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In an undated image provided by Michael Pante, a 3-D model of a shinbone showing two of numerous marks identified as cut marks. A recent study offered the oldest decisive evidence that our ancient hominid ancestors ate one another but the field has a long history of overstating such claims, other scientists note. (Michael Pante via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Everybodys quick to see a cannibal. The Romans thought the ancient Britons feasted on human flesh, and the British thought the same about the Irish. Not a few prehistoric finds have been attributed, evocatively if not accurately, to the work of ancient cannibals. In 1871, Mark Twain commented on the discovery of the bones of a primeval man who purportedly had been made a meal of by his peers: I ask the candid reader, Does not this look like taking advantage of a gentleman who has been dead two million years? In todays scholar-eat-scholar world of paleoanthropology, claims of cannibalism are held to exacting standards of evidence. Which is why more than a few eyebrows were raised recently over a study in Scientific Reports asserting that a 1.45-million-year-old fragment of shin bone found 53 years ago in northern Kenya, and sparsely documented was an indication that our human ancestors not only butchered their own kind, but were probably, as an acco ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Galerie Eva Presenhuber invites you to explore the Online Viewing Room of The Stars Are Out by Martin Boyce. The show is on view at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, until July 22, 2023.
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| The Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin | | Phillips announces highlights from the New Now Auction on July 13th | | Brand new photographic works by Bryan Adams now on view at Atlas Gallery | 
The sculptor, Stephen Tomlin, painted by his lover John Banting in 1925. The Radev Collection.
LONDON.- He is, arguably, the Bloomsbury groups least well-known member. Yet Stephen Tomlin (1901-1937), with his glossy mop of hair, disarming charisma and undeniable talent, deserves to be just as renowned as his contemporaries Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf. Now the first major exhibition of his work at Philip Mould & Company is aiming to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs. During his all too brief life and career, Tomlin established himself as the Bloomsbury groups primary sculptor, immortalising the faces of his friends and fellow artists through a series of compelling busts, realised in a variety of materials and notable for their realism and stylised simplicity. The exhibition includes a captivating bust of Bloomsburys doyen, Lytton Strachey: The general impression is so superb, that I am beginning to be afraid that I shall find it rather difficult to live up to.' - Ly ... More | | 
Shara Hughes, Fits Just Right, signed, titled and dated '"Fits Just Right" 2016 SHARA HUGHES' on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 35.9 x 27.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.).
Painted in 2016.
LONDON.- Phillips has announced their highlights from the upcoming New Now auction in London. Taking place on 13 July at 30 Berkeley Square the sale will offer over 190 lots, combining works from established blue chip masters alongside emerging names. Blue chip and contemporary artists in the sale include works by Arthur Jafa, George Condo, and Antoni TÃ pies, and ultra contemporary names include Francesca Mollett, Sarah Miska, and Vojtěch KovařÃk, among others. A group of key works from the Collection of Jimmy and Leonora Belilty will feature in the sale including works by Allan McCollum, Jenny Holzer, and Mira Schendel. The New Now preview is now online and on view in Phillips galleries on Berkeley Square from 7 to 13 July ahead of the auction on 13 July at 1pm. Charlotte Gibbs, Associate Specialist, Head of New ... More | | 
Bryan Adams, Mick Jagger With Guitar, New York, 2008. © Bryan Adams. Photo Courtesy of Atlas Gallery.
LONDON.- ATLAS GALLERY is hosting an exhibition of brand new photographic works by photographer and singer Bryan Adams. Inspired by the expression seeing things through rose-tinted glasses, Adams decided to experiment with multi- coloured plexiglass on some of his photographs, to give them a different dimension. The result is a fresh approach to and interpretation of Adams already well-known catalogue of portraits, including Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse and Mick Jagger, which are presented in dreamlike suspension behind coloured lenses. This adds even more to the sense of the celebrity appearing to be viewed as if behind a screen, at a distance from the viewer, but somehow also themselves trapped. This exhibition presents for the very first time these brand new works by Bryan Adams. This is his world premiere. Bryan Adams is a Canadian musician, singer, composer, ... More |
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| 'The Weight of Words' at The Henry Moore Institute explores the relationship between sculpture and poetry | | Bonhams offers Bond on Bond Street this October with the Personal Collection of Sir Roger Moore | | The afterlife of forlorn office furniture | 
Emma Hart, detail of Good Vibrations, 2023. Ceramic. Originally commissioned by RAMM. Image courtesy RAMM and the artist. Photo: Simon Tutty.
