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The tablet was discovered after three years of surface excavations by the Greek Archaeological Services in cooperation with the German Institute of Archaeology.
ATHENS (AFP).- An ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of the Odyssey has been unearthed in southern Greece in what is possibly the earliest-recorded trace of the epic poem, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The clay slab is believed to date back to the third century, during the Roman era. "If this date is confirmed, the tablet could be the oldest written record of Homer's work ever discovered" in Greece, a ministry statement said. The extract, taken from book 14, describes the return of Ulysses to his home island of Ithaca. The tablet was discovered after three years of surface excavations by the Greek Archaeological Services in cooperation with the German Institute of Archaeology. It was found close to the remains of the Temple of Zeus at the cradle of the Olympic Games in western Peloponnese. First composed orally around the 8th century BC, the epic - ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French collector Olivier Fruneau-Maigret shows a LU advertisement by French artist Marie Lucas-Robiquet entitled 'Tahadat & Khadidja' (1920) that is part of his LU collection he will soon sell by auction at Drouot auction house in Paris on June 8, 2018 in Champtoceaux, western France. Memorabilia of the iconic "Petit Beurre", a biscuit of the Nantes brand 'LU', which has accompanied generations of schoolboys and gourmands since 1886, will be auctioned in Paris on September 19, 2018. Drawings, posters, labels, cookie boxes and display stands: more than 1,000 emblematic pieces from the history of decorative arts, witnesses of the beginnings of advertising and the agri-food industry, are in the catalog of this unpublished sale under the ministry of the Leclére house. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
| McNay Art Museum puts spotlight on student artists | | Sale of guillotine divides France | | J. Paul Getty Museum announces landmark acquisition of a Medieval Hebrew manuscript | 
Bryan Covarrubia from Holy Cross of San Antonio, Selection from Invisible Beauty, 2018. Acrylic on canvas.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- For the past eight years, the McNay Art Museum has engaged students K12 with a single work of art in the permanent collection. Its award-winning Spotlight program invites students ages 518 to respond creatively to a masterpiece in the holdings of the first modern art museum in Texas. In 2018, more than a thousand students from 16 San Antonio area schools embraced Georgia OKeeffes Leaf Motif, No. 2, creating their own artworks in various media. Now for the first time in the programs history, selections will be on view July 12 through November 4 in Spotlight: San Antonios K12 Artists Embrace Georgia OKeeffe. This inaugural exhibition demonstrates the McNays commitment to the future of San Antonio, said Richard Aste, Director of the McNay. By inspiringand empoweringtomorrows Georgia OKeeffes and Diego Riveras today, at ... More | | 
The 10-foot (three-metre) tall instrument of execution which was used to dispatch criminals in France until 1977 was bought by a French millionaire for 8,008 euros ($9,400).
PARIS (AFP).- A 150-year-old guillotine with "a few dents on the blade" was sold in Paris on Wednesday despite protests from auction regulators. The 10-foot (three-metre) tall instrument of execution which was used to dispatch criminals in France until 1977 was bought by a French millionaire for 8,008 euros ($9,400). The Drouot auction house insisted that the model was built as a replica and has never been used to behead anyone, although it did once feature in a museum of torture in the French capital. The sale of guillotines has been highly controversial in France where the death penalty was only abolished in 1981, with the French auction watchdog already objecting to the sale. "They should not be selling this guillotine," a spokesman told the Parisien newspaper. "Objects like the clothes of people who were deported to the (Nazi ... More | | 
Menorah of the Tabernacle (Book of Leviticus) from the Rothschild Pentateuch, France and/or Germany, 1296. Leaf: 10 7/8 x 8 1/4 in. (27.5 x 21 cm). Ms. 116 (2018.43), fol. 226v.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the acquisition of the Rothschild Pentateuch, the most spectacular medieval Hebrew manuscript to become available in more than a century. The acquisition was made possible with the generous support of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. The Rothschild Pentateuch will be the greatest High Medieval Hebrew manuscript in the United States, and one of the most important illuminated Hebrew Bibles of any period, says Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its richly illuminated pages a great rarity in the thirteenth century make it a work of outstanding quality and importance that represents the pinnacle of artistic achievement of its day. It will be one of the most signal treasures of the Department of Manuscripts and indeed of the Getty ... More |
