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SUEs back and better than ever with scientific updates including placed gastralia, updated pose, and wishbone in new suite © 2018 Field Museum, photo by Martin Baumgaertner.
CHICAGO, IL.- SUE, the worlds biggest, best-preserved, and most complete T. rex, is back on display and better than ever at the Field Museum as of Friday, December 21, 2018. SUE is now up to date with the latest scientific research and is in a new private suite that shows what SUEs world was like. Were excited to finally complete our decades-long plan to put SUE in a proper scientific context alongside our other dinosaurs and offer an experience that really shows off why SUE is widely considered the greatest dinosaur fossil in the world, says Field Museum president Richard Lariviere. SUEs new home is within the museums Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet, which, along with Máximo the Titanosaur and the newly reimagined Stanley Field Hall, is part of the Griffin Dinosaur Experience and was funded by the Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund. The new ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day People visit the museum "L'envol des pionniers" (The flight of the pioneers) dedicated to the history of the aeronautics, on December 18, 2018 in Toulouse. Toulouse inaugurated the museum on December 20, 2018 a few days prior to the centenary of the first Toulouse-Barcelona flight on December 25, 1918. ERIC CABANIS / AFP
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| | | Toulouse opens museum dedicated to the pioneers of flight | | Exhibition celebrates Julio Le Parc's extraordinary gift to The Met of 24 works | | Exhibition is the first to present the extensive Marcel Duchamp holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart | 
Jean-Baptiste Desbois, managing director of the Cite de l'Espace (City of Space) and of the museum "L'envol des pionniers" (The Flight of the Pioneers) dedicated to the history of the aeronautics, poses on December 18, 2018 in Toulouse. ERIC CABANIS / AFP.
TOULOUSE.- The cultural site "The Flight of the Pioneers" is part of the ambitious Toulouse Aerospace urban project, which Toulouse Métropole is bringing into being in Montaudran, the historic birthplace of aeronautics. Designed around the runway from which the pioneers of civil aviation took off, "The Flight of the Pioneers" consists of several facilities: the planned Memory Area, in the historic buildings under renovation, "The Gardens of the Line" opened in June 2017, a grand landscaped journey evoking the landscapes the pioneers of the Line and the Hall of the Mechanics, a modern building which will host the creations of the company, "La Machine". To highlight and publicise this incredible Toulouse saga which saw the birth of civil aviation with the first Latecoère flight from Montaudran, then lAéropostale and then Air France, Jean-Luc Moudenc, Mayor of Toulouse, ... More | | 
Julio Le Parc, (Argentine, born 1928). Rotation in Red and Black (Rotación en Rojo y Negro), 1959. Gouache on cardboard. 16 1/8 à 16 1/8 in. (41 à 41 cm). Promised Gift of Julio Le Parc.
NEW YORK, NY.- The first solo exhibition in a New York museum of Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc (born 1928) opened at The Met Breuer on December 4, 2018. The show celebrates the artists extraordinary gift to The Met of 24 works and also marks the occasion of the artists 90th birthday. Featuring over 50 works, Julio Le Parc 1959 presents a substantial, never-before-seen selection of gouaches from one of the most prolific and transformative years in the artists career. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1928, Le Parc studied under Lucio Fontana during the 1940s and engaged with abstract avant-garde movements in Buenos Aires. In 1958, Le Parc moved to Paris, where his encounter with Op artists such as Victor Vasarely had an important influence on his art. The series of gouaches Le Parc started that yearintimate yet methodic studies of form and colorilluminates his interest in developing geometric abstraction by incorporat ... More | | 
Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., (1919) 1964, Color print of Leonardo da Vincis painting Mona Lisa, pencil and white gouache, 30.1 x 23 cm, Staatliche Schlösser, Gärten und Kunstsammlungen Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, photo: Fotoagentur nordlicht, © Association Marcel Duchamp/ VG BildKunst, Bonn 2018.
STUTTGART.- There are few artists whose work and writings have changed our perception of art as much as Marcel Duchamp. As the inventor of the readymade and the author of a sizable body of complex notes, he paved the way for a whole generation of conceptual artists. To this day, his seminal ideas have lost none of their relevance, and they continue to challenge us to review our notion of art. This exhibition is the first to present the extensive Marcel Duchamp holdings of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. Seminal works from our own collection, among them the readymade Bottlerack and the window object The Brawl at Austerlitz, are shown alongside important loans such as the artist-authorised replica of The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, also known as The Large Glass, ... More |
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| | | The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans | | Warhol's films play a starring role in the Whitney's retrospective | | Exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of Katarzyna Kobro and Wladyslaw Strzeminski's life and work | 
The ancient rhino has been dubbed the Siberian unicorn due to the large single horn it may have once sported © W S van der Merwe.