LEEDS.- Sculpture and poetry are two of the worlds oldest art forms. Despite their differences and divergent traditions, many of the most exciting developments in making and criticism consciously mix and blur the distinctions between different art forms to create a dynamic third space. The Weight of Words features an international and intergenerational mix of contemporary artists and writers, all of whom pursue poetry through sculptural means. Ranging in tone from the humorous to the haunting, expressing everything from direct quotations to the unsayable, the works on show entangle the two art forms by compounding the three- dimensional and linguistic qualities of words. Together, they reveal what can happen to languages and our experiences of them when sculptural interests in weight, materiality, form and arrangement are charged by a poetic impulse to see words take on depth and presence. The shift between ... More | | 
A Douglas Hayward grey flannel three-piece suit made for Sir Roger Moore in 'For Your Eyes Only', 1981, Estimates_10,000 - 15,000. Photo: Bonhams.
LONDON.- Black tie, fast cars, and shaken Martinis it has to be Bond. Sir Roger Moore (1927-2017) is synonymous with the style and sophistication of James Bond, having played the spy in a total of seven films, more than any other actor in the EON series, including in Live and Let Die (1973), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), and A View to a Kill (1985). More than this, Sir Roger became one of the style symbols of his generation and an icon of British cool, with his credits also including the TV shows The Saint (1962-1969) and The Persuaders (1971). On 4 October, Bonhams will offer lots from his personal collection in a dedicated sale at 101 New Bond Street, London on the 50th anniversary year of his first appearance as 007. This 180-lot sale of his personal collection is being offered directly by Sir Roger Moores family, and will include important Bond memorabilia, collectables and personal ... More | | 
The jaws of an excavator that is about to mangle an office chair for disposal at a recycling center in Queens, July 6, 2023. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Herman Miller is one of the most revered makers of office furniture in the world, its designs so esteemed that its Aeron chair, which became a fixture of New York City cubicles, was put in the Museum of Modern Arts permanent collection. This month, some Herman Miller chairs, which can retail for over $1,000, met a less dignified fate: an appointment with the crushing metal jaws of an excavator. More than three years after the coronavirus pandemic began, about half of the office space in the New York City metro area in June was occupied, according to Kastle Systems, a security-card company tracking activity in office buildings. The hollowing out of the citys cubicles has raised existential economic and cultural questions, but also a big logistical one: What do you do with all that office furniture? The answer can often be found in the back of a moving truck en route to the auction block, a liquidator ... More |
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| Thomas Gainsborough portrait discovered in Royal Museums Greenwich Collection | | Venus Over Manhattan opens 'This Too Shall Pass', a group exhibition curated by Racquel Chevremont | | The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum marks the centennial of JoaquÃn Sorolla's death with exhibition | 
Recent research into the painting Captain Frederick Cornewall, 1762, by art historian Hugh Belsey and RMG curators has led to the exciting reattribution to Gainsborough. © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
GREENWICH.- Royal Museums Greenwich announced the discovery of a portrait by famed eighteenth-century artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727 1788). Recent research into the painting Captain Frederick Cornewall, 1762, by art historian Hugh Belsey and RMG curators has led to the exciting reattribution to Gainsborough. Gainsborough was a leading artist in the second half of the eighteenth century. He is celebrated for his intimate and characterful portraits produced with lively brushwork. He was a founding member of the Royal Academy and has had a lasting influence in British art. The three-quarter-length portrait of Captain Frederick Cornewall (1706 1788) entered the RMG collection in 1960. It was recorded as a Gainsborough but the curator at the time did not deem it of a high enough quality. It was attributed ... More | | 
Alex Anderson, Idyllic, 2022. Earthernware, glaze, gold luster. 12 x 7 x 2 in, 53.3 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Taking its title from a time-honored adage, the presentation explores concepts of impermanence, transience, personal memory, and ongoing change. Assembling work in diverse media by both young and established artists, the exhibition gathers painting, drawing, and sculpture by eleven artists who incorporate figurative and abstract representations of flowers in their work. Carefully selected for their explorations of multi-layered themes surrounding floral imagery, the works on view feature flowers and botanical elements to convey the essence of impermanence and embody the strength that lies within their fragility. This Too Shall Pass will be on view at Venus Over Manhattan, 55 Great Jones Street, until August. Speaking about the exhibition, curator Racquel Chevremont states: This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose works beautifully capture the transient, ... More | | 
JoaquÃn Sorolla, Under the Awning, on the Beach of Zarautz, 1910 (detail). Museo Sorolla, Madrid.
