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An undated photo provided by Randall Haas shows excavation work at the Wilamaya Patjxa archaeological site in Peru, where the nearly 10,000-year-old remains of a female hunter were found in 2018. Anthropologists are finding that women in modern foraging societies have played a major role in catching game. (Randall Haas via The New York Times)
NEW YORK, NY.- Its often viewed as a given: Men hunted, women gathered. After all, the anthropological reasoning went, men were naturally more aggressive, whereas the slower pace of gathering was ideal for women, who were mainly focused on caretaking. Its not something I questioned, said Sophia Chilczuk, a recent graduate of Seattle Pacific University, where she studied applied human biology. And I think the majority of the public has that assumption. At times, the notion has proved stronger than the evidence at hand. In 1963, archaeologists in Colorado unearthed the nearly 10,000-year-old remains of a woman who had been buried with a projectile point. They concluded that the tool had been used not for killing game but, unconventionally, as a scraping knife. But the male-centric narrative has been slowly changing. On the first day of a college anthropology course, Chilczuk and her classmates listened to a podcast about the landmark discovery of a female hunter duri ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Ongoing until 24 September 2023 the fourth edition of Una Boccata d'Arte. This contemporary art project is promoted by Fondazione Elpis in collaboration with Galleria Continua and with the participation of Threes. Every year, 20 villages throughout Italy, one for each region, welcome 20 artists, Italian and international, of different ages, backgrounds, and practices. Invited to spend a short period of residence, the artists will create 20 works related to the territory and traditions of the local communities.
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| Lee Kun-Yong on view until August 18th at Pace Gallery | | Elle Pérez: Intimacies brings scenes of sensuality and sanctuary to MASS MoCA | | Fundación La Nave Salinas presents Jonny Niesche _ness in Ibiza for summer 2023 | 
Lee Kun-Yong, © Lee Kun-Yong, Bodyscape 76-3, 2023. Painting. Acrylic on canvas, 117 cm à 91.2 cm (46-1/16" à 35-7/8"). Courtesy Pace Gallery.
NEW YORK, NY.- Pace is now presenting an exhibition of work by Lee Kun-Yong at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. This presentation, titled Snails Gallop brings together large-scale paintings and a performance work by the artist, along with archival materials from his storied career. The show marks Lees first-ever solo exhibition in New York as well as his debut solo show at Paces flagship gallery. Lee, who joined Paces program in 2022, rose to prominence as a leading figure of the Korean avant-garde movement during the 1970s, a period in which the country grappled with authoritarianism and restrictions on freedom of expression. He was a founding member of the artist group Space and Time, and he is widely regarded as a pioneer of performance art in Korea. ... More | | 
Tomashi and Ally, II, 2019/2021. Archival pigment print, 54 Ã 40 1⁄2 in (137.16 Ã 102.87 cm), 60 Ã 46 1⁄2 in (152.40 Ã 118.11 cm) (framed). Edition of 5 plus II AP. Image courtesy of the artist and 47 Canal, New York.
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.- MASS MoCA is currently presenting Elle Pérez: Intimacies, an exhibition of photographs by the acclaimed Bronx-born, Puerto Rican photographer. The show is on view in B6, in The Robert Wilson Building. This selection of works is an expanded presentation of a body of work titled Devotions shown in part in Pérezs recent exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum and at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The exhibition also features photographs Pérez made for the 2022 Venice Biennale and includes a total of 27 photographs made between 2018 and 2023, in addition to a video work, Wednesday, Friday (2022). Recently appointed an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Art, Pérez is known for photographs that capture ... More | | 
Interior Installation view of 'Jonny Niesche: _ness'.