LONDON.- For a long time it was thought that the ancient rhino species Elasmotherium sibiricum, known as the Siberian unicorn, went extinct between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago. Now improved dating of fossil bones suggests that it survived until at least 39,000 years ago. Today there are just five surviving species of rhino, but at different times in the past there were as many as 250 different species. Of these, one of the most impressive was Elasmotherium sibiricum. Weighing up to 3.5 tonnes, it lived on the Eurasian grasslands ranging from southwestern Russia and Ukraine to Kazakhstan and Siberia. Eventually the species went extinct - but exactly when that happened has been in doubt. For those studying the fauna of the last Ice Age, one of the most significant events of the period was the megafaunal extinction. It saw the disappearance of many large, iconic species such as the woolly mammoth, the ... More | | 
Andy Warhol (19281987), Empire, 1964 (detail). 16mm, b&w, silent; 8 hrs., 5 min. at 16 fps, 7 hrs., 11 min. at 18 fps © 2018 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute. All rights reserved.
NEW YORK, NY.- From 1963 through 1968, Andy Warhol shot hundreds of moviesshort and long, silent and sound, scripted and improvised. A selection of these now classic films are being screened throughout Andy WarholFrom A to B and Back Again, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Andy WarholFrom A to B and Back Againthe first Warhol retrospective organized in the U.S. since 1989, and the largest in terms of its scope of ideas and range of worksreconsiders the films of Warhol together with the entire range of his work in other media. With more than 350 works of art, many assembled together for the first time, this landmark exhibition, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, unites all aspects and periods of Warhols forty-year career. Curated by Warhol authority Donna De ... More | | 
Władysław Strzeminski, Wenus Maritime Composition. Venus, 1933. Muzeum Sztuki, ŁÃ³dz ©Muzeum Sztuki, ŁÃ³dz & Ewa Sapka-Pawliczak.
PARIS.- Following the exhibition The Russian Avant-Garde at Vitebsk (19181922) held at the Centre Pompidou this spring and continuing the museums policy of attending to non-western-European Avant-Gardes, A Polish Avant-Garde: Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzeminski examines the work, artistic theories and social commitments of these two artists - a modern couple, discreet revolutionaries. important members of the progressive international who have attracted considerable scholarly attention, they remain largely - and unjustly unknown to the wider public. the exhibition offers a comprehensive survey of their life and work, revealing the beauty of their art. Initiators of one of the first museums of modern art in the worldthe Muzeum Sztuki in ŁÃ³dz´, opened in 1931 Katarzyna Kobro (18981951) and Władysław Strzeminski (18931952), were maj ... More |
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| | | First Paul Klee exhibition in Canada since 1979 on view at the National Gallery of Canada | | Darwin's giant ground sloth skull pieced together and scanned for the first time | | Surfer's ear points to ancient pearl divers in Panama | 
Paul Klee, Untitled (detail), 1914, watercolour and ink on paper mounted on cardboard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984 (1984.315.5)
OTTAWA.- For the first time in almost four decades, the National Gallery of Canada presents an exhibition devoted to Swiss-German artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), a giant of twentieth-century art. Famed for his innovation and creativity, Klees name is now synonymous with those of other modern masters including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and his colleague and friend, Wassily Kandinsky. The exhibition, Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on view at the Gallery until March 17, 2019, encompasses all aspects of his prolific career, as both a draftsman and painter. Paul Klee created a body of work that is unparalleled in imagination and skill, said Anabelle Kienle Poňka, Acting Senior Curator of European and American Art, National Gallery of Canada. This exhibition allows ... More | | 
Megatherium was the largest bipedal mammal ever to exist © Mauricio Anton.