BILBAO.- The feature for The Guest Work programme this summer is bringing the light-drenched works of JoaquÃn Sorolla (Valencia, 1863Cercedilla, 1923) to the museums room 19 in the year that marks the centennial of the painters death. The programme is joining the celebrations with a prominent work in Sorollas oeuvre which he painted during one of his first campaigns in the Basque Country. It is the work Under the Awning, on the Beach of Zarautz (1910), a key work in understanding the artists sojourns in the Basque lands. This painting shows the painters familyhis wife Clotilde and his children MarÃa, Elena and JoaquÃnelegantly dressed and in the shade of one of the characteristic awnings on the beach in this town in Guipúzcoa. In around 1900, Sorolla began to painting the northern beaches, which at that time were popular among the royal family and aristocrats. This elegant summer stay enabled him to depict scenes ... More |
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| Sikkema Jenkins & Co. has announced their representation of artist Magalie Guérin | | Galerie Eva Presenhuber opens an exhibition of works by the Scottish artist Martin Boyce | | Prix Pictet announces shortlist for 10th cycle "Human" | 
Untitled (A), 2023 Signed on verso. Oil on canvas, 45 x 36 inches (114.3 x 91.4 cm). Photo courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co. and the artist.
NEW YORK, NY.- Magalie Guérins painting practice has developed through sustained experimentation with the mediums formal and ontological possibilities. Her interest lies beyond defined systems of representation or abstraction, instead seeking to emphasize specific pictorial relationships, including those of figure/ground, pattern/color, and space/edge. Embossed checkered squares and crinkled striations overlap and adjoin with limb-like contours and gradated forms; slices of vivid orange and deep green contrast with muted earth tones and soft pastels. Guérin describes a pre-history of texture, the initial foundation of paint upon which subsequent compositional elements shift, divide, and connect. This sense of cultivated interiority within each work is mirrored by the external, subjective experience of encountering it. Free from ... More | | 
Installation view.
VIENNA.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber is presenting The Stars Are Out, the gallerys fifth solo exhibition with the Scottish artist Martin Boyce. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 5, Hamlet For his first solo exhibition in Vienna, the Glasgow-based, Turner Prize-winning (2011) artist Martin Boyce further elaborates on a reductive visual repertoire that consolidates aspects of architecture and design within the tenets of modernist production, repetition, and seriality. Consistently throughout his career, Boyce has used an economy of means to produce sculptural tableaux that distill and transform these structures into self-contained vessels of refinement. They underscore the shapes and patterns that surround us to the point of invisibility. With balletic precision, the twin poles of literary imagination and constructive pragma ... More | | 
Yael MartÃnez, Abuelo Estrella, 2021.Courtsey the artist and Magnum Photos, and Patricia Conde Galerôa, Mexico City.
