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A handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on January 9, 2019, shows a pharaonic tablet repatriated from the UK after being spotted on online auction sites. AFP Photo.
CAIRO (AFP).- An ancient Egyptian pharaonic stone tablet that was stolen from Karnak temple was repatriated this week from Britain where it had been touted for sale, Egypt's antiquities ministry said. "The piece was last seen in the open museum in Luxor temple in the early 1990s," Shaaban Abdel Gawad, who is in charge of archaeological collections at the ministry, told AFP on Wednesday. "The necessary legal measures" were taken to recover the object, he added. The artefact was stolen from the Karnak temple's open museum and was spotted on online auction sites, the ministry said. The sale was cancelled, the statement said. The artefact is part of a cartouche -- an ornamental tablet -- of Pharoah Amenhotep I, of the 17th dynasty, who ruled in the 16th century BC. The antiquities ministry said that the piece had been retrieved b ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A boy looks at the "Kairos" Art exhibition by Panamanian artist Lilibeth Bennett de Espino, in Panama on January 8, 2019. Pope Francis will visit Panama in the framework of World Youth Day, which will take place from January 22 to 27. Luis ACOSTA / AFP
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 | | Exhibition presents a significant group of works by American artist Charles White | | Fitzwilliam Museum explores James McNeill Whistlers relationship towards the natural world | | Rehs Contemporary heads cross-country for West Coast's largest art fair | 
Charles White painting Mary McLeod Bethune mural,1978. © Estate of Charles White. Courtesy David Zwirner.
NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner is presenting a significant group of works by American artist Charles White (19181979) on the second floor of the gallerys 537 West 20th Street location in New York. On view for the first time since the 1970s are four monumentally scaled ink and charcoal drawings made by the artist as studies for the figures in his mural Mary McLeod Bethune, completed in 1978 for the Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, as well as related preparatory works and ephemera documenting the project Whites last major artistic endeavor during his lifetime. Whites prodigious body of work, spanning prints, drawings, paintings, and murals, demonstrates a commitment to African American social causes, combatting racial and economic injustice with depictions of strength ... More | | 
James McNeill Whistler, St. Ives © Fitzwilliam Museum.
CAMBRIDGE.- Whistler & Nature (8 January 17 March) explores James McNeill Whistlers (1834‐1903) revolutionary attitude and relationship towards the natural world throughout his life, as expressed in works ranging from his celebrated London Nocturnes to his European coastal and pastoral scenes. This fascinating exhibition of around 90 oil paintings, works on paper and objects ‐ such as the Whistlers sketchbook ‐ shows how his singular vison was underpinned by his enduring kinship with the makers of railroads, bridges and ships ‐ the cornerstones of Victorian wealth and trade. The exhibition is developed by Compton Verney, in partnership with The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Professor Steven Parissien Compton Verneys former Chief Executive said Iconic portraits such as Whistlers Mother are world renowned, but less well known is the influence of nature on Whistlers work. This exhibition ... More | | 
Beth Sistrunk (Born 1978), Cherries On Top. Acrylic and oil on panel, 22 x 22 inches. Painted in 2018. Signed.
NEW YORK, NY.- Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., a New York art gallery representing academically trained artists, is heading to Los Angeles for the upcoming LA Art Show. The LA Art Show, now in its 24th year, has seen a dramatic transformation from its early days where just fourteen galleries welcomed a mere 250 visitors to the Pasadena Civic Auditorium
though, there has been one thing to remain unchanged the presence of a family owned gallery from New York, Rehs Galleries. Today the fair, which has been heralded as one of the driving forces behind the citys Art Month, offers 200,000 square feet of exhibition space to 120 diverse galleries from around the world it is estimated that more than 20,000 works of art will be displayed at the upcoming event (January 23-27th). Rehs, one of the founding members ... More |
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| | | New York's iconic Chrysler Building up for sale | | Bob Dylans signed, handwritten lirycs to Like a Rolling Stone to be auctioned | | Paula Cooper Gallery opens a group exhibition of work created in the 1970s | 
The Chrysler Building is seen in Midtown Manhattan on January 9, 2019 in New York. The Chrysler Building, at Lexington Avenue and 42nd Street, a key part of the New York City skyline for nearly 90 years, is up for sale. Don EMMERT / AFP.
