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An undated photo provided by Volker Minkus shows the skull of a cave lion found near Siegsdorf in the Bavarian Alps in 1985, estimated to be about 48,000 years old. An academic paper published in the journal Scientific Reports proposes that our long-extinct ancestors were not just the first humans to kill and butcher large predators, but that they also used the hides for cultural purposes and perhaps even dressed in them. (Volker Minkus via The New York Times)
by Franz Lidz
NEW YORK, NY.- Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat. As it turns out, the Neanderthals of, say, 46,000 B.C. may have had similar dining habits and tastes in daywear. An academic paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports proposes that our long-extinct ancestors not only were the first humans to kill and butcher large predators, but that they also used the hides for cultural purposes and perhaps even dressed in them. Researchers analyzed cut marks and puncture wounds on the remains of two Eurasian cave lions unearthed 34 years apart in present-day Germany. One set of bones an almost intact skeleton found near Siegsdorf at the foot of the Bavarian Alps in 1985 is estimated to be about 48,000 years old. The other assemblage two toe bones and one tiny paw bone that had been embedded in a pelt that later disintegrated was disc ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Phillips announced highlights from the London Design auction, taking place on 31 October. Featuring 136 lots, the sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century French, Italian, Brazilian, Contemporary, and Scandinavian design.
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| Tim Blum announces renaming of gallery to BLUM and forthcoming opening of new space in Tribeca | | German artist Henrik Eiben exhibiting 'Look Before You Leap' at Bartha Contemporary | | The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg welcomes Jane Poynter to discuss 'The Overview Effect' | 
New space to launch with major survey of Japanese art in celebration of gallery's 30th anniversary.
NEW YORK, NY.- Tim Blum today announced the renaming of Blum & Poe to BLUM as well as plans to open a new and larger New York location in 2024. As the gallery looks ahead to its 30th anniversary next year, its renaming and launch of a new space together mark the beginning of the next chapter and celebrate its continued evolution. In addition to the Los Angeles and Tokyo locations, a two-floor 6,200-square foot Tribeca gallery at 9 White Street will enable BLUM to continue to mount expansive exhibitions, showcasing its robust global programming. To celebrate the gallerys 30th anniversary, BLUM will inaugurate the Tribeca space in spring 2024 with an inter-generational and cross-disciplinary survey of Japanese art from the 1960s to today, co-curated by Tim Blum and Mika Yoshitake. This endeavor reflects on Blums first trip to Japan ... More | | 
Henrik Eiben, Small Ikesaedo, 2023. Cooper, brass, lacquer, 185 Ã 55 Ã 45 cm | 72 ⅛ Ã 21 ⅓ Ã 17 ⅛ in.
LONDON.- Bartha Contemporary is exhibiting, Leap Before You Look, by the German artist Henrik Eiben. The artists fifth solo exhibition with the gallery opened on Thursday, October 12th, 2023. Leap Before You Look showcases a collection of Henrik Eibens most recent works, exploring innovative forms and mediums and presenting an array of captivating pieces that reflect the artists diversified approach. The exhibition's title, which echoes a poem by British-American poet W.H. Auden, introduces an overarching theme of peril. Indeed, Audens lines, The sense of danger must not disappear, find reflection in the artworks acute, razor-like edges, unlikely physics, or enticing tactile surfaces, which conceal shattered glass elements. Known for his multi-faceted compositions, Eibens work traverses multiple mediums and scales, constantly pushing the boundarie ... More | | 
The Earth from Apollo 8 as it rounded the dark side of the moon. Photograph: NASA.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, is pleased to host Founder, Co-CEO, and Chief Experience Officer of Space Perspective Jane Poynter for a fascinating talk, The Overview Effect, on October 19, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. The Overview Effect is part of a series of public programming events designed to illuminate the MFA's forthcoming exhibition, The Nature of Art, which looks at the disparate ways humans have engaged in artistic expression to understand our environment, mediate our relationship with nature, and attain a more profound comprehension of our role within the world. This exhibition is a celebration of the highest aspirations of humankindthe intellectual and creative activities that reflect and shape the world in which we live. A pivotal moment in human history occurred with the first sighting of the Earthrise, an image ... More |
