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Silbatos en forma de ave realizados con la incipiente técnica del vidriado. Foto Melitón Tapia INAH
MEXICO CITY.- Archeologists in Mexico said Monday they have unearthed what they believe was a dwelling where upper class Aztecs who resisted the Spanish conquest tried to preserve their customs and traditions. The structure, where Aztecs were also buried, is part of an old neighborhood in Mexico City called Colhuacatonco, famous for being a place where the Aztecs resisted the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, the National Institute of Anthropology said in a statement. The new find buttresses the argument that Colhuacatonco put up passive resistance after the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire, said Maria de la Luz Escobedo, the archeologist in charge of the project. "It is very likely that first and second generation descendants of Tenochtitlan people quietly carried out the burials of seven people (three adults and four children aged one to eight) using the traditions of their ancestors," she was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the anthropology institute. Archeolog ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day A woman looks at the painting "Sketch for Self-Portrait with Airplane " (1929) by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, during a tour for journalists prior to the opening of the exhibition "Me pinto a mi misma" at the Museum Dolores Olmedo in Mexico City on July 4, 2017. PEDRO PARDO / AFP
| Auction record for drawing by Canaletto achieved at Sotheby's in London | | Decade of emerging trend now the "new normal" among collectors of art-level antique oriental rugs | | One of J.M.W. Turner's greatest works sells for $25 million at Sotheby's | 
Canaletto, The Coronation of the Doge on the Scala dei Giganti. Pen and brown ink and three shades of grey wash, heightened with touches of white over black chalk, within original brown ink framing lines, 389 by 554 mm. Estimate: £2,500,000-3,500,000. Sold for £2,633,750 / $3,404,385 / 2,999,591. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- A superbly preserved drawing ranking among the greatest ever made by Canaletto sold for a record £2,633,750 / $3,404,385 / 2,999,591 at Sothebys London moments ago. The price eclipsed the previous record for a work on paper by the artist (£1.9 million achieved for Campo San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice, sold at Sothebys in London in July 2012). Greg Rubinstein, Worldwide Head of Old Master Drawings at Sothebys, said: The record price realised today for Canalettos superb drawing is a fitting testimony to its importance and its quality. Nothing like it has been seen at auction. A more total expression of the essence of Canalettos genius as a draughtsman than this extraordinary ... More | | 
Many of Claremont Rug Company's clients are using antique Oriental rugs, such as this High-Collectible, mid-19th century Causcasian Seichur Kuba tribal rug hung in a stairwell, as "wall art."
OAKLAND, CA.- Eminent art dealer Jan David Winitz, whose Claremont Rug Company gallery specializes in art-level Oriental carpets from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, has begun to tip to his global clients that a trend which began nearly a decade ago is now a prominent feature among connoisseur collectors. Starting in the mid first decade of the current century I began to notice, he said, that some of my most avant-garde clients were asking me for quite valuable rugs to display as hanging art. What was once a gradual increase is now a staple of our discussions as the appreciation of the finest of antique Oriental rugs have reached a significant level of prominence in the collecting world. One of the factors that might have contributed to this was the sales of an Oriental rug at auction for $33.7 million in 2013. The reaction to the ... More | | 
Employees of Sotheby's auction house pose with Ehrenbreitstein by British painter J.M.W Turner during a photocall to promote the sale at Sotheby's auction house on June 30, 2017. NIKLAS HALLE'N / AFP.
LONDON.- One of the greatest works by J.M.W. Turner remaining in private hands, Ehrenbreitstein is a late work dating from 1835, a period that is widely considered Turners best: other works from this time now hang in the worlds greatest museums, with only a minute number of this importance and quality remaining in private ownership. Referred to as the painter of light, Turner is widely regarded as Britains foremost artist, whose unprecedented style not only had a profound and lasting impact on British art, but was also a vital precursor to both the Impressionist and the much later Abstract Expressionist movements. Earlier this year, Turner was confirmed as the new face for the British £20 note, having been voted the countrys most important artist from among the 500 or so names suggested by the British public. Major works of such ... More |
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| London's largest outdoor exhibition now open in The Regent's Park | | US retailer to pay $3mn fine, return Iraqi artifacts | | Exhibition in Berlin presents ancient Egyptian and ancient Chinese artefacts side by side | 
Bernar Venet, 17 Acute Unequal Angles (2016) Blain|Southern. Frieze Sculpture 2017. Photo by Stephen White. Courtesy of Stephen White/Frieze.
