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Israel Antiquities Authority archeologist Alla Nagorsky carries a 1600 year-old Mancala game from the Byzantine time found during a large excavation in the central Israeli town of Gedera near the ancient archeological site of Tel Qatra on July 31 2018. . The excavation, funded by the Israel Land Authority, was carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority with the participation of many youth, prior to the construction of a new neighbourhood in Gedera, next to the ancient Tel Qatra. The industrial site comprised a pottery workshop that manufactured storage jars from the third century CE for six centuries. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
GEDERA (AFP).- Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a major pottery plant which produced wine storage jars continuously from Roman to Byzantine times. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that excavations near the town of Gedera, south of Tel Aviv, revealed the factory and an adjacent leisure complex of 20 bathing pools and a room used for board games. Excavation director Alla Nagorsky told journalists at the site that from the third century AD the plant produced vessels of a type known to historians as "Gaza" jars for an unbroken period of 600 years. "This kind of a place is not built in an instant," she said. "An engineer worked on it. The site is very designed." An IAA statement added that the jars' main function was storage and shipment of wine, which was a flourishing local industry at the time, with large-scale exports. "The ... More |
Two Connoisseur Level Antique Persian Carpets Provide an Impressive Ground to the Stunning Vaulted Ceilings of this Big Adorning this glorious space with superlative rugs was of great importance to the Claremont Rug Company clients who selected two extraordinary and compatible pieces to complete their living room at their home in Big Sky Montana. The Tree of Life motifs and other botanical details in this one-in-the-world antique Persian Sultanabad oversize rug create an instant connection with the snow-frosted forest beyond the window. The mid-19th century Persian Serapi rug in front of the windows offers a strong central medallion format and sublime color palette to compliment the stunning natural view.
| Edinburgh Art Festival 2018: Commissions programme | | Chile's rock art llamas divulge secrets of ancient desert culture | | MOCA Board of Trustees appoints Klaus Biesenbach as next Director | 
Ross Birrell and David Harding, Triptych, 2018. Installation view. Courtesy Edinburgh Art Festival. Photo Johnny Barrington.
EDINBURGH.- Edinburgh Art Festivals Commissions Programme each year supports Scottish and international artists to develop ambitious new projects as part of the Festival. Aiming to bring artists into conversation with the city, the Commissions Programme takes work out of formal gallery settings and into public spaces, often offering rare public access to key buildings or sites, and always engaging local residents and international visitors alike in citywide debates around wider social issues. The Edinburgh Art Festival 2018 programme features new commissions by Shilpa Gupta, Ross Birrell & David Harding, Ruth Ewan and Adam Lewis Jacob. Collectively through music, poetry, conversation and magic these artists invite visitors to reflect on urgent current political issues. Strategies of collaboration, orchestration and the act of close listening inform a number of the works, while ... More | | 
View of drawings at the Taira Cave, located at a height of 3,150 meters about 75 km north of Calama, Chile, on July 21, 2018. Martin BERNETTI / AFP.
ATACAMA (AFP).- Open air rock paintings in the world's driest desert pay testament to the importance of the llama to millennia-old cultures that traversed the inhospitable terrain. Conservationists working in Chile's Atacama Desert want UNESCO to recognize the Taira Valley drawings as a heritage site so they can develop sustainable tourism in the region. Taira is "a celebration of life," said archeologist Jose Bereguer, describing the site as "the most complex in South America" because of its astronomical importance as well as the significance to local shepherds. The rock art was a "shepherd's rite" needed to ask the "deities that governed the skies and the earth" to increase their llama flocks. First rediscovered by Swedish archeologist Stig Ryden in 1944, the Taira rock art is between 2,400 and 2,800 years old. It is made up of a gallery of 16 paintings more th ... More | | 
Biesenbach comes to MOCA from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has served as director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large of MoMA since 2010. Photo by Casey Kelbaugh.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Following a wide-ranging international search, the Board of Trustees of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, today voted to appoint the internationally acclaimed museum director Klaus Biesenbach as MOCAs next director. A visionary museum leader, Biesenbach comes to MOCA from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he has served as director of MoMA PS1 and chief curator at large of MoMA since 2010. During his leadership at the institution, the former P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art was transformed into the thriving MoMA PS1, with Biesenbach becoming known for championing emerging artists throughout the New York area, advocating for programs that made PS1 a gathering place for popular, multidisciplinary, in-the-moment artmaking and discussion, and reaching far ... More |
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| Cindy Sherman's complete Untitled Film Stills series to go on public display for first time in the UK | | Paul Holberton to publish 'John Singer Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence' | | Bruce Silverstein Gallery announces an online exhibition of Larry Silver's iconic body of work, Muscle Beach | 
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #15, 1978, Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.