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| Redwood Library and Athenæum announces gift of author Calvin Tomkins' art library and bookplate by Ed Ruscha | | Julien's Auctions to offer Property from the Estate of Sharon Tate | | Colby College Museum of Art to acquire Jackson Pollock's Composition With Masked Forms | 
Commemorating this exceptional gift is Ed Ruscha: EX LIBRIS, a special presentation of Ruschas large-scale painting EX LIBRIS
NEWPORT, RI.- The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, the nations first purpose-built library structure and think space, has been given the art book collection of prominent author and New Yorker staff writer Calvin Tomkins, a gift of more than 5000 volumes. To commemorate the gift, renowned contemporary artist Ed Ruscha has created a painting titled EX LIBRIS, and a limited series of interpretive lithographs after it to be sold for the benefit of the Redwood. The book collection, gathered over decades of Tomkins writing career, which includes biographies of Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg and the international bestseller Living Well is the Best Revenge, comprises a range of exhibition and gallery catalogs, critical surveys and monographs, many of them signed and personalized with drawings by the artists. The collection abuts historic Redwood collections of art and pattern books, while forming an archive ... More | | 
A custom made chocolate slubbed silk dress attributed as being made by William Travilla and worn by Sharon Tate while being interviewed on the 1968 documentary {The New Cimema}. Estimate: $5000-7000.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house, will celebrate the beauty and style of one of Hollywoods most promising actresses and 1960s fashion icon with Propert from the Collection of Sharon Tate, taking place Saturday, November 17 live in Los Angeles and online at julienslive.com. Known as one of Hollywoods most magnetic stars of the era, actress and model Sharon Tates life and style embodied the very essence of the decade now known as the swinging 60s. Tate was amongst the celebrities that influenced the sights and sounds of that eras culture, joining the likes of Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy. Born in 1943 in Dallas, Texas as the daughter of a career military officer, Tate was destined for stardom, winning beauty contests before she was a year old which continued through her ... More | | 
Jackson Pollock, Composition with Masked Forms, 1941. Oil on canvas, 27 3⁄4 x 49 3⁄4 in. Colby College Museum of Art. Gift of the Barsalona Family, Museum purchase from the Jere Abbott Acquisition Fund, and gift of Peter and Paula Lunder, The Lunder Collection. © 2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
WATERVILLE, ME.- The Colby College Museum of Art announced the major acquisition of Jackson Pollocks Composition with Masked Forms (1941), a critical painting that reflects a watershed moment in the artists stylistic transition to Abstract Expressionism. It is the first major work by Pollock in a public collection in Maine and will be available for viewing beginning July 11, 2018. Held in a private collection since 1973, this acquisition speaks to the Colby Museums ongoing commitment to adding works that broaden and complicate its presentation of American art. The painting will inspire new avenues of inquiry at a moment when the Colby Museum and its newly launched Lunder Institute are advancing critical and creative research in ... More |
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| Städel acquires masterwork of German Surrealism | | Marian Goodman Gallery opens summer exhibition featuring a selection of new works | | Carnegie Museum of Art announces major art acquisitions | 
Richard Oelze (19001980), Archaic Fragment, 1935 (detail). Oil on canvas, 98 x 130 cm. Joint property of the Städelscher Museums-Verein e. V. and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main Acquired with support from the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States and a contribution from the Kurt and Marga Möllgaard Foundation © Estate of Richard Oelze.
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum announced a first-rate new acquisition for its collection. The magnum opus by the German Surrealist Richard Oelze (19001980) represents a significant enhancement to the Frankfurt museums Surrealist holdings. With the aid of generous support from the Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States and a contribution from the Kurt and Marga Möllgaard Foundation, the Städelscher Museums-Verein and the Städel Museum have jointly purchased the painting Archaic Fragment (1935) from a private collection. Long thought lost, the work is one of only three large-scale canvases from the artists most important creative period in Paris. The other two Expectation (193536) and Everyday Torments (1934) are now in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New ... More | | 
Adrián Villar Rojas. From the series The Theater of Disappearance (XXXIV), 2015-2018. Stratified formation of concrete, cement, white cement, sand, coconuts and pigments (from the exhibition: Plantetarium, United Arab Emirates, 2015), polyurethane resin, concrete and recycled base rock, 23 5/8 x 242 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. (60 x 615 x 54 cm) (overall).
