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The two-million-year-old skull of Paranthropus robustus, a large-toothed, small-brained ancient human cousin. It is the earliest and best-preserved specimen found so far of the species, which lived alongside, and probably competed with, Homo erectus. Photo: LaTrobe University, Melbourne.
by Nicholas St. Fleur
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- On Fathers Day in June 2018, Samantha Good was working on an excavation in the Drimolen cave in South Africas Cradle of Humankind. She uncovered what appeared to be a canine tooth jutting out from the loose brown sediment. Good kept digging until she found two more teeth and a partial palate, and then alerted her instructors. I think I said Theres something interesting happening, remembered Good, an undergraduate student studying anthropology at Vancouver Island University in British Columbia who was participating in a field school at the site. And it was in fact something very interesting. Angeline Leece, a paleoanthropologist at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, came to see what Good had found. I think my breath stopped for a second, Leece said. I looked up at her, and I hadnt said anything. But she saw my face, and she goes, Yeah, thats what I thought. Good would eventual ... More |
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 | | Biden video uses artist's vision to project a unified country | | MFA, St. Petersburg debuts major renovation of galleries | | Christie's announces online sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam | 
Lorraine O'Grady, Art Is. . . (Nubians), 1983/2009 (detail). C-print in 40 parts, 16 x 20 in. 40.64 x 50.8 cm. Edition of 8 plus 1 AP. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Lorraine OGrady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
by Zachary Small
NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- The Biden campaign approached artist Lorraine OGrady in August. OGrady had used empty, golden frames to capture the joys of community togetherness at the 1983 African-American Day Parade in Harlem, framing the people as art. The event was preserved in photographs. Inspired by the kind of unity OGradys project conveyed, the Democratic candidates campaign sought to borrow her concept for a similar message, intended to ease a divided nation. This is how, two months before the election, with OGradys blessing, the campaign created a two-minute film. It landed on the internet Saturday, shortly after the networks projected a victory for Joe ... More | | 
Medici panel.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- Beyond the arched doorway and slim, double doors that house the MFA Collection, a big change awaits museum visitors. The original 12,000-square-foot collection galleries at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg have recently reopened after a major renovation project to enhance the presentation of the museum's encyclopedic collection that spans 5,000 years of art history. MFA Executive Director and CEO Kristen A. Shepherd said the last update to the collection galleries occurred in 2013, but did not include substantial changes to the layout or placement of artworks. After months of discussions and planning with the museums curators about the objects within the collection, the collections nature, the history of the building and its galleries, and the opportunities to engage in new ways with our communities, the MFA commenced the interior construction work in Spring 2020. The project coincides with the museums 55th ... More | | 
Martin Kippenberger, Ich sehe was was du nicht siehst. Estimate: 40,000-60,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020.
AMSTERDAM.- Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art Amsterdam, an online-only auction, will take place from 10 to 26 November 2020. Reflecting the breadth of works offered in the Amsterdam live sale series, it will also offer works from two distinguished collections: Betty van Geest-van Garrel, an acclaimed Dutch journalist who wrote several books and interviewed artists for NRC Handelsblad and Ernest van Zuylen, a supporter of the CoBrA movement. The auction offers 153 works from artists around the globe, with a strong focus on German Post-War and Contemporary art, accounting for one third of the auction. Estimates range between 1,500 and 150,000, providing opportunities for collectors at all levels. Held for over half a century in the collection of celebrated Dutch arts and culture journalist and writer Betty van Geest- van Garrel, Shoe (1965, estimate: ... More |
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| | Online-only auction offers a wide assortment of objects from Hermann Historica's specialist areas | | Go digital: Convelio launches their Art + platform to champion new ways of working in the art world | | Hudson River Museum announces new west wing improvement and expansion project | 
Knightly sword. Germany, circa 1350.
