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August: Reaping Wheat, ?Da Costa Hours,? Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1515 (detail), illuminated by Simon Bening, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.399, fol. 9v, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910. Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/ Austria.
NEW YORK, NY.- Before the appearance of the clock in the West around the year 1300, medieval ideas about time were simultaneously simple and complex. Time was both finite for routine daily activities and unending for the afterlife; the day was divided into a fixed set of hours, whereas the year was made up of two overlapping systems of annual holy feasts. Perhaps unexpectedly, many of these concepts continue to influence the way we understand time, seasons, and holidays into the twenty-first century. Drawing upon the Morgans rich collection of illuminated manuscripts, Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time explores how people in the Middle Ages told time, conceptualized history, and conceived of the afterlife. It brings together more than fifty-five calendars, Bibles, chronicles, histories, and a sixty-foot genealogical scroll. They include depictions of monthly labors, the marking of holy days and periods, and fantastical illustrations of the hereafter. The exhibition opened January 26 and ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Art Porters Gallery's Guillaume Levy-Lambert introducing F@ke the climate to Singapore's Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Ms Grace Fu at Art Stage Singapore 2018 on January 26, 2018 where Arnaud Nazare-Aga's sculpture had its world premiere. Photo Arnaud Nazare-Aga
| The history of humanity does not require rewriting: The "Case of Untermassfeld' | | Claremont Rug Company names 50 best of their type antique Oriental rugs sold in 2017 with online gallery exhibition | | Scientists discover Egyptian dinosaur with ties to Europe |
Left and center: (a, b) Lower part of the stolen bone specimen, recovered via an
anonymous package (rectangle, cf. image 1), and associated upper part, which was left behind by the robbers. Front and back views. Right (c) Stolen and retrieved parts of the find, combined with parts recovered by Senckenberg. Photos: S. Döring, R.-D. Kahlke, Senckenberg Weimar.
WEIMAR.- In a newly published study in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Senckenberg scientist Professor Dr. Ralf-Dietrich Kahlke, in conjunction with an international team of renowned Stone Age experts, refutes a recent publication regarding the dispersal of humans in Europe. This publication postulates that the first humans occurred in Northern and Central Europe as early as about one million years ago more than 200,000 years earlier than previously documented. Moreover, the team of scientists around the Ice Age researcher from Weimar was able to show that the ... More | |
This Motasham Kashan "Vase Carpet" (7-5 x 10-0) from Central Persia, was woven in the third quarter of the 19th century. It is infinitely detailed with a pinpoint mille fleur execution of the sought-after vase design.
OAKLAND, CA.- For the seventh consecutive year, eminent art dealer Jan David Winitz, whose Claremont Rug Company gallery specializes in museum-level Oriental carpets from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving, has mounted an exhibition of the Best of Their Type 19th century Persian and tribal rugs sold during the previous year. A total of 50 Second Golden Age antique rugs woven ca. 1800 to ca. 1875 in a variety of Persian and Caucasian weaving styles, acquired by Claremonts global clientele, will be displayed for a limited time on the Gallerys website (https://www.claremontrug.com/50-best-of-their-type-2017/ ). This years list includes several pieces from the renowned Toronto Treasury II Collection that was acquired by the Gallery in 2017 and sold in a priv ... More | |
Life reconstruction of the new titanosaurian dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae on a coastline in what is now the Western Desert of Egypt approximately 80 million years ago. Illustration by: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
PARIS (AFP).- A long-necked dinosaur unearthed in Egypt has yielded the first evidence of contact between African and European dinosaurs shortly before the creatures disappeared for good about 66 million years ago, scientists said Monday. Given a dearth of dinosaur skeletons from Africa, palaeontologists have battled to reconstruct a map of how the animals spread across the world after the "supercontinent" Pangaea broke up into different land masses some 200 million years ago. Many believed Africa's dinosaurs were completely isolated from cousins on other continents by the time their heyday was brought to an abrupt end, possibly by an asteroid strike. The new specimen, an elephant-sized plant-eater given ... More |
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| Exhibition examines the way art, like language, was used to articulate a rhetoric of exclusion | | Exceptional chandelier by Alberto Giacometti offered for the first time at auction at Sotheby's London | | The Dallas Museum of Art announces gift of three major European works |
Unknown, Scenes from the Martyrdom of Robert of Bury, about 1480 - 1490. Tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment. Leaf: 4 11/16 Ã 6 11/16 in. Accession No. 2008.3.44. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 101, fol. 44.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Medieval manuscripts preserve stories of faith, romance, and knowledge, but their luxurious illuminations can sometimes reveal hidden prejudices as well. Outcasts: Prejudice & Persecution in the Medieval World, on view January 30April 8, 2018 at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, presents individual case studies that examine the way art, like language, was used to articulate a rhetoric of exclusion. Whether for reasons of race, class, gender, religious identity or sexual difference, medieval society was far more diverse than is commonly understood, but diversity did not necessarily ensure tolerance. Drawn from the Gettys permanent collection of illuminated manuscripts, this exhibition explores the obstacles faced by those who were perceived as others. For todays viewer, the vivid images and pervasive subtexts ... More | |
Alberto Giacometti, Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau, conceived circa 1949 and cast in bronze in 1952 in an edition of 3. Est. £6,000,000-8,000,000. Courtesy Sothebys.
