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Barak Tzin, an Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archeologist, shows a rare engraved stone carved with two horned figures with outspread arms, at a fortified complex from the time of King David which was exposed for the first time in archaeological excavations carried out by IAA in the Hispin settlement in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on November 11, 2020. Israeli archaeologists unveiled Wednesday a fortified structure in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the time of King David, which sheds light on the borders and size of an ancient kingdom. The 3000-year-old fort, found near the southern Golan community Hispin ahead of works to build a new neighborhood, is believed to have belonged to the Geshurites, allies of the Israelite king. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
GOLAN HEIGHTS (AFP).- Archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a fortified structure from the time of the King David on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that sheds light on the borders of a Biblical Israeli ally. The 3,000-year-old fort, found near the Jewish settlement of Hispin ahead of works to build a new neighbourhood, is believed to have belonged to the Geshurites, King David's allies. Locally quarried basalt boulders form the metre-and-a-half (five-foot) thick walls of the hilltop complex. Barak Tzin, who directed its excavation for the Israel Antiquities Authority, estimated that it covered more than 1,000 square metres (a quarter of an acre). Diggers found a large stone with an engraving of two horned figures stretching out their arms and a statuette of a woman holding a musical instrument, possibly a drum. "That also links us to finds from the ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day An archaeologist from the National Museum of Costa Rica unearths a clay pot at an archaeological site found during construction works on the expansion of the country's main highway, in Heredia, Costa Rica, on November 10, 2020. The excavation revealed the presence of pre-Columbian tombs, clay pots and a gold earring. Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP
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 | | Rare Russian pink diamond sells for $27 million | | Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges inspires viral Kamala Harris image | | P·P·O·W to open Tribeca space in January 2021 with exhibition by Gerald Lovell | 
This file photo taken on November 6, 2020, in Geneva shows the The Spirit of the Rose a rare 14,83 carats vivid purple pink diamond, during a press preview ahead of sales by Sotheby's auction house. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP.
GENEVA (AFP).- A rare pink diamond derived from the biggest raw stone of the colour ever found in Russia was sold for $26.6 million on Wednesday at Sotheby's in Geneva. Dubbed "The Spirit of the Rose", the 14.83-carat stone's final sale price including commission set a world record for a purple-pink diamond. It took just a few minutes for the bids to reach 21 million Swiss francs after the marble-sized stone came up in an online auction, with the final buyer remaining anonymous. Sotheby's auctioneer Benoit Repellin called the diamond a "wonder of nature" and added that prices for the pink gems are going up as they become increasingly rare. The "Spirit of the Rose" was faceted from a 27.85-carat stone found in 2017 by diamond mining firm Alrosa in Russia's Sakha republic in northeast ... More | | 
Bria Goeller and Good Trubble, That Little Girl Was Me, 2020.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS.- A visual image is worth a thousand words. Millions have recently seen and shared the powerful meme of Vice President Elect, Kamala Harris, walking in the silhouetted shadow of a young girl, an homage to an earlier historical marker of equity and social justice created by Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell Museum is home to the original painting, The Problem We All Live With, which marked the civil rights journey of young Ruby Bridges, and which resides in the Museums permanent collection. A contemporary reference to this image showing Kamala Harris walking in Ruby Bridges footsteps, created by Bria Goeller, went viral as preliminary election results were announced over the weekend, celebrating two historic moments that broke glass ceilings for women and BIPOC. This work created originally for Look magazine in 1964 is a signature image of the landmark global exhibition, Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom, ... More | | 
Gerald Lovell, Park Date, 2020. Oil on panel, 72 x 60 ins. 182.9 x 152.4 cm. Courtesy of Gerald Lovell and P·P·O·W, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W announced the opening of its new ground floor space in Tribeca in January 2021. The gallery joins a number of other contemporary art dealers who have recently opened spaces in the heart of the burgeoning Tribeca Art District. The new space is an 8,000 square foot, column free, two-level storefront that will allow P·P·O·W to build on and honor its legacy and expand its current roster of artists. P·P·O·W will open its inaugural exhibition in the new space on January 22nd with a show by Gerald Lovell, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery and in New York City. We are very excited to return to Broadway and to open a ground floor space, said Co-Founder Wendy Olsoff. This is the first time since we opened our very first gallery in 1983 that we will be located on the ground floor, and it feels like a homecoming of sorts. The new gallery will give us more space to expand our programming and to c ... More |
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| | British Museum receives its largest single grant in a decade from Arcadia | | Sotheby's announces new Day Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art in New York | | Blue Star Contemporary invites reflection and dialogue with new fall/spring exhibitions | 
Marka Dafing women spinning wild silk in Burkina Faso. Photo: Laurence Douny.