NEW YORK, NY.- Marian Goodman Gallerys summer exhibition features a selection of new works that make their debut in the New York space. Chosen from a range of exhibitions and projects at institutions from this past year, they include highlights that showcase a variety of media and forms, as well as a diversity of practices, that are utilized by the gallerys artists. Nairy Baghramians work constitutes sculpture and installation, often alluding to architecture and the fragmented human body. A skeletal quality embodies the four-part sculpture Chin Up (First Fitting). The large, organ-like pieces are akin to kidneys and livers, the structures of which look as if they are supporting the skeleton, rather than the other way around. The sculpture, which consists of waxed wood and polished and lacquered aluminum, receives additional ... More | | 
Consolidated Lamp & Glass Co. (manufacturer), Reuben Haley (designer), Ruba Rombic toilet bottle, 19281932, glass, Carnegie Museum of Art, James L. Winokur Fund and the Elizabeth A. Drain Fund.
PITTSBURGH, PA.- Carnegie Museum of Art announces recent collection acquisitions. These highlights in contemporary art, decorative arts, and photography join the museums collection of over 30,000 works. Three of them, by Joan Brown, Alex Katz, and Pope.L, will debut in Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Arts Collection, 1945 to Now, opening July 20. San Franciscoborn painter Joan Brown is best known for her large-scale self-portraits, which combine bright, cartoonish drawing with a Beat sensibility and her own personal lexicon of symbols. The Room, Part 1 is a particularly introspective self-portrait depicting an isolated figure studying a painting of Chinese Kazakhs of the Altai mountain range in western Mongolia. It signals a shift when Brown began to seek spiritual and metaphysical awakening through research into non-Western cultures and religions. Alex Katz is one of the most celebrated living American painters. His seemingly effortles ... More |
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| Ingmar Bergman, portrayer of inner demons, 100 years on | | The Art of Collection | | French film legend Deneuve wins Japan's top art prize | 
In this file photo taken in the 60' Swedish film-making legend and theater director Ingmar Bergman is pictured in the 1960s in Stockholm. SCANPIX SWEDEN / AFP.
STOCKHOLM (AFP).- Ingmar Bergman, one of the most distinguished filmmakers of his generation whose melancholic work is often tough-to-digest but celebrated, still captivates audiences as much as he puts off his critics. July 14 would have been his 100th birthday. Born in 1918 in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, Bergman directed some 60 movies between 1946 and 2003, including "Cries and Whispers" (1972), "Scenes from a Marriage" (1974), "Autumn Sonata" (1978) and his trademark film "Fanny and Alexander" (1982). He died 11 years ago aged 89 in his home in Faro, a small island in the Baltic Sea whose coast is strewn with distinctly-shaped limestone rocks and shrubland, where his disturbing film "Persona" (1966) was set. The son of a Lutheran priest, Bergman remains to this day the most distinguished portrayer of torments, fantasies, madness and marital infidelity. "The essence of our education was based on the ... More | | 
Anita Choudhrie is the founder of the Stellar International Art Foundation.
LONDON.- It is over 350 years since Vermeer was creating his masterpieces and the art world has changed significantly in that time. Since Picasso, since Pollock, and even more recently Eva Hesse were putting brush to canvas, the art world has evolved and grown. The onset of the internet and growth of contemporary popular art, film, video and electronically produced sound have played a major role in this evolution. Despite such flux, one thing has remained constant: the fundamental impulse to collect and consume art. But what are the qualities of art which drive this? The desire to collect art emerged from a complex amalgamation of connoisseurship and pleasure in artistic creation on the one hand, and investment and status-building on the other. In my view, the former defines a great collector. When considering the role of art as an investment it is important to ponder the unique qualities and characteristics that art possesses. Art collecting has a history that spans millennia. Ancient romans, ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on February 14, 2017 in Berlin French actress Catherine Deneuve poses for photographers during a photocall. Odd ANDERSEN / AFP.