LONDON.- Cindy Shermans groundbreaking series, Untitled Film Stills, 1977-80, is to go on public display for the first time in the UK, in a major new retrospective of the artists work at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Cindy Sherman, opening in June 2019, will explore the development of Shermans work from the mid-1970s to the present day. The exhibition will feature around 180 works from international public and private collections, as well as new work never before displayed in a public gallery. Widely regarded as one of the worlds leading contemporary artists, Cindy Sherman, (b. 1954), first gained widespread critical recognition for Untitled Film Stills, the series that she commenced shortly after moving to New York in 1977. Comprising 70 images, the work was the artists first major artistic statement and defined her approach. With Sherman herself as model wearing a range of costumes and hairstyles, her b ... More | | 
Edited by Christina Nielsen with contributions from Casey Riley and Elizabeth Reluga. Paperback, 237 x 194 mm, 64 pages, 35 colour ills., ISBN: 978-1-911300-53-3. £17.95 / 20 / $25.
LONDON.- In the winter of 1903, shortly after the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum first opened to the public, John Singer Sargent used the Gothic Room of the museum as a studio. Among the portraits he painted was one of Isabellas dear friends, Gretchen Osgood Warren. This gem of a publication explores these three remarkable friends: Isabella Stewart Gardner, the museums founder and patroness of the arts, John Singer Sargent, premier portrait painter and the museums first artist-in-residence, and Gretchen Osgood Warren, a highly accomplished Gilded Age woman. The collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum includes an astonishing array of objects, including renowned paintings, rare books, sculpture, and decorative arts, as well as more personal items such as collected letters, Isabellas own correspondence, and ephemera. Mirroring Isabella& ... More | | 
Larry Silver (b. 1934), Shinning, Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, CA, 1954. Gelatin silver print, printed 1985, 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm). Signed, titled, and dated on verso.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery is presenting an exclusive online exhibition of Larry Silvers iconic body of work, Muscle Beach. Silver arrived at the Art Center School in Los Angeles after earning a full scholarship in 1953, and after winning first prize in the Scholastic-Ansco Photography Awards during his senior year at High School of Industrial Art in New York City. Photographing the boardwalk locals, weightlifters, and performers, Silver candidly captures the entertainment, energy, and spectacle of the vibrant coastal neighborhood during the midcentury era, a thriving cultural moment in a burgeoning California. Muscle Beach has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (1985), and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1999). Silver has had several solo and group exhibitions across international ... More |
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| Ponti Art Gallery to offer a remarkable group of seascapes by British court painter Eduardo de Martino | | Roger Hiorns realises inaugural permanent public artwork on Bristol's Floating Harbour | | Scottish superstar Calvin Harris enters Scotland's national art collection | 
Eduardo de Martino (Meta 1836 London 1912), At Liverpool docks (detail). Oil on canvas cm 22,5 x 30,5 signed (EdM) lower right and a second time (Eduardo de Martino) lower. © Ottocento Art Gallery.
ROME.- Among latest acquisitions, Ponti Art Gallery offers an astonishing group of seascapes by Eduardo de Martino, already belonged to Marie Elizabeth Piccola de Martino Mulhall (1878-1960) and coming from a private collection of a Sorrento shipowner. The parable of the Sorrentine painter can be summarized in three phases: the years spent in Meta are those of scholastic, artistic and military formation, as well as that of political awareness. In South America from 1868 to 1876, the years of appreciation and recognition. This was a phase of growth and research of artistic identity in which Eduardo assimilated and reworked styles and subjects, a period of great commitment and extraordinary creativity so as to produce an exceptional amount of surprising works for their eclecticism. Finally in London where he found the highest affirmation and notoriety (from ... More | | 
Roger Hiorns, Free Tank: The retrospective view of the pathway, 2012 - 2018. Granite, steel, concrete. Dimensions variable. Photo © Max McClure.
