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An archaeologist works on part of a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, on August 23, 2017, after they unearth a portion of ancient mosaic near the city's Damascus Gate. The Greek declaration, dated at 550 or 551 AD, commemorates the founding by the Orthodox abbot Constantine of a building thought to be a hostel for pilgrims, near the city's Damascus Gate. AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a 1,500-year-old portion of mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian and a senior Orthodox priest. David Gellman, director of the excavation in east Jerusalem's walled Old City, said that while the area was rich in archaeological finds, few such inscriptions had been found. "Direct text and letters from people back then are relatively rare," he told AFP. The Greek inscription, dated at 550 or 551 AD, commemorates the founding of a building thought to be a hostel for pilgrims near the city's Damascus Gate. Constantine, the Orthodox priest who founded it, was abbot of the Nea Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary and the largest church in Jerusalem when it was built in 543 AD. Gellman said the rectangular ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A view of the Greek Temple of Concordia, built in the 5th century BC, is one of seven temples in the Valley of the Temples or Valle dei Templi seen on August 13, 2017, in Agrigento, on the southern Italian island of Sicily. Ludovic MARIN / AFP
| Artcurial announces highlights from its Old Master & 19th Century Art sale | | 61st BFI London Film Festival announces nationwide UK premiere of Loving Vincent | | Largely unknown work by Romare Bearden focus of upcoming exhibition at the Neuberger Museum of Art | 
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PARIS.- Artcurials Ancient and nineteenth century masters department will dedicate the 26th September 2017 auction to the Symbolist movement, rarely presented on the market. Entitled In Praise of symbolism, it will include 130 works, 80 of which originate from a private Italian collection. This important collection gathers together 30 years of acquisitions from all over the world, including the greatest names of the symbolism movement: Carlos Schwabe, Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, Odilon Redon, Alphonse Osbert, Maurice Chabas, Armand Point, Henri Martin, Gustav Adolf Mossa, Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Beronneau, Jean Delville and Henry De Groux ... In the foreword of the catalogue, Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond, art historian specialising in the Symbolist movement, defines the movement as « questioning the world», born in context with the incertitude and great metamorphosis of the end of the 19th century, «faced with materialism and the ... More | | 
Loving Vincent is a stunning, fully painted animated feature, starring Douglas Booth and Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman.
LONDON.- The 61st BFI London Film Festival announced the UK Premiere of Loving Vincent. Broadcast live from the National Gallery on Monday 9th October, audiences in cinemas across the country are invited to experience the film premiere and the following Q&A with special guests. Loving Vincent is a stunning, fully painted animated feature, starring Douglas Booth and Oscar-nominated Saoirse Ronan and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. Loving Vincent explores the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death. Loving Vincent stars Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Chris ODowd, Oscar-nominee ... More | | 
Untitled, 1959. Oil, paper, and canvas on linen, 72 x 56 ¼ inches. Estate of Nanette Bearden, Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York. Art © Romare Bearden Foundation/ Licensed by VAGA, NY. Photography by Steven Bates.
PURCHASE, NY.- Recognized as one of Americas great 20th century artists, Romare Bearden is best known for his uniquely textured collages, evoking the history, culture, richness and tension of the African-American experience. Those influential collages were produced largely over a twenty-four year period, from 1964 to his death in 1988. They are found in every major museum collection in the United States, have been widely published, featured in school curricula, and included in national and international exhibitions. However, Bearden was making art long before 1964, experimenting with various ways of abstracting form, going all the way back to the 1940s. This exhibition focuses on a startling body of work he produced throughout the 1950s and early 1960s comprised of exquisite, ... More |
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| From factory-worker to art collector: Georgia Museum of Art exhibits works from Giuliano Ceseri's collection | | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden launch their new and redesigned website | | Turner Contemporary and Folkestone Triennial install life-size Antony Gormley sculptures on the Kent coast | 
Elizabeth Shippen Green (Elliott) (American, 18711954), Industrial Landscape, 1920 (detail). Charcoal, watercolor and white gouache on tan paper. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Extended loan from the collection of Giuliano Ceseri. GMOA 1995.73E.
