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A man looks at a display at the Idlib Museum after it reopened on August 13, 2018 in the northern Syrian city of Idlib. An antiquities museum in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib said to house one of the world's oldest dictionaries reopened today after five years, an AFP correspondent said. OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP.
IDLIB (AFP).- An antiquities museum in Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib said to house one of the world's oldest dictionaries reopened on Monday after five years, an AFP correspondent said. Dozens of visitors trickled into the museum in Idlib city to see what an official said represented just a fraction of the building's collection. Ayman al-Nabu, head of antiquities for the city controlled by an alliance of rebels and jihadists, said the museum had been damaged by air strikes and looting during Syria's nearly seven-year conflict. After it was closed in 2013, "we carried out maintenance and rehabilitated the museum to give it new life," he said. Organisers are planning "visits for a whole generation of students who have been unable to visit archeological sites due to the war," he added. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Artemis Gallery will hold a special Late Summer Clearance Sale featuring discounted pricing on classical antiquities, Viking, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Tribal, Russian Icons, Spanish Colonial, Fine Art, and more on Aug 16, 2018 / 9:00 AM CDT. 19th C. Mexican Wood Santos - Massacre of Innocents. Estimate $4,000 - $6,000
| Lacoste/Keane Gallery opens exhibition of works by Karen Karnes, Nina Hole, and Ani Kasten | | Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years | | Easter Island's society might not have collapsed | 
Karen Karnes, Four Pieces light with Blue, stoneware, 6 x 8 x 6in.
CONCORD, MASS.- Lacoste/Keane Gallery announces the exhibition Karen Karnes, Nina Hole, Ani Kasten: Perspectives in Sculpture from August 11 September 1, 2018 which features three influential women in ceramics from three different generations. Karen Karnes, was an American pioneer in ceramics from the generation that came of age after WWII. Part of two legendary art communities: Black Mountain College and the Gatehill Community in New York with Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg among others, Ms. Karnes was a modernist at heart- her inspiration came from Bauhaus. Her work has always been sculptural--even in her functional work. In the 1980s and 90s Karnes created her legendary winged vessels and slit forms. In the 2000s when strength was an issue she turned to her sculptures of combined forms which can be seen as landscape, figurative or still life. Her work is sought after ... More | | 
One of the stone structures of the Shubayqa 1 site. The fireplace, where the bread was found, is in the middle. Photo: Alexis Pantos.
COPENHAGEN.- At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The findings suggest that bread production based on wild cereals may have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate cereals, and thus contributed to the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period. A team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen, University College London and University of Cambridge have analysed charred food remains from a 14,400-year-old Natufian hunter-gatherer site a site known as Shubayqa 1 located in the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan. The results, which have been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ... More | | 
Analysis of tools used to make giant statues could hint at a collaborative society. GREGORY BOISSY / AFP.
CHICAGO, IL.- You probably know Easter Island as the place with the giant stone heads. This remote island 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile has long been seen as mysteriousa place where Polynesian seafarers set up camp, built giant statues, and then destroyed their own society through in-fighting and over-exploitation of natural resources. However, a new article in the Journal of Pacific Archaeology hints at a more complex storyby analyzing the chemical makeup of the tools used to create the big stone sculptures, archaeologists found evidence of a sophisticated society where the people shared information and collaborated. For a long time, people wondered about the culture behind these very important statues, says Field Museum scientist Laure Dussubieux, one of the studys authors. This study shows how people were interacting, its helping to revise the theory. The idea of competi ... More |
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| Pipilotti Rist's 'Pixel Forest' on view at Luma Arles | | California Coalition for Women Prisoners announces benefit auction | | Iraq's top musicians play on despite unpaid wages | 
Pipilotti Rist, Pixel Forest.
