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A coffin from Egypt (c. 700-600 BC) is displayed at the Field Museum on March 13, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. The artifact is part of the new Mummies exhibit which opens to the public on March 16 and features mummies from ancient Egypt and Peru. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP.
CHICAGO, IL.- Mummies, The Field Museums newest special exhibition, uses modern technologies to take an unparalleled look at the remains of the ancient people within the wrappings. With the help of CT scanners and 3D imaging, scientists can explore what these peoples lives may have been like and even what they looked like when they were alive. Visitors will be able to examine Egyptian mummies as never before, in addition to those from other places and cultures like South America. One of the unique things about this exhibition is the inclusion of the Peruvian mummification traditions, which started much earlier than in Egypt and lasted until the Spanish conquest 500 years ago, says Curator Ryan Williams. That seven thousand year history of Andean mummification is something most people have never heard previously. This illuminative exhibit uses cutting-edge technology to take a look at mummies in a new light. ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Kuwaiti women are seen at the planets section at the Sheikh Abdullah al-Salem Cultural Centre as they prepare for its official opening, in Kuwait City on March 13, 2018. The centre is one of the world's largest cultural complexes housing a total of 22 galleries with over 1,100 exhibits. The complex offers a Natural History Museum, Science and Technology Museum, a Fine Arts Centre, Arabic Islamic Science Museum, Space Museum, and Theatre. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP
| Global art market up 12% to USD 63.7 billion, after two years of decline, with mixed performances across sectors | | High on luxury: Lost treasures from the Roman Empire on view at Denmark's Glyptotek | | Sotheby's to offer masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel | 
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BASEL.- Art Basel and UBS today published the second edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. Written by renowned cultural economist Dr Clare McAndrew, Founder of Arts Economics, The Art Market 2018 presents the results of a comprehensive and macro-level analysis of the global art market in 2017. Last year, the global art market grew by 12%, reaching an estimated USD 63.7 billion, with the United States retaining its position as the largest market and China narrowly overtaking the United Kingdom in second place. In 2017, dealer sales increased 4% year-on-year to an estimated USD 33.7 billion, representing a 53% share of the market, while public auction sales increased 27% to USD 28.5 billion, a 47% share. Much of the uplift in sales in the auction and dealer sectors was at the top end of the market; away from the premium price segment, overall market performance was mixed. The full report is free to download on the Art Basel and UBS websites. A continuation of Dr ... More | | 
Beaker commemorating the Isthmian Games. Photo: Tahnee Cracchiola.
COPENHAGEN.- The unique Roman silver treasure from Berthouville in France has previously only been exhibited in the USA and France. Now, exceptionally, it is on view in Denmark. It is the 3rd century AD and the Roman Empire extends across vast areas of Europe. In these occupied regions, for better or for worse, the Romans spread their culture. This also includes a decadent proclivity for celebration and excess. From 14th March 2018 visitors to the Glyptotek can give their imagination free rein as regards celebration and excess at the exhibition High on Luxury. Lost Treasures from the Roman Empire. Here the Glyptotek is presenting the Berthouville Treasure along with a number of other luxury artifacts from the Roman Empire. To create the perfect Imperial Roman atmosphere in the exhibition, one can, while moving around between the ancient goblets, jugs and dishes, listen to podcast magazine Third Ears soundtrack, which takes ... More | | 
Roy Lichtenstein, Girl With Still Life in Landscape, 1976. Oil and Magna on canvas, 48 x 40 inches. Estimate $7/10 million. Courtesy Sothebys.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sothebys announced the sale of 26 masterworks from the collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel in a dedicated auction on the evening of 16 May 2018 in New York. A pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, Morton Mandel, together with his wife Barbara, amassed an enviable collection over several decades, which spans many of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century: from Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism; to Minimalism and Pop, with an equal emphasis on paintings, works-on-paper and sculpture. Entitled Raising the Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel, the auction takes inspiration from one of the renowned businessmans early slogans, Always Trying to Raise the Bar, and features outstanding examples by artists including Joan Miró, Mark Rothko, Roy Lichtenstein, David Smith and Donald Judd. A selection of highlights from the ... More |
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| London mosques get listed status celebrating Muslim heritage | | Russia picks deaf museum cat as World Cup oracle | | Phillips to offer the Michel and Sally Strauss Contemporary Photography Collection | 
In this file photo taken on July 15, 2005 Muslims kneel at London's Central Mosque in Regents Park during Friday's prayers. Carl DE SOUZA / AFP.
