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Composite fossil skull of Eudyptes warhami, an extinct penguin species from the Chatham Islands. Photo by Jean-Claude Stahl.
GREENWICH, CONN.- The raft of penguin species that once frolicked in the southern seas has grown, thanks to some modern sleuthing by DNA-tracking paleontologists. The fascinating finding of how the species came to be is tempered by its apparently abrupt demise following the arrival of humans to the isolated shores they inhabited for millennia. In the study, published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, an international team of researchers extracted mitochondrial DNA from subfossil bones discovered in sand dunes on the Chatham Islands, an island archipelago about 500 miles east of mainland New Zealand. By comparing the mitochondrial genomes of all living and recently extinct penguin species, the team established that the bones belonged to a new species of crested penguin and demonstrated that the formation of islands helped drive penguin diversification. The existence of a lost species had been suspected by Alan Tennyson (a co-author on the study), who previously examined penguin bones ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day French Minister of the Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire (2nd-R) visits the Louvre Abu Dhabi on February 9, 2019, in the Emirati capital. KARIM SAHIB / AFP
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 | | Bellotto exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum transports viewers to the splendor of 18th-century Dresden | | Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Detroit Institute of Arts collaborate to present a new exhibition | | Lisson Gallery now representing Sean Scully in North America | 
Pietro Rotari and workshop "Elector Friedrich August II of Saxony, as King August III of Poland," After 1755. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Photo: Elke Estel/Hans-Peter Klut.
FORT WORTH, TX.- Bernardo Bellotto is recognized as one of the greatest view painters in history, acquiring his fame in mid-18th-century Dresden as the court painter for the elector of Saxony, Frederick Augustus IIwho was also King Augustus III of Poland. Over the course of a decade, Bellotto produced dozens of breathtaking depictions of the city and its environs, most measuring over eight feet in width. The success and renown of these grand, comprehensive works would earn Bellotto prestigious commissions at prominent courts throughout Europe. Bellottos magnificent paintings of Dresden are now in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery) of the Dresden State Art Collections and are on loan to the Kimbell Art Museum for the special exhibition The Lure of Dresden: Bellotto at the Court of Saxony, on view February ... More | | 
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890). Portrait of Postman Roulin, 1888. Oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 19 7/8 inches (65 x 50.5 cm). Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II, 1996.25. Image courtesy of Detroit Institute of Arts.
BUFFALO, NY.- The Albright-Knox Art Gallery opened a new exhibition titled Humble and Human: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Co-organized with the Detroit Institute of Arts, the exhibition is being hosted at the Albright-Knox through May 26, 2019, and will then open in Detroit on June 23, 2019, and remain on view through October 13, 2019. A testament to the power of collaboration among artists, museums, and cities, the exhibition explores the pioneering work of leading Impressionist and post-Impressionist artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot. It also celebrates the life and vision of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr., who saw in the art of these late nineteenth-century avant-gardists, ... More | | 
Landline Magenta, Oil on aluminium, 215.9 x 190.5 cm (85 x 85 in). © Sean Scully, Courtesy Lisson Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Lisson Gallery announced representation of internationally acclaimed Irish-American artist Sean Scully in North America. Two exhibitions, across both New York spaces, will be on view from 30 April to 8 June 2019, featuring new paintings, sculpture and works on paper at 24th Street and an examination of the artists longstanding but lesser known relationship to figuration at Tenth Avenue. Sean Scully is one of the most important painters of his generation, whose work is held in major museum collections around the world. While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, comprised of vertical and horizontal bands, tessellating blocks and geometrical forms comprised of gradated and shifting colours, Scully also works in a variety of diverse media, including printmaking, sculpture, watercolour and pastel. Having developed a style over the past five decades that is uniquely his own, Scully has cemented his place in t ... More |
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| | | New Philbrook exhibition explores the pros and cons of progress | | New Orleans Museum of Art announces 26 new sculptures acquired for garden expansion | | DC Moore Gallery exhibits a complete set of 'The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture' by Jacob Lawrence | 
Lily Furedi, Subway (1934). Oil on canvas, 39 x 48 1/4 in. (99.1 x 122.6 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