IBIZA.- Fundación La Nave Salinas, a non-profit foundation in Ibiza, Spain, inaugurated _ness a solo exhibition by Australian artist Jonny Niesche this summer. The works in the show are of monumental size and were conceived specifically for this space. Founded by Lio Malca nearly a decade ago, Fundación La Nave Salinas is committed to presenting diverse artistic languages to new audiences. The dynamic, reimagined 1940s salt warehouse along Las Salinas beach in Ibiza is an ideal space to present Niesches first solo exhibition in Spain. Jonny Niesches (b. 1972, Sydney, Australia) creative practice embodies the sublime. His works captivate the eye with their alluring colors and reflective forms, while inviting viewers to explore the shifting modes of perception created by their space, form, and materiality. These explorations elicit a range of sensations for the viewer, ... More |
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| Sir John Soane's Museum presents 'Visions in Porcelain: A Rake's Progress' by Bouke de Vries | | Against the Logic of War: The Kyiv Biennial will begin in October 2023 | | Adam Linder's new work 'Hustle Harder' offers a month of live performances | 
Installation view of work by Bouke de Vries from the exhibition 'Visions in Porcelain: A Rake's Progress'
LONDON.- Sir John Soanes Museum is currently presenting Visions in Porcelain: A Rakes Progress, a set of eight newly made vases inspired by William Hogarths series, A Rakes Progress. Created by London-based, Dutch artist Bouke de Vries, the eight ceramic vases are showcased in the Foyle Space and mirror the eight paintings in Hogarths famous work, housed in the Soane Museums celebrated Picture Room. Hogarths A Rakes Progress follows the swift demise of Tom Rakewell, the heir of a rich merchant who squanders his inherited wealth, leading to his ruin and ultimately, madness. Visions in Porcelain begins with an immaculate celadon vase, representing the promise of Hogarths youthful subject. De Vries proceeds to explore the paintings inherent theme of degradation through the ever-darkening palate of increasingly fractured vases. The result is a succession of cracked, ... More | | 
The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial will be international and will take place in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin.
KYIV.- The fifth edition of Kyiv Biennial will be international and will take place in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin. In view of the brutal Russian attack on Ukraine, a comprehensive biennial project in Kyiv long seemed deeply uncertain, if not impossible. But, with a cascade of openings starting in Kyiv and Vienna in October 2023, finishing in Berlin in 2024 the fifth Kyiv Biennial will take place. This Biennial edition is conceived as a European event, with dispersed exhibitions and public programs in a number of Ukrainian and EU cities, and realized in partnership with leading European institutions in the field of contemporary art. How can a country at war address political, social, cultural and societal issues? Today, the experience of artists and cultural workers in Ukraine is profoundly marked by war trauma, displacement, lack of access to basic resources ... More | | 
Adam Linder, Hustle Harder (performance documentation), 2023, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2023, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, photographer: Clemens Habicht, performers: Bec Jensen, Taos Bertrand, Narelle Benjamin.
SYDNEY.- Hustle Harder, a new performance exhibition by acclaimed choreographer Adam Linder, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is now open. Performed for the duration of the Museums opening hours by a rotating cast of nine dancers, Hustle Harder highlights how the format of the exhibition converges with the physical, durational and collaborative dimensions of live performance. Adam Linder makes work for both the stage and gallery spaces, often riffing on the histories and social codes that underpin these different contexts. Hustle Harder focuses on the museum as a space where performers and public increasingly ready themselves for the camera, using art and architecture as a backdrop ... More |
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| Sea Hyun Lee's solo exhibition 'Red Sansu: A Landscape Within' extended to end of month at Bermel von Luxburg Gallery | | 'Inside / Outside' group exhibition is now on view at Priska Pasquer Paris | | But who gets the comic books? | 
Sea Hyun Lee. Courtesy of CHOI&CHOI Gallery and the artist.
BERLIN.- 'Red Sansu: A Landscape Within' presents the works of Sea Hyun Lee, who has dedicated his artistic practice to developing his oeuvres of red landscape (sansu: 산수, landscape) paintings. The solo exhibition opens in Berlin, Germany, widely recognized as the center of Europes contemporary art scene. The exhibition is a collaborative endeavor between CHOI&CHOI Gallery, located in Cologne, Germany and Seoul, South Korea, and Bermel von Luxburg Gallery in Berlin. Sea Hyun Lee's red landscapes originated during his time serving in the military, where he observed the scenery along the border between South and North Korea. They have evolved into unique depictions of landscapes that convey both the beauty and the inherent anxiety, danger, and sadness that stem from ... More | | 
Banz & Bowinkel, Primitives I 27 , 2018, CGI Fine Art Print, 175 x 140 cm. Courtesy PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY.