LONDON (AFP).- Two London mosques were given special listed status Tuesday in recognition of their architectural and historic importance, in a move a government minister said celebrated "the rich heritage of Muslim communities in England". The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre in Regent's Park, central London, and the Fazl Mosque in the southwest of the British capital were both listed as Grade II buildings by the government's culture department. The special Grade II status is awarded to just 5.8 percent of approximately 500,000 listed buildings in England, marking them out as particularly important sites and giving them greater protection. "By listing these beautiful mosques, we are not only preserving important places of worship, but also celebrating the rich heritage of Muslim communities in England," said Heritage Minister Michael Ellis. A fund to establish ... More | | 
In this file photo taken on June 22, 2017 Achille the cat, one of the State Hermitage Museum mice hunters, approaches an Australian national flag during a prediction event of the results of the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup. Olga MALTSEVA / AFP.
MOSCOW (AFP).- Russia on Monday named a deaf white cat who lives in Saint Petersburg's historic Hermitage Museum as its official prognosticator for the World Cup. Achilles the Cat will hope to repeat the fabled exploits of Paul the Octopus and other "psychic" animals tasked with predicting winners of football's showpiece event. "We will hold a special press conference and hand Achilles a Fan ID card," the Hermitage Museum's cat press secretary Mary Khaltunen told the R-Sport news agency. The fact that Russia's most fabled collection of art has a spokeswoman for cats may be news to some. But R-Sport says Hermitage Museum cats are legion -- and apparently football experts. The cats were first brought to the Hermitage when Peter the Great made its Winter Palace into the new imperial ... More | | 
Michael Wolf, Architecture of Density #119, 2005. Estimate: £15,000-20,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips will offer the renowned contemporary photography collection of Michel and Sally Strauss on 18 May 2018 in London as part of the Photographs Day Sale. Assembled over the past two decades, and including important works by celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, the collection vividly captures the couples distinct, artistic eye. Comprising 50 lots, the collection features outstanding works by Edward Burtynsky, Candida Höfer, Nadav Kander, Clifford Ross and Michael Wolf, among others. Genevieve Janvrin, Co-Head of Photographs, Europe, said: We are thrilled to offer photographs from the Collection of Michel and Sally Strauss. This is a collection of exquisite quality and grandeur and presents clients with the unique opportunity to acquire works chosen by a collector with over 40 years experience in the art world. Michel and Sally Strauss passion for collecting contemporary ... More |
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| Artwork removed from church following complaints from parishioners | | First retrospective exhibition for Ukrainian American artist Yaroslava Surmach Mills opens in New York City | | Ventures guitarist who popularized instrumental rock dead at 82 | 
The life-sized stormtrooper crucifixion sculpture was due to be unveiled tomorrow as part of Art Below's Stations of the Cross exhibition, which also features the work of Francis Bacon.
LONDON.- The life size white imperial stormtrooper from the original 1977 Star Wars film hung on a wooden cross titled Crucified Stormtrooper will go on sale for £12,000 and is by Ryan Callanan, an artist who, under his street artist pseudonym of RYCA, has worked with Kasabian and Fatboy Slim. St.Walbrook, the historic dome shaped church designed by Christopher Wren in 1672 based in the heart of the City of London will host Art Below's 'Stations of the Cross' until 23rd March and includes crucifixion themed artworks by artists Paul Benney, Ricardo Cinalli, Sebastian Horsley and Ben Eine. The exhibition also features a pastel drawing that Francis Bacon donated to his Italian lover Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino between 1977 and 1992. This will be the third crucifixion themed exhibition to be curated by Ben Moore in support ... More | | 
Yaroslava Surmach Mills, My Father's Village (detail)
NEW YORK, NY.- Yaroslava Surmach Mills: Retrospective opened to the public on March 7, 2018 at The Ukrainian Museum. An exhibition of Yaroslava Surmach Mills' (19252008) wide-ranging work, it showcases more than eighty objects including glass paintings, etchings, icons, books, a selection of her pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs), and drawings. Examples of the stained-glass windows she designed, as well as other images, are presented in visual projections. The exhibition places special emphasis on Surmach Mills' unique reverse glass paintings that depict and illuminate Ukrainian folk life. On display through September 2, 2018, Yaroslava Surmach Mills: Retrospective was curated for The Ukrainian Museum by Hanya Krill-Pyziur. Yaroslava Surmach Mills (19252008) was a Ukrainian American artist whose career spanned nearly sixty years. A graduate of The Cooper Union, Yaroslavaas she signed her workwas trained as a fine artis ... More | | 
The group's energetic take of "Walk, Don't Run," a song popularized by country star Chet Atkins, unexpectedly gained popularity on Seattle radio in 1960, leading to a record deal as the track rose to number two on the nationwide singles chart.