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| Rirkrit Tiravanija's largest exhibition to date is now open at MoMA PS1 | | Bonhams to offer a curated selection of macabre masterpieces from the collection of the late Richard Harris | | 'Symbiotics' a group exhibition and public programme by miss dialectic curatorial team | 
Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2017 (fear eats the soul) (white flag), 2017. Flag, 183 Ã 320 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- From the start of his practice, a critical material for Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai, b. 1961) has been the presence of a lot of peoplea purposefully broad and expansive term that stands as an open invitation to everyone and anyone, present and future. His largest exhibition to date, Rirkrit Tiravanija: A LOT OF PEOPLE traces four decades of the artists career and features over 100 works, from early experimentations with installation and film, to works on paper, photographs, ephemera, sculptures, and newly produced plays of key participatory pieces. Extending across our second-floor galleries, lobby, and Courtyard, the exhibition includes rarely seen early works that address his experiences as an immigrant with a palpable sense of otherness in a Western-centric art world, alongside more recent series that tackle global politics and the quotidian news cycle. Critical to the evolution of recent art in New York City and worldwide, Tiravanija ... More | | 
Jim Dine (B. 1935), The Face in the Rage of Red, 1986. Estimate: $20,000-30,000. Photo: Bonhams.
NEW YORK, NY.- Bonhams presents Dance of Death, a curated selection of macabre masterpieces from the collection of the late Richard Harris. The sale will take place from October 21 November 1 and will feature an extraordinary group of over 115 works focused on the iconography of death. After retiring in 2001 from his business as an antique prints dealer in Chicago, Harris began to amass a distinctly unusual group of works which he called the Visual Gateway to the Conversation about Death. The outstanding selection features works in a range of mediums from vernacular photography and ephemera to masterpieces of sculpture, drawing, print and painting. The collection stems from what Harris called his unquenchable curiosity to investigate the visual subject of Death and it highlights our everlasting quest to make peace with this universal, inevitable part of life. Two highlights of the sale are striking paintings by celebr ... More | | 
Maria Varela, Rugs of Life, 2020. Installation, two handmade rugs (185 Ã 103 cm and 191 Ã 91 cm), black & white video, no sound, 5' loop. Produced in collaboration with the Twanza Cooperative. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Anna Primou.
ATHENS.- Symbiotics, by the miss dialectic curatorial team, was chosen through an open call process by EMΣΤ | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, for the submission of proposals for a group exhibition. A contemporary narrative on coexistence, which focuses on the process of communication through female art practices, defines the conceptual core of the project, which comprises a group exhibition, framed by a broad programme of public events. The exhibition presents works by four contemporary Greek visual artists Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Karolina Krasouli, Christina Mitrentse, and Maria Varela as well as by the artist group Phantom Investigations (Giannis Delagrammatikas and Ino Varvariti). Compositions by Chryssa, Bia Davou, and Nausica Pastra, from the EMΣT collection, complete the ... More |
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| "This Is Me, This Is You.: The Eva Felten Photography Collection" at Museum Brandhorst | | Phillips announces highlights from the London Design Auction | | Yevgeniya Baras 'Stargazer' opening today at Sargent's Daughters, New York | 
Roni Horn, This Is Me, This Is You (detail), 1997-2000.
MÃNCHEN.- The exhibition This Is Me, This Is You provides the public with a first glimpse into an internationally significant photo collection that has grown over four decades. The generous donation of the Eva Felten Photography Collection enlarges the Museum Brandhorst inventory by 429 works by more than 140 artists from the 1930s to the present day. The donation marks a historic moment in the history of the museum, whose collection it not only decisively enlarges, but also enriches with the medium of photography, a central practice of 20th and 21st century art. It thus also closes a gap at Museum Brandhorst, which since its opening in 2009 has grown into one of the most important museums for contemporary art in Germany. This Is Me, This Is You brings together renowned positions in the history of photography from Robert Frank, Evelyn Hofer, Gordon Parks to Isaac Julien, Sherrie Levine, Richard ... More | | 
Jean Royère, Coffee table, circa 1955. Estimate: £120,000 - 180,000. Image courtesy of Phillips.
