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In an undated image provided by J. Flynn et al., the jawbone of Ambondro mahabo, a species that was 25 million years older than any mammal of its kind ever found. Researchers are fiercely debating whether claims about the origins of mammals result from a bias toward Northern Hemisphere fossil sites. (J. Flynn et al. via The New York Times)
by Anthony Ham
NEW YORK, NY.- In 1996, paleontologists made a startling discovery in northwestern Madagascar. Among dinosaur bones and sandy sediment there emerged a 167-million-year-old tiny jaw fragment with three teeth. It belonged to Ambondro mahabo, a species that was 25 million years older than any mammal of its kind ever found. And it wasnt supposed to be there. At the time, what was known of the fossil record pointed overwhelmingly to the conclusion that modern mammals forerunners arose in the Northern Hemisphere. The prevailing wisdom suggested that we shouldnt find something like that from the time interval we were sampling, nor from the Southern Hemisphere, said John Flynn, the paleontologist who led that dig and is now the Frick curator of fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It takes more than a single fossil to overturn an entire theory of evolution. But a review of existing fossil holdings published last year in the journal Alcheringa sou ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day After overwhelmingly positive reviews and unprecedented attendance, "If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections of Contemporary South African Art from the Nando's Art Collection" has been extended through Sunday, Oct. 22, at the African American Museum, Dallas in historic Fair Park. Photo: Kevin Todora.
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| Netherlands Museum for Photography receives € 38 million donation for a new home | | National Gallery of Art acquires work by Raphael Morghen | | Jane Birkin: An adventurous artist made in England, forged in France | 
Rendering of the new Netherlands Museum for Photography© Renner Hainke Worth Zirn Architecten and WDJArchitecten.
ROTTERDAM.- The Dutch national photography museum, Nederlands Fotomuseum, will open in a new prime location in Rotterdam in 2025. The museum will move to a newly renovated historic warehouse situated on the Rijnhaven harbour, providing a new home for the national collection of over six million photographs. The eight-story building will include dedicated exhibition spaces, permanent facilities to house the collection, a photography bookshop and library, education rooms, museum café and a rooftop restaurant with a panoramic view of the Rotterdam skyline. The acquisition of the new building fulfils the Nederlands Fotomuseums longstanding commitment to developing a dynamic meeting place and an international platform for photography. Birgit Donker, Director of the Nederlands Fotomuseum, said: "It is fantastic that we are in a position to realize this dream. A building of our own - a fully renovated historic building - where we ca ... More | | 
Raphael Morghen, after Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1800 (detail). Engraving. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of David Alan Brown 2022.150.5
WASHINGTON, DC.- Raphael Morghen (17581833) was the preeminent reproductive engraver working in Europe at the turn of the 19th century. He produced more than 250 prints after the designs of other artists. The National Gallery of Art has acquired Morghens 1800 engraving of Leonardo da Vincis The Last Supper. One of his most famous and widely circulated prints, it was given to the museum by David Alan Brown, the National Gallerys former curator of Italian and Spanish paintings. Morghen made the engraving of The Last Supper while he was living in Florence, having moved there in 1793 at the request of Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, to preside over the newly formed school of engraving. With its rich cultural history, Florence was an ideal place to teach reproductive printmaking. Morghen himself studied under and then worked for Giovanni Volpato in Rome from 1778 to 1790. The Last Supper provided an excellent model of engraving f ... More | | 
English actress and singer Jane Birkin at the American film festival in Deauville, Normandie, France. Photo: By Roland Godefroy/wikipedia.org.