TULSA, OKLA.- Consider the paradox of progress. Does the end, or outcome, justify the means? Philbrook Museum of Art opened the original exhibition Making Modern America on Sunday, February 10. This exhibition examines this paradox of progress through the lens of American industry. It presents the many complexand often conflictingways that artists working from 1910 to 1960 portrayed the social and environmental changes taking place during this pivotal period. Featuring more than 60 paintings, photographs, design objects, and prints, Making Modern America includes works by iconic artists such as George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, Thomas Hart Benton, and Jacob Lawrence, as well as less-established names like Lucienne Bloch, Eldzier Cortor, and Doris Lee. More than half of the works in the exhibition are on loan from ... More | | 
Tony Cragg (British, b. 1949), Runner, 2017, Stainless steel, 86 ½ x 43 1/8 x 22 5/8, New Orleans Museum of Art: Museum Purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Opening on May 15, 2019, the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art will feature 26 new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. The expansion, which broke ground in December 2017, builds on the success of the museums existing five-acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden, widely regarded as one of the top sculpture gardens in the world. The existing site is home to 64 sculptures from renowned artists from the 19th century to the present. Artists featured in the expansion include Larry Bell, Tony Cragg, Johan Creten, Katharina Fritsch, Frank Gehry, Jeppe Hein, Georg Herold, Thomas Houseago, Shirazeh Houshiary, Baltasar Lobo, Robert Longo, Gerold Miller, Beverly Pepper, ... More | | 
The Birth of Toussaint L'Ouverture, 1986. Silk screen on paper, 32 1/8 x 22 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- DC Moore Gallery is presenting Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint LOuverture, a complete set of prints created by the artist between 1986 and 1997, rarely appearing together. The prints are derived from 41 tempera paintings completed in 1938 comprising The Life of Toussaint LOuverture, which is now in the collection of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. Lawrence translated 15 of these paintings into silk screen prints, all included in this exhibition. Lawrences strong angular figuration as well as his bold use of color expressively depict the life of LOuverture and his struggle against slavery and oppression as leader of the Haitian Revolution. Born a slave in 1743, LOuverture participated in the rebellion from its beginnings and rose to become commander-in-chief of the revolutionary army. He led the campaign in 1800 to draft Haitis first democratic ... More |
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| | | Greene Naftali opens an exhibition of works by Nicolas Ceccaldi | | Exhibition at Didier Aaron, Inc. brings together the artworks of six living artists who work in metalpoint technique | | Exhibition aims to develop ideas for the art museum of the future | 
Nicolas Ceccaldi, Attentat Terroriste, 2019 (detail). Acrylic and paper on framed print, 27 x 52 x 1 1/2 inches (68.6 x 132.1 x 3.8 cm) Courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Stroke of Midnight is an exhibition where classical, baroque and gothic inspired elements converge around a sound installation in the center of the gallery. On a keyboard, color-coded keys indicating a sequence of chords invite the viewer to perform the exhibitions musical atmosphere. These basic demarcations are designed to allow some flexibility in the real-time elaboration of a potential soundtrack. Two framed pieces hanging on either side of the central installation are both titled Lugburz-Gûl, which signifies wraith, or the spirit of the dark tower in J.R.R. Tolkiens orcish tongue. Through hollowed-out faces, their fixed gaze stares into the room, evoking the all-seeing eye of deep surveillance. To the left is another face, covered in black paint a reference to the exhibition titles nighttime theme and a taxidermied bat nested within. An oil painting at the end of this sequence depicts ... More | | 
Sherry Camhy, Anonymous Young Woman Antique Statue Series (detail). Sterling silver, 14kt gold, copper on prepared wood board: 45 x 28 in.
NEW YORK, NY.- Silverpoint brings together the artworks of six living artists who work in metalpoint technique. The artists are: Susan Schwalb, Tom Mazzullo, Lauren Amalia Redding, Sherry Camhy, Robyn Ellenbogen, and Victor Koulbak. These artists are featured in Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo, published by Routledge (2019). A book-signing event will be held at Didier Aaron, Inc. alongside the exhibition. A favored method for drawing by Renaissance and Old Masters before the wide availability of pencils and chalk, the silverpoint technique which can use a stylus made of not only silver but also gold, copper, aluminum, and other alloys has experienced a revival in the modern era, especially in the United States. Contemporary artists who are adept with the often-challenging materials involved have created widely varied and exceptionally skilled artworks rendered in very fine point with remarkable ... More | | 
Max Beckmann, Odysseus und Kalypso, 1943 © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Photo: Elke Walford.