LONDON.- A dramatic yet elegant chandelier, Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau is one of only three casts by Alberto Giacometti for select patrons a unique instance where all of the key motifs of the artists career appear in a single work. Hailing from a pivotal moment in the artists oeuvre, the piece encapsulates the existential anxiety of the post-war period whilst casting magical shadows that animate Giacomettis heightened reality. Appearing at auction for the first time, Lustre avec femme, homme et oiseau will go under the spotlight as part of Sothebys London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 28 February, with an estimate of £6,000,000-8,000,000. Using the device of a chandelier, Giacometti creates a highly theatrical setting on which the protagonists play out an unknowable and unresolved drama. In the years after the Second World War, his figures were reduced to their bare essential form, display ... More | |
Jacques Blanchard, Zeus and Semele, c. 1632, oil on canvas, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Campbell.
DALLAS, TX.- The Dallas Museum of Art announced the gift of three major works of European art that reflect the extraordinary generosity of Dallas collectors and their dedication to expanding the Museums collection in meaningful ways. These astonishing acquisitions of a seductive painting by the French Titian Jacques Blanchard, a monumental double-sided drawing by Piet Mondrian, and an early 20th-century painting by Pierre Bonnard will invigorate the Museums renowned European collection, said the Eugene McDermott Director of the DMA, AgustÃn Arteaga. Zeus and Semele is a recently rediscovered masterwork by the important 17th-century Baroque painter Jacques Blanchard. Although not as well known todaya fate related to the artists early death at 37 and resulting scarcity of his workBlanchard was celebrated in his day for his richly hued and sensual subjects inspired by 16th-century Venetian painting. ... More |
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| The Birth House of Malevich Discovered in Kyiv | | Tomasso Brothers Fine Art takes inspiration from Rome to present the gallery's new stand at TEFAF Maastricht 2018 | | Turner's Ehrenbreitstein at risk of leaving the UK: Arts minister steps in to prevent painting from export |
House №15 on Bulyonska Street in Kyiv. Image courtesy www.artdependence.com.
KYIV.- Kazimir Malevich is one of the key figures in avant-garde art. His life and oeuvre has been researched in detail and dozens of books about him are published every year all over the globe. However, it seems that there are still lagoons to be filled and mysteries to be solved. Like the one of his birth house. Kazimir Malevich is often referred to as a hoaxer, in speaking about different information he has shared with different people. Often times, he created legends around his life on purpose. In other cases, he did not know the precise facts himself and said what he thought was correct. The latter is true for his birthdate. He always mentioned 1878 as the year he was born. But when researchers found a document about his birth the metric book of St. Aleksandr Cathedral in Kyiv they found out that the Malevich was born a year later, in 1879. The reason for this mistake can be explained by many facts. First, the family had eight kids, and four more who died as inf ... More | |
Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785), Castor and Pollux, 1783 (detail). Oil on Canvas, 274.9cm (108 ¼ in) high and 316.2cm (124 ½ in) wide.