BRISTOL.- The first permanently sited artwork by British artist Roger Hiorns has been unveiled in Bristol, South West England. Free Tank: The retrospective view of the pathway located at Glass Wharf on Bristols Historic Floating Harbour has been in development since 2012 and was commissioned as the final element of the Bristol Temple Quarter waterfront master plan. Produced by Art and The Public Realm at Bristol City Council and curated by Aldo Rinaldi, the project is the result of 4 years research and development, and comprises an architectural space designed with Stirling Prize winning architects Witherford Watson Mann, that forms the setting for a pair of monolithic granite sculptures. Previously home to the Citys glass industry, Glass Wharf is located on the side of Bristols Floating Harbour, a historic lock system designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Over time the banks were in-filled, and a harbour ... More | | 
Portrait of Calvin Harris, 2015, printed 2018 by Paul Stuart (b. 1971). Digital chromogenic print, 100 x 75 cm. Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, purchased 2018. © Paul Stuart.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced it has acquired a portrait of one of the most successful and influential music artists working today, the Scottish songwriter and DJ Calvin Harris. The photographic portrait will be the first image of Harris to enter the NGS collection and will go on display immediately in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (SNPG) in Edinburgh. The internationally known musician real name Adam Richard Wiles (b. 1984) was photographed by the English photographer Paul Stuart (b. 1971) as part of a commission by GQ Italia magazine in February 2015. The large chromogenic print shows Harris seated on a trestle table, his profile diagonal to the camera, his hands resting on his lap and sleeves rolled up. Stuart has captured the artist looking deeply thoughtful yet poised. As Calvin Harris, the Scot has achieved ... More |
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| Norton Museum of Art receives $16M from Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund | | Museo Jumex opens exhibition of works by Fernanda Gomes | | Walt Disney Studios concept art featured in Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction | 
Kenneth C. Griffin. Photo by Paul Elledge.
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- The Norton Museum of Art announced receipt of the largest, single philanthropic gift in the institutions 77-year history, a gift of $16 million from the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund (funded exclusively by philanthropist, Kenneth C. Griffin), in support of the Campaign for The New Norton. The Museums $100 million campaign includes the construction of a state-of-the-art, 59,000-square-foot wing designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster. In recognition of the gift, the Nortons new building will be named the Kenneth C. Griffin Building. The Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund also intends to give an additional $4 million to endow the directorship, bringing the Funds total support of the Norton to $20 million. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this gift to the Norton, and our sincere gratitude to Ken for making it possible, said Hope Alswang, Executive ... More | | 
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MEXICO CITY.- Fernanda Gomes (Rio de Janeiro, 1960) work is developed in close connection to the space in which it is displayed. Her exhibitions frequently involve architectures within architecture, generating spaces at different scales. For this show, she has produced works-or as she calls them, things-in dialogue with the specific conditions of Museo Jumexs Gallery 1, while expanding some of her recent explorations. The artist bases her work process on the relationship she establishes with the exhibition space, which she studies carefully and alters over a significant period of time. This allows her to respond to the gallerys particular conditions, but at the same time to conceive it as an extension of her own studio and its rhythms. Thus, while her work is presented to the public as finished, it always bears the potential to reappear in different configurations. A marked economy of spatial and material reso ... More | | 
Eyvind Earle concept painting from Lady and the Tramp.