MUNICH.- Now a permanent fixture in the sales programme of Hermann Historica, an online-only auction from 7 to 11 December 2020 is the rousing finale of the auction year 2020. Represented on up to nine platforms in addition to its own website and with a lineup of 3641 lots from all special fields of interest, the auction compares favourably with the live auctions held for many decades in the in-house saleroom. Paintings, particularly Old Masters, have enjoyed tremendous popularity in recent years. Some masterpieces go on to eclipse their estimated price, with the auction in early November being a case in point. Once again, prospective buyers will be spoilt for choice with a broad spectrum of works from Old Masters to prints. Collectors will be interested in the lively tavern scene of revellers berating a wayfarer, with a minstrel and numerous animals in the foreground. Attributed to Salomon Koninck (1609 1656) on the back, th ... More | | 
Convelio has launched Art + Technology: a platform to support digitalisation.
PARIS.- Art + launched on Tuesday 10th November, it is Convelios partnership platform which champions new ways of working in the artworld. Art + Technology is the first edition of the site, and it supports art businesses wanting to digitalise. It has a directory of Convelio's partner technology companies offering exclusive discounts, including Shopify. The Art + Technology website also presents a set of resources including videos, interviews, and case studies given by industry leaders on how to digitalise with the minimum time and cost investment. The platform offers free advice, from investing in technology to streamlining operations and client communications. It encourages businesses to update their internal operations to increase customer relations and sales conversions. Convelio is well placed to offer support here. They are on a mission to streamline the world of art ... More | | 
Designed by Archimuse, the West Wing project expands the Museum from approximately 40,000 to 52,000 square feet.
YONKERS, NY.- Hudson River Museum is thrilled to announce that its long-awaited West Wing capital improvement project will break ground in November 2020. The project, made possible by previously-allocated funding from Westchester County, the City of Yonkers, and New York State, includes much-needed improvements including, for the first time, dedicated special exhibition galleries with exhilarating views, a sculpture court, a 100 tiered-seat auditorium, necessary art storage space, and a climate control system, all of which will allow the Museum to organize and present cutting-edge exhibitions. The project will also allow the Museum to display and interpret far more of its permanent collection while ensuring proper storage and safekeeping of the Museums repository of cultural heritage. Designed by Archimuse, the West ... More |
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| | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 shortlist announced | | Heni Publishing to release first ever collection of essays by Robert Storr | | Swann Contemporary Art Sale to feature works from Chiron Press founder | 
Alejandro Cartagena. Man digging a hole from A Small Guide to Homeownership, 2020 © Alejandro Cartagena. Courtesy of the artist.
LONDON.- The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2021 are Poulomi Basu, Alejandro Cartagena, Cao Fei and Zineb Sedira. 2021 celebrates the 25th anniversary of this long-standing and prestigious annual prize, which recognises artists and projects deemed to have made the most significant contribution to photography over the previous 12 months. The 2021 shortlist presents four highly individual artists, whose bold wide-ranging projects cover geographical territories from Algeria to China and explore issues affecting both the local and the global. From Poulomi Basus uncompromisingly complex depiction of conflict in Central India, Alejandro Cartagenas scathing critique exploring the repercussions of homeownership and developments in northern Mexico, to Cao Feis dystopic multi-media fabrications that consider the ... More | | 
The first volume of the collected writings on art by renowned American art critic and curator Robert Storr, edited by Francesca Pietropaolo.
NEW YORK, NY.- This November, Heni will publish the first of a two-volume compilation of writings by the leading American art critic and curator Robert Storr. The 672-page collection spans two and a half decades of Storrs influential criticism, shedding light on some of the most consequential figures in modern and contemporary art, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Carroll Dunham, Eva Hesse, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Richard Serra, and Franz West. Informed by Storrs wide-ranging knowledge and his lived experience as an artist in his own right, these reviews, articles, and essays have risen above the often specialized, theory-dense discourse of the past half century to speak meaningfully and movingly to a general audience. One of the many hallmarks of Storrs work, as demonstrated in Writings on Art 1980-2005, is the ability to ... More | | 
Alex Katz, Rowboat, oil, color pencil and pencil on paper, 1966. From the Collection of Stephen Poleskie, Chiron Press, New York. Estimate $50,000 to $80,000.
