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The image of the Mayan deity, which is more than 1,300 years old, was found during conservation project in a corridor of Palenques El Palacio. Photo Gibrán Huerta INAH
Translated by: Liz Marie Gangemi
MEXICO CITY.- Specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), a department belonging to the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, discovered the representation of the young Maize God in the Palenque Archaeological Zone, in Chiapas. This is the first such finding of a stucco head of this important Mayan deity on the site. The discovery was registered in 2021 during the renovation project "Architectural Conservation and Decorative Enhancements of El Palacio", which was made possible through the Ambassadors Fund of the State Department for Cultural Preservation, sponsored by the United States Government. During July of that year, the interdisciplinary team undertaking the initiative, which was co-directed by Archaeologist Arnoldo González Cruz and Researcher Haydeé Orea Magaña, observed a careful alignment of stones in a hallway connecting the rooms of B House of El Palacio with those of the adjacent F House. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold its Antiquities | Asian | Ancient Americas Auction on Jun 08, 2022 9:00 AM GMT-5. Featuring antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, as well as Asian Art, Fossils, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African/Tribal / Oceanic, Fine / Visual art, and much more! In this image: Rare Teotihuacan Alabaster Offering Platform. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000.
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| Palmer Museum of Art offers first look at new building with 3D video tour | | Christie's to offer Antonio Stradivari's finest inlaid violin: The 'Hellier' Stradivarious violin | | Phillips' upcoming editions sale to be company's first live auction hosted in Southampton | 
Animated view of the entrance to the new Palmer Museum of Art building at the Penn State Arboretum opening in 2024. Still from video.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- As the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State celebrates its 50th anniversary, the Palmer looks ahead to a bright future in a new building at the Arboretum. A newly released fly-through animation offers an immersive 3D view of the $85 million facility. The Palmer created the two-and-a-half-minute video in collaboration with Allied Works and the Brooklyn Digital Foundry. The 71,254-square-foot facility will open in spring 2024. The Palmers new building, designed by Allied Works, will double the Museums exhibition space to 20 galleries; improve accessibility; bring inviting, natural light into the Museum; and include the Palmers first educational and event spaces, a museum store and café, sculpture path and outdoor terraces. The fly-through animation brings the essence of the new museum building to life and reveals the strategic goal to connect art, nature and ... More | | 
The 'Hellier Stradivarious violin will lead The Exceptional Sale at Christies on 7 July. Estimate £6-9 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022.
LONDON.- The Hellier Stradivarius, 1679, is the finest inlaid violin ever made by the world renowned genius-craftsman Antonio Stradivari and one of the finest Stradivarius instruments in existence (estimate: £6,000,000 - 9,000,000). An extremely rare and important example of Stradivaris work, this masterpiece is the top lot of The Exceptional Sale on 7 July and a highlight within Classic Week, London. The Hellier exhibits new proportions that became the blueprint of future violin models; enriching the tone and having a profound effect on future centuries of music and future generations of violin makers. It will be on view at Christies London in The Art of Literature: Auction Highlights Exhibition, which will run from 6 to 15 June, ahead of being part of the pre-sale exhibition for The Exceptional Sale, from 2 to 7 July. Amjad Rauf, Head of The Exceptional Sale, International Head of Masterpiec ... More | | 
Henri Matisse, Nadia, au visage rond (Nadia, Round-Faced), 1948. Estimate: Image courtesy of Phillips. $20,000-30,000.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY.- Phillips announced a live auction of 121 Modern and Contemporary prints and multiples that will take place in the Southampton gallery at 1 Hampton Rd, Southampton, NY 11968 on Saturday 25 June starting at 12pm EDT. The exhibition will start on Friday, 10 June and be open through Saturday, 25 June. Featuring iconic editioned works by Roy Lichtenstein, Banksy, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns, Joan Mitchell, Frank Stella and Henri Matisse to name a few. In-person bidding will take place in our Southampton gallery and the entire sale will be available to view at Phillips.com starting on 10 June. Kelly Troester and Cary Leibowitz, Worldwide Co-Heads of Editions and Deputy Chairpersons, Americas, said, The New York Editions team is excited to present a two-week exhibition culminating in a Saturday afternoon auction ... More |
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| McNay Art Museum awarded $750,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation | | Tracey Emin unveils sculpture in Scottish woods at Jupiter Artland and brand-new works on love after hardship | | Phillips sale illustrates the history of Generative art | 
From dynamic, inclusive art programming to a transformative Landscape Master Plan, the McNay has strived to become San Antonios place of beauty and belonging.