BOSTON, MASS.- Extremely rare original Walt Disney Studios concept art is featured in the August Fine Autographs and Artifacts auction from Boston-based RR Auction with online bidding through August 8. Highlights include an original panoramic concept painting by Eyvind Earle for Lady and the Tramp, depicting the two dogs seated and overlooking a gorgeous waterfront with a steepled backdrop and starry sky, a scene which would inspire the film's romantic 'Bella Notte' sequence. Accomplished in tempera on artist's board, signed in the lower right corner in paint, "Eyvind Earle." Another by Earle is an original panoramic concept painting featuring Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, showing the evil sorceress on top of her immense castle tower, getting ready to turn into the dragon. Accomplished in tempera on artist's board, signed in the lower right corner in ... More |
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 Lily Cole has created a new film for display at the Foundling MuseumLONDON.- Foundling Fellow Lily Cole has directed a short film for her Foundling Fellowship project, in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Yorkshire. Developed for the Foundling Museum and Brontë Parsonage Museum to mark the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontës birth, Balls is displayed at both institutions simultaneously, and screened as part of Culture Liverpool 2018. Coles film is inspired by two separate but intertwined stories; the real lives of desperate women and the babies they gave up to the care of the Foundling Hospital in the nineteenth- century, which are meticulously documented in the Hospitals archives; and Heathcliff, the foundling antihero from Brontës much-loved novel Wuthering Heights. Coles film is set in modern-day Liverpool, the city from which Heathcliff was rescued. Balls explores the links between the Foundling Hospital story ... More George Square transformed into a spectacular playground as the beating heart of Glasgow 2018GLASGOW.- Whether its the chance to view a stunning 14 metre wide handshake between giant friends, or to experience the thrill of an athletes race to glory, Glasgows George Square has been transformed into a spectacular playground as the beating heart of the European Championships. Today sees the unveiling of the striking landmark installation by contemporary artists Joanne Tatham and Tom OSullivan in George Square, providing a welcoming entrance to a Square packed with a host of free activities for all the family to enjoy. Also revealed is the cutting edge technology used in the immersive Beats Per Minute experience which will transport audiences entering the geodesic dome in the Square into the world experienced by the athletes as they undertake their incredible feats of endurance. Along with a whole host of acts due to entertain the crowds from the large stage, ... More Fans 'jump to light speed' and bid $26,400 for world's most expensive Star Wars movie posterDALLAS, TX.- A rare Star Wars concept poster printed for the 1980 sequel The Empire Strikes Back sold Sunday for $26,400 at Heritage Auctions, setting a world record as the most expensive movie poster from the space opera ever sold at auction. The poster was estimated to sell for between $5,000 and $10,000 in Heritage Auctions Movie Poster Auction, which realized more than $1.6 million. This poster is considered to be one of the more rare posters in the entire Star Wars trilogy, said Grey Smith, Director of Vintage Posters at Heritage Auctions. This poster is unique as it features the complete Kastel artwork in the original color palette for the second in George Lucas' trilogy. One of a handful of original examples known to exist, the poster was a trial run featuring art by artist Roger Kastel. Kastel took inspiration from a poster for Gone with the Wind for the films ... More Mellon Foundation awards Northwestern $500,000 for Puerto Rican Arts DevelopmentEVANSTON, ILL.- A year after Puerto Rico was hit by hurricanes Irma and Maria, 10 emerging and 10 established artists from the island will kick off a two-year arts development project spearheaded by Northwestern University that aims to stabilize the financial security of community-based artists and jumpstart arts activity on the island. The Puerto Rican Arts Development initiative is made possible by a $500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project begins in August with a summer professional development retreat at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The 10 artist and mentor pairs will participate in training sessions on resourcing and sustaining a practice, portfolio development, artist talk presentations and workshop leadership. The initiative also includes artistic residencies at Northwestern and other ... More Woody Auction to offer the lifetime collection of Don and the late Carrol LyleDOUGLASS, KAN.- The lifetime collection of Don and the late Carrol Lyle dedicated collectors of Wave Crest, Nakara, Kelva and American Brilliant Cut Glass whose items have been featured in books, trade publications and museum exhibits will be sold without reserve in a two-day auction slated for Sept. 7th-8th by Woody Auction, in the firms auction hall at 130 East Third Street in Douglass, Kansas. The Lyles, who hail from Washington state, began collecting glassware pieces decades ago, with their main focus being on items produced by the C.F. Monroe Company (Meriden Conn., 1882-1916). The Lyles loved the quality of the Wave Crest, cut glass and other items created by C.F. Monroe, and managed to assemble one of the foremost collections in the country that featured these lovely pieces. Without a doubt this is the finest Wave Crest collection to ever ... More Rare art therapy archive to be preserved thanks to £46k grantLONDON.