LONDON.- Phillips announced highlights from the London Design auction, taking place on 31 October. Featuring 136 lots, the sale brings together rare and important works of 20th and 21st century French, Italian, Brazilian, Contemporary, and Scandinavian design. Ahead of the Design auction on 31 October, the sale will be on view at Phillips London galleries on Berkeley Square from 25 to 31 October, alongside the exhibition for Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Exceptional Ceramics: Selections from the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel, which will be offered in a standalone auction on the following day,1 November. Domenico Raimondo, Senior Director, Head of Design, Europe and Senior International Specialist, said We are delighted to present our Fall auction in London which features an extraordinary and diverse selection of material. ... More | | 
Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2021-2023. Oil and Mixed Media on Linen, 30 x 36 in. Photo courtesy of Sargent's Daughters.
NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents Daughters is now presenting Stargazer, an exhibition of new paintings by Yevgeniya Baras, the artists debut solo presentation with the gallery. Baras creates highly textural works that move beyond the boundaries of their supports, including unconventional materials and craft techniques to generate evocative abstractions. Baras latest body of work was developed during a five-month fellowship in Tel Aviv, where Baras produced dozens of sketches and small works, which later evolved into the paintings on view. While there, Baras spent her time reading in museum archives and taking long walks through the city, learning from both ancient and Modernist histories. Her observations from this period emerge in the work their bright, light palette evokes the clear light of the Mediterranean, and some ... More |
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| "Shaping Gravity: Abstract Art Beyond the Picture Plane", interactive exhibition brings abstraction into new dimensions | | Folger Shakespeare Library presents newly commissioned light and paper sculpture 'Cloud of Imagination' | | Stark gender imbalance at U.S. opera companies extends beyond podiums | 
Shane Guffogg, Saper Aude #7, 2017-2018. Oil on canvas, 84 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
GLENDALE, CA.- Featuring the work of seven contemporary artists, Shaping Gravity: Abstract Art Beyond the Picture Plane, now opening at Forest Lawn Museum, brings abstract art into new dimensions for a mesmerizing and interactive exhibition that challenges notions of what abstraction can be. The seven artists in the exhibition Jen Stark, Michelle Jane Lee, Rema Ghuloum, Shane Guffogg, Christine Nguyen, Sarah Ippolito, and Molly Larkey are all connected by their ties to Southern California and bring unique aesthetic and philosophical approaches to abstraction. The exhibition includes sculpture, painting, augmented reality, and interactive video projection with artworks ranging from vibrant and kaleidoscopic to serene and meditative. Shaping Gravity includes artworks that address how abstraction intersects with a number of themes, including conceptions of nature, technological innovation, and artistic tradition. A highlight of the ex ... More | | 
A close-up view of artist Anke Neumanns light sculpture Cloud of Imagination, commissioned by the Folger Shakespeare Library for its new east lobby stairs leading to the historic theater above. Photo by Lloyd Wolf.
WASHINGTON, DC.- When the Folger Theatre begins performances of The Winters Tale on November 4, ticket holders will be greeted by Ankes Neumanns ethereal and symbolic 15-foot-tall hanging sculpture. Cloud of Imagination was installed in August 2023 at the Folger Shakespeare Library and connects the newly constructed east lobby to the historic theater lobby above. The work is one of three commissions by contemporary artists being integrated into the Folgers expanded and renovated spaces, and the first to be fully activated for the public. Cloud of Imagination is composed of 250 individual handmade paper components, each lit from within by optical fibers that trace the contours of the softly cascading forms. To create the paper components, Neumann made a flax-based paper that pays homage ... More | | 
Francesca Zambello, the artistic and general director at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2022. (Paul Barbera/The New York Times).