HAMBURG.- In the exhibition series My Perspective, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Körber Foundation are developing ideas for the art museum of the future, envisaged as an open forum for engaging with art where the diverse members of the community feel welcome. The project My Perspective has set out to help make this vision a reality by strengthening the museums role as a setting for dialogue, inviting Hamburgs citizens to actively participate by sharing and discussing their own personal questions and interests with others. My Perspective thus takes up and expands on the deliberately experimental exhibition project Open Access from 2017. Most of the 17 participants in My Perspective are regular visitors to the Kunsthalle. What inspires them personally when they encounter artworks and art objects? What do they want to know about the works, and how would they like to obtain this information? Do they see the museum as a ... More |
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| | | Diego Fortunato unveils installation at Christie's in London | | Speed Art Museum opens a first-of-its-kind exhibition devoted to early Kentucky tall case, "grandfather" clocks | | New exhibition includes a piece which furnished Madonna's suite at the Ritz Carlton | 
Diego Fortunato at Christie's.
LONDON.- Artist Diego Fortunato presents his intriguing installation Am I here...? / SAY YES, Absolute Power Spray, at Christies Lates on Monday 11 February 2019. Ahead of London Fashion Week, Christies are hosting a curated evening of aesthetic innovation; trend talks, photography and a new installation created by Diego Fortunato as part of the monthly Christies Lates after hours event. Am I here...? / SAY YES, Absolute Power Spray is a new installation created specifically for the Christies Lates event by Argentinean artist Diego Fortunato, as a comment on the global landscape of contemporary politics, dominated by post-truth politics and Trumps claims of Fake News. The substantial limits of the exhibition room have been reprogrammed, allowing us to perceive a space that exists beyond the walls of Christies, the most emblematic auction house in the world. There is no more perfect setting to ... More | | 
Movement made by Franz Böhler Sr. (German, 17801856), Neustadt, present-day Germany. Case made in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Tall Case Clock, about 1826. Cherry, poplar, mahogany veneer. Eight-day brass, steel, and wood movement. 105-3/8 in. h. x 23-1/2 in. w. x 15-1/4 in. d. Collection of the Coleman family, Lexington, Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, KY.- The Speed Art Museums 2019 exhibition season focuses on the art of Kentucky with a first-of-its-kind exhibition devoted to early Kentucky tall case, grandfather clocks. The exhibition showcases twenty-seven clocks made across a wide swath of Kentucky from the 1790s through the 1840s. The majority of the clocks come from family and private collections and have rarely, if ever, been shared with the public. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated scholarly catalog that presents significant new research on early Kentucky cabinetmaking and the states watch and clock trade. When shown side-by-side, the clocks reveal ... More | | 
Installation view.