LONDON.- Tomasso Brothers Fine Art returns to TEFAF Maastricht 2018 at a new location, Stand 304 on the Champs-Ãlysées, close to the Fair entrance. The gallery is presenting a Roman-themed display, featuring works dating from ancient times to the neoclassical. Amongst highlights is a large oil on canvas with an impeccable provenance by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785) depicting Castor and Pollux. The mythological twins were associated with Roman knights and cavalrymen and played an important role in martial ceremonies well into the imperial period. This impressive neoclassical work was commissioned in 1783 by George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford for the Saloon at Houghton Hall along with two further mythological scenes. It remained in situ at Houghton until well in to the 20th century when it was purchased by The Rt. Hon. John Armar Lowry-Corry, 8th Earl Belmore of Castle Coole, Enniskillen and placed on public ... More | |
Detail of Ehrenbreitstein, by JMW Turner.
LONDON.- Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed a temporary export bar on Ehrenbreitstein, by JMW Turner, to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The painting is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £18,533,750 (plus VAT of £306,750). Shown at the Royal Academy in 1835 and based on material Turner collected when he visited the spot in 1833, the painting depicts the historic fortress overlooking the Rhine near Koblenz, Germany, dense with historical references to the French Revolutionary Wars which devastated Europe and reshaped the political and cultural landscape. The obelisk on the left marks the grave of General Francois-Sévérin Marceau-Desgraviers, a hero of the French Revolutionary Army. His brief but brilliant career made him a Romantic hero while his moving funeral, at which German and French soldiers laid aside their enmity and participated, became a symbol for European ... More |
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| The International Center of Photography opens two new exhibitions | | Exhibition brings together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century | | The San José Museum of Art acquires major works of art by Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, among others |
Edmund Clark, Camp 6, unused communal area, from the series Guantanamo: If the Light Goes Out, 2009 (detail). © Edmund Clark.
NEW YORK, NY.- The International Center of Photography opened Edmund Clark: The Day the Music Died, the award-winning British photographers first solo museum exhibition in the United States. On view January 26 through May 6, 2018 at the ICP Museum (250 Bowery), the show provides a timely and thoughtful exploration of the measures taken by states to protect its citizens from the threat of international terrorismand the far-reaching effects of such methods of control including issues of security, secrecy, legality, and ethics. It brings together over 100 images, film, official documents, and ephemera exploring the hidden experiences and spaces of control and incarceration in the so-called global War on Terror. From Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan to extraordinary rendition and the CIAs secret prison program, Clarks work delves into the processes, sites, and experiences associated with Americas response to ... More | |
Ticket inspector, stewardess, hockey player, policeman plastic figures. 1960's© Moscow Design Museum сollection.
BRUSSELS.- With the major exhibition Soviet Design. Red Wealth [ 24.01.2018 - 21.05.2018 ] the ADAM [ Brussels Design Museum ] presents the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century. The exhibition includes more than 600 iconic pieces of the Soviet lifestyle, examples of graphic and industrial design, technical drawings and prototypes made by Soviet designers from the Moscow Design Museum and private collections. Some of them have never been produced and exist only as prototypes. It is the second time that the exhibition is presented in Europe, now in its capital, Brussels. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM [ Brussels Design Museum ] has long been associated with professional and friendly relations. Both museums are young and have a common mission: collecting and preserving the key design creations ... More | |
Louise Nevelson, Cascades-Perpendiculars II (Night Music), 1980 1982. Wood painted black; 82 x 33 x 38 in.; Gift from the Lipman Family Foundation.
SAN JOSE, CA.- The San José Museum of Art today announced major acquisitions of art in year-end gifts from two Bay Area private collections. Among them are five works of art by prominent American artist Louise Nevelson (1899‒1988), a gift from the collection of Beverly and Peter Lipman of Portola Valley and the Lipman Family Foundation. The group includes the 92-inch tall assemblage sculpture Cascades-Perpendiculars II (Night Music) (1980 1982), as well as two smaller assemblages and two works on paper. The Lipman gift also includes a work on paper by Alexander Calder and a photographic portrait of Nevelson by photographer Hans Namuth. Many of the new acquisitions are currently on view at SJMA in the exhibition Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension through March 18, 2018. The Museum also received seven gifts from Wanda Kownacki of Los Gatos, including works by Andrea Bowers, Russell Crotty, ... More |
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First Look: The Magical Shadows of a Giacometti Chandelier
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London Art Fair attracts collectors supporting established and burgeoning markets
LONDON.- The 2018 anniversary edition of London Art Fair closed on Sunday 21 January, reporting healthy sales and garnering critical acclaim for its curated spaces. Founded in 1989 as an initiative of Islingtons Business Design Centre, where it has been held ever since, the Fair has grown substantially over the last thirty years and is now considered one of Londons leading platforms for modern and contemporary art. London Art Fair 2018, which opened with a Preview Evening on Tuesday 16 January, saw participation from 131 exhibitors representing 18 different countries, offering a snapshot of the best of British and international art. Sarah Monk, Fair Director, said: "Over the last thirty years London Art Fair has continued to evolve in order to stay relevant and continue attracting, and exciting, collectors and visitors. Whilst we ... More
Exhibition at Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw presents works on paper by the architect Sergei Tchoban.