NEW YORK (AFP).- The Chrysler Building, one of the most iconic structures in New York, has been put up for sale by its owners, Emirati investment firm Mubadala and real estate group Tishman Speyer. The owners did not set a selling price, a source close to the sale told AFP on condition of anonymity, confirming a report that was first published in The Wall Street Journal. The building in midtown Manhattan, considered an Art Deco masterpiece, was acquired in 2008 by Mubadala, which paid $800 million for a 90 percent stake. Tishman Speyer, which had bought the building outright for a reported $210-250 million in 1997, retained a 10 percent stake. Neither firm would offer a comment when contacted by AFP. Tishman Speyer has hired real estate group CBRE to manage the sale of the building at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. The ... More | | 
Bob Dylans signed, handwritten lyrics to his iconic song Like a Rolling Stone, voted the #1 rock n roll song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine readers in 2004 (est. $50,000-$60,000).
WESTPORT, CONN.- Bob Dylans signed, handwritten lyrics to his iconic song Like a Rolling Stone, items relating to the recently deceased former President George H.W. Bush, plus rare and highly collectible items pertaining to Washington, Lincoln and other luminaries will be featured in University Archives next major online-only auction, scheduled for Wednesday, January 23rd. Live bidding for the 260-lot auction is scheduled to start promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. As with all University Archives auctions, this one is loaded with rare, highly collectible autographed documents, manuscripts, books, photos and relics. The full catalog can be viewed online now, at www.UniversityArchives.com. Online bidding is via Invaluable.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Major categories will include Civil War and Revolutionary War collectibles, space and aviation (including letters written and signed by deceased moonwalkers Neil ... More | | 
Jennifer Bartlett, Color Counting, 1970. Enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel on steel plate, 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm) © Jennifer Bartlett. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and The Jennifer Bartlett 2013 Trust.
NEW YORK, NY.- A group exhibition of work created in the 1970s will open at Paula Cooper Gallery on January 10th, 2019, at 524 West 26th Street. The presentation includes work by Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Jonathan Borofsky, Elizabeth Murray, Joel Shapiro, and Jackie Winsorartists who were central to the gallerys program during the 1970s and many of whom continue to be represented by the gallery today. Often referred to as the pluralist era of American art, the 1970s was a decade of broad and diverse experimentation. Alongside the continued impact of minimalism, conceptual art and pop art, artists explored new media and developed a variety of practices that sometimes cohered into smaller movements and at other times remained highly idiosyncratic. As the art historian Rosalind Krauss described, 1970s creativity seemed unlike the art of the previous decade ... More |
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| | | Varanasi's temple corridor destroys old neighbourhood | | Nailya Alexander Gallery opens an exhibition of photographs made by Pentti Sammallahti | | Photos banned inside India's Golden Temple: shrine official | 
In this picture taken on November 22, 2018, Indian workers gather next to the remains of a Hindu temple before carrying on with demolition work in the Lahori Tola area of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh state. XAVIER GALIANA / AFP.
NEW DELHI (AFP).- India's ancient city of Varanasi is clearing the way for a grand temple corridor by razing hundreds of houses, wiping away its oldest neighbourhood and upsetting locals. The aim is to improve accessibility for pilgrims by providing a direct pathway from the Ganges river to the 18th-century shrine of Lord Shiva, the Kashi Vishwanath temple. For centuries Hindus have visited Varanasi to cremate their dead but it has often required navigating crowded alleyways to reach the city's ghats, or riverside steps, where the caretakers of the cremation grounds pass flaming torches to the bereaved families to ignite wooden pyres dotting the banks. Some 300 homes have been earmarked for demolition but locals, whose families have lived in the area for generations, say some of the properties being destroyed are ... More | | 
Pentti Sammallahti, Helsinki, Finland, 1997. Gelatin silver print, 5 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (14.6 x 12.1 cm).
NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents Pentti Sammallahtis Birds, an exhibition of photographs made during the artists travels in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, India, Namibia, and South Africa. Pentti Sammallahti's Birds is on view from January 10th through 31st and coincides with the release of Sammallahtis most recent monograph Des Oiseaux (About Birds), published in November 2018 by Editions Xavier Barral. Pentti Sammallahtis Birds is the artists fourth solo exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery, and the first to focus exclusively on one of his most consistent and compelling subjects: birds. Despite his frequent attention to dogs, cats, and other animals during his many travels, Sammallahtis work finds its true apotheosis in birds. Residents of the land, sea, and sky, birds find their way into the artists field of vision no matter what continent or country he explores. In some ph ... More | | 
Boards announcing that photography and videography is strictly prohibited in the precincts of the Golden Temple are displayed in three languages in the water tank at the temple in Amritsar on January 9, 2019. NARINDER NANU / AFP.