PARIS (AFP).- The veteran French actress Catherine Deneuve was awarded one of the world's most lucrative arts prizes Wednesday. The star of such classics as "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "Belle de Jour", who made her name in the 1960s playing aloof, alluring beauties, is one of three French people honoured by this year's Praemium Imperiale, which is backed by Japan's royal family. Deneuve, 74, sparked a worldwide feminist backlash earlier this year by defending men's right to "hit on" women in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. She later tried to row back on an open letter attacking the #MeToo movement she co-signed in the French daily Le Monde, insisting that there was not "anything good about harassment". Every year five international artists are honoured with the Praemium Imperiale prize worth 15 million yen (117,000 euros, $137,000). The French Pritzker-winning architect ... More |
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 Science Fiction posters expected to be among prized lots in Heritage Auctions' Movie Posters AuctionDALLAS, TX.- A Star Trek poster by illustrator Bob Peak is expected to compete for top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Auction July 28-29 in Dallas. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Bob Peak (Paramount, 1987) (est. $40,000-80,000) is the largest and arguably the most detailed of all Star Trek posters designed by Peak. A renowned commercial artist whose greatest acclaim comes from his developments in the design of modern movie posters, Peaks artwork has appeared on the cover of numerous magazines, including Time, TV Guide and Sports Illustrated. The brilliant color used for the evening sky of San Francisco offers stark contrast to the Klingon Bird of Prey flying just over the Golden Gate Bridge. The 40-by-57-1/2-inch poster is done on illustration board mounted on foamcore, is signed by Peak and comes with a gold frame. ... More James E. Britt appointed as ICA's Director of Public EngagementPHILADELPHIA, PA.- Today, Amy Sadao, Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN) announced the appointment of James E. Britt Jr. as the museums new Director of Public Engagement. Britt comes to Philadelphia from Chicago, where he oversaw the development and implementation of partnerships and engagement opportunities with students and local organizations as the Director of Multicultural Affairs at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and as Associate Director of Community Service at the University of Chicago respectively. Britt will join the ICA in August 2018. As ICAs Director of Public Engagement, Britt will work collaboratively alongside ICA Director Amy Sadao and the curatorial department to further integrate ICAs curatorial program within the curriculum of the University ... More Blum & Poe opens an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow-based artist Andrew KerrNEW YORK, NY.- Blum & Poe announces an exhibition of new paintings by Glasgow-based artist Andrew Kerr. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in New York City. This series of intimately-scaled works on paper offers its own distinct form of representation, dictated by the nuances of acrylic paint and established studio habits. Beginning with a succession of scattered marks on blank sheets, these slow compositions accrue dense layers of paint over the course of many months. Kerr employs improvisational compositional methods in an effort to achieve a distinct pictorial structure and moodalways light and vulnerable, sometimes coherent or dissonant. Soft fields of pale pinks and powder blues variously meet with strong strokes of vermilion and alternating textures. A shared atmosphere ties together these abstracted forms ... More France to pay tribute to director Claude LanzmannPARIS (AFP).- France will pay tribute on Thursday to filmmaker and writer Claude Lanzmann, known for his landmark Holocaust documentary, who died last week aged 92, his family announced Tuesday in Le Monde daily. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will deliver a speech at a ceremony at the Invalides military hospital and museum in Paris, his office said. Lanzmann will then be buried at his family vault at the Montparnasse cemetery in the French capital. The revered director's landmark 1985 documentary "Shoah" revealed the horrors of the Holocaust over nine hours of chilling eyewitness accounts. He worked constantly since the 1972 release of his first film, "Israel, Why", often taking chapters of his own life as inspiration. Last year, he presented at the Cannes film festival "Napalm", about his brief but intense romance with a North Korean nurse in 1958. And his last ... More Solo exhibition by New York-based artist Leelee Kimmel on view at Simon Lee Gallery LondonLONDON.- As part of its Viewing Room programme, Simon Lee Gallery is presenting Wormhole a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Leelee Kimmel, her first in the UK. In her latest work, Kimmel presents a series of largescale abstract paintings that are confrontational in both colour and dimension, exploring themes of creation and destruction. The immersive element of her work is further developed through sculptural pieces and a fiveminute Virtual Reality work that invites total submergence into the deep space of Kimmels creative world. The large-format paintings feature graphic shapes clustered in thick multilayered pools of bright acrylic paint, which weave across fields of solid white or black. The paintings are imbued with a restless energy and freedom that is intrinsically linked with how the artist creates her works. The resulting compositions deliberately ... More Pish Posh, an eccentric art pop-up to open adjacent of Akron Art Museum as a FRONT synchronized projectAKRON, OH.