WROCLAW.- Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw presents works on paper by the architect Sergei Tchoban. The Contrasting Harmony of the City exhibition offers a selection of drawings, architectural fantasies, ideas for set design and various compositions depicting the contrasting harmony between contemporary and historical, iconic and background-architecture. Sergei studied at the architectural department at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he was born and raised, before moving to Germany in 1991. His most significant works are realized in Berlin, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In 2009 he founded the Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing. He is known not only as an architect and architectural draftsman, but also as a collector, curator, lecturer, theatre and exhibition designer. The exhibition highlights the artists ... More
Rarely exhibited environmental artworks, artist evolution on view at California State University, Long Beach
LONG BEACH, CA.- The University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) examines the practice of one of the most significant American artists of the postwar generation in Robert Irwin: Site Determined. This exhibition traces Irwins process development as he embraced the ambient environment itself as his medium in his outdoor siteresponsive projects. The exhibition runs from January 29 to April 15, 2018, after which it will travel to the Pratt Institute of Architecture. Robert Irwin: Site Determined reveals the artists process and demonstrates how he used landscape as muse and upheld observer as collaborator. It becomes clear, while viewing the multitude of the artists plans, that Irwin sees plays of light and spatial shifts as opportunities for a particular type of discovery, from visual perception, to environmental participation, to situational ... More
More than 170 photographs coming to Heritage Auctions' February online photographs auction
DALLAS, TX.- From Dorthea Lange to Annie Leibovitz, Heritage Auctions' Online Photographs Auction of 2018 brings iconic artwork from more than 80 artists to collectors Feb. 28, 2018 on HA.com. The diverse offerings span intriguing contemporary signed prints to 19th century orotone images by Edward Sheriff Curtis. Ruth Bernhard's 1952 Classic Torso (est. $6,000-8,000) is a 9-3/4-by-7-1/2-inch gelatin silver from a series of by the photographer of nude and semi-nude women the subject for which Bernhard is perhaps best known. Horst P. Horst's 1989 Tulips (est. $4,000-6,000) is a gelatin silver image measuring 16-1/4 by 14-1/8 inches with the photographer's blindstamp in margin recto; it is signed, titled, dated and inscribed in pencil on verso by Horst, considered one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century known for his elegant, glamorous ... More
Exhibition of bead-art from South Africa tells story of independence, migration, and memory
FLINT, MI.- The Flint Institute of Arts begins its 90th year with the opening of Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence, which showcases a new form of bead art, ndwango (cloth), developed by a community of women living and working together in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The plain black fabric that serves as a foundation for the beadwork is reminiscent of the Xhosa headscarves and skirts that many of them wore growing up. By stretching this textile like canvas, the artists use colored Czech glass beads to transform the flat cloth into a contemporary art form of remarkable visual depth. Using skills handed down through generations, and working in their own unique style directly from the soul (in the words of artist Ntombephi Ntobela), the women create abstract as well as figurative subjects for their ndwangos. Ubuhle means beauty ... More
BFI announces Animated Britain, an animated portrait of a nation from across the UK, online and in cinemas
LONDON.- Since the early 1900s a disparate array of artists in Britain, from across the UK, have drawn, sculpted, snipped, stamped, posed, clicked and scratched their art into celluloid life. Sitting squarely at the centre of a year-long BFI-wide focus on animation in venue, online and on release, and coinciding with the release of Early Man, Nick Parks latest animated feature for Aardman and Studiocanal, the BFI today reveals new access to unprecedented collections of archive animation, online and in cinemas. These films cast the evolution of British animation in a new light, frame by painstaking frame, ranging from the earliest experiments to the latest pioneering contemporary features made by UK animation studios today for Aardman, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and others. Drawn from both the BFI National Archive and Regional and National Film ... More