LONDON.- For the first time ever, all of the known fossils collected by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle were brought together under the Natural History Museum roof. The final fossils to be digitised were two halves of a single Megatherium skull collected in 1832 by the young naturalist in Punta Alta, Argentina. They were brought to the Museum to be 3D scanned as part of the digitisation programme. The Megatherium was a giant ground sloth native to South America. Growing to the size of an elephant, they were some of the largest land animals roaming the landscape when they lived some 10,000 years ago. During his voyage, Darwin actually collected a number of different ground sloth fossils which would turn out to be from four different species. Of these, three were new to science. Dr Pip Brewer, Curator of Fossil Mammals at the Museum, says, 'Megatherium was actually one of the few fossil mammals from ... More | | 
After inspecting more skulls, she concluded that a select group of male diversperhaps looking for pearls and oyster shells coveted for jewelry making, may have lived along Panamas Pacific coast long ago.
WASHINGTON, DC.- While examining a skull from an ancient burial ground in a pre-Columbian village in Panama, Nicole Smith-Guzmán, a bioarchaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, was surprised to discover an example of surfers ear: a small, bony bump in the ear canal common among surfers, kayakers and free divers in cold climates. After inspecting more skulls, she concluded that a select group of male diversperhaps looking for pearls and oyster shells coveted for jewelry making, may have lived along Panamas Pacific coast long ago. Bone is a dynamic tissue that responds to external stimuli, so changes in bone structure provide great clues about where and how a person lived and died, Smith-Guzmán said. When I looked at an additional 125 skulls ... More |
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| | | Centro Culturale Candiani exhibits over 70 works from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg | | Exhibition at Tilton Gallery includes work from circa 1970 through the 1990s by John Outterbridge | | Cantor Arts Center presents Josiah McElheny's monumental installation, Island Universe | 
The State Hermitage Museum holds one of the greatest collections of Venetian art in the world.
VENICE.- Over 70 works from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, including 20 paintings by great sixteenth to eighteenth-century Venetian masters, which return to Venice after centuries, appear alongside drawings and paintings from the Venetian civic collections, revealing shared aspects of collecting history between Venice and St. Petersburg. Works never before displayed in Italy and which indeed in some cases have never left the Hermitage are on show in Mestre, including two newly-attributed Carlevarijs and a singular late work by Jacopo Tintoretto that has never before been exhibited. The State Hermitage Museum holds one of the greatest collections of Venetian art in the world. The story of its creation is one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of collecting, with extraordinary and unforeseen discoveries that still surprise us today. Especially designed for the Centro Culturale Candiani exhibition site in Mestre on the Venetian mainland, the exhibition uses a group of paintings and ... More | | 
John Outterbridge, Plus Tax: Shopping Bag Society, Rag Man Series, 1971. Mixed media, 20 x 13 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tilton Gallery is presenting an exhibition of sculpture by John Outterbridge, his third solo show with the gallery. The exhibition continue still January 19th. John Outterbridge has been an outspoken and poetic voice in the Los Angeles art community since the late 1960s. A community organizer and educator, Outterbridge was co-founder and Artistic Director of the Communicative Arts Academy in Compton, CA from 1969-1975 and director of the Watts Towers Arts Center in South Central Los Angeles from 1975-1992, taking up the mantle from Noah Purifoy, and bringing the arts and art education into the African American community. Born in 1933 in Greenville, North Carolina, Outterbridge moved to Los Angeles from Chicago in 1963, having already begun making assemblages. In Los Angeles, he soon became a central figure in the art community that included Noah Purifoy, David Hammons, Betye Saar and ... More | | 
Josiah McElheny (U.S.A., b. 1966), Island Universe, 2008. Dimensions variable. Chromed aluminum, handblown glass and electric lights. © Josiah McElheny. Photo © Stephen White. Courtesy White.