NEW YORK, NY.- For most of her life, Jane Birkin, who died Sunday at 76, acted as a bridge an elegant one, with an affectless grace that never betrayed the strains of load bearing. She connected her native Britain and her adopted France, two countries physically close but often at odds. She never lost her English accent when she spoke, somehow joining the two languages into her own Birkin-ese, the improbable French that added to her charm, as Le Monde put it. She floated among song, cinema and theater, and she could reach large, varied audiences while also connecting with Frances auteur culture. Her career did not go in a straight line. She made the most of her unassuming, breathy voice in her recordings, and while her unconventional glamour stood out on-screen, she was never afraid to veer off in unexpected directions when choosing roles. She let herself be guided by adventurousness. After a small role in Michelangelo Antonionis ode to Swinging London, Blow-Up, ... More |
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| Gallery FUMI presents a solo show by Sam Orlando Miller with works spanning ten years of his career | | Patrycja Orzechowska's 'Embracing the Dark' opens at TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art | | Milwaukee Public Museum wraps up Thinc Design's gallery unveilings for future museum | 
Installation view.
LONDON.- Twenty years ago, London born artist Sam Orlando Miller left the city for Italy. Away from the eyes of the world his first sculptural mirror emerged, informed by his knowledge of painting, his skills with three-dimensional form, and his fluency with light and reflection. Miller recently relocated his studio to the wilds of northern Spain, the landscape around him offering patterns and rhythms of making. Attuned to earth and place, he continues to translate his inner world into images and objects. During his lifetime of making a personal language has emerged, an evolving lexicon of shapes and geometry. Working alone by hand and eye, Millers works invoke a pause, inviting us to linger beside their resonant forms. He creates contours that beckon us closer, throws light around us as we move, his art echoing ancestral trades with the freedom of a poet. The works in this exhibition span the past ten years pivoting around an on-going theme of the ephemeral: an attempt, says Miller, to k ... More | | 
Patrycja Orzechowska is a visual artist, author of art books (Deadline. Never Ending Story, Kinderturnen, Medium). She works with photography, collage, ceramics, installation and graphics. Photo: Daniel Rumiancew.
SZCZECIN.- The artistic practice of Patrycja Orzechowska is based around the materiality of things, the mysterious life of objects and social choreography. In her recent projects, she focuses on object-oriented ontology, archeology of the future and the relationship between people and objects. Such dependence is often as the artist describes it obsessive, loving or sentimental. At the same time, working with leftovers, ready-made objects and the human body, she casually practices physical and mental recycling. The solo show "Embracing the Dark" features works from recent years, the common medium of which is ceramics, used as a prosthesis on the collection of ready-made objects. The exhibition presents complementary works in one installation space, which inspires countless interpretation possibilities, but at the same time allows individual pieces to exist autonomously. The works ... More | | 
Enthusiastic public reaction and partner support energizes designers and museum leadership in effort to create new museum.
MILWAUKEE, WI.- Throughout the past three months, Milwaukee Public Museum and exhibit design partner, Thinc Design, have shared design concepts for the Future Museums five permanent galleries: Time Travel, Wisconsin Journey, Milwaukee Revealed, Living in a Dynamic World and We Energies Foundation Gallery: Rainforest as well as additional unique spaces like the Puelicher Butterfly Vivarium, Nature and Culture Connectors and Bucyrus Rooftop Terrace. The rollout of gallery themes and exhibit examples highlighted high-level concepts and focus areas for the Future Museum galleries, or groups of connected exhibits. Each announcement provided an inside look at a sampling of exhibits, collection items and features visitors can expect to encounter upon the Future Museums opening. The Museum, Wisconsins natural history museum, will be relocating from its current location on Wells ... More |
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| SculptureCenter presents: 'In Practice: Literally Means Collapse' | | Blending dance and sculpture creates a fresh view of art | | Exhibition explores how Romanticism continues to shape the digital age | 
Installation view of 'In Practice: Charles Benton.