PARIS.- With its group exhibition Inside / Outside, Priska Pasquer Paris is showcasing the sheer diversity of its gallery programme in a multimedial dialogue with 16 international artists. At the same time, three new artists Daniel Mebarek, François Ronsiaux and Achim Mohné will be joining its ranks. The exhibition shows the broad spectrum of work covered by the gallery. Originally focusing primarily on photography, it gradually included more and more intermedia works from the fields of painting, sculpture, performance, installation, virtual and augmented reality, audio and video. All of the artists take a pioneering approach to exploring the radical changes of our age. Under the title Inside / Outside, the exhibition explores the many different dime ... More | | 
Karl Heitmueller Jr., a Superman memorabilia collector, in Newark, N.J., July 20, 2023. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
by George Gene Gustines
NEW YORK, NY.- More times than I can remember, a spouse or child has said to me, If he wasnt dead, Id kill him all over again for leaving me with this mess, said Greg Rohan, the president of Heritage Auctions. Most people tend to know what to do with traditional investments after someone dies, he said, but when it comes to baseball cards, first-edition books, coins and other collectibles, the loved ones dealing with the estate can be stumped (and annoyed). If some collectors of, say, vinyl figurines, seem to have a gene that spurs them to dedicate entire rooms of their home to inanimate rubbery friends, they are also, in many ways, just like everyone ... More |
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| 'Linnaeus After Dark' by Claire Pentecost is now on view through September at Higher Pictures | | AstaGuru presents a celebration of global history and heritage with 'Imperial Treasures' auction | | National Gallery of Ireland stages first monographic Lavinia Fontana exhibition in more than 20 years | 
Claire Pentecost, Stowaways, 2022-23, pigment print, 16 1/2 x 11 inches, edition of 5. Courtesy of Higher Pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- Higher Pictures is now presenting Linnaeus After Dark, a new body of work by the artist and writer Claire Pentecost. This is Pentecosts second exhibition with the gallery. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), the Swedish botanist known as the father of modern taxonomy, famously invented a Latin naming system for all plants and animals which allowed them to be classified into clearly demarcated categories. While such boundaries have advanced human scientific understanding by providing a foundation for our knowledge of the world, Claire Pentecost emphasizes that they are constructed impositions; in cutting out the grey areas of biology, making distinctions between one thing and another, we impose a logic and order that does not capture a complete understanding of the real. ... More | | 
AstaGurus upcoming Imperial Treasures Auction will showcase an extraordinary assortment of antiques and rare collectibles predominantly from 19th and 20th century India, China, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, among other places.
MUMBAI.- AstaGurus upcoming Imperial Treasures Auction will showcase an extraordinary assortment of antiques and rare collectibles predominately from 19th and 20th century India, China, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, among other places. An ode to the rich design aesthetics and traditions from these disparate cultures, the curation steeped in maximalism includes ceramics, furniture, crystal chandeliers, fine silver, vintage clocks, and other decorative items. The auction is scheduled for August 12-13, 2023. Talking about the auction, Rushaad Dastur, Auction Specialist, AstaGuru Auction House, The resounding ... More | | 
Lavinia Fontana, Portrait of a Widow, c.1595. Fondazione Cassa di Bologna
DUBLIN.- The National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin announced an exhibition dedicated to 16th-century Bolognese artist Lavinia Fontana (1552 1614) Europes first commercially successful female artist. Dr Aoife Brady, Curator of the exhibition, said: The National Gallery of Ireland is delighted to present the landmark show Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker, the first monographic exhibition of the artists work in almost 30 years. This exhibition will showcase over 60 remarkable works drawn from across Europe and the United States, both from galleries and private collections, and is the largest known display of Fontanas works to date. The exhibition will also include a number of Renaissance manuscripts, textiles and decorative arts, which will make for a truly all-encompassing experience for visitors. ... More |
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 Dorothy Tapper Goldman, who sold rare copy of Constitution, dies at 78NEW YORK, NY.- Dorothy Tapper Goldman, a philanthropist and major collector of U.S. historical documents who in 2021 sold her original printed copy of the U.S. Constitution, which her husband had bought in 1988 for $165,000, for a record-setting $43.2 million, died July 23 at her home in New York City. She was 78. The cause was metastatic breast cancer, her daughter, Barbra Siskin, said. The sale of the document, at Sothebys in New York, generated widespread attention for three reasons. It is one of only 13 known copies of the first printing of the Constitution, in 1787, and one of only two copies held privately. The winning bid remains a record for a document, manuscript or book sold at auction. And the purchaser was Ken Griffin, the billionaire CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who outbid ConstitutionDAO, a group of cryptocurrency fans who had conducted a frenzied online crowdfunding campaign that in a single week raised more than $40 million. Goldman used the proceeds ... More  Review: This 'Summer Stock' cast is having a blastEAST HADDAM, CONN.