STANFORD, CA.- Josiah McElhenys monumental installation, Island Universe, made of brilliantly polished chromed metal, handblown glass, and radiating lights, is an attempt to visualize something impossible to seethe big bang. Working at the unexpected intersection of physics, the history of Modernism, and art, McElheny imagines a multiverse scenario, where five separate universes occupy the same space, frozen in their individual moments of expansion. A marriage of scientific research and aesthetic modeling, McElheny collaborated closely with David Weinberg, distinguished university professor, and chair of the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State University, to make the necessary calculations and conceptualize the installations forms. Their collaboration took place while McElheny was a resident at the Wexner Center for the Arts at ... More |
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 Perot Museum unveils a world first VR app that explores a cave few have ever visitedDALLAS, TX.- Ever wondered what its like to delve deep within a South African cave to discover and recover some of the most famous ancient human fossils in scientific history? The opportunity is now at your fingertips and its free via the Apple App Store and Google Play! Internationally renowned paleoanthropologist Professor Lee Berger and Perot Museum of Nature and Science leaders, in partnership with South Africas University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), recently announced a world-first virtual reality (VR) app to view bones that are shaking up our family tree. Berger who recently dominated world science headlines with his discovery of Homo naledi, a new species of human relative was joined by Perot Museum CEO Dr. Linda Silver and Perot Museum research scientist and Director of the Center for the Exploration of the Human Journey ... More Galerie Ron Mandos to represent Esther TielemansAMSTERDAM.- Galerie Ron Mandos announced that the gallery will start representing artist Esther Tielemans. The gallery team looks forward to an inspiring collaboration. Galerie Ron Mandos will show Tielemans work for the first time at Art Rotterdam, which is set to take place early February at the Van Nelle Fabriek. Esther Tielemans (NL, 1976) is an acclaimed artist and a well-known name in the Dutch contemporary art scene. After a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten she was awarded prestigious prizes, including the Royal Award for Modern Painting, the Prix de Rome and the Wolvecamp Prize. She had solo exhibitions at museums such as the Van Abbemuseum and was included in group shows at institutions including GEM Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Museum Voorlinden, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Gemeentemuseum Den ... More The Jeu de Paume presents a collection of photographs by Koen WessingPARIS.- The exhibition "Koen Wessing, The indelible image" presents a collection of photographs selected, more often than not, with the approval of Wessing himself. Wessing's work reflects post-Second World War history: decolonisation, violence and brutality in Latin America, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the war in Yugoslavia, apartheid in South Africa and the resurgence of China. The Jeu de Paume - Château de Tours presents a selection of 80 prints, as well as screenings and a filmed interview with Dutch filmmaker and director of photography Kees Hin. Koen Wessing was born in Amsterdam in 1942 during the German occupation. His father, Han Wessing, was an interior designer; his mother, Eva Eisenloeffel, a sculptor. He died in 2011, just before a trip to Chile. He was very ill but had wanted to go to the vernissage of "Imágenes Indelebles / Indelible ... More Exhibition at Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge questions the modernist design vocabulary BERLIN.- The Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge is showing a sequence of four exhibitions entitled 111/99. Questioning the Modernist Design Vocabulary in the context of the Bauhaus year from November 2018 to the end of 2019. Twelve years separate the 1907 founding of the Deutscher Werkbund reform movement and the 1919 founding of the styledefining Bauhaus Art School the Deutscher Werkbund turns 111 in the year 2018, and the Bauhaus turns 99. Taking up the anniversaries as a play on numbers, the Werkbundarchiv Museum der Dinge interrogates the programmatic overlap between the two institutions in the development of a modernist design idiom. Why did certain features develop into trade marks of modernity, and why do they remain fixed to this day, despite any and all critical thinking: materials like glass, steel, and concrete; terms ... More Exhibition offers a view of the permanent collections of the Liege Museum of Beaux ArtsLIEGE.- From 15th century or Renaissance masters to more recent donations and acquisitions, including major international figures (Ingres, Monet, Pissarro, Picasso, Ensor, Laurencin, Léger, Arp, Magnelli, Bury, Debré, Hantaï, Gilbert & George...), the Liège. Chefs-doeuvre exhibition offers an unprecedented journey through the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège. The exhibition is an opportunity for the people of Liège but also for all the Belgian and foreign visitors, to discover a vast selection of exceptional works, to perceive the considerable richness of this collection. This unprecedented exhibition - presenting more than 150 works - is original in more than one way. Since the reopening of La Boverie in May 2016, many works, which remained in reserve, had not been shown for a long time. For others, weakened by time, a restoration ... More Mucem opens exhibition of works by Mohammed Kacimi MARSEILLE.