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A large iguanodontian footprint. Photo: Neil Davies and Anthony Shillito.
by Sarah Collins
CAMBRIDGE.- More than 85 well-preserved dinosaur footprints made by at least seven different species have been uncovered in East Sussex, representing the most diverse and detailed collection of these trace fossils from the Cretaceous Period found in the UK to date. The footprints were identified by University of Cambridge researchers between 2014 and 2018, following periods of coastal erosion along the cliffs near Hastings. Many of the footprints which range in size from less than 2 cm to over 60 cm across are so well-preserved that fine detail of skin, scales and claws is easily visible. The footprints date from the Lower Cretaceous epoch, between 145 and 100 million years ago, with prints from herbivores including from the iguanodontian family, an ankylosaur, an unknown species of stegosaur, possible examples from the sauropod group (which included Diplodocus and Brontosaurus), as well as meat-eating theropods. The results are reported in the journal Palaeogeography ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An employee of the Bodet Company restores an old bell on December 17, 2018 at the plant of Trementines, western France. The Bodet company manufactures clocks since 1868 for churches, stations, sports halls and it's also the only plant in France which restores old bells. Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP
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 | | Important Adrien Moreau surfaces after 130 years | | Hashim Sarkis appointed curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2020 Venice Biennale | | Titian's Lady in White loaned to the Norton Simon Museum | 
Adrien Moreau (1843-1906), La Réception au Château (detail).
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Galleries Inc., New York - specializing in 19th and 20th-century works of art, sells La Réception au Château, an important painting by the 19th-century French artist Adrien Moreau (1843-1906). Moreau, born into a family of artists, began his artistic career as an apprentice glassmaker and went on to study at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris training with Léon Cogniet and Isidore Pils. He made his debut at the Paris Salon in 1868 with Then Shall This Prophet Go and Encounter a Lion which will Kill Him, a religious subject which art critic Joseph Uzanne noted placed him among the ranks of the greatest painters of contemporary genre. By the early 1870s, he moved away from religious subjects and began exhibiting historical genre works, marking the beginning of a successful career. These works were well received by critics and reproduced in important art history books of the period. Lew and Giudicelli wrote ... More | | 
Hashim Sarkis is an architect, educator, and scholar. Photo: Bryce Vickmark.
VENICE.- The Board of La Biennale di Venezia met on Tuesday, December 18 and, upon the recommendation of President Paolo Baratta, appointed Hashim Sarkis as Director of the Architecture Sector, with the specific task of curating the 17th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in 2020. Sarkis is the principal architect of Hashim Sarkis Studios (HSS), established in 1998 with offices in Boston and Beirut, and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2015. He was member of the international jury of Biennale Architettura 2016, and participated with his firm in the Pavilion of the United States (Biennale Architettura 2014) and Albania (Biennale Architettura 2010). Sarkis earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Master of Architecture and a PhD in Architecture from Harvard ... More | | 
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, Italian, c. 1488/901576), Portrait of a Lady in White, c. 1561. Oil on canvas, 102 x 86 cm. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo: Elke Estel/ Hans-Peter Klut.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum announces a special installation of Titians Lady in White, c. 1561, on loan this winter from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. This captivating portrait, whose sitters identity has eluded scholars for centuries, has been a highlight of Dresdens art collection for more than 250 years. Its installation at the Norton Simon Museum marks the first time this painting has been on view in Southern California. It hangs in the Museums 16th17th century art wing, near works by the artists contemporaries, such as Bellini and Giorgione. Says Norton Simon Museum President Walter Timoshuk, It is a great privilege to include in the Museums masterpiece exchange program works from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in ... More |
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| | | Ivory Coast calls on France to return 148 artworks | | Sotheby's December Auctions of Books & Manuscripts total $6.1 million | | Baltimore Museum of Art announces second round of contemporary art acquisitions made with auction proceeds | 
This file photo shows French art historian and professor at the College de France in Paris and the Technishe Universitat of Berlin Benedicte Savoy (R) and Senegalese economist and professor at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis in Senegal Felwine Sarr (L) posing on March 21, 2018, in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP.