ARLES.- In late May, the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale won the coveted Golden Lion. This internationally renowned prize was awarded to a haunted or possibly enchanted house designed by four young architects from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The house provided visitors with a similar feeling to what Alice would have experienced down the rabbit hole: the sensation of being too big or too small in relation to ones surroundings. This discrepancy of scale effect was achieved in a succession of empty rooms, each featuring doors, windows and other fittings that were either dramatically oversized or astonishingly small. Almost a quarter of a century ago, another artist, also Zurich-based, played this kind of illusionist trick on visitors to one of her installations. The work is called Das Zimmer and features a room furnished with an armchair, a sofa, a standard lamp and other typical furnishings, all of whose supersized formats have the effect of maki ... More | | 
Yunhee Min, Material Study, 2017. Acrylic on Arches watercolor paper, 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm). Courtesy of artist. Signed on verso. Estimate $3,200.
NEW YORK, NY.- California Coalition for Women Prisoners today announces a benefit auction in partnership with online auction house Paddle8 and L.A. gallery Blum & Poe to raise funds for the organizations mission to combat mass incarceration. The sale includes artworks by more than 40 artists, including works by Carroll Dunham, Janiva Ellis, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Torey Thornton, and Michael Williams, live to bidders worldwide August 15 29 exclusively on Paddle8. The launch event for the 2018 CCWP Benefit Auction will be Saturday, August 18, 7-10pm at Blum & Poe (2727 La Cienega). This event is open to the public and will showcase the donated artworks, celebrate CCWPs efforts, and educate about the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC). The works may also be viewed at the gallery by appointment only August 16 and 17. The formation of CCWP was birthed out of fear for our lives, says ... More | | 
Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra musician Duaa Majed Aubeh takes part in a rehearsal in Baghdad's School of Music and Ballet on August 5, 2018. SABAH ARAR / AFP.
BAGHDAD (AFP).- In a dusty Baghdad dance studio, conductor Mohammed Amin Ezzat tries to fire up the musicians of Iraq's National Symphony Orchestra, whose enthusiasm has been dampened by eight months without pay. An ageing air conditioner fights to beat back the summer heat in the cramped space at the capital's School of Music and Ballet as the 57-year-old maestro leads the group through a rehearsal of Modest Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain". The shaggy-haired Ezzat and the 40 musicians surrounding him are gearing up to perform at Baghdad's National Theatre on Saturday, but the group's morale is at an all-time low. The ensemble has lost more than half its members since the start of the year, when the government issued a directive barring state employees with two jobs from receiving two salaries. The anti-corruption ... More |
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| US journalist's work on display, 6 years after Syria abduction | | Fukushima nuclear statue ignites online furor | | Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year's Annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Dinner | 
In this file photo taken on November 02, 2016 Debra Tice speaks about her son Austin Tice, the only US journalist held captive in Syria, during the unveiling of a new banner calling for his release at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP.
WASHINGTON (AFP).- Family and supporters of missing US journalist Austin Tice on Tuesday will mark six years since his disappearance in Syria amid ongoing uncertainty about his whereabouts or condition. Tice's parents are scheduled to appear at a National Press Club exhibit opening featuring Tice's photographs from Syria. "Its a really important thing for people to see the work that journalists risk their lives for in conflict zones," said Margaux Ewen, North America director for the media rights group Reporters Without Borders, which is working with the Tice family. There has been little information made public about Tice, a freelance journalist working for McClatchy News, The Washington Post, CBS, AFP and other news organizations, ... More | | 
The artwork entitled "Sun Child" by artist Kenji Yanobe is displayed at an unveiling ceremony in Fukushima on August 14, 2018. AFP PHOTO.
TOKYO (AFP).- A giant statue of a child wearing a radiation suit in the Japanese city of Fukushima has touched off a storm of criticism online as the nuclear-hit area seeks to rebuild its reputation. "Sun Child", a 6.2-metre (20-foot) figure sporting a yellow protective suit with a digital display on its chest showing "000" -- symbolising no nuclear contamination -- was installed this month near the city's train station. The figure holds a helmet in one hand, showing the air is safe to breathe, and a symbol of the sun in the other, representing hope and new energy. Its creator, Japanese artist Kenji Yanobe, intended the statue to be a symbol of hope but critics said it was insensitive to the plight of Fukushima as it continues to struggle with radioactive contamination from the 2011 meltdown. "I saw Kenji Yanobe's 'Sun Child'. It was truly creepy. I think it derides us and all the work Fukushima has done to erase ... More | | 
Chelsea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert.