- Mohammed Kacimi (1942-2003) is one of the most important post-war Moroccan plasticians. An innovative artist with a deep sense of commitment, and both an instigator and a witness to the globalisation of contemporary Arab art, he has had a major and lasting influence on the evolution of his countrys artistic landscape and served as a model for a number of young Maghreb artists, who today are internationally recognised. The exhibition is devoted to Mohammed Kacimis African period (1993-2003)the high point of his oeuvrewhich sees him break with western art and the different aesthetic trends that influenced him in his journey, to open up a new, far more personal sphere of work, characterised by an unrestrained, free and ever more transdisciplinary expression. By shining a light on this major period, the goal is to better understand ... More Exhibition at Massey Klein explores the distinct use of material and process by three artistsNEW YORK, NY.- Massey Klein is presenting Rules of the Game, a group exhibition featuring work by Claire Lieberman, Kate McQuillen, and Wouter Nijland. The exhibition explores the artists distinct use of material and process resulting in surface qualities individual to each body of work. Claire Lieberman is a sculptor who creates freestanding, three-dimensional works reminiscent of animated childhood objects. The pieces are rendered in highly polished Belgian black marble; their surfaces smooth and shiny, punctuated or disrupted by protuberances. A ballooning toy grenade and curvaceous toy top exude a sweet playful, if provocative quality. The effect is voluptuous and inviting, bringing to the surface the duality of material and image. Kate McQuillens paintings on panel are hyper-flat, with ghostly images embedded in the surface. Viewed from the side, ... More Fotohof exhibits the work of Eva Maria OcherbauerSALZBURG.- Eva Maria Ocherbauer constructs her worlds of photographic images from forms of nature as well as everyday objects and consumables. The quadrangular photograph is often dissolved and transferred to the outlines of the object in question or expanded into the three-dimensional. Thus plastic parts on a beach mutate into monumental objects which, in their aesthetic presence, raise questions about the relationship between image and reality. For Ocherbauer photography is also a means of transforming the utterly banal things of everyday life and making them appear both astonishingly beautiful, but also alien in the photograph itself. Things become icons of themselves and raise questions about the possibilities of photography as a medium, but also about the fraying edges of human civilisation. The exhibition ONE FINE ... More Secretary David Skorton to depart the SmithsonianWASHINGTON, DC.- Secretary Dr. David Skorton will leave the Smithsonian in June 2019, after serving four years as leader of the Institution. He will transition the organization during the next six months. Skorton, a board-certified cardiologist, will become president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), effective July 15, 2019. Skorton notified Smithsonian Chancellor and Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. In receiving the news, Roberts said, The Regents, and the Smithsonian, are fortunate to have had Secretary Skortons leadership, vision and commitment during a crucial period when the Smithsonian is expanding its reach and focusing its research and educational efforts. He has laid a solid foundation for the Institutions future. Under Skortons leadership, the Smithsonian developed its bold strategic ... More International arts non-profit Ruya Maps launchesLONDON.- This October saw the launch of Ruya Maps, a non-profit organisation which will work with visual artists in areas of social or political instability globally. A sister organisation of the Iraq-based Ruya Foundation, best known for commissioning the Iraq Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Ruya Maps will work with artists from countries around the world. The programme launched with an exhibition of Venezuelan artist Pepe López at the Fitzrovia Chapel, London. Ruya Maps diverse programme will combine a series of international exhibitions, introducing culture generated in areas of discord to new global audiences, with accessible projects taking place in areas currently or recently affected by political or military conflicts, including refugee camps. Projects will include artist commissions, workshops, talks and collaborations with local initiatives. Ruya Maps will also ... More Exhibition at MAGMA gallery presents a broad and concrete vision of urban abstractionismBOLOGNA.- MAGMA gallery is presenting the exhibition "A Matter of Form", until 12 January 2019, with works by Jan Kaláb (Czech Republic), SatOne (Germany), Stephen Smith (United Kingdom). Even in this new exhibition, the gallery continues to feature big international names for the first time in Italy, as in the case of SatOne and Stephen Smith, and to continue the collaboration with Jan Kaláb. Moreover, Jan Kaláb will be back soon in Bologna with a solo show at Artefiera 2019 organized by MAGMA gallery. "A Matter of Form" ironically wants to focus immediately on the diversity of the three styles proposed, a broad and concrete vision of urban abstractionism. In all the exhibited works, made specifically for the exhibition, the shapes and geometries are constructed and reworked according to a process of abstraction capable of creating a dialogue between ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Maurice Utrillo was born December 26, 1883. Maurice Utrillo (26 December 1883 - 5 November 1955), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of Montmartre who was born there. In this image: Maurice Utrillo, Ruelle des Gobelins à Paris, 1921, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Maurice, Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, signed, dated and titled on the reverse Maurice Utrillo, V, Mars 1921, 65 x 92 cm.
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