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Israeli archaeologist Shahar Krispin ,35, displays a gold coin from a hoard dating to the Abbasid Caliphate during a press presentation of the discovery at an archeological site near Tel Aviv in central Israel, on August 18, 2020. Israel's Antiquities Authority unveiled a trove of 425 gold coins said to be some 1200 years old, discovered in what was an industrial area during the Byzantine Period. Heidi Levine / POOL / AFP.
by Marc Santora
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The treasure needed to be secured. So the hoard of 425 gold coins was stowed in a clay jar, its lid secured with a nail, and stashed in the sands of what is now central Israel. It then sat undisturbed for more than 1,100 years, until last week, when two 18-year-olds taking part in an archaeological excavation by a hillside in Yavneh noticed something unusual. I dug in the ground and, when I excavated the soil, saw what looked like very thin leaves, said Oz Cohen, one of the teenagers. When I looked again, I saw these were gold coins. It was really exciting to find such a special and ancient treasure. The teenagers were volunteers in a vast project linked to the construction of a community in Yavneh, south of Tel Aviv. The program offers the promise of connecting young people with history, and, while it is meant to be culturally ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a VARIETY SALE | Antiquities & Ethnographic Art on Thu, Aug 27, 2020 9:00 AM CDT Around the world & back in time - be amazed at the treasures you will find. Antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Italy and the Near East, Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanic, Native American, Spanish Colonial, Russian Icons, Fine Art, much more. In this image: Impressive Egyptian Wood Sarcophagus Male Head. Estimate $6,000 - $8,000.
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 | | British Museum shifts founder's bust over slavery links | | Christie's announces 'Nourishment for the Soul: The Herrmann Collection of prints by Pablo Picasso' | | The Met is reopening: Grab your timed ticket and view Jacob Lawrence | 
In this file photo taken on August 24, 2018 a sign is placed outside the The British Museum in central London. The British Museum has removed a bust of its slave-owning founder Hans Sloane from display on August 25, 2020. Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- The British Museum has moved a bust of its founder Sir Hans Sloane to an "Enlightenment Gallery" because of his links to slavery, officials said on Tuesday. The likeness of Sloane in the central London landmark has been put alongside other artefacts explaining they were collected through the slave economy at the time of the British Empire. "Dedication to truthfulness is crucial, when we face our own history," said Hartwig Fischer, museum director, in a statement to AFP. "We have taken the bust of Hans Sloane from its pedestal and placed him in the limelight in a case in the centre of the Enlightenment Gallery, acknowledging his relationship to slavery and the slave trade." It added that Sloane's work showed the "complexity and ambiguity" of the period he lived in as he was a scholar and benefactor as well as a slave owner. Sloane, who lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth ... More | | 
Pablo Picasso, Le Repas Frugal, etching with drypoint, 1904. Image: 18⅛ x 14¾ in. (460 x 375 mm.) Sheet: 24⅝ x 19⅞ in. (626 x 505 mm.). © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Nourishment for the Soul - The Herrmann Collection of prints by Pablo Picasso, from the collection of Harald Herrmann, opens online for bidding from 2-18 September, 2020. Harald Herrmann is CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County CA. Harald and Christies will be contributing a share of the proceeds to Second Harvest Food Bank Orange County CA and Feeding America®, the nationwide network of food banks and the nations largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Second Harvest, a member of Feeding America, distributed over 42 million pounds of food to partner organizations in more than 350 locations throughout the county. Combining Haralds passion for giving back and fine art, the sale will include over 30 Picasso works spanning Picassos classical period 1904 to 1937. Highlight of the sale is Le Repas Frugal created at a pivotal point in the penniless young artist ... More | | 
New banners by Yoko Ono grace the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 24, 2020. Vincent Tullo/The New York Times.