LONDON.- On Monday 1 October, the Institute of Contemporary Arts will hold their Annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts Dinner, in honour of American activist Chelsea Manning. This invite-only event will be preceded by a public Q&A hosted by the ICA at the Royal Institution, in which Chelsea Manning will address the rise of artificial intelligence; the state of the data economy and the role of algorithms and AI in public policy; the role of digital technologies in creating more transparency and democracy, from Panama Papers to Snowden, but also undermining democracy, like Cambridge Analytica; and her role in supporting J20 defendants and as advocate for LGBTQ+ rights. This is the second Friends Dinner, established in 2017 by the ICAs new Director Stefan Kalmár to pay tribute to a global public figure aligning with the historic mission as well as the current work of the Institute. Stefan Kalmár says: ... More |
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| Schoodic Institute opens benefit exhibition of works by artist Judy Brust | | Smithsonian releases season three of Sidedoor Podcast | | ILHAM Gallery opens 'Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960-1969)' | 
76 year old Brust, who has made her studio on Nantucket Island for the past two decades, has long investigated the stages of life and her own spiritual journey in her work.
WINTER HARBOR, ME.- Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park has announced an exhibition of Nantucket artist Judy Brusts glorious, luminous, large format canvases, titled Life Cycles: Past and Present, which explore the theme of progressive stages of our time on this planet. The show, which opens with an artists reception on Friday, August 17th, from 6-8:00pm in the Moore Auditorium, will coincide with a two-person show at Sam Shaw Gallery in Northeast Harbor that opens on Thursday, August 16. Brust will donate 25% of works sold to Schoodic Institute. 76 year old Brust, who has made her studio on Nantucket Island for the past two decades, has long investigated the stages of life and her own spiritual journey in her work. Life Cycles will be composed of canvases from both ... More | | 
The Hope Diamond. Photo: Don Hurlbert.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians podcast Sidedoor returned with an episode that takes listeners inside one of the most exclusive places in all of Washington, D.C.: the National Gem Collection vault. Once passing through multiple levels of security protocol, host Tony Cohn and Jeff Post, curator of gems and minerals, waste no time talking about the main attractionthe Hope Diamond. The blue diamond was forged billions of years ago from the tectonic pressure under the Indian subcontinent and has lived a legendary life. It was a curiosity for Louis XIV, a cursed bauble thanks to 18th-century English tabloid journalism and a toy for a pink-haired socialite who would throw it in her pool for her grandchildren to retrieve before it arrived at the Smithsonian in a plain, brown envelope via the U.S. Postal Service. Sidedoor launched its first season Oct. 26, 2016, and cracked the top 10 of the Apple Podcasts charts in ... More | | 
Latiff Mohidin, Pago Pago, 1969 (detail). Oil on canvas, 84 x 110.5 cm.