NEW YORK, NY.- Observers have long denounced the lack of opportunities given to female conductors and composers at leading opera companies. A recent study found that women have been dramatically underrepresented in other crucial creative roles as well. Men accounted for 95% of the conducting credits at the 11 largest U.S. opera companies between 2005 and 2021, the researchers found. But men also dominated other major roles in opera, it found: They accounted for 85% of directing credits, 88% of set-designer credits, 85% of lighting-designer credits and 59% of costume-designer credits. The findings were included in Unequal Opera-tunities: Gender Inequality and Non-Standard Work in US Opera Production, a research article that was published online last week in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, a peer-reviewed journal. In 2023, these rates of representation for women ... More |
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 Spink announces sale of vintage film postersLONDON.- Spink announced their inaugural Vintage Film Posters auction on the 25th October, 2023. The auction will include one hundred lots of original film posters, lobby cards and photographic production stills. A popular collecting area for a number of years, the poster world has seen some remarkable realisations over recent years with the famous original German poster for Fritz Langs 1927 silent film Metropolis sold for $690,000, and over $1,300,000 within the last year and in 2009 Karloff and Lugosis The Black Cat, Style B sold for $334,600. However, iconic designs and memorable classics can be acquired for far less, who can forget the imagery of the Breakfast at Tiffanys poster for example which is offered here with an estimate of £700 900. People often first purchase a piece because they have an emotional link to it, whether it goes ... More  Christie's Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department announces The Tianminlou Collection HONG KONG.- On 30 November, Christies Hong Kong Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Department will present The Tianminlou Collection a dedicated single-owner sale featuring 15 exceptional pieces from one of the worlds most esteemed collections of Chinese porcelain, with a pre-sale low estimate of over HK$120 million. This exceptional group comprises 15 iconic examples of Ming and Qing porcelain, all widely published and exhibited, and for the first time, Yuan Dynasty pieces from this globally famous collection will be brought to the market. The Tianminlou Collection was scrupulously amassed over several decades starting from the 1970s. Particularly renowned for its blue and white as well as imperial porcelain from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the collection has been showcased at numerous prestigious ... More  Rene Magritte's 'L'empire des lumières' to highlight 20th Century Evening SaleNEW YORK, NY.- Christies announced Lempire des lumières by René Magritte will be a leading highlight in Christies 20th Century Evening Sale taking place on November 9, 2023 during the New York Marquee Week of sales. The work is the first of 17 oil paintings that was completed by the artist in this iconic, all-important series. Nelson A. Rockefeller was the first private owner of the work who acquired it the year following its completion while serving as chairman and president of Chase National Bank in Rockefeller Center. This fall, the work will travel to Taiwan before returning to Rockefeller Center prior to the sale, where it is estimated to achieve $25 million 35 million. Max Carter, Christies Vice Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art, remarks, In 1949, Magritte embarked on the series of 17 paintings that would define him. Formerly ... More  A comedy advice podcast asks listeners to 'Believe in the Bit'NEW YORK, NY.- Gareth Reynolds and Jake Johnson went from acquaintances to friends at a dive bar in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. As they celebrated after performing in an improv show, Johnson, an actor best known for his role in the sitcom New Girl, turned to Reynolds, a comedian and a host of the comedy-history podcast The Dollop, and for no particular reason asked: What do you think? Should we pour these beers on our own heads? Without missing a beat, Reynolds held his beer over his head, and Johnson did the same. Then, Johnson said, we smiled at each other and doused ourselves with beer. It cemented their friendship. Gareth and I both deeply believe in the bit, Johnson said. So it made sense that when Johnson and Reynolds, who wrote for Arrested Development, began to work together ... More  Tenri Cultural Institute opens an exhibition of works by Sobin ParkNEW YORK, NY.