LONDON.- Prix Pictet revealed the 12 photographers shortlisted for Human, the theme of its tenth cycle. Announced at an evening screening at the Théâtre Antique on Thursday 6 July 2023 as part of the opening week of Les Rencontres dArles International Photography Festival by Executive Director of Prix Pictet, Isabelle von Ribbentrop, the shortlisted photographers are: Hoda Afshar, Iran Gera Artemova, Ukraine Ragnar Axelsson, Iceland Alessandro Cinque, Italy/Peru Siân Davey, UK Gauri Gill, India Michał Łuczak, Poland Yael MartÃnez, Mexico Richard Renaldi, US Federico RÃos Escobar, Colombia Vanessa Winship, UK/Bulgaria Vasantha Yogananthan, France As the most dominant species on Earth, humans shape and are shaped by the world around us. The human theme allows photographers to delve into ... More |
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 Great War Victoria Cross awarded to Sheffield man to be sold at NoonansLONDON.- A fine Great War Western Front Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant Arnold Loosemore for his great gallantry during the second Anglo-French general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres that took place south of Langemarck in Belgium on 11 August 1917 will be offered for sale by Noonans in a sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. It is expected to fetch £180,000-220,000. Loosemore was in the 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regiment) and after two members of his section had been killed beside him, he fought with every means at his disposal - machine-gun, bomb, rifle and revolver - to thwart a determined counterattack which appeared to many as though it must succeed, and accounted for about 20 of the enemy as well as a number of snipers, before returning to his original post with a wounded ... More  Galerie Karsten Greve opens a solo show by the Italian artist Mimmo JodiceST. MORITZ.- Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting ATTESA, a solo show by the Italian artist Mimmo Jodice, which unveils works from his last project Attesa (waiting). This selection is complemented by works from the Natura (Nature) project. Mimmo Jodice explores the world that surrounds us, lingering on the thresholds of a time undefined. In his black and white photographs, past, present and future intertwine, abandoning all spatio-temporal markers to reach a dimension suspended between what is real and what only seems real. Attesa, his latest project, is the culmination of the research which the artist has been engaged in since the late 1980s, when he chose to forego the human form. From that moment on, and for over 30 years, time and experience have been the focus of his research. Mimmo Jodice sees the Attesa project as not just ... More  'Dans la Tête de Balthus' on view at Perrotin PARIS.- Balthus statement on the occasion of his 1956 retrospective at MoMA reflects the artist's facetiousness and the mystery with which he liked to surround his work. The numerous drawings and notebooks that escaped erasure provide a revealing view of the artists work in the studio: the sketchbook at the heart of the Perrotin exhibition shows the artist's inspirations, the discipline of sketching, the models taking up their poses, and the maturation of the creative process. When I have finished my paintings, I put the drawings for them on the floor and walk on them until they are erased." James Thrall Soby, Balthus, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956, p. 4. Born in 1908 in Paris, Balthazar (known as Balthus) and his older brother (the writer Pierre Klossowski) spent their childhood in a cosmopolitan Central-European environment between France, Germany, and Switzerland. Under ... More  Getty announces interactive augmented reality artwork experience on iPad with artists Tin&Ed LOS ANGELES, CA.- Art Gallery of New South Wales and Getty debut interactive augmented reality artwork experience on iPad with artists Tin&Ed. Visitors and school children across both museums are invited to co-create a digital ecosystem using a new drawing app designed for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. Deep Field, an interactive AR and sonic experience by artists and creative technologists Tin&Ed, will launch simultaneously at Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney this month, to bring children in both hemispheres closer to nature through art. At both museums, visitors are invited to co-create a digital ecosystem of fantastical plants. Using a new drawing app designed for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, participants can sketch and create imaginative plants and flowers and upload them to a global database. ... More  Truong Cong Tung solo exhibition opens at Kiang Malingue HONG KONG.- Kiang Malingue is opening today at its Tin Wan gallery space Truong Cong Tungs exhibition 2000 years