KUALA LUMPUR.- ILHAM Gallery in collaboration with National Gallery Singapore and the Centre Pompidou is presenting Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960 1969) at ILHAM Gallery from 12 August 30 December 2018. Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960 1969) premiered in February 2018 at the Centre Pompidou and was conceived by curators Shabbir Hussain Mustafa from National Gallery Singapore and Catherine David of Centre Pompidou. Seen as an extension of the innovative survey exhibition Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond, which was held at National Gallery Singapore in 2016, this exhibition focuses on a key moment in the work of one of Southeast Asias leading modernists Latiff Mohidin and his seminal Pago Pago series, which he developed during the 1960s, a decade that marked significant ... More |
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 Daylight Books to publish Real Pictures: Tales of a Badass Grandma by Peggy NolanNEW YORK, NY.- In the early 1980s, when Peggy Nolan's youngest child was around three, her father gave her a 35mm Olympus camera to take pictures of his grandchildren. From her first shot, Nolan was hooked. She spent several decades honing her skills as a photographer, documenting her growing brood in black and white film which she developed in her laundry room turned darkroom. The photographs were made into family albums but never shared with the general public. As her children grew up and started moving out, Nolan continued to develop her craft, earning a BFA followed by an MFA. Inspired by the work of Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and Nan Goldin, she began shooting in color in natural light, focusing on her now empty house and the mundanities of everyday life. In 2004, when her first grandchild was born, followed by the arrival ... More Portraits of 19 newsmaking Baby Boomers displayed at the Morris Museum MORRISTOWN, NJ.- The Morris Museum opened its newest exhibit, The Boomer List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, featuring 19 large-format portraits of influential baby boomers one born each year of the baby boom, from 1946 to 1964. Award-winning photographer and filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (The Black List, The Latino List and The Out List) chose as his subjects boomers who reflect the depth, diversity and talent of their generation. The exhibit, created by the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in partnership with AARP, is on display at the Morris Museum through September 10, 2018. Baby boomers have had a profound impact on the world, shaking up attitudes about sex, race and politics, and leaving their mark on everything from science and technology to art and music. The 19 men and women selected ... More Baltimore Museum of Art appoints 3 new CuratorsBALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Asma Naeem as Chief Curator; Andaleeb Badiee Banta as Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs; and Virginia Anderson as Curator of American Art. Naeem, Banta, and Anderson are joining the BMA at a time of rapid and systematic change throughout the museum, including the adoption of a new mission that places diversity, equity, and inclusion as central to the BMAs vision. We are committed to taking intentional steps towards evolving into an institution that emphasizes equity, excellence, and relevance in all phases of the work we do as a museum, not only for our Baltimore community, but to serve as a model for best museum practices nationwide, said BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Christopher Bedford. Asma, Andaleeb, and Virginia will be instrumental ... More Monumental installation by Cannupa Hanska Luger kicks off Santa Fe Indian Market WeekSANTA FE, NM.- The monumental installation, Every One, by Cannupa Hanska Luger kicked off Santa Fe Indian Market Week, Saturday, August 11, 2018, when it opened at the Museum of International Folk Art, 706 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe. An artist talk with Luger is Thursday, August 16 at 2 pm, also at the Museum. It will remain on display through September 21. Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian) is one of 16 artists participating in Project Indigene, a collaboration of eight prominent Santa Fe institutions, designed to examine perspectives and create awareness of some of the issues facing indigenous art today. Lugers Every One is the result of a social collaboration conceived and created by the artist, who invited communities from across the U.S. and Canada to create two-inch-diameter clay beads. Each of the resulting ... More Zed1 paints mural for the Veregra Street Festival in MontegranaroMONTEGRANARO .- Just like Zed1 taught us from his artworks, his walls arent simple drawings. They transform into imaginary illustrated fairy-tales that are capable of giving us the keys of multiple ways of understanding. His characters animate in front of our eyes, narrating fables that always come with a moral. Un viaggio per le stelle is the story of a dream that becomes the truth. Based on the architectural structure of the movie theatre La Perla, on which the mural stands, Zed1 decided to divide the fable into separated scenes, each one related to a specific area of the theatre. He wanted us to look at the mural as if we were watching various piles of boxes abandoned in in a broom closet or an old basement. The artwork is intended to be read from left to right, ending on the highest set of the theatre. The first part of the artwork is entitled Quei ... More MacDowell Executive Director Cheryl Young will retire after 22 years at helm PETERBOROUGH NH .- Cheryl A. Young has announced that she will be retiring from her position guiding the MacDowell Colony, one of the nations leading contemporary arts organizations. Young has served as executive director since 1997, and will remain in her position until her successor is in place in early 2019. The announcement was made at the Colonys annual Medal Day ceremony on August 12, at which the Edward MacDowell Medal was presented to comic artist Art Spiegelman. Not only has MacDowell been a home to me, it has been a great joy to be around such passionate people