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- In Practice: Literally means collapse features newly commissioned sculptures, installations, and video works by eleven artists: Marco Barrera, Allen Hung-Lun Chen, Violet Dennison, Enrique Garcia, Ignacio Gatica, Cherisse Gray, Jessica Kairé, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Alan MartÃn Segal, Stella Zhong, and Monsieur Zohore. Opening May 12, 2022, the exhibition presents new works and artistic meditations that consider an expanded notion of the ruin that includes social tradition as much as physical infrastructure. Literally means collapse is organized by 2022 In Practice Curatorial Fellow Camila Palomino. From built environments and structures of circulation to protocols and belief systems that shape social and political subjects, infrastructures are in a constant generative friction with decay. Rituals of maintenance are designed and performed to prevent what is constructed from being subjectively ruined. Diagnosing a contemporary obsession with ruins, artist and theorist ... More | | 
Brendan Fernandes "Returning to Before" at the Barnes Foundation, William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision. 2023. Photos Daniel Jackson for Embassy: Interactive.
by Precious Adesina
NEW YORK, NY.- Chicago artist Brendan Fernandes doesnt need his work to fit neatly into one category. People ask, Is it a prop? Is it a sculpture? Is it an artwork? And Im like, Its all those things, he said recently by phone. He has now focused his long-standing interest in merging dance and sculpture on the work of William Edmondson, an early 20th century artist. Fernandes created a piece that is featured in a retrospective of Edmondsons practice, A Monumental Vision, running through Sept. 10 at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. With its presentation of Fernandes work, the Barnes joins a number of artists and institutions worldwide that are combining the mediums of dance and sculpture to question how people interact with museums and visual art. The shows curators, James Claiborne and Nancy ... More | | 
This exhibition taps into the enduring influence of Romanticism and how it maps onto current sociopolitical and visual culture.
LONDON.- GIANT presents Supersublime, a group exhibition that explores how Romanticism continues to shape the digital age. Riffing off cinemas perfected CGI landscapes, our anxiety over the emergence of AI and the undelivered promise of cryptocurrency, the show digs into the uneasy relationship between technology, nature and nostalgia. Curated by Theo Ellison, Supersublime runs from 8 July to 7 October 2023. Romanticism continues to define our aesthetic. Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, it looked to reverse scientific logic in favour of a return to nature and a focus on imagination and subjectivity. Nature over artifice; passion over reason; idealism over reality; nostalgia over progress. The modern world can still be understood as swinging between the cool detachment of scientific rationalism on the one hand, and a desire for transcendent experience on the other. Kitsch vestiges of Casper David Friedrich a ... More |
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| The Hnatyshyn Foundation announces death of President Gerda Hnatyshyn | | African American Museum extends acclaimed South African contemporary exhibition through State Fair of Texas | | Madlen Strebel receives HfG Fotoförderpreis 2023 of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation | 
In 2002, Gerda and Ray founded the Hnatyshyn Foundation to bring opportunity, encouragement, and practical support to Canadas artists, to allow them to fulfill their dreams and in so doing, nurture the ties that unite Canada as a nation and as members of a wider human family.
OTTAWA.- It is with heavy hearts that we announce that our beloved President, Gerda Hnatyshyn, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 14th, at her home in Ottawa. A wonderful mother and grandmother, Gerda will be remembered by all as a gracious host, generous friend, and patron of the arts. Her dedication to fostering excellence in the arts which she shared with her adored husband, the Right Honourable Ray Hnatyshyn, former Governor General of Canada, benefitted countless people from all walks of life. Throughout her life, Gerda demonstrated a deep commitment to exemplary public service, and had a gift of making every occasion feel special. She was an exceptional host who brought ... More | | 
Installation view. Photo: Kevin Todora.
DALLAS, TX.- After overwhelmingly positive reviews and unprecedented attendance, If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections of Contemporary South African Art from the Nandos Art Collection has been extended through Sunday, Oct. 22, at the African American Museum, Dallas in historic Fair Park. Culled from one of the worlds largest collections of contemporary South African art and featuring 62 pieces from 55 artists, the exhibit will run through the end of the State Fair of Texas and remain free of charge to all visitors. From a continent with a rich and dynamic art scene, some of the must-see works are drawn from the collections strength in portraiture, landscape, cityscapes and abstraction. Several of the featured artists on display have received recent accolades: Zanele Muholi is a ground-breaking Black queer photographer with a current retrospective in Paris at the Maison ... More | | 
HfG Fotoförderpreis 2023 winner Madlen Strebel. Photo: HfG Offenbach, Haben Ghebregziabher.