by Robin Pogrebin
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- An Italian Renaissance study will be closed to visitors because it is too small to allow for social distancing. Timed tickets will be scanned by hand-held devices in the Great Hall. And, for the first time, there will be valet parking for bicycles, since many people are avoiding mass transit. It is tempting to hope that all will be business as usual when the Metropolitan Museum of Art finally swings open its Fifth Avenue doors to the general public on Saturday, after five months of closure because of the coronavirus outbreak. But because the pandemic continues to convulse the globe, the countrys largest museum will, in many ways, reopen as a very different Met. Perhaps most notably, the museum will now mainly be a New York institution, given the pandemics ongoing travel restrictions. Whereas 70% of the Mets 7 million annual visitors were typically tourists, now the museum expects those ... More |
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| | Toledo Museum of Art acquires Finnish Golden Age and 19th-century Italian artworks | | Sotheby's announces auction celebrating the history & cultural impact of hip hop | | MASS MoCA's founding Director to step down | 
Hugo Simberg, Finnish (1873 1917), A Sea View, about 1907-1917 (detail), oil on panel, 13 1/4 Ã 19 in. (33.6 Ã 48.3 cm), Purchased with funds given by Dr. John and Marja Dooner, 2020.6.
TOLEDO, OH.- Two major works of art have been added to the Toledo Museum of Arts permanent collection. Hugo Simbergs A Sea View is the first painting by a Finnish artist to enter the collection, while Giovanni Battista Camuccinis Ariccia, the Porta Napoletana with the Palazzo Chigi (Ariccia. La Porta Napoletana con Palazzo Chigi) is TMAs first 19th-century Italian painting. Both works were acquired with funds donated by private individuals. Adding these two paintings to our permanent collection, in addition to the recent acquisition of a still life print by Picasso, is a wonderful example of how the support of our donors helps expand TMAs offerings, said Larry Nichols, William Hutton senior curator, European and American painting and sculpture before 1900. Hugo Simberg (1873-1917) was part of the Finnish Golden ... More | | 
Barron Claiborne, 'Notorious B.I.G. as the K.O.N.Y (King of New York)'. Courtesy Sotheby's.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced an auction celebrating the history and cultural impact of Hip Hop on 15 September in New York. The first-ever dedicated Hip Hop auction to be presented at a major international auction house, the sale reflects on the impact Hip Hop has had on art and culture from the late 1970s through the Golden Age of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and up to the present. Featuring over 120 lots, the auction is comprised of unique artifacts, contemporary art, one of a kind experiences, photography, vintage and modern fashion, historic and newly designed jewelry and luxury items, rare ephemera including flyers and posters, important publications, and more. The majority of items on offer in the sale have been consigned directly by artists or their estates and the full contents of the auction will be announced at a later date. A portion of Sothebys proceeds will benefit the Queens Public Library ... More | | 
Joseph Thompson, the director of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Mass., July 29, 2014. Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times.
by Colin Moynihan
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Joseph C. Thompson, who became the founding director of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in 1988, will step down from that post near the end of October, the institution announced Friday. Thompson spent his first 11 years as director working to open the museum in an industrial complex of brick buildings that had formerly been home to a textile mill and an electronics plant. Most recently he has helped the museum, in North Adams, Massachusetts, weather the coronavirus pandemic even as it laid off 120 of its 165 employees. In between, MASS MoCA, as it is often called, became the largest institution in the United States devoted to new art, with 550,000 square feet of space in 17 buildings. In addition to displaying ... More |
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| | Bonhams to offer five Asian art sales in September and October | | Hindman's auction to feature an exceptional collection of signed jewelry | | Czech guitar maker born of necessity woos stars | 
A fine and rare inlaid bronze garment hook, Warring States/Western Han period (est: $20,00030,000). Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- This September and October, Bonhams will present a series of five Asian Art sales between New York and Hong Kong. Featuring a wide array of rare works spanning centuries of Asian artistry and ingenuity, the five sales comprise: Elegant Embellishments on 21 September (New York), Chinese Paintings and Works of Art on 21 September (New York), Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art on 23 September (New York), Fine Japanese and Korean Art on 24 September (New York) and Images of Devotion on 5 October (Hong Kong). The sale of Elegant Embellishments features Chinese embellishments spanning more than 2,000 years of history. Among the 63 lots are gold, silver and bronze accessories such as hair ornaments, earrings, necklaces, bangles, ear cups, belt hooks and mat weights, as well as other early decorations rarely found on the market. The first 50 lots come from the RenLu collection, collected over 25 ... More | | 
Tiffany & Co., Schlumberger, Yellow Gold, Ruby and Sapphire Starfish Brooch. Containing one round mixed cut ruby measuring approximately 5.20 mm in diameter and 20 round cabochon sapphires measuring approximately 2.20 mm in diameter. Estimate: $2,500 - $3,500.