ADELAIDE.- The David Roche Foundation, has opened a new exhibition The Pursuit of Pattern which showcases more than 50 rare and exquisite works of art, most of which have not been previously seen, that explore the fashion for inlaid surface patterns on furniture, objets dart and jewellery. Each item highlights the superb workmanship that was achieved through materials and techniques mastered in the 18th and 19th centuries which are now largely lost. Focusing on the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries, the exhibition reflects the craze for the antique and the development of the neoclassical style in Britain and Europe through surface pattern. Study of the Roman ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii in the 1750s changed the future of British design when a young architect, Robert Adam, brought back with him in 1758 drawings of plants, flowers, earthenware and decorative emblems copied from the painted and ... More |
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 New York City artist brings a touch of Harlem to the Garment District NEW YORK, NY.- The Garment District Alliance announced the latest in its ongoing series of public art exhibits, showcasing a series entitled Harlem in Real Time, created by Harlem artist DA Aschbacher. Located in a street-level window at 215 West 38th Street, the free exhibit is accessible to the public through March 10th. Harlem in Real Time is part of the Garment District Space for Public Art program, which showcases artists in unusual locations throughout the year and has produced more than 200 installations, exhibits and performances. DA Aschbachers artwork offers a unique perspective on newsworthy issues through a series of thought-provoking paintings, said Barbara A. Blair, president of the Garment District Alliance. Harlem in Real Time is a display of raw artwork highlighting poignant social issues and we are thrilled to showcase ... More Leslie Wilkes' first solo exhibition at Octavia Art Gallery on view in New OrleansNEW ORLEANS, LA.- Octavia Art Gallery is presenting Leslie Wilkes: Central Tendencies. This is Wilkes first solo exhibition at Octavia Art Gallery. The works exhibited in Central Tendencies include her gouache on paper and oil on canvas paintings from 2011 through 2018. Leslie Wilkes pieces are an explosion of shape and color. With near perfect symmetry, these works exhibit opaque, smooth, sumptuous surfaces. Wilkes geometric patterns are unique in that their repeated patterns tend to expand outward from the exact center of the composition. [1] Stimulation of the visual experience is of great importance to Wilkes, who chooses nuanced but dissonant colors to keep the eye moving around each piece. Slight irregularities also create subtle shifts in the pattern, as the artist does not use tape or outlines on her works on canvas. Her geometric abstractions ... More A new exhibition documents the living conditions of London's most disadvantaged children LONDON.- The damaging consequences for children arising from the shortage of social housing in London are laid bare in Bedrooms of London, a new photo-documentary exhibition at Londons Foundling Museum, created in partnership with Londons child poverty charity, The Childhood Trust. The exhibition presents a new body of work by photographer Katie Wilson. Focusing on the spaces in which children are sleeping, the photographs are shown alongside first-hand narratives from families, and offer a poignant insight into the lives and experiences of children living in poverty across London. In a city where extreme poverty and wealth exist side-by-side, Bedrooms of London makes visible the often shocking and unseen reality of home life for the 700,000 children currently living below the poverty line in our capital, and challenges the prejudices ... More Odetta Gallery opens exhibition of works by three artistsBROOKLYN, NY.- Using gravity as a tool for their image making, these three artists' works move us to consider more seriously the connection between abstraction and self-portrait. Through invented systems that nudge their materials along until their artwork makes itself, Daniel G. Hill, Norma Márquez Orozco, and Mary Schiliro playfully poke at the larger effects we all must endure as our planet spins. By attempting to harness the Earth and Moons magnetic pull, we see in these three a common personality emerge, artist/explorer, author and spectator. In recent years, Daniel Hill has been fixated on the works method of construction and its physical presence. During the winter of 2014, he began a new line of inquiry, translations of paintings into wire-frame drawings. While he developed mechanical connections to make the drawings ... More ARTEXPRESS 2019: Presenting the next generation of Australian artists and creative thinkersSYDNEY.- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is presenting ARTEXPRESS 2019. For the 35th year the Gallery is showcasing outstanding works of art created by NSW students for the Higher School Certificate Visual Arts examination. This annual exhibition, one of the Gallery's most popular, provides an insight into the concerns and passions of young Australians, whilst introducing the artists and creative thinkers of tomorrow. In total 56 artworks have been selected for exhibition at the Gallery from the 8770 student works submitted for the 2018 HSC. Works by students from across metropolitan and regional NSW, and from a mix of government and non-government schools are on display. These high achieving works represent 12 different expressive art forms including sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, textile and fibre, graphic design and photomedia. ... More Large survey of work by Jacqueline de Jong opens at the Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamAMSTERDAM.- The Stedelijk Museum presents a large survey of work by the distinguished, versatile artist Jacqueline de Jong (Hengelo, 1939). Occupying 13 galleries, Pinball Wizard The Work and Life of Jacqueline de Jong presents the multi-faceted oeuvre created by the artist since the nineteen sixties, in which she switches effortlessly between various styles such as Abstract Expressionism, new figuration and Pop Art. Her work also ranges in scale, from small diptychs that chronicle a day in the life of the artist, to monumental canvases dominated by an absurd and often violent and erotic world. When director Willem Sandberg appoints Jacqueline de Jong as an assistant in the applied art department (1958-1960), it signals the beginning of an extraordinary relationship between the artist and the Stedelijk. It not only deepens her admiration of the museums ... More Gallery Kayafas opens exhibition of photographs by Jules Aarons and Jack Lueders-BoothBOSTON, MASS.- Jules Aarons and Jack Lueders-Booth photographed in Boston during times of great change before the division of the West End and later with the removal of the Elevated. Their images serve as important historical documents depicting the personalities of the people, the diversity in the neighborhoods, and the energy of the streets. These times and places have been preserved through memories and film. Dr. Jules Aarons work as a photographer paralleled his career as an atmospheric physicist. When he moved to Boston in 1947, he became fascinated by the ethnic communities of the West End and North End where he photographed the neighborhoods in depth. Moving with his family to Paris in 1953 to work on his Ph.D., introduced him to the human resonances of street life in urban communities internationally. Throughout his career ... More Bold photographs reveal a lifetime of looking "Tommy Brown: Upstate" at MWPAI UTICA, NY.- Pictures of people, farms, and the striking landscapes of Central New York populate Tommy Brown: Upstate, on view February 9 through April 7 in the Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. This retrospective is a definitive look at photographer Tommy Browns decades-long study of his home in and around Chenango and Madison counties, NY. Tommy Brown: Upstate is the first museum exhibition of the remarkable photographs Brown has composed during a lifetime of looking. The exhibition includes 42 large prints, ranging from the early 1980s through last summer. Brown will discuss his work during a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 10. Mary Murray, MWPAI head, curatorial and exhibitions; curator modern and contemporary art, said she first met Brown in the early 1990s when Brown was gallery director at the Chenango ... More Monique Meloche Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Maia Cruz PalileoCHICAGO, IL.- Monique Meloche Gallery is presenting All The While I Thought You Had Received This, an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Maia Cruz Palileo. This is her first solo show with the gallery and the first in her native Chicago. Informed by her familys Filipino heritage, Palileo investigates larger questions pertaining to identity, history, migration, and belonging. The artists strategy for unraveling these long and tangled threads is itself born from from an intricately woven patchwork of sources and mediums; Palileo translates these materials into a novel formal language to describe a new world of her own making. In 2017, through the Jerome Foundation's Travel and Study Program Grant, Palileo conducted research at Chicagos Newberry Library, which has one of the largest collections of Philippiniana in the world (comprised of the collections ... More Exhibition at McMullen Museum of Art celebrates collecting Japanese art in Gilded Age AmericaBOSTON, MASS.- Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America celebrates and contextualizes Boston Colleges monumental bronze eagle, a replica of which now appears atop a column on the Universitys Linden Lane. Revealed during its recent conservation to be a Japanese masterpiece from the Meiji period (18681912), the original eagle was donated to Boston College in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (18661937) and his wife, Isabel (18761948). Conservation has drawn attention to the eagles significant fine detail, careful modeling of form, and excellence of material construction, inspiring scholars desire to understand its origins. In the exhibition, bronze, silver, and ivory sculptures of birds of prey, folding screens, scroll paintings, netsuke, lacquerware, ceramics, and textiles join to bring ... More Sharjah Art Foundation announces awards granted to narrative, documentary and experimental filmsSHARJAH.- Sharjah Art Foundation today announced the films presented with awards at the first edition of its new annual film festival, Sharjah Film Platform (SFP), held from 18 to 26 January 2019. The award for Best Narrative Film went to Cherries, directed by Dubravka Turic, with A Vacation, directed by Deniz Eroglu, receiving an honourable mention. I Have a Picture: Film No. 1001 in the Life of the Oldest Extra in the World, directed by Mohamed Zedan, was awarded Best Documentary Film, while A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane, directed by Mayye Zayed, was selected as Best Experimental Film. A jury of international fillmakers, producers, and critics selected the awardees. They included: Ali Mostafa (filmmaker, director and producer); Kong Rithdee (filmmaker and film critic); Ghassan Salhab (screenwriter, film director and producer) in ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French photographer Eugène Atget was born February 12, 1857. Eugène Atget (12 February 1857 - 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. In this image: Eugène Atget, Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, June 1925. Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, 6 11/16 x 8 3/4" (17 x 22.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abbott-Levy Collection. Partial gift of Shirley C. Burden.
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