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Archaeologist of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Ari Levi holds a rare 2000-year-old measuring table used for liquids such as wine and olive oil, in Jerusalem on January 6, 2020. The table was found by the IAA in what it supports in theory to be the main city square and market, along the Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem, dating to the Second Temple Period. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.
JERUSALEM (AFP).- Israeli archaeologists unveiled an ancient table Monday used to measure wine and olive oil, which they said helps prove a market once stood at the site in occupied east Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said the 2,000-year-old table was unearthed in the City of David National Park, between the Old City and the flashpoint Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan. Only the third artifact of its kind to be found so far in Jerusalem, the table could be filled with liquid to give a unified measure, according to the IAA. "When shopkeepers wanted to make sure they were working with the same standard, they used to see... the manager of the market" who owned the table, archaeologist Ari Levy said. The find provides evidence of trade in the area, which lies south of Jerusalem's Old City, the archaeologist told AFP. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Installation view, 'Calder' at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz, until 9 February 2020. © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zurich. Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth
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 | | George Grosz's political masterpiece 'Gefährliche Straße' to be offered at auction for the first time | | Palmer Museum of Art announces its 2020 exhibition lineup | | Walrus shortage led to medieval Norse collapse: study | 
George Grosz (1893-1959), Gefährliche StraÃe (detail). Oil on canvas, 18⅝ x 25¾ in. (47.3 x 65.3 cm.) Painted in July 1918. Estimate: £4,500,000-6,500,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
LONDON.- Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale will launch 20th Century at Christies on 5 February 2020. A major highlight of this series of auctions will be George Groszs highly politicised depiction of Germany at the close of the First World War, Gefährliche StraÃe, which will be offered at auction for the first time. The painting will be presented 100 years after it was first exhibited in Groszs solo exhibition at the Galerie Neue Kunst in Munich. The painting has remained in the same private collection since 1970 and was last seen in public over twenty years ago in the Haus der Kunst, in Munich, in an exhibition titled Die Nacht in 1999. Olivier Camu, Deputy Chairman, Impressionist and Modern Art, Christies: We are honoured to present at auction this masterpiece from the rare and celebrated First World War series of city paintings by George Grosz. It ... More | | 
Dan people, Liberia and Ivory Coast, Face Mask (tankagle), 20th century, wood, 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches. Collection of Allen and Barbara Davis.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.- The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State announced its exhibition schedule for 2020. This years shows celebrate a diverse spectrum of artistic voices and highlight significant gifts as well as important cultural milestones. The new year begins with the opening of Drawing on a Legacy: Highlights from the John Driscoll American Drawings Collection, which presents selections from the transformational 2018 gift of 140 works on paper from prominent Penn State alumnus Dr. John P. Driscoll. Featuring rare and outstanding American drawings produced between the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth century, the exhibition provides the first opportunity to sample the breadth and scope of this formative collection. Opening in February, African Brilliance: A Diplomat's Sixty Years of Collecting, will showcase more than eighty works from East, Central, and West Africa collected over six decades. ... More | | 
Modified walrus skull from medieval Bergen. Photo: JH Barrett.
PARIS (AFP).- Greenland's medieval Norse society vanished from the Earth in the 15th Century after they hunted walrus populations to near extinction, researchers said Monday in a possible explanation for the mysterious disappearance. Norse communities thrived for more than 400 years in the Arctic, hunting walruses for their tusks, a valuable medieval commodity. But a mixture of overexploitation and economic pressure from a flood of elephant ivory into European markets in the 13th Century contributed to their downfall, according to a new study. A team of researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo and Trondheim examined pre-1400s walrus tusk artefacts from across Europe and found that almost all of them came from walruses hunted in seas only accessible to Greenland Norse communities. They also found that later items were hunted from smaller animals -- likely females and infants -- signalling that stocks were rapidly ... More |
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| | Pentagon rules out striking Iranian cultural sites, contradicting Trump | | Hauser and Wirth exhibits works by Alexander Calder in St. Moritz | | Catherine Gund's AGGIE, a portrait of Agnes Gund, receives world premiere at Sundance Film Festival | 
The "Si-o-Se Pol" bridge (33 Arches bridge) over the Zayandeh Rud river in Isfahan. ATTA KENARE / AFP.