- From July 12September 29, Hieronymus and Superchief Gallery will take over the corner of a historic building in downtown Akron at 105 East Market Street to bring a radical art experience with the pop-up gallery, Pish Posh. Adjacent to the Akron Art Museum, the pop-up will include installations and gallery presentations open to the public Wednesday through Saturday, 12-5PM. Founded in 2014, Hieronymus is an art gallery inspired by the fifteenth-century painter Hieronymus Bosch. Known for his fantastical paintings, Bosch was a master of rousing both fright and delight. Sharing the same sentiment, Hieronymus will present an eclectic exhibition sure to shock and inspire. Hieronymus exhibited art in the Akron Art Museums highly popular 2017 exhibitions: Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose and Gross Anatomies. Superchief Gallery ... More Patti Smith to lead new climate benefit showSAN FRANCISCO (AFP).- Rock icon Patti Smith will lead a fresh benefit concert to combat climate change on the sideline of talks in San Francisco, organizers said Wednesday. The September 14 concert will close a three-day "summit" of local leaders on climate change from around the world, and called by California's outgoing Governor Jerry Brown. He has vowed to bring together sub-national players to mobilize action against rising temperatures while US President Donald Trump displays hostility to global efforts. Smith is the 71-year-old so-called godmother of punk who has frequently played benefits in recent years. She will be joined by Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea. Other performers include the French singer Imany and Tenzin Choegyal, the globe-trotting musical activist from Tibet. "In the world of music, the best ... More France goes big on Japan with multi-million cultural programmePARIS (AFP).- Since Impressionist artists first clapped eyes on woodblock prints, Japan has been a source of both inspiration and fascination for many in France, which Tokyo has picked for a mammoth cultural offensive. "There were other candidates, like Moscow or Spain, but it's the French, more than any other nation, who know Japanese culture the best," said Korehito Masuda, director of the "Japonismes 2018" programme. From Gagaku imperial military music to the disconcerting works of contemporary artist Kohei Nawa, the cycle of 67 exhibits and performances aims to highlight Japan's cultural vibrancy on a scale rarely seen outside the country. The season kicks off Thursday at La Villette exhibition complex in Paris, where the Teamlab artist collective has installed an immersive digital experience covering two square kilometres (0.8 square miles). ... More A lightness of spirit is the measure of happinessMELBOURNE.- The significance of family, community and humour in contemporary Aboriginal life is celebrated in the inaugural Yalingwa exhibition, A Lightness of Sprit is the Measure of Happiness, which opened on 7 July at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. The exhibition features 10 new commissions from artists from south-east Australia and beyond, in an exploration of the everyday life and experiences of Aboriginal people today. Country music icons, queer identity, pop-culture and community leadership are referenced, as well as the legacy of ancestors and the importance of coming together to strengthen identity and connection in this new major exhibition, the first in the Yalingwa visual arts initiative. Artists included in the exhibition Vicki Couzens, Gunditjmara and Keerray Woorroong artist from the Western districts of Victoria, who celebrates ... More Prince's personal Bible, suits, Purple Rain LP saved by former bodyguard offered at Heritage AuctionsDALLAS, TX.- The Bible owned and carried by Prince and the rock star's personally-owned copy of his smash album Purple Rain cross the auction block July 21 from a collection of memorabilia owned by the rock star's former bodyguard. Offered in Heritage Auctions' Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Auction. the Bible and album highlight an extraordinary array of 27 personal items owned by the music icon, ranging from clothing to backstage passes. "Prince's musical and cultural impact can not be overstated," Heritage Auctions Consignment Director Mike Gutierrez said. "He was a brilliant musician, singer, composer, director. Anything relating to Prince has significant appeal to collectors, but to have lots like this, that he owned and wore represents and extraordinary trove of treasures from one of the great musical influencers of our generation." Prince ... More Frazetta painting, Marvel keys among prized lots in Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art AuctionDALLAS, TX.- History has a chance to repeat itself when Frank Frazetta Escape on Venus Painting Original Art (1972) (est. $500,000+) is expected to claim top-lot honors at Heritage Auctions' Comics & Comic Art Auction Aug. 2-4 in Dallas, Texas. If that ends up happening, the events will mirror those that took place at the firm's comics auction in Chicago, which was held in May. Another Frazetta painting, Death Dealer 6, sold for nearly $1.8 million to boost the total return from that auction to just over $12 million. Each was a world record. "Any time world records fall, that's a tough act to follow," Heritage Auctions Senior Vice President Ed Jaster said. "On the other hand, Frank Frazetta's paintings are enormously popular, and is one of many exceptional lots in this auction, which has options sure to entice collectors of all levels." Created in 1972, Escape on Venus ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani was born July 12, 1884. Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (12 July 1884 - 24 January 1920) was an Italian-Jewish painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces, necks, and figures that were not received well during his lifetime but later found acceptance. In this image: Amedeo Modigliani, Reclining Nude (Céline Howard), 1918, Private collection, Geneva.
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