LONDON.- The EMKP is a ground-breaking initiative that awards grants across the globe to preserve knowledge of the material world. Working at all scales from the small, domestic world of daily cooking and eating cultures, to the special and extraordinary worlds of ritual events, this programme collects knowledge of how individuals and communities uniquely make and shape their worlds. In a rapidly changing global environment, this material knowledge be it social, economic, symbolic or ecological is the key to sustaining communities and preserving the rich diversity of global culture into the future, and to prevent them being lost forever. As part of the grant British Museum experts offer specialist training to grantees in a wide variety of tools and methods that can be used during the documentation process, including different media such as films, photographs, ... More | | 
Wayne Thiebaud, Single Triple Decker. Estimate: $1.5/2 million. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys shared the full contents of their Day Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist and Modern Art in New York, which for the first time take center stage as stand-alone auctions and their most prominent art sales in the month of November. Offering a combined more than 450 lots, the Day Sales build off of the strong momentum of Sothebys global October auctions, which achieved $1 billion in consolidated sales across 81 auctions. Sothebys Day Sales of Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art have already achieved nearly $100 million in 2020, following the record-breaking online Day Sales pioneered this May, with the Contemporary sale achieving $13.7 million alonestill the highest total for an online sale at Sothebysalong with the June Day Sales that continued that success into live auctions. The November Day sales will be presented in both live and ... More | | 
Installation view.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonios first and longest running contemporary art nonprofit, is presenting four new exhibitions. Presented in the Main Gallery is Please Form a Straight Line, featuring the work of Jamal Cyrus, Maggie Evans, Benjamin Jones, Yuge Zhou, Frances Lightbound, Mark Menjivar, Jingjing Lin, and Jorge Villarreal. In Gallery 4, Theresa Newsome presents a photographic series in Objects of Aggression; In the Middle Gallery, Ryan Takaba presents his site-specific installation A Relationship with Flight; and the Project Space Gallery features The Sanctuary City Project, a social practice project of artists Sergio De La Torre and Chris Treggiari. While distinct from each other, these four exhibitions engage viewers with themes very much present in todays discourse, said Mary Heathcott, BSCs Executive Director. Recently, our reality has been disrupted, challenged, and confr ... More |
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| | Mitchell-Innes & Nash opens its first solo presentation of Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah | | Fine Books & Manuscripts at Swann Galleries November 17 | | Almine Rech now represents Huang Yuxing | 
Installation view of Blue Boys Blues at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, 2020. © Gideon Appah. Courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Mitchell-Innes & Nash is presenting its first solo presentation of Ghanaian artist, Gideon Appah (b. 1987) on view November 5 December 5, 2020. In this new body of work, Appah expands on his mystical landscapes and dreamlike narratives in large-scale oil paintings that consider memory and tradition. A mixed-media artist, Appah often draws from personal experiences to create works that are informed by life in Ghanas capital of Accra, but this exhibition marks a critical juncture in his practice that incorporates fictional and unknown places and people. In new otherworldly works, Appahs compositional range is evident in both the city and domestic scenes that feature figures in positions of leisure as well as his depiction of ritual in areas where the land meets the sky. The compositions filled with ... More | | 
Abraham Lincoln, partly-printed document signed, conscripting troops for the first national draft in the United States, 1863. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Fine Books & Manuscripts are at Swann Galleries Tuesday, November 17, with standout material amongst autographs, nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, as well as art books. Autographs from important moments in American history include Revolutionary War material, with a 1777 partially-printed document signed by John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress issuing an uncommon privateer commission giving Licence and Authority . . . to attack, seize, and take the Ships and other Vessels belonging to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain . . . to some convenient Ports in the . . . Colonies . . . ($6,000-9,000); and a 1792 autograph letter signed by Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury, helping the bank of the United States to quell the Panic of 1792Americas first financial ... More | | 
Huang Yuxing. Photo: Huang Yuxing Studio.