The Felicia Michalski Collection of Fine & Costume Jewelry goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to feature the Felicia Michalski Collection of Fine & Costume Jewelry on Sunday, February 18. Presenting 140 lots acquired over six decades, the sale offers fine jewelry for ladies, including necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, pendants and wristwatches. Most are crafted of gold, white gold, platinum or silver, with precious stones and embellishments such as diamonds, rubies, sapphires, amethyst, opal, jade, turquoise, coral, cultured pearls, cameos and French bloodstone. There is also a vast range of antique and vintage costume jewelry from the Anita Hellman Collection. The diverse selection features large groupings of necklaces; brooches; belt and shoe buckles; antique miniature portraits and scenes; Mickey Mouse, pocket and fob watches; pocketknives; gentlemens accessories; ... More
Bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback fetches $5,000 at Holabird auction
RENO, NEV.- A beautiful bronze depiction of a cowboy on horseback by California sculptress Betty Saletta sold for $5,000, a 25-cent War Eagle slot machine from the 1930s fetched $2,875, and a mint condition A.B. Stewart & Co. (Virginia City, Nev) drug store bottle dated 1877 made $2,250 at Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLCs auction held on January 20th and 21st. It was the first big auction event of the New Year for Holabird Western Americana Collections, LLC, featuring nearly 1,500 lots in many collecting categories. It was held online and in their Reno gallery, at 3555 Airway Drive. We had our largest online live audience ever, said owner Fred Holabird, who called the sale a huge success. Phone and absentee bids were also taken. The Saturday, January 20th session showcased mining and minerals, art, foreign items, Native Americana and ... More
New 17,000 square meter art centre to open in Jeddah
JEDDAH.- Art Jameel, an organisation that supports heritage, education and the arts, today announced fully its new 17,000-square-metre development in Saudi Arabia. Hayy: Creative Hub is located in north Jeddah; construction started last year and the complex is due to open next year. This major new cultural development is named Hayy: Creative Hub derived from the Arabic word for neighbourhood referring to the community-oriented nature of the complex, and the ways in which the partner organisations, which include art galleries, digital entrepreneurs, comedy clubs, cafes and more, are working together to present the full diversity of the arts. Art Jameel commissioned ibda design to draft Hayy: Creative Hub as a major destination for Jeddahs cultural community, bringing together a range of cultural experiences in one neighbourhood. The three-storey, dynamic, ... More
Self-taught artist Stephen Warde Anderson opens exhibition at Intuit
CHICAGO, IL.- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art announces its exhibition, Stephen Warde Anderson: Attention to Detail. After attending University of Chicago for one year, then serving in the United States Navy for four years, Rockford, Ill., native Stephen Warde Anderson decided he'd spend the rest of his life creating things. His nontraditional route to uncovering his artistic talents, as well as the fact that his skills are entirely self-taught, make Anderson's work all the more astonishing. Stephen Warde Anderson: Attention to Detail captures the pointillist techniques he employed in his earliest works. Anderson began his foray into the art world through charcoal and pencil drawings, and then graduated on to painting through the development of his own methods for production, such as mixing tempera with his saliva. He also fashioned flexible stylus ... More
Racine Art Museum celebrates recent polymer art acquisitions
RACINE, WI.- Open January 28  June 24, 2018, Polymer Art: Recent Acquisitions showcases artworks new to Racine Art Museum since the donation of over 200 polymer pieces in 2011. These recent gifts have introduced new artists to the collection and expanded upon existing bodies of work by incorporating different types of objects or broadening the scope of years represented. Referencing the significance of the groundwork laid in earlier years, Polymer Art includes pieces that were part of the original gift that established RAMs polymer collection, the largest of its kind in the world. In 2011, the Racine Art Museum organized Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads, an exhibition featuring works made of polymer, a workable plastic-based compound used to make modeling clays, such as Fimo® or Sculpey®. Primarily comprised of works that had been gifted ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, British painter Patrick Heron was born January 30, 2018. Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 - 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Throughout his career, Heron worked in a variety of media, from the silk scarves he designed for his father's company Cresta from the age of 14, to a stained-glass window for Tate St Ives, but he was foremost a painter working in oils and gouache. In this image: Susanna Heron poses with Patrick Heron's Nude in Wicker Chair, 1951.
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