SAN ANTONIO, TX.- The McNay Art Museum announced $750,000 in new operating support over the next two years from the Mellon Foundation, the nations largest funder of the arts and humanities. This support comes following an award from the Mellon Foundations Art Museum Futures Fund, an initiative created in 2020 to help sustain mid-sized art museums with immediate funding as they adapted to unprecedented financial obstacles posed by the onset of a worldwide health crisis. "We are honored and humbled by the Mellon Foundation's renewed support of our work," said Richard Aste, McNay Director and CEO. "Thanks to this major funding, the McNay will continue to bring beauty, hope, inspiration, and reflection to South Texans and beyond through one of the finest, most inclusive art experiences anywhere." From dynamic, inclusive art programming to a transformative Landscape ... More | | 
Tracey Emin, I Lay Here for You, 2018. Permanent sculpture at Jupiter Artland. Bronze
147 x 638 x 285cm © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Photo © Allan Pollok Morris. Courtesy Jupiter Artland.
EDINBURGH.- I Lay Here For You, an exhibition of new work by Tracey Emin, CBE, RA opened at Jupiter Artland in Scotland. Set across the galleries and woodland of the sculpture park, this is Tracey Emins first solo exhibition in Scotland since her 2008 retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Tracey Emins exhibition at Jupiter Artland brings together an extraordinary body of work, with the majority being produced by the artist over the last two years in her studios in Margate and London. Described as an expression of love and hope, Tracey Emins selection of works for Jupiter address the power and fragility of the human form. The exhibition takes its title and theme from Tracey Emins large scale bronze figure I Lay Here For You, which the artist has sited in a woodland clearing on the threshold between a grove of mature beech trees ... More | | 
Distributed Gallery, Chaos Machine. Oak wood, steel, slate and glass. Executed in 2018, this work is number 1 from an edition of 2. Estimate: £40,000-60,000.
LONDON.- Phillips announced Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art, an exhibition and online auction. Curated by Georg Bak, Ex-Machina illustrates the history of Generative art, starting in the 1950s with the pioneers of computer art through to present day generative NFT artists. Featuring unseen works by pioneers Vera Molnar, Hebert W. Franke and Gottfried Jäger, Ex-Machina also brings to market for the first time works by generative NFT artists Snowfro and Dmitri Cherniak. A public preview of highlights runs from 31 May - 17 June at Phillips Paris gallery on Rue due Bac before a full-scale exhibition from 11 July - 5 August at 30 Berkeley Square, London. The works will be offered in an online auction from 13 - 20 July on Phillips.com. Prices range from £2,000 to £1.1 million. Benjamin Kandler, Project Lead of Digital Art, Phillips, said, Phillips is excited to bring to market so many historic works and this marks the fir ... More |
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| A panorama of design | | On Sunday, June 26, Part 2 of The Grace Garcia Estate goes up for bid at Turner Auctions + Appraisals | | Roxa Smith joins C24 Gallery | 
An undated photo provided by Formafantasma shows a floor lamp, part of the Fold collection created by Formafantasma for Maison Matisse. The collection of limited-edition lights reinterprets these Matisses paper cutouts with steel, LED tubes and cut paper. Formafantasma via The New York Times.