ATHENS, GA.- What were you doing when you were 11 years old? Playing video games? Selling Girl Scout cookies? You probably werent collecting art, but Giuliano Ceseri was. Born in Italy, the son of a tenant farmer, he grew up on the estate of the Strozzi family, just outside Florence. There, he encountered great works of art at a young age, and his interest was sparked. He bought his first engraving at the age of 11, the beginning of a collection that now numbers thousands of works, mostly prints and drawings. In 1995, he placed about 1,500 of those works on long-term loan to the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. The museum has organized several exhibitions from the collection over the past two decades, and it recently opened ... More | | 
The website design stands out for an image-oriented approach which perfectly showcases the unique objects in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden inventory.
DRESDEN.- As of today, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) have launched a fully revised and redesigned website. Visitors will find all the key information on the museums association in a new design with clever user navigation at www.skd.museum. As well as its new look, the website is also innovative in terms of structure: the portal brings together all the information that visitors need about the umbrella organisation Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and displays selected highlights in the different museums and collections. To do justice to the unique nature and individual importance of the fifteen museums and four institutions which the SKD represents, each is represented in turn by its own portal area, which can be navigated directly as a subdomain and comes up quickly in search engines. These museum ... More | | 
The solitary figure in Margate invites us to reflect upon the fundamental experience of being human, of inhabiting a human body. Photo: Thierry Bal.
MARGATE.- Antony Gormleys cast iron sculpture from his series ANOTHER TIME has been sited on the chalk bed in front of Turner Contemporary. In Folkestone, a pair of figures have been placed on the shoreline as part of the Triennial. Visible from the gallery windows, the solitary figure in Margate invites us to reflect upon the fundamental experience of being human, of inhabiting a human body. Like other works by Gormley it is a cast of his own body, offering a trace of its existence. I wish to celebrate the still and silent nature of sculpture. ANOTHER TIME [
] is necessarily isolated, and is an attempt to bear witness to what it is like to be alive and alone in space and time. (Antony Gormley) In Folkestone, a pair of Gormleys cast iron, life-sized figures have been placed on the shoreline. These sculptures of national significance will be in place until 5 November 2017 as ... More |
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| Exhibition explores abstraction based on experimental, process-oriented methods | | MoMA PS1 appoints Ruba Katrib Curator | | Lacoste Gallery to open a historic exhibition of works by Warren MacKenzie and John Reeve | 
Anne Vieux, venus slide, 2017 (detail). Acrylic on sublimation dyed faux suede, traces, framed 52 x 35 inches.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Honoring the Newcomb College legacy of focusing on women artists, the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University presents Unfamiliar Again: Contemporary Women Abstractionists from August 24 through December 23, 2017. The exhibition features the work of seven artists who hail from across the United States: Rachel Beach, Morgan Blair, Amy Ellingson, Brittany Nelson, Alyse Rosner, Barbara Takenaga, and Anne Vieux. Their works defamiliarize common imagery, precluding figurative recognition and easy comprehension. Museum director Monica Ramirez-Montagut explains, This is a timely exhibition with major institutions increasingly looking at the history of women abstractionists. Such examinations, she adds, offer a critical counterbalance to the longstanding narrative of male artists working within the abstract tradition. Newcombs inclusion ... More | | 
Ruba Katrib. Photo by Josh Tonsfeldt.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- MoMA PS1 announced the appointment of Ruba Katrib as Curator. In this role, she will organize exhibitions and programs at the museum, working closely with Chief Curator Peter Eleey. Ms. Katrib joins MoMA PS1 from SculptureCenter, where she has served as Curator since 2012. She will begin her new role on October 15. As a longtime admirer of Rubas work, I am thrilled that she is joining the museum, noted Peter Eleey. She is deeply engaged with artists here in New York and communities around the world, partnering closely with them to realize novel presentations of their work. As her inspired group shows suggest, she seeks connections between the conditions of life and the thicket of ideas and conversations that shape contemporary art, with a generosity that encourages audiences to share in her thinking, Eleey continued. MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach adds, Over the past five years, Ruba Katrib has org ... More | | 
