curators, faculty, and students for years to come.According to Anne Rose Kitagawa, JSMAs chief curator and curator of Asian art, Because these works bridge the gap between traditional printmaking and painting, Hung playfu ... More | | 
Small towns host big, colorful events for the community like the Autumn Festival in Clarion, PA. Kyle Yates Photography.
WASHINGTON, DC.- Since 1900, the percentage of Americans living in rural areas dropped from 60 percent to 17 percent. Yet, Americans still rely on rural communities for the food and other resources that power the nation. The Smithsonians Museum on Main Street (MoMS) traveling exhibition Crossroads: Change in Rural America looks at that remarkable 20th-century societal change and how rural Americans responded. A partnership of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and state humanities councils, MoMS is traveling three copies of Crossroads on simultaneous yearlong tours of Florida, Illinois and South Carolina. The exhibition opens Sept. 8 at the Cedar Key Public Library in Cedar Key, Florida, the Chester Public Library in Chester, Illinois, and the Union County Carnegie Library in Union, South Carolina. Crossroads will ... More |
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| Australian eco-friendly 'Clothes Library' fights fast fashion | | Lauren Halsey receives 2018 Mohn Award | | Casey Riley named Curator and Head of the Department of Photography and New Media at the Minneapolis Institute of Art | 
This photo taken on August 1, 2018 shows Sarah Freeman, founder of the Clothes Library store where customers can borrow and return good-quality secondhand clothes for a small monthly subscription fee, posing at her shop in Sydney. PETER PARKS / AFP.
SYDNEY (AFP).- In a small shop along one of Sydney's busiest streets, Sarah Freeman is encouraging Australians to slow down and break their addiction to fast fashion. Shocked by the speed at which Australians buy and throw away cheap garments, she is trying to harness an ancient concept -- libraries -- to persuade shoppers to rent instead of purchase clothes. "Today's society just seem to wear clothes like condoms. They wear them once and they throw them away," the passionate vintage garment aficionado told AFP at her Clothes Library in the inner suburb of Potts Point. "That's not how clothes are supposed to be designed. The clothes nowadays are manufactured for six wears, I think, which is terrible." Globally, clothing production doubled from 2000-14, with the number of garments bought each year by consumers ... More | | 
Lauren Halsey, Installation view, Made in L.A. 2018, June 3-September 2, 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Brian Forrest.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Hammer Museum today announced that artist Lauren Halsey will receive the $100,000 Mohn Award honoring artistic excellence. Since 2012, the Mohn Award is given in conjunction with the museums biennial, Made in L.A., organized this year by Hammer curators Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale. As part of the Mohn Award, the museum will also produce a monograph of Halseys work. Additionally, Daniel Joseph Martinez will receive the Career Achievement Award honoring brilliance and resilience; and EJ Hill will receive the Public Recognition Award, as chosen by visitors to the Made in L.A. 2018 exhibition. Both artists will receive $25,000. Lauren Halseys ambitious sculpture is impressive as a site-specific installation at the Hammer and as a prototype for her upcoming public artwork in the South Central community. The Mohn Award recognizes her distinctive iconography and community-building vision, said Ann ... More | | 
Riley joins Mia from the Boston Athenaeum, where she spearheaded a range of curatorial initiatives designed to bring new prominence to the librarys remarkable collections.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- The Minneapolis Institute of Art, one of the nations leading encyclopedic art museums, today announced the appointment of Casey Riley, PhD, as curator and head of the Department of Photography and New Media. A specialist in the history of photography as well as the visual and material culture of the 19th century, Riley will oversee the scholarship, display, and preservation of more than 14,000 photographs and works of new media that comprise the museums collection. We are delighted to have Dr. Riley join the curatorial team at Mia. Her particular interest in gender studies and the work of women photographers is a welcome new direction for the department, said Kaywin Feldman, Mias Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President. In addition, Dr. Rileys strong experience in education and interpretation aligns with the museums mission and strategic plan to make our ... More |
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 Iowa State University's 'Faces of Iowa State' exhibition opens at Blanden Memorial Art MuseumAMES, IA .- In partnership with Iowa State University and University Museums, Faces of Iowa State, a portrait series by Iowa artist Rose Frantzen, is on view now through October 14, 2018 at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Iowa. A public reception for the Faces of Iowa State exhibition, and celebration of Iowa State University's unwavering ties to the Fort Dodge area, will be held Sept. 26, 2018, 5:00-7:00 PM at the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, 920 3rd Ave. South. Iowa State's University Museums will be bringing two motor-coaches of students, faculty, staff, administration, portrait sitters, alumni, and friends. The public is welcome to attend. A highlight of the event is the anticipated attendance of Iowa State University President, Wendy Wintersteen. This will be the first public event after her installation as 16th President of Iowa ... More '150 Years of Parties & Picnics' presented by the East Hampton Historical SocietyEAST HAMPTON, NY.- You're Invited: 150 Years of Parties & Picnics in East Hampton explores the celebratory exploits of our East End hamlet, from Main Street Promenades, simple date nights at the cinema, to family weekends at the beach the fabled summer happenings of East Hampton are brought to life through a rare collection of fashionably curated vignettes of costumes, and never before seen objects, including amazing textiles, and images of a partiful past! The inspiration for the exhibition, said Chief Curator Richard Barons, was that the East Hampton Historical Society is in possession of an extensive collection of period garments, but has never had an exhibit that focuses on our vast costume holdings; we sought to rectify this omission with a summer exhibition. The current exhibition honors this wondrous wardrobe of fashionable attire, accessories ... More Final weeks for once-in-a-lifetime ceiling tours of 'Britain's Sistine Chapel'GREENWICH.