CHICAGO, IL.- Hindman Auctions Fine and Important Jewelry auction will be held on Tuesday, September 15 and will feature an exceptional selection of signed pieces, diamonds, and antique and contemporary jewelry. Hindmans most recent Fine and Important Jewelry auction was held in May 2020 and exceeded the sales presale estimate with record engagement across online bidding platforms, absentee and telephone bidding. The upcoming September sale offers a similar caliber of jewelry, with an exquisite offering by Jean Schlumberger, including some of his most iconic designs. We were thrilled by the top results our auctions achieved this spring, with each sale within our Luxury Goods division reaching over 90% sold, said Kimberly Burt, Vice President of Marketing & Luxury Goods. We are looking forward to this ... More | | 
Petr Furch, son of company founder Frantisek Furch and the current chief executive of the Furch family company poses in drying room on March 11, 2020 in their manufactory in Velke Nemcice, Czech Republic. Michal Cizek / AFP.
by Jan Flemr
VELKÃ NěMčICE (AFP).- Born during a shortage of guitars in former Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, the Furch family company is now selling instruments to global stars out of its workshop in a former mill. American guitar virtuoso Al Di Meola, songwriter Suzanne Vega and Per Gessle of the Swedish rock duo Roxette all play Furch guitars. It's a far cry from the company's early days. "I had a little green notebook and I took down the names of buyers. It kept growing nicely, but it was also dangerous because private business was illegal then," company founder Frantisek Furch told AFP. The 62-year-old former metalworker sold his first guitar in 1981, when then-Czechoslovakia had eight more years to live under Moscow's rule. He risked up to ten years in prison until 1988, when the Communist ... More |
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| | 'Gathering Clouds' photography exhibition now on view at the George Eastman Museum | | Nowhere, Europe's first 'immersive digital art space', will open in 2024 | | New site-specific installation by Krijn de Koning on view at The Gibberd Garden in Harlow | 
Carleton E. Watkins (American, 18291916). Cape Horn, Columbia River, Oregon, 1867. Albumen silver print. George Eastman Museum, museum accession. Courtesy of the George Eastman Museum.
ROCHESTER, NY.- The George Eastman Museum premiered Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today on July 26 in the museums main galleries. Gathering Clouds illustrates the key role that clouds played in the development and reception of photography from around 1850 to 1920. Bringing cloud photography into the present by way of Alfred Stieglitzs Equivalents (192334), the contemporary works in the exhibition forge new artistic paths while responding in various ways to the history of cloud photography. The exhibition features more than 100 photographs by 19th-century and contemporary artists. The exhibition is also available to view virtually with a 360 tour at eastman.org/clouds. At the end ... More | | 
Nowhere is Europes first space dedicated to immersive digital art. Image: Vero Digital.