NEW YORK (AFP).- Nokie Edwards, whose surfer-suave guitar with The Ventures helped create the genre of instrumental rock and influenced generations of younger artists, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 82. The Ventures' bassist turned lead guitarist died Monday after several months of battling an infection related to a hip surgery, the band said in a statement. Emerging in the Seattle area in the early 1960s, several years before the Beatles would transform pop music, The Ventures are considered the best-selling instrumental rock band of all time, with the group estimating sales of more than 100 million records. They are best known for the theme to the television show "Hawaii Five-O," the song's jangly edge and rapid pace seeming to match the program's plots of police drama ... More |
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| The Armory Show 2018 closes with critical acclaim and strong sales reported throughout the week | | DRAF appoints Fatoş Ãstek as new Director and announces 2018 programme | | A drawing by Gauguin and a masterpiece by Canaletto lead feast of drawings at the Salon du Dessin in Paris | 
Armory Show 2018 Day 1. Photos by Teddy Wolff.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Armory Show closed on Sunday, March 11 with outstanding and consistent sales ranging from four to seven figures throughout the week, and a robust turnout of collectors from across the United States. Exhibitors noted the significant presence of curators and museum patron groups during the fair, in addition to numerous institutional acquisitions. The 2018 edition debuted a new layout, highlighted by the expanded Focus section and new Town Square on Pier 92. The fairs improved layout, designed by Bade Stageberg Cox, as well as the decision to reduce the number of exhibitors, was positively received by collectors and exhibitors alike. Now in its 24th year, this years edition featured 198 galleries from 31 countries, with 66 new exhibitors, including several who have returned after years of absence, including Galerie Eigen + Art (Berlin), Gagosian (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, ... More | | 
Prior to joining DRAF, Fatoş Ãstek worked internationally as an independent curator and writer. Photo Josh Meeks-Rayvon Williams, 2016.
LONDON.- DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) has appointed independent curator Fatoş Ãstek to lead its celebrated programme of exhibitions and performances. Ãstek will oversee the expansion of the Foundations presence in London and the development of new initiatives across the UK. In October 2018, Ãstek will curate the eleventh edition of DRAFs Evening of Performances. The popular annual event will return to KOKO, London, bringing live works by internationally renowned and emerging artists to over 1,500 visitors during the week of Frieze London. DRAF is one of the most dynamic arts organisations in London today, renowned for its innovative programme. I am honoured to lead and advance its remarkable commitment to art and artists. I am excited to build on DRAFs values as we start another chapter of engaging artistic and critical agency. Fatoş ... More | | 
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768), Teh Doges crowning on Scala dei Giganti (detail). Pencil, brown ink and grey wash heightened with white on black stone, 389 x 554 mm. Jean-Luc Baroni.