LONDON.- Frieze Sculpture opened from 5 July to 8 October, presenting a free outdoor exhibition for London and its international visitors throughout the summer months. Selected by Clare Lilley (Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park) and featuring leading galleries, Friezes first-ever summer exhibition in The Regents Park brings together 25 new and significant works by 20th-century masters and leading contemporary artists from around the world, including Magdalena Abakanowicz, Rasheed Araeen, Urs Fischer, KAWS, Alicja Kwade, Michael Craig-Martin, Jaume Plensa, Thomas J Price, Ugo Rondinone, Sarah Sze, Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Young. Programming partner Art Fund will host a series of public tours throughout the outdoor exhibition. The Frieze Sculpture Audio Tour app, also produced by Art Fund, features Clare Lilley talking through each of the selected works on display and is available for download for free. ... More | | 
Hobby Lobby said that in 2009 it began acquiring artifacts.
NEW YORK (AFP).- US arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has agreed to forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay $3 million to settle a civil suit brought by the US government, prosecutors announced Wednesday. The Department of Justice says thousands of cuneiform tablets and clay bullae, originally from Iraq, were smuggled into the United States via the United Arab Emirates and Israel in packages shipped to the Oklahoma-based company. Hobby Lobby said that in 2009 it began acquiring artifacts "consistent with the company's mission and passion for the Bible" with the goal of preserving them for future generations and sharing them with public institutions and museums. In July 2010, the firm's president and a consultant traveled to the UAE to inspect antiquities up for sale. US prosecutors said the company was warned against the risk of such items being looted from archaeological sites in Iraq and that improper declaration of country of origin could lead to forfeiture. But in December 2010, Hob ... More | | 
Mumienmaske der Ta-Scherit-en-Hor, Kartonage, grundiert, bemalt und teilweise vergoldet, Ptolemäerzeit, 32330 v. Chr., © Ãgyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Margarete Büsing.
BERLIN.- For the first time the exhibition at the Neues Museum will present ancient Egyptian and ancient Chinese artefacts side by side. Many exhibits from China have never been on show in Europe. Thanks to loans from the Shanghai Museum and the loan of a jade suit from the Xuzhou Museum, enriched by objects from the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, this exhibition will present these objects in Berlin for the first time. The exhibition features about 250 objects, including significant treasures from both civilizations, and covers a time span from 4500 BC well into the 3rd century AD. The unusual experiment of drawing correlations between objects from ancient China and ancient Egypt for the first time could only succeed thanks to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlins cooperation with the Shanghai Museum, arranged ... More |
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| Strong results at Koller for Modern, Contemporary & Swiss Art: 126% sold by value | | Celebrating the art of Mexican photography this summer at the Frost Art Museum FIU | | Major art collection loaned to Spain for 15 years | 
Alberto Giacometti (Borgonovo 1901 1966 Chur), Monte del Forno, circa 1923/25. Oil on canvas. 60 x 50 cm. Sold for CHF 940 500
ZURICH.- The auctions of Modern, Contemporary & Swiss Art at Koller Zurich realised an impressive score, with total prices well above the pre-sale estimates. Strong results were recorded for an early work by Alberto Giacometti, as well as for German artists such as Max Liebermann, Emil Nolde and Ernst Wilhelm Nay. This accomplishment comes the day after a white-glove auction of Watches at Koller on 29 June, in which 100% of the lots found buyers and the prices realised totalled over 200% of the pre-sale estimates. These sales contained a particularly attractive selection of works, almost all from private collections and for the first time on the market, said Cyril Koller, President of Koller Auctions and the auctioneer for the sales. A combination like this is in itself a recipe for success, but we also noticed a strong tendency on the part of bidders to pursue their purchases more tenaciously than ... More | | 
Manuel Carrillo, Boy Seated On Step In Doorway. Black & white photograph on paper, 8 x 10 in. Photography. Gift of Alvin J. Gilbert Mexico FIU MMC, FAM 215, Print Drawer 4A-4 (07/26/10) NR.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU celebrates the art of Mexican photography this summer with two exhibitions: Becoming Mexico: The Photographs of Manuel Carrillo and Possible Worlds: Photography and Fiction in Mexican Contemporary Art. The opening reception is free, open to the public on Saturday, July 8, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.. With Becoming Mexico, the museum traces the deep roots of the genre with the striking photojournalistic work that captured the countrys national identity featuring more than thirty of Manuel Carrillos gelatin silver prints. Carrillos photographs serve as a celebration of the human spirit. These photographs are part of the museums permanent collection. This exhibition was curated by the museums Curator, Klaudio Rodriguez. In Possible Worlds, works of imagination and fantasy by Mexican contemporary artists serve as a ... More | | 
Polo, whose parents moved to Miami from Cuba after the Castro regime seized their assets in 1961, said he wanted to die "with empty hands" and without taking "anything to the grave".