AMRITSAR (AFP).- India has banned tourists from snapping photographs inside the Golden Temple, one of its most popular attractions, to preserve the sanctity of Sikhism's holiest shrine, an official said Wednesday. The governing body for the dazzling temple in northern Punjab state said visitors crowding for selfies and shooting videos within the centuries-old complex disrespected those making pilgrimages from all over the world. "This is not a place you come for leisure... it is a religious site where devotees come to pray and seek solace from their sorrows," said Roop Singh, chief secretary of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, which administers the site in the city of Amritsar. Thousands of tourists and pilgrims visit the Golden Temple every day, marvelling at the ornate buildings fringing a central ... More |
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| | | Art Deco masterworks & 20th century livres d'artiste come to auction | | Jeremy Lawson's debut solo exhibition with Kristen Lorello opens in New York | | Gazelli Art House to open Robert Fraser's Groovy Arts Club Band exhibition celebrating Pop Art | 
George Barbier & F.L. Schmied, Les Chansons de Bilities, with 42 designs, Paris, 1922. Estimate $5,000 to $7,500.
NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries opens their winter season with a boutique sale of Fine Illustrated Books & Graphics on Tuesday, January 29. Coinciding with Bibliography Week in New York City, the auction offers fine books, design and contemporary volumes with work from collections of notable bibliophiles, as well as twentieth-century livres dartiste and Art Deco masterworks. The collection of Richard Lee Callaway forms the cornerstone of the fine printing and private press section of the sale. Callaway was a longtime friend and admirer of artist Alan James Robinson. Through their relationship Callaway became involved in The Press of the Sea Turtlean incarnation of the Cheloniidae Pressand collaborated with Robinson on numerous publications as his representative on the West Coast. Highlights include Cheloniidaes first book, Poes The Raven, 1980, a publishers proof copy for the artist with deluxe binding and ... More | | 
Jeremy Lawson, Rain Follows the Plow (e), 2018-19, mixed media on polypropylene sandbags, 67 x 50 x 10 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Kristen Lorello announces Jeremy Lawson's debut solo exhibition with the gallery of works from his ongoing Rain Follows the Plow series. The exhibition includes wall-based reliefs made with multiple filled construction sandbags, joined together and covered with found materials and paint. Lawson's works at once register as paintings, sculptures, and accretions of natural elements. He actively employs various strategies of postwar art such as assemblage, abstract expressionism, and the use of readymade materials, to speak about contemporary issues surrounding property, climate, and environment. Using construction sandbags to compose the backing of each of the works, Lawson at once nods to the white weave of flat canvas and to the functional aspects of the bags - to direct the flow of floodwater and to safeguard property. Surfaces feel bulbous and inflatable, pillow-like and hard, ... More | | 
Derek Boshier, David Bowie, Jack Kerouac, and David Bowie, 2016. Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 x 152.4 cm / 72.01 x 60 in.