ABIDJAN (AFP).- Ivory Coast said Wednesday it had drawn up a list of 148 works of art taken during the colonial period that it wants France to return. Last month, the west African state joined Senegal and Benin in lobbying France, their former colonial power, to hand back cultural treasures. Ivorian Culture Minister Maurice Bandaman told a press conference: "We have compiled a list of 148 works. In 2019, all or part of it will be returned." Bandaman refused to give details about the list, other than to say that one of the items was a beloved "talking drum" called the Djidji Ayokwe, which is in the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris. The drum was "hauled away, confiscated, captured" by the French because its "voice (had) mobilised ... More | | 
A rare first edition of the first book to describe a stock exchange, Confusion de Confusiones achieves $375,000. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys December auctions of Books & Manuscripts concluded on Monday, with nearly 700 works sold across six live and online-only sales for a total of $6.1 million. From a newly-discovered manuscript of poems by John Donne, to the dissolution of contract that formally ended the Beatles, below is a selection of highlights from the two online-only auctions at the center of this sales series. Richard Austin, Head of Sothebys Books & Manuscripts Department in New York, commented: Building off the success of our online-only auction of Books & Manuscripts this June, whose $3.3 million total achieved the highest result for an online-only sale at Sothebys in any category, we are very pleased with the results of our December auctions both live and online. In particular, we were excited to see more than half of all sold lots in our online-only sales exceeding their high estimates. From classical music manus ... More | | 
Amy Sherald. The Rabbit in the Hat. 2009. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Collection of Anne L. Stone, Baltimore: Promised gift to The Baltimore Museum of Art.
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art announces today that its Board of Trustees recently approved the acquisition of 48 works of art, including four purchased using proceeds from the auction of recently deaccessioned works. The new acquisitions encompass paintings by Meleko Mokgosi and Amy Sherald; photographs by Louise Lawler, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Carrie Mae Weems; sculpture by Melvin Edwards and Senga Nengudi; and textiles by Stephen Towns. The acquisitions also include a major gift of 35 prints, drawings, and photographs from Baltimore collectors Mary and Paul Roberts, with works by Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, Glenn Ligon, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Martin Puryear, Gerhard Richter, and others. The BMA has now acquired 11 major works of art by women and artists of color purchased in full or in part with funds from the objects ... More |
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| | | French ex-minister suspected of taking advantage of office | | Nationalmuseum Sweden acquires the Seven Years' Throne by Knut Fjaestad | | Re-sounding recovery for French church bells nursed back to health | 
In this file photo taken on January 17, 2017 former French Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin, founder and Chairwoman of the investment fund Korelya Capital, poses in her office in Paris. ERIC PIERMONT / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- France's former culture minister Fleur Pellerin is suspected of having improperly taken advantage of ties she developed with a South Korean web giant she dealt with while in office, an official report found Wednesday. The High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) said Pellerin had "taken on as a client a private company with which she concluded a contract or an opinion on a contract," as a minister. Pellerin had established links with one of South Korea's leading internet providers, NAVER Corp., while she was a a minister from August 2014 to February 2016 under President Francois Hollande. The authority's report, published in the official gazette, has been handed to the Paris prosecutor's office which will decide whether to open an investigation. After leaving office Pellerin set ... More | | 
Knut Fjaestad, The Seven Years Throne, 1914, NMK 194/2018. Photo: Bukowskis.