NEW YORK, NY.- Three years after its last full-scale event, Salone del Mobile.Milano, or the Milan Furniture Fair, returns in its 60th iteration. Over the decades, Salone, which is widely judged to be the worlds preeminent design fair, has evolved into a platform for about 2,000 international exhibitors and a laboratory for ideas about sustainability in design materials and manufacturing. This year, the fair includes Design with Nature, a 15,000-square-foot installation offering a virtuous vision of the future of home living. SaloneSatellite, a launchpad for young talent, which is returning for its 23rd year, has invited more than 600 participants to reflect on design that fosters autonomy, comfort, movement, usability, interaction and safety ... More | | 
Large Gilt Brass Gothic Cathedral Reliquary. With a tall spire (22in. h.), dragon-form feet, and embellished with red and blue glass jewels. Windows are opaque pale purple glass. 40 1/4in. h. x 22in. l. x 14in. d. Condition: Very good; some wear to gilt. Estimate $600-$800.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Turner Auctions + Appraisals will present the Grace Garcia Estate, Part 2, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. This sale features an extensive array of religious items, fine and decorative arts, and collectibles from the personal collection of the late Grace Garcia, owner of Gilroy Antiques in Gilroy, California, for over 30 years. Called Gracie by all who knew her, she was a passionate collector who traveled throughout the world, adding beautiful things along the way. This auction also includes several lots from other collectors, including paintings by William Russell Flint and Mauritz Frederik Hendrich de Haas, and groupings of character dolls and costume figures. Items of fine art and decorative art in this sale from the trust of the Grace Garcia Estate are ... More | | 
Roxa Smith.
NEW YORK, NY.- Venezuelan-born painter Roxa Smith has joined the growing roster of artists at C24 Gallery. Smiths journey from South America has taken her through years as a California-based landscape painter to New York City, inspiring her more recent focus on interiors that often lead the eye to outward views. Sharpened by the last couple of years of pandemic-related isolation, she channels her memories, observations and sensibilities related to history, access, luxury, class, safety, freedom and nature into colorful renderings of living spaces that operate on multiple levels. From a personal standpoint, as a Latinx gay woman, Smith embodies an existence that is lowkey, yet nevertheless outside the cultural mainstream. Her perspective is filtered through her renderings of the decorative patterns, furnishings and views from inside places that represent her honor of family and history, and the love she feels for home and culture. Her work ... More |
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| P·P·O·W Gallery opens a two-person exhibition of works by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page | | National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens enters a new era | | University Archives announces Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books auction | 
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NEW YORK, NY.- P·P·O·W is presenting Knots, a two-person exhibition of works by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page. For their first dedicated exhibition together, Keith-Roach and Page explore the knottedness of being. As two artists with distinct practices who share a studio, home, bed, and two young children, Keith-Roach and Page examine the emotional and bodily terrain of their bound lives. Keith-Roachs figure-like sculptures and Pages screen-like paintings blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, object and figure, self-portraiture, and self-alienation. Simultaneously unraveling and intertwining, Knots forms a psychologically evocative space for the exploration of fragmentation and recombination. Subtly altering the gallery into an uncanny interior, Keith-Roach and Page have created a surreal and cerebral mise-en-scène, centering around a collaborative hearth of knotted body-parts, in which our illusions of who ... More | | 
After a period of delays and closures due to the pandemic, the museum is set to resume full operations and will open to the public on June 16 with a dynamic and ambitious new exhibition programme, which will be announced shortly. Photo: Stephie Grape.
ATHENS.- With a renewed mission, which is international in scope but grounded in the wider cultural and geo-political context of Southeast Europe and the surrounding regions of the Mediterranean, ΕΜΣΤ, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, will present cutting-edge contemporary art that examines the state of the world and some of the most pressing challenges facing humanity and our societies today. ΕΜΣΤ will also shift the emphasis of its collection policy to take advantage of its unique location in a dynamic and multicultural Mediterranean metropolis such as Athens, at a time of increased cultural renewal in the city. The collection will explore the rich and often contested histories and the cultural, socio-political entanglements of the geographical region which ... More | | 
Bob Dylans handwritten lyrics to the timeless classic The Times They Are A-Changin, penned on one page in 2013 on The Dorchester stationery from London (est. $50,000-$60,000).