LONDON.- On Friday 11th January 2019, Gazelli Art House London is opening the Robert Fraser's Groovy Arts Club Band exhibition celebrating Pop Art. Inspired by the esteemed London art dealer, the group show brings together Clive Barker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Brian Clarke, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Hamilton, Keith Haring, Jann Haworth, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha and Colin Self thirteen pop artists Fraser championed. Great exhibitions continue to star major pop artists nationally and internationally. The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is currently celebrating Jean-Michel Basquiat, the pioneering prodigy of the 1980s downtown New York art scene. An Andy Warhol retrospective opened at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in November 2018. Warhol can also be found alongside the godfather of Pop Art, Eduardo Paolozzi, at the Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art in the exhibit ... More |
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 Exhibition of work from 45 years of Caroline Broadhead's diverse practice opens at The Lethaby GalleryLONDON.- In the recently published monograph about her work, visual artist Caroline Broadhead is described as a unique voice across several disciplines. This exhibition, highlighting four decades of Caroline Broadheads work reflects the diversity and breadth of her practice, and shows how she has continued to forge her own particular path throughout her career. Trained as a jeweller, Broadhead originally made work that took contact and interaction with the body as its subject. With her use of non-precious, often textile materials, she deviated from the prevailing norms at that time. The subsequent textile objects were difficult to categorise, existing between jewellery art, fashion and art. More and more frequently, they become part of performances. This lead to larger installations, dance performances and sculptures. Where the objects were originally literally ... More Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger opens an exhibition of works by Youla ChapovalPARIS.- Following the exhibition The Russians in Paris 1925-1955 on display this autumn, the gallery wished to dedicate a mini-retrospective to Youla Chapoval, whose works were exhibited for the first time in 1947 by Jean-François Jaeger. This meteoric artist, who died at age 32, is one of the revelations of the current exhibition on the Russians and it is therefore quite natural that the Gallery would want to open the year 2019 with an exhibition dedicated to him. Born in 1919 in Kiev, Chapoval was the third child of a bourgeois Jewish family of jewelers. Aftera happy childhood, Chapoval and his family were forced, as a result of the Russian Revolution, toleave Ukraine. They moved to Paris in 1924, as did many Russians who imagined France to be an ideal country of freedom and good living. In November 1938 Chapoval met Pablo Picasso, with whom he would ... More RYAN LEE presents a three channel video by Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen KellyNEW YORK, NY.- On Mother Anns birthday the whole Society met at the Meeting House to celebrate the day. Like all Sabbaths in Shaker villages, a beautiful stillness pervaded. After the body of worshipers gathered into order, we commenced the services by one bow and opened the meeting by singing a hymn. All that were able united into ranks to step for the first song, then formed two circles for the march. At this time in a meeting it was usual to step quick and lively for two songs, sing two songs for the slow march, then two for the round dance with the circle unbroken. On this occasion the house was too crowded to march with convenience, so the dancing commenced in a promiscuous manner by the middle and young classes, and was attended with great power. The seats had to be taken out of the room to give place for the spirits to sing and dance, and the gifts ... More First solo show by the Brooklyn-based painter Sam McKinniss with Almine Rech opens in BrusselsBRUSSELS.- Almine Rech is presenting 'Neverland', the first solo show by the Brooklyn-based painter Sam McKinniss with the gallery. Once upon a time, painting died. Hers was not a tragic death, she faded slowlysputtering and flickering into her goodnight, shrouded in myth. While the whole story is terribly complicated, it boils down to the tale of a maiden whose life-force was eclipsed by a new-fangled monster: photography. Oh! These scopophilic artspainting and her evil stepchild, photography. Cut of the same cloth, or so we thought, these endeavors were developed in order to fulfill the human desire to capture and fix images, to tell stories visually, to represent, fantasize, or enhance what reality looks like. As legend has it, painting and photography profited from an early, mutually beneficial alliance before the hierarchies determining their dynamic ... More Max Hetzler opens an exhibition with works by Inge MahnPARIS.- Galerie Max Hetzler opened an exhibition with works by Inge Mahn. This is the artist's first show at the Paris gallery. Drawing from the everyday, German sculptor Inge Mahn consciously alienates the commonplace, sensibly manipulating motifs to unlock a range of incongruous possibilities. Working predominantly with white plaster, the artist estranges objects through raw modelling, re-contextualisation, subtle subtractions and additions. In Mahn's practice, discrete sculptural elements and installations are meant to be activated by independent structures. Purposely ignoring the notion of the self-standing work of art, Mahn creates works that interact with broader architectural, historical and socio-political contexts, often formulating responses to specific environments. Foregoing the ready-made principle and the traditional concept of architectural ... More Galerie PACT opens its second solo show of works by Sarah MeyohasPARIS.