STOCKHOLM.- Nationalmuseum has recently acquired a so called stabbestol chair with large snow-laden branches build up the back. This unique chair was designed and carved by Knut Fjaestad and took seven years to manufacture and it was completed in 1914. The length of the process earned the chair its name, The Seven Years Throne. Knut Fjaestad (1860-1937) began carving wooden furniture around 1907, when he bought Bjälbo, an 18th century house located on Skärsätra gård on Lidingö island. He had previously worked as a merchant in the Old Town of Stockholm. Knut was inspired to craft the chair when he saw the stabbestol chair which his younger brother Gustaf Fjaestad (18681948) had made for Ernest Thiel (1859-1947). Gustaf had carved stabbestol chairs since 1894, when the earliest known examples of the style were manufactured. This type of chair was produced and got its shape from the material ... More | | 
An employee of the Bodet Company restores an old bell on December 17, 2018 at the plant of Trementines, western France. The Bodet company manufactures clocks since 1868 for churches, stations, sports halls and it's also the only plant in France which restores old bells. Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP.
TRÃMENTINES (AFP).- Deep in the French countryside, laid out on beds of wood and metal, some of the grand dames of liturgical music are receiving treatment for injuries sustained throughout their long and storied careers. The "patients" at Bodet, a company in the western Maine-et-Loire region that restores old church bells rescued from steeples, have quaint names such as Marie-Josephine, Marguerite and Melanie-Cornelie. Each weighs between several hundred kilos (pounds) and a few tonnes and they all look as if they have been in the wars. "When you see the state in which they arrive we're delighted to be able to give them a second wind," says 39-year-old Tanguy, one of two welders ... More |
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| | | "Arte Extraordinario" highlights rising stars and trail blazers in contemporary art | | Exhibition of new and recent works by Berlin-based artist Matthias Bitzer opens at Boesky West | | Exhibition of 10 centuries of French book arts celebrates the opening of The Grolier Club's renovated Exhibition Hall | 
Juan Carlos Quintana, GoGo Days Are Over, Enjoy The Party While It Lasts, 2010. Oil on canvas, 84 x 64 in. Crocker Art Museum purchase with funds provided by Loren G. Lipson, M.D. and the Michael Himovitz Fund, 2018.33.1 © Juan Carlos Quintana.
SACRAMENTO, CA.- The Crocker Art Museum announced the opening of "Arte Extraordinario," a show of 29 new Museum acquisitions by a diverse group of rising stars and time-honored trail blazers in the contemporary art world. The bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition showcases works by 25 artists from North, Central, and South America who are known for producing works that challenge, critique, innovate, or inspire. A wide range of themes is explored including cultural identity, politics, activism, humor, family, and religion. Many of the artists connect with their indigenous roots through their work. The exhibition covers a wide range of genres from pop and figuration to landscape and abstraction. Works in various media are featured including sculpture, collage, paintings, prints, photography, and works ... More | | 
Matthias Bitzer, The 5th Investigator (Cyrano), 2018. Metal and wood, 76 1/2 x 28 x 30 3/4 inches, 194.3 x 71 x 78 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. © Matthias Bitzer. Photo: Jens Ziehe.
ASPEN, COLO.- Marianne Boesky Gallery is presenting an exhibition of new and recent works by Berlin-based artist Matthias Bitzer at Boesky West in Aspen, Colorado. In his multi-disciplinary work, Bitzer weaves together artistic and literary references to create an otherworldly realm, where the real and imagined meld and a sense of space and time are dislocated. With the upcoming exhibition, Bitzers engagement with the visual and written arts breaks new ground, capturing the conceptual explorations within his own storytelling and dovetailing with a novel that he is currently developing. Indeed, the exhibition title, 3, speaks to the triad of Bitzers two protagonists and the narrative possibilities that exist between them. The show is on view from December 19, 2018 through February 3, 2019 and marks the artists third solo ... More | | 
Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis. Latin Manuscript on vellum, France (probably Toulouse), 1540s. Collection of The Grolier Club.