John Reeve, Yellow Lidded Jar with Turquoise Rim, 5.5 x 5.25, earthenware.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste Gallery presents a historic exhibition Warren MacKenzie and John Reeve: Kindred Spirits from September 9 30, 2017 at Lacoste Gallery 25 Main St Concord MA and the accompanying Panel Discussion on September 8 at Harvard Ed Portal 224 Western Ave Allston MA. This exhibition features the works of American Studio Pottery Master Warren MacKenzie and the late ceramic artist John Reeve (1929 2012) highlighting these post WWII ceramic leaders work exemplifying the Mingei aesthetic of the lowest is the highest, making pottery accessible to everyone yet each piece a unique work of art. Mackenzie is a pioneer of the Studio Pottery movement in the USA. He graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and apprenticed with Bernard Leach. He taught at the University of Minnesota for over 40 years and held the role of Regent Professor for 14. He is a legendary ... More |
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| De Buck Gallery announces representation of Juan Garaizabal, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Lazzarini, and Devan Shimoyama | | The Thomas Cole National Historic Site opens a unique site-specific exhibition by Kiki Smith | | Moderna Museet appoints new curators | 
Juan Garaizabal, Understanding the Presence, V. Paris., 2016. Courtesy Juan Garaizabal / De Buck Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- De Buck Gallery announced the representation of contemporary artists Juan Garaizabal, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Lazzarini, and Devan Shimoyama. Founded in 2010, the expansion of De Bucks programs across its New York City, Saint Paul de Vence and Antwerp locations marks a fundamental shift in the gallerys presence globally and the scope of its dedicated international audience. The gallerys growing roster is complemented by new programs including a presentation curated by Rachel Vancelette at a residence within Tribecas new development, Six Cortlandt Alley, co-presented by Halstead Property Development Marketing this fall. The gallery looks ahead to exhibitions by newly represented artists Lazzarini and Shimoyama in New York in fall 2017. Robert Lazzarinis first show with De Buck, Inflorescence, featuring new work and the artists first presentation of painting in New York City opens ... More | | 
The entrance hall featuring Congregation, 2014, cotton jacquard tapestry, from an edition of 10, 116 x 76 in. Courtesy Pace Gallery and Magnolia Editions Photo © Peter Aaron/OTTO.
CATSKILL, NY.- Kiki Smith / From the Creek is now open at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. The opening reception was held on Saturday, August 12, and was attended by over 400 guests. The internationally acclaimed contemporary artist Kiki Smith created a new multidisciplinary exhibition inside and outside the historic home where the groundbreaking American artist Thomas Cole lived and worked almost two centuries ago. The solo exhibition, which includes 27 works by Smith, will run through Sunday, October 29, 2017. For the first time, Smiths work is presented in direct conversation with that of Thomas Cole, exploring shared fascinations with the natural world. Across time, both artists are responding to the very same landscape around Catskill Creek, which so captivated Cole and inspired Americas first major art movement, the Hudson River School of landscape painting. ... More | | 
Jo Widoff, who until now has been an exhibition curator, will extend her field to include responsibility for the international collection.
STOCKHOLM.- Moderna Museet appointed new curators to continue to develop the Museum's activities. Jo Widoff, who until now has been an exhibition curator, will extend her field to include responsibility for the international collection, while Lars Bang Larsen will join the Museum as an adjunct curator. Jo Widoff has many years of experience of museum work and has curated several successful exhibitions, including Turner Monet Twombly (2011), Dance Machines (2013), Life Itself and Yayoi Kusama (both in 2016), and the current exhibition Marie-Louise Ekman, which, like previous exhibitions, have been highly acclaimed and widely covered in the media. In competition with curators from the entire Nordic region, Jo Widoff has been appointed to the formidable and inspiring position of managing our international collection. She has already produced several fantastic exhibitions, and with this extended responsibility she ... More |
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 Top Russian director accused of fraud put under house arrestMOSCOW (AFP).- Acclaimed Russian theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov was put under house arrest Wednesday after being charged with fraud in a case that has sent shockwaves through the arts community. The director denounced the charges against him as "absurd" after investigators detained him in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday and drove him to Moscow where he was charged by the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes. He was then held in jail ahead of the hearing on whether to keep him behind bars. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Basmanny district court in Moscow to support Serebrennikov, 47, who heads the city's Gogol Centre theatre and has staged shows at the legendary Bolshoi. Judge Yelena Lenskaya ruled to confine the director under house arrest until October 19, an AFP correspondent reported from the courtroom, ... More Albanians turn spotlight on sites of dark communist pastTIRANA (AFP).