WASHINGTON (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper sought to douse an international outcry Monday by ruling out military attacks on cultural sites in Iran if the conflict with Tehran escalates further, despite President Donald Trumps threat to destroy some of the countrys treasured icons. Esper acknowledged that striking cultural sites with no military value would be a war crime, putting him at odds with the president, who insisted such places would be legitimate targets. Trumps threats generated condemnation at home and abroad while deeply discomfiting U.S. military leaders who have made a career of upholding the laws of war. We will follow the laws of armed conflict, Esper said at a news briefing at the Pentagon when asked if cultural sites would be targeted as the president had suggested over the weekend. When a reporter asked if that meant no because the laws of war prohibit targeting cultural sites, Esper agreed. Thats the laws of armed conflict. ... More | | 
Alexander Calder, 7 Legged Beast (maquette), c. 1956. Sheet metal and paint, 53.7 x 57.2 x 36.5 cm / 21 1/8 x 22 1/2 x 14 3/8 in. © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zurich. Photos courtesy of Calder Foundation, New York / Art Resource, New York.
ST. MORITZ.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting a solo exhibition of works by Alexander Calder for its second winter season in St. Moritz. The presentation comprises a selection of the artists mobiles, stabiles, standing mobiles, paintings, and a monumental outdoor sculpture, spanning the 1940s to the 1970s. The pieces on view reflect Calders direct and innovative approach to art-making, whereby he cultivated a practice that not only explored multiple dimensions but also oscillated between the monumental and the intimate. The show in St. Moritz sees Calder return to the Swiss mountains following Hauser & Wirths exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculptures, Calder in the Alps, in Gstaad during 201617. Calder was one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the 20th-century, ... More | | 
Agnes Gund and artist Xaviera Simmons in Simmons studio, as seen in Aggie, directed by Catherine Gund. Courtesy of Aubin Pictures.
NEW YORK, NY.- Aubin Pictures announced the World Premiere of the feature documentary AGGIE, directed by Catherine Gund, at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. An exploration of the nexus of art, race and justice through the story of art collector and philanthropist Agnes Aggie Gunds extraordinary life, the film will premiere at the festival on January 24. Following its Park City, UT screenings, AGGIE will receive its New York premiere at the Museum of Modern Arts prestigious Doc Fortnight on February 18. Emmy-nominated director Catherine Gund focuses on her mothers journey to give viewers an understanding of the power of art to transform consciousness and inspire social change. Agnes Gund is internationally recognized for her robust and prescient support of artistsparticularly women and people of colorand her unwavering commitment to social justice issues. After falling in love ... More |
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| | Elizabeth Wurtzel, 'Prozac Nation' author, is dead at 52 | | Record 2.3 million people visited Auschwitz in 2019 | | When he was good, he was breathtaking | 
Elizabeth Wurtzel in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 17, 2007. Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times.
by Neil Genzlinger
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose startling 1994 memoir, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, won praise for opening a dialogue about clinical depression and helped introduce an unsparing style of confessional writing that remains influential, died Tuesday in New York City. She was 52. Writer David Samuels, a friend since childhood, said the cause was metastatic breast cancer, a disease that resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. Wurtzel had a double mastectomy in 2015. After her diagnosis, she became an advocate for BRCA testing something she had not had and wrote about her cancer experience in The New York Times. I could have had a mastectomy with reconstruction and skipped the part where I got cancer, she wrote. I feel like the biggest idiot for not doing so. Writing about her final illness was a natural choice for Wurtzel, who had for a quarter-century scrutinized her life in relentless detail, becoming a hero to some, especially ... More | | 
An aerial picture taken on December 15, 2019 in Oswiecim, Poland, shows the remains of barracks for prisoners at the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz II - Birkenau. Pablo GONZALEZ / AFP.