- Tenri Cultural Institute presents Sobin Park: Pictograph to Sign an exhibition curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos that will run from October 18th through November 22nd, 2023 and be celebrated with a reception on October 19th, from 6 to 8PM. From her earlier imagery of dragons and maidens, Parks formal vocabulary has developed into an external nexus of differentiated signs and intricate webs, where the viewers imagination travels rapidly like an electrical current through their linear and tangled forms. Moreover, her symbolic paintings, in which abstract figures with their ambient and velvety outlines undulate infinitely, expand the modernist paradigm, for which sign or symbol constituted in a common denominator of creative expression of intimate non-representational feeling. Morphologically, Sobin Parks latest ... More  Teju Cole knows his new novel resembles autofiction. Please don't be tempted.NEW YORK, NY.- A strange sense of the calm before the storm pervades Teju Coles new novel, Tremor, which is attuned to vibrations great and small. The book is set in the fall of 2019 what wed now call before time and follows Tunde, a Nigerian professor of photography at a prestigious Boston college, and his wife, Sadako. Though it eschews plot, the story considers the fault lines of marriage, the ebb and flow of family and friendships, the micro-aggressions and minor conflicts of daily life. And yet theres much more just below the surface: suppressed histories of conquest and cultural obliteration; premonitions of war with Iran; meditations on death, mortality and illness; memories of past earthquakes, from Japan to Haiti. The tremors of the book, as Cole pointed out in an interview, are both physical and neurological. The ... More  Swashbucklers of Comic Con: Please report to the lost and foundNEW YORK, NY.- They come as Vikings, superheroes and extraterrestrials. As all sorts of Spider-Men and Spider-Women, and at least one Mermaid Man and a Barnacle Boy. Once a year, these fans delight weary commuters on the subway and wrest smiles from the cubicle-oppressed office workers on the streets of Manhattan as they head to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, home of New York Comic Con. At the Javits, thousands many, alas, clad as mere civilians roam nearly every public corridor of the sprawling convention hall over four days. (On Saturday, two paused for a special event: A Batman proposed to a Catwoman after a group cosplay photo of colorful DC heroes and villains.) But only a handful of visitors make it to an inner sanctum, where they trudge not in search of an autograph from a comic book creator or a photo ... More  The Acey and Bill Wolgin Collection at auction todayLAMBERTVILLE, NJ.- Rago, Wright, and LAMA are proud to present The Acey and Bill Wolgin Collection at auction on October 18th. Through their generous support of both individual artists as well as institutions they cherished, the Wolgins became widely celebrated collectors known not only for the caliber of their collection, but also for their ongoing friendships with artists including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Joseph Beuys, Arman, Robert Indiana, and Robert Rauschenberg. Leading this exemplary selection of more than 130 works is Alexander Calder's 1964 kinetic sculpture Red Tail (est. $500,000-700,000). Other notable works by Calder on offer include an untitled 1950 gouache painting and the small bronze sculpture Cheval II (est. $20,000-30,000), as well as the Thin Maze wearable ... More  U.S. composer Laurie Spiegel is awarded the Giga-Hertz Award 2023 for lifetime achievementKARLSRUHE.- U.S. Composer Laurie Spiegel is awarded the Giga-Hertz Award 2023 for lifetime achievement. The award ceremony will take place during the Giga-Hertz-Festival of electronic music and sound art: »Radical Polytronics«. This year, the U.S. composer Laurie Spiegel will receive the Giga-Hertz Award for Lifetime Achievement, offered by the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe together with the SWR Experimentalstudio. The award is endowed with 10,000. The Production Awards of 5,000 go to U.S. composer and performer Lea Bertucci and French-born sound artist Jessica Ekomane. The Finnish-German trio This Machine! will receive the PopExperimental Advancement Award, endowed with 5,000 and donated by the Fördergesellschaft ZKM/HfG e.V., which for the first time after 2022 will be awarded in collaboration ... More |
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Flashback On a day like today, Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens died October 18, 1678. Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 - 18 October 1678) was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life. As well as being a successful painter, he was a prominent designer of tapestries. Like Rubens, Jordaens painted altarpieces, mythological, and allegorical scenes, and after 1640---the year Rubens died---he was the most important painter in Antwerp for large-scale commissions and the status of his patrons increased in general.
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