TOLEDO (AFP).- Cuban-American multimillionaire Roberto Polo will loan his collection of 7,000 contemporary paintings, sculptures and photos to Spain for 15 years, the country's biggest cultural deal in over 20 years, officials said Tuesday. The collection, which includes works by German artist Max Ernst and US sculptor Martin Kline, will be shown at museums in Toledo and Cuenca in central Spain, the president of the regional government of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano Garcia-Page, told a news conference in Toledo. After 15 years the loan period may be extended or the works may be donated to Spain, he added. Garcia-Page said this was "the most important cultural operation for the country" since the Spanish government in 1993 agreed to buy the prized art collection of the Swiss industrialist Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza. Officials ... More |
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| Exhibition at Norton Simon Museum delves into the life of Galka Scheyer | | Albertina opens exhibition of works from its contemporary art collection | | William Larkin portrait smashes estimate at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale | 
Vasily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866-1944), Heavy Circles, 1927. Oil on canvas, 22-1/2 x 20-1/2 in. Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection © Norton Simon Museum.
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum is presenting Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California, an exhibition that delves into the life of Galka Scheyer, the enterprising dealer responsible for the art phenomenon the Blue FourLyonel Feininger, Alexei Jawlensky, Paul Klee and Vasily Kandinsky. In California, through the troubling decades of the Great Depression and the Second World War, German-born Scheyer (18891945) single-handedly cultivated a taste for their brand of European modernism by arranging exhibitions, lectures and publications on their work, and negotiating sales on their behalf. Maven of Modernism presents exceptional examples from Scheyers personal collection by the Blue Four artists, as well as works by artists including Alexander Archipenko, László Moholy-Nagy, ... More | | 
Sigmar Polke, Untitled, 1999. Acrylic © The Estate of Sigmar Polke, Cologne / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017.
VIENNA.- For the first time ever, the Albertina is staging an exhibition on two levels of the museum: over 2,500 square meters of floor space have been devoted to a presentation that bears witness to the Albertinas collecting strategy for contemporary art since Klaus Albrecht Schröders assumption of its directorship. From the over 10,000 contemporary artworks that have been acquired over the past 18 years, Klaus Albrecht Schröder and curator Antonia Hoerschelmann have selected around 350 works by 55 artists. Clear to see in their selection is the intent to acquire not isolated works, butwherever possiblegroups of works, thereby facilitating a more nuanced and complex understanding of the artistic ideas and creative principles behind a given artists oeuvre. As a rule, the collecting policy for the Contemporary Art Collection is to acquire only drawings and prints. But even so, ... More | | 
William Larkin, Portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe. Achieved £449,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- William Larkins Portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe, sold in the room for a remarkable £449,000, ten times its estimate of £40,000-60,000, at Bonhams Old Master Paintings sale today, 5 July 2017. Bonhams Director of Old Master Paintings, Andrew McKenzie said, Having spent much of its life at Wroxton Abbey, William Larkins magnificent Portrait of Thomas Pope is unusually well preserved. The paint layer, particularly on the exquisite lace, retains its textured surface some 400 years after it was painted. Such good condition is rare for something of this age. I am not surprised it attracted very keen bidding nor that it achieved such a wonderful result. The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist by Jacopo Zucchi made a world record price for the artist, achieving £317,000 against an estimate of £50,000-70,000. Other highlights included: A recently discovered sketch by ... More |