WILTON, CONN.- Extensive and historically significant archives pertaining to Civil War generals (one for the Union, one for the Confederacy), a typed letter signed by Albert Einstein concerning God and science and pertaining to one of his most famous quotes, and Bob Dylans handwritten lyrics to the timeless classic The Times They Are A-Changin are just a few of the highlights in University Archives next big online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, June 22nd. The Rare Autographs, Manuscripts & Books auction, starting promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time, features historical material from multiple collecting categories. All 481 lots are up for viewing and bidding now (on the University Archives website www.UniversityArchives.com), as well as LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com ... More |
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 Group show at Tiwani Contemporary brings together five artists LONDON.- Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to presenting The Company She Keeps, a group show bringing together five artists who work internationally. Materially and collectively their works draw attention to intimacy, reparative approaches, and the valorisation of labour. Chioma Ebinama (US/NI) is based in Athens, Greece. She engages with animist mythologies and non-western philosophies, and conceptualises her interpretations as drawn and watercolour compositions on rag paper. The Company She Keeps will feature Ebinamas suspended circular painting, the bride 2 (2022) inspired by a scene of matrimonial rite, as featured in Chinua Achebes 1958 classic novel, Things Fall Apart. This will be presented with the audio piece, Prayer for when fear strikes at dawn (2022). Miranda Forrester (UK) is based in London. Two ... More  Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces Hajj Terminal in Jeddah as the location for first-ever Islamic Arts BiennaleJEDDAH.- The Diriyah Biennale Foundation announced that the inaugural edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale will take place at the iconic Hajj Terminal in Jeddah from 23 January to 23 April 2023. A distinguished international multidisciplinary team will curate the Biennale under the theme of Awwal Bayt (First House). The worlds first-ever Islamic Arts Biennale will be located in the prestigious Canopy Terminal, which was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1981 and was the recipient of the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. There will also be a purpose-built 70,000 square meter venue with facilities to include exhibition spaces, a theatre, a mosque, workshops, classrooms dedicated ... More  Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins' collection launches Heritage Space Exploration auction beyond $2.5 millionDALLAS, TX.- The largest-sized American flag aboard the most important flight in the history of the U.S. Space program, owned and signed by the missions command module pilot, soared to $162,500 to lead Heritage Auctions' Space Exploration Signature® Auction to $2,591,768 June 2-3. The result for the Apollo 11 Flown Largest Size American Flag Signed and Certified by Michael Collins Directly from His Personal Collection with Accompanying Signed Certificate, CAG Certified reached a new stratosphere, touching down at more than four times its pre-auction event to lead the nearly sold-out event, which drew 1,755 bidders in pursuit of more than 1,000 lots and generated sell-through rates of better ... More  PATRON announces 'Jennie C. Jones: Nocturnes'CHICAGO, IL.- PATRON is presenting Nocturnes, the gallerys second solo exhibition with artist Jennie C. Jones, on view June 4 through July 16, 2022. The show, which includes seven paintings (two of which are diptychs) and three works on paper (included two triptychs), presents a new body of work that extends key tenets from her recent solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim. Nocturnes is a term Jones employs both to refer to a music composition evocative of night (a notable example being Felix Mendelssohns Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1848)), as well as to the history of painting depicting landscapes at night, such as J.M.W Turner, Fishermen at Sea (1796), or Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Titania and Bottom (1851). Jones approach to painting combines ... More  Phillips to auction the Asprey Bugatti masterpiece sculpture + NFTLONDON.