AMSTERDAM.- Early 2024, the first immersive digital art space in Europe will open in Utrecht. The digital art space Nowhere will be located on the ground floor of the visionary real estate project Wonderwoods. The world-famous art collective teamLab opens its first European permanent exhibition here. Nowhere is not a traditional art gallery or a traditional museum: with the help of technology, it brings a new form of interactive multisensory artistic experience actively encourages participation with the public, never seen before in Europe. Nowhere's space has been designed to exhibit works by the world's leading artists and to facilitate great digital and interactive works, such as those by teamLab. TeamLab's exhibition will transform Nowhere's 3,000 m2 into a magical experience in which you are immersed, and which is never ... More | | 
Krijn de Koning commission © Rob Harris.
HARLOW.- Artist Krijn de Koning has created a site-specific installation entitled Green / Blue, work for Gibberd Garden, Harlow, on display at The Gibberd Garden in Harlow until 25 October 2020. De Konings sculpture is one of the final projects for the region-wide arts commissioning programme, New Geographies, which aims to bring contemporary art to unexpected places in the East of England. The Gibberd Garden owned and designed by leading post-war architect Sir Frederick Gibberd (1908-1984) and widely acknowledged to be one of the most important 20th century gardens in the UK was personally selected by de Koning as the site for his installation. At the core of de Konings artistic practice is the way in which we perceive and interact with the spaces we inhabit. Working within different environments such as Compton Verney, Edinburgh College of Art, and Folkstone Triennial ... More |
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 Exhibition offers an exploration of the connections between the colour vermilion and the Korean cultureHONG KONG.- Soluna Fine Art is presenting Obangsaek: Vermilion, an in-depth exploration of the connections between the colour vermilion and the Korean culture. The gallery exhibits five artists from Korea: Jeong Myoung Jo, Park Jisook, Uzine Park, Park Yoon-Kyung, and Song Kwangik. Vary in age, background and medium, the artists apply the colour vermilion into their works with different intentions and motives. Obangsaek: Vermilion is on view through 03 October. This exhibition is part of the Obangsaek Series, a series of five exhibitions aim to explore and analyze art works constructed with the Five-Orientation-Colour, the traditional Korean colour spectrum (the Five-Orientation-Colour), often seen in folk arts and traditional textile patterns, and represents the Yin-Yang and Five Elements theories. It is also a continuation of this years first program ... More New Gee's Bend quilts featured in online auction beginning todayATLANTA, GA.- Souls Grown Deep Community Partnership and Foundation is partnering with American-made apparel manufacturer American Giant and nonprofit Nest to offer at auction a collection of 18 newly made quilted flags created by women of Gees Bend, Alabama. Souls Grown Deeps collaboration with American Giant and Nest furthers its commitment to the economic success of Gees Bend, which gave rise to many of the artists in the Foundations collection. The 18 new quilted works are available by auction from American Giant at this link until August 31, 2020, with 100% of auction proceeds going to the individual artists. This collection was originally conceived as a gallery show for display at American Giants third annual Flag Day show at its San Francisco retail location, and pivoted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each work is inspired ... More 'Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space' to open at Mass MoCANORTH ADAMS, MASS.- The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it will present the exhibition Shaun Leonardo: The Breath of Empty Space from August 26 through December 22, 2020. Through his work, the Brooklyn-based artist addresses how the mediated images of systemic oppression and violence against Black and Brown young men and boys in the United States have shaped our fear, empathy, and perception. This exhibition originated at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, and was curated by John Chaich. It was organized for MASS MoCA by Laura Thompson, MASS MoCAs Director of Education and Curator of Kidspace, and will travel to the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where it will be organized by Jasmine Wahi, from January 20 through May 2021. Through a series of intimate drawings based ... More Houston based artist, Joseph Havel's newest work to be shown at Asia SocietyHOUSTON, TX.