WARSAW (AFP).- A record 2.3 million visitors toured former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau last year, the museum said on Tuesday, as the site gears up to mark 75 years since its last prisoners were freed. The figure was an increase of 170,000 on the visitor numbers from 2018, the previous record year. Almost 400,000 Poles toured the complex in 2019, while foreign visitors included 200,000 Britons, 120,000 Americans and 73,000 Germans. The site in southern Poland has come to symbolise the Holocaust -- the killing of more than six million Jews by Nazi Germany. Auschwitz Memorial officials have appealed to VIPs and celebrities including Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio to help the site to reach one million Twitter followers by the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation on January 27. On that day, some 200 Auschwitz survivors and delegations from over a dozen countries will gather at the former death camp for ceremonies marking the milestone. ... More | | 
Misia at Her Dressing Table, 1898. Distemper on cardboard, 141/8 à 113/8 in. (36 à 29 cm) Musée dOrsay, Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée dOrsay / Hervé Lewandowski).
by Roberta Smith
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE ).- Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton was an intriguing, talented but slippery artist. From painting to painting in Felix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet, a small survey of his career, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you often dont quite know what to expect next in terms of style or subject, even within the same year. They begin with the soulful Self-Portrait at the Age of 20 from 1885, just after three years of study at the Académie Julian in Paris. It shows the artist looking wise beyond his years, already adept at a suavely brushed surface redolent of Manet, Ingres and Degas. In The Sick Girl, a sparkling interior scene of 1892, his realist style hardens to such perfection that it dazzles but also seems slightly cold. At the other extreme is Street Scene in Paris, from 1897, which has the flattened, rough-edged shapes of the small postimpressionist cohort that ... More |
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| | 'Good Morning, America' by Mark Power exhibition opens at Magnum Print Room, London | | Eduard Planting Gallery presents 'A tribute to Terry O'Neill' | | Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen appoints new director | 
Aftermath of the Tubbs fire. Journeys End Mobile Home Park, Santa Rosa, California 01.2018 (detail) © Mark Power / Magnum Photos.
LONDON.- Good Morning, America is an ongoing 10-year project by photographer Mark Power, creating a visual narrative of a country in the midst of change. It is a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape, and the divergence of reality and myth. This exhibition, coinciding with the start of a momentous year in US politics, will look back at a selection of images which have defined and shaped the project so far. Power is from a generation who grew up in the English suburbs of the 1960s, enchanted by the TV shows which crossed the Atlantic from the US - a form of cultural imperialism and in particular the allure and myth of the western. When he began photographing in the US, Power subconsciously began searching for this mythical landscape one which perhaps never existed at all. Combined with Powers ... More | | 
Terry O'Neill, Roger Moore as James Bond, 1973. Courtesy Eduard Planting Gallery.
AMSTERDAM.- Eduard Planting Gallery in Amsterdam presents from 8 January until 21 March 2020 'A tribute to Terry ONeill'. The exhibition is an homage to the British celebrity photographer. The gallery shows a selection of iconic black and white portraits of screen stars and musicians of the Swinging Sixties and Roaring Seventies. Terry ONeill (1938-2019) passed away on 16 November 2019 in his hometown of London. He first picked up a camera in 1958 and pioneered a more intimate, reportage style of celebrity photography, informal and spontaneous. In October 2019, ONeill was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to photography by Prince William. While other photographers concentrated on earthquakes, wars and politics, ONeill realised that youth culture was a breaking news story on a global scale and began chronicling the ... More | | 
Gertrud Hvidberg Hansen is currently director of Faaborg Museum. Photo: Robert Wengler.
COPENHAGEN.- The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Board of Directors has appointed museum director Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen as new director of the Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen will take up the post on 1 March 2020 and hence leave her current post as director of Faaborg Museum. Morten Kyndrup, acting Chariman of the Board of Directors says: Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen is the right person at the right time to consolidate and continue the very positive development of the Glyptotek over the last few years which Christine Buhl Andersen has been in charge of. Gertrud has a broad museum experience and excellent management skills, and she is extremely competent in the field thus well equipped to lead one of Denmark's largest, best and most beautiful art museums. Museum Director Gertrud Hvidberg-Hansen says: I am looking forward to heading ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Dutch-English painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born January 08, 1836. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, OM, RA (born Lourens Alma Tadema Dutch; 8 January 1836 - 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Born in Dronrijp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. In this image: Sir Lawrence Alma-TademaÂs The Finding of Moses.
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