- At this point we have been burned by many musical adaptations of beloved movies, and reactions have ranged from Why did they even bother? to Dear God, please make it stop. So it was with some trepidation that I traveled to the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut to check out its take on Charles Walters Summer Stock, from 1950. The movies plot in shorthand: Gene Kelly and Judy Garland put on a show in a barn, and then she sings Get Happy at the end. Naturally, that last exhortation pops up in the world-premiere stage version (twice, even) currently running in East Haddam, but it is easy to take to heart: The show may not be perfect, but its craftsmanship, zest and good humor which are deceivingly hard to achieve without falling into bland cheerleading and forced joy are perfectly dosed and on target. ... More  Five days of strikes at Museo Picasso MálagaMALAGA.- The year in which tribute is being paid to Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death, is not turning out to be a celebration for staff at Museo Picasso Málaga. For over nine months, their representatives have been fruitlessly trying to negotiate their fifth collective labour agreement. For this reason, over the last two months the museums workers have been forced to go on strike and demonstrate several times to demand a fair labour agreement, with wage, work and social conditions in line with those of workers at other museums in the same category. With a view to unblocking and moving forward with this lengthy and unproductive negotiation, the Works Committee has been forced to call another strike, this time for five consecutive days, from 18th to 22nd September. This further strike action, which will be accompanied by daily ... More  A new art installation activates the National Nordic Museum's public spacesSEATTLE, WA.- The National Nordic Museum opened a new exhibition by famed Icelandic sculptor Steinunn Ãórarinsdóttir (Thórarinsdóttir) on Saturday, July 15. The exhibition, titled Wayfinders, features 13 life-sized cast-aluminum sculptures, which will guide the Museums visitors through its outdoor and indoor public spaces. Wayfinders considers lifes journey, including travels and resettlement abroad, through the placement of figurative sculpture. Though modeled after the artists two sons, the sculptures are anonymous forms that highlight human connectivity. Ãórarinsdóttir encourages this interpretation by inviting visitor interaction with her sculptures. Wayfinders is a powerful and moving exhibition that will resonate with all visitors, said Leslie Anne Anderson, Chief Curator at the National Nordic Museum, who organized this exhibition ... More  MM Fine Art is exhibiting 'Serenity' with work by Christophe von Hohenberg and Elizabeth Strong-CuevasSOUTHAMPTON, NY.- MM Fine Art is presenting the two-person exhibition SERENITY featuring the work of Christophe von Hohenberg and Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas. With a reception on Saturday, August 5, 6 to 8 PM, the exhibition began July 29th, and will continue through August 13. Planned last summer by the two close artist friends, the exhibition has taken on special significance after the recent passing of Strong-Cuevas in March. Further, Sunday July 30 there will be a screening of Lana Jokels film on Strong-Cuevas I like to Be Awed at the Southampton Art Center. The exhibition will include new work from von Hohenbergs White Album series. The photographers black-and-white photographs of Hamptons beaches give the impression of squinting against the glaring summer sunbleached out details blur and faint gestures carve out the ... More  Retrospective survey work by Peter Halley on view at Le Musée d'Art Contemporain du LuxembourgLUXEMBOURG.- Assembling thirty key works from public and private collections, the retrospective 'Peter Halley. Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s' on view at Le Musée dArt Contemporain du Luxembourg survey presents paintings alongside previously unseen drawings, sketches and notes from the first decade of Peter Halleys career. During the 1980s Peter Halley developed a signature vocabulary that he has used in his work now for over forty years. Redeploying the language of geometric abstraction, he developed a pictorial system of prisons, cells and conduits that enabled him to produce diagrammatic paintings representing social subjects. With these works he addressed the impact and legacies of urbanisation and industrialisation within a post-industrial society marked by technological change. Working at the advent of the internet ... More  Angus cloud, actor on 'Euphoria,' dies at 25NEW YORK, NY.- Angus Cloud, the actor best known for portraying Fezco, a lovable drug dealer on the HBO television show Euphoria, died Monday at his family home in Oakland, California. He was 25. The death was confirmed by Cait Bailey, Clouds representative, who shared a statement from his family. The statement did not specify a cause, but said that Cloud had intensely struggled after the recent death of his father, Conor Hickey, whom the family buried last week. The only comfort we have is knowing Angus is now reunited with his dad, who was his best friend, the family said. Angus was open about his battle with mental health and we hope that his passing can be a reminder to others that they are not alone and should not fight this on their own in silence. Born Conor Angus Cloud Hickey on July 10, 1998, in Oakland, he attended ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, English painter Thomas Gainsborough died August 02, 1788. Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 - 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. He was born the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver in Suffolk, and, in 1740, left home to study art in London with Hubert Gravelot, Francis Hayman, and William Hogarth. In 1746, he married Margaret Burr, and the couple became the parents of two daughters. In this image: A self-portrait of British painter Thomas Gainsborough, painted about 1787, is seen to the right as a security guard watches over paintings in the Thomas Gainsborough exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Monday, June 9, 2003, in Boston.
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