- From his office in the shadowy "House of Leaves", Nesti Vako would listen to the private conversations of his fellow Albanians, spying for the state during the country's communist era. "I had a table, a strong coffee and some equipment," the 74-year-old said, as he escorted AFP around the feared former secret service headquarters in Tirana, which opened in May as a museum. Named after the ivy that once crept up its walls, the House of Leaves shows the methods and tools of the all-pervading secret surveillance conducted under communist rule, which lasted for nearly half a century until the early 1990s. "We put listening equipment in hotels, embassies, and so on... The microphones were placed under tables, under chairs, in picture frames, inside gas lamps," said the tall, snowy-haired Vako, a former chief of surveillance. Signs dedicate the museum ... More Important collection from an influential tech entrepreneur leads Heritage Timepieces auctionDALLAS, TX.- A superb collection of rare watches from a highly influential tech entrepreneur will capture the attention of watch collectors during Heritage Auctions Timepieces Signature Auction Oct. 24 in New York City. The collection has been lovingly curated over time by the consignor and features some of the finest models from the worlds greatest horological houses. Several important and rare Patek Philippe timepieces are being offered in the collection, but these two stand above the rest: A Patek Philippe Ref. 5013R-010 in Rose Gold, with Self-Winding Minute Repeating movement, Perpetual Calendar, Moon Phase, Leap Year Indication And Retrograde Date (est. $250,000+) and a Yellow Gold Patek Philippe Ref. 3974J Automatic Perpetual Calendar Minute Repeating Wristwatch With Moon Phases, circa 1991 (est. $250,000+). The timepieces in this collection ... More Ian Fairweather's Gethsemane 1958 gifted to Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern ArtBRISBANE.- The Queensland Art Gallery │Gallery of Modern Art has been gifted an outstanding work of Australian art that will be displayed from 30 September when the Gallery unveils its reimagined Australian Collection. QAGOMA Director Chris Saines today announced Ian Fairweathers iconic painting Gethsemane 1958 had been gifted by Philip Bacon, am, Special Patron of the Gallerys Foundation and member of the QAGOMA Foundation Committee. Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said Mr Bacons generous gift of Fairweathers Gethsemane will enable Queenslands future generations to enjoy the work of one of Australias greatest artists who created some of his most celebrated works here in Queensland, on Bribie Island. Philip Bacons donation of Gethsemane is one of the most generous single gifts of Australian art in QAGOMAs history, and ... More Studio Museum announces artist list for Fictions NEW YORK, NY.- The Studio Museum in Harlem today named nineteen artists to be featured in Fictions, the fifth in the Museums signature F-show series of emerging artist exhibitions. Hailing from across the United States, the artists in Fictions engage with a variety of mediaincluding video, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, and installationas they investigate the complexities of the contemporary moment. On view September 14, 2017 to January 7, 2018, Fictions, organized by Connie H. Choi, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, and Hallie Ringle, Assistant Curator, examines the stories that form the foundation of these artists practices, from the personal to the political and the everyday to the imagined. Fictions will be on view with We Go as They: Artists in Residence 201617, filling the galleries with two of the Museums most eagerly anticipated exhibition initiatives. Since its f ... More artnet hires leading expert and former Head of Photographs at Phillips Joseph KraeutlerNEW YORK, NY.- Vice president of artnet Auctions & Private Sales Alicia Carbone announced today that Joseph Kraeutler joined artnet as head of photographs, leading the expansion and development of this department. With two decades of experience in the art world as a gallery owner, auction house department head at Phillips, private art advisor, and collection manager, Kraeutler brings his broad range of skills to artnet. His focus will be to build upon the recent successes of the Auctions Team while broadening the range and enhancing the quality of photographs available for sale on the platform. Im thrilled for Joseph to join the artnet Auctions Team, Carbone said. His expertise in photography combined with his experience as an entrepreneur make him an ideal leader for our Photographs Department. Continuing to build our in-house team is key to driving the rapid growth ... More Carriageworks commissions monumental installation by German artist Katharina GrosseSYDNEY.