NEW YORK, NY.- Contemporary Art is at Swann Galleries on Thursday, November 19 offering a selection of works on paper and multiples from the mid-twentieth century through the present. Featured in the sale is a stellar collection of works from the late Stephen Poleskie, professor emeritus of art, Cornell University, and founder of Chiron Press, New Yorks first fine art screenprinting studio, inaugurated in 1963 on East 11th Street in Lower Manhattan. Among the works in the Stephen Poleskie/Chiron Press Collection are paintings by Alex Katz, Rowboat, oil on paper, 1966 ($50,000-80,000), and Katzs Maine Landscape, oil on wood panel, circa 1965 ($30,000-50,000); preparatory drawings and screenprints by Roy Lichtenstein for several Chiron Press editions, Brushstroke, color screenprint, 1965 ($20,000-30,000), Lincoln Center Poster, felt-tip pen and ... More |
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| | Ketterer Kunst to offer works from the Deutsche Bank Collection | | Towering bronze sculpture by renowned artist Simone Leigh installed at the entrance to Penn's campus | | Sean Kelly opens an exhibition of works by Shahzia Sikander | 
Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Blau bewegt. Oil on canvas, 1957. 115 x 87,5 cm / 45,2 x 34,4.7 inches. Estimate: 200,000-300,000.
MUNICH.- Lovis Corinth, Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Günther Uecker are just a few of the renowned artists from the Collection Deutsche Bank whose works will be called up in the forthcoming Ketterer Kunst auctions. The first lots will already be offered on December 11/12 in the Munich Autumn Auction. I am very delighted that we are able to assist and advise Deutsche Bank and at the same time have an opportunity to offer our customers an array of works of utmost quality with a perfect provenance, states company owner Robert Ketterer. The bank couldnt have chosen a better time. The corona-striken market yearns for quality and provenances of this kind. Friedhelm Hütte, head of the Department of Art, Culture and Sports at Deutsche Bank explains: The aim is to further increase the focus of the Collection Deutsche Bank and to support younger artists with future acquisitions. Together with our partner Ketterer Kuns ... More | | 
Simone Leigh Brick House, University of Pennsylvania, 2020. Photo: Eric Sucar; University of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.- A monumental sculpture by acclaimed artist Simone Leigh has been installed at the corner of 34th and Walnut Streets, the gateway to College Green at the University of Pennsylvania. Titled Brick House, the piece depicts a Black womans head atop a form that suggests a skirt or perhaps a building. It is the first large-scale piece in the artists Anatomy of Architecture series that merges human form with diverse architectural elements. Cast in bronze, the work stands 16 feet high, 9 feet in diameter at its base, and weighs 5,900 pounds. Another edition of Brick House is on display on New York Citys High Line through Spring 2021. Ms. Leighs sculpture brings a striking presence of strength, grace, and beautyalong with an ineffable sense of mystery and resilienceto a central crossroad of Penns campus, said Penn President Amy Gutmann. When Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman first ... More | | 
Installation view of Shahzia Sikander: Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues at Sean Kelly, New York. November 5 December 19, 2020. Photography: Adam Reich. Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sean Kelly opened Shahzia Sikanders inaugural exhibition with the gallery and her first exhibition in New York City in nine years. Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues is an expansive, in-depth look into Sikanders recent work, featuring the artists dynamic large-and-intimately-scaled drawings, a captivating new single channel video-animation, luminous, intricate mosaics and her first ever free-standing sculpture. Shahzia Sikander takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as the point of departure for her work. From premodern beginnings to contemporary influences, it is precisely this historical continuum and its continuous capacity for reinvention that has sparked Sikanders visually rich engagement in multiple media. The works in the exhibition explore tensions between power and powerlessness to present transformative ideas. Sikander's ... More |