PARIS.- Almine Rech announced the representation of Chinese contemporary artist Huang Yuxing in the United States, Europe, and the United Kingdom, and his inaugural solo exhibition at Almine Rech Brussels in June 2021. Huang Yuxing (b. 1975, Beijing) is widely recognized among his generation for his dexterous ability to create paintings that reflect and preserve the process of their creation. Colors, brushstrokes, and traces of the artists hand endure on his canvases after being continuously overlaid and blended. The meticulous brushstrokes and intense colors that pervade his works are grounded in the traditional Chinese realist technique, Gongbi Zhongcai, while building upon these principles through a signature contemporary style that continues to evolve. Huangs artistic practice is marked by exceptional depth: while his works may at first recall an Expressionist style, they are deeply rooted in a detailed const ... More |
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| | Egypt hopes 'Paranormal' show can resurrect movie glory | | Tacoma Art Museum hires Director of Development | | Irvin Mayfield pleads guilty to conspiracy in New Orleans fraud case | 
Paranormal, Netflix's first Egyptian series, marks a shift in the entertainment industry in Egypt, and the wider Arab world.
by Farid Farid
CAIRO (AFP).- With killer mummies, a house of horrors, slick special effects and a melancholic soundtrack, streaming giant Netflix is banking on new blockbuster Egyptian series "Paranormal" achieving worldwide success. Billed as a mystery and thriller production based on the best-selling young adult fiction novellas of Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Paranormal was released last week in nine languages to audiences in around 190 countries. "With such a huge fanbase, it was a logical project for us to come on board," Ahmed Sharkawi, Netflix's head of Arabic and African original content, told AFP. "We're excited for the fans to see their favourite characters -- monsters and ghosts -- coming to life." But Paranormal, Netflix's first Egyptian series, also marks a shift in the entertainment industry in Egypt, and the wider Arab world. ... More | | 
Shannon will leave her current position at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
TACOMA, WA.- Tacoma Art Museum announced that it has hired Shannon Rolbiecki as its new Director of Development. Shannon will begin work in Tacoma on December 1, 2020. Shannon, who was initially trained as a vocalist at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY, has been concentrating her energies on development since she worked at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center from 2012-2015, while at the same time she earned a certificate of professional fundraising from Boston University. Shannon has been with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2017, first as Director of Individual Giving, then as Director of Campaign and Leadership Gifts, and most recently as Senior Director of Advancement. Among her achievements, she personally raised over $8M in gifts for MSOs A Grand Future capital campaign. We are so delighted that Shannon will be joining us to head up our Development Department, and to hel ... More | | 
The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra performs in New Orleans, May 3, 2019. Annie Flanagan/The New York Times.