NEW YORK, NY.- On December 14, 2018, The Grolier Club unveiled its reconstructed state-of-the-art Exhibition Hall, capping a total renovation of the public spaces in the century-old building. To mark the occasion, The Grolier Club is mounting the celebratory exhibition French Book Arts: Manuscripts, Books, Bindings, Prints, and Documents, 12th21st Century. On view through February 2, 2019, the approximately 90 works are drawn entirely from The Grolier Clubs own rich and extensive collections. This inaugural exhibition is a wide-ranging survey of the book arts of France, covering a thousand years of artistic achievements, from Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts to artists books and designer bookbindings of the current generation. Notwithstanding the many hundreds of public exhibitions that have been displayed at The Grolier Club in its 135 years, it has never before offered such a ... More |
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 Groundbreaking new benefit at Heritage Auctions: Make Offer to Owner ArchiveDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions Make Offer to Owner program, through which clients can make anonymous offers on lots previously sold at auction, has added an extremely useful new feature showing the amount and status of every resale offer ever made via HA.com. Any Heritage member who sees a previously auctioned item of interest with a Make Offer to Owner button has the option of submitting an offer, after which the items owner can accept or decline the offer, or submit a counter-offer to the potential buyer. The new Make Offer to Owner Archive is sortable by Category as well as by Accepted, Rejected and Pending status. The Archive includes every MOtO offer made via HA.com since the feature was introduced first in 2009, with the most recent offers appearing first. This new, permanent archive increases our already market-leading ... 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More AGO appoints Heidi Reitmaier Deputy Director and Chief of Public Programming and LearningTORONTO.- The AGO announced that Heidi Reitmaier has been appointed Deputy Director and Richard & Elizabeth Currie Chief, Public Programming and Learning. This position reflects the critical role that programming and public engagement play at the AGO. With over two decades of leadership at prestigious museums in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., the Toronto-born Reitmaier who is currently Executive Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) begins her tenure in early 2019. Heidi is an innovative and bold leader who strongly believes that audiences are at the centre of any art museums success, said Stephan Jost, the AGOs Michael and Sonja Koerner, Director and CEO. Heidis strategic thinking and proven track record of delivering exciting and ... More Asian fine art and antiques tops one million dollars at Clars December saleOAKLAND, CA.- Clars December 15th and 16th auction was led by an exceptional array of Asian fine art, antiques and decorative art which came to the sale from several fine California estates, private collections and institutions. Two important paintings by Zhang Daqian (Chinese, 1899-1983) sparked what would become an international event drawing highly competitive bidding from around the globe and fueling more than $1,040,000 for the Asian collections offered alone. Exceptional results were seen throughout this weekend sale and across all categories making this Clars most successful December auction in their history, with a 48% increase over the previous year. The two much anticipated works by Zhang Daqian were offered in a special session on Sunday evening. The first work presented was titled The Lotus Pond, 1967. This signature ink ... More SITE Santa Fe announces new exhibition in NuMu plus new video installations SANTA FE, NM.- Situated front and center of SITElines.2018: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas is NuMu (El Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Guatemala, established in 2012, Guatemala City, by artists Jessica Kairé and Stefan Benchoam). A 1:1 replica of NuMus idiosyncratic egg-shaped building formerly an egg sales kiosk has traveled from LACMA in Los Angeles to Santa Fe, where it has been in front of SITE Santa Fes building. At the beginning of Casa tomada, NuMu presented an exhibition featuring a new version of Radamés "Juni" Figueroa's El Nido Salvaje [The Wild Nest], a project developed by the Puerto Rican artist for NuMu in 2013. NuMu is presenting The Dictator, an exhibition by Hildegarde Duane & David Lamelas, which will run through February 28, 2019. The exhibition The Dictator is the first presentation of Hildegarde ... More Over The Influence opens Scott Campbell's first show in AsiaHONG KONG.