PARIS.- The Art World will once again make its way to the Salon du Dessin at the Palais Brongniart in Paris from 21 26 March to take a fresh look at the subject of drawing, a sometimes overlooked aspect of art. Among the highlights on show will be a Gauguin (at around 500,000), a masterpiece by Canaletto (more than 3,500,000) presented by Jean Luc Baroni, and the collection of Theodore Rousseau presented by Jill Newhouse Gallery from NY : 10 works on paper by Theodore Rousseau from a private collection, unseen on the market for many generations. These works include a large black chalk drawing (49 x 64 cm) of circa 1844 that is related to a lost painting Fermes dans Les Landes (1844-47) engraved by Masson, and a very rare pastel of 1855, as well as an early drawing ... More |
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 Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo to offer the only known vintage white gold Rolex DaytonaGENEVA.- There are watches so precious that their very existence baffles the most seasoned of collectors. So elusive, that only a few can claim to have seen one in the flesh. This extraordinary vintage white gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, reference 6265, also known as The Unicorn, is emphatically such a watch. Having presided in one of the worlds finest watch collections for many years, it appears at public auction for the very first time this season. Until now, its owner has always asserted that this Cosmograph would never be for sale. Quite simply, it was irreplaceable. But realizing the good that could come from a public sale, John Goldberger has decided the time has come to part with it. The watch will be sold for the benefit of Children Action, a foundation dedicated to helping the lives of youth around the world. It will headline Daytona Ultimatum, a ... More Hauser & Wirth Zürich opens an exhibition of new paintings and etchings by Anj SmithZURICH.- Hauser & Wirth Zürich will present an exhibition of new paintings and etchings by Anj Smith, which marks the artists first solo presentation in Switzerland. Eroticism, mortality and fragility are explored alongside investigations into the psychological territory of anxiety. With exquisite detail co-existing alongside jewelled colour banks and thick impasto, Smith continues her interrogation and celebration of the medium of painting. If Not, Winter is suffused with a resuscitation of lost, fragile and complex narratives. Referring to a surviving fragment of a lyrical poem by archaic Greek poet Sappho, of which just these three truncated words exist, the poem acts as a springboard for the exploration of language and painting in the context of an asymmetrical and uneven canon. Smith states of the poem, it is in itself both a whole entity and also a signifier of loss; ... More US-backed culture centres under pressure in ChinaBEIJING (AFP).- The interrogation of the American cultural centre staffer lasted an hour and a half. The Chinese police got straight to the point: where did it get its funding? How did it vet speakers? And most importantly, what was its connection to the US government? It was an extreme case, but not unusual. The US State Department documented over 150 examples of Chinese interference in American public diplomacy efforts between January 2016 and April 2017, carried out in the name of countering "hostile foreign forces" -- alleged saboteurs plotting to overthrow the Communist Party's rule. The pressure has disrupted numerous cultural initiatives from salsa concerts and movie nights to visiting scholar programmes, even as China scoffs at growing concerns about the political influence of its own "Confucius Institutes", which have mushroomed around ... More Flats, Flats, Flats! Exhibition at Pinakothek der Moderne explores housing in Bavaria MUNICH.- The topic of housing development is as relevant today as it was one hundred years ago. This exhibition part of the Wir feiern Bayern centenary celebrations in 2018 marking the founding of the Free State of Bavaria focuses on residential architecture in Bavaria and presents its history, from the very first government initiatives on housing policy after the First World War to the challenges and funding models of today. The right to housing was written into the 1919 Weimar Constitution, laying the foundations for a social housing policy whose various manifestations and priorities over the years have continued, to this day, to exert an influence on subsidised housing construction and thus on housing structures and patterns in cities and municipalities. More than forty examples of architectural solutions to housing issues are displayed in chronological ... More In Colombia, birders find their version of EdenCALI (AFP).- Despite his small stature, 10-year-old Juan David Camacho has big dreams: pacing through Colombia's jungle with binoculars in tow, he aims to spot all the bird species his country offers. It's a mighty goal: Colombia boasts the greatest number of bird types on the planet -- 1,920, or 19 percent of those on the planet -- a veritable paradise for birders. "We leave very early with our cameras, binoculars and tripods and we watch the birds until around noon, in silence," says the young boy -- continuing to scan the area to make sure he doesn't miss a rare specimen perched on a branch in the forests near Cali. Since his father first took him birdwatching three years ago, his love of searching for feathered friends has come to rival even his passion for football, a favored pastime in Colombia. Once a month he journeys through the tropical forests surrounding Cali, ... More An obsession with time has led to a new exhibition at The David Roche CollectionADELAIDE.