by Giovanni Russonello
NEW ORLEANS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Irvin Mayfield and Ronald Markham, a pair of musicians-turned-impresarios who had worked to put New Orleans jazz scene back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit fraud, capping a precipitous fall from grace that now leaves them each facing up to five years in prison. The charges stem from a yearslong scheme that federal prosectors said redirected over $1.3 million from the New Orleans Public Library Foundation into the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, which Mayfield and Markham ran and into their own pockets. Mayfield, a trumpeter, and Markham, a pianist, had maintained their innocence since their indictment more than three years ago on charges that included fraud, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Prosecutors ... More |
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More Seattle Art Museum opens award-winner Lynne Siefert's solo exhibitionSEATTLE, WA.- The Seattle Art Museum presents Lynne Siefert: Ark (October 23, 2020March 21, 2021), the solo exhibition of the winner of the 2019 Betty Bowen Award. The first filmmaker to win the award, Siefert creates experimental non-fiction films on both 16mm and digital film that address the climate crisis and environmental justice in seductive yet unsettling ways. Lynne Siefert: Ark presents two of the artists films on a continuous loop. Ark (2016, single-channel, digital, 32 minutes) takes place on a cruise ship, highlighting a surreal world of desire, artifice, and consumption in our current late-capitalist moment. On an alternating loop, Generations (201920, three-channel, Super 16mm film to digital, 27 minutes) features 13 tableaux showing people living, working, and playing in the shadow of gigantic coal power plants, laying bare the tensions ... More Listening to Beethoven, while walking the dog and dodging carsNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a French pianist, was staring up at the beautiful blue sky Tuesday morning and playing the solemn strains of a Beethoven sonata. Staring up out of my phone, that is. I had put it down flat on a gnarled tree root while I fished out a plastic bag with which to manage my dogs unmentionables. There have been times in my reviewing career when I felt like I was handling refuse, but never had the sensation been so literal. The proximity of Aimards lucid, passionate virtuosity to the waste of my toy poodle, Gus, came about because of an experiment. I wanted to try, for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic largely closed down live performing arts worldwide, to review a concert taken in the way I have most music since March: while running in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, ducking into the bodega ... More Peer to Peer: UK/HK online exhibition features over 30 artists based in UK and Hong KongDERBY.- To celebrate international cultural exchange between the UK and Hong Kong, the Peer to Peer: UK/HK Online Festival launched an online exhibition of new and existing digital artwork from UK and Hong Kong based artists from Wed 11 November to Sun 13 December 2020. The exhibition is free to access and accompanies an online events programme discussing topical themes and issues affecting visual arts sectors across the world. Peer to Peer: UK/HK is a programme designed to encourage meaningful cultural exchange and to forge enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong's visual arts sectors. It is led by independent Hong Kong based curator Ying Kwok, University of Salford Art Collection, Open Eye Gallery and Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) and consists of a network of contemporary visual arts organisations ... 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More Nye & Company announces highlights included in the Estate Treasures auctionBLOOMFIELD, NJ.- Nye & Company Auctioneers two day, online-only Estate Treasures auction on Wednesday and Thursday, December 2nd and 3rd, at 10 am Eastern time, will offer a variety of fine and decorative arts. Real time Internet bidding and absentee bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Bidsquare.com and the Nye & Company website: www.nyeandcompany.com. Telephone bidding will also be available on a limited basis. In accordance with the New Jersey State mandate, we cannot open our doors to the public, said Andrew Holter of Nye & Company Auctioneers. However, we plan to deliver clients a seamless online experience and will strive to deliver accurate condition reports and images for all items on offer. Well be closely monitoring our email account and all the bidding platforms. The ... 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More Dix Noonan Webb appoint Rachel Bailey as Jewellery SpecialistLONDON.- Mayfair auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists, announced the appointment of Rachel Bailey, FGA DGA, who joins the company as a Jewellery specialist, with principal responsibility for developing further UK and overseas business. Currently, DNW hold four specialist jewellery auctions a year, which include antiquarian, antique and modern diamond, pearl and gem set jewellery, wristwatches, pocket watches and associated objects of vertu. Rachel is joining DNW, having previously worked at Bonhams auctioneers, bringing with her eight years of specialist jewellery experience, firstly at their Edinburgh branch, and later with their London jewellery departments at Knightsbridge and New Bond Street. She previously worked for a German auction house, and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" set a world auction record November 12, 2013. Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)" at Christie's in New York. The mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating was part of Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale held on November 12, 2013. The sculpture sold for $58,405,000. The sum was the highest ever paid for a work by a living artist. AFP PHOTO/Don Emmert.
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