- «Infinite Void» is the second solo show of Sarah Meyohas at PACT, after «Cloud Of Petals» presented in March 2017 which was the artist first solo show in Europe and the first time the eponym video was screened. The present exhibition features six photographs from the series «Speculations», from 2015 to 2018 and the virtual reality scenarii the artist recently created within the «Cloud of Petals» series. Julia Greenway, curator, gives clues and her vision in the following text she wrote on the occasion of «Infinite Void»: And then like this: that a feeling begins, because flower petals touch flower petals? And this: that one opens like a lid, and under it lie only eyelids, all closed, as if they, sleeping tenfold, had to damp an inner power of sight. And this above all: that through these petals light must pass. Rainer Maria Rilke Sarah Meyohas deconstructs ... More Perrotin Tokyo opens first solo show in Japan of works by Eddie MartinezTOKYO.- Perrotin Tokyo is presenting works by Brooklyn-based Eddie Martinez, marking the artists first solo show in Japan, as well as with the gallery. Born in 1977, Martinez is essentially a self-taught artist, having only very briefly attended art school. He had his first solo show in 2005. Alternating between traditional and unconventional modes of painting, Martinez often layers oil and enamel painting with silkscreen, spray paint, and on occasion pieces of gum wrappers and baby wipes. His somewhat arbitrary choice of material and subject could be seen to embody the ease and lightness of contemporary culture, although his practice also reflects elements of historical movements such as Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism and CoBrA[1]. Originally applauded for an iconic figurative style featuring his famous cast of bug-eyed characters, more recently ... More albertz benda opens a two-person exhibition of works by Thomas Fougeirol and Carrie YamaokaNEW YORK, NY.- albertz benda presents Thomas Fougeirol and Carrie Yamaoka: a crack in everything, a two-person exhibition on view from January 10th to February 16th, 2019. Showing together for the first time, Fougeirol and Yamaoka both employ painting processes that engage with and subvert the protocols of photography. Unengaged with representation, the artists focus on paintings potential to record the slippage between the indexical mark and the invisible. Thomas Fougeirols work evokes a space that exists between radiography, photo negatives, painting, and imprinting
a kind of sensitive machine that defeats expectations. He embraces the liquidity of paint, applying thick layers that create a seemingly unstable skin on the canvas, a laden membrane on the verge of bursting. He registers the imprints of actions and movements on the surface, ... More Katherine Wolkoff opens her first exhibition with Benrubi GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- Benrubi Gallery announces The Critical Zone, an exhibition of large-scale gelatin silver prints, the gallerys first exhibition with Katherine Wolkoff. In The Critical Zone, Wolkoff presents new landscape photographs that describe the geological, botanical and zoological markings visible in the critical zone, earths permeable layer which extends from the tops of the trees to the bottom of the ground water. Scientists argue that this zonewhere rock, soil water and air meetwill characterize the future environmental health of the earth. Like a scientific researcher, Wolkoff travels to public lands throughout the United States to photograph the landscape of the critical zone. She uses a range of techniques from the 4x5 view camera to a flatbed scanner, utilizing subjective post-production techniques that expand the photography beyond science. The ... More Allan Stone Projects opens an exhibition of paintings by Robert Rasely NEW YORK, NY.- Allan Stone Projects presents Robert Rasely Houses and Birds, on view January 10 February 16, 2019. In the sixteen paintings selected from the Allan Stone Collection, Raselys surreal depictions of houses and birds imbue their subjects with a haunting sense of unease, creating a tension between the real and the imaginary. Raselys paintings envision an altered netherworld. Dream-like interiors, landscapes populated by ambiguous organisms and birds of unsettling awareness are alternately quirky, delightful and ominous. They recall the manic characteristics of a Bosch inferno with the delicate touch of Dutch vanitas paintings. Using fine brushes, ground pigments and a controlled hand, Raselys lightly glazed oil-on-panel renderings of chimerical scenes and obscure symbols engage the subconscious. His allegorical imagery of doorways, ... More Keith Duncan's 'The Big Easy' exhibition opens at Fort GansevoortNEW YORK, NY.- Fort Gansevoort presents The Big Easy, featuring new work by New Orleans, Louisiana-based artist Keith Duncan, opening on Thursday, January 10th. Keith Duncan is a visual storyteller, depicting stories both familiar to all and those specific to New Orleans, with a focus on a multidimensional approach both in subject matter and material. The Big Easy consists of two large-scale paintings portraying two scenes recognizable to all, The Wedding and The Funeral, both part of Duncans series Satire and Storytelling. These are two scenes with curiously more similarities than differences. Through Duncans expressive and at times comical form of visual storytelling, one will recognize many of the familiar characters in such scenes. The wedding is not without a couple of fights, the drunk uncle, and even a fainting bride. Similar roles are filled in The ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English sculptor Barbara Hepworth was born January 10, 1903. Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 - 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists of her generation to achieve international prominence. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. In this image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 of the 4 individual casts that were made of each of the nine figures (est. £2,000,000-3,000,000). Photo: Sotheby's.
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