- The David Roche Collection will stage a new exhibition of 34 exquisite French and English clocks, dating from the late 17th century to the early 20th century, which David Roche collected because of his obsession with time. The new exhibition, Imperial & Royal Clocks: Romantic & Scientific, is the first time these rare and opulent clocks have been on public display together. David Roche, who left his entire collection of more than 3,500 decorative arts to the people of Adelaide had, during his long life, been immersed in the intricacies of clocks for their decorative appeal. No matter the horological significance of the movement within the clocks, David was only interested in the clocks decorative façade. He was obsessed with time though struggled to be on time said Martyn Cook, Museum Director of The David Roche Collection and Curator of the exhibition. David ... More Chess & poetry: Noble pursuits reign at Swann Early Printed SaleNEW YORK, NY.- On March 8, Swann Galleries held an auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, coinciding with the opening of Rare Book Week in New York City. With 94% of offered lots sold, the sale exceeded its high estimate by more than $200,000, indicating a healthy market for early printed material. The paramount performance of the auction was due in large part to an Elizabethan literary critique with a complicated publication history: Sir Philip Sidneys influential treatise The Defence of Poesie first appeared in 1595 in two editions set from different manuscripts. Two parties fought for the right to publish it: William Ponsonby was granted the publication rights first, but Henry Olney managed to publish an unauthorized first edition as An Apologie for Poetrie. Ponsonby published the authorized edition as The Defence of Poesie. In the same ... More kubo-kutxa presents a retrospective exhibition on the painter Alejandro GarmendiaSAN SEBASTIÃN.- The Kubo-kutxa venue in San Sebastián presents the retrospective exhibition Alejandro Garmendia. Paisajes, enigma y melancolÃa (Alejandro Garmendia. Landscapes, Enigma and Melancholy), from 2nd March to 27th May 2018. Curated by Fernando Golvano, the show offers an exhaustive review of the varied career of this artist from Donostia / San Sebastián, who died last year. Alejandro Garmendia's multi-faceted talent adheres to a certain modern legacy of the transgressive poetics of the earliest artistic avant-gardes. The exhibition features over 100 works by this prolific artist, including oils, mixed media, sculptures, sketches, collages, comics, performances and a collection of surprising musical pieces and two films (Berlin and Gilles de Rais). Alejandro Garmendia's life and work was influenced by the cities in which he lived and ... More Exhibition showcases nine artists and their plans to create major public artworks for London railwayLONDON.- Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line opened today at the Whitechapel Gallery, showcasing nine internationally renowned artists and their plans to create major public artworks for Londons newest railway, the Elizabeth line. Curated by the Whitechapel Gallery in partnership with Crossrail, the exhibition brings together sketches, maquettes and prototypes to reveal the artists ideas transformed into deliverable public art. The artists and the locations for their new artworks on the Elizabeth line from West to East are: Spencer Finch (Paddington); Darren Almond (Bond Street), Douglas Gordon (Tottenham Court Road), Richard Wright (Tottenham Court Road), Simon Periton (Farringdon), Yayoi Kusama (Liverpool Street), Conrad Shawcross (Liverpool Street), Chantal Joffe (Whitechapel), ... More Six-figure ivory headlines as series of notable sales for Charles Ede in first few days at TEFAF MaastrichtHELVOIRT.- Mayfair ancient art dealers Charles Ede have had a busy first few days at the 2018 TEFAF Maastricht fair, with sales from as low as 250 for a small Egyptian scarab to as high as six figures. Managing director Martin Clist is delighted that among the first pieces to find a new home was the stands centerpiece: a rare Roman carved ivory relief dating to the 2nd-3rd century AD. An unusually large piece of this type at 9.5 x 15.5cm, it depicts a drunken Papa Silenos supported by two naked satyrs accompanied by a torch-lit procession before the temple with the palm tree in the background. I dont recall such an ivory piece of this quality and size being on the market for a long while, says Clist. The preservation of ancient ivory is uncommon, as an organic material it can easily decay. The material was then, as now, seen as a material of luxury and therefore would ... More Yinka Shonibare unveils new sculpture at Allentown Art MuseumALLENTOWN, PA.- Yinka Shonibare is influential; his work is thought provoking; the materials he uses in his sculpture are colorful, whimsical and powerful. The Allentown Art Museum provided the venue and the opportunity to see his work and hear him discuss his art and his global perspective during a special limited exhibition this weekend of the Museums acquisition Girl Balancing Knowledge III. I deal with delicate political issues in the world, the artist said Saturday during a one-hour conversation with David Mickenberg, the Museums Priscilla Payne Hurd President and CEO. The most important aspect of this work is feminist. Its also challenging a lot of assumptions within our society, and its also about power and the role of young women within our society, Shonibare said. Its also dangerous if we dont educate young women. Its dangerous also for all of our futures and ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler was born March 14, 1853. Ferdinand Hodler (March 14, 1853 - May 19, 1918) was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism he called "parallelism". In this image: Ferdinand Hodler, The Reaper, c. 1910 © Christoph Blocher Collection, Photo: SIK-ISEA, Zürich
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