the staff, board, volunteers, and donors. Everyone is devoted to helping artists make new work, says Young. MacDowell has been an exceptional organization since its pioneering beginning, and each generation has a role to play in safeguarding it. Young ... More BAMPFA commissions new site-specific installation by Barbara Stauffacher SolomonBERKELEY, CA.- The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive has commissioned the distinguished Bay Area artist and graphic designer Barbara Stauffacher Solomon to create a massive, site-specific installation for the museums entry space. Titled Land(e)scape 2018, the new work was designed by Solomon specifically for BAMPFAs Art Wall, a large-scale space, visible from Center Street, that is dedicated to presenting original installations by leading contemporary artists. A Bay Area native who has been active in the regions creative community for more than sixty years, Solomon is credited with launching the Supergraphics movement of the 1960s, which blends elements of Swiss Modernism and American Pop with a distinctly West Coast sensibility. Her installation at BAMPFA revives this singular aesthetic with an arresting geometric pattern rendered in red, ... More Melbourne's MPavilion extended to 2021/2022MELBOURNE.- MPavilion, Australias leading annual architecture commission and cultural laboratory, has been extended a further two seasons to 2020/21 and 2021/22, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced today in partnership with the City of Melbourne. The extension signifies the enduring success of the Foundations MPavilion initiative in engaging public-private collaborations and welcoming globally acclaimed design and cultural programming to Melbourne. MPavilion is the Naomi Milgrom Foundations centrepiece project, initiated in 2014 by the not-for-profit charitable organisationwhich gifts each years MPavilion to the people of Victoriaas an innovative civic space and a way to connect Melburnians with architecture and design. Naomi Milgrom AO, founder of the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, said of the extension: In envisaging MPavilion ... More designjunction unveils groundbreaking installations and special features for this year's showLONDON.- designjunction, now in its eighth year, is set to transport to the cultural hub of Londons South Bank this September (20 - 23) with hundreds of product launches, boutique pop-up shops, bespoke installations, exhibitions, a specially curated talks programme and dedicated spaces to relax, meet, work and enjoy delicious food. The Doon Street site, the largest super-structure ever built by designjunction, will house 200 international design brands and temporary pop up shops. The Riverside Walkway will showcase a series of outdoor installations, whilst Oxo Tower Wharf and Bargehouse will host major brand activations, talks and exhibitions. The Riverside Walkway will provide a platform for Mud Shell, an innovative housing project marrying ancient earth architecture techniques with the latest drone spraying technology. Led by architect Stephanie ... More Andrejs Kostromins' solo exhibition on view at the Happy Art MuseumRIGA.- Only two weeks from 15 to 28 August 2018 Andrejs Kostromins solo exhibition Silence Between Two Thoughts will be on view at the Happy Art Museum on the 7th floor of the Galleria Riga shopping centre in Riga (Dzirnavu iela 67). Silence between two thoughts that is the state of consciousness when the inner dialogue stops the noise produced by the mind as a result of chaotic thoughts and reflections. We ceaselessly talk with ourselves about the world that surrounds us. In fact, we create this world through personal inner dialogue. When one stops talking with oneself, the world becomes what it should be. At the basis of the exhibitions idea is a painterly story about the brief fragments of enlightenment, about the sense of truth or reality during moments of meditation, prayer or the contemplation of something beautiful that each of us ... More Focused exhibition celebrates a promised gift of the only complete set of Larry Fink's boxing photographsPHILADELPHIA, PA.- The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an inside look at the tough and unsentimental world of boxingincluding Philadelphias Blue Horizon gymthrough the photographs of Larry Fink. Widely recognized as one of this countrys greatest photographers, Fink captures the subculture of boxing through its champions and challengers, its ambition-fueled gyms and rowdy rings and overheated atmospheres of locker rooms, as well as the many fascinating peopleamong them coaches, trainers, mothers, fathers, girlfriends, and spectatorswho populate this world. This focused exhibition of about 80 gelatin silver prints celebrates a promised gift of the only complete set of Finks boxing photographs, including many that have never been published. Finks fascination with boxing was borne out of an assignment in 1986 to photograph ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu was born August 15, 1963. Alejandro González Iñárritu (born August 15, 1963) is a Mexican film director, producer, and screenwriter. His feature films have garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including five Academy Awards. In this image: In this file photo taken on November 15, 2017, Mexican film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu attends the premiere of "The Shape of Water," at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science in Beverly Hills, California. Robyn Beck / AFP.
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