- Carriageworks has commissioned renowned German artist Katharina Grosse to create a spectacular, site-specific installation in Australia as the third in the Schwartz Carriageworks series of major international visual arts projects. To be unveiled at Carriageworks on 6 January as part of Sydney Festival 2018 and running until 8 April 2018, this exciting new work will respond to the unique industrial architecture and grand scale of the heritage building. Carriageworks Director Lisa Havilah says: We are honoured to be working with Katharina Grosse on the most ambitious single-artist commission Carriageworks has undertaken. This represents a special opportunity for Australian audiences to experience Katharinas extraordinary vision and transformative beauty through this major commission that will be presented exclusively at Carriageworks. Anna Schwartz, Director ... More Galeria Nara Roesler exhibits paintings from the 1970s by Tomie OhtakeSAO PAULO.- In Tomie Ohtake: On the Tips of the Fingers at Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo, curator Paulo Miyada provides yet another key to grasping the plastic thinking of this acclaimed Brazilian artist. Comprising of paintings from the 1970s, as well as a few engravings, the exhibition also features some of the painters sketchbooks which are little known, even within the art circuit containing small collages that allow a glimpse into the genesis of Ohtakes pictorial experimentation process. These delicate studies follow a unique process: tearing out, cutting up and pasting together cutouts from everyday media such as magazines, invitations, news dailies, leaflets etc. To pay attention to Tomie Ohtakes process is to gain access to her paintings connections with chance, gestures and chromatic boldness, the curator remarks. Miyada points out that these minuscule studies are a consistent a ... More Masatoyo Kishi, California abstract painter and sculptor, dies at 93SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Hackett Mill announces that Masatoyo Kishi, the abstract painter and sculptor, died recently at the age of 93 in Grass Valley, CA. Born in Sakai, Japan on March 11, 1924, Kishi graduated from Tokyo University of Science in 1953 with degrees in Physics and Mathematics. After a short career as a mathematics teacher, Kishi began exhibiting with Tekkei Kai, a group of abstract painters affiliated with the Kyoto Museum of Art. He said, As a Japanese artist in the 1950s in Tokyo, I didn't go to art school. Japanese artists studied literature, economics, science; then you explored art." In 1960 Kishi moved from Japan to San Francisco where he lived until 1988. His Opus paintings from the late 1950s-60s are notable for their sweeping calligraphic brushwork and delicately dripped pigment. Kishi painted in the traditional Japanese manner with ... More Final days of 'Edible City: A Delicious Journey' at Seattle's Museum of History & IndustrySEATTLE, WA.- Dont miss the last chance to experience Edible City: A Delicious Journey, an in-depth exhibition of Seattles eclectic and robust food culture exhibit at the Museum of History & Industry. Closing September 10, this exhibit serves up the story of how Seattleites eat in their city and how urban palates have developed over the years. Curated by two-time James Beard Award-winning food writer Rebekah Denn, Edible City uncovers the secret history of Seattles favorite foods. Learn the origins of the Rainier cherry, view the recipe that inspired the phenomenal Cinnabon, see treasures from the long history of Pike Place Market, get acquainted with the man behind the citys first sushi bar, and debate Seattles signature dishes. Displays include items close to the citys heart and histories, from Seattles first espresso cart to Table #1 at Canlis. As our city has ... More Genre painting by William Aiken Walker will headline Bruneau & Co.'s Sept. 16 saleCRANSTON, RI.- An oil on board genre painting by William Aiken Walker (Md./S.C., 1838-1921), a Chinese Ming dynasty Junyao purple splashed footed pottery bowl, a set of 12 Mintons for Tiffany scenic porcelain bird plates and an English circa-1915 single-trigger, double barrel shotgun manufactured by Westley Richards will all come up for bid Saturday, September 16th. Theyre just a taste of what will cross the auction block at Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Fall Antiques, Fine Art, Firearms & Asian Auction, online and in the gallery at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Internet bidding will be available through Bidlive.Bruneauandco.com, Invaluable.com, LiveAuctioneers.com and Bidsquare.com. Phone and absentee (left) bids will also be accepted. The nearly 500-lot auction has a 12 oclock noon (Eastern) start time and will be preceded at 10 am by a live-only ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-born photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt died August 24, 1995. Alfred Eisenstaedt (December 6, 1898 - August 24, 1995) was a German-born American photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his photograph of the V-J Day celebration and for his candid photographs, frequently made using a 35mm Leica camera. In this image: Harold Gray, chairman of the board of United Technologies Corp., points to a print as he discusses the photo with photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt at Manhattan?s International Center for Photography in New York on Jan. 22, 1981. The display of photographs titled ?Eisenstaedt Germany? was organized by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington and made possible by United Technologies
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