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 New Museum opens the exhibition and artist residency "Paul RamÃrez Jonas: Half-truths" NEW YORK, NY.- The New Museum is presenting the exhibition and artist residency Paul RamÃrez Jonas: Half-truths as the second iteration of the Department of Education and Public Engagements annual R&D Summers, a research and development initiative that emphasizes the New Museums year-round commitment to community partnerships and public dialogue at the intersection of art and social justice. Paul RamÃrez Jonas: Half-truths is on view on the Museums Fifth Floor from July 5 to September 17, and also includes a series of public programs. The exhibition is curated by Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement; Shaun Leonardo, Manager of School, Youth, and Community Programs; and Emily Mello, Associate Director of Education. With Half-truths, RamÃrez Jonas (b. 1965, Pomona, ... More Morris Museum announces appointment of Card S. Ward as Executive DirectorMORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Board of Trustees of the Morris Museum today announced that Carol S. Ward has been named the institutions new Executive Director. Ms. Ward will assume her post in July of 2017. Carol Ward is currently the Executive Director of the Morris-Jumel Mansion in New York. During her tenure, she has provided strategic, administrative, and creative oversight for a triple landmarked museum and four acre public park. Under her guidance, the Morris-Jumel Mansion has seen significant increases in its yearly attendance, fundraising initiatives, and local partnerships, all while preserving and interpreting the oldest residence in Manhattan. Prior to becoming Executive Director, Ms. Ward served as Director of Education and Public Programs at the Morris-Jumel Mansion for five years. She also held positions at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut; ... More Turkey protests to Germany over 'kill dictatorship' installationISTANBUL (AFP).- Turkey protested officially to Germany on Tuesday that an artist had been allowed to set up an installation in central Berlin offering a car as a prize in exchange for killing world leaders including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The installation was set up outside the offices of Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, comprising a Mercedes C-class car and banners with pictures of Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman. "Do you want this car? Kill dictatorship!" said the slogan. Erdogan is frequently accused by opponents of acting like a dictator, although he rubbishes the idea, noting that he is the first directly-elected president in Turkish history. The action was staged by the art collective Centre for Political Beauty led bv Phillip Ruch, which has made several stunts in the past including displaying four tigers ... More Alex Da Corte creates a new work for the Vienna SecessionVIENNA.- US-American artist Alex Da Corte creates videos, sculptures, paintings, and immersive installations with a striking cinematic quality. The engagement with the complexity of human experience is central to his work, for instance when he explores and exposes questions of desire, sensuality, and alienation. The artist is interested in both the cultural and psychological qualities that the everyday objects he manipulates and repurposes possess, as well as in the suspense they radiate making space for a state of deception and illusion. Exploring the formal potential of artefacts of consumer culture, Da Corte twists their immediate affordance so they can unfold new symbolic powernow as sculptural objects in his videos and installations, for example. Evidently, colour and textures are used with great skill to affect viewers and the mood in which they experience the ... More New facade installation goes up at Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumBOSTON, MASS.- For her installation on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade, American born artist Elaine Reichek mined the intimate letters between novelist Henry James and Mrs. Gardner for inspiration. Her installation, Ever Yours, Henry James, a graphic sampler composed of phrases from the letters, is now on view at the museum. Reichek, a 2001 Artist-in-Residence at the Museum, is the tenth artist to create an artwork for the façade. She was drawn to the many ways James closed his letters to Gardner from the more formal with many good wishes, Very truly Yours to the very affectionate always constantly. By focusing on these closings, Reichek hopes to convey the depth and genuine feeling in the long friendship between Gardner and James. The façade will also coincide with the Museums fall exhibition, Henry James ... More Christie's to offer 49 timepieces during Only Watch 2017GENEVA.