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 Phillips in association with Bacs & Russo to offer watches from the collection of Sylvester StalloneNEW YORK, NY.- Phillips in Association with Bacs and Russo is delighted to announce the sale of five wristwatches from the collection of multiple Academy Award®-Nominated and Golden Globe-Winning actor, Sylvester Stallone. The collection will be auctioned during the thematic New York Watches auction, Racing Pulse, on Saturday, 12 December, including the Panerai Luminor worn for Mr. Stallones role in Daylight that can be considered the most important modern Panerai wristwatch ever offered publicly. Four exceptional Richard Mille watches will also be offered, including one inspired by Mr. Stallone, and one worn by him in the film The Expendables 3. Paul Boutros, Phillips Head of Watches, Americas, said, Sylvester Stallone has been a household name for decades due to his iconic roles in films that have skyrocketed to the status ... More Stylish Modern Made auction a success for Lyon & Turnbull in LondonLONDON.- Lyon & Turnbulls Modern Made auction at The Mall Galleries in London on October 23 proved a resounding success. The multi-discipline sale of modern and contemporary art, design and craft posted £800,000*, striking a chord with clients for whom 2020 has been a year to focus on the home. At this difficult moment, some collectors do have extra disposable income and more time to devote to their passion said Head of Sale Philip Smith . This type of sale is a perfect arena to starting a new collection, further their interest in the fields or look for an investment for the future. Important works from across the Modern British canon provided some of the high notes, headlined at £25,000* by The Red Curtain, a key Camden Town school work by William Ratcliffe (1870-1955). Dated to c.1916 - and included in The London Group held ... More Want to play La Parisienne? Here's howPARIS (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- France may have gone back into lockdown last month, but it still has an international ambassador on small screens everywhere thanks to actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, aka Sylvie Grateau in the love-to-hate-it Netflix series Emily in Paris. As the head of a luxury marketing agency who overdresses, smokes, mocks political correctness and oozes meanness, she is the extreme version of the Parisienne, disseminating style and scorn in equal measure. And though she inhabits the role so completely that it has made her into a star at 57, Leroy-Beaulieu has some very definite feelings about the myth of what she calls the French bitch: what is fact, what is fiction and what is worth considering. Its a useful reminder that, while stereotypes are easy to sell the French have described the series as a ragout ... More Lifting the veil on a German father's Nazi secret HAMBURG (AFP).- Barbara Brix admired her father, a doctor who passed on his love of history and literature. Until she learned years after his passing that he had been part of a Nazi death squad. "I didn't meet my father until I was six years old. When he came back from the war, he had lost both his legs," Brix, a 79-year-old German pensioner, told AFP. "He read Tolstoy, Dickens to me... He was kind of my spiritual mentor," said the retired history teacher in her small apartment in an alternative district of Hamburg. "My father didn't talk about it and I didn't ask any questions, not even this simple question: 'Dad, how did you lose your legs?'" said Brix. After the 1950s, marked in West Germany by the strong desire to leave the past behind, the 1960s saw a tentative dialogue begin in many families, with young people demanding explanations from their parents. Brix ... More Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum enters period of transformational changeCAMBRIDGE.- Luke Syson, the Director of Cambridge Universitys Fitzwilliam Museum, announced today the organisation is entering a period of transformational change. Mr Syson and the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum have appointed two acclaimed museum professionals, Karen Livingstone and Neal Spencer, who will join the Fitzwilliam in February 2021 as new Deputy Directors to be part of the team to lead the Museum through this period of change, rejuvenating the Fitzwilliam, not just as the Universitys leading visitor attraction, but as an international resource. During the pandemic the Fitzwilliam built and launched a new Beta website to public consultation, alongside producing a new series of art in lockdown podcasts, as it seeks to broaden and modernise its digital offer. As the principal museum of Cambridge University ... More Louisiana Art & Science Museum releases LASM 360, a fully immersive virtual experienceBATON ROUGE, LA.- LASM has released LASM 360, a fully immersive virtual experience accessible by computer, smartphone, tablet, and Virtual Reality headset. Hosted at virtual-lasm.org/lasm-360, this free-access digital museum and planetarium experience is the first of its kind and provides educational, entertaining opportunities for all, regardless of health, geographic location, or socioeconomic status. LASM 360 is our creative solution to a significant problem, states Serena Pandos, LASM President & Executive Director. Many people are not currently able to visit LASM in-person for myriad reasons. Whether youre quarantined or isolated, working late and unable to visit during our public access hours, cannot afford admission, or just want to visit LASM from the comfort of your own home, you can access your museum 24/7 with LASM ... More 'The Power of Adrienne Rich' captures a forceful and complicated poetNEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE).- Long before I read her, I disliked Adrienne Rich. It was received opinion. When I was in high school, the people I respected (English teachers, good ones, and fellow bookstore employees, male and female) rolled their eyes at the mention of her name. She was a radical lesbian separatist who didnt want men at her readings and would not respond to their questions. She was, it was thought, a humorless scold. Worse, Rich was perceived to have bent her sensitive talent on a political wheel. When Susan Sontag cracked her on the snout in an exchange of views in The New York Review of Books in 1975, referring to her anti-intellectualism, it was catnip for what would become my crowd. It took me two decades to push past this and to read Rich on my own. I located the diamantine intensities in so many of her poems, ... More Joanna Piotrowska donates her photographs to help fight violence against womenWARSAW.- One of the most important Polish artists of the young generation, Joanna Piotrowska, together with the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, has decided to support the Feminoteka Foundation, fighting with gender discrimination and violence against women. The first 100 people who make a donation of at least 500 PLN to the Foundation using the zrzutka.pl platform will receive a limited edition copy of a photograph by the artist. The campaign will begin on 9 November and will last until the end of the month. With exhibitions in leading art institutions around the world (including Tate Britain in London and MoMA in New York) Joanna Piotrowska is today one of the most recognisable Polish artists on the international arena. For years, her work has been closely related to the problem of violence against women both physical and mental, often ... More Works from Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre seize spotlight in Modern & Contemporary Art eventDALLAS, TX.- Nearly 60 installations, paintings and sculptures from the collection of an important collector and board member at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Robert J. Dodds III, will reach new destinations when they are sold in Heritage Auctions' Modern & Contemporary Art Auction Nov. 19. Robert J. Dodds III, a trusts and estates lawyer and renowned collector, was a leader in the fine art community in western Pennsylvania. Thanks in part to his personal gifts, as well as those from his family's charitable trust and from his law partners, the CMOA's collection added important works by Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Lothar Baumgarten, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman and William Wegman, among others. "Part of what makes Robert Dodds's collection so fascinating is that so many of his higher-value lots are installations, situational works, Heritage ... More Nuggets of gold to pieces of Mars spotlight Natural History Auction at HeritageDALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions' Nature & Science Signature Auction is online and open for bidding, presenting collectors a classic assortment of "nature's fine art covering categories ranging from fossils, meteorites, minerals, gemstones and Lapidary Arts. The auction closes Nov. 10 on HA.com. "From intriguing Dinosaur Bones to colorful slabs of Petrified Wood, from quite collectible and rare Meteorite varieties to vibrant Fine Mineral specimens of exquisite form, this assortment offers a myriad of wonderful items of top quality, said Craig Kissick, Director of Natural History at Heritage Auctions. "With a range of sizes and values, there is truly something for everyone in this sale, whether seasoned collector or simply enthusiastic novice. Rare gold nuggets and pure gold specimens in native matrix are catching bidders' eyes, with a quintessential ... More New major exhibition features Chicago artists inspired by the current moment CHICAGO, IL.- This November, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents The Long Dream, a major exhibition inspired by the current moment that gives shape to issues heightened by the pandemic and social unrest. The exhibition features over 70 Chicago artists collaboratively selected by the museums diverse team of curators and programmers with different backgrounds and specialties, ranging from the visual arts to performance and public practice. Named after a novel by renowned author Richard Wright, The Long Dream is part reflection on the state of the world after the arrival of COVID-19, and part celebration of Chicago artists and creatives. Blending work by emerging voices with established artists in Chicago, The Long Dream presents many never-before-seen works, along with labels written in collaboration with youth groups ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, French painter Paul Signac was born November 11, 1863. Paul Signac (11 November 1863 - 15 August 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. In this image: Esther Lausek from Hungary takes a look at the painting "The Jetty at Cassis" by Paul Signac that is on display at the exhibition "The nicest Frenchmen come from New York City" in Berlin, Wednesday, May 30, 2007.
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