- Phillips announced it will offer The Asprey Bugatti La Voiture Noire, 1-of-1, an exceptional work that utilises NFT technology to unlock two physical sculptures, one included in the lot sale price, the second, an exclusive option to the buyer. The work will be offered in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale at 30 Berkeley Square on 30 June. This highly exclusive and innovative piece celebrates the collaboration between the two historic brands, Asprey and Bugatti, who throughout history have continuously utilised technology to empower their artisans to push boundaries and create masterpieces. La Voiture Noire comprises a gold sculpture with rose gold finish, on a Asprey purple and Bugatti blue base, that compliments the NFT artwork. A further sculpture, an exclusive option to the buyer, is an all-black ... More  Gazelli Art House opens a retrospective exhibition of Perle Fine's careerLONDON.- Gazelli Art House is presenting a retrospective exhibition spanning the career of pioneering artist Perle Fine (1905-1988) the first retrospective dedicated to the artist in the UK. Represented by the gallery, this is Fines second exhibition with Gazelli Art House and encompasses a range of historic works starting from the early 1940s to the late 1980s. The first show in the gallery that exhibited Fines work and introduced the artist to new audiences was the 9th St. Club group show in 2020, which showcased works by the iconic Ninth Street Women including Fine, Elaine de Kooning and Lee Krasner among others. Standing amongst her peers of the time, such as Helen Frankenthaler and Joan Mitchell, Fine made a name for herself in Americas emerging 1950s Abstract Art movement. The varied body of works ... More  Timken Museum of Art of San Diego reopensSAN DIEGO, CA.- The Timken Museum of Art announced its grand reopening during June 2022. On Wednesday, June 8, the Timken will welcome the public back to the new Timken that includes a reimagined look at the Timkens various galleries including new wall colors, lighting and new labels that tell the unique story of each artwork in its priceless collection of European Old Masters, American artists and Russian icons. Upon arrival, visitors will see that part of the impressive renovation includes conservation of the historic bronze, which covers much of the Museums entrance and interior as structural and decorative accents. These bronze elements, which had accumulated a dark black patina over time, have been polished back to its original striking and eye-popping golden finish. During the two-year closure, Megan Pogue, ... More  Kohn Gallery announces representation of artist Siji KrishnanLOS ANGELES, CA.- Kohn Gallery announced the representation of Indian artist Siji Krishnan. Krishnan, who lives and works in Kerala, India, will hold her inaugural U.S. solo exhibition with Kohn Gallery in the fall of 2023. Siji Krishnans portraits framed by landscapes capture her experience growing up in the vivid countryside of southern India. In her work, Krishnan revisits her childhood and depicts the sensorial impressions of village life, unraveling her psyche in a dialogue between her personal and collective memory. On organic, leafy canvases her paintings become portals for inner worlds that reveal a reverence for paternal love and care, family and community, and the kinship between humans and the natural world. The familial quality of her subject matter is transcended by her command of texture. Krishnan meticulously ... More  Derek Eller Gallery opens a solo exhibition of multi-media assemblage works by Nancy ShaverNEW YORK, NY.- Derek Eller Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition of multi-media assemblage works by Nancy Shaver. Shavers installation, a 3-dimensional patchwork mural taking place mostly on to the floor of the gallery, utilizes her signature visual vocabulary of blockers, boxes, spacers, and sentinels juxtaposed with an array of new formal ideas and unexpected combinations of found materials. I love visual difficulties, writes Shaver. I love trying to get to the point when the finest decisions will make a difference. Whether it be subtle mark-making on the surface of a spacer, the choice to paint half of a square in a blocker bright orange, or the careful assembly of a sculpture like Fishing: a construction (Ikat fabric, dress fabric, jug, chair seat supports, metal, doorknob, string, wooden cork), Shaver makes meticulously ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin was born June 07, 1848. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 - 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. In this image: Paul Gauguin. Figure Tahitienne circa 1892-3. Height 10 5/8 in. Wood. Inscribed with the monogram PGO (at the bottom).
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