- West Sussex Record Office and Outside In have been awarded a grant from the Wellcome Trust of £46,023 to preserve an archive which offers a rare insight into the use of art therapy as a form of treatment. Outside In is a charity which supports artists who find it difficult to access the art world for reasons including health, disability, isolation or social circumstance. The Vawdrey Archive comprises approximately 194 paintings produced by patients in art therapy sessions run by Dr Brian Vawdrey between 1951 to 1971 and a copy of Vawdreys illustrated thesis, Art in Analysis. The archive is an unusual record of early art therapy work which provides an important insight into the therapeutic process and has the potential to offer a unique perspective on the development of art therapy as a discipline. This funding will enable the Record Office ... More Kumu Art Museum opens exhibition of works by artists from EstoniaTALLINN.- The exhibition Archaeology of the Screen, open at the Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, uses various media to excavate our origin stories, our friendship with satellites, the wisdom of space cats and much more. The exhibition is an international development of the curator project The Archaeology of the Screen. The Estonian Example, which took place in the autumn of 2017 at the Bozar art centre in Brussels and was curated by Eha Komissarov. In Brussels, the display was based on the image of Estonia as an innovative e-state, involving artists who see it as their role to transfer reality to virtual and social space. At Kumu, the line-up is complemented by an international group of artists who interpret from a new angle such topics as digital security, relations between the screen and historical technology, and the criticism of visual culture. The exhibition ... More Brookfield Place Toronto presents 100 ft. suspended public installation by Jordan Bennett TORONTO.- Tepkik, a 100-foot long site-specific sculptural work by visual artist Jordan Bennett, graces the Allen Lambert Galleria at Brookfield Place Toronto from July 30 to August 24, 2018, with a striking visual representation of the intersection of Mikmaq ancestral and contemporary traditions. Shortlisted for the 2018 Sobey Art Award, Bennett finds inspiration from images and stories created by the practice of artfully removing rock to create a petroglyph. Tepkik draws on the Mikmaq petroglyph that depicts the Milky Way, which has been found on the rocky shores of the lakes and rivers at Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia. Bennetts work employs both large printed fabric panels and highly reflective surface elements. The piece creates a link to Mikmaq ways of being and understandings of our known universe by presenting a visual conversation exploring ... 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More Buxton Contemporary opens survey exhibition of the work of Ronnie van HoutMELBOURNE.- For the past twenty years, Melbourne based, New Zealand-born artist Ronnie van Houts distinctive tragicomic characters have simultaneously unsettled and beguiled audiences. Aliens, failed robots, fragile, lonely figures in the midst of perplexing scenarios, van Hout masterfully evokes familiar and yet strange interior worlds, unleashing deep social anxieties, feelings of self-consciousness, and the impulse to both laugh and cry. The first survey exhibition featuring an artist from the Michael Buxton Collection at the new Buxton Contemporary, the ironically titled No one is watching you brings together over twenty works from this significant contemporary artists singular practice. Featuring loans from public institutions and private collections across Australia and New Zealand, the exhibition includes key works such as Ersatz (Alien) 2003, BED/SIT 2008, and Sick ... More Angela Tiatia's award-winning film screened in MelbourneMELBOURNE.- The Buxton Big Screen will be exhibiting The Fall by Angela Tiatia, a contemporary filmic interpretation of memories of the Fall of Singapore commissioned by the Australian War Memorial in 2017. The Fall is presented at Buxton Contemporary as a part of TIME, a new site-specific video sector at Melbourne Art Fair. In 2016 the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the National Museum of Singapore (NMS) embarked upon a joint commissioning project and reciprocal residency program. This joint artist-in-residency program aimed to facilitate two-way cultural exchange, celebrating the rich, shared heritage and friendship between Australia and Singapore. Australian artist Angela Tiatia spent four weeks in Singapore and Singaporean artist Debbie Ding spent four weeks in Canberra exploring the AWMs collection. The main outcome of the project was for ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, German-Venezuelan sculptor Gego was born August 01, 1912. Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt (1 August 1912 - 17 September 1994) also known as Gego, was a modern Venezuelan artist and sculptor. Gego's most popular works were produced in the 1960s and 1970s, during the height of popularity of Geometric abstract art and Kinetic Art. In this image: Installation View of Gego: Autobiography of a Line at Dominique Lévy, New York. Photo: Tom Powel Imaging, Inc. Courtesy: Dominique Lévy, New York and London.
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