- Asia Society Texas Center opens its newest exhibition, Joss, on Saturday, August 29, highlighting the work of Houston and San Francisco based artist, Joseph Havel. With objects in the collections of local institutions such as the Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Havel is renowned for his work with bronze as a medium. He has created a series of new sculptures in response to the ancient bronze vessels currently featured in ASTCs Eternal Offerings: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, on special loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Havel first encountered the Chinese bronzes featured in Eternal Offerings, as a college student at the University of Minnesota. The memory of those visits to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), and learning about the intricate use of bronze exhibited in these ancient pieces, made an enduring ... More Christie's announces The Marie Curie Great Summer Art AuctionLONDON.- The Marie Curie Great Summer Art Auction in association with Christies opens online for bidding at www.christies.com/mariecurie on Wednesday 26th August and runs until Wednesday 16th September 2020. The sale features over 30 pieces of donated artworks that were originally gathered for auction at a live event at the Royal Academy earlier this summer which subsequently had to be postponed. Participating artists include Professor Ken Howard OBE RA RWS NEAC, Dr Barbara Rae RA and Sir Hugh Casson CH PRA KCVO. Marie Curie was selected by employees as the Christies UK Charity of the Year 2020, and funds raised via this platform will be going to support the great work the organisation does. Thea Macdonald, Sale Coordinator, Christies: Were delighted to have been in a position to offer Marie Curie a digital ... More Movie poster bonanza is further evidence of post-COVID auction phenomenonWOKING.- Further evidence of auctioneering entering a new age of prosperity came with the near sell-out movie poster sale at Ewbanks in Surrey on August 21. With 341 out of the 344 lots changing hands a sell-through rate of over 99% this was one of the most successful poster sales the auction house has ever held. With pre-sale hopes of £47,000, the final total came to over £92,000. Ewbanks Sports & Entertainment Memorabilia department took over as the companys leading specialist department in 2019 with over £1.25m in auction sales by the end of the year. This year the total already stands at around £1.2 million, with four months still to go. Highlights from the latest sale included an original poster for the 1942 film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, which took £9,000, a 1962 Dr No poster from the original ... More Newfields appoints Frederick Wallace Chief Conservator and Director of ConservationINDIANAPOLIS, IND.- Newfields welcomes Frederick Wallace as Chief Conservator and Director of Conservation. In his new role, Mr. Wallace leads the Indianapolis Museum of Arts award-winning conservation department comprised of specialties in paintings, textiles, paper and objects conservation. Mr. Wallace oversees the administration of the Conservation Department and supports its staff in its mission to conserve, preserve and research the museums collection and establish standards within the museum that meet or exceed national and international codes of ethics and care. In his new role, Wallace will advise on all conservation projects spanning all mediums of the collection. Upon arrival he immediately proceeded with conservation work to consolidate and retouch parts of Roy Lichtenstein's iconic Five Brushstrokes sculpture ... More The Dalà Legacy: New book from Apollo PublishersNEW YORK, NY.- Noted art historians Dr. Christopher Heath Brown and Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts unravel the meaning of DalÃs mysterious quote in their new book, The Dalà Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy (Apollo Publishers/December 1, 2020/$26.99). In this hardcover volume, with more than 150 full-color images, Brown and Isbouts reveal why DalÃs visual wit and enduring cult of personality still impacts fashion, literature, and art to this day. One of the most prolific artists of the 20th century, at turns beloved and reviled, Salvador Dalà was a pioneer in establishing himself as a brandthe archetype of the nonconformista, the dangerously provocative but always exciting genius, who could seamlessly blend erotic themes with religious iconography. His shocking behavior and zest for publicity ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo was born August 26, 1899. Rufino Tamayo (August 26, 1899 - June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. In this image: Rufino Tamayo's painting "Sandias" or "Watermelons'' is seen in this undated picture. Mexico put out an international alert Sunday, Jan. 31, 1999 for 12 paintings that were stolen from an exhibition last week, including "Sandias" by one of Mexico's most famous painters. The paintings, on loan from private art collectors in Mexico, the United States and Europe, were part of a 43-canvas show the gallery organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Tamayo's birth.
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