- Over The Influence is presenting Using All The Freedoms We Have, an exhibition of new works from the renowned Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Scott Campbell. The exhibition, marking the artist's first solo presentation with the gallery, opened on December 14, and remains on view through January 12, 2019. Integrating a mastery of craft and materials, the prolific Campbell's latest series continues his long-held interest regarding the pervasive influence of money on contemporary art. Exploring the intersection of art and commerce, Campbell's multi-layered paper cut sculptures ingeniously juxtapose iconic imagery with American currency. Through a distinct and creative technical approach, Campbell exactingly carves symbolic imagery into sheets of uncut dollar bills. Employing a laser cutter, Campbell precisely renders large- ... 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More Mall Galleries opens contemporary artist Dachan's first exhibition in the UKLONDON.- Opening this December is the latest exhibition of work by the acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Dachan his first in the UK. The exhibition, described as a global journey of spiritual culture guided by the theory of unity through art, features a full survey of Dachans works, including color paintings, lotus ink wash paintings, figure paintings, and calligraphy. Produced over a a ten-year period, these works will be shown alongside a video presentation in which visitors are invited to experience the world of Buddhism through virtual reality technology. The combination of the two will immerse visitors in the world of Dachans creations. Dachan also known as Zisong Xuanzhu (Master of the Lilac Pine Pavilion) is an autodidact and a child prodigy who fell in love with poetry, calligraphy and painting at a very early age. He achieved Zen enlightenment ... More First solo museum exhibition of artist and cartoonist Jessica Campbell opens in ChicagoCHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the first solo museum exhibition of Chicago artist and cartoonist Jessica Campbell, whose candid, often humorous textiles, comics, and drawings critique the traumas and absurdities of gender politics. For her Chicago Works exhibition, Campbell re-envisions the life and artwork of Canadian painter Emily Carr (1871-1945), celebrated for her expressive landscapes, to explore the sexism women face in everyday settings and the creative possibilities of reading and telling stories from multiple perspectives. Chicago Works: Jessica Campbell is organized by MCA Curatorial Assistant Nina Wexelblatt and runs from December 18, 2018 to July 7, 2019. Inspired by their shared roots in Victoria, British Columbia, Campbell presents a new suite of work engaging with the life of ... More Brough Superior SS 100 JAP ridden by bike legend FP 'Gentleman' Dickson offered by H&H ClassicsLONDON.- This legendary motorcycle was owned and ridden by FP Gentleman Dickson, a famous rider in the 1920s with successes in most UK rallies and races. It will be sold on March 2nd by H&H Classics at the National Motorcycle Museum for a conservative estimate of £160,000 to £200,000. This matching numbers bike is complete. Gentleman Dickson was George Broughs closest friend and they entered many races together as the Brough factory team. The most important event at that time was the International Six Days Trial (ISDT) which took place in Scotland and several other countries in Europe. The pair won gold medals in Scotland and in Austria where they were the overall winners. In 1930 FP Dickson rode this bike, TV 2001 in the ISDT in Switzerland along with George Brough and Eddy Meyer as the Brough team. On the first day Dickson ... More The Currier Museum unlocking the secrets of the Renaissance during the holidays MANCHESTER, NH.- During this holiday season, the Currier Museum of Art welcomes visitors to view its new exhibition, Myth and Faith in Renaissance Florence. The Renaissance was a period when many artists frequently drew inspiration from their pre-Christian ancestors in the creation of their religious art and is recognized as a rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman culture in the service of the Christian Church. The Curriers exhibition includes dozens of religious, mythological and secular pieces and is centered around a recently discovered masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture, John the Baptist. The historically important work was created by Giovan Montorsoli, one of Michelangelos most gifted students. The exhibition is comprised of objects loaned from collections throughout the United States and Italy, which are on display together for the first ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, American sculptor and painter Beverly Pepper was born December 20, 1922. Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper. In this image: Beverly Pepper, "Ancient Silence", 2009. Carrara marble, 11 ½ x 18 x 5 in. 29.2 x 45.7 x 12.7 cm., stone base: 1 x 18 5/8 x 10 in. / 2.5 x 47.3 x 25.4 cm. Courtesy: Marlborough Gallery, New York. ©Beverly Pepper.
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