- August/September 2018 is the publics last chance to undertake once-in-a-lifetime ceiling tours of the Old Royal Naval Colleges Painted Hall. On these unique tours, visitors ascend 60 feet to an observation deck, which places them in touching distance of one of the most spectacular Baroque interiors in Europe, known as Britains Sistine Chapel and the largest painted ceiling in the UK. This is a unique opportunity to view a live conservation project in a world heritage site, one that will not be available again for at least another 100 years. The final ceiling tour will take place on 30 September 2018. The Painted Hall was decorated by Sir James Thornhill, the first British artist to be knighted. It is the lavish centrepiece of the Old Royal Naval College, founded in 1694 by Mary II and designed by Christopher Wren. The ceiling was painted between ... More Dellasposa announces its new permanent art gallery opening in London, October 2018LONDON.- Dellasposa announced the launch of a new permanent gallery space at 2A Bathurst Street, London, in October 2018. The new gallery covers two floors and will benefit from five distinct rooms for exhibitions. It will form the new central London flagship to house Dellasposas growing stable of contemporary artists, a broader spectrum of works on offer by the modern masters, and a newly expanded events programme. The gallery space is designed by the founders, Jessica McBride and Julian Phillimore, to create an immersive and contemplative experience for guests and visitors. Site Unseen, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery, comprises works by contemporary artists Alexander James Hamilton, Darren Coffield, Gail Olding, Guy Haddon Grant, Isabella Watling, Rad Husak, Sabatino Cersosimo, and Tahnee Lonsdale. Having established the gallery through a variety ... More Brand-new history of art podcast My Favourite Work of Art launchesLONDON.- This August, Oxbridge Art Historian, polymath and playwright Dr Laura-Jane Foley launched a brand-new history of art podcast My Favourite Work of Art. Over the course of 12 episodes Foley invites some of Britains best-known personalities including John Bercow, Bel Mooney, Geoffrey Munn, Brooks Newmark and Gillies Mackinnon to discuss their favourite work of art. From Picasso to Rossetti and Warhol to Goya, the podcast reveals the inspirational, intriguing and surprising stories about how these artists have impacted their lives. A Desert Island Discs for art lovers, My Favourite Work of Art Podcast is the perfect podcast for anyone interested in how art shapes our society, culture and individual lives. Drawing on the private passions of 12 very different people from public life, Foleys podcast reveals art as the great equalizer, showing how, when stood ... More Exhibition celebrates Western Australia's majestic coastlinePERTH.- Photographs showcasing the beauty of the Western Australian coast are on display at the Museum of the Great Southern from Monday 6 August. Our WA Coastline features images taken by Western Australian Photographic Federation camera club members. The museums Acting Regional Manager, Catherine Salmaggi, said the exhibition showcases images reflecting the diversity of the majestic Western Australian coastline and how we can positively interact with it. I hope that this exhibition will encourage visitors to appreciate and care for our unique coastline, Ms Salmaggi said. Visitors are invited to view the photographs and show their appreciation by picking a favourite image and completing a voting slip at the Museum. The most popular photograph are on the Museum of the Great Southern Facebook page. ... More Nancy Toomey Fine Art opens an exhibition of works by Monica LundySAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Nancy Toomey Fine Art announces an exhibition of works by Monica Lundy entitled Deviance - Women in the Asylum During the Fascist Regime on view from August 22 to October 13, 2018. The gallery is located inside San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota Street. "Nymphomaniac, irritable, unstable, flirtatious, devoted to idleness, unruly, talkative, inconsistent, irreverent, extravagant, capricious, excited, erotic, insolent, liar, impulsive, nervous, hallucinating, restless, petulant, sensational, threatening, red in the face, exhibitionist" were some of the symptoms cited to diagnose the mental illness called "female deviance." A rumination on the incarceration of Italian women and girls during the era of Mussolini, Lundy's exhibition Deviance - Women in the Asylum During the Fascist Regime is born of a year spent abroad ... More Kunsthalle Osnabrück announces a participatory group performance by Ernesto PujolOSNABRUECK.- On Saturday, August 25, from sunrise to midnight, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück in partnership with the Theater Osnabrück invite visitors to the Kulturnacht Festival to enter the Friedenssaal (Peace Hall), where the Westphalian Peace Treaty was signed in 1648. Young people from all over Europe gathered in Osnabrück by Labor Europa, a European Heritage project, together with community-based performers under the creative direction of Ernesto Pujol will present The Listeners, a new, durational, public, group performance. The performance engages individuals between 18 and 80 years old, who will embody silence and practice mindful listening for 16.5 hours in the Friedenssaal (Peace Hall) lending their ears to everyone who wants to share a memory, tell a story, or clarify thoughts by voicing them. We need to listen to each other, more ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-American photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died August 23, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 23, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He began his career in pre-World War II Germany and after moving to the U.S. achieved prominence as a staff photographer for Life Magazine, which featured more than 90 of his pictures on its covers with over 2,500 photo stories published. In this image: World War II Veterans Ray and Ellie Williams recreate the iconic Alfred Eisenstaedt photograph in Times Square on August 14, 2015 in New York City. The Williams, Navy veterans also celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary, recreated the kiss as part of a ceremony remembering the 70th anniversary of Victory in Japan Day. Bryan Thomas/Getty Images/AFP.
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