Something on coming Something on going, the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery, coinciding with the artists exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (June 10September 10, 2023). Introducing new iterations of an ongoing series of sculptures and a central video project debuted a decade ago, Journey of a Piece of Soil, Truong revisits crucial motifs, examining the temporal aspect of materialised entities and movements. For more than a decade, Truong as both an independent artist and a member of the Art Labor collective is recognised for his profound interest in history, landscape and materiality. Emphasising the earthen quality of his materials, the meticulously sculpted artworks are delicate yet ... More  'Maureen Dougherty: Borrowed Time' opens at Cheim & Read NEW YORK, NY.- Cheim & Read is opening Maureen Dougherty: Borrowed Time, an exhibition of new work by the Manhattan-based painter and filmmaker. The show starts July 11, 2023, at the gallerys Chelsea location, 547 West 25th Street, and runs through September 16. This is the artists first solo exhibition with the gallery. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Maureen Dougherty traveled to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where she joined a colleague to collaborate on a documentary film project. She had planned to be away from New York for about a month. The ensuing lockdown instead kept her in Pittsfield for more than two years. A longtime abstract painter, she found a small room that she could use as a studio and began to make meditative ink drawings at five oclock each morning. These drawings would incrementally develop into figurative imagery, taking her art in a wholly new direc ... More  'Hayaki Nishigaki: A Monster of Our Own Making' opens today at Ronin Gallery NEW YORK, NY.- At the brush of Hayaki Nishigaki (b. 1985), the iconic monster Godzilla becomes a contemporary motif explored across traditional painting techniques. From the aftermath of WWII to the environmental crises of today, the King of Monsters functions as a vessel for societal woes and national consciousness throughout Nishigakis work. While constant in form, this monster is ever evolving in meaning as he storms through different formats, historical themes, and artistic techniques. Rendered in gold-embellished nihonga (Japanese-style painting) and monochrome sansuiga (paintings of idealized landscapes), Nishigakis uses Godzilla to bring to light what is internalized in society with a touch of irony. The exhibition Hayaki Nishigaki: A Monster of Our Own Making will begin with a public opening reception with the artist on July ... More  "Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905-1960" by Roger Yorke is now available TRURO.- The major new art publication about Japanese kimono titled "Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905-1960, authored by Roger Yorke with a Foreword by Professor Kendall H Brown is being offered through Yorke Antique Textiles who have been dedicated to the collecting and dealing of vintage and antique world ethnographic textiles for almost forty years, together with Yorke Antique Textiles at The Kimono Gallery, which is devoted entirely to kimonos and kimono jackets. "Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905-1960 boasts the most thorough representation of Kimono art to date, but in addition, about two hundred of early to mid-20th century vintage ethnographic images of geisha, actresses, models, and citizens, all wearing artistic examples of the iconic garment; plus, over 100 original kimono-related illustrations ... More  Xavier Hufkens now showing 'Harry Irene', curated by Joe BradleyBRUSSELS.- Harry Irene is a multigenerational group show curated by gallery artist Joe Bradley. It brings the work of seven American artists to Brussels for the first time and includes paintings, collages, ceramics and sculptures. Not uncoincidentally, the exhibition is named after a Captain Beefheart song. Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) is both an artist and musician, as are Ed Askew, Brian Belott and Annie Pearlman. The crossover between music and art is just one of the connecting themes in Harry Irene. Pure artistic expression is another: Hawkins Bolden, who was blind, made his sculptures without any reference to artistic trends or a potential audience. Laura Craig McNellis, who has nonverbal autism, has been painting since childhood to describe her observations. They hail, respectively, from Memphis and Nashville. Alice Mackler, now ... More  'We Buy Gold: SEVEN: A Group Exhibition' on view at Jack Shainman Gallery & Nicola Vassell GalleryNEW YORK, NY.- SEVEN., a group exhibition by We Buy Gold, is on view at Jack Shainman Gallery and Nicola Vassell Gallery in Chelsea, New York through August 11. Curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, SEVEN. features work by Max Guy, Renee Gladman, David Hammons, Nandi Loaf, Abigail Lucien, Kerry James Marshall, Lorraine OGrady, Ashley Teamer, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Founded in 2017, We Buy Gold is a roving art space presenting exhibitions, commissioned projects, and public events. Launching with a suite of four exhibitions in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (ONE., TWO., THREE. and The Yard), and going on to produce ambitious collaborations with contemporary artists and curators such as Moses Sumney (SUNSET.), Nina Chanel Abney (FIVE.), and Diana Nawi (SIX.), ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo died July 11, 1593. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 or 1527 - July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books. In this image: Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumne (portrait de Rodolphe II), vers 1590, Huile sur bois. Skokloster, Château de Skokloster (Suède).
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