- Christies will be the auctioneer of choice for ONLY WATCH 2017, organized by LAssociation Monégasque contre les Myopathies, offering 49 timepieces during the afternoon of Saturday 11 November at the Four Seasons Hôtel des Bergues in Geneva as a stand-alone charity auction. All 49 watches are now revealed and available to view under www.onlywatch.com Participating brands: Andersen Genève, Armin Strom, Arnold & Son, Audemars Piguet, Barbier Mueller, Bell & Ross, Blancpain, Boucheron, Bovet Fleurier, Breguet, Carl F.Bucherer, Chanel, Chopard, Christophe Claret, Chronoswiss, De Bethune, Dewitt, F.P. Journe, Fabergé, Frédérique Constant, Girard Perregaux, H.Moser & Cie, Harry Winston, Hautlence, Hermès, Hublot, Jacob & Co, Konstantin Chaykin, Laurent Ferrier, Jaquet Droz, Louis Moinet, Louis Vuitton, Maurice Lacroix, ... More Chrysler Museum celebrates baseball in new exhibitionNORFOLK, VA.- For nearly four decades, George Sosnak translated his love of baseball into illustrated miniature masterpieces carefully painted between baseball seams. The Chrysler Museum of Art celebrates the self-taught artists baseballs in its summer show Having a Ball: George Sosnaks Striking Portraits from Americas Pastime. The exhibition is on view from July 6 through August 27, 2017 in the Museums Waitzer Community Gallery (G. 103). Admission is free. The exhibition features 45 of Sosnaks brightly painted baseballs from a local private collection alongside selections of his two-dimensional works, including a poster from the collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Professional Baseball Centennial, 18691969 features club and league logos and the artists whimsical player portraits. Sosnak donated the remarkably detailed work to the Cooperstown, ... More The Bruce Museum celebrates Henry David Thoreau's bicentennial with new displayGREENWICH, CONN.- Many people unfamiliar with Henry David Thoreau think of him as a hermit who eschewed society to live alone in the woods were he wrote his most popular book, Walden. The truth, however, is that Thoreau is one of the most celebrated American thinkers and was a surveyor, naturalist par excellence, and champion of social justice whose writings have inspired the likes of Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King. Outside of his public written works, Thoreau was a prolific journal writer, penning nearly two-million words in his fourteen-volume journal. Thoreaus own words provide great insight into a man who did not reap much literary success while alive, yet today is one of the most influential writers in the world. Henry David Thoreau died of tuberculosis in 1862 at the age of 44, but left a legacy celebrating a love of natural history and wilderness ... More UNESCO urges Poland to stop logging ancient forestKRAKÃW (AFP).- UNESCO on Wednesday "strongly" urged Poland to stop logging the older parts of the ancient Bialowieza forest, a world heritage site that includes some of Europe's last primeval woodland. The large-scale logging authorised by the Polish government began in May of last year and has since drawn concern from environmental activists, scientists and the European Union. UNESCO "strongly urges (Poland) to immediately halt all logging and wood extraction in old-growth forests," the World Heritage Committee said in a statement during its annual session. The committee, which is meeting in the southern Polish city of Krakow this year, also called on "the state party of Poland to maintain the continuity and integrity of protected old-growth forest in Bialowieza forest." Straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, Bialowieza boasts unique plant and ... More The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces latest additions to permanent collectionPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announces the addition of more than 30 historic, modern, and contemporary works to its permanent collection of American art. The new acquisitions include paintings, sculpture, installation, and works on paper made from 1916 to 2017. Highlights in the latest group of purchases include Indian Erotic (1973), an unflinchingly bold and sexually charged oil on canvas by groundbreaking feminist painter and 2017 PAFA commencement speaker Joan Semmel; The Thirsty Laborer (2012), a large allegorical work on panel by William Villalongo; and Studies in Suffocation II (2016), a precisely rendered and ominously atmospheric graphite on paper by Robyn O'Neil. PAFA is also excited to announce the purchase of Pillowsophia (after Ghostface) and accompanying manifesto New No's (both 2017), works that ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German painter George Grosz died July 06, 1959. George Grosz (July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic before he emigrated to the United States in 1933. In this image: Artist George Grosz poses in New York City on Oct. 7, 1946.
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