FRANKFURT.- The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has awarded the HfG Fotoförderpreis 2023 to Madlen Strebel for her project Two Hours Per Hour. The prize is given annually to students at the Offenbach University of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, HfG) who engage with the medium of photography. As part of its commitment to supporting young artists, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has been awarding the 3,000 prize annually since 2010. The award ceremony took place during the traditional HfG open house tour in Offenbach on 14 July. This years jury members were Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, and Peter Sillem, Frankfurt gallerist. In their statement, the jury wrote: in her work, Madlen Strebel explores the pursuit of beauty ideals and self-optimisation through cheap ... More |
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 UK art museum presents shows on intersection of art forms, Faisal Abdu'Allah's 'Chair'LEXINGTON, KY.- The University of Kentucky Art Museum announced the opening of two new exhibitions that offer ways of understanding how an artist's ideas find physical form, and how discreet disciplines of visual art, music and dance can intersect. They will be on view from June 27-Nov. 18, 2023. Intentions Actions Outcomes mines the legacies of Fluxus and conceptual art in the 1960s and 70s until today, as diverse artists question the nature of production, commodification, and reception; and use everyday objects and irreverent humor in sly and suggestive ways. Their works take the form of advertisements, diagrams, postcards, posters, scores, drawings, sculptures, and documentary photographs of private and public events. Artists in the exhibition include a veritable who's who of acclaimed performance artists whose events are documented in photographs and videos: Marina Abramo ... More  ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival announces nominees for the 2023 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live ArtKUOPIO.- This September the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded for the 10th time, both celebrating and supporting extraordinary artists. The winning artist will receive a cash prize of 15,000 euros plus the same amount again in the form of a production grant for presenting a commissioned new work at the following years ANTI Festival. The nominees for the 2023 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art are: Tiziano Cruz (Argentina), Autumn Knight (United States), Jota Mombaça (Brazil) and Joshua Serafin (Philippines/Belgium). In honour of the 10th anniversary of the Prize, the first artist to win the award, Cassils (Canada/United States), has been invited to chair the jury. The Prize ... More  Exhibition brings together specially selected monumental abstract paintings by three legendary artistsLONDON.- Hales is presenting Monuments, a special project by Paul Hedge, Hales Gallery co-founder, and London based painter, Paul Moriarty. Taking place at London's Thames-Side Studios, Monuments brings together specially selected monumental abstract paintings by three legendary artists and contemporaries, John Hoyland RA, Albert Irvin OBE RA and Basil Beattie RA. Both Hedge and Moriarty share a deep interest, passion and knowledge for these artists and see Monuments as an opportunity to showcase some of their most ambitious work. Monuments explores breakthrough moments in each artists' oeuvre over the course of three decades. The show celebrates these key periods of painterly development, in which they explored a desire to make innovative work which envelops the viewer. During their long careers they made, and in the case of Beattie ... More  The 9th edition of Luxembourg Art Week will be held from 10 to 12 NovemberLUXEMBOURG.- The 9th edition of Luxembourg Art Week will take place from 10 to 12 November 2023 (Preview 9 November 2023) in the centre of Luxembourg City. One year from its anniversary edition, Luxembourg Art Week is launching a series of strategic readjustments under the leadership of its new director, Caroline von Reden. Luxembourg Art Week was born out of the desire to build bridges between the local art scene and the international art market. From the outset, it was conceived by its founder, gallerist Alex Reding, as an event that unfolds as two complementary parts: a fair that is custom-tailored to meet the needs and expectations of its local and international exhibitors, and a vast programme of events organised in collaboration with national and international institutions and artists, which has allowed it to establish itself as the go- ... More  GRIMM opens 'The Moon and I'NEW YORK, NY.- GRIMM is presenting The Moon and I, a group exhibition on view at the New York gallery from July 13 to August 11, 2023. Among the artists included in the exhibition are Jessica Taylor Bellamy (b. 1992, US), Marcus Cope (b. 1980, UK), Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989, US), TM Davy (b. 1980, US), Matthias Franz (b. 1984, DE), Michael Ho (b. 1991, NL), Matthew Day Jackson (b. 1974, US), Wanda Koop (b. 1951, CA), Ian Lewandowski (b. 1990, US), Mevlana Lipp (b. 1989, DE), Alice Tippit (b. 1975, US), and Eric White (b. 1968, US). The Moon and I reflects upon noir and neo-noir aesthetics in contemporary art; cinematic tropes that include nightscapes, neon-tinged environments, mysterious figures, and clue-like symbology to illustrate a puzzling metanarrative. The exhibition title refers to the 2005 Rian Johnson-directed film Brick, an homage ... More  Review: Rennie Harris' hip-hop dance mixtapeNEW YORK, NY.- In the middle of the opening set at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! on Thursday, rapper and performance poet Decora dedicated a song to a man he called a mentor: folk singer Pete Seeger. The song, played by a full band with horns and electric guitar, was a riff on Seegers Where Have All the Flowers Gone? In its unexpectedness, this was an apt introduction to the main act, Rennie Harris Puremovement dance troupe. For decades, Harris has been swerving away from stereotypes and expectations of hip-hop dance, all while staying true to its roots. As he explains in one of the video segments interspersed throughout Nuttin but a Word, the touring show he brought for this free performance in Prospect Park, he considers the three laws of hip-hop to be individuality, creativity and innovation. Which means that hip-hop ... More  Jane Birkin: Decades of effortless eleganceNEW YORK, NY.- There are few things more tedious than the term fashion icon, but that is not to suggest people dont exist who definitively set styles for their time. Jane Birkin was one of them. To some extent, it does an injustice to the British-French actress and singer who died at 76 of undisclosed causes Sunday in Paris that she is largely remembered for the luxury Hermès handbag that she inspired and that was named for her. The influence of Birkin, whom modeling agent Paul Rowland called an eternal muse on Instagram, was far broader, extending beyond clothes. She gave proof beyond doubt that the best style originates in attitude. Chic may be nothing, as opera director and designer Patrick Kinmonth once observed, but its the right nothing. Starting in the early days of her fame as muse and consort to musical artist Serge Gainsbourg, Bir ... More  A long, shining river of verse, flowing from a rower and writerMINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Wang Ping is a poet by profession and a rower by routine. She sees a deep connection in these things. Flow. Rhythm. Cadence. Life begins with cadence, the heartbeat, she said. Tick, tick, tick. Row, row, row. Repetition is rhythm, but it does not tell the story. Every blade entering the water is different, because the water keeps moving, she said. Each moment is different from the last. And the next. Thats the beauty of living, isnt it? she said. Everyone calls her Ping. In Chinese philosophy, change is the foundation of life, Ping said. But at the same time, we are so afraid of changing. Fear really comes from wanting to hold on. But we cant really, right? Its like water. You can never step into the same river. ... More  As climate shocks multiply, designers seek holy grail: Disaster-proof homesNEW YORK, NY.- Jon duSaint, a retired software engineer, recently bought property near Bishop, California, in a rugged valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The area is at risk for wildfires, severe daytime heat and high winds and also heavy winter snowfall. But duSaint isnt worried. Hes planning to live in a dome. The 29-foot structure will be coated with aluminum shingles that reflect heat and are also fire-resistant. Because the dome has less surface area than a rectangular house, its easier to insulate against heat or cold. And it can withstand high winds and heavy snowpack. The dome shell itself is basically impervious, duSaint said. As weather grows more extreme, geodesic domes and other resilient home designs are gaining new attention from more climate-conscious homebuyers and the architects and builders who cater to them. The trend could ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Italian artist Caravaggio died July 18, 1610. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting. In this image: A photographer and a cameraman take a picture of Caravaggio's painting "The calling of Saints Peter and Andrew" in Rome, Monday, Nov. 20, 2006. The painting, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, languished for years in a dusty storeroom before being identified as the work of Italian